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CryptoSuper500
The 9th CryptoSuper500 Report
Shahin Khan/
Today my colleague Stephen Perrenod published the ninth edition of his biannual CryptoSuper500 report. We issued the following press release. (PR site link is here.)
Bitcoin in Unique Leadership Position with Ethereum's Abandonment of Proof of Work*
The Ninth Edition of the CryptoSuper500 Report Evaluates Crypto Winter as Annual Economic Value of Proof of Work Supercomputing Drops to Under $7B
MENLO PARK, Calif. – November 22, 2022 – OrionX Research today released the ninth edition of its CryptoSuper500 list. The list, now four years old, recognizes cryptocurrency mining as a form of supercomputing application, tracks the top mining pools, and offers a snapshot of the cryptocurrency industry. CryptoSuper500 was developed by Dr. Stephen Perrenod, OrionX Partner and noted Crypto Analyst who has also created a top-ranking Bitcoin evaluation model and elucidated the concept of the "blockchain calendar".
With Ethereum's change in consensus algorithm in September, away from the security-first proof-of-work for token creation to the transaction speed-first proof-of-stake, and the current crypto winter in prices, cryptocurrency mining pools produced at a rate of less than $7B annual economic value (AEV), down from over $42 billion a year ago. The list is now completely dominated by Bitcoin, showing an AEV of $5.8 billion, down from $20 billion one year ago. Dogecoin is the new #2, but is much smaller in generated annual economic value than Bitcoin due to a more inflationary money supply algorithm, and lower security as measured by deployed hash-rate, a measure of the rate at which cryptographic puzzles are solved by supercomputing resources.
"Trends to watch going forward include faster and more energy-efficient mining hardware including some mining rigs that have liquid cooling, the continued dominance of the North American mining industry with public companies as major players, and the trend of increasingly green electricity and even carbon neutrality goals for the industry," said Dr. Stephen Perrenod, OrionX Partner and Analyst. "We expect some consolidation in the publicly traded crypto miners, unless prices rise quickly from here, and see continued volatility, as well as promise in select cases, in the cryptocurrency industry."
Bitcoin's security relies on a specialized form of supercomputing that employs several million ASIC mining 'rigs', with many different owners, working around the globe in a synchronized competitive race, repeated every block (about 10 minutes' worth of transactions). They execute the same open-source software, and encode value and transactions onto a shared but decentralized and publicly auditable blockchain. Such mining rigs are powered by custom Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) in Bitcoin's case, while other proof-of-work cryptos use ASICs or hardware accelerators such as (Graphic Processing Unit) GPU chips.
Bitcoin's electricity consumption is estimated to be approximately 0.5% of the global electricity use according to the University of Cambridge's Centre for Alternative Finance. Unlike most electricity, it is used for production, not consumption. Bitcoin can be viewed as energy that is securely encapsulated as highly secured information, held as long-term value in the Internet.
Cryptocurrency technologies include blockchains, consensus algorithms, utility and security tokens and the technologies and applications that support them. These include digital wallets, exchanges, non-fungible tokens (NFT), and decentralized finance applications (DeFi). Cryptocurrency mining is a specialized domain of decentralized high performance computing (HPC).
There are now some 21,000 cryptocurrencies, up from 13,000 a year ago. Only a very small minority use supercomputing levels of resources. Most others will struggle to break away and are expected to be niche players or nearly worthless in the long run.
The full list with additional explanation is available at OrionX.net/research.
About OrionX
OrionX is a Silicon Valley consulting firm offering Technology Research, Market Execution, and Customer Engagement services to high tech companies. More than 70 financial institutions and technology leaders in virtually every technology segment have trusted OrionX to provide advice, help set new break-away strategies, ignite brands, and grow market share. Visit us at OrionX.net.
* Note: This effort is an analysis of the technologies and trends surrounding blockchain and cryptocurrencies. It is not, and must not be considered as, financial, investment, or legal advice.
The Top 6 coins by annual production value. We also list the algorithm, market cap and price and aggregate hash rate, as of November 11, 2022. Only Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash are in the Exahash domain (over one billion times a billion hashes per second) for hash rate enforced security. Only Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and Ethereum Classic (that still uses proof of work) produce over $100 million per year. Only Bitcoin and Dogecoin pools make our cutoff of $50 million minimum per pool. The annual production here is based on nominal block times, not actual average block times; that results in somewhat over $6 billion annual run rate for Bitcoin in practice, based on the prior three months of mining.
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OrionX Download Podcast: Fintech Update, CryptoSuper500, CBDC, NFT, DeFi, Regulations
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The OrionX Download podcast is back with a new episode on the latest in Fintech and Crypto with Shahin Khan and Stephen Perrenod. From Stephen's newly released CryptoSuper500 report to the latest on CBDCs, NFTs, DeFi, and regulations, the team offers the same realistic perspective and analysis that have made previous episodes so popular.
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The Sixth Edition of the CryptoSuper500 List Shows Cryptocurrency Mining Nears $40 Billion Annual Value
Stephen Perrenod/
Inspired by the TOP500 list, biannual list of the most powerful cryptocurrency mining pools tracks compute power and economic value
Menlo Park, Calif. – June 30, 2021 – PRLog — OrionX Research today released the sixth edition of its CryptoSuper500 list. The list recognizes cryptocurrency mining as a new form of supercomputing and tracks the top mining pools. Cryptocurrency technologies include blockchains, consensus algorithms, digital wallets, in addition to utility and security tokens. Cryptocurrency mining is a specialized domain of decentralized high performance computing (HPC). This dynamic, highly competitive, and rapidly growing industry has reached nearly $40 billion in annual economic value.
As of May 29th 2021, almost all the produced value is in three coins: Ethereum's ETH coin, Bitcoin, and Dogecoin. While Bitcoin continues to represent the top spot in mining power, ETH produced the most mining revenue, aided by emerging applications that offer Decentralized Finance (DeFi) or manage Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).
"We present an overview of market forces and details of the top 45 pools for Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Dogecoin," said Dr. Stephen Perrenod, OrionX Partner and Analyst and the developer of the CryptoSuper500. "Trends to watch include advances in ASIC-based and GPU-based mining rigs, the end of Ethereum mining, the trend of increasing electricity usage offset by increases in the green fraction of mining, and bans in certain countries that cause hash rate to move elsewhere."
Cryptocurrency Supercomputing refers to large-scale cryptocurrency mining operations which are typically powered by accelerator technologies such as GPUs, FPGAs, or custom ASICs. Bitcoin is the most notable of such currencies. Cryptocurrency mining via Proof of Work is important since it represents the most effective consensus algorithm to maximize security in a decentralized manner.
Stephen Perrenod
Stephen Perrenod has lived and worked in Asia, the US, and Europe and possesses business experience across all major geographies in the Asia-Pacific region. He specializes in corporate strategy for market expansion, and cryptocurrency/blockchain on a deep foundation of high performance computing (HPC), cloud computing and big data. He is a prolific blogger and author of a book on cosmology.
Cryptocurrency State of the Market and Short History
The OrionX Team/
What's behind Bitcoin's soaring prices? Steve Perrenod and Shahin Khan look at the Cryptocurrency market and its history over the past decade. Here in one place, they run through and explain the major new innovations in crypto and take stock of their progress.
The usual disclaimer: what you hear is not, and is not intended to be, financial or legal advice.
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Fifth Edition of CryptoSuper500 List Shows Annual Economic Value Hits New High
Cryptocurrencies have reached Exascale class supercomputing, with a hash rate of around 115 ExaHashes per second just for Bitcoin
Menlo Park, Calif. – Nov. 13, 2020 – PRLog — OrionX Research today unveiled the fifth edition of the CryptoSuper500 list. The list tracks supercomputers used for cryptocurrency mining, an intensive application that has become a driver of technology development and investment decisions globally. The CryptoSuper500 list was inspired by the well-known TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.
The report highlights the rapidly growing hashrate among the top six coins mined with Proof of Work consensus algorithms. In crypto mining, hashes are the metric that parallels floating point operations (flops) in the supercomputing world. Cryptocurrencies have reached Exascale class supercomputing, with a hash rate of around 115 ExaHashes per second just for Bitcoin.
The Bitcoin hash rate is roughly flat since the last Bitcoin halving in May, but due to the strong Bitcoin price rise, the Annual Economic Value (AEV) has grown significantly. AEV of cryptocurrencies that rely on proof of work mining has hit a new high of around $9 billion, despite the Bitcoin Halving of block reward in May. AEV is up 90% since the June 2020 list.
"Bitcoin is not going away. Each Bitcoin is worth as much as 8 ounces of gold, and Bitcoin's market cap at $300 Billion is greater than all but 18 publicly traded companies. There are over 7,500 cryptocurrencies to date, 19 are unicorn-sized, and central banks are starting to roll out their own digital currencies," said Dr. Stephen Perrenod, OrionX Partner and Analyst, and the developer of the CryptoSuper500.
The annual economic value (AEV) of the top 5 pools in the current list compared to the last list, published in June 2020, are as follows:
F2Pool, a global pool with projected AEV of $1.058 billion compared to $832 million in June 2020
SparkPool in China with an AEV of $840 million compared to $370 million
Poolin in the US and China with an AEV of $736 million compared to $614 million
BTCdotcom, a global pool with an AEV of $683 million compared to $442 million
Ethermine in the US with an AEV of $654 million compared to $291 million
The six coins mined with Proof of Work consensus algorithms which were included in this analysis are:
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Zcash, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV
The full list with additional explanation is available in a slide presentation at OrionX.net/research.
"Until now, we have been in the start-up phase of Bitcoin, when its behavior was designed to cultivate the market, attract participants, and keep them with sticky benefits," said Shahin Khan, Founding Partner and Analyst at OrionX. "Everything about it will gradually change towards a less volatile environment as the impact of newly mined Bitcoins coins on existing supply of Bitcoins decreases, and the use of Bitcoin as primarily a store of value and as growing medium of exchange matures."
Samples of OrionX Constellation Research reports are available for free at OrionX.net/research without registration.
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Cryptocurrency topics: orionx.net/blog
CryptoSuper 500 Fourth Edition white paper
Top Cryptocurrency Supercomputers June 2020, (slide presentation)
The Brutal Efficiency of Crypto Mining
Article comparing future supply model and stock-to-flow model for Bitcoin market cap and price projections
Overall statistics: coinmarketcap.com, coinwarz.com, cryptoslate.com
BTC: btc.com, blockchain.com
ETH: btc.com, etherscan.io
BCH: btc.com, cash.coin.dance
Other coins: miningpoolstats.stream
CryptoSuper 500 – Keeping Track of the Supercomputers that Mine Money
Keeping Track of the Supercomputers that Mine Money
Supercomputers, which do the heavy lifting for AI, science, and engineering, are increasingly also safeguarding digital money. Unlike traditional supercomputers engaged in scientific or analytics applications, CryptoSupers excel at cryptographic calculations. While the metric for traditional supercomputers is Petaflops or Exaflops (floating point operations per second), the figure of merit for CryptoSuper is Petahashes per second or Exahashes per second.
-By Stephen Perrenod & Shahin Khan
Fourth CryptoSuper 500 List: First After Bitcoin Halving
My colleague Stephen Perrenod has just released the fourth edition of the CryptoSuper 500, the semi-annual list of the large scale computational facilities that are devoted to cryptocurrency mining, along the lines of TOP500, Green500, Graph500, and IO500. Like some of these other lists, perhaps some day it will reach 500 or more players, but for now we focus on the top 50. See the slides and the paper below.
This is the first list after the Bitcoin "halving" that took place this past May. Please see my article in EnterpriseAI for a quick description of Bitcoin in general, the periodic halving that is programmed into it, and what that means for the industry. Because it reduces block rewards, we expected it would make Bitcoin mining more challenging and put upward pressure on transaction fees.
This edition of CryptoSuper 500 shows that Bitcoin halving has impacted the aggregate annual economic value of crypto production as we had expected. That metric now stands at about $5 billion, down by about a third. If Bitcoin prices move higher as the long term trend has demonstrated so far, it is reasonable to expect a recovery. The cost of electricity and transaction costs will also play critical roles in such a recovery.
The report also shows that there are now over 5,500 cryptocurrencies out there. Many of them do not use Proof-of-Work to achieve consensus, the computationally intensive approach that we favor and which qualifies it for inclusion in this study. Bitcoin continues to be the leader among all cryptocurencies. There are over a million mining rigs around the world just for Bitcoin, adding up to a total of some 100 Exahashes per second of power.
China has most of the top 50 cryptocurrency supercomputer-class mining pools. In many ways, CryptoSuper 500 and similar lists are a barometer of important national capabilities. As we look more deeply at the impact of technology on policy decisions at the national and global levels, we will incorporate the lessons from all such capability lists.
Here's the paper
And the slides
Top 50 Cryptocurrency Supercomputers, June 2020
And links to the press release:
Public Press Release
Press Release as an OrionX blog
Fourth Edition of CryptoSuper500 List Shows Effects of Bitcoin Halving
China has largest portion of the top 50 cryptocurrency supercomputer-class mining pools
Menlo Park, CA – June 23, 2020 – OrionX Research today released the fourth edition of the CryptoSuper500 list, the first after the "Bitcoin Halving" that took place in May 2020. The list tracks supercomputers used for cryptocurrency mining, a computationally intensive decentralized consensus process that allows cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum to operate without the need for a central trusted authority. The CryptoSuper500 list was inspired by the well-known TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.
Cryptocurrencies and their associated Blockchain decentralized ledger technologies have grown in importance as a new asset class. The crypto economy has become an important driver of technology development and investment decisions globally.
"As expected, Bitcoin's halving impacted the aggregate annual economic value of crypto production, reducing it by approximately 30% to a bit less than $5 billion", said Dr. Stephen Perrenod, OrionX Partner and Analyst and the developer of the CryptoSuper500. "Bitcoin prices, the cost of electricity, and transaction fees will play critical roles in a recovery scenario."
Reports show that there are now over 5,500 cryptocurrencies. Most are worth relatively little, and only 17 have market caps over $1 billion. The two most robust consensus algorithm classes from the security and value perspective are Proof-of-Work (PoW) followed by Proof-of-Stake. But only PoW algorithms are computationally intensive processes that lead to supercomputing levels of resources being assigned.
The annual economic value (AEV) of the top 5 pools in the current list compared to the last list (published in November 2019) are as follows:
F2Pool, a Global pool, with an AEV of $832 million compared to $1.05 billion in November 2019
Poolin in the US and China with an AEV of $614 million compared to $896 million previously
Antpool based in China with an AEV of $492 million compared to $768 million on the prior list
BTC.com which is now a global pool but started in China with projected AEV of $442 million compared to $1.12 billion previously
SparkPool based in China with an AEV of $370 million. SparkPool came in at #10 with $234 million on the prior list
The eight coins mined with PoW protocols, and with significant value, that are included in this analysis are:
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Bitcoin SV, Monero, Ethereum Classic, and Zcash
The original Bitcoin continues to be the leader among all cryptocurrencies. There are over a million mining rigs around the world just for Bitcoin, adding up to a total of over 105 Exahashes per second of crypto supercomputing power presently. China has the largest share of the top 50 cryptocurrency supercomputer-class mining pools.
The full list with additional explanation is available in at OrionX.net/research and OrionX.net/blog.
OrionX is a Silicon Valley firm that combines strategic technology research with market execution creating a practical blueprint for improved competitiveness. More than 60 organizations, from startups to the Fortune-100, have trusted OrionX to help set new break-away strategies and ignite growth. OrionX Research provides an integrated view of the critical technologies of the Information Age including IoT, 5G, Cloud, AI, Blockchain, and Quantum Computing. Visit us at OrionX.net.
Cryptocurrency topics: net/blog
CryptoSuper 500 Third Edition, https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CryptoSuper500-3rd-Evolution-OrionX-Constellation-20191120.pdf
Top Cryptocurrency Supercomputers, November 2019, slide presentation
The Brutal Efficiency of Crypto Mining, https://medium.com/the-capital/the-brutal-efficiency-of-crypto-mining-far- beyond-moores-law-92fa90e617e0
Article comparing the future supply model and the stock-to-flow model for Bitcoin market cap and price projections https://medium.com/the-capital/the-future-supply-model-era-4-ca3e9591d871


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Lightship Ambrose Was A Beacon Of Hope And Promise
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Countless immigrants saw the lightship Ambrose on the approach to New York.
South Street Seaport Museum Archives
For a vessel with such a big history, the lightship Ambrose looks surprisingly small. Perhaps it's because South Street Seaport Museum has the 135-footer tied up across from the 325-foot iron-hulled Wavertree. Or maybe it's because so many of us have forgotten just how large the Ambrose used to loom in the hearts and minds not only of Americans, but also of immigrants who came to New York Harbor from all around the world.
A $4.5 million grant to begin restoring the Ambrose will help remind us of this lightship's significance in U.S. history — with the work coming at a time when the national political discourse has many people wanting the stories of America's immigrants brought back to the fore.
She's afloat in one of the most historic sections of New York City, where Fulton Street meets the East River and the Brooklyn Bridge looms overhead. If they could talk, the renovated mercantile buildings that yellow cabs zip past would tell tales of all the immigrants who lived and worked along these streets. Walking up to the lightship today feels like walking back in time. Sure, modern boats cruise past, but if you squint, you can almost see steamships.
From a distance, the Ambrose looks as stately as any old girl could, flying dress flags from her 110-year-old yellow masts and a sizable Old Glory from her stern. Even still, a lot of tourists on Pier 16 skedaddle right past her. They rush to be on time for a Circle Line ferry tour to the Statue of Liberty, failing to realize that during the early 1900s the Ambrose was the first beacon of light and hope that immigrants to the United States saw.
She was the "floating lighthouse" that pierced the night sky in Ambrose Channel as an aid to navigation for trans-Atlantic steamers heading into New York Harbor. For some 6 million immigrants, the lightship was their first sight in the New World, held in place by a pair of 5,000-pound mushroom anchors — one catted to her bulwarks, the other secured through her stern hawsepipe. From 1908 until 1932, she sat in Ambrose Channel, a few miles off New Jersey's Sandy Hook and New York's Breezy Point — far ahead of where Lady Liberty's torch became visible.
Capt. Jonathan Boulware, South Street Seaport Museum's executive director, says the Ambrose, in some ways, was more important than the famous statue for that reason. "The Statue of Liberty was figurative," he says, standing at the Ambrose's boarding gate. "That lightship, right there, was the actual light of freedom. When you crossed her as an immigrant, that's when you got counted as arriving in America."
Now the Ambrose is finally getting her historical due. The grant — provided by the New York City Mayor's Office, City Council and borough president — will pay for repairing and restoring the lightship to her original 1907 configuration from the main deck up. She will become the only surviving lightship with an original configuration out of the more than 200 of these vessels the United States built from 1820 through the 1950s.
As schoolchildren and adults tour the Ambrose in years to come, she'll look the way millions of immigrants saw her during the largest influx of new citizens in the nation's history. "What we're focused on," Boulware says, "is the role that she had in the growth of New York and in the history of immigration."
The renovation will include work that the museum has wanted to do since the Coast Guard decommissioned the Ambrose and donated her in 1968, making her the first vessel in the museum's collection. Until now, restoring other vessels, including last year's $13 million renovation of the Wavertree, has taken precedence, leaving the Ambrose to wait in line and, in some places, outright rot.
Perhaps one of her greatest discourtesies she has endured is that, even after being declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989, she was left clad in the colors that all lightships were repainted during the 1930s. For generations, her hull has been red and marked with the giant white letters A-M-B-R-O-S-E, which is the name of the station where she first served, not her proper designation as LV-87. Her original paint scheme was straw yellow with the words "87 Ambrose Channel 87" painted in black along her sides. That's how she would've appeared to passengers aboard the Lusitania, Boulware says — yes, that Lusitania, best remembered as the British ocean liner that a German submarine sank in World War I but, before that, the first ship that passed LV-87 after she began lightship service in Ambrose Channel in 1908.
Boulware says there could not be a better time for the restoration, which he hopes will encourage Americans to think about the importance of immigration to the development of New York City and the nation as a whole. "I wouldn't say that what we're doing is a reaction to what's going on at the federal level," Boulware says, "but this is very relevant."
The work is also timely because of the lightship's condition, which is visibly troubling during even a cursory tour. Her last significant refit was 85 years ago. After she left her original station at Ambrose Channel in 1932, she was switched from steam propulsion to a Winton diesel engine, and she got Fresnel lamps at her mastheads. She went on to serve at other stations, including Scotland Station off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and she appeared as part of the Coast Guard's exhibit (known then as the Lightship Scotland) at the 1964 World's Fair in Queens, New York.
Considering all she has been through, and the fact that she's still afloat, LV-87 had some impressive initial construction. Her hull was built of riveted steel plates, a method that welding made obsolete during World War II. She still has her original pilothouse wheel — which looks about 3½ feet in diameter and spans nearly the entire deckhouse width, beneath six round portholes — as well as her original speaking tubes, which let the captain communicate with crew in the engine room.
Her two remaining masts (of the original three) are also still aboard, but Boulware says they haven't been removed for servicing since she was built more than a century ago. Her deckhouses, including the "radio shack" added after 1921, when she became the first U.S. lightship with a radio beacon, are rotting in some places, though they remain structurally upright.
The Ambrose was the museum's first vessel, donated in 1968.
Parts of her main deck have been replanked for safety reasons, but water still gets through when it rains, which has left the engine room below caked in rust. "She's not leaking through her hull," Boulware says, "but she's leaking through her deck like a basket."
The $4.5 million allotted for the restoration won't cover her needs below deck, but it will stop rainwater from coming through and making things worse, thanks to new decking and more.
Some mechanical and shipboard communications systems will also be repaired. LV-87 will once again have a functional steering system with a schooner-rigged sail plan. Her bow and deckhouses will be restored to their original schematics, though it's uncertain whether the radio shack will remain, with its hand-crank "Gibson Girl" rescue radio, radio-direction finder and RCA intermediate-frequency transmitter, which was used to send distress calls.
The Fresnel lenses atop her masts will be replaced with lamp carousels — hoist-controlled, occulting signal lamps that could be seen for 9 miles — like the ones that crewmen used to raise and lower by lines so they could refill them with kerosene or oil. Those signal lamps were used until 1920, when LV-87 became the first lightship to be electrified with carbon-arc lights, increasing the visible range to 15 miles. The carbon-arc lights stayed until the 1930s, when a 1,000-watt light in a 375mm, cut-glass 15,000-candlepower lens was installed atop each mast.
Arguably the most impressive space aboard LV-87 is one that the restoration will not affect: her anchor compartment. There, the painted-gray machinery, once powered by steam, makes today's motoryacht windlasses look like dinghy equipment. Entering this space is akin to entering a 150-foot yacht's engine room, only instead of MAN or Caterpillar diesels, there's the apparatus to raise and lower anchor cable weighing 200 pounds per fathom. The Hyde Windlass Co. manufactured the setup; today, the Penobscot Marine Museum in Maine calls Hyde the "ancestral company" of Bath Iron Works, which builds vessels for the Navy.
A scale model in the museum's collection shows the Ambrose in her original color scheme.
As the museum takes bids and chooses a yard that can handle the lightship's refit — "It's working on a 110-year-old steel-riveted ship; it takes a unique set of skills," Boulware says — a scale model of LV-87, as she originally appeared, stands under glass at the museum on Fulton Street. It's part of an exhibit running through the end of January called "Millions: Migrants and Millionaires aboard the Great Liners, 1900-1914."
The exhibit tells the story of the nearly 13 million immigrants who traveled to America in third class aboard the great steamships of the early 1900s, a time when no more than 100,000 wealthy passengers each year took the far more spacious, first-class return trip to Europe. Before 1914, according to the exhibit, three-quarters of all immigrants arriving in the United States came through the Port of New York. Ocean liners carrying the people grew in size to meet the demand, from 15,000-ton to 50,000-ton vessels.
In the third-class areas, each of the men, women and children, who paid about $1,200 for a ticket (in today's dollars) to make the crossing, were allowed to bring a trunk with just 10 cubic feet of space for all of their belongings. They survived the journey across the ocean on meals such as Quaker Oats, smoked herring, rice soup, corned beef with cabbage, grilled sausage and, some nights for supper, gruel with a side of cheese and biscuits.
The food was of good enough quality that the immigrants would be healthy when they entered Ambrose Channel, cruised past LV-87 and, ultimately, had medical checks before being allowed to join American society. The shipping companies made sure of it. Otherwise, they would be fined.
Passing LV-87 began what the exhibit calls "the ritual of arrival" that each of these immigrants underwent. The steamship would slow at the entrance to Ambrose Channel, with Manhattan ahead in the distance. Inspectors would come aboard. Customs officials would prepare the immigrants for inspection at Ellis Island.
"Nobody knows what the lightship Ambrose is now, but in the early 1900s, everybody knew what it was," Boulware says. "Everybody wrote letters home about her. She was an icon. She is an icon."
For a vessel with such a big history, the lightship Ambrose looks surprisingly small.
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On his latest podcast Dinner With The King, WWE Hall of Famer Jerry "The King" Lawler explained how good The Undertaker looked while backstage at the Survivor Series.
Lawler recounted how Taker "might have looked too good" and said that when someone shows up wanting to hang around looking that good, it means one thing, they're ready to come back.
"You know, closer to the time after WrestleMania and I think I said that I believe we've seen the last of Undertaker in the ring. Now, I'm going to I'm going to go back on my word. Just looking at him the other night, I think there are some more matches left in the Undertaker," Lawler said.
The Hall of Famer added that he watched the show sitting next to The Undertaker and Kane backstage on a monitor.
The Undertaker last wrestled at WrestleMania, losing to Roman Reigns in the main event. It was his second loss at a WrestleMania and then he left his gear in the middle of the ring as a symbol of retirement. No one officially said that The Undertaker has actually retired although that is what was implied the way it was played out on television.
The next time we'll see The Undertaker is on the 25th anniversary of Monday Night Raw where he will be part of the broadcast from the Manhattan Center in New York.
You can listen to Dinner With The King at http://www.podavenue.com/king.
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With the exception of a few changes to the neck length and angle, the fine art of violin making has remained virtually unchanged for over 500 years. In fact, violins look the same now as they did in the 1500's. Some instrument making procedures have been mechanized but most fine violins are almost completely made by hand as they were centuries ago.
Listed and pictured to the left (and as you scroll down) are the steps taken in making an violin by hand.
The violin maker, or luthier, will first decide what characteristics they want in a violin and pick the wood to aid in that goal. Sometimes a tighter grain in the wood will work better for a desired purpose or sound characteristic. Machine-made instruments do not receive this type of individual attention.
The top (spruce) and back (maple), or "plates", are made from two pieces and are what we call "book matched". The selected pieces are split or cut down the middle from one piece, flattened, and then glued together along the edge from the outer most part of the tree. This "center seam" must be a perfect fit and square on its gluing surface. The center seam will act as the center of the instrument and as a reference to all additional work that follows.
After the glue sets, the surface is again flattened and made ready for the shape of the top or back to be transferred.
Before the top or back can be cut out, the supporting corner, upper, and lower blocks and sides (or "ribs") must be made. The blocks and ribs are built over an inside form of plywood that will be removed at a later time. The ribs are made from maple strips that are planed and scraped to a finished thickness of about 1.2 mm thick.
Blocks of spruce or willow are temporarily glued to the form and trimmed to the proper shape to hold the ribs firmly to shape. These blocks will remain in a smaller version when the instrument is completed. The maple strips are bent wet around a hot "bending iron" until they maintain the desired shape. The ribs are then glued to the shaped blocks and flattened in the horizontal plane.
Linings (made from willow or spruce) are thinned, wet, bent, and glued onto the ribs to add additional support.
Once the ribs are finished, they are clamped onto the top and back plate, traced (leaving an added margin for overhang), and the plates are cut. The curve of the plates are then carved inside and out to finished thicknesses from 2.5 to 5 mm--depending on the maker's preference and specific tonal characteristics needed. Areas are left flat on the inside for the gluing surfaces and the "f" holes are cut into the top.
The top plate will also receive a "bassbar" to its inside surface to support the top. The bassbar will enhance the bass frequencies and slow the sound down. The bass bar, "f" holes, and plate thicknesses are done to tonally enhance the sound and are adjusted to the individual instrument being made and the wood that was selected. The plates will also receive "purfling" which is a decorative inlay just inside of the outer edge. The purfling both strengthens the instrument and adds a decorative edge which enhances the instrument's look and sound.
The plywood form is removed and the plates are glued on. The edges are cleaned up and the "body" of the instrument is set aside while the neck is carved.
The neck is also made from maple and is carved from a solid block. The block of maple is first squared up and then the shape is transferred from a pattern to both sides to remain symmetrical. The "scroll" portion is carved by hand with a series of gouges and chisels of different curves and widths.
The scroll is frequently the most artistic portion of the instrument and is a "fingerprint" of the maker and their craftsmanship.
Once fully carved, the neck is fitted with the fingerboard and set into the body. The setting of the neck is a complex process involving many angles and finished measurements.
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Failed to win Qatar 2022 MotoGP, Pol Espargaro: I was too fast at the start of the race
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Repsol Honda racer, Pol Espargaro , failed to maintain his leading position while racing at the Qatar 2022 MotoGP. He admitted to several mistakes, including his decision to immediately gaspol at the start of the race.
Pol Espargaro finished third on the podium, behind Brad Binder and Enea Bastianini. Had led the race for quite a long time, the Spaniard finally touched the finish line with a gap of 1.351 seconds.
Bastianini, on the other hand, felt very cautious going into the final laps due to the deteriorating condition of the tires. The same thing was also expressed by Espargaro, who according to him was the source of the failure to finish on the highest podium.
"I need a little more experience riding this bike. A few things happened before the finish line that really surprised me," said Pol Espargaro quoted from Speedweek .
"My strategy is to stay behind other riders to save fuel. But I feel okay, so I just step on the gas."
"Unfortunately, I was too fast at the start of the race, that's what made my tires crash towards the end of the race," he said again.
Stay Proud – ol Espargaro did not hesitate to admit his mistakes. However, he remains proud of his achievements in the MotoGP 2022 series opener .
"It was a rookie mistake, I was too excited, but still we know now that we are back in front and that Honda doesn't just have one strong rider."
"This is the first time in years that Honda has two fast riders and that makes me proud."
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Japanese: 佐賀県
Saga-ken
Capital Saga
Region Kyūshū
Island Kyūshū
Governor Yoshinori Yamaguchi
Area (rank) 2,439.58 km² (42nd)
- % water 1.7%
Population (February 1, 2008)
- Population 858,603 (42nd)
- Density 352 /km²
Districts 6
Municipalities 20
ISO 3166-2 JP-41
Website www.pref.saga.lg.jp/
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Prefectural Symbols
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Saga Prefecture (佐賀県, Saga-ken?) is a prefecture of Japan in the Kyūshū region of Japan on the island of Kyūshū. The capital city is Saga.[1]
1.1 Seven Wise Men of Saga
1.2 Timeline
2.1 Cities
2.2 Towns
2.3 National Parks
3 Shrines and Temples
The area of Nagasaki Prefecture and Saga Prefecture was formerly called Hizen Province.[2] The current name dates from the Meiji Restoration.
In the Edo period this area was called the Saga Domain (佐賀藩, Saga-han?).
Seven Wise Men of Saga
"The Seven Wise Men of Saga" is the name for seven men from Saga. Each of them was important to the development of modern of Japan. They began changing the country around the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. They continued modernizing Japan during the Meiji Restoration.
Lord Naomasa Nabeshima was lord of the Nabeshima clan. He brought in European technology and culture.
Sano Tsunetami started the Japanese Red Cross.
Shima Yoshitake explored Hokkaidō.
Soejima Taneomi was a Diet member, Foreign Minister, and Minister of Domestic Affairs. He was also a well-known writer and poet.
Ōki Takatō was Minister of Civil Affairs, Education, and Legal Affairs. He was a Diet member.
Eto Shimpei, also once a Minister of Legal Affairs He was a Diet member and started Japan's system of courts and judges.
Ōkuma Shigenobu was Prime Minister of Japan. He also started Waseda University.
November 19, 1274 (Bun'ei 11, 20th day of the 10th month): Battle of Bun'ei[3]
August 15, 1281 (Kōan 4, 30th day of the 7th month): Battle of Kōan[4]
1716 Hagakure, a famous Bushido manual is compiled
1874 (Meiji 7): Saga Rebellion.[5]
1975 (Shōwa 50): Genkai Nuclear Power Plant begins operation[6]
2011 (Heisei 23):Kyūshū Shinkansen opens[7]
Saga is the smallest prefecture on Kyūshū. It is bordered by the Genkai Sea and the Tsushima Strait to the north and the Ariake Sea to the south. Nagasaki Prefecture is on its western border. Fukuoka Prefecture and Kumamoto Prefecture are east of Saga.
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Yoshinogari
Kishima District
Kōhoku
Ōmachi
Shiroishi
Miyaki District
Kamimine
Kiyama
Miyaki
Nishimatsuura District
Arita
National Parks are established in about 11% of the total land area of the prefecture.[8]
Shrines and Temples
Yodohime jinja and Chiriku Hachiman-gū are the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) in the prefecture.[9]
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↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Saga prefecture" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 804; Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), Saga Prefecture, Regional Information; retrieved 2012-4-6.
↑ Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
↑ Davis, Paul K. (2001). 100 decisive battles: from ancient times to the present, pp. 145-147; the noun "Bun'ei" means the Japanese era name (nengō) for a time period started in February 1264 and ended in April 1275
↑ Davis, p. 147; the noun "Kōan" means the Japanese era name for a time period which started in February 1278 and ended in April 1288.
↑ Nussbaum, "Saga no Ran" at Japan Encyclopedia, p. 804.
↑ "Saga governor apologizes over remark on Genkai power plant," Mainichi Shimbun. 3 August 2011; retrieved 2011-11-19.
↑ Kyūshū Shinkansen, Information from JR Kyushu; retrieved 2011-11-19.
↑ Japan Ministry of the Environment, "General overview of area figures for Natural Parks by prefecture"; retrieved 2012-3-13.
↑ Picken, Stuart. (2004). Sourcebook in Shinto: Selected Documents, p. 377; "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 3; retrieved 2012-8-23.
Media related to Saga prefecture at Wikimedia Commons
Saga Prefecture website (in English), (in Japanese)
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SagaJET website
Coordinates: 33°17′N 130°10′E / 33.283°N 130.167°E / 33.283; 130.167
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Pinterest Q2 Profit Beats Street View, But Shares Tank 19% On Subscriber Decline
California-based social media company Pinterest, Inc (PINS) turned to profit in the second quarter powered by a 125% increase in revenues. Both revenues and earnings beat the Street view, but the company tanked 19% in the extended session after it reported a decline in users in the U.S.
As of July 27, 2021, U.S. MAUs have declined approximately 7% and global MAUs have grown approximately 5% year over year, the company said in a statement.
The net income for the company was $69.42 million or $0.10 per share compared to a loss of $100.75 million or $0.17 loss per share.
Excluding one-time items, net income was $169.93 million or $0.25 per share for the quarter, compared to a loss of $38.35 million or $0.07 loss per share last year. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters projected an earning of $0.13 per share for the quarter.
The company's second-quarter revenues increased to $613.21 million from $272.49 million in the same quarter last year. Analysts had a consensus revenue estimate of $561.88 million. Revenue growth was driven by an 89% increase in average revenue per user to $1.34 from $0.70 year-over-year.
Moving ahead, the company sees revenues to grow in a low-40% range in the third quarter. Analyst currently estimate a revenue growth of 42.50%.
Commenting on the results, Ben Silbermann said, "While we navigate through pandemic impacts, Pinterest is focused on building for the long-term by transforming from a place to browse, save and organize to a community of inspiring people sharing their passions and expertise."
PINS closed Thursday's regular trading at $72.04, down $4.61 or 6.01%, on the Nasdaq. The stock further slipped $13.74 or 19.07% in the after-hours trading.
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You'll be seeing lots of these items in my holiday gift guides much closer to Christmas, so consider this your sneak peek!
Chapters Indigo always has a fabulous selection of style items, from super soft scarves, to embellishes hats. I have a toque that is very similar to the one you see below and received tons of compliments on it - I'm happy to see now there's one I can direct people towards when they're looking for a similar one! It's such a great winter statement piece.
These children's gifts are the sweetest! I'm always a sucker for buffalo plaid, and those little baby booties on the far right look just adorable. I wish they came in my size too!
I'm always all about the cocktails during the holiday season, so these piqued my interest right away! I'm already excited for mulled wine and cider now...and these syrups are definitely going to have a home on my bar cart for entertaining.
Guys are always so tough to shop for, but I always end up finding something at Chapters. I spotted this shoe shine kit and a few other gift ideas - all in the ultra-Canadian buffalo plaid.
The kitchen and dining section of Chapters is always my favourite. I drink tea non-stop, especially in the winter, so I'm always on the hunt for cute new mugs and new teas to try. I don't think I can stress enough how excited I am to try their 'Yule Fuel': an eggnog black tea! Plus, these teas and mug sets will make great gifts.
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by Angela Jameson on 01/09/2012 in Issue 70
News desks in national newspapers still play a vital role in dictating the way stories play out
Give a reporter a few glasses and you're bound to hear 'those idiots [or usually worse] on the desk have screwed up my story'. Very rarely will reporters confess that the desk saved their arse.
The desk in question is newspaper parlance for the news desk - or rather the collection of news editors that head up each news department of a newspaper. Home news (front of the paper) has one, business pages have one and the foreign section has one.
They're the first rung of management in a newspaper office and like most middle managers they are hopelessly squeezed by the reporters and correspondents beneath them and the section heads, deputy editors and editors above them.
It's a pretty hard life being a news editor, putting together a credible list of 12 to 15 stories a day, that will be picked over and pulled apart like a bag of chips found by a seagull.
As one Fleet Street stalwart says: 'Few people dream of being a news editor, it kind of just happens.' But news desks wield real power. They get the first say over what goes in the paper. If it's not on their news list - hopefully early in the morning - it's just not going to go in.
Convincing a news editor of the value of a story is one of the first skills a young reporter has to master. Talking a news editor into running a story, being able to tell them succinctly and wittily why a story matters, is half way to writing it. Actually, quite often that conversation turns into the introduction.
So understanding how a news desk works, when they make decisions and what they value, is a long way to understanding the pulse of the whole newspaper.
For most news editors, the day starts early - between 6am and 7am and probably with Radio 4's Today programme. For the serious newspapers, it does not quite set the agenda for the day but it has a good attempt and its combative interviewers can sometimes get a story while journalists are eating their toast.
Once in the office, news editors will check their own papers' final editions, take a look at the night log - a detailed report of all the changes and decisions that took place overnight - and then begin reading their rivals.
Papers read or scanned, and the serious business of putting together a list will begin. Usually there will be a skeleton from which to start, which will contain diary items or known events that day, and ideas/ story lines from writers who are based outside the office.
All desks will use wire services to help to develop their lists. The front of the paper and the tabloids will use Press Association (PA) heavily, the city desks will use Reuters and foreign desks will use Reuters, Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Associated Press (AP). For City news editors, RNS or London Stock Exchange announcements, are very important.
Social media makes mark
Social media is also helping to shape newspaper content. Ben Griffiths, City news editor at the Daily Mail, is a late convert to Twitter. He says: 'Increasingly I get breaking news from Twitter. It is a great way to point you to other journalists' work or to established commentators. If you are following the right people, it can be a great source of news.'
Jane Hamilton, former assistant news editor and now employment and cashflow editor at The Sun, says: 'Twitter and social media is increasingly important because of the speed at which it can show public opinion and because it may reveal celebrities' real thoughts, not those as presented by a publicist.' News editors will also have an increasingly long list of websites that they like to check for news lines, including the BBC sites and overseas papers, such as the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
All the while, they are doing this, they are taking calls from reporters who are phoning in from press conferences or interviews, talking to foreign correspondents and stringers about they day they have just had, or the day ahead of them, and allocating stories to reporters.
There are also calls from the readers. Hamilton says: 'We get a lot of calls from readers at The Sun. You have to decide which are worth following up on and for those that are, we will send a reporter out to see the caller. Many calls to the paper are also simply for help and information and we try to assist as best we can because readers have a very strong connection to the brand.'
Putting a good list together is an art. You are looking for a splash, of course, hopefully exclusive. But you also need a good mix of other stories to make the main page leads in the paper: politics, show business, celebrity, human interest, business, health, crime and so on.
Simon English, deputy City editor at the Evening Standard and The Independent, says that when he is trying to put a list together he is aiming partly to cover everything that is happening that morning, so the editor can pick out things that appeal to him, and partly to offer something different or funny that will grab people's attention.
The list will then be presented, usually by the section editor, at morning news conference which usually happens anytime between 10am and noon, depending on the paper.
Conference is usually attended by a news editor or section editor, plus the editor and deputies. People from pictures, leaders and obituaries will also be there. At The Guardian, anyone can attend conference, but most people rarely have the time. The City sections of The Times, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail will hold smaller less formal meetings of reporters and news editors, before the main paper conference, at which ideas are discussed and reporters will pitch their own exclusives.
Most of the stories mentioned by the news editor in conference will become page leads - the top story on that page. For a story to knock out one of these page leads, it has to be pretty special.
Stories that crop up later in the day are given a poorer 'show' and tend to fill the down-page slots. As to when decisions are made, English says: 'It's a moving brief. Some calls get made very early, others very late. Things that definitely aren't going on to the front page get placed as soon as possible so that pictures can be selected and graphics done. You're trying to call the lead as late as you can, while allowing for the fact that deadlines exist and some people might actually want to go home.'
Decisions are made by a combination of the editor, deputy editor, City editor and news editors. 'It's consultative rather than dictatorial. You make your case if you have a strong opinion, say 'I dunno, boss' if you don't,' English says.
Other papers have a slightly different culture. At the Daily Mail and The Sun a lot of decisions are made by the back bench, the most experienced sometimes as much as 40 years' experience - production staff. The editor's decision is always final.
At The Times, foreign assistant news editor Suzy Jagger, says: 'It used to be the case that not a lot happened in the morning meeting. But now some decisions have to be made earlier.' News International's printers at Broxbourne in Hertfordshire also print titles for other publishers, so it is imperative that each paper's pages are 'off stone' at the time allocated.
Many of the heavy papers have a second meeting in the afternoon and contenders for page one and for page three will become clear by this meeting. The editor will take a close interest in these stories and also any other stories that could 'come forward'; they will also want to know what is the foreign lead and the business lead.
However, these decisions can continue to change right up to about 8.45pm (at The Times) for the first edition and through the night, if necessary.
Specialists move to front
Every reporter dreams of writing the 'splash' and increasingly the specialists in the business department and foreign departments are writing for the front page, as much as the political journalists or home news journalists.
The financial crisis has made business a story that affects everyone. Who would ever have thought that the interest rate at which banks lend money to each other would become a front page issue? Jagger, who used to work in business and has also worked in parliament, says: 'A story stops being a business story when it stops being a problem for the finance minister and spills into general domestic policy.'
Stories about City bonuses, rewards for failure, private contractors messing up, energy bills spiraling or corruption in business are all areas where a business story appeals to a wider audience. 'A lot of people didn't understand what LIBOR was, but that story [about Barclays allegedly trying to manipulate the bank rate] still made the front pages
because the public realised that something underhand was going on,' Jagger says.
The Daily Mail's Griffiths agrees: 'If a business story is about a big consumer issue, something to do with a retailer or a bank or a big employer, then it will go forward.' Usually the business reporter who covers the beat will write the story, other times a political journalist will be asked to help. Some papers have specialist consumer and business reporters. Griffiths denies that putting the story up front means it has to be dumbed down.
The banking crisis showed how big stories - that often run for weeks, if not months - will be divided up and addressed by teams. The banking editor might write the main story, with input from the political editor. The economics or City editor will write an analysis piece alongside. A US correspondent may be asked to feed in and the investigations editor may be used to dig and provide exclusives on that particular story.
When the stories are written, they are filed back to the news desk anytime from 2.30pm to 7.30pm, where the news editors will spend a few minutes checking that the writer has got the right angle and that the story has panned out as expected. Only when they are happy, will they send it through to production to be sub-edited and put on page.
This makes the early evening the busiest time for a news desk as copy comes in from all sources. Never call a news desk in the afternoon, unless your story genuinely is a contender for the front page.
And think about why you are calling the desk at all? 'PRs who phone news desks tend to know very little about how papers work. They ought to know the particular reporter and call them,' says Jagger.
The Evening Standard's English says: 'The PR industry needs to get a grip. It fails to understand how few of us there are and how many of them there are. It is getting worse.'
News desks across Fleet Street are under pressure like never before. There are more sources of news and greater expectations from a public that wants a considered and full report in minutes. That scenario is not going to go away and the news desk will remain the hub of the operation - doing most of the heavy lifting, taking the criticism and rarely enjoying the plaudits. They love it.
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These bowls were made for the contemplation that comes with sipping a perfectly whisked matcha. Seemingly simple at first, look closely to discover how the hand-applied glazing varies from bowl to bowl, giving each piece its own character.
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The Social Bite Village is a low cost, safe living space that will accommodate around 20 people for up to 18 months.
The village will provide support and skills development to help these individuals get their lives back on track. Complimented with work placements and employability support it aims to be a village that will help transition residents into work and permanent accommodation.
Glencraft was honoured to partner with this incredible project. Everyone deserves a good nights sleep and that starts with your mattress. The new homes of the Social Bite Village will be furnished with Glencraft luxury mattress.
"Glencraft have shown a real motivation to get involved with Social Bite Village. We've been bowled over by the amount of corporate support that has been displayed, with companies such as Glencraft being prepared to take up the challenge and become part of something which is truly special and will ultimately change peoples lives.
I would like to extend my personal thanks to everyone at Glencraft for their support." Josh Littlejohn MBE Co-Founder Social Bite.
Glencraft, as a social enterprise, is determined to find more ways to work with other businesses that want to achieve positive changes in society.
The Social Bite Village will create a blueprint for others to follow to help change lives for the better.


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Exploring The Complexity Of Human Emotion, Robotaki's Science EP Is Personal, Powerful & Moving
On repeat.
Saad Masood
Preston Chin has had a tumultuous couple of years.
Back in 2016, music was just a hobby for the Canadian native. He was living in Montreal, pursuing his master's degree in genetics, making music under the Robotaki moniker.
Things really picked up when he caught French prodigy Madeon's attention. A remarkable feat, Robotaki joined Porter Robinson and Madeon as an opening act on their Shelter tour, his first real string of shows.
Since then, he moved to Toronto, went through a tough long distance relationship, and after graduating, decided to pursue music full time. Not to mention, he had his first headlining tour last year, selling out venues across North America with his good friend and fellow producer, Manilla Killa.
As a generally anxious person, Robotaki finds solace and comfort through making music. So, along the way, as life took its turns, the Science EP was brewing.
Released last week, the 6 track EP is a personal reflection of Chin's past few years. It's an amalgamation of his feelings and reactions to turbulent events like moving cities, ending heartfelt relationships, switching careers and, really, making life-defining decisions.
"Trial" serves as the official intro track to the EP. Rightly so, as it sets the tone for the rest of the tracks. It's melodic, emotive and outright groovy.
"Butterscotch," true to the title, is sweet as candy. Led by guitar plucks that feel like they're pulling at your heartstrings, it's a funky song that's amplified by charismatic vocals. Robotaki describes it as a song about "that electric feel you get when you've just met someone you're really into." Relatable, right?
With over 330,000 plays on Soundcloud, "Together We're Screwed" is the most well-received song off the EP. Nevve's delicate vocals create a playful balance with Robotaki's spirited production. There's a sense of magnetism to the song as Robotaki expertly creates a soundscape that feels like it's brimming with happiness but almost wistful at the same time. It feels like a modern-day ballad, as Robotaki mentions, "the dynamic across the lows and highs in this track reflect the complexities of love, the tribulations of lust, and everything that falls in between."
The next song, in Robotaki's own words, is both his "hardest and most vulnerable track to date." Once you have a listen, you'll know what he means. The soundscape feels ambivalent, stressing how we often tend to react to life with mixed emotions. Most of our decisions, from the life-changing to the mundane, seem very clear-cut in their consequences, yet the weight of the choices we make can strike us in surprising, and often, confusing ways. "Limbo" tenderly touches on that.
Reminiscent of Flume's production, "Restless" builds on the push and pull theme of the EP. It starts off slow and sultry before exploding into a cascade of bright bubbly synths.
Aptly titled "Satisfied," the EP ends on a note of proper closure. The last track is warm, smooth and gentle, thoughtfully toning down the surges of vibrant energy running through the rest of the EP. Here, contemplation meets conclusion as the EP winds down.
Overall, Robotaki creatively blends elements of pop, jazz, funk and disco, highlighting his prowess as a producer through the EP. Of note, the vocalists amplify the emotional impact of each song in their own unique way. The chemistry between the vocalists and Robotaki's production in each song are a crucial part of what makes the EP stand out.
The EP also illuminates Robotaki's natural ability to capture emotions through music. It's a thoughtful exploration of the complexity of human emotion and the ambivalence we often face as we move through life. A collection of songs that's personal, powerful and moving, Robotaki hits home on the charismatic Science EP.
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THE FIRST TRACK OFF NGHTMRE'S UPCOMING EP IS ABSOLUTELY INTOXICATING
One of the best trap artists in the game proves his worth.
MELODIC, MOVING, BLISSFUL: STREAM SAID THE SKY'S FIRST ORIGINAL OF 2017
All the feels.
Spirit Motel Drops Dreamy Debut Album Congruence, A Celebration Of Youthful Emotion
Shining a light on rising talent.
Word of Mouth: Ghastly Returns With a Heater, Robotaki Drops Debut EP, and More This Week!
The latest jams from your favorite EDM artists
HEYZ Begins New Era with his 'Human 404' EP
HEYZ reimagines his dark techno sound into a melodic mid-tempo dream with his latest EP, out now on Bite This!
10 OF THE BIGGEST BASS MUSIC RELEASES OF THE SUMMER
New tunes from Zeds Dead, Jauz, Troyboi, Rezz and more!
Robotaki Releases Remix of Hayley Kiyoko's "I Wish"
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Thomas J. Korenyik, 66; 1970 Unatego Graduate, Automotive Expert
IN MEMORIAM: Thomas J. Korenyik, 66;
1970 Unatego Graduate, Automotive Expert
Thomas J. Korenyik
INDIAN LAKE – Thomas J. Korenyik, 66, a 1970 Unatego Central School graduate, passed away Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, at his home in Indian Lake.
Tom was born Oct. 10, 1952, in Ridgewood, NJ, the son of Tibor and Virginia (Filer) Korenyik. His automotive expertise (especially with Chevys), work ethic, sense of humor, and "gift of gab" will be missed by those whose lives he touched.
Tom is survived by his sons, Daniel Korenyik and Joseph Korenyik; his sister, Cathy Korenyik; his nieces, Jeanne Clark, Kathryn Clark Christman, and Sarah Korenyik; and cousins.
County Board's 'Green Light' Resolution Was Litmus Test – And Democrats Failed It
EDITORIAL • July 11-12, 2019
County Board's 'Green Light'
Resolution Was Litmus Test
– And Democrats Failed It
First, it should be said that there's a troubling lack of interest this year in running for the Otsego County Board of Representatives, whose reach, from road building to social services, touches all 60,094 of us.
In the 14 districts, there are only three contests coming out of the June 25 primary:
In District 2, the one-term Democrat, former Morris Town Board member Michele Farwell, is being challenged by Marcia Hoag, a former Pittsfield Town Board member who is running on the Voice of the People line, but says she is allied with Republicans.
In District 3, where former board chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego/Laurens, is retiring. Republican Rick Brockway, a retired ferrier and outdoor columnist, and Democrat Caitlin Ogden, a Baseball Hall of Fame grantsman, are both newcomers running for the vacant seat.
In District 14, where Democrat Jill Basile and Wilson Wells, a Libertarian, are seeking to succeed Democrat Liz Shannon, who is retiring.
Contrast that with 2017, when 12 of the 14 seats were contested, and there were some humdingers.
Kevin M. Mroczkowski, 69; Vietnam Vet, 911 Responder Lived In Otego
IN MEMORIAM: Kevin M. Mroczkowski, 69;
Vietnam Vet, 911 Responder Lived In Otego
Kevin Mroczkowski
OTEGO – Kevin Michael Mroczkowski, a Vietnam veteran and 911 responder, was called home by his Savior on 3 July, 2019, after a three-month fight against cancer.
Kevin was in the company of family at the time of death, and he was frequently visited by cousins, nieces and nephews and friends during his illness.
Kevin was born in Brooklyn on 2 March, 1950, the son of Stanislaus S. and Margaret E. Mroczkowski. He grew up in Queens and, shortly after graduating from Far Rockway High School, he served his country in the Army. He was trained as a medical corpsman and during the Vietnam War he served at the 6th Convalescent Center in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam.
Doris H. Reeves, 94; Hartwick Administrator, Attorney's Wife
IN MEMORIAM: Doris H. Reeves, 94;
Hartwick Administrator, Attorney's Wife
Doris Reeves
OTEGO – Local funeral services will be Wednesday, May 22, for Doris H. Reeves, 94, widow of Attorney Frank Reeves an honored Hartwick College administator, who passed away Feb. 18, 2019, in Redding, Calif., where she had been living near her daughter for the past 10 years.
Married in 1950, the Reeveses spent most of their married life on the family farm in Otego, where they raised their daughter, Barbara.
Doris was a wonderful lady, beloved wife and mother, teacher, adviser, administrator and dear friend to many.
Debra A. Klein, 66, Otego; Known To Generation Of Unatego Students
IN MEMORIAM: Debra A. Klein, 66, Otego;
Known To Generation Of Unatego Students
OTEGO – Debra A. Klein, 66, a Unatego Central teaching assistant and bus driver for 30 years, passed away peacefully Friday, May 3, 2019, at her home in Otego, surrounded by her loving family.
She was born Dec. 11, 1952, in Delhi to the late Morris and Genevieve (Dorosky) Chichester.
A life-long area resident, she married Richard Klein on July 16, 1995.
$23 Million Unatego School Renovation Plan Unveiling Delayed Until December 2019, Superintendent Says
By: Jennifer Hill 03/28/2019 5:28 pm
$23M Plan To Merge
Unadilla Elementary,
High School Delayed
Better 'Right Than Fast,' Superintendent Says
Unatego School Superintendent David Richards
OTEGO – After a public hearing this week, the Unatego Central School District has delayed a decision from July 1 to December on a plan to convert the middle-high school into a single K-12 campus.
The plan would close the Unadilla Elementary School; the district's other elementary school, in Otego, was closed in 2017.
"We would rather do the plan right than fast," Unatego Central School District Superintendent Dr. David Richards said in an interview Thursday.
At a public hearing Wednesday evening, Richards and the school board gave community members a "snapshot of where we are now" in developing a plan to renovate and reorganize the Unatego middle and high school building between Otego and Wells Bridge to accommodate 750 students. It was built originally to serve 450 students.
Suzanne E. Lundin, 65; Active In Family's Christmas Tree Farm
IN MEMORIAM: Suzanne E. Lundin, 65;
Active In Family's Christmas Tree Farm
Suzanne E. Lundin
OTEGO – Suzanne E. Lundin, 65, a retired telephone operator active in her family's Lundin Christmas Tree Farm, passed away peacefully at home on March 12, 2019.
She was born on July 29, 1953, in Johnson City; the daughter of John James Zdimal and LaVonne (McCrossen).
Sue was a graduate of Binghamton Central High School. Sue was a natural athlete enjoying basketball, tennis, softball, bowling, golf and pickleball.
Suzanne Lundin
OTEGO – Suzanne E. Lundin, a retired telephone operator active in the Lundin Christmas Tree Farm, her family business, passed away peacefully at home on March 12, 2019.
She was born on July 29, 1953, in Johnson City, the daughter of John James Zdimal and LaVonne (McCrossen).
Newcomer Seeks County Rep Seat In Clark's District
Newcomer Seeks
County Rep Seat
In Clark's District
If Former Chair Doesn't Retire,
She May Face Primary In June
By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
Ric Brockway
Ric Brockway of Laurens, former teacher, ferrier and writer of a popular outdoor column, is running for the Republican nomination in District 3 (Laurens and Otego).
He would face county Rep. Kathy Clark, the former board chairman, unless she retires. She did not return a call this afternoon as to her intentions.
Oneonta Man Arrested After Multiple Accidents
SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES REPORT:
Driver's Multi-Crash Spree
Ends When Truck Hits Tree
ONEONTA – An Otego man was arrested Wednesday for leaving the scene of a crash in Oneonta, then crashing three more times before running his truck into a tree on Route 8, Otego, sheriff's deputies report.
Deputies identified the suspect in the Wednesday incidents as Robert H. Braun, 53, Otego.
Kim J. Hughes Wiltsie, 62; Mother Of 4 Was Gilbertsville Valedictorian
IN MEMORIAM: Kim J. Hughes Wiltsie, 62;
Mother Of 4 Was Gilbertsville Valedictorian
Kim Wiltsie
OTEGO – Kim Joy Hughes Wiltsie, 62, lost her battle with pulmonary hypertension, high blood pressure, on Feb.13, 2019.
She was born in Ilion, to William and Ellinor Hughes.
Kim was a 1975 graduate of Gilbertsville Central School and class valedictorian.
She loved to read, travel and be with her family.
76-Year-Old Man Flees Burning Otego House
76-Year-Old Man Flees
Burning Otego House
A firefighter pours water on the remains of the Otego home razed by fire overnight. (Photo courtesy Wells Bridge Fire Department)
One wall remained by the time the fire was doused.
OTEGO – A 76-year-old man fled a burning Otego home on 470 County Route 5 this morning but had no way to call 911, and the home was destroyed, state police at Troop C report.
Troopers from the Oneonta Barracks received the call at 1:09 a.m.
The elderly man, identified at Robert Carpenter, the sole occupant of the home, was spotted by a passerby, and that person called 911.
Alumni Herring, Bard Join Unatego Hall Of Distinction
By: Jim Kevlin 01/21/2019 10:08 am
RECEPTION FRIDAY AT HIGH SCHOOL
Alumni Herring, Bard Join
Unatego Hall Of Distinction
UNADILLA – Herring Lumber Co. owner Charles W. Herring Jr. and Joseph Bard, retired executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of Rural & Small Schools, will be inducted into the Unatego Hall of Distinction Friday, Jan. 25.
At reception begins at 5:30 p.m. in the high school cafeteria, with the induction planned between the JV and varsity boys' basketball game between Unatego and Delaware Academy. The public is welcome.
Roger B. Sullivan, Otego; SUNY Oneonta Asst. VP In Upgrading Enrollment
Roger B. Sullivan, Otego;
SUNY Oneonta Asst. VP
In Upgrading Enrollment
Roger B. Sullivan
OTEGO – Roger B. Sullivan, 68, SUNY Oneonta associate vice president/enrollment management, passed away on Jan. 4, 2019, at his home in Otego. He also had a home in Sunset Beach, N.C.
Roger was born on Dec. 28, 1950, in Ogdensburg, the son of Roger P. and Velma I. (O'Shaughnessy) Sullivan.
He graduated from Lisbon Central High School and later earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from SUNY Potsdam and Bowling Green (Ohio) State University, respectively, before beginning a 40-year career in the SUNY system.
This Christmas, Otego Sailor Celebrating On USS Stennis
This Christmas, Otego Sailor
Celebrating On USS Stennis
This Christmas, Navy Aviation Machinist's Mate 3rd Class Trace Thayer, from Otego, is on duty aboard the USS John C. Stennis in the Arabian Sea. Here, he paints an Environmental Control System Scoop on an F/A-18E Super Hornet, assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 151, in the hangar bay aboard the aircraft carrier. The John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in support of Naval operations to ensure maritime stability and security in the Central Region, connecting the Mediterranean and the Pacific through the western Indian Ocean and three strategic choke points. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Jarrod A. Schad)
AOC and her allies	27 ( 37.5 % )
Unadilla Woman In Critical Condition After Being Struck By Car


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Home Cities Delhi
Delhi govt preparing 'Delhi Bazaar' web portal to help businessmen promote their products: CM Kejriwal
Hoping that the portal will boost Delhi's revenue, gross domestic product and economy in a big way, Kejriwal said it is expected to be ready by August next year.
Published: 03rd November 2021 01:32 PM | Last Updated: 03rd November 2021 01:32 PM | A+A A-
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal (Photo | PTI)
NEW DELHI: A 'Delhi Bazaar' web portal is being prepared for traders and industrialists to help them display their products and sell them not only domestically, but also abroad, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Wednesday on the eve of Diwali.
"Businessmen, traders, manufacturers, markets and shops will not only be able to display their products on this portal but also sell them in the city, country and even abroad," he said in a briefing.
The portal will also have virtual markets where people can go through shops, identify products of their choice and buy them.
It will also host virtual exhibitions, the chief minister said.
Noting that there are crowds at markets because of festivals and people are being careless in following Covid norms, he asked them to maintain all precautions and wear masks.
Kejriwal invited people to perform Diwali pujan for wellbeing of the city along with him and his Cabinet colleagues at an event at 7 pm at the Thyagraj stadium on Thursday.
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Each year the artistic endeavors of our students are celebrated at an art show called "Evening for the Arts" held at local Harford County venues (Rockfield Manor, Waters Edge).
God has gifted our students and staff in the disciplines of music, art and drama. All will be displayed in 2016 when we have a dinner theatre with a musical production and art show.


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uniQure Announces Clinical Update on Hemophilia B Gene Therapy Program
Company to hold conference call today at 8:30 a.m. ET
LEXINGTON, Mass. and AMSTERDAM, Dec. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — uniQure N.V. (NASDAQ: QURE), a leading gene therapy company advancing transformative therapies for patients with severe medical needs, today announced that its hemophilia B gene therapy program, including the pivotal, Phase III HOPE-B study, has been placed on clinical hold by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Patient dosing is complete in each of uniQure's three hemophilia B gene therapy studies, and there is no plan to enroll or treat additional patients.
The clinical hold was initiated following the submission of a safety report in mid-December relating to a possibly related serious adverse event associated with a preliminary diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a form of liver cancer, in one patient in the HOPE-B trial that was treated with etranacogene dezaparvovec (AMT-061) in October 2019. The patient has multiple risk factors associated with HCC, including a twenty-five-year history of hepatitis C (HCV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), evidence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and advanced age. Chronic infections with hepatitis B and C have been associated with approximately 80% of HCC cases.1
The liver lesion was detected during a routine abdominal ultrasound conducted as part of the required study assessments in patients at one-year post dosing. A full surgical resection of the lesion is scheduled this week that will allow for confirmation of the diagnosis. No other cases of HCC have been reported in uniQure clinical trials conducted in more than 100 patients in hemophilia B and other indications, with some patients dosed more than 10 years ago.
"Patient safety will always be our top priority, and we are working closely with the FDA and our advisors to conduct a thorough investigation into the cause of this event which we expect to be completed in early 2021," said Ricardo Dolmetsch, Ph.D., president of research and development at uniQure. "We will investigate whether there is a relationship to treatment. At this time, we do not have adequate data to determine a possible causal relationship, especially in the context of the other known risk factors."
"All patients in our hemophilia B gene therapy program, including the 54 patients in HOPE-B, will continue to be monitored by their care teams while we gather additional information as rapidly as possible," stated Matt Kapusta, chief executive officer. "We do not anticipate any impact to our regulatory submission timeline for the hemophilia B program as a result of this clinical hold."
Investor Conference Call Information
uniQure management along with Dr. Steven Pipe, principal investigator in the pivotal, Phase III HOPE-B trial, and Dr. Graham Foster, professor of hepatology at Queen Mary University of London, UK, will host a conference call today, Monday, December 21, 2020, at 8:30 a.m. ET. The conference call may be accessed by dialing (877) 870–9135 for domestic callers and +44 020 719 283 38 for international callers. The passcode is 5892217. Please specify to the operator that you would like to join the "uniQure Conference Call." The webcast may also be accessed through the Investors section of the uniQure website at http://uniqure.com/investors-newsroom/overview.php. Following the live webcast, a replay of the call will be archived for several weeks.
About Etranacogene Dezaparvovec
Etranacogene dezaparvovec consists of an AAV5 viral vector carrying a gene cassette with the patent-protected Padua variant of Factor IX (FIX-Padua). uniQure holds multiple issued patents in the United States and Canada broadly covering methods of treating bleeding disorders, including hemophilia B, using AAV gene therapy with the FIX-Padua variant. Etranacogene dezaparvovec has been granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation by the United States Food and Drug Administration and access to Priority Medicine (PRIME) regulatory initiative by the European Medicines Agency. In June 2020, the Company and CSL Behring entered into a licensing agreement providing CSL Behring with exclusive global rights to etranacogene dezaparvovec. This licensing agreement is subject to antitrust regulatory review in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom that is currently ongoing.
1 El-Serag HB. Epidemiology of viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Gastroenterology. 2012 May;142(6):1264-1273.e1. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2011.12.061. PMID: 22537432; PMCID: PMC3338949.
About uniQure
uniQure is delivering on the promise of gene therapy – single treatments with potentially curative results. We are leveraging our modular and validated technology platform to rapidly advance a pipeline of proprietary gene therapies to treat patients with hemophilia B, Huntington's disease, Fabry disease, spinocerebellar ataxia Type 3 and other diseases. www.uniQure.com
uniQure Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements, which are often indicated by terms such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "goal," "intend," "look forward to", "may," "plan," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "will," "would" and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on management's beliefs and assumptions and on information available to management only as of the date of this press release. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, whether clinical data from the HOPE-B Phase III pivotal trial will be included in regulatory submissions to the FDA and EMA in the second half of 2021 or ever, whether the investigation into the cause of the event that resulted in a clinical hold will be completed in early 2021, whether there will be any impact to our regulatory submission timeline for the hemophilia B program as a result of this clinical hold, and whether we will obtain regulatory approval of our agreement with CSL Behring or otherwise close the transaction. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements for many reasons, including, without limitation, risks associated with our and our collaborators' clinical development activities, clinical results, collaboration arrangements, corporate reorganizations and strategic shifts, regulatory oversight, product commercialization and intellectual property claims, as well as the risks, uncertainties and other factors described under the heading "Risk Factors" in uniQure's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on October 27, 2020. Given these risks, uncertainties and other factors, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.
uniQure Contacts
FOR INVESTORS: FOR MEDIA:
Maria E. Cantor Chiara Russo Tom Malone
Direct: 339-970-7536 Direct: 617-306-9137 Direct: 339-970-7558
Mobile: 617-680-9452 Mobile: 617-306-9137 Mobile:339-223-8541
m.cantor@uniQure.com c.russo@uniQure.com t.malone@uniQure.com


Calling all chocolate-loving New Yorkers: I'm teaming up with Godiva for a special event on Tuesday, September 17. Godiva is launching their new collection of Truffle Flights. Like a wine flight, the selection of truffles takes you on a tasting journey. There are six different assortments: nut lovers, dark decadence, heavenly mousse, cake truffles, ultimate dessert and milk chocolate lovers. I've loved Godiva since I was a little girl and am so excited to taste some of these delicious-looking truffles. Best of all, you can attend too!
Come join me in the VIP tent, and we'll sample a truffle flight together led by one of Godiva's chefs! Space is limited so contact me as soon as possible if you'd like to attend. Just send me an email at southernhostess[at]gmail.com and I'll let you know the details. Hope to see you there on Tuesday!
I wish I lived in New York!
Aw- I was just there too early.


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Support for Education
Support for Research
Fellowship & Friends
WCSM and the City
The oldest optical body in the world still in existence
A Company established by Royal Charter: you will not find us registered at Companies House!
A community of people focused on supporting the Craft, the City of London and Charity
One of the larger Livery Companies by membership with 380 Liverymen and 600 Freemen
An open Company: membership is open to all professionals who share our aims
The body from which both the College of Optometrists and the Association of British Dispensing Opticians originated
A supporter of optical training, through bursary awards made by the WCSM Education Trust
A Company which supports others: the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers' Charity (Reg no 1072172) is a grant-giving body which seeks to improve the quality of life for vision impaired people and their families, nationally and internationally
A supporter of academic research, with Gold, Silver and Bronze medals acknowledging the contribution of research to the improvement of eye health and the prevention and treatment of vision impairment
An independent and impartial place in which professionals of all optical disciplines can meet and discuss hot topics
A body which encourages firm friendships, based on common values
The Company and the Optical Sector
The Company maintains close connections with its craft. We provide a voice in the City of London for the work of the optical sector, which has a continuing impact on the daily lives of millions of people, as well as contributing at least £6 million each year to the UK economy.
We take an independent view and offer our facilities at Apothecaries' Hall as "neutral territory" where contentious issues within optics may be debated openly and amicably.
The Company has excellent relationships with universities, institutions, professional bodies and membership organisations across the optical sector, including The General Optical Council, BIOS, the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Moorfields Hospital and Charity, ABDO, AOP, AIO, The College of Optometrists, FODO, The Federation of Manufacturing Opticians, NIOS, The Association of Optometrists Ireland and Optometry Scotland, Optometry Wales and Optometry Northern Ireland.
The Worshipful Company of
Spectacle Makers
Apothecaries' Hall
Black Friars Lane, London EC4V 6EL


Below is a class and enum that together provide a flexible way to return an action result to a caller.
It can be used to return error or success results.
It contains multiple constructors that give the flexibility of instantiating the ActionResult object in the context of the called method and possible actions that will take place.
Instantiate before making a call to pass it into a method call or instantiate within a method.
Roslyn is Microsoft's effort is about re-architecting the C# and VB compliers so others can use them to create compiler services.
At Build 2014 this month Microsoft previewed language integration and made Roslyn an open source project.
Business rules engines, dynamic scripting, macros, and code refactoring are just a few of the ways Roslyn can be used.
Learn more by reading 'Taking a tour of Rosylyn'.


Down By Law : To have paid your dues; that is; to haveearned respect for your talent or ability to GET DOWNSouth African based, Down By Law Was formed in early2011, House music Producer, Jay-B and Local vocalist,Tiffany Oosthuizen joined forces to start creating deephouse gems that would be loved by all. T hey then startedteaming up with live jazz musicians and started taking PEand the rest of the Eastern Cape Head on! T hey havegained a solid support since and don`t plan on stoppinganytime soon!