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Diabetische retinopathie, afgekort DRP, of retinitis diabetica is de benaming voor oogklachten die worden veroorzaakt door (slecht behandelde) suikerziekte. De naam valt uiteen in drie delen: diabetes is de officiële naam voor suikerziekte, retino slaat op netvlies en pathie is ziekte. Diabetische retinopathie varieert in ernst, maar kan leiden tot blindheid.

Oogproblemen bij diabetes mellitus
Er kunnen zich globaal twee oogheelkundige problemen voordoen bij suikerpatiënten :

 Een wisselende gezichtsscherpte, deze wordt veroorzaakt door dat de suikerspiegel in het bloed de sterkte van de ooglens beïnvloedt en instabiel maakt. Doordat de suikerspiegel in de ooglens verandert, verandert het brekend vermogen van de ooglens waardoor de brilsterkte niet meer voldoende is om de sterktecorrectie van het oog te corrigeren. Dit is niet ernstig, maar wel hinderlijk bij het meten van de oogsterkte: Het is belangrijk om bij een oogmeting er zeker van te zijn dat de suikerspiegel stabiel is en dat deze op een aantal verschillende momenten gemeten wordt.
 Netvliesafwijkingen: de diabetische retinopathie. ten gevolge van suikerziekte kunnen er beschadigingen in de bloedvaten ontstaan, waardoor het gezichtsvermogen wordt aangetast.

Vormen van diabetische retinopathie (DRP)
Er zijn in de oogheelkunde verschillende gradaties van diabetische retinopathie:

Géén diabetische retinopathie: Door de bloed-retinabarrière komen er in de normale situatie geen ongewenste stoffen in het netvlies (bijvoorbeeld vetten). Door D.M. ontstaan er lekkages en uitval van kleine bloedvaatjes in het netvlies, wat in de eerste 5-20 jaar vaak nog niet gebeurt bij een patiënt met diabetes mellitus.
Niet-proliferatieve retinopathie (NPDR): De kwaliteit van de kleine bloedvaatjes (capillairen) gaat achteruit waardoor deze wat gaan uitrekken. De lekkages die daarbij ontstaan worden micro-aneurysmata genoemd, wat vaak het eerste teken is van DRP. Deze vorm van DRP wordt onderverdeeld met de termen geringe NPDR, matige NPDR, ernstige NPDR of zeer ernstige NPDR, afhankelijk van de hoeveelheid lekkages.
Proliferatieve retinopathie (PDR) waarbij nieuwe bloedvaten gevormd worden (neovascularisatie). Deze nieuw gevormde bloedvaatjes zijn kwetsbaarder dan gewone bloedvaten. Hierdoor kunnen bloedingen optreden. Dit is de ernstigste vorm van diabetische retinopathie en kan leiden tot acute blindheid en slechtziendheid. Benoeming van deze vorm gebeurt met de woorden niet high-risk PDR, high-risk PDR en ernstige PDR.
Klinisch significant macula-oedeem, de vorm waarbij afwijkingen zich gaan voordoen in de macula. Dit is een vorm van exsudatieve retinopathie waarbij de wanden van de bloedvaten in het netvlies veranderen en bloed en vocht lekken.

4-2-1 regel
NP-DRP (niet-proliferatieve diabetische retinopathie) wordt gekenmerkt door:

Ernstige retinabloedingen in 4 kwadranten OF
Veneuze bloedingen in 2 of meer kwadranten OF
Matige tot ernstige IRMA in 1 of meer kwadranten
Zeer ernstige niet-proliferatieve DRP: de bloedingen nemen toe en bevinden zich in alle kwadranten. Delen van het netvlies krijgen te weinig zuurstof, wat het begin is van preproliferatieve DRP (synoniem van deze vorm).

IRMA = intraretinale microvasculaire abnormaliteiten, verwijde capillairen die microshunts vormen bij ischemie van delen van de retina.

Behandeling
Retinopathie kan op verschillende manieren worden behandeld, namelijk:

 Systemische behandeling via de huisarts of internist.
 Met intravitreale injecties (eerst anti-VEGF, daarna eventueel corticosteroïd-implantaat)
 Laserbehandeling: Retinopathie kan op worden behandeld met een oogheelkundige laser. Hierbij worden de nieuw gevormde bloedvaten dichtgebrand of worden alleen de extra kwetsbare vaten behandeld. Voorbeelden hiervan zijn de argonlaser, YAG-laser en de excimerlaser. Er zijn focale (plaatselijke) laserbehandelingen, bijvoorbeeld bij diabetisch macula-oedeem, gridlaserbehandelingen en panretinale laserbehandelingen.
 Cryotherapie: Bij bloedingen in het glasvocht die meestal veroorzaakt zijn door abnormale bloedvaten, kan een behandeling met koude (cryotherapie) helpen om de bloedingen in het glasvocht te laten verdwijnen.
 Vitrectomie: Ook kan er een vitrectomie uitgevoerd worden, wat het verwijdering van glasvocht inhoudt.
 Revalidatie (low vision): Wanneer beperkingen door de DRP alleen nog maar kunnen worden verholpen door optische hulpmiddelen zoals een loep, vergrootglas of geavanceerde computerapparatuur, kan een slechtziende worden doorverwezen naar een specialist in slechtziendheid..

Ondanks dat deze complicaties ook kunnen optreden wanneer de diabetes optimaal wordt behandeld, is het van groot belang de diabetesbehandeling regelmatig te evalueren. Daarnaast vindt bij veel mensen met diabetes elk jaar een onderzoek naar de ogen plaats, om eventuele problemen vroegtijdig op te sporen. Dit onderzoek kan plaatsvinden door de oogarts of de optometrist, of door een digitale netvliescamera, waarbij de foto's op afstand beoordeeld worden door een oogarts. Hiermee kan de vroeger veel voorkomende blindheid vaak worden voorkomen.

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Theresa May is right to seek closer ties with Japan: North Korea is our problem too
Con Coughlin
Michel Barnier
29 August 2017 • 6:38pm
London is closer to the hermit kingdom's nuclear launch sites than New York City Credit: Wong Maye-E/AP
Theresa May's priority when she arrives in Japan for talks will be to forge closer trade ties ahead of Brexit. But following North Korea's latest act of provocation in launching a ballistic missile across Japanese territory, Tokyo may well be expecting the Prime Minister to offer a great deal more than incentives to build new car plants.
There is a tendency in Whitehall security circles to see the constant sabre-rattling by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un as a regional issue that is best handled by local powers such as China. When Britain has more pressing concerns, such as destroying Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and containing acts of aggression by Vladimir Putin's Russia, policymakers...
Downing Street feared John Major may accidentally win the first National Lottery draw, previously secret correspondence shows
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Teenagers more irritable and prone to procrastination due to using social media earlier in life, new study finds
Soaring obesity rates fuel doubling in the number of organs which cannot be transplanted
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After the party? An excuse to stay in. And anyway you've got to get your beauty rest. There's a lot of shopping and prepping to be done in the days ahead.
An oft-made complaint about winter: The days are too short. But those abbreviated days yield something good (something that's rarely praised but should be)—very long nights.
Which means—if you're a fan of hibernation or the Joy of Missing Out (JOMO)—this is the most wonderful time of the year, indeed. After all, six hours of daylight lost equals six deliciously dark hours gained. Imagine all you could do (or, okay, not do) with those.
While staying in is relaxing, prepping for it isn't entirely effortless. To achieve maximum coziness—or as the Norwegians call it, koselig—you'll want a few things: a snuggly blanket, a steaming cup of cocoa, dear ones gathered near. And though it probably goes without saying, lots of comfy clothing to wear.
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Double Whammy Hastens Retirement of Once Richest S. African
Janice Kew
Christo Wiese, who was once South Africa's richest man, has swapped his office in an industrial area of Cape Town for a view of the Atlantic Ocean.
The corporate fraud at Steinhoff International Holdings NV that cost the 78-year-old much of his fortune coupled with the coronavirus outbreak, has convinced him to break the habit of half of a century and ease toward retirement.
"No doubt the change that was going to come anyway will be hastened by this Covid experience and also hastened by the Steinhoff nightmare," he said in an interview. "The way I operate will certainly change."
Wiese, the biggest individual shareholder in Shoprite Holdings Ltd., Brait SE and Invicta Holdings Ltd., earlier this year quit taking the 40 minute drive in his Lexus Landcruiser from his house in Clifton, the beach-front strip in Cape Town that's among Africa's most expensive suburbs, to minimize the risk of catching the coronavirus. Over the preceding decades, he had built Africa's largest clothing chain, Pepkor Holdings, and Africa's biggest grocer, Shoprite.
Wiese, the son of a farmer and gas station owner, joined Pepkor in 1967, two years after it started with a single store in Upington, a town in South Africa's arid Northern Cape province.
Share Swap
The pandemic accelerated a shift for Wiese that started two years ago, when Steinhoff's accounting scandal almost wiped out the global retailer. In 2014, Wiese exchanged Pepkor for stock worth $5.7 billion in Steinhoff, becoming its biggest shareholder and chairman. Within weeks of the news of the financial irregularities that slashed Steinhoff's share price by about 90%, he'd stepped down from the board and creditors had forced the sale of part of his stake. He has sued for 59 billion rand ($3.5 billion).
Its been a tough four years for Wiese, now valued at just $255 million according to Bloomberg calculations.
The Steinhoff blow came a year after Brait, the investment company in which he's the largest shareholder, had plowed 1.6 billion pounds ($2 billion) into the U.K. on the threshold of its vote to quit the European Union. In less than six months, Brait's shares plunged 44%.
Brait started a salvage process in November, announcing a sweeping overhaul that aims to sell assets over the next three to five years. The spread of the coronavirus has slowed those plans with the sale of its Virgin Active fitness chain delayed by as much as 18 months following the closure of gyms. Brait has soled its stake in Iceland Foods and DGB, a South African wine producer and exporter.
"In terms of the rejuvenation of Brait, this could not have come at a worse time," Wiese said.
Steinhoff Misery
The Steinhoff misery is also far from over. While Steinhoff is said to be close to reaching a potential deal on 10 billion euros ($11.6 billion) of legal claims lodged against it, a large part of Wiese's suit is being challenged by a legal successor to a group of financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc., Nomura Holdings Inc. and HSBC Holdings Plc.
That's after Wiese secured a 1.6 billion euro margin loan from them in 2016 to participate in a Steinhoff equity raise to help pay for its acquisition of Mattress Firm and Poundland. Steinhoff shares were pledged as collateral.
He takes solace in his more successful ventures - the most prominent of which is a 10.2% stake in Shoprite. Before the coronavirus lockdown that began March 27 Shoprite had been taking a greater share of South Africa's grocery market.
Wiese also adds the retailer's social welfare efforts to his philanthropic resume. As the virus spread, Shoprite tripled its fleet of trucks delivering free meals to poor areas of Johannesburg and Cape Town to 27.
Wine Supply
His smaller venture, Invicta, has started producing ventilators, oxygen helmets and a range of sanitizers and disinfectants. These will be sold across Africa from August and Wiese specifically sees this deal as a triumph for local manufacturing.
Still, his biggest joys are his afternoon visits from his grandchildren, who often storm in demanding chocolate, and the pleasure he gets from owning the 4,000-hectare (9,884-acre) Lourensford Wine Estate.
With South Africa having banned the sale of liquor as part of its measures against the coronavirus, "many wine farms are struggling," he said. But, "at least in terms of personal supply," owning Lourensford helps.
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Finance, North America, Pumped Storage Hydro
Dominion Energy sells share in 192-MW hydroelectric station
By Elizabeth Ingram | 9.26.18
Calling it a "non-core asset," Dominion Energy has sold its 25% share in a company that owns a 192-MW hydroelectric station in Louisiana.
Other assets sold under definitive agreements include 100% of the 1,240-MW Fairless Power Station, a combined-cycle gas turbine in Pennsylvania, and 100% interest in the 468-MW Manchester Street Power Station, a combined-cycle gas turbine in Rhode Island.
Total proceeds from these sales with be $1.32 billion, and Dominion Energy says they will be used to reduce parent-level debt.
Dominion Energy says the partial interest in Catalyst Old River Hydroelectric Limited Partnership, which owns the hydro plant, is being sold for cash consideration of about $90 million and this transaction is expected to close by the end of 2018.
"These actions demonstrate our commitment to the company's credit profile and represent the successful completion of the credit improvement initiatives that we announced in March," said Thomas F. Farrell, II, chairman, president and chief executive officer.
Dominion Energy did not provide the name of the company purchasing the hydro share nor the name of the hydro plant involved.
Hydro is a relatively small portion of Dominion Energy's energy mix, which is 33.8% nuclear, 33.6% natural gas, 26.5% coal, and 5.6% renewable. It owns the 3,003-MW Bath County Pumped Storage plant in Virginia and the Gaston and Roanoke Rapids hydro plants in North Carolina.
Additionally, earlier this year, we reported that Dominion Energy was studying a proposed pumped storage hydro plant to be built in Virginia.
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Europe Is in the Middle of a Messy Nuclear Slowdown
Photograph: Stefan Puchner/Getty Images
Germany has almost finished phasing out nuclear plants, and aging infrastructure is leading neighbors down the same path. But will green energy goals suffer?
On the last day of 2021, as final preparations were being made for the New Year's Eve firework display in central Berlin, outside the German capital another era was drawing to a close. It was the beginning of the end of Germany's decades-long dalliance with nuclear power.
On December 31, Germany shut down three of its six remaining nuclear plants. By the end of 2022, the other three will be shut as well. Two decades after an agreement to eliminate nuclear power became law, the country's phaseout has been dramatic. In 2002, Germany relied on nuclear power for nearly 30 percent of its electricity. Within a year, that percentage will be zero.
Germany isn't the only European nation reevaluating its relationship with nuclear energy. Its neighbor Belgium currently sources nearly 40 percent of its electricity from nuclear power but has committed to closing down its seven remaining reactors by 2025. To the south, Switzerland has already shut down one of its five remaining nuclear power plants, the first stage in what will eventually be a total phaseout.
Switzerland's phaseout was decided in a 2017 referendum, when the majority of the public endorsed an energy strategy that subsidized renewables and banned new nuclear power plants. The Swiss referendum was driven by environmental concerns raised in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster, when three reactors melted after a tsunami overwhelmed the power plant. That disaster, and concerns about the disposal of nuclear waste, also hastened Germany's nuclear shutdown. Shortly afterward, then-chancellor Angela Merkel—who had previously said she didn't agree with shutting down nuclear plants early—announced that Germany would no longer extend the operating life of existing plants.
Critics of Europe's nuclear shutdowns say losing reliable sources of low-carbon energy is the last thing we should be doing when we need to reduce emissions. They argue nuclear is one of the safest and lowest-carbon forms of electricity generation there is. In France, nearly 70 percent of electricity is generated by nuclear power plants, which is why it has some of the lowest-carbon electricity anywhere in Europe. Nuclear skeptics, on the other hand, say nuclear's low-carbon credentials are undercut by its high costs and the long timelines involved in building new plants, as well as long-standing public concerns about safety and radioactive waste.
Looming over Europe's nuclear slowdown is the pressing need for the continent to completely decarbonize its electricity supply. The EU has set itself the target of having net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050, and the plan relies on delivering a sizable chunk of those reductions by 2030. Critics of Germany's nuclear plan have pointed out the contradiction of abandoning nuclear energy while the country's coal-fired power plants continue to pump vast amounts of carbon dioxide and deadly particulate into the atmosphere. But if there's any lesson we can draw from Europe's nuclear dilemma, it's that the pathway to clean electricity is littered with obstacles: political, economical, and ideological.
Europe's attitude toward nuclear power is split between boosters and naysayers, with each country putting its own spin on the technology. France is by far the continent's biggest provider of nuclear power and wants to export its technology to other countries within Europe, says Raphael Hanoteaux, a senior policy advisor at the European climate change think tank E3G. The Hungarian government, keen to ensure a stable domestic energy supply, has also signed off on Russian-financed deals to construct two nuclear reactors, in addition to the country's four existing ones. The Czech Republic government also has plans to build at least two new nuclear reactors, while the Polish government wants to build the country's first nuclear reactor in a bid to move away from its heavy dependence on coal.
But even countries that have enthusiastically stuck to nuclear power are experiencing the troubles that come with aging reactor fleets and delayed building schedules. At the end of 2021, 17 of France's 56 nuclear reactors were paused because of planned maintenance or technical problems, forcing the country—which is usually a net exporter of electricity—to buy from its neighbors. In the UK, nuclear electricity generation fell last year to its lowest level since 1981 due to retirements and outages at aging plants, according to an analysis by Carbon Brief. The shortfall in the UK's nuclear generation was plugged with electricity from gas-fired power plants and imports from Europe.
The problem is that not enough new nuclear reactors are being constructed to fill these gaps. And those that are coming online aren't being built quickly enough. The UK will retire six of its nuclear reactors by 2030, but it only has one power plant currently under construction: a two-reactor facility being built in Somerset. The UK government is hoping to secure a deal for another identical plant at a site in Suffolk. But even if this is approved, the two plants together will only match the existing capacity of the UK's nuclear fleet. France's latest nuclear reactor, meanwhile, was meant to come online in Normandy in 2013, but frequent delays have pushed its opening date back to 2023.
These lengthy time scales mean that building new nuclear power plants might not be the best way for countries to decarbonize rapidly. The UK and Germany have both set targets to end electricity generation from fossil fuel by 2035, which is too short a timescale to add much significant nuclear power. "You cannot build a nuclear plant in that time frame," says Dries Acke, director of energy systems at the think tank European Climate Foundation.
And while the construction of new plants has been sluggish, wind and solar power have been deployed at a faster rate than expected. "What's happened is that renewables have dominated deployment in the EU," says Antony Frogatt, deputy director of Chatham House's environment and society program and a coauthor of an annual report critiquing the nuclear power industry. In 2000, 860 terawatt-hours of electricity were generated from nuclear power in the EU, but by 2020 that had declined to 685 terawatt-hours. Over the same time period, wind generation alone went from 21 to 396 terawatt-hours. Meanwhile, the cost of renewable energy plummeted in comparison to nuclear energy.
The French government is hoping a new kind of reactor could provide a boost for its nuclear efforts. French president Emmanuel Macron has announced a €30 billion ($35 billion) investment plan that includes funding for small modular reactors—lower-capacity plants would theoretically be faster and cheaper to build and could be placed in areas that are unsuitable for large plants. The UK government has also put £210 million ($286 million) behind the development of small modular reactors, but so far the only such reactors to have been connected to a grid anywhere in the world are two that make up a floating power plant docked in Pevek harbor, in the remote northeast of Russia.
Dries thinks the share of nuclear power in Europe's energy mix will continue to decline, even if plans for proposed plants in the Czech Republic and Poland go ahead. "I think that the declining trend is stronger than the upward trend in Europe," he says. The question is whether countries replace their aging plants with more renewables or lean on fossil fuels to plug the gap. Not every nation will take the same approach. As Akshat Rathi and Will Mathis note on Bloomberg, the same social and political forces that led to Germany turning its back on nuclear helped it become a powerhouse for renewable energy. The path to zero emissions, it turns out, does not necessarily run in a straight line.
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In this chapter, we discussed software complexity. We also discussed how it is measured and what Sonar can offer in order to help us identify complex constructs. We saw some core measures and metrics that govern complexity such as Cyclomatic Complexity, Coupling and Cohesion, Response for Class, and Lack of Cohesion. Then, we added the appropriate rules to the Sonar profile and examined all widgets reporting such measures. At the end of the chapter, we focused on dependencies and detailed the Sonar design matrix, an invaluable component, which, once mastered, will enable you to isolate dependencies in a quick and efficient way.


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Is This The World's Most Expensive Car?
Mon 23rd May 2022
Classic car enthusiasts are buzzing to the news that a secretive auction may have produced the most expensive fee ever paid for a car.
The Sun newspaper has reported rumours that a Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrow 300 was sold at the auction, fetching an astonishing £115m, three times the price of the previous record holder, a Ferrari 250 GTO which sold in 2018.
The secret auction was conducted by RM Sotheby's with 10 specially selected collectors given a private sale. The bidders had to meet strict criteria set down by Mercedes-Benz to ensure that any eventual buyer would take good care of the legendary car, continue to show it at car events and promise not to sell it on to a third party.
The Silver Arrow has an impressive history, hailing from a family of vehicles which dominated motor sport for a prolonged period, entering vehicles both in Grand Prix, and also the Sports Car Car World Championship and the Le Mans 24 Hour classic.
It was during the 1955 Le Mans that two Mercedes 300 SLRs were winning when a tragic accident saw an Austin-Healy crash into the crowd, killing 84 spectators and ending Mercedes' participation in motorsport for the next 30 years.
At the same time as building the sports 300 SLRs, the company also produced two hardtop coupes, the Uhlenhaut, named after Rudolf Uhlenhaut, head of testing at Mercedes, who actually drove one as a company car. It is the second of these cars which is believed to have been sold.
Speaking to Hagerty, automotive historian Karl Ludvigsen said: "The reason for a high price would simply be that they are never sold.
"The Mercedes-Benz cars in question are those of the so-called Silver Arrow era from 1954 to 1955, only Grand Prix cars and the 300 SLR sports cars. All the other Mercedes-Benz racing cars have been sold off in period and/or available to the open market."
It is thought that the auction was held in private at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, with the building closed for 'an event' on 5 May. Hagerty reports rumours that the winning bidder is believed to be a leading figure from the British automotive industry with a passion for specialist cars.


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The state of play with Takumi Minamino's Liverpool future amid Southampton transfer links
Southampton have been strongly linked with a move for Liverpool forward Takumi Minamino after his loan spell at St Mary's during the second half of the 2020/21 season
Rob WarlowProduction editor
Takumi Minamino could return to Southampton next season (Image: 2021 AMA Sports Photo Agency)
The future of Liverpool forward Takumi Minamino is the subject of much speculation this summer, amid links with a return to Southampton.
The Japanese international spent the second half of the 2020/21 season on loan at Southampton, scoring two goals in nine appearances for Ralph Hasenhuttl's side.
His loan spell is now over and Minamino is currently on international duty with Japan.
But Minamino could be the next player to swap his loan stay with Southampton for a permanent move, with the 26-year-old being strongly linked with a transfer to the south coast.
Southampton have enquired about his future, HampshireLive recently revealed, with a view to bringing him back to St Mary's next season.
It is unclear whether the club are looking to bring Minamino back to the club on loan for a further year or make an offer to prise him away from Anfield for good, but it is understood that both options could be on the table.
However, Hasenhuttl will be looking to get the very most out of the loan market, with top-flight clubs only allowed two loan players at any one time, restricting the number of young players Saints can borrow from their Premier League rivals.
Indeed, amid interest in Manchester United's Brandon Williams, this could impact on Southampton's interest in a loan deal for Minamino, with Hasenhuttl preferably landing players who can, in a year's time, turn their spells into permanent stays with Saints.
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This is a proven method for Southampton in the transfer market, with Kyle Walker-Peters and Theo Walcott both securing permanent moves following successful loan spells.
However, Saints are waiting for a response from Liverpool over Minamino's future, with the Reds understood to be potentially open to selling the former Red Bull Salzburg player, at the right price.
Indeed, according to Paul Gorst from the Liverpool Echo, the right sort of bid would probably tempt the Reds to sell.
In a Q&A with Liverpool fans, he said: "Liverpool are saying no decision has been made on Takumi Minamino, but I suspect he will leave if they can get a decent fee for the Japan international."
This would represent a change in stance from Liverpool, after Reds boss Jurgen Klopp previously said that he saw Minamino as part of the club's long-term future.
Takumi Minamino impressed on his Southampton debut at Newcastle (Image: (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images))
Speaking after he made the move to Southampton on loan, Klopp said: "I'd have loved to keep him just to have the options but in the end, because Takumi [Minamino] is a long term project and always was - we see a lot of potential in him.
"It makes a lot of sense that he gets a chance to play maybe 17 Premier League games and comes back in a completely different mindset, confidence level and all these kind of things.
"I hope it's a win-win situation."
It has been a mixed spell for him at Southampton, with Minamino starting positively with two goals in his first three games, but no further strikes in his last seven matches for the club.
However, Hasenhuttl has been impressed with Minamino and has hinted at a move to re-sign him.
With the 26-year-old already having a work permit, that would not be a stumbling block for a permanent move to Saints, a big boost for Hasenhuttl, and he could even fall inside the club's price range as a sub-£10m deal.
"He not only scored fantastic goals but his mentality and his character really fit into our team. You can see why a club like Liverpool wanted to sign him," said Hasenhuttl, in conversation with HampshireLive.
"He did a good job here. We gave him a chance to show up. We will have a look at what happens in the summer, we will see what Liverpool wants to do.
"There are discussions going on but we will have a look in the summer."
HampshireLive understands that Minamino, valued at £10 by TransferMarkt, will have talks with Liverpool later this summer, with a decision then being made on his future amid the links with Saints.


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Portrait of Sebestian Everard
Verso: Label One: "Portrait of Sebastian Everard" by Ruth Everard. Property of Eleanora Everard Haden Leigh.
Label Two: The Everard Collection Property of Leonora Everard Haden.
Exhibited: Johannesburg. Everard Read Gallery. 2006. The Everard Group: Then & Now.
Johannesburg. Graham's Fine Art Gallery. 29 May – 29 August 2008. "The Modern Palimpsest: Envisioning South African Modernity".
Illustrated: The Everard Group: Then & Now catalogue p.23
Graham's Fine Art Gallery. 2008. The Modern Palimpsest: Envisioning South African Modernity. Graham's Fine Art Gallery, Johannesburg. p. 116 & 117
Ruth Everard-Haden, her mother Bertha Everard, sister Rosamund Everard King and niece Edith King together make up the remarkable and closely-knit family of women painters who became known as the Everard Group. In her seminal publication Women and Art in South Africa (1996:56), Marion Arnold points out that their individual and collective contribution to South African art is made all the more significant by the unavoidable difficulties which they faced, not only as women artists having to negotiate commitments both to their families and to art, but also simply as artists experimenting with innovative ideas in a predominantly conservative artistic environment. Even more remarkable is the fact that a large part of their artistic output was produced after their return from Europe in the late 1920s, when they settled on the family farms Lekkerdraai and Bonnefoi in the then Eastern Transvaal, living relatively isolated lives removed from artistic centres.
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Everard-Haden's work, more so than the others, shows evidence of a specific French influence. In this intimate portrait of Sebastian Everard, her brother and manager of the family farms, an acknowledgement of the influence of artists like Cézanne and Matisse is clear. The cropped, simplified composition, and the elimination of superfluous detail, except for the slight patterning on the wallpaper (reminiscent again of Matisse), focuses attention on the sitter and on the luminosity of his features. Modelling by means of flat patches of colour, as well as the strong contrast between the light of the shirt and the dark of the jacket, further places the emphasis on the two-dimensional pictorial structure of the work. The strength of this work lies in the boldness of Everard- Haden's handling and application of the medium itself.
by Karin Preller
Bibliography: Arnold, M. 1996. Women and Art in South Africa. Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip.
Studio on Boulevard Edgar Quintet, Paris - Still life with Roses
Signed: "Ruth Everard" (Lower/Left)
Circa: 1923 - 1925 (Paris)


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Baseball 101 - The More You Know About MLB Arbitration, The More You'll Hate Your Cheap Owner
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Arbitration season in MLB can easily get glossed over and rightfully so because it's boring and judicial and technical and a bunch of nuanced specific bullshit. It's not a traditional negotiation setting by any means, and there's 33 of these hearings on the horizon amongst 19 clubs.
The 19 stands out because it also means 11 clubs won't have a hearing. They'll settle all arb-contracts the way God and public policy enthusiasts intended: without requiring a costly, formal resolution process.
Others simply can't help themselves. The Blue Jays formally offered $5M to Bo Bichette - wayyyy behind his $7.5M filing. They've had a long time to settle between themselves, but to no avail. So they "go to arbitration" which means a hearing (legal meeting) in front of a veteran judge/lawyer/mediator (the arbiter) who, by-preference, generally possesses little experience/knowledge/practice in baseball. A true neutral & objective presence, some would say.
Others would say it's bullshit. I explain both sides on the show today which you can find here.
Meanwhile, Bo Bichette (and his agent) will have to convince the arbiter that he's worth $7.5M while the Blue Jays debate the opposite. They have to persuade the arbiter that Bo Bichette is worth two-thirds of his opinion. Imagine asking for 60k to manage the McDonalds and they only give you 40k.
Now you're probably thinking that Bo Bichette is worth a butt load more than both amounts. And if so, you are correct. But this is salary arbitration and you can never make more than your service time allows. These fuckin rules I tell ya. There's a whole bunch that I'll illustrate with Bo because he's a fantastic example of how it all works.
In Bo's case, he's got a shade over 3 years of service time, measured as # of days on the 26-man roster divided by 172. He's like 3.05 since debuting in 2019. That's from two full seasons in 2021 & 2022 and then another year combined from 2019 into 2020. Ergo he's out of the league minimum bracket with 3+ years and into the arbitration process.
This next part's critical. You can only compare Bo to what other 3-year guys got paid in their 1st round of arbitration. Nobody cares that Dansby Swanson just got a truck load of money from the Cubs. An arbiter would be much more interested to know Dansby got $3.15M in his 1st year of Arbitration with nearly the exact same days of service with significantly worse numbers offensively. That would be the relevant comparison and I say that knowing it's not a relevant comparison for Bo. It's part of a bigger analogy to tell you guys that the free agent contracts of recent weeks have zero influence on the arbitration news that's coming this week and beyond.
You can only make what your service time allows. Bo's ceiling is Cody Bellinger's $11.5M from 2020 that followed his MVP award.
Meanwhile his projection is around $6.1M, so it's kinda ballsy to come in at $7.5M. And maybe so insulting that the Blue Jays are confident in $5M? Big enough to really hurt a young man's feelings. And certainly bad timing - because no matter what I tell you about the arbiter - good luck convincing Bo Bichette that these free agent contracts don't matter to his value. He's the one out there playing 159 games back-to-back seasons with a 124 OPS+.
Just a long winded example to get you fluid on how this kinda works. At least enough to now enjoy the following:
Tampa is going to arbitration hearings with SEVEN players. Just a preposterous amount of arbitration hearings. In one case, lefty reliever Colin Poche is forced to the arbitration table to defend his $1.3M filing. The Rays are countering with $1.175M for a total difference of $125,000 - otherwise known as 2 Aaron Judge plate appearances in 2023.
The broader point is that the Rays are willing to wage a legal fight with a guy they'll end up relying upon in late-innings to win games this season. But first they need to convince some retired circuit court judge exactly why he sucks. It's such a beautiful dichotomy.
The Rays are going to do this to six other players and I love every second of it. The club has nearly twice as much front office fire power as any other club (The Dodgers #2) and this is when they flex it. Then the Rays take the $1.2M savings and use it on some unknown foreign-league veteran that hits 23 homers from a platoon role amongst 4 different positions.
Point is there's plenty of approaches to this part of the baseball calendar. I completely fucked up talking about the Braves on the show this week in saying they won't be in arbitration with anyone because they've all been extended. That's not true. Max Fried is under the microscope yet again for $15M vs. the Braves $13.5M. They pulled the same card with him last year over a couple hundred grand and lost, so I'll call it surprising they're doing it again this year.
Revenues are certainly up. We'll see how much the arbiters care.
In the meantime, go check out the Matt Olson interview from last week. Nice move on my part after Braves fans dumped on me for suggesting Austin Reilly is eating too much cheesecake now that he's been paid. Or something like that. Braves fans talked a fair amount of shit so I responded in kind with an olive branch of peace that you can find here.
I always come in peace.
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Q: Animating three.js font from fontLoader() I caught a bug when trying to deploy my site and the three.js canvas would not load (for some reason worked  on dev but that's neither here nor there)
The problem is that I am trying to animate text that was loaded using fontLoader.load(). For example, I add text to the scene using the following:
fontLoader.load(
  'node_modules/three/examples/fonts/droid/droid_serif_regular.typeface.json',
  (droidFont) => {
    const textGeometry = new TextGeometry('Scroll to Start', {
      size: 5,
      height: 1,
      font: droidFont,
      bevelSize: 5,
      bevelThickness: 2,

    });
    const introTexture = new THREE.TextureLoader().load('suntexture.png');
    const textMaterial = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: introTexture, transparent:true, opacity: .5});
    cosnt introText = new THREE.Mesh(textGeometry, textMaterial);
    introText.position.set(-5, 37, -140);
    scene.add(introText);
  }
);

Then, I want it to gently oscillate on the screen so as to not appear static, to do this I would include something like this in my animation function (called at the end of main.js):
function introAnimate() {
    introText.position.y += (Math.sin(clock.getElapsedTime())/62.8);
    introText.rotation.y += (Math.cos(clock.getElapsedTime())/700);
}

The problem with this is that the console (on dev/preview) says that introText is not defined, I'm assuming because it was declared in a function. I tried to fix this by first declaring them as var or const (didn't work), then adding globalThis. or window. (ie window.introText). But the problem persists.
To be honest, I am surprised the npm run dev version ran correctly in the first place given this reference error.
I have seen some versions of text animation using three.js flow, but I am interested in triggering certain animations on scroll, and rotating/changing other properties that I don't think flow can do. Any suggestions on how to address this would be much appreciated.

A: I think your problem is that you're running introAnimate() before your font finishes loading.
fontLoader.load() runs asynchronously, meaning it starts loading, and the rest of your code (introAnimate() for instance) keeps running until your font finally loads at which point it calls the callback.
Locally on in your dev environment the font might load instantly, but in production the font takes relatively longer time to download.
And until then, if introAnimate() tries to run, it'll fail because the callback to declare the window.introText was not called yet.
The solution would be to declare window.introText = null before calling fontLoader.load(), overwrite it once it's initialized, and in your introAnimate() check if introText is not null before doing anything:
function introAnimate() {
    if (introText === null) return;

    introText.position.y += (Math.sin(clock.getElapsedTime())/62.8);
    introText.rotation.y += (Math.cos(clock.getElapsedTime())/700);
}

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Former Sirtris Execs' Nonprofit Starts Selling Resveratrol with Potential Anti-Aging Effects Online
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[Updated and clarified. 8/12/10, 7:25 pm Eastern time. See below.] Cambridge, MA-based Sirtris Pharmaceuticals made international headlines over the past few years for developing drugs based on the anti-aging effects of the red wine chemical resveratrol. Now that the company has been part of London-based drug giant GlaxoSmithKline for more than two years, former Sirtris executives have begun selling their own resveratrol supplements online through their Boston nonprofit, the Healthy Lifespan Institute, Xconomy has learned.
Michelle Dipp, a Sirtris-turned-Glaxo executive, confirmed that the nonprofit that she and former Sirtris CEO Christoph Westphal co-founded last year has started online sales of resveratrol. Dipp leads the effort on the off hours when she isn't doing her main job as senior vice president of Glaxo's Center of Excellence for External Drug Discovery.
While the group is charging $540 for a one-year supply of resveratrol, Dipp says that the nonprofit is selling the supplements for cost and is not profiting from the sales. The revenues are covering the manufacturing, distribution, and other functions, all of which have been outsourced, she says.
The nonprofit's supplements are made the same way as the formulation of resveratrol that Sirtris initially developed as a drug called SRT501 for Type 2 diabetes, cancer, and other diseases, Dipp says. While the chemical formula for the supplement is the same as the drug, the group's resveratrol supplements are being offered as just that: dietary supplements, not drugs for specific diseases. That means the group can sell resveratrol just like any other dietary supplements without doing FDA-sanctioned clinical trials to get permission to begin sales. (Editor's note: Though the nonprofit's supplements are made in the same synthetic process as SRT501, the group says that the drug was tested in liquid form in capsules of 5 grams and the supplements are provided in powder form in 250-milligram capsules.)
Numerous outfits have been selling resveratrol supplements for years. Some were even caught illegally using the likenesses of Sirtris founders David Sinclair, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and Westphal, who now heads Glaxo's venture firm, SR One. Dipp—who formed the Healthy Lifespan Institute with Westphal and others last year—says that their group is the only one she knows of that manufactures resveratrol in a completely synthetic process with the same high standards for sterilization and purity that govern pharmaceutical production.
To be clear, this resveratrol operation is a volunteer effort that Dipp and Westphal do on the side. Both are still employees of Glaxo, and they have also started a Boston venture firm called Longwood Founders Fund with fellow Sirtris co-founder Rich Aldrich.
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13 responses to "Former Sirtris Execs' Nonprofit Starts Selling Resveratrol with Potential Anti-Aging Effects Online"
HealthNut says:
It is great that Sirtris is making a "synthetic" molecule available but all the scientific studies which have been done around the world have been done using the "natural" version. Even syntheitics have unknown components. A study done by Albert Einstein in N.Y. lowered fasting blood sugar in 3 weeks using natural resveratrol with no side effects and is available now.
http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/2010/08/06/6798/red-wine-ingredient-increases-insulin-sensitivity-works-against-retinal-disease/?isComment=1
I wonder why I never hear about the studies that implicate resveratrol with inducing prostate cancer.
David Miller says:
I wonder about how terrible the acquisition contract at GSK must be to allow the people they bought the drug from to sell it in competition.
jellery white says:
Resveratrol in natural conditions exist with two forms of free state and glycosidase-catalysed .They respectively have two isomers,cis and trans. Namely the cis-regulatory resveratrol (cis-Res), trans resveratrol (trans-Res) , resveratrol PD (cis-PD), trans resveratrol PD (trans-PD). The after two forms release resveratrol under the enzyme action on intestinal system . Resveratrol in plants mainly exist with trans form .Rresearch shows that the physiological activity of trans isomers is better than the cis isomers.
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Love Your Influential Detractors
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As marketers, when we engage in relationship building with influencers, consciously or not, we apply a very simple mental model to:
Assess the potential impact of the relationship (Are they important to me?)
Evaluate the effort needed to turn them into evangelists (Are they a friend of the business already? Do they know we exist?)
This 2 dimensional model helps us figure out where we should invest our time and energy.
Marketers will often favor the "N" strategy. They'll spend the majority of their time furthering the relationship with people who already like their brand to first leverage endorsements by influential evangelists and then try to turn super fans into influential evangelists and develop fan communities.
Many service providers have played along to help brands better organize and measure their advocacy programs. And even though such programs are compelling for marketers and senior execs — because they reflect and amplify how great the brand is — they are rarely effective.
Artificially increasing the influence of fans starts from the wrongful premise that what they need to be influential is a bigger microphone. For sure, brands can amplify a positive signal from these fans but besides increasing the chatter within a fan community already convinced of the virtues of the brand, how does this really move the needle for the brand?
Crafty marketers however will favor the "S" strategy to advocacy. They'll nurture their influential evangelists who will in turn take care of communicating to their fans (in a much more effective way) but then quickly move to engage influential detractors and those who don't know about their brand yet. Why? Because this is where they can gain the most ground and make the biggest difference.
And while it can be uncomfortable to marketers to engage with influencers who don't like their brand or don't know it exists, turning detractors into effective evangelists is much more realistic than turning fans into influencers.
Here are a few simple tips on how to go about it:
Be authentic: don't hide behind a corporate handle, engage with them personally.
Show empathy: understand and respect their viewpoint, don't just give them the company's party line. When you do, you'll quickly find common ground and create a space for a constructive debate.
Climb the social engagement ladder, one step at a time: as Tara Hunt rightly points out, you don't get to ask someone to marry you on a first date...
Build a virtuous circle: influencers, like the rest of us, get influenced. If you can't get through to someone, reach their influence network to build awareness and positive brand perception.
Love your detractors & show altruism: the hardest thing for marketers is to set aside their tactical goals when engaging with influencers. It is however the only path to success. Unless you genuinely work towards making their life better without expecting anything in return, all your conversations will be loaded. Porter Gale said it best: "Give Give Get".
The reward for your efforts? A dramatic increase of positive influential conversations and access to new communities through these influencers that you may have not touched before.


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Fascinating stuff, Challah, even for an atheist lapsed-Catholic heathen. It's a really versatile dough, not only in the variety of shapes, but in the number of uses it can be put to.
Mix all the ingredients and knead using your normal method. If you're new to baking check out the Sourdough pdf under the Library Menu.
Form into a rough ball, place in a lightly oiled bowl, cover. Allow to ferment for about four hours stretching each hour for the first three hours. This is not essential but will improve the dough structure.
Alternatively ferment overnight in the fridge.
Now, when it comes to shaping, yer on yer own, Kid. It's not so long ago since I had to use a diagram to do a basic three strand plait! There are numerous ritual and decorative designs out on the net for you to aspire to including the single strand figure-of-eight knot pictured above, right up to celebratory challahs consisting of a five braid challah topped with a four strand, topped with a three strand to give the appearance of a single mega-braided loaf.
Whatever shape you decide on, cover and prove the loaf for 3-3.5 hours at room temperature, slap on a coat of egg wash + sesame or poppy seed if you like, and bake at about 210C, reducing the heat to 180C after 15 minutes, baking for 50-60 minutes in total. A second coat of egg wash won't go amiss half way through the bake.
One thing I discovered through making challah is that, as well as having ritual meaning, the act of braiding adds structure to the dough so that it can be proved without support.
One of my favourite shapes (because it's so simple) is the turban.
Start to coil the strand from one end and then wind the other end around the coil – the tension will make the bread rise up in the middle – then tuck the end underneath. The coating of egg wash makes it look very smart.
Challah dough dough is great for using for buns much like brioche.
Makes particularly good burger buns scaled at about 120g.
Just caught this one before it disappeared entirely!
Inspired by the formula in "The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook" by Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez – sadly no sourdough but loads of inspiration!
This is 50% Wholemeal Wheat giving it a lot more depth and substance.
Preparation and baking as above.
Ever notice how when you come to look at your photograph someone's always nicked a raisin.


No glass is the same and each one slightly varies from the picture. Whichever glass you own will be unique to you!
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Due to the lack of resources after World War II, Okinawans utilized the empty Cola and beer bottles thrown out by the American military who occupied the island. The bottles were melted and remade into what is now famously known as Ryukyu Glass today. Recycling and reutilizing already available resources is a part of the Okinawan way of thinking, an obvious mindset when living on an island with a limited amount of land and raw materials.
Each local takes on a special design particular to their personal taste and their store. The surrounding environment, traditional or modern culture, animals and many other factors influence the creation of the glasses. Light and shade are also important factors and taken into consideration when embossing. Now Ryukyu Glass is formed into all different styles and colors. No Ryukyu Glass is exactly the same and each has it's own slight differences, whether it be in color, bubbles, shape or design.
These glasses are not only used for drinks, as many locals use them for holding objects, such as food, chopsticks, lights or plants. Make use of the beauty around you and get creative.


Cross hatching is a popular artistic technique used to add shadow and dimension to drawn objects. It involves filling a space with at least two sets of lines, with the second set crossing over the first to create a darker effect. In order to master cross hatching, you'll need to start with hatching, use a sharp pencil or fine-tipped pen, make a value scale, and notice how the light falls on an object to create shadow.
Draw a series of parallel lines. This is called basic hatching, and it's the first step in cross hatching. There are two types of basic hatching: parallel and contour. Both can be used as a base for cross hatching. Regardless of which hatching type you use, the lines do not cross over one another in standard hatching. You should also try to keep your lines equally spaced out for seamless, smooth shading.
With parallel hatching, your lines should remain straight and run vertically or horizontally.
With contour hatching, your lines should follow the contour of the outline you're shading.
When you add basic hatching to your drawing, you'll use this skill to draw parallel lines over the area you wish to shade.
Practice this by drawing a series of hatching lines on a piece of scrap paper.
Add a perpendicular series of lines over the first. To use cross hatching in your drawing, draw a second layer of lines over the first set, going in the opposite direction.
This second layer of hatch marks should cross over the first in perpendicular or near-perpendicular directions. The lines of the second layer should not cross over one another, though.
Your cross hatch marks should match the hatch mark type used in your base layer. For example, if you started with parallel hatch marks, your cross hatch marks should also be parallel.
Practice this by adding a set of cross hatching lines over your hatching.
Draw fewer lines spread further apart to create lighter shading. You can vary the shadow's value by varying the number of lines you draw. In areas that require lighter shading, draw fewer hatching lines and space them further apart from each other.
Increase the lines' density or add layers to imply darker shading. In sections of your drawing that require deeper shadows, increase the number of lines and place them closer together. You can also layer additional series of cross hatching lines to make that area appear darker and more heavily shaded.
Alternate directions when adding layers of cross hatching lines. For example, start with a set of vertical lines, then a horizontal set, then a diagonal set, then an opposite diagonal set. This will allow you to build up a deeper, darker shadow effect.
Add depth with fine cross hatching. Add even more layers of cross hatching in different directions to create an extremely subtle and rich shading. The extra layers add even more nuance in tone and value.
Fine pencils and fine-line pens are best for this technique, because they can create precise lines that seem to blend together from a distance.
Rotate your paper to try a new perspective. Cross hatching can take some time to master, so if you're having trouble envisioning where shadows should go, try rotating your paper. Look for any areas that you may have forgotten to shade or places where the shadow doesn't fall correctly.
Oftentimes, looking at a drawing for a long time can make it difficult to see problem areas—this trick can give you a new perspective and help you notice those areas more easily.
Sketch the outline of an object in pencil. Before cross hatching, you'll need to draw the actual shape or object you want to shade. Find either a real object, a reference photo, or imagine your own object.
When practicing the technique, it's often best to start by drawing a three-dimensional geometric shape with clear, angular lines.
Determine the correct lighting. Before adding any hatch marks, take a moment to look at the object and examine how the light source hits the object and reflect off its surface. This will help you figure out which areas of the drawing should have the lightest shading and which areas need heavier shading.
If you're drawing from imagination, try to imagine how the light would fall or find a similar object to examine.
Note that the absolute lightest sections will have no hatch or cross hatch marks. Your imaginary light source would hit these areas directly, so they shouldn't have any shadows.
Areas and surfaces further away from your imaginary light source should be darker and will require more cross hatching.
If you have trouble imagining a light source and the shadows it would cast, find a photograph of a simple object lit by a single light source. Note where the light and shadows fall, and practice copying this effect with cross hatching.
Draw hatch lines where shadows fall on the object. Sketch your base layer of standard hatch marks into the outline. Keep the hatch marks in each section parallel to one another, even if they curve along the contours of the outline.
For this step, use a pencil and press lightly. This way, you can easily erase these lines if needed.
Place more hatch marks closer together in sections that need heavier shading. For sections that need lighter shade, space the hatch marks further apart and use fewer hatch marks overall. The base hatch marks should indicate which areas are darker than others even before you add the cross hatching.
Add in cross hatch lines. Sketch a layer of perpendicular or near-perpendicular cross hatch marks over the base layer of hatch lines. Try to keep the spacing, number, and placement of these cross hatch marks similar to that of the base hatch marks, so areas of the drawing with more hatch marks should also have more cross hatch marks.
Go over the drawing in ink. Once you're satisfied with the placement and amount of cross hatch marks, go over the pencil marks with your inking tool.
When working with a nibbed pen, dip it in the ink, then draw a line on a separate piece of scrap paper before moving to your drawing. This allows you to unload some of the excess ink and prevents it from bleeding onto the drawing itself.
Go over the outline of the drawing first, then work on tracing each section of cross hatch marks. Work carefully and try to follow your previously created marks as closely as possible. You can add additional cross hatch marks as needed, but try not to get carried away since you won't be able to undo any of the marks you make in this step.
Note that any pencil marks that are still visible after inking might make the drawing look darker than the final piece will look, so don't worry too much if the overall drawing looks darker than anticipated right now.
Erase the pencil marks once the ink has dried. Allow the ink to dry, then use an eraser to carefully remove any visible pencil marks from the final drawing.
Wait for the ink to dry before you attempt any erasing. If you swipe the eraser over the drawing while the ink is still wet, you'll smear the ink and ruin the crispness of your cross hatching.
Use a sharp or fine-tipped drawing utensil. Since cross hatching requires you to draw thin lines close together, you'll need to use a fine-tipped drawing utensil. Whether you use a pencil or pen, make sure it's sharp or fine-tipped in order to make your lines precise.
Even if you want the final drawing to be inked, it's still a good idea to start the drawing with pencil. Use a drawing pencil, mechanical pencil, or a sharpened standard number two pencil.
For your inking tool, opt for either a nibbed pen or fine-tip ink pen. Both options work well, so choose whichever instrument you feel more comfortable handling.
Make a value scale. Before you start drawing a project, make a value scale to help you maintain a balanced range of values. Draw 4 identical 1 in (2.5 cm) squares in a line, then fill each box in with different values, going from light to dark. Use techniques such as varying density and adding sets of lines to gradually move from lightest to darkest. This will help you practice creating subtle differences in value.
Use a pencil and some scratch paper for this exercise.
As you draw, refer to this scale to determine your desired value range. For example, you could select one value box on your scale to be the darkest value in your drawing. Use your scale to compare with the drawing and make sure you don't go darker.
Use a piece of scrap paper to block off sections. When drawing, place pieces of scrap paper over places where you don't want any cross hatching. This will also help you keep your hatching lines neat and avoid accidentally drawing a hatching line too far.
Doesn't ink make it look worse? And is cross hatching good?
That's somewhat subjective. You can use whatever medium looks good to you. But ink looks more intense and eye-catching than pencil, which many people like. Crosshatching is a very old form of shading. It is very realistic, and some of the most realistic shading drawings come from crosshatching.
What are the skills required to ensure that I am correctly shading in the areas that need a darker shade?
Practice, and knowledge of where the light would fall. Shadows are usually opposite, or fall under where the light hits.
To learn basic cross hatching, draw a series of parallel lines. Next, add a perpendicular series of lines over the first set of lines. If you want to create lighter shading, draw fewer lines spread further apart. Alternatively, make the lines thicker and add more layers closer together for darker shading. You can also add layers of cross hatching in different directions to create a subtle, rich shading. For tips on how to apply cross hatching to actual drawings, keep reading!
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Top 10 Highest Currencies In The World Against Indian Rupees/Dollars 2020
2020 updates on the top 10 highest currencies in the world against Indian rupees and US Dollars. We all like to get the most out of our money when exchanging, even if it's just a few extra cents, but several factors influence the valuation of a currency, such as the number of country-specific variables needed in determining a currency's strength and benchmarks (other currencies, commodities, etc.) against which a currency's strength can be measured.
At times, one economy may be stronger but note that this doesn't necessarily indicate a stronger currency e.g Japan's economy is regarded as one of the strongest in the World yet a single Japanese yen exchanges for considerably less than a US dollar. Therefore, the high value of currency only says that inflation processes in such a country is under control and can hardly be used by investors to make any investment decisions. In this case, it is better to consider the most stable currencies.
Top 10 Highest Currencies In The World Against Indian Rupee/Dollars 2020
1. Kuwaiti Dinar
(1 KWD = 3.29 USD and 238.91 Indian Rupee)
Currency Code -KWD
It is the world's strongest currency and the highest valued currency against the United States Dollar.
Kuwait is a small country located on the tip of the Persian Gulf, whose enormous wealth can be attributed to its heavy exports of oil to a global market. Due to the stable petroleum-based economy, highly developed oil production and export, Kuwait is considered one of the richest countries in the world. More than 80% of the country's revenue is derived from the oil industry as petroleum production here is the easiest and the cheapest among other countries. It has a very stable economy, a tax-free country with a very low unemployment rate.
KWD was introduced in 1961 after gaining its independence from the United Kingdom. Over the years, it has been pegged to a number of different currencies, most recently to the U.S. dollar and an unnamed basket, valued at 1 KWD to 3.29 USD.
2. Bahraini Dinar
(1 BHD = 2.65 USD and 238.65 Indian Rupee)
Currency Code – BHD
The second most valuable currency in the world, the official currency of Bahrain, first introduced in 1965. Bahrain is a PersianGulf Island State, with the majority of its wealth coming from exporting petroleum products.
Bahraini Dinar is only used in Bahrain and is pegged by the U.S. dollar, with its rate against the US Dollar remaining stable since 2005.
3. Omani Rial
(1 OMR = 2.60 USD and 195.79 Indian Rupee)
Currency Code – OMR
Omani rial is an Arabian currency that was first introduced in the year 1973. It is the official currency of the Sultanate of Oman and the third-highest status currency in the world which has seen a significant rise in value due to the success of the country's oil supply, a developed economy, high quality of life and being pegged to the U.S Dollar.
The purchasing power of this currency is so high that their government had to introduce 1/4 and 1/2 Rial banknotes.
4. Jordanian Dinar
(1 JOD = 1.41 USD and 192.02 Indian Rupee)
Currency Code – JOD
The official currency of Jordan, an Arabic nation on the bank of river Jordan, introduced in 1949. It is one of the strongest currencies in the World, though This country is not economically developed, and it lacks essential resources, such as oil.
However, the currency is still only used in Jordan and nowhere else in the World.
5. British Pound Sterling
(1 GBP = 1.26 USD and 104.27 Indian Rupees)
Currency Code – GBP
It is the official currency of the United Kingdom. The pound sterling is often perceived as being the highest currency in the world, however, that's not the case.
GBP is one of the most widely used currencies and the oldest independent currency in the world. It was first used in the United Kingdom in 1489.
6. Gibraltar Pound
(1 GIP= 1.23 USD and 88.90 Indian Rupee)
GBP is the official currency of Gibraltar of which its notes and coins are printed by the Government. Its currently the sixth world most valuable currency.
7. Cayman Islands Dollar
(1KYD = 1.20 USD and 88.61 Indian Rupee)
Currency Code – KYD
The Cayman Islands is a British territory located in the Caribbean well known for being one of the world's best tax havens providing banking licenses for a number of the world's biggest banks, hedge funds, and insurance companies.
KYD was introduced in 1972 as a replacement for Jamaican Dollars and has gone on to become one of the world's best currencies.
8. European Euro
(1 EUR = 1.10 USD and 81.87 Indian Rupee)
Currency Code – EUR
EURO is the primary currency of the European Union and was adopted on January 1, 1999. It has strengthened over the past few years holding the title of the second world reserve currency, enveloping 22.2% of all world savings.
The currency began virtually, in the form of traveller cheques and electronic bank transfers but later appeared as physical notes and coins in 2002.
9. Swiss Franc
(1CHF = 1.01USD and 77.53 Indian Rupee)
Currency Code – CHF
Swiss Franc is the official currency of Switzerland and Liechtenstein! Switzerland is one of the wealthiest countries with its high-tech goods very well known around the globe. It is one of the most stable with a solid track record in banking and finance. Switzerland has some of the world's strictest monetary policies and lowest debt levels which have drawn many investors to view the Swiss Franc as a "Safe Bet", to store some of their wealth in the official currency of Switzerland.its high-tech goods are very well known all around the globe.
The Swiss franc is known for being the sixth most traded currency in the world. It is expected to retain its value in the foreseeable future!
10. US Dollar
(1 USD = 73.92 Indian Rupee)
Currency Code – USD
Tenth on the list of highest currencies in the world is the US dollar. It is the currency of the United States of America and the most traded and used currency in the World.
Owing to the USA's world economic leadership, US dollar holds the title of the world's primary reserve currency, held by both central and commercial banks all over the world. You can make dollar payments everywhere in any country.
I believe with this list, we have been able to compare the top highest currencies and their countries accurately for making any financial or investment decisions because your money will go a lot further.
You can also use this to knowledge to start a business or career which will be profitable in countries with the strongest currencies.
That's all about the strongest currencies in the world 2020.
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package scala.util.parsing.combinator

import org.junit.Test
import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals

class RegexParsersTest {
  @Test
  def parserNoSuccessMessage: Unit = {
    object parser extends RegexParsers {
      def sign = "-"
      def number = "\\d+".r
      type ResultType = Option[String] ~ String
      def p: Parser[ResultType] = sign.? ~ number withErrorMessage  "Number expected!"
      def q: Parser[ResultType] = sign.? ~! number withErrorMessage  "Number expected!"
    }
    import parser._
    def extractResult(r: ParseResult[ResultType]): ResultType = r match {
      case Success(r, _) => r
      case r => sys.error(r.toString)
    }
    def result(num: Int): ResultType = {
      val minusSign = if (num < 0) Some("-") else None
      val absNumStr = Math.abs(num).toString
      new ~(minusSign, absNumStr)
    }

    val failure1 = parseAll(p, "-x").asInstanceOf[Failure]
    assertEquals("string matching regex `\\d+' expected but `x' found", failure1.msg)
    val failure2 = parseAll(p, "x").asInstanceOf[Failure]
    assertEquals("string matching regex `\\d+' expected but `x' found", failure2.msg)
    assertEquals(result(-5), extractResult(parseAll(p, "-5")))
    assertEquals(result(5), extractResult(parseAll(p, "5")))
    val error1 = parseAll(q, "-x").asInstanceOf[Error]
    assertEquals("Number expected!", error1.msg)
    val error2 = parseAll(q, "x").asInstanceOf[Error]
    assertEquals("Number expected!", error2.msg)
    assertEquals(result(-5), extractResult(parseAll(q, "-5")))
    assertEquals(result(5), extractResult(parseAll(q, "5")))
  }

  @Test
  def parserSkippingResult: Unit = {
    object parser extends RegexParsers {
      def quote = "\""
      def string = """[a-zA-Z]*""".r
      type ResultType = String
      def p: Parser[ResultType] = quote ~> string <~ quote
      def q: Parser[ResultType] = quote ~>! string <~! quote
      def halfQuoted = quote ~ string ^^ { case q ~ s => q + s }
    }
    import parser._
    val failureLq = parseAll(p, "\"asdf").asInstanceOf[Failure]
    val failureRq = parseAll(p, "asdf\"").asInstanceOf[Failure]
    val failureQBacktrackL = parseAll(q | quote, "\"").asInstanceOf[Error]
    val failureQBacktrackR = parseAll(q | halfQuoted, "\"asdf").asInstanceOf[Error]

    val successP = parseAll(p, "\"asdf\"").get
    assertEquals(successP, "asdf")
    val successPBacktrackL = parseAll(p | quote, "\"").get
    assertEquals(successPBacktrackL, "\"")
    val successPBacktrackR = parseAll(p | halfQuoted, "\"asdf").get
    assertEquals(successPBacktrackR, "\"asdf")

    val successQ = parseAll(q, "\"asdf\"").get
    assertEquals(successQ, "asdf")
  }

  @Test
  def parserFilter: Unit = {
    object parser extends RegexParsers {
      val keywords = Set("if", "false")
      def word: Parser[String] = "\\w+".r

      def keyword: Parser[String] = word filter (keywords.contains)
      def ident: Parser[String] = word filter(!keywords.contains(_))

      def test: Parser[String ~ String] = keyword ~ ident
    }
    import parser._

    val failure1 = parseAll(test, "if false").asInstanceOf[Failure]
    assertEquals("Input doesn't match filter: false", failure1.msg)
    val failure2 = parseAll(test, "not true").asInstanceOf[Failure]
    assertEquals("Input doesn't match filter: not", failure2.msg)
    val success = parseAll(test, "if true").asInstanceOf[Success[String ~ String]]
    assertEquals(new ~("if", "true"), success.get)
  }

  @Test
  def parserForFilter: Unit = {
    object parser extends RegexParsers {
      def word: Parser[String] = "\\w+".r

      def twoWords = for {
        (a ~ b) <- word ~ word
      } yield (b, a)
    }
    import parser._

    val success = parseAll(twoWords, "first second").asInstanceOf[Success[(String, String)]]
    assertEquals(("second", "first"), success.get)
  }
}


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