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Barge industry goes for clean air
Friday 24 11 2017
Kick-off CLINSH
Emission measurements on 30 or so barges started in the port of Antwerp last month as part of the EU project Clean Inland Shipping (CLINSH). The project itself was launched on 1 September 2016 as a demonstration to determine the practical effectiveness and costs of emission-reducing technologies, alternative fuels and onshore power supplies. CLINSH brings together 17 partners who along with the European Life Fund are investing in projects that contribute to sustainable barge transport. Antwerp Port Authority is one of these partners. We spoke to Pieter Vandermeeren, who as our Technical manager is actively involved in the project.
How exactly does CLINSH work?
PV: The aim of CLINSH is cleaner barge transport. To achieve this we have to reduce emissions of pollutants, in particular nitrogen oxides and particulates, which will contribute to better air quality in the urban areas of North-West Europe.
The actual emissions will be measured in real time on board barges operated by participants in the project. This will provide valuable information on their environmental performance and the operational costs of implementing the various emission-reducing technologies and alternative fuels.
The participating barge operators were introduced at a ceremonial meeting held in the port of Antwerp last month. We look on these operators as environmental ambassadors for the barge industry.
Why do any more measurements have to be carried out? Surely the positive effects of emission-reducing technologies and alternative fuels are sufficiently well known?
PV: By carrying out real-time measurements we hope to gain a better understanding of how these techniques work in an operational context. In fact, doing the measurements while the barges are under way is what makes the project so unique. In addition the project includes a socio-economic investigation: how much does it cost, are there any inconveniences, and how do the bargees experience the new technologies on board their vessel?
Finally, the emission measurements will form the basis of an emissions inventory of the entire European barge fleet, which in turn will serve as input for modelling the local air quality in urban areas of North-West Europe.
What role does Antwerp Port Authority play in all this?
PV: Together with the Province of South Holland, the Energy Valley Foundation and Shell, and with support from the European Life Fund, 2 million euros is being in vested in emission-reducing technologies on board 15 of the barges being monitored. Antwerp Port Authority is contributing 800,000 euros of this.
Marc Van Peel, chairman of Antwerp Port Authority:
"The barge industry is crucial for European ports, to carry their many cargoes to and from hinterland destinations. But just like other modes of transport, barges will have to reduce their pollutant emissions. By participating in this project the port of Antwerp in close collaboration with the barge industry seeks to contribute towards speeding up the necessary reduction in emissions."
Jan Drenth, barge operator:
"We have fitted a smoke filter and catalysers on both engines of our 417 TEU container barge. The total cost of this came to 250,000, for which CLINSH contributed 100,000 euros in support. I made this investment because I think we must do something to protect the environment, and also to compete with trucks that have already switched to clean engines several years ago. But it's a big investment: the smoke filters have to be changed every 8 to 10 years, and for the catalyser to work we have to add 60,000 litres of urea per year. In the short term I don't expect to win new customers immediately, but I do in the long term. After all, everybody is environment-conscious these days."
Aldert Hoekstra, barge operator:
"I've been carrying salt from the Netherlands for Bayer for many years now, on behalf of the Imperial Shipping Group. They want more environment-friendly operation, and so I've fitted my barge with an innovative FWE (fuel-water emulsion) unit that mixes diesel with 25% water, reducing soot particles to a fraction of what they were. This technology represents an investment of 130,000 euros, to which CLINSH is contributing 65,000 euros.
I'm investing in this environment-friendly technology also because I find it sensible to look towards the future. Otherwise you end up with a hulk of floating industrial heritage that nobody is interested in."
Alain Devos, director of the Flanders Barge Know-how Centre:
"All links in the logistics chain must play their part in placing the minimum possible load on the environment. Manufacturers, barge operators, consumers and policy-makers all form part of this chain. In order for the barge operators to take full advantage of their environment-friendly investment, all links in the chain have to collaborate."
For more information and a full list of all participating barges, see www.clinsh.eu
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When is the last time you made an appointment with your cat's veterinarian for a dental check-up? If you are like most cat owners, you will have failed to do this.
Make the appointment now and follow through with the recommended care. Your feline friend will thank you, as their oral health will be the best it can be.
While you are making an appointment to have your cat's teeth looked at, why not make it a date for up to date vaccinations, as well? Check with your cat's veterinarian to see what vaccines are recommended for your cat. It's easy to do, but something cat owners often forget to take care of.
Pay attention to the weight of your cat. Is your cat packing on the pounds? Talk to your cat's veterinarian and get your cat on the road to a healthier lifestyle.
Did you know that the average dog sees a veterinarian 1 1/2 times a year and a cat, on average, sees one less than once a year? Make sure your cat is healthy so you have hope that your cat will live many years.
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Jenny has been the CEO of Converge International since January 2016. Converge is one of Australia's largest mental health providers to Australian workplaces, with services that include psychometric testing, training and consulting. A social enterprise, Converge was founded to provide workplace chaplaincy in the 1960s and still provides pastoral care workers and onsite and offsite EAP counselling and psychological services to a portfolio of more than 1000 clients in Australia and New Zealand.
A former Dean of the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Jenny has more than 20 years of experience in executive education and 15 years of experience in leadership roles. Since 2007, she has been a non-executive director of businesses in the finance, retail and services sectors and has served on the boards of many not-for-profit organisations.
Jenny's academic speciality lies in analytics and executive decision making. Her more recent experience in the delivery of mental health solutions to organisations has given her additional insights into organisational culture, stress, individual psychological biases and mental health and wellbeing.
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Softbank is in talks to acquire around a two-thirds stake in Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) for approximately $12.8 billion, according to Japanese press reports.
A.I.A. Group, an Asian insurer partially owned by AIG, has agreed to acquire the Malaysian insurance unit of ING for €1.34 billion. www.ing.com
Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (NYSE: EW) has acquired BMEYE, a Dutch developer of non-invasive technology for advanced hemodynamic monitoring. No financial terms were disclosed. BMEYE had raised VC funding from firms like 360 Capital Partners, Earlybird Venture Capital, Life Sciences Partners and Net Partners. www.bmeye.com
Platts, a unit of McGraw-Hill Cos. (NYSE: MHP) has agreed to acquire Kingsman SA, a Switzerland-based provider of price information and analytics for the global sugar and biofuels markets. No financial terms were disclosed. www.kingsman.com
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Men eh? Can't live with 'em…especially when they're all killed in a failed heist. Thus their women folk, previously unknown to each other, decide to team up and get the job done right.
Steve McQueen's follow up to his Oscar winning 12 Years A Slave sees the director unexpectedly adapting Lynda LaPlante's schlocky old TV show to hopefully maximum effect, with Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Erivo leading the charge. Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Daniel Kaluuya and the little-seen of late Robert Duvall speak up for the men.


Tasting wine means carefully drink it, trying to understand it, so it needs time, space and clear mind. That's the reason why 'to taste' is not just 'to drink'. When you drink wine, you simply do it, without so many thoughts or attentions, so it's probably more funny. Instead, when you taste wine, you've to isolate, to go inside your mind/body and to close any channel towards the entire outside world; you've to focuse on your glass and no other. It's not easy, and requires effort.
Fortunately this is not my job, it's just my passion. So, sometimes, I need to stop, to stay without wine for a short time, to reset myself and my feelings, in order to be ready for the next. Just as the palate after a bite or a gulp, when the palate must be remain clear and ready for the next.
Ok, now that I wrote the official reason, I can also unveil the thruth … drinking wine fattens, so sometimes a little time of rest helps your health and your body … so my doctor says.
But fortunately, these periods of reflections at last come to an end, and that's the moment to choose a bottle to re…start. I took this time from my cellar a bottle of Pinot Nero Oltrepò Pavese DOC Carillo by Tenuta Frecciarossa – Casteggio (Pavia – Lombardia). This bottle has put in serious crisis my determination in these moments of reflection, especially next to which I'm already thinking. Because this bottle is one of theese that, beyond the body, warms your soul. Probably because this wine is an every day wine, a wonderful every day wine. It's a wine of simplicity, a wine for the Family, a wine of daily pleasure, of feeling good about themselves. This is, at least so I think, the ultimate goal of a wine.
A crisp wine, both in nose and in taste. Beautiful shiny red fruit, but also mineral notes, almost dusty, to design a not very large but simply nice aromatic profile. Lively taste, without disdaining in pleasantness, good composure with the physic of Pinot Noir to anchor to the floor it's, sometimes exuberant, alcoholic peaks .
Drink pinot noir in Italy is just like to buy a bingo's ticket. This probably won't let you live in a desert wonderful island for the rest of your life, but gives to you a ticket for a nice holiday.
Last but not least, and it's not a little matter, you can get it here for a lot less money than you can imagine. Cheers!


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Q: show current GIT branch name in windows command prompt Is is possible to display current git branch name in regular windows command prompt?
Let's say on windows 7 or 10.

A: If you are using Windows PowerShell, you can override the standard "Prompt" function by running following one in the PowerShell window you are using.  This will make it detect Git repositories and list the Git branch in the prompt string:
Function Prompt
{
    $git_cmd = "git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD"
    Invoke-Expression $git_cmd 2> $null | Tee-Object -Variable git_branch | Out-Null
    $git_branch_text = $None
    if ( $git_branch -And -Not $git_branch.StartsWith($git_cmd))
    {
        $git_branch_text = "[$git_branch] "
    }

    $stringBuilder = New-Object System.Text.StringBuilder
    $null = $stringBuilder.Append("PS ")
    if ($git_branch_text) { $null = $stringBuilder.Append($git_branch_text) }
    $null = $stringBuilder.Append($($executionContext.SessionState.Path.CurrentLocation))
    $null = $stringBuilder.Append($('>' * ($nestedPromptLevel + 1)))
    $null = $stringBuilder.Append(" ")
    return $stringBuilder.ToString()
}

PS C:\Users\username\Document\GitHub>
PS C:\Users\username\Document\GitHub>cd code_repository
PS [dev] C:\Users\username\Document\GitHub\code_repository>

PS [dev] C:\Users\username\Document\GitHub\code_repository>cd ..
PS C:\Users\username\Document\GitHub>

Tested on PowerShell version 5.1.17763.592.
To apply this change of prompt in all of your PowerShell command windows, put this function in a file named profile.ps1 in C:\Users\username\Documents\WindowsPowerShell.  Any PowerShell command windows opened after that should have the Git prompt when in a directory that is part of a Git repository.

A: Yes, you can. You can create a script and name it 'gb.bash' then add the following code to it
@echo off
set GITBRANCH=
for /f "tokens=2" %%I in ('git.exe branch 2^> NUL ^| findstr /b "* "') do set GITBRANCH=%%I

if "%GITBRANCH%" == "" (
    prompt $P$G
) else (
    prompt $P $C$E[10;7;32;47m%GITBRANCH%$E[0m$F $G
)

Then go to your environment variables and add the folder that contains this script to your path.
With that in place, simply firing the command 'gb' on your terminal while in a git repository will place the branch name on the path of the folder you're currently on.
Currently, this solution requires that you manually fire the command 'gb' to trigger the script. However, I'm sure there's also a way to trigger the script automatically when you launch CMD. I'll look into that some time and update this answer.
I got the solution from these two sources:
Show git branch in Windows command prompt
Display git branch in Windows command prompt

Disclaimer: You'll have to fire 'gb' after switching to a new branch
  to update the displayed branch name.

A: You cannot do this from the Windows-based "Command Prompt." There is an environment, however, that can run on top of your Windows environment, that does.
After you run the Git windows installer and allow git to install, you can invoke git-bash from context menu.

By default, the git-bash environment shows what branch you are in.

A: Not in command prompt but in PowerShell and Windows Terminal, it is possible. You can even have custom themes for terminal.
Here are the steps:

*

*You obviously need Git to begin with. Install Git for windows from Git website

*Then download "Windows Terminal" app from "Windows Store". It has multiple capabilities and new features and you can open multiple tabs of different terminals on the same window and so on.

*After installing "Windows Terminal", open it and and now you should install "Posh-Git" and "Oh-My-Posh" using PowerShell: (You may need to install NuGet if you don't already have it. Your PowerShell command line will ask if you want to install NuGet if this is the case. Select [Y] Yes. You may also need to approve that you are installing modules from PSGallery, an 'untrusted repository'. Select [Y] Yes.)

Install-Module posh-git -Scope CurrentUser
Install-Module oh-my-posh -Scope CurrentUser

*Now open your "PowerShell" profile with notepad $PROFILE and add these lines to end of the file: (this is a different profile than the "Windows Terminal" profile. PowerShell profile is a script that runs every time PowerShell starts.). If Set-PoshPrompt does not work here try to use Set-Theme command instead (https://superuser.com/questions/1629589/powershell-theming-doesnt-work-set-theme-not-found).

Import-Module posh-git
Import-Module oh-my-posh
Set-PoshPrompt Paradox

*Now as you see some characters on the terminal are squares because the default font doesn't support them. (You may not have see this problem based on your terminal's font. if you see all of the characters fine and not squares, skip this step) You want to install "Cascadia PL" fonts to support those characters. Download them from Cascadia Code release page. You need to install these versions of the font in order for it to support the characters:

Cascadia Code PL
Cascadia Mono PL

*Then, in Windows Terminal, press Ctrl+, to open the Windows Terminal profile settings in "settings.json" and add these lines to the "defaults" section of the "profiles" as shown below:

"fontFace": "Cascadia Code PL"

How to go to the Windows Terminal settings picture guide
Where to change the font face picture guide
PS 1: If you want to have these changes on the integrated terminals such as the one on the VS Code, you should add this line to the settings of the VS Code:
"terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "Cascadia Code PL"

PS 2: In order to know more about "Oh-My-Posh" and change the theme of it, visit Oh-My-Posh's github page for more information.

Sources:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/tutorials/powerline-setup
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/how-to-make-a-pretty-prompt-in-windows-terminal-with-powerline-nerd-fonts-cascadia-code-wsl-and-ohmyposh

A: This is the git.bat I am using. I got the answer from the following link:
https://www.nu42.com/2016/05/display-git-branch-windows-command-prompt.html
First, create the git.bat file in a folder, then add the folder to the PATH and ahead of the line to git.exe (I assume you already have the git.exe installed in your computer). This will make sure every time you type git in your command line, the new git.bat will be triggered instead of the git.exe.
@echo off
git.exe %*
set GITBRANCH=
for /f %%I in ('git.exe rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2^> NUL') do set GITBRANCH=%%I

if "%GITBRANCH%" == "" (
  prompt $P$G
) else (
    prompt $P $C$E[32;7;32;47m%GITBRANCH%$E[0m$F $G
)

A: I am using babun (discontinued)
It provides an awesome command-line view for git.
It also supports context menu and can be open from any location on right-click.

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Книга: Grisham John «The Innocent Man»
John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits - drinking, drugs and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept 20 hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a 21 year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony of jaihouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to Death Row. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you.
Издательство: "Arrow Books" (2017)
The Client (на английском языке) In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull upt ot the curb... Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance… — Random House, Inc., - Подробнее... 1996 572 бумажная книга
Theodore Boone Half the man, twice the lawyer. In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he's only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he's one of them. Theo knows every judge… — Hodder&Stoughton, - Подробнее... 2015 559 бумажная книга
Ford County. Stories Number 1 "New York Times" bestselling author John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill.""This riveting collection of short stories… — Random House, Inc., - Подробнее... 2010 524 бумажная книга
Theodore Boone: The Abduction Following on from John Grisham's first massively successful foray into the children's market, Theodore Boone 2 will once more feature his loveable, know-it-all young lawyer solving another tricky… — Hodder&Stoughton, - Подробнее... 2011 1339 бумажная книга
Calico Joe Calico Joe tells the story of Paul Tracey, a 13-year-old boy from a dysfunctional family, caught in a conflict of loyalties when his troubled baseball-playing father comes face to face with the… — Hodder&Stoughton, - Подробнее... 2005 1339 бумажная книга
The Appeal Politics has always been a dirty game. Now justice is, too. In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a… — Random House, Inc., - Подробнее... 2008 572 бумажная книга
A Time to Kill Contemporary / American English Ten-year-old Tonya Hailey is attacked and raped by two local men. Carl Lee, Tonya's father, shoots them. Now only his lawyer and friend, Jake Brigance, stands between… — Pearson Education (Longman), Penguin Readers Подробнее... 2012 754 бумажная книга
The Partner They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in a small town in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of… — Random House, Inc., - Подробнее... 1998 656 бумажная книга
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The Chamber Adam Hill is in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm. He is an… — Random House, Inc., - Подробнее... 2010 583 бумажная книга
The Client An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. A U. S. State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI wants him to… — Random House, Inc., - Подробнее... 2010 615 бумажная книга
The Runaway Jury Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course… — Random House, Inc., - Подробнее... 2010 565 бумажная книга
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▪ 1994
Perhaps because of Americans' fascination with the alleged illicit activities of lawyers, John Grisham's novels of legal suspense became common fixtures on the New York Times best-seller lists in 1993. Attorney-turned-novelist Grisham accomplished a rare feat in publishing: he completed writing four novels, A Time to Kill (1989), The Firm (1991), The Pelican Brief (1992), and The Client (1993), and had each one reach the New York Times best-seller lists within five years. Thus, Grisham became the fastest-selling writer of modern fiction in history.
Though often criticized for depicting one-dimensional characters and for formulating implausible plots, Grisham was generally lauded for his fast-paced, adrenaline-charged page-turners. Despite being free of gratuitous sex, violence, and gore, Grisham's novels managed to keep readers on the edge of their seats just by making heroes out of innocent people fighting corrupt government, the underworld, and immoral businessmen.
John Grisham was born in 1955 in Arkansas but grew up in Southaven, Miss. After he was admitted to the Mississippi bar in 1981, he practiced law and served (1984-89) as a Democrat in the Mississippi state legislature. Then, inspired by a trial he had observed in 1984, Grisham took three years to write his first novel, A Time to Kill, which deals with the legal, social, and moral repercussions when a black man is tried for the murder of two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter. Despite good reviews for its skillfully crafted dialogue and sense of place, the novel failed to sell. Grisham vowed to "take a naked stab at commercial fiction" with his next novel, The Firm, about a law-school graduate who is seduced into joining a Memphis law firm that turns out to be a front for the Mafia. The film rights were sold to Paramount Pictures Corp. for $600,000, prompting a bidding war for publishing rights, which Doubleday won for $200,000. Within weeks of its release in 1991, the novel appeared on the New York Times best-seller list, where it stayed for nearly a year, allowing Grisham to give up his law practice and move with his family to a 28-ha (70-ac) farm in Oxford, Miss. In the meantime, A Time to Kill was reissued in paperback, and over three million copies were sold.
Grisham wrote his third novel, The Pelican Brief—about a female law student investigating the assassinations of two Supreme Court justices—in only three months. There were 5.5 million copies of the book in print by March 1993. Film rights to the novel were sold for over $1 million. Grisham's most recent novel, The Client, sacrificed roller-coaster suspense for humour and slapstick energy. Critics almost universally agreed that the plot, dealing with an 11-year-old boy who uncovers a mob-related murder plot, read as though it had been tailor-made for the silver screen. Indeed, the film rights to the novel were sold for $2.5 million, while the novel itself sold 2.6 million copies within 15 weeks.
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Merle Haggard Receives Kennedy Center Honor
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Merle Haggard sat amongst four other talented trailblazers Sunday night, December 5, as they became the most recent recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, awarded by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
As a recipient of the 33rd annual national celebration of the arts, the 73-year-old country legend sat in the balcony of the Kennedy Center Opera House joined by composer and lyricist Jerry Herman, dancer, choreographer and director Bill T. Jones, songwriter and musician Paul McCartney and producer, television host, actress and entrepreneur Oprah Winfrey as they were honored in an all-star performance by their peers. Also in attendance, President and Mrs. Barack Obama, along with Gen. and Mrs. Colin Powell.
As the lights dimmed and the performance began, the evening had a magical feel, with each honoree watching as their friends and colleagues took turns singing their praises in recognition of their respective place in the performing arts. When Merle's tribute began, the 73-year-old was clearly moved to tears.
Country superstar Vince Gill took his place at the podium on stage to speak about Merle's legacy. "I'm proud to be here to see my old friend -- on a personal note, my lifelong favorite -- Merle Haggard receive this great Kennedy Center Honor," Vince began. "But I really don't know what to say. Merle has already revealed everything we need to know about the man. It's all in his songs. What can I add? I can say that I admire how he writes for all of those who lack voices of their own: society's forgotten or pushed aside. He captures their dignity as they struggle to make ends meet as drifters, factory workers, farmhands, fathers, sons and prisoners-and as they fight the demons we all know.
"His writing is not glamorous; just real," Vince continued. "Hag tells it like it is. He's the 'Poet of the Common Man'. Through words and music, he tells his life story, which is, in many ways, America's story -- a quest for the simple things: a decent job, self-respect, a place to call home. And one common thread through all of it ... is truth."
"This is already more spoken words than you'd hear in a year of Merle Haggard concerts," Vince added, eliciting laughter from the audience. "I know what Merle is thinking right now ... he's thinking, 'Vince, shut the hell up and get to the music.' I'm almost there, Hag. I look up and see this fellow Okie sitting with the President and the First Lady and the others, and all these people here tonight honoring you, and I'm thinking, 'Well, sometimes we get it right. We sure got it right tonight.'"
Each recipient enjoyed a video presentation that covered their humble beginnings and spotlighted their many professional accomplishments. Willie Nelson narrated Merle's biography, as a drop-down video screen revealed photos and video of Merle's life from childhood to present, explaining how his family had traveled west from Oklahoma, driven out of the dust storms and the Great Depression.
"In Oildale, California, they were outsiders, Okies, his father proud, independent, steady as a rock," Willie began in the taped piece. "His sudden death threw a shadow over everything. "I couldn't keep my mind at rest," Merle said as pictures of his childhood began to tell the visual story. "I'd hear the train whistle, grab my guitar and off I'd go."
"All he found was trouble," Willie continued, "petty crimes, two-bit robberies, and a stretch in San Quentin [prison]. Merle swore he'd never lose his freedom again. One night Johnny Cash came to sing for the inmates, and Merle understood that he could find his way with music. The honky-tonks were filled with working folks, whiskey and Saturday nights. Merle didn't talk much but when he sang, they stopped to listen. He started writing about his own life. The words were never fancy, but always true ... Merle's heart always took his voice where it needed to go."
At the end of the video, his surprise guests loaded the stage in twos: Kris Kristofferson and Miranda Lambert began their tribute singing 'Silver Wings.' Vince Gill came back on stage with his friend Brad Paisley to sing 'Workin' Man's Blues,' followed by Sheryl Crow and Willie belting out 'Today I Started Lovin' You Again.'
Willie, Jamey Johnson and Kid Rock sang 'Rambling Fever,' later joined by the whole group to finish out the song with a standing ovation from the entire audience.
Merle joins fellow country stars who have been honored in the past by the Kennedy Center: George Jones (2008), Dolly Parton (2006), Loretta Lynn (2003), Willie Nelson (1998), Johnny Cash (1996), and Roy Acuff (1991).
Oprah was honored by Julia Roberts, Sidney Poitier, John Travolta, Barbara Walters, Jennifer Hudson and Chris Rock. Other celebrities included Edward Albee and Claire Danes honoring Bill T. Jones; Angela Lansbury, Kelsey Grammer, Carol Channing and Chita Rivera honoring Jerry Herman and Alec Baldwin, Dave Grohl, Norah Jones and Steven Tyler honoring Paul McCartney.
The 33rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors will be broadcast on CBS on December 28 at 9:00 PM (ET).
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by John Galt June 17, 2012 16:50 ET **** UPDATED 17:00 ET – NO 70 MILES from Sendai per Japanese authorities not 95 as originally reported *** No Tsunami warnings as of yet but holy cows the folks working in Fukushima have to be freaking out every time a big one like this occurs. More details at the USGS website at this link.
by John Galt June 17, 2012 09:55 ET It's just too classic to pass up. Too bad the world doesn't understand that Merkel is much more like Gorbachev or Brezhnev than Hitler. I'll begin my live coverage of today's events after 1 p.m. ET here at Shenandoah.


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WHITE, T.H. [WHITE, TERENCE HANBURY].
The Goshawk
"I had two books on the training of the falconidae in one of which was a sentence which suddenly struck fire from my mind. The sentence was: 'She reverted to a feral state.' A longing came into my mind that I should be able to do this myself. The word 'feral' has a magical potency which allied itself to two other words, 'ferocious' and 'free.' To revert to a feral state! I took a farm-labourer's cottage and wrote to Germany for a goshawk." — T.H. White, quoted in Sylvia Warner Townsend's biography
"'I have been writing a book about falconry and trying to train a goshawk,' T.H. White wrote to his friend and former Cambridge Tutor L.J. Potts in 1936. He concluded gloomily that 'nobody will read the book.' In this he was mistaken. Today The Goshawk is regarded as a literary classic, considered by [many] to be White's finest work. Alternately beautiful, savage, cruel, funny, tender and tragic, this diary of a hawk's education is the story of two desperate and confused souls operating at dreadful cross-purposes." — Helen Macdonald
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY WHITE: PERHAPS THE BEST POSSIBLE ASSOCIATION COPY, WITH A WARM AND LENGTHY INSCRIPTION TO HIS GOOD FRIEND SYDNEY COCKERELL — CONNOISEUR, BIBLIOPHILE, AND DIRECTOR OF THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM.
T.H. White is best known for his magnificent re-telling of the Arthurian saga in his Once and Future King tetralogy — The Sword in the Stone, The Queen of Air and Darkness, The Ill-Made Knight, and The Candle in the Wind. His life — as described by his biographer Sylvia Warner Townsend, and more recently in Helen Macdonald's prize-winning memoir H is for Hawk — was a sad one. He was a heavy drinker, pathologically fearful, estranged from humanity, emotionally crippled by a turbulent upbringing, troubled by dark sado-masochistic fantasies, and isolated, in a homophobic era, by his (likely) homosexuality. As an adult, he attempted to exorcise his demons through psychoanalysis; by attempting to model himself on Sir Lancelot, "whose character White made his own" ("Lancelot was a sadist who refrained from hurting people through his sense of honour... White always took great pains to be gentle precisely because he wanted to be cruel"); and by his efforts to train a hawk, described in the book offered here. (MacDonald).
"All those elements of himself that he'd pushed away, his sexuality, his desire for cruelty, for mastery: all these were suddenly there in the figure of the hawk... He would train it... He would teach the hawk, and he would teach himself, and he would write a book about it and teach his readers this doomed and ancient art. It was as if he were holding aloft the flag of some long-defeated country to which he staked his allegiance. He'd train his hawk in the ruins of his former life. And then when the war came, as it surely would, and everything around him crumbled into ruin and anarchy, White would fly his goshawk... far from the bitter, sexual confusion of the metropolis or the small wars of the schoolroom" (Macdonald).
The project did not go well — the goshawk escaped — and White abandoned his plans to publish an account of the training. However, years later a publisher saw the manuscript and asked White if he could publish it. The Goshawk finally appeared in 1951.
On White's relationship to Sydney Cockerell:
One of the bright spots that punctuated White's gloomy life was his warm friendship with Sydney Cockerell, who was, in the words of Noel Perrin, "one of the few human beings the author of The Once and Future King had much use for." Cockerell was a connoisseur, a bibliophile, and the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, of which he famously said, "I found it a pigsty; I turned it into a palace." "The collections and buildings were not just rearranged but much augmented... [and] his success was recognized by the award of an honorary LittD in 1930... [and] he was knighted in 1934" (Dictionary of National Biography).
White and Cockerell first encountered each other — if that is the right word — anonymously and at a distance. In a November 1944 letter, White recalled the incident to Cockerell: "Shall I startle you into answering by confessing something which has been on my conscience for eighteen years? Cast your mind back to the extension of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and you will probably remember that the 'Cambridge Correspondent' of the then Saturday Review made some nasty remarks about the pilasters of your godchild. You crushed that correspondent by some excellent replies in which you cruelly referred to him as 'he or she' and he or she made exit crawling backwards mumbling. He or she was me." Whether or not Cockerell ever knew the "Cambridge Correspondent's" identity until White spilled the beans in 1944, the two later met face to face in Siegfried Sassoon's home. Cockerell "discerned a character he would like to add to his collection of acquaintances, and invited him for a visit to Kew. … In the course of his visit, White was asked to wash his hands; when he had done so he was allowed to examine his host's treasured manuscripts and early books. The visit included the first of many small bestowings — photographs, postcards, cuttings from catalogues — which Cockerell was to give him" (Warner).
Many of White's letters to Cockerell are collected in Viola Meynell's The Best of Friends: Further Letters to Sydney Cockerell). They show White bouncing ideas off of Cockerell for the tale that became The Once and Future King, seeking advice on how to sell an expensive watch, and requesting and receiving information on hawks and hawking, on armor, and on heraldry. In a 1938 letter, he asks Cockerell "Can you tell me what is the proper sign for an illegitimate union in a family tree? I have written a play about King Arthur and I want to print a family tree at the beginning." The "family tree" that White was apparently referring to — a pedigree of Arthur's illegitimate son Mordred — was later included in The Once and Future King, in a passage at the end of The Queen of Air and Darkness. ("Even if you have to read it twice, like something in a history lesson, this pedigree is a vital part of the tragedy of King Arthur. It is why Sir Thomas Mallory called his very long book the Death of Arthur... It is the tragedy, the Aristotelian and comprehensive tragedy, of sin coming home to roost. That is why we have... to remember, when the time comes, that the king had slept with his own sister. He did not know he was doing so, and perhaps it may have been due to her, but it seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.")
On the inscription in this first edition of The Goshawk:
A notation on the top of the front free endpaper, apparently in Cockerell's handwriting, reads "Sydney Cockerell / Kew 25 July 1951 / (from the author)." Below that is a handwritten inscription, above a drawing of an arrow-pierced heart, which reads "Kew / 12.1.58 / Dearest Sydney — I did send you this copy as a present when it came out, but this is the first time I have had a chance to write my love in it, with all my heart. Love from Tim." Beneath that is a further note: "To Mary Thomas from Sydney Cockerell / 10 Oct. 1960." An undated note on White's blue letterhead, stating "Love from Tim," is laid in.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1951. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket spine with slight toning and chipping to spine-ends.
OFFERED WITH: A signed first edition of Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk (London: Cape 2014), Macondald's highly-praised and moving memoir discussing her own experiences training a hawk, mingled with her reflections on White, The Goshawk, and the book's influence on her. H is for Hawk won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.
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In 2012, Chuck dropped the last of his other day jobs and took up farming at Sunrise full-time. Since then, the CSA has expanded to 200 members and the farm produces chicken, lamb, maple syrup, honey, and firewood and lumber. In 2015, Chuck and Sue purchased an additional property near Sunrise to continue growing the farm.
Though Sunrise continues to grow and thrive, Chuck has maintained a variety of other interests, including as a freelancer for Northern Woodlands magazine in Corinth, Vermont; as a freelancer for the Valley News in Lebanon, New Hampshire; as the editor of The Outside Story: local writers explore the nature of New Hampshire and Vermont (Northern Woodlands, 2007); and the author of Living With Sheep (Lyons Press, 2005) and Living with Pigs (Lyons Press, 2008.) On the side, Chuck is an advisor to Valley Food & Farm.
Jennica spent her summers in college working close to home on Goose Creek Farm in St George, Vermont. There she learned to indulge in warm melons in the field and endless tomato sandwiches. She went on to run her own small CSA in West Bolton, manage two vegetable farms in Chittenden county, and get her hands dirty on many other farms while learning the trade. Jennica is consistently honored by the lessons on farming and life that she has received from the revolving crew of people she has worked next to over the years. Following a sojourn to Oregon, she looked up from seeding a flat of broccoli to find herself in the beautiful Upper Valley of Vermont where she plans to stay. At Sunrise, Jennica is the head vegetable farmer, responsible for both the summer CSA operation and the winter greens production.
Chris grew up on Long Island, but went to college in western Massachusetts where he started working summers at Square Roots Farm in Lanesborough, MA, to raise vegetables, chickens, turkeys, and pigs. After graduating he worked on various other mixed vegetable/livestock farms and eventually moved to Vermont to manage a flock of sheep at Tamarack Vermont Sheep Farm. Now at Sunrise, Chris is happy to be growing vegetables again.
Alex grew up in the Upper Valley, where he developed a strong appreciation for the outdoors. After moving out to California and graduating from UC Santa Cruz, he worked as a vendor for a local Santa Cruz bakery at various Bay Area farmers' markets, eventually moving onto a Market Manager position for the Pacific Farmers' Market Association. The years spent chatting with farmers planted a seed of interest, which finally grew into fruition a few years later upon his return to New Hampshire, where he began working as a farm hand, first at Tracie's Community Farm in Fitzwilliam, NH, then at Picadilly Farm in winchester NH. Eventually he decided to move back to the Upper Valley and has been working at Sunrise Farm for the past year.


In Germany Smooth Jazz is a rather unknown genre. We have no Smooth Jazz format radiostations like in USA. RelaxFM, the first Smooth Jazz radiostation in Munich, will soon stop broadcasting. People without computer and internet connection are dependant on the recommendations of their local cd-store. Which record-salesperson already has knowledge in this genre? I anyway have met only one person. He was my rescue. Through this salesperson, I could buy some samplers of Windham Hill, Shanachie or Heads Up, that procured me a first overview. After I first knew some artists and titles, I could look for more of these records.
But essentially it was the famous search after the pin high and low and not exactly systematic. So, the decision grew in me soon to go into the web and the search continued. With the support of search-engines I found Peter Boehi's Smooth Vibes and John Hildebrand's contemporaryjazz.com. These websites are invaluable and I studied the informations over weeks ordering masses of albums. This was really an expensive quest. But anyway most of the albums were still available and I found many old releases filling the gaps of my collection.
But soon I noticed that these websites didn't show background-information about the individual artists. They offer many reviews, links, charts, new releases, but not a systematic survey about the whole genre. So I started to build up an own website called "Smooth & Soul". I planned namely first to do a website about Smooth Jazz and Soul. Quickly I noticed however that I had completely underestimated the range of the Smooth Jazz genre. My website started in March 1999 and still to this day I haven't add all artist informations, which the web offers.
During this time I met a huge amount of artists in the web. Some are really well-known, a lot are only known by the insiders. I founded the Smooth Jazz Ring to give them a way to promote their albums and many artists and fans joined this ring. The book of artists, a collection of biographies, is still growing. Every week I add several artists and I believe we will have soon more than 1000 artists assembled. Of course I don't understand myself as competition to All Music Guide. But the aware reader will determine quickly that I offer information, that supplements AMG excellently. I add the bios only with the permission of the label or artist respecting the copyright. I have already determined that some websites, from which I could cover the information, are meanwhile missing. Here you will find these informations even in some years.
However more important than the collected information are personally for me the contacts and friendships, that I found in the last years through the web. Discussions, chats, emails were the beginning, but it's a real pleasure to meet artists and fans at the gigs I visit occasionally. I regret, that these opportunities are so rare and have planned definetly, to alter that in future.


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Startling and unexpected, the art-loving population of Hornby Island now has a fun roadside attraction to add to the list of views, beaches and wildlife the island is known for. The oversized Campbell's soup can tribute to Andy Warhol is the work of internationally-known painter Roberta Pyx Sutherland. In the summer of 2012 she was one of two artists handed huge, rusty water tanks by the Community Arts Council. The goal? To turn the Fire Department's water reservoirs into pieces of public art. About eight large tanks are dotted about the landscape in locations convenient for the trucks to reach in case of fire.
Located on a rural corner, at first Pyx attempted a design to camouflage the tank and have it blend it into the trees in the background. The tank refused. Nothing worked. Stepping back and embracing the challenge she was inspired by the words of the Island's voice for contemporary art, curator Annette Hurtig who had just passed away . "No more eagles, no more trees. Expand yourself." With the thought of the local food bank kitchen in mind and their constant pressure for supplies plus Andy Warhol's 50th anniversary of the famous artwork looming, the tank seemed to scream "I am a soup can from New York City. Let me help".
She could hardly believe it. The dimensions were perfect. If rendered properly, it would be surreal - like the Jolly Green Giant had dropped a can of soup from his lunch bucket. It could be a landmark. People would enjoy it and laugh at the improbability of such acclaimed art landing on Hornby. The Campbell's Soup Company marketed reproductions of Warhol's soup can series and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City created an exhibition around it.) Something unexpected ...isn't this what art is all about?
Fortunately there was a local artist with set design experience, Tara Ireland, who agreed to help. It took over 100 hours of concentrated effort to complete. While some of Pyx's typical drawings and collages may look three-dimensional, it was was the first time she had worked on an enormous curved metal surface. Utilizing her experience in design, she even created a landscaping plan to complete the setting.
Pyx, like Warhol, has studied many styles and methods of art ranging from ceramic shrines to copper engraving. She has traveled through Asia and Africa . She has studied with Zen Roshis and Tibetan thanka painters.
Pyx first bought her Grassy Point studio on Hornby in 1998. She has been involved with the community, opening her studio and showing regularly on the island ever since.


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using System.Collections.Sequences;
using System.Text.Utf8;
using Xunit;

namespace System.Text.Parsing.Tests
{
    public class SequenceParsingTests {

        [Theory]
        [InlineData(123, 3, new string[] { "123" })]
        [InlineData(123, 3, new string[] { "1", "23" })]
        [InlineData(123, 3, new string[] { "1", "2" , "3" })]
        [InlineData(1, 1, new string[] { "1_", "2", "3" })]
        [InlineData(1, 1, new string[] { "1", "_2", "3" })]
        [InlineData(12, 2, new string[] { "1", "2_", "3" })]
        [InlineData(123, 3, new string[] { "1", "2", "3_" })]
        public void ParseUInt32(uint expectedValue, int expectedConsumed, string[] segments) {
            var buffers = ToUtf8Buffers(segments);

            uint value;
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            Assert.True(buffers.TryParseUInt32(out value, out consumed));
            Assert.Equal(expectedValue, value);
            Assert.Equal(expectedConsumed, consumed);
        }

        [Theory]
        [InlineData(123, 3, new string[] { "123" })]
        [InlineData(123, 3, new string[] { "1", "23" })]
        [InlineData(123, 3, new string[] { "1", "2", "3" })]
        [InlineData(1, 1, new string[] { "1_", "2", "3" })]
        [InlineData(1, 1, new string[] { "1", "_2", "3" })]
        [InlineData(12, 2, new string[] { "1", "2_", "3" })]
        [InlineData(123, 3, new string[] { "1", "2", "3_" })]
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            var buffers = ToUtf8Buffers(segments);

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