Magnus Carlsen (Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen), a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and currently ranked number one in the world, was born on 30 November 1990 in Tønsberg, Norway and lives in Lommedalen near Oslo. Carlsen started playing chess tournaments when he was eight and later he was coached at a Norwegian high school for athletes by Grandmaster Simen Agdestein. Agdestein introduced his civil worker Torbjørn Ringdal Hansen to Carlsen, and they had regular training sessions. Becoming an International Master in 2003, Carlsen was given a year off from elementary school to participate in international chess tournaments during the fall season of 2003.
Carlsen was brought to the attention of the international chess world after his victory in the C group at the Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee 2004. As a result of the victory, he took his first Grandmaster norm. Particularly notable was his win over Sipke Ernst in the penultimate round, when Carlsen sacrificed material to mate him later. Carlsen's victory in the C group led Grandmaster Lubomir Kavalek, writing for the Washington Post, to give him the title "Mozart of chess".
Carlsen obtained his second GM norm in the Moscow Aeroflot Open in February 2004. In a blitz chess tournament in Reykjavík, Iceland, Carlsen defeated former world champion Anatoly Karpov on 17 March 2004. The blitz tournament was a preliminary event leading up to a rapid knockout tournament beginning the next day, where Carlsen achieved one draw against Garry Kasparov, who was then the top-rated player in the world, before losing to Kasparov after 32 moves of the second game, thus being knocked out of the tournament.
In the sixth Dubai Open Chess Championship April 2004, Carlsen obtained his third Grandmaster norm and became a Grandmaster on 26 April 2004. As a result of this he was at the time the world's youngest Grandmaster and the second youngest person ever to hold GM status, after Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine.
In the 2006 Norwegian Chess Championship, Carlsen was close to winning outright, but a last round loss to Berge Østenstad tied him for first place with Agdestein. The last-round loss deprived Magnus of beating Agdestein's record of becoming the youngest Norwegian champion ever. However, in the play-off a few weeks later Carlsen won the title for the first time.
In the prestigious Linares chess tournament 2007, which many consider to be the "the Wimbledon of chess", Carlsen met the following top-rated players: Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler, Alexander Morozevich, Levon Aronian, Peter Leko, and Vassily Ivanchuk. With the significantly lowest Elo rating, he achieved a second place and an Elo performance of 2778.
In August 2007, he won the International Chess Festival Biel Grandmaster Tournament and became the youngest person ever to win a category 18 tournament. Immediately after the Biel tournament, Carlsen entered the open Arctic Chess Challenge in Tromsø, but his fourth place result was somewhat disappointing. In the first round, Carlsen surprisingly conceded a draw to his classmate Brede Hagen (rated 2034) after having a lost position at one point. A game which attracted some attention was his sixth round win over his own father Henrik Carlsen.
Playing for the second time in the top group A of the Corus chess tournament 2008, Carlsen showed a big improvement over his 2007 performance. His final score was eight points in 13 rounds, an Elo performance of 2830. Carlsen scored five wins (including as Black against former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik), two losses and six draws. He shared first place with Levon Aronian, becoming the youngest person ever to win a category 20 tournament.
In 2009 Carlsen won the category 21 Nanjing Pearl Spring tournament, 2.5 points ahead of second-place finisher Topalov, the world's highest-rated player at the time. He scored 8/10 and this was described as one of the greatest tournament results in history with a performance of 3002.
In November Carlsen went on to win the 2009 World Blitz Championship in Moscow and after that tournament Carlsen entered the 2009 London Chess Classic as the top seed in a field including former world champion Vladimir Kramnik. He defeated Kramnik in round one in a positional game and went on to win the tournament. This victory has propelled him to the top of the FIDE rating list, surpassing Veselin Topalov.
In early 2009 Carlsen engaged former world champion Garry Kasparov as a personal trainer. In September 2009 their partnership was confirmed in Norwegian newspapers. The cooperation with Kasparov officially ended March 2010. In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel Carlsen stated that they would still remain in contact and that he would continue to attend training sessions with Kasparov.
Later that year Carlsen won the Corus chess tournament, the Amber 2010 tournament, the Bazna Kings Tournament and Nanjing 2010 event. In May 2010 it was revealed that Carlsen had aided Viswanathan Anand in preparation for the World Chess Championship 2007, 2008 and 2010. Carlsen won the 2010 London Chess Classic from December 8 to 15 in a field including the world champion Viswanathan Anand and former world champion Vladimir Kramnik.
Carlsen competed in the GM-A group of the Tata Steel Chess (Corus) tournament on 14–30 January in Wijk aan Zee in an attempt to defend his title: the field included World Champion Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Grischuk, Hikaru Nakamura, and former FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov, among others. Despite losing games with white against Anish Giri and reigning Russian champion Ian Nepomniachtchi, Carlsen finished with 8/13, including victories over Kramnik and tournament winner Nakamura.
The first tournament victory of the year came in the Bazna Kings tournament, a double round robin played in Medias on 11–21 June. Carlsen finished with 6½/10, equal with Sergey Karjakin but with a better tiebreak score. Carlsen won his White games against Nakamura, Nisipeanu, and Ivanchuk and drew the rest of the games.
The Grand Slam Chess Final was held as a double round robin with six players, in São Paulo (25 September–1 October) and Bilbao (5–11 October). Although Carlsen had a slow start, including a loss against bottom-ranked Vallejo Pons, he finished +3−1=6, equal with Ivanchuk (whose +4−3=3 finish was equal due to three points for a win). Carlsen then won the blitz tiebreak against Ivanchuk. The other players were Anand, Aronian, Nakamura, and Vallejo Pons.
Another tournament victory was achieved in the Tal Memorial in Moscow 16–25 November as a round robin with ten players. Carlsen won two games, against Gelfand and Nakamura, and drew the rest. Although he finished equal on points with Aronian, he placed ahead since the tiebreak was determined by the number of Black games: Carlsen had five Black games while Aronian only had four.
In the London Chess Classic, played 3–12 December, Carlsen's streak of tournament victories ended when he finished third, behind Kramnik and Nakamura. Carlsen won three games and drew five. Although he did not win the tournament, Carlsen gained rating points, rising to a new personal record of 2835.
At the Tata Steel Chess Tournament held 14–29 January in Wijk aan Zee, Carlsen finished in a shared second place with 8/13, behind Aronian, and equal with Radjabov and Caruana. Carlsen defeated Gashimov, Aronian, Gelfand, and Topalov, but lost against Karjakin. At the Blitz chess tournament at Tal Memorial, Moscow 7 June, Carlsen shared first place with Morozevich. In the main event (a category 22 ten-player round robin), he won two games and drew seven. He finished in first place, ahead of Radjabov and Caruana.
Carlsen then went on to finish second in the Biel Grandmaster Tournament, with 18 points, just one point behind Hao using the 3–1–0 scoring system. As in the Tal Memorial earlier in 2012, Carlsen managed to finish the tournament without any losses (+4−0=6). He also defeated the winner Hao in both of their individual games. In the exhibition blitz tournament at Biel before the GM tournament, Carlsen was eliminated (+1−2=0) in the first round by Étienne Bacrot. Bacrot deprived Carlsen of a win in the classical tournament by holding him to a draw in the final round. Carlsen would have won the classical tournament on the traditional 1–½–0 scoring system, with 7/10.
From 24 to 25 November, Carlsen took part in the chess festival Segunda Gran Fiesta Internacional de Ajedrez in Mexico City. As part of it, Carlsen took on an online audience (dubbed as "The World") with the white pieces and won. He then took part in the knockout exhibition event Cuadrangular UNAM. Carlsen first beat Lázaro Bruzón 1½–½, thus qualifying for a final against Judit Polgár (who had in turn beat Manuel León Hoyos 1½–½). Carlsen lost the first game, but won the second one, and in the tiebreak defeated Polgár 2–0.
Carlsen won the London Chess Classic in December with five wins (over McShane, Aronian, Gawain Jones, Adams and Judit Polgár) and three draws (against Kramnik, Nakamura and Anand). This win, the third time Carlsen had won the tournament in the past four years, increased his rating from 2848 to a new record of 2861, breaking Kasparov's 13-year record of 2851. By rating performance, this was one of the best results in history, with a PR of 2994.
Carlsen played in the 75th Tata Steel Chess Tournament from 11 to 27 January in Wijk aan Zee. In the 13-round tournament, he scored 10 points (+7−0=6), winning clear first 1½ points ahead of second-place finisher Aronian. On 1 February, Danish GM Peter Heine Nielsen joined the team of assistants who helped Carlsen prepare for the Candidates Tournament in March 2013. Before this, Nielsen was on Viswanathan Anand's team.
Carlsen played in the 2013 Candidates Tournament, which took place in London, from 15 March to 1 April. He finished with +5−2=7, and won the tournament on tiebreak over Vladimir Kramnik. As a result, he earned the right to challenge Anand for the World Champion title.
In May, Carlsen played in the tournament Norway Chess. He finished second, scoring 5½/9 (+3−1=5), half a point behind Sergey Karjakin.
Carlsen played in the Tal Memorial from June 12 to June 23. He finished second, with 5½/9, half a point behind Boris Gelfand. Carlsen ended the tournament with +3−1=5, losing to Caruana but beating Anand, Kramnik and Nakamura. Later that month, Carlsen played a four-game friendly rapid match against Borki Predojević, which he won 2½–1½.
In the Sinquefield Cup, held in September, Carlsen finished first, scoring +3−0=3, a point ahead of Nakamura.
Carlsen faced Anand in the World Chess Championship 2013 in Chennai, India, from 9 to 22 November. Carlsen won the match 6½–3½ by winning games five, six and nine and drawing the remainder. Thus, Carlsen became the new world chess champion.
From 29 January to 4 February, Carlsen played in the 2014 Zurich Chess Challenge, winning the preliminary blitz event (+2−1=2) and the classical event (+3−0=2). He performed less well in the rapid event (+1−2=2), which counted towards the overall standings, but retained enough of a lead to win the tournament. The other players in the event were Aronian, Nakamura, Caruana, Gelfand and Anand.
Carlsen played a game for his club Stavanger in the final team match for promotion to the Norwegian Premier League on 22 March. His win over Vladimir Georgiev helped his team to a 3½–2½ win over Nordstrand.
Carlsen won the Shamkir Chess tournament at Şəmkir, Azerbaijan, played from 20–30 April. He played in the A group along with Caruana, Nakamura, Karjakin, Mamedyarov and Radjabov. Carlsen started the tournament with 2/2, beating Mamedyarov and Nakamura. He then drew Karjakin, only to lose two games in a row for the first time in four years, losing to Caruana with black and then with white to Radjabov. In the second half of the tournament, Carlsen scored 4/5, beating Mamedyarov and Nakamura again, and securing the tournament victory by beating Caruana in the final round, finishing with +5−2=3.
On 8 May Carlsen played an exhibition game at Oslo City against the people of Norway, assisted by a grandmaster panel consisting of Simen Agdestein, Leif Erlend Johannessen, and Jon Ludvig Hammer. Each of the panel members proposed a move and the public could then vote over the proposed moves. Each panel member was allowed three chances to let chess engine Houdini propose a move during the game. Norway's moves were executed by Oddvar Brå who was disguised in a red spandex suit for the occasion. The game was drawn when Carlsen forced a perpetual check.
Carlsen placed second (to Sergey Karjakin) in the 2014 edition of Norway Chess, a ten-player round robin, from 2 June to 13 June. Other players in the event were Aronian, Caruana, Topalov, Svidler, Kramnik, Grischuk, Giri and Agdestein.
Carlsen won FIDE World Rapid Championships held in Dubai from 16 June to 19 June. He went on to claim the World Blitz Championships two days later, becoming the first player to simultaneously hold the title in all three FIDE rated time controls.
Carlsen placed second to Fabiano Caruana in the Sinquefield Cup, a six-player double round robin in Saint Louis, Missouri from 27 August to 7 September. Billed as the strongest chess tournament ever held, the remaining players in the event were Aronian, Nakamura, Topalov, and Vachier-Lagrave.
Carlsen faced Anand in a match for the title of World Chess Champion in November 2014, as Anand qualified by winning the 2014 Candidates Tournament. The rematch was held from November 7 to 23 in Sochi, Russia. After 11 of 12 games, Carlsen led 6.5–4.5, thereby defending his World Champion title.


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Grand Traverse Area Catholic Schools Welcome the Return of Dominican Sisters
With the start of the 2021 school year, students at Immaculate Conception Elementary and St. Francis High School once again have religious sisters as teachers. The Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia (commonly referred to as the "Nashville Dominicans") have established a mission in Traverse City. Four sisters now serve as teachers at Grand Traverse Area Catholic Schools.
Religious sisters have been part of the Catholic schools in Traverse City for most of its 144-year history. Holy Angels Academy, which eventually became St. Francis Elementary & High School, was established by a priest and six Dominican sisters in 1877. The tradition of having at least one consecrated woman among the faculty was unbroken until the early 2000s with the retirement of Sister Lydia.
About eight years ago, Grand Traverse Area Catholic Schools Superintendent, Michael Buell, and St. Francis High School Principal, Erick Chittle, met Dominican Sister Mary Agnes Greiffendorf, O.P. while doing doctoral studies in Washington, DC, and Sister John Mary Fleming, O.P. through her work with the United States Council of Catholic Bishops. "We were struck by their holiness, strength, and joy," says Dr. Chittle. "After touring the Nashville Dominican's motherhouse and meeting more sisters, we realized how important their charism would be to our students and our families, and we began to pray and hope."
Sister John Mary was invited to Traverse City to speak at a school event where she encountered a vibrant Catholic community and a school system with a vision that aligned with their own. Conversations ensued, but the requests for these highly sought-after teachers are many; demand is much greater than supply.
After plentiful prayer, further site visits, and finally, approval by the Congregation's Prioress General, Mother Anna Grace Neenan, O.P., plus Bishop of Gaylord, Most Reverend Steven J. Raica and pastors at the five supporting parishes, the decision was made: Traverse City would once again have religious sisters teaching in the Catholic schools. The announcement was made to the entire school system at a Mass in February 2020, and it was met with tremendous enthusiasm.
"The Nashville Dominicans have the reputation of being among the best teachers in the world," says Superintendent Michael Buell. "There are hundreds of schools vying to have even one sister come and teach, and we are blessed beyond measure to be able to have four of them become part of our school family."
Spokesperson for the Nashville Dominicans, Sister Anne Catherine Burleigh, remarked, "Traverse City is the only new mission the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia will launch this year, so it is very special for us. The sisters are excited, especially when they heard that Traverse City is known for some of the best ice cream parlors in America!"
When asked why Traverse City made it to the top of the long list of possible schools, Sister Anne Catherine said, "We are drawn to schools where there is the possibility for a genuine partnership and complementarity of vocations, with both the lay faculty and staff and the religious sisters working towards the same goal of making Christ known and loved in that school. The GTACS schools are quite blessed in so many respects. You have outstanding leadership that articulates a clear and compelling vision of authentic Catholic education for students and their families. You have been intentional in taking time to form great faculty and staff who understand why they are there and their role as Catholic educators. Because of this, GTACS schools can make such a lasting impact on their students, with teachers not only teaching them skills and subjects, but also showing students what an integration of faith and life looks like on a daily basis."
Dominican sisters wear a habit that is comprised of a simple white tunic (representing innocence), a black veil (representing humility) and a rosary worn at the belt (representing prayer). But despite the common attire, each sister brings her own God-given gifts to her role as teacher, according to Sister Anne Catherine, "Our sisters are quite different. The sisters hail from different parts of the world and have such interesting backgrounds."
The Sisters arrived in August and took up residence together in a home that has been retrofitted for their needs called Our Lady of the Lake Convent. Their days will be filled with a mix of prayer and work, with times for silence and times for community.
Left to right: Sister Anna Catherine, Sister Chiara, Sister Julia Marie, Sister Magdalena
MEET THE SISTERS
Sister Anna Catherine, Immaculate Conception Grade 3
Sister Anna Catherine received a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies from Aquinas College, Tennessee where she is licensed for elementary K-6 instruction. She was most recently serving at St. James Catholic School in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
Sister Chiara, St. Francis High School Science
Sister Chiara received her Bachelor of Science from William and Mary College in Virginia, then a Master in the Art of Teaching (MAT) degree in secondary education from Aquinas College in Tennessee. She is licensed in Tennessee to teach English, Chemistry and Math for grades 6-12. Sister has served as a junior high religion teacher at St. Catherine of Siena in Kennesaw, Georgia and at St. Pius V School in Providence, Rhode Island.
Sister Julia Marie Flathers, St. Francis High School Science
Sister Julia Marie Flathers earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from St. Anselm College in New Hampshire, and a Master of Education (MEd) in Educational Leadership from Trevecca Nazarene University in Tennessee. She taught chemistry at St. Cecilia Academy from 2008-2012 then served as Academic Dean there from 2012-2016, then became Principal at Overbrook School from 2016-2020.
Sister Magdalena, Immaculate Conception Grade 4
Sister Magdalena holds a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies and Elementary Education from Aquinas College in Tennessee where she is licensed for K-6. She taught grade 5 Language arts and religion from 2014-2019 in Stillwater, Minnesota, and was teaching 6-7th grade Religion in Cottleville, Missouri from 2019 until the present. Sister Magdalena is also the Superior of the house.
ABOUT THE DOMINICAN SISTERS OF SAINT CECILIA
In 1860, the Congregation of Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia was established in Nashville, where its Motherhouse is located. The Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia are dedicated to the apostolate of Catholic education. The community of just over 300 sisters serves in 41 schools throughout the United States, with mission houses also in Australia, Canada, Italy, Scotland, the Netherlands, and Ireland. Visit www.nashvilledominicans.org for more information.
Donate to the Dominican Sisters' Home in Traverse City (Our Lady of the Lake Convent)

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So what is Ballsy? Other than a FANTASTIC way to describe a wide variety of the human population who choose entrepreneurship as a way of life? It's also the name of a group I started that brings together women in entrepreneurship. Why? It takes a lot of guts to start your own business but sometimes you need more than that. And not to take the stereotype in vain but women need to talk it out.
Now that I consider that statement, all entrepreneurs need to talk it out. But finding a safe way to talk it out where there won't be ego, competition or the fear of someone taking your idea? That's a bit more challenging so hence the birth of Ballsy. I knew I couldn't be the only one who would like to bring other brains together and see what we could come up with. After meeting 4 times, this has to be one of the best ideas I've had in a while. The insight, the perspective, the release and the support. All things I hoped for and so far we're achieving.
Even if you aren't a woman in entrepreneurship but want to learn a little something about business, gain some insight in to how to overcome challenges or have a light bulb moment that solves a problem, this might be the podcast for you.
I'd love to hear about what steps you take to problem solve for your business and what successes you've had. Leave a comment below!


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Nilceu Santos (n. el 14 de julio de 1977 en Cascavel, Paraná), es un ciclista brasileño que compite por el Clube DataRo de Ciclismo-Bottecchia.

Apodado "the flash", es un excelente esprínter y especialista en pruebas de un día, como la Copa América de Ciclismo, la cual venció cuatro años consecutivos (del 2005 al 2008) y la Prova Ciclística 9 de Julho vencedor en dos oportunidades.

Compitió desde 2005 por el Scott-Marcondes César-Fadenp-São José dos Campos y ese año culminó quinto en el primer UCI America Tour que se disputó. En el año 2007 se coronó campeón brasileño de ruta.

En octubre de 2010 la crisis del equipo lo llevaron a abandonar las filas y fichar por el Funvic-Pindamonhangaba.

Palmarés
2001
 Prueba Ciclística 9 de Julio

2002
 2 etapas de la Volta do Rio de Janeiro

2004
 Prueba Ciclística 9 de Julio
 1 etapa del Tour de Santa Catarina

2005
 Copa América de Ciclismo
 1 etapa de la Volta do Estado de São Paulo
 2º en el Campeonato de Brasil de Ciclismo en Ruta

2006
 Copa América de Ciclismo
 1 etapa de la Volta Ciclística de Porto Alegre
 1 etapa de la Volta do Estado de São Paulo
 4 etapas del Tour de Santa Catarina

2007

 Copa América de Ciclismo
 1 etapa de la Volta do Rio de Janeiro
 1 etapa de la Volta do Estado de São Paulo
 Campeonato de Brasil de Ciclismo en Ruta

2008
 Copa América de Ciclismo

2010
 1 etapa Giro do Interior de São Paulo

2014
 1 etapa del Tour de Brasil/Vuelta del Estado de San Pablo

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Ficha en sitiodeciclismo
 Palmarés completo sjciclimo.com

Ciclistas de Brasil
Nacidos en Cascavel

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Recently I was working with a data processing pipeline where some work items progressed through a number of different stages. The pipeline was running synchronously so it would fully complete before picking up the next work item.
The work items were not related in any way so processing them in parallel was an option and, as the different pipeline stages took varying amounts of time, I decided to parallelize each stage separately, have different numbers of worker threads for each stage and separated the stages with queues. The pipeline was running on a single machine with the worker threads all part of the same process and the queues were just FIFO data structures sitting in RAM - a relatively simple setup.
The issue I encountered pretty quickly was that the stages of the pipeline processed the work items at different rates and, in a couple of cases, not in a predictable way that I could solve by tweaking the numbers of worker threads used for each stage. Where the stage acting as the consumer of a queue was going slower than the stage that was the producer, the list of items pending built up and used up all the available memory pretty quickly.
I needed to be able to limit the number of pending items in each queue and block the publishers to that queue until the consumers caught up.
One way of achieving this is using semaphores to keep track of the number of "slots" used and have the producer threads block on the semaphore until a slot is available.
Another option is the underutilised TPL Dataflow library and solutions which work this way are relatively simple, examples of which are out there on the web such as this one on Stephen Cleary's blog where a BoundedCapacity is applied.
The option I went with was to wrap my ConcurrentQueue in a BlockingCollection with boundedCapacity specified. This has the effect of causing any Add operations on the collection to block until there is space available. Below is an example from MSDN slightly tweaked to introduce throttling to the producer Task.
You can see from the example output that, once the collection is at capacity the producer is forced to wait for the consumer to free up space in the collection before it can add more items.


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Only 1% of nuclear fuel is recyclable. What is left for the next generation?
Windscale, renamed Sellafield, UK; Three Mile Island, USA; Chernobyl, Russia and Chernobyl, these accidents reinforce the dangers of nuclear reactors.
French nuclear companies maintain 96% 0f the uranium used in nuclear power stations can be upgraded. Then what are we leaving for our children? A meeting in Caen, France in April concerning nuclear waste which will reconvene in September will determine technical, economic, political, societal factors along with the ethics of the situation.
Everyone is concerned with nuclear waste which deemads public support. Both matter and waste are the chief concerns. The Caen meeting made a simple deduction that radioactive waste is potentially recyclable. The concept of a 'closed cycle' with 96% of radioactive waste usable in a economic form by means of a novel production system is proposed. An explanation is required.
What happens to the uranium used in French Nuclear Power Stations?
French nuclear power stations have accumulated 1.6 million cubic metres of radioactive waste by the end of 2017 which represents 99.8% of total radioactivity - the most problematic. Each year 1200 tons of fuel is used to produce energy in the form of uranium in 4 metre long metal tubes. These assemblies are frozen for four years in deactivation ponds they are then transported by train to Valogne by means of 200 train transports annually. Factories at La Hague and d'Orano with ponds continue to freeze the uranium for a further 4 or 6 years. Treatment consists of compacting and placing the material in containers, by the end of 2017 the site at La Hague counts 15,600 such containers which are from the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Belgium.
This waste is stored at Bure and will be stored at Cigéo which will enter service between 2026 and 2027. This fuel, 4% of which consists of products of fission generated from nuclear reactions. They are incorporated into a matrix of glass, the numbers of these containers have risen to 16,000 at the end of 2017, representing 99% of French nuclear waste. This fuel contains 1% plutonium. this is from Melox d'Orano at Marcoule which manufactures a new fuel called MOX, composed of 8% plutonium and 92% a sub product of the natural enrichment of uranium. In fact 22 reactors of 900 megawatts use MOX a total of 120 tonnes per annum. From 1994 - 2013 an electrician recovered a new fuel mostly enriched uranium, which was used in 4 nuclear reactors but this usage has ceased.
Only 1% of plutonium is recyclable. Certainly the manufacture of MOX allowing the recycling of 120 tonnes of uranium to be recycled annually rendering recycling of nuclear fuels only bout 10%. The frozen ponds of nuclear waste at La Hague could hypothetically be utilised. The future is uncertain because the MOX reactors are now the oldest in France. These reactors could be converted to next generation 1300MW reactors under future government energy plans between 2028 and 2032. The use of recyclables in particular treated uranium will be integrated into using at least 4% of nuclear waste using at least 1300 tonnes per annum along with 1000 tonnes generated annually. Unfortunately, recycled waste for fueling reactors is not possible alone.
Retreating uranium will help to conserve 10% of the natural uranium currently available thanks to the recovery of plutonium and the upgrade of treated uranium. This reduces the storing of nuclear waste destined for geological storage. Giving radioactive material a second chance to generate potential energy while the volume of waste remains stable is not reassuring. Greenpeace France describes nuclear waste being used as fuel or recyclable as a myth. Retreatment aggravates the risks, increases train transports whilst generating extra waste, recycled waste is filtered and the rejected waste pollutes the air and sea at La Hague. The Union of Concerned Scientists in the United States confirm retreatment increases the total volume of waste. The 54 tonnes of plutonium stored at La Hague could provide the ingredients for a nuclear bomb should terrorists secure same. La Hague is currently filled to 93% of storage capacity and will reach full capacity by 2030. This is what the next generation is faced with.
France and Russia are retreating and recycling nuclear fuel. Japan, after the accident at Fukushima, find they have large stocks of plutonium which concerns the Atomic Energy Agency and the United States. in Germany, Belgium and Switzerland the end of their nuclear programmes means an end to recycling. The decommissioned Sellafield plant is a very costly dismantlement with interminable costs. China, the most dynamic builder of reactors is also very trenchant in negotiations. The United States do not recycle in order to avoid the proliferation of plutonium.
Source: Seul 1% du combustible nucléaire recyclé, Le Monde, Vendredi, Avril 26, 2019
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Perhaps one of the most often overlooked and forgotten about processes for creating precision formed parts and components is sheet metal stamping. At Stone City Products, we have provided precision stamped parts for industries for over six decades. During this time, we have kept on top of all the technology, and the cutting-edge advances in this highly cost-effective method of producing parts and components.
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While aluminum is the most common material used in the stamping process, it can be completed with all types of metallic alloys in sheet form. This even includes the superalloys of the Inconel family, which are often used in the aerospace industry and for extreme environment types of systems.
Sheet metal, while very durable and strong, can be shaped using extremely high amounts of pressure. Unlike other types of fabrication and forming options, stamping is completed at room temperature, so there is no additional heating or stress relieving needed after the heating process.
Using controlled pressure, a ram is used to press down in the sheet metal. A die (creating the outside shape) and a punch (creating the inside shape) creates a blank, or the shape punched through the die.
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Boomerang Howto #9: Collect performance data from the Navigation Timing API

The W3C Navigation Timing API is an interface implemented by modern browsers that
provides broad and deep data related to the performance of page loads.  At the time
of this writing, it is supported by the following browsers:

Chrome 6+

Internet Explorer 9+

Firefox 7+ (note that a bug in Firefox 7 and 8 reports the incorrect time for navigationStart.  Use unloadEventStart or fetchStart for a close proximation.)

The navtiming.js plugin doesn't require any configuration options as it simply
reads data out of the browser (if available) and adds it to the beacon query
string.

You will have to build your own version of boomerang.js since it
isn't one of the default plugins. To do this, run make in the
boomerang directory with the following option:

make PLUGINS=navtiming.js

Then you can include the new boomerang file (don't forget to run it through
your favorite Javascript minifier first) as you normally would.

The new query parameters and the browser attributes they map
to are shown below. More information about the definition of each attribute can be found
in the W3C Navigation Timing specification.

  Boomerang beacon parameter
  Navigation Timing attribute

nt_red_cnt	window.performance.navigation.redirectCount

nt_nav_type	window.performance.navigation.type

nt_nav_st	window.performance.timing.navigationStart

nt_red_st	window.performance.timing.redirectStart

nt_red_end	window.performance.timing.redirectEnd

nt_fet_st	window.performance.timing.fetchStart

nt_dns_st	window.performance.timing.domainLookupStart

nt_dns_end	window.performance.timing.domainLookupEnd

nt_con_st	window.performance.timing.connectStart

nt_con_end	window.performance.timing.connectEnd

nt_req_st	window.performance.timing.requestStart

nt_res_st	window.performance.timing.responseStart

nt_res_end	window.performance.timing.responseEnd

nt_domloading	window.performance.timing.domLoading

nt_domint	window.performance.timing.domInteractive

nt_domcontloaded_st	window.performance.timing.domContentLoadedStart

nt_domcontloaded_end	window.performance.timing.domContentLoadedEnd

nt_domcomp	window.performance.timing.domComplete

nt_load_st	window.performance.timing.loadEventStart

nt_load_end	window.performance.timing.loadEventEnd

nt_unload_st	window.performance.timing.unloadEventStart

nt_unload_end	window.performance.timing.unloadEventEnd

The latest code and docs is available on github.com/lognormal/boomerang

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Mylan WTT Smash Hits - co-hosted by Elton John and Billie Jean King - raised more than £650,000 for the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Since its inception in 1993, the event has secured than £8.3 million to support HIV prevention and awareness programs all over the world. The 2014 event was the first to be held outside of the U.S.
Team Billie Jean King beats Team Elton at Mylan WTT Smash Hits in London raising more than £650,000 for the Foundation.
Before Billie Jean King and Elton John's teams battled it out on court, they went head-to-head in a live auction contest, raising more than £159,000 for the Foundation. The top-selling items were two US Open ticket packages, which sold for more than £49,000. A Wimbledon package featuring a visit with John McEnroe and Elton John's autographed piano bench were also auction favourites.
Team Billie Jean defeated Team Elton 22-16 in front of a capacity crowd at the Royal Albert Hall in London to tie the overall series at 11-11. Tim Henman was the star of the night for Team Billie Jean, winning 10 of the 13 games he played. Henman partnered Jamie Murray to a convincing 5-0 victory in the men's doubles against John McEnroe and Andy Roddick and later closed out victory for his team with a 5-3 win in men's singles over Roddick.
Team Elton started off the evening with a victory in women's doubles as Martina Hingis and Heather Watson edged Sabine Lisicki and Kim Clijsters 5-4.
Team Billie Jean's Henman and Jamie Murray were newcomers to the WTT format, but the two quickly caught on to upstage Mylan WTT veterans John McEnroe and Andy Roddick with an impressive win in men's doubles; Murray clinching the set with an ace.
Lisicki extended the lead for Team Billie Jean, as she defeated Watson 5-3 in women's singles but trailing at 14-8, Team Elton fought back in mixed doubles. Former Mylan WTT teammates Hingis and McEnroe beat Clijsters and Murray 5-3 to give their team the momentum. However, Henman denied any chance of a comeback with his triumph over Roddick.
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Q: Partitions processing stuck until state store is rebuilt during rebalancing in Kafka Streams Let's assume I have stateful Kafka Streams application that consumes data from topic with 3 partitions. At the moment I have 2 instances of the above application running. Let's put it like that: instance1 have partitions part1 and part2 assigned, instance2 has part3.
So now I want to add the new instance to utilize the parallelization completely.
In my understanding, as soon as I start a new instance, the rebalancing occurs: one of partitions part1 or part2 and corresponding local state stores will be migrated from the existing instance to the newly added instance. In this example, let's imagine that part1 migrates on instance3.
At the same time, I realize that new instance instance3 will not start processing new data until it restores the local state store from the changelog topic, which may take much time.
During the period from starting the application and until it restores the state store:

*

*does it mean that the data from part1 is not being processed and stuck until instance3 finishes the start up?

*if yes, then what are the approaches to estimate how much time will it take for instance3 to build the local state store?

*during this time, are other instances not affected by rebalancing and keep processing data with no downtime (instance1 - part2, instance2 - part3)?

A: Rebalancing has evolved with the recent releases:
from version 2.4.0 with KIP-429

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*the incremental cooperative rebalancing is added that came instead of the stop-the-world rebalancing protocol

*optimized for cloud in sense of better rebalance behavior for falling out members (e.g. when Pod is dead and restarts)

*consumer does not need to revoke a partition if the group coordinator reassigns the same partition to the consumer again

=> part2 and part3 are not stuck and continued to be processed
from version 2.6.0 with KIP-441

*

*improve Kafka Streams scaling out behavior, especially for stateful tasks

*previously some tasks have been blocked in processing until the state store is rebuilt which may take hours

*now the new instance first tries to catch-up the state store from change log and only then takes the task as active

*no downtime during the scale out

=> part1 continues to be processed on instance1 until instance3 rebuilds the state store for part1 and ready to hand over of its processing

A: The rebalance upon adding of the new instance is at consumer group level. What this means is that all the partitions assigned to all the consumers of the consumer group would be revoked and then re-distributed. So all the partitions - part1, part2 and part3 would be stuck till the rebalancing is complete.
Now to estimate the downtime is a bit tricky. You could emit events on rebalance trigger and consumption start - then compute the time difference between the two events to get an estimate of downtime. If you have a simple java consumer logs, you can also get a rough estimate as all relevant logs (partitions revoked as well as partitions assigned) are already present.

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Peter Agre Contact Peter Agre Email: pagre [at] jhu.edu
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Peter Agre
W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Departments of Biological Chemistry & Medicine, School of Medicine
Peter Agre shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of aquaporin water channels. As director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI), Agre oversees scientific training and research efforts of 20 laboratories in Baltimore as well as field studies in Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Research at JHMRI involves multiple aspects of malaria, including increasing resistance to malaria transmission in mosquitoes, identifying new targets for antimalarial medicines, developing effective vaccines, and field epidemiology and entomology. Agre's own laboratory studied the role of aquaporins in malaria parasites, malaria mosquitoes, and cerebral malaria.
Agre has been active in science diplomacy and led visits by American scientists to North Korea, Cuba, Myanmar/Burma, and Iran with the objective of fostering exchange and collaborations on peaceful scientific projects and opening doors to countries with limited diplomatic relations through scientific discussions and partnerships.
Agre was appointed as an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University in 1984 and was named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in 2014.
Nobel Prize 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Fitzroy Town Hall will again play host to the Rock-A-Bye Baby Music Sessions presented by community radio station PBS FM. Now in its sixth year, the 2015 season kicks off on Thursday 12th February with a New Orleans-style Mardi Gras party!
Melbourne brass band Horns of Leroy will be bringing their raucous live tunes to this daytime gig where the music isn't dumbed-down and caters to the enjoyment of all ages. Expect lots of noise, fun and of course dancing.
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Tinder announced it was rolling out a new members-only service earlier this year that lets you avoid swiping through endless profiles by telling you who has already liked you. Now, following a successful trial in a handful of countries, Tinder Gold as it's now called is available around the world to all iOS users—with an Android launch coming next month.
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NPD: Big-wheel MTBs rolling over other fat tire categories in stores
by Lynette Carpiet
E-bikes and disc road bikes also driving sales, contributing to 3% growth in IBD revenue.
BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — Retail sales of 29-inch mountain bikes grew $36 million in the 12 months ending in June, taking dollar share from 27.5-inch bikes, according to The NPD Group. Twenty-niners now account for 41 percent of dollars sold in mountain bikes at IBDs.
The NPD Group's Dirk Sorenson shared this among other insights in a recent webinar discussing cycling trends as the industry prepares to head to Reno, Nevada, for the Interbike show in two weeks.
Mountain bikes accounted for $600 million in sales at IBDs over the past year, making up the single largest category at specialty stores. The category grew 5 percent through June of this year, with most of the growth in full-suspension bikes.
Sorenson noted that with SRAM's Eagle 12-speed drivetrain spec'd on bikes in the $2,500 to $3,000 price band, many consumers are moving to that price range. But the $4,500 to $4,999 price band is also growing in mountain bikes.
The road category was down 5 percent to $424 million in IBDs, while 'cross/gravel bikes (a subcategory of road) were up 15 percent to $66 million. In road, the typically most popular price band — $500 to $2,000 — is losing share to bands above that. Sorenson attributed that to widespread adoption of disc brakes.
Unlike road and mountain where consumers are opting for more expensive bikes, in e-bikes it's the lower price bands where the market is seeing gains. The category has seen a 78 percent increase year over year at bike shops, reaching $101 million in sales, according to NPD data.
Sorenson listed the top 15 categories at IBDs over the past year, showing the strong growth in e-bikes, shop service (up 10 percent, or $315 million in total business), components (up 3 percent, or $73 million in total business), and shifting/brakes (up 4 percent, or $68 million in total business).
Overall, Sorenson said sales at IBDs were up 3 percent to $3.1 billion from June of 2017 to June of this year. Sales of bike accessories declined 3 percent while all other categories were flat or grew slightly over the period.
Considering the entire bike market, including "rest of market" retail (online, sporting goods, mass, and outdoor), sales June through June grew 2 percent to $5.8 billion, Sorenson said. Sales of complete bikes were up 3.5 to 4 percent. Helmet/footwear and gloves were up 3 percent and shop services were up 6 percent.


What a year!! I can't believe today marks the end of 2016 and the beginning of another year. I thought it would be fun to just do a little recap from this past year on the blog.
The biggest change for A Crafted Passion is that A Crafted Passion didn't exist one year ago. This site was still Burlap and Babies and a hodge podge of different posts. One day in March, after finishing another unit of Elite Blog Academy, I woke up and decided things needed to change. I came up with a new name that day and four days later everything was changed, including a full site redesign using a new gorgeous theme from Restored 316.
Now a look back at the most popular top ten posts that were created in 2016.
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This post was a throwback to my best friends bridal shower in 2013, but I had so much fun reliving the shower and sharing all the details with you. Plus, her elopment pictures at City Hall are gorgeous!!
This is one of the most practical gifts I've made for new moms and are so quick to whip up for a DIY gift the night before a baby shower.
I love Easter and dying these eggs is such a fun tradition. I can't wait to do it with Clara in 2017 now that she's older and will understand what we're doing.
You know me and gender reveals….
When it came time to reveal baby #2's gender I knew we had to come up with some cute way of announcing it like we did with baby #1. I found so many fun ideas I rounded up the most popular gender reveal ideas into one post.
Taking my ten month old to Disney World could have been a disaster. Instead, it was one of the most fun vacations we've ever had. I never want to forget these tips so I put together a post sharing everything we learned.
This workbench is such a lifesaver in our garage to help keep us organized and give us a space to work on all our projects.
Another perfect DIY baby shower gift, this tag blanket is easy to make and the babies love them!
This post was out of the norm for me but it took off on Pinterest and I love that! There's so many natural ways to prepare your body for birth and I'm so glad I wrote down all these tips to make having my second easier.
I had so much fun taking Clara's monthly photos that once they ended a year ago when she turned one year old I knew I should share some tips I learned.
Now that I've just started taking Maggie's monthly photos these are even more practical tips for right now.
And the most popular post of 2016 is……..
Clara's winter wonderland hot chocolate bar first birthday party was so much fun and I loved putting all the details together and I'm so glad you loved it too!!
So those are the most popular posts from 2016 but there's a few that didn't make the list that I loved putting together.
First off, launching The Ultimate DIY Party Planning Tool was a huge task but so amazing!! I loved going through the process of writing an ebook and launching my first product. I absolutely could not have done it without Abby's Book Boss Course.
Another favorite project that didn't make the top 10 posts was participating in my first One Room Challenge and turning our guest room into a toddler chic bedroom for Clara.
Check out all the details on that six week project here.
1. A sneak peek the night before the big One Room Challenge reveal!
2. Announcing baby #2's gender — we did a balloon and dart gender reveal and it turned out hilarious! Let's just say none of us have a future in dart throwing.
3. Introducing our little Maggie Grace — read her birth story here!
5. AND finally the One Room Challenge reveal! See all the details here in case you missed it!
6. Celebrating birthday week in our home — Maggie's birth, my husband's birthday, and Clara's birthday all within 7 days.
I love how everyone on Instagram loved our One Room Challenge bedroom makeover because I loved it too!
And there we have it! A fun look back at 2016 on A Crafted Passion. I have so many ideas for 2017 and can't wait to get started!! But until then, what was your favorite part of 2016? Share in the comments below.


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Q: JavaScript URL Redirection based on a text box I need to create a redirect system based on a code entered. Currently I have:
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
  <pre>     <input type="text" name="meow" id="meow" /> <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" onclick="javascript:window.location.href('http://foo.exaple.com/bar/' + document.getElementById("meow").value + '.zip')"/>

Basically, I need the above script to download a zip file in foo.example.com/bar/, based on a code entered in text box "meow".
When I enter code "ugh" into text box "meow" and click submit, I want to download the file at http://foo.example.com/bar/ugh.zip
How can I do this?

A: .href is not a function/method, it is a property which you assign a valid URI string to:
location.href = 'http://foo.exaple.com/bar/' + document.getElementById('meow').value + '.zip';

See MDN: window.location Object

Side-notes: If you don't want to submit the form, use an input type="button" instead of submit then.
Also mixing structure and behavior (HTML and JS) is usually frowned upon in our Web 2.0 times, so:
<input type="button" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit">
<script>
document.getElementById('submit').onclick = function() {
    location.href = 'http://foo.exaple.com/bar/' + document.getElementById('meow').value + '.zip';
};
</script>

This works nicely in all browsers since IE6 as well and you save some headaches such as mixing up quotes inside the markup. =]
It is also easier to maintain and later you can even move your page's JS into a separate .js file for caching and separation of structure and behavior.


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Dean Kaufman has published dozens of books and countless law review articles in the areas of his expertise, including education law and policy, securities regulation and litigation, civil procedure, and jurisprudence. After graduating from Kenyon College magna cum laude, Dean Kaufman received his JD from the University of Michigan Law School where he won the Law School's American Judicature Society Award. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Nathanial R. Jones of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and then practiced securities and civil rights litigation in one of the world's largest law firms. Dean Kaufman also was elected to three terms on the Board of Education of a large, diverse school district in the Chicago area, serving as the Board's President and Vice-President. In addition, Dean Kaufman is a Public Arbitrator for securities disputes and delivers bar examination review lectures for thousands of law students throughout the country each year in the areas of civil procedure, federal jurisdiction, agency, and business organizations.
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Dean Kaufman publishes significant works of scholarship in four major areas: (1) education law and policy; (2) securities regulation and litigation; (3) civil procedure, and (4) jurisprudence.
The cornerstone of his education law scholarship is his casebook titled, "Education Law, Policy and Practice: Cases and Materials" (Aspen 1st ed. 2005, 2d ed. 2009, 3d ed. 2013, 4th ed. 2018). That book, which is accompanied by a Teacher's Manual, has become one of the leading texts used in both law school and graduate school classes devoted to education law and policy. Dean Kaufman's recent book, titled "Badges and Incidents: A Transdisciplinary History of the Right to Education in America" (Cambridge University Press 2019) has earned wide acclaim from leading scholars across a wise array of disciplines.
He also has become a leading scholar in the area of pedagogy at all levels of education, having authored an influential article in the Seattle Law Review titled "Social Justice and the American Law School Today: Since we are Made for Love." Dean Kaufman also has developed an expertise in early childhood education and has co-authored two books, "The Pre-K Home Companion: Learning the Importance of Early Childhood Education" and "Choosing the Best Program for Your Family" (Rowman & Littlefield 2016) and Learning Together: The Law, Policy, Pedagogy, Economics and Neuroscience of Early Childhood Education (Rowman and Littlefield 2016). He has published articles regarding the Supreme Court's approach to racial desegregation in the University of Michigan's Journal of Race and the Law, the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, and the University of Richmond Law Review. He also has pursued the issue of gender equality in a Buffalo Law Review article addressing the need to reconcile the legal principle of equality with the pedagogical benefits of gender differentiation. Dean Kaufman is also the founding director of Loyola's Education Law and Policy Institute, which conducts research conferences, comprehensive academic programs, direct representation, and advocacy dedicated to enhancing educational access and equity.
At the same time, Dean Kaufman has published extremely influential books and articles in the area of securities regulation and litigation. He is the co-author of the casebook, "Securities Litigation: Law, Policy, and Practice (Carolina Academic Press 2016) and the treatise, "Rule 10b-5 Private Securities Fraud Litigation" (West 2019). His multi-volume treatise, entitled Securities Litigation: Damages, first published by West in 1985, is now in its 34th edition. He also has published a multi-volume treatise titled "Blue Sky Law." In addition, Dean Kaufman's book, Expert Witnesses: Securities Cases (West 2011), integrates the law of evidence governing expert testimony with the substantive doctrine of securities law. He has also authored dozens of articles in this area, including his work in the Alabama Law Review, the William and Mary Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems, the S.M.U. Law Review, and the Journal of Corporation Law. He has authored a series of articles regarding private remedies for securities fraud, which have been published in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, the Stanford University Journal of Law, Business and Finance, and the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. Dean Kaufman also founded and directs the Loyola University Chicago Institute for Investor Protection, which produces conferences, research, publications, and resources to support securities fraud prevention and remedies.
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Directed by David Lean with John Mills, Martita Hunt, Jean Simmons, Valerie Hobson, Finlay Currie, Francis L. Sullivan, Alec Guinness, black and white, 118 minutes, 1946
In 1939, Kay Walsh shared a dressing room with Martita Hunt, who was then performing in Alec Guinness's adaptation of "Great Expectations" at Rudolph Steiner Hall in London. Walsh was married to David Lean and urged him to go to the play. "Not bloody likely," he replied, according to Kevin Brownlow, Lean's biographer.
In his chapter on the film in his book, Mr. Brownlow provides the following account by Kay Walsh:
"We sat on little gilt chairs and in five minutes the whole lot of us were spellbound," said Kay. "It was Alec Guinness's adaptation of Great Expectations produced by George Devine. Alec Guinness sat on one side of he tiny stage and Merula, his wife, on the other and they narrated. Marius Goring played the grown-up Pip, Yvonne mitchell played littled Estella. Vera Poliakoff the gorwn-up, Alec played Herbert Pocket and Martita was Miss Haversham. It was absolutely wonderful."
Mr. Brownlow wrote that "David Lean said that unless he had seen the Alec Guinenes stage version he would never have done the film," adding that he thought it would make an "exceptional film" but "hehad to be sure that Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan shared his enthusiasm." Neame soon put the idea to J. Arthur Rank who said "Go away and make it." Lean wanted a Dickens expert to write the script and Havelock-Allan suggested Clemence Dane, but Lean, according to Mr. Brownlow, found that "What she wrote was so awful I cannot even begin to describe it," adding that "It had practically every incident in the book but done in shorthand so one never got to grips with any one scene. She took snippets of everything and didn't give anything real weight." Lean and Neame set about doing the script themselves and Lean left out anything he thought was "dull," adding that he was "rather encouraged by the Clemence Dane approach because it removed my fears of trespassing on the great."
Kay Walsh came up with the idea for the film's ending: "I thought if Pip had a long white beard...and Estella had put on forty pounds and they met in a graveyard, Wardour Street wouldn't come through with the money and anyway, you couldn't finish the film like that. And so I got the idea of Miss Havisham and her influence on Estella, who'd just been jilted. It seems so obvious now that she would repeat the pattern of Miss Havisham. What was really good was Pip coming back and the voices - 'Don't loiter, boy!' and the gate creaking and the camera going up the stairs and you think you're going in to Miss Havisham and it's not her at all, it's Valerie [Hobson] as Estella. John Mills was absolutely thrilled with the ending because it gave him the chance to pull the curtains down, for the mice to run out, and for 'I have come back, Miss Havisham!' and 'Out into the sunlight!' and all that."
John Mills as "Pip" and Alec Guinness as "Pocket"
According to Mr. Brownlow, Lean "had been impressed by Michael Curtiz's Casablanca (see The City Review article)...,and he tried to analyze why it made such an impact," adding that "he realied that cinematographer Arthur Edeson had used long focus lenses, which provided a heightened sense of intimacy by keeping the faces sharp while softening everything around them." "When production designer John Bryan heard what David had in mind," Mr. Brownlow continued, "he realised his sets might disappear into that softness and brought the ceilings sharply down so they would appear in the picture. Forced perspective had been a feature of German silent films, and Kane revived the practice, but in few films would it be used with such boldness. Once the sets were built in this way, the furniture had to be designed to fit. David was so intrigued by this idea that he allowed it to take precedence over his Casablanca scheme. 'John's sets are all planned to be shot from one angle,' David told Norman Spencer, 'it takes away my freedom, but they're so bloody good I don't mind.'"
Shortly after the film opened, Mr. Brownlow provides the following quotation from Lean:
"What we were trying to do...was to create that larger-than-life picture which is really just characteristic of Dickens' kind of writing. The scenes of the boy, Pip, lying terrified in his bedroom after a night of fear, creeping downstairs at dawn and then stealing the food for the convict out on the marshes was something Dickens wrote as if he were inside the boy himself. We tried to make the audience share Pip's fear. If we hadn't done this, we should have been face with quite a different problem - making the audience accept what is really a pretty exaggerated piece of melodrama. They might easily have found the convicts and their fustian dialogue just funny instead of terrifying if we had not built up the fear in the audience at the same time as we did in the boy - first of all, of course, with the sheer physical shock when Pip suddenly collides with the convict in the churchyard at the beginning of the film and hears the horrifying threats in this throaty voice."
Mr. Brownlow quotes Lean was stating "Who has ever seen a lawyer like Jaggers? We were lucky that Francis L. Sullivan was alive and a good actor. He was wonderful." Of Martita Hunt, he quotes Lean was stating that "That part could so easily descend into a kind of farce. She was another outsize character."
At one point, Lean replaced Robert Krasker as the cinematographer and replaced him with Guy Green, who won an Oscar. Lean confesses that when he saw "The Third Man" that Krasker went to work on his reaction "Oh my God, what a terrible mistake I made. What an injustice."
I saw the film in 1948 two years after it was made and when I was an impressionable 8 years old. Finlay Currie scarried the daylights out of me and the macabre Miss Havisham made me suspicious of the very rich but not so much as not to be enchanted by Jean Simmons and bemused by the quite stout and pompous Francis L. Sullivan. In retrospect, John Mills was the Robert Redford of British films in those days - handsome and heroic and while he is widely reviewed as rather bland in this role he went on to a very illustrious career, though not as great as that of Alec Guinness who would shortly after this film make some of the greatest comedies in film history like "The Man in the White Suit" (see The City Review article).
Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham and Jean Simmons as young Estella
In his August 22, 1999 review of the movie, Roger Ebert states that it "does what few movies based on great books can do: Creates pictures on the screen that do not clash with the images already existing in our minds. Lean brings Dickens' classic set-pieces to life as if he'd been reading over our shoulder: Pip's encounter with the convict Magwitch in the churchyard, Pip's first meeting with the mad Miss Havisham, and the ghoulish atmosphere in the law offices of Mr. Jaggers, whose walls are decorated with the death masks of clients he has lost to the gallows."
"In Miss Havisham's mansion," Ebert continued, "is the young Estella (Jean Simmons, astonishingly beautiful at 17). The old woman has adopted the girl, and brought her up for one purpose only: to break men's hearts. Pip falls instantly in love with her, but Estella tries to warn him away, perhaps because she really likes him. Her purpose is to cause men pain, so that Miss Havisham can somehow settle her account with an unfair world. Pip, who has been reared by his shrewish older sister (Freda Jackson) and her husband, the good-hearted blacksmith Joe Gargery (Bernard Miles), is too rough-hewn for the elegant Estella, but a mysterious benefactor finances his transformation. Pip is summoned by Jaggers, Miss Havisham's lawyer, and told that his expenses will be paid while he undergoes education and training in London - not least in how to dress and speak like a gentleman. He shares rooms with elegant young Herbert Pocket (Alec Guinness), who sets a fine example. Of course Pip assumes that Miss Havisham is his benefactor, and that he is being groomed to marry Estella (played by Valerie Hobson as a 20-year-old). Whether he is right or wrong is one of the questions Dickens solves in his story's melodramatic conclusion. The Lean version makes minor repairs on the ending to satisfy the sentimental requirements of audiences, which means that those familiar with the novel will not necessarily know how the film ends. Since Dickens draws his characters in bold, colorful strokes, typecasting is probably the best approach to filling the roles. Pip himself is a somewhat colorless hero; like many of Dickens' central characters, he's not the source of the action but a witness to the colorful events and people that thrust themselves into his life. It's the supporting cast that makes the story vivid....The only misstep in the casting may have been the choice of John Mills as the adult Pip. Mills was 38 when the film was made, and Pip is supposed to be 20 going on 21."
For contemporary audiences accustomed to color and special effects and the sumptuous settings of PBS series set in great English country houses, "Great Expectations" may at first be somewhat disappointing. Its strengths, however, shine through from the casting to the cinematography to the direction and to the great underlying themes of loyalty, honor, familial ties, and class issues.
"Great Expectations" was nominated for five Academy Awards and won for Best Art Direction and Best Black & White Cinematography.
This film is rated 39th in Carter B. Horsley's list of the 500 Greatest Sound Films.
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In the newest chat logs revealed two popular variety show stars have been accused of illegal gambling.
KBS revealed new conversations between "2 Days & 1 Night" members Cha Tae Hyun, Kim Jun Ho and Jung Joon Young. In these conversations, the three discuss golf gambling, the conversations took place back in July 2016.
The three were discussing gambling and reporting on how much they had won.
In another chat log, Cha Tae Hyun reports on the profits he made with Kim Jun Ho. Kim Jun Ho won around 2.6 million won which is roughly $2290 while Cha Tae Hyun says he won 2.25 million won which is roughly $2000.
Following the explosive report that linked two variety show stars, the production team behind "2 Days & 1 Night" said they were looking into the reports and will reveal their position tomorrow. While the production team of "Radio Star" (another popular Variety show) will also be looking into the situation.
Cha Tae Hyun is currently an MC of "Radio Star." It is suspected the golfing took place in Thailand.
Golf gambling is illegal in South Korea, if charged, the person could be fined to 10 million won, and in case it was habitual gambling, the penalty can be increased up to 20 million won with up to 3 years of imprisonment.
The location of gambling is irrelevant and that's because of South Korea's nationality principle. The principle can hold Koreans accountable for gambling overseas even if it's done at a country where it's legal.
How ironic, they always thought JJY brought them good luck and that they needed him. Ugh…what a freaken mess!


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Techland to Celebrate Dying Light's Third Anniversary with Giveaways, Discounts, and New Content
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February 5, 2018 10:13 AM EST
Techland has detailed how they'll celebrate the third anniversary of Dying Light, which has sold over 13 million copies on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
On January 27, 2015, Techland released its open-world zombie game Dying Light on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Three years later, the game is still going strong and receiving new content. We have passed the games third anniversary, and developer Techland has revealed that they have several plans to celebrate the game's anniversary this month.
Dying Light Launches with an Action Packed Trailer
First off, Techland will be holding weekly giveaways for the game on both Steam and Gemly, with Dying Light set up to be discounted by at most 67% on every platform. Then, around Valentine's Day, a brand new community bounty titled Undying Love will be activated. The developers also confirmed that a third free in-game content drop will be happening sometime this month, though details on what will be included are currently scarce.
It's clear that Dying Light fans will have a ton to anticipate this month. Tymon Smektała, Producer of Dying Light, had the following to say about the game's longevity:
"Dying Light's longevity is a result of the studio's hard work, combined with the efforts of our community, who have shown unparalleled love for the game and spent countless hours in Harran. We are nothing but thankful for this exceptional commitment and players' eagerness to provide us with constructive feedback that helped us make a better game."
We also received some new sales and player numbers to give us a better idea of how the game has done in its three years on the market. According to Techland, Dying Light has sold over 13 million copies, with there still being over 500,000 players having fun in-game each week.
You can check out a new trailer that covers what is coming this month below. Dying Light is currently available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. If you want to see what DualShockers' thoughts on the game were at launch, you can read our review.
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