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Hisense H55M7000 : a high range Edge-LED television set
What is the new Hisense H55M7000 worth ?
An evolution of the previous model, the Hisense H55M7000 is the latest top-of-the-range television generation.
We are dealing with a rather large model.
Regarding technology, we are facing a model with a Ultra HD 4K resolution. Colours which can be considered as faithful. It can be said that this model is worth being looked at.
The design of the Hisense H55M7000
The designers decided to do something very beautiful. At least that's what it comes out when you're facing the product.
The design of the Hisense H55M7000 has nothing to do with that of the other models in the Hisense M7000 series.
A positive opinion overall. This TV corresponds to what is expected of a top-of-the-range TV, both in terms of materials and visuals.
This new Hisense H55M7000 adopts a standard shape with a flat screen.
With a size of 55 inches, Another thing we can highlight in the design of this TV is the design of its support. Indeed it has a double base, in which we have a division where each part of the base has its place. With this, the TV is exactly the same on both sides, thus creating a very symmetrical and stylish TV that can be enjoyed in any room.A TV of 55 inches, this Hisense is clearly located in the top of the range of the brand. A TV with a sober and refined style.
The screen of the Hisense H55M7000
Hisense puts the emphasis on image quality to win back the market; this TV offers you a top-of-the-range visual experience.
With this new model, Hisense confirms one of its technological choices. Although of lower quality, an Edge LED Edge-LED is used for this TV.
The Hisense television set displays a Ultra HD 4K resolution. With a screen size of 55 inches, this H55M7000 is among the greatest. At the same time, we are dealing with a nice display on the screen.
Designed with a frequency of 60 Hz, the television's fluidity is at the top of its range.
Even better, thanks to its advanced technology, the screen of this television provides a Ultra HD 4K quality resolution.
In conclusion on the display, the H55M7000 deserves to be considered at the time of purchase. It's top-of-the-line top quality.
TV sound presentation Hisense H55M7000
The equipment consists of two loudspeakers and a power output of 10 W.
Presentation of the Smart TV part of the TV set Hisense H55M7000
It has almost become a habit for Hisense, this H55M7000 has its operating system VIDAA 2; It will allow you to happily explore a number of entertainment options.
Presentation of the connection technology of Hisense H55M7000
Hisense makes a flawless connectivity part; it's impeccable and aesthetically clean.
Whether it's your external hard drive, NAS or game console, all these elements can be connected to this TV.
This model has a total of 11 connections, not too bad. The Hisense H55M7000 is thus at the very top of its range. The choices offered by its connections are simply enormous.
In clear, the connections available on this model are:
3 USB ports, 4 HDMI ports, 1 audio output, 1 antenna input, 1 component plug (Video), 1 composite plug (Y/Pb/Pr)
Presentation of the technical features of the Hisense H55M7000
Sizes of the television without stand 123.5 cm x 71.3 cm x 6 cm
Smart TV VIDAA 2
Component Input (YpbPr) Yes
PVR Available Yes
Our conclusion on the Hisense H55M7000
In other words, the Hisense H55M7000 is better than the competition. Almost perfect on everything. Whether for home cinema sessions or online game sessions, it is the TV to own.
Its Edge-LED display shows an excellent image.
In short, many positive points that make this TV a very good product. The following 3 points should be remembered:
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Transportation will be provided to the full and half marathon participants to get to their starting points. Buses with Marathoners, Half Marathoners and Marathon Relay first runners will leave Lions Club Park at 7 AM SHARP!
All events will start at 8 AM. Event will be held rain or shine, and cancelled only in event of extreme weather conditions.
Water stations will be a minimum of every two miles along the route, offering water, Gatorade and varied fruit and carbohydrate snack options. Peanut Butter sandwich triangles and banana halves will be available at the marathon start.
Purchase warm layers at a thrift store. As you run, peel off the layers and discard along the route, out of the runner's lane and not on the highway. We will collect them and donate them back to charity, from whence they came!
Drop Bag. At the marathon and half marathon start points, if we have your bag clearly marked with your name and phone number, we will have a volunteer deliver your drop bag to Lions Club Park. Please leave valuables locked in your vehicle or with your support team; although we will try to protect them to the best of our ability, in the end, we cannot be held responsible for loss.
We love animals too! Since pets are not allowed at the pavilions at the Lions Club Park in Rolla, we ask that your animals stay home, ready to congratulate you when you return from the race! Thank you for your cooperation in helping us keep our course safe!
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Forget Article 50, here's Article 218
When it comes to Brexit, never forget the lawyers.
By	David M. Herszenhorn
Updated 3/22/17, 6:46 PM CET
For all the talk about Article 50, which U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May will formally trigger to begin exit negotiations next week, Britain's post-Brexit future will be shaped to a far greater extent by another provision of the EU treaties: Article 218.
While Article 50 governs a country's departure from the bloc, Article 218 describes how the EU makes agreements with "third countries or international organizations." So while Article 50 will get the U.K. out the door — the indisputably crucial first step — experts on EU law say an agreement on the future relationship between the U.K. and the EU can only be brokered under Article 218, once Britain returns to third country status.
In declaring that its chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, will not have a mandate to negotiate a trade deal or other future agreement, Brussels is clearly seeking some tactical advantage, trying to force resolution of divorce issues like the U.K.'s post-Brexit financial obligations and the rights of citizens. Only if Barnier brings the EU27 a satisfactory result on that front, officials say, will leaders consider broadening his mandate to include a future trade deal or other partnership agreement.
But it's not merely a strategic ploy. The EU is also declaring what its lawyers understand to be legal fact. Any withdrawal deal with the U.K. that violates the terms of the EU treaties would be subject to invalidation by the European Court of Justice.
While the approach may seem overly legalistic in what is certain to be a highly political negotiation, legal technicalities can cut both ways. For instance, the two-year deadline for a withdrawal agreement set in Article 50 was actually designed, experts say, to benefit a departing country by making sure it could not be held hostage.
Article 50 requires only a qualified majority of EU countries to approve a withdrawal agreement, while a future trade deal will likely require unanimity. While the U.K. has yet to clarify its own wish list for a future relationship, this much is clear: Treaties are what make the EU the EU. And if Brexit is about reclaiming independent, third-country status, there may be no more important provision for the U.K. going forward than Article 218.
This insight is from POLITICO's Brexit Files newsletter, a daily afternoon digest of the best coverage and analysis of Britain's decision to leave the EU. Read today's edition or subscribe here.
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Miller will only be working on the film for about two weeks, so it doesn't look like the film is going to change much.
Principal photography for the adaptation ended in the summer of 2021 and was expected to release in 2022, but the film still doesn't even have a trailer, and it's unclear when to expect news about it.
The process of filming is not so rare for a movie. Most often, they resort to it when the studio did not like something in the existing materials and they want to finalize the picture.
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Q: bash, merge two comma separated variables values to single variable I have two commas separate variables like below. on a certain condition, I need to merge two variables into a single. Bit confused and unsure if is it possible in bash
Input
SBI=abc,def,ijk
MEM=one,two,three

Expected output
OUT=abc_one,def_two,ijk_three

A: This is a simple extension of Iterate over two arrays simultaneously in bash, combined with How to split a string into an array in bash.
IFS=, read -ra sbi_arr <<<"$SBI" # convert SBI string to an array
IFS=, read -ra mem_arr <<<"$MEM" # convert MEM string to an array

out=                             # initialize output variable
for idx in "${!sbi_arr[@]}"; do  # iterate by indices
  out+="${sbi_arr[$idx]}_${mem_arr[$idx]}," # append to output
done
out=${out%,}                     # strip trailing comma from output

echo "Output is: $out"

A: Using bash command substitution, process substitution, parameter expansion and, paste utility:
OUT=$(paste -d_ <(echo "${SBI//,/$'\n'}") <(echo "${MEM//,/$'\n'}"))
OUT=${OUT//$'\n'/,}
echo "OUT=$OUT"

A: With sh.
#!/bin/sh

SBI=abc,def,ijk
MEM=one,two,three

out=$(
  while [ -n "$SBI" ] && [ -n "$MEM" ]; do
    sbi_first="${SBI%%,*}"
    sbi_rest="${SBI#*"$sbi_first"}"
    mem_first="${MEM%%,*}"
    mem_rest="${MEM#*"$mem_first"}"
    SBI="${sbi_rest#,}"
    MEM="${mem_rest#,}"
    printf '%s_%s,' "$sbi_first" "$mem_first"
  done
)

echo "${out%,}"

With bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash

SBI=abc,def,ijk
MEM=one,two,three

while IFS= read -ru3 str0; do
  IFS= read -r str1
  out+="${str0}_$str1,"
done 3<<< "${SBI//,/$'\n'}" <<<"${MEM//,/$'\n'}"

echo "${out%,}"

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Will business cards ever die off?
Earlier this month we posted about business cards and how they would never die. That started a lot of conversations and people messaging me saying that they either love them or hate them.
With all the technology out there and having a smart phone with us 24/7, there are countless apps that have tried to replace the business card, from scanning apps to the simple contact app in our phones. BlackBerry phones have a business card scanner built right into the camera app that takes the data from a business card and stores it as a new contact.
Some will say that using these apps are a lot more environmentally friendly, and I do understand that. However, for me personally there is nothing like going to a networking event and exchanging a physical card and shaking someone's hand.
All the networking events I have been to, I have kept every card and have them all sorted for easy access when I do need them as well as I use the BlackBerry camera app to add the card as a contact in my phone.
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The Malaysian government was "drawing up a list of counter measures" to take against the UK and other EU member states, if they approved a ban on palm oil in biofuels counting towards renewable targets in January, according to material seen by Unearthed.
The news comes as the UK looks to boost trade with south-east Asian countries after Brexit.
A diplomatic telegram sent on 19 December 2017 from the British high commission in Kuala Lumpur to the Foreign Office, stated that Malaysia was considering taking "reciprocal trade measures" against the UK and other EU member states in case the EU parliament voted to stop palm oil in biofuels counting towards countries renewables targets.
As predicted in the document, in January MEPs voted in favour of the ban on environmental grounds, but the final decision will be approved following negotiations between the parliament, the EU Commission and the European Council. Palm oil is widely blamed for widespread deforestation and environmental damage in south-east Asia.
An unnamed expert is reported in the telegram to be "aware that the Malaysians were now drawing up a list of counter measures should the vote pass, and he cautioned they could well affect several sectors, irrespective of whether a country was a palm oil importer".
The telegram, which was obtained by Unearthed using freedom of information rules and heavily redacted, ends with the high commission official asking the Foreign Office whether the EU palm oil debate "is something we should be taking an interest in?".
This week Indonesia's special envoy on palm oil Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan told an audience in Brussels that his government would consider taking retaliatory trade measures against the EU, including action against aviation giant Airbus, if the biofuel phase out goes ahead.
Unearthed went to the Indonesian embassy in London to ask for a comment on reports that their government was considering backing away from a trade deal with the EU, known as Cepa, and cancelling defence contracts with the UK over the palm oil ban. Vitto Tahar, an embassy official, said his government was committed to Cepa and "does not wish to link or relate the issue of palm oil to our broader bilateral relations with the United Kingdom".
The governments of Malaysia and Indonesia, the two main producers of palm oil, have both reacted forcefully to the European move. Mah Siew Keong, Malaysian plantation industries and commodities minister, has described the European parliament's position on palm oil as "crop apartheid".
The Malaysian government has also said it will go to the World Trade Organisation to complain about the EU move to prevent palm oil in biofuels from counting towards renewable targets.
The vote forms part of negotiations around the EU's new renewable energy directive. A final decision on the shape of the directive, which will set ground rules for European renewable energy policy post-2020, is yet to be taken, with negotiations between the parliament, the European Commission and the European Council ongoing.
The UK has not used palm oil in the production of biofuels for years, but both Malaysia and Indonesia are important trading partners for the country, particularly on defence matters.
The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), which tracks export licensing data, has shown that £68m worth of UK arms export licences were authorised to Malaysia in the first nine months of 2017.
CAAT also shows that £81m worth of UK arms export licences were authorised to Indonesia in the same period.
With the UK set to leave the EU in March 2019, the British government has been anxious to set up positive trade relations with both Malaysia and Indonesia.
In the UK, the Freedom of Information Act gives the public access to information held by public bodies. That means things like government departments, local councils and universities are obliged to publish certain information about their activities, while members of the public can also make requests for information. You can find out almost anything with an FOI request, from how much money your university makes from library fines each year, to what government ministers are saying to powerful corporations. Find out more here (link in comment).
Unearthed asked the Foreign Office if potential trade reprisals from the Malaysian and Indonesian governments play any role in government decision-making over the UK's position on palm oil in the renewable energy directive, but the department declined to comment.
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1. On December 28, the Lok Sabha handed the Muslim Women (Protection Bill, 2017), which criminalises the observe of talaq-e-bidda.
2. This came after the Supreme Court on August 22, 2017, struck down triple talaq, calling the Islamic observe unconstitutional.
three. The bill - which should be handed through each the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha - criminalises the observe of divorcing through uttering the phrase "talaq" 3 times in succession.
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Much has been written about the tensions between Huawei (Honor's parent company) and Google, with the potential removal of future Android updates from Honor devices a big talking point. But very little has been written about what a superb phone the Honor 20 Pro is, and how fantastically it performs with games. However the whole Android issue works out, I can safely say that the 20 Pro surpasses the Honor View 20 as a gaming device, putting it firmly at the top of our list of best gaming phones.
It's currently available in the UK, and throughout most of Europe, although there's no word on when it's headed over to the US. Honor is a brand aimed squarely at the youth market, and this phone is fully specced to serve that audience.
The 20 Pro is a decent size without being something that won't actually fit in your pocket - it sits neatly between the size of the Galaxy S10 and S10+ with a 6.26-inch screen. While the screen isn't edgeless, the bezel is very thin and there's no loss of screen real-estate for the front-facing camera, which is embedded neatly in the top left corner. As with previous Honor phones, the fingerprint scanner is located neatly on the right-hand side of the handset, and is inset so you don't confuse it with the volume button, also on the right hand edge. The USB-C charging port is on the bottom, and the connection is a snug fit with the charger, so it won't slip out if you bump your phone while charging. Sadly, there's no headphone jack on this phone, which continues to be a glaring omission, particularly on gaming phones.
The rear of the 20 Pro has what Honor refers to as 'Triple 3D Mesh', which basically makes the back color a deep, mirrored green or purple. It's fun, if not quite as sexy as Honor thinks. The star of the phone, however, is the quad camera set-up: a 48 MP f/1.4 main camera; a 16 MP wide-angle lens; an 8 MP telephoto lens with a 3x optical and 30x digital zoom; and a 2 MP macro lens. While this camera set-up is incredible, it has a fatal flaw when it comes to gaming - you can't lie the phone flat on its back. The camera sit proud of the rear surface, so the phone wobbles when you touch the screen, if it's laid on a flat surface. Shame.
When it comes to features, there's plenty on offer. The Pro 20 runs on Android 9.0, and it's as fully customisable as most other Google systems. The Pro version comes with 8GB of RAM, and has Huawei's excellent Kirin 980 chip as standard, which chews through any applications you throw at it. You get 256GB of internal storage here and that's plenty, negating the need to add a MicroSD card for extra space. Even hefty games like Fortnite Mobile only require about 4GB (after update), so there's loads of storage for everything you could possibly need, unless you're constantly shooting video.
The screen itself is a 2340x1080 touch screen, which is both responsive and sturdy. Even touches on the edge, vital for some games, register with consistent accuracy. Gesture controls are smooth, and there's never any stuttering or lag when transitioning between apps. While this isn't a 4K or even QHD screen (1440p), it's bright and clear enough for a phone of this size, even if some of the apps appear a little chunkier than some higher-definition screens.
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The camera performs fantastically, with the main 48 MP lens producing incredible depth to portrait images. The wide angle lens is less impressive for landscapes, and while the telephoto lens does an admirable job with the 3x optical zoom, it performs less well when you bring in the digital zoom. The macro lens is fun, but with such a limited shooting distance and a relatively slow shutter speed, it can't challenge specialist DSLRs equipped with most prime lenses. All that said… the 20 Pro is a fraction of the price of a full camera and lens set-up, and its snapper easily out-performs the one on the iPhone XS, and narrowly nudges the Galaxy S10. The AR mode is cute, there are pro lens control options for more serious photographers, and I love the light painting option too, which brightens up a subject in darker shots.
Here's where we get into the true gaming muscle of the 20 Pro. This phone is a gaming powerhouse, fine-tuned for the best Android games and the way you want to play them. Fortnite runs at an unbelievably smooth 60fps, and Honor has been very forthcoming about how the 20 Pro outperforms every rival handset for the game. I can confirm that it's an incredible experience smashing through Fortnite, with the connection sturdy, the motion slick, and the sound perfectly presented either via headphones or the internal speakers. My only complaint is something of a game design decision, in that it became too easy to accidentally press the wrong on-screen buttons while playing. Hardly the fault of the 20 Pro, but it does highlight the shortcomings of playing an increasingly involved and complex game on a standard-size handset.
Elsewhere, I tested Cultist Simulator to see how the phone performs with more precise, timed inputs, and it did an admirable job. The screen is just about big enough to handle the placement of cards, and the organisation of your deck, with the smaller text legible and clear enough. It was easy to cover the screen in fingerprints, and the rear does tend to get pretty smudged up during longer gaming sessions. Something more simple like The Battle of Polytopia shows off the screen well in portrait mode, and the chunky objects and bright colors look superb on the 20 Pro's display. Obviously, the phone's internals barely break a sweat playing either game, or switching between them.
What impresses most in terms of gaming, however, is the battery. The 4000mAh battery in this is fairly standard, but because the screen is an LCD display, and there are some smart tech features built into the phone to optimise use for games and reduce battery drain, it lasts far longer than you'd expect. We gave it a heavy use test of games, videos, and social media and a single charge will last most people for about 36-48 hours (far more than most rivals, but slightly less than Huawei's own P30 Pro). After just over an hour of Fortnite, we dropped the battery by about 9%, which is something of a miracle considering how demanding the game can be. And because this phone has USB-C fast-charging, you're ready to go again in under two hours, even if you zero the battery.
Well, under normal circumstances, it'd be a resounding 'yes'. Even with small annoyances, like the lack of a headphone socket, the camera sticking out from the rear, and the relatively low resolution of the screen, the Honor 20 Pro is an immense phone. It's perfect for gaming, and has the kind of features that younger audiences - who the Honor brand is very much designed for - crave. It's stylish, functional, and solidly built. The only caveat (and it's a big one) is around that pesky 'future of Android support' issue. If Honor can play nicely with Google, and keep the phone up to date with the latest versions of the OS, then you should absolutely consider the 20 Pro as your next gaming phone. Especially as it clocks in at a very reasonable price of $650 / £550 new.
The Honor 20 Pro is available now in the UK.
Available platforms Android, PC
Andy Hartup
Andy has been writing about games since 1999, and worked in print mags for over 10 years before switching to the murky world of online.
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The Legal Services Board (LSB) must "knock heads together" to replace the criminal burden of proof in disciplinary proceedings involving solicitors and barristers with the civil standard, the chair of the Legal Services Consumer Panel has said.
Elisabeth Davies said the criminal burden "disproportionately favours" the protection of lawyers and could allow rule-breakers to stay in practice.
Her comments came as it emerged in papers for last week's meeting of the Bar Standards Board (BSB) that the BSB met the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) this summer to discuss the issue.
The LSB called earlier this year for all legal regulators to apply the civil standard of proof.
"If the BSB and SDT wait for each other to move to the civil standard, there's a real danger nothing will happen," Ms Davies said.
"The Legal Services Board was right to conclude recently that the criminal standard disproportionately favours protection of the lawyer over protection of the consumer, since it allows lawyers who probably have seriously breached their conduct rules to continue to practise.
"Most professions, and indeed other regulators in the legal sector, have now moved to the civil standard.
According to the BSB board papers, Susan Humble, chief executive of the SDT, said at the meeting with the BSB that the tribunal's position had not changed.
The papers went on: "In the light of the SDT's firm position on the criminal standard, there is no prospect of it taking voluntary steps to change the standard of proof.
"Therefore, unless the board wishes to change its previous position that a unilateral challenge to the burden of proof would be inappropriate, the BSB is not at this time in a position to make any further progress on the issue".
A spokesman for the BSB added: "Since 2011 the position of the BSB has been that, in principle, the civil standard of proof for professional misconduct is more appropriate for the protection of the public.
"However, it remains our view that moving from the criminal standard of proof, while this is still used by the SDT, would result in the two main branches of the legal profession applying different standards in their disciplinary proceedings, which would create confusion.
Having been subject to proceedings, I can honestly say this Davies has not got a clue and ought to educate herself on such matters before choosing, yet again, to come out with such utter rubbish.
Why should solicitors not have the same protections as ordinary members of the public ? The SRA are a formidable opponent with significant resources. If you change the standard, then costs should be awarded to the defendant, if successful. The current regime favours the SRA as the significant cost consequence of a tribunal is a massive incentive not to challenge a prosecution, from which the consumer already benefits.
Davies should also have a look at the quality of investigations that initiated and whether the consumer is getting good value in that respect ? The woman lacks any balance and gives the impression of being a mardy child from the Just William era. Grow up, or shut up, please.


Hello Canada and bless you as you take on 2018! As we all hit the ground running this week, fully back at work &/or school, we wanted to share a quick overview of the key things to watch in early 2018.
We also wanted to remind you that your Members of Parliament are HOME in their ridings until January 29th. This is good news because it means that you have easier access to them.
During the Christmas/New Years break in the constituency, MPs prioritize meeting with their constituents, aka: YOU :). We encourage you to take advantage of this amazing opportunity.
Below is a brief overview of what you can both be watching and talking to your MP about…[Click here to read the full article].


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FILE - In tjhis Aug. 2017 file photo then Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin speaks during a press briefing in Bridgewater, N.J. The book by former VA Secretary David Shulkin, obtained by The Associated Press, describes a March 6, 2017, conversation in the Oval Office where the president explored ways in which the administration could act quickly in shuttering the government-run VA medical centers that he viewed as poorly performing. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Book: Trump mulled order to close parts of VA health system
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eager for changes at the Department of Veterans Affairs, President Donald Trump toyed early on with issuing an executive order to close parts of the VA health system without consulting Congress, according to an upcoming book by his former VA secretary. In the book, obtained by The...
FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2019, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, listens to a question during a campaign stop in Londonderry, N.H. While Gabbard is campaigning for her party's presidential nomination, she faces a strong primary challenge back home for her congressional seat from Democratic state Sen. Kai Kahele. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
Running for president, Gabbard faces challenge in Hawaii
HONOLULU (AP) — In recent days, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has talked to voters over chili and pumpkin bars at a house party in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She sat down with students at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire. She packs her schedule with gatherings in both states as she tries to...
FILE - In this May 9, 2019, file photo, Energy Secretary Rick Perry testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on his future budget request, on Capitol Hill in Washington. A business executive Perry recommended as an adviser to Ukraine's government exaggerated his military credentials, according to veterans who examined his record. Robert Joseph Bensh claimed to have been a member of the U.S. military's most elite units: Army Rangers, Special Forces and Delta Force. But a summary of his military career shows he spent less than five years in uniform, almost all of it with the Army National Guard. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File )
Energy executive pushed by Perry padded his military record
WASHINGTON (AP) — An oil and gas industry executive that Energy Secretary Rick Perry recommended as an adviser to the Ukrainian government exaggerated his military credentials, according to U.S. veterans who said he scrubbed the false information from online profiles after learning they were...
Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., pets her cat, Bijous, during an interview in her home in Norfolk, Va., Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. Luria recently joined a group of other Congresswomen to call for the impeachment of President Trump. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Impeachment tests Democrats' foothold in swing districts
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — In front of New Hope Baptist Church in Virginia Beach, supporters of President Donald Trump hollered for his reelection. Behind it, taped-up signs on the doors warned, "Firearms Not Allowed." And inside, Rep. Elaine Luria personally delivered her call for Trump's...
FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2019, file photo, Army veteran Miguel Perez Jr. speaks with reporters after a citizenship hearing with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Chicago. Perez Jr., was deported to Mexico in 2018 after being released from prison on a drug conviction says he has become a U.S. citizen. A spokeswoman for Miguel Perez Jr. says he was informed he is now a U.S. citizen early Friday. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)
Army veteran deported after drug conviction now a US citizen
CHICAGO (AP) — An Army veteran deported to Mexico after serving time in prison for a drug conviction became a U.S. citizen on Friday. Miguel Perez Jr. held up his citizenship certificate for the cameras after being sworn in, saying, "Here it is." "It took a whole lot of work and a whole lot of...
A motorcycle group carries American flags during an open funeral service for U.S. Army veteran Edward K. Pearson Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019, at the Sarasota National Cemetary in Sarasota, Fla. Pearson has no family so his funeral home sent out a request on social media for the public to attend the service. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
2,000-plus turn up at funeral of Florida veteran with no kin
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — More than 2,000 people have turned out in the Florida heat for the funeral of Edward Pearson. Most of those who showed up Tuesday didn't know the 80-year-old Army veteran from Naples, Florida. But his obituary went viral when the funeral director included this sentence in the...
Patient Michael Swan rests his hand on his walker as he inhales a drag while taking a cigarette break in the smoking shack outside the West Roxbury campus of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Boston, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. The VA is set to ban smoking at all its grounds nationwide starting Oct. 1, a welcome move by health-conscious veterans but not by others who enjoy a smoke between appointments. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Smoking ban at VA facilities has some veterans fuming
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Serving up drinks at the American Legion post in Concord, Jeff Holland gets a little testy when the talk turns to smoking. A Marine veteran who enjoys lighting up, the 44-year-old Holland fought unsuccessfully against a ban at the post that went into effect this month. And...
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Biden's dilemma: Navigating Trump's no-holds-barred style
John Kerry got "Swift Boated" in 2004. For Hillary Clinton in 2016, it was her "damn emails." Remembering those failed Democratic presidential campaigns, Joe Biden is determined not to get "Ukrained" in 2020. Since a whistleblower report last week revealed that President Donald Trump asked...
Chinese President Xi Jinping makes a toast after delivering his speech at a dinner marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. Xi on Monday renewed his government's commitment to allowing Hong Kong to manage its own affairs amid continuing anti-government protests in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
China's Xi renews commitment to Hong Kong amid protests
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Communist Party leader and President Xi Jinping on Monday renewed his government's commitment to allowing Hong Kong to manage its own affairs amid continuing anti-government protests in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory. Xi made his remarks at a reception on the eve of a...
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at a campaign event Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, in Hollis, N.H. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)
Correction: Election 2020-Warren story
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story Sept. 27 about Sen. Elizabeth Warren's campaign in South Carolina, The Associated Press erroneously referenced the city of Rock Hill as a "heavily military community." Rock Hill is not home to a major military installation, and U.S. Census data show veterans make up...


Are you considering doing a juice cleanse, but are unsure of where to start? In Houston, there are plenty of juice bars that offer guided cleansing and can help the first-time juicer find the products and detox plan right for them. Each of these local juice stores offer fresh, organic creations with their own, unique flavor combinations. Find the best juice cleanse in Houston for you with our guide to juice companies in the area.
About Crushed Juicery: Founder Elena Dunn has a degree in health science and nutrition and a passion for helping others make positive lifestyle choices. The juices at Crushed are all cold-pressed, organic and produced locally in Houston.
How it works: After placing your order, you'll receive a package of six freshly made juices with instructions about the order in which they should be consumed. Customers can choose to cleanse from between one to 10 days, however Crushed recommends starting with three days. Houstonians can pick up their juices at a retail location or have their order delivered.
About Squeezed: The founder of this locally pressed juice company is an A&M Aggie who believes consuming unpasteurized, squeezed fruit and vegetables is vital in maintaining a healthy nutrition regimen. The 19 varieties of Squeezed juice ensure you'll never get sick of sipping the same flavors during your cleanse.
How it works: On the Squeezed website, customers can find the cleanse right for them by choosing between a detox with higher fruit or higher vegetable content. Next, users select the number of days they want to cleanse, and from there, can choose to add almond milk for extra amino acids and protein. Juices can be shipped, delivered or picked up at retailers around Houston.
About Flow Juice Bar: Owner Jerry Lasco discovered the power of detox when his health began suffering due to high blood pressure and cholesterol. After switching up his eating habits and juicing regularly, Jerry regained his health and happiness and now fully believes in the power of cleansing.
How it works: Consumers can purchase products for a one-day, three-day or seven-day cleanse. Houstonians can pick up their order at the Uptown or Montrose location after 4 p.m.
About Juice Girl: Houston's juice girl, Gretchen, has been pressing plants for nearly a decade. In addition to using all organic fruits and veggies, Gretchen creates her concoctions with locally sourced produce whenever possible. While Juice Girl has a shop in The Heights, its traveling food truck can be found at Rice University Farmers Market, City Hall and the Museum of Fine Arts throughout the week.
How it works: Order online and receive a confirmation email from Juice Girl with details about your products and pick-up time or delivery. Customers specify the number of days they want to cleanse and receive six bottles of juice per day, plus shots of lemon and ginger.
About Daily Juice: An Austin-based company, Daily Juice opened its first Houston store in 2013. The family-owned business produces raw, cold-pressed juices, which are chock-full of live enzymes and nutrients that can't be found in store-bought products.
How it works: On the Daily Juice website, customers first select the number of days they want to cleanse, then choose store pick-up or delivery (extra fee), juice flavors, number of people cleansing and delivery date. You can also choose to get coaching or purchase extra bottles of juice.
Ready to try a juice cleanse? Order your products from one of these Houston juice bars today!


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Séla pri Dragatúšu je naselje v Sloveniji.

Zgodovina

Geografija
Povprečna nadmorska višina naselja je 160 m.

Pomembnejša bližnja naselja so: Dragatuš (1,5 km),Obrh (1,5 km), Kvasica (1,5 km) in Črnomelj (7 km).

Naselje sestavljajo zaselki: Gornja Sela in Dolnja Sela.

Viri in opombe

 Krajevni leksikon Slovenije; Državna založba Slovenije, Ljubljana, 1971
 Krajevni leksikon Slovenije; Državna založba Slovenije, Ljubljana, 1995
 Statistični urad Republike Slovenije, Popis prebivalstva, gospodinjstev in stanovanj 2002

Glej tudi
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Naselja Občine Črnomelj
Kraji v poštnem okolišu Dragatuš


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Racine's Berenice at the Donmar: Excruciatingly Funny
We giggled. Sometimes uncontrollably. Especially whenever Dominic Rowan as Antiochus was making his particularly inane observations on the action--whatever little there was of it. Was he channeling, I wondered, that other Rowan? My theatre buddy (Paola) and I are perhaps the harshest critics in theatre-going London, but last night we were not alone. Much of the audience was laughing, and often, throughout this production at the Donmar of Racine's Berenice, starring Anne-Marie Duff as the Queen of Palestine, with a new translation by Alan Hollinghurst. Just to be clear: we were not meant to be laughing. Racine is emphatically not Shakespeare. He's a one-note kind of guy. Hamlet is one of the funniest tragedies ever written, but it's meant to be. The audience last night was laughing but not because the play itself was funny--far from it. As I sat in the intimate and renowned-for-excellence theater watching members of the audience stifle laughter, yawns, whisper to each other, cough, fidget, stare back at me, I tried to identify what was wrong. My conclusion was everything. The set: a "modern" geometrical, spiraling staircase with a bridge that looked like it might collapse at any moment. It resembled something found on a dilapidated housing estate built in the eighties. This was supposed to represent ancient Rome? And what was that inexplicable pile of sand? Last I checked Rome was not located in the desert. The costumes: they looked like they were thrown together last minute for a "Roman Night" fancy dress party in someone's flat on the housing estate. Berenice's sparkly, red, one-shoulder strap dress with a slit up the side, a bargain a few years ago at M&S. The play: a limp love triangle written by a humorless pedant who defiantly rejects subplot or subtext. The translation: the attempt to make Racine's posturing "accessible" renders it risible. The acting: I love Anne-Marie Duff and I think she did what she could but it was as if each of the three actors thought he or she was in a different play. Duff was in an ancient Greek production, Rowan was spoofing formal French tragedy of yore, Stephen Campbell Moore was in an "updated" version in which his Titus had just completed a "sensitive man" training in how to let your girlfriend down easy: stutter a lot, keep your voice so soft as not to be heard, earnestly make her understand that his decision to dump her is in her best interest, hurts him more than it hurts her etc. The direction: the buck stops here. Josie Rourke's direction is so indecisive she has left everyone suspended in ever shifting versions and interpretations of the play. That sounds kind of pomo and edgy but if that was her intention it was not achieved. There's nothing more dreadful than trying for pomo and edgy and missing the mark. The version of Berenice we saw was the unintended comedy. I never will pass up the chance to laugh, but being made to laugh when you know you're not supposed to be laughing is actually rather excruciating for all.
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New England Patriots superstar Tom Brady tied NFL legends Peyton Manning and Brett Favre for the most regular-season wins by a quarterback at 186 with the Pats' 19-14 victory Thursday over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium.
Brady already holds the record for the most QB wins in NFL history with 211 thanks to his unmatched postseason success, which includes 25 victories and five Super Bowl titles. Now he's one win away from holding the regular-season mark all by himself too, according to Pro Football Reference.
The 40-year-old University of Michigan product has been an example of high-end consistency since taking over the reins of the Patriots offense in 2001. He holds numerous league records and shows no signs of slowing down as he continues to add to his Hall of Fame resume.
After facing them throughout his career, the New England stalwart holds Manning and Favre in high regard.
In August, the California native talked about discussing the challenges of continuing to play the marquee position at such an advanced with longtime Green Bay Packers signal-caller Favre.
"He's been someone that I've always talked to, so I really enjoy it. I just loved his style. I admired him for so long," Brady told reporters. "We talked about certain things, but yeah, I mean, he was incredible playing as an older quarterback, and he still had a great love for the game. He was a phenomenal player. I always looked up to him."
As for Manning, a constant on-field rival for nearly two decades, Brady explained his admiration for the former Indianapolis Colts and Denver Broncos QB to Peter King of The MMQB after Manning's 2016 retirement.
"Every game he has played, I have watched," Brady said. "I have file folders of his plays, of how he plays. It'd take years for me to watch it all again. But what he's done in Denver has been incredible. Think of what he did—changing teams, changing organizations, at his age, and then in four years going to two Super Bowls with that team."
He added: "Who has lived up to the expectations year after year after year as well as Peyton? He's done it so gracefully, so admirably. He set the standard for how to play the quarterback position."
Favre is already in the Pro Football Hall of Fame after being enshrined as part of the 2016 class. Manning and Brady will eventually both join him in Canton, Ohio.
The Patriots quarterback has more records to break before he walks away from the game, though.


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Love Like Blood - niemiecka grupa muzyczna. Początkowo tworzyła rock gotycki, z czasem jednak ich muzyka ewoulowała w stronę ciężkiego rocka, przez co zespół przeistoczył się w kapelę gothic metalową.
Powstała z inicjatywy Gunnara Eyssela pod koniec lat osiemdziesiątych (1987 rok). Zespół zakończył swoją działalność w 2001 roku.

Nazwa zespołu została zaczerpnięta z tak samo zatytułowanej piosenki brytyjskiej grupy Killing Joke.

9 czerwca 2011 zespół wystąpił po raz pierwszy od 1999 roku na festiwalu Wave-Gotik-Treffen Festival w Lipsku.

Dyskografia
 (1988) Anthology of an Agony (Demo)
 (1989) Sinister Dawn (EP)
 (1990) Flags of Revolution
 (1991) Ecstasy	(EP)
 (1992) Kiss & Tell (SP)
 (1992) An Irony of Fate
 (1992) Demimondes (SP)
 (1993) Flood of Love (SP)
 (1993) Heroes (SP)
 (1993) Stormy Visions	(SP)
 (1994) Odyssee
 (1995) Exposure
 (1997) Taste of Damocles (SP)
 (1997) Swordlilies (The Decade od Love Like Blood)
 (1998) The Love Like Blood E.P.
 (1998) Snakekiller
 (2000) Love Kills (SP)
 (2000) Enslaved + Condemned
 (2001) Chronology of a Love-affair

Przypisy

Niemieckie zespoły rocka gotyckiego


Hey guys, I had posted this in New Users but maybe this is a better place for it.
I'm looking for someone that can send me 50XRP to activate my wallet. In return within 24 hours (or however long it takes to get my Bitstamp bitcoins transfered) will return the favor for 100 XRP.
Please leave me your wallet and just a comment once completed (only need one person to do this).
Someone was able to do this so request has been completed.


Liberal Democrat councillors have raised serious concerns about the decision making process which led to a critical day centre being promoted as a potential developer site.
The Riverside Day and Queens Road centres, which support 160 adults with learning disabilities and complex needs, had both been earmarked for development for some time with the Riverside Day Centre even promoted as a development site at a developer meet and greet last November.
The Riverside Day Centre has since been offered a reprieve after a hard-fought campaign run by the families of users and Liberal Democrat Councillors which led to a dramatic u-turn by the Labour administration.
However it is the process leading up to this reprieve that most concerns Southwark Liberal Democrats. Lib Dem Councillors previously put forward a motion to 'initiate an urgent investigation into the decision making processes' involved in the earlier decision not to renew the leases for the two day centres, this was rejected overwhelming by the Labour group at March's Council Assembly meeting.
Southwark Liberal Democrats are now seeking reassurances that discussions that took place between the children's and adults services and the regeneration directorate were above aboard. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request demanding more information was first made on the 1st of March 2017. However this has been delayed with no explanation provided by the council. The 20 working day deadline has passed, as has the extended deadline, with Liberal Democrat members now asking what is the Council trying to hide?


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I do not go home.I want to play with others.
Biography: Huang Yuan-Yu was born in Taiwan (1975). He is an amateur photographer and has won numerous awards, such as the New Taipei City Art Exhibition(1st prize, 2010), National Art Exhibition(3rd prize, 2013), Keelung Art Exhibition(Keelung Prize , 2013), Miaoli Art Exhibition(3rd prize, 2014), Yilan Awards(2nd prize, 2015), Taoyuan Art Exhibition(3rd prize, 2017) , Taitung Art Exhibition(3rd prize, 2017),also in International Photography Awards in USA and Prix de la Photographie Paris, etc.
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Q: How many ways we have to prove that a topologically (or analytically) nice mapping is injective? I would like to know what are the methods people have used to prove that a topologically (or analytically) nice mapping $f: B\to \Omega$ is injective? Above, $B$ is the unit ball in $\Bbb R^n$ and $\Omega$ is a "nice" domain in $\Bbb R^n$, $n>2$. I used the words topologically nice or analytically nice since I do not know the exact condition that will imply the injectivity.
For topologically nice map, we may assume it is continuous, discrete and open, proper, ... and so on. For analytically nice, we may assume nice regularity. For the question above, one can also add assumptions on the target domain $\Omega$. For instance, if $\Omega$ is also a (unit) ball, and if the mapping $f$ has compact branch set (which is the set of points in the source such that $f$ is not locally injective at that point), then $f$ is injective. This can be seen in the following way, the closeness (or properness) of the mapping implies that the boundary get mapped to the boundary and so we may choose a simply connected neighborhood $U$ around the boundary of the image and analyze the preimages of $U$. Since it does not touch $f(B_f)$, it is easy to show that $f$ forms a covering map between these neighborhoods. Since the target $U$ is simply connected, we conclude that $f$ is one-to-one when restricted to $f^{U}$. On the other hand, the degree of $f$ is constant in the ball and so we conclude that $f$ is one-to-one.
It would be greatly appreciated if one can tell me some other methods or conditions that sufficient to conclude that a mapping is injective.


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The University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc — it's "Our UW," and we are proud of it. The Board of Directors of the UW-Manitowoc Foundation has been involved in the plans for the campus renovation since the original task force convened four years ago. Our UW has kept pace through the years, but we must continue to invest in one of our area's most valuable resources.
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The foundation was asked to participate by raising money to contribute to the project, and we are now working with the community to raise $1 million to pay for enhancements that are not included in the county budget.
The enhancements will be for classroom, laboratory and common areas that will strengthen the fundamental impact of the renovated space, make the campus shine and ensure that our UW maintains a competitive edge now, and well into the future. It will also allow for the creation of a fund within the foundation to use for future updates that may not be possible within an already tight campus budget. More and more, both public and private dollars are needed to assure the highest-quality teaching and learning environments.
Students, families, employers and the community-at-large rely on our UW as a valuable regional resource that makes access to high-quality, formal and informal education easy and affordable. Most of our students are first-generation college students. Tuition is the lowest in the state (approximately $5,100 for two semesters). And although our UW is among the smaller campuses within the UW Colleges system, we have earned respected leadership status through innovative and highly regarded science and art programs.
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Why should the community care about this project? Take a moment to think about folks you know who attended UW-Manitowoc and are now leading citizens, inspirational leaders and competent employees. Perhaps you got your start at our UW. Perhaps you are retired and taking classes for free because you believe in lifelong learning. An investment in UW-Manitowoc is an investment in the future of Manitowoc County.
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Q: Random Number generator to cover all numbers in the set I am writing an Android app and I want to generate random numbers.
But, Java's RandomGenerator gives me only pseudo random numbers. The numbers repeat and not all the numbers are covered.
I want something that will give me non-repeating numbers and will cover all the numbers. How do I do that?

A: You can put all random values you want into a List and shuffle it.
List<Integer> numbers = ...
Collections.shuffle(numbers);

This will give you unique numbers in a random order.

A: You could fill a data structure with the numbers you want to loop over, then randomize the order of the elements in the structure and pull them out one by one. Alternatively, you could randomly pick indexes, and retrieve elements at those indexes. Whichever you do (you would choose the one more efficient for the specific data structure), you be sure to remove this element as you grab it. As you keep going your data structure will get smaller and smaller until you've received every element and have nothing left. This also ensures you'll never hit the same number twice, because you'll have removed it from your pool of possible numbers.


I wouldn't have thought of us as a cycling family. I'm the only one who commutes by cycle. I'm what New Zealanders call 'a cycling advocate" and it's been hinted to me that I am an obsessive bore on the subject. However, various members of my family cycle in their different ways.
We - my siblings and I - cycled when we were children. We lived near the end of what we called a "metal"(i.e. dirt) road and to get to school we had to cycle about a mile and a half to the bus-stop. We would leave our bicycles leaning against a fence unlocked, as you did those days, and play games - walking along the parapet of the bridge over the big drain was one - until the crowded, superannuated bus picked us up to go about four miles to our country school.
My first year at primary school I was carried on the back of my sister Claudia's bicycle. Then the next year she went to the High School in town, and caught an earlier bus. The middle sister, L. said she wasn't going to carry a lump like me, so at the age of six I was taught to ride a bicycle, Dad holding the carrier and jogging behind me on our lawn for a week while I learned to balance. The children on our road cycled on a surface which would be an easy mountain bike trail these days, except when the Council came with its loads of crushed rock and graders, when it became hard work for our basic bikes. "The grader's been here," we would howl as we tried to make our way through what seemed like small yellow boulders for the first few days, then the cars and tractors gradually formed two strips, the rocks heaped in the middle and down the sides and we had smooth dirt paths again.
A notable time on this route was when a dead cow lay waiting on the verge for what we called the dead cow lorry. Oh, the stench of that cow - we'd hold our breaths as we went by - and if we met the lorry, My God! Sometimes the dredger came to clear the big drain that made the swampy land farmable. The verges were piled with mud, and weed and on the road would be eels, some as big as your arm, struggling through the dust back towards the water. I was terrified of them and sickened by them, L. was fearless and would make to chase me with one. She rescued a small black one once and kept it in a bucket of water, but it didn't survive, like the baby rabbits, pukeko chicks and other "found" small creatures. Then cars would run over the eels or they would just die and you would dodge and avert your eyes from their smashed and maggoty bodies.
The others left school and went out to jobs, marriages and different countries, and L. said she hadn't been on a bicycle since those early days. Then a few years ago friends suggested she do the Otago Rail Trail in a group. She got a cycle and a pair of cycling shorts and enjoyed the trip hugely. She has done other trails and she lives in the Hutt Valley in Wellington where there are 27 km of trails by the Hutt River where she exercises regularly and looks very fit on it.
She and I did a piece of the Rimutaka Trail. This is an old railway track, so with easy gradients and tunnels. It goes through regenerating bush and with stops at the information boards we headed uphill. It took us about an hour and a half to get to Summit, 10km away. There are a few rusty bits of engine and other signs of its train origins as well as a shelter and the usual Department of Conservation toilets (DoC really is great, setting up long drop toilets and information on trails all over the country).
On Wellington Province Day, a public holiday, under a perfect blue sky it was a very popular route, and family groups were out, which are something of a hazard, as small children waivered from one side of a trail to another. As we sat at Summit eating a snack a gang of guys cycled past, including one on a unicycle.
You could continue down to Featherstone in the Wairarapa and catch a train back to Wellington, as you would in the manner of my UK cycling. We, however, cycled back the way we came, getting to the car park at about 12:30 and by then it was hitting 30 degree afternoon heat, which I would certainly have found hard to cope with.
Other than the river path in the Hutt Valley I didn't do any more cycling in Wellington. However I saw that cycling had picked up since my day. I was four years in Wellington at Victoria University and I would never have dreamed of cycling. Wellington is a walkable city, its public transport is quite good, and I would have dismissed the idea - the hills are precipice steep and it's famous for its southerly gales.
I love Wellington which reminds me of Edinburgh in being beautiful, hilly and windy, so not the most obvious city for cycling. However the cycleways were marked for urban routes and I saw people on mountain bikes on squally days- and yes, you would need something with very low gears with hills like these. L., whose office is out in Pauatahanui over a steep hill (Wellington is a system of steep hills and valleys) said that some of her colleagues commute by cycle. Evidently it's catching on.
Postie in Devonport. Posties have always gone by bike.
I eventually got to Auckland and caught a ferry to my brother's place in Devonport on the North Shore. A few commuters had their cycles on the ferry and there was a cycleway marked from the ferry stop to Takapuna. Auckland, with its warmer climate and lower hills you would think was an ideal city for cycling. I stayed at my sister's in Mount Eden, near a cycleway through the suburban streets. I did a little of that and also an off road path through Walmsley Park. It was supposed to be a cycle path but it was not sign-posted, and when I got to the end of it, I had no idea where to go, so it receives low marks. I didn't really sample enough of Auckland to give it a fair assessment but I did seem to end up on busy roads a lot of the time, which were not well signed. I would say that a start had been made for making the city more cycle-friendly, but my verdict now would be "fragmented".
I also went with my brother-in-law for a cycle along the waterfront. This is marked as a cycle way, and pavement has been divided by a white line, with the half near the kerb being painted with outlines of cyclists. Cycling along Auckland's waterfront is very agreeable in many ways, as you are by the grand Waitemata Harbour among the Aucklanders on a Saturday morning jogging, boating, swimming, taking the kids out in buggies and on scooters and small bikes. A bloke on a wheelchair went by at high speed, doing training for what was probably the paraOlympics. But it is cycling with all your attention on hazards. I was reminded of the Union Canal at its city end in Edinburgh. It's picturesque but the towpath is too narrow and it's too busy with pedestrian traffic to be able to get up speed, and I usually miss out that bit and go along the streets. Auckland's waterfront has all the hazards of a canal towpath in the city, with the addition of cars parked along the kerb and car doors opening out on you while people extract themselves and their children. One door was open while three teenage girls sat in the car or stood on the pavement and hung out.
"I would have sworn at them but I'm a foreigner," I said. later to my brother-in-law later, who was also cycling the path.
"I swore at them," he said.
We were in a cafe at the end of the waterfront run comparing notes, and agreeing that it was more of an obstacle course than a cycle route. I cycled back along it, and another lot had their van doors open and were cleaning out their van, with a vacuum cleaner on the pavement. The bloke training on the wheelchair went past with strong, fast moving arms and I mentally cheered him. I did enjoy my urban cycle, which was really a tourist's potter but this cycleway is not a serious cycle route for commuting.
Cyclists wanting to get somewhere at speed use the road instead and Auckland drivers think that they are being cheeky sods for cycling there because look, don't they have their own cycleway now? rather in the spirit of white South Africans pointing to bantustans. Look! You've got your own state. Why do you want a share of ours?
After this I noticed other pavements that were halved as cycle routes, and on the cyclist side the path would have a pole for a traffic light or something else stuck in the middle of it, and wondered what car drivers would think of a road where suddenly a concrete bollard appeared in their way.
My nephew J. showed me his Norco mountain bike. J. is big, blonde and macho and used to play rugby. Now he has taken up competitive mountain biking and his bike has a special seat where you press a button to change its height. He was due to do some time trials in Rotorua and had been getting fit cycling up Auckland's volcanoes. I had seen groups of mountain bikers on Mount Eden doing this on a Sunday morning. He said though that Auckland drivers are awful - selfish and inconsiderate, which I well believed. (I've heard stories of New Zealander drivers' resentment of cyclists).
As we walked back to the car from J's house, his children followed us, the little girl in a pedal car and the sturdy blonde boy toddler pistoning energetically on his tricycle as he headed along the pavement, obviously dying to be moving fast over uninterrupted tarmac. When he's old enough to cycle alone, perhaps Auckland will have safe spaces for him to do so.
My brother-in-law rides a recumbent tricycle. He had a stroke seven years back, which has left him unable to drive and he can't walk far, but he can use a recumbent tricycle which has been adapted for his disability. He now does regular exercise rides, and goes off to cafes so as well as gaining independent mobility, he has made some new friends. He has found the exercise, upping his oxygen levels, has been good for his mental health as well, with his speech improving (it sounds totally normal to me). He and my sister are now evangelicals for the disabled being self-propelled, if possible.
He also wears very snazzy colours on his bike and has become a feature of the neighbour hood. People recognise him and his bike, and call out greetings.
The only other cycling I did was at Ruakaka in Northland, where the family has a beach house. Ruakaka is a couple of hours north of Auckland, a town that was built for the workers at the oil refinery at Marsden Point. It is very flat, and also has 23km of perfect white sand beach. However far the tide is out, you can swim in the surf, and it is safe. Small children can play in the waves. I went for a ride at low tide along the hard sand, with the waves of the Pacific curling over the bike tyres. This being New Zealand, a beach like this has a handful of people on it. My sister says the biggest number they have seen is seventeen.
The end of my holiday in New Zealand. Its beauty takes your breath away.
There is nothing much I can say about this earthquake in my homeland except be thankful that no-one was killed. Australians joke about the shaky island, and when I lived in Wellington at the bottom of the North Island we used to discuss how bad an earthquake would be when it finally happened. The city is built on steep hills and so half the houses would fall down in landslides and there are only a couple of exit roads to the north and they would be easily blocked.
Christchurch is flat, but it still looks terribly damaged. It's a pleasant, agreeable city, with views of the Southern Alps, beaches with good swimming and some handsome colonial architecture. In the 1930s and 40s it gave Karl Popper shelter. In the 1954 two schoolgirls murdered the mother of one of them which made world news and was astonishingly anomalous in a peaceful and sedate city . Peter Jackson's based his excellent film Heavenly Creatures on that event.
A country that has a good infrastructure, a government that is not corrupt and a people who pride themselves on their practical skills and self-reliance can recover from this kind of thing better than most, I suppose, and hope.
The building code requirements for earthquake are stronger in North Island zones, but NZ building style generally good for earthquakes. Most of what fell over looks like British type of construction, unreinforced masonry.
GNS senior scientist Dr Hamish Campbell told NZPA an earthquake disaster was inevitable in Christchurch.
"My colleagues and I have been saying for a long time that Christchurch, by virtue of the nature of the ground and its proximity to the Alpine fault, is inevitably going to be brought to its knees at some stage," Dr Campbell said.
He believed there would be a lot more awareness now, and lessons would be learnt.
"One brick house may have suffered no damage at all, and yet the one next to it suffered a lot of damage and I suspect that's all to do with the nature of the top metre of ground beneath the house.
"The extent to which seismic energy gets amplified is all about how strong the material is immediately beneath the house.
"For instance, a house might be built on an old river channel and the one next to it isn't. So that can make the difference," he said.
Christchurch was built on a plain comprising gravels, silts and peats, so it was "very unconsolidated". It was also low-lying but had a high water table.
"If you compare that with Wellington, everybody there is living on solid rock. It's a very different situation," Dr Campbell said.
The focus for rebuilding should be on the nature of the ground and the foundations, rather than the building materials, he said.


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Ґе Хун (*葛洪, 283 —343) — китайський вчений, алхімік, лікар та фармацевт епохи правління династії Цзінь.

Життєпис
Народився у 283 році у м. Даньян 丹阳 повіту Цзюйжун (територія сучасної провінції Цзяньсу). Походив із старовинного чиновницького роду, дані про який сходять до I ст. н. е., коли один з предків Ґе Хуна був нагороджений імператором Гуан-у-ді за допомогу, надану йому при сходженні на престол, і отримав земельне володіння на півдні Китаю. На час народження Ґе Хуна родина збідніла. Рано осиротівши, він опинився в скрутному матеріальному становищі. Тим не менш, Ґе Хун посилено займався, поєднуючи вивчення конфуціанства з осягненням таємниць даосизму.

У 303 році як молодший офіцер взяв участь у придушенні селянського повстання, за що згодом був нагороджений аристократичним титулом. Потім він зробив безрезультатну подорож на північ Китаю в пошуках даоських текстів. Після повернення на південь займав ряд незначних посад. Згодом працював у канцелярії правителя м. Гуанчжоу, стає помічником принца Сима Жуя, який у 317 році отримав імператорську владу. Тоді ж Ґе Хун переходить до імператорської канцелярії й невдовзі очолює її. На своїй посаді він залишався до 333 року.

Останні роки свого життя Ґе Хун провів на самоті на горі Лофушань поблизу Гуанчжоу на крайньому півдні Китаю, займаючись наукою. Тут же він написав велику частину своїх творів.

Творчість
У 317–320 роках написав енциклопедичний даоський трактат «Баопу-цзи» («Мудрець, який осягає первозданну простоту»), названий так за псевдонімом самого Ґе Хуна. У ньому він детально викладає даоське вчення про досягнення фізичного безсмертя і описує способи його набуття, зокрема вживання священного гриба «лінчжи»; разом з тим, на думку Ґе Хуна найважливішою є алхімія, тобто створення еліксиру безсмертя з кіноварі в поєднанні з іншими речовинами.

Він також є автором медичної книги «Чжоу хоу Бей цзи фан» (Рецепти під рукою на випадок необхідності), яка частково збереглася до тепер. В ній у популярній формі описані способи лікування 70 різних захворювань, здебільшого гострих. Серед методів лікування Ґе Хун особливо виділяв припікання, відзначаючи його простоту, зручність і дешевизну. Він також закликав застосовувати припікання при потребі термінової медичної допомоги, коли під рукою немає відповідних ліків. Дружина Ґе Хуна, Бао-ґу (309–363), була першою жінкою в Китаї — фахівцем з припікання.

Крім того Ґе Хун написав власну автобіографію, життєписи даоських безсмертних (Шеньсянь-чжуань), збірку історій «Нариси західної столиці».

Примітки

Джерела
 Robinet, Isabelle. Daoism: Growth of a Religion, translated by Phyllis Brooks. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Даосизм
Китайські алхіміки
Китайські письменники