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The new faction, which will soon appear in the world of Crossout, is known among the Survivors as 'Dawn Children'.
The leader of the faction is Riley. Little to nothing is known about Riley before the disaster, even his gender is not certain. Previously, he was the head of one of the laboratories of Waterquarn Corporation. He is the creator of protective overalls, counteracting the deadly effect of Crossout. However, the sealed suit won't let you see who is inside. There is a theory that the creature inside can no longer be called a human being.
Scientists,making up its backbone, created unique types of weapons, parts and modules. Perhaps the most famous of their inventions is the hover: vertically positioned jet engines that provide stable traction and allow the car to soar above the ground.
Survivors will be able to produce hovers 'Icarus 7' - parts of epic rarity. Managing them is not as easy as it seems, you need to learn how to keep your balance. But hovers don't need roads. With their help an armored car can soar above the ground and water.
Before the disaster some scientists from the 'Dawn Children' worked on space vehicles intended for mankind's conquest of space. That is why many of the faction's parts, including cabins and wheels, were previously used in the Moon and Mars rovers.
The new wheel 'Lunar-4' is one of these parts. Previously, it was intended for movement over the surface of celestial bodies, but it also works great for wastelands.
In the next issues of the Blog, we will tell you about the latest weapons, new modules and cabins that will be available to players along with the new faction.
We remind you that the Developer Blog series tells the players about preliminary plans for the development of the project. The final version may differ from the changes described above.
See you in the wastelands!


BCA CEO Jennifer Westacott has written to members of the ALP federal Caucus reinforcing the BCA's support for the government's Enterprise Migration Agreement program, urging them to hold firm on this important policy and proceed with it as announced.
At a critical time for a number of major projects, the program is all about helping Australia overcome temporary and acute labour shortages in high-performing sectors of our economy.
Tying it up in more red tape and process would only make these important opportunities potentially unmanageable and is no way to help Australian workers.


This table details alcohol beverage labeling requirements in several countries. Details on the requirements for health warnings to be included on beverage labels are available in the Health Warning Labeling Requirements table.
It is updated on an ongoing basis as jurisdictions enact or revise their requirements with assistance from FIVS-Abridge.
- If content is between 0.5 and 1.15%, label should state "contains not more than X% alcohol by volume"
Alcoholic beverages in the categories beer, wine, fruit wine, and spirits are exempt from including nutrition information panels, ingredient lists, and percentage labeling of characterizing ingredient.
- Allergens: The new general food labeling provisions of the Food Standards (Volume Two) require a new mandatory declaration of certain allergenic substances. Additives and processing aids containing eggs or egg products, casein and potassium caseinate, milk or milk products, fish or fish products, nuts, added sulphites in concentrations of 10mg/kg or more, and some other substances must be declared if any traces could remain in the final product (see Allergen Labeling, Mandatory Declaration).
Wine: amount of sugar and alcohol indicated as dry, semi-dry, sweet, or semi-sweet EU Regulations apply.
Storage instructions and instructions for use if any Labels shall be both in Russian and in the state language(s) of the Customs Union Member State; information pertaining to the name of location of foreign manufacturers may be in the state language (languages) of the country of the manufacturer's location provided the name of the country is indicated in Russian.
Belgian Federal Public Service Health, What must and what may be found on labels? no EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply.
The information shall be in one of the state official languages.
Law on Wine and Spirits 2012 no EU Regulations apply.
For sparkling wines - sugar content EU Regulations apply.
Net quantities in metric units Division 2 of the FDR identifies drinks as having a standardized composition; standardized drinks are not required to list ingredients. Non-standardized drinks must list ingredients in descending order by weight proportion. Common names for alcohol beverages are defined under Division 2, B.02.001.
Nutrition facts labeling is not required for products containing more than 0.5% ABV unless a nutritional claim or any claim referring to energy benefit is made by the product. The phrase "nutrition facts," if appearing on the label, also requires a Nutrition Facts label. Unstandardized beverages containing added sweeteners are required to carry the Nutrition Facts table and meet the labeling requirements for these artificial sweeteners.
Sulphites present in wine at a level of 10ppm or more must be declared on the label in the ingredients list or in a separate "Contains" statement.
additional beverage-specific standards may apply yes Alcoholic strength at 20°C, percentage pure alcohol in total volume or mass expressed as "Alcoholic Strength X%"
Net content List of ingredients in decreasing order, titled "raw materials" or "raw and auxiliary materials". It is recommended to identify allergens.
Name and address of producer or importer Labels must be in Chinese, except brand names, manufacturers, and geographical indication of imported alcohol products.
COMIECO Resolution No 332-2013 (COMIECO-LXVI) Central American Technical Regulations, Alcoholic Beverages Labeling Requirements yes Alcohol strength in % Alc./vol. or ⁰ G.L.
Croation Food Authority (HAH), Beverage regulaitons webpage no EU Regulations apply.
Ministry of Health, Law on Food (Control and Sale) no EU Regulations apply.
Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority no EU Regulations apply.
For wine that is more than 3 years old, the indicated alcohol by volume percentage should not vary by greater than 0.8%. EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply.
Danish Directorate for Food, Fisheries and Agribusiness (Direktoratet for Fødevare Erhverv) no EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply.
Regulation on the definition, description and presentation for sale of alcohol no EU Regulations apply.
Net quantity Alcoholic beverages greater than 1.2%ABV are exempt from ingredient list and nutrition declaration requirements (Art. 16, Res. 2015/2543RSP), though Member States may maintain national measures on the listing of ingredients.
Allergens: Sulphur dioxide and sulphites at concentrations of more than 10 mg/kg or 10 mg/L; exempt are cereals containing gluten and nuts when used for making distillates and fish gelatin or isinglass used in wine fining.
Date of minimum durability or 'use by' date; beverages of 10% ABV or higher are exempt from the last Mandatory information shall appear in a language easily understood by the consumers of the Member States where a food is marketed. Within their own territory, the Member States may stipulate that the particulars shall be given in one or more languages from among the official languages of the Union.
Finnish Food Safety Authority (Evira), Food information guide 17068/1 no EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply.
Allergens: Cereals containing gluten, crustacea, eggs, fish, peanuts, soybeans, milk, tree nuts, sulphite in concentrations of 10 mg/kg or more.
Hellenic Food Authority no EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply.
Hungarian Trade Licensing Office, Agriculture Section (Magyar Kereskedelmi Engedélyezési Hivatal – MKEH, Mezőgazdasági Osztály) no EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply.
Act No. 93/1995 on Foodstuffs no EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply.
effective April 1, 2019: Alcohol content expressed as %ABV or as proof. Optional: statement of the approximate number of standard drinks (defined as 12.7 mL of ethanol) in the package.
Food Safety Authority of Ireland yes EU Regulations apply.
Quantity of alcohol in grams EU Regulations apply.
Energy value in kilojoules and kilocalories EU Regulations apply.
Ministry of Economy and Finance, Department of Treasury (Ministero delle Economia e delle Finanze, Dipartimento del Tesoro) no EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply.
Labels shall be both in Russian and in the state language(s) of the Customs Union Member State; information pertaining to the name of location of foreign manufacturers may be in the state language (languages) of the country of the manufacturer's location provided the name of the country is indicated in Russian.
Mode of distribution: must specify one of three: "Discount store sale only," "Restaurant sale only," or "Sale for home use only" Required information must be in Korean.
Ministry of Agriculture no EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply.
Food and Veterinary Agency, Labeling requirements for alcoholic beverages yes EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply.
Environmental Health Directorate no EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply.
Net contents (in metric units) Required for prepared beverages (2.0-12.0% ABV) and those containing additives or allergens: List of ingredients preceded by the word "Ingredientes" listing contents in descending order of quantity.
Required information must be in Romanian or Russian.
Main Product Board for Agriculture (Hoofdproductschap Akkerbouw) no EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply.
Food containing alcohol must not be "represented in a form which expressly or by implication suggests that the product is a non-alcoholic confection or non-alcoholic beverage".
An alcoholic beverage which contains more than 1.15% alcohol by volume must not be represented as a "low-alcohol" beverage.
Label on a package of a beverage containing more than 0.5% alcohol by volume must not include the words "non-intoxicating" or similar terms. Ingredient listing is only required for products not standardized in Standards 2.7.2 to 2.7.5 of the Australia-New Zealand Food Standards Code.
Poland European Union Regulations no EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply.
General Directorate for Inspection and Control of Food Quality (Direcção Geral de Fiscalização e Controlo da Qualidade Alimentar) no EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply.
National Authority for Consumer Protection no EU Regulations apply.
Wine: Bottling facility, harvest year Labels shall be in Russian; information pertaining to the name of location of foreign manufacturers may be in the state language (languages) of the country of the manufacturer's location provided the name of the country is indicated in Russian.
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development , Decree no. 30/2014 Coll.
no EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply.
Labels of beers must include the amount of extract in the original wort in % by weight or according to specified beverage type name; non-alcoholic, light and certain other beers are exempt. EU Regulations apply.
Rules on the general labeling of prepackaged foods no EU Regulations apply.
Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition (Aecosan) no EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply. EU Regulations apply.
Swedish Food Federation (Livsmedelsföretagen), Manual: Labeling of prepackaged foods 2014 no EU Regulations apply.
If beer contains antioxidants, dye stuffs, preservatives, or sorbitol, this must be shown on the label EU Regulations apply.
Volume (in metric units) Beverages of 1.2% ABV or higher are exempt from including an ingredients list.
Allergens must be declared following the word "Contains": animal products, eggs, soy, sesame and sulfites above 10 mg/kg.
Health claims and nutritional claims, other than energy content declaration, are prohibited.
Best before date and date of expiry. Wines, fruit wines, and fortified wines and beverages of 10% ABV or higher are exempt.
Tunisia Order of the Ministers of Trade and Handicrafts, of Public Health, of Industry, Energy and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises dated 3 September 2008, relating to the labelling and presentation of pre-packaged foodstuffs no "Product containing alcohol"
United Kingdom European Union Regulations no EU Regulations apply.
Net contents TTB Ruling 2004-1 provides that TTB will approve the use of the term "low carbohydrate" (or "low-carb") on labels and in advertisements where a statement of average analysis is present, and the standard serving size for the product (12 fl. oz. for malt beverages; 5 fl. oz. for wines, and 1.5 fl. oz. for distilled spirits) contains no more than 7g of carbohydrates. As long as a statement of average analysis is included on the label, the label may also include other references to the carbohydrate content of the product.


We love hunting out new specialty openings in Dubai and this time we take a look at a new coffee roastery that has recently opened in Dubai Investment Park – Jebena Specialty Coffee. I recently caught up with the founder of Jebena, Stuart Szabo, over a cup of Ethiopian Sidama Sasaba, to talk about Jebena and the story behind the roastery.
Stuart's love for Specialty Coffee started ten years ago when he lived in Melbourne, a city that has had a long established café culture. Stuart's job takes him all across the world and he is always on the hunt for Specialty Coffee. After plenty of exploration, tasting and cupping, Stuart's passion grew and he started roasting green beans at home using a small 1kg kit-build roaster (a 1957 Faema Urania lever espresso machine), which he lovingly restored and still uses. Soon after relocating to Dubai, and disappointed at the proliferation of US style chain cafés and poor quality of coffee offered in hotels, he saw an opportunity to start his specialty roastery, and partner with various F&B outlets to "delight guests with an extraordinary coffee experience".
I visited Jebena's custom built production facility which has climate controlled storage, Giesen roasting equipment and a dedicated cupping lab and training facility on roasting day. The green beans are roasted here according to roast profiles developed by Stuart to highlight and enhance the best unique natural flavours. The roasting process takes twelve minutes as the beans slowly turn from green, to medium brown and the aroma when they quickly cool down are intoxicating. As a final quality check the beans are hand sorted and imperfect beans, either in shape or colour, are discarded as these may impact the taste in the cup. Finally the beans are bagged and ready for dispatch. The beans are best enjoyed around five to seven days after roasting when they have had a chance to degas and the flavours have fully developed.
Jebena offer regular free public cupping sessions at the roastery, Home Barista training courses and complete manual brewing kits. Their current speciality coffees include two natural processes – Ethiopian, Konga Sedie and Sidama Sasaba; and one washed from Kenya, Gakuya Ini. The Sasaba is perfect as an espresso and also great in a flat white, my milk coffee of choice and has been Q graded at 90. You can also buy Jebena Specialty Coffee online and they are also currently available at Cafe Rider.
Colour plays a big part in the coffee life cycle. Coffee beans start their lives as coffee cherries which should be picked when the sugars have developed. The cherries are usually red in colour and after drying and processing the coffee beans turn green. From green, they turn into varying shades of brown as they are roasted. The roasting process changes the moisture, oil and sugar levels in the beans and depending on the roast this can completely change the taste of the beans even if they are from the same batch.
There is a Coffee Taster's Flavour Wheel, which helps to describe the range of tastes and aromas experienced in a coffee. For the first time in its 21-year history, the flavour wheel was revised and launched by the Specialty Coffee Association of America (www.scaa.org), giving a colourful representation of the different flavour attributes of coffee.
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Terps make room for Veii at receiver
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Until earlier this month, Jacquille Veii, a graduate of the Avalon School in Montgomery County, played running back for the Maryland Terrapins. On Aug. 12, Terps head coach Randy Edsall moved him into the group of wide receivers as a slot man.
This is no easy task for Veii, who was mainly a running back throughout his career at Avalon and his freshman Terps season. Veii went from a crowded running back group to a wide receiver core that has been ordained by some pundits as the best in the Big Ten Conference.
"I played slot in high school but I didn't run routes like I do here," Veii said. "I usually just ran corners and go (routes). In my head, when I'm running, my body kind of feels awkward but then when you watch it on tape it's like, 'okay that looks natural,' so I'm just trying to work and clean up my technique and mold my clay at receiver."
According to Veii's high school statistics, he amassed a total of 311 yards on 25 receptions at Avalon, with four touchdowns – including the longest pass from the line of scrimmage of any quarterback to receiver in Avalon's history that led the Black Knights to their second consecutive conference title in Veii's junior year.
By comparison, he had a total of 1287 yards rushing with 21 touchdowns.
The running back group features Brandon Ross, who looks to be the starter and the source of most of the carries in his junior season; Albert Reid, who has impressed in camp going into his own junior season; and Wes Brown, entering his second season out of Good Counsel High School in Olney, Maryland.
Edsall said after one practice that there would only be three backs that get carries, leaving Veii as the fourth back after questions about who would comprise the Terps backfield.
Veii will now be a part of a group of wide outs that include stars Stefon Diggs and Deon Long, as well as DeAndre Lane, Daniel Adams, Malcolm Culmer and Levern and Taivon Jacobs, who Edsall said have been impressive in camp.
The crowded group of wide receivers is talented enough for some to call them the best in the Big Ten and for some to call them the best in the country. Veii can be a threat in the slot if he is able to learn the position and utilize his speed that landed him a 4.3 40-yard dash in high school.
Veii impressed several people in his first day of practice at his new position, including his coaches and some fellow teammates.
"I didn't even know he played slot. But I definitely think he's great," Terps senior linebacker L.A. Goree said. "He's quick. He's hard to stick. They had me checking him in one-on-ones. I did the best I could do, but [he's got] 4.43 speed."
"One thing is he's a dynamic guy for us," Edsall said. "You can't play four tailbacks. You just can't do it. Putting him out there, I think that helps us. It helps the wide receiver [group]. It gives us a guy that has a lot of energy and a lot of enthusiasm and can block. It enhances us from an offensive standpoint that we put him there."
"I was excited, I was ecstatic, and I was just ready to come to work," Veii said. "I know it's going to be a challenge (to switch to the receiver position), so I just came ready to work. I was just listening and just taking what [Edsall] was saying to me and digesting it and thinking what I'm going to do to move forward and make plays and learn. The Lord did bless me with some confidence today and I owe it all to him. Without him I wouldn't have made those plays I made today. He just blessed me with confidence today to go out there and make those plays."
This also may be preparation for Veii to get in the habit of being a wide receiver for next year and the year after. Although the receiver group for the Terps is a crowded one, it is not an inexperienced one.
Levern Jacobs, Adams, and Leak are all juniors. Long is a senior, and Diggs, the star of the team who is on several preseason award watch lists, is a junior and will be eligible for the NFL draft after this season.
This may be one way for the Terps to prepare for life without their two best receivers, Diggs and Long.
The Terps play their first game at home against James Madison on Aug. 30. Their first Big Ten game will be away at Indiana Sept. 27, and their first home Big Ten game will be against top five-ranked Ohio State on Oct. 4.
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night scream
i have a nighttime sound, a scream almost like a child's, which i can't identify. at first i thought it was dingoes, because they can come up with some fairly strange sounds and i first heard it on our family's property on bustard bay qld, soon after we noticed dingoes for the first time a few years ago. this property is quite isolated and it had to be a wildlife sound. i recently heard it again in suburban brisbane but in an area where dingoes are known. in trying to spot the dingoes in brisbane i could find nothing, but i did see two reasonably large birds fly off.
Hi woody,
what you heard could be the voice of a Barking Owl.
Sometimes they make a sound like a child's scream.
https://sites.google.com/site/blackhillreservekyneton/home
Birdfreak
al is right about it being an owl, but I haven't heard of Barking Owls making the screaming call. Owls it could possibly be include: Barn Owl, Masked Owl and possibly Sooty Owl which sounds more like a falling bomb.
Max Breckenridge,
Gladesville, Sydney...
DenisWilson
The call of the Barking Owl has been discussed on this forum before. The call is legendary, as the source of the "lost child" or "lost woman" myths from early colonial days.
The BiBY site says:
"Calls: The Barking Owl has two main calls, both distinctive and unmistakable. The first is a double-noted, dog-like "wook-wook", and the second is a wavering human-like scream."
Unfortunately the recorded call give on that site is only the barking call - but the validity of this call is well and truly documented - by experts. It should not be dismissed.
Denis Wilson
www.peonyden.blogspot.com
Hi Denis,
you can hear a recording of the Barking Owls
"wavering human-like scream" here:
http://www.owlpages.com/owls.php?genus=Ninox&species=connivens
Thank you so much Al, for providing that link.
I get a bit stroppy about that call, as I have heard it myself, once, and it is remarkable. Once heard, one will never forget it.
Lost Children stories are abundant, and reveal the anxiety of early settlers in a strange and alien land. It is important in early colonial art, e.g., McCubbin's "lost child".
http://www.artistsfootsteps.com/html/McCubbin_lost.htmand in early Australian literature
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/oent/Staff/gough_papers/noelg_JCP_2006_proofs.pdf
"the image of the bush-lost child was uniquely Australian, ..... Australian Aborigines usually feature in stories
of bush-lost children as 'black trackers'—a means by which European settlers recovered their children (dead or alive) from the land. The image of the bush-lost child, and the associated bush search scenario, rapidly came to be regarded as an affirmation of community ....
"lost children were cast as passive victims and, if they were found alive, their survival was attributed either to divine intervention or to the actions of their rescuers, who were usually men (rarely women) and/or Aboriginal trackers working under the orders of European settlers. Bush-lost children who died (or, worse, were never found) were understood as warnings against the seductive lure of the Australian bush and the fragility of life on the margins of European settlement. As Pierce (1999) points
out, one of the literary conventions of the Victorian era was to use a child to symbolize the future, and these early lost child stories can thus be seen as indicators of a deep unease about the European presence in Australia."
Many Children did go missing in early Australia, but more searches were organised, on account of the mysterious cries for help which were heard by early settlers, than were ever matched to actual reported missing children.
This theme is taken seriously in Australian art and literary studies, but few people, even the Academics, realise it has its origins in the scary call of the Barking Owl.
Once again, Al., thanks for the link.
Pretty amazing website, by the way.
I haven't been as lucky as you Denis. I only hear the typical barking call on our farm in Central Vic every year.
Some forty years ago, while spotlighting at Jenolan Caves in NSW, I heard a screaming sound very much like
a woman's high pitched scream, but that turned out to be a Sooty Owl.
I agree with Birdfreak that other owls, at times, also make a screaming or screeching sound.
Thank you very much for the interesting links about the lost children.
See barking owl thread. These three made every sort of 'owl' noise and a few that I would never think an owl could do, except the 'scream'
Ed Townsville NQ


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Cheap flights from Birmingham to Belfast
Birmingham International Airport is located 8 miles from the city centre in Solihull. There are excellent transport connections including the train station which takes you straight into or out of the airport. The two terminals have flights within the UK, including flights from Birmingham to Belfast, Europe and to destinations farther afield including Mexico and Cape Verde.
Birmingham International Airport Facilities
Birmingham airport is small enough not to get too crowded and big enough to have all the facilities you need in an airport.
If you're booked on an early flight it's much easier to stay overnight at a hotel. Birmingham has three hotels within minutes of the main terminal. There's plenty of airport car parking. If you want to park close to the terminal you can pick one of three car parks that are a minute from the airport.
Once you're airside you can visit one of the many shops. Or if you prefer to buy yourself a book, a magazine or a newspaper and settle down with a takeaway or sit down in one of bars or restaurants.
You can make sure the kids don't get bored if you head over to departure gate 55. There you'll find a kids play area. It's for tots and children up to the age of thirteen.
Flight Time From Birmingham to Belfast
The flight from Birmingham International Airport to Belfast takes an hour.
Getting to Birmingham International Airport
Birmingham International Airport is well-served by public transport and it's easy to get to by car.
By car you arrive at Birmingham from the M42 or the M6 depending on what direction you're coming from. The airport is then well signposted. You access it from the M42 or the A45.
If you're travelling locally there are two buses from Birmingham city centre to the airport. Travellers from further afield can use National Express or Megabus.
Birmingham International Rail Station is in Solihull. From there you can catch the free monorail to the airport, which is a two minute journey. You can get to Birmingham International Rail Station from Birmingham New Street.
Travelling to and from Belfast International Airport
By car head north from the airport. Take the A57 and at the first roundabout take the first exit onto the M2. Continue on to M3 and then merge onto the A2. Follow the signs into Belfast.
There are regular bus services available from outside the terminal to the city centre and parts of Northern Ireland. The Airport Express 300 bus will take you directly into the city centre.
There's no train service between the airport and Belfast city.
Things to See & Do in Belfast
Belfast is bursting with places to visit. Here are just some of the things you can see during your visit:
The Ulster Museum
The Ulster museum houses collections from all over the world. But, it also tells the story of Northern Ireland's local history. It's open from Tuesday to Sunday and admission is free.
The titanic was constructed in Belfast. She left Ireland in 1912 bound for Southampton where she picked up more passengers and crew for the disastrous sailing to New York. Today, at the Titanic Belfast you can learn more about the ship, it's owners, The White Star Line and the passengers that sailed in her. You can also walk the decks of the last remaining White Star vessel, the SS Nomadic.
HMS Caroline
The HMS Caroline is part of the National Royal Navy Museum. You can go aboard and explore the ship's interior including the Captain's cabin. An interactive tour will teach you about the ship's history and about the lives of the people who served on board.
Stormont Parliament Buildings
The building was designed by Sir Arnold Thornley who made the Stormont exactly 365 ft wide so that each foot represents a day out of each year. The 6 floors and 6 entrance pillars represent the 6 counties of Northern Ireland. You can visit the building from Monday to Friday and explore the rooms inside as well as the grounds of the Stormont Estate.
The Botanic Gardens were opened in 1828 during the reign of Queen Victoria. You can see its vast collection of plants and exotic tree species from the Southern Hemisphere. In the Palm House watch the Birds of Paradise which live amongst the tropical plants.
The Best Time to Travel to Belfast
The best time to visit Belfast is between April and October. You might get some rain, but it is mostly dry and sunny.


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A site about criminal profiling, serial killers, FBI terminology, mental health and crime fiction writing.
Aside February 11, 2013 by dianekratz
When Children Kill By: Diane Kratz
There have been far too many headlines in the news lately on teen murderers and school shootings.
We are shocked when we hear a child has committed the abominable act of murder. It defies our minds when we learn sweet little Janie down the street whacked her parents to death as they slept.
We grieve for families who have lost a parent, child, friend, spouse, sibling, or neighbor.
And in the middle of the shocking awfulness of these seemingly senseless tragedies we ask, "How can this happen?" "What went wrong?" and "What in the world is the matter with a child or teenager who would ruthlessly murder?"
From all the research I've done on the subject of why kids kill, their motives are not that much different from those of adult killers.
They carry out murder for money, love, revenge, and for the thrill of committing it.
There is no profile for teen murderers. One of the things we do know about teen murders is that most are NOT well planned. Some have been caught because they left evidence like a driver's license or prescription with their name on it.
They are divided into six types:
Jasmine Richardson
1. The Family Killer—A juvenile who kills a family member. These types usually kill for money or revenge. They feel pressured by demands, abuse, and hatred.
Jasmine Richardson was twelve when she brutally murdered her parents and younger brother in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Motive, to be with her boyfriend whom her parents didn't approve of.
2. The School Killer—A juvenile who kills a student, teacher or administrator at school. I'll write more on this type later because there is more information coming out from different studies. The motives of these killers differ from the usual.
School shooters are mostly male. They have typically planned the shootings for months and usually told someone else of their plans. According to the FBI publication on school shooters this is called "leakage."
Leakage occurs when a student intentionally or unintentionally reveals clues to feelings, thoughts, fantasies, attitudes, or intentions that may signal an impending violent act. These clues can take the form of subtle threats, boasts, innuendos, predictions, or ultimatums. They may be spoken or conveyed in stories, diary entries, essays, poems, letters, songs, drawings, doodles, tattoos, or videos.
Another form of leakage involves efforts to get unwitting friends or classmates to help with preparations for a violent act. Sometimes this is accomplished through deception. For example, the student asks a friend to get ammunition for him because he is going hunting.
Leakage can be a cry for help, a sign of inner conflict, or it can be boasts that may look empty but actually express a serious threat. Leakage is considered one of the most important clues that may precede an adolescent's violent act.
Ken Shockey, Antrim-Allison Museum
Though school shootings have been highly publicized in recent years, they are not new. They have been around since 1764. The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764. Four Lenape American Indians entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine or ten children (reports vary). Only three children survived.
3. The Gang/Cult Killer—A juvenile killer motived by a street gang, hate group or cult. These crimes often begin with Satanists because it gives them the feeling of power over others.
Ricky Kasso
At age 17, while wearing an AC/DC T-shirt, he murdered fellow teen Gary Lauwers in the Aztakea Woods of Northport, Long Island. Along with two other friends—who, like Kasso and Lauwers, were high on mescaline—Kasso was in the woods to dabble in occult practices, as part of their self-dubbed "Knights of the Black Circle" cult.
Tensions had long before mounted between Kasso and Lauwers, after the latter allegedly stole 10 bags of PCP from Kasso. On June 16, 1984, in the Aztakea Woods, unsuccessful attempts to build a fire prompted Lauwers to make up for the damp driftwood by using his socks and denim jacket's sleeves. Kasso said that they should use Lauwers' hair instead, which led to Kasso biting him on the neck. Then, over a reported three-to-four-hour period, Kasso and his two other friends stabbed Lauwers upwards of 36 times, burned his body, gouged his eyeballs out, and stuffed rocks down his throat.
As he was killing Lauwers, Kasso ordered him to "say you love Satan," but Lauwers said, "I love my mother." Kasso covered the thought-to-be-dead body with branches and leaves, but, as reports tell, Lauwers rose back up, said "I love my mother" again, and prompted the assailants to continue their assault until he was confirmed dead.
On July 5, Kasso was arrested. Two days later, he hung himself in his jail cell.
Source: http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/11/25-craziest-real-life-american-horror-stories/ricky-kasso
Update: I originally had "The West Memphis Three" as my feature here, but I was told by a reader they were exonerated and released from prison in August 2011. After spending almost 20 years in prison, they gave a Alford plea and were released. My apologizes to Damien, Jason, Jesse and my readers for not following up on this case before posting it. Thank you Nico for bringing this to my attention!
4. The Crime Killer—A juvenile who kills while committing another crime, like burglary.
Bryton Gibbs
Bryton Gibbs was 16 when he stabbed Christopher Taylor to death with an 8-inch kitchen knife. Gibbs called Pizza Hut and placed an order to be delivered to a vacant apartment. When Taylor, 33, arrived, Gibbs and three other male teens robbed him of $50 and killed him.
5. The Baby Killer—A juvenile who kills his or her infant or young child.
Cassidy Goodson, a teen who admitted killing her newborn baby and hiding him in a shoebox this past fall, used a Santa Claus doll to show investigators exactly how she strangled him in her bathroom shortly after giving birth.
6. The Thrill Killer—A juvenile who kills to feel what it feels like. These types are usually psychopathic. They have no empathy for their victims. The only time you will see them cry is when they are caught, and the tears are for themselves.
Eric Smith at age 13
Eric Smith murdered a four-year-old boy named Derrick Robie in 1980. He dropped large rocks on the boy's head, strangled him, and then sodomized him with a small stick. Smith has never explained why he murdered the four-year-old. He has been denied parole five times. "I don't doubt for a second, never have doubted, that had he not been caught, Eric Smith would have killed again," the prosecutor in the case has said.
According to Phil Chalmers, who has interviewed 200 adolescent killers and is a teen violence and youth culture expert, there are 10 reasons why teens kill. They are listed from most likely to least.
1. Unstable Home and Bullying at School
2. Obsession with Violent Entertainment and Porn
3. Suicidal Ideation and Depression
4. Alcohol and Drug Use
5. Cults, Gangs, and Hate Groups
6. Obsession with Guns, Bombs, and Knives
7. Peer Pressure
8. Fascination with the Criminal Lifestyle, and Poverty
9. Lack of Spiritual Guidance and Proper Discipline
10. Mental Illness
He also suggests most teen killers have at least 3 of the list of causes, and many have 6 to 8 of the 10 causes.
In conclusion, children can be capable of committing hideous acts on their fellow human beings. There have been many books and movies about bad kids. The one that comes to mind is the 1956 movie, The Bad Seed, which depicts a housewife who suspects that her seemingly perfect 8-year-old daughter is a heartless killer. It was actually a book first written by William March in 1954 and was awarded The National Book Award for Fiction in 1955.
The child, Rhoda, is portrayed as a sociopath although the term was not widely used at the time. She has no conscience and will kill if necessary to get whatever she wants. By the time Christine, her mother, puts the truth together, Rhoda has already killed two people (a neighbor in Baltimore and her classmate Claude Daigle). In time, she also kills Leroy, the apartment building's gardener and the only adult who sees through her. An adept manipulator, she can easily charm adults while eliciting fear and revulsion from other children who can sense something wrong with her.
Happy Writing,
Diane Kratz
Edit by Sally Berneathy
International Business Times: http://www.ibtimes.com/alyssa-bustamante-gets-life-prison-8-more-teen-thrill-killers-photos-554064
ABC NEWS: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/11/new-evidence-against-fl-teen-who-admitted-killing-baby-hiding-him-in-shoebox/
TruTv: http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/photogallery/when-children-kill.html?curPhoto=2
Mayhem.Net http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/cults1.html
Padbook Libraries: http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/Enoch.html
Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG)
National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) FBI Academy
Quantico, Virginia 22135 http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/school-shooter
Wikipedia- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Seed
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Did you know The Profiler at the FBI is actually a computer robot ruled based expert system programmed to profile serial crimes?
TV show Criminal Minds
When researching the FBI for my character Johnny Gaston, (a FBI profiler ) I came across a lot of conflicting information about the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit. First, the BAU has been called by several names. Second, it isn't like anything television portrays it as. Which is one of the reasons I wanted to make this blog, to set things straight.
FBI Academy. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The FBI's NCAVC
NCAVC– (National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crimes) is located at Federal Bureau of Investigation, Training Division FBI Academy at Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico, Virginia. NCAVC is the brains of the BAU.
Agents assigned to NCAVC do the following; coördinate investigative and operational support functions, criminological research, and training to give assistance to federal, state, local, and foreign law enforcement agencies investigating unusual or repetitive violent crimes (serial crimes).
The NCAVC also provides investigative support through expertise and consultation in non-violent matters such as national security, corruption, and white-collar crime investigations.
Every one of the FBI's fifty-six field offices has at least one NCAVC Coordinator in residence. The coordinators are the primary liaison with the field offices and with local and state law enforcement. They're working with local authorities every day, so they're in a position to know when there's something that would benefit from us looking at it. The coordinators are FBI's front line.
Typical cases for which NCAVC services are requested include- child abduction or mysterious disappearance of children, serial murders, single homicides, serial rapes, extortions, threats, kidnappings, product tampering, arson's and bombings, weapons of mass destruction, public corruption, and domestic and international terrorism.
Research and training programs support the operational services of the NCAVC. Requests for NCAVC services are typically facilitated through NCAVC coordinators assigned to each FBI field office. Special agents collaborate with BAU on research and training matters, but they're involved in training, primarily at the National Academy, and are not operationally involved in cases. Yep, sorry to burst your bubble, but contrary to what the Television portrays, these guy's are analysts and researchers.
The FBI's Behavioral Science Unit
includes Robert Ressler and Ray Hazelwood
Picture courtesy of cja.mansfield.edu
The NCAVC currently consists of four units:
Behavioral Analysis Unit 1 (counterterrorism/threat assessment)
Behavioral Analysis Unit 2 (crimes against adults)
Behavioral Analysis Unit 3 (crimes against children)
Behavioral Analysis Unit 4 (Violent Criminal Apprehension Program-ViCAP)
Special Agents Training in Behavioral Analysis Units
Basic psychology
Criminal psychology
Body recovery
Criminal Investigative Analysis
Death investigation
Statement/document analysis
Child abduction and homicide
Sexual victimization of children / Internet issues
Interview and interrogation procedures
Serial murder
The training is a 16-week program.
Names Previously Used by the BAU (Behavioral Analysis Unit)
BSU– (Behavioral Science Unit)-Started in 1974, to investigate serial rape and homicide cases, Serial Crimes Unit -Behavioral Science Investigative Support Unit -Critical Incident Response Group- Investigative Support Unit- Child Abduction/ Serial Killer Unit- Profiling and Behavioral Assessment Unit- Behavioral Analysis Unit East and Behavioral Analysis Unit West- Child Abduction and Serial Murder Investigative Resource Center (CASMIRC).
FBI TERMINOLOGY FOR PROGRAMS INSIDE THE NCAVC
The Profiler– is actually a computer robot rule- based expert system programmed to profile serial crimes.
CIAP– (Criminal Investigative Analysis Program) is a computer program designed to investigate serial crime.
VICAP – (Violent Criminal Apprehension Program) a computer program that identifies and links the signature aspects in violent serial crimes. Pierce Brooks was responsible for its creation. Brooks was a detective from Los Angeles came across a case he knew the killer had to have killed before. He spent years researching other cities for similar crimes. He pushed to get a centralized database.
CIRG– (Critical Incident Response Group) – consists of a cadre of special agents and professional support personnel who provide expertise in crisis management, tactical operations, crisis negotiations, hostage rescue, hazardous devices mitigation, critical incident intelligence, and surveillance and aviation. CIRG will deploy investigative specialists to respond to terrorist activities, hostage takings, child abductions, and other high-risk repetitive violent crimes. Other major incidents include prison riots, bombings, air and train crashes, and natural disasters.
LEO– (Law Enforcement Online) – LEO is a secure, Internet-based communications portal for law enforcement, first responders, criminal justice professionals, and anti-terrorism and intelligence agencies around the globe. LEO catalyzes and strengthens collaboration and information sharing by providing access to sensitive but unclassified information and various state-of-the-art communications services and tools. It is available to vetted users anywhere in the world around the clock and is offered free of charge to members.
LEO started in 1995 as a small dial-up service with just 20 members. Now, it has more than 100,000 members across the world and a host of features and capabilities offered through a Virtual Private Network on the Internet.
What does LEO offer specifically? Here's a rundown:
A national alert system directing members to the LEO site for information on emergencies (like the London bombings, for example)
Some 1,100 Special Interest Groups (SIG) that allows members who share expertise or interests to connect with each other, including sections on terrorism, street gangs, and bombs.
Access to important and useful databases, like those run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
E-mail services, which enable members to submit fingerprints to the FBI for processing by our Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System.
A Virtual Command Center (VCC)—an information sharing and crisis management tool that allows the law enforcement community to use LEO at local and remote sites as an electronic command center to submit and view information and intelligence.
Distance learning, with several online learning modules on topics like terrorism response, forensic anthropology, and leadership.
A multimedia library of publications, documents, studies, research, technical bulletins, and other reports of interest to LEO users.
*I should note that LEO could also mean Law Enforcement Officer to other Law Enforcement Agencies.
IAFIS– (The Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System) – is a national automated fingerprint identification and criminal history system maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. IAFIS provides automated fingerprint search capabilities, latent searching capability, electronic image storage, and electronic exchange of fingerprints and responses. IAFIS is the largest biometric database in the world, housing the fingerprints and criminal histories of 70 million subjects in the criminal master file, 31 million civil prints and fingerprints from 73,000 known and suspected terrorists processed by the U.S. or by international law enforcement agencies.
NGI – (Next Generation Identification) is a project of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The project's goal is to expand the capabilities of the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, which is currently used by law enforcement to identify subjects by their fingerprints and look up their criminal history. The NGI system will be a more modular system (allowing easy expansibility). It will also have more advanced lookup capabilities, incorporating palm print, iris, and facial identification.
UNSUB – Unknown subject
Signature– Characteristics of idiosyncratic to specific criminals which fulfill a psychological need.
Serial Murder– A person who has killed three or more people.
http://www.fbi.gov, http://www.trutv.com/library/crime and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.
Writer's note:
Fiction is called fiction for a reason. It's a made up world created by a writer. Writers give their story credibility through research. Readers expect us to know what we are writing about. On the same token, if reader's think of a FBI profiler as they've seen on Criminal Minds or other TV shows, and buy a book expecting this same type of character, then they will be disappointed if the writer went strictly by research, and not buy another book by that author. I believe a successful writer will write a character with the reader in mind. My character is a FBI profiler, even if in reality the job title doesn't exist in the FBI.
A Look Inside the Behavioral Analysis Unit
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This site contains information about violent crimes. The contents include murder, and crimes of a sexual nature. It is not intended for anyone under the age of 18.
Disclaimer: I am a crime fiction writer, not a profiler. However, I do have a background in mental health and a master degree in social work. I'm also licensed with the Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board in Kansas.
I have researched these topics over two years, to be included in my series of novels. This site was created for entertainment and promotional purposes only. It is all the information I've gathered throughout my two years of research.
I wanted to have everything in one spot so other writers can use the information for their books. The information is available to anyone everywhere who ventures to look. Each post includes information on where the information came from.
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This blogging stuff is new for me. I will eventually add monthly profiles and snippets of my book, but I felt I needed to post the history of profiling, those who contributed to the field, and how it has evolved. It also great information for anyone who writes historical novels.
A lot of people don't understand certain mental health terms as well. I can't tell you how many times I've been asked what the difference between a sociopath and psychopath is. These terms are used loosely and most people don't know that they mean the same thing in the USA. But if you travel to the United Kingdom, they are viewed quite differently.
And when we are talking about the FBI-well, they are tight-lipped and give conflicting information. I've weeded through hours of information trying to figure out what the BAU really did, and hope to talk about this here on my blog.
I know when I first wanted to write about a profiler, I didn't know exactly what a profile was, except what I saw on TV. A lot of people think its like mind reading or fortune-telling. The simple truth of it is, it's not. Profiling is looking at the behavioral "tells" of the crime scene, the victims, the forensic evidence, and making deductions from them.
I have always been fascinated with the criminal mind and I hope to connect with others who have the same interests. I hope you find this blog interesting and can use it as a resource.
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Q: Creating a normal distribution in Python over many standard deviations with a for loop I'm trying to create a list of arrays consisting of random values according to a normal distribution with different standard deviations of the normal distribution for each array. What I should have is in the first array all normal distribution values should have a standard deviation of 0.01, in the second array all should have a standard deviation of 0.02, and so on all the way up to 1. My code looks like this:
noise_stdv = np.linspace(0.01, 1, 100)
for i in noise_stdv:
   noise1 = [np.random.normal(0, noise_stdv, 100) for i in range(100)]

But this creates a list in such a way that the first element in each array has a standard deviation of 0.01, the second element has 0.02 and so on, instead of the whole first array having a standard deviation of 0.01 etc.
How do I make it so that the for loop runs and creates an array for each element in noise_stdv instead of running for every element in it for each array? Thanks for any help!

A: You're overwriting the same variable over and over again, and passing in the vector of standard deviations rather than a single one to each iteration. Just do the list comprehension once:
noise_stdv = np.linspace(0.01, 1, 100)
noises = [np.random.normal(0, std, 100) for std in noise_stdv]

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Facebook suffers major legal setback as top European court strikes down US-EU data sharing pact
The European Union's Court of Justice has invalidated an agreement that allowed Facebook and other tech firms to transfer data from EU states to the US. The ruling calls for better privacy protections.
The ruling invalidated a US-EU data flow agreement called 'Privacy Shield' after finding that safeguards put in place to protect internet users' information from surveillance were insufficient and incompatible with EU law.
"The requirements of US national security, public interest and law enforcement have primacy, thus condoning interference with the fundamental rights of persons whose data are transferred to that third country," the court argued.
Washington said it was "deeply disappointed" by the decision.
Thursday's decision also called on EU data protection authorities (DPAs) to ensure that privacy regulations are fully enforced.
The case dates back to 2013, when National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the US government was sifting through people's online communications and data. The explosive leaks included details about an arrangement in which Facebook granted US intelligence agencies access to the personal data of the social media platform's European users.
As a result, Austrian activist Max Schrems filed a complaint against Facebook with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). The issue was later litigated, with the Court of Justice deciding in 2015 that the US-EU pact used to facilitate data transfers, known as 'Safe Harbor', did not adequately guarantee the protection of Europeans' personal data.
Schrems then challenged the predecessor of Safe Harbor, Privacy Shield, which was struck down in Thursday's ruling.
"I am very happy about the judgment. It seems the Court has followed us in all aspects. This is a total blow to the Irish DPC and Facebook. It is clear that the US will have to seriously change their surveillance laws, if US companies want to continue to play a major role on the EU market," Schrems said in response to the decision against Privacy Shield.
The ruling creates uncertainty about how Facebook and other firms can legally transfer commercial data from the EU. However, the court said that its decision would not affect "necessary" data flows, such as flight and hotel reservations or other contracts.
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The wolf and his friend were already at the appointed place, but when they saw their enemy coming, they thought that he was bringing a saber with him, for they mistook the cat's outstretched tail for one. And when the poor animal hopped on three legs, they thought that each time it was picking up a stone to throw at them. Then they took fright.


An event that is rather unlikely in these political times took place at the Smyrna Rotary Club on Thursday. State Representative Mike Sparks and State Senator Bill Ketron, who are both republicans, hosted a democrat guest at Rotary. The guest was retiring Senator Douglas Henry who was first elected to the legislature in 1954.


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Q: Alternative ways to submit data I'm working on a project where google forms will be used to submit data for an assessment. Users will be accessing the forms through drive, and then submitting the same form many times.
My question is: are there any alternative ways to open the data collection process other than previewing the form or sending emails? It would be nice if there was a way I could let users start submitting data but not allow them to edit the form. Emails, in this case, are not practical.
Thanks for your time!


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Q: How to query a database by date range I'm making a Java program that will determine the JComboBox values set default to get the user's input to choose within daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. Now I have an idea in monthly but my query returning an Exception error. Here is my code.
            Calendar timer = Calendar.getInstance();
            timer.getTime();
            int month = timer.get(Calendar.MONTH);
            int year = timer.get(Calendar.YEAR);
            int day = timer.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);
            int week = timer.get(Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR);

            String combovalue = comboBox.getSelectedItem().toString();

               if(combovalue.equals("Monthly")) {
                try {
                    String sql = "SELECT * FROM sales WHERE date between January and February";
                    pst = connection.prepareStatement(sql);
                    pst.setString(1, String.valueOf(day));
                    rs = pst.executeQuery();
                    table.setModel(DbUtils.resultSetToTableModel(rs));
                    pst.close();
                    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Monthly" );
                    }catch (Exception e1) {
                        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, e1 );
                    }

A: Define Sales.date and / or Try TRUNC(date) function. Or use Numeric value like
BETWEEN '01-JAN-2018' AND '01-FEB-2018'.
Remember to insert '' marks Around the date.

A: You need to write date between in numeric values Jan as '01-01-2018', Feb '02-01-2018' so SELECT * FROM sales WHERE date between '01-01-2018' and '02-01-2018'
Calendar timer = Calendar.getInstance();
            timer.getTime();
            int month = timer.get(Calendar.MONTH);
            int year = timer.get(Calendar.YEAR);
            int day = timer.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);
            int week = timer.get(Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR);

          String combovalue = comboBox.getSelectedItem().toString();

               if(combovalue.equals("Monthly")) {
                try {
                    String sql = "SELECT * FROM sales WHERE date between 01-01-2018 and 02-01-2018";
                    pst = connection.prepareStatement(sql);
                    pst.setString(1, String.valueOf(day));
                    rs = pst.executeQuery();
                    table.setModel(DbUtils.resultSetToTableModel(rs));
                    pst.close();
                    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Monthly" );
                    }catch (Exception e1) {
                        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, e1 );
                    }

A: Let's just start with...
String sql = "SELECT * FROM sales WHERE date between January and February";
pst = connection.prepareStatement(sql);
pst.setString(1, String.valueOf(day));

The sql is invalid to start with, January and February should be quoted, but, since you're trying to use a PreparedStatement, there are no parameters, so pst.setString(1, String.valueOf(day)); will fail ... I mean, where is parameter 1 anyway?
I would recommend having a closer look at Using Prepared Statements
Instead, you should be using something like...
String sql = "SELECT * FROM sales WHERE date between ? and ?";
try (PreparedStatement pst = connection.prepareStatement(sql)) {
    pst.setString(1, new java.sql.Date(fromDate.getTime()));
    pst.setString(2, new java.sql.Date(toDate.getTime()));
    try (ResultSet rs = pst.executeQuery()) {
        table.setModel(DbUtils.resultSetToTableModel(rs));
    }
    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Monthly");
} catch (SQLException exp) {
    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, ep);
}

This assumes that sales.date is an actual date/time type.
There are a number of ways to get the start/end dates, one of the better ways would be to use the newer Date/Time API, instead of the defunct Calendar API, for example...
LocalDate startDate = LocalDate.of(year, Month.JANUARY, 1);
LocalDate endDate = startDate.plusMonths(1);

You would then need to use...
pst.setString(1, java.sql.Date.valueOf(startDate));
pst.setString(2, java.sql.Date.valueOf(endDate));

to make them compatible with java.sql.Date
Updated...
Just to verify I wasn't going insane, I wrote this simple test class...
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.Month;

public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws ClassNotFoundException, SQLException {
        Class.forName("org.h2.Driver");
        try (Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:h2:mem:test")) {
            con.setAutoCommit(true);
            String make = "create table if not exists Test (id bigint identity, value date)";
            try (Statement stmt = con.createStatement()) {
                stmt.execute(make);
            }
            try (Statement stmt = con.createStatement()) {
                System.out.println(">> Remove " + stmt.executeUpdate("delete from test") + " rows");
            }
            LocalDate ld = LocalDate.of(2017, Month.DECEMBER, 25);
            for (int index = 0; index < 100; index++) {
                insert(con, ld);
                ld = ld.plusDays(5);
            }
            try (Statement stmt = con.createStatement()) {
                try (ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("select count(*) from test")) {
                    while (rs.next()) {
                        int count = rs.getInt(1);
                        System.out.println("Found " + count + " rows");
                    }
                }
            }

//          String sql = "select value from test";
//          try (PreparedStatement stmt = con.prepareStatement(sql)) {
//              try (ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery()) {
//                  while (rs.next()) {
//                      System.out.println(rs.getObject(1));
//                  }
//              }
//          }

            LocalDate startDate = LocalDate.of(2018, Month.JANUARY, 1);
            LocalDate endDate = startDate.plusMonths(1);
            String sql = "select value from test where value between ? and ?";
            try (PreparedStatement stmt = con.prepareStatement(sql)) {
                stmt.setDate(1, java.sql.Date.valueOf(startDate));
                stmt.setDate(2, java.sql.Date.valueOf(endDate));
                System.out.println(startDate);
                System.out.println(endDate);
                try (ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery()) {
                    while (rs.next()) {
                        java.sql.Date date = rs.getDate(1);
                        System.out.println(date);
                    }
                }
            }
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It's the various sub plots that will highlight the end of the troubled 2020 NPL Tasmania season on Saturday
Photo: Glenorchy Knights coach James Sherman has every confidence in his team as they face NPL Tasmania champions Devonport City [PlessPix]
At today's pre-game media conference, I asked Glenorchy Knights coach James Sherman whether his team would form a guard of honour for their opponents, Devonport City, before the two sides meet at KGV Park at 2.30pm.
Devonport City won the NPL Tasmania title last weekend with a 2-1 win over bottom-side Launceston City.
It is a practice followed all over the world and has been carried out in Tasmania before.
Sherman looked a little puzzled by the question and admitted he hadn't even considered the matter. No-one, he said, had asked the club.
Photo: James Sherman said his side hadn't been asked to form a guard of honour for Devonport City before Saturday's game between the teams at KGV Park [PlessPix]
The second-placed Knights are 6 points adrift of Devonport and a win would see them finish 3 points behind the champions.
How different it could have been, the Knights must be thinking. If only Knights had not lost 2-0 away to Kingborough, and if only they hadn't lost 1-0 away to Devonport in a game in which they had more than enough chances to win.
Although the placings cannot be changed by tomorrow's game, there is still much to play for. It's almost a cliché to say that there is pride to play for.
But, that is true. Devonport will want to emphasise that they are worthy champions, while Knights will want to show that they could have been champions.
Both sides are expected to be at full strength.
Sherman said his side had built up momentum in recent weeks and he wouldn't be making unnecessary changes as that could be disruptive.
He said he wasn't focusing on next week's Lakoseljac Cup semi-finals and would not be resting players.
Devonport are out of the Cup and have won the league, so they will be out to show what they can do with the pressure off.
South Hobart will need to beat second-last Riverside Olympic at South Hobart Oval at 2pm to make absolutely certain of finishing third.
If South were to lose, and if Olympia Warriors beat Kingborough Lions United away at Lightwood Park at 4.30pm, the Warriors would finish third.
Both these games are important, therefore, in terms of final league placings for 2020.
The remaining game is at Wentworth Park at 4.30pm when Clarence Zebras host Launceston City.
Clarence Zebras could drop to second-last if they lose and if Riverside Olympic beat South Hobart.
This should spur the home side on, but the visitors will also be motivated to notch a first win of the season.
So, although at first glance there is not much to play for this Saturday, a closer examination of the fixtures reveals several sub plots that should make for an exciting end to what was a unique 2020 NPL Tasmania league season.
NPL Tasmania schedule for Saturday, 24 October 2020
South Hobart v Riverside Olympic (South Hobart Oval. 2pm)
Glenorchy Knights v Devonport City (KGV Park, 2.30pm)
Clarence Zebras v Launceston City (Wentworth Park, 4.30pm)
Kingborough Lions United v Olympia Warriors (Lightwood park, 4.30pm)
NPL Tasmania Standings (As at 18 October 2020)
Devonport City
Glenorchy Knights
Olympia Warriors
Kingborough Lions
Clarence Zebras
Riverside Olympic
Launceston City
Posted by Walter at 11:40 PM
David Webb said...
You don't ask the opposition to form a guard of honour. It's just the done thing. Not everything has to be pre-arranged or stage managed. It's just something that is done naturally as a mark of respect. Always has been. Please let's not have this be...Devonport didn't ask us or FFT didn't organise it and we run around looking for someone to blame. It's entirely up to Knights but please let's hang on to some traditions while we may...
Yes Walter, pride is on the line for many clubs today. Many a missed opportunity looking through the standings. Teams lost points when they should have won them and Devonport managed to keep most of theirs even though they are a very rural club. Riverside and Launceston are not as bad as their position on the ladder but someone needs to occupy the spots. Kingborough a big surprise this year taking points off of teams. Clarence was a massive disappointment this year. I expected so much more from them. It's interesting that if their neighbours did not graciously give them 6 points, they would be occupying seventh. Not what I expected from the merge.
Pretty poor form by the Knights if they don't form a guard of honour for Devonport and they shouldn't need to be asked to do so. I'm by a no means a strikers supporter but check the last game last year between Devonport and South at Darcy St and you'll see South did a guard of honour prior to the game ... so come on Knights let's hope you do the right thing without needing an FFT directive you could be waiting a while
Shouldn't need to be asked to form a guard of honour for the champions... It's what should happen naturally. Pretty poor form if Knights don't do it.
Just watched one of worst performances by a South Hobart team in recent memory. There are a number of players who struggle with basic skills. Number 8 for South was not only poor but his emotional behaviour was kid like. Brennan is a shade of the player he once was and to be fair is now just taking another persons position.
Riverside defended well, but in all honesty it was South who were inept of ideas. the left forward in the last 20 minutes could get a cross past the first defender.
"Give them"? I think CZ deserved all 6 of those and earnt them.
Saturday results - 31 October 2020
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Anything can happen in Lakoseljac Cup semi-finals
Final positions determined on final day of NPL Tas...
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It's the various sub plots that will highlight the...
Clarence Zebras leave it very late to beat a deter...
Eagles continue to lose altitude as they succumb t...
Thursday result - 22 October 2020
Wednesday night results - 21 October 2020
Sunday results - 18 October 2020
Devonport City claim 2020 NPL Tasmania crown
Devonport should clinch the NPL Tasmania title today
Friday night results - 16 October 2020
Let's pray there's not another floodlight failure ...
Seven things we learned in the past week
It's 1-0 again as Warriors and Clarence Zebras clash
Devonport have to wait before they can reclaim NPL...
Warriors and Clarence Zebras clash today may decid...
Devonport could wrap things up today
Floodlight fiasco at KGV Park halts Friday night C...
Devonport virtually wrap up the title as Knights f...
Keenan Douce free-kick was a gem
Saturday results - 3 October 2020
Two vital games are on the card in the south this ...
South down the Lions in a game that should never h...


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Titmice, Turks and Marinated Mummies was originally released in print as Tall Tales and Tittle-Tattle (UK) and Why Americans Zig Zag When They Eat (US).
What's the longest word in the world? How did a werewolf get into the ancient Olympics? Why does Monday come after Sunday? For the answers to these, and dozens of other questions no one has ever bothered asking, there is nowhere to turn but to Titmice, Turks and Marinated Mummies. Call it literary hash. It's full of twisted tales from history, science, food, art, popular games, toilet folklore and the crime news. It will show you who designed the constellations, who invented Spam, and who built the greatest architectural cock-ups of our age. We throw in a recipe for lamprey, some little word puzzles seen on cards in bars, and even a few winsome logic problems designed by Lewis Carroll. Finally, in a exposé scoop, we reveal the secret identity of the Jack of Hearts.
Titmice, Turks and Marinated Mummies is the first ebook expressly designed for high-class people to read on the toilet.
Selected Excerpts from this eBook
The Homeric Riddle
An anonymous work from the time of Emperor Trajan, called Of the Origin of Homer and Hesiod, and of their Contest, does its best to clear up some of the endless mysteries surrounding the two great poets. Even then, however, nobody knew who Homer really was, or where he came from; cities all over Greece claimed him as one of their own. As Of the Origin relates, Homer himself did not know his birthplace or his family. He once stopped at Delphi to see if the Oracle could enlighten him, and he was told `The isle of Ios is your mother's country and it shall receive you dead; but beware the riddles of young children.'
As an old man, while wandering the Greek lands as a minstrel, he happened to visit that island, and while sitting on the shore one day he met some sons of fishermen coming back from the sea and asked them what they had caught. They replied:
'What we caught we threw away, and what we didn't catch we keep.'
While Homer was trying to puzzle that out, he remembered the oracle and knew his time was up. After composing his own epitaph, and presumably still distracted trying to figure out the answer to the riddle, he slipped and bumped his head.
This kind of riddle has been rattling round the world ever since, and it still turns up in varying shapes and guises. Here's one of the best, with a different answer:
in Maltese: Haga mohgaga: Is-sinjur jigborha, il-fiqr jarmiha
in Sicilian: Lu galantomu si lu metti 'n sacchetta, lu povru lu jetta
'The rich man puts it in his pocket, the poor man throws it away'
(answers at the end of the book.)
How the United Nations got its Name
Mr. Churchill was visiting Mr. Roosevelt at the White House in December 1941, just after Pearl Harbor. They had been discussing the new organization they were planning for after victory. The next morning, as Roosevelt lay in bed, an idea came to him. He sought out Churchill, and found him taking a bath. 'How about "United Nations"?', he hollered through the door; 'That'll do it', Churchill replied.
note: H. L. Mencken, always on the lookout for the origins of names and phrases, found this story in contemporary news reports and put it at the end of his magisterial The American Language, p. 786.
More Tedious Long Words
People no doubt have been playing around with words as long as they've had languages to do it in. The longest word in ancient Greek is also the silliest:
Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakaechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon,
conjured up by Aristophanes in his comedy The Ecclesiazusae, as 'a hash composed of all the leftovers from the meals of the leftovers from the meals of the last two weeks'.
Some modern languages serve up even less palatable fare. We are told that in Finnish, järjestelmällistämättömyydelläänsäkäänköhän is an honest half a sentence: 'I wonder if even without his lack of systemizing...' While in Cheyenne, Náohkêsáa'oné'seómepêhévetsêhésto'anéhe means 'I truly do not pronounce Cheyenne well', and one can only sympathize.
The Spanish temperament has little patience for long words, and the best they can do seems to be the rather undistinguished anticonstitucionalmente ("unconstitutionally") at 23 letters, and electroencefalografistas ('female electroencephalograph technicians'), the champ at 24. For English, disputes among word freaks are lively; we are offered pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis, a lung disease suffered by miners, or hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian, which seems to describe itself well enough.
Turkish is always a strong contender; twist your tongue around Çekoslovakyalilastiramadiklarimizdanmisiniz? (Are you the people whose nationality we cannot change to Czechoslovakian?). But the Turks at least practice a little restraint. In a Kulürkampf like this one, German always wins, because anyone can imagine any word they like in German as long as they carefully follow the Byzantine rules of Wortordnung. Geckosoup.com reports the longest word yet imagined in the German language:
DasBewaffnetefliegenjagdblitzsturmmannschafttruppensehrschnellundmanövrierfähigversenkbarbrueckenlegenpanzerkampfwagenmitvielensprengbombenundermeßlichflugzeuggeschützeeinemächtigflammenwerfervielenminenundnebelwerferzweiungeheurlichmörserundfünfmaschinengewehrdrehkopfet
Or: the (n. gender) armed aerial fighter thunderstorm commando team very quick and manoeuverable submersible bridge-laying tank battle-wagon with lots of bombs, immeasurable aircraft defense self-activating flame-throwing many mine and fog throwing two monstrous mortars and five machine-gun turreted.
White Punks on Fungus
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
One of Mother Nature's most potent little pills, ergot (Cleviceps purpurea) is a dark fungus that in cool wet springs grows on grasses, in particular on rye. Heat cannot kill it; eating bread baked from infected flour causes hallucinations, dementia, convulsions and burning pinpricks that can lead to gangrene and even death. They call it 'ergotism'.
Ergot is a prime suspect behind some of the weirder episodes in history. Some have even speculated that small doses may have been used to create altered states of consciousness in the ancient Eleusian mysteries (dedicated, after all, to Demeter, the corn goddess). Medieval Europeans, who often ingested it accidently, called the result St Anthony's Fire, after the 4th-century St. Anthony Abbot of Egypt, who got the job as patron saint of ergotism after curing the son of a 14th-century French nobleman; in gratitude the nobleman founded hospitals for sufferers in his name. Pictures of St. Anthony began to show a flaming torch or writhing sufferers, their limbs on fire.
Studies into the climate of the past seven centuries in zones where rye bread was consumed (usually by peasants or poor town-dwellers) found a striking correlation between outbreaks of the bizarre behavior associated with St Anthony's Fire and witch hunts, including Salem in 1692. Significantly, oat-eating Ireland had only four witch trials in its history. Women were more likely to display witch-like behavior because midwives, from medieval times on, would give doses of ergot to increase contractions (or cause abortions). Even today it's used medically, to stop post-partum uterine hemorrhage or even a migraine headache.
Just how bad ergotism can be was demonstrated in August, 1951, in the small town of Pont St-Esprit, France, when 230 people had a collective bad trip after eating infected baguettes from the local bakery. For a week, the town resembled a scene from the brush of Hieronymous Bosch. People jumped out windows screaming that their bodies were wrapped in snakes and their heads had turned to copper; others were inflicted with St Anthony's Fire, violent convulsions, the sensation of insects crawling under their skin, visions of being pursued by wild and deformed animals (or turning into them, like werewolves), of fire and blood running down the walls.
None of this surprised the chemists at Sandoz Laboratories in Switzerland, who were in the forefront of ergot research, and had synthesized alkaloid derivatives of ergot in 1938. The mad juices in the diethylamide version of the lysergic acid molecule were discovered five years later, when Professor Albert Hoffman spilt some on his skin, and experienced a mild euphoria and some rather pleasant hallucinations. Curious, he swallowed what he thought was a minuscule dose of the stuff, 0.25 mg, which sent him on a very fierce acid trip; lysergic acid diethylamide has been determined the most powerful hallucinogenic substance known to man, distorting messages sent to and from the brain, mixing up the senses (synesthesia) so the user 'hears colors' or 'sees sounds'.
Once they discovered LSD, the Swiss, being Swiss, wondered how to make a buck off it. Using doses measured in micrograms, or millionths of a gram, research at Sandoz then shifted to LSD's potential as a treatment for schizophrenia, and in 1947 it hit the market as Delysid, advertized as a cure-all for mental illness, criminal behavior, sexual perversions, alcoholism, and perhaps most of all as a study aid for psychiatry and psychology students, who by taking the drug themselves could have an insight into the subjective experiences of a schizophrenic. Until it was banned in 1967, LSD was prescribed to over 40,000 patients and generated over 1,000 scientific papers. Casual use in academia, to the 'Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out' mantra of Timothy Leary, psychology professor at Harvard, made LSD the psychedelic drug of choice in the 1960s.
Today, as designer drugs proliferate, a microdot of LSD is just another cheap thrill for the teenagers. In his last two decades, Leary had moved on from LSD as well, finding a new alternative universe in computer software. Learning that he had cancer in 1996, he talked of making his last trip 'live' on the internet (it never happened); instead his ashes were rocketed into space, sharing the same container as those of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
The Devil's Book
Nobody knows where playing cards originated; they do not preserve as well as archaeologists might like. But it's almost certain that they came our way via Muslim Spain. Even today the Spanish call them naipes, which may be a word that travelled all the way from India, meaning a viceroy or lieutenant, from the same root as 'nabob'. The English, and hence the American decks, come straight from the French, who always imagined the face cards as historical personalities. They often still print their names on the card, though this is a habit we have long lost. Here's a list of who the figures of these royal houses really are.
For anyone from the early centuries of cards, to learn that spades had become the highest suit in most of our games would be taken as evidence that we had turned somewhat degenerate. Hearts by rights should be on top, and so we begin with:
That's Charlemagne, the paragon of Christian kingship, though at times it would be figured as Caesar, or strangely, a 'wild man of the woods'—who might be the Green Man of English tavern signs, of Gawain and the Green Knight, of so many Romanesque church carvings, also the Moslem mystic's Khidr, or Tolkien's Tom Bombadil. But don't get us started on that subject. Let him be Charlemagne. Royalists in the English Civil Wars took the Heart King for Charles I, battling royally against 'city clubs, country spade-men and rich-diamond men'.
David, the royal hero of the Old Testament, who held a harp on the oldest cards. Now he wields the sword he used to chop off Goliath's head.
Julius Caesar. He carries a battle axe instead of a sword. Don't ask us why.
Alexander the Great. He never wore a beard, let alone a big black one. But he does get a sword.
Royal ladies find a home in the pack everywhere except Spain, where cards has always been an all-male world. Our queens carry a leaf or feather or flower, the significance of which, if any, is unknown.
Judith, the most courageous of women. In some packs she might also be Helen (of Troy, or maybe St. Helen, the mother of Constantine), or even Joan of Arc.
Queen of Spades
Pallas, meaning Pallas Athena, or Minerva, is the only mythological lady, and the only one to carry a sceptre.
Queen of Diamonds
Rachel was the mother of Joseph and Benjamin. Sometimes, though, the Queen was Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons. In France, this card often bore the early advertising inscriptions of the cardmakers:
Vive les bons enfants
Qui jouent souvent
Queen of Clubs
We may think of her as Elizabeth, though the carrot-top queen would look better in a red suit. To the French, she is Argine. Unfortunately, no one has managed to track down such a personage anywhere in history; she might be simply an anagram for Regina. Out of that confusion, the English commonly called her 'Queen Bess', while to the French she was 'Marie d'Anjou', much-beloved wife of Charles VII in the Hundred Years' War, or even Marie de Medici.
The Jacks all hold pikes, the preferred infantry weapon of the era when our cards took their form. Why two of them are 'one-eyed' is a mystery lost in time.
Jack of Spades
Hogier the Dane, another adventuring knight from Charlemagne's court. You might remember him as Holger Dansk from Hans' Christian Andersen's stories, but he wasn't a Dane at all—really, Hogier de Dannemarche, a place in the Ardennes. Legend gave him two mighty swords, called Courtante and Sauvagine, though today's pack allows him only a pike. It may look like a spindle or a short-wave antenna, but believe us, it's a pike.
Jack of Clubs
Lancelot. In the old days, the romantic prince of legend got stuck with the job of being the 'duty card', the one that royal tax collectors would look at for the stamp and the name of the manufacturer.
at first Roland, Charlemagne's right hand, and later Hector, though there's some doubt whether this is Hector of Troy, or 'Ector de Maris' from the Arthurian legends, the devoted half-brother of Lancelot. That strange pike of his with the protruding blade is a weapon of Renaissance times, called a 'Welsh hook'.
We've saved Lahire for last; poker players are rarely sad to see him, and though no friend of Britain he may be the most sympathtic fellow in the pack. Etienne de Vignoles (1390-1443), known as La Hire, was a doughty Gascon warrior from the Hundred Years' War, a comrade-in-arms of Joan of Arc and a veteran of a hundred battles. Just before one of them, he had a bad premonition, and stopped at a country chapel for a last confession. 'All my sins?' he told the priest, 'Impossible; I have only a few minutes!' He lived through that one, and at a later battle he offered this famous prayer: O God, I pray thee to do for La Hire today such things as Thou wouldst wish La Hire to do for thee, if he were God, and Thou wast La Hire.
Of the other cards in the pack, only a few have shown much personality over the centuries.
'old frizzle' to the English of long ago. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army ordered entire packs of spade aces for soldiers to leave around villages and woods, in the belief that the superstitious Viet Cong would be terrified of them. They must have had a good laugh.
the lowest ace (in the old days) was called the 'Earl of Cork', after the poorest nobleman in Ireland.
'Pam', from the fashionable 17th-century French card game pamphile, in which this card was the highest trump.
Nine of diamonds
the 'curse of Scotland', because it resembled the arms of Colonel Packer, a black-hearted scoundrel who commanded Oliver Cromwell's forces there.
Eight of spades
according to some the unluckiest card in the pack (but see below).
Four of hearts
called 'Hob Collingwood', for no evident reason, and also unlucky.
Four of clubs
the 'Devil's bedposts', and even worse. Just hope it does not come accompanied by two pair, aces and eights. That's the 'dead man's hand', what Wild Bill Hickok was holding when Jack McCall shot him in Deadwood, South Dakota. He still had a death grip on the cards when they carried him out the door.
When Rome Falls—the World
For a city that considers itself the city, the Urbs, it's perhaps not surprising that Rome is chockful of superstitions that its demise will herald the end for the Orbs, or the rest of the world. Back in the 8th century, the Venerable Bede recorded a saying popular among the city's Saxon pilgrims, which Byron translated in his Childe Harold:
While Stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand;
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;
And when Rome falls–the world.
Which of course did not stop the Roman themselves from tearing the Coliseum apart for building stone, until Pope Benedict XIV stopped them in 1744, when he consecrated the arena to the Christians supposedly martyred there. The celebrated gilded equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, now standing in front of Michelangelo's City Hall on the Capitoline hill, comes with a similar dire warning: once the last bit of gold flakes off, the world will end.
We're safe here as well; the statue has not only been recently regilded, but moved indoors. More worrisome, however, is the frieze of papal portraits running along the nave of St Paul's Outside the Walls. The world will end when the frieze is filled: there are, at the time of writing, mosaic portraits of all the 265 pontiffs, beginning with St Peter to John Paul II, and after him room for only eight more.
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Cannone-Mitragliera da 20/77(Scotti) – włoskie holowane automatyczne działo przeciwlotnicze z okresu II wojny światowej.

Prototyp armaty według projektu Alfredo Scotti powstał w 1932, a pierwsze egzemplarze były produkowane w zakładach Oerlikon. Przyjęta do uzbrojenia armii włoskiej obok działka Breda, jako jedna z dwóch podstawowych, lekkich armat przeciwlotniczych. Mimo dłuższej lufy miała mniejszą donośność niż Breda, co było poważną wadą dla działa przeciwlotniczego i prawdopodobnie dlatego była produkowana w większych ilościach na eksport (do krajów Ameryki Południowej, a także do Chin), niż na potrzeby własne. Nad armatą Breda górowała prostotą konstrukcji, co w warunkach wojennych okazało się zaletą i w 1942 produkcję znacząco zwiększono.

Działo używało 60-nabojowego magazynka bębnowego, podobnie jak działo Oerlikon 20 mm, lub dwunastonabojowego podajnika. Produkowane było w dwóch wersjach, przewoźnej (w pozycji bojowej działo spoczywało na trójnogu; na krótki dystans można je było przeholować na kołach) i stacjonarnej, na postumencie.

W czasie wojny, oprócz armii włoskiej, dział Scotti używali Niemcy pod oznaczeniem 2-cm Scotti(i) w Afryce Północnej, we Włoszech i na Bałkanach (także w działaniach przeciwpartyzanckich). Po kapitulacji Włoch zakłady Isotta, znajdujące się w okupowanym przez Niemców Turynie, produkowały te armaty na ich potrzeby. Część armat tego typu znalazła się na wyposażeniu odtworzonej po 1945 armii włoskiej.

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