An unforgettable day out in Friesland!
A large collection of model trains. Close to 1500 models.
and child-friendly. The marvellous world of butterflies, lories, and orchids. Thousands of species of wild and rare orchids, tropical birds, colourful lories, reptiles, and koi have been brought together in a natural setting in the Malaysian, Orchid, and Lory gardens.
The Butterfly Valley is Europe's largest butterfly garden and is home to more than two thousand butterflies.
Museum Joure Museum Joure consists of 10 most authentic buildings. Factories, houses, workshops, store and warehouses on the former industrial area of around 1900. This includes collections in the field of coffee, tea, clocks, craft craftsman sheep contemporary art.
Come and see how the mills of Woudsend, IJlst Oppenhuizen, Oudega (W) saw boards daily, grinding the grain and keep the polders dry. The are not museums, but living monuments who are still in operation. Exactly like 300 years ago.
Experience the beautiful surroundings on a authetic solex. A cosy ride on a solex along the most beautiful specially chosen (green) routes.
If you would like more information about the onions? Leaflets are available at our front desk.


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Q: fatal error: lipo: -extract arm64 specified but fat are: armv7k arm64_32 for all watchos pods library everything's fine in build and run for Iphone simulator and apple watch simulator
and below some of screenshots for project setting and configuration:
build for arm64:

build for a real Iphone with ios 14 :

Project Configurations :

development Config file :

WatchAppDev Config file :

watchExtentionDev Config file :

Scheme Details:

output error details:

and my podfile:
 platform :ios, '10.0'

# CocoaPods analytics sends network stats synchronously affecting flutter build latency.
ENV['COCOAPODS_DISABLE_STATS'] = 'true'

project 'Runner', {
  'Debug' => :debug,
  'Profile' => :release,
  'Release' => :release,
}

def parse_KV_file(file, separator='=')
  file_abs_path = File.expand_path(file)
  if !File.exists? file_abs_path
    return [];
  end
  generated_key_values = {}
  skip_line_start_symbols = ["#", "/"]
  File.foreach(file_abs_path) do |line|
    next if skip_line_start_symbols.any? { |symbol| line =~ /^\s*#{symbol}/ }
    plugin = line.split(pattern=separator)
    if plugin.length == 2
      podname = plugin[0].strip()
      path = plugin[1].strip()
      podpath = File.expand_path("#{path}", file_abs_path)
      generated_key_values[podname] = podpath
    else
      puts "Invalid plugin specification: #{line}"
    end
  end
  generated_key_values
end

target 'Runner' do
  use_frameworks!
  use_modular_headers!

  # Flutter Pod

  copied_flutter_dir = File.join(__dir__, 'Flutter')
  copied_framework_path = File.join(copied_flutter_dir, 'Flutter.framework')
  copied_podspec_path = File.join(copied_flutter_dir, 'Flutter.podspec')
  unless File.exist?(copied_framework_path) && File.exist?(copied_podspec_path)
    # Copy Flutter.framework and Flutter.podspec to Flutter/ to have something to link against if the xcode backend script has not run yet.
    # That script will copy the correct debug/profile/release version of the framework based on the currently selected Xcode configuration.
    # CocoaPods will not embed the framework on pod install (before any build phases can generate) if the dylib does not exist.

    generated_xcode_build_settings_path = File.join(copied_flutter_dir, 'Generated.xcconfig')
    unless File.exist?(generated_xcode_build_settings_path)
      raise "Generated.xcconfig must exist. If you're running pod install manually, make sure flutter pub get is executed first"
    end
    generated_xcode_build_settings = parse_KV_file(generated_xcode_build_settings_path)
    cached_framework_dir = generated_xcode_build_settings['FLUTTER_FRAMEWORK_DIR'];

    unless File.exist?(copied_framework_path)
      FileUtils.cp_r(File.join(cached_framework_dir, 'Flutter.framework'), copied_flutter_dir)
    end
    unless File.exist?(copied_podspec_path)
      FileUtils.cp(File.join(cached_framework_dir, 'Flutter.podspec'), copied_flutter_dir)
    end
  end

  # Keep pod path relative so it can be checked into Podfile.lock.
  pod 'Flutter', :path => 'Flutter'

  # Plugin Pods

  # Prepare symlinks folder. We use symlinks to avoid having Podfile.lock
  # referring to absolute paths on developers' machines.
  system('rm -rf .symlinks')
  system('mkdir -p .symlinks/plugins')
  plugin_pods = parse_KV_file('../.flutter-plugins')
  plugin_pods.each do |name, path|
    symlink = File.join('.symlinks', 'plugins', name)
    File.symlink(path, symlink)
    pod name, :path => File.join(symlink, 'ios')
  end
end

# Prevent Cocoapods from embedding a second Flutter framework and causing an error with the new Xcode build system.
install! 'cocoapods', :disable_input_output_paths => true

def watch_pods
  pod 'Alamofire', '~> 4.8.2'
  pod 'AlamofireObjectMapper', '~> 5.2.1'
  pod 'SwiftyJSON', '~> 5.0.0'
  pod 'EMTLoadingIndicator', '~> 4.0.0'
end
target 'MNO Watch' do
    platform :watchos, '3.0'
    use_frameworks!
    use_modular_headers!
    watch_pods
end
target 'MNO Watch Extension' do
    platform :watchos, '3.0'
    use_frameworks!
    use_modular_headers!
    watch_pods
end

post_install do |installer|
  installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
    target.build_configurations.each do |config|
      config.build_settings['ENABLE_BITCODE'] = 'YES'
    end
  end
end

A: the problem has came from Flutter engine
To resolve this issue just change your Flutter Channel To Beta ,
for more information about it : Flutter Issue Link
I will keep my question here , maybe it will save someone his day

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This strip is angry and dense for a reason. I fell in love with Fishbone at 18, and not long after that they imploded. What seemed like jubilant ska gave way to schizoid metal and bloated track listings. But once upon a time, I liked them enough to transcribe the lyrics to "Party At Ground Zero (Pink Vapor Stew)". Knowing the words to that song was like having the goddamn Enigma code.
The first Fishbone EP is great. Their first album, In Your Face, tones down the ska energy for a heavier funk-rock mode. Holy mackerel, does it ever work. They picked up the pace again with the following EP, It's A Wonderful Life (Gonna Have A Good Time). The rest of the tape is a mixed bag, but the title track is fucking legendary. Let there be no confusion; I heard this song before I saw the movie it's named after, and when I did, I was disappointed.
I had the next album, Truth and Soul, for years until some fucker stole it. This was the one with "Bonin' In The Boneyard" on it, which, if memory serves, was made even better when remixed for a 1990 EP called Set The Booty Up Right. I never successfully got my hands on a copy, I think because I was a tape hater at the time, and Fishbone EPs generally showed up on cassette (vinyl too, but that was more expensive). You have to understand, towards the end of the cassette's life, it was something we used grudgingly.
In 1991, Fishbone peaked with The Reality Of My Surroundings, a varied, powerful album. I could post links to this monster all day, but if I had to pick a standout, there is no question it would be "Behavior Control Technician". BEHOLD:
How do you even react to that? It makes my hair stand on end. The band sounds like they're pushing through a full-scale riot. The singer is manhandled and pulled by angry, unseen hands, as he screams and cries. Fishbone were the masters of their own unique sonic territory. There's the proof.
The album also features "Babyhead", which my 19-year-old self considered to be sophisticated bedroom music. It really isn't. It's still a terrific live track, however, and apparently "flying fish" (moshers jumping from the stage to crowdsurf) were so common at Fishbone shows, the band had to tell them to cut it out. "Sunless Saturday" was a huge hit, and I swear at the time it was one of the loudest freaking things I'd ever heard. I've never been able to part with this album, and I don't know what kind of evil adhesive was used for the PARENTAL ADVISORY sticker on the front, but it cannot be removed, even with a blowtorch or laser. I've owned this for nearly a quarter-century, and I'm still kind of salty about it.
I would compare Fishbone at this point to Maggot Brain-era Parliament, but it's a high that didn't last. 1993's Give A Monkey A Brain And He'll Swear He's The Center Of The Universe is, to quote Evan Dorkin, "a stinker". The opening track, "Swim", is a decent sludge-rocker about the aforementioned "flying fish", and "Servitude" ramps up the tempo with sharp guitar shredding, but it's pretty weak after that. They come close to former glory on the positively Funkadelic "Properties Of Propaganda", though:
I've never heard any Fishbone albums after this. The cover of Chim Chim's Badass Revenge (1996) looked cheap to me, so I didn't check it out. Turns out my intuition was correct; the record has been criticized for its low-quality mix. Producer Dallas Austin reportedly wanted to take Fishbone to the mythical "next level", as Rick Rubin did with Red Hot Chili Peppers (whenever that happened). Only an asshole would hatch a plan like that. Assholes often find financial success as music producers. Phil Spector, for example.
There are a handful of 21st-century Fishbone albums, but they mostly have lengthy names that are impossible to remember or keep straight, and the covers are clumps of Photoshopped excess. I've never seen one in person, so for all I know they could be brilliant stuff. But the more guys you have in a band, the more drama there is, and Fishbone had more than plenty.
"The track "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." stands for "Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts", as confirmed on the band's website, and is about a government attempt to convince the public that Hiroshima was actually caused by Godzilla farting."
I had been wondering about this for 25 years.
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Children are heritage of the cord and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hands of the mighty man, so are children of the youth happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them (ps127:3-5) that the African child occupies a strategic position in the family and in the society and in the nation is not an over statement and cannot be underplayed. The child is considered as the life. Wire of the family and the society at large to the extent that any couple that is not blessed with a child is looked upon with pity and sometimes sympathized with.
There is the need to know who is a child and what is child care.
In traditional and even contemporary African, various ethic groups have different concepts of who is a child while some ethic groups see one one as a child in so far as she can contribute to the development of the society some other see it in terms of one who has not yet attained the age of initiation into the age grade. Sven in contemporary Nigeria for examples Olukoshi etal (1990) posited that.
There is not one acceptable age, which is considered as a worthy definition of the upper limit of child hood. The age at which a child can become capable in law for his actions or her actions the age at which childhood begins in terms of the right to vote and be voted for and the age considered by the federal ministry of youth and culture and education as being the upper limit of childhood different. Even internationally there are divergent definitions as to who is a child. Where as the international labour organization and the united nations population division refers to a child as those below 18year of age the 1989 convention on the right of the child states that a child means every human being below the age of 18year. Even though there are divergent opinions and views as to what is the age limit of child it is the views of this author that a child is anybody between birth to completion of physiologically/ psychological and physical development. In order words anybody between ages zero of his/her birth to 18years is a child.
Child acre is connoted acts of giving basic needs right and deeds of child by parents/ guardians, which will pair the well being of a child. Caring can also take the from of adequate provision of resources for the welfare of the child both now and in future.
Also they do not encounter problem of misplacement of vita information or records as a result of services not being available or rendered when needed duplications of effort due to inconsistency in activities and time that is taken in search of file when it is required for processing.
In every organization there are numerous problems that they encounter. An organization like UNICEF encounter problem in their area of documentation which includes misplacement of vital information or cases as a result of the services that are available or rendered when it is needed duplications of effort due to inconsistency in activities and a lot of time is taken in search of file or reported cases when it is needed for processing.
The purpose of this study is to design and implement a system that will eliminate the above listed problems, as misplacement of important reported cases documents and records duplications of effort and a lot of time that is required or taken when searching an processing of cases and files.
The aims and objectives of the project is to study how the organization (UNICEF) operational aims and other activities are performed.
This study is specifically concerned with the computerized child care and carrying of the Enugu information centre of UNICEF. Although a lot of activities are being performed by this centre. This work is therefore concerned with childcare and caring manipulation of both the care and reporter of a case.
One to lack of time and resources the study is limited to certain area concerned with only gathering of cases on clients and personnel records and processing them using a computer.
Apparently before I started this works I assumed a successful completion by division grace of God and the cooperation of workers of unicef in supplying me with date/information needed for the successful completion of this project.
In terms of material resources monetary and personnel resources the researcher had me up with them. In fact it is believed that facts are valid.
Childcare: That is any kind of human act that jeopardizes the physical psychological and the futurity of the child either intentionally or intentionally.
Flowchart: This is the graphical representation of the logical step and sequence involved in a procedure are program.
Date: This can be defined as groups of non-random symbols (words value figures) which represent things that have happened.
Information: This is the resource that enables the collection management control and dissemination of information throughout an organization.
Monitoring: This is to keep watch and see who denies children the rights and take the necessary steps to stop this.


The Professor is a terrific choice for trout fishing! This casting model can be cast both from the shore and from a boat.
Migratory salmonids are quite tricky fish to catch. Did you know that a fish migrating upstream from sea barely eats at all? If this is true, then why does it strike at a lure? Striking a lure is a kind of reflex that triggers when the fish sees something worth eating. The lure can also be so irritating that the fish simply wants to teach it a lesson.
The lure can also look like an intruder that wants to take over the fish's place in the water, so the salmon might defend its ground by taking a bite out of it.


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At Itchy Park with Jack London
The churchyard of Christ Church, Spitalfields, was once known as "Itchy Park," a nickname that may derive from the long-term presence of the homeless sleeping there and the lice that afflicted them. In 1902, at the age of twenty-six, the American novelist Jack London came to Itchy Park as part of seven weeks he spent wandering around the East End that Summer, talking to people and learning as much as he could of their lives. The result was a masterpiece, "The People of the Abyss," in which London used his talent as a novelist to draw his readers into sympathy with those he described, creating a humane portrayal of a world that had previously been the preserve of social campaigners.
The shadow of Christ Church falls across Spitalfields Garden, and in the shadow of Christ's Church, at three o'clock in the afternoon, I saw a sight which I never wish to see again. There are no flowers in this garden, which is smaller than my own rose garden at home. Grass only grows here, and it is surrounded by sharp-spiked iron iron fencing, as are all the parks of London town, so that homeless men and women may not come in at night and sleep upon it.
As we entered the garden, an old woman between fifty and sixty, passed us, striding with sturdy intention if somewhat rickety action, with two bulky bundles, covered with sacking, slung fore and aft upon her. She was a woman tramp, a houseless soul, too independent to drag her falling carcass through the workhouse door. Like the snail, she carries her home with her. In two sacking-covered bundles were her household goods, her wardrobe, linen, and dear feminine possessions.
We went up the narrow gravelled walk. On the benches on either side arrayed a mass of miserable and distorted humanity, the sight of which would have impelled Doré to more diabolical flights of fancy than he ever succeeded in achieving. It was a welter of rags and filth, of all manner of loathsome skin diseases, open sores, bruises, grossness, indecency, leering monstrosities and bestial faces. A chill, raw wind was blowing, and these creatures huddled there in their rags, sleeping for the most part of trying to sleep.
Here were a dozen women, ranging in age from twenty to seventy. Next a babe, possibly of nine months, lying asleep, flat on the hard bench, with neither pillow nor covering, nor with anyone looking after it. Next half-a-dozen men, sleeping bolt upright or leaning against one another in their sleep.In one place a family group, a child asleep in its mother's arms, and the husband (or male mate) clumsily mending a dilapidated shoe. On another bench, a woman trimming the frayed strips of her rags with a knife, and another woman, with a thread and needle, sewing up rents. Adjoining, a man holding a sleeping woman in his arms. Further on, a man, his clothes caked with gutter mud, asleep, with his head in the lap of a woman, not more than twenty-five years old, and also asleep.
It was this sleep that puzzled me. Why were nine out of ten of them asleep or trying to sleep? But it was not till afterwards that I learned. It is a law of the powers that be that the homeless shall not sleep by night. On the pavement, by the portico of Christ's Church, where the stone pillars rise towards the sky in a stately row, were whole rows of men asleep or drowsing, and all too deep sunk in a torpor to rouse or be made curious by our intrusion.
On August 25th 1902, Jack London wrote, "I was out all night with the homeless ones, walking the streets in the bitter rain, and, drenched to the skin, wondering when dawn would come. I returned to my rooms on Sunday night after seventy-two hours continuous work and only a short night's sleep… and my nerves are blunted with what I have seen." In later years, after the success of his great novels "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang," he recalled of "People of the Abyss," "No other book of mine took so much of my young heart and tears as that study of the economic degradation of the poor."
More than a century later, London would be disappointed to return and discover people still sleeping in "Itchy Park" – nowadays they are almost exclusively male and are a mixture of homeless people, addicts and alcoholics, economic migrants and those sleeping it off after a heavy night in a club.
Yet change is imminent, as there is controversy in Spitalfields over the future of "Itchy Park." Only the section next to Commercial St is open today, to the East are the former Christ Church youth club building and the playground of Christ Church School in Brick Lane. While the school, which is short of space, wishes to build a nursery upon the site of the youth club, there is another body of opinion that would like to see the park enlarged to include the youth club site as a public green space for all.
Meanwhile the sleepers of "Itchy Park" continue their slumber, office workers come to eat their lunch in the shade and tourists sit under the trees to rest their feet, and somehow everybody co-exists amicably enough.
Sleeping in the churchyard of Christ Church, Spitalfields, 1902
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DOT permalink
Your piece brings back memories of Itchycoo Park by the Small Faces in 1968: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itchycoo_Park
Lesley permalink
There's also Barmy Park (now Bethnal Green Gardens in front of the library). So named because of the mental hospital that used to be on the site. We cockneys have a great turn of phrase sometimes…
I've made a mental note to read People of the Abyss, my family lived very close to here between 1720 and today, so all your articles are very interesting to me. The thought that my ancestors walked these very streets is amazing.
Kepp it coming Gentle Author, I look forward to your daily email.
Mo permalink
Really interesting piece of local history.
Ana permalink
I recently read People of the Abyss over my semester break. Jack London's experience, perhaps one of the first sociological and observational studies, is raw and evocative. To think that a society so advanced for its era failed to consider the repercussions of the industrial era -population increase/densities in cities, lack of residential properties, lack of hygiene.
What strikes me is that a similar analogy can be made in the 21st century within developing countries that are making similar mistakes now that they are being commissioned to manufacture products. Even in China the issues are similar, people shifting from the regional areas to cities that are increasing in density, increased pollution.
Unlike most authors that focus on the arty-farty literary aspects, Jack London focuses on the raw aspects of humanity. Despite being written so long ago, People of the Abyss remains relevant to the precarious economic times.
Joyce permalink
' . . . and somehow everybody co-exists amicably enough.' . . . . . .
I really like this blog but as a local resident I think that sometimes your spectacles are TOO rose tinted . . . the truth is that local residents are deterred from the amenity of the few green spaces available in the area for fear of confrontation with the sad undesirables who colonise them . . . and who all too often are not sleeping but abusive . . .
Catherineap permalink
I found 'People of the Abyss' on my parents' shelf when I was a teenager in Chicago and it made a huge impression on me, and probably contributed greatly to my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian London. At the time I was not familiar with Christ Church, Spitalfields which has since become my favorite building in London. Interesting link, and interesting post, as always.
Dai Smile permalink
London's diatribe is said to have been the seed for classics such as George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and J B Priestley's exploration of poverty in the North, in turn the source for many modern travelogues into areas society prefers to ignore.
But it would be wrong to think London was the first to reveal poverty in the East End. Barely-fictional works such as Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto and Arthur Morrison's Child of the Jago had already appeared.
Nor were London's efforts universally applauded. The "respectable poor" who made up the vast majority of East Londoners were outraged at the picture painted of their city – much as most council estate dwellers now despair at being lumped in with a feckless, often criminal, minority.
Michael Willoughby permalink
It's a kind of sanctuary.
time watcher permalink
my grandmother lived in frying pan alley in 1902,i believe my father was born there,thankfully he was taken out of those surroundings in 1908,and went on to a very fullfilling life, sadly many didn't.
mikey the mouse permalink
What a beautiful article. i walk past frying pan alley and love a stroll. Each time i read your snippets i feel happy.
Terry permalink
My family lived in the area in the 19th Century, and several were married in Christ Church. I studied musical instrument making at the London College of Furniture (Commercial Road) in the 1980s, and lived in a squat in Sly Street (off Commercial Road). We looked at the empty houses in Fournier Street when we were searching for a derelict house to squat, but they were all too far gone for us, apart from Gilbert and George's house which was a beautifully restored dwelling in a great row of decay.
I have watched the restorations going on over the years since then, and have written pieces of music for the Spitalfields Festival, and although it is good to see the houses looking cared for, I dislike the fact that they are all now £1M + properties and occupied largely by over-paid city partners. As the Gentle Author says, the London we first know and love is soon lost.
When we lived and studied there, itchy park was the name given to the piece of land near White Church Lane, opposite the Art Gallery, that is now called Altab Ali Park. It is referred to as such in a novel I once bought in a charity shop solely because it was set in that area; the name of which I have unfortunately forgotten. It wasn't a very good book.
I'm enjoying the articles immensely. Thanks.
James Frankcom permalink
Interesting article. I for one hope that the whole of Itchy Park will one day be designated a "village green" to protect this valuable green space forever.
John Cole permalink
Like many here, my family came from that part of London, in the time. When I was growing up the book and film "A Kid for Two Farthings" by Wolf Mankowitz came out. I chanced upon an old copy of it recently and Itchy Park is mentioned.
Jon permalink
So is this the original source for the Small Faces' Itchycoo Park? I've been told it was, it was a place where they used to go to smoke dope and the basis for the song of that name. But other sources suggest it was a park they used to play in in Ilford. Does anyone know?
Pat permalink
The Small Faces were East Enders, but the story always was that Itchycoo Park was a park in Ilford where the boys would go. "Itchy" came from the stinging nettles that abounded.
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Growing up in the Spitafields area during the 1960s, Flower and Dean Street to be precise, Itchy park was my local childhood hangout. We knew it as itchy Park because of the fur like balls that grew on the trees. If you broke these balls up in your fingers and put a pinch of it down someones back, they would itch like mad.
There was the down and outs who had fallen prey to alcoholism often crashed out on the grass with a bottle of metholates spirit or cider next to them.
At night the prostitutes would come out in Commercial Street, plying their trade to the lorry drivers who were delivering to Spitalfields Market.
This is not hearsay or research, this is my experience.
I don't think Jack London was exaggerating.


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Mary and Valerie Behan
What I am writing
Czechoslovakia 1966
Across North Africa 1973
Road Trip USA 1977
Pakistan, 1986
Field Biologist >
Field Trips and Collecting Trips
Arctic Alaska 1975
Arctic North America 1976
Russian Far East 1979
The Bourke Family
Behan Family
First Rejection
I have now joined the ranks of millions of writers. The rejection was brief, polite, and delivered by e-mail. But of course I had such hopes. Maybe I should frame it!
Neither my sister nor I want to carry books to Ireland and try to sell them there out of a suitcase. In fact, we have no clue as to how to go about marketing our book to an Irish audience. Where to begin?
I read the Irish Times on line first thing each morning with a cup of tea. It's better to lull myself into a "God's in his heaven and all's right with the world" moment, than launch into The Guardian or the BBC and discover the truth. So Irish news comes first. Irish authors are always featured on the Irish Times website. Writing about writers and writing in Irish newspapers is as common there as writing about politicians here. By wandering through those articles and the links they provided (like Alice going deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole), I came across advice to would-be writers, as well as a long list of Irish publishers and their contact information. This was a brilliant find. After I read through each of their websites, the list was significantly narrowed: only seven publishers seemed to be interested in memoirs, ideally with an Irish theme. Still, that gave me seven possibilities, seven little packages of hope.
Five of the publishers would accept proposals by e-mail. Each requested a variation on the theme of: what is the book about? who is the author? what is the potential market?, what does a table of contents look like? and of course, send us a few sample chapters. Well that was easy - I could send the whole book, except that the PDF file was too large to attach to e-mail. There are ways around sending big files by e-mail, and eventually I found one that was free. I was ready.
I asked some publisher friends here whether one should approach publishers one at a time and waiting for a rejection before launching the next query. They laughed with derision and said the publishing world was not that polite! So over the next couple of weeks, I sent out five well-structured e-mails with idiot-proof, bite-sized attachments that would be transmitted smoothly. It seemed way too complex to go through a third party delivery system just to show that the book was not just finished but laid out beautifully.
Two of the publishers did not accept e-mail submissions. Initially I was irritated. But there was a delicious pleasure in assembling a package to send to them. The complete manuscript, all 194 pages of it, lay there in a cocoon of bubble wrap, in its own perfectly-sized box (Tim has many of these from being on the receiving end of myriad book purchases), topped with the extra sheets of information, and crowned with a properly signed cover letter. I loved sealing it up with masses of Scotch tape, addressing it to a publishing house in Ireland, and taking it to the local post office. You have to fill out a customs form to send a box to Ireland, and the postmaster asked what was in the box ("a manuscript"), and the value. I paused. "None" was the correct answer, but I followed that up with "only a lot of dreams".
I got a polite e-mail from one of the publishers to say my package had arrived. And so I wait. Six more chances.
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Home of the Week: Candlelight Tour stops by this elegant, renovated Historic Annapolis residence
Date: Capital Gazette, October 29, 2016, Wendi Winters
One summer in the late 1980s in Washington, D.C., Beth and a friend decided to have an adventure. Attempting to visit the Eastern Shore on a beach weekend, they got stuck in backed-up Bay Bridge traffic on Route 50 around exit 24.
"Let's go look at some houses in Annapolis, instead," Beth suggested.
They stopped at a Long & Foster Real Estate office downtown. A Realtor showed them some photos, then took them around to view some of the available properties.
During the tour, Beth realized she could afford to live in Annapolis – as long as it wasn't waterfront property. The Realtor also showed her areas of Annapolis she would not have considered.
A year or two later, in 1989, she found her dream home and made the move to a residence a half block from Spa Creek. The house is one of three pairs of attached Colonial Revival houses on her block that were built between 1903 and 1908. Her residence is the right side of one pair.
"It was large and structurally sound," she said of the then 5 bedroom 1½ bath house. "My daughter and son-in-law lived here for a while. I like fixing up houses. I'm a frustrated interior decorator."
The house needed a lot of work, structural and aesthetic. Beth, now retired from her career in the IT Department of the Department of Justice, built a brick planter along the front of her house, and established a small garden.
"The sidewalk came right up to the front steps," she said. "The planter provides separation of the house from the sidewalk and the passing traffic on the sidewalk and street."
She also had a new roof put on the house and a new furnace installed. Beth purchased ceiling fans for every room – a move which reduces the need to turn on the air conditioner in summer months. Over the years, the attic was insulated, the kitchen completely remodeled and a second full bathroom was built on the third floor, adjacent to the master bedroom.
In 1995, while sailing, she met Jim Dolezal, who retired a few years ago as director of telecommunications for the Department of the Interior, and is now a consultant to communications companies and government agencies. The two married in 2000. While both are active in a long list of civic, social and volunteer activities, they've continued updating and renovating the house. They tackle a new room or project every winter.
The results, inside the house and outside in the landscaped gardens they created and meticulously tend and the attractive koi pond they built, have been on view during several area home tours.
Candlelight Tour
The house is one of eight sites on the 25th annual Annapolis by Candlelight Tour, sponsored by and a fundraiser for the Historic Annapolis Foundation.
The Candlelight Tour is an annual autumnal delight, which attracts participants both locally and from around the world who enjoy viewing homes and other buildings dating from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
"The house has been brought up to current standards," said Jim. A forced air central air system was installed by John French of Annapolis Air. The system is unobtrusive; a casual glance does not take in meters or blinking lights. The system provides hot water, heat and high velocity air conditioning.
In the central hallway leading to the kitchen, they took out a door leading to the dining room and put in a wide squared arch with period moulding.
In the living room and a second floor bedroom repurposed as a library, handsome built-in shelving was constructed. Traditional crown moulding was placed in the dining room, along with wainscoting.
The original heart of pine floors throughout the 3½ story house were refinished.
Several antique radiators, sporting curlicues and floral patterns, look new. The Dolezals had their radiators removed and sandblasted to remove all the paint, repainted a matte silver and reinstalled. They resemble sculpted, subtly shimmering works of art.
Before their marriage, Jim lived for many years in Old Town Alexandria.
"Annapolis has more sense of community," he said.
Since moving east across the Potomac River, he's joined the Annapolis Rotary and coordinates the Rotary volunteers who ring bells at Christmastime in front of Zachary's Jewelers at City Dock on behalf of the Salvation Army. He is a trustee of the Hammond Harwood House, and chair the City of Annapolis' Ethics Committee.
"I try to stay involved with the city," Jim said. "It's a delight to live in the Historic District. We can walk to everything – but a supermarket."
Beth is a member of a giving circle, Anne Arundel Women Giving Together, a group that supports initiatives that improve the quality of life for women and families in the community.
The home's furniture and décor, Jim said, is a mix and match blending of "his" and "hers." They've made a few purchases together, like the living room chairs. The dining room furniture was Jim's, but items in the bedrooms and kitchen were Beth's. In the kitchen, a vintage table with fold down leaves belonged to her mother.
An antique bowl serving as the centerpiece on the dining room table was a find from a recent Moroccan trip. Some of the Persian carpets are from travels to Turkey.
One of their favorite items, an upholstered rocker in the upstairs sitting room next to the master suite, was a "sidewalk find." Its previous owner had put it out on the curb with the garbage. Beth passed by, took a look and grabbed it on the way back. Jim helped her re-upholster the rocker and repair its broken bottom.
Throughout the house they have hung framed giclee prints of photography by Marion E. Warren.
They call the dining room the "Margaret Lee" room as they've hung several of this local artist's still life and landscape paintings in the gracious space.
In two upstairs bedrooms, long embroidered and lace-strewn antique christening gowns are hung on baby hangers. The walls of one bedroom feature the framed cross-stitch artistry of long-gone craftswomen. One 200-year-old handiwork reads: Whats in Your Mind Let No one Now (sic) nor To Your Friends No Secrets Show For When Your Friends Becomes Your Foes Then all the World Your Secrets Know. – Mery Blanshard 1817
Their projects have included taking a bedroom wall down on the third floor to form the open sitting room and removing an unused chimney.
Beth proudly showed off her most recent project: she hand-stripped the newel post and stair moulding on the central staircase restoring its original beauty.
They love Annapolis
The two enjoy strolling to the end of their block to watch the Blue Angels soar overhead during Commissioning Week. The jets seemingly provide an air show solely for the folks watching along Spa Creek.
Beth's favorite part of Annapolis is "its history, that it's a small town where we can walk everywhere. It is a community of people."
Annapolis By Candlelight Tour
WHAT: 25th annual Annapolis By Candlelight Tour, a benefit for the Historic Annapolis Foundation
WHEN: 5 to 9 p.m., Nov. 4 and 5. Rain or shine. Dress for the weather. Wear sturdy, flat soled walking shoes. Cleats or stiletto heels will not be permitted inside the homes.
WHERE: Sites will be located along Church Circle, Duke of Gloucester and Market Streets
OF NOTE: The homes on the tour are not handicap accessible. Wheelchairs cannot be accommodated.
No food or drink is allowed inside or on the property of the tour homes. When inside the homes, please do not touch walls, furniture or any decorative objects.
When outside, please do not pick or remove any plants or other objects. Photos may be taken of tour home exteriors, but none are permitted inside the homes.
ADMISSION: $35 through Oct. 30, $40 beginning Oct. 31.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit https://www.annapolis.org/media/48-89-annapolis-candlelight
Register Here »
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For years, officials at DPS missed red flags tied to Shy
Ann Zaniewski, and John Wisely
District investigated crooked vendor Norman Shy three times before dumping him.
Shy used shell companies to circumvent purchasing rules.
Seven years before he pleaded guilty to cheating Detroit schools out of millions of dollars for undelivered supplies, vendor Norman Shy came under scrutiny by district officials over suspicious invoices, but was allowed to continue as a supplier.
Shy, who is at the center of a kickback scandal involving a dozen Detroit school principals and a high-ranking administrator, first raised red flags in 2009 when he faxed six invoices for school supplies from six different companies from the same fax machine.
Officials suspected the Oakland County businessman was using the multiple companies to circumvent the district's purchasing rules. But he explained it away and the district kept doing business with him for five more years, despite two more questionable incidents.
The Shy scandal highlights the weak financial controls in place at the time and raises questions about whether Detroit Public Schools could have cut its losses by dumping the crooked vendor sooner. Prosecutors say Shy bilked the struggling school district out of at least $2.7 million over 13 years.
"Generally, the longer you go on a case with substantial losses, it's been my experience over decades that there's been some lost opportunities along the way to identify it," said Joe Whall, a certified fraud examiner from Oakland County and former police officer.
Shy faces up to seven years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to bribery and tax evasion. He admitted to charging DPS for school supplies that were never delivered.
The current and former principals and one assistant superintendent, who collectively received nearly $1 million in kickbacks from Shy, also have been charged. Several of them have pleaded guilty to signing off on invoices for books, paper and other supplies that were never delivered.
Federal prosecutors say the principals would approve the inflated invoices, and when Shy got paid by the district, he rewarded them. An assistant superintendent got a new roof and gutters on her house, plus $300,000 in other kickbacks, according to prosecutors. One principal received Walmart and Sam's Club gift cards, cash, payments to her friends and family and payments toward her credit card bills.
Fax flagged
The district's Office of Inspector General began investigating Shy in 2009 after workers in accounts payable noticed he had submitted six invoices from six companies from the same fax machine, DPS spokeswoman Michelle Zdrodowski told the Free Press.
She said the investigation found only one of those companies — Allstate Sales — belonged to Shy. (The district has since learned Shy was connected to all of the companies.)
"It appeared that Shy recruited five other companies to sell textbooks and other supplies to DPS to circumvent the restricted check process, which limited single transactions to $2,500," Zdrodowski said in an e-mail.
A source familiar with the case said Shy, at the time, explained that he was helping schools whose orders totaled more than $2,500 by finding other companies that could fill the balance of those orders. He said he was simply submitting invoices on their behalf.
Zdrodowski said the inspector general's office, led then by former FBI agent John Bell Jr., recommended that the district tighten its purchasing practices. The district eliminated the use of blank checks, known as restricted checks, that allowed schools to pay vendors up to $2,500 directly from their school budgets.
But Shy remained a DPS vendor.
Ann Marie Kasperowicz, the assistant director of procurement in 2010-13, recognized several of the Shy-related companies when the Free Press read her the names from a list provided by DPS, but was surprised to hear they were linked to Shy.
"I didn't know they were connected to him," she said.
Bell told the Free Press last week that he can't recall the specifics of the Shy investigation, noting that his office had about 70 investigations going on at any one time. He said his office gave the results of all of its probes to its boss, who, at the time, was Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb.
"That would have been just one of many investigations we had going on with different vendors in the district," Bell said.
He added: "I would have had concerns if someone was submitting invoices from another company."
Bell said he created a database, searchable by name, that future inspectors general could use to pull up information about every person the office investigated.
Paid before delivery
In July 2012, Shy's name surfaced again during a probe of a building administrator accused of a purchasing no-no: Paying vendors before they delivered any goods.
Wilbert Van Marsh, Bell's successor who served as inspector general from July 2010 through February 2014, said the investigation targeted the administrator, not Shy. He added that there were no allegations of kickbacks.
Marsh said last week he vaguely remembered the 2009 case (he was one of two deputy inspector generals at the time), but that he doesn't know details because it was handled by a colleague.
Zdrodowski said Shy "came back into focus" a third time in 2014, when the inspector general's office investigated a principal accused of the same prohibited practice: paying vendors, including Shy, before receiving goods. The investigation found the practice happening at several schools.
Zdrodowski said the office, then headed by acting Inspector General Bernadette Kakooza, learned Shy was associated with three different companies doing business with the district.
In July 2014, the district's Office of Procurement and Logistics suspended Shy and his related companies.
"During the period from July to November, the district did not accept any new purchase orders or contract requests for Shy and his affiliated companies and worked to reconcile orders and deliveries made by Shy and his companies to DPS schools, and he was paid only for those supplies that were verified as delivered," Zdrodowski said.
Shy's attorney, Christopher Andreoff, declined to comment on Shy's history with the district.
Zdrodowski said when the inspector general's office concluded its investigation of Shy in August 2014, it referred the matter to the FBI. A grand jury subpoena was issued to the district in January 2015.
New policies
Both internal and external audits flagged problems with the district's purchasing processes long before the U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit announced the charges against Shy and the principals in March.
Retired federal bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes, the district's fifth emergency manager, has put in place several new purchasing rules in the wake of the Shy scandal. They include requiring additional sign-offs on requisitions and purchases.
Rhodes also restored the district's Office of Inspector General, which one of his predecessors eliminated in 2015.
Whall, the certified fraud examiner, said he doesn't know enough about the Shy case to comment on whether DPS could have done more to catch him sooner. But he said it appears the district could have benefited from the help of an expert specifically trained to spot fraud.
"It's unbelievable that you can go on that period of time stealing, and have all these inspections," he said.
Contact staff writer Ann Zaniewski at 313-222-6594 or azaniewski@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter:@Ann Zaniewski.


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Energy Briefing update
Risk and return
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC)
China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC)
CNPC (PetroChina)
Électricité de France
Korea Electric Power (KEPCO)
Kuwait Petroleum Corp.
National Iranian Oil Co (NIOC)
Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC)
Peabody Energy Corp
Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras)
Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA)
Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex)
Sinopec Group
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)
Supplies from new frontiers
Energy politics
Unconventional growth
Greening the mix
China energy
CNOOC discovers natural gas field near Bohai Bay
December 12th 2017 | China | Oil and gas | China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC)
On December 8th China National Offshore Oil Corp Ltd (CNOOC) said that it had made a mid-sized natural gas discovery in Bohai Sea, off the north-eastern coast of China. The state-owned oil major discovered the gasfield, which has an average water depth of about 22 metres, in the south-central Bohai region.
CNOOC drilled the discovery well, Bozhong 19-6-1, to a depth of around 4.2km. Upon drilling, the energy company found oil pay zones and a gas reservoir. The well was tested to produce around 1,000 barrels of oil and 6.4m cu ft of natural gas per day.
In April CNOOC announced a number of changes to its management team in an effort to re-structure and streamline operations. It said in July that it had started production from its BD offshore natural gas field in Indonesia. In October the company also acquired exploration rights to offshore blocks in Brazil's resources rich pre-salt region.
According to CNOOC's executive vice-president, Xie Yuhong, the discovery in the Bohai Bay area will help the company supply clean energy for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. The discovery also indicates good prospects for future gas exploration in the Bohoi Bay area, and will help CNOOC cater to the fast growing gas market in China–the world's third-largest natural gas consumer.
Source: The Economist Intelligence Unit
CNOOC appoints chairman and CEO
CNOOC chairman, CEO resign
Total to expand LNG supply to CNOOC


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Happy birthday, HoloLens! A huge thank you to our community.
Alex Kipman
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qPEVtqtKw0A
Exactly 365 days ago, I was onstage at Microsoft's annual Build conference with my dear friend and colleague Kudo Tsunoda. We had the once in a lifetime privilege of announcing on behalf of our teams that the first Microsoft HoloLens devices had officially begun shipping.
Today, we celebrate HoloLens turning one years old.
The last year has been remarkable.
Over 150 exclusive mixed reality apps are now available in the Windows Store.
HoloLens is available in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, France, Germany, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States and we will begin to ship in China before summer.
We have expanded the promise of mixed reality by making it attainable for everyone. Windows Mixed Reality, the HoloLens software platform, is built into Windows 10, opening an ecosystem of hardware and software that will revolutionize how we interact with people, places and things.
In the coming year, you will begin to hear more about HoloLens and Windows Mixed Reality headsets coexisting, making collaboration across devices magical.
While we always had dreams for HoloLens and the universe of mixed reality, we knew that some of the greatest innovations would come from the creativity, talent and unique perspectives from our broader community. As expected, our community has delivered. In the past year, among many other amazing ideas, the HoloLens community has created:
HoloGuide – an application that enables users to safely navigate a low-visibility environment (like a smoke-filled room) and avoid obstacles using HoloLens' environmental awareness and spatial sound capabilities.
HoloHear – a real-time speech-to-sign-language interpreter for the deaf.
Teomirn – an app that teaches piano by overlaying holographic prompts and instructions over the keys of a real piano.
To every developer who has a HoloLens and is working to create within the world of mixed reality, thank you for your passion and imagination. You are an inspiration to me and everyone on the team.
It has been incredible to see what our commercial partners have done, how they have used HoloLens to transform their businesses. From Lowe's to Legendary Entertainment, NASA to Stryker, mixed reality continues to provide real and demonstrable benefits in ways not previously possible. Our partners and customers show us every day that the possibilities are truly limitless.
In addition, we're so very proud of the great work from our Agency Readiness Partners, which have built fantastic, compelling solutions for organizations such as Major League Soccer, Paccar, Stanford Medical School, Skanska and more. In fact, we recently added six new European studios to our roster of partners.
The team here at Microsoft would like to extend our sincerest thanks to every person who has taken those first steps alongside us. You've helped us to build the foundation for the world of mixed reality and I can't wait to see where we go, together, from here.
We will have more to share with you at Microsoft's Build 2017 conference in May. In the meantime, don't hesitate to get in touch with me on Twitter, and please continue to share your creative HoloLens concepts and applications. It always makes our day!


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Autonomous cars + IoT, and life or death decisions
By Rob Enderle
BlackBerry had its annual analyst event last week where its CEO John Chen explained something I thought was very provocative about the future the company anticipates.
It has to do with far broader interoperability, unique dependencies, and a level of potential security risk that most other technology firms aren't yet considering. What if our coming wave of autonomous vehicles can connect to any IoT device?
Our Frightening Autonomous IoT Future
I could have titled this our fascinating, exciting, or unforgettable autonomous IoT future but, other than BlackBerry, no one seems to be focused on the security problems that this future will bring with it. We are creating an ecosystem where cars and robots are autonomous and connected so they will be able to connect to other devices, sensors, and data repositories available to them.
Companies like Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm have been talking about the massive amount of training, sensors, and AI technology going into cars and the C-V2X capability for these vehicles to communicate with each other and the smart city ecosystems they will be traveling.
Capabilities like using other car sensors to identify threats they can't yet see are standard in demonstrations. But what about all the cameras popping up around the car? Cars will have layers of sensors from LiDAR (light detection and ranging) to cameras (including infrared) that will be able to see better than you can in all kinds of weather situations; and they'll be fully trained on how to deal with anything they see.
But smart cities will have their cameras, sensors, and huge data lakes of information that cars could also use to see things out of their range.
For instance, if a child runs toward the street, the car cameras might not see them yet, but the security camera on the house, store, or office building might. Cars routed to pass down that street would, if they connected to that camera, get an alert that a hazard was about to enter the street that should be avoided. They might even get identifying information that would determine if that hazard is a child, dog, cat, or object in motion; and from that information the car could better anticipate and avoid hitting it.
Let's extend this to where street sensors could report ice or water on the road, which could pose a danger depending on how fast the car is going and what type of tires are on the vehicle. Gunshot sensors could warn cars away from dangerous areas. Historical crime data could also help guide vehicles around areas where carjackings and other forms of crime, particularly dangerous to passengers, make travel unacceptably dangerous.
Now imagine if some hostile actor was able to take control of any number of these sensors. They could force the car into unsafe areas, they could cause the car to slow, and rather than avoid a carjacker serve itself up to one. Instead of sending the car a safe route, they could provide it with a very unsafe direction.
BlackBerry's Solution
What John Chen seemed to be talking about was a future solution from BlackBerry that would establish a zero trust network for these devices and the autonomous vehicles, robots, drones, and other things that make use of the data.
This zero trust environment would provide a comprehensive way to secure IoT devices, secure the data coming from them (both in-transit and at rest) and aggressively protect the autonomous things using that data from being compromised by malware.
While we are likely at least five years from all of this coming together. The effort to secure this autonomous/IoT solution is arguably more important than the effort to create it. We are anticipating a substantial reduction in automobile-related deaths once autonomous driving becomes viable.
But suppose those vehicles and the data they use aren't secured. In that case, we could see an expansion of the Tesla crashes thus far caused by poor driver decisions to use a technology that isn't ready for autonomous driving.
The Danger of Mixed Messages
Right now, autonomous driving isn't that popular. Concerns about the technology indicate that adaption will lag optimums significantly over the next decade or so because people don't trust the tech. We saw during the pandemic that mixed messages from the CDC on masks, and concerns about blood clots, which are incredibly infrequent, are causing people to distrust the vaccines.
The significant number of drivers that have died in Teslas while allegedly using autopilot has grown substantially, and each crash seems to get front-page coverage. These crashes are mainly being caused by Tesla drivers who think they have an autopilot. Still, that capability won't arrive until we have Level 4 or 5 autonomous systems. Tesla cars currently range from Level 2 to 2+, and they lag Cadillac in terms of the system's performance while calling it Autopilot.
Since I was a kid, we've told the story of the first significant cruise control accident and how it was caused by someone who didn't know what cruise control was, renting an RV, and being told it was like an autopilot. So he set the cruise control, went back to make some coffee, and ended up in a massive crash. Elon Mush either never heard that story or has some weird desire to see how many people he can get to crash their cars by using the same method.
In much the same way that the CDC mixed messages and blood clot reports adversely impact the vaccine rollout, these crashes are scaring people away from autonomous cars before they are even ready.
The same as we need a critical mass of people vaccinated so we can get to herd immunity, we need a critical mass of people using autonomous cars; so we can reduce the 38,000 people who are killed, and the 4.4 million who are injured seriously enough to require medical attention in car accidents each year on U.S. roadways to numbers far closer to zero.
If you buy an autonomous car, it will make you safer. But if a critical mass of people buy the technology, assuming it works, only then do cars because genuinely safe. I often wonder if Elon Musk has some self-destructive condition — or doesn't like people — because there is no reason to call a technology Autopilot before Level 4 autonomous driving is reached.
Consumer Reports has been trying to get him to change the name of this feature until it can do what the name implies, but he hasn't. Check out this video for more about that:
A couple of weeks ago, two more people allegedly died as a result. Tesla disputes the cause. Nonetheless, Tesla death numbers are very troubling given the car is built like a tank.
People who drive a Tesla are often the upper class which includes politicians. Both the EU and the U.S. have handed out fines in the billions to tech companies in the past. I wish Musk would stop using the name Autopilot to save lives. But even if he stopped only to avoid a huge fine, I expect the result would be beneficial to Tesla drivers, the Tesla company, and the future of autonomous driving.
Autonomous cars and the related robots and drones coming out of applied AI promise to transform the world into something pretty amazing. Companies like Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm are working furiously to create an extraordinary level of technology that will keep us safer and massively reduce the significant number of people killed or crippled in car accidents. Each has elements of security surrounding their efforts.
Still, it may be BlackBerry's focus on security — the environment that these autonomous, connected things operate in — that will provide the most significant level of protection.
But these companies and their efforts will have reduced success if Elon Musk doesn't stop referring to his offerings as having autonomous driving capabilities that are greater than the car is capable of providing yet. Overpromising and underdelivering on a technology that can save or take lives is incredibly foolish and damaging to the overall effort.
If the government begins hitting Tesla and Musk with huge fines, or people, over time, connect the Telsa brand to death, it won't bode well for Tesla. There is no upside to implying you have autonomous driving before you have it. It just gets people killed.
When autonomous driving truly arrives, it could be excellent. But only if people trust it enough to implement it in numbers significant enough to reach critical mass — and only if the entire ecosystem that the vehicles operate in is secure and capable of doing the job. We aren't there yet — and Musk, one of the leading pioneers of technology, is making things worse, not better.
If we want the better future that autonomous cars promise, everyone on the critical path to success needs to be on the same page. That isn't the case yet, which will push adoption out farther than it needs to be.
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The Seven Years War (1756-63)
First section
Battle of Prague, 1757 PLAN DE LA BATAILLE, / gagnée par SA MAJESTÉ le ROI de PRUSSE, sur l'Armée AUTRICHIENNE, aux Ordres de S.A.R. le Duc Charles de Lorraine, / près de PRAGUE, le 6 May 1757
Maps and views, correspondence and journals from the first global war
The Seven Years' War
Pieter [Pierre] de Hondt (c.1696-1764)
Battle of Prague, 1757
PLAN DE LA BATAILLE, / gagnée par SA MAJESTÉ le ROI de PRUSSE, sur l'Armée AUTRICHIENNE, aux Ordres de S.A.R. le Duc Charles de Lorraine, / près de PRAGUE, le 6 May 1757 1758
Etching and engraving; letterpress text printed on one sheet of paper | Scale: 1:26,200 approx. | RCIN 732010
Map of the Battle of Prague, 1757 (Prague, Hlavni Mesto Praha, Czech Republic) 50?05'16"N 14?25'14"E 1758
A map of the Battle of Prague, fought on 6 May 1757, between the Prussians under the command of Frederick the Great (1712-86), and the Austrians, commanded by Charles of Lorraine (1712-80), resulting in a Prussian tactical victory. Seven Years War (1756-63). Oriented with north to top (compass rose).
Pieter [Pierre] de Hondt (c.1696-1764) (publisher) [bottom, below letterpress text:] A LA HAYE, CHEZ PIERRE DE HONDT, 1758.
LWF von Oebschelwitz (active 1756-66) (draughtsman) [bottom right, between neatline and platemark:] L.W.F. von Oebschelwitz delin.
Jakob van der Schley (1715-79) (engraver) [bottom left, between neatline and platemark:] J.V. Schley direx.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lys in crowned shield suspending a beehive, the name C & I HONIG below; countermark: crowned monogram GR
Condition: one fold line; creased. Verso: bottom, right of centre, water-stained patch and shadow from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label with a faint indication that the cipher label was printed in red
Scale: 1:26,200 approx. Scale bar: Echelle d'¼ de Lieuë de Boheme [46 mm =].
29.5 x 44.3 cm (image of map alone)
PLAN DE LA BATAILLE, / gagnée par SA MAJESTÉ le ROI de PRUSSE, sur l'Armée AUTRICHIENNE, aux Ordres de S.A.R. le Duc Charles de Lorraine, / près de PRAGUE, le 6 May 1757. [above map, outside neatline, letterpress]
Additional text:
[below map, letterpress text, keys to the map detail, 1-9, A-I, K-T, and I-VI.]
George III heading: Battle of Prague 6 May 1757.
Other annotations: none.
Prague Plan de la Bataille gagnée par le Roy de Prusse sur l'Armée Autrichienne aux ordres du Duc Charles de Lorraine pres de Prague le 6 May 1757: par L.W.F. von Oebschelwitz, chez P. de Hondt, 1758.
Probably from the collection of military and naval maps and prints formed by Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-65), third son of George II; subsequently acquired by George III (1738-1820)
Prague, Hlavní Mesto Praha, Czech Republic (50°05'16"N 14°25'14"E)
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This is the Life: Didn't see that coming
A CBC Radio program on Saturday raised a topic that seems to have relevance in almost every aspect of human society. It's also a wonderful reinforcement for libertarians — folks who don't like too much government influence or interference in their lives.
The Invisible Hand's topic on the weekend was an economic concept called perverse incentives, which are the unintended results of actions taken to address a particular issue. The most amusing example on the program was a plan in Hanoi to reduce a problem rat population. Get the people to take on the battle, officials decided. Encourage them to kill the rats by paying them for each one. Of course, the city government didn't want to be inundated by people arriving at offices with dead rats so, like most similar plans over the years and around the world, it decided to settle for the tail. It takes me back to my gopher-snaring days in Calgary.
But, as Robert Burns said so beautifully:
The first sign that something was amiss came when officials noticed tailless rats running around in alleys and gutters. Then, a number of "rat farms" were discovered. Residents were taking full advantage of the rat tail reward scheme, first by not bothering to kill the rodents (a messy and unnecessary activity, and one that, shall we say, kills the goose that lays the golden egg) and then upping the ante by capturing them and practicing rat husbandry (and wifery, too, one surmises), making it unnecessary to actually go out and hunt for the animals.
The Hanoi government abandoned the plan when an analysis showed the rat population was actually increasing.
Another example cited was the three-strikes-and-you're-out policy now used in about half of the American states. The plan, intended to provide a disincentive for criminal behavior by locking up crooks for life when they are convicted of a third crime, seems harsh by Canadian standards, but it does seem to have a logical basis. But what happens when a criminal is aware of the dire consequences when he faces arrest for a third crime? It turns out that the death rate of police officers has doubled in those states since the law was enacted. Cop killers have testified that they deemed the act of murder to be an acceptable risk when facing a conviction of a lesser crime that would put them behind bars for life. In effect, the law has the perverse consequence of turning, for example, a thief into a murderer.
By pure coincidence, on this week's This American Life public radio broadcast, host Ira Glass introduced the program he titled "Loopholes", those little glitches that clever folks seem born to exploit. The program opened with a story about an Austrian woman in 18th century who was so disillusioned with her arranged marriage that she decided she wanted to die. The problem she faced was that suicide was a sure passage to hell because a person who takes his own life has no opportunity to be blessed and forgiven for his sins.
She thought she had found a loophole when she tried to commit suicide by consuming arsenic in a small enough quantity that she would have time to repent in the presence of a priest before she died, thus paving her way to heaven. She eventually abandoned that plan and came up with an even more dire scheme. By killing someone, she concluded, she would have the chance to be blessed and forgiven before being put to death. Just to show how rational she was despite her unhappiness, she decided to kill a child, because children, in the eyes of the church, are innocent and they get a quick pass into heaven.
The researcher who told the story reported finding evidence that hundreds of others had, in their misery, used the same tactic with the same optimism that they had found a loophole that would allow them to end their misery and still get into heaven. The eventual government response? Repeal the death sentence for child killers.
If you think about almost any legislation, chances are you can think of a perverse incentive, an unintended consequence that flies in the face of the lawmakers' intentions. For starters, put marijuana laws to the test. Perverse incentives could become the hottest parlour game since Trivial Pursuit.
Lorne Eckersley is the publisher of the Creston Valley Advance.
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Thuringia: Bodo Ramelow Elected First Minister
By Imanuel Marcus On Mar 4, 2020
Photo by Staatskanzlei Thüringen
Bodo Ramelow of the left-wing party 'Die Linke' was elected First Minister of the federal state of Thuringia today. It took three rounds of voting to get there.
The former First Minister of Thuringia, Bodo Ramelow, was elected into that position again on Wednesday. In the third round of voting, he was the only candidate and got 42 out of 90 votes. This aspect could lead to legal and other issues. Twenty-three MPs voted no, 20 abstained. Ramelow's swearing-in took place only 2 minutes after the vote.
Issues Not Resolved
The Constitutional Court in Thuringia could annul this result because of the absence of an alternative candidate. The second problem is that Ramelow and his Social Democratic and Green partners do not have a majority since they lost during the last elections.
In both the first and the second round of votes, Ramelow had only reached 42 votes, of the 46 he would have needed for a majority. In those cases, there was another candidate, namely Björn Höcke of the extremist 'AfD'. He got 22 votes, as expected. Twenty-two is the number of MPs the 'AfD' has in Thuringia's state parliament in Erfurt.
Racist Opponent
Björn Höcke, one of the most radical leaders of the extremist right-wing party 'AfD', ran for First Minister as an alternative candidate. He is known for spreading blunt racism. Some months ago, a court ruled he may be called a fascist. In spite of Höcke's problematic statements, even one of the 'AfD's main leaders, Alexander Gauland, called him a "man of the center".
Before today's election at the state parliament in Erfurt, its members had observed a moment of silence for the victims of the recent terror attack in Hanau. Om February 20th, a Nazi had shot and killed nine Kurds and Turks at two bars. Shortly after he killed his mother and himself.
Ramelow's Party Hit by Scandal
Bodo Ramelow's party 'Die Linke' was hit by a scandal this week, when one of its leaders, Bernd Riexinger, failed to object to a statement by a member who had said "one percent of the rich" would be shot after "a revolution". Riexinger himself added to the scandal with a scandalous statement.
Ramelow, who is a moderate 'Die Linke' member, criticized those statements harshly on Tuesday. Also because he is the most popular politician in Thuringia, according to polls, he is untouchable in the party, even though he keeps on objecting to approaches his Berlin colleagues take.
Weak Coalition Partners
Ramelow was First Minister of Thuringia from December 5th, 2014, to February 5th, 2020. During that time period, he had headed a coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens, until the Thuringia Scandal ended that era.
A month ago, Ramelow had failed to reach a majority because his coalition partners had lost a lot of votes in state elections. During the third round of voting at the state parliament, the FDP, the CDU and the 'AfD' suddenly voted for the FDP's candidate Kemmerich, even though his party only has 5 seats.
Corona Endangered Voting
Instead of rejecting the outcome, because of the support he got from the extremist right wingers, Kemmerich accepted it. This led to big discussions in Berlin, where the CDU had ruled out any cooperation with the 'AfD'. This was something the Thuringia division of the party did not agree with. The scandal pulled the CDU into a deep crisis.
Today's vote at Thuringia's state parliament had almost been cancelled because of the Coronavirus. One of the CDU's MPs had traveled to Italy. On the way back, he was on a bus with a person believed to be infected. Then it turned out the patient had a common cold.
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Police £3m short after anti-terror blitz refund
THAMES Valley Police has been left with a £3 million hole in its budget after it was given back just 60 per cent of what it spent on anti-terrorist measures by the Home Office.
The force was hoping the Government would reimburse the full £7.4 million it spent on Operation Overt but the contribution has been confirmed as around £4.4 million.
As reported in the Evening Post last month, Acting Chief Constable Sara Thornton threatened to pull out of future operations unless the Government stumped up cash to help replenish its budget.
The force estimated £7.4 million of its total £9.2 million shortfall was spent on Overt, the Home Office's high-profile operation carried out in High Wycombe to combat the alleged trans-Atlantic terror plot that grounded flights in August.
Christine Weston, who chairs Thames Valley Police Authority, told the Post yesterday that the refund was better than nothing but still a lot less than she had hoped.
She said: "It's not great or even good news but it's welcome because we know now what we need.
"It means we now can plan our budget a lot better than we could before.
"But we still have got to find £3 million ourselves. We had hoped for more. The work from the officers during Overt was absolutely top class.
"It was a very, very good operation and we were hoping to be fully reimbursed."
Before the partial refund was confirmed, Police Federation chairman Martin Elliott said up to 90 police staff could lose their jobs if the shortfall wasn't reimbursed.
Mrs Weston said job losses were now unlikely although she admitted current vacancies might not be filled.
"The net effect may be there will be less staff," she said.
"At the moment we were not looking to make people redundant but we may not fill current vacancies.
"What we have desperately tried to do is keep front-line staff."
The authority now needs to work out how it will pay the rest of the money when it sets its budget for 2007/08 at a meeting next month.
The force's reserve money should cover the shortfall, although using it all would mean having very little in reserve to cover any potential operations next year.
Mrs Weston admitted the police precept for this year's council tax would rise but she was tight-lipped on what the actual percentage would be.
She added: "It will have to rise because of the cost of living. We can't go above five per cent because we are capped by the Government.
"We would like to have gone over five per cent but we can't."


Someone has come forward after police released a series of images following a suspected theft by finding at the Asda supermarket in Bruton Way, Gloucester.
They wanted to speak to a woman in CCTV images in connection with the incident last month.
It is believed an offender, who was in the queue behind the victim, took the money before leaving the supermarket at around 5.45pm on Thursday, August 2.
This morning, someone came forward for voluntary interview with the police.


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Tate Modern opens first 'live' show with mist, plants and a rave
Series of exhibitions dedicated to live art will be annual with BMW's support
By José da Silva
24th March 2017 20:13 BST
The veteran Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya has created a site-specific work made of mist as the centrepiece of BMW Tate Live Exhibition: Ten Days Six Nights (24 March-2 April)—the Tate Modern's "first ever live exhibition", says the museum director Frances Morris.
Nakaya's work—titled London Fog (2017) and made in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takatani—is on show outside the museum's new Switch House building. The exhibition brings together "old friends with new friends", Morris says. Nakaya, who has "lifetime of collaboration" behind her—including with the US artist Robert Rauschenberg whose major survey is also on show at the museum—was the starting point for the exhibition, which combines performances, film, installations, music and dance.
There will be a "continuously changing programme" throughout the duration of the exhibition, says the show's co-curator Catherine Wood. The exhibition, which is primarily housed in the museum's subterranean Tanks galleries, is the first in a series of annual live exhibitions that will take place over the next four years, Woods says.
Lorenzo Senni's Windows of Vulnerability ('No Fear' Version) (2017) (Photo: © Tate Photography)
The exhibition includes works by around 20 artists, ranging from a rave dance music piece by the Italian artist and musician Lorenzo Senni to an immersive installation filled with plants by the Dominican artist Isabel Lewis, which will host several events including Angolan kizomba dancing, discussions and food and drink experiences. There are also interactive works by the US artists Wu Tsang and Fred Molten, and CAMP, a collaborative studio group from Mumbai. One-off live screenings and performances will also take place, including a piece by the Berlin-based choreographer and dancer Ligia Lewis in the Tanks as well as a dance performance by Min Tanaka within Nakaya's mist and soundscape installation outside.
Although Tate Modern has hosted live performances before—and for two days in 2015 the French choreographer Boris Charmatz turned the whole gallery into the Musée de la danse—the group exhibition is the first in a dedicated programme focusing on live works, many by artists who work in media that is not usually experienced in a traditional museum setting. One of the aims of the exhibition is also "to welcome unplaceable artists", says the exhibitions co-curator Andrea Lissoni. The BMW Tate Live programme is sponsored by the BMW Group.
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