A further week's holiday which had some bizarre settings but was more staid than the trip which I had initially planned and, indeed, tentatively held: Israel with a two day stopover in Kiev... Just before, I might add, the troubles in the Ukraine.
Having settled upon Austria and, for the first time, Slovakia, I flew with British Airways to Salzburg from Gatwick and had three lovely days in the famous spa town of Bad Ischl. Bad Ischl, delightful and typical spa town like many others in the general region, is not just about "taking the waters". ( When I went there last, aged seventeen, I found all this spa business quaint and faintly amusing. Thirty-two years, I actively participate even if I haven't quite reached the stage for the need for pampering). No, Bad Ischl's other, maybe main claim to fame, is that it is where the Austrian Kaiser, Franz Josef, who signed the treaty which may have led to the Great War, took his holidays there and so it is referred to as the Kaiserstadt. There is lots within the town to keep his and his wife's memory going: Kaiser shops, Kaiser restaurants, Kaiserschnitzels therein and naturally the grand Kaiser Villa.
I booked into the excellent Stadt Salzburg hotel which was a warm and welcoming place. The room was a decent size, breakfasts – where I treated myself to a surreptitious, if included, glass of champagne at breakfast: taking the waters, after all! – were good and was conveniently placed. In one of my occasional moments of being unable to read my simple map to find the hotel, I stopped by a restaurant where a waitress was doing her accounts outside to ask her the way. She gladly pointed me in the right direction and I ate very well there on all three evenings with a bust of the Kaiser to my side. I'm sure that he would have approved of the Kaiserschnitzel as much as I did. I was pleasantly surprised by the good value of eating out in Austria.
Okay, my interest in Where Eagles Dare is becoming more bizarre and might appear to be verging upon paranoia now. It's not quite reached that stage but I do feel a certain satisfaction in reaching – I think and hope! – certain outposts used in the film. Werfen castle, Ebensee and Lofer are easy, bends in the road such as the one near Hallein over Easter are slightly trickier. The latest bend in the road which doubles up as a bridge on the L1296 on the Offensee road was wider than the Hallein road but not appreciably less busy. I did chuckle at myself wandering apparently aimlessly along this road whilst others enjoyed hikes in the woods nearby – one soul offered me a lift back – but I'm no longer inclined to dwell upon these apparent mental aberrations. More of a problem is that, whilst mountains don't change, roads do and, almost forty-seven years after the film was shot, one can never be entirely sure that the correct place has been found. I returned – happy – after seeing two bridges and, having discounted one, watched the film having satisfied myself that the spot was the first bridge just over 3kms from where I had started. I could have sworn when I saw a damned waterfall in the film – it is the scene at the end of the film where a bridge is blown up to allow our heroes to fly home to safety – and had I seen anything like that whilst on the bridge? Well, having taken lots of photos as you, I hope, do, an additional structure, presumably put up within the last forty-seven years, did keep some water at bay so I am more hopeful now. Anyway, it was a nice walk and good exercise.
Having missed the two-hourly train from Steinkogel to Ebensee – which takes four minutes – I walked there and up to the place in the film which is not subject to any locational dispute: the Feuerkogel cable car slightly out of Ebensee. Thirty-two years ago, I had been in one of the original cable cars with my parents and two engineers on the roof. Soon afterwards, those cars – at the time, possibly the oldest in use in Austria – had been replaced but the originals can be still be found. One should still be at the top of the Feuerkogel and the other is near the valley station in someone's back garden. I saw the latter. A beer while watching the regular arrivals and departures of the cable cars was perfect after walking almost 25 kilometres.
Bad Ischl's main spa, the Eurotherme, is one of the best which I have used and included an array of swimming pools and saunas. The Stadt Salzburg offered discounted tickets to guests and it was wonderful after a day's walking. One experience which I hadn't had – I won't say enjoyed even afterwards – was the half-hourly Aufguss performed in the inevitably-named Kaisersauna. Amidst much arm-waving and fanfare, someone basically waves a towel about to fan the heat and, God knows why, but with the door occasionally open, I imagined that it would make it cooler... Anything but and, after being told off for not having my feet on the towel, I was quite relieved to leave. I'm certainly not knocking it, mind you.
The second main day was spent in St Wolfgang, renowned for its Weisses Rossl or White Horse Inn after the operetta, and Halstatt, both of which are close to Bad Ischl. I have stayed in St Wolfgang on around three or four occasions and love it and it was a delight returning there even if parts have been modernised. Its setting on the Wolfgangersee is idyllic and is one of many highlights of the Salzkammergut region and, indeed, Austria.
Halstatt is the picture-postcard town on the Halstattersee but maybe going by train wasn't, as I discovered, the best way with little time to spend. The train station is opposite the town and requires a further trip, albeit short, across the lake to reach the town. For sure, it gave wonderful views and was fun but did leave me just an hour there. One of its peculiarities is a charnel house within the church which houses hundreds of skulls, named and with dates of birth and death on each skull. Maudlin possibly but equally fascinating!
I left Bad Ischl for Bratislava on the Tuesday and was pleased to book one of the Austrian Railways ( OBB) long distance, sparschiene tickets from their website which was a complete bargain for 19 euros and excellent value if, like me, you can stick to the journeys booked. There was a change in Attnang-Puchheim and the initial journey took me to Vienna in around three and a half hours before taking the Slovak Lines bus from Wien Hauptbahnhof to Slovakia's capital, Bratislava in around an hour and a half. Again, this journey is cheap costing around 7 euros and can be booked online. I'd pooh-poohed initially their suggestion of reserving on a certain bus but all the coaches I went on – and there are twenty-three each day, an advert said – were very busy so was glad to have done so.
The instructions on my map seemed simple and the walk to the Apollo Hotel should only have taken a handful of minutes. Inevitably, that wasn't the case: the 57 metres I had to walk from the bus station to the first turning were rendered useless as I came out of a different exit to that of the map, no stars to guide me – as if that would have helped – and, with my lost cap on, I was much impressed when a young lady came over to ask if she could help. Okay, she did say that she would have offered me accommodation as she worked for an apartment-letting agency but only said this after knowing that I had accommodation booked. She was kind enough to take me so far also and gave, in my eyes, an excellent account of her country.
I would have to say that this girl was rather the exception than the rule. She spoke impeccable English but, of the people I saw and met, the same warmth wasn't there. Hotel receptionists, in general, were very good but the staff in the hotel restaurants, maybe because few spoke English or German making communication at best awkward, tended to be a tad distant. In one place, pretty much only the main man spoke English and I felt that, with the line of employees watching me find a space to eat, I was going towards a condemned seat! The chap who spoke English filled up a glass of red wine with white by mistake and then, after I had declined a further glass, another one duly appeared which I did send back. But the food was wholesome, good and very cheap and I enjoyed the local dishes on most of my five nights there.
Oh Lord, remembering my colleague's words a few weeks ago about showing my age, I do have to get one piece off my chest. One evening I had a buffet, returned the next night only to find that there was a do on and so was encouraged to use the bar restaurant. A German-speaking David Boon lookalike gladly accepted me despite there not being much room but I was staggered by two couples who, if nothing else, made me feel that I wasn't the only one eating alone, let's say. One girl made a 'phone call which lasted the length of my meal – around forty minutes – leaving her partner looking uneasy whilst a chap on another table, presumably entertaining a young lady, barely spoke to her preferring to send text messages. Maybe it's me but, remembering Victor Meldrew's words, I did find it unbelievable. At least I could leave when I wanted to.
That wasn't in the Apollo. I did find the Apollo a lovely, old-fashioned hotel and, unbeknown to me, I had booked a room around 50 euros including breakfast which was on the top floor and came with a balcony. I had the same arrangement later in the week and must say that it was a decent place to stay and very comfortable. I had little time there on the first day as the next morning I took the train from Bratislava to Novy Smokovec via Poprad for the Tatras mountains. It took a fair time longer as there was an hour's wait at Poprad and, on arrival in Novy Smokovec, not even I could get lost as the hotel was right opposite the very small station. Well, platform with its name on a board. Just as well that the weather was appalling and I was quickly drenched.
The weather did pick up enough the next day to allow me to have a brief walk into the mountains. Whatever it was, I had maybe expected something a little more dramatic. Nice though it undoubtedly is, it isn't Switzerland but the Smokovec resorts, with their distinct architecture, were pleasant and I certainly didn't regret going. It's quite a distance from Bratislava and very much closer to another large city, Kosice.
Back in Bratislava mid-afternoon on the Friday, I went to the old town and, as luck would have it, the rain ceased just as I arrived and I thoroughly enjoyed my visit. It is like other Eastern bloc cities to a degree but with curios and a band even processed through the main square. Everywhere looks better with a bit of sun but, even if it had been raining, it would still be a happy and enjoyable place to visit.
I was back in Austria on the last day. Where Eagles Dare and The Sound of Music may have been filmed in the Salzburg region – partly in Werfen actually - but probably the most famous film to be filmed in Austria's capital, Vienna, is The Third Man. Tours of the sewers are advertised and can be pre-booked with payment made on the day and so I duly signed up to go down the same entrance as Orson Welles made all those years ago. It's a fascinating film: is it that it's in black and white, filmed just after the Second World War in a rubble-strewn Vienna or the slightly haunting zither music of Anton Karas? Whatever, a 7 euro tour was rather good fun even if I only saw one person taking photos so wondered if we really weren't allowed to take any. I stuck to turning the flash off – okay, say nothing – but unintentionally had the camera setting on something I hadn't meant which actually made them better. Everyone has crash hats with torches on their heads and a tour of both the passage ways and wider parts of the kanal were included in the forty-five minute tour. I would highly recommend it as something completely different to anyone interested in this classic film and details can be found by going to www.drittemanntour.at .
Vienna itself is one of my favourite cities and, although I haven't been there for quite a while, I made sure that I made use of my limited time there visiting the Hofburg, Opera House and the flat used in The Third Man before returning to Bratislava. It's an odd place on a Saturday night, Bratislava. For someone like me who isn't exactly the heart and soul of a Saturday night out – I remain in by myself – I was a bit surprised that the hotel bar was closed around 9.30pm so had a look around to find other places of less desirable appearance also closed so had no option but to resort to the mini bar.
Before my return flight on the Sunday afternoon from Vienna, I enjoyed a lovely walk to the Old Town to buy a souvenir and, after checking out, was on my way. It was a journey I wasn't especially looking forward to mainly because the journey from Heathrow to Swindon promised, with replacement buses from Reading, to be long and so it proved. First, though, the immigration queue had to be tolerated and that took forty minutes. I was asked by the main man, who nicely came on to the front line, how long I had waited and his look suggested that it was too long but it was good of him to help out. It did take a long time to reach Swindon but, never mind, it was another enjoyable trip.


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An Unusual Case of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Presenting As Multiple Bone Infarcts
Abhijeet Singh, MD1; Natoushka Trenard, MD1; Robert Reilly, MD1
1Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY
Meeting: Hospital Medicine 2011, May 10-13, Dallas, Texas.
Abstract number: 398
Case Presentation:
A 27‐year‐old African American man with a history of scoliosis status post spinal surgery as a child presented to our institution for evaluation of bone pain that began approximately 4 months prior to presentation. The patient reported having pain that started in his knees and then gradually progressed to his bilateral thighs, hips, and lower back. He described the pain as constant, dull, and exacerbated with weight bearing. In addition, the patient also developed fevers, night sweats, and weight loss approximately 1 month prior to presentation. At our institution, the patient underwent an extensive workup revealing the presence of sickle cell trait, an erythrocyte sedimentation rate of 122, a C‐reactive protein of 32, evidence for chronic disease anemia, a persistently high lactate dehydrogenase level, normal white blood cell count, mild thrombocytosis, and persistently negative blood cultures. Imaging included a whole‐body bone scan that was indeterminate for osteomyelitis of the thoracolumbar spine but revealed multiple bone infarcts and marrow expansion in the skull, sternum, sacroiliac, and pubic bones and bilateral femurs. Subsequently, a MRI of the pelvis was done that confirmed the finding of multiple bony infarcts and therefore osteomyelitis was considered less likely. Ultimately the patient underwent 2 consecutive bone marrow biopsies, the first of which revealed diffuse necrosis interspersed with relatively normal marrow elements that demonstrated no significant abnormalities on flow cytometry. The bone marrow core specimen taken during a second aspiration 1 day later, however, demonstrated a large amount of cellular debris, markedly reduced myeloid cells, and the presence of a population of cells (14% of total) that expressed CD19, CD20, CD34, TdT, and high‐intensity CD10 (calla), all of which were consistent with the diagnosis of acute leukemia of precursor B‐cell origin. The patient was then transferred to the leukemia service for chemotherapy.
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has an overall incidence of 1– 1.5 per 100,000 persons and a bimodal distribution: an early peak at approximately age 4–5 years, with an incidence as high as 4–5 per 100,000 persons, followed by a second gradual increase at about age 50 years, with an incidence of 2 per 100,000 persons. ALL is relatively rare during later childhood and young adulthood.
We report this case to emphasize the unusual clinical presentation of this relatively treatable disease.
A. Singh ‐ none; N. Trenard ‐ none; R. Reilly ‐ none
To cite this abstract:
Singh A, Trenard N, Reilly R. An Unusual Case of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Presenting As Multiple Bone Infarcts. Abstract published at Hospital Medicine 2011, May 10-13, Dallas, Texas. Abstract 398. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2011; 6 (suppl 2). https://www.shmabstracts.com/abstract/an-unusual-case-of-acute-lymphoblastic-leukemia-presenting-as-multiple-bone-infarcts/. Accessed January 19, 2020.
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Petrean Redmond Szell (m. 1988) has been awarded one of LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired's three Holman Prizes for 2018. Redmond will use his prize for an incredibly impressive physical feat. He plans to attempt an "Extreme Triathlon" comprised of a 200-foot abseil followed by a swim through open ocean, a 10-mile ride through a notably hazardous bog-land, and a climb up a 213-foot ocean spire called Am Buachaille off the north coast of Scotland. For more information about Redmonds journey visit the Holman Prize website.


Apple has recently added a new Customer Support role to iTunes Connect, which offers developers the ability to give their representatives permission to respond to customer reviews on the App Store. While app developers themselves have been able to respond to App Store reviews since earlier this year, the new feature allows other team members to do the same as well.
According to Apple, Customer Support roles will automatically be assigned to those who already have the App Manager and Marketer roles in iTunes Connect to make the transition process easier. However, all new accounts added after July 13 will need to have the Customer Support role manually added.
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Relating to the desire of ponies; from fluff to grimdark clop.
A legal immigrant & student at university masquerading as a financier.
Former writer / owner of Family Jewels.
Vinyl Scratch is best pony. Luna is Best Princess. I do other things, but not really.
It's a me, the better brother.
I'm a gearhead/brony/young adult whose thought patterns rarely make sense. For some reason, the number felt right.
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I enjoy short stories about ponies and cuddling.
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Q: moved site to https now search console won't index pages in new https search console property After installing an SSL certificate on our server I created 2 new properties in Google Search Console and specified the non-www as the default address. However, after 7 days none of the pages are being indexed. They are still being indexed in the http properties though. Any ideas how to get the new https site indexed?
Thanks.

A: You must create a new Property for https. You can't move the old one with http://.
Tip: Make a backup of your old search data, to see the changes after switch to https://
Tip2: Don't forget to change the https setting in Analytics (here you don't need a new property), but you must reconnect the search console with the new property.

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He was born in Wyncote, Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, United States on the laps of Martinez Jackson and Clara. He was born as the youngest child of his parents.
In the mid 1967, he made his professional debut. He played for Kansas City. In 1977, he joined New York Yankees and played there till 1981.
He had romantic love life with a beautiful lady Jennie Campos for several years before they got married in 1968. They dissolved their married life within half a decade.
He has been honored with Silver Slugger Awards for two times in his life.
He has also co authored a book.
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Q: Static variable initialisation Are static variables initialised every time a new instance of the object containing these variables are created ? Or are they initialised just once when the object is first called?

A: Static fields are initialized during the initialization of the class (don't mix initialization and loading, they are different things --  a class can be loaded, and you can do reflection on it, without ever initializing it).
Also, class initialization can happen more than once for a given class if you are using multiple ClassLoaders.
See VM Spec section 2.17.4, Initialization, and section 2.17.5, Detailed initialization procedure for more details on when exactly a class will be loaded and when exactly it will be initialized..
EDIT: trivial example that will show how a class can be loaded and initialized multiple times and that loading does not automatically imply initialization:
public class A { static { System.out.println("I've been initialized!"); } }
public class Main {
  public static void main(String... args) {
    ClassLoader cl = new URLClassLoader(..., null);
    System.out.println("loading...");
    Class<?> aClass = cl.loadClass("A");
    // here you could perform reflection on aClass, without initializing it
    System.out.println("Will be initialized now:");
    Object o = aClass.newInstance();
    System.out.println("Let's load once again...");
    ClassLoader cl2 = new URLClassLoader(..., null);
    Class<?> aClass2 = cl2.loadClass("A");
    System.out.println("Will be initialized a second time:");
    Object o2 = aClass2.newInstance();

    // the following is false:
    System.out.println("aClass1.equals(aClass2) = " + aClass1.equals(aClass2));

    // the following is true:
    System.out.println("aClass1.getName().equals(aClass2.getName())" + aClass1.getName().equals(aClass2.getName()));
  }
}

(I hope this compiles when you specify the missing URL[] object in the URLClassLoader's constructor...)
Note that it is necessary to set the class loaders' parents null, otherwise their parents would be the main application class loader (ie, the same that loaded the class Main), then because Java delegates the loading to the parent class loader first by default, if the class A is in the class path, you would see the load and initialization only once.
Finally, note that Class.load("A") is not equivalent to classLoader.loadClass("A"). If you check the documentation of Class.load(String), you will see that this method loads and initializes the class. There's an overload of Class.load(...) that takes a boolean indicating if it should initialize the class or not.

A: You said
Are instance static variables initialised...
stop right there, the statement makes no sense.  static variables live on the class, not on any particular instance.  They are initialized in an initialization procedure that is run when an instance is created, a static method on the class is run, or a static variable on the class is accessed. (Full disclosure, @Bruno's answer led me to this information).


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She lives with her husband and young adult son who is on the spectrum.


The occupants of six houses in the Dunedin suburb of St Clair remain out of their homes more than a month after being evacuated due to a slip in the area.
Six homes - four in Motu St and two in Allandale Rd - were evacuated last month after the slip was reported to the Earthquake Commission.
A Dunedin City Council spokeswoman said yesterday dangerous building notices remained in place.
The council was not aware of any further developments.
The latest update from the EQC was due next week.
One of the further developments that the DCC doesn't want to talk about is that they have finished digging up Allandale Rd to repair their split sewerage pipe - which was the likely cause of the land-slip. Problems with this pipe have been much worse during heavy rain because of defects and design problems which means that the system becomes overloaded and this pipe becomes filled up with pressurised sewerage and stormwater. Fixing the split pipe has not fixed the other problems.
It is not acceptable that the DCC is refusing to acknowledge their roll in causing this problem. The ODT should be focused on this, because the DCC is aware of similar problems with its old pipes and other properties could be at risk.


We have a variety of walking tours on offer and are constantly adapting and adding to the menu. Currently, all of our tours are in the Cape Town City Centre and immediate surroundings.
Each tour is guided by a qualified Tourist Guide and lasts between an hour and two hours. Many tour routes follow on from one another, and can, therefore, be walked as individual legs or as combined legs.
City Centre Walking Tour – Part 2 – The Company's Gardens, Parliament, St George's Cathedral, Green Market Square, and the Bo Kaap.
Ocean Leisure – Mouille Point Lighthouse, Three Anchor Bay, Sea Point Promenade, and Sea Point Pavilion, including the Sea Point Contact, a geologically significant site studied and made famous by Charles Darwin.


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Moral Animal Sermon, The By Rabbi Johnath Sacks
Rabbi Johnathan Sacks[New York Times; December 23, 2012; London]
IT is the religious time of the year. Step into any city in America or Britain and you will see the night sky lit by religious symbols, Christmas decorations certainly and probably also a giant menorah. Religion in the West seems alive and well.
But is it really? Or have these symbols been emptied of content, no more than a glittering backdrop to the West's newest faith, consumerism, and its secular cathedrals, shopping malls?
At first glance, religion is in decline. In Britain, the results of the 2011 national census have just been published. They show that a quarter of the population claims to have no religion, almost double the figure 10 years ago. And though the United States remains the most religious country in the West, 20 percent declare themselves without religious affiliation — double the number a generation ago.
Looked at another way, though, the figures tell a different story. Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. Yet after a series of withering attacks, most recently by the new atheists, including Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens, still in Britain three in four people, and in America four in five, declare allegiance to a religious faith. That, in an age of science, is what is truly surprising.
The irony is that many of the new atheists are followers of Charles Darwin. We are what we are, they say, because it has allowed us to survive and pass on our genes to the next generation. Our biological and cultural makeup constitutes our "adaptive fitness." Yet religion is the greatest survivor of them all. Superpowers tend to last a century; the great faiths last millenniums. The question is why.
Darwin himself suggested what is almost certainly the correct answer. He was puzzled by a phenomenon that seemed to contradict his most basic thesis, that natural selection should favor the ruthless. Altruists, who risk their lives for others, should therefore usually die before passing on their genes to the next generation. Yet all societies value altruism and something similar can be found among social animals, from chimpanzees to dolphins to leaf cutter ants.
Neuroscientists have shown how this works. We have mirror neurons that lead us to feel pain when we see others suffering. We are hard-wired for empathy. We are moral animals.
The precise implications of Darwin's answer are still being debated by his disciples — Harvard's E. O. Wilson in one corner, Oxford's Richard Dawkins in the other. To put it at its simplest, we hand on our genes as individuals but we survive as members of groups, and groups can exist only when individuals act not solely for their own advantage but for the sake of the group as a whole. Our unique advantage is that we form larger and more complex groups than any other life-form.
A result is that we have two patterns of reaction in the brain, one focusing on potential danger to us as individuals, the other, located in the prefrontal cortex, taking a more considered view of the consequences of our actions for us and others. The first is immediate, instinctive and emotive. The second is reflective and rational. We are caught, in the psychologist Daniel Kahneman's phrase, between thinking fast and slow.
The fast track helps us survive, but it can also lead us to acts that are impulsive and destructive. The slow track leads us to more considered behavior, but it is often overridden in the heat of the moment. We are sinners and saints, egotists and altruists, exactly as the prophets and philosophers have long maintained.
If this is so, we are in a position to understand why religion helped us survive in the past — and why we will need it in the future. It strengthens and speeds up the slow track. It reconfigures our neural pathways, turning altruism into instinct, through the rituals we perform, the texts we read and the prayers we pray. It remains the most powerful community builder the world has known. Religion binds individuals into groups through habits of altruism, creating relationships of trust strong enough to defeat destructive emotions. Far from refuting religion, the neo-Darwinism have helped us understand why it matters.
No one has shown this more elegantly than the political scientist Robert D. Putnam. In the 1990s he became famous for the phrase "bowling alone": more people were going bowling, but fewer were joining bowling teams. Individualism was slowly destroying our capacity to form groups. A decade later, in his book "American Grace," he showed that there was one place where social capital could still be found: religious communities.
Mr. Putnam's research showed that frequent church or synagogue-goers were more likely to give money to charity, do volunteer work, help the homeless, donate blood, help a neighbor with housework, spend time with someone who was feeling depressed, offer a seat to a stranger or help someone find a job. Religiosity as measured by church or synagogue attendance is, he found, a better predictor of altruism than education, age, income, gender or race.
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology. This may go to show that God has a sense of humor. It certainly shows that the free societies of the West must never lose their sense of God.
[Jonathan Sacks is the chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth and a member of the House of Lords.]
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The missiles North Korea test-fired into the East Sea this year ascended to an altitude of 130 to 150 km, and some were fired to a higher altitude to reduce their range, according to data. Saenuri Party lawmaker Yoo Seung-min revealed military data on the range, altitude, maximum speed and flight time of the 13 ballistic missiles the North test-fired from February to July.
They show that a Rodong missile fired from Sukchon, South Pyongan Province on March 26 ascended to an altitude of 150 km and flew a distance of 650 km in seven minutes and 30 seconds at a top speed of Mach 8. That means it could strike any target in South Korea within seven minutes.
Most of the Scud missiles the North fired flew 500 km at an altitude of 130 km. But a Scud fired from Wonsan, Kangwon Province on Feb. 27 flew a shorter distance of 250 km at a higher altitude of 150 km. Yoo said South Korea currently lacks the means to intercept incoming Scud or Rodong missiles, but the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system is designed to intercept missiles at an altitude of 40-150 km.
"We should deploy at least three THAAD batteries since the PAC-3 missiles the government is going to purchase can only intercept missiles at a low altitude," he added. Defense Minister Han Min-koo agreed with Yoo's assessment of the PAC-3 missiles but denied there are plans to deploy THAAD batteries.


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To Texas with BookIT: New Business with Partnerships and Licensing
Technology Licensing
BookIT, a forerunner in mobile digitisation, has boldly begun developing a new kind of business model to commercialise its inventions in the main market for ICT products and services in the United States.
Jukka Salonen, a cowboy of mobile digitisation, has mounted his horse in Texas to put BookIT and the entire Finnish patent license and partnership business on the road to growth.
Technology developed by BookIT at the beginning of the 21st century ― reliable and strong digital recognition of the end user for mobile phone services ― has already penetrated the U.S. market. In the Internet of things and services, it is important to identify the correct end user, regardless of time, place and terminal device. This has major commercial value.
At the beginning of 2017, in the true pioneering spirit, BookIT established a BookIT Labs research unit and an IPR accelerator in Texas. The goal is to achieve an international licensing business through partnerships. A portfolio of over 100 patents, which has been built up carefully since the year 2000, provides a foundation and credibility for defence against modern "cattle rustlers".
This is a major project on the Finnish scale. BookIT has received 3.4 million euros of Tekes funding for its internationalisation project, which actively benefits from intellectual property rights. BookIT has also taken equity investors and business angels to Texas. The funding raised for this patent licensing project comes to over 10 million euros.
- Hustle and bustle is in the air in America, says Jukka Salonen, the company's founder, technology developer and leader of the BookIT Labs project, who has settled in Dallas, Texas.
- Americans are more open to partnerships than Finnish companies. Commercial opportunities are grabbed quickly here. In Finland, everything is mulled over in an engineer-like fashion, from the nuts and bolts up: companies want to take the long road and develop technology on their own. But that is how you lose the time window for doing business!, Jukka laments.
Powered by BookIT
Jukka's vision is that the BookIT Labs project will also benefit high technology companies outside Finland. It offers its partnership and protected smart technology to all companies that want to produce effortless and reliable mobile services for end users in the Internet of things and services. BookIT Labs brings together professionals from a range of application areas and seeks new business partnership models.
- Few Finnish ICT companies, with the exception of Nokia, have managed to refine their business in a way that would create notable international license and partnership operations. With BookIT Labs, I want to provide innovative companies with tools that are similar to those used by Nokia, Jukka comments.
The hottest area in BookIT technology and the Powered by BookIT partnership model is probably logistics, in the area of package deliveries.
Time-request messages related to home deliveries of postal parcels, which are familiar to many Finns, and interactive messages preventing fraudulent use of credit card purchases, are examples of the technology's applications.
BookIT provides its cloud-based communication technology, on top of which the partner builds its own application. The application is also protected under BookIT's 100+ patent, when the service product bears the label Powered by BookIT. This reduces the risk of product copying.
- BookIT provides its technology to new business areas, while the partner's business operations are protected through the partnership. The end user benefits from easier communication with the mobile communication system, regardless of time and place, Jukka describes.
A notable new partnership in the field of logistics is cooperation with the Dutch city delivery company Smart Mile Solutions. BookIT has invested its technology and received a stake in the company return. It is a strategic partnership, with which BookIT is striving for growth in the wider market both in Europe and the U.S.A.
Sharing economy creates business opportunities
Promising areas of application also include the travel industry and public transportation, finance and banking, the entire online shopping ecosystem, and the Internet of things and services, in which connected devices are controlled with mobile phones. And the best part: BookIT technology is suitable for any field of business.
In the United States, the City of Nashville has joined BookIT as a travel partner. The city is developing a new type of transportation for its residents, "the Uber of public transport". A total of 44 transport services are included in the service. BookIT technology enables mobile tickets independent of mode of transport: a single ticket can include several service providers for one journey. Tickets are booked and paid for using the BookIT service.
Various business models, which utilise mobile phones, are forming around the sharing economy. In Jukka's opinion, now is the time to form partnerships with those who have already developed and patented the required technology. Don't miss the commercial time window.
- How to create international business models and innovate new mobile services through partnerships? This is what every Finnish company should be thinking about, instead of the nuts and bolts!, Jukka urges.
Invest in partners who are leaders in their fields and know how to play the international game
Jukka wants to encourage other Finnish companies to go international and join BookIT on the road to growth.
- Invest in partners who are leaders in their fields, such as Kolster in the field of IPR and international patenting.
A company has to have credibility in the international market. BookIT has needed persistence and determination to build a patent portfolio, on which its credibility rests, over the last fifteen years. The company has spent the last fifteen years refining its patent strategy and building a more extensive network of partners, aiming for active use of their patent portfolio.
Achieving credibility in the international market is a major challenge for Finnish SMEs, as it was for BookIT. Giants in the ICT sector tend to reap the benefits of R&D performed by small, innovative companies. Ten years of product development can be copied in the blink of an eye in the digital world. In many cases, small companies lack the ability, resources or David's courage to defend themselves against the Goliaths of the ICT industry. BookIT is now striving to change this through license partnerships and a local presence in the main market.
- When you have credibility, license agreements are signed at an early stage and you avoid the need to enforce your IP rights through court processes.
About Bookit
BookIT is a mobile technology company established in 1999. Most Finns have already used services based on BookIT technology. Tens of thousands of bookings, confirmations, remote payments and other mobile transactions are made with the technology each day. Large companies, such as Finnair, VR and Posti, use the technology for their mobile services.
BookIT Labs' domicile, Texas, is an innovation-positive state. The state seeks to resolve infringements of IP rights rapidly, taking account of inventors.
Source: Kolster News
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Botrytis is one of those problems that can occur at any time conditions are right. There are some 50 species of the fungus Botrytis, but Botrytis cinerea has the largest host range. Botrytis is often referred to as gray mold because it produces a crop of fuzzy gray spores on the surface of infected tissues.
Although Botrytis attacks plants and flowers at any stage, new tender growth and aging or dead tissues are preferred. Flowers petals provide an excellent food source for the production of spores. The fungus becomes established in flower petals and appears as irregular, enlarged, tan, water-soaked spots that eventually develop into soft fuzzy tissue. Aging flowers are particularly susceptible. Petals of badly infected flowers stick together and become matted. During production, blossom and bud blight often precede and lead to infections on leaves and stems. These less obvious symptoms show as tan colored spots on leaves or cankers on stems that can eventually cause entire branches of plants to wilt, while the rest of the plant appears healthy. During storage and shipping, Botrytis causes blight or blast on leaf and flower buds. The fungus will also colonize dead or dying tissues anywhere conditions are right- in greenhouses, the field, packing sheds, coolers or during shipping.
Prolonged periods of cool, cloudy weather create an ideal environment for Botryis infections during production in a full greenhouse or out in the field. Like other fungi, Botrytis has a range of temperature and relative humidity that is necessary for spore germination, infection, and disease development. Spore germination and infection depends on a film of moisture for 8 to 12 hours, relative humidity of 93% or greater, and temperatures between 55-65°F with colonization of plant tissues occurring at temperatures up to 70°F. Botrytis occurs most often in spring and fall, because warm days followed by cool evenings result in condensation on plant surfaces.
Once Botrytis develops, it cannot be effectively controlled with fungicides alone. The key to suppressing Botrytis is to keep the plant canopy dry especially from dusk until dawn. Using drip irrigation or watering plants at the base instead of sprinkling or watering overhead will help to prevent Botrytis and many other leaf spot diseases. Increasing plant spacing to provide a less dense canopy will also help by allowing more air circulation and better fungicide coverage. Water just enough to prevent excess water on the floor, and water early enough in the day to allow plant surfaces to dry before evening reduces humidity and will help manage Botrytis.
During cool times of the year, when a greenhouse is being heated, another practice to reduce humidity is to use a combination of ventilation and heating. Ventilation allows the exchange of moist greenhouse air with drier air from outdoors. Heating is necessary to bring outdoor air up to optimum growing temperature, and increases the capacity of the air to carry moisture, thus avoiding condensation. Neither practice alone is as efficient as both combined.
According to John Bartok, University of Connecticut Extension Professor-Emeritus, the method and time it takes for heating and venting will vary according to the heating and ventilation system in the greenhouse. John advises, in greenhouses with vents, the heat should be turned on and the vents cracked open an inch or so. When doing this the warmed air will hold more moisture and escape from the greenhouse through the vents which will be replaced with outside air of lower relative humidity. This natural rising of the air will result in a greenhouse of lower relative humidity.
In greenhouses with fans, the fans should be activated and operated for a few minutes and then the heater turned on to bring the air temperature up. The fans should then be shut off. A clock could be set to activate the fans. A relay may be needed to lock out the furnace or boiler until the fans shut off so that both the fans and heating system do not operate at the same time and result in flue gases being drawn into the greenhouse.
Air movement, even in a closed greenhouse, helps reduce moisture on plant surfaces and in the microclimates around plants. A fan-jet or horizontal air flow system produces uniform temperatures and reduces the cool spots that can develop condensation problems. Air that is moving is continually mixed; resulting in very small temperature differences. The moisture does not get a chance to condense on the leaf surfaces because the mixing action caused by air movement prevents the air along the surface from cooling and causing condensation. This results in less Botrytis infection and development.
In addition to reducing the humidity and keeping foliage dry, the source of Botrytis infection needs to be reduced. Botrytis spores are produced in abundance on senescing flowers and flower petals, lesions, and plant debris left behind during harvest, the greenhouse floor and in trash cans. Controlling weeds and removing plant debris during production and harvest helps to eliminate Botrytis. Regularly remove spent flowers and dying or dead leaves from plants and the soil surface and eliminate them from the greenhouse and field. Dispose of debris in plastic trash bags and avoid spreading spores by keeping the bag closed while moving it through the greenhouse or field. Be sure cull piles are not located near greenhouses or cut flower fields where spores can re-infect plants. Although this is labor intensive, it will help reduce spreading spores. Make sure trash cans are sealed tightly in the greenhouse as open trash cans are a reservoir for sporulating Botrytis.
Carry your sanitation program into post harvest handling. Clean and sanitize coolers and cool rooms. To prevent Botrytis infections on flowers, foliage and buds during shipping, avoid packing moist flowers and foliage after harvest. To prevent condensation of water droplets on flowers or foliage, avoid moving flowers directly from cool to warm rooms.
A number of fungicides are labeled for use against Botrytis on ornamental crops during production. When making a fungicide treatment, treat thoroughly, reaching into the canopy area. For management, growers often rely on fenhexamid (Decree) which is a non-systemic fungicide with both protective and curative activity, chlorothalonil (Daconil) or iprodione (Sextant, 26 GT). Botrytis strains have reportedly shown resistance to Sextant and 26 GT, although not widespread, so rotate these with other products to delay resistance. There are reports of widespread resistance to the benzimidazole fungicides (Cleary's 3336 and Fungo Flo) and therefore are no longer suggested as a primary fungicide for Botrytis.
In addition to fungicides for production, there are also fungicides labeled for some flowers for post-harvest use. The copper-based product Phyton 27 and the biofungicide Rhapsody (QST 713 Strain Bacillus subtillus) are both labeled as a post-harvest dip for flowers and buds to prevent Botrytis.
Hausbeck Mary. Does botrytis have you feeling too warm and fuzzy? Greenhouse Alert Newsletter, Michigan State University. 2007.
Dole J.M. and M.A. Schnelle. The Care and Handling of Cut Flowers, Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Fact Sheet F-6426.
Stack L.B. New England Greenhouse Floriculture Guide, A Management Guide for Insects, Diseases, Weeds and Growth Regulators. New England Floriculture Inc.


Conservative Party leader Cory Bernardi has teamed up with Senator Pauline Hanson to successfully thwart a parliamentary bill which would have altered the way Australia treats sick refugees on Manus Island and Nauru.
The bill, initially introduced in the Senate by Independent Kerry Phelps, would have allowed any person on Manus or Nauru to be transferred to Australia for medical treatment, if two doctors agree that the transfer should occur.
Greens, Labor and independents on the crossbench have described the proposed bill as a fairer and faster way to transfer refugees and their families to Australia for medical help.
The plan was to push the bill through the Senate, forcing a debate in the House of Representatives, where those in support of the bill had the numbers to defeat the government.
But in a series of controversial moves, conservative Roman Catholic and second generation Italo-Australian Bernardi stalled passing of the bill on the last day of parliament for the year.
Bernardi attempted to suspend standing orders twice, and voted differently on each government amendment made to the bill.
He was joined by Senator Pauline Hanson, who also attempted to suspend standing orders, as well as Minister for Finance and the Public Service Mathias Cormann, who said "we should not be dealing with this bill until the proper consideration of the Senate has taken place".
Bernardi's time-wasting tactics sufficiently delayed movement of the bill to stop it being passed at least until February of next year.
Bernardi's "filibuster" provoked outrage on social media, with one commentator stating "all Australians should take note of what Cory Bernardi is doing in the #senate".
Phelps, who was elected in October in the Wentworth by-election and who is a doctor herself, has previously told the Guardian Australia that "we need to put medical decisions for asylum seekers into the hands of clinicians rather than bureaucrats".
"We have a medical and humanitarian crisis on our hands and something needs to change," she said.


Witmer Public Safety Group Inc. has announced its recent acquisition of Interstate Arms, headquartered in Billerica, MA.
Zenith and Shot Spot have jointly developed the Zenith Hero Program in order to provide military personnel, law enforcement officers, corrections officers, firefighters, and EMS providers cost effective access to Zenith Firearms' products.
The National Association of Police Equipment Distributors (NAPED) has welcomed Goldbelt Wolf LLC to its general membership.
LWRC International has announced the addition of DSG Arms as an authorized law enforcement wholesale distributor representing the company's full line of high performance firearms.
The Safariland Group announced today its acquisition of Atlantic Tactical Inc., distributor of equipment and uniforms for public safety professionals.
The Safariland Group's distributor, Garrett Container, was awarded a $17.7M contract from the United States Air Force for law enforcement equipment.
Effective Nov. 1, Meprolight optical and self-illuminating sights will no longer be available from Kimber USA and instead distributed through The Mako Group.
Bright fiber optics, tritium, variable LED reticle illumination, plus two laser pointers, make this the world's most versatile reflex and laser sight. Gives you a bright reticle even if batteries fail.
Valentia Cigars has introduced a new line of cigars and a tobacco dealer incentive program that provides purchase credits to law enforcement agencies to acquire gear distributed by The Mako Group.
Distributor SAS R&D has introduced the Sasrad contraband team enforcement kit to aid officers during cargo inspections. The CTEK includes a variety of tools for inspecting freight, vehicles, boats, and planes.


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Join the party, meet people, have a drink and be guided by locals!
Our pubcrawl is a lot different than to those all over Europe and America. We keep the price to a minimum and do not include any drinks, you control your own consumption. Bar crawlers will get a 20-30% discount and various happy hour deals on any cocktail, draft beer, vine or shot the bar may have. Therefore those in the crowd who don't like shots don't have to force one down, and those who don't like beer can always go for cocktails or vine. We start at 10pm, visit 3 bars before we go to a night club at 1am (VIP ENTRY – LINE JUMP AND NO ENTRANCE FEES) Once in the crowded club its hard to keep track of everyone but you still have access to deals on the bar throughout the night in any of the bars we visited. The pub crawl therefore ends at 1am officially. We strongly encourage you to stay on and hold on to new friends you've just met. The 2-3 Icelandic guides accommodating the group might be heading to bed at this point. Please respect that.
Drinks are very expensive in Iceland. Draft beer is often going for 1200-1300 ISK. A glass of vine at 1500 ISK and Cocktails 2500 ISK. Obviously our discount will get you the drinks cheaper. For the heavy drinkers this is a winning formula and the price you paid for the pubcrawl will turn into savings! Literally too good to be true.
Looking for other activities in Reykjavik? Take a look at our Partner Tours!
– Make sure you book early, we are always fully booked and cannot add extras last minute.
– Once we've received your booking and payment, you'll get an e-mail including the starting venue.
The Venues we go to have been selected by our local nightlife experts. We start with relaxed atmosphere where we can get acquainted before moving on to venues involving more dancing. Eventually we go to a club as our last venue where the Pubcrawl officially ends at 1am.
All of them are close to one another. We've realized that people are not drinking between bars and besides it is quite cold 8 months of the year. Thankfully we won't walk much at all on this pubcrawl which all takes place indoors.
Dress code is very much up to you. None of the bars we go to emphasize clothing, so you are free to wear anything you like. Only 3 venues in Reykjavík have a dress code, and none of them are our stops.
Icelanders tend to dress classy, so if you want to keep up with the locals, at least a dress shirt would be a good idea!
Hello guys! We are the experts at this and we can surely accommodate you. Please let us know if you are a part of a big group celebrating a unique event, because we tend to call out an extra guide and make sure the night goes as perfectly as possible. If you are more than 10 people, you might consider a private pubcrawl, a bottle table or a similar VIP treatment. Please get in touch via our contact form for options.
Highly recommend these guys if you're looking to do a pub crawl and meet new people. You get a bracelet which gives you discounts on your drinks in the pub crawl bars. Went on to couple bars n danced the night away at American Bar. Fantastic experience ☺??
An amazing Pub Crawl and Walking Tour with CityWalk!
Our small group (10) booked the evening Pub Crawl and a Walking Tour the next morning with CityWalk in mid-September. And while Marteinn, CityWalk's organizer and tour guide, was doubtful that the group would actually make the CityWalk after a night spent visiting the pubs of Reykjavik, I'm happy to report that the entire group loved both events! The Pub Crawl was relaxed and friendly – a perfect opportunity to meet other revellers and enjoy good music and good beer. We may have pooped out a bit early but only because of the rigors of travel! The staff of CityWalk did an excellent job of making sure each participant was comfortable and included. I would heartily recommend the programs of CityWalk to all visitors to Rejkavik!
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At the PubCrawl there were people in attendance of all ages from all over and everyone was very friendly- a great way to meet other travelers and locals. I highly recommend this if your in Reykjavik on a Saturday, great way to start out your Saturday night. They took us to three bars, each of a different style which was great. Then we ended at a night club, at which point you could stay or go out on your own.


DEAR JERRY: I am a collector of novelty records, which includes songs about pop icons, such as Elvis and the Beatles.
I spotted one in a recent sales catalog, listed by the seller as "Beatle Bug Boogie." It sounds a bit like an instrumental, but either way, if it's about the Beatles I'd want it. They are asking $25.
DEAR JARROD: The asking price is okay for a used but not abused copy. One in near-mint condition could have a $50 price tag.
But wait! Don't call yet!
Perhaps it is an innocent mistake on the seller's part, but the correct title of this tune is "Beetle Bug Boogie." That alone, however, would not rule out a legit Beatles connection.
Several authentic 1960s Beatles novelties intentionally spell their name as if they were insects (e.g., "The Beetle"; "Beetle Bebop"; "Beetle Bug"; "Beetle Bug Jump"; "Beetle Dance"; and "Beetle Mania").
"Beetle Bug Boogie" (Arcade 120), by Jimmy Collett, is a hillbilly bopper about the boogie-woogie goings on at "an old bee hive … the place where the beetle bugs meet every night at nine, and a doodle bug band plays the beetle bug jive."
Among the fun-loving, creepy-crawling regulars are: caterpillars; glow worms; spiders; flies; tater bugs; skeeters; centipedes; grasshoppers; Japanese beetles; June bugs; ants; and, since it's their hive, some honeybees.
It is no surprise to learn their dance of choice is the jitterbug.
DEAR JERRY: Thanks to your piece about "Sioux City Sue," by Elton Britt, his is now my favorite version of this often recorded song.
But no matter whose I hear, from A (Gene Autry) to Z (Zeke Manners), they all make what I consider a geographical mistake.
DEAR DENVER SUE: I think I do.
Every recording I have of "Sioux City Sue" begins with "I drove a herd of cattle down from old Nebraska way, that's how I came to be in the state of I-o-way."
Assuming traditional usage of "down" meaning south, and "up" indicating north, a cattle drive from anywhere in Nebraska to Sioux City would not involve going south.
Sioux City, separated by the Missouri River, borders the northeast tip of Nebraska.
A more geographically correct itinerary, while maintaining the one-syllable cadence, would be "I drove a herd of cattle IN from old Nebraska way, that's how I came to be in the state of I-o-way."
Though the object of this cowhand's affection identifies herself as Sioux City Sue, not once is it said that either one of them is actually in or even near Sioux City.
DEAR JERRY: Imagine my surprise to be reading about my uncle, Trooper Jim Foster, in your column.
I used to visit him at his place, Foster's Lazy Acres, in Lutz, Fla. He had a small recording studio there and we used to listen to all his records. He also had a Sunday TV show, "Bring 'Em Back Alive," on channel 10 in Tampa.
After his Florida Highway Patrol career, he served 10 years in the Florida House of Representatives. He later worked for the Division of Forestry and the Dept. of Motor Vehicles and Highway Safety. He retired in 1988.
IZ ZAT SO? Thousands of celebrity novelties exist, spoofing entertainers, politicians, sports figures, and anyone or anything in the news, yet rarely do you find them on the charts, much less among the Top 40.
In keeping with mention of Elvis and the Beatles, here are two exceptions: "The All American Boy," by Bill Parsons (a.k.a., Bobby Bare), about Elvis being drafted, which reached No. 2 in 1958, and "We Love You Beatles," by the Carefrees, No. 39 in 1964.
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LOS ANGELES, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wallflowers have announced they are back in the studio and putting the finishing touches on a long-awaited new studio album to be released by Columbia Records this fall. Currently recording in Nashville at Dan Auerbach's (The Black Keys) Easy Eye Sound studio, the new album finds frontman Jakob Dylan joining original band members Greg Richling (bass) and Rami Jaffee (keyboards), with Wallflowers' longtime guitarist Stuart Mathis and drummer Jack Irons (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam) rounding out the lineup. The album is being produced by Jay Joyce (Emmylou Harris, Cage the Elephant) and mixed by Rich Costey (Bruce Springsteen, The Shins).


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John Russell est un scénariste américain, né le  et mort le .

Biographie

Filmographie partielle
 1923 : La Justice du monde (The Exiles) d'Edmund Mortimer
 1924 : Le Cheval de fer (The Iron Horse) de John Ford
 1924 : Coureur de dot (Dangerous Money), de Frank Tuttle
 1924 : Le Tango tragique d'Allan Dwan
 1925 : Lord Jim de Victor Fleming
 1925 : The Little French Girl de Herbert Brenon
 1926 : Beau Geste de Herbert Brenon
 1929 : Chanson païenne de W. S. Van Dyke
 1929 : Le Dernier Voyage de Malcolm St. Clair
 1931 : Frankenstein de James Whale

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Scénariste américain de cinéma
Naissance en avril 1885
Décès en mars 1956
Décès à 70 ans
Naissance à Davenport (Iowa)

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Rule-based diagnostics of power generating equipment is an important task in industry. Diagnostics typically requires rules that process sensor signals, determine patterns in the signals, and produce notification messages when undesirable patterns are found. In Siemens such rules are data-dependent in the sense that they rely on specific characteristic of individual equipment and thus a complex diagnostic task may require a rule set with up to hundreds of such rules. Authoring and maintaining such rule sets is a challenging task that requires automation. In this demo we present how semantic technologies can enhance diagnostics. In particular, we present our semantic rule language sigRL that is inspired by the real diagnostic languages in Siemens. sigRL allows to write compact yet powerful diagnostic programs by relying on a high level data independent vocabulary, diagnostic ontologies, and queries over these ontologies. We present our diagnostic system SemDig. The attendees will be able to write diagnostic programs in SemDig using sigRL over 50 Siemens turbines. We also present how such programs can be automatically verified for redundancy and inconsistency. Moreover, the attendees will see the provenance service that SemDig provides to trace the origin of diagnostic results.


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IRS and Treasury maintain position on partners as employees
Don Susswein, Karen Field, Anne Bushman, Kyle Brown
The IRS and Treasury have recently issued final regulations regarding the self-employment tax treatment with respect to partners in partnerships with wholly owned disregarded entities. Consistent with prior guidance laid out in a set of 2016 temporary regulations (see T.D. 9766), the final regulations provide that a partner cannot be an employee of a disregarded entity wholly owned by the partnership in which they are partners.
The IRS maintains a litigating position – established in Rev. Rul. 69-184 – that an individual providing services to a partnership cannot be both a partner in the partnership and an employee of the same partnership. Prior to the 2016 temporary regulations, the earlier version of the section 7701-2 regulations provided that a single member LLC was treated as a separate corporation for employment tax purposes. Based on this earlier regulation language, partnerships sometimes established a disregarded LLC below a partnership, transferred employees and partners of the regarded partnership to the disregarded entity, and treated individuals who were partners of the upper tier partner as employees, for state law purposes, of the wholly owned disregarded entity. The 2016 temporary regulations changed the language to clarify the earlier regulation, providing that a disregarded entity wholly owned by a regarded partnership would not be treated as a C corporation for purposes of employing a partner of the partnership owning the disregarded entity. The recently issued final regulations maintain this position.
In the final regulations, the IRS did not address certain areas raised by commentators, such as the application of the IRS' positon in Rev. Rul. 69-184 to tiered partnerships and publicly traded partnerships. Commentators to both the previous proposed and temporary regulations had requested guidance on this matter, however, the final regulations do not address these issues other than to note that having a partner work as an employee for a different entity within a tiered group of entities (such as a corporation) "presents different issues, such as whether, under the facts and circumstances, the partner is an employee of the corporation." The preamble to the final regulations notes that the tiered entity issues and PTP issues are beyond the scope of these regulations, the IRS has, however, asked for additional comments on such issues.
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Karen Field
Anne Bushman
Kyle Brown
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In 2008-9 The National Gallery London (NGL) hosted Renaissance Faces, an exhibition traversing the evolution of portraiture across Europe between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The exhibition had an accompanying DVD and catalogue - the latter of which has recently been issued in paperback format via Yale University Press. Reviewers can often be flippant about catalogue volumes, particularly those containing little more than an inventory of the exhibition in question. In this instance however, preceding the catalogue entries are poignant essays on different aspects of Renaissance portraiture. These collectively transform this volume into a valuable resource on this topic.
It is thrilling to discover evidence of domestic life not unlike our own buried many centuries ago - especially thrilling when it is mingled with much that is strange. In the same way, it should be exciting in this exhibition to find the familiar coexisting with the alien.
The list of contributors is impressive. Those familiar with Renaissance scholarship will recognise many of these names at a glance. For others, the credentials of the authors are not as important as their style of presentation. In each instance, it was refreshing to encounter succinct, purposeful writing in accessible language. The essays examine different aspects of portraiture - its social, historical and functional purpose, as well as technical processes involved in their creation. Although these pieces do not overlap by design, there are numerous parallels to be drawn between each theme, particularly exploring the interplay between artist and patron, and the depiction of a realistic versus idealised likeness.
The greatest revelation of this catalogue was its extension to cover portraiture in a wide range of media. Whilst paintings make for the majority of the works presented, there are also some wonderful examples of drawing, engraving, sculpture, and medallions/coinage featuring likenesses, each with a fascinating history. The subtitle of the exhibition, and an undercurrent in the catalogue was Van Eyck to Titian - indicating the sweep of time represented by the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries - where portraiture departed from its Medieval forms and became part of the repertoire of artists now in demand to do more than decorate public and sacred spaces. This humanistic shift is explored at length, and is fascinating to track across the corners of Europe. Particularly intriguing to note are the portrait medals which became popular in Italy - often directly quoting coins of ancient origin.
The catalogue listings are accompanied by thorough descriptions. Each entry is nicely illustrated with images of varying size, but also presented with a summary of relevant iconography and bibliography. One such description that became quite memorable is that which accompanies Lorenzo Lotto's portrait of Andrea Odoni, a noted collector of antique sculpture. What may present as straightforward portrait of a collector among his possessions is actually a rich iconographical construct, deliberately crafted by Lotto to include elements of the Odoni Collection, but also a reference to the Lotto's own experiences with Raphael, including his exposure to fragmentary sculptures of Hercules and Anataeus and The Emperor Commodus as Hercules (the larger white marble pieces behind Odoni). Odoni himself holds a small figurine of Diana of Ephesus, also quoted by Raphael adorning his Philosophy fresco in the Stanza della Segntaura. Other observers (see Abrahams) have noted the similarities between a Lotto self-portrait and the head of Hadrian in particular. Comparing these seemingly disparate viewpoints, both actually are in agreement that this work is as much about the ingenuity of Lotto as it is about the collection of a wealthy Venetian.
This volume can be divided into two discrete sections: The first segment is a presentation of four essays. The second is the catalogue proper, divided into themes such as Family, Courtship and Friendship, and Love and Beauty.
The four essays firmly establish this volume a viable resource long after the exhibition has ended. Each essay has a different focus, exploring the complexities of portraiture beyond its art historical context. I found Luke Syson's piece, Witnessing Faces, Remembering Souls the most fascinating. Syson is a curator at the NGL and was responsible for the acclaimed 2007 exhibition focusing on Renaissance Siena (which has an equally compelling catalogue volume). Syson's writing is engaging and speaks in a universal language, as opposed to the more scholarly offerings by Lorne Campbell or Miguel Falomir. Recalling Syson's piece in the Guardian, calling on museums to appeal to the heart, he seems interested in exploring the social dynamics of a given era and how these come to be represented in art.
Syson is equally comfortable talking about van Eyck's inscriptions (and signature) in Leal Souvenir as he is about the more subtle iconography seen in portraits by Lorenzo Lotto. This essay is a thoroughly rewarding experience, successfully forming a unified contemplation of the what these works reveal about the sitter and the artist.
Lorne Campbell's essay, Making Portraits is a journey into the artistic process. Exploring the practises of artists and their workshop, using case studies from the exhibition and beyond, Campbell provides a useful summation of the range of methods employed by artists to create a human likeness. Campbell is perhaps most well-known for his work identifying the subjects of van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait. The practical aspects of portraiture can be a dry, technical subject, but Campbell manages it in an eloquent way, including historical and social context - not as resonant as Syson's piece perhaps - but present nonetheless.
Jan van Eyck and the other outstanding European portrait painters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were a long way from being 'photographically accurate'. Nor did they use concave mirrors or other machinery to help them make objectively truthful images. Though completely capable of counterfeiting nature, when they chose and without mechanical help, they aspired to go much further. They edited and distorted some of the components of the natural world in order to give their paintings and likenesses greater and more immediate and expressive impact: to make them more vividly memorable and incisively critical.
This clear statement of position on the increasing body of work being done by artists, mathematicians and optical scientists looking at painting technique, particularly during the Renaissance and Baroque, seemed to consume Campbell's otherwise remarkable essay. It is relevant to the process of making portraits, but seems amiss stated as fact. Campbell's gripes with these methodologies are perhaps best left to other volumes.
The latter two essays are refreshingly devoid of personal agendas and art historical biases. They examine the role of portraits expressed in various media in a functional sense and a consideration within the historical record. Using the example above, regardless of how much of Lotto is in his Odoni portrait, there was a gentleman by this name whom paid Lotto for this portrait - complete with motifs that only he and his erudite circle could understand. Some of the items in the portrait, from the tablecloth to the Diana of Ephesus figurine were in Odoni's collection. The fact that there are discrepancies between reality and the artistic product is a constant theme in each of the essays and the catalogue descriptions proper.
Miguel Falomir's essay, The Court Portrait is the most historically rich - tracing the development of portraits in the most prominent Courts of the Renaissance, from Urbino to Istanbul. It is a great counterpoint to Jennifer Fletcher's essay on Functions, Uses and Display of Renaissance Portraits. An important part of nuptial exchanges between powerful houses, or to glorify the practises of those involved in commerce. The role of the Renaissance portrait was many and varied - some uses echoing into modern forms of photography. Despite this, the ephemeral and contemplative nature of allegory has increasingly less prominence in a modern photo portrait taken for a wedding or special event.
Not all portraiture was about the rich and powerful. Echoing Nicholas Penny's comments of seeing elements of our own life echoed centuries ago is one of the lesser known gems of the exhibition, Caroto's fascinating depiction of a child holding a drawing. Closer examination will reveal a finely drawn eye on the Right hand side of the paper - the suggestion being that the child has taken the artist's sketch and added his own contribution. The frowning figure childishly drawn could in fact be a suggestion of the artist himself. It is a playful piece, far removed from the serious poses seen in most portraits of this time.
Renaissance Faces is a fascinating catalogue that offers both a textual and visual summary of the range and development of portraiture in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The four essays exploring social, technical, functional and historical modes of portraiture are an enthralling account of artisans' efforts to represent the human likeness.
*This famous portrait at the NGL is assigned to Hans Holbein the Younger, during his first visit to England between 1526-8. The figure depicted is believed to be Lady Alice Ashby Lovell, whose familial coat of arms was noted to include squirrels. The interpretation of the starling is divided between a more literal reference to a potential family connection (The Lovell family were from East Harling), and an allegorical sense.
Argh! That young boy is seriously creepy looking! Love Holbein though.
Hi Juliette. Many have that reaction!
Caroto's figures are often described as disconcerting in appearance - he depicted noblewomen and the virgin in similar distorted fashion.
In this respect he very much anticipates the style that followed the Renaissance known as Mannerism - which featured increasingly less naturalistic depictions of the human form.
Great review of the catalog. I wish I could have seen the exhibition! Even by just reading your blog post, I could tell that some of the leading scholars on Renaissance art contributed to the catalog.
By any chance, did you view the DVD that accompanied the exhibition? I'm curious to know what was on the DVD - a documentary of some sort?
@M - I don't have the DVD at this stage, but am trying to track down a copy. It can be purchased from the NGL (online) store. NGL videos, such as the one that accompanied the Raphael exhibition - from Urbino to Rome (which you can find an excerpt of at 3PP) are definitely informative, but can be a bit dry.
Very nice review, and it sounds like a fascinating catalogue. I find the medals especially intriguing, along with those paintings that respond to the look of medals in one way or another--e.g. Botticelli's "Portrait of a Man with the Medal of Cosimo de Medici the Elder."
Cheers Ben - that Botticelli work is a great example of a crossover piece highlighting the role of portraits and medals to display familial or commercial allegiances. The identity of the sitter in that Uffizi piece is not conclusively known, but their fidelity to the Medici has survived the ages!
Fascinating as always. And yes, that portrait of the boy is jarring in the extreme!


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