I could have put the word "finished" in inverted commas, but I've reached the stage where I don't want to do any more. I've hopefully suggested the tussock grass without getting too involved in detail. In the end, I feel I've learnt quite a bit in tackling this subject, and feel a bit more confident in trying to paint more scenes with tussock grass in them. Useful, given that tussock grass is everywhere at low level on South Georgia.
Working from the sketch I made on site, I'm now engaged on a half-imperial( 22x15") painting using arches 300gsm rough paper. I'm delaying tackling the foreground tussock grass till last, as I haven't really worked out a way of dealing with this yet. Ideally I should have been less impetuous and sketched out some more ideas and experimented a bit before committing to paper, but I was keen to get started.
Here are a few work-in-progress shots, although this is my favourite size of paper to work in I do find it a bit large to truly adopt a wet-on-wet approach.
I've just finished the full imperial sized (30x22") painting of Grytviken church; I've darkened the shadows on both distant and middle distant mountains, which has brought the church out a bit.
I've just been working on a painting of the abandoned propellers on the beach at Stromness. These are a leftover from the time when Stromness became a ship repair base, and are much photographed- in part, I suspect, because they lie on the edge of the 200m health and safety exclusion zone.
There is a sculptural, surreal aspect to the shapes, and they make a great painting subject. This is on grey paper, with white body colour for the snow, and (very sparingly) for one or two highlights on the propellers themselves.
I've been working on a full imperial-sized (22x30") painting of Grytviken church, based on the sketch I put on a previous blog post. To scale up the sketch, the full-sized version is around 1.8/1.9 times the sketch size. As I don't possess a pantograph, and the maths were too much for me, I opted for the simpler solution of just scaling it up x2. Whilst this doesn't sound much different from the 1.8/1.9 scaling, I was worried that the church might appear too large in the finished painting. The aim in the sketch was to show the church dwarfed by the surrounding landscape.
I'm part way through the finished painting, having started with the sky (not too happy), then the distant mountain (better) and the middle distance rocks behind the church. With a bit of ultramarine for shadow, it is now starting to take shape.
As I mentioned in my previous post, this was the cinema that existed close to the church until recently. I don't know who took this photo, apologies if Im infringing any copyright. It makes you wonder what it would have taken to preserve the exterior structure- presumably quite a lot given the weather down here.
A quick sketch of Grytviken church, which has recently been restored. It's very atmospheric inside, and I was treated to an Impromptu organ recital whilst sat sketching the interior. The surroundings are now clear of industrial debris, but one sad loss is the former Grytviken Cinema. I'm not sure when this finally disappeared but there are pictures of it semi-collapsed in the 1980s on the Internet. A shame, as it looked a very interesting building and gave a glimpse of another facet of life in South Georgia during the whaling heyday.
The sketch is not quite as crinkly as it seems , this is due to the glancing light when I took the iPad picture. Again, I think this might make a good large scale subject and must stretch a sheet of full imperial to tackle this.
Until I get some more finished works to show, I just thought I would upload a page from the sketchbook- various quick studies of penguins and the odd piece of rusting ironmongery that is such a feature of the place. Again, hardly finished pieces, but I always like the immediacy of field sketches however basic.
To raise funds for the Rat Eradication Project, an auction was held on board ship. I was asked to illustrate a poem about the largest blue whale ever recorded, which was landed at Grytviken (and hence the largest animal ever known to exist).
The Rat Eradication Project, as the name suggests, is a project to get rid of the introduced rats on South Georgia . This is a colossal undertaking involving helicopter drops of poison bait. It's also a race against time before the glaciers recede and allow the current discrete populations to merge.
due to a printer malfunction, I had to re-do the final page, I've only got a photo of the double-printed original one. It should be clear enough to read though.
A quick sketch of SS Bayard, with elephant seal and whale vertebrae in the foreground. Very quickly done due to the onset of rain, and i'm not happy with how the elephant seal looks. I guess that is in the nature of elephant seals though, their facial appearance changes a lot depending on how squashed their nose is when they are lying down.
The Bayard, incidentally was built in Liverpool and wrecked here when it broke loose from its moorings on the other side of the harbour in a gale.


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Schools of Thought, Current Work: Nader Tehrani, NADAAA
Wednesday, April 5, 2017, 7 - 9pm
Architects: NADAAA and John Wardle Architects. Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Image Credit: John Horner, 2016
Nader Tehrani will present his work with NADAAA in a public lecture with an introduction by Anthony Vidler and moderated by Florian Idenburg.
Nader Tehrani is the principal of NADAAA, a practice he founded in 2011 with Katherine Faulkner and Daniel Gallagher. The firm grew out of Office dA, a practice he formed in 1986 with Rodolphe El Khoury, which later expanded to include Monica Ponce de Leon in 1991. With offices in New York and Boston, NADAAA is dedicated to "the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry."
NADAAA collaborated with John Wardle Architects (JWA) of Melbourne, Australia on the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne, which was completed in 2015. Central to the project is the Studio Hall, enclosed by a coffered timber roof that mediates natural daylight and assists natural ventilation. In Atlanta, NADAAA worked with Lord Aeck Sargent Architecture on the Hinman Research Center on Georgia Tech's campus. The architects transformed the 35,000 square-foot interior of a 1939 building to include research labs and a collection of design studios suspended on a platform tray from the building's original crane gantry. Opening in 2017, the firm's renovation and expansion project for the University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design incorporates interconnected graduate and undergraduate design studios in a 19th-century Gothic Revival building while uncovering and restoring its prominent staircase, masonry, and arched hallways. All schools of architecture and design, they also give form to varied schools of thought.
Tehrani is the current Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. He joined Cooper from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was professor of architecture and served as head of the Department of Architecture from 2010 to 2014. For over 25 years, he worked to motivate academic research to change practice and to test new protocols of practice in the context of academia. His own research targeted material culture as the basis for speculation—exploring material properties, negotiating materials and their geometric predispositions and challenging the means and methods of building processes. Working between the digital realm and the medium of full-scale mock-ups, he seeks to simulate and test alternative approaches towards tectonic studies.
This lecture is co-sponsored with The Architectural League of New York.
Tickets are free for Cooper Union students and faculty with valid ID, and League members. For ticket inquiries, please refer to The Architectural League of New York website.
You may watch a recording of the lecture on The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Channel.

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Say What Now? White Woman Calls the Cops on Black Yale Student Taking a Nap in Dorm Common Room [Video]
May 10, 2018 10:14 AM PST
In today's episode of 'Living While Black,' a white graduate student at Yale called the police on a Black student who fell asleep in the common area of their dorm.
The white woman confronted Lolade Siyonbola, 34, after she fell asleep on the couch in the school's Hall of Graduate Studies.
"I have every right to call the police. You cannot sleep in that room," she said to Siyonbola.
When police arrived at the scene, they told Siyonbola "She called us [and] said there's somebody who appeared they weren't … where they were supposed to be."
The cops, who asked to see Siyonbola's ID, proceeded to question her for more than 15 minutes before they confirmed she was a student at Yale.
They said the process was prolonged because her name was misspelled in a school database of student information.
During their interactions, Siyonbola unlocked the door to her dorm room to show them that she was a student and called the officers' behavior "harassment."
"I really don't know if there's a justification for you actually being in the building," she said.
"I deserve to be here. I pay tuition like everybody else. I'm not going to justify my existence here."
More than 350,000 people watched Siyonbola's Facebook videos, with some commenters expressing their support while others commended her for remaining calm.
Lynn Cooley, the dean of Yale's graduate school of arts and sciences, sent an email to graduate students addressing the situation on Tuesday.
"Incidents like that of last night remind us of the continued work needed to make Yale a truly inclusive place," she wrote.
"I am committed to redoubling our efforts to build a supportive community in which all graduate students are empowered in their intellectual pursuits and professional goals within a welcoming environment."
You can watch video of this infuriating incident below. We commend Lolade for handling this unnecessary encounter so calmly.
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The folly of men
Pump, an absurdist take on the classic road movie, is a film of many questions and few answers. What can it tell us about our relationship with the built environment? At the Open City Documentary Festival on 9th September 2017.
Billy Sawyers
Still from Pump, used under Fair Use. Some rights reserved.Modern infrastructure rouses a peculiar romanticism in its human creators. From a dream through to rubble, from idea to abandoned husk, the built environment remains mysterious, fuelling imaginations with its promise of binding human life ever closer together. Perhaps it is a symptom of 'capitalist realism' that the most physical symbols of commerce and efficiency – bridges, motorways, skyscrapers – command such widespread fascination. Or maybe this sentiment extends naturally from the masculine ambition that pervades the world of architecture and engineering, those boyish desires to build higher, tunnel deeper and dream bigger than ever before.
Time gives infrastructure another layer of intrigue. Once abandoned, buildings and structures can be repurposed and reclaimed, gaining all kinds of new meanings and functions. A power plant can become a nightclub, a railroad a public park, a chapel can become a synagogue before ending up as a mosque. The built environment endures even as it is renewed and reimagined. Its roads, tracks and waterways can lead us to multiple temporalities – to both snapshots of the past and visions of the future.
This interplay of space, time and building forms the context for Pump, a new documentary centred on 11 miles of monorail test track near Orléans in northern France. Atop eight-metre concrete pillars, the disused track plays host to the wanderings of director Joseph David and his companion Andrew Kötting, whose purpose in visiting the viaduct is at the outset unclear.
Bertin's project epitomised the utopian ideals that held sway in architecture and engineering during postwar reconstruction.
The monorail forms a curious subject for an adventure film that smudges reality with fiction, history with the future. A relic of Europe's postwar infrastructure boom, it was built in the late 1960s to test Aérotrain, a mass transit hovertrain designed by engineer Jean Bertin and funded by the French government. An advocate of hovercraft technology, Bertin envisioned a future in which all of France could travel at high speeds across his proposed network, in sleek aluminium carriages that skimmed a cushion of air above tracks of reinforced concrete. His Aérotrain prototypes, propelled by turboshaft engines, were successfully tested on the Orléans monorail at a revolutionary 267 miles per hour.
Bertin's project epitomised the utopian ideals that held sway in architecture and engineering during the postwar reconstruction period, when public infrastructure was revitalised by innovative design and high levels of state investment. He had lofty ambitions, seeking to maximise public utility through efficient, low-cost construction and transit speeds unmatched on land.
But to his great sadness, Bertin's future was abruptly abandoned in 1975. After a decade of test tracks and hovertrain prototypes, each one beating the speed of the last, Aérotrain ran out of funds and was swiftly replaced by Train à Grande Vitesse, the high speed railway which to this day runs past the Bertin's test track, as if to be endlessly taunting it for its irrelevance. Nonetheless, the viaduct stands as a striking monument to his vision; Bertin, who died in 1975 just months after his dream did, is today celebrated as a visionary.
In what feels like a playful mockery of the Aérotrain project and its dizzying ambitions, Pump's two filmmaker-protagonists take to Bertin's monorail with a folly of their own. It is a mission of inverse proportions – in a bespoke pump-car named Albertine, they hope to navigate the lifeless tracks at a fraction of Aérotrain's intended speed. Fitted with a tarpaulin roof and several camera rigs, Albertine is both living space and performance stage for Joseph and Andrew, who appear perfectly content with her average speed of two miles per hour.
Like the handcar driven by the Blind Seer in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Albertine's modesty somehow lends a sense of adventure to this perplexing quest. Constrained to the monorail, her direction of travel is unwavering, demanding ceaseless labour from her riders as the environment unfolds slowly around them like a leaf in springtime.
North-central France isn't typically stunning, but its restrained charm is expertly captured by Pump's patient cinematography. Reminiscent of Hans Aarsman's Renesse 1988 – which shows the hay bales of a pragmatic farmer being stored on an abandoned dual carriageway – the aesthetic of Pump keenly follows in the footsteps of New Topographics, a genre of photography that reframes human-altered landscapes by focusing on the banal and the transient. Just like the New Topographers of the 1970s, Pump achieves a sense of continuity by homing in on empty landscapes and everyday objects. Governed by the endless flat plane of the test tracks, the film's palette is sparse and geometric, featuring contourless farmlands, placid skies and, if you're lucky, a dusty road or murmuring factory. This is the archetypal nowhere-in-particular of the developed world, where wilderness meets the built environment, where time decelerates and where all encounters are by chance.
Excruciatingly slow, man-powered travel sets a rhythmic monotony, with all the colour and intrigue flowing from specific motifs.
Though it is Joseph David's film, it's clear that much of the creative impetus for Pump came from the boisterous Kötting, whose own career as a filmmaker has seen him embark on a number of similar pilgrimages. Swap the Orleans countryside for the waterways of southeast England, exchange Albertine for an even more absurd swan-shaped pedalo and you have 2012's Swandown, in which Kötting travels from Hastings to London's Olympic Park with author and psychogeographer Iain Sinclair. Both films are playfully abstract takes on the road movie. Excruciatingly slow, man-powered travel sets a rhythmic monotony, with all the colour and intrigue flowing from specific motifs: chance meetings with friends and strangers, the obstacles of weather and nature, but also subtle use of archive footage.
Donning what appear to be the same clothes he wore for four weeks straight in Swandown, Kötting injects a great deal of fun and bravado into Pump, in counterpoint to the more pensive figure cut by David. Between impassioned renditions of 'You Are My Sunshine', Kötting pumps vigorously on Albertine, attacking with a handsaw any tree branches that obstruct her path. At night, as the pair smoke and drink mugs of wine, Kötting cooks on a portable stove, serving up the 'small warzone' of an English breakfast or 'motorway pile-up' of a ratatouille. As with all good adventure films, it's satisfying simply to watch the protagonists indulge and relax after a day's hard work.
That Pump feels like a true adventure in such a monotonous environment is surely its most impressive aspect. Piercing through its layers of emptiness and grey infrastructure are the feelings of endeavour, companionship and mystery that make the best cinematic quests so compelling. Pumping away on the feminised Albertine (a "beautiful" and "refined" machine), David and Kötting exude boyish delight as they settle into a life of concrete and country air, perched eight metres above ground. For this short time, the 11 miles of abandoned monorail is theirs to own. They are seduced by its lost futures; Aérotrain quickly infects their dreams, as signified by the cuts of archive footage that separate night from day in Pump.
Pump is indeed a highly masculinised adventure, echoing the distinctly male world that Aérotrain was born into – the same ruthless world that saw it fade away in the face of something bigger, faster and more cost-effective. But this doesn't narrow its appeal. Both absurd and mysterious, it is a memorable film that surprises with its subtle charm and imagination.
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Accenture and Microsoft sign multi-year business process services tie up
Williams F1 Racing uses IOT heart rate data capture to beat rivals
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Japanese tech giants hit with €166m laptop and phone battery cartel fine
Lithium Ion battery prices were fixed and information exchanged to rig the market – Samsung escapes after it revealed cartel
The European Commission has fined Sony, Panasonic and Sanyo a total of €166 million after they admitted fixing the market in a cartel deal.
The companies and Samsung SDI coordinated prices and exchanged sensitive information on supplies of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, used in laptops and mobile phones, in breach of EU antitrust rules, the European Commission said.
Sanyo was hit with the highest fine of €97 million. (see graph below)
Samsung SDI was not fined as it revealed the existence of the cartel to the Commission.
All companies acknowledged their involvement in the cartel and agreed to settle the case.
Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy said: "Millions of Europeans use laptops, mobile phones and power tools that run on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Today's decision sanctions four rechargeable battery producers whose collusion affected the prices of a number of goods sold to European consumers. It also sends an important signal to companies: if European consumers are affected by a cartel, the Commission will investigate it even if the anticompetitive contacts took place outside Europe."
Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are the most common type of rechargeable batteries used in portable electronic and electrical devices. They can be divided into three types depending on their usage and demand. Cylindrical lithium-ion batteries are for example used in larger devices such as laptops and power tools, whereas smaller devices, like smartphones and tablets, use prismatic or polymer lithium-ion batteries. All these types of battery were affected by the cartel.
The Commission's investigation found that Samsung SDI, Sony, Panasonic and Sanyo took part in bilateral, and sometimes multilateral, contacts in order to avoid aggressive competition in the market for lithium-ion batteries. In particular, the four companies:
agreed on temporary price increases in 2004 and 2007 triggered by a temporary increase in the price of cobalt, a raw material used in the production of lithium-ion batteries; and
exchanged commercially sensitive information such as supply and demand forecasts, price forecasts or intentions concerning particular competitive bids organised by specific manufactures of products such as phones, laptops or power tools.
The cartel contacts took place mainly in Asia and occasionally in Europe. The cartel started in February 2004 and lasted until November 2007.
In a statement the EC said: "In setting the level of fines, the Commission took into account, in particular, the companies' sales of lithium-ion batteries in the European Economic Area (EEA), the serious nature of the infringement, its geographic scope and its duration.Samsung SDI received full immunity for revealing the existence of the cartel to the Commission, thereby avoiding an aggregate fine of € 57 748 000 under the commission's leniency notice."
"Sony, Panasonic and Sanyo benefited from reductions of their fines for their cooperation with the Commission's investigation under the 2006 Leniency Notice. The reductions reflect the timing of their cooperation and the extent to which the evidence they provided helped the Commission to prove the existence of the cartel."
The fines were reduced by 10% after the firms admitted their participation in the cartel and of their liability.
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This is an archive containing every news story ever posted on the BDT website. If you're looking for a specific article, try the search box at the top right hand side of this page. Otherwise you can just browse the archive by selecting a year and month below.
Film studio for city
Originally published: Friday, 26th February, 2010
City Council has embarked on a plan to develop a multi-million dollar film studio at the former Central Power Station.
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Locals asked to lose their locks
Originally published: Thursday, 25th February, 2010
With the World's Greatest Shave just around the corner, store owners Randy Meatheringham, Christos Niarros and Tracy Gauci are getting together to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation.
Illegal fishing crackdown
Three men have had their boat and fish seized after being caught illegally fishing in the Darling River at Menindee. NSW Fisheries Compliance Director, Glenn Tritton, said the men were apprehended earlier this month during a night-time surveillance operation conducted by NSW Fisheries Officers into ongoing illegal fishing activities in the far west of NSW. "It's alleged the men, a 63-year-old from Menindee, and a 24-yearold and 22-year-old, both from Sydney, were using two cord drum nets which are illegal to use in NSW waters. "Cord drum nets are no longer permitted to be used in NSW waters since the closure of the inland native finfish commercial fishery in 2001," Mr Tritton said.
Payphones removed
Telstra has defended its decision to remove six more payphones from around the city, saying the phones were no longer economically viable.
Train an asset to community
Originally published: Wednesday, 24th February, 2010
The Indian-Pacific was yesterday linked to the city's heritage as it arrived here to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
Unfair tax
Jessica Daniels is not impressed after finding out that she will be slogged up to $30 extra per year to pay for upgrades to Sydney's transport system.
Champagnat too strong
House Champagnat has finished ahead of rivals McAuley and Joseph to win the 2010 Sacred Heart Swimming Carnival.
Anabranch flowing
Originally published: Tuesday, 23rd February, 2010
Between 3,000 and 4,000 megalitres (ML) of water a day is flowing into the tributary, courtesy of good rainfall in northern NSW and a decision by the State Government to release billions of litres of water for South Australia.
Speech pathology students enter schools
A group of University of Sydney undergraduate speech and language students have arrived in the city for a clinical placement in primary schools here and in Menindee.
A local ceiling insulation installer has welcomed a federal government audit into homes fitted with pink batts.
Short term pain
Originally published: Monday, 22nd February, 2010
There will be some short term pain but sudden changes to the Federal Government's ceiling installation program should make it better, according to an installer.
Grave concerns
Recent rainfall has been welcome but it has also highlighted a problem in Wilcannia that has angered residents.
Ray Oates' first winner of the season
On a calm humid evening on Saturday night, the Broken Hill harness racing clubs 7th meeting saw locals winning in fine form. The highlight of the night was veteran trainer driver Ray Oates driving a winner aboard Shay Shay Shania who broke after dispatch and lost considerable ground but coming home strongly the last 200m to win the second fast class event.
Dodgy installers spark insulation warning
[b]Batts rort danger[/i]
Solly signs off
"Everyone has been right behind me throughout the years and I've always known it. It's been great." - Solomon on Broken Hill football supporters
Abbott pay plan doesn't add up
by Gina Wilson Weekend worker Tenille Nagas-Symonds will be worse off under a federal coalition plan to reduce weekend penalty rates.
Water lures locals to lakes
A trip to the river has become a lot more popular in recent weeks, now that there's some water around.
Don't pass on wage increase
By Darrin Manuel Business Broken Hill is encouraging local employers not to pay an allowance increase that was recently passed by Fair Work Australia.
Burke Ward Swimming Carnival
Burke Ward students were treated to perfect weather yesterday as they hit the pool for the school's annual swimming carnival.
Couple answer call
Alma Swimming Club members Kym and Glenn Baker will be teaching Vietnam's children how to swim this year after heeding the call from overseas.
BIC backs boards
The Barrier Industrial Council said reinstating the local hospital board was a good idea but questioned Tony Abbott's motives in vowing to do so.
Hurt and angry
Originally published: Tuesday, 16th February, 2010
Businesses across the city were left to pick up the pieces after an attack by vandals over the weekend. Silverlea Early Childhood Services, which is soon to celebrate 50 years service to the community, received no consideration for its good work with an attack on Sunday night that left playground equipment, lights, a pergola and garden all damaged.
Corella deaths mystery
North Broken Hill residents awoke to a troubling sight on Saturday morning as numerous sick and dying corellas fell from the sky. Residents in several north locations contacted the Rescue and Rehabilitation of Australian Native Animals (RRANA) group to report the strange event, and began rounding up the birds.
Tenants' taps to trickle
At least eight tenants, including pensioners, could have their water supply restricted to a trickle because their landlord has refused to pay his bill. Country Water has sent notices to the tenants informing them that it intends to reduce supply to their land on or after March 22. It's understood all of the tenants who have received the notices rent their house or unit from the same owner. One of the tenants, an elderly pensioner, told the BDT that he knew of at least seven other people who had also received notices, but the number could be much higher. "A lot of us are pensioners. We're all definitely worried about it," he said.
Local seminar for hearing impaired
Originally published: Monday, 15th February, 2010
A seminar will discuss new initiatives and services available for people who are deaf or hearing-impaired when it is held in Broken Hill in October. The Broken Hill and District Hearing Resource Centre seminar will be held from October 1 to 4. NSW Minister for Disability Services Paul Lynch said it would bring together health professionals, service providers and deaf and hearing-impaired people.
Stranded couple rescued
Torrential rain in the district on the weekend led to a helicopter rescue north of Broken Hill and turned many of the city's streets into recreational waterways, much to the dismay of police.A young couple stranded by rising waters on the Silver City Highway spent Friday night and much of Saturday in their car and were rescued by an SES helicopter late on Saturday.
Man's disappearance
The family of a missing Bendigo man has released new photographs of their son in the hope that it triggers the memory of someone who may know where he is. Daniel Rosewall was last seen in Bendigo when he arrived for work at the family business on Wednesday, January 27 - 16 days ago - and he disappeared north of Silverton soon after.
CBH Resources is back in the black after posting an after tax profit of $18.9 million for the half year - and said the outlook continued to improve. The result, which compares with a $90 million loss for the previous year's first half, comes despite a 24 per cent drop in revenue to $61m.
More strike action
Local TAFE teachers have vowed to continue industrial action after yesterday's 24-hour strike. They walked off the job to protest at attacks on their working conditions, according to local President of the TAFE Teachers Association, Fred Smith. TAFE teachers had been given a 20 per cent increase in workload in return for an average 1.5 per cent increase in salary, he said.
Witnesses called for hit and run
A P-plate driver in a white Ford hit and knocked down a woman at the Centro Westside plaza late last month and police are appealing for information from witnesses to the incident.
Backwards step
Broken Hill, the one-time union stronghold of Australia, is losing its industrial culture, according to former Barrier Industrial Council (BIC) president, Bill O'Neil. And Mr O'Neil can't believe it is a federal Labor government doing the damage, courtesy of its new industrial relations system.
Mixed reaction to allowance
A union is claiming victory after its application for a 4.28 per cent district allowance for Broken Hill retail workers was granted. But last week's decision by Fair Work Australia has been condemned by Business Broken Hill, which said the "loading" will cost jobs and hurt local businesses.
Feel the heat
Locals can "feel the heat" tomorrow night with a fiery art exhibition by Fiona Fell. "Outskirts of Flame" starts at 7pm and will be held at 109 Murton Street, which is the former St Peter and St Paul's school. Ms Fell is an artist-in-residence at the BH Art Exchange.
Wards welcome new nurses
Originally published: Tuesday, 9th February, 2010
The hospital has welcomed a new intake of nurses. Six registered nurses began their careers with the Broken Hill Health Service yesterday. The nurses will over the next 12 months gain experience in a variety of areas including the Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit, Operating Theatre and the Mental Health Department.
Improvements for city's big race meet
Beer drinkers, punters and women are set to enjoy the St Patrick's races that little bit more this year, as the countdown to the 45th annual race meeting begins. The St Pat's Club - which has secured the Silverton Wind Farm as a major corporate sponsor - said yesterday that it had found "several key areas" in need of improvement or upgrade ahead of this year's races on March 20.
City on Kernaghan tour
Originally published: Monday, 8th February, 2010
By Stefan Delatovic
High schools need academic ambience
Whilst I remain a proud member of the NSW Teachers' Federation, I am on this occasion backing Julia Gillard on the issue of publishing data derived from Australia-wide testing of students in our schools. It is worth nothing that the Federation is not and never has been an affiliate of the Labor Party. That the Federation has taken a mother of a hiding on this issue is reflected in the 4.6 million computer hits recorded in the first 24 hours of the data being released.
Support the Shave
Originally published: Saturday, 6th February, 2010
Nick Kuerschner wants locals to "loosen up their cheque books" and donate to the Leukaemia Foundation's World's Greatest Shave. In December last year Nick and Sherri Kuerschner lost their son, Will (9), to leukaemia and this year to help give back to the Leukaemia Foundation they have volunteered for the "World's Greatest Shave".
Nice drop of rain
Originally published: Friday, 5th February, 2010
Broken Hill got a nice drop of rain yesterday. According to the Bureau of Meteorology, 24 millimetres were recorded here to 9am while White Cliffs and Wilcannia received 22mm and 12mm respectively.
Search draws to a close
Originally published: Thursday, 4th February, 2010
With no trace being found of a man who went missing near Silverton six days ago, police were last night deciding whether to call off the search.
Skilled nurses not turned away
The Broken Hill hospital had not turned away qualified nurses, according to its manager.
Gold mining begins
Originally published: Wednesday, 3rd February, 2010
By Gina Wilson
Angry Olga
Originally published: Tuesday, 2nd February, 2010
A thick dust storm enveloped the city at around 3pm yesterday afternoon.
Not enough nurses
The local hospital said yesterday that it was not at crisis point despite confirming that it doesn't have enough nurses or doctors.
Man missing in bush
Originally published: Monday, 1st February, 2010
SYDNEY - The hunt for a 28-year-old Victorian man who vanished in outback NSW has failed to shed any light on his whereabouts despite a third day of intensive air and land searches.
Disaster averted
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Mezinárodní letiště Mohammeda V. IATA: CMN, ICAO: GMMN je mezinárodní letiště v Casablance v Maroku. Nachází se v provincii Nouaceur a provozuje ho ONDA (Národní úřad správy letišť).

V roce 2014 prošlo letištěm necelých 8 milionů cestujících, což z něj činí nejrušnější letiště v Maroku a čtvrté nejrušnější v Africe. Letiště slouží jako uzel pro společnosti Royal Air Maroc, Royal Air Maroc Express a Air Arabia Maroc. Je pojmenováno po marockém králi Muhammadovi V., který stál v čele úspěšné cesty za nezávislostí země na francouzské a španělské koloniální nadvládě.

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Čtyřicátá léta
Letiště Mohammeda V. v Casablance bylo původně vybudováno Spojenými státy na začátku roku 1943 po operaci Torch během druhé světové války. Neslo název Berrechid Airfield a sloužilo jako pomocné letiště pro casablanské letiště Anfa. Letiště odbavovalo nejrůznější vojenskou dopravu jako mezipřistání na cestě na letiště Port Lyautey a na letiště v Marrákeši na severoafrické trase Káhira-Dakar. Kromě toho bylo konečnou stanicí transatlantických letů na středoatlantické trase přes Azory do Nového Skotska a na letiště na východním pobřeží Spojených států.S koncem války v roce 1945 bylo letiště předáno civilní administrativě.

Padesátá léta
Během studené války na počátku a v polovině 50. let 20. století bylo letiště znovu otevřeno jako Letecká základna Nouasseur a sloužilo jako základna strategického letectva Spojených států pro bombardéry B-47 Stratojet namířených na Sovětský svaz. Tyto operace se později přesunuly na leteckou základnu Ben Guerir.

Po ukončení činnosti francouzské vlády v Maroku a získání marocké nezávislosti v roce 1956, požadovala vláda Mohameda V., aby se americké letectvo stáhlo ze svých základen v Maroku, na čemž trvalo po americké intervenci v Libanonu v roce 1958. Spojené státy souhlasily s odchodem v prosinci 1959 a roku 1963 z Maroka zcela odešly. Spojené státy se domnívaly, že vzhledem k dlouhému doletu letounů B-52 a dokončení španělských základen v roce 1959 již marocké základny nejsou důležité.

Provoz

Pozemní doprava

Železnice
Vlaková linka Al Bidaoui, kterou provozuje společnost ONCF od 4:00 do 23:00, jezdí každou hodinu a spojuje letiště se dvěma hlavními železničními stanicemi v Casablance: Casa-Port a Casa-Voyageurs.

Silniční doprava

 Z Casablanky po dálnici A3;
 z Rabatu po dálnici A1 přes Tit Mellil nebo po silnici N9;
 z Beni Mellal po dálnici A4;
 z Marrákeše po dálnici A3
 z Džadídy po dálnici A1 a dálnici A3.

Incidenty a nehody

 1. dubna 1970 havaroval letoun SE-210 Caravelle společnosti Royal Air Maroc při přiblížení na letiště, když pilot ve výšce asi 500 stop ztratil kontrolu nad letadlem. Trup letadla se rozlomil na dvě části. 61 z 82 cestujících a členů posádky zahynulo.

Reference

Letiště v Maroku
Casablanca

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The village of Dunoon is the commercial heart of Cowal, and no visit to our peninsula is complete without it. There are many welcoming places to stay and plenty interesting visitor attractions. Castle House Museum, for example, is sure to delight anyone with an interest in the history of Cowal. And let's not forget the churches! St John's Church on Argyll Street is a magnificent feat of architecture in the Normandy Gothic style; and High Kirk, though more modest in appearance, stands upon a site that once held the Cathedral Church of both the Roman Catholic and Episcopalian Bishops of Argyll.
It's the long and interesting history of this latter site that recommends it to visitors interested in the development of Christianity in Cowal. Although it doesn't quite meet the criteria to be included as one of our 15 main sites of pilgrimage, we'd like to include High Kirk as an honorary site, and we encourage you to visit.
If you arrive in Dunoon on foot (perhaps as a passenger on Calmac ferries, or whilst enjoying some leisure time after completing your pilgrimage), then you'll find High Kirk near the museum on Castle Hill, overlooking the pier. A pleasant wander through the Castle House grounds and gardens will lead you into a sprawling graveyard with stones dating back to the 18th century.
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In early times the church was linked to Dunoon Castle, a stronghold and occasional Royal residence, which stood on the adjoining hilltop. The church met the religious needs of the castle occupants and administered to the needs of the inhabitants of the cottages which were scattered around it. It was a church of considerable importance, and records of its links with the Cathedral of Glasgow and Paisley Abbey are to be found in old documents bearing the signatures of Rectors of the church. In these documents it is referred to as the Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
In a Charter dated 1453, King James II granted to the Bishop of Argyll and his successors, the Parish Church of Dunoon with its tithes and church lands. The Reformation, established in 1560, brought Presbyterian ministers to Dunoon Parish Church and, in the seventeenth century, Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church (notably Bishop Andrew Boyd) were resident, possibly in the Bishop's palace, thought to be sited where the near-by Primary School now stands.
Towards the end of the 18th century the church building, being badly dilapidated, was demolished and the stones used to erect Gillespie Graham's Late Decorated Gothic Revival Church on the same site. The church, built to seat 500 and opened in 1817, constitutes only part of the present building because, even as early as 1839, it was necessary to enlarge it. In 1840 the tower was heightened by ten feet and a bell was installed. In 1909 the church was lengthened and widened by Andrew Balfour.
(taken from: https://sites.google.com/site/thehighkirkdunoon/home/history)
High Kirk behind Castle House Museum (from Castle Hill)
The view from Castle Hill
St John's Church
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Posted by Jason Gorber - February 15, 2019
Sundance Journal: The Souvenir
The Souvenir
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It's relatively rare to have such austere, auteur-ish films as The Souvenir play at Sundance. Park City is normally the home of brash, sometimes clumsy indie fare, not the rarefied (some may chide as arrogant) Euro-style films that litter Cannes. The fact that the movie won the Grand Jury prize for international cinema is even more off-brand. The Souvenir speaks to a particular kind of film fan not interested in pedestrian concerns such as a coherent narrative or enjoyability.
The Souvenir is dour throughout. It's a story of a moneyed young film student who falls for a droll, dreary member of the Foreign Service. Soon, he steals her rent money to score material to inject into his veins. It's a slow, drawn-out, melodramatic descent, telegraphed from the first moments, that leaves little in the way of emotional catharsis. It's like the film exhales throughout, only taking in a breath when the coughing fit inevitably arrives.
Honor Swinton Byrne plays Julie, the insouciant young woman who gormlessly takes on love and her art with a distant air. Even when drama does arise, her emotions seem to be in slow motion. There's little sense of what she cares for aesthetically, as her classmates seem to be doing all the heavy lifting. Tom Burke plays her love interest, another roommate to exploit her generosity and clearly bad news from the outset. Julie is supported by her mother, played in pleasing metatextual synchronicity by Tilda Swinton. Whether this is stunt-casting or an indication of how Honor got the gig (a snide remark, but a potential allusion to what serves as the film's message of nepotism), the movie only warms up during the interaction between real-life mother and daughter.
The Souvenir is set to be the first entry in a series, presumably setting the stage for when the artist gains more confidence and finds a proper line between her socialist leanings and rich-girl upbringing. This kind of dreary character piece may be manna to certain types of viewers who find the emotional distance and coolness intoxicating. It's clear that's exactly what writer/director Joanna Hogg wishes to convey, but whether you go along for the ride is up to you as the audience member.
Maybe it's the case of a too-long festival or my simply not being game, but the magic trick didn't work for me. I get that we're gifted a judgment-free look at the protagonist and her lover, but I felt myself constantly irritated by the choices they make. It's all so very adolescent and silly. The self-destruction lacks any operatic quality that might elevate it from the mundane. Some viewers may adore this approach, but others will likely just be bored.
The Souvenir is a mixed bag. On the one hand, it's an accomplished film delving into a specific kind of aloof melancholia. On the other, it's a sordid tale, overt in its actions and lacking subtlety in the travails of the young lead. The movie frustrates just as much as it fascinates, and this mixed reaction is likely to be shared by audiences.
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Jason Gorber is a film journalist and member of the Toronto Film Critics Association. In addition to his work for High-Def Digest he is the Managing Editor of ThatShelf.com, the Features Editor at DTK Magazine and a regular contributor for POV Magazine and Cineplex.com. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Screen Anarchy, Birth.Movies.Death, IndieWire and more. He has appeared on CTV NewsChannel, CBC, CP24, RogerEbert.com and many other broadcasters.
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Landlords must gear up for new safety checks
Residential landlords must get their houses in order with the arrival of further legislation to protect tenants through electrical and building safety requirements.
New electrical safety standards are rolling out for private sector tenancies and the other upcoming challenge for residential landlords is fire safety compliance for building structures. Both safety aspects have been accelerated following tragic outcomes. Electricity causes about half of the UK's 37,000 house fires a year, according to the charity Electrical Safety First, and faulty electrics cause some 70 deaths and 350,000 injuries each year in Britain. An electrical fire was also the reason for the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy, which has since placed flammable building materials in multi-level accommodation in the spotlight.
The Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations came into force earlier this year. New tenancies since June 2020 should have complied with the new standard, but by next April it will apply to all existing tenancies as well. It applies to most residential tenancies with a few exceptions, such as when the landlord shares the property, student accommodation, long leases and hostels or care homes.
Landlords must now ensure that electrical installations are checked by a qualified person to ensure they meet the standards set out in the BS 7671 : 2018 Wiring Regulations and an Electrical Safety Condition Report – or EICR – must be provided to existing tenants within 28 days and before a tenancy starts for new tenants. For tenancies which commenced before June this year, the certificate must be in place from 1st April 2021.The electrical installation must be visually checked on a regular basis, and a full check undertaken by a qualified person at least every five years.
If any fault or potential fault is identified by the report then further investigations or repairs must be completed by a qualified person within 28 days of the inspection. This timeframe could be reduced if the report requires it be undertaken more urgently. Once undertaken, the landlord must obtain written confirmation of the works having been completed and provide this to the tenant within 28 days of the completion of works. Where regulations are breached, local authorities will have powers to impose financial penalties of up to £30,000 for each breach.
"Landlords have a duty to provide properties that are fit for purpose, but until now there has not been a specific requirement for testing of electrical installations. An up to date electrical safety check now joins gas safety checks and energy performance certificates as a prescribed requirement, which marks a significant tightening of the rules," explained Simon Parrott, Property expert of Sharmans solicitors in Bedford.
"Another significant legislative shift for landlords is the draft Building Safety Bill, which is demanding attention. Since the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy, which was thought to have started from faulty wiring on a fridge, fire safety in buildings has been the focus of legislators. New requirements are expected to be in force from next autumn, even though the Bill is still at the draft stage. While the fine print has not been agreed, landlords with properties that will be affected should be getting up to speed and taking the necessary steps to get buildings up to scratch."
The Bill will cover residential buildings of at least 18 metres or more than six storeys above ground level, with two or more units. A building safety manager will be a requirement and there will be various new reporting obligations and building safety standards. Tenants will be required to contribute towards building safety charges, on top of existing service charges, and this will be held in a separate, designated account.
He added: "It looks as though the Government is looking to ensure upgrade of historic defects within as little as two years from implementation of the Bill. If so, landlords will have little time to progress works, which is why they should be looking to understand the new environment and get a move on now."
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Q: REST - Should the resource structure match between all verbs? A friend of mine is developing a RESTful HTTP API. He showed his solution to an architect of the company who said that his solution was wrong because the resource exposed in a GET didn't have the same structure as the resource in the POST. That is, the resource returned on a GET had less fields than the one passed on a POST. The architect gave no arguments besides saying that this is not RESTful.
Is there any rule in REST architecture saying that the resource structure should be the same for any verb? If yes, why is this recommended?
Thanks

A: Architectural contrains for REST are described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer#Architectural_constraints
None of them describes something that the a response types (GET, POST, ...) should have same structure, however a GET result should have enough information to be able to do a POST or DELETE request (Manipulation of resources through representations). That's because you won't be able to modify or delete you resource if the required parameters for modify or delete are not able; for example from your GET you retrieve values x and y but also need value z to be able to do a POST, how would you be able to modify this resource?
Hope this answers your question.

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What is it about black girls that you find so attractive? We come in all different shades and sizes. Amongst all of the women who could be identified as black, there exists such a huge diversity of features and appearances that it is hard to talk about what a "black woman" looks like in any meaningful way, yet you reduce us to a monolith?
Emma Dabiri, "Emma: On What It Means to Be "Attracted to Black Girls"," Dublin InQuirer, April 24, 2018. https://www.dublininquirer.com/2018/04/24/emma-on-what-it-means-to-be-attracted-to-black-girls.
Running from Race
Posted in Articles, Biography, Media Archive, Passing, United States on 2022-02-22 20:37Z by Steven
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Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association (alumni and friends of the University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Harvey Long MA'16, Librarian, Assistant Professor
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, North Carolina
Ethelene Whitmire, Professor
Departments of Afro-American Studies; German, Nordic, and Slavic; andGender & Women's Studies
Louise Butler Walker as a young Chicagoan: while she was growing up and as a UW student, she identified as Black. Later in her career, facing the limitations Black Americans experienced, she began to pass as white. COURTESY OF THE AUTHORS
Librarian Louise Butler Walker '35 took desperate measures to survive in a racist society.
During the Great Depression, Louise Butler Walker '35 completed her bachelor's in French and earned a library diploma from what is now UW–Madison's Information School. Walker had been an outstanding student, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and completed a prestigious internship at the American Library Association (ALA) headquarters in Chicago. The school's career placement office said her assets were her "brilliant mind" and "excellent academic background." Her limitations, they said, were "racial (she is a mulatto)."
As a local librarian, Walker (at right in photo) became a prominent figure in Fort Atkinson. COURTESY OF THE AUTHORS
Although Walker was not privy to the egregious behind-the-scenes machinations and handwringing about her being Black, she knew that her race was detrimental to her career, so she eventually passed as white to work as a librarian in rural Wisconsin. Her story reveals the extraordinary pressures that African Americans faced…
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and let it not point out one's own actions !
Dont let it create a murder of one's dear soul .
What is the matter with those black eyes?
Is it looking for somebody inside my body ?
When a group of scoundrels stared at me like a night !
Making two souls into one , is a startled bliss it has .
But there are our eyes which behold the good from the untold cries .
For they are the angels unborn !
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Q: pass multiple dates to foreach loop container I have a process where I want to pass multiple dates that have not been loaded to my foreach loop container to iterate through dates one at a time. if there are no start dates in the table that have been loaded I have the isnull in the where clause to tell it to start on the min date from that table. Currently if there is a date in the table that has been loaded it will grab the next calendar date from the table to process but wont loop through all the dates. My goal is to have it pass all dates that have not been loaded and iterate through each date one at a time. So what I would like to do is to take the min and max date from ods.CalendarDate and load everything between those dates and including those dates that has not been loaded to dbo.Customerinformation. Below is my query at the moment, please help me right this to where it will select all the dates that have not been processed from the table. Thank you
    DECLARE @ProcessAllDataSet BIT = ?
    DECLARE @StartDate Date =?
    DECLARE @EndDate date = ?

   IF @LoadFullDataSet = 1
      BEGIN
      SELECT @StartDate = MIN(StartDate),
         @EndDate = Max(StartDate) FROM dbo.CustomerInformation
        END

      SELECT DateProcessed = MIN(DateCalendar)
      FROM ods.CalendarDate c
      WHERE c.CalendarDate > ISNULL(@EndDate,'2001-01-01')

A: I think you're pretty close. I'm assuming ods.CalendarDate is a table of calendar dates. If so, just modify your query to return all the dates between your @StartDate and @EndDate. Make sure you set your ResultSet property of the Execute SQL Task to Full Result Set and map the results to an Object-type SSIS variable.
DECLARE @ProcessAllDataSet BIT = ?
DECLARE @StartDate Date =?
DECLARE @EndDate date = ?

IF @ProcessAllDataSet = 1
BEGIN
    SELECT
        @StartDate = MIN(StartDate),
        @EndDate = Max(StartDate)
    FROM dbo.CustomerInformation
END

SELECT
    DateProcessed = DateCalendar
FROM ods.CalendarDate c
WHERE c.CalendarDate BETWEEN ISNULL(@StartDate,'2001-01-01') AND ISNULL(@EndDate,'2100-01-01')

Then set your Foreach Loop to use the Foreach ADO Enumerator and use your Object variable as the ADO object source variable. Map the DateProcessed field to a Date variable and then you can use that Date variable as you iterate through process.


A balance sheet is a formal statement showing the financial position of an entity as of a particular date. The balance sheet is the only financial statement that reports as of a particular date compare to income statement, statement of changes in equity, and cash flows which all reports for a particular period of time.
A business card is an important element in the armoury of any individual businessman or salesman. In itself, a business card is the first point of contact, providing a variety of information including full contact details as well as name and address information. A professionally designed and printed business card conveys an image of professionalism.


After playing for 14 seasons, it is no surprise that Shawn Kemp is a household name. He is a renowned American former professional player of basketball. For all the 14 seasons, he played for the National Basketball Association. Which teams did he play for over the years? How much money did earn and accumulate during his playing period? The answers lie within this article. The icing on the cake is the net worth of Shawn Kemp in 2019. You cannot afford to miss it.
Shawn Kemp was born in 1969 on 26th November. His place of birth was Elkhart in Indiana. He was born to Barbara Kemp.
He went to Concord High School, Elkhart in Indiana. Then, Shawn proceeded to join the University of Kentucky. After being accused of theft, he left the team. Subsequently, he joined the Trinity Valley Community College, Texas.
He has at least seven children. He had sired them with six different ladies. His oldest son goes by the name Shawn Kemp Jr. He once played for the University of Washington.
Kemp made an appearance in Pros vs. Joes during its premiere in 2009. Shawn was on the cover of NBA Jam Extreme. The photo is of him dunking over the famous Hakeem Olajuwon.
There is no information regarding the love life of this basketball player.
As far as legal issues are concerned, Kemp has been arrested twice. In both occasions, it was as a result of Marijuana and other drugs' possession.
In 1989, Seattle Supersonics drafted him in their NBA draft. As the youngest player ever, he had to prove himself. He played for the team until 1997. That same year, he joined the Cleveland Cavaliers. He did not leave until 2000 when he joined Portland Trail Blazers. His stay there was two years. For the next year, he played for Orlando Magic.
During the 2005-2006 season, Kemp tried a comeback to the NBA. He had secured a chance but did not show up during that D-day. His pleads for a second chance fell on deaf eyes. Ever since then, he never had another chance.
In 2008 on 18th August, he signed a contract with the Italian League's Premiata Montegranaro. After a short while, it came to an end.
During his active years, he has received several recognitions. He was an NBA All-Star for six times. Additionally, he was an All-NBA Second Team thrice. In 1988, he became McDonald's All-American.
The net worth of Shawn Kemp is more than $6 million. Kemp's primary source of income was his career as a professional basketball player. He has played for more than five teams. He would make money through the contracts that he signed with the various teams. In 2002, he earned over $13 million. The following year, he made more than $14 million. That and later Earnings have contributed to his current net worth.
Shawn Kemp is a talented basketball player. At first, he played high school followed by college basketball. After that, he commenced his professional career. The net worth, as well as the awards, show how good he is at what he does. He played from 1989 to 2003. All that time, his position was as a power forward. He has inspired many young people too.


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Q: $\ell_1$ and $\ell_2$ norms on $\mathbb{R}^n$ I've been working on proving the following for a homework problem:
Let $x \in \mathbb{ R } ^n$ and consider the $\ell_1$ and $\ell_2$ vector norms defined by
$$
 \| x \|_1 = \sum_{i=1}^n |x_i| \ , \ \| x \|_2 = \left ( \sum_{i=1}^n |x_i|^2 \right ) ^{1/2} \
$$
Prove that
$$
 \| x \|_1 \le \sqrt{n} \| x \|_2
$$
I can easily prove it in the specialized case $n=2$: we consider the square terms
$$
 \left ( \| x \|_1 \right )^2  = (|x_1| + |x_2|)^2 = |x_1|^2 + 2 |x_1||x_2| + |x_2|^2
$$
and
$$
 \left ( \sqrt{2} \| x \|_2 \right )^2 = 2 (|x_1|^2 + |x_2|^2)
$$
Consider the difference,
$$
 \left ( \sqrt{2} \| x \|_2 \right )^2 - \left ( \| x \|_1 \right )^2 = |x_1|^2 + |x_2|^2 - 2|x_1||x_2| = \left ( |x_1| - |x_2| \right ) ^2 \ge 0
$$
Therefore,
$$
 \left ( \sqrt{2} \| x \|_2 \right )^2 \ge \left ( \| x \|_1 \right )^2
$$
and the desired result follows.
I'm not sure if this idea generalizes.  I am fairly certain it will be more convenient to consider the squares as we did for $n=2$, but the algebraic ``trick'' does not seem to workout. In general,
$$
 \left ( \| x \|_1 \right ) ^2 = \sum_{i=1}^n |x_i|^2 + 2 \cdot \sum_{i \ne j} |x_i||x_j|
$$
and
$$
 \left (\sqrt{n} \| x \|_2 \right ) ^2 = n \cdot \sum_{i=1}^n |x_i|^2
$$
so that when we subtract,
$$
 \left (\sqrt{n} \| x \|_2 \right ) ^2 - \left ( \| x \|_1 \right ) ^2 = (n-1) \cdot \sum_{i=1}^n |x_i|^2 - 2 \sum_{i\ne j}|x_i||x_j|
$$
I don't see an obvious factorization to prove that this is positive.  Maybe you do, or maybe another approach is better for the general case.  Either way, I would greatly appreciate any suggestions you may have!

A: By the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality,
$$\|x\|_1 = \sum_{i = 1}^n 1\cdot |x_i| \le \left(\sum_{i = 1}^n 1^2\right)^{1/2}\left(\sum_{i = 1}^n |x_i|^2\right)^{1/2} = \sqrt{n}\|x\|_2.$$


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Preventing human trafficking by empowering aircraft cabin crew
Montréal and Geneva, 28 May 2018 – Aircraft cabin crew will now have better tools to help them prevent human trafficking on commercial flights after the launch today of new ICAO-OHCHR Guidelines for Training Cabin Crew on Identifying and Responding to Trafficking in Persons.
The new guidelines were unveiled this morning at an ICAO-OHCHR Forum taking place in Geneva, and are seen as timely and essential given that 1-in-200 people worldwide are still being forced into work and living conditions resulting from human trafficking, a practice considered akin to modern slavery (statistical source: ILO).
Air transport's essential role in linking global destinations means that modern aircraft are a primary mobility option for international traffickers. This increases the likelihood that airline personnel will come face-to-face at some point with human trafficking victims and perpetrators.
Cabin crew especially are in a unique position to observe passengers over the duration of their flights, and therefore to identify and assist potential victims. But to do so more effectively their instincts must be reinforced through greater awareness and skills, a key focus of the new ICAO-OHCHR publication.
"The development of these joint ICAO-OHCHR guidelines will help improve the awareness of cabin crew concerning the various types of trafficking they may encounter, who the victims and perpetrators are, and the signals to be looked for to confirm a trafficking incident," remarked ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu. "Critically, this document will also provide cabin crew with the reporting and response procedures should they find themselves confronting a potential trafficking situation."
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said the jointly produced guidelines were a powerful tool to protect and help victims of human trafficking.
"By coming together, the UN Human Rights Office, ICAO and the wider aviation sector now have the means to play a significant role in ending a despicable crime that uses and abuses people and crushes their human rights. Together, we can make a real difference in standing up for the rights of victims trapped in modern-day slavery," he said.
More information on the new publications can be found on the ICAO Cabin Safety Website, at: www.icao.int/cabinsafety.
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Fire Emblem Heroes utilized a gacha mechanic for summoning heroes. For those unaware, a gacha mechanic is essentially where the game randomly selects a hero and gives it to you. There's no buying the hero you want, here.
In order to multi summon in the game, you'll want to head to the summon tab at the bottom of the screen. Next, you'll need to select your Focus. Different Focus' will give you the chance of getting particular heroes, so always be sure to check which Focus suits your needs best before summoning.
Once you've selected the option to summon for five Orbs, select the stone color of the hero you want to summon and confirm. An animation will then play, revealing your newly-acquired hero. In order to multi summon, once this animation has finished, simply continue Summoning.
You want to have at least 20 Orbs when you multi summon, as this will allow you to get five heroes at the cheapest they can possibly be. Each multi summon will come at a small discount.
That's all you need to know to multi summon in Fire Emblem Heroes. For more tips, information, and guides about the game, be sure to check out our wiki guide.


A selection of recent reviews for The Pierhouse restaurant. If you've enjoyed your meal with us, then do let us know. If you wish, please also recommend us in the Good Food Guide or Trip Advisor - many thanks!
Back for a lovely lunch again!
We sat outside on their patio on the first afternoon we arrived in the warm sunshine overlooking the loch and drinking really decent Scottish artisan gin. It could not get more perfect for me than that!
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SERC Reveals Weak Spots in Domestic Power Industry
The latest statistics from the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) show domestic electric power production has seen a continued rapid increase of 1.47 trillion kilowatt-hours (kwh) in the first half of the year, up 15.9 percent from 2006.
Meanwhile, the domestic installed capacity has surpassed 650 million kw, holding the second position worldwide together with generated energy for the tenth consecutive year.
However, there are five weak spots that may hinder the industry's further development if they are not paid due attention. "Neither the quantity nor quality of the domestic electric power industry could meet the needs," said You Quan, chairman of the SERC.
First on the list is the low level of installed capacity per capita. Compared with the beginning of the Reform and Opening-up period, domestic installed capacity and electric power production have increased almost tenfold. However, the per capita amount is merely 0.5 kw, 0.3 kw in some regions, which is only 10 percent of that in developed countries. Additionally, residents in some remote areas do not have electricity at all.
Secondly, investment on grid construction is insufficient. According to SERC figures, although the State Grid Corporation invested 176 billion yuan (US$23.3 billion) on network construction in 2006, the grid investment was only 30 percent of the whole power industry, 20 percent less than that in developed countries. Furthermore, construction on electric transmission and distribution is far behind power supply.
The third concern is regional electricity shortages. Although the domestic installed capacity is second in the world, the balance between supply and demand is fragile because of strains in some regions like south China, Guangdong Province in particular.
Fourth is the environmentally unfriendly structure of the electric power industry. Thermal power has accounted for 78 percent of total generated energy while recycling and nuclear power occupy a small part. This leads to high-consumption of energy and large quantities of pollution.
Lastly, SERC is worried about over-consumption of electricity in industries with heavy pollution. According to figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the energy consumption of GDP per 10,000 yuan (US$1,321.69) declined by 1.33 percent in 2006 while electricity consumption of GDP per 10,000 yuan increased by 2.75 percent. In the first half of this year, the added value of industries above a designated size has increased by 18.5 percent. Among them, six energy-intensive industries (which consume 70 percent of industrial energy) have increased 20.1 percent, 3.6 percent up over 2006.
"The over-consumption and rapid increase of energy-intensive industries and those with heavy pollution are not in accord with the policy of energy saving and pollution reduction, and not good for the improvement of the electric power industry," You explained.
(China.org.cn by Li Shen July 26, 2007)
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Stay Alive by Simon Kernick
Simon Kernick pulls out all the stops in his action-packed new novel Stay Alive. There are car chases, people being hunted through the woods by gun wielding maniacs, women tied up in cellars, serial killers, children being lured by potential paedophiles – try to think of any kind of terrifying scenario, and the odds are you will find it in Kernick's novel.
The story opens with Amanda arriving home unexpectedly to disturb, what she believes to be, her husband and his mistress having a rendezvous in the upstairs bedroom, but turns out to be a cold-blooded killer who has murdered both husband and mistress in a most horrifying manner, and then sets off in hot pursuit of Amanda. Unbelievably, Amanda gets away and lives to tell the tale to handsome DCS, Mike Bolt, who is in charge of the large scale search for the notorious serial killer "The Disciple." The Disciple happens to like killing couples and painting satanic emblems in blood on the bedroom walls, and seems to fit the profile for the killings of Amanda's husband and his girlfriend.
As Amanda goes into hiding in rural Scotland, the plot introduces further characters: one disturbed ex-cop, Keogh, who is in charge of finding and delivering Amanda to his mystery boss; a family of four who are going on a seemingly innocent outdoor adventure canoeing up the river; and Scope, a renegade, who is trying to keep out of trouble by working for a canoe company.
The bodies start to pile up as the hunt for Amanda begins, and all the characters converge in a forest in the Scottish countryside. Meanwhile, back in London another hunt is taking place as Mike Bolt is finally closing in on The Disciple.
Simon Kernick is a prolific, best-selling writer who is known for his fast paced crime and political thriller series. In Staying Alive Kernick, again, uses the "race-against-time" scenario to drive the plot; and while this is an effective device to convey the action at breakneck speed, the lack of depth and nuances within the characterisations and the writing style detract from some of the more clever developments in this novel. Action works best if there is enough substance behind it to make the reader feel drawn into the story, to be intrigued by the characters and to understand – or at least wish to understand – their motivations, so in this sense the novel simply did not work for me.
However, if you love a read full of frenetic action revolving primarily – as the title suggests – around the characters' chances of "staying alive", and don't mind stereotypes or gratuitous violence, then Stay Alive should have plenty to hold your interest.
REVIEWER: Tanya Allport
TITLE: Stay Alive
AUTHOR(S): Simon Kernick


Chrisstmas Carols with Fr William and the clergy of Castle Douglas in the Castle Douglas Market on the Sunday before Christmas. A new Christmas tradition.
Fr William with Rev. Stephen Hazlett from the Scottish Episcopal Church and Rev. Val Ott from the Church of Scotland during an ecumenical service commemorating the 800th anniversary of Tongland Abbey.
Fr William gave a presentation on Pope Francis' Message for the World Day of the Poor 2018 on Friday 16th November 2018 in St Andrew's and St Cuthbert's hall, Kirkcudbright, from 1045-11.30.
Photos from the Christmas Sale of Work. Thanks to all who took participated.
The photo shows Fr William at the Dalbeattie Churches Togther Advent Ecumenical Service which was held in St Peter's, with the ministers from the Dalbeattie churches: Canon David Bayne, Rev. Fiona Wilson, and Colin Reilly.
The Brocante held in August was a wonderful success, raising over £2500 for our parish charities, namely Martin Chambers Ecuador Trust and Mary's Meals. For pictures of the Brocante click on the link button below.
On 29th June 2014 St Peter's celebrated its 200th anniversary. A weekend of celebrations culminated in a Mass celebrated by Fr William together with Fr Ralph Mancini and Fr Joe Holmes, and then a party in the church grounds. For more pictures of the celebrations click on the link button below.
This appeal to collect 20p pieces in tubes of smarties raised the total of £1068 for the UNICEF Syria appeal. Thanks to all who participated in thi campaign. The photo on the left shows the church representatives on Gatehouse Churches Together, including Pauline Logan who represents the Church of the Resurrection.
The Polish Consul General visited St Andrew's and St Cuthbert's to view an art exhibition of the work of local artist Janina Harrower. The photo shows Janina with the Consul General and the local clergy who were present. For more photos of the day click on the link button below.
As part of the process of Embracing Change in the diocese, a meeting was held in Kirkcudbright for representatives of all the parishes in the deanery. The day gave each participant the opportunity to hear how different parishes have had to adapt to the changing pastoral situations which are affecting the diocese, and hear how different opportunites have presented themselves because of these.
Services took place during this week in the Church of the Resurrection, Gatehouse, and in Greyfriars, Kirkcudbright. The photograph shows Fr William with Rev. Douglas Irving, Church of Scotland minister of the Parish Church, Kirkcudbright, and Rev. Roger Cutler, Scottish Episcopal Church priest of Greyfriars, Kirkcudbright, and St. Mary's, Gatehouse.


Hello everyone! I'm back with another overview of what's in my glam bag this month. The theme for October is called beauty candy, which I think is too perfect. Since the theme usually corresponds with the month, candy must refer to this upcoming Halloween. The bag itself is simply amazing. I'll definitely get some use out of it because it happens to be one of my favorite colors.
I could always use some more organic beauty products in my routine, so I was pretty satisfied to receive this organic cleanser. It won't be too drying on my skin for the upcoming chilly months. The only downside is that the smell is kind of gross. I usually don't have a problem with scents, but this one is hard to handle.
These smell super refreshing & it makes me want to use them every night. I know some people might be bothered by strong smelling makeup wipes, but I personally love them. These wipes also contain ingredients to soothe the skin after a long day of stress. It's a decent sized pack, so they'll last a while.
I'm gonna be needing tons of hand cream for the upcoming months because my skin gets very dry during fall/winter. I was thankful to receive this hand cream in my glam bag because it smells yummy & doesn't leave my hands too slippery. It also contains shea butter, which is always a good ingredient for moisturizing the skin.
Ipsy finally answered my prayers & put a lipstick in my bag & it's actually a pretty killer shade too! I'm definitely lacking in matte lipsticks, so this was simply perfect. The color is natural looking & perfect for Autumn because of its brown undertone. I can't wait to wear it out somewhere!
The last item in my glam bag this month is a loose powder eyeshadow. The color is a smokey grey with a slightly green undertone. It's very shimmery & pigmented, so I'm not really looking for this kind of eyeshadow at the moment. I rarely use loose powder for eyeshadow & the color just isn't my style.
Well once again Ipsy did not disappoint! I love most of the items this month & I especially adore the bag itself. There's a nice variety of beauty products that I can't wait to use. There were a lot of new brands this month that I wasn't previously familiar with. It seems like a lot of time & effort was put into this month's item lineup & I wonder if everyone else feels the same way!
Hope you enjoyed my Ipsy glam bag review for this month. If you want to receive a bag for only $10/month you can subscribe using my link. That's all for now!
Wow you got a great bag this month!
I have had Ipsy since April and there was a time I felt I wanted to cancel but they did great on this months selections. I love the bag a lot too.


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Culture, Sculpture, History and the Green
Irish patriot, Michael Collins, chaired a historic meeting in this room, and I had a wedding photo (not my wedding, I'm not that posh) taken in the same deluxe room. The splendid, distinctive room is known as the Constitution Suite, one of the Shelbourne Hotel's noteworthy suites. In this room, the 1922 Irish constitution was drafted. One cannot write about St. Stephen's Green without mentioning the iconic, majestic, Shelbourne Hotel. A draft of the Irish constitution (Bunreacht Na hÉireann) can be found in the Shelburne's museum. Worth viewing.
Well, let's go for another ramble around St. Stephen's Green Park, this lunch-hour. Standing outside the Shelbourne Hotel, we walk up to the pedestrian crossing at the corner of Merrion Row. Crossing over to the park opposite ,see the tall statue of Irish Republican, Theobold Wolfe Tone, dominating the centre of the capacious opening outside the park, like a colossal sentinel guarding the entrance. Sculptor, Edward Delaney, said as a retort for criticism of his ten foot figure: "Tone figured life-size in a park setting would look like a leprechaun." Notice the lofty, slender, granite, Stonehenge-like monolith stonework surrounding the Tone figure in a semi-circular fashion. Courtesy of some Dublin boyos, its nickname is 'Tonehenge.'
The inclusion of the Tone sculpture ensured displacement of the original, granite entrance pillars; one now stands on the perimeter of St. Stephen's Green East, up a piece from the Shelbourne opposite, and the other one is a good stone's throw away on the North/East corner, highlighting the wide expanse between both structures. During the height of the Troubles in the seventies, loyalists blew up the Wolfe Tone figure, with only his head surviving the blast. Now it's back to its former glorious best, thank God.
Dubliner, Wolfe Tone, was born in 1763. This protestant son of a Bodenstown coach maker wrote political pamphlets on behalf of suppressed Catholics; was appointed assistant secretary to a reform body known as the Central Catholic Committee in 1792; became a principal member of the United Irishmen organisation, and is remembered throughout Ireland as the first true republican. He once said: "To unite Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter under the common name of Irishmen in order break the connection with England, the never failing source of all our political evils, that was my aim".
After the failed 1798 Rising, active participant Tone was captured and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered for High Treason. He requested to be shot like a soldier but was refused. He committed suicide in response and cut his own throat; although, some commentators say he died from a throat wound after capture, which wasn't self-inflicted. This patriarch of Irish republicanism is commemorated each year in Bodenstown cemetery, County Kildare.
Now, let's resume our ramble. We enter the park through the gap at the end of the 'Tonehenge' stonework. Directly behind we discover another Edward Delaney, lost-wax cast bronze monument. The Famine Memorial is an abstract creation with a modern expressionist style. See the four stretched, skeletal figures, two standing and two sitting. The malformed, malnourished-looking quartet represents famine victims, three humans and one dog. The sad sculpture has one figure standing with an exaggerated lowered head and needing the aid of a stick. Despite the figure's distressing predicament, he holds a ladle of water to the mouth of an equally emaciated, sitting figure of a loved one; perhaps portraying selflessness in the face of adversity, revealing humanity despite starvation and subjugation. The other less piteous figure stretches scrawny arms heavenwards, perhaps imploring Heavenly intercession. The starved, bony dog lies there, demonstrating the unfaltering loyalty of its species. We admire the memorable monument --definitely my favourite in the park. Poignant. Thought provoking.
The Great Famine (1845-1849) affected the whole of Ireland. The potato, the primary diet of ordinary Irish people, developed fungus growth and decayed in the earth. Consequently, the country's population plummeted from eight million to six million, one million suffered starvation and the other million emigrated. In 1846,Lord John Russell's Whig government pursued Laissez-Faire economic policies; therefore, worsening the crisis as the non-interference, ideological dogma meant scarce food became expensive and the poor were allowed starve to death. Famine Fever, a combination of Typhus and degenerating fever competed with scurvy and dysentery to further plague the Irish people.
Thousands of emigrants did not fare much better. They only managed to escape from a sickly inferno to an unimaginable hell. Unscrupulous ship owners, whilst prioritizing profit, failed to provide enough nourishment and water for the three-month- long, exhaustive, torturous journey to North America. These migrant ships were called 'Coffin Ships'. Afflicted with debilitating diseases and malnutrition, unable to tolerate being crushed like sardines in jam-packed, sickness-saturated ships, the tragic,' Coffin Ship' victims soon became food for sharks. Miraculously, hundreds of thousands of Irish emigrants survived the many arduous journeys and found a better life.
On June 2nd 1997, British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, gave an unprecedented apology for the Great Hunger. He stated: "The famine was a defining event in the history of Ireland and Britain. It has left deep scars. That one million people should have died in what was then part of the richest and most powerful nation in the world is something that still causes pain as we reflect on it today. Those who governed in London at the time failed their people." Welcomed words.
Anyway, enough politics for one day, we continue our walk. The weather looks OK, at least it's dry; a crisp day with a lot of white clouds and a kind of filtered sunshine managing to sneak through in some places. The centre of the park soon greets us. Fragrant flowers, from the many colourful flowerbeds, supplement the freshness of the day and tantalize our nostrils. We observe that the two, circular granite water fountains have plenty of company with cheering children and some adults sitting on the ogee-shaped, curved sides, with some others photographing the spraying, sprinkling water jet. The park is always full of life, and its proportioned Victorian layout hasn't changed much over time.
Soon, we find ourselves at the vast, extensive lake. A bench provides a welcome resting place. With my well-thawed out packet of frozen peas, I feed the ducks. Peas are a healthier alternative (and fun to fling) than less nutritious bread for waterfowl. This particular spot, at the lake, reminds me of a very funny excerpt from comedian Mike Murphy's candid camera show. Would a duck shooter, equipped with a shotgun and whistle, enter a public park and proceed to shoot ducks? Mike tried. Google http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIVyxKHgfgU. And watch Mike's comical antics as a duck shooter. Hilarious.
Lunch over, we head outside. Hope you enjoyed. Have a nice day.
Tomas O'hArgadain.
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