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Live News Updates: Brandon Lewis resigns as last Cabinet minister over Johnson's leadership
Robert Buckland: "The Prime Minister . . . has no choice but to resign" © Getty Images
The former UK justice secretary said the Conservative Party must "stop this farce" as more than 40 government ministers resigned to oust Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
"If the writing wasn't on the wall last night, I'm afraid it's on the wall very clearly this morning," Sir Robert Buckland told Sky News on Thursday. "The Prime Minister . . . no choice but to leave office.
"It's an unreal situation now," he said. "It's just absurd and we have to end this farce now."
Buckland's comments came as ministerial resignations continued on Thursday, with Northern Ireland minister Brandon Lewis becoming the latest high-profile departure.
Others to step down on Thursday include Treasury Secretary Helen Whately, Security Secretary Damian Hines, Science Secretary George Freeman, Pensions Secretary Guy Opperman, Court Secretary James Cartlidge and Technology and Digital Economy Secretary Chris Philp.
"I'm afraid there is a word [Johnson] need to hear what 'go' is," Buckland said.
The former justice minister said a new prime minister could be in office in "about six weeks".
"I think the parliamentary votes could be held before the end of this term and if there could then be a membership election, which could be held in August, we could have a new leader in September," he said.


The Striped Blue Socks are made of high quality Egyptian cotton in two colours. Thunders Love worked on the design of the knit in the traditional way, executing the garment in double cylinder machine. With this technique they focus on sock architecture, creating delicate and soft textures.
They put special emphasis on colour selection, keeping the classic spirit of this knit yarn craft. In this way, we choose beige and blue in a traditional combination of marine inspiration. These socks are perfect to fashionable and classic looks, but also can be suitable to wear with jeans and Birkenstocks.


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Q: Trying to insert value to database i just want to basic insert some text to my database but why it show this error? but in my friend computer it work...
(i already do the table for the database)
An explicit value for the identity column in table 'CUSTOMER' can only be specified when a column list is used and IDENTITY_INSERT is ON.
public partial class SignUp : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection("Data Source=LENOVO\\EBG; Initial Catalog=dbMACARON; integrated security= True");
    SqlCommand com = new SqlCommand("Select * from CUSTOMER");
    public void Bind()
    {
        SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(com);
        DataSet ds = new DataSet();
        con.Open();
        com.Connection = con;
        com.ExecuteNonQuery();
        da.Fill(ds, "CUSTOMER");
        GridView1.DataSource = ds;
        GridView1.DataBind();
        con.Close();
    }
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

    }
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) //SUBMIT SIGNUP
{
    con.Open();
    SqlCommand comi = new SqlCommand("Insert CUSTOMER values(@name,@nric,@address,@gender,@dob,@phone,@email,@username,@password)");
    comi.Parameters.Add("name", SqlDbType.VarChar, 50);
    comi.Parameters["name"].Value = TextBox1.Text;
    comi.Parameters.Add("nric", SqlDbType.Char, 12);
    comi.Parameters["nric"].Value = TextBox2.Text;
    comi.Parameters.Add("address", SqlDbType.VarChar, 50);
    comi.Parameters["address"].Value = TextBox3.Text;
    comi.Parameters.Add("gender", SqlDbType.VarChar, 10);
    comi.Parameters["gender"].Value = TextBox4.Text;
    comi.Parameters.Add("dob", SqlDbType.VarChar, 50);
    comi.Parameters["dob"].Value = TextBox5.Text;
    comi.Parameters.Add("phone", SqlDbType.VarChar, 20);
    comi.Parameters["phone"].Value = TextBox6.Text;
    comi.Parameters.Add("email", SqlDbType.VarChar, 20);
    comi.Parameters["email"].Value = TextBox7.Text;
    comi.Parameters.Add("username", SqlDbType.VarChar, 20);
    comi.Parameters["username"].Value = TextBox8.Text;
    comi.Parameters.Add("password", SqlDbType.VarChar, 20);
    comi.Parameters["password"].Value =TextBox9.Text;
    comi.Connection = con;
    comi.ExecuteNonQuery();
    con.Close();
    Bind();
}

A: I think the problem was on database table create.. IDENTITY_INSERT is ON. is mean your field was created in integer type and it will +1 automatic on each entry user do not need to insert to this field when execute insert statement. if you do so, "explicit value for the identity column " will occur, please do check your database create is same to your friend or not. hope this is helpful for you. good luck

A: Here if you have an identity column in database like id etc then  you should specify columns name in insert statement like.
Insert CUSTOMER(name,nric,address,gender,dob,phone,email,username,password)
values(@name,@nric,@address,@gender,@dob,@phone,@email,@username,@password)

A:
This error happens when you are trying to insert a new record into a table that contains an identity column without specifying the columns in the INSERT statement and you are assigning a value to the identity column instead of letting SQL Server assign the value.

you are missing into in insert query should be
Setting the IDENTITY_INSERT to ON for the table allows explicit values to be inserted into the identity column of a table
Insert into CUSTOMER (name,nric,address,gender,dob,phone,email,username,password) values (@name,@nric,@address,@gender,@dob,@phone,@email,@username,@password)");

comi.Parameters.AddWithValue("@name",TextBox1.Text);
comi.Parameters.AddWithValue("@nric",TextBox2.Text);
comi.Parameters.AddWithValue("@address",TextBob3.Text);
comi.Parameters.AddWithValue("@gender", TextBox4.Text);
.
.
.

A: try out like this example
SET IDENTITY_INSERT CUSTOMER ON;" +
               "insert into CUSTOMER(a,b,c) " +
                "values(@a,@b,@c;" +
                "SET IDENTITY_INSERT CUSTOMER OFF;" ;

comi.Parameters.Add("@a", "a");
 comi.Parameters.Add("@b", "b");
 comi.Parameters.Add("@c", "c");

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The likes of Paolo Nutini, Rudimental and The Script have been added to this year's iTunes Festival line-up.
Jessie Ware, Clean Bandit, Charlie Simpson, Lenny Kravitz, Foxes and Jess Glynne will also perform at the event, which takes place at Camden's Roundhouse for 30 days in September.
Jessie Ware added: "I'm excited to finally play the iTunes Festival. The Roundhouse is such a wonderful venue so can't wait to see you all on Sept 18th."
Elbow, David Gray, Gregory Porter, Ryan Adams, Jenny Lewis, Robin Schulz, Luke Sital-Singh, SOHN, Matthew Koma, Eric Whitacre, First Aid Kit and MNEK have also been announced to perform.
They join the likes of previously announced acts Pharrell Williams, Kylie Minogue and Kasabian.
Tickets to the music event are free to the public, with fans able to apply through radio competitions and a ballot on iTunes.
Those who are unable to get their hands on tickets can stream the event live on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and iTunes.
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MTV Review | Jessie J Joined By Tinie Tempah At iTunes Festival!
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Sam Smith Joined By A$AP Rocky At iTunes Festival 2014!


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#ifndef MOD_CORE_H
#define MOD_CORE_H

#include "apr.h"
#include "apr_buckets.h"

#include "httpd.h"
#include "util_filter.h"

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/**
 * @package mod_core private header file
 */

/* Handles for core filters */
extern AP_DECLARE_DATA ap_filter_rec_t *ap_http_input_filter_handle;
extern AP_DECLARE_DATA ap_filter_rec_t *ap_http_header_filter_handle;
extern AP_DECLARE_DATA ap_filter_rec_t *ap_chunk_filter_handle;
extern AP_DECLARE_DATA ap_filter_rec_t *ap_byterange_filter_handle;

/*
 * These (input) filters are internal to the mod_core operation.
 */
apr_status_t ap_http_filter(ap_filter_t *f, apr_bucket_brigade *b,
                            ap_input_mode_t mode, apr_read_type_e block,
                            apr_off_t readbytes);

char *ap_response_code_string(request_rec *r, int error_index);

/**
 * Send the minimal part of an HTTP response header.
 * @param r The current request
 * @param bb The brigade to add the header to.
 * @warning Modules should be very careful about using this, and should
 *          the default behavior.  Much of the HTTP/1.1 implementation
 *          correctness depends on the full headers.
 * @deffunc void ap_basic_http_header(request_rec *r, apr_bucket_brigade *bb)
 */
AP_DECLARE(void) ap_basic_http_header(request_rec *r, apr_bucket_brigade *bb);

/**
 * Send an appropriate response to an http TRACE request.
 * @param r The current request
 * @tip returns DONE or the HTTP status error if it handles the TRACE,
 * or DECLINED if the request was not for TRACE.
 * request method was not TRACE.
 */
AP_DECLARE_NONSTD(int) ap_send_http_trace(request_rec *r);

/**
 * Send an appropriate response to an http OPTIONS request.
 * @param r The current request
 */
AP_DECLARE(int) ap_send_http_options(request_rec *r);

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif	/* !MOD_CORE_H */

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Health Canada reminds Canadians of the dangers of unauthorized health products; it will not hesitate to take enforcement action if needed
Starting date:
Type of communication:
Source of recall:
OTTAWA – Health Canada would like to remind Canadians of the risks posed by unauthorized health products and to reaffirm that it will not hesitate to take action against illegal manufacturing and distribution of health products that could pose a health and safety risk to Canadians.
On September 23, 2019, Maria D'Onofrio pleaded guilty to charges related to illegally importing and selling prescription drugs. The B.C. Provincial Court in Port Coquitlam sentenced her to a 12-month Conditional Sentence Order, which includes four months of house arrest, a four-month curfew and a four-month probationary order. Her associate, Stephen Merry, pleaded guilty to charges related to illegally selling prescription drugs. The court sentenced him to 12 months of probation and a $4,000 fine. Charges were laid following Health Canada's investigation into the importation and online sale of thousands of unauthorized prescription drugs.
On October 28, 2019, Robert Lamberton pleaded guilty to illegally selling natural health products and manufacturing drugs without the required licence from Health Canada. The B.C. Provincial Court in North Vancouver sentenced him to a total of $10,000 in fines and one year of probation. Charges were laid following a Health Canada investigation that found Mr. Lamberton continued to sell and manufacture health products without the required licences, despite being warned by Health Canada to stop. Health Canada first warned Canadians in 2017 that products sold by Robert Lamberton Consulting could pose serious health risks.
Health Canada reminds Canadians that unauthorized health products may pose serious health risks. Look for health products that have a drug identification number (DIN), natural product number (NPN) or homeopathic medicines number (DIN-HM). These numbers mean that the product has been reviewed by Health Canada for safety, efficacy and quality and that it is authorized for sale in Canada. You can also check whether products have been authorized for sale by searching the Drug Product Database, Medical Devices Active Licence Listing and Licensed Natural Health Product Database. The Department advises Canadians when it finds unauthorized products sold at retail that may pose serious health risks.
If you buy health products online, you may be putting your health at serious risk. This is especially true if you order prescription drugs without being examined in person by a health care practitioner. Further information regarding the risks of buying health products online is available on the Health Canada website.
Health Canada is committed to using all tools at its disposal to stop illegal activities, such as the sale, advertising and manufacturing of unauthorized health products, and will continue to take action to protect the health and safety of Canadians.
Report any health product-related adverse reactions or complaints to Health Canada.
hc.media.sc@canada.ca

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For years, Renzo Piano has been working to complete his design for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Greece. Not, the cultural group behind the project has announced that a key component of the Visitor's Center, the energy canopy, is now complete.
Suspended over the Greek National Opera, the canopy is composed of 30 columns and 717 individual precast pieces—weighing in at 4,700 tons overall. Although designed to appear light and airy, the canopy is 328-feet-square and 150-feet tall. Topped with photovoltaic cells, it will produce 2GWh of energy per year, fueling the opera house and the National Library of Greece.
The Cultural Center includes the national library, opera house, canal, and 42-acre park south of Athens. The site was originally used for parking during the 2004 Olympics and once the project is completed, it will be turned over to the public.
Total cost for the project is an estimated $831 million.
Next steps include finishing the Lighthouse, the 9,700-square-foot glass room, and finalizing the flooring, facades, and ceilings. The rest of the SNFCC is expected to be complete in the first half of next year.
SNFCC hopes that programming in the Visitor's Center will engage the community and connect the public to artists in Greece and around the world. Already, it has hosted over 300 events and welcomed over 55,000 visitors.
From now until Christmas, the center will be a Santa Workshop, and in February 2016 the center will relocate to a temporary building until construction is complete. To learn more about the cultural center, read our initial article on the project here.


Here is Part III of edited excerpts from the 2008 Trend Report to give Indian companies and marketers lots of examples from around the world and, perhaps, new ways to pitch their products and services to Indian consumers. Parts I and II, which ran on Thursday and Friday, are available on our website.
Over the past few years, the eco trend has moved from Ecougly (ugly, over-priced, low performance alternatives to shiny traditional sphere products and services) to Ecochic (eco-friendly stuff that actually looks as nice and cool as the less responsible version) to Eco-Iconic in 2008, which are eco-friendly goods and services sporting bold, iconic design and markers, that help their eco-conscious owners to visibly tout their ecocredentials to peers.
So what does Eco-iconic look like?
Honda's FCX Clarity is a fuel cell vehicle that runs on electricity powered by hydrogen, and emits only water vapour and heat. It will be certified by the California Air Resources Board as a zero-emission vehicle and by the US Environmental Protection Agency with the lowest possible federal EPA emission rating. Our verdict: the FCX will be more recognizable than the Toyota Prius, making an even more telling statement about the owner's status sphere.
When designing your 2008 or 2009 eco-product line, don't mirror what's already out there in the non-eco world, but be bold, original, and yes, iconic.
Consider this for 2008: if consumers value the authentic, the practical, the exclusive, and they're also forever looking to make life more convenient, even save some time, then why persist in bombarding them with your mega-million one-way advertising campaigns? Instead of stalking potential and existing customers, why not assist them in smart, relevant ways, making the most of your products and whatever it is your brand stands for? Remember, giving is the new taking.
New initiatives: Procter and Gamble's Charmin bathroom tissue brand has reopened its temporary 20-stall restroom at Times Square in New York.
Think baby food or diaper brands opening a lounge area, including diaper-changing facilities and microwaves, for parents and their offspring at a major airport or in malls. Or a bank installing secure, high-tech lockers next to the beach, so beachgoers can safely store their belongings when going for a swim or walk.
Now, we're not branding gurus, and we're not suggesting that brand butlers is the new "lovemark", but if the following examples don't inspire you to do something truly useful and new with at least a small part of your advertising budget in 2008, then we don't know what will. At the Lowlands music festival in the Netherlands, jeans brand Wrangler offered festival-goers a much-needed service: laundry. At 18m wide and 9m high, the Wrangler Laundromat was hard to miss. People dropped off their mud-encrusted laundry and were sent a text message the moment it was ready. No change of clothes? Wrangler came up with a generous solution to that problem, too: they handed out black overalls to anyone who used the laundromat. Like most other pop-up ventures, Wrangler Laundromat is an exercise in experiential marketing, aimed at surprising and delighting consumers in a way that magazine ads or TV spots usually can't.
Acknowledging that travelling with infants can be a strain on both parents and children, Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport opened the Schiphol Babycare Lounge by Nutricia. Located in the airport's main departure terminal, the lounge is (as the name indicates) a co-branding effort by Schiphol and Nutricia, a Dutch baby food brand. The lounge is serenely stylish and geared to ensuring a baby's well-being while en route. It features seven circular cabins, each of which can be closed off with sheer curtains to create a personal zone. The booths have comfortable circular seating curving around a crib. Lights in the lounge are dimmed for sleeping babies, with individual reading lights for parents. For infants that need a bit of distraction, each booth has a gadget that projects coloured lights onto the ceiling, just above the crib. Other facilities include a changing area, baby baths and a microwave for heating food. Although Nutricia hasn't stocked a pantry with samples of their own baby food, the brand does offer tips on baby nutrition and travelling with children. The space is open daily from 6am to 10pm, accessible free of charge to parents and children under three.
Due to its success last year (close to 430,000 people made use of the service), Procter and Gamble Co.'s Charmin bathroom tissue brand has reopened its temporary 20-stall restroom in the heart of Times Square in New York. Open until 31 December, the facilities offer clean, deluxe bathrooms, baby changing stations, stroller parking, seating areas and of course lots of luxury toilet and bath tissue (including Charmin's new product lineup, which includes a choice between ultra soft and ultra strong versions).
Hotel chain Le Méridien is marketing itself as a destination for art enthusiasts. As part of its "Unlock Art" programme, it has cut deals with local contemporary cultural institutions to allow hotel guests free entry by presenting their artist-designed room key cards and it has hired modern art curator Jérôme Sans to organize special exhibits. Ultimately, the goal is for every Le Méridien hotel worldwide to have partnerships with leading cultural institutions.
New Zealand-based Ponoko is offering consumers a new way to turn their creative ideas into real-world objects. After uploading their own design to the website or choosing a free design, users can choose from a variety of materials. Ponoko then runs the design through a laser cutter.
Besides offering access to professional tools to manufacture products, Ponoko also helps users bring their products to market. Once they're ready to sell, members can add photos of their product to their profile page, together with a description and pricing information. Products can either be delivered to the designer for assembly before being shipped to customers, or self-assembly products can be sent directly to the endcustomer.
As well as being a manufacturing platform, Ponoko also serves as a community where fledgling one-off fabricators and designers can exchange ideas and help solve each other's problems. The larger goal, according to Ponoko, is to be a catalyst that helps bring personal manufacturing of individualized products to the masses.
Swedish design group FRONT has launched Sketch Furniture, which is a method to materialize freehand sketches. Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture, and the resulting 3D patterns are output digitally to a laser sintering machine. Over several days, the machine produces the object by shaping and hardening 0.1mm layers of liquid plastic. Sketch Furniture is on view and on sale (about $10,500 or Rs413,700 per piece) at the Barry Friedman Gallery in New York.
The Desktop Factory 3D printer, with a list price of $4,995, uses an inexpensive halogen light source and drum printing technology to build robust parts from composite plastic powder, layer by layer. Desktop Factory envisages that within three years, Desktop Factory's 3D printers will be affordable for home use.
Crowd mining is simply a moniker for how we see crowd-based business concepts evolving in 2008.
SellaBand lets fans sponsor unknown bands and artists by buying the band's shares or parts. Once a band has raised $50,000 by selling 5,000 parts, SellaBand sets up a professional recording session. The recorded songs are sold to new fans, and both the artists and owners of their parts receive a share of the income generated through music sales and advertising revenues.
Ad revenues are expected to grow over the next few months, as SellaBand is working on deals with media agencies for countries outside their main three markets— the Netherlands, the US and the UK.
MyFootballClub, which launched in May, recently announced that they have agreed to buy a controlling stake in Ebbsfleet United FC, with the option to buy the the remaining share in the future. In less than three months, MyFootballClub signed up 50,000 people willing to pay a £35 membership fee to buy and manage a soccer team with a crowd of other dedicated fans.
MyFootballClub members will vote on player selection, transfers and all other major decisions. When it got down to picking a team to buy, MyFootball-Club was approached by nine football club owners and also sought contact with several others. One of the reasons for picking Ebbsfleet United is that it stands a good chance to reach the national football league.
Described as eBay for loans, the peer-to-peer money exchanges work as follows: borrowers list loan details and a personal profile, and lenders bid on the loan. Lowest interest rates win. Lenders bid in increments and minimize their risk by bidding on numerous loans.
A study by Online Banking Report predicts that by 2011 person-to-person lending in the US could surpass 100,000 loans a year, worth at least $1 billion. Unlike eBay Inc., which can connect buyers and sellers from around the world, peer-to-peer lending is generally bound by local financial regulations. Which means there's ample room for national or regional versions.
Now, let's go back to Crowd Mining. When co-creating, cofunding, co-buying, co-designing, co-managing anything with crowds, the emphasis in 2008 will move from just getting the masses in, to mining those crowds for the rough and polished diamonds. How to do that? Shower them with love, respect and heaps of money, of course.
Google is developing Android-the first complete, open and free mobile platform.
Netflix Inc., the DVD rental site, is offering a grand prize of $1 million to the individual who can substantially improve the accuracy of predictions about how much someone is going to love a movie based on their movie preferences.
So far, more than 27,000 contestants from 161 countries have submitted their guesses.
The Open Handset Alliance's most prominent member, Google Inc., is developing Android: the first complete, open and free mobile platform. To support the quest for apps that surprise and delight mobile users, to be created by developers around the world, Google has launched the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide $10 million in awards for innovative applications. The first part of the challenge (submissions are accepted from 2 January through 3 March), will reward 50 entries with $25,000 to fund further development. Those selected will then be eligible for even greater recognition via 10 $275,000 awards and 10 $100,000 awards.


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Yoann Jaumel est un joueur français de volley-ball né le  à Montpellier (Hérault). Il mesure 1,82 m et joue passeur. Il totalise 22 sélections en équipe de France.

Biographie
Il est le fils d'Yves Jaumel, ancien international français de volley-ball.

Clubs

Palmarès

Club et équipes nationales
 Ligue mondiale
 Vainqueur (1) : 2015
 Championnat d'Europe
 Vainqueur (1) : 2015
 Championnat d'Europe des moins de 21 ans
 Finaliste (1) : 2006
 Championnat de France
 Finaliste (1) : 2007
 Coupe de France
 Finaliste (2) : 2008, 2010
 Championnat de France Ligue B
 Vainqueur (1) : 2012

Distinctions individuelles
 Meilleur passeur du championnat d'Europe des moins de 21 ans 2006.
 Meilleur passeur de Ligue A 2013-2014.

Articles connexes

Liens externes

Notes et références

Joueur français de volley-ball
Joueur de l'Avignon Volley-Ball
Naissance en septembre 1987
Joueur formé au CNVB
Naissance à Montpellier
Joueur du Stade Poitevin Volley-Ball
Joueur du GFC Ajaccio Volley-ball
Joueur du Tours Volley-Ball
Joueur du Montpellier Université Club (volley-ball)
Joueur du Nice Volley-ball
Joueur du Narbonne Volley
Joueur de l'Arago de Sète

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Welcome home to this warm, lovely, affordable, 3 bedroom townhome! Enjoy the peace of mind of modern appliances, tall ceilings, and lots of natural lighting. A multi-level townhome combine all the advantages of 3 year old up to date construction with all the charm and architectural detail of the historic Upper Dekalb neighborhood. In addition to covering common area maintenance, HOA includes building insurance, trash removal and roof maintenance. You have your own reserved parking space and access to the community courtyard grill. Conveniently close to to King of Prussia, Plymouth Meeting and PA turnpike; Rts 202,476, 276. First time homebuyers may qualify for Montco's program of up to $10,000 in closing cost. This townhome is calling your name!


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Hard Fi Tickets
Hard-Fi are an English indie rock band formed in Staines, Middlesex in 2003. The band's continual members have been Richard Archer (vocals), Kai Stephens (bass guitar), Ross Phillips (guitar) and Steve Kemp (drums).
Hard-Fi achieved chart success with their third single, 'Hard to Beat' and then followed by other successful singles such as 'Cash Machine' and 'Living for the Weekend', which all reached top 15 in the UK Singles Chart.
Their debut album 'Stars of CCTV' was released in 2005, and although receiving critical acclaim (NME called it album of the year and was nominated for the Mercury Prize and two BRIT Awards, Best British Group and Best British Rock Act), it didn't reach number 1 in the UK albums chart until six months later in January 2006. It originally peaked at number 6.
The band's second album 'Once Upon a Time in the West' was released in September 2007 and reached number 1 in its first week. They are generally considered part of the indie rock scene, alongside bands such as Franz Ferdinand and have often been compared to a modern version of The Clash.
Hard Fi Dates & Tickets
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module FileStore
  module Providers
    RSpec.describe Provider do
      let(:provider) { dummy_provider.new(opts) }
      let(:dummy_provider) do
        Class.new(Provider) do
          attr_accessor :hit_count

          def self.name
            'provider_name'
          end

          protected

          def required_configs; []; end
          def upload!(file_path, data); file_path; end
          def download_url!(file_id, opts); end

          def path_exists?(path)
            (@hit_count != 0).tap { @hit_count -= 1 }
          end
        end
      end
      let(:opts) { {} }

      describe '#upload' do
        subject { provider.upload('prefix', 'file_name.txt', 'data') }
        before { provider.hit_count = hit_count }

        context 'with an immediate unique path' do
          let(:hit_count) { 0 }
          it { is_expected.to match(/\Aprovider_name:\/\/prefix\/(\d{3}\/){4}file_name.txt\z/) }
        end

        context 'with a few path hits' do
          let(:hit_count) { 5 }
          it { is_expected.to match(/\Aprovider_name:\/\/prefix\/(\d{3}\/){4}file_name.txt\z/) }
        end

        context 'with path hit limit reached' do
          let(:hit_count) { 20 }
          it 'should raise an error' do
            expect { subject }.to raise_error 'could not find unique path'
          end
        end
      end # #upload

      describe '#download_url' do
        subject { provider.download_url(file_id) }

        let(:file_id) { 'provider_name://file-store-tests/some/file/id' }

        context 'with valid provider' do
          it 'should extract the provider' do
            expect(provider).to receive(:download_url!)
              .with('file-store-tests/some/file/id', opts)
            subject
          end
        end

        context 'with invalid provider' do
          let(:file_id) { 'invalid_provider_name://file-store-tests/some/file/id' }

          it 'should raise an error' do
            expect { subject }.to raise_error 'invalid provider: invalid_provider_name'
          end
        end
      end # #download_url

      describe '#mock!' do
        subject { provider.mock! }

        it 'should set mocked to true' do
          expect(provider.mocked?).to eq false
          subject
          expect(provider.mocked?).to eq true
        end
      end # #mock!

      describe '#mock_upload' do
        subject { provider.mock_upload(prefix, file_name, data) }
        let(:prefix) { 'test' }
        let(:file_name) { 'file_name.txt' }
        let(:data) { 'dummydata' }

        it 'should create a file_id' do
          is_expected.to match(/\Amock:\/\/test\/(\d{3}\/){4}file_name.txt\z/)
        end
      end # #mock_upload

      describe '#mock_download_url' do
        subject { provider.mock_download_url(file_id) }
        let(:file_id) { 'mock://test/123/345/123/345/file_name.txt' }

        it 'should create a download url' do
          is_expected.to eq(
            "http://mocked_download_url.com/test/123/345/123/345/file_name.txt"
          )
        end
      end # #mock_download_url
    end # Provider
  end # Providers
end # FileStore


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Home > travel-blog > Spain > Madrid > A Guide To Spending Christmas In Madrid in 2023
A Guide To Spending Christmas In Madrid in 2023
Sara Setti Last Updated: November 20, 2022
Madrid is even more special at Christmas. Warm coffee shops and sparkling lights create a magical atmosphere. But you've got to know how to make the most of the holiday season to have a great time in the city. As a long-time resident, I have listed all you need to know about Christmas in Madrid in this guide, from traditions to the best food and the top activities for adults and kids.
Pro Tip: Planning what to do on your trip to Madrid at Christmas? Bookmark this post in your browser so you can easily find it when you're in the city. Check out our Madrid guide for more planning resources, our curated list of tours in Madrid at Christmas, and how to see Madrid in a day.
How To Celebrate Christmas In Madrid: Things To See and Do
Snow rarely covers Madrid's roofs, but the city never fails to create a magical Christmas atmosphere. Every year, thousands of tourists head to the capital to enjoy the Christmas lights and markets. And if you've never been, you might be surprised to learn that many celebrations happen after December 25th.
Although it is a religious festivity and many activities are related, these holiday weeks have events of all kinds. You can participate in parades, sports events, and shows. To help you enjoy your holidays, here is an easy guide to spending Christmas in Madrid. Bookmark it so you don't miss out on the best during your stay!
Explore Madrid at Christmas with a local
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A Magical Christmas In Madrid
Christmas is a family celebration in Spain, but it is also a great time to hang out with friends. Streets and bars fill with people having a great time, and shopping gets frenetic. There are traditional celebrations you can't miss out on and it's important to know that gift-giving is a bit different in Spain.
Traditional Celebrations
Socializing is everything. Big dinner parties (and Secret Santas) with work colleagues are a must in the week before Christmas. Also, as most offices close at noon on the 24th and 31st of December, another fun tradition comes alive: the cañas de Navidad—meeting up with friends for a beer before the traditional family dinner.
Gifts exchange is usually on January 6th. The magi bring presents here in Spain, and children prepare food for the three wise men and water for their camels the night before. But it is also common to receive gifts from Santa on Christmas morning, so we have twice the magic here!
See The Christmas Lights Embellish The City
Over 100 streets and squares are dressed in lights starting at the end of November. And as of 2021, you can also have this magical experience in Retiro Park to celebrate its inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage list.
Take the Naviluz tourist bus if you love Christmas lights. It is a unique 50-minute route through the decorated streets. And to keep warm on your walks, take a break with a cup of broth or hot chocolate. The top places to get them are:
Restaurante Lhardy
Chocolatería San Ginés
Visit a Nativity Scene
The Spanish Nativity scene—belén—is an artisanal piece exhibited in almost every church and square during Christmas. There is even one in the Royal Palace.
My favorites are the ones in the Cibeles Palace and the Real Casa de Correos: both are massive! But you can also visit the one in Plaza de la Villa and Plaza Mayor.
Hang Your Wishes In The Enchanted Pine Wood
Photo courtesy of Sara Setti
Did you write letters to Santa as a kid? You can relive the magic and mystery of those years by writing down your wishes, dreams, and New Year's resolutions and sharing them in the Wood of Wishes.
Every Christmas, pine trees decorate the patio of the Real Casa de Correos. Here, people from every nationality leave their wishes on pieces of cardboard hung on the trees. It is a great way to feel the Christmas spirit, and all those messages in different languages are heartwarming.
Pro Tip: On the opposite sidewalk, at Plaza de Pontejos, there are villancicos shows (traditional Christmas songs) almost every afternoon.
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Bring Your Kids To Cortylandia
If you are traveling with kids, take them to one of the most anticipated events in Madrid. Cortylandia is an animatronics show on a facade in Calle Maestro Victoria. The 15-minute show plays every afternoon, with the animated characters dancing and singing Christmas songs.
It is a little cheesy, but kids love it very much. It is also free, so every session has thousands of spectators (expect a long queue).
Ice Skating Under The Stars
From the middle of December to the first week of January, many ice rinks open around the city. The most magical one is in the Palacio de Cibeles' Glass Gallery.
And if you have time for a detour, go ice skating at the Matadero in Plaza de Legazpi. The building complex, once a slaughterhouse, now hosts immersive art exhibitions and concerts. It is lovely at Christmas, and the Legazpi quarter is the new gastronomic hot spot in the city.
Run The San Silvestre Vallecana
If you love running, this is your opportunity to make your Christmas trip to Madrid unforgettable. Sign up for one of the most popular New Year's Eve races in Spain. The 10 kilometer race includes two sessions on December 31st: a popular late-afternoon competition, which is very festive and open to amateurs, and a night run for professionals.
It is a massive event with around 40,000 participants every year. So put a pair of running shoes in your luggage and prepare for the big challenge.
Go All Sweet At Christmas
Christmas is a time of indulgence, and if you are in Madrid, tasting the traditional Spanish sweets is part of the cultural activities.
Nougats, Marzipan and Polvorones
Nougats and marzipan are a must-have during the holiday season. You will find them everywhere: Christmas markets, sweet shops, and food stands. Polvorones are another typical Spanish sweet, similar to shortbread. The name refers to the consistency, which is weightless like dust. To get the right texture, press them lightly before eating.
The star of the holidays is the Roscón de Reyes. A massive doughnut-shaped pie with candied fruits on top—don't worry, you can remove the fruit, everyone does! You can get a slice of it in every bar, filled with cream or chocolate, and paired with coffee or hot chocolate.
But take care: the dough can hide a surprise! If you find a small figurine in your slice, it will bring you luck. But if you get the bean, you must pay a roscón the following year.
Try the traditional Christmas sweets in Madrid's centennial bakeries to make it even more memorable.
Antigua Pastelería del Pozo: The oldest bakery in Madrid opened its doors in 1830. Their Roscón without fruit is incredibly popular.
Casa Mira: It's an award-winning bakery founded in 1842. The shop has had the same decor since 1855, and it's the only centennial nougats factory in Spain still in business.
El Riojano: Founded by a royal baker in 1855, this bakery with tea room has kept its interiors almost untouched. It is beautiful.
Celicioso: It's not an old bakery but a reference for gluten-free roscón and pastries. It also has shops in Plaza de Callao and near Retiro Park.
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Visit A Christmas Market
As crazy as it sounds, you will notice many people walking on the street with wigs or silly caps during Christmas in Madrid. It's like the Spanish version of the Ugly Sweater Day, but it extends to the entire holiday season. These accessories are easily the big sellers of Christmas markets, so no one will judge you here if you are up for a bit of craziness.
Of course, Madrid's Christmas markets are also an excellent opportunity to buy artisanal decorations, toys, and independent creators' artworks. My favorite classic Christmas markets are the ones in Plaza Mayor and Plaza de España. I also like the Mercadillo del Gato very much. It promotes young and independent creators and changes location depending on the date. And the coolest one, the Beefeater Xmas Market, is the place to enjoy DJs, hot gins (yes), and food trucks.
Meet The Three Wise Men
The biggest Christmas event in Madrid is the Cabalgata de Reyes. It is a massive event that attracts thousands of children and families. On January 5th, a long line of floats parades through Paseo de la Castellana with music, confetti, and performances.
The last floats are the most anticipated, as they carry the three wise men to the Plaza de Cibeles. Here, they speak to the kids, and the event ends with a spectacular fireworks show.
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About Sara Setti
Sara Setti is a Madrid-based writer with an MD in Literature & Cultural Studies. Italian by birth, she moved to Spain in 2011, where she writes for companies about travel, outdoor activities, and technology. She is passionate about arts, food, and can´t resist taking pictures of clouds. Sara has also lived in Bologna, Doha, and London. She writes in English, Italian, and Spanish.


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Wellington: Shylah Silbery, a 3 year-old girl lived two days with her dead mother
Shylah Silbery, a three-year-old girl from Wellington, New Zealand, survived for two days on eating cheese and leftover lasagne after her mother died suddenly leaving her locked in her home.
The little girl hugged her favourite toy – a teddy bear named Possum – as she waited alone in the house near her mother's body.
Shylah Silbery was rescued when her mother's relatives alerted the authorities when they had not heard from her for two days.
Police who went to the property managed to coax the little girl to drag a coffee table to the door so she could climb up and unlock it.
Shylah Silbery told police: "Mummy won't wake up."
Lauren Silbery, 28, was found face down next to her bed. Her daughter had been able to drink milk and feed herself with whatever she could find in the fridge.
Shylah Silbery, a three-year-old girl from Wellington, New Zealand, survived for two days on eating cheese and leftover lasagne after her mother died suddenly leaving her locked in her home
Shylah Silbery spent several days in hospital recovering from dehydration and urine burns before attending her mother's funeral.
Shylah's uncle Peter Silbery, 24, said: "I can only imagine her in there for that long, trying to wake Mum up.
"She's doing okay now. She's still bubbly. When we lowered the coffin into the grave at the cemetery, though, she pointed at it and said, <<Mummy's in there>>. It was pretty heartbreaking."
Lauren Silbery, 28, was found face down next to her bed
Peter Silbery spoke every night to his sister, but he nad his mother grew so concerned after failing to reach her for two days they rang a friend who lived nearby.
The friend went to the house and saw the little girl inside but no sign of Lauren .
Lauren Silbery's mother, Heather, said: "Lauren and I were very close – she would ring me every morning.
"One day I was in the garden and that afternoon at about four o'clock… her brother Peter and I said, <<Well, we haven't heard from Lauren>>.
So we got a friend to go around there and [the grandchild] had come to the cat door, but Lauren hadn't, so I dialled 111."
Heather Silbery said she knew Lauren was dead the instant she heard that neighbours couldn't contact her.
"Lauren wouldn't have done anything silly. She loved Shylah so much and was a devoted mum. But I knew exactly what had happened. It's a mother's instinct.
"Her daughter was everything to her. She was the type of person who has a nice way of bringing people together."
Officers saw the little girl inside the house and taught her how to open the door by getting her to stand on a coffee table.
Shylah Silbery's grandmother said: "[She] is still a bit quiet, but she still smiles and she's one of those kids that makes you laugh and you love to have her around.
"When we started cleaning and taking Lauren's stuff out of the flat, she did say <<Mummy won't wake up>> and when we went back in, she had shut her mother's bedroom door.
"She goes all around the flat happy, but she would not go in that room."
The death of Lauren Silbery at her house in the Upper Hutt area of Wellington is as yet unexplained.
Police and the family believe that she died of natural causes but an investigation on behalf of the coroner has now been started.
They said the fact Lauren Silbery was face down next to her bed was consistent with her having a heart attack or stroke and falling out of bed, but they said they need to wait for the results of an autopsy.
Shylah Silbery is now awaiting a Child, Youth and Family decision about whether she will be returned to her family.
The toddler was placed in CYF care after the discovery.
Yesterday, central regional director Karen Petrie said she hoped to place Shylah back with her family.
"This is an absolutely tragic event and our sympathy goes out to this family. Child, Youth and Family's preference in these situations is to place children in the care of extended family members as long as this is in the best interests of the child, and circumstances permit."
"Shylah Silbery was in regular contact with her family, and the agency was working with them to care for her immediate needs," Karen Petrie said.
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NBC is slow to get the new, official synopsis preview out, today, since the show is gone for a few weeks.
Hey, "Chicago Fire" peeps. Unfortunately, I have to tell you that it looks like your favorite show has reached the end of the line, tonight, for the Fall 2016 season, so NBC isn't quick to get the new episode 9 of season 5 press release spoilers out. Every network, does this most of the time, because they know they don't have to get it out as quick as they usually do. Or in some cases, the next episode might not actually have a plot summary yet.
Whatever the case, the official episode 9 official spoilers are missing for now, because the show is going on hiatus until Tuesday night, January 3rd, 2017 at 9pm central time, so be sure to jot that date down on you TV show schedules. It's certainly possible that NBC could dish out the new synopsis press release at anytime, so we'll certainly keep a close eye on that.
It's also possible that the show will release a new promo/spoiler clip later on, tonight, after the airing of the 8th episode, so you'll want to stay on the lookout for that as it'll break you guys off a couple of spoiler goodies to tide you over until we get some extra intel. I've checked around to all my other sources, and they don't seem to have anything on the 9th installment either.
The only thing we were able to dig up for the next one is the title, thanks to the folks over at Trakt.tv.
It turns out that the showrunners have decided to call it: "Some Make It, Some Don't." So, it definitely presents a very truthful statement. Lets see here. Next week, unless you're a "The Voice" fan, you definitely want to not tune into NBC, because that's what they'll be replacing the "Chicago Fire's" time slot with. Beyond that, is a mystery ,for now, as our TV show listings schedule, only extends out over the next 13 days.
Oh, this just in. We were able to scrounge up some info for a future episode.
We don't know what episode it is as this is just a casting call scoop. Apparently, the show is looking to cast a bunch of 5th graders to appear in a future installment. The wardrobe fittings were scheduled for yesterday December 5th, and they're looking to start shooting the scene on December 8th, 2016. So, there you go. That's our huge spoiler scoop of the day. Look for a bunch of real life 5th graders to show up in one of these things. I know. I know. It's not much, but "not much" is way better than nothing at all.


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JRMF
By: Nancy Blachman
I founded the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival so that others could have fun exploring mathematics, as I did when I was in junior high and high school. I wanted to offer inspirational opportunities similar to what my father offered me, especially to students who didn't have a parent who enjoyed playing with mathematics.
When I was in high school in Palo Alto during the 1970s, my math teacher gave interested students bimonthly qualifying problem sets for a math contest at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California. The first few problems were usually easy, and solving one would boost my confidence in tackling the next. Students who received sufficient points on the year's qualifying problems were invited to the contest towards the end of the school year. I didn't enjoy the competition itself nearly as much as I'd enjoyed doing the qualifying problem sets. In fact, exploring those problems with my father was one of the things I have enjoyed most in my entire life. It certainly influenced me to study mathematics.
Julia Robinson
Spring of 2005
In the spring of 2005, when I attended a forum called "Sharing Solutions: Promising Practices in Science & Math Education" sponsored by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), I asked MSRI's deputy director, Hugo Rossi, whether he knew what happened to the Saint Mary's Math Contest. He didn't, but he emailed a note to some of his colleagues asking what they knew about it. Joshua Zucker, a math teacher at Castilleja School, an all-girls middle and high school in Palo Alto, responded; he had a book containing problems from the contest, which he had won in his high school days at a different math contest in Southern California.
When we connected, Joshua and I brainstormed ideas for organizing an event for middle and high school students. We both wanted to create an event that emphasized fun rather than competition, so we decided to call the event a Festival. There would be two dozen or so tables with math problems, puzzles, games, and activities, each with a facilitator, encouraging and guiding students who needed or desired assistance, in a way similar way to how my father had encouraged and guided me.
Since the Festival was meant to nurture students' interest in math, we wanted to let them work individually or in groups, as they preferred. The problems and activities at each table were related to one another and became progressively more difficult—we even included research problems whose answers we didn't know ourselves. We hoped that each attendee would be able to find something engaging and rewarding.
We wanted to name the Festival for someone inspirational, and I suggested Julia Robinson. I had learned about her after watching a pre-release version of George Csicsery's documentary Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem; Julia had been a great mathematician renowned for solving, together with Yuri Matijasevich, Martin Davis, and Hilary Putnam, Hilbert's Tenth Problem. When we began to plan the Festival, we were able to contact her sister, Constance Reid, who gave us permission to use Julia's name. The Festival was intended to honor her legacy and to encourage students to pursue mathematics.
Constance told us that Julia had often been annoyed when people referred to mathematics as "math," so we were careful to call the event the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival. My husband, David desJardins, emailed a co-worker from his days at Google, Peter Norvig, and asked if Google would host the first Festival. Feeling that the event would encourage girls and minorities—groups underrepresented in the company's workforce—to go further in mathematics, Google was willing to give it a try.
In March 2007, Joshua sent announcements for the Festival to many junior high and high school math teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area. We were concerned that we might not get many students to sign up, but within a few weeks, the Festival was oversubscribed. With more registrants than space, we asked Google for a tent to accommodate additional students, which they provided.
The Festival featured 30 tables with activities, puzzles, games, and problems. When a participant showed insight, creativity, or perseverance, or solved a problem correctly, the facilitator at that table gave the student a raffle ticket. Students with winning tickets received a math book and/or Google paraphernalia, e.g., water bottles, umbrellas, hats, and jackets.
Since the response to that first Festival was so enthusiastic, we hosted another Festival the following year. With computational geometry driving a digital revolution in filmmaking, senior scientist Tony DeRose, lead of Pixar's Research Group, offered to host the Festival on May 4, 2008 at Pixar Animation Studios.
Julia Robinson Mathematics Festivals
The initial format worked so well during the first years that we have not changed it. Julia Robinson Mathematics Festivals (JRMFs) are non-competitive celebrations of mathematics, its great ideas, and its intriguing problems. The problems have low thresholds and high ceilings, challenging participants who are new to the topics as well as knowledgeable problem solvers. JRMFs inspire K–12 students to think critically and to explore the richness and beauty of mathematics through collaborative, creative problem-solving. Participants are supported by volunteers, lovers of mathematics from different disciplines, including mathematicians, teachers, engineers, programmers, older students, and other members of the mathematical community.
A Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival is an extracurricular event that is organized locally, but supported by a national network of advisors, mathematicians, and experienced Festival hosts. The program launched in 2007 at Google has grown exponentially over the past decade. JRMF has hosted over 500 events (Festivals and webinars) with participants in 29 states, the District of Columbia, one territory (Puerto Rico), and 19 foreign countries.
Since needing to social distance on account of COVID, in March 2020 JRMF started hosting weekly video webinars to provide the same discovery-based, collaborative mathematical environment to students in a digital age. In the first months, the audience has been 30-50% female, and about 60% are K-12 students, and 40% are teachers, parents, and other adults who enjoy mathematics. JRMF has developed a suite of digital apps to accompany our activities and allow students to engage with our mathematical activities in the manipulative-based way in which they were intended to be experienced. Find JRMF activities online at jrmf.org/activities.
The Festivals and webinars engage many types of students, including those who don't enjoy participating in competitions or working under time pressure. They are also community events, bringing together institutions and organizations to celebrate mathematics. Anyone can be a Festival or webinar host—parents wanting to get their children more interested in mathematics, educators looking to build excitement in their classrooms, administrators or community members eager to reach out and engage kids and adults in their region, homeschools looking to include discovery-based mathematical learning.
The national JRMF organization provides advice from experienced Festival hosts; activities (puzzles, games, problems, online apps) tailored to the needs of the audience; publicity and organization items, such as signs, banners, swag available at cost; and a free online registration system. These services are offered free of charge to hosts, although there might be incidental costs associated with venue rental, materials, and staffing.
I hope you find the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival puzzles, games, activities, and problems on the jrmf.org website enjoyably thought-provoking. If you have any favorite problems or activities that you think would be of interest, please send them to info@jrmf.org so that we can consider adding them to the library of activities.
Nancy Blachman
is the Founder of JRMF. Her love of mathematics and puzzles stems from her high school days taking George Polya's short course in mathematical logic and participating in the Saint Mary's Math Contest in Moraga, California. These experiences taught her that it was more fun to learn by discovery than to be told how to solve problems or just apply formulae. Nancy earned a B.Sc. in applied mathematics, an M.S. in computer science, and an M.S. in operations research from the University of Birmingham (UK), Stanford, and UC Berkeley, respectively. She taught a course in problem solving with Mathematica at Stanford from 1990 to 1997. She is the former Chair of the Board of Gathering 4 Gardner and she is currently Chair of the UCB IEOR Advisory Board.


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see my code below
str = Dir['d:/Movies/**/*.mp4'].sort_by{ |f| File.ctime(f)  }.last(30)

movie_list = nil

str.each do |movie_list|
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end
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A: Use #map instead of #each:
movie_list = str.map do |movie_list|
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end


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The last book I read by Andrew Taylor was his first, Caroline Minuscule, and that was about 25 years ago. I'm sorry I waited so long because he's good.
Set in fictional Jerusalem College, Cambridge, England, in 1786, Taylor has constructed a period piece that, yay!, isn't awkwardly styled or stuffed with lessons for the reader to learn.
Holdsworth represents the scientific mind, intolerant of all ghosts and things that go bump in the night. At the same time, Taylor provides the requisite ghost-appropriate setting: misty gardens; winding and dim passages; things flitting at the edge of one's vision; gloom, disorder, tragedy, and pain hanging over all. Although he is not a college-educated man, Holdsworth fits into Jerusalem surprisingly well. Despite his tragic background, he provides a mostly neutral point from which to view the other characters and situations.
This is not modern Cambridge. As Taylor says in his afterword, "The eighteenth century was not a glorious period for English universities," and in only his second piece of humor in the entire book, he adds, "by and large they managed things better in Scotland." Instead of a look at the scholarly search for truth, this book is a look into the dysfunction of a society lanced by class consciousness, at a skewed morality propped up by a hail-fellow-well-met mentality.
"Trust youth to turn an episode of drunken adultery into a three-volume novel and present it to you before breakfast."
"Holdsworth no longer wanted to laugh. For where in God's name was the humor in a weeping boy and a drowned woman? Or, for that matter, in a pair of Barbary slippers and a gilt button bearing the motto Sans souci?"
Vincent Ruiz used to be a detective with the London police force. He is a private investigator but doesn't appear to be enthusiastic about it. As a matter of fact, very little seems to move him to enthusiasm, certainly not the upcoming wedding of his daughter, Miranda. Although "[t]he father of the bride just has to turn up, walk down the aisle, and hand his daughter over like she's part of a prisoner swap," Vincent manages to bungle his initial involvement in the wedding preparations. He meant to do things right, but hey, stuff happens.
Like playing good Samaritan to a young girl who proceeds to rob him of his late wife's jewelry, things Vincent had meant to give to Miranda before her wedding. Like the girl's boyfriend being brutally murdered. Like being stalked, bribed, and finding an international crisis on his doorstep. Stuff like that.
There are actually two more stories being told at the same time. One takes place in Baghdad and involves a freelance journalist, Luca*, and a UN auditor, Daniela. They meet, they fall in like, people try to kill them. Is it just what happens to people in Iraq, or have them stumbled on something more? The third story involves a mother-to-be whose husband is missing. Elizabeth North's husband works for her family's banking business in London. He's a bean counter and a steady, somewhat boring man. If he's so ordinary, then what has happened to him? Where is the notebook some suspicious types claim he has?
Above all, what do these stories have to do with each other? As readers, we assume that they are indeed related, but it isn't until two-thirds of the way into the book that the characters in the three stories begin to stumble over each other and the stories seek their mutual conclusion. After they collide, the spotlight remains on Vincent, about whom Robotham writes: "He's an intelligent man but not a complicated one." His intelligence, too, is sometimes undercut by his uppercut. He's aided about halfway through the book by psychologist Joe O'Loughlin, the main or equal character in other Robotham books.
In an afterword, Robotham explains that the idea for his book is based upon real events. My reaction: scary. I will forbear discussing what brings the stories together. Robotham does too good a job drawing everything out for me to tip his hand prematurely.
Robotham delivers the kind of complexity I like. Kate Atkinson does the same thing. They develop separate story lines that ultimately converge. The stories are usually so divergent, it's a healthy challenge to the authors to bring them together at the end, and both handle the challenge exceptionally well.
I could give you many more examples of Robotham's energetic writing or his humor, but that would involve quoting pretty much the whole book. Big fan here, can you guess?
* This is the amusing first line of the story: "The most important lesson Luca Terracini ever learned about being a foreign correspondent was to tell a story through the eyes of someone else. The second most important lesson was how to make spaghetti marinara with a can of tuna and a packet of Ramen noodles."
Man vs. nature. Man vs. man. Man vs. himself. It's all there. Especially the nature part.
Remember the last part of Cold Dish, the first book in Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series? In which Walt -- wait, not Walt, make that "Crazy Walt" -- Crazy Walt heads up into the mountains after a bad guy? In which there is much suffering on Walt's part and he sees "things"? This time, instead of just a small portion of the book devoted to Walt heading up into the mountains after a bad guy, Craig Johnson has devoted the whole book to that plot.
Read Dante's Inferno before you read Hell Is Empty. At least read the CliffsNotes version. Johnson not so subtly draws parallels to that story. Instead of Dante's trip from the dark woods down into the circles of hell, Walt journeys up from the forest into the cold reaches of the hell he finds in the mountains. There are even Wyoming versions of Beatrice and Virgil.
The whole gang you've come to know and love -- Vic, The Bear, The Basque, Ruby, Cady -- is there but just in flashes, because it's all about Walt and the mountain and the man he's after.
Briefly, a prisoner, Reynaud Shade (hello!), escapes during a transport exchange in a fairly remote area of Wyoming. Shade is a bad, bad man who sees "The Old Ones" and claims he knows Walt does too. Taking hostages, Shade heads up a mountain. Taking a soggy sandwich and a cell phone that doesn't work, Walt heads up after him. A monster of a blizzard and an incongruous forest fire are impediments. Hypothermia and concussion are nuisances. Through it all, Walt is steadfast and determined to make a final showdown on the mountain.
Boy howdy, it's a page turner. It's also graced with Johnson's humorous turn of phrase, even in the most dire of circumstances, and a sweetness as Johnson shows us the strength and determination of the heart.
Robo=robot, pocalypse=apocalpyse. Ooooh, yeah! This is doomsday with gadgets and more fun than a barrel full of nanomonkeys!
In the not-too-distant future, Robs, or robots, are everywhere. The human-shaped ones are domestics, the others run vehicles, are toys, manufacture products, and serve the military. Until they aren't and they don't. One day a malevolent awareness develops in an experimental artificial intelligence project. Archos names itself, takes on the visual and auditory persona of a little boy, gets really upset, and then tries to eradicate all human life. Because robots have an underlying worldwide communications network, Archos has no problem reprogramming them all. Cars begin running over people, domestics sweep out their human owners along with the trash, toys turn to the dark side, and machines designed to help the military begin to destroy it instead.
In the best cinematic fashion, we have human heroes and heroines who overcome extreme odds to save humanity. There's also an unexpected alliance between humans and free-thinking robots.
We learn in the first chapter that the human-robot war is over and that the humans appear to have won. The rest of the book is a flashback presented in stories told or re-told by Cormac "Bright Boy" Wallace, a human. About six or seven other characters appear in these stories, and we follow their progress over a couple of years.
This is a fast-moving story with lots of action, with plentiful information given about robotics by Daniel H. Wilson, a Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, according to his biography. Not surprisingly, the story apparently will be turned into a movie by Steven Spielberg! Wilson is the literary grandchild of Isaac Asimov, but with a lot more booms and bangs.


Park Systems, a leading manufacturer of atomic force microscopy (AFM) products, announces PinPoint™ Nanomechanical Mode a new application designed to measure and map mechanical properties in materials and biological cells simultaneously and in real-time from high speed force-distance (F-d) curves with accurate control of both contact force and time. This new feature is compatible with Park AFM products Park NX10, Park NX20 and Park NX-Bio used world-wide for unparalleled accuracy in AFM imaging for industry and research. This new feature for AFM is applicable to many materials especially polymers and will provide valuable data for cell imaging in many bio research applications.
"PinPoint™ Nanomechanical mode was designed for failure analysis engineers, researchers in materials science, and cell biologists who use F-d spectroscopy or force modulation mode to characterize the mechanical differences of material components or cells in their samples in less time in the orders of magnitude and with more accuracy," explains Keibock Lee, Park Systems President. "We continue to develop applications and products to advance our equipment to ever increasing levels of precision which is what makes Park AFM imaging the world leader in nanoscale imaging."
By adjusting contact force and time, PinPoint™Nanomechanical identifies embedded details of sample material under its surface and characterizes topography, stiffness, elastic modulus, adhesion force, and adhesion in materials. PinPoint™ Nanomechanical mode acquires images simultaneously and in real-time by taking the high speed force-distance curves when the XY scanner stops, while maintaining well defined control of contact force and contact time between the tip and the sample.
"In the past, taking an extensive force volume imaging over an area took a prohibitively long amount of time. For example, 32×32 pixel force volume imaging would take a few hours and an AFM scan at 256×256 pixels would take over thirty hours," comments Lee. "PinPoint ™Nanomechanical allows users to get even more accurate and detailed data in real time using existing Park AFM equipment."
Using PinPoint™ Nanomechanical Mode makes it possible to study the variation and position of mechanical properties across a surface at previously unattainable resolutions using a non-destructive tip mode that controls the peak normal force and minimizes the lateral force on the probe. One of the advantages is achieving truly quantitative material property mapping with the resolution and convenience required in today's complex nanotechnology environment. By adjusting contact force and time, PinPoint™ Nanomechanical imaging can reveal embedded details of material components on and under the sample surface, enabling a distribution map of material components in a high resolution of nanometer scale and analysis comparing with a surface morphology directly.
The new PinPoint™ mode acquires AFM Nanomechanical property maps of stiffness, elastic modulus and adhesion force on a sample surface simultaneously with topography from high speed Force-distance curve at each point. The process is done using Park Systems's unique methodology, while measuring a morphology of the sample, the XY scanner stops at each data acquisition point for taking the high speed force-distance curves with well defined control of contact force(or distance) and contact time between the tip and the sample. This makes evaluation of mechanical properties in materials a seamless operation for material science professionals, creating reliable analysis at vastly improved levels of speed and accuracy.
Please visit http://www.parkafm.com or call 408-986-1110 for more information.


If it were up to you, would you choose to be immortal? Live forever?
As you can imagine, when death takes someone close to us, be it a friend or loved one, it leaves us with questions about our own mortality, What is the purpose of life or the point of suffering? Why is there futility in the face of it? Death also leaves us with our thoughts, wondering how we will die, wishing we could change parts of the past, and most of all, wanting more time in the future.
More time to heal. To make things right. To understand. For technology to catch up so loved ones don't have to slip from our embrace because there wasn't anything more that could be done for them. More time so we can feel at peace with our lives, ourselves and loved ones.
The way it happens currently, it feels like someone keeps pulling the rug from under our feet over and over again. We pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off every time, except when it is our turn.
I'm not down with that. Every fibre of my body rejects death and how it occurs in our species, our culture and in our lives. Either we fear it or we attempt to make it more palatable by applying tried and tested aphorisms.
I don't fear or hate death because I know it isn't the end of us but what I do mind is the thief in the night nature of it.
I got busy researching pathways through the maze of health issues with my siblings. Each one of us digging deeper, listening, being gentle with our father.
We didn't realize death was in stealth mode and already there but we soon fell in step with its timetable.
The time before a person dies, from the moment they learn they are ill until after they have gone, is the greatest struggle for me. I can't balance the accounts so easily ie shuttling between wanting them to get well, to not suffering to finally,"They are in a better place now". That time or experience I would like to see changed.
I imagine a world, where people choose whether to live or die. A life where there is no oppression, hunger, or brutality. A world where we get to experience the joy of life. A life where we are raised to know when our time is complete and we can surrender our bodies without fear.
That world is growing in me. It is growing in you. I think of it as future memory. It exists as possibilities and dreams within us and our children. It will exist as reality for future generations. We are the roots from which immortality grows new branches.
As I follow my thoughts on immortality, I am led to this knowing: we are immortal already but we don't recognize ourselves. We are born from exploding stars, we have been bacteria, lived in the oceans, grown eyes, limbs, and became self-aware. Here we are now talking about death and more.


As part of stART 2015, the committee organised a taster workshop in Alyth hosted by the Alyth Youth Parnership (AYP) on portraiture, creative blending and editing with photographer Kenny Bean. stART have now secured a grant from the Drumderg Community Fund to continue this activity with the group into the winter. Kenny will be creating an outdoor light installation with the youth group in preparation for the Alyth Christmas Lights Switch On which takes place on Saturday 28th of November. There will also be lantern making workshops in Alyth nearer the time for members of the community to come along and make willow and tissue paper lanterns to be used at the event. On Monday 26th October Kenny held his first residency session with AYP who were out and about in Alyth experimenting with creating light pictures in the town.
The Strathmore Arts Festival – stART – is a community-based Arts Festival organised and run by volunteers from East Perthshire. The aim of the group is to provide opportunities for local people to participate in a variety of high quality of arts workshops, projects and events on their doorsteps. stART organise a biennial participatory arts festival, but also run ad-hoc activities throughout the year, usually in partnership with other local groups and organisations.


I am totally in love with the 70's trend and can't be happier for its comeback this season. This is why I decided to go with it for my first look of the season. Black tunic and a black hat, very dark red lips and few rings are the perfect combination for casual but super stylish look.