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Q: automatically append hashtag # in all url using Laravel I want to add a hashtag (#) in all pages, the reason is that the header height is too long, and I don't want the user to scroll down every time the page loads to see the content of the page.
I have added a link called "hash" so that the page will point to the title page instead

{{ $page_title }}

I am using Laravel 4, not sure if Laravel has a function to append it to all URL e.g. my_project/employee#hash

A: There are two different approaches. (Disclaimer: I'm using jQuery here, not pure javascript)
1. Add the hash to every link
$(document).ready(function(){
    $('a[href]').each(function(){
        $(this).prop('href', $(this).prop('href')+'#hash');
    });
});

2. Add the hash to the current page
$(window).load(function(){
    window.location.hash = 'hash';
});

With the second method instead of just setting the hash you could also use javascript to scroll down with an animation. Like described here (without the click handler)

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Pedregal es una población venezolana capital del Municipio Democracia del estado Falcón, ubicada a 30 km al oeste de Coro.

Fue un pueblo de encomienda cuyo origen se remonta a la época prehispánica, El pueblo San Nicolás de Tolentino de Pedregal fue fundado a raíz de la real cédula del Rey Carlos III en el año 1691, en tierra de indios ajaguas a finales del siglo XVII. Pedregal fue fundado primeramente distante 30 kilómetros del sitio que actualmente ocupa, en Autaquire, a dos kilómetros de Humucaro, donde existía y donde existe un nacimiento de agua. Allí estuvo por muchos años, pero, se desplazaron y buscaron entonces a pueblo viejo, distante a 16 kilómetros del actual pedregal, enclavado a inmediaciones del caserío "soledad", que hoy se encuentra en el camino que conduce a Urumaco. También les resultó un lugar poco sano y las vidas eran perdidas con Rapidez.

Pedregal fue visitado por el ilustrativo obispo viajero Mariano Martí en agosto de 1773.

ECONOMÍA
La economía del pueblo es muy versátil en producción artesanal, manteniéndose con el tiempo y aun intacta, esta se basa en la producción de ganado caprino, en la artesanía de tejido de hamacas, alpargatas; así como también de la actividad agropecuaria.

ZONA COLONIAL
Como legado de su pasado hispánico, Pedregal posee una definida zona colonial, la cual es el pueblo del Estado Falcón que cuenta con este patrimonio en mejor estado. En las adyacencias de este poblado se encuentran las aguas termales de "La Cuiva" a fronteras con el Municipio Sucre. Sus habitantes aseguran que allí estuvo el Diao Manaure con su pueblo luego de abandonar Todariquiva.

CULTURA
La cultura del municipio democracia, entendiendo como cultura: "el conjunto de estructuras sociales, religiosas y otras que caracterizan una sociedad o pueblo", es la resultante del sincretismo, es decir de la fisión de elementos característicos del pueblo indígena Ajaguas, de la tribu de los Jirajaras que habitaban estas tierras, de los colonizadores españoles y del contingente de esclavos provenientes de África que fue traído como mano de obra esclava. Culturalmente, entonces, en cierta forma, La cultura de pedregal sigue los patrones de intercambio, tanto voluntario como forzado del resto de la población humana mundial de la actualidad.

El Pueblo de Pedregal también es reconocido a nivel estatal y nacional por sus Ferias Caprinas, Ovinas, Artesanales, Culturales y Turísticas, las cuales son efectuadas por costumbres la segunda semana del mes de septiembre.

Véase también
Falcón
Municipio Democracia

Localidades del estado Falcón

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Phoenix Children's data lake helps improve patient care
By Greg Gillespie
When Phoenix Children's embarked on a big data initiative a few years ago, the health system's leaders first agreed that any piece of information, large or small, could be of value. Then, says CIO David Higginson, it was an exercise in peeling back the layers of its data onion.
"We started with our primary systems—the EHR, lab, surgery, etc.—and there are pretty standard ways to connect those to an enterprise warehouse and pool that data," he says. "But then we kept going, and found it more and more challenging to connect systems and data that had never been done before."
The solution? The healthcare system, one of the largest pediatric medical systems in the country, slightly more than five years ago deployed a "data lake," a repository that serves as a collection point for vast amounts of information.
The project went from the drawing board to being an operational repository in three months.
"One reason we were so aggressive in building our data lake is that we knew that, at Phoenix Children's and the wider industry, we are years behind when it comes to combining data from different information systems to give real insights," Higginson says. "Every step you take in a hospital shows you five things that could be made better if you had real decision support. Any so many of those problems are connected, as is the data about them. You just have to make the connections."
Also See: CHIME honors Phoenix Children's Higginson for innovation
Today, Phoenix Children's has 65 different systems, including enterprise EHR, radiology, time and attendance and door-scanner data, streaming into the data lake, according to Higginson.
Having virtually every scrap of data available for its analytics efforts has enabled the health system to create new safeguards around medication dosing that have virtually eliminated medication errors. It's also developed real-time analytics that monitor kidney function for every patient in the hospital, which has helped caregivers head off kidney injuries in pediatric patients, an all-too-common problem when treating patients who are on multiple medications for a variety of ailments.
"When you combine all the data from those secondary systems with information from your core systems, you provide context to every action you're taking, and that provides a new level of insight into how to improve your clinical and financial operations," Higginson says. "When we determine what kind of problems need to be addressed, we approach it with an open mind and don't assume we have the answer. Having all our information in the data lake helps us get to the root of the problem."
Phoenix Children's data lake is built on a stack from Microsoft. The base platform is Microsoft SQL server, with business intelligence capabilities, and the company's SSIS ETL tools are used to move data from the source systems into the data lake. Microsoft's SQL server package is integrated with the R language to enable users to develop statistical models and predictive algorithms for analytics projects. And Microsoft's Reporting Services is used to create reports on demand.
"The efficiencies really made this a no-brainer for us," Higginson says. "The Microsoft products work so well together that we could normalize the baseline for extracting data from all our source systems and didn't have to spend the time or money incorporating other software into the data lake. And the BI tools cost us nothing since we had already purchased the Microsoft SQL server platform. We could have spent $100,000 on some other BI tools and perhaps have slightly better capabilities, but that didn't make any sense to us."
One of Phoenix Children's first data lake initiatives was tackling medication dosing errors. There are copious amounts of medical literature about standard medication dosages, says Phoenix Children's chief medical information officer Vinay Vaidya, but it doesn't truly address the issues in a pediatric hospital.
"We are treating premature babies as well as 300-pound 15-year-old football players, and the available literature doesn't provide a sense of what are the soft and hard stops for dosage levels for children of vastly different age and size. And there's no off-the-shelf computerized physician order entry [CPOE] system that has a module available with that data," Vaidya says.
Phoenix Children's went to its data lake to find a solution. The health system analyzed more than 1 million medication orders made over 11 years at its main hospital to determine safe dosage ranges for children based on age and weight. The analytics pieced together disparate bits of information from the EHR, lab, pharmacy and other information systems to provide a coherent view of the medications provided to patients.
And its data infrastructure enabled it to go big. "The analytics are typically done one-by-one for each drug, but we were able to take all 1,200 drugs we prescribe and use a single table and programming code for all of them at once," Vaidya says. The result is that the CPOE system now generates hard and soft stops when the amount of a prescription is suspect.
To understand the importance of developing hard and soft stops on medication dosages, Vaidya points to its effect on prescriptions of potassium. The drug is used to treat a variety of health concerns, but potassium can also be lethal if taken in large amounts. In the five years since Phoenix Children's developed its hard and soft stops for potassium based on its analytics, its CPOE system electronically flagged and stopped 108 orders of potentially harmful doses.
In most cases, Vaidya says, a wrong keystroke caused an unsafe dose to be entered, but in other cases in was unfamiliarity with the appropriate dosage levels for that specific patient. When hard stops occur, the CPOE system is programmed to not generate the order, eliminating the possibility that a dangerous medication dose could flow downstream to the pharmacy. Soft stops are flagged and then reviewed by both the ordering physician and pharmacist to ensure the clinical conditions warrant such a high dose.
"When you're dealing with a pediatric population, small changes in medication dosages can be the difference between a soft stop for a dose level that's a bit high, to a hard stop because the dosage is potentially lethal."
Another example of how the data lake is improving patient care is Phoenix Children's recently launched effort to head off kidney injuries.
Vaidya spoke with a nephrologist at Phoenix Children's who was concerned that the health system didn't have an effective way to monitor the kidney functions of the 300 patients in the hospital. Many children are being treated for serious conditions such as cancer, asthma and infections that require multiple medications. But those medications combined can negatively impact kidney function.
"There are all kinds of disparate pieces of data in the EHR about each patient's condition and medications, and it's basically impossible for a physician to cognitively calculate all the possible side effects and interactions from the different drugs available," Vaidya says. "So what we needed to do was look at the data and provide physicians and pharmacists with very early warnings about potential kidney damage."
The kidney function monitoring system taps into the data lake in real-time and pulls together data from myriad data streams to analyze creatinine tests, which measure the functions of the kidney, along with information such as diagnoses and medications to gauge kidney function trends for every patient at the hospital. Most of those patients, Vaidya notes, were not admitted for kidney problems and hadn't been monitored consistently for how their various treatments were having an impact on kidney function.
Now that physicians and pharmacists have real-time information about trends, they can quickly identify any changes in kidney functions and address those changes before any damage occurs.
The speed and success of the effort is an example of how the technological and structural efficiencies help Phoenix Children's big data efforts deliver, Higginson says.
The organization is structured very flat, he says, and instead of committee meetings there are one-on-one interactions with clinical and IT leaders. So instead of running the kidney monitoring system though a number of committees, Higginson and Vaidya met with a few colleagues to sketch out the data requirements and design for the system.
The prototype was put together in a week and reviewed by clinicians, who said it could make a huge safety impact. Within hours, the prototype was available to clinicians.
"We are now on version 15 or so of this kidney functioning monitoring system, but instead of waiting months to perfect the system we put it out and it had an immediate impact, and now we're consistently working to improve it based on the feedback from end users," Higginson says. "We've tried very hard to knock down the technological barriers as well as the organizational barriers to using our data, every bit of it, to improve our operations."
Greg Gillespie
Healthcare IT Consultant
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What is the Difference in Defective Goods and Spoiled Goods?
There is a fundamental difference between the two. A defective good is a good in which there is a manufacturing fault or defect, but this fault can be removed by applying additional cost called rectification cost.
Below is given the treatment of both Defective Good (Rectification Cost) and Spoiled Goods (Cost Already Incurred).
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A landmark coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of this country's most distinctive voices, Rubyfruit Jungle remains a transformative work more than forty years after its original publication. In bawdy, moving prose, Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in America. With her startling beauty and crackling wit, Molly finds that women are drawn to her wherever she goes—and she refuses to apologize for loving them back. This literary milestone continues to resonate with its message about being true to yourself and, against the odds, living happily ever after.
Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of the Sneaky Pie Brown series; the Sister Jane series; A Nose for Justice and Murder Unleashed; Rubyfruit Jungle; In Her Day; and Six of One, as well as several other novels. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, Brown lives in Afton, Virginia.


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Q: Is every norm for real matrices extensible to a norm for complex matrices? I was browsing this website haphardly and hit upon this question: Do we have for all $M \in SL_n(\Bbb K)$, $\lVert M \rVert \geq 1$ when $\lVert \cdot \rVert$ is a matrix norm? . It suddenly dawned on me that all submultiplicative matrix norms I have ever seen are actually defined for complex matrices. None of them is defined specifically for real matrices. Is it because every submultiplicative norm for real matrices is extensible to the complex case? More specifically:

Suppose $\|\cdot\|_r$ is a submultiplicative matrix norm on $M_n(\mathbb R)$. (The subscript $r$ is just a notation; it is not a number and it doesn't signify any specific matrix norm.)
Does there always exist a submultiplicative norm $\|\cdot\|_c$ on $M_n(\mathbb C)$ such that $\|A\|_r=\|A\|_c$ for every $A\in M_n(\mathbb R)$?

If homogenity and submultiplicativity are not required, we can pick a vector norm on $\mathbb R^2$ and define $\|X+iY\|_c=\|(\|X\|_r,\|Y\|_r)\|$. However, I don't see any way to implement the homogenity condition $\|(a+ib)(X+iY)\|_c=|a+ib|\|X+iY\|_c$, not to mention submultiplicativity.
I have also considered the case where there exists a submultiplicative norm $\|\cdot\|_R$ on $M_{2n}(\mathbb R)$ such that
$$\left\|\pmatrix{A&0\\ 0&A}\right\|_R=\|A\|_r$$
for every $A\in M_n(\mathbb R)$. My first thought was to define
$$\|X+iY\|_c=\left\|\pmatrix{X&-Y\\ Y&X}\right\|_R.$$
If such a norm $\|\cdot\|_R$ does exist, then $\|\cdot\|_c$ is automatically submultiplicative. However, I don't see any reason why $\|\cdot\|_R$ should exist and why the homogenity condition
$$\left\|\pmatrix{aI&-bI\\ bI&aI}\pmatrix{X&-Y\\ Y&X}\right\|_R=|a+ib|\left\|\pmatrix{X&-Y\\ Y&X}\right\|_R.$$
is satisfied.

A: Here is a partial answer: every submultiplicative norm $\|\cdot\|_r$ on $M_n(\mathbb R)$ $\underline{\text{with $\|I\|_r=1$}}$ can be extended to a submultiplicative norm $\|\cdot\|_c$ on $M_n(\mathbb C)$.
First, define a vector norm on $M_n(\mathbb C)$ by
$$
\|A\|_v=\max_{\omega\in\mathbb C,\,|\omega|=1}\|\Re(\omega A)\|_r.
$$
Then define a matrix norm on $M_n(\mathbb C)$ by
$$
\|A\|_c=\max_{Z\in M_n(\mathbb C)\setminus0}\frac{\|AZ\|_v}{\|Z\|_v}.
$$
This, by definition, is an induced norm (although it is induced by a vector norm on $M_n(\mathbb C)$ rather than by a vector norm on $\mathbb C^n$). Hence it is submultiplicative.
Now suppose $A$ is real. We want to show that $\|A\|_c=\|A\|_r$. First, note that $\|A\|_v=\|A\|_r$ because $\Re(\omega A)=\Re(\omega)A$ in this case. It follows that
$$
\|A\|_c=\max_{X\ne0}\frac{\|AZ\|_v}{\|Z\|_v}
\ge\frac{\|AI\|_v}{\|I\|_v}
=\frac{\|AI\|_r}{\|I\|_r}
=\|A\|_r.
$$
Next, if $A=0$, surely $\|A\|_c=\|A\|_r$. Suppose $A$ is a nonzero real matrix. Let $Z$ be a nonzero complex matrix such that $\|A\|_c=\frac{\|AZ\|_v}{\|Z\|_v}$. Since $A\ne0$, we must have $\|A\|_c>0$ and hence $AZ\ne0$. Let $\omega$ be any complex number on the unit circle such that $\|AZ\|_v=\|\Re(\omega AZ)\|_r$. Let $X=\Re(\omega Z)$. Then $\|AZ\|_v=\|\Re(\omega AZ)\|_r=\|AX\|_r$ and $\|Z\|_v\ge\|\Re(\omega Z)\|_r=\|X\|_r$. Since $AZ\ne0$, $X$ is necessarily nonzero. Therefore
$$
\|A\|_c=\frac{\|AZ\|_v}{\|Z\|_v}
\le\frac{\|AX\|_r}{\|X\|_r}
\le\frac{\|A\|_r\|X\|_r}{\|X\|_r}
=\|A\|_r.
$$
Consequently, $\|A\|_c=\|A\|_r$ when $A$ is real.


Could there be a more obvious suspect in the case to discover Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity than a libertarian computer engineers whose birth name actually is Satoshi Nakamoto?
Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto is a Japanese American man in his late 60s living in California, whose passion these days seems to be altering model steam trains by utilizing computer-aided design technology.
However, he also happens to be a physicist who worked on classified defense projects and had previously helped innovate technology for financial information service companies.
In essence, Dorian Nakamoto seems to be a man who would have the know-how as well as the sort of political ideology one would expect from the creator of a cryptocurrency such as bitcoin.
One might conclude that his response would indicate that the case is closed; we have found the true identity of Bitcoin's original creator.
However, it's also important to understand that Dorian Nakamoto was 64 at the time he was questioned, and that English is not his native language. Moreover, the physicist would later state that he misunderstood Goodman's question and thought he was asking about his time working on classified defense projects.
A photo of Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, who claimed he was not the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.
Was this simply Dorian Nakamoto trying to throw everyone off track?
If the real Bitcoin founder wished to remain anonymous would he be foolish enough to use his real name or could this be a case of someone simply hiding in plain sight?
It would appear that the curious case of Dorian Nakamoto has left those in search of Bitcoin's founder Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity, with more questions than answer.
Join us next time for Finding Satoshi Nakamoto: Part 4 –From the Land Down Under. And if you missed our previous installments of Finding Satoshi Nakamoto, check them out here!
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A new concept restaurant is coming to the former Old Country Buffet in Wyomissing. The unique restaurant blends the feel of a Brazilian steakhouse with Pennsylvania Dutch cooking.
Fogo de Chow Chow is the brainchild of Bobby "B.S." Stoltzfus, who said he got the idea after eating at a Brazilian steakhouse near Philadelphia.
"I ain't never seen anything like it," he said. "We used to go the smorgasbords, but they were too much work. You had to get up and fetch some more food every time.
Fogo de Chow Chow takes the Brazilian steakhouse and Dutchifies it, as Stoltzfus says.
"We give everyone a card with a hex sign on it," he said. "When you want more, just turn up the green side. And when you're done, just turn up the red side.
At many Brazilian steakhouses, the meat is delivered on skewers or swords, but Stoltzfus says his servers, dressed in suspenders and straw hats, will deliver it on pitchforks.
But what about the namesake chow chow? Stoltzfus says you won't be disappointed.
Then there's dessert: shoo-fly pie, funny cake, A.P. and lots of it.
The restaurant expects to open sometime this summer, though a soft opening could come as early as June.
Happy April Fool's Day, Berks County.
April 1, 2016 in Berks Food News.
Who the hell eats well done Steaks??


Once upon a time, not so long ago in fact, there were no mobile phones, no e-mail and no Internet. Only as far back as the early nineties, you would be happy if your home had running mains water and electricity. People were still sending each other letters and faxes, and making almost all of their payments via bank transfer or credit card in person. Despite being around since the seventies, 'the Internet' and 'e-mail' was something that only a handful of scientists, academics, researchers, hobbyists and geeks knew anything about. That technology arrived at the mainstream in the mid-nineties, and within a decade, everyone had an e-mail address, and almost everyone had a website, or would at least know what a website was. At first, people were sceptical and untrusting of it, but now, almost everyone can do their banking and pays their bills on-line with some degree of confidence.
Typically, technology evolves to solve problems and make people's lives easier. The problem that the inventors of Bitcoin sought to solve was that of the problems inherent in the world's banking systems. The first 'block' of Bitcoin was 'mined' in 2009, by a group of crytocurrency specialiasts who were working on alternative currency technologies. Their plan was to invent a cryptocurrency that would mimic the availability of gold or other precious metals or finite resources in the real world, yet easier to use as a currency than existing on-line methods, like Paypal and banking. Using highly complex mathematics and encryption algorithms for security, they created a virtual 'ledger' of transactions, shared and synchronised between thousands of computers distributed around the world. This ledger, known as the blockchain, is the backbone of Bitcoin. It's transparency allows the markets to analyse and gauge Bitcoin's overall value and legitimacy at any given time. You can view the ledger, and associated statistics at the 'blockchain.info' website.
Since then, many variations of the Bitcoin protocol have evolved with different names and different economic properties, such as 'Litecoin', 'Darkcoin, 'Mastercoin' and 'Dogecoin'. These are known as 'altcoins' and are the silver to Bitcoin's gold. Bitcoin has remained the dominant one that most of the financial attention is focussed on, but most Bitcoin exchanges will also trade altcoins too.
With cryptocurrencies, an adaptive mining algorithm is used to distribute 'work' to miners across the Internet, who use the immense computing resources at their disposal to complete the work and earn new blocks of currency by presenting their 'proof of work', ratifying the ongoing transactions of non-miners into the ledger at the same time. The Bitcoin algorithm adapts itself such that the difficulty will increase adaptively so that the rate of new Bitcoins being mined will slow over the course of time, so much like real gold, there will only ever be about 21 million bitcoins in circulation. Currently, there are over 13 million bitcoin in circulation, with a market capitalisation of 5 billion USD. Bitcoin is considered by many to be the digital equivalent of a gold standard of currency.
For the first few years, it was only being mined by hobbyists and others experimenting with the digital currencies. Since the 'Bitcoin boom' at the end of 2013, where the price per Bitcoin reached $1000 dollars, this now a rapidly growing ecosystem of companies, large and small, heavily investing in Bitcoin developments, mining projects or other services based around Bitcoin or the blockchain technology. Many of these companies are focussing on ways to bring Bitcoin to the masses, both in the third world where the Internet is sparse, and in more developed countries, where it is ubiquitously available with 3G. The technology has matured quickly, and now more and more merchants around the world, both on-line and brick-and-mortar, are accepting Bitcoin for goods and services, are starting to accept Bitcoin in addition to their traditional payment methods.
I'm certainly not expecting Bitcoin to replace paper money within the next few decades, but given enough time I can see the technology, whether it's Bitcoin or a variation of it, replacing credit, debit and ATM cards, and other money transmission services. The 'plastic' technologies of the 80s and 90s are now far too easy for criminals to work around, and the associated security and insurance costs are spiralling, so it's inevitable that they will be replaced sooner rather than later. And many individuals and organisations are no longer satisfied to wait 3-5 days for banks to 'clear' international transfers.
For the buyer, paying for something in Bitcoin is easier and quicker than a traditional card transaction. For the merchant, it doesn't involve installing bank-approved equipment, binding agreements and the risk of charge-backs. In most cases, all the merchant needs is a smartphone or tablet and a wifi connection. The merchant will open the payment app and enter the required payment amount, usually in the local fiat currency as per their standard menu or price list. The app will calculate the Bitcoin amount required and present a QR code. The buyer then opens their Bitcoin wallet app on their smartphone, scans the merchant's QR code, checks the amount displayed is correct, and clicks the 'confirm payment' button. The buyer's app then signs a new ledger transaction and transmits it to the blockchain. Within a few seconds, the merchant's app will detect that payment has been made and it's display will change from 'payment requested' to 'payment received'.
At this point, the merchant can be happy they have received payment in full. With Bitcoin, there is a significantly lower chance of finding that the payment was counterfeit than if the customer had paid with paper money. It's impossible to fake Bitcoin transactions. In the Bitcoin system, transactions are confirmed by nodes on the network as they are distributed across the network. A merchant can consider the transaction irreversible once it has been confirmed by four or five independent nodes on the network. This can often take 20-30 mins, and for higher value transactions, merchants will often delay releasing the goods, or the customers, until they have seen a certain number of these confirmations.
According to coinmap.org, in Thailand, there are 12 vendors in Bangkok that accept Bitcoin, and 2 hotels down in Phuket. Recently, I bought a very tasy burger for Bitcoin from PaulyBee's American Burger stall on Rambuttri, near Khaosan Road, while in Bangkok attending a Bitcoin conference. There seems to be a growing interest, as the conference was well attended.
So far, as a Bitcoin user here in Ban Krut, there are still very few things I can actually do locally with my Bitcoin. I usually spend my Bitcoin online, purchasing goods on-line from sites that accept it, and topping up my mobile phone using a site called 'bahtcoin.com', and donating to various on-line charities around the world. However, that is starting to change.
Pay your Pizza with Bitcoins at Kasama's.
Bitcoin users can now come to Ban Krut, rent a beach resort bungalow for Bitcoin, and eat out at Kasama's with Bitcoin! I am also hoping that other local vendors will also consider accepting it in the coming few months, and join me in trying to make Ban Krut a Bitcoin-friendly tourist destination.
If you're interested in trying out Bitcoin, you can buy some from one of the on-line exchange services in Bangkok, such as bitcoin.co.th, or coins.co.th, or from a more informal world-wide marketplace at LocalBitcoins.com. I suggest you just buy a small amount to start with, just enough to make a few test purchases with. Then, transfer it to a wallet on your smartphone, and head on down to Kasama's and use it to pay for some of their lovely nosh!
For further advice or information on anything related to Bitcoin, please feel free to drop me an e-mail at ross@golder.org.
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The 2022 SmallSat Symposium brings together the leaders driving this change to identify critical trends and qualify disruptive technologies. An ideal environment for open communication, important networking and critical insight are hallmarks of this must-attend satellite industry event.
The Dixie Crow Chapter is located in Warner Robins, Georgia and takes pride in its professional presence within the community. The Chapter was chartered in 1968 with approximately 15 members. Today over 350 military, DoD civilian, industry and academia representatives comprise the membership roll. The Dixie Crow Chapter has also grown in recognition. Each year the AOC recognizes a local chapter as the Chapter of the year. Elements of evaluation include membership retention, Scholarship Program, community awareness, social functions and technical information awareness meetings. The Dixie Crows are multi-year Chapter of the Year Award winners.
The SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition launched in 1981 with the goal to connect and unite the satellite industry as we headed towards new frontiers. Over the past 41 years, SATELLITE has served the satellite and space communities and broadened the scope of content to encompass professionals in commercial markets benefiting from satellite technology and applications, such as broadcasting, media & entertainment, government/military, aviation, maritime, automotive, financial, healthcare, telecommunications and more.
For the first time, New York City (NYC) will host the annual IEEE Radar Conference, with the 2022 event taking place 21 – 25 March in Times Square. The NYC area has a rich history in radar innovation with the invention of pulse compression and stretch processing, and like radar, NYC runs all days and all nights. Since World War II, the area has been known for the design, development and manufacture of world-class airborne, shipboard, and ground-based systems. The area is also home to many great radar pioneers, from Harold Wheeler to Eugene Fubini. The city is the land of innovation, businesses, venture capitals and startups, making it the perfect place to disseminate new ideas and novel capabilities.
The host country, Spain, has a strong antennas and propagation community in both academia and industry and, Madrid, as the capital of Spain, hosts the main branches of the high-tech companies in Spain. In radiofrequency and Aero spatial sectors, Airbus, Thales Alenia, INDRA, SENER among others have their offices in Madrid metropolitan area, working more than one hundred antenna engineers in those companies. The cellular Spanish companies (Telefonica, Vodafone, Orange among others) and the telecommunications equipment vendors have also their headquarters in this area. Therefore, EuCAP 2022 will be a unique place to strengthen the link between the scientific antennas and propagation communities in areas related to 5G, space applications, or future communication systems.
The exhibition will offer its exhibitors an unrivalled opportunity to present products, technological developments and form relationships with relevant and interested spectators including academics, professionals and industry figureheads. It also offers a forum for discussing trends and exchanging scientific and technical information.
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Mega Brands America to Pay $1.1 Million Civil Penalty for Reporting Violations With Popular Magnetic Building Sets
WASHINGTON, April 14 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Mega Brands America Inc., of Livingston, N.J., formerly Rose Art Industries Inc., has agreed to pay a $1.1 million civil penalty. The penalty, which the Commission has provisionally accepted, settles allegations that Mega Brands America and Rose Art failed to provide the government with timely information about dangers to children with Magnetix magnetic building sets, as required under federal law.
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In December of 2005, Rose Art filed an "initial report" with CPSC that a 22-month-old child from Washington state had died, due to ingesting multiple magnets that fell out of pieces from a Magnetix set. The report contained no other product or incident information and Rose Art attributed the magnets falling out to unusually abusive play by the toddler's older siblings. On February 1, 2006, Rose Art submitted a Full Report which again lacked incident and product information. Rose Art stated that it did not retain any complaint or incident records. On March 31, 2006, Rose Art voluntarily recalled nearly 4 million Magnetix sets for users under the age of 6.
After discovering documents which led CPSC staff to believe Rose Art had compiled incident information, a subpoena was issued to the firm (which had been renamed Mega Brands America and was under new ownership and control) to obtain product and incident information. CPSC learned through the subpoena that at the time Rose Art filed its "initial report" in December 2005, it had received over 1,100 consumer complaints that magnets had fallen out of plastic pieces from dozens of different Magnetix models. Additionally, the subpoena revealed that Rose Art had received at least one report of an injury due to magnet ingestion, prior to the toddler's death in Washington state.
By the time Rose Art agreed to the recall of Magnetix in March 2006, the firm had received more than 1,500 complaints of magnets falling out of plastic pieces in more than 65 different models of Magnetix. In April 2007, Mega Brands America expanded the recall of Magnetix sets for users of any age, after more than 25 children suffered intestinal injuries that required surgery to remove the magnets.
Federal law requires firms to report to CPSC immediately (within 24 hours) after obtaining information reasonably supporting the conclusion that a product contains a defect which could create a substantial product hazard, creates an unreasonable risk of serious injury or death, or violates any consumer product safety rule, or any other rule, regulation, standard, or ban enforced by CPSC.
In agreeing to settle this matter, Mega Brands America and its parent, Mega Brands Inc., of Montreal, Canada contend that 1) Mega Brands Inc. did not know of the Magnetix defect at the time it acquired Rose Art and 2) Rose Art's prior owners never advised Mega Brands Inc. of the problems of associated with Magnetix.
CPSC strongly encourages consumers to check to see if they have any of the recalled building sets and return them to Mega Brands for a free replacement toy – potentially millions of recalled units remain in homes today and accessible to young children.
CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772
CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908
CONTACT: CPSC Media, 301-504-7908
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DeGale confirms IBF super-middleweight title defence against Lucien Bute in Canada
IN the Diamond Suite at Emirates Stadium, where membership costs upwards of £30,000 a season to watch Arsenal, Gunners fan James DeGale confirmed his November 28 IBF super-middleweight title defence against Lucian Bute. The contest will take place at the Videotron Centre – a new arena – in Quebec City, where the former champion will enjoy home advantage.
"You can see what kind of man I am I'm going to Canada to give Lucian Bute a chance to box for my world title," said DeGale. "The way I'm feeling, I'm in top shape, it's going to be hard to beat me. My journey is just starting, his is coming to an end.
"I want the big fights, I want to unify titles. First things first I have to beat Bute and he wants his old belt back. I'm too young, too fresh, and too good. Much too good."
Bute was last in Britain three years ago when he lost the IBF title in five rounds to Carl Froch. He is eager to get his hands back on the belt he won way back in 2007.
"Last time I was hear I lost my title in 2012 but that is in the past," said Bute, now trained by Howard Grant. "I have a new team behind me and I will become a world champion again. This is big for me because I had this belt for five years. On November 28 I get it back. Thanks to James for the opportunity. I have never lost in Quebec City – I will be the new world champion."
Jim McDonnell, DeGale's trainer, believes his fighter has improved since winning the championship in May – a 12-round verdict over Andre Dirrell in Boston.
"Everyone knows what Bute is about," said McDonnell. "But I'm here to talk about James DeGale. I have never seen, read or heard about a fighter as good as James. Winning the world title has put 20 per cent on his performances. His sparring the other day was incredible. Your going to see the best of JD in November and he will go on to be not just a good champion, but a great champion."
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Q: avoid mismatched tags outputting HTML with XSLT I'm new to XSLT, and there's one specific thing I don't know how to do, despite hours of searching for the answer.
I'm outputting blocks of HTML (result sets), and sometimes the result is a hyperlink, sometimes it is not.
The simple flow looks like this:
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I was using CDATA text for the anchor set, but a lot of messages say that this is a "hack" approach.
I'm trying to avoid having to repeat the entire HTML code block only to include the anchors on only one of them.
How do I do this?
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A: In XSLT, your output is a tree of nodes. Writing an element node is a single atomic operation; it can't be split into separate operations of writing a start tag and writing an end tag. You can't create half a node.
If you do try to treat  and  as separate and separable operations, you will get this error, because the stylesheet must be well-formed XML.
So, stand back and explain what you are trying to achieve, and then we can tell you how to achieve it properly in XSLT.

A: One way to refactor the XSLT to conditionally apply the hyperlink and not repeat the logic to produce the  (or whatever more complex logic you are trying to avoid repeating) is to extract that logic out into a different template(s) as either a named template or a template with a @mode.
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A self-sovereign identity for air travel: SITA steps up
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SITA has stepped up its commitment to developing a permanent digital identity for air travel by becoming a Premium Donor of the Sovrin Foundation, the international non-profit organization focused on the advancement of self-sovereign digital identity. The Sovrin Foundation is a decentralized, global public utility for self-sovereign identity. Self-sovereign means a lifetime portable identity for any person, organization, or thing that allows the holder to present verifiable credentials in a privacy-protecting way. These credentials can represent things as diverse as a passport, an airline ticket or simply a library card.
SITA's expanded role is key to speeding up the development of a permanent digital identity accepted by governments, airlines or airports globally for use during air travel yet ensuring privacy and protection of the user's digital identity.
SITA has successfully deployed its Smart Path technology at airports to streamline the departure process through the use of a single biometric token, where a passenger's face is their passport at each step of the journey across an individual airport – from check-in to boarding. However, the shift in focus in the next few years will see Smart Path integrated with self-sovereign identity, controlled by the individual and usable across governments, airports and airlines, streamlining the travel process even further.
Gustavo Pina, Director of the SITA Lab, said: "We expect in the coming years that the development of a universally accepted digital identity will replace the traditional passport. This will allow travel across borders with any airline or airport while ensuring that you, as the passenger, remain in full control of your identity while providing actionable, trusted data only to appropriate parties such as border agencies.
"The benefits include a reduced arrivals infrastructure, providing new opportunities to increase existing airport throughput by design and not expansion. Our work with the Sovrin Foundation will play an important role in unlocking that potential."
Having joined the Foundation as a Founding Steward in 2018, SITA will now take a more active role in supporting Sovrin in the global adoption of self-sovereign identity.
Phil Windley, Chairman of the Sovrin Foundation Board of Trustees, said: "SITA continues to lead the discussion around the adoption of self-sovereign identity in the travel industry. The Sovrin Foundation provides the ideal forum to drive this agenda forward both with the fellow Sovrin Foundation members across the wider economic spectrum but also with key stakeholders in the air transport industry such as IATA, ICAO and Airport Council International.
The Sovrin Foundation seeks to transform the current broken online identity system which is open to misuse and fraud. Using self-sovereign identities could lead to lower financial transaction costs, protect people's personal information, limit opportunity for cybercrime, and simplify identity challenges in a variety of fields including travel, healthcare, banking, IoT and voter fraud.
In addition to its engagement with the Sovrin Foundation, SITA is working with governments, airlines and airports to develop and deliver the benefits of travel using a permanent digital identity.
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Most words, or sounds, or colors are "residents" of one sense or another. When we say the number 3, that's all we perceive- the numeral 3. And when we listen to the Carpenters or to Beethoven, we hear music. Period.
But consider this: even without giving it a second thought we employ phrases that on the face of it make no sense. Can prose be purple? Or a dress loud? Or a mood blue? Such literary devices evoke images that enrich our language and enhance our pleasure of reading. Or consider the whoosh sign of Nike –a design intended to evoke images of speed and running, probably "tickling" the visual cortex as well as the pre-motor area. The fact that such phrases and symbols are widely used and universally understood attests to the fact that all areas of the brain are interconnected to varying degrees.
There are people who actually see numbers as colors, or taste chocolate when they hear a song; they are called synesthetes. So what's the biological basis for this strange phenomenon?
The November 17 issue of Science Now describes research on synesthesia published in Current Biology, (Nov. 17, 2011). "Synesthesia can occur early in life due to the explosive growth of a young child's brain, explains neuroscientist Devin Terhune of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Normally, as the child grows older and brain circuits are refined, the linkages break up. But in synesthetes, for some reason, the secondary sense persists throughout life. The simplest explanation, Terhune and his colleagues believe, is that neurons in the area responsible for the extra sense are more responsive, or "excitable," than usual, strengthening a sensory association that the person wouldn't normally be aware of. The investigators tested their hypothesis with a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation, which, as the name suggests, stimulates a specific part of the brain with a weak magnetic field applied to the scalp.
The researchers worked with six people who had "grapheme-color synesthesia,"—the most common form of the condition, in which letters or numbers are perceived in certain colors (the number 2 in turquoise or the letter S in magenta, for example)—and six "normal" controls. Each participant received stimulation on the scalp near an area called the primary visual cortex until they saw a flash of light known as a phosphene.
For many reasons. By studying the extraordinary we can learn about the ordinary. Synesthesia highlights the connections between different brain areas, albeit in an exaggerated fashion. It may be very useful in understanding visual and auditory hallucinations in a variety of neurological disorders, for instance. Or just plain artists whose vision of the world trascends ours. Just witness William Blake's, the 18th century visionary poet and painter, painting of " the swirl of love".
There is a theory that certain form of childhood autism is due to failure of the neuronal pruning process that is happening in the early years of life. Are synesthetes more prone to autism? Are autists more likely to be synesthetes?
I harbor a secret wish: I hope that this research will prove that that the normal connections between different brain centers can be made subject to manipulation. Wouldn't it be nice If we could acquire such a capacity through feedback training or meditation? I have a feeling that synesthetes experience the world as infinitely richer than we "normals" do. I am envious.
I loved the article about synesthesia. I am a synesthete and as a child I was always a bit reluctant to talk about it. People think you' re a bit wacky or you're making it up. But one day my college piano instructor told me about Scriabin's "color" sounds. Wow! So, today if you asked me I'd tell you that the key of D flat is blue violet, Fridays are red, and July starts out yellow but fades in the last few weeks. Wacky? Maybe…but I can't imagine not thinking that way.


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Election 2018: Inland Empire pumps red into California's blue wave
Republican gubernatorial candidate John Cox, center, stumps for Proposition 6 at the State Capitol in Sacramento in this August file photo. While losing statewide, Cox and Prop. 6 both fared well in early election returns in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. (File photo courtesy of CALmatters).
PUBLISHED: November 9, 2018 at 3:46 pm | UPDATED: November 10, 2018 at 11:18 pm
The blue wave that crested in California on election night had a reddish tint to it in the Inland Empire.
While Democrats and liberal ballot propositions won the vast majority elections up and down the state, returns counted so far show that voters in Riverside and San Bernardino counties were in a different mood.
-Inland Empire voters preferred Republican John Cox over Democrat Gavin Newsom for governor by a margin of 53.14 percent to 46.86 percent. Statewide, Newsom won by nearly 20 points.
-Inland Empire voters also approved Prop 6, the ballot measure which called for repeal of the state's 2017 gas tax known as SB 1, 57.82 percent to about 42.18 percent. Statewide, Prop 6 lost by more than 10 points.
-And while the race for the 60th Assembly District remained too close to call as of Friday, Republican Bill Essayli does lead Democrat Sabrina Cervantes by 176 votes.
It's all part of a pattern in which Inland Empire voters, collectively, made choices that run counter to California's increasingly liberal electorate.
Republican congressional representatives from the region — Paul Cook, Ken Calvert, and Duncan Hunter — all won re-election fairly easily. Hunter even managed to win while under indictment for allegations that he used campaign money for his personal life.
The region's most conservative state representatives politicians, Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez, R-Lake Elsinore, and state Sen. Jeff Stone, R-La Quinta, are returning to Sacramento. So is Temecula's assemblywoman, Republican Marie Waldron of Escondido, who was chosen to be the Assembly GOP caucus' leader.
The GOP also maintained its majority on the nonpartisan San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, and the party is poised to keep its majority on the nonpartisan Riverside County Board of Supervisors, assuming Russ Bogh hangs onto his lead in District 5.
As with the June primary, the results defy local trends in voter registration.
Not only is the Republican Party now vastly outnumbered statewide, trailing Democrats and "no party preference" in voter registration, but the GOP also is No. 2 in both San Bernardino and Riverside counties, where Democrats make up a plurality of all registered voters.
"We weren't celebrating at a bunch of parties," said Riverside County Republican Party Chairman Jonathan Ingram, who was re-elected to the Murrieta City Council. "We worked hard from the beginning to the end of the election cycle."
Inland Democrats did see some local bright spots.
The open 40th Assembly District in San Bernardino County went red to blue with James Ramos' win. Democratic congressional representatives from the area — Pete Aguilar, Mark Takano, and Raul Ruiz — all coasted to re-election. All three districts were considered battlegrounds as recently as four years ago.
Also, Democrat-endorsed Corona City Council candidate Jacque Casillas, a Planned Parenthood employee, won a council seat, beating out a trio of Christian pastors, two of whom said they'd try to stop an abortion clinic from entering the city.
Still, Riverside County Democratic Party Chairman Steve Ruth sees a lot of local red, politically speaking.
"The Republicans still have more influence with their voters than Democrats do."
Turnout isn't official at this point, so it's not clear if more Inland Republicans or more Democrats cast ballots on Nov. 6. But with hundreds of thousands of Inland ballots still uncounted as of Friday, it's believed that 2018 could set a record for midterm turnout.
Saltwater vs. dirt
Not too long ago, Riverside and San Bernardino counties were viewed as reliably Republican. That started changing in 2012, when Democrats swept several highly competitive legislative and congressional races in the region.
In 2016, Democrats, who already outnumbered GOP voters in San Bernardino County, overtook Republicans in Riverside County's voter registration. And while both counties have favored Republican gubernatorial candidates in recent election cycles, Barack Obama won the Inland Empire in 2008 and 2012 and Hillary Clinton took the region in 2016.
California's current political divide is not north vs. south, but coastal vs. inland, said Jack Pitney, a professor of politics at Claremont McKenna College.
"If you smell salt water, you are probably in a Democratic district. If you smell dust, you are probably in a Republican district," he said.
"As the more populous coastal areas continue to trend Democratic, inland areas will make up a greater and greater share of the Republican vote."
Turnout — specifically, the trend of GOP voters being more likely than Democrats to show up in midterm elections — also might play a role.
From left, Republican Assembly candidate Bill Essayli and Assemblywoman Sabrina Cervantes, D-Riverside.
"Orange County is now looking more and more like the Inland Empire in terms of partisanship, but even in other election years (it) has higher turnout," said Marcia Godwin, professor of public administration at the University of La Verne.
"So the Inland Empire counties may appear to be more Democratic than Orange County, but some districts have a chance of swinging back to Republicans in midterm years."
That phenomenon might be playing out in the 60th Assembly, where two Democrat Cervantes won narrowly two years ago, while appearing on a ballot with presidential candidates, but this year is trailing (narrowly) to Republican Essayli.
If Cervantes loses, she may rue her swing vote in favor of a transportation funding bill that raised California's gas tax. Essayli hitched his wagon to Prop. 6 in a district heavy with commuters who work outside Riverside County.
Trending blue?
Of Riverside County's 28 cities, 14 lean blue and 14 lean red, Ruth said. He's hopeful that in the next few years Hemet, Corona, and Rancho Mirage all will turn blue. And he noted a strong Democratic cluster in the county's northwest corner, with Riverside, Moreno Valley, Jurupa Valley, and Eastvale all blue.
"Things are changing. But the Temecula-Murrieta area (where the GOP enjoys a solid voter-registration edge), that's a hard nut to crack," Ruth said. "And I'm not sure when that nut will be cracked. I think we might be coming closer."
Local Democratic elected officials need to be more involved with the county party, Ruth said.
"They kind of go off and do their own things and aren't involved."
Democrats "need to devote resources to the area in off-year elections and hold some rallies," said University of La Verne's Godwin.
"Republican groups have continued to host a convention in the region, and tea party groups have been very active."
If the Inland Latino population grows in the next decade, as expected, "Democratic prospects will improve, provided that Democrats can get Hispanic voters to the polls," Pitney said.
"If not, then Republicans can hold on."
Blue voters, red results
Democrats hold the voter registration edge in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. But the Inland Empire is friendly territory for conservative candidates and causes, according to the latest midterm results.
Democratic-registered voters: 387,000
Republican-registered voters: 342,521
Prop. 6 (as of Friday afternoon): 58 percent yes, 42 percent no
Governor's race (as of Friday afternoon): Republican John Cox 53 percent, Democrat Gavin Newsom 47 percent


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PM Barrow: GOB will make full payment of US$78 million to Ashcroft Alliance
Published by BBN Staff at November 2, 2017
Hon. Dean Barrow (Prime Minister of Belize)
Posted: Thursday, November 2, 2017. 3:35 pm CST.
By BBN Staff: Yesterday, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ordered the Government of Belize to pay US$78 million in ten days in the final case to settle the full compensation for the nationalization of BTL.
Financial Secretary, Joseph Waight told the media that government was disappointed with the ruling and that the exorbitant payout will have an impact on Belize's foreign reserves.
In response to the CCJ's ruling on the nationalization of BTL, PM Barrow called a press conference to inform the nation that government will pay the entire sum all at once.
Barrow told the media that government will meet the payment on the date stipulated by the CCJ.
He said that a formal approach had already been made to make the necessary arrangements to pay the sum in installments.
"We will make one payment and be done with it and that's going to be an end to the saga in so far as the paying off for the nationalization of BTL is concerned," PM Barrow said.
The US$78 million payout is equivalent to 20% of the country's foreign reserves.
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The Art of the Baltic Way
The fall of the Berlin Wall in late 1989 has come to symbolise the end of the Cold War, as the hated barrier between East and West Germany was broken apart, and long-divided friends and families once again came together. A few months earlier, the creation of another kind of wall likewise showed the power of citizens to force change through unity. On 23 August, two million citizens of the Baltic states – over a quarter of the collective population – joined hands. Together, the Baltic Way (also known as the Baltic Chain) stretched unbroken across 600 kilometres: from Tallinn on Estonia's northern coast; through the Latvian capital of Riga; all the way to Vilnius, near the southern border of Lithuania.
Photos by Gunārs Janaitis, Vilhelms Mihailovskis, Aivars Liepiņš, Vitālijs Stīpnieks, Uldis Briedis, Gunārs Janaitis. Courtesy thebalticway.eu.
The protest marked a moment of communal catharsis in a region that had suffered many years of occupation and tyranny. The date was chosen as the 50th anniversary of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, when just prior to the outbreak of World War II, Nazi Germany agreed to pass the Baltic states to the Soviet Union, as part of a secret agreement to respect each other's plans to invade their respective "spheres of influence". For the next half-century, the Soviet regime refused to acknowledge their collusion, insisting that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania has willingly joined the union. By coming together to form the Baltic Way, demonstrators rejected this false history, reclaimed their free will and demanded independence.
The gesture received support on both sides of the Iron Curtain, with people joining hands in solidarity from Leningrad, Moscow and Tbilisi to Melbourne and Toronto. The Baltic Way forced Gorbachev's government finally to admit that the three countries had been forcibly subsumed into the USSR as a result of the Nazi-Soviet treaty; although the citizens of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania would have to wait another two years to gain full independence.
In each of the countries, the Baltic Way is now memorialised through commemorative sculptures. Most striking is The Road to Freedom, in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. In 2010, sculptor Tadas Gutauskas initiated a collective art project to create the monument, in keeping with the cooperative spirit of the Baltic Way. The 60-metre-long wall is constructed from 20,000 bricks in the colours of the Lithuanian flag, each one contributed by a member of the public and stamped with the individual's name. Among the bricks, hollowed silhouettes of life-size figures recall the men, women and children who joined hands in 1989.
The monuments in the other Baltic states are more modest in scale. In Käru in central Estonia, three large boulders linked by a heavy metal chain represent the protesters in abstracted form. The choice of materials perhaps symbolises the resilience of the citizens and the eternal, unbreakable spirit of the three Baltic states. Situated in a small borough rather than a major city, the monument is a reminder that the human chain stretched through towns and villages and across open fields, bringing together citizens from all corners of the countries.
Baltic Way tile in Riga, in front of Freedom Monument. Courtesy holeinthedonut.com.
In all three capital cities, smaller plaques – easily overlooked – also delineate the path of the Baltic Way. On a hill overlooking Freedom Square in Tallinn; in front of Freedom Monument in Riga; and in Cathedral Square in Vilnius; a pair of footsteps imprinted on a red granite tile marks the spot where protesters stood to form the human chain. Installed in 2013, the matching sculptures represent the ongoing unity of the Baltic countries since gaining independence, and their mutual commitment to resisting outside aggression at a time when that independence appears under threat.
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Sticky Post By jer On 8. December 2014
Just before Christmas 2014 the monks of Digos Priory in the Philippines elected their new Conventual Prior: Fr Patrick Mariano. He is the first Filipino to lead the community, making his election a historic landmark for the monastery. Fr Patrick (b 1959) succeeds Fr Edgar Friedmann who was prior 2002-2014. Previously, Fr Patrick was subprior, novice master and director of the retreat center.
On December 5th 2014 the community of St Georgenberg-Fiecht in Austria has elected Fr Raphael Gebauer Prior Administrator of the abbey. He succeeds Abbot Anselm Zeller who had been abbot since 1996 and resigned on December 1st. Prior Raphal (b. 1958) served the community as bursar and novice master, and attended to the mountain shrine at St Georgenberg. Fiecht was founded in 1138 and joined the Congregation of Sankt Ottilien in 1967. The abbey maintains a missionary monk in Mbulu archdiocese in Tanzania and supports many other mission activities.
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Monasteries Receive Refugees
As countless refugees from the Middle East and other trouble spots knock at the gates of Europe, our monasteries have decided to open their doors. Abbot Michael Reepen of Münsterschwarzach refers to a "a genuine monastery task" as his community prepares to receive 22 refugees in a converted former boarding house of the abbey. St. Ottilien Abbey plans to have space for a similar number ready in February of next year. St. Georgenberg-Fiecht in Austria has been sharing the abbey building for several years with a growing group of "unaccompanied minors" – young people who have reached Europe without their parents and whose care is entrusted to Caritas Austria. In this way the monks also fufill a request of Pope Francis who shortly after taking office had admonished the church to make surplus buildings available for those who have lost their homes.


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