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Russia is haunted by the history of empire -- an empire that is rapidly slipping the grasp of a bleeding bear. The collapse of Russia's male population is related to alcohol abuse and drug abuse. Russia's politically connected wealthy are stashing tens of $billions in foreign bank accounts, her best and brightest youth vie for overseas jobs, and her beautiful young women seek husbands in Australia, North America, and Europe. Besides oil & gas, Russia's main asset is bluster.
Russian Men and Vodka
The mansions and gardens of old imperial Russia have faded or crumbled, as have many of the collective farms that fed communist Russia. Today, the hamlets dot a forsaken land of rampant poverty where men drink from morning to night. The interconnected crises of low fertility, high death rates and ragged infrastructure have left much of the nation barren.
... Even darker times may lie ahead.
A major study that the United Nations released in April, authored by leading Russian experts, projected that Russia would lose at least 11 million more people by 2025. Another U.N.-sponsored report said last year that the population could fall to as low as 100 million in 2050.
That report cited a recent improvement in fertility but cautioned that, "while these favorable trends may last another five or six years, all recent forecasts . . . predict that Russia's population decline will only intensify."
"There's a risk that in the most negative situation, Russia will stop existing as a state," said Olga Isupova, a senior demographic researcher at the Higher School of Economics, a leading private Russian university in Moscow.
...Russia as a whole lost 12.3 million people from 1992 to 2008. An influx of immigrants, mainly from former Soviet territories, helped hide the extent of the problem. The population is now 142 million, but it would have been 136.3 million without that surge from outside.
...— the decay in the heartland suggests that Russia isn't a resurgent superpower so much as a nation that's trying not to come apart at the seams._NewsTribune
In a worst-case scenario, the population drops from a peak of around 145 million at the turn of the century to about 60 million by 2100, a catastrophic loss of 85 million people at an average rate of 850 000 per year. Unless the government brings in hundreds of millions of foreign migrant workers to compensate, Russia's productivity and GDP would shrink along with its population.
Strategically, Goldman (2010) points out that a potential problem for Russia is that the depopulation rate in its far east, near the border with China, is higher than the national average. By contrast, the Chinese population on that increasingly sparsely populated border is growing rapidly. Will trouble brew on this border as a result? _Russia's Future
How can Russia help but come apart at the seams? It is only a matter of time before the country no longer has the manpower to hold its vast land area -- particularly when neighboring population overflow has been slipping into Russia for decades, diluting Russia's core population and national spirit.
Despite the rhetorical bluster by Putin and others, critics say that Russia's leadership is largely at fault for not diversifying the economy and helping modernize companies.... During the past decade or so of booming oil and gas exports that brought wealth and prestige, very little was done to revamp a nation still largely stuck in Soviet-era practices. _NewsTribune
On the local level, the problem is poisoning by vodka, drugs, and despair. On the national level, the problem is rampant corruption -- with Russia's heritage being stolen by government officials and their cronies, and shipped overseas.
There is no reason to expect Russia to be any more careful with its huge nuclear arsenal than it has been with any other national assets that might be stolen by insiders and sold to the highest bidder.
With few exceptions, the entire nation is in decay and decline. Expect trouble ahead as a result.
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MnMark said...
Is all of this decay occurring because of the after-effects of communism? Why is a nation full of relatively smart people unable to get a grip on this? Why didn't their nation explode with prosperity after communism was defeated? Is this what a nation looks like after it adopts a collectivist mindset - a total destruction of the work ethic and notion of private property that has habituated people to believe there is no point in making an effort to improve their lives?
bruce said...
"Why is a nation full of relatively smart people unable to get a grip on this"
it may be the corruption factor. It never died with the new order?
Mexico, China, and soon coming to visibility in the USA. Corruption of regulations no longer meant for health and well being but for penance and taxes (in the USA). Regular old fashioned corruption in Mexico.
-dan said...
My state university is getting Russian scientists, mathematicians, and engineers of the very highest quality - people who would not have deigned to consider a mid-level American school even a few years ago.
A Russian friend tells me that the relative prosperity of Moscow tends to hide what is happening in the rural areas. Civil unrest increases even as the infrastructure deteriorates.
Is this our future?
No, Dan. It could be much worse.
Hell_Is_Like_Newark said...
MnMark:
Russians in my part of the USA have been rather prosperous. Over the past decade, I have run into A LOT of fully employed Russian engineers. Unfortunately, the Russian mafiosi have also been 'prosperous'.
No matter how smart a people are, you cannot gain true economic growth in a nation run by a corrupt, totalitarian govt.
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Behold, the first figure of Peter Capaldi in his 12th Doctor outfit
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Although fans of Doctor Who figures might be miffed that the figure is in the 3.75" scale rather than the 5" scale Doctor Who figures up to last year were, but at least this new incarnation of Capaldi looks a hell of a lot better than the last one toymaker Character Options put out, based on his regeneration look from The Time of The Doctor. You can see that figure as part of the wave of figures due out with this new 12th Doctor below, which includes the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors and Amy Pond, as well as two Daleks - one from Genesis of the Daleks and the other from 2012's Asylum of the Daleks:
That raised eyebrow... *shudders*
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A Magma Rise egy magyar doom metal együttes, amely 2009-ben alakult korábbi, illetve jelenlegi Mood, Wall of Sleep, Stereochrist, és Neck Sprain tagokból. A zenekar debütáló albuma 2010 március végén jelent meg Lazy Stream of Steel címmel, a Nail Records és a PsycheDOOMelic Records közös gondozásában. 2012 januárjában Janó helyén Füleki Sándor (Wall of Sleep, ex-Mood) gitáros csatlakozott a zenekarhoz. A 2013-ban megjelent The Man In The Maze albumot a HangSúly Zenei Díj éves szavazásán az Év albumának választották a zsűriben részt vevő internetes rockmagazinok szerkesztőségei. 2016 márciusában jelent meg a következő Magma Rise hanganyag a False Flag Operation című EP formájában, majd 2017 novemberében az At the Edge of the Days kislemez. Új nagylemezt 2021 márciusában adott ki a zenekar a H-Music gondozásában To Earth to Ashes to Dust címmel. Az album a Mahasz Top 40 lemezeladási listán a 8. helyezést érte el, és ezzel együtt a korábban megjelent Magma Rise-albumok is első ízben a listára kerültek.

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Jelenlegi felállás
 Holdampf Gábor (ex-Wall of Sleep, Mood, Leukémia) - ének, basszusgitár (2009 óta)
 Hegyi Kolos (Stereochrist, ex-Mood) - gitár (2009 óta)
 Herczeg László (ex-Sunday Fury, Sedative Bang, Penalty Kick) - gitár (2013 óta)
 Bánfalvi Sándor (Ákos, ex-Neck Sprain) - dobok (2009 óta)

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 Janó Mihály (Neck Sprain, ex-Ektomorf) - gitár (2009–2011)
 Füleki Sándor (Wall of Sleep, ex-Mood, Leukémia) - gitár (2012)

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 Lazy Stream of Steel (album, 2010)
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 The Man In The Maze (album, 2013)
 False Flag Operation (EP, 2016)
 At the Edge of the Days (EP, 2017)
 To Earth to Ashes to Dust (2021)

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La spiaggia di Barbarossa è una spiaggia dell'isola d'Elba, situata in una baia presso il comune di Porto Azzurro, nel versante sud-orientale dell'isola.

Etimologia
Ci sono varie teorie sull'origine del nome della spiaggia di Barbarossa. Una di queste è che esso deriverebbe dal pirata turco Khayr al-Din Barbarossa, sbarcato all'isola d'Elba nel XVI secolo; un'altra teoria sostiene invece che derivi dal colore rosso di una falesia di terra che sormonta una piccola caletta a sinistra della spiaggia, raggiungibile a nuoto, che da lontano assomiglia proprio a una "barba".

Caratteristiche
La spiaggia è formata da ghiaia scura, fine e levigata mista a sabbia. È lunga circa 160 metri e larga 30 metri. È riparata dai venti tranne quelli da sud, presenta ai suoi lati stupende insenature rocciose per gli amanti dello snorkeling e della subacquea.

La spiaggia di Barbarossa presenta inoltre una passeggiata panoramica che unisce la spiaggia al paese costeggiando il perimetro delle mura del seicentesco Forte Longone, ancora oggi adibito a struttura carceraria.

Ambiente circostante
È abbastanza frequentata, essendo la spiaggia più vicina al vicino paese di Porto Azzurro, ma non eccessivamente affollata.

Racchiusa tra il promontorio sul quale è situato il Forte Longone e la spiaggia di Reale, offre numerosi servizi a terra con bar e ristoranti, e in mare, con lunghe escursioni del fondale e itinerari turistici per tutta l'isola.

Bibliografia
 Guide d'Italia. Toscana, Touring Club Italiano, 2012, p. 487.

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 Tratti costieri d'Italia
 Coste italiane
 Isola d'Elba

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Samsung reportedly spending $21B to expand OLED capacity for 'iPhone 8,' future devices
Posted: June 30, 2017 1:29PM
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Possibly flush with OLED screen orders for the "iPhone 8," Samsung is reportedly beefing up its production capacity by building new factories at a pair of new sites in South Korea.
Citing sources within the supply chain, ET News claims that Samsung has started planning a new "A5" plant with capacities between 180,000 and 270,000 panels per month. The plants said to be located in Cheonin and Asan, South Korea are expected to cost around $1.75 billion for the facility alone, and another $14 billion for equipment for OLED fabrication, with total costs for the two facilities coming in at around $21 billion.
Friday's report is similar to one from April, which claimed that Samsung would have to dole out $8.8 billion in 2017 to boost capacity and convert a LCD plant to produce OLED screens.
The ET News report claims that this new factory is being built in anticipation of further demand from smartphone manufacturers, and mass-production of 10-inch foldable displays.
Also in April, reports started circulating about a ramped-up OLED contract between Apple and Samsung. The contact, confirmed by multiple sources inside the supply chain, is said to be an escalation of the $4.3 billion one signed in February for 60 million panels.
The current "A3" plant builds 180,000 screens per month, according to the report. The plans for the new facilities are reportedly not set yet, with a board of directors meeting scheduled for July to hammer out the details.
Apple's "iPhone 8" is expected to be revealed alongside the "iPhone 7s" family in the fall of 2017, and use a 5.8-inch edge-to-edge OLED panel with a 5.1-inch practical area, the rest being dedicated to virtual buttons. Other features rumored to be included in the device are a 3D facial scanner, and other sensors embedded in the front glass of the device.
gatorguy Posts: 23,509member
For a $21B investment they must be anticipating a crapload of those Samsung foldable screens! If there's anything to it I guess everyone selling smartphones is planning for "the next big thing": Compact foldable phones with huge displays?
macxpress Posts: 5,457member
So they're not building this in the US? Whatever happened to were going to bring factories back to the USA? You can't just being assembly plants back to the US...you should be looking to bring as much as possible to the US if you want assembly in the US. Otherwise, while things are assembled in the US, its still sourced 98% from other countries so there is a shitload of jobs that could have been here that are elsewhere.
rotateleftbyte Posts: 1,602member
macxpress said:
Samsung is going to build a 'white goods' factory in the US. That will keep the Tweeter in Chief happy.
SoundJudgment Posts: 183member
So they're not building this in the US?
Samsung is not an American company.
andrewj5790 Posts: 296member
Going to be funny when Apple switches to microLED in a couple years.
Herbivore2 Posts: 367member
gatorguy said:
Just the demand from Samsung mobile and Apple would justify this investment.
The other mobile device manufacturers are still going to be left in the cold.
The entire mobile market is going to move to bendable and foldable devices. The real caveat is that they will only be available in large numbers from Samsung and Apple. LG can produce them also, but to a much smaller degree. The Chinese OEMs will have to pay through the nose to access the technology and cannot produce low cost devices to undercut Samsung's and Apple's offerings. Samsung is nearly untouchable now with respect to the technology. This is going to bite Google hard. Like getting caught in the jaw of an alligator.
Short of a North Korean invasion, there will be only two dominant players in mobile. Samsung and Apple. Android is still going to be displaced. Samsung is committed to it and as the dominant components manufacturer with control of all of the critical component technologies, they are well-positioned to make it happen. It is already happening in the Android wear arena. Samsung continues to aggressively update and advance the Gear line while the android wear manufacturers are sluggish and poorly committed. The Gear S3 classic now comes with LTE. It is far better than anything made by Huawei, LG or Xiaomi. Manufacturers are actually decommitting from Android wear as Motorola has no plans to manufacture future watches.
And with LTE, the Gear watches stomp all over the Android wear devices in battery life. Tizen runs like a champ on low end hardware also.
Samsung knows where the market is headed. And they are pioneering the hardware to make it happen. Google hypes the software, but the fact remains unchanged, superior hardware is where the true advances come from. Software can only be written to the capabilities of the hardware. Samsung knows it. Apple knows it. Google is about to become painfully aware of it.
andrewj5790 said:
If both the report and investment number is accurate this isn't being done simply to get Apple's business. At $40-60 max per OLED display (that's based on my reading of quantity pricing reported in other product cost breakdowns) Apple wouldn't possibly buy enough to make it worthwhile even if Sammy got ALL their business which Apple seems to try and avoid anyway. At $60 a pop times 80M units the total revenue from Apple might hit $5B and even that's far more than Samsung would actually realize in profit. Apparently they have determined there's a heckuva market outside of Apple for whatever OLED product they're developing even if they get only a portion of industry orders.
...if the report is true.
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You are right in that they aren't counting only in Apple but they are also doing this as a multi-year investment they may only get $4-5 billion this year from Apple but multiply that for a couple of years and the investment looks better.
foggyhill Posts: 4,767member
Apple and Samsung are frennemies
samsung Is able to try things because they know apple will be a client
both apple and Samsung are the main beneficiaries of this but others are too.
SoundJudgment said:
So...neither is Toyota, Nissan, Honda, etc yet they all have factories in the US.
wizard69 Posts: 13,377member
Someplace on the net is a great video where Apple highlights what might be possible in the future as tablets go. In any event foldable displays have been desired for decades now.
Found the video of Apples "Navigator" concept video: While iPad isn't yet foldable it has in some ways eclipsed this concept video. The real problem is that AI technology simply isn't far enough along to realize some of the behaviors described in the video. However it looks like Apple is aggressively attacking the AI problem. So the desire for foldable displays has been around since 1987, we may actually see the tech debut in a year or two.
If Apple could get iOS to the point that the Navigator video alludes too they would sell one hell of a lot more iPads.
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pk22901 Posts: 153member
omar morales said:
That's $4-$5B for year 1, Y2 will be $8 or so, Y3 will be $12, Y4 probably $12 as the 7 iPhone models are displaced by the 8s and the 9s.
pk22901 said:
...but not PROFIT. Even your figures assume Apple keeps all their orders with them, or using OLED at all 4-5 years from now. I don't personally think a $21B investment if true is because of Apple. I'm sure Samsung has learned not to plan around orders from them several years out with processors already moved to a different supplier.
macarena Posts: 365member
Samsung burnt its fingers really bad on phones that caught fire. At this point, they are probably one or two disasters away from a total belly up scenario.
Yes, they have locked up the future of hardware - but the reality is that the game has shifted completely to ecosystem. And in that space, Apple, Amazon and Google have gone way ahead of what Samsung can ever hope for. Even if Tizen is actually better than Android, it is unlikely that Samsung can ever create the developer ecosystem for Tizen that Apple and Google have.
In couple of years, the hardware will reach a point where it no longer matters. All hardware will be so good, that differentiation from hardware will cease to matter. With displays being the biggest battery guzzlers, in 2 years time, phone battery life will cross a point where it no longer is a concern. At which point, prices for even the most fancy hardware will start to drop.
Effectively, the only thing Samsung is doing, is bearing the costs and the risks for Apple and others to adopt future technologies. Not a smart strategy by any stretch.
Apple is in a sweet spot, where they can easily say, we decided to continue with regular LED screens for this generation also, to take advantage of price drops, and to increase margins as well as provide lower prices to end users. Also, we want higher volumes than what we can handle with OLED.
And if Apple decides something like that, Samsung would be screwed. They need Apple more than Apple needs them.
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sorry Gatorguy but at a production ramp of 200-300k panels/month/factory there is not going to be much left for your buddies at Google.
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Whew... Well that's fortunate since I have no buddies at Google. Never met anyone associated with them for that matter.


I was wondering if any of you know whether there's negative marking in Economics? eg. if they ask for two answers and I give three, will they pick my best two or mark me negatively for putting more answers than I was asked for?
There is no negative marking in economics. They will mark all and your best responses will count. In fact, your encouraged to give an extra point of answer so as to ensure that you maximise your marks if you make a slip, but only if time permits obviously.


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Q: What does a "perfect step" mean in One More Dash? The mobile game One More Dash has various challenges including "dash # perfect steps in sequence".
But what does it mean by "perfect step"?

A: A perfect sequence is dashing from circle to circle without hitting any walls the number of times needed to meet the challenge. So 'Dash 35 Perfect Steps In Sequence' means, dash to 35 circles, in a row, without hitting any walls or, of course, exploding.

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Venezuelan consular services have been suspended in the U.S.
The Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C. has posted a notice to its website indicating there will be no consular services at that location until further notice.
Other Venezuelan consulates have been reported closed and applicants in the U.S. should expect a suspension in consular services.
The U.S. State Department has issued a travel advisory warning U.S. citizens against traveling to Venezuela.
Background: Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro announced Jan. 23 he was cutting diplomatic ties with the U.S. and expelling all U.S. consular staff. The following day he announced that the Venezuelan Embassy and all consulates in the U.S. would be closed.
BAL Analysis: Applicants in the U.S. seeking Venezuelan consular services, including U.S. nationals and others applying for Venezuelan visas as well as Venezuelan nationals seeking travel documents from their embassy or consulates in the U.S., should anticipate a potentially lengthy suspension in services and plan accordingly.


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A Fly In of A Different Sort
Macaw fly-in at Amazonian clay lick
You have them for planes -- Here's an aerial identification chart for parrots!
Amazonia parrots demonstrate exceptional formation flying!
A colorful fly-in happens every morning in Manu National Park in Peru. This isn't about antique airplanes, but the flying is so impressive, we wanted to tell you about it.
Parrots and macaws fly in to a cliff on the side of the river. They come to visit a clay lick, and they spend a couple of hours showing off for each other and eating clay.
Now when we go to air shows, we're always impressed with great formations flying… right? Well, let me tell you… even the best of those formation teams have nothing on the way these parrots and macaws fly in formation!
From the Manu Wildlife Center in the Peruvian Amazon, we took a small boat up the Madre de Dios River to arrive at a viewing blind early in the morning so we could observe the whole show.
First the little guys come in… they're sort of like the fighters of warbird exhibitions. First a few groups of a dozen or so… then as they are sure there are no "enemies" around (like hawks and eagles) they swoop past in groups of 50 to 100…. all turning and climbing and diving in precise formation. It really is a sight to behold.
A little later in the morning, the big guys come in… sort of like the bombers following fighters. There are more species of Macaws in the area, but it's the Red and Green Macaws that visit this site. They mostly fly in in pairs or family groups of 3 or 4… but their formation flight is still impressive.
Once they are all more or less settled on branches and on the cliff side, it's interesting to see how they maneuver and avoid collisions.
It was always birds that inspired us to fly… and this "fly-in" definitely inspired respect for those colorful aviators…. it was quite a performance.
J & M


In the 1950s, psychiatrist Seymour Levine (1960) began his research studies on stress using rats. He employed an experimental yoga poses for male libido device common among the behaviorists, which had also inspired Laborit's research. in yoga poses a first series of experiments, he studied three types of rats.
1. Handled and stressed rats. Every day, newborn rats are placed in yoga poses cages where they are administered a series of very low electric shocks. The experimenter carries the rats to be placed in yoga poses such a cage in yoga poses his hands. The same happens when they are returned to their habitual habitat.
2. Handled rats. A group of rats serves as the control group. They are placed in yoga poses the same cage in yoga poses the same manner but do not receive an electric shock.
This study was conceived to demonstrate that stress, when inflicted at the beginning of yoga poses for male libido, has a devastating effect on the development of the rats. Levine was surprised to observe that the group that grew up poorly and exhibited worrisome symptoms when they reached adulthood was the third group: the ones that did not receive daily electric shocks nor were placed in yoga poses the cage for a time each day. The rats of the third group were noticeably less curious and less active.
Seymour Levine then analyzed more closely the growth and development of the rats who participated in yoga poses situation 1 and 3 up to adulthood. He observed that the group placed under stress change gears❠more rapidly than the group that stayed in yoga poses its nest. in yoga poses this last group, the increase in yoga poses steroids, in yoga poses the case of stress, is slower; the activation of the organism is longer lasting and decreases more slowly. in yoga poses other words, the onset of the axis of stress is less rapid, but once it has been activated it becomes more difficult to deactivate.
1. Rats that grow up in yoga poses a cage.
2. Rats that grow up in yoga poses a garden.


Seattle-based nonprofit Heroes for the Homeless reaches out to hundreds of individuals in the King Country area, providing food, water, clothing, survival supplies, sleeping bags and hygiene kits to those without a place to call home.
I was asked to design merchandise for them that would reflect the value they bring to the homeless community in Seattle.
Before I started actually designing anything, I needed to gain familiarity with their brand, their mission and their values. Every month, the amazing volunteers at Heroes for the Homeless conduct an outreach, where they bring food and supplies to hundreds of homeless people all around the Greater Seattle Area. In May of 2016, I was invided to join them.
The group that I went with visited "The Jungle", a large homeless colony underneath Interstate-5 in South Seattle. We provided friendly company to the community, as well as food, water and survival supplies. I got to see firsthand the impact that Heroes for the Homeless has here.
The design that I came up with focuses on the direct, measurable value that Heroes for the Homeless brings to the less fortunate. I decided to show what they've selflessly contributed to the homeless community by using a bold typeface and the color red to draw attention to the numbers and convey a deep level of impact that reflects their own. Because the graphic is text-based, it's very flexible and can be used across a wide variety of products.


Video (2:27): queer tango improvisation by Gaston E. Olguin and Tintin at Kultur-labor in Leipzig, Germany, 2016.
We think The Queer Tango Salon really was a success! We had hoped for perhaps 30-35 delegates – by the close we had 65 people who had registered.
The Queer Tango Salon: Connecting Bodies of Knowledge will be happening in Paris next month and the full schedule for the 16th and 17th September 2016 is now available on their website.


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October Books 19) The Uncrowned King of Ireland
Oct. 31st, 2007 at 7:44 PM
19) The Uncrowned King of Ireland: Charles Stewart Parnell - His Love Story and Political Life, by Katherine O' Shea (Mrs Charles Stewart Parnell)
This is the ultimate primary source for the private life of one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century Ireland. Parnell, for those of you who need reminding, built a coalition between parliamentarians and terrorists to force the British government of the day to improve the conditions of Ireland's tenant farmers, and had managed to get Gladstone to promise Home Rule - an autonomous government for Ireland - when his leadership of Irish nationalism suddenly collapsed after it was revealed that he had been the lover, for ten years, of the wife of one of the MPs representing his party. They married after her divorce, but he died suddenly only three months later, at the age of 45.
This is her story. Katherine was the daughter of an ordained baronet; her brother won a VC; her mother and sister wrote novels; she gives a rather entrancing picture of her childhood and courtship by William O' Shea. Their marriage quickly went sour, but he had meantime introduced her to his party leader, and it is implied that they became lovers while she was nursing him in 1880, during a convalescence from one of his frequent illnesses. (One of the great questions of Irish history is "What if Parnell had lived thirty years longer?" - but on the evidence here that would have been very unlikely.)
She doesn't go into much intimate detail about her life with Parnell - there is a lovely moment of frolicking on the beach at Eastbourne, and a poignant death scene - but does reproduce a very large number of Parnell's letters and telegrams to her, and goes into enough detail about her own role as an intermediary between Parnell and Gladstone in the early to mid 1880s to make it clear that Gladstone knew full well of their relationship, and that his publicly expressed shock when it came to light in 1890 was pretty bogus. She also gives some of her correspondence from her first husband, Captain O' Shea, in which he appears completely self-obsessed and very unpleasant; a stark contrast with Parnell's tenderness towards her combined with a political single-mindedness.
Anyway, you wouldn't want to read this as a jumping-off point to this period of Irish history, but if you already have a background knowledge of the main events it's pretty fascinating. Incidentally one of the popular pubs near my office in the European Quarter of Brussels is called Kitty O'Shea's after the author; she herself always went by "Katie" to friends and family (and, mysteriously, was called "Dick" by her first husband), but popular lore remembers her differently.
forodwaith
Nov. 1st, 2007 03:33 pm (UTC)
The first time I encountered this bit of history I decided that someone needs to write a good historical novel about it. (I went looking, but the only one I could find was a truly awful one by Dorothy Eden.)
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Q: R5RS Spec letrec example for eqv? I'm reading the spec for R5RS and it have this two examples for eqv?
(letrec ((f (lambda () (if (eqv? f g) 'both 'f)))
         (g (lambda () (if (eqv? f g) 'both 'g))))
  (eqv? f g))
                               ;; ===>  unspecified

(letrec ((f (lambda () (if (eqv? f g) 'f 'both)))
         (g (lambda () (if (eqv? f g) 'g 'both))))
  (eqv? f g))
                               ;; ===>  #f

I don't understand this is it be error in code, from me it looks like they compare function objects that are different they are two lambda expressions, does it mean that first example some how can return true if it's unspecified becuase of optimization? Shouldn't it be reversed? unspecified for (if (eqv? f g) 'f 'both) that both functions return same symbol.
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A: This is a remarkably subtle example.  In the first example:
(letrec ((f (lambda () (if (eqv? f g) 'both 'f)))
         (g (lambda () (if (eqv? f g) 'both 'g))))
  (eqv? f g))

Well, f and g are textually different, right?  So this should be false.  Except that, well, if we assume that (eqv? f g) is true – we assume that f and g are the same in fact – then we could optimize away the conditionals, and rewrite each of f and g to:
(letrec ((f (lambda () 'both))
         (g (lambda () 'both)))
  (eqv? f g))

And now, well, we could optimize them into the same function, as considered by eqv?.  So the assumption that the functions are the same as considered by eqv? leads us to a state where they could be optimized to actually be equivalent under eqv?.
In the second example:
(letrec ((f (lambda () (if (eqv? f g) 'f 'both)))
         (g (lambda () (if (eqv? f g) 'g 'both))))
  (eqv? f g))

Well, if we again assume that f and g are the same, then we can try to optimise the conditionals away again:
(letrec ((f (lambda () 'f))
         (g (lambda () 'g)))
  (eqv? f g))

And this is, obviously, false.  So we can't assume f and g are the same.  And now we have trouble, because if we assume they are different then we could perhaps optimize them again ... and now they're the same function and perhaps could be optimized to be the same under eqv? ... except now we're in a loop.  So they must be considered to be different under eqv?, even though they may return the same value.
The second example is very close to the liar's paradox: it escapes because eqv? is allowed to not know that two things are the same (for a definition of 'the same' which I'd have to think about harder) even though they actually are.

Personal note: while I think these examples are extremely clever and subtle, I would not have put them in a spec, or at least not without a very detailed explanation of what the system is, or is not, allowed to do, and why.


Jack arrives in a deserted Halloween Town. He then suspects that something terrible's happened, so he goes off in search of his friends.
Go keep going through the course and follow the arrows. There will be arrows to guide you to the place you need to go. It's fairly easy now since its the beginning, I'm trusting that you can go through it yourselves. Do not worry, because there are stone tablets, telling you the controls as you progress. Just ignore the enemies for now and go on, to the fourth area.
The Mayor comes tumbling over calling your name. He explains that bugs have overruled the town and that all of their residents are hiding. Jack states he needs to get to the bottom of this and the Mayor praises him for volunteering. He then gives you the Frog Gun your first weapon. The Mayor then wishes you luck and rolls off.
Now that you have your first weapon you can kill all those nasty bugs!
Keep going and follow the arrows. When you reach the first interjection instead of going in the direction the arrow points (up) go down. Keep going down until you reach a place where you cannot go any further. This is just to clear the area so it won't be a surprise later. Now then go back up and this time go where the arrow points (which is up).
Not long after that, you'll see an arrow pointing right, ignore it for now and go up where there's a ladder. Face the obstacles, (they aren't that hard) and keep going till you have come to a dead end with a present. Walk toward the present, it will open and you get.... a shoe!! As a matter of fact it's Sally's Shoe (I wonder how it got there! =o).
After his explanation (or not ) continue until you reach an arrow pointing up. Go right on a ledge, you will see another present. Go up to it, and out comes a Shrunken Head! Congratulations! You found your first one! If you said yes to the Mayor, he'll give you a hint that there is a Shrunken Head nearby. Looks like you found it!
Continue through the Halloween Town Square following the arrows. If you need health use the Electric Chair once you come to it, after that there's a Pumpkin Jack scarecrow. Those are save points, if you haven't realized, press B and save your game 'cause it's almost boss time!
Once you see the Mayor, approach him.
Jack sees the Mayor in distress as he goes through Halloween Town. He explains that the bug before him is different. It's a big one, holding an arrow pointing right. The Mayor then says that its boss is in the next area (the crypt). He wishes Jack good luck for the upcoming fight and tumbles off.
Kill the bug, and continue onto the crypt area. Boss time!
As Jack walks into the crypt he notices something. Just when he thinks is nothing a huge spider comes down from the ceiling of the crypt and attacks!
Does this spider remind you of anyone? Think of it when Oogie scared Sandy Claws with that spider from his head. The one you got a close up on.
Anyway, the Mega Spider has an attacking pattern, when it goes up into its spider web, don't worry. You'll see the layout of the spider go down and a few seconds after that the spider descends onto you. It'll stay put so start hitting it with your Frog Gun. then the spider will go up, you'll see its outline again. Right when it goes up run to one of the corners and duck, the spider will come mid way and start swinging around.
It'll then go up and baby spiders will start coming down. Immediately when the spiders hit the ground they come scurrying toward you. Use your Frog Gun to easily dispose of them (while you're ducking still).
Right when you kill the baby spiders the Mega Spider will come down and shoot several spider webs at you. Don't move. You're in the corner and the spider webs won't reach you.
For its last attack it comes down, (remember to spot the outline) it stays put for a few seconds so start hitting it with your Frog Gun. After a few seconds run all the way to corner, because if you wait long enough the spider will start swinging around and it'll hurt you. After hitting it a few times run to the corner so its swinging attack won't hit you, then when it swings to your side, use your frogs breath attack to hurt it. The Frog Gun will reach it.
Congratulations! You defeated your first boss! Now enjoy it by watching Jack dance!
After the battle, exit the crypt and continue on the path. After the first area you'll come to a door, a sign saying "Jack's House" and an arrow indicating to go pinto it. Follow the directions and head inside.


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Using IFTTT applets will allow you to connect your Blueair connected device to your social media accounts, apps, storage providers and other connected units to automate tasks without having to logging individually to each service to perform each task.
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Mountford is located in Channybearup, in the Pemberton wine region of Western Australia (South West).
Early pioneers of the wine industry in the Southwest of Western Australia, the Mountford family selected Pemberton for the unique flavour potential of wine grapes grown in this cooler, largely forested region of high winter rainfall. Trained horticulturist and wine lover Andrew was looking for a region as yet undiscovered in Australia. Reasons for choosing the sight of the vineyard are a combination of soil, climate, topography and of course most importantly the right feel!


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The third bedroom, located on the top-most level, provides even more distant views and a half bath.
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History — Dario Designs Inc.
Dario DiMare, the founder of Dario Designs Inc., was raised in Ashtabula, Ohio, where he entered KENT STATE UNIVERSITY and graduated with honors. He worked during college as a mucker tunneling under Lake Erie and held two other jobs to pay for a semester of study in Florence, Italy. After his studies, DiMare headed east around the world with a backpack, tent, and eight dollars a day, gathering information pertinent to the evolution of architecture.
DiMare was recruited right out of Kent State by The Austin Company, based in Cleveland. He spent 11 years with Austin, WINNING A COMPETITION to design Austin's own Eastern District Headquarters. Although DiMare worked with clients in other industries, by the end of his tenure at Austin, he became, and still is, NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED for his work in the media industry.
DiMare had two things going for him when he set out solo. Dow Jones & Co. Inc. (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL) awarded him a multi-year contract to modify all of its print facilities nationwide to print full color for the first time. More generally, media companies of all sizes started to build again after a gradual recovery from their worst recession in 50 years.
In less than two years, DiMare added two people. The next year included four more. The company continued to double in people and revenues for several years. This pattern continued until Dario Designs and its consultants totaled more than 100 people.


Vory Stay Mp3 Download – Vory has outshined several established artists through his features in the last year, showing off his smooth vocals and coming up with some extremely catchy melodies. It seems like finally, the Kentucky-bred singer will be getting his shine this year because today, he continues to raise the stakes with his new single "Stay," announcing an upcoming EP in the process.
The Grammy-winning songwriter has just released his latest work, produced by Louis Bell and Pro Logic. "Stay" sees the Louisville artist going deep into his bag of tricks, pulling out glossy falsettos and clear vibes on the way to his new project. Vory's Say EP will be out on April 24 and "Stay" serves as a solid precursor to the work. Are you looking forward to his upcoming release?
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My goal is to always challenge expectations and break boundaries with both digital dark arts & printed solutions. Design is his passion, and he looks forward to sharing it!
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I love to travel. My native country is Germany and having the advantage of fluently speaking English, I have created illustrious relationships with our European clients.
I love catching the world through that tiny view finder. Me and my camera take instants out of time, altering life by holding it still. Photography is an immediate reaction that creates satisfaction.
Understanding our clients business objectives is paramount and an extremely important factor in creating relationships that are abiding and illustrious.
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Consumer took vehicle in to dealer for ABS light coming on. Dealer said vehicle needed a master cylinder. Consumer stated that if pedal went to floor that meant that brake pedal had failed.


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Deepening Divide
By Aryn Baker / Buqaya, Lebanon Thursday, June 02, 2011
Photos: The Uprising in Syria Rages On
Like many of the syrian farming communities near Lebanon's northern border, Aarida, as seen from the Lebanese village of Buqaya, offers a bucolic scene worthy of a postcard. Willow trees trail their drooping branches through a stream that winds past plots of ripening strawberries and golden fields of wheat. A small stone bridge, topped by a Syrian flag snapping in the breeze, shelters a family of bullfrogs whose chatter lays the sound track for an early-summer calm.
Three weeks ago, that peace was shattered by the screams of Aarida's women as they poured across the bridge, wailing that their husbands and sons, who had gone out to protest against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, were being attacked by Syrian troops. Soon residents of Buqaya heard approaching gunfire, and the air was filled with the scents of burning houses and fields. Hassan Syed, a Lebanese who lives in Buqaya, watched the horror unfold from his side of the river. That night, he estimates, some 3,000 Syrians fled to Buqaya seeking refuge. Thousands more from other violence-racked Syrian towns crossed over the next day, wading through the hip-deep water when the bridge was closed. Then Syrian border guards started shooting at anybody trying to get across by any means.
(See pictures of protests in Syria.)
"Now no one crosses the river," says Syed, 25. As we talk, a flicker of movement across the stream catches his attention. A sniper watches from a barricade, his gun pointed in our direction. We move behind a bullet-pocked wall. Most of Aarida's residents fled, Syed explains to me; in their wake arrived busloads of soldiers and thugs. Syed watched as they ransacked the homes of antiregime protesters, loading up on looted washing machines, ovens and refrigerators. They trampled the strawberry fields and stole cattle. Nobody is quite sure where they took their captives. "In Syria, the prisons are so full, they are putting men in stadiums and schools," says Syed — an allegation backed by refugee accounts and human-rights-monitoring organizations. "That regime is a brutal killer with no respect for anyone."
The Syrian government maintains that the protests, now in their third month, are an armed Islamist uprising. It denies the widespread reports of torture, including the case of a 13-year-old boy whose battered and castrated corpse was returned to his family a month after he was picked up at a protest by security forces. But cumulative accounts from eyewitnesses, refugees and video footage clandestinely uploaded to the Internet point to evidence of a scorched-earth policy that has so far claimed more than 1,000 lives, according to Ammar Qurabi of Syria's National Organization for Human Rights. More than 10,000 have been detained. The tough line not only precludes hope for reconciliation but also sets the stage for the very chaos and sectarian strife the regime warns will roil the country should it collapse.
It is not just Syrian lives at stake. The country, with 22 million people in an area slightly larger than North Dakota, is a pivotal linchpin in a volatile region. Should Syria shatter, it could profoundly destabilize neighbors Iraq and Jordan. Civil war could ignite sectarian conflict in Lebanon and Turkey, which, like Syria, have several religious minorities. Home to the leader of Hamas and a sponsor of Hizballah, Syria also guards the Golan Heights, occupied since 1967 by Israel. If threatened, the regime in Damascus could encourage Hamas and Hizballah to attack the Jewish state. And were Syria to collapse entirely, it could turn into a battleground for militias supported by the region's major powers: Shi'ite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia.
(Read about the differences between Syria and Turkey.)
These dire scenarios may not yet be inevitable, but their likelihood increases each week as mostly nonviolent protesters face down the brutal regime. Predictions are dangerous, cautions the regional director of an international think tank, who asked not to be identified by name. "Still, I think it's safe to say that things will never go back to the way they were," he says. For the moment, protests have largely been limited to rural areas and the suburbs of major cities — demonstrations in central Damascus and Aleppo were immediately, and viciously, smothered. As long as Assad's urban base stays on the sidelines, says the think-tank director, "the regime could hang on for months. But if Damascus moves, it's game over."
Read "Syria's Embattled Dissidents Grapple with Government Hackers, Wiretappers and Imposters."
See TIME's special report: The Middle East in Revolt.


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Q: Chart.setOptions() Bug in Kendo UI I am working on a project using KendoUI for HTML5. I noticed a bug in chart widget where setOptions() does not work all the time. Here is the snippet to recreate the bug.
Basically, above snippet create a chart with some random data. I have also got a checkbox where user can enable/disable zoom and pan on chart. Initially created chart has no zoomable/pannable set.
See in Action:

<!DOCTYPE html>

  <base href="https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/bar-charts/pan-and-zoom">

  <title></title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="//kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.2.607/styles/kendo.common-material.min.css" />
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="//kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.2.607/styles/kendo.material.min.css" />
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="//kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.2.607/styles/kendo.default.mobile.min.css" />

      <input type="checkbox" id="eq1" class="k-checkbox">
      Enable Zoom

Use SHIFT + Mouse Drag Region Selection combination on mouse-enabled devices to zoom in data for a specific period of time

On user interacting with checkbox (top left corner), zoomable and pannable properties of the chart being set using chart.setOptions() method available in the framework. If the "Run Code Snippet" does not work, please follow the following steps, you can see the bug in action.
Step 1: Copy above snippet into editor at http://dojo.telerik.com/
Step 2: Run the code. (A chart gets created as a result)
Step 3: Tick the checkbox to enable the zoom for chart. (zoomable and pannable properties sets on x-axis so that chart can now be zoomable and pannable)
Step 4: Untick the checkbox to disable the zoom for chart. (pannable gets disabled, but chart still can be zoomable. - this is the bug)
Step 5: Tick the checkbox again and you will see the error which shows up under the chart.
If anyone know how to resolve this. If this is the bug with KendoUI then hope Kendo development team gets this.

A: That is strange, for anyone looking for a work-around you can use prevent default on the events:
...
          zoom: preventThisPlease,
          dragStart: preventThisPlease,
...

      function preventThisPlease(e) {
        if (! document.getElementById('eq1').checked) {
          e.preventDefault();
        }
      }

With a refresh on the checkbox change to reset the zoom level and pan location if you need:
  $("#eq1").click(function(e) {
    $("#chart").data("kendoChart").refresh();
  });

UPDATE: (To change the chart configuration options).
It appears that the problems occur when we try to set pannable or zoomable to false. So adapting on the solution to use prevent default to disable pan/zoom, we are able to alter the options of the chart. See code snippet:

<!DOCTYPE html>

  <base href="https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/bar-charts/pan-and-zoom">

  <title></title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="//kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.2.607/styles/kendo.common-material.min.css" />
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="//kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.2.607/styles/kendo.material.min.css" />
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="//kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.2.607/styles/kendo.default.mobile.min.css" />

      <form class="chart-switch">
        Restrict Pan & Zoom to:

        <input type="radio" name="radio" id="eq1" class="k-radio">
        X

        <input type="radio" name="radio" id="eq2" class="k-radio">
        Y

        <input type="radio" name="radio" id="eq3" class="k-radio">
        X & Y

        <input type="radio" name="radio" id="eq4" class="k-radio" checked>
        None
      </form>

Use SHIFT + Mouse Drag Region Selection combination on mouse-enabled devices to zoom in data for a specific period of time


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package example.nocem.anoncomm;

import peersim.core.Network;
import racoon.input.DOObjective;
import racoon.rsim.RSMonitors;
import racoon.rsim.monitors.DOMonitor;

/**
 * Measure the performance of the {@link AnonComm} protocol w.r.t. the number of
 * {@link Onion}s received.
 *
 * @author Guido Lena Cota
 */
public class AnonCommMonitor extends DOMonitor {

    // INITIALIZATION
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 	/**
 	 * Default constructor, invoked in {@link RSMonitors}.
 	 * The objectives are instantiated with default values.
 	 */
 	public AnonCommMonitor(int protocolID){
 		super(protocolID,"onion_loss_perc,onion_sent_nr,onion_received_nr,onion_loss_nr");
 		metricsMeasures = new double[metricsName.length];
 	}

 	// METHODS
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 	/**
 	 * Measure the values of the {@link AnonComm} {@link DOObjective}.
 	 */
 	@Override
	public void measure() {
 		// the current size of the network
		long nwSize = Network.size();

		int totNrOnionsSent = 0;
		int totNrOnionsReceived = 0;

		for (int i = 0; i < nwSize; i++) {
			AnonComm ac = (AnonComm) Network.get(i).getProtocol(protocolID);
        	totNrOnionsSent += ac.getNrOnionsSentMonitoring();
        	totNrOnionsReceived += ac.getNrOnionsReceivedMonitoring();
        }
//		System.out.println("TotSent: " + totNrOnionsSent);
//		System.out.println("TotReceived: " + totNrOnionsReceived);
//		System.out.println((double) totNrOnionsReceived / totNrOnionsSent);
		// store the measurements: calculate the chunk loss
		metricsMeasures[0] = 1 - ((double)Math.round((double) totNrOnionsReceived / totNrOnionsSent * 100d) / 100d);
		metricsMeasures[1] = totNrOnionsSent;
		metricsMeasures[2] = totNrOnionsReceived;
		metricsMeasures[3] = totNrOnionsSent - totNrOnionsReceived;
 	}

	/**
	 * Return the names of each metric in a tabular format (separation term: semi-colon).
	 */
	@Override
	public String metricsToString(){
		return "OnionLoss%;OnionSent;OnionRecv;OnionLossNr;";
	}
}


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Has President Koroma set off on the right footing?
By Patrick Hassan-Morlai.
Sworn in as President of Sierra Leone on Monday, 17th September 2007 and three days later, His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma is leading a 17-man delegation touring three West African States. He first visited President Lanasa Conte of the Republic of Guinea, then stopped over at Liberia's Roberts International Airport for an audience with President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and then to Burkina Faso for an audience with President Blaise Campaore.
It is hard to decipher the rationale or appreciate the purpose of these official trips. These are not timely visits not least because the President is new in office but also he has not had time to form a cabinet let alone address the violence that is nascent in certain parts of the country. Granted that the APC administration needs to establish contact with other states in the sub-region, it appears hasty and premature for His Excellency to start embarking on official trips at this time of his presidency.
In politics like in business, once gained, power has to be consolidated and the (internal) environment from which that power is derived and in which it is exercised has to be understood. Perspectives differ. As opposition leader few days ago, President Koroma would not be convincing to say he was privy to the essentials of the president's office so that he now understands how that office operates in the Sierra Leone context. As short, he needs time to familiarize himself with the highest office in the land and stamp his own personality on that office. To set off on official trips in the week of his assumption of office is not the most appropriate decision to have been made. Perhaps a tour across the country would have been a good starting point, Mr. President.
Moreover, two of the three presidents visited do not possess admirable credentials for Sierra Leone's buoyant multiparty democracy. To say it is public knowledge that President Conte is avariciously clinging unto power is an understatement. In fact, President Conte's covetous hold onto power is an impediment to democracy and good governance in Guinea, the sub-region and Africa as a whole.
Similarly, Blaise Campaore's rise to power is marred with blood. The overthrow of Mr. Thomas Sankara in 1987 and his subsequent execution was masterminded by Blaise Compaore. Of course, Mr. Campaore could be given some credit for having since instituted a multiparty system in Burkina Faso. However, such credit does not come in Carta Blanca. Apart from the fact that President Campaore won the past three presidential elections of that country with the last in November 2005, he fiercely resisted the call to limit the presidency to two terms. Hence, with a divided opposition, he succeeded in being re-elected for a third term. Campaore has been in office since 15 October 1987.
These two should not have been the leaders our newly elected President associates himself with for a start. Ever heard the expression: "show me your friends and I will tell you who you are"? Ours is a democracy with a maximum of two terms. No constitutional amendments will force us to revert to one party state or grant unlimited presidency to our leaders any more.
Please President Koroma, focus on consolidating your power base. A weak presidency is a recipe for instability and can stifle development. These are virtues every Sierra Leonean now longs for more than ever before. Please give us the leadership most Sierra Leoneans believe you posses by electing you as president. Certainly, foreign trips will come, but let them come at the appropriate time.
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Open Data Node (or ODN in short) is a software tool. And not just any software, ODN is Open Source software. ODN is intended to be used for publishing of Open Data in automated, repeatable and easy to use fashion. ODN is the main output from COMSODE project (see project description). And is accomanied also by accompanied by generic Methodology for Open Data publishing.
So, what the Open Data Node 1.0 can do for you? This blog post will give you quick overview. For more details, after reading this post, you can continue reading ODN web at http://opendatanode.org/, latest release notes and user stories.
As mentioned in my initial blog post, Open Data Node (ODN) is not a silver bullet, one solution to rule them all. One corner case is a situation, when simple shell script is suitable and sufficient to publish certain Open Data. If this is your case, ODN is most probably not for you. Another extreme is a case when brand new (or major upgrade of existing) information system is being executed and Open Data publication is factored in from the beginning. Again, if this is your case, ODN is most probably not for you. But for cases, when simple shell script is "just not enough" and "complete new information system" is not feasible either, ODN can help. How?
I will explain more on each in subsequent sections.
Just follow instructions in release notes.
Note: ETL capabilities are supplied by powerful UnifiedViews tool, see also our other blog post: UnifiedViews 2.0 – Whats new.
And thanks to incorporating CKAN and other tools, ODN provides to data users also functions to preview, analyse and visualize data. As or now, that works mainly for tabular data. Later on, we will enhance that also for Linked Data, with visualisation tool Payola.
Previously we wrote that "it is not a data catalogue". But later, while preparing COMSODE Methodology and listening for feedback from COMSODE User Group (see for example Second User Board meeting: Recommendations for technology and methodology), we've decided to include the catalogue in the ODN.
Inclusion of cataloguing functionality is motivated by the need to make it easier for data publishers to follow COMSODE Methodology: While in phase "Development of open data publication plan (P01)", publishers are (among other things) mapping their internal data sources (steps like "Analysis of data sources" and "Identification of datasets for opening up"). So they already need a place where to put information about those internal data sources. Data catalogue – internal one – is thus a very good function ODN can provide.
CKAN in role of "internal catalogue" is the main entry for data publishers into ODN. This catalogue if private, visible only to data publisher and its authorized personnel.
Compared to what we wrote originally, it is still true that ODN is supposed to complement data catalogues. Imagine Organization ABC having ODN instance and that instance providing also catalogue of all datasets published by this organization. It is nice and useful as of itself, but it is not suitable nor desirable to replace say state wide or EU wide data catalogue. So, such ODN instance will instead "fit" into the hierarchy of data catalogues and provide dataset metadata on behalf of Organization ABC to anyone – including the nation wide and EU wide data catalogues – in (also) automated fashion, saving Organization ABC valuable time.
In more broader terms, thanks to Open Source implementation of ODN, taking into account also open standards, ODN can be enhanced (by almost anyone) with additional modules, or incorporated into bigger information systems, integrated with existing infrastructure as used by data publishers, etc. It can be even modified.
Note: Some concrete formats and APIs are not there yet. Because for that, we need more feedback from those trying ODN in their real environment. For example, for SQL we currently support only PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL and Oracle and support for other databases might be added, pending feedback from users. See section "Future" bellow.
1.0 was a first stable release. This means that we are going to provide further upgrades in a way so as to not disrupt your operations, i.e. backward compatible or (if not feasible) with easy migration to new release.
While ODN 1.0 does provide a lot of basic functionality (and it can also already help applications to be built – see Building an application on Open Data with Spinque), there is still some work to do to make ODN better. With this release we're starting many pilots in various EU countries. Using feedback from those pilots, we will further refine ODN. Here, I also kindly ask also you to give ODN a try and provide additional feedback to us.
Using data scheme from http://5stardata.info/ , the most common case is taking 2* from internal systems and transform it to at least 3*. In practice, it means ODN being able to harvest data from internal systems in formats like CSV (and it many variants), XLS(X), XML (possibly with XSD schema) and various kinds of SQL databases. And being able to publish that data in common Open Data formats (i.e. CSV, JSON or RDF, via API or file dumps).
Additionally, we will also add features for quality assessment of the data. Those features will help both data publishers and data users: publishers can use them to get hints about what to improve in published data, users will be able to better assess for example to what extent is the data actually usable for certain purposes.
But to get there, to get those additional features done, we need to first validate basic ODN functions "in the field". We also need to verify that what we see as "common publication use case" is truly "common", and narrow down a concrete (and not too long) list of specific transformations, making sure that we implement what truly needed and to not waste time implementing what is non needed.
Similarly, based on user needs, we would like to expand the list of supported platforms, adding support for other Linux distributions or other operating systems.
So again, I urge you to join our User Group and try ODN. Or at least get in touch with COMSODE and describe the scenario/problem you're facing.
thank you for the question. I've checked, and use-case list in COMSODE Deliverable 2.3 is still same as in the internal Wiki (barring some internal development notes present in Wiki and missing from Deliverable).


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A study published last week in the journal Science suggests that how dyslexics hear language may be more important than previously realized. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found that people with dyslexia have more trouble recognizing voices than those without dyslexia.
John Gabrieli, a professor of cognitive neuroscience, and Tyler Perrachione, a graduate student, asked people with and without dyslexia to listen to recorded voices paired with cartoon avatars on computer screens. The subjects tried matching the voices to the correct avatars speaking English and then an unfamiliar language, Mandarin.
Nondyslexics matched voices to avatars correctly almost 70 percent of the time when the language was English and half the time when the language was Mandarin. But people with dyslexia were able to do so only half the time, whether the language was English or Mandarin. Experts not involved in the study said that was a striking disparity.
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