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Aeronova S.L.U., que desde 2015 opera como Air Europa Express es una aerolínea española que opera vuelos regionales, subsidiaria del holding Globalia Corporación Empresarial (matriz de Air Europa). La aerolínea está configurada para operar las rutas de corto recorrido menos densificadas de Air Europa.

Historia

La aerolínea fue fundada en Valencia (España) en 1996 como Aeronova y operó vuelos regulares y chárter de otras compañías. La compañía, estaba estructurada en tres divisiones: transporte de pasajeros, carga aérea y transporte sanitario aéreo. Además disponía de dos unidades de negocio de soporte a las operaciones de vuelo: una escuela de instrucción de pilotos (ATO), con habilitaciones tipo para el SA-227 Fairchild Metro y para el ATR 42  y un centro de mantenimiento de aeronaves (Parte 145), para ambos modelos.

En diciembre de 2015, Globalia compra la empresa de transporte aéreo Aeronova. Pretendía con ello impulsar la creación de una filial de bajo coste de Air Europa, que se denominaría Air Europa Express.

La nueva Air Europa Express es el tercer intento del grupo Globalia para la creación de una filial regional. La primera fue la fundada en 1996 Air Europa Express, una línea aérea del mismo nombre que desapareció en 2001. Más tarde, crearon una segunda línea aérea conocida como Universal Airlines que no llegó a operar.

La aerolínea inició sus operaciones como Air Europa Express el 11 de enero de 2016 con dos vuelos diarios entre Valencia y Madrid y un vuelo diario entre Valencia y Palma de Mallorca. Desde entonces, Globalia ha ido traspasando varias rutas regionales y de corto recorrido de una compañía a otra con el objetivo de ser más competitiva y reducir costes. De hecho, Globalia prevé que a futuro Air Europa opere los aviones más grandes, como los Boeing 787, los Airbus A330 y los Boeing 737 y Air Europa Express los aviones más pequeños, los Embraer 195 y los ATR.

El 30 de octubre de 2017, Air Europa Express inició operaciones en el mercado de vuelos interislas de Canarias con una base establecido en el Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria. En la primera fase, contará con operaciones diarias a Tenerife (Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte), Fuerteventura y Lanzarote.

Flota

Flota actual

La flota de Air Europa Express consta de las siguientes aeronaves:

Flota histórica

Véase también

 Anexo:Aerolíneas de España

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Página oficial de Aeronova

Air Europa
Aerolíneas de España
Aerolíneas fundadas en 1996

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Via LLRX – Book Review of "Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else)" – Advertising is now part of a complex ecosystem that engages a wide range of components, including but not limited to: social media, Big Data, AI, data mining, competitive intelligence, and marketing. Alan Rothman, reveals and explains for readers just how utterly different and hyper-competitive advertising now is, with work product largely splayed across countless mobile and stationary screens on Planet Earth. Rothman describes how expertly chronicling and precisely assaying the transformative changes happening to this sector is an informative and engaging new book, Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else), by the renowned business author Ken Auletta. Just as a leading ad agency in its day cleverly and convincingly took TV viewers on an endearing cultural tour of the U.S .as we followed the many ad-ventures of Bartles & Jaymes, so too, this book takes its readers on a far-ranging and immersive tour of the current participants, trends, challenges and technologies affecting the ad industry. Auletta's book is not only timely and insightful, but demonstrably valuable for the professionals in the legal sector who are striving to effectively engage, employ and measure the value of marketing to clients and potential clients in a rapidly changing environment increasingly dependent upon using big data and analytical platforms.
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Legal Ontologies and How to Choose Them: the InvestigatiOnt Tool: "Ontologies are often at the basis of systems that support question answering, information extraction and knowledge modelling tasks. They are used to model the domain of knowledge for which a system is developed and the underlying concept structure. The design of ontology-based systems is usually… Continue Reading
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Open Data, Grey Data, and Stewardship: Universities at the Privacy Frontier
Borgman, C. L. (2018). Open Data, Grey Data, and Stewardship: Universities at the Privacy Frontier. Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 33(2), 287–336. "As universities recognize the inherent value in the data they collect and hold, they encounter unforeseen challenges in stewarding those data in ways that balance accountability, transparency, and protection of privacy, academic freedom, and… Continue Reading
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Beta version of Google search engine for fact checks
Poynter: "Google wants to make it easier for people to find fact checks. To do that, the company is building another version of what it's most known for: a search engine. On Tuesday, the Google News Initiative launched the beta version of a tool that's specifically for fact-checking content. The feature, which the company has… Continue Reading
Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines
Trump's International Ratings Remain Low, Especially Among Key Allies
Most still want U.S. as top global power, but see China on the rise – "America's global image plummeted following the election of President Donald Trump, amid widespread opposition to his administration's policies and a widely shared lack of confidence in his leadership. Now, as the second anniversary of Trump's election approaches, a new 25-nation… Continue Reading
Subjects: Civil Liberties, Defense, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents
Flu shot strongly recommended this year
BuzzFeedNews: "It's officially fall in the US, which means it's time for cozy sweaters, pumpkin-flavored everything, and…your seasonal influenza vaccine. Given that last year's flu season was one of the deadliest in the last 40 years — an estimated 80,000 people died, including 180 children — it's important to get a flu shot as soon as… Continue Reading
Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care
New York Times alleges extensive tax fraud by President Trump in 1990s
The New York Times: The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today's dollars from his father's real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s. "President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including… Continue Reading
Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research
Google intern built the AI behind these shockingly good fake images
Fast Company: "For years, artists and researchers have been experimenting with training neural networks to generate images that look real. But most of them look like strangely distorted, grotesque caricatures of how a computer thinks the world looks. No longer. Over the weekend, a Google intern and two researchers from Google's DeepMind division released a paper, currently… Continue Reading
Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management
VA.gov to relaunch as front door to benefits, services
FCW.com: "Amid a barrage of daily headlines about turnover, disarray and mismanagement, the Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to reinvent itself as an agile agency focused on customer service. The effort is paying off – without much in the way of publicity, a unified VA services website at Vets.gov has attracted 40,000 daily users… Continue Reading
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Trezene (in greco Τροιζήν) era un'antica città greca dell'Argolide orientale.
Fu il punto di transito tra le popolazioni doriche e quelle attiche.

Mitologia
Secondo la leggenda la città fu dapprima chiamata Orea, dal nome di re Oro, e in seguito Altepia, dal nome di re Altepio, figlio di Poseidone e di Leda, figlia di Oro. Poseidone ed Atena si disputarono il suo possesso. Tramite l'intervento di Zeus si rappacificarono e ottennero entrambi la tutela sulla città (sulle monete antiche appaiono simbolicamente un tridente e una testa di Atena). Ad Altepio successe Sarone, che costruì un tempio dedicato ad Artemide vicino al mare in una pianura paludosa chiamata Psifea. Dopo la sua morte la città mutò nome in Saronia. Altri re di Trezene furono Ipere e Anta, fratelli che fondarono rispettivamente Iperea e Antea. Ezio, figlio di Ipere, ereditò il regno del padre e dello zio fondando Poseidoniada. Durante il suo regno, Trezene e Pitteo, figli di Pelope, si stabilirono nella regione e divisero il potere con Ezio. In seguito eliminarono l'antica dinastia e fondarono quella dei Pelopidi. Dopo la morte del fratello, Pitteo unificò le città preesistenti Iperea a Antea dandole il nome di Trezene. Da due figli di Trezene presero nome due demi dell'Attica: Anaflisto e Esfeto.

Etra, figlia di Pitteo, dormì la stessa notte con Egeo e Poseidone concependo Teseo. Egeo lasciò i suoi sandali e la spada sotto una roccia dicendo che quando il figlio fosse divenuto grande abbastanza da muovere la roccia, avrebbe dovuto restituirglieli portandoli ad Atene. Cosa che Teseo, una volta cresciuto, fece.

Trezene è anche il luogo dove si svolge il mito di Ippolito, figlio di Teseo, descritto da Euripide nella omonima tragedia: per sfuggire alle attenzioni morbose di Fedra, sua matrigna, Ippolito abbandona la città guidando un carro, ma viene ucciso da un toro sorto dal mare.

Alla sua memoria le ragazze dedicavano una ciocca di capelli prima del matrimonio.

Lo stesso soggetto è stato ripreso da Seneca e Racine.

Vi fiorirono in particolare i culti di Poseidone, Artemide, Atena e vi è ambientata la vicenda di Aussesia e Damia, raccontata da Pausania il Periegeta.

Anticamente esisteva anche una sorgente che si diceva scaturita dopo un calcio di Pegaso.

Secondo il mito uno dei suoi re, Sarone, morì annegato inseguendo una cerva nel mare che da lui prese nome Golfo Saronico.

Storia
Circa all'inizio del I millennio a.C. fu occupata dai Dori, mantenendo tuttavia la sua indipendenza.

Fu patria dei poeti arcaici Augia e Orebanzio.

Nel 720 a.C. partecipò assieme ad alcuni coloni Achei alla fondazione di Sibari in Magna Grecia.

Nella seconda parte del VI secolo a.C. entrò a far parte della Lega peloponnesiaca, diventando alleata fedele di Sparta.

Prima della battaglia di Salamina (480 a.C.), le donne e bambini ateniesi furono evacuati a Trezene su istruzione di Temistocle.

Fu attaccata da Atene durante la guerra del Peloponneso (431-404 a.C.).

Aderì alla Lega achea nel 243 a.C., nella quale rimase fino alla conquista romana (146 a.C.).

Fu distrutta dalle invasioni slave.

Nel Medioevo presso le sue rovine fu costruita una cittadina col nome di Damala (Δαμαλᾶ), sede di una baronia del Principato di Acaia.

Nel 1827 durante la guerra d'indipendenza greca si svolse la terza Assemblea Nazionale nella quale Giovanni Capodistria fu eletto capo di Stato.

Nel 1929 riacquisì il nome antico.

Archeologia
Grazie agli scavi condotti all'inizio del XX secolo conosciamo oggi alcuni dei suoi antichi monumenti, tra cui un tempio in antis che risale al VI secolo a.C. e, fuori dalle mura, un tempio dedicato ad Ippolito, l'eroe venerato nella città.

A Trezene nel 1960 venne ritrovata, durante degli scavi, una stele su cui un'iscrizione riportava un decreto relativo alla evacuazione della città di Atene all'approssimarsi della invasione persiana del 480 a.C.

Oggi
Trezene è oggi il nome di un comune che pur appartenendo geograficamente all'Argolide, è sottomesso alla prefettura del Pireo. La sede degli uffici comunali è a Galatas, un minuscolo centro sulla terraferma separato dall'isola di Poros da uno stretto braccio di mare di 50 m.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Città antiche dell'Argolide
Culto di Poseidone
Luoghi del culto di Dioniso
Culto di Asclepio
Culto di Zeus
Culto di Afrodite


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Hyperledger chooses Rocket.Chat
Gabriel Engel
Case Studies, News
Hyperledger, a Linux Foundation Project, is a suite of open source blockchain (decentralized public ledger of securely linked records) tools. It is the fastest growing project ever hosted by the foundation and comprises over one-hundred industry leaders including J.P. Morgan, Accenture, Intel, Samsung and Airbus.
Hyperledger is led by a community of technical open source contributors who develop blockchain and shared ledger POCs, use cases, field trials and deployments. Contributors can participate in the project through mailing lists, remote meetings and discussions hosted on Hyperledger's Rocket.Chat.
Open Source Communication
Before moving to Rocket.Chat, the Hyperledger community was hosted on Slack, a closed source chat solution, which can be costly for large and fast growing communities. The free version also presented limitations: the number of apps that could be integrated with the platform is capped at ten and only 10,000 messages can be stored.
Hyperledger needed a platform that could be customized and affordably host its thousands of users with the potential to scale. In May 2016, Hyperledger migrated more than 4,000 contributors to Rocket.Chat. Today their community is highly active and contains nearly 9,000 members.
There is now alignment between Hyperledger's open source model and its use of an open source solution. Several other open source projects including Santiment, Aragon, Golem and Auctus have all migrated their Slack-based communities to Rocket.Chat in recent months.
Rocket.Chat features unlimited message storage and is customizable, enabling Blockchain communities to add their own integrated features and create more secure workflows.
The open source community and Hyperledger staff use Rocket.Chat to troubleshoot and learn more about the Hyperledger project. The Rocket.Chat team has a strong presence on the server and a team member is usually available to answer Rocket.Chat-related queries from the community.
How one community can drive the growth of another
Hyperledger's use of Rocket.Chat is a good example of how one open source community can facilitate the growth of another.
To be part of the Hyperledger community join their Rocket.Chat server.
To get your own Rocket.Chat server in two minutes start a Rocket.Chat Cloud trial or download and install Rocket.Chat on your server.


Tampa's mayor addresses the state of the city.
TAMPA — Democrat Bob Buckhorn has dropped the idea of running for governor, but that didn't stop him from taking shots Tuesday at the Republican-led Florida Legislature and President Donald Trump in his annual state of the city speech.
Tampa lives under looming uncertainty, the mayor said, because Congress could take away revenues, eviscerate partnerships and decimate programs important to the city. Meanwhile, he said, the Legislature has opened an "unprecedented attack" on the city's ability to govern itself.
"They can issue all the executive orders in Washington, D.C., they want, but they can't extinguish our hope," Buckhorn told a crowd of more than 500 people at Kiley Garden. "They can do damage in Tallahassee, but they're not going to deny our future."
But mostly, Buckhorn emphasized that Tampa's strength comes from its people rising above distinctions of race, faith, sexual orientation, age or class.
"We are joined together by a belief that we are better together, that we are stronger together and that we will prosper together," he said.
To the list of people the city needs to make sure feel included, Buckhorn added children with autism. And for the families of those kids, he announced a new initiative, called "Autism Friendly Tampa."
Noting that one in 68 people is somehow affected by autism, Buckhorn said he has come to recognize that for those families, what would otherwise be a simple trip to the pool can be complicated. Finding a summer program can be virtually impossible.
So City Hall will work with the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities at the University of South Florida to give residents with autism the same experience that the rest of the city has — "more fun, more friends and more acceptance."
That means training city staff, starting with police, fire rescue and parks and recreation personnel. The city also will develop a resource guide to autism-friendly and accessible programs, places and events. And it will put up signs at parks establishing designated quiet spaces.
The USF Center for Autism and Related Disabilities has worked for seven years to bring such programs to bay area businesses, hospitals and other organizations.
"We think this is going to now just sort of scale up and become a much bigger project for us, but we're ready to do that," said Karen Berkman, the center's executive director. Locally, she said, autism could affect as many as 40,000 families.
While Buckhorn did talk about city highlights — including the $11 billion in projects permitted over the past six years, the 24 percent drop in crime in East Tampa and the testing of autonomous vehicles here — he did not mention two other big regional topics: transportation and the future of the Tampa Bay Rays.
Not talking about the search for a Rays stadium site isn't unusual for a Buckhorn state of the city speech. In the past, he typically has brought it up for laughs, often by playing on the latent rivalry between Tampa and St. Petersburg.
But Buckhorn has talked about transportation in the past, and has said forcefully a couple of times that the region needs to move forward with rail — with or without Tallahassee's support.
On Tuesday, Buckhorn scarcely used the words "transit" and "transportation," and then only in reference to existing programs. He didn't mention "rail," "referendum" or "sales tax" at all.
Afterward, Buckhorn said he is committed to improving transportation — just Monday he told a business group that it's "our Achilles' heel" — but "it's not within the realm of possibilities within the next year or two."
In the meantime, he said, the city is moving forward with a study of how to expand and update the TECO Line Streetcar, which Buckhorn said would probably be the first leg of any rail system.
And while Buckhorn said he has "beat my head against the wall" on mass transit in the past, for now, "I've got a lot of other good things to talk about and challenges ahead that rival or surpass rail."


The 2012 poster for the Southeastern Wildlife Expo (that's SEWE for you regulars) is here, and, as you can see, it's all about bison.
Dustin Van Wechel created an original piece in oil for the poster.
Since leaving the field of advertising in 2002, Dustin has pursued his painting full-time, and has won numerous awards, including a 2004 Wyoming Conservation Stamp Art Competition, the Wildlife Award and Teton Lodge Company Award at the 2006 Arts for the Parks competition, and most recently, "Best in Show" at SEWE 2011.
His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S., including one-man shows and major art exhibitions, as well as in the National Museum of Wildlife Art's Western Visions show in Jackson, Wyoming. A resident of Gilbert, Arizona, Dustin is a signature member in both the Society of Animal Artists and the Pastel Society of America.
If you didn't know, bison used to roam the Palmetto State and you can see one over at Charlestowne Landing.
Keep up with all things SEWE on our topic page.


Medicare-for-All –> The Nation's John Nichols spoke at length with Sen. Bernie Sanders about the Medicare-for-All bill he released yesterday.
"Red hot focus" –> "Russia's effort to influence US voters through Facebook and other social media is a 'red-hot' focus of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the 2016 election," reports Chris Strohm for Bloomberg.
And Daniel Craig, Trump's nominee to serve in the number two spot at FEMA withdrew on Wednesday after reporters asked "about a federal investigation that found he had falsified government travel and timekeeping records when he served in the Bush administration in 2005." Suzy Khimm has that story for NBC News.
Then this morning, Trump said on Twitter that no deal had been cut with Democrats, according to Reuters, and "massive border security" would have to be included in a bill to save the Dreamers.
And then Jake Tapper weighed in.
How about some democracy? –> At The Daily Beast, Lawrence Lessig argues that the time has come to make the popular vote decide presidential elections rather than an archaic Electoral College — and talks about his new project dedicated to making that happen.
Arpaio –> Speaking of Arizona, a district court judge in the Copper State "is weighing arguments against throwing out charges against Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio in spite of President Donald Trump's pardon," according to David Ferguson at Raw Story.
Thank a Satanist, maybe –> Christina Cauterucci reports for Slate that a lawsuit filed by abortion rights advocates including Planned Parenthood and the Satanic Church which overturned onerous licensing requirements for abortion providers will soon significantly increase access to the procedure in Missouri.
Not-so-post-racial –> A new study of hiring discrimination by researchers at Northwestern University found "no change in rates of discrimination against African-Americans in field experiments of hiring from 1990 to 2015," and only a slight decrease in discrimination against Latino job applicants. Hilary Hurd Anyaso has more at Northwestern Now.
Another study, a survey conducted by Reuters/Ipsos in conjunction with UVA Center for Politics, found that almost a third of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that the US needs to "protect and preserve its White European heritage," and 16 percent said that "marriage should only be allowed between two people of the same race." Those were just two of the disturbing findings from the survey of racial attitudes.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy –> We'll leave you with the news that a judge yanked sleazy "Pharma-bro" Martin Shkreli's bail and sent him to prison after Shkreli offered a $5,000 bounty for one of Hillary Clinton's hairs. Brendan Pierson has more on that at Reuters.


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Q: ASP.NET website deployement I am new to web development and have been building my websites in Visual Studio. I have built a database which is stored in App_Data folder. The database is open(no password) but when the website will be ready and when I will publish it onto a server then what will happen to the databases. How will I add the password. Will it remain stored inside the project or can I move it to the hosting server's database folder's. I maybe be asking silly questions but they are bothering me.
*Please bear with me, I am dyslexic and have problems doing normal things.

A: No questions are silly everyone on this site was a beginner once and I'm sure they have all in the same boat.
When it comes to deploying a database each hosting company will be set up differently and most likely each hosting plan at that company will be different. My hosting company helped me out the first time and it was actually much easier than getting my first database to work on my own computer, but a lot more time consuming.
I'm guessing you are using SQL Server Express locally, if so you will probably find your hosting company, sorry I've said (Hosting Company) a lot in this spiel, doesn't support Express. This will mean you will have to go with its big brother, but most plans will have at least one available on the cheapest plan.
All that said, your database will most likely not go in you App_Data folder, I suggest contacting you hosting company and ask them about the process. One thing to keep in mind though is make sure you like you hosting company and they are not going to go away, because once you go through the process of setting it all up and getting your data into it, you want to ever have to move it!!!
So time consuming and pleasantly easy,
Cheers,
Mike.

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Longlisted —Authors' Club Best First Novel Award2018
'I don't think I've ever read a more assured or compelling debut. This is beautifully written, sometimes sad, often funny' Elly Griffiths
Welcome to the dark heart of the family – the secrets we keep, the memories we treasure and the relationships we feel bound to, but long to escape.
Edward and Isobel haven't spoken for years and live on opposite sides of the Atlantic. When their mother, Mary, dies unexpectedly, they are thrown together to sort through the family home. With Julie, Edward's diffident but devoted girlfriend, making an awkward third, each stumbles through the practicalities and funeral preparations, trying to make sense of their emotions and their feelings towards one another.
Then Isobel makes a disturbing discovery and her fateful decision has consequences for them all, challenging their beliefs about the past, hopes for the future, and understanding of Mary's role in keeping them at once apart and together.
This utterly immersive novel by S V Berlin is rich with insightful and wickedly comic observations of family members behaving badly in stressful situations – of sibling rivalries, a parent torn between the two, and a grieving process that takes time to unfold.
Beginning in a small coastal town during the Spring Bank Holiday, the novel moves forward through the point of view of each of the characters in turn, and culminates on Christmas Eve.
A smart, sad, and funny debut novel… a truly enjoyable read!
S. V. Berlin's quietly compelling debut novel balances keen observations with welcome moments of humor; there are subtly eloquent undertones about matters of loss, life, and death... Caught up in a triangle of tension, miscommunication, emotion, and memory, the characters are appealingly dysfunctional, flawed, and not soon forgotten.
A very elegant and real discourse on the nature of grief and the subtle, insidious way it sneaks into life long after the dramas and ritual of a funeral is over.
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The tensions are both funny and tender in this assured debut.
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The writing is stylish and mature, eloquent and flowing. And there are few who read this [novel] who will not identify with the human dynamics in the story. There is a sensitive understanding of what grief and bereavement do to you. And there is also an understanding of what people do to one another when they are unable to communicate effectively... This is an intelligent piece of work and this writer deserves a lot of credit
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Only our blood relations truly know how to push our buttons, and S.V.Berlin captures every detail of family fallouts in The Favourite.
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Berlin crafts her characters with aplomb... Particularly admirable is the often darkly comic tone she employs to deal with such stigmatised themes as death and estrangement. S.V. Berlin is very much a writer to watch.
Disclaimer Magazine
Original, surprising, and immensely skilled... twisting in unexpected directions and keeping the reader on their toes throughout. Underneath the gentle suburban drama, here is an intricately crafted plot featuring three fascinating characters – this is a fantastically assured debut.
Fiction should reach far beneath the surface of life and The Favourite does that with conviction and restraint. Written in precise, stylish prose, it gradually unveils a world of secrets and regret that is real, engaging, and subtly comic. A notable debut from a writer to look out for.
Adam Baron
Berlin's portrayal of family and loss – from the everyday tensions to the greatest of unspoken truths – is both subtle and profoundly touching. I loved it.
Isabel Ashdown
Siblings Isobel and Edward live an ocean apart and haven't spoken in many years. He resides in the London area, while Isobel moved away to find herself in New York City. They have to reconnect in London after the unexpected death of their Mum, Mary. Not being close has both of them acting strangely towards each other. Edward barely says two words to her although he did pick her up at the airport with his girlfriend Julie, who seemed eager to learn about this long-lost sister of his. Isobel feels like she has to tread lightly around him. Needing to close up the house in one week for new renters leaves them barely communicating, other than to say to say "you take the kitchen and dining room and Jules and I will take the living room." Edward decides to divide and conquer, putting items in three different boxes while Isobel can't seem to box anything the first day as she carefully cradles each item and then sets it right back down. Isobel finds a box of letters from her that were never opened by Edward and shelves them in one of the boxes. Spending time with each other and trying to share feelings opens some treasured memories of their past and good times. Edward blames himself for the way things went wrong and they realize Mum kept secrets too. Thrown together by death has them both trying to understand their past mistakes and to find a way to move forward. This is a smart, sad, and funny debut novel for author S.V.Berlin. The story is told by all three of these characters in their own distinctive voice. Each tells their point of view as how the day went and the feelings they felt or expressed. Each of the characters do a bit of soul-searching throughout the story, which was a smart way to showcase each character. The reader can also see how each character grows through the following weeks. This is quite a long story to read, clocking in at over 500 pages, although the journey definitely becomes more enjoyable as the days pass. The story dealt with the nature of grief and the surreal situation about the death. The Favourite turned out to be far greater than anticipated and an truly enjoyable read!
In The Favourite, S. V. Berlin's quietly compelling debut novel, estranged siblings reunite following the death of their mother, troubled by old resentments and misunderstandings at a time of both raw and numbing grief.
Edward and Isobel are now fortyish and living in separate countries. Edward remained near their childhood home in Sussex, England, while Isobel boldly moved to New York twenty years ago, hoping for a career in the movie industry. When their mother Mary is suddenly taken ill, Isobel returns to Sussex; following Mary's death, she stays to help Edward plan the funeral.
The Favourite includes three perspectives, alternating between Isobel, Edward, and Edward's seemingly meek girlfriend, Julie. The narrative shifts with an engrossing rhythm. Even the newly departed Mary is evocative in her absence, as Isobel and Edward uncertainly sort through her wardrobe and eclectic possessions. The novel balances keen observations with welcome moments of humor; there are also subtly eloquent undertones about matters of loss, life, and death.
Beyond Isobel's outwardly vivacious confidence is an increasing uncertainty, particularly about her life in New York. Her captivation with Manhattan began with Woody Allen–esque cinematic yearnings—"a city in 'black and white', mythic and romantic"—but now she feels displaced and isolated, and contemplates moving back to England.
Edward's generally dour, sarcastic personality seems to buttress a rather classic British repression of intense feelings as well as an intriguing vulnerability. Timid Julie clings to a New Age self-help book that promotes positive thinking, eventually managing to twist its teachings into her own curiously surprising power play. Caught up in a triangle of tension, miscommunication, emotion, and memory, the characters of The Favourite are appealingly dysfunctional, flawed, and not soon forgotten.
AN EXPLORATION OF DEATH, ESTRANGEMENT, TRANS-ATLANTIC TENSIONS, AND CULTURAL DIVIDES
From renowned indie press Myriad Editions is The Favourite, an assured, compelling debut by the elusive, London-born Manhattan-based S.V. Berlin, who is very much a writer to watch.
Myriad Editions prides itself on unearthing and nurturing fresh literary talent, reaping nominations and awards in the process, such as the Scottish Book Trust Pick of the Year in 2014 for Liam Murray Bell's The Busker and the People's Choice Wales Book of the Year award in the same year for Tyler Keevil's The Drive. Aside from their imprint of diverse fiction, from bone-chilling crime thrillers to scintillating literary debuts, Myriad also boasts a wide array of graphic books and atlases, such as Una's Becoming Unbecoming, a memoir of male violence in 1970s Yorkshire.
The Favourite explores the strained relationship of siblings Edward and Isobel, who haven't spoken for two decades and are in fact separated by the mighty Atlantic Ocean. Their mother Mary's sudden death breaks their silence and forces the siblings together as they sort through the numerous belongings in their family home, which hark back to happier times. They are accompanied in this effort by Edward's seemingly unassuming long-term girlfriend Julie, who proves to be more of a hindrance than a help and is smitten with a pseudoscientific self-help book entitled Pathways to Possible.
This novel is slow moving and deeply character focussed. It is in descriptive portrayals of subtly relatable characters that Berlin really excels. From Julie's cruel, conniving sister Lorraine to Edward's penchant for perusing the travel section of broadsheet newspapers, Berlin crafts her characters with aplomb. Many of them tread a fine line between likeability and unlikability, which renders them even more realistic, particularly given the trying circumstances they face within the book.
Furthermore, one cannot help but wonder if Isobel's bustling Manhattan lifestyle mirrors that of Berlin herself, with all its doubts and decadence. It delves implicitly into current transatlantic tensions by highlighting the culture clash that divides its central estranged siblings even further.
The Favourite forays briefly into what it means to be a Brit abroad and how decades of living in New York has left its mark on Isobel's accent, worldview and even her mannerisms. The reader ultimately learns that Isobel is not quite living the high life, as her brother Edward jealously assumes, but is, in fact, pondering a return to Blighty, spurred on by the seeds of discontent sewed by her mother's untimely demise.
The Favourite brims with under the surface tensions, long held regrets and damaging assumptions, which really make the reader reflect on their own relationships, particularly the more troubling ones. For anyone who has experienced estrangement, it feels at once familiar and detached, not unlike the indescribable void left in the wake of failed relationships. It is a novel that stresses the importance of honest yet considerate communication, which is often conspicuous in its absence, causing a whole host of avoidable issues between characters.
It begs the question of whether such a form of communication can, in fact, be attained, even in life's darkest moments.
Berlin does not focus much on the circumstances of Mary's death. They are, arguably, of lesser importance compared to the impact this bereavement has upon the novel's central characters. Their grief is visceral yet somehow contained, partitioned off in order to deal with such grim necessities as overzealous funeral directors and a well-meaning humanist celebrant who cannot help but put her foot in it.
Aside from the characters' personal experiences of grief, The Favourite also reflects upon wider themes, such as our social, societal perceptions of bereavement and our modern, euphemistic ways of referring to death. Particularly poignant is Isobel's realisation that her friends are growing tired of her anecdotes about her mother, which leads her to question how else she can go about remembering her. As mourners, we are too often told to let go or move on by well-intentioned friends or acquaintances, in a society that fears death to the point that we collectively conspire to hide what cannot be hidden. That is the harsh reality that death will come for us all one day.
Particularly admirable is the often darkly comic tone Berlin employs to deal with such often stigmatised themes as death and estrangement. Uncomfortable truths are often best faced with a healthy dose of humour and this works very well within The Favourite. Berlin's use of humour in no way lessens the numerous poignantly sad moments within the book if anything it accentuates them even more. It would be very encouraging indeed to see more authors tackle such troubling themes with such finesse and a refusal to shy away from the grislier facts of life.
Could S.V. Berlin be Myriad Editions' next rising star? I certainly think so.
Siblings Edward and Isobel Vernon haven't spoken in years and live on opposite sides of the Atlantic. When their mother Mary dies unexpectedly, they are thrown together to sort through the family home. With Edward's diffident but devoted girlfriend, Julie, making an awkward threesome, each stumbles through the practicalities of funeral preparation and house clearing, trying to make sense of their emotions and their feelings toward one another. Isobel makes a disturbing discovery and her fateful decision has consequences for all of them, challenging their beliefs about the past, hopes for the future and understanding of Mary's role in keeping them at once apart and together. Author S V Berlin was born and raised in London, and has worked as a copywriter, facilitator, speechwriter, and, in a rather surprising career move, a Wilderness search and rescue professional. She now lives in Manhattan, and The Favourite is her debut novel. The death of a loved one is the starting point for a lot of novels - families drawn back together, secrets uncovered and conversations opened up by the raw rage that grief can bring. As much as that sounds like ripe pickings for an author to create a fantastic plot, it can also lead to a predictable lead - a family member dies, a secret is uncovered, drama happens, and everything is resolved with an element of closure. Sound familiar? Thought so. Don't be expecting that here though - S V Berlin has taken those elements and brought them together to craft something original, surprising, and immensely skilled considering it's a debut novel. It's in the character work that Berlin really shines - creating a trio of people who are real - at turns relatable and unlikeable. Telling the story from the perspective of the three characters, sometimes showing the same moment from the three distinct viewpoints, allows the reader indepth access into the thoughts and motivations that drive these characters. Berlin's skill is such that one character can come across as wholly unpleasant and unlikeable in one chapter, then turning things so that the same character seems good and relatable the next moment. It's a real balancing act, and one that must take some considerable skill. Those characters take part in a plot that initially seems rather mundane - a daughter returns home after the death of her mother, and is met by her brother and his girlfriend. From there, the plot forges a new and rather fascinating path - twisting in unexpected directions and keeping the reader on their toes throughout. Underneath the gentle suburban drama that appears to be on the surface here is an intricately crafted plot featuring three fascinating characters – it's a read well worth your time, and a fantastically assured debut.
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September 29, 2016 Current Affairs, Rantsdata, lies, poetry, presidential debate, spin, talking points, truthTim Berry
In the good old days – I turned teenager in 1961, and 18 in 1966 – we had a generally accepted process for establishing truth. First, we generally distinguished opinion from fact. Second, when fact was in doubt, we turned to evidence. And evidence, once presented, was accepted. Evidence ended arguments. But data killed that, politics killed data, and now poets predict politics.
Data undermined simple truth
The decline of truth started with data. Huge masses of overwhelming and conflicting data forced us to choose truth from streams of incoherent evidence. For example: Is margarine is good for you? Eggs? Coffee? Those are just three simple cases, regarding food. We have ample streams of evidence on either side. We can find data to support any answer. And those are just easy food and health arguments, not nearly as controversial as, say when ISIS started, who supported what war and when. Evidence doesn't end the argument because we're overwhelmed with conflicting evidence.
Talking points undermined evidence
And then came talking points. First, the overabundance of conflicting data undermined the weight of evidence. After that, political strategists discovered that repetition of well-packaged spin, half truth, and lies could be taken as truth. And now we accept political talking points as truth, even in the face of evidence to the contrary. Millions of people firmly believe absurdities in the face of clear and unambiguous evidence to the contrary.
We're left with truth in poetry
Somewhere around 1790 William Blake wrote The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. That lengthy and sometimes bewildering work includes a section called the proverbs of hell, which includes the following:
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth
No I'm not suggesting Blake foresaw or forewarned us. But what he says there does fit today's reality. Right? We've got wide ranges of diverse and discordant images of truth. Of course, Blake included that in the section framed as proverbs of hell, not heaven, so maybe he mistrusted its direct meaning. But in the poem, he likes hell, so who knows. I suggest it here as food for thought, nothing more.
And then there is this, written 100 years ago by William Butler Yeats in a short poem called The Second Coming. It seems disturbingly like what we see around the world today:
That's towards the opening of the poem. It gets even darker as it closes. Sadly, that too sounds a lot like mainstream politics today. Did you watch that debate on Monday?
August 18, 2016 Baby Boomer, Reflections, Technology, Web/Tech1970, computing, good old days, technology changesTim Berry
Ah yes, the good old days. How quickly time passes. And I can't help occasionally browsing through technology looking back. My youngest daughter is in her late twenties now. She can barely remember life before cellphones, and can't remember life before personal computers or VCRs, because both of those were born before she was. I was talking a grandkid the other day, and she couldn't conceive of a world before amazon.com.
Every so often I get reminded how far we've come. When I graduated from college in 1970:
The university had a computer in a basement that took up the space of an SUV and had way less power than an iPhone does now. Computer science students programmed it with perforated cards.
The dorms had one phone per floor. Long distance calling costs were significant. I was in the Midwest, so I'd call my parents in California once every couple of months.
We wrote letters. We read letters.
We used typewriters for every college essay, paper, and assignment. We'd often retype an entire page to correct an error. Sometimes we'd reword things to make the pages end or begin with the correct word so we could insert an additional page.
Four-function calculators existed, but nobody we knew had one. You could have bought a new low-end car for the price of two four-function calculators.
I did my sophomore year abroad, and the university sent us from New York to Europe on an ocean liner. That was cheaper than flying.
We wrote checks when we had to, used cash most of the time, and we got the cash from the bank teller window, not an ATM.
Credit cards were rare. Our parents had them.
Television was broadcast over the air. We watched in real time or not at all. We had 5 or 10 channels to choose from.
When we were driving we listened to the hits on AM radio mostly, or cassette tapes when we could.
And that's just technology, or a smattering of technology. When I think of social evolution, and environmental deterioration, the end of the cold war, the rise of terrorism, polar ice caps … like we used to say: "far out, man."
July 19, 2016 Current Affairs, RantsTim Berry
Fifty years ago, a generation of college kids thought we had the power to change the world. The age of aquarius, the greening of America, the global revolution. How did we do?
Fifty years ago, back in the sixties, farsighted people started warning us all about the damage humans were doing to earth. and it happened pretty much as they warned. Climate change, species going extinct, air and water fouled. All major cities near water are planning for sea levels raising.
Fifty years ago, back in the sixties, farsighted people started warning us that the difference between "haves" and "have-nots" was the biggest threat to the worldwide long-term peace. Since then, we've made it worse. In the U.S. we changed laws, changed the tax code, and even changed politics to exaggerate the wealth of a few. Worldwide, the difference between wealthy and poor, developed and underdeveloped, got steadily worse. And technology made it visible. Is terrorism just religious extremism? Would Jihadism been able to take roots in prosperous societies with jobs for all?
Fifty years ago, back in the sixties, laws and courts changed to outlaw blatant racism. Institutional racism became illegal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and related legislation. The courts and the presidents desegregated the schools. And yes, of course things got better. We don't have institutional racism like we did. We elected a black president. But don't we also have a serious relapse of open racism, now called, simply, "not politically correct?"
Fifty years ago, back in the sixties, women's liberation became a movement. Women demanded equal opportunity. Yes, of course things are better now, but how much? There's still a salary gap and a glass ceiling. Fewer than 5% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women. Fewer than 20% of US legislators are women. 7 percent of investing partners at the top 100 venture and micro-venture firms are women.
Conclusion: Generation X, Millennials, take the baton. And good luck.
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June 6, 2016 Reflections1964, Muhammad AliTim Berry
Muhammad Ali died last week. Most everybody knows about his having been, vocally, "the greatest." And he was as great as he claimed, and not just for how much his atheltic talent and hard work, not just for how much he changed an otherwise dreary sport, and not just for his brazen, charismatic, unconventional, and thoroughly charming public persona. He was also great as a voice for conscience, doing what he knew to be right, in the face of very powerful opposition. He was not just a sport star.
I'd like to help you understand 1964 from the point of view of baby boomers, as we mourn Muhammad Ali. Everything changed so fast. We were in high school. That year started for us with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy just a few weeks earlier, late November of 1963. That was a shattering blow of reality, breaking a peaceful status quo, a trust in every day being like the previous, into tiny pieces. A few short weeks later, in February, we had the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. All year we had the 1964 presidential election, the Lyndon Johnson campaign Democrats pushing the Great Society and Vietnam War, and the Barry Goldwater campaign promising us nuclear war. By the fall we had Mario Savio at Berkeley and the free speech movement. The civil rights movement awakened, with Martin Luther King channeling Mahatma Gandhi and the power of non violence and peaceful protest. The whole world was cascading towards a new world order of psychedelic music, civil rights, protest, long hair, and what felt, especially to us teenagers, like a crusty entrenches establishment falling apart and being replaced by a vibrant new power of truth and real freedom.
Imagine how this felt to teenagers in high school. We were dealing with the growing up, hormones, and such that all teenagers have, but in our case laced, as if it had been LSD, with a sparkling optimism as bright and inviting as a clear mountain morning. Everything felt like a black-and-white world going suddenly into color. I turned 16 six weeks after the Kennedy assassination, three weeks before the Beatles arrived. Was it crisis, or gloom? No. When you're that age, change is the goal, not the worry.
Where I was, an unremarkable nice suburb outside of San Francisco, as homogenous as white bread and whole milk, we knew the name Cassius Clay early in 1964 only vaguely as a charmingly vocal and self-assured Kentucky kid who had won a gold medal in boxing in the 1960s. It was in the same month that the Beatles arrived in New York that he became the greatest Cinderella story in the history of boxing, a tall, thin, lightning-fast 22-year-old kid defeating heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston. Had it not been for his remarkable, instinctive media magic, perhaps nobody would have noticed. But Cassius Clay loved interviewers and they loved him back, and so we became aware of boxing. He had not even a snowball's chance in hell to defeat the powerful, burly, undisputed champion. Until he did. And resoundingly, too. There was no doubt. The kid trounced the champ so badly that when the bell rang in the sixth round, Sonny Liston gave up. He refused to come back out. And then, despite everything else (the Beatles tour) going on, suddenly everybody followed boxing.
Ali followed his conscience
And then, with a one-two punch to rival his lightning-quick boxing style, Muhammad Ali announced to the world that he was not Cassius Clay anymore. He changed his name to Muhammad Ali. He had decided to follow the Nation of Islam movement, a matter of religion, mixed with black pride, and immersed in the 1960s struggles against overt and endemic racism. Doing that publicly, without equivocation, cost him something in the order of $10 million dollars. It got him locked out of boxing for several years, and, eventually, sentenced to five years in prison for draft evasion. He remained free pending appeals that went eventually to the Supreme Court, which decided in his favor. But he lost his title, and his boxing license, and went from world champion to four years waiting in the wings, unable to fight.
That took courage. He went instantly from everybody's hero to anathema, reviled by the main stream. The nation was still struggling to pass the Johnson civil rights laws, and much of the nation was struggling, violently, without shame, to maintain a racist status quo. Governor George Wallace of Alabama, openly racist, ran against Lyndon Johnson in the Democratic primaries in 1964, and got votes. The police riots in Selma AL were early in 1965. Civil rights workers were murdered, and sit-in were broken up with clubs and tear gas. And the U.S. was at war in Vietnam, filled with the cries of "my country – love it or leave it." But Muhammed Ali stuck it out. Courage is the active word when it takes risk, and sacrifice, to do the right thing.
The mainstream people did, later, recognize Ali's integrity. He was invited to the White House several times.
I don't like boxing. I had almost accidentally seen some of the best of it, when I covered two world championship fights from ringside, as a journalist, back in the 1970s. Muhammed Ali changed that for a whole generation, for a while. After the spectacular original upset, he defended his championship for years, was locked out of boxing for years, and then came back to win his championship again and defend it several times. His personal charisma and his obvious (even to the uninitiated) skill, a new light of foot and quick style, made boxing palatable for a while.
But it wasn't his boxing that made him great. It was his courage and integrity. I honor his memory.
(Images: from Wikipedia commons. Muhammad Ali 1966, Beatles and Ali, Ali and Carter.)
March 11, 2016 Rants, Starting a Businessstartup clichésTim Berry
The Reality of the 'Be Your Own Boss' Cliché
My Friday video this week is one of my own: Reality vs. Be Your Own Boss.
Reality vs 'Be Your Own Boss' from Tim Berry on Vimeo.
It's a short one, barely 45 seconds. But it attacks a very common misconception.
February 26, 2016 Business Mistakes, Entrepreneurship, Rants, Starting a BusinessTim Berry
My Friday video for this week is one I did a while back, the truth about all those well-publicized business failure statistics. Most of the clichés we read everywhere are just often-repeated guesses. Nobody really knows.
February 5, 2016 Current Affairs, Rants, TelevisionTim Berry
Another Friday video.
I found this last week in my Twitter feed, embedded in an Ad Age article about the advertising conversation around this viral video. You probably already saw it. I could say that the objectification of women is important to me because I have four daughters, but no, it's not just that. It's because it's right. It's because I'm human. And objectification of women is bad for all humans.
February 4, 2016 Advice, Reflections, Starting a Businessstartup clichésTim Berry
How many self-styled startup experts have actually started a company? How many have gotten a startup to critical actually know what they are talking about? The online world of startup experts is infested with people who don't know what they don't know. I guess these people read the same tired clichés that sit in rich overabundance all over the web, and over time take on what they read as if it's what they experienced. So clichés run around masked as expertise. Which makes for a lot of bad startup advice.
Bad startup advice
Here's an example for you. The idea that passion alone can make a startup successful is absurd, but extremely common. It's all over the web. Comments, blog posts, and updates are full of this illusion. We see it in angel investment pitches for the angel group I'm in. Watch a few episodes of Shark Tank and you'll see it there, as entrepreneurs talk about how passionate they are and the sharks just roll their eyes. This again? The truth of the matter is that passion, although it does help get through the long days and late nights, doesn't make that much difference. What matters is giving value, offering something people will pay for, showing up every day, and doing the work. And I wonder how many of those people who advise others to "just follow your passion" have ever actually built a business. "Do what you'll love and you'll never work a day in your life" is a naive cliché. Ask anybody who actually did successfully start a business. There was a lot of work involved.
Another example? The way-too-common assumption that startups have to get funded is just wrong. The latest available SBA statistics show about 450,000 new businesses start up in the U.S. every month. But in an average year, only 70,000 or so get angel investment, and fewer than 5,000 get venture capital. Real people start businesses using grit, savings, credit card debt, loans on house equity, and loans or investment from family. The normal process of a startup is not, not by a long shot, a process of going from idea to funding without a ton of hard work in between. Not does it take investment to make a startup. Some need it, and many others don't. It depends on the business.
And a third example is a pet peeves for me, the idea that education doesn't coexist with entrepreneurship. Why bother to get an education if you're going to be an entrepreneur. I ranted about that one last month, in Young Entrepreneurs: They are Lying to You. For every Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg there are 10 million normal people wishing they'd stuck it out and gotten their degree.
Not that expertise is bad
However, for the record, I don't mind it when someone shares expertise and experience accumulated from being close to startups, as sometimes happens with attorneys, business school profs, small business development center (SBDC) counselors, and others. They can be legitimate helpers. And of course there are functional experts who have expertise to share on marketing, writing, design, development, finance, and so on, without having started a business. But they should declare their expertise and stick to it. They should not reinforce the clichés.
But certainty is bad. These are startups
The level of certainty I see, way too often, is amazing. Having read a bunch of blog posts about Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, or Richard Branson doesn't make anybody an expert – but so-o-o-o many people act like it does. There are people who draw from the enormous overabundance of startup advice available and repeat the common clichés, because they sound good. So they tweet, post, write, and comment. And they perpetuate the clichés with an air of certainty.
I think certainty itself, related to startups, is a sign of inexperience. There are no general rules that apply very well to startups. There is always room for "on the other hand."
September 13, 2014 ReflectionsTim Berry
This video illustrates the dangerous half truths in Entrepreneurship:


If there was ever a time to start, carry on or obsess about gardening…this is it. Except for dirty hands, occasional sore muscles and rages against the weather, it's the one pastime that doesn't discriminate against anybody or anything.
Alstroemeria are the cut flower growers' sweet spot right now. They're easy to grow, easy to transport and they last a crazy long time in water. You can buy them or for the price of a couple of cups of fancy coffees, you can grow your own. Granted, many of the Alstroemeria varieties and species are invasive but who cares? More flowers. Pull out, don't cut the flower stems and they will keep regenerating. They grow in sun and bloom June-October.
Seed-starting failures have prompted many gardeners to completely give up on the process. Totally understandable, especially if you start with seeds that have to be frozen, set on fire or scratched. It doesn't just take patience; it takes expertise for those. Make it easy on yourself.
Just a bee and a Zinnia from a mixed packet.
This is the third edition of a classic perennial book. It must be good. It sets itself apart from other perennial books because it is not just a rehash and reorganization of everybody else's experiences. It's current and it's comprehensive.
Sibato-Aust writes about more than planting and laying out perennial gardens. She goes into detail about how to maintain them. There are decisions to be made with perennials. Where should they be planted? Do you need to stake them? Do they respond to dividing and when do you divide them? Do you cut them back or just deadhead them? Just exactly what kind of pruning is needed for each perennial? All of those questions are answered along with an encyclopedia of the most popular perennials available and their vital statistics.


The Mephisto waltz sequence, being the mod 2 count of ternary digit 2s in i.
i=0 has no 2s so value=0, and likewise i=1 value=0. Then i=2 has one 2 so value=1.
The effect of the expansion is keep the first third the same, append a copy of it, and append an inverse of it 0<->1.
Return the $i'th MephistoWaltz value, being the count mod 2 of the ternary digit 2s in $i.
The calculation can be made in a power-of-3 base like 9, 27, 81, etc instead of just 3. For example in base 9 digits 2, 5, 6, 7 have a one (mod 2) ternary 2. These base 9 digits correspond to the 1s in the initial sequence 0,0,1, 0,0,1, 1,1,0 shown above.


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Argentine lawmakers take up government-backed bill to legalize abortion
FILE PHOTO: People attend a demonstration in favor of legalizing abortion, outside the National Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina December 4, 2020 REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian
By Nicolás Misculin
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentine lawmakers began debating a bill to legalize abortion on Thursday as protesters rallied outside Congress waving trademark green scarves in support of the legislation that could set the tone for a wider shift in Latin America.
The draft law, which would provide for the legal termination of pregnancy up until the 14th week, is backed by center-left President Alberto Fernandez. It is expected to be narrowly approved by congressional deputies before moving up to the Senate, where an even tighter vote is anticipated.
The South American country is the birthplace of Pope Francis, and Thursday's debate comes as a number of countries in the predominantly Roman Catholic region are seeing drives to give women greater reproductive rights.
A spokesman for the ruling party said a debate of almost 30 hours was expected in the lower house, meaning that the bill – which could undergo modifications to achieve broad consensus – would be likely to face a vote on Friday morning.
""We are convinced that this offers a concrete answer to an urgent and structural public health problem," said Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, the government's Women, Gender and Diversity minister, as she opened the session in the Chamber of Deputies.
"The time has come to stop looking the other way."
Protesters supporting the bill began gathering outside Congress with their green scarves on Thursday, planning an overnight vigil to await news of what they hope will be an approval this time round after a similar vote to legalize abortion was narrowly defeated in 2018.
Opposition groups, who wear light blue scarves, have also pledged to take to the streets to demonstrate against the bill.
The initiative includes a parallel bill which will face a separate vote to assist women who want to continue with their pregnancy and face severe economic or social difficulties.
Argentine law currently only allows the voluntary interruption of pregnancy when there is a serious risk to the mother or in the event of rape, although activists say many women often do not receive adequate care.
The country has seen a gradual rise in agnosticism in recent years. While the current Peronist government is strongly behind the bill, that was not the case in 2018 during the conservative administration of Mauricio Macri.
"We are not in favor of abortion, we do not recommend or suggest it, we are against clandestine abortion that kills thousands of women," Argentine actress and campaigner Carola Reyna posted on Twitter.
"We believe that it is a practice that should be regulated by the State, guaranteeing women's health."
(Reporting by Nicolas Misculin; Editing by Adam Jourdan and Tom Brown)
Posted on December 10, 2020 By Reuters News Agency
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Vilém z Moerbeke (latinských podob jeho jména je více, častá je např. Guillelmus de Moerbeke) se narodil asi v roce 1215 ve vesnici Moerbeke (dnes v Belgii); zemřel v roce 1286 v Korintu. Silně ovlivnil intelektuální život 13. století jako překladatel z řečtiny. Překládal především Aristotela. Byl dominikánem, přátelil se s Tomášem Akvinským a Witelonem.

Život
Z jeho života není příliš mnoho známo. Narodil se ve vesnici Moerbeke, patrně vstoupil do dominikánského řádu v Lovani již jako mladý muž. Cestoval do Řecka; patrně byl členem dominikánského konventu, který byl založen v Thébách nejpozději v roce 1253. Okolo roku 1271 se Vilém nachází na papežském dvoře ve Viterbu, kde působí jako zpovědník a kaplan papeže. U papežského dvora zůstal až do roku 1278, kdy byl jmenován arcibiskupem v Korintě (nově vzniklá diecéze v Argolidě, založená po 4. křížové výpravě). Zde také roku 1286 umírá.
Informace o jeho životě se často zakládají na kolofónech rukopisů s překlady, které vytvořil.

Dílo
Byl nejslavnějším a nejplodnějším ze středověkých překladatelů Aristotela.
Jako první překladatel přeložil tato díla:
 De motu animalium (O pohybu živočichů)
 De progressu animalium
 Politica (Politika)
 Poetica (Poetika)
Vytvořil nové překlady těchto spisů:
 Categoriae (Kategorie)
 De interpretatione (O vyjadřování)
 De caelo (O nebi)
 Meteorologica
 Rhetorica (Rétorika)
 De animalibus
Revidoval překlady těchto textů:
 Analytica Posteriora (Druhé analytiky)
 Sophistici elenchi (O sofistických důkazech)
 Physica (Fyzika)
 De anima (O duši)
 Parva naturalia (Malá přírodovědecká pojednání)
 Metaphyphysica (Metafyzika)
Dále přeložil následující spisy:
 Pseudo-Aristotelés - De coloribus
 Simplikios - komentáře ke Kategoriím a k De caelo
 Ammonios - komentář k Perihermenias
 Alexandr z Afrodisiady - komentář k Meteorologica a k De sensu
 Filoponos - komentář k De anima (III. kniha)
 Themistios - komentář k De anima
 Proklos - Elementatio theologica (výtah z tohoto textu obíhal na západě pod názvem Liber de causis a byl někdy připisován Aristotelovi)
Pomineme-li logické texty, jejichž překlad již existoval dříve, byly Vilémovy překlady používány jako standardní text Aristotelova díla ještě i v renesanci.

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura
 DOD, Bernard G. Aristoteles latinus. In: KRETZMANN, Norman; KENNY, Anthony; PINBORG, Jan; STUMP, Eleonore (eds.). The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 1982, s. 45-79.

Středověcí překladatelé
Překladatelé Aristotela
Narození v roce 1215
Úmrtí v roce 1286
Muži


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METU-BIN iGEM Software TeamProject: Mining for BioBricks
Construction of Relational Database
Human Practice
HIBIT'11 Roundtable
Teknovasyon 2011
DNA School
From Press
While the interest to the field of synthetic biology is uprising, iGEM and Parts Registry is getting more important for researchers interested working in the field of synthetic biology. As the number of attendees and teams to iGEM competition increases each year, number of BioBricks submitted to the Parts Registry are increasing too. As we all know, Parts Registry is an inimitable library for synthetic biologists. Although it is an important source of information and tool for biologists, the parts are not organized very well. Therefore, while constructing devices, synthetic biologists usually faces following difficulties at the pre-experimental stage:
Searching through the Parts
Deciding if the parts needed are already in the database or not
Deciding which BioBrick will work effectively with which
Finding the most accurate combination between the parts
Constructing the most effectively working devices
Figuring out all these answers is time consuming and takes too much effort. Our main goal as 2011 METU-BIN iGEM Software team was to provide a web based tool that helps synthetic biologists at the pre-experimental step to search the Part Registry with input and output keywords and to design their genetic constructs using the biobricks provided in the 2011 distribution of DNA constructs.
M4B: Mining for Biobricks is developed to aid synthetic biologist. Our software proposes a method which can be utilized in pre-experimental step as a supporter data mining tool. Following the user defined input and output parameters, M4B lists all possible composite devices and ranks them according to the novel scoring matrix developed by METU-BIN.
Main goal of our 2011 project is to provide a web based tool that helps synthetic biologists at the pre-experimental step to design their genetic constructs according to their input and output parameters.
A network of all bioparts in 2011 distribution will be generated, which describes the functional relations between the subatomic bioparts.
A search algorithm will be developed to reveal all possible device combinations for the user defined input and output within bioparts of 2011 distribution.
Visualization tools will be applied for graphical representation of the results.
A web-based user interface will be provided for the developed software.
Extraction of Relations of Bioparts and Construction of Relational Database
Parts Registry contains various types of biobricks and connections in between parts. In our software, we aimed to develop an algorithm which goes over the devices and finds connections between biobricks to present users all possible constructed devices. However, it was very difficult to go over biobricks and find the relations in not very well organized Parts Registry. For that reason, we have decided to form a "Part Connections Database" by examining all the bilateral relations between biobricks which will be used by our program, M4B. By this way, the complex information in Parts Registry will be simplified and our algorithm will work faster and more effectively.
The biology group focused on all of the four 384 well plates of 2011 distribution and extracted information between connections and devices in a standard way. This information is stored into a relational database and enables queries from remote computer programs.
Our software group developed a toolbox to help biology group in storing the part relations into the new database of connections between biobricks. Using this tool, we were able to minimize the possibility of mistakes while entering bilateral relations manually. More importantly, this organized the database entries in a standardized way, according to the requirements of Mining for BioBricks to run the searching algorithm easily.
Figure 1: The toolbox which was used while building the "Part Connections Database" by our biology group. Figure 2: A screen shot from our "relational database"
As there are various types of biobricks in the Parts Registry, we set up rules to organize the "relational database" in an appropriate way.
The most important rule is "A constructed device formed by combination of promoter-ribosome binding site-gene-terminator, respectively, is the minimal functional device."
This is the major rule, because without these 4 major biobrick types, a device cannot work. In addition to this, without knowing the description of "basic device" it is impossible for us to present accurate results to users. Although Parts Registry contains various types of biobricks, in our database there are 4 basic biobricks which are promoters, ribosome binding sites, genes, and terminators. This helped us to simplify the complex information in the Parts Registry in our initial attempt of mining.
In addition to 4 basic biobrick types, there are inputs and outputs which are our software's parameters. Inputs are chosen according to promoters. Both activators and inhibitors of promoters were listed in our database. Main source of activators and inhibitors was the information from the Parts Registry. The reason of listing inhibitors was to filter out constructed devices which do not produce the required outputs. When a constructed device is formed by multiple devices, although the input activates first device's promoter, it may inhibit other promoters of following devices. Outputs were chosen according to the genes, the product they synthesize. Although, most of the time, input and output information was extracted from Parts Registry, sometimes external sources were used as well because of the uninformative part descriptions at Parts Registry. External sources such as NCBI, PubMed and wiki of the team who submitted the biobrick to iGEM were used.
Constitutive promoters are entered without any input, but especially their "constitutiveness" is recorded as a property in our relations database.
In our software, after constructing a device by combining biobricks to construct multiple devices, combination between devices is formed according to this rule: "Output of the first gene will be the input of the following promoter(s)"
According to this rule, first promoter will be activated by given Input and the product of first gene will be used as activator of the following promoters. By activation of the promoters, genes will synthesize the output. By this way, the constructed complex is expected to work effectively.
In Parts Registry, there are composite parts, translation units, generators, reporters, inverters, intermediate devices, and signaling devices. As Parts Registry 2011 distribution was being examined in detail, to simplify these parts, their connection information was simplified to promoter-ribosome binding site-gene-terminator relation by our biological knowledge. This rule is explained with details as seen below:
The biobricks which synthesize fluorescent proteins are classified as "reporters" as they give out light to report something. We accepted these parts as "genes" because they are synthesizing proteins.
Translational Units
Combination of ribosome binding site and gene is classified as "translational units". We accepted this as two biobricks rather than one. Therefore the bilateral relation between ribosome binding site and gene was entered in our database.
Inverters were challenging parts; they are formed from more than 2 biobricks. Rather than accepting this as one biobrick, we accepted this part as a combination of four biobricks. Therefore, we entered bilateral relations between each biobricks as ribosome binding site-gene, gene-terminator, and terminator- promoter. We also entered gene-output and input-promoter connections.
Genereators
Intermediate Devices
Composite parts, generators, signaling devices, and intermediate devices were also challenging parts like inverters. They don't have a specific rule about how many and which types of biobricks they consist of. However, we accepted them as complex subdevices and entered bilateral relation between each connected biobricks.
In METU-BIN 2011 project, our main priority was to focus on (minimal) Functional devices. Therefore we named DNAs, RNAs, and Tags as "accessories" because they are not vital for a device to work. However, we know that using these accessories during construction helps devices work more effectively by adding some extra features. For that reason, it's in on future plan to form a database for these accessories and present them to our users in their query results.
See our software, it's online!
M4B: Mining for BioBricks. It's a miner that goes over all the parts and finds the possible devices for you! Click on here or the logo!
Some photos during work
Retrieved from "http://2011.igem.org/Team:METU-BIN_Ankara/Project"


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The Supreme Court's Suggested Solution in a Contraception Case Won't Satisfy the Right
We know the Affordable Care Act says that employers must include contraceptive coverage in their employees' healthcare plans. But as a result of the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case, companies with religious owners who believe contraception is wicked (or, wrongly, that it amounts to abortion) don't have to comply with the law. They're exempt.
As we've written about before, there's a case currently in front of the Supreme Court that defies common sense.
It involves the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic non-profit. They also want an exemption to the law. What's weird about their case is that religious groups are already exempt. They just have to fill out a form that basically says "Give us the exemption," and that's it.
So what's the problem? Rolling Stone's David S. Cohen explained it well:
Apparently filling out a short form and putting a stamp on the envelope to mail it is too much for some religious non-profits. They want nothing to do with icky, filthy, non-procreative sex, even if no real effort or money on their part is required. So they sued, claiming this accommodation violates their religious liberty, just like Hobby Lobby's. Almost every appellate court in the country agreed that this claim was absurd, but the 8th Circuit found otherwise in September.
To reiterate: Their problem is that filling out a form saying they don't want to offer contraception coverage to their employees also violates their religious conscience.
That must be the sort of logic that only makes sense when you believe a communion wafer can magically become the flesh of Jesus…
Earlier today, the eight remaining justices on the Court sent a letter to both sides in the case, asking them if there was an alternative to filling out the form. Would it be okay, they wondered, if religious non-profits just told their insurers they didn't want to provide comprehensive health care to their employees? That wouldn't involve any interaction with the government.
It's an exemption to the exemption.
Petitioners with insured plans are currently required to submit a form either to their insurer or to the Federal Government (naming petitioners' insurance company), stating that petitioners object on religious grounds to providing contraceptive coverage. The parties are directed to address whether contraceptive coverage could be provided to petitioners' employees, through petitioners' insurance companies, without any such notice from petitioners.
For example, the parties should consider a situation in which petitioners would contract to provide health insurance for their employees, and in the course of obtaining such insurance, inform their insurance company that they do not want their health plan to include contraceptive coverage of the type to which they object on religious grounds. Petitioners would have no legal obligation to provide such contraceptive coverage, would not pay for such coverage, and would not be required to submit any separate notice to their insurer, to the Federal Government, or to their employees. At the same time, petitioners' insurance company — aware that petitioners are not providing certain contraceptive coverage on religious grounds — would separately notify petitioners' employees that the insurance company will provide cost-free contraceptive coverage, and that such coverage is not paid for by petitioners and is not provided through petitioners' health plan.
I can tell you already how this will play out: The government will say it's fine. What they're currently offering ought to be acceptable already, but this slight rearrangement makes no difference to them, so go for it.
As for the Little Sisters? They'll whine about this option, too.
Because this case isn't really about filling out a form. It's about protesting the very idea of the government allowing women to make their own reproductive choices. The unstated hope of the Religious Right is that a case like this will somehow gut the Affordable Care Act. The Catholic Church already opposes common sense contraception. Why would adding another link to the current chain change anything?
The Christian Right group Alliance Defending Freedom has already said no compromise will be acceptable:
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So… filling out a little paperwork violates the "deepest convictions" of people of faith. And giving women access to birth control somehow means they must "abandon their belief that life is sacred." Besides being a faulty understanding of biology, it suggests that nothing will ever satisfy them.
If that's the case, maybe the Court will realize this is overreach by the religious groups involved and rule in favor of the government.
Kevin Drum of Mother Jones thinks that's exactly what's going on:
The briefs are limited to 25 pages, but it sure sounds as if the government could submit a one-page brief that copies this language exactly and agrees that it sounds just peachy. For all intents and purposes, it seems like the Supreme Court is telling them to do exactly that and they'll get a ruling in their favor. End of case.
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