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Xhaka leaving Arsenal has been greatly exaggerated
By Admin Pat - 24 March 2019, 20:02
People need to get a grip, Xhaka's comments are good for Arsenal. When a player gives an interview it is never a surprise that all sort of outlandish interpretations of what was said is published by the media and that is exactly what has happened with Granit Xhaka.
Apparently, his comments have cast doubt on his long-term future with us and that is just one of the more moderate responses.
First, let's read what the Switzerland international actually said. 'I'm very ambitious, I want to take the next step,' he said. 'Arsenal does not have to be the last stop.'
Bang, he is leaving us, he wants to sign for a super team somewhere, he wants to earn millions and win every trophy under the sun. OK, I am being a little dramatic but come on, of course, Arsenal does not have to be the last stop, but that in no way means he wants to leave any time soon.
Of course, he is very ambitious, would we want a player that is not ambitious? Every player has ambitions, every player wants to win trophies, what he is saying is mind-blowingly obvious.
Let's look at some facts, he only signed a five-year contract extension last year and that was when we were only in the Europa League and struggling to get into top-four contention.
Now we are definitely in with a chance of Champions League football and success in the Europa League, point is this, since he signed his huge contract extension things have gotten better at the Emirates and he knows that, why would he sign such an extension if he did not believe we would improve and get more competitive.
I simply do not believe that Xhaka is looking to leave us, I feel his comments have been misinterpreted and that all he was doing was highlighting how ambitious he is, and there is no reason why he cannot achieve all that he wants with us.
Gnabry just scored a screamer….
Wolf says:
Yes Sue. watching from Jamaica and to think he was ours and we let him go. Yet alone he playing for Germany
Gutted we let him go and for 5m!!!! That is peanuts!!
He wanted to go since there was a good offer from Bayern, Arsenal were forced to sell him
It's useless to regret the past, better watch Nelson and Saka. I hope there would be a fierce competition between them
John Ibrahim says:
fans wanted him to go for free back then..
just looked at past archives comments
Wow, a rational comment from you based on actual evidence. Kudos.
Gily says:
…and we stole Guendouzi (so to speak) at £8 or so. Gnabry needed game time, which we couldn't offer him at the time (he was still nobody then per se), though showing glimpses.
Nothing to regret.
Just watched it ;sky sports app :gnarbry scores a wonder goal ,wasn't bad tbh but it wasn't a wonder goal , thought he had scored from the half way line the way that notification popped up , yea odd how we only got 5 mil for him ,or let him go at all .could have been playing on that left side for us now .
You left me no place to reply, but don't worry I found you :)…. so whos better at beating a man? you said the same thing you said in your other post just added that you watched football for 30 years are you sure? By the way watching is not an accomplishment, doesn't mean you get the beautiful game, quite obvious to me when you dodge your own question matrix style 😉
Again I think we are polar opposites as fans, you still went back to the race after that long rant just shows you the respect you have for fellow gooners so have no problem giving you stick now and in the future, heads up!!!.. and like a five years old you still didn't get it , and what did I learn from you other than how you voted or which race you hated most?
Yep nothing thanks man…you sure did take like a big boy lol don't care if your bitter about it, you sound like a RD to me , and worse your football knowledge is lacking or more like non existent!!!! So Answer the question who's better at beating a man currently at the club? That's the reason you are here no ? That's how all this started before mentioning race over and over again ??♂??♂??♂
So paraphrased: Again I don't care about your other views, its a football forum, who's better ? I'll debate football with anyone even if you have a poster of Nigel Farage on your wall 😉
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Lol wow Dan, you see right there! That's why your first account got blocked mate. I thought this debate ended last night but keep shoveling, who knows you might end up hitting gold.
And I wasn't kissing her a&$, I was just impressed at how you jumped in hoping Phil would help you double up on Sal, and she still left with your marbles in a doggy bag, making a firm argument with facts in the process and all the while smiling and winking at you. Takes a big man to admit they were wrong, you might be big or rather old but Sal made sure you left that argument as smooth as a Ken doll huh, so I understand. You may use different accounts and names, but the ugly in you always seems to shine through
Cannot blame the Gunners or ex-Gunners when they said something like that
Fabregas, Van Persie, Hleb, Cole and Henry left Arsenal for another major trophy, so I expect the relatively lower-paid and hated Gunners like Xhaka might want to leave faster than the legends
He is no Pirlo, Vieira or Cazorla anyway, hence Arsenal should sell him if there is a good offer. I expect the next deep-lying playmaker to be able to dictate the tempo, create more through balls and not wasting a lot of long shots
Tbh, Vieira did none of those… Because he wasn't a deep lying playmaker. Just because a playmaker plays closer to the defenders than strikers means that he automatically assumes the role of "deep lying playmaker" without the other players/system needed for him to do so. Heard many people on here say that Santi played that role under Wenger. He didn't. Yes, he did set our tempo and kept us fluid but it was always primarily Ozil's job to create. How many defence splitting passes did Santi complete whenever he had to play deep with Ramsey or Arteta(not mentioning Coq cause he actually did his job). Also not sure if you've been watching recently but Xhaka has been keeping us moving(ironically) in midfield whenever Torriera decides he doesn't need a wondergoal and Ramsey tries to show what we'll be missing
*doesn't mean that he automatically…*
well exactly…
but unfortunately most fans think they know better when their fifa19 team became champ or listen to the media making stuff up
To be fair, he's really improved as the season has gone on. At the beginning, it was usual Xhaka, giving the ball away in dangerous areas, but he seems to have sorted that out. That being said, I'd still sell if we got a great offer for him in the summer.
Benex says:
I dont expect him staying that long, he's jess getting his feets in the right place after years of many inconstitence display, we'll sell him at gain if he wishes to leave, n investing the money on much better player than him.
This is what fans like to hear, ambition, so I don't know if it's a case of him trying to say the right things or if he fully believes these quotes. If we make the improvements, and Xhaka is ambitious, then it's a match. He knows that we're aiming to get back up amongst the pigeons, so in this sense it was the right thing for him to say. I also believe that some top European clubs would like Xhaka, his attitude, his character, and with how quick he gets the ball into forwards feet, also he's a ruff and tumble player and you need that in central players. It seems it was not a waste of 30 odd mil after-all, it took some time, he always had something about him, but he's much more polished now.
I wonder if a similar happenstance can produce with Mustafi, similar price, arrived at the same time, and Mustafi has had spells were he has looked productive. Concentration at times, with a decision, a bit like with Xhaka last season, that's where he needs to improve. He is great aerially, he's one of our best at winning high challenges, and our set piece defending has improved with the help of himself. I don't know if he can polish himself up and become the player that we need him to be back there, but I would love to see it happen. The prem can take some time in getting used to, some bloom early and some bloom later in their career. Allot of people are writing him off, as was done of Xhaka, Koscielny, Ozil, Iwobi, and Arsenal's top four hopes only a couple months back. Pudding, as they say, will tell soon enough. He might be playing for his future, he needs to realize.
This honest Xhaka reply and the instant "eternal damnation" which our accursed social media age brings down upon those who, perhaps naively, open their hearts to all, shows the enormous and unfair pressure brought on all who play at top level in this age. It would be such a shame if yet another player learns through bitter social media curses, the necessity of saying nothing but bland cliches. Ironically , PLAYERS GET UNFAIRLY BLAMED FOR THAT TOO. THEY CANNOT WIN . The tyranny of instant judgement, even without full knowledge of context, is deeply nasty.


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Professorship (W3) in Experimental Particle Physics
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association
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Physics: Particle
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association creates and imparts knowledge for the society and the environment. It is our goal to make significant contributions to mastering the global challenges of humankind in the fields of energy, mobility, and information. For this, about 9,300 employees of KIT cooperate in a broad range of disciplines in research, academic education, and innovation.
In Division V – Physics and Mathematics, the KIT Department of Physics, invites applications for a
at the Institute of Experimental Particle Physics (ETP) (successor of Prof. Dr. Thomas Müller).
We are looking for an outstanding scientist working in the area of experimental particle physics. We are particularly interested in a scientist who pursues precision measurements and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model at high-energy particle accelerators and initiates new research directions at future international large-scale facilities. The successful applicant is expected to play an active role in coordinated research efforts at KIT.
KIT provides an excellent environment for research in particle and astroparticle physics. The successful candidate will be part of a team of senior scientists who maintain and develop the research in particle physics at KIT. ETP has long-term involvements in the large-scale projects CMS and Belle II. Your participation in, or support of, the evolution of these projects is expected. The infrastructure at ETP currently includes a semiconductor laboratory, workshops and computer clusters. Close ties exist with the Tier-1 computing centre GridKa. Research at ETP is funded by the BMBF, the DFG and the Helmholtz Association.
ETP is part of the KIT Centre Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics (KCETA, see www.kceta.kit.edu for further information). The rich research environment in KCETA includes further large-scale projects such as the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, the IceCube experiment at the South Pole and the KATRIN experiment at KIT. Close collaborations exist with strong theoretical physics groups working on (astro)particle phenomenology. The Karlsruhe School of Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics: Science and Technology (KSETA) provides access to an excellent pool of Ph.D. students.
The appointed professor will be part of the ETP board of directors and assume responsibilities in the academic self-administration. The candidate is required to teach at all levels of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum (eventually in German) and to supervise bachelor, master and Ph.D. students. A Habilitation degree or equivalent scientific and teaching qualifications are required.
KIT is pursuing the strategic goal of substantially increasing gender balance and diversity of its faculty. As an equal opportunity employer, KIT explicitly encourages applications from women as well as from all others who will bring additional diversity to the university's research and teaching. KIT provides support for dual career couples and families. Applicants with disabilities will be preferentially considered if suitably qualified. The terms of employment are listed in § 47 Landeshochschulgesetz (LHG) of the State of Baden-Württemberg.
Qualified candidates should submit before 30 September 2019 a curriculum vitae, list of publications, as well as research and teaching statements to: Dekanat der KIT-Fakultät für Physik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany, preferably by email to dekanat@physik.kit.edu. For further information about this position please contact Prof. Dr. Margarete Mühlleitner, email: margarete.muehlleitner@kit.edu, or Prof. Dr. Günter Quast, email: guenter.quast@kit.edu.
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Is 30 Days Blog Challenge Worth A Try?
>> Is 30 Days Blog Challenge Worth A Try?
I only learned about 30 days blog challenge very recently. This website cybercashworldwide.com is just over 5 months old - originally started as a different site and migrated here in January. Still less than 8 months old including the old posts from the original site. I've been advised to take up a 30 days blogging challenge in order to push up the site trust level.
The idea of the challenge itself is simple; write one blog every day continuously for 30 days. If you've missed one for the day, you have to think about it. Think hard about it. Get up the next morning and question yourself - why did I miss my blog yesterday? Is it because I was ill? Because I was out with friends in the evening, I had too many other things to do, too many other stuff to worry about? Is it a motivational factor?
But okay, if that's what it is to boost your website trust, I'd give it a try, I thought.
I think the 30 Days Blog Challenge and the idea of writing quality contents are mutually exclusive. If you were genius like Neil Patel, able to write super-high quality content every single day for 30 days, you'd surely be able to continue that forever.
Knowing that I already have valued subscribers and readers from my other sites (thank you so much for your support, I mean it!) I couldn't do that just for the sake of boosting my Alexa ranking.
I think it's harder for introverts than extroverts ("Does Introvert/Extrovert Mean To You (Huh???") to carry out this spontaneous "just do it" task. I think well before I speak (write), and even after I've spoken I think about it again. Everyone else has moved on by then.
As far as 30 Days Blog Challenge is concerned, it's certainly more advantageous for those who are extroverts. They just write spontaneously. They can just...write about your dog eating your cat's poo out of the litter - in their "Make Money Online" blog... And if they regret, "Oops! Not quite relevant to my website!" is the answer, and it's done. Move on. No one's looking.
Do you think 30 Days Blog Challenge is worthy a try?


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Q: Fixed div inside fixed scrollable div doesn't stay fixed I tried to recreate the problem BUT I wasn't able. -> FIDDLE
Btw, I have an full page menu, that is scrollable on Y. Inside that I placed some images that I want to stay fixed at top but them scroll with the scroll of the nav.
Does anyone ever seen this issue?
I'm still trying to recreate on the fiddle the problem but for now there you can see what I want to achieve.
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I realize where the problem is-> NEW FIDDLE
The issue is because of transform: scale.
EDIT2 + NEW PROBLEM:
forget for a sec the main problem, because I'm going to remove the scale animation. Open on a mac + chrome my first fiddle , it doesn't scroll if the mouse is on the image. Any idea how to solve?

A: The problem, you see, is transform: scale

A: I think this might help you:
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CSS
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    margin: 0 auto;
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Abortion: Government's Choice? by William Cox
by William Cox
www.thevoters.org
Any government having the power to prohibit abortions also has the power to require abortions. Any government having the power to prohibit birth control also has the power to forcibly sterilize women (and men).
The pregnant woman is forcibly strapped to a Gurney and wheeled into the treatment room where her fetus is aborted and her fallopian tubes are tied. Why? A test has shown that the fetus has Down syndrome and she already has one living child. Where? Somewhere in the United States. When? Sometime in the future. Was it her choice? No. Was the procedure legal? Yes.
With a population of almost 1.4 billion people, the Chinese government has enforced strict population control laws for 25 years restricting families to one child and prohibiting unmarried mothers from giving birth. Women are still being forced to undergo abortions as late as the ninth month of pregnancy, and forced sterilizations continue to occur. Considering the program to be a success, China intends to continue its birth control policies, and officials will have to meet rigid family planning goals in every province.
Russia, where abortions continue to be the top birth control method, faces an opposite population problem. In just the first six months of 2008, deaths outnumbered live births by more than 250,000. With Prime Minister Putin reasserting centralized control of the economy, how long will it take for the government to outlaw birth control or abortions, not for religious reasons, but to increase production of its human capital?
With an overall population growth rate of less than one percent, the United States is not facing a decline in its worker or consumer base, nor is it experiencing out-of-control population growth. Currently, with the availability of effective birth control methods and the choice of legal abortions, at least in the early stages of a pregnancy, women are allowed to exercise some control over having children. However, the freedom of choice by American women is under a relentless and increasingly successful attack.
Trampling on the First Amendment's separation of church and state, a powerful religious minority has been aggressively pursuing a broad range of worldwide restrictions on the availability of birth control and on the privacy rights of American women to terminate unwanted or dangerous pregnancies.
On November 4, South Dakotans will vote on a ballot measure to prohibit practically all abortions, allowing exceptions only for rape, incest or the mother's health. Colorado voters are being asked to go even further and officially define any fertilized human egg as a "person" under the state constitution, conceivably prohibiting even widely-accepted birth control methods.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain opposes legal abortions, believes Roe vs. Wade should be overturned and wants to appoint like-minded Supreme Court justices. During a recent debate, he ridiculed the idea of a mother's "health" exception to the criminalization of late-term abortions. Going even further, his running mate, Sarah Palin, believes abortions should be prohibited even for pregnancies conceived during forcible rape or incest.
Acting on her religious beliefs, Palin recently chose to give birth to her fifth child, whom she knew to be suffering from Down syndrome. Although, as governor, she slashed state funding in Alaska for schools for special needs children by 62 percent, she promised this week that, "In a McCain-Palin administration … the parents and caretakers of children with physical or mental disabilities will be able to send that boy or girl to the school of their choice – public or private." She went on to say that "federal funding for every special needs child will follow that child."
Sarah Palin made a choice to give birth to a child likely to have expensive "special needs" throughout its life, and she now wants to require tax payers to provide for her child's private education. Not that there's anything wrong with governments helping parents care for their special needs children, but what if there is an economic crisis? For example, in contradiction to Palin's promises, McCain has proposed an across-the-board freeze on all discretionary federal spending.
We do not know what the future holds for the people of the United States. We are being told we now face the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression and that things will get worse before they get better. It is not difficult to imagine that the time may come when there are insufficient tax revenues to pay for the more expensive care and education of children with special needs.
Might the government, in its infinite wisdom, decide it is better for society that such children are never born? As a matter of policy, would the government have the power to force a woman to abort a Down syndrome baby? Using genetic testing, would the government also have the power to force the sterilization of those women (and men) most likely to procreate children with mental or physical impairments? Unfortunately, the answer is yes. Once a government attains the power to prohibit abortions, it also gains the power to demand them. It becomes a matter of might, not right.
Setting aside all religious considerations, shouldn't we adopt government policies that ensure the greatest freedom of choice for women, who must decide for themselves whether or not to bear children? Mothers, alone, endure the greatest emotional suffering when ending a pregnancy. Mothers, more than anyone, including fathers, religious advisors, or the government, will always have the greatest burden of caring for those to whom they have given life.
Once a government is given the power to decide who can and who cannot have an abortion, all women are at the mercy of the shifting economic, religious and political winds. Perhaps only women should be allowed to vote on issues regarding reproductive rights.
Sarah Palin had the legal and constitutional right to chose whether or not to give birth to her child. Shouldn't all women have the same freedom of choice?
William John Cox is a retired supervising prosecutor for the State Bar of California. As a police officer he wrote the Policy Manual of the Los Angeles Police Department and the Role of the Police in America for a national advisory commission. Acting as a public interest, pro bono lawyer, he filed a class action lawsuit in 1979 on behalf of every citizen of the United States petitioning the Supreme Court to order the other two branches of the federal government to conduct a National Policy Referendum; he investigated and successfully sued a group of radical right-wing organizations in 1981 that denied the Holocaust; and he arranged in 1991 for publication of the suppressed Dead Sea Scrolls. His 2004 book, You're Not Stupid! Get the Truth: A Brief on the Bush Presidency is reviewed at http://www.yourenotstupid.com, and he is currently working on a fact-based fictional political philosophy. His writings are collected at http://www.thevoters.org, and he can be contacted at u2cox@msn.com.
Copyright © 2008 by William John Cox
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dk | October 27, 2008 at 11:36 PM
America has a history of forced sterilization of Native American, African American, Latin Americans, and Po' White peoples, along with the phyically and mentally challenged. Safe birth control, and a single mothers' right to choose to have a child are fairly new to our society. I'm with Wm. Cox that maybe only women should vote on reproductive issues. The state has no business in any woman's vigina nor does the church.


The livestreaming service Twitch has found a number of effective promotional partners over the last few years, including Coca-Cola, Old Spice and others. But its latest deal with AMP Energy will take its promoting to a whole new space: onto store shelves.
The two have partnered up for a new program which encourages fans to "level up" their gaming experience with a sweepstakes that will involve both consumers and broadcasters, the introduction of limited edition gear, and (for the first time ever) having the Twitch logo appear on a non-gaming retail product, cans of AMP Energy.
The promotion kicks off this week and runs through September 5. During that time, fans can purchase Twitch-branded AMP cans in both original and cherry flavors. In addition, they can also enter into a sweepstakes for a chance to win exclusive gear, including wearable items, Alienware gaming rigs and a chance to attend TwitchCon 2016, taking place in San Diego, CA this September.
To enter, fans are encouraged to use social media to show their love of AMP, with pictures on Facebook or Instagram, where a winner will be chosen from the many submissions that are expected.
Broadcasters will also be getting in on the fun, as a separate deal will run for them from now through August 6, where they can win a homepage carousel placement takeover, hoodies and cash by using the hashtag #AMPSweepstakes during certain times of their sessions.


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Prediction of dementia risk in low-income and middle-income countries (the 10/66 Study): an independent external validation of existing models
Stephan, Blossom C M, Pakpahan, Eduwin, Siervo, Mario, Licher, Silvan, Muniz-Terrera, Graciela, Mohan, Devi, Acosta, Daisy, Rodriguez Pichardo, Guillermina, Sosa, Ana Luisa, Acosta, Isaac, Llibre-Rodriguez, Juan J, Prince, Martin, Robinson, Louise and Prina, Matthew (2020) Prediction of dementia risk in low-income and middle-income countries (the 10/66 Study): an independent external validation of existing models. The Lancet Global Health, 8 (4). e524-e535. ISSN 2214-109X
PIIS2214109X20300620.pdf - Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30062-0
To date, dementia prediction models have been exclusively developed and tested in high-income countries (HICs). However, most people with dementia live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), where dementia risk prediction research is almost non-existent and the ability of current models to predict dementia is unknown. This study investigated whether dementia prediction models developed in HICs are applicable to LMICs.
Data were from the 10/66 Study. Individuals aged 65 years or older and without dementia at baseline were selected from China, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Dementia incidence was assessed over 3–5 years, with diagnosis according to the 10/66 Study diagnostic algorithm. Discrimination and calibration were tested for five models: the Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Aging and Dementia risk score (CAIDE); the Study on Aging, Cognition and Dementia (AgeCoDe) model; the Australian National University Alzheimer's Disease Risk Index (ANU-ADRI); the Brief Dementia Screening Indicator (BDSI); and the Rotterdam Study Basic Dementia Risk Model (BDRM). Models were tested with use of Cox regression. The discriminative accuracy of each model was assessed using Harrell's concordance (c)-statistic, with a value of 0·70 or higher considered to indicate acceptable discriminative ability. Calibration (model fit) was assessed statistically using the Grønnesby and Borgan test.
11 143 individuals without baseline dementia and with available follow-up data were included in the analysis. During follow-up (mean 3·8 years [SD 1·3]), 1069 people progressed to dementia across all sites (incidence rate 24·9 cases per 1000 person-years). Performance of the models varied. Across countries, the discriminative ability of the CAIDE (0·52≤c≤0·63) and AgeCoDe (0·57≤c≤0·74) models was poor. By contrast, the ANU-ADRI (0·66≤c≤0·78), BDSI (0·62≤c≤0·78), and BDRM (0·66≤c≤0·78) models showed similar levels of discriminative ability to those of the development cohorts. All models showed good calibration, especially at low and intermediate levels of predicted risk. The models validated best in Peru and poorest in the Dominican Republic and China.
Not all dementia prediction models developed in HICs can be simply extrapolated to LMICs. Further work defining what number and which combination of risk variables works best for predicting risk of dementia in LMICs is needed. However, models that transport well could be used immediately for dementia prevention research and targeted risk reduction in LMICs.
National Institute for Health Research, Wellcome Trust, WHO, US Alzheimer's Association, and European Research Council.
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Q: Maximum Number of Categorical Outcomes for Multinomial Logistic Regression? Based on 4 or 5 predictor variables, I would like to determine "affinity" to a group of 26 different non-profits that an individual could potentially donate money to.  I have approximately 1 million records but I have not heard of a multinomial logistic regression used for this many categories and I wasn't sure if I should be advised against this approach.

A: There is no specific mathematical limit.  There could be limits due to limitations of your software or your computer, such as little memory. Apart from that 26 categories should be no problem with good software.
The paper http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/archive/Research/MMS/PAPERS/authorid-csna05.pdf  about author attribution, using a bayesian version of multinomial logit, uses an example with 114 different authors, plus a category "none of them". Again, 26 should be no problem at all.
With a high number of categories it could show important to use a software implementation that uses sparse matrices.


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The Most Famous Truck Campers On Earth
By Angela White
Romulo and Mirella are the full-time truck camping couple behind Travel and Share, a YouTube channel with over 913,000 subscribers. This is the remarkable story behind their globe-trotting lifestyle and the tenacious entrepreneurship that makes it possible.
When we first went to Romulo Wolff and Mirella Rabelo's YouTube channel in 2018, our jaws dropped. Not only did they have 915 videos and over 866,000 YouTube subscribers (both staggering figures) but their videos had been watched 85,751,439 times. That's over 85-million views.
By our conservative calculations, their videos are viewed no less than 50,000 times per day. Can you imagine having 50,000 people a day watch videos about you and your travel adventures? It's mind blowing.
These numbers led us to one conclusion. Romulo and Mirella are, without a doubt, the most famous truck campers on the planet. Nobody even comes close.
Romulo and Mirella's backstory is not what some might expect. First, Romello has a Masters in Information Technology and Mirella has a Masters in Business Administration. Second, both were gainfully employed jobs before quitting their corporate jobs, selling everything and hitting the road. Put another way, these two were well on their way to a successful "normal" life – but that wasn't their dream.
Today Romulo and Mirella travel in a 2018 Nissan Navara and Four Wheel Camper Swift rig they call Gallega. They continue to post videos three times a week. The catch? Almost all of them are in their native language of Portuguese.
Você fala português? Me neither, but their videos are still stunning. Just have a look at their YouTube introduction video:
To get the low down on how Romulo and Mirella escaped the daily grind and made the leap to YouTube stardom, we went to the source. Since they were out of the country, we interviewed them via email. Here's their incredible story.
How did you guys get into your amazing lifestyle?
We both were sales managers in Swedish companies based in Brazil. At that point I was 32 and my husband was 34. We had finished college and had masters and MBA degrees.
Life was pretty stable, but we had a dream. For some people it was a crazy dream to leave everything behind and travel the world, but that's what we did.
We sold everything we had in 2014. The only house we own is the one we have on the back of our truck. We only carry the things we can take with us.
That's a huge life-changing decision. How did you make it happen?
We set a date. On December 8th, 2014, we would start traveling the world. It sounds too simple, but that's exactly what we did. With a date set, we created a list of everything we needed to do to leave on that day, and got started.
We were not 100-percent ready on December 4th, but we said, "We will never be 100-percent ready". Some things would have to be figured out along the way.
We were in our early 30s with no kids. If we didn't take this risk at that time, we might never have done it. We both knew we wanted to travel the world, so we just had to set a day to start. That's exactly what we did.
You started with a roof-top tent and then moved up to a Four Wheel Camper. What led you to switch to a pop-up truck camper?
The first time we saw a Four Wheel Camper we were in Banff, Alberta. By that time we had traveled from Ushuaia to Alaska and had suffered enough living in a tent.
The idea of moving to a Four Wheel Camper was a dream. More importantly, their Swift model would fit a 2018 Nissan Navara; our mid-size truck.
Everything in the United States is so big, including the trucks. Even though we saw many pop-up campers on the road, nothing would fit our Navara. The Four Wheel Camper Swift was the answer. In July of 2016, we switched from the roof-top tent to a Four Wheel Camper.
Many people dream of seeing the world. How did you afford it in your early 30s?
Before we started, we saved up and then sold everything. For two years we backpacked, but we didn't want the experience to end. We did not want to return home to Brazil with empty pockets.
That's when we decided to develop ways to work on the road that would pay for our travel expenses. We created a business that would give us enough money to pay for a life of traveling without needing to work while we were in it.
We have many different ways of making money. We call it pizza. Each slice is a different part of the income we earn. The slices include YouTube advertising revenue, companies that want to advertise on our social media, our book, motivational speeches and our online course.
We are also partners in a subscription box company. We have a travel conference in Brazil and are now developing an App related to living on the road. We hope to have some income coming from that in the future.
Since we started to live on the road, we learned that it was extremely important to diversify the ways we make money. We can't be sure that things will last forever. Everything has a start and an end. If we want to make living sustainable, we need to make sure to have enough money to pay for it every month.
You post multiple videos per week to YouTube. From experience, that's a lot of work. How do keep up that video production pace and still enjoy traveling?
YouTube is our profession. We do three videos per week, but there was a time when we were uploading daily videos. That was insane.
Above: Mirella and Romulo's YouTube channel has 913K subscribers
We edit the videos ourselves and upload many videos at once when we find internet. We use a lot of co-working spaces to do that.
Part of our day is used to create the videos. After that we turn off the camera and live our lives. We need a time to just be two people exploring a destination.
How do you handle communicating in countries where you don't speak the language?
We speak English, which helps a lot. We also speak Spanish and Portuguese. For everything else we use the Google Translator App. The Google Translator App has saved our lives in places like Russia, France and Egypt.
We also smile and try to start the conversation with at least one word in the language spoken in that country. After that we try English. If that doesn't work, we try the other languages or the Google Translator App.
Other than exploration and video production, what are your goals when you're traveling?
We also joke that we want to make enough money that we don't have to work while traveling the world. The truth is that we like to keep our minds active while traveling. We are entrepreneurs, so we like that feeling of being able to create a business while still living a different life.
Our main goal is to travel a little slower. We want to have more time to enjoy the places we visit while living with a little more comfort.
Is one of your goals to visit to every country?
No. We want to go to countries we feel good about. That is a goal. For example, we still want to visit Australia and New Zealand.
Where are some of your most favorite places that you have visited?
Iceland, Eslovenia and Austria are our favorites.
How do you decide where to go next?
We run from cold weather. We try to go anywhere that is not too cold to be in a camper.
Does going from place to place to place get exhausting?
For sure it does. When we start to feel like it is becoming too much we stop in a campground or rent an Airbnb for a week. After five days in the same place we are ready to hit the road again.
What have been some of the challenges on the road?
When we are tired, hungry and in a place that doesn't look safe, it creates a lot of stress.
What have been some of the most rewarding moments on the road?
The day we got the Four Wheel Camper was a great day. The day we found out that our sponsor was switching our old truck to the new one was rewarding. Another good day was when we closed the first contract that would help us pay for our trip without having to count every penny.
It's interesting that your website address is Travel and Share – in English, but your website is in Spanish. Why is that?
My website is in Portuguese. In Brazil we speak Portuguese but we love English words. There are many English words that don't have a Portuguese translation.
We thought, "Travel and Share" sounded good. We had no idea that people wouldn't understand the meaning. There are many followers on YouTube who think Romello is Travel and I'm the Share, like those are our names. It's very funny! You can also follow us at Travel and Share on Instagram!
Like Sonny and Cher! That is funny. Speaking of sharing, is there anything else you'd like to add?
I wish more people could experience this way of living. They don't have to do it for a long time, but at least for a year.
On the road we have learned to value what is really important in life. Living in a small house forces us to not carry a lot of physical belongings, but we make a lot of good memories.
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Truck: 2018 Nissan Navara, four wheel drive, diesel, short bed
Camper: 2016 Four Wheel Swift
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Series A: We Would have Won Scudetto if they signed Me earlier- Ibrahimovic
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The team is one of the form teams in Serie A, and the forward believes they could have been title contenders
Zlatan Ibrahimovic cheekily claimed Milan would have won Serie A had he signed at the start of the season as their upturn in form continued with a remarkable 4-2 win over Juventus.
Ibrahimovic returned to Milan – where he previously won the Scudetto in 2011 – as a free agent in January after leaving MLS and the LA Galaxy.
The 38-year-old striker is still having an impact in Italy's top flight and took his goal tally in his latest Milan stint to six when he scored from the penalty spot against Juve on Tuesday.
That strike halved a two-goal deficit after efforts from Adrien Rabiot and Cristiano Ronaldo and improbably propelled Milan to a come-from-behind success, with Franck Kessie, Rafael Leao and Ante Rebic also on target.
A three-goal flurry within five minutes helped shrink that deficit, with Rebic scoring the game's final goal to seal an 18-minute span of dominance for Milan.
With the victory, Milan are up to fifth and have beaten title rivals Lazio and Juve in consecutive matches, leading a grinning star veteran Ibrahimovic to make a typically outlandish declaration.
Ibrahimovic told DAZN: "If I was here from the beginning of the season, we would have won the Scudetto!"
Ibrahimovic has been hailed as a role model for his Milan team-mates and added: "I am president, coach and player, but they only pay me as a footballer."
The former Sweden international is out of contract at the end of the season, however, and he acknowledges he may not appear in front of a full San Siro again.
"There is still a month, so let's see," Ibrahimovic said amid growing speculation head coach Stefano Pioli will be replaced by Ralf Rangnick. "There are things that we cannot in control.
Playing without fans is a pity, a strange situation. We do our job, we are professionals. It could have been the last time they have seen me live in San Siro."
The forward's first stint with Milan came between 2011-12, where he scored 56 goals in 85 appearances before making the move to Paris Saint-Germain.
Up next for Milan is a visit to Napoli on Sunday.
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Although lighting often announces life-giving rain, it can easily be seen too as a destructive force, linked to hail, fire and crop failure. Ancient stories tell of lightning shattering the mythical 'Food Mountain' - allowing humans to get at the plants and sacred crops like maize inside.
In ancient Mexico where you went in the afterlife was decided by how you died. Here is Tlalocan, a paradise reserved for those who died in floods - or in lightning strikes. Mind you, it was one of the best places to go: May the Force be with You...!
Q. Which modern pantomime got its theme from an ancient Mexican rain god?
A. 'CHAC and the Beanstalk'!
We are most grateful to Dr. John E. Staller for offering us this fascinating study of the importance of lightning in ancient Mesoamerica. Dr. Staller is an archaeologist specializing in Latin America, with interests in ethnohistory, ancient mythology and religion, political economy, domestication, maize, and the history of archaeological science. He has written and/or edited seven books, including Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica: Pre-Columbian, Colonial, and Contemporary Perspectives; Maize Cobs and Cultures: History of Zea mays L.; Pre-Columbian Landscapes of Creation and Origin and Histories of Maize in Mesoamerica: Multidisciplinary Approaches.
Lightning has timeless references and symbols among ancient religions throughout the world. The thunderbolt is a conspicuous image among ancient pre-Columbian civilizations with powerful associations to some primary deities. Mesoamerica comprises the lower two thirds of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and western Honduras. Mesoamerica has long been viewed as a distinctive culture area with diverse yet specific traits and associated with multiple civilizations such as the Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Zapotec, Mixtec, and Totonac. The culture area of Mesoamerica (see Pic 1) is distinguished by the following characteristics; hieroglyphic writing, the 260-day ritual calendar, the three-stone hearth, ball courts with rings, jade celts, nixtamal (maize processing by soaking kernels in slaked lime and grinding them into flour), and maguey cultivation.
Linguistically, there are three or four major language families and over seventy languages. Therefore, the contextual variability of meanings and associations in its multitude of languages and multiple language families continue to exist in many separate and in some cases closed corporate indigenous communities. Lightning manifests these linguistic characteristics through a contextual variability of meanings and referents as well as a great diversity of symbolic and ritual associations. Since lightning is closely accompanied by thunder, symbolic reference to twins is common throughout the ancient world. However, in Mesoamerica the dyad of thunder and lightning is so integrally related to and accompanied by rain, the three form a triad of sorts, a triad little recognized in the anthropological literature. Nonetheless, lightning is often presented and described in terms of threes, and it has various triadic properties, particularly among the Maya.
Mesoamerica has several mountain ranges with expansive valleys, high volcanic peaks, such as Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltepetl) (pic 3), which reaches 5636 masl (18,491 ft), and where lightning frequently appears in clouds surrounding its summit. However, over half of the topography consists of tropical and subtropical rainforest below 1,000 masl. Average annual precipitation overall is about 255 mm. a year, with some locales reporting over 1800 mm. Highest precipitation occurs along on both coasts flanking either end of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, particularly the Gulf Coast, Veracruz and Tabasco, the Peten region of Guatemala, and Belize.
The rainy season occurs from May to October while the dry season is between November and April. Lightning and its various symbolic and anthropomorphic manifestations were of importance to agriculturally based civilizations, because agriculture depends upon seasonal rainfall and lightning is a harbinger of coming rains (pic 4).
Lightning is commonly associated with meteorological phenomena such rain, rainbows, bodies of water, and also destructive elements such as hail, fire and resultant crop failure and destruction of the natural environment, thus it is generally perceived as a malevolent force of nature. This is apparent in various Mesoamerican myths, and narratives concerning lightning splitting open "Sustenance Mountain" (pic 5), so humans could get at plants and consume the maize within, are widespread. The inter-relatedness of the cultural and natural environment is a primary characteristic of Pre-Columbian religions and cosmology.
Thunder, lightning, and rain are generally associated with one another and with what is often referred to as the lightning deity in Mesoamerica. Usually a rain deity synonymous with and/or associated with a lightning deity, earth lord, and rain deity are more or less interchangeable. Lightning is commonly perceived as the rain or thunder god that typically lives in a cave or on a mountain summit, and literally named the "Earth Lord," "Thunderbolt", "Mountain Lord" and similar epithets in various languages (pic 6). These terms generally refer to an anthropomorphic deity that may or may not have zoomorphic characteristics which has the power to use and control lightning.
The association of the phenomenon of lightning with such deities, along with their spirits, co-essences and/or animal familiars is characterized by various linguistic groups, and variably perceived over time and place. Because lightning is such a powerful force of nature, there are widespread associations with rulership and with riches and good fortune. The inhabitants of Teotihuacan depicted the earlier manifestation of Tlaloc with notably large 'goggle eyes' in addition to his putative serpent fangs and/or jaguar canines (pic 7) suggesting an owl or other bird of prey may be represented as part of associated imagery.
The obvious association between lightning and rain is often generalized to ponds, lakes, springs, and rivers. Other widely held cosmological, ideological and mythological associations involve lightning, rain, and clouds with caves and thus with communication to the Other World (whether the celestial or underworld realms), ecstatic trance, ecstatic flight, shamanism, and kingship. Caves (pic 8) are generally seen as doorways or portals for communication to the Other World and such associations are very ancient extending back to Olmec times. Since rain and lightning deities often reside in caves they partake of both worlds. This world is traversed by spirits of lightning bolts, shamans, deities, ancestors, and sometimes human co-essences (naguals or tonos) said to be lightning.
The Templo Mayor in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán had two shrines on its summit. One side, dedicated to Huitzilopochtli was blue, and the other, dedicated to Tlaloc, was red. Tlaloc, the Aztec lightning-rain deity (pic 9), is the most widely known deity of Mesoamerica, often referred to as simply as God of Rain, Thunder, and Lightning who lived in mountain caves and summits, and was the lord of earth and water. Tlaloc was associated with rain, lightning, thunder, and among the Maya and Toltec also the wind. Idols dedicated to Tlaloc and the Maize Goddess were also kept in the Temple of Huitzilopochtli (pic 10).
Tenochtitlan represented "the foundation of heaven," the political, symbolic, and ritual center of the Aztec universe.
Lightning was sometimes associated with serpents and indirectly with twins, with four way directional organization (pic 14) and a triadic classification. In several sub-regions, lightning deities are connected to crop fertility, riches, lizards, crocodiles, and occasionally snakes (pic 11); elsewhere to crop fertility, and particularly with the nourishing riches derived from having split open a "Sustenance Mountain" and revealing maize for the benefit of humankind, where a primary association is with serpents at Teotihuacan and later Aztec culture.
Mayans perceived this mountain as the birthplace of the Maize God what they called Yax Hal Witznal "the first true mountain place" of creation or Paxil "Split Place". Zapotecs of Oaxaca associate lightning and the lightning deity with lizards, more often snakes, and crocodiles, which is quite interesting in view of their mating behavior. Crocodiles make booming sounds that resemble thunder during the mating season, which coincidentally occurs at the beginning of the rainy season. Among the Chorti Maya a bird depicted with large goggle-like eyes is also associated with lightning and the lightning-rain deity. This "storm bird" is equated with the "storm god," and depicted in the Postclassic iconography in the Madrid Codex where the bird rides a water-laden serpent in association with God B (pic 11).
Kekchi Mayan Yaluk, the chief Mam, is an aged thunder deity, literally "Grandfather" that rules the western quadrant. Kekchi Mayan rain, lightning, and thunder deities are known as Mams, but also called Tzultacah 'Mountain-Valley (Lords)' that are guardians of mountain peaks, often depicted in iconography as two groups of deities in opposition to one another (pic 12). Among the Lacandón, Mayan rain and lightning deities include Menzabak who resides in a cave next to Lake Menzabak dispensing black powder to create rain for Hahana K'u, Lacandón rain messengers dispatched by the creator god Hachacyum who creates lightning bolts by striking the edge of his axe. In Mayan mythology, the creation of humanity is through the splitting open of 'Sustenance Mountain" by the lightning deities (pic 16).
The Yucatec Maya lightning-rain deity is usually written as Chac, Chaak, or Chahk (pic 13). Other Mayan deities include Mopan Huitz-Hok, Chuj Witz Ak'lik, literally "Mountain-Grassland," Huastec Muxi' Maam, the chief Maam 'rain deity (literally "Grandfather")' who rules the eastern quadrant. In the Valley of Mexico, Tlaloc is usually depicted with "goggled" eyes and large teeth resembling jaguar canines or serpent fangs that initially appear on pottery and painted murals at Teotihuacan and subsequently in iconography at Postclassic Aztec sites, in Oaxaca and the Maya regions. The 'place of Tlaloc,' was the summit of Tlalocan Mountain, which also had a temple on its summit, the central idol dedicated to Tlaloc, and smaller idols to surrounding hills and mountains. Among the Aztec, Tlaloc resided in the Tlalocan mountain caves perceived as "miraculous treasure houses filled with wealth and prosperity" (pic 19).
Among the Mixtec, 'Thunder' or Mixe'Ene·, is a mountain that protects the personal guardian spirits that live within the mountains (pic 15). The Mixe 'Ene·, 'Thunder', whose calendrical epithet is Tum Hukpi· (One Root), is vigilant in protecting maize and also villages. "Each village has its own 'Ene· to protect it, and when the 'Ene· of another village comes to do harm, he is fought off by the local 'Ene·". Many scholars maintain Mixe speakers are descendants of the Olmec, however the name of the Olmec lightning deity is unknown. Mixe descendants of the Olmecs continue to retain traditional beliefs that a large serpent within the cave is a bridge to the abode of 'Ene· (Thunder), the lightning-rain deity. More explicitly, "jaguar and poisonous snakes are offspring and potencies of lightning", and "Each year 'Ene· sends out his 'cowboy' mounted on a jaguar, to destroy the maize fields of those who have not given him offerings".
The Kekchi Mayans of Guatemala perceive "snakes as the servants of the Tzultacah who send them to punish man for evil-doing". Some indigenous communities forbid killing snakes for fear of angering their masters. Snakes are seen as servants of the rain-lightning deity or Earth Lord, and caves the underground abode of the Tzultacah, their hammocks made of rattlesnake hides. Classic period lowland Maya and later Aztec iconography indicate snakes were servants of the rain-lightning deities. Both Tlaloc and Chac are sometimes depicted holding snakes, which represent lightning bolts hurled from the mountains where rain gods make their retreat. In the Popol Vuh, the Quiché Mayans "storm god" is substituted for the bird, wak vac or wok huoc bird identified as the laughing falcon or wok, as forest falcon, associated to wok the muwaan bird (or muan bird) of Classic Maya texts. The laughing falcon (wak) eats snakes, and perceived by some Mayan communities as a harbinger of coming rains and a healer.
Mushrooms have associations to lightning in legend and folklore because they often appear literally overnight after a lightning storm. In some cases, lightning is perceived as creating mushrooms. Mushrooms are "holy children" that appear in rituals involving the consumption the hallucinogenic "mushrooms of the earth" (Psilocybe mexicana Kumm) called 'ene· di:z or 'Thunder's teeth' among indigenous communities in Oaxaca. The rain-lightning god and his dwarf servants may explain the symbolic association of mushrooms to "holy children" often depicted as dwarfs (pic 17).
Significantly, another psychoactive mushroom, the Amanita muscaria or 'fly agaric' (pic 18), is called 'thunderbolt mushroom' by Quiché Mayans.
Lightning's symbolic associations among Mesoamerican cultures reveals a complex of related ideas culturally defined and distinct to varying degrees over time and space. These associations are largely derived through observation of the natural world, and were integrated in different communities in quite specific ways to create relatively coherent and largely consistent worldviews in which lightning always plays important roles.
Widespread iconographic representations and symbolic associations to lightning that distinguish the culture area include anthropomorphic representations of its deities. Mountain summits, caves and bodies of water have both literal and symbolic associations. Zoomorphic or animal familiars or co-essences, particularly snakes, jaguars, and eagles, have widespread associations. These species have cultural references to transformation, important animal familiars, particularly with respect to the coming rains and war. Lightning is a nagual for some individuals, shamans and rulers, including those engaged in war. Snakes, jaguars, and eagles are all primary predators in each of their own spheres of influence, water (or underworld), earth, and sky respectively. Lightning deities in Mesoamerica are sometimes represented as reptilian and in terms of spiritual relationships to animal familiars and metaphorical relationships to divinity and rulers. Psychotropic mushrooms often include the words 'thunder' and 'lightning' in their names and are associated with holy children, perhaps dwarf co-essences that are said to appear when carrying out rituals in altered states of consciousness. Lightning deities are also associated with caves, riches, rain (agricultural fertility), and water. Although rain deities are always male, some helpers can be female, others dwarfs. In Oaxaca and Guerrero, iconographic associations with deities emphasize felines, particularly jaguars and rain. Contemporary shamans often invoke the coming rains by accessing the jaguar or lord of the underworld. Whether as an agent of the lightning deity or harnessed to irrigation networks or raised fields, lightning and rain represent powerful forces operating for the benefit or detriment in the lives of individuals and the fortunes of communities and such associations and beliefs are ancient in Mesoamerica.
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The Quiche Maya of the Guatemala Highlands describe the Amanita muscaria mushroom as supernatural and call it lightening mushroom or in Quiche Mayan cakulja ikox, ikox meaning underworld mushroom, and relate this supernatural mushroom with the Lord of Lightening, Rajaw Cakulja (Furst, 1976 p.82).


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Wewelsburg is een kasteel in de Duitse deelstaat Noordrijn-Westfalen.

Algemene situering
De driehoekige burcht voorzien van drie hoektorens, gebouwd tussen 1603 en 1609 door de Vorst-bisschop van Paderborn, was bedoeld als een tweede residentie. Tijdens de Dertigjarige Oorlog werd hij grotendeels verwoest. Vervolgens werd hij herbouwd en later weer beschadigd door brand. De gemeente kocht het geheel aan in de jaren twintig van de 20e eeuw.

Tijdens het nazibewind (1933-1945) werd het geheel aangewend als opleidingscentrum en ontmoetingsplaats voor de SS. De plek Wewelsburg staat model voor het door de nazi's uitvinden van historische connecties en linken aan de Duitse geschiedenis met als doel het onderbouwen van de Arische superioriteit. Nazisuperieuren hadden dezelfde plannen met het Kasteel Quedlinburg, waar de Sint-Servaaskerk veranderde in een SS-inwijdingsruimte.

Momenteel is het geheel ingericht als museum en jeugdherberg.

Gedurende het nationaalsocialisme (1933-1945)

Algemeen
In 1934 werd het gebouw door Himmler aangewezen als een centraal religieus oord waarin de heidense Germaanse elementen van het nazisme zouden worden verzameld en verder ontwikkeld. Wewelsburg zou, na een verbouwing van ongeveer 20 jaar, moeten gaan dienen als het nieuwe occulte centrum van de wereld nadat de nazi's de oorlog zouden hebben gewonnen.

De Oostenrijkse occultist en latere SS-militair (vanaf 1936 SS-Brigadeführer) Karl Maria Wiligut wist Himmler in 1933 ervan te overtuigen dat het historische erfgoed in Wewelsburg een belangrijke symbolische waarde had voor de nazi-ideologie. Beiden geloofden dat de burcht was gebouwd in 930 als bolwerk tegen de Hongaren en  Hunnen. In de burcht moesten allerlei christelijke elementen een nieuwe Germaanse invulling krijgen of vervangen worden door mythische elementen. Zo werd het christelijke kruis eerder al vervangen door het hakenkruis.

Wewelsburg zou al een belangrijke functie hebben gehad in de Middeleeuwen toen de Hunnen en de Hongaren werden verslagen. Zo zou Wewelsburg een Germaans bastion worden voor de strijd tussen Europa en Azië. Wewelsburg zou de burcht van de Graal worden. Dit was een verwijzing naar de graal van het laatste avondmaal van Jezus. Jezus gaf toen aan dat zijn bloed zou worden vergoten voor de mensheid. Volgens de nazi-ideologie zou de graal verwijzen naar het menselijk bloed dat vergoten zou worden  voor de Lebensraum van de ariërs. Tevens moest Wewelsburg dienstdoen als verzamelplaats van historisch materiaal uit de Germaanse oergeschiedenis, de periode voordat het Duitse Rijk werd gekerstend.

In 1934 werd het kasteel voor honderd jaar gehuurd door Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, die het wilde ombouwen tot een Reichsführerschule SS voor toekomstige SS-officieren. Hiermee zou het kasteel een 'Ordensburg' worden, ofwel een burcht van de orde (de SS). De Wewelsburg was ook het hoofdkwartier van de SS. Vanaf 1939 tot 1943 werd het meeste constructiewerk door dwangarbeiders uitgevoerd aangeleverd door de politieke gevangenen van het concentratiekamp Niederhagen, in 1940 in gebruik genomen.

In 1945 gaf Heinrich Himmler opdracht het kasteel op te blazen. Alleen de grote noordelijke toren is hierbij vernietigd.

Inrichting
In de grote toren, de Nordturm, werd een marmeren mozaïek aangelegd van een Schwarze Sonne of Sonnenrad. Himmler gebruikte deze ruimte, de Obergruppenführersaal geheel volgens de gebruiken van de Ridders van de Ronde Tafel van Koning Arthur, dus met twaalf gasten rondom zijn tafel, en Himmler zelf als dertiende. Deze ruimte werd het centrum voor belangrijke riten en bijeenkomsten. Twaalf leiders met de grootste verdiensten, gunstelingen van Himmler, zaten met hem aan een ronde zware eikenhouten tafel, met verguld hout in ruime varkensleren stoelen met hoge ruggen. Iedere stoel had op de rugleuning een zilveren plaatje met de naam van degene wiens vaste plaats het was. Naast ieder van hen stond een zilveren schaal, waarin hun naam gegraveerd was. Onder de Nordturm, die verder uitgebouwd had moeten worden tot het Mittelpunkt der Welt, ligt de Gruft, een ruimte voor dode SS-officieren.

Huidige situatie
In 1973 is men begonnen met de restauratie van de Nordturm. In 1977 is besloten om het hele kasteel te restaureren om het als oorlogsmonument te behouden met museum en jeugdherberg.

Tegenwoordig is in het kasteel het Historische Museum des Hochstifts Paderborn gevestigd. In een bijgebouw is een herdenkingscentrum voor de slachtoffers van het nationaal-socialisme ingericht.

Externe links
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 The North Tower of Wewelsburg Castle

Kasteel in Noordrijn-Westfalen
Büren
Architectuur tijdens het nationaalsocialisme

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The iSpindel hydrometer is a WiFi based hydrometer/thermometer and relies on being able to access a WiFi network with access to the Internet. It transmits readings directly to the receiving service.
It requires a few more steps to integrate into Brewers Chronicle that the Tilt device, but at 1/2 the cost, the iSpindel is more affordable for home brewers.
The iSpindel has 2 modes: configuration and run mode.
Configuration mode causes the iSpindel to publish a Wireless network which you connect to, and this then triggers a browser displaying the configuration page.
Run mode: this is a very reduced mode to completely limit battery operation. No remote access to the device is possible.
If you need to monitor what the device is doing in run mode, the best way is to connect a cable to the iSpindel MicroUSB port and connect this to a device with some serial monitoring software running. I have used Putty with good success. This gives you full details of what's currently happening with the iSpindel.
Obvously this does not help you when the device is inside a fermentor, but for initial setup, this reveals exactly what is going on.
Update interval: this is a seconds measurement and I would suggest at least 3600 seconds (1 hour).
The gravity does not change much over 1 hour so there isn't much point to logging more frequently.
During initial integration put the interval at 20 seconds so updates are frequent enough for you to make sure things are working.
Once you configure these details and save the changes, this will cause the iSpindel to reboot into run mode.
If all the settings were saved correctly, and your device registers with Brewers Chronicle, the head brewer (probably yourself if you don't have any other team members) will receive an email stating the new iSpindel device has been registered. It also contains some information that the iSpindel sends through with every reading.
RSSI: signal strength of your WiFi network. The higher the number, the better basically. The iSpindel FAQ mentions -90 being about where communication falls over.
You can try putting a wireless repeater right near your fermenting area.
If you use a fridge and are still getting a weak signal you could try some coax cable which runs into the fridge. This might carry the WiFi signal into your fridge for the iSpindel to pick up.
These values will be updated each time your iSpindel logs a reading through the API. You can monitor the battery level during ferment, and this will let you know when you need to replace your battery.
Once you can see the iSpindel device inside BC, you are right to allocate it to an active ferment log. Clicking in the textbox will drop down a list of active ferments, and you can select the relevant ferment log, and then click the "Update Allocation" button.
This then links that iSpindel device to that ferment log, and any readings sent through will create entries in the ferment log.
If you want to unlink an iSpindel from a ferment, delete text from the textbox and click the "Update Allocation" button. This can be used when you complete a ferment.
As with the Tilt, once the settings on the iSpindel have been successfully saved, and readings are being sent to BC, you don't have to update the device settings again. You control which ferment log readings are sent to inside the Brewers Chronicle website.
If one of your registered iSpindel devices submits readings and the device is not allocated to a ferment, then an alert will be created alerting you to this fact.
Allocate the iSpindel to an active ferment, or turn off the device.
Ever time an iSpindel submits a reading, it also sends through the current battery level.
The alert is created when the battery level falls below 3.5V.


Sutliff's Vanilla Latte starts with the typical base for many aromatic blends - Virginias for sweetness, Burley to absorb the flavorings, and rich Black Cavendish to add a mellow sugary note and to keep the burn slow. But here's where Vanilla Latte jumps the track - a unique combination of dark roast coffee is mixed with creamy vanilla that delivers a singular flavor and an intriguing room note.
This is a decent blend with a nice room note it could taste a little more like a coffee but overall very satisfied with my purchase.
The tobacco smells nice, but nothing vaguely reminiscent of vanilla latte. As far as smoking, my first bowl went straight to the pipe with no drying time, that was a mistake. There was far too much moisture. The next few times I let it dry for 20, 30, then finally 40 minutes. This made a big, and positive, difference. When given plenty of time to dry, the tobacco produced a quality cool smoke. Very tasty, but still nothing about it reminded me of a vanilla latte.
Not a bad pipe tobacco, I feel it should be mixed with another aromatic.
Great service, good products and fast service!
Not great, and way too moist.
i find the vanilla latte a cool sweet smoke that works well for me as a day long tabacco.form work or going out.
Excellent substitute for vanilla custard! Good all around smoke, minimal bite and stays lite very nicely!
A little too sweet for my liking, but nice room note.
Sutliff vanilla latte is a great tobacco for aromatic pipe smokers. It is cheap and enjoyable. Vanilla latte is slightly less aromatic than vanilla custard. One of the best bulk tobacco in my opinion. If you are worried about bulk amounts drying out, simply put it in a mason jar. This allows you to purchase more tobacco. All around this is a great smoke day to night.


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The Mzinda platform has been developed under the ICT for Citizen Engagement Project that is being implemented with funding from the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA). The project is being piloted in Lilongwe, Blantyre and Mzuzu cities.


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Schmid also had to do without forward Eddie Johnson and midfielder Brad Evans, who were in Cleveland with the United States national team, and midfielder Osvaldo Alonso and defender Patrick Ianni, who were ineligible due to red cards they received in the 2012 Open Cup final.
The teams played evenly most of the way, with few especially dangerous chances on either side.
That finally changed in the 75th minute, when midfielder Luke Mulholland split a pair of Sounders on a run into the penalty area. There, he fired a shot that goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann blocked, but the ball looped past him to the far corner when Rowdies forward Georgi Hristov knocked it in from about 2 yards.
Seattle's best chance to score came about 10 minutes later when Tampa Bay defender Jordan Gafa was given a red card for a handball in front of the Rowdies goal. That not only gave the Sounders a one-man advantage for the final minutes, but it awarded them a penalty kick to draw even.
Designated player Obafemi Martins, who had subbed on in the 80th minute, was selected to take the kick. He approached the ball, did a slight stutter step, and then knocked the ball low and left where it was stopped by Tampa Bay goalkeeper Diego Restrepo.
The Rowdies held on from there and will advance to the fourth round of the Open Cup.
The result eliminated the Sounders, who had won the tournament in 2009, 2010 and 2011, and had advanced to the 2012 final, where they lost to Sporting Kansas City.
The Sounders return to Major League Soccer play at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Chivas USA.
Final: Sounders eliminated from U.S. Open Cup. Hristov goal gives Tampa Bay 1-0 win. Martins would-be equalizing PK saved late.
Rowdies will go on to fourth-round, facing winner of Portland-Wilmington later tonight.
Sounders return to their only remaining competition -- MLS -- on Saturday at Chivas USA.
I'll be back with quotes as soon as possible.
86' Obafemi Martins PK is on target -- low and left -- but saved. Kick followed hand ball in box, which also drew red card. Tampa Bay holds its 1-0 lead, but is a man down.
80' Obafemi Martins replaces Remick as Sounders push for the goal they need to avoid elimination.
75' GOAL Rowdies. Tampa Bay nice run up the middle of the pitch and into the box. Hahnemann gets save on first shot by Mulholland, but rebound by Hristov from about 2 yards puts Sounders at death's door. TB, 1-0.
Open Cup final: Carolina 2, LA Galaxy 0.
68' Sammy Ochoa in for Caskey.
Through 60: Still scoreless. Game seems to be opening a bit. No Sounders subs yet. Lots of quality on the bench.
53' Yellow to Alex Caskey for pretty painful high kick.
Halftime: Nil-nil. Shots 5-5; on goal, 2-1 SEA; fouls 10-2 SEA; corners 3-2 TB.
First 30 minutes: Scoreless. Sounders control growing. Two especially good chances from Marino Martinez. Rowdies have had a couple of chances as well.
First 15 minutes: Scoreless. No great chances yet. Maybe slight advantage in play to the Sounders.
Basics: The Sounders open U.S. Open Cup at 4:30 tonight at the Tampa Bay Rowdies. There is no TV or radio, but the game will be streaked at SoundersFC.com, tweeted @donruiztnt and I'll keep this blog post open all afternoon, through the game and right through to postgame quotes.
Sounders lineup:Coach Sigi Schmid hinted yesterday at a new-look lineup, and he wasn't kidding.
For Rowdies: GK – 24 Diego Restrepo RB – 6 Jordan Gafa CB – 2 Daniel Scott CB – 32 Takuya Yamada (captain) LB – 3 Andres Arango RM – 8 Luke Mulholland CM – 11 Shane Hill CM – 22 Keith Savage LM – 9 Raphael Cox; F – 21 Devin Del Do; F – 10 Georgi Hristov Reserves: Andrew Fontein, Kyle Clinton, Jay Needham, Thurstan Johnson, Evans Frimpong, Mike Ambersley, Amani Walker.


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Makoto Shinkai , född 9 februari 1973 i Koumi i Nagano, är en japansk regissör av anime, animatör och seiyū (röstskådespelare). Han slog igenom 2002 med sin kortfilm Hoshi no koe och har därefter producerat fem långfilmer och ett antal kortfilmer. Your Name från 2016 blev oväntat årets största japanska biosuccé, och även Weathering with You (2019) har blivit en stor publik framgång.

Shinkais filmer kretsar ofta kring ung kärlek och problem med att få den att överleva avstånd. 2011 års Hoshi o ou kodomo är ett fantasyäventyr inspirerat av Shinkais favoritfilm, Laputa – Slottet i himlen. Your Name var delvis en förväxlingskomedi.

Biografi

Bakgrund
Shinkai är född och uppvuxen i Nagano prefektur i Japan och studerade japansk litteratur på universitetet.

År 1999 skapade Shinkai Kanojo to kanojo no neko ('Hon och hennes katt'), en fem minuter lång animation i gråtoner. Den vann ett flertal priser, inklusive första priset i DoGA CG Animation-tävlingen år 2000. Filmen beskriver en katts liv med sin unga kvinnliga ägare ur dess eget perspektiv.

Genombrottsfilm
Efter att ha vunnit detta pris började Shinkai fundera på en efterföljare medan han fortsatte med sitt arbete som grafisk designer på spelföretaget Falcom. Några månader senare, i juni 2000, fick Shinkai inspirationen till Hoshi no koe (engelska: Voices of a Distant Star) då han tecknade en flicka i ett förarkabin med en mobiltelefon i handen. Något senare kontaktades han av informationsportalen Mangazoo och dess ägare – produktionsbolaget Comix Wave – som erbjöd honom möjligheten till samarbete. Detta gav honom chansen att skapa en anime av sin idé som de kunde sälja. I maj 2001 slutade han på Falcom och började arbeta på Hoshi no koe, producerad av Comix Wave. I en intervju har Shinkai sagt att arbetet tog honom sju månader.

I denna uppmärksammade kortfilm utforskade Shinkai en stil och bärande teman som han därefter skulle återkomma till fler gånger. Ung kärlek och kampen för att få den att överleva avstånd av olika slag presenterades mot en bakgrund av stillsamt vackra skyar och stämningsfulla naturscenerier.

Novellfilmer, Laputa-inspiration
Hoshi no koe följdes av den 90 minuter långa filmen Kumo no mukō, yakusoku no basho (engelska: The Place Promised in Our Early Days) som hade premiär i Japan den 20 november 2004. Filmen togs emot väl av kritiker och vann många priser.

Shinkai presenterade därefter Byōsoku go centimetre (engelska: 5 Centimeters Per Second), som hade premiär den 3 mars 2007. Den består av tre korta filmer, Ōkashō, Cosmonaut och Byōsoku go centimetre och är sammantaget ungefär en timme lång.

Under november 2010 avslöjade Shinkai titeln på sin kommande film – Hoshi o ou kodomo (engelska: Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below eller Journey to Agartha). En trailer släpptes den 9 november, och filmen hade sedan japansk premiär 7 maj 2011.

De två förstnämnda filmerna fortsatte stilen från Hoshi no koe, med känslosamt och tillbakahållet berättade historier om unga människor och deras relationer. Skillnaden var snarast i längden och komplexiteten; i den första filmen följer man tre vänners uppväxt och hur livet för dem isär, medan den andra är en tredelad kärleksberättelse med samma grundtema. Båda filmerna är präglade av det nostalgiska berättande kring saknaden över det förflutna som brukar benämnas mono no aware ('sakernas ledsamhet'). Den tredje filmen har dock mer gemensamt med Shinkais favoritfilm, Hayao Miyazakis Laputa – Slottet i himlen, där båda filmerna är äventyrsfilmer baserade på klassiska legender eller fantasyböcker.

31 maj 2013 hade Shinkais Kotonoha no niwa  japansk premiär. Därefter deltog han under juli på Anime Expo 2013 i Houston. Den 46 minuter långa filmen släpptes på DVD och Blu-ray i Nordamerika – under namnet The Garden of Sorrows – den 6 augusti 2013. Samma år presenterades även den sju minuter korta filmen Dareka no manazashi.

Två storfilmer

2016 kom en film som bröt mönstret på flera sätt. Shinkais Kimi no na wa – marknadsförd internationellt som Your Name – var en film med ett ungt kärlekspar, distansen mellan de två var ett viktigt tema, och filmen var vackert producerad. Men den var på en och samma gång en katastroffilm och en science fiction-film med ett starkt driv i berättandet och en hel del humor. Den slog an hos en mycket större publik än normalt för Makoto Shinkai, som här lanserades som en av arvtagarna för nu definitivt pensionerade veteranen Hayao Miyazaki. Filmen dominerade de japanska biotopplistorna i flera månader, och inklusive de internationella intäkter slog den till och med Spirited Aways dåvarande rekord som den mest inkomstbringande animefilmen någonsin. Det gick så långt att Shinkai, i ett försök att minska uppmärksamheten kring honom och hans filmskapande, bad folk att inte gå och se filmen.

Tre år senare återkom Shinkai med Tenki no ko, internationellt lanserad som Weathering with You. Denna film om lockade "endast" hälften så många biobesökare som föregångaren, men detta räckte för att den efter 2019 skulle placera sig som femma på listan över de mest framgångsrika animefilmerna genom tiderna – före en stor del av den internationella lanseringen. Den är en romantisk fantasyfilm, med en väderförändrande ung flicka i en av huvudrollerna. Filmen valdes ut som Japans bidrag i kampen om bästa icke-engelskspråkiga långfilm till Oscarsgalan 2020.

Stil och övrigt
Shinkai ser själv all manga, anime och romaner han läste i mellanskolan (motsvarande det svenska högstadiet) som orsaken till sin passion för skapandet. Hans favoritanime är Laputa – Slottet i himlen av Hayao Miyazaki. I ett flertal recensioner, bland annat hos Anime Advocates och Active Anime, har Shinkai också kallats för "den nya Miyazaki". Shinkai anser dock själv att jämförelsen "är en överdrift".

Shinkais berättande och animerade koncentrerar sig på de små detaljerna, som regniga eftermiddagar, cykelturer, molnens färd över himlen eller hur körsbärsbladen faller till marken. I animationen tar han ofta fram den ofta flyktiga skönheten i tillvarons upplevelser, och upplevelser som de olika rollfigurer kan drömma sig tillbaka till när de minns sin uppväxt och vilka de tillbringat den med. Makoto Shinkai nämns också ofta i samband med japanska filmare eller berättare som konsekvent arbetar med den nostalgimättade genren mono no aware.

Vid sidan om sina egna projekt arbetar Shinkai med att animera öppningssekvenser till erotiska visuella romaner hos företaget Minori.

Filmografi (urval)
 (engelska: She and Her Cat)
 (Voices of a Distant Star)
 (The Place Promised in Our Early Days)
 (5 Centimeters Per Second)
 (Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below eller Journey to Agartha)
 (The Garden of Words)

Referenser

Externa länkar
 Shinkais officiella webbplats
 daike.hp.infoseek.co.jp
 Officiell webbplats för Hoshi wo ou kodomo

Japanska filmregissörer
Födda 1973
Män
Levande personer
WP:Projekt Japan
Personer från Nagano prefektur


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Mama June's Daughter Pumpkin Welcomes a Baby — What's Her Name?
Mama June's daughter Lauryn "Pumpkin" Shannon and fiancé Joshua Efird are first time parents!
Pumpkin gave birth to a baby girl, who she named Ella Grace Efird, on Friday morning. She tweeted, "Today at 5:01am me and josh officially became parents to a precious 7lb 14oz baby girl."
Today at 5:01am me and josh officially became parents to a precious 7lb 14oz baby girl. Everyone meet Ella Grace Efird ❤👶🏻 pic.twitter.com/3m3KIeX5W2
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In August, the 17-year-old opened up about having a baby, saying, "I'm really nervous about having a baby 'cause, I mean, it does have to come out of my hoo-ha."
She added, "My baby daddy's head is, like, the size of a freakin' watermelon, so imagine trying to push a watermelon out of your vagina."
In a recent sneak peek for the second season of "Mama June: From Not to Hot," Pumpkin said, "I don't think you guys are ready for another me, I really don't. The only things that I fear about raising a girl is that, you know, she's going to want to date. She's at least going to have to be 45 before she goes on her first date."
"Mama June: From Not to Hot" returns January 12 on WE tv.
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It is no secret that Joey King is one of the breakthrough stars of 2018. After wowing fans as a child actress in The Conjuring and Ramona & Beezus, she has since shot to international fame thanks to her turn as Elle in the hit teen drama The Kissing Booth. She also received widespread acclaim for her performance as Wren in Slender Man this August. Critics and fans alike cannot get enough of her.
Last month Joey shaved her hair for next major role. The 19-year-old will be playing the part of Gypsy Rose Blanchard in Hulu's new true crime anthology series The Act. So far so normal. Except over the weekend, someone sat next to Joey on a plane assumed that she had cancer and thought that it was okay to joke about it. Wtf? Joey took to Twitter afterwards to explain what happened.
Last night Joey tweeted: "Y'all I'm on a plane & this man next to me literally turned to me with his phone in my face & took a photo of me as if I wouldn't notice". It goes without saying that this is not okay but it gets even worse. Joey then added: "& texted his wife that he's sitting next to a girl who has cancer (just cuz I'm bald) & that hes scared to "catch it"...Y R PPL STUPID SUMTIMES".
Seriously, people can be the worst. Joey followed up the tweet by revealing: "I read his text over his shoulder it said "some bald chick next to me with Fckn cancer coughed and I don't wanna catch it".....um ya jokin?".
Check out Joey's tweets in full below.
There is so much wrong with this. First of all you shouldn't take photos of people without their consent. Then there's the fact that cancer is not contagious and that being bald and having cancer are in no way mutually exclusive. Also shaming anyone for their appearance in 2018? Tragic.
Fans immediately replied to Joey's tweet with kind words of support. One wrote: "you are a strong, beautiful and confident woman, who doesn't need hair to feel beautiful" and another tweeted: "UGH. THAT IS NOT OKAY. Cancer is a serious and painful disease".
Fingers crossed that people learn something from this incident and that Joey doesn't have to go through this sort of experience again.


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Doug LaMalfa & C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger
Compare the voting records of Doug LaMalfa and C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger in 2017-18.
Doug LaMalfa
Represented California's 1st Congressional District. This is his 3rd term in the House.
C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger
Represented Maryland's 2nd Congressional District. This is his 8th term in the House.
Doug LaMalfa and C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger are from different parties and disagreed on 63 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
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