A collection of the small things in life that bring a smile to your face, a skip to your step and lightness to your heart.
As I've previously mentioned I travel a lot of work. Recent a lot has been every week. It is fairly exhausting and makes keeping up with regular meals and exercise difficult. I have a load of workouts on my laptop and try to do one each morning in my hotel room - which can be difficult on the days a hotel room is postage stamp sized. I also often try to find a nearby supermarket and buy something close to a normal breakfast. The only problem with this approach is that you end up camped out in your hotel room for too long and if you get in late and are only staying for one night finding the supermarket can be a challenge.
Over the last couple of months there have been a series of these days where I have instead found myself a nearby cafe for breakfast. When faced with a cafe menu there are many things I could order but at 7am the only thing my body wants is some form of cereal, preferably topped with yogurt and fruit - aka what I would have at home. Luckily muesli and granola are having their time in the sun. The cafe offerings are significantly more decadent than my low fat, untoasted, homemade version but they certainly satisfy my breakfast cravings.
So without further ado, here is my tour of the muesli offerings of the Sydney CBD.
This has to be the most beautifully plated muesli - sorry granola - I've ever seen. A delicious toasted granola, topped with creamy yogurt, berry coulis and an array of fresh fruit. Yum, if slightly difficult to eat from the flat platter.
Another delicious crunchy granola with beautiful creamy yoghurt, this dish was lifted by the decedent and yummy passionfruit curd. The combination of poached fruit, fresh berries and mint also made this a really fresh and and lively dish.
The addition of pomegranate in both seed form and as a drizzle of pomegranate molasses made this a much more tart breakfast than the others listed here but truly delicious. The orange blossom sheep's yoghurt was a great sweet counterbalance to the tart pomegranate and again it was a delicious crunchy granola. Pablo and Rusty also have the cutest tea pots - doesn't impact the flavour but I did enjoy my tea very much.
This was probably the least fancy muesli. The Sonoma muesli itself was delicious but I'm pretty sure the berries were just frozen mixed berries that had been microwaved (something I do all the time in winter) and the yogurt was a little sweet for my tastes. But the service was fast and the coffee seems to have a loyal following judging from the number of people stopping in.
While they did have a granola on offer, this particular morning I chose to go for the bircher muesli. This was the cheapest of all my Sydney CBD breakfasts by far and also one of the most generous serves. The bircher was tasty with shredded apple and plump sultanas. The berry compote, fresh strawberries and blueberries were fresh and tasty and the slivered almonds added a nice texture.
Overall White Rabbit was my favourite but all of the cafes I visited offered a tasty, health alternative to the usual eggs for a cafe breakfast. So muesli lovers of Sydney rejoice, there are many great options for you within about a 5 block radius!
My travel for the year is pretty much over but no doubt there will be plenty of time spent in Sydney's CBD again next year. Have a missed a magnificent muesli? Feel free to let me know what I should be trying next.
I don't know what spring has been like in your part of the world but it has been weird in mine. Much warmer and wetter than usual which has resulted in the most lush green look I've ever seen Canberra sport.
This last week has been a bit cooler with a lot of rain. Yesterday it truly poured down, areas around me were flooded and rooves caved in. But today the sun broke through the clouds to make for a warm, humid atmosphere, something we aren't used to in the nation's capital.
I try to get out for a lunchtime work most days. Today was the first day I'd managed this week, but what a day to get out and about. The warm, humid air made the scent of nature around me truly profound. As I walked along I could smell the rich, dark earth, the fresh growing grass, the sweetness of honeysuckle.
We rely on our eyesight as our primary sense, sometimes to the detriment of the others. However, as I walked along today I was so aware of how the world smelt it was almost overwhelming.
I paused for a moment, closing my eyes and drew in an even deeper breath to fill my head with the heady scent of spring. It was a small perfect moment in an otherwise unremarkable day. And sometimes that is all we need. One perfect moment to make a whole day a good one.
but in Venice, this is not a compliment. It is rebuke.
One does not prosper by honesty.
Nicole Galland's novel provides a different perspective on the Shakespearean tale of Othello ... the villain's perspective. Narrated by Iago, the architect of Othello's downfall, the story cleverly weaves a background, his motivations for his actions, a different view on the circumstances.
The story behind the creation of the novel is that the author had been involved in putting on one hour versions of Shakespere's play only to discover when they went to do Othello that the actor to play Iago hadn't even read the play. She worked through the character with him but that raised more questions and ideas for her about Iago's motivations, his relationship with his wife, his actions when he was found out and the other character's responses.
The story starts with Iago growing up in Venice, joining the Venetian artillery, falling deeply in love with his wife Emilia and becoming Othello's ensign. But his jealousy of not being appointed lieutenant and over Othello's obsession with his beautiful wife Desdemona drive him to action that leads to disastrous results.
In this story Iago is a complex man. Dismissive of the Venetian class system, yet driven by a need to raise his status. Deeply loving of both Emilia and Othello yet he destroys them both as he himself is destroyed. Known for honesty but brought down by lies. It is a convincing story of a man's downfall.
I have to admit that I'm not that familiar with Othello the play. I knew the basics but I think I've only seen a television adaptation once so the twists and turns were a surprise but I think you would enjoy it as much if you were familiar with the play as if you had never seen it. Overall I really enjoyed this book and would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in Shakespere or even just a villain's perspective on his crimes.
A warm Friday night, some spicy Thai food and a tasty cocktail is pretty much my idea of bliss and I had the great pleasure to enjoy it at Kinn Thai.
If you haven't come across it yet, it has replaced Wagamama between Sammy's Kitchen and Wood and Coal in the North Quarter of the Canberra Centre. Wagamama had languished, mostly empty for quite some time. Kinn Thai couldn't be more different. On the Friday night we visited it was packed and we watched the rapid change over of tables. I'm sure they did at least three seatings at most tables.
We had no booking but being just two us and quite early, about 6pm, we scored a table straight away. By the time we left at 7pm however there was a queue and I could see our table being snapped right up.
The menu offers lots of the usual favourites but one option I like is that for most types of dishes - eg stir fry - they offer a base and you choose your protein. Being our first visit we went with our benchmark Thai dish - pad thai which we had with chicken - plus an entree of duck pancakes and a second main dish of a crying tiger salad.
We also ordered cocktails. I ordered a Ho-Ra-Pa ($14) which is Don Julico Tequila, Thai Basil with a hint of raspberry and ginger ale. S ordered a caprioska ($12) made with cachaca, brown sugar and lime. Both were delicious, although we each liked the other's better and ended up swapping. My only comment was that the Ho-Ra-Pa came out in a glass like a mini fish bowl which was a bit difficult to drink from.
The pancakes came out incredibly quickly - they actually beat our cocktails to the table. The pancake itself was very tasty, quite different to the Chinese style ones I'm used to, more chewy and tasty. It was filled with generous chunks of duck, spring onions and cucumber and accompanied with hoisin sauce. At $10 for 2 pancakes it is on the expensive side for a small entree but we both loved them and would order them again.
Next dish out was the crying tiger salad ($23). It gets a 2 chili rating on the menu and deserved it, my first mouthful had a big chunk of chili which got me right in the back of the throat. But if you like chili I think you will love this dish. It was fresh and flavourful with the taste of the herbs and a generous amount of lemongrass. The beef was incredibly tender, you could cut it with a spoon and while this is quite a decent serve the two of us had no trouble finishing it.
Finally we had the pad thai. We had chosen chicken ($16.50) but it also comes in vegetarian, beef and prawn options. I would definitely rate this as a good and tasty pad thai. It was slightly heavy on the tomato for me and S would have liked more peanuts but that was really nitpicking. Again a very generous serve disappeared fast, although with so many other interesting things on the menu, I'm not sure I would order it again.
Service was great. The food came out promptly and the wait staff were attentive if, it seemed, slightly inexperienced with the iPad ordering system.
Every dish we saw going past looked and smelled great. S who isn't big on going to the same place twice commented that he would be keen to return and try a few more dishes.
Overall we really enjoyed our dinner. I can't wait to go back with a crowd and try some of the seafood dishes (S doesn't eat seafood) as I've heard great reports about the crispy soft shell crab.
It is that time of year again - Frocktober! The month where I wear frocks every day to raise funds for the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation.
The start of the month has been extremely busy. Last Saturday I held the "Spring High Tea" a fundraising high tea for Frocktober. I was lucky enough to be supported by a host of great Canberra businesses with items to raffle and auction and over 60 people attended the afternoon to enjoy delicious food and drink provided by the Canberra Institute of Technology and hear the lovely music of the Canberra Girls Grammar string ensemble.
It was a fabulous afternoon. The final bills aren't in but it looks to have made around $2,000 for the OCRF which is a complete thrill. You can read more about it here.
Aside from that I've been wrestling with the usual Frocktober challenges - having enough work appropriate frocks, battling wind and full skirts, figuring out how to accessorise for the weather. But it is a fun challenge and as always I'm enjoying it.
As always, Frocktober makes me think of the person whose diagnosis and death put me on this path to supporting the OCRF. It is 5 years now since Aunty Sue died and I'm still not used to the thought that she isn't here with us. It was her diagnosis that made me aware how difficult ovarian cancer is to identify and that without an early detection test we will continue to see a woman die every 10 hours from this hidden killer.
And if you feel inspired, it isn't too late to join in. Head to http://frocktober.org/ to get all the details.
If you have a food intolerance, life can get a bit boring food wise. It isn't just that you are limited in what you can have, it is that people get good at making one thing that meets your needs and you get to have it over and over and over.
I'm lucky enough not to have any real food issues but I seem to be surrounded by people with them. At a recent dinner 11 of the 14 people there had special dietary requirements. So while I can eat everything, I do spend quite a bit of time thinking about new and delicious things I can make for my friends who have limitations.
When it comes to gluten free baking I started, like everyone it seems, with a flourless orange and poppyseed cake. Now there is nothing wrong with orange and poppyseed cake, mine is actually pretty damn delicious, but I realised that more often that not it is the only gluten free option in cafes and so my friends had it a lot. Since then I've been experimenting with a range of flavours and particularly with different nuts to replace the seemingly ubiquitous almonds.
This cake is great. Rich, moist, packed with flavour. You certainly don't feel like you are missing out on anything with it and I'm yet to meet anyone who doesn't love it. It is best the day after it has been made after it has spent a night in the refrigerator really developing that dessert like texture.
I've got two options for toppings with this recipe because S and I can't decide which is best. Topping one involves sprinkling grated chocolate over the top of the cake as soon as it comes out of the oven. It melts and forms a super chocolate layer. However it isn't that aesthetically pleasing.
Topping two is a simple dusting of icing sugar before serving which looks great but doesn't add a lot to the flavour.
Tips: Place a bowl of hot water in the bottom of the oven to add some moisture. This helps prevent cracks, although mine does often crack a little. If you don't like orange you can leave the zest out but it does add a lovely complexity to the flavour. When you take it out of the oven it will slowly drop in size, but that is what creates the great texture so don't worry when it happens.
Preheat a fan forced oven to 160oC. Grease and line a 20cm baking tin.
Cream the butter, 150g of the sugar, vanilla and zest till light and fluffy. Add the egg yolks one at a time, scraping down the sides of the bowl between additions.
In a small bowl, mix together the cocoa and milk to form a thick paste. Add to the butter mixture (note make sure your milk is only warm as it will help dissolve the cocoa but not too hot so that it melts the butter).
Add the hazelnut meal and mix well, then fold through the ricotta until all combined.
In a separate bowl beat the egg whites until soft peaks form, then beat in the remaining 100g of caster sugar until thick, glossy and hard peaks.
Fold the egg whites through the cake batter a third at a time. I do this by hand with a spatula carefully lifting and folding the mix so that you don't knock too much air out of the egg white.
Pour into the prepared tin, sprinkle the flaked almonds over the top and bake for 40-45 minutes until springy to touch. It may still look slightly wobbly in the tin but if the centre bounces back at the touch it is ready.
If you are using the chocolate, sprinkle over straight away so that it melts on the hot cake.
Allow to cool completely in its tin before transferring to a plate. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate over night.
Serve cold from the fridge, dusted with icing sugar of using that option and with a good dollop of whipped cream.
Today is a glorious spring day. Warm with a light breeze - just the perfect day to get out and go crazy in the garden.
A few month ago, however, I had a car accident. It wasn't very serious, the car was fairly easily repaired and I didn't even think I'd hurt myself other than bumping my shoulder but it turned out that "bump" was a partial dislocation - and didn't I know it a week later when the pain kicked in. Anyone who has had a shoulder injury knows that they are slow to heal. It has been a long road of chiropractic visits, massage and rehab but I'm pretty much back to normal.
Lets just pause on the term "pretty much" for a second.
Right now I'm still doing my rehab exercises. Day to day activities are fine but for an office dweller like me, that doesn't involve much manual work. So much as I'm dying to spend the whole day overhauling the garden, I just can't. A couple of hours and the tired feeling kicks in and I have to stop. Not because I want to, but because I have to or I risk setting back my recovery.
It is awful that moment when what you mind wants you to do and your body can do, don't match.
I recently caught up with an old colleague and somehow our conversation turned to exactly this topic. She told me that recently she had been at the gym doing intervals after a huge and exhausting week. Her mind was saying "go, go , go" and her body was valiantly trying but couldn't keep up and she found herself in tears. She said it was like the dichotomy between what her mind wanted to be able to do and what her body was capable of just broke her soul for that moment. She wasn't upset, or even really distressed but the tears were just the way her body was trying to tell her that she had to stop.
I know precisely what she meant. I've found myself in tears for exactly this reason - most mortifyingly in the middle of a dance class - on a number of occasions. I have to ask myself, is finishing the garden, doing that extra set of intervals, taking that extra dance class worth it when our bodies are clearly saying no?
I don't think that we give rest the importance it deserves. In our busy world there is always something else we could be doing and taking time to let our bodies recover seems to go missing in that equation. So I'm doing my best to buck the trend. I'm listening to my body when it says it is time to go to bed, even if it means I miss the end of a TV show. I'm recognising the evenings when I just need to stay home on the couch. And I'm stopping work in the garden, even when there is more to do.
Because there is always tomorrow and isn't tomorrow better when you feel well enough to enjoy it?
Do you know your limits? And more importantly do you respect them?
I believe that in a world where bad news occupies too much mind space, where we are busy and stressed and life seems difficult, the little moments of joy that exist in every day should be recognised and celebrated. This blog aims to be my record of the little things that make me smile. Some may be sweet, some may be significant, most will probably be frivolous, but I hope you will join me in celebrating the small things and it will bring a smile to your face.


Around the world, nonprofits continue to experience a drop in government funding. European nonprofits are not immune to this trend. In France, museums are struggling to raise essential funds after two years of consecutive cuts in government support. In its place, two the country's most famous museums, the Louvre and Musée d'Orsay, are turning to crowdfunding to expand their collections.
Earlier this week, the Louvre started a new crowdfunding campaign to partially fund the purchase of the Table de Teschen. The eighteenth-century jeweled "Table of Peace" was a gift to a French diplomat at the end of the Bavarian War. The total price of the piece is 12.5 million Euros, and the museum is looking to individual donors to fund the last million Euros, or $1.67 million.
This effort follows the Louvre's previous successful campaigns. In all, the museum has raised over 4 billion Euros since 2010 from 20,000 donors. Their activities are part of a movement toward online crowdfunding efforts. The TABB Group, a financial markets research and advisory firm, projects that the crowdfunding market will reach $17 billion by the end of 2015.
Current nonprofit crowdfunding has roots in the telethons of the late 1950s. Both are methods of raising funds by pooling a large number of small donations from unconnected donors pledged in a short period of time. Similar efforts continue on public radio and television stations across the country. These campaigns often highlight special incentives to entice donors to participate. The Louvre offers donors of over 200 Euros the opportunity to visit the exhibit on a day when the museum is closed to the public, but what they really offer is a psychic partial ownership of the museum's beauty.
The Louvre limits its crowdfunding expenses by hosting its efforts directly on its website. Many smaller nonprofits find it necessary to host their project on one of the many crowdfunding websites. These websites allow nonprofits the opportunity to reach more new donors. The sheer number of crowdfunding sites is emblematic of the growth in crowdfunding. Successful projects include theater productions, renewable energy, and academic research.


CAVE CREEK, AZ, Aug. 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Endexx Corporation (OTC PINK: EDXC), a provider of innovative phytonutrient-based food and nutritional products, is pleased to report record sales growth for its third quarter of fiscal 2018. For the three months ended June 30, 2018, the company generated over $220,000 in sales, representing an increase of 107% year-over-year and 18% sequential increase quarter-over-over.
Endexx acquired Go Green Global Enterprises to secure an international hub in Jamaica, for distribution of its CBD-based products to key markets that include Canada, Europe, South and Central America and the Caribbean.
The Company launched a new and improved formula for its best-selling Phyto-Bites® product made available for both cats and dogs and formulated to promote health and support the reduction of separation anxiety, pain and inflammation.
Endexx introduced its upgraded AutoSpense™ technology to blue chip retail operators to showcase its inventory control and automated dispensing system.


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LaGhetto – Prayer Music Mp3.
LaGhetto – Prayer : South Africa Female Rapper Londi Madlala popularly know as her stage name LaGhetto dashes out a new song which she titled Prayer.
Download the mp3 to "Prayer" by LaGhetto Below, Don't forget to share.


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Why doesn't Pradeep like us?
Mahesh became our manager in 2013.
Kristin lied to me when he said you weren't beautiful.
Nadeem wanted Sri to come to his party.
Yvonne waited till the child goes off.
Nhan married me this morning.
Marie doesn't care what happens to his old car.
Hughes flipped off the lights.
Edmund and Art are young and healthy.
Brad told me what was happening there.
Where were you when Jimmy needed your protection?
Sherman was hurt in a car accident.
Edmund makes me do things I don't want to do.
Vadim served two terms in Congress.
Cathryn drank the rest of what was in the bottle.
Would you tell Rogue we need his help?
David's parents worked hard to send him to private school.
Philip is terrible at cooking.
Debi wants to say something.
Jaime could've come with me.
Frank called me the other day.
Guido told me you'll be graduating this year.
Brent was quite good-looking when he was young.
Meeks hangs his clothes, then arranges them by color.
Tuan was covered all over with red paint.


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Roberto Clemente Walker
The Great One
A Champion Player
Roberto Clemente's Batting Helmet
In his rookie year, Clemente often expressed his frustration at striking out by throwing his helmet to the ground. It's estimated that he cracked 22 batting helmets during his first year in the majors. He eased up on the helmets as he grew older.
On loan from the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Baseball Signed by the Pirates, 1960 World Champion Team
Clemente helped lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to their first world championship win in 35 years. Their opponents, the New York Yankees, had been widely predicted to win that year. This baseball was autographed by the Pirates' 1960 World Championship team.
On loan from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Ticket Stub from Game 7 of the 1960 World Series
The 1960 World Series went seven games, with the Pirates winning the Series at home in Forbes Field. Clemente's Series hitting average was .310 and he tied a World Series record by hitting safely in every game of a seven-game Series.
Topps in His League
Beloved by Many
Pride of the Game
Roberto Clemente's Statistics
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Niall Mc Guigan & friends – Album Launch "Spiritual Anarchy"
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After the successful release of Niall's debut album "Awareness" in 2017, at St. Ann's Church Dublin with the SUSO Gospel Choir, Niall returns to The Workmans Club in Dublin to perform his new album "Spiritual Anarchy" due for release on the 15th of August 2019.
Spiritual Anarchy is about questioning our illusions. To find out what is true, through the observation of our own direct experience and movements of the psychological mind, it is possible to go beyond our ideologies, religious, social and political dogma to find true freedom.
Check out the new Spiritual Anarchy video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHjY3-Xcl6s
The musical style is a return to Niall's rock roots, in keeping with the eclectic world music feel of his last album mixing Mongolian throat singing, reggae, folk, and alternative rock.
On the night he will be joined by Paul Mc Cabe (Bass), Clare Foley (Backing vocals), Rafal Szydlowski (violin), Paul Mc Elroy (guitar), Karl Cosgrove (Drums)
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Blancpain GT Monza race report: The Italian job
One quick pit stop was all Lamborghini needed to win the first race of the Blancpain GT Endurance Cup season. As Mirko Bortolotti helped strap Andrea Caldarelli into the Lamborghini Huracán GT3, the Grasser Racing pit crew performed at the top of its game to service the green thoroughbred and sent it on its way out of the pits well in front of the SMP Racing Ferrari 488 GT3. Once the speed set in, no one could match the Austrian Lamborghini works squad at Autodromo Nazionale Monza. Not even Italian compatriots Ferrari.
Italian cars have always felt right at home in Monza. Ferrari is one of those Italian brands with a rich history in the over half a century old springtime endurance classic. On Sunday morning, the book of legends is started another chapter when the AF Corse Ferrari raced by Italian fury Alessandro Pier Guidi surges to pole position, followed by Norbert Siedler in the Grasser Lambo at only six hundredths of a second. Davide Rigon completes the top three in qualifying by putting the SMP Racing, AF Corse-run Ferrari on third place. The Veneto driver is one of 32 drivers to stay within a second of the pole-sitter.
Today is looking to be another Italian day. Ferrari and Lamborghini are out in force at the front. Only a handful of foreign makes can mix it up with the natives. One of the few is Bentley. The big M-Sport-run Continental GT3 is high on power and with Guy Smith, Steven Kane and Oliver Jarvis taking turns behind the wheel is piloted by British aces. The Bentley Boys have nested themselves on the second row for the start.
As the sun rises high in the sky, the cars arrive on the grid. It's nearing 14:45 in the afternoon and time for the race to go green. The fans heed the sound of racing that woke up Monza this morning and are making their way to the grandstands. Others, against the loudly yelled instructions from security personnel, climb the steep banking for a glimpse of their heroes. Even when the start is only minutes away, some of the the tifosi are still sneaking in through the holes in the fences that align the Autodromo limits.
A fully packed field of 50 GTs rolls through the Parabolica. Spearheading the field is Pasin Lathouras. The Thai has been picked to steer the yellow AF Corse 488 to the green flag. As he storms into the first chicane, he locks up the brakes and overshoots the turn. Unaware of the pandemonium behind him, Lathouras carries on bravely, but without the lead.
In the long run to the first corner, Guy Smith in the Bentley and Ezequiel Perez Companc in the Grasser Lamborghini tangle while fighting over second place. Smith barely keeps the car on the track, but Companc veers into the grass and back onto the track, in the midst of oncoming traffic. Like a herd of bisons, about forty cars begin to scramble to avoid the backwards rolling Lamborghini. When the dust settles, 16 cars are damaged, many of them beyond immediate repair.
While the marshals clean up the track, the stewards of the meeting decide to put the blame for the mess on Guy Smith. But the Brit is unaware of the race director's calls for him to serve his penalty. Believing the team has still time to discuss the penalty, he crosses the pits lap after lap. When he finally does come in, the die is already cast: The black flag has gone out minutes ago.
Now that the big Bentley is out of his way, Mirko Bortolotti is looking at the back of Miguel Molina's SMP Ferrari. The Spaniard took the lead in the first corner when Lathouras went straight on at the original start and has been leading ever since.
64 minutes into the race Molina and Bortolotti enter the pits nose to tail. They jump out, help their team mates in and let the crews finish changing tyres and fuel up. Andrea Caldarelli races the Lambo out and is away long before Victor Shaytar is. The Russian is stuck in his pit box for too long.
Two hours are still to be raced, but Caldarelli and later Christian Engelhart are already in the clear. The gap to the SMP Ferrari in second, although not getting any bigger, is ample, and starting each stint on sticker-new tyres gives the Lambo the edge over its competitors. When in the later hours Davide Rigon is called in to serve a penalty for overtaking under yellow, the last remaining threat to Engelhart is gone.
Clemens Schmid, running a strong race in the ISR Audi R8 LMS GT3, is ready to take the spoils. The Austrian is successfully fending off attacks from Pier Guidi and with only minutes remaining stands his ground. Everything is in place for him to take the trophy for second place when at high speed his left rear tyre gives up in an explosion of rubber and bodywork. The drama for the 26-year-old elevates Pier Guidi into second, while AMG, represented by HTP Motorsport drivers Jimmy Eriksson, Franck Perera and Maximilian Buhk, moves up to third.
Engelhart, meanwhile, continues on undisturbed by any of it. Two years since Lamborghini rushed the GT3 scene with an astonishing victory in Monza—one that was taken away hours after the race and returned only in the summer of 2015—the Squadra Corse repeats its win in Brianza. Under the roar of the crowd the German drives the Lambo into parc fermé where he is welcomed by the elated Bortolotti and Caldarelli.
Back in 2015, the Grasser team couldn't continue its form into the later parts of the season, only taking an additional Blancpain GT win at the end of the 2016 season despite often stealing the show throughout the two years in the category. With all the lessons learnt, now is the time for the Austrian-Italian alliance to double down on its homeland victory and expand the Italian stronghold abroad.
Andrea Caldarelli: "I didn't see anything in front of me and just went all inside"
Nürburgring 24 Hours highlights video
Blancpain GT Paul Ricard race report: Bentley seals spectacular victory
Racing the globe: Christian Krognes reviews his 2019 season
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Strategy and organizational performance are the heart of the updated framework.
As enterprise risk management (ERM) has become popular in the past two decades, organizations have been trying to implement a program that makes all stakeholders satisfied that they are "doing risk management right." The problem is ERM is not a program. In fact, it is not a department nor a process, either. ERM — or more generically "risk management" — is an integral component of decision-making. It is a set of skills, approaches, competencies, tools, culture, and more that do not stand alone, but are part of all that an organization does. Unfortunately, many organizations don't execute risk management well and suffer the consequences.
The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) recently published an update to its 2004 COSO ERM framework. The name of the 2017 version says it all: Enterprise Risk Management–Integrating With Strategy and Performance. Risk management is all about strategy and performance.


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Tropical Storm Isaac Passes Lesser Antilles, Heads for Western Caribbean
by Matt Turner |
Sep 13, 2018 11:30am
Tropical Storm Isaac is just 50 miles southwest of Dominica and 100 miles south-southwest of Guadeloupe, according to the latest update from the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The storm is currently moving at 20 mph towards the west with maximum sustained winds at 45 mph.
The NHC says, on the forecast track, Isaac should move farther away from the Lesser Antilles Thursday, before moving across the eastern and central Caribbean Sea through the weekend. The NHC adds that little change in strength is expected over the next several hours as Isaac moves through the Leeward Islands, and that gradual weakening is forecast after that, as Isaac moves through the eastern Caribbean.
Hazards affecting land include rainfall of from eight to 10 inches over Dominica (in isolated areas), up to six inches over elevated terrain across Martinique and Guadeloupe, as well as the southeast of Puerto Rico. Additional islands, which includes the U.S. Virgin Islands, can see two to four inches of rain with the possibility of flash flooding.
The NHC has also released the following watches and warnings:
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for:
A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for:
Saba and St. Eustatius
St. Martin and St. Maarten
Isaac is expected to remain a tropical storm through Monday, when it will have passed Jamaica and will be south of Cuba.
Accuweather adds that impacts from Isaac include flooding rains, damaging winds, rough seas and coastal flooding. While the NHC expects Isaac to remain at its current strength or weaken, Accuweather warns there is the potential for it to strengthen to a hurricane over the weekend.
"Waters remain very warm over the western Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico," says AccuWeather senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski. "Provided wind shear is low, there is the potential for Isaac to gain strength and possibly ramp up to a hurricane before approaching any land in along the U.S. Gulf Coast next week."
Isaac to Bring Tropical Storm Conditions to Martinique, Dominica and Guadeloupe
Tropical Storm Olivia Passes Hawaii; Flash Floods Still Possible
Hurricane Florence to Hit Carolinas Late Thursday
Trio of Storms to Disrupt Travel in Southeast, Caribbean and Hawaii
Destination Information Weather Natural Disasters Hurricane Isaac U.S. National Hurricane Center Travel to Dominica Guadeloupe Travel Martinique Caribbean Travel to US Virgin Islands Visit Puerto Rico St Maarten Travel to Antigua Barbuda Montserrat Travel Saint Kitts & Nevis Saba St. Eustatius St Martin Cuba Tourism Jamaica Tourism
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NERSC supercomputers used to validate fusion research
An international team of researchers has used the US National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) supercomputers to research the 'bootstrap' current, which could lead to more affordable and sustainable magnetic confinement fusion reactors.
In principle, fusion reactors hold the promise of almost limitless and relatively clean energy. However, the critical step is confining the plasma so that fusion can take place. One approach to this process is magnetic confinement, the use of strong magnetic fields to keep the plasma from touching the vessel walls.
However, the plasma's central temperature and density are constantly fluctuating, and it can be completely disrupted by plasma instabilities.
However, if the pressure of the plasma varies across the radius of the vessel, a self-generated current will spontaneously arise within the plasma—a phenomenon known as the bootstrap current, which can help with confinement.
The researchers have modelled the bootstrap current, with the aim of reducing or eliminating the need for an external current driver and thus paving the way to a more cost-effective fusion reactor.
Matt Landreman, research associate at the University of Maryland's Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, collaborated with two research groups to develop and run new codes at NERSC that more accurately calculate this self-generated current. They published their findings for tokamak designs in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and a separate set of analyses for stellarators in Physics of Plasmas.
The Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion paper focuses on plasma behaviour in tokamak reactors using PERFECT (Pedestal and Edge Radially-global Fokker-Planck Evaluation of Collisional Transport), a code Landreman wrote. Details on the code can be found in a paper entitled 'Radially global δf computation of neoclassical phenomena in a tokamak pedestal.'
PERFECT was designed to examine the plasma edge, a region of the tokamak where the current's behaviour is less well understood. Before PERFECT, other codes were used to predict the flows and bootstrap current in the central plasma by solving equations on the assumption that the gradients of density and temperature were gradual.
Landreman said: 'The problem with the plasma edge is that the gradients are very strong, so these previous codes are not necessarily valid in the edge, where we must solve a more complicated equation. PERFECT was built to solve such an equation.'
An example of this is can be found when comparing the edge of the plasma current to the inner part of the current. There is a fairly gradual gradient of the density and temperature in the middle, 'but at the edge there is a fairly big jump in density and temperature—what people call the edge pedestal. What is different about PERFECT is that we are trying to account for some of this very strong radial variation,' Landreman explained.
Landreman said: 'My co-authors had previously done some analytic calculations to predict how the plasma flow and heat flux would change in the pedestal region compared to places where radial gradients aren't as strong. We used PERFECT to test these calculations with a brute force numerical calculation at NERSC, and found that they agreed really well. The analytic calculations provide insight into how the plasma flow and heat flux will be affected by these strong radial gradients.'
'One of the unique things about plasmas is that there is often a complicated interaction between where particles are in space and their velocity,' Landreman added.
'To understand some of their interesting and complex behaviours, we have to solve an equation that takes into account both the position and the velocity of the particle,' Landreman said. 'That is the core of what these computations are designed to do.'
In the Physics of Plasmas study, the researchers used a second code, SFINCS, to focus on related calculations in a stellarator, where the magnetic configuration differs from that of a tokamak. In a stellarator the magnetic field is not axisymmetric, meaning that it looks different as you circle around the doughnut hole. Landreman commented: 'A tokamak is to a stellarator as a standard doughnut is to a cruller.' (Crullers are twisted pastry 'dunking sticks'.)
Although the stellarator has been less popular that the tokamak since the 1970s, difficulties with the tokamak have meant that the stellarator has regained favour with three more recent projects: the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) in Germany; the Helically Symmetric Experiment in the USA; and the Large Helical Device in Japan.
Landreman said: 'In the W7-X design, the amount of plasma current has a strong effect on where the heat is exhausted to the wall. So at Max Planck they are very concerned about exactly how much self-generated current there will be when they turn on their machine. Based on a prediction for this current, a set of components called the "divertor" was located inside the vacuum vessel to accept the large heat exhaust. But if the plasma makes more current than expected, the heat will come out in a different location, and you don't want to be surprised.'
'The previous code made an approximation that you could basically ignore all the dynamics in one of the dimensions (particle speed), thereby reducing 4D to 3D,' Landreman explained. 'Now that computers are faster, we can test how good this approximation was. What we found was that basically the old code was pretty accurate and that the predictions made for this bootstrap current are about right.'
Landreman said: 'The codes in these two papers are looking at the average plasma flow and average rate at which particles escape from the confinement, and it turns out that plasma in a curved magnetic field will generate some average electric current on its own. Even if you aren't trying to drive a current, if you take the hydrogen and heat it up and confine it in a curved magnetic field, it creates this current that turns out to be very important. If we ever want to make a tokamak fusion plant down the road, for economic reasons the plasma will have to supply a lot of its own current.'
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is located at the Oakland Scientific Facility (OSF) of the US National Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California. The calculations for both studies were run on Hopper and Edison using some additional NERSC resources, Landreman noted.
Hopper, a Cray XE6 was the NERSC's first petaflop system and Edison is the NERSC's latest Cray system, based on a Cray XC30. Hopper has a peak performance of 1.28 Petaflops per second, 153,216 compute cores, 212 Terabytes of memory, and 2 Petabytes of storage. Edison delivers a peak performance of 2.57 petaflops per second, 133,824 compute cores, 357 terabytes of memory, and 7.56 petabytes of storage.
NERSC


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Cinnober Financial Technology AB
Cinnober Financial Technology, now part of Nasdaq, is a world-leading supplier of financial technology. Founded in Sweden in 1998, the company has offices in Stockholm, Umeå and London. Cinnober provides solutions and services to leading trading and clearing venues, including exchanges, clearinghouses, banks and brokers. Cinnober's solutions are largely based on the TRADExpress™ Platform, incorporating everything needed for mission-critical solutions in terms of performance, robustness and flexibility. The portfolio of offerings includes price discovery and matching, real-time risk management, clearing and settlement, index calculation, data distribution and market surveillance. Cinnober's customers include the Asia Pacific Exchange, Australian Securities Exchange, B3, Bitstamp, Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange, Euronext, Japan Exchange Group, Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the London Metal Exchange, LME Clear, NYSE, OCC and the Stock Exchange of Thailand. Cinnober's shares are traded on the Nasdaq First North exchange and the company's Certified Advisor is FNCA Sweden AB. For additional information, please visit group.cinnober.com.
Cinnober's website
We are delighted to maintain the relationship with SIX Swiss Exchange and welcome their remote members on to the TRADEcho platform. This demonstrates our intention to expand TRADEcho services beyond EU jurisdictions to provide our clients with straightforward solutions in an increasingly complex regulatory landscape.
Jamie Khurshid
Cinnober finds itself in an expansionary phase in which we are continuing to reap success in our traditional segments: exchanges and clearinghouses. In 2016, we expanded and recruited continuously to meet growing demand. At the same time, we are investing in future growth through expanded target groups, mainly through reporting services, as well as clearing and risk solutions targeted at international banks and brokerages.
Veronica Augustsson
In summary, Cinnober is currently in a phase of expansion. We are investing in the new business areas client clearing and trade reporting services, while growing in our traditional segment consisting of exchanges and clearinghouses. The third quarter can be summed up with a clear improvement in profitability and an operating profit of SEK 7.8 million. I view the future with great confidence and optimism – a future in which we build a broader and stronger product portfolio within fintech.
Cinnober is currently in a phase of expansion. We are growing and have taken on large projects, which have impacted profitability negatively. At the same time, we are focusing on broadening the product portfolio and expanding our market through investments in real-time clearing, client clearing and the reporting service for OTC transactions. The fact that our operations now rest on four pillars, all with considerable potential, means that we continue to see a bright future.
We're the inventor of real-time clearing and for the past five years we've been the completely dominant supplier to the global community of clearinghouses. We will also be strengthening our position and broadening our customer base to include CSD:s. This is a natural step for us as we broaden our offerings along the value chain. CSD technology is as outdated as clearing technology and we are looking forward to revolutionizing this arena too.
The real-time clearing of listed derivatives, paired with sophisticated risk monitoring across all asset classes, are important milestones in our next generation clearing system. This will take our services to the next level and strengthen our position in a global and very competitive market.
Hiroyuki Shibuya, CIO of JPX
We're truly proud of our collaboration with JPX on the modernization of the Japanese post trade markets. The partnership has now been expanded to include a highly-innovative risk management solution, which underlines the great start we've made on this journey. Building an improved, safer, and even more efficient Japanese market, using new, cutting-edge technology, will give JPX a solid and global competitive advantage.
Veronica Augustsson, CEO of Cinnober
We are proud to work with Cinnober as our partner to deliver our next generation clearing system, in which we are making a major strategic investment following a detailed analysis and selection process.
With our combined strengths and complementary services, the partnership offers a one-stop shop to help ease the ever increasing and complex regulatory burden.
Jamie Khurshid, CEO of Boat Services Ltd
This exciting project is a perfect match, as Cinnober's widely deployed technology complements our business concept in an outstanding way.
Simon Nathanson, Chairman of Cryex Clearing AB
As financial markets have become increasingly global, intertwined and complex, awareness of system quality should be more important than ever.
This complements our existing technology capabilities and will primarily be delivered as a service through our subsidiary 'Boat Services'. Ancoa's ability to integrate non-standardised data sources into their surveillance platform, including electronic and voice communications as well as news and social media sources, are key to the surveillance needs of the banking segment.
Veronica Augustsson, CEO
Boat's primary purpose of ensuring regulatory compliance is as relevant as ever as MiFID II and MiFIR implementation advances.
Jamie Khurshid, CEO of Boat Services
A major project like this requires a partner with a strong track record across a range of markets. This solution will give ASX greater flexibility and allow us to add functions and services faster. We look forward to building a strong partnership with Cinnober.
Tim Thurman, Chief Information Officer of ASX
This initiative will allow us to boost the competitiveness of our existing and recently launched products, and will be the springboard for expansion into new derivative products and asset classes.
Lee Hodgkinson, Head of Markets and Global Sales at Euronext.
We are delighted that BOAT has enabled MMT reporting and we look forward to working closely with them and other actors going forward.
Simon Gallagher, Chair of the MMT Steering Committee.
One of our first priorities was to add MMT functionality in order to strengthen the quality of our offering.
The BOAT platform has huge potential for further development and the demand for a continued service and a broader offering is very high according to discussions we've had with customers
We believe the sale of BOAT to Cinnober is in the best interests of customers as it provides a seamless transition for their trading reporting requirements. We have a long-standing relationship with Cinnober and are pleased that they will continue to provide the service
Mark Schaedel, Managing Director of Equities at Markit
We see BOAT as a perfect fit for us to be able to offer world-class technology and services to the banking and broking communities using this service
We welcome the seamless transition and a continuity of service offering this transaction offers, which enables our mutual members to continue to meet their reporting obligations
Christian Katz, CEO of SIX Swiss Exchange
The selection of Cinnober provides unique opportunities when it comes to implementing a strong surveillance methodology to multiple financial trading actors.
Dimitris Karaiskakis, Chief Operating Officer at Hellenic Exchanges Group
A comprehensive and flexible system solution is very much decisive for being able to maintain a leading market position
Charamporn Jotikasthira, SET President
Modern clearing requirements and the evolving regulatory landscape result in significant technology demands for exchanges worldwide.
Riaan van Wamelen, CIO of JSE
JSE is an important national exchange with significant influence in the region, and places high demands on modern technology with high quality and true real-time capacity.
Our intention is to create a modern and flexible solution that meets market demands for functionality, reliability and conformance with current and future compliance and regulatory changes.
Mike Greenacre, CEO of Autilla
This is the start of an extremely interesting journey, where Autilla stands for an innovative move to capture the opportunity presented by markets undergoing regulatory change. This evolving landscape means lower entry barriers and a larger role for technology, which is exactly where Cinnober adds value.
We look forward to working together with Azul on further developing Java for financial IT – improving latency and adding features, functionality and add-ons faster to build competitive advantages.
Flexibility, extensibility, performance and cost-efficiency are key system requirements for clearing banks to stay competitive and develop attractive clearing services as the new regulatory landscape evolves
This will be the first centrally cleared equity repo system in the US.
Pat Cestaro III, CEO of Quadriserv
We are proud and happy about strengthening our long cooperation with Quadriserv, and we're looking forward to offering the repo market a technical solution of the highest quality — and continuing to contribute to confidence in markets in general.
Regulators have been asking the industry to address vulnerabilities in the short-term funding market since the crisis in 2008. We believe our platform will supplement those industry efforts.
This innovation really captures the best of two worlds; it enables extremely low and predictable latency while not compromising the richness and sophistication of system functionality at all.
We constantly improve our TRADExpress platform, and this innovation will have noticeable impact on latency predictability and system speed for our trading, risk and clearing system customers.
Our priority is to implement a market surveillance system that not only meets the monitoring requirements of the SEF new regulations, but also exceeds Javelin's own internal expectations of high levels of trading integrity to protect its customers.
James Cawley, CEO of Javelin
The new regulations require scalable surveillance technology that can handle the entire monitoring process, from the identification of market abuse to presentable evidence.
It is a great and extremely exciting challenge to take over the reins. Both when it comes to the operations and our objective of acting as a catalyst for building up a financial IT cluster in the region.
Jonas Engman, CEO of Cinnober North
It is important to attract and retain talented people and it is therefore particularly pleasing that Jonas, who knows the operations inside out, has chosen to advance within the company. With this, we are also creating better conditions to drive urgent ventures, such as cluster-building and our new trainee program.
This is a fantastic opportunity for me to continue my education at a company like Cinnober.
Robin Norberg, trainee at Cinnober
We aim to make this trainee program the best in our industry, so it feels very inspiring to kick off with such a highly skilled group.
Now that we have sifted our way to top talents, we are as excited as the trainees are about the program. Since we are managing two entry programs a year, we will open the next application period in October, with a start in January.
Christina Jacobsson, HR Director at Cinnober
We see great potential in terms of both our own operations and regional development here in Västerbotten.
Veronica Augustsson, CEO at Cinnober
Furthermore, we come in contact with many young and talented people who we want to offer something very special. The goal is for the trainee program to be classified as the absolute top program in our industry in the near future.
Vi ser stor potential när det gäller såväl vår egen verksamhet som den regionala utvecklingen i Västerbotten.
Veronica Augustsson, VD på Cinnober
Genom den nya satsningen kommer vi också i kontakt med många unga talanger och dessa vill vi erbjuda något väldigt speciellt. Målet är att trainee-utbildningen inom en snar framtid ska klassas som det absoluta topprogrammet i vår bransch.
One of the reasons we are attracting the best talents is that employees have a say in what happens here.
Our ambition is to attract and keep the best talents, and this ranking shows that our company culture is recognized as creating a great place to work, which we are very proud of. As in earlier years, we also have invaluable input in the areas where we can improve even further
Christina Jacobsson, Head of Human Resources
We are delighted to have completed the implementation of our new technology infrastructure. The feedback we have received from our Members and the wider trading community has been very encouraging. The new trading technology provides cost effective services and enables Members to place, cancel and modify all their orders quickly, substantially enhancing overall efficiency and reducing risks. DGCX has ambitious growth plans and we are confident that the new platform will support the expected volume growth and the launch of new and innovative products on the Exchange.
Gary Anderson, CEO of DGCX
The new customized exchange platform, including trading, clearing and surveillance, will provide DGCX Members with a cutting-edge trading interface and state-of-the-art functionalities, and most importantly will enable them to monitor risk in real time. We are proud that our strategic collaboration will support DGCX's leadership role in developing and shaping the regional derivatives market.
It's a natural step for Cinnober to widen our market to include large investment banks and brokers, as we see that their technology requirements are very similar to those of exchanges and clearinghouses
Boat Services partners with KiteEdge to offer innovative search tool, Apex, to clients
Mon, Sep 25, 2017 12:00 CET
Today (25 September 2017), Boat Services have announced a partnership agreement with KiteEdge to offer Apex, a next generation customisable search layer, to clients.KiteEdge provides asset managers with the tools to find, collaborate, and leverage content across complex, multi-asset, siloed organizations and helps firms meet their MiFID II regulatory/transparency requirements. KiteEdge's Apex solution will be available to Boat clients by the end of Q4. "We are pleased that Boat Services have recognized the potential of KiteEdge and appreciate the
TRADEcho launches MiFID II Smart Report Router
Thu, Jan 26, 2017 11:00 CET
Boat Services and London Stock Exchange's TRADEcho service opens its innovative open access Smart Report Router (SRR) bringing choice to the market placeMiFID II brings many challenges to buy and sell-side investment firms, not least, the requirement to publish trades to the market as close to real time as possible. The Smart Report Router determines if and when the buy or sell side counterparty should publish the trade, and where there is a requirement it routes that trade to an Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) of choice for publication. The SRR is APA agnostic allowing firms to
Boat to support industry with MiFID II transparency solution
Complexity of Europe's new trading transparency regime addressed by new offeringBoat Services Ltd , independent OTC trade reporting service provider, has announced that it will apply for approved publication arrangement (APA) authorization under MiFID II. This means that Boat will offer publication services for all MiFID II instrument classes, including bonds, structured finance products, derivatives and emission allowances. As banks and brokers experience the headaches and cost burdens of staying compliant with MiFID II, Boat's intention is


WHAT in Britain is usually called 'the Alternative Vote' is a system for electing to single-member constituencies. In Australia it is called 'preferential voting'; but in this book we may refer to it by the abbreviation AV. It is an adaptation for a single ballot of an elimination system in which successive ballots are held, each requiring the electors to vote for just one candidate. If, in the first ballot, no candidate secures an absolute majority, the candidate obtaining the fewest votes is eliminated, and a second ballot held between the remainder. If still no candidate secures an absolute majority, the candidate obtaining the fewest votes in this ballot is now eliminated, and a third ballot is held; the ballots continue in this way until some candidate does obtain an absolute majority of the votes, when he is declared elected.
Publication information: Book title: Principles of Electoral Reform. Contributors: Michael Dummett - Author. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of publication: Oxford. Publication year: 1997. Page number: 89.


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Anniversary of the first OU programme on Radio 3
The first OU programme on Radio 3 was Arts Foundation Course 1, broadcast on 11 January 1971 between 7 and 7.30pm. Open House, 7th January, 1971, reported that the initial broadcast was repeated on Radio 4 on 17th January. Professor Asa Briggs, then the vice-chancellor of Sussex University, told the story of how the Humanities had changed over the years and Professor Ferguson examined the OU's interdisciplinary approach. Derek Hart raised some questions. Programme 2 (January 18th, repeated January 24) was about the culture of Western Nigeria. The work of Yoruba playwright Wole Soyinka was examined and some dramatised excepts were broadcast. Although Peter Laslett argued that 'The Third Programme was not intended for education at all. There was a strong feeling against education in the original Third', the Talks producer, Prudence Smith said that she saw
a link between the Third and the Open University. Two of us from the original Third Programme, Helen Rapp and myself were appointed to train the new intake of producers ─ young graduates, straight from university ─ for the Open University. We'd both spent most of our BBC careers in the Third and we naturally brought it to bear on it the experiences gathered there. Also those Third Programme meetings, where ideas were discussed, were simulated at the Open University by the way in which the academics and broadcasters sat at the same table ─ it wasn't the academics telling the broadcasters what to do. The broadcasters themselves often moulded what was in the academic mind, That was the Third Programme tradition. Humphrey Carpenter with research by Jennifer Doctor, The envy of the world. Fifty years of the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3. 1946-1996,Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1996, p.264. In interviews with Smith and with Laslett recorded in 1995.
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2019 Super Sentai Rumors - Theme and Color Lineup Leaked?
It may be too soon, but we may already be getting hints for next year's sentai team!
Before anything else, we'd like to remind everyone that these are only rumors, so take everything with a grain of salt.
According to Rangerwiki's post, Lupinranger VS Patranger episode 32 may have dropped hints as to what kind of sentai team we'll be getting next year based on the Lupin Collection pieces featured.
While keeping the traditional red and blue, we may be getting orange, violet, and gold as regular members as well, making this team unique. It also seems that we're going to see the return of phone-based changers.
What do you guys think about this possible lineup? What kind of theme do you have in mind? Let us know in the comments.
Really? Really? This is your basis? This is just... dumb.
Say, don't those silhouettes look like Bioman? Those helmet shapes looks a lot like the Bioman helmets.
Honestly the dumbest post I've seen this place publish.
I know? Will there be Turbo Sentai Raceranger vs. Turbine Sentai Go-Racers a true sequel to Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger so they can find a V-Cinema special in 2019, will that be wonderful from Toei Company?
All of these phones (even if they are from Super Sentai) remind me of the show Keitai Sousakan 7. A really great show involving transforming phones that do various things including combining with the main robot phone.
As for the team colors involved, I think that would be a stretch, since Gold is usually reserved for the Sixth Ranger(s). Though it would be interesting if they used orange and purple/violet instead of yellow and pink; something completely different from the norm.
Kinda grasping at straws here. I'm gonna say this is a funny coincidence for now.
@Anon2 - Gold has already been used as a regular member color for Tenbin Gold. It may go in that direction if ever this actually happens.
@Anon4 - Yes. I know. I've seen the episode.
To everyone else - I've already said beforehand that these are ONLY rumors. Nothing is true unless proven.
@Anon4 The orange one is a sushi changer and no prop from Gaorangers were used here.
I find this to be rather interesting idea having secondary colors as part of a core team. But I think Toei might come up with something way more unique.
As long as there's 1 female and 4 males. My opinion; 2 females are getting old.


Under provisions of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to establish Sanctuary Advisory Councils. The Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary established a new Council on October 3, 2001.
The Sanctuary Advisory Council (SAC) is a community-based body that advises the Sanctuary Superintendent on issues relevant to the effective implementation of the Sanctuary Management Plan. The Council is the formal organizational link to the Sanctuary's user community and others interested in the management of this nationally significant area of the marine environment.
• Serving as a forum for consultation and deliberation among its members and as a source of consensus advice to the Superintendent.
For more information about the Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary Advisory Council, please refer to the Charter.


Russian scammer Zatsepina from Samara. Scam check.
Zatsepina from Samara a russian scammer?
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Wrapper around the CoreNLP parser

The module expects CORENLP_HOME to point to the CoreNLP installation dir.

If run with all annotators, it requires around 3G of memory,
and it will keep the process in memory indefinitely.

See: http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/corenlp.shtml#Download

Tested with
http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/stanford-corenlp-full-2014-01-04.zip
"""

import datetime
from io import StringIO
import itertools
import logging
import os
import os.path
import re
import subprocess
import threading
import time

from six import iteritems

from unidecode import unidecode

log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

_CORENLP_VERSION = None

class StanfordCoreNLP(object):

    _singletons = {}  # annotators : object

    @classmethod
    def get_singleton(cls, annotators=None, **options):
        """
        Get or create a corenlp parser with the given annotator and options
        Note: multiple parsers with the same annotator and different options
              are not supported.
        """
        if annotators is not None:
            annotators = tuple(annotators)
        if annotators not in cls._singletons:
            cls._singletons[annotators] = cls(annotators, **options)
        return cls._singletons[annotators]

    def __init__(self, annotators=None, timeout=1000, memory="3G"):
        """
        Start the CoreNLP server with a system call.

        @param annotators: Which annotators to use, e.g.
                           ["tokenize", "ssplit", "pos", "lemma"]
        @param memory: Java heap memory to use
        """
        global _CORENLP_VERSION
        self.annotators = annotators
        self.memory = memory
        _CORENLP_VERSION = get_corenlp_version()
        self.start_corenlp()

    def start_corenlp(self):
        cmd = get_command(memory=self.memory, annotators=self.annotators)
        self.corenlp_process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True,
                                                stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
                                                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                                                stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
        self.lock = threading.Lock()
        self.out_lines = []
        self.read_thread = threading.Thread(target=self.read_output_lines)
        self.read_thread.daemon = True
        self.read_thread.start()
        self.communicate(input=None)

    def read_output_lines(self):
        "intended to be run as background thread to collect parser output"
        while True:
            line = self.corenlp_process.stdout.readline()
            if line == '':  # EOF
                break
            self.out_lines.append(line.strip())

    def communicate(self, input):
        if self.corenlp_process.poll() is not None:
            logging.warn("CoreNLP process died, respawning")
            self.start_corenlp()
        with self.lock:
            self.out_lines = []

            if input:
                self.corenlp_process.stdin.write(input)
                self.corenlp_process.stdin.write("\n\n")
                self.corenlp_process.stdin.flush()

            # wait until we get a prompt
            err_buffer = StringIO()
            while True:
                err_buffer.write(self.corenlp_process.stderr.read(1))
                err_buffer.seek(-5, 2)
                if err_buffer.read() == "NLP> ":
                    break

        # give stdout a chance to flush
        # is there a better way to do this?
        time.sleep(.1)
        return self.out_lines

    def parse(self, text):
        """Call the server and return the raw results."""
        if isinstance(text, bytes):
            text = text.decode("ascii")
        text = re.sub("\s+", " ", unidecode(text))
        return self.communicate(text + "\n")

def parse(text, annotators=None, **options):
    s = StanfordCoreNLP.get_singleton(annotators, **options)
    return s.parse(text, **options)

def get_corenlp_version():
    "Return the corenlp version pointed at by CORENLP_HOME, or None"
    corenlp_home = os.environ.get("CORENLP_HOME")
    if corenlp_home:
        for fn in os.listdir(corenlp_home):
            m = re.match("stanford-corenlp-([\d.]+)-models.jar", fn)
            if m:
                return m.group(1)

def get_command(annotators=None, memory=None):
    "Return the system (shell) call to run corenlp"
    corenlp_home = os.environ.get("CORENLP_HOME")
    if not corenlp_home:
        raise Exception("CORENLP_HOME not set")
    cmd = 'java'
    if memory:
        cmd += ' -Xmx{memory}'.format(**locals())
    cmd += ' -cp "{}"'.format(os.path.join(corenlp_home, "*"))
    cmd += " edu.stanford.nlp.pipeline.StanfordCoreNLP"
    if annotators:
        cmd += ' -annotators {}'.format(",".join(annotators))
    return cmd

def stanford_to_saf(lines):
    """
    Convert stanfords 'interactive' text format to saf
    Unfortunately, stanford cannot return xml in interactive mode, so we
    need to parse their plain text format
    """
    processed = {'module': "corenlp",
                 'module-version': _CORENLP_VERSION,
                 "started": datetime.datetime.now().isoformat()}
    saf = {'header': {'format': "SAF",
                      'format-version': "0.0",
                      'processed': [processed]},
           'trees': [],
           'dependencies': [],
           'coreferences': [],
           'entities': []
           }
    tokens = {}  # sentence_no, index -> token

    def _regroups(pattern, text, **kargs):
        m = re.match(pattern, text, **kargs)
        if not m:
            raise Exception("Pattern {pattern!r} did not match text {text!r}"
                            .format(**locals()))
        return m.groups()

    while True:  # parse one sentence
        # skip leading blanks
        lines = itertools.dropwhile(lambda x: not x, lines)
        try:
            line = lines.next()
        except StopIteration:
            break  # done!
        if line == "Coreference set:":
            break  # skip to corefs
        sentence_no = int(_regroups("Sentence #\s*(\d+)\s+", line)[0])
        text = lines.next()

        log.debug("Parsing sentence {sentence_no}: {text!r}"
                  .format(**locals()))

        # Parse tokens
        for i, s in enumerate(re.findall('\[([^\]]+)\]', lines.next())):
            wd = dict(re.findall(r"([^=\s]*)=([^=\s]*)", s))
            tokenid = len(tokens) + 1
            token = dict(id=tokenid, word=wd['Text'], lemma=wd['Lemma'],
                         pos=wd['PartOfSpeech'], sentence=sentence_no,
                         offset=wd["CharacterOffsetBegin"])
            token['pos1'] = POSMAP[token['pos']]
            tokens[sentence_no, i] = token
            if wd.get('NamedEntityTag', 'O') != 'O':
                saf['entities'].append(dict(tokens=[tokenid],
                                            type=wd['NamedEntityTag']))
        # try to peek ahead to see if we have more than tokens
        lines, copy = itertools.tee(lines)
        try:
            peek = copy.next()
            if peek.startswith("Sentence #"):
                continue  # no tree/dependencies, skip to next sentence
        except StopIteration:
            break  # done!

        # Extract original tree
        tree = " ".join(itertools.takewhile(lambda x: x, lines))
        saf['trees'].append(dict(sentence=sentence_no, tree=tree))

        def parse_dependency(line):
            rfunc, parent, child = _regroups(RE_DEPENDENCY, line)
            if rfunc != 'root':
                parent, child = [tokens[sentence_no, int(j)-1]['id']
                                 for j in (parent, child)]
                saf['dependencies'].append(dict(child=child, parent=parent,
                                                relation=rfunc))
        # parse dependencies until blank line
        map(parse_dependency, itertools.takewhile(lambda x: x, lines))

    # get coreferences
    def get_coreference(lines):
        for line in itertools.takewhile(lambda l: l != "Coreference set:",
                                        lines):
            if line.strip():
                groups = _regroups(RE_COREF, line)
                yield [map(int, re.sub("[^\\d,]", "", s).split(","))
                       for s in groups]
    while True:
        corefs = list(get_coreference(lines))
        if not corefs:
            break
        for coref in corefs:
            sets = []
            for sent_index, head_index, from_index, to_index in coref:
                # take all nodes from .. to, place head first (False<True)
                indices = sorted(range(from_index, to_index),
                                 key=lambda i: (i != head_index, i))
                sets.append([tokens[sent_index, i-1]['id'] for i in indices])
            saf['coreferences'].append(sets)

    # add tokens and drop empty placeholders
    saf['tokens'] = tokens.values()
    return {k: v for (k, v) in iteritems(saf) if v}

RE_DEPENDENCY = "(\w+)\(.+-([0-9']+), .+-([0-9']+)\)"
RE_COREF = r'\s*\((\S+)\) -> \((\S+)\), that is: \".*\" -> \".*\"'
POSMAP = {'CC': 'C',
          'CD': 'Q',
          'DT': 'D',
          'EX': '?',
          'FW': 'N',
          'IN': 'P',
          'JJ': 'A',
          'JJR': 'A',
          'JJS': 'A',
          'LS': 'C',
          'MD': 'V',
          'NN': 'N',
          'NNS': 'N',
          'NNP': 'M',
          'NNPS': 'M',
          'PDT': 'D',
          'POS': 'O',
          'PRP': 'O',
          'PRP$': 'O',
          'RB': 'B',
          'RBR': 'B',
          'RBS': 'B',
          'RP': 'R',
          'SYM': '.',
          'TO': '?',
          'UH': '!',
          'VB': 'V',
          'VBD': 'V',
          'VBG': 'V',
          'VBN': 'V',
          'VBP': 'V',
          'VBZ': 'V',
          'WDT': 'D',
          'WP': 'O',
          'WP$': 'O',
          'WRB': 'B',
          ',': '.',
          '.': '.',
          ':': '.',
          '``': '.',
          '$': '.',
          "''": '.',
          "#": '.',
          '-LRB-': '.',
          '-RRB-': '.',
          }


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