The Doona Infant Car Seat was introduced into the US market this year and is turning heads with it's truly unique feature: a built in stroller.
The first time I saw the Doona Car Seat my jaw dropped and I said out loud "This is a game changer in the car seat world" and I couldn't wait to get my hands on one to see if it's as amazing as it seems. Well, here I am to tell you all about my experience with the Doona!
First off, it is JUST as cool as it seems. No joke, the design is pretty flawless and it has been a lifesaver to this mom of three. It's safety features meet all US regulations and FAA Regulations as well, and it's base is simple to install with either the LATCH system or your car's seat belt.
The seat latches into the base with the wheels folded into the seat, and when you remove the seat from the base, the wheels unfold with a simple lever on the back of the seat.
I gave our Doona the ultimate test right out the gate: my 8 month old Charlie and I took it on a flight and major trip to Las Vegas with a lot of walking, driving and in and out of vehicles. I REALLY put it to the test! I was given a hard time by the Flight Attendants when I pushed the stroller onto the plane, but I assured them that it is approved for use on airplanes and showed them (to their amazement) that is folded right up and would fit in the seat. Now, it's a rather large seat so the person in front of the car seat would not be able to recline at all but we had no issues with that on our flights. Huge positives with this seat come with travel in my opinion. I travel with my kids alone a lot and this seat seriously changed my travel for the better. Rather than struggling to fold or unfold a stroller, I was able to get the baby right onto the plane without any transfer at all. I usually stress trying to make it work or have to rely on the help of a wonderful stranger-not with the Doona!
We were in Las Vegas for the 2015 ABC Expo which is a million square foot baby and kids product expo with all the latest and greatest in everything baby/kids/maternity. The folks from Doona were there and I had the chance to meet them and chat with them about my experiences with the car seat and see what they had up their sleeves for the next year! Want to know what they've got? NEW COLORS! The Doona Infant Car Seat is now available in seven gorgeous colors!! So exciting (but I just adore my "Love" red stroller!).
The fabrics are amazing quality and have a sort of linen look to them! So Trendy! The Doona seat was for sure a show darling, and people stopped me constantly around the expo to ask what I thought of it as I pushed Charlie around. They would ask "Is it really as simple and amazing as it seems?" And I would show them! I must have demonstrated it a hundred times over the course of four days and it never got old seeing people in awe.
I am seriously in love with the Doona Infant Car Seat. As a mom of three the convenience factor is high on my list of priorities and this car seat is all about the convenience! Not only that, it pushes smoothly and fluidly. It's turns are simple and can be done one handed, and while the handle extends for use as a stroller I sometimes leave it in the lower position and my 6 year old pushes his brother! It's that easy to push.
There is no built in storage. Because of the way this stroller needs to fold to attach to the base in your car, there's no place for storage. They do have a removable basket or bags that can be used, but there's none built in.
The brake system was hard to use for a bit, but after a few weeks it was no problem at all to use.
It's lower than your average stroller seat. Again, design factors in here and the legs with the wheels can only be so long to fit into the car when folded. It never felt like a negative to me but I did have some people comment that they thought it was rather low. The handle extends and at 5'9″ I felt that it's a great height!
It's pretty heavy and bulky. With all that equipment on board, it's a heavy seat. I have only carried it once or twice though thanks to the built in stroller so it's not been an issue-more something to know!
I highly recommend this seat to any parent who is contemplating the purchase, but especially to moms with multiple children. I can imagine the convenience is a plus as a mom of one, but it has been a game changer for me with two other kids in tow! And even better yet?! My trunk no longer houses the stroller-I have room for groceries too!!
We love the Doona Infant Car Seat so much that we are going to be giving one away to one of our readers!! Just in time for Christmas, you can get the ultimate gift on every mom's list! We are giving away one Doona Infant Car Seat in the Love (Red) Color, which includes the LATCH base, the removable storage, a seat protector and the infant inserts. Enter below, Giveaway ends December 15th, 2015!
I absolutely love that it's an all in one, no worries about making sure the stroller is in the correct car because it's attached to the car seat.
This looks perfect for travel, especially on planes.
My favorite feature is that it can unfold into a stroller! I love that you don't need a carseat base to install, and the removable storage bag is also genius!
I love the convince of it being a stroller and car seat. No more stroller taking up room in the trunk.
I love that it unfolds into a stroller. Just like you said room for groceries in the car.
I love the fact it being a stroller and car seat. I am due with my third child would LOVE to win this.
Love the convenience, all in one! Awesome!
Love that it works with car latch system and no base us needed!
I literally gasp every time I see this stroller. The fact that I can pop it out of the car (even more so when baby is sleeping) & with nothing more then a push of a finger transform it into a stroller is just amazing. With a 5 month old and a 3 year old in tow, loading and unloading the car is usually a comedy show in itself. I think I'd feel like superwomen with this stroller. We have several family flights coming up, this would definitely take some stress off mom and dad!
Love the carseat stroller combo, so convenient.
The whole product is amazing! Love that it tunrs into a stroller. So cool! Thank you for the giveaway!
I love that it unfolds into a stroller!!! That is the coolest thing ever!
This is brilliant! Love that it unfolds into a stroller!
I love that it unfolds into a stroller!
My fave feature is definitely the attached wheels!
This is a lovely giveaway! I am a soon to be first time mom and I've been looking for good reviews of strollers/car seats. I love how easily this seems to transition from going for walks to being put in the car. Great review!
A friend of mine posted the youtube video about Doona last year.
My first thought was, if I ever get pregnant and have a baby again, I will want this Doona! That time, Doona was not available in the US yet.
And now I'm 27 weeks pregnant and knowing that Doona is now here, I got so excited! I want to win this so bad, so I won't have to carry heavy carseat and stroller taking space in my small car trunk! Thank you!!
I love that it is all in one!! We have so much stuff and this would help get rid of clutter since it is all in one!!
I love that you can easily fold it and latch it to a car seat. Very convenient.
I just love how easy this is to use, no need for a base, turns into a stroller, and would be great to travel with.
Wow! We have 5 kids (youngest two are 20mths and 2mths) and this would be a HUGE help. I love that you can easily unfold & fold with the baby in it. No taking him in and out to load and unload into car. So nice!
All the features seem great. As a mom of four, this carseat/stroller would be a game changer for our family.
I love that it's an all in one! So convenient to not have to worry about a stroller!
I love that you do not need a base and it is a stroller and car seat in one!!
I LOVE that it's all in one. We have a compact car and this would save precious trunk space.
I have never seen something like this, amazing that it is all in one!
I have never seen something like this, amazing that it is all in one, would make it so much easier!
Uses a simple lever to unfold the very handy stroller wheels.
I love that it unfold to a stroller!!
I really like that you don't need a separate stroller with this seat!
I love that this allows easy movement from the car to the stroller!
I love the built in stroller.
I like that the wheels fold into the seat.
I love that it unfolds into a stroller! It would save a lot of money and space!
I love the convenience of it. No having to get the stroller out of the trunk. So as many mention I love the feature that you get 2 necessary products in one.
I really like the removable storage bag. It's nice how small and compact it folds up.
Amazing! I love that it is a two in one with both a stroller and car seat.
That it converts to a stroller right out of the car of course!
I love that you don't have to take something out of the trunk and then take baby out! You save so much time and less worry!
Love how convenient all in one it is!
I love that it unfolds into a stroller!!!
This seems almost too good to be true! Why isn't this a standard feature for all strollers??
I like that it changes into a stroller.
Just roll and go! Love that. No lugging around heavy seats.
They really thought of everything! I love the tire covers!!
I would really love to win this amazing carseat my favorite feature is that it unfolds and turns into a stroller is very stilysh fingers crossed my baby due date is in two weeks so it would be a blessing if I win.
I don't know how many times I have forgotten a stroller because I had transferred it to my husbands car and never transferred it back! I absolutely love the 2 in 1 feature. Also looks great for travel!
I love that this frees up space in the trunk! No bulky stroller in the back of my van!!
Oh wow! That is so amazing! I LOVE that its the stroller car seat all in one!! What a neat idea! Would be so perfect for the new baby on the way!
I love the fact it folds out into a stroller.
I love the color! My favorite feature is that it folds out into a stroller. I hate having to take up all the room in my trunk with a big bulky stroller!
Favorite feature is that I wouldn't have to pack a stroller separately. I have three kids, so I already have a double stroller to pack. This would save so much space.
We travel a lot so I love that you can stroll right up to the airplane gate and it folds up so easily!
I absolutely love the 2-in-1 feature! It's just so handy! I'm a first time mom, and am really learning how items like this, truly are a convenience!
I love that it's all in one! So awesome!
Traveling has been a big pain since I had my 2nd baby. Two children under 3 is just tough when traveling alone. I really love that the Doona can be used as both a carseat and stroller. Multi-use makes it a game changer, and I can't imagine how awesome this would be when traveling. I hate having to check in a big stroller system at the airport.
What a cool all-in-one concept!!
I love that its just roll and go!
Love the colors they come in!
The easy fold is awesome!
I love everything about this car seat and I can't wait for my baby to arrive!!!
I love that it can become a stroller. With a newborn and a two year old that would make life much easier!
I love that it is an all in one but the fact that it can fold up into a carseat, that is my fave feature.
It great how the carseat turns into a stroller!
Looks compact and easy to carry.
Uuumm…. that it turns into a stroller!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I absolutely love that it unfolds into a stroller. So nifty and convenient! Thanks!
I love that the car seat folds into a stroller and its an all in one that is so compact!
I love that it can transform so easily from a car seat to a stroller.
I love that the carseat turns into a stroller!!!
I absolutely love that this car seat turns into a stroller. Brilliant!
I love the ease of use!!! It really is a "why didn't I think of that?!?" product!
It's a amazing that its a stroller and a carseat!
I love that it folds into a stroller.
Omg that it turns into a stroller!
I would love to win this for my son that is coming soon in 2 months. Merry Christmas!!
I would loveeee to have this for my son that is coming soon in less than 2 months! Merry Christmas!!


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Anna Blume, Pioneering Maker of Action-Packed, Droll Photographs, Has Died at 84
Anna Blume at Art Basel in 2019. Courtesy Peter Freeman, Inc.
Anna Blume, a German artist who collaborated with her husband, Bernhard, in creating experimental photographs, has died at age 84. Best known for their black-and-white prints and polaroid collages, the Blumes captured dynamic and oftentimes amusing and theatrical scenes featuring interactions with sculptures, trees, and everyday objects.
Reached by ARTnews, Peter Freeman, Inc., a New York–based gallery that represents Blume, confirmed the artist's death but did not share a cause of death.
Anna Blume was born in Bork, Germany, in 1936, and she studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf during the 1960s, when Joseph Beuys joined the faculty there. She met Bernhard, who died in 2011, at the Kunstakademie and the pair married in 1966. They were based in Cologne throughout their career.
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Among the couple's most notable works was Kitchen Frenzy (1986), which the artists began in 1980. The gelatin silver prints that make up the piece, which is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, pokes fun at suburban German middle-class life. Depicting Blume herself, the series of images show a domestic scene devolve into a blurry chaos, with potatoes flying sporadically around a room.
"We paint with our camera, and this painterly work continues in the lab, too" she once said.
In an email to friends and colleagues, Peter Freeman said of Anna, "Her work, and that with Bernhard, continue to bring joy to many."
Anna and Bernhard's work was the subject of a presentation at the gallery in 2016. The show, titled "Scenes from a Photo-Novel," was their first solo exhibition in New York since a 1989 outing at the Museum of Modern Art. Among the pieces that figured in the gallery exhibition were the photographic works Hänsel und Gretel (1990/1991), Küchenkoller (1985/2016), Mahlzeit (1989), and Transzendentaler Konstrukt (1992/2016), along with the watercolor on paper Zeichnungen (Natürlich) (A), ca. 1992.
The couple's work was included in major international exhibitions, including Documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977, and shows at the Kunsthalle Baselthe in 1987, the Hamburger Bahnhofthe in Berlin in 2002, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne in 2005, and elsewhere. Their pieces can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in Texas, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and more institutions.
Bernhard Blume

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Q: OneDrive Delta Next Page Link Error I'm trying to page through deltas for a OneDrive root folder, but the second page is giving me a link that returns a 400 error.
My initial request looks like this:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drives/<drive-id>/root/microsoft.graph.delta

which returns a page of deltas and a link to the next page.
The next page link looks like this:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drives('<drive-id>')/root/microsoft.graph.delta(token='MzslMjMzOyUyMzE7Mzs5ZmY3MzExYy0yYzRmLTQwZGMtYmVjNS0zMWI3NDXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXk0OTMyNDMwMDAwOzkxMjY5ODk3OyUyM1BhZ2VkPVRSVUUlMjZwX0lEPTI1NTg7JTIzOyUyMzQ')

But when I make a request using that link, I get this response:
400 : Bad Request
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Transfer-Encoding : chunked
Strict-Transport-Security : max-age=31536000
Cache-Control : private
x-ms-ags-diagnostic : {"ServerInfo":{"DataCenter":"West US","Slice":"SliceA","Ring":"4","ScaleUnit":"000","Host":"AGSFE_IN_27","ADSiteName":"WST"}}
client-request-id : 5c1d0d11-1c1f-4fa0-8c1e-ce61369402ce
Duration : 11.1016
request-id : 5c1d0d11-1c1f-4fa0-8c1e-ce61369402ce
Date : Thu, 29 Mar 2018 23:14:01 GMT
Content-Type : application/json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "BadRequest",
    "message": "Syntax error at position 160 in \u0027token\u003d\u0027MzslMjMzOyUyMzE7Mzs5ZmY3MzExYy0yYzRmLTQwZGMtYmVjNS0zMWI3NDXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXk0OTMyNDMwMDAwOzkxMjY5ODk3OyUyM1BhZ2VkPVRSVUUlMjZwX0lEPTI1NTg7JTIzOyUyMzQ\u0027)(token\u003dnull\u0027.",
    "innerError": {
      "request-id": "5c1d0d11-1c1f-4fa0-8c1e-ce61369402ce",
      "date": "2018-03-29T23:14:01"
    }
  }
}

This looks like it's probably an internal problem, but maybe I'm doing something wrong. I've tried with both the beta and v1.0 endpoints. Am I missing something?

A: Your URI is close but not correct. The correct URI should be:
GET /drives/{drive-id}/root/delta

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Since Trailer Life Navigator doesn't appear to have all the state parks in their program, here is a collection of over 4,500 points and a small bitmap.
Works great, but the BMP is a green tree on a green background and they are hard to see when they are positioned over a green section of the TLDCN map display.
I may modify the bmp to give it more color and make it more obvious.
I appreciate the POIs. It's so much better when someone else does the work.
Here are a few state parks icons. Two sets of 5. The ones with the "L" at the end of the filename are slightly "L"arger versions.


What is the Paleo/Primal/Caveman/Hunter-Gatherer diet? Is it good for me? Are their risks? I've heard of it, but am skeptical because my doctor says there's risks, what should I do?
There are several different names for what is essentially the same thing. Caveman, Hunter-Gatherer, Paleo, Primal . . . they're all based on some of the same key components with the only differences being minor details. For now, we will use the name "Paleo" in reference to all of these names.
As Robb Wolf likes to say, "there are two ways to explain the paleo diet." The first is the "inclusive way," a.k.a. what you do eat. The second is the "exclusive way," what you don't eat.
The Inclusive: While many heretics of the Paleo diet think of it as a very limiting diet, in truth, it is the exact opposite. The Paleo diet consists of delicious, fatty animal proteins (especially fish), eggs, colorful, non-starchy vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, cheese (if you can handle it) and other healthy fats likecoconut, olive, and rendered animal fat (Sweet potatoes can be added if workload grants it). Eating this way will keep you satisfied, energized, and ready to take on the challenges of college life and beyond.
The research began on one man's quest for perfect teeth. That's right, perfect teeth. Weston A. Price (a dentist) and his wife traveled the world looking for a culture with "perfect health" where they assumed they would find perfect dental stature. A culture where western disease's like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease had no trace. On this quest, Price realized the link between nutrition and overall health. He found "that beautiful straight teeth, freedom from decay, stalwart bodies, resistance to disease and fine characters were typical of primitives on their traditional diets, rich in essential food factors." This traditional diet consisted of "milk, green vegetables, sea foods, organs of animals and the reinforcement of the fat-soluble vitamins by very high vitamin butter and high vitamin natural cod liver oil." All this, while the US government was busy shunning any and all saturated fat from our nutritional guidelines.
This is the primitive, hunter-gatherer history side of the Paleo diet. This is the diets namesake. However, it is not the end of the story. Large scale research has been done proving the legitimacy of the paleo diet. Many studies of the sort can be found here. The gist of this research is that high-fat, low-carb diets work. The difference, however, between the Paleo diet and say, Atkins, has to do with what kinds of food we eat.
Out of all the things that the Paleo diet is, when it comes down to it, the most important part is just eating real food (J.E.R.F). Cutting out all the crap in your diet will make you a better, healthier person. What is the "crap?" Crap is any overly-processed, cheap "foods." These are the foods that will be highest in refined sugars, processed vegetable oils, and refined dairy products, all things that you want to avoid.
Why is this diet better than any other diet?
That's right, Megan Fox is on The Paleo Diet!
The Paleo diet not only helps you lose weight, but it will keep you at a normal weight. The Paleo diet teaches your body how to keep weight off by a process called ketosis. A state of ketosis is basically when your body uses stored fat for energy. So, if you are in ketosis, you won't have to cut calories, or fat, or cholesterol, from your diet because your body is naturally burning off your stored fat, and converting it to energy. Along with the dramatic weight loss, you will truly be a healthier person.
The Paleo diet consists of many animal fats and vegetables. The reason why this is optimal for your health is because nutrient absorption can only take full effect with the use of fat. In most cases, that fat needs to be from animal products for full absorption. When your body completely absorbs these essential vitamins and minerals, you become a nutrient dense being. When you are nutrient dense, you can fight off sickness, and disease like cancer, chronic heart disease, and diabetes.
Now that you've got all the general information, here are the basics to get you started.
Have you had success on the Paleo diet? Drop us a comment below.
Hello, your articles here What is The Paleo/Primal Diet? Overview to write well, thanks for sharing!


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package org.nextrtc.signalingserver.api.annotation;

import org.nextrtc.signalingserver.api.NextRTCEvent;
import org.nextrtc.signalingserver.domain.InternalMessage;

public enum NextRTCEvents implements NextRTCEvent {
	SESSION_STARTED, //
	SESSION_CLOSED, //
	UNEXPECTED_SITUATION, //
	CONVERSATION_CREATED, //
	MEMBER_JOINDED, //
	MEMBER_LOCAL_STREAM_CREATED, //
	MEMBER_LEFT, //
	CONVERSATION_CLOSED, //
	;

	@Override
	public NextRTCEvents getType() {
		return this;
	}

	public NextRTCEvent basedOn(InternalMessage message) {
		return this;
	}
}

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Behind the Max & Louise Pattern Co. are two friends, Lisa Kerr and Louise Lott, who share a joint passion for quilts. Together they create, adapt and reproduce, with outstanding talent, what they love most – antique and traditional quilts.
This range of beautiful background shirting fabrics are must-haves!


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Q: Spring Batch- Ibatis Batch Item Writer - Null Pointer Exception I was trying to copy a data from one data source to another, used to Ibaitsbatchitemwriter class to do so. Record was got inserted into target database but end of the batch getting null pointer exception as below,
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.springframework.batch.item.database.IbatisBatchItemWriter.write(IbatisBatchItemWriter.java:142)
    at org.springframework.batch.core.step.item.SimpleChunkProcessor.writeItems(SimpleChunkProcessor.java:175)
    at org.springframework.batch.core.step.item.SimpleChunkProcessor.doWrite(SimpleChunkProcessor.java:151)
    at org.springframework.batch.core.step.item.SimpleChunkProcessor.write(SimpleChunkProcessor.java:274)
    at org.springframework.batch.core.step.item.SimpleChunkProcessor.process(SimpleChunkProcessor.java:199)
    at org.springframework.batch.core.step.item.ChunkOrientedTasklet.execute(ChunkOrientedTasklet.java:75)
but after adding the property assertupdates = fales i was not getting the error and then data is also got copied. but i was not convinced with the null pointer error, looks like am missing something in my config or so.
i use spring infra 2.2.4 and ibatis version 2.3.0.
<bean id="targetWriterDepAcct03"
        class="org.springframework.batch.item.database.IbatisBatchItemWriter">
        <property name="sqlMapClient" ref="targetDatabaseMap" />
        <property name="statementId" value="DepositAccountSqlMap.updtDepositAccount" />
        <property name="assertUpdates" value="false" />
    </bean>

<batch:job id="baseJob" abstract="true" restartable="true"
        job-repository="jobRepository" />
    <batch:job id="TboltSyncBatchJob">
        <batch:step id="CheckForConfigFileStep">
            <batch:tasklet ref="CheckForConfigFile" />
            <batch:next on="COMPLETED" to="SyncDataDepAcct03" />
            <batch:end on="FAILED" />
        </batch:step>

        <batch:step id="SyncDataDepAcct03">
            <batch:tasklet transaction-manager="transactionManager">
                <batch:chunk reader="sourceReaderForDepAcct03" writer="targetWriterDepAcct03"
                    commit-interval="1000" />
            </batch:tasklet>
        </batch:step>

any thoughts?

A: That NPE is due to the fact that zero results were returned by the SqlMapClient.  If you don't need the number of records to be checked, you can turn that off.  If you need them checked, you'll want to look into why that query isn't returning any results.  You can see the code for the IbatisBatchItemWriter here: IbatisBatchItemWriter.


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Молодість та інші оповідання (ang. Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories) — збірка творів британського письменника Джозефа Конрада. Книга, опублікована в 1902 році, містить один із найвідоміших творів Конрада, роман «Серце пітьми».

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 Молодість (Youth), вперше опубліковано у «Blackwood's Magazine» у 1898 році;
 Серце пітьми (Heart of Darkness), вперше опубліковано в «Blackwood's Magazine» у 1899 році;
 Кінець неволі (The End of the Tether), раніше не публікувався.

Переклади українською
 Джозеф Конрад. Серце пітьми. Переклад з англійської — Ігор Андрущенко.  Львів: «Астролябія». 2015. 160 стор. ISBN 978-617-664-081-3
 Джозеф Конрад. Серце темряви. Переклад з англійської — Марія Головко. Київ: «Знання». 2015. 175 стор. ISBN 978-617-07-0320-0
 Джозеф Конрад. Серце пітьми. Переклад з англійської — Тарас Бойко. Київ: «Комубук». 2016. 176 стор. ISBN 978-966-97490-5-5
 Джозеф Конрад. Зроби або помри: морські історії. Переклад з англійської — П. Таращук, С. Вільховий, Л. Гончар та М. Рошківський. Київ: «Темпора». 2011. 528 стор. (Серія «Бібліотека "ЛітАкценту"») ISBN 978-617-569-065-9
 Джозеф Конрад. «Кінець неволі». Переклад з англійської: Михайло Калинович. Київ: Слово. 1928. 207 стор.

Екранізація

 Апокаліпсис сьогодні (ang."Apocalypse Now", 1979) — за новелою «Серце пітьми», реж. Френсіс Форд Коппола, актори Мартін Шин і Марлон Брандо,
 Серце темряви (Heart of Darkness, 1993) — реж. Ніколас Роуг, актори Тім Рот і Джон Малкович,
 Молодість (2016), екранізація оповідання Молодість, режисер Жюльєн Самані.

Примітки

Посилання

 Молодість і серце темряви у Вікіджерелах (опубліковано 1930 р.)
 Наприкінці сил у Вікіджерела (опубліковано 1939 р.)

Твори Джозефа Конрада
Літературні твори 1902
Збірки творів Великої Британії

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Q: Displaying Unicode characters: Excel 2010 vs Excel 2013 I need to substitute plain ASCII for Unicode characters in an Excel spreadsheet. Eg convert Ståle to Stale.
The following works fine in Excel 2013. But in Excel 2010, a "?" is displayed instead of the problematic character. Any ideas? Note that the non-Ascii characters are correctly detected in Excel 2010, but the characters aren't displayed.
char = Mid(val, i, 1)
char_code = AscW(char)
If char_code > 127 Then
  MsgBox ("Problem with " & c.Address & " [" & char_code & "] " &
    StrConv(ChrW(char_code), vbUnicode))
End If

I also tried just
MsgBox ("Problem with " & char & " " & ChrW(char_code))

Again it worked with Excel 2013 but not Excel 2010.

A: More research reveals:
The MsgBox control for Excel 2010 does not support Unicode characters. The Excel 2013 MsgBox does.
The Unicode non-ASCII character works fine when the character is inserted into a worksheet cell. The problem is only when using MsgBox to display it. Good news is that the problem is fixed in Excel 2013. More on the subject.


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Meet the Fascinating American Women Who Won't Win (But Could Break Out At) The 2018 New York City Marathon
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Hardly anyone — including us — expected Shalane Flanagan and Des Linden to win the New York City and Boston Marathons, respectively. But once you've won a World Marathon Major as an American, you're in select company, so we preview the chances of Shalane, Des, and Molly Huddle in another article here.
This article is for the other female American hopefuls in New York: Stephanie Bruce, Sydney Devore, Carrie Dimoff, Roberta Groner, Allie Kieffer, and Sarah Sellers, all of whom have been overlooked or forgotten at one point in their careers.
And while we should probably quit underestimating the chances of Americans at World Marathon Majors, we guarantee none of the women in this article will win New York on Sunday. Three of the other elite American women mentioned above, Bruce (10th in NYC & London in her last two marathons), Kieffer (5th in NYC last year) and Sellers (runner-up in Boston this year) have had some success in World Marathon Majors. But they are up against a field that contains not just Flanagan, Linden, and Huddle, but three-time NYC champ Mary Keitany and London champion Vivian Cheruiyot — two titans of the sport.
But if the past year in women's marathoning has taught us anything, it's that surprises happen. We teach you a bit about the other Americans in NYC so that if (when?) one of them has a breakout race, you'll know who they are.
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Stephanie Bruce — 34 years old, 2:29:35 pb (2011 Houston), 70:53 half
Last two marathons: 10th 2017 New York (2:31:44), 10th 2018 London (2:32:28)
Tuneup race: 71:50 for 6th at Great North Run on September 9
Bruce's last two marathons weren't exactly bad, but she will be hoping to go faster (she hasn't broken 2:30 since 2011) and finish higher on Sunday.
One thing that should help is that Bruce is seeing a nutritionist once a week. She has a gene mutation, MTHFR, which prevents the absorption of nutrients such as folate, and in the past that would wreak havoc with her energy levels. Now she is able to stay on top of her condition.
"Both of those races, London and New York, were good but she really didn't feel on her game like she had maybe in training," her Hoka One One NAZ Elite coach Ben Rosario says. "So this time around, everything looks really good now and she feels good and her workouts have been excellent. So I would at least say this: she's in a better spot going into this one than she was going into either New York or London."
There is reason to be optimistic. Bruce won her first national title at the Peachtree Road Race in July at the age of 34 (after giving birth to two kids), taking down road aces Aliphine Tuliamuk and Sara Hall in the process, and is coming off her fastest half marathon in five years (71:50 at the Great North Run). Anything outside of the top 10 will be a disappointment for her.
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Allie Kieffer — 31 years old, 2:29:39 pb (2017 New York), 70:40 half
Last two marathons: 1st 2016 Armory Indoor Marathon (2:44:44), 5th 2017 New York (2:29:39)
Tuneup races: 70:50 for 1st at Staten Island Half on October 14, 72:44 for 1st at Toronto Half on October 21
Kieffer took everyone surprise last year by running a 16-minute personal best to finish 5th in New York. A lot has been written about Kieffer recently, and that's because there is a lot to write. A Foot Locker finalist as a high schooler on Long Island, Kieffer basically gave up running in 2016, doing CrossFit workouts with her boyfriend instead.
But she began training in earnest last year, surprised everyone with her result in New York, and in 2018 she has been traveling the globe while training under coach Brad Hudson. She ran a half marathon pb of 70:40 in Doha in January and spent the rest of the winter training in Kenya, only to miss the spring marathon season with a stress fracture in her foot. Back in the U.S., she doesn't have a "home," renting a series of places over the past few months, and she's traveling to Thailand and Vietnam after the marathon before returning to Kenya, per Runner's World.
Looking at New York, one would think that with a sponsorship (Oiselle) and a full-time coach, Kieffer could only improve on last year, but running (especially the marathon) doesn't always work that way. Everything went right for Kieffer last year, and if the leaders go out too fast in 2018, she could benefit and pick them off as they fade. But she could just as easily run a solid race and finish 8th.
Kieffer rightfully had received a lot of press after her NYC run last year including this NYTimes article on Sunday which even mentions a post on the LetsRun.com forums that implied Kieffer's improvement could only come about by doping.
Sarah Sellers — 27 years old, 2:44:04 pb (2018 Boston), 74:27 half
Last two marathons: 1st 2017 Huntsville (2:44:27), 2nd 2018 Boston (2:22:04)
Tuneup races: 74:27 for 9th at Rock 'n' Roll Philadelphia Half on September 16
It's incredible to think that, if it weren't for Des Linden, Sellers would be the 2018 Boston Marathon champion. The nurse from Tucson weathered the conditions better than almost everyone to run a 23-second PR of 2:44:04, and she knows that finishing second in the horrific conditions of Boston could result in unrealistic external expectations in New York.
"It's kind of terrifying to go forward after Boston," Sellers told LetsRun.com. "Because even if I do what could be for me a great race at New York, for a lot of the world it may look like a massive disappointment. I've had to refocus and realize I'm in this sport because I want to push myself and see what I can achieve and not because I'm trying to please other people."
Sellers, who picked up a sponsor in Altra and was able to convince her hospital to cut her hours back to 30 per week, is trying to keep her internal expectations realistic. First and foremost, she wants to hit the Olympic Trials "A" standard of 2:37:00, which is certainly doable, though she said that she has dealt with some hip injuries during her buildup.
"I think if I ran low-2:30s I'd be really happy," Sellers said.
No matter how Sellers runs, her New York experience will be very different from Boston. Sellers had to pay an entry fee just like everyone else to run Boston, but as part of the elite field in New York, she is getting the total VIP package: the New York Road Runners are covering all expenses (flights, hotel, and food for Sellers, her husband, and her agent Bob Wood). She even got an appearance fee, which she did not know existed until Wood told her about it.
"Bob said it like a no duh thing, like, 'We'll see who gives you the best appearance fee [for a fall marathon],'" Sellers said. "I was like wait, what, that's even a thing?"
Sydney Devore — 27 years old, 2:32:39 pb (2018 Pittsburgh), 74:21 half
Tuneup race: 74:43 for 2nd at Rock 'n' Roll San Jose Half on October 7
Devore, like several of the other Americans in this race, has an unusual backstory. She ran collegiately at the University of Florida but quit the team and moved to South Korea to become an English teacher. She then returned to the States, where she continued to work as a teacher before picking up running again after a four-year break from the sport. She gradually improved, and after a chance meeting with some members of the Hansons-Brooks team in Florida in March, she wound up quitting her job and joining the team full-time.
Devore ran 2:32 to win her debut in Pittsburgh in May, and has a lot of potential for improvement, but NYC will be a test unlike anything she's faced in her brief professional career.
For more on Devore, check out Joe Battaglia's profile on her.
Carrie Dimoff — 35 years old, 2:30:53 pb (2017 CIM), 71:51 half
Last two marathons: 17th 2017 Boston (2:37:30), 3rd 2017 CIM (2:30:53)
Dimoff, a 35-year-old Princeton alum, is a mother of two, holds down a full-time job in shoe development at Nike (is she responsible for the Vaporflys???) and is still getting faster. She debuted with a 2:44 at the 2016 Olympic Trials, lowered that to 2:37 in Boston last year, and PR'd again with a 2:30 to take third at the US champs at CIM in December. This year, she almost beat Gwen Jorgensen at the Stanford Invite 10k (she was second in 31:57) and ran a pb of 71:51 to finish 5th at the US half marathon champs in May.
Roberta Groner — 40 years old, 2:30:37 pb (2017 CIM), 72:20 half
Last two marathons: 16th 2017 Boston (2:36:33), 2nd 2017 CIM (2:30:37)
Tuneup races: 72:20 for 3rd at Rock 'n' Roll Philadelphia Half on September 16, 56:01 for 3rd at Bronx 10-Miler on September 30
Put together the backstories of Sellers, Devore, and Dimoff and you get Roberta Groner. Like Sellers, she works full-time as a nurse. Like Devore, she took a lengthy break from the sport (she didn't run for 10 years, from 1999-2009, after graduating from St. Francis University). And like Dimoff, she is raising multiple children (she is a mother of three) and running her best times at an advanced age.
Groner finished one spot ahead of Dimoff at Boston and CIM last year. Groner, who turned 40 in January, has PR'd in her last four marathons, most recently CIM in December, where she ran 2:30:37 (an almost six-minute PR) to finish second. This year, she has clocked PRs of 16:36 and 33:31 on the roads and is coming off a 72:20 half marathon PR in Philadelphia last month. This will be her first attempt at New York since 2015, when she finished 19th in 2:45:30.
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Birth defects are anatomical abnormalities present at birth. The causes of birth defects are genetic, environmental and multifactorial inheritance factors. The main objective of the thesis is to determine the effects of maternal heat stress during rat pregnancy on fetal axial skeletal development and to explore some of the possible maternal and placental responses to heat stress.
Experiment one: A group of 40 Wistar pregnant rats were randomly assigned to two treatment groups, a control group (non-stressed, n = 10) heat at 21°C and a heat-stressed group kept at 41 °C (n = 30) for one hour on day 9 of gestation. The objective of this experiment is to determine the effect of heat stress on some maternal physiological parameters. Following an hour of heat stress or sham treatment, blood samples were collected from orbital vein, allowed to clot, and centrifuged at 3000 r.p.m for 10 minutes to obtain serum. Serum samples were used for determination of glucose, calcium, osteocalcin, thyroxin (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3).
Results showed that heat stress caused significant Increases In serum glucose and oseocalcin levels. In addition, serum calcium, T3, and T4 levels were significantly lower in treated animals than those in control group.
Experiment two: A total of 34 Wistar pregnant rats were randomly assigned to three treatment groups, a control group (non-stressed, n = 10) kept at 21°C, a heat-stressed group I kept at 41°C (n = 14), and a heat-stressed group II kept at 42°C (n = 10) for one hour on day 9 of gestation. The objective of this experiment is to investigate the effect of heat stress on embryonic bone development and to demonstrate the extreme changes and severity of skeletal malformations due to temperature.
Results showed that heat stress caused reduction in the implantation, number of live embryos and fetal and placental weights in comparison to control animals. These effects were significantly pronounced in the 42°C treatment group. Morphological malformations were found in fetuses due to heat treatment. Malformations in the upper and lower jaws and increased incidence of mandibular and maxillary hypoplasia were observed in heat-treated group as compared to the controls. But in comparison between 41°C and 42°C, the 41°C group showed a higher incidence of maxillary-mandibular hypoplasia and tongue protrusion. In addition, both experimental groups showed a high incidence of excencephaly, exopthamia with cataract, facial clefts, and short tails than the controls.
More skeletal malformations were recorded in experimental animals than in controls. The control fetuses had well ossified bones of the skull that included the mandible, premaxilla, maxilla, zygomatic, nasal, frontal, parietal, interparietal, supraoccipital, exoccipital, temporal, tympanic ring, hyoid, ethmoid, presphenoid, basisphenoid and basioccipital bones than in the experimental animals. The comparison between 41°C and 42°C groups showed different responses in terms of skeletal defects.
Also results showed that control vertebral column appeared to have higher ossified vertebra than experimental groups. In the experimental fetuses, the vertebral arches and bodies showed decrease in number and poor ossification. The higher the temperature, the higher was the reduction in number of lumbar, sacral and coccygeal arches and bodies in experimental groups.
In the control group, ribs, and sternebare appeared normally ossified without any reduction in number. No instance of fused or hypoplastic ribs was found in control fetuses. There was lower incidence of hypoplastic ilium, ishchium and pubis in control fetuses than in experimental rats. In addition, higher development in forelimb skeletons was observed in the control animals than in the treated ones.
Placentas of the control groups showed lower weight compared with the experimental groups. The deciduas of experimental group was thicker than that of control group. There were large areas of hyalinization and lymphatic infiltration. Multinucleated giant cells were more abundant than those with single nucleus and basophils were extremely numerous. The glycogen cell clusters were reduced or absent over a large proportion of the spongy zone. Electron microscopic examination of the placentas showed a series of degenerative changes in experimental groups higher than those in control group placentas.
Al-Menhali, Noura Musaed, "Effect of Environmental Heat Stress on Embryonic Bone Development" (2002). Theses. 414.


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It is surprising how ticks have become so common in Vermont over the last several years. We're even seeing them in some of the coldest regions of the state. This year, they seem to be even more common than ever – probably due to the wet spring we've had.
The main concern is the black-legged tick (also known as the Deer Tick).
If a tick attaches to you, follow the procedure on the CDC website. They recommend using tweezers: grab the tick as close to your skin as possible, pull upward with a steady pressure (no jerking or twisting), if the head breaks off attempt to remove it, clean the bite area with soap/water/alcohol. Lyme Disease infection typically takes at least 24 hours to be transmitted from a tick. Follow up with a doctor if a rash or fever occurs within the following several weeks.


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    If ``replication_source`` is not an empty string, the server is considered
    to be a Bee replica. The replica server will try to connect to the
    master which replication_source specifies with a :ref:`URI` (Universal
    Resource Identifier), for example :samp:`{konstantin}:{secret_password}@{bee.org}:{3301}`.

    The default user name is 'guest'. The ``replication_source`` parameter is
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It's now almost a year-and-a-half since Apple first teased AirPower, a multi-coil charger that lets you place your iPhone, Apple Watch or (as yet also fictitious) wireless AirPods case anywhere on the charging mat. We're still no closer to knowing when it will actually be available.
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The house we are renting has a double front door. Cool, right? I have been very proud of myself for resisting the temptation to paint those things. Anyway, I don't have two wreaths, let alone two matching wreaths, so I was on a mission to somehow dress up those front doors this holiday season.
My first inclination was to buy a fresh wreath. Well, they were more than I wanted to spend. Big, surprise.
Then I saw a fake wreath at Target and they wanted $25. For a fake wreath! Sheesh.
So, I went to Hobby Lobby and their Christmas stuff was 50% off. I found a fake wreath for $5.00, originally $9.99. Now, it was a little fake looking. This picture actually makes it look better than it was.
While I don't have any fir trees in my yard in Georgia, I do have some bushes that remind me of cedar. (I apologize to all of you folks out there with green thumbs. I do not know my plants.) I also have oodles and oodles of pine cones.
So, I went out and gathered up some pine cones of similar size and cut a bunch of fresh greenery.
Here's how the wreath started to transform.
I thought it could use a little more jazziness though, so I kept adding greenery and a third pinecone to each wreath. Three pine cones – things are getting wild over here!
I used floral wire to attach the pine cones. Then I got really technical with things and just shoved the greenery in there willy nilly. I do willy nilly and imperfect very well.
The wreaths have been up since Thanksgiving weekend and so far, so good. Knock on the front door wood.
The burlap ribbon also came from Hobby Lobby. It was on sale for $3.00 and I had enough to make bows for two wreaths, plus some extra.
I'm sure there is a proper way to make bows, but I haven't learned it yet! I tried my best to make sure the bows were of similar size and character and attached them to the wreath with floral wire.
I thought they looked pretty good for a grand total of $6.50 plus tax each!
See, even my assistant agrees.
So, that's the story of how I tried to make my fake $5 wreaths look like they weren't fake $5 wreaths. Now all that's left to do is break the news to my husband that we'll be adding one more box of Christmas decor to the storage area to hold those wreaths. More Christmas boxes make him so happy!
Let's keep discussing wreaths! It seems like the right thing to do.


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By Richard Corliss Oct. 20, 2011
Artist: Al Jolson
Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis covered his songs, Bob Dylan and Jerry Lee Lewis revered him, and every belter from Judy Garland to Mick Jagger to Taylor Hicks owes lessons in showmanship to Al Jolson. He might be remembered today as a shameless schmaltz peddler, his face corked in the demeaning racial stereotype of blackface, but in his day, this son of a Lithuanian rabbi was billed as "the World's Greatest Entertainer." He was surely the most seismic singer of his era: a star of Broadway, records and the earliest talking pictures. Onstage, prowling runways that projected him into the audience, he would build a tune to operatic grandeur, then tear it apart with a sobbing coda.
Like Elvis' "Hound Dog," Jolson's signature song was a cover: "My Mammy" was introduced on the vaudeville stage by William Frawley, later I Love Lucy's Fred Mertz. With lyrics by Joe Young and Sam M. Lewis and music by Walter Donaldson (a prolific hitmaker whose other "my" songs included "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" and "My Blue Heaven"), this maternal torch song proclaims, "I'd walk a million miles for one of your smiles." Jolson nuked that naked sentiment in the climactic moments of The Jazz Singer, the 1927 musical melodrama that cued Hollywood's gold rush to talkies. As a cantor's son who has deserted the family job for showbiz, he sings to his mother in the front row — shimmying, patting his heart, impulsively clapping gloved hands, kneeling to speak-sing the second chorus and pleading, "Doncha know me? It's your little baby!" In a galvanic performance, Jolson sold more than the song; he proved that the new medium could capture the glory of the world's greatest entertainer and all those who would follow.
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import java.util.List;

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import com.amazonaws.services.apigateway.model.*;
import com.amazonaws.transform.Marshaller;
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Q: Using operator "/=" at 'declare&initialize' part I'm a student who got interested in computer science recently. I'm studying C++ because I am interested in embedded systems.
When I tried to test the operator /= on my own. I want to learn about it by doing. The code that I wrote was
int a /= --b + 3;
but the compiler gave me an error message. But when I modified it to
int a = 0;
a /= --b + 3;`

it worked well. I thought it is related to l-values and r-values. Why does the 1st example with operator /= give me an error but the 2nd example above is ok? Can I ask you for some reference to get a hint about this question?
PS: When I tested with
int t = t / (--a + 3);

it worked well too! What is the  difference? Can you point me to some document about that?

A: I would like to mention two things.

*

*What is the meaning of this code?

*Is it valid C++ syntax?

Let's take a look at both.

when I tested "int a/=--b+3", it has error but when I modified to "int a=0;
a/=--b+3;" , it works well.

Unlike Java, C/C++ does not automatically initialize integer's value by 0 and it contains a garbage value(called "indeterminate value" officially). So int a/=--b+3; is more like int a; a/=--b+3; which is still be a meaningless value.
And when you declare a variable, C/C++ grammar does not allow /=. Here are the ways for variable declaration and initialization. I'm not sure there is more ways.

*

*int a = 1;

*int a(1);

*int a{1}; (since C++11)

A: a /= b;

is the same as:
a = a / b;

so this means that this below statement makes no sense:
int a /= (--b + 3);

Because it's equivalent to:
int a = a / (--b + 3);

Assuming that b has already been defined here; the problem is that a hasn't been defined, and so can't be used as part of the assignment.
The problem here is the same as the problem with this statement:
int a = a;

This also explains why the following code does work:
int a = 0;
a /= (--b + 3);

Because it's equivalent to this:
int a = 0;
a = a / (--b + 3);

Because a is known in the second line above, the RHS can be defined, and the new value for a determined.
More generally, operators like /=, *=, +=, -= and %= shouldn't be used during initialisation of a variable. A compiler (such as g++) should respond with an error if you ever try to do this.


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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British politician and a Nobel Prize winner.
"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."[1]
Simple: All things that are great are easy to understand, and many can be defined in these words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy and hope.
"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."[2]
Simple: Generally, words that are short are the best, and old words are even better.
"It is a remarkable comment on our affairs that the former prime minister of a great sovereign state should thus be received as an honorary citizen of another."[3]
Simple: It is a very interesting thing about the way we do things, that someone who was the Prime Minister of a great country can become an honorary citizen of another country.
"I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes"[4][5]
Simple: I have no problem using poison gas against uncivilised tribes
"I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race... has come in and taken its place."[6]
Simple: I believe white Europeans to be a superior race.
↑ Quotations Page
↑ Luntz, Frank I. (2007). Words that work. Hyperion, Page 1. ISBN 1401302599.
↑ Think Exist
↑ http://www.pcworks.demon.co.uk/magazine/documents/zzwinstonc.htm
↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2002/nov/28/features11.g21
Winston Churchill on Wikipedia
Winston Churchill on Wikimedia Commons
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After 15 years as a High School teacher in southern California Jim Lara moved to Arizona for a chance of a better life for his family. In 1980 Jim saw an ad in the paper that was looking for people to invest in and sell gloves imported from China. Jim took a little inheritance money that he had and bought a bunch of gloves. He then went out and sold them on construction sites to the workers. It wasn't long before he was almost out of gloves and had to order more. Over the next few years working out of the family home and delivering gloves in his Brown 1970's van.
Eventually his inventory got so big that he could no longer fit everything in his garage. So he rented his first space. Every few years he had to move into a bigger building. Adding clients and other safety products. In 1991 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He continued to work 12 hour days while going through Chemotherapy. After about 8 years of fighting cancer and working hard he decided it was time to step back and retire. Handing the company over to his sons who had been working with him for several years. He spent the last few years travelling with his wife and spending time with his family. In 2001 he passed away. Since that time two of his sons left the company and the other two and one of his son-in-laws have continued to grow the business into a nation wide company.
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The Laboratory for Contemporary Urban Design at Tel Aviv University has a weekly meeting to study the urban spaces to develop an overall picture of how spaces and neighborhoods develop. The group gathers information on the ground and interviews residents for a later group discussion. The Laboratory for Contemporary Urban Design was set up in 2010 with seven members who hotly debate the urban planning of Israel.
If you create the same type of apartment and structure, without variety in the mix of the neighborhood, you in fact produce homogenous social environments. The interaction with 'the other' is completely lost.


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Open Access - Who Calls the Shots Now?
Three years ago on this blog (doesn't time fly!) I contrasted the efforts that librarians and academics could make in furthering Open Access. My argument (such as it was) focused on the relationships between the two communities, noting that when it came to research, librarians could only advise and assist but that academics could lead and command. Or at least in theory! In particular I backed the idea that change would come from senior managers in the academic world and from research funders. In the intervening time we have indeed seen a big increase in OA leadership in the form of mandates being adopted, but I wonder if the pace of change is not about to put even researchers in the back seat.
The Web was developed at CERN, in Switzerland, and took over the world in more than a geographic sense. It emerged from its home in a highly-funded, very collaborative, international research laboratory and carried the culture and design assumptions of its birthplace (open information exchange, minimal concern over intellectual property control, no requirements for individuals to monetize knowledge production) and stamped them on the rest of society, regardless of society's estimation of its own needs (for more, see the presentation The Information Big Bang & Its Fundamental Constants). One manifestation of the clash between the Web and "how society has historically operated" was the Budapest Open Access Initiative some ten years after the initial development of the Web.
The Web's culture of open information exchange has more recently had a very visible effect in the area of Open Government Data. A simple re-statement of the objectives of the Semantic Web as The Five Stars of Linked Data has powered a tremendous focus of activity in national and local government when allied with political agendas of Transparency and Accountability. Portals like data.gov.uk and data.gov provide access to "the raw data driving government forward" which can be used to "help society, or investigate how effective policy changes have been over time". In the UK, the Treasury's COINS database of public spending is one of 5,600 public datasets that have been made available as part of the initiative. In the US, the Open Government Directive requires each department to publish high value data sets and states that "it is important that policies evolve to realize the potential of technology for open government." Both US and UK government see the opening up of public data as the driver for political improvement, innovation and economic growth, with the Public Data Corporation as the focus of British development of an entire social and economic Open Data ecosystem.
Having watched Open Access lobbyists engage in political processes in the UK and US (with a handful of Senators, Congressmen and MPs sometimes for OA and sometimes against) it is rather a shock to see the President and the Prime Minister suddenly mandating a completely revolutionary set of national policies based on the technological affordances of the Web, and in the teeth of plenty of advisors' entrenched opposition. And rather a shock to realise that offices even more elevated than a vice chancellor are enthusiastically joining the world of open resources and open policies.
But data and publications are different things, and publications are privately owned by private publishing companies rather than stockpiled by the government. However, the decade of Open Access debate has shown that progress in OA (and OER and open data) is impeded more by individual and institutional inertia than corporate opposition. When the highest offices of government are confidently pushing forward a programme of open participation, will academics have the luxury of treading water?
How will our governments sudden enthusiasm for open data affect Open Access? Perhaps not at all. Perhaps Universities are too insulated from the administrative whims and shocks of Washington and Whitehall to be affected. (How many researchers have even heard of data.gov?) Even so, governments will indirectly cause a shakeup in the administration of public research funding, and the infrastructure needed for universities to adequately respond to the requirements of open funders will cause them to become more open themselves.
The public climate that informs the private OA debates and decisions in University boardrooms will change; pro-OA researchers and librarians will no longer be arguing from such a defensive position, not appearing as idealistic hippies. Even in the absence of direct government mandates, pro-OA decisions will be easier to support and less contentious to implement. The values of the research communities will change as public values and expectations change - when even governments become more accountable through open data, research communities that insist that their data and their research is their private property, for the sole benefit of the furtherance of their own careers, will soon appear old-fashioned and untenable.
So watch this space. It may be that Cameron and Obama will indirectly achieve what Harnad and Suber have been toiling for. I wonder what I'll have to say in another three years' time?
Rehabilitating The Third Star of Linked Data


A reminder to small producers of the recent changes to the WEEE regulations, as the 2015 registration approaches in November.
As of 2014, the Environment Agency (EA) introduced a de minimis for small producers of WEEE. Producers that place less than 5 tonnes of EEE onto the market annually (small producers) were given a choice to register with a PCS (Producer Compliance Scheme) or to carry the responsibility of registration, data reporting and where necessary collection & treatment of B2B WEEE.
Small producers can register directly with the EA, or the relevant agency, for a fee of £30. Information on the type and the weight of EEE a small producer places onto the market annually is still required and must be submitted directly to the EA if the producer decides not to register with a PCS.
The solution offered by ecosurety allows small producers to retain the protection & support as a member of a WEEE Compliance Scheme. ecosurety continues to act as an agent for small producers. We offer a simple and dedicated service to assist small produces in the process of registering and reporting the required information with the EA, backed up by a team of WEEE specialists.
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New Scholarship on Sohappy v. Smith/United States v. Oregon
June 5, 2019 June 5, 2019 Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Michael C. Blumm and Cari Baermann have posted "The Belloni Decision and Its Legacy: United States v. Oregon and Its Far-Reaching Effects After a Half-Century" on SSRN. It is forthcoming in Environmental Law.
Fifty years ago, Judge Robert Belloni handed down an historic treaty fishing rights case in Sohappy v. Smith, later consolidated into United States v. Oregon, which remains among the longest running federal district court cases in history. Judge Belloni ruled that the state violated Columbia River tribes' treaty rights by failing to ensure "a fair share" to tribal harvesters and called upon the state to give separate consideration to the tribal fishery and make it management priority co-equal with its goals for non-treaty commercial and recreational fisheries. This result was premised on Belloni's recognition of the inherent biases in state regulation, despite a lack of facial discrimination.
The decision was remarkable because only a year before, in Puyallup Tribe v. Department of Game, the U.S. Supreme Court seemed to accord considerable deference to state regulation of tribal harvests (which it would soon clarify and circumscribe). Instead of deference, the Belloni decision reinstated burdens on state regulation that the Supreme Court had imposed a quarter-century earlier, in Tulee v. Washington, but seemed to ignore in its Puyallup decision. The directive for separate management was prescient because otherwise, tribal harvests would remain overwhelmed by more numerous and politically powerful commercial and recreational fishers.
Judge Belloni eventually grew tired of resolving numerous conflicts over state regulation of the tribal fishery, calling for the establishment of a comprehensive plan, agreed to by both the state and the tribes, to manage Columbia Basin fish harvests. Eventually, such a plan would be negotiated, implemented, and amended over the years. Today, the Columbia River Comprehensive Management plan is still in effect a half-century after the Belloni decision, although the district court's oversight role is now somewhat precariously perched due to statements by Belloni's latest successor. Nonetheless, the plan remains the longest standing example of tribal-state co-management in history and a model for other co-management efforts. This article examines the origins, effects, and legacy of the Belloni decision over the last half-century.
Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, legal history, ScholarshipSohappy v. Smith, Stevens Treaties, United States v. Oregon
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The Frenship High School Musical Theatre Production is excited to present Once on This Island beginning January 31 and playing through February 3.
Once on This Island's small band, minimal set requirements and flexibly sized cast make it a producer and director's dream. It possesses such a strong, emotional backbone that it can stand tall, from the grandest to most modest of scales.
Come join the journey of Ti Moune (Eve Helak), as we watch Papa Ge the God of Death (Sierra Roberson) and Eurelie the Goddess of Love (Samantha Gang) battle for the souls of the young lovers. This show will keep you on the edge of your seat… you do NOT want to miss it!
The shows on Thursday (Jan. 31), Friday (Feb. 1) and Saturday (Feb. 2) is 7:00 p.m. Sunday's matinee will begin at 2:30 p.m.
This musical will be in the Lab Theatre, which means there is limited seating, so get your tickets now! The show will be played in the round, which means the audience is all around the action.
Don't miss this awesome show!


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Tullio Bonicelli, in charge of Europe's contributions to the ITER neutral beam heating system, calls them "beyond state-of-the-art components." The high voltage deck and bushing assembly for ITER's prototype neutral beam injector have been installed at the Neutral Beam Test Facility* in Padua, Italy.
At the test facility for ITER's most powerful heating system, two separate development projects are underway: SPIDER, to characterize the high-energy negative ion source of neutral beam heating, and MITICA, a full-size prototype of the 1 MV beam injectors.
In the high-voltage hall of MITICA, two new pieces of equipment have taken their place, not far from components delivered by Japan in November.
The first—a two-storey metallic box on eight "legs"—stands more than six metres overhead, and contains transformers, power distribution systems, converters and control cubicles weighing approximately 50 tonnes. The role of the high voltage deck is to isolate the power supplies of the ion source from the ground.
Nearby, the high voltage bushing, which will connect the ion source power supplies to the transmission line, stands 12 metres tall.
All assembly and testing activities on the equipment have been completed.
Three years of collaboration between the European Domestic Agency teams and industrial contractor Siemens were necessary to develop the non-standard equipment, which was not available on the market.
"The successful delivery and installation of these 'beyond the state-of-art' components at the MITICA facility paves the way for more tests that will be performed during the second half of the year, after the equipment is connected to the transmission line," according to Tullio Bonicelli, Hhad of the European Domestic Agency's Neutral Beam and Electron Cyclotron, Power Supplies and Sources. "The operation of such extensive system at 1 MV is not only challenging but also unprecedented."
Read the full report on the European Domestic Agency website.
* The ITER neutral beam test facility (NBTF), also called PRIMA, is a joint international effort to develop the neutral beam injector prototypes for ITER hosted by the Italian fusion laboratory Consorzio RFX. Europe, Japan and India are contributing all components according to the specifications of Procurement Arrangements signed with the ITER Organization; Italy hosts the facility and provides the buildings and a large contribution to the manpower.


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Morrissey gives approval to controversial Smiths film 'Shoplifters Of The World': "I laughed, I cried, I ate my own head"
The Smiths frontman has given the thumbs-up to the movie
By Nick Reilly
Morrissey CREDIT: Getty Images
Morrissey has given his seal of approval to a new film based around the music of The Smiths.
Shoplifters of the World is focused on a bunch of friends who are huge fans of the Manchester group – though when the band break up in 1987, one of the characters holds up a radio station and demands they play Smiths songs.
The film's trailer went viral last month in the wake of the film's US release, with many of the group's fans reacting in horror.
"Someone appears to have thought taking the plot of the Alan Partridge film and setting it the music of The Smiths is a good idea," one joked at the time, while another asked: "What the everliving fuck is this[?]".
But despite the lukewarm reaction, it has attracted the praise of the man who penned the film's musical inspiration in the first place.
"I laughed, I cried, I ate my own head," Morrissey told MorrisseyCentral.com about the film. "The Smiths' past still sounds like today's frustrations and tomorrow's liberations."
Despite Morrissey's endorsement, the film has attracted high-profile detractors such as critic Mark Kermode, who said: "Well, I'll say this: Shoplifters of the World is EXACTLY the movie that Morrissey deserves."
Shoplifters of the World stars Joe Manganiello, Ellar Coltrane, Helena Howard and Elena Kampouris, and is written and directed by Stephen Kijak. The film features 20 tracks from the band's back catalogue.
Meanwhile, producer Stephen Street – who worked closely with The Smiths and produced Morrissey's debut solo studio album 'Viva Hate' – recently told NME for Does Rock 'N' Roll Kill Braincells?! that he would consider working with the frontman again despite their falling out.