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The Tumps are one of the most popular metric hill lists that the Relative Hills Society has adopted for which we compare progress by hill baggers in our Halls of Fame.
An attraction of the Tumps is that they are diverse, with some having features of antiquity on their summit, some are man-made, some form rolling downland, while others are more challenging islands and sea stacks.
In this introduction, we explain what they are, how they originated, why they appeal, and give some suggestions of how to get started in visiting and logging them.
Definition - What is a Tump?
Tumps are defined as British Hills with more than 30 metres of prominence.
Hill prominence refers to the relative height compared to surrounding hills. This explanation of hill prominence compares Tumps, which are sometimes abbreviated to P30s, with Humps (P100) and the Marilyns (P150).
So, the lists of Humps and Marilyns also include Tumps which have sufficient prominence. Or, if you prefer, the Humps and Marilyns are a subset of the Tumps with greater prominence.
Tumps are sometimes written as TuMPs (Thirty and upwards Metre Prominence), but Tump is usually used for simplicity. Likewise, Humps are hills with one hundred metres of prominence, sometimes written as HuMPs.
The SIBs (Significant Islands of Britain) list also includes Tumps since this definition uses a prominence of more than 30 metres and/or 30 hectares.
Tump also has a historic usage, with Wikipedia listing hills with Tump in their name, informing us that:
'Tump means a hillock, mound, barrow or tumulus. The Welsh words twmp and Twmpath may be related'.
The origin and history of Tumps
Fifteen years after the publication of The Relative Hills, which introduces and catalogues The Marilyns, Mark Jackson published 'More Relative Hills of Britain'. This is available as a free download, updated to 2010 with contributions from many collaborators in the Relative Hills of Britain community.
More Relative Hills focused on The Humps, covering hills with a prominence of 100 metres, the next level of prominence down after The Marilyns (150 metres prominence) However, almost at the end of Mark's book, he dropped in a bombshell. While researching the Humps, he could not resist checking out an even lower prominence level, those hills with a minimum drop on all sides of 30 metres. Thus, Table 38 in the book announced that there were 16,644 'Tumps' and the damage was done!
It has been argued that the next step down after Humps should have been P50, but P30 was already well established for some older lists. Thirty metres of prominence formed the basis for two more RHSoc lists, the Simms (British hills which are 600m high with 30m of prominence) and the Dodds (British Hills between 500m and 600m high with 30m of prominence) which are subsets of the Tumps.
The initial spreadsheet of Tumps was managed for a while by Andrew Tibbetts, but around 2013, the Tumps were added to the Database of British and Irish Hills and then became much more accessible via the Hill Bagging website.
How many Tumps are there?
There are more than 17,000 Tumps in Great Britain. You can check the latest total and those local to you on the Hill Bagging (www.hill-bagging.co.uk) Tumps page, which gives a breakdown by Counties and Relative Hills Sections.
Visualisation of 130+ Derbyshire Tumps ascended (set to green) on the Hill Bagging site
The Haroldstreet Tumps pages gives other options for visualising them, recording ascents and GPS waypoints.
There are usually over one hundred additions, relocations, renamings and deletions each year with ongoing surveying by RH Soc members and other enthusiasts. The latest changes to Tumps are recorded on the Tumps change register.
The appeal and challenge of the Tumps
The lower prominence of Tumps compared with Marilyns gives a wider geographical distribution of the Tumps, which are found throughout Great Britain. This appeals since there will always be more local Tumps that can be climbed with less travel than Marilyns. Their lower prominence means that they are more numerous than Marilyns in any county, so hill baggers tend to work at collecting all the local Tumps in nearby counties. Hill Bagging has a useful listing of Tumps by County.
Here are some examples, comparing the number of Marilyn and Tump hills by county:
Derbyshire - 3 Marilyns, more than 130 Tumps
Dorset - 3 Marilyns, more than 120 Tumps
Denbighshire - 7 Marilyns, more than 90 Tumps
In some hillier counties, such as Cumbria or Powys, where there are more than 700 Tumps, they offer a significant challenge and new options to explore hills after the 70 Marilyns or 216 Wainwrights have been completed.
Tumps also offer a wider variety of summit features than other lists due to their modest height. As well as many earthworks and features of antiquity, you may also be drawn to visit man-made features such as Northumberlandia, The Lady of the North, or some spoil tips or bings in former mining areas.
Northumberlandia. Photo credit: Northumberlandia.com.
Which is the most difficult Tump?
Since Tumps also include Marilyns, there are Tumps you will probably need a rope and partner to ascend, including the trickier Marilyns such as the sea stacks of St Kilda and The Inaccessible Pinnacle of Skye. Then there are smaller pinnacles, including hundreds of sea stacks, that qualify as Tumps, but not Marilyns. For example, in Derbyshire, Alport Castles requires an easy scramble and is more interesting to climb than many higher points on the moorland.
Alport Castles, Derbyshire. Photo credit: Dave Chaffey.
There are few other pinnacles in England that have sufficient drop to qualify as a Tump; for example, Pillar Rock only has a prominence of 15 metres. However, the Old Man of Mow, which we discuss on our Humps Hill List page is a Very Severe climb.
In Scotland, there are many sea stacks that are Tumps. Some are well-known and have been ascended, such as Am Buchaille near Sandwood Bay or the Old Man of Stoer. Others are unclimbed due to inaccessibility. Many islands, which belong to the SIBs (Significant Islands of Britain) list, are also challenging. There are also easier Tumps in Scotland, for which no ascents have been claimed.
Number of active Tump baggers
It is unlikely anyone will ever climb all 17,000 plus Tumps, but many hill baggers are active in bagging them on a county basis subject to access to some of the Tumps. Three people have completed all the Tumps in one hundred counties or more, with tens of people into double figures. For many, one or two counties will suffice. In Scotland and Wales, there have been few completions of Sections, for example, just 5 of the 139 Tumps in section 01A: Loch Tay to Perth and 4 in section 30E: Bala to Welshpool.
Adrian Rayner manages the Tumps Hall of Fame, which has quite a low entry-level of 2000 but with several levels above that. At the time of writing, eight baggers have passed the 5000 threshold and two are past 8000.
Geographical distribution in the UK
The Tumps have been subdivided in several ways, including counties, Relative Hills of Britain Marilyn sections, Topo sections, river catchments, multi-Tump islands and watershed lines. All these have provided much friendly rivalry among baggers seeking to be first to complete a subset, or to amass the largest collection of completed counties/sections/islands. The low-hanging fruit has mostly gone, and it is increasingly difficult to find a virgin set that can be completed without running into obstacles such as sea stacks, and/or bagging very large numbers of summits.
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6 Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near.
Does this mean a possible new song I've personally written for the Lord?
1 Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly! 2 Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King!
How do I put my walk with Christ first without making others feel ignored?


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Sometimes Mondays are like this.
Yes, it's below freezing out.
Yes, I still wanted to go out on the front porch.
Yes, Mom let me go.
Yes, I was FINE. I was out there for about fifteen minutes, enough to survey my domain, then I came back inside.
Hey, my tent is nice, but I have lots of other places to nap.
My tent isn't just for napping. It's a good place for a quick bath, too.
So we had a frost over the weekend. That meant the temperature went below freezing. But yesterday the temperature went up into the 70s and last night it was in the 50s. It is supposed to be in the mid-70s today. This is called Indian Summer, and I like it. It means I can spend the day on the front porch.
When Mom gets a quilt back from an AQS show, it comes with a label. Mom sews it to the back of the quilt. The Chicken quilt came home this past week with four labels for Mom to sew.
As you can see it was important for me to help.
PS, somehow my blog list disappeared! Mom didn't do anything, it just vanished. If you were on it, please leave a comment so Mom and I can put it together again. Thank you.
Now that the weather is getting colder, the outside mouses want to get inside. Of course, I am on the alert, watching all the places where they could get in.
One got in last night, and we had a little chase, then I caught it and deaded it.
Mom heard me making the special sound I make when I catch mice, and got up to see the mouse run around a little bit before I made sure it was dead.
The picture of the mouse is below, if you need proof. Mom slipped it in a cardboard tube she had in the recycling bin and then threw it outside.
I am proud of myself, and of course Mom is VERY HAPPY.
This is the newest picture of Little Miss and her dad, Mr Karate. I don't know which one of them looks happier.
Mom bought me a nice basket, but she put it on the table. I don't know why.
The weather is getting colder at night here in New Hampster. It has been in the 40's and one night it went down to 37F. So Mom has been keeping the window to the front porch closed.
I'll be fine, Mom. I'll come back in later.


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Working as a professional writer and editor these past years has not only taught me a lot about writing; it's shown me much that I didn't even suspect I didn't know. Since I always try to have one hand reaching down the ladder to help folks below me up while my other hand reaches for the next rung, I periodically like to share writing insights I've gained.
Most author blogs these days are laser-focused on the business end of writing, with a particular emphasis on marketing. While salesmanship is an indispensable skill for all authors, today's post will tackle a subject that's woefully neglected in my opinion: the nuts and bolts mechanics of prose writing--specifically writing at the sentence level.
Hang out your shingle as a freelance editor, and you'll soon find that today's aspiring authors are saddled with a load of bad writing habits picked up from 90 IQ public school English teachers, social media, and movies. I can always spot writers who are more influenced by film and video games than books. That few people read much fiction written before 1980 compounds the problem.
Print media are not visual media. There are all kinds of tricks movies can pull that don't work in books. Then again, novels can get away with stuff that makes screenwriters jealous. To succeed as a professional, you have to know your medium. I'm here to help new writers increase their understanding. Because people who shun proscriptive teaching are bleeding heart hippies, Here are some common sentence-level vices to root out.
Pairing an -ing verb clause with a non-simultaneous action
Pulling the door open, Dave walked in.
Arranging the sentence this way indicates that the action on both sides of the comma is happening at the same time. In this case, Dave is either walking into the partially open door or somehow phasing through it-which would require prior setup.
To clearly describe a character opening a door and walking through it, write, Dave opened the door and walked in.
Compound sentence follies
A lot of writers these days have trouble with compound sentences. I'm not sure why. The rule is pretty straightforward: A compound sentence consists of two or more independent clauses--clauses that could stand alone as sentences--joined by conjunctions preceded by commas.
Here are some examples of what not to do:
Rupert set the gun on the table, and picked up the salami. "Picked up the salami" is not an independent clause. Thus the example is not a compound sentence, and a comma should not precede "and".
Eugene grabbed Rupert's gun but the mag was empty. Those are both independent clauses, so a comma should precede "but".
"It's raining cats and dogs," Olivia said and opened her umbrella. This is an especially grievous violation I've seen cropping up a lot lately. There's so much wrong with the above example, I don't know where to start. "And opened her umbrella" is not an independent clause, so this isn't a compound sentence. But the whole construction is such a mess, that's the least of our worries.
To see why this example is an abomination, take off the dialogue. We're left with, "Olivia said and opened her umbrella." Is she saying "her umbrella" while opening an umbrella? That's what the sentence indicates, even though the idea it's trying to convey is that Olivia is saying, "It's raining cats and dogs." Then she's opening her umbrella.
What we have here is an unnecessarily messy attempt to form a pseudo-compound sentence from a dialogue tag and a dependent clause. In the first place, dialogue tags should be invisible, and constructions like this draw undue attention to them. Moreover, there are much more elegant ways to handle such situations.
The right answer: "It's raining Cats and dogs." Olivia opened her umbrella.
Readers will naturally attribute dialogue directly preceding or following action to the acting character, so we can ditch the dialogue tag. Also, two short sentences flow better than one long sentence stitched together with conjunctions and/or punctuation.
Frag grenades
Likely due to misguided attempts to ape movies combined with common misconceptions about prose pacing, some writers massively overuse sentence fragments.
Plunging through the icy surface. Struggled in the black depths. Lungs burning. Air!
Some folks seem to think that staccato, fragmentary writing makes for taut pacing. It doesn't. Instead. It's choppy. And distracting. For. Readers.
The occasional sentence fragment is okay for economy's sake. Peppering your prose with sentence fragments means you're trying to be clever, which usually comes at the expense of clarity. If you take nothing else away from this post, remember this: When it comes to writing prose, be clear, not clever!
Head spinning
Shiro looked up at the smoke-blackened ceiling. A shout drew his eye to Fred, who stood wreathed in flames. Glancing all around, Shiro locked eyes on a fire extinguisher.
The whole point of writing in first person or third person close perspective--which all of you should be doing--is to firmly establish a single character through whose point of view we experience the story. If you do it right and clearly identify the POV character in each scene, there is no need to state that he's looking at something. You're making extra work for yourself by not simply describing what he sees. This is the real value of show, don't tell.
Now let's fix it.
Shiro stumbled through the black smoke rising to the chapel ceiling. Fred screamed in the aisle, his body wreathed in flames. A fire extinguisher hung on the vestibule wall. Shiro dashed for it.
Note how cutting out all that stage direction made room for lots more setting detail and action.
Now you're all out of excuses. For each of these errors I find in a manuscript one of you submits, I shall impose a penance of seven slaps on the wrist with a rolled-up copy of Strunk & White.
But don't take my word for it, read the results for yourself!
Posted by Brian Niemeier at 13:03
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Joseph Dooley December 10, 2020 at 1:29 PM
Your rewrite in the last example also helps close the emotional distance between Shiro and the reader. That closeness draws the reader in better.
Brian Niemeier December 10, 2020 at 2:01 PM
That's an important point. Good eye!
xavier December 10, 2020 at 5:08 PM
This a great post. I concour read more book,the older the better.
As for Strunk and White, I'm not a fan of their recommendations. My beef with them as well as with Orwell and Churchil is the obsession to use Anglo-Saxon words in very short sentences in place of Latin ones. In hands of masters such prose is awesome but most fail and it grates. It comes across as really flat and uninspiring. Like they're scared to use Latinate words because it's too woke or something.
I guess this attitude stems from my Latin roots which loves to push language into lyrics, yeah it can be excessively baroque and nauseatingly florid but there's a joy in reading or listening to such prose.
Pseudotsuga December 10, 2020 at 9:56 PM
But...but...smarties like this guy disagrees with you:
"Drawing on his own teaching and classroom inquiry, Asao Inoue offers a heuristic for developing and critiquing writing assessment ecologies that explores seven elements of any writing assessment ecology: power, parts, purposes, people, processes, products, and places. Inoue is Director of University Writing and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences..."
Professor Inoue is noted for standing up for grammar as racist and patriarchal construction which ought to be swept away in service of the revolution.
All you criticisms above, he would claim, are merely your privilege speaking, and would not apply to BIPOC or LGBTBBQWTF writers.
Brian Niemeier December 11, 2020 at 12:39 AM
These are the sorts of people who have no clue what Conservative culture is and have no idea why newpub has a majority market share.
Zaklog the Great December 11, 2020 at 10:21 AM
I don't want to give away too much personal information here, but I can say I sympathize and I'm doing what I can to remedy this mess. Although I've come to question a lot of what he says, I think Jordan Peterson had a point when he said that there's no difference between thinking clearly and writing clearly, and someone who cannot do the second probably can't do the first either. Unfortunately, we appear to be in a society where few (even few of our "elites") appear to be capable of genuine thought.
JD Cowan December 11, 2020 at 10:38 AM
Much of writing and editing is attempting to get your thoughts from the brain to the page cleared up. It's learning the right order to put thoughts down in.
That's something you can only do with a lot of practice and with good editors who will help push you the rest of the way.
That's why everyone, including myself in the Pulp Mindset, says that one of the non-negotiables of writing is getting a professional editor.
You need to make sure what you're trying to say is clear enough that the audience knows what you mean.
Valar Addemmis December 14, 2020 at 10:07 AM
I've thought about getting into writing as a side hustle. In my day job I've done a decade or so of technical writing. In my experience JD is 100% on target. I've always been a competent writer, but one supervisor in particular made such a huge impact in my clarity of thought and expression in my work product that it became impossible to deny the massive style and competency impact from an excellent editor.
It's hard to impossible to get outside of one's head to see what other people see. And we can all identify the point in certain authors' output where their editors stopped bothering giving them editorial input (or they became powerful enough to not have to respond to it).
Carefulrogue December 15, 2020 at 11:58 PM
When or in what perspective would you use language stating what the POV character is turning attention to or focusing on then? Pardon the ignorance, but I have a feel that it must come up, but I could not probably figure out when or why.
Thank you for the article also. Plenty of advice to carry forward.
You are welcome. Thanks for reading. What was the question, again?
Carefulrogue December 27, 2020 at 6:39 PM
Concerning the head spinning section is what this relates. No promises I'll be any clearer though.
My intuition concerning writing thinks that there is a time when having firmly established the POV character, to describe that POV shifting to take in a particular detail. EG,"He stepped up onto the sill, and looked down." something like that.
I feel like there is a time and place where it's not bad form to write about what the established POV character is looking at/taking in. Though sparingly used of course. Does that intuition sound correct?
Thanks for taking the time.
Brian Niemeier December 28, 2020 at 7:19 AM
Yeah, unobtrusive bits of stage direction like that, used only when necessary, can be fine.
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I sewed this out onto a woollen blanket and it looks so good. When my South African friends saw it they said how great it looked.


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Chief of Air Staff returns to Moray for a refresher course
7th October 2016 by insideMoray
Back to basics for RAF's top man.
A FORMER STATION COMMANDER at RAF Lossiemouth who was recently appointed as the Chief of Air Staff has returned to complete his Tornado refresher training at the Moray base.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier is no stranger to Moray having served as station commander in 2002 and 2003.
He was then on familiar ground when he returned to the base for several weeks this summer where he renewed his skills on the Tornado GR4 with XV(Reserve) Squadron.
His course involved a period of ground school lectures – bolstered by pre-reading and work in the evenings, followed by a simulator phase, before progressing to live flying sorties.
The basis of his training programme was taken from the Tornado GR4 Refresher syllabus and is similar to a course undertaken by previously qualified GR4 aircrew returning to the aircraft following time away on ground tours, or in the training system.
Sir Stephen was the only student on his course, which helped given the intensity of the training over a short period of time. He successfully completed all of the required training and testing elements and was re-qualified as a Tornado GR4 Captain and as such can operate the aircraft in that capacity.
Wing Commander Paul Froome is Officer Commanding XV(Reserve) Squadron: "It is not unusual for senior officers to refresh their aircraft captaincy skills – it certainly gives them an insight into the current capabilities of aircraft, and this is especially relevant for the Tornado as the Force is deployed on operations.
"Although XV(R) Sqn ran a bespoke course for the Chief of the Air Staff he was still required to meet the requisite standards all our students are required to, which he did. He proved to be a keen student and skilled Tornado pilot."
Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier was appointed Chief of the Air Staff in July 2016. He was a Tornado GR4 pilot and flying instructor – and has over 3500 flying hours and extensive operational and command experience, ranging from squadron pilot to theatre commander of British Forces.
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A: Run the Slmgr.vbs script that is in the System32 folder. Use the -dli switch to run this script:
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The command displays the number of days that are left in the current 60-day evaluation period.
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Apple reportedly buys low-power wireless chip developer Passif Semiconductor
Christian Zibreg on August 1, 2013
Apple has reportedly bought what's being described a key technology in the arms race. The former Wall Street Journal reported Jessica Lessin, who is now gearing up to start a brand new news outlet, exclusively reported Thursday that the iPhone maker in recent months purchased Silicon Valley-based wireless chip developer Passif Semiconductor…
According to the story, it wasn't immediately clear exactly how much Apple paid for Passif, but people briefed on the deal said it "tried to buy Passif a few years earlier for a price in the mid-tens-of-millions of dollars".
That was a few years ago, so Apple must have paid a higher sum now. An Apple spokesperson treated Lessing to its standard boilerplate text saying "Apple buys small technology companies from time to time."
AllThingsD has confirmed the deal.
The acquisition of the fabless chip maker signals Apple's intent to further differentiate its devices on the hardware front. Since 2010's release of the original iPad, Apple has been notably designing the engine that powers iOS devices in-house.
In the past, Apple bought semiconductor experts PA Semi and Intrinsity.
Most recently, Apple acquired smart sensor maker AuthenTec, indoor Wi-Fi company Wifislam and mapping data providers Locationary and Hopstop.
Passif, whose website is non-existent, is a privately held company and specializes in developing communication chips that use very little power, including low-power Bluetooth LE chips for health-monitoring and fitness devices. The startup was founded a few years ago by Ben Cook and Axel Berny, PhD students at the University of California, Berkeley.
Knowing Apple's rumored iWatch is expected to have a strong focus on fitness applications by ostensibly integrating sensors for monitoring health-related data, such as heart rates, the Passif deal makes lots of sense.
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Göksel Gümüşdağ (born 10 October 1972) is a Turkish businessman, former president of İstanbul Başakşehir and former vice-president of the Turkish Football Federation. He is the chair of the board of directors of LTD.

Gümüşdağ was born in Istanbul on 10 October 1972. He graduated from Anadolu University Economics and Istanbul Bilgi University Business Administration Department. In 2014, he was elected president of Istanbul Başakşehir from Süper League teams. He is still a member of the Istanbul Bilgi University Board of Trustees. He was the President of the Clubs Association Foundation between 2014–2017.

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Anadolu University alumni
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Cases that involve coma patients are generally caused by negligent or intentional acts, that cause severe head injuries. A coma can be defined as a deep state of unconsciousness from which people cannot be woken, and it can leave patients in vegetative states for lengthy periods of time. At the Law Offices of Kenneth A. Wilhelm, we fight for the rights of coma patients and their family members. We can even come to you at your home, hospital or on the job. If you don't have a doctor to treat you for your injury, we may well be able to find doctors that can treat you without you paying them until the end of the case, and we can keep insurance adjusters from calling you.
Most traumatic brain injuries that result in coma are caused by motor vehicle accidents.
Coma patients may experience serious complications, the worst of which is a continued vegetative state (defined as a coma lasting longer than four weeks). The longer a patient remains in a vegetative state, the lower their chances of recovery, and the increased likelihood that they will develop bedsores and skeletal or muscular atrophy.
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Q: Can keychain on iOS device save anything different than NSString? I want to save an array/object into keychain but it looks like keychain only support NSString. Anyone has tried to do this before? Thanks!

A: The keychain can save anything that obeys NSCoding
See this blog for a class which you can use as a starting point.


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Q: Query in dsrm command I need to remove 1000 computers from AD. I tried the script below, but it's not working.  When I used dsmod to disable computers, in the same script, it works.
@echo off
set ComputerList=C:\Users\a058059x\Desktop\Machines.txt
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('type "%ComputerList%"') do (
    echo Processing %%a ...
    dsquery computer -name "%%a" | dsrm
)

Can anyone help me to correct the error in this script?

A: Have you considered using powershell to accomplish this?  The command is Remove-ADComputer.
Your command would look like this:
Get-Content COMPUTERLIST.txt | Get-Computer | Remove-ADComputer -recursive

assuming you have ADWS installed


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Finding Ola Season 2 – Will We Find Season 2 On The Horizon?
Netflix always looking to expand their international content offerings and Finding Ola is an Egyptian comedy series that has found moderate success in front of international audiences of Netflix, with fans asking for Finding Ola Season 2.
Finding Ola follows the titular character Ola, a woman nearing her forties who finds her life upended unexpectedly. Ola thinks she has it all, especially when it comes to her family life. But when her husband Hisham announces that he wants a divorce, Ola is forced to realign her vision of a perfect life.
The character Ola is based on "I Want to Get Married" series in Egyptian television hence this series can be considered a spinoff of an already amazing comedy, and if you are wondering whether or not there's Finding Ola Season 2, fret not! We will tell you everything you need to know about Finding Ola Season 2!
Will there be Finding Ola Season 2?
'Finding Ola' season 1 premiered in its entirety on February 3, 2022, on Netflix. The first season consists of six episodes with a running time of 46-55 minutes each.
As for the show's sophomore outing, neither Netflix nor the makers have made any public statements yet. However, a season 2 seems quite probable, especially since the show checks all the boxes for what the streaming giant has envisioned in terms of expansion of its viewer base. As reported by Variety in early February 2022, Nuha Eltayeb – director of acquisitions for Netflix in MENA (Middle East and North Africa) and Turkey – stated, "We're looking for content that will create impact for the viewers, where they will find it authentic and representative, and at the same time relatable to their day-to-day storylines."
Ahmed Sharkawi – Netflix's director of Arabic Series – reiterated the same and pointed out what Netflix looks for in content originating from West Asia. It is the diversity of genre, inclusivity and representation of culture, and authenticity of the content. He added that the streaming giant is interested in "amplifying and expanding the role of female creators in the industry," particularly behind the cameras. With Hend Sabri playing a crucial role in getting this show on its feet, it seems like 'Finding Ola' has a solid chance of returning for another round.
As per sources, the first season began filming in late January 2021. Given that the team might require at least 11 months to produce another installment, it is unlikely that a potential second edition will arrive any time before 2023. So, if greenlit by Spring 2022, we can expect 'Finding Ola' season 2 to release in early 2023.
Who will be in Finding Ola Season 2?
The main cast members that appear in the first season are Hend Sabri (Ola Abdel-Sabour), Hany Adel (Hisham), Nada Moussa (Nesrine), Sawsan Badr (Soheir), Mahmoud El- Leithy (Montasser), Aisel Ramzy (Nadia), and Omar Sherif (Salim). If renewed, these actors are likely to reprise their respective roles in season 2. We may also see some fresh faces in case new characters are introduced.
What's the story for Finding Ola Season 2?
The first season is all about how Ola figures out what she wants to do with her life. Hisham asking for a divorce throws her off-guard, but it also opens up new opportunities. Her skincare business, Second Chance, starts to take off. In the season 1 finale, Hisham's heart attack changes the pace of things once again. When he tells Ola that he wants to give their relationship another shot, she makes it clear that she is not willing to put herself through the pain again.
On the other hand, Ola wants to explore her relationship with Marwan. But he feels like she does not have the space in her life to give their budding romance the attention it requires. However, he assures her that he will wait till she is ready. On the work front, Ola, Nesrine, and Montasser pitch their business to the investors who seem keen. But when Ola is asked where she sees herself in five years, the scene ends before we hear her response.
If there is a season 2, it might skip five years ahead. Ola's family situation is quite complicated in the first season, but things might look quite different in the future. Will she and Marwan finally be able to give things an honest shot? Ola's dynamic with Hisham might take a new form as well. We are yet to learn about the outcome of the meeting with the investors. All this and more might be a part of the potential season 2's storyline.
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Shelbyville Road Plaza has landed a national retailer to fill a large space that has been empty since 2009.
Seattle-based Nordstrom Inc. plans to open a 33,000-square-foot Nordstrom Rack store in October at Shelbyville Road Plaza, owned by Hagan Properties Inc. The location previously housed a Circuit City store.
Edwards said he was aware of Nordstrom's interest in the site for several years. The location will be one of two dozen the company plans to open this year nationwide.
Workers have been in the building since last week to prepare it for renovations, which will include a new facade.
It carries merchandise from Nordstrom stores and Nordstrom.com at 50 percent to 60 percent off original Nordstrom prices.
It also carries apparel, accessories and shoes that are purchased for Nordstrom Rack stores from many brands carried in Nordstrom stores, including Hugo Boss, Kate Spade and Trina Turk.
Nordstrom officials confirmed the plans for the location but declined further comment.
Nordstrom operates 240 stores in 31 states, including 117 full-line stores and 121 Nordstrom Rack locations. It also operates two Jeffrey boutique locations, a Treasure & Bond store and a clearance store.
Blake Nordstrom, president of Nordstrom, said during the company's earnings conference call last month that the company expects to nearly double the number of Rack stores to more than 230 during the next four years.
In 2012, Rack's total sales were up 20 percent, with same-store sales up 7.4 percent.
Nordstrom Rack stores averaged $550 in sales per square foot last year, Blake Nordstrom said.
Michael G. Koppel, CFO for Nordstrom, said at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2013 Consumer & Retail Conference on March 13 that Nordstrom Rack typically draws a younger customer than the company's Nordstrom stores.
Nordstrom launched its Rack concept about 20 years ago, and Koppel said it took company officials several years to understand how to make the brand a good growth opportunity for the company.
"The ability for us to get great real estate and put great product in that real estate just seems to get better as we scale that business up," Koppel said.
Nordstrom Rack will be the second clothing retailer to open at Shelbyville Road Plaza this year.
Ross Dress For Less opened earlier this month in a 28,000-square-foot space that had housed a Wild Oats store.
But a 26,000-square-foot space that previously housed a Borders bookstore remains vacant in the St. Matthews shopping center.
Edwards said Hagan officials still are determining whether the space should be leased as one space or be broken up for multiple tenants.
Edwards has spoken with several potential tenants since Borders closed in October 2011.
The shopping center's newest tenant might help attract more interest, Edwards said.


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The Environmental Left Wants To Eliminate More Than Your Carbon Footprint
written by Donald Kendal February 25, 2018
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Most Americans cringe at the thought of government enacting population control measures and plans to curb fertility rates. The notion of injecting partisan bureaucrats into the deeply personal decision to have children is patently contrary to the ideas of American independence and liberty. But that's not stopping a growing movement within the environmental left that is now adopting these radical plans in the name of fighting global warming.
Although population control remains safely in the fringe of the political sphere, advocates of this beta-anti-humanism are starting to feel safer coming out of the closet with their true beliefs, a remarkably disturbing development.
Earlier in January, HGTV stars Chip and Joanna Gaines announced they were expecting their fifth child. Along with the expected messages of celebration and support, the couple also faced backlash over this joyous news. For instance, critics on Twitter wrote, "I like them ok but enough with the kids already," and, "Thank you for contributing to the over population of the planet." A Facebook user added to the outrage by writing, "Overpopulation is killing the planet. Having another child is an irresponsible act."
Instead of rejecting these unconventional responses, some on the left have embraced them. In an especially egregious opinion article, Canadian Broadcasting Company contributor Kristen Pyszczyk made the case for increasing the condemnation of people who have children.
"Procreation is becoming a global public health concern, rather than a personal decision. So when people do irresponsible things like having five children, we absolutely need to be calling them out," Pyszczyk wrote.
"Shame is a powerful tool for changing behaviour," and "we need to go much further," she added.
Some might feel inclined to write Pyszczyk's article off as a bizarre one-off opinion produced by a solitary kook writer, but the truth is her opinion is shared by a large group of environmentalists who have made their voices heard in prominent publications such as The Guardian, NPR, The Nation, Vice, The Huffington Post, Elle Magazine, NBC, and many more. Article titles include, "Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children," and "How Do You Decide to Have a Baby When Climate Change Is Remaking Life on Earth?"
It's true not all these examples support extreme population control efforts, but the wealth of articles on this topic shows the conversation is becoming much more mainstream.
A recent piece that grabbed a lot of attention was featured on NBC News' "Think" page. The article, titled "Science proves kids are bad for Earth. Morality suggests we stop having them," makes the case that because "having a child is one of the worst things you can do for the environment," parents should consider the moral implications before procreating.
The author of the article—Travis N. Rieder, assistant director for education initiatives at the Berman Institute of Bioethics—also co-authored a disturbing report for the October 2016 issue of Social Theory and Practice titled "Population Engineering and the Fight against Climate Change." In this report, Rieder et al. outlines several policies designed to lower fertility rates in developed countries. These policies are organized by levels of coercion, starting with increasing women's access to abortions and ending with tailoring the tax system to discourage reproduction. Thankfully, Rieder stops just short of recommending the type of direct coercion imposed in China through the country's notorious single-child policy.
Behind all these radical proposals is a firm belief in man-caused catastrophic global warming. If you really want to save the world from total disaster, they argue, you need to refrain from creating new carbon-dioxide-emitting beings (humans) to lower your carbon footprint.
Along with being grotesque to the vast majority of people around the world, these stances are often illogical and contradictory. In Pyszczyk's CBC piece, for example, she suggests a woman's itch to become mother can be scratched by adopting kids from struggling countries from around the world. Adoption is a noble, selfless act that I would never discourage, but it flies in the face of the justification these extreme environmentalists use to justify their anti-human stances. If limiting our carbon footprint is the goal, then adopting kids is not the answer. Babies from the developing world don't bring their relatively small carbon footprint with them; they will almost certainly end up with a carbon footprint comparable to most people born in their new country.
Similarly, having the stance of limiting birth rates while simultaneously being pro-immigration and pro-open borders is completely contradictory. If you care so much about limiting carbon-dioxide emissions that you want to keep people from having kids — or, at the very least, discourage it — then you should oppose any effort to bring people into the United States, one of the world's highest per-capita carbon-dioxide emitters.
Many environmentalists will contend the alleged carbon-dioxide problem is limited to the developed world. As Rieder states in his report, "While reducing fertility in developing nations is important, since their per capita [greenhouse gas] emissions are projected to increase significantly (and should be allowed to do so) over the next several decades, it is not nearly as critical as near-term reductions in the numbers of the world's wealthy."
But this claim ignores the fact that fertility rates are negatively correlated with a country's prosperity. Generally, the wealthier a country is, the lower the fertility rates are. At the end of the day, logic appears to have no place at the table for those with an alarmist environmental agenda.
The push for population control and reduced birth rates is still relegated to the fringe of the environmental movement, but we shouldn't assume it will stay that way. We must be vigilant and push back against this festering worldview whenever it rears its ugly head, always remembering that other similar movements have caused great harm in world history. At this rate, it might not be long until we have to deal with such a crisis again.
Until then, be fruitful and multiply—while you still can.
[Originally Published at the Daily Caller]
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MONARCH's Full Album Streaming Via BrooklynVegan + European Tour Dates
16th February 2012 Lee Edwards Altar Of Plagues, At A Loss Recordings, Audio Stream, Brooklyn Vegan, Euro Tour 2012, Monarch, News, Omens
With the release of MONARCH's sixth full-length, Omens, set for release in just two weeks via At A Loss Recordings, the band are set to embark on their first full tour in support of the crushing album. The chaos shall ensue this Friday in Basque Country, and devastate clubs throughout Europe into early March, tackling France, Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Denmark. MONARCH will unleash their captivating avant-sludge through their notoriously maniacal live show night after night, performing alongside atmospheric Irish black metal outfit Altar Of Plagues for the entire trek.
In support of the forthcoming album and the kickoff of the tour, as of today BrooklynVegan is streaming MONARCH's entire Omens opus, alongside an exclusive interview with the band. Get your fix of pummeling, haunting sludge at this location.
MONARCH European Tour w/ Altar Of Plagues:
2/17/2012 Gaztetxe d'Akotz – Basque Country
2/18/2012 La Conserverie – Angers, France
2/19/2012 Carlo Levi – Liège, Belgium
2/20/2012 USCHIS-HC IMBE – Leipzig, Germany
2/22/2012 Club Tapper -Tallinn, Estonia
2/23/2012 Kuudes Linja – Helsinki, Finland
2/24/2012 Club Melna Piektdiena – Riga, Latvia
2/25/2012 Club Propaganda – Vilnius, Lithuania
2/26/2012 Klub Muzyczny Ucho – Gdynia, Poland
2/27/2012 CRK – Wroclaw, Poland
2/28/2012 Chemifabrik – Dresden, Germany
2/29/2012 Loppen – Copenhagen, Denmark
3/01/2012 Stubnitz – Rostock, Germany
3/02/2012 AJZ Bielefeld – Bielefeld, Germany w/ The Wounded Kings
3/03/2012 Glazart, Paris, France
A thirty-four minute down-tempo/down-tuned ethereal funeral dirge comprised of three tracks, Omens perfectly personifies what fans have come to embrace about MONARCH since their 2005 inception, their caustic, crushing style of slow-motion apocalyptic doom coming alive with haunting moans and layered, ghostly shrieks throughout Omens' entirety. The record features artwork by Yann Black and Valérie Poulin and will be released as a six-panel digipak CD in an initial pressing of 1,000 copies with a UV finish cover and you can read Pete's review HERE.
Omens was recorded over a four month period in four different countries with four different producers — Osaka, Japan by Hironori Ochi @ Kakurega, Melbourne, Australia by Neil Thomason @ Head Gap, Montreal, Canada by Matt Cartman @ Crane Studio, and Chicago, IL by Sanford Parker @ Engine Studios — then mixed by Sanford Parker and mastered by Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room (Twilight, Ministry, Yob). The album features newest MONARCH member Rob Shaffer (Dark Castle, YOB) along with guitarist Shiran Kaïdine (Year of No Light), bassist MicHell Bidegain, and as always the ethereal, penetrating vocals of Emilie Bresson. The record also includes guest appearances by Atsuchi Sano (Birushanah), Yailen Munoz (Ensorcelor), Eric Quach (Thisquietarmy), Jeanne Peluard (The Sparteens) and Robert MacManus (ex-Grey Daturas, ex-Monarch).
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Q: How do I make a method that accepts all parameters that extend a certain class? So if I have a class gameObject and a bunch of classes that extend it:
class gameObject {
int u = 0;
public gameObject() {
}
}
class Spaceship extends gameObject {
    int u = 5;
    // Constructor
    public Spaceship() {
    }

}
class Alien extends gameObject {
    int u = 6;
    public Alien() {
    }
}

public class test {
    public static int overlapping(gameObject b, gameObject a) {
        return (b.u - a.u);
    }
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(overlapping(new Alien(), new Spaceship()));
    }
}

When the difference method runs, it computes 0 - 0 regardless of if a Spaceship, alien is passed into it. But I want it to take either of the 2 (Spaceship, Alien), and return the difference of their specific u values.
But indicating the type of a and b parameters as gameObject just results in the u value being taken as 0 instead of the specific values. What do I do here?
I thought that since all 2 extended gameObject, I could just say that the parameters were of gameObject type, but that didn't seem to work. I tried doing <T extends gameObject> and then Class <T> a and Class <T> b, but then it says that it cannot the constant u.

A: With the code shared in the comments, the problem becomes clear.
Each of the class declares a new u member that hides the parents u member. Note the emphasis on hides - you can't "override members", so when you call .u on a reference to the base class, you'll still get the 0 it uses.
Instead of re-declaring the member, you should just overwrite its value. E.g.:
class Spaceship extends gameObject {
    public Spaceship {
        u = 5; // Reuse the base class' member
    }
}

A: The (originally) posted code, after fixing some minor compilation errors and names, should work as expected:
public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(difference(new Thing(), new Spaceship()));
    }

    public static int difference(GameObject a, GameObject b) {
        return a.getX() - b.getX();
    }
}

class GameObject {

    private final int POS_X = 0;
    // returns the current x coordinate of GameObject
    int getX() {
        return POS_X;
    }
}

class Spaceship extends GameObject {

    private final int POS_X = 1;

    @Override
    int getX() {
        return POS_X;
    }
}
class Alien extends GameObject {

    private final int POS_X = 2;

    @Override
    int getX() {
        return POS_X;
    }
}

class Thing extends GameObject {

    private final int POS_X = 3;

    @Override
    int getX() {
        return POS_X;
    }
}

I would recommend having all objects implement the same interface instead of extending the same base class:
interface  GameObject {
    // returns the current x coordinate of GameObject
    default int getX() {
        return 0;
    }
}

class Spaceship implements GameObject {

    private final int POS_X = 1;

    @Override
    public  int getX() {
        return POS_X;
    }
}

Alternatively, if the values are constant use an enum:
public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(difference(GameObject.THING, GameObject.SPACESHIP));
    }

    public static int difference(GameObject a, GameObject b) {
        return a.getX() - b.getX();
    }
}

enum  GameObject {

    SPACESHIP(1), ALIEN(2), THING(3);
    private  int positionX;
    GameObject(int positionX){
        this.positionX = positionX;
    }

    int getX() {
        return positionX;
    }
}

A: I'm not sure how are you using your method difference and I saw some errors in the code your provided (like you're missing a closing bracket after every class), but for example your code works for me if I include everything in one class like this:
public class TestStackOverflow {

static class gameObject {

    int POS_X = 0;

    // returns the current x coordinate of gameObject
    int getX() {
        return POS_X;
    }
}

static class Spaceship extends gameObject {

    int POS_X = 1;

    // returns the current x coordinate of gameObject
    int getX() {
        return POS_X;
    }
}

static class Alien extends gameObject {

    int POS_X = 2;

    // returns the current x coordinate of gameObject
    int getX() {
        return POS_X;
    }
}

static class Thing extends gameObject {

    int POS_X = 3;

    // returns the current x coordinate of gameObject
    int getX() {
        return POS_X;
    }
}

public static int difference(gameObject a, gameObject b) {
       return (a.getX() - b.getX());
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    int d = difference(new Alien(), new Thing());
    System.out.print(d);
}

}
Note that all those classes are inner classes to the TestStackOverflow one and are accessed from the main static method so in this case, they should be static. Now regarding your code, there are some good practices that could be used in order to avoid any strange behavior:

*

*I would implement every class in their own file, so no need to be static.

*Define visibility of the class components. For instance, make POS_X private in every class and make reference to it with this, so you're making sure you are using this very field.

*Also (just for naming convention sake) all class should be capitalized.

*gameObject class should be an interface or an abstract class instead of a concrete class if is not going to be instantiated. It seems to me that the only goal for this one is to, either generalize the use of their child classes in external methods, or provide a default definition for getX().


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Q: For loop to create lists Suppose you have the following dataframe:
data <- data.frame(a=runif(n=348), b=runif(n=348), c=runif(n=348))

and then suppose that you would like to apply the bld.mbb.bootstrap function (from forecast package) for every column.
With one column the code will go like this:
reps <- 500L
sim <- bld.mbb.bootstrap(data$a, reps)

Which returns a list of 500.
Question 1: How do I get to change all the names? To say iteration #i (inside the list).
Question 2: I want to make a for loop that does "sim" for all the columns in the dataframe. So I think it'd go like this:
for (i in names(data)){

sim <- bld.mbb.bootstrap(data$i, reps)

}

How can I make a list that stores (in this case 3) lists?
I want a list that contains 3 lists named like the variable: a, b, and c.
where a, b, c are lists that contain the iterations.
Thanks in advance!

A: A base R approach using lapply
lapply(data, function(x) bld.mbb.bootstrap(x, reps))

or
setNames(lapply(colnames(data), function(x)
  bld.mbb.bootstrap(data[,x], reps)), colnames(data))


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Five days remain in July. As we count down, this is the second in a series of six posts to give us an overview of market segments in Vancouver's real estate leading up to end of the month accounting.
Each day the series will travel around Vancouver to explore all areas of Richmond -North,South,and East, Richmond, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Vancouver East and Vancouver West. Our exploration will center on detached homes and their market performance during the same 30 day periods – May 25 to June 25 and June 25 to July 25.
In the two periods May 25, 2010 to June 25, 2010 and June 25, 2010 to July 25, 2010, detached properties in the Richmond neighbourhoods had the following results.
Total Listings decreased units from May/June's 910 to June/July's 880.
Sales decreased from May/June's 120 to 71 in June/July.
May/June had 45 listing mandates expired and increased to 64 in June/July.
Price reductions in May/June were 186 decreasing to 177 in June/July.
There were 29 price increases in May/June and 24 in June/July.
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May/June's Average Ask price was $1,019,147. This average increased in June/July to $1,033,666.
The Median Ask price in May/June was $848,000 increasing to $888,000 in June/July.
The Average Sold price in the May/June was $973,300. In June/July this increased to $996,985.
The Median Sold price in May/June was $827,000. In June/July this increased to $853,000.
Day 3 we will leave Richmond and travel to North Vancouver. Expect a change!
tomorrow! Thanks for the count down Larry.
Boggles my mind that the average price in Richmond hovers near the million dollar mark.
One consistency amongst all sub-markets – huge drop in sales in July. Sales in July, 2010 could be the lowest in 10 years – even lower than 2008, the infamous year of the credit crisis (and the previous downturn in the Vancouver market when the market stalled).
Thanks for the up-dates Larry.
We are truly in Alice's Wonderland in Richmond.
Prices stable, even as MOI is moving up briskly from rapidly dropping sales.
I guess the sellers are holding firm and the buyers are too foolish to even bargain.
Just got from PaulB today's sales/list is 150/180. Can't believe that!!!
You guys are overlooking that since the April mortgage rules, FTB's have been effectively shut out of market. Meaning high end are now a much higher percentage of sales. This skews average & medians prices up big time! Wait 'til the seasonal high end stuff (waterfront, etc) tapers off by Fall. Trust me sellers won't even have to dress up to scare trick or treaters by Halloween after viewing price stats.


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Shedding light on
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Vol.1 Shedding light on Japan's youth
Vol.2 Exploring Japan's diverse regions
Vol.3 Illuminating love in Japan
Vol.4 New ways of living in Japan
Vol.5 Imagining Japan's tomorrow
New ways of living in Japan
Suki-yaki
OTHER LIVES
[Suki-yaki]
By Yang Yi
Shinchōsha (Shinchō Bunko), 2012. 174 pp. ¥400. ISBN 978-4-10-138761-1.
Also published in: Chinese (appeared in the Taiwanese literary magazine Lianhe wenxue in 2010)
Around 140,000 foreign students are currently learning in Japan. Despite this number, there are still very few novels depicting their day-to-day lives. This book, written by an author who herself came to Japan to study before becoming a novelist, is a profoundly humorous masterpiece depicting days filled with discoveries and happiness experienced by Coco, a Chinese student.
While striving to polish her Japanese and succeed in her university studies, Coco works part-time at a high-end sukiyaki restaurant. When dressed in the traditional Japanese uniform of the restaurant, wrapped in her obi belt, she feels that she looks like a bundled-up leek. At first, she does not know how to serve sukiyaki to diners, but as her more experienced colleagues look out for her, she slowly adapts to the restaurant. The regular customers come to like her.
At the same time, a male Korean student at her university regularly speaks to her. As the two of them hold conversations in broken Japanese they achieve a sense of solidarity. But while the Korean student is hoping for a relationship, Coco herself feels a growing passion for the sukiyaki restaurant manager.
As the author amusingly brings into relief the gap between Japanese, Chinese, and Korean practices and thinking, she succeeds in lightly weaving what might be called a comparative cultural or multicultural novel. (NK)
Yang Yi
Born in Harbin, China, in 1964. Came to Japan in 1987 and graduated from Ochanomizu University in 1995. Received the Bungakukai New Writers Award in 2007 for Wan-chan [Wang-chan]. In 2008 she became the first nonnative writer of Japanese to win the Akutagawa Prize for Toki ga nijimu asa [A Morning When Time Bleeds]. Her other works include Kingyo seikatsu [Life with Goldfish] and Oishii Chūgoku: Santenkuratsu no tairiku [Delicious China: A Sweet, Sour, Bitter, and Spicy Continent].
Translation rights inquiries
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(attn. Kimura Tatsuya, Foreign Rights Section)
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Moldova will ask EU allies for €450M amid fears Putin will cut gas flows
Moldova's Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița is planning to ask EU countries for €450 million amid the "very real possibility" that Russia's Gazprom will cut gas supplies this winter.
Gavrilița's call for emergency cash in the face of Russia detonating its energy weapon will refocus attention on one of Europe's poorest nations where Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to undermine a government that is seeking to set Chișinău on a pro-EU trajectory.
"The worst case scenario is that a full disconnection happens," Gavrilița told POLITICO in an interview, adding that this would create a "trade-off between disconnections [of consumers] and blackouts, or whether … we can afford to pay this price."
Moldova, a country of 2.5 million people sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania, is suffering a severe energy crisis that has seen utility bills soar tenfold in a year — a trend partly spurred by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Relations between Moscow and Chișinău, historically totally reliant on Russia for its gas, soured after Gavrilița's pro-European government was swept to power in 2021, and reached rock bottom this year when Moldova came out strongly against the invasion of Ukraine.
Last month, Russia's gas export monopoly Gazprom slashed deliveries to the country by 30 percent and threatened a total cutoff "at any time" citing a payment dispute in a move that critics branded as blackmail. Those volumes may fall to "50 percent" of gas consumption over November, Gavrilița said.
To make matters worse, up to 90 percent of the country's traditional electricity supply suddenly dried up in the past month. Kyiv stopped exporting power in October partly due to Russian attacks on its critical infrastructure, while Transnistria — a pro-Russia breakaway territory in eastern Moldova that previously provided over two-thirds of the country's electricity — cut off exports last week.
"I don't want people to underestimate … how much of a collateral victim of the Ukrainian war the Moldovan people are," Gavrilița said from an unlit office in Chișinău's Soviet-built Government House, where the corridors are dark as the government scrambles to save energy where it can.
The energy crunch has forced Moldova to buy electricity at four times the previous price on the European spot market, Gavrilița said, adding that she would now ask Moldova's European partners for €450 million in aid for this winter at a high-level solidarity summit hosted by France on November 21.
That would come on top of support packages this year from the EU, International Monetary Fund and European Bank of Reconstruction and Development worth a combined €400 million.
"We are seeing increased security risks and anxiety, we are seeing a loss in purchasing power and a loss in real wages," Gavrilița said. "We are hit orders of magnitude more by the same problems that European countries have, but at the same time, we are much weaker to deal with these problems."
"Of course, then this can be exploited by various forces," she added, referring to a trove of intelligence documents obtained by Ukrainian officials and reviewed by the Washington Post revealing the deeply intertwined relationship between Russian secret services and opposition parties in Moldova to whom it has allegedly funneled millions.
Among these is Ilan Shor, former mayor of the city of Orhei, convicted of stealing $1 billion from Moldovan banks in 2014 and currently living in exile in Israel. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned him on October 26 and said he was working in Moscow's interests to destabilize the Chișinău government to return Moldova "to Russia's sphere of influence."
Shor's Russia-friendly ȘOR party has been organizing weekly anti-government protests in Moldova's capital, and the country's President Maia Sandu has accused Russian secret services of helping stage those demonstrations.
"We are certainly worried about … what we call the 'coalition for corruption and war,'" Gavrilița said, adding that Shor among others "are very much siding with Russian elements and trying to take advantage of [public] discontent."
Moldova was granted EU candidate status in June, and such forces "do not want" the country's European integration, she added.
As for Moldova's ties with Russia, "we continue our diplomatic relationship," Gavrilița said, "but of course, things have gotten progressively more difficult," especially after the country declared a Kremlin diplomat persona non grata and Russian missile shrapnel landed in a Moldovan village last week.
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"Especially small countries depend very much on these rules being respected," POLITICO reports.
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DOI:10.5508/jhs.2009.v9.r51
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures - Volume 9 (2009) - Review
Hans-Peter Mathys, Das Astarte-Quadrat (Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, 2008). Pp. 207. Paperback. €22.00. ISBN 978-3-290-17422-4.
The book by Hans-Peter Mathys, professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages at the University of Basel, has a short title but contains considerably more than a presentation of the Astarte Square found at the Phoenician sanctuary of Bostan esh-Sheikh (near Sidon, Lebanon). To put it bluntly, it is a book about antique crosswords. And really, Mathys inspires his readers to try to decode the meaning of four fragmentary Phoenician marble inscriptions of the fourth century BCE. In addition, he provides an introduction to magical squares in antiquity, a widespread custom of "playing with words" by creating squares of letters. He also endeavours to situate these particular exemplars in Phoenician script within the philosophical context of the period. In so doing he opens a window into the world of religious philosophy in antiquity..
This monograph is not structured like an official archaeological excavation report. The basic information about the discussed objects are scattered throughout the book. Such data can be found more easily in the previous publication on the excavations at the sanctuary of Eshmun at Bostan esh-Sheikh.[1] The four inscriptions in question were found on two marble tablets labelled Ph 24/25 and Ph 26/27. They can be dated to the fourth century BCE. Both plaques are inscribed on both sides. The first plaque, Ph 24/25 (ca. 20 x 20 cm, found in 1964 by Maurice Dunand, not published before 2005, subsequently lost and only known from photographs), is more complete and contains rows of regularly arranged letters. Ph 26/27 (found at the beginning of the twentieth century; now in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum) is more fragmentary, but possibly comprises two other exemplars of magical squares. The meaning of the four inscriptions was not understood or discussed before the edition by Mathys in 2005.
The inscriptions are no haphazard graffiti. They are well planned and well designed, incised on precious material. They show letters arranged in columns and lines as on a chessboard (stocheidon style). The most complete inscription, Ph 24, contains one complete square of five by five letters in the upper right corner of the tablet. It's composition is based on the divine Name 'štrt (Astarte) which can be read in the outer rows of the square. The second line, and consequently all second rows, reads šmš'r (this can be read as Shamash and 'light' or as the personal name 'Shamash is light'). The middle cross of the square reading tštšt is not readily understandable. On the left of and below the complete square are more lines of letters that are probably part of two other squares constituting an angle of three squares since no letters were incised in the lower left corner. The two fragmentary squares were most likely composed by the second line of the first square, šmš'r, and were perhaps identical. Although the 'štrt square can be understood as a complete square of its own, there is no clear separation from the other lines, so a continued reading is theoretically possible.
The reverse of the tablet is more fragmentary, but likely contains lines of two or three squares, one formed with 'šmn(ḥ) in the vertical column only), the other with 'štrt. As the remaining letters of the latter square show, it is an alternative 'štrt square rather than a duplicate of the obverse.
Mathys' monograph does not confine itself to merely offering a reading and explanation of the four inscriptions. The first chapter of the book (pp. 13-42) deals with the most famous exemplar of antique magical squares, the so-called Sator Square—Roman era exemplars of which are known from places as distant as Pompeii, Dura Europos (Syria) and Watermore (England). Mathys presents the very diverse and often fanciful interpretations of this square, which still fascinate numerous scientific as well as more venturous lay interpreters. This discussion provides an impression of the difficulties encountered when attempting to understand this group of esoteric artefacts and prepares the discussion of the Sidon finds.
The next chapter covers the rest of the book (pp. 43-182). It offers an introduction to the working principles of these squares, explained by squares formed by letters as well as by numerals such as the one found on Dürer's "Melencolia I" (pp. 43-51). Pp. 51-75 present the four inscriptions and their possible readings and completions. The main observation is that the squares are formed by divine names, Astarte as well as Shamash and Eshmun. In addition, Mathys proposes reading more divinities such as b'l šmm , ṣd , ṣdq , ' l, tnt or šm (all these divinities are discussed on pp. 116-139). Pp. 75-108 give an overview of other forms of meaningful "playing with words" from the ancient Near East, including acrostics and magical formulae on amulets.
Mathys assumes that the Sidon inscriptions were influenced by the Greek stocheidon style (see pp. 108-116). In the final sections of the book, Mathys offers an interpretation of the squares that also reckons with Greek influence. He points to the importance of cultural exchange in Phoenicia and sees an influence in the speculation by the Greek philosophical schools of the Stoa and Pythagoreans about the gods (pp. 139-182). The divine names in the squares might represent the "dei multi," the square form and the interconnections of the names the "deus unus" (see p. 151). Thus, the inscriptions from the sanctuary at Bostan esh-Sheikh, which comprises Hellenistic as well as Near Eastern elements, are another example of the interconnectedness of the intellectual world of the Mediterranean in antiquity.
Mathys' book is an interesting read. It should be praised for presenting a highly interesting and unparalleled artefact of West Semitic epigraphy and integrating it into its intellectual context. It is, however, not an archaeological or epigraphic work in strict sense, but the emphasis instead lies on the presentation of the genre of magical squares and speculative word plays and on their philosophical interpretation. Further questions like the concrete function and usage of the inscriptions in a sanctuary are only discussed in passing. Mathys offers a number of excurses and secondary information that make the argument difficult to follow in places. The book offers an impressive bibliography, many drawings and photographs of the inscriptions and plenty of graphics further understanding and make it easier to follow the decoding and discussion. Mathys' book is an invitation to join him in exercise antique crosswords, but it is much more.
René Schurte, University of Zurich (Switzerland).
[1] Hans-Peter Mathys, "Die phönizischen Inschriften", in: Rolf A. Stucky, Das Eschmun-Heiligtum von Sidon. Architektur und Inschriften (Antike Kunst Beiheft 19; Basel: Vereinigung der Freunde antiker Kunst, 2005), 273-318.