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Il Palazzo Reale di Königsberg (alternativamente anche castello di Königsberg, in tedesco: Königsberger Schloss, in russo: Кёнигсбергский замок) è stato il palazzo reale posto nella città tedesca di Königsberg, nella Prussia Orientale (l'attuale Kaliningrad, in Russia).

Durante la seconda guerra mondiale il palazzo reale venne fortemente danneggiato dai bombardamenti che colpirono la città ad opera della Royal Air Force.

Dopo la guerra la struttura, seppur pesantemente danneggiata, rimase in rovina sino al 1968 quando Leonid Brežnev diede l'ordine di demolirlo, nonostante l'opposizione di molti intellettuali, perché ritenuto "simbolo del militarismo prussiano". Al suo posto sorge oggi la Casa dei Soviet, edificio rimasto a tutt'oggi incompiuto. .

Storia architettonica

L'edificazione sotto i Cavalieri Teutonici

Il sito su cui sorgeva il castello era un forte prussiano di antica origine noto col nome di Tuwangste (dalla parola tardolatina "wangus" che descriveva un'area di bosco con alberi abbattuti), posto non lontano dal fiume Pregel, su un importante incrocio viario del territorio prussiano, nei pressi dei villaggi di Löbenicht, Sackheim e Tragheim. I Cavalieri Teutonici avevano progettato di occupare l'area e di costruirvi un fortilizio difensivo già dal 1242, ma l'esecuzione del piano venne ritardata a causa di una serie di conflitti politici e militari nell'area. Dopo la conquista definitiva dell'area nel 1255 con l'appoggio di re Ottocaro II di Boemia, i Teutonici costruirono un forte provvisorio in terra e legno che venne appunto chiamato Königsberg, letteralmente "colle del re", proprio in onore al sovrano che li aveva assistiti nella conquista. Tali resti vennero riportati alla luce nel corso di una serie di scavi condotti negli anni '20 del Novecento.

Dal 1257 iniziò la costruzione di una vera e propria fortezza in pietra che venne assediata per la prima volta nel 1260, dando prova di grande resistenza. Quando l'Ordine si vide strappare dai polacchi il Castello di Marienburg nel 1457, da quella data e sino al 1525 il castello di Königsberg divenne sede del Gran Maestro dell'Ordine stesso. Di questo periodo rimase in seguito la sola Haberturm, ma in realtà tra XIV e XVI secolo vennero costruiti molti degli ambienti più antichi del castello conservati sino alla sua demolizione tra cui un granaio, la cappella del castello, un convento con refettorio per i militi dell'Ordine e una sala capitolare nell'ala ovest. Sul lato nord venne realizzata la residenza del comandante del castello (poi convertita in residenza del Gran Maestro dell'Ordine Teutonico) con diversi appartamenti ed una torre di difesa, mentre nelle restanti parti venne eretto un ospedale ed un ospizio con una propria cappella. Nel 1380 venne eretta la torre sud-ovest del castello come campanile e torre di guardia del complesso.

L'appartamento del comandante (poi del Gran Maestro)
Lo spazio destinato ad accogliere la residenza del comandante del castello (e poi del Gran Maestro dell'Ordine Teutonico) era organizzato nel piano nobile ed era composto da un soggiorno, da una camera da letto, da locali di servizio, da un refettorio, da una serie di corridoi e da una cappella privata dedicata a Sant'Anna. Tutte le sale erano contraddistinte da volte a stella e da un'architettura tipicamente gotica. Alla base dei costoloni in pietra calcarea delle volte si trovavano dei capitelli antropomorfi o allegorici. Nel corso del XV secolo vennero create due verande collegate all'appartamento e vennero realizzati alcuni lavori di ammodernamento interno degli spazi dell'appartamento

Residenza ducale

Nel 1525, quando l'area venne e strappata ai Teutonici e conquistata dai duchi di Prussia, per il castello iniziò un nuovo periodo di splendore in quanto esso divenne una residenza secondaria della famiglia ducale con lo spostamento progressivo della capitale da Potsdam a Berlino, subendo ripetuti ampliamenti nel corso dei secoli XVI, XVII e XVIII.

Le prime modifiche alla struttura vennero volute personalmente dal duca Alberto I di Prussia con l'intento di tramutare l'edificio del castello da una struttura meramente militare e conventuale in un vero e proprio palazzo reale ad uso personale e della sua famiglia. Nel 1532 egli fece erigere la Albrechtstor, un monumentale portale d'ingresso al complesso, oltre a riedificare parte dell'ala est. Le stesse sale interne, di stile medievale, erano sentite ormai come superate artisticamente ed era necessario pertanto rinnovarle con lo stile rinascimentale. Fu inoltre lo stesso Alberto a gettare le basi per la costituzione della Silberbibliothek, la "Biblioteca d'Argento" che rese noto il castello in tutta la Prussia dell'epoca.

La ristrutturazione del complesso poteva dirsi completata nel 1569 quando gli architetti Christian Hoffmann e Christof Römer terminarono la facciata orientale del castello e costruirono l'ala sud. Fu il margravio Giorgio Federico di Brandeburgo-Ansbach a dare il via alla costruzione della Schlosskirche, la cappella ufficiale del palazzo dove Federico I di Prussia nel 1701 e Guglielmo I di Germania nel 1861 rispettivamente, vennero incoronati sovrani di Prussia, nonché della Moskowitersaal una grandiosa sala dalle dimensioni colossali (82 x 18 x 6 m) frutto della migliore ingegneria d'architettura dell'epoca in quanto non sostenuta da colonne o pilastri.

Sotto il governo dell'elettore Federico Guglielmo I di Brandeburgo vennero apportate delle nuove ristrutturazioni di stile barocco fiammingo, tra cui spiccava la sommità della Schlossturm che venne terminata con una lanterna "a cipolla" e da un orologio pubblico.

Residenza reale prussiana

Quando Federico I venne incoronato primo "re di Prussia" si rese conto che questa struttura per quanto a lui cara, fosse ormai completamente obsoleta per le esigenze sue e della corte reale e pertanto avviò un complesso programma di ristrutturazione e rifacimenti. Il suo lavoro più importante al castello fu la costruzione della Unfriedtbau (nota anche col nome di Friedrichsbau) così chiamata dal nome dell'architetto che si occupò della sua erezione, Joachim Ludwig Schultheiß von Unfriedt. Il piano del re di Prussia era quello di costruire sul sito dell'ala est un edificio di tre piani con ingresso ad arco e due ali parallele. La ricostruzione venne iniziata nel 1705 ed al 1712 era giunta solo ad un terzo del suo completamento (la parte meridionale). Il complesso venne completato da suo figlio e successore, Federico Guglielmo I di Prussia che da allora utilizzò la struttura come residenza secondaria per sé e per la corte regia di Berlino.

Nel 1815 l'Encyclopaedia Britannica si riferisce al sito come "un magnifico palazzo al centro del quale si trova un grandioso salone di 83.5 m di lunghezza e 18 m di larghezza, senza colonne che lo supportano, e dove si trova anche una bellissima biblioteca. La torre gotica del castello è molto alta (100 m) e dispone di 284 gradini che conducono alla sommità da cui si può avere una magnifica visuale sull'intera area".

Nel 1861 vi venne incoronato Guglielmo I di Germania come re di Prussia, il quale avviò poco dopo dei lavori di ristrutturazione del complesso. Negli anni 1864-66 una nuova il sovrano fece costruire una nuova guglia in stile neogotico per coronare la torre principale, realizzata su progetto di Friedrich August Stüler. La torre, alta già 82 metri, venne portata così alla straordinaria altezza di 104 metri. Parallelamente gli appartamenti della Unfriedtbau, la chiesa del castello e la Moskowitersaal vennero aperte al pubblico rimanendo tali sino alla fine della Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Venne istituito anche un Museo della Prussia che qui aveva sede (ala nord) con una collezione di 240.000 pezzi della cosiddetta Collezione prussiana, la raccolta della città di Königsberg e dell'Università locale, oltre a diverse tele d'autore tra cui quelle realizzate da Lovis Corinth.

Nel 1926 l'architetto e storico dell'arte Friedrich Lahrs compì degli scavi nel cortile del castello che riportarono alla luce i resti delle fortificazioni precedenti, inaugurando un periodo di studi accurati sul complesso e sulla sua evoluzione storica.

Durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, molte opere d'arte che i nazisti riuscirono a trafugare dalla Russia, vennero qui stoccate in attesa di altre destinazioni, tra cui probabilmente parti della Camera d'ambra. Qui avevano sede inoltre gran parte degli archivi provinciali. Nel castello aveva sede anche una Blutgericht, una taverna per solo vino di antica origine (risalente secondo la leggenda ad Hans von Sagan).

La demolizione

A seguito del bombardamento di Königsberg ad opera della Royal Air Force durante la seconda guerra mondiale nel 1944, nel castello scoppiò un tremendo incendio che rapidamente consumò gran parte delle sale. I muri in pietra, ad ogni modo, furono in grado di resistere ai bombardamenti aerei ed all'artiglieria sovietica, oltre che ai combattimenti urbani dell'aprile del 1945, rimanendo al loro posto come ruderi. La città di Königsberg, in gran parte distrutta dai bombardamenti, divenne quindi parte dell'Unione Sovietica, cambiando nome nel 1946 e divenendo nota come Kaliningrad.

Gli occupanti sovietici si dimostrarono da subito seriamente intenzionati a ridar vita alla città di Kaliningrad, ricostruendola in molte sue parti, ma erano altrettanto determinati a cancellarvi ogni traccia del passato tedesco della città. Leonid Il'ič Brežnev come conseguenza ordinò che i resti del castello, divenuti ormai solo un segno del "militarismo prussiano" venissero abbattuti. Malgrado le proteste di studenti ed intellettuali della città, le rovine vennero asportate pezzo dopo pezzo a partire dal 1968. Altre parti che si trovavano nei pressi della Cattedrale di Königsberg, tra cui la tomba di Immanuel Kant, vennero comunque lasciate in piedi, venendo ricostruite e restaurate accuratamente dopo il crollo dell'Unione Sovietica, tra la fine degli anni '90 e l'inizio degli anni 2000.

La situazione attuale

Attualmente, la piazza centrale di Kaliningrad occupa l'area un tempo corrispondente al cortile centrale del castello. Su di essa si affaccia oggi la "Casa dei Soviet", un edificio amministrativo di stile russo la cui costruzione venne iniziata proprio dai sovietici a partire dal 1960. Il continuo sviluppo del complesso, con una prosecuzione a rilento dei lavori, venne bloccato negli anni '80 quando iniziarono a presentarsi non pochi problemi strutturali a causa del cedimento di alcune parti portanti a causa di tunnel sotterranei del castello, fatto che molti tra gli anziani della città chiamarono "la vendetta dei prussiani" o "il mostro", originando leggende popolari sul sito. La parte esterna della struttura venne terminata nel 2005 in occasione di una visita in città del presidente Vladimir Putin, ma l'interno è ancora oggi spoglio e incompleto.

L'attuale amministrazione della città di Kaliningrad ha dibattuto su una possibile ricostruzione del castello con l'assistenza del Dipartimento della Cultura Russa. Nel giugno del 2010, il Ministro della Cultura, Mikhail Andreyev, ha annunciato la proclamazione di un referendum cittadino sulla ricostruzione del castello tenutosi con esito positivo nel marzo del 2011. Il progetto di ricostruzione, oltre che dispendioso, è risultato complesso ma non impossibile dal momento che per la sua ricostruzione ci si potrebbe basare unicamente su disegni, fotografie e mappe d'epoca anche se attualmente della struttura originaria non rimane nulla, a differenza invece del restauro compiuto sulla Cattedrale di Königsberg dove si è potuto intervenire con restauri integrativi partendo dalla struttura portante rimasta in essere anche dopo il periodo sovietico.

Dal settembre del 2001, il settimanale tedesco Der Spiegel ha finanziato degli scavi per ritrovare le antiche tracce del castello e sfatare o confermare la leggenda secondo la quale qui potessero essere stati stipati segretamente dei pannelli della famosa Camera d'ambra trafugata dal palazzo imperiale di Carskoe Selo dai nazisti in fuga dalla Russia, ma vennero invece riportate alla luce le cantine del castello, in collaborazione col Museo di Storia dell'Arte di Kaliningrad. Durante questi scavi vennero ritrovati degli oggetti tra cui, nel giugno del 2005, un cofanetto in argento oculatamente occultato che conteneva medaglie ed amuleti.

La struttura

La costruzione aveva una lunghezza di 104 metri ed una larghezza massima di 66,8 m. L'altezza del complesso alla torre più alta era di 84,5 m, gittante direttamente sull'antistante Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz.

Il castello aveva una struttura quadrangolare chiusa come nei castelli medievali con un cortile centrale e quattro ali attorno:

Ala est: ingresso dalla Schlossplatz tramite la Albrechtstor, la Unfriedtbau (vedi poi) e la Haberturm (vedi poi)
Ala sud: appartamenti reali, Museo della Prussia, Collezione d'Arte comunale
Ala ovest: chiesa del castello, ingresso dalla Gesekusplatz
Ala nord: Archivio di Stato prussiano, Blutgericht, sede dell'autorità giudiziaria di Konigsberg; Schlossstrasse

Il castello disponeva di cinque torri:
Schlossturm, gittante sulla Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz (angolo sud-ovest del castello)
Haberturm, la più antica (con la caratteristica forma ottagonale) sulla Münzplatz (angolo nord-est del castello)
Torretta rotonda all'angolo sud-ovest del castello (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz)
Berwart-Turm su Gesekusplatz (angolo nord-ovest del castello)
Lidelauturm sulla fascia settentrionale del castello

La Unfriedtbau

L'Unfriedtbau (o Friedrichsbau, "Ala di Unfriedt" o "Ala di Federico") fu l'ala residenziale del Castello di Königsberg, destinata a residenza dei re di Prussia. Il nome di tale ala venne derivata dal suo architetto e costruttore, Joachim Ludwig Schultheiß von Unfriedt. Posta al piano nobile dell'edificio, essa era composta da una serie di ambienti coevi alla costruzione del castello, ma rimodernati in epoca barocca dopo l'incoronazione di Federico I di Prussia quando egli pretese che il castello dove era nato e vissuto venisse ampliato e rimodernato per meglio venire incontro alle esigenze di un monarca nelle occasioni di rappresentanza. La costruzione di quest'ala venne avviata nel 1704, ma alla morte di Federico I di Prussia nel 1713, tuttavia, venne completata solo la parte meridionale. I lavori vennero portati a compimento sotto il regno del suo successore, Federico Guglielmo I di Prussia. Tra le sale più rilevanti ricordiamo:

Camera natale di Federico I. Questa sala venne eretta nel 1544-1547 all'epoca del regno del duca Alberto I di Prussia ad opera di Jacob Bink. Le pareti ed il soffitto apparivano interamente edecorati con pannelli lignei ad intarsio ad eccezione del grande camino in pietra arenaria scolpito finemente dall'artista Cornelius Floris.
Sala dell'Aquila Nera. Questa sala, realizzata in stile primo rococò, era caratterizzata da una preziosa carta da parati alle pareti e da sopraporta dipinti con paesaggi italiani ed antiche rovine. Al centro del soffitto della sala si trovava un prezioso lavoro in stucco rappresentante un'aquila nera con dei fregi, simbolo dell'Ordine dell'Aquila Nera, la più antica e prestigiosa onorificenza di stato concessa dai re di Prussia. Qui annualmente infatti si incontravano tutti i cavalieri dell'Ordine.
Sala del Trono. In questa sala di rappresentanza campeggiavano i ritratti di tutti i re prussiani (poi anche imperatori di Germania) da Federico I di Prussia a Federico III di Germania e la tradizione era solita porre tali dipinti solo dopo la morte dei sovrani stessi (pertanto il ritratto di Guglielmo II di Germania non vi venne mai appeso). La sala era caratterizzata dalla presenza di un trono da cui appunto il nome, mentre sul pavimento si trovava un prezioso tappeto di crine di Trakehner.

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Bibliografia
 Fritz Gause: Die Geschichte der Stadt Königsberg in Preußen. 3 Bände. 2./3. ergänzte Auflage. Böhlau, Köln u. a. 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X.
 Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt: Unsterbliches Königsberger Schloß. Zehn Essays. Herausgegeben von Peter Wörster. Frankfurt am Main 2004
 Alfred Rohde:  Das Schloß in Königsberg (Pr.) und seine Sammlungen, 1933; 5. Auflage, Berlin 1942.
 Wulf D. Wagner: Das Königsberger Schloss. Eine Bau- und Kulturgeschichte. Vol. 1: Von der Gründung bis zur Regierung Friedrich Wilhelms I. (1255–1740). Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-1936-3 (Publikationen des Museums Stadt Königsberg 5), (Dissertation Universität Karlsruhe, 2005).
 Wulf D. Wagner / Heinrich Lange: Das Königsberger Schloss. Eine Bau- und Kulturgeschichte. Vol. 2: Von Friedrich dem Großen bis zur Sprengung (1740-1967/68). Das Schicksal seiner Sammlungen nach 1945. Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-1953-0.
 Wulf D. Wagner: Das Schloss Königsberg/Kaliningrad. In: Schnell, Kunstführer Nr. 2711, Regensburg 2008 ISBN 978-3-7954-6787-6.

Voci correlate
 Prussia orientale
 Moskowitersaal
 Haberturm
 Schlossturm
 Schlosskirche (Königsberg)

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Sky's new deal with BT Sport will give access to vast range of sport, but at what cost?
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Sky has recently become the exclusive distributor of BT Sport and Premier Sport in Ireland. Photo: Getty Images
Sky's recent announcement that they will be launching their new Sports Extra package on August 1st clarified just how much sport viewers will now be able to get through a single subscription. But one key detail has still to be announced - the price.
Since 2016, Eir had been the official distributors of the BT Sport pack in Ireland, with Eir broadband customers receiving the package for free as part of their plan. However, after Sky stepped in and made a more lucrative offer they took over the distribution of BT Sport and, with it, monopolised the vast majority of sport on subscription television in Ireland.
Now, with one subscription to Sky viewers will be able to watch all 233 televised Premier League matches, every Champions League and Europa League match, Serie A, Eredivisie, Scottish Premier League and more - and that's just for those who like their football. For the rugby fans there's every Heineken Champions Cup and Challenge Cup match as well as Pro14. Like watching the golf? Well you can see every men's Major, every women's Major, the Ryder Cup and every single European Tour and PGA Tour event through the same subscription, not to mention the 14 exclusive GAA fixtures from this summer's championship, as much cricket as you can shake a stick at, racing and more.
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It's a whole lot of sport and, with the majority now available through Sky, the dilemma of where to watch and what to subscribe to has become significantly clearer. But still, that key question remains: how much it will cost?
To offer a speculatory figure: if you were to sign up to Sky TV as a new customer today and purchase the Sky Sports pack you would pay €44-a-month for the first six months, rising to €77 thereafter. Previously, when Eir distributed the BT Sport pack, it would cost €29.99 a month if you were not an Eir customer. That means that, for what Sky's new Sports Extra pack will consist of, you would previously have paid €106.99 per month or €1,283.88 per year. While Sky may charge more or less than this (the broadcaster says they will clarify details in the coming weeks) it would be fair to assume that the cost will be in and around that ballpark.
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With all of that taken into account, the question becomes just how much are customers prepared to pay?
Despite the sheer amount of sport that is now behind a paywall the fact remains that, in comparison to sport on terrestrial television, not that many people tune in. During the last Premier League season Sky Sports' UK audience grew by 12 per cent and the broadcaster managed to pull in audiences of over two million viewers on 16 occasions, more than they had managed in the previous two seasons combined.
However, compare those figures for one of the most closely fought Premier League title races in years with, for instance, the Women's World Cup semi-final between England and the USA on BBC and the difference is stark. Over 11 million people watched Phil Neville's side lose 2-1 in France last week in what was the most viewed television programme on UK television so far this year. In Ireland, RTÉ's coverage peaked at 316,700 for a women's match which involved two foreign teams.
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Indeed, last season, significantly more people in the UK watched Newport County knock Leicester City out of the FA Cup on BBC than watched Tottenham's second half comeback against Ajax in the Champions League semi-final or Liverpool's 4-0 win over Barcelona the previous night.
While TV rights deals with subscription broadcasters are hugely lucrative for both governing bodies and teams – the Premier League's most recent domestic deal brought in a total of £4.55 billion (€5.1billion) – figures within the industry believe the tide may be turning somewhat in favour of more exposure with the subscription TV model as we know it coming to an end.
No subscription television channel can match the reach of terrestrial and for some sports that reach is becoming more and more important. For instance, in 2016 – the first year of Sky broadcasting the British Open – the peak viewership figure for Sunday's final round duel between Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson was just 1.1 million. Twelve months earlier 4.7 million tuned into the BBC to watch Zach Johnson lift the Claret Jug at St Andrews despite the fact that the final round took place on a Monday.
With the Cricket World Cup failing to attract audiences of more than around 500,000 on Sky Sports these last few weeks, the broadcaster is reportedly in talks with Channel 4 about broadcasting the final free-to-air if England get there. The English Cricket Board has faced heavy criticism over the years for selling TV rights to subscription broadcasters shortly after the 2005 Ashes had reached a peak at 8.4 million on Channel 4.
Viewing figures for the 2005 Ashes series peaked at 8.4 million on Channel 4. Photo: Tom Shaw/Getty Images
"I think there's an understanding and a realisation that the model of pay-only is not going to work because it will work in the short-term with regard to revenue and it will cost in the long-term with regard to exposure," says RTÉ head of sport Declan McBennett.
"So I think there's probably a balance to be struck between free-to-air and pay and it's how cleverly organisations work that balance between free-to-air and the pay model. But I think there is a realisation, if not an acceptance, but I think we're on the way to an acceptance that the balance with regard to pay-TV is gone too far in that direction. I think the Women's World Cup and the GAA Championship and things like that only reinforce that.
"Each sporting organisation is entitled to extract as much revenue as they can from their broadcast deals but the question they have to ask themselves is: is that at the expense of exposure and is that stopping the generation of tomorrow from accessing the heroes of today? How many kids get to see Messi and Ronaldo and Salah and so on if the games are behind a paywall?"
The mind-boggling money that sloshes around the Premier League can be hard to get a handle of as the rise in transfer fees and wages shows no signs of slowing down. Since the Premier League came into being in 1992 it has been the exclusive enclave of subscription TV in the UK (between 2004 and 2007 RTÉ did show some live Premier League games in Ireland) and it's that pool of TV money which is the main driver in clubs now regularly breaking their record transfer fees.
But just how sustainable is it and will the bubble ever burst?
Some signs do indicate that a slight shift with the latest Premier League domestic TV rights deal dropping from £5.1 billion (€5.7 billion) to £4.55 billion (€5.1 billion) while, from 2021, the FA Cup will return exclusively to terrestrial television after BT Sport ceded their rights to ITV with BBC holding the other share.
John Nicholson is a football writer who has just finished the book Can We Have Our Football Back? He believes that the tide is turning back in favour of terrestrial television as customers stop paying for subscription channels for reasons including the expense, the possibility of watching for free through illegal streams and the simple fact that TV viewing figures are consistently falling among younger generations.
"I've spoken to a few Premier League players and one manager and they've all said that if you break the TV deal then everything falls apart," he says. "As soon as you break TV and it goes back into a more sane financial situation where rights don't cost anything near £5 billion then everything will change.
"What we've forgotten is that we're the customers and if we withdraw our support then it all goes away. With the Premier League and big clubs and big owners and all of that we feel cowed in the shadow of them and that it wouldn't happen without us. But it's only happening for us and if we were to withdraw our support then it won't happen.
"We know from the figures that participation of girls in football has increased massively because of the exposure of women's football on The Women's Football Show (on BBC) and there's been a direct link drawn between active participation and just the fact it becomes familiarised and part of everyday life. Given that nobody has ever watched a Premier League game for free in the UK (by legitimate means) and the maximum that has ever watched any of them is 3.4 million, if we have football that's available to everybody all the time and anyone is telling me that the country wouldn't be more active, fitter, more communal then I don't believe them."
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Volotea, the airline for small and medium-sized European cities, has signed a contract with Iberia Maintenance to perform «C check overhauls» on Airbus A320s at its facilities in Madrid and Barcelona for the next five and a half years.
Volotea will send its A320 aircraft to Iberia MRO for a comprehensive maintenance service to be carried out during the winter seasons. This agreement, which will come into force in January 2023, will run for five and a half years.
The airline selected Iberia Maintenance after an exhaustive bidding process in which the Spanish provider was the winner due to the excellent quality of its services. The contract includes the performance of «C-checks» at Iberia Maintenance's facilities located in Madrid and Barcelona and reinforces Volotea's commitment to the Spanish aircraft maintenance industry.
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Mystery of how the Cold War spy who met the Kennedys ended up dead in a ravine in Spain's Costa del Sol
French TV crew looking at the enigma of Vladimir Kazan-Komarek, nearly 50 years on from the spy's untimely death in Estepona
IT started as a Cold War tale of intrigue involving a spy, international headlines and appearances from Robert and Edward Kennedy.
It ended when a shepherd in a remote backwater of Spain discovered a decomposing corpse in a gulley.
The mystery man could only be identified from documents found in a nearby wallet.
Guardia Civil decided the body was that of 48-year-old Vladimir Kazan-Komarek – an American citizen of Czech descent.
Bobby Kennedy greeted Kazan-Komarek on his return to the US
The year was 1972, with Spain still under the thumb of fascist dictator Francisco Franco and the world in the depths of the Cold War. The location was the now bustling – then sleepy – town of Estepona on the Costa del Sol.
Kazan-Komarek had first come to public attention six years previously when he became embroiled in a spy scandal that would not have been out of place in the pages of a John le Carré thriller.
It involved the shadowy world of espionage and high level diplomatic negotiations.
No one knows why Kazan-Komarek (inset) turned up in Estepona
What was known was that on October 31,1966, when Vladimir was returning from a travel agents' conference in Moscow, the Soviet airliner on which was traveling — supposedly on a nonstop flight to Paris —was diverted to Prague for 'mechanical reasons'.
It has never been proven that the flight was deliberately diverted at the behest of Czechoslovakia, but the authorities certainly grabbed their chance to lay their hands on the suspected spy.
He was hauled off the plane and charged with setting up and operating an underground espionage and terrorist network in the communist country between 1948 to 1950.
They also held him responsible for the death of a policeman.
Press reports from the Czechoslovak media had previously identified him as an agent for United States Army Counterintelligence.
Kazan-Komarek was reunited with his wife
A prisoner of the Nazis during World War II, Kazan-Komerak had worked for the US army in Germany in 1945 and 1946, before he returned to his home country.
But when the communists took control, he fled Czechoslovakia in 1948 and lived in Paris before moving to the US in 1953.
There he faded into the background, marrying a noted beauty, fathering five children and becoming a US citizen, all while settling into life as a travel agent.
Life seemed to be going well until he made his fateful Moscow trip. In Prague he was charged with high treason and espionage.
During the Kazan-Komarek trial in 1967, the most serious charges that he had been an American intelligence agent were quietly dropped after an intense diplomatic campaign by the US government.
He was instead convicted on lesser charges of subversive activities against the Czechoslovakian state and jailed for eight years.
His rapid release was brought about largely through the intervention of Senator Edward Kennedy, whose brother Robert was present when Kazan-Komarek's flight touched down on American soil.
Once safely back in the US, Vladimir admitted that the charges against him were partly true. He had helped people escape from Czechoslovakia, believing that he was working for French intelligence.
Subsequent investigations found he was being rather modest with the truth.
It is believed that he was one of the most important agents for the French Secret Service (SDECE). And that he returned to the other side of the Iron Curtain to organise a network to rescue people threatened with death or prison for their resistance against the regime's dictatorship.
The network was liquidated by communist police and Kazan-Komarek alone managed to make it back to the West after a shoot-out with border guards. Seriously injured, he returned to Paris and spent several months in hospital.
While the case caused a sensation at the time, Vladimir faded into the background. He severed ties with the Harvard Travel Service, of which he had been president.
Then in 1971 he left his wife and five children in Wellesley, Massachusetts and disappeared to Europe.
In November that year he resurfaced in Estepona where he lived alone in a small flat.
Guardia Civil investigators said he led a normal life, passing his time writing a book about flying.
He made friends with expat Americans and was due to fly to the US with a Canadian couple when he disappeared
On June 5, 1972, the United States consulate in Sevilla was informed by Samuel Berman, an American living in Estepona, that Kazan-Komarek had been missing since May 11.
The authorities discounted the report after being informed he had been seen in the first week of June. But a body was discovered on September 7 in a hillside gully on a farm outside Estepona.
A Marbella court decided there were no signs of foul play and confirmed the corpse's identity as Kazan-Komerak through the documents found nearby, together with a key to his front door.
Strangely, the US authorities in Spain failed to inform his widow of the death. That was left to the Canadian couple he had been set to travel with some months earlier.
US State Department officials said there was no indication that Kazan-Komarek might still have been involved in intelligence work, and insisted he had not been employed by any United States intelligence agency. And there the matter rested.
But the mystery of his life and death has never quite been forgotten. There are still people who wonder if the body truly was his and why he should have given up a successful career and large family to disappear into what was, at the time, a remote backwater of a country living under a dictatorship.
Now, nearly 50 years on, a French documentary team is trying to unravel the mystery of Kazan-Komarek's death and is looking for anyone who knew him, or had heard any stories about the man of mystery.
Their ultimate ambition is to solve the enigma of Kazan-Komarek – and find answers to the puzzle that briefly thrust the quiet town of Estepona into world headlines.
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WANTED: Someone to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 91 Ocean View, WA 99393. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.
In any movie where time travel is possible, the margin for mediocrity is relatively wide. Going back to the past to save or fix the present is at this point a tiresome and worn out concept. Fortunately (and certainly intentionally) in this film, time travel is used merely as a small structural device to bring forth well written and relatable characters in what amounts to a surprisingly sincere comedy.
It starts in the office of a Seattle magazine, where writer Jeff Schwensen (Jake Johnson) recruits two interns for an assignment. The first, Darius (Aubrey Plaza), is a young, offbeat loner, bored of the world around her and living in her widowed father's broken home. The second is Arnau (Karan Soni), a nerdy biology major working at a magazine for the sole purpose of fleshing out his resume. With this unlikely and mostly uninspired trio assembled, they embark to track down the owner of the ad for a feature story.
One of my greatest pet peeves in cinema is unnecessarily long films (Two hours is usually the cut off point for me). At eighty-five minutes, Safety Not Guaranteed avoids this problem by leaving out needless, obligatory travel shots, and so it doesn't take long for Darius and Arnau to track down the writer of the ad: Kenneth Calloway (Mark Duplass). A supermarket employee, Kenneth comes off as mix of a Boy Scout and Dwight Schrute of The Office. He's completely alone, completely alienated, and completely convinced that time travel is possible. When Jeff fails to pose as a potential candidate for Kenneth's partner in time travel, Darius, with her sarcastic and intimidating wit, succeeds. The more she learns about Kenneth, the more she questions her original perceptions of his sanity.
The greatest strength of this movie is the depth of these characters, as there's certainly a reason it received the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance. While this movie could have just been about two miscreants with a shared dream of time travel, a nerdy sidekick, and a lustful writer after an old flame; it's actually much more. It skips all the clichés and tropes that make time travel movies and romantic comedies what they are. Through love lost or love found, frustration, or happiness, the script (however absurd) doesn't feel unrealistic. Plaza and Duplass' characters' chemistry is uncomplicated and understandable, not to mention it actually makes sense based on the characters personalities, rather than being there for the sake of romance.
And it's this chemistry between Kenneth and Darius that steals the show. Sarcasm matched with wit provide for hilarious moments of smug dialogue, while more intimate moments between the two almost seem unscripted. Aubrey Plaza expands upon the deadpan humor and secretive demeanor that she has become known for on Parks and Recreation with a character possessing more insightfulness and emotional attachment. Mark Duplass – the driving force of this film, in my opinion – controls the tone and the story from our first introduction to his character on the doorstep of his parents' old house. A true step forward for him, this role ripples into his character in the recent film, The One I Love with Elisabeth Moss, and has certainly helped him become the major indie force he is today. Produced by his brother and talented director, Jay Duplass, and their production company, Duplass Brothers Production (which has produced the acclaimed The Skeleton Twins as well as the aforementioned The One I Love), this film is certainly a great introduction to the style and quality of a brand of film becoming more and more popular today.
With simple, but effective storytelling, which refuses to use dialogue as a primary mover of the plot, Safety Not Guaranteed is a refreshing example of emotionally satisfying, uncomplicated filmmaking. For stars like Aubrey Plaza and Jake Johnson, this movie showed there was space in the world of film for these television actors. For the Duplass Brothers, it was another in a long string of great indie films, with more likely on the way. And for Colin Trevorrow, as this was his directing debut (for a feature film), I have hope and excitement for his next directing role in the highly anticipated Jurassic World. In a roller coaster ride of an ending that closes the proceedings in the only way a movie like this could, Safety Not Guaranteed leaves us with a time travel movie that teaches us about living for the present instead of redoing the past.
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A recent outbreak of deadly lung illnesses linked to vaping has put the practice in health professionals' and regulators' crosshairs. Now the first longitudinal population-based study of e-cigarette use in a representative sample of U.S. adults suggests it increases the risk of many chronic lung illnesses, too—especially when combined with smoking combustible tobacco.
Most of the media coverage of vaping has focused on the short-term, or acute, health impacts. More than 2,500 cases of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use–associated lung injury (EVALI) have been reported across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands; 54 deaths have been confirmed to date. "Black market" products containing THC (the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana were the mostly commonly reported by EVALI patients, but health authorities have not ruled out risks of lung injury from other vape products.*
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Preparing For In-Person Learning and the 2021-2022 School Year
For students and their families, the past year and a half has been extremely challenging. And for educators, it has been grueling. They've had to throw out lesson plans and start from scratch, learn new technology on the fly, and attempt to keep students virtually engaged during a stressful and scary time. This September, students in New York are finally returning to the classroom (in some parts of the US, they have already been in school for weeks), but with the Delta variant raging just as in-person learning is set to resume, a whole new set of issues have arisen for teachers and school administrators to manage. Some states are mandating masks in the classroom, while others–against all scientific evidence and public health advice–are banning them. Despite these challenges, the educators we spoke with are excited to get back into the classroom after so long. Here's their advice for successfully managing the transition back to school.
"Having a stressful, complicated year under our collective belts, the conversation is now about how to get back to the real work of instruction and curriculum," says Marisa Krohn, Vice Principal at PS 110 — The Florence Nightingale School — on the Lower East Side. "How do we help transition students back to the building, meet them where they are, and in a year that only highlighted inequity, level the playing field?"
For Krohn, this means focusing not just on delivering lessons, but helping students re-learn how to go to a physical school. From her conversations with families, many students are eager to return, but may be out of practice with in-person learning. Rising second graders, for example, only logged a few pandemic-months of school before switching to online or blended learning. After two years at home, Krohn realizes that many students will have issues re-adjusting, or just remembering how school works. "'Where is the bathroom?' and 'How do I sign up for school lunch?', become real worries after such a time lapse." Teachers and parents need to remember that it may take some time for kids to get used to the new routine, but they are also surprisingly adaptable. "Our biggest takeaway last year was how amazingly resilient our community was–everyone worked together to make sure policy was implemented and safety was the priority."
For Maggie Sisti, a classroom teacher in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, facing this September has been unusually taxing. Teachers are battling "a sense of weariness" from having to continuously adapt to new plans and mandates, but there is also "a sense of determination" to manage in-person learning. She and her colleagues have been working hard since the moment the school year ended in June to figure out "how to put our kids first and create a school year as close to normal as possible."
In practice, what this means for many teachers is a return to basics in an effort to get everyone up to speed after such a long absence from the classroom. Though Sisti learned a lot from teaching virtually and through hybrid models, and she plans to use technology like choice boards, NearPod, and FlipGrid to enhance collaborative projects–her main strategy is to "go old school" to catch up on the traditional learning skills they missed in the last year and a half. "I want them to be practicing handwriting and lining up numbers when they add. I want to meet with small guided reading groups and really observe them using reading strategies," she says.
Ultimately, both Sisti and Krohn believe the best way to enter the new year is to be open to students' concerns. Let them know "that whatever they are feeling is okay," says Sisti, and don't promise that this will be 'the best year ever' or 'in-person school will be better than virtual learning' because it may not be true." The pandemic has injected uncertainty into what used to be the things we most took for granted, but it's critical that parents not dump those concerns on their kids. Instead focus on the positives, including how resilient your kids have become. "Be honest with your children, tell them that the transition to in-person learning will be challenging, but they have learned to do a lot of hard things during the pandemic."
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Colombo: Indian business enterprises showed keen interest in the introductory edition of the Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) and bought all the seven contesting franchises on offer, while the BCCI decided not to allow its players to participate in the Twenty20 league.
The Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) had even previous year prohibited its players from participating in the league, which forced the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to abandon the opening season of the SLPL.
While Wadhawan Holdings pay the maximum bid $5.02 million for Wayamba, Number One Sports Consulting offered a bid of $4.98 million for Kandurata.
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The debut edition of the SLPL is scheduled to start from August 10, with the final to be held on August 31. The franchises will be allowed maximum of 18 players, comprising six foreign cricketers, for registration. But, a team can play only two foreigners in the playing eleven.
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Q: Changing columns to rows with specific Id's Hello I'd like to know if I could somehow take single text word from a column and make them a single cell in a row. This is hard to describe but hopefully I can provide a screenshot.

So the "Contents" word should be cut out and everything after that should be in their own cells with the id tagged next to the cell. The wordcount in one column can differ from 1 to 100. Same with the ID count.
Thanks in advance!

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For myLoop = 2 To lastRow
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    docArray = Split(Trim(Replace(docContent, "Contents ", "")), ",")
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        lastRowList = wSheet.Cells(wSheet.Rows.Count, 4).End(xlUp).Row + 1 ' Get last row in column 4 (D) and add 1
        wSheet.Range("D" & lastRowList).Value = docId
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Lil Yachty has teamed up with Chance The Rapper on a new song called "Atlanta House Freestyle." As that title indicates, there's no hook, just both rappers going in over an eerie, tingling beat. Previously, Chance and Yachty collaborated on "Mixtape," a cut off of Chance's 2016 mixtape Coloring Book.


Eversis implemented a new, improved version of the GEOSS portal – a world-known platform for global observation of natural phenomena on the Earth. The project for the European Space Agency was carried out in cooperation with Airbus Defense and Space.
GEOSS Portal (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) is referred to as data hub which provides the satellite products used by concerned groups of decision-makers, researchers, and analysts engaged in the constant observation of the Earth. The portal collects and provides the observational data from over a million resources, i.e.: satellite, remote sensing, and aerial data and photographs, and research materials from the whole world.
The new version of the portal was solemnly presented during the 13th annual Plenary Session of the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) in Saint Petersburg. Eversis, together with the strategic partner, Airbus Defence and Space, has been developing the portal since mid-2015.


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Intellectual Poison
There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can. - Henry Ford
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I came across this ridiculous toy at Target earlier this week and had to wonder what kind of genius came up with it. The Hulk can leap miles at a time, why would he possibly want to ride a dinky little ATV?
Part of me loves stupid toys like this and the other part of me wants to smack the over-marketing stupidity that comes up with this garbage. Like the Human Torch atv when the Fantastic Four movies were in the theaters (for the whole week it was there).
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Peru has recalled its ambassador in Caracas for consultations as the countries' governments traded insults over the crisis in Venezuela and ties with Washington.
LIMA: Peru has recalled its ambassador in Caracas for consultations as the countries' governments traded insults over the crisis in Venezuela and ties with Washington.
In a protest note to the Venezuelan embassy in Lima, Peru expressed "total rejection of the insolent comments" against its President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
Kuczynski had annoyed Venezuela's socialist government by calling for Latin America to intervene in what he termed a "humanitarian crisis" in the country.
The United States "does not invest much time in Latin America since (that region) is like a friendly dog sleeping on the rug, but in the case of Venezuela it is a big problem," Kuczynski said, during a recent speech in the United States.
Venezuela's Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez retorted by calling Kuczynski a "coward," during a speech in Caracas yesterday.
She said he was the "dog wagging its tail at the empire" -- a reference to Kuczynski's recent diplomatic visit to the United States.
Peru's protest note called the Venezuelan comments "unacceptable between two states with diplomatic relations, in which framework the authorities should show mutual respect."


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The life of Robert Hodgins does not just lie in his art, almost more importantly it lies in the hearts of those close to him. He is described by some as an expressionistic painter and others label him as a graphic artist. Regardless of where he fits, Hodgins' art makes him a much loved figure in the history books of South African art.
Robert Hodgins was born in Dulwich, London. His earliest encounters with art woud be from his childhood; it has been noted that many of the city's fine galleries became his hideout during the cold winters in his home city. He went on to finish his schooling career in England before immigrating to South Africa. As a young adult he joined the Union Defence Force and served in various African countries before returning to England where he was discharged at the end of the second World War.
The life of Robert Hodgins, marked with an honest interpretation of life around him. (photo credit: www.artvault.co.za , pixgood.com, bu.edu)
He spent the first few years of his post-military life studying teaching and art. After returning to South Africa in the mid-fifties, he embarked on a career as a teacher and journalist, culminating in the position of Assistant Editor at "Newsweek" and later on filling the position of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Witwatersrand. The university was probably his last employer and ushered in the start of his career as an artist.
Robert Hodgins is revered among his peers, most notably by the South African conceptual artist, Kendell Geers who paid tribute to Hodgins with the following words: "Very few artists command the respect and admiration of their peers in the way Robert Hodgins does, a reverence often verging on cult status."
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n iPhone/iPad app, touch is the most common action. Here,I am describing touch events and a simple way to attach it with image view and with the help of touch events, images will move left/right when user swipe on the image i.e. if one swipe from left to right, image to left of the current image appears on the screen and vice-versa.
Also, the images will move in a circular loop i.e. swipe on last image advances to first image.
The idea is to present the image view with added feature of scrolling.
–Go to File>NewProject>ViewBasedApplication and enter the name the project.I have taken the name as "ImageTouch".
–Next, go To File>NewFile and choose ObjectiveC class and also make it subclass of UIView.Then click choose and enter FileName and I have taken as "TouchImageView".
–Next go to nib file that is created i.e. "ImageTouchViewController.xib" and open it and select the view, change its class to "TouchImageView".
–Now, drag "ImageView " in the view of nib file.
_imageArray is used to store images as object.
_keyIndex :the index of the image to be displayed.
_currentPoint: X-coordinate of the point where touch began.
_movedPoint: X-coordinate of the point where touch ended.
_IsMoved : To indicate whether the image has been swapped or not.
This function will initialize the array with image objects.And set the a default image in imageView .I have taken default index as 0.
Touch events implemented are as : touchesBegan,touchesMoved,touchesEnded.
You must be sure to call the superclass implementation  (super) in all of the methods you override.
Here,_currentPoint stores the x-coordinate of the point where the touch has began.
This event triggers only if user swipe on the screen.
And _IsMoved is used to check whether this event is fired or not.
This event is fired when the touch ends.
Now,_IsMoved value is used to check whether the touchesMoves event was triggered or not.
If it is true then which image to be placed is calculated on the basis of _currentPoint and _movedPoint.
Here, if the _keyIndex reaches the max value then it is set to zero making the images to move in a circular loop.
And now the images moves on swipe!!!


May 30, 1958: The state Department of Education long-term budget calls for $13 million in capital spending at Sacramento State College over six years. The 1959-60 construction program includes a science addition, a women's gymnasium and a swimming pool. Projects for 1960-64 include: a student activities center, the Art and Economics Building, the Music and Speech Building, and an auditorium.
May 31, 1990: Sacramento city staff members offer a compromise plan for the development of the R Street corridor to allow some high-rise offices closer to downtown, but designate most of the area for housing. The proposal is an attempt to resolve a three-year debate over the area's future.
June 1, 1863: The Sacramento Board of City Trustees meets . On the first ballot, they elect J. Harding as Poundmaster. Eli Mayo submits the May report for the city pound, which delineates the total number of livestock impounded: 41 cows, 13 horses and mules, six hogs and 12 goats. All these animals have been claimed and redeemed by city residents.
Two new weekly newspapers have started in San Andreas. One called the Times is owned by L.M. Schrack and is Copperhead in philosophy. [Copperheads were a northern faction of Democrats who wanted an immediate peace with the Confederates.] The other, called the Register, is published by S.W.D. Hill, and is Republican in orientation.
June 2, 1916: The Mammoth Copper Co. in Kenneth (Shasta County) announces it will increase the wages of 1,200 workers by an additional 25 cents per day. The pay hike is retroactive to May 16. The new bonus is in effect as long as copper sells for 28 cents per pound or better in New York.
June 3, 1979: Construction is under way at Summer Hills Plaza, a 17.5-acre shopping center at the northwest corner of Antelope Road and Interstate 80 in Citrus Heights. When completed in October, it will consist of 13 individual buildings housing office, retail and professional tenants. A major tenant will be Raley's Market, with 60,000 square feet for a supermarket-drugstore -- the largest store in the Raley chain.


Kamala Harris, a Senator of Indian descent, announced on Monday that she is running for President in the 2020 elections branding herself a "fighter" for the American people.
As the daughter of an Indian mother and an African-Jamaican father, she claims both heritages and chose to declare her candidacy on the day that is observed as Martin Luther King Day, honouring the slain African-American civil rights leader who was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's message of 'satyagraha'.
She made the announcement on a national TV programme and simultaneously released a campaign video on social media with a call to "fight for American values".
"The American public wants a fighter and they want someone that's going to fight like heck for them and not fight based on self-interest and I'm prepared to do that," she said.
Her role in law enforcement has drawn criticism from some in the Democratic Party and the New York Times published a scorching op-ed denouncing her as "often being on the wrong side of history" because of her tough anti-crime policies and not progressive enough on criminal justice reform.
Harris is campaigning on universal healthcare, providing government health insurance for all and large tax cuts for the middle class. She is an advocate for immigrant rights and a campaigner protecting women's rights.
Harris' mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a cancer researcher from Chennai and her father, Donald Harris, is a Stanford University economics professor.


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Q: R - Is it possible to optimize or streamline multiple calls to grepl()? Working with NOAA Severe Weather data, which includes a variable EVTYPE (event type) describing the type of weather event. The values include many synonyms which I would like to gather under several broader designations. For example there is TORNADO but also ROTATING WALL CLOUD, FUNNEL CLOUD, and WHIRLWIND that in a sense describe relatively similar events. Without getting into the subtleties of meteorology, I'd like to combine nearly synonymous values like these under a single value name.
So let's say I have the dataset loaded in a dataframe noaa_clean and I apply this:
tornado <- sapply(as.character(noaa_clean$EVTYPE),
                   function(x){grepl("^.*TORNAD.*$", x) |
                               grepl("^.*SPOUT.*$", x) |
                               grepl("^.*WHIRL.*$", x) |
                               grepl("^.*FUNNEL.*$", x) |
                               grepl("^.*ROTATING WALL CLOUD.*$", x) |
                               grepl("^.*DUST DEVIL.*$", x)})
noaa_clean[tornado, "EVCAT"] <- "TORNADO"; rm(tornado)

It works well, but I have several of these and it takes some time (~5-10min) to run them all. My question is just this: Is there a better way to harness grepl() or regex that could make it more efficient?

A: Since you specifically asked about speed, a test of the various solutions posted in the comments or as answers is:
#Initialize vector
x <- sample(c("TORNA", "SPOUT", "WHIRL", "FUNNEL", "ROTATING WALL CLOUD", "DUST DEVIL",
                LETTERS[1:8]), 1e6, replace = TRUE)

#Using separate grepl's
multi_grepl <- function(x) {grepl("TORNAD", x) |grepl("SPOUT", x) |grepl("WHIRL", x) |grepl("FUNNEL", x) | grepl("ROTATING WALL CLOUD", x) |grepl("DUST DEVIL", x)}

#One grepl
one_grepl <- function(x) grepl("TORNAD|SPOUT|WHIRL|FUNNEL|ROTATING WALL CLOUD|DUST DEVIL", x)

#Using stri_detect_regex
detect_regex <- function(x) stringi::stri_detect_regex(x, "TORNAD|SPOUT|WHIRL|FUNNEL|ROTATING WALL CLOUD|DUST DEVIL")

#Original solution with sapply
orig_sapply <- function(x) sapply(x, function(y){grepl("^.*TORNAD.*$", y) |grepl("^.*SPOUT.*$", y) |grepl("^.*WHIRL.*$", y) |grepl("^.*FUNNEL.*$", y) |grepl("^.*ROTATING WALL CLOUD.*$", y) |grepl("^.*DUST DEVIL.*$", y)})

#Using stri_detect_fixed
stri_fixed = function(x) { stri_detect_fixed(x, pattern = "TORNAD") | stri_detect_fixed(x, pattern = "SPOUT") | stri_detect_fixed(x, pattern = "WHIRL") | stri_detect_fixed(x, pattern = "FUNNEL") | stri_detect_fixed(x, pattern = "ROTATING WALL CLOUD") | stri_detect_fixed(x, pattern = "DUST DEVIL") }

#Checking that all these give same answer
identical(multi_grepl(x), one_grepl(x), detect_regex(x), orig_sapply(x), stri_fixed(x))
#[1] TRUE

microbenchmark::microbenchmark(multi_grepl(x),
                               one_grepl(x),
                               detect_regex(x),
                               orig_sapply(x),
                               stri_fixed(x), times = 20L)

#Unit: milliseconds
#            expr        min         lq       mean     median         uq        max neval
#  multi_grepl(x)   724.6716   738.5227   754.2347   747.1441   769.2897   819.9971    20
#    one_grepl(x)   406.7987   410.3197   420.0083   412.1168   426.5932   453.2471    20
# detect_regex(x)   167.4844   170.0834   174.1256   172.7410   177.1546   187.3211    20
#  orig_sapply(x) 47172.3407 47379.8250 47666.7177 47546.2221 47875.9352 48517.2228    20
#   stri_fixed(x)   261.4303   265.9189   270.5816   268.6038   273.2486   288.7071    20

It appears that stri_detect_regex is the fastest. Interestingly, this changed from the last iteration I tried when I had ^.* and .*$ in the regex. Credit to @Gregor for pointing this out. Note that your original sapply is very slow because it is performing the grepl search many times (once for each element). Rather than only once for the whole vector.

Lastly, the results for longer individual strings:
prefixes <- replicate(1e6, paste0(sample(LETTERS, sample(100:200), replace = TRUE), collapse = ""))
suffixes <- replicate(1e6, paste0(sample(LETTERS, sample(200:300), replace = TRUE), collapse = ""))
x_long <- paste0(prefixes, x, suffixes)

microbenchmark::microbenchmark(multi_grepl(x_long),
                               one_grepl(x_long),
                               detect_regex(x_long),
                               stri_fixed(x_long), times = 20L)

#Unit: seconds
#                 expr       min        lq      mean    median        uq       max neval
#  multi_grepl(x_long) 27.654274 27.721042 28.194273 27.962656 28.626697 29.909105    20
#    one_grepl(x_long) 11.478831 11.510868 11.775088 11.583650 11.663479 14.318680    20
# detect_regex(x_long)  8.673534  8.729508  8.808797  8.774432  8.878907  9.028005    20
#   stri_fixed(x_long)  4.502196  4.540850  4.609050  4.591879  4.690035  4.750445    20

A: Regular expressions themselves can use | as an OR match. You can just do
tornado  <- grepl("(TORNAD|SPOUT|WHIRL|FUNNEL|ROTATING WALL CLOUD|DUST DEVIL)", as.character(noaa_clean$EVTYPE))

Also note we did not need to use sapply() as grepl is already a vectorized function in R.


As a Stampin' Up! demonstrator the one thing that I love to do is to introduce new people to our products. One way I do that is by going in to hostesses homes who invite their friends and family over to have a home party. They earn lots of free products and it's a blast seeing people experience crafting for the first time with our products. I customize the party to what the hostess will want their guests to make and take home with them. Last month I went in to someones home who wanted to do a wine bottle tag. This was during Sale-a-bration so some of these products you cannot order anymore but I still wanted to show you the project.
The ladies enjoyed learning how to use these products and it's given them a way to pass out those wine bottles as gifts! Check out my calendar of events at http://brittnysmith.stampinup.net to see my open party dates if you think you would like to take advantage of these benefits as a hostess! We can also party on Facebook if you are far away or can never get everyone together. Contact me at brittnycreates@gmail.com.


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Jill practices Chinese, Japanese and Dr. Tan's styles of acupuncture and has training in Orthopedic Acupuncture.
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In order to create an Active Directory machine account for the CIFS server, you must supply the name and password of a Windows account with sufficient privileges to add computers to the "CN=Computers" container within the "DOMAIN.COM" domain.
Error: Failed to create CIFS server. Reason: Failed to create the Active Directory machine account "CIFSV1". Reason: SecD Error: Cannot find an appropriate domain controller.
 No servers available for MS_LDAP_AD, vserver: 8, domain: DOMAIN.COM.
Type 2 for Value data to configure the server to reject simple or unsigned LDAP bind requests, and then click OK.
Note: Even turning off all the GPOs previously listed above did not make the CDOT CIFS server join happen!
Note: The role "Active Directory Certificate Services*" must already be installed and configured for the domain to which the CIFS server belongs.
*If you're installing ADCS on a DC in a test lab, the following options will work (2008R2 SP1) fine in the 'Add Roles Wizard': Certification Authority (select only) > Enterprise > Root CA > Create a new private key > RSA 2048 SHA1 (Default) > CA Name (Default) > 5 year validity (Default) > Certificate Database Location (Default) > Install!
Note i: The name after "certutil -ca.cert" doesn't matter one jot, you can call it anything you like, we only care about the output.
You should keep a copy of the CA-signed digital certificate for future reference.
Then try the CIFS domain join and it will work! Hurray!
Trying to simulate the original environment most closely, I discovered how to delegate to an OU the minimal permissions for a user/group, to enable them to join a pre-created machine account to AD.
- or Group Policy Modeling Wizard in GPMC (Group Policy Management Console) - this produces a report that can be saved as an HTML file!
An alternative would be to run RSOP (Resultant Set of Policy) Planning from ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computer), but this does not produce a nice report!
LDAP supports two kinds of bind calls, Simple_Bind and SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer).
Simple_Bind calls can either be anonymous over port 389, or a user/pass can be passed to the Domain Controller/LDAP Server to obtain more information (such as user/group membership).
SASL is a much stronger authentication method that can require a signed certificate or other method of authenticating the user.


Monday's fire collapsed the spire and burned through the roof of the 12th-century building, sparking an outpouring of grief and reminiscing of visits to the Parisian landmark. President Donald Trump called the cathedral "one of the great treasures of the world."
Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri expressed sadness over the fire he described as a "heritage and humanitarian disaster." Hariri added in a tweet late Monday that Lebanon expresses strong solidarity with the "friendly French people."
The Obamas were among people sharing memories of past visits to the cathedral. Former President Barack Obama posted an old photo of himself, his wife Michelle and their two daughters lighting candles there and expressed his grief. Michelle Obama was in Paris on Monday on a book tour. "The majesty of Notre Dame - the history, artistry, and spirituality - took our breath away, lifting us to a higher understanding of who we are and who we can be," she tweeted.
Austrian President Van der Bellen raised the French flag over his office in Vienna in a sign of solidarity with France. Van der Bellen wrote on Twitter that Notre Dame is "an important symbol of our common European culture" and posted a picture of the French flag and the European Union flag flying in Vienna.
Japan's government said it would consider sending support. "Its damage is a loss to the world and our hearts ache," said Yoshihide Suga, the chief Cabinet secretary.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in called for the world to come together to rebuild the Paris landmark. "Our love for humanity will be illustrated in a more mature way in the process of reconstruction," he said.
Russian President Putin said in a message published on the Kremlin's website that the tragedy "struck a chord in the hearts of Russians." He called Notre Dame a "priceless treasure of Christian and world culture" and said Russia is ready to send the "best specialists" to help rebuild it.
The Polish prime minister recalled how his nation's capital, Warsaw, was rebuilt after being destroyed by the Germans in World War II. Mateusz Morawiecki said on Twitter that "Poland knows what it means to have a cultural heritage lost in fire. We rebuilt Warsaw from the ruins ourselves. We will rebuild the Cathedral of Notre-Dame together as Europeans."
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the New York archbishop, said New Yorkers were united in sorrow with Parisians, who can "count on our love, prayers, support and solidarity. This Holy Week teaches us that, like Jesus, death brings life. Today's dying, we trust, will bring rising," Dolan said outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan.