The many bronze statues of cartoon characters refer to the annual comics festival.
Each year new statues are added.
You will come across these statues on the dike promenade from Middelkerke to Westende-Bad.
Admire the comic heroes one by one. Do you recognize any of them?
Below you can see pictures of a few but there are many more.


I am a big fan of magical thinking. The technique has carried me through many a rough patch in life.
Recently, I was having a bad day. They say bad events arrive in threes. That day, my bad incidents numbered nine. Nothing truly horrible occurred. However, if I ever wanted to write a country song, the events provided enough material to create four detailed stanzas.
Singing does make me feel better when I'm sad. Recently, I picked up my guitar again, trying to learn how to play the blues. I've spent hours watching YouTube videos on The Piedmont Blues, The Delta Blues and Blues Licks That Will Impress Your Friends. After a few months, I've mastered five chords: E, E7, A, A7 and B7. I can't transition between the chords rapidly, nor can I fingerpick. I can belt out a sluggish version of The Folsom Prison Blues, which is a painful experience for my dog, Sadie, who leaves the room when I play.
Back to my terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. I'd heard about a weekly blues jam in town and had always wanted to visit. On the evening of that bad day, I figured I could chase away my blues by playing the blues with others.
Here's where my magical thinking came in. Admittedly, I only knew five chords, so I hoped they would only play slow songs in the key of E. I also hoped that someone miraculously would call out the chords during each song. If worse came to worst, I'd just sit in the back of the room, playing air guitar and looking all bluesy.
The two guys could not have been more gracious and kind. And, they did try to accommodate my extremely limited guitar skills. To my credit, I managed to slip in a few strong "E" chords that sounded okay, except for when a song happened to be in G.
Even I felt stunned by the bizarreness of my excuse. I wasn't exactly lying. Theoretically, it is possible that any one of us could have a cataract brewing at any time. But still.
In the car, the absurdity of the situation struck me. I laughed all the way home.
To sum up, I played the blues with other jammers (sort of), which helped me feel better (sort of). So, for all you skeptics of magical thinking, I want to point out that sometimes magical thinking can be an effective coping tool.


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Davidson King presents Book 6 in the Haven Hart series. Contains mature themes.
Lee, Jones, and Ginger deal with dangerous situations and mounting stress daily working for the most powerful assassin organization in the world. All of those things seem like a walk in the park compared to the friction that sparks between them. When all three are assigned to the same job, ignoring the heat from the inferno of desire becomes impossible.
Lee is a master at deciphering codes, skilled in hacking complicated systems, and never misses a target, even from over fifty miles away. His feelings for Jones and Ginger, however, may be the first code he's unable to crack.
Jones deals in absolutes, but the road to his past is paved with bodies and regrets. Getting Lee to acknowledge the pull they both feel toward Ginger may be the hardest mission he's ever had to face.
Ginger struggles to cope with the overwhelming guilt that accompanies this new job. Falling for these hired killers will be a risk—one that could wind up with him losing in the end or gaining everything he's ever wanted.
As the three work together to take down a human trafficking ring—and save a desperate soul—time is of the essence.
Contains mature themes.
Book 6 in the Haven Hart series
Author Davidson King
Narrated by Joel Leslie, Philip Alces
Running time 6 hrs 8 min

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It can take years, sometimes even decades, before a new technology gets introduced to the market. In materials science, a new surface coating may not even make it out of the lab without the right industrialisation process in place. But even once a coating makes it out of a laboratory, it needs to meet the ever-changing needs of the market to bring the biggest benefit to customers. This requires yet another process: continuous improvement.
We spoke to Max Hutchins, newly appointed senior manufacturing engineer at Keronite, about continuous improvement in a fast moving, highly scientific environment. He told us about the company's new martial arts-inspired improvement methodology. It was pioneered, and still used, by companies like Toyota and General Electric, and it's helping Keronite improve plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) each and every day.
In the 1970s, Japanese manufacturers led the way for high-quality manufacturing. Their deeply ingrained culture of implementing small improvements all the time, a technique named kaizen, caught the eye of manufacturers across the world. Kaizen is the literal translation of 'continuous improvement' in Japanese. Even today kaizen is an integral tool in modern day operations management.
Throughout history, the most successful manufacturers have worked to continuously improve their products and offering to customers. For Keronite, this means speeding up lead times while continuing to improve the world's most advanced surface coatings for light alloys.
Max Hutchins joined Keronite as an operations engineer. He was responsible for deploying PEO coatings on to customer components, which at the time was very much focused on high-end sports equipment and aerospace components. "I joined as an operations engineer, back when Keronite was really beginning to scale its volume manufacturing business. This was in a time before we had an autonomous production line in place", explains Max, having joined the company prior to completing his Masters in Materials Science at Cambridge.
Over Max's time at Keronite, the company has installed its first autonomous production line, launched a US manufacturing division, and is now on the verge of opening a new UK technology centre. The new centre will effectively double the company's manufacturing capacity.
The major growth in volume manufacturing has made continuous improvement vital. This ensures Lean manufacturing cells are as 'lean' as they can be, so Keronite's customers can benefit from faster lead times, higher throughputs and measurably better quality.
We spoke to Max days before he was heading to Indiana, where Keronite's US manufacturing facility is based, to deliver training and review one of the continuous production lines just launched for a leading aerospace manufacturer. He visits the facility regularly but is always on-hand to provide support and diagnose manufacturing issues before they manifest. He also creates and implements training matrices, bespoke to every production project, which helps projects run smoothly.
Keronite's volume manufacturing business has scaled exponentially over the past 4 years. As well as dealing with a greater throughput, Keronite's materials scientists are developing increasingly sophisticated coatings for customers' exacting requirements. The company had already instilled a culture of 'Lean' manufacturing, but Max is pushing the company towards a project-oriented methodology called lean six sigma.
"Lean six sigma is a methodology which teaches you how to implement changes on a project-by-project basis," Max explains. Lean six uses the tools of Lean manufacturing to effect change based on continuous improvements. "There are five tenants; separating unnecessary processes, straightening items for optimal processing time, shine to maintain cleanliness, standardisation, and sustainability," Max continues.
Unlike many certifications, which has several levels, Lean Six Sigma practitioners are awarded belts, as in martial arts. Keronite has several engineers with yellow belts, but Max is working towards Six Sigma Black Belt – which will put the company at the same grade as many world-leading manufacturers (including GE and Toyota).
Continuous improvement is the fifth and final stage of Keronite's new product introduction process, and it applies to both the technology, through research and development, and Keronite's manufacturing arm, through Max and the rest of Keronite's engineering team.
Keronite's focus on technology and culture of innovation are still engrained deep within the culture of the company, helping develop ongoing improvements for customers. This is helping increase processing throughput that directly reduces costs, lead-time reduction to benefit customers working capital and supply chain management to reduce any admin or logistical burden.
Learn more about the company behind the world's most advanced surface treatments here, or get familiar with plasma electrolytic oxidation, our surface technology.


South Dakota Democrats and labor unions said they've gathered more than enough signatures to force a public vote on a minimum wage increase in the state.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Democrats and labor unions said they've gathered more than enough signatures to force a public vote on a minimum wage increase in the state.


A free UCLA seminar on "Treating Weight Gain after Bariatric Surgery" will take place from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Sat., Oct. 18 at the Grant Brimhall Library, 1401 E. Janss Road, Thousand Oaks.
UCLA gastroenterologist Dr. Rabindra Watson will present the program.
Weight gain after bariatric surgery is a common problem that occurs several years after the operation, often due to stretching that expands the surgically created gastric pouch.


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На почетку своје владавине Битинијом, удружио са Пергамски краљем Еуменом II у рату против понтског краља Фарнака I (181 - 179. п. н. е.). Касније је поражен у рату (156 - 154. п. н. е.) са Пергамским краљрвством. Пергамски краљ Еумен II је инсистирао на плаћању велике одштете након рата. Прусија је зато послао свог сина Никомеда II у Рим како би затражио њихову дипломатску интервенцију у сврху смањења репарација. Никомед је уместо тога искористио прилику да се побуни против оца и свргне га.

Прусија се жалио Риму, а Рим је онда послао комисију, која је тражила од Никомеда и Атала да прекину рат, али народ Битиније је добило инструкције да се жали на Прусију, па је то за комисију био добар изговор да се необављена посла врате у Рим. Рат се наставио, а Прусија II се повукао у утврђену Никомедију, али народ је отворило капије и пустило Никомеда са војском у град. Прусија II је потражио заштиту Зевсовога храма, али ту га је убио један од Никомедових изасланика.

Полибије је о Прусији говори као о кукавици и мекушцу, неумереном у телесним жељама и незаинтересеованом за образовање, филозофију, науку и уметност.

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Commentary: Ad woes likely to continue
Internet advertising is still centered on e-commerce sites and driven by online entities in spite of companies' claims that they are shifting to brick-and-mortar advertising customers.
January 2, 2002 4:43 PM PST
The reality is that too much Internet advertising is still centered on e-commerce sites and is driven by online entities.
That's in spite of efforts by Yahoo and other companies to attract investors by claiming they are shifting from dot-com to brick-and-mortar advertising customers. They're doing that because as dot-coms continue their struggle to survive, their ad budgets are no longer fat enough to sustain these ad-hungry sites, and heavy discounting of ad prices is continuing.
The initial promise of hypergrowth in Web advertising sales was based on the idea of Web banner ads generating value by direct click-through responses to advertisers' Web sites. Moreover, the Web site business model that relies solely on advertising revenue does not appear to be viable--especially for complex sites that require significant technical or personnel resources.
In the near term, the online advertising industry will continue the difficult weaning process from its reliance on dot-com advertisers and simple click-through ads. We believe Web ads will increasingly offer a palette of interaction options, ranging from flat ads to choices including multiple click-through, opt-in, interaction and multimedia. Furthermore, Web advertising will increasingly be rationalized as a component of multimedia, brand-centric marketing campaigns.
Despite the dot-com implosion, online advertising is still growing at an average rate of 14 percent per year. It has grown steadily during the past 18 quarters, and last quarter reached $2.1 billion in the United States. Although Merrill Lynch has reduced its estimate for 2001 to $8 billion (flat growth), it still expects 30 percent growth in 2002 to $10.4 billion, which would continue the long-term 14 percent growth curve.
This confirms that the real problem that Yahoo, Lycos and other advertising-driven sites have is not the long-term growth potential of online advertising, but the disappearance of venture capital that fueled the spike in Web ads generated by more or less ephemeral "dot-boom" start-ups.
The value proposition of advertising has always been, in part, a matter of faith. In the pre-Internet world, methods for directly measuring advertising effectiveness included coupons, instructions to mention an ad to receive a discount, and reports from media outlets enumerating readership. But it was still difficult to measure the ability of ads to change perceptions and trigger customer actions.
Companies typically did not know with certainty which ad or combination of ads caused a specific consumer to walk into their store or place an order for a particular product. What was measurable, however, was the overall increase in sales that occurred during and immediately after a well-designed, multichannel advertising and public relations campaign.
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Online ads get in your face
One of the original attractions of online advertising was the potential to gather immediate empirical information on the effectiveness of each ad. For the first time, a medium could directly track ad viewers and count how many people took action based on the ad (by clicking through). Moreover, online advertising promised detailed statistics on individual ad viewers and, consequently, more precise targeting of subsequent campaigns.
Opt-in e-mail advertising is one subset of online marketing that has clearly delivered on that promise. E-mail campaigns have proven much more effective and less costly than bulk mail. The lists are much smaller, but response rates approach 30 percent--compared to 2 percent for bulk mail--because everyone on the list is prequalified by their own expression of interest. The advertiser knows each person is a potential customer for the goods or services being sold.
However, response to Web ads--measured in terms of clicks on links (taking the reader to the advertiser's site), immediate sales and other Internet-generated statistics--has been generally disappointing. The euphoria elicited by very high response rates (up to 15 percent) for the first wave of Web ads has dissipated, along with the novelty factor that fueled the high response. As Web ads have become familiar and their number has multiplied, response rates have steadily dwindled--first to 5 percent, then 2 percent and 1 percent, and now, about 0.2 percent.
The failure of online ads to cause more site visitors to interrupt what they are doing, click on the ad, go to the advertiser's Web site and make a purchase has led advertisers to question the effectiveness of online ads. However, the problem may actually lie in a misunderstanding of the real purpose and effectiveness of online advertising and false expectations for direct-response levels.
The wrong approach--and the right one
In terms of direct response, click-through ads create a basic conflict with the site containing the ad. The site strives to "capture eyeballs" and be "sticky" to retain its users. In fact, this is vital to the attractiveness of the site to advertisers. But an ad tries to draw those same users away from that site to the advertiser's site. The more successful a site like Yahoo or Lycos is in attracting and retaining users, the less likely those users are to leave it by clicking on an advertiser's link.
Dwindling click-through rates indicate that focusing on drawing users away is the wrong approach. Instead, we believe advertisers should invite readers to enroll in an opt-in list or send a request for information, enabling them to return to what they were doing quickly while capturing the customer connection the advertiser wants. Another option is to enable the user to click for more content or interactions within the ad itself.
Both advertisers and site developers must develop more creative mechanisms to exploit viewer interest beyond click-throughs to the advertiser's site. For example, the capability to bookmark the advertiser's site for later reference, rather than simply click to the site, would mitigate the inherent competition for immediate viewer focus that currently exists between the advertising site and the advertised site.
Overall, advertisers now spend $900 per person per year in all media in the United States. It's unclear what proportion of that total should be spent on Internet advertising to gain maximum advantage for advertisers.
To capture a significant portion of total advertising spending, Internet advertising must provide more clear value to leading brick-and-mortar advertisers and must be integrated into an overall marketing campaign. A coordinated print and electronic media advertising campaign will raise the level of brand awareness of and desire for the product.
Ironically enough, the best guarantee of the long-term growth of "new media" advertising may be its role as a complement to advertising in established channels such as print, television and radio, and within stores. Coordinated marketing campaigns across channels have been proven to generate higher levels of customer responses than the sum of advertising separately in each channel.
Toward a mixed approach
Going forward, we believe there will be a lot less trust in the "silver bullet" magic of marketing based on online advertising by itself, and more focus on including online marketing as part of an overall interactive mix (online and offline) that includes branded microsites built and designed exclusively for the campaign.
However, we do not expect that more creative approaches to advertising, and tighter coordination between traditional and new-media advertising, will be enough to change the basic economics of Yahoo, Lycos and their competitors. The long-term viability of these portal sites, as well as other complex or personnel-intensive Web businesses, will require additional revenue sources.
Charges for access to current capabilities of these Web sites is unlikely, given that this would quickly drive away many users and undercut advertising revenues. Sites must begin to deliver e-commerce services that enable them to gain revenue from transactions or deliver new value-added services that people are willing to pay for.
Relying on banner ads that have a very low click-through rate is not a recipe for long-term business success. The Web portals must turn free riders into subscribers, find ways to attract additional advertising from the brick-and-mortar world, or otherwise change their business model to find new sources of revenue. We have seen no evidence that they have been particularly successful with any of that so far.
The value of building and maintaining brand has sometimes been lost in the false promises of instant sales and precise statistics from Web advertising. Most sales do not happen that way, and usually a combination of factors, including advertising, public relations, company reputation, previous experience and personal contact, enter into a consumer's buying decision.
Advertisers must also see online advertising not in isolation, but as part of an overall strategy that involves print, TV, radio and the Internet. They should re-evaluate the reasons they buy online advertising and look beyond click-through rates to measure value.
Meta Group analysts Val Sribar, David Cearley, Jonathan Poe, Jack Gold, Mike Gotta and William Zachmann contributed to this article.
Visit Metagroup.com for more analysis of key IT and e-business issues.
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Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII is the second of two expansions to the World War II first-person shooter computer game Battlefield 1942. It was released for Microsoft Windows on 4 September 2003 in North America and 5 September 2003 in Europe. It was also released for Mac OS X on 25 October 2004.

Secret Weapons of WWII brings many new features to the original game, such as new weapons, vehicles, battles, factions, and a new gameplay mode that focuses on fulfilling objectives more than destroying the enemy army. These new features help to bring variety to its predecessor's gameplay without overhauling the series. For example, while an Allied engineer may still maintain his original role as being able to repair vehicles, his long-ranged rifle has been replaced with a shotgun, which is effective at short distances.

Gameplay

As in Battlefield 1942, players play the role of a soldier in a two-sided battle and can choose which weapons and/or vehicles they want to use in accomplishing this task of victory on the battlefield. Usually, the team that works together more effectively wins by reducing the enemies tickets to zero in a classic "Conquest" mode. (A team loses tickets when its members are killed, but also when the other team holds a majority of the capture points on a map.) Even more so than in Battlefield 1942, the weapons in Secret Weapons of WWII are designed to be used in unison with other weapons to compensate for weaknesses and maximize strengths.

A gameplay mode introduced in Secret Weapons of WWII is an objective-based mode in which players focus on accomplishing specific objectives to win the battle. For example, on Essen, the German forces must prevent Allied forces from destroying key portions of a weapons factory. If the Allied forces successfully fulfill these objectives, the German tickets are drastically reduced, usually winning the game for the Allies.

The default Allied (US) Army and Axis (German) Army have received new weapons and vehicles in addition to the creation of two entirely new factions, the SAS (British Commandos) and the German Elite Troops (the Waffen-SS and the Fallschirmjager). The accompanying update package 1.41 introduces an additional three new factions, USMC, RAF, and Luftwaffe. Each faction has unique weapons to their faction that can only be obtained by playing as that faction or picking them off a fallen enemy soldier. They also have unique vehicles that are only available at their bases. Even with the creation of these new factions, all the maps in the expansion pack are Axis versus Allies, as is the custom in the Battlefield series.

Also of special note is the Jet Pack, which allows players to fly in the air while firing a weapon. To maintain gameplay balance, the Jet Pack is very susceptible to blowing up while under fire, instantly killing the player. As opposed to other weapons, the Jet Pack is not unique to one faction, and instead, it can be found at one or more locations throughout a particular map as an item that replaces the player's current equipment. However, there are only four maps which have the Jet Pack in them.

Development
The expansion pack was officially announced at E3 2003; although, there was significant speculation preceding the announcement that Electronic Arts was making a second expansion pack to Battlefield 1942. Nearly six months later Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII began to be sold at stores for thirty dollars, ten dollars more than the originally conceived twenty dollar price tag. This sometimes negatively affected reviews.

Reception

Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII received "generally favorable reviews", albeit less than the original Battlefield 1942 or The Road to Rome, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

Almost all reviews reflected positively on the amount of variety added to the game without turning players off from the original draw of the series. GameSpy listed as a pro that it had "lots of fun new vehicles; some outstanding new maps." GameSpot said that "its additions are extremely enjoyable to play around with and, in some cases, really change the gameplay of the original in new and intriguing ways." IGN noted that "the new super weapons are brilliantly incorporated in to the gameplay."

Criticisms included that the proportion of content to retail price was too low. In GameSpot's review of the game, it claimed, "considering how much it retails for, it probably could have offered more." GameSpy listed as the con that "some of the maps are clunkers; $30 is too much for the limited content here." Also, some critics disliked the fanciful nature of many of the new weapons and vehicles introduced by the expansion. IGN summarized its reaction in its review of the game: "Secret Weapons of WWII, while based in historical equipment and encounters, nevertheless offers up a steroid-enhanced version of the regular game with plenty of new weapons that were on the cutting edge of technology (or merely on the drawing board) at the close of the Second World War. For some players this extra touch of Hollywood seems a bit out of place relative to the previous games."

The editors of Computer Gaming World presented Secret Weapons of WWII with their 2003 "Expansion Pack of the Year" award. They wrote, "It's good to see that the folks at Digital Illusions didn't rest on their laurels when putting together this add-on."

At the first Spike Video Game Awards in 2003, Secret Weapons of WWII was nominated for the "Best First Person Action" category, but lost to Call of Duty.

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US Senate panel approves START treaty
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has resumed hearings on the START treaty before submitting it to the full Senate for final approval.
The committee approved the START treaty in a 14-4 vote, advancing the agreement for final ratification at the US Senate.
Moscow is hoping the committee vote will bring the US one step closer to completing the agreement, under which both countries will cut their nuclear arsenals by a third.
Although there is uncertainty over whether the full Senate will consider the treaty this year, the committee chairman, Senator John Kerry, expressed hope that the process could indeed be completed shortly.
"We hope this can get to the full Senate as rapidly as possibly. Our work is not done," Senator John Kerry said. "The full US Senate has to now debate this and ratify it. It is our hope that it can happen quickly before the end of the year."
He added that this treaty "will make America more secure, it will assist us in moving toward the goal of less nuclear threat, and for that reason we are proud of the action we took today."
However, head of Russia's State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Konstantin Kosachev says US mid-term elections may hamper the process.
"The major problem is that this time the ratification process in the States coincides in time with the election campaign," Kosachev said. "One third of the Senate is to be reelected, which means that many Senators consider this situation not its terms of whether this agreement is good or bad for the US, but in terms of how much it may contribute to their own electoral campaign."
Meanwhile, Russian lawmakers have said they are ready to ratify the document, but want to sign off at the same time as Washington.
These five months of hearings have been a bumpy ride, and the resolution that the senators passed reflects that they put all their concerns into one package – among them, the tie between offensive and defensive weapons. Senators clarify: the treaty in no way is an obstacle for US plans to deploy defense systems.
American officials see it the same way.
"It commits us to continue to develop the ability to be able to protect our people and to have a robust missile defense system," Kerry said.
But Russians do take that tie mentioned in the treaty quite seriously. They see the new START as an agreement based on equality and balance, and if that balance is shifted, or disturbed, they say they can pull out.
But some in Washington say the hurdles related to the ratification are not so much about the details of the treaty, but about Republicans trying to make a point to the Democrats.
"One of the problems is good old-fashioned red-meat politics," said Richard Burt, US chair of Global Zero. "The Republicans just can't resist this opportunity to say the Democrats are weak on national security. And that's one of the real barriers that the Obama administration faces here. I have no doubt whatsoever, if we had a Republican administration, this treaty would be already ratified."
The treaty is a chance to modernize and improve nuclear defense, thinks Gary Hart, former US senator and member of the US commission on policy towards Russia.
"If you replace warheads or delivery systems that are old and increasingly unstable with a newer generation, more secure technology, you are rather improving security rather than endangering it," Hart said.
Ivan Eland, director of the center for peace and liberty at the Washington Independent Institute, says the arguments against the treaty carry very little weight.
"There've been other arguments made that the nuclear weapons labs will go into remission, that the treaty somehow precludes missile defense… which it really doesn't. I think those are the two main domestic arguments here, and I don't think they really have much water," he said.
The paradox is that the number of Republicans who testified for the treaty outnumbers Democrats. On top of that, US military officials are unanimous in their support of the deal.
"Russia tests prevailing mood in NATO countries"
Numbers stall nuclear reduction talks
"Russia needs more clarity on US missile defense plans" – Lavrov
"Nuclear disarmament is in both US and Russian interests" – ex-ambassador
Russia's unilateral disarmament is out of question – Russian diplomat
Russia, US to reduce warheads by a third – Lavrov
Opponents to START driven by political agenda – expert
Politics as usual may delay US Senate vote on New START
Iran plans more nuclear plants and unveils new hi-tech drones
New START treaty to be signed soon


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Ultrabroadband 2D electronic spectroscopy with high-speed, shot-to-shot detection
Son, Minjung; Mosquera Vazquez, Sandra; Schlau-Cohen, Gabriela S
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Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES) is an incisive tool for disentangling excited state energies and dynamics in the condensed phase by directly mapping out the correlation between excitation and emission frequencies as a function of time. Despite its enhanced frequency resolution, the spectral window of detection is limited to the laser bandwidth, which has often hindered the visualization of full electronic energy relaxation pathways spread over the entire visible region. Here, we describe a high-sensitivity, ultrabroadband 2DES apparatus. We report a new combination of a simple and robust setup for increased spectral bandwidth and shot-to-shot detection. We utilize 8-fs supercontinuum pulses generated by gas filamentation spanning the entire visible region (450 – 800 nm), which allows for a simultaneous interrogation of electronic transitions over a 200-nm bandwidth, and an all-reflective interferometric delay system with angled nanopositioner stages achieves interferometric precision in coherence time control without introducing wavelength-dependent dispersion to the ultrabroadband spectrum. To address deterioration of detection sensitivity due to the inherent instability of ultrabroadband sources, we introduce a 5-kHz shot-to-shot, dual chopping acquisition scheme by combining a high-speed line-scan camera and two optical choppers to remove scatter contributions from the signal. Comparison of 2D spectra acquired by shot-to-shot detection and averaged detection shows a 15-fold improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio. This is the first direct quantification of detection sensitivity on a filamentation-based ultrabroadband 2DES apparatus.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
Optical Society of America
Son, Minjung et al. "Ultrabroadband 2D Electronic Spectroscopy with High-Speed, Shot-to-Shot Detection." Optics Express 25, 16 (July 2017): 18950 © 2017 Optical Society of America


Glass Half Full Theatre presents the premiere production of what may be its most ambitious production to date, Once There Were Six Seasons. Productions of alt-puppetry, such as this one, have been called 3-D animation. That particular term may be conflated, however, with 3-D animated movies marketed by many Hollywood studios. Theatrical productions of alt-puppetry are much closer to 3-D art, or sculpture and installation art, animated by clever manipulation. Typically, the productions tell adult and, oh, so very human stories. And such is the story we have on our hands here.
Once There Were Six Seasons (OTWSS) is not, as may be suggested by its title, merely a story about global warming. It is so much more. Even though climate change is complex, abstract, and uncertain in its vectors, this puppet story steps right past those considerations to take on the globalization of human culture in a darkening natural world. Writer-Director Caroline Reck, her collaborators, and the puppeteers give us a primer of world anthropology under advanced globalization. Along the way we see melting ice caps, sinking coastlines, typhoons, crops lost to drought, wage-slavery brought on by free trade agreements, south Texas fracked to death, cultureless cities, and the Monsanto-ization of world agriculture—all expressed in puppet visual idiom with an accompanying live-action play.
The image of the fishing canoe struggling in a typhoon on the ocean was the most arresting image of the performance for this reviewer, but other scenes may be equally as powerful to others. Glass Half Full Theatre has the seductive ability to coax the viewer's imagination into flying away on a magic carpet ridewith the storytellers. The ride has a very clear point and purpose.
Global warming, climate change, and cultural and natural decay would seem like very large topics to take on and remain coherent, but Reck and the intent crew succeed by staying on theme in tight focus. The artists workshopped the OTWSS at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre last year.
This live-action play uses the puppet chapters to connect a larger story. A telephone voice named Kate Cooper (spoken by Kim Turner) calls in for repairs of some digital device. As he explains the breakdown, her customer service agent Ferdinand (Rommel Sulit) describes their globalized future earth. The planet is divided vaguely in the fashion of George Orwell's novel 1984. Great blocs of nations and territories are termed zones, contributing variously or not at all to the world economy. And clearly, the future world is nearing collapse.
As customer and agent relate stories to each other, their scenes dissolve into the puppet chapters. Once again, the intrepid puppeteers literally create the world. They build scenes on wheeled puppet tables, planting crops and forests and then scything them down. The puppets at play on the tables are of a very small scale, but they create their seductive charm in hauling water, kicking soccer balls, harvesting, fishing tiny puppet fish, and pursuing other activities. The puppeteers voice their meta-stories. Noel Gaulin is the man of a thousand voices. Each chapter also has its own soundtrack, based on world music and designed by K. Eliot Haynes. The wide-ranging but clearly linked stories play out, their chapters grim or beautiful, but always full of hope.
Glass Half Full Theatre unfailingly surprises and exercises its craft along the edges of the puppet artistic ethos. This time around the puppeteers are fully black-garbed but their faces are exposed. Their intent faces and voices enliven the puppet scenes and become integral parts of the imagery. The human presence undisguised comes at no loss to the puppet magic created.
May 22nd – June 7th, Thursdays-Saturdays @ 8 p.m., Sundays @ 6 p.m.


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Q: time data '07-01-20' does not match format '%d/%m/%Y' i have errorr like this
ValueError: time data '07-01-20' does not match format '%d/%m/%Y'

and this my code
dateparse = lambda dates: pd.datetime.strptime(dates, '%d/%m/%Y')
akhir = pd.read_csv('akhir.csv', index_col=[0], date_parser=dateparse)

my data :

A: For a two-digit year, use %y instead of %Y; and if your data uses -s, you don't want your format string to use /s.
See https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-format-codes

Thus:
dateparse = lambda dates: pd.datetime.strptime(dates, '%d-%m-%y')
akhir = pd.read_csv('akhir.csv', index_col=[0], date_parser=dateparse)


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Justin Bieber Can Do Other Things Besides Sing
By Alice Cary 21 May 2020
Hailey and Justin Bieber have perfected the art of the QDA (quarantine display of affection) while on lockdown. The inseparable couple has been documenting their isolation activities on social media, having relocated from their home in Beverly Hills to their lakeside mansion in Ontario, Canada. Welcome distractions for the couple have included TikTok videos and movie nights, and they've been sharing the results of their dance practice sessions with their respective Instagram followings. Now it seems Hailey has taken the opportunity to equip her husband with a whole new set of skills – a recent Facebook Watch clip showed the "Yummy" singer giving his model wife a makeover.
The couple sport matching grey loungewear in the clip, which was shared with the caption, "Hailey let me do her make-up." In it, Justin confidently declares, "I'm probably going to make her look like the most beautiful lady in the world, obviously," a remark that prompts a nervous giggle from his wife. Despite the initial bravado, when he surveys the spread of products on their dining table, Justin admits, "I have no idea where to start." But after 10 minutes spent buffing foundation, applying a hint of eyeshadow and finishing with a slick of lipstick, Hailey concedes that her husband's efforts are "not bad at all".
The Biebers' Rules For Quarantining With Your Partner
By Alice Cary
The clip is part of a series of the couple's lockdown videos called "The Biebers on Watch". Following a nomination from Kendall Jenner, the couple also recently took part in a #howareyoureally challenge to commemorate Mental Health Awareness Week. Hailey shared their video to Instagram and wrote, "We're here for you and we're in this together!"
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Fri, 16 Jul 2010 | Published in The Weekend Shortlist
The Weekend Shortlist July 16 to 18
Band: Weezer Get Tickets Here
Venue: East River State Park
Food: Relish
Drink: Radegast Hall & Biergarten
Miscellaneous: Zebulon
Weezer are one of those rare bands that have consistently written one great album after the next full of pop and riff heavy songs, plus live they dork out just like you'd think they would. Though Relish looks like a 50s diner, this restaurant offers up some gourmet treats for dinner. With influences from all over the globe, Relish features diner classics like burgers and onion rings, and step it up with the likes of Blackened Yellow Fin Tuna ($21). Williamsburg's first beer garden, Radegast Hall & Biergarten, has a beautiful all-wood interior, an enclosed outdoor backyard, and 12 German/Austrian beers on tap and more than 30 bottles. Another great bar in the area, Zebulon offers free live jazz and afrobeat. The drinks here are inexpensive, and I've never seen a bad show here.
Band: Jennifer Logue
Venue: American Folk Art Museum
Food: Zip Burger
Drink: Subway Inn
Miscellaneous: Kinokuniya Bookstore
Check out indie singer/songwriter Jennifer Logue when she performs for free at The American Folk Art Museum. Also performing is Bill Albatross and Andi Rae Healy. At Zip Burger they offer farm-raised, organic, and grass-fed meat and poultry, letting you build your own burger with plenty of gourmet toppings. The first time I went to Subway Inn I thought it was completely strange that there was a dive bar off Lexington Avenue, especially in this neck of the woods, but somehow it works. Born in the 30s, this bar has somehow remained, and thank god, as it's easily the cheapest and most colorful place in the area for a drink. For fans of Japanese pop-culture, Kinokuniya Bookstore has a large selection of Japanese themed books, videos, CDs, magazines, comics, and stationary.
Location: Coney Island, Brooklyn
Event: Village Voice Siren Festival
Show time: 12 PM; FREE
Venue: Town Hall
Food: Nathan's Famous
Drink: Ruby's Old Tyme Bar and Grill
Miscellaneous: New York Aquarium
You can't miss the Village Voice Siren Festival this year with a list of bands performing for FREE including Matt and Kim, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Holy Fuck, Night Marchers, Surfer Blood, Harlem, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Earl Greyhound, and more. While you may not be a competitive hot dog eater, eating a hot dog, a corn dog, or even cheese fries at Nathan's Famous goes back several generations. Expect long lines, but it'll be worth it! Not just a tradition but an institution on the boardwalk, Ruby's Old Tyme Bar and Grill is a great dive bar for cheap drinks and watching local drunks belt out Rat Pack songs. It's been open since 1896 and is the only one in the city, so if you're going to be on Surf Avenue or nearby, check out the New York Aquarium where you can hang with sea otters, penguins, and seals, take a class, see an exhibition or a show at the Aquatheater.
Location: Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Band: Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents African Festival with Konono No. 1
Show time: 2-9 PM
Venue: Prospect Park Bandshell
Food: Press 195
Drink: Union Hall
Miscellaneous: O'Connor's
Dig the way out sounds of Africa at Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents African Festival with Konono No. 1 who make psychedelic thumb piano music. Also on the bill are Omar Pene & Super Diamono, Chiwoniso, Meta & the Cornerstones and Djarara. The theme at Press 195 is pressed comfort food. A sandwich shop with quite the menu, they offer 30 types of delicious sandwiches like the turkey and fontina cheese sandwich with a cranberry and roasted pear chutney on ciabatta ($7.75). While Union Hall looks like a cabin at a ski resort with a fireplace, stone walls, comfy couches, and inexpensive drinks, you may want to stick around rather than barhop. A low-key bar in this hood, O'Connor's is a hole in the wall where you can grab a cheap drink and watch the game on their TV, just like your grandpa sitting next to you!
Location: Bushwick, Brooklyn
Bands: 3rd Ward's 3rd Annual Pig Out
Venue: 3rd Ward
Food: Potion Café
Drink: Life Café Nine 83
Miscellaneous: Stain
Join Chef Alex McCrery and his team from 3rd Ward's new food joint Goods as they take 200 lbs. of hog and turn it into delicious eats. There will be cheap beer and cocktails all afternoon and night along with live music from The Fieros, In Cadeo, Le Mood, The Ramblers, Cletus & the Barnburners, and more. For food in this neighborhood, Potion Café offers organically grown and traded food that's part of the "slow food" movement and make delicious and creative food like the poached eggs in white wine sauce. For drinks, check out Life Café Nine 83. While it's THE same Life Café that the RENT musical features in the play, it's not the same location. This new Bushwick locale also possesses a boho vibe, an Americanized menu of ethnic food, and a fun selection of mixed drinks including martini's and lemonade cocktails. A HUGE space decked out in old couches, Stain is an artsy bar that looks like an old-school coffeehouse yet serves local wines and beers.