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Reza Mahammad
Celebrity Chefs and Wine experts
CSR - Corporate Social Responsibility
Reza was born in England to Indian parents and sent off to India to be educated as his parents wanted him to stay in touch with their roots. This provided a good British education, which left him speaking English with a public school accent and Hindi with an English accent. A hybrid torn between two worlds.
His father passed away when he was just 16 and he took over the running of the family business, The Star of India Restaurant in London. He inherited a piece of 1950's London, flock wallpaper and all, and set about inflicting his own brand of artistic flourish. Voila; from flock to Baroque!
But with his inimitable concentration span of approximately five minutes, another revamp promptly followed. This time a cross between a Zeffirelli production and the Sistine Chapel.
The years spent managing The Star of India established the restaurant as an institution and enabled him to explode onto the restaurant and food scene.
Of course he has always been in involved in Indian cooking and yet he loves to experiment with foods from all around the world, adding elements and ingredients that bring a new dimension to a traditional dish. He is a firm believer in bringing a personal touch to cooking.
Managing a restaurant does have some perks. A regular customer at The Star happened to be a television director. They got talking and he came up with the idea of doing a cookery programme with Reza and the then Goddess of Indian cookery; Madhur Jaffrey.
He first came to the public's attention on UKTV Food Channel's Delhi Belly with Sanjeev Bhaskar, the star of Goodness Gracious Me/The Kumars. This then lead on to Coconut Coast, United States of Reza and A Place in France, one of the more bizarre ideas for a TV show, where Nigel Farrell set up an Indian restaurant in the south of France. Reza was also resident chef on ITV's This Morning.
His latest series 'Reza, Spice Prince of India' for the Food Network follows Reza on his travels to India where he unveils Rajasthan foods and royal feasting traditions and demonstrates his contemporary spin on traditional Indian dishes.
Aside from cooking, Reza leans towards the arts and has a passion for music, having come to realise that food and music are linked. "A symphony of taste which feeds the senses is like beautiful music which nourishes the soul."


South African coastal waters are under immense pressure due to over-exploitation. Inadequate coastal protection and enforcement appears to be failing and the issue is becoming a real, pressing matter.
Aquaculture is the cultivation of aquatic animals and plants, especially fish, shellfish, and seaweed, in a natural, controlled marine or freshwater environment – also known as underwater agriculture. Within the Founding Group key members are currently running projects, having launched projects in the past. We will actively supply various major retailers with Kabeljou and Abalone, both listed as endangered and protected, farming them in an eco-friendly manner.
Aquaculture is still in its infancy in South Africa, but the demand for fresh seafood is increasing and the resource is increasingly exposed to exploitation. Aquaculture is a serious option to be considered as a sustainable and healthier approach to job creation. Above ground fishing projects have been described as "profitable, affordable, repeatable, transportable, lockable and stackable". The aquaculture sector has seen a worldwide growth rate of 9% a year since 1973 and the commercial fish farming industry globally was valued by the United Nations in access of R600 billion in the year 2008. Unfortunately, South Africa lags behind the rest of the world but it has been noted by government that aquaculture is a viable, effective way of contributing to food security.
This project aims to employ over 100 employees mainly from disadvantaged communities, providing economic relieve, education, good nutrition and support whilst making a return for expansion. The number of employees will ultimately be driven up to 1000 as the project develops.
Aquaculture has been earmarked as a feasible initiative to assist in meeting the rising demand for seafood, it provides stress relief to over-exploitation and it is essential for future food security.


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Whistler bike park opens up it trails this week. We thought we'd celebrate the occasion with a special rundown and video of the best trails in Whistler.
You actually can't not do A-Line. Arguably the most famous trail in the mountain bike world. A rollercoaster of berms and jumps. There's some serious airtime to be had on A Line. Recently revamped to include a huge booter near the end.
Another berm and jump fest in a similar vein to A Line but some folk would say is even better due to the variation of features and alternative line options. New start has some big step-ups and step-downs but the creek gap finale is all present and correct.
Leave the treeline and jumps behind and head up to the mountain tops for a real alpine singletrack experience. Limited numbers of rider runs (150) available per day so get in line early. It's worth getting up early for.
You might recognise this track from the famous Whip Off Worlds where Crabapple's motocross-size tabletops are used by riders to show off their most outrageous whips. It's wide and groomed but the sheer speed (35+mph) is unreal.
After all that massive air time here's something much more wheels on the ground. Not that that means it's easy – far from it! Super steep in places. Plenty of hold-yer-breath plunges down gnarly chutes. Slipper when dusty. Lethal when damp.
A ridiculously long jump trail – it's over three miles long! And once you've done this it's easy to link straight on to A-Line or Dirt Merchant for even more airtime insanity. Freight Trian gets its name from the step-on step-off shipping containers part way down the track.
Named after one of the Godfather's of Canadian freeride – Richie Schley. A signature mix of natural gnarl and manmade features. Variety is the key ingredient here. Features one of the most jagged slabs of exposed rock in the whole of Whistler.
A good choice for your first Whistler trail experience. As the name implies it's sort of a scaled down version of A-Line. More mellow in gradient and amplitude of jumps. Well groomed and approachable. Get your eye in on this before taking things up a level.
A good target to aim for once you've become comfortable on some of Whistler's other tracks. Crank It Up is like a smaller version of Dirt Merchant and A-Line but increases the thrill factor with drops, step-ups and even wallrides of increasingly size.


Former President Chandrika Kumaratunga exposed as to how her immediate successor former President Mahinda Rajapaksa had demanded and received bribes from Chinese companies.
In a candid interview named 'Sambhasana' aired by the Independent Television Network on the 8th of November 2016, the former president Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga stated as to how her immediate successor and former President Mahinda Rajapaksa demanded monies to the value of 50% from all six projects she had signed with the Chinese government prior to her departure from office.
She also stated that the Chinese Ambassador personally visited her at home in Colombo and complained that all six projects such as the Norochchali Coal Power Plant, Magampura Hambantota Port, Nelum Pokuna Theatre and the Katunayake Airport Highway were in danger of not going ahead due to the demands made by the Rajapaksa led government.
The former President CBK citing an example said "After much scrutiny our government had found the best experts in China to complete the Norochchalai Coal Power Plant Project for US $ 280 million. However after Mahinda Rajapaksa took over office he had got down the contractors from China and demanded 50 % of that value from them. They said that it was impossible to part with that kind of money as even they were making only 25% profit from the project. He asked them to then "get out' and the signed contract and project was terminated. The Mahinda Rajapaksa led government then signed a new contract to the value of US $ 520 million with an unknown and inexperienced company in handling such projects. These are the reasons as to why even today we are having problems with the Norochchalai Coal Power Plant".
The former President in her hour long interview also covered several topics such as the disappearance and murders of Journalists Lasantha Wickrematunge and Prageeth Ekneligoda. Besides expressing her displeasure in the slow manner that the investigations were ongoing she also went on to express her dissatisfaction in the manner that even the exhumed skeletal parts of Wasim Thajudeen were handled.


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Lillies are very pale pink (off white) the leaves are olive green in a very pretty rippled glass, and the stems have a wonderful life like grain, and their colour goes from brown to burgundy depending on the light.
This piece can have a boarder added at an extra cost. This means it could be made to fit a cupboard door if it is too small as is. Price would depend on type of glass chosen ie could be plain glass or wavy, lacy, or frosted.


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Rapstar Captured for His Role in Wire Fraud Scheme
Richard Marley
A famous rapper from Chicago with his crew members was caught and charged in court for using the stolen credit cards and stolen identity cards to pay for their lavish means, designer clothes, puppies, and a private jet for the last four years.
Herbert Wright III, most commonly known as G Herbo, has been charged with wire fraud and identity theft in the US District Court, Massachusetts. Along with G Herbo, his crew members Joseph Williams, Steven Hayes Jr., Demario Sorrells, and Terrence Bender were also charged with identity theft charges.
This conspiracy started when Wright along with his co-defendants illegally took credit card information from the dark web. They are also suspected to have used fake identity cards, driver's licenses, emails ID to fool the businesses.
The indictment said, "Generally because the defendants and their co-conspirators provided authentic payment card information, the defrauded businesses and individuals successfully processed their transactions and provided the goods and services."
In a case, Wright allegedly requested from Strong to reserve a private mansion in Jamaica. Allegedly, Strong made a reservation using a stolen credit card.
Several other fraudulent attempts have been highlighted by the indictment. They are known to rent Maybach S600 and a Bentley from stolen money.
G Herbo, grew up in South Side Chicago and helped to lead Chicago's drill music to international recognition. His music is plauded for the harsh realities he had to face growing up. The rapper was charged with weapons and battery charges before. The thing he made the headlines was for his community work in the South Side of Chicago by hosting food drives and giveaways.
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Amblyptilia acanthadactyla ist ein Schmetterling aus der Familie der Federmotten (Pterophoridae). Die Art wurde von Jacob Hübner im Jahr 1813 als Alucita acanthadactyla erstbeschrieben. Der lateinische Artname acanthadactyla setzt sich aus den aus dem Altgriechischen stammenden Wortteilen acantha ("Dorn") und dactylus ("Finger") zusammen.

Taxonomie
In der Literatur finden sich folgende Synonyme:
 Amblyptilia calaminthae , 1886
 Amblyptilia tetralicella , 1895

Merkmale
Die Flügelspannweite variiert zwischen 17 und 23 mm. Die hauptsächlich rotbraun und weiß gefärbten Schmetterlinge weisen schwarzbraune Flecken auf. In Ruhestellung mit ausgebreiteten Flügeln verdecken die Vorderflügel die Hinterflügel. Die Vorderflügel weisen zwei auffällige Flecke bestehend aus schwarzbraunen Schuppen auf. Die Hinterflügel sind in drei fingerähnliche Teilflügel aufgespalten, die im vorderen Bereich hellbraun gefärbt sind und entlang des Hinterrandes hell-beigene lange Fransen aufweisen. Der hinterste der Teilflügel besitzt unweit der Spitze am Hinterrand einen schwarzbraunen dreiecksförmigen Fleck.

Eine ähnliche Art ist Amblyptilia punctidactyla. Die Fleckenmusterung ist jedoch abweichend. Außerdem besitzt A. acanthadactyla eine rotbraune Färbung, A. punctidactyla dagegen eine graubraune.

Die länglich-ovalen Eier sind hellgrün gefärbt. Die Farbe der Raupen variiert von hellgrün, gelblich bis rotgelb. Die Kopfkapsel ist beigefarben. Die Raupen weisen längere weiße Härchen auf.

Verbreitung
Die Art ist westpaläarktisch verbreitet. Das Vorkommen reicht im Norden bis nach Fennoskandinavien, auf die Britischen Inseln sowie bis nach Färöer und Island. Im Süden erstreckt sich das Verbreitungsgebiet über den Mittelmeerraum (Iberische Halbinsel, die größeren Mittelmeerinseln, Israel). Auf Madeira, auf den Azoren sowie auf den Kanarischen Inseln ist die Art ebenfalls vertreten. Im Osten gibt es Funde aus Karelien, der Krim und dem Kaukasus. Die Art gilt in Europa als allgemein häufig und weit verbreitet.

Lebensweise
Die Schmetterlinge findet man gewöhnlich in Heidelandschaften, an Waldrändern, in Offenland- und Heckenbiotopen sowie in Gärten. Die Art bildet zwei Generationen im Jahr. Die Flugzeit der ersten Generation liegt im Juli. Die Imagines der zweiten Generation erscheinen im September. Sie überwintern und fliegen im Frühjahr noch bis in den Mai. Die Schmetterlinge werden nachts von Lichtquellen angelockt. Die Raupen beobachtet man im Juni und im August an ihren Nahrungspflanzen. Sie besitzen ein breites Nahrungsspektrum. Als Futterpflanzen werden u. a. genannt:
 Besenheide (Calluna)
 Eberwurzen (Carlina)
 Gänsefüße (Chenopodium)
 Bergminzen (Clinopodium)
 Heidekräuter (Erica)
 Augentrost (Euphrasia)
 Storchschnäbel (Geranium)
 Minzen (Mentha)
 Hauhecheln (Ononis)
 Salbei (Salvia)
 Wald-Ziest (Stachys sylvatica)
 Salbei-Gamander (Teucrium scorodonia)
 Heidelbeeren (Vaccinium)

Die Stürzpuppe hängt frei baumelnd mit Häkchen an einer Gespinstverankerung, häufig an einem Blatt oder am Stamm einer Raupenfutterpflanze. Trotz optischer Tarnung sind die Raupen der Sommergeneration offenbar von einer hohen Parasitierungsrate betroffen.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 Amblyptilia acanthadactyla bei lepiforum.org
 Amblyptilia acanthadactyla bei www.norfolkmoths.co.uk
 Amblyptilia acanthadactyla bei www.gbif.org

Federmotten
Pterophoridae

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Trump's Attorney General Is Preparing His Next Cover-Up for the Administration
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The attorney general wants to "correct the record" about the White House's push to ask about citizenship on the census.
By Jay Willis
In this column, Due Diligence, erstwhile attorney and GQ staff writer Jay Willis untangles the messy intersection of law, politics, and culture.
Two weeks ago, just before recessing for the summer, the Supreme Court decided that the Trump administration cannot add a question to the 2020 census about whether respondents are U.S. citizens—at least, not unless it comes up with a better reason for wanting to do so. This result comes as a setback for the president, but only a temporary one, because the opinion mapped out exactly what attorney general William Barr and his Department of Justice need to do in order to get their way. And on Monday, Barr took the first few steps down that path.
The Court arrived at its conclusion after determining that, as a matter of administrative law, the Trump officials had failed to offer a coherent justification for why they wanted to make the change. This is roughly the legal equivalent of chastising a student for turning in a math test without showing their work, and to Barr, it is a simple problem to fix. "I felt the Supreme Court decision was wrong, but it also made clear that the question was a perfectly legal question to ask, but the record had to be clarified," he said, a day after the Department of Justice announced its intent to turn over the case to a new team of lawyers. He reiterated his belief that Trump "is right on the legal grounds," and that it "makes a lot of sense for the president to see if it's possible that we could clarify the record in time to add the question" before the census begins.
Incorporating the citizenship query into the 2020 forms, according to the Census Bureau's experts, could by itself cause the response rate among households with non-citizens to decrease by five percent. Such a systemic undercount within immigrant communities would both deny them representation in Congress and shift federal resources away from the areas in which they live—which is the real reason the Trump administration wants to do it. This is not speculation; according to analyses conducted by the late Thomas Hofeller, a GOP strategist who lobbied White House officials to include the question, congressional apportionment based only on the population of U.S. citizens "would be advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites."
Wilbur Ross, whose Department of Commerce houses the Census Bureau, insisted throughout legal challenges to his decision that the government wanted to collect citizenship data for a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason: in order better enforce the Voting Rights Act. But at trial, the evidence showed that behind the scenes, Ross came up with this voting-rights story only after quietly asking the Department of Justice to help cobble together a pretext. (Among the anti-immigrant officials who took part in back-channel discussions about the question's potential impact were then-attorney general Jeff Sessions, then-White House advisor Steve Bannon, and former Kansas secretary of state and current voter fraud conspiracy theorist Kris Kobach; at oral argument, Justice Sonia Sotomayor called the voting-rights explanation "a solution in search of a problem.") Sessions's Department of Justice was happy to oblige Ross, and Hofeller even helped it draft a formal request to the Department Commerce.
This, said chief justice John Roberts, is where the administration went awry: by offering a "contrived" justification for its choice. "If judicial review is to be more than an empty ritual, it must demand something better than the explanation offered for the action taken in this case," he wrote. He emphasized in his opinion that he had not determined the Bureau's decision to be "substantively invalid," but only that the Bureau had to offer a "reasoned explanation"—presumably, something other than disclosing the Trump administration's desire to scare immigrants into silence—for making it.
This is less reasoned legal analysis than it is a gentle rebuke of a White House that, in its zeal to infuse the census with both partisan politics and xenophobia, accidentally said the quiet part a little too loud. The administration, by the Washington Post's count, has changed its story about the question at least ten times over the past four months. In a particularly revealing sequence, shortly after the Court published its opinion, an irate Trump told reporters that the government needed to collect citizenship data "for Congress, for districting," and "for appropriations"—which is, in light of the Court's explicit instructions, perhaps the most ill-advised admission he could make. At this point, nothing Barr's Department of Justice says to justify the citizenship question can be an explanation, really; it will be an excuse, crafted for the purpose of concealing a motive that the administration, according to the Court, cannot admit in public.
Barr, of course, is well-versed in the art of the presidential cover-up. As attorney general to George H.W. Bush, he was instrumental in extricating his boss from the Iran-Contra affair; under Trump, he disseminated a wildly-misleading, four-page summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report just two days after receiving it, and three weeks before the report's public release. By the time anyone else had the chance to review Mueller's conclusions and discover that the special counsel did not, as Barr had insisted, clear the president of criminal wrongdoing, Trump had celebrated his "complete and total exoneration" vociferously enough for that narrative to take root. For Barr, being attorney general has always been less about upholding the rule of law than it is about getting the president what he wants.
Together, the Court's wink-wink decision and Barr's wink-wink response indicate that history may be about to repeat itself. (Even his anodyne characterization of the task before him—to "clarify the record" about the push to ask respondents about their citizenship status—is a time-honored lawyer euphemism for what clients need to do after they're caught lying through their teeth.) William Barr doesn't have to tell the Court's conservative justices the truth; he just has to tell them a slightly-more-palatable lie. And the Court's conservative justices don't actually need to believe what he says; they just have to decide that it sounds good enough for them to feel comfortable about looking the other way.
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Each window has a flow-control setting that determines how screen deals with the XON and XOFF characters (and perhaps the interrupt character). When flow-control is turned off, screen ignores the XON and XOFF characters, which allows the user to send them to the current program by simply typing them (useful for the emacs editor, for instance). The trade-off is that it will take longer for output from a "normal" program to pause in response to an XOFF. With flow-control turned on, XON and XOFF characters are used to immediately pause the output of the current window. You can still send these characters to the current program, but you must use the appropriate two-character screen commands (typically C-a q (xon) and C-a s (xoff)). The xon/xoff commands are also useful for typing C-s and C-q past a terminal that intercepts these characters.
Each window has an initial flow-control value set with either the `-f' option or the defflow command. By default the windows are set to automatic flow-switching. It can then be toggled between the three states 'fixed on', 'fixed off' and 'automatic' interactively with the flow command bound to C-a f.
The automatic flow-switching mode deals with flow control using the TIOCPKT mode (like rlogin does). If the tty driver does not support TIOCPKT, screen tries to determine the right mode based on the current setting of the application keypad -- when it is enabled, flow-control is turned off and visa versa. Of course, you can still manipulate flow-control manually when needed.
If you're running with flow-control enabled and find that pressing the interrupt key (usually C-c) does not interrupt the display until another 6-8 lines have scrolled by, try running screen with the `interrupt' option (add the `interrupt' flag to the flow command in your .screenrc, or use the `-i' command-line option). This causes the output that screen has accumulated from the interrupted program to be flushed. One disadvantage is that the virtual terminal's memory contains the non-flushed version of the output, which in rare cases can cause minor inaccuracies in the output. For example, if you switch screens and return, or update the screen with C-a l you would see the version of the output you would have gotten without `interrupt' being on. Also, you might need to turn off flow-control (or use auto-flow mode to turn it off automatically) when running a program that expects you to type the interrupt character as input, as the `interrupt' parameter only takes effect when flow-control is enabled. If your program's output is interrupted by mistake, a simple refresh of the screen with C-a l will restore it. Give each mode a try, and use whichever mode you find more comfortable.
Same as the flow command except that the default setting for new windows is changed. Initial setting is `auto'. Specifying flow auto interrupt has the same effect as the command-line options `-fa' and `-i'. Note that if `interrupt' is enabled, all existing displays are changed immediately to forward interrupt signals.
Sets the flow-control mode for this window to fstate, which can be `on', `off' or `auto'. Without parameters it cycles the current window's flow-control setting. Default is set by `defflow'.
Send a ^Q (ASCII XON) to the program in the current window. Redundant if flow control is set to `off' or `auto'.
Send a ^S (ASCII XOFF) to the program in the current window.


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Q: Scaling a Phonegap app for different Android screen sizes/densities? I have a Phonegap app designed to run on Android phones and tablets. The scale of text and images looks fine on a phone, but too small on a 7" tablet.
Is there a way to set the scale for different screen sizes/densities that works for a Phonegap-based app? For a native Android app, multiple screen layouts (as mentioned in the android docs) would be a solution, but can this be used for a Phonegap-based app?
I could use CSS media queries to set font sizes based on screen size, but I want to scale the entire interface (including images) proportionally.
I tried using the CSS zoom property along with media queries to target specific screen sizes, but this screws up absolute positioning and interferes with the function of UI elements such as iScroll:
@media only screen and (min-device-width : 768px) {
    body{
        zoom: 125%;
    }
}
@media only screen and (min-device-width : 1024px){
    body{
        zoom: 150%;
    }
}

I also tried using the targetdensity-dpi meta viewport property - adjusting it to 120dpi makes the scale better on the 7" tablet, but too large on the phone. Since this is hard-coded in HTML rather than CSS, media queries can't be used to vary it based on screen size:
<meta name="viewport"
   content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, targetdensity-dpi=120dpi">

Here's some screenshots from a testcase Phonegap app:

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*HTC HD2, target-density=default

*HTC HD2, target-density=120dpi

*Nexus 7, target-density=default

*Nexus 7, target-density=120dpi

A: Just noticed I never answered this. The solution I used in the end was to use media queries to explicitly set font sizes and image assets based on the device size. Device testing showed this worked on all my target devices: iPhone, iPad, Android phones, Android 7" tablets, Android 10" tables. Hope it helps someone else.
For example:
/* Start with default styles for phone-sized devices */
    p,li{
        font-size: 0.9em;
    }
    h1{
        font-size: 1.2em;
    }
    button{
        width: 24px;
        height: 12px;
    }
    button.nav{
        background-image: url('img/phone/nav.png');
    }

@media only screen and (min-device-width : 768px) { /* 7" tablets */
    p, li{
        font-size: 1.3em !important;
    }
    h1{
        font-size: 1.6em !important;
    }
    button{
          width: 32px;
          height: 16px;
    }
    button.nav{
        background-image: url('img/tablet7/nav.png');
    }
}
@media only screen and (min-device-width : 1024px) { /* 10" tablets and iPad */
    p, li{
        font-size: 1.5em !important;
    }
    h1{
        font-size: 1.8em !important;
    }
    button{
        width: 48px;
        height: 24px;
    }
    button.nav{
        background-image: url('img/tablet10/nav.png');
    }
}

A: Before we give up on phonegap lets try improve it.
I was stuck until I solved it using this solution.
Change your viewport to this :
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, target-densitydpi=medium-dpi, user-scalable=0" />

Ref : Phonegap Application text and layout too small

A: Consider that target-densitydpi has been deprecated and removed from Webkit according to Pete LePage (https://plus.google.com/+GoogleChromeDevelopers/posts/BKHdSgQVFBB), I think a better approach is to use media queries to target high-dpi devices before dropping phonegap

A: I have a couple of different solutions to suggest:

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*Change viewport dynamically using Javascript (more info here)

*Set all sizes in rem units rather than px. Then you can scale everything by adjusting document font-size. Sketching an example:
function resize() {
var w = document.documentElement.clientWidth;
var h = document.documentElement.clientHeight;
var styleSheet = document.styleSheets[0];
// ar = aspect ratio h/w; Replace this with your apps aspect ratio
var ar = 1.17;
// x = scaling factor
var x = 0.1;
var rem;
if (h / w > ar) { // higher than aspect ratio
    rem = x * w;
} else { // wider than aspect ratio
    rem = x * h;
}
document.documentElement.style.fontSize = rem + 'px';
}

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The Hardest Achievements Almost No One Can Get on Xbox
By Nathan Gibson
One of the things that originally set the Xbox consoles apart from the competition was the inclusion of achievements. Although it might seem like a minor feature, the unlockable rewards added an extra element of motivation for many players. They have become so popular that the likes of Sony and Nintendo now include similar systems in their own consoles.
Of course, unlocking achievements is not always an easy task. While there are plenty of trivial examples that don't take much effort, many are much trickier to complete. That makes sense considering that they are meant to reward skill and act as a badge of honor. But a few achievements go too far, asking players to meet insanely difficult requirements that few can ever manage. Here are the hardest achievements almost no one can get on Xbox.
Tumblestone — Dreamcatcher
The "Dreamcatcher" achievement in Tumblestone is one that only a few players in the title will ever unlock. The reason for this is simple. It is practically impossible to beat under normal circumstances. Players have to beat the three AI opponents in a row. What makes this extra difficult, though, is that each needs to be set on the hardest setting possible. One wrong move will quickly destroy your chances. But even if you play perfectly there is still a very good chance you will get beat by the uncompromising computer players.
Goat Simulator — The Flapmaster
For the most part, Goat Simulator is a fun game that doesn't tax gamers too much. However, "The Flapmaster" achievement is the one moment in the title that most people will just give up on almost immediately. To unlock it, you must get 10 points on an arcade machine that features a clone of Flappy Bird. The original app was hard enough but this version has tricky controls and performance issues. Anyone able to get to 10 points truly deserves the gamerscore.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare — Mile High Club
Although Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare's achievements are mostly straightforward, one of them stands out for being fiendishly hard to unlock. The "Mile High Club" achievement needs players to complete the last mission in the game in less than a minute. While that is a tough enough ask on its own, players also have to play it on the highest difficulty. To have any chance of completing the achievement, you have to memorize every second of the mission and make no mistakes.
Rock Band 2 — Bladder of Steel
Everyone knows that playing Rock Band 2 can get very tricky if you choose the expert difficulty. However, this achievement doesn't require you to play on the hardest level. Instead, it requires a gamer to get through every single song included in the base game in one sitting. That means you have to play more than 70 songs in a row without pausing the game. If you fail a track that also means you have to start over.
Limbo — No Point in Dying
Limbo is already considered to be a fairly difficult game even if it only lasts for a few hours. However, the "No Point in Dying" achievement takes things a step further. Players must somehow make it through the entire story without dying more than five times. That's a huge ask considering the sheer amount of traps and enemies that will block your path. One tiny mistake can mean instant death, so this is an incredibly difficult achievement. Only those that memorize each section will be able to unlock it.
Steep — 24 carats Gold challenger
The "24 carats Gold challenger" achievement in Steep can basically only be unlocked by those who are a master of the game. That's because it requires players to win a gold medal on all 188 challenges in the game. Because these are spread out over the disciplines in the title, you have to be an expert in every mode. Otherwise, you can easily fail to meet the criteria for the snowboarding or skiing sections.
Elite: Dangerous — Well Trained
When Elite Dangerous first launched in 2014, it included an achievement called "Well Trained." This was awarded to those who completed the tutorials for the game. Unfortunately, that meant getting through a combat scenario that involved fighting wave after wave of enemy ships that were much stronger than your own. It was a situation that would never occur in the main game, and only a very few talented players were ever able to unlock it. Nowadays, the tutorials have been made easier but it's still a tough achievement.
Trials Fusion — Is There Anything You Can't Do?
The Trials series has always been known for its difficult achievements. Practically every game in the series has asked players to accomplish some insane task for the final achievement. Yet, Trials Fusion is arguably the most unforgiving of the lot. To unlock "Is There Anything You Can't Do?" players need to beat every single challenge in the game. That includes 120 different tracks, many of them on the hardest difficulty. What makes matters worse is that the final level has to be beaten while your bike is invisible.
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Dying Alone: America's Demographic Future
Eric Metaxas and Roberto Rivera | Author, Breakpoint | Tuesday, December 19, 2017
#elderly
#human life
Yesterday, John Stonestreet told you about the United States' declining fertility rate. It has dropped to 1.77 children per woman from a post-World War II high of 3.7 children per woman in the late 1950s.
To put this in perspective, that's lower than European countries such as France, the U.K., Sweden, and Norway. And it's not much higher than Denmark's, whose "do it for Denmark" ad campaign was mocked by many social conservatives.
But while John told you about the numbers, I want to tell you a couple of stories that provide a glimpse of what our future might hold. Both of them take place in Japan where, as Hall of Fame football coach George Allen used to say, "the future is now."
The first occurred about a decade ago and concerned Kokura Yukari, a student at an Elementary School in northeastern Japan. Actually, Yukari was the only student at the school.
While Yukari's situation was unusual, the lack of school-age children in Japan is not. Between 2002 and 2013, 5,800 schools closed in Japan. Many more remain "open" only because there's no workable alternative to keeping them open.
Between 1980 and 2015, the number of Japanese school age children dropped by almost half. Between now and 2050, the number of children under the age of fourteen is expected to drop by half. At the same time, the number of people over ninety is expected to grow to three million.
And that brings me to the second story. A recent New York Times article told readers about a generation of Japanese who are dying alone. By some estimates, 4,000 elderly Japanese die at home alone per week. The only thing that marks their passing is the smell that tips off the neighbors.
The two stories are connected. The same forces that produced schools with only one student also produced elderly people dying alone. Japan is locked in a "demographic crucible of increasing age and declining births." The result is the "extreme isolation of elderly Japanese," which, in turn, has spawned an entire industry that specializes in cleaning out apartments where "decomposing remains are found."
Can this happen here? Well, it has already begun to. In 1980, there were five workers for every retiree. Today, there are less than three. By 2030, there will be two. In 2016, there were approximately 46 million Americans over 65 – by 2060, it's estimated there will be 98 million, all of them members of the cohort dubbed "millennials."
That would be the same cohort who aren't having kids today.
For years, we have treated Japan's demographic demise, if we were aware of it in the first place, as a kind of cultural eccentricity, like appointing Pikachu the electric mouse from Pokémon a cultural ambassador.
It's not. The same "demographic crucible" is at work here: fewer children and an aging population. As a result, Americans, in the words of Bloomberg News, "face a rising risk of dying alone."
This risk, barring an unexpected, if not miraculous, reversal, will only increase with time. By 2060, "the share of non-Hispanic whites without any living close kin [is projected to] double. The share of non-Hispanic blacks without close kin is expected to more than triple."
Thankfully, there's something we can do to avoid this fate: have children. And for the Church to help re-create a culture where children are seen as gifts from God and not an item to check off or keep off the bucket list.
Eric Metaxas is a co-host of BreakPoint Radio and a best-selling author whose biographies, children's books, and popular apologetics have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
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normal automotive construction techniques. That is the basis on which we can build a vehicle that is designed to take automotive crash tests and yet still be light enough to fly.
X: High insurance, liability, and litigation costs kill off every company that attempts to build a flying car.
CD: I don't think anybody has actually gotten to the stage where it had the opportunity to put them out of business. Moult Taylor, the most successful roadable aircraft builder in history, only built five prototypes and never went into production, so he never had the opportunity to get into that position. We are anticipating that we will get farther along. And we will be in that position where somebody will, one day, crash in one of our vehicles. And we want to provide them with as much protection as possible so that their insurance rates will be low, and that's why we are investing in these technologies for crash protection. In terms of litigation, that is why we will be insured as a company. There are always risks when you are operating a vehicle. But we are trying to do everything we can from an engineering standpoint to satisfy both the need for this vehicle in the marketplace and the need for it to be insurable.
X: We already have enough trouble with greenhouse gas emissions. Why put all this brainpower into one more CO2-emitting vehicle? Wouldn't it be smarter to come up with a better bicycle, or a way to get people to stop driving?
CD: This is a philosophical question, so I will respond with a philosophical answer. But I will qualify it by saying this is my personal view. I believe that it is in our global interest to do things that improve the quality of human life and the freedoms of humanity. I don't think forcing people to ride bicycles does that. I love riding my bicycle into work. I am not trying to de-emphasize the importance of being a conscientious user of natural resources. But what we're talking about here is fundamental human progress. I don't believe that it is in our interest as a society to restrict technological development when there is a clear market for it, it happens to improve freedom, and it has a lower impact on the environment than other means of transportation like driving your car.
When you combine those things, I think you have an enabling technology. If people can travel to more places, faster, using less gas, who knows what it will spawn? It is a net-win scenario. Does that mean everybody should travel in a Transition? Of course not. But there are times and places for it. And the bottom line is that there is a real demand for it, and that is what we are seeking to satisfy.
X: Others have tried to build flying cars or roadable aircraft, and they have always failed. What makes this attempt any different?
CD: The short answer is, timing and technology. From a timing perspective, we have the emergence of the new light-sport aircraft rules, which not only create a new type of license but an entirely new way of bringing a sport aircraft to market in a very short amount of time. So from a business perspective, this is an incredible opportunity to get a high rate of return. The other reason is the technology. With advanced carbon-fiber composite materials and modern glass-cockpit avionics, we can provide a lot more functionality in a smaller package that is also safer and have it be insurable. That convergence of timing and technology is why I think this can finally work now.


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For such a funny and formally inventive writer, Donald Barthelme managed to evoke with wistfulness the everyday sadness of much of contemporary life. His stories were so original that I find it hard to credit that so many of them were first published in The New Yorker, where it is in any case difficult to get published at all, but in addition to which the literary values are decidedly traditional. I've read Forty Stories, and from it, many times. I haven't read its predecessor Sixty Stories, but I hope to do so before I die. And also to reread yet again Forty Stories.
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Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Utopia Avenue
By David Mitchell
(Sceptre)
Utopia Avenue is a happy book about a happy band. After all, they are called Utopia Avenue. Not that things were always so rosy during their rapid rise along the rocky road to rock'n'roll stardom.
When we first meet Gravesend-bred blues bassist Dean Moss, he gets mugged, loses his bedsit and his job serving behind the counter in a cafe, all within the space of a few hours. He also has ongoing issues with an alcoholic, abusive father. Oh, and he's just been kicked out of the band he was in, the politically hardline Battleship Potemkin. Home counties folksinger Elf Holloway is going through a bad breakup from her garrulous Australian boyfriend Bruce – who also happens to be the other half of her performing duo. Virtuoso Hendrixesque guitarist Jasper de Zoet is the 'illegitimate' scion of a wealthy Dutch family who, in a characteristic call-back to one of Mitchell's previous novels, 2010's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, suffers from schizophrenia/demonic possession (delete where applicable), and has spent time in a psychiatric institution in Holland, after being hidden away as a boarder at a posh English Public School. Their drummer, gruff Yorkshire man Griff Griffin, a sticksman who learned his trade on the northern jazz circuit, is – as the only non-songwriting member of the ensemble – very much the shadow man of the group, although he does endure a personal tragedy of his own. In addition to the four performers, also integral to the set up is mild-mannered, gay, Canadian manager Levon Frankland, who has the vision to put the band together in the first place. A failed musician, his background is that he is estranged from his Christian evangelical family back home in Toronto because of his sexuality.
Set mostly in and around Soho in 1967/1968, the epicenter of Swinging London, with subsequent sorties to Italy, New York and California, the narrative features walk on appearances by many of the great and good of the time, including, but not limited to (deep breath): Sandy Denny; John Martyn; David Bowie; Marc Bolan; Syd Barrett; Allan Ginsberg; Mick Farren; Brian Jones; Steve Marriott; Jimmy Savile; Francis Bacon; Humphry Lyttleton; Lucian Freud; John Lennon; Jimi Hendrix; Leonard Cohen; Janis Joplin; Frank Zappa; Jerry Garcia and various members of The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. This recurring conceit can amuse or annoy in equal measure, depending on one's attitude, or even one's patience.
From foundational texts like Don DiLillo's Great Jones Street, through Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet, on to Sway by Zachary Lazar and Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta, right up to more recent essays in the sub-genre like Toby Litt's I Play the Drums in a Band Called Okay, Joseph O'Connor's The Thrill Of It All, D. J. Taylor's Rock and Roll Is Life and David Keenan's This Is Memorial Device, the list of novels set in the rock music milieu is already long, and getting alarmingly longer. It is almost coming to seem as though it is a rite of passage for every novelist worth his salt to attempt one. But this is hardly surprising: any band that last any length of time – real or fictional – is a soap opera waiting to happen. What mostly differentiates Mitchell's foray is the nostalgic aspect occasioned by the fact that all of this happened in a period now firmly fifty years ago. Also, rather than being written from one character's perspective, as a pseudo-memoir, Mitchell employs multiple points of view. This is facilitated through the cute structure he uses: every chapter is titled after one of the band's song titles, which are laid out in the order they appeared, Side 1 and Side 2, on each of the band's three albums; the chapter is written, albeit in the third person, from the viewpoint of whichever member wrote the song. The only exception is a short afterword composed by Elf in the present day.
The novel is very good at hinting at the difficulties of being a woman in an otherwise male group, or indeed of being a female solo artist, in the late '60s. Similarly, it also alludes to the vicissitudes of being gay when homosexuality was still illegal. It accomplishes all of this without indulging in the smug, retrospective moral superiority so common in historical revisionism. Despite the new-found freedoms of the era, sexism and homophobia were still almost taken for granted, according to Utopia Avenue the novel – but not in Utopia Avenue the band. Remarkably, considering they were mostly manufactured by their manager, the level of camaraderie and cooperation between the players is almost too good to be true. While he does receive one joint songwriting credit, it is difficult to believe that Griff would be happy being a virtual session man in his own group, especially when one considers the huge disparity in income which would ensue between him and the three songwriters of the group. There is also remarkably little ego friction between those three. The incident where Dean, off his face on coke at their showcase gig at L.A.'s famous Troubadour venue, plays badly but is covered for by his bandmates, speaks to the bonding within the group, but might well incur more wrath in a real life scenario.
It is notoriously difficult to capture the thrill of playing music, much less describe the music itself, in prose, but Mitchell succeeds for the most part, although he does rely on quoting lyrics as much as musical expertise to get this point across. Despite the idealisation of the band's internal workings, this is an enjoyable read for anyone who likes music and is interested in the period. 'Utopia' is, after all, 'no place', and remains an aspiration even if it is by definition unrealisable in reality.
First published in The Irish Times. The link is below. Slightly longer version above.
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/utopia-avenue-a-happy-book-about-a-happy-band-1.4295669
He's no stylist (at least in translation), and his more pedantic passages of data can rival the Marquis de Sade for inducing boredom, but he does hold a mirror up to a society which disdains to see the uglier parts of its reflection. Is he an Islamophobe, a misogynist, a misanthrope? Maybe. But as I used to tell my students, none of his targets should take it too personally: he is an equal opportunity hater. As Jason Cowley wrote in the New Statesman:
'Platform is certainly full of witty, unhinged attacks against Islam – characters are introduced for no other reason than to deliver page-length denunciations of true believers. But Muslims ought not to be unduly offended. Houellebecq is a writer of perpetual attack. Protestants, capitalists, liberal-leftists, the revolutionary generation of 1968, the French, les Anglo-Saxons, hippies, Frederick Forsyth -- all these are among his targets. There is considerable comedy in Houellebecq's wild misanthropy. There is also a peculiar poignancy.'
Most of his novels are worth reading: Atomised is a take down of narcissistic hippie culture; The Map And The Territory is a take of the art world; Platform, our representative, is a take down of sex tourism. It takes the machinations of capitalism, when applied to the global tourism industry, to its logical end:
"Therefore, you have several million westerners who have everything they could want but no longer manage to get sexual satisfaction... On the other hand, you have several billion people who have nothing, who starve, who die young, who live in conditions unfit for human habitation and who have nothing left to sell except their bodies and their unspoiled sexuality."
Guess what happens. Enjoy.
http://www.desmondtraynor.com/books/Houellebecq.%20Platform.html
Are friends allowed? I first met Éilís Ní Dhuibhne when I wrote a laudatory review of this short story collection, first published in 1997 (link below). She contacted me to say thanks. Myself and my wife Jane subsequently became friends with her and her husband, Bo. That's a long time ago now – but it feels like nothing at all. Of course, I've written negative reviews of Irish writers who've then shunned me from a great height. It's all so obvious and predictable, really. Would the ones I wrote negative reviews of now be bosom buddies if I'd written positive reviews of them? Who knows? But that's not the way life went.
Read the review to find out what's so good about he book. Meet Éilís Ní Dhuibhne to find out what a good person she is.
http://www.desmondtraynor.com/books/nidhuibhne2.html
Speaking of Mr. Burroughs… Most people reach for Junkie or Naked Lunch when asked for their favourite Burroughs' book. (Perhaps these are the only Burroughs' books they've read, or even heard of!) I favour the Red Night trilogy, especially the concluding tome, The Western Lands. Despite, or because of (I don't know which) the influence of Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings, this is a singular work by a singular man with a singular vision, which I regard as a late masterpiece. The Old Writer tries to write his way out of Death. It is a blueprint for immortality.
Touted at the time as the female answer to William Burroughs – which, of course, she was not, that was just a convenient and lazy tag. However, what was clear was that we were no longer in Jane Austen territory. What a relief.


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By NthCbr on 16 May 2017 / Announcements, Dickson, Environment, Water, Energy, Home, Issue Category / Leave a comment
Introduction to Sunday's walk at Dickson Library – organised by Jane Goffman (Dickson Residents Group), with expert heritage architecture talk by Eric Martin and local history by Miles Boak (Downer Community Association)
On 6 and 7 May, over 90 heritage walks participants toured Dickson Library and the 1960s shopping centre with expert heritage architects and urban planners, exploring the significance of the architecture and layout, then travelled along Sullivan's Creek through mixed community uses to the Monterey pine windbreaks, former paddocks and workshop buildings of the CSIRO Dickson Experiment Station (1940-64).
The heritage-listed Dickson Library, which opened in 1969, was the first district library in the national capital and part of the National Library. Commissioned by the NCDC, designed by famous Italian architect Enrico Taglietti, the library was opened in 1969 and known as the Children's Library. In 1927, Dr Bertram Dickson (a Canadian botanist) was recruited by the nascent CSIRO as Chief of the new Plant Division and after years setting up facilities at Black Mountain and Duntroon, succeeded in establishing a much larger experimental farm at the northern edge of the new capital, next to the city's first airfield.
Conclusion to Saturday's walk at Downer community centre – talk on CSIRO given by Denys Garden (Downer Community Association), with expert heritage architecture talks by David Hobbes and Evan Williamson
From 1940 to 1964 the experiment station was used to produce opium for the war effort and to trial experimental crops and farming techniques. Long rows of Monterey pines, yellow box and apple box and Californian redwood trees, planted as windbreaks, and a central group of farm buildings used as workshops and for storage, later became the landscaped streets and community centre of Downer. Moving through this landscape, via a section of Sullivan's Creek, the walk leaders recounted the stories and discussed the planning history of this rapidly changing part of the nation's capital slated for urban renewal.
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Obituary of Remo J. Tartaglia, Sr.
Please share a memory of Remo to include in a keepsake book for family and friends.
Remo J. Tartaglia, Sr., age 91, of Wilton, beloved husband of the late Sebastiana Gionfriddo Tartaglia, peacefully entered into eternal life on Friday, January 13, 2023 at his home.
Born on a farm in Alanno, Italy to the late Alfredo and Maria DiMarco Tartaglia, Remo earned a degree in Economics and Commerce at The University of Naples. He came to the United States when he was brought to Massachusetts by his uncle to work in a restaurant. He left that job to pursue a job in the kitchen at Middletown Hospital, having no experience at all. Later, he became the franchisee for all of the Bonanza Restaurants in Connecticut. He parted ways with Bonanza and established the American Steakhouse in 1983. While operating the American Steakhouse, he purchased his first commercial real estate property in Bridgeport. This was the beginning of a second and very successful career in real estate development that spanned the state of Connecticut. Remo was beloved in the American Steakhouse by both his employees (some working there for over 30 years!) and by his loyal customers.
Remo lived in Norwalk prior to moving to Wilton in 1985. He took great pleasure in spending time with his grandchildren, traveling and cruising with his wife, and maintaining and cultivating his olive farm in Alanno, Italy. Remo's memory will be lovingly remembered by his three children, Isabel Tartaglia, of Fairfield, Lorraine Tartaglia, of Westport, and Remo Tartaglia, Jr., (AnneMarie), of Southport; and four grandchildren, Donald Cafero, Jr., William Cafero, Robert Cafero, and Sophia Tartaglia. In addition to his parents and loving wife, Sebastiana, he was predeceased by a sister, Anna Tartaglia; and a brother, Enio Tartaglia.
Calling hours will be held on Tuesday, January 17, 2023 from 4:00-8:00 p.m. in the Lesko & Polke Funeral Home, 1209 Post Road, in Fairfield Center. Funeral services will take place on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. directly at St. Thomas Church, 1719 Post Road, in Fairfield. Entombment will follow at Oak Lawn Cemetery, Fairfield.
In lieu of flowers, Remo's family would prefer memorial contributions be directed to Operation Hope, 636 Old Post Road, Fairfield, CT 06824 or by visiting www.operationhopect.org
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Background: Cultural processes are biologically based.
Explanation: Nutrient chemicals calibrate intracellular signaling and stochastic gene expression that establishes diversity in ecotypes (i.e., in the organisms that do not die of starvation). The metabolism of nutrient chemicals to pheromones that standardize and control intracellular signaling and stochastic gene expression establishes diversity in ecotype-dependent social niches, which are the basis for the development of culture.
Problem: Ignoring the molecular biology common to all organisms from microbes to man makes it appear that biological and cultural processes operate somewhat independently across species — as if there were significant differences in the molecular biology of different species. Instead, the significant differences are in the availability of nutrient chemicals and in the pre-existing genetic variation that 1) contributes to the metabolism of nutrients to pheromones; that 2) control species-specific reproduction, that 3) makes it appear that cultural processes should be considered outside the context of the basic principles of biology and levels of biological organization required to link sensory stimuli from the environment directly to changes in pre-existing genetic variations.
Solution: In the past few years, the importance of sexual selection for chemosensory cues, which are called pheromones, has been demonstrated in birds and in fish to be a requirement for adaptive evolution as it is in other species that sexually reproduce, including humans. The cultural denial of human pheromones is akin to denying that food odors do not exist, because — as I said — nutrient chemicals calibrate... and pheromones standardize and control species survival via the same molecular mechanisms.
Pattern recognition: How rational is that?


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Frances Hynes
Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 4/6
About The Artist: Frances Hynes
The artist has a lengthy exhibition history beginning with the 1974 New Talent Festival, sponsored by eighteen New York galleries to provide venues for unknown artists. Poindexter Gallery participated and introduced her paintings. A solo exhibition at Poindexter Gallery followed and since then she has had over thirty-five solo exhibitions. These include: The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.1 (now called MoMA PS1) in Long Island City, NY; and...
About The Medium: Etching
The printing process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In traditional pure etching, a metal (usually copper, zinc or steel) plate is covered with a waxy ground which is resistant to acid. The artist then scratches off the ground with a pointed etching needle where they want a line to appear in the finished piece, exposing the bare metal. The plate is then put through a high-pressure printing press together with a sheet of paper (often moistened to soften it). The paper picks up the ink from the etched lines, making a print.


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