Le Hoang Long Mr. S. Garbus Economics, block C 26 Jan. 2011 MOVING TOWARD CASHLESS ECONOMY Moving toward a cashless economy is an important subject that has been argued recently because of the significant increase in the number of people who rely on electronic banking, debit cards and credit cards when they purchase goods, pay for services or transfer money to other people or organization. Although electronic banking has the aid of the developed technology to satisfy either financial system and their customers, it still cannot totally replace cash, since cash has it own benefits which help avoid some electronic banking problems. In fact, we cannot deny many advantages of the electronic banking system. From the graph of "Non-cash payment, 2003", we can easily find that about 55% people chose to use credit cards, debit cards and other electronic methods of payment instead of using traditional checks. ...read more.
It becomes especially in nowadays, since time is gold. Moreover, credit cards help people to purchase goods and pay for services at anytime even though those people don't have enough money at that time. Despite all of the advantages of electronic banking, cash is still irreplaceable in our everyday life because of it's own benefits. In developed countries such as America or Europe countries, people may by their breakfast, or just a cup of cafe, or even by a car using credit cards; but in the other parts of the world, especially the "third-world", cash is still the dominance. For example, in Vietnam, where debit cards and credit cards are going to be popular, the working class people, or common people, still cannot buy food in the market or pay for transportation such as "xe om" or "xich lo" on the street without using cash. ...read more.
Also there are situations which payment or transaction cannot be done because of hardware problems. Karl Flinders reported about electronic banking crash of Barclay, a famous bank in the U.K. On Monday 26 October 2009, millions of Barclay's customer were unable to use electronic banking services, such as ATMs, online banking, payment using debit or credit cards; as a result of technical system problem. One customer complained that there were lots of different error messages when she used bank online. Another one said customers cannot do anything in the branches either. It shows that we cannot totally rely on the electronic banking. In conclusion, changing toward a cashless economy is not a good decision for any government. The popularity of electronic banking, debit and credit card would benefits many countries' economy, but the extinction of cash is impossible. ...read more.
In the economical analysis part main macroeconomic indicators for 5 major economies were displayed and analyzed in order to prove the importance of governmental control over economy. Appropriate conclusions and recommendations were made according to the research questions and tasks.
Note that green joss sticks should be used for the dead. Yellow joss sticks are usually used for praying to gods. In the past, the shops in Singapore sold only joss sticks, some basic styled clothes made of coloured paper and gold leafed paper money.
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Globalization - discuss the integration of the worlds economy.
Furthermore, the country is able to specialize in sectors where they can produce wealth and import from others where they cannot. Globalization also exposes businesses constantly to competition which means that they have to be more productive. Another good effect of globalization is democracy, which is good for the country.
Rawls? veil of ignorance is a conceptual tool that can contribute towards the moral compass that managers can use to help them navigate through difficult ethical dilemmas. This question can produce some interesting responses particularly in a class with a diverse group of nationalities.


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Reprezentacja Turcji na Mistrzostwach Świata w Narciarstwie Klasycznym 2007 liczyła 3 sportowców. Najlepszym wynikiem było 41. miejsce Kelime Aydin w biegu kobiet na 30 km.

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Złote medale
 Brak

Srebrne medale
 Brak

Brązowe medale
 Brak

Wyniki

Biegi narciarskie mężczyzn
Sprint
 Sebahattin Oglago - 59. miejsce
 Muhammet Kızılarslan - 62. miejsce

Bieg na 15 km
 Sebahattin Oglago - 89. miejsce
 Muhammet Kızılarslan - 98. miejsce

Bieg na 30 km
 Sebahattin Oglago - 54. miejsce
 Muhammet Kızılarslan - nie ukończył

Bieg na 50 km
 Sebahattin Oglago - nie ukończył

Biegi narciarskie kobiet
Sprint
 Kelime Aydin - 63. miejsce

Bieg na 10 km
 Kelime Aydin - zdyskwalifikowany

Bieg na 15 km
 Kelime Aydin - nie ukończył

Bieg na 30 km
 Kelime Aydin - 41. miejsce

Przypisy

Zobacz też
 Reprezentacja Turcji na Mistrzostwach Świata w Narciarstwie Klasycznym 2005

Linki zewnętrzne
 FIS 2007 Wyniki biegów narciarskich
 FIS 2007 Wyniki kombinacji norweskiej
 FIS 2007 Wyniki skoków narciarskich

Mistrzostwa Świata w Narciarstwie Klasycznym 2007
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Tureckie reprezentacje narodowe
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Q: openTSDB 1m-zimsum vs 1m-zimsum-zero Encountered this when using openTSDB and I want to make sure I'm using the right function.
Difference of sum and zimsum is described here: http://opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/user_guide/query/aggregators.html
zimsum is suppose to add the data points together and fill zero if missing. I supposed 1m-zimsum and 1m-zimsum-zero should return same results. I have a single data logged in openTSDB once at 2 AM. I got a dot with 1m-zimsum but a line with 1m-zimsum-zero. Could anyone kindly explain?
I'm not super familiar with statistics and openTSDB. Please forgive me if stupid question is asked.

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Share this Story: Yakir Arbib, on his "chaotic and freaky" musical career
Yakir Arbib, on his "chaotic and freaky" musical career
The remarkable young Israeli pianist and improviser, blind since birth, plays concerts in Lunenburg, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto before the end of this month.
Peter Hum
Jan 27, 2016 • June 3, 2020 • 7 minute read
Pianist Yakir Arbib- who plays Ottawa Jan 30-16
The remarkable young Israeli pianist Yakir Arbib performs in Ottawa Saturday night, preceded by a string of honours and accolades.
Just 26, Arbib finished second at last year's Montreux International Jazz Piano Competition, which led to him being invited to perform with Al Jarreau and Kurt Rosenwinkel, as well as with the up-and-coming vocalists shown in this clip shot last fall.
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Also in jazz circles, Arbib won the Massimo Urbani International Jazz Award in 2008 and was signed by the European label Philogy when he was just 19. However, Arbib is not limited to jazz pursuits and has been proving himself to be a classical composer of striking potential.
By the way, Arbib has been blind since birth, but is assisted musically by not only perfect pitch but by synthesia, as he humourously explains below.
Arbib is on the blog's radar because he begins a five-city Canadian tour on Wednesday, making stops in Lunenburg, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto, playing in duo with Italian drummer Roberto Giaquinto, with whom he studied at the Berklee College of Music. The duo goes by the name Radio Intro.
Get to know Arbib, a four-time winner of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation for young talents, better through the Q & A below, which hints that he is as distinctive, candid and unfettered with words as he is with notes.
Tell me about your earliest encounters and lessons in music. Why did you take up the piano at such a young age? How strong was your interest in music as a young person?
I must tell you that ever since my mother was pregnant, my dear father used to put a tape recorder playing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach by her at all times. When I got out of that "perpetual world of waters and nothing…" and started growing up as a baby, it's told in the family that I would cry "Glenn Gould, Glenn Gould!" and my father would put on some music — or let me walk on the piano for a while! Those were probably my first attempts at improvisation though I don't know if Gould would have liked them…
So at the age of 4, I started studying piano with a harpsichord teacher and then later enrolled at the Tel Aviv Stricker Conservatory of Music where I took up classical piano as well as trumpet and baroque recorder.
I read that your attention turned to jazz when you were 14. What happened? Why did jazz become so important for you?
Simply one day my piano teacher made a genial mistake by inviting the only jazz teacher at the conservatory at the time. He played something, we played something together — and by the time he was done I had a strong realization "Ah! So 'Jazz' is what it is!" For some time I'd been hearing sounds in my mind which I had no idea what to make of, or whether I should altogether try to ignore. As I mentioned earlier, I always cherished improvising and exploring — whether it was smashing objects on the piano, trying to imitate Bartok, or dragging friends of mine to come over and make up versions of Pink Floyd's The Wall shouting into fake microphones while banging on pots and pans and a two-octave Casio keyboard!
So I say that she made a genial mistake because a short while after this incident I left her and classical piano and got immersed into jazz completely!
You made a splash at 19, recorded your first jazz record, but soon focused again on classical music. What happened and why?
Well, one question after the other on one page… this all seems like a freak show of chaotic events that make no sense. In real life though, by contrast, I must tell you that it gets even more chaotic and freaky! Though I believe that there is an underlying principle to all this — one which I am still looking for and will probably always look for with my music.
Dear readers, I proclaim with my hands raised, I am sorry: I got terribly bored with jazz music!
Well, a gradual process, of course. The more and more we played concerts with my trio, the more the music went towards dissonant sounds I was hearing, written-out longer structures and all-improvised sets.
At the time I was moved by music of Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Scriabin, Mosolov etc. So at 20, I eventually felt that playing Solar by Miles Davis, which had no resemblance to the original, neither by harmony nor by structure nor by feeling, was starting to get ridiculous. Almost like a terrible joke…
So I said to myself that I must compose pieces of music to try and reflect those needs for expression, and I followed after what I loved most.
Why did you attend the Berklee College of Music?
I had received a scholarship to go and study at Berklee but by the time I got the letter I was not interested in jazz anymore.
[… although that didn't stop him from playing like this in Boston — PH]
So I resolved to go there and switch to a classical music and composition institution as soon as possible.
However, on my first day at Berklee I was really happy and surprised to learn that there was a classical composition program — one of the teachers being a direct pupil of Dmitri Schostakovich.
Soon, I was to be most fortunate in my life to meet Chair of Piano Department Stephany Tiernan, who became my private teacher both in piano and in composition, and to whom I gratefully attribute all my music and technique.
Tell me about the musical projects that have recently occupied your time.
Last April I had the honour of premiering my first piano concerto "Mirror Canon" with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, as well as touring in Europe and the U.S. giving solo recitals of improvisations and original compositions.
Right now, I am working on a solo album of improvisations, or "re-compositions" based on themes from the "classical music" repertoire: Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Stravinsky and Bach.
I believe in the return of improvisation to "classical music" just as it was before, when our dearly beloved composers were writing and improvising their music. Every musicologist knows that, though somehow still people are told to "play only what is written" or you are not "doing classical music" in conservatories!
Tell me about the duo that will play in Ottawa this week.
I am incredibly excited to be in Canada again, and this time with one of the musicians which I most admire in the world; his name is Roberto Giaquinto and he is a drummer currently based in New York.
We met eight years ago in Italy and formed the trio with which we recorded my first album for Philology Jazz Records. We also moved to Boston together and always kept playing in duo — although at any attempt to re-add a bass player to the sessions, my "jazz alarm" would go off!
Radio Intro which is the title of our duo, is based on an ongoing musical "dialogue" between us for years. Though we both saw many changes in our individual music, our duo is always a point of departure, as well as a point of return!
Our music is completely improvised on the spot: we have no idea how the next gig is going to look like. Roberto plays in many different situations with great jazz musicians in New York while I work on my "classical-not really-quasi-not-jazz" in Europe and we attempt to dance without too many harmful consequences!
You have perfect pitch, and also synthesia. When were these attributes detected? How do they figure in your creative practice?
In hearing, I was seeing individual colours when hearing musical notes. Some guy at Berklee told me, "Ah, synesthesia!" and I thought he was swearing at me. I had no idea there was something "different" or"special" about seeing a color for every number, note or day of the week.
To make a long story short, when I compose a piece of music I "see" it first as a landscape of colours in 3D space. Later I "visit" those regions of this "musical map" and write down the notes I hear.
Having "perfect pich" was another thing I discovered later helps me a lot. I have almost no physical vision since birth, so I cannot look at a musical score to analyze or learn it. But I can listen to a record and hear all the notes and this is how I've learned all my repertoire since I was a kid, from Bach to Schoenberg.
Yakir Arbib and Roberto Giaquinto play Saturday, Jan. 30, at 8 p.m. in Freiman Hall (610 Cumberland St.) at the University of Ottawa. Admission is $20. Opening for the duo is guitarist Amy Brandon.
The Ottawa concert is part of a tour that includes these stops as well:
Wed. Jan. 27 — Lunenburg Academy, 97-101 Kaulbach St., Lunenburg, N.S., 7 p.m., $15
Thurs. Jan. 28 — The Music Room, 6181 Lady Hammond Rd., Halifax, N.S., 7 p.m., $20
Fri. Jan. 29 Knox Hall, Kensington Presbyterian Church, 6225 Ave. Godfrey, Montreal, 8 p.m., $20
Sun. Jan. 31 Array Space, 155 Walnut Ave., Toronto, 8 p.m., $20
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My article on low fat foods touched on the fact that sugar in any form has many detrimental effects on the body. I have planned on writing an article about that, but this Precision Nutrition post does a far better and more thorough job than I ever could.
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Q: How to convert the following Stream to a Pojo Data representation is as below
dept | count | name
a    |    5  | Ramesh
a    |    2  | Alok
b    |    4  | Suresh
b    |    5  | Arnold
c    |    4  | Brian
c    |    5  | Santosh
c    |    5  | Ramesh
I want to convert the below list
List<Object[]> departWiseDistinctNameCount = Arrays.asList(Arrays.asList("a", "5", "Ramesh"), Arrays.asList("a", "2", "Alok"), Arrays.asList("b", "4", "Suresh"), Arrays.asList("b", "5", "Arnold"), Arrays.asList("c", "4", "Brian"), Arrays.asList("c", "5", "Santosh"), Arrays.asList("c", "5", "Ramesh"));

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A:  As it has already been pointed out in the comments, you should definitely try to fetch the data as a list of POJOs directly.
However, you asked for a way to map the list, so here you go:
departWiseDistinctNameCount.stream()
            .collect(Collectors.groupingBy(l -> l.get(0),
                    Collectors.mapping(l -> new Counter(Integer.parseInt(l.get(1)), l.get(2)),
                            Collectors.toList())))
            .entrySet().stream().map(e -> new Dept(e.getKey(), e.getValue())).collect(Collectors.toList())

For clarification: I added the constructors public Dept(String deptName, List<Counter> counters) and public Counter(int count, String name).
Also, your statement for declaring departWiseDistinctNameCount does in fact cause an compilation error as a List<List<String>> cannot be casted to a List<Object[]>. I assumed a List<List<String>>, but if you only have the latter you can easily cast within the stream by using (String) l[0] instead of l.get(0) etc.


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You'll Be Seeing More Grain Whisky. These Are the Brands You Need To Know About.
PUBLISHED IN grain whisky, whisky, japanese whisky, scotch, irish whiskey
Grain Whisky, once only used for blending, is now gaining a platform in its own right.
Grain vs Malt Whisky - What's the Difference?
Grain Whisky is Whisky made from any grains, including but not limited to wheat and corn. It differs from Malt Whisky in that Malt Whisky has to be made from malted barley only.
In previous decades Grain Whisky has only been used to give a bit more body to blends, and also to lower the price on blends, as it is cheaper to produce than Malt.
Recently however, there has been more of an interest in Grain Whisky due to its accessible flavour profile and flexibility in cocktails, and it is becoming more popular, right across the globe. Here we take a look at which countries are innovating and experimenting with their grain.
Japanese Grain Whisky Takes the Lead
There is a lot going on in Japan with Grain Whisky, and Suntory are currently producing it at the Chita Distillery. The product from here mostly goes into their Chita range.
The country is currently seeing a shortage of Malt Whisky and as such, Grain Whisky has had to pick up some of the slack.
Suntory are experimenting with Grain to see what flavour profiles they can build. They are using different casks for maturation as well as trying out different strengths to see what they get.
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The grains they are focussing on include Wheat, Rye and Corn. Check out any of their recent releases, including Hibiki Harmony to understand the beautifully balanced blends they are now able to produce.
Japan is certainly leading the trend where Grain Whisky is concerned but it is closely being followed by other distilleries around the world.
New Traditions in Scotland
Scotland has distilleries like Loch Lomond and Girvan that are paving the way for a new category of Scotch Grain Whisky.
These distilleries are bottling Grain Whisky that is of a high quality and well matured and is a definite threat to Single Malt.
Loch Lomond is producing Grain Whisky that has won awards and is well known for its smoothness and distinct light bodied qualities. This being the first distillery in Scotland to produce both Grain and Malt at the same time, it is only fitting that its Grain Whisky is a challenge to the Malt throne.
At the time the Grain Distillery opened in 1994, Loch Lomond was the only Distillery in Scotland producing both Grain and Malt whisky. It operates a unique set-up of three sets of stills.
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On the Rise in Ireland
There are now several brands of Grain Whiskey, including Teeling, Kilbeggan and Greenore in Ireland.
To pull out more flavour from the Grain Whiskey, the Irish have moved in a similar manor to the Japanese. They are employing interesting ageing and maturing techniques.
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Greenore 8 Year Old Single Grain Whiskey has won multiple awards. It has been created after being matured in ex-Bourbon casks, showing how the right amount of time can create a fantastic dram, no matter what else is involved.
Get The Low Down on Grains: What Effect Do Different Grains Have on Flavour?
Whiskies made from Barley will have a sweeter flavour, with lots of caramel and brown sugar notes.
Barley is most commonly found in Scotch, Irish and Japanese Whisky and gives them a light body and sweet flavour profile.
Corn is mostly used in Bourbon and Tennessee Whiskies, and is richly sweet. It has a syrupy taste, with white sugar and cotton candy coming through.
Most Bourbons are known for the sweetness, but this is usually offset with the flavours that come from the charred barrels it is matured in.
Rye gives the Whisky a spicier flavour, with some pepper and cinnamon coming through.
This also makes the Whisky very dry. Again, this is a Whisky that is more commonly found in America and Canada.
Wheat will give a Whisky more cereal notes, with lots of brown bread and malted tones coming through.
Pappy Van Winkle is famous for having wheat in the mash bill.
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Entrepreneurs must manage risk off the job. Inspired by the recent injury President Obama recieved while playing basketball, we share 4 tips to keep playtime activities from hurting your pocketbook. Got any suggestions to add? Tell us at http://biggsuccess.com.
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This course is for students who have tried acting, or thought about it, and are ready to give it a serious go. It's also for people who believe that learning acting technique makes you a more confident, effective decision maker. You will learn by doing, warming up with games and exercises that get you out of your head and into your body, while activating your emotional and physical capacity to interpret dramatic texts. An introduction to the fundamentals of text analysis enables you to understand the mechanics of a script and identify its key elements. Techniques for loosening up body, voice and imagination help you bring full expression to your performance, while monologue and scene work strengthens your ability to integrate feedback, learn from your colleagues and contribute to an ensemble.
For experienced actors ready to make the leap onto professional stages and screens, this class deepens your analytical and interpretive skills through intensive scene study. Collaboration and feedback will further strengthen your ability to intuitively navigate a dramatic text while making grounded, compelling acting choices. Exploration of advanced vocal production, articulation and physical characterization techniques will develop your capacity to fully embody your analytical and imaginative discoveries. You will be encouraged to explore and expand your emotional availability, your trust in the ensemble and the range of your ingenuity.
The Scene Study Ensemble offer actors who have completed Advanced Technique an intensive, rehearsal-like setting to refine a repertoire of scenes and prepare for public performance. At this level, you are expected to arrive having independently explored the plays from which your scenes are drawn using the tools of script analysis and your own ingenuity. You will be ready to start creating, both independently and in class, the physical universe of the play and how you relate to it, along with your character's vocal quality and physicality. The course is structured as a series of eight rehearsals that culminate in a public performance at a theater with an invited audience.
If part of your job is sharing your organization's story with internal teams, clients or your professional community, you know how important it is to speak with authority, poise and confidence. But something strange happens when humans get in front of large groups of other humans, no matter how passionate we are about our message. Knees get wobbly, mouths get dry, palms get sweaty and the words just don't come out the way we want them to. The good news is that even seasoned performers encounter these problems, and we've developed tools to overcome them.


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Small Cell Business Cases
Femtocells should have the same commercial arrangements as ATMs
Femtocells today are tied to a single network operator. Although they can sometimes be used by foreigners visiting and using their international roaming, users from other national networks are blocked. This means that building owners may need to install several femtocells from different network operators in order to satisfy every visitors needs. Do recent co-operation agreements in the US and Russia for LTE suggest there is a way around this problem?
First - consider the bank ATM analogy
In the early days of ATMs (Automated Teller Machines), each bank installed their own network of "holes in the wall" and made them available for use exclusively by their own customers. After a while, it became apparent that it wasn't viable for any individual bank to install enough machines to satisfy customers in all locations. So partnership agreements were setup and customers from banks with reciprocal agreements were able to use each other's networks of machines. Here in the UK, this now extends to all major banks and building societies, with customers not paying to withdraw cash from any mainstream bank machine. It's hidden from the customer whether transaction costs are charged between participating banks - where done so, it would help to encourage each bank to build out more capacity to satisfy their own customers' needs.
However even this large integrated network doesn't reach into all the locations where customers may want to access their funds. A small number of separate organisations has arisen which provide cash machines for less frequented places, rural areas etc. which the large banks have discounted. These charge the customer a small fee for each transaction – effectively offering a more convenient service at a premium.
The networks are starting to share
It's taken a couple of decades, but we are seeing network operators find ways of sharing common infrastructure and costs to save money. Sharing cell towers and even whole radio transmission networks is becoming more common. National roaming, where users of one network can directly access services from another operator, still remains relatively unusual in most countries.
Roaming can be used to achieve excellent coverage. Foreigners visiting a country typically get the best service. Their roaming agreements with all the national operators mean that they can connect to any available network, usually at the same (high) price. This gives them an advantage over locals, who are tied to an individual network.
Some users or applications highly value this extra coverage, and buy a foreign SIM card (such as one of the global roaming cards on offer to frequent travellers) in order to secure their chances of being connected. In other cases, some innovative MVNOs offer data connections across any network. However, both these options are usually at much higher rates.
LTE network sharing is becoming a trend
It may be a bit early in the rollout of LTE to say it will become the norm, but we're starting to see a few deals announced where a single LTE network is being built nationally and shared by many or all mobile operators. Examples are in the US, where LightSquared plan to build out an extensive $2Billion LTE network where access is wholesaled to any existing operator. The customer won't know whether they're on their own operator's network or LightSquared, but it will allow them to provide extensive capacity and coverage in areas that would otherwise be unviable.
Similar, the recent announcement that Yota, initially a Russian WiMAX startup network, will rollout LTE nationwide also at a cost of $2Billion and resell this wholesale to the major Russian networks is both quite a coup and makes a lot of commercial sense for all parties involved.
Perhaps its a bit early in the evolution of LTE to say this will become a global trend, but with many operators who have publicly committed to commercial launch appearing to be quite restrained with the level of investment, I wouldn't be surprised if we see more.
So could femtocell access sharing also become the norm?
One of the major disadvantages of femtocells compared with Wi-Fi is that they are locked to an individual network operator. While the operator may see this as an advantage, for example in the residential context, it does complicate matters for building owners who want to improve service for a range of visitors.
Technical challenges can be overcome. If network operators did choose to permit (or even encourage) roaming through femtocells, then they could do so. This could allow a single open access femtocell to deliver service simultaneously to users belonging to different home networks - much in the same way that roaming works today, but on a different commercial basis.
Obviously this can't work where networks use radically different 3G technologies, such as CDMA and UMTS. But it could where a common technology, such as LTE is used.
So there are several different possibilities here:
The rollout of wholesale LTE networks could be extended to include a femtocell underlay, which could be built and provided either by the larger wholesale LTE network provider (e.g. LightSquared or Yota in the examples above)
A separate independent business could be formed that only wholesales LTE femtocell access to the existing networks on a usage basis
Network operators could agree to allow roaming between femtocells deployed by themselves on a reciprocal basis - their users benefitting as much as their competitors customers do.
Another possibliity is that the national regulator may set aside specific spectrum for this purpose (i.e. it must be shared and accessible to all users).
Back to the bank ATM analogy
Allowing national roaming between operators is very similar to banks offering reciprocal access to ATMs. This is a commercial decision where the benefits to the customer are significant.
Enabling 3rd parties to provide wholesale mobile access, whether 3G or LTE, may be cost effective to operators. It could be argued that some forms of network sharing already achieve this. In some countries, 3rd parties do provide wholesale ATM access for the banks, extending the service to otherwise unviable locations.
A final step in the maturity of ATMs has been the independent providers who charge fees for access to machines in additional extremely convenient or remote locations. This might be the commercial model that some landlords might like to use for femtocells (I can think that airport owners would love this opportunity). Whether there is demand for this option (which could be achieved by charging higher/roaming rates to users) is perhaps debatable. Onboard aircraft, ship and train systems are perhaps an example where this can be commercially appropriate.
Benefit to the user
What this approach would mean is that anyone who is prepared to install and operate a femtocell, which could be connected to any one of the mobile networks or even a 3rd party aggregator, could enable excellent coverage and data speeds within their premises. Assuming the default setting is for open access, any user from any network (technology compatible) could make use of the femtocell as part of their standard cellphone service contract.


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Home Blog App Makers: How Does Pricing work for GoodBarber, Swiftic (formerly Como), Shoutem and the rest?
App makers do really work like a subscription service. They all offer a free trial period to begin with. The great part about this is that you don't have to give them any details at all except your email address, so there's no way of accidentally paying for the service once the trial is over. Some app makers even allow you to continually use their service for free, creating several apps at a time, and only asking you to pay once you're at the point of wanting to publish your masterpiece!
As with other types of subscriptions, you can choose from a monthly, or annual, option. Month to month has great flexibility, as you can cancel at any time, but it's often a little more expensive than the annual fee. This can be a little confusing to begin with, because you are shown a monthly amount on the pricing pages of app makers, but this is usually the discounted monthly rate based on you purchasing the yearly subscription.
Some services, such as Swiftic (formerly Como), have slightly different subscription timeline options, but generally follow the same rules as other app makers.
The prices you see on our website are always the monthly amount that it will cost you when opting for an annual subscription, so the discounted amount discussed above.
So why do I need to keep paying money?
This is a question I get quite a bit, and it's pretty valid if you don't have a deeper understanding of how app makers work. It makes a little bit more sense when you think of an app maker as less of a product and more of a service. App makers provide a fully functioning framework, with custom built software, to allow you to build your own app.
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Hopefully this answers all of your questions. If you think I've missed anything, please let me know in the comments below!


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USAGE = """
from web2py main folder
python scripts/make_min_web2py.py /path/to/minweb2py

it will mkdir minweb2py and build a minimal web2py installation
- no admin, no examples, one line welcome
- no scripts
- drops same rarely used contrib modules
- more modules could be dropped but minimal difference
"""

# files to include from top level folder (default.py will be rebuilt)
REQUIRED = """
VERSION
web2py.py
fcgihandler.py
gaehandler.py
wsgihandler.py
anyserver.py
applications/__init__.py
applications/welcome/controllers/default.py
"""

# files and folders to exclude from gluon folder (comment with # if needed)
IGNORED = """
gluon/contrib/comet_messaging.py
gluon/contrib/feedparser.py
gluon/contrib/generics.py
gluon/contrib/gql.py
gluon/contrib/populate.py
gluon/contrib/sms_utils.py
gluon/contrib/spreadsheet.py
gluon/tests/
gluon/contrib/markdown/
gluon/contrib/pyfpdf/
gluon/contrib/pymysql/
gluon/contrib/pyrtf/
gluon/contrib/pysimplesoap/
"""

import sys, os, shutil, glob

def main():
    global REQUIRED, IGNORED

    if len(sys.argv)<2:
        print USAGE

    # make target folder
    target = sys.argv[1]
    os.mkdir(target)

    # change to os specificsep
    REQUIRED = REQUIRED.replace('/',os.sep)
    IGNORED = IGNORED.replace('/',os.sep)

    # make a list of all files to include
    files = [x.strip() for x in REQUIRED.split('\n') \
                 if x and not x[0]=='#']
    ignore = [x.strip() for x in IGNORED.split('\n') \
                   if x and not x[0]=='#']

    def accept(filename):
        for p in ignore:
            if filename.startswith(p):
                return False
        return True
    pattern = os.path.join('gluon','*.py')
    while True:
        newfiles = [x for x in glob.glob(pattern) if accept(x)]
        if not newfiles: break
        files += newfiles
        pattern = os.path.join(pattern[:-3],'*.py')
    # copy all files, make missing folder, build default.py
    files.sort()
    defaultpy = os.path.join('applications','welcome','controllers','default.py')
    for f in files:
        dirs = f.split(os.path.sep)
        for i in range(1,len(dirs)):
            try: os.mkdir(target+os.sep+os.path.join(*dirs[:i]))
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            open(os.path.join(target,f),'w').write('def index(): return "hello"\n')
        else:
            shutil.copyfile(f,os.path.join(target,f))

if __name__=='__main__': main()

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Q: Microsoft chart grid lines not drawn at 'whole' numbers When the Microsoft chart control is zoomed in, the values of the labels and grid lines often looks like 38.2, 39.2, 40.2, 41.2 ... rather than 38,39,40,41.  I tried to set the interval offset to correct this by using the code shown below without success.
myChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.MinorGrid.IntervalOffset = myChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.ScaleView.ViewMinimum % 1;
myChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.IntervalOffset = myChart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.ScaleView.ViewMinimum % 1;

What is the proper way to get the major and minor grid-lines and labels to be drawn starting at a specific value?

A: Your problems might be caused by margins being added. Make sure you set
myChart.ChartArea[0].AxisX.IsMarginVisible = false;


Why do I run. Question or statement?
Why don't I NOT run? I know. Awful grammar, but I think it might be the more appropriate question.
Because when I don't run, I physically feel like crap.
Because when I don't run, my mood turns dark.
Because when I don't run, I feel gravity dragging me down.
Because when I don't run, I feel less productive, less motivated, and less connected with myself.
It didn't begin this way. For almost 39 years, I merely flirted with running. I ran a little track (110 high hurdles/330 IM hurdles) and cross-country (3 miles) in high school, but even then I didn't really like it. I liked that I was competitive in my small pond in the 330's but that was about it (I ran the 330's because I didn't have the endurance to run the quarter mile nor the speed to run the 220). When I got to college I hung up the cleats and rarely looked back. I would go out for an occasional run of 2 or 3 miles, suffer the leg pain for the next few days and then throw the running shoes into the closet until I had forgotten the aches. There was no consistency. I was consistently inconsistent.
After college my running became even more sporadic. I ended up teaching at a small ski academy in Maine (actually had a few future Olympians as students), and began power lifting with some members of the alpine ski team. The weight piled on. I had gone from 160 lbs in high school to 190 in college to a whopping 220 as a young adult (the scary part is that the last 30 lbs were between my chest, arms and neck). After teaching for three years I took a job in a New York City law firm and began working 80 – 100 hour weeks. Running went from sporadic to almost non-existent. I would work out when I could, but rapidly all of the muscle I had put on power lifting with the skiers went soft.
Flash forward 15 years and I'm married with 2 kids.
Leading up to this time I preached exercise but seldom practiced it. My wife and I had been dealing for sometime with our younger daughter's diagnosis of autism; each in different ways. Despite putting on a good front, I was adrift and lost. My wife on the other hand had found focus in her blog – a diary of a mom. It was (and still is) an outlet for her and, in many ways, helped her find some sense of peace and purpose. It turned out she was good at writing and connected with people not just in the Autism community, but beyond. She gained an audience. She not only was helping herself, but she was now helping others as well.
I continued to drift, lost in a sea of uncertainty and doubt. Yes, I was the at home parent, taking care of my children during the day. It was and is the most difficult "job" I have ever had. That said, I was disconnected from adults and foolishly worried about how I would be remembered. True, my purpose was my children, but that is the case with any good parent whether they work or not. My focus began to unravel. That was until my blogging wife wrote this: Eye of the Tiger.
Go ahead. Go read it. I'll wait.
So, if you continued to the comments section of her post, you saw that I jumped right in there with her (if you didn't read it, the short version is that she declared that she had signed up for the 2009 Hyannis Half-Marathon). Truth be told, it wasn't just the distance that worried me. After I read it, I called the wife and asked her if she realized that Hyannis in February was probably a little on the cold and windy side. She didn't budge. She was determined. I remember feeling that I couldn't let her do it alone. As independent as the wife is, I wasn't going to let her fly this mission solo.
So I told her if she was going to do it, then dammit, I was going to support her all the way. The very next day I dusted off the treadmill in our basement and got to work.
That was Friday, October 24th, 2008. I gave myself the weekend to recover and promised myself 3 days of running the following week.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday. 3 miles. 30 minutes.
By Friday the lungs didn't burn so much. The following week I did the same. I thought one more week of this and I should be able to bump it up a little.
But a funny thing happened that Wednesday, November 12th. The night before had been poker night. Occasionally one of the members of our poker group will bring a nice bottle of tequila. The night of the 11th happened to be one of those nights. Several shots, several beers and way too much junk food later, I woke up with an awful, AWFUL hangover. I managed to get the kids to school on time and went about my day.
I looked at treadmill after drop off and walked away. After a morning of errands I again looked at the treadmill, but my pounding head told me to walk away. Finally, after lunch I forced myself, my headache and my now sour stomach down to the basement for a run.
I wasn't letting Jess do this alone!
When I hit 3 miles I wasn't paying attention. I looked down to see that I was at about 3.25 miles.
Hmmm. I wonder if I can do 4?
If I keep going I might be able to do 5.
Wow! If I keep going I could hit…I looked at my watch.Dammit! Gotta pick up the kids! I don't know how far I could have gone, but I…felt…GREAT!!!
The next day I did another 6. The following day the same. I very quickly (and foolishly) started cranking out the miles to see just how far I could go on the treadmill. I started doing 8 and 10 miles runs on the treadmill like it was nothing, occasionally sprinkling in a 12 miler. I went from almost no miles in October to 110 in November to 130 in December.
I rapidly dropped 20 lbs and nearly 4 inches off my waist. I secretly began thinking about running a marathon – about qualifying for Boston.
Running helped bring the rest of my life back into focus. Whether it was the endorphins or just the almost daily breaking of a sweat, I felt like there was balance back in my life. I was able to take the nervous energy that was distracting and tiresome and harness it in a way that gave me more productive energy on a daily basis. I didn't want to go back.
I finally found that I wasn't drifting anymore.
That is why I don't not run. And just like any other physical activities, if you don't just do it, you lose the motivation to keep doing it. I refuse to let that happen.
Is it ironic that I stopped feeling like I was running in place by hopping on a treadmill and literally running in place? Ultimately there are many, many reasons why I run or don't not run. Several of those reasons are intertwined with each other, but finding a touchstone, an anchor if you will, was a big one. Running has become one of my anchors.
Why do you or don't you run?


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Q: git commiting new files even if not added and committed I added a new file to my master repository and edited a few, I only committed the ones I edited.  Now the commit history on repo I pushed to is showing file changes in the edited files I added AND the new one I I created even though I did not add the new one.
TLDR: I did not add a newly created file to a commit but it was included in push anyway.

A: You did in fact add it. You probably typed the wrong thing and didn't realize it (e.g. git add -A instead of git add -u, the -A picks up new files whereas -u only picks up modified ones). If you want to avoid issues like this in the future, you might want to get in the habit of using git diff --cached before committing to verify what you're about to commit, or using git show after committing to review your commit before you push it anywhere. Also note that the editor for the commit message will show a summary of the files included in the commit, so you can check that and make sure it's not including files you didn't intend to commit.


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^ The average industrial electricity rate in Belgrade, MT is 1.62¢/kWh.[1]
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Learn more about commercial electricity in Montana
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The average residential electricity rate in Montana is 10.08¢/kWh, which ranks 38th in the nation and is 15.15% less than the national average rate of 11.88¢/kWh.
Residential electricity consumption in MT [3]
Residential electricity consumption in Montana averages 842 kWh/month, which ranks 31st in the nation and is 6.76% less than the national average of 903 kWh/month.
Residential electricity bills in MT [3]
The average monthly residential electricity bill in Montana is $85, which ranks 47th in the nation and is 20.56% less than the national average of $107 per month.
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Industrial electricity rates in Montana [3]
The average industrial electricity rate in Montana is 5.1¢/kWh, which ranks 48th in the nation and is 23.54% less than the national average rate of 6.67¢/kWh.
Industrial electricity consumption in MT [3]
Industrial electricity consumption in Montana averages 47,784 kWh/month, which ranks 43rd in the nation and is 57.4% less than the national average of 112,158 kWh/month.
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The average monthly industrial electricity bill in Montana is $2,439, which ranks 47th in the nation and is 67.41% less than the national average of $7,483.
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Household Income in Belgrade, MT
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Belgrade is a city located in Gallatin County in the state of Montana, and has a population of approximately 7,389.[6]
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Figure 1: A full rounded midcheek located high on the cheekbone conveys a powerful impression of vigor and youth. Conversely, a droopy or descended midcheek that hangs off the cheekbone is immediately associated with aging The midcheek is a very important aesthetic reference point of the face. A full rounded midcheek located high on the cheekbone conveys a powerful impression of vigor and youth. Conversely, a droopy or descended midcheek that hangs off the cheekbone is immediately associated with aging.
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"God...what? I have never wanted a dog...especially a small, wimpy lap dog like this. You know how much I hate pet hair and all the crap that ends up in the floor and stinks up the house. It's yet another thing to be responsible for, and Bozlie has no idea what will be required. Am I hearing you right? Are you really saying 'Yes-Jay-Get-This-Dog?' Please confirm."
Just then my wife rolls over, after appearing to have been asleep for a good 30 minutes and says out loud "Aargh! I can't sleep. I cannot stop thinking about that dog."
The next day, after a secret lunch hour transaction, our new dog, "Daisy", made her entrance into the world of business with a poop and a pea on the carpet at my office. I kept her a secret until I walked through the front door at 5:15 to the squeals and delight of my whole family. My daughter was speechless and I loved being the bearer of such a great gift. I thought the joy for me was over, but I was wrong.
Later that evening I took my first official puppy watch. As I crouched low and stared deep into the eyes of the helpless little Wookie, I actually saw and felt what can only be described as the tangible joyfulness of God. What I mean is this: The Father was grinning at me through those tiny black eyes and asking "Will you play with me?"
I was taken aback. It is a question I have longed for my dad to ask me. All my life.
I saw God's joy as it truly is. Unfettered. Unlimited. Unconditional. It was crazy and beautiful and gut-wrenchingly attractive. I fell for that puppy in that instant as I recognized it as a gift from my Father. For years I have been praying for the elusive joy that Jesus tells us is available. As I stared into the playful eyes I felt the Father say to me, with a depth and clarity only God can communicate in a nanosecond "I give you my joy."
This little beast, worthless for anything but loving and being loved, was fearfully handcrafted to be an embodiment of an aspect of the Lord Almighty that I had found difficult to grasp and receive. In this little gift in my home I now have a living breathing expression of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit's delight in being alive. OH... what a surprising JoyBomb! to know that God has orchestrated so wittingly the introduction of a creature that will prove a constant reminder of the boundless joy the Trinity carries deep within its heart.
The Wookie is the Father's invitation to share in his joy.
I receive this gift from you Father..with deepest thanks. As always, Father knows best.
We all laid our hands on Daisy and consecrated her to fulfill her purpose for our family and teach us about love. My daughter has been praying for a puppy. I have been praying for a deeper understanding of the Father's love for me. We both got what we asked for...and more.


Jamestown's National Comedy Center, which opens this August, will feature some cutting edge technology for museum goers. Visitors will wear a wristband with an RFID chip throughout their stay that will help complete a sense of humor profile.
It will analyze what comedy you consume and how you consume it before giving you a chance to reflect on your own comedic tastes. Comedy Center Executive Director Journey Gunderson said it starts with an elaborate system of attributes and tagging before an algorithm helps determine your comedy likes and dislikes.
"Based on what artists one likes, what TV shows, films, internet comedy… based on what types of comedy one consumes and indicates in step one, that they like, we are informed as to the type of attributes they most enjoy," she said.
You may like an attribute that's shared between George Carlin and Jerry Seinfeld like observational humor. That will allow them to provide content at varying exhibits matching your likes during a visit. That includes a hologram theater that presents performances from several notable comedians.
Gunderson said this isn't like a hall of fame. It's aiming to highlight both popular and lesser known comedians.
A challenge for any museum or theme park that incorporates advanced technology is keeping it up to date. Their content management system aims to make that possible.
Gunderson said this has been a challenge they have had front of mind since the concept of the museum.
Senator Charles Schumer announced last Friday he will introduce a congressional resolution that will designate Jamestown's National Comedy Center as the official "National Comedy Center" of the United States.
Schumer says this designation would build on the success of other Upstate New York tourist attractions like the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
The facility will contain more than 50 interactive exhibits upon completion. The $50 million facility will employ 32 people and is expected to create close to 200 spin-off jobs. It's being built in honor of Jamestown native Lucile Ball.
Architectural Digest is out with its list of the "15 Most Noteworthy Museums Opening This Year" and the National Comedy Center in Jamestown is right there among much bigger names like Toronto and Scotland.
A well-seasoned comedian, actor and commentator was in the building when Governor Cuomo announced additional state support for the National Comedy Center's future home Thursday. Lewis Black, who has stopped in Jamestown many times throughout his career, sees the potential of the center and he, too, has noticed the city's development.
As Jamestown officials intensify efforts to market the Southern Tier city as a hub for humor, the National Comedy Center has announced its headliner for the 2017 Lucille Ball Comedy Festival.


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The closing ceremony of the 34th Warsaw Film Festival took place on 20 October 2018 in Warsaw at Kinoteka. "The 190 films that we've presented this year at our festival were selected out of 5,000 submissions. What distinguishes us from other film festivals in Poland is the number of premieres we are presenting; we have over a dozen world premieres, European premieres, Cent-Eastern European premieres and Polish premieres. We like to seek out what is fresh in the cinema and we promote debutants. I hope that this year's winners will follow in the footsteps of Michael Haneke, Asghar Farhadi, Lenny Abrahamson and Cristian Mungiu, that came to us before they became famous, and we were proud to discover their films for the world," director of the Warsaw Film Festival Stefan Laudyn told FNE.
The International Competition Jury members, including Piers Handling (Canada), Tolga Karaçelik (Turkey), Joanna Kos-Krauze (Poland), Nik Powell (UK) and Marek Rozenbaum (Israel), gave the Warsaw Grand Prix founded by the City of Warsaw to The Delegation directed by Bujar Alimani, a coproduction between Albania, France, Greece and Kosovo.
Anca Damian was awarded with the Best Director prize for her work on Moon Hotel Kabul, a Romanian/French coproduction, and the Special Jury Award went to actress Martina Apostolova for her work in Irna, a Bulgarian film directed by Nadejda Koseva.
The drama Her Job directed by. Nikos Labôt, a coproduction between Greece, France and Serbia, won the First Award in the 1-2 Competition. The main prize in the Documentary Competition went to Putting Lipstick on a Pig, an Estonian/Finnish film directed by Johan Karrento and the Short Grand Prix for the best short film was awarded to The Weightlifter directed by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, a coproduction between Poland and the Ukraine.
The FIPRESCI Jury members, including Ida Rud Nielsen (Denmark), Monika Talarczyk (Poland), Artavazd Yeghiazaryan (Armenia), gave the award for the best debut from Eastern Europe to the film Her Job.


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THE vigour of Boort's innovative tourism efforts will be the focus of the next Loddon Valley Business Network dinner, planned for the Jarklin hotel on Tuesday 16 August.
Boort Business and Tourism Council President Kathryn Lanyon will be one of several group members attending, all keen to share news of planned tourism initiatives in their home town.
"We currently have events planned through to next March," Kathryn said, "starting with the visit of the Australian Male Welsh Choir on 28 August.
"Our Father's Day picnic at the Piccolis' sculpture gardens will be a highlight and we'd expect to see several hundred people there.
"That also serves as the launch of this year's 'Naturally Loddon' Spring Festival.
"We then have the Sculpture by the Lake competition on 8 October as part of the Boort Show and our town Christmas Festival on 9 December, before finishing the year with our Twilight Movie and Market by the Lake on 30 December.
"Over the Australia Day weekend, we're planning Twilight Music by the Lake, then on 11 March we're introducing the Boort Snag, Beer and Bubbles Festival at Nolens Park, where there'll be tastings and music to enjoy."
Kathryn said the Business and Tourism Council – formerly the Boort Tourism Group – had received a fresh injection of energy over the past few years.
"We can see the turn-around, thanks to the help of more volunteers, younger people – especially women – coming on board, the support of local businesses and the impetus that comes from simply getting stuff done," she said.
"We also plan to run the Shop Locally campaign again this year, from October to December.
"In 2015, we were able to offer prize money and vouchers totalling more than $6,000 and the 23 participating businesses that took part reported a combined dollar value to them of $345,000.
"We do raise money from events we organise, but that's all poured back into future happenings and the promotion we need to do."
The Loddon Valley Business Network began operating in March last year, designed to drive tourism in the region, energise the local business community, increase visitor bed nights and boost local economies.
Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every second month.
The evening at Jarklin begins with a meal at 6.30pm at a cost of $20.
Bookings are essential. Please call Sandra Steel on 5494 1257 or email ssteel@loddon.vic.gov.au
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We boarded the huge Boeing 747 crammed with the entire U.S. population of octogenarians, figuring, "What more harm could another plane full of self-important, Mid-western hicks do to America's already sagging popularity overseas?" The cross-country flight went off without a hitch (assuming you don't consider the scheduled stop in Newark, a hitch). We arrived at Leonardo Di Vinci airport around 8am the next day. The flight lasted a quick 15 hours but we lost a night somewhere. Probably going through security in Newark, I'm guessing.
Entering Roma, the first thing you notice is the street noise is incredible. Everything is loud in Roma. But not an angry loud. Kind of a happy loud. Everything, it seems, is a reason to honk. Scooters, cars, you name it. If it's got a horn, they're using it. Roma makes NYC seem like the crowd at a Yanni concert.
Me, dwarfed by Vatican City.
Dragging our bags to our room at the Hotel Dolomiti, we did what most Californians do in Rome. We slept. For four hours.
Then we ate at the nearby Cafe Florian and had the best pizza of the whole trip (Buffalo mozzarella and roma tomatoes, mmm).
After recovering most of our lost sleep, we got up and dragged ourselves to The Vatican, home to that big-hatted Pope guy. Vatican City is, for tax reasons undoubtedly, its own country, complete with its own stamps and a Post Office that's better than Italy's own (the stamps say, "Deliver this letter fast, or burn in hell!").
St. Pete's Duomo in Vatican City.
We arrived by bus at 8am, before throngs of the guilt-ridden showed up. The front gate seemed intended to impress believers with the "glory of God" or something, but all it did was highlight the Church's astounding corruption, manipulation and abuse of power that payed for it all. Especially St. Peters' Basilica. You don't find marble columns like that at your local Home Depot.
Amy, climbing up inside the dome.
St. Pete's Basilica is a big, ostentatious church with some serious adequacy issues. The floor actually has marks that indicate where other "lesser" churches fall short. Talk about an insecurity complex. I'm surprised the Pope-Mobile doesn't have a bumper-sticker that says, "My basilica is bigger than yours."
View of Amy atop St. Pete's Basilica.
After touring The Church, we checked out the Vatican Museum to see the Sistine Chapel. Inside, we saw the Belvedere Apollo and other equally well-carved sculptures. Frequently depicting religious scenes with hot, naked renaissance chicks.
The ceiling of the Chapel wowed us as expected. We spent our allotted time, neck craned painfully up, silently marveling at Michelangelo's masterpiece and wondering what he got paid for the job.
We then had some difficulty finding the Villa Borghese museum inside Borghese park despite having three different maps of the place. It went a long toward explaining why Italian-explorer Christopher Columbus found America when he was looking for a route to India. Simply put, Italian maps suck. After following roads that splayed in every direction (except those indicated by the maps), we ended up finally finding the place entirely by accident.
The Belvedere Apollo
The original sculptures and paintings in the Borghese Gallery date back to Cardinal Scipione's collection (son of Ortensia Borghese), and include works of ancient, Renaissance and contemporary art. Inside, the museum limited us to 2 hours, and a measly 30 minutes in the Picture Gallery, hoping to force tourists to buy a book in the bookstore to see what they'd missed. (FYI, the audio tour sucked.)
South of the Burghese Palace is Vio Vento, a swanky thoroughfare much like Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Lined with luxury hotels and pricey sidewalk cafes, it was one of the only wide boulevards we encountered in Roma. At the end of Vio Vento, it opened up into yet another piazza with a fountain by Bernini (he worked a lot).
The amazing Pantheon.
The Pantheon was next on our To-Do list, as we wanted to see this marvel during the day when we could go inside. The original Pantheon (meaning "shrine of all the gods") was completed in 27 BC. Yet even without ready access to hardware stores, building materials and power tools, the Ancient Romans still managed to erect a domed roof 142 feet high. A feat even more impressive when you consider the Tower Crane hadn't yet been invented.
Sadly, this testament to human imagination and achievement was ultimately co-opted and bastardized into a church by Catholics intent on clearing up any notion that about which god the live-and-let-live Pagans would henceforth be tithing unto.
Me, next to the world's biggest door.
We continued walking past Caesar Augusta's neglected and dilapidated burial mausoleum to the Piazza del Popola, another piazza ruined by Catholic pettiness, paranoia and tacky, bolt-on crosses. The Ancient Catholics had taken a tall, majestic stone obelisk (brought by Caesar after defeating the Egyptian armies) and had screwed a cross affixed to its top. A freaking CROSS! On a classical Egyptian obelisk! That's like covering the breast on America's "Spirit of Justice" statue.
And if that weren't enough, they destroyed some classical structures of Emperor Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus's mausoleum, and then built not just a single, but twin churches atop the rubble (as if only one church wouldn't have cleansed the stink of the heretic).
Amy and I at Trevi Fountain.
Later, the Metro stop dropped us off on the far side of Circus Maximus, the very same place Charlton Heston raced chariots. The place has since, quite frankly, gone to hell. Overrun with grass and weeds, the Circus Maximus is more like a circus parking lot. A shell of its former greatness. And by "shell," I mean, jogging track. Instead of donning suits of armor, people don striped velor. Not exactly the same, really.
Arch of Constantine.
"Live from the Flavian Amphitheater!" just doesn't have the same ring as "The Colosseum." No wonder it never caught on. The Flavian let its first 50,000 citizens through its doors in 80 A.D. Over the next 1,923 years it has begun to — and I'm being charitable here — deteriorate. One of the most impressive structures ever built in the history of mankind has been left to rot like an Appalachian outhouse. Fortunately, the Flavian is currently being refurbished. One can only hope that, when finished, they'll once again resume throwing Christians to the lions. Now, that's entertainment.
The Spanish Steps.
Next, we hit Palatine Hill (basically translates as Palace Hill), where each succeeding Emperor sought to outdo the previous Emperor's pad. It was supposedly where the city of Rome was founded. It offers some great views of the Fori Imperiale (Imperial Forums), and is a nice place for picnicking or hiding a body, but little else.
The Arch of Constantine in Roma.
We moved on to the church, San Pietro in Vincoli (St. Peter in Chains), which houses Michelangelo's "Moses" statue, one of forty-two figures slated for an impressive, but never completed, mausoleum for Pope Julius II. The Pope kicked before it was done and so, without funding, Michelangelo bailed.
Nero's Golden Palace (Domus Aurea), so called because parts were overlaid in gold leaf and embedded with gems and seashells, was truly nuts. Construction started after the great fire of Rome, leading people to believe he purposely let the fire spread to clear the land. The entire place was cleverly designed to allow light into every room. The grounds of Nero's palace included pretty much all of current Roma (then a lake) including the Colosseum, causing one person to write "One house took up the whole city of Rome." — Liber de Spectaculis 2.4.
Horse Guy
The Vittoriano, though, is nothing short of amazing, staggering in both size and scope. Built up the side of a steep hill, this monument dedicated to Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoia — the first king of Italy — is a daunting climb, but the breeze alone is worth it.
The building is obscene in its grandeur; 100-foot soaring ceilings and endless marble steps dwarfs all reason. The project started by G. Sacconi in 1885 and was completed fifty years later. Do not miss it.
Finally, we found ourselves at the Fori Imperiali, or Imperial Forums. No longer the equivalent of Roma's largest shopping mall, The Forum is now a shattered and strewn collection of what's left from Rome's ancient Republic period. It's comprised of half-broken columns, looted and ransacked structures that sadly resembles its former glory not in the least. On the upside, the entire area was closed off on May 11th, the night we were there, for a free Paul McCartney concert.
A short train ride later found us in Florence.
Egypt, Africa: The world's most ancient civilization (and it has the dust to prove it).


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'I Don't Have Favorite Films': Ken Burns Keeps It Real
The 'Hemingway' filmmaker on movies, music and slinging records in Ann Arbor
by Sabrina Crews
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Ken Burns | Credit: Courtesy of Twin Cities PBS
In the summer of 1970, on his 17th birthday, Ken Burns received a Super 8mm camera from his father. You might assume, with an illustrious 40-years-long-and-counting career on the horizon, that the rest was history.
Except, not really.
"That camera didn't get the use that you would think," the documentary film titan explained to Rewire recently, "or that it needed." In fact, Burns feels the gift precipitated a kind of artistic paralysis.
"I trembled, not knowing what direction to go in. To do fictional things with my friends or document the world around me."
That he eventually chose the latter isn't exactly news, but if you've read that Burns immediately got into filmmaking upon receiving the device, and even filmed his first documentary with it — allegedly about a factory in Michigan — well, for Burns, that doesn't quite track.
"I remember shooting some steam from a building," he recalled, "but never made a film about a factory — or anything else for that matter."
The impulse to cast the young Burns as a precocious genius immediately adept at his craft is understandable, but the truth is a better story: That same teen who abandoned his home movie camera back in the 70s is about to release his 36th feature with PBS — a three-part documentary on the legendary writer Ernest Hemingway.
Questioning legacies
Even between projects — Hemingway follows last April's The Gene and 2019's widely acclaimed Country Music — Burns has been something of a media mainstay of late.
60 Minutes devoted an entire episode to the filmmaker and his process last fall. He answered every question GQ had about his hair (TLDR: Goodbye, bowl cut and bangs; hello, free-flowing mane).
More controversially, filmmaker and PBS contemporary Grace Lee singled out Burns in an essay published by the Ford Foundation last October, "To Truly Reflect Diversity PBS Must End Its Overreliance on Ken Burns as 'America's Storyteller.'"
Lee — a producer on last year's five-hour series Asian Americans — wrote, "It's time for a new canon and new investment in audiences who can be a financial engine for PBS," and called on the system to "fund seasoned BIPOC filmmakers at the same level that PBS has supported Ken Burns for the past 40 years."
PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger said that she "respectfully disagrees" with Lee's assertions, and posited that the system creates opportunities for lots of emerging filmmakers, some of whom are mentored by Burns himself.
Burns maintains that PBS has welcomed all filmmakers for many years, but was also quick to praise Lee.
"I actually think her piece is a positive sign because it means things are changing, not just at PBS, but other places too," he stated. "I applaud her for bringing up the topic. She's a talented filmmaker and part of a vanguard that will have a huge impact on our understanding of history and film going forward."
Update: On Tuesday, March 30, Grace Lee followed up with a letter — co-signed by over 100 fellow documentary filmmakers — to PBS executives titled, 'A Letter to PBS from Viewers Like Us.'
'He suffered a lot'
Even now, Burns is taking a collaborative approach to his work.
Hemingway | Credit: PBS
"I've worked with Ken since 1989," said Lynn Novick, who joins Burns as co-director on Hemingway. "Back then, my job was very much about trying to achieve his vision, or what I understood it to be. Now, it's about our shared vision."
Together, they've worked toward accurately capturing the nuances of a preeminent, "outsized personality," one notoriously complicated and flawed.
"Hemingway was revolutionary," Novick explained. "He invites you into a world, a situation and a time that's difficult, complicated, but he does it in a way that's accessible — not simple, or fun, but always interesting. The topics he writes about — love, loss, friendship, loyalty, sex, romance, relationships — are deeply human to anyone at any age."
Novick surmised that achieving enormous success at a relatively young age impacted the author's trajectory, and to his detriment.
"He suffered a lot," Novick said. "Which led to questions of suicide, depression, loneliness and anxiety" — universal subjects that we now have the language to talk about, whereas in Hemingway's time, that wasn't necessarily the case.
"The theme of Hemingway's public persona was hyper-masculinity, today you'd say toxic masculinity," continued Novick. "Which sparked for him a surprising interest in gender roles."
The author's relationships with women were famously fraught. At times, though, Hemingway defied the machismo for which he became synonymous; he was fascinated by androgyny and, in private, longed to escape gender binaries.
"That's something a lot of people, young people especially, will find surprising," Novick said. "It's fascinating, and in a way that really speaks to our time."
Incubating a career
Southeastern Michigan during the Vietnam War era may not have been the setting of Burns' first documentary, but it still set the backdrop for his early adulthood — particularly when it came to music.
"I worked in a record store before college when I was in high school, and then after I graduated, a bit early," recalled Burns, who was born in Brooklyn but moved around with his family and lost his mother to breast cancer at age 11.
"The store was called Discount Records in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where we lived, because my father taught at the university."
James Newell Osterberg, Jr., the soon-to-be rock sensation Iggy Pop, had worked for the same business. Like Burns, the musician credits the experience as a formative one, and described the indie record stores of that era as "a mix of theater and laboratory."
For Burns, the now-defunct shop was more of an incubator, where he learned to embrace multiple genres and encountered the artists who made a lasting impression on him.
"I discovered the Last Poets, a kind of early rap group that I just loved," he said, "and started listening to a lot of jazz, including John Coltrane and Miles Davis."
"The store was amazing. It had a greater diversity of music than anything I saw before or after, even the old mega stores in Times Square."
As for film, Burns doesn't think the movies are dead. "There's so much that is good right now," he noted. Just don't ask him what he likes best.
"I don't have favorite films," Burns revealed, "or favorite filmmakers."
However, he does have go-tos for aspiring investigative storytellers and those just beginning to cultivate an interest in documentaries.
"I would recommend Fred Wiseman, whose eye is extraordinary; Werner Herzog, whose work always amazes me, and the late Henry Hampton, whose work was incredible and impacted other filmmakers and our understanding of history."
Hampton was a peer at PBS who made the acclaimed civil rights documentary Eyes on the Prize six years after Burns' debut, Brooklyn Bridge.
For Burns, one of the most memorable aspects of making Hemingway was being able to "strip away these mask layers," to get at the more "confusing things" about Hemingway's character.
"It rearranged all our molecules about him," the filmmaker said at a recent virtual event, "Hemingway, Gender and Identity."
Burns expressed how moved he was by "the ability of someone, despite the mountains, all the balls and chains he carried around," to write so perfectly, in a way that's "so simple and basic, and so generous," putting his readers into "a kind of reverie."
Burns referenced Hemingway's fourth wife, Mary Welsh, whom he says suffered the most. While reading the freshly typed manuscript of The Old Man and the Sea, she said (in the filmmaker's own words), "Ernest, I forgive you for all the rotten things you've done."
"To me, it's just the way he's endured," concluded Burns. "It is transcendent."
Hemingway premieres on PBS Monday, April 5. Watch online at PBS.org, or check your local PBS station's schedule for broadcast dates and times.
Sabrina Crews is Rewire's audience engagement editor and a lifelong PBS kid. Follow her on Twitter @sabrinafaydra.


Sönghellir, or 'Song Cave', is a cave on the Snæfellsnes peninsula famed for its echoing quality. The acoustics inside have a magical quality, so visitors should be sure to test how their voices sound.
The location has been popular for centuries; within it, the names of two 18th Century travellers, Eggert Ólafsson and Bjarni Pálsson, can still be read amongst the names etched in the rock, although guests are requested not to copy and scratch their own. It is situated right by Snæfellsjökull, on the mountain pass that goes up to the glacier. Many smaller caves are in the area, and getting there is an exhilarating drive.
According to legend, Sönghellir sheltered the family of legendary 9th Century settler Bárður Snæfellsás. Half man, half-giant, and a wielder of magic, Snæfellsás is now considered the area's guardian spirit.