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Q: Why are AI hotels (like the Raven) avoided? In the first episode of Altered Carbon, Kovacs is searching for a safe place to rest and gets to the Raven hotel. Although it seems like the ultimate lair/base of operations, with a very dedicated AI and overkill client protection, people seem to avoid AI hotels. They tell Kovacs to avoid the Raven, Poe even mentions that Kovacs is his first client in 5 decades.
Is there a reason why people avoid AI hotels? Are they overly expensive to the point anyone but Kovacs (with Bancroft's money) couldn't afford it? Do people distrust AI that much? Are there very big drawbacks I missed?

A: In the novel, we are first introduced to the Hendrix's AI (renamed to the Raven in the TV adaptation) when Kovacs walks into the lobby and tries to check in. He's prevented from doing so at first by Dimitri Kadmin and his squad, but when Kovacs is finally able to make payment and becomes a paying customer, the AI moves to protect its (only?) client by deploying a "twenty-millimeter automatic cannon" and killing them all. Later, when Kristen Ortega arrives to investigate, she explains that the cannon was installed when "the corporate wars turned nasty". She also explains that due to a trading crash shortly after these wars, that "the Hendrix graded to artificial intelligence status and bought itself out." Then she says this:

"Lot of the hotels on this strip are AI." She grinned at me through the smoke. "That's why no one stays in them. Shame, really. I read somewhere that they're hard wired to want customers the way people want sex. That's got to be frustrating, right?"

The inference here is that the Hendrix will do anything to please a customer, even kill. Later, when Kovacs meets Miriam Bancroft in his suite, we see more of this behaviour, namely that the AI let her into the room without his permission and that it plays mood music for them.
The makers of the TV show adaptation describe it like this:

"We liked the idea that people don't stay in the hotels anymore, which is from the book, and also that the hotels have a slightly stalker-esque quality, also from the book," Kalogridis says. "It felt like that argued for a persona that was a little persistent and maybe a little off-putting."

So it seems that the AI hotels in Altered Carbon like their clients just a little too much for the citizenry to handle.

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Music: Mack Bailey - Waltzing With Bears
You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline.
SF Site has named All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories one of their best books of the year.
And Worldwired is in its FedEx bag, just waiting to be sent back to Random House today. And my line-edit of A Companion to Wolves is back with truepenny.
I think it's Miller time.
Or at least taco time.
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I wrote two sentences on the Tindalosi New Yorker story yesterday.
This week's planned debut of "Botticelli" over at The Agony Column (I got to see a sneak preview of the artwork last night--it's quite unsettling) gives me a lovely self-absorbed excuse to talk about some stuff that's been under discussion around the blogosphere (including right here!) relating to auctorial intent, the purposes of fiction, and Ms. Emma Bull's fabulous one-liner regarding fiction, the writing of, and saying things in as small a space as possible.
One of the things I love about fiction is its ambiguity. It allows me to discuss things obliquely, on an intuitive level, and provide arguments and counter-arguments within the context of a rhetorical structure without having to choose a side. It's discussion as a game, in other words--what astounding fun! What a marvelous game!
(Oh, and, um, spoilers Although not plot-related ones; these are strictly about theme.)
"Botticelli" is a story that lives or dies by its structure and metatext. If the story works for a particular reader, it should work as a swift kick in the squid. Shakabuku. *g* You know.
It's not, in other words, a story that's about the narrative. The narrative, if anything, is strongly slice of life, unresolved--perhaps even a bit cursory.
I love this trick in short stories. It's much more difficult to pull off in novels, which have to sustain tension so much longer--and I haven't tried it yet. I've read some virtuoso examples, though...and, interestingly, a lot of them play games with POV as well. I was thinking of it, when I did it, as a clue for the reader that something a little funky is going on here--and it's also a direct address of the third character in the story, who is, in my mind at least, the projective reader or writer, the one who identifies strongly with the characters presented.
This story is very hard for me to talk about, because so much of what it does it does on an intuitive/subtextual/metatextual level, and it's packed in layers of thematic macramé. I wind up waving my hands and going, "well, uh, it's about stories and warcrimes and the balance of terror and the balance of power and, uh--well, what do YOU think it's about?"
It's a little easier for me to talk about *how* it does some of those things, because technique is pretty concrete, and so is structure.
There are two big structural techniques at work here. I often talk about stories having a shape--this one is (in my head) arranged like a triple helix--in other words, what if DNA were a series of stacked triskelions rather than a ladder? The three rising strands are the American's POV, the Russian's POV, and the projective POV, and the links that bind them together--the treads on the ladder--are repetitive bits of imagery and wordplay--the embraces (which also serve a thematic purpose) and the who-am-I guessing games.
One of the things that was heavily on my mind when I wrote this story was fanfiction. On the purest--the most meta level--it's a story about the urge to make up stories, about the folk process, about self-insertion. About the way musicians add verses to songs, and ballads and stories change and evolve over the years. It seems to me a very primal human urge, that adaptation, that retelling--"more of the same, only different."
I was working on The Stratford Man--which is, on some level, Shakespeare and Marlowe and Jonson and Spenser fanfiction--when I discovered the online world of fandom and got sort of fascinated by it. It seemed to me very plain that what these writers were doing with their fanfic and vidding and what have you, in more-or-less sophisticated fashion (and some of them are quite sophisticated) wasn't all that different from what I was talking about in what I loosely term my Faerie books (Blood & Iron, The Stratford Man, One-Eyed Jack, Whiskey & Water, eventually Balm & Oil when it gets written.)
They're organized around the declarative statement, "All stories are true," and they talk in various ways about how narrative affects reality and how reality affects narrative. (The Russian and the American, by the way, also show up in One-Eyed Jack. But they're not this Russian and American.)
Well, at some point, I was trying to explain to truepenny how I saw Kit and Will in SM, and I described them as having a sort of Man from UNCLE relationship. They're spies! They banter! They fight crime!
She wasn't familiar with the show at the time, and--I think the technical term is--I pimped her into the fandom. (Which I wasn't a member of at the time, but I've since made some very good friends there.)
And anyway, I was reading around in the fandom in the course of finding stuff to show her, and some I was struck by some very vivid realizations. One, was that the fandom characters of Napoleon-and-Illya were not exactly like the television show characters (my first experience with the phenomenon of fanon) and two, that the characterizations had evolved over time, and that various writers had very different takes on the characters. And I started to realize, wow, this is cool--here's the folk process in action.
This is what happens between Child Ballad # 39A and Steeleye Span, and what happens in between Fairport convention and pameladean. And between pameladean and buymeaclue, and between all of them and me (Blood & Iron is a Tam Lin book. Yeah, I know. It's also a King Arthur book. Stand back.).
And how cool is that?
Or, as Keanu would say--whoa.
Okay, so I had that thing kicking around my head--and the educated observer will notice some seriously fanon touches in "Botticelli"--frex, the "Botticelli" Russian doesn't talk like David McCallum. At all. He talks like the fanon-Illya.
And I had this Elizabethan idea of adaptation and appropriation and reinterpretation and so forth running through my head. And then that piled up with some of the research I did for Blood & Iron--about how stories change, and also about Nazi atrocities in Ukraine--and, because I have a very accretive/synthetic story-generating process, I happened to read a story about American Korean War veterans struggling to expose American atrocities in Korea--
Well, it stuck. I had these images of obscene embraces, kisses and death, and was wandering around reading fan fiction, both slash and gen, and it all kind of kept piling up image-wise with my own frustration--over patterns of war, and the way we demonize our enemies, and the endlessness of cycles of atrocity and war crimes, and the way, every so often, we manage to be better than we have any right to expect--and by we, I mean "us" and "them".
So I wound up building these interlocking helixes--this density of repeated imagery supported by a structural scaffolding and three character studies that also interlock--the Russian, the American, the audience--anyway. I could probably go on in this vein until Livejournal cut me off for exceeding the character limit, but suffice it to say, that's some of what lead me to the story. I could talk about prisoner abuse, for example, and problems of identity and self-identification, and the Reagan era, and the folk process, and the amusement value I get out of deconstructing a text that's a deconstruction of another text (the James Bond oeuvre, in this case).
No. I didn't think so.
In other words, I've proved without reservation Emma Bull's dictum--it's faster to just write the damned story than explain it.
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Adapting to the trend of open data, promoting agricultural data sharing and application - those are a few of the problems that six teams aimed to tackle at a Hackathon during November 18th to 20th 2014 in the Agricultural Information Institute (AII) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). The event, sponsored by GFAR, CIARD and FAO, was co-hosted by YPARD Asia.
It was the first time China hosted a Hackathon for agricultural open data. The event represented a great platform for Chinese young professionals not only to follow the world trend and show their competence, but also to promote cooperation in information management between all the international organizations in the agricultural field.
In this competition, talents of agriculture studies, information management and software development worked together, utilizing open databases home and abroad to develop their products which associate and integrate all kinds of open data. They tapped the potential for open data, innovated the application model, and promoted data integration and sharing.
The panel of judges included: Dr. Ajit Maru, GFAR senior officer; Prof. Wang Jingguang, dean of the School of Information of the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE); Dr. Liu Jifang, AII Party secretary; Dr. Meng Xianxue, AII deputy director; and Dr. Zhang Xuefu, director of Knowledge Engineering Group.
The finalists were six groups of seventeen seasoned programmers and agriculture researchers. They were from CUFE, China Agricultural University (CAU), Beijing Information Science and Technology University (BISTU), Huzhou University, CAAS and Nogetek Co.,Ltd. Their final presentations showcased their innovative design and cutting-edge technology and won a round of applause.
After judges' heated discussion and debate, the three-day Hackathon concluded with "E-farmers" as winner. The team members are Guo Leifeng, Ph.D. student at AII CAAS, Liu Jianguang, app developer of fang.com, and Shen Yulin, graduate student at BISTU. The three developed an app which associated and integrated open data on the vegetable industry chain. Using this app, farmers can easily get access to information which includes recommendation of vegetable variety, agricultural resources, planting, price and sales, etc.
Based on the agricultural value chain theory and information flow, "E-farmers" set up the model of information flow convergence. They first applied open data into the whole vegetable industry chain including production, processing, delivery, storage and retail. They also planned to promote this user-friendly app amongst farmers. The winner won 3,000 RMB prize and the opportunity to be sponsored to join the next open data event that will be held in February 2015 at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
Dr. Ajit Maru delivered the closing speech, congratulating all the participants for their superb performance as well as for the success of the Hackathon, considering the different issues faced by the competitors. He provided both participants and researchers with two advices. First, setting the standard is of highly importance in data service and sharing. Second, pooling the talent of IT professionals and agricultural researchers can better translate the innovative ideas into reality.
Dr. Meng Xianxue expressed his thanks to GFAR for supporting the event and encouraged Chinese young professionals to take this Hackathon as an opportunity to "shine on the international stage."


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Powering What's Next with a Modern, Agile, and Integrated Approach to Risk
A crisis like COVID-19 changes everything. It creates uncertainty in markets, stretches healthcare systems, disrupts global supply chains, and unsettles work environments. It also impacts many parts of the global economy, leaving organizations confronting huge losses. Risk and technology executives, in partnership with CEOs and boards of directors, have a critical role to play in managing such crises. Their efforts can position organizations to not only survive the storm, but also adapt and thrive.
When the crisis first began, risk teams and their business counterparts sprung into "react" mode. Their focus was on managing the immediate impact of the event, while also identifying whom the crisis affected, and which operating regions were most vulnerable. Once the dust settled, they began to learn how to adapt. They conducted deeper risk assessments to gain a more holistic picture of the risks of the pandemic and their impact on other business risks. They also began testing for a range of crisis scenarios, and developed risk mitigation measures accordingly. But now, many months down the line, organizational priorities are shifting. The focus is on the future and how enterprises can evolve to drive success and growth. With that in mind, here are the two phases that we believe lie ahead.
Agility, Performance, Resilience
Organizations will emerge from the crisis in different ways. The best will arguably find a way to become more antifragile i.e., prepared to handle the unknown. Meanwhile, the perception of risk will change. Integrated risk management (IRM) programs will broaden to incorporate a "peripheral" vision of data i.e., information on transactions, customers, geopolitics, third parties, and other themes that weren't originally a part of traditional risk analyses. Organizations will also gear up for fast-changing, high-velocity risks. More second line processes will be being automated, while the front line will take on a bigger role in identifying, assessing, and predicting risks.
The silver lining of any crisis is the new insights that emerge to transform organizations for stronger performance. In the wake of COVID-19, risk management programs will become much more closely aligned to resilience and strategic objectives, so that businesses will be better prepared to respond quickly to the next crisis. Meanwhile, as risk insights improve, so also will the speed and quality of decision-making. Risk management will increasingly power performance and strategy. "Predict to prevent" will become the new mantra as organizations leverage AI and other emerging technologies to proactively anticipate and respond to emerging risks. Finally, performance with integrity will matter more than ever. The emphasis will be on rebuilding customer trust, not just through ethics or social purpose, but also through better resilience and better risk management.
Powering Through a Crisis
At some point, crises end, and their impact recedes. In the wake of COVID-19, economic activity has resumed, and businesses are beginning to recover. But the world isn't the same. Consumer behavior has changed. Digital transformation and innovation have become more of a priority than ever. New business models, products, and services are emerging.
We're also seeing shifts in risk management. The global pandemic has been an eye-opener into what can happen when organizations aren't prepared for new, emerging risks. Going forward, leadership teams and boards will rely even more on their IRM and GRC functions to effectively manage the risks and opportunities ahead.
With that in mind, here are 5 key steps that GRC functions and business leaders can take to build stronger, better businesses that are agile enough to withstand future crises:
Develop a Peripheral View of Risks
Why were so many organizations caught off-guard by COVID-19? Was it because they were so focused on the risks right in front of them, that they failed to notice the big risk coming out of the left field?
We don't have all the answers yet. But what we do know from customer conversations is that the perception of risks is changing. No longer will organizations focus only on the most obvious risks. Instead, they will increasingly incorporate a "peripheral" view of risk data by paying more attention to non-traditional risk factors such as biological hazards, climate change, geopolitics, and transactional data.
Internal risk data will be combined with external signals such as feeds from regulatory authorities, international bodies, and local news agencies. The idea will be to create a rich pool of insights that risk officers can use to connect the dots, uncover patterns, and predict emerging risks.
At the center of these efforts will be the GRC hub i.e., a central, cloud-based console of risk intelligence. The hub will bring in data from numerous internal and external sources to offer organizations a truly 360-degree, real-time picture of their risk environment.
The result? Better risk insights for better business decisions.
Build an Antifragile Business
Organizations emerge from a crisis in different ways. Some are unsure about the future. Others focus on building their resilience i.e., the ability to withstand future shocks. But still, others find a way to become antifragile i.e., better prepared to handle the unknown.
There's a thin line between resilience and antifragility. While the resilient business resists shocks but stays the same, the antifragile business gets better. So how does one become more antifragile?
One way is to remove risk silos. Most organizations categorize their risks into various buckets, be it financial risk, operational risk, or market risk. That's fine from an efficiency perspective. But when these silos are so rigid that teams aren't able to see how various risks impact and influence each other, it leaves the organization vulnerable to a cascading risk effect. Eliminating this issue requires that business leaders look at risks in a much more integrated manner.
Another way to become more antifragile is to structure the organization with backups, strong business continuity plans, and other mechanisms, so that even when critical units go down, the organization can continue to function as a whole.
Ultimately, it's about being prepared. We can't always predict every single risk, but we can be ready to ride it out. As Michael Rasmussen, GRC Pundit at GRC 20/20 Research, pointed out at the recent GRC Summit, being unprepared for a risk like COVID-19 doesn't make it a black swan event – it just points to a lack of preparedness.
Gear Up for High-velocity Risks
Risks are hitting organizations faster than ever. It's no longer enough to assess these risks once a year or even once a quarter. Continuous risk monitoring and auditing are imperative. Leadership teams need real-time and forward-looking insights rather than retrospective information for decision-making.
At the GRC Summit, Cadambi Janardhan, EVP of Transformation, Risk and Operations LFI at Mastercard, observed that traditional risk management was about looking at past risk events, and determining how they would impact the future. However, the new risk paradigm is about looking at future risk events and determining how organizations can prepare for them in the present.
How does one do this? It all boils down to data. The volume, variety, and velocity of data today is truly astonishing. With AI and analytics, risk officers can swiftly consolidate, compare, cross-reference, and dive deep into that data to unearth risk patterns, potential issues, control weakness, and opportunities—all of which enable businesses to stay one step of risks.
In the future, the speed of decision-making will be a key competitive differentiator. Those organizations that have predictive, real-time risk assessments embedded into their strategic decision-making processes will stand to gain.
Rethink Priorities Across Business Lines
The need for dynamic and real-time risk assessments has blurred the barriers between each line of defense. No longer is it important to have neatly defined roles and responsibilities for each line. The more important question is whether or not all of them are working together to catalyze business performance. Are they combining their collective strengths to drive business growth? And are they doing all this fast enough?
Today, leadership teams need to respond quickly to risks like a cyberattack or a global pandemic. They can't wait for data to be manually consolidated and reported up through each line of defense. As a result, we're likely to see more focus on automation – especially in the second and third lines.
Already, one of our financial services customers is automating controls to reduce human intervention and error. Financial statements are being automatically populated. AI is being leveraged to review new legislation, and to highlight key areas for implementation. This trend will only increase as organizations seek to accelerate risk reporting.
Meanwhile, the front line will take on a bigger role in identifying, assessing, and predicting risks. AI chatbots will carry out simple, natural conversations with them to automatically capture frontline observations on risks and issues. These insights will enable business leaders to stay updated in real time on the new risks that are emerging.
Focus on Value
The COVID-19 lockdown has forced many of us to ask ourselves what we really need to live comfortably. And the answer most often is – not too much. We're finding ways to make do with less. And businesses too are doing the same.
With demand slowing down since COVID-19 hit, many organizations are slashing expenses. They're questioning areas of spend and cutting down on "nice-to-haves," choosing to focus instead on the investments that will truly generate value in both the short and long term.
Among those investments is digital. Many of the businesses that rode out the pandemic were those that used the full potential of the cloud, mobility, and automation. Going forward, more organizations will accelerate digital transformation and innovation even in GRC. Robotic process automation, AI, machine learning, and other digital tools will increasingly be deployed to strengthen resilience and agility against future crises.
Every adversity brings new opportunities. How will we find ways to catalyze business performance and growth in the wake of a crisis?
Thriving With Integrity at the Core
In many ways, a crisis like the pandemic can be brutal. But it also compels our organizations to adapt quickly, to pivot, to innovate, and to build our agility and resilience like never before. We gain new insights to transform our businesses for better performance. And that's the silver lining.
Underlying it all is the awareness that to succeed, we need to stay one step ahead of risks. Apart from COVID-19, we're also looking at the threat of a recession, coupled with risks from geopolitical events like Brexit, ongoing cyber-attacks, and catastrophic natural disasters.
How can businesses thrive and catalyze performance in this risky world? Here are a few key steps.
Align Risk Management to Performance
COVID-19 revealed just how under-prepared many organizations were for disruption. When the crisis hit, they were faced with operational and financial challenges that they hadn't anticipated. Financial performance had been so much in focus that risk management and resilience had taken a backseat.
Not anymore. Risk management will play a key role in driving and guiding business performance in the future. Decision-making processes will include a rigorous assessment of risks. Risk findings and metrics will be aligned much more closely to resilience and strategic objectives, so that when the next crisis comes, organizations will be better prepared to respond and pivot quickly.
At the GRC Summit, Mastercard CEO, Ajay Banga talked about thoughtful risk management. He observed that we shouldn't be trying to bring risk down to zero. Instead, we should be finding the right spot on the risk-reward spectrum where we can manage the right risk-reward arbitrage.
Thoughtful risk management will be especially important in dealing with the changes in business models that we're likely to see post COVID-19. Some companies may shift to a permanent remote working model. Others may replace physical customer interactions with virtual or self-service options. Most will accelerate digital transformation to drive their business forward.
With these shifts will come new risks and regulations. To manage them effectively, companies will need strong risk and control foundations with streamlined workflows, consistent risk taxonomies, and integrated risk visibility. As risk management becomes more deeply embedded into business processes and strategies, it will enable a more nuanced, thoughtful, and sustainable approach to business growth.
Predict to Prevent
COVID-19 has taught us that we cannot afford to wait till it's too late to identify and respond to a crisis. "Predict to prevent" will be the new mantra.
During the recent GRC Summit, several discussions focussed on the importance of being better prepared for future crises like a major cybersecurity attack. Why businesses must start asking the hard questions, assigning probabilities of occurrence to potential crisis events, testing continuity plans periodically, doing table-top exercises, and more. Effective planning and exercising ahead of time will definitely mitigate impact.
To proactively anticipate and mitigate emerging risks, business leaders will increasingly leverage AI and other emerging technologies. Advanced analytics will be used to filter through mountains of data and uncover risk insights for decision-making. AI engines will automatically scour internal data and external feeds to identify potential risk trends. Natural language processing tools will correlate data from thousands of issues and identify the best mitigation strategies.
Meanwhile, continuous auditing and risk monitoring, enabled by robotic process automation, will make it easier to detect anomalies. Stress testing will be accelerated to help risk teams proactively define action plans and early risk indicators.
Uncertainty and disruption may continue to dog businesses. But with comprehensive, forward-looking risk intelligence, organizations can be better prepared to land on their feet despite a crisis.
Put Integrity Front and Center
At the GRC Summit, Robert Chesnut, Chief Ethics Officer at Airbnb, pointed out that a crisis reveals a company's character. COVID-19 certainly has.
Companies around the world have rallied together to give back to their communities—be it by donating free sanitizers and personal protective equipment to healthcare workers, or by supporting local small businesses, or even by hiring laid-off workers.
It's heartening to see these examples of integrity in practice. But integrity goes beyond corporate values, social responsibility, purpose, and ethics. It's also about culture, resilience, good governance, and effective risk management—all qualities that will continue to be important beyond COVID-19.
Customers will increasingly want to know: Are businesses publishing information that is reliable? Are they ensuring that customer data is well-protected especially as workforces become more distributed and remote? Are they being transparent with their employees, partners, vendors, investors, and shareholders? How are they building their organization's resilience to future shocks?
Ultimately, integrity is about trust. Businesses that put integrity at their core will have stronger reputations, greater customer loyalty, and better performance.
The pandemic will eventually be behind us. And the hope is that we will emerge wiser, if not stronger, and more equipped to deal with future crises. How we use the lessons and opportunities from this time will define the success of our businesses in the years to come. Robust GRC and IRM programs will make all the difference to our ability to survive and emerge stronger to power what's next.
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Advocates: Investments in mental health consultation needed
April 30, Wisconsin Health News
Infant mental health advocates are asking lawmakers to invest in having mental health providers team up with preschool and child care workers.
Lana Nenide, executive director of Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health, told members of the Wisconsin Legislative Children's Caucus last week that an estimated 9.5 to 14.2 percent of children under age five experience an emotional or behavioral disturbance.
Those disturbances can lead to pre-school expulsion, and those expelled have an eight times higher rate of later being incarcerated. "We have ways to stop that," Nenide said during a caucus meeting last week.
One way is by having mental health providers work with teachers and staff to support emotional development. Teachers with the support often report 50 percent fewer expulsions, according to Ashley Bowers, clinical coordinator for the alliance.
"We're talking about children whose behaviors are often linked with traumas they may have experienced," she said. "We're able to do it in a much more effective and evidence-based way that has a ripple effect that saves us money long term."
Bowers said that policymakers should support healthy infant courts, which put infants at the center of the court process.
She also said the state could build capacity for consultation across care systems. Having it billable through Medicaid could help too.
"We need to invest because we know it's going to cost us more later on," she said. "We need to invest because we know it's effective."


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Влади́мир Никола́евич Дени́сов () — советский, российский токарь; Герой Социалистического Труда (1984).

Биография
Родился 21 марта 1944 года в селе Ташла в семье рабочего. С 14 лет работал учеником токаря на авиационном заводе, затем — токарем 3 разряда на заводе «Узбексельмаш» (Ташкент); одновременно учился в вечерней школе. С 1961 года — токарь на Оренбургском машиностроительном заводе.

Срочную службу в Советской армии проходил на полигоне Байконур (1963—1965).

С 1965 года работал на Оренбургском машиностроительном заводе (токарем, токарем-универсалом высшей категории; с 1981 — бригадиром).

В 1984 году В. Н. Денисову было присвоено звание Героя Социалистического Труда с вручением ордена Ленина и золотой медали «Серп и Молот».

С 2013 года являлся членом Совета старейшин при губернаторе Оренбургской области.

Умер в Оренбурге 7 марта 2020 года.

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 орден Трудового Красного Знамени (5.6.1978)
 Герой Социалистического Труда (орден Ленина и золотая медаль «Серп и Молот»; 26.12.1984) — за проявленную трудовую доблесть и достижение выдающихся успехов в выполнении заданий пятилетки и социалистических обязательств
 медали, в том числе «За трудовую доблесть» (26.4.1971).

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 Россовский В. П.,  Денисов Владимир Николаевич, Герои Труда: Биографический справочник. — Калуга: Золотая аллея, 1999. — 256 с.

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It's good news from Beverly Hills, for a change.
Several sources — including Better Bike's Mark Elliot and the city's mayor — tweeted late last night that the city council voted unanimously to install bike lanes on Santa Monica Blvd as part of the current reconstruction of the iconic street.
Credit Elliot, who never gave up on the seemingly lost cause, despite years of rejection from the city.
Maybe it's time to stop calling it the Biking Black Hole of Beverly Hills.
Or maybe we should wait until there's paint on the ground, just to be safe.
Update: Mark Elliot has written his story on the approval — including the news that the council voted to make the lanes hi-viz, which will piss off the film industry. Meanwhile, Joni Yung reported live from the meeting on Facebook.
Thanks to Joni for the heads-up.
Once again, a heartless coward has fled the scene after hitting a bike rider, leaving his victim writhing in pain.
KCAL-9 reports Michael Starr was not seriously injured in the crash caught on security camera on Alvarado Street near Sunset Blvd in Echo Park early Friday morning.
But Starr had no way of knowing that at the time. And neither did the driver who hit him.
The suspect is described as being about 30 years old, with olive skin and a dark goatee. His car appeared to be a 5 or 7 Series BMW with a license plate starting with WXP.
People for Bikes unveils their new Bike Days of Summer campaign to get people out on their bikes, with one day each month dedicated to a specific theme.
Although we already missed the first one.
Besides, they'll have a hard time topping this bike safety jam.
Caught on video: A Mexico City cyclist goes on a hair-raising ride to rescue a runaway dog and return it to its owner.
Federal prosecutors lay out why they're picking on Lance Armstrong in their $100 million lawsuit, even though he wasn't the only one on the US Postal team who doped. Odds are team leaders knew exactly what was going on, as well. But Lance makes a convenient, and high profile, scapegoat.
Meanwhile, Lance's lawyers want Greg LeMond and Betsy Andreau to be prevented from testifying, and USADA decision than detailed his doping regimen barred from evidence.
Britain's Cyclist magazine takes a look inside RAAM, calling it the toughest ultra-endurance race of all.
The Orange County Register reports on the June 11th Ladera Ranch Gran Prix, just a tad late.
VeloNews says LA's own 24-year old cyclist Coryn Rivera is just getting started, despite 71 national titles.
Improvements are finally coming to the Ballona Creek bike path, which will be under construction — but not closed — for the next three weeks between Sepulveda and Lincoln Blvds.
An LA company is introducing a new e-cargo bike on Kickstarter; right now, you can pre-order yours for the low, low price of just $2,799.
The LA Times reviews Blood Road, the documentary about champion cyclist Rebecca Rusch's bike tour along the Ho Chi Minh Trail to visit the remote site where her father died in the Vietnam War.
Caught on video: Someone broke a window at Burbank's H&S bike shop, stealing a pair of Rocky Mountain bikes worth around $4,000 apiece; two other bikes have been stolen from them in recent weeks.
South Pasadena will hold the groundbreaking for the Arroyo Seco Pedestrian and Bicycle Trail this Saturday. Thanks to Megan Lynch for the tip.
Bike SGV discovers the first signs of incipient bikeshare coming to Pasadena.
The Malibu city council hears the recommendations of the PCH parking study, which really addresses safety on the deadly roadway through the lens of improving parking. However, no word on what they intend to do as a result.
Skip the traffic and ride your bike to Santa Monica's Twilight Concerts on the Pier, and take advantage of the bike valet. The same goes for this weekend's inaugural Arroyo Seco Weekend at the Rose Bowl.
Streetsblog talks with Caltrans Sustainability Director Ellen Greenberg about changes in the state transportation agency.
Fullerton announces plans to create a two-mile bike boulevard along Wilshire Blvd, to be completed late next year. LA's bike plan calls for a network of Bicycle Friendly Streets as the city calls them, exactly zero of which have been built. And probably won't.
Once again, a dangerous driver manages to stay on the road until it's too late, as a Menifee bike rider suffered severe, but not life-threatening, injuries when he was hit by an alleged drunk driver with a suspended license and history of DUIs.
If you were planning on mountain biking in Hemet's Simpson Park any time soon, you might want to change your plans; it's closed for the foreseeable future due to fire danger.
Bixby the Dog received the "bone to the city" in San Luis Obispo Tuesday; the rescue dog had been traveling the country by ebike with his owner to promote animal rescue until stopping in SLO to have some malignant growths removed.
An Alaska teenager competing in a mountain bike 5K trail race was killed by a black bear in a rare predatory attack after he veered off the trail and got lost; he had called his brother to say he was being chased by the bear. Despite what this story says, he was actually competing in a running race, not on a mountain bike. Which doesn't make it any less tragic. Thanks to Mark for the correction.
Detroit hopes new bicycling infrastructure can help reverse an increase in deaths and serious injuries.
The murder of a young Muslim woman in Virginia wasn't a hate crime, unless hatred of people walking and on bikes qualifies; the teenager was part of a group that got into a dispute with the road raging driver, who hit her with a baseball bat, then dumped her body in a pond. There's not a pit in hell deep enough for the murderous jerk who killed her. Thanks once again to Megan Lynch.
David Suzuki writes that two centuries after their invention, bicycles are still the most efficient and beneficial form of transportation we have.
A city in the Netherlands installs a 3D-printed concrete bike and pedestrian bridge at virtually no cost by using recycled materials along with the 3D-printing.
A German politician parks his cargo bike in the middle of a traffic lane to pop into a bakery to protest drivers who use the same excuse to park in a bike lane.
Hit-and-run is not just an American phenomenon. An Iraqi cyclist was the victim of a speeding driver who fled the scene after fatally striking him.
An Australian TV network looks at the partnership between the country's Deacon University and America's only remaining Tour de France winner to dramatically cut the cost of producing carbon fiber for a wide range of applications.
The competition among China's dockless bikeshare companies claimed its first victim after 90% of the company's bike were lost or stolen because, unlike its competitors, it neglected to install GPS on them.
Bicycle touring is seldom boring, but now it's a board game. Also not boring, your very own bicycle wall of death.
And you can see all kinds of things when you ride a bike. Like Irish people schtupping, for instance.
Yesterday we had a guest post by Better Bike's Mark Elliot discussing the return of the never-ending debate over bike lanes on Santa Monica Blvd, which is back for discussion before the Beverly Hills City Council at 7 pm tonight.
Stephen Collins wrote to the mayor and city council in response, urging them to approve the desperately needed lanes, which is the missing link between existing lanes in West Hollywood and Century City. He agreed to let me share his letter with you.
I write to urge your strong support of Bicycle Lanes on Santa Monica Blvd. I ride this route regularly, and there is a stark contrast between the safe, relaxed, and predictable riding I am able to do on this same street through nearby West Hollywood, and the dangerous, nerve-racking, and unpredictable riding I must choose if I stay my path into Beverly Hills.
A popular website for cyclists called Strava publishes an aggregate map of where their users ride. I would like to draw your attention to how important Santa Monica Blvd. is to the region in the image below, where I've approximately circled the segment through Beverly Hills.
Brighter lines indicate higher utilization. As you can clearly see, this is the most important East/West route for bicyclists North of the 10 Freeway. It's utilization is on par with streets like Venice Blvd (complete bike lanes, with recent safety improvements in Mar Vista), San Vicente Blvd (complete bike lanes), Sunset Blvd through Echo Park/Silverlake (complete bike lanes) and even the Ballona Creek Bicycle Path, which is car-free. This is the most important stretch of road in the whole area which does not have complete bike lanes. You should have no worries that an investment in safe multi-modal transit for the future of Santa Monica Blvd will be underutilized.
If you haven't, I would also encourage you to take a single short ride along this segment of road one weekday morning or afternoon, in either direction. Cars and buses move swiftly in open sections of road, and completely jam forward progress when traffic gridlocks. Neither of these are nearly such a concern to cyclists in neighboring communities on this route.
The wide, green lanes in WeHo are a delight, but even the striped lanes on the other side through Century City are leaps and bounds more safe and comfortable to ride than the section through Beverly Hills.
This is a very important bicycle thoroughfare for the region, and Beverly Hills has an opportunity to step up to or even exceed the standards in safety and environmental consciousness set by its neighbors on the same road. It can also be used to encourage cyclists to visit your business district, and to allow community members safer access to their favorite shops in town.
Thanks for your consideration of this matter. I am sorry I am unable to attend your meeting tomorrow – thus my note.
If you'd like to voice your support, you can attend attend the meeting at 7 pm in the council chambers at Beverly Hills City Hall, 455 N. Rexford Drive. If you can't make it, email your support to mailto:[email protected], and indicate whether you are a resident or work there.
Don't miss yesterday's great guest post by Better Bike's Mark Elliot about the return of the never-ending debate over bike lanes on Santa Monica Blvd through Beverly Hills. After being rejected several times in recent years, they will be back before the Beverly Hills City Council at 7 pm tonight.
The anti-bike NIMBYs will undoubtedly be out in force once again. So turn out in person if you can; if not, email to voice your support for a desperately needed safe route through the city.
Here are the vital details from Elliot's post.
Help us support bicycle lanes for Santa Monica Boulevard!
Please contact City Council by email with your support for high-visibility bicycle lanes. Reach Council at [email protected] Your short statement should indicate whether you are a resident and/or if you work here. Those are important considerations for any councilmember.
Plan to attend the meting on Tuesday, June 20th in Council Chambers, City Hall, 455 N. Rexford Drive. The curtain will rise at 7 p.m. and the main act should hit the stage at 7:45 or so (please refer to the agenda).
A British survey confirms that many disabled people use bicycles as a mobility aid, finding that traveling by bike is easier on them and healthier than other means.
Yet they are frequently required to dismount and walk their bikes, despite using them in the same way someone might use a wheelchair or mobility scooter.
Which is something else to consider in bike-unfriendly Los Angeles, where the city's disconnected bike non-network could raise issues of compliance with the ADA (American's with Disabilities Act), if it prevents people with physical mobility issues from using their bikes to get around.
A Canadian cyclist got pulled over by a cop, not because he was speeding on a descent, which he was. But because he was doing it in the traffic lane, which forced drivers who wanted to zoom even faster above the speed limit to change lanes to pass him.
Go ahead and think about that one for awhile.
Italian cyclist Gianni Moscon is back to racing after a six-week suspension for making an alleged racist comment to another rider, which he kind of denies.
Hundreds of cyclists have competed in RAAM. But how many have done it without any legs? Then again, racing with one arm and a bum leg isn't exactly easy, either.
The 25th annual Yukon to Alaska Kluane-Chilkat International Bike Relay will have to wait a year, after the race was cancelled due to a very late spring snow storm — except for the unicyclists, who decided to ride it anyway. And no, you won't be getting your money back.
Transportation planner and UCLA faculty member Ryan Snyder says LA must be a bikeable city in order to be a world class city.
Apparently, Elon Musk thinks you're going to want to walk or bike through his underground tunnels.
LA designer Phillip Lim was inspired to get into the movie business while on a bike ride along New York's East river with a director friend.
CiclaValley explores the eastern portion of Angeles Crest Highway.
Santa Monica Spoke is hosting a community ride with the mayor of Santa Monica this Sunday.
Bicycling injuries have dropped for children and teens in California, while more bike riders over 55 are suffering injuries serious enough to visit the ER. The most obvious explanation is that fewer children and teens are riding bikes, while more people over 55 have taken up recreational riding.
A transient bicyclist was injured when he was hit by a car in Anaheim while ghost riding a second bicycle. Let's hope police checked the ownership of the second bike; ghost riding is a common way to transport a freshly stolen bicycle.
People continue to be attacked by rock-throwing residents of homeless camps, for no apparent reason, along a popular bike path on the American River in Sacramento; one rider was seriously injured last week.
A mobile bike co-op helps keep Ukiah bicyclists on the road.
A pro skier is spending her summer selling homemade gourmet popsicles by bicycle in Lake Tahoe.
Deadspin offers a comprehensive guide to riding your bike, saying buy a goddam helmet and don't buy that fixie; thanks to Mike Wilkinson for the link. Meanwhile, Bicycling explains everything you need to know about ebikes.
A Texas writer says yes, bicyclists have to obey the law, too. But we bear the brunt of collisions when drivers don't.
After an Arkansas teenager set up a lemonade stand to try earn money for a bicycle, kindhearted strangers gave him two bikes, and bought more lemonade than he could make.
Austin TX residents have started a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for the Spanish-speaking bike rider who was shot in the face with a shotgun by a man who said he was just blowing off steam.
A writer for the New York Post seems to think she's the victim after people take offense at her tweet that she's nearly been run down by cars twice and by bikes 3,763,459 times, and that we should be grateful that the city has been transformed for bike riders. Maybe she could try looking up before she steps off the curb next time.
A New Jersey man gets 35 years for killing a bike-riding man who got caught in the crossfire of a shootout near his home. Now if they'd just take it that seriously when people use their cars as weapons.
A Philly writer takes offense when two cops refer to bicyclists as "hood ornaments" on Facebook. Although it's more offensive that police officials didn't.
In a report that should surprise no one, a Canadian newspaper concludes that drivers usually receive nothing more than a fine for hitting a bike rider. Which makes Canada pretty much like just about everywhere else.
After 14 months of sobriety, a Canadian man is riding over 5,100 miles across the country to raise awareness of addiction.
I want to be like him when I grow up. An 85-year old Quebec man is still riding 25 miles a day, and says crashing is just part of the sport. Except for the crashing part, that is.
A Montreal cyclist survives by hiding in a small hole after encountering a tornado on his ride.
Lululemon is getting into the "small" bicycling market by investing in a Canadian bikewear maker.
Bike riders in Canada's Maritime Provinces call for more to be done to protect people on bicycles.
London's new walking and cycling czar lays out plans for the future of bicycling in the city; the city's new cycle superhighways and quietways have boosted bicycling rates 56%.
Britain's Cyclist magazine takes a tour of Fausto Pinarello's personal bicycle collection.
The Italian soccer coach who promised his team he'd ride across the country if they avoided relegation to a lower league finishes his 800-mile journey in nine days.
Caught on video: A bike-raging Aussie cyclist lashes out at a woman driver after she pulls out of a parking space into his path, apparently without looking. Seriously, don't throw a temper tantrum like that. And if you do, don't be stupid enough to post it online.
A new survey says more women in Canberra, Australia are riding bikes — including BMX bikes. However, the opposite is true in the country's New South Wales state, where cycling rates are dropping, especially among women. Which couldn't possibly have anything to do with NSW's draconian fines for cycling violations that went into effect last year.
No, Fox News host Sean Hannity was not killed in a bike crash — and didn't fake it to catch a terrorist, either. Hold your horses on getting that poop transplant.
And don't chase bike riders in your creepy clown suit.


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Followed the recipe to the T and the Body Butter is absolutely amazing! Thank you for sharing, I am absolutely obsessed!
Hello, I followed your recipe but I used $100% argan oil and unrefined shea butter. For some reason my body butter whipped up nicely but it didn't take it long to melt. Any advice?
Try adding either more shea or just a bit of beeswax to solidify it a bit.
I mixed shae butter with cocoa butter pellets, i used a teaspoon of 3 diff. Carrier oils whipped and melted 7 times according to recipes . I had to leave so put saled lid on pyrex bowl and came home it was hard as a rock. Had to start all over with teaspoon of oils instead. Does added carrier oils harden the butter. This one is better but still not as soft as should be.
Hi so I made my body butter using coconut oil and coco butter and it keeps getting hard on me! What can I do to stop this?
Aside from coconut oil, I also added a little bit of carrot oil. Hope i have not messed up the butter?
This recipe sounds wonderful! A lot of folks are commenting on how hard the finished product is afterward. I was wondering if you can use fractionated coconut oil instead? Would that make it more lotion-y and less firm? I've never made a butter before, so I'm curious! Thanks!
I made this today: it's divine! I love that this recipe is vegan and all natural, and I might even make this a Christmas present. It does take a while for the skin to absorb the butter, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with lazying around in your bathing rope in the meantime. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe!
Wonderful! I love this recipe.
Thank you so very, very much for your kindness on sharing your brilliant recipes with all of us!
You make it so easy and simple but at the same time it's so healthy that makes anyone do it.
I find I get tiny, stone like lumps through the butter. I usually only notice it the day after when I apply it. It's not s huge problem, but it doesn't look as nice. Do you know what might cause this?
Hi, I live in the Caribbean so its hot alot all of the time and inside is even hotter. I made a recipe from another site, it was 5 tablespoons of Shea butter, 2 tablespoons Rice barn oil( the recipe called for another type of oil, but this is the one I had, and essential oil. It whipped beautifully, the texture was amazing and smelled yummy (strawberry oil). But then after a couple of hours it became stiff, it melted instantly when applied but it lost that wonder whipped texture and look. I am going to try your recipe this week end and would let you know how it turns out. I am absolutely looking for consistency in keeping the whipped look and feel.
I made the recipe 60/40 as suggested but it's as hard as a brick and unuseable. Any suggestions to make it more user friendly?
Hi Deb! You can always gently remelt the body butter and add more oil to thin out the consistency. The recipe was developed in a very hot country, so the higher ratio of hard butter, hold the butter together in very hot weather. When we're using only butters and oils – so beeswax – you may find that our environment makes a big difference, where the product can harden or melt. Keep playing, it's not a mistake, its just learning what will work best for you!
Do all body butters have a shelf life of about 3 months?
Hi Manu! They can actually last well up to 6 months to 1 year – I tend to try to use up my homemade products within 3 months, so it's fresh and I'm not worried about contamination.
Thank you so much for this article. Actually, this article is so attractive for all. Body lotion are most important for body skin care. I think this article is better than another article.
Was wondering if we can add any scented oils such as lavender lemon citronella?
Can I use olive oil instead?
Hi! I stay in a hot country but inside its all very cold (air conditioner) so do i need to tweak the recipe? Also instead of freezing butter after melting, why are we not letting it cool naturally?
Hi! Does this recipe fit a 100g container? Hoping for a response. Thanks!
Where did you purchase ypur bain-marie?
Well, I don't know where I went wrong because I followed the recipe to a "T". Whipped up fantastic, immediately put it into 2 jars and screwed the lids on tight…. and now its hard again and I can's scoop it out to use it. The little that was left in the bowl also hardened (it's been a couple hours) and I had to remelt it a tad to use it. Now I'm sitting here smelling like cocoa butter and shiny and slippery to the point I had to use a paper towel to wipe it off and I'm STILL all greasy. Also, cleaning up the tools used to create product were a pain and a half to get cleaned up. I used Organic Raw Cocoa Butter and Organic Coconut Oil.
Hi Michelle! I totally hear you on the clean-up! That's just part of the process of making. Hot water and soap does the job nicely though! If it came out too hard, it' often down to outside temperature. I lived somewhere incredibly hot and humid, so the extra hard-butter held the product together. You can play with the ratio, add more oil than butter to create a softer consistency.
It's a rich product. Use a little – it goes a long long way. I hope you're not discouraged from trying again, because when it comes together – it's beautiful and lush and makes your skin feel incredible. But either way thanks for sharing your experience!
do you often add scented oils to this?
I. I did. I put a little camomile oil into it and it smells wonderful! I also used infused coconut oil and made my jars medicated.
Are you able to add scents to this?


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NeuroIS studies comprise conceptual and empirical works, as well a theoretical and design science research. It includes research based on all types of neuroscience and physiological methods. Contributions may address the following topics, among others:
» Employment of neurophysiological tools to study IS phenomena (e.g., technology adoption, mental workload, website design, flow, virtual worlds, emotions and human-computer interaction, e-commerce, biofeedback, social networks, information behavior, trust, IT security, usability, avatars, music and user interfaces, multitasking, memory, attention, IS design science, risk, knowledge processes, business process modelling, ERP systems)
» Application of psychophysiological approaches to study technostress, information overload, and IT addiction
» Identification of the neural correlates of IS constructs based on neuroscience methods
» Neuroadaptive systems and software prototypes of NeuroIS applications, which use biosignals (e.g., EEG, skin conductance, pupil dilation) as system input
» Discussion of methodological and ethical issues and evaluation of the status of the NeuroIS field
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer (Series: Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation), and hence all accepted papers will be available online through the SpringerLink Digital Library, readily accessible by all subscribing libraries around the world, and will be indexed by a number of corresponding services (e.g., Scopus). The complete Call for Papers can be found here: http://www.neurois.org/call-for-papers/
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An ice-cream float is the quintessential summertime treat in the good ol' U.S. of A. To enjoy one is to experience a bit of nostalgia for all things Norman Rockwell, even if you're too young to know exactly who Mr. Rockwell is. The root beer–vanilla ice cream combination is a diner staple, and I don't know anyone who doesn't enjoy the creamy, fizzy goodness that goes down with every sip.
It's easy to make one of these classics: just put two scoops of vanilla ice cream in a tall drinking glass and slowly pour about a cup of root beer on top; add a straw, and you're done. The good news is, we're not limited to the root beer–and–vanilla ice cream variety, either; any type of soda (or even beer) can be substituted for root beer, and there are more flavors of ice cream under the sun than ever before to give your float some tasty personality.
Grape Soda + Vanilla Ice Cream In the 1930s, this popular drink was called the Purple Cow. The modern version of the Purple Cow is still the same—grape soda and vanilla ice cream—though you can easily substitute a grape juice–ginger ale combination for the soda. More adventurous palates can try two scoops of raspberry ice cream or pomegranate sorbet.
Orange Soda + Vanilla Ice Cream The combination of orange soda and vanilla ice cream is nothing new. But you can mix it up by trying orange sodas other than the standard Sunkist brand. Stewart's Orange Cream, Jarritos' Mandarin Soda, San Pellegrino's Aranciata, and Trader Joe's Blood Orange Soda add delicious new twists to an old staple and will renew your fondness for this orange-creamsicle float, which is also known as an Orange Cow.
Strawberry Soda + Mango Sorbet Although this works better with mango ice cream, sorbet is probably easier to find. (Häagen-Dazs makes a mango ice cream, but it's not a popular flavor, so it's difficult to find.) Try checking out an Asian food market to see if it carries a mango-flavored ice cream. If you're not inclined to substitute mango sorbet, try vanilla ice cream and a few tablespoons of mango juice instead. San Pellegrino Limonata + Strawberry Ice Cream The trick here is to use a strawberry ice cream that doesn't have too many fruit chunks. Because the limonata isn't too tart, it adds just the right amount of tang to complement the strawberry flavor. Add a few crushed mint leaves for a refreshing taste. Mmm-mmm, good.
Ginger Beer + Vanilla Ice Cream I must confess, the idea for a ginger-beer float came to me after a long night consuming several so-called Yum-Yum cocktails (ginger beer plus chilled vodka and Rose's lime juice) at Botanica Bar in Manhattan. Ginger is one of those flavors that you either love or hate, and I happen to heart it. A lot. Top this float with a little sprinkle of ground cardamom and cinnamon, or try it with coconut ice cream and throw in some lemongrass.
Chocolate Stout Beer + Vanilla Ice Cream One evening, I was reading the back of a beer bottle and saw a recipe for a chocolate beer float. (For the life of me, I can't remember the beer—maybe it was the Sam Adams Chocolate Bock?) I tried the recipe with Young's Double Chocolate Stout and chocolate ice cream, but the flavor of the beer was lost. I can't believe that I'm saying this, but it was too much chocolate—as if there can ever be such a thing, right? Vanilla ice cream is the way to go here. Top it off with a little bit of ground cinnamon, and you have yourself quite a tasty summertime float. But make sure to guard it at all times from curious children who wonder why you're groaning loudly with pleasure.
Coffee Soda + Vanilla Ice Cream Finding this specialty soda in your area may prove difficult, but remember that the Internet is a wonderful tool. This is a coffee lover's delight. Substitute a coffee or mocha flavor for the vanilla ice cream, and you'll be awake for days on the caffeine-sugar combination.
There are endless ice-cream float combinations yet to be discovered. Carbonated beverages come in flavors from blueberry to guava. And if you can't find a fruit juice that's carbonated, you can simply add a little seltzer or ginger ale to any juice to create your own. Beers are great, too; try everything from fruity lambic beers to dark, rich stouts like Guinness. You can even use prosecco or a fruity sparkling wine. And while you have hundreds of flavors of ice cream to choose from, you can also incorporate sorbets, sherbets, and soy ice creams (for the lactose-challenged among us).
So go on and get creative with your ice-cream floats. It's easy—and oh so good.
Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Cooking Terms?


My answer to Millward Brown's perennial "needs more product" testing feedback.
Hershey's toyed with licensing PAC-MAN just long enough for us to get a halfway decent second spot underway.
Another team later made what presumably was the 'sequel' to our spot. WWI-inspired, I think? The Jerry Bruckheimer to our Mel Gibson.


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Q: how to get the data from a table primeng? I want to go through my table to see the edited records:
<p-dataTable #dtParam [value]="parameterSecurity" [immutable]="false" [(selection)]="selectParam" dataKey="parameterId" [editable]="true" (onEditInit)="cellDirty($event)">
     <p-column [style]="{'max-width':'300px'}" [editable]="true" field="parameterId" header="Parámetro"></p-column>
     <p-column [style]="{'max-width':'300px'}" [editable]="true" field="value" header="Valor"></p-column>
     <p-column [style]="{'max-width':'300px'}" [editable]="true" field="description" header="Descripción"></p-column>
</p-dataTable>

A: onEditComplete provides the column info and the row data that was edited.
From the primeng site
onEditComplete: Callback to invoke when cell edit is completed.

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*event.column: Column object of the cell

*event.data: Row data

*event.index: Row index


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The British Geriatrics Society: 'Through the visor' – new report reflecting on multidisciplinary experiences of the COVID-19 first wave
The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) has published a report from a survey of its members describing the experiences of working through the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. With respondents representing over twenty different professions working in acute, community and primary care, it is believed to be the only survey capturing the full breadth of multidisciplinary health professionals' experiences caring for older people across the four nations.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected older people with 90% of deaths from COVID occurring in those aged over 65. It should therefore come as no surprise that BGS members – geriatricians, GPs, nurses, allied health professionals, care home staff and other healthcare professionals working with older people – have been among those most involved in the treatment of people with COVID, both in hospitals and in the community.
BGS members reflected on the practical elements of managing the pandemic, including variable access to personal protective equipment (PPE) and testing for staff and patients and the confusion caused by constantly changing guidance. Concern about the impact of COVID-19 in care homes was a source of anxiety, and the implication that discharge from hospitals to care homes early in the pandemic without negative COVID tests contributed to outbreaks.
More than three quarters (77%) of respondents stated that they had had a change in their job plan or rota due to the pandemic. This took the form of increased out-of-hours work, cancellation of scheduled clinics and treating all adults as opposed to older adults only. While some volunteered for these changes, others had them imposed and it will be important to ensure that regular rotas are restored as quickly as possible. Concerns about future careers were also expressed with many trainees describing a lack of training opportunities over the past year."


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El golf en Chile es un deporte practicado mayormente en las áreas urbanas acomodadas. Su organización está a cargo de la Federación Chilena de Golf, creada en 1932, afiliada a El Real y Antiguo desde 1948, a la Federación Internacional y fue una de las fundadoras de la Federación Sudamericana en 1954. Su principal torneo es el Abierto de Chile del Circuito de la PGA Latinoamérica, realizado en la capital Santiago. Los clubes y campos destacados son el Granadilla, el Los Leones, el Mapocho, el Príncipe de Gales y el San Cristóbal. Los golfistas de élite mundial han sido Nicole Perrot (#15) y Joaquín Niemann (#15). Los principales entrenadores han sido Hugo Contreras y Eduardo Miquel. El equipo chileno masculino ha ganado siete títulos de la Copa Los Andes: en 1944, 1946, 1971, 1979, 1986, 1999 y 2012; mientras que el femenino, cuatro: en 1954, 1956, 2001 y 2010.

Historia

En el siglo XX sobresalieron los golfistas Sara García, Enrique Orellana, Guillermo Encina y Roy Mackenzie; mientras que en el siglo XXI, Nicole Perrot, Felipe Aguilar, Mark Tullo, Paz Echeverría, Benjamín Alvarado, Mito Pereira y Joaquín Niemann, el más destacado del país en la historia según los especialistas internacionales. En 1932 fue instaurada la Asociación de Golf de Chile —la antecesora de la federación nacional, establecida el 25 de mayo de 1948—, la cual creó la Copa Los Andes en 1944, el campeonato sudamericano de golf a nivel de naciones y adulto. En 1962 fue registrado el «cóndor» en Estados Unidos, hoyo de puntuación cuatro bajo par —el «emboque más valioso del golf»—, bautizado como el «ave representativa de Chile» por su tamaño. El 29 de octubre de 1969 surgió la Asociación de Jugadores Profesionales de Golf de Chile. Entre 2012 y 2015 fue desarrollado el torneo Clásico de Chile, perteneciente al Circuito Web.com de la segunda división mundial.

En 1954 Chile debutó en la Copa Mundial de Golf, fundada en 1953. En 1964 Orellana fue la primera persona chilena en participar en un Torneo Mayor —en el Torneo de Maestros de Augusta— y en 1991 Mackenzie, en el Circuito Europeo de la PGA, así como en aparecer en la Clasificación Mundial en 1992, instaurada en 1986. En 2005 Perrot fue la primera persona nacional en pasar el corte y jugar los cuatro Torneos Mayores, así como en competir y obtener algún título en el Circuito de la LPGA —en el Desafío de las Drogas Duraderas—; en 2009 Aguilar, en pasar el corte de un certamen del Circuito de la PGA —en el Abierto de Puerto Rico— y en 2018 Niemann, de un Torneo Mayor —en el Campeonato de la PGA—.

Aguilar fue el primer local en ser campeón en el Circuito Europeo —en el Abierto de Indonesia de 2008— y Niemann, en finalizar entre los diez primeros en un certamen del Circuito de la PGA —en el Abierto de Valero Texas de 2018—, en liderar alguna ronda —en el Torneo Conmemorativo de 2018—, en jugar los cuatro Torneos Mayores —en 2019—, así como en conseguir un trofeo —en el Un Homenaje Militar en La Zarzaverde de 2020—. Niemann registró el tiro de salida «swing elástico» en los años 2010 y el emboque «hoyo improbable» en The CJ Cup de 2021.

Mejor participación en los Torneos Mayores
Nota: Los jugadores representaban a Chile durante el torneo. Corresponden a resultados de Joaquín Niemann, Mito Pereira y Nicole Perrot. Los números indican el puesto final y la E significa empate entre competidores. Actualizado hasta mayo de 2022.

Visitas ilustres
De los golfistas extranjeros que han visitado Chile, son listados los que han ganado algún Torneo Mayor y el o los años que hayan jugado al menos un encuentro en el país.

Notas

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Federación Chilena de Golf


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Breakfast: getting is shape for a active day in the mountains.
Our dining room offers a breathtaking panoramic view of the beautiful mountain range and its surrounding mountains! At Host's Table you enjoy a view of the valley to 180 ° but not only that, it also delights your taste buds.
Exclusively reserved for our guests, by reservation, our Host's Table will allow you to extend the moments of sharing and conviviality. This is an opportunity to share a family meal and taste delicious products.
The dishes prepared by Annie are some great classic dishes that put the spotlight on local products and wines, but they are all festive dishes because the kitchen is always an occasion for celebration and sharing around a table .
Taking advantage of gastronomic workshops followed in the region, Annie discovered local wild herbs of the valley and of course the famous recipe of "soup with wild herbs" of Emilie Carles, an iconic figure of the High Alps. Or "the donkey's ears »; a Champsaur specialty made from wild spinach (tetragonal) the leaf of which has the shape of the ears of our four-legged friend.
A festive entrée for every day.
At our Host Table you can taste our delicious dishes, prepared with care and based on local products.
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Q: Box with tabbed navigation using semantic markup structure? I'm trying to create an info box with tabs for switching the content of the box, like this: http://www.cssnewbie.com/build-a-tabbed-box-with-css-and-jquery/
Easy peasy with some CSS and jQuery right? The problem is I'm trying to figure out a way to do it with semantic markup, so that when CSS/JS are disabled, it just shows the headings with their content in the correct order. All of the examples I've seen do something like this:

Content head 1

Content head 2

Content head 3

Blah 1.

Blah 2.

Blah 3.

which makes it pretty easy to build by separating the headings and their content, but I want to make one using this markup:

Content head 1

Blah 1.

Content head 2

Blah 2.

Content head 3

Blah 3.

so that it degrades gracefully as plain HTML, but I can't quite figure it out without using jQuery to re-arrange the markup.
Anyone know a clean way of doing this?

A: I have a clean, purecss and semantical solution for you
I use dl element instead heading elements. I think it is acceptable result.

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*basic functional demo on dabblet.com

*decoration for purecss tab interface

In my solution dl element is used for semantical tabs:

Definition lists, created using the DL element, generally consist of a series of term/definition pairs (although definition lists may have other applications). Thus, when advertising a product, one might use a definition list:

markup like this:

TAB 1

tab1 content

TAB 2

tab2 content

TAB 3

tab3 content

Visual appearance will be so:

For creating tab interface from this markup use this CSS:
#wrap, dt {
    position: absolute;
}

dl {
    overflow: hidden;
}

dt {
    bottom: 100%;
}

dd, dl {
    width: 640px;
    height: 400px;
}

#st {
    left: 92px;
}
#tt {
    left: 184px;
}

A: You can do Tabs with css only using the target pseudo class to hide divs
Target class


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Bawadi Mall, the leading shopping mall is Al Ain, has been welcoming Eid Al Adha with a grand show, bringing the international group – Orange Mood Clown that is keeping visitors entertained all throughout the festival. Infused with fun, laughter and interaction, the international group is performing live stage shows at the mall until the 24th August between 6:00 to 10:00 pm.
Orange Mood Clown is a well-known international group, which performs live stage shows and interactive acts. The group is known to entertain visitors of all ages with its humorous, yet witty performances. Entertaining the crowd with a variety of acts, the international group is entertaining audiences at Bawadi Mall with slide splitting humour.
"At Bawadi Mall, we have always been committed to provide our visitors with memorable experiences. Eid Al Adha is a time for families and friends to spend time together, and by bringing the Orange Mood Clown we wanted our visitors to indulge in laughter entertainment, as well as create great moments for everyone," said Bassam Saleh, Marketing Manager for Bawadi Mall.
Sporting shaggy orange hair and multi-coloured clothes, the international group is mingling with the mall's visitors and entertaining the audiences with scintillating performances. While the clowns are performing attention grabbing acts, the pulsating lights, high-energy music, colourful costumes and rhythmic dance moves are highlighting the show's global feel.
Each day Orange Mood Clown is performing different popular acts, which is enthralling the audiences as well as providing visitors an opportunity to pose with them for selfies in a special meet and greet opportunity.
"We wanted to offer our visitors a unique experience every season, and we are confident that the Orange Mood Clown has been living up to the expectations of our visitors with their awe-inspiring acts," concluded Bassam Saleh.
Known for its spectacular offerings, Bawadi Mall is brightening up Eid Al Adha festivities with its interactive surprises.


This week's lunch is a healthy one with my favourite Karuveppilai kuzhambu. I have been craving for some tangy kuzhambu, so thought of trying this. I got all the veggies today fresh from Little India and got a bunch of curry leaves. So immediately decided to make use in this kuzhambu. This is very healthy, everyone knows the benefits of curry leaves, its rich in Iron. Its best home remedy to slow down greying of hair. When you see your first grey hair, include curry leaves more in you every day diet and the rate of greying sure will slow down. This is the best way to include curry leaves in diet. Otherwise, if we use in tempering and other ways in our cooking, we may pick it and throw away without eating it. SO here's how I prepared today's meal.
Kept the pressure cooker with rice and dal (for kootu) separately in different vessels. Soaked the required tamarind in hot water.
Meanwhile, I cleaned the curry leaves, then keerai (spinach), peeled onion and garlic for the kuzhambu and then ladies finger, chopped everything.
Grated coconut for kootu and poriyal. By now the cooker was done. Then I extracted tamarind juice. Started cooking spinach for kootu.
As it was getting cooked, I ground for kootu and then curry leaves for kuzhambu.
Prepared kootu – this time, followed MIL method of adding only green chillies along with the keerai instead of sambar powder- it gives greeny look! Then temper kootu, temper for kuzhambu and let it boil in another stove.
Prepared poriyal as the kuzhambu getting boiled and now everything ready. I also fried some javvarisi vadam and some sundakkai vathal mom passed me.
Instead of keerai kootu you can also try other kootu and vazhakkai poriyal can also be replaced for vendakkai poriyal.
Check our Karuveppilai podi recipe if interested!
Super healthy and fantastic meal.
very nice tempting meal..i posted curry leaves chutney today..want to try the kuzhumbu with it sometime..
you rock as always raji…drooling!!!
It's look very nice. I love small bowl.
Healthy and complete meal…clicks are awesome!
wow very nice menu raks.I am going to try curryleaves kulambhu tomo for lunch.


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Bored with Polite Language: Dissidents and Reformasi
Author: Dwi Marianto
Currently in Indonesia there is a remarkable tendency to speak, write and create art works using critical, open, and sometimes vulgar language. The contemporary art scene is full of social and political intent. Describes works by Juni Wulandari, Iwan P Wijono, Toni Volunteero and Mella Jaarsma.
Who's Afraid of the Prosthetic?
Richard Grayson
Explores relationships between human participants and the machine. Describes two projects Fuzzylove Dating Data Base and The Brain Project which use their location in a technological matrix as a means of exploring inter-relationships between the user and the their sources of energy and fear, Discusses formulation of information --the computer and related technologies -- as an industry.
Jam Factory Biennial 1999
Gail Fairlamb
JamFactory, Adelaide
17 July - 29 August 1999
Decrepitude in Venice
Anna Ward
Report about the 48th Venice Biennale 1999. Discusses works by various artists as the Millennium approaches: Sergei Bugarev, Thomas Hirschorn, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Federica Thiene, Stephanie Mantovani, Dieter Roth and Louise Bourgeois. Focus on disintegration in the city of Venice.
Laughing and Killing: The Guilty Pleasures of Anime
Fiona Hann
Anime (Japanese animation) is increasingly violent and yet the Japanese level of violence is much lower than in America. Viewed as an escapist form of entertainment with female characters idealised and existing in a male fantasy land runs counter to the Wests view of feminism. This form of popular culture is a useful vehicle to examine the country's psyche.
Reconstructing Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Victoria Hynes
Visual arts in South Africa since the 1970s have played an important role in the struggle for freedom. They have chronicled the country's history of political oppression, chaos and transformation. Artworks today investigate a highly individuated sense of the political self.
Cliff Burtt
A selection of work from 1978-1998
Pinacotheca, Melbourne
2 - 26 June 1999
Red Contemporary Art Events
28 May - 30 June 1999
Lisa Harms
1 July - 8 August 1999
Nexus Gallery, Adelaide
curated by Elizabeth Fotiadis
Sorties into the City: The art of Elmer Borlongan and Emmanuel Garibay
Patrick D Flores
Explores the works of two contemporary artists of the Philipines who paint the city -- Manila -- in expressionist style, depicting narratives of survival amid inhuman conditions. Borlongan as a resident and Garibay as a commuter express their views of the city in different ways.
Disqualified Knowledges: Insight into Disturbance at Splash
Jeff Stewart
Explores the positioning of artworks made by people with a mental disability looking specifically at the arts access program --Splash Art Studio. The studio encourages the voice of the participants each attempting to articulate their own knowledge. The studio operates between the dominant voices of the psychiatric and art institutions making possible a space for people to develop their own ways of working.
The Future Breed: Creatures and Mad Science
Angela Ndalianis
Explores the links between film and computer generated games which emulate life. With the creation of artificial intelligence on the computer, complex questions of the nature of human behaviour are raised. Science fiction confronts issues of intelligence and sentience.
A Contradiction in Time: Bleak Days After Meltdown
Ruth Cross
Independent film making is experiencing an exciting resurgence in the wake of great social and cultural change. Looks specifically at films and videos from Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Thailand screened at the 23rd Hong Kong International Film Festival.


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As Revoltas no Iraque de 1991 foram uma série de revoltas anti-governamentais no sul e no norte do Iraque, durante o rescaldo da Guerra do Golfo. A revolta foi motivada pela percepção de que o poder do presidente iraquiano, Saddam Hussein era vulnerável no momento, assim como fortemente alimentada pela raiva da repressão do governo e da devastação provocada por duas guerras em uma década, a Guerra do Golfo e a Guerra Irã-Iraque. Os Estados Unidos também tiveram um papel de instigadores das revoltas,  que gerou controvérsias já que forças norte-americanas presentes em solo iraquiano não auxiliaram os rebeldes.

As revoltas xiitas no sul do Iraque, dominada pelos envolvidos, as desmoralizadas tropas do exército iraquiano e contra os partidos xiitas antigoverno, em particular o Partido Islâmico Dawa e o Assembleia Suprema Islâmica do Iraque (SCIRI). Outra onda de insurreição eclodiu pouco tempo depois no povoado curdo no norte do Iraque (Curdistão), ao contrário da rebelião espontânea no sul do país, a revolta do Norte foi organizada por dois partidos rivais da milícia de base curda: o Partido Democrático do Curdistão (KDP) e a União Patriótica do Curdistão (PUK), e um planejamento em longo prazo tivesse ocorrido.

Embora tenham apresentado uma ameaça muito grave para o regime do Partido Baath iraquiano, Saddam conseguiu reprimir as rebeliões com uma força massiva e indiscriminada e manteve o poder. A insurgência foi brutalmente esmagada pelas forças legalistas encabeçada pela Guarda Republicana Iraquiana e a população foi sucessivamente aterrorizada. Durante as poucas semanas de agitação dezenas de milhares de pessoas foram mortas. Muitos outros morreram durante o mês seguinte, enquanto quase dois milhões de iraquianos fugiram para salvar suas vidas. Na sequência, o governo forçou a intensificação dos deslocamentos forçados dos árabes dos pântanos e a drenagem dos pântanos do Iraque, enquanto os Aliados estabeleceram as zonas de exclusão aérea no Iraque.

Bibliografia

 Schmid, Alex, & Jongman, Albert. Political Terrorism: A new guide to actors, authors, concepts, data bases, theories and literature. Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland ; New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1988 (edición de 2005).

Conflitos entre sunitas e xiitas
Guerras envolvendo o Iraque
Consequências da Guerra do Golfo
Guerras civis
Rebeliões na Ásia
Conflitos em 1991
1991 no Iraque


Well, the bedroom is painted and the new flooring laid.
Tonight we reassembled the bed frame, replaced the mattress and made the bed. Now I am ready to sleep in it.
Here is a closer view of the new floor.
After much discussion and debate prior to making our decision, we are very happy with the finished product. It will be much easier to keep clean.
The chest of drawers, cedar box and my dressing table will be put back on the weekend when we have more time.