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Title: Protection
Time Period: January 1, 135 A.E.
"Munin"
Summary: Cordelia converses with one of her kidnappers.
Cordelia has never been this high up in the mountains before. Neither has her Uncle Duncan; she knows because, if he had, then he surely would have discovered the small settlement built around the ruins of an old, crumbling church nestled in the trees at the edge of a frozen plateau. She might even be able to see Dornie from the precepice if community wasn't covered in a perpetual blanket of cloud and fog, but this is probably the way its inhabitants prefer things: hidden.
Apart from a few horses and a herd of bearded goats with antlers longer than any Cordelia has ever seen, the settlement's people keep very few domesticated animals, probably because they lack the space for them. Even the goats have to forage for greenery on the steep, rocky slopes, shepherded by men and women dressed in heavy wool, leather and assorted furs.
There aren't many children here, either, or so she was told by the apologetic old woman who sitting at her bedside when she first awoke. The mountains are no place for babes, and the mortality rate here is very high even among the adults, of which there are maybe fifty-some.
That was this morning. Now, as darkness settles over the village with no moonlight to soften it, she finds herself in the hollow chamber of the church after a hard day's work learning how to milk goats, but no explanation for why she was taken from her home.
She expects to receive that shortly. Her instructions were to wait by the old pipe organ.
Cordie paces back and forth for some time — not so much for impatience but for want of heat. Even with her arms wrapped around herself in the borrowed clothing, she's cold, without electricity and heat to warm the interior of the church. The tears she spent early on are long gone, though her eyes are still red-rimmed from this morning's sobbing. She's a practical soul, most of the time, though her mother might disagree, and Cordie stopped crying after realizing she wouldn't be hurt — at least not immediately — and that there was work to be done. Crying is a waste of energy, and here there isn't any energy to spare when struggling to survive.
God knows how long she might have to do that, so she stopped crying.
After a several minutes of pacing, though, she finally finds a seat on the pew closest to the organ. She's exhausted from the rough night and day of fear and hard work, and like crying, pacing is a waste of energy. Not for the first time does Cordelia wish she was a mage — she'd have a familiar who could tell her family where she is, or even help her escape. But it's just her — for the first time in her life, she feels utterly alone.
She won't be for very much longer. The sound of footsteps descending a stone staircase echoes through the church, and a moment later a shadow appears in the candlelit corridor opposite the organ. At first, it appears unnaturally tall and skinny, but when its owner steps out into the chamber, Cordelia sees that these proportions are only a trick of the light; the woman walking towards her is small, lean, and wears the same combination of textures as the other villagers, but with wolfskin instead of lynx or deer.
There's something vaguely familiar about the way she carries herself, though it isn't until she opens her mouth that Cordelia recognizes Jorn's mysterious dance partner. "Little Ross," she says, not smiling. "Hello."
The girl stands immediately, drawing herself to her full height (which isn't very much). Her chin lifts and her dark eyes narrow as she surveys her kidnapper and host.
Cordie can't help but swallow in some fear, despite the polite greeting and the fact she hasn't been harmed today. "Why am I here?" she demands, arms uncrossing so that she can push a wayward strand of hair from her face — her always messy hair is a riot of wisps today without her comb or mother to help smooth it into a braid or ponytail. "You know that you won't get away with this, don't you?" she follows fiercely.
"With what?" the woman asks, raising both her dark eyebrows. "Welcoming you into my home? Feeding you my rations so you don't go to bed tonight with a bellyache?
"Sit back down." That isn't a question, or a request. Indoors, she wears her coat open, and Cordelia can see that she's unarmed but for a dagger in its sheath. She presumably knows how to use it, or she wouldn't be carrying it. Around her neck hangs a thin leather cord to which the skull of a small bird is attached, and as she speaks she reaches up to curve her thumb along its beak. "Your family has supplies that mine needs. I would have traded for them, but until now we had nothing worth trading. Do you understand?"
The command sees Cordelia sitting and swiftly, almost as if slapped back down into place. Her brows draw together and she looks afraid for the first time in hours — taking care of creatures in need had shoved away most of her concerns for herself, but now all that uncertainty returns.
"I understand," she whispers, looking down at her hands in her lap, before her dark eyes lift again. "But you don't have to live up here like this. You could live in Dornie like others do, farm or something…" she suggests, voice hoarse from the crying and the cold but insistent in her pleading.
"What value does land have when Duncan Rowntree's militia has the right to set foot on it whenever they please and take what they will? Whether that's grain, or meat, or women—" The woman's lips peel back around a thin, mirthless smile. Her voice, like the raven she dressed as, is rasping and harsh. "His men burn settlements like mine to the ground and piss on the ash. Rapists and murderers, all."
Cordelia's cheeks grow pink when the woman speaks of things she's sheltered from, though her kinsman being named specifically makes her shake her head in angry argument. "My uncle is not a rapist or a murderer," she whispers, eyes narrowed but hands twisting together nervously.
The truth is, she wouldn't know if he is or isn't, and she knows it.
Still, she pushes on.
"If you lived in Dornie, you'd be protected," she begins, tone starting strong before it fades and decrescendos with uncertainty, "Were you… you had a settlement? Did they take it from you?"
"No." The woman packs as much finality into that single syllable as it can hold. "But there are those here who have had more taken from them than their homes, and by the man you call your uncle. When you see him again, ask him what he would do if he knew we were here — only then will you understand."
She turns to twist a look over her shoulder at one of the church's empty windows, one side of her face illuminated by the flickering candlelight, the other as black as the sky outside. A raven perches in the space where stained glass once glowed, a silver band attached to one of its legs. "I need more than tooth and claw to defend this place from the Rowntrees and people who are like them. Your parents will deliver, I am sure."
That her parents will do all they can to get her back, Cordelia has no doubt. She doesn't argue the fact but instead stares down at the floor, angry at herself for being caught in this situation.
"If you get what you ask for, you should go far away from here," the girl offers, unsolicited advice.
"If you get what you ask for… it won't be long that they'll find this place, even without me telling them, and you should know that they have the manpower — and the skills and powers — to take out such a small group. I know you're just trying to survive, but you have to know they'll retaliate, even if I am returned safely. It might not be tomorrow, but it will happen," she says earnestly and not without sympathy or compassion. Her ears begin to well up with tears, again, though this time not for fear for herself.
"As far as your parents know," the woman says, "your kidnapping is the work of one or two. I've given them no reason to think otherwise unless you tell them, which you won't — if you want to keep your tongue." She raises an arm and the raven in the window clears the distance between them with two powerful thrusts of its wings, gliding down the rest of the way with a sound like rushing wind. Claws hook into the soft leather of her gloves and she hefts the bird onto her shoulder.
"You'll sleep in my room tonight," she tells Cordelia. "Tomorrow you spend another day with the goats. Now go."
Cordelia's mouth closes, and she frowns at the bird and then the woman, before standing. "I won't tell them about this place, because there are good people here I don't want to see harmed," she says, perhaps a little loftily, and the implication is that her present company isn't one of the good people.
"But you should know you're not the only one with creatures that can follow and spy from the clouds. My parents will do whatever it takes to get me back, but what happens with the Rowntrees is out of their control. My mother does not have that much pull," the teen says as she moves toward the doorway to do as asked.
"Goodnight," she says politely and she ducks her head, letting her hair fall forward to veil the tears that have started to flow again, the tears that will leach the remaining energy from her tired body and make her that much more exhausted for the restless sleep to come.
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I once had a friend who would call me occasionally at work during the day and say: "What are you doing? Forget about work. Drop everything and come here." Invariably I would stretch my imagination in order to construct some plausible pretext for leaving the office and drive off through the traffic. My friend would always be found sitting behind his desk, a book open before him, thoroughly absorbed. Upon my approach, he would look up, smile, point to where he was reading and ask: "It says in here that Greeks invented coinage. What do you think?"
That friend was Spiros Stamoulis, a man with a unique love of Greek history. Though during my wag the office sessions we would come to discuss innumerable aspects of obscure Greek history, constructing such alternative outcomes as the consequences for world history had Greece successfully fulfilled its mandate in Asia Minor in 1919, one of the questions we would always return to was whether the Greeks actually invened coinage.
Spiros Stamoulis loved to quote Aristotle, who stated that possibly the first coins were struck by Demodike of Kyme, who married Midas, the King of Pessinus. I would counter through Herodotus, in whose History it is maintained that the Lydians, an Indo-European but non-Greek people 'were the first to coin in gold and silver.' This however, ignores the indisputable fact that coins of that era have been totally absent from archeological finds in Sardis, the capital of Lydia. A coin, by definition, is an object used to facilitate commerce and exchanges. Lydian 'coins' were likely not used in commerce or industry. They were not standardized in weight and were rather used as badges, medals or ceremonial objects issued by priests. That most Lydian coins have been found, not in Lydia itself, but rather in the Greek Temple of Artemis, seems to support their striking for religious, rather than commercial uses.
Further, the most ancient inscribed coin at present known, is from nearby Caria. This coin has a Greek legend which can be translated either as "I am the badge of Phanes" or as "I am the sign of light" One assumption is that Phanes was a wealthy merchant, another that the inscribed Phanes maybe was the Halicarnassian mercenary of Amasis, mentioned by Herodotus, who escaped to the court of Cambyse, became his guide in the invasion of Egypt in the year B.C. 527 and was probably buried alive by a sandstorm, while trying to conquer the temple of Amun in Egypt.
This being settled, we would then go on to consider the Aeginian 'turtle' coins, minted as early as 700BC. One of these can be found in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and we would daydream about acquiring it. Spiros Stamoulos would then discount my suggestion that the earliest known Chinese metal tokens, made in 900 BC, and discovered in a tomb near Anyang, may be the oldest coins.
In many ways, Spiros Stamoulis was one of those who inspired the growth of my own paltry Greek coin collection, not only through his interest in coins in general but also, because, upon my acquisition of say, a Byzantine coin from the reign of Alexius I, he would turn enthusiastically to that chapter in his books and debate with me, among other things, the true motives of the Crusaders. Further, unlike my parents, who would scratch their heads in wonderment as to why I was spending my money on such luxuries, Spiros Stamoulis would be genuinely excited about each new addition to the collection.
My sister is also another inspiration. As a young, idealistic and very enthusiastic amateur devotee of Byzantine history, I was often at a loss to understand why she, ten years yonger than me, did not share the same passion. I conceived a dastardly plain to surreptitiously teach her about things Byzantine, by acquiring Byzantine coins, and telling her the stories of the emperors they depicted, while she held them in her hand. If my memory serves me correctly, we had a lot of fun with the coin belonging to the emperor Phocas, for diverse reasons.
The collection took a turn for the ancient when a friend of mine at university, (the lean years when we were both flat broke) upon learning of my passion for coins, actually purchased a Syrian Graeco-Roman coin on lay by and presented it to me on my birthday. Sadly, on a trip to Rhodes, the 'ancient Greek coins,' the lovely man sold her and which were intended as a gift for me turned out to be brass, poorly cast fakes. These are my favourites.
Add to this mix, the 1926 Greek republican coins I found in my father's 1968 Lacrosse trophy (my father is way cool. Not only was he a Lacrosse champion, but he also has original mint condition Simon and Garfunkle records. I on the other hand, am unco-ordinated and boast in pride of place in my own music collection, «Το Χρυσο Κλαρίνο,» featuring Tasos Halkias) and the modern Greek coins I purloined from his own coin collection, resplendently housed in a blue plastic piggy bank, and it can be comprehended how my collection has come to include coins from the time of the invention of coinage, right up until the present.
In collecting coins from the Greek world, one partakes in a tangible way, in 4,000 years of continuous Greek history. To hold in one's hand, an Athenian tetradrachm that may have been used by Socrates himself, or a coin depicting Alexander the Great, which would have been used by one if his soldiers, or a cup shaped coin, used by the Komnenos Emperors of Byzantium during the time of the Crusades, or even an obol issued in the early years of the Free Greek State, is to step back in time and establish an immediate connection with a diverse, fascinating, and always convoluted cultural heritage.
Some of the coins in my collection tell their own story. One can trace the decline of the unitary vision of Alexander through the coinage of his generals and their successor states. One can also see how Greek culture permeated through Asia, right up to Afghanistan, through the coins of the first Greek Buddhist King, Menander. Through the Byzantine collection for example, one can see how art in the years of Constantine morphed from its Roman beginnings to something approaching Christian propaganda, with depictions of Christ and the Emperor. The coins of the iconoclast emperors are written in Greek but using Latin letters. They feature slogans designed to propagate a belief in the minds of the people that the Emperors were pious servants of God. The coins of the successor states of the Empire, such as those of Nicaea and Pontus place emphasis on depicting local saints, while the kingdoms established by the Crusaders in Greece employed coin designs recognisable in Western Europe, proving that our experience can only be understood in relation to that of others. Showing how cultural diversity can overstep the boundaries of ethnic or religious propaganda, I have a coin from the reign of Basil the Bulgar Slayer which has been overstamped by Islamic coiners and incorporated into the coinage of the Islamic Empire.
Other coins show just how piecemeal the development of the modern Greek world was: Coins from the Republic of the Ionian Isles, depicting Britannia and the Venetian Lion of St Mark, the Principality of Crete and the independent principality of Samos. The coins from the 1926 Republic draw as their inspiration, the Goddess Athena, whereas the coins of the dictatorship revert to depicting mythological beasts. The parallel should not be lost on us. Quite apart from the thrill of connecting in such a direct way with past millenia, Greek coins are an obviously ideal visual medium for creating interest in our history in people who otherwise consider the discipline heavy and tedious, which is why I feel privileged to be able to exhibit a small part of my collection in the Hellenic Museum's latest exhibition.
The Hellenic Museum's latest exhibition, aptly entitled "Millenia," is amazing. Not only does it, through the vision of its curator, Peter Minard, trace the history of the Greek speaking people over four millennia and across three continents, asking what is Greece, where is Greece and who is Greek, it does so through the collections of local collectors, proving that even in the Antipodes, we are able to commit ourselves to preserving and propagating our heritage. Coins aside, the Mitrakas collection, comprised of ancient Cypriot pottery, along with (the highlight), a breathtaking Roman copy of Praxiteles' faun, only of three known surviving copies, compels viewing again and again.
Back in the winter of 2001, I spent two glorious days in Thessaloniki, exploring Roman ruins, poking through Byzantine churches, Galerian arches and Rotondas with a friend who revelled in times past as much as I did. That friend was Nafsika Stamoulis. To know now that the fruits of a shared interest are exhibited in a museum founded in her memory, by her late and sorely missed father grants the presence of my coins within it a bittersweet poignancy and a resolve that the great man's broad and prescient vision of Antipodean Hellenism, as embodied by the Hellenic Museum, must be fulfilled, for millenia to come.
The Millenia Exhibition is currently being held at the Nafsika Stamoulis Hellenic Museum, 280 William Street, Melbourne.
First published in NKEE on Saturday, 3 July 2010
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What I have observed so far about Vietnam?
1. The words on in the same letter characters as English so I can read the Vietnam words on signs, and should be able to say things or repeat or look for places a lot easier.
2. Girls seem to wear clothes more like Thailand or are more liberated than Cambodia.
3. The building are built on a about a 20 foot or maybe 10 meter separation mode, everything is packed into the place and all building seem to be about 3-4 stories, just about like Phnom Penh, Cambodia but even more busy, but a little cleaner.
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"Look a CD Shop." I am almost positive that people put this on the list of countries to enter because of all the knockoff or copies of Music CD, and I have already seen 3 or 4 shops full of travelers.
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I was twenty-six when I purchased the book that introduced me to William Burroughs's cut-up tape experiments. I rarely bought new books in my twenties. Mostly, I would pick up inexpensive second-hand copies of poetry books and visit St. Mark's Bookshop to browse but, in 1997, I left with a copy of Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde (1992) edited by Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead. I carried the book around for a period of time and read certain chapters more closely than others. The one I read in its entirety was "Sound Identity Fading Out: William Burroughs' Tape Experiments," by Robin Lyndenberg.
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Flash forward to 1999; I find myself enrolled in a graduate course taught by John Szwed, a professor of Anthropology and African American Studies in the division of Sociocultural Anthropology. I don't remember much about the class except that one of the editors of Wireless Imagination was mentioned in the course readings, which prompted me to enroll. Something else happened in 1999: Douglas Kahn published his book Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, dedicating another chapter to Burroughs's sound work.
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El Metrotranvía de Mendoza es un sistema de tren ligero para el Gran Mendoza, (Argentina) de unidades tranviarias por la traza de un antiguo corredor ferroviario, que correspondía al Ferrocarril General San Martín. Es operado por la Sociedad de Transporte Mendoza, una empresa propiedad del gobierno provincial.

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Las obras comenzaron hacia marzo de 2009 y se estimó inicialmente que durarían 12 meses esperándose que entrara en servicio durante 2011. El 28 de febrero de 2012 se inició una etapa de pruebas, a partir de abril con pasajeros, durante la cual el pasaje fue gratuito. El 8 de octubre de 2012 el Metrotranvía inició su servicio regular al mismo precio que un colectivo normal y con la posibilidad de realizar combinaciones gratuitas.

Construcción
En 2009 se comenzó con las obras, en agosto de este año se levantaron las vías entre Gutiérrez y Godoy Cruz. En agosto de 2010, las vías ingresaron al departamento Capital, donde se decidió continuar a nivel en vez de soterrar el tramo que comprende desde la calle Peltier y hasta Avenida Las Heras. En agosto de 2011 se realizaron las primeras pruebas, en la cual vecinos de la zona de Luzuriaga junto al gobernador Celso Jaque y otros funcionarios, recorrieron los primeros 4 kilómetros del recorrido total.

El 26 de septiembre de 2011 la presidenta Cristina Fernández de Kirchner visitó las obras y realizó un trayecto en tren desde Estación Progreso hasta Estación Luzuriaga, donde realizó un acto. Este acto tuvo como objeto la inauguración del transporte. El 30 de abril de 2012 el Metrotranvía comenzó su etapa de pruebas con pasajeros con frecuencias de una hora, las que se incrementaron paulatinamente hasta el comienzo del servicio regular el 8 de octubre.

Las obras para la llegada a Las Heras iniciaron en 2014 junto a la re construcción del edificio centenario de la estación Mendoza.

Hubo muchas fechas tentativas de inauguración, sin embargo, la construcción se demoró en el tiempo debido a distintos asentamientos informales ocupando la traza. El gobierno pudo relocalizar a algunas familias, pero finalmente se anunció que no podían continuar con obras hasta la estación Panquehua hasta solucionar el conflicto habitacional en su totalidad.

El Metrotranvía comenzó su servicio a Las Heras el 6 de mayo de 2019, con 9 paradores hasta la calle Avellaneda. En conjunto fue inaugurada la nueva estación Mendoza donde también empezó a funcionar la sede del Ente de Movilidad Provincial (EMOP).

El día sábado 29 de mayo de 2021 se sumó la parada Parque TIC, ubicada entre las paradas Independencia y Progreso.

Líneas
El Metrotranvía transita por cuatro departamentos del Gran Mendoza: Ciudad de Mendoza, Las Heras, Godoy Cruz y Maipú (Gutiérrez).

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El servicio está compuesto por once formaciones del tipo tren-tram. Cinco firmas participaron en la licitación: la francesa Alstom, la alemana Siemens, la española CAF la canadiense Bombardier y la china CNR Corporation Limited.

Para la decisión final se optó por la adquisición de 11 unidades marca Siemens–Duewag U2 (renombrados U89 por la fecha de fabricación) construidos en Alemania para el Tranvía de San Diego, y aunque usados, se encuentran en óptimas condiciones. Estos funcionan como coches gemelos (duplas) con la posibilidad de hasta tres pares a la vez en horas pico, con capacidad hasta 150 personas cada par. Las primeras duplas salieron de la ciudad de San Diego, EE. UU. en enero de 2011 y llegaron a ciudad de Mendoza el 28 de febrero de 2011, donde permanecieron en la Estación Gutiérrez hasta mayo, momento en el cual comenzarán las tareas de prueba y entrenamiento de conductores.

A fines del 2017, el Gobierno provincial denunció "irregularidades" cometidas en la operación por la anterior gestión del gobernador Francisco Pérez, dado que en 2012 se habían encargado al Metropolitan Transit System (MST) de San Diego 24 duplas usadas (más 5 de regalo) por 5,6 millones de dólares, que serían utilizadas para las futuras extensiones; sin embargo, solo llegaron 7 duplas (5 para desguace) luego de intensas gestiones ante el Gobierno nacional, y el resto nunca llegaron. Se estima que el Estado mendocino perdió 100 millones de pesos (argentinos) por lo que se presentará una denuncia judicial.

Futuras extensiones
El Metrotranvía será extendido unos 10 kilómetros hacia el norte para alcanzar como nueva terminal al Aeropuerto Internacional Gobernador Francisco Gabrielli. Estiman que la construcción de esta etapa demorará aproximadamente tres años. Asimismo, el Gobierno provincial anunció que estudia desviar el recorrido por la traza ferroviaria hacia calle públicas. Esto permitiría alcanzar el Aeropuerto de manera más directa y sin tener que pasar por una villa de emergencia. De concretarse, Mendoza sería la primera ciudad argentina que conecta su Aeropuerto con una alternativa de transporte masivo.

Una tercera etapa espera activar el ramal que se bifurca luego de cruzar la calle Beltrán en Godoy Cruz, llegando hasta la ex estación de Ferrocarriles Estación Luján de Cuyo, localizada en el municipio homónimo. Finalmente se espera construir una cuarta ampliación que llegaría hasta Chacras de Coria en Luján de Cuyo.

En julio de 2012, el Gobernador de la Provincia de Mendoza anunció el llamado a licitación de la segunda y tercera etapa, las cuales extenderán la red por 10 kilómetros más. Requerirá una inversión estimada de $120 millones de pesos y se espera que según el proceso de presentación y estudio de los oferentes, las obras inicien antes de fin de año.

El proyecto establece que la segunda etapa que llegará hasta Luján, en su primer tramo se extienda desde la calle Pellegrini de Mendoza hasta la Estación Benegas del departamento de Godoy Cruz, con un trazado de 5 kilómetros de extensión, una trocha de 1435 mm. y 6 paradores (Chacabuco, Rivadavia, San Vicente, Ingenieros, Loria, Estación Benegas). En el primer tramo de la tercera etapa, que va desde la Estación Central de Ciudad hasta la plaza departamental de Las Heras, también habrá seis paradores (Maure, Jorge A. Calle, Thompson, Estación Tamarindos y Paul Harris). Esta última línea finalmente quedó inaugurada en mayo de 2019.

Además para esta nueva etapa de extensión se contempla la compra de 24 duplas Siemens–Duewag U2 para las etapas siguientes del Metrotranvía de Mendoza, con una inversión estimada en 25 millones de pesos.

Cobertura WiFi
La red de Metrotranvía o MTM contaba con sistema de conexión WiFi desde el año 2013, sin embargo la misma no alcanzaba la totalidad del sistema y los convenios con empresas que prestaban el servicio se vencieron en el año 2015. A partir del mes de septiembre de 2017 comenzó a operar nuevamente, esta vez brindando servicio a la totalidad del sistema, incluidas sus estaciones y paradores, siendo este libre y gratuito.

Datos generales
 Longitud (etapa 1): 12,5 km.
 Paradas (etapa 1): 15.
 Costo del presupuesto original (obras de electrificación, señalamiento, semaforización y comunicaciones además de arreglos de puentes, alcantarillas y zanjas de guarda) $ 62,5 millones ARS, (16,7 millones USD / 12,5 millones EUR)
 Costo final $ 130 millones ARS
 Trenes: 11 formaciones de dos coches (duplas)
 Fabricante Ferroviario: En licitación
 Constructora: Ceosa – Sogesic

Véase también
 Anexo:Sistemas de metro en América Latina
 Anexo:Sistemas de metro
 Tranvía de San Diego
 Red ferroviaria argentina
 Servicios de bicicletas públicas (Ciudad de Mendoza)

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Sitio web oficial
 www.railwaygazette.com Metrotranvía deal signed Railway Gazette International (en inglés)

Tranvías en Argentina
Ferrocarriles suburbanos de Argentina
Ferrocarril en la provincia de Mendoza
Transporte en la ciudad de Mendoza
Departamento Godoy Cruz
Departamento Maipú (Mendoza)
Mendoza (Argentina)
Departamento Las Heras

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This cupboard was designed by David Bristow and Mick Nash of Sedley Place Design in collaboration with Tim Wood, for a well known film director's house in central London. Made in maple and birds eye maple with oak detailing, with interiors in cedar of Lebanon. Cedar of Lebanon is a fantastic deterrent for moths, so we often line wardrobes in it.


Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) will give policy support to "landless mobile pastoralists" in the country as these marginalized herders play both for society at large and for the environment. This was stated by the Chairman, PARC Mr. Naveed Saleemi.
The country will witness production of vegetables, fruits and flowers worth around Rs 248 billion in current fiscal year pushing cereal crops to the second position in the total contribution to the Agriculture Gross Domestic Product.
The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) has appointed Ms. Pamela George as the new Ganges Basin Leader for its Ganges Basin Research Program. The decision was made jointly by CPWF and the WorldFish Center, CPWF's lead partner in the Ganges.
Meghalaya Governor R S Mooshahary today said a policy change is needed to make agriculture a vocational choice for the educated youth.According to the Governor, agriculture must be in a position to attract young men and women with good education to take it as a vocation of choice and not a choiceless livelihood option where despair and poverty force people to kill themselves.
The mountain people in Nepal are worse off as compared to their brethren in the plains with nearly 40 per cent faring below the poverty line in a country where the national average is 31 per cent.
The Director General presenting the strategic framework for ICIMOD said that the marginal mountain populations are becoming socially, economically and environmentally more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. He added that the meeting was important to share knowledge and enhance regional cooperation for sustainable mountains and better livelihoods of its people.
Crop yields and sowing and harvesting patterns may undergo striking changes in 20 to 30 years owing to rise in average temperatures and fall in fresh water reserves, Dr Pervaiz Amir, an agriculture and environment expert, told The Express Tribune. He was asked to access the likely impact of climate change on Pakistan in the near future.
Gundersen Lutheran Hospital, in La Crosse, Wis., aims to be energy independent by 2014. Hospitals use a ton of energy, so that's a tough goal to meet. But Gundersen is getting there by piggybacking on Wisconsin's best-known industries: beer and cheese.
In the foothills of the Andes, in the Sierra Piura region of Peru, the problems faced by coffee farmers are clear. Up to 6,600 farmers produce here for the Central Piurana de Cafetaleros co-operative (Cepicafe), growing 4,000 tonnes a year of the finest Peruvian coffee on family plots scattered across the mountainside.
Indigenous people feel excluded from the official democratic systems in their countries as long as they can't be elected without forming a political party. This concern was brought up by a number of representatives of indigenous people of Latin America and the Carribean at a round-table discussion held on Thursday in New York.
ICIMOD, Bhutan's Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, and the National Commission for Women and Children are organizing an international conference, Bhutan+10, which will bring together mountain women and men, researchers, policy makers, and development practitioners from the HKH region and around the world in a post-Rio+20 world for a comprehensive update, stock-taking, and new agenda setting.
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Message from the mountains - why mountains should be brought to the top of the environment agenda ahead of Rio+20.


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Review: The King of Fighters XIV Free Download PC Fighting Game Full Version Direct Link 100% Work. The King of Fighters XIV Full Version Free Download is a fighting game in The King of Fighters (KOF) video game series developed and published in Japan by SNK. It was developed for the PlayStation 4 and released in August 2016. Atlus USA and Deep Silver published the game in North America and Europe, respectively. It is notable as the first main-series The King of Fighters game rendered entirely in 3D, in contrast to previous installments which used 2D raster imagery.
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The game's development began in April 2014 when SNK's CEO announced the company should start designing new, appealing video games. This entry in the series was directed by Yasuyuki Oda who has previously worked on Capcom's Street Fighter IV as well as titles by SNK. While working to make it as popular as The King of Fighters '98 and The King of Fighters 2002, the designers also decided to implement the "Rush" system to invite newcomers to the series.
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For the story mode, players can choose a team of three fighters and interact with others depending on their relationships. The story begins years after the last tournament when a mysterious Russian billionaire called Antonov buys the rights of the King of Fighters brand to host a new tournament. But the end, the fighters must confront a creature called Verse, whose existence is the result of Ash Crimson's time and space distortion, when he changed the timeline in the previous tournament. This anomaly attracted characters from other dimensions and universes, such as Nakoruru, and implicates three characters called Shun'Ei, Meitenkun, and Kukri.[6]
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EFCC, Interpol partner to promote maritime security through Project AGWE
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is to collaborate with the Interpol to promote maritime security through a special project, tagged 'Project AGWE.'
The project which will involve Nigeria, Cote D'Ivoire Ivory Coast, Togo, Ghana and Benin Republic is aimed at ridding Nigeria and the other countries involved of economic sabotage in the maritime environment.
The acting chairman of EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, disclosed this at the agency's head office in Abuja alongside Anastasia Kirillas, Interpol's Analyst and leader of Interpol's delegation, who came on a working visit to the commission.
Kirillas explained Project AGWE' is for the designated countries to work together and encourage cooperation and broader intelligence sharing between law enforcement agencies across national borders.
Apart from assisting the EFCC in investigation and capacity building, Kirillas said the initiative will focus on maritime security in the designated countries and the strengthening of the capacities of law enforcement agencies in the West African sub-region. She praised the EFCC for its effective collaboration with the Nigerian Navy through joint operations.
The project, which Kirillas disclosed is sponsored by the United States Department of State, will further strengthen West African regional capabilities in maritime security, through the exploitation of evidence and intelligence in the region, and building stronger relationship in the light of the expanding criminal networks within the region's maritime environment.
Kirillas further assured that the collaboration will lead to improved capacity building, mentoring and the equipping of law enforcement agencies in the designated countries with tools to preserve crime scenes, and collection and exploitation of evidences.
Magu in his response observed the need for improved regional and international cooperation between Nigeria and other countries in terms of Intel sharing and gathering, noting that information in important sin carrying out criminal investigations.
The EFCC boss added that a seamless flow of information among regional and international law enforcement agencies was needed to confront the expanding frontiers of economic crimes.
While expressing his deep appreciation of Interpol's assistance to the commission, he noted that cooperation between the commission and Interpol has been beneficial to both parties.
Through such cooperation, the commission was able to nab a suspect in a case of money laundering to the tune of €650,000.
The agency said it was able to secure an interim forfeiture of the suspect's several properties to the federal government, while prosecuting him at a Federal High Court in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State.
Other members of the Interpol delegates include: Borislav Gizdavkov, an Interpol analyst and Mohammed Abubakar, administration officer, Interpol National Office.
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This mission, the fourteenth flight of the telescope was devoted to measure the far-infrared spectrum of the earth's upper atmosphere and a number of astronomical sources. The prime goal was to use the spectra to measure the abundances of various molecules in the stratosphere, and thereby provide experimental data against which one can judge the applicability of existing theoretical models of the earth's ozone layer. A second goal was to determine physical conditions in star forming regions in the galaxy, including a search for far-infrared maser emission.
Good stratospheric spectra were obtained.


It is a supplement of branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) with Arginine AKG, Zinc monomethionine and Vitamin B6. Amino-4 COMPLEX can help building strength and muscular mass, it facilitates the recovery after training and provides energy. Thanks to its formula rich in amino acids, it is particularly suitable in sports of resistance and power. The branched-chain amino acids (leucine, isoleucine and valine) constitute around 30% of the proteins in the muscles and have a key role in the metabolic processes. Many researchers attribute to BCAA the ability to stimulate the release of some important hormones in our organism. Amino-4 COMPLEX contains Zinc Monomethionine, where Zinc is bind to the essential amino acid Methionine.
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Connecticut's economy has been adding jobs since the end of the Great Recession and has more than recovered all of the private-sector jobs lost during the downturn.
The government sector continues to contract and is holding back overall job growth. Despite growth that is slower than the nation and our neighboring states, the unemployment rate has fallen.
In the past year, jobs have increased by more than 22,000 with gains in health care and social assistance, manufacturing, accommodation and food service, construction and finance and insurance. Retail trade, state government and local government have all declined.
Transportation and warehousing also increased, offsetting some of the decrease in retail resulting from changes in shopping patterns as consumers do more shopping online. The increase in manufacturing is a big change for Connecticut, which has seen manufacturing decline for decades.
Looking ahead, recently released projections for employment by industry and occupation show continued growth for Connecticut, but at a slower projected pace than the nation. The slowdown is largely driven by demographics.
Population projections from the Connecticut State Data Center predict a slowdown in Connecticut's population growth. The population is also expected to age, with declines in the school-aged population and increases in the number of people over 65.
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Finn Church Aid (FCA) is the largest Finnish international aid organization. We operate in 14 countries, where the needs are most dire. We work with the poorest people, regardless of their religious beliefs, ethnic background or political convictions.
Permanent change in developing countries can only be achieved through persistent cooperation with local communities and people. Finn Church Aid is committed to working until the people in need can independently secure their livelihood and satisfy their basic needs.
The reduction of poverty requires achieving peace and the realisation of human rights. Through our projects, we work to ensure both. We encourage decision-makers and all Finns to address structures that induce poverty, violence and human rights violations.
In 2017, FCA provided aid for 38.6 million euros in value. The majority of our funds come from private donors, international institutional donors, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, and parishes. Over 87 percent of the donated funds are directed to aid work. The share of domestic operations and general administration is about 13 percent.
FCA is a partner organisation of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and a founding member of the international aid alliance of churches, ACT Alliance. The alliance forms one of the largest aid organisations in the world. Its total volume is €1.5 billion each year, and it has operations in 140 countries. Over 100 aid organisations are involved in ACT Alliance.


The Metolong Dam and Water Supply Programme (MDWSP) involved the construction of the Metolong dam and a 123 km water conveyance system to major towns in the lowlands. The MDWSP impacted public, private and communal properties and assets. rePlan prepared a Resettlement Action Plan that complies with the laws of the Government of Lesotho and the World Bank. The complex project included the valuation and compensation for permanently and temporarily impacted assets in 10 Councils with over 1,500 households. It also entails a livelihoods restoration program for households losing grazing land. Extensive consultation with councils and communities has ensured that the compensation policies, valuation process and payments are understood. A socio-economic survey of the impacted households included household questionnaires, focus group discussions and key informant interviews.
rePlan planned, designed and implemented a social baseline survey in support of resettlement and compensation planning and implementation. The survey included a quantitative household questionnaire (delivered to close to 1500 households) on demography, livelihoods, and immoveable assets, as well as a number of focus groups and key informant interviews. Our scope of works has included design, development, implementation and ongoing management of a comprehensive information management system to incorporate, analysis and report on survey results, as well as capture key resettlement and compensation process milestones. Results are used to inform ongoing planning and implementation activities by our team.
In addition, we planned and designed a monitoring program for households that have already been displaced. This program included a household questionnaire, as well as – typical of our projects – more qualitative investigatory techniques (key informant interviews, focus groups, etc.


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[Tuesday 27th January] After very slow (or zero) progress over the last few days, my family tree suddenly had a big boost on several fronts. I'd ordered two more birth certificates over a week ago, and they arrived early this morning. This told me my great great grandmother's maiden name - Hogan, and I was then able to look up her family in the 1881 census and add a big chunk. Secondly, some very kind Australians answered my request for help on one of the geneaology newsgroups, and I was able to find out a lot about my great grandfather's younger brother. I'd known very vaguely that most of my great grandfather's siblings had gone to Australia, and have always thought it would be great to discover some Australian cousins, but having very little information to go on, I'd never got anywhere.
It turned out my great grandfather's younger brother Vernon had moved to Australia when he was very young - possibly around 18. He'd enrolled in the Australian army for both world wars (and survived!). The enrolement records were a goldmine of useful information. Not only did they have details like his date and place of birth, allowing me to confirm it was the right guy, it also listed the town he was from and who his wife was. So, at the end of WWII, my great great uncle was known to be alive, and in Lidcombe (a district of Sydney it seems) in New South Wales. Proabably he had children, most likely born in the 1920s, and who knows, maybe some of them could still be alive today. Or at least, their children or grandchildren.
In the evening, I went out with Chie and some of her friends for a meal at the Yellow River Cafe, which was surprisingly good, followed by a trip to the cinema to see The Last Samurai. Not really my cup of tea, despite being set in Japan. It just all seemed a bit pointless, really.
WOW! Excellent work! There will always be more tree to discover, though!
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Tanzania: Director Amil Shivji puts Tanzanian cinema on the global map with 'Tug of War'
By Wilfred Okiche
Posted on Friday, 7 January 2022 11:53
Photo still from movie 'Tug of War'
It is a long way from the coast of Zanzibar to the bustling metropolis of Toronto, but in September 2021, 'Vuta N'Kuvute' (Tug of War) - the second feature length fiction film by director Amil Shivji - achieved the fine distinction of becoming the first Tanzanian film to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
A period romance set against the backdrop of colonial-era Zanzibar in the 1950s, a time when the air was thick with the possibility of a political revolution, Vuta N'Kuvute (Tug of War) is an adaptation of the award-winning novel with the same title, written by Shafi Adam Shafi – one of the leading lights of Swahili literature.
When I picked up Vuta N'Kuvute, I could not put it down. The way that Shafi writes is cinematic and the language so beautiful that I could just see all the images playing out on the big screen…
Shivji's film was well received in Toronto before showcasing in Ouagadougou, where it won the Oumarou Ganda Prize in the Outlook section at the Pan-African Film and Television Festival (Fespaco).
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Tug of War is an epic and visually lush romance with a pair of star-crossed lovers at its poetic centre. Alive with the heat of young love and the danger of political engagement, Shivji's film draws parallels with contemporary events, as the characters seek forbidden freedoms in the period leading up to the January 1964 revolution.
On the shores of the centuries-old trade port in the Indian Ocean's 'Spice Islands' – then under British protectorate control, Denge (Gudrun Columbus Mwanyika) – a young Mswahili revolutionary crosses paths with Yasmin (Ikhlas Gafur Vora), a rebellious Indian-Zanzibari woman fleeing an arranged marriage. Their romance blossoms against the backdrop of a political uprising in the final years of British colonial rule.
This period was erased from our history books. We were never behind the camera during colonial periods so were never able to create our perspectives and record them. With colonial archives, everything is framed from the point of the oppressor.
Shivji, 31, first came across Shafi's novel like most other Tanzanians, through a required reading in high school. It wasn't until years later, however, while struggling with a screenplay, that a friend advised him to look back at some of the Swahili literary giants.
Shivji says: "I went back to the work of Adam Shafi, who is still alive and has written some of the most phenomenal Swahili novels. When I picked up Vuta N'Kuvute, I could not put it down. The way that Shafi writes is cinematic and the language so beautiful that I could just see all the images playing out on the big screen very easily."
In reality, adapting the novel for the film was easier said than done, as there was no precedent for this kind of collaboration. The bulk of Tanzanian films are Nollywood-inspired low-budget 'bongo films', mass-released in DVD format. A big-screen adaptation of a Swahili novel, particularly one set in Zanzibar, was a novel idea, as most films are produced in Dar es Salaam.
After completing his debut feature T-Junction in 2017, Shivji travelled to York University, Toronto for his Master's degree. He developed the script as part of his thesis before moving to Zanzibar – where his grandparents are from – for two years, to research.
It is there that he met with locals and secured direct access to the history. Shivji says: "This period was erased from our history books. We were never behind the camera during colonial periods so were never able to create our perspectives and record them. With colonial archives, everything is framed from the point of the oppressor."
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A professor at York, John Greyson introduced Shivji to Steve Markovitz, the veteran South African producer behind major titles like Rafiki and Viva Riva!. Much like his previous films, Markovitz was attracted to the political dimension subsumed within the love story and his influence was key to getting the project off the ground.
"Zanzibar has no film infrastructure, so it was a long road of planning and relationship building to prepare for the shoot. The crew were from Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam, Kenya, South Africa, Holland and France. The editing process was interrupted by Covid-19 for many months, but we found solutions to working remotely," he tells The Africa Report via email.
To preserve the authenticity, it was important to Shivji that Tug of War be expressed in Kiswahili, the language of the people. Early meetings with at least one potential big-time distributor looking to spruce up the English quotient were aborted. "The only way I would have done that was to increase the role of the colonial officers and that was not something I had any interest in," Shivji says.
Tug of War tells an untold part of East African history… The film says something about today – the necessity for young people to challenge exploitative power structures that exist in society…
Kiswahili, one of the two official languages in Tanzania – the other is English – represents the most common indigenous form of expression. Historically, a diverse group of people (Arab, African, Indian, Portuguese and English) were subsumed under the Swahili identity.
The language represents the culture, a way of life and the glue that has kept the country unified following the traumatic years of colonialism. Markovitz says: "Tug of War tells an untold part of East African history. I hope audiences can be charmed and seduced by the film resulting in a deeper interest in Zanzibar history. The film says something about today – the necessity for young people to challenge exploitative power structures that exist in society today."
Film to screen
Even though the novel had all the elements of a great narrative, Shivji was looking to make his own interpretation of the material. His first draft of the screenplay was a direct translation from novel to screenplay. According to him, this was necessary in order to take Shafi's voice out of the equation.
Shivji then reworked the material, excising outdated tropes. Nowhere was this more prominent than with the character of Yasmin, the female lead. "In the novel, she is this very naïve and passive character for long amounts of time and only gets radicalised by Denge. I did not want a character like that. My Yasmin, you can sense this spirit of rebelliousness already in her even before meeting Denge," Shivji says. "I felt it would be a huge disservice to the growth of political movements over time to present a past without accounting for gender representation and the role of women in the struggles."
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In what could be described as something of a homecoming, Tug of War premieres in Zanzibar on 11 December and Shivji is hopeful that the film will be received warmly by the people for whom it is made. He also has his eyes on history and aspires to have the film represent a shift in Tanzanian cinema. "We need to see originality in our films. If there is a place to be inspired from, it is our literature. My biggest hope is to revitalise this love for Swahili literature and be able to tell stories that we believe in," he says.


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Marco Rubio is notorious for his truancy, having the least attendance and worst voting record of any sitting Senator. Somehow, he still found time to do some serious political damage to our international relations with our third-biggest trading partner on the one day he deigned to show up for work – blocking the nomination of Roberta Jacobson, President Obama's nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Mexico.
The LA Times has lauded Jacobson as an acknowledged expert in Latin American affairs and skilled in cross-border trade negotiations. She was nominated six months ago by President Obama, to broad bipartisan support in the Senate, while Mexico, has, itself, expressed enthusiastic support and prepared to welcome her to Mexico City. In fact, her nomination was approved by a 12-7 vote in the Republican led Senate Foreign Relations Committee and has been sent on for a vote by the full Senate. Rubio, who under Senate rules, can and has taken it upon himself to hold up the vote because of his "staunch opposition to Obama's diplomatic opening with Cuba, which Jacobson helped negotiate as assistant secretary of State."
Jacobson's sin was that she was the most 'visible' shepherd of President Obama's rapprochement with Cuba last year. Rubio is accusing Jacobson and the president "of failing to ensure that Cuba improve human rights before restoring ties, and of glossing over the Castro government's penchant for stifling dissent."
Forgetting for the moment that Rubio is the son of Cuban immigrants, Rubio seems to be forgetting his Republican corporatist roots – Mexico is an important export market for California and other states. It is also the permanent residence of 1 million U.S. citizens as well as visits from 1.5 million people daily. We also share a 2,000- mile border with Mexico and "are partners in numerous security agreements involving extradition, weapons trafficking and cross-border police training."
So Rubio's false bravado and moral outrage gets in the way of his understanding of our crucial economic and strategic relationship with Mexico – using his position as an absentee U.S. Senator to block Jacobson appointment as ambassador – a qualified presidential appointment. As Eric Olson, associate director of the Latin American program at the nonpartisan Wilson Center in Washington notes:
"The failure to complete her nomination sends a bad signal to our Mexican partners and all those Americans whose livelihoods and well being depend on maintaining a good and balanced relationship between neighbors."
For obvious reasons Jacobson has been reluctant to speak about the nomination process, but she hesitantly points out:
"There are huge opportunities for Americans thanks to structural economic reforms in Mexico, especially in the energy and telecommunications industries…The advocacy, support and visibility of a U.S. ambassador to help promote American businesses… makes a difference."
Rubio declined comment for the LA Times story, but he is the man who 'hates' his job in the Senate and who has in fact missed about 34 percent of his votes from January through October. In fact, Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Ca) wrote a letter to Rubio along with 18 other Latino members of Congress urging him to lift his "misguided" hold on the Jacobson nomination reminding him that "strong leadership at our embassy in Mexico city has perhaps never been more important." Sanchez also noted that there are over 22 million U.S.-born Mexican Americans who reside her:
"While I understand Sen. Rubio has his own political ambitions to serve, there is absolutely no justification for holding up the nomination of [such] a qualified woman."
The bottom line is Marco Rubio, the hooky-playing U.S. Senator, who now owns the title "most truant career" in the Senate, regularly speaks of his Cuban heritage for political points. But Rubio's only accomplishment has been to boast of his hard-line stance against Cuba by unilaterally and vindictively blocking the vote on an eminently qualified presidential appointment to be U.S. ambassador to a strategic ally and trading partner. Let us not forget he similarly tried to block the Iranian Peace accord and pretends at being "strong on foreign policy," but all he has to offer is discord, hostility, empty words of "strength" and archaic Cold War paranoias.
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"Горски цар" е балада от Йохан Волфганг фон Гьоте. По нея е създадена музика от Франц Шуберт и от Карл Льове. Баладата разказва за дете, убито от Горския цар (в германския фолклор, Горският цар е зъл дух, често свързван с дявола). Написана е през 1782 година за една опера-балада, наречена Die Fischerin (Рибарката).

Дете умира на коня по време на пътуване с баща си и едва при пристигането на крайната цел, бащата разбира, че е загубил сина си. Пътуването се осъществява на кон, при мъгла и в тъмното. При тези условия възприятията на участниците за случващото се около тях, се различават. Детето иска да насочи вниманието на баща си към Горския цар и други заобикалящи ги обекти, които го привличат или превиждат, но бащата намира бърз отговор за тези явления. Накрая на общия път, осеян с притеснения за младия спътник, се оказва, че той се е поминал.

Erlenkoenig или Еrlkoenig крие в корена си ERL като дървото Erle – елша, но и прилагателното еhrlich – откровен.

Дървото елша е от семейството на брезите и може да расте в бедна на хранителни вещества почва, изхвърля листата си още зелени и се нарича също дърво-пионер.

Ehrlich е прилагателно име за откровен – човек, който говори в прав текст. В немския има фразата – deutsch und deutlich – за такъв откровен начин на говорене.

Някои литературни критици свързват творбата с интимни преживявания на героите, други отхвърлят тази теза.

Германски литературни произведения
Йохан Волфганг фон Гьоте


The ETS-Lindgren 7605/7606 Coil/Shielded Coil Antennas are used as part of a system to verify the ability of an EUT to withstand radiating magnetic fields. The Model 7605 is a 20-turn coil of AWG-12 enamel-insulated copper wire and features a 5 cm spacing from the top of the loop to the center-point of the coils as per MIL-STD 462D. The Model 7606 sensing loop is a 4 cm diameter, electrostatically-shielded loop antenna which has 51 turns of 7-strand AWG-41 Litz wire. The model 7605 is now the recommended antenna for ISO 11452-8 "Road vehicles - Component test methods for electrical disturbances for narrowband radiated electromagnetic energy - Part 8: Immunity magnetic fields." The model 7605 produces a magnetic flux density of 9.5x107 pT/A, or 160dB(pT/A), on axis at a distance of 5 cm from its center. The model 7606 is used together with the model 7605 to calibrate the model 7605 and the other instrumentation used in the test. A table containing the conversion factors for the model 7606 can be found in the manual.


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Q: Unable to run python gstreamer script without sudo I would like to know if someone can answer why I cant seem to get a python gstreamer pipline to work without sudo in linux. I have a very small gstreamer pipline and it fails to open the gstreamer if I dont run with sudo infront of python.
I have soon depleted my options, any help would be appriciated. (Using Jetson Orin and ubuntu 20.05)
import sys
import cv2

def read_cam():
    G_STREAM_TO_SCREEN = "videotestsrc num-buffers=50 ! videoconvert ! appsink"
    cap = cv2.VideoCapture(G_STREAM_TO_SCREEN, cv2.CAP_GSTREAMER)
    if cap.isOpened():
        cv2.namedWindow("demo", cv2.WINDOW_AUTOSIZE)
        while True:
            ret_val, img = cap.read()
            cv2.imshow('demo',img)
            cv2.waitKey(1)
    else:
     print ("camera open failed")

    cv2.destroyAllWindows()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    read_cam()

A: This is absolutely OK, since vp devices owned by root user.
What you can do is to create new group, add current user to it, change group of vp devices to the new one & grant rw permissions.

A: Reinstall your computer and be thorough with your installations….

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Orthopedic, Oncology & Trauma
Iatrogenic nerve injury in acetabular fracture surgery
Haidukewych GJ
Scaduto J
Herscovici D Jr
Sanders RW
DiPasquale T
Iatrogenic nerve injury in acetabular fracture surgery: a comparison of monitored and unmonitored procedures.
To review our experience with iatrogenic nerve injuries and to evaluate the efficacy of intraoperative monitoring in a large consecutive series of operatively treated acetabular fractures.
Retrospective, nonrandomized.
Level I Trauma Center, January 1, 1992 through December 31, 1998.
PATIENTS/PARTICIPANTS
A total of 256 consecutive acetabular fractures were operatively treated at our institution; 140 unmonitored procedures and 112 monitored procedures were available for review. The decision to use monitoring was at the discretion of the treating surgeon.
Open reduction and internal fixation of the acetabular fracture.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENT
Preoperative and postoperative neurologic examinations, fracture type, use of traction, dislocation, operative approach, and complications were analyzed. Motor strength, sensation, the need for gait aids, orthoses, and extent of recovery were evaluated.
Traumatic nerve palsies were present in eleven of 140 (7.9 percent) unmonitored and thirteen of 112 (11.6 percent) monitored fractures (p = 0.314). There were fourteen iatrogenic sciatic nerve palsies in 252 cases (5.6 percent). There were four iatrogenic sciatic palsies (2.9 percent) in the unmonitored group and ten iatrogenic palsies (8.9 percent) in the monitored group (p = 0.037). In the unmonitored group one of eighty-one Kocher-Langenbeck approaches (1.2 percent), two of fifty-two ilioinguinal (3.9 percent), and one of three extended iliofemoral approaches developed a sciatic palsy. In the monitored group six of seventy-seven Kocher-Langenbeck approaches (7.8 percent), three of twenty-five ilioinguinal (12 percent), and one of six combined approaches (16.7 percent) developed a sciatic palsy. In seven of the ten iatrogenic palsies in the monitored group, the intraoperative monitoring was normal. Seventy-six patients were monitored with somatosensory evoked potential alone, and nine had iatrogenic injuries (11.8 percent). Thirty-six patients were monitored with somatosensory evoked potential and electromyography, and one had an iatrogenic injury (2.8 percent) (p = 0.164). Clinical follow-up was available for three of the four patients with iatrogenic injuries in the unmonitored group, with a mean follow-up of twenty-seven months (range 8 to 60 months). Two patients had full motor recovery at a mean of six months, and one had no recovery at fourteen months.
The use of intraoperative monitoring did not decrease the rate of iatrogenic sciatic palsy. Further study involving larger prospective, randomized methodology appears warranted. Sciatic nerve injury was more common in ilioinguinal approaches in both groups, likely due to reduction techniques for the posterior column performed with the hip flexed, placing the sciatic nerve under tension.
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Bicyclus hyperanthus, or Bethune-Baker's bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda and north-western Tanzania. The habitat consists of sub-montane forests.

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Butterflies described in 1908