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We're Star Serious Laser-Focused on the main plot now.
Taiki and Yaten continue to be a broken record of unnecessary hostility, but the rest of the story has no interest in stewing with them. We've got auditions, minion deaths, shiny star seeds, black holes, and plot holes. And I thought my week was busy.
Episode 192 – A Sailor Star is Born!
Minako opens a piece of mail, then, after a delightful sequence of mirrored Mina 'n' Artemis faces, she gets bummed and puts it away. What's eating Aino Minako? Artemis explains: She made the final round of tryouts to work with a famous producer (Moroboshi Takuya) on a new song, but decided not to pursue it because there's so much happening on the superhero front.
Well, the other Moonies have a thing or two to say about that!
Encouraged by her friends, who remind her that her personal goals are just as important as her team ones (especially now, when any fight could be their last), Mina attends the audition. Artemis is along for adorable moral support, something she'll need in bunches when Yaten turn out to be one of the judges and scolds her for putting her dreams ahead of her duty.
Also sitting in a judge's seat is Nyanko (a.k.a. "Suzu"), who's representing Ginga TV in place of the absent Crow, who was planning on attending but got tied up and couldn't make it.
Mina's confidence is shaken at first, but remembering her friends's words allows her to direct the haters to the left and rock the audition. She explains to Yaten that her fellow guardians support her, which makes this their dream as much as her own, and that it isn't a matter of placing one life ahead of the another–she can and should find a balance between both.
Given that they've been single-mindedly pursuing one goal they still haven't achieved, Yaten wonders if maybe the Star Lights aren't the ones "lacking something." Mina assures him otherwise–but enough introspection! Nyanko's on the scene to starvest a music producer, and Minako (and the wandering Usagi, who came to support her) ain't about to take this sitting down!
Because when I think intimidating instruments, I think keytars.
They defeat Sailor Musician with a Healer-Venus combo attack, and Yaten gets a whiff of C.C.'s Princess Censor (Princensor?) along the way. But don't worry. This will definitely not cause unnecessary drama next episode.
Later, Minako finds out that she did indeed pass the last round of auditions…and promptly slides the letter in a drawer. She's proven that she has the talent, so she can "become an idol any time she wants." For now, it's more important for her to be with her friends.
My initial reaction to this was NO, WUT, MINA, STAHP, given that opportunity is a drifter and when she comes knockin' you damn well better answer that door 'cause there's no guarantee she'll stop by again…but at the same time, the whole point of the episode is about finding a healthy balance between desire and duty, and that it's okay sometimes to do what you want to do rather than what people think you "should" do. So if Mina's happy with her decision, then I guess I am, too.
Episode 193 – Sailor Stardust Crusaders
School Festival Episode! And you thought you wouldn't need your Anime Bingo Cards eight episodes from the finale. Usagi's class is doing a maid cafe and she's enjoying the feeling of unity that comes from working together with others. Now if only she could get a certain trio of aliens to enjoy that feeling, too…
Speaking of that trio, it's Seiya's turn to get frustrated about their absent princess and wander off brooding into the night. While Taiki and Yaten make plans to shake down a toddler for intel, Seiya follows the butterflies (which I think are more a visual representation of the princess's scent than literal butterflies) and winds up at Usagi's house so the two can banter cutely. I've missed their banter. Usagi invites him to the festival and he promises to come.
Meanwhile down in the Battlestar Galaxia, Crow's getting pressured to find the true star seed, but all she can do is look morosely through Siren's stuff. While there, she finds Siren's super-secret diary, where she wrote down her discovery about Sailor Moon and the "true" star seed. Also in this drawer? FEELS.
Hiiii, Feels!
The School Festival is good times until Taiki and Yaten start stalking C.C., and while they still don't see the princess, they sure can censer. (…Yeah. Sorry. That one hurt even me.) Mako rushes to C.C.'s defense, but continues to be as useless as all of the Moonies have been this season, getting easily handled by Yaten, who also manages to work in a couple sexist digs along the way, just 'cause he wanted to give me more reasons to dislike him.
The rest of the Moonies come running with Seiya in tow, who would just like you to know that these guys are more like his coworkers than his friends, so, like, don't go holding him accountable for any toddlers they try to rob. The Star Lights retreat for a chat, leaving the Moonies right as Crow comes for Usagi's star seed. Transformation time!
While four experienced guardians get their butts handed to them by a single minion {insert infinite sighs here}, Taiki and Yaten tell Seiya about the censer. Just as I'm shouting at my tablet that they could try, I dunno, TALKING to the Moonies and explaining WHY they need it, Seiya, bless his heart, suggests the same thing… only to have Yaten refuse because HE CAN'T WAIT THAT LONG. He has time to FIGHT them for the censer, sure, but ASK for it? TOO MUCH TIME.
Their debate gets tabled when the butterflies return to guide them back to the battlefield. With the Star Lights on the scene, Crow is getting desperate, so she busts out her secret weapon: A black-hole-in-a-bottle! Unleash this bad boy, and everyone at the festival could get sucked in! Mwahahaha!
My response to this is "Pssh, we defeated a black hole, like, three transformation upgrades ago. Bring it, lady!" But everyone else has shorter memories, so Usagi offers up her star seed in order to save innocent lives. Not getting starvested and thereby losing the only person who can cure phages would probably save a lot more lives in the long run, but part of Usagi's heroism is that she refuses to let people get hurt even for the sake of a "greater good," so I can't really get too mad about this.
"If only a rose would zip in out of nowhere and put a timely stop to this!"
It looks like Crow is gonna win this round, but villains gonna villain, and Nyanko intervenes in order to steal the "true" star seed and take the credit for herself. She smashes Crow's black hole, sucking first Crow (who's "Sorry, Siren" may be the saddest last words a minion has ever uttered on this show) and then Usagi, C.C., AND the censer get slurped up in the black hole, too?! But that's ALL the plot devices, GONE!
How will our hero get out of this one?! No one knows! Not even the writers! So the growing black hole just blows up from the inside, spitting out Usagi and C.C. (but not Crow, because Reasons) and a metric ton of butterflies. Usagi's star seed is returned to her, and the Star Princess makes her long-awaited appearance.
"Super glad Crow unleashed that plot hole so I could finally pop out of it."
Sailor Moon, I hope next week features a fair amount of exposition, 'cause you have got some serious 'splainin' to do here.
"Did Judge Suzu have to leave suddenly?" "Yeah, but she left her ratings for contestants, so we can still use those, right?" "Um, about that…"
C.C.'s PJs continue to elicit huge grins.
I like how the scouts have slowly moved from hanging out at the arcade/Rei's shrine to spending their afternoons at the cafe. It's a nice way to show how their interests have changed as they've grown over the past two school years.
This season has largely wasted its opportunity to use the Star Lights' transformations as a way to explore gender identity and arbitrary binaries, but it is worth noting that this week both Seiya and Yaten make comments that suggest they aren't "disguised" as men, but genuinely identify as such. I was prepared to go back and fix pronouns if it turned out I'd been misgendering them; a bit relieved to see that wasn't the case.
Hark! A plot point! ♪ Ohhhhh… Who lives in a censer within a black hole? PRIN-CESS KA-KYU! ♪
(By the by, her name means "bolide," a.k.a. an exploding meteor. This bodes well.)
March 18, 2016 Josei Next Door	episode 192, episode 193, recaps, reviews, sailor moon, sailor moon sailor stars
mithrandirolorin says:
"Battlestar Galaxia" How do you keep coming up with these before I do?
Remember when I said in my first Stars post that I had a 30+ item list of potential episode titles with "Stars" references in them? Yeah. I was NOT kidding. ^^;
Andrew (@FH14) says:
Considering that 192 is the very last "filler" episode of this whole series, I found it cool that they turned it into a meta commentary on filler episodes in general. Sure, some things in the plot would run smoother without it, but it provides a look into our characters'… character. It wasn't wholly pointless drama, (tho there's some SuperS filler I would argue otherwise) but it helped fulfill them because in between doing their duty they've found ways to live their lives.
The guardians having their asses handed to them by "a single minion" doesn't really bother me considering the mythology behind them, which I'm not sure has been explained yet so I'm not gonna get into it now (maybe next week?)
I like the idea of it as a meta-commentary! Hadn't considered it from that angle, but it makes a lot of sense. And given how much I enjoy a lot of the character episodes (they're some of my favorites, in fact), I fully approve of the anime staff defending their decision to balance magical girl battles with real-world problems and shenanigans alike.
[SPOILERS FOR NEXT TWO EPISODES]
Having just watched the next two, I'm not sure if the minions being mind-controlled Sailors negates the fact they outnumbered Crow four-to-one, even if she was older and more experienced than them. It just feels like the Moonies have been made less effective this season in terms of both raw power and ability to work together/use their wits to solve problems, so maybe I'm more grumpy about it then I would be otherwise.
If I recall correctly, though, The outer guardians are much more powerful than the inners, and this caused a lot of problems whenever the two groups clashed (especially with Uranus and Neptune) so I can buy more experience = more power – especially considering that we have no idea how old the other senshi like Crow are. Power-to-power matchup it could conceivably be like Usagi-at-her-most-powerful vs. Sailor-V's-first-day-on-the-job. (Also they're all probably really out of shape after being side characters in SuperS for so long orz). IDK that's just my read on it, so it never really bothered me that much. (Also, food for thought, some of Beryl's minions – like below the shittenou level – straight up murdered in the inner senshi in season 1 so its not unprecedented).
beatfish56 says:
So… Where were the Outers in 193? Isn't what happened in the episode's fight EXACTLY what they've been trying to prevent by keeping the "interlopers" away from Usagi?
The one time the show could have legitimized their actions since they started acting xenophobic towards the Starlights and they don't bother showing up when it counts.
How frustrating! I hate seeing characters I like used as tools for a needless, forced conflict.
Lexi Mitchell says:
Hold up, the guy who's gallivanting as a pop star, who's been filming movies and tv shows, and who is judging a contest, has the NERVE to scold Mina for taking some time to audition for a contest? She's spent less time being a pop star than he has!
crisdovingadoresdepre says:
Usagi x Seiya gave me all Romeo & Juliet vibes. Rival "factions", secret meetings, balcony scene…
Now I understand why people ship them. I love Mamoru, but I'm sad because the anime doesn't explore his feelings for Usagi as the manga (which does very well). He sounds cold, distant. On the other hand, Seiya …
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Mar 11 2016 5. September 2020
New paper published in Science about rare variant in SCARB1 raises HDL cholesterol and increases risk of coronary heart disease
Coronary heart disease is a tale of two forms of plasma cholesterol. In contrast to the well-established effects of "bad" cholesterol (LDL-C), the role of "good" cholesterol (HDL-C) is mysterious. Elevated HDL-C correlates with a lower risk of heart disease, yet drugs that raise HDL-C levels do not reduce risk. Zanoni et al. found that some people with exceptionally high levels of HDL-C carry a rare sequence variant in the gene encoding the major HDL-C receptor, scavenger receptor BI. This variant destroys the receptor's ability to take up HDL-C. Interestingly, people with this variant have a higher risk of heart disease despite having high levels of HDL-C. This remarkable study was published yesterday in Science with contribution of the IIEG.
The interesting background of this project is nicely described here.
Mar 2 2016 5. September 2020
New paper published in NEJM about "Coding Variation in ANGPTL4, LPL, and SVEP1 and the Risk of Coronary Disease"
Through DNA genotyping using the Exome-Array, we tested 54,003 coding-sequence variants covering 13,715 human genes in up to 72,868 patients with CAD and 120,770 controls who did not have CAD. Furthermore, through DNA sequencing, we studied the effects of loss-of-function mutations in selected
genes.
Here, we confirmed previously observed significant associations between CAD and low-frequency missense variants in the genes LPA and PCSK9. We also found significant associations between CAD and low frequency
missense variants in the genes SVEP1 (p.D2702G; minor-allele frequency, 3.60%; odds ratio for disease, 1.14; P = 4.2×10−10) and ANGPTL4 (p.E40K; minor-allele frequency, 2.01%; odds ratio, 0.86; P = 4.0×10−8), which encodes angiopoietin-like 4.
In a next step, through sequencing of ANGPTL4, we identified 9 loss-of-function mutation carriers among 6924 patients with myocardial infarction, as compared with 19 loss-of-function mutation carriers among 6834 controls (odds ratio, 0.47; P = 0.04).
Interestingly, carriers of ANGPTL4 loss-of-function alleles had triglyceride levels that were 35% lower than the levels among persons who did not carry a loss-of-function allele (P = 0.003).
Functionally, Angiopoietin-like 4 inhibits lipoprotein lipase; we therefore searched for mutations in LPL and identified a loss-of-function variant that was associated with an increased risk of CAD (p.D36N; minor-allele frequency, 1.9%; odds ratio, 1.13; P = 2.0×10−4) and a gain-of-function variant that was associated with protection from CAD (p.S447*; minor-allele frequency, 9.9%; odds ratio,
0.94; P = 2.5×10−7).
This highly collaborative study – involving 129 scientists from 15 countries – was published online on March 2nd, 2016 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Sep 7 2015 6. September 2020
Most comprehensive genetic study for CAD in 185,000 cases and controls revealed novel insights in disease pathology
Members of the IIEG together with colleagues from the CARDIoGRAMplusC4D consortium published the most comprehensive genetic study for CAD. Existing knowledge of genetic variants affecting risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) is largely based on genome-wide association studies (GWAS) analysis of common SNPs. Leveraging phased haplotypes from the 1000 Genomes Project, we report a GWAS meta-analysis of 185,000 CAD cases and controls, interrogating 6.7 million common as well as 2.7 million low frequency variants. In addition to confirmation of most known CAD loci, we identified 10 novel loci, eight additive and two recessive, that contain candidate genes that newly implicate biological processes in vessel walls. Moreover, we observed intra-locus allelic heterogeneity but little evidence of low frequency variants with larger effects and no evidence of synthetic association. Our analysis provides a comprehensive survey of the fine genetic architecture of CAD showing that genetic susceptibility to this common disease is largely determined by common SNPs of small effect size. Furthermore, we report that only 20% of loci are related to known cardiovascular risk factors. This work has been published in Nature Genetics online ahead of print on September 7th, 2015. A Comprehensive 1000 Genomes-based GWAS meta-analysis of Coronary Artery Disease
A circular Manhattan plot summarizing the 1000 Genomes Project CAD association results.
Aug 21 2015 6. September 2020
New study published in ATVB: Prediction of Causal Candidate Genes in Coronary Artery Disease Loci
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have to date identified 159 significant and suggestive loci for coronary artery disease (CAD). Almost all of these loci have been identified with major contributions of members of the IIEG.
Here, a study co-led by Ingrid Brænne from the IIEG together with colleagues from the CADgenomics network, funded by the Leducq fondation, now report comprehensive bioinformatics analyses of sequence variation in these loci to predict candidate causal genes. They conclude that the great majority of causal variations affecting CAD risk occur in noncoding regions, with 41% affecting gene expression robustly versus 6% leading to amino acid changes. Interestingly, many of these genes differed from the traditionally annotated genes, which was usually based on proximity to the lead single-nucleotide polymorphism. Indeed, the study obtained evidence that genetic variants at CAD loci affect 98 genes, which had not been linked to CAD previously. However, for a full understanding, each CAD locus will have to be individually investigated using tools, such as experimental organisms and iPS cells. In this study, they have used standard tools to refine the list of candidate genes. Additional approaches that could be useful at present include chromosome conformation analyses, application of novel algorithms for causal SNP analysis, network analyses, and identification of rare variants. Looking forward, new resources and tools, such as noncoding RNA annotation, RNA-binding maps, splicing variants and code annotation, and detailed enhancer and transcription maps in a variety of cell types relevant to atherosclerosis, will greatly assist such efforts. The members of the IIEG are well prepared to be part of these endeavours.
Prediction of Causal Candidate Genes in Coronary Artery Disease Loci.
Ingrid Brænne*, Mete Civelek*, Baiba Vilne*, Antonio Di Narzo, Andrew D. Johnson, Yuqi Zhao, Benedikt Reiz, Veronica Codoni, Thomas R. Webb, Hassan Foroughi Asl, Stephen E. Hamby, Lingyao Zeng, David-Alexandre Trégouët, Ke Hao, Eric J. Topol, Eric E. Schadt, Xia Yang, Nilesh J. Samani, Johan L.M. Björkegren, Jeanette Erdmann, Heribert Schunkert†, Aldons J. Lusis†, on behalf of the Leducq Consortium CAD Genomics‡
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2015; first published on August 20 2015 as doi:10.1161/ATVBAHA.115.306108
*denotes equal contribution
Members of the CADgenomics network funded by the Leducq fondation
San Diego, February 2015
iPS-HL – a joint venture between the Institute of Neurogenetics and the IIEG
Christine Klein, Philip Seibler, Stephanie Stoelting, Anne Grünewald and Jeanette Erdmann, as future founders of iPS-HL, were awarded the Gründerpreis "BioMedTec 2014" of the Sparkasse zu Lübeck AG. This prize is awarded every two years since 2008 with 10.000€.
Genome research. Quo vadis, Germany?
Currently, all over the world large-scale projects aiming at sequencing thousands of probands get kicked-off, like the "precision medicine initiative" in the US, the 100,000 Genomes initiative in UK, or the 50,000 Genome sequencing project in Saudi-Arabia, just to name a few.
The potential of large-scale genome sequencing project is very well justified in a speech held by President Barack Obama at the White House earlier this year to kick-off the "precision medicine initiative".
Unfortunately, in Germany no large-scale genome sequencing project is on the horizon and it seems like German genome researchers might loose their leading role in the field.
An essay (in German) asking about the future role of German researchers in the field of Genomics has been published in the Laborjournal by Heribert Schunkert and Jeanette Erdmann.
Genetic research identifies novel pathway leading to myocardial infarction
Starting with a severely affected family, a research team led by Jeanette Erdmann, Christian Hengstenberg and Heribert Schunkert (Institut für Integrative und Experimentelle Genomik, University of Lübeck and Deutsches Herzzentrum München) identified a novel mechanism leading to myocardial infarction. Specifically, the scientists detected two mutations that jointly blocked nitric oxide signalling in platelets leading to accelerated thrombus formation. Another variant of the same enzyme, affecting a large proportion of the population, was also found to affect coronary risk, albeit to a much lesser extend. The work was published on December 13th, 2013 in the prestigious journal Nature.
Link: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v504/n7480/full/nature12722.html
Shorter height is genetically associated with an increased risk of coronary artery disease
For long it is known that shorter adult height is associated with an increased risk of coronary artery disease. This association is mainly explained by
by the association between shorter height and an adverse lipid profile.
A collaborative effort with national and international colleagues led by Nilesh Samani (University of Leicester) studied the association between height-associated
genetic variants and CAD.
The main advantage of our genetic approach is that it reduces the likelihood of known and unknown demographic, lifestyle, socioeconomic, or behavioral
confounders that have an independent effect on height and the risk of CAD and could give rise to a false association between the two factors.
It is possible that the association between the studied genetic variants and height and the association with CAD are through completely different mechanisms. However, the more likely scenario on the basis of our findings is that height variants affect biologic pathways, which on the one hand determine achieved height and on the other hand
influence the risk of CAD. It is also possible that genetically determined height itself alters lifestyle or behavior, which then affects the risk of CAD.
The study is published online in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Visit of the Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein at the IIEG
Thorsten Albig, the Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, started his "Summer Tour" at the University of Lübeck. He was interested to learn more about the members of the Institute and its research agenda.
Novel mechanism identified by which ADAMTS-7 affects neointima formation.
In a collaborative study, mainly between Munich (Thorsten Kessler and Heribert Schunkert) and colleagues from the Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology in Beijing (Lu Zhang and Wei Kong), as well as Cor de Wit and Kjestine Schmidt from the University of Lübeck, members of the IIEG (Zouhair Aherrahrou as shared senior author and Jeanette Erdmann) have identified a novel mechanism by which ADAMTS-7 affects neointima formation.
ADAMTS-7, a hitherto rather unknown gene, had been found to be genome-wide significantly associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) by CARDIoGRAM, a consortium lead by Heribert Schunkert, Nilesh Samani and Jeanette Erdmann. However, the mechanisms that link ADAMTS-7 and CAD risk remained elusive.
Here, by employing transgenic mice we now revealed that ADAMTS-7 plays a pivotal role in vascular remodelling. After vascular injuryAdamts7-/- mice were resistant to neointima formation. Thus, inhibition of ADAMTS-7 might represent a promising therapeutic strategy for the prevention of restenosis after PCI. Moreover, Adamts7-/- mice displayed accelerated re-endothelialisation. As drug-eluting stents designed to reduce restenosis rates may actually retard re-endothelialisation – and thereby provoke stent thrombosis – the finding that ADAMTS-7 affects both processes may be of interest. In fact, inhibition of ADAMTS-7 may solve two problems at once, i.e. decrease restenosis and augment re-endothelialisation. Furthermore, the identification of thrombospondin-1 as an ADAMTS-7 target on one hand and as a modulator of vascular remodelling on the other hand might lead to the elucidation of further druggable downstream targets.
Link to the paper:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/early/2015/02/20/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.014072.abstract
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\section{\label{sec:level1}{discussion and perspectives}}\label{perspectives}
We conclude this paper with a few remarks and perspectives. The main
result of our paper provides an answer to the holographic prescription
problem in the form of an existence theorem valid in in any space dimension $n\geq 3$ for Einstein metrics with prescribed conformal infinity consisting in suitably small perturbation of the conformal infinity of anti-de Sitter space. From the knowledge of the leading order behaviour of the Einstein metric near the conformal boundary, it is possible in principle to estimate quantities of physical interest for the admissible boundary conformal field theories, such as two-point or $n$-point correlation functions~\cite{Maldacena, Witten}. The computation of conformal anomalies~\cite{Witten, many2} would be of great interest in the Lorentzian setting.

From the point of view of the Cauchy problem for the Einstein
equations, the existence of the metric~$g$ solving the holographic
prescription problem is only local in time, in keeping with the fact
that anti-de Sitter space is expected to be non-linearly
unstable. Our estimates show that the interval of definition of the time parameter is of order $1/\delta$, where $\delta$ is the size of the deviation of the boundary data from the AdS boundary data. It is a very challenging goal to devise a
rigorous scenario for singularity formation.

A.E.\ is supported by the ERC Starting Grant 633152 and thanks McGill University for hospitality
and support. A.E.'s research is supported in part by the ICMAT Severo
Ochoa grant SEV-2011-0087 and the MINECO grant  FIS2011-22566. The research of N.K.\ is supported by NSERC grant
RGPIN 105490-2011.

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The development site is located on the boundary of the Bournville conservation area and is subject to contrasting scales of the built environment: domestic on Mary Vale Road, and Office/Factory/Industrial on Franklin way. We undertook detailed analysis into the history of the design of properties within this sensitive conservation area which was developed in the late 1890s through to early 1900s. Local residents provided valuable comments and feedback during a consultation event which took place before the scheme was submitted for planning approval.
The proposed development has been designed to fit in with the existing street scene and mediate between the small-medium domestic scale and larger nearby factory buildings. Window elements will project out to the street. They form the primary elements to the facade, and reference the nearby symmetrical semi-detached houses. As the development rounds the corner into Franklin Way, its form will step up to 3 storeys towards the larger mass of Franklin Phase 1.
Textured brickwork on the projecting window elements will add visual interest and help to soften and break down the overall mass of the development. A landscaped communal garden above the resident car park creates open space at the rear of the site. This is in keeping with the character of Bournville village as a place with numerous recreation grounds and green spaces.


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Demi Lovato and Max Ehrich Split: What Went Wrong?
On different paths. Demi Lovato and Max Ehrich's busy schedules got in the way of their relationship before they eventually called it quits, a source tells Us Weekly exclusively.
"In the beginning, Max was super careful about self-promotion [and] things with his career, but once they got engaged, he really hit the gas pedal and wanted to make the most out of his career opportunities," the source says. "He felt more comfortable doing so after they were fiancés and had a little bit more of a leg up."
Us confirmed on Thursday, September 24, that the former couple, who announced their engagement in July, had pulled the plug on their six-month romance.
Demi Lovato and Max Ehrich Courtesy of Max Ehrich/Instagram
In March, Us broke the news that the former Disney Channel star, 28, had moved on with the Young and the Restless alum, 29, following her fling with Austin Wilson. Just one month later, a separate source revealed that Ehrich already had plans to propose after the coronavirus pandemic cleared up.
"The quarantine has been really great for Demi, and she and Max have gotten so close," the source said at the time, adding that Ehrich is "a really nice guy and they are happy together."
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A: When you mean security updates - you will receive them for the drivers that you have installed from the Ubuntu repositories. When you want feature updates, you have to install new drivers from the Proprietary GPU Drivers PPA ... the latest official NVIDIA drivers currently are 361.28.
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10 places to see in Quedlinburg, Germany
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Quedlinburg. Attractions of the city center
Every fan of half-timbered cities simply must visit Quedlinburg. There are more than 1,200 half-timbered houses – the largest number of half-timbered houses of any city in Germany. It is in Quedlinburg is one of the oldest German half-timbered houses. Looking ahead, I would say that Quedlinburg has fully justified its title as a half-timbered paradise. But apart from these crooked multi-colored houses there is also a lot to see here: a castle, an abbey and churches. On the plus side of the city is its rich history, important in the context of the whole country. We arrived in Quedlinburg in the evening. But before dark we had time to run through the city. So the first walk will be an overview of the very center of the city.
Again. The first story is an easy overview walk through the center immediately after arrival. Over the next two days we walked around Quedlinburg more thoroughly. So I recommend checking out my other stories about the sights of Quedlinburg. They are more thorough: Quedlinburg. From Market Square to the Klopstock House of Quedlinburg. Castle Mountain Quedlinburg. Münzenberg and the New Town of Quedlinburg. What else to see
My first exposure to half-timbered architecture was in 2013 in Normandy in Rouen. I was going to Rouen for the Gothic cathedrals and churches, but I ended up in the most half-timbered place in all of Europe. Rouen has more than 2,000 half-timbered houses, or as they say in France, colombages. By comparison, there are 1,200 such houses in Quedlinburg. At the time, the subject literally struck me so much that on subsequent trips I became a dedicated half-timbered house hunter.
A year after Rouen, I visited the Franconian town of Rothenburg an der Tauber. And there I was again strengthened in my love for this style. For a long time, Rothenburg became the model of an ideal city in my taste. I also came to like Germany. For some reason I felt very comfortable in this country. When I came across half-timbered photos of Quedlinburg, then I was struck by the idea to go there. And so I was able to make my dream come true.
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After a short introduction, it's time to take a walk around Quedlinburg. Already on the way to the hotel, I immediately put myself in a positive mood when the first half-timbered streets began to appear. As you understand, I also booked the hotel out of the principle that it was necessarily in half-timbered. I had already lived in Auburn in Alsace in such a house and knew all its disadvantages (creaky floors, musty smells, uncomfortable bath and toilet), but decided to repeat this attraction.
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The hotel in Quedlinburg was called Himmel & Hölle. I am a total ignoramus in German. But somehow I got the translation by accident. So it is called in Russian. Heaven and Hell. And the hotel is on the street Hölle, i.e. Hell.
Well, in terms of interior the hotel is disappointing. We are disappointed with the interior design. But some things were nice all the same. For example, these chic beams! By the way, I wrote here that I recently did repairs. So I did the same on the ceiling. So I'm not kidding when I say I'm a fan of half-timbered, I now have 120kg of reminder hanging over my head.
The room was two stories. The second floor is useless little more than at all. But the views from its window are gorgeous.
It's an ordinary street in Quedlinburg, if anything, not a tourist center at all. But it's no big deal.
This is the view, I call it. I promise that in the next stories we will definitely get to this castle and church on the mountain.
And here is the view of our dwelling in Quedlinburg. The last two floors under the roof are at our disposal for two nights. The hotel, as I understand it, is relatively new. Originally there was a restaurant Himmel & Hölle, which is very rating according to the reviews on Tripadvisor.
I went to read the history of this half-timbered house. Turns out it was built in 1614. We are sleeping in a house that is four centuries old! Moreover, Jews lived compactly in this part of Quedlinburg. Again, we find ourselves in a ghetto, as we did a month ago in Syracuse. For almost a hundred years, this house had been the site of a Jewish prayer house. At the beginning of the 20th century, the house became dilapidated and the Jews sold the house. The current appearance is the result of a renovation in 2005, when these beautiful showcases on the first floor appeared.
Since the hotel was located almost in front of the main square, there was immediate beauty from its doors. And immediately there was a problem. I had already become a tourist nuisance by then. And when was the house built, and who lived here? Is there any historical tale about this building? Just walking around like that hasn't interested me for a long time. Here, why is there a pentagram on the red house on the right? Why is this street called Hell Street (Hölle)? So, let's walk around and figure it out.
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The stone house at the end of the street is called the Hell House (Höllenhof). It is very old, the oldest part of it dates back to 1215. In the terminology of Russian history is pre-Mongolian period, from which we have not a lot. And here we have someone living in it. It used to be a residential house, then a monastic community, a brewery, and even a movie theater. There is an interesting legend connected with the house. But I will tell you it in the next part.
In fact, as cultural heritage sites, all houses are listed in Wikipedia by pedantic Germans. But it is, of course, a hell of a job: to recognize the address of a building, find it on Wiki, translate it from German. So there won't be stories about every house, we'll just walk around the city admiring the half-timbered streets.
Rose Street (Stieg). Ahead of us looms the facade of the City Hall.
One of the most spectacular corners of the old town of Quedlinburg. And the Roland Café in this beautiful house is also quite worthy.
We went to the main square of the medieval town. As is usual in such places, it was called Market (Marktplatz). At the front rises the town hall. Originally the town hall was Gothic, but then it was rebuilt in the Renaissance style, although the Gothic elements were preserved in some places or were restored later in the 19th century, when it became fashionable to return to the old times.
So, where are all the people? Well, there's no one in Quedlinburg. If passing tour groups come here during the day, then in the evening everything dies out. I checked the statistics. In a year there are ten times fewer tourists in Quedlinburg than in Rothenburg. And I suspect that most of them are day-trippers.
But I only benefit from this lack of people. It adds to the atmosphere. The main thing is to keep the places open for dinner.
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See the lavish outhouse on the left? That's the local rich merchant who built himself a crypt right in the center of town. In fact, there used to be a church here with a cemetery in the courtyard. Over time, the church was demolished and the cemetery was leveled, but the gorgeous baroque mausoleum miraculously survived. The townspeople were not too steamed by this neighborhood, and began building houses in the vicinity of the crypt.
About thirty years ago Quedlinburg was in a dilapidated state. I looked at photos from the GDR times, it was really very bad. But gradually the city is restored, although from time to time tourists come across abandoned and dilapidated corners.
But this street is clearly a street that was rebuilt recently.
In addition to the fact that the city absolutely dies out after 7 p.m., there's another peculiarity. Quedlinburg is also very bad economically (bad compared to the rest of Germany, of course). Literally dying out every year a place with low incomes of the population. So you should not be surprised by a second-hand clothes store in a beautiful half-timbered house.
But the Gothic churches are great. For example the church of St. Benedict. Yes, it's very late Gothic, but still. I won't go into detail yet, we just have a sightseeing walk.
From this fountain you can study the history of Quedlinburg. See that dog? That's the same dog Kwedel after whom (according to legend) Kwedlinburg was named.
But now it's peacetime and the city no longer needs to be guarded, so Quedel leaves his post.
I promised no details, but I will tell you about the fountain nonetheless. To set you right, that Quedlinburg is by no means a hole, but one of the important centers of German history.
The three figures are Heinrich I Ptitzelov with his wife Matilde and his granddaughter, also Matilde, who became the first abbess of the local monastery. About Henry also I will tell a little later, I will only note that it is he who is usually considered the founder of the first German state. And all this history took place in Quedlinburg.
The second composition with female and male busts is dedicated to the sons and daughters of Quedlinburg (their names are embossed on different elements of the sculpture): the first woman doctor in Germany Dorothea Erxleben, the great German poet Klopstock, the founder of modern geography Karl Ritter, the first physical education teacher Johannes Guts-Muts. That's how many great personalities in tiny Quedlinburg!
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A third sculpture with two women, young and old, symbolizes nature, spring and fall, and hints that modern Quedlinburg is the most important center for seed production.
Another Gothic church of St. Matilda . Okay, okay, experts will immediately see that there is only a hint of Gothic, which was very much in love in the mid-19th century. Judging by the description, the church has an interesting interior, so you can go in if it's open.
The Church of St. Matilda was built in the mid-19th century and was designed by a famous Viennese architect. Among his most notable works are his participation in the construction of the Cologne Cathedral and Vienna City Hall, as well as the restoration of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.
The church was consecrated in honor of Queen Mathilde, wife of Henry I. His second wife Matilda of Westphalia was known for her good works: she was actively engaged in charity, founding monasteries and various godly institutions. The most important was the convent in Quedlinburg, where St. Matilda was buried after her death. During the Saxon dynasty, the monastery of Quedlinburg was an important spiritual and educational center in Germany.
One of the church's relics is the Gothic Pieta, created in the early 15th century by an unknown master. A few years ago, the Pieta was moved to St. Matilda's Church from St. Wigbert's Church. The main altar of the church is painted with images of Saint Matilda surrounded by angels and saints. In the center is St. Matilda with her hand raised for blessing, on the side wings of the altar – St. Matilda is depicted as queen and founder of the monastic congregation, as the patroness of the church and the popular benefactress. In the chancel are three interesting stained glass windows with images of the saints.
Alas, the city walls of Quedlinbrugh have hardly survived. But several defensive towers survived. Sternkiekerturm – the tower of Star-Spangled Banner is one of them. I read that all these towers were added in romantic 19th century, but nevertheless the basis of the tower is quite medieval. The most important thing is that on Sternkiekerturm is the highest (42 m) observation deck in Quedlinburg.
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We went back to Market Square again, because I was eager to buy a guidebook to Kvedlinburg from the tourist office. It was scheduled to open at 8pm, to recruit a group for the evening tour. Of course, I never waited for the opening.
One of Quedlinburg's neighborhoods is located on the high Münzenberger hill. Once upon a time there was a convent on the mountain (which is called Coin Mountain). The inhabitants of the mountain are considered by the rest of the Quedlinburgers to be eccentrics and make up jokes about them. For some reason, according to local stereotypes, all Munzenbergers are either thieves or musicians. The monument, exactly, depicts Münzenberger musicians.
The small river Mühlgraben flows through the center.
What is that strange tower inside the Fleischhof complex? It turns out that this is an old dovecote. From the name of the complex, it is clear that there was a farm and yard of butchers.
And right next door is the oldest half-timbered house in all of Germany! Well, okay, that's not really accurate. But for sure it's one of the oldest buildings in Quedlinburg. The Ständerbau house dates back to 1346. See how primitive it still is? Wooden posts give its white facade a vertical structure, hence the name "Stenderbau", from Ständer, a beam, support.
Inside the house there is a Fachwerk Museum. A little later we will visit it.
It was time to sum up the results of the first walk. Well, I think you already understood from my enthusiastic comments that Quedlinburg did not disappoint. By that time on my account were half-timbered gems of Normandy, Burgundy, Alsace, Brittany and Bavaria, and what's more, I was in England, specially sought out the half-timbered York and visited it. But even with that experience, I was not disappointed. The value of Quedlinburg is in its continuity. There are not surviving islands of antiquity here, but simply the entire city is transported entirely from the Middle Ages.
At this point we decided, although the towers of Quedlinburg Castle loomed ahead, to end the sightseeing walk and indulge in the embrace of German cuisine. Early May is asparagus season in Saxony, mmm. Can't miss that.
The next day we planned to examine the city more thoroughly. Which I will tell you about in the new series: Kvedlinburg. From Market Square to Klopstockhaus.
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The Conservative party media spin machine has gone into over drive by spreading the word that George Osbourne will cut the top rate of income tax from 50% to 40% in next weeks budget in an attempt at reversing some of the damage done by the last Labour government that all but destroyed large swathes of the private sector in favour of pumping resources into the Labour voter friendly unproductive public sector.
The higher rate tax cut will come despite Lib Dem opposition, who will likely extract a high price in terms of their primary tax objective of raising the starting rate for paying income tax towards a personal allowance of £10,000.
ALL taxes on the private sector are bad because they extract income from the productive sector of an economy and plant it into the unproductive public sector. The greater the tax burden the lower the economic growth potential of an economy will be, which Labours 50% tax rate exemplifies as it raised barely 1/10th the amount of tax revenue that Labour promised it would whilst acting as a major disincentive for entrepreneur's to relocate, expand and employ workers.
Off course in a democracy, governments have to tax and print debt / money (inflation) to buy votes to get elected. However over time this burden on the productive private sector can grow and grow as the number of vested interests grows until one day the peoples of a country such as Britain wake up to find that the unproductive public sector has grown to such an extent that it is now more than 50% of the economy which puts it far beyond the capacity of the private sector to cover the costs of and thus the economy enters a death spiral of unfundable deficits as is the case with Greece and most of the euro-zone and against which Britain has been fighting hard to avoid a similar fate.
To date the Coalition government has attempted to correct the structural imbalances in the UK economy that is resulting in a continuing annual government budget deficit of £120 billion by means of spending cuts and money printing inflation (QE) so as to devalue total value of UK debt and liabilities that stands at approx £11 trillion.
However on the flip side the Coalition government has to large extent subverted many of the positive benefits of spending cuts by introducing a series of tax rises such as VAT, freezing of annual tax allowances and scrapping of tax rebates such as the proposed cut in child benefit to 40% rate tax payers. This Frankenstein policy of doing what's best and worst for the economy is resulting in economic stagnation where probability favours a flat lining economy during 2012.
To kick start growth the Coalition government is starting to recognise that it needs to take the bold step of freeing up capital available to the private sector by means of scrapping the top tax rate of 50%. However it should be recognised that is this a small step in the right direction as it only effects approx 250,000 high earners , though will act as an incentive to attract new high earning tax payers from abroad to come and boost productivity and locate business into the UK.
On balance, given the state of the country's finances, next weeks budget cannot be a net give away which means the two tax give away's of raising the starting personal allowance and scrapping of the 50% rate will be balanced by not increasing the allowance for higher (40%) rate tax payers which would have the effect of pushing many more people into the higher tax bracket with all of the associated negative consequences.
So the real tax cuts will not materialise until 2013 when the Collation government starts to spend and cut taxes in an attempt at generating an mini economic boom as the government buys votes in advance of the scheduled 2015 General Election by which time today's angry 99% will have long since forgotten about next weeks tax change in favour of the 1%.
"ALL taxes on the private sector are bad because they extract income from the productive sector of an economy and plant it into the unproductive public sector."
What simplistic nonsense. This is religio-ideology, not empirically based economics. Not all private sector enterprises are productive and many public sector enterprises are productive. Public roads and trains provide transportation, etc. About half of China's economy is still government owned -- state owned enterprises, and they're plenty productive, kickin' the UK's behind. Singapore and plenty of other countries do quite well with public owned enterprises, thank you. The private good/public bad meme is dumb and dysfunctional. Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland have high taxes and are doing much better than low tax countries. High taxes on excessive wealth promote income equality and a healthier economy. Denmark is proof of that. Read James Galbraith. Trickle down does not work. Get real.
Last time the personal allowance was raised the threshold for 40% tax was lowered to prevent higher earners benefiting from the tax cut for the lower paid so no doubt more will be brought into the 40% bracket if the threshold is lowered by approx £3000. The real scam however is that the £113k+ earners will face an automatic tax rise because they don't have a personal allowance so will end up paying 40% tax on approximately £3000 more of their income. Not a single financial commentator noticed this tax rise last time and since there are so many more £100-113K earners than 50% taxpayers this alone would probably finance the scrapping of the 50% rate.
I find it difficult to believe the 50% rate will be cut now. The rate may be economic madness but this is more about politics. I suspect this is a ploy to stop people setting up tax savings schemes in the last few days before the budget. I managed to take about £80K out of the 50% band in the last couple of weeks and I bet I am not alone.
Private sector that cannot compete go bust and the capital is reallocated, thats how its supposed to work but government interferance as the case with the banks prevents it from happening which is why we are in an inflationary depression.
The public sector lacks any real mechanism for getting rid of dead wood which is why instead of going bust the government throws ever larger amounts of money at the problem without solution.
The key to having a productive public sector is that it must compete with the private sector, else we will go bankrupt as the deficits will keep expanding without end.
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Scott and I released our new album this summer. Release date was June 30, 2020. I waited a few weeks for it to be distributed to all the music sites and made an announcement on social media on Thursday, July 16.
The album is available on Apple Music, Amazon digital services and many other music distribution sites.
According to Elizabeth Peru, there had been a powerful cosmic shift that day, so I thought it would be a good time to let people know it's out there. Once again, I thank Joey Welz of Canadian American records for distributing the album on his label. Joey has been very encouraging and has helped me along the way. I am grateful for his expertise of the music business. His diverse and amazing background is one of a kind and spans decades of modern music history.
Scott recorded and mixed the songs as well as playing most instruments. He has a knack of taking a song of mine and giving it a style of it's own. He's very creative and such a great musician. I really appreciate all he does.
We had fun adding an accordion part to "Restless Soul," a tribute to my Pop, Eugene Ierace. (1930-2018)
Neither one of us knows how to play accordion, but between the two of us and some white-out dots, we managed to add an accordion track.
We were very fortunate to have John Turner assist us with the album. His powerful guitar riffs give the songs depth and harmonious texture. I truly appreciate his unique, artistic interpretations.
It was a treat to have Gena Rockwell and Jade Tremba sing on East Coast Drifter. They sound so beautiful together and it is something I truly hope to hear more of some day. Jade came up with the background vocal arrangement. She just ran with it. I love what she did, and of course that's the first song on the album. I also need to mention Beth Staley. Gena and I paid her a visit one cold winter evening in Morgantown. There we discussed the character "East Coast Drifter."
I thank Beth for helping us describe this character we all know so well.
Todd Stotler of Echoes Recording Studio added the sparkle and final polish with his mastering wizardry. I am grateful for having another "set of ears" to enhance the songs and balance everything out.
In reflecting on the world situation we are experiencing, I feel that we are all in the midst of a collective "penance," if you will. I have felt this was coming for a number of years, yet could not describe it.
Many of us are searching for truth amid the unrest and revolution we are going through at this time. I am looking to Nature for beauty, solace, and grounding. I feel deep in my heart that we will come through this together in realization of our one-ness with compassion for all who inhabit this Earth.


Samsung and LG to unveil 105-inch UHD TV at CES 2014 next month.
As most of tech enthusiast anxiously waiting for the CES 2014 which will be held next month, we would expect pretty much interesting gadgets to be released from the giants.
Today Samsung and LG have announced that both of them would be introducing a 105- inch Curved Ultra HD television. 105-inch here means the resolution of the LCD panel would be 5120×2160 of pixels in a ration of 21:9, almost hitting the 5k display.
Looks like both of them are planning on a LCD based screen rather than the much expensive OLED screen which is disappointing despite we would all expect an all in one high end specification on upcoming devices.
How many of you are expecting this to be a big hit towards the sales market as this TV would be definitely come with a huge price tag where most of us would not be able to purchase it as instant as it's release.


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User agents must not consider the type attribute authoritative — upon
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  determine its actual type. Only the actual type (...).
The stylesheet link type defines rules for processing the resource's
  Content-Type metadata. (...)
If a document contains style sheet links labeled as follows:
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="A" type="text/plain">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="B" type="text/css">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="C">

...then a compliant UA that supported only CSS style sheets would
  fetch the B and C files, and skip the A file (since text/plain is not
  the MIME type for CSS style sheets).
For files B and C, it would then check the actual types returned by
  the server. For those that are sent as text/css, it would apply the
  styles, but for those labeled as text/plain, or any other type, it
  would not.
If one of the two files was returned without a Content-Type metadata,
  or with a syntactically incorrect type like Content-Type: "null", then
  the default type for stylesheet links would kick in. Since that
  default type is text/css, the style sheet would nonetheless be
  applied.

For the <style> attribute, the same document states:

The type attribute gives the styling language. If the attribute is
  present, its value must be a valid MIME type that designates a styling
  language. The charset parameter must not be specified. The default
  value for the type attribute, which is used if the attribute is
  absent, is "text/css". [RFC2318]

A: I think it is not mandatory, I have successfully used <style> and also <style type="text/css">.. Anything u use will be working such as <script> and <script type="text/javascript"> work the same way :)


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The Mississippi State University Extension Service is hosting a Beginning Beekeepers Short Course March 4 and an Intermediate Beekeeping Workshop and Queen Rearing Seminar March 25.
The beginners' course will be at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum in Jackson. Topics include diseases, honeybee biology, hive inspection, basic equipment, seasonal management, honey extraction and small hive beetle management.
The course runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and includes lunch. Registration costs $20 in advance and $30 at the door. If weather permits, participants will be able to walk to the bee yard at the museum and examine hives. The museum is located at 1150 Lakeland Drive in Jackson.
The intermediate workshop will be at the Pike County Fairgrounds in McComb. Extension apiculturist Jeff Harris will cover raising and mating queen bees, cell builders and finishers, and grafting and nongrafting methods. He will also demonstrate the uses of Cloake boards, swarm boxes and cell builders.
A $35 registration fee includes lunch at the workshop, which runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The workshop has a limited enrollment, and the first pre-registrants will be admitted. Participants are encouraged to bring magnification and grafting tools. The Pike County Fairgrounds are located at 3134 Wardlaw Road in McComb.
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Q: iPhone Getting the wrong coordinates from the GPS IOS10 on iPhone 6 Plus.
A small app app that grabs the gps coordinates and sends them to a remote web service. On the iphone map the user location is showing correctly, but the retrieved coordinates:
location.coordinate.latitude,
location.coordinate.longitude

are 0.5 miles away from where the map says I am! This is consistent wherever I move to.
I am following Apple's best practices and using the delegate method as follows: and it's these coordinates that are incorrect.
// Delegate method from the CLLocationManagerDelegate protocol.
- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager
      didUpdateLocations:(NSArray *)locations {
   CLLocation* location = [locations lastObject];
   NSDate* eventDate = location.timestamp;
   NSTimeInterval howRecent = [eventDate timeIntervalSinceNow];
   if (abs(howRecent) < 15.0) {
       // Log the data
      NSLog(@"latitude %+.6f, longitude %+.6f\n",
          location.coordinate.latitude,
          location.coordinate.longitude);
   }
}

I am setting the location accuracy as follows:
locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyBest;

I sample the gps coordinates for 30 seconds to make sure i am getting the best accuracy possible.
I have tried this on 2 different iPhones, both showing the same issue.
Thanks in advance.

A: I finally found out what is causing the problem..
I am currently in China... and that is the reason for the mysterious offset.. the maps in China are 'offset'.
If you are interested there's an post about it here that has saved me from tearing my hair out.
http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2013/07/16/a-more-complete-ios-solution-to-the-china-gps-offset-problem.
China uses a mapping projection called GCJ-02 which is different from the West's mapping standard (WGS-84). So if you're ever developing a mapping system, you might want to take this into account for travellers in China!
Thanks anyway for the useful pieces of coding advice.

A: You can add a check in your method to update locations again until you are down to your desired accuracy:
// Delegate method from the CLLocationManagerDelegate protocol.
- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager
      didUpdateLocations:(NSArray *)locations {
   // You can check for either locationManager.desiredAccuracy or a value you'd like in meters
   CLLocation* location = [locations lastObject];
   if (location.horizontalAccuracy > locationManager.desiredAccuracy) {
       //Do nothing yet
       return;
   }

   NSDate* eventDate = location.timestamp;
   NSTimeInterval howRecent = [eventDate timeIntervalSinceNow];
   if (abs(howRecent) < 15.0) {
       // Log the data
      NSLog(@"latitude %+.6f, longitude %+.6f\n",
          location.coordinate.latitude,
          location.coordinate.longitude);
   }
}


DiRT 4 features a game-changing system called Your Stage; an innovative rally route creation tool that allows you to produce an almost-infinite number of unique stages at the press of a button. You choose your location and set the route parameters, then Your Stage does the hard work to create a unique rally stage that you can race, share with your friends and then challenge them to beat your time. Your Stage allows experienced rally players to create longer, more technical routes, whilst newcomers can create simpler shorter routes as they hone their skills. With DiRT 4, Codemasters have sought to combine the levels of thrill and realism from last year's DiRT Rally with the fearless excitement, accessibility and adrenalin-fuelled races previously seen in its critically acclaimed prequels DiRT 2 and DiRT 3. Featuring classic rally racing that continues to build on the foundations set by the Colin McRae Rally games, the bruising contests from the official FIA World Rallycross Championship, the crazy battles of racing trucks and buggies, and the outrageous fun of open events in Joyride, players will face challenges from locations that span three continents.


What do you get when you take Casey Wall (Cutler & Co, Rockwell & Sons), the 2015 Sommelier of the Year, Banjo Harris Plane, and two of his ex-Attica alumni... and create a sleek but modest Fitzroy wine bar? Exciting, delicious brilliance, that's what.
We popped into Bar Liberty on opening night to find their bar name casually spray-painted over the previous signage—but that's where the northside nonchalance ends. This is no cool kid hangout joint: this is the place for those who want their noteworthy Chenin Blanc paired with a challenging and incredibly distinctive bar menu that wouldn't look out of place on Attica's chef's table.
We tried the GLT, a riff on the BLT, with bacon swapped out for crispy chicken skin. It's a humble presentation (a white sliced bread sandwich... and that's it), but it betrays the next-level deliciousness within. A simple dish of raw beef, pickled cherries and straw-like crispy fries was gamey, rich, and tasty.
We'll be back very soon for the grilled prawns and macadamia; cured scallops, fermented buttermilk and cavolo nero; xo pippes with fried gluten sticks—and of course to explore that extensive wine offering.


Hi, I was just reading your article on asset allocation, and I don't understand this paragraph.
This is where the magic happens with asset allocation. When your allocation shifted from it's original percentage, you are selling some of the assets that have been doing well and use that proceed to buy more shares of assets that have been underperforming to restore the original percentages. This is basically a "buy low, sell high" technique.
How does the portfolio become unbalanced in the first place?
Why buy more underperforming stock? How do you know they will regain performance?
Great questions. 1) The portfolio becomes unbalanced when one asset outperforms all the others. Suppose that I have a very simplistic asset allocation of 50% stocks and 50% bonds. In the last year, let's say that my bonds did decently but my stocks crashed. Now when you look at the overall money in my investing account, 70% of it is in bonds and 30% is in stocks (bonds didn't increase by 20%, but I have less money overall such that that the original 50% plus its earnings now represents 70% of my total portfolio).
2) It's important to distinguish between underperforming assets (individual stocks and bonds) and their asset classes. This was a bad year for stocks, mutual funds, and index funds. Does that mean that you shouldn't ever buy them again? No. In other years, stocks and funds have brought in great returns, the market is cyclical that way. Buying more while the class is underperforming is actually the buy low part of the "buy low, sell high" goal that most investors have (or buy low, hold forever, sell higher).
In a year when stocks are a runaway success, it's also important to rebalance periodically. That way, you don't end up with 80% in stocks and 20% in bonds in a year like this one.
When it comes to underperforming individual assets (stocks, specific funds, etc), you shouldn't throw good money after bad by buying more. Just because you invested in them before doesn't mean that it's a good idea to continue investing in those particular ones. You have to re-evaluate them the same way you did when you first bought them before you buy any more shares.
Mrs. Micah hit the nail on the head, especially regarding why the portfolio became unbalanced in the first place. The various parts of the market rarely move at the same pace, so a balanced portfolio is bound to become an unbalanced portfolio over time.
The key to this is to look at the investment as if it were a new investment. Would you put money in it now if you didn't already have money in it? Do you see value in the investment? This may be a difficult question to answer if you are investing in individual stocks, but if you are investing in an index fund, then you may just be buying the entire market at a discount. Even though the market is down roughly 40% over the last few months, now may be a good time to invest — so long as you are investing with a long term goal.
Yep, everything Mrs Micah said is right, and then Patrick.
Usually, your asset allocation doesn't allocate assets to individual stocks/funds — that's generally where the good money after bad comes in. But in general, if stocks are cheap now they'll be expensive in the future and so on, and you want to try and maintain a certain asset allocation. At your stage your desired asset allocation for retirement investments shouldn't change much over say 5 years.
@Steve – I hope things start to pick up soon. It is rather slippery on Wall Street at this point.
Hello, Pinyo, I thankfully went through the process of rebalacing my portfolio at the beginning of the year. On the one hand, it was sad to see lower balances, but on the other hand, it was good to feel secure as I head into another year of investing. It's good to keep buying when blood is running in the streets, as some famous investor once said. In other words, keep investing, especially when fear is rampant, because that is the best time to pick up low deals on equities.
I agree with the statements above. I do re-balancing every year during spring cleaning. One of the big things for me is to clean out my bank stock. I work for a bank and some of their 401k match is in company stock. All the banks did awfully last year. I also has a fund holding some bonds that outpaced my stock indexes, so a rebalance is in order. Some will recommend rebalancing every 6 months, but I think annually is perfectly fine. Great post!
@Weakonomist – Nice add about how some companies are matching with the company stocks. I'd definitely trade them out for other funds. My rule is no more than 5% in company stocks, and my current holding is 0%. I think I am holding enough of my company through U.S. Large Cap Fund.


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Q: How to store the char array back to sting in a loop?     Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.print("Enter the number to reverse ");

    String mystring = sc.nextLine();

    char[] my_3 = mystring.toCharArray();   // string converted into array

How to convert the char array back to string
    for (int i = my_3.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
        System.out.print(my_3[i]);
        String b = new String(my_3[i]);
                   }

A: Try this.
String mystring = "abcde";
String reverse = new StringBuilder(mystring).reverse().toString();
System.out.println(reverse); // -> edcba


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S Korean court orders compensation to wartime forced labourers
Court orders Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to compensate 28 South Koreans in decision Japan criticises as 'unacceptable'.
Kim Sung-joo (centre), a victim of Japan's forced labour, celebrates with family members and supporters after the ruling [Ahn Young-joon/AP]
South Korea's top court ruled on Thursday that Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries must compensate 28 South Koreans for forced labour during World War II in a ruling that drew an immediate rebuke from Tokyo.
The decision echoed the Supreme Court's landmark verdict last month that ruled in favour of South Koreans seeking compensation from Japan's Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal for their wartime forced labour.
The court upheld a 2013 appeals court decision that Mitsubishi must pay 80 million won ($71,000) in compensation to each of the 23 plaintiffs.
In a separate ruling, the court also ordered Mitsubishi to pay up to $134,000 to each of five plaintiffs or their families.
WATCH: South Koreans mark 72 years since end of Japanese rule (2:47)
'Deeply regrettable'
Mitsubishi called the verdict "deeply regrettable", saying in a statement it would discuss its response with the Japanese government.
Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono issued a statement condemning the court's decision, which he said was unacceptable.
"This fundamentally overturns the legal basis for friendly ties between Japan and South Korea and is extremely regrettable," Kono said.
The five former labourers had previously pursued legal action in Japan but their cases were dismissed on the grounds that the South Koreans' right to reparation was terminated by a 1965 treaty that normalised diplomatic ties between the two countries.
However, the South Korean Supreme Court upheld last month's ruling that Japan's occupation of the peninsula was illegal.
"The treaty does not cover the right of the victims of forced labour to compensation for crimes against humanity committed by a Japanese company in direct connection with the Japanese government's illegal colonial rule and war of aggression against the Korean Peninsula," the court said in a statement.
'I feel great'
Kim Seong-ju, a 90-year-old plaintiff in the second case, said she was sent to Japan when she was 15 on the recommendation of her teacher, who was a Japanese national.
"I was told that I could go to middle and high school and study more, but it turned out I had to work at the factory all the time," Kim told a news conference after the ruling, showing her permanently injured hand. "Now I feel great."
Japan and South Korea share a bitter history that includes Japan's 1910-1945 colonisation of the Korean Peninsula and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in military brothels.
The rows over wartime history have long been a stumbling block for relations between the East Asian neighbours, sparking concern their joint efforts to rein in North Korea's nuclear programme could be affected.
The Apology: Stories of Asia's 'Comfort Women'


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Mac Miller – Watching Movies With The Sound Off [Album Stream]
By Ivy League MVP June 16, 2013
This Tuesday marks the biggest day in Hip-Hop releases arguably since 2007 with Kanye West and 50 Cent. J. Cole is releasing his "Born Sinner" project, while Kanye West currently has the entire world music in frenzy with "Yeezus." Joining in on the big day is also Mac Miller, who will be releasing his sophomore album "Watching Movies with the Sound Off." Mac handles most of the production with help from Pharrell, Flying Lotus and The Alchemist among others; with features seen from Jay Electronica, Earl Sweatshirt, Ab-Soul, ScHoolboy Q, and Tyler, the Creator to name a few.
Following the release of his album, you can lookout for Mac Miller heading across the states on his "The Space Migration" Tour starting June 25th with dates lasting until August 10th. Check after the jump to stream the entire project and be sure to pre-order the album on iTunes.
OS REWIND: Mac Miller – Watching Movies
OS REWIND: Mac Miller – S.D.S.
OS REWIND: Mac Miller x Neff (Spring/Summer 2013 Collection)