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Mines of Cornwall & Devon
Cape Cornwall Mine
Cape Cornwall Mine operated intermittently between 1838 and 1883, after which time it closed permanently and the engine house was demolished.
The mine's 1864 chimney near the peak of the cape was retained as an aid to navigation, and in the early 20th century the former ore dressing floors were for a time converted into greenhouses and wineries, they are now private gardens.
In 1987 the site was donated to the nation by the H. J. Heinz Company. The remains of Cape Cornwall Mine now form part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Cape Cornwall Mine originally opened in 1838 closing again in 1849. In 1864 the mine was reopened under the ownership of St Just Consolidated Mines, and an engine house with an elaborate chimney was built near the peak of the cape to serve the boiler of the mine's whim engine.
The engine house and its associated boiler house were built near the foot of the hill and connected to the chimney stack by a long stone flue. With surrounding steep cliffs limiting the space for ore dressing, "spalling braces" (platforms attached to the shaft) were fitted to house spalling (breaking the ore into chunks for sorting) operations. In 1869 St Just Consolidated Mines abandoned the Cape Cornwall Mine, although it continued to operate independently until 1875.
In 1879 the mine was once more reopened, this time under the ownership of St Just United. The chimney draught of the 1864 chimney was causing problems, and in 1880 the chimney was abandoned and replaced with a new chimney stack further downhill. The 1864 chimney stack was considered a valuable navigational aid and was not demolished.
In 1883 the mine was permanently abandoned, and shortly afterwards the engine house was demolished.
During the 1966 some diamond drilling took place on the site by St Just Mining Services which was associated with Geevor Tin Mines Ltd. Nothing came of this prospecting trial. The count house has been considerably extended over the years when it is compared to images of it during the period the mine was operational.
Cape Cornwall Mine, St Just, Cornwall - April 09, 2019
Winding engine stack
Plaque on the Cape Cornwall stack commemorating the purchase of Cape Cornwall by the Heinz company for the nation.
Looking down from the site towards the former mine count housebuilding. The building in the lower right occupies the site of the winding engine house. The imposing house on the skyline is Porthleddon House which was originally built by Captain Francis Oats. Oats was a highly successful miner of humble origins who eventually became chairman of De Beers. He was also a major investor in mining projects in Cornwall.
View to the mine chimney which served the winding engine house boiler can just be seen. The chimney with its associated long flue caused too much draught and was replaced by a lower stack. In 1966 some diamond drilling too place at this location during prospecting work by St Just Mining Services.
The former Count House at Cape Cornwall Mine. Former dressing floors on the left - now landscaped into private gardens. The building beyond has been built on the site of the winding engine house.
View inland across Priest Cover from Cape Cornwall towards the site of the former St Just United Mine. Part of the Cape Cornwall Mine dressing floors can be seen now landscaped into gardens.


Americans getting the least amount of sleep consume fewer calories but may still be overweight, a recent study revealed.
A higher body mass index despite less sleep and fewer calories is one of many results that surprised authors of a study comparing sleep and dietary habits published online in Appetite in January.
The study was important because diet is generally left out of the conversation about studies linking obesity and sleep, said lead study author Michael Grandner, PhD, a research associate at the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine.
Participants in a 2007-2008 National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey were asked what food and drink they consumed in one day. The information was compared with four sleep patterns. Patterns ranged from "very short," which was fewer than five hours of sleep, to "long," which was nine or more hours each night.
People sleeping fewer than five hours consumed less water and less lycopene, a vitamin found in foods such as tomatoes that can protect against heart disease, the study said. They were also more likely to be on a low-sodium diet or consume more or less food than they normally do, the study said.
People who got the "standard" seven to eight hours of sleep had a more diverse diet of nutrients, minerals and vitamins such as lycopene and vitamin C, the study said.
As the study contradicts past research that said people with less sleep consumed more calories, the relationship between how long people sleep and their energy balance still needs to be explored, Grandner said.
The next step should be an intervention study to change dietary and sleeping patterns, Grandner said. He said the takeaway from the study for the public health community is that sleep is a critical factor for health and, like diet, it cuts across all physiological processes.
For more information, visit http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019566631300024X.


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Divider-in-chief Attacks Athletes, Ignores Presidential Issues
Filed under: Discrimination — trp2011 @ 10:48 PM
Tags: chronic traumatic encephalopathy, CTE, Donald Trump, NBA, NFL, North Korea, Puerto Rico, Steve Mnuchin, Tim Sullivan
Forty percent of the states in the United States have a population less than 3.4 million—the population of Puerto Rico, the U.S. territory that is completely without power—perhaps for another six months—after Hurricane Maria hit the island. Seventy-thousand people are in danger of the Guajataca dam's breaking. Dictator Donald Trump (DDT) may send a disaster aid request to Congress in another few weeks while Puerto Rico suffers a humanitarian crisis. Texas got help within a week.
DDT tweeted over a dozen times this past weekend about athletes not kneeling during the national anthem but presidential. Nothing about Puerto Rico. Or North Korea's claim that DDT has declared war and they will shoot down U.S. even if they're not in North Korean airspace. Or that DDT is getting deeper into the Russia influence on the presidential election. And certainly nothing about DDT's most recent problem, that his family and aides—Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Reince Priebus, Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, and Gary Cohn—used government business while he continues to accuse Hillary Clinton of doing this. Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server was a prime fixture in DDT's campaign against her, and he's still promoting the "lock her up" argument, as recently as last week's rally in Alabama.
At the same rally when DDT sort of supported GOP Sen. Luther Strange for election to his appointed position, DDT started a firestorm by demanding the firing of sports players who kneel instead of stand during the national anthem in protest to racial injustice in the country. (You may have heard about this; there are almost 40 million links to the story.) DDT also suggested an NFL boycott and referred to those who kneeled as a "son of a b—-," an insult the players' mothers. On ABC's Sunday news show, This Week, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin tried to cover for DDT by saying that he means NFL players "can do free speech on their own time." Mnuchin added that the president is saying "that the owners should have a rule that players should have to stand in respect for the national anthem." To DDT's profane slur, Mnuchin said that "the president can use whatever language he wants to use."
The protests moved to London where several Ravens and Jaguars players knelt during the national anthem. Shadid Khan, the billionaire owner of the Jaguars who donated $1 million to DDT's inauguration, demonstrated solidarity with his players by linking his arms with them. Several professional teams stayed in the locker room during the anthem yesterday, and coaches and owners supported them. The responses from over 30 pro NFL teams is here.
America First Policies, a DDT-supporting PAC, is disseminating an anti-NFL ad called "Turn Off the NFL" on social media to boost DDT's criticisms. It encourages NFL fans to watch a patriotic movie instead of NFL games.
DDT attacked the NBA as well as the NFL. LeBron James called DDT a "bum," and Gregg Popovich, coach of the San Antonio Spurs, called DDT "an embarrassment in the world." After the NBA champion Golden State Warriors waffled about accepting an invitation to the White House, DDT said that he was disinviting them although he had not sent them one. DDT personally attacked Warriors star Stephen Curry, who said that DDT's comments to "target certain individuals … rather than others" are "beneath" his office.
Non-pro teams protested as well. Garfield's Bulldogs, including the coaches, knelt during the anthem before the team's 52-9 Metro League win against West Seattle. A coach asked why people talked about the flag instead of the issues (listed here) surrounding the players' actions. The third verse of the anthem ridicules black men for seeking freedom from U.S. slavery by joining the British, stating that "the hireling and slave" cannot find "refuge."
DDT, who avoided military service with "bone spurs," has tried to make his battle against sports figures about patriotism. He tweeted, "Courageous Patriots have fought and died for our great American Flag — we MUST honor and respect it!" In a classic blog, Margaret wrote her friend Helen that a sports player has as much right to "taking a knee" as DDT has to say that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) isn't a war hero because he was captured.
The White House and DDT are trying to avoid the racial overtones of his criticism. DDT overlooked the refusal of Tom Brady, a white player, to accept an invitation to the White House but lambasted Stephen Curry, a black player, for doing the same thing. Colin Kaepernick started the movement over a year ago to protest police brutality against people of color, but this morning DDT tweeted that the protests have nothing to do with race. His war started in a place known for segregation, and conservatives have praised DDT for his brilliant strategy. Yet the statements may have come from DDT's impulsivity, not his thoughtfulness. He loved the attention he received, however, and continued to dominate the press with his tweets.
The massive internet exchange on the issue of kneeling during the national anthem is reminiscent of events a half century ago during the civil rights protests. Moderate Republicans currently think that blacks should politely sign a petition instead of taking up the cause at the sports games; in 1964, 74 percent of people thought that "mass demonstrations by Negroes" would "hurt the Negro's cause for racial equality."
DDT also repeated his argument at the same rally that pro football isn't violent enough for him. Part of his disjointed babblings in the speech described a "beautiful tackle" and made sarcastic comments about a referee's wife "sitting at home …. so proud of him" when the ref throws a penalty flag. He said:
"Today if you hit too hard — 15 yards! Throw him out of the game! They're ruining the game! They're ruining the game. That's what they want to do. They want to hit. They want to hit! It is hurting the game.''
In USA Today, Tim Sullivan called DDT's statement "callous, short-sighted and without nuance, the kind of barstool bluster you hear from those wired to react without research or reasoning." The calls for more violence came the same week as the revelation that former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez suffered from a severe case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Just days before that discovery, a study showed the same brain disease in 110 of 111 former NFL players who had died.
In another study released last week, men who played football before they were 12 have a doubled risk of "problems with behavioral regulation, apathy and executive functioning" and a tripled danger of "clinically elevated depression scores." The increased risk is dependent on the number of years playing football and the number of reported concussions. Key brain development in males occurs between ten and 12 years of age, but earlier first exposure to football is connected to worse clinical function.
CTE begins with headaches and loss of concentration and moves to depression, mood swings, short term memory loss, and explosive behavior. The disorder moves to language difficulties, impulsive behavior, and thoughts of suicide as well as cognitive impairment and ends with memory loss combined with dementia. Common causes of death in people suffering from CTE are respiratory failure, cardiac disease, suicide, overdose, and symptoms associated with end-stage dementia and malignancy.
DDT's latest campaign is to promote violence and concussions for his personal entertainment with indifference to the possibility that the majority of men in the United States will develop symptoms of CTE. Future polls and NFL ratings will determine his success.

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Q: How to get the location of some points in processing So I'm using the Hype library to draw a polygon with a randomized number of edges.
I would like to draw a point at each intersection of these arrays.
The problem being that I don't have the coordinates of these edges, I created an object type HPath inherent to this library in which I specified what size I wanted the polygon to be, its global location and the number of edges.
Is there a method to get the coordinates of whatever is drawn on screen ?
Here is the code if that can help :
import hype.*;

 HPath poly1;

 void setup() {
  size(640,640);
  H.init(this).background(#CCCCCC);

   poly1 = new HPath();
  poly1
    .polygon( (int)random(6,12) ) // numEdges
    .size(400,400)
    .strokeWeight(2)
    .stroke(#FFFFFF, 200)
    .noFill()
    .anchorAt(H.CENTER)
    .loc(width/2, height/2)
  ;

}

void draw() {

  H.add(poly1);
  H.drawStage();

}

Thanks !

A: HPath has numVertices() and vertex(index) which should allow you to loop through all the vertices in all HPaths.
Each vertex is in HVertex intance which has a intersectTest() method you could use.
These ingredients you should suffice.
If you're interested in geometry in Processing you should also check out the Geomerative library. If you want resources on learning / coding these sort of intersections yourself check out Paul Bourke's website

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This ravishingly beautiful auburn-haired player landed her first job in Forest Whitaker's made-for-cable film "Strapped" (HBO, 1993). Meyer gained the attention of the public in the recurring role of a professor's wife who falls for Jason Priestley's Brandon Walsh on the popular series "Beverly Hills, 90210" during the 1993-94 season. Meyer then segued to the big screen landing the leading female role of Jane, the computer-enhanced Amazonian hired to protect Keanu Reeves' courier "Johnny Mnemonic" (1995). While the film failed to excite audiences, Meyer acquitted herself and was tapped to star opposite Dennis Quaid in Rob Cohen's sword and sorcery epic "Dragonheart" (1996). Paul Verhoeven then tapped the novice for one of the leads in his sci-fi epic "Starship Troopers" (1997). Subsequently, the beauty displayed her comedic talents in the recurring role of Joey's actress-girlfriend in the NBC sitcom "Friends" in 1997. Two years later, Meyer co-starred as a no-nonsense government employee in the short-lived UPN series "Secret Agent Man" (2000).


In the first few months after the baby is born, I experience a singing clarity: Milk! Diapers! Milk! Diapers! Lusty oxytocin! Sleep! Cheez-it binge! Sleep! I have cleared out a space–no, cleared out my whole brain–for this time, and I have no expectation of writing. It feels good to sink wholly into the physical, answering needs like playing whack-a-mole: hunger, got it; poo, got it; exhaustion, nailed it, and in between, losing myself in the baby's depthless black eyes.
But small bubbles of time begin to surface in my day. I sneak in a chapter of Under the Volcano; I jot down brief sketches about motherhood. I grow bolder; I start an essay. I feel the old desire, bone-deep and restless, to get back to it, but this time the desire comes shrouded in a new haze of guilt. Echoing behind each page is the question of necessity, both immediate and existential: why does this matter?
The house looks as though someone has flipped it upside down and shaken it, we're surviving off cans of refried beans, the poor dog is curled beneath the walnut tree in a state of shocked despair, and I am looking up shades of orange (Mahogany! Vermillion! Atomic tangerine!). I might as well be stopping for a cupcake in a hurricane. I have no grandiose vision like I did months ago of published books, of saying, "Well, Terry, thanks so much for having me"; I have no sense even of career and trajectory. I have only the very real and palpable and inexplicably essential desire to capture the fact that this morning I fed the baby a wild black raspberry, felt her muggy, gummy little mouth on my fingers, and turned to see her round face, smiling its guileless baby grin, tilted askew to meet mine.
At dinner one night, I tell my husband, Jorge, that for the first time I understand writing as that struggle on the page towards clarity; in the past, I've mostly known what I wanted to say, had an idea how to say it. Now, I don't. I gather up the everyday and stir it around on the page, working it and working it until the water runs clear.
At a time when I am still figuring out how to keep a small, vulnerable human alive, I am less and less able to define why writing matters, and yet I begin to write like I mother: out of bedrock necessity. The baby's diaper needs to be changed and I change it. I need to write and I write. I don't write because I think I will lose a part of myself if I stop, because I think becoming a park ranger will cause my soul to wither with the spurning of art. In fact I think I might live a healthy, happy everyday life: bake more pies, write more letters, stop driving my husband mad by leaving balled diapers on the rug. I write not because I have some new gleaming sense of purpose, or even because the literature of motherhood pulled me out of my own moments of despair and made me want to give that gift to another stranded soul. I sure as hell don't write to make money. I know less and less of why I write and the less I know the more compelled I am to do it, the more I drive at it the way the hummingbird drives with a jet roar into the hostas, making me duck each time.
I am unsure whether the hours I manage to carve out at my desk with leftover peanut butter pie, shredded from intermittent waking, could be qualified as perfection, but from time to time slogging away I feel myself become this center. It is a return to the emptiness I experienced for the first time when I was pregnant: a feeling of calm, clarified seeing without any grasping. The part of my brain that is perpetually waiting for the baby's slightest whimper, the part that is aware I'm in a barn in a hot green Ohio summer struggling to write to the tune of the whirring fan: all fade and I am nothing but the play of words. I am not going anywhere or aiming at anything; I am not myself so much as I am a hollowness. I am rung by the world like a bell; I am breathed, as Herrigel puts it, instead of breathing.
Mostly, however, I write like a mule schleps its load up a mountain. There is no misty aura of glory or romance, and oftentimes it's a slow and tedious hoofing for my hormone-boggled brain and I stop every ten minutes for Cheez-its. I defend my writing time, however, with teeth. My husband and I get in the worst, longest-smoldering fights of our relationship about this time, whose practicality I cannot justify. He is the one earning the money. He is the one whose time is billable, who actually pays the bills with his wedding photography, although often he'd rather be shooting documentaries about rodeo riders in the Mexican Sierra. And he washes dishes, fries bacon, does laundry, walks with the baby around the yard saying, yes, the birdie house, yes, the leaf, oh, yes, what a nice rock. It requires a terrible and terrific arrogance for me to claim three hours to hash out a half-coherent treatise on waiting and the gestation periods of walruses: an arrogance not only in the immediate domain of my family but in a larger, universal sense, to imagine that fitting life into language matters when I have now lived the reality of birth and the pressing need of a hot little mouth.
Still, the pragmatic is constantly encroaching from all sides, with its spears of financial, familial anxiety: how in the world will we ever afford college? Preschool? A move out of the Midwest? Ignoring these questions would be delusional and unfair, although I can fight against the overwhelming American pressure to conform, to assume that the only way to raise a child is in a nice suburban home, bed at 7 and steadily accumulating college fund and soccer on Sunday. There's nothing wrong with this; it can be a dreamy way to grow up. But there are other ways to build a life and a family that bring their own benefits: the days I spend with my daughter traveling, showing her seashells, rolling around cheap hotel beds blowing raspberries into her legs, and the meaning my husband and I find in our lives, our work, our everyday, that I hope we give to her as a deep passion and priority.
Still, I'd love to be paid for my writing, to live from it. I'd love a nursery, beautiful rocking horses, actual counter space. But even as those endless, important, and tedious questions about the accumulation of wealth and status weigh heavier and harder on the everyday, I sense a more pressing need to sequester my writing from them. The stakes are higher now than ever: either I keep it separate, I write because I have to, I read what I want to, and I figure everything else out as best I can (fellowships? ESL? second photographer to my brilliant husband?) or I give it up. Become a park ranger. Bake pies and move on. Which maybe, someday, I'll do. But for now I take my coffee and my computer to the barn and I go until my brain hurts, until my body feels wrung out, and I keep going until up at the screen pops Jorge's brown bearded face: "Te toca." Toothy grin. In his arms is the wriggly baby, hungry for mom, hungry for milk, and her eager pawing at my chest reminds me once again why this matters so much and not at all.


The sustainability wave that has started rolling a few years ago, is gathering force, as the countdown for ITMA begins.
As the 5-day Shanghai show opens its doors on June 16, 2014, China's supremacy in textiles and clothing stays unchallenged despite a few threats looming large. Samuel Joseph reports.
CEMATEX (ComitT EuropTen des Constructeurs de Machines Textiles), which comprises nine national European textile machinery associations, is the owner of ITMA, the worlds largest international textile machinery exhibition.


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Germany's fragile coalition braced for upset with Greens and far right set for more gains
Voters in the bellwether central state of Hesse seem keen to punish Angela Merkel at the ballot box
Josie Le Blond in Fulda
Sat 27 Oct 2018 16.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 27 Oct 2018 17.27 EDT
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives to support CDU colleague and Hesse state prime minister Volker Bouffier at a rally earlier this month. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters
Every week for 30 years, sausage seller Alexandra Müller has set up her stall in the shadow of an ornate baroque church in the central German city of Fulda. She was here on a bright September day five years ago, when thousands thronged the nearby university square hoping to glimpse the then wildly popular Angela Merkel. And she was here last week, when the chancellor appeared in Fulda again, this time speaking behind closed doors to a few hundred diehard supporters.
"Merkel will helicopter in, talk to the big businessmen for an hour, and then leave," said Müller, 50. "All the while I'll be standing here, trying to sell my sausages. Merkel should come to the market. I'm looking for someone that's nearer to the people. But what do I know? I'm just a sausage seller."
Müller might swear she's not important, but on Sunday, she and fellow voters in the central state of Hesse have the power to deliver a second electoral upset within a fortnight to Germany's embattled ruling parties, potentially plunging both into fresh crises. The regional election is seen as decisive for the future of Merkel's rickety coalition government.
Last-minute polling showed support plummeting for both her Christian Democrat Union (CDU) and coalition partner the Social Democrats (SPD) in a swing state traditionally seen as a bellwether for national politics.
Both parties were predicted to drop 10 points each since the state's last regional election in 2013. Such a trouncing would come on the heels of a disastrous result in Bavaria that was widely seen as a protest against the failings of the Berlin government.
Green candidate Tarek Al-Wazir at an election rally in Frankfurt. Photograph: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images
"None of the parties are there for us," said Müller, who has voted for both CDU and SPD in the past, but was still undecided. "What should I do? I have to vote, it's my duty to stop the far right getting into power. But I also know I won't be heard. I can vote for whoever I like; the politicians will still do whatever they want."
Hesse, home to Germany's financial centre, Frankfurt, has been governed by CDU-led coalitions for the past two decades. But polls have the party nosediving to 28%, a result that would end the state's CDU-Green coalition and leave a question mark over the future of CDU state premier and close Merkel ally Volker Bouffier.
With tensions running high in the CDU, mutinous members have implied that if Bouffier falls, it may cost the chancellor vital votes when she stands for re-election as party leader at its conference in early December. But Merkel, who joined Bouffier on the campaign trail last week, was at pains to play down the significance of the regional vote for her party, government and chancellorship.
"Hesse, and what happens here, is being watched and considered from far beyond Germany's borders," Merkel told supporters on Thursday in Fulda. "I want to point out once again that on Sunday the vote is about Hesse. Afterwards we'll talk again about Berlin."
But that message doesn't seem to have trickled down to voters in Fulda, where the CDU secured just under 50% in 2013. Some say they relish the chance to show their displeasure with Merkel's coalition, which has limped from crisis to crisis since assuming power in March.
"For me this will be a protest vote against all this nonsense in Berlin," said Heiko Becker, 48, a lifelong swing voter now leaning towards the anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). "Things are good for us in Hesse, but no one cares about that. It's all about going against Merkel nowadays. Lots of people are switching their votes."
As in Bavaria, Hesse's booming economy and low unemployment figures have not stopped voters ebbing away to the far right. Latest polls put the AfD on 12%, behind the top three parties, but enough to easily enter the state parliament for the first time. Yet as in Bavaria, it is the Green party that is set to make the biggest gains. Polls suggest the party has doubled its support in Hesse over five years, putting it neck and neck in joint second place with the ailing SPD on 20%.
"We're definitely profiting from the weakness of the grand coalition," said Marion Neumeister, head of Fulda's Green party office, adding she had noticed a marked increase in voters actively approaching her asking to be persuaded to vote Green. "We hardly have to say anything. Look at what they're doing in Berlin, they're driving people towards us."
The Greens are now polling at their highest nationwide since Japan's Fukushima disaster in 2011. In the past, said Neumeister, local party members joked darkly that they'd only see such highs again if another nuclear reactor melted down. "Now we have our meltdown," said Neumeister, eyeing the latest polls. "The CDU meltdown."
But disillusion with stagnant Berlin politics isn't only a problem for the CDU. For Hesse's SPD, the coalition's record is proving just as awkward.
voting intentions graph
"It seems a large part of the population doesn't want this grand coalition any more," said Sebastian Busch, who is standing for the SPD in Hesse's western district of Rheingau. "In the long term, we have to bring people a vision of a future in which one can trust politicians to do what they say they will."
The reckoning could come sooner rather than later. If the SPD is overtaken by the Greens in Hesse, party leader Andrea Nahles could be forced to step down. In the most extreme case, such a result could shock the SPD into leaving Merkel's coalition, which would almost certainly trigger new elections.
"Coming in under 20% or behind the Greens would be two very strong symbols for the SPD, which is still reeling from its worst-ever result in Bavaria," said Thorsten Faas, professor of political science at Berlin's Free University. "The opponents of the grand coalition would use this to say we have to get out. There's just no conviction, no enthusiasm for this project in large areas of the SPD."
Merkel with local CDU leader Volker Bouffier at an election rally last week. Photograph: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images
But however miserable it is in the current government, the SPD's dismal nationwide polling figures means the party has little to gain from voluntarily forcing an election.
"That would be the worst outcome for the SPD," said Andrea Römmele, a communications professor at Berlin's Hertie School of Governance. Merkel, she added, was likely to remain safe if the CDU could keep power in Hesse under a three-way coalition with the liberal Free Democratic Party and the Greens.
"The only way Angela Merkel won't come out OK is if Bouffier doesn't remain state premier in Hesse," said Römmele. "The way the polls are now, that's not likely. We'll have a government soon in Bavaria and a government in Hesse, and that will be the end of the conversation for now."
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Chancellor also tells Christian Democrats she will not seek re-election as party chairwoman in December
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In his first foreign trip since Syria's civil war started in 2011, Syrian President Assad made an unannounced trip to Moscow to discuss Syria with Russian President Putin. Assad arrived in Moscow on Monday.
Since Russia began its direct military involvement in Syria on 30 September, it has effectively assumed the leadership of the pro-government coalition fighting the opposition and Islamist extremist groups in the country. Putin told Assad that Russia was ready to contribute to the fight and to a political settlement of the conflict that has raged for more than four years, the Kremlin said in a statement today. The statement did not say if the future of Assad was also discussed in the meeting, but interestingly Assad was not accompanied by his military or political teams during the visit.
Syria will become a failed state and be thrown into never ending chaos if the Assad government falls. Arab countries need strong leaders in order to remain intact, without an inspiring leading figure, they fragment completly. What ensues is a mixture of religious sectarianism and inter-tribal conflict. Gamal Abdel Nasser was a great example of the kind of leader that is able to unify the people of a nation.
Syria already is a failed state , and I might add it's a hellish failed state . The rest of the Arab world , with exception of few tiny examples , is a fragmented failing world .The nightmare scenario you are warning about , is taking place in front of our eyes . Anybody who can spend a few minutes on YouTube can testify to that .
The Assads have (mis)ruled Syria for five decades now . If Syria was a fortune 500 company and Assad was its CEO , he would have been relieved of his duties a long time ago .( To be fair to Bashar Assad , it's needs to be added that he offered to resign early in the civil war and seek asylum in Qatar in exchange of amnesty for his family but he was rebuffed .)We must hold these leaders accountable for what befalls their people and country , for we have to pay for their misrule and take care of the mess they create .
Despite his near universal popularity in the Arab world , Nasser was a false prophet who led the Arabs down the abyss of Arab/Israeli conflict .Nasserism preached the false gospel of anti-colonialism, without giving the involved colonial powers their due for crafting the modern Arab world out of the wreckage of the vanquished Ottomom Empire , however clumsy and so far disastrous undertaking it turned out to be .Nasser never really offered any solutions to the ills of the Arab world except to blame everything on bogeymen .
FOR the first in the 'world' you have spoken truth !! !- indeed it is true Arabs fare so well under a monarch or an inspiring benevolent dictator .
and history is the best witness.
Interestingly, Assad was not accompanied by his military and diplomatic teams during his visit to Moscow. Was it probably because the meeting was focused on his personal future?
Assad is the last hope not only for Syria but whole region. In case of his fall country will be taken over by the extremists and terrorist and no one even those who has supported them so far will not be safe. So what ever Assad is 1000 times better than the alternative. This is the obvious fact regardless of any historical and political debate or argument.
@Anon 1:25 just like to expand the company example. If Syria was atop 500 company, its current state is like another top 500 Company to pay the workers to disrupt the work of the company in order to put it in chaos and fire its CEO.
That is what François Hollande said Putin told Assad! May be!
First af all, Pres. Bashar Assad attempted to create his inclusive and not based on religious beliefs political system in Syria.
Current prime minister Halgi and defense minister as well as of many generals are Sunni.
Before that, a Christian defense minister who held that post until he was assasinated couple years ago, together with Assad's brother in law; Mr. Shawkaat, who was a Sunni and married to Assad's sister.
Also generals from the Tlaas family held top posts in the Syrian Army......and the younger one left for the West, because like some say, he liked French Riviera and expensive sport cars.
I believe that for the good of Alawites, Christians and others who support Assad, a separate entitiy is necessary, and in the maximum case new Syria can only exist as a loose federation of different entities with their own security or peacekeeper forces.
This is indeed a worrisome development. Makes it look like the Russians are trying to use their leverage on Assad to get him to compromise with the so-called "rebels". Probably by stepping down. As bad as the Al-Assad regime has been, the alternatives are way worse. Secular rebels hold now real power in Syria. If Assad goes, the takfiri islamists will take over.
"Secular rebels hold real power in Syria." No. Syria has been ruled by Assads for more than four decades, representing the Alawi clan. And at least until the breakout of the civil war the power was concentrated in Assad's hands.
BTW, secularism in itself does not mean much. Number of dictators, like Assad, claim to be secular, as in Hitler. You need to be a secular democrat, which Assad is not. You want to tell us that secular dictators are better than Islamists. Probably. But the solution is not the return of Assad dictatorship, but a government of national unity to reverse the current trends in the country. Assad is of an era that has ended in Syria.
Bashar Assad and his father ruled with iron fist over Syria for more than four decades, which was the main cause of the rise of opposition to his rule during the height of Arab Spring. Dictators are not inclusive, as they need to force their will on the country and society. Assad was no exception. His family represented the Alawi clan during those four decades and they had the real power. Naming Sunni ministers does not negate that fact.
You seem to suggest that a Little Syria should now be created under Assad's dictatorial rule. Probably it's too late for Assad even to rule over little Syria. Let's hope a government of national unity could be formed to reverse the current trends in the country.
All hyperbole not withstanding Dr. Assad is not going anywhere, nor will Syria "fall apart". Heard this nonsense for 5 years now. Syria faces a foreign inspired terrorism problem and that will be dealt with.
THIS IS how the west loves dictators and would even kill to protect them PROVIDED THEY LOOK INTO THEIR INTERESTS.
With respect, you are reading into my words things I never wrote. I never meant to imply that "secularism" or "islamism" I inherently good or bad. What I will say, more clearly this time, is that the so-called "moderates" do not exist in Syria. All of the people who could even remotely be labeled as such have long fled to Europe. The people that are left and still fighting are the hardened terrorists with nothing left to lose, people who's only wish is to die and take as many allawites, shia, christians and others they consider apostates down with them.
By the way, I think you misinterpreted my previous comment due to a typo. I wrote "secular rebels hold now real power in Syria". I meant to write "secular rebels hold no real power in Syria". I never meant to imply the Assad regime is inherently good because it is secular. Quite to the contrary, as you've pointed out, some of the most horrific regimes in the world, Nazi Germany and Pol Pot's Cambodia come to mind, were secular.
And just who would you include in your little government of national unity Nader?,isis,al nusra?,or perhaps "moderate" sunnis like this fellow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egQoplDnLzM&feature=youtu.be&t=17,just who are these mythical moderates you would form this government with?,or are you perhaps seriously suggesting that a government could be formed with isis and al nusra?
Thanks so much for clarification. I should have caught the typo. Thanks again.
Hundreds of thousands of Syrian citizens, who marched peacefully in all major Syrian cities in 2011, asking for more freedom and less police state and better living conditions, were following a moderate approach to political development in their country (you can view photos and videos on those protests in this very blog). Assad's brutal response killed that chance and let types of Nusra and ISIL to blossom in ungoverned territories. The masses participating in those peaceful demonstrations do have people who could represent them. The choice is not between ISIL and Assad, but the real choice is formation of a moderate government to save what's left of Syria.
And just who would represent these mythical moderates?,it seems to me that we have already seen their representatives,they are the "moderate" fsa and the not so moderate head choppers of isis and al nusra,but let us pretend that these "moderates" were able to organize on a political level and select credible political representatives from within syria to join a government of national unity,do you honestly think for one minute that the not so moderates and the foreign jihadis would then simply stop and say "well no point in us doing anymore fighting here we`ll take our guns and try and establish our medieval caliphate somewhere else" and then they would pack up and leave and of course by the same token the turks and the gulfies and the west would stop funding,training and equipping the terrorists,surely Nader you can see how this scenario is not just utterly implausible its just plain silly,the simple truth is that even if by some miraculous act of god you were able to form some government of national unity with genuine moderates you would still face having to militarily defeat the not so moderates.To talk about moderates who appear to have been completely politically sidelined at best or who dont even exist at worst forming some government is just silly,at this point things will likely be decided on the battlefield not at the ballot box and on the battlefield the choice is between isis and assad or rather between a medieval sunni caliphate or more likely a failed state run by jihadi gangs or a functioning modern inclusive secular state even if it is a dictatorship,I must say for me its stark,simple and a no brainer.Idealism is all well and good Nader but until there is an actual credible moderate political force that can muster widespread political support any talk or even idea of a government of national unity is simply ignoring the realpolitik of the situation.
You might be right that Assad could remain as president for sometime to come. But that's the tragedy for a country during a long civil war, which really needs a government that can unite the country.
BTW, Syria has already fallen apart, partly thanks to Assad who forced armed conflict on the country through brutal suppression of the opposition, continued by the use of barrel bombs on his own country's major cities. He's a disgrace to Syria and to the region.
So are you saying that Russian and Iranian leaders are telling lies, or as you put it are silly, when they keep saying publicly that a political solution to the conflict and formation of a unity government is vital to ending the civil war in Syria? Are they hallucinating about a political settlement of the conflict? And is it only you who understand the complexity of the situation and push for continuation of policies that have brought the country into the brink of disintegration?
At least Russians do not agree with your ideas. Putin said today that a political process is necessary and should "encompass all patriotic forces of the Syrian society."
The idea that this conflict should be won solely by military means is not just silly, it would have happened by now, but will contribute to so many more people being killed in the process. I am sure if you were in Syria and a party to the conflict, you wanted a political process at the end of the day.
Moderates and extremists are concepts that generally defines the world view/ideology and political stance of individual and groups. Moderates generally are expected not to take up arms, but if they are attacked by armed forces of their own government, or by foreign invaders, they could choose to take up arms, and rightly so. So the fact of being armed does not identify a group as moderate or extremists, although more are of the latter. ISIL, Nusra and Shia militias fighting in Syria are surely extremists. But there could be moderates fighting Assad as well, and they are.


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Q: ¿Cómo hacer para que dos "print" impriman en la misma línea? ¿Cómo puedo hacer para que se impriman dos cosas en la misma línea?
Uso
print("BMI:")
print (BMI)

pero me lo pone en diferentes líneas

A: Puedes usar el parámetro end de print(), que por defecto es \n (nueva línea). Si lo defines a cadena vacía o un espacio, ya lo tienes:
print("BMI:", end="")
print (BMI)

Por ejemplo yo lo probé con:
>>> if 1:
        print("BMI:", end="")
        print("bla")
BMI:bla

A: Debes concatenar elementos haz print("BMI:"+BMI); lo mostrara en la misma línea.

A: Este ejemplo te puede servir de ayuda:
import sys
import time

def restart_line():
    sys.stdout.write('\r')
    sys.stdout.flush()

sys.stdout.write('some data')
sys.stdout.flush()
time.sleep(2) # wait 2 seconds...
restart_line()
sys.stdout.write('other different data')
sys.stdout.flush()

La función restart line es la clave ya que permite situar al cursor en la linea anterior.
Básicamente lo que hace es imprimir un string por consola y, pasados dos segundos, volver a escribir sobre la misma linea un string diferente.
fuente: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/465348/how-can-i-print-over-the-current-line-in-a-command-line-application/465360#465360
Por otro lado, una solución para evitar "machacar" lo impreso anteriormente es la siguiente:
import sys
import time

bmi = 0

while(True):
    print("BMI: ", end="", flush=True)
    print(bmi, end="", flush=True)
    time.sleep(2)
    bmi = bmi + 1

Espero que te sirva alguna de las dos soluciones,
Saludos

A: Usa la función format para incluir tantas variables como quieras.
print("BMI: {}".format(BMI))

o usa las nuevas f-strings en Python 3.6+
f'BMI: {BMI}'

Las f-strings sirven tanto para asignarlas a una variable...:
cadena_texto = f'Variable 1: {var1}, Variable 2: {var2}'
print(cadena_texto)

...como tambien para imprimir por consola:
print(f'Variable 1: {var1}, Variable 2: {var2}')

Puedes incluso alinear a dcha o a izda o definir un máximo de dígitos decimales, etc.
Mírate la documentación que viene explicado muy bien los diferentes usos. Un saludo

A: para sobrescribir en la misma línea se usa print(texto, end='\r')
por ejemplo si imprimo una lista de contenido variable sería
print(*valores, end='\r')
Intente:
i = 0
while True:
 i = i + 1
 print("contador", end='\r')


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We're always trying to figure out how to cover the crazy huge SEMA show and this year we decided to share the major tire booths in the South Hall as well as the major manufacturer booths. The Continental Tire booth at the 2014 SEMA Show was well represented. A 1966 El Camino with a hardwood bed (this seemed to be the thing for truck beds this year) built by West Coast Customs was front and center. Right beside that was a beautifully done up 2011 Ddoge Challenger built by Petty's Garage.
Another car I really liked at the Continental booth was Kyle Pecarovich's silver twin-turbo V10 R8 with the carbon sideblades and rear wing that was sitting on a set of HREs. However, the most unique vehicle must've been the Karl Kustom Corvette Z067. A modern corvette converted to a '67 vette by Lingenfelter. While making our way through the booth I didn't even notice it was a conversion, pretty unique I must say!
Rounding out the booth was a white 2012 EVO X with a carbon GT wing, rear diffuser and other carbon bits as well as a 2010 International LoneStar (the big rig) byult by Chrome Shop Mafia. All the vehicles of course were wrapped in Continental ExtremeContact DW and DWS tires. You may notice the line-up of show attendees at the Continental booth, they were there because Continental was giving away free adidas Brazuca World Cup soccer balls from the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Way more pictures in the gallery below, or check out the rest of our SEMA 2014 show coverage.


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Q: Complex joining condition on event_table in WSO2 CEP I need to implement a filtering feature on events using WSO2 CEP 4.1.0.
My filters are stored in a PostgreSQL database.
To do this, I created an event_table configuration, and I join my event on this event_table stream.
My filters can have default values, so I need a complex joining condition:
from my_stream#window.length(1) left outer join my_event_table as filter
    on (filter.field1 == '' OR stream.field1 == filter.field1)
    AND (filter.field2 == '' OR stream.field2 == filter.field2)

(I do a LEFT OUTER JOIN because I must have a different process if the filter is found or not: if I find the filter, I complete my_stream with information from it, and I save the event in database table; if not, I save the event in another database table).
Problem is when the system extract the join condition to interpret it, it removes the parenthesis, so the boolean interpretation is wrong:
on filter.field1 == '' OR stream.field1 == filter.field1
AND filter.field2 == '' OR stream.field2 == filter.field2

Is there a way to implement this kind of feature, without plugin creation?
Regards.
EDIT: This is the current solution I found, but I am afraid about performance and complexity, so look for another one:
#first, I left join on my event_table
from my_stream#window.length(1) left outer join my_event_table as filter
        on (filter.field1 == '' OR stream.field1 == filter.field1)
select stream.field1, stream.field2, stream.field3, filter.field1 as filter_field1, filter.field2 as filter_field2, filter.field3 as filter_field3, filter.info1
insert into tempStreamJoinProblemCount

#if the join return nothing, then no filter for my line
from tempStreamJoinProblemCount[filter_field1 IS NULL]
insert into filter_not_found

#if the join return some lines, maybe 1 of these lines can match, I continue to check
from tempStreamJoinProblemCount[NOT filter_field1 IS NULL]
select field1, field2, field3, info1
#I check my complex joining condition and store it in a boolean for later: 1 then my filter match, 0 then no match
convert(
(filter_field2=='' OR field2 == filter_field2)
AND(filter_field3=='' OR field3 == filter_field3),'int') as filterMatch
insert into filterCheck

#if filterMatch is 1, I extract the filter information (info1), else I put a default value (minimal value); custom:ternaryInt is just the ternary function: boolean_condition?value_if_true:value_if_false
from computeFilterMatchInformation
select field1, custom:ternaryInt(filterMatch==1, info1, 0) as info1, filterMatch
insert into filterCheck

#As we did not join on all fields, 1 line has been expanded into several lines, so we group the lines, to remove these generated lines and keep only 1 initial line;
from filterMatchGroupBy#window.time(10 sec)
#max(info1) return only the filter value (because the value 0 from previous stream is the minimal value);
#sum(filterMatch) return 0 if there is no match, and 1+ if there is a match
select field1, max(info1) as info1, sum(filterMatch) as filter_match
group by field1, field2, field3
insert into filterCheck

#we found no match
from filterCheck[filter_match == 0]
select field1, field2, field3
insert into filter_not_found

#we found a match, so we extract filter information (info1)
from filterCheck[filter_match > 0]
select field1, field2, field3, info1
insert into filter_found

A: Fundamentally, left outer join might not work with an event table. Because event table is not an active construct (like a stream). So we cannot assign a window to an event table. However, in order to join with (outer joins) each stream should be associated with a window. Since we cannot do that with event tables, outer-joins wouldn't work anyway.
However, to address your scenario, you can join my_stream with my_event_table without any conditions and emit resulting events into an intermediate stream, and then check for the conditions on that intermediate stream. Try something similar to this;
from my_stream join my_event_table
select
    my_stream.field1 as streamField1,
    my_event_table.field1 as tableField1,
    my_stream.field1 as streamField2,
    my_event_table.field1 as tableField2,
insert into intermediateStream;

from intermediateStream[((tableField1 == '' OR streamField1 == tableField1) AND (tableField2 == '' OR streamField2 == tableField2))]
select *
insert into filtereMatchedStream;

from intermediateStream[not ((tableField1 == '' OR streamField1 == tableField1) AND (tableField2 == '' OR streamField2 == tableField2))]
select *
insert into filtereUnMatchedStream;


Here are three Sample Scripts which you can Cut & Paste. The samples show how to IVTC (NTSC) and Field Match (PAL) using different types of sources.
Lets assume we have a single file MJPEG NTSC (29.97fps) source video, it has a 640x480 resolution and we want to IVTC, Crop and Resize it to 576x432. The image is also overscanned (video image doesn't cover the entire resolution, requiring us to crop). So for this example we'll assume there are 3 black lines on the Left, 5 at the Top, 2 on the Right and 1 at the Bottom. Every line beginning with "#" is a comment.
# Load our plugins, we load MJPEGcorrect plugin since our AVI is an MJPEG source.
Lets assume we have a 3 file segmented HUFFYUV source (which was specifically encoded in YUV format, you must make sure your Capture Card is set to a YUV format such as YUY2, otherwise it will encode in RGB, which isn't what we want). The file names are "sample02.00.avi", "sample02.01.avi" and "sample02.02.avi".
Our source is NTSC format 640x480 with overscan at 0 pixels on the left, 0 pixels on the top, 2 pixels on the right and 4 pixels on the bottom. We want to IVTC, Crop and Resize it to 608x456 (it's always important to make sure that the end resolution width divides smoothly by 32).
# Load your plugins. DON'T load MJPEGcorrect plugin since our AVI is an HUFFYUV source.
Lets assume we have a 4 file segmented MJPEG source. The file names are "sample03.00.avi", "sample03.01.avi", "sample03.03.avi", "sample03.04.avi".
Our source is PAL format 768x576 with overscan at 4 pixels on the left, 0 pixels on the top, 0 pixels on the right and 0 pixels at the bottom. We want to Field Match, Crop and Resize it to 704x528. We also have subtitles that might interfere with out field matching. The Subtitles start on line 450 and end on line 510.
# Load your plugins. We load MJPEGcorrect plugin since our AVI is an MJPEG source.


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Q: redefining a macro not working as expected I am in C++ defining blocks that go in a special area of memory. I want to define a block, then define the address of the next block in a variable that gets redefined for each block.
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

#define BASE_ADDRESS 0X1000

// type a gets 100 bytes
#define TYPE_A BASE_ADDRESS
#define NEXT_FREE_BLOCK (BASE_ADDRESS + 100)

// type b gets 200 bytes, starting at the next free address
#define TYPE_B NEXT_FREE_BLOCK
#undef NEXT_FREE_BLOCK
#define NEXT_FREE_BLOCK (TYPE_B + 200)

// ---end of RWW memory map---

int main()
{
    cout<<"Hello free block " << NEXT_FREE_BLOCK << endl;
    return 0;
}

Example code that I've looked up looks like this. But when I try to compile this, I get "compilation failed due to the following errors":
main.cpp:12:16: error: 'NEXT_FREE_BLOCK' was not declared in this scope
 #define TYPE_B NEXT_FREE_BLOCK
                ^
main.cpp:14:26: note: in expansion of macro 'TYPE_B'
 #define NEXT_FREE_BLOCK (TYPE_B + 200)
                          ^~~~~~
main.cpp:20:34: note: in expansion of macro 'NEXT_FREE_BLOCK'
     cout<<"Hello free block " << NEXT_FREE_BLOCK << endl;

                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If I comment out the 'type b' lines, it runs as expected. If I comment out the #undef line, it tells me I've redefined the macro. I would like to redefine the macro without getting an error or warning; is there a way to do that?

A: Lets take a look at this example:
#define MYMACRO 0 //MYMACRO = 0
#define ANOTHERMACRO MYMACRO //ANOTHERMACRO = MYMACRO = 0

int main() {
    return ANOTHERMACRO;
}

All good right?
But if we do this:
#define MYRECURSIVEMACRO 0 //MYRECURSIVEMACRO = 0

#define MYMACRO MYRECURSIVEMACRO //MYMACRO = MYRECURSIVEMACRO

#undef MYRECURSIVEMACRO // MYRECURSIVEMACRO does not exist
#define MYRECURSIVEMACRO (MYMACRO+10) //What was MYMACRO again? It was MYRECURSIVEMACRO, but now we are setting MYRECURSIVEMACRO, which right now is being defined, to itself plus 10, and now I am 100% confused

#define ANOTHERMACRO MYRECURSIVEMACRO //Now what?

int main() {
    return ANOTHERMACRO;
}

We get this:
1>C:\dev\Stack Overflow\Source.cpp(520,9): error C2065: 'MYMACRO': undeclared identifier

(At least for MSVC++)
Now if we look at this:

#define BASE_ADDRESS 0X1000 //BASE_ADDRESS = 0x1000

// type a gets 100 bytes
#define TYPE_A BASE_ADDRESS //TYPE_A = BASE_ADDRESS = 0x1000
#define NEXT_FREE_BLOCK (BASE_ADDRESS + 100) //NEXT_FREE_BLOCK = 0x1000 + 100

// type b gets 200 bytes, starting at the next free address
#define TYPE_B NEXT_FREE_BLOCK //TYPE_B = NEXT_FREE_BLOCK
#undef NEXT_FREE_BLOCK //NEXT_FREE_BLOCK is gone
#define NEXT_FREE_BLOCK (TYPE_B + 200) //Now what? Same problem as before!

// ---end of RWW memory map---

This is why it isn't working.


Well, I wasn't planning to write up a trip report, but since no one else in the group has written one, I guess I'll go ahead and do so. Anyway, our group of three skiers (David Coleman, Paul Belitz, and I) met up with two split-boarders (Justin and Jim) at the Eldorado Creek TH. The Cascade River Road is snowfree past this point, with plowed snowbanks beside the lot. We crossed the river on a large log just downstream of the parking lot and then spent hours thrashing and ascending and descending (a lot) in the woods before finally traversing east to find the climbers trail. Some routefinding advice for others: the trail is quite easy to follow above about 2400 ft, but fairly difficult/overgrown below that (the river is at 2150 ft). So it seems easiest to just bushwhack up to about 2400 ft from the river and then traverse east to hit the trail.
We followed the steep trail to snowline at 3900 ft, at the edge of the major boulder/talus field. We skinned up to 6000 ft on very wet, heavy, unconsolidated, waterlogged snow in bright sunshine. Set up camp just east of the rib separating the Eldorado and Roush Creek drainages, which must be crossed to reach the Eldorado Glacier. David and Paul took some short evening ski runs. Clouds soon moved in, and then overnight a brief shower dropped sleet/graupel for less than 5 minutes. The weather still looked gray and bleak as dawn arrived, but as the sun rose, the clouds parted and our spirits lifted. Soon we skinned up onto the rib, deskinning for the steep, shaded, and frozen drop of 100 vft onto the edge of the Eldorado Glacier. We again skinned up most of the Eldorado Glacier, and soon eyed Klawatti Peak across the Inspiration Glacier flats. Klawatti had been in our original plans, but we eventually agreed to abandon it and stick with Eldorado alone. We skied across the flats, and then up to join the East Ridge at a prominent gap at 7800 ft. We had brought ropes and glacier gear, but never needed them. We continued skinning up the ridge to over 8750 ft, with Paul alone making it to within a few dozen feet of the true summit (8868+ ft). The famed knife-edge snow ridge was a piece of cake on foot and soon we were on top, enjoying one of the most spectacular panoramas in the North Cascades.
We skied directly off the knife-edged summit, angling a traverse left across the steep south slope on thick sun-warmed corn. The ski run down the East Ridge was fair, with lots of crust and sastrugi. Dropped through the 7800 ft gap onto the steep south facing Inspiration Glacier, finding very soft snow which was still fun and carveable. Similar soft conditions continued on the Eldorado Glacier all the way to the rib crossing, which the skiers were able to ascend by sidestepping. After packing up camp, the descent back to the trail was extremely soft and unconsolidated, with skis often sinking 2 ft deep in a turn. The boulder field had melted out considerably since the previous day, and it will mostly be unskiable within a few more days. Avalanche hazard was high, as numerous large wet slides had released from the steep slopes/cliffs to the west, both that day and the day before. We gingerly skied across several slide debris paths and struggled down the sloppy boulder field to reach the climbers trail. Following the trail was much easier on the way down, and we reached the Cascade River fairly uneventfully, but well upstream of our log crossing. The few available logs didn't look appealing, so we simply waded across the river in our ski boots (main channel was 20 ft across, max 18" deep, very easy) and clambered up the riverbank to the parking lot. Overall, it was a spectacularly scenic trip with fairly good to very soft snow conditions, with over 5100 vertical ft of skiing a nice reward for well over 7000 ft of gain and pain. Surprisingly, we saw only one other party on the route, they were skiing down on Saturday, and we saw no one else on Sunday.
David skis down the East Ridge, with Paul and Justin below. Far below is frozen Moraine Lake, with Forbidden Peak rising above it.
yeah, good write-up & nice photo, although that skier could use some work on his form!
p.s. what about the shot of Paul's ski ricocheting like a rubber band down the glacier in front of him - that was pretty cool....how did he do that?
I wasn't going to post a link, but here's a TR.


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9 Of the Weirdest Vacation Destinations In California
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4) Whaley House, Old Town San Diego
Dubbed the most haunted place in America by The Travel Channel, the Whaley House has as much history as it does ghost tales. Built by Thomas Whaley in 1857, the Greek Revival brick style was the first of its kind in the area. At the time, it cost $10,000 to build, which was quite a hefty sum for that time period. On May 25, 1960, it opened to the public as a museum. The cost to take a tour is still only $8. Though they do push the gift shop items quite a bit! There are 15 books available on the subject of ghost tales of the Whaley House. You can even buy a "Got Ghosts?" coffee mug. Photography is highly encouraged. You never know what you may capture as you snap away!
11 US States That Most People Want to Visit
9 Hidden Locations in Massachusetts
11 Most Romantic Getaways in Canada
9 Hidden Locations in New York Worth Finding


I never thought I would reach that horrible place called middle age – yuck I hate that phrase! I originally thought I would magically go from the dancefloor in my 20's and 30's straight to being an old grumpy lady that didn't care much about anything.
Well, I am still here, now living in London, I left the dancefloors in New York when it was still fun, dirty and a bit dangerous. I don't think I have changed much, that is until I look closely at the mirror, I still have more than a fleeting interest in fashion and good skin has now become an obsession. What has changed is it gets harder for us ladies of this in-between age to know what to buy and how to look our best without looking like we are in a time warp.
Also, my interests have changed slightly, I am more food focused than I used to be. I want to eat good food but I am not a fanatic. I wish I were rich but hey ho, I am not, so I need to be smart about where my money goes. All these things, along with a bit of life strategy and of course a sense of humour, is what makes Modern Mame tick.
How am I qualified to pontificate about life? Well, I wrote a book called Style NOT Fashion, which was in the top ten on AmazonUK for over four years. I was also the head bottle washer at The Lean Times, the site to visit if you are in a financial pickle.
If you find this intriguing, subscribe below, you can always cancel. I would love to hear how you are surviving these middle years which I think I am finding a bit harder than adolescence.


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// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// <copyright file="MessageProcessingBehaviorAttribute.cs" company="Kephas Software SRL">
//   Copyright (c) Kephas Software SRL. All rights reserved.
//   Licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE file in the project root for full license information.
// </copyright>
// <summary>
//   Implements the message handler attribute class.
// </summary>
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

namespace Kephas.Messaging.Behaviors.AttributedModel
{
    using System;

    using Kephas.Diagnostics.Contracts;
    using Kephas.Messaging.Behaviors;
    using Kephas.Messaging.Composition;
    using Kephas.Services;

    /// <summary>
    /// Adds message matching criteria for <see cref="IMessagingBehavior"/> services.
    /// </summary>
    [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class, AllowMultiple = false, Inherited = false)]
    public class MessagingBehaviorAttribute : Attribute
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="MessagingBehaviorAttribute"/> class.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="messageId">The ID of the handled messages.</param>
        public MessagingBehaviorAttribute(object messageId)
        {
            Requires.NotNull(messageId, nameof(messageId));

            this.MessageId = messageId;
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U.S. contract research organizations (CROs) are often eager to expand operations into Europe, Asia and Africa, but neighboring Canada is often omitted from CROs' plans for global expansion. Saratoga, N.Y.-based Criterium, however, is bucking that trend with the recent opening of its Toronto office.
"Canada is one [country] that, I think, a lot of companies tend not to focus on because it sits right next to America. They run operations out of America if they can. We felt that, looking at the market, Canada has a huge amount of value that they can add to the research industry," said Lawrence Reiter, Ph.D., director of Global Affairs for Criterium.
Criterium's new office, which opened in October, will conduct phase I through phase IV studies and offer the same services as Criterium's other locations.
No trials are in progress yet, but two Criterium clients are looking at potential studies in Canada, and the CRO is waiting to learn whether they'll be awarded those studies.
"It's not as much that by being in Canada we can add any type of specific services, it's that by being in Canada we're investing in the Canadian market and the Canadian economy," Reiter said.
Reiter is the only full-time employee based in Canada, overseeing operations there, and is supported by staff in the company's New York office.
Criterium's Toronto office is small for the time being, Reiter said, but the company is linked into a number of Canadian networks to provide a range of services.
"As we grow, we will hire local staff in Canada and create more of a presence here. It's a model that we used in South Africa as well, and it's a very successful model because it ensures that we're not top heavy," Reiter said.
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Smith's Clove: Wartime Line of Communication and Passageway for the Continental Army, 1776-1783
Richard J. Koke
[Editor's Note: Richard J. Koke authored a series of five articles that appeared in Volumes 19 -23 of the OCHS Journal between 1990 and 1994. These articles will be presented in multiple sections over the next few years.]
War in the Clove
Chapter 10:
An Embarrassing Situation
George Washington made his first appearance in Smith's Clove in the summer of 1777, and he came under the most trying of circumstances: he was embarrassed. One month of indecisive maneuvering and skirmishing between the armies on the Jersey plain in advance of Middlebrook had ended with Washington's reappearance at Morristown on July 3. The intent and movements of his adversary, Sir William Howe, were obscure, unintelligible and impenetrable. Preparations and troop embarkations on board British ships in New York harbor gave every indication of a sea voyage, but no one knew where it was bound - whether up the Hudson, or to the Delaware, or eastward to New England. Added to this, word was coming from the north that an army from Canada - Burgoyne's - was approaching Ticonderoga, the northern defense anchor on Lake Champlain. On July 4 Washington was calling it a situation that was "delicate and embarrassing."
Almost positive that Howe would operate on the Hudson, the commander-in-chief posted his advance division under Major-General John Sullivan at Pompton, between Morristown and Suffern's, with orders that, on the first certain intelligence that the British were moving against the Highlands, he was to march to the river and cross over to Peekskill to join Putnam and the Highland garrison in resisting the enemy until he arrived with the main army.
The broadening importance of the Clove became fully apparent with the maneuvering of the army in July. In placing Sullivan on emergency alert, Washington also cautioned him that should the King's Ferry passage be threatened or severed by British shipping, he should consider "going higher up" - in other words, crossing to the east shore at New Windsor above the Highlands, which in turn would necessitate a long march through the Clove followed by a return down the east shore; but to obviate against such a possibility he did suggest that Sullivan make inquiry whether there was a direct road from the Clove to Fort Montgomery that was passable for carriages. As it was, the roads were nothing more than mountain paths.
The necessity of getting the army to the east shore either by way of King's Ferry or New Windsor was the Crux of the thinking that dictated the use of Smith's Clove as a major artery in the strategy and tactics of the campaign. Washington ordered Sullivan on July 8 to move closer to the river, but within the day directed that he pause at the Clove and recommended that he throw up some light works if he had tools to "make the passage in those strong defiles still more defensible."
Sullivan and his two thousand men were at Suffern's at the mouth of the corridor two days later, but the presence of a British sloop and schooner and two row galleys in the Hudson forced him to the alternative of changing his route from the lower ferry to the upper.
Two days of heavy rain hindered movement until the fourteenth when it cleared sufficiently for the division to push through the Clove to within twelve miles of New Windsor, and after spending a night on the sodden ground in the Woodbury area the troops continued on the fifteenth into Ulster, crossed two days later and joined Putnam on the twenty-first.
On July 15, while Sullivan's soldiers were plodding out of the upper Clove, Washington with the rest of the army - four divisions under Greene, Stirling, Stephen and Lincoln, each of two brigades, and the park of artillery under Knox - was on the last miles of a journey that was also bringing him from Morristown to the lower Clove by way of what is now Route 202.
Five days earlier he had received a letter from Major-General Philip Schuyler, commander of the Northern Army, expressing apprehension over an unverified report that Ticonderoga had fallen to the enemy and the greater part of the garrison was in British hands. Washington was perplexed and dubious, even considering the account groundless, but nevertheless, convinced that Howe would act in conjunction with Burgoyne, he broke camp on the eleventh and moved with the army towards the Hudson in the path taken by Sullivan.
That evening, still on the road and close to Pompton Plains, he received another dispatch from Schuyler. The news was terse, unwelcome, hard to believe - but it was true: Ticonderoga was gone, everything in the fortress was lost, the garrison was in retreat, and it was impossible to determine where the army would make a stand. Schuyler wanted reinforcements, tents, camp kettles, cannon, artillerists, ammunition, cartridge paper, intrenching tools, supplies of every kind and even an engineer or two.
Washington was in shock; it was as if the world had dropped from under his feet. The entire north and the flank of New England was open to the enemy. To Congress on the next day he again reiterated that the situation of affairs was "delicate and embarrassing, by the late misfortune which we have experienced." The rain which started on the eleventh kept him at Pompton for two days, but on the fourteenth he advanced another eight miles along the muddy road to Oakland, and on the fifteenth to the Point of the Mountain at the entrance Of the Clove.
It had been his intent just two days earlier to transfer the army, or the major part of it, across the Hudson at New Windsor to place himself in readiness to counter a threat either against the Highlands or New England. His decision to utilize the northern crossing in preference to the exposed King's Ferry passage was evident on July 13 when he informed Schuyler from Pompton that he intended to "prosecute my march through the Clove," and Nathaniel Greene was writing on the same day that the army was on its way "to join General Putnam on the North River."
By the time he arrived at the Clove, Washington had decided to await Howe's next move. The pivotal road junction at Suffern's was a focal point from where he could advance to Peekskill either through southern Orange to King's Ferry or through the Clove to New Windsor, but if Howe perhaps opted for the Delaware - and Philadelphia, he was suitably positioned to return to Morristown and push on to Pennsylvania.
For five days, from Tuesday the fifteenth to Sunday the twentieth, Suffern's tavern in Haverstraw precinct served as headquarters of the Continental Army. Over seven thousand troops and military personnel, the artillery and the Camp equipage of the army filled the Ramapo and New Antrim fields. Preparing for a possible river crossing, Washington directed that both the Clove and King's Ferry roads be reconnoitered to ascertain all "proper places" where halts could be made and camps could be established, and the distance from headquarters to each position be noted and reported; and likewise that work parties be detailed from the Highlands to mend the roads leading inland for eight or ten miles from King's Ferry and New Windsor towards "this place."
Washington not only was beset with the perplexities of trying to learn what Howe was up to, but was saddled with responsibility of trying to reinforce and reequip the shattered Northern Army. Councils and Conferences were held, and busy aides-deCamp transcribed reports and orders and drew up letters for the commander-in-chief that were dispatched to Philadelphia, to Schuyler, Putnam, the New England governors, and to officers on the New Jersey shore where lookouts kept watch on the sea lanes for signs of movement by the British fleet.
Among the callers at headquarters was Brigadier-General George Clinton on a visit from Fort Montgomery to discuss militia matters, but mainly to impart news that he had been elected governor of the state and his presence was shortly needed at Kingston. Washington begged him to stay a few days longer until British plans could be better known.
Another welcome and most anticipated arrival on Thursday night was Major-General Benedict Arnold from Philadelphia on his way to the Northern Army; his presence a result of Washington's personal plea to Congress that he be sent to join Schuyler. He stayed only one day for consultation and on Friday evening departed on his hurried journey to Albany. "From his activity and disposition for Enterprise," Washington informed Schuyler, "I flatter myself, his presence and assistance in that Quarter, will be attended with happy Consequences. I am well assured his utmost exertions will be employed to beffle the Enemy's views, and Wishing that they may succeed." Three years later, Arnold's enterprising activity in the Highlands would be more insidious in nature.
Perhaps, one of the most interesting communications that issued from Suffern's had nothing to do with exigencies of the campaign, but with a look to the future, the need of a competent map-maker that possibly may have been a result of the reconnaissance of the King's Ferry and Clove roads.
In the waning hours of his tavern occupancy, Washington wrote to Congress on the nineteenth and urged that a position be created for a geographer to survey roads "and take sketches of the country where the army is to act," and for this he recommended Robert Erskine, ironmaster of nearby Ringwood where Lee had tarried in December. Washington had first encountered Erskine through Alexander McDougall, and the forty-one-year-old Scotsman could readily have journeyed to Suffern's to discuss the probabilities ofemployment. Washington praised him as "thoroughly skilled in this business," and one who "has already assisted us in making maps of the country; and has (as I am informed) uniformly supported the character of a fast friend to America." Congress readily acquiesced six days later and authorized that he be "geographer and surveyor of the roads" to the Continental Army; but because of commitments he was unable to begin work actively until the spring of 1778.
Robert Erskine is a legend in the Ringwood country. He and the small unit of surveyors and cartographers that he assembled toiled in the backwater of army activity, little noticed and much of the time working on their own to create a file of military maps of the roads and terrain of the Hudson River and New Jersey Countryside and elsewhere that were indispensable at Continental headquarters in the planning of troop movements.
Erskine's only public memorial is a bronze tablet erected in 1952 at his secluded grave on a gentle knoll in the quiet Ringwood vale, calling attention to him as the "forgotten general" of Washington's army; but his maps and those of Simeon DeWitt, who succeeded to the task after Erskine's death, are a unique legacy which survive to this day. In 1845 Simeon's son, Richard Varick DeWitt, presented the collection to The New-York Historical Society. Today, "the Erskines" are an incomparable source for the military student, the local historian, and the genealogist seeking a past that is not available elsewhere. It all began in a crossroad tavern in southern Orange County.
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The Continentals Arrive
Blocking the Clove
In the Midst of Tories
Offensive from the Highlands
The Militia Take Over
The Post at Ramapo
The Reluctant Militia
Holding the Line
To Galloway's and Back
The Scotsman's Regiment
September Raid
Prelude for Disaster
Clinton Takes the Highlands
Sidman's Bridge: The Last Holdout
A Cogent Appraisal
Villains and Robbers
Aaron Burr's Ride
March to the Clove
The Barren Clove
Bracing for Attack
Among the Rocks and Rattlesnakes
The Present Interesting Occasion
A Waiting Game
The Continental Road
The Taphouse Keeper's Daughter
The Indian Fighters Appear
March to Morristown
A Fruitless Excursion
Summer at the Clove
A Frenchman's Journey
Pompton Mutiny: Blood in the Snow
Blockhouse in the Clove
The Allies at New Antrim
The Intercepted Messenger
A Questionable Story
Perils of A Post Rider
New Yorkers at the Clove
Congress' Own Regiment
The Last Garrison
A Man of Passion
Homeless Canadians
The Last March
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The Post at Sidman's Bridge
Marking the Site
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Carrie Rickey – Movie Critic Interviews
On this week's Critical Juncture, we're honored to have Carrie Rickey as our guest. Just in case you don't know, this L.A. native has been the film critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer for the past 21 years. In addition, she also contributes to Entertainment Weekly on a regular basis, and her movie reviews are syndicated across the nation. If you're in the mood for film essays, you can enjoy the writings of Carrie Rickey in anthologies such as The American Century, Library of America's American Movie Critics, and The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll.
And be sure to check out the Carrie Rickey blog entitled FLICKgrrl, with such recent entries as:
Rob Corddry is the New Zach Galifianakis…Yeah!
Robert Culp 1930 – 2010
The X Quantity of the Q (Likability) Factor
The Name Game: Repo Men and Repo Man
A Love Letter to Ginger (Rogers)
To read her movie reviews (she's seen over 12,000 films, by the way), click on the link to visit her columnist's page at The Philadelphia Inquirer website.
Now let's dive into the question and answer section…
Only Good Movies: What's the first movie that you remember seeing?
Carrie Rickey: On television: "Follow the Fleet" with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. In a theater: My sisters say "Roman Holiday" (I was an infant.) My first conscious memory of seeing a movie in a theater was "Oklahoma!" and I was so frightened by the sound and the screen that my mother had to carry me out.
OGM: What's the most recent movie you've seen?
CR: "The Red Riding Trilogy," three movies based on David Peace's crime-thriller quartet, kind of a "Leeds Confidential."
OGM: Is there a particular film that you feel is criminally underrated?
CR: Where do I start? Among recentish indies, Kasi Lemmons' "Talk to Me" and Sanaa Hamri's "Something New."
OGM: Which director do you feel has turned out the best overall body of work?
CR: Again, where do I start? In the '20s: Buster Keaton; the '30s: George Stevens and William Wyler; the '40s: Howard Hawks and Vincente Minnelli; the '50s: John Ford and Billy Wilder and Akira Kurosawa; and George Cukor; the '60s: Stanley Kubrick and J-L Godard and Bernardo Bertolucci; the '70s: Francis Coppola and Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen ; the '80s: Steven Spielberg and James Ivory; the 90s: Stephen Frears and Spike Lee and Jane Campion.
OGM: From an artistic standpoint, which film do you think is most important?
CR: If I had to pick the three most artistically influential movies of all time, I would say Buster Keaton's "Sherlock, Jr.." John Ford's "The Searchers," and Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey."
OGM: All artsy considerations aside, which movie is your personal favorite?
CR: If you held a gun to my head and said I could name only one movie, I'd say Max Ophuls' "The Earrings of Madame de…."
OGM: In your opinion, which film is entirely overrated?
CR: "Kill Bill," both volumes.
OGM: Have you ever walked out of the theatre during a film? If so, what movie was playing?
CR: Once. "Battlefield Earth." Projector problems, babysitter waiting at home and I wasn't reviewing.
OGM: In your mind, what's the ultimate goal of a movie critic?
CR: It's at least a three-prong job: a) to give reader a lively sense of the movie, using language to simulate the experience of the film; b) give the reader a sense of whether this film is for him/her; c) to assess the film's artistic and narrative import.
OGM: Time to look into the future. Do you predict any major changes for the movie industry over the next 25 years?
CR: Like everyone else, I think there is likely to be a convergence of all filmed entertainment, so that there will be little difference between products made for TV and feature films, and that all but big spectaculars will be available for downloads and on-demand the same day it's released to theaters, and that increasingly the fare we see in movie theaters will look more like "Avatar" and "The Jonas Brothers Movie" than "The Hurt Locker."
OGM: Here's another chance to predict the future. Name a relatively unknown actor or actress who'll be a huge star within five years.
CR: Chris Pine. Amanda Seyfried. Zoe Saldana (who was in the #1 and #2 box office films of 2009).
OGM: Who's your favorite movie critic to read?
CR: Dead: James Agee, Otis Ferguson, Manny Farber, Pauline Kael. Living: Roger Ebert, David Edelstein, Manohla Dargis, Molly Haskell.
Thanks to Carrie Rickey for joining us in this installment of Critical Juncture, and be sure to join us next week for another interview with a noted film critic or movie blogger. Until then, check out these other interviews from days gone by:
Mick LaSalle
Scott Nehring
Ed Howard
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