Who will watch the watchmen now?
There can only be one topic to write about today. On Thursday, the UK voted, by a narrow margin, to leave the European Union and entered a period of uncertainty and instability as the nature of the "divorce" is agreed between London and Brussels. I know that most of my UK readers were in favour of staying in the EU but at least one was in favour of exit. And, as I know from personal experience that the EU is a far-from-perfect organisation, I am happy to accept that there is scope for intelligent people to hold different opinions on the benefits of membership. I also accept that being anti-EU does not necessarily equate with being anti-Europe, or a "Little Englander". I do believe, however, that the "out" campaigns presented a distorted view of EU policy particularly on immigration, in order to play on the fears of sections of the populace.
However, what is done is done and now attention must focus on the nature of the future agreement between the UK and the EU. As the dust settles and the bluster dies down, we awoke to a horrible truth: the "out" campaign actually have no more idea of what the future will look like than anyone else. We now enter a period of negotiation with 27 countries, several of whom are both annoyed and worried by the UK decision, and they are not going to roll over quietly and let UK politicians dictate terms.
I have grave concerns for the UK environment after an EU exit. The campaigns from both sides involved stripping down highly complicated arguments to a few key points that would have traction with the electorate, and then rebutting the other side's efforts at the same. It was, in short, a campaign decided more by political process than by principle. Unfortunately, this is exactly how environmental policy is decided at the highest level. The sad truth is that most people's awareness of environmental problems comes from the media, not direct experience. Press stories can synergise with a general sense that summers are different now to when we were young to reinforce fears of global warming. At the same time, the patterns are not so robust that naysayers cannot spin their own interpretations. The same applies to the aquatic environment: we have (thankfully) passed the stage when many rivers looked (and smelt) appalling. The reason we know that our rivers are polluted now is more due to media accounts, and the reason we know that they are improving is due to the Environment Agency's press releases. Beyond a dedicated band of anglers, few of us have enough direct experience to challenge either set of statements.
That's where the EU played a role. They provided a level of scrutiny above that provided by domestic politics. I spent much of the past 15 years working towards definitions of the health of the aquatic environment that were applicable throughout Europe. That provides a benchmark against which claims of rivers improving or declining in quality can be judged. Bearing in mind that Europe extends from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean and from the Alps to areas that are below sea level, this was not an easy task, and what we have is a "work in progress" rather than a definitive product. But it is a positive step that, to push a metaphor, "detoxifies" debates about the state of the environment.
Unfortunately, interventions such as this represent exactly the sort of loss of "sovereignty" that Ian Duncan-Smith, Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and others decry. So let's unpick just what "sovereignty" might mean in this instance: it would mean DEFRA deciding on criteria to define the health of the aquatic environment, irrespective of the views of experts elsewhere in Europe. Bear in mind that DEFRA also has responsibility for agriculture (high political sensitivities), my comments above about the susceptibility of environmental policy to "spin" and the general advocacy for "small government" from the right, and this cannot be good news for the environment. I predict that the clause in the Water Framework Directive that allows "less stringent objectives" under certain circumstances (article 4, paragraph 5) will be applied very broadly in the UK, once scrutiny from Brussels is loosened.
What to do? We may have to wait and see how the "Brexit" negotiations unfold. My hope is that free access to European markets will require the UK to stay signed-up to legislation that ensures a "level playing field" for business, and that the environment will be part of this package. This would be similar to the deal that Norway has at present, and Norwegian colleagues continue to make substantial and valuable contributions to debates on how EU environment policy is implemented. That would mean "business as usual" for the UK environment.
However, changes in the Tory party may bring a more obstreperous breed of politician to the negotiating table and we cannot rule out the possibility that rattles will be thrown out of the pram. Plan B, therefore, may be for independent, non-Governmental bodies such as the river trusts to steps in to scrutinise UK environment policy and measure claims against evidence. As the Environment Agency will be even more liable to funding cuts once obligations to the EU no longer exist, such bodies will also need to watch that sufficient evidence is being collected, and maybe to collect some evidence themselves. All that will take money, and I don't know where that will come from. But we need to start preparing for a world in which the "watchmen" return to being political pawns answerable only to Westminster and Whitehall.
Memories of happier times in Europe: Cadaqués in north-eastern Spain, June 2012. The top picture shows vineyards near Bäd Dürkheim, Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany (circa. 2000), the area where my love affair with continental Europe started in 1972.
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Support pours in for popular Lubbock restaurant owner who died from COVID-19
By Blair Sabol
A popular Lubbock restaurant is closed as the pandemic doubles down on the family-run business.
At first, it was just indoor dining closed at Thai Pepper. Now, its doors remain closed as one of its co-owners has died from complications of COVID-19.
Owner Trakool 'Kool' Srivarodom was the "heart and soul" of the restaurant. When the popular joint opened in the medical district, it was a bigger hit than the family expected.
Even though it was closed to indoor dining throughout the pandemic, customers still came flocking for take-out.
Then, in late November, tragedy struck when Srivarodom become ill with COVID-19.
In a Facebook post his daughter said one week later he was in the hospital, where he eventually needed to be intubated. He died Tuesday evening.
Support from dedicated customers have poured in, even from ones that don't live in the area anymore, like Kayla West.
"Every time I would go home for break, I would walk in and they would like have my usual set out, like on the table when I sat down," she said.
A GoFundMe has raised more than $9,500 to help the family pay bills.
Taryn Colvin, another customer, donated as well.
"I was just devastated. Both selfishly, because I love the restaurant, I love the food. But also the battle. I know what they're going through, what they're fighting through. And I hate that for anyone, she said.
"And even if the restaurant doesn't open back up, they're obviously an amazing family," West said.
The restaurant has been closed since Nov. 29th, the day of 'Kool's' diagnosis. Its future remains up in the air.
According to the GoFundMe, the family "can't foresee the business continuing" in the wake of Srivarodom's absence.
Contributions to the family can be made at https://www.gofundme.com/f/thai-pepper-miracle
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Q: How can I return a sorted table index as a string? I'm very unfamiliar working with LUA and LUA tables.
The example I would like to provide is that I want to know the name of the person who has the least amount of money in his/her bank account:
BankAccount = {}
BankAccount["Tom"] = 432
BankAccount["Henry"] = 55
BankAccount["Kath"] = 875

table.sort(BankAccount)
print("BankAccount Element at index 1 is ", BankAccount[1])

Goal: I would like for it to return the string "Henry".
The problem I'm having is that I'm not sure how to structure the table in such a way for it to return the string based on a value. I've also seen people do:
BankAccount = {
    {"Tom", 432},
    {"Henry", 55},
    {"Kath", 875},
}

So I'm not exactly sure how to proceed. Thank you for your help.

A: You can't sort the first table, as it's a hash table that doesn't have any specific order, but you can sort the second one if you provide a sorting function:
BankAccount = {
    {"Tom", 432},
    {"Henry", 55},
    {"Kath", 875},
}
table.sort(BankAccount, function(a, b) return a[2] < b[2] end)
print(BankAccount[1][1]) -- should print Henry

table.sort takes a function as the second parameter that will receive two values being sorted and needs to return true/false value indicating if the first element needs to go before the second (see table.sort).

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Coronation Street spoilers: Boss Iain MacLeod reveals that Carla Connor will regain status as queen of the cobbles
Stephen Patterson and Duncan LindsayTuesday 7 Jan 2020 9:00 am
Carla Connor (Alison King) has had an incredibly tough year in Coronation Street, and as a result she's been taking things rather slowly, but — being the icon that she is — it was only a matter of time before she reclaimed her status as queen of the cobbles, and it appears as if that's exactly what's set to happen in the coming months.
Carla's took some time away from the world of business last year so that she could look after herself. The character has been enjoying her romance with love of her life Peter (Chris Gascoyne) in recent months — and has proven instrumental in helping Daniel (Rob Mallard) come to terms with the loss of Sinead (Katie McGlynn).
However, she'll be back in business — so to speak — in the coming months, as Corrie boss Iain MacLeod has told Metro.co.uk: 'First we all felt that we wanted to see Carla regain her status as Queen of the cobbles.'
'After the mental health story we told I felt like we had to have a period where she looked after herself rather than ran a business like the kind of ball-breaking go-getter we know that she can be, and all of that has given me an appetite to see her get back in the saddle, so we'll see her regain some of her former status.'
Her relationship with Peter has been a huge focus in her life in recent months, and — according to Iain — the pair won't be splitting up any time soon.
He said: 'Ultimately there is no prospect of them splitting up in the foreseeable. I tend to feel that they are Burton and Taylor. Will they be together in 10 years' time? Who knows? They're in one of their passionate 'I will defend them to the death' phases of their relationship, and I like them like that.'
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Iranian Chicagoan Says Life Under Trump Reminds Him of Ahmadinejad
Chicagoans from each of seven countries listed in President Trump's travel ban explain how the executive order has changed their lives.
By Sarah Conway and Alex V. Hernandez
Ali Sobhani Photo: Alyssa Schukar
Ali Sobhani*, 28, is an Iranian PhD student in his second year studying music theory and history at the University of Chicago. After leaving his home country and spending five years in Amsterdam, he came to the U.S. in 2015 on a student visa that expires in June.
Related: 7 Countries. 1 Adopted City. Legal Limbo.
How did you feel when you first heard about the executive order?
It was a very bad day. I started panicking. My visa expires in June 2017, so I was already making a plan to renew it. I was worried under the current administration that it would take longer than usual, which is already a very cumbersome process, despite what the administration says.
The most immediate impact for me, as a student, is that I am supposed to be here to focus on my studies and obviously I cannot do that. Yesterday I was just trying to focus and do some work. I cannot. I'm just frantically looking for news updates or messages from friends, or lawyers, or whatever. As a citizen of a "third world country" or of "the wrong country," you always have to fight against prejudices and hurdles along your way. You have to remove so many things that other people do not have to remove and still face so many challenges that others don't. My plan was to finish my PhD here and possibly find a job within academia here or elsewhere, and now I'm like, should I leave this country and never come back? Should I sell my furniture? Now I just don't know what to do.
How many more years do you need to complete your program?
They say the average is between six and seven years for music theory. At the end of the second year, which would be the end of this academic year, I can apply for a master's degree, which is good because in case things turn out to be this bad I can always quit the program go elsewhere and study to get a PhD with a master's degree.
If someone in a position of power regarding the executive order sees this article, what would you want to say to them?
President Trump thinks that it was very easy to get visas and come to the U.S. But an American visa is one of the hardest visas to get because you have to go through so many things. Fingerprints, your picture taken, you have to have interviews. A lot of people can only get a single-entry visa. I don't know what extreme vetting would mean. I've been joking with my friends because I heard that this would include things like questions about women's rights, LGBT rights, that kind of stuff. And I'm like, "What am I supposed to say, should I say that unlike the president I tend to treat women with respect? Unlike Mr. Mike Pence I treat homosexuals with respect, and I don't need to send them to camps to straighten them up." They have left no values to be questioned any more.
What do you think about how Iran's government reacted to the executive order?
I read the disclaimer published by the foreign ministry. [The statement calls the travel ban "insulting restrictions" and says Iran will take "proportionate legal, consular and political action while respecting the American people and differentiating between them and the hostile policies of the U.S. Government."] I felt a little bit proud because it was different from the terrible blanket ban that the U.S. government did. This executive order from Trump really reminds me of a terrible government we had for eight years in Iran, under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He was exactly the same sort of populist, terrible president who was full of hateful rhetoric and who made life for Iranians miserable.
And now you worry you're seeing a political figure like that rise to power in the U.S.
Absolutely. I mean Iran is a sort of regional power, and it can have a certain influence on its surrounding countries. But the U.S. is the most powerful nation in the world, and its policies affect the whole world.
As a young person growing up in Iran, what did you think of the UN and U.S. sanctions imposed on your country that were aimed at stopping "illicit nuclear activities"?
It's very hard to say, because I do not represent the majority of [Iran's] youth. But I can say that the sanctions, for me and for my circle of friends, just affected us directly and didn't do what they were supposed to do: cripple government. Because the regime just uses their own resources to fund themselves, and of course the people are the ones who suffer the ramifications.
What's your long-term plan like now? Would you like to stay here and work in academia in the U.S. or are you planning to look for jobs abroad?
I don't know. I mean, it's four or five years away from now, and it's very hard to predict what will happen. Personally, if I had the choice I would have preferred to go elsewhere and not stay in the United States. To go to Europe for example, where I feel much more connected to the people and the culture and where I have sort of like a second home. If the situation in Iran gets better I could possibly go there, or at least temporarily and see how I could function there. I cannot imagine myself living under the current situation in the U.S., but that's a different question, because I can't predict what will happen.
* Sobhani's name has been changed to protect his identity.
This interview was conducted on January 29 and has been edited for length and clarity. See interviews with Chicagoans from each of seven countries listed in President Trump's travel ban here.
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LeT militant arrested during CASO in Pulwama: Police
September 4, 2020 | 10:49 pm
Pulwama: A newly recruited militant of Lashkar-e-Toiba(LeT) was arrested by the forces in South Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said on Friday.
The militant was arrested after a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) was launched in Sethargund area of Kakapora of South Kashmir's Pulwama district.
"On the specific information, a CASO was launched in which one militant identified as Shanaf Akbar Bhat of Khadermoh Kakapora, associated with LeT, was arrested along with ammunition," a police officer said.
Police said a case has been registered and investigations were taken up. KNO
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Q: unable upgrade to ubuntu 13.04 from 12.10 I'm trying to upgrade by using this steps :

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*Update the system via terminal ("sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade")

*Run "sudo update-manager -d" (where I hope the Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release '13.04' is available)

But when I did the 1st step from terminal, this happened:

>Fetched 489 kB in 49s (9,954 B/s)
>Reading package lists... Done
>Reading package lists... Done
>Building dependency tree
>Reading state information... Done
>You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
>The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>libc6 : Depends: libgcc1 but it is not installed
>         Depends: tzdata but it is not installed
>E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

But when I tried to run "apt-get -f install", I got:

>E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
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E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

I'll really appreciate your suggestion, thanks.
Oh... I forgot to mention that I've tried that too... and the result was:

> michael@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get -f install

> [sudo] password for michael:
> Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree

> Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies...

> Done The following extra packages will be installed:   apt-utils debconf
> debconf-i18n dpkg gcc-4.7-base libapt-inst1.5 libapt-pkg4.12
> libbz2-1.0 libc6 libdb5.1 libgcc1 liblocale-gettext-perl liblzma5
> libselinux1   libstdc++6 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl
> libtext-wrapi18n-perl perl-base tar zlib1g
> Suggested packages:  xz-utils debconf-doc debconf-utils whiptail dialog gnome-utils
> libterm-readline-gnu-perl libgtk2-perl libnet-ldap-perl libqtgui4-perl
> libqtcore4-perl apt glibc-doc   locales bzip2 ncompress

> The following NEW packages will be installed:   apt-utils debconf debconf-i18n dpkg
> libapt-inst1.5 libapt-pkg4.12 libbz2-1.0 libdb5.1 libgcc1
> liblocale-gettext-perl liblzma5 libselinux1 libstdc++6
> libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl
> perl-base tar zlib1g

> The following packages will be upgraded:
> gcc-4.7-base libc6 2 upgraded, 19 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1
> not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/11.3
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November 17, 2015: This year the security forces in the south have tried, without a lot of success, to cut off the supply of cash Islamic terrorist group Abu Sayyaf has been receiving from continued kidnapping. Despite government warnings to foreign tourists about the kidnapping danger many still travel to the Moslem south. Actually, given the small number of Westerners kidnapped versus the thousands who still visit the south, the odds of being grabbed are reassuringly, for many visitors, low enough. Even though it is illegal to pay the Islamic terrorists ransom, foreign governments (or organizations) often do and that keeps Abu Sayyaf going. There has been a major effort to sharply reduce the size and capability of Abu Sayyaf by trying to make kidnapping unprofitable. Rescuing hostages is an important part of that but is difficult to pull off. The kidnapping continues despite more than a decade of army and marine presence in Jolo and Sulu provinces. All this began after 2000 when Abu Sayyaf found out how much money it could make by kidnapping foreigner. All that cash made them a much more powerful terrorist organization. But the increased military and police pressure in the south made it difficult for the Islamic terrorists to expand or enjoy their wealth. The military concentrated on the islands where Abu Sayyaf initially came from. This is the Sulu Archipelago in the southwest, particularly the islands of Basilan, Jolo and Sulu. In this area the Islamic radicals still have lots of fans. But these terrorists are not folk heroes to everyone down there, mainly because Abu Sayyaf criminal activities (kidnapping, extortion and robbery) disrupts the economy. Moreover a growing number of local Moslem civilians are victims of these crimes, or collateral damage. Abu Sayyaf is fading away because of all this, but slowly, because the region has always sustained a certain amount of banditry.
November 11, 2015: In the north (Albay province) soldiers and police found and seized an NPA camp. There was a 20 minute firefight that left two rebel wounded and captured. Several other rebels managed to escape. Several weapons and lots of equipment and documents were seized in the camp. The police believe that the capture of this camp means that Albay province is largely free of NPA activity as are two adjacent provinces.
In the south (Sulu) troops clashed with a group of twenty Abu Sayyaf killing two of them. The troops were part of a larger operation seeking to find and free twelve kidnap victims the Islamic terrorists were holding for ransom.
November 8, 2015: In the south (Mindanao) Abu Sayyaf released a Malaysian captive they had captured earlier in 2015 after a ransom of over $100,000 was paid.
American B-52 bombers flew through air space in the South China Sea that China now considers Chinese territory. China protested, the United States ignored the protest and the Philippines felt a little better.
November 7, 2015: In the south (Sulu) troops clashed with a group of Abu Sayyaf and managed to wound the leader, a man wanted for organizing the kidnapping of two Germans earlier in 2015. A five million dollar ransom was paid to free the Germans.
November 5, 2015: In the south (Sulu) troops captured an Abu Sayyaf camp and found an ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) flag. Some former members of Abu Sayyaf have formed a local branch of the more radical ISIL. There are several of these pro-ISIL factions operating in the south. There appear to be at least a hundred Filipino Moslems who in these ISIL type groups so far. This does not include BIFF, an anti-peace MILF faction. MILF was supposed to deal with BIFF but didn't, apparently because a lot of MILF members have some sympathy for the radical BIFF views. The army believes there are only about a hundred armed BIFF members left, mainly because of several major military operations in areas where BIFF has been active. BIFF has also pledged loyalty to ISIL but has not yet adopted the ISIL practice of committing horrific murders. MILF is increasingly (and openly) critical of BIFF and that may be why BIFF has not been acting like an ISIL franchise. MILF is also angry at BIFF for creating doubts among Christians in parliament where the peace treaty is currently stalled.
November 3, 2015: The Philippines, Australia, Japan and South Korea openly approved of recent American moves in the South China Sea, especially sending warships and aircraft into areas China insists are Chinese. Other nations in the area (Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia and India) were more discrete but privately relieved that America had finally acted decisively on an issue that threatens so many nations. Meanwhile the Philippines and its closest neighbors are slowly losing control of their offshore waters to increasingly aggressive Chinese claims. In all these claims were enforced the Philippines would lose control of 80 percent of its waters in the West Philippine Sea while Malaysia loses 80 percent of its coastal waters off Sabah and Sarawak. Vietnam loses half its coastal waters while Brunei loses 90 percent. Even Indonesia loses 30 percent of its coastal waters facing the South China Sea. These losses include several known offshore oil and natural gas fields and a number of areas that have not been explored yet plus lucrative fishing grounds and control over vital shipping routes. China is doing all this by ignoring the 1994 Law of the Sea treaty (as well as at least two other similar treaties. The widely adopted (including by China) 1994 agreement recognizes the waters 22 kilometers from land "national territory" and under the jurisdiction of the nation controlling the nearest land. That means ships cannot enter these "territorial waters" without permission. More importantly the waters 360 kilometers from land are considered the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the nation controlling the nearest land. The EEZ owner can control who fishes there and extracts natural resources (mostly oil and gas) from the ocean floor. But the EEZ owner cannot prohibit free passage or the laying of pipelines and communications cables. While this agreement eliminated or reduced many of the existing or potential disputes it did not completely deal with all of them. Thus some nations keep violating the agreements, usually because they feel their claims supersede the international agreements. China is the most frequent offender. For example China claims that American electronic monitoring ships are conducting illegal espionage while in the Chinese EEZ. But the 1994 treaty says nothing about such matters. China is simply doing what China has been doing for centuries, trying to impose its will on neighbors, or anyone venturing into what China considers areas that should be under its control. China is not alone, but because China is pushing the limits of how the 1994 law can be interpreted (or misinterpreted) other nations with similar opportunities to lay claim to crucial chunks of the seascape are ready to emulate China if some of the more aggressive Chinese ploys actually work. This is one reason why China faces strong opposition from nations worldwide.
October 30, 2015: In the south (Jolo) police found the body of a 73 year old South Korean kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf in January 2015 and held for ransom. He appears to have died of natural causes.
October 29, 2015: The Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled that it does indeed have jurisdiction to settle the dispute between the Philippines and China over Chinese claims in the South China Sea. This could result in a legal decision against China by 2016 even though China has indicated that it will not abide by any such ruling. Challenging such a decision exposes China to trade sanctions, which would stall economic growth and create a recession that could cause unrest. Chinese leaders are eager to avoid that. Meanwhile China is threatening to use force to enforce its claims. China is warning the world that it is ready to escalate (and enforce its claims) but appears afraid that the world would call their bluff. The Philippines may be militarily weak, but in the Permanent Court of Arbitration the odds are more even and China has responded with an effort to simply ignore the court.
October 26, 2015: In the south (Basilan province) police discovered and disabled a large roadside bomb Abu Sayyaf had recently planted. This bomb was on a major road and during the day traffic is heavy.
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DoD Officials Discuss Science, Technology Budget
by Bert Hopkins
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=128665
By Cheryl Pellerin
DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, April 24, 2015 – The Defense Department has maintained a steady $12 billion investment in science and technology and is using new initiatives to boost innovation and military superiority, defense officials told a Senate panel April 22.
Frank Kendall, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, testified before the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee on the DoD budget request for fiscal year 2016.
Joining him were Alan Shaffer, acting assistant secretary of defense for development, research and engineering, and Steven Walker, deputy director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.
The department's science and technology budget request for fiscal year 2016 is $12.2 billion, Kendall said.
Steady Investment
"Over the last several years we have maintained, despite all the budget fluctuations, a fairly steady investment in terms of technology," he said.
The department is committed to pursuing innovation in all its dimensions, said Kendall, adding that Defense Secretary Ash Carter endorsed the Defense Innovation Initiative unveiled last fall, and yesterday at Stanford University the secretary announced steps the department will take to foster innovation.
Kendall's efforts cover the broader DoD acquisition enterprise, and two weeks ago he announced final details and implementation guidance for Better Buying Power 3.0.
"The Better Buying Power label originated when Dr. Carter was undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics … but it's really a collection of initiatives that has evolved over time," Kendall said.
Improving DoD Acquisition
The initiatives are designed to incrementally improve the acquisition system's performance, he said.
The acquisition system includes not only major DoD programs, Kendall said, "but everything — all the things we contract out for, all the things the department acquires … and services are more than half of the things we contract out for. And it certainly includes our science and technology investments."
Kendall said the most recent version focuses on innovation, technical excellence and technological superiority, and on taking steps to spur innovation and get the greatest value from research and development and from new innovation sources.
The efforts, he added, include science and technology accounts, DARPA's budget, the work of DoD labs, contracted research and development, reimbursable independent research and development conducted by industry, the Small Business Innovation Research Program, and others.
Incentivizing Industry
Several BBP 3.0 provisions are designed to incentivize industry, Kendall said.
"One of them is … to tell industry how much we're willing to pay for enhanced performance," he said.
Normally when the department asks for a weapon system proposal, it sets a level of threshold performance that is the minimum it will accept, Kendall explained. DoD also sets an objective -– the performance it desires and that comes with a higher price, he said.
"Industry almost uniformly bids to the threshold level and ignores the objective because the threshold level is always cheaper," he added, noting, "It's less capable and that goes with [the lower] cost."
The undersecretary said the department is starting to communicate to industry "how much more we're willing to pay for that higher level of performance. Industry can then make an informed judgment about whether or not to invest in technology that will get to that level of performance."
Without that information, Kendall said, there's no incentive for industry.
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"We're trying to involve industry earlier-on in concept definition and requirements formulation so we have an interaction with industry." Kendall said. "We give industry a head start … to work on how they would satisfy our requirements."
In general, he added, "we're trying to align our financial incentive structure with the things we want. In this case, what we want is innovation — more creative, more capable products that we can get to the warfighter."
In his remarks, Shaffer said his office has revised the way it plans and executes the science and technology program through Reliance 21.
Reliance 21 is "an oversight construct that has created communities of interest, bringing scientists working in specific technology areas together to jointly plan and execute their departmentwide program in a more effective way," he said.
Defense Innovation
Shaffer said his office also is directly involved in the Defense Innovation Initiative and in many specific initiatives under BBP 3.0.
He said the DII is a departmentwide effort to identify and invest in novel ways to sustain and advance military superiority for the 21st century and improve business operations.
Under BBP 3.0, he said, "we are more tightly coupling acquisition requirements and the intelligence community to more dynamically adjust to changes in potential threats," and addressing barriers to adopting commercial technology in systems and capabilities.
Shaffer said his office is increasing its use of prototypes and experimentation departmentwide to reduce technical risk early in a program cycle and to see how systems will operate. The office also is expanding the use of modular open-systems architecture to stimulate innovation.
Breakthrough Technologies
In his remarks to the panel, Walker said DARPA's role is to make early pivotal investments that help develop breakthrough technologies for national security.
Walker highlighted two programs that DARPA is working on with the Air Force, both in hypersonics –- referring to a flow of air with a Mach number greater than five. This means the flow speed is more than five times the speed of sound, he explained.
One program is the Tactical Boost Glide system, Walker said.
This DARPA-Air Force effort will develop and demonstrate technologies to enable air-launched tactical-range hypersonic boost glide systems, including a flight demonstration.
Basically, Walker said, "you boost it with a rocket and glide the system to the target."
Tactical Hypersonics
The second DARPA-Air Force effort is the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, designed to enable transformational changes in responsive, long-range strike against time-critical or heavily defended targets.
"You also boost that concept," Walker said, "that you then take over with the air-breathing scramjet engine on board and that also hits its target."
This program, according to DARPA, seeks to advance air vehicle configurations capable of efficient hypersonic flight, enhance hydrocarbon scramjet-powered propulsion to enable sustained hypersonic cruise, develop affordable system designs and manufacturing approaches, and more.
"What [hypersonic speeds] buy you is a strike capability for time-critical targets from long-standoff ranges," Walker said.
"If we can pull that hypersonic technology into a weapon-system concept … at the end of these programs the Air Force would be ready to go off into an acquisition program on those systems — potentially, if we're successful. That's really the future," he added.
The Sequestration Threat
During the hearing, Kendall told the panel that one threat to U.S. military superiority is "one of our own making. It is the threat of sequestration."
In the fiscal year 2016 DoD budget request, the department is asking for funding that is well above sequestration levels, he said.
"We are trying to recover some of the readiness that was lost when sequestration was implemented in 2013. We are also trying to acquire some of the capability we need to maintain to remain competitive," said Kendall, adding that the department is requesting increases in its investment accounts, research and development, and procurement, of about $20 billion.
"Sequestration would force us to prioritize pressing near-term needs at the expense of these investments, preserving capability now but increasing our risk in the future," he said, adding that uncertainties about future budgets make effective planning nearly impossible.
"We urge you to permanently repeal the threat of sequestration," Kendall told the senators. "Removing this specter would do more than any other single act to spur innovation and preserve our military technological superiority."
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You'll have no trouble finding Fine Dining in Wellington. Investigate the waterfront, or pop into one of the many 5 star hotels, for a meal you'll never forget. Location is everything, so the best places might not necessarily be in the CBD.
Wellington Fine Dining is a competitive industry. The local food scene gives out awards on a seemingly weekly basis, so expect to find restaurants battling each other to get you through the door. Cuba Street and Courtenay Place are teeming with great restaurants, but you might have to look hard to find the creme de la creme of Wellington dining here. If money is no object, head to the northern end of The Terrace, around Featherston Street and Grey Street, towards Jervois Quay. There are three or four very special places here. Also, try exploring the high end hotels, most of which have exclusive, and expensive, in-house restaurants with celebrity chefs slaving away in the kitchens.


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Theoretical Study of NMR and Raman Spectra of Functionalized and Intercalated Nanotubes
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Grant agreement ID: 10384
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Final Activity Report Summary - SPECCNT (Theoretical Study of NMR and Raman Spectra of Functionalized and Intercalated Nanotubes)
The discovery of carbon nanotubes (CNT) in the 1990s by Iijima caused a flurry of experimental and theoretical investigations of this fascinating new form of carbon. CNTs are micrometer-long hollow carbon cylinders and can be seen as graphene sheets (honeycomb two-dimensional carbon lattices), rolled-up like a cigarette with nanometer-scale radii. The tubes have extraordinary mechanical and electronic properties, which make them good candidates for nanostructured multifunctional materials.
Very often, the characterisation of CNTs is done using spectroscopic tools. However, this characterisation is generally indirect, i.e. the experimental result is compared to several theoretical models in order to find an agreement. In view of this, it is clear that there is an apparent need in the community for a theoretical description of nanotubes, not only to understand available experimental data, but also to guide future experiments. Therefore, this research project was dedicated to the theoretical and numerical characterisation of intercalated, doped and functionalised carbon nanotubes, using both nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and Raman spectroscopies.
With this project we took an important step in this direction, by providing benchmark calculations for the magnetic susceptibility and NMR chemical shift of carbon nanotubes, both isolated and in bundles. Both properties exhibited dependence on the diameter D and the chirality of the tube, even though this dependence was stronger for the susceptibility. Moreover, we calculated the chemical shift of a double-wall tube and found a diamagnetic shift of the isotropic lines corresponding to the atoms of the inner tube because of the effect of the outer tube. This shift was in good agreement with recent experiments and could be explained by demagnetising currents circulating the outer tube.
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Any idea when our round two games can start? At what point do our opponents forfeit?
Yeah so...it's been a couple of weeks now and we still have no opponent for our round two games. Is this tourney still happening?
i pmed him but no reply, maybe hes out of the country or something? cant you add a random with me?
team epicgb, BENCLUB is disqualified for failing to join twice its games.
perchorin wrote: Yeah so...it's been a couple of weeks now and we still have no opponent for our round two games. Is this tourney still happening?
ok games for Round 3 upper winner bracket and round 2 loser bracket are sent.
team pianowazza, perchorin received a bye to the 3rd round due to the disqualification.
team Loose Canon, Flang also received a bye to the 2nd round loser bracket.
team codierose, scottp will have to wait a bit for the games of previous round to finish. it seems like team Gromph, starke666 will be their opponent as they are quite ahead in all 3 of their 1st round loser bracket games. i will wait a couple of days.
sorry for the delay everyone. holidays caught up with me and i wanted to wait as much as possible before i disqualify a team! it was my first one and not very Xmas spirited decision but the Tournament needs to go on!
semis and LB Round 3 games are on!
2 more games are up.
after a cruising victory, me and Jero took this to the repeat games! another best of 5 to determine our... ahem the winner!
Thanks ckyrias for the tournament... was a heck of a finals!
Thanks for the tournament ck. It was great fun. We went 16-6 overall. FIVE of those losses were to ck and italianipastido who we were fortunate to beat. I think we were a little cocky entering a double elim final with a record of 11-1.


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CD Reviews for 4/16/08 – Willie Nelson retrospective
Written by Dan Ferguson on April 16, 2008 and posted in Boudin Barndance Reviews .
Compact Capsules for 04/16/08
by Dan Ferguson
One Hell of a Ride
Columbia/Legacy 13915
Searching for the mother lode of Willie Nelson collections? If you're willing to shell out the big bucks, I'd recommend the 8-CD compilation Nashville Was the Roughest from Germany-based reissue king Bear Family Records. If you're on a budget, the next best set may be the newly released domestic box set One Hell of a Ride. Brought to us by the Legacy reissue arm of Sony-BMG Entertainment, the retrospective One Hell of a Ride spreads 100 tracks from the Red-Headed Stranger over four discs. It begins all the way back in 1954 and a song called "When I've Sang My Last Hillbilly Song" recorded in the studio of a radio station in Pleasanton, Texas for Sarg Records. Stripped bare with only voice and acoustic guitar (and clearly on the lo fi side), the voice and phrasing is unmistakably Willie. Things pick up on the fidelity end on the segueing track, a sweet slice of country called "No Place for Me" recorded in 1957 in Portland, Oregon for Willie Nelson Records. From there it's onto a couple of more small label Texas tracks, the second of which is the original recording of "Night Life" from 1960 credited to "Paul Buskirk & His Little Men, featuring Hugh Nelson." Hugh?!! The remainder of Disc One, which checks in at 29 tracks, is the stuff that laid the groundwork for the greatness to come. "Hello Walls", "Funny How Time Slips Away", "Crazy", "Mr. Record Man", "One in a Row", and "The Party's Over", most songwriters would've given their right arm to record just a one of them. Willie owned 'em all! Disc Two's 27 tracks focus on nuggets from the late 1960s and 1970s as taken from some of Nelson's most classic recordings. Disc Three covers the late 1970s to mid-1980s period, a time when Nelson's career, thanks to hits like "Whiskey River", "On the Road Again", "Angel Flying Too Close To the Ground", and "Always On My Mind", had the Red-Headed one at the top of the heap in the world of country music. Spanning 1984 – 2007, Disc Four covers the most ground time-wise and at the same time represents the most adventurous period in Nelson's recording career where he wasn't afraid to try anything. More often than not Nelson hits the mark displaying a fearlessness few can rival. Come to think of it, that pretty much sums up Nelson's career. He made music on his own terms. It's a trait that carried him all the way to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Looking for the one-stop shop without breaking the bank? One Hell of a Ride is the ticket. (Visit www.legacyrecordings.com)
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California is adding funds to help the fight against HLB. Governor Brown signed the 2017 Budget Act this week, which authorizes $10 million to fight the spread of the invasive Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) insect and the deadly and incurable plant disease it can carry, huanglongbing (HLB).
"California Citrus Mutual applauds Governor Brown and members of the California Legislature for recognizing the severity of this issue to not only the state's citrus growers, but to the California economy and the many homeowners who enjoy citrus trees in their backyards," says Joel Nelsen, president of the citrus grower trade association California Citrus Mutual.
HLB has devastated citrus production worldwide. In Florida, commercial production has plummeted by over 70 percent, resulting in average annual economic losses of 7,945 jobs, $658 million in value-added product and $1.098 billion in industry output, according to a recent report by the University of Florida.
California is the largest fresh-market, citrus-producing region in the world and one of few areas that have not been affected by HLB, but that could change if it is allowed to spread. So far, the disease has been found in 73 backyard citrus trees in the Los Angeles Basin, triggering quarantines in Los Angeles and Orange counties.
"HLB is spreading at an alarming rate, and the addition of state funds will provide critically needed resources to help protect all citrus trees and prevent HLB from devastating the state's vibrant citrus industry," concludes Nelsen.
The state funds will augment the nearly $25 million currently spent each year by commercial citrus growers for pest detection and eradication, including the release of beneficial insects for biological control of ACP in residential areas and ongoing public outreach and education.


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According to The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, drone strikes killed between 300 and 909 Afghan civilians in the five years between January 2015 to January 2020.
With drone strikes, the U.S. Military promised it could take out its enemies with minimal harm to innocent bystanders. "Remote Killing" shows the countless human tragedies that resulted anyway. Its painstaking investigation includes exclusive interviews with victims' families, civilians who were wrongly attacked, and independent investigators.
The documentary starts with an American soldier who became a whistleblower and unveiled how modern warfare has gone remote but remains ruthless — putting civilians in the line of fire and causing trauma in soldiers themselves.
The film's climax is a dialogue between a former U.S. Military drone pilot and an Afghan man who lost his leg in a mistaken air strike. It deeply analyzes the impact of America's two-decade war in Afghanistan, which caused intractable wounds to all parties involved.


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Conservation Work
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We manage all our land for wildfowling and conservation. We have installed water control features, culverts, dams and flap valve sluices to allow us to maintain a higher water level in spring & summer as well as the ability to flood parts of our land in winter. Most fields are managed under HLS for breeding birds or wintering birds. One field on the Low Wash is managed as 'fen' and Bassenhally Pits has a wide variety of habitat that needs careful management. In recognition of our work we were awarded the BASC 'Stanley Duncan Trophy for Conservation'.
Wildfowlers are organised into clubs and associations around the country. Many undertake clean-up and conservation work on the land on which they shoot, which can be leased or owned. Wildfowling clubs manage more than a quarter of a million acres of land in the UK (104,000 hectares). 90% of that is in sites of special scientific interest (SSSI).
On average five species of wild flowers are found in unmanaged woodland. In woodland managed for shooting an average 16 species can be found. Shooting has to be sustainable. Go beyond the critical limit and there will quickly be nothing left to shoot. So improving habitat for wildlife is really enlightened self-interest, shooting can only continue if quarry species are conserved and this involves creating and maintaining the right habitat for your quarry. But this benefits other wildlife, as they too need places to shelter, feed and breed. For instance, moorland managed for shooting typically supports 33 different species of birds compared with 15 on unmanaged moorland.
An independent report by PACEC in 2006 revealed that:
• Two million hectares are actively managed for conservation as a result of shooting
• Shoot providers spend £250 million a year on conservation (five times the RSPB's annual income.)
• Shooters spend 2.7 million work days on conservation – the equivalent of 12,000 full-time jobs.
In the past much of the conservation work carried out on shooting land provided an incidental benefit to other wildlife but increasingly it is becoming a deliberate and targeted effort. In Somerset and North Wales, for instance, shooters have been responsible for mink eradication schemes to protect water voles and endangered ground-nesting birds.
Bassenhally Pits
This is a 22 acre SSSI reserve owned by the club, which is managed through liaison with Natural England with respect to annual maintenance and forward improvement works program. Maintenance at this site has been supported by Community Payback workers and we are pleased to have involved them, and wish to thank them, in what we consider to be satisfying and long term investment in our conservation efforts.
Between November 2018 and March 2019 the Peterborough Environment City Trust (PECT) ran a project named Woods for Whittlesey. This was funded mainly by the Fenland District Council with the aim of improving the local environment for the benefit of the whole local community. In response to a plea for local areas of land that could be made available for the planting of trees Whittlesey Wildfowlers & Conservationists contacted the project manager (Simon Belham) and offered an area of land on the Common Wash. This is the recently purchased field alongside Morton's Leam close to Bassenhally Pits. The club had already performed extensive conservation work on part of this land, completing several ponds and scrapes the previous year. As there was an area at the southern end of this field that was considerably higher ground than the majority of the field it was agreed that this should be offered for the purpose of creating a small wooded area (approximately 1 acre in area). The agreement was that PECT would supply all the trees, stakes, and tubes and the club was required to find the labour. A request was sent out to all members via email, or letter if members had no email and considering that the work was to be performed on weekdays when most of our members were at work the response was fantastic and I would like to thank all those that turned out to help (in spite of the horrible weather on the first occasion). It couldn't have happened without you guys, you did the club proud, thanks again to all of you. In all we planted approximately 900 trees in an area of 1.2 acres, hopefully in another 20 or so years some of our younger members will benefit from what we have managed to achieve. I have been able to get some aerial pictures of the area that are attached along with a couple more of the lads enjoying a break from planting, indulging in one of Ernie's famous "Sausage & Bacon Burgers".
Ditching & Scrape Creation
There has been a great deal of field work taking place. A new scrape has been created to help with the breeding and well being of waders. The ditches around the field have been fully cleaned allowing a full flow of water along the ditches for the full winter. The creation of a professionally designed wader scrape has been undertaken by a local professional dredging company with a great experience in this type of work. The result is an excellent scrape that adds greatly to the conservation efforts of the WW&C.
Ditching works
These photos show a bit of ditching maintenance undertaken to keep the drains in good order. Ditching is only allowed until mid March under our stewardship rules and in these photos you can see the high water levels caused by recent heavy rains which brought the works to an early end. Ditching is based on need but is planned on a 5 year rotation. Also note the new gates which are built locally to our design and have been erected on most of our fields now, replacing the Australian gates (stakes and barbed wire) previously used.
Low Wash - reed cutting
The slideshow below shows field 21 following reed cutting by a specialist machine, contracted following works to nearby RSPB land. The reed growth had become excessive and needed to be cut back as part of our Higher Level Stewardship land management programme and had been agreed with Natural England during an earlier site meeting.
Annual Willow Pollarding
Along side the Whittlesey to Thorney road (B1040) there are over 160 Willow trees. Willows have always featured in fenland and grow rapidly in the wetlands. Every two years WW&C undetake the complete pollarding of these trees, completeing half of the trees one year and the other half the next year. The reason for this is twofold. Firstly the spreading canopy would grow so large the weight of it would break the already fragile trunks of the ageing trees. Secondly the spreading branches would hamper road users as they encroach on the road. These willows were originally planted in 1910 to mark the route of the road during times of flood.
Whatever the Weather!
Below you will find the records of the pollarding for both 2011 and 2012. The contrast can be clearly seen as, in 2011, it was a claer, dry and relative warm Saturday with the contrast in 2012 when it was well below zero degrees! Whatever nature chooses conservation goes on!
February 2012 Willow Cutting
Willow Pollarding - February 2011
Bassenhally Pit
Entrance to Bassenhally Pit
We are very committed to our conservation work and as such are very fortunate to have stewardship of Bassenhally Pit. This is a Site of Specific Scientific Interest (SSSI) mainly because of the types of rare plants found in it's marsh, aquatic and grassland environment. Of particular interest is the Early Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza incarnata), a plant that was once common across the eastern counties but now extremely rare.
In addition to the conservation work undertaken by WW&C work parties the site has, in the past, been regularly visited by local organised school parties.
To view a copy of the SSSI document then click on the file download below.
sssi_bassenhally_pit.pdf
WW&C - Committed to the Fenland Countryside


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Maschio Gaspardo – Press Release
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MASCHIO GASPARDO GROUP
Maschio Gaspardo is a world's leading company in agricultural implements since 1964. Thanks to the last acquisitions, Maschio Gaspardo can now offer a full range to his customers: primary tillage, crop care, residue management and with more than 200 years of experience in seeding/planting of all crops.
The Company has now 11 production plants: 8 in Italy, 3 abroad in Romania, India and China. Moreover, Maschio Gaspardo has 12 sales branches worldwide and is present in more than 100 countries.
The Group has a turnover of over 300 million Euro with a stable growth expected for the next two years. More than 80% of turnover is generated by foreign markets and an important role is played my Asian market.
Maschio Gaspardo has been providing the crop solution starting from land preparation to crop care and residue management. Our range includes more than 400 products from ploughs, subsoilers, cultivators, rotary tillers, power harrows, precision planters, seed-drills, sprayers, mist blowers, shredders, mulchers and many more.
Maschio Gaspardo in Asia:
Maschio Gaspardo is operating in Asia for over a decade, and is known for its wide range, dedicated network and promp costumer service.
In China starting from 2004 Maschio has invested in the market to gain a strong postion and in 2014 inaugurated a state-of-art manufacturing plant for the production of planters, rotary tillers and mulches. Maschio Gaspardo is market leader among foreign brands in China market for implements.
In India, in 2012 the Group has established a manufacturing plant for the production of rotary tillers, gaining a leadership position in Indian market.
Beside manufacturing units, Maschio Gaspardo has a huge network in China and India, with more than 250 dealers, providing best solution and best support to the farmers.
Maschio Gaspardo has a strong presence in all Asia countries, with more than 30 importers.
Maschio Gaspardo is developing with passion and steady growth the best network in Asia, focusing on customer needs and service. Thanks to the network partners, Maschio Gaspardo is market leader in most of Asian countries.
Maschio Gaspardo has a very strong R&D center in Asia, one located in India and one located in China, with more than 20 Engineers that they are focusing on Asia crops and Asia products.
Now the Company, aware of the strategic importance and the considerable growth of Asian market is focalizing to provide the complete farm solution to Asian farmers, providing high qualified after sales support and trainings for enrichment of farmers knowledge toward new age agricultural mechanization.
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the southern city of Eilat lies on the shores of the sea.
Located the city of Eilat as one of the largest vacation spots in Israel.
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In Eilat you can find, excellent restaurants, beautiful beaches, nightlife.


Spring in the air, birds singing, blue skies, the ideal weather, not bad for the month of April. Today I have my yearly medical examination, perfect day for it with spirits high and loving the world. I also decided to take the day off from work and enjoy myself after the examination and do something for myself, a rare treat.
The doctors took tests and checked me thoroughly, feeling great and without any thought of something being wrong I went and enjoyed the day. After ten days I received a telephone call from my doctor asking me to come by the office that same day, which sent a red light signal to my head. Was something wrong? Did they find something in the tests?
That afternoon I went to the doctor and was given the most shocking news, not anticipated at all, you have Mesothelioma, a cancer caused by asbestos, which is used for insulation and other building materials, I was employed in a building company at the time. The doctor gave me all options opened to me which included intensive chemotherapy, radiation, of course the chances of long term survival were limited, and in fact if I had a year to live I would be fortune. Stunned and in a dream state I left his office returning home with only one thought in mind, I will fight this disease and I will beat it for as long as I can.
The first thing I did was check on the internet everything I could find out about mesothelioma. I learnt the cells of the mesothelioma become abnormal and divide without control or order, they assault and damage tissues and organs and can spread to all parts of the body. I read and researched every article and from all the information given, the most helpful and encouraging was www.survivingmesothelioma.com. This web site gave me hope to at least explore different options and different treatments. I contacted people through this web site and although I knew my time was limited I also knew that I may be able to extend the time I had left and savior this time with family and friends. There was even a slight chance that I would be able to kill this disease and beat all odds against me, other people had done it, at least to extend my life for the longest time possible.
My next step was to find different treatments and to learn how, with the help of professional assistance, to change my diet, way of thinking and faith in G-d. As I believe that when a person is born his life is already planned for him, I knew that this was my path and there was a reason for my contacting this disease and that whatever to final outcome, it was up to me to learn and teach others from it. The most inspiring person that helped me accept and fight this disease was James Rhio O'Connor, who I contacted after reading his book and learning what a wonderful and strong person he was. He not only gave me information about treatments, diets, vitamin supplements but was the most remarkable person for moral support. He taught me not to dwell on the cancer, but to learn to live with it, to accept it and to go forward in my life with the knowledge I obtained and to conquer every hurdle on the way.
I also contacted someone in Australia, who has fought the odds and is winning this battle; he explained that not only medical treatment, but mind and spirit play a very important part of survival, with all these together one can prolong the outcome of any situation.
Today several years later I am still fighting the battle of survival, but so far have the upper hand, it isn't easy and the treatments are tiring and difficult, but the determination is there. I keep to my special diet and take all supplements available, especially vitamins. I also changed my physical and spiritual behavior and this seems also to help.
I guess the lesson I have learnt from this is really to accept what is given to you, but not without a fight, determination and belief to be the winner, anything is possible. To embrace life and what it has to offer and never to take anything for advantage, it is all in our hands to change the outcome. Faith is a very important part of it and we can both throw our arms up and give up or we can believe in ourselves and God and change the outcome to survive, or at least to extend the time given us on this earth.


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A utility for working with colors in Python.
A library which provides utilities for working with colors in Python. Colors are modeled by the Color class and can be represented in RGB, HEX, WEB, and YIQ formats.
Conversions between: RGB tuples, 6-character HEX strings, 3-character HEX strings, and WEB representations of color.
Although the addition and subtraction of color does not always make sense, the ability to do so is supported. There are two additive models currently supported: LIGHT and BLEND.
the light model is an additive model, where the rgb components are added, but do not exceed the maximum value, 255. This model is the default model which every Color is initialized with, unless overridden.
the blend model is an averaging model, where each rgb component is averaged.
When assigning models, it is important to note that the arithmetic model for the first object in the operation, e.g. Object1 in 'Object1 + Object2', is the model which will be used when computing the addition.
Notice that in the above example, when checking for red equality, when the color with the RED_eq equality comes first in the comparison, it evaluates to True. If it comes second, it evaluates to False. This is because the equality function of the first Color instance in the comparison defines which equality function is used.
To see how the colorutils conversion algorithms compare to other algorithms/provided values, see the comparisons wiki page.


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Salvador Dali Sundial on Rue Saint-Jacques in Paris
Located on the Rue Saint-Jacques that was on the pilgrimage route to Saint Jacques de Compostela, you will find a very unusual sundial, which was produced by the Spanish surrealist painter and artist Salvador Dali.
About the Salvador Dali Sundial
The Rue Saint-Jacques was on the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain and went via numerous places in Paris including the Tour Saint Jacques, which the surrealist Spanish artist Salvador Dali was always interested in.
And although he lived in Paris for many years, Salvador Dali did have his roots in Spain, which is where he went back to in order to see his life out, yet according to some reports, the sundial located on a corner of a building on the Rue Saint-Jacques was inaugurated with a ceremony that he himself attended.
The Salvador Dali Sundial was made of concrete and installed in 1966, and this curious monument in Paris is signed by him along with the year of 1966, and the shape of the face is meant to represent the shape of a scallop or a Coquille Saint Jacques as they are called in French.
The blue eyes and the eyebrows are meant to represent the sun and the flames as reminder of the heat that the pilgrims endured on their long journey, however, some reports indicate that a part of the sculpture is more a representation of himself with his iconic moustache.
Also, according to some reports, it was produced for friends that owned the shop on the corner, rather than for the Way of Saint James, which you will hear mentioned on different occasions within the history of Paris.
But whatever theory or report you decide to go with, please do not rely on this as a true sundial in Paris, as it does not seem to work, and if the melting clocks that are used within the Salvador Dali paintings are any indication, then this is probably no wonder!
Visiting the Salavador Dali Sundial
Now as we mentioned, the Dali Sundial is located on the corner of a building on the Rue Saint-Jacques, which is at present a restaurant but this keeps changing.
It is located virtually opposite the Square Andre Lefevre that was named after a poet, in the 5th Arrondissement of Paris, and is on the side of the building that steps out from others on the same street.
When it comes to getting here via public transport in Paris, you will find that the nearest Metro Station is called the Cluny - La Sorbonne stop serving line 10, however, if you are travelling via train, the nearest RER train station is the Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame stop serving the RER B and C Lines, yet this is also a metro stop as well that serves line 4.
Alternatively, the bus lines 24, 47, 63, 86 and 87, along with the Noctilien Night Bus Service via lines N15 and N22 will also get you within walking distance of the Salvador Dali Sundial, and other tourist attractions that are located close by.
However, if you are interested in the works of this artist and want to see far more, then there is a museum in Paris dedicated to him called the Espace Dali, which is located in the 18th Arrondissement of Paris in the Montmartre area.
Salvador Dali Sundial, Rue Saint-Jacques, 75005, Paris, Ile de France, France
Espace Dali Museum
Salvador Dali the surrealist artist
RER Train lines B, C
Square Andre Lefevre
Thermes de Cluny Roman Baths
Caveau de la Huchette
Petit-Pont
Crypte Archeologique
Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral
Charlemagne statue
Musee de la Prefecture de Police
Place Saint-Michel
Fontaine Saint-Michel
Musee d'Histoire de la Medecine
Sainte Chapelle
Square Jean XXIII
La Nouvelle Seine Restaurant
Pont de l'Archeveche


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