Something interesting that Garmont boot guru Parker pointed out: With a tongue style liner (right), you can't get the fourth buckle as far down toward the toes as you can with an overlap cuff boot (left). Aha, now I know why I always end up removing that 4th buckle on boots such as Zzero; it's so close to the third buckle that they're frequently doing the same thing.
Check out how Garmont shaped the overlap cuff. The high part not only provides more progressive forward support, but as demonstrated above it's a good handle for opening the boots. The intermediate layer of plastic is a gasket that seals everything up nice and watertight; perhaps we won't have to duct tape the overlap to keep water out? If so, then indeed this is a revolution (though I'll kinda miss having that bit of duct tape on my boots).
In terms of fit, these boots appear to have a bit more volume than the Megaride last, but time will tell where they fall in the scheme of things. More importantly, the new Garmont boots have "pre punched" shells that are more anatomical than most ski boots. Provided your foot is close to the average shape used to design the "pre punch," (most are close enough), you'll get an outstanding fit once you mold the liner. Speaking of which, Garmont's liners for these shoes matched the shells in quality and workmanship. They're tongue style liners rather than overlap, a matter of personal preference and easily swapped for a Scarpa aftermarket overlap if desired.
Interestingly (at least to gear geeks), the liners have a Palu brand label but Garmont says that's only there because of a patent, and the liners are designed and made by Garmont in a Romanian factory. Of more importance to actual skiing, I like the Pebax plastic reinforcement on the Radium liner tongue — music to the legs of one who for decades battled shin bang in overlap cuff boots.
And check this out. A totally user serviceable lean lock presented in "industro design" style on the outside of the boot. Love it. But how did they ever convince Italian boot designers to do such a thing? Lean lock on all boots but Axon has just one forward lean locked position (24 degrees), thus eliminating the guesswork and possible quad blowing of the dual position type (which we've always disliked intensely).
Another view of Radium. This is one fine hunk of shoe. We're acquiring a test pair ASAP, so stay tuned.
Garmont's new a.d.d. Wrap Overlap ski mountaineering boots… Their unique overlap closely follows the anatomy of the foot and lower leg for crisp, precise downhill performance, while cradling it comfortably and securely for touring comfort. The unique overlap design eliminates the restrictive tongue to allow more independent movement between the cuff and lower shell. That means better walking, climbing, and skinning, with a progressive downhill flex.
– Better downhill performance with a more progressive flex: the overlap design follows the contours of the foot and ankle more closely than other tongue-type designs for the best downhill performance with a smooth, progressive, responsive flex.
– With no tongue that must be flexed backwards with each step, the overlap lower shell and multi-injected cuff can operate more independently for more walking freedom and comfort.
– The High Overlap Panel spreads contact evenly for a progressive forward flex and the most responsive ski control. 4-buckle models have superb shin comfort and downhill performance, while the 3-buckle Helium skis like a 4-buckle boot, a big step in 3-buckle performance.
– Easy entry with the High Overlap Panel: The Panel provides a "handle" that can be spread for very easy entry.
– Soft, silicone-like Water Seal Gasket between the shell's overlaps seals out snow and moisture.
– Men's models have a height-adjustable spoiler to accommodate different leg shapes for maximum rearward support and contact.
– Multi-injected Shell Bumpers protect the buckles and lower shell.
– Multi-injected cuff has a very stiff frame for leverage and support, with a softer overlap that contours closely around the leg for quick response and comfort.
– New Rapid outsole is designed for maximum grip, with the proper contact area as determined by the new ISO norm for the best step-in binding function. The Rapid sole has self-cleaning lugs. Its unique rubber compound is grippy yet highly durable, with the maximum toe thickness allowed within the ISO Norm for longevity. It extends under the instep for protection and grip when rock scrambling.
– Wide-Open Buckles and Easy-Lock Catches for easier, unrestricted touring. The Wide-Open's levers are designed with an off-center pivot that opens as wide as is possible while they are held securely by the Easy-Lock buckle catches.
– Cuff buckle catches are movable to custom-fit different sizes of lower legs.
– Bomber walk mechanism is clean, simple, and solid.
– The G-fit Rapid and G-Fit Flash are the only thermoformable liners on the market with a plastic T-Bar Reinforced Tongue for leverage and shin protection. This unique T-shaped Pebax tongue reinforcement provides the leverage and protection of a traditional liner, with full thermoformability.
– Silver Fibers in the liners' wicking lining material serve two high-tech purposes: They are both anti-bacterial and retain body heat much better than normal wick-able synthetic fibers.
– Double Pull Loops facilitate easy entry, exit, and carrying the boots.
are these boots unavailable until next fall?
Nice slippers, eh? I like the 3 buckle Helium. Perhaps it is a step up from my Mega Lites.
Yep, next fall is when they'll be distributed. Just helping you guys plan ahead (grin). There might be some Axons in the pipeline at some point before then, but I'm not clear on their exact sched.
Also, it looks like to would be super easy to modify the cuff lock mechanism to provide for a different forward lean than the standard 24 degrees. What's your take on this possibility Lou?
I was up at SME in late December when Paul P. was field testing a pre-production brown 4 buckle overlap. They sure looked to tour and turn nice in the powder. Skiing in the old 3-buckle silver dynafits made me pretty jealous- now it is so hard to decide WHICH boot to get for long tours- old megaride 4 buckle; new helium 3 buckle; new radium……..almost too many possibilities! PS -if you get a chance, ask Paul if he still wears his beret backwards like a young park rat.
zzzzzzz… Too many gear reports. With all this snow please go skiing, take pictures and right about how fun it was. I'm sitting at work somewhere down your valley watching all this snow fall and it's driving me nuts. Please try to save the bill paying gear stories for the weekend when the salaryman plays.
Scott, good point. We've been thinking exactly the same thing! Gotta do the Axon review tomorrow, but take my word for it, more trip reports and opinion writing coming up soon! Avy danger has been pretty high, so we've been out to the resorts but not much backcountry. I've still got a couple of interesting Europe trip reports so I might put those up as well over coming days.
I'm confused. You say the Axon is the most touring oriented of their new boots.. Isn't it the stiffest? Isn't the Radium more along the lines of the Megaride (which is certainly more touring oriented than the Axon)?
First time posting, though I've read your stuff for a long time. I'm glad for the reassuring comment on lighter weight boot reviews. Keep 'em coming. On another note, I have a pair of old Ramer bindings. The back end of 'em look like other Ramers, they've got the spinning lock down/heel lifter and a crampon-like bail. But the fronts are different. Instead of a crampon-style toe bail, they have big aluminum wings sticking straight up with straps across the top… Well, maybe I'm not describing them very well. I can send you pictures if you'd be interested. I definitely do not use them at all. Let me know.
Please consider adding some actual climbing to your reviews of boots – Much of my summer touring involves crampons (both flatfoot and frontpointing comfort are critical) and rambling travel up rock and talus in addition to skinning. Some of the boots you've been looking at lately look to be extremely susceptible to buckle-shredding rocks.
I'm bummed Garmont have gone with a higher volume. Although we've a great new selection of high end Dynafit compatible touring boots for next season, the Clincher for me in deciding between the Skookum, Zzues, Radium, and Method models (which I'm sure will all work well enough for my needs) is how they FIT. I'd really appreciate some comparative information, and I'm hoping that not every model of every brand caters only to the same medium-wide average foot/leg. With so many models available now, is it too much to expect that those of us with lower (like myself) or higher than average volume anatomy can finally expect something fits us? I'm currently using Mega-rides with Krypton tongues and Intuition liners, and even with thick socks I'm making do with a sloppy fit. Any suggestions Lou?
Are the liners for the new Radium boots laced?
You guys, most of the boots we're reviewing just went public, and many are only available in one sample size. BD's new boots were still secret just over a month ago. I'll do comparos, but they'll have to come gradually, as we DO NOT compare or do in-depth reviews of boots that we can't have here at WildSnow HQ for extended periods.
As for Garmont's volume, if it's any change it is slight, and this was just a first impression.
Justin, sorry I got things confused. Axon is indeed stiffest of the lot and I should have clarified that. Edited this morning.
Any chance of a weight comparison on all these new boots. I agree you are overdue on a good ski report, but I am definitely psyched about all these new boot options coming out next year.
Kevin, the only weight comparo we do is when the boots are in our hot little hands. We've found that doing comparo with catalog weights is always off. Not from deliberate dishonesty, but typos and weighing of samples instead of production boots throws things off. Not to mention the problem of normalizing for sizes.
We'll work hard at getting some comparos done, but know that with some of the heavier freeride boots, worrying about weight is like being concerned with gas mileage for a Hummer. Thus, in that sense it's just not something we're going after with both guns blazing.
So many new boots I'm confused. Wonder how many of the existing models are going to be discontinued? I suspect it is going to be a nighmare finding retailers stocking more than a tiny selection of what is available unless you are in Chamonix (it can already be hard finding a shop with the model you want to try in stock).
Second the comment that I hope that not all the manufacturers have ended up with a lowest common denominator last.
Another difference between the Radium versus the Argon, aside from the lack of Dynafit in the Argon, is that the Argon shell is comprised of mixed polymers. The Radium shell is Pebax. More than likely, the Radium looks to replace the Mega Ride in terms of new technology and performance, but the Mega Ride hasn't been dropped from the line-up just yet. Gone are the G-Ride and the Dynamite, however. I look forward to your review of the new Rapid Liner for these overlap boots, once you are able to ski in them. They are nothing like the G-fits of the past. Thanks for your reviews from the show.
Does anyone know the beefiness of the new Radium versus Adrenaline and Endorphine?
Arne, Parker says Radium is slightly less but not by much, if I hear him correctly.
I sure don't like the look of that lean-lock mechanism. Looks suspiciously similar (neck down in section AND a bend on the lower end where it attaches to the boot) to the same thing on the Dynafit Freeride Aero that has now failed on me TWICE. I would like to think they tested this pretty well for durability, but it's a bad design from the start.
Perhaps your right Lou. Perhaps the fact that it connects with a free pivot, instead of a rigid bolted connection like on the FR Aero, will make the difference. The interesting thing is that if they would have hidden all of this stuff inside boot plastic like usual I would have been none the wiser and wouldn't be scrutinizing it so much. Anyway, these do look like very nice boots and will get a hard look next year because I have just about had enough with my current setup.
I'm eager to hear your on-hands (and snow) review of the Radium. I was thinking about buying a pair of Zero 4 CF's, but may wait until the fall to see how the Radium's feel…by the way, what is your impression of the 4 CF's?
The 4 CF's are working great, some of the best boots I've ever owned in terms of weight/performance ratio. Not as progressive in for/aft flex as some boots, but I'm willing to take that hit for their lack of mass.
These weights are given by Garmont and thus may not be identical to real world weights.
Comparing the shells of Garmont's Endorphin and Axon…did the connection points of the shell floors to their Vibram soles appear to be similar in structure/shape? I'd like to apply a mod to the Axon…(ie screw an Endorphin's alpine sole into the Axon's shell for alpine binding compatability). Would provide true versatility…don't know why they(Garmont) opted not to do it..
Steve, sorry, I can't answer that specifically. Bob Perlmutter still has the Axon in long term test. I'll give him a heads up on this question.
Does anyone know if the Axon will be available in size 30.5 for the upcoming season? Now they only come in sizes up to 29.
Thanks Paul and Garmont for the quick info!
I am trying to decide between the Garmont Radium and the Scarpa Spirit 4. Does anyone have any opinions, or even better knowledge/experience, with the Spirit 4?
Justin, I checked out the final production Radium at OR and I'll talk about it more soon, but it's truly a nice boot. Spirit 4 is good as well. THE MAIN DIFFERENCE is that the Spirit is a tongue boot and the Radium is overlap. Thus, I don't think a direct comparison is that useful.
What's your intended use, body size, ski size width? What kind of boots have you been in touring and on the resort?
I am an extremely aggressive skier, although extremely light for my height (6'2", 160 lbs.). Skiing in-bounds, I have been riding on a pair of Volkl Katana 190 cm skis w/ Salomon S16 binders, and the new Raichle Flexon boots (Full Tilt Camo Pro), and I am completely in love with them. I have been touring on a pair of K2 Coomba 188 cm skis w/ Marker Duke bindings and Scarpa Tornado Pro boots. It's been a wonderful setup to ski on, but very heavy on the uphill, due mostly to the bindings. I have been doing a lot longer, more physically demanding tours, with a lot more vertical ascending, and I feel that I need to start cutting some weight. I am planning on getting a pair of Dynafit TLT bindings and might just mount them on my K2s, or perhaps buy a pair of Karhu BC 100s. I'm not quite sure about that part yet. Also, the ski crampon for the TLT binding is only 92 mm wide. Do you think I could maybe bend it or something to make it fit the 102 mm waist of my Coombas, or the 100 mm waist of the Karhus, without losing much grip? Thanks a lot, Lou. You're the man.
First, B&D makes your cramps. As they're are newest sponsor please order a few dozen pair to keep Bill busy (grin).
As for boots, I'd say if you're used to the feel of the Flexon you could consider sticking with a tongue boot, so Spirit 4.
That said, what's cool about Scarpa vs Garmont is that their boots fit very differently. If you've got a high arch you'll find the Scarpas to work well, if your arch is low the Garmonts might feel better. In my experience, the Garmont is a bit lower volume in the toe area, but that depends on fit and final choice in size so it's not as huge a factor as people say.
Please try them both before you buy, or do the mail order swaparoo if necessary.
Along with buying the two dozen pair of crampons, you are also required to report back here when you get farther along with the shopping (grin).
Anyone else have two cents?
Thanks for the ideas on the boots. I think I may end up just getting the Spirit 4s. I already know they fit me well, and I have access to a Scarpa Pro Deal. Thank you for the tip on the ski crampons as well. I'll keep you posted. Chao.
Thanks for the info regarding axon sizes, Lou. I'm almost in the same boat as Justin here (although maybe not as aggressive and without access to pro deals), needing a relatively lightweight AT boot that will work with my ANT's and Dukes, and a future dynafit rig. My 6″5′ and 195 lbs makes me concerned with how dynafits will hold up while skiing. Any thoughts? Also, will the Radium be a beefy enough boot for charging a bit?
When BC skiing during full winter my trips are usually 3-5 hours skinning (basically from the car – hardly any approaches) and I prefer to ski quite hard. but during springtime they can get a lot longer, and include off snow approaches. Basically I'm considering the Axon since they're beefy (the Endorphin fit real good in store but I've never skied them) and the Radium since they seem like such a great lightweight boot with some nice details. I've got a fairly high arch btw, which is a problem with my XWave 10's (pressure under 2nd buckle). Cheers!
Lou, I think I have found the final piece to the puzzle… the Scarpa Skookum! So here's what I'm gonna go for: Karhu BC 100 Ski (186cm) with a Dynafit TLT Speed Binding and the Scarpa Skookum Boot. That should be exactly what I need. The Skookum looks like it might be a little burlier than the Tornado Pro? Then I could just replace them completely and maybe sell them to help finance my new setup. What do you think?
Scarpa would be happy to hear me say that the overlap boot interest is over shadowing all the terrific tongue boots out there, a time proven technology that provides serious performance with incredibly low weights. Overlaps and tongue boots have been around for decades, they both work, more power to the person how shops with care and doesn't get taken in by the hype.
I'm looking for some feedback on the Garmont Helium. Anyone using this boot this season?
so this thread is 2yrs old now…but…I'm interested in mostly resort skiing, but with occasional sidecountry trips. Prob 80/20 resort/sidecountry. Want to drive some kinda wide (< 105 or so) boards with alpine (Marker Baron) bindings. Would I be better off with the stiffer Axon, or should I consider the Radium? I've heard of some people saying the Axon, in the more fwd lean position, can sometimes have the 3rd and 4th buckles hitting each other under pressure in middle of a turn. Any feedback? thanks.
Nothing wrong with CPR on an old thread. Axon is a tongue boot, Radium is overlap, buy depending on which kind of flex you want. As for the buckles hitting, easy to evaluate in shop.
thanks Lou. Garmont website a bit hard to decipher, for me. So, do both Radium and Axon have alpine sole blocks? do they come with, or do you have to buy them separate? I've read about potential probs if you try to use AT soles in Marker Baron bindings. yes I've read all of your awesome Garmont Axon-Radium reviews. Keep up the good work!!


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Refurbishment of grade II listed façade: As part of a framework agreement Faithful+Gould provided building surveying services to the Imperial War Museum in London. An iconic building, the Imperial War Museum is grade II listed and dates back to the 19th century. Faithful+Gould assessed the property's structural issues and worked with conservation planning officers to provide specialist conservation advice. We worked closely with the listed buildings officer to agree on acceptable construction methods and materials to maintain the integrity of the historic building.
The project included: Design and specification of the north block, building maintenance, project management of the renovation. The project also included modernisation of IWM's roof drainage system, which had previously flooded regularly. Under the framework agreement Faithful+Gould has also received commissions to work on the Cabinet War Rooms and HMS Belfast.


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Q: Sending messages to other shards on Discord.js v12+ I'm trying to make a system inside my Discord bot where it relies on channel ids to post to from a database of Channel IDs (eg: 1234567891234).
Now my main issue is being able to send to that channel via the ID as I am using Discord.JS v12+ with the ShardingManager.
I have this basic code but unsure as to how I would relay that message from one channel to another channel thats on a different shard to the OP Shard.
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I'm hoping to be able to pull this off, but I have been advised to use Discord's REST API system, but I'm not that advanced to understand each segment of their API Network.

A: Turns out I answered my own question without realising it;
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I hope this helps anyone using the ShardingManager from Discord.js.

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Netizens are furious at Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) for showing no sympathy to the man who was bitten by a snake while he was trying to capture the reptile at Tang Place.
On Tuesday night (29 January), AVA said that it was investigating the alleged mishandling of a snake after photos and videos of the python lurking outside the building along busy Orchard Road were circulated on social media earlier that day.
A video was uploaded by user Rabbikhan Khan, showed four men trying to capture the python.
In the two-minute video, the python was seen biting the hand of one of the men, which seems gloved. The man, who was wearing a shirt with the word "Anticimex" written on it, later stepped on the reptile as it struggled.
In another footage uploaded by Facebook user Tess Fernando, the python, which seems to be around 3m long, was originally seen partially coiled up behind a recycling bin.
AVA said the python was removed and handed to Wildlife Reserves Singapore.
However, there were no news reported on the condition of the man who bitten by the snake.
"Cruelty to animals is an offence under the Animals and Birds Act. AVA has issued a set of guidelines on the proper handling of snakes to all pest control and wildlife management agencies in Singapore," the authority said.
"For example, snakes should not be unduly harmed by the persons handling it and appropriate equipment should be used to catch them.
"AVA investigates all feedback relating to animal cruelty and will not hesitate to take enforcement action against offenders," it added.
However, netizens don't really agree with AVA's action of investigating this case for alleged mishandling of the snake as the man stepped on the reptile in an attempt to protect himself.


More than 96% of organic carbon in the ocean is in the dissolved form, most of it with lifetimes of decades to millennia. Yet, we know very little about the temperature sensitivity of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) degradation in a warming ocean. Combining independent estimates from laboratory experiments, oceanographic cruises and a global ocean DOC cycling model, we assess the relationship between DOC decay constants and seawater temperatures. Our results show that the apparent activation energy of DOC decay (E-a) increases by three-fold from the labile (lifetime of days) and semi-labile (lifetime of months) to the semi-refractory (lifetime of decades) DOC pools, with only minor differences between the world's largest ocean basins. This translates into increasing temperature coefficients (Q(10)) from 1.7-1.8 to 4-8, showing that the generalized assumption of a constant Q(10) of similar to 2 for biological rates is not universally applicable for the microbial degradation of DOC in the ocean. Therefore, rising ocean temperatures will preferentially impact the microbial degradation of the more recalcitrant and larger of the three studied pools. Assuming a uniform 1 degrees C warming scenario throughout the ocean, our model predicts a global decrease of the DOC reservoir by 7 +/- 1 Pg C. This represents a 15% reduction of the semi-labile + semi-refractory DOC pools.


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Coming to the end of this class I have learned a lot about what it takes to make a piece of literature leave you feeling a certain way. A lot goes into setting up a atmosphere in a story because you are not really seeing it in front of your face so you must imagine it. The author wants you to imagine a certain scene and feel a certain way through their words and descriptions. An important component to making a reader understand the atmosphere and visualize the scene is by the setting. Setting is where a specific event is taking place. Without setting it would be hard for a reader to not only visualize but to even understand the theme, tone and the atmosphere. Throughout this semester we learned this from genres such as short story, poems and novels.
...ies I have previously red I was able to see even more so why setting is important. Setting is more than just a way of showing people where something is taking place in any form of literature wether it be a poem, short story or a novel. Setting helps further develop the theme by giving you a feel for the atmosphere that is going on in the setting as well as the tone. If the setting is taking place in a garden on a sunny day you know that the atmosphere is positive and the tone will be more of a happy one and the theme in that moment will most likely not be negative as opposed to if the setting was taking place on a dark and rainy day in a basement you would know that this is not meant to be happy. Setting is one of the first things you learn when learning about English and I think that often times we forget of its importance and how much it really develops the story.


Many people carry smartphones or smart gadgets in their pockets but what if you wear smart pants that stores power? Most Scientists have been working on smart clothing and flexible circuits, sensors and screens leaving behind power. Clipping a chunky lithium-ion battery in your pants seems weird. That's why engineers at Drexel University and the US Naval Academy have devised a way to create knitted fabric that can store power.
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The key to this advancement is integrating carbon atoms into different types of yarn, which can then be used to make clothing. Most current attempts at smart clothing have external power and processing. It's really just the sensors that are embedded. This supercapacitor material could be used to provide power to smart garments bristling with sensors or touchscreens without the added bulk of a separate battery pack.
Fabric-like materials capable of storing power have been demonstrated in the past, but they tend to be very expensive and rely on material that's difficult to handle. A project from a team of US and Chinese researchers last year accomplished this with graphene and carbon nanotubes. The activated carbon used in the new Drexel was embedded in the fabric with a process called natural fiber welding (NFW). This technique involves coating a cellulose-based yarn made from cotton, linen, bamboo or viscose with an ionic liquid. This allows carbon atoms to bind the structure. It's a multistep process, but the team was able to build a NFW machine that spits out carbon yarn by the meter.
Extreme Tech provides that the cost of ionic liquids in the NFW are the most expensive part of the production process. If there is demand for this material, that would be the limiting factor in scaling up to an industrial scale. The amount of power fabric made from this yark can store is not high, certainly nowhere near lithium-ion batteries of the same volume. A sheet of fabric supercapacitor about the size of the back panel of a sweater (3000 square cm) could store the same power as a small coin cell battery. Garments made from this material would need their own energy harvesting technology, perhaps based on body heat or movement. If you can continually replenish the charge in the superconductor fabric, you could power an array of low-power electronics.
Many people always complain when there is a blackout or when their phones run out of charge. Electricity is now a necessity in Kenya just like food but Kenyans never appreciate the availability of other power sources like solar or the use of batteries hence I believe power stored in pants can go a great way to revolutionize power storage.


If I set Dynamic Captions for measures they work. However, when I use Measures down the measure name reverts to it default name. I tried right click>Table but Dynamic Captions is greyed out there. Anyone have a work around for this?


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Fireworks at Vauxhall
by David Coke
The Firework Temple
Of all the correspondence that I receive about Vauxhall Gardens, some of the most memorable comes from descendants of the people who performed or sang at the gardens. Striking among these are the descendants of firework-makers, of whom Vauxhall employed a dozen or more between 1798, when the first regular displays started, and 1859, when the gardens finally closed. And it transpires that several of the fire-workers were women, working in a fantastically dangerous and skilled craft. At least two of these women – Madam Hengler and Madam Coton – were more than skilled craftsmen, and themselves directed the fireworks at Vauxhall over significant periods. The protagonists in the following stories are the direct ancestors of two of my correspondents.
Great rivalries sprang up between the various fire-workers, inevitably encouraged by the proprietors of the gardens who wanted the grandest possible displays. But these rivalries were also dangerous, and people would take risks to achieve better results, and may even have committed acts of sabotage to undermine their rivals.
The first great fire to be associated with Vauxhall's performers occurred in 1818, when a mysterious series of explosions destroyed the factory of Signor Vincento de Mortram in Mead Place, St George's Fields, Southwark, leaving Mortram's competitor, Sarah Fields, better known as Madam Hengler, in sole charge of the Vauxhall fireworks for three years. Her husband, who died in 1802, had also displayed fireworks at Vauxhall, followed later by their son, who went on to help found Hengler's Circus. Apart from his factory, the only recorded casualty of Mortram's fire was an unfortunate pet monkey, who had been chained to the building and so could not escape.
Madame Hengler
Mortram was re-engaged in 1821, and collaborated with his rival Mrs Hengler on the production of the spectacular 'Eruption of Mount Vesuvius' for Vauxhall. However, in the previous year, there had been a huge explosion and fire at the home and firework factory of a Mrs Jones, whose husband called himself 'Assistant Fire-Worker at Vauxhall Gardens'; he was probably the same Mr Jones who was Madam Hengler's son-in-law, and it was Mrs Jones who was the only occupant of the factory at the time of the fire. She was fortunately pulled out of the burning building by a neighbour, Mr Holmes, but she was severely injured, and was taken off to hospital 'with little hope of recovery.' Whether she recovered or not is not recorded, but Mme Hengler's daughter, also Mrs Jones, certainly lived on and was involved in yet another nasty fire in 1845; on 9 October at 7.30 in the evening, fire broke out in her premises at Asylum Row, Westminster Bridge Road, probably caused by the carelessness of a boy trimming a lamp near a load of squibs. Four women, four children and a man were all working on the first floor, tying fireworks, and all escaped. However, Mrs Jones's mother-in-law, the eighty-year-old Sarah Hengler, who had retired from Vauxhall twenty years earlier, was dozing in her chair, and could not move, due to her corpulence and disabilities. She was burned alive, screaming, having hauled herself almost to the window. A particularly cruel, if not inappropriate end for Thomas Hood's 'Starry Enchantress of the Vauxhall Garden . . . The Professor of Fiery Necromancy.' A verdict of accidental death was recorded by the coroner, and several newspapers and periodicals, including 'Punch' ran glowing obituaries.
The last fatal fire associated with Vauxhall destroyed the Westminster Bridge Road premises of Mrs William Bennett, better known as Madam Coton, in August 1858, just a year before the gardens closed. Four people were killed in the explosion as well as a neighbour, Sarah Williams, one of the many 'innocent bystanders' who lost life and property in this series of fatal accidents.
It is not a great surprise to read in press cuttings of the time that the Vauxhall Firework Tower was itself destroyed by fire soon after midnight on 2 July 1837, although without causing any injuries. It was apparently the duty of the firemen employed at the gardens to hose down the firework stage from their engine following every performance. Whether this duty had been carried out on that Saturday night is not known. The fire, which raged for more that two hours before the Kennington Cross division managed to bring it under control, also destroyed the painting room, and 14 or 15 trees were burned to the ground, with up to 30 badly damaged. The fire inevitably drew huge numbers of spectators, many of whom broke into the gardens to gain a ringside seat, so adding to the damage. 'The damage done will fall on the Phoenix Fire Insurance Office to the full extent' we are told. The fire did not prevent the gardens reopening on the following evening.
A lot more work needs to be done on the Vauxhall fireworks, especially on the part played by women in their manufacture and display, and on the area around St George's Fields (now the site of St. George's catholic cathedral, opened in 1848), which appears to have been a favoured area for these lethal factories, whether associated with Vauxhall or not.
David Coke
The author would like to acknowledge the help of David Stabb and Laurence Mortram in the preparation of this article for The Vauxhall Society.
© David Coke, 23 November 2010
Filed Under: 18th century, Vauxhall, Vauxhall Gardens
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Stepan Verkhovensky's "Dangerous" Poem in Dostoevsky's Devils
Michael Katz, Middlebury College
In Part One, Chapter One of Dostoevsky's Devils [Besy], the always entertaining and rarely reliable narrator, Mr. G-v [Govorov], describes a "dangerous" poem written by the young Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky. Although he characterizes the work as "some sort of allegory in lyrical-dramatic form, reminiscent of the second part of [Goethe's] Faust," as early as 1902 a scholar of Russian culture, Professor Evgenii Bobrov, in a study entitled Literature and Enlightenment in Russia in the 19th Century (Kazan'), identified the principal source of Dostoevsky's parody as a work written in 1837-38 entitled "Pot-Pourri, or Ask for What you Want" by the extraordinary and eccentric figure, Vladimir Pecherin (1807-85). The central part of that work, called "The Triumph of Death," was first published by Alexander Herzen in his Polyarnaya zvezda (1861, No. 6), and subsequently republished in a collection entitled Russian Secret Literature of the 19th Century (London, 1861) edited by Nikolai Ogarev. Stepan's "dangerous" poem merits consideration on three separate, but related grounds: first, it constitutes a brilliant parody of romantic idealism of the 1830s; second, it is a display of the Dostoevsky's humor at its most delicious and vicious; and third, it provides an early and often overlooked outline of the main religious theme of the entire novel and in so doing, prophecies its conclusion. This paper undertakes a close reading of Pecherin's text and a comparison with Dostoevsky's parody and reveals the wealth of material Dostoevsky had at his disposal and the choices he made. It describes in detail the stylistic devices used to establish bathos (rather than pathos) as the overall tonality of the work. But even more important, given that Dostoevsky's novel is a profound study of the theme of atheism, it is in this brilliant and wicked parody of Pecherin's "Triumph of Death" that Dostoevsky first announces his fundamental religious theme, the idea that he will spend the next seven hundred pages refuting. And it is none other than Stepan Trofimovich, author of this atheistic parody, who becomes the primary vehicle for articulating the author's cherished spiritual message shortly after his departure on his "last journey" in search of Russia, his encounter with the Gospel woman, Sofya Ulitina, and his final confession ("profession de foi") to Varvara Stavrogina. The ironies proliferate: it was Vladimir Pecherin who had left Russia in 1836 for religious, political, and intellectual reasons – the author of the sacrilegious and atheistic poem Dostoevsky parodies – who then converts from Russian Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism, a religion that Dostoevsky had nothing but contempt for, and who spends the rest of his life as a preacher, missionary, monk, and chaplain in Western Europe. Which was worse? Pecherin's early atheism or his subsequent conversion to Catholicism? From Dostoevsky's perspective, both were fatally flawed and equally reprehensible: there was only one correct answer, and Stepan discovers it in the arms of his two women.


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Koyfman sez: "This $6 Semiconductor Company Could Turn $1000 into $313,000 Before the Year Ends"
What's being teased by Microcap Insider with their pitch about "Forever Memory?"
By Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe, October 19, 2020
This article was originally published on August 18, 2020, but we're getting a lot of questions this week as Koyfman pushes the story heavily again, with a renewed focus on the FCC December auction as a profit driver. What follows has not been updated in any meaningful way, and the ad appears unchanged from August, but I'll add a short note at the bottom.
I know, that's a ridiculous headline… sorry. I just copied it from Alex Kofyman's ad, and he certainly has the same tendency toward hyperbole that we see in many of his colleagues. These days he calls himself "America's Microcap Expert," and says that this stock is "my most important discovery" … with the urgency that you must "Discover the Details Before a MAJOR December Event Sends Shares Skyrocketing."
So what's the deal? Well, he's peddling a special report called "Forever Memory: Retire Rich on the Semiconductor Revolution," but what he's really selling is a subscription to his Microcap Insider ($999 for the first year… and unlike most publishers, they're offering a refund guarantee for the first 90 days). He doesn't claim to offer two different services these days, so it looks like he has just renamed Penny Stock Millionaire, the service he has peddled at this same price over the past five years. As you might expect for a penny stock picker, our tracking sheets indicate that over the past five years he has teased both big winners (recently Exro finally had a surge after being teased for years, and Nano One has also done well) and big losers (Patriot One, Crop Infrastructure, Hudson Resources).
The basic spiel this time is that he has found a chipmaker who will bring forward the next iteration of memory technology, some kind of non-volatile memory that can hold data without consuming power… and that this will be key to the growth of the Internet of Things, which in turn will be driven by 5G network adoption… and to add another card to the house of cards we're building, investment in this sector will shoot higher on December 8, when the government opens up new spectrum.
Here's a little taste from the ad:
"Forever Memory has unlimited endurance. Data physically cannot become corrupted by too many write cycles, which is why the global shift to Forever Memory is virtually guaranteed.
"It can't be overstated how much digital progress depends on this innovation…
"Artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, virtual reality, blockchain, big data, self-driving cars, augmented reality, telemedicine, the internet of things…
"On a mass scale, these new technologies have no future without the advantages Forever Memory offers.
"Given this company's size, (its current value is right around $120M), the potential for growth in the next few years is easily comparable to the gains early investors in semiconductor giant Intel made when its stock skyrocketed 19,803%…"
So what's the actual product? Here's more from Koyfman…
"Forever Memory works by manipulating the spin of electrons with a polarizing current that establishes a magnetic state to program, or write, the bits in the memory array.
"I know this sounds complicated, but the underlying principle is simple.
"Data in Forever Memory is stored by magnetic elements, and once magnetized, the storage elements don't require any power at all."
OK, so it's a new(ish) kind of memory… any other clues about the company that is developing this technology? We get this…
"This company is one of the very few in the world that can make Forever Memory, thanks to 220 U.S. patents it owns."
"NASA released a study about it back in 2013, saying this company's Forever Memory is 'the technology of choice for space systems in the coming years.'"
The urgency is that the wireless infrastructure for Internet of Things devices, which will be particularly in need of some kind of low-power memory technology, is still, so Koftman implies, on the drawing board…
"You see, while there are already a ton of internet of things devices out there, we're still in the beginning phases, because billions of new devices can only function properly if there's a wireless infrastructure that supports them.
"And this infrastructure is about to come online.
"We know how it will happen, and we know the specific date.
"This infrastructure will be switched on by the federal government on December 8, 2020… "
We're also shown some documents that "prove" this technology is in demand, and production is ramping up — including, for some reason, the header of the company's latest 10-Q (that's the quarterly form that is the basis for company earnings reports).
Which lets us confirm with certainty that the stock being teased here is Everspin Technologies, with the you're-making-this-too-easy ticker MRAM (the tease is full of quotes and references to what is clearly Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory, which is abbreviated MRAM and is one possible successor to the current DRAM standard and other non-volatile memory technologies).
That 2013 NASA report, by the way, is here if you'd like to see it.
Everspin is not at a $120 million market cap any more, it has come back down from its highs of a few weeks ago, but it's still pretty close — almost exactly at 100 million at the moment (that's on 8/18 — renewed attention has brought it back to $140 million in mid-October). And there is some evidence that after several years of false starts, they are indeed beginning to ramp up production and might be able to ramp up their revenue, while also cutting into their cost structure a little bit to try to please investors.
This was a venture-funded company about five years ago, with funding from big companies in the chip/memory space like GlobalFoundries and Western Digital, and from a first glance through the presentation and their history it looks like they've succeeded in building a niche business with high-spec customers like the military… but haven't yet gotten designed in to many larger-scale products. They went public at a rough time, just a few weeks before the 2016 elections (at $8 a share), and had a nice little run for a brief while when revenue picked up right away in 2017, but with a big secondary offering in 2018 and revenue falling pretty sharply in 2019, the stock has been fairly moribund after that initial burst of enthusiasm.
If you want to get a better handle on the company, they post a Wall Street Transcript interview with CEO Kevin Conley here, and their latest investor presentation is here. That will give you the overarching story that the company wants you to hear… and the financials will remind you that the business is fairly steady on the top line but hasn't shown any real growth trend yet, and on the bottom line is gradually improving, presumably through cost cuts (they're not profitable yet, but their cash consumption has generally fallen over time).
And the most recent news was pretty solid — their second quarter, announced a couple weeks ago, had the highest revenue number they've reported in a couple years… which is perhaps a nice sign, they say the growth was due to higher demand from data centers, and the ramp up of their 1GB STT-MRAM product… though they also indicated that their customers are facing delays in product development, which probably means that the next quarter will be a little softer. Their transcript from that earnings call is here if you'd like some more commentary from the company. My read on all of that is a company with some optimism about the future as their technology continues to develop, but without any expectation that they'll see a surge much higher in demand — they refer to the past quarter as a strong one, and imply that things will be slightly soft as they "digest" that big move and wait for some inventory to be worked through by their customers. When pressed about whether their past design wins means that revenue growth will pick up again late in the year, this is what the CEO said on the call:
"What I would say is that we're certainly going to be working to prepare for stronger demand coming out of Q3 and laying the groundwork there, should it appear. It is hard for me to give you much color beyond Q3 in the current environment…. But certainly, we do think there are some areas of our business that have the potential to drive growth in the fourth quarter."
If you're interested in MRAM more generally, I can at least point you to the articles Koyfman is quoting — though none of them are specifically about Everspin.
From the ad:
"As Professor Pedram Khalili from Northwestern University explains, '[DRAM] cannot sustain the rapid growth of data-centric computing.'
"ScienceDaily says '[Forever Memory] could help solve AI's 'memory bottleneck'.'"
Both of those quotes are from this February 2020 ScienceDaily article.
"MIT News reports this could reduce the 'power consumption of data centers… by 90 percent.'"
That's from this MIT News piece.
"And digital infrastructure specialist Ted Letavic even predicts, 'We could achieve a 100 or 1,000 times lower power [consumption].'
Which is from a GlobalFoundries press release.
MRAM has been in development for a long time, and it looks (to this non-expert) like it has been advanced with some new discoveries and breakthroughs in the past couple years. According to that GlobalFoundries release (GlobalFoundries used to be the manufacturing division of chip giant AMD, it was spun out in 2008 and is now a private foundry company making specialized chips, Ted Letavic is their CTO), both they and chip giants Intel, Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor are all pushing MRAM advances right now. GlobalFoundries says that they are the first to commercialize eMRAM production, as of earlier this year, and they are also partnered with Everspin on developing some MRAM products, particularly Spin-Transfer Torque MRAM (STT-MRAM).
And Koyfman quotes another piece here:
"Semiconductor insider Jeff Lewis says that the combined IoT appetite for power 'will create an aggregate power catastrophe.'"
That's from an EE News article here, and it's an interesting one so I thought I'd excerpt a couple paragraphs for you:
"Hardware has emerged as the new AI battlefield. Necessity begets invention, and the necessity for faster AI chips that use less power has opened opportunities for potentially denser, more efficient memory technologies.
"One such promising technology is magnetic RAM (MRAM), a memory that's bound to cross paths with AI as it rapidly moves toward higher density, energy efficiency, endurance, and yields. The semiconductor industry is beginning to invest heavily in MRAM, as the technology's potential slowly becomes reality. Initial research has shown it offers a number of benefits that are ideal for intelligent edge applications….
"Since MRAM uses a very small memory bitcell, it can be three to four times denser than SRAM, allowing for more memory to reside on-chip and thus eliminating or reducing the need to shuttle data off-chip. MRAM, is also non-volatile, meaning that data is retained even when the power is shut off. This virtually eliminates memory leakage, which is critical for applications where the AI chip remains idle for extended periods of time. MRAM isn't the only memory getting attention. The demand for AI applications and intelligence at the edge is leading a memory revolution within the semiconductor industry for a wide variety of applications."
Sounds interesting, right?
So why hasn't Everspin generated a surge in design wins, and a rapidly rising flow of royalty revenue and joint venture payments? That I can't tell you, but it seems to me that it is still pretty early days in MRAM development, the technology is not yet mainstream for large-volume projects and might never be, probably because their MRAM products need time (and continued R&D) to catch up with established technologies on boring stuff like cost and storage capacity. Who knows, maybe Everspin will end up owning some key technologies that are spurred to more widespread adoption over the next few years. It's not likely to be easy, not going up against lots of other MRAM-based technologies and other non-volatile memory projects being developed by major players in the chip business, but it is, at least an interesting "pure play" on this little niche in the memory business.
As far as the invented deadline in the ad goes, there is an auction of C-band spectrum scheduled for December 8, and that is widely seen as being important for expanding 5G availablility (though the satellite earth station users who depend on the C-band now are not happy), but there are a lot of moving parts in rolling out 5G and building Internet of Things devices that might use the many different wavelengths that will be part of 5G… that one auction is part of a long term evolution for 5G, and is not by itself going to have an immediate impact on MRAM technology in general, or on Everspin's business in the near term. Companies that are choosing memory technologies have known for years that 5G is coming, and their product design decisions are made over many years, the flip of a new switch at the FCC is not going to create a surprise surge of revenue for this company because suddenly manufacturers decide they need this memory by the end of 2020. Maybe investors will get excited about Everspin at some point in the next few months, maybe not.
You certainly don't have to believe in the idea that this stock will really go up by 312X in four months (that would be his teased "$1,000 to $313,000") to think that the company might have some rational appeal as an investment — which is good, because that's a crazypants forecast. This is a real company, with real revenue, but it also has been a niche business that makes stuff for pretty small markets so far… with a four-year public history that has indicated the growth in their business is both challenging and inconsistent. Companies on the verge of absurd surges in growth do not usually worry about cutting a few hundred thousand dollars from their operating budget to keep the lights on, but microcap R&D-based companies who burn cash and don't have serious revenue growth do have to watch that bottom line if they want to survive and keep their investors patient… and MRAM is clearly in that latter category at the moment. Maybe it won't be in the future, I'm certainly not expert enough on the sector to give you a projection on that (and Koyfman has had both successes and failures in his heavily teased penny stocks — with the most recent big winner being Exro, which rewarded the folks who patiently waited for a year or two for it to take off), but you can read up and think through the possibilities as you consider whether it's a stock you want to buy.
10/19 update: There is no fundamental news at all in the last two months, the company is due to report its next quarterly earnings in about two weeks… and it is still expected to be a relatively weak quarter, so probably any commentary about next year and any licensing or production updates will be what drives the stock in the near term. The one analyst who covers the stock, from Needham, remains quite optimistic about their potential bounce-back in revenue as data center demand increases for their STT-RAM products. MRAM stock is up about 36% since we published this article in August, easily outpacing the ~10% returns of the Philly Semiconductor index during that same time period.
So… does that kind of speculation on future technologies fit your portfolio? Do you understand what they're talking about in the conference calls and see an edge for Everspin? Think they'll be leading hte memory business in a decade, or forgotten as a has-been? Let us know with a comment below. We've left the original comments from August appended here, in case that provides any helpful perspective.
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julian_satran
The MRAM has been around. for more than 20 years. I don't know why it did not take over the DRAM space – although I suspect that price and density where the major factors – and could not displace the incumbent – it comsumes way less than DRAM – practically 0. For storage it is even more so. Density does not allow it to compete with flash. The big semiconductor players have, reluctantly, abandoned it.
Bradley Goddard
Reply to julian_satran
When the prevailing technology has long legs there is no need for a parallel new technology. Nobody changes from established products unless forced. The fact that MRAM uses less power and more memory dense was insignificant when the power requirements of DRAM are (still) easily met. Perhaps we are coming to a point in the near future where the power consumption and memory density are becoming a factor, but not before every ounce of ability is used in DRAM.
I really appreciate your level-headedness and respect for individual liberty. It is refreshing to read someone who is not trying desperately to win readers over to their opinion or product.
Paul Thode
Reply to gillian
I agree, don't know how you find the time to do all that you do, I can barely make it thru all the amazing deals from the miltiple number one stock picker/expert/guru , etc
my favorite is the ad for the math genius, who ended up at Cal State Hayward ( a decent school) but you would think that Cal and Stanfurd would have been beating down his doorf
Dave S.
Reply to Paul Thode
You mean Louis Navellier?
my website went down and I set out to get a new host and 3 weeks later I am still without my ability to blog. all this hype about tech leaves out the greed and carelessness of the providers, blue host and godaddy. all the new tech in the world will never replace providing services to people who paid for it
and doing it within a reasonable timeframe.
J. Merrill
Reply to vivian
Try Squarespace. Prices are low if you're not doing much. (No connection to the company, just a happy user [who made my consultant wife's web site with it].)


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In F1's case the growth in on-site audience numbers is good news and that, in itself, augers well for the future health of the sport.
The bad news is that, as things stand, the British Grand Prix will not return to Silverstone after 2019. The reason given? The costs of putting on the race are so high compared to their available revenue that the promoters (the BRDC) cannot make money. And this is the race with the highest attendance both one-day and three-day. And of the top seven in attendance last year, there are questions about the viability of Mexico, Australia and the US at least.
How can a franchise operation like this expect it franchisees in business if their business is to not ensure conditions in which the franchisee can at least break even? Despite the much cited tire problem at Indianapolis, the USGP went away from there because it was obvious that this race could only continue if IMS were prepared to keep heavily subsidizing the event out of their other earnings. That did not make sense. Bernie Ecclestone's business plan was that every F1 event should find enough government sponsorship to make the event financially viable with a bunch left over for him the other owners of F1. The concept of a government subsidizing a sporting event that is not otherwise profitable has to be un-American – and contrary to the values of most other democratic nations as well. This is a high hurdle for wold-be F1 promoters in the US.
Yes, the Olympics has worked this scam for decades, leaving host countries with mounds of debt which is has taken – or will take – them decades to pay off – not to mention the huge inventory of buildings and other infrastructure that turned into white elephants the day the Olympics ended. It is becoming harder and harder for the Olympic to find cities/countries to bid for the upcoming Olympic games in the face of this reality.
It should be a fundamental principal of contracting for an F1 Grand Prix that the financing of the race (series sanction fees, ticket sales, on-site advertising, shared television revenue, etc.) should realistically assure the promoter of at least breaking even on the event. No one can count on the current levels of fan support increasing dramatically to meet this shortfall. It's time to match the promoters' revenue to their available income.
The first race of the 2018-2019 Formula E season ran at Ad Diriyah, Saudia Arabia on December 15. This season will feature the new Gen 2 version of the electric powered cars. The important difference is than the new cars have batteries that can store more power. Previously the cars raced for approximately 60 minutes, with a mandatory stop midway to change cars. Now a single car will run the entire race – albeit only 45 minutes plus a lap – without any required pit stops. This compares to the two-hour race length for a typical F1 race. To me the sensation of the race was Jean-Eric Vergne, who started in fifth place but he had quickly blasted his way up through the field to second place – and he looked like being able to pass the leader and drive away when he received a pass-through penalty for an obscure infraction of the power management rules. His teammate, Andre Lotterer was also charging up through the field in a manner unfamiliar in this kind of racing which normally sees little passing – but he too was penalized for the same thing. This left Andretti driver Antonio Felix da Costa, who had started from the pole, with a big lead. By the end of the race, Vergne had made his way back up to second and he was challenging the race leader, finishing half a second behind while Lotterer finished in fifth. It is always disappointing to see a race result determined by obscure penalties rather than by performance on the track.
Click HERE for the results of the Saudia Arabia Formula E race.
The F1 team formerly know as Force India has new ownership now – headed up by the Canadian owner of the Mont-Tremblant circuit, Lawrence Stroll. His son, Lance Stroll who was driving a Williams F1 car in previous years, has been named to drive for this team alongside Mexican driver Sergio Perez. The teams plans to unveil its 2019 car – with a new team name and new livery – at the Canadian International Auto Show on February 13. I know some people who are betting the new name will be 'Team Canada'. We'll see.
Audi Canada will sponsor an GT-Daytona Audi R8 in the Daytona 24-hour race this year – running as the Audi Sport Experience WRT Speedstar entry. The car will be driven by works drivers Kelvin van der Linde and Frederic Vervisch, who will be supplemented by Ian James and the Canadian youngster Roman de Angelis.
You may never have heard of it but there is a NASCAR series which runs in Europe with cars similar to those used in the Canadian Pinty's Series. This year, Pinty's driver J.F. Dumoulin ran two races in this series, running a double-header at the Zolder road course in Belgium. Next year, Jacques Villeneuve is planning to run the entire series – as is former NASCAR Cup champion Bobby Labonte. There will be ten races in the Regular Season run as double-headers at five different road courses. Villeneuve has had some experience in NASCAR race cars and his best results have come on road courses, so the road-course nature of the European series may suit him.
NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne, who has stepped down from his Cup duties as of the end of the 2018 season is planning to contest over 50 dirt sprint car races in 2019. In NASCAR, Kahne has 18 Cup wins in 529 starts. He will still carry the No. 9 he was known for when he drove the Ray Evernham Dodges and he will compete in both the World of Outlaws and the All-Star Circuit of Champions dirt sprint series. Last fall he was suffering from dehydration in the Cup races, but, hopefully, this problem will not arise in the shorter open-wheel sprint races.
The 19-year-old driver, Zane Smith, will drive the No. 9 JR Motorsports Chevrolet in eight NASCAR Xfinity races in 2019. He has been driving in the ARCA series for the past three years and this past year he won four races including the May ARCA race at Talladega.


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package vulkan

import (
	"bytes"
	"context"

	"github.com/google/gapid/core/event/task"
	"github.com/google/gapid/core/log"
	"github.com/google/gapid/gapir"
	"github.com/google/gapid/gapis/api"
	"github.com/google/gapid/gapis/api/transform"
	"github.com/google/gapid/gapis/replay"
	"github.com/google/gapid/gapis/service"
	"github.com/google/gapid/gapis/trace"
)

type WaitForPerfetto struct {
	wff   replay.WaitForFence
	cmdId api.CmdID
}

func addVkDeviceWaitIdle(ctx context.Context, out transform.Writer) {
	s := out.State()
	so := getStateObject(s)
	id := api.CmdNoID
	cb := CommandBuilder{Thread: 0, Arena: s.Arena}

	// Wait for all queues in all devices to finish their jobs first.
	for handle := range so.Devices().All() {
		out.MutateAndWrite(ctx, id, cb.VkDeviceWaitIdle(handle, VkResult_VK_SUCCESS))
	}
}

func (t *WaitForPerfetto) waitTest(ctx context.Context, id api.CmdID, cmd api.Cmd) bool {
	if id == t.cmdId {
		return true
	}
	return false
}

func (t *WaitForPerfetto) Transform(ctx context.Context, id api.CmdID, cmd api.Cmd, out transform.Writer) error {
	if t.waitTest(ctx, id, cmd) {
		addVkDeviceWaitIdle(ctx, out)
	}
	return t.wff.Transform(ctx, id, cmd, out)
}

func (t *WaitForPerfetto) Flush(ctx context.Context, out transform.Writer) error {
	addVkDeviceWaitIdle(ctx, out)
	return t.wff.Flush(ctx, out)
}

func (t *WaitForPerfetto) PreLoop(ctx context.Context, out transform.Writer)  {}
func (t *WaitForPerfetto) PostLoop(ctx context.Context, out transform.Writer) {}
func (t *WaitForPerfetto) BuffersCommands() bool                              { return false }

func NewWaitForPerfetto(traceOptions *service.TraceOptions, h *replay.SignalHandler, buffer *bytes.Buffer, cmdId api.CmdID) *WaitForPerfetto {
	tcb := func(ctx context.Context, p *gapir.FenceReadyRequest) {
		errChannel := make(chan error)
		go func() {
			err := trace.TraceBuffered(ctx, traceOptions.Device, h.StartSignal, h.StopSignal, h.ReadyFunc, traceOptions, buffer)
			if err != nil {
				errChannel <- err
			}
			if !h.DoneSignal.Fired() {
				h.DoneFunc(ctx)
			}
		}()

		select {
		case err := <-errChannel:
			log.W(ctx, "Profiling error: %v", err)
			return
		case <-task.ShouldStop(ctx):
			return
		case <-h.ReadySignal:
			return
		}
	}

	fcb := func(ctx context.Context, p *gapir.FenceReadyRequest) {
		if !h.StopSignal.Fired() {
			h.StopFunc(ctx)
		}
	}
	wfp := WaitForPerfetto{cmdId: cmdId}
	wfp.wff = replay.WaitForFence{tcb, fcb, wfp.waitTest}

	return &wfp
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Elegant simplicity, a visually reductive approach and pioneering consumer technology are the hallmarks of the new Range Rover Velar. Designed to fill the space between the Evoque and the Sport, it offers high levels of luxury, refinement and all-terrain capability.
The design is beautifully balanced, from its powerful proportions to its continuous waistline through to the taut tapered lines of the rear, its makers say. The large alloy wheels – in particular the range of 22-inch designs – optimise the vehicle's silhouette, while further enhancing its dramatic presence.
The interior is just as impressive thanks to the designer's belief in reductionism, which sees the use of switches being kept to an absolute minimum. The Touch Pro Duo infotainment system integrates two 10-inch high-definition touchscreens. You can use Touch Pro Duo together with the optional full-colour Head-Up Display and optional Interactive Driver Display to simultaneously view and interact with multiple features.
The vehicle has been developed to meet the most demanding crash test regulations worldwide. Combined with a comprehensive restraints system that includes six airbags, and a suite of advanced driver assistance systems, including Adaptive Cruise Control with Queue Assist and an Adaptive Speed Limiter, the Velar integrates the latest safety technology.
Performance and efficiency come from the range of six petrol and diesel powertrains, all mated to ZF eight-speed automatic transmissions and all-wheel drive with Intelligent Driveline Dynamics.


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Tubulipora bocki is een mosdiertjessoort uit de familie van de Tubuliporidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1944 door Borg.

Tubuliporidae


COLUMBUS, Ga. and HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 8, 2017 — (PRNewswire) — Fun Academy Motion Pictures today announced that Logan Lerman (PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS) will headline the voice cast of SGT. STUBBY: AN AMERICAN HERO, an upcoming feature-length animated film based on the life and times of the United States Army's most decorated dog.
SGT. STUBBY tells the incredible true story of a stray mutt who became a hero of the First World War. For his keen instincts and fierce loyalty, Stubby became the first canine promoted to the rank of Sergeant in American history.
Lerman will voice Robert Conroy, a WWI "doughboy" whose life is forever changed when a little dog with a stubby tail wanders into training camp. Conroy gives his new friend a name, a family, and a chance to embark on the adventure that would define a century.
Richard Lanni, co-writer and executive producer of the film, commented on the announcement by saying, "We are very fortunate to find a young man like Logan Lerman who can breathe such life into the story of an ordinary man and his ordinary dog who, together, perform extraordinary feats of valor."
Lerman joins a cast already featuring Academy Award® nominees Helena Bonham Carter (OCEAN'S 8) and Gérard Depardieu (THE LIFE OF PI). Bibo Bergeron (SHARK TALE) directs with an original score by composer Patrick Doyle (BRAVE).
The film is produced by Labyrinth Media & Publishing, Ltd. with animation by Mikros Image, a Technicolor company, from their studios in Paris and Montreal. Fun Academy will distribute the film throughout North America.


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Gabriel Figueroa
Photography from Mexico's Golden Age of Film
September 19 - November 2, 2013
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2013 FROM 7PM - 9PM
The Cohen Gallery in conjunction with the estate of Gabriel Figueroa* is pleased to announce an exhibition in our project room featuring photographic works by Gabriel Figueroa (1907-1997). Considered the premier Cinematographer of Mexico's Golden Age of Film. Figueroa is known for his iconic images that helped forge a Mexican visual cultural identity.
Figueroa was nominated for an Oscar in 1964 and honored for his work on the film Macario at the Cannes Film Festival. He is know as the cinematographer for many classic films including The Fugitive (John Ford), Under the Volcano and The night of the Iguana (John Houston, La Perla (Emilio "Indio" Fernandez) and Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel).
Revered for his meticulous detail, Figueroa's collection of photographs is comprised of images taken from the original 35 mm light test strips. Before going to the studio to film each day, Figueroa would visit the laboratory where he would check light tests, comprised of a photogram of a scene printed at different light levels and numbered in the left of the frame. From these tests, Figueroa would choose at which stop the scene would be printed. This attention to detail ensured a consistent visual style throughout the film. There are 20,000 stops in the archive of which 1000 were examined and selected by Figueroa himself.
Of those 1000 images, 300 were digitally restored over a 5-year period. The decision to digitalize the images was made taking into account artistry, preservation and archival consideration. Figueroa's son, master printer Gabriel Figueroa Flores, has worked for 20 years preserving, digitalizing and printing these images. Flores as director of the estate has selected another 350 images to add to the original selection made by his father.
Evident in this exhibition is Gabriel Figueroa's creative and artistic contribution to the visual iconography that is now in the lexicon of many contemporary artists and cinematographers. His photographs are impeccable examples of lighting, composition and chiaroscuro in both landscape and portraits.
*Courtesy of Gabriel Figueroa Flores and Patricia Correia Projects. Both will be in attendance opening night.
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John is the consummate coach, a skill he gleaned from playing inter-collegiate lacrosse at the U.S. Naval Academy and coaching his three children in wrestling and lacrosse. He is an abundantly patient manager who juggles a wide variety of responsibilities with grace. As Veritable's Chief Operating Officer he has direct responsibility for the firm's dozen investment teams and a variety of department heads. His tour as a Lieutenant on the USS Frank Cable and his MBA from Cornell University make him well suited to Chair the firm's Operating Committee and to participate in its five member Executive Committee.
John has had a lengthy career in the investment business. He started in private client services at Goldman Sachs after business school and then moved to Goldman Sachs Asset Management. He was recruited into management at Hirtle Callaghan, an advisor to institutional and individual investors and he later assumed leadership roles in the wealth management businesses of Bear Stearns and U.S. Trust before coming to Veritable in 2005. Raised in Brooklyn and Long Island, John married his high school sweetheart Linda, and they are at least for the moment, empty nesters.


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An online spatial database of Australian Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge for contemporary natural and cultural resource management
Petina L. Pert*, Emilie J. Ens, John Locke, Philip A. Clarke, Joanne M. Packer, Gerry Turpin
With growing international calls for the enhanced involvement of Indigenous peoples and their biocultural knowledge in managing conservation and the sustainable use of physical environment, it is timely to review the available literature and develop cross-cultural approaches to the management of biocultural resources. Online spatial databases are becoming common tools for educating land managers about Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge (IBK), specifically to raise a broad awareness of issues, identify knowledge gaps and opportunities, and to promote collaboration. Here we describe a novel approach to the application of internet and spatial analysis tools that provide an overview of publically available documented Australian IBK (AIBK) and outline the processes used to develop the online resource. By funding an AIBK working group, the Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (ACEAS) provided a unique opportunity to bring together cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary and trans-organizational contributors who developed these resources. Without such an intentionally collaborative process, this unique tool would not have been developed. The tool developed through this process is derived from a spatial and temporal literature review, case studies and a compilation of methods, as well as other relevant AIBK papers. The online resource illustrates the depth and breadth of documented IBK and identifies opportunities for further work, partnerships and investment for the benefit of not only Indigenous Australians, but all Australians. The database currently includes links to over 1500 publically available IBK documents, of which 568 are geo-referenced and were mapped. It is anticipated that as awareness of the online resource grows, more documents will be provided through the website to build the database. It is envisaged that this will become a well-used tool, integral to future natural and cultural resource management and maintenance.
Science of the Total Environment
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.01.073
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.01.073
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Pert, P. L., Ens, E. J., Locke, J., Clarke, P. A., Packer, J. M., & Turpin, G. (2015). An online spatial database of Australian Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge for contemporary natural and cultural resource management. Science of the Total Environment, 534, 110-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.01.073
Pert, Petina L. ; Ens, Emilie J. ; Locke, John ; Clarke, Philip A. ; Packer, Joanne M. ; Turpin, Gerry. / An online spatial database of Australian Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge for contemporary natural and cultural resource management. In: Science of the Total Environment. 2015 ; Vol. 534. pp. 110-121.
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