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Magor (; ) is a large village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales, about  west of Chepstow and about  east of Newport. It lies on the Caldicot Levels beside the Severn Estuary, and is in the community of Magor with Undy. Magor lies close to the M4 motorway.

History
The original Welsh language name Magwyr, from which the English name is derived, is thought to originate from the Latin maceria, meaning masonry walls or ruins. It may relate either to a now-lost Roman villa in the area, or alternatively to sea defences or a causeway built by the Romans.  Magor and the surrounding area contain many Roman ruins and artefacts, and the village centre was originally located at the inner edge of salt marshes which the Romans began to reclaim as farmland. The local name "Whitewall" may relate to the same causeway, which would have connected the village to a small now-vanished harbour on the Severn Estuary known as Abergwaitha or Aberweytha.

In 1994 the remains of a 13th-century boat, used for trading along and across the Severn Estuary, and perhaps with Ireland, were found buried in the mud of the estuary close to Magor Pill. The boat was found to have been carrying iron ore from Glamorgan.

Magor, as "Magur", is one of the few villages to appear on the Cambriae Typus map of 1573.

St Mary's Church

According to tradition, the parish church was founded in the 7th century, and was originally dedicated to St. Leonard.  The existing building has been described as "one of the most ambitious churches in Monmouthshire". The earliest parts of the building date from the 13th century, at about the same time as it was handed by Gilbert Marshal, Earl of Pembroke to the Abbey of Anagni in Italy. It was later administered by Tintern Abbey.  The church was greatly extended in the 15th century, and was restored and re-dedicated to St. Mary in the mid-19th century.

Remains of The Procurator's House, some parts of which may date from the 14th century and others from the 16th century, are still standing just off the village square. The procurator was responsible for collecting the tithes of the village on behalf of the abbey.

The church is the burial place of Welsh composer Mansel Thomas (1909–1986).

Amenities
Magor has a thriving village centre containing shops, pubs, restaurants and a Post Office.  As well as the large parish church, the village also has a historic Baptist church.

Magor and the neighbouring village of Undy support a thriving athletic club whose clubhouse and pitches are found at the eastern end of the villages.  Undy actually consists of all land lying to the north of Magor reen, taking in Dancing Hill where the reen intersects Cowleaze (Magor) to the south and Millfield Park and Mill Reen (Undy) to the north. Vinegar Hill, often regarded as a boundary point between Magor and Undy, actually lies wholly within Undy.

Magor Marsh is a  wetland reserve managed by the Gwent Wildlife Trust. It has a rich variety of habitats, including damp hay meadows, sedge fen, reedbed, scrub, wet woodland, a large pond and numerous reens. It includes breeding grounds for common snipe, common redshank, reed warbler, grasshopper warbler and Cetti's warbler.  It is the richest site in Wales for wetland beetles and soldier-flies, and its pattern of drainage ditches and other features have remained unchanged since the 14th century.

Nearby the village, at Junction 23A of the M4 motorway is Magor services motorway service area, which opened in 1996.

Development
In 2007 a M4 relief road was proposed for Newport which was to be built to the west of the village utilising the existing motorway junction. These plans were dropped in 2009. As of October 2013, a revised draft plan is under consultation.

Monmouthshire County Council relocated many of its office-based staff to Innovation House at Magor, on the Wales 1 Business Park beside the motorway, in 2011.  This followed the need to vacate its offices at the former Gwent County Hall at Croesyceiliog, Cwmbran, due to "concrete cancer" in the building.

Magor station

The South Wales Railway between Swansea and Chepstow (later Gloucester) passed through Magor and a station was opened here in the 1850s, shortly after the line opened. The station provided three sidings serving local farmers.

By the 1920s, traffic on the line was so heavy that refuge sidings were provided on both lines. In 1941 the main line was doubled to four running lines, with the outer two lines as slow goods-only lines to serve the increasing wartime coal traffic, without delaying fast trains on the central main lines.

The station closed, along with Undy Halt, in November 1964; although the goods yard remained open until 1965 for cement trains connected with the building of the M4 motorway.

Notable people
Harry Harris (1933–2004), professional football player.

References

External links

Magor with Undy Community Council
Monumental Inscriptions for Magor

Villages in Monmouthshire

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At a time when more than two thirds of Australians are feeling confused and concerned about their finances, Suncorp is revolutionising the financial services category with a new creative platform focused on making the complex simple.
In a move that expands the brand beyond the sunshine state, Suncorp's strategic approach is all about helping Australians focus on what they do with their money today to spend and save better.
Launched nationally this week, the new brand positioning starts with the introduction of Sunny – a straight-talking 10-year-old girl who personifies the confidence and optimism Suncorp aims to instil in their nine million customers.
Sunny is positioned as a voice of reason when it comes to keeping money matters simple and inspires Australians to spend better, save better and dream bigger.
Suncorp CEO Customer Marketplace, Pip Marlow said the approach was inspired by the fact that as adults we tend to live in the what-if, while kids live in the what-is, the now.
Our research tells us that money is the number one anxiety for many Australians, and they're lacking confidence and knowledge to take control of their finances.
"Sunny aims to give Australians simple steps to spend better and save better through insights, support and tools to help them make positive choices about how they approach their finances.
"It's also about helping customers dream bigger, and for us that means enabling them to chase their goals and protect the things that matter.
Publicis Groupe's Managing Director Simone Waugh said the campaign has been designed to appeal to the inner-optimism inside all of us.
"We know Australians are overwhelmed by where they want to be in their future and how they're going to get there – so they do nothing," Ms Waugh said.
"Finances should be a family conversation and the style of the communication should help this.
The Sunny campaign leverages Suncorp's 100-year heritage in being there for customers in the moments that matter most. Sunny marks a new era for the Suncorp brand and will make banking and insurance tasks easier and ultimately make dreams feel more attainable.
Over the next 12 months, Suncorp will continue to roll out the creative position nationally across its full range of banking, insurance and investment products and services.
The creative will also be activated in Suncorp's national retail network and embedded in its partnership with Netball Australia that is building a nation of confident girls and championing the importance of participation in sport.


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Q: What can cause the application to report Undefined symbol __shlinit from a .sl library in HP-UX 11.00? I am building a .sl library using aCC in HP-UX 11.00. I am able to build it and then link it to the application also successfully.
But, when I execute the exe, it gives the below error
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Unresolved Symbol: __shlinit(code) from mylib.sl
Any pointers towards resolving this problem will be helpful

A: Is mylib.sl your library I take it?
Is your library perhaps calling a function called shlinit() at any point? If not more probably another library function that your code, or the application code, is calling then goes on to call shlinit().
shlinit()is obviously implemented in another library that you do not have installed or is not installed in the correct place or somewhere your dynamic link path points to.
You need to find which library implements that function and ensure it is correctly installed.
A quick Google search gives the following link which may be useful, but now I have to go:
unresolved symbol: __shlinit during shlload()

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Q: Efficiently find $x(k)$ where $x$ is given by $Ax=b$ and $A$ is tridiagonal Say $A$ is a $n\times n$ ($n$ odd) real matrix that is tridiagonal (but need not be symmetric). What is the most efficient way to compute the value of $x(\frac{n+1}{2})$ (informally, the 'middle value') where $Ax=b$?  No assumptions are made on $b$.  I am already familiar with tridiagonal solvers, so the part of the problem to focus on is obtaining the necessary values of $x$.
So far my code uses $x=A\backslash b$ and then just grabs the needed value, which is pretty fast in MATLAB.  However, I feel like there might be a really nice trick here.
BONUS:
The thing I REALLY want is the answer for when $A$ is 'block tridiagonal' with block sizes $m$ and I want the middle $m$ values of $x$.  ie. in MATLAB speak if $A$ was $3m\times 3m$  I want $x((m+1):2m)$

A: What you looking for is a Thomas algorithm which is a simplified form of a Gaussian Elimination or if you want LU decomposition.
Matlab looks fast because Matlab identifying such special cases and call in such case to a very effective solver for banded-matrices. This solver is little bit more general then Thomas algorithm.
The very rough idea is that you know that you don't need to run over all matrix entries but only from the rightest to the leftest diagonal entry in each row.
Edit: to asnwer the added "BONUS" question
In order to retrieve specific entry of the x=A\b, given that only $\Theta(1)$ such values are required one could think about a Cramer's rule. However, using this method would be inefficient, since one need to compute at least $2$ determinants, which is briefly $O(n^3)$ operations. For a tridiagonal matrix one could find a determinant very fast, at only $O(n)$, see here.
However, you talking about retrieving $m=O(n=3m)$ values, which by Cramer's rule would mean $m+1$ determinants, so $O(mn)$. Thus, using Thomas algorithm is much more efficient, since it require $O(n)$ computational steps only.
Note that your problem cannot be solved faster then $O(n)$ since you have $m=O(n)$ unknowns. In the best situation you could improve a constant hidden under the sign of $O$ which isn't too big ($\approx 9m$?).
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377042703007726


All my eggs have numbers in them, and most are all lowercase. If it is alterable, how do you change an egg's code?
I'm sorry, you can't change egg codes - they are generated by the software and stick with the eggs even when they have died. If you want cool codes, you have to camp in the Cave and check the codes of the eggs until you find ones that are pleasing to you (and hope no one clicks faster on them).
You can't. Each egg is assigned a code when it is created.


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Use of a WITH RECOMPILE clause in the CREATE PROCEDURE or EXECUTE statement.
Schema changes to any of the referenced objects, including adding or dropping constraints, defaults, or rules.
Running sp_recompile for a table referenced by the procedure.
Restoring the database containing the procedure or any of the objects the procedure references (if you are performing cross-database operations).
A sufficient percentage of data changes in a table that is referenced by the stored procedure.
The procedure interleaves Data Definition Language (DDL) and Data Manipulation Language (DML) operations.
These recompilations of stored procedure add overhead on the processor. We should closely monitor the occurrence of recompilation of these stored procedures. Performance monitor counter Sql Re-Compilations/sec is very helpful counter for this recompilation monitoring task.
Recommended value for SQL Re-Compilations/sec is close to ZERO. If nonzero values are consistently occurring for this counter, we should seriously search for the culprit stored procedures. Sql Profiler is a nice tool for this task.
How to monitor Sql Re-Compilation/sec counter values.
On database server machine -- > click on RUN -- > type Perfmon -- > delete existing counters by clicking on cross button on top.
Click on + button to add new counter. Add counter Form select "SQL Server: SQL Statistics". Now select "SQL Re-Compilations/sec" from counters list. Click "Add "button . Click "Close" button to view graphical view of performance monitor.


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Start A Company, But Build A Community
1 Comment / Business / By Gareth Lippiatt
Just over two years ago, in November of 2018, we were excited to launch the first version of the FanHub app. We really believed that we were on to something with the cost of watching matches being a pain point for fans. Our research pinpointed that whilst ticket prices had been the focal point, fans spent nearly 30% more on travel than on the tickets themselves.
Armed with this knowledge, we built an app that automatically found the cheapest hotel and train ticket for any fan based in the UK to any fixture. It worked brilliantly, and testing hundreds of trips demonstrated that we could save an average of £5 per train journey compared to the much more established competition.
Having set up pilots with a couple of lower league clubs, we were confident that saving fans some of their hard earned money would be well received by the market.
The clubs announced our partnerships and we were fairly pleased with several hundred downloads in the first couple of weeks. However, after this initial spike of activity, in the months that followed we sold just five train tickets (and I bought two of those!) and zero hotel rooms.
Unfortunately, we learned the hard way that no-one gets excited enough about buying train tickets to change their behaviour. As we'd gone through the clubs to reach fans, we hadn't really considered building our own "tribe" and believed that saving money would be a motivation to use the app.
Our major mistake was that we were so focused on the "genius" of our algorithm that we forgot to check-in with potential users that may not be quite as excited as we were.
Thankfully, we'd added another feature which enabled fans to check-in at the stadium so the app could build a leaderboard of the fans that had travelled the furthest to watch their club. Although (what we felt was) the best feature hadn't worked out, we were very surprised that 30% of users were still "checking in" to games 5 months later.
If even in only a small way, the FanHub app had given some recognition to fans for watching their team and there were clearly fans competing against each other for top spot. That insight and the learning of "how not to launch an app" took us back to the whiteboard again.
Roll forward two years and a beta version of the FanHub app re-launches this month having done things totally differently. Rather than focusing on the features of our solution to a macro problem, we've done months and months of hard yards by reaching out to scores of "super fans" and talking to them about our core belief that fans deserve better.
We listened to their perspectives and told them that we're building a community of fans that share our core belief. It's become a cause that has, by chance, resonated with many at the perfect time because watching football without fans in the stadia is a very different experience. And not in a good way – it's evident that fans contribute massive value to the game but receive nothing for it and FanHub has a vision to change that.
A company cannot drive change, but a community certainly can – and that's what FanHub has evolved into. It's not a tech company, and it's not about the app with clever features.
FanHub is a group of fans divided by loyalties to our respective clubs but united by a common cause: we're going to change the game.
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package de.tu_darmstadt.sport.fvf.testrunner;

import java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeListener;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport;
import java.util.Random;

import de.tu_darmstadt.sport.fvf.FVF;
import de.tu_darmstadt.sport.fvf.adapter.arduino.ArduinoCycleAdapter;
import de.tu_darmstadt.sport.fvf.adapter.arduino.ArduinoLedAdapter;
import de.tu_darmstadt.sport.fvf.driver.ArduinoLedDriver;
import de.tu_darmstadt.sport.fvf.model.FrequencyCycle;
import de.tu_darmstadt.sport.fvf.model.Measurement;
import de.tu_darmstadt.sport.fvf.model.Test;

public class TestRunner implements Runnable {

	private Test test;
	private int run = 0;
	private double frequency = 0;
	private int errors = 0;
	private TestRunnerListenerCollection listeners;
	private IMeasurementCycleAdapter cycleAdapter;
	private PropertyChangeSupport propertyChangeSupport = new PropertyChangeSupport(this);
	private FrequencyCycle currentFrequency = null;
	private Measurement currentMeasurement = null;
	private int[] frequencyFlickeringLeds;
	private int frequencies = 0;

	public TestRunner(Test test) {
		this.test = test;
		listeners = new TestRunnerListenerCollection();

		ArduinoLedDriver driver = FVF.getDefault().getArduinoDriver();
		ArduinoLedAdapter ledAdapter = new ArduinoLedAdapter(driver);
		cycleAdapter = new ArduinoCycleAdapter(ledAdapter, driver);
		cycleAdapter.setTestRunnerListenerCollection(listeners);
	}

	public void addPropertyChangeListener(String propertyName, PropertyChangeListener listener) {
		propertyChangeSupport.addPropertyChangeListener(propertyName, listener);
	}

	public void removePropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener listener) {
		propertyChangeSupport.removePropertyChangeListener(listener);
	}

	public void addTestRunnerListener(ITestRunnerListener listener) {
		listeners.addTestRunnerListener(listener);
	}

	public void removeTestRunnerListener(ITestRunnerListener listener) {
		listeners.removeTestRunnerListener(listener);
	}

	@Override
	public void run() {
		try {
			// finished ?
			if (errors == test.getStopCriteria()) {
				listeners.fireEvent(TestRunnerListenerCollection.MEASUREMENT_FINISHED);
				return;
			}

			// new frequency?
			if (run == 0 || run == test.getFrequencyCycles() + 1) {
				currentFrequency = new FrequencyCycle();
				currentFrequency.addPropertyChangeListener("frequency", new PropertyChangeListener() {
					public void propertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent e) {
						propertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange("frequency", frequency, frequency = (Double)e.getNewValue());
					}
				});
				test.addFrequencyRun(currentFrequency);

				// set frequency
				currentFrequency.setFrequency(test.getStartFrequency() + test.getFrequencyStep() * frequencies);
				frequencies++;

				// set flickering leds
				Random rand = new Random();
				frequencyFlickeringLeds = new int[test.getFrequencyCycles() + 1];

				for (int i = 0; i <= test.getFrequencyCycles(); i++) {
					frequencyFlickeringLeds[i] = rand.nextInt(test.getLeds()) + 1;
				}

				// set none flickering led
				frequencyFlickeringLeds[rand.nextInt(test.getFrequencyCycles()) + 1] = 0;

				// reset run
				run = 0;
				setErrors(0);

				// notify listeners
				listeners.fireEvent(TestRunnerListenerCollection.NEXT_FREQUENCY);
			}

			// new measurement
			currentMeasurement = new Measurement();
			currentFrequency.addMeasurement(currentMeasurement);

			// increment run
			run++;
			currentMeasurement.setRun(run);

			// get and set flicker led
			int flickerLed = frequencyFlickeringLeds[currentMeasurement.getRun() - 1];
			currentMeasurement.setLed(flickerLed);

			listeners.fireEvent(TestRunnerListenerCollection.MEASUREMENT_CYCLE_STARTED, flickerLed);

			cycleAdapter.run(test.getLeds(), flickerLed, getFrequency(),
					(int)(test.getLedDuration() * 1000), (int)(test.getLedPause() * 1000),
					(int)(test.getCyclePause() * 1000), test.getLight(), test.getDark());

			listeners.fireEvent(TestRunnerListenerCollection.MEASUREMENT_CYCLE_FINISHED);

		} catch (InterruptedException e) {
			//e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	public void reset() {
		test.reset();
		run = 0;
		frequencies = 0;
		setErrors(0);
		listeners.fireEvent(TestRunnerListenerCollection.RESET);
	}

	public void resetFrequency() {
		currentFrequency.reset();
		run = 0;
		frequencies--;
		setErrors(0);
		listeners.fireEvent(TestRunnerListenerCollection.RESET);
	}

	public FrequencyCycle getCurrentFrequencyCycle() {
		return currentFrequency;
	}

	public Measurement getCurrentMeasurement() {
		return currentMeasurement;
	}

	/**
	 * @return the run
	 */
	public int getRun() {
		return run;
	}

	/**
	 * @return the frequency
	 */
	public double getFrequency() {
		return frequency;
	}

	/**
	 * @return the errors
	 */
	public int getErrors() {
		return errors;
	}

	public void setErrors(int errors) {
		propertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange("errors", this.errors, this.errors = errors);
	}
}

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Russia gets closer to new wheat harvest record thanks to surging grain yields
Russia has boosted grain yields by around six percent year-on-year, harvesting 124 million tons of grain, according to the latest data from the Russian Ministry of Agriculture.
FILE PHOTO: Ears of wheat near the village of Kamennobrodskaya in Stavropol region, Russia © Reuters / Eduard Korniyenko
With harvest season nearing an end, Russian farmers have cultivated over 90 percent or more than 43 million hectares of the planted land as of October 2, the ministry said. Crop yield stood at 28.6 centner per hectare, compared to 26.9 centner per hectare over the same period last year.
The harvest of one of Russia's key grains, wheat, rose to 85.9 million tons, already exceeding last year's results. While this can be already considered the second-largest wheat harvest for the country, it is moving closer to the 2017 record, when 86 million tons of wheat were collected in Russia.
Also on rt.com Russia projected to dominate global wheat exports for years to come
The latest figures beat earlier analysts and authorities' expectations. Last week, the Russian Ministry of Agriculture said that it expected this year's grain harvest to stand at 122.5 million tons. This would be one of the country's largest harvests, second only to the record 135.5 million tons recorded in 2017.
Supported by a massive grain harvest, Russia is projected to retain its leadership in the global wheat market in the coming years. Pakistan is set to become another large importer of Russian wheat this year, as the country's government announced on Friday that it will ship 180,000 million tonnes of it "waiving off all taxes, duties." Pakistan joins other countries which boosted wheat purchases from Russia in recent years, such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Brazil, Vietnam and Tanzania among others.
Also on rt.com World's top grain exporter Russia keeps global supplies high despite Covid-19 pandemic
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House fires take the lives and homes of too many people. Read on to learn how to prevent house fires.
Your home is a place where you make memories and build your life. That's why it is scary to imagine your home ever suffering from a disaster such as a fire.
Although you can't control everything, there are some steps you can take to help reduce the risk of fire and smoke damage. Not sure where to begin, or what items in your home pose a threat?
The easiest way to avoid a house fire is by checking your smoke alarms regularly. There is a little button on it that you can press to test it. If it beeps weakly, then you need to change the batteries ASAP.
If a fire breaks out and it's not working, tragedy can quickly occur as no one is alerted to evacuate.
If your heating sources aren't working properly they could trigger a fire to happen. You should have them checked out annually by a professional.
Make sure your air filters are always cleaned out, and if you're using a space heater – it needs to be positioned away from anything flammable. A fire can easily start from debris and dust being too close to a heat source so make sure you clean them regularly.
Don't worry, the stove didn't randomly combust because of your cooking. It most likely happened because forgotten food particles on the burner got too hot. Food particles aren't the only thing that could cause this to happen.
If your curtains hang a little too close to the stove, they can catch fire. If you leave a dish towel or cookbook on a burner that you forgot was still hot, they can catch fire.
A few seconds is all it takes for a fire to break out. This is why you never want to leave cooking food unattended. If you have to leave the kitchen for any reason, turn off that pot of boiling noodles first.
If for whatever reason you can't turn off the oven, call someone into the kitchen to watch the food until you get back.
Depending on what type of dryer you have, they need to be inspected on a yearly basis. We all get in a hurry when we're doing our chores but, don't forget to clean out your lint trap every time you put in a new load of laundry.
You also want to check behind the machine to make sure lint or little clothing items like socks didn't manage to get back there.
Before you plug something in, make sure that the cord hasn't been frayed or chewed. If you do notice damaged wires, replace them as soon as possible because this is a huge fire hazard.
Also, check your cord placement. They tend to get hot so you want to avoid running them under a rug or between your wall and furniture.
Household cleaners and common cosmetic items like hairspray and shaving cream can be hazardous. If they are exposed to a large heat source, they can combust. You want to keep them away from space heaters, and store them safely in a cool area.
Everyone loves scented candles, especially around the holidays – but if you don't use them carefully, they could cause a fire. Make sure you put them out before you exit a room and keep them far away from blankets or other objects.
If you feel yourself drifting off to sleep, get up and blow the candle out. Never put them on an uneven surface like carpet, because it's too easy for them to tip over. If you have pets, make sure lit candles stay out of their reach.
You don't want any stray sparks to escape so you need to make sure you have a door between the flames and your flooring. It goes without saying, but never leave the room when the fireplace is going.
When you throw the ashes away, make sure you've given them more than enough time to cool down. Dispose of them in a metal container that is designated just for the ashes.
Fire extinguishers are your best defense weapon when a fire breaks out. You want to make sure you have one in every room that is a potential threat, such as the kitchen.
Every family member should know how to use an extinguisher so if a fire does happen, it can be put out as fast as possible.
There is nothing more devastating than losing everything you own to house fires. Your home is like a member of your family. It's where you make your most precious memories, so you owe it to yourself to protect it.
If your home is suffering damage from a fire, contact us to find out how we can help with the restoration process.


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And You May Find Yourself Living In a Shotgun Shack
by Richard Patterson January 6, 2015
[Ed. note: The artist Richard Patterson often writes out his thoughts in a kind of meditative letter form to various friends. Also, Adam Curtis is a BAFTA-winning cultural theorist/BBC documentary maker. Also, Patterson is from England, hence the spellings.]
Here is a response to Peter Simek's Howard Beale-style round-up of 2014, which I liked.
But first, or last:
The brilliant British cultural critic and documentarist, Adam Curtis as featured in the Guardian and interviewed in The New Statesman. Required reading. He talks about "static culture" and "zombie culture".
He talks about music, art, journalism and politics and wants to make a new film about the relationship between entertainment and power.
Curtis expounds upon the deep, deep conservatism that our culture seems trapped in. So Dallas is not alone. It also echoes some of my statements over the last few years, such as: are Dallas hipsters Republican (conservatives)? Does Dallas have a resonant culture? Discuss. Etc.
I just saw the 1980s show at Fort Worth Modern with Christina [Rees, of Glasstire]—I only went out of guilt and it was the last day. Couldn't stand it, except, interestingly, I thought the women in the show were far better than the men. The only memorable work in fact was female—Cindy Sherman in particular, but also Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Nan Goldin and Laurie Anderson. The men were mostly vain posturing tossers with nothing to say. Had they not been painters, they could have been Dallas chefs. Julian Schnabel actually was one in fact; worked at The Grape on Greenville Avenue I believe.
Allan McCollum
I didn't even like the Basquiat very much, although the work on paper was good. There was a truly abysmal room with a Clemente, a Fischl and a Salle that was off-the-charts bad. Koons was dreadful, Prince was okay. Okay-ish. The only male artists I could respect at all were Allan McCollum, which I liked a lot, and interestingly, Peter Halley, for a resason that I'd struggle to explain. The rest of the show—the Haring, Kenny Scharf, etc.–was just tawdry, feckless shit from start to finish, and especially the Mary Boone painters in the painters-who-can't-paint room. Oh, Schnabel looked quite good, in a nostalgic post-Tàpies/Twombly manner, but they were carefully chosen for this effect. A different selection could have made him look far worse. Big paintings on carpets and oily tarpaulins and stuff—credit where credit was due—saved by the crassness of the materials in a very U.S. sort of way. Not transcending the materials, as I'm sure Schnabel would hope, but indulging them.
But in general, it was awful. I've never seen the Modern look like such a junk shop. The 1980s was the beginning of what Adam Curtis would call "static culture." It was mostly very self-conscious and almost completely devoid of talent. Where the women lacked talent they at least compensated with sincerity and a dedication to a cause.
Then we went to the Amon Carter and saw the bizarre paintings of boat men by George Caleb Bingham. Seen retrospectively through the lens of John Currin and George Condo, these are hilarious, almost comedy paintings. American Whig proganda that strikes the oddest note precisely in between intense amateurism and academic professionalism. There is no grime, sweat or toil in the paintings, only polished cherubic cheeks and overly drawn characters; joyous moments that project from the studio into theatrical watery backdrops. Like china dolls at play. A very odd vision of old weird America that at the time was meant to be New Normal America. Propaganda not unlike the way the Henderson Art Project in Dallas a few years ago co-opted the idea of art to make an area seem more feasible and, well, "nice;" the kitschification of society through questionable art that Dallas frequently practices today, has its roots way back when. If—as the museum's blurb is right—the way in which the waterways were used and controlled also affected the society around them, then Bingham was further trying to depict this in an idyllic, pastoral and goodly manner. There is an obvious parallel with Dallas' highways, present and future, and their fragmentation of Dallas, and the way in which art is used in the city to pacify a bored and directionless public who would otherwise only have Arlington's stadium and the Whole Food's bar in Lakewood for solace and reflection. Bingham's depiction of shiny-faced, squeaky clean boatmen looks not unlike Dallas' art scene.
It was at least a compelling show to look at, perhaps for the reason above, as much as anything for its dedication that through painting, the artist believed he could change society. He wanted the river cleansed of its debris as well, and when he failed in this endeavour, he depicted a rather clean and tame river debris in the paintings as a type of silent protest. (On the scale of river debris gruesomeness– as described thematically by Charles Dickens in Our Mutual Friend about the Thames at a similar time— Bingham's river scores barely a one out of ten.) Bingham was far from a realist.
Sociologically, it was a fascinating show that had me remarking out loud, to the extent that various museum docents engaged immediately and rushed over to provide further background detail. One docent even followed us downstairs, beating us to the ground floor via the elevator, in order to stop us at the front door: "Sir, sir!" she said of our earlier chat, "I'd never thought of it like that… ," and then talked to us for several more minutes about the meaning and intent of the paintings, before letting us museum-hop down the hill toward the Kimbell. Looking eastward over Piano's new roof (and seeing the setting winter sun in the reflection of the other buildings through the haze created by the black gauze sunscreens on Philip Johnson's Amon Carter facade) made the Fort Worth skyline look momentarily and oddly like a blurry Richard Prince re-photograph. Funny old place, Fort Worth.
So we walked across the parking lots and the lawns and entered the Kimbell's new pavilion to see the Impressionist portrait show (much of it actually pre- and post-Impressionism) where I was literally moved to tears on the spot by the first Cézanne by the door, followed by one-two punches from some early Degas and Manet paintings. One after the other: bam bam bam. It left me speechless within about 45 seconds.
There were many paintings in that show that I found to be deeply affecting, more than I could take in one visit in fact. The late Renoirs were the only paintings I passed on. But many of the other paintings filled my eyes with tears and left me struggling to compose myself amongst the large Sunday afternoon crowd. All the chatter fell away. There was nothing to say. These were some of the same paintings I studied in books as a teenager, and in many cases saw at the Musée d'Orsay just a couple of years after it opened, probably in a venture across the English Channel in about 1989. Anyway, the same things that struck me back then still strike me, only even more strongly now. And I knew exactly why they were affecting me so much: they were everything one wanted to be but couldn't be. Not because they were better painters or the paintings were better, but because of who and what they were, when they lived, what they ate, how they dressed, how they sat. All these things… .
And here I am in January 2015 on Camp Bowie, in Fort Worth, Texas. Powerful, powerful stuff.
by Degas
by Cézanne
Anyway, the Degas and the Manet. I realize that Curtis' articulation about static culture is born of a feeling that I had way back in 1984 at art school. The feeling that everything had been done already, and that Duchamp had had the last word. And now, 30 years on, Adam Curtis is saying the same thing. The 1990s temporarily became what Curtis describes as angular—particularly in the UK—but it was more a death rattle than a primal scream.
Since then: Silence. Soft pedaling and back pedaling, filling in gaps with PC revisitations whereby artist gimmickry is replaced by curatorial or collector gimmickry. The raison d'être of some shows being more about identity politics than anything else. Hence retro faux sub-genres of abstraction, flavours of abstraction, essence of abstraction, eau d'abstraction, whereby the whatever they did before they were an artist bit becomes more important than the artist bit: disaffected youth-abstraction, illustrator-abstraction, street-art abstraction, blog-ready abstraction. Just add water, makes its own sauce. In the end, most of the work follows a similarly conservative path, and ususally ends up in a gala event or a non-profit in Dallas, Texas.
Dallas is not alone in all of this, as Adam Curtis is obviously saying. For many years now—almost a decade—I've been studying the return of the Edwardian beard on the urban hipster.
Even J. Crew sells clothes to suit the look. The idea is, you look like someone out of an early Degas painting: someone with a short, cropped, narrow-shouldered wool jacket for the winter, and a workman's French Blue cotton jacket for the summer. If you're not reading Zola or D.H. Lawrence, carried in the wicker basket on your black or Brunswick green vintage bicycle with unfeasibly large Edwardian wheels, then you are surely at your easel in your top-lit Bloomsbury studio, where a petite ballet dancer with perfectly formed and separated orb-like breasts is pinching her cheeks before reclining again on a carefully stage-managed swirl of disheveled oyster-coloured bed linen, while she teases a few strands of hair out of her chignon, after sharing a piece of Chaumes and some fresh tomatoes and nectarines with a still-warm baguette and a couple of glasses of Côtes du Rhône. Wallace the black-and-white cat repositions himself on the Rud. Rasmussen-produced, Georgian-era-inspired couch in Niger leather, which is next to the bed, while you slip on your tapering vintage painting shoes as worn in France but less so in England, and continue where you'd left off before lunch, instantly realizing you need to scumble the overly harsh line between the blouse's lapel and the shadow on the neck, to soften and assuage the abruptness of the gradations created by the neckline of the blouse and the falling hair disappearing around the model's neck and into a deep umber against the pillow. And all the while you tame the urge that's constantly threatening the afternoon's painting progress, the one that keeps rearing its head inside your dandyish painting pantalons with their subtle but large over-check, circa 1865. [The pants are circa 1865, not the urge- ed.]
The reality of course, is that the contemporary urban hipster has only the beard (unless he's a she) and he's actually nose down in a laptop in a coffee shop in East Dallas. Or East Hoxton, or East Williamsburg, or East Portland, or East Thames Ditton, or East pretty much anywhere.
Peter Finch as Howard Beale in "Network" (1976)
And so, to actually see the real stuff—the stuff that Modernism was so excited to re-claim as the starting point for its new beginnings—only to look back from the Fort Worth Modern and think, as David Byrne once said: "My god! What have I (they) done?"
The combined contents of the Urban Theater show can't touch a single small Degas.
And, if we're to split hairs about the 1980s, there isn't a single piece in the Fort Worth Modern show that is as poignant as Talking Heads' song "Once in a Lifetime." (Although Cindy Sherman's suite of photos in the exhibition is the stand-out, real art work there—perhaps the only work that feels fully authentic, approaches the legacy of the painting tradition, and actually presents some sort of new meaning.)
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Paula Newton January 6, 2015 - 13:59
Richard Patterson rocks!
Off topic (a comment on the featured image): Did y'all see the Catherine Opie photos she made for Portlandia? http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2014/12/16/portlandias-new-ads-brought-to-you-by-catherine-opie/
Wanda Dye January 6, 2015 - 17:43
Ha. Nice! I agree about 80s show. Sherman's early work is hauntingly beautiful. This is my favorite era of her work. Have you ever read Rosalyn Deutsch's essays on her early work? Very interesting. Reading her back in school is where I first learned about Sherman. I still like the carpet painting by Schnabel. A lot.
Peter Ligon January 7, 2015 - 11:33
Speaking of shotgun shacks, be sure to stop by RE Gallery and see the current exhibition of handcrafted artworks by Peter Ligon thru Jan 10.
Christopher Mosley January 7, 2015 - 09:22
Even though I strongly disagree with you about the Urban Theater show, I basically respect your take up until you mention the Talking Heads. There is only one other laughingly colonialist pop act during the same era: Paul Simon, in his exploitative use of African pop to save his withering career arc at the time. David Byrne was basically a poor man's Simon.
Barbara Ess is one of the artists included in Urban Theater, and her music in the group Y Pants (along with much of the other related No Wave being made at the time) makes the Talking Heads seem like the extremely safe Dad Wave that it is by comparison. I would hope that you would choose a better pathetically quaint radio song next time you decide to validate your show critique with a music note.
Rainey Knudson January 7, 2015 - 10:35
Rei Momo was and is a great album.
Mahee Ferlini January 7, 2015 - 14:43
Great read, thanks for posting!
L January 7, 2015 - 19:19
Cheeky bloke. More.
Michael Odom January 13, 2015 - 11:55
Degas, yes.


The United States is a country that is traveling through a bit of a asperous application appropriate now, and with any aeon of trials & adversity appear dips in how abundant humans wish to travel. Even with what seems to be a abridgement of activity for traveling in this abundant country, Texas tourism seems to be weathering the storm bigger than even the a lot of aged biking experts could accept predicted. The catechism is simple – why? How is it that the Lone Star Accompaniment is able to advance a abiding movement of travelers beyond its borders if added states are seeing lulls?
It's best to anticipate of the Texas tourism bang as added than just a accepted blip. In fact, the attack to accomplish Texas a arch destination for out-of-towers has been in full-swing aback the 1960s. At the time, Texas was apparent as annihilation added than a antique of the Old West, and it absolutely didn't advice that there was a presidential assassination in Dallas in 1963. Times were boxy for the state, and even its own association were gluttonous greener pastures.
Finally, an alignment called the Texas Tourist Development Bureau was created with the sole purpose of authoritative Texas assume like abode to be. With alone a little over $100,000 in the mid 1960s, the bureau got to work. By 1970, tourism numbers had amorphous to skyrocket, and acquirement had torn a billion dollars.
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The Special Economic Zone that planned for development in the Sit Taw and Si Maw villages of the Kyaukpyu township in the Arakan State may be moved to a different location after the discovery of a mud volcano in the area, according to a senior Burmese official working on the project.
SEZ International, an advisory group invited by the government to work on the development of the zone has made the suggestion of a move and authorities are seriously considering the advice, the official said.
The new location could be near Kani Village, a place nearer to the Bay of Bengal but still under the control of the Kyaukpyu township. Kani is a favored location because a deep sea port is already in place.
The mud volcano would not necessarily create problems that would negatively impact the zone, but foreign investors might not been keen to invest in the area because of the geographical instability. And foreign investment is essential to the further development of Burma (also known as Myanmar), so the original location is now off the table, the official said.
While the SEZ project was planned and initiated by the Burmese government, development and operations will likely be handed to foreign corporations from places like Japan or China.
The government has not yet made public details of the project, but it is understood that the $109 billion project is to be developed jointly by Japan's Nippon Koei, China's CITIC group and Htoo Trading from within Burma.
The project is expected to be a hub from which will spring an 800-kilometer roadway and railway that will eventually run all the way to China's Yunnan Province. Chinese companies are expected to build the railway line and run it for 50 years before giving it to the Burmese government under the terms of special agreement not yet finalized.


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We present documentaries following the causes, consequences and real life stories of migration
Refugees and the migrant crisis are definitely Europe's biggest theme of 2015. From September 21 to October 4, the DAFilms.com portal presents a selection of films dealing with this issue. Documentary filmmakers have captured migrants in their homeland (Syria among others), on their way (in refugee camps) as well as in their new homeland where they are seeking asylum.
Watch the portraits of migrants and the creative documentary rendering of a complex social situation. We present films from Syria, North Africa and Europe. Broaden your horizon in questions that are currently in the spotlight in politics, in the media as well as among people in the streets.
Step 1: Stay or go?
Civil war in Syria has reduced the local inhabitants to a state of permanent uncertainty. Should they stay or go? HAUNTED follows nine protagonists who must be constantly ready to suddenly leave their homes. With her debut film, Syrian director Liwaa Yazji has left an indelible mark on the map of contemporary documentary.
Step 2: Refugee camp
What are the workings of a refugee camp? BABYLON follows the construction, operation and subsequent dismantling of a postmodern Babel in a refugee camp in Tunisia where Libyans took refuge in 2012. The visually impressive, fresh and undogmatic film by Youssef Chebbi, ismaël and Eddine Ala Slim captures a multinational population of misplaced folk, a regime of humanitarian aid workers and international media that broadcasts the camp's "image" to the world.
Step 3: Home in Europe. Uncertain new identity
Emanuel is a Liberian in Norway. He escaped from civil war and became a nameless immigrant, an anonymous man waiting for deportation. Director Thomas A. Østbye conceived IMAGINING EMANUEL as a cold analysis and at the same time as an identity-constituting game.
Step 4: Difficult return
Director Laurent Van Lancker has employed an experimental approach in his film DISORIENT, conceiving it as a polyphonic story of migrants returning to their homeland after many years spent abroad.
More information about current refugee crisis and its impacts can be found online on the website of Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières
Selected films
In her feature documentary Syrian director Liwaa Yazji explores what it means to set off in a war. She meets friends and people previously unknown to her at their homes. Domiciles where they live now or where they yet live. Spaces that turned into a sought-after commodity.
After the insurrection erupted in Libya in the spring of 2012, more than a million people flocked to neighboring Tunisia in search of a safe haven from the escalating violence...
Youssef Chebbi, ismaël, Eddine Ala Slim
Polyphony of tales by migrants who returned to their homeland after having spent many years abroad. This film proposes a haptic and sensorial evocation of lifestories and memories through filmic experimentations and traces of material culture.
Florence Aigner, Laurent Van Lancker


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HomeEnergyA New Breakthrough Method Allows Harvesting The Sun's Energy Without Solar Panels
A New Breakthrough Method Allows Harvesting The Sun's Energy Without Solar Panels
Scientists have created a 'molecular leaf' that can collect solar power and turn carbon dioxide into fuel.
March 22, 2017 WSP
Reduce, reuse and recycle. It's a mantra that doesn't just apply to energy and natural resources. It's the perfect principle to apply on carbon dioxide as well. Because if we learn how to reduce, reuse and recycle CO 2, our world will literally be in a much better state.
Burning fuel like carbon monoxide releases a huge amount of energy, at the same time creating harmful carbon dioxide as its by-product. To convert carbon dioxide back into carbon monoxide, it will take the same amount of energy that's used in burning fuel. The impracticality of this cycle has now resulted in carbon dioxide build-up. And unless we find ways to reduce this carbon dioxide build-up, or at least figure out how to convert carbon dioxide from being harmful back to being neutral without using as much energy, we'll be in big trouble. Think about it, every year we inject about 30 billion tonnes of CO 2 into the atmosphere.
This is exactly the situation we're in now. To reduce carbon dioxide emission, we have the Paris Treaty in place. And to decrease the required energy for carbon dioxide conversion, a potential solution lies in the work being done by a team of scientists from the Indiana University led by Liang-shi Li, an associate professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Chemistry.
As reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the team has succeeded in engineering a molecule that is capable of using light or electricity to turn carbon dioxide back to carbon monoxide. Supposedly, it's a method that's more efficient than any other carbon reduction method being employed today.
The engineered molecule is comprised of nanographene and rhenium. Nanographene — a dark-colored nanometer-sized piece of graphite — serves as the collector of solar energy, absorbing a significant amount of sunlight due to its dark color. Rhenium serves as the engine that drives the production of carbon monoxide. The process is quite direct. As nanographene absorbs light, it drives electrons to the rhenium atom, which continually binds and converts carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide.
What makes this new method more efficient is the use of nanographene. Previous carbon reduction attempts that make use of sunlight were largely inefficient because the materials used — known as bipyridine-metal complexes — were only capable of using the invisible portion of light, in other words, those in the ultraviolet range. In contrast, nanographene is capable of using a big portion of visible light, which makes it absorb considerably more light than previously possible. Accordingly, the more light it absorbs, the more energy there is to power up rhenium into doing more carbon dioxide conversion.
Following this breakthrough, Li plans on figuring out ways to make their 'molecular leaf' even more powerful. Specifically, he plans on making the molecule last longer and sustainable in a non-liquid form because solid catalysts are much easier to use than liquid ones. He also intends to use manganese — which is more abundant and less expensive –in place of rhenium, a rare element.
Obama Awards $2 Billion To Solar Plants
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Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc: Youth Cultures, Music, and the State in Russia and Eastern Europe
Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc explores the rise of youth as consumers of popular culture and the globalization of popular music in Russia and Eastern Europe. This collection of essays challenges assumptions that Communist leaders and Western-influenced youth cultures were inimically hostile to one another.
While initially banning Western cultural trends like jazz and rock-and-roll, Communist leaders accommodated elements of rock and pop music to develop their own socialist popular music. They promoted organized forms of leisure to turn young people away from excesses of style perceived to be Western. Popular song and officially sponsored rock and pop bands formed a socialist beat that young people listened and danced to. Young people attracted to the music and subcultures of the capitalist West still shared the values and behaviors of their peers in Communist youth organizations. Despite problems providing youth with consumer goods, leaders of Soviet bloc states fostered a socialist alternative to the modernity the capitalist West promised.
Underground rock musicians thus shared assumptions about culture that Communist leaders had instilled. Still, competing with influences from the capitalist West had its limits. State-sponsored rock festivals and rock bands encouraged a spirit of rebellion among young people. Official perceptions of what constituted culture limited options for accommodating rock and pop music and Western youth cultures. Youth countercultures that originated in the capitalist West, like hippies and punks, challenged the legitimacy of Communist youth organizations and their sponsors.
Government media and police organs wound up creating oppositional identities among youth gangs. Failing to provide enough Western cultural goods to provincial cities helped fuel resentment over the Soviet Union s capital, Moscow, and encourage support for breakaway nationalist movements that led to the Soviet Union s collapse in 1991. Despite the Cold War, in both the Soviet bloc and in the capitalist West, political elites responded to perceived threats posed by youth cultures and music in similar manners. Young people participated in a global youth culture while expressing their own local views of the world.
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fanzine Sniffin' Glue printing three chords with the caption, "[T]his is a chord, this is another, this is a third. Now form a band," resonated with those alienated by the requirements and compromises of being a rock musician in the GDR. Daniel Kaiser described punk gigs in the GDR: "You gathered and made music and had a party. It wasn't about creating stars. It didn't really matter who was on stage. . . . Back then [Michael] Kobs was the only one who could properly play an instrument." 76 Punk
relaxation of tensions reduced Yugoslavia's reliance on the West for economic, military, and political support. Consequently, while Party leaders were still not about to reemploy censorship, they decided that the CPY should return to playing a more active role in addressing the undesirable effects of Western popular music. This decision reflected the view that the experiment with the decentralization of decisionmaking in cultural affairs since 1950 had led to confusion and disorganization that
culminated in several days of concerts in Berlin by the best groups. 34 Another representative example of this mobilization was each country's monopolistic state concert agency, which organized the overwhelming majority of nonsymphonic concerts. During the ideologically confusing moment of de-Stalinization, these concert agencies were forced to respond to a growing flood of popular music from the West that started to include rock and roll. They sought to adapt popular music concerts to the
képregény születése és halála Magyarországon," Beszélő (Budapest), 1 (2005): 114–19. 10. Interview with János B., 26 March 2001. 11. "Galeri" (gang) in the singular, "galerik" (gangs) in the plural. 12. Wolf Middendorff, Judge, Federal Republic of Germany, "New forms of juvenile delinquency: their origin, prevention and treatment; report" (United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 1960), 35–36, 43, available online at www.asc41.com/UN_congress/
War History 8, no. 4 (2008): 427–47, and Yale Richmond, Cultural Exchange and the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2003). 6. Irina Paperno, Stories from the Soviet Experience: Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009), xiii. Compare with another study based on memoirs and diaries from the Stalin era: Jochen Hellbeck, Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006),


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The Walking Dead: 3 renowned Actors that exit the AMC Show
These names will be always on our minds and nights until the end of the series
The Walking Dead has succeeded in changing the way of doing series on television, after presenting an incredible story of zombies in a post-apocalyptic world. However, the departure of some of its most important actors nearly ruined the drama.
Since the first season of The Walking Dead, we've been introduced to a great cast as survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Where they must try to stay alive under the almost constant threat of attacks from zombies known as "walkers" and other people. The program has managed to have 11 seasons since its launch in 2010 and in its journey some of its actors have been leaving it, especially the 3 most important ones. Something that could have ruined all the work.
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Chandler Riggs as Carl Grimes
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Star Chandler Riggs debuted on The Walking Dead from its first episode in 2010 as Carl Grimes, who is the son of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies). Carl was one of the characters that had great development both on screen and in Robert Kirkman's comics. Many expected that the actor would make it to the end of the program, but a call changed his life.
As revealed by the actor Chandler Riggs , before filming season 8 of The Walking Dead , he was preparing to enter college. His plans were to record his scenes and attend his studies at the same time, but the show's producers called him and told him that his character was going to die. Something that would serve to reframe the plot of the show with a change unlike the comics:
"It was devastating for me and my family because the show has been a very important part of my life for a long time."
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Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes
Without a doubt, the departure of Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead, has been the greatest impact that the program so far. His departure occurs one season after his character's son dies. While he was building a bridge that would link Alexandria to the Oceanside community, something that would allow trade between the two.
But, the departure of the character is firmly linked to actor Andrew Lincoln, who was the one who decided to leave The Walking Dead. According to comments he has made to the star, was looking for a break and wanted to try other roles that were being offered to him . However, the star doesn't seem to be doing very well since he left the show, so it has already been confirmed that he will appear in Rick Grimes' 2023 movie.
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The Walking Dead: Danai Gurira decided to leave the series to try out as a producer
To complete the final blow to the series The Walking Dead, actress Danai Gurira, who plays Michonne, also decided to leave the series one season after Andrew Lincoln. Which led to even lower ratings after Lincoln's departure. However, the star claimed that her departure from the show was because wanted to try not only to be an actress, but also a producer
"It was about my calling and other things I feel called to. The opportunities I've had, exploring as a job creator."
Interestingly, like Andrew Lincoln's character, Danai Gurira's character was not killed either. In fact, her last scenes in The Walking Dead reveal that she found a clue of Rick Grimes and is after her, something that could lead her to appear in the 2023 film with the co-star of her.
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Skin color map. The twin role played by the skin – protection from excessive UV radiation and absorption of enough sunlight to trigger the production of vitamin D – means that people living in the lower latitudes, close to the Equator, with intense UV radiation, have developed darker skin to protect them from the damaging effects of UV radiation. In contrast, those living in the higher latitudes, closer to the Poles, have developed fair skin to maximize vitamin D production.


which was great for all ages"
The first time I've seen live music and it was awesome."
"I went to bed soooo late!"
The kids loved loved loved it"
"Our family has gone away with happy memories that will last forever.
So what is the Big Brill Camp all about?
A weekend when the community of Brill comes together for a weekend of camping, music and the great outdoors. Raising money for Brill School PTA and the Brill Community Fund.
The Big Brill Camp began in 2012 as a fund-raising event for Brill School PTA. Some families camped together for a weekend. The kids went feral, the parents relaxed and we all enjoyed being together in the beautiful countryside with some delicious food and great live music. The Big Brill Camp was born. Its grown a little since then but we keep the numbers down to preserve the atmosphere of that first year. Each of the four events have sold out and having had a year off in 2017 we are raring to go again in 2018.
As a community event we aim to harness the talents and enthusiasm of those who attend the Camp wherever we can. If you would like to volunteer your services to help us plan or run the event, or perhaps run a workshop, then please get in touch. We are hugely grateful to the many people who have already contributed to the success of the Big Brill Camp. In particular we would like to thank Caroline David, Taplins Plant Hire and The Pointer Butchers without whom this event could not be the success that it is.
2017 was a career defining year for Tom, the former front man of Adele support act, Tom Williams & The Boat. Deciding to carve his own path as a solo artist, Tom Williams has released his most successful album to date, All Change. The record, a feast of rock and folk songs drenched in strings, has captivated key tastemakers and critics alike and has recently been announced as one of 6Music's Albums Of The Year.
"There are buskers that will make you cry, they're so good", according to cult Americana artist Andrew Bird. "And then there are buskers that will take you to a place where sound and energy merge to create a kind of spiritual ecstasy, a joyful affirmation of life itself." CC Smugglers, who have made the transition from the street to the stage with consummate ease and considerable acclaim, exemplify the latter, and then some.
A large number of people give their time and energy to make the Big Brill Camp possible. We are grateful to them all.
In addition we would like to thank the following local businesses for their contribution to our event.


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Tesla and Vestas Partner in $160 Million Australian Project
Written by Jess Shankleman. This article first appeared in Bloomberg Markets.
A novel $160 million renewable energy project combining wind, solar and storage technologies reached financial close.
Tesla Inc. will supply batteries and Vestas Wind Systems A/S will supply turbines for the first phase of the Kennedy Energy Park, according to a Thursday statement on the website of project co-developer WindLab Ltd. The project is located in Queensland Australia and will be financed by the Clean Energy Finance Corp. and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency.
The 60.2 megawatt development will be the first to connect the three renewable power technologies to the Australian grid through a single connection point, once it is completed by the end of 2018, according to the statement. The combination will help provide reliable supplies of electricity, overcoming one of the biggest downsides to intermittent renewable energy generation technologies.
"Hybrid solutions combining wind, solar and storage hold a huge potential for Australia," said Clive Turton, President of Vestas Asia Pacific. The first phase could lead to a larger 1.2-gigawatt energy park in the region.
The project in Flinders Shire, in north-central Queensland, will deploy 12 of Vestas's V136-3.6 MW wind turbines as well as 15 megawatts of solar panel capacity and a 4 megawatt-hour Tesla lithium ion battery, all managed by Vestas' control system.
Project equity will be provided equally by developers Windlab and Eurus Energy Holdings Corp, and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation will provide $93.5 million of debt finance on a long-tenured, non-recourse basis, according to the statement. The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will also provide $18 million in the form of a subordinated refundable grant, it said.


Last year, we discussed the prevalence of digital transformation buzz in the market. The term itself was a top performer on Google Trends in 2016 and now into 2017. Consultancies were quick to move on the opportunities the buzz created. Source Global Research estimates the digital transformation consulting market at over $23B. This is nearly 20% of all consulting services offered. In addition, our interview found 78% of respondents are offering digital transformation services, up from 74% in 2016. This could be an early indicator of digital transformation in consulting.
This year we're determined to learn if there is substance behind the buzz. Are consulting firms adopting the digital approach they espouse to clients?
With a few years of digital transformation experiences under our collective belts, we've have been able to assess results. HBR found that digital leaders outperform laggards significantly. What separated leaders was their ability to use data in customer experience, product design, service delivery and employee performance.
Further Bain has found that companies effectively using data are twice as likely to outperform competition. Perhaps that is the entire reason to digitally transform? So that you are effectively collecting and using your knowledge.
In last year's report, senior management buy-in was a significant challenge to a firm's ability to adopt a digital process. It rated as the second highest challenge, behind lack of technology systems.
This year, the lowest rated challenge to going digital was senior management buy-in. It's seems clear that firm leadership has recognized that 1) digital transformation is an important business opportunity and 2) they need to be practicing what they consult to be a credible service provider. However, many consultants are still struggling to understand how this applies to their own business. A few consultants and new entrants are looking to the future and have started to test new models.
We know that most firms offer transformation services. We now know senior management has made it clear that adopting a digital approach is important. But has the rest of the organization followed suit? According to our early findings the answer is not yet. The biggest changes firms are making are still surface level. Changes to value proposition and consulting portfolio led the way.
Further, 63% of respondents stated that digital capabilities are only somewhat ingrained in company culture or not at all.
When asked to rate their firm's digital maturity 58% indicated they were only somewhat digital or not at all.
If we were to assess the consulting industry's performance on the criteria that HBR outlined for digital leaders, would it pass? Do consulting firms use digital platforms for customer experience, product design, service delivery and employee performance?
In the full analysis of Digital Transformation in Consulting we'll cover these topics and more. We've assessed how digital capabilities are impacting the ability to win more business, which employee skills are valued, and how data is used and stored. Please look for the full report coming the 2nd week in October or download last year's report below.


Back in 2013, there was a tiny little game about some tiny little creatures that we fell in love with: Tasty Tadpoles. But since that time, we haven't had even a hint of what its creator Mark White was up to next. You might even say it was a mystery.
Speaking of mysteries (nice segue, Jim!), Mark's next project looks to celebrate them and the role puzzles play in their solution. With little more than a teaser trailer and website, Mark has just revealed Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise.
As a fan of The Room (and someone eagerly anticipating The Witness), what little we can glimpse from the trailer speaks directly to the puzzle gamer trapped deep within my soul.
The details are thin, but we'll keep looking for clues and evidence. Stay tuned for more Agent A information as we learn it.


Christmas is often talked about as being 'a time of Love'. It's a nice, soothing belief for the Personality to hold onto at the end of each year. But if this is true – if these couple of weeks in December are a time when we try to bring forth the best in us – what does that tell us about our idea of what Love is? If it can be summoned forth at a specific holiday by an agreement in the tribe (the Group Personality) then it seems to be a pretty flimsy, transient idea of what Love is. What happens to kindness, compassion and sharing at other times of the year? Don't those values matter in June or August?
I'm being slightly facetious, but you get the point. The Love that Personality talks about is conditional; it's dependant on our mood, our ethics, even the time of year! The Love which exists before Personality – is unconditional. Literally, it is not dependant on conditions; it already is.
This is not a belief. Look at any baby and you'll see what I'm talking about. We are born 'in' this Love and 'as' this Love. There's no effort involved, the baby is not doing anything; it's just Being what it is. But then, as we know- after a few years, it is lost.
You could imagine a world in which this Natural State is not lost, a world in which that Stillness, Joy and Love remain with us as we grow into adults. But that's obviously not what happens. It would be true to say that we're survivors of losing this original relationship to life. It's left everyone with scars and ways of living centred around 'getting by' in this life without knowing and living this original experience of Love.
As adults we've forgotten that we are Love. Love has become almost like an altered state, something we only feel when a strong experience jolts us beyond the everyday life of our Personalities back into the wonder and Joy of life. For example: when we fall in Love, when we give birth or a loved one recovers from a life-threatening illness. It's as if the experience is so strong that we're momentarily shocked back into a taste of our Natural State.
From the Absolute point of view, we can't be anything but Love: It is who we are. But our ongoing human condition in the Relative Level is often an estrangement from feeling that Love. In the Relative world, where Duality runs the show, Love has found an opposite: the apparent absence of Love.
If unconditional Love is indeed our Natural State then two questions arise: 'How did we lose it?' and 'Is it possible to return to it?' This is what this enquiry is all about.


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Victoria's Secret in the UK
Recently, the US giant of lingerie retailing Victoria's Secret landed in the UK to a rather interesting reception. While my bosom-owning American friends have been singing their praises and expressing delight at having their favourite brand of bras finally available to buy in London, the launch of the Westfield and Bond Street stores was very low key and all I have seen on the internet lately has been discussion involving the advertising images used by the company. First there was a criticism of their "Love My Body" campaign, by way of a comparison to Dove's "Campaign for Real Beauty" via an image that was circulated on various social media sites (see photo below – original source unknown) and the comments this drew. Then there is their choice of a model so unusually shaped that fans on their Facebook page were convinced she was the result of a heavy handed image retoucher.
There is much that could be said about the Victoria's Secret contribution to an impossible ideal and the poor body image of young women, but there is only one thing that I'm curious about right now. Will British women put up with this sort of advertising? I suspect that different tactics will be required in order to appeal to UK lingerie consumers – different choices of models for our market may be a start – as VS just seem to be a bit too American. Us Brits seem to have a preference for brands like Freya, Panache, M&S and Curvy Kate which don't use the "California girl" image to promote their lingerie. Even high street chain Boux Avenue have cottoned on to the fact that curvy girls need to see bras on someone a bit more like them – the face of their brand is size 16 (UK) Robyn Lawley [Warning: Daily Mail link]. Will Victoria's secret be known in the UK as a brand for fans of dieting, spray tans and The Only Way Is Essex, or will it gain a broader appeal? I shall be watching them with great interest to find out.
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Harper Eliot says:
What I particularly like about the comparison between those two images is that rather than making the women in the Boots ad campaign look fat, it makes the women in the VS ad look alien and emaciated.
lipsticklori says:
The models in the top ad do look kinda creepy, don't they? Even more so next to Dove's women.
I confess to missing victoria secret – the lingerie itself is very good quality – but you're right, the models actually seem on the grotesque side. I have also noticed that i'm never satisfied with my own body in the racier stuff because i've got those emaciated body types behind my eyes, and find my body deficient in comparison. Much prefer dove image, makes me feel good about myself!
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6. says "No adapted found"
This can be fixed by adding firmware. I build a deb package with new Atheros bluetooth firmware.
Install this package and reboot. Bluetooth should work.
The patched package is somewhat outdated now. Wish this were finally included in the official linux-firmware.
I meant included in linux-firmware, not just linux-lts-utopic. I am on 15.10 with the same issue, and the patch works, but it means downgrading the linux-firmware package.
I have opened a case (1767731) with the same kind of prlblem with Samsung subsystem. The problem occur in the new 18.04. On the older versions it works fine as well as on the other flavors like Mint (all versions), Kali, etc.


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NFTInnovation
Every existing institution is releasing NFTs, but sports NFTs, most notably NFL NFTs, have taken the lead. With several NFL NFT collections that sparked an industry craze, the NFL NFTs have once again elevated American culture.
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Since its ascent to the top of American sports, the NFL (1) has never steered away from seizing marketing opportunities and similarly expertly optimizing the NFL consumer experience. The NFL also produces endless news cycles about the sport while maintaining its fan clubs. Its adaptation to the NFT culture has undoubtedly produced a new approach to fan engagement.
The NFL has a history of quickly adopting new technology and using it to its fullest potential. The league grasped the assignment because the world is rapidly shifting toward digital places and blockchain technology. The NFL eventually lost no time and quickly complied with the NFT trend, while the NBA (2) initially became the first sport to do so.
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Every company adapts to the preferences of its customers and adjusts its location accordingly. The NFL was aware of its customers' preference for the metaverse space. Board executives have undoubtedly stated that blockchain technology has a bright future, and while everyone looks ready to learn more, it is undoubtedly an additional promising prospect.
However, everyone acknowledges that NFTs are no longer a niche phenomenon. Not even the true blockchain developers or specialists have fully understood this technology's potential. This technology has great potential since traders worldwide spend significant money on these digital collectibles.
What are NFL NFTs?
The National Football League (NFL) introduced non-fungible tokens (NFL NFTs) (3) as a step towards web 3.0 and the metaverse while interacting with the fans through this digital experience. This also means there is no space for copy-pasting jargon of the image or file that could violate the NFT ownership.
NFTs are virtual tokens or digital assets that offer ownership documented on the blockchain about the creator and the buyer, culminating in a secure and safe asset or collectible ownership. Any partial digital object, including artwork, ticket stubs, films, and even pictures, can be kept on a blockchain.
Even in its infancy, NFTs stirred up controversy and enthusiasm in equal measure. Some artists view it as a legitimate method to benefit from their creations, while many traders like the thrill of adding treasures and expanding their portfolios. Several new inventions undoubtedly affect how audiences are engaged now that NFTs are opening up new places in the football industry.
NFL All Day x NFT digital video collectible platform
NFL All Day (4) is an official non-fungible token NFT video digital collectible platform that enables fans to buy and sell NFTs based on officially licensed footage of NFL players, teams, and events. The NFL, NFL Players Association (NFLPA) (5), and Dapper Labs (6) publicly announced the launch of NFL All Day.
Even though a soft launch preceded the formal launch last year, new and existing customers were eligible to get free NFTs featuring Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback. The latter served as the project's ambassador (7). Early adopters who started accumulating NFL games or NFTs were also incorporated during the soft launch to raise the quantity considerably.
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NFL All Day's early success ultimately demonstrated the value of developing a platform that provides long-term value for the fan experience by attracting millions of football fans to the site, enabling them to own a piece of the game they love, and fostering a strong and active community of NFL fans.
The first public releases happen this week with a headliner pack that includes iconic plays from Jalen Ramsey, Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson, and Jonathan Taylor, as well as moments from Tom Brady's career (8). The NFL hopes this program will be as successful as a comparable effort by Dapper Lab with the NBA in generating cash and increasing fan engagement.
How is the Australian Football League (AFL) adapting to the trend?
The Australian Football League's (9) first limited edition NFT drop got a tremendous response. They sold out in less than 12 hours, launching Ripper Skipper 2022 via its AFL Mint program, which allowed users to join the "allowlist" to acquire one of the 3,800 packs reserved for the drop (10).
The packs eventually had a selling price of 34.39 USDC for each project, projected to have raised more than $130,000 USDC. The Ripper Skipper 2022 NFTs include 78 noteworthy highlights of the 2021 season using audio and video. Every pack includes three moments in three separate rarity tiers: common, deluxe, and ovation.
Anyone who took part in the first drop of the limited edition digital material had a 10% chance of obtaining an AFL Mint Genesis Ball (11). The wider public will have access to a second drop scheduled to be distributed on August 24, even though the initial mint was sold out within 12 hours of its release.
Are Sports NFTs a good investment?
The NFL NFT market is exploding, and its popularity is unquestionably rising. These NFTs are poised to alter content ownership and the rights of the users' favorite games they can watch in public spaces. Fans appreciate collecting NFTs connected to specific sports; in the digital age, this speculative tendency points to a promising future for NFL NFTs.
Although it is essential for traders to first assess and investigate the token before instantly investing in any NFT, each one has a unique value, and some are unquestionably valuable. In contrast, others have a bright future ahead of them.
NFL NFTs are certain to disrupt the game for every business as this market matures and traders get the opportunity to gather tokens from a vast range of offerings. NFL NFTs will undoubtedly serve as a booster for this quickly expanding sector.
Perhaps the assets connected to blockchain-based games will evolve to attract interest, and the tokens linked to ticks will certainly emerge as the most valuable. NFTs are unquestionably the way everything is going to work in the future.
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