The first thing about Ethereum is that it is not just a digital currency. It is a blockchain-based platform with many uses and features, including smart contracts, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and it uses its own currency called Ether which is the direct equivalent of Bitcoin.
Ethereum enables developers to build and deploy decentralized applications and is already being used by major banks worldwide for its smart contracts feature. Just like Bitcoin, Ethereum is a global network. It is connected through computers or nodes which carry out, perform and confirm programs in a decentralized manner.
It does not require a main server. It does not need memory or CPU power to function. What makes it work are thousands of computers spread around the world.


Regular renewal of rolling stock with a focus on quality, optimising services, and maintenance are essential for rail operators competing with road traffic for passenger and freight transport.
The client's demand for short travel times and punctuality in addition to a limited capacity in parts of the railway system put great demands on the reliability of the rolling stock. Reliable rolling stock can be attained through focused programs for procurement, modernisation and maintenance.
Ramboll has extensive expertise in assisting operators and railway organisations with management, organisational and technical matters related to procurement, maintenance, and modernisation of rolling stock, and in planning and implementing the necessary programs. Ramboll engages in a close collaboration with clients and external partners in the planning and implementation process of each project.
Ramboll's consultancy services and experience within rolling stock are extensive. We are therefore able to assist a variety of clients during the tender process with experience of rolling stock, service and repair conditions, proposals regarding organisation and ownership of stock in tendered traffic, assisted operators in the procurement process of locomotives as well as metro and light rail trains, developed repair shop concepts, planned the operational effort of the train fleet, and analysed the use of simulators in the education of engine drivers.
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This is perhaps the most exciting time in the history of this unique city - Liverpool was chosen as European Capital of Culture 2008, major regeneration projects and business investment have meant that the economy is thriving and Government figures show we have the fastest growing jobs rate of any English city. This is testimony to the fact that Liverpool really is the place to be right now, and also emphasises our proud status as a multicultural and diverse city.
Located close to the William Brown Street area, near to St Georges Hall, the Walker Art Gallery, the Livepool Museum and Central Library.
Located mainly between the City's two Cathedrals. Most of this area is covered by designated conservation areas and several university buildings are statutorily listed as being of architectural or historic interest.
Located approximately 4 miles south of the City Centre. Holmefield House is a listed building in the IM Marsh Campus.The site area of the IM Marsh Campus is 7.5 hectares.
You'll never be without something to do in Liverpool – the city is packed with museums, art galleries, theatres, pubs, clubs, restaurants, cinemas, music venues, leisure outlets and, of course, is home to the premiership soccer teams Liverpool FC and Everton FC and the world's most famous horse race, the Aintree Grand National. For more information on what to do in Liverpool, click here.
Among the very many visitor attractions in the city are the waterfront area, Mathew Street, home to the Cavern Club which still attracts Beatles fans from all over the world, the largest Chinese Arch in Europe which stands 14 meters over the entrance to Chinatown, our two beautiful cathedrals, the Williamson tunnels which have a fascinating history and, of course, no trip to Liverpool would be complete without taking a trip on the Ferry Across the Mersey.
Liverpool has recently undergone a massive change in the heart of the City Centre, with the £1billion regeneration of the city's shopping district. Aptly named Liverpool ONE, it offers more than 160 famous high-street stores, plenty of restaurants and cafes, and a brand new 14 screen ODEON cinema complex. So whatever it is that you're looking for, you're likely to find it in Liverpool ONE!
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Board index » GENERAL DISCUSSION (LIFE! Don't talk to me about life!) » ANIMAL STUFF
Random Animal Stories (Not worth a separate thread)
Post subject: Re: Random Animal Stories (Not worth a separate thread)
Love the story, Mal!
Olly is precious in those pics.
Have a great Caturday!
This precious kid lives in my little town This is a trend that has been going on for a few years, as a theme for birthday parties.
8 Year Old Gives Up Birthday Presents, Raises Over $3,000 For Animal Shelter
Benjamin Walker asked friends and family to help him help animals for his birthday. And he raised more than $3,000 in cash and supplies. (video by Jared L. Christopher)
Video: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/article55477700.html
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Location: Beautiful South Florida
Hi Molly.
What a great trend!
Hi Mal!
I think so too. It teaches the kids (who have too much in the first place) to care about the animals.
My niece says most people take a DollarTree item for the birthday child .. like those light-up sticks you make into necklaces/bracelets. A no brainer for girl or boy.
Not my favorite monkey, that's for sure.... but nice read.
ST. LOUIS (News release) – A male black and white colobus monkey, also known as Guereza colobus, named Ziggy, was born at the Saint Louis Zoo's Primate House on Jan. 10. Ziggy's name is a nod to rock star David Bowie who passed away on the day the infant was born.
Source: http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2016/01/28/baby-colobus-monkey-born-at-saint-louis-zoo/
If this forum had a reputation system I would have just given you a +1 for that post. Love it!
The most fundamental and major decision that you have to make in your life is this: Do I live in a friendly or a hostile universe? Which is it?
A tiny kitten was rescued during the hurricane in Raleigh, NC.
It was taken to a pet hospital and they took it to a Petco where
it was quickly adopted.
Story & more pics: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... storm.html
Nice story..
I HOPE there is not an original human... or feline Mom/litter-mates out there missing the kitty!!
The Occult: Video 102: Cat Worship Then and Now
Cute cat!
Cat Rescued From Pole
After nine days stranded on top of a power pole, help finally arrived to rescue a cat in Fresno, California. Electric crews shut off power for a few hours while they carefully retrieved the feline from the pole. The cat's owner said the fire department and other agencies had declined to help. The kitty endured wind and rain, as he sat atop the pole for days on end. The brave cat was lowered safely to the ground in a crate and was in good shape.
Video at:
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/video-vault/ ... 46015.html
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Hey, I thought you might like this article -
WATCH: Crews rescue stranded horse from cliff
http://www.eastidahonews.com/2016/11/crews-rescue-stranded-horse-from-cliff/
Here is a cheery story!
Cat's stare helps cops catch crook
http://www.localnews8.com/news/odd-news/cats-stare-helps-cops-catch-crook/201907223
Love the rescue and staring cat stories.
I post such horrible news here, I need to look for more short stories that we can smile at.
APNEWS December 12, 2016
The new giant panda cubs at the Atlanta zoo now have names.
Zoo Atlanta announced that the twin cubs' names are Ya Lun (yah-loon) and Xi Lun (shee-loon). The names were revealed at a naming celebration Monday, their 100th day of life, in accordance with Chinese tradition.
The zoo says Ya means elegant and Xi means happy. Lun is a reference to the cubs' mother, Lun Lun.
(Adam K. Thompson/Zoo Atlanta via AP)
Saw this last night and seeing it all over today. I bet they did drug the cat. Stupid (young) people.
The cat IS cute.
Canadians sent home for trying to sneak cat into New Zealand
Associate Press | December 22, 2016
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A Canadian woman who authorities say managed to hide her 4-year-old pet cat Bella in her handbag during a trans-Pacific flight had her vacation cut short when border agents discovered the ruse at a New Zealand airport.
The woman was refused entry into the country and she, her husband and the cat were forced to catch the next flight home, Ministry for Primary Industries spokesman Craig Hughes said Thursday. He called the woman's actions "reckless and dangerous."
New Zealand has strict regulations for importing pets. Cats and dogs from most approved countries must have an implanted microchip and be quarantined for a minimum of 10 days after arrival.
Hughes said the couple, both in their mid- to late-20s, managed to conceal the cat from the flight crew and other passengers during the 7,000-mile (11,300-kilometer) flight from Vancouver to Auckland.
"Apparently it was a very quiet cat. Very docile," Hughes said, adding that it may have been drugged to make it drowsy.
He said the traveling couple said they had nothing to declare upon arrival but border agents then determined their muddy boots needed inspecting. Agents then moved the couple's bags to an X-ray machine.
Hughes said the woman was "very reluctant" to have her small handbag X-rayed and insisted it had already been checked. She finally admitted there was a cat inside, Hughes said, but then said she'd told a ticketing agent about Bella when she purchased her ticket.
More at link: https://apnews.com/62368571104047e0a14c2490819b76fc
Well if New Zealander types are anything like Rumpole they are a bunch of communist sons of bitches!!! =p
Meet Simon: The $22k two-legged cat
5:00 AM Sunday Mar 5, 2017
Meet Simon the ginger cat: He has lost two legs, used quite a few of his nine lives and racked up an eye-watering $22,000 in vet bills.
Super Simon - as he is now known - was adopted three years ago by Auckland couple Robert and Madeline McCarthy as a three-legged cat.
"When we first met him at the SPCA we didn't even realise he was missing his back left leg," Robert McCarthy said.
"He moved around just like any other cat, it didn't affect him at all."
All was going well for Simon but last June the McCarthy's received a phone call from their local vet.
Their much-loved feline had been attacked by a neighbour's dog, leaving an open wound and fractures to his front left leg.
The cat was rushed to Veterinary Specialist Group, an animal hospital in Mt Albert, and had complex surgery to save his leg.
The operation went well, but an infection post-surgery left vets with no option but to remove the limb.
....more (video) at link
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=11811947
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2017/03/schiess-eagles-draw-crowd-camas-wildlife-refuge/
The lone Bald eagle flew low along the marsh grass sticking up through the newly fallen snow when it almost did a summersault — disappearing behind a ditch bank. Finally it reappeared, heavy laden with a dead jack rabbit held tightly in its claws as it flew close to the ground unable to gain altitude. Another adult eagle showed up following closely behind and the two disappeared behind a row of trees west of Market Lake.
Enjoyed the Super Simon story, Rumpole. I think I saw something about it but didn't click to read, thought it would be sad. He's a beautiful cat.
Thanks for the eagle story, WKC. Sounds like there was a big turnout of people, being only the 2nd annul viewing. I liked seeing the photos... can't imagine living up there in the cold.
"There were 68 bald eagles roosting in the large cottonwoods."
Simon the cat looks good.... not much use in an ass-kicking contest?
My boy Ivor could take him.

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Documents – Memory – Historiography: The Second Theresienstadt Film
Traces and Treasures of German-Jewish History in Israel
Cultural Property and Restitution Documentation after 1945
German-Israeli Research Cooperation in the Humanities
The Historical Archive of the Hebrew University
In their Surroundings: Localizing Modern Jewish Literatures in Eastern Europe
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Knowledge and Awareness: Jews of the German Academic Tradition and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Academic Staff (2)
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Administrative Staff (2)
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Research Coordinator of "Traces and Treasures of German-Jewish History in Israel"
Managing Editor of "Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Culture History"
Research Fellow 2016-17
Amit.Levy@mail.huji.ac.il
Amit Levy is a doctoral student at the Department of History and Jack, Joseph & Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (PhD Honors Program), Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He He is interested in the history of humanities, intellectual history, and German Orientalism. In 2017/8 Amit was a doctoral fellow at the Leo Baeck Fellowship Program. His MA Thesis, submitted to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, examined the life and work of German-Jewish orientalist Martin Meir Plessner (1900-1973).
At the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, Amit is the managing editor of Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Culture History, and the research coordinator of the joint project of the FRMRC, DLA Marbach and Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Traces and Treasures of German-Jewish History in Israel.
In his PhD project, Amit studies the transplantation of German-Jewish Orientalism from Germany to Palestine/Israel, focusing on the intellectuals at the School of Oriental Studies. Born and educated in Germany, these scholars' encounter with the Orient was on a textual basis. During the 1920s and 30s, many of them immigrated to Palestine and formed the School of Oriental Studies at the Hebrew University, the first Western Oriental institute in Palestine. By doing so, their encounter with the Orient was transformed into a living encounter, which was also heavily influenced by the ever-intensifying Arab-Jewish conflict. Amit's study seeks to examine the consequences of this transformation - on the said scholars' research interests and methodology, professional perceptions, political outlook, and the connection between all these fields. The project is based on a rich corpus of archival documents from various archives and institutions in Israel and abroad.
- (co-authored with Hanan Harif) "'A Complete, Multifaceted Discipline': The Debate over the History of Jews in Muslim Lands and its Teaching at the Institute of Jewish Studies and the School of Oriental Studies, 1948–1955," in: Uzi Revhun and Yfaat Weiss (eds.), The History of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 5th volume (accepted; forthcoming) [IN HEBREW].
- "The Archive as Storyteller: Refractions of German-Jewish Oriental Studies Migration in Personal Archives," Simon-Dubnow-Institut Yearbook XVII (2019, forthcoming).
- "A Man of Contention: Martin Plessner (1900–1973) and His Encounters with the Orient," Naharaim 10.1 (2016), pp. 79-100.
- "'The Sheik': Understanding American Orientalism through Visual and Narrative Differences in Three Decades of Discussion," Slil 10 (Winter 2016), pp. 39-57. [IN HEBREW]
- "'Ma'alesh, Nistader': Arabic in the Folklore of the Palmach during the 1940s," Hayo Haya 11 (Autumn 2015), pp. 46-66. [IN HEBREW]
The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center
Rabin Building, 3rd floor, room 3204
Mount Scopus Campus
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Aloe × nobilis é um híbrido entre duas espécies do género Aloe, Aloe mitriformis e Aloe brevifolia, pertencentes à família Asphodelaceae.

Distribuição
Aloe mitriformis e Aloe brevifolia são ambas provenientes da África do Sul. No entanto, desconhecem-se híbridos entre as duas no seu habitat natural, e pensa-se que o A. × nobilis terá surgido na Europa a partir do cruzamento entre plantas cultivadas destas duas espécies .

A. × nobilis é frequente em cultivo, espalhando-se por vezes para áreas naturais. Existem populações naturalizadas em Portugal .

Referências

Bibliografia
 Moran, R. 1992. Aloe wild in California. Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 64: 55-56.
 Reynolds, G. W. 1982. The Aloes of South Africa, ed. 4. Rotterdam.
 Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Sukkulenten-Lexikon. Einkeimblättrige Pflanzen (Monocotyledonen). Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7, S. 104–193.
 Walter C. Holmes & Heather L. White: Aloaceae in der Flora of Northern America, Volume 26, S. 410: Aloe - Online.

Ligações externas

Aloe

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"Cancellation Would Put Huge Pressures on the Teams" – Why F1 is Opting for a Truncated Season
Dhruv George
The amended 2020 Formula 1 calendar has officially released, with eight races. Some would think that the sport should cancel the season outright and wait for 2021. However, it is not as simple as that, because cancelling the 2020 F1 season would risk thousands of jobs involved in the industry.
At one point of time, F1 was heading in that direction, with races dropping like flies, as the coronavirus pandemic took its toll. In fact, there were serious thoughts of cancelling the campaign in its entirety.
Luckily, each country have imposed lockdown measures and are trying to deal with the matter effectively. After extensive talks with governments, the teams and the drivers, F1 is finally back, with teams spending 10 weeks across Europe.
Why cancelling the F1 season is a horrible idea
According to a statement, "F1, the FIA and the teams believe that if it's possible to return to racing safely then they should. There are thousands of jobs directly and indirectly linked to Formula 1 globally, and they believe it is important to support those livelihoods if they can. A cancellation of the season would also put huge pressures on the teams, and F1 wants to ensure they are able to operate."
F1 also confirmed the existence of "contingencies" if a certain country's situation worsens and it cannot stage an event. Apparently, Hockenheim is willing to step in, if any of the European races drops out unexpectedly.
Interestingly, F1 also confirmed that any positive COVID-19 will not lead to a straight cancellation. Instead, there are protocols in place to deal with the situation.
The statement continued, "F1 has learnt a lot since Australia. Procedures and safeguards are now in place to reduce the chances of anyone infected travelling to a race."
"New procedures, such as pre-testing, regular testing, screening, sealed travel and social distancing will make this a less likely scenario. F1 are confident their plans will manage this risk. However, there is a robust infection response plan in place, if required, like many other returning sports competitions."
"In the event of a positive case F1 are fully confident of the procedures. Team segregation will allow swift and effective contact tracing across a small group. Rapid testing will be provided to determine the risk of infection and isolate it immediately."
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Ойген Ге́рцог (; 14 апреля 1875, Вена — 17 декабря 1928, Черновцы) — австрийский языковед, специалист по романской филологии.

Биография
Изучал романскую филологию в Венском университете у Вильгельма Мейера-Любке. Был приват-доцентом Венского университета. С 1911 года как преемник Маттиаса Фридвагнера занимал должность профессора романской филологии Черновицкого университета. Старший брат химика Регинальда Оливера Герцога.

Работы
 «Untersuchungen zu Macé de la Charité's altfranzösischer Übersetzung des Alten Testamentes», Wien, 1900
 «Materialien zu einer neuprovençalischen Syntax», Wien, 1900
 «Streitfragen der romanischen Philologie. Bändchen 1. Die Lautgesetzfrage : Zur französischen Lautgeschichte», Halle a.S. 1904
 «Neufranzösische Dialekttexte», Leipzig 1906, 1914
 Das -to-Partizip im Altromanischen. Ein Beitrag zur Lehre vom syntaktischen Wandel, in: «Prinzipienfragen der romanischen Sprachwissenschaft. Festschrift Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke», Halle 1910, S. 76-186
 «Französische Phonogrammstudien», Wien, 1912
 «Historische Sprachlehre des Neufranzösischen : T. 1. Einleitung. Lautlehre», Heidelberg 1913
 «Lehrbuch der rumänischen Sprache. Anfangsgründe», Czernowitz 1919, 2. Auflage 1920 (в соавторстве с Sextil Puşcariu)

Примечания

Литература
 Некролог в «Revista Filologică» (Cernăuţi) 2, 1928/29, S. 232—245 («Neue Deutsche Biographie» 8, 1969, S. 740)

Выпускники Венского университета
Лингвисты Австрии
Романисты
Преподаватели Венского университета
Преподаватели Черновицкого университета


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B'Day (Beyoncé album)
French submarine Créole (Q193)
Multiplication sign
Terrace Martin
Creole may refer to:
Creole language, a language that originated as a mixed language
List of creole languages
Creole peoples, a number of populations that emerged through colonialism, usually with genetic and cultural origins in several continents
Afro-Brazilian Crioulos
Aku Krio people
Belizean Kriol people
Cape Verdean People Crioulos or Kriolos
Criollo people
Fernandino Creole peoples
Haitian Creole people
Affranchis
Afro-Honduran Creoles
Liberian Creole people
Louisiana Creole people
Creoles of color
Mauritian Creole people
Nigerian Creole people
Seychellois Creole people
Sierra Leone Creole people
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B'Day is the second studio album by American recording artist Beyoncé. It was released to coincide with her twenty-fifth birthday on September 4, 2006, by Columbia Records in collaboration with Music World Music and Sony Urban Music. The record was originally planned as a 2004 follow-up to Beyoncé's debut studio album Dangerously in Love (2003), although it was delayed to accommodate the recording of Destiny's Child's final studio album Destiny Fulfilled (2004) and her starring role in the film Dreamgirls (2006). While on vacation after filming Dreamgirls, Beyoncé began contacting various producers; she rented Sony Music Studios, and completed B'Day in three weeks. Most of the lyrical content of the album was inspired by Beyoncé's role in the film. The album's musical style ranges from 1970s–80s funk influences and balladry to urban contemporary elements such as hip hop and R&B. Live instrumentation was employed in recording most of the tracks as part of Beyoncé's vision of creating a record using live instruments.
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Créole (Q193) was an Aurore-class submarine of the French navy.
The Créole was launched on 8 June 1940 at Le Havre. To avoid capture by the advancing German armies, the Créole, still unfinished, was towed to La Pallice, and on 18 June she was taken in tow from La Pallice to Swansea. On 1 July 1940, she was taken in British custody during Operation Catapult .
The Créole was completed after the war and commissioned in the French Navy on 1 April 1949. Her silhouette was departed from the pre-war design, with a modified sail and a schnorchel.
The Créole took part in the Suez Crisis, and sustained damage in a friendly fire incident with airplanes from the Arromanches.
On 23 March 1962, she collided with the Sidi Ferruch, off Toulon, severely damaging her sail plan.
She was eventually decommissioned and broken up in 1963.
(French) La Créole surnommé La Locomotive
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Times New Roman is a serif typeface commissioned by the British newspaper The Times in 1931 and created by Victor Lardent in collaboration with the British branch of the printing equipment company Monotype. Although no longer used by The Times, Times New Roman is still very common in book and general printing. Through distribution with Microsoft products and as a standard computer font, it has become one of the most widely used typefaces in history.
Times New Roman's creation took place through the influence of Stanley Morison of Monotype. Morison was an artistic director at Monotype, historian of printing and informal adviser to the Times, who recommended that they change typeface from the spindly and somewhat dated nineteenth-century Didone typeface previously used to a more robust, solid design, returning to traditions of printing from the eighteenth century and before. This matched a common trend in printing of the period.
Morison proposed an older Monotype typeface named Plantin as a basis for the design, but revisions were made to increase legibility and economy of space. The new font was drawn by Victor Lardent, an artist from the advertising department of The Times, with Morison consulting, before refinement by the experienced Monotype drawing office team.The new design made its debut in the 3 October 1932 issue of The Times. After one year, the design was released for commercial sale. The Times stayed with Times New Roman for 40 years, but new production techniques and the format change from broadsheet to tabloid in 2004 have caused the newspaper to switch typeface five times since 1972. However, all the new fonts have been variants of the original New Roman typeface.
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The multiplication sign or times sign is the symbol ×. The symbol is similar to the lowercase letter x but is a more symmetric saltire, and has different uses. It is also known as St. Andrew's Cross and dimension sign.
In mathematics, the symbol × (read as times or multiplied by) is primarily used to denote the
Multiplication of two numbers
Cross product of two vectors
Cartesian product of two sets
Geometric dimension of an object, such as noting that a room is 10 feet × 12 feet in area, where it is usually read as "by" (for example: "10 feet by 12 feet")
Dimensions of a matrix
In biology, the multiplication sign is used in a botanical hybrid name, where it is read as "cross".
The multiplication sign is also used by historians for an event between two dates. When employed between two dates, for example 1225 and 1232, 1225×1232 means "no earlier than 1225 and no later than 1232". It can also be used in a date range: 1225×1232–1278.
The × symbol for multiplication was introduced by William Oughtred in 1631. It was chosen for religious reasons to represent the cross.
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Terrace Martin is an American music producer from Los Angeles, California. He is perhaps best known for producing records for several prominent artists, such as Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Stevie Wonder, Charlie Wilson, Raphael Saadiq and Kendrick Lamar, among others. Martin is a multi-instrumentalist, who samples everything from funk and jazz to classical and soul, in his hip hop production. Martin works as an artist under his company, Terrace Martin Music, which is managed by Executive Director Monesia Hobbs.
Martin's father is a jazz drummer and his mother is a singer. He grew up listening to a broad range of music, including John Coltrane and Parliament and began playing the piano at age six. At 13, producing his first tracks on his Casio CZ101 Keyboard and an E-mu SP-1200, Martin was encouraged to take up the saxophone and learned to play it by himself before enrolling into Santa Monica High School, to sharpen his musical skills. He transferred to Locke High School, to study under Reggie Andrews, where he became first chair of the All-State Jazz Band. As a child prodigy, Martin gained the interest of talk show host Jay Leno, who presented him with a scholarship and later purchased his first professional horn. After high school, Martin attended CalArts but decided school wasn't for him, and began touring with Puff Daddy and the gospel choir God's Property.
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Your arms around me
How can I complain
With your arms around me
Uhm, I know I'm a lucky man
Honey, I'm taller than a tree
So all I can say is
Keep those arms around me
When I woke up this morning
Oh, I had an aching head
The pain was so great
Uhm, I almost fell out of bed
Then you put your arms around me
Then you kiss me three times
And in a matter of seconds
I never felt so fine, oh no, oh yes I did
I can feel no no no no pain
Uhm, I know I'm the worlds strongest man
With your arms around me, yeah
If I was blind I know that I could see, oh now
All I can say is
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Cross-country drama 'McFarland, USA' outruns sports formula
New cross country coach Jim White (Kevin Costner) gives his Hispanic runners a pep talk in Niki Caro's formula sports underdog drama "McFarland, USA."
Dann Gire
Updated 2/19/2015 2:36 PM
The most galvanizing event in "McFarland, USA" occurs when a group of celebratory Hispanics comes under attack by knife-wielding assailants.
The first thing the Hispanics do? Form a human shield around a teenage white girl riding with them, because she's the daughter of the high school's cross-country coach they have grown to respect and love, and they will protect her as if she were their own.
This pivotal scene is important, because it confirms the community of McFarland has embraced the white outsider and his family. Except that we never see that scene.
We find out about it through a conversation between the coach, Jim White (Kevin Costner) and his upset wife Cheryl (Maria Bello), who arrive on the scene after the fact.
Presumably, Walt Disney's family-friendly framework precluded anything but a PG rating for the fact-based "McFarland, USA," and knife-fights don't fit into the studio's familiar, inspirational sports underdog movie formula, rigorously followed here.
"McFarland, USA" also rigorously follows another formula, that for "white savior" movies -- most fact-based -- where white protagonists enter into a minority's world, then protect downtrodden minority members and teach them how to achieve success or a sense of self-worth.
Costner has a far more complex savior to play here than he did as a cavalry officer in "Dances With Wolves." After his temper gets him fired as a football coach, White winds up in the titular southern California town with Cheryl and his two daughters.
"Is this Mexico?" one asks as they cruise downtown.
At first, the sight of locals driving around low and slow threatens White. At school, he has a rough time as an assistant football coach with the Hispanic student body.
Then, White sees a student running across a field. White clocks his speed. The kid can really move! So can the other students who race on foot to school every morning after waking up at 4:30 a.m. to work as "pickers" in the fields.
Inspired, White makes an offer that the principal (Valente Rodriguez, a paragon of intelligent confidence) doesn't refuse. White will recruit a cross-country team, even though he's never run in the sport or coached it.
The rest of "McFarland, USA" amounts to standard-issue underdog sports drama stuff. The gathering of the team. The tough practices. The coach keeping the team together through personal crises. The state championship looming as proud townspeople hook their hearts on hope.
"McFarland, USA" comes from New Zealand director Niki Caro and a screenplay by Christopher Cleveland and Bettina Gilois (who wrote the 2006 white savior sports drama "Glory Road") with Grant Thompson.
Caro, known mostly for the excellent "Whale Rider," finds frequent flourishes of freshness in this friendly formula by giving runners time to develop characters, especially the troubled, short-tempered Thomas (a standout Carlos Pratts) and the team's lovable, overweight mascot Danny (Ramiro Rodriguez).
This movie still belongs to Jim White, a good man who really does walk a mile in other men's shoes by going to work with his runners and gaining a whole new respect for the hardness of their lives.
Here, frequent sports movie star Costner slips into his character with such effortless ease that he leapfrogs over performing and goes right into being. His coach waxes with weathered, wise, weary and watchable gravitas.
At a lengthy 128 minutes, "McFarland, USA" runs well past its finish line, and a tepid rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the state contest oozes measured patriot treacle.
Manipulative? Sure. Inspirational? It's all part of the formula.
"McFarland, USA"
★ ★ ½
Starring: Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Carlos Pratts, Ramiro Rodriguez, Morgan Saylor, Elsie Fisher
Directed by: Niki Caro
Other: A Walt Disney Pictures release. Rated PG. 129 minutes


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Q: Есть ли такой псевдоэлемент CSS :first-word? Есть ли такой псевдоэлемент CSS :first-word?
Пытаюсь использовать, но не срабатывает в Google Chrome 40.0.2214.115 m (64-bit)
A: Нет:

All pseudo-elements
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::first-letter
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Pseudo-elements.


The National will introduce free agent pitcher Max Scherzer at a news conference at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Refresh this page for the latest tweets from Post sports reporters (and others) in attendance.
Boras, on Scherzer's other suitors: "At your wedding I don't think you talk about who else you dated."
Boras wouldn't name other Scherzer suitors, but said phone kept ringing until deal with #Nationals was done.
Rizzo on longterm deal: "He's a durable pitcher." No DL last five years. "We feel like we've got a young 30-year-old arm."
Rizzo: "Nothing has changed in the status of any player on the roster."
Rizzo on impact on team for '15: "Ownership has allowed us to do our business in the best way we can. ... Money does not come into play."
Scherzer on money: "It was jaw-dropping. You can't even fathom it."
Scherzer: "When the Nationals started knocking on the door, I said .. this is definitely the kind of organization I wanted to be a part of."
Rizzo: "He's good between the lines. He takes the ball. He attacks hitters. ... We strengthened a strength."
Scherzer on why he signed "one reason: winning."
I rarely get this excited to watch another man put on a shirt.
Rizzo: "These opportunities don't come up every day with players of this caliber."
Ted Lerner is here. As is Jayson Werth.
Four mics at dais: Scherzer, Rizzo, Matt Williams and ... Boras. About 12 seats reserved for Lerner family.
What's next for the Nationals?


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Third early bird drawing winners announced in…
Third early bird drawing winners announced in house raffle
February 23, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.
Winners were announced Tuesday in the third early bird drawing of the Palos Verdes Art Center's eighth annual Win Your Dream House Raffle.
Marcus York of North Hollywood won the first prize of $30,000. Other cash award winners were: Debbie Madison of Cathedral City, $5,000; Andreas and Helen Terzis of Irvine, $5,000; Kelly Yuyama of Redondo Beach, $2,500; and Sarah Colby of Redlands, $1,500.
The holders of an additional 30 tickets won five to 20 more raffle tickets. The full list and complete raffle details are available at pvartcenter.org.
An additional early bird drawing will occur March 23 and the grand prize drawing – for a $1.5 million South Bay home of the winner's choosing – will be April 27.
Proceeds benefit the arts education, exhibition and community programs of the Rancho Palos Verdes nonprofit. To order tickets, call 310-541-2035.
– Melissa Pamer


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An evolving exploration of Holochain architectural patterns
February 27 2020 7:14pm
This past year working on Holo-REA has been a fascinating, exciting and occasionally overwhelming foray into the evolution of distributed systems. In that time, a small group of contributors has managed to prototype a robust economic ledger which not only manages supply chain tracking, but also facilitates complex operational planning and business process management.
It is truly a simple and elegant solution to numerous economic and resource coordination activities. But, that was already known— this is the second (some would say third) generation of an existing system that has been proven in multiple real-life case studies.
Decentralisation, Development decolonisation, holo-rea, holochain, open value networks, postcapitalism
ValueFlows, Holochain and the "agent-centric" internet economy- a podcast series
April 08 2019 6:48pm
I first discovered the ValueFlows project while searching for movements aiming to replace the current world economy with more sustainable and humane ways of organising. With apps like Buycott having found traction and new blockchain-based platforms like OriginTrail gathering momentum, the rise in consumer demand for transparent and trustworthy information on the products and services we buy seems set to skyrocket in the near future.
But consumer-curated platforms like Buycott & Good On You and even the next generation of blockchain-enabled supply chain tracking systems only go so deep. We need more than just guesses from third-parties or even information that lets us see inside the products we buy— we need information to show us what's going on externally, too. That includes the health and wellbeing of those involved in the production process as well as their communities; but much more critically it also includes the negative effects and impacts our production system has on the natural environment. And we need these capabilities delivered in a way that allows organisations to experiment with and own their own systems; not as part of a one-size-fits all global solution.
I think this recent interview with my friend, former colleague and collaborator Thomas Miller is the clearest and simplest I've ever been able to communicate the purpose of 'open value networks', the promise of Holochain and ValueFlows; and why I believe methods like this are the most likely means of salvation for our species. (more)
Decentralisation holo-rea, holochain, open value networks, postcapitalism, valueflows
Steps toward the new resource economy
March 26 2019 2:53pm
(A report from the first Holochain intensive / unofficial ValueFlows festival.)
Last weekend the first ever Holochain intensive was held on the Sunshine Coast in Australia. You'd be forgiven for wondering why that location was chosen - we don't usually get much attention from the tech industry down here compared to places like California - but for whatever reason there's a significant number of Aussies interested and involved in the Holochain ecosystem. Basically it happened here because enough of us came together to make it happen.
I'm dubbing it the "unofficial ValueFlows festival" because REA accounting was particularly dominant over the weekend, front and center in a lot of sessions and the thing that most people there seemed to be focused on. As the resident "expert" I wasn't really prepared for how many of the presentations and workshops I would be facilitating or how many conversations I would be having about it. This is largely due to Holochain's founder Art having been turned on to REA by Bob and Lynn of Mikorizal and championing those concepts to groups interested in building on the platform. (more)
Decentralisation, Development holo-rea, holochain, valueflows
An intoxicated Invasion Day conversation about ValueFlows and Holochain
January 31 2019 4:23pm
For me today, ValueFlows feels like a simple concept. But I still remember my early days coming to terms with it, sitting in a co-working space in Athens with a bunch of Spanish speakers and trying not to be down on myself for understanding & contributing so little. Underneath the simplicity runs a great deal of complexity, and I've not always been the best at cutting through that to explain how it's all relevant to people. The same goes for Holochain's architectural decisions & theoretical underpinnings.
But last night was one of the better explanations I've channeled, so... I present it here for the opportunity to remix it with your own. How do you explain the importance of these systems? What real, tangible outcomes are you looking for in the world? (more)
Decentralisation cosmolocalisation, holochain, open value networks, valueflows
Beyond partisan politics in distributed systems
November 05 2018 8:08pm
Devcon4 was a blast- at least, the bits I was well enough to attend. I've been fighting a pretty serious illness for some months (ticks are the worst), but my housemate has a diagnosis now so hopefully the end is in sight for me. It was less about attending the conference and more about catching up and swapping notes with people, anyway. I stayed with the Circles UBI team (who are all amazing) and managed to bump in to Frankie from MetaMask & the Scuttleverse again, and meet some members of the 'Dark Crystal' team (which is a super exciting project- stay tuned!)
I also managed to catch up with Vinay Gupta in the corridor after Stewart Brand's talk and had a nice little chat with him. It was really quite delightful and it seemed like we both got a lot out of it. Turns out we're all a lot more reasonable in real life... who knew? :p (more)
Decentralisation blockchain, ecosystems, Ethereum, holochain, scuttlebutt, sociology
Breaking through the blockchain echo-chamber: what I learned from arguing with visionaries on the internet
October 26 2018 8:52am
It's been a harrowing and lengthy internal debate for me trying to decide whether to publish this post. On the one hand, I've annoyed somebody very influential and this is likely to be seen as "poking the bear". Or it could be viewed as the plaintive whining of a someone with a fragile emotional constitution. It might not be a great career move.
On the other hand, it's clear to me that something is very wrong with how things unfolded. There are aspects of power imbalance, racism, privilege, suppression and misinformation at play here. It's not ok. The world should not be like this. Innovators should be supporting innovation, not stifling it.
It's been said before that blockchain is a 1% conversation, but in my experience the percentage is even smaller. There are a lot of hidden interests in the space— particularly people with huge financial investments and a lot to lose who don't take kindly to being challenged on their versions of progress. Not even by those who travel in their circles. If I am being attacked and silenced - as a white male software engineer - then what hope is there for anyone in a marginalised group to be heard?
Maybe all that writing this will achieve is that I look a bit silly, make an enemy and my life gets slightly more difficult. Maybe I've already made an enemy and writing this will make no difference at all. Who knows. I'm sure all of us involved are already more than a little ashamed of some of the things we said. I can only hope the overall outcomes of this piece will be constructive rather than destructive.
Because in the end, I have to go with "fuck it". This article isn't for that person. When I sit back and ask myself, "why did it matter so much", there's only one way to go with this. This article is for others with big ideas and small voices who would let themselves be pushed out of the debate. So I'll try to leave emotion and names out of it, and discuss what happened in the abstract. These themes affect all of us. It's important. (more)
Decentralisation blockchain, holochain, sociology
Building success on public blockchains: a strategic guide
With development of blockchain applications now booming there are many interesting things happening and a lot of reasons to be excited for 2018. Unfortunately, there are a lot of reasons to be pessimistic too. Many are approaching application development in the same ways they always have, which in an open global system runs at odds with the design and ethos of the very ground they're walking on.
Creating an open-source platform designed to work as part of a globally integrated system is a very different process than building a product or enterprise platform to be monetized through licensing and sales. In this article, I'll attempt to explain why this is the case and give some tangible rules to guide you on your journey to creating the next killer blockchain app. I'll focus on Ethereum, but the same ideas apply to any public global system. (more)
Decentralisation, Development blockchain, ecosystems, platforms
Co-ops and Cryptos, or Neo-Communitarianism and Techno-Utopianism – Where Next?
March 06 2017 10:53am
Recently I decided to fly halfway across the world to attend Open2017, a two-day conference on the emerging "Platform Cooperativism" movement. For those unfamiliar with the term, simply think 'online platforms + cooperatives'— or to put it another way, "what if Facebook was owned and goverened by the people who used it?".
My interest in platform co-ops came by way of my interest in crypto-economics, piqued specifically by Ethereum. Prior to that I had no real interest in economics or finance, but when confronted with a system which allowed value to be codified I was suddenly all ears. It seemed humanity had developed a system whereby values (as in real values; individual, social & community values rather than financial ones) could be encoded into economic systems. This could easily be a game-changer, I thought. The future seemed bright and interesting. (more)
Decentralisation Cooperatives, Ethereum
A couple of months ago I gave a technical talk about blockchains at a local Ethereum meetup. The presentation is essentially a knowledge remix of all the publicly available Solidity reference material with some software engineering concepts, architectural suggestions, challenges and detailed breakdown of the DAO hack thrown in for good measure.
You can view slides from the talk here or over on github. If you've ever wanted to get started writing software for Ethereum - or blockchains in general - then I highly recommend you take a look and save yourself some research! (more)
Decentralisation, Development Ethereum
The DAO, and what it means for capitalism
May 15 2016 11:12am
About a month ago, I started idly looking through a piece of code called "The Standard DAO Framework". It's a weird piece of code-
It's written in a language not many people have heard of yet (github doesn't even have syntax highlighting, which makes it a bit annoying to read there).
The language only runs on a super-slow virtual computer about the speed of a 1998 cellphone.
The virtual computer is simulated by everyone together simultaneously, is everywhere and nowhere and is owned by no-one.
This article is about the piece of code, what it does and what it means. The short version is that a DAO represents a single collective entity - like a company, a government, a trust or a marriage. The "Standard DAO Framework" is a higher abstraction for society, if you will, created as software to simulate the way trust must work internally between all the individuals involved in these groups in order to achieve a fair and just shared outcome. It is not an AI - it has no will or direction of its own - it merely encodes the logic all parties have agreed must be adhered to into an incorruptible and deterministic process that no flawed human can subvert. (more)
Decentralisation Ethereum
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Asustek, Pegatron subsidiaries boost consolidated results
Asustek Computer and Pegatron have both seen their subsidiaries contribute considerably to their total revenues in 2021 and are optimistic about further revenue and profit gains driven...
Micron enters volume shipments of 176-layer QLC NAND SSDs
Micron Technology has begun volume shipments of 176-layer QLC NAND SSDs, according to the company.
Memory module firms post strong sales in 4Q21
Adata Technology and Team Group both saw their revenues hit peak for 2021 in the fourth quarter, while strong fourth-quarter sales boosted fellow memory module company Phison Electronics'...
Micron sees AI, 5G and EV drive memory demand growth
Memory and storage revenue has outpaced the rest of the semiconductor industry over the last two decades, according to Sanjay Mehrotra, president and CEO for Micron Technology, who...
High-end CCL shipments to continue rising for server applications in 2022
Shipments of high-speed/frequency CCLs are expected to continue ramping up in 2022, buoyed by strong demand for server applications, as heavyweight datacenter operators Amazon, Google,...
PCIe Gen4 SSD demand for PCs to grow robustly in 2022, says Phison
Flash device controller IC specialist Phison Electronics expects demand for PCIe Gen4 storage devices to grow robustly in 2022, thanks to its rising adoption among notebooks.
Co-tech to embrace robust demand for high-frequency/speed CCLs in 1H22
New-generation server processor platforms will be stimulating demand for high-frequency and high-speed CCLs in the first and second quarters of 2022, according to copper foil supplier...
AMD, MediaTek teaming up
AMD and MediaTek have jointly announced a collaboration to co-engineer industry-leading Wi-Fi solutions, starting with the AMD RZ600 series Wi-Fi 6E modules containing MediaTek's...
Memory demand for game consoles soon to pick up
Memory chip demand for game consoles will be picking up later in the second half of 2021, as Nintendo is poised to roll out its new-generation Switch equipped with a 7-inch OLED display,...
Chipmakers gearing up for rollouts of PCIe Gen5 devices
Vendors including Samsung Electronics and Kioxia plan to roll out their respective PCIe Gen5 SSD series for enterprise and datacenter storage in 2022, according to company sources.
High-speed transmission chip suppliers expect output value to boom
Taiwan's suppliers of high-speed transmission chips, which have obtained commitments from foundries to provide sufficient capacity support next year, are gearing up for a boom in...
Kioxia debuts PCIe 4.0 storage class memory SSDs
Kioxia has announced it is sampling its FL6 Series enterprise NVMe SCM SSDs. Featuring Kioxia's SCM solution, XL-FLASH, the dual-port and PCIe 4.0-compliant FL6 Series SSDs bridge...
Thursday 2 September 2021
Suppliers eyeing demand boom for high-speed transmission chip solutions
Taiwan's vendors of transmission interface chip solutions are stepping up the development and production of high-speed solutions such as Wi-Fi 6E, PCIe4.0/5.0 controller chips and...
Fierce competition among HPC chip suppliers to benefit TSMC
Foundry market leader TSMC has been pinpointed as a major beneficiary of the increasingly fierce competition among HPC chip providers, according to market sources.
Wednesday 2 June 2021
Micron intros 176-layer NAND, 1α DRAM technology
Micron Technology has unveiled memory and storage innovations across its portfolio based on its 176-layer NAND and 1α (1-alpha) DRAM technology, as well as what the company...
Samsung PM971-NVMe
Samsung Electronics has begun mass producing NVM Express (NVMe) PCIe solid state drive (SSD) in a single ball grid array (BGA) package for next-generation PCs and ultra-slim notebook PCs. The new BGA NVMe SSD, named PM971-NVMe, features a compact package that contains all essential SSD components including NAND flash memory, DRAM and controller. Configuring the PM971-NVMe SSD in a single BGA package was enabled by combining 16 of Samsung's 48-layer 256Gb V-NAND flash chips, one 20nm 4Gb LPDDR4 mobile DRAM chip and a high-performance Samsung controller. The new SSD is 20x16x1.5mm and weighs only about one gram. The single-package SSD's volume is approximately a 100th of a 2.5-inch SSD or HDD, and its surface area is about a fifth of an M.2 SSD. The PM971-NVMe SSD enables sequential read and write speeds of up to 1,500MB/s and 900MB/s respectively, when TurboWrite technology is used. The performance figures can be directly compared to transferring a 5GB-equivalent, Full-HD movie in about three seconds or downloading it in about six seconds. It also boasts random read and write IOPS of up to 190K and 150K respectively. The PM971-NVMe SSD line-up will be available in 512GB, 256GB and 128GB storage options. Samsung will start providing the new SSDs to its customers in June worldwide.
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Samsung NVMe PCIe SSD
Samsung Electronics has started mass production of NVMe PCIe solid state drive (SSD) which has an M.2 form factor for use in PCs and workstations. Samsung has also begun shipping NVMe SSDs to OEMs for the PC market. Samsung has been offering an AHCI-based PCIe 3.0 version of its SM951 SSD since early January. Now, it has added an NVMe version to the SSD portfolio. The new NVMe-based SM951 SSD achieves sequential data read and write performance up to 2,260 megabytes per second (MB/s) and 1,600MB/s, respectively. The drive attains its high-speeds by using four 8Gbps lanes (PCIe Gen 3.0 x4) of simultaneous data flow. This allows for a data transfer rate of 32Gbps and a maximum throughput of 4GB/s. When it comes to random read operations, the SM951-NVMe can process 300,000 IOPS (input output per second). Meeting all M.2 form factor requirements, the drive's thickness does not exceed 4mm (3.73mm maximum, when equipping chips on both sides of the board). Capacities are 512 gigabyte (GB), 256GB and 128GB.
Nvidia NVLink technology
Nvidia has announced that it plans to integrate a high-speed interconnect, called NVLink into its future GPUs, enabling GPUs and CPUs to share data five to 12 times faster than they can today. This will eliminate a longstanding bottleneck and help pave the way for a new generation of exascale supercomputers that are 50-100 times faster than today's most powerful systems, the vendor said. Nvidia will add NVLink technology into its Pascal GPU architecture - expected to be introduced in 2016 - following Nvidia's new Maxwell compute architecture for 2013. The new interconnect was co-developed with IBM, which is incorporating it in future versions of its Power CPUs. With NVLink technology tightly coupling IBM Power CPUs with Nvidia Tesla GPUs, the Power data center ecosystem will be able to fully leverage GPU acceleration for a diverse set of applications, such as high performance computing, data analytics and machine learning. Today's GPUs are connected to x86-based CPUs through the PCI Express (PCIe) interface, which limits the GPU's ability to access the CPU memory system and is four- to five-times slower than typical CPU memory systems. PCIe is an even greater bottleneck between the GPU and IBM Power CPUs, which have more bandwidth than x86 CPUs. As the NVLink interface will match the bandwidth of typical CPU memory systems, it will enable GPUs to access CPU memory at its full bandwidth.


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GERONIMO HOSPITALITY GROUP ACQUIRES RED CIRCLE INN, WISCONSIN'S OLDEST RESTAURANT
Iconic Pabst family supper club will join Geronimo's growing collection of award-winning brands
BELOIT, WI (September 20, 2022) – Geronimo Hospitality Group, owner and operator of upscale boutique hotels, eateries, clubs and entertainment facilities, has announced the addition of the historic Red Circle Inn (Nashota, WI) to its collection of award-winning, original brands. Founded in 1848, Red Circle Inn is Wisconsin's oldest restaurant.
Formerly owned by Frederick Pabst of brewery fame and later by Aat Groenevelt the owner and founder of Provimi Veal, Red Circle Inn has long been known for its high-quality menu items, like hand cut steaks, fresh seafood and delectable desserts, along with an award-winning wine list. Guests can even belly up to the original Pabst bar, built in 1889.
The restaurant boasts several private event spaces for groups with up to 240 guests, making it a popular Lake Country venue for celebratory events, corporate gatherings and weddings.
Geronimo will continue to operate Red Circle Inn as a restaurant and event venue, with plans to make interior and exterior improvements throughout. Updated décor and furnishings will pay tribute to Red Circle Inn's storied past, infused with modern amenities and Geronimo's signature twist on hospitality.
"We couldn't be more excited to add Red Circle Inn to our collection of hospitality brands. It's a special place with a great story and incredible staff," said Jeff Whiteman, chief operating officer at Geronimo Hospitality Group, "We're proud to usher in a new era for Red Circle Inn, honoring its history and paving the way for all that's to come."
"We're proud to usher in a new era for Red Circle Inn, honoring its history and paving the way for all that's to come."
Norm Eckstaedt, Red Circle Inn's most recent owner adds, "Martha and I have been very blessed to be the caretakers of The Inn for the past 29 years. The events, the guests and the staff are all most memorable but the relationships and friendships that have been built over these many years are priceless and will endure forever. We are both looking forward to the next exciting chapter that Geronimo Hospitality will write. One that will embrace the history while providing an excellent product with gracious Lake Country Hospitality."
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Orientales omnes Ecclesias (December 23, 1945) is an encyclical of Pope Pius XII to the faithful of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. It commemorates the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Union of Brest.

In his encyclical, Pope Pius XII explains that many trials and persecutions took place in the last three hundred and fifty years, but that the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church always came out strong. He reminds of the many favours and assistances the Church received from Rome and how his papal predecessors always supported the independent culture and rite of the Oriental Church. In the last part of the encyclical, he addresses the grievances facing the Ukrainians in 1945. Aware of the persecution of the faithful and expecting even more, he writes:

 We know that grievous snares are being set for your faith. We have reason to fear, that in the near future still greater hardships will befall those who refuse to betray their sacred religious allegiance. (Orientales omnes Ecclesias, 62)

Encyclical background
While most Oriental Christians belong to an Eastern Orthodox Church, some, like the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church, are united with Rome, which allowed them to keep their own Oriental liturgy and Church laws. The Ruthenian Catholic Church is located in Ukraine. Ruthenian Catholics call themselves Rusyns. They are closely related to the Ukrainians and speak a dialect of the same language. The traditional Rusyn homeland extends into northeast Slovakia and the Lemko region of southeast Poland. Until 1922, the area was largely a part of Austria-Hungary. After becoming Polish, which follows the Latin Rite, Polonisation and significant problems developed for all Orthodox. Some Ruthenians, resisting Polonisation, felt deserted by the Vatican and returned to the Orthodox Church. After World War II, in 1945, Polish and Slovakian areas became part of the Soviet Union which exerted pressure, on the Ruthenians and other Ukrainians united with Rome, to sever relations and join the Orthodox Church headed by the Patriarch of Moscow. It was claimed that (1) the union with Rome was a Polish conspiracy to dominate and wipe out the culture of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church; (2) orthodox faithful and priests united to Rome had to suffer under Polish bishops of the Latin Rite and Polonisation; (3) but now they are liberated by the Soviet Army under the leadership of Marshal Joseph Stalin and therefore continued ties to Rome are no longer necessary. The new Patriarch Alexius I called on Catholics for a separation from Rome:

 Liberate yourself! You must break the Vatican chains which throw you into the abyss of error, darkness and spiritual decay. Hurry, return to your true mother, the Russian Orthodox Church!

Pope Pius XII answered: "Who does not know that Patriarch Alexius I, recently elected by the dissident bishops of Russia, openly exalts and preaches defection from the Catholic Church in a letter lately addressed to the Ruthenian Church, a letter which contributes not a little to the persecution?" He mentions the United Nations proclamation that religious persecution will never happen again: "This had given us hope that peace and true liberty would be granted everywhere to the Catholic Church, the more so since the Church has always taught, and teaches, that obedience to the ordinances of the lawfully established civil power, within the sphere and bounds of its authority, is a duty of conscience. But, unfortunately, the events we have mentioned have grievously and bitterly weakened, have almost destroyed, our hope and confidence so far as the lands of the Ruthenians are concerned.

Persecution
The Pope knew not only about the attempts to separate the United Churches from Rome. He also was aware that, in months preceding the encyclical, all Catholic bishops of the Ukrainian Church had been arrested, including Josyf Slipyj, Gregory Chomysyn, John Laysevkyi, Nicolas Carneckyi and Josaphat Kocylovskyi. Some, including Bishop Nicetas Budka, perished in Siberia. Subjected to Stalinist Show Trials, they all received severe sentencing. The remaining leaders of the hierarchies and the heads of all seminaries and Episcopal offices were arrested and tried in 1945 and 1946. On July 1, 1945, some three hundred priests of the United Church wrote to Molotov; they protested the arrest of all bishops and large parts of the Catholic clergy. After the Church was thus robbed of all its leadership, a "spontaneous movement" for separation from Rome and unification with the Russian Orthodox Church developed. Mass arrests of priests followed. In Lemko, some five hundred priests were jailed in 1945 or sent to a Gulag, officially called "an unknown destination because of political reasons". In order to address this problem, Pius decided to engage in a comprehensive historical review of the reunion and its advantages to the faithful in Ukraine.

History of the Reunion
The Pope repeats assurances of his predecessors that the oriental rites will be honoured. There will be no attempt by the Vatican to change or abandon them. The Pope reviews the history of the Ruthenian Church, which led to the unification with Rome. The Church was in disarray and needed reform; it experienced decadence and abuses. Towards the end of the 16th century, it became obvious that there was no hope of achieving renewal and reform of the Ruthenian Church except by restoring union with the Apostolic See. Prolonged and difficult negotiations were necessary before a unity application could be achieved in 1596. Pope Clement VIII on December 23, 1595, met the emissaries. They read the declaration of all the bishops before the illustrious assembly and then in their own name and that of the other bishops made a solemn profession of faith and promised due obedience and respect.

At the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the 20th century, economic conditions led to the emigration of many from Galicia to the US, Canada and South America. Pope Pius X feared that these emigrants may lose heir religious identity, and in 1907 he appointed a bishop with special faculties for them. Later on, since the number and the needs of these Catholics were increasing, a special ordinary bishop was appointed for Galician Catholics in the United States and another in Canada besides the ordinary bishop, for the faithful of this rite who had emigrated from Ukraine, Russia, Hungary or Yugoslavia.

After the encyclical

From 1945 to 1958, six Ukrainian bishops were murdered, sentenced to death or died in the Gulag. In 1949, Pope Pius made Josyf Slipyj cardinal in pectore, that is, for his own safety it remained a secret. In 1957, he congratulated him on the 40th anniversary of his priesthood. But Slipyj remained jailed until 1963. The Ruthenian Church continued to suffer. The Soviet authorities initiated persecution of the Ruthenian Church in the newly acquired region. In 1946 the Uzhorod seminary was closed. In 1949 the Ruthenian Catholic Church was integrated into the Russian Orthodox Church. Rusyns on the other side of the Czechoslovak border were also forced to become Orthodox, while those in the Polish Lemko region were deported en masse in 1947 either to the Soviet Union or to other parts of Poland.

Quotations
 In these heavy calamities, where human help seems to be of no avail, nothing remains, venerable brethren, but earnestly to implore the most merciful God, who "will do justice to the needy and will avenge the poor," that of his loving kindness he would himself calm this terrible storm and at length bring it to an end.
 In this sad and anxious state of affairs our fatherly heart goes out especially to those who are so harshly and bitterly oppressed by it, and first of all to you, venerable brothers, the bishops of the Ruthenian people. Great as are the trials which afflict you, you are more burdened with anxiety for the safety of your flocks than for the injuries and sufferings inflicted upon yourselves, in accordance with the words: "the good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep."
 In bonds as you are, and separated from your sons, it is not in your power to give them instruction in our holy religion, but your very bonds more fully and profoundly proclaim and preach Christ.

References

Sources
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 Richard Cardinal Cushing, Pope Pius XII, St. Paul Editions, Boston, 1959
 Alberto Giovannetti, Pio XII parla alla Chiesa del Silenzio, Editrice Ancona, Milano, 1959, German Translation, Der Papst spricht zur Kirche des Schweigens,Paulus Verlag, Recklinghausen, 1959
 Jan Olav Smit, Pope Pius XII, London Burns Oates & Washbourne LTD, 1951
 Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Roma, Vaticano, 1939,1951

History of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Encyclicals of Pope Pius XII
Persecution of Catholics during the pontificate of Pope Pius XII
December 1945 events
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