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The war was not over for Onoda
Onoda (second left) walking from the jungle where he had hidden since World War II, on Lubang island in the Philippines
I found this story deeply moving.
Hiroo Onoda was the last Japanese imperial soldier to emerge from hiding. He finally surrendered in 1974 on Lubang island in the Philippines. Onoda's imperial army uniform, cap and sword were still in good condition.
Two weeks ago, one of the most fascinating story about the war came to an end when a former imperial soldier, Hiroo Onoda died at the age of 91 in Japan. When the war had ended in 1945, and his troops surrendered, Onoda had refused to surrender and hid in the jungles of the Philippines for 30 years. He was accidentally discovered by a traveller, and through conversation, the traveller returned and reported Oneda's existence to the Japanese army.
When approached, Mr Onoda still could not believe, the war was over. Only his own superior and commander from 30 years ago, had to go to the Philippines and convince Mr Onoda – the war was truly over.
Onoda struggled to adapt to normal life on his return to Japan and he emigrated to Brazil in 1975 to become a farmer. He finally returned and settled in his homeland in 1984 and opened nature camps for children.
He did not consider his 30 years in the jungle to have been a waste of time.
'Without that experience, I wouldn't have my life today' he said. 'I do everything twice as fast so I can make up for the 30 years. I wish someone could eat and sleep for me so I can work 24 hours a day.'
Read more: The Daily Mirror
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The Tufi Tattoos
The Tufi tattooing is a beautiful tradition that remains alive in Oro Province. The art of traditional tattooing is dying, but, traditional artists and master tattooist in Tufi have kept the tradition alive for women in this culture. Tufi is known world-wide for its enchanting natural beauty. The town of Tufi is surrounded by reefs. It is one of the top diving spots in the world and a place of rich cultural heritage. The Tapa cloth also comes from Tufi. The town is located in the Eastern Peninsula of Cape Nelson in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea.
Picture from Mr Jan in PNG
Mr Jan in PNG
Ramona at Kasiawa
When a Tufi girl is ready for marriage she might, for some weeks, enter the hibernating process of getting a facial tattoo. The tattooing is an old traditional practice that has faded away and disappeared in most communities, but there are some areas where the tradition lives on.
Ethel is proud of her tattoo
The girl stays in seclusion during the time of the application, which is made by a qualified tattooist – sometimes a relative; always a woman. First the pattern is drawn in black, and when the girls' parents have expressed their appreciation the tattooist starts the actual process. Dulcie at Kafuaruru village and Levinia at Angorogho, two of the still active tattooists, use a modern needle instead of the bush needle that was tapped by a stick, which was the old way. The dyes today are also mixed with modern ingredients that give a stronger…
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The High Man
A full documentary about ancient Ireland's myths and monuments
Some of you know about this archeology site in Ireland. I found its story and the artwork very intriguing. The High Man documentary is about a fascinating giant figure of a warrior god in the ancient landscape of Ireland.
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The Spirit of Mambesak
January 28, 2015 tribalmysticstories, lazylittlefrog.com 14 Comments
From: the garamut
Spirit of Mambesak was initially formed in the 70's and 80's by West Papuan artists Arnold Ap and Eddie Mofu. They understood the importance of culture and strove to use music as a medium to convey their basic human right: the freedom of expression.
Mambesak was formed to revitalise traditional West Papuan dance, music and song and eventually provided a certain colour, form and inspiration for the birth of music and dance groups throughout Papua, actively promoting and strengthening West Papuan identity. However, Arnold Ap and Eddie Mofu's popularity and the conscious pride in being Papuan Mambesak's music engendered, brought them to the attention of the Indonesian military who accused them of being separatists. They were finally murdered. Today, the spirit of Mambesak endures with new faces and new songs. This album was released in 2004.
You can listen to more or purchase their music here
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Jon Jandai http://www.bartphoto.nl/
"Life is easy" says Jon Jandai. "Why do we have to make it so difficult?"
After pursuing "success" in Bangkok for several years, Jon dropped out of university to return to village life. There, he went back to the life he knew as a child, working two months of the year to grow rice (with an additional 15 minutes a day to grow vegetables), dug a couple of fish ponds, built his own homes using earthen bricks, and gave up buying clothes (he has so many clothes from friends and visitors that he has to give them away). Jo contends that to be happy, we cannot just rely on money; we have to reconnect with each other.
"Before I thought that stupid people like me … cannot have a house… because people who are cleverer than me and get a job need to work for 30 years to have a house. But for me, who cannot finish university, how can I have a house. It's hopeless for people who have low education like me. But when I start to do earthen buildings, it's so easy! I spent two hours per day… and in 3 months I have a house. A friend who was the most clever in the class he has a house too but he has to be in debt for 30 years, so compared to him I have 29 years and 10 months of free time. I feel life is so easy."
Jon runs Pun Pun an organic farm, seed-saving operation, and sustainable living and learning center. At Pun Pun they use ancient natural building techniques with readily available, local, natural materials with little embodied energy and salvaged materials to make homes, a practical and affordable alternative to resource intensive conventional building.
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An Epic Journey of Discovery
On March 7th, 1979, a week before I turned 14, I heard at school and on the news that a famous explorer named Michael James (Mich) Leahy had died. This man took an epic journey into the undiscovered, and untamed central highlands of British New Guinea in 1930s. I was in year nine at Busu High School, Lae, Papua New Guinea. During that time, I had been searching for my father and I already knew I was a child of the Leahy family. None of the information about the Leahys including those of the famous explorer were told to me. I was a very inquisitive child with many resources available and many people I could ask. However, only very few of my mother's family members were responsive. At an early age, I knew that in order to find my father, I had to get my own information and do my own research. I became anxious as I grew older and was faced with the charges of other cruel children. They would constantly question who I was, my life, my father, my colour, and why I was 'different'. Up until that point, all the information to do with my heritage was bundled into one big secret, kept by my mother. To get the information, I conducted a secret investigation of my own.
And, that was how I knew, the famous explorer who died was my father's father. On that day, reading the news, I knew I would never meet my grandfather. It was a moment of surrealism, one I could not share with anyone. It felt strange to be paralysed by the thought of losing something great, that I never had. I did not speak about the death with anyone. As days went by, my fears were suppressed by my curiosity. Wherever I went and whoever I spoke to, I continued my research for every information I could get about my father. (Read more when I publish my memoir.)
Mich Leahy
My final Australian story tonight is about Australian Michael Leahy, the first white man to enter the central highlands of Papua New Guinea with his three brothers. This is a long story, however, this post will be brief, and I will give you as many links as I can for you to read more about Mick Leahy.
Born in Toowoomba on February 26, 1901, fourth child of nine to Daniel and Ellen Leahy, an Irish migrant family, Mick completed his education at Christian Brothers College, Toowoomba. His first job was as a railway clerk, but, his entrepreneurial spirit drove him to leave and become a freelance wood-cutter. When the news of the gold rush in Eddie Creek, New Guinea, in 1926 reached him, Mick was driving a lorry. He had stopped the truck and the story was that, he jumped on the first ship to Port Moresby. His three brothers, Paddy, James and Dan joined him later. His brother Tom remained in Toowoomba.
In the same year Mich was born, June of 1926 the Permanent Mandates of the League of nation met in Geneva to discuss Australia's takeover of New Guinea. It was noted that the total area of New Guinea was 16,000 square miles. This was only one sixth of the actual total area and the reason being, the rest of New Guinea was unexplored and unknown.
Mich started his gold prospecting; mostly down along the Bulolo and near and around areas close to the Eddie Creek. During his prospecting years in New Guinea, Mich became ill with Malaria and nearly lost his life. He took a construction job and stayed out of the bush until 1930.
http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.pic-vn3289888 Mich with his back to the camera is making a movie of the plane Canberra being prepared for surveying expedition into the highlands. Ken and Irish Spinks collection at National Library of Australia photos.
He returned with Mick Dwyer and walked across parts of interior New Guinea. Their main aim was to prospect for gold. However, as they approached some parts of the interior, they discovered that they were the first white men to be seen by the natives of the area. The natives of the interior could not communicate readily and many reacted as if the Mich and Dywer were ghosts or spirits. They had brought workmen from the coast, and some could speak and translate in pidgin. Mich and Dwyer had been warned the inland area was unpopulated with no Australian government administration and it was very dangerous. They were told that they could lose their lives. This did not deter Mich's passion for prospecting and his inquisitiveness to see inland New Guinea. Mich had not wanted to take his brother Dan, the youngest, because he felt, Dan was not ready. Both Mich and Dywer kept personal diaries, notes, and they took photographs of their expedition. In the first part of the Epic journey, Mich and Dywer crossed the Purari/Gulf of Papua which began his taste to return and walk deeper into the highlands of New Guinea. In his book, The Land That Time Forgot, Mich Leahy wrote that in their first expedition, on the foot of the hills before him and Dwyer entered the highlands, one of the missionary workers tried to scare Ewunga, Mich's boss-boy in pidgin. Mich more or less wrote it in his version of Pidgin-English:
"Moun-tain ee big fella more. No got road, Kanaka long hap, man belong fight true. Allee can killum you fella, now kai-kai."
(Translation – the mountains are bigger, there is no road and the natives are fearful warriors. They can kill and eat you.")
To which the fearless Ewunga replied: "No can! Kanaka something nothing. Suppose allee like fight, me fella can tryum."
Translation: ("No, they cannot! Natives are nothing. If they want to fight, we can all try.") Mich was really glad that Ewunga was fearless.
Leahy, Michael J., 1901-1979. Papuans looking at first gramaphone, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea, 1933 PPIc: National Library of Australia.
Mick and his brother Danny were leaders of the next and the 1933 expedition that opened up the Wahgi Valley of the Western Highlands and this was where Danny would eventually settle. From what he had written, I believe, Mich loved the Waghi Valley and the Western Highlands the most. He admired the architecture of the houses, the adornment and dress of the people. he also thought the people were intelligent and warm.
"The landscaping and the sing sing (dancing) grounds resembled that of the upper Waghi and we were continually admiring their beauty and arrangement. I was invited to enter one of the ceremonial houses and found them to a well-made, circular grass house, with a roof ten feet high, divided into five compartments, one of them being a sort of hallway down the centre." Leahy, The Land That Time Forgot", p.218.
Mich's gold prospecting adventures turned out to be one epic journey which has gone into the history books of both Australia and Papua New Guinea. A trilogy of the Leahys' story can be purchased from ABC stores. There are previews on YouTube. I have posted a link to the Australian Screen.
http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/first-contact/notes/
http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/first-contact/clip1/
http://www.der.org/films/first-contact.html
The Central Highlands of New Guinea. Royal Geographical Society: London. (pp. 229–262 in the Geographical Journal
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A Digital Master Attuned to Healing
Jenny Fraser
My next story to celebrate Australia Day is about an exceptional woman. She is an artist, an advocate for the rights of the aboriginal people and also a very clever curator. Recently, Jenny Fraser has decided to move from making art and digital films into traditional and natural healing.
I first met Jenny in Bundaberg during my curatorial project "Pacific Storms Contemporary Art Exhibition".
Jenny Fraser is a digital native working within a fluid screen-based practice. Because of the diverse creative media Fraser uses, much of her work defies categorization, taking iconic and everyday symbols of Australian life and places them into a context that questions the values they represent. With a laconic sense of humour she picks away at the fabric of our society, exposing contradictions, absurdities, and denial. Her practice has also been partly defined through a strong commitment to Artist / Curating as an act of sovereignty and emancipation.
On the waves, Jenny Fraser
A Murri, she was born in Mareeba, Far North Queensland in 1971 and her old people originally hailed from Yugambeh Country in the Gold Coast Hinterland on the South East Queensland / Northern New South Wales border. She has completed a Master of Indigenous Wellbeing at Southern Cross University in Lismore, New South Wales and is currently completing a PhD in the Art of Aboriginal healing and Decolonisation at Batchelor Institute in the Northern Territory. Jenny is the eldest of three girls.
Jenny spent her early years with one of her sisters, driving across Australia. This is where she learnt to be comfortable with the lifestyle, be that in the Australian bush, city or by the ocean.
"I have always known that I would be an artist. Although I am a trained Art / Film and Media Educator, I resigned from that in 2000. The artists lifestyle suits me much better."
As a child, Jenny had a keen interest in many cultural approaches towards different lifestyle choices, practising and maintaining traditional knowledges, and relaxation techniques.
The curator's transition into Natural medicine was a defining moment for her when she was making films and speaking with some of the healers in natural medicine. Jenny felt that was something that greatly interested her, she had only realised it when she spent more time with the people in that natural medicine.
"This awareness became more solid for me, when I worked on some films and witnessed the way people work so hard in that industry, which often drives them to sickness. But some have learnt from the hard work and have opened their own businesses in Natural medicine instead".
Jenny is also a spearhead for Aboriginal Media Arts, founding cyberTribe online Gallery in 1999 and the Blackout Collective in 2002. More recently she was the first Aboriginal Curator to present a Triennial exhibition in Australia: 'the other APT' coinciding and responding to the Asia Pacific Triennial which was then accepted for inclusion into the 2008 Biennale of Sydney.
She has travelled extensively and completed residency programs from remote communities in Queensland and the Northern Territory to the Rocky Mountains in Canada and also Raw Space and New Flames in Brisbane.
The best way to see some of Jenny's work is to click on some of the links below:
http://www.cybertribe.culture2.org/jennyfraser/
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From a Fisherman to a Wallaby
Will (right) returning home with a catch in Port Moresby. Pic: Courier Mail.
Australia is known world-wide for its achievements in both rugby league and rugby union. Today, for Australian stories, I would like to share a story about a rugby union legend. This story is also about a fisherman who became a Wallaby. If you don't know what a wallaby is, it is an Australian marsupial from the same family as a Kangaroo. If you play for the Australian national rugby team, you are also called a wallaby. This story began in Papua New Guinea and ended in Australia, and it has now connected the two countries proudly.
The Will of Power
When he was growing up, Sanchez, William Genia (Will) was not driven to play sports nor did he like one particular sport. Like a typical coastal PNG child, Will spent weekends and free time fishing, to catch food. He and his brother and cousins would go to their village down the coast to fish. On Saturdays, Will had told Courier Mail, the family gathered and worshipped in the village church.The children played a little cricket after church in the backyard. Will idolised Australian cricketer, Steve Waugh.
Will's mother was the assistant governor at the Bank of PNG and his father was a cabinet minister 2011. At the age of 12, Will's family decided to send him and his brother down to Brisbane, Australia for schooling and this was when he was introduced to rugby. Will told Courier Mail, he realised for the first time, this was going to be a completely new life and away from his large family, back in Port Moresby. His brother had already spent two years in Canberra so he was happy to be in Brisbane. That first day, Will went to his brother's room and cried in bed. His brother was not impressed. In Brisbane Boys College, his new sport consumed his new life and soon he went from playing school rugby to being recruited into club rugby by the Queensland Reds in 2006. He played his first Super 14 at 19-years-old. He played in scrum-half position.
New Wallaby … a proud-as-peach Will Genia poses for the cameras. Photograph: Nathan Richter
In 2009 Will was selected to play for Australia and became the second PNG-born Wallaby, at the age of 21. (The first was Graeme Bond). And, on this day, funny enough, he could not ring to tell his parents because his mother Elizabeth was overseas, and his father Kilroy Genia was down the coast fishing.
Will has had many outstanding professional rugby achievements, amongst playing for Junior World Cup, being selected into Wallabies in 2009, Captaining the Reds, winning the player of the year several times, winning People's Choice, winning the Pilecki Medal twice and was voted the Australian Super Rugby Player of the Year by Australian rugby writers.
The All-Blacks half-back Justine Marshall in 2013 described Will as being the best player in the world for his position. Others players, both retired and current players have said Will is currently the best half back rugby union player in the world. Finally, Will was nominated the Ambassador for the Kokoda Track Foundation. The Kokoda Trail is a famous historical site which united Australia and PNG through the history of war. This will be another post.
*Here is a piece of an interview from the Melbourne Herald Sun which I found amusing. I do know Will and his family personally and I am very proud of him. Will is a son of both Australia and PNG.
SANCHEZ Genia, best known by his middle name Will, has become one of Queensland sport's most enchanting success stories. The Papua-New Guinea-raised son of a senior government minister has surged through the rugby ranks to be Wallaby halfback.
Q: Sanchez Genia. Great name, but you have kept it pretty quiet.
A: The boys here are the only ones who call me Sanchez because they are probably the only ones who know about it. When I made my first trip to South Africa they got my passport and said "who's Sanchez?" It all started from there.
Q: Who were you named after?
A: My dad's older brother, who was heavily involved in raising us as kids, had a favourite boxer who was Mexican and his name was (Salvador) Sanchez. My dad did not want to call me Sanchez but he had a lot of respect for his older brother so he said "you can name him". I never really liked Sanchez because as a kid I was teased and they called me Sandshoes. They'd say "you don't look like a Sanchez" and I'd say "OK, call me Will".
Q: Sanchez Genia has a real ring to it and great marketing potential, don't you agree?
A: It is definitely something you would not forget: a little dark kid from Papua New Guinea named Sanchez. The boys reckon I should use it because it is cool, but I am not going back to it.
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http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/vga_dNAUjvX/Australia+v+New+Zealand+Rugby+Championship/l40vXfRXBwm/Will+Genia
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/where-theres-a-will-theres-a-way/story-e6frf7jo-1226274739546
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A Diary to Remember
I had kept diaries in the past. Over the years, some have been lost by accident, or the diaries were deliberately destroyed under difficult circumstances. With the digital age, I keep notes on my phone, a tablet or a laptop. Some of these notes often do not make sense after a while but sometimes I find some little gems I could use in my stories or important information I need to keep. There are websites you can write a diary on these days. In my search to find Australian stories to celebrate Australia Day, I found a story about another fascinating historical character. Ethel Turner was an Edwardian woman and writer who kept diaries for 62 years. She later wrote for the Sydney newspaper and eventually published books. I believe that maintaining a habit of writing consistently, sometimes with meaningless notes, apart from writing for the love of it, has made it natural for Ethel to progress into a published writer. Ethel's diary entries which seemed vain and meaningless at that time of entry, also later became part of history. In addition, Ethel's grand-daughter Philippa Poole was able to bring together and use these valuable entries as threads for all her grandmother's writings.
Here is a review on The Diaries of Ethel Turner & Seven Little Australians" found on a blog called, Tell Me a Story.
For 62 years, Ethel Turner kept a diary. Ethel's diary entries which begin in 1889 at aged 17 were only a simple record of each day of shopping, tennis and picnics, garden parties and balls.
"This morning I made myself a black lace hat. Idled in afternoon. At night went to Articled Clerks dance and wore my white liberty again, this time with crimson flowers and snowdrops. M.Backhouse asked me for a dance and then did not account for it. I shall never notice him again. He was a bit intoxicated last night, I think, it is pity, he might be a very nice boy. I'm awfully sorry for him."
If the endless round of social gaiety was enough for most girls Ethel and her sister Lilian had other ideas. Having gained experience editing their school magazine, in 1889 they launched their own monthly publication called the Parthenon which would have considerable success during the next three years. Her love of literature and writing becomes more noticeable in the diary entries as she records the books she buys and reads…
" I read the loveliest book or part of it after 11pm last night Not All In Vain by Ada Cambridge – I think I like better than any book I have read.'
She began writing stories, poems and articles for a Sydney newspaper, recognising that she had a talent that could earn her money and help her gain independence.
In 1894 Seven Little Australians was accepted for publication.
Set in Sydney in the 1880's it tells the story of the seven children of a very authoritarian father and a flighty stepmother. By informing her young readers at the beginning that they are about to hear the tale of 'very naughty children' Ethel Turner immediately grasps their interest.
She was also ahead of her time with her writing by capturing a warm relationship between parents and children and by going against the 'happy ever after' ending. This is a story of fun, adventure and a tear-jerking tragedy.
Despite warnings that marriage would mean the end of her writing career , in 1896 Ethel married her long-time suitor Herbert Curlewis and bore two children, Jean and Adrian early in the new century.
She continued to write prolifically – more than 40 novels, short stories and poems for children.
In 1928 her beloved daughter was diagnosed with tuberculosis and after a prolonged illness died in 1930. Ethel was heartbroken and never wrote again.
Ethel Turner died in 1958.
http://cat-bookmagic.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/the-diaries-of-ethel-turner-seven.html
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The First Indigenous Author to be in Print
For Australia Day features, my son Nathan came up with this brilliant suggestion, and something from Australia's history. It is a story of a man who became a mediator and later described as a traitor for his relationship with the first settlers. He lived a fascinating life between his own people and the colonials and this life took him on an adventure to England in 1792. Bennelong was said to be the first Indigenous Australian Author to have his words printed. Here are two versions of his story with a song from Bennelong. Long live his spirit!
From ABC Radio, here is a brief story about his trip to England with an audio recording of Bennelong singing.
It has been more than two hundred years since the death of Bennelong – that great Wanggal leader and ambassador to the Sydney colony.
Bennelong has long been cast as a tragic figure, a traitor to his people, a damaged character from countless Australian histories, novels and narratives. But as more information about him and his contemporaries comes to light, Bennelong is being recast as an adventurer, a politician, a diplomat … and it seems he is still speaking to us across the centuries, in words and song.
Bennelong was 29 and his companion Yemmerawanne was just 19 when they agreed to sail to England with Governor Phillip.
When Bennelong finally returned to Sydney Cove, he'd been away for almost three years … Yemmerawanne died in England and is buried there.
Back at the Governor's house in Sydney Cove, Bennelong wrote a letter to Lord Sydney. We're not sure if Bennelong dictated it to another person, or wrote it in his own hand, because the original letter can't be found. Only a copy survives.
Historian and curator, Keith Vincent Smith, has been investigating Bennelong's life and his long, traumatic voyage to Britain in 1792. He found the copy of the letter we have today, in an obscure German astronomy journal published in the early 19th century.
Performed in London in 1792, as notated and published by musician Edward Jones in 1811. This version is performed by Clarence Slockee and Matthew Doyle at the State Library of NSW, August 2010.
(02'01", 1.85MB)
Bennelong Sings
National Library of Australia Picture and caption: Portrait of Bennilong, a native of New Holland, who after experiencing for two years the luxuries of England, returned to his own country and resumed all his savage habits [picture].
Bennelong (1764–1813)
by Eleanor Dark
This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, (MUP), 1966
Bennelong (1764?-1813), Aboriginal, was captured in November 1789 and brought to the settlement at Sydney Cove by order of Governor Arthur Phillip, who hoped to learn from him more of the natives' customs and language. Bennelong took readily to life among the white men, relished their food, acquired a taste for liquor, learned to speak English and became particularly attached to the governor, in whose house he lodged. In May he escaped, and no more was seen of him until September when he was among a large assembly of natives at Manly, one of whom wounded Phillip with a spear. The attack seems to have been the result of a misunderstanding, and Bennelong took no part in it; indeed, he expressed concern and frequently appeared near Sydney Cove to inquire after the governor's health. The incident was thus the means of re-establishing contact between them and, when assured that he would not be detained, Bennelong began to frequent the settlement with many of his compatriots, who made the Government House yard their headquarters. In 1791 a brick hut, 12 feet sq. (1.1 m²), was built for him on the eastern point of Sydney Cove, now called Bennelong Point.
In December 1792 he sailed with Phillip for England where he was presented to King George III. August 1794 found him on board the Reliance in Plymouth Sound, waiting to return to the colony with Governor John Hunter, but the ship did not sail until early in 1795, and on 25 January Hunter wrote that Bennelong's health was precarious because of cold, homesickness and disappointment at the long delay which had 'much broken his spirit'. He reached Sydney in September, and thereafter references to him are scanty, though it is clear that he could no longer find contentment or full acceptance either among his countrymen or the white men. Two years later he had become 'so fond of drinking that he lost no opportunity of being intoxicated, and in that state was so savage and violent as to be capable of any mischief'. In 1798 he was twice dangerously wounded in tribal battles. A censorious paragraph in the Sydney Gazette records his death at Kissing Point on 3 January 1813.
His wife, Barangaroo, bore him a daughter named Dilboong who died in infancy. Later he took a second wife, Gooroobaroobooloo, but during his absence in England she found another mate, and disdained Bennelong when he returned.
His age, at the time of his capture, was estimated at 25, and he was described as being 'of good stature, stoutly made', with a 'bold, intrepid countenance'. His appetite was such that 'the ration of a week was insufficient to have kept him for a day', and 'love and war seemed his favourite pursuits'. Contemporary accounts reveal him as courageous, intelligent, vain, quick-tempered, 'tender with children' and something of a comedian.
Bennelong also had a son who was adopted by Rev. William Walker and christened Thomas Walker Coke. He died after a short illness aged about 20.
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20th Century Press Archives as "linked data"
There are dossiers on roughly 17 000 public figures, such as politicians, economic leaders, scientists, statesmen, representatives of military, nobility or church, artists e.g. painters, musicians, poets, writers etc.. 5 400 of the dossiers have been digitised so far.
Consist of press clippings on companies and institutions such as universities, associations etc. Annual reports, festschrifts, journal articles and additional materials are also part of the company archives.
Dossiers contain information about production, culture and mining of a great variety of commodities, semi-finished and finished products, as well as trade, techniques and innovations.
Emerging from the library of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) and the Information Centre of the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA) the ZBW is now the world's largest information center for economics literature.
In its archives the ZBW houses Europe's largest open-access press clipping archive the updates of which have been discontinued at the end of 2005. In order to make this cultural heritage more visible to a broader and interested public the ZBW offers the "Pressemappe 20th century"
In the context of the project "Retrospective digitisation of historical press articles on paper, roll film and microform of the Archives of HWWA and IfW", the historical press clippings of both institutions from the beginning of the 20th century to the monetary reform 1948 or to the foundation of the Federal Republic 1949 were digitised. The project was funded by DFG (German Research Foundation).
The documents concerned are press articles, annual reports, festschrifts and other papers dealing with public figures, products or groups of products, companies and other bodies as well as subject matters from the world economy. Altogether, the documents from the above named period amount to 5,7 million approximately. Until recently, access to those collections was possible only in the Kiel or Hamburg archives. Thanks to the DFG-funded project the documents were digitised and are now made available for online retrieval.


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Prime Advantage Survey of Financial Executives Reveals Confidence in Manufacturing for 2016 among Midsized Industrial U.S. Manufacturers
Eighth edition of CFO Survey from Chicago-based manufacturers buying group show that optimism in the state of manufacturing among the group's members is outpacing enthusiasm for the U.S. economy as a whole.
"The results of our 2016 CFO Survey are quite encouraging as it follows four previous years of growth and innovation for our manufacturing members," said Louise O'Sullivan, founder, president and CEO of Prime Advantage.
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) February 15, 2016
Prime Advantage, the leading group purchasing organization for midsized manufacturers, announced the findings of its eighth edition of the CFO Survey, revealing the financial projections and top concerns of industrial manufacturing companies. The results show that optimism in manufacturing among the group's Members is far outpacing enthusiasm for the U.S. economy as a whole.
Manufacturing Expectations High
CFOs remain confident in their organizations with an average optimism ranking of 6.9 out of 10, an increase over the previous year. In contrast, optimism in the U.S. economy is lagging as it fell to an average ranking of 5.4. Prime Advantage Members' confidence is in contrast to participants in the Duke University/CFO Global Business Outlook which have seen a continued decline in organizational optimism since December 2014.
Plummeting Oil Prices Helping Increase Margins
Eighty-one percent of Member companies are relishing in the positive impacts of decreased oil prices. The good news is mainly taking the form of increased margins, due to lower component costs and savings on freight expenses.
Health Care Costs Have Become Main Concern
Medical insurance expenses take over the top spot of internal concerns for manufacturers, with 68 percent of respondents listing healthcare costs in their top three concerns. Attracting and retaining qualified employees comes in as a close second, at 64 percent. Preserving morale and productivity continues to be an initiative of note, with 36 percent of financial professionals listing this concern. On the bright side, there was a 24 point decrease in respondents worrying about their ability to maintain margins in comparison to last year. This result is possibly attributable to dwindling concern over the price of raw materials and components, which saw an 11 point decrease.
Growth in Existing Markets Tops All Priorities
Items topping the priority list for 2016 for financial executives have shifted from 2015, with 68 percent of respondents mentioning the importance of growth in existing markets, which is up 8 points from 2015. Success is likely to come from new products and services, according to 63 percent of those responding. Cutting operational costs rounds out the top three at 54 percent, which is down 5 points from 2015. The focus on cost cutting has been in steady decline since 2013 when it peaked at 68 percent.
"The results of our 2016 CFO Survey indicate a continuing state of manufacturing optimism, coupled with strong expectations for increased revenue for our Members and Endorsed Suppliers," said Louise O'Sullivan, founder, president and CEO of Prime Advantage. "This is quite encouraging as it follows four previous years of growth and innovation for our manufacturing Members."
In January 2016, Prime Advantage surveyed financial executives and leaders from Member companies, with annual revenues ranging between $10 million and $4 billion, of which the majority ranges between $20 million and $500 million. The survey respondents are top professionals representing U.S.-based manufacturers in more than 25 different industries, including commercial foodservice equipment, packaging, truck and trailer, material handling, food processing and construction equipment. Prime Advantage has polled its Members for their impressions of current economic conditions since February 2008.
To request a copy of the full Prime Advantage 2016 CFO Survey report, please visit: https://www.primeadvantage.com/public/companynews/surveys/. *Graphics of survey data available upon request.
About Prime Advantage
Founded in 1997, Prime Advantage is a group purchasing organization for manufacturers with more than 750 Members and 125 Endorsed Suppliers. Over the past 19 years, Prime Advantage has paid more than $180 million in rebates and discounts to its Members. For more about Prime Advantage and its cost savings programs, solutions and services, visit primeadvantage.com.
PETER WILTJER
PWMG, INC.

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The Cloister Dora-Teura texts detailed the lost history of our races and the interdimensional advanced sciences of DNA/Kundalin/Merkaba Mechanics-and Earth Grid scalar mechanics- through which humans can reclaim their mastery of the space-time-matter experience.
The Dora-Teura texts were last on the planet in true, undistorted form 210,216 years ago.
Later attempts at translating some of the Dora-Teura texts were made in the Atlantian period -ended in 9558BC – through the Emerald Tablets of Toth, and later again through the ORIGINAL texts of what became the Bible, Torah, Kabbalah and Sanskrit Sutras.
ALL of the later translations of the Dora-Teura texts, including the edited Anunnaki renditions of the Emerald Tablets, were perverted, edited, distorted, twisted and utterly compromised by the Anunnaki and reptilian race visitors, and their human Illuminati cohorts, in ancient times. But once, long ago, there was an underlying truth and promise of human freedom within those teachings.
The Emerald Order Oraphim, who are now incarnating in flesh as the Indigo Children, were the original authors of the Cloister Dora-Teura texts.
These texts were given on earth 248,000 years ago as part of an agreement called the Emerald Covenant – an interstellar promise made by the Original stellar human lineage, to assist the earth-human lineage to re-evolve back into their original 12-strand DNA potential.
These teachings were a gift of love and knowledge from Elder Race humans who CARED about earth humanity and who wanted to see humans regain their freedom, awareness and power.
There is MUCH more to the Emerald Covenant, which explains the nonsense of what has become our recorded history interpretation.
Many people are beginning to awaken to their memories of incarnations in other space-time locations, and this is because human DNA is presently beginning to activate higher due to the Solar Light spectra changes of the 2000-2017 Stellar Activations cycle. People with the least amount of Anunnaki or reptilian distortion in the DNA will regain more memory faster.
Anyone can benefit by the DNA reverse-mutation technologies being taught by the Emerald Order; remembering is the promise of human heritage- the potential of remembering belongs to us ALL.
ORAPHIM have very special gene codes called "Double Diamond Sun" or the "Emerald Sun..


The Rotary club meeting you walk into today might, at first glance, seem very different from the weekly meetings of 50 years ago. And if you could pay a visit to every one of Rotary´s 34,000 clubs, you´d see men and women from all different backgrounds, speaking just about every one of the world´s languages, involved in service projects from the local to the global. You´d see clubs that are getting together to repair a neighbourhood playground this weekend, while working in partnership with other clubs to install sanitary facilities in a school thousands of miles away. And you´d see a group of people who are absolutely committed to making the world a better place, in ways large and small.
There´s a lot that´s different about Rotary today. But the foundation that Rotary is built on hasn´t changed. Rotary is based, as it´s always been, on our core values: serves, fellowship, diversity, integrity, and leadership. There are the values that defines us as Rotarian: they´re the values we live by, and the values we strive to bring to the communities we serve.
Every one of us in Rotary is here because we were invited, and because we made a choice to accept that invitation. Every day since then, we´ve been faced with another choice : whether to just be a member of a Rotary club, or to truly be a Rotarian.
Being a Rotarian is a commitment that goes far beyond just showing up at meetings once a week. It means seeing the world, and our role in it, in a unique way. It means accepting our communities as our responsibility, and acting accordingly: taking the initiative, making the effort, and doing what´s right, not what´s easy.
All of us came to Rotary to get involved, and to make difference. And in Rotary service, as in just about everything else in life, the more you put into it, the more you get out of it. If you only put in a token effort, you won´t accomplish very much, and you won´t find very much satisfaction in what you do accomplish. But when you make the decision to truly engage Rotary ― to bring Rotary service and Rotary values into every day of your life ― that is when you start to see the incredible impact that you can have. That´s when you find the inspiration, the excitement, and the power to truly change lives. And no one´s life will be changed more than your own.
In the 2013-14 Rotary year, our theme, and my challenge to you, will be Engage Rotary, Change Lives.
You´ve chosen to wear a Rotary pin.


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Alternative exchange rate regimes for MENA Countries: Gravity model estimates of the Trade Effects.
Christopher Adam, David Cobham
Monetary Policy and Central Banking in the Middle East and North Africa
Ghassan Dibeh, David Cobham
Routledge Series on Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa
Adam, C., & Cobham, D. (2009). Alternative exchange rate regimes for MENA Countries: Gravity model estimates of the Trade Effects. In G. Dibeh, & D. Cobham (Eds.), Monetary Policy and Central Banking in the Middle East and North Africa (pp. 133 - 167). (Routledge Series on Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa). Routledge.
Adam, Christopher ; Cobham, David. / Alternative exchange rate regimes for MENA Countries: Gravity model estimates of the Trade Effects. Monetary Policy and Central Banking in the Middle East and North Africa. editor / Ghassan Dibeh ; David Cobham. Routledge, 2009. pp. 133 - 167 (Routledge Series on Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa).
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Saint-Jean-de-Thurigneux é uma comuna francesa na região administrativa de Auvérnia-Ródano-Alpes, no departamento de Ain.

Demografia
Em 2006 Saint-Jean-de-Thurigneux apresentava uma população de 584 habitantes, distribuídos por 228 lares.

Ligações externas

Comunas de Ain

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" the first wealth is health"
"We are all afraid of germs because we are all ignorant of them. Germs are outside. What we should be afraid of is lowered resistance which comes from within. The folly of our topsy-turvy notion leads to much preventable confusion and despair. Instead of developing a proper respect for our own extraordinary powers, conferred upon us by Mother Nature, we endow germs with unnatural powers which they should not possess."


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Mastering innovation and entrepreneurship at Hong Kong's GREAT Festival
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University of Leicester School of Business will be showcasing two innovative new Master's courses on an international stage
Issued by University of Leicester on 23 March 2018
The University of Leicester School of Business (ULSB) is showcasing two brand new Master's degrees: MSc Entrepreneurship and MSc Innovation Management in Organisations as one of the partners of the GREAT Festival of Innovation in Hong Kong.
Representatives of the University are at the four-day Festival organised by the UK's Department for International Trade to promote the School's expertise in entrepreneurship and innovation.
Established to showcase the UK's creativity and leadership across a host of industry and education sectors, the Festival, taking place until 24 March 2018, focuses on how innovation, technology and creativity will change the way we work, live, learn and play in the years to come.
A packed programme includes keynote speakers, panel discussion sessions and interactive master classes looking at how businesses can make the most of new ideas, technologies and markets.
Steve Conway, Associate Professor of Innovation at ULSB, said: "Our two new courses are aimed at anyone who has an entrepreneurial spirit or innovative mind and would like to learn how to manage innovative ideas, either within organisations or as an entrepreneur.
"With our MSc Innovation Management in Organisations you will learn how to take a product or service from concept to market. With our MSc Entrepreneurship you will learn how to set up a new entrepreneurial business.
"The broad scope of these two Master's degrees will open up a wide range of entrepreneurial roles for graduates including innovation management, venture capital, entrepreneurial activities and consultancy. Students would also benefit from career support from our in-house Career Development Manager and the University's Career Development Service which offers tailored postgraduate employability support."
The courses, which are open for September 2019 entry, involve innovative approaches to learning and teaching, including guest speakers who are entrepreneurs or work in innovative organisations. Five Entrepreneurs in Residence will allow students to learn first-hand from those who have extensive experience in entrepreneurship and innovation.
The School of Business will also be promoting its Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme in Hong Kong. Dr Peter Rodgers, Director of the MBA Programme, will be attending the festival and explains what the course has to offer: "We understand that our students lead busy lives at work and outside of work. This is why The Leicester MBA has been designed specifically to suit the demands of tomorrow's global leaders.
"We have tailored our programme to give students the flexibility to fit their studies around their professional and personal commitments by combining both online and face-to-face learning. With the Leicester MBA we also offer extensive career support from the start and our 12,000 Leicester MBA alumni worldwide are a testament to our expertise and experience in helping professionals succeed. We are looking to showcase our fantastic course in a key market for us."
The University of Leicester School of Business is a vibrant, international and interdisciplinary community of over 150 academics. Building on over 90 years of experience in delivering business education, we are internationally renowned for our courses in accounting and finance, management, marketing and economics, with a global alumni network of over 30,000. It is ranked 14th in the UK for research power reflecting the pioneering work we conduct in partnership with leaders, managers and organisations to promote and strengthen responsible business practice.
The University of Leicester's leading role in space research and technologies will be represented at the GREAT Festival of Innovation from 21 - 24 March in Hong Kong organised by the UK's Department for International Trade. Space science researcher and aspiring astronaut Dr Suzie Imber will join representatives of the University in talking about some of the latest exciting developments to come from space science and space-enabled technologies. The GREAT Festival of Innovation will explore how innovation impacts the way we LIVE, WORK, PLAY and LEARN with an impressive line-up of thought leaders and entrepreneurs from business, education, culture, media technology, and government.
For more information, please visit great.gov.uk/innovation or follow the hashtag #GREATinnovation.
Matthew Hornshaw, Group Director at the University of Leicester Future Students Office, said: "This is a great honour for us to be represented in Hong Kong, highlighting the world-class creative excellence that comes from the UK. This promises to be an amazing event. Asia is obviously a key region for us and one that we are eager to further our engagement with."
The Festival – established as part of the Government's GREAT Britain campaign – celebrates existing links between the UK and Asia, and promotes enhanced collaboration in the areas of trade, education, media and government. At the same time a comprehensive cultural programme will also feature the best of UK's creative arts. Performances include live music, fashion shows, cookery demonstrations and dance.
The GREAT Festival of Innovation Hong Kong will be the third of its kind, following successful events in Istanbul (2014) and Shanghai (2015). Its vision is to create long-term partnerships that drive the future of free trade and prosperity between the UK and Asia.
The GREAT Britain campaign is currently active in 144 countries and has already delivered £2.7 billion in economic benefits for the UK
Several hundred invited delegates will attend the Hong Kong event, which takes place at the Asia Society Hong Kong Centre and will feature more than 60 panels and events over its four days
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One of the first things that happens after the pregnancy test is the arrival of the book "What to Expect When you are Expecting" by Heidi Murkoff. I don't think I know of one woman who didn't have this book in their house during their pregnancies. Not that is the end all be all of all pregnancy books, but it is truly helpful for you to understand what is going on with your baby week by week and what you can expect to happen or not to happen. I cannot even imagine being pregnant 50 years ago (or more!) when all you had were stories passed down. As much as I love to hear everyone's pregnancy stories and enjoy telling a few myself, there is something much more comforting about knowing what is going on day by day with your baby without the emotional or sometimes scary stories attached.
So now, imagine, this amazing book put together in movie format! Imagine some of Hollywood's best acting out what we all have thought and read an put it into a movie. If you go and watch the trailer What to Expect Movie Trailer on YouTube you will be sure to have a good laugh while picturing your husband doing the same things as these guys, well maybe not quite as bad, but you can see how they can pull some of the wildest stories and bring them to you on the big screen.
What to Expect When you are Expecting is opening in Theatres on May 18th. And I have a double pass to give away to for the Ottawa Premier on Wednesday, May 16th at 7pm at the Empire 7 Theatres. If you would like to see Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Banks, Brooklyn Decker, Cameron Diaz, Joe Mangianello, Denis Quaid, Chris Rock and more in this sure to be hilarious movie and are available on Wednesday, May 16th to attend the Ottawa Premier leave a comment telling me, What was the most fun thing about being pregnant? and if you haven't been pregnant tell me what is your favorite restaurant in Ottawa (cause well, I want to find some new places for dinner).
Draw for the double pass (this means you and a guest will get to go see the movie together) will take place on Sunday, May 13th. Otherwise known as Mother's Day. Hope to see you there!


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Phillips 66 Board of Directors Compensation and Salaries
Phillips 66 is a popular American energy company, lead by CEO Greg C. Garland since April 2012. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States. As of 2017, they have more than 14K employees worldwide. The CEO of Phillips 66 received US$19.3 million as total compensation in 2018. This is 18% decrease in his total compensation compared to previous year. In 2017, he received US$23.65 million as total compensation. Other executives are paid well compared to median salary of Phillips 66.
Let's see important salary information of Phillips 66 including board of directors compensation and salaries.
Phillips 66 Headquarters
Phillips 66 Board of Directors Compensation 2018
Gary K. Adams – Former chief adviser of chemicals for IHS Markit
This board member earned US$340,132 as total compensation including cash salary US$135,000, stock awards US$200,050, and all other compensation US$5,082.
J. Brian Ferguson – Retired Chairman of Eastman Chemical Company
William R. Loomis, Jr. – Former CEO of Lizard
This board member earned US$268,528 as total compensation including cash salary US$51,841, stock awards US$200,050, and all other compensation US$16,637.
John E. Lowe – Assistant to the CEO of ConocoPhillips
Harold W. McGraw III – Chairman Emeritus of S&P Global Inc.
This board member earned US$335,180 as total compensation including cash salary US$135,000, stock awards US$200,050, and all other compensation US$130.
Denise L. Ramos – Former CEO of ITT Inc.
Glenn F. Tilton – Chairman of the Midwest of JPMorgan Chase & Co.
This board member earned US$408,332 as total compensation including cash salary US$191,425, stock awards US$200,050, and all other compensation US$16,857.
Victoria J. Tschinkel – Vice Chairwoman of 1000 Friends of Florida
Marna C. Whittington – Former CEO of Allianz Global Investors Capital
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Q: Iteration with variables with several time measurements: purrr and map() functions I have a large database to face with this structure
The str of my real database is like this
tibble [561 x 128] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
Let's summarise in this dataframe what I need to do
paciente <- c(6430, 6494, 6165, 6278, 6188, 6447, 6207, 6463)
sexo_s1 <-  c("Hombre", "Mujer", "Mujer", "Mujer", "Hombre", "Hombre", "Mujer")
edad_s1 <- c(54, 68, 75, 85, 78, 80, 78, 90)
peso1_v00 <- c(115.2, 85, 98, 87, 85, 78, 84, 98)
cintura1_v00 <- c(115, 125, 110, 114, 120, 121 125, 110)
coltot_v00 <- c(215, 220, 210, 225, 215, 220, 230, 220)
peso1_v66 <- c(110.2, 80, 95, 87, 83, 78, 84, 98)
cintura1_v01 <- c(112, 125, 110, 110, 112, 121 120, 110)
coltot_v01 <- c(210, 210, 205, 215, 215, 210, 230,1 220)
peso1_v01 <- c(110.2, 80, 95, 87, 83, 78, 84, 98)
cintura1_v01 <- c(112, 125, 110, 110, 112, 121 120, 110)
coltot_v01 <- c(210, 210, 205, 215, 215, 210, 230,1 220)

I need to perform several statistical analysis:
Run normality test (shapiro.test and boxplot) across numeric variables (125 out of 128 variables). I am trying to do it whith purrr::map and similars (purrr:map_dfr)
iterative_example<-map_dfr(.x = quos(paciente, sexo_s1, edad_s1, peso1_v00, cintura1_v00, coltot_v00, peso1_v66, cintura1_v66, coltot_v66, peso1_v01, cintura1_v01, coltot_v01), .f = ~ shapiro.test, data = df_example)

error/rlang_error>
Argument 1 must be a data frame or a named atomic vector.
Backtrace:
purrr::map_dfr(...)
dplyr::bind_rows(res, .id = .id)t.
If I exchange map_dfr with map I obtain a list which I cannot export or transform into a data.frame
iterative_example<-map(.x = quos(paciente, sexo_s1, edad_s1, peso1_v00, cintura1_v00, coltot_v00, peso1_v66, cintura1_v66, coltot_v66, peso1_v01, cintura1_v01, coltot_v01), .f = ~ shapiro.test, data = df_example)

List of 9:
function(x)
function(x)
function(x)
I cannot export or unnest the list to get the p-value and t results for the time being, but I'll sort it out. However I'd like to get a data.frame.
Similar to this operation I have to run iterative t.test between the variables observed at different times, if there are significative difference between the taken measurements (I've tried the same map function but I get the exact nested list that with shapiro.test
For example
t.test(df_example$peso1_v00,  df_example$peso1_v66)
t.test(df_example$cintura1_v00,  df_example$cintura1_v66)

Syntax to recognise the name of variable:
"i_variable1_v00" at specific time "v00" and testing with "i_variable1_v66". I've tried: starts_with() but no result
I am not sure how to perform this and export the output
Welch Two Sample t-test
data: df_example$cintura1_v00 and df_example$cintura1_v66
t = -0.051503, df = 10.399, p-value = 0.9599
alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
95 percent confidence interval:
-5.504848 5.254848
sample estimates:
mean of x mean of y
117.500 117.625
2 - Create new columns from the values at 0, 6 and 12 months iteratively. I have created the variables but sistematically repeating lines with the variables in the database. An example with a differente variable in my database.
I am looking for sthg to create variables in new columns iteratively between the variables taken at different time moments:
d_peso1_v66: differnce 0- +6 months
d_peso1_v01: difference 0 - 12 months
Example with 2 variables without iteration:
df_example<-mutate(df_example, d_peso1_v66 = peso1_v66 - peso1_v00)
df_example<-mutate(df_example, d_coltot_v01 = coltot_v01 - coltot_v00)

d_variable1_v66 = i_variable1_v66 - i_variable1_v00
d_variable1_v01 = i_variable1_v01 - i_variable1_v00
d_variable2_v01 = i_variable2_v66 - i_variable2_v00
d_variable2_v01 = i_variable2_v01 - i_variable2_v00
df_example <-mutate(across(where(is.numeric)),
varname <- paste("varname01", if variable contains "01" )
df_example <- mutate(df, varname = Petal.Width * n)

Not sure if it possible to perform it in one step, or it is necessary create a function and the pass through the database with map function. Sthg like this but making difference (difference_function)
meanofcol <- function(df, col) {
mutate(df, "Mean of {{col}}" := mean({{col}}))
}
meanofcol(iris, Petal.Width)`

And then wiht map function
df_example2 <- map_dfr (.x = df_example, .f = ~ difference_function, data = df_example)

I have been struggling with different approaches that take much more time than what I think it should take if I knew how to write the syntaxis

A: Try this. Note that I deleted duplicate rows in your data.
df <- data.frame(
  paciente = c(6430, 6494, 6165, 6278, 6188, 6447, 6207, 6463),
  sexo_s1 =  c("Hombre", "Mujer", "Mujer", "Mujer", "Hombre", "Hombre", "Mujer", "Hombre"),
  edad_s1 = c(54, 68, 75, 85, 78, 80, 78, 90),
  peso1_v00 = c(115.2, 85, 98, 87, 85, 78, 84, 98),
  cintura1_v00 = c(115, 125, 110, 114, 120, 121, 125, 110),
  coltot_v00 = c(215, 220, 210, 225, 215, 220, 230, 220),
  peso1_v66 = c(110.2, 80, 95, 87, 83, 78, 84, 98),
  cintura1_v01 = c(112, 125, 110, 110, 112, 121, 120, 110),
  peso1_v01 = c(110.2, 80, 95, 87, 83, 78, 84, 98),
  coltot_v01 = c(210, 210, 205, 215, 215, 210, 230, 220))

library(dplyr)
#>
#> Attaching package: 'dplyr'
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
#>
#>     filter, lag
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
#>
#>     intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
library(tidyr)
library(broom)

## First you need to convert non-numeric variables recorded as number into factor

df$paciente <- factor(df$paciente)

## Select numeric variables, pivot in long format, analyse

df |>
  select(where(is.numeric)) |>
  pivot_longer(everything()) |>
  group_by(name) |>
  do(tidy(shapiro.test(.$value)))
#> # A tibble: 8 × 4
#> # Groups:   name [8]
#>   name         statistic p.value method
#>   <chr>            <dbl>   <dbl> <chr>
#> 1 cintura1_v00     0.897  0.270  Shapiro-Wilk normality test
#> 2 cintura1_v01     0.806  0.0330 Shapiro-Wilk normality test
#> 3 coltot_v00       0.958  0.792  Shapiro-Wilk normality test
#> 4 coltot_v01       0.896  0.269  Shapiro-Wilk normality test
#> 5 edad_s1          0.925  0.469  Shapiro-Wilk normality test
#> 6 peso1_v00        0.870  0.149  Shapiro-Wilk normality test
#> 7 peso1_v01        0.905  0.322  Shapiro-Wilk normality test
#> 8 peso1_v66        0.905  0.322  Shapiro-Wilk normality test

## Now select only *_v00 and *_v66, then pivot to longer and separate

df |>
  select(paciente, matches("_v00|_v01|_v66")) |>
  pivot_longer(-paciente) |>
  separate(name, into=c("name", "time"), sep="_") |>
  pivot_wider(names_from=time, values_from=value) |>
  group_by(name) |>
  do(tidy(t.test(.$v00, .$v01)))
#> # A tibble: 3 × 11
#> # Groups:   name [3]
#>   name     estimate estimate1 estimate2 statistic p.value parameter conf.low
#>   <chr>       <dbl>     <dbl>     <dbl>     <dbl>   <dbl>     <dbl>    <dbl>
#> 1 cintura1     2.5      118.      115       0.824   0.424      14.0    -4.01
#> 2 coltot       5        219.      214.      1.42    0.178      13.4    -2.58
#> 3 peso1        1.88      91.3      89.4     0.329   0.747      13.9   -10.4
#> # … with 3 more variables: conf.high <dbl>, method <chr>, alternative <chr>

Created on 2021-09-16 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)
You can modify the code to get the other comparison (e.g., 00 vs. 66).

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package com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.etl.template.actor.processor;

import com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.etl.common.dto.EnrichablePair;
import com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.etl.common.service.PageBindingService;
import com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.etl.performer.creation.processor.CategoriesActorTemplateEnrichingProcessor;
import com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.etl.template.actor.dto.ActorTemplate;
import com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.etl.template.common.dto.enums.Gender;
import com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.etl.template.common.processor.datetime.PageToLifeRangeProcessor;
import com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.etl.template.common.processor.gender.PageToGenderProcessor;
import com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.etl.template.service.TemplateFinder;
import com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.etl.util.TitleUtil;
import com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.etl.util.constant.CategoryTitle;
import com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.sources.mediawiki.api.WikitextApi;
import com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.sources.mediawiki.dto.CategoryHeader;
import com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.sources.mediawiki.dto.Page;
import com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.sources.mediawiki.dto.Template;
import com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.util.constant.PageTitle;
import com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.util.constant.TemplateTitle;
import com.cezarykluczynski.stapi.util.tool.LogicUtil;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.springframework.batch.item.ItemProcessor;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

@Slf4j
public class ActorTemplateSinglePageProcessor implements ItemProcessor<Page, ActorTemplate> {

	private static final Pattern BIRTH_NAME = Pattern.compile("'''(.+?)'''");

	private PageToGenderProcessor pageToGenderProcessor;

	private PageToLifeRangeProcessor pageToLifeRangeProcessor;

	private ActorTemplateTemplateProcessor actorTemplateTemplateProcessor;

	private CategoriesActorTemplateEnrichingProcessor categoriesActorTemplateEnrichingProcessor;

	private PageBindingService pageBindingService;

	private TemplateFinder templateFinder;

	private WikitextApi wikitextApi;

	public ActorTemplateSinglePageProcessor(PageToGenderProcessor pageToGenderProcessor, PageToLifeRangeProcessor pageToLifeRangeProcessor,
			ActorTemplateTemplateProcessor actorTemplateTemplateProcessor,
			CategoriesActorTemplateEnrichingProcessor categoriesActorTemplateEnrichingProcessor,
			PageBindingService pageBindingService, TemplateFinder templateFinder, WikitextApi wikitextApi) {
		this.pageToGenderProcessor = pageToGenderProcessor;
		this.pageToLifeRangeProcessor = pageToLifeRangeProcessor;
		this.actorTemplateTemplateProcessor = actorTemplateTemplateProcessor;
		this.categoriesActorTemplateEnrichingProcessor = categoriesActorTemplateEnrichingProcessor;
		this.pageBindingService = pageBindingService;
		this.templateFinder = templateFinder;
		this.wikitextApi = wikitextApi;
	}

	@Override
	public ActorTemplate process(Page item) throws Exception {
		if (shouldBeFilteredOut(item)) {
			return null;
		}

		ActorTemplate actorTemplate = new ActorTemplate();
		actorTemplate.setName(TitleUtil.getNameFromTitle(item.getTitle()));
		actorTemplate.setBirthName(getBirthName(item.getWikitext()));
		actorTemplate.setPage(pageBindingService.fromPageToPageEntity(item));

		actorTemplate.setGender(pageToGenderProcessor.process(item));
		actorTemplate.setLifeRange(pageToLifeRangeProcessor.process(item));

		Optional<Template> templateOptional = templateFinder
				.findTemplate(item, TemplateTitle.SIDEBAR_ACTOR, TemplateTitle.SIDEBAR_CREW);

		if (templateOptional.isPresent()) {
			supplementUsingActorTemplateTemplateProcessor(actorTemplate, templateOptional.get());
		}

		removeBirthNameIfItEqualsName(actorTemplate);
		categoriesActorTemplateEnrichingProcessor.enrich(EnrichablePair.of(item.getCategories(), actorTemplate));

		return actorTemplate;
	}

	private boolean shouldBeFilteredOut(Page item) {
		List<CategoryHeader> categoryHeaderList = Optional.ofNullable(item.getCategories()).orElse(Lists.newArrayList());
		return PageTitle.UNKNOWN_PERFORMERS.equals(item.getTitle()) || categoryHeaderList.stream()
				.anyMatch(categoryHeader -> CategoryTitle.PRODUCTION_LISTS.equals(categoryHeader.getTitle()));
	}

	private void supplementUsingActorTemplateTemplateProcessor(ActorTemplate actorTemplate, Template template)
			throws Exception {
		ActorTemplate actorTemplateFromTemplate = actorTemplateTemplateProcessor.process(template);

		actorTemplate.setPlaceOfBirth(actorTemplateFromTemplate.getPlaceOfBirth());
		actorTemplate.setPlaceOfDeath(actorTemplateFromTemplate.getPlaceOfDeath());

		if (actorTemplateFromTemplate.getName() != null) {
			actorTemplate.setName(actorTemplateFromTemplate.getName());
		}
		if (actorTemplateFromTemplate.getBirthName() != null) {
			actorTemplate.setBirthName(actorTemplateFromTemplate.getBirthName());
		}

		Gender originalGender = actorTemplate.getGender();
		Gender supplementedGender = actorTemplateFromTemplate.getGender();

		if (originalGender != null && supplementedGender != null && !originalGender.equals(supplementedGender)) {
			log.warn("Gender {} found by ActorTemplatePageProcessor differs from gender {} found by "
					+ "ActorTemplateTemplateProcessor for {} - setting gender to null", originalGender, supplementedGender, actorTemplate.getName());

			actorTemplate.setGender(null);
			return;
		}

		if (originalGender == null) {
			actorTemplate.setGender(supplementedGender);
		}
	}

	private String getBirthName(String wikitext) {
		if (wikitext == null) {
			return null;
		}

		Matcher matcher = BIRTH_NAME.matcher(wikitext);
		return matcher.find() ? wikitextApi.getWikitextWithoutLinks(matcher.group(1)) : null;
	}

	private void removeBirthNameIfItEqualsName(ActorTemplate actorTemplate) {
		String name = actorTemplate.getName();
		String birthName = actorTemplate.getBirthName();

		if (!LogicUtil.xorNull(name, birthName) && Objects.equals(name, birthName)) {
			actorTemplate.setBirthName(null);
		}
	}

}


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History of the NSRPG
Aspirations / Mission Statement
Membership & Structure
Sheila Birchall
Fred Higton
Christine Knott
Nottingham Stroke Research Partnership Group Lay Conference 2016
Stroke Lay Conference 2014
Stroke Lay Conference Programme
Stroke Lay Conference Report 2014
Lay Conference Report
Introduction to Impact
Life Cycle 3
Outdoor mobility intervention after stroke
Stroke Research: Past Present and Future
The CALM Study
Ossie Newell
Marion Walker
Melissa Wadams
Shirley Thomas
Pip Logan
Bryan Steel
The most important work we undertake through our stroke research partnership is undertaken through the "Core Group" of our organisation, the central strength of our expertise and resource, hence its title, this work can be described as follows:-
Researchers bring their research proposals to the "Core Group" for comment and input from the members of the group, who are stroke survivors and carers. Such input is based upon their own experience of stroke thus ensuring that the research projects proposed have real relevance to patient outcomes and quality of life, post stroke. Our group of members ensures that a much wider input is available to researchers when they present their research proposals to the Group. Notes of each meeting are kept and circulated so that there is a record of what transpired for reference and for the record. A formal letter is subsequently sent from the Group to every researcher who presents their research proposals to the Group. These letters record the Group's views on the proposals brought to them so that these might be considered and incorporated into the research itself.
A further benefit that this provides is that they can also choose, if they wish to do so, to sit on "research steering groups" thereby providing input to the research activity during the lifetime of the project.
We believe that the "Core Group" brings to the table; an honest, sincere, and very relevant experience, an extremely valuable contribution to stroke research, which is founded upon the virtue of our true "independence." This independence means that this expertise is available to the University of Nottingham's Stroke Researchers and we very much see our group as the place that researchers will want to bring their research ideas for comment and input. Since the original shoots of our growth that led to this strong partnership approach were first nurtured in the University of Nottingham's Stroke Research Strategy Group, it is the intention that this connection will be maintained; through our Academic Lead, who is joint chair of the group, and also sits on this committee.
All requests for the presentation of research proposals, group member participation in trials, or to sit upon steering groups will, in the first instance, be brought to the Core Group via the Academic Lead. Each proposal brought to the Group shall in the first instance be described in lay terms, preferably on one sheet of A4 paper (and never on more than two sheets) at least two weeks in advance of scheduled Group meetings, this to be followed by a personal presentation to the Group on an agreed date and the Group will respond to the research proposal in the manner previously described above.


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Q: Sublime text: Swap line and indent I recently gave atom a try. Despite being too slow, there was one thing I liked: the way auto indent worked, basically everywhere.
I found here how to make Paste + Indent the default in sublime text.
But I'd also like that the:
{ "keys": ["ctrl+shift+up"], "command": "swap_line_up" },
{ "keys": ["ctrl+shift+down"], "command": "swap_line_down" },

become swap_line_up_and_indent so that if I have:
console.log('hello');
function() {

}

and I ctrl+shift+down, I get:
function() {
  console.log('hello'); // indented yai!!
}

Any chance?

A: So, the easiest way to do this (aside from writing a rather extensive plugin) is by macro. Here is swap_line_down_and_indent.sublime-macro:
[
    {
        "command": "swap_line_down"
    },
    {
        "command": "indent"
    }
]

and swap_line_up_and_indent.sublime-macro:
[
    {
        "command": "swap_line_up"
    },
    {
        "command": "move",
        "args":
        {
            "by": "lines",
            "forward": true
        }
    },
    {
        "command": "indent"
    }
]

Save the files in Packages/User where Packages is the folder opened when selecting Preferences → Browse Packages…. Next, edit your custom keymap with the following:
{
    "keys": ["ctrl+shift+up"],
    "command": "run_macro_file",
    "args":
    {
        "file": "res://Packages/User/swap_line_up_and_indent.sublime-macro"
    }
},
{
    "keys": ["ctrl+shift+down"],
    "command": "run_macro_file",
    "args":
    {
        "file": "res://Packages/User/swap_line_down_and_indent.sublime-macro"
    }
}

and you should be all set. There are a couple caveats, though. These macros will only indent one level, so you may need to use Ctrl] to indent the line further. Also, it is assumed that the line to be indented is the lower line after the swap_line_[up|down] command is run.

A: You can do this as well by using the 'Chain of Command' package. Install the package and just add the following to the user key bindings file:
{
   "keys": ["ctrl+super+up"],
   "command": "chain",
   "args": {
     "commands": [
       ["swap_line_up"],
       ["reindent", {"single_line": false}]
     ],
   },
 },
{
  "keys": ["ctrl+super+down"],
  "command": "chain",
  "args": {
    "commands": [
      ["swap_line_down"],
      ["reindent", {"single_line": false}]
    ],
  },
}


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The official Twitter handle of Mumbai Police shared snapshots of a newspaper article featuring Varun pulling off the selfie stunt on the road.
The Mumbai Police on Thursday issued a challan to actor Varun Dhawan for taking a selfie with a fan from his car and warned him to avoid such antics in future.
The official Twitter handle of Mumbai Police shared snapshots of a newspaper article featuring Varun pulling off the selfie stunt on the road. The actor is seen partly out of his car's window and taking a selfie with a female fan who is seen travelling in an auto rickshaw.
"Varun Dhawan these adventures surely work on the silver screen, but certainly not on the roads of Mumbai. You have risked your life, your admirer's and few others.
"We expect better from a responsible Mumbaikar and youth icon like you! An e-challan is on the way to your home. Next time, we will be harsher," the tweet read.
The actor was quick to apologise for his irresponsible behavior and tweeted, "My apologies Our cars weren't moving since we were at a traffic signal and I didn't want to hurt the sentiment of a fan but next time I'll keep safety in mind and won't encourage this."
Later, Mumbai Police appreciated Varun Dhawan for his prompt reply and spirit. "Quite a galactic coincidence for the photographer to be on the same signal to capture your gesture, in a good intent nevertheless risky. Leaning out even in a stationary vehicle can be distracting for others considering your popularity. Glad you took our message in d right spirit"
Mumbai Police is known for posting cautionary posts and punishments mixed with humour and celebrity connect, however, this is the first time that they have targetted a celebrity and issued a punishment via social media.
On the work front, Varun was last seen on screen in Judwaa 2 and is now prepping for Shootit Sircar's October and YRF's Sui Dhaaga opposite Anushka Sharma.


Such a wonderful and memorable post Meg. Your Grandfather would be very impressed with you!
I could go on and on about my farm grandparents, I was lucky to have them. 4-H and FFA gave me the drive in my life and started many friendships that are still strong today. Glad you have memories of the same and felt strong enough about them to make a lasting impact for others. We left a little donation (hope it went to the right place) for your scholarship last week. I believe a friend of mine went to school there 25 years ago. He continued his family farm and feedlot back here in Nebraska.
I'm going to call tomorrow.
FFA and 4-H where so positive for so many people! I wish I had more time so I could be a leader again, someday!!! Thank you for all your support over the year Todd, I've very much enjoyed getting to know you.
That is such a wonderful story Megan! Our family supports us in the most surprising and beautiful ways!
Hmmm….someone should start a blog about that……..


The stone slabs leading up to Spaceship Earth look too much like a mausoleum for my taste.
Epcot was still something of a mystery to us, and I woke up the morning of our third day eager to change that.
Amy and I had vacationed at Walt Disney World twice before, in 2007 and 2009. These trips cultivated a burgeoning love for the amazing East Coast property, but were also barnstorming affairs. We had thundered right past masses of experiences in each of the four theme parks* on our way to the high-profile attractions. We also knew that these lesser luminaries – the things you "discover" – were the battleground. Either you found them, loved them, and it crystallized your fan heart forever, or you spent the rest of your life complaining about the price of ice cream bars and the line for Winnie the Pooh. There was no middle ground. Not for fans like us, anyway.


Fashion Denis: Amazing Max Mara Fall Winter 2013 Campaign..
Amazing Max Mara Fall Winter 2013 Campaign..
Hallo! Really amaaaazing Campaign by Max Mara Fall/ Winter 2013. Soo nice shades of brown, gray and blac. Perfect matererials for winter. I love that coats. Definitely the collection that really warms. Have a nice weekend!
Ahoj! Naozaj krásna kampaň Max Mara jeseň/zima 2013. Vidíme v nej odtiene hnedej, šedej a čiernu. Použili výborné materiály na zimu. Očarili ma kabáty. Konečne kolekcia, ktorá je reálne na zimu a nezmrzneme. Pekný víkend.
I love Max Mara and Max&Co.
God their collection is a must have!
I'm loving this colour palette! Amazing.
This is a fabulous ad campaign!
Love Max Mara, it's a very chic brand and this campaign is really amazing.
Great fashion with interesting shapes!
Fabulously chic collection! Thanks for your kind thoughts, have a wonderful weekend!
luscious pieces!! love the neutrals!!!
Love all the colors! great for fall. Thanks for sharing. Have a sweet day!


The Girlfriends tackle the topic of listening to your kids and really hearing what they have to say without trying to fix the problem immediately. When having a sensitive conversation with your son or daughter, they suggest removing your emotion as the parent and to be conscious of the fact that it's not about you. Then wait on an answer or solution, as you would wait on an answer to prayer. Have you heard of 'lawn mower parents?' Are you one? Listen to the girlfriends to find out.


Sweet boys. Man I wish I could was able to devote more time to racing. Should be good to go now. Let me know if you need anything. I can prob have a look at the v8 some time soon here.
Luke, I hope to bring the V8 home next week late and look at it but if you could get to it sooner that would be sweet. I think it will be a fast rig as we've really got the 6 cylinders maxed out. I want to scan it an see why it runs great and then you hit a bump or a mouse farts and it falls on its face, but if you shut it off and restart it, it is a little better....but super intermittent.
And we definitely need to weld up some rear ends.
If anyone wants to guarantee seat time please step up and help out, you wont regret it, its so damn fun to race this series.
Epic weekend. Our team put on a great show.
We were faster than all of the v8 guys. Jordan layed down an impressive 90 second run on Sunday. 3rd fastest of the weekend I think. The XJ was holding it's own. I had good times with it on Saturday and Sunday. It also dominated the drag racing.
Huge thanks to the Esdon Sreaming Deamons. Great event.
Keep in mind, we have a month to get ready for the next one in Alix. I think all three could use a little maintenance. The v8 was a big disappointment this weekend. Thought we had it fixed.
Hey Jordan. I got some free time this weekend. I can come and wrench on the v8 of you are around. Let me know.
I havent had time to do anything with any of them. Been sick for the past week and busy with personal stuff. Kinda stepping back from this right now as its getting in the way of family stuff. Maybe someone else can grab it. Or we can meet up out at 4wheel parts and have a look at it.
Whenever you guys want access to these beauty race jeeps, let me know anytime. I am working on Saturday as well, so would be a great time to swing by.


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Lipid enzyme heightens insulin sensitivity and shows promise as potential therapy to treat Type 2 diabetes, study shows
Reducing high concentrations of a fatty molecule that is commonly found in people with diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease rapidly improves insulin sensitivity, UT Southwestern Medical Center diabetes researchers have found.
Insulin is a crucial hormone that helps the body convert sugar into energy, absorb nutrients, and reduce the storage of sugars as fat. Poor insulin sensitivity reduces the effectiveness of these processes and results in diabetes and fatty liver disease. UT Southwestern researchers showed that introducing an enzyme called ceramidase in diabetic mice returned their insulin sensitivity to normal.
"Lowering ceramides may also make people more insulin-sensitive," said study senior author Dr. Philipp Scherer, Director of the Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research at UT Southwestern. "Our findings suggest a new means to potentially treat Type 2 diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease."
Though no such therapy currently exists, Dr. Scherer said a drug form of the enzyme ceramidase likely could be developed.
The findings are outlined in the journal Cell Metabolism.
When more fatty acids are consumed than the body burns off, some excess fat is converted to ceramide. When too much ceramide builds up, the lipid interferes with insulin signaling, resulting in insulin resistance and possibly diabetes or nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
"It is a nasty lipid at times," said Dr. Scherer, Professor of Internal Medicine and Cell Biology who holds the Gifford O. Touchstone, Jr. and Randolph G. Touchstone Distinguished Chair in Diabetes Research. "If we can lower ceramide, then we believe the body's metabolism will return to normal."
In their new study, the scientists showed that inducing ceramidase in the diabetic mice triggered degradation of ceramide in both fat tissue and the liver. This action then normalized insulin sensitivity and had the same beneficial effect when ceramidase was induced in the liver or fat cells. Excess ceramide was converted into sphingosine, another lipid byproduct. Both ceramide and sphingosine are energy sources, but the two lipids have contrary metabolic signaling power. Too much ceramide signals insulin resistance and inflammation, while more sphingosine does the opposite.
"This research suggests the existence of a rapidly acting "cross talk" between liver and adipose (fat) tissue in which ceramide and sphingosine critically regulate glucose metabolism and the uptake of lipids by the liver," Dr. Scherer said.
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center


Did you know that in Dynamics CRM Voice of the Customer you can collect responses, and then you can collect the feedback? In this video, we walk you through the differences between those. We talk about configuration and customization, as well as when it is recommended to use each one. In addition, we explore response polling triggering.


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Winsings' 'Diary of Dinosaurs' earns $10 million in 10 days
Animation Feature Film
Winsing Animation's Diary of Dinosaurs records a box office collection of $10 million in just 10 days of its initial release.
The animated feature hit the theatres on 1 May during the Labour Day holiday, played on over 10,000 screens with 44 million admissions and 2.3 million screenings across China.
The film will also premiere in South Korea, Malaysia, and other countries within this year, with deals in more countries and regions under negotiation.
Diary of Dinosaurs is the seventh feature film created by Chinese studio Winsing, creators of the hit franchises GOGOBUS and GG Bond.
The film is expected to run for another three weeks, all the way through to the International Children's Day in China.
This 90-min feature film is based on the genre of comedy, adventure, and action. It revolves around a family of herbivorous dinosaurs who try to defend their homeland.
Here's the official synopsis:
Woody, a star agent internship, is traveling from the future to find his senior partner. In such a strange world, he meets Yaya and gets her guidance and help. During this journey, Woody finds that Yaya is the endangered species of dinosaurs. Meanwhile, Yaya and other herbivorous dinosaurs are suffering from the invasion of the carnivorous dinosaurs. Fear only leads to Yaya and her fellows keep running away from their endless harass. However, Yaya is greatly influenced by Woody's braveness and finally overcomes her inborn fear and makes a decision – firmly stands her ground just like her father when the carnivorous' invade next time…
As per Animation Magazine, Winsing Animation general manager of film business department Hanson Hwang said, "We paid lots of attention to creating, developing, producing, polishing and promoting the contents, and we are glad to see that Diary of Dinosaurs broke the box office records of Winsing's feature series, we will continue to give play to the imagination, improve the stories through creativity and technology, and make better-animated features in the future."
So far Winsing Animation has released six feature films in theaters and new media platforms worldwide, gaining a box office total of around $32 million.
Tags: animated feature, animation, Boxoffice, Diary of Dinosaurs, Winsing Animation
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Quickies: DDD, Cybernet, ESI, Trimble, oh my
What a day for news! I've already blogged about PTC's March quarter, tweeted a bit about Dassault Systèmes' interesting announcements (and hope to blog about that tomorrow), but here are a couple of other important things you need to know about:
3D Systems announced that revenue increased 63% to $78 million in the first quarter of 2011. I need to dig into the details, but the company said that 3D printer unit sales increased 153% over last year as "the company's effective mix shift[s] towards its lower priced personal, professional and production printers and the addition of acquired ZPrinters to its portfolio". Print materials revenue was up 58% to $25 million as a result of the greater number of printers sold and because of "price point re-alignment and expansion". Services revenue increased was $29 million and included $18 million of on-demand parts.
Cybernet Systems, the Japanese company that bought Waterloo Maple and Noesis in 2010, reported today that revenue for the year ended March 31, 2012 was 13,613 million Yen, up 4.6%. There are about 80 Yen to the US Dollar, so that makes Cybernet Systems' total revenue about $170 million. For the year ending March 31, 2013, the company sees revenue rising about 3%, to 14,000 million Yen. Cybernet resells ANSYS, Invention Machine and other products, as well as its own, so it's unclear right now how much of the total is from Noesis Optimus and Maplesoft.
ESI Group posted final results for the year ended January 31, 2011 that confirmed the preliminary results announced last month: Total revenue was up 12% to €94 million, led by license revenue growth of 11% (to €69 million). CEO Alain de Rouvray signaled that the company is ready to do more acquisitions, saying that "a very healthy financial situation and a high financing capacity, [mean] ESI is entering a new stage in its development, combining external growth and organic growth whilst improving its profitability."
Trimble announced its intention to acquire Google SketchUp. It had been rumored that SketchUp was (ahem) up for grabs, but I don't recall Trimble being floated as a possible buyer. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but the transaction is expected to close by June 2012, assuming it passes all of the typical regulatory hurdles. Here's what's interesting: "As part of the SketchUp platform, Trimble will also partner with Google on running and further developing SketchUp's 3D Warehouse, an online repository where users can find, share, store and collaborate on 3D models. The site enables users to create collections of models, including 3D Buildings, and share them with fellow modelers around the world. Individual models can be loaded, saved and viewed in 3D from within SketchUp or a web browser. For the foreseeable future, Google will host and operate the 3D Warehouse for Trimble and together the companies will continue to offer the same capabilities, functions and services that are offered today. The ability for users to submit 3D Buildings for potential acceptance and viewing in Google Earth will be maintained. Currently the 3D Warehouse has almost two million user-generated models." Hmmm. Lots and lots of opportunity there. But for what?
More when there's time to breathe! It's crazy busy and I'd suggest following me on Twitter (@monica_schnitge) if this stuff interests you, because I do try to tweet live from earnings presentations when I can.