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Jacqueline Carboni, NMD
Like all biological molecules, hormones are dependent on enzymes and their vitamin and mineral cofactors for activation and synthesis, and are often modified or regulated within conjugation pathways in the liver. Unfortunately, with modern technology has come the destruction of most enzymes and vitamins in food and liquids, particularly milk, which are subject to the high temperatures of pasteurization methods.
Hormone research has been the lure of private enterprise to make products faster, bigger and to have a longer shelf-life. Often, label information has been suppressed and inadequate research has been overlooked by lax FDA officials since the approval of recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST), or recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH). Since the 1950s, a handful of dairy corporations have succeeded in monopolizing the dairy industry, with increasing inhumane handling of their livestock. The FDA approved rBST in 1993 and as of 1999, rBST was in use in 30% of the dairy industry (Fetrow, 1999). However due to consumer pressure, a U.S. Department of Agriculture survey in 2007 determined that only about 15% of dairy farms used rBST and 17% of cows were injected. That's down from 22% of cows in 2002. Large farms are far more likely to use rBST than small farms (Fox, 2008). A list of statewide dairy farms not using rBST is available online (www.sierraclub.org/biotech/NonrBGH.asp).
While rBST is a serious threat, other hormones are used during growth and development in factory farm animals. Two-thirds of American beef cattle raised today are injected with hormones. Serious health concerns associated with hormonal compounds used as growth promotants are their carcinogenic and endocrine-disrupting potentials. Some of the hormones of concern that are used in cattle are the natural hormones estradiol, progesterone and testosterone, and the synthetic hormones zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate (Chemical Review, 2003).
Confined Animal Feeding Operations
A large Confined Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) for dairy comprises up to 700 cows crammed in stalls with their tails cut off. They stand in their manure, which is captured underneath or in open-air lagoons where it is held as a liquid manure system and which creates excessive air, water and soil pollution. Toxic waste containing antibiotics, hormones and other chemicals concentrate in these lagoons. Leachate of pesticides, antibiotics, hormones and nitrogenous compounds pollute the groundwater and end up in human water supply for consumption and agricultural irrigation. Hormonally sensitive aquatic life is poisoned by runoff, which pollutes rivers, lakes and oceans.
Methane gas produced by the degradation of waste is 20 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than CO2 (US EPA, 2007). This unsustainable human activity and indiscriminate pharmacological dosing of genetically-engineered hormone (rBST); hormonally active agents, including approved drugs for cows and pesticide- and herbicide-laden feed; and prophylactic use of antibiotics has impacted the hormone integrity and balance in all living species. Far-reaching effects of irreparable damage that have contributed substantially to both environmental and healthcare costs have outweighed the excuses of their economic efficiency in mass food production (Horrigan, 2002).
Industrial agriculture and animal husbandry have produced food products from plants and livestock that contain limited biodiversity and are fraught with chemicals and genetically-engineered proteins and hormones. Among factory-farmed livestock, few breeds dominate the bovine, sheep and pig herds. CAFOs are the source of breeds of animals that are chronically ill and administered continuous low doses of antibiotics and hormones to accelerate growth. Dairy cows are injected with genetically engineered growth hormone to increase milk production; never pastured; fed the cheapest grains, animal waste products and toxic metals to accelerate weight gain; and raised in crowded conditions where they stand in their waste (Li et al., 2005; www.sustainabletable.org).
Pharmacological use of somatostatin increases milk supply 10%-20% at the cost of shortened lifespan, hoof disease, open sores and internal bleeding for the livestock. Due to excessive milk production, the lactating cows become malnourished and their painfully swollen and bleeding udders readily become infected. The milk produced can be laced with bacteria and blood.
Unhealthy Livestock, Unhealthy People
As a clinician and educator, my interest in the impact on obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer has stimulated my research into these conditions and their relationship with the use of dairy foods.
What I have found is a compelling correlation between unhealthy cows and unhealthy people. In my naturopathic studies, food allergies, lectins (Cordain et al., 2000) and lack of lactose enzyme have been assigned as the major culprits associated with excess insulin production and gluconeogenic stress hormone activity, resulting in inflammation and fat accumulation. Although justified, the ordinary components of milk cannot be the only cause.
A closer look at the hormonal impact will corroborate my findings.
Dairy food production over the past century has led to widespread environmental damage. Mass-produced milk has been depleted of essential fatty acids, contains excess amounts of cholesterol and saturated fats, residues of antibiotics, artificial growth hormone and IGF, and hormonally active agents from agricultural industry (Haapapuro, 1997).
The use of breeding, feeding inputs and new technology has led to a quadrupling of the average amount of milk produced per dairy cow between 1950 and 2005. The presence of higher levels of growth hormone and IGF in food consumed on a regular basis has far-reaching effects in humans.
Growth hormone activity has direct effects on target cells. Adipocytes have growth hormone receptors that when stimulated promote the breakdown of triglyercerides and suppress the uptake of circulating lipids. The indirect effect of growth hormone is the response of the liver and other tissues to make IGF.
Long-term effects of exposure to growth hormone induces an increased sensitivity of adipocytes to insulin (Lonnroth et al., 1987). Growth hormone and IGF are increased in milk of rBST-injected cows (Hansen, 1997).
In addition, the increase in stature among recent generations of children, along with early menstruation and the correlation with increased risk of breast cancer, are the result of increased exposure to growth hormone, IGF and other trophic hormones from meat and dairy consumption (Uauy and Solomons, 2005).
Prolonged dosing of growth hormone appears to have an opposite effect on lipolysis by its effect on receptor sites for IGF. It has been demonstrated that prolonged exposure to growth hormone and IGF downregulates the sensitivity to insulin, subsequently causing the cell to produce daughter cells with increased numbers of receptor sites and thereby increasing both the uptake of glucose and fat synthesis (Lonnroth et al., 1987).
IGF and insulin are equivalent in their potency to promote the uptake of glucose by fat cells and stimulate production of adipocytes. IGF is a potent regulator of clonal expansion in 3T3-L1 preadipocytes (Siddals et al., 2002).
Adipocytes are endocrine cells that secrete a broad range of hormones, cytokines and growth factors involved in cell turnover and inflammation. The impact of chronic and increased levels of growth hormone and IGF has been demonstrated in vascular diseases from atherosclerosis, hypertension and diabetes to angiogenesis in cancer (Delafontaine et al., 2004; Chan et al., 1998; Baur et al., 2006).
Milk from cows given rBST to stimulate milk production is more immunogenic by virtue of the difference of one N-terminal amino acid on the modified growth hormone (Erhard et al., 1994). In addition, rBST-treated cows have increased IGF-1 concentrations up to double that of non-treated cows (Hansen et al., 1997).
These hormones survive pasteurization and digestive acids and enzymes in humans. In fact, the FDA admitted that BGH-treated milk does not get destroyed during pasteurization, but actually increases in concentration (Prosser, 1988, 1989; Mepham, 1992). A Harvard Medical School cross-sectional study of 1037 healthy women published in 2002 found that the association of higher dairy intake with higher IGF-1 levels was particularly consistent. These results raise the possibility that milk consumption could influence the risk of cancer by a mechanism involving IGF-1. Additionally, positive associations between milk intake and risk of prostate cancer have been reported (Holmes et al., 2002).
Studies have shown that calorie-restricted diets high in calcium induce liploysis and maintain thermogenic effects, which fosters acceleration of weight loss. There is evidence that vitamin D-fortified milk may have an opposite effect. Increased levels of active vitamin D, calcitriol, have the direct effect of an increased influx of calcium into the adipose cells, which stimulates adipose cell size and fat accumulation by lipolysis suppression (Zemel, 2003).
Fatty Acids, CLA and Vitamins
What is missing in milk from CAFO is just as important as what is in it.
Milk from pasture-fed cows contains more fatty acid content than factory-farmed cows, and steak from grass-fed cattle is almost always lower in total fat and higher in fatty acids (Clancy, 2006). A close look at milk labels reveals an interesting incrimination to commercial milk products and even milk products from cows fed organic grains. The 9g of fat content in whole milk from conventional and organic grain-fed cows contains 100% saturated fat and 35mg of cholesterol per 8 ounces, which equals 50% of the caloric value per serving. Compare this to milk labels of grass-fed, pastured cows: 9g total fat content, but only 5g saturated fat and 20-30mg of cholesterol, providing 27% saturated fat per 8oz serving.
Those four grams of unsaturated fat are a combination of omega-6 and -3 fatty acids, with a ratio of 2:1 per serving. The conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) portion of the omega-6 ratio of unsaturated essential fatty acid content varies with the time of year and percentage of grass and silage fed to the cows. Pastured cows receive silage that is fermented hay during winter, when grass feeding is not available. Milk produced by grass-fed cows in season has the highest CLA content (Jahreis et al., 1997).
Milk from pastured cows that are 100% grass fed contains elevated amounts of vitamins A and E, CLA and an omega-6 to -3 ratio of 2:1 and 1:1, which is most biologically favorable for preventing cancer and heart disease (Daley et al., 2006; Dhiman et al., 1996). One study's results indicated that consumption of CLA reduces body fat mass in overweight and moderately obese healthy persons (Blankson et al., 2000).
Omega-3 fatty acids reduce the risk of heart disease, hypertension, arrhythmias and heart attack (Siscovick et al., 1995), and are essential in helping to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, attention deficit disorder, schizophrenia and depression (Perlmutter, 2004). Simply allowing cows to pasture feed naturally increases the omega-3 content (Mandell et al., 1998).
Vitamin A is an essential fat-soluble vitamin important for normal vision, including clarity of the lens and stimulation of rods for night vision. It also plays an essential role in reproduction, cell division and cell differentiation. Vitamin A promotes healthy surface linings of the eyes and the respiratory, urinary, and intestinal tracts, thereby creating a healthy barrier against bacteria and viruses. Another role of vitamin A is in immunity by supporting the production and function of neutrophils and lymphocytes.
In addition to being higher in omega-3s, CLA, and beta-carotene, grass fed beef is much higher in vitamin E. The health benefits of vitamin E have been linked to lower risk of heart disease and cancer and anti-aging. The reason for the high vitamin E content in the meat of grass fed cattle is the high content in fresh grass. Plasma concentrations of vitamin E in cows are inversely correlated when yield is increased (Soren et al., 1999). Stress may cause a reduction in α-tocopherol values in cattle (Nockels et al., 1996).
In my practice, I have found that appropriate amounts of meat, eggs and milk products made from healthy animals that are grass fed along with a high-fiber diet with sufficient quantities of yellow root and ground vegetables, leafy greens and fruits, fresh air, adequate sunlight, good water and proper exercise alleviate much of the cognitive, digestive and inflammatory problems that go hand in hand with major chronic diseases of today, including heart disease, cancer, autoimmune disorders, anxiety and depression (Cordain et al., 2006).
Jacqueline Carboni, NMD utilizes the state of the art in integrating ancient healing practices of oriental medicine with advances in science and evidence-based naturopathic medicine. This is accomplished through her formal training and education from accredited schools and clinical experience for more than 35 years. She is a 1998 graduate of SCNM and Health Sciences. Advanced Chinese Medicine training was completed at The Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture. She currently is an adjunct professor in the natural science division at Mercy College in New York.
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Belgravia is famous the world over for Eaton Square and Belgrave Square, but there are other hidden gems waiting to be discovered: The Wiltons. A collection of streets minutes from Hyde Park in one direction and all the shopping, eating or entertainment in the other. Wilton Crescent is one of the grandest addresses in London, and the other Wilton streets do not lag far behind. Here is the Henry & James mini-guide to 'Wiltonia'.
A: We are often asked this question. He certainly left his mark on Belgravia. Some of our clients believe that Wilton must have been a seriously big cheese, a titan of English history, right up there with Nelson and Churchill.
In fact, the original Wilton – Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton (1799-1882) – was a comparatively unknown member of the British aristocracy. Yet he was a scion of the Grosvenor family, who laid the foundations of modern Belgravia in the early nineteenth century, so managed to get his name on numerous streets in the area. There is Wilton Crescent, Wilton Row, Wilton Place, Wilton Street, Wilton Mews and Wilton Terrace, all located between Belgrave Square and Hyde Park. And what streets they are!
A: The roll-call of former residents includes Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the engineer George Rennie, the writer Quentin Crewe – all of whom lived on Wilton Crescent – and the actress Lillie Langtry, who lived at No. 8 Wilton Place.
Q: Why live in the Wiltons?
A: It is simple. If you have buildings of breath-taking architectural quality in a prime central London location, within walking distance of Harrods, Hyde Park and the West End, they will be a magnet for investors from all over the world. The Wiltons are all located near Hyde Park and the designer stores in and around Motcomb Street, too.
Q: How much should you expect to pay?
A: A one-bedroom flat on Wilton Mews, say, might set you back around £1 million, but there are not many flats in the area, which mainly comprises terraced houses. For a three-bedroom house, you might pay around £4 million. At the top end, particularly on Wilton Crescent, the sky is the limit. In 2015, a 10-bedroom property on the crescent came on the market for £34.5 million, while renting a six-bedroom property on Wilton Place would set you back around £5,000 per week.
Q: Any good local pubs?
A: Both the legendary Grenadier on Wilton Row – which dates back to 1720 and is reputedly haunted – and the Wilton Arms, a Victorian mews pub on Kinnerton Street – are rich, in historical ambience. If you fancy a funky cocktail rather than a heritage pint, the recently refurbished Berkeley Hotel, on the corner of Wilton Place and Knightsbridge, will not disappoint.
A: Just head west towards Knightsbridge or south towards Sloane Square and the King's Road and you are spoilt for choice. There is everything from Pucci (www.sloane-street.co.uk/stores/emilio-pucci) to Peter Jones (www.johnlewis.com/our-shops/peter-jones).
Q: Who would make the ideal Wiltonian?
A: Someone with a healthy bank balance, obviously. But also someone who appreciates the grace and tranquillity at the heart of a great city which is the essence of Belgravia.


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New Haven announces proposal to redevelop blighted properties
by: Brittany Schaefer
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – Big changes may be coming to Dixwell Avenue. The city of New Haven announced a proposal to redevelop four blighted properties there. The goal is to bring life back to the former hot spot area.
"I see a lot of change," says David Britto, who has lived in the neighborhood for 50 years. "It was an access. Anything you wanted was right here."
Britto says it is now the opposite, with blighted buildings scattered with graffiti and littered streets.
"It went down," says Britto.
Monday afternoon city and area officials announced the new proposal to help revitalize the area.
Mayor Justin Elicker says he wants to use $1.3 million in federal funds to redevelop four run-down buildings, including the old Monterey Jazz Club, as well as two occupied multi-family homes.
The city's livable city initiative will vote on the proposal Wednesday. If approved, it goes to the Board of Alders. They will likely vote on the property purchases next month.
The city says the community input meetings will likely happen in the next few months following those votes.
Elicker says by acquiring the properties from private owners, they can assure the community's opinions are heard.
"This is going to be key to beautifying this neighborhood and making sure people feel the history of it is celebrated today," Elicker said.
This project is part of a larger effort to invest in the neighborhood, including 70 units of affordable housing and a community center.
Long-time residents say this project will help restore the area to its former glory.
"People need a place to live you know," says Britto. "Lot of people get ignored when it comes to housing it seems like to me nothing is being done. Now if you revitalize this, this going to bring people to you."
"I always pray for my community and when I see this happening that's when I know my prayers have been answered," Jesse Hameen II, who has lived in the neighborhood for decades."
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Posted on May 18, 2013, in bubblews and tagged Bubblews, deaf, educate, hearing problem, learn, lipread, speak, teach, teachers, world. Bookmark the permalink.	2 Comments.
Just read your post. I know it must be hard. I think maybe because people just don't know how to react around you. They take it for granted and forget you are deaf. Education is key.
Most people do forget I'm deaf, because I speak normally. So they think I can hear as well, lol.


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According to the Obama Administration, all these jihadists need is a job.
Reuters—Spanish police on Tuesday arrested four people suspected of using social media to brainwash and recruit people to violent groups like the Islamic State, the interior ministry said.
Like other European countries, Spain has stepped up efforts to prevent citizens being radicalized and recruited to Islamist groups in Syria or Iraq since the attacks on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris last month.
Two of those were arrested in the Spanish North African enclave Melilla and ran web pages promoting the cause of various groups, especially Islamic State, translating material into Spanish, ministry said in a statement.
"Both those arrested, who shared the strategy of the terrorist group DAESH (the Islamic State), recruited women who, after a process of indoctrination, ended up joining the terrorist group," it said.
As well as running webpages, the two alleged Melilla recruiters organized meetings where they showed videos and material from Islamic State designed to persuade young Muslims from Western democracies to become jihadists.


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Joe Giddens/LOCOG/Press Association Images he Cauldron is lit in Stoke Mandeville as the four flames unite.
# London 2012
Paralympics: Flame lit at spiritual home of disabled sport
The 24-hour countdown to the Games is on after tonight's event at Stoke Mandeville Stadium.
Aug 28th 2012, 10:22 PM
THE PARALYMPIC FLAME was lit at the spiritual home of disabled sport on Tuesday, signalling the 24-hour countdown to the start of this year's Games.
Some 3,000 people, including former Paralympians and dignitaries such as London 2012 organising committee chief Sebastian Coe, watched as the flame took hold at 8.12 pm (20.12GMT) at Stoke Mandeville Stadium in southern England.
It was at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1948 that a German-Jewish neurologist, Ludwig Guttmann, organised the first recognised sports events for people with disabilities, 12 years before the inaugural Paralympics in Rome.
"It is simply not possible to stand here and not recognise the momentous debt of gratitude to him, his work, his drive and passion," Coe said of Guttmann, who died in 1980.
I really hope that if he was standing here today he would be very proud to be able to look on the eve of the Paralympic Games that it was that work, that drive and that passion that created a games that are now the second-largest sporting event in the world."
The president of the International Paralympic Committee, Philip Craven, said simply: "It all started here."
This year's Paralympic flame was created from four 'national flames' of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that were kindled on Britain's highest peaks and brought to Stoke Mandeville in miner's lamps.
The flames, transferred into four torches, were then placed simultaneously in a cauldron, creating a single flame that will be taken 92 miles (148 kilometres) overnight from the world-famous spinal injuries centre to the British capital.
A total of 116 teams of five people will now carry the flame to the Olympic Stadium in east London for Wednesday evening's opening ceremony.
Guttmann's daughter, Eva Loeffler, said the Paralympics had developed beyond anyone's expectations from modest roots with just 16 wheelchair athletes — all of them war veterans with spinal injuries — in 1948.
"Everyone here could not have dreamed that lighting a spark in the hearts, minds and bodies of Paralympians would grow into the amazing spectacle we are about to witness," the 79-year-old told the crowd.
"It's so right and fitting that Stoke Mandeville, the birthplace of the Paralympics, has been chosen as the starting line for the Paralympic torch relay for London 2012…
"We have hope that the power of the Paralympic Games and the incredible Paralympic athletes will inspire a generation of newly-disabled people to transform their lives through the power of sport."
The original Stoke Mandeville games were timed to coincide with the first post-war Olympics in London the same year and became so popular they were repeated annually.
The first international event was held in 1952, when a team of Dutch veterans came to compete.
Guttmann, who fled Nazi Germany with his family, managed to convince organisers of the 1960 Rome Olympics to allow 400 wheelchair athletes from 23 countries to compete in a 'parallel' event and the Paralympics were born.
This year, a record 4,200 athletes from 166 countries, including reclusive North Korea, will participate in 20 sports, with the 11-day event an unprecedented near sell-out.
Guttmann's daughter said her father would have been proud of how disabled sport had developed, particularly with the London Olympics seeing its first double-amputee competitor in South Africa's Oscar Pistorius.
Pistorius — dubbed the "Blade Runner" because he runs on carbon fibre prosthetic limbs — made the semi-final of the men's 400m and the final of the 4x400m relay, and is set to defend his Paralympic T44 100m, 200m and 400m titles.
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Q: Atiyah Macdonald exercise 1.5 I am trying to prove that:

The contraction of a maximal ideal $\mathfrak{m}$ of $A[[x]]]$ is a maximal ideal of $A$, and $\mathfrak{m}$ is generated by $\mathfrak{m}^c$ and $x$.

I have made the following progress:
Suppose $x\not\in \mathfrak{m}$. Then $1-xg \in \mathfrak{m}$ for some $g\in A[[x]]$, and this is a contradiction because $1-xg$ is a unit. Therefore, $x\in \mathfrak{m}$. Consider any nonzero element $a\in A$. We want to show that there is $b \in A$ such that $ab \equiv 1 \ (\mathfrak{m}^c)$. Since $A[[x]]/\mathfrak{m}$ is a field, we know there is $f = \sum a_nx^n\in A[[x]]$ such that $af \equiv 1 \ (\mathfrak{m})$, and since $x\in \mathfrak{m}$, $aa_0 \equiv 1 \ (\mathfrak{m})$. How do I conclude from this that $aa_0 \equiv 1 \ (\mathfrak{m}^c)$ ?
Thanks.

A: Just remember what the symbols mean!  By definition, $aa_0 \equiv 1 \ (\mathfrak{m})$ means $aa_0-1\in\mathfrak{m}$.  But since $aa_0-1\in A$, this means $aa_0-1\in\mathfrak{m}^c$ as well.

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28. How about Flintstones comic books?
The following is a partial list of Flintstones comic book appearances, and does not include Harvey and Archie titles. Updates to this section are welcome.
Dell Giant Comics #48 (Jun '61): The Flintstones in Bedrock Bedlam (becomes The Flintstones at issue #2)
The Flintstones (Dell) #2-6, (Gold Key) #7-60 (Nov '61 - Sep '70)
Comic Album #16 (Dec '62?): Flintstones Story
Gold Key Giant #1 (Nov '62): The Flintstones Bigger and Boulder
Whitman Comic Books issue #4 (? '62): The Flintstones
March of Comics #229 (? '62), #243 (? '63), #271 (? '65), #289 (? '66), #317 (? '68), #341 (? '69)
Pebbles Flintstone (Gold Key) #1 (Sep '63)
Bamm-Bamm and Pebbles Flintstone (Gold Key) #1 (Oct '64)
The Flintstones with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm (Gold Key) #1 (Nov '65)
The Flintstones Bigger and Boulder (Gold Key) rpt. B&B #1 (? '66)
Top Comics (Gold Key) #1 (Jul '67), #4 (Jul '67)
The Flintstones (Charlton) #1-50 (Nov '70 - Feb '77)
Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm (Charlton) #1-36 (Jan '72 - Dec '76)
Barney & Betty Rubble (Charlton) #1-23 (Jan '73 - Dec '76)
Dino (Charlton) #1-20 (Aug '73 - Jan '77)
The Great Gazoo (Charlton) #1-20 (Aug '73 - Jan '77)
The Flintstones (Marvel) #1-9 (Oct '77 - Feb '79)
Yogi Bear (Charlton) #1-9 (Nov '77 - Mar '79): cameo
Funtastic World of H-B (Marvel) #1-3 (Dec '77 - June '78): #1 Flintstones Xmas, #2 cameo in Yogi Bear's Easter, #3 cameo in Laff-A-Lympics)
The Flintstone Kids (Star/Marvel) #1-11 (Aug '87 - Apr '89)
(Plus other appearances in Laff-A-Lympics, H-B Parade, and H-B Giant Size)


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Topological defects in the random-field XY model and the pinned vortex lattice to vortex glass transition in type-II superconductors
Michel J.P. Gingras, David A. Huse
As a simplified model of randomly pinned vortex lattices or charge-density waves, we study the random-field XY model on square (d=2) and simple cubic (d=3) lattices. We verify in Monte Carlo simulations that the average spacing between topological defects (vortices) diverges more strongly than the Imry-Ma pinning length as the random field strength H is reduced. We suggest that for d=3 the simulation data are consistent with a topological phase transition at a nonzero critical field (Formula presented) to a pinned phase that is defect free at large length scales. We also discuss the connection between the possible existence of this phase transition in the random-field XY model and the magnetic-field-driven transition from a pinned vortex lattice to a vortex glass in weakly disordered type-II superconductors.
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.53.15193
10.1103/PhysRevB.53.15193
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Superconducting materials Engineering & Materials Science 100%
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Gingras, M. J. P., & Huse, D. A. (1996). Topological defects in the random-field XY model and the pinned vortex lattice to vortex glass transition in type-II superconductors. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 53(22), 15193-15200. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.53.15193
Gingras, Michel J.P. ; Huse, David A. / Topological defects in the random-field XY model and the pinned vortex lattice to vortex glass transition in type-II superconductors. In: Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 1996 ; Vol. 53, No. 22. pp. 15193-15200.
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Topological defects in the random-field XY model and the pinned vortex lattice to vortex glass transition in type-II superconductors. / Gingras, Michel J.P.; Huse, David A.
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Q: Sorting the files using the date from the filenames I have a bunch of files with names
32f245bb02abd408a6f0e997640f7e84d3cdf0e4May 2, 2016.java
a5c3fc386ee6ff7259f4004128baff8a961ec804May 3, 2016.java
eaefc7552ab8ce39ea26272f995476869ed91e1aMay 3, 2016.java

I want to arrange them with the dates (in the file names). I use regex to extract the date from the file names and sorted them but now I'm stuck at sorting the files according to date. I try renaming the files but dates are repeating and cant use the creation/modified/access dates as all are the same.
File directory2 = new File("path to files");

            String newfile="";
                Set<String> source= new HashSet<String>();

                ArrayList<String> datestring=new ArrayList<String>();
                try (Stream<Path> paths = Files.walk(Paths.get(directory2.toString()))) {
                     paths.skip(1)
                          .forEach(s->{source.add(s.toString());});
                    } catch (IOException e) {
                            e.printStackTrace();
                      }

                for(Iterator<String> it=source.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
                        newfile = it.next().toString();
                        File f = new File(newfile);
                        String Date = f.getName();

                        String regex2 = "((?:Jan(?:uary)?|Feb(?:ruary)?|Mar(?:ch)?|Apr(?:il)?|May|Jun(?:e)?|Jul(?:y)?|Aug(?:ust)?|Sep(?:tember)?|Sept|Oct(?:ober)?|Nov(?:ember)?|Dec(?:ember)?))(\\s+)(\\d+)(,)(\\s+)((?:(?:[1]{1}\\d{1}\\d{1}\\d{1})|(?:[2]{1}\\d{3})))(?![\\d])";
                        Pattern pattern2 = Pattern.compile(regex2,Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE | Pattern.DOTALL);
                        Matcher m2 = pattern2.matcher(Date);
                        while(m2.find()) {
                            String file= m2.group(0);
                            datestring.add(file);
                        }
              }

              Collections.sort(datestring, new Comparator<String>() {
                        DateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy");
                        @Override
                        public int compare(String o1, String o2) {
                            try {
                                return f.parse(o1).compareTo(f.parse(o2));
                            } catch (ParseException e) {
                                throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
                            }
                        }
                    });

        }

I try to rename the files after extracting the date as follows but still if the date is repeating its not possible to rename them and still no luck with sorting them according to the date.
for(Iterator<String> it=source.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
                    newfile = it.next().toString();
                    File f = new File(newfile);
                    String Date = f.getName();
                    for (String datematch:datestring) {
                        if(Date.contains(datematch)) {
                            f.renameTo(new File("path to new directory"+datematch+".java"));

                        }
                    }

                }

A: Here is a code in Java 8 to sort your files based on date on the filename.
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

        DateTimeFormatter dateFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MMM d, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);

        try (Stream<Path> filesStream = Files.list(Paths.get("/tmp/stackoverflow-files"))) {
            List<String> files = filesStream.map(Path::getFileName)
                    .map(Path::toString)
                    .map(filename -> new Pair<>(filename, filename.substring(40).replace(".java", "")))// The hash seems to be fixed of size 40
                    .map(fileAndDate -> new Pair<>(fileAndDate.getKey(), LocalDate.parse(fileAndDate.getValue(), dateFormatter)))
                    .sorted(Comparator.comparing(Pair::getValue))
                    .map(Pair::getKey)
                    .collect(Collectors.toList());
            System.out.println(files);
        }
    }

What the code does :

*

*get all files on a path

*get file name

*keep filename and manipulate a copy of it to have a localDate by :

*

*removing the hash (of size 40 apparently)

*removing .java

*transform to LocalDate

*sort by LocalDate

*return only filenames list after sorting by date

*print list of files

Output :
[32f245bb02abd408a6f0e997640f7e84d3cdf0e4May 2, 2016.java, eaefc7552ab8ce39ea26272f995476869ed91e1aMay 3, 2016.java, a5c3fc386ee6ff7259f4004128baff8a961ec804May 3, 2016.java]


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package uk.gov.hmrc.releaser

object ArgParser{

  case class Config(
                     artefactName: String = "",
                     rcVersion:String = "",
                     releaseType:ReleaseType.Value = ReleaseType.HOTFIX,
                     githubNameOverride:Option[String] = None,
                     tag:Boolean = true,
                     verbose:Boolean = false,
                     dryRun:Boolean = false,
                     releaseNotes: Option[String] = None)

  val currentVersion = getClass.getPackage.getImplementationVersion

  val parser = new scopt.OptionParser[Config]("releaser") {
    override def showUsageOnError = false
    head(s"\nHMRC Releaser", s"$currentVersion\n")
    help("help") text "prints this usage text"
    arg[String]("artefactName") action { (x, c) =>
      c.copy(artefactName = x) } text "the artefact"
    arg[String]("release-candidate") action { (x, c) =>
      c.copy(rcVersion = x) } text "the release candidate"
    arg[String]("release-type") action { (x, c) =>
      c.copy(releaseType = ReleaseType.withName(x)) } validate { x =>
       if (ReleaseType.stringValues.contains(x)) success else failure(releaseTypeErrorMessage(x))
    } text "the release type. Permitted values are: " + ReleaseType.stringValues.mkString(" ")
    opt[String]("release-notes") action { (x, c) =>
      c.copy(releaseNotes = Some(x)) } text "release notes"
    opt[Boolean]("tag") action { (x, c) =>
      c.copy(tag = x) } text "tag in github"
    opt[String]("github-name-override") action { (x, c) =>
      c.copy(githubNameOverride = Option(x)) } text "provide a different github repository to the bintray package"
    opt[Boolean]('v', "verbose") action { (x, c) =>
      c.copy(verbose = x) } text "verbose mode (not implemented)"
    opt[Unit]('d', "dryRun") action { (_, c) =>
      c.copy(dryRun = true) } text "dry run"
  }

  def releaseTypeErrorMessage(givenReleaseType:String):String={
    s"release-type must be one of: ${ReleaseType.stringValues.mkString(" ")}. Supplied release-type was '$givenReleaseType'"
  }
}


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Investigators resume $2.5 mln tax evasion case against Tymoshenko
Story: First criminal suit against Ukrainian ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko
New case opened against Tymoshenko for $405 mln embezzlement in 1990s
New case against Tymoshenko relates to nothing but her company's debt - Lavrov
Tymoshenko's defense prepares to appeal 7 year prison term
The trial of Yulia Tymoshenko
Photo: Yulia Tymoshenko gets 7 years in prison in "gas case"
© RIA Novosti, Sergei Starostenko
Tags: Tax evasion, Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine, Kiev
KIEV, October 24 - RAPSI. The Ukrainian tax police has formally resumed its investigation into the $2.5 million tax evasion case against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Prosecutor General's Office Press Secretary Yuriy Boichenko told journalists.
"This is the fourth criminal case against Tymoshenko. It was initiated in 2001, but then closed following the outbreak of the 'Orange Revolution.' Now, the Prosecutor General's Office thinks the case was closed unlawfully," he added.
A Kiev district court sentenced Tymoshenko on October 11 to seven years in prison for abuse of power in signing gas contracts between Ukraine's Naftogaz and Russia's Gazprom in 2009 and ordered her to compensate Naftogaz for losses. The judge declared that Tymoshenko abused her powers when she served as prime minister and issued directives regarding gas contract negotiations in Moscow, which were not properly documented, and without the government's consent.
16:23 24/10/2011 The Ukrainian tax police has formally resumed its investigation into the $2.5 million tax evasion case against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.


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Devaroe Lawrence, Cyrus Jones on NFL transactions report
Published: Nov. 26, 2019, 8:21 p.m.
Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Devaroe Lawrence intercepts a pass during an NFL game against the Baltimore Ravens on Sept. 29, 2019, at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.Scott Taetsch/Getty Images
By Mark Inabinett | minabinett@al.com
Two days after making his second NFL start, defensive tackle Devaroe Lawrence in on NFL waivers.
The former Auburn standout was one of four players with Alabama football roots on Tuesday's NFL transactions report after the Cleveland Browns moved him off their roster.
In the other moves, the Denver Broncos put cornerback Cyrus Jones (Alabama) on reserve/non-football illness, the Philadelphia Eagles signed Chris Johnson (Oak Mountain, North Alabama) for their practice squad and the Seattle Seahawks signed tight end Wes Saxton (Hueytown, South Alabama) for their practice squad.
Lawrence had started the Browns' previous two games, playing 55 defensive snaps in victories over the Pittsburgh Steelers and Miami Dolphins. Lawrence made one tackle in the two games to boost his season total to eight, including two behind the line of scrimmage, on 222 snaps.
Lawrence also intercepted a pass during Cleveland's 40-25 victory over Baltimore on Sept. 29. The Ravens haven't lost since.
With defensive tackle Larry Ogunjobi returning on Tuesday from a one-game suspension for his role in the Browns' brawl with the Steelers on Nov. 14, Cleveland waived Lawrence to get Ogunjobi back on the active roster.
Jones joined the Broncos on Nov. 13 after Denver claimed him off waivers when he was released by the Baltimore Ravens.
Jones hadn't played in either game since joining the Broncos, and last week's injury report listed him as out because of illness.
Jones' placement on reserve/NFI rather than active/NFI means his 2019 season is over, just as placement on injured reserve would at this point in the season.
Johnson spent the offseason program, training camp and the preseason with Houston after signing with the Texans as an undrafted rookie. He stayed with Houston on its practice squad for the first five weeks of the 2019 season.
Saxton played in the preseason with Seattle, and while he didn't make the Seahawks' regular-season roster, he had been on the Washington Redskins' practice squad until being released on Nov. 12.
Saxton became the first South Alabama alumnus to play in an NFL regular-season game when he got into one contest as an undrafted rookie with the New York Jets in 2015. Since then, he's been signed by the Seahawks and Redskins twice apiece as well as by the San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Lions, Buffalo Bills and New England Patriots without playing in another regular-season game.
Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.
More NFL coverage:
· Pittsburgh Steelers tab Devlin Hodges as starter at quarterback
· Pro Football Hall of Fame drops 5 from state off ballot for Class of 2020
· Kevin Greene, Derrick Thomas among finalists for NFL All-Time Team
· Ravens roll over Rams in NFL's Monday night game
· Cam Newton finds some relief in 'trying year'
· State NFL roundup: Devlin Hodges sparks Steelers
· Alabama NFL roundup: Derrick Henry runs by Jaguars again
· Auburn NFL roundup: Carlton Davis, Jamel Dean help ground Falcons
· Derrick Henry matches Jim Brown, O.J. Simpson on 74-yard TD run
· Steelers' Mark Barron gives away 1,500 turkeys for Thanksgiving
· Zach Cunningham, Texans stop Colts in AFC South showdown


I was looking for a high power speaker for my Matrix NL12 cabinet. I use a 1000W Matrix GT1000FX power amp and I needed a speaker that could handle the power without creating farting sounds in the lows.
I read a lot of reviews about this speaker and I seemed this one should do the trick.
Ordered from Thomann like I always do, and received it very quickly. I installed it into my cabinet and was amazed about the sound.
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I am going to order another one. This is my new go to speaker!!!
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Q: Keras Model.fit Verbose Formatting I'm running Keras model.fit() in Jupyter notebook, and the output is very messy if verbose is set to 1:
    Train on 6400 samples, validate on 800 samples
    Epoch 1/200
    2080/6400 [========>.....................] - ETA: 39s - loss: 0.4383 - acc: 0.79
    - ETA: 34s - loss: 0.3585 - acc: 0.84 - ETA: 33s - loss: 0.3712 - acc: 0.84
    - ETA: 34s - loss: 0.3716 - acc: 0.84 - ETA: 33s - loss: 0.3675 - acc: 0.84
    - ETA: 33s - loss: 0.3650 - acc: 0.84 - ETA: 34s - loss: 0.3759 - acc: 0.83
    - ETA: 34s - loss: 0.3933 - acc: 0.82 - ETA: 34s - loss: 0.3985 - acc: 0.82
    - ETA: 34s - loss: 0.4057 - acc: 0.82 - ETA: 33s - loss: 0.4071 - acc: 0.81
    ....

As you can see, the ETA, loss, acc outputs kept appending to the log, instead of replacing the original ETA/loss/acc values within the first line, just like how the progress bar works.
How do I fix it it so that only 1 line of progress bar, ETA, loss & acc are shown per epoch? Right now, my cell output has tons of these lines as the training continues.
I'm running Python 3.6.1 on Windows 10, with the following module versions:
jupyter                            1.0.0
jupyter-client                     5.0.1
jupyter-console                    5.1.0
jupyter-core                       4.3.0
jupyterthemes                      0.19.0
Keras                              2.2.0
Keras-Applications                 1.0.2
Keras-Preprocessing                1.0.1
tensorflow-gpu                     1.7.0

Thank you.

A: Took me a while to see this but I just added built-in support for keras in tqdm (version >= 4.41.0) so you could do:
from tqdm.keras import TqdmCallback
...
model.fit(..., verbose=0, callbacks=[TqdmCallback(verbose=2)])

This turns off keras' progress (verbose=0), and uses tqdm instead. For the callback, verbose=2 means separate progressbars for epochs and batches. 1 means clear batch bars when done. 0 means only show epochs (never show batch bars).

A: You can try the Keras-adapted version of the TQDM progress bar library.

*

*The original TQDM library: https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm

*The Keras version of TQDM: https://github.com/bstriner/keras-tqdm
The usage instructions can be brought down to:

*

*install e.g. per pip install keras-tqdm (stable) or pip install git+https://github.com/bstriner/keras-tqdm.git (for latest dev-version)

*import the callback function with from keras_tqdm import TQDMNotebookCallback

*run Keras' fit or fit_generator with verbose=0 or verbose=2 settings, but with a callback to the imported TQDMNotebookCallback, e.g. model.fit(X_train, Y_train, verbose=0, callbacks=[TQDMNotebookCallback()])
The result:

A: One can write his own custom train callback, e.g.
class train_print_cb(keras.callbacks.Callback):

    def on_epoch_end(self, epoch, logs=None):
        keys = list(logs.keys())
        watch = keys[0] ## watching the first key, usually the loss
        print(f'epoch {epoch} {watch}: {logs[watch]:.3f}          ', end = '\r')

model.fit(...verbose = 0, callbacks=[train_print_cb()])

Note the print parameter end = '\r' at the on_epoch_end function. It means that on terminal and Jupyter notebook the status line (epoch number and watch value) are overwritten when a new status is available. I personally find it convenient.
Further information regarding custom callbacks: https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/keras/custom_callback


Sainsbury's has announced that it is to cut the cost of petrol and diesel by as much as three pence per litre across all 286 of its forecourts. The price reduction will bring the cost of a litre of fuel down to its lowest level at Sainsbury's in two and a half years. The reductions will start on Wednesday 30 October.
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These are the latest fuel price cuts in a series of reductions by major supermarkets including Asda and Tesco. The lowering of prices is the result of a fall in the wholesale cost of fuel, with reductions being passed on to customers.


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When Pope John Paul met Fidel Castro
THE SOFIA WESTERN NEWS GOES TO CUBA.
By Patrick Brigham – 1998 and the Pope's Visit to Cuba
The old two engine Russian Antonov rattled, shook and then finally took off from Nassau airport New Providence, into the sunny Caribbean ski. On board were mainly Cubans returning from business trips abroad and a number of Bahamians most likely off to savor the delights of Cuban night life, and to no doubt return with copious amounts of cigars, to be sold in the Bahamas to visiting Americans. On the beaches of Paradise Island and elsewhere one sees countless US citizens striding through the sand, purposely puffing on large Havana cigars, perhaps a small symbol of individuality where little else exists.
We flew over azure waters so blue that even the romantic descriptions of Buzz Aldren - as he circled the earth in space - did little to truly describe the magnificent beauty which I could see through my grubby window. Over Andros and towards Cuba the sea begins to change colour slightly and becomes a deeper blue, over saltmarsh and Cays, the tips of marine mountains, poking through the surface of the sea to create lush natural gardens with protruding rocks and palm trees. It is no wonder that Pirates like Black Beard, Ann Bonney and Mary Read chose to spend their short lives amongst these islands before suffering an ignominious death.
Havana is a large sprawling city, and flying low over neatly plowed fields, we finally approached the end of the runway, disembarking with a cheery goodbye from our Cubana Air cabin crew. No problems with immigration, no stamps in my passport, and just the casual question; was I an American? My traveling companion had been in Cuba, on and off, for some twenty years, and was well organized. We were met at Jose Marti airport by a confident young man dressed in tee shirt and baseball cap, who took us to his awaiting Lada. Parked next to old 50's American cars, in various states of disrepair, with animated conversation he confidently took to the bumpy Cuban roads. Making our way past very familiar Socialist buildings, bicycles, old Russian trucks, and people of all age's types and colors, we drove into Havana.
The Pope had been there for two days, and to underline the sense of occasion, one only had to see the amazing number of posters of him, either by himself, or with Fidel Castro, on buildings in cars and finally when I arrived at my destination, on the glass door of the apartment in which I was to stay. It was Saturday, the sun was shining and looking out of my window, I watched the sea lapping the shores of what was considered locally as a prime location, next to the Cococabana Hotel.
Taxis are quite expensive in Havana, despite their often decrepit appearance, and I was able to find a private driver who agreed to be my guide for the next few days. Jojo, as he called himself was an older man, who not only had a clean Lada, but a sense of humour. That Saturday afternoon he drove me around Havana on a photographic expedition, which would have taken a gormless tourist a week. The Old Town is an architectural wonder, so full of Spanish History, so beautifully preserved, full of book shops and art galleries, museums and restaurants. When I asked Jojo what he had done for a living before retirement he said 'I was an architect by profession, but first and foremost a soldier of the Revolution!' With a bit of French, English, some Russian and Spanish, we got on very well, and he even took me for some coffee and insisted on paying.
Being an old traveller, Havana reminded me of Spain during the 60's, although my recollection of Franco's Spain, involved far greater signs of state security, of men wearing various uniforms, lurking around on street corners watching one another, and being watched in turn by men in leather coats. During the Popes visit, Havana had many uniformed policemen in evidence, but they were passive and unarmed - except for handcuffs, and batten - and were there, I suspect, mainly to tidy up the many professional ladies who widely inhabit the streets at all times of the day. These mainly young and friendly policemen seemed to want to create a good impression, and to help the large number of tourists - mainly from Europe and Canada - who now go to Cuba, and those like me who had especially come for this remarkable visit.
In common with many eastern Europeans I have met in the past; before the changes, Jojo took me to see some hotels in order that I might realize the strident changes which socialism had made in Castro's Cuba. But I managed to steer him away to sights far more worthy of my meager photographic skills, and despite a fleeting visit to the Hotel Inglaterra - a beautiful portico'd period building full of charm, and a pianist who aptly sang 'I did it My Way' - followed by the pride of Havana; the Hotel National de Cuba, I somehow managed to look at the real world, and the Havana which I had come to see.
That night I went with Tchocho my traveling companion to the famous Earnest Hemingway restaurant called La Bodeguita Del Medio. The walls of the restaurant are covered with hundreds of well known signatures, and with two musicians playing traditional Cuban music, it was an evening to remember. The food was also good. We both started with black bean soup, followed by huge plates full of roast pork, sweet potatoes, and fried bananas. Washed down by plenty of the local beer, the bill only came to $30. Cubans love Earnest Hemingway, but apparently not the Americans!
What made Havana for me was the music, the architecture - Jojo was great - the food the sun, the people, and of course the great occasion of the Popes visit. There will be those who would like to reduce his visit to a political scam, but it was not true. In the great Boulevard of the Revolution, Sunday morning proved this to be a myth. Over a million people attended Pope John Paul's final mass, which took place on a platform over which had been erected a canopy designed to appear like a white dove of peace, the backdrop to which was the flank wall of a massive office building, which had been painted with what must be the largest painting of Christ in the World. There was undoubtedly a great feeling of spirituality, neatly woven together with the kind of euphoria one might expect from a people who had been starved of what they must regard as the Mother Church.
There are Catholic Churches everywhere in Cuba, and many priests to officiate, but somehow there had been forty years in a wilderness, created by the sanctions which only politics can impose. Sunday proved to everyone - particularly to Cubans - that this was no longer the case; that they were unquestionably a part of a World society of Christian believers, and that they had a place in this new order, and a right to be there. On an adjacent wall there was also a large outline of Che Guevara, to remind us all of the 'Continuing Revolution.'
The Pope blessed the people and the politicians and firmly told both the Cubans and the Americans to be more reasonable. Afterwards, the camera crews packed up their gadgets, loaded their vehicles and returned to their hotels, where they occupied whole floors for their studios, and editing rooms. In the Capri Hotel - reputed to have belonged to Al Capone - CBS reporters sat back gazing at TV screens wearing Bermuda shorts, tee shirts, and baseball caps; turned the wrong way round, with great identity tags swinging from their necks. To them it was, after all, just another World event amongst so many. But it had not only been a media event, it was far more than that!
Cuban National TV had transmitted the whole event live, and watching parts of the broadcast during the early afternoon, one could see in detail what had been missing from view in the crowded arena, so full of optimistic and occasionally rowdy people. It seems that the Pope attracts his own variety of football songs, which means that he also attracts the young. People of all ages went to see him - not as stated in the media by presidential decree - but by choice, and to support an aging President who had the guts to allow the occasion to unfurl with its own momentum.
Fidel Castro was as much moved as were all his people, and the so called 'tyrant' had the same look of supplication as many of those who took mass, and most of the attendant onlookers from the diplomatic missions who were very evidently supporting this historical moment. I will never forget the look of submission on the face of the President when he bid the Pope farewell; neither will I forget the look of firm resolve on the face of the Pontiff, as he left his huge and sublimely moved congregation, to return once more to Rome. This was real, and although the cynical and politically motivated might have their day on TV and in the press, the winds of change are blowing in Cuba, and for the best.
Sunday evening proved to be a musical occasion to remember. Having met some friends and visited a few more hotels. One in particular had a theme restaurant called The Havana Café which had two splendidly renovated old American cars, a suspended biplane, two old Harley Davidson motor bikes, lots of old sepia photographs of famous Cuban singers and film actors, old gramophones, and unbelievably a huge ships propeller. Then we went off for an early dinner to a so called Polynesian Restaurant.
It could have been any old state run restaurant in any east European country, and the Polynesian aspect was about a few old carvings, and the food? Well it was sort of Chinese, was a sort of expensive chicken with salad, and a bit of sweet and sour source. But my guests were delighted.
That evening we visited a great underground jazz club called La Zorra y el Cveovo, and listened to the El Grego Sextet, which played the most exciting Cuban Jazz I have heard, complete with drums, bongo percussion, two pianos, and a front line including Jose El Grego's brilliant flugle horn. You've got to go for that alone.
The Cuban Peso is currently pegged to the USD at 23 Peso/ $1 although four years ago it was 150 Peso/ $1, and an average income in Cuba is around $20/30 USD. But people are not short of food, because there is presently a rationing system, concerning the basic staple dietary requirements such as rice, oil, meat, sugar, and flour. All these items are sold at highly discounted prices where a good average comparison would be sugar at 30 cents per Pound (lb) - ration price - and $4 for the black market price. So people tend to live within their dietary perimeters, and with extended families can survive with ease, if not on simple fare. People claim that their life in Cuba is better than it used to be, mainly - as stated in the last issue of the SWN - because the Government has resolved some of its difficulties brought about by the final bust up with Russia and the ex Soviet Union. They have now managed to find some new markets, but, what about Helms-Burton?
Started in 1996, there is now a Spanish Businessman's Association in Cuba, headed by a Mr. Rafael Garcia Aznar who also runs a firm called Bas y Pujol International S.A. He states that. 'In spite of the attempt to establish and enforce laws such as the Helms-Burton in third countries, aside from political considerations, which are not part of our sphere, we believe it is unacceptable because of its extraterritorial character. What could happen, and indeed has happened is that - for lack of information - certain businessmen who have the intention of starting business relations with Cuba became discouraged. However to say that these investors withdrew because they feared this law is another matter. Our association came into being at precisely the same time as Helms-Burton was launched and in spite of all the importance given to the possible consequences of its application, we're moving ahead; not as a challenge, but rather because our Association offers us greater guarantees of security and action.'
Back at the Jose Marti airport, there is a lot of action. It is Tuesday and the little Antonov has been replaced by a Topolev 154, to accommodate all the errant multimedia as it drifts back to various parts of the world via Nassau. Well known TV personalities punctuate the otherwise drab passengers, who hug heavy looking hand luggage jointly and severally containing thousands of USD's worth of Havana cigars, there eyes glazed over by the memory of sultry nights spent with sultry Cuban beauties, albeit at a commercial rate!
I look at a week old copy of Granma International, one of the few but state owned newspapers in Cuba. On the font page it states 'Colossal Victory. 98.35% voter turnout. The preliminary results of the January 11th elections for Deputies to the National Assembly of People's Power….. President Fidal Castro and General of the Army Raul Castro were elected with more than 99% of the votes in their electoral districts….. The people say "Yes" at the polls.'
Later the Vatican reported as follows. 'The secretary of state - Cardinal Angelo Sodano - has been informed that the Cuban government has freed a certain number of detainees, as an act of clemency and goodwill to mark the visit of Pope John Paul to Cuba… The Vatican is delighted with this notable step which represents a concrete prospect of hope for the future of this noble nation.' In the end it is the old stories which prevail. www.patrickbrigham.co.uk
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A few days ago I was scrolling through Instagram and came across a friend of mine picture of her holding this huge chunk of meat and as all enquirer minds want to know I asked her what she had and what she was going to do with it. Graciously Danielle aka DivaQ replied and the rest was history.
Although I did not do exactly what she did I owe the inspiration to her and her InstaHungry I mean Instagram post. So go follow her and then go buy her cook book she really is a great person and has a heart of gold.
Place all marinade ingredients in blender and process until smooth. Pour over chuck roast and let marinade 4 hours up to over night (over night is best).
1 hour before your ready to cook set up smoker with applewood chips or chunks and maintaining 250 degrees with clean blue smoke. When smoker is ready place chuck roast on and smoke until internal temperature reaches 165 degrees. When 165 degrees is reached take two pieces of heavy duty foil and wrap chuck roast with the reserved 1/4 cup of beef stock and place back on smoker until internal temp reaches 210 degrees. Let rest 30 minutes and then shred.
Place all ingredients in blender except Avocado process until smooth then add Avocado and process until smooth and creamy. Serve with Chips and drizzle over your taco.
Add a little of your favorite Pico and Cheese to make these the talk of the table.
Next post Journey of visiting recipes of the past making them new again!


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Tamer Tıraşoğlu, im deutschen Sprachraum Tamer Tirasoglu oder Tamer Trasoglu, (* 1983 in Berlin) ist ein türkisch-deutscher Schauspieler.

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Tamer Tıraşoğlu wurde in Deutschland geboren, lebte jedoch lange Jahre im Ausland, wo er auch studierte. Von 2005 bis 2010 machte er sein Schauspielstudium am Schauspielstudio und Film Atelier Langhanke in Berlin, das er mit Diplom abschloss. Theaterrollen spielte er ab 2006 im Rahmen seiner Ausbildung. Nach seinem Schauspielstudium hatte er in der Spielzeit 2009/10 ein Engagement am GRIPS Theater in Berlin. Mit einer Lesung aus Faust II unter dem Titel Mephisto und die sieben Todsünden gastierte er an diversen Bühnen.

Seine erste Kinorolle hatte er als illegaler Arbeiter in dem Episodenfilm Shahada (2010) des Regisseurs Burhan Qurbani, der am Wettbewerb der Berlinale 2010 teilnahm und auf zahlreichen weiteren Festivals lief.

Anschließend arbeitete Tıraşoğlu hauptsächlich für das Fernsehen, das weiterhin den Schwerpunkt seiner beruflichen Tätigkeit als Schauspieler ausmacht. In der Türkei war er zunächst in der Fernsehserie Ağır Roman Yeni Dünya (2012) zu sehen. In der Serie Acil Aşk Aranıyor (2015), einer türkischen Adaption von Emergency Room – Die Notaufnahme, hatte er mit der Rolle des Notarztes Berzan eine durchgehende Serienhauptrolle.

Im deutschen Fernsehen wird Tıraşoğlu häufig als Gangster oder Krimineller mit unterschiedlicher ethnischer Herkunft besetzt. Nach seiner Mitwirkung in dem Kino-Tatort Tschiller: Off Duty (2016) und in Wolfgang Petersens Filmkomödie Vier gegen die Bank (2016, als "Ex-Knacki" Rolfi, neben Til Schweiger und Sven Martinek) war er in mehreren deutschen Krimiserien zu sehen. Er hatte u. a. Episodenrollen in Ein Fall für zwei (2016, als Falschspieler Rasco Kaltegger), Notruf Hafenkante (2016, wo er Djamir Chihab, ein brutales Mitglied aus einem kriminellen libanesischen Clan spielte), Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei (2017, als portugiesischer Bordellinhaber und Drogen-Boss Joaquin Almeida) und Bad Cop – kriminell gut (2017; als Kiez-Gangster "Magic Maik").

Im Oktober 2017 war er in der 4. Staffel der ZDF-Serie Bettys Diagnose in einer Episodenrolle als Boxer Cem an der Seite von Marko Dyrlich und Paul Faßnacht zu sehen. In der 17. Staffel der ZDF-Serie SOKO Köln (Erstausstrahlung ab September 2018) hatte er eine Episodennebenrolle als Security-Unternehmer Gürsel Üzal; er spielte den Bodyguard des Mordopfers. In der TV-Komödie Mich hat keiner gefragt (2021) spielte er Vangelis, den Ex-Lebensgefährten der selbstbewussten, alleinerziehenden Single-Frau und Mutter Anna (Meike Droste) und Vater ihrer gemeinsamen Tochter Clara (Vita Tepel).

In der ab September 2022 erstausgestrahlten ZDF-Krimiserie Mordsschwestern – Verbrechen ist Familiensache gehört Tıraşoğlu als Hauptkommissar Sami Farhadi neben Lena Dörrie, Caroline Hanke und Claudiu Mark Draghici zum festen Ermittlerteam.

Tıraşoğlu, der u. a. Kampfsport, Mixed Martial Arts, Boxen, Kickboxen und Thai-Boxen beherrscht und betreibt, lebt in Berlin.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 2009: Das total verrückte Wochenende (Fernsehfilm)
 2010: Shahada (Kinofilm)
 2012: Allein unter Nachbarn (Fernsehfilm)
 2012: Ağır Roman Yeni Dünya (Fernsehserie)
 2015: Fünf Freunde 4 (Kinofilm)
 2015: Acil Aşk Aranıyor (Fernsehserie)
 2015; 2017: Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei (Fernsehserie, zwei Folgen)
 2016: Tschiller: Off Duty (Kinofilm)
 2016: Ein Fall für zwei – Das Apartment (Fernsehserie, Episodenrolle)
 2016: Notruf Hafenkante (Fernsehserie, zwei Folgen)
 2016: Vier gegen die Bank (Kinofilm)
 2017: Bad Cop – kriminell gut – Paradiesvögel (Fernsehserie, Episodenrolle)
 2017: Bettys Diagnose – Gut gemeint (Fernsehserie, Episodenrolle)
 2018: SOKO Köln – Die Weindetektivin (Fernsehserie, Episodenrolle)
 2019: Herren
 2020: Die Hochzeit
 2021: Mich hat keiner gefragt (Fernsehfilm)
 2021: Die Rettung der uns bekannten Welt
 2022: Mordsschwestern – Verbrechen ist Familiensache (Fernsehserie)

Weblinks

 Tamer Trasoglu – Vita (Agentur)

Einzelnachweise

Filmschauspieler
Darstellender Künstler (Berlin)
Türke
Deutscher
Geboren 1983
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Founding members of the alliance are Beckhoff, Endress+Hauser, Hilscher, ifm, KUKA, Multivac and SAP. In principle, the alliance is open to all companies. Balluff, Gebhardt, Pepperl+Fuchs, Schmidtsche Schack, Samson and WIKA have already joined the alliance as members. All companies are mutually committed to the creation of a standardised and open ecosystem for the operation of highly automated factories and process plants with the integration of logistics and services.
The alliance members are planning to realise a so-called Open Industry 4.0 Framework based on existing standards such as IO-Link, OPC UA and RAMI for the entire route from objects in the workshop to services. Customers can choose from a modular system of compatible and scalable solution and service components, such as digital services from Endress+Hauser's Netilion IIoT ecosystem.


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