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It means to give information and suggest types of action.
Note - In British English the noun form often ends in ...ice and the verb in ...ise.
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This is a "system" user. It is there to own and run the application, it isn't supposed to be a person type user with a login etc. In Ubuntu, a system user gets a UID below 1000, has no shell (it's actually /bin/false) and has logins disabled. Note that I've specified a "home" of /opt/odoo, this is where the OpenERP server code will reside and is created automatically by the command above. The location of the server code is your choice of course, but be aware that some of the instructions and configuration files below may need to be altered if you decide to install to a different location.


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Населення
Населення — 953 особи (2010; 868 у 2002).

Національний склад (станом на 2002 рік):
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Джерела

Примітки

Посилання
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Населені пункти Волзького району (Марій Ел)
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package adwords.axis.v201809.basicoperations;

import static com.google.api.ads.common.lib.utils.Builder.DEFAULT_CONFIGURATION_FILENAME;

import com.beust.jcommander.Parameter;
import com.google.api.ads.adwords.axis.factory.AdWordsServices;
import com.google.api.ads.adwords.axis.v201809.cm.Ad;
import com.google.api.ads.adwords.axis.v201809.cm.AdGroupAd;
import com.google.api.ads.adwords.axis.v201809.cm.AdGroupAdOperation;
import com.google.api.ads.adwords.axis.v201809.cm.AdGroupAdReturnValue;
import com.google.api.ads.adwords.axis.v201809.cm.AdGroupAdServiceInterface;
import com.google.api.ads.adwords.axis.v201809.cm.AdGroupAdStatus;
import com.google.api.ads.adwords.axis.v201809.cm.ApiError;
import com.google.api.ads.adwords.axis.v201809.cm.ApiException;
import com.google.api.ads.adwords.axis.v201809.cm.Operator;
import com.google.api.ads.adwords.lib.client.AdWordsSession;
import com.google.api.ads.adwords.lib.factory.AdWordsServicesInterface;
import com.google.api.ads.adwords.lib.utils.examples.ArgumentNames;
import com.google.api.ads.common.lib.auth.OfflineCredentials;
import com.google.api.ads.common.lib.auth.OfflineCredentials.Api;
import com.google.api.ads.common.lib.conf.ConfigurationLoadException;
import com.google.api.ads.common.lib.exception.OAuthException;
import com.google.api.ads.common.lib.exception.ValidationException;
import com.google.api.ads.common.lib.utils.examples.CodeSampleParams;
import com.google.api.client.auth.oauth2.Credential;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;

/**
 * This example updates status for a given ad. To get ads, run GetExpandedTextAds.
 *
 * <p>Credentials and properties in {@code fromFile()} are pulled from the
 * "ads.properties" file. See README for more info.
 */
public class PauseAd {

  private static class PauseAdParams extends CodeSampleParams {
    @Parameter(names = ArgumentNames.AD_GROUP_ID, required = true)
    private Long adGroupId;

    @Parameter(names = ArgumentNames.AD_ID, required = true)
    private Long adId;
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    AdWordsSession session;
    try {
      // Generate a refreshable OAuth2 credential.
      Credential oAuth2Credential =
          new OfflineCredentials.Builder()
              .forApi(Api.ADWORDS)
              .fromFile()
              .build()
              .generateCredential();

      // Construct an AdWordsSession.
      session =
          new AdWordsSession.Builder().fromFile().withOAuth2Credential(oAuth2Credential).build();
    } catch (ConfigurationLoadException cle) {
      System.err.printf(
          "Failed to load configuration from the %s file. Exception: %s%n",
          DEFAULT_CONFIGURATION_FILENAME, cle);
      return;
    } catch (ValidationException ve) {
      System.err.printf(
          "Invalid configuration in the %s file. Exception: %s%n",
          DEFAULT_CONFIGURATION_FILENAME, ve);
      return;
    } catch (OAuthException oe) {
      System.err.printf(
          "Failed to create OAuth credentials. Check OAuth settings in the %s file. "
              + "Exception: %s%n",
          DEFAULT_CONFIGURATION_FILENAME, oe);
      return;
    }

    AdWordsServicesInterface adWordsServices = AdWordsServices.getInstance();

    PauseAdParams params = new PauseAdParams();
    if (!params.parseArguments(args)) {
      // Either pass the required parameters for this example on the command line, or insert them
      // into the code here. See the parameter class definition above for descriptions.
      params.adGroupId = Long.parseLong("INSERT_AD_GROUP_ID_HERE");
      params.adId = Long.parseLong("INSERT_AD_ID_HERE");
    }

    try {
      runExample(adWordsServices, session, params.adGroupId, params.adId);
    } catch (ApiException apiException) {
      // ApiException is the base class for most exceptions thrown by an API request. Instances
      // of this exception have a message and a collection of ApiErrors that indicate the
      // type and underlying cause of the exception. Every exception object in the adwords.axis
      // packages will return a meaningful value from toString
      //
      // ApiException extends RemoteException, so this catch block must appear before the
      // catch block for RemoteException.
      System.err.println("Request failed due to ApiException. Underlying ApiErrors:");
      if (apiException.getErrors() != null) {
        int i = 0;
        for (ApiError apiError : apiException.getErrors()) {
          System.err.printf("  Error %d: %s%n", i++, apiError);
        }
      }
    } catch (RemoteException re) {
      System.err.printf(
          "Request failed unexpectedly due to RemoteException: %s%n", re);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Runs the example.
   *
   * @param adWordsServices the services factory.
   * @param session the session.
   * @param adGroupId the ID of the ad group for the ad.
   * @param adId the ID of the ad to pause.
   * @throws ApiException if the API request failed with one or more service errors.
   * @throws RemoteException if the API request failed due to other errors.
   */
  public static void runExample(
      AdWordsServicesInterface adWordsServices, AdWordsSession session, Long adGroupId, Long adId)
      throws RemoteException {
    // Get the AdGroupAdService.
    AdGroupAdServiceInterface adGroupAdService =
        adWordsServices.get(session, AdGroupAdServiceInterface.class);

    // Create ad with updated status.
    Ad ad = new Ad();
    ad.setId(adId);

    AdGroupAd adGroupAd = new AdGroupAd();
    adGroupAd.setAdGroupId(adGroupId);
    adGroupAd.setAd(ad);
    adGroupAd.setStatus(AdGroupAdStatus.PAUSED);

    // Create operations.
    AdGroupAdOperation operation = new AdGroupAdOperation();
    operation.setOperand(adGroupAd);
    operation.setOperator(Operator.SET);

    AdGroupAdOperation[] operations = new AdGroupAdOperation[] {operation};

    // Update ad.
    AdGroupAdReturnValue result = adGroupAdService.mutate(operations);

    // Display ads.
    for (AdGroupAd adGroupAdResult : result.getValue()) {
      System.out.printf("Ad with ID %d, type '%s', and status '%s' was updated.%n",
          adGroupAdResult.getAd().getId(), adGroupAdResult.getAd().getAdType(),
          adGroupAdResult.getStatus());
    }
  }
}

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All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
`CDMarkdownKit` adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).

#### 2.x Releases
- `2.3.x` Releases - [2.3.0](#230)
- `2.2.x` Releases - [2.2.0](#220)
- `2.1.x` Releases - [2.1.0](#210) | [2.1.1](#211)
- `2.0.x` Releases - [2.0.0](#200)

#### 1.x Releases
- `1.2.x` Releases - [1.2.0](#120) | [1.2.1](#121)
- `1.1.x` Releases - [1.1.0](#110)
- `1.0.x` Releases - [1.0.0](#100)

---

## [2.3.0](https://github.com/chrisdhaan/CDMarkdownKit/releases/tag/2.3.0)
## Markdown Parsing
Released on 2022-10-17.

#### Added

- [x] Markdown Parsing
    - [x] `squashNewlines` parameter

---

## [2.2.0](https://github.com/chrisdhaan/CDMarkdownKit/releases/tag/2.2.0)
## SDK Support
Released on 2022-06-26.

#### Added

- [x] Swift 5.4, 5.5, and 5.6

#### Updated

- [x] Swift Package Manager
    - [x] Minimum Swift version 5.3
- [x] CI
    - [x] Tests device, platform, Xcode, and SDK versions

---

## [2.1.1](https://github.com/chrisdhaan/CDMarkdownKit/releases/tag/2.1.1)
## Bug Fixes
Released on 2021-05-29.

#### Updated

- [x] Markdown Parsing
    - [x] Bold and italic parsing by character
- [x] Swift Package Manager
    - [x] Built with `swift-tools-version:5.1`

---

## [2.1.0](https://github.com/chrisdhaan/CDMarkdownKit/releases/tag/2.1.0)
## SDK Support
Released on 2020-08-30.

#### Added

- [x] Swift 5.1

---

## [2.0.0](https://github.com/chrisdhaan/CDMarkdownKit/releases/tag/2.0.0)
## SDK Support
Released on 2020-08-29.

#### Added

- [x] Swift 5.0

---

## [1.2.1](https://github.com/chrisdhaan/CDMarkdownKit/releases/tag/1.2.1)
## SDK Support
Released on 2018-12-14.

#### Added

- [x] Swift 4.2
- [x] Swift 4.0
    - [x] `Dictionary+CDMarkdownKit`, `NSAttributedString+CDMarkdownKit`, `NSMutableAttributedString+CDMarkdownKit`, `NSTextCheckResult+CDMarkdownKit`, and `NSTextStorage+CDMarkdownKit`extensions
- [x] iOS Example
    - [x] `CDApplicationLaunchOptionsKey`, `CDLayoutConstraintAttribute`, and `CDLayoutConstraintRelation` typealias'

#### Updated

- [x] Swift 4.0
    - [x] Extensions assume responsibility for `switft()` macro from classes
    - [x] `CDAttributesKey` becomes `CDAttributedStringKey`

---

## [1.2.0](https://github.com/chrisdhaan/CDMarkdownKit/releases/tag/1.2.0)
## SDK Support, Platform Support, UITextView With Markdown Formatting
Released on 2018-07-27.

#### Added

- [x] Platform Support
    - [x] macOS
        - [x] `CDFont+CDMarkdownKit` `withSize` method that uses `NSFontManager` to correctly set system fonts dynamically based on size
- [x] Swift 4.0
    - [x] `CDAttributesKey`  for correctly configuring `NSAttributedString` attribute dictionary keys
- [x] SwiftLint

#### Updated

- [x] UITextView With Markdown Formatting
    - [x] Code example to use `NSLayoutConstraints` to correctly set `intrinsicContentSize`
- [x] Platform Support
    - [x] macOS
        - [x] `CDFont+CDMarkdownKit` `bold` and `italic` methods to use `NSFontManager` opposed to `CDFontDescriptorSymbolicTraits`

---

## [1.1.0](https://github.com/chrisdhaan/CDMarkdownKit/releases/tag/1.1.0)
## SDK Support
Released on 2018-06-12.

#### Added

- [x] Swift 4.0

---

## [1.0.0](https://github.com/chrisdhaan/CDMarkdownKit/releases/tag/1.0.0)
## Markdown Parsing, UITextView With Markdown Formatting, UILabel With Markdown Formatting, and Platform Support
Released on 2018-06-11.

#### Added

- [x] Markdown Parsing
    - [x] Italic
    - [x] Bold
    - [x] Header
    - [x] Quote
    - [x] List
    - [x] Code
    - [x] Syntax
    - [x] Link
    - [x] Image
- [x] UITextView With Markdown Formatting
- [x] UILabel With Markdown Formatting
- [x] Platform Support
    - [x] iOS
    - [x] macOS
    - [x] tvOS
    - [x] watchOS
- [x] Documentation

---


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Q: Slicer only corresponds to table not my chart - Mac Excel 16 I have inserted a pivot table based on the data range I want to use. From there, I have selected the data in the table and inserted a chart. I then insert a slicer, but when I select the category it does not change the data in the chart but rather the table only.

A: Are you are creating the chart and pivot separately ?
You need to create them together, see image below.

Then you can insert slicers that will update both the pivot and the chart simultaneously, see below.

For mac see below link:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_excel-mso_mac/pivot-chart-in-excel-2016-mac-version/87caf52f-4755-469d-bb7a-2fce5774099e?auth=1

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I will be attending PEXWeek, and Fujitsu will sponsor WfMC to give an elaborate 3 hour tutorial on BPM, AdaptiveCM, process analytics, and more. Details later, but we recorded this interview as part of the promotion in advance. Diana Davis asked questions about knowledge workers and how to improve their productivity.
I will try to find a link to the recording of the webinar and post it here. However, I also made a recording of my part of the talk, and I have put it together with the slides on SlideShare below.
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Canadian base salaries stagnant as U.S. pay jumps
by Canadian Manufacturing.com Staff August 26, 2014
Manufacturing Energy Mining & Resources Public Sector Base salaries Survey US
Survey finds that 83 per cent of Canadian employers will provide employees with base salary increases in 2015
TORONTO— Canadian employees can expect to see average base salary increases of 2.6 per cent in 2015, according to a national survey of over 400 Canadian public and private sector employers conducted by the Hay Group in June and July.
Canadian projections have now fallen further behind the United States, where American workers can expect an average increase of three per cent in 2015, up from the 2.8 per cent projected for 2014.
According to the consulting firm's survey, which includes some of Canada's leading employers, 83 per cent of Canadian employers will provide employees with base salary increases in 2015.
The highest Canadian increases continue to be seen in the oil and gas sector at 3.8 per cent, where demand for key skills continues to outweigh strategic supply challenges. Chemicals (3.3 per cent), credit unions (3.2 per cent), and financial services (three per cent) are all sectors with forecasts considerably higher than the national average of 2.6 per cent, according to the survey.
Alberta (3.1 per cent) and Saskatchewan (2.9 per cent) are expected to lead Canada with projected overall base salary increases higher than the national average.
Canadian employees in the fields of telecommunications, education and government are expected to see the lowest base salary increases, the survey found.
The 2.6 per cent average projected increase for Canada in 2015 is the same as that in 2014, and lower than the 2.9 per cent projection for 2013.
Salaries expected to go up, but real wages of workers could edge down after inflation
Average salary should increase 2.4 per cent in 2016, says survey
Average Canadians' pay to increase 2.79% in 2015: survey
Strong wage increases across Canada, despite slowed economic growth: survey
Ford cuts prices on its Mustang Mach-E electric SUV
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Rumour mill: New Cadillac and GMC SUVs on the way

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Good day, let me begin by welcoming the hundreds of new members who have just joined MarketClub in the last few weeks. I welcome you and wish you every success with MarketClub.
Today I would like to share with you one of the many lessons that are available to you as a MarketClub member.
Technical analysis has been around for a long time. It has been said that Japanese rice traders kept hand charts over 200 years ago to track the price of rice. More recently in the 50's, technical analysis began to gain acceptance, and the 70's could be called the golden age of technical analysis. Technical analysis is now widely regarded as mainstream, no longer do traders and investors think of technical analysis as Ouija boards and funny-sounding chart formations. Technical analysis is a serious tool that you can use to make money.
Fundamentals are important, but technical analysis, in my humble opinion, is more important because it provides you with timing which I think you'll agree is everything in life.
I'm going to be looking at one of my favorite indicators that can help you enter or exit a market on favorable terms. This tool also works extremely well with the market-proven Trade Triangle technology.
Today's lesson is on the Fibonacci Sequence.
Leonardo Fibonacci was a mathematician born in 12th century Italy. His study of Fibonacci numbers (a sequence of numbers where each number is the sum of the two previous numbers) is often applied in technical analysis to find support and resistance in stock charts.
This timeless lesson I learned many years ago when I was a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange trading in pits. It is one tool that has stood the passage of time and one that I still use today.
How this amazing 12th century Italian mathematician figured this out is way beyond my pay scale, but I can say without hesitation that it works.
Watch the lesson here and then leave a comment.
The principle behind a Fibonacci retracement is that after a stock moves upward or downward, the price will often retrace or correct some of this movement. Many technical analysts believe that the amount of retracement will often correspond to one of the Fibonacci levels. The five horizontal lines represent percentages of 100%, 62%, 50%, 38% and 0% (with 62 and 38 being Fibonacci numbers).
The Fibonacci sequence works on intraday charts, daily charts, weekly and monthly charts. I do not know why it works in the financial markets. Through all my reading and research, I've never found a reason other than it works in nature.
I'm going to show you just how easy it is to use Fibonacci in your own trading.
This is one lesson you do not want to miss, it will open your eyes as to how and why markets move. One of the many benefits of Fibonacci retracements is that it will allow you to enter a position with very little risk. That is a big plus in today's markets.
So enjoy and learn from this valuable lesson and yes, take a look at some charts after watching the video and apply what you learned using MarketClub's Fibonacci tool.
By all means, please feel free to share your findings on the blog with your fellow members. You can leave your comments and findings just below this post.
Corn has been in an upward trend since it put in its lows at the beginning of October. From there the chart has traded a series of measured Fibonacci levels all the way into profit targets each time. Last week's correction brings us right at the next Fibonacci sequence to take a long position and stick with this trend.
For a review of the previous Fibonacci sequence that traded into profit targets we draw the Fib tool from the lows of November 19th (362.5) up to November 28th highs (393.75). With this drawn you can see the market pulled back and found support right on the 50% level and traded directly into its first and second profit targets, the -23.6% Fib level and the -61.8% Fib level. See the Chart below.
Now that the previous move has corrected we continue to draw the next series until we get to one that fails the 61.8% level. A failure happens when we get a strong close on a large time candle. An hourly close or higher is sufficient to call it a failure. Normally smaller time frames will trade back and forth around those levels so I look to larger time frames for confirmation. If a failure happens it is assumed the trend is over and the next one begins in the opposite direction.


The wedding of Roger & Marlene at Fancourt with personal and elegant details that created an intimate atmosphere.
An unexpected rain, wind and cold weather spell forced us to make us of the beautiful indoor details of Fancourt, which gave us perfect locations & shelter for striking portraits of both Roger & Marlene. Afterwards we had a chance for a quick portrait session in between a lane of trees before the reception started, which featured a bottle of Johnny Walker on each table as a personal touch!


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Switzerland and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Living in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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All consular services and visa issues are provided by the Embassy of Switzerland in China.
Travel advice for Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Switzerland and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
The SDC is supporting North Korea in its efforts to exploit sloping lands for agricultural purposes and to protect them against erosion. It promotes the health of the population by providing better access to clean drinking water and sanitation. It also distributes milk powder through the United Nations World Food Programme.
The SDC's activity in North Korea began in 1995 when it provided humanitarian aid for the population affected by the famine of the 1990s. In 1997 the SDC opened an office in Pyongyang which increasingly became involved in implementing development projects. Since the beginning of 2012 the SDC has been carrying out a purely humanitarian programme in North Korea. The aim is to improve food and income security, water supplies, waste water management and protection of the environment.
Swiss contribution on development and cooperation
Swiss Bilateral ODA
mill. CHF
Bilateral development cooperation – – –
Humanitarian aid 7.58 7.57 7.00
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)
Economic Cooperation and Development – – –
Human Security Division (HSD)
Conflict transformation and human rights – 0.08 –
Total DDC/SECO/DSH 7.58 7.65 7.00
Other Federal Offices
Network of FDFA representations abroad 0.55 0.14 ..
Total other Federal Offices 0.55 0.14 –
Swiss government spending for development and cooperation for the current year and the past two years, broken down by institution.
* planned; total based on available data
– = nil or amount < 5'000 CHF
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A start-up woodworking company will be manufacturing and selling dining room tables and chairs. The owner assumes that his prospective customers are interested in buying tables and chairs individually rather than having to buy them in pre-defined sets, as is the case with most furniture manufacturers. The following considerations apply to the company's first month of production:
>The company's objective is to maximize profit during each monthly production cycle.
>The company will earn a potential profit of $300 for each table sold and $55 for each chair sold.
>All tables and chairs manufactured during a given production period will be sold during the same production period.
>Fabrication of each table requires 8 units of wood and each chair requires 2.5 unit of wood.
>Fabrication of each table requires 25 units of fabrication labor and each chair requires 12 units of fabrication labor.
>Fabrication of each table requires 8 units of assembly labor and each chair requires 5 units of assembly labor.
>Fabrication of each table requires 10.5 units of finishing labor and each chair requires 8 units of finishing labor.
>Fabrication of each table requires 3 unit of packaging labor and each chair requires 1.5 unit of packaging labor.
>Producing partially manufactured (i.e., partially fabricated, assembled, finished and/or packaged) tables and/or chairs is acceptable during any given production period since they can be completed during the subsequent production cycle.
>For the first month of production, the owner anticipates having 1,000 units of wood, 3,000 units of fabrication labor, 2,000 units of assembly labor, 2,000 units of finishing labor and 500 units of packaging labor available.
1. The company's president has asked you to develop a linear programming model using the Excel Solver method in order to answer the following questions as part of the planning for the first month of production:
a) What is the optimal number of tables the company should produce during the upcoming production cycle?
b) What is the optimal number of chairs the company should produce during the upcoming production cycle?
c) What is the total amount of profit that the company would earn for producing the optimal number of complete tables and chairs during the upcoming production cycle (partially manufactured tables and/or chairs do not contribute to profit earned since they cannot be sold during the upcoming production cycle)?
d) Which resources will be fully used in producing the optimal number of tables and chairs during the upcoming production cycle?
2. After reviewing your recommendations based upon your original model, the president has asked you to revise your original model to include the following additional criteria:
> A minimum of 50 tables shall be produced.
> A minimum of 100 chairs shall be produced.
Use your revised model and Excel Solver to answer the following questions as part of the revised planning for the first month of production:
3. While the owner of the company was satisfied with your revised model, he decided to survey prospective customers prior to commencing production and discovered that the vast majority of his prospective customers are only interested in purchasing table and chair sets, with each set consisting of one table and four chairs. Consequently, he has requested that you revise your model to delete the requirement to produce a minimum of 50 tables and a minimum of 100 chairs, and instead include a requirement that exactly four chairs be produced for every table produced. Use your revised model and Excel Solver to answer the following questions as part of the further revised planning for the first month of production:
c) What is the total amount of profit that the company would earn for producing the optimal number of complete tables and chair sets during the upcoming production cycle (i.e., partially manufactured tables and chairs, as well as partial table and chair sets do not contribute to profit earned since they cannot be sold during the upcoming production cycle)?
e) Which resources will be fully used in producing the optimal number of tables and chairs during the upcoming production cycle?
4. During the first week of the initial production cycle a large number of the company's employees have been stricken with the flu. The owner of the company has estimated that he will now only have 2,000 units of fabrication labor, 1,500 units of assembly labor, 1,500 units of finishing labor and 300 units of packaging labor available for the first month of production. Revise your model from problem 3 to reflect the revised resource quantities Use your revised model and Excel Solver to answer the following questions as part of the further revised planning for the first month of production:
c) What is the total amount of profit that the company would earn for producing the optimal number of complete tables and chair sets during the upcoming production cycle (i.e., partially manufactured tables and chairs, and/or partial table and chair sets do not contribute to profit earned since they cannot be sold during the upcoming production cycle)?
Hints for the preceding problems:
> Do not forget to include a non-negativity constraint in your models (i.e., you cannot produce a negative number of tables or chairs).
> A given resource is fully consumed only if all of the resource has been used (i.e., if even a fraction of the resource remains unused, then the resource has not been fully consumed).
> You do not need to create a separate variable to represent a table and chair set for problem 3 and 4. Instead, create a simple algebraic equation using only the two variables that represent the number of tables to be produced and the number of chairs to be produced that describes the exact ratio in which tables and chairs must be manufactured to produce complete sets.
> Do not forget to account for the constraint requiring that you produce a specific minimum number of table and chair sets in problems 3 and 4.
> Do not overlook the stipulation that only complete tables and/or chairs contribute to earned profit in problems 1 and 2.
> Do not overlook the stipulations that only complete table and chairs sets contribute to earned profit in problems 3 and 4.
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The firm is one of the most prominent in Israel in the telecom and media sector, and our department is consistently ranked in the top tiers in both local and foreign ranking directories.
The firm's clients in the communications sector include many of the largest and renown companies in communications and media in Israel, including "yes", Bezeq, Partner, the investigative television program "Uvda" ("Fact"), various production companies, a regional radio station, and more.
The department has unique knowledge of, and experience with, the various regulations in the communications sector and, inter alia, provides its clients with the following services:
Ongoing representation before government ministries and various regulatory agencies, including the Ministry of Communications, the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Council, and the Second Authority for Television and Radio.
Representation in public hearings and legislative proceedings in Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) committees.
Representation in a range of legal proceedings with complex regulatory aspects, including class actions, administrative petitions and petitions to the High Court of Justice.
Advice on commercial contracts in merger and acquisition transactions.
In addition, the department provides its clients with ongoing legal advice on issues as they pertain specifically to the media and communication sector, such as copyright, privacy, IT and the Internet, consumer protection and defamation. The department also advises its clients in the drafting and negotiating of commercial agreements associated with these aspects.
The department provides its clients in the communications, high-tech and retail arenas legal advice in respect of protection of privacy and management of databases, including information processing and segmentation, privacy in the workplace, registration of databases and transfer of information outside of Israel. The department assists its clients in the formulation and implementation of privacy policies in various services, and in the development of new services in accordance with privacy protection regulations. Furthermore, the department represents its clients before the relevant regulatory authorities in the field of privacy protection.
Representation of Bezeq The Israel Telecommunications Corporation, the leading telecommunication group in Israel, in various legal matters, including class actions
Representation of D.B.S. Satellite Services (aka YES), a leading satellite TV and IPTV provider, in various legal and regulatory matters, including class actions
Representation of various communication and media companies in matters of privacy & data protection
Provision of ongoing legal advice to "Uvda" ("Fact"), the leading investigative and current affairs TV program
Representation of D.B.S. Satellite Services (aka YES) in the development and launch of a TV service over the Internet – STINGTV
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"Price discrimination in favor of negotiating customers and new customers is desirable and contributes to the competition." In that, the Tel Aviv District Court rejected ten different applications for class action lawsuits against the cellular, internet, cable and satellite companies, two of which against yes, alleging prohibited discrimination. The court has adopted in its verdict the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Counsil's position as was expressed in the hearing conducted to yes and HOT. Yes was represented by Giora Erdinast, Head of Litigation Department, Hadas Bekel, Co-Manager of the Telecom & Media Department, Partner Gil Levkovitz and Associates Almog Gil-Or and Dar Raguan. Read the articles in the Economic Press >> http://bit.ly/2REVrxp; http://bit.ly/2E78m3a; http://bit.ly/2t3sEsk
At the recommendation of the Supreme Court judges, Cellcom has withdrawn an appeal filed against the District Court ruling, in which the District Court rejected a 34 million NIS lawsuit filed against Bezeq.
In a claim heard in the District Court, Cellcom demanded that Bezeq pay its interconnect fees for sending SMS messages from Bezeq to Cellcom subscribers at a price set in a 2004 agreement, even though this price was thousands percent higher than the price Cellcom charges from the other communication operators.
The District Court rejected Cellcom's claim, due to the unreasonable and discriminatory price demanded by Cellcom, which harms free competition and therefore the public.
Cellcom appealed to the Supreme Court. During the hearing, after listening to its arguments, the Court recommended that Cellcom withdraw its appeal.
Bezeq was represented in these proceedings by attorneys Giora Erdinast, Nir Amodai, Modi Sherpsky and Almog Gil-Or from our firm.
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Our firm represented Israel Electric Corporation as shareholder in the optical fibers project IBC, in a transaction in which Cellcom will purchase the stake of other shareholders in the project for a total consideration of approximately ILS100 million, which shall also be used to repayment of debts to the exiting shareholders. Upon closing of the transaction, Cellcom will hold 70% of the project (alone or with a group of investors) and IEC will hold 30%.
The project is meant to allow deployment of optical fibers on top of IEC's electrical grid, allowing it to become a competitive factor in the fiber internet market.
IEC is represented by Adv. Yoav Dankner and Adv. Irina (Iris) Kushel.
For coverage in Globes –https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001247981
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We are proud to be continuously recognized for the excellence of our work! This year, once again, the Israeli rating guide BDI ranked 18 of our firm's departments as leaders in their practice areas, 11 of them in the Elite Group (Tier 1): Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Hi-Tech, Energy & Infrastructure, Commercial, International Commercial, Class Actions, Communications, Project Finance, Libel and Administrative. In addition, the guide ranked our firm as a leader in the following practice areas: Antitrust, Labor Law, Debt Arrangements, Real Estate, Liquidation and Receivership, Capital Markets and Banking.
EBN has represented leading private equity fund, Permira, in the acquisition of Cisco's (NASDAQ:CSCO) Israeli business, as part of a worldwide acquisition of Cisco's Service Provider Video Software Solutions (SPVSS) business.
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Our firm was ranked as one of the leading Israeli law firms, by the prestigious international ranking guide Chambers Global, in nine areas of expertise: Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Projects and Energy, Restructuring & Insolvency, Competition & Antitrust, Telecoms, Media, and Communications (Commercial and Regulation), Class Actions, and Employment Law.
In addition, ten of our partners were highlighted as leaders in their fields: Giora Erdinast (Litigation, Class Actions, Competition and Antitrust), Doni Toledano (M&A and Banking), Uri Noy (Projects and Energy), Roy Caner (Technology, Media, and Communications – Commercial), Miriam Kleinberger-Attar (Employment Law), Nir Amodai (Class Actions), Ran Sprinzak (Litigation and Class Actions), Dan Sella (Banking), Michal Rothschild (Competition and Antitrust), Modi Sherpsky (Technology, Media, and Communications – Regulations).
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Dun and Bradstreet's Dun's 100 rankings recognizes Erdinast, Ben Nathan, Toledano & Co. among the leading Israeli law firms in the following twelve practice areas: litigation, class actions, M&A, hi-tech, investment funds, energy and project finance, telecommunications, cross border transactions, administrative law, competition, labor law and real estate.


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What exactly is AI Art, and how does it differ from other computer generated artwork?
What are the pros and cons of original AI Art versus other options for home decorating?
What kind of art styles do you currently sell? What other styles are you thinking about?
How long have AI systems been around that can do this type of work?
Have there been any big ticket AI generated art sales at galleries?
Technically speaking – how does it actually work?
When you say that the AI system learns – what does that look like in practice – can you give an example of how a poorly trained artist "matures" into a better artist?
Does AI art look pixelated / what resolution is it printed at?
How long does it take for art to arrive?
How do you come up with the names for your artwork?
Can you do custom requests for materials / color / finishing?
Do you offer any discounts / promotions to pricing?
How does AI Art change the relationship with human artists?
How do you gather source material? Can it learn any artwork?
What are the biggest limitations?
Over the last few years, there has been a real explosion in the field of artificial intelligence. A lot of it has been driven by increased computing power, but also various 'small' discoveries and enhancements which made AI perform a lot better. These neural networks, to grossly oversimplify, allow computers to figure out their own solutions to problems.
In the case of AI Art, we're asking an AI system to create an image that resembles impressionist scenery, renaissance portraits, abstract art, etc, using only random numbers as an input. With enough training and examples, they figure out how to create that content.
A lot of computer-generated artwork of the past relied on computer artists and 3D modelers using software to manually place objects in scenes and render them. Or in some cases just smart programmers making algorithms that could draw very complex patterns. These approaches give a lot of control, but ultimately a human had to tell the machine precisely what to do, in order to get a result.
With AI, a human is still involved a bit, but ultimately the machine figures it out, without needing a human to tell it all the steps.
I'd say the biggest benefit is originality and cost. Every piece is one of a kind, so the piece that you put in your home is quite literally the only copy that will ever exist. I think that's such a cool feeling to have – your very own private collection of art.
And because it's machine-generated the costs are very reasonable. We can provide a 3-foot x 3-foot wood-framed canvas typically below $400 (including delivery), whereas original paintings of that size are easily pricing at $2,000 to start and go up from there.
The biggest drawback is probably tied to texture – with an authentic oil painting for example having depth to the brush strokes or an abstract artist that uses yarn, plaster, or other unusual materials to create their work – we aren't able to replicate that (yet). However, the canvas itself is textured, which looks quite nice, and we think an "original" print hands down beats a print that's been made thousands of times – like the prints you might buy in a store or other mass-produced art sites.
We currently have 6 major collections, including Impressionist Landscapes, Impressionist Portraits, Retro Abstracts, Moderna Abstracts, a new abstract collection called Windstrokes, along with a photorealism gallery called 'the Alleys of Old Europe'. We're always looking for new content, so I think there will be new releases over time within those existing collections, but there are some new AI models that might be better suited to "surrealism" or even more wildly 'unique' runs.
The earliest AI system doing this type of work was created by Ian Goodfellow in 2014. The network he devised was called a generative adversarial network, in which one network learns to create images to fool another network designed to detect fakes – over time the generator gets very good at making new content because both networks battle against each other and must get continuously better.
My memory may be hazy, but at the time I believe it was able to generate black and white text that was 64 pixels by 64 pixels. Since then, a lot of advances have been made – partly from just brute force computing power, but also from the more intelligent network design.
Yes, very big-ticket. In late 2018, an AI-generated portrait titled Edmond de Belamy was sold for $432,500. It was kind of unique in that it was the 'first' AI artwork ever auctioned at a prestigious gallery like Christie's. Who knows how the market develops over time – but there could be ways that AI art appreciates significantly, especially as works that are created by studying rare private content – artists trained on that material could be a lot more unique in their generation capabilities.
Without getting too technical, what you do is create two AI networks. One network gets rewarded whenever it can detect an image as being "fake" out of a sample of images that are a mix of "fake" and "real" artwork. A second network is rewarded whenever it creates a fake artwork that successfully fools the first network.
When you make these networks play millions of games against each other, the generator network gets very good at creating artwork that has the colors, style, and features of the subject matter. We can then use that generator network to create new images.
Sure – so to be clear you don't have an AI artist making brushstrokes on a screen – it is maybe better described as the machine 'hallucinating' an image all at once. So with no training at all, the machine is making colorful blurry noise. As it practices a few thousand tries becomes better-defined noise. Let it train a hundred thousand more times and you can start to see a coastline with a clear break between water and the sky.
As you start to get to a million attempts, the machine starts to create water and sky patterns, with some foliage and grass, and some reflections – although the reflections are inaccurate. Lastly, you can see below it decided to drop the orange-colored forests and focus on more highly defined living and dead trees on the coast. In addition, the water reflections and ripples become much more subtle and accurate, versus the sky which retains large pillowy clouds.
In theory, you can keep letting it train forever, and keep adding new materials to further bolster its capabilities.
All of our content is at least 300 DPI, which means that all the detail of a 1200 pixel image (shown below, some grass from Meadow One) is printed into a 4-inch x 4-inch piece of canvas. On some of the smaller size frame options, that gets printed into an even smaller space. So you won't see any jagged pixels in the print at all.
Sometimes the AI artist may pick up certain styles which have different levels of detail. Just like a handcrafted piece of furniture, we kind of look at those as the natural variation of the artist and its style. So you can see below the rocks and grass from a piece called "Cliffs in the Distance" where the artist transitions between a smoother style on the right-hand side, to one with more granularity at the top and left.
It looks great, and remains extremely high-resolution, but is just a natural transition from a softer 'stroke' to a harder 'stroke' in the image.
Our fastest time for an order to deliver was 4 business days to Western Canada. But we typically suggest budgeting for 5-10 business days – it takes time to produce the work, frame it, ship it, and on the ground logistics in big cities can always take a little longer. Our view is that art typically isn't an impulse next-day purchase so that delivery time is pretty reasonable – but if faster shipping is desired, we can certainly coordinate it if you reach out in advance.
It's a hybrid approach – some of the art is easy enough to name based on the content, and we've used that for most of the impressionist landscapes collection. But for the portraits collection, we actually built another AI system that was trained to look at medieval and renaissance names – and come up with its own names for the art – so both the artwork and the name of the person featured are entirely AI-generated.
Similarly, for the Alleys of Old Europe collection, we fed an AI naming system a list of towns in Europe, and it was able to invent new town names that sounded "old school European" but that to the best of our knowledge don't actually exist. I think over time we trend toward fully automated naming because it saves time, and builds on the AI-generated art theme.
Absolutely – for art with portrait/landscape/square dimensions, we have a good selection of sizes available, but can certainly entertain alternate dimensions with the same aspect ratio if you reach out in advance. Alternate finishing options, like acrylics or metallic, could be arranged as well, although they add a bit to the cost.
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Some artists understandably might see the evolution of AI-generated artwork as threatening, given the power of these machines will continue to grow, and the technology advances. But we think there are very unique collaborative options available as well. For example, in the future, an artist might paint several works of art as a starting point, then have an AI system study their work, and generate brand new "originals" in the artist's own hallmark style.
So the artist could produce a lot of completely original prints in the same style as their physical work. Similarly, we could imagine an artist using an AI system to brainstorm 'sketched' content, from which a human artist could then use as a starting point for a new original oil painting. So I think there is a lot of opportunities for humans to use these systems as tools to supplement their own work.
AI systems can learn to produce anything as long as you have enough examples of material for it to learn on. There are lots of neat examples where GANs have been trained on thousands of human faces to create new, photorealistic people that don't exist. We tend to gather a lot of content from the internet but are branching out into sourcing original new content for training which is harder to replicate and provides a unique and differentiated style.
AI systems are very good at learning what they've seen – but aren't so good yet at imagining outside-the-box content. So you won't get an AI system that can paint impressionist style sportscars just because it can do impressionist style landscapes. These systems also take a lot of computing power and there is quite a bit of human effort in curating the content they learn from – so you want to be sure the content is of good quality and has enough variety to allow the system to generate interesting outcomes.
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Spreading the story about butter - how Cork's Butter Museum is bringing a 'uniquely Irish story' to an international audience
Cork Butter Museum is located in the Shandon district close to the former Cork Butter Exchange which prospered in the 1700s and 1800s. Photo: Roland Paschhoff
Anna Hosford viewing the display of milk churns at the Butter Museum. Ms Hosford is a grandaughter of Con Murphy of C. Murphy and Son Ltd, the Cork butter blenders.
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Museum director Peter Foyne
The museum exhibits include long-defunct brands which were once big players in the global butter trade
Clover Queen butter; this orange coloured cooking butter was produced in Cork for the Caribbean market. It was discontinued in 2001, ending a butter rading connection between Cork city and the West Indies that had existed since the 1690s
Declan O'Brien
August 5 2017 16:00 PM
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Ireland's dairy sector delivered export earnings of close to €3.4bn last year; an impressive performance, and one which vindicated the faith placed in the industry by the architects of the Food Harvest 2020 expansion plan.
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However, this is not the first time that dairying has played a crucial role in the country's rural economy.
From the early medieval period, dairy herds and their produce were the country's primary economic drivers.
Indeed, the Gaelic lords and the more Gaelicised Anglo-Norman barons measured their wealth by the number of cows they owned up to the early 1600s, while two centuries later the Cork Butter Exchange became a major hub for the international butter trade.
The fascinating story of this long association with dairying, and the economic activity it spawned, is skilfully told by the Butter Museum in Cork
Located in the historic Shandon area of the city, the museum details the dairy cow's importance in early Christian and Gaelic Ireland, and goes on to outline the international significance of the nearby Butter Exchange of the 1700s and 1800s.
In addition, it demonstrates and explains the traditional craft of home butter-making, and examines the importance of the creamery in early 20th century rural society, before tracing the ground-breaking success of the Kerrygold brand.
In the course of this story, the commercial, social and domestic life of rural Ireland is recalled.
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The museum has been in existence since 1997 and is currently headed up by Peter Foynes. A history and English graduate from UCC, Peter recently completed a graduate diploma in heritage interpretation at the University of Leicester.
He is clear on the role and importance of the museum: "Our function is to help keep the heritage of the country's dairy industry alive and to illustrate the importance of butter to the economic development of rural Ireland."
This mission statement explains the museum's involvement in four scholarly publications on the dairy industry - including the excellent 'Butter in Ireland - From Earliest Times to the 21st Century' - and two oral history projects, on the 50th anniversary of the Irish Dairy Board and the Munster Institute.
In addition, the museum is currently involved in developing an innovative schools project built around the history of butter-making.
However, it is a working museum first and foremost that attracts around 16,000 visitors each year.
Given that the exhibits and content are predominantly of Irish interest, it is somewhat surprising that just a quarter of visitors are Irish. A further 40pc are European - mainly French and German - with 20pc coming from Britain, and the remaining 15pc from North America.
Described by the New York Times as "engaging and multi-faceted", the Butter Museum tells a uniquely Irish story to an international audience.
Traditional butter-making equipment such as churns are a key element of the museum's displays. There are also examples of the firkins or wooden casks used to export butter from the Butter Exchange in Cork during the 18th and 19th centuries.
The development of the dairy sector in the 20th century is also explored, and the story is brought completely up to date with an informative audio-visual presentation on the industry since the early 1960s.
A display which invariably sparks interest is the extensive range of local creamery butter wrappers from the 1950s, '60s and '70s.
This includes wrappers from creameries that have long since closed as independent entities such as Black Abbey Creamery in Adare, Co Limerick or Castlelyons Creamery in east Cork. Also on display are wrappers from Caherciveen in Kerry, Drumcliffe in Sligo, Ballieborough, Co Cavan, and all creameries in between.
Away from the modern, the museum deals with the Irish practice of preserving butter in bogs, and uses a keg of thousand-year-old butter as the centrepiece of a display on food and society in medieval Ireland.
A central aspect of the museum is the growth of the Butter Exchange in Cork, the international trade this institution controlled, and the 'butter roads' which developed to supply this foreign demand.
The museum displays explain the importance of the Butter Exchange and the novel role it played in establishing Irish butter as a global brand in the 19th century.
Obviously, the recent growth in dairy exports has a historical precedent.
Enhancing the visitor experience
The Butter Museum is aptly located beside the impressive entrance to the old Cork Butter Exchange. Although the buildings date from the mid-19th century, the exchange was established in 1769 to regulate the burgeoning butter business out of Cork port.
Exports of butter out of Ireland had been steadily increasing from the late 1600s, but had grown significantly during the economic boom of the 18th century.
Dairy produce provided much of the Gaelic diet and 17th century sources talk of people producing an array of sweet, sour, thick and thin drinks from milk.
In addition, salted and unsalted butters were a staple food, as well as a variety of cheeses. In fact, the English visitor, John Stevens, described the Irish in 1690 as "the greatest lovers of milk" he ever saw.
As the 18th century progressed, dairy farming became increasingly prevalent in Munster, with the primary produce being butter for export. This was transported to Cork in 56lb barrels called firkins.
The trade out of Cork was controlled by the Butter Exchange which was run by a Committee of Merchants. The members of this body undertook not to engage in the shipment of butter unless it had been publicly inspected, graded and branded.
This code of regulations was enforced by means of fines and possible expulsion form the trade where necessary.
"The Cork merchants were the first people in the modern period to grade food before selling it," museum director Peter Foynes points out.
Their efforts ensured that Cork butter was Ireland's first global brand. By the early decades of the 1800s the Exchange virtually monopolised the butter trade with the West Indies and Brazil, with Cork butter also developing lucrative markets in Britain and Australia.
It was supplied by more than 70,000 farmers and sales totalled around 400,000 firkins a year, valued at around €1.5m in 1875.
However, the development of the mechanical milk separator in 1879 heralded the beginning of the end for the Cork Butter Exchange.
The variable nature of Irish hand-made butter was no match for the consistent quality of Danish creamery product, and Irish exporters steadily lost market share on the vital British market. The seasonality of Irish supplies was a further problem.
The Cork Butter Exchange continued into the 20th century but was overtaken by developments in the industry - such as the development of the co-operative creameries and the continued fall-off in exports to Britain - and finally closed in 1924.
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What are the attributes of the most effective telephone scams?
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Users Really Do Answer Telephone Scams
Telephone fraud is a significant and growing problem. Decreasing costs and automation have made the telephone an attractive medium for disseminating unsolicited information. Telephone phishing can be more convincing than other forms of fraud because it presents an enticing harmony of both visual and audible cues. In the midst of concerns with telephone scams, however, it remains unclear why people fall for them and how to combat the problem.
Tu et al. ran a telephone phishing experiment on a university campus. Researchers reviewed more than 150 real-world telephone scam samples to identify their main attributes. They then tested variations of those attributes on a population of 3,000 Arizona State University staff and faculty to assess their individual effectiveness. Contacts were randomly chosen from the university telephone directory, and then evenly separated into 10 experiment groups. Participants were called on their work phone with a pre-recorded message, according to one of ten sets of specific experimental characteristics. They were then prompted to enter the last four digits of their Social Security number. This led to a debriefing announcement and a survey asking if they had been convinced by the scam. The experiment was carefully designed in collaboration with the university's Institutional Review Board because of its involuntary participation.
Impersonating an internal entity was the attribute most linked to attack success. The experiment where participants were shown a caller ID displaying a faked internal department name was the most effective, with 10 percent (31/300) of recipients entering the last digits of their Social Security number. Manipulating the area code also had a small but noticeable impact on attack success. On the contrary, manipulating the type of motivation, voice production, voice accent and caller name did not result in a higher success rate. Across all 10 experimental groups, 5 percent of participants (148/3000) entered at least a digit when requested to enter their Social Security information. To account for the possibility of recipients entering a fake Social Security number, the authors removed the participants who subsequently stated that they were unconvinced by the scam during the survey process.
ID spoofing is a very effective feature in telephone scams. Given the success of impersonation techniques, scam prevention efforts should prioritize impersonation countermeasures. Technical solutions such as caller ID authentication are recommended to provide users with early impersonation warnings. Feedback from survey participants indicates that vigilance was an important reason for not falling for a scam. Education and awareness campaigns are thus also recommended as scam countermeasures.
ID spoofing is a very effective feature in telephone scams. Prevention efforts should accordingly prioritize impersonation countermeasures.
Tu, H., Doupé, A., Zhao, Z., & Ahn, G. J. (2019). Users really do answer telephone scams. In 28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 19) (pp. 1327-1340).
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Le Trophée NHK (en anglais : NHK Trophy) est une compétition internationale de patinage artistique qui se déroule au Japon au cours de l'automne. Il accueille des patineurs amateurs de niveau senior dans quatre catégories: simple messieurs, simple dames, couple artistique et danse sur glace.

Le trente-deuxième Trophée NHK est organisé du 21 au  au Nippon Gaishi Hall de Nagoya. Il est la première compétition du Grand Prix ISU senior de la saison 2010/2011.

Résultats

Messieurs

Dames

Couples

Danse sur glace

Sources
 Résultats du Trophée NHK 2010 sur le site de l'ISU
 Patinage Magazine N°124 (Novembre/)

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Compétition de patinage artistique au Japon
Sport au Japon en 2010
Événement sportif à Nagoya
Sport en octobre 2010
Patinage artistique en 2010


Tallinn to Helsinki ferry : Our Helsinki day trip from Tallinn and guide.
Whilst staying in the stunning fairytale city of Tallinn in Estonia we couldn't not notice the city's proximity to Helsinki, the Finnish capital. Knowing how expensive Scandinavia is compared to the region of Eastern Europe we had been travelling within for 4 months we took the opportunity to head over for the first time on the Tallinn to Helsinki ferry. This was an opportunity for us to visit a country we would otherwise struggle to afford and have a day in a completely different culture that we had experienced before!
Here's how to take a day trip to Helsinki from Tallinn and information on taking the Tallinn to Helsinki ferry.
After 2.5 hours on the Tallinn to Helsinki ferry what is one of the first things we went and did…got on another ferry!! This time a smaller and more picturesque local boat that look us around the many tiny islands off the coast of the capital. The main attraction here however is the group of 6 inhabited islands that make up this historic sea fortress of Suomenlinna. This UNESCO world heritage site is both a historic location spanning hundreds of years of the defence of this land as well as a stunning beach lined example of wild nature right of the shores of the capital.
In 1748 the Swedish crown used these islands as a defence against Russian expansion and the construction of the fortifications began. However for a brief period before the Crimean war Russia did take these islands of strategic importance. Turned over to a civilian administration in 1973 it became part of the capital city but with its own independent government systems. The unique nature of these islands means that they both house the historic structures as well as a what could be described as a "village within the city" where around 900 permanent inhabitants. The relatively under developed islands allow natural wildlife to blossom, quaint beaches to be beautifully unspoilt and the wild landscape to remain as charming and peaceful as ever.
To visit take the small ferry from the port near the main market square. There are several ferry trips available around the various islands so make sure to check which one you will get getting on.
Depending on the time of year ferries run between 1 and 4 times an hour. The up to date timetables will be available on the docks by the ferry so remember to check them before you set off and keep in mind the last ferry. The crossing takes around 20 minutes and costs roughly 7 Euros for a return ticket.
If you are doing a day trip between the two cities via the Tallinn to Helsinki ferry then be sure to head over here early and in the summer month, then you have plenty of time to explore.
The Temppeliaukio Church is one of the most unique in the world and quite a strange and surreal place to explore. Built directly into solid rock, carved out into a cave like construction almost hidden within the rocks. Known by most as the Church of the Rock this Lutheran church just represents one of the many factions of Christianity that exist in Finland due to its unique cultural and geographic position. Built in 1969 the natural and virtually unworked rock surfaces create extraordinary acoustics and for us as climbers, a surface almost teasing us!! The underground church has an atmosphere all of its own and is bathed in sunlight through the stunning central copper dome. It was one of the quirkiest sights in Helsinki and one reason paying the relatively steep Tallinn to Helsinki ferry price was well worth it!
Another example of the cultural influences of the surrounding countries of Finland over the years, this striking cathedral wouldn't look out of place in Red Square. The Eastern Orthodox cathedral which was consecrated in 1868 represents the era of the Russian Empire within Finland and is reputed to be the largest Eastern Orthodox church in Western Europe. Upon our entrance to this immaculately and predictably colourful and decorated cathedral we stumbled upon an orthodox wedding. Of course, we have no photos from this unique ceremony but it was interesting have this insight into this culture!
Known as St. Nicholas' Church until the independence of Finland in 1917 it was built as a tribute to the Grand Duke of Finland, Tsar Nicholas I of Russia from 1830-1852. It is probably Helsinki's and Finland's most iconic and well known landmark serving as a central location, meeting point and the finale of the senate square layout and design. The distinctive green domes are built in a neoclassical style and cuts a dramatic image with its bright white exterior. It was one of the main reasons we took the Tallinn to Helsinki ferry as we had always wanted to see this landmark.
The cathedral sits in Senate Square, the oldest and most historic area of central Helsinki and is made up of many iconic buildings, not only the cathedral, but Government Palace, university buildings and Sederholm house. Many of these buildings gate back from around 1757.
The large area around the smaller harbour of Helsinki is a bustling market place where people come to meet, eat and be merry. With stalls, some one the water itself, selling fresh products, mostly fruit, veg and sea food. There are then others that sell amazing cooked food, the local delicacies creating a wonderful aroma surrounding the square where you can sit back with a cold beer and enjoy the picturesque and energetic scene.
History also surrounds this square with my statues and fountains telling the story of the city. However it is the striped brick Old Market hall. This striking building has continually served customers cheese, fish, vegetables, spices and tea since 1889 and still sells the best the cities markets have to offer to this day.
Travelling over from beautiful Tallinn to Helsinki/ How to get to or from Estonia to Finland on the Tallinn to Helsinki ferry!
Getting to Helsinki from Estonia, and back on the Tallinn to Helsinki ferry, is easy and straight forward. Both cities have large harbours set up for commercial tourist use and include large and easy to navigate terminals. However, Helsinki for one has a number of harbours which are served by different ferry companies and in Tallinn there are docks spread over a large area. So do double check when you take the Tallinn to Helsinki ferry.
We booked our Tallinn to Helsinki ferry return tickets a day or so before we intended to travel via DirectFerries.com and they cost around £50-£70 for a return trip each. It isn't the cheapest way to spend a day that is for sure and we even took over a packed lunch!
The Tallinn to Helsinki ferry crossing takes between 2 hours and 3.5 hours, for some reason our return journey seemed to take over and hour and a half longer! But we had entertainment in the form of a band and a clown, bars, restaurants and even a "disco", supermarket and rooms people paid a fortune for on such a short journey!! This made for one of the most surreal experiences on our entire trip, it was like a really weird and dated cruise! It was however a comfortable journey and was a humorous was to pass the time on the Tallinn to Helsinki ferry!
Helsinki it turns out was a fascinating city full of wonders both natural, historical and cultural. We very much enjoyed heading back over to Western Europe and into a region we had never visited before. However we must say that despite having a great day in Helsinki we in fact preferred Tallinn and felt it was much more beautiful and admit to also being partly put off by the crazy expenses in Finland. However we really would love to come back to Finland and explore the country further, especially in the north where we would love to do on of the the incredible Scandinavian Tours in the future to see the real beautiful of this region.
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I love Scandinavia but they are expensive to visit. I'm impressed you managed Helsinki in a day! I feel like there's so much to see there though, did your brief trip make you want to go back and stay at least one night? It's funny, coming from NZ where the rest of the world is bloody miles away, I marvel at how in Europe you can just pop over to another country for a day.
Yes, so expensive, that is why we just spent the day there. The ferry from Tallinn only takes a couple of hours. We just came and went in one day, too expensive to stay over! Tallinn is much cheaper and actually somewhere we thought was nicer. We would like to see other areas of Finland but we found Helsinki to just be ok!
I love Suomenlinna! I actually stayed in a hostel on Suomenlinna while I was in Helsinki, and then I took the ferry to Tallinn for a day. Now I want to go back!
This was the best bit of the day for us, such a cool place, would have stayed on there for sure.
Yes, such a unique place it really is quite cool and well worth visiting!


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