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package com.cloud.api.query.dao;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import org.apache.cloudstack.api.response.DiskOfferingResponse;

import com.cloud.api.query.vo.DiskOfferingJoinVO;
import com.cloud.offering.DiskOffering;
import com.cloud.offering.ServiceOffering;
import com.cloud.utils.db.Attribute;
import com.cloud.utils.db.GenericDaoBase;
import com.cloud.utils.db.SearchBuilder;
import com.cloud.utils.db.SearchCriteria;

@Component
public class DiskOfferingJoinDaoImpl extends GenericDaoBase<DiskOfferingJoinVO, Long> implements DiskOfferingJoinDao {
    public static final Logger s_logger = Logger.getLogger(DiskOfferingJoinDaoImpl.class);

    private final SearchBuilder<DiskOfferingJoinVO> dofIdSearch;
    private final Attribute _typeAttr;

    protected DiskOfferingJoinDaoImpl() {

        dofIdSearch = createSearchBuilder();
        dofIdSearch.and("id", dofIdSearch.entity().getId(), SearchCriteria.Op.EQ);
        dofIdSearch.done();

        _typeAttr = _allAttributes.get("type");

        _count = "select count(distinct id) from disk_offering_view WHERE ";
    }

    @Override
    public DiskOfferingResponse newDiskOfferingResponse(DiskOfferingJoinVO offering) {

        DiskOfferingResponse diskOfferingResponse = new DiskOfferingResponse();
        diskOfferingResponse.setId(offering.getUuid());
        diskOfferingResponse.setName(offering.getName());
        diskOfferingResponse.setDisplayText(offering.getDisplayText());
        diskOfferingResponse.setProvisioningType(offering.getProvisioningType().toString());
        diskOfferingResponse.setCreated(offering.getCreated());
        diskOfferingResponse.setDiskSize(offering.getDiskSize() / (1024 * 1024 * 1024));
        diskOfferingResponse.setMinIops(offering.getMinIops());
        diskOfferingResponse.setMaxIops(offering.getMaxIops());

        diskOfferingResponse.setDomain(offering.getDomainName());
        diskOfferingResponse.setDomainId(offering.getDomainUuid());
        diskOfferingResponse.setDisplayOffering(offering.isDisplayOffering());

        diskOfferingResponse.setTags(offering.getTags());
        diskOfferingResponse.setCustomized(offering.isCustomized());
        diskOfferingResponse.setCustomizedIops(offering.isCustomizedIops());
        diskOfferingResponse.setHypervisorSnapshotReserve(offering.getHypervisorSnapshotReserve());
        diskOfferingResponse.setStorageType(offering.isUseLocalStorage() ? ServiceOffering.StorageType.local.toString() : ServiceOffering.StorageType.shared.toString());
        diskOfferingResponse.setBytesReadRate(offering.getBytesReadRate());
        diskOfferingResponse.setBytesWriteRate(offering.getBytesWriteRate());
        diskOfferingResponse.setIopsReadRate(offering.getIopsReadRate());
        diskOfferingResponse.setIopsWriteRate(offering.getIopsWriteRate());
        diskOfferingResponse.setCacheMode(offering.getCacheMode());
        diskOfferingResponse.setObjectName("diskoffering");

        return diskOfferingResponse;
    }

    @Override
    public DiskOfferingJoinVO newDiskOfferingView(DiskOffering offering) {
        SearchCriteria<DiskOfferingJoinVO> sc = dofIdSearch.create();
        sc.setParameters("id", offering.getId());
        List<DiskOfferingJoinVO> offerings = searchIncludingRemoved(sc, null, null, false);
        assert offerings != null && offerings.size() == 1 : "No disk offering found for offering id " + offering.getId();
        return offerings.get(0);
    }
}

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Salesman Sets All-Time Record With 1,530 Cars in 2017
Ali Reda sold 130 cars a month last year, more than some dealerships, but the previous record holder is disputing his claim.
byDave Bartosiak| PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2018 4:27 PM
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There is a new king of auto sales and his name is Ali Reda. He's a Cadillac and Chevy salesman at Les Stanford Chevy Cadillac in Dearborn, Michigan. According to the Detroit Free Press, Reda sold 1,530 new vehicles and 52 used vehicles last year, shattering the old record of 1,425 new cars sold by a man named Joe Girard in 1973. The funny part is, rather than gracefully tipping his cap to the new king, the old record holder is being a sore loser.
After hearing the news that his 44-year record had been beat Joe Girard said, "This guy claims he beat my record of 1,425 new cars that I sold in 1973. What I did immediately, I called my attorney." I can't help but imagine Dick Lewiston from The Goods when thinking of the 89-year-old Girard.
The new vehicle record has been officially recognized by General Motors, which means the people at the Guinness World Records are likely to follow soon. Gary Stanford, whose father was the original founder of the dealership where Reda works said, "It's very official, trust me. Ali is the hardest worker I've ever seen. And if someone doesn't believe the data, well, they're more than welcome to consult with GM. It's all there in black and white."
The secret to Reda's success? He takes a consultative approach to sales, helping to steer clients into the car that makes the most sense for them, rather than trying to jam the manager's special on them. "I'm more of an adviser than a car salesman," Reda said. "That may mean not selling a car. That happens a lot. People come back and thank you. People come to me with their automobile problems and I'll solve the issue. Like, somebody comes in who owes more on a car than it's worth. Well, we need to sit down and figure out the best plan for now and how not to let that happen again in the future. Single mothers come in, they're on a fixed income, their kid's growing up and needs a car and can't afford much. I grew up pretty much with a single mother myself, so I understand what she had to give up in her life to give us opportunities and the love we had. "
The dealership offered to bring the previous record holder and his wife in for a luncheon as a public relations stunt. Girard refused the invite, continuing to fight the news in court. "My attorney is going to get a court order to go into that dealership and have him audited. That's where I'm going on Monday."

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While I'm sure most of us won't have Thanksgiving tables as fancy as the ones at the White House State Dinner last night, the table setting and colors were just stunning.
There is much to be thankful for this holiday season.
I know one thing I'm thankful for is all of you, my blog readers, who take time out of your day to read my blog and leave comments. So, thank you, it means so much to me!
I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with friends, family, loved ones and great food!!
Right back at ya! Have a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Ditto! Thanks for reading and commenting on my blog as well and thanks for this post. These images are gorgeous!
The table is so beautiful! Happy thanksgiving!!!!!
Just beautiful! Happy Thanksgiving to you too!!
And your newly re-done chair and pillows look fabulous in your room!! I love the nailhead trim on the chair!
Oh I agree-- the colors are gorgeous! Happy Thanksgiving to you!
I wish me wedding looked like that.
Happy Turkey Day! I'm constantly keeping my fingers crossed that you will have a special present post soon....I can't help myself, I'm from the south.
Well said lady. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
I don't know why I am just now finding your blog, but I think I'm in love!
Stunning! Love the gold with the lime green and purple.
I love your blog! I just read a whole dang lot. Love it when I find one that has endless good posts! Keep up the good work!


In this research we examine how the selection and assembly of initial strategic resources (financial, human, and technological) impact the entrepreneurial exit strategy. Our results suggest that an IPO exit strategy is positively related to all three types of strategic resources, while a strategic sale exit strategy is positively related to financial resources or total initial investment, and a sale to an individual exit strategy is positively associated with percentage of ownership, a financial resource. Implications for research and practice are discussed.


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Q: No bootable device error after restoring debian image to annother ssd disk I created an image of debian 7 on an SSD disk and later restored it on another computer with excatly same type of SSD disk. however I'm getting the error message No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press key
The image was created using a live OS with the command: dd if=/dev/sda conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c  > backup.img.gz
And later restored to disk with:
gunzip -c backup.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sda

I've done this plenty of times before on older computers and it usually works fine. These computers has EFI, could this be the issue? Any ideas, or workarounds?
Thanks

A: Do you use MBR or GPT on SSD?
Possibly you will need to switch between UEFI/LEgacy boot mode as shown here:
https://phoenixts.com/blog/uefi-vs-legacy-bios/

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Local woman shoots, tackles burglar
By Chelsea Edwards |
Posted: Mon 10:36 AM, Jun 24, 2019 |
KILLEEN, Texas (KWTX) A 5-foot-6, 135-pound man who broke into a Killeen woman's home before dawn on Sunday ended up facing down the barrel of a gun.
(Photo by Sam DeLeon/file)
The woman, who was alerted to a break-in by noises outside her house in the 2200 block of Wheeler Avenue, shot, tackled and held down the burglar who remains at large with a gunshot wound to the arm after managing to escape.
The empty-nester, who asked not to be identified, is retired from the Army and lives alone.
She's been looking forward to an upcoming trip across the country at the end of her lease, but after the incident she says she's packing up earlier than planned.
At around 5:30 Sunday, the woman, an admitted light sleeper, was wide awake when she heard the sound of someone dismantling her porch light and then removing her garage door window.
The man used a trash can for a boost to get through the window.
The woman was ready for him, though.
"I loaded my handgun," she says.
"I sat here and waited."
The burglar entered the home through an unlocked door between the garage and the kitchen, and walked down a hallway that leads to her bedroom.
She first saw his cellphone light and then his silhouette as he stepped into the bedroom doorway.
That's when she fired a shot with her 9mm handgun, striking him in the arm.
"He screamed and ran," she said.
She followed him down the hallway and fired again, but missed.
"It ricocheted off the floor, into the closet," she said.
The intruder tried to escape the way he came in, but he couldn't climb out of the garage door window with his wounded arm, so he went back into the house.
They two scuffled and the gun discharged.
The shot hit the dining room wall.
She managed to overpower the man, holding him down while trying to call police.
"He told me, 'I didn't get anything. You already shot me, so just let me go,'" she said.
The man managed to break free and escaped through the front door, but not before she got off a final warning shot that went through a wall near the front door.
"This is someone's child, someone's son, who took the wrong direction somewhere to try me," she says.
"But he got the right house because hopefully, he learned a lesson."
Although she spent nine years in the Army, she says this the first time she ever shot someone.
She credits the training she received through a self-defense handgun class with keeping her calm.
The burglar was shirtless and was wearing gray sweat pants.
Investigators are asking anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at 254-526-TIPS (8477).
Tips may also be submitted online.


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Home»Recommendations»Lady Chatterley's Lover | Introduction & Summary
Lady Chatterley's Lover | Introduction & Summary
Lady Chatterley's Lover, novel by D. H. Lawrence, published in a limit English-language version in Florence ( 1928 ) and in Paris ( 1929 ). It was inaugural published in England in an expurgated interpretation in 1932. The fully text was published only in 1959 in New York City and in 1960 in London, when it was the subject of a landmark obscenity trial ( Regina v. Penguin Books, Ltd. ) that turned largely on the justification of the use in the fresh of until-then taboo sexual terms. This last of Lawrence ' south novels reflects the writer ' second impression that men and women must overcome the deaden restrictions of industrialize club and follow their natural instincts to passionate sexual love.
Reading: Lady Chatterley's Lover | Introduction & Summary
summary : constance ( Connie ) Chatterley is married to Sir Clifford, a affluent landowner who is paralyzed from the waist devour and is absorbed in his books and his estate of the realm, Wragby. After a disappoint affair with the dramatist Michaelis, Connie turns to the estate of the realm ' mho gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors, a symbol of natural homo, who awakens her passions .
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detail : The publication history of Lady Chatterly ' s Lover provides a plot itself desirable of a novel. Published privately in 1928 and long available in foreign editions, the first unexpurgated edition did not appear in England until Penguin risked publishing it in 1960. Prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, Penguin was acquitted after a ill-famed trial, in which many eminent authors of the day appeared as witnesses for the defense.
ascribable to this ill-famed history, the fresh is most widely known for its denotative descriptions of intimate intercourse. These occur in the context of a plot that centers on Lady Constance Chatterly and her disappointing marriage to Sir Clifford, a affluent Midlands landowner, writer, and intellectual. constance enters into a passionate love matter with her husband ' mho educated gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Pregnant by him, she leaves her husband and the fresh ends with Mellors and Constance temporarily separated in the hope of securing divorces in decree to begin a new life together. What remains so powerful and so unusual about this fresh is not precisely its honesty about the power of the intimate bond between a homo and a woman, but the fact that, even in the early years of the twenty-first hundred, it remains one of the few novels in english literary history that addresses female sexual desire. It depicts a charwoman ' sulfur experience of the exquisite pleasure of good sex, her apocalyptic disappointment in bad sex, and her fulfillment in truly making love. As if all this were not enough to mark Lady Chatterly ' s Lover as one of the truly great english novels, it is besides a sustain and profound reflection on the state of advanced company and the menace to culture and humanity of the ceaseless tide of industrialization and capitalism.
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SIZE: Approx. 20 x 72" when blocked.
Duchess Blue 221; Sand 239.
A multiple of 4 plus 2.
Row 1: K2 (border), * K2, P2 *; repeat from * to * across, ending with K2; K2 (border).
Row 2: K2, * P2, K2 *; repeat from * to * across, ending with P2, K2.
Row 3: K2, * K2 tog and leave on left- hand needle, then K again in first st and slip both sts from needle (cable), P2 *; repeat from * to * across, ending with cable; K2.
Row 4: K2, * P2, cable *; repeat from * to * across, ending with P2; K2. Repeat these 4 rows for pattern.
Cast on 86 sts. Work even in Pat. St until 72" or desired length from start, ending with Row 1. Bind off, working sts as for Row 2. Block.


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New Orleans-born artist Dee-1 is on a mission to spread both the gospel and positive messages through his music. Since 2009, Dee-1 has crafted a serious music following and now, with his "3's Up" EP, has brought attention to his music and the message he is presenting. Earlier this year, Dee-1 released his hit single, "Salli Mae Back," which […]
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A frustrated mom decided to take on Comcast for poor customer service and refused to give up until the issues were resolved. According to her post on YouTube, she originally called Comcast to resolve internet service issues and was given the run around by the technician and told that there was not much he could […]
Microsoft Corporation 'Minecraft' Most Streamed Video Game of All Time
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Microsoft Corporation's Minecraft is a game that allows the player to build objects from pixelated cubes in a 3D atmosphere. It is the most popular streaming game on YouTube and it has been for 10 years, since YouTube was put online. YouTube has over 42 million videos on 'Minecraft,' which is also the second most […]


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What Color is Your Parachute? As Mark Rothko in the award-winning Red, Alfred Molina tackles the big questions
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Born to Sing Verdi Hawaiian star baritone Quinn Kelsey anchors the Met's new Rigoletto
Theater Pick of the Week From Shakespeare's Globe, in London, an Elizabethan Twelfth Night for the ages
Opera Pick of the Week Tesla sings! Les Éclairs at the Opéra Comique, in Paris, takes liberties with the biography of the Serbian visionary, to electric effect
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| Black Fire Daily Update – May 19, 2022NM Fire Info
Active Fire Behavior Continues Across the Black Fire with Red Flag Warning Issued
Community meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday in Truth or Consequences
Daily Update 5/19/2022
Acres: 93,014 acres (Infrared flight Wednesday night)
Location: 31 miles NW of Truth or Consequences
Containment: 0% Personnel: 450 Start Date: Friday, May 13, 2022
Cause: Unknown, under investigation
Fuels: Timber and tall grass
Announcement: A public meeting will be hosted on Friday at 7 p.m. at the Ralph Edward Civic Center, 400
West 4th St, Truth or Consequences, NM 87901.
Fire Update: On Wednesday, the Black Fire showed active fire behavior with upslope runs and crown fire in the tops of trees. Fire personnel were able to construct handline around the southwest side of the fire. They scouted potential fireline locations and constructed direct and indirect fireline, using hand ignitions to strengthen firelines where needed. Heavy equipment, including bulldozers, also assisted with building fireline within the Turkey Run area on the north side of the fire. Aerial resources assisted extensively, dropping water to assist firefighters on the ground and slow the fire's rate of spread.
Today, firefighters will continue to work on Forest Road 150 (aka North Star Mesa Road or Wall Lake Road), located on the west side of the fire, from the Middle Mesa area to the south as well as from Diamond Creek north towards Beaverhead. Crews will assess structures threatened across the fire area, construct direct and indirect control lines and use point protection tactics. To date, no structures are known to be damaged or destroyed. Firefighters on the eastern side will scout and construct fireline when and where they can safely work and there is a good chance of success.
The Black Fire continues to burn in extremely dry timber and tall grass fuels. The fine fuels are very high across the fire due to last year's robust monsoons and is a contributing factor to high rates of spread through previously burned and unburned areas. The fire is expected to spread rapidly where fuels and topography align.
Evacuations: Several areas have been evacuated or are in evacuation readiness. The sheriffs of Grant, Catron and Sierra counties are using the Ready, Set, Go program to notify residents of evacuation status. For detailed information on Ready, Set, Go! New Mexico, visit
https://www.emnrd.nm.gov/sfd/fire-prevention-programs/readyset-go-new-mexico/.
In coordination with Grant, Catron and Sierra counties, the following areas are under evacuation status:
In Grant County: GO: Starting from the Tom Moore Canyon Trailhead, nine miles to the west, south two miles, east to the Continental Divide Trail, and north two miles. SET: Starting from the Tom Moore Canyon Trailhead, five miles to the west, three miles south, east to the Continental Divide Trail, and north three miles. READY: Starting at the Tom Moore Trailhead, nine miles to the west, south five miles, east to the Continental Divide Trail, and north five miles.
In Catron and Sierra counties: GO: Starting three miles south of Beaverhead, five miles to the west, south to the Catron and Sierra County line. SET: From Beaverhead, three miles south to Kemp Mesa, four miles west, six miles east to the Catron County line, and three miles north. READY: The area starting at the Grant County line south seven miles and east from the Continental Divide Trail approximately eight miles.
Sierra County: GO: Residents in the Mud Spring Mountain area and the community of Hermosa. SET: The area starting from one mile north of Lookout Mountain Trailhead, north seven miles, west to the Sierra County line and east to County Road 59. Starting from the Sierra County line north 12 miles, three miles east of the Continental Divide Trail, and west four miles.
Evacuation maps can be viewed at: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/8103/
Weather: A Red Flag Warning is in effect today and tomorrow. Relative humidity will drop below 10% with
limited overnight humidity recovery. Temperatures will continue to be above average, and winds will range from 15-20 mph with 25-30 mph gusts.
Road Closures: Portions of Forest Road 150 (aka North Star Mesa Road or Wall Lake Road) is closed to the
public. I-25 and other state highways remain open.
Smoke: The Black Fire produces heavy smoke that can be seen from all over the state. The smoke is drifting to the east affecting much of New Mexico before moving northward into Texas. Visit https://fire.airnow.gov/ for additional information.
Aviation Restrictions: Airtankers and helicopters are available to assist for with fire suppression efforts. There is a Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) over the Black Fire. Firefighting aircraft cannot fly if any aircraft, including drones, violates the restriction and poses a danger to firefighters on the ground by leaving them without aerial support.
Fire Restrictions: The Gila National Forest entered Stage 2 Fire Restrictions, effective at 8:00 a.m., Thursday, May 19, 2022. The New Mexico State Forester has implemented statewide fire restrictions. Information is available at https://www.emnrd.nm.gov/sfd/find-current-fire-restrictions/.
Inciweb: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/8103/
New Mexico Fire information: https://nmfireinfo.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GilaNForest
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gilanforest
Public Line: 575-249-1264; Media: 575-249-1294 (Hours: 8 am – 8 pm); Email: 2022.black@firenet.gov
Evacuation Map for Black Fire as of 5/19/2022
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Q:  won't abide to body I'm really not sure that my title is correct english. Hehe. But fortunately I can explain my problem in pictures ;-)
My problem is this:

body {
  font: calibri;
  background-color: #2d2e29;
  margin-left: 150px;
  margin-right: 150px;
  margin-bottom: 0px;
  margin-top: 0px;
}
p {
  margin: 0px;
}
nav {
  position: fixed;
  width: 100%;
  height: 80px;
  background-color: #FFFFFF;
  opacity: 0.75;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  margin-left: 150px;
  margin-right: 150px;
}
nav ul {
  float: right;
  list-style-type: none;
  padding: 0;
  margin-top: 30px;
  margin-right: 30%;
}
nav li {
  display: inline;
}
nav a {
  margin: 5px;
  color: black;
}
nav a:hover {
  color: #99cccc;
}
#Forside {
  background-color: #3f5c93;
  height: 800px;
}
#Mig {
  background-color: #ccc2a6;
  height: 800px;
}
#Faerdigheder {
  background-color: #3f5c93;
  height: 800px;
}
#Projekter {
  background-color: #ccc2a6;
  height: 800px;
  text-align: center;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
}
#Kontakt {
  background-color: #3f5c93;
  height: 800px;
  text-align: center;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
}
#logo {
  height: 100%;
  width: 200px;
  background: url("Logo.png");
  margin-top: 10px;
  margin-left: 50px;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  position: absolute;
  background-size: 200px;
}

          Forside

          Mig

          Færdigheder

          Projekter

          Kontakt

Forside

Mig

Lots of words

Færdigheder

Lots of words

I added my code to fiddle, so you can see the problem:
http://jsfiddle.net/9Lj6ck3L/
I hope you can understand the code even though some words is in Danish :-)

A: Given the HTML and CSS provided, set the width of the nav to calc(100% - 300px);
Demo Fiddle
Otherwise you are telling it to be the full viewport width, offset from the left by 150px which is why it seems to overspill to the right. Using calc you can say, "fine, stretch to the viewport width, but minus the margins"

A: Working fiddle -  http://jsfiddle.net/9Lj6ck3L/11/
Changed width of your header bar.
nav {
                    position:fixed;
                    width:63.5%;
                    height:80px;
                    background-color:#FFFFFF;
                    opacity:0.75;
                    top:0;
                    left:0;
                    margin-left:150px;
                    margin-right:150px;
                }

Hope this helps.

A: Your problem is position:fixed. This element does not inherit anything from it's parent in terms of width.
Your best bet would be to wrap the nav in another
 and make that position fixed. Then give the  inside it the width that you want.
Move the  outside of the #all div and put your margins on #all instead of the body.
Then give your  css of box-sizing: content-box or box-sizing: padding-box to solve the width issue.


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Chris Naunton
Egyptologist
Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt
Egyptologists' Notebooks
King Tutankhamun Tells All!
Recorded Talks Online
Lectures in person
'People at Amarna' – links & further reading
'After Akhenaten' – links & further reading
'Egypt's Lost Pyramid' – links & further reading
'Searching for Imhotep' – links & further reading
'The Kingdom of Kush' – links & further reading
Alexander the Great – links & further reading
Cleopatra: Tomb, Baths & Birth-House – links & further reading
The Third Intermediate Period – links & further reading
'The Missing Tomb of Amenhotep I' – links & further reading
Tutankhamun: In Life, Death & Eternal Afterlife – links & further reading
Royal Mummies, Robbers and Caches – links & further reading
Herihor – links & further reading
8 Days in Egypt
On March 27, 2012 By chrisnaunton
I have just returned from an all-too-brief but fabulously useful and interesting eight days in Egypt. This was my first visit as EES Director and my goal was to see as many friends and colleagues, particularly in the Ministry of Antiquities, as possible and to visit the five EES teams that are working in Egypt this Spring. This was something I had wanted to make a priority when I started the job, and to my delight it has been every bit as enjoyable and productive as I had hoped it would be, and much more.
The Delta city of Tanta (http://flic.kr/p/bttBvS)
It is, of course an exciting, if unsettled and difficult period for Egypt: the country is still waiting to see who will be its next president and what changes this will bring, and times are hard, particularly in those areas which rely most heavily on tourism as visitor numbers remain very low. Some are concerned at the reduction in the number of police on the streets, and there is currently an apparently inexplicable shortage of petrol which is making for long queues at the petrol stations throughout the country. Still, there is relief and joy that the revolution has brought the possibility of the changes the people want, and great hope and optimism in general.
A mixture of ancient and modern motifs among the graffiti which has sprung up around Midan Al-Tahrir since the revolution (http://flic.kr/p/bGoqAe)
It has also been a time of great excitement and optimism for the Egypt Exploration Society. We have, in the last few years, been through a lot of change brought about by a very challenging financial situation and the necessary modernisation that came with it. We have made great strides however: our financial position is much more stable and secure than it was a few years ago, and by looking very closely at all our activities and how everything is run we have been able to improve the financial situation at the same time as expanding our programme of activities in a series of key areas such as fundraising, the archives, events and online communications (I'll be writing about these in more detail in the coming months). Having worked very closely myself on improving the Society's work in The UK in the last few years in my role as Deputy Director, I am now relishing the opportunity to get to work on the Egyptian side of our operations.
Meetings, meetings
During the week I met numerous colleagues from the MSA including the Minister, Dr Mohamed Ibrahim, not only at their headquarters on Zamalek, the island in the centre of Cairo, but at each of the centres in which our teams are working. I visited the site of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) by the Giza pyramids and met the Director General, Dr Hussein Bassir, who showed me around the extremely impressive Conservation Centre which is already up and running.
Work is under way at the new conservation centre at the Grand Egyptian Museum site
I also met with the British Ambassador, James Watt and his colleague Sam Grout-Smith, who were extremely hospitable and keen to hear more about the Society's current work in Egypt. I met friends from the American University in Cairo, American Research Center in Egypt and Ancient Egypt Research Associates and elsewhere, and gave a lecture for EES members in Cairo. And of course I spent a lot of time with the Society's Cairo representative, Mrs Faten Saleh, who accompanied me almost throughout, not least on my visits to the EES field projects.
Faten Saleh (L) and Penny Wilson at Nashwein (http://flic.kr/p/bttBuf)
Visiting the archaeologists and other specialists who make up our teams and their sites was really my top priority and my visit was timed to ensure that I could see as many of them as possible. If you had asked me beforehand, I would have said, having visited numerous archaeological projects – EES and otherwise – that site reports, online dig diaries, lectures etc are all very well, but there is no substitute for being there in person with the people doing the work. Everything from the journey to the site to the atmosphere among the team members, foreign and Egyptian, helps put the work in context. Of course you also get the opportunity to ask questions, however daft they might seem, which might be the key to helping you to understand what's going on ("oh, I see…"). I thought I knew all this already but nonetheless I have been bowled over by what I have seen in the last few days. I feel I understand what our teams are doing much better than I did before and my enthusiasm for them all, which was never lacking beforehand, has increased dramatically.
Quesna
Joanne Rowland taking levels at Quesna (http://flic.kr/p/bGoqCi)
Our adventure began last Tuesday (20 March) with a drive to Quesna in the central Delta (see this map) to see Jo Rowland and her team. The site is located atop a very large yellow sand gezira (mound) surrounded by fields, factories and a landfill site. At one end of the site lies a Ptolemaic and Roman mausoleum excavated by the SCA in the 1990s, a spectacular jumble of vaulted mudbrick chambers and the occasional stone sarcophagus, one with a very finely modelled human face. Jo's excavations focus on the Ptolemaic and Roman cemetery nearby, in which a series of well-preserved and articulated human remains have been found, and in the 140m long sacred falcon gallery. Here, thousands of mummified birds were placed in ceramic jars and deposited in the galleries. This would of course have been similar in function to the catacombs devoted to a variety of sacred animals discovered by Emery at North Saqqara in the 1960s. It might not look like much at the moment but with Jo's help it wasn't too difficult to imagine a very impressive structure at the centre of local religious beliefs and one I thought might lend itself to some kind of virtual reconstruction. Jo also showed Faten and I the site of the Old Kingdom mastaba she discovered in 2011 but has not yet been able to excavate completely. We talked about the possibility of increasing the size of Jo's team in the future in order to expose the entire monument; funds permitting this is something we would both like to do.
The atmosphere on-site in fantastic. Jo has the largest workforce of any of the teams I visited which, along with the constant banter, not least with Geoffrey Tassie (known universally as 'Tass' or 'Mr Tass') whose 'shiq shaq shoq' dance is extremely popular, makes for a very jolly working environment.
Left: Jo Rowland and her team; Right: Tass performs the 'shiq shaq shoq' for his colleagues! (http://flic.kr/p/bttBpw)
We left Jo and Tass and their team after a tour of the workroom and headed north to Kafr Es-Sheikh which Pat and Jeff Spencer and Penny Wilson were using as the base for their work at Kom El-Daba (not the Daba / Avaris of the famous frescoes but another site of the same name) and Nashwein respectively. We caught up over a delicious fish dinner then, after a good night's sleep, set off in the morning, first to Daba in Pat and Jeff's hire car.
Kom El-Daba
Jeffrey Spencer (with hat) supervises excavations at Kom El-Daba (http://flic.kr/p/bGoqDK)
It may not look like much more than a muddy area of lumps and bumps, but the mud at Kom El-Daba is in fact the remains of what was a sizeable town in Ptolemaic and Roman times. The team here are excavating the substantial remains of a Ptolemaic 'tower house', a type of building which could reach several storeys high. Daba would in ancient times have been much more high-rise than you'd ever imagine just from looking at the site as it is today. The work, a part of the Society's wider Delta Survey, has now reached the point at which Pat and Jeff believe they have gathered as much information as is necessary and it is likely that they will decide to concentrate resources on another, uninvestigated site next year.
Pat and Jeff decided to end the working day early so that we could all drive to Nashwein to visit Penny on what was the first day of her season of Delta Survey work. The drive itself was great fun. This part of the world is so relatively remote and developing so quickly that there are no maps which can be relied upon to show the best roads. Jeff therefore uses satellite images to identify what look like the best roads – asphalt and with cars on – to a given site, and then uses other landmarks such as built up areas, canals, bridges which appear on the images to navigate the route which, in the absence of any signage is the best method available. I was given the job of reading the satellite image / map – I have never felt more involved in Egypt Exploration!
Egypt exploration: navigating by satellite image (http://flic.kr/p/bttMB9)
Nashwein
Nashwein is a another very large site. Penny will be unable to do more than a basic topographical survey and inspection of archaeological material visible in the surface before heading to a more involved excavation at another Delta site, Tell Mutubis. This in itself will be of enormous value however. It is difficult to overstate just how little we know of Delta archaeology: just to establish the extent, condition and date of these sites, and in some cases that they exist at all has been an enormous achievement of the Delta Survey and every piece of information, however small, adds to our knowledge.
L-R: Jeff Spencer, Penny Wilson and Pat Spencer explore Nashwein (http://flic.kr/p/bGoqF2)
Tell Basta
Our next stop was to be Tell Basta, a few hours to the south-east. We decided to break the journey by stopping overnight in the city of Tanta and arrived in good time the following morning (Thursday) to join Eva Lange and the rest of her team. The Tell Basta project is collaboration between the EES, the MSA and the University of Göttingen. The Society's involvement is relatively recent – the project has been in existence since the 1990s but we have only been involved since 2008, but of course the Society has had a very strong connection with the site since Naville's excavations in the temple in 1887-9.
Edouard Naville among his workmen at Tell Basta. See further here.
The elite Middle Kingdom cemetery at Tell Basta with the palace just beyond (http://flic.kr/p/bGoqKe)
Though it is mainly famous for its temple, a jumble of massive, beautifully decorated and well-preserved stone blocks, the archaeological area is in fact much larger and encompasses domestic and cultic buildings, a palace and cemeteries, all of which dates from the Old Kingdom to Roman times and most of which has never been explored. The potential of the site is breathtaking. At present we have only a vague understanding of what is there and in the next few years Eva and her team plan to improve this situation by undertaking a comprehensive non-invasive survey (geophysics and augering) of the entire area, which will, we are hoping, lead to more focussed work on specific areas. One aspect of the work which the Project may be able to take on in the near future is the recording of the very fine decoration in the tombs of the Old Kingdom. We have been hoping to revive the Society's epigraphic activities for some time and this would provide an ideal opportunity.
After heading back to Cairo, Faten and I flew to Luxor the following day (Friday) to visit Angus Graham and his team which had just begun the augering phase of the Theban Harbours and Waterscapes Project. We met with Angus and his colleagues, Ben Pennington and Morag Hunter, that evening as we had all been invited to dinner at Chicago House. We had a great evening with old friends including the Director Ray Johnson and a good few new acquaintances as well. Luxor has changed a great deal in the last few years not least due to the excavation of the avenue of sphinxes in the centre of the town which continues to generate much discussion, and it was fascinating to talk to Ray and Chicago House architect Jay Heidel about some of the issues, and the fascinating, more recent – medieval and modern – history of the area.
The excavations of the avenue of sphinxes connecting the Luxor and Karnak temples (http://flic.kr/p/bttSgy)
The vast excavation trench has had a dramatic effect on the centre of the city (http://flic.kr/p/bttSfj)
I joined Angus and co first thing the following morning and was immediately reacquainted with my good friend and member of several EES teams Reis Omar Farouk (who also appears in our Petrie film, see my earlier post). We drove from the east bank across the bridge to the village of Nagaa Raml Al Alqalta to begin augering in the fields close by. This is the area that was, three thousand years ago, in the 18th Dynasty, the southern end of the entranceway to the Birket Habu, the massive, artificial harbour created by Amenhotep III in front of his palace at Malqata.
L-R: Morag Hunter, Ben Pennington, Warda el-Nagar (MSA Inspector) and Angus Graham analysing samples in the Birket Habu area, with the Theban mountains in the background (http://flic.kr/p/bttBy9)
Having undertaken a short season of geophysical investigations earlier in the year the team are now analysing the soil down to a depth of 9m in an attempt to improve their understanding of conditions in the area in ancient times, and specifically whether or not there was water, and of what kind – standing, flowing, seasonal etc. – here at the time of Amenhotep III.
It was a great thrill for me to see this work in particular. First of all I am very fond of the area: the fields and villages, set against the backdrop of the Theban mountains, are very beautiful, and I spent several seasons a few years ago living and working in the area with the Italian Mission to Luxor (and specifically the Tomb of Harwa). Secondly, I hadn't realised how entertaining it would be to watch the augering in progress. Reis Omar and his crew have to really heave to get the auger in and out of the ground, and their circular procession around the kit as it is driven downwards looks like some ritual dance. Best of all, Omar leads them in song almost throughout. It's very entertaining!
A short video of the augering in progress – listen out for the singing!
YouTube link for iOS users and others without Flash Player: http://youtu.be/mndj3uYZid0
Over the course of several hours what is, in effect, a column of soil samples of up to 9m is brought out of the ground in sections, each from slightly deeper down than the last. Each time, once the drill head has been brought back out of the ground, the sample is then scraped onto a tray by Omar and then passed to Angus, Ben and Morag for analysis. I find it utterly fascinating that what looks like any old mud to the untrained eye might potentially tell us so much about the building and other activities of one of the most interesting characters in ancient history, Pharaoh Amenhotep III. I can't wait to hear the results of the season's work set into context by a series of other experts on the period at our study day in London on 9 June: 'Grand Designs': Amenhotep III and the landscape of Thebes
After a few more visits and social calls, including Reis Omar's house in Luxor for dinner, I flew back to Cairo and then home the following day (Sunday).
The next steps
As I write this I'm still bursting with enthusiasm about the work our teams are doing, and elated at the atmosphere of positivity, energy and good humour I encountered at every one of the sites. It is my job now, along with my colleagues on the Board of Trustees and staff, to try to build on this and take things further forward. There are several areas in which I can see we might be able to make some progress:
• First of all I'd like to engender more of a spirit of community / collegiality between our field teams, and my colleagues on the staff etc. One of the happiest aspects of the trip for me was getting to know our teams that bit better, and I'm really glad from this point of view that Faten was able to join me. We are planning to involve team members as well as directors more directly in our events and to get them all together more regularly with everyone involved in the organisation – staff, Trustees, members and sponsors as well as fellow field workers
• I want to make sure that out teams and their work are as 'visible' in the archaeological and Egyptological communities as possible, and that they benefit from discussions with colleagues outside the EES by hosting more workshops (like the recent Delta event), seminars and social events particularly in Egypt, during the field season.
• I also want to make sure that our teams are as well coordinated as possible in terms of sharing resources – expert personnel and equipment etc.
• Most of all I want to ensure that each one of our projects is able to realise its potential, by supporting our teams throughout the process from fieldwork, to study and research, and finally, publication. We have in that past focussed only on supporting the fieldwork and publications costs but there's an awful lot more to the process than just that. We aren't going, suddenly, to be able to pay for everything but I think, with a little more flexibility and awareness of what might be able to do, we might be better placed to achieve our ultimate goal of finding out X about ancient Egypt and then telling the world about it.
All the above will come at a cost of course and will be subject to funds being available. However, the Society's financial situation is much improved as I mentioned above and we are now much better placed than we were only a few years ago to raise funds for targeted initiatives in particular.
As you might imagine I have also been giving an awful lot of thought to the Society's presence in Egypt, in terms not only of the work we are doing, but also of our profile among the Egyptological community and more widely, and the way the organisation is perceived. I was really pleased to hear colleagues talking so warmly about the Society and its work, and its long history and status as the pioneer organisation of its kind. We should all take great pride in that. I was a little concerned however that some felt a little 'in the dark' as regards our current projects, and activities in Cairo, but encouraged that everyone was hoping for a resurgence of sorts, and I think that without too much difficulty we ought to be able to bring this about with a few fairly straightforward initiatives. These might include:
• Improving the 'education and outreach' programme in Cairo as we have in London in recent years;
• Increasing 'traffic' between the UK and Egypt: we hope that Faten will be coming to London this summer and that Roo Mitcheson will visit Egypt later in the year;
• Using both these initiatives to improve educational opportunities for Egyptians and MSA employees in particular by:
1. Providing more educational activities – lectures, but also seminars, colloquia, short courses and tours – and offering a number of free places for MSA employees;
2. Bringing more Egyptians to the UK, to contribute to and/or benefit from our own education programme and from visits to other Egyptological institutions in the UK
Can't wait to get back
All in all, this was a fantastic trip. It was a privilege to be able to see the fabulous work my EES colleagues are doing and I was really taken by the warmth and openness shown by everyone I met, and by their enthusiasm for what the EES is doing now and, perhaps more excitingly, what it could be doing in the coming years. I can't wait to get going on all of this, and can't wait to get back to Egypt.
More photos from my trip are here:
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Graffiti near Tahrir / Facebook (no log-in required)
In Search of Petrie (part 3)
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Chris Naunton on Facebook
Steve Cross – a tribute to a fine Egyptologist
George Hart – In Fond Memory
The Lost 'Baths of Cleopatra'
The Foreigner as Scapegoat: Lessons from Ancient Egypt and Today
Decolonising, Egyptology & the dirty little secret
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His worldwide breakthrough was in 2001 when DJ Sammy begun to put his own name to his work. The single "Heaven" helped DJ Sammy achieve massive success in Europe and Australia with 2 million records sold, then came to the US where "Heaven" reached No. 2 in U.S. Billboards HOT 100 before going to the UK in 2002 and hitting No.1.'Heaven is magic' again in 2007 goes into the UK charts, this prove that it will be never forgotten and Sammy followed up 'Heaven' with 'The Boys of Summer', which shot to 2 on the UK charts.
In addition to selling more music than any other electronic music artist worldwide, Sammy has wrapped his own clubnights on Ibiza and Mallorca. Summer 2007 witnessed the birth of the "Balearic Masters" cd series and with it the parties in Ibiza and Mallorca. Also the "Balearic Masters world tour" has already begun and will continue right up until summer 2008."Balearic Masters" is on the A-list of the best nights on the Balearic Islands.
Also a Huge thank you to the success of the international productions of Dj Sammy in 2007 - some of the most famous rock/pop latino & spanish artists are now on the electronic music bandwagon & have benifited from Sammy..s productions. These artists have now turned to Sammy for the golden touch in music production. David Bisbal , Marta Sanchez, Chenoa and others. In less than 2 weeks these artists haver reached the highest chart positions in the latin & spanish music world and in recognition of the their work have recieved gold disc, all thanks to the musical production wizard that is DJ Sammy.


A lot of baseball remains to be played. If we continue on our current track, the last seven games will loom big, facing OSU and ASU in six of those. Unfortunately, the last 3 of those against ASU are on the road. They will present a great opportunity to show if we really have what it takes this year to win big games.
Arizona State will be a match up of strengths. They can hit, particularly big (55 homers), while Stanford leads the nation in fewest home runs allowed (6). We will try to force them into going a base at a time.
Oregon State's staff, comparable to ours, held them to 11 runs in the series in Tempe.
Meanwhile, the Devils don't pitch well (3.98 ERA), and we have five guys who can take a miss deep, especially in ASU's warm and drier air.
The Devilss big numbers on offense partly reflect their puny opposition; their non conference schedule ranks 221st in the country.
Stanford should win the series.
This is just a pet peeve of mine, but I don't think any of the other UC schools go by Cal. Well, except for UC Davis when they refer to the Cal Aggie band or the Cal Aggie Alumni Association. But for the most part they too stick to UC Davis.
I just tuned in and Tawa boomed a 3 run homer. Now 6-8 in the 8th. There's a chance.
(04-16-2019, 06:47 AM)Hulk01 Wrote: Notable: Cal Santa Barbara #7 in Collegiate Baseball and #8 in Baseball America.
As an 18+ year employee of UC Santa Barbara, I concur. Cal as a prefix, if it's used, usually goes with a member of the California State University system (as opposed to the University of California). So Cal State Fullerton, Cal State Channel Islands are OK. Even then, CSU or just the location+state (e.g. San Diego State) would be more common, I think.
That's right. The CSU schools do sometimes use Cal State as a prefix in their shortened names, but they don't all do it. The CSU system is much less uniform than the UC system when it comes to campus names.
Even though Cal State LA appears to be the only campus that formally embraces the "Cal State [city]" name, I think that it's common to refer to the campuses at Fullerton, East Bay, Northridge, Dominguez Hills, San Bernardino, Bakersfield, San Marcos, and Long Beach that way too. In the case of Long Beach, however, it's only one of their many short name forms and they seem to prefer Long Beach State or The Beach for athletics.
This one has Stanford hosting Navy, Fresno State, and Auburn.
That one has Stanford as the #6 overall seed.
Baseball America has Stanford as the overall #2 seed.
Their rankings have UCLA #1, Stanford #2, OSU #5.
This week's series up at UO will have a bigger impact on how all this changes next week than does the midweek loss to Davis.
Bottom line: the team HAS to play better. Stanford has too much talent to scuffle as it has. I want one weekend where the hitting, pitching and defense all perform at a high level and the bats (including my kid) get it done 1 through 9. I'd like no more gaffes on the base paths (the players are too smart for that), the coaches to be a little less conservative and the players to let their talent flow. All of the close games and the inexplicable loss to Davis are stressing me out!
(04-18-2019, 10:21 AM)Mr. Baseball Wrote: Bottom line: the team HAS to play better. Stanford has too much talent to scuffle as it has. I want one weekend where the hitting, pitching and defense all perform at a high level and the bats (including my kid) get it done 1 through 9. I'd like no more gaffes on the base paths (the players are too smart for that), the coaches to be a little less conservative and the players to let their talent flow. All of the close games and the inexplicable loss to Davis are stressing me out!
Well, if you are a parent then you will have a different perspective on the team than others here. But, it is good for the blood pressure to remember that this is baseball, and a single game is much more random in outcome than most sports.
For example, UCLA is a very good looking, unanimous #1 team right now. They have also lost to Sacramento State, Michigan and had a host of close calls.
- finding a game two starter.
- consistency in getting on base.
And the bullpen overall has been very good, but I worry a bit about Grech and Williams just lately.
The choice of Oregon State is idiotic.
Do the voters know that Kevin Abel is out for the season?
(04-18-2019, 01:37 PM)Hulk01 Wrote: The choice of Oregon State is idiotic.
Well, Abel has only appeared in three games this season, his last on March 1 vs West Virginia.
Since that series OSU has gone 15-7-1, which isn't quite lights out but isn't terrible. The only weekend series they lost was losing 2 of 3 versus UCLA. They also took a series at Tempe (well, actually at Phoenix).
I'm not sure that should get them to #2, but it's not bad.
CT, I don't think Oregon State is bad.
and Jones (.649 OPS), Taylor (.284!), Armstrong (.460) and Malone (.605) can't hit.
or even the third, fourth, or fifth best team.
There is no basis for picking them as the overall #2 seed.
First off, I had missed that the weekend series were all moved up to Thursday through Saturday to give an Easter break. Stanford took a tough 5-4 win last night up in Eugene behind two homers from Wulff and another from Kinamon.
(04-18-2019, 03:59 PM)Hulk01 Wrote: CT, I don't think Oregon State is bad.
I don't think we really disagree all that much.
I think the humans are overrating OSU a bit based on past years' success - and perhaps preseason expectations. OSU has some holes that their recent teams did not, and I sure hope that Stanford can exploit those.
Nonetheless, OSU has some pretty impressive credentials on their season, providing at least a basis for thinking OSU might be a top 5 team.
They have played, and mostly succeeded, against a tough schedule. Some of their highlights include a four game sweep of Nebraska at a neutral site (21-11, RPI #33, leads Big Ten), a series win vs WVU (22-13, RPI #14), and a road series win against ASU. Boyd Nation has them with the toughest schedule in the country so far.
I am not able to give my own personal ranking of where the Beavs (or Stanford for that matter) ought to be ranked. I just haven't watched enough non-Pac 12 baseball this year. OSU is clearly in the top 3 in the Pac, well really in the 2 or 3 slot. While I think Stanford has a higher ceiling this year I am not sure Stanford has performed better than OSU so far.


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Andalusian History
THE PRIDE of Spain
THE PUREST of the PURE BLOOD
THE ENVY of the ANCIENT WORLD
The horse of Spain is one of the ancient breeds of the world. It, along with the Arabian and Barb Strains, founded nearly all of the other recognized breeds known today. The Spanish, or Iberian Horse, was well known to the Romans as a superior war horse due to his strength and agility.
Julius Caesar wrote of the noble steeds of Hispania in "Del Bello Gailico." Hannibal used them in his invasion of Italy. Later we read of many of the knights of Richard I mounted on "Airy Spanish Destriers."
The Andalusian as a "breed" dates back to the Moorish Invasion of Spain. The Moors brought with them the fine Barb horses of their homeland. These horses were crossed with the native Iberian horses in an effort to produce a breed that combined the finest points of the two. The Moors were well known to be the most patient and critical horse breeders of their time. Their efforts to develop an unexcelled war horse were continued after the Spanish reclaimed their lands, by the breeders of the Spanish province of Andalusia. The horse that they bred was very sturdy, with a long sloping shoulder, a wide chest, a deep heart, a strong back, a round hind quarter, a well crested neck with a natural arch, and extremely sturdy legs.
The horse was bred with the Spanish flair for style. It carried itself with such style and presence, that it was much sought after by kings and rulers all over the world. ; Because of his strength and agility he became the premier warhorse of Europe and was used in all of Spain's successful conquests. The Spanish horse literally carried Spain to her greatness. In the words of one of the world's most renowned Hippologists, Dr. Ruy D'Andrade of Portugal, "... There should be a great monument to this marvelous horse in Andalusia to glorify and perpetuate his memory... I consider it a duty for the history of Spain that the Spanish horse should be conserved... With his help, Spain achieved her greatness; e.g., in the wars against the Romans, the Moors, Italy, France, Germany, and the conquest of the New World. Without her incomparable 'Caballo Espanol' Spain could not have been victorious, so it is a duty to cherish him, in the same way one protects cathedrals, libraries, armories, paintings, etc., all of these things together form the character and demonstrate the nobility of Spain; better still, of the peninsula..." For thousands of years the Spanish Horse enjoyed the admiration of the world. In the seventeenth century, the Duke of Newcastle wrote in his 1667 manuscript, "New Method and Extraordinary Invention to Dress (Train) Horses. "...The Spanish horse is the noblest horse in the world... and the most beautiful, for he is not so thin and lady-like as the Barb, not so gross as the Neopolitan. He is of great spirit and great courage and docile, hath the proudest trot and the best action in his trot; the loftiest gallop, and is the lovingest and gentlest horse and fitingest of all for a king in a day of triumph... much more intelligent than even the best Italian Horse and for that reason the easiest dressed."
Before the arrival of the celebrated Oriental stallions, the English thoroughbred was already well on its way due to a heavy use of Spanish blood. All over Europe new breeds were being developed and old ones were being improved by the introduction of the famous Spanish horse. Eighty percent of all modern breeds trace at least part of their breeding back to the illustrious horse of Spain. When Europe surged into the New World, the Spanish horse was carried along. The breed has often been called the Great Colonizer." Spain established stock farms in the Carribean and supplied horses to all colonizing countries. For hundreds of years the Spanish horse was the representative of his kind in the Americas. All New World breeds carry his blood. They all owe part of what they are today to what the Andalusian was 500 years ago.
The American Quarter Horse was developed from the Colonial Short Horse, so named because it was unbeatable in a short distance race. The Short horse was none other than the Spanish horse as its development was first recorded at a time when the Spanish Horse was the only breed to be found. However, as English throughbreds were imported, they were often crossed with these Short Horses. This mixing of blood produced most of the modern North American breeds including the Quarter Horse, Morgan Horse, American Saddlebred and the original American Thoroughbred registry records that Short Horses were accepted as Foundation stock!
Ironically, the very breeds that the Andalusian spawned were to be his near undoing. Size became the fad in Europe. The Neapolitan, the Norman, and the English thoroughbred became more and more popular. Finally they had usurped the former position of the Spanish horse. The Andalusian breed was all but extinct in all areas except its homeland, Spain, and Portugal, where it became known as the Luistano. Then, tragically a plague followed by famine nearly pushed the breed into oblivion. Fortunately, the breed survived in a few mountainous areas of Spain, notably at the Cathugian Monastry. The horses of this herd are today known as Carthusians, the finest of the Spanish horses. In order to conserve the rare horses for breeding, the Government of Spain place an embargo on their export. For over 100 years the Andalusian was virtually unseen by the rest of the world. Then in the 1960's the export ban was lifted.
Now the popularity of the Andalusian horse is once again on the rise. Horsemen are rediscovering the traits that had made the Andalusian the most sought after horse in the world; the strength, agility, beauty, pride and docility bred for centuries into the Spanish horse. The Spanish stallions are unique in that they seem to be firey and proud, while at the same time they remain docil and extremely tractable. This seeming contradiction stems from the edict of King Ferdinand of Spain who enforced the old law that gentlemen must ride stallions only. This severe edict must have resulted in a few Spanish Grandees being dumped on their heads. Breeders began to breed for good temperament, knowing not only would they have to ride stallions, that they would be selling saddle stallions for a living.
The temperament, agility and strength of the Andalusian is again being sought after for dressage purposes just as it was centuries ago. In fact, Dressage and the Spanish horse were almost synonymous in the beginning. The Spanish horse was so strong and agile, that he could be trained to do amazing things. Dressage developed as a way to train the superior warhorse. This school of training was the foundation of modern dressage. The Andalusian was so adept at this training that nearly all of the oldest and most famous riding schools started with Spanish horses. The best example of this is the Spanish Riding School in Austria, named for the Spanish horses that it used.
Although scorned by apparently forgetful breeders of dressage horses, the Spanish Andalusian is still the superior dressage mount. Modern dressage riders overlooked the Andalusian as a "circus horse" and generally considered him unsuitable, despite the fact that he was an important element in the development of their beloved thoroughbred and most of the other popular European dressage breeds. But now they are being forced to admit that the Andalusian is not only suitable, but is actually excelling in the dressage arena. The list of their winnings and the spread of their fame is limited only by the rarity of the breed.
The Andalusian is excelling in other areas too as American Horsemen find out how versatile he is. As a western riding horse he is excelled only by his grand child, the Quarter horse. However, when it comes to agility and the ability to work cattle, the Andalusian is unexcelled. After all he has been through countless battles with the wild and deadly Iberian bulls. For well over a thousand years he has worked at close quarters with these bulls, both in and out of the bullfighting arena. With death only inches away, he had to be able to carry his rider close enough to place a rose between the horns of a maddened bull, and then wick away before being gored. When not in the arena, he was the only horse quick enough to work the unpredictable and dangerous herds.
As a show and parade horse, his way of going combined with his noble appearance and long lush mane and tail, make him a winner. His shiny grey or white coat glistens as he moves with all of the pride and style bequeathed to him by his ancestors who carried Caesars and Kings in their days of triumph and splendor.
His strength and boldness make him a very good hunter and jumper. His agility and endurance make him ideal for trail riding cross country.
All in all, the Andalusian is a horse of all seasons!
The Andalusian Cross
The Andalusian is of such pure and ancient lineage, that when crossed with other breeds, the offspring will seem of pure stock. The cross improves the strength and build of the lighter breeds. When crossed with the Arabian it produces a horse that has more size and stronger legs without losing the graceful lines and way of going of the Arab. This increases the show ability of the Half-Arab in such classes as dressage and stock horse. Additionally with the greater size and sturdier legs and feet, it makes the cross ideal for Half-Arab and Open Hunter/Jumper classes.
Improved leg and foot structure resulting from the Andalusian cross is very useful in breeding programs, as it helps avoid the problems of ring bone, splints, mechanical founder and other lamenesses. Crossing the large bodied breeds on smaller and slight legged breeds often leads to these problems. The Anglo-Arab, Draft-Arab, and Draft Thoroughbred crosses are commonly afflicted with one or more of these problems. Since the Andalusian has the strongest legs of any breed in relation to size, it is the ideal substitute for the Arab or smaller Thoroughbred when considering a Draft or heavy thoroughbred cross.
One of the most popular crosses in the Americas is the Azteca. The Azteca is Half-Andalusian and Half-Quarter-horse. Originating in Mexico it is becoming more popular than the Quarter horse for those jobs requiring ability, the Azteca is quick and graceful. Aztecas are good working cow horses and are also better for hunting, jumping, and dressage than is the average (stock type).
Just about any cross will produce an improved using horse.
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How to form diatonic chords of F minor scale?
F – G – A♭ – B♭ – C – D♭ – E♭ – F are the notes of the F minor scale.
Diatonic chords are formed by stacking two generic third notes above each scale note.
These are the seven minor scale diatonic chords that come from the F minor scale.
Each diatonic chord is labelled with a roman numeral number.
We use uppercase roman numeral numbers to represent major chords, lowercase to represent minor chords, uppercase with a small plus sign to represent augmented chords, and lowercase with a small circle to represent diminished chords.
First, fourth and fifth chords of a natural minor scale will always be minor. Third, sixth and seventh chords of a natural minor scale will always be major. Second chord of a natural minor scale will always be diminished.
These are the chords that are diatonic to the F minor scale. They are directly related to the F minor key and make a harmonic sound for music in the same key.


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Bei der Schlacht von Mạo Khê versuchten die Viet Minh, den Verteidigungsring des Delta des Roten Flusses durch einen Angriff regulärer Truppen zu durchbrechen. Den französischen Kolonialtruppen gelang bei den Gefechten vom 27. März bis zum 30. März 1951 die Abwehr des Angriffs. Auf vietnamesischer Seite firmierten die Gefechte unter dem Namen Operation Hoanh Hoa Tham II.

Vorgeschichte

Die vietnamesische Militärführung unter Vo Nguyen Giap sah sich durch die seit 1950 eintreffende chinesische Militärhilfe in der Lage, im Indochinakrieg zunehmend reguläre Militäroperationen durchzuführen. Die vietnamesische Führung versuchte 1950 aus den von ihr kontrollierten ländlichen Regionen in das dichtbesiedelte Delta des Roten Flusses vorzustoßen. Bei der Schlacht von Vĩnh Yên im Januar 1951 konnten die französischen Truppen unter Jean de Lattre de Tassigny einen solchen Versuch verhindern und fügten dabei den Viet Minh schwere Verluste zu.

Verlauf
Giap wollte einen erneuten Versuch unternehmen, das Delta anzugreifen. Als Angriffsort wählte er das Dorf Mao Khe aus. Dieses lag rund 20 Kilometer nordwestlich des wichtigsten Hafens von Tonkin Haiphong. Giap setzte dazu 21 Bataillone der Divisionen 308, 312 und 316 in Marsch.

Von französischer Seite wurde Mao Khe von rund 400 Mann verteidigt. Die Truppe setzte sich mehrheitlich aus profranzösischen Partisanen des Thổ-Volkes zusammen. Hinzu kam eine Kompanie senegalesischer Kolonialinfanterie sowie eine Panzerwagenkompanie des Régiment d'infanterie coloniale du maroc. Am 27. März begann der Angriff der Viet Minh mit Mörserfeuer und dem Einsatz von Todesfreiwilligen mit Sprengmitteln. Die französische Seite brachte Fallschirmjäger des 6e BPC heran. Die französischen Truppen erhielten massiv Unterstützung aus der Luft sowie durch Schiffsartillerie. Den französischen Truppen gelang es, die Angriffe der Viet Minh abzuschlagen. Am 30. März zogen sich diese zurück.

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Die genauen Verlustzahlen der Viet Minh sind unbekannt. Französische Truppen zählten rund 400 zurückgelassene Leichen auf dem Gefechtsfeld. Die französische Seite gab ihre Verluste mit 40 Toten sowie 150 Verwundeten an. Giap versuchte weiterhin seine Strategie des Einbruchs in das Delta zu verfolgen. Daraus folgte die Schlacht am Đáy-Fluss im Sommer 1951.

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Love interest location in the 1986 movie Top Gun. Now includes an explanatory sign. March 2019: House moved 1 block for restoration.
North Pacific Ave. and 1st St., northeast corner.
Mar. 2019: Moved 1 block.
The house is currently painted yellow, and surrounded by... an empty lot.
For several years there have been plans to build a hotel on the site. The local historical society has been fighting to preserve the house, or move it to a new location.
Went by the Top Gun House! Sign is up.
The Oceanside Historical Society has posted an informational sign outside the Graves House, built in 1887, which is popularly known as the "Top Gun House." The vacant house is freshly painted, and decorated with historical murals on the plywood covering the windows. The sign mentions: "Complete house restoration pending hotel development on this site." So it may yet be leveled or moved.
Hurry up, this is beginning to see the end of its time here. It is starting to fall apart and I believe that someone has purchased it and is planning to move it!
Only a year after the movie came out? Like living in a little piece of pop movie history. Bet everyone had cool fighter pilot nicknames!
In the 1986 movie Top Gun, this is the house the female love interest [Kelly McGillis as "Charlie"] lived in and was visited by Tom Cruise via motorcycle after playing volleyball. The house has a great view of the ocean, only a couple blocks from the Oceanside Pier.
All of the other houses on the block have been torn down and this nice little house is beginning to fall apart.
Since the Top Gun bar burned down, TG fans will have to settle for this while it lasts.
West Coast Longest Wooden Pier, Oceanside, CA - < 1 mi.
California Surf Museum: Shark-Chomped Board, Oceanside, CA - < 1 mi.
101 Cafe - Highway 101 Museum, Oceanside, CA - < 1 mi.
Oxman's Surplus Museum, Santa Fe Springs, CA - 62 mi.


What are the best motorcycle dash cams for motorcycles? We find out.
You ask, the community answers. It's Ask RideApart. This week: What are the best motorcycle dash cams?
This question comes to us from reader John Conway, who asks, "What would you guys suggest for a dash cam setup for motorcycles? I've been in several close calls in my first year of motorcycling and would like to have some video evidence to show if the worst would happen. I've seen some guys strap GoPros to their helmets, but GoPros don't have a looped recording feature - and that's necessary in my opinion. Also, I'd really rather not strap anything to my helmet."
So we're all on the same page, a "dash cam" is a video recording device which works sort of like the black box in an airplane, recording on a loop and saving its video only if an incident occurs. They were first popularized in Russia (epic compilation video above), where insurance fraud is common. There, they prevent unscrupulous motorists from hitting your car on purpose, then going after your insurance company for a payout. Most action cams — like GoPro — don't have that continuous loop feature. Do you know of any onboard cameras that do or ways to make existing equipment function like a dash cam?


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The camera's 1 inch sensor and 20.2 megapixels capture every last detail, providing you with stunning photos even in extreme low-light.
To reduce the camera's size, the space between the optical subassembly and the sensor must be as small as possible. Leveraging our expertise in the smartphone industry (over 300 million phones use DxO technologies), we've placed the lens of the DxO ONE in direct contact with the sensor, no gap, no air between them.
Image quality depends on the materials used in the lens design. DxO engineers chose a lens with six aespherical elements, offering an exceptionally high level of precision while also optimizing acutance.
Built around a one-inch, 20.2-megapixel BSI-CMOS sensor with a body that's three times smaller than other compact cameras with the same size sensor, the DxO ONE packs a lot of technology into a very small package. Enjoy detailed photos that are virtually noise-free, even when shot in low-light conditions. You can also turn your images into high-resolution large-format prints.
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The DxO ONE includes a patented Lightning connector that springs open with the lens cover as its mechanism. This revolutionary design allows the camera to attach firmly and securely to the iPhone with a click.
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The connector features a rotating base that also pivots +/– 60 degrees, giving you incredible range of movement to capture creative photos from any angle. Hold the DxO ONE high above your head to film a concert in the middle of a crowd or place it low to the ground to record your child's first steps. No matter the situation, you'll find exactly the right angle to frame your subject.


If you have a portmaster and you are using RADIUS for NT is there any way to control which users have the ability to dial in and those who do not without having to specify each user individually in RADIUS?
You could individually specify them by going to your RADIUS installation directory, and then making a new file called dialin.ini, then make a tab called [dialin] and specify the users under that. It should work, although it has been known not to work on certain configurations.
It depends on whether or not you want to control dial in for just RADIUS or the whole system. For the whole system go into user manager, click on each user or a group and enable or disable dial in.


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Iranian Archer Says 'No Regrets' After Losing Eye At Protest
The athlete and her father were shot at during the protects that rocked Iran. (File)
Paris, France:
An Iranian archer who had lost sight in her left eye after being shot by security forces has said she has "no regrets" for joining nationwide protests.
Iranian authorities have cracked down on more than four months of anti-regime protests sparked by the September 16 death in custody of Mahsa Amini, arrested for allegedly violating strict dress rules for women.
Kosar Khoshnoudikia, a member of Iran's national archery team, had been shot at a rally last year in her hometown of Kermanshah, in the Kurdish-populated west, said the Norway-based rights group Hengaw.
"I have felt no regrets for being there on that day, at that time," Khoshnoudikia said in a video posted Monday by London-based Iran International TV.
Appearing without a headscarf and with her left eye concealed by a patch, Khoshnoudikia said in the video she had been shot in early December while attending a march in Kermanshah with her father.
"Three shots hit my right hand and one shot hit my left eye," she said, adding her father had also been shot in the hand.
Amnesty International and other rights groups have accused Iranian security forces of partially or completely blinding multiple protesters, firing live ammunition and metal pellets at close range.
Khoshnoudikia, who won silver in the compound bow women's team event at the 2021 Asian Archery Championships, did not say whether she believed she could resume her sporting career.
Despite multiple operations, she has permanently lost the sight in her left eye, according to Hengaw.
"I am never sad about what happened," she said. "I lost some things, but I gained a lot."
It was not immediately clear where Khoshnoudikia was speaking from.
At least 481 people have been killed in the authorities' crackdown on the protest movement, according to Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights.
Khoshnoudikia said she had lost sight in one eye "for a purpose. I have never felt sad for myself and for what happened."
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Source : https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/iranian-archer-says-no-regrets-after-losing-eye-at-protest-3721371
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Various social media sites have picked up on the latest additions to the popular Couture de Force collection. The latest Disney characters are Festival of Fools Esmeralda (Hunchback of Notre Dame), Sorcerer Jafar and Prince Ali (Aladdin), Ursula (The Little Mermaid), Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty), and Belle (Beauty and the Beast). Since its debut in 2013, the Couture de Force collection branched out into other different series. The 2015 Masquerade series featured characters holding masks and gave us more male characters, Captain Hook and The Beast.
The Art Deco series showcases Disney Princesses in period specific dresses and jewelry. There are others that are set apart, like Jack and Sally in Halloween Ball attire. Jessica Rabbit was added in 2015 and is also set apart from the others, wearing a more business-like period specific dress.
There's no word on a release date but the new statues may be available some time in the fall.


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Learning, Living & Feeling with BIG Data
By Kat
Learning, Living & Feeling with BIG DataKatJuly 13, 2020 October 13, 2020
Click, Click, Click, Click. Cut and paste. Jump screens. Cut and paste. Scroll. Click, Click, Cut and paste. Scroll. Deep breath in. Jump screens. Scroll. Cut and paste. Exhale. Click, Click, Click, Click.
[This post is by Kat and Claudia]
Along with the cracking of compressed spines and groans when standing up far too infrequently to release aching muscles, this is the sound of digital archive work. Kat has been working on the dataset from March 2019 and Claudia joined in September. Seven research assistants[i] were employed at different times to assist – such was the volume of work. Together, we have been crafting, sculpting, fixing, mending, cleaning, translating, cataloguing, saving, discussing and compiling clothing patent data from 1820 through to today.
For months we worked together and with each other and hundreds of thousands of digital files. We lived with, dreamt about, inscribed into our brains and bodies, and became excited and bored by the processing of data. We shared insights about the content (constant decisions to be made about what was and wasn't relevant), the worry (about the time it was taking, and if we were doing it right), the responsibility (is everyone working too hard?), the process (how to ensure shared systems, how to do it better and quicker) and the delight (stumbling across exciting finds and laughing together about amazing inventions). We talked online, pinned things on walls and scribbled fieldnotes about the experience; in attempts to hold onto a period that we also at times desperately longed to pass.
Carolyn Steedman writes eloquently about archive fever:
Archive fever comes on at night, long after the archive has shut for the day. Typically, the fever starts in the early hours of the morning… What keeps you awake… is actually the archive, and the myriads of its dead, who all day long have pressed their concerns upon you… You think: I could get to hate these people; and then; I can never do these people justice; and finally: I shall never get it done (2002:17-18).
While we may never have hated the dataset, we definitely had feelings about it. We were exhausted by it, loved it, grew tired of it and worked at on it at a feverish pace. Following (briefly) are some of the challenges, processes and insights of the experience.
European Patent Office (EPO) databases hold a remarkable collection of digitized patent records from over 100 global patent offices. Like all archives, and archival work, these provisions enable big data to be collated and analysed in a way that was not possible a few years ago. However, like all data it requires work – additions, cleaning and organising.
Global patent data presents unique challenges: patent systems change over time (200year span) and across place (95 countries are represented in our sample). This requires complex piecing together of multiple sources, reflection and related research and lots of time. The quality of records is further shaped by patent office's histories, changing classification systems and digital processes. As such, there are shifts in naming/ numbering systems, missing data and translation issues that require close attention and repair (and recognition that not everything can be fixed at this point). The skills, developing expertise and tiredness of researchers and our collective ongoing decision-making processes also shape the data.
The POP team are sensitive to these differences and changing practices and seek as much as is possible to render visible the taxonomies and decisions (by patent offices and team members) that shape the resulting datasets. (The POP blog is one way we are doing this.)
The initial search for 'A41 – Wearing Apparel' generated a LOT of patent data. We reduced this down to under 300,000 rich text format (RTF) files by cleaning, fixing and reducing the noise. The size of the Work Package 1 dataset was not known prior to the project starting, as the classification "A41" captures relevant patents (outerwear, protective garments, shirts, corsets, underwear etc) and also patents less irrelevant for the project (such as manufacturing methods, display and measurement devices and artificial trees and flowers).
And, more data…
We quickly became aware that many of the key clothing inventions we were interested in were absent in the A41 sweep. (For eg. Space suits are filed under B64G 6/00). So, we did new IPC/CPC and multi-lingual key word searches in PATSTAT and ESPACENET. We checked and augmented data with other international databases – Google Patents, AUSPAT, PATENTSCOPE, IPONZ, CANADAPAT, WIPO etc. We also visited archives (British Library, Australian National Archives so far – with more planned when travel is possible). These non-A41 searches expand the scale and depth of the dataset. And, we continue to add more work as we format and file data to match.
The EPO has been providing free access to digitised data via Espacenet since 1998, and this provision has grown from 30million to over 100million spanning vast international collections. In 2016, it expanded its offering with PATSTAT's web interface. This digital treasure trove is highly valuable – making this type of ambitious project possible, and online access to data is especially useful in these challenging remote-working conditions. However, as indicated above, the range of digitisation practices varies.
While many patent offices are increasingly advancing their digitised offerings, not all data is consistently available. Titles and abstracts can be omitted and, in some cases, the original patent PDFs are not yet online.Issues arise with machine learning content capture when originals are aged – with faded text, ink blots and smudges. Fs become Ss and Ts become t'. Sometimes, it is not possible to transliterate data. Canada's patent offices, for example, digitized hand-written patents from1869-1919 on microfilm which have then been scanned and cannot be machine read. In these cases, we have attempted to transcribe them into the dataset.
Fig. 1. Low quality scanning: CA69614A Pocket for Garments
Fig. 2. Hand writing: CA13974A Improvements in Skirt Adjusters
Fig. 3. Missing data: AR 224584 Improvements in Underwear and the like
The dataset was initially multi-lingual. Some data was partially or entirely in its original language. Some data had already been translated by online systems into English using Google Translate or the EPO's translation service. While on the whole this spans from satisfactory to excellent (we have a multi-lingual team), on occasion it resulted in confusing strings of texts. This worsened when the initial scanning and digitisation was poor. As we quickly learned, some languages (such as Korean, Japanese and German) are less well served by these processes, due to their specificity and/or graphic nature.
Fig. 4. Poor translation: JPS5480764A Welding Protective Mask
Forwards and backwards
Crafting a dataset is a labour-intensive process. We organised hundreds of thousands of RTFs according to clear and persistent naming conventions of YEAR and COUNTRY. Data starts in 1836 and 94 countries are represented. Each RTF file includes patent number, link to PDF patent (on Espacenet), international classification mark (IPC/CPC), year, country, title and abstract. The latter is especially critical. The translations, additional data input and enormous amount of cleaning we have done, means the dataset is key-word searchable in a way that was not possible before. Some year folders took more than a week to organised and fix (2016 has 15,645 files). It was also not a linear process. We collectively had to think about how to resolve unexpected issues and often returned to 'finished' files to check and adjust. The data was 'editing' us and our ability to think about and respond to challenges.
The lively archive
As the above examples show, the dataset is neither fixed nor static. Because of character of the raw data, it is unique and constantly changing. We are constantly fixing, adding and editing it. This is also happening in the larger context. In late 2019, Espacenet, now called Classic Espacenet was updated and launched as Advanced Espacenet. The latter has more advanced search functionality and viewing of text and thumbnail capabilities amongst other things. These changes are welcome. However, our dataset files (as per all files in the PATSTAT database) link to original patent documents in Classic Espacenet. Given the size of the full PATSTAT database, redirecting these links is a vast undertaking and will take time.
Overall, we have found the process dynamic, surprising and physically taxing. Not only have we been shaping the dataset, but we in turn have been shaped by the dataset – learning, living, feeling with the archive.
Returning to Steedman who in her archive fever, over the course of months of work, writes: 'You think in the delirium: it was their dust that I breathed in' (1997:19). Our digital archival work is no less material or embodied, just differently pressed into our bodies and imprinted on our memories.
Steedman, Carolyn. 2002. Dust. Manchester University Press
Steedman, Carolyn. 1997. Something She Called a Fever: Michelet, Derrida, and Dust, The American Historical Review, 106 (4): 1159-1180
[i] Thankyou to Ignacio, Laura, Jaice, Tara, William, Silvester and Ellie
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Right next door to generations restaurant and Saint Vincent's thrift Sibs recently relocated from St. It is a large antique mall with Virgihia flea markets hosted there as well.
Although a lot of the stuff is out of my price range, I always enjoy checking out the changing selection of vintage furniture Flights Vacation Rentals Restaurants Things to do. All of your saved places can be found here in My Trips.
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Share another experience before you go. See what travelers are saying:. Reviewed February 25, Opens 9am on Sat.
Reviewed October 26, A little bit of everything. Reviewed June 14, Flea market and junk.
Not for real antiquers. Reviewed April 21, nice. Reviewed March 3, via mobile Yikes and more yikes!
Reviewed June 30, via mobile My favorite! Reviewed July 26, Large antique mall!
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