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Manhattan se referă la Insula Manhattan, care cuprinde cea mai mare parte a cartierului Manhattan (conform, [the] Borough of Manhattan), unul din cele cinci diviziuni (cartiere, engl. boroughs) ale orașului New York. Centru comercial, financiar și cultural al orașului, Manhattanul are numeroase locuri bine cunoscute, atracții turistice, muzee și universități. Este de asemenea locul unde se află sediul central al Națiunilor Unite și sediul Guvernului Orășenesc.

Cartierul Manhattan se învecinează cu Comitatul New York, cel mai dens populat comitat din SUA. Adresele poștale de pe raza cartierului sunt desemnate "New York, NY."

Manhattan-ul posedă cel mai mare cartier de afaceri din Statele Unite, fiind și sediul majoritații centrelor de afaceri ale orașului și al Bursei din New York. Deși populația sa este doar a treia ca mărime dintre cele cinci cartiere, după Brooklyn și Queens, iar din punct de vedere geografic este cel mai mic, Manhattan-ul este cartierul identificat de mulți turiști cu orașul New York.

Rețeaua de străzi este de forma unei table de șah, cu străzi orientate est-vest și nord-sud, întretăiate în unghi de 90°. Există 155 străzi est-vest și 12 străzi nord-sud.

Personalități marcante
 Lou Gehrig (1903 - 1941), jucător de baseball;
 William Bendix (1906 - 1964), actor;
 Murray Gell-Mann (1929 - 2019), fizician, Premiul Nobel pentru Fizică;
 Robert Christgau (n. 1942), jurnalist;
 Sigourney Weaver (n. 1949), actriță;
 Palade Mihai, medic chirurg neurolog;
 Timothée Chalamet (n. 1995), actor;
 Heath Ledger (1979 - 2008), actor.

Cartierul văzut din Empire State Building

Referințe

Legături externe

Referiri istorice
 New York și originile sale
 Scrisoare din 1626 conform căreia Insula Manhattan a fost cumpărată pentru 60 de guldeni
 Harta Mannados-ului sau Manhattanului în 1661
 Hartă din 1729 a Manhattanului
 Povestea Manhattanului, de Charles Hemstreet.
 Jurnalul de bord al lui Robert Juet. Cele mai vechi informații scrise despre Manhattan.

Ghiduri ale cartierului Manhattan

  Randall's Lost New York City
 New York City Walk

Fotografii și video-uri ale cartierului Manhattan
 New York Daily Photo - un blog cu fotografii din orașul New York
 Fotografii din Manhattan
 New York - orașul uitat
 Fotografii panoramice din Manhattan
 Fotografii din Manhattan

Cartiere din New York
Comitate din statul New York, SUA

Insule ale New York City
New York, New York
Sedii de comitate din New York
Sediile comitatelor din Statele Unite ale Americii
Zona metropolitană New York

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On February 8, 2014, Jerome Murdough, a 56-year-old homeless veteran with service in the U.S. Marine Corps, was arrested in New York City for trespassing after he curled up in an enclosed stairwell on the roof of a Harlem public housing project because it was extremely cold. He was not taken to a shelter but arrested, put through a court arraignment, and, a few hours after his arrest, transported to Manhattan Criminal Court's central booking for processing. There, the arresting officer met with an assistant district attorney assigned to a regular shift in the Early Case Assessment Bureau, who recommended a bond of $3,500 (because the homeless veteran had several failure-to-appear charges), evaluated the case, and decided to charge Murdough with a crime. The arraignment judge ordered bail of $2,500 cash or bond and reset the case for 19 days later so the defense counsel could prepare pretrial motions.


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Curtis Franklin Jr.
Data Center Changes Push Cyber Risk to Network's Edge
Changes in fundamental enterprise architectures coupled with shifts in human resources mean that companies are considering new risks to their infrastructure.
Data centers face a huge increase in compute demand while looking at a precipitous drop in trained IT personnel. Add to those factors executive demand for changes in how data centers are powered, and the stage is set for shifts that could leave server farms, central storage, and enterprise network stacks open to cyberattacks.
These are some of the points raised in a new report looking at the data center in 2025. The report, sponsored by Vertiv, is an update to a report first issued in 2014. In the original report, the data center brain drain was highlighted, with only 56% of survey participants expected to still be in the industry by 2025, and with retirement as the main reason for employees leaving.
But as the new report shows, the problem is much bigger. While the skills shortage in cybersecurity has been well-documented, it's also an overall problem in IT. These shortages in trained IT professionals are looming as the industry sees a change in the way that data centers are structured - a change that may be as large as the shift to cloud computing. Enterprise computing, the new 2019 report says, is heading to the edge.
"Edge computing" in this context is computing that has been pushed closer to users and devices rather than delivering all compute services from central locations. Among organizations who have edge sites today or expect to have edge sites in 2025, more than half (53%) expect the number of edge sites they support to grow by at least 100% between now and then, with 20% expecting a 400% or more increase, according to the report.
Overall, survey participants said that they expect their total number of edge computing sites to grow 226% between now and 2025.
"The pressure on the edge has pushed the requirement for understanding IT applications out into places that that it didn't exist just one generation ago," says Peter Panfil, vice president of global power at Vertiv. "We're going through this generational change and at the same time the industry is undergoing fairly significant changes in the way it's gonna be able to deploy its workforce."
One way organizations are responding to the lack of trained professionals is by increasing the machine intelligence and automation capacity of different components in the data center. "If it's not a smart cluster, it's a smart rack, or a smart row, or a smart aisle where they can have complete flexibility in dropping 'IT-capability delivery systems' into places where before they just didn't have them," Panfil says.
Concerns about whether these more intelligent systems might become an attack vector for the enterprise has had an impact on how the intelligence is deployed. "For example, we offer a feature where we monitor the health of the of the UPS system," he says. "We've got customers who say, 'Nope we are not going to let you even connect to the network.' So the your system has to be self-contained and self optimizing."
"More and more of our customers are saying that a connection into the system is a way for people to get in and fiddle with it in a nefarious way," Panfil says. And that means hard limits on the connectivity physical infrastructure components are allowed.
Fortunately, there are physical infrastructure components that fall into what Panfil calls the "blinking and breathing" part of the operation, akin to the human body's autonomous systems that do things like breathe and blink without conscious intervention.
Even in complex situations like those involving percentages of green power at different times of day, or cooling operations based on ambient temperatures and moment-by-moment energy costs, the data center's physical infrastructure has to be on a self-contained blinking and breathing basis to secure it.
Security-conscious IT executives are in a bind: cloud-based control and automation systems could provide solutions to the functional gaps left by the growing skills shortage. But the network connections to critical infrastructure in the data center are, to many, unacceptable risks. The question is whether the self-contained solutions can provide the proper balance between function and security.
The State of IT Operations and Cybersecurity Operations
4 Reasons Why SOC Superstars Quit
Serverless Computing from the Inside Out
Data Security: Think Beyond the Endpoint
Black Hat USA returns to Las Vegas with hands-on technical Trainings, cutting-edge Briefings, Arsenal open-source tool demonstrations, top-tier security solutions, and service providers in the Business Hall. Click for information on the conference and to register.
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  included do
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  end

  def has_cost?
    expense_item.present?
  end

  # Set up the necessary RegistrantExpenseItems for all registrants
  # which are affected by this CostItem
  def create_for_all_registrants
    raise "Not Implemented"
  end
end

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Track your health and stay fit with M-Health!
family and friends at all time. You can never lose your in-progress data, which making long term commitment to healthier lifestyle something more engaging.
1. During first time login, you will be asked whether you want to synchro-nize your body measurement data with Apple Health Kit and/or Fitbit Account. You can authorize those accounts to collect information from M-Fitness from therein. If you changed your mind afterwards, you can also deauthorize those apps to stop reading data from M-Health.
applied to the calculation of body fat rate/muscle volume/metabolic rate, etc. We ensure that it will not be used for other purposes and always assure that the information required is minimized.


We all suffer a toothache at some point in life. These aches and pains signal a real problem in your mouth. Sometimes the problem is tooth decay or gum disease. Other issues involve trauma to your mouth such as a fall or sports injury. Whatever your reason for oral pain, your dentist provides helpful advice and toothache treatment.
The first question to ask yourself is whether you know if any of these common causes fit your situation. For example, you can possibly identify a decayed tooth by its telltale discoloration, an odd taste around the tooth and pain isolated to that single tooth. Another example, for teeth grinding, involves waking up in the morning with sore teeth or jaw.
When you call your dentist for help, having some idea of where the pain originates helps him understand whether you need urgent dental care. It also helps him know if the tooth problem can wait until the next business day.
Symptoms of your need for toothache treatment include sharp tooth pain that throbs or remains constant. Maybe you only feel pain when applying pressure to your tooth. Sometimes swelling appears around a tooth and causes discomfort, often with a fever or a headache. Another sign of a tooth problem and possible infection is foul-tasting drainage from around the tooth.
Depending on the cause of your toothache, your dentist at Laughlin Dental in Pasadena provides toothache treatment. It's essential to see your dentist if your pain lasts more than one or two days. You also need treatment if the pain proves severe, or if you have a fever, earache, or jaw pain.
Your treatment for a toothache starts with an appointment at your dentist's office. The dentist reviews your medical history and provides an exam. You talk to the dentist about your tooth pain and provide details as answers to his questions. He asks when the pain started, its location in your mouth, how much it hurts, what makes the pain lessen and what makes it feel worse.
For the exam, the dentist looks at your mouth, gums, jaws, teeth, tongue, throat, ears, sinuses, nose and neck. This surprises many people, as they expect only one tooth to gain examination. Instead, your dentist wants to know how the pain started, its extent and whether it involves structures beyond a single tooth.
The treatment for your pain depends on its cause, as identified by the dentist. Often the cause is a cavity. This means your dentist needs to fill the cavity or possibly extract your painful tooth, depending on the extent of the damage. At other times, a root canal works to treat the infected tooth.
Your dentist's biggest concerns are for relieving your pain, treating the cause of that pain and ensuring all infection clears up. Sometimes this involves in-office treatment and a course of antibiotics.
Call Laughlin Dental now at 281-864-0996 to schedule your next routine dental visit or for toothache treatment.


It's not often that I find products from the land of my birth so when I found the Africa Organics brand as I was browsing on Love Lula, I was instantly intrigued and of course had to try them. And they are rather special. At the moment the range is quite small consisting of shampoo, conditioner, body wash and body lotion.
They have wonderful names that bring back memories of growing up in the dusty bushveld filled with flora and fauna with exotic names.
I was instantly drawn to the Kalahari Melon Body Lotion having shot a documentary in this large southern African desert a few years back. I didn't even know there was a Kalahari melon to be honest. I can now tell you it smells delicious with a subtle sweet fruity scent.
The best part of Africa Organics is that the range has serious ecological and organic credentials, with all products vegan and cruelty free and 100% of natural origin.
They use wild-harvested African plants (and Africa has some seriously potent and magical plants) helping to maintain biodiversity and paying fair wages to the rural communities doing the harvesting. In fact South Africa has a quarter of the worlds plant species. Wild harvesting them gives you the full potency of these plants.
Africa can be a harsh place and many plants have to adapt to adverse conditions giving them incredible protective properties. Some of them are the stuff of legend.
Take the Baobab tree. This extraordinary looking tree takes 200 years to bear fruit!! Fortunately Africa has many of these trees and they are being harvested well within the sustainability range.
The packaging of the products is rather sleek and sophisticated (although completely recyclable). The actual contents feel earthy, fresh and natural. A farmers market compared to a supermarket.
They have a home made feel (which in a way they are) and you can sense the rawness of the ingredients.
The Marula Shampoo I used was quite slippy and I had to slap it on my head as quickly as possible. But the result was worth it. I followed with the Marula Conditioner and my hair felt nourished, shiny and glossy. The shampoo has biodegradable foaming agents and contains rooibos and mint oil.
The Marula Body Wash had a very minty flavour to it and is a great perk up in the morning.
Now I just need to get my hands on some of their Baobab products!


Muslims throw firebombs at Jewish school, syangogue, during protests against Tunisian government.
The El Ghriba synagogue, located in Tunisia's Djerba Island, was attacked on Tuesday night by Muslims throwing firebombs.
The Muslims were protesting the Tunisian government.
No one was hurt, but the synagogue was damaged.
Separately, firebombs were thrown at a Jewish school in Djerba. There have been no reports of injuries, but the school itself was lightly damaged.
Recently, violent protests against the Tunisian government have been held, with demonstrators protesting into the night against the country's economic entanglement and price rises.
On Monday, one person was killed in a clash between security forces and protesters west of Tunis. The victim suffered from breathing problems, and choked after breathing in tear gas. A Channel 2 report quoted eyewitnesses as saying that the protest turned violent when security forces attempted to prevent several youths from burning a government building. Five people were injured in the clashes, and taken to hospitals for treatment.


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New Player Forum »
New Player Questions »
my ATS question regarding becoming staff
Author Topic: my ATS question regarding becoming staff (Read 2053 times)
Hey all, so I was rereading my question in 'ask the staff' and I don't know why but it read back sounding immature and sarcastic, which I didn't intend it to be. I'll try to phrase it like an adult (and open it to a wider audience)
what skillsets are required of staff? in particular I'm wondering about coding languages that one needs to learn, etc. does a builder need to know the same things as a storyteller, for example?
azuriolinist
Re: my ATS question regarding becoming staff
I'm not at all qualified to answer this question, but what I read (somewhere in the GDB) was that JavaScript is used to script NPCs and custom actions or whatnot, so that particular language might be good to understand. Besides C, which the game runs on, of course.
cool, good tips! so when a builder job is advertised, would they expect you to be a proficient coder already, or is it something that one could learn by doing? I have some familiarity with both of those languages, but am by no means expert.
Building isn't really scripting, though I'm sure it'd help if you wanted a weapon to screech a lullaby every time it was drawn from its scabbard.
Be a steady, communicative and trustworthy player. Learn about the game and what makes it work and not work. There's really no formula to it save time, experience, and ideally a generous dash of creativity.
"There are no happy endings, because nothing ends." - Schmendrick
Generally with regards to building - it's not the same as coding. Building makes use of existing scripts, templates, commands, created by the coders. So really all you'd need it some patience (not a lot, but at least some!), so that you can learn how to make use of the tools created for you to build.
My primary building experience is with MOO but our coder was amazing in creating tools "on the fly" if I wanted something that (to date) couldn't be done, but that he knew would take a few seconds to whip up for me (such as turning table objects into push/pullable table objects, which made it possible for me to turn a bench into a scripted porch swing). Don't know that the coders here would do stuff like that, but generally speaking - it's the coders who WOULD do that stuff, and the builders who would write up using whatever is already coded.
Talia said: Notice to all: Do not mess with Lizzie's GDB. She will cut you.
Delirium said: Notice to all: do not mess with Lizzie's soap. She will cut you.
Those are all good suggestions.
But the quickest way to become staff is to defeat one of the current staffers in a trial by combat and win the position.
Miradus
Quote from: Yam on February 15, 2018, 09:02:35 PM
Everyone knows you must eat their liver while their heart still beats in order to gain their power.
Grogerif
I thought you had to kill kittens and puppies for practice first? Once you can snuff the life of cute little animal, then you can graduate to PCs. (only virtual kittens and puppies were imagined dead in this post)
ArmageddonMUD is originally based off of DIKU, although fairly early on the author claimed most of the code did not look very DIKU any more. The original author also wrote his own scripting language called Dan's Mud Scripting Language (DMSL). (Caveat: I'm basing this off old usenet posts from the original author [Jhalavar].) At some later date, we've been told that javascript was added. The web-site has php hooks.
So, codewise you are looking at c, javascript, DMSL, and php. However, a builder will usually only have access to an 'abstracted' level of functionality for their building. One of Jhalavar's biggest innovations, in fact, was implementing an 'On-line Creation Tool' for ArmageddonMUD which, at the time, was novel, allowing people to create content online. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_creation)
By the way, a lot of CS classes used to at least have a 'build-a-mud' section of the course, and there's an old CS 'build-a-mud' thing up on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MUDS150/
Also check this out:
http://galacticsoft.github.io/DikuEdit/
Also, I think its been said before, but you don't really need any programming skills to storytell: JUST RAW CREATIVITY AND THE ABILITY TO OLOAD MEKS.
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seidhr
For being regular staff, including builders, there's no required technical skills, beyond a good knowledge of the game, world, and setting. General accountability, reliability, and communication skills are helpful. A little understanding of JavaScript would be helpful but is hardly required.
If you're asking about becoming a coder, that's an entirely different matter. The game is written primarily in C and JavaScript, but we don't just bring on coders. It's kind of a "don't call us, we'll call you" situation.
Very few established games will just accept a volunteer coder they don't know. It's an access thing.
If you want to get your hands dirty with game code though, you can download many different flavors and versions of Diku (my favorite) from the web. Not hard or problematic to get going and you can use a Linux VM to run it on your own computer while you test it out.
Also, if you go to the TMC mud forums, there's dozens of muds out there who are begging for coding help or builders or staff. Most of them are going to have like 3 players but everything starts out somewhere.
A word of caution though ... I've been a coder/builder on three muds so far over the years. You can go over to MUME and see huge swaths of the gameworld I built 20 years ago still in the game. But it also kind of ruins the playing for you. You'll end up with a "staff mud" and a "playing mud" often. Because once you've seen the strings it's very hard to enjoy the puppet show.


Pretty as a picture frill front dress made from dotted vintage wool rayon designer Betty B, in the UK. The dress has a back tie and back to neck zip fastening and sleeves. Hangs to mid thigh, and looks great with black tights and ballet flats for day and peep toe heels for evening. Wear with a long pendant necklace, and if feeling adventurous bright heels to contrast with the dress colour.
Pretty as a picture frill front dress made from dotted vintage wool rayon designer Betty B, in the UK. The dress has a back tie and back to neck zip fastening and sleeves. Hangs to mid thigh, and looks great with black tights and ballet flats for day and peep toe heels for evening. Wear with a long pendant necklace, and if feeling adventurous bright heels to contrast with the dress colour. Dry clean.
This item is proudly eco. Betty B items are made from vintage fabric in the UK. This item is made from vintage rayon/wool.


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Swimming pool receives nod of approval from commission
By MEGHAN BRADBURY / news@breezenewspapers.com - | Sep 28, 2020
The Sanibel Planning Commission unanimously approved the construction of a swimming pool and deck, which will be elevated higher than the 7 feet above the existing onsite predevelopment grade, during its meeting on Sept. 22.
Planner Craig Chandler said the discussion was in regards to a plan revision of what was previously approved as part of a single-family home permit with an elevated pool that was not elevated to the extent previously approved to the extent it would require an approval by the commission. Now the plan is to elevate the pool to the extent it would match the lowest level of the floor height at 16.75 feet.
There are a few issues with the subject property at 1036 Bayview Drive. Chandler said the issues include whether the appearance, size and mass of the structure interrupt the rhythm of the existing structures in the neighborhood, whether the proposed dwelling and elevated pool will be inharmonious with the general atmosphere and character of the established neighborhood, and whether it will unreasonably infringe upon the adjoining property owner's enjoyment of his property with air circulation, light and sunlight.
Also does the proposed elevated swimming pool and deck comply with the Land Development Code's height, interpretive design guidelines and landscaping requirements for above ground pools.
"Because this is a revision, it sort of simplifies the review in one hand because staff had already completed and found the proposed development to be adequate in terms of compliance with 86-43 (Land Development Code) for single-family home," Chandler said. "Now, the elevated swimming pool does add some mass to that structure, but if considered as part of the greater development in conjunction with the single-family home, staff continues to find the development consistent with the properties established neighborhood."
He said the established neighborhood does have elevated and non-elevated swimming pools, and also includes a number of single-family homes comparable in size.
Chandler said any swimming pool higher than 3 feet 6 inches above ground cannot be higher than the lowest floor of the associated structure. He said staff found the proposed work consistent with that standard. The elevation of the pool deck would match the lowest floor.
The design guidelines, as far as the architecture details and the material used for the elevated swimming pool, provides consistency in design between the attached/detached swimming pool.
Lastly, Chandler said relative to landscaping requirements, the property had existing vegetation on the edges of the property. He said the proposed elevated swimming pool will not change previously what was the footprint, as there will be no visual intrusion other than height, which will be accounted for with a row of silver buttonwood at the base of the structure.
With approval, staff recommends 15 conditions with three specific to elevated swimming pools. They include the height of the deck for the proposed elevated swimming pool deck shall not exceed 16.75 feet NAVD; the screen enclosure shall not exceed a height of 32.5 feet NAVD and the vegetation buffer; and 75 percent minimum native tall, medium and small trees, shrubs and groundcovers shall be installed and permanently maintained to effectively screen the proposed residence and elevated pool from adjacent properties.


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Deloitte Digital Lisbon has just been selected as the 2019 Architizer A+Awards Popular Choice Winner in the Commercial - Office Interiors (<25000 sq ft) category.
The Popular Choice Winners were selected by the online voting public after a 10-day campaign which collected over 400.000 votes.
Besides Ventura + Partners, the finalists in this category were the Canadian dkstudio, Station Neo from South Korea, and Archistry and Kris Lin, both from China.
This year, the finalists were chosen by a renowned jury including industry experts such as Denise Scott Brown, Bjarke Ingels and Tom Kunding, as well as personalities from beyond architecture like Tony Hsieh (CEO, Zappos), Yves Behar (Fuseproject), John Edelman (CEO, Design Within Reach) and Cameron Sinclair (Architecture for Humanity).
Porto is preparing to welcome a very special hotel, which will breathe new life into a historical land with high archaeological value. Integrated in the "Limit of the Historic Centre of Porto included in the UNESCO World Heritage List", the hotel will be born in D. Hugo Street, with great views over the Douro River.
The archaeological research found a set of vestiges with high patrimonial value, due to their rarity, chronology and state of conservation. The project not only foresees the preservation of the most important archaeological structures ‒ namely, those of the "castro" period ‒ but it also invests on their valorization, through a solution that can be enjoyed both by the hotel clients and by other type of visitors.
Castro culture is the archaeological term for the material culture of the Iberian Peninsula's northwestern regions from the end of the Bronze Age until it was incorporated into the Roman culture. "Castros" were fortified settlements situated in strategic places to defend the population.
The project ‒ whose construction is about to start ‒ is characterized by the permanent interconnection between architecture and archeology, which will go hand in hand in all phases of the process.
Ventura + Partners' project Deloitte Lisbon has been selected as a finalist in the 2019 Architizer A+Awards for the Office Interiors (<25000 sq ft.) category.
The work is now competing for two different Architizer A+ awards: the Jury Award and the Popular Choice Award. The online public chooses the Architizer A+ Popular Choice Award and public voting is open until July 5th.
The Architizer A+Awards is the largest awards program focused on promoting and celebrating the year's best architecture and products, connecting architects with the tools they need to build better buildings, better cities, and a better world.
V+P takes home two Muse Design Awards
Ventura + Partners has just won two prizes in the 2019 Muse Design Awards competition, out of more than 2.000 submissions from 42 countries.
Foz House has been awarded with the Platinum Recognition, the competition's highest distinction, in the Renovation subcategory. BessaHotel Liberdade won the Silver Prize, in the Hospitality subcategory. Both projects were awarded in the Architectural Design category.
The Muse Design Awards is an international competition that honors the ability to see the landscape we live in, shaping it to design a better tomorrow. "We recognize the breakthrough achievements of these true innovators, who live by the words, 'make the world a better place for all'", said Kenjo Ong, CEO of the competition. This year, the jury panel included 42 renowned, experienced, and brand new judges from 22 countries worldwide.
Buganvíllias in Bloom
The residential project Casas das Buganvílias, which started in 2016 in Porto, is coming to an end.
Among the five row houses, two are already completed and the finishing touches are being put on the other three. The main accesses and the common areas are also completed.
The maintenance of the existing green space – which were a project's key feature – are now materialized in the fully-grown gardens, with grass, shrubs and bougainvilleas.
From Carrara to Essenza
From the Roman emperors, through Michelangelo to the present day, those looking for the best marble know where to find it: Carrara. Located in north-western Tuscany, Carrara is integrated in a province that extends from the Apuan Alps coast, between the mountains and the Mediterranean Sea.
Carrara quarries resemble a parallel universe: delicate and severe; natural and industrial; beautiful and bizarre; and immensely white. Here are extracted some of the most valuable stones on the planet, that lend their beauty, refinement and delicacy to the four corners of the world.
In September, Ventura + Partners traveled to Carrara, together with the supplier, Mercado da Pedra, and the client, Desafios Geniais, to choose the marble that would be applied in Essenza's bathrooms. The blocks were brought from Italy, cut, treated and fully prepared in Portugal by our supplier and the application has already started.
Quinta da Vilarinha is taking shape
Quinta da Vilarinha, designed and conceived by Ventura + Partners, with Gondor - structures, plumbing and acoustics - presents the construction of three row houses, which were thought together as a single volume. At this time, the project foundations and ground floor slab are completed, and everything is set to move forward with the implementation of the pillars, beams and the first floor slab.
SFR forum des halles: celebrating the content store
At the beginning of December, at the heart of Paris, SFR Forum des Halles opened as a symbolic place, since it is the 150th store to be conceived according to the "content store" concept.
Representing the fixed-mobile – and content – convergence, the store matches the SFR customers' news patterns of omnichannel consumption. Transparency is key to the new concept, both in what concerns architecture – the imposing but inviting glass facade reveals the shop's interior – as well as the store's functions, that allow the customer to have access to all the information of a certain product, in a simple and reliable way.
Tue, 23 October 2018
The garden: where retail meets nature
In the last decade, Ventura + Partners has consolidated its experience in the retail segment and has created an important department dedicated to developing projects exclusively in this area. Just across the street from Ventura + Partners headquarters, the new retail unit ⎼ an open space office with more than 30 workstations, which benefit from a maximum use of natural light and the existing patio ⎼ answers the need for innovation and modernization in the field of commercial architecture. The "Garden" ⎼ whose name is inspired by the interior garden located in the building's rear facade ⎼ is marked by evident simplicity and functionality, and by a touch of nature.
New MEO stores: redesigned for the future
To make the difference in how the consumer visits and experiences a telecommunications store is the underlying idea that led to the new MEO store's proximity concept in Portugal, which opened the way for an improved customer service ⎼ through a new way of thinking about space.
Through the creation of strategic paths, the use of new materials, and the careful design of the original furniture, the aim was to create an environment that captivates the consumers, making them feel at home. Customers can be attended comfortably and experience in loco all the services and products, which are displayed more attractively and effectively.
Nefrodouro Clinic near completion
Nefrodouro Clinic, a new dialysis center located near Aveiro, was designed and conceived by Ventura + Partners and constructed by Tirion Works Management. This project reflects founder Manuel Ventura's long-held belief that healthcare spaces should be designed to combine quality advanced care with upscale amenities and architecturally significant design, aiming excellence in patient care.
Buganvílias project has begun to take shape
Buganvílias is the newest residential complex in Aldoar, close to Boavista Avenue and Porto City Park. This set of five houses is signed by Ventura + Partners and promoted by Jomarvil, responsible for the construction of other neighboring housing complexes.
Construction begins on Essenza
The luxurious Essenza building, a bold residential complex with a privileged location - near Boavista Avenue - and a superb view over the Porto City Park, began to be built. The expressive facade with wide opening - allowing a fluid dialogue with its surroundings - is one of the project's highlights. The completion date is set for 2019.


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Keeping the Nazis and the Soviets laughing helped this circus family survive the Holocaust
ABC Radio National
By Sarah Scopelianos and Cathy Pryor for Life Matters
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Mindla and Kubush Horowitz with their son, Gad, in Moscow in 1941. (Supplied: Penguin Random House Australia)
Kubush Horowitz survived World War II by making the enemy laugh.
A clown in the famous Staniewski Brothers circus in Poland, his ability to bring humour to dark times eventually became his family's ticket to freedom.
Decades later in Melbourne, his grandchildren heard bedtime stories about the wonderful clown and his wife Mindla.
"While the Nazis laughed, they lived," says journalist Sue Smethurst, the couple's granddaughter-in-law.
"But they heard these as fairy tales in a sense as children."
Kubush Horowitz's clever thinking and quick humour saved his life more than once. (Supplied: Penguin Random House Australia)
In 1936 as the threat of war loomed, Jews were already being persecuted in the streets of Warsaw.
"There was a dark culture forming and a sense of fear in the community," Sue says.
It was on these streets that Kubush met his future wife in a chance encounter; picking her up and helping her home after she fell over.
Their children and grandchildren knew the basics of their wartime love story: romance blossomed, a baby arrived and they spent years separated by enemy lines.
But Sue wanted to know more.
A symbolic sock and a 'deal with the devil'
As war broke out in 1939, Kubush was touring with the Staniewski Brothers Circus in Bialystok, about 190 kilometres away from Warsaw, where Mindla lived with their baby son Gad.
Mindla would later tell Sue that after Hitler's planes began bombing Warsaw, the city was unrecognisable and food became scarce.
She made her way to Bialystok with her son, to search for her husband.
But at the same time, he and the circus were on the back roads heading to Warsaw.
Kubush Horowitz (right) performing with the Staniewski Brothers Circus in Poland in 1936. (Supplied: Penguin Random House Australia)
The couple would spend two-and-half years apart.
"They had to cross borders and territories to find one another," Sue says.
"It really is a series of lucky breaks, miracles, that they were actually even able to be reunited."
In Bialystok Mindla was caught by soldiers in the Russian occupied zone, who thought she was a German spy.
"Her family had no idea that she was captured and placed in prison," Sue says.
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She would spend nine months jammed with dozens of other women in a windowless cell.
Her son, Gad, was sent to an orphanage.
In Warsaw, Kubush and other Jewish performers were hiding in plain sight, entertaining German soldiers with the cirus.
Eventually they received some news of Mindla — a mysterious parcel arrived from Bialystok containing a red sock.
The sock was a symbol of hope for Kubush. Mindla had knitted red socks before the war.
Dressed as a railway conductor, he fled with other circus performers on a train out of Warsaw.
Within days he discovered that Mindla was a prisoner.
He pleaded her innocence, telling an official about his life in the circus, and offering to do any type of work.
The couple were reunited at the prison gates and went on to find their son.
"He was able to her free and they were reunited for the first time in many, many years," Sue says.
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In return, Kubush was ordered to Russia to perform with the Great Moscow Circus.
Sue describes it as a "deal with the devil".
"He fled the arms of Hitler and went straight into the arms of Stalin, which is really quite extraordinary when you think about it," she says.
In Moscow, artists and entertainers were highly regarded and for the first time in years the couple had a roof over their heads and food to eat.
But their new life was short-lived as Hilter's men marched closer.
They fled during the night.
Their journey to a new life would wind through Afghanistan, Persia, Uganda and onto Italy before reaching Australia's shores in 1949.
'She didn't think her story was anything special'
The couple arrived in Melbourne with their three sons — Gad, Maks and Henry.
Kubush, also known as Michael, performed as Sloppo the Clown on Australian television in the 1960s.
He died in 1986 aged 79.
Mindla lived in Melbourne until she was 96.
Sue says the "general consensus" in the family was that Mindla didn't want to speak about what happened to her in the war.
"No-one really wanted to ask because they were worried that it would upset her," she says.
But as Mindla grew older, Sue felt it was important to write down the family's history.
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"It became clear very quickly that she wasn't re-traumatised telling the story," she says.
"She just didn't think her story was anything special because everyone around her in the nursing home where she lived ... and in her community in Caulfield in Melbourne ... had survived the Holocaust or survived similar atrocities in some way."
After Mindla's death in 2015, Sue retraced her footsteps to find her home and a circus building in Warsaw and visited the Bialystok prison.
Sue says the family views the story with a "sense of wonder" but their memories of Nan and Pop remain set in contemporary Australia — with chicken soup on the table and conversations about the Collingwood Football Club.
"There really [are] sort of two entirely separate versions of their life," Sue says.
"We all just sit back and say, 'Wow how did they do that? That's incredible'."
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Home Journalism Articles Navarro Report Volume lll: Capstone Report For The 2020 Election
Navarro Report Volume lll: Capstone Report For The 2020 Election
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Dr. Peter Navarro released on Thursday his third volume of The Navarro Report called, Yes, President Trump Won: The Case, Evidence & Statistical Receipts. This "capstone" volume documents the "most up-to-date statistical 'receipts' with respect to the potential number of illegal votes in each battleground state." It follows Volume l: The Immaculate Deception and Volume ll: The Art of the Steal, both of which allegedly provide material evidence of a stolen presidential election in 2020.
Navarro Report, Volume 3 provides a scholarly rendering of the potential number of illegal votes in the 2020 election. We welcome any who may dispute its finding because that is the nature of scholarly discourse. https://t.co/WEDzhth4qo
— Peter Navarro (@RealPNavarro) January 14, 2021
The report begins with a summary of the goals of the previous two reports. It then quickly moves into the purpose of Volume lll, which is to provide investigators with a "conservative" and "well-documented tally of potentially illegal votes on a state-by-state and category-by-category basis."
Importantly, Navarro reminds the reader of a historical precedent when he refers to the 1960 Presidential election:
"Looking at the numbers, it is very difficult to conclude that this was a completely fair election. In considering these truths, let us never forget two things: (1) The Democrat Party and its operatives stole the 1960 Presidential Election—it happened then, and it can happen again; and (2) it took decades for historians to finally acknowledge the 1960 version of the Immaculate Deception in the face of the same kind of virtue-signaling and cancel culture pressures we are witnessing today."
Figure One below gives an overview of the "count of potentially illegal ballots" in six swing states, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and also shows the type of fraudulent activity. It also shows that the number of potentially illegal votes "dwarfs the very thin alleged Biden 'victory' margins." In other words, if even a fraction of this is true, it indicates that Trump easily won every one of the swing states based on one or two categories alone.
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The report then breaks down the numbers state by state with a Figure (or Chart) for each state in Figures Two through Seven shown below:
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The graphics presented are relatively self-explanatory; however, some highlights deserve mention. In Arizona, for example, there was the "remarkable feat of exceeding 100% turnout of its registered voters. This is indeed a remarkable feat because Arizona does not allow same-day voter registration. The 'over-votes' alone totaled 11,676, an amount more than the purported Biden 'victory' margin of 10,457." Arizona also saw high numbers of voters who failed to present evidence of citizenship and high numbers of illegal out-of-state votes.
Georgia had the highest potential margin of error at 51 times the number of illegal votes (601,130) to Biden Victory margin (11,779). Hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots were counted in contravention of the Georgia state election code. "Georgia officials counted over 305,700 ballots cast by individuals who had requested absentee ballots more than 180 days before the absentee ballot request deadline, in blatant violation of Georgia Election Code." Georgia was also the state where election workers were allegedly captured on video scanning thousands of ballots repeatedly in the middle of the night.
In Michigan, the largest number of questionable ballots came from "inexplicable vote tabulation surges along with alleged voting machine irregularities and ballots counted despite lacking voter registration numbers." UncoverDC reported on the alleged vote switching in an article on Dec. 14. Lawyer, Sidney Powell, filed a civil lawsuit in Michigan on Nov. 26 concerning the cyber election fraud that allegedly took place there.
Nevada's most considerable irregularities were associated with using the Agilis signature-matching machines installed in Clark County to verify ballots' signatures. The report says that "using machines instead of people for signature match verification is in blatant violation of state law and calls into question the 130,000 ballots verified by these Agilis machines." An article written shortly after the election about lawsuits in the swing states details the early findings of alleged voter fraud in the state.
Pennsylvania's largest number of potentially illegal ballots was associated with poll observer abuses. There were allegedly over 680,000 ballots that were not subjected to meaningful, bi-partisan observation. For example, some "certified Republican poll observers were kept at distances the length of a football field." Many others, even if closer, were simply unable to observe accurately. Some were denied access completely. The report also says that "over 202,000 more ballots [were] cast than actual registered voters in the state."
The Wisconsin election fraud highlighted the extraordinary growth in the 2020 election of "bad faith voters." These voters registered as "indefinitely confined" and, "thereby, broke "Wisconsin election law to circumvent election integrity photo identification requirements." Due to the pandemic, the Wisconsin Election Commission expanded the definition of indefinitely confined voters—"a definition ruled legally incorrect by the Wisconsin Supreme Court—the number of indefinitely confined voters surged from just under 70,000 voters in 2019 to over 200,000 in 2020." This one category alone compromised the integrity of 216,000 votes, according to the report. Wisconsin performed a recount as reported by UncoverDC on Nov. 20.
Navarro's substantive examination of the 2020 General Election should, at a minimum, invite further investigation. He says that "in light of this evidence, it is impossible for anyone to claim that President Trump was in any way wrong in stoutly raising the question of election fraud and irregularities in the weeks following the November 3 election and in calling for his supporters to PEACEFULLY protest. Indeed, for the president not to rise to defend the integrity of the ballot box would have been a betrayal of the 74 million Americans who voted for the president thinking they were participating in what may well not have been a free and fair election. "
More importantly, he speaks on behalf of many Americans when he says that "absent a full investigation, we as a nation run the risk of institutionalizing a rigged electoral system in which a large segment of America will no longer have faith in." In that vein, he requests that a Special Counsel be appointed to investigate the election before the Biden administration begins. He asks State legislators and Attorneys Generals in the battleground states, particularly Republican states, to launch similar investigations.
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Q: Initialize a Select Submodule in git rather then all of them I have a common submodule across many projects which is designed to be build on many difference platforms. Since I maintain the code for the core logic and the interfaces from the different platforms, I have submodules for each to keep track and have the code build against all the platforms like so:
lib/core_logic_module/lib/
                         platform_1
                         platform_2
                         ...
                         platform_X

When working on a project that requires a specif platform, it is very nice to actually have the platform specific module so changes can be examined if needed and not the unneeded ones. Do a plane old git submodule update --init --recursive clones all the submodules and their specif dependencies which makes using grep, ctags, and find a pain as the platforms all have similar files for hardware abstraction.
Is there a simple way when initializing submodules to specify that I only want a single module?

A: You can use one or more paths with git submodule update.
As from the documentation, you can do this:
git submodule update --init --recursive <path>...

A few additional details about <path>...:

Paths to submodule(s). When specified this will restrict the command to only operate on the submodules found at the specified paths. (This argument is required with add).

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EU Executive Insists on Firm Line on Airlines in Carbon Plan
The European Union must maintain a "firm and coordinated line" on the obligations of airlines in the region's emissions-trading system, the EU's executive told national governments last week.
The European Commission proposed in 2012 to defer the imposition of carbon curbs on flights into and out of Europe to facilitate talks on a global deal to reduce pollution from the industry. Flights within Europe remain subject to the EU's carbon-reduction requirements in the cap-and-trade system.
"To avoid distortion, all aircraft operators (including those registered outside the EU) need to fully comply for flights operated within Europe in 2012," the commission said in a document to EU transport ministers at a March 11 meeting in Brussels. "It will be important to have a common enforcement approach in cases of non-compliance" according to the document, which was obtained by Bloomberg News.
The 27-nation EU decided in 2008 that flights to and from European airports should be included within the bloc's emissions-trading system, the world's largest, starting in 2012 after airline emissions in the region doubled over two decades. The enlargement of the European cap-and-trade program triggered opposition from countries including the U.S., China and Russia, who said the United Nation's International Civil Aviation Organization is the forum to decide about pollution curbs.
A high-level ICAO group created last year to work on climate issues for the panel's general assembly in 2013 met in December and January and is scheduled to gather again at the end of March. Its work is centered on three strands, including a framework for market-based measures to provide guidance on national and regional systems, according to the EU.
"In the context of such an ICAO framework, the EU would favor a departing-flight approach, under which a country would decide on timing and content of appropriate measures for its departing flights," the commission said. "Nationality- and airspace-based approaches are also under discussion."
Two other issues the High-Level Group on Climate Change, or HGCC, is working on is a global market-based program for airline emissions and a basket of non-market based measures, according to the EU. ICAO experts assessed three market options — offsetting, offsetting with revenue and emissions trading — as feasible, the commission said. Ideally, the high-level group should seek to set a "clear way" for the development of a global program by starting real negotiations and setting a timeline for a deal, it said.
'Very Limited'
"However, the HGCC discussions on this item have been very limited and the majority of the HGCC members have shown little interest," the EU regulatory arm said in the note. "An agreement in principle on a global market-based measure would be clear progress."
The EU cap-and-trade program is the cornerstone of the region's plan to cut greenhouse gases that scientists blame for global warming. It imposes pollution limits on more than 11,000 manufacturers and power companies, leading to a cap in 2020 that will be 21 percent below 2005 discharges. Emitters have to submit one emission permit for every metric ton of CO2 they discharge or pay a fine of 100 euros ($129.50) per ton.
The annual limit for the aviation industry began at 97 percent of average discharges from 2004 to 2006 and will fall to 95 percent in 2013. Airlines that joined the ETS this year were given emission permits making up 85 percent of the industry cap for free and will have to buy the remaining 15 percent at auctions. They can also trade among themselves.
Emission Reports
The proposed freeze on flights into and out of Europe, also known as the stop-the-clock proposal, would affect around two- thirds of flights, the EU said last year. It wouldn't apply to flights within Europe, whose operators will have to submit verified emission reports by the end of March and surrender permits matching 2012 discharges by the end of April.
EU governments and the European Parliament, whose consent is needed for the freeze to be implemented, reached an initial accord on the proposal on March 12. The Parliament is scheduled to vote on the measure during its next plenary meeting starting on April 15. It will then need to be officially approved by ministers, according to EU rules.
"To achieve full legal certainty for national authorities and aircraft operators, the stop-the-clock proposal should enter into force before the date of April 30, 2013," the commission said. "Any delay in the legislative process could lead to serious administrative and legal complications."
Bloomberg News, March 19, 2013
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Google to compete with Netflix and Apple?
The company may launch a competing streaming video rental service through YouTube property.
According to the Financial Times, Google is in talks with Hollywood to launch a streaming video-on-demand service. The service would put Google in competition with video services from Netflix, Apple and Hulu, offering titles the same day as DVD releases. The Google video-rental initiative would be launched off YouTube, and apparently developers are thinking global.
Citing a Financial Times source, "Google and YouTube are a global phenomenon with a hell of a lot of eyeballs." "Global" is the keyword here, there is a market much bigger than the U.S. which already views YouTube content free-of-charge.
The content would stream to internet viewers rather than download. YouTube reps said they have been testing a video rental service since the beginning of the year. And, the company did some testing with video-on-demand when they offered five films from the Sundance Film Festival for rent. However, Google declined to make any official announcements.
In March, Google launched a related service called Google TV which Google referred to as an "entertainment hub," enabling web usability with your television.
Netflix, Apple, Hulu, and Amazon all offer streaming video content and could find their shares of the market threatened if Google were to compete. Blockbuster could also be a competitor if they come out of their planned bankruptcy with a product that can compete with what Netflix is doing.
If any company has experience streaming video it would be Google. But how many more things can Google do and still be successful? They did initially make their success doing one thing – search.


Love. Hearts. Passion. There is nothing more precious than love. This symbolic design is meant for those either looking for love or celebrating the love you have found.
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Day trip with my wonderful friend, Sally to Mainz, Germany. I was surprised at how beautiful, vivid and ornate so much of the city actually was! The following four photos are from Mainz as well.
Mainz. I LOVE this German architecture. The timbered houses, the color scheme, the way they are shaped like homes that could be found in an enchanting fairy tale.
The Hallalujah chorus rang out when I opened a package from my Mom to unearth two BRICKS of Cheddar cheese!!!! My very favorite and my most loved brand. Sharp, slightly smokey, flavorful, delicious. I immediately commenced in making Macaroni and Cheese, mein lieblingsessen!!!
A thing of true beauty :-p oh yeah. I relished every bite. Plus the leftovers.
Day trip to Kronberg with Sally :-D Loved this city. The woodwork on the houses, I just cannot get enough of this. Especially the house pictured above with the vines crawling up the side.
The following 17 photos are all from Kronberg and Konigstein. I am not sure it can possibly get more charming or lovely than these towns.
Spending a Saturday with Philipp, one of the children to whom I grew quite close here. I used to go to his house often to spend time on weekends with both Philipp and his little brother. I miss that. This is Philipp having built his own kayak (with a fair amount of helping hands ;-)) and now giving it a spin on the river with one of the instructors.
Philipp and I had kayaked across the lake together, just before this.
And now, on to my SOLO trip to Portugal. SUCH a blast, so thrilling, I fell in love. Absolutely one of my favorite European cities now. I cannot wait to go back sometime in the hopefully near future.
My god. This dessert was a sweet-lovers game changer. In other words, it was a game changer for me. On my first day in Lisbon, I walked into a local bakery and asked them for something traditionally Portuguese that they would recommend. This was it. A sweet bread topped with a coconut paste. I hesitated, as I am not super into coconut. These were hands down, one of the BEST desserts I have eaten in my life. I am STILL dreaming about them. Lightly sweet, a tad bit eggy, SO good. I think I ate around 14 of them over the course of the one week I was there, no joke. I devoured these as I devoured one of my now favorite books (which I discovered while on this trip), The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
Loved returning to this room each night. So cozy, inviting, comfortable and relaxing. This made me really happy. I did a ton of reading and writing snuggled in here during the evenings.
This elevator was designed by Gustav Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower. Looks kind of apocalyptic, mysterious, haunting and creepy, eh?
Be still my heart. Here it is again. My sweet coconut bread. Delectable.
Riding the traditional Lisbon trams. SUCH a ball!!!
Some of the BEST seafood I have eaten in my life. Super simply cooked and seasoned, but to die for.
I sat right here at this cafe, having tea, reading and looking out at the view for a few hours. Time slipped away, the breeze blowing, the sun warming me, totally immersed in the dark, Gothic, Dickens-like-world of Donna Tartt's story. Talk about the PERFECT reading locale.
My last morning in Lisbon. And a delicious morning it was. I enjoyed another one of the delightful coconut bread rolls, a cheese tart, and finally, a succulent chocolate tart to top it all off. Whoa. Outstanding.
One of my BFFs here <3 Judith. She is the best. So kind, so open, so loving and warm.
Street Festival/market time!! Lots of yummy eating (one of my favorite things ever) with my friend, Travis :-D .
Somayeh and I had a LOT of fun together this summer. So many silly, sweet nights out as well as exploring the street markets. We had a ball.
Sugar Mama cafe. Whiling away afternoons here were some of my favorites.
This photo was actually taken on one of these book-writing afternoons.
4th of July celebration/fair in Wiesbaden.
My 30th Birthday Party! I had SUCH an outstanding time. I felt so loved, special and just really, really happy to have all my closest friends (well, my closest friends here at least. A few key ones from back in the USA were missing) here. It was stellar.
Francine, one of my great friends, drew this for me!!! Her and Jana's (another awesome friend) birthday gift to me was a dinner here (pictured in the drawing), at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt. Whoa. Ultra swanky. Such a generous and super delicious gift.
More birthday celebration :-D I am so blessed. Very, very lucky.
Solo adventuring to Rudesheim an Rhine. GORGEOUS town. One of the most beautiful I have been to in Germany.
The following 8 photos are also from Rudesheim am Rhine.
Jenn and Steve's visit to Germany to see me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE best thing EVER!!!
Oh. My. God. We had such a fantastic time. This photo was taken on our day trip to Heidelberg!!!
With Jenn, one of my best friends, in Rudesheim am Rhine! Check out that view!
Traditional German dinner out with Jenn and Steve. SO much laughter, great conversation and fun!!
Short and sweet 24-hour trip with Judith to Berlin!!!!!
Bike tour throughout Berlin. This was during one of our pit-stops/historical informational sessions.
These two photos are not the same ;-p they are slightly different. And both awesome. Easily THE photos of our trip to Berlin.
With Meghan, whom I became friends with while working at the Danish Pastry Shop in Medford, MA! She came to Frankfurt so we met up. This was such fun :-D I loved it. We explored Alt Sachsenhausen, then enjoyed a beer at a lively street festival and finally, dinner in one of my favorite cafes.
With Valerie :-D She is fantastic.
Another friend/visitor from the USA who came to visit and thus, I was lucky to be able to embark on an awesome adventure with.
Cochem, Germany. The second stop on mine and Andy's road trip adventure.
I fell in love with this city. Its like something out of a slightly dark fairy tale.
The view from up at the castle in Cochem.
Tea and cake. Always a good decision.
Oh my god. This trip was amazing. This is now one of my favorite European cities. I had some of the best meals I have ever eaten in my life, for mere euros. This city was SO cool, so unique and interesting. It had a slightly dark, enticing, intriguing vibe. Like a finger curled in creepy beckoning invitation.
Plus, Somayeh and I just had a super time together :-D We spent four days there together and I loved every minute of it.
One of the most famous "ruin pubs" in Budapest. Google this concept if you are wondering, "Ruin Pub..? Huh??" Its pretty neat.
Spending the day at one of the famous Hungarian baths.
THE photo of the trip. AWESOME.
With Bhakti :-D Another one of my favorite friends.
She is so open, kind, loving, curious about others, warm and interesting.
Thanksgiving dinner party, which I threw myself as the sole host. Very nerve-racking but it turned out to be so much fun!!
This is how Judith transported the turkey!!!! LOVE this!!! We all had a pretty great laugh over it.
Freiberg with my great friend, Travis!!!
The next 5 photos are all from Freiberg.
With Travis at the Christmas market in Freiberg!!
The next 6 photos are all from Heidelberg.
This was one of the most awesome things of the year for me. My trip home to the USA, my first time being there in TWO years!!!!
All of the following photos are from that trip, seeing my Mom, brother (Spencer), sister (Lexie) and best friends from home. This was so, so wonderful. Words cannot even explain fully how happy I was during this entire visit. It felt as though I had never left. The entire trip filled my heart and took my breath away.
The wedding of one of my very dearest friends, Sarah. I was SO thrilled and honored to be there.
Exploring Boston with Alex. Another one of my very special and most cherished friends. She is just the bomb.
I am so grateful :-) to be so close to all three of these women. They are all incredible. Such good friends to me.
Dinner out in Boston!!! The same three ladies in the black and white photo previously, who I commented that I feel so blessed to be so close with. As well as Dan (now pictured in this photo with all of us), Alex's husband. Another outstanding and very cherished friend of mine.
Moms house on Christmas <3 LOVE this. So cozy.
Jenn :-D in our traditional meeting spot when I lived back in Boston.
At Crema Cafe in Harvard Square.
New Years Day celebration at my Moms house!!
Derek! We have known one another and been friends since we were 16!! How incredibly cool is that??
Reunited with my dear, sweet Bug. He was mine and Adams cat for 5 years before I gave him away, my heart smashing when I said goodbye to him, in order to move to Europe for a while. I miss him often and love him so much. It was so special for me to be able to finally see him again.
Detour to Beacon Hill, my favorite part of Boston, before my Mom dropped me off at the airport.


This would go on to be one of the founding wineries in what is now the Prosser Vintner's Village. 2006 was the first year that the Olsen family crushed grapes for their own label, after more than a quarter century of growing grapes for a variety of Washington producers. Sadly, 2009 was the last year that they made an Olsen Estates wine. No grapes were crushed in 2010, and the winery and all of its remaining inventory is being sold off.
It's a loss not only for the Olsen family, whose dreams and dollars were poured into the enterprise, but for the entire Washington wine industry. There can never be enough quality wine grape growers in any wine region (happily, the Olsens – now in the fourth decade of grape growing – will continue with that).
As this recession has dragged on over the years, those in the wine industry, like so many others, have had to make some very difficult adjustments. It is a business with a high cost of entry. It takes many years to build, unless you are simply buying juice and slapping a label on it. It is extremely competitive. And for consumers, wine is an optional purchase.
Anyone who has been paying attention has seen the deluge of cheap wines hitting the shelves. Some wineries have actually prospered by offering affordably-priced wines sourced from grapes once intended for the luxury bottlings.
But not everyone is able to be that nimble. Not every business plan is easily adaptable to the new realities. I spoke by phone with Larry Olsen, who, along with his brother and other family members, founded Olsen Estates, and asked him if he'd be willing to share his thoughts on how and why the winery failed. He generously offered this advice.
Difficult lesson learned, and a bitter pill to swallow. But my hope, and Larry Olsen's hope, is that others will benefit from his hard-won knowledge. I urge you to seek out and savor the last of the Olsen Estates wines. Here are some recent favorites (and my Wine Enthusiast scores and reviews) to get you started. I list the original prices, current retail may differ.
The best of Olsen's 2008 reds, this 100% Merlot is generous and forward, with rich cherry and raspberry fruit. Spicy in the nose and in the mouth, it is lightly herbal – adding texture and length – and has the concentration and depth to develop nicely over the next decade.
A six grape Rhône blend, this does not lose focus or intensity. It strikes the palate head on with flavors of dried leaf, prune, cooked cherry, cinnamon and mocha. But despite the raisin/prune flavors, it does not seem over-ripe or in any way over the hill. Rather, these super-ripe flavors have somehow been tamed, the alcohol is just over 14%, and the wine leaves a sinuous, sensuous trail of flavor as it moves through the palate.
Smooth and supple, almost silky, this dense and delightful Syrah begins with a smoky, meaty run of sweet cherry and berry flavors, then quickly adds interesting nuances of herb and leaf and earth. The cherry fruit triumphs, along with cut tobacco and a whiff of clove, as it weaves through a long finish.
This is pure Petit Verdot, substantial and muscular. Scents of violets and purple fruits bring extra nuances of mushroom and moist earth. There is a hint of animal, and a tight core of purple fruits. Tannins are supple and well-managed.
Fully botrytised, 46% residual sugar, from 30 year old vines, this is an unctuous, TBA-style dessert wine. Honeyed and decadently rich, it soaks its peach and apricot fruit in a thick wash of honey and caramel, streaked with mocha and lightly scented with jasmine highlights. The alcohol is just over 7%. Should age for decades.
Paul - While this doesn't come as a huge surprise (rumors have been swirling for months), that doesn't lessen the sadness. I contend that some of the best potential for value wines from Washington come from these long-time growers who get into winemaking late: the Andrews family at McKinley Springs, David Minick at Willow Crest, and certainly the Olsen Family. To lose such a strong QPR winery is a crushing blow to be sure.
And it does indeed underscore the seemingly-common gap between the quality of the wine itself, and the quality of the sales and marketing. It was clear to me, and I'm sure to others in the retail/restaurant channel, that reaching a production level of 5000 cases and expecting to self-distribute was a factual impossibility. The logistics involved with selling and delivering that much wine requires an entirely different skill set. I had hopes, when Olsen signed on with Vinum, that they might be resuscitated, but I guess it must have been too late.
The 2007 Olsen Estates Golden Berry Select is one of the finest wines I have tasted from Washington, a stunning value considering it is one fourth the cost of Ste Michelle's Eroica Single-Berry Select. I'm certainly looking forward to tasting the 2008 vintage of that wine, as well as many of the other 2008s and 2009s, but no doubt any future tastings will be tinged with sadness at a winery lost to us far too soon.
tis sad indeed - but who can afford to drink wines at those prices?? I'm sure they were wonderful, but - wow -breaks my wine budget!
That's too bad - one less good wine to look forward to. I can vouch that it's a tough business right now. With regard to the bargain wines on the shelf, I don't think the Olsen wines were overpriced - but there are a lot of good wines out there in the $20-30 range.
There is a reason wines are sold out the winery door into distribution at just under half of retail - selling wine is a lot of work.
When you have 800 acres it must be tempting to make 4,000+ cases, but at that level you need to hit the ground running.
As you've discussed on this blog in past entries, Paul, the micro-producer can work hard and hand sell to the consumer and the giants can rev up the marketing machinery, but the bigger small folks who need to rely on limited distribution are in a rough market.
bobpet - c'mon now - $18 for a 90 point wine is not expensive. And odds are you can find it for less. yes, I know, not everyone can buy an $18 wine, and I often point out wines costing far less as good values. But if you are comparing the $18 Olsen wine with other wines on the shelf, it's a very fine bottle at a very good price.
Any chance Full Pull can get a hold of any existing inventory?
As a fan of Olsen Estate and Olsen Hills, it is indeed a sad day. Winemaker Kyle Johnson has a great resume so far and with his Purple Star label, t will be great to see him move on.
Tim, that was the price I was given when the wines were submitted for review some months ago.
Bartell's now is selling the olsen estate red wine cyrah blend for 9.99--a steal at that price and well worth stocking up.
You can get Edythe Mae syrah @ Issaquah Costco for $19.99...good juice!


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Meet Manchester's Sarah Byrne, one of the 16 hopefuls aiming to win a £250,000 investment and a partnership with Lord Alan Sugar on The Apprentice 2018.
Drama teacher Sarah, who runs her own acting academy for young people, appeared in the hit Channel Four soap Hollyoaks last year and she played Meena Karib in the gritty Manchester drama Shameless, a former wild child and the daughter of Yvonne and Kash Karib and the sister of Chesney.
Sarah, 29, studied at Manchester Metropolitan University and has a degree in TV, film and cultural studies.
She runs the Sarah Byrne Acting Academy or young people aged five to 17 with an interest in acting, based at Oasis Academy Oldham on Hollins Road, Hollinwood and Oasis Academy at MediaCityUK.
Sharing the news about The Apprentice on her Instagram the doting mum announced: "Well I can finally reveal that I am a candidate on this years Apprentice 2018.
"The last two years since starting my own business has been one of tears, laughter and exhaustion.
Sarah Byrne (Image: PA)
"Being a single mum, starting with zilch money, working and building my own business has been challenging. But none the less the best decision I have ever made.
The support I have received from my family has been what has got me to where I am. And most importantly I do it for my girl Sadie."
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Sarah says she wants to be a role model to her young daughter and hopes her hard work and life experience will aid her in the process.
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She says: "I'm a bundle of energy and creativity and certainly a one off… ain't no Vanilla Camilla"
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Lives: Cheshire
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He says : "I'm not here to razzle dazzle and hit you with buzzwords like 'I'm so motivated, passionate'… anyone can say those things and I'm not anyone, I'm Kayode Damali. If you're not your own biggest fan, who do you expect to be it for you?"
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Lives: The Wirral
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He says: I know everything. Call me 'Google' ...It's my middle name."
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Lives: London
Daniel set up his business in 2017 and likens himself to Jordan Belfort, the main character in 'The Wolf of Wall Street', because of his entrepreneurial skills and lavish, party lifestyle.
He says: "I have the beauty and the brains, typically people only have one. I was blessed with both in abundance."
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David claims that he can speak to anyone about anything, though he gets frustrated when others don't share his unwavering positivity. He also admits that being too trusting has been his downfall in the past.
He says: "My friends and family call me the Duracell bunny as I take on so much and never stop. I just keep going."
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Occupation: Senior Marketing Manager
Frank is a self-proclaimed 'trendsetter' who says he likes to push boundaries with his humour. He claims to use charisma and charm for both negotiating and building morale within a group. Frank admits he can sometimes play people off against each other to get what he wants. He says he can be brutal when he needs to be and does not stand for people who are lazy or shirk responsibility.
He says: "There's no need to watch your back when I'm already two steps in front."
Jackie Fast
Occupation: Sponsorship Consultant
Having sold her company in 2016 and published a business book in 2017, Jackie says she is a trailblazer within the sponsorship industry and wider business community and credits her success to her positive attitude. She admits she can be very opinionated and isn't good at taking criticism, but hopes her commercial mind will see her through the process.
She says : "I'm not intimidated by anybody, or anything."
Jasmine Kundra
Occupation: Learning and Development Manager
Lives: West Midlands
Jasmine has built her career on training others to better themselves and develop their skills and says that she loves enabling and empowering people. She credits American philanthropist and life coach Tony Robbins as her role model and admires how he has built a global empire and success whilst also improving people's lives. Jasmine admits to being very stubborn and says she likes to get her own way, however aims to use her charm and charisma to see her through the process.
She says: "All is fair in love and war… and business is war."
Khadija Kalifa
Occupation: Owner, Eco Cleaning Company
Lives: Lincolnshire
Having run her own eco-friendly cleaning business for the past three years, Khadija considers her people skills to be her best business asset. She says her friends would describe her as being quick-witted, motivational and genuinely wanting to help others but she can have a bit of a 'hot head'. Khadija looks up to Richard Branson in business for 'his success and willingness to assist others' and plans to be likeable but focused, though says she can be cut-throat when required.
She says: "Whatever I say I'm going to make happen happens. I'm a serious Mumpreneur who doesn't have time for timewasters and idiocy."
Kurran Pooni
Occupation: Law Graduate
Kurran believes he has a keen creative eye and is confident that he'll cope well with 'managing egos'. He is inspired in business by his father who started his own airline. Kurran gets irked by people who are out for themselves rather than working collectively for the team and gets especially rattled by people who lie. He says that simply being himself will help him to breeze through the process.
He says: "I'll be honest, I don't eat, sleep, breathe business but I do eat, sleep and breathe success."
Sabrina Stocker
Occupation: Owner, Tennis Events Company
Lives: Middlesex
Sabrina has had her eye on making money from the age of 14, when she set up a business selling retro sweets as part of a Young Enterprise Scheme. She cites Emma Watson as one of her role models because she's 'always clear-headed and makes good decisions, whilst still having elements of fun'.
Sabrina says she can walk into a room and capture an audience but admits to sometimes making 'silly comments' before thinking. She plans to throw herself feet first into the process and use her positive energy to get involved in everything.
She says : "I am a mix of Willy Wonka drinking an espresso martini… classy and sophisticated on the outside; inside, a little bit crazy and wacky but full of brilliant ideas."
Sarah Ann Magson
Occupation: Solicitor
Lives: Teesside
Alongside her role as Director at a law firm, Sarah Ann has also run her own nursery furniture business since 2016. Although she says timekeeping and organisation aren't her greatest strengths, Sarah Ann believes her loyalty, commitment and ability to remain calm under pressure are her best qualities and thinks that her skills and charm will outwit any of her competitors.
She says : "I am used to laying down the law in the courtroom, but now I'm going to lay down the law in the boardroom."
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Lives: Leeds
Sian owns and runs a swimwear fashion brand, with clients including celebrities and celebrity stylists. She identifies with Coco Chanel as a role model in business, as she 'came from nothing and worked her way to the top'. She believes she has been brought up to win and every task will see her being calculated, collaborative and ruthless where necessary.
She says : "I bring both the passion and the fire - in the boardroom, I will be merciless."
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BICO (BIrch using COresets)
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This is a python implementation of the original `BICO <http://ls2-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/bico/>`_
code.

BICO is a fast streaming algorithm for the k-means problem. BICO reduces the
number of input points to a specified amount such that the k-means solution on
the compressed input set is still a high quality solution to the original data set.
BICO combines a tree-like data structure of SIGMOND Test of Time Award winning algorithm BIRCH
with reduction techniques from clustering theory.

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Applications
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Massive Data Sets
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Running k-means on a very large data set is even nowadays infeasible. BICO can reduce the amount of input points drastically
such that running k-means on the resulting reduced data set is just a matter of seconds. BICO ensures that the solution
is of similar quality as the solution on the original input set.

Compression
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BICO reduces a set of input points to a specified number of points while preserving the k-means solution quality as good
as possible. Thus, BICO is a perfect tool to shrink the size of the data in order to reduce space or bandwidth.

Getting Started
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Have a look at `this example <https://github.com/gallmerci/bico/blob/master/examples/applications.ipynb>`_ for an
introduction on how to use this library and some visualizations presenting the results of the computed data reduction.

Slides showing a more technical overview of BICO can be found `here <https://github.com/gallmerci/bico/blob/master/docs/BICO_Technical%20Overview.pdf>`_.
If you are interested in the theoretical point of view of BICO, please feel free to check `Section 5.4 of this thesis <https://eldorado.tu-dortmund.de/handle/2003/34099>`_
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Impartner Spring '18 Release Makes it Possible for Channel Managers to Create the Perfect Partner Experience In Real Time
PRNewswire March 23, 2018, 3:04 pm March 23, 2018
New CMS Breaks All the Molds: Makes It Fast and Intuitive for Channel Managers to Edit Complete Partner Experience and Not Just Content in Partner Portals
Impartner, the best-selling and most-award winning pure-play Partner Relationship Management (PRM) solution, today announced its Spring '18 software release, which makes it possible for channel managers to edit, in real time, not only the content but also their partners' experience in their Partner Portals – without the help of IT. The release continues the company's ongoing focus on providing the world's most powerful, most nimble channel-management tools. Impartner's completely re-engineered Content Management System (CMS) allows users to both add and change pages by program segment, tier, region, etc., with a simple drag and drop interface, and make content changes using the solution's new fast, sleek, intuitive control interface, the Momentum BarTM. Other key features in the release include enhanced sales enablement and segmentation functionalities.
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"In 2018, the vendor with the best partner experience wins," said Impartner Senior Director of Product Management, Gary Sabin, highlighting Impartner's newly re-engineered CMS. "This industry leap-frogging CMS solution is 100 percent focused on making it easier than ever for our customers to be able to continually optimize their partners' journey with an easy-to-use, consumerized interface that users have come to expect from their business solutions."
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A Paradigm Shift for Sales Enablement
Sabin stresses this same paradigm-shifting engineering vision is the driver behind the release's new sales enablement functionality. Vendors have long struggled to convert collateral layouts into formats that make it easy for partners to customize for their businesses by dropping in their own images, logos and text content. However, with Impartner's new AutoSense technology, vendors can instantly scan and detect images and text in collateral material and ready them to be customizable by partners with the click of a button, removing dependence on professional services teams and running up timelines and expenses.
"Sales enablement materials are a critical part of the value partners expect from leading channel programs and one that we see driving a reported 56 percent increase in profitability for partners who have the resources they truly need to bring a vendor's products to life in the market," said Sabin. "By instantly making any existing collateral co-brandable, we're removing the time, budgeting and logistical challenges that in the past, have caused vendors to limit the collateral they provide."
Also Read: Build Branded Partner Communities for Accelerated Sales with the Salesforce Cloud PRM
Segmentation in a Few Clicks
In its previous release, Impartner ushered in a new era of precision with its SegmentAI automated segmentation engine. With this release, SegmentAI features a new wizard, which takes Impartner's segmentation functionality to another level by making it drop-dead simple for channel managers to bring their segmentation strategies to life with a few clicks.
"Visionary channel managers are dreaming up strategic segmentation schemes as part of their secret sauce to getting the most out of their channel partners, and imagining unique differentiated programs to stand out in today's hypercompetitive channel environment," Sabin said. "Until now, the challenge has been the difficulty of peeling those strategies off the whiteboard and actually implementing them within their toolset."
More Control Over the Heart of Your Chantech Stack
Self-service is also the focus of Impartner's new configurable Single Sign On (SSO) solution. "Because a company's PRM solution is the Grand Central train station of the chantech stack – the central hub from which partners can jump into other technologies that are constantly being added and reconfigured – our new SSO makes it easy for vendors to make the adjustments that are typical in today's fast-moving technology landscape," said Sabin. "Without having to turn to an outside vendor, it's now 100 percent in the vendor's control to add and remove technologies as they come and go – making it easy for vendors to maintain SSOs for their partners to ensure they have a seamless transition from their PRM to other technology solutions."
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