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Based in Berlin, FCG develops, launches, and operates used-automotive marketplaces within high-growth market economies. The startup increases the efficiency of selling and buying cars through technology, infrastructure creation, access to capital and innovative business models that allows all stakeholders to gain from its impact.
Currently boasting operations in Nigeria, Mexico, Chile, Turkey, Pakistan, and Indonesia, FCG said it will use the funds and the partnership with OLX Group to fuel its expansion into new territories and enhance its instant cash services for users.
Going by different brands in different countries, such as VendeTuAuto in Mexico, BeliMobilGue in Indonesia, and CarFirst in Pakistan, FCG says it expect to transact over $ 250 million of vehicles in 2018.
The combination of FCG's instant cash services and OLX Group's proprietary classifieds technology will provide car sellers and dealers with industry-leading products. Private sellers of used cars will now be able to sell their vehicle through either OLX Group classifieds or FCG's "guaranteed buy" service.
Commenting on the deal, FCG Co-Founder and CEO Sujay Tyle said: "As we look to grow further and lead the digitization of the automotive sales sector, this partnership provides us with the platform and global presence that we need to become the leading used car marketplace across high-growth markets".
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While one can sympathize with outsider outrage at the FBI's shutting down of Poetree.coop (as reported by Seth Godin), it appears that the site was breaking all kinds of copyright laws by posting poems without getting permission from poets.
As a writer, I would take great umbrage at some renegade site stealing my work. With freedom of speech comes responsibility to reserve that freedom for your own ideas and work--you are not free to post someone else's work (unless it's in the public domain or with permission).
I firmly believe in spanking, from time to time, the establishment literary community, but for the right reasons. Whether or not you like individual poets or not, you still don't have the right to lift their work, depriving them of their livelihood.
This right to control one's own intellectual property is the cornerstone of the literary community and benefits both insider and outsider.
By the way, I know my way around the domaining community and am aware that the .coop TLD exists, but I believe this is the first time I have seen it in actual use--or in this case, was in use.


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but i want to manipulate those Textboxes that are inside in my Form1 container. how can i do that ?
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A: You're looping through every control in Form1 so of course you get all the textboxes in your loop.
If you put your textboxes inside a container like a groupbox then you can use the groupbox in your foreach instead of the entire Form1 object.
So you'd have a groupbox control on your form and inside that you'd have the textboxes that you want to set to ReadOnly.
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Romance of the Road
Alan Munro on Cecil Roberts, And So to Bath
It is curious how a long sought-after book can suddenly reveal itself. Such was my luck when browsing among laden shelves beneath the old castle in Hay-on-Wye. Some years earlier a friend had lent me a copy of Cecil Roberts's fascinating venture into the romance associated with the old Bath Road – that extended artery running westward by river and plain from London to England's most elegant social watering-hole. The book's vivid mixture of history and myth, grandeur and scandal, resolved my wife and me to retrace the author's steps along this lifeline in our national story. It took ten years of searching before I found a first edition, wedged inconspicuously into the Hay bookshelves. At last we were off, guide and companion in hand.
Cecil Roberts, novelist, poet, dramatist, war correspondent, antiquarian and, I dare say, snob, was born in Nottingham, left school early and joined a local newspaper. He developed into one of the most prolific writers of the mid-twentieth century. By the time of his death in 1976 he had written 51 published works, including 21 novels, hardly one of which appears, tellingly perhaps, to have been reissued. But for anyone interested in places and their associations And So to Bath (1940) is a gem. Writing at the end of the 1930s under the shadow of war and in a succession of stages along the road's hundred miles, Roberts conjures up a fascinating historical panorama from prehistoric times to Rome, the Plantagenets, the Tudors and Stuarts, the cultural glories (and social misdemeanours) of Georgian England and the Victorian prosperity and reforms that followed it, through to a philistine twentieth century which he laments. With a magpie's zeal Roberts has gathered it all for us. For occasional fellow travellers he has the scholarly and spinsterly Miss Whissett, and Rudolf, an enthusiastic young Austrian student of English literature whose companionship may have held more than a passing charm for the bachelor
Cecil Roberts, novelist, poet, dramatist, war correspondent, antiquarian and, I dare say, snob, was born in Nottingham, left school early and joined a local newspaper. He developed into one of the most prolific writers of the mid-twentieth century. By the time of his death in 1976 he had written 51 published works, including 21 novels, hardly one of which appears, tellingly perhaps, to have been reissued. But for anyone interested in places and their associations And So to Bath (1940) is a gem. Writing at the end of the 1930s under the shadow of war and in a succession of stages along the road's hundred miles, Roberts conjures up a fascinating historical panorama from prehistoric times to Rome, the Plantagenets, the Tudors and Stuarts, the cultural glories (and social misdemeanours) of Georgian England and the Victorian prosperity and reforms that followed it, through to a philistine twentieth century which he laments. With a magpie's zeal Roberts has gathered it all for us. For occasional fellow travellers he has the scholarly and spinsterly Miss Whissett, and Rudolf, an enthusiastic young Austrian student of English literature whose companionship may have held more than a passing charm for the bachelor author. The original Roman road from London to Bath started from today's Marble Arch, though Roberts prefers to set off through eighteenth-century Kensington, with its royal palace and fields which were now being invaded by the tidy villas of the newly wealthy. The Albert Hall allows a digression on the glory and eclipse of Gore House which previously stood there, grand home of the scandalous and prodigal Countess of Blessington and her paramour, Count d'Orsay. There will be more tales of aristocratic pride and fall along the way: Holland House, soon after obliterated by a German bomb, with its eighteenth-century salon; Syon House and Osterley, high points of the Adam brothers' genius for interior design; Lord Burlington's Palladian pastiche at Chiswick House; riverside Walpole House nearby, the model for Miss Pinkerton's academy in Thackeray's Vanity Fair; Tudor Littlecote Park, beset by a sinister haunting; and the Berkeleys' Jacobean mansion at Cranford – for Roberts another source of fascinating family drama. Benham Place near Newbury inspires a rollicking chapter devoted to Lady Craven, later Margravine of Anspach, celebrated courtesan and indifferent poetaster – 'Lord Craven married a handful.' At magnificent Bowood, historic seat of the Lansdowne dynasty, Roberts lets himself go:
The third marquis inherited a shell and turned it into a palace . . . A cascade, a classical temple, an island, a heronry, terraces of roses guarded by bronze stags, great lawns, clipped yews, here Diocletian himself would not have felt the splendour of his setting unworthy of a retired Emperor . . . The house, its treasures of art, the gardens, the private mausoleum, the whole picture is that of a nobleman expressing himself in an age of unlimited wealth, such as England will never know again.
Joseph Priestley, cantankerous preacher and pioneer scientist employed as resident librarian, used his time at Bowood to discover oxygen in 1774; the tablet sought out by Roberts beside the River Marden in nearby Calne still marks the 'Doctor's Pond' where he carried out his experiments. There is a sympathetic account of the publication in 1917 of a letter from the fifth Marquis, a former Foreign Secretary, prompted perhaps by the loss of his son and heir, which called for an end through negotiation to the slaughter and misery of the Great War, and of the storm of protest and abuse his action aroused. We saw a touching exhibit of mementos of this family tragedy when we visited on the centenary of the war's outbreak. Today Barry's grand Golden Gate no longer leads to the great house, a major portion of which has been demolished, but to a more humble golf club. The towns and villages along our highway all have their intriguing histories and characters, grist to the author's insatiable curiosity and evocative pen. In Brentford a diversion down Ferry Lane brought us, like the author, to an old wharf. There a dilapidated granite pillar still commemorates the spot where an invading Julius Caesar forded the Thames in 54 BC, as well as King Edmund's defeat of the Danes in 1016 and the Battle of Brentford in 1642 during the Civil War. Roberts has plenty more to say of this seminal conflict in a chapter on Newbury, 'England of the market town . . . with roofs of all shapes and hues'. The scene of two crucial battles between King Charles and Parliament, it had witnessed another struggle for the crown five centuries before between Queen Matilda and the usurping King Stephen. Here we also meet the rags-to-riches drama of Jack of Newbury, who made his fortune in local broadcloth, raised a militia troop for Henry VIII, and furnished the town with its splendid Tudor church. At Reading, no longer today Roberts's 'thriving manufacturing town of biscuits, seeds and sauce', there is much to tell of the powerful medieval abbey, founded by Henry I and destroyed six centuries later by Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell, when its abbot was hung, drawn and quartered before the great gateway that still survives amid the abbey's ruins, and under the shadow of the gaol that later incarcerated Oscar Wilde. There is a detour to nearby Silchester, a strategic Roman town now buried amid scrubland. Not a soul was to be seen on our visit one misty morning as we clambered over its walls and came upon the vestiges of a grass-covered amphitheatre concealed in a wooded glade. Surprisingly perhaps Slough, already afflicted by new suburban sprawl though as yet unaware of John Betjeman's invocation of 'friendly bombs', catches the author's attention. The Montem mound, scene of annual revelry by the scholars of nearby Eton, Thomas Gray's elegiac churchyard at Stoke Poges, and grand Cliveden of the Duke of Buckingham, doomed favourite of James I, are eclipsed by a homage to Sir William Herschel, composer and musician, who turned his talents to the study of the skies and, with his sister, built a succession of gigantic telescopes through which he first discovered the planet Uranus. His reputation was celebrated throughout Europe and earned him an audience with the Emperor Napoleon. George III, a generous patron, paid a visit from Windsor:
The King looked at the enormous tube which had not yet received its reflector or been raised skywards. Some of the company thought it amusing to walk through the telescope. The Archbishop of Canterbury found it not easy. 'Come, my Lord Bishop, I will show you the way to Heaven!' cried the King, giving him a hand.
Such is the engaging style that infuses Roberts's narrative. In 1939 he tracked the workshop and bits of telescope to the garden of Herschel's Regency villa; our more recent attempt ended abruptly in the Herschel multi-storey carpark – prosaic memorial to a heroic endeavour. There is plenty more to savour as we navigate the placid valley of the Kennet and the uplands of Wiltshire, for much of England's history was made in these parts. Marlborough, 'town of boys and teashops'; Savernake Forest, where Henry VIII married Jane Seymour; The Bear at Hungerford, where the surrender of the Catholic James II to his Dutch brother-in-law, William of Orange, heralding the Glorious Revolution, was negotiated. The bar still displays the rare Act of Parliament clock, dating from George III's tax on clocks, imposed to pay for the War of Independence in America. Sad however to see how once prosperous Chippenham and Calne, still famous for cheese and the Harris brothers' bacon when Roberts passed through, and with their great medieval churches built on fortunes from wool, are today silent towns, their handsome high streets hosts to charity shops. As ever Roberts comes up with delightful snippets – green baize from Chippenham's looms once covered the world's billiard tables, while prehistoric Avebury Ring brings an improbable tale of the restoration of its sarsen stones a century ago by Mr Keiller of Dundee marmalade fame – whatever next? The great highway itself resounds to the rumbling wheels of the coaches and chaises that once clattered over its rutted carriageway. Roberts's lively prose illuminates the discomforts and perils of stage-coach travel, through night and day on hard benches exposed to the elements, with hurried stops for a change of horses and ale and a pie at once famous hostelries – The Bear, The White Hart, The Pelican, The George and The Lansdowne Arms – their yards 'always in a bustle with innkeepers, ostlers, waiters, postboys, coachmen and travellers anxious to be on their way'. Here is a contrast with the romantic image of the coaching print. The road out of London leads across lonely Hounslow Heath, the first of several haunts of highwaymen wont to plunder coaches and their passengers, even royalty on their way to Windsor. Many were discharged soldiers and sailors, others like Dick Turpin have entered legend. Those caught and hung had their corpses suspended from gibbets – there were said to be thirteen such between Hounslow and Heston. At the Ostrich in Colnbrook, notorious for its 'gruesome story of the Sweeney Todd variety', the ghosts are still in evidence today. Three hundred coaches a day once cantered down the narrow street until the Great Western Railway brought their era to a close. The Methuen Arms in gabled Corsham sees us off on our final stage through Pickwick – a name which once caught the fancy of a Bath-bound Charles Dickens – and down steep Box Hill into Beau Nash's capital of fashion beside the sparkling Avon. Here our fascinating excursion through history and legend culminates in a warm welcome in a friend's elegant home of honey-coloured stone. Do seek out Roberts's book, and discover its treasures – 'et bon voyage' as Miss Whissett would say.
Extract from Slightly Foxed Issue 50 © Alan Munro 2016
When not engaged in diplomacy abroad, Alan Munro has lived at the London end of the Bath Road for fifty years. His light-hearted memoir of a diplomatic career, Keep the Flag Flying, has recently been reissued in paperback.
Issue 50 (1 Jun 2016) (Summer)


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Is the reciprocal of an improper fraction sometimes always or never a proper fraction?
For a fraction A/B, the fraction is improper if A > B. The reciprocal is B/A. So now A is the denominator, and B is the numerator, and B < A, so the reciprocal is a proper fraction. The answer would be always.
Q: Is the reciprocal of an improper fraction sometimes always or never a proper fraction?
Why do you need a reciprocal when you divide a fraction?
You do not need it! Sometimes it is simpler to multiply by a number's reciprocal than to divide by it but that is not always the case.
What makes a common fraction improper?
An improper fraction is a fraction in which the top number (numerator) is largerthan the bottom number (denominator).Such a fraction can always be converted to a whole number plus sometimes a'proper' fraction.Examples:The improper fraction 45/15 = 3 .The improper fraction 10/7 = 13/7 .
What is the product of a fraction and its reciprocal is always equal to?
It is equal to 1, but not always: the reciprocal must be defined for the equality and the reciprocal is not always defined.
Why is the reciprocal of a fraction less than one always a fraction greater than one?
A positive fraction that is less than one is known as a proper fraction. In a proper fraction, the denominator is greater than the numerator. A reciprocal fraction would have a numerator greater than the denominator. Such a fraction is known as an improper fraction. Improper fractions are greater than one.
When dividing fractions does the answer always end with an improper fraction?
Not always. There are times when division of fractions results in a non-improper fraction.
Is the reciprocal of a fraction always a whole number?
No. The reciprocal of 3/4 is 4/3.
What numberis an improper fraction always greater tahn?
An improper fraction is greater than or equal to 1.
What is the product of two numbers that are reciprocals of one another explain why this is always the case?
A fraction multiplied by its reciprocal is always equal to one. This is because the reciprocal is an inversion of the fraction. The denominator of a fraction is the same number as the numerator of the reciprocal, and vice versa. The product of this is a fraction with the same numbers for the denominator and reciprocal, which is also known as an equivalent fraction. Equivalent fractions are always equal to one.
Is the reciprocal of a fraction always a whole number explain?
No. The reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2
Are improper fractions always greater than 1?
Yes. That's the definition of an improper fraction. If it's not greater than ' 1 ', then it isn't an improper fraction.
Why in improper fraction the numerator is greater than denominator?
That is why it is called an improper fraction because a proper or a common fraction always has its numerator less than its denominator.
What number is an improper fraction always greater than?
What is an improper fraction for 4 over 5?
-- An improper fraction is always equal to more than ' 1 '. -- 4/5 is less than ' 1 '. -- There's nothing you can do to 4/5 to make it an improper fraction.
Why is reciprocal of a fraction less than 1 is always greater than 1?
Proper fractions are less than one.. Their numerators re less than their denominators. Their reciprocals have numerators greater than their denominators, making them improper. Improper fractions are greater than 1.
When is the reciprocal of a number greater than the number and when is it less than the number?
When a number is a fraction, the reciprocal will always be greater than the original number. When the original number is a whole number, the reciprocal will be a fraction, which is less than a whole number.
How do you simplify a improper fraction?
You can simplify an improper fraction, unless the numbers are prime. Simplify it like how you would regularly, but don't forget that you can always turn it into a mixed number.
Why is a fraction with 13 as denominator always in simplest form?
It's not. The improper fraction 26/13 is not in its simplest form.
Does a reciprocal always equal the number one?
No, a reciprocal is just like any other fraction, it only equals one if both numbers in it are the same.
The reciprocal of a fraction less than 1 is always a fraction greater than 1. Why is this?
The above statement is not true!-3/4 is a fraction which is less than 1. Its reciprocal is -4/3 which is also less than 1, NOT greater.
Why is an improper fraction greater than a proper fraction?
A proper fraction is a fraction who's numerator is smaller than the denominator. An improper fraction is a fraction who's numerator is larger than or equal to the denominator. 1/2 is a proper fraction. 3/2 is an improper fraction. Now to understand why the improper fraction is larger than the proper fraction, lets split them up. The proper fraction is one half of a whole, whereas the improper fraction is one whole and one half. Basically the proper is one half, and the improper is three halves. In theory, a proper fraction is always less than the whole number under consideration. On the other hand, an improper fraction is either equal to or larger than the whole number under consideration.
Why is the recipical of A fraction less than one is always a fraction greater than one?
Fractions that are less than one are known as proper fractions. Their denominators are greater than their numerators. Their reciprocals would have numerators greater than their denominators, making them improper. Improper fractions are greater than one.
Why is 5 over 5 an improper fraction?
5/5 is an improper fraction, because it is the same as saying 1. Yes. 5/5 is an improper fraction. Improper fractions are fractions with greater numerator than denominator or with the same numerator and denominator. Thus, improper fractions when changed to decimals are always greater than one or exactly equal to one. 5/5 is exactly equal to one, thus it is an improper fraction.
What is the difference between proper and improper fraction?
A proper fraction is a fraction whose numerator is less than its denominator, meaning its value is less than 1. An improper fraction is one whose numerator is greater than its denominator, meaning its value is more than 1. An improper fraction can always be written as a mixed number ... an integer plus a proper fraction.
When multiplying fraction by fraction the product will always be what?
The only thing that you can be certain of is that the answer will be a number. It could be irrational or rational, it could be a proper fraction, integer or improper (mixed) fraction.
Can an improper fraction equal one?
No, because the numerator (top number) must always be larger then the denomenator (bottom number) to be an improper fraction. To equal 1, both numbers must be the same.


With gold at record high prices, like many others, I started looking at my jewelry to see if there were any odds & ends I could sell. Broken chains, single earrings, and other such pieces. This got me to thinking about what I have, where they came from and what the items mean to me. Some pieces hold such sentimental value that I would never sell them.
One of my treasures is the gold coin necklace my mother gave me years ago. Along with the gift came the story, the family history tied to the coins. This piece of family lore makes the coin necklace a treasure beyond price.
My great-grandmother, Theodosia, was born in Mississippi in 1858. According to family stories she received my coin, a 2 1/2 dollar gold piece dated 1851, as a birthday gift. Dosia lived most of her life in Tennessee where she died at the age of 82. She gave two coins, mine and another dated 1850, to my grandmother who in turn passed them on to my mother. After having the coins set in bezels so they could be worn as necklaces, my mother gave them to my sister and me.
That explains how I came to own the coin, but it doesn't tell the whole story. I can only speculate on the origin of the coins. Did they come from Dosia's father or, perhaps, her grand-father? Was it a family custom to give the children gold coins on their birthdays? Did her mother put the coins away so that Dosia and her siblings would have them when they grew older? Whatever the plans for the coins, the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 changed everything.
Dosia's father, R. B. Sizemore, enlisted in the 26th Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A. Her mother, Elvira, remained behind to tend the farm and their four children. Late in 1864 R. B. Sizemore died a result of some unknown disease, rather from battle wounds. From the history of the 26th, the date he enlisted and his death, we can surmise that he participated in the Battle of Ft. Donelson (Feb. 1862) where he was taken prisoner and exchanged six months later at Vicksburg. During the following year the regiment defended Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama against Grant and Sherman. Then in May, 1864, they journeyed east to Virginia where they fought in the Wilderness Campaign, the Seven-Days battles around Richmond and finally to Petersburg. There is no way for us to know when R.B. became ill. We only know he died in Mississippi in December, 1864.
Sometime during the war, either before or after R.B.'s death, Elvira hid the gold coins in a stump for safekeeping. She probably stashed more than the two coins, but we will never know what treasures she hid away so that they would not be stolen in those uncertain times.
My great-great-grandmother remained on the farm in Mississippi until 1867 when she took her children north to her mother-in-law's home in Tennessee. Theodosia was nine years old.
After her mother remarried in 1870, to her father's brother, Dosia went to live with another of her father's brothers, R. H. Sizemore. This uncle was a doctor who had served as a surgeon in the Confederate Army with his wife, Sallie, by his side as his nurse.
During the time Dosia lived with her aunt and uncle, she must have met her future husband, John Uffleman. He was the oldest son of German immigrants who came to America in 1850 and settled in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. John's family did not participate in the Civil War. In 1867 his entire family left Pennsylvania, came down the Ohio River, then up the Cumberland River. They bought enough cheap land in western middle Tennessee along Wells Creek to divide into separate farms for each son.
Dosia and John married in 1879. My grandmother, Elvira, born in 1893, was the fourth of five children to survive to adulthood. The family lived on the farm on Wells Creek until John became unable to work. Sometime around 1905 they sold the farm and moved to McKenzie, Tennessee, where they ran a boarding house near Bethel College. My grandmother told me that they left the farm when she was 12 so I've calculated the date based on that. During their time in McKenzie, my grandmother attended Bethel College. After their oldest daughter, Lois, died in 1911, John, Dosia and their two younger daughters returned to Houston County, near their former home, to help raise the grandchildren.
Theodosia Sizemore Uffleman led a fascinating life spanning the years from before the Civil War until the beginning of World War II. That's a big chunk of American history. The coin pendant gives me a tangible connection to the places she lived, to the events of her personal life and to the historical events of the time. When I pass it on to one of my grandchildren, I also hope to pass along the story of Dosia's coins.


Drivers, missing requirements in Ecodesign?
What does the ErP directive say about drivers. That is an interesting question. Lets first get one thing out of the way. The labelling IM is not requiring any labelling of drivers. A bit strange since drivers can be independent and are sold as a product to end users.
Checking the scope of IM 1194/2012 it is "equipment designed for installation between the mains and lamps, including control gear, control devices and luminaires" so this is simple, drivers are in scope. Next we have to take a look at the exceptions. Also here it is clear, no exception for drivers.
Last issue is to determine the stage the directive is in, that is clear on writing of this blog it is still stage 1. This means that we have to look for requirements in stage one. In this blog we will look a bit further.
As of stage 1 LED products must comply with a EEI of 0,5. This means for lamps with built in drivers or for luminaires with integrated LED modules must have a combined EEI of 0,5. For a independent driver there is a correction factor for the lamp. The correction basically ads 10% (table 1) of power taking care of a loss of energy in the driver.
This should be than one of the requirements for the driver? Or not? We are then going to the second clause, 1.2 that is specifically about control gear. So what does it say? It first gives a requirement for the standby power. In stage 3, 1-9-2016, it needs to be below 0,5 W. Till than there is no limit.
There is also a limit for drivers that would be switched off behind the driver by a switch. This is an issue that we see for low voltage garden lights for example. There is a limit for the power taken during off time of 1 W and when the power is over 250 W the limit may be multiplied by P/250. This is valid from stage 2 (1-9-2014). From stage 3 the limit is reduced to 0,5 W with the same correction factor for powers over 250 W.
The last requirement in this clause is specifically for halogen lamp control gear. This means that there is no energy efficiency requirement for LED drivers. There is only a requirement for standby power consumption as described above. This is a bit strange. As an example you could have a A++ LED luminaire that needs to be provided with a separate ballast. I.E. small luminaires for building in are in many cases build this way. When you buy a independent driver, with a efficiency that is very bad, the total efficiency can get very bad and still it is ok for ErP……., or not?
– must function for 6000 hours, powering the LED module to such an extend that it can reach the required lumen output.
In case of independent drivers the driver does not have to comply??
Clause 2.3 should bring the clarity. It says that drivers need to comply with the state of the art requirements for compatibility with lamps with a EEI of ….
It does not actually say that it should comply with specific requirements but when the requirements as mentioned in lamps with integrated drivers can be met, that can be considered state of the art and that being the case the requirements as above for lamps apply together with a maximum power loss of 10% (as being used as correction factor). This is valid starting in phase 2 (1-9-2014).
There is another issue to be addressed. This clause states that dimming devices, when set to the lowest level, the lamp must have 1% of the light output. Drivers that can dim, with a control, and integrated in a luminaire can be controlled and set in the correct way. In case of independent drivers this might be a challenge. I am not yet sure how that will be addressed?
Last requirement is about the marking, documentation etc. Clause 3.3 and 3.4 give the requirements. 3.3 is about the compatibility issue. Does it apply? It could apply when the product does not comply with the requirements from 2.3 but could that product still be sold?
3.4 is about the no-load power. If the product does not comply with the 0,5 W requirement a statement is needed that is is not to be used in no-load. For the rest you have to mention specifically that it is control gear. This marking requirement is also from stage 2 (1-9-2014).
The other IM (DIM I and TIM) do not give requirements for led control gear.
With the requirements that are coming driver manufacturers have to overcome some challenges? Independent drivers are not yet in need to comply, only drivers that are built-in in luminaires need to be able to comply. It is to be expected that requirements for energy efficiency will follow in the next review of this regulation.
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Rohit Sachdev is the Managing Director of Soho Hospitality, a diversified hospitality company with investments in hotels, restaurants and an interior design division with projects across the region. Following the success of Above Eleven Rooftop Restaurant & Bar, Soho Hospitality is currently embarking on an aggressive expansion plan in terms of its Food and Beverage business with the recent opening of Charcoal Tandoor Grill & mixology, a new concept in indian dining. We sat down with Rohit Sachdev on a unusually cold Bangkok morning at his new restaurant after he returned from a trip to New York City.
Q. So you were in New York City over the holidays? Was it for work or pleasure?
Q. What is your restaurant top pick from all of the restaurants that you visited over there?
So you recently opened Charcoal Tandoor Grill & Mixology in Bangkok. Tell us a little bit about your new restaurant?
Being an Indian, I have always wanted to create an indigenous Indian restaurant that would be a complete dining experience. Most Indian restaurants have traditionally focused on food whereas other things like the interiors, cocktails, lighting, uniforms, tabletop items have been seriously lacking. I wanted to change the preconceived notions of the dining experience. Working with my Food and Beverage team, we envisioned a restaurant with modern, industrial interiors, Indian accents and an unpretentious, social dining experience. As part of the Food and Beverage concept, we developed Indian spice infused craft cocktails to compliment with a traditional Tandoor and Mughlai kebab offering. We also created product differentiation by offering no fried foods or curries. Lastly, we didn't give the restaurant a traditional indian name!
Q. No samosas, no curries?
Q. I heard through the grapevine you're opening a new restaurant?
Q. So you're a speaker at the upcoming Global Restaurant Investment Forum in Dubai. What are some of the recent trends in Food and Beverage?
Q. What about your interior design arm? Tell us a bit about what's going on there?
Q. What's the key to success at Soho Hospitality?
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I have been to try Rohit's new Charcoal restaurant and I can say that it definitely lives up to the hype. The attention to detail was amazing – even down to pre-recorded sounds of Mumbai in the bathrooms. We at Hotelintel.co will be looking forward to see the opening of Soho Hospitality's new projects this year..


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Q: Move prediction in a chess game? Is it possible to find the pattern of a chess player and predict the most appropriate next move?
Is there any algorithm can solve this problem? Can you suggest any reference to find out the algorithm.

A: You could try it with this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_chess#Leaf_evaluation and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_function and also take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Thought_%28chess_computer%29
Maybe that helps...

A: Programmer Puzzle: Encoding a chess board state throughout a game
Chess game in JavaScript

Is there a perfect algorithm for chess?
This could help, technically there's no computer with power enough to solve a chess problem perfectly.
search more on stackoverflow for more views !

A: To a degree. An easy means of prediction in AI is the use of Case-based reasoning agents.
Assuming your chess pattern detector has been trained on a fairly large number of games, it will indeed be able to guess an opponent's moves based on current board state and previous moves. The correctness of its suppositions are of course dependent on how many games it has been trained on, as well as the content of games it has been trained on.


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Wanted - The Search for the Modernist Murals of E Mervyn Taylor
Holloway-Smith, Bronwyn (Ed)
Published by Massey University Press, Auckland, (2018). Mervyn Taylor - wood engraver, painter, illustrator, sculptor and designer - was one of the most celebrated New Zealand artists of the 1930s to 1960s. He was highly connected to modernism and nationalism as it was expressed in New Zealand art and literature of the period. In the 1960s he created twelve murals for major new government and civic buildings erected in that era of great economic prosperity, during which New Zealand first began to loosen its apron-string ties to England. Tragically, some have been destroyed and others presumed lost - until now. This fascinating book, bursting with archival material, details the detective hunt for the murals and tells the stories of their creation. They cement Taylor's place as one of New Zealand's most significant artists, and are a celebration of the art and culture of our modernist era.
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Whenever I'm talking to artists about their biographies or resumes, the question of art education, or lack thereof, often comes up. Artists who have completed extensive academic training want to know how best to leverage that training to build their credibility. Artists who don't have formal training, want to know if it will hurt their prospects for gallery representation and sales.
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Vegan, that stuff is stuff is great for u as ur a veggie init?
true mate, don't use any dairy either, so my lassis are from soy yoghurt & milk + protein powder, that as well from soy. My wife has wicked recepies with mint and all, very tasty! Also takes care of any sweet cravings in the evening.
Sounds good. Rite now I have plain yogurt and unflavoured whey, what should I add, I don't know what NLarge is.
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im gonna go punjab in a few weeks on holiday, and all they ever drink is lassi so this will come in damn handy.
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Yep, NX. It's weird, but console codenames are typically kinda weird.
Also, Iwata pointed out Club Nintendo's successor is going to form the basis of the new system.
There's no word yet on whether this is going to be a replacement for the Nintendo 3DS or the Wii U, but the fact that they feel even the Wii U needs a replacement is not good. The system isn't even 5 years old yet!
This is extremely bad news for the console industry, it just reeks of bad news like on the Sega level.
And the fact that Nintendo will now be developing mobile games only compounds the issue.
Erm... guys. All we know is that more information will be revealed next year. That does not mean it will be released next year. If information comes in 2016 and the actual release is in 2017, the Wii U will have lasted 5 years, depending on when in 2017 the release is.
That's also assuming that this is a hybrid system like many people are guessing it is. If not, this is likely the 3DS successor, which is unsurprising at this point.
Furthermore, it's standard practice to be working on the next console immediately after the previous one's release.
Oh, please. Nintendo is a console manufacturer. Of course they are already working on the next generation. It's what they do.
Breaking news: grass grows, birds fly, and Scout hurts people.
No one made a fuss about Microsoft releasing Windows 10 only 3 or so years after Windows 8. I don't see why this would be different.
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
Don't think I can trust the news in regards to a new console.
How do you mean? It was an announcement from Nintendo.
Like... really solid information and not just a codename that could mean any kind of hardware.
Judging from the way he talked about it, he probably only revealed they had a new console in development to prove they do in fact still have "strong enthusiasm for the dedicated game system business". So maybe they're just announcing this much far earlier than they normally would because of that (like others have said, it's only a confirmation of what we already know anyway).
Even if it is just information, that was still pretty quick. Maybe it will be a traditional console, and Wii will stay for motion controls? I'm interested to see how this goes.
A the very least, I'm hoping they managed to somehow keep the use of Wii Remotes in the NX. I really don't want to go out and buy new controls for a new system, and the Wiimotes work great in party games even if you aren't using them for motion controls.
That said, from there to "Oh my gosh it is the end of the world everything is going to hell" is a statement worthy of responding with the following video.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes.
Well its been real Nintendo. Sorry we failed you!
How is that a failure or a bad move from Nintendo's part? Awesome as they are, they are still a profit-focused company,whose product are fun games.
Smartphone games are no less fun, or more fun, than console games, and they are just as if not more (according to latest trends) profitable. What's the issue here?
Fun is a subjective term, anyway. I don't find most of them fun, but someone like my sister could be entertained. They're just branching out to a wider audience.
And it's not as if adding apps to their repertoire was a move they didn't first mention a few months ago.
Yeah, they'd be silly to keep money on the table for much longer. Hyperbole is also silly so stop it, people.
When free to play, touch centric, 2-characters-the-rest-you-have-to-pay-$4.99-per-character-roster Smash bros and microtranaction riddled Animal Crossing games hit the app store this year, I don't think y'all will be quite as optimistic.
I'm going to wait for more information.
has to do with this brand new thing that has been all over the place.
I heard it is called "The internet"
Game apps, unfortunately. This is a move which could be very dangerous if handled poorly.
The account thing could be good if it isn't like it is now.
Right now it's much worse than PSN, as your digital purchases are tied to your system, not your account. Lose your 3DS or have your Wii U break? Hope you didn't have too many digital games, buddy.
@Melon: That's a thing you can do? I am shocked, good sir.


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In this Aug. 16, 1960 photo made available by the U.S. Air Force, Col. Joe Kittinger steps off a balloon-supported gondola at an altitude of 102,800 feet. In freefall for 4.5 minutes at speeds up to 614 mph and temperatures as low as -94 degrees Fahrenheit, he opened his parachute at 18,000 feet.
This was taken by the crew.
The Apollo missions took about ten days each. A Mars mission would take at least six months, and likely be a one-way trip.
12. ANYWAY, here is the Earth from roughly where Saturn is. See it?
This will happen in four billion years, which seems like a long time. But the Earth did exist four billion years ago, and it might well exist then. This probably wouldn't end well for us, whatever "us" will mean in 4,000,000,2012 AD.
Because of how far away they are, and the speed at which light travels, this photo shows these galaxies as they were over 12 billion years ago. Many of them no longer exist.
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The Villaggio delle Alpi Residence (RTA) is in perfect harmony with the surrounding environment of Pré Saint Didier, very near Courmayeur, half way between the enchanting areas of Mont Blanc and La Thuile.
Pré Saint-Didier is in Valdigne, the high valley (1001 metres) of the Dora Baltea. The territory stretches as far as the foot of The Chasm of Verney (Gouffre du Verney in French), at the start of La Thuile Valley. Even just the magnificent view of the Mont Blanc would be more than enough to make you want to spend a truly relaxing holiday here at any time of the year.
Il Residence RTA Villaggio delle Alpi has 56 apartments: 4 studios, 35 2-roomed apartments, 17 3-roomed apartments, some with garden or balcony, all with bathroom.
All the apartments are fully furnished and are adequate for the number of guests they are meant to accommodate. They have TV. The residence has a reception with TV, assistance personnel available until 8:00 p.m., a shared ski room with shared washing machine and shared washer dryer, private garage, Wi-Fi in public areas and in the apartments.
Extra bed available in the studio apartments (with extra charge).
Railway station, city center at about 5 minutes walking with supermarket, pharmacy, boutique, newsstands, banks, restaurants, self service, bar, post office, Spa, Adventure Park. The center of Courmayeur is reacheable by car in minutes.
- By car: Line A5/E25 Torino - Aosta - Monte Bianco with exit at Morgex and then forward to Courmayer (10 Km).
- By train: Line Aosta - Prè Saint Didier by Trenitalia (50 minutes) with stop at 300 meters fron the town center.
- By bus: Line Aosta - Courmayeur / Line Pré-St-Didier - La Thuile / Linea Derby La Salle- Courmayeur.
- By plane: from Torino (150 Km ca.) and from Milano Malpensa (200 Km ca.).
Apartments consist of: sitting room with kitchenette and bed settee (for 2 people), bathroom with shower, balcony.
Apartments consist of: sitting room with kitchenette and settee, double bedroom, bathroom with shower, balcony.
Apartments consist of: sitting room with kitchenette and settee, double bedroom, bathroom with shower, small garden.
Apartments consist of: sitting room with kitchenette and bed settee (for 2 people), double bedroom, bathroom with shower, balcony.
Apartments consist of: sitting room with kitchenette and bed settee (for 2 people), double bedroom, bathroom with shower, small garden.
Apartments consist of: sitting room with kitchenette and settee, double bedroom, bedroom with 2 beds, bathroom with shower, balcony.
One apartment consists of: sitting room with kitchenette and settee, double bedroom, bedroom with 2 beds, 2 bathrooms with shower, small garden.
One apartment on two floors consists of: sitting room with kitchenette and settee, double bedroom, bedroom with 1 single bed and 2 bunk beds, 2 bathrooms with shower, garden.
Apartments consist of: sitting room with kitchenette and bed settee (for 2 people), double bedroom, bedroom with 2 beds, bathroom with shower, balcony.
Apartments consist of: sitting room with kitchenette and bed settee (for 2 people), double bedroom, bedroom with 2 beds, bathroom with shower, garden.
Assistance personnel available until 8:00 p.m..
Free! Wi-Fi in public areas and in the apartments.
The Residence is easy reachable: coming from the A5 TORINO-AOSTA exit at Courmayeur, take the SS 26 to the entry roundabout of the village; keep right at the 2nd roundabout take the 2nd exit to the right, follow Via Circonvallazione - Regional Road for about 500m .; after the bridge indicating VERRAND-COUNTRY FIORITO, 100m. on the left you will find the Residence.
Stay from Saturday 4:00/8:00 p.m. to Saturday 11:00 a.m.
For any stays less than 7 days, rates will be calculated at a minimum of two days with a 10% increment (request only).
For any stays of 2 nights during weekends (friday and saturday) extra charge of 30% for any kind of apartment.
10% surcharge on the price list for 3-roomed apartment Superior with two bathrooms, on request, subject to availability.
- Electricity, water, gas and heating, TV, bed linen and towels, final cleaning. Kitchen linen not available.
- Compulsory Tourist Tax: € 0,50 per person per day for only the first 7 consecutive days of the stay, free for children 0/13 years and people with disabilities.
The kitchenette must be left clean and tidy, in different case an extra charge of Euro 25,00 will be required.
- Cot € 70,00 per week, linen not available.
- Covered car parking in the garage, on request, Euro 5,00 per day, subject to availability.
- Shared washing machine in the ski room: € 2,00 for each use (on request).
- Shared washer dryer in the ski room; € 4,00 for each use (on request).
This renowned, historical building dates back to 1834, when the name of the town was "Pré.Saint-Didier-les-Bains". Although the warm waters, rich in iron, were known as far back as the Roman times, it was in the mid 17th century that they started becoming a tourist attraction, thanks to their mineral salts that were considered beneficial and thought to ease rheumatism.
The Pré-Saint-Didier thermal waters offer visitors many choices: massages, Jacuzzi, and saunas (at 80° and 90°). Besides this, the view of the Mont Blanc mountain chain from some areas of the Spa is breathtaking.
Members of the Italian Royal family came to this Spa over the past 150 years.
The entire structure lay in disuse for about 30 years, but recently renovation work has been carried out on it, making it now one of the most popular tourist attractions in the Mont Blanc area, and several agreements have been made with hotels in the area, should guests choose to stay in them; the Villaggio delle Alpi is in fact one of them.
Guests can admire a truly suggestive and completely natural panorama just off the town centre of Pré-Saint-Didier: the Chasm, a deep and very narrow abyss, formed by the rushing water of the Dora di Verney river. The two thermal springs that flow out of the rock at a temperature of 22° and 36° are next to the waterfall.
Being near some of the most beautiful valleys of Valdigne makes Pré Saint Disier the perfect starting place for numerous excursions; the more courageous walkers will enjoy taking part in the educational walks at various levels of difficulty organized by the Mont Blanc Adventure Park.
You can also choose from numerous sports activities: guided alpine excursions, rock excursions, trekking, paragliding, rafting, mountain bike, cycling out of the Mont Blanc Adventure Park. The Adventure Park offers 7 different levels of difficulty: the blue route, that is also the easiest (at the most 2 metres above sea level), and 3 intermediate routes (at the most 8 metres above sea level); the red route (closed if it snows), that is also the longest and most tiring (at the most 18 metres above sea level); but the longest and certainly most difficult one, that really gets your adrenalin going, is the one that goes across the canyon of the Abyss of Pré-Saint Didier above the thermal springs (at a height of 188 metres, 130 metres long). All the walks take about 4 hours.
It goes without saying that in winter, but not just then, there are many kilometers of slopes for skiing and snowboard lovers at the nearby skiing stations of Courmayeur and La Thuile.
There are more than 300 km of slopes at Courmayeur and La Thuile Pré Saint Didier, but it must be said that there are also many other choices: rafting, canoe, mountain bike, fishing, trekking and running.


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Charles Backman, of the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington, wrote the LINGO application and has been retained by the IIASA as a Research Scientist in Vienna to help in the effort. "You can spend more time on the actual problem, and less time on the formulation with LINGO," Backman said in a telephone interview. "We expect to help Russia exploit its resources responsibly with this technology."
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Is Art Useless?
Sing, O Muse, the anger of this writer, son of Philosophy and Stonewall ─ the anger that brought countless arguments upon those who look down on art. Many an empty soul did it send hurrying into theatres and galleries, and many a prejudice did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so was the counsel of his gut fulfilled from the day on which journalists and Carlos Rodríguez's decision first fell out with one another.
He, Carlos Rodríguez, got the highest possible marks both in his high-school tests and his university entrance examinations. A wonderful achievement. But news and their headlines were primarily focused on what he wanted and what he didn't want to be: "a playwright, not a scientist."
In my previous post on this blog ("Intelligent, but artist," January 15), I argued that the message subtly conveyed by news and headlines on this case was the following: "This guy is intelligent, BUT he wants to study art."
O, for Da Vinci's sake! The taken-for-granted expectation that readers would grasp such a contraposition without further explanation could only mean that two ideas are widely assumed as true:
Artistic activities and accomplishments fall outside the realm of intelligence
The value of art for humanity (if it has any) is much lower that the value of science
Having epically fought to death prejudiceain my previous post, I will now put my strength to the test of confronting prejudice b. May the Force be with me.
In situations such as that of Carlos Rodríguez, many will see his decision to make musicals as the loss of a great intelligence for astrophysics or medical research and, therefore, for human progress or wellbeing. Art is thought to be superfluous when compared to the utility of science. And, to some extent, even I could be inclined to automatically and uncritically adhere to the claim that making musicals is less important than doing scientific research if asked out of the blue. Nevertheless, I think it worthwhile to ask the question about the possibility that this inclination has its roots in a misled obsession of my society with utility. And this is partly due to the impression that my life would be comparatively impoverished without angry inches and fiddlers on roofs.
Moaners for intelligences wasted on art tend to come in two shapes. In one, they believe art has certain utility, but a utility of lesser importance if compared with that of science. The other possibility, the extreme one, directly sees art as useless. Both shapes are likely to be modelled after prejudice a. And both clearly fit in one form of prejudice b.
Well then, my opinion is that behind blie (1) the equation of value with utility, (2) the equation of utility with medical and technoscientific utilityand (3) the consideration of art, in its uselessness, as mere entertainment.
To put it another way, behind prejudice blies the preponderance of physical health, physical comfort and survival as a value. But human live is much more than these things.
I admit, of course, that without survival there's no human life. And yet,we should ask ourselves if only survival and physical health qualify a life as human. I don't think so.
Moreover, art is not, it can never be, mere entertainment. Even in a simple melody there is something being communicated (I cannot extend more on this here, but there will be opportunities in the future). In a more obvious example, ideologies, role models and worldviews are transmitted all the time in the kind of work those who equate art with entertainment have relation with: TV series, movies, theatre, literature, songs. This transmission is sometimes unnoticed by the creators themselves, mainly when they reproduce naturalised, mainstream social norms. Also, when they use pre-established templates that have already guided countless works.
Next, dear reader, you will find a non-comprehensive list with different kinds of usefulness of the arts, and in which the narrow conception of utility described above will be questioned:
-Let us start with what's most basic, which is the importance of pleasure for our emotional wellbeing. I know therapists that recommend doing at least five things a day that bring you pleasure, among which art is included both from the side of the creator and from the side of the audience. For too long our emotional dimension has been disregarded in favour of the fulfilment of our social and family-related duties, while pleasure has been looked at with suspicion or directly as an impure and decoying obstacle in the quest for the purity of our human essence, be it pure knowledge or pure immaterial souls (rationalistic philosophies, religions). Not to speak of the sanctity ascribed to suffering in Catholicism…
-With humour and music as the best examples, art is capable of changing the tone of our experience, of modulating our mood and helping us out of states of negativity.
-Contrary to what many think, art is not necessarily a realm of lies and falsity as opposed to the truth and reality of science and nature. Art speaks truths much more times than scientism would ever admit. It is through movies, novels, pictures, songs and comics that I have been acquainted with human experiences and realities previously unknown to me. Or, if I already knew of their existence, it is through artworks that I have gained a deeper knowledge of these situations, including their emotional aspects, so indeterminate for science. Examples: The life of Lazarillo de Tormes, Goya's The Inquisition Tribunal, Abramović's Rhythm 0,Sophocles'sAntigone, the entire Toulouse-Lautrec, Kerouac's On the Road,PJ Harvey's Let England Shake, Satrapi's Persepolis, Rent.
-Speaking these truths means putting some humans in contact with alien experiences. This way, art can act as a stimulator of, and vessel for, empathy.
-With empathy and the depiction of unjust realities, come art's capacity for ethical and political awareness-raising. Think of Tim Robbins'Dead Man Walking, Billy Holiday's Strange Fruit, Shakespeare's Shylock, McCullin's photography or De Palma's Redacted.
Some criticise this view by pointing at the great possibilities present in art for manipulation and expansion of lies. I won't, and I don't want to, deny such possibilities, but I would like to make clear that they are not a prerogative of art. In the performances of politicians, the media, and those around us, the use of different modes of expression to diminish the autonomy of our thought instead of enlarging it is widespread. Banning art from the realm of truth, therefore, wouldn't solve the problem. What we need is more and better education, one that provides us with the tools necessary for self-awareness, critical thinking and for detecting when we are being the objects of indoctrination. And sometimes it is artworks themselves and the comparison between them and between them and other cultural instances that can help fuel these abilities.
-In art, many worldviews or claims or experiences that haven't previously been presented in a clear formulation, or in one that could reach wide audiences,happen to crystallise. I am thinking of Dadaism or bands such as Slipknot, born as counter-culture and giving form and expression to the feelings of a generation. I am also thinking of Munch's iconic representation of existential horror in The Scream.
In addition, discourses or experiences already known find sometimes in art powerful symbols immediately recognisable by the vast majority. This is the case of the image of handmaids from The Handmaid's Tale, used in feminist interventions both in social networks and demonstrations. This can happen to the extent that artistic elements become icons or points of referencesaturated with meaningfor many generations or even centuries. It is very interesting to see how Mozart's Requiemis used in movies for moments of transcendental change, frequently enormous plot twists after which nothing will be the same.
Not in vain, Hans-Georg Gadamer insisted that the classics are works with which new ages tend to be in dialogue.
-Art, most of all when innovative and shocking (or at least new to us), can prompt thought, critical reflection and self-awareness. I have grown intellectually and as a person with Ingmar Bergman, Anohni, Lost(despite its final season) and Mark Rothko. All of them have affected my life meaningfully, opening fresh paths for thought, stirring emotions and enforcing my awareness of them. They have given me tools to think, to process, to understand, and, as a consequence, to be who I am now.
-Furthermore, many innovative artworks, but not only them, have been made in part to transmit a thesis and the arguments leading to it, to transmit a message or a particular perspective on the world. From The Ugly Ducklingto Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, from A Rake's Progress (paintings and opera) to Edward Hopper, from Macbethto Game of Thrones, from Hesiod's Works and Days to Italian neorealism, from the Book of Jobto Shyamalan's The Village.
-With Ludwig Wittgenstein, I believe that we human beings are "ceremonial animals."Homo Sapiens present conducts that don't seem to have a significant influence in the states of affairs, this is, that don't seem useful in the widely accepted sense. For example, I can kiss the photo of a beloved one who's far away, or someone can hit the ground with her cane out of anger. Moreover, the performance of this acts isn't done with a purpose in mind. They are, in a sense, instinctive. However, we may feel partly relieved of our longing or anger by the acts themselves. It seems, so, that we humans act symbolically many times, and that such kind of acting accomplishes a purpose of relief.
The way I see it, still following a Wittgensteinian line of thought, art can be understood as a refined and more complex version (or an evolution) of some of our symbolic conducts. We find relieve in expressing our emotions.
Art can be cathartic, as Aristotle put it, helping creator and audience to release onerous emotions. In the case of the former, catharsis happens, clearly, through expression. On the part of the audience, catharsis happens through identification, an identification that places them in a position similar to that of the self-expressing creator.
-Art is the centre or an integral part of public rituals and celebrations such as parades, masses, carnival or ecstatic dancing in the club.As such, it contributes to the functions of each specific performance. It can foster bond strengthening in the community, it can be used to metaphorically subvert social hierarchies (which may involve great doses of catharsis), it can create the right atmosphere to revel in the liberation of one's movements and the interaction (sometimes through touch) with other human bodies, it can reinforce the status quo, etc.
Yes, these functions may not be ethically acceptable, but, if we think of science, it is clear that many of its utilities have served outrageous purposes (Hi, bombs!) or created great dangers (Hi, climate change!). Again, a holistic education is fundamental to ensure the right use not only of art. And art and science themselves must participate in that education.
-Finally, I'd like to mention one of the features that should play a fundamental role in the demarcation of art from other practices: Art is a privileged field for the opening of our world. In art, the range of that which can be thinkable, understandable, perceptible, imaginable, questionable and felt is open to change and expansion. Art pushes the limits of our world, offering new ways or dimensions of experience. Think, for example, of surrealism.
Being honest, I'll confess that this aspect can and should be explained in much more detail. It deserves an article for itself, for Madonna's sake! And why not, huh? Furthermore, if you follow this blog, I'm sure you'll know how much I like trilogies and tetralogies. I'm ending this chapter here, with a wonderful cliffhanger. But please do read the epilogue unless you want to make me sad:
Would all this mean that, in a situation of extreme crisis with, for example, only five humans left and constant danger, I would choose to educate the children intensively in art instead of science? Of course not! And yet, I know for sure that art would find its way among those few ceremonial beings.
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Honestly, unless you're down with – and have the looks for – outright prostitution, then the closest thing you're likely to manage is the equivalent-paying full time line job, where your focus is mostly on deliverables that you can in whole or in part outsource.
That way, you can at least "free up time", which you can spend secretly working on your startup from the dayjob office.
The problem with your skillsets would be ramping up a steady stream of freelance business that replicates a part time job at exactly the level of hours you wish to work. Realistically, jobs will come in bursts, at least at first, so you'll often find yourself fighting the urge to get them done and out of the way, versus honoring "regular startup time investment".
What are best part-time jobs to earn living money while working on developing a start-up?


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It's Taylor Swift. It's Zayn Malik. And it's undoubtedly one of the superstar collaborations of the year.
Yes, the duo have popped up at media and digital retail late today with their collaboration 'I Don't Wanna Live Forever', which is the first official single from the soundtrack to 'Fifty Shades Darker', the follow-up to the global smash film 'Fifty Shades Of Grey'.
Whether or not the new movies has quite the same reach as the highly anticipated original or whether its soundtrack will deliver the same level of success as the first remains to be seen.
'Fifty Shades Darker' is due in Australian cinemas on Thursday February 09. The single is out now.
It's an OK song, hope it helps Zayn with some additional promo, was never a fan of the band, took a chance on his album and loved it.


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package com.example.myprovider;

import android.content.ContentProvider;
import android.content.ContentValues;
import android.content.UriMatcher;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.support.annotation.Nullable;

/**
 * Created by Administrator on 2016/7/18.
 */
public class MyProvider extends ContentProvider {

    public static final int TABLE1_DIR = 0;

    public static final int TABLE1_ITEM = 1;

    public static final int TABLE2_DIR = 2;

    public static final int TABLE2_ITEM = 3;

    private static UriMatcher uriMatcher;

    static {
        uriMatcher = new UriMatcher(UriMatcher.NO_MATCH);
        uriMatcher.addURI("com.example.myprovider", "table1", TABLE1_DIR);
        uriMatcher.addURI("com.example.myprovider", "table1/#", TABLE1_ITEM);
        uriMatcher.addURI("com.example.myprovider", "table2", TABLE2_DIR);
        uriMatcher.addURI("com.example.myprovider", "table2/#", TABLE2_ITEM);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreate() {
        return false;
    }

    @Nullable
    @Override
    public Cursor query(Uri uri, String[] projection, String selection, String[] selectionArgs, String sortOrder) {
        switch (uriMatcher.match(uri)) {
            case TABLE1_DIR:
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                break;
            case TABLE1_ITEM:
                // 查询table1表中的单条数据
                break;
            case TABLE2_DIR:
                // 查询table2表中的所有数据
                break;
            case TABLE2_ITEM:
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        }
        return null;
    }

    @Nullable
    @Override
    public String getType(Uri uri) {
        switch (uriMatcher.match(uri)) {
            case TABLE1_DIR:
                return "vnd.android.cursor.dir/vnd.com.example.myprovider.table1";
            case TABLE1_ITEM:
                return "vnd.android.cursor.item/vnd.com.example.myprovider.table1";
            case TABLE2_DIR:
                return "vnd.android.cursor.dir/vnd.com.example.myprovider.table2";
            case TABLE2_ITEM:
                return "vnd.android.cursor.item/vnd.com.example.myprovider.table2";
        }
        return null;
    }

    @Nullable
    @Override
    public Uri insert(Uri uri, ContentValues values) {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public int delete(Uri uri, String selection, String[] selectionArgs) {
        return 0;
    }

    @Override
    public int update(Uri uri, ContentValues values, String selection, String[] selectionArgs) {
        return 0;
    }
}

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Groups on Facebook are nothing new. But if you represent a brand on Facebook, groups for the most part have not been an integral part of your engagement strategy. All of that may be changing as Facebook has begun beta testing groups functionality embedded within brand pages.
To date, groups have been reserved for individuals to create either open or private spaces to collaborate and share information. However, there has not been an option to apply this functionality for brand pages. This can be a significant enhancement if leveraged correctly and in conjunction with other elements of your integrated strategy.


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El 1932 va prendre part en els Jocs Olímpics de Los Angeles, on guanyà la medalla de plata en la competició del vuit amb timoner del programa de rem.

En el seu palmarès també destaquen tres medalles al Campionat d'Europa, una d'or i dues de plata.

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It can be hard to get started decluttering, but once you start, it can become addictive. The shift in energy of a room after a good decluttering session motivates many people to do more.
Kids not enthusiastic about cleaning? Find ways to make it fun. Adding music or making it a game can help.
Still no luck? Offer the kids a special reward when everything is over. Going to get ice cream together or visiting a local park can be great ways to show appreciation for a job well done.
Make a list of all the tasks that are important in your deep cleaning, then assign a few to each month. Be sure that you're addressing each task often enough (some will have to be scheduled quarterly or bi-monthly) and, most importantly, get it in writing. You can then transfer these tasks to your calendar or planner so that you don't forget.
Even though it's disliked by many, spring cleaning doesn't have to be as dreaded as it seems. Like so many things in our lives, there is no "one size fits all." In order to make something work for you and your household, it's important that you look at the uniqueness of your situation and choose to do only what works for you.
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Imaginary Countries
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018)
From Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia
"Ursula K. Le Guin, 'the emissary from Orsinia,' crosses borders and challenges expectations" (Brian Attebery, Library of America)
"Ursula Le Guin Has Earned a Rare Honor. Just Don't Call Her a Sci-Fi Writer" (David Streitfeld, The New York Times)
Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin (John Wray, The Paris Review)
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"Sisters and Science Fiction," Karl Kroeber
Ursula K. Le Guin:
The Complete Orsinia
Malafrena | Orsinian Tales | two additional stories | songs | 592 pages
Two Children on Their Way to the Fairytale Forest, 1901–02, casein and oil on canvas by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863–1944). Image courtesy of The Athenaeum.
During her college years in the early 1950s, Ursula Kroeber began working on her first novel. She later recalled that the Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia and subsequent events had "roused the political spirit in me," but she hadn't yet visited the countries of Eastern Europe and didn't feel comfortable writing about them. She explains:
I was twenty years old, working at one of the dining tables about midnight, when I got the first glimpse of my other country. An unimportant country of middle Europe. One of those Hitler had trashed and Stalin was now trashing. . . . I see the river, the Molsen, running through an open, sunny countryside to the old capital, Krasnoy (krasniy, Slavic, "beautiful"). Krasnoy on its three hills: the Palace, the University, the Cathedral. The Cathedral of St Theodora, an egregiously unsaintly saint, my mother's name. . . . I begin to find my way about, to feel myself at home, here in Orsenya, matrya miya, my motherland. I can live here, and find out who else lives here and what they do, and tell stories about it [from the Introduction, The Complete Orsinia].
It's not a coincidence that the name of this imaginary country (Orsinia) and her own name both stem from Latin words for a female bear (orsa in Italian, from ursa in Latin). As Ursula K. Le Guin (she married in 1953) explained to James W. Bittner, "It's my country so it bears my name"—and presumably the pun was intended.
Le Guin's first published story, which appeared in 1961, was about a musician in a backwater province of this invented region. During the next three decades she wrote and published a total of thirteen stories and one novel set in Orsinia, and the tales span in chronology from the twelfth century to the late 1980s. "For years I felt as if I were a transmitter of some kind, that would be suddenly activated by an urgent message from Orsinia, from one century or another and from various persons."
Eleven of those stories appeared in 1976 as Orsinian Tales, and the story that closes the collection is, appropriately enough, "Imaginary Countries." Set during the last days of summer in 1935, it describes the Egideskar family as they end another year at "Asgard," their vacation home. The three children—Stanislas, Paul, and Zida—have been spending the summer exploring the environs, mapping the trails, and envisioning make-believe realms, often based on Norse mythology, while their father and Josef, his research assistant, have been working on a history of medieval Orsinia, also known as "The Ten Provinces."
As Bittner points out, both Ursula and Zida were six years old in 1935, so the story is, "among other things, a portrait of the artist as a young girl. Le Guin has written a tale about the family of a professor who is writing a history of Orsinia, a country she invented." As she reminisced to an interviewer in 1988, the young Ursula and her brother "played narrative games with stuffed animals, with toy soldiers, or acting out parts ourselves," and her vast reading that informed this recreation included science fiction stories and Norse myths. In addition, like the Egideskars, the Kroebers spent summers during the 1930s at a family getaway, a Napa Valley ranch named "Kishamish" (from a myth invented by Ursula's brother). During those summers Ursula's father, Alfred L. Kroeber, worked on what would become his monumental study in comparative cultural anthropology, Configurations of Culture Growth.
Still, in spite of the parallels with Le Guin's own childhood, the story is very much a work of fiction. As she recently admitted, "Nothing and no one in it much resembles anywhere or anyone in my life, but all the same, it's about as autobiographical as I ever got."
Notes: The name of the Egideskars' summer home, Asgard, is the realm of the high gods (the Aesir) in Norse mythology. The children incorporate numerous other references to Norse myths in their play. Yggdrasil is the World Tree, an enormous ash whose roots and branches connect the human home of Midgard (Middle Earth) with other realms, including Asgard. The half-giant Loki turned against his divine companions and was punished by being chained to a rock; one tradition places his prison under a grove of hot springs. In yet another myth, Baldur, the Norse god of light, is doomed by prophecy to die young. To forestall his death, his mother asks all things not to harm Baldur, but fails to ask the mistletoe. Since nothing will harm him, he is essentially invulnerable, and it becomes a game among the gods to aim missiles at him. His blind brother Hodur is left out of the game, but Loki makes an arrow out of the mistletoe and helps Hodur aim the bow, killing his brother. Finally, Ragnarök is the Twilight of the Gods, when everything will be destroyed and a new creation brought into being
Note also that the date at the end, 1935, refers to the year in which the story is set.
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