25 lbs down and some before and after!
I thought it was time to write about how I am actually feeling and doing on Paleo. It has been nearly 6 months since I started my own personal Paleo journey. It's been 3 months since my whole family has been eating Paleo. Since I started in October, I have lost a total of 25 lbs!!! My husband has lost 31 lbs since he started January 1st and has lowered his cholesterol enough to come off his statin drugs! I have noticed huge behavior changes in my 3-year-old daughter since we took gluten, sugar, and dairy out of her diet. And my 8 month old son, who weighed in at 20lbs a month ago, is thriving, happy, content and such a joy to be around. He eats everything I give him. His recent favorites are Paleo chicken nuggets, roasted asparagus, and grilled squash.
So I'm going to show my current before and after pictures. Seeing these are motivation in itself to keep going!
I tell people all the time that I feel amazing. I really do. There is no other way to describe how I feel with our new lifestyle. I have so much energy throughout the day…much needed energy since I'm chasing around a highly energetic 3-year-old and an 8 month old army crawler! My mind feels clearer. I haven't had a headache since I started Paleo. This is now such a part of our life that I NEVER want to go back to what we were before. It's become second nature and easy.
Do I cheat? Hmm, I like to call it indulging and, yes, I do indulge once a week on one meal. This week I had chips, dip, and Mojitos with my girlfriends and it was GREAT! Last week I had wings and pizza.
Do I let my kids cheat? I am not going to be able to watch every, single thing my kids put in their mouth. I'm also not going to be so strict that I don't let them indulge in something that they love. Geez, I do! So, yes, I let my daughter eat gluten snacks at her preschool. I let her Papa give her ice cream every day that we were home a few weeks ago. I let my son have those organic puffs when I see them on sale. Life is too short to not have a little bit of indulgences in our life when it comes to food. You have to be able to find that balance to where you can indulge and be done with it. It took a few months for me to be able to do that without being tempted for more or without my body telling me I need more.
Do I workout? If you mean "going to the gym working out", then no. I just love to be home with my kids. Our mornings are so great together and Frankie is in such a routine with his morning nap that I just don't even want to mess that up. However, I am on my feet ALL day. So, I wouldn't say that I don't exercise, I just don't do strenuous exercise. And I'm ok with that. Obviously my body is ok with that because I'm losing weight. I cannot devote the time to do any kind of crazy workout schedule, that's why I could never do a diet that requires me to. Another reason why I love Paleo. It works with your body like nature intended.
What the heck do I eat if I can't have gluten, diary, or sugar? LOTS!!! I have so many different types of new foods these last few months that I have never tried! I used to just make side salads to go with dinners before we were eating Paleo, but now I am making so many different types of vegetable dishes! We've had things like: coconut-almond green beans, roasted Brussel sprouts, kale chips, marinated and roasted beets, creamy cucumbers, mashed cauliflower, cauliflower rice, spaghetti squash, squash fries, sweet potato chips, roasted turnips, parsnip fries, leeks, fennel salads, Jicama home fries, and SO MUCH MORE! Does that sound restrictive to you? Eating Paleo has opened up my eyes to so many new kinds of foods. Once you get out of the "American" way of thinking that every meal needs bread, or that sweets can't taste good without sugar, you can really start to see that there is so much more to food than starch and sugar. Eating Paleo has also liberated me. I have gone through times where I was obsessed about the number of calories I ate, or the amount of fat something had in it. I now know that fat-free means LOADED with sugar…and that fat is not bad for us. I have lost 25lbs eating fat. I eat lots of fat. I cook with coconut oil liberally. I eat avocados. I don't feel guilty for reaching for a 3rd or 4th piece of bacon. I even sometimes don't trim the fat on our steak off. Fat is good. Our brains are mostly fat. Our bodies need fat.
Do I spend more money on food every week? If you are comparing our weekly budget to what I spent when I was crazy couponing a few years ago, then yes. I spend much more. If you compare our budget to what I spent when we were eating real, unprocessed (but not completely Paleo) foods, then no. I spend the same. Thankfully, I do not have to be really strict with our budget. We are extremely frugal in many areas of our life. We buy everything used. We sell things we don't use. I also try to live very naturally, so I make a lot of our cleaning and daily hygiene products from scratch. If we spend more than $100 one week, I don't freak out. I spent $150 this week, which is on the higher end of what I spend weekly, however, we needed things like toilet paper, a few cleaning products, and paper towels (which we mostly use for the animals and our new, litter-training kitty is burning through them). I haven't been able to convince my husband to give up toilet paper yet!
Do I eat all organic? Nope. In fact, I would venture to say that I eat mostly "un"organic. I do get organic vegetables IF they are on sale. We do eat grass-fed beef because we bought a whole cow and split it with a few families keeping 1/4th of the cow for ourselves. This costs us $4.50lb and will last us all year. I sometimes find pastured chickens on sale at a nearby grocery store and I snag a few. Thankfully, we don't have to worry about dairy anymore. I buy the So Delicious or Silk brand of coconut milk for my daughter to drink a few times during the day and for us also to use in our smoothies. I transitioned my daughter from raw cow milk to coconut milk when we went Paleo. Our eggs come from a local farmer (the same one we get our grass-fed beef from) that has free-range chickens and costs $2.50 dozen. We go through about 10 dozen eggs a month.
How do I feed my working husband? I boil eggs every week for him to grab. I have fruit always handy and ready to grab on the way out the door. I make a larger dinner and he takes the leftovers to work for lunch. I make hash, egg cupcakes, meat and spinach muffins for quick breakfasts on the go.
How do I have time to cook 3 meals a day and spend time with my kids? We eat easy breakfasts together. I grab our griddle throw things on it for breakfasts like eggs, bacon, sausage, or ham lunch meat. If we don't have a griddle breakfast, then I usually make a smoothie for everyone. Even my 8 month old enjoys these. I always have frozen bananas or strawberries on hand and I just make a simple smoothie. I sometimes sneak in coconut oil, flax-seed, or raw egg yolks for added nutrition.
What do we drink? That's easy…LOTS of water and an occasional milk. Me and my husband take a Fiberblend every night and we use apple juice for that (only because we CANNOT take it without juice…it's really disgusting, like dirt). Our 3-year-old loves her coconut milk and I give her that about twice a day.
What do we snack on? Honestly, we don't snack anymore. Our 3-year-old does, but me and my husband find that our protein and veggie packed meals really keep us full for a long time. For my 3-year-old I keep beef jerky, nuts, fruit leather, and fresh fruit on hand for when she is hungry. Her preschool teacher had a little meeting with me last week and told me that she has never seen a 3-year-old eat so much and so many kinds of healthy foods. She agreed that kids will eat what you give them, especially if you start them off right when they are young, like we did with Arianna. If interested, you can see some great kid lunch ideas on my Pinterest page: https://pinterest.com/jackieritz/arianna-s-lunches/ .
So there…there's a look inside some of our Paleo life. I hope it helps you, encourages you, and motivates you to make some changes in your life, or to continue on the path you are on!
Yay!!! I have been talking about Paleo for so long now, I thought I should start documenting how Paleo has changed my life, start documenting recipes and things I cook, and start sharing with the world how Paleo is FOR EVERYONE!!! My goal for this blog is to present Paleo options to my readers on how to be a modern-day Paleo mama; not only in choosing healthy options for your families to eat, but also in loving and caring for the earth, living sustainably, and loving the Creator of it all!
A couple days ago a very popular Paleo website, www.paleoparents.com, asked me to write an article for them on how Paleo has helped my family. I follow them on Facebook and they had a status update on how they love bacon. Who doesn't!?! I commented and said that my husband had jumped on the Paleo-train with me and this past month and his cholesterol had dropped 61 points in just one short month of eating Paleo!!! That is insane! I knew Paleo would work, but I never dreamed it would work THAT good! So, here's my story I sent in to them explaining how Paleo not only lowered my husband's cholesterol, but also, helped me to overcome some things I was dealing with too.
My Paleo journey began in October 2011 out of curiosity. My friend had talked about it, and since we already were real food eaters I thought that this wouldn't be that much more of a stretch for my little family of 4. I had just had 2 babies in 2 years, so I had the inevitable pooch pouch and just "Ick" feeling all the time. Two months prior to my Paleo journey I gave birth to my second baby. A month prior to starting my Paleo journey I had very tragically lost my younger sister, and in that month after her death I had put on a good 5-8 lbs. I felt terrible. I had weight from my pregnancy, and now I had extra weight from the stress of losing my sister. Not only did I feel miserable physically, but mentally I was really struggling as well. I was diagnosed with depression and parts of post-traumatic stress disorder, so needless to say, I was one big mess! I needed something and I needed it fast.
My husband wasn't on board with me at first. I didn't push him, because I wanted my life and health on Paleo to be evidence enough. After I started with this new way of eating, I felt so much better. My mind felt clearer. I could function more thoroughly as a mother and as a wife. My depression went away. I felt more confident. I felt like the clouds had cleared, and I could now see ahead of me again.
It was around the same time that I started Paleo in October '11 that I had asked my husband to get off his statin drugs. He had struggled with high cholesterol for 4 years, and had been on a statin drug ever since. He agreed to get off his statin, but didn't make any significant changes in his diet. A few months later around December'11 he went in to see what his cholesterol numbers were and they were 250—much higher than the recommended 200. So, he said he was going back on his statins. I pleaded with him to give Paleo a try with me for the month of January and to retake the cholesterol test at the end of January. He agreed! We did the Whole30 Challenge together from January 1st-January 30th. We ate the approved foods for "strict" Paleo, which consisted of lots of red meat, bacon, sausage, eggs, nuts, fruits and vegetables. We had no dairy, wheat, beans or sugar. My husband retook his cholesterol test when our Whole30 Challenge was over and his numbers dropped from 250 to 189!!! We were shocked! We had also lost a combined weight of 35 lbs in just one month of eating Paleo (45 lbs if you count from October when I started Paleo).
We are now, wholeheartedly, Paleo believers and have a happy Paleo family consisting of a Paleo toddler and a Paleo baby! This lifestyle has changed our lives pretty drastically in so many ways!


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Q: AngularJS not rendering SVG correctly I have a directive that should append a SVG element to the directive element
.directive('aSvg', function ($compile) {
    return {
        restrict: 'E',
        replace: true,
        link: function (scope, element, attrs) {
            var svgTag = angular.element('<svg viewBox="0 0 4000 2000" version="1.1"><defs><marker id="StartMarker" viewBox="0 0 12 12" refX="12" refY="6" markerWidth="3" markerHeight="3" stroke="green" stroke-width="2" fill="none" orient="auto"><circle cx="6" cy="6" r="5"></circle></marker><marker id="MidMarker" viewBox="0 0 10 10" refX="5" refY="5" markerUnits="strokeWidth" markerWidth="3" markerHeight="3" stroke="lightblue" stroke-width="2" fill="none" orient="auto"><path d="M 0 0 L 10 10 M 0 10 L 10 0"></path></marker><marker id="EndMarker" viewBox="0 0 10 10" refX="5" refY="5" markerUnits="strokeWidth" markerWidth="3" markerHeight="3" stroke="red" stroke-width="2" fill="none"><rect x="0" y="0" width="10" height="10"></rect></marker></defs><path d="M 200 250 L 700 100 L 900 350 L 1200 400 L 1300 200 L 1700 680 L 2200 680 L 2600 400" fill="none" stroke="black" stroke-width="50" marker-start="url(#StartMarker)" marker-mid="url(#MidMarker)" marker-end="url(#EndMarker)"></path><path d="M 1000 750 S 2000 750 2500 1250 S 1200 1000 1300 1400 S 1700 1480 1900 1200" fill="none" stroke="tomato" stroke-width="50" marker-start="url(#StartMarker)" marker-mid="url(#MidMarker)" marker-end="url(#EndMarker)"></path></svg>');
            $compile(svgTag)(scope);
            angular.element(svtTag).appendTo(element[0]);
        }
    };
});

And in html I have the directive as an element:
<body>
    <div>
        <a-svg></a-svg>
    </div>
</body>

However the SVG is not rendering correctly, only the 2 lines (black and orange) appear but there are no markers rendered. The SVG used in the example seems to be correct, because it renders correctly if I save it to a file, but for some reason it's not working in AngularJS.
What am I missing here?
Thanks in advance.
Edit 1: I was using AngularJS v1.2.20, I tried with v1.3.0 but still have the same problem.

A: After more researching I found out that the problem was in Angular routing, more specifically in the <base href='/'> tag that was messing around with the links defined in the SVG markers.
I solved my problem by changing the url in the markers attributes of each path (note the /myroute in the marker-start, marker-mid and marker-end attributes):
<path d="M 200 250 L 700 100 L 900 350 L 1200 400 L 1300 200 L 1700 680 L 2200 680 L 2600 400" fill="none" stroke="black" stroke-width="50" marker-start="url(/myroute#StartMarker)" marker-mid="url(/myroute#MidMarker)" marker-end="url(/myroute#EndMarker)"></path>

For more details, I suggest reading the accepted answer for the question here.

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Q: Is it possible to access substructs based on location Let's say I have a struct like so:
master = struct('a',struct(),'b',struct())

in R this would be a list of vectors and I could access the first or second element using master[1] or master[2]. Is it possible to do this in Matlab?
Thanks!

A: The short answer is you can't.
You could use dynamic field references with the fieldnames of your structure:
master = struct('a',struct('hi', 1),'b',struct('hi', 2));
myfields = fieldnames(master); % Need temporary variable

master.(myfields{1})

Which returns:
ans =

    hi: 1

You can also create an array of structs:
master(1) = struct('a', 1, 'b', 2);
master(2) = struct('a', 3, 'b', 4);

Which you could index (sorta) similarly to R:
>> [master(1).a master(2).b]

ans =

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ans =

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Q: how to stop a func from running and return a value after one minute? I would like to call a func and stop it from running after one minute, returning a value.
i have a code that looks similar to that:
def foo(txt):
   best_value=-1
   for word in txt:
       if value(word)>best_value:
           best_value=value(world)
    return best_value

i would like to stop running after one minute and return best_value.
thanks for your help.

A: A relatively foolish but maybe satisfactory solution would be to just set a timer and check it every loop iteration:
import time

def foo(txt):
   best_value=-1
   curr_time = time.time()
   for word in txt:
       if value(word)>best_value:
           best_value=value(world)
       if time.time() - curr_time > 60:
           break
    return best_value

The big disadvantage here is a lot of compute that's wasted on checking, where we have to do a syscall to retrieve the time.
We could alleviate this by just checking every 1000 words (for example), like so:
import time

def foo(txt):
   best_value=-1
   curr_time = time.time()
   for i, word in enumerate(txt):
       if value(word)>best_value:
           best_value=value(world)
       if i % 1000 == 0 and time.time() - curr_time > 60:
           break
    return best_value

This would just do the much cheaper check of i % 1000 and it would short circuit before computing time.time() - curr_time > 60.
This is probably more than good enough, but if you want more, here's another possible angle.
Update some shared memory between two separate processes, where one process does the computation and updates some shared memory, and the other process is responsible for sleeping for 60 seconds then killing the other process.
This is probably very useful if you choose to go down that route.

A: If you want to decouple the timing code from the business logic and to keep the overhead to a minimum, an easy way is to use a global variable in the code to tell it when to stop running:
time_out = False

def foo(txt):
   best_value=-1
   for word in txt:
       if value(word)>best_value:
           best_value=value(world)
       if time_out:
           break
    return best_value

Then use a separate function tied to use a Timer to stop it:
def send_stop():
    global time_out
    time_out = True

Timer(60.0, send_stop).start()
best_value = foo(corpus)


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The experience might easily have changed a nicer man.
I always find it hard to enjoy this song. I respect the excellence of its execution and would be surprised to hear anyone claim it was bad, but the depressing sound and lyrics lead me to respect it without any affection.
At the opening we get chimes, very light, at least as tenuous as the street sounds that opened the previous track. More ominous noises creep in, following quickly by the sounds of an angry, shouting crowd, and then at 0:45 by a really extreme flanger. I'm not sure it has anything to flange, but there it is, doing its thing.
A distorted guitar kicks in around 1:07, followed by a heavily fuzzed chorused bass. They definitely had a mood in mind, and the production sets it very well. The fuzz and time effects, combined with the choice of low notes throughout, create a sense of ponderous inevitability. A mod rarely travels fast, but it takes Chuck Norris to stop one. Musically they went very minimalist here; if you can't learn to play the first verse of this song, put down your instrument.
In the chorus we get more synth but otherwise things stay similar, though the melody builds towards a resolution of sorts. Beating and burning and killing often resolve matters, though rarely satisfactorily.
In the second verse the overall scheme remains the same but we get the embellishments characteristic of the band, especially in the bass and drums. The fill at 3:30 hasn't a patch on "War Paint" but it clearly belongs to this second verse, not the first.
The music works around a little more during the last 45 seconds or so, but never reaches any great musical heights. I suspect even Rush find it difficult to sound depressing while flexing their muscles. I wish I had more to say about this song, but honestly, I just don't want to break it down much more.
Not cut! No LJ-cut for the haters. Being an instrumental, YYZ features none of those shrieking Geddy vocals or pretentious Neil lyrics that sometimes turn people off. If you believe, as I believe, that being able to play your instrument well beats playing it poorly, you can probably stand to take a listen and follow along. You can just scroll down, if you want to be that way. I don't know if anyone actually misses these when I don't post them, but I do feel bad about diving back in January and then falling off the wagon so soon. Life got a little complicated there, and I sort of lost track of the project, but I'm going to try to get back into it.
This song taught me the limits of woodshedding. Every other song I had learned, I started by playing it slow, but through gradual practice, could get up to recorded speed in a few weeks. With YYZ, even with the published tab in front of me, I could never get half speed. I got so frustrated that I struck my bass with my fist, which broke one of the pickups. That taught me the importance of controlling my temper. I think that must be a landmark in my emotional development, since I don't know that I've truly lost my temper since.
Anyway, the song. The distinctive opening cadence, in which first Neil and then the entire band tap out the letters Y, Y, and Z in Morse code, must be built into the auditory framework of every true fan. I use it when I knock on doors as a matter of habit, and I don't think I'm the only one. With headphones on I can clearly hear the sound panning around at the opening, but it stabilizes in the center once the band joins in. The keyboard plays pedal tones in the background, laying out a melody which the band returns to periodically.
At 0:35 the magic starts, with Geddy and Alex playing a heinously complex figure in perfect unison. That goes right into the riff commonly identified with the track, which cannot be played by anyone without a comprehensive mastery of their intrument. At 1:10 they change into a more typical Rush approach, with Alex slowing to quarter notes while Geddy gives a little impromptu clinic. The line he plays at 1:22 almost defies the ear, and it's not even a proper bass break, it's just a little something he does for fun.
At 2:47 Alex uses one of his beautiful descending spiral riffs to move the song into a slower-paced, keyboard-drenched movement, but at 3:19 they resolve all themes and pound straight into the rif we heard at 0:35.
I should probably walk back my earlier remarks about the drums. If a Rush cover band played this song at a bar, the drummer could probably manage a straight 4:4 beat, and as long as he had the one and the three right, the audience would let it all slide. However, Neil never just slides by. When I listen carefully, I can pick out the spots where he throws in little embellishments here and there. I really appreciate the way he does that. To me, it says that he knows he plays in a trio and has to support the rest of the band, but also that he can play in back and support the band without having to be boring. The guy writes his lyrics as pantoums; he understands that sometimes, having to fit into a structure can be an aid to creativity.
My Kindle's battery is pretty much shot, and I decided I wanted a new one instead of shelling out for the replacement battery. Anyone want a free Kindle 2 with 1 day battery life and no charger? It would cost about $60 to have Amazon replace the battery. Any micro-USB charger that can deliver enough power should work, or you could buy an official Amazon charger for $20.
This Thom Patterson guy writes that "Some 41 million potential fliers chose not to travel by air from May 2007 to May 2008, according to Geoff Freeman of the U.S. Travel Association. That translates into $26.5 billion in lost spending that could have boosted a recession-dogged economy."
First of all, does anyone really think that people who decide not to buy airline tickets put that money in a sock and never, ever spend it?
Second, considering that excessive borrowing helped cause the recession, would it really be so awful if people did save their money for a change?
I used to love flying and now I avoid it whenever possible. That doesn't magically increase my savings rate. I just spend it on other stuff.
So yeah, I love this song. Someone buy me a Ferrari, or maybe a Caterham 7. I'll take you all for rides in it, I promise.
If I had picked up this album when it first came out, I'm not sure if I'd be stoked at this point, or let down. As Earthshine mentioned in his comments to my last entry, Permanent Waves seems to mark the end of the band's crazy experimental phase and show a movement toward something more concise and polished. If I listened to "Science" and then "Tom Sawyer" for the very first time, I might feel let down by the loss of that experimental spirit. On the other hand, not all experiments work out as intended. As you'll see as I work my way through, I think Moving Pictures is one of rock's few perfect albums, and if you can do work like that while going commercial, then may I and all of you have the good fortune to go commercial too.
I'm back! I've been putting this post off because frankly, I doubt my ability to do justice to the song. Still, I ought to try.
I can find lots of different things to enjoy in a song, but somewhere high on the list sits a good beat, something that makes me want to get up and jump around. When I'm shopping and "Dancing With Myself" starts playing on the store speakers, I get stoked. You know what "Different Strings" utterly lacks? Yeah. You guessed it. A good beat.
The song opens with Alex playing quietly, and to my ears somewhat intricately, although I'm a bad judge of difficulty. Geddy chimes in with some really nice lyrics - props to Neil on this song, yes indeed. Into the chorus and denied! Everything goes on in the same way, no power kick, no tempo change.
The second verse steps it up with... a click track. OK, yes, I'm sure Neil actually drums, but it still lacks kick, and the token electric guitar bits and the introduction of a bass part may fortify the sound but they can't accelerate it.
The solo gives Alex a chance to show off his subtlest chops - not blazing speed, but fine dynamic control. I respect the skill but not the song - not here, not on this album, not with the solo to "Freewill" looking over its shoulder from the track 2 spot, nor with "Natural Science" looming on the horizon. "Different eyes see different things," and I see a filler track.
In my last post I mentioned that I wasn't looking forward to the next two. I respect this song musically and the lyrics are certainly not bad, but they don't do anything for me either. Now that I listen to music on computers and have playlists, I avoid this song entirely. Just between us, the spaces between "Freewill" and "Natural Science" leave room for lesser works to make it onto the album.
Having dismissed the lyrics out of random misanthropy, let's talk music. I noticed the heavy use of synthesizer sounds right away. Peart opens with a very conventional 4:4 backbeat, and Alex strums chords as per usual, while Geddy rocks the Jazz bass sound and alternates between a very simple line, almost to the point of being pedal tones, and playing very intricate figures that remind me a lot of "Circumstances."
Going into the chorus, I listen for the drums and suddenly find myself visualizing Neil grabbing the cymbals to muffle them. I'm not sure why that image jumped out at me, since you don't hardly have to be Peart to use that move. Hrm.
The second verse sounds just like the first verse, but it's not. Neil seems to have shifted into top gear, and he's rattling away like mad on whatever it is that makes that thin metal noise - yeah, I know nothing about drums, what about it? Alex plays apreggios instead of chords. Only the bass seems broadly similar, although I suspect that if I saw the sheet music, I'd see big differences.
The solo... well, once again I listen for the bass first, and Geddy knows what time it is. Around 3:04 he starts into a really funky and growly section. I choose "funky" because he plays with a light touch, not a lot of attack, and higher than usual, and the result is a laid back, gliding feel to the part. A few seconds later Neil starts to throw in a lot more variety as well. He almost faked me out. I was about to say he played the same simple backbeat as before, and then all the sudden at 3:18, something totally other happens instead. Nice. As for the guitar... once again I suspect that Joe will explain that Alex does something very cunning from a theoretical standpoint, but I don't know that stuff. I just call it competent but not amazing.
Overall I can find a lot to like about the song. I still skip it when I can because the theme falls flat for me. Hopefully other fans enjoy it more.
This has been the hardest review for me to get around to. I think "Jacob's Ladder" rocks pretty hard, but for some reason, I just don't like it. I don't dislike it, either. I have no strong emotional attachment to it at all. It is much less fun than World of Tanks. Must try to focus. Must not click on World of Tanks again.
The opening comes in slow, stately, and I can hear Ged using his (apparently insanely strong) fingernail to get a tone most guys get from a pick. The sudden vocal chorus effect at "distant overture" works really well. A little gimmicky, perhaps, but I think you can afford a gimmick or to when you have this band's chops.
The following instrumental break keeps the same steady 4/4 pace but brings in new themes and a much harder edge. Alex really takes center stage here, with Neil and Ged giving him plenty of room to maneuver. It's about 2:12 before they attract any attention to themselves, and even then, they bring in a little something special for show and tell, then go back to their seats. The introduction of the synth line around 2:45 starts to invest in a theme that doesn't pay off for almost a full minute, and I pause here to salute such compositional mojo.
That synth movement and accompanied "for once..." lyric doesn't do a lot for me. Good rock just got soft and sappy. I request metal, and since I have heard the song before, my request shall be granted around the 4:54 mark.
I think this movement is in alernating 6 and 7, and I can never get enough of that crazy time signature mojo. I also love Neil's play - I have no idea what he's on, but he's getting tinny-sounding rim hits, then bashing snares, then getting a shuffling high hat thing going, and then back again, and oh hey, a quick fill on the toms. The time signature may repeat, but nothing else has to!
Coming next, when I can take a break from tanks: two songs I like even less than this one!
Our class leader at the Mid-Ohio School really loves Hondas and made a point of thanking Honda for all they do as sponsors of the school. According to Dave, their last set of class cars went 300,000 miles without an engine breakdown - and while I'm sure he meant total, not per car, those would be miles spent entirely on the autocross or track, so that's a proper endorsement. He also told a story of a student who tried for a fifth to third downshift, missed, and got fifth to first instead. It trashed the clutch but nothing else, which is a pretty cheap price to pay for a botch like that.
Mid-Ohio set up their TSXes with seasonal high performance tires and undisclosed "minor improvements," and of course they have five point harnesses for the drivers. I liked those cars. The had enough torque to charge hard down the autocross from any corner, but no noticable torque steer. I thought the shifter could have been a little more short and precise, but I couldn't believe how light the clutch was. When I finally got back in my WRX at the end of the day and put my foot on the clutch, I briefly thought I must be pressing the brake instead. The effort I always took for granted suddenly seemed totally unreasonable. Nice. Sadly I just could not love the interior. The dashboard slopes away from the driver at the top, and yet the windshield is so raked that there's still a very deep dash. It made the car feel bulky without being spacious. I want the driver's seat to feel like a cockpit, with everything right to hand and wrapped tight around me, not slope off into space to satisfy some design stylist. In the early 90s, Acura's design staff knew exactly what I wanted. Not so much anymore.
You know what would have been awesome? Same autocross track, in Honda Fit Sports.
Two sentence summary: Full of valuable info, but I would have liked more one on one instruction. Probably still the best course available at the price. I am completely sold on sending L to their teen defensive driving course when she gets her license.
Musically, I suggest that anyone who doesn't love "Freewill" should get out now. I love it less than I love some other Rush songs, but nonetheless, it gets everything right. From the outset of the track, we see Alex really showing his moves, and then Geddy reminds us that the Fender Jazz bass remains the gold standard for that grindy rock tone. At first Alex and Ged double one another, but before long, the synth pedals some in, and then the crazy arpeggios, and then we're into the chorus.
At first the chorus feels fairly simple, especially if you tune out the effects. I decided to try to see what Neil did, since he often manages to trick me. Sadly I don't know jack about drumming, so unless he plays a fill that I can't comprehend, or a time signature I can't count, I tend to underestimate his contribution. Anyway, I love the fill just after "... made a choice." Ged goes from doubling the guitar to playing a bass fill exactly in time with the drum fill. Niiiice.
The solo for "Freewill" blows me away, so I'm going to hop over the second verse and do a little gushing here. When I started learning bass, all I wanted was to be Ged. I could play some Rush songs, like "Tom Sawyer." I could play "The Analog Kid" well enough to fool most people. I never managed to play "YYZ" at more than about half speed, but I could fathom how it could be done. But the solo to "Freewill"... no. Never. I've seen it live many times, and I still can't believe a man can do that. It's not even a bass solo! Alex gives Geddy a little space at first, but quickly goes into his own berserk realm of guitar madness. If you described it to me, I'd tell you that it couldn't work, that you need to let the solo breathe a little. I'd be wrong. It works just fine, if you're that good.
You know what keeps the song short of perspective for me? The relationship between the music and the melody. The first couple choruses imply a lot of nasty things about a lot of people's attitudes, but the music never feels nasty. It feels cheery, in a prog rock blow you away fashion. After the solo, Geddy's wailing develops a little more emotional content, but I want my rage served up front and person. Rush, being Canadian, probably feel differently about that issue.
General George S. Patton, hell yeah.
Is there a more iconic guitar riff in the entire Rush discography? Three notes instantly generate extreme rocking out. Millions of people work hard and accomplish less.
Alex's guitar part displays his typical habits but also a lot of single note bending (a whole new type of bending - someone alert Aang!) and of course the aforementioned riff, without which the song would a hollow shell.
Geddy does Geddy stuff and does it well, but this is a guitar song, not a bass song. Neil really grabs my attention more with his deft work on cymbals and bells, or whatever crazy thing drummers use when they want to get tremble as all get-out. The sibilance of the high-hat and the high-pitched ringing of the whatever help create the soundscape for Alex's guitars, and the glockenspiel fills in the blanks in the chorus, and yet the man still finds time to keep on the toms to make sure no section of the audio spectrum gets ignored. I really like the way Neil starts laying into it just when Geddy sings "almost free" around 2:51. Because the metal percussion isn't especially loud, it doesn't crowd anybody out, but it nonetheless cranks up the energy of the song. During the solo/bridge/whatever right after that chorus, I can't even break down everything that goes on - there's some serious bionic man action there.
Musically, I could take or leave the reggae part, but the lyrics more than make up for any lack of prog insanity. "Salesman" definitely makes the list of essential Geddy-isms. Neil's little substitution of profits for prophets breaks no new literary ground, but the entire song stands up beautifully as an expression of his dislike for the way that the freeform world of FM began to acquire a disturbing corporate outlook. Is it really "just a question of your honesty?" I'm honestly not sure that radio is, but I believe honesty counts a full ten points in songwriting. To like a band, and not just a few of their songs, I need a sense that the guys in that band really feel the music they're writing, and didn't just turn out another set of 4:4 chord progressions because their producer said it would sell. Not that 4:4 equals selling out - I think prog without inspiration turns out to be much crappier and less honest than old U2 or any Vertical Horizon album. Hrm, I'm off on a rant here - perhaps all this machinery making modern LJ posts can be open hearted, but I struggle. Ah well. Rock on, Alex.
It's going to be really hard to write this post, because my impression is that "La Villa Strangiato" has a lot of musical compositional tricks in its metaphorical bag, and I don't know musical theory much.
I adore the smoothness of this song. Rush often employ the "power kick," using a sudden rush of distortion and/or volume to completely change up the energy level of a song. Here they go the other way entirely. Elements of the Strangiato Theme come through during the intro, and then they smoothly blend more and more rock into it until all systems check out at 1:59. Everyone experiences music differently, but inside my head, the Strangiato Theme is exhilaration. Whether skiing, debating, paintballing, airsofting, playing tanks, or whatever, I sometimes find that zone where everything comes together and I can take on all comers. The Strangiato Theme puts that feeling into music.
Then it ends - the chord hits and the percussion keep an echo of it alive, but eventually it smooths into a brooding, almost exploratory vibe in which Alex explores the subtleties of the volume pedal. Here especially I think that someone like, oh, _earthshine_ could probably explain exactly what Alex does, but I just have to mutter about how he's slowly building something up and eventually really wailing into it. For all the songs where Alex basically plays rhythm guitar, this tune offers plenty of reminders that the man has chops. I never played six string but it spooks me a little to hear the pick noise around 5:35. I do not know for sure, but I suspect it takes strong left hand technique to play that smooth.
A minute or so later, we get a reprise of the Strangiato Theme, which I always find too short... and then we're on our way out. Dang. I would pay a lot of money to have been a fly on the wall when they were putting that song together. Possibly more than any other Rush song, LVS drives home the enormous gulf between playing music and writing it. When I was in high school and woodshedding 8-10 hours a week, I could imagine having the skill to play the bass line for this song. I never had it, but I thought I could see it from where I was. To have the imagination to think of so many different parts, and the patience and vision to assemble them... nope. My talents, thankfully, lie so far elsewhere that I don't even feel the need to try.


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Home R&D Gene editing with CRISPR used to treat lethal lung diseases in utero
Gene editing with CRISPR used to treat lethal lung diseases in utero
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Using CRISPR gene editing, researchers have thwarted a lethal lung disease, in an animal model, in which a harmful mutation causes death within hours after birth.
This proof-of-concept study, published in Science Translational Medicine, showed that in utero editing could be a promising new approach for treating lung diseases before birth.
"We wanted to know if this could work at all," said study co-leader Edward E. Morrisey, a professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and scientific director of Penn's Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
"The trick was how to direct the gene-editing machinery to target cells that line the airways of the lungs."
The lung conditions the team from Penn Medicine and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is hoping to solve — congenital diseases such as cystic fibrosis, surfactant protein deficiency, and alpha-1 antitrypsin — are characterised by respiratory failure at birth or chronic lung disease with few options for therapies.
About 22% of all paediatric hospital admissions are attributed to respiratory disorders, and congenital causes of respiratory diseases are often lethal, despite advances in care and a deeper understanding of their molecular causes.
Because the lung is a barrier organ in direct contact with the outside environment, targeted delivery to correct defective genes is an attractive therapy.
"The developing foetus has many innate properties that make it an attractive recipient for therapeutic gene editing," said study co-leader William H. Peranteau, an investigator at CHOP's Centre for Fatal Research, and a paediatric and fatal surgeon in CHOP's Centre for Foetal Diagnosis and Treatment.
"The ability to cure or mitigate a disease via gene editing in mid- to late gestation before birth and the onset of irreversible pathology is very exciting.
"This is particularly true for diseases that affect the lungs, whose function becomes dramatically more important at the time of birth."
The researchers showed that precisely timed in utero delivery of CRISPR gene-editing reagents to the amniotic fluid during foetal development resulted in targeted changes in the lungs of mice.
They introduced the gene editors into developing mice four days before birth, which is analogous to the third trimester in humans.
The cells that showed the highest percentage of editing were alveolar epithelial cells and airway secretory cells lining lung airways.
In 2018, a team led by Morrisey identified the alveolar epithelial progenitor (AEP) lineage, which is embedded in a larger population of cells called alveolar type 2 cells.
These cells generate pulmonary surfactant, which reduces surface tension in the lungs and keeps them from collapsing with every breath. AEPs are a stable cell type in the lung and turn over very slowly but replicate rapidly after injury to regenerate the lining of the alveoli and restore gas exchange.
In a second experiment, the researchers used prenatal gene-editing to reduce the severity of an interstitial lung disease called surfactant protein C (SFTPC) deficiency in a mouse model that has in common a disease-causing mutation found in the human Sftpc gene.
100% of untreated mice with this mutation die from respiratory failure within hours of birth. In contrast, prenatal gene-editing to inactivate the mutant Sftpc gene resulted in improved lung morphology and survival of over 22% of the animals.
Future studies will be directed towards increasing the efficiency of the gene editing in the epithelial lining of lungs as well as evaluating different mechanisms to deliver gene editing technology to lungs.
"Different gene editing techniques are also being explored that may one day be able to correct the exact mutations observed in genetic lung diseases in infants," Morrisey said.
Morrisey collaborated on a recent study led by Peranteau and Kiran Musunuru, an associate professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Penn, demonstrating the feasibility of in utero gene editing to rescue a lethal liver disease in a mouse model – the first time in utero CRISPR-mediated gene editing prevented a deadly metabolic disorder in animals.
Similar to that study, Peranteau said: "The current research is a proof-of-concept study highlighting the exciting future prospects for prenatal treatments including gene editing and replacement gene therapy for the treatment of congenital diseases."
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The 16-person Fleet Service Department maintains every city vehicle - a total of 726 units. Each vehicle is required to undergo scheduled maintenance every 5,000 miles or 150 hours for oil changes, and 30,000 miles or 900 hours for transmission services.
Fleet provides 24-hour emergency city vehicle service. All mechanics are ASE certified. Fleet handles all accident repairs, obtaining estimates, meetings with insurance adjusters and vehicle repairs at local body shops. It also has an on-site body shop for small repairs and painting. Fleet service also maintains the city's truck wash facility and an on-site, self-serving fueling island.
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This article is written in four parts. First, macrohistory as it relates to the study of the future is defined. Second, the role of macrohistory, or the timing of the future, is located in the "six pillars" approach to futures studies. Third, case studies of macrohistory as practice are presented. Finally, the article concludes with insights from the practice of using timing.


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Q: tree algorithm implementation c# I have some issues resolving an algorithm used to find all posible combinations taking elements from N diferents lists (where N>=2 && N<=7 -> this number is fixed and I can make a diferent method for each N).
The problems goes as this:
I have five dictionaries:
IDictionary<int, MyEnum> listOne;
IDictionary<int, MyEnum> listTwo;
IDictionary<int, MyEnum> listThree;
IDictionary<int, MyEnum> listFour;
IDictionary<int, MyEnum> listN;

enum MyEnum
    {
    MyEnumOne,
    MyEnumTwo,
    MyEnumThree,
    MyEnumFour,
    MyEnumFive,
    MyEnumOther
   }

which can have any number of elements (not more than 100, and most of the time they will have between 32 and 64 elements)
and where MyEnum is a simple name enum with some values.
For each possible combination, I have some method which examinates the combination and checks if it satisfies some conditions,and if they are satisfied stores some data based on the combination.
I have tried simple nested iterations using foreachs for each list, which as expected, take eons to run!
Any help, as where I should start, what should I do, or event what I should not do will be more than welcome!, also if more info is needed, please feel free to ask!
**EDIT:
a combination, based on five lists as shown before would be, for example:
(MyEnumOne, MyEnumOne, MyEnumFour, MyEnumFive, MyEnumTwo)

and, as this combination, can appear several times (as MyEnumOne value can be many times on listOne, etc), I have to also, keep record of how many times does this combination happens.

A: You can solve this kind of problems easily with LINQ.
var solutions = from pair1 in listOne
                where IsCandidate(pair1)
                from pair2 in listTwo
                where IsCandidate(pair1, pair2)
                from pair3 in listThree
                where IsCandidate(pair1, pair2, pair3)
                from pair4 in listFour
                where IsCandidate(pair1, pair2, pair3, pair4)
                from pair5 in listFive
                where IsCandidate(pair1, pair2, pair3, pair4, pair5)
                from pair6 in listSix
                where IsCandidate(pair1, pair2, pair3, pair4, pair5, pair6)
                from pair7 in listSeven
                where IsSolution(pair1, pair2, pair3, pair4, pair5, pair6, pair7)
                select new { pair1, pair2, pair3, pair4, pair5, pair6, pair7 };

Of course this approach is valid only because the number of lists is known at compile time. An alternative approach would be to have a generic way of building the possible combinations, as Eric Lippert shows in his post.
All those intermediate where all over the query, are to filter out invalid combinations as soon as possible.
EDIT
Fixed solution to count efficiently how many times a same combination happens, ignoring the keys of the original source.
To achieve this, I'm going to apply a transformation to each dictionary. I'm going to transform each dictionary into a new dictionary, where the key would be the enum value, and the value would be the number of times that enum values happens in the original dictionary.
IDictionary<MyEnum, int> CountOccurrences(IEnumerable<MyEnum> values)
{
    return (from e in values group e by e).ToDictionary(grp => grp.Key, grp => grp.Count());
}

var solutions = from p1 in CountOccurrences(listOne.Values)
                where IsCandidate(p1)
                from p2 in CountOccurrences(listTwo.Values)
                where IsCandidate(p1, p2)
                from p3 in CountOccurrences(listThree.Values)
                where IsCandidate(p1, p2, p3)
                from p4 in CountOccurrences(listFour.Values)
                where IsCandidate(p1, p2, p3, p4)
                from p5 in CountOccurrences(listFive.Values)
                where IsCandidate(p1, p2, p3, p4, p5)
                from p6 in CountOccurrences(listSix.Values)
                where IsCandidate(p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6)
                from p7 in CountOccurrences(listSeven.Values)
                where IsSolution(p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6, p7)
                select new {
                    E1 = p1.Key,
                    E2 = p2.Key,
                    E3 = p3.Key,
                    E4 = p4.Key,
                    E5 = p5.Key,
                    E6 = p6.Key,
                    E7 = p7.Key,
                    Times = p1.Value * p2.Value * p3.Value * p4.Value * p5.Value * p6.Value * p7.Value
                };

A: Generally, with such problems you should try to construct the solutions and not blindly go through the entire search space looking for them.
I'm assuming that what you really need to do is this:
- you have N lists, each list i having L(i) elements.
- you want to generate all combinations of length N, where the first element comes from the first list, the second element from the second list and so on.
There doesn't seem to be any way to avoid generating all the combinations the hard way.
All 100 elements ^ N ~ 10^14... which will take eons.
I second the request for small samples and conditions that need to be satisfied.


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Lecture: Dr. Nikki Brown
Dr. Nikki Brown holds a PhD from Yale University and is an Associate Professor of History at the University of New Orleans.
Her first book, Private Politics and Public Voices: African American Women's Politics from World War I to the New Deal, won the Letitia Woods Brown Award for best book in African American Women's History in 2007.
She is also a professional photographer and documentarian. Brown focuses on African American history and visual culture of the 20th century, particularly the African diaspora, art, global feminism, and gender studies.
Her photographs have been on exhibition in the United States and Austria. She is also the co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Jim Crow, 3 vols (2009)
Lecture: Samuel R. Williamson
With a book presentation of Günter Bischof, Ferdinand Karlhofer, Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., eds., 1914: Austria-Hungary, the Origins, and the First Year of World War I (Contemporary Austrian Studies 23).
Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., a native of Louisiana, is President Emeritus of the University of the South. Educated at Tulane,
Edinburgh, and Harvard, he has taught at the U. S. Military Academy (as a serving officer), Harvard, UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of the South. At Chapel Hill he served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Provost of the University, then later for twelve years as President of the University of the South.
He has written widely about the origins of the First World War: The Politics of Grand Strategy: Britain and France Prepare for War, 1904-1914 (1969); Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War (1991), and with Russel Van Wyk, July 1914: Soldiers, Statesmen, and the Coming of the Great War (2003). Most recently, he was guest editor of 1914: Austria-Hungary, the Origins, and the First Year of the World War I.
Images of World War I
Dr. Hans Petschar, Austrian National Library
2014 Art Exchange Opening
Artists: Nicole Weniger, Katharina Cibulka. September 13, 2014.
2014 UNO-City of Innsbruck Art Exhibition
In the exhibition known as 'environmental scanning' at the St. Claude Gallery in New Orleans, artists Katharina Cibulka and Nicole Weniger explore the relationship between human beings and human modes of perception of surrounding spaces. The works on exhibition thematize and visualize the impact of a given environmental field on one's identity as a human being and the human behavior which is born of that impact.
Katharina Cibulka was born in 1975 in Innsbruck. She studied media and performance art at the Academy of Visual Arts in Vienna and analog film at the New York Film Academy. In her films, photographic works, installation art pieces, performances and textual works, she thematizes the relationship of individuals to their immediate environment, thus highlighting a precarious balancing act between subjective desires and demands placed on individuals by the external world. Her critical scrutiny of deeply entrenched habits in order to counteract this syndrome by presenting proof of the contrary through artistic means - thus making change possible - forms an integral part of her handicraft.
Nicole Weniger was born in 1987 in Innsbruck. She studied transmedial art at the University of Applied Art. In her artistic works she addresses the inner needs of urbanized people and the disparity between nature and culture. Nicole Weniger views urban city space as theatre. Her performance-like stagings and interventions are aimed at provoking irritations among city inhabitants and the concomitant responses; as well as depicting certain social, spatial and economic relationships.
Welcome New Students & Faculty!
Scheduled Events - Fall 2014
UNO St. Claude Gallery
Opening of Innsbruck Art Exhibit: Art by Nicole Weniger & Katharina Zibulka
(in World War I Lecture Course), LIB 407
Dr. Hans Petschar, Director, Picture Archives of the Austrian National Library
The Visual Record of World War I: Gathering War -- The Austrian National Library's Collections on World War I
Dr. Samuel F. Williamson, Jr., President Emeritus, University of the South
Austria-Hungary and the Origins of World War I
(incl. Presentation of Günter Bischof/Ferdinand Karlhofer/Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., eds., 1914: Austria-Hungary, the Origins, and the First Year of World War I(Contemporary Austrian Studies 23)
[location to be determined]
Professor Wilhelm Kohler, University of Tübingen & Harvard University
Recent Developments in Global and Transatlantic Trade Policy
Liberal Arts Lounge
Professor Victoria I. Zhuravleva, Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU), Moscow
Russia and the United States: An Image of Each Other in the Context of the Ukrainian Crisis
Alex Smith was the Center Austria Ministry of Science Fellow for two years where he met his future wife, Anja Fink, another University of Innsbruck student who came to study at UNO.
We wish Alex and Anja all the best for their life together!
Happy Birthday, Dr. Mueller!
The CenterAustria team congratulates its founding director, Dr. Gordon 'Nick' Mueller, to his 75th birthday. Günter Bischof and Coleman Warner from the National World War II Museum put the Festschrift Museum Man together for Nick for this occasion.
The 2014 Art Exchange Opens in Innsbruck
The Austrian-American Art Exchange 2014 opnes at Andechs Gallery in Innsbruck, Austria.
Book Presentation in Innsbruck
The American Corner Innsbruck invites you to a Book Presentation byGuenter Bischof
Street Adress: Herzog - Friedrich Strasse 3/ First Floor, 6020 Innsbruck
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Your registration with help us with catering:
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Book Presentation in Vienna
Presentation of Relationships/ Beziehungsgeschichten at Amerika Haus in Vienna.
Annual Botstiber Lecture in Washington, D.C.
The Botstiber Annual Lecture at the Austrian Embassy on May 30, 2014 was a panel discussion chaired by Professor Beer (Director, Botstiber Institute of Austrian-American Studies) on "Intelligence Gathering in the 21st Century"with the panelists (from left to right): Audrey Kurth Cronin (George Mason University), James Jay Carafano (Heritage Foundation), Timothy Naftali (New York University), Siegfried Beer (University of Graz), John Irvin (Washington, D.C.), Guenter Bischof (CenterAustria, University of New Orleans).
Book Talk - Relationships? Beziehungsgeschichten
RELATIONSHIPS/BEZIEHUNGSGESCHICHTEN: AUSTRIA AND THE UNITED STATES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (TRANSATLANTICA 4). INNSBRUCK; STUDIENVERLAG, 2014
Panel Discussion with Ambassador Hans Peter Manz, Günter Bischof, James Jay Carafano. Wine reception to follow.
Free. Please rsvp at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/relationships-beziehungsgeschichten-book-talk-panel-discussion-tickets-11683488629
After the breakup of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian – American relationship was characterized by a dwarf confronting a giant. America continued to be a haven for a better life for many Austrian emigrants from the Burgenländers and Jewish refugees in the interwar years, to GI brides, skiers, students and scholars after World War II. For the increasingly preponderant
America after World War I, the small Austrian Republic was insignificant. And yet there were times when Austria mattered geopolitically, especially on the eve and after World War II. During the postwar Austrian occupation, the U.S. helped reconstruct Austria economically and was the biggest champion of its independence. During the Cold War, the U.S. frequently used Austria as a mediator in the rigid East-West confrontation and site of summit meetings. American mass production models (Fordism and Taylorism), consumerism, and popular culture (jazz and Coca Cola) were adopted by Austrian youth. Americanization and American preponderance also produced anti-Americanism. With the end of the Cold War and Austria's accession to the European Union it once again lost significance for Washington geopolitics. These themes and more will be addressed in the essays written by the author over the past 30 years and collected here for the first time.
Dr. Hans Peter Manz, a career diplomat and former foreign policy adviser to Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel, has served as the Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to the United States since 2011.
Dr. Gűnter Bischof is a University Research Professor of History, the Marshall Plan Professor and Director of CenterAustria at the University of New Orleans; he is the author of Austria in the First Cold War, 1945/55 (1999) and co-editor of the series Contemporary Austrian Studies (22 vols) and TRANSATLANTICA (7 vols). He has been serving as Presidential Counselor and member at the National World War II Museum and as a board member of the Botstiber Institute of Austrian-American Studies.
Dr. James Jay Carafano, a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges,is The Heritage Foundation's Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, E. W. Richardson Fellow, and Director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies. After a 25 year career in the U.S. Army, he studied for a PhD in History at Georgetown University with a dissertation on the Austrian occupation after World War II, published as Waltzing into the Cold War (2002). His latest book is Wiki at War: Conflict in a Socially Networked World (2012).
Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Workshop
Center Austria Workshop in cooperation with Prof. Michael Leitner, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Center Austria Fellows Research Presentations
Gertraud Griessner (Center Austria), Markus Habermann (Austrian Ministry of Science Fellow), Martina Prugger (Nick Mueller Fellow) and Guenter Bischof (Center Austria)
Martina Prugger
Nick Mueller Fellow, University of Innsbruck, Applied Mathematics
A Short Introduction to Mathematical Fluids
Markus Habermann
Austrian Ministry of Science Fellow, University of Vienna, Political Science
Emotion in Political Communication: Can Austrian Politicians Learn from American Politicians?
Martina Prugger was born in Hall in Tyrol, Austria, in 1987. She graduated from the University of Vienna in Statistics in 2010 and did her Masters' degree at the University of Innsbruck in 2013 in applied mathematics. In her master thesis, she studied numerical methods to solve partial differential equations that describe the dynamics of gases. In 2013, she was awarded the Nick-Müller scholarship to go to New Orleans and work on her dissertation. In cooperation with Alexander Kurganov, Tulane University, she was able to deepen her understanding of such methods and work on a new idea of implementation.
Markus Habermann grew up in Herrnbaumgarten, Lower Austria, and lives in Vienna. He studied Political Science, Sociology, as well as the Czech language at the University of Vienna and in the Czech Republic. After his studies he began to work as a lobbyist for Austria's biggest agency. He has also been working as a press spokesman for the regional government of Lower Austria. As the 2013 "Austrian Ministry of Science Fellow" at UNO, he is conducting research and field work for his dissertation analyzing emotion in political communication, comparing American and Austrian politics.
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Andrea Grisold is professor of economics at the University of Economics and Business in Vienna, and currently Schumpeter Fellow at Harvard University.
She was a visiting professor at UNO before and after Katrina, first as Marshall Plan Chair of Austrian Studies in 2003/04, then as Fulbright professor in 2009. She specializes in the field of media economics, namely the political economy of mass media, besides topics such as the economic policies of the European Union and gendered labor markets, and has widely published in those areas.
In this lecture the analysis of long term change in media industries is intertwined with long term economic change, using Schumpeter's theory of innovation to identify causes for the rise and fall of media industries, exemplified here for the TV sector. The most prominent argument for structural transformation in the media industries is that of new and revolutionary technological progress. It will be argued that this falls short of recognizing changes in the general economic settings, and the importance mass media gain for economic development and stabilization.
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As a political activist, journalist and writer, his father Leo Katz moved the family to Berlin in 1930. From there, they had to move to Paris after the Nazis' rise to power and in 1940 continued their escape from Nazism, first to New York and then to Mexico. In Mexico City the Katzs finally found a safe haven. Friedrich Katz, who became fluent in his fifth language by the age of 14, lived among one of the most fascinating and active exile communities of the time.
In 1949, Katz returned to Vienna, then a hot spot of the early Cold War, where he joined the Austrian Communist Party while writing his dissertation on the national economy of pre-Colombian Aztecs. Despite the high praise for the quality of his work, his peers made it clear that there was only one place they would write him a recommendation for: East Berlin. For over a decade, Katz worked at Humboldt University in East Berlin, establishing himself as a celebrated Mexicanist and discovering the second great topic of his oeuvre, the Mexican Revolution. Only after the repression of the Prague Spring in 1968 he left both Berlin and the Communist Party behind.
After a short stop-over in Mexico, where he witnessed the brutal suppression of the 1968 student movement, he received his first appointment in the USA at the University of Texas in Austin. In 1971, the former Communist Katz became part of the University of Chicago faculty. There he reached the height of his international fame as the most renowned scholar of the Mexican Revolution and made the University of Chicago a national hub for Latin Americanists.
This lecture will fathom the volte-faces and contradictions of one of the most fascinating academic biographies of the 20th century.
Berthold Molden is the 2012-2014 Austrian Marshall Plan Chair at UNO, where he teaches European and Global History of the 20th century. He has published on different aspects of Cold War intellectual and political history. From 2005 to 2010, he directed an international research project on everyday history and memory in Central European border towns. Among his publications is an edited volume of essays on the life and work of Friedrich Katz: Friedrich Katz. Essays on the Life and Work of a Transnational Historian, ed. by Martina Kaller, David Mayer and Berthold Molden (Wiener Vorlesungen - Forschungen, Volume 6), Vienna: Peter Lang 2012.
Dr. Michael Freund is head of the media department at Webster University Vienna (affiliated with Webster St. Louis) and writer and editor at the Viennese daily Der Standard. He studied psychology and sociology in Vienna, Heidelberg and at Columbia University, N.Y. (Ph.D. in 1978). After returning to Vienna, he worked on "Marienthal 1930 – 1980", the follow-up of a classic sociological study of unemployment. He contributed to Austrian Public Radio ORF as writer and producer and started teaching at Webster in 1984.
He was responsible for the weekend supplement of Der Standard from 1989 to 2004 when he assumed the media department position. His main interests include media and cross-cultural comparisons, especially between the United States and Europe. He recently published journal articles and a book chapter on the political and social significance of the Doonesbury comic strip. At Der Standard, he continues to write primarily on cultural matters.
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Center Austria students learn about New Orleans history and culture by walking through one of New Orleans' famous cemeteries. We thank Mrs. Dana Criswell for her excellent tour. Photo by Katrin Voggenberger.


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James Alward Van Fleet (Fort Lee, Nueva Jersey, 19 de marzo de 1892-Polk City, Florida, 23 de septiembre de 1992) fue un general de cuatro estrellas estadounidense, quien sirvió en la Primera Guerra Mundial, la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la guerra de Corea. Durante esta última, ocupó el cargo de comandante en jefe del 8.º Ejército y del Comando de las Naciones Unidas.

Infancia y educación
Nació en Fort Lee, Nueva Jersey, y se mudó con su familia a Florida a los pocos meses de edad. Allí creció y acudió al primer instituto de la comarca en admitir a alumnos de color tras la desegregación (resultado de la fusión con una escuela de la Union Academy).

Trayectoria militar

Tras graduarse en 1911 con nota de honor, Van Fleet recibió una invitación para ingresar en la Academia Militar de los Estados Unidos en West Point, un gran honor en aquella época. Tras matricularse ese mismo año, rápidamente destacó por su perspicacia y dotes deportivas, siendo Fullback del invencible equipo de fútbol americano de la Academia en la temporada de 1914. Se graduó del programa de oficiales en la famosa promoción de 1915 junto a Dwight Eisenhower y Omar Bradley.

Su primer destino como subteniente fue en el  Regimiento de Infantería del Ejército de los Estados Unidos en Plattsburgh, Nueva York. Poco después, el regimiento fue trasladado a Madison Barracks (antigua instalación militar, también en Nueva York) y luego a Eagle Pass, Texas, formando la línea de defensa en la frontera con México durante la expedición contra Pancho Villa y hasta finales de 1917. En esta época, fue ascendido dos veces, primero a teniente y menos de un año después a capitán.

Como otros prometedores oficiales subalternos de la época, Van Fleet desempeñó varios puestos de instrucción e inspección. En octubre de 1917, fue destinado a Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, como instructor de personal civil en puestos temporales de oficialidad (médicos, capellanes y similares), luego comandó el 2.º Destacamento de Escuelas de Servicio del Ejército y luego fue inspector en el 7.º Regimiento de Infantería de la Guardia Nacional en Misuri y varias otras instalaciones. El 4 de julio de 1918, fue designado jefe de compañía en el 16.º Batallón de Ametralladoras, obteniendo temporalmente el grado de comandante.

Van Fleet fue enviado a Francia durante la fase final de la Primera Guerra Mundial, en su primer puesto de comandancia combativa como jefe del 17.º Batallón de Ametralladoras. Fue herido en la Ofensiva de Meuse-Argonne el 4 de noviembre de 1918, una semana antes del armisticio que puso fin a la guerra.

De vuelta a Estados Unidos en 1922, le fue restaurado su grado original de capitán, y dos años después fue ascendido de nuevo a comandante en el Ejército regular. Sirviendo en el Cuerpo de Entrenamiento de Oficiales de la Reserva, reunido en la Universidad de Florida, aprovechó su experiencia deportiva para desempeñarse como entrenador de los Florida Gators, equipo al que condujo en 1924 a su récord de todos los tiempos en la Liga Nacional.

Entre 1924 y 1927, fue destinado en la base de Camp Galliard, en la Zona del Canal de Panamá, donde comandó el  Batallón del 42.º Regimiento de Infantería. En abril de 1927, aceptó el cargo de instructor en Fort Benning (Georgia), aprovechando su estancia para matricularse en el Curso Avanzado de Oficiales de Infantería (Infantry Officer Advanced Course), del que se graduó en junio de 1929. Como en ocasiones anteriores, Van Fleet se desempeñó al mismo tiempo como entrenador jefe del equipo de fútbol americano de la base. En julio de 1929, regresó a la Universidad de Florida como profesor de Ciencia Militar y Táctica, un puesto que mantuvo cuatro años, hasta junio de 1933. El julio de ese año, fue designado comandante del 2.º Batallón del 5.º Regimiento de Infantería en Fort Williams, Cape Elizabeth (Maine), cargo que desempeñó hasta julio de 1935, siendo al mismo tiempo el oficial ejecutivo (executive officer) de la base.

Segunda Guerra Mundial
Después de servir varios años en distintas unidades de infantería, en junio de 1941 Van Fleet fue ascendido a coronel, asumiendo el cargo de comandante del 8.º Regimiento de Infantería escasos meses antes de la entrada de Estados Unidos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Gran parte de su trayectoria en la guerra fue al cargo de este regimiento, que como parte de la 4.ª División de Infantería prestaba servicio en el frente occidental, incluyendo la batalla de Normandía, en la que desembarcó en la Playa de Utah. Allí, mostró sus excepcionales capacidades de liderazgo en combate en unas acciones heroicas que le valieron la Cruz por Servicio Distinguido.

A pesar de su destacado servicio, Van Fleet se quedó al mando del regimiento hasta julio de 1944 (tres años), mientras muchos de sus compañeros de promoción ya habían alcanzado rangos de generales. Aquello se debió a un error de George Marshall, jefe de Estado Mayor del Ejército de Estados Unidos, quien le confundió con otro oficial con el mismo nombre y mismo rango, conocido por sus problemas de alcoholismo y mala conducta. Solo cuando Eisenhower, entonces comandante en jefe del Teatro de Operaciones Europeo, quien conocía bien a Van Fleet aún desde West Point, se enteró del error, se lo hizo saber a Marshall, quien poco después le ascendió a general de brigada como segundo al mando de la 2.ª División de Infantería, y, tres meses después, como comandante de la 4.ª División de Infantería. Al cabo de dos meses, fue ascendido a mayor general tras ser puesto al mando de la 90.ª División de Infantería. Cuatro meses después, ya fue designado comandante del XXIII Cuerpo de Ejército y dos meses después sustituyó a John Millikin a la cabeza del III Cuerpo Blindado (famoso por sus actuaciones bajo Millikin como parte del  Ejército de George Patton), cuando este fue ascendido a general. Este fue su último mando en la guerra, siguiendo en este cargo a finales de la contienda y durante la ocupación aliada de Alemania.

Posguerra
Después de regresar a Estados Unidos, Van Fleet aceptó en junio de 1946 el puesto de vice comandante general del  Ejército en Governors Island, Nueva York, con el rango de general de brigada (en los años de la posguerra era común que oficiales que deseaban permanecer en servicio activo aceptaran una degradación de su rango, debido a la eliminación de puestos). En diciembre de 1947, fue enviado a Fráncfort como oficial de operaciones del Mando Europeo de Estados Unidos.

Unas dos semanas después de recuperar el rango de mayor general debido a su puesto en Alemania, fue ascendido a teniente general en febrero de 1948 y enviado a Grecia para encabezar el Grupo Asesor Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas de Estados Unidos que se encargaba de la ejecución de la Doctrina Truman. Fue clave en el desenlace de la guerra civil griega como asesor del Gobierno griego y asesor jefe de un grupo de 250 expertos militares, además de encargado de la gestión de los 400 millones de dólares presupuestados para ayuda militar. Al regresar de Europa, se hizo cargo del 2.º Ejército, hasta abril de 1951.

Guerra de Corea
El 14 de abril de 1951, Van Fleet sustituyó a Matthew Ridgway como comandante en jefe del 8.º Ejército y del Comando de las Naciones Unidas en Corea, cuando este último fue llamado a relevar a Douglas MacArthur como comandante supremo de las Potencias Aliadas y comandante general del Ejército de Estados Unidos en el Lejano Oriente. Ascendido a general un par de meses después, continuó la labor de Ridgway en la preparación del 8.º Ejército para la campaña contra las tropas de la China comunista y Corea del Norte. Sin embargo, sus planes más ambiciosos como un desembarco anfibio en Wonsan se vieron frustrados por la situación política en la que se encontraba Estados Unidos en ese momento por el relevo de MacArthur.

El tiempo de Van Fleet al mando del 8.º Ejército fue su último cargo en las fuerzas armadas, habiendo cedido el mando a Maxwell Taylor el 11 de febrero de 1953 y retirado del servicio un mes después, a los 61 años.

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Generales de Estados Unidos
Militares estadounidenses de la Primera Guerra Mundial
Militares estadounidenses de la Segunda Guerra Mundial
Militares estadounidenses de la Guerra de Corea
Graduados de la promoción de 1915 de West Point

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The Honda Civic Type R TCR showed race-winning pace as KCMG contested their first endurance race with the car at the Dubai 24 Hours last weekend.
While a fire caused the JAS Motorsport-built car's retirement in the 14th hour, the pace shown by the Hong Kong team beforehand leaves huge optimism for the car's prospects in endurance racing.
Having qualified as the fifth-best TCR crew on the 16-car grid, Jim Ka To, Andy Yan, Henry Lee Jr, Kenneth Ma and Team Principal Paul Ip were victory contenders for much of the first half of the race.
Using their 2018 TCR Europe Teams' title as a springboard to their first endurance race with the Civic, KCMG threatened for the top spot consistently and were rewarded when Ka To took over second place in the 10th hour. A slick pitstop soon after gave Yan the lead.
A penalty for a refuelling issue an hour later lost the car vital time, but the Type R had set the fastest TCR lap of the race and climbed back into third place when a fire at 0430 brought the charge to an end.
The next endurance race for the Civic Type R TCR will be the four-hour opening round of the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge at Daytona International Speedway on January 25. Five cars are set to take part.
Mads Fischer, JAS Motorsport TCR Project Leader, said: "One year ago the Civic Type R TCR made its race debut at the 24H Dubai. Twelve months later, it arrives as a car that has won five major titles, including the Super Taikyu endurance title in Japan. KCMG are a high-quality team and you could see that when their semi-pro drivers, Jim Ka To and Andy Yan, were behind the wheel, they were fastest or close to the fastest combination on the track. Unfortunately, they didn't get the result they deserved, but it's clear that, just as in Japan last year, the car is a very good package for endurance racing. We will see five cars out in the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge this year and I think they can do very well."


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Q: Stream a set of Strings into Map of  I have a set of Strings (it's static) and I would like to create a Map<String, List<String>> from them, where the list is initialized to a new ArrayList. Something like the following, but this code is not correct.
static Set<String> MY_TYPES = Set.of("type1", "type2", "type3");

Map<String, List<String> myMap = MY_TYPES.stream().map(t->() t, new ArrayList<>()).collect(Collectors.toMap());

I am trying to learn how to use streams better in my code. I know I can do this iterating over the Set.
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@shmosel, you are correct. I want the equivalent of
Map.of("type1", new ArrayList<>(), "type2", new ArrayList<>(), "type3", new ArrayList());

A: Sounds like you're looking for this:
MY_TYPES.stream()
        .collect(Collectors.toMap(s -> s, s -> new ArrayList<>()))


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Thank you for your support during this difficult time. Please enhance this tribute to Herman by adding your memories and photos.
Herman Baer Speissegger, Jr., 93, of Charleston, South Carolina, husband of Mary Lynne Rhodemyre Speissegger entered into eternal rest Sunday, April 7, 2019. The family will receive friends Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 102 Murray Boulevard, Charleston from 4:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. Services will be private. Arrangements by J. Henry Stuhr, Inc. Downtown Chapel.
Herman was born April 26, 1925, son of the late Hermon B. Speissegger, Sr. and Mae Abercrombie Speissegger. He was a veteran of the United States Navy. He was a graduate of Clemson University where he received a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering. Herman retired from SCE&G after 35 years as Group Vice President of Commercial Operations. His activities included: President of SCANA Association of Investors, Director of First Financial Holdings, President of South Carolina Professional Engineers, President of Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum Fund, Chairman of the South Carolina Board of Engineering Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, Carolina Yacht Club, Charleston Club, Sea Island Yacht Club, Hibernian Society, St. Andrew's Society, Agricultural Society, and Deacon of First (Scots) Presbyterian Church.
Surviving is his devoted wife, Mary Lynne of Charleston; two daughters: Melissa Mills and her husband Ladson Mills III and Heidi Whaley (John, deceased); four grandchildren: Ladson Mills IV, Sterling Mills, Mary Legare Whaley, and Seabrook Whaley.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to First (Scots) Presbyterian Church, 53 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC 29403.
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Brother Shawn Johansen Teaches About The Value of Spiritual Records
By Sydney Jensen
Brother Shawn Johansen, Chair of the History, Geography and Political Science Department at BYU-Idaho, taught students and faculty about the value of spiritual records in his devotional Tuesday, October 31.
"Records allow us to do other important things like for example, develop gratitude," Shawn Johansen, Chair of the History, Geography and Political Science Department at BYU-Idaho told BYU-Idaho Radio. "They help us to see blessings the Lord has given to us...in addition to gratitude...they help us improve. Journals, if they're done correctly...help us be self-evaluative."
Apostles and prophets, Johansen says, have continually counseled people to keep records of both their daily activities, but more importantly of their spiritual impressions and experiences.
"Those who keep a book of remembrance are more likely to keep the Lord in remembrance," Johansen said in his devotional quoting President Spencer W. Kimball. "Journals are a way of counting our blessings and of leaving an inventory of these blessings for our posterity."
Ultimately, Johansen says the benefits of keeping a record outweighs the feelings of inadequacy or lack of desire.
"Even if you don't feel that a daily journal is for you, consider recording your spiritual experiences," Johansen said. "I testify that it will bring blessings."
You can listen to Johansen's full interview and devotional below.
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The inaugural Grounded Summit will bring together environmental change agents, impact-minded investors, policymakers, scientists and mindfulness experts for a two-day immersive opportunity for shared learning, collaboration and inspired action.
Hosted by Julia Jackson, environmentalist and second-generation proprietor for Jackson Family Wines, Grounded will feature solutions-oriented panel discussions and keynote speakers. Topics that will be explored include The Science of Wildfires, Climate Change & Innovation, The Future of Food Systems, Lessons from Indigenous Peoples and much more.
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A new age, a new approach !
Flawless production? Quite simply: all influencing variables and parameters must be identified and considered holistically. Reality shows, however, that this is not so easy – on the contrary, it is even very complex.
Looking at the entire manufacturing process in one piece, this may lead to process improvements, but definitely not to a complete process assurance. So what is necessary? First, only the one partial step is looked at more closely where the biggest problems or the highest costs are known. The substep that hurts the most, so to speak. Exactly for this one substep, all influencing variables and parameters that secure the step must be determined and analyzed. This information forms the basis for the next step to determine which technologies, systems, software and skills are required to secure the process step. With a consequent and on this partial step focused working method, a solution results within a short time, which secures exactly this process step. And the result? Zero errors and measurable success.
This procedure is now carried out and implemented one after the other for each individual substep. More and more the processes are safeguarded until a complete process protection has been created. And the best thing about it? This procedure also allows you to react quickly to changing conditions or unknown errors. Because if new requirements arise during processing, if existing requirements change or if unknown errors occur, this point can be intervened quickly and effectively. However, these changes can in turn have an influence on previous or subsequent process steps. These interactions must also not be forgotten. However, this interaction can be planned in and taken into account from the outset when processing the subsequent process steps.
So what leads to success?
The focus of the whole model is on the step-by-step approach. This, in combination with the iterative approach of the solutions, brings measurable, visible and above all rapid success. This in turn motivates all parties involved and ensures a high level of acceptance.
But what does the whole thing look like in practice? We have an example of this, which we will present in the next article.
The solution against defects – Industry 4.0?
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Kalvisios Tauros - medioplatoński filozof z I w. n.e. Najprawdopodobniej uczeń Plutarcha (był od niego kilka lat młodszy), a nauczyciel Herodesa Attikosa i Gelliusza. Krytykował epikureizm i stoicyzm.
Był autorem dzieł o różnicach między filozofią Platona i Arystotelesa i krytykował próby ich łączenia. Napisał komentarz do Platońskiego Gorgiasza oraz traktat O rzeczach cielesnych i niecielesnych.

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KLM reinforces corporate social responsibility commitment
Dutch airline KLM has introduced a new carbon-offsetting scheme for its passengers which, it claims, reinforces its commitment to encouraging sustainability in aviation.
The carrier will offer the new initiative, known as CO2ZERO, to its customers as part of its on-line booking and check-in service, with all of the money accumulated by the programme re-invested in offsetting projects.
KLM claims that the fact that all the offsetting projects funded by CO2ZERO will adhere to the Gold Standard of carbon compensation schemes, as well as being backed by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), proves that their efforts have credibility.
"KLM is recognized best-in-class in terms of energy-efficient flying," argued the airline's president, Peter Hartman. "Our track record has for example convinced the WWF in the Netherlands to join forces to jointly demonstrate that things can also be done differently in the airline industry.
"Only through this harmonious interaction with our stakeholders it is possible to continue stepping forward towards a sustainable aviation."
The launch of KLM's carbon-offsetting scheme comes in the wake of British Airway's recent re-launch of its carbon compensation programme to benefit a new range of environmental projects worldwide.
Article Date: 03 March 2008
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