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RELIGION IN CUBA; POPE BENEDICT PARTIES WITH 300,000 FAITHFUL PUSHES CASTRO ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS AND U.S. ABOUT EMBARGO
POPE BENEDICT XVI PARTIES WITH 300,000 FAITHFUL, CALLS FOR AN END TO CUBAN ISOLATION AND RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE so read this week's headlines
This week hundreds of Cuban-Americans have made the 40 minute flight to Havana to spend the week with Pope Benedict XVI, to attend mass at the Cathedral of Havana in Revolution Square and to close the gap caused by decades of exile from their homeland. Cubans hope the attention of the Pope's visit will bring them greater freedom and open their door to America. Closing his visit the pontiff meet with Fidel Castro and 300,000 Cuban faithful who turned out for the mass at Revolution Plaza. Alongside the large face of Che' filling the side of a highrise were huge banners proclaimed CHARITY UNITES US…
My visit last year to Havana (a professional researcher license to attend a literary tour was my ticket in) allowed me to walk the streets of downtown Havana for almost two weeks. The locals soon greeted me daily as "Hemingway" since I have a long white beard and hair. Everyone was very friendly and open to my photography. Never was I challenged or chased off, I found getting access to photograph in a local school, easier than anything I have experienced in Arizona. After ten days, my tour returned to the U.S. and I moved in with a local family in the shadow of the Capitol building in downtown Havana. Each day, I moved through the streets never being asked for papers or being quizzed, police officers stood on every corner and I never felt threatened or endangered. I did fall in love with the Cuban people who love Americans and who have suffered most from the Cuban embargo. It needs to end, it is pointless now, and exists still for the Cuban-Americans exiled by Castro fifty years ago. Cuba is Kansas fifth largest wheat buyer, many other cracks exist in the U.S. blockade. America needs the Cuban customer and they need us.
Cathedral of Saint Christopher of Havana near the harbor in the historic distric
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Cuban faithful attend mass mid-day in Havana.
Since I was a tourist, churches, cathedrals were big draws and Cuba realizes they serve visitors on many levels and act accordingly, all were open, accessible, but a weak draw for the Cuban. Today Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski held mass in the Cathedral of Saint Christopher of Havana in the Historic district for Cubans and 300 Cuban-Americans pilgrims from Miami. In the sermon the Archbishop called for Cuba to abandon Marxism without embracing the materialism of the West. Many attending had left Cuba as young children or are the sons and daughters of exiles. In Spanish the archbishop called for dignity for all Cubans.
Pope Benedict and the Vatican have set the stage for the Church to raise a voice with a sizable voting block and escalate the possibility of reduced sanctions. Since December a dozen U.S. cities have been cleared for direct flights to Cuba, while not all have ramped up yet. At least five international airports, DC, NY, LA, Miama and Denver all presently have flights making the short hop and landing at the new San Jose International Airport that Cuba built a year ago to handle their increasing need.
I visited the Cathedral of Saint Christopher of Havana at different times during my visit, Revolution Square is a big tourist stop and a local band has a permanent spot in the square and probably offered up a tune for "Papa" while the Archbishop delivered his sermon inside.
Christmas has been celebrated as a holiday in Cuba for only 3 years. Cuba officially became an atheist nation in 1962, but the Christmas holiday was celebrated until 1969, when Fidel Castro decided it was interfering with the sugar harvest. Accordingly, it was dropped from the Cuban calendar of holidays in 1969 as the island strove for a record sugar harvest.
However, the church had continued to call for greater respect for the celebration of Christmas after authorities banned the public display of Christmas trees and nativity scenes, other than in places frequented by tourists, such as hotels. In 1997 President Castro restored the holiday to honor the visit of Pope John Paul II in the island. Although Catholicism is a broad cultural backdrop in Cuba, the number of practicing Catholics among the country's 11 million people is more limited. With the reinstatement of X'mas a large Mass is held in Havana's Revolution Square. Thousands of Cubans worship at midnight Masses, as church bells ring out across Havana to mark the moment when Christmas Eve becomes Christmas Day.
Tourists enjoy the Cuban winter sun in Regla a suburb of Havana
Some come each day, some once a week, all take counsel from the saints and light a candle.
Another day, we took a water taxi to Regla Cuba, a suburb and home to a beautiful small Catholic Church adorned by statues of the Saints, many whom, drew in regulars who relied on their help and they lit candles in thanks. The same day we passed in the harbor, the new Russian Orthodox Church, built by Russia during the "special period" (the collapse of the Soviet Union). Walking the historic Barrio Chino we saw and entered a district Catholic church which was celebrating the 500th year of Cuba. Barrio Chino, reached 40,000 Chinese who arrived in Havana in three waves. But after 1959, most left after Fidel outlawed private property. There are 500 Chinese-Cubans left in Cuba today it is reported that many are lawyers and doctors but few live in the Barrio. Barrio residents often report hearing ghostly voices, akin to a crowd of Chinese speakers in a morning market.
The Regla Catholic Church had a steady flow of folks visiting saints and this couple came in with a new infant and took photos inside the church with their saints.
All pretty tame stuff, until we got hooked-up with a Santeria New Year's celebration, complete with dead chickens and blood. A variety of slave religions exist in Cuba mostly of African cultural origin. According to a US State Department report, some estimate 80 percent of the population consults with practitioners of West African religions, like Santeria. The hour long ceremony held openly in a city park, consisted of singing, drumming and dancing until flowers are tossed into the stream and they flow downstream to the sea. It was a beautiful performance of singing and drums. Brought to the New World by slaves imported to the Caribbean to work the sugar plantations combines with Roman Catholic and Native Indian traditions. These slaves had a religious custom, including a trance for communicating with their ancestors and deities, using animal sacrifice and sacred drumming.
When the Communist wall went up around Cuba in 1959 atheism was the standard, in those days believers of God were ostracized and discriminated against, the faithful went underground. Since those years, the Cuban government has allowed the Catholic Church a greater voice and today the Church works with the Castros to reach greater goals. The Vatican says Cuba is 60% Catholic, but most agree fewer than 10% are practicing, but know they should. Following the 1960s many believers chose to hide their faith in response to state persecution. Many parents chose not to burden their children with the difficulties they would inherit if they were baptized Christians, and therefore did not raise them as such. The archdiocese of Havana in 1971 reported only 7000 baptisms. In 1989 this increased to 27,609 and in 1991 to 33,569. Today Protestant churches includes Baptists, Pentecostals, Jehovah's Witness, Seventh-day Adventists, Presbyterians, Anglicans, Episcopalians, Methodist, Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and Lutherans. Other groups include the Greek Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons).
Personal business licenses allow Cubans to open their doors and sell food out of their homes.
Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Cuba has spotlighted the Communist Island and his pleas for reform–begging for more freedom for the Cuban people many hope the Pope's influence will bring change to Cubans lives on this Caribbean Isle. Increased freedoms were known following the historic visit of John Paul in 1998, and over the years the Communist lock down on people's lives has slowly been lessened. In the past year, Cubans have been allowed to sell private property; houses and cars, and thousands of personal business licenses have been issued so individuals can provide paid services, like selling pizza slices on the street. Many Cubans set up restaurants in their homes, or rent out rooms to tourists, collecting about $25 for two people for the night.
SENORA RAUDELINA RODRIGUEZ LEYVA WAS MY MOST GRACIOUS HOST IN HAVANA, A BIG FAN OF BARACK OBAMA…EMAIL raudelinaleyva@yahoo.es.
Held at a local night club this Santeria performance blesses the crowd ....
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Inscribed artwork inside a monument along the seawall of Havana showing the Church's role once.
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Google Contacts app is getting new features in its latest version 2.2 update on Android, which includes several changes related to how you view and manage your contacts.
"We hope these changes make managing your contacts simpler and more efficient," Google wrote in a blog post.
One of the popular requests from users, large photos as contact pictures are back that'll make for a 'more vibrant contact photo'.
Action buttons under photos have been updated as well. Following the update, you'll see new buttons to voice or video call, text and email that contact.
If there is a street address assigned to the contact, then a 'Directions' button will also appear.
Directory card under a contact will show you their job title, work phone number, manager name, and office location.
The app will now also show you suggestions to add contacts to your phonebook that you frequently communicate with. These contact suggestions will appear under 'Add people you contact often' summary card.
This suggestion view will help you clean up your phonebook as it will give you suggestions about individual contacts which might be duplicated. You can merge them separately or all at once.
Users can now label their contacts, which will then appear under separate lists in the phonebook, with the 'customized contacts view' feature.
This can be accessed via a new menu item in the main list screen called 'customize view'. The feature was previously available for 'All contacts' list view but now has been rolled for individual accounts as well.


Meryl has recently been certified to teach JourneyDance™.
JourneyDance™ is a combination of Yoga and improvisational dancing that will have you loving your body and loving your life! Weaving simple guided movement sequences and free exploration, JourneyDance™ reconnects you with your innate state of joyous well-being. Your mind becomes clear, free, and positive and your body feels supple, energized and powerful.
This holistic fitness practice tones your body and strenghens your core as you sweat away toxins and excess weight. You can see a video of JourneyDance™ at www.journeydance.com.
Wear loose fitting comfortable clothing. We will dance barefoot to inspiring world music and you will experience an empowering journey of transformation.
Meryl is currently not holding class. Stay tuned for upcoming class times and locations.


SchwarzTech	— Article: Am I The Only One Sick of Childish Ringtones?
Article: Am I The Only One Sick of Childish Ringtones?
Mobile phones are everywhere—that's a given. But, it seems like every time someone gets a call, we're subjected to something that sounds like it came out of a late '80s/early '90s video game or a distorted-sounding low-fidelity snippit of some pop or rap song. If those are your thing, fine, but it seems like phone manufacturers and providers just encourage this noise pollution.
For example, on many of the phones that belong to my friends and myself, there are a few choices built-in. Of those, maybe one or two actually resembles a real phone. The rest are usually promotional stuff thrown in by the service provider (the Cingular ringtone is one that comes to mind) or cheesy-sounding MIDI files.
Call me a curmudgeon, call me grumpy, and maybe I just don't "get it", but what happened to regular-sounding rings? My Sony Ericsson phone has one that sounds something like an AT&T 2500, but I haven't seen anything like it on other models from Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, or Sanyo. I think a lot of people would go "retro" if given the option out-of-the-box, rather than having to choose between spending money on a ringtone or being a walking advertisement for Nokia, Cingular, T-Mobile, or any pop song.
I get that service providers make money off of ringtones and by selling pieces of pop songs for a few bucks, it's a great way for added revenue (why hope that someone goes over on their minutes or text messages when you can just get them to buy just one ringtone?).
So, how does this fit in with Apple? There has been speculation again that they'd release their own phone, which would be more of an iPod than Motorola's ROKR ever was, but also a decent mobile phone. My plea to Apple is that they include a bunch of professional-sounding ringtones, as well as some others that would make the "fun" crowd happy.
Also, I am happy to say that I found a few more "business-like" choices online and downloaded them to my phone thanks to Bluetooth (and my Mac), but there are enough phones out there that do not have this feature, or are crippled by a service provider. Perhaps that needs to change?
Let me say this, I fall in the so-called younger demographic, and although many of my peers have changed their ringtones to something obnoxious, a number of us don't want those few normal-sounding ones to disappear.


Direct communication with customers via various channels is becoming more and more important for many media companies today. Additional service resources are required for new content offerings such as web communities, mobile services and paid content platforms. ConSol CM helps media companies to further develop their customer service in a targeted manner and to design processes as flexibly and efficiently as possible.
Any customer-controlled process can be wrote down. All types of customer inquiries can be answered quickly, easily and individually. Germany's largest online video store maxdome has converted its entire customer service to ConSol CM. The company thus controls the processing of support enquiries, complaints, account closures, cancellations, reminders and other customer concerns. It doesn't matter whether the contact is made by post, fax, e-mail, telephone or online form: all customer inquiries are handled via the same flexible platform.
maxdome, a company of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, is Germany's largest online video store. The online video library is available round the clock. With just a few clicks, users can download the content or watch films and series either directly online on their PC or on hybrid TV sets.
With the complete takeover of maxdome by ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, the company has decided to create a new infrastructure for its customer service. maxdome has opted for the ConSol CM solution to handle customer service. Today, the online video library controls the processing of all customer requests – from inquiries and complaints to technical support, account closures, cancellations, reminders and more. During the multi-stage selection process, ConSol was successful especially with the flexibility of the solution, its open interface concept, excellent workflow functionalities and short adaptation periods.
Gutenberg Rechenzentrum GmbH & Co KG (GRZ) is one of the leading IT service providers for the media industry. GRZ's customers include large regional and national newspapers in Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Hesse and Saxony.
The versatile customer management solution ConSol CM optimizes several business processes at GRZ: On the one hand, ConSol CM is the organizational center for requirements management in the development of the standard software VI&VA (publisher information and sales application). ConSol CM is also used for the service desk and customer management. GRZ adapts ConSol CM independently to the requirements and records its own processes for quotation management, license management and sales processes.


The Associated Student Body unanimously voted to adopt an official mission statement into the ASB Constitution and Code at the meeting last night.
ASB Vice President John Brahan said senators have lost sight of their purpose in the past.
"The purpose of the mission statement is to remind us why we're all here: to serve the students and not ourselves," Brahan said.
The Executive Committee consists of the president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. These officers all collaborated to author the mission statement. The bill was sponsored by Senator Blake Hembree and the Committee on Governmental Operations.
President Rod Bridges spoke in favor of passing the bill. He said the officers put a lot of thought and time into creating the mission statement.
"A lot of us spent hours thinking of what was best for the students and what was best for ASB," Bridges said.
The committee referenced how they researched other universities' mission statements and found them to include too much jargon.
The mission statement was adopted through passing Constitutional Amendment 15-2.
Bridges said the Executive Committee they wanted the statement to convey a positive message.
One of the objectives of his presidential platform was to change that indifference and establish ASB as a relevant student organization.


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No violations in National Solar Mission bids: Panel
An inter-ministerial committee probing into contravention of the one project-one proponent norm in the National Solar Mission by LANCO Infratech has concluded that there were no violations.
Source: Business Line (New Delhi)
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Lanco Infratech Puts Roads Biz on the Block
PEs demanding lower valuation for power biz, more say in management
LANCO Infratech, Energy, India, Planning Commission, Electricity, Karnataka, Coal, Uttar Pradesh
No major gas-based project till end of FY15: Power min
New Delhi The 12th Five-year Plan may end without any significant fresh gas-based power capacity being added in the country. The power ministry has issued a directive to all state governments and other central and state utilities asking them not to propose any new gas-based power project at least till the end of fiscal 2015.
The advisory comes as gas is in short supply domestically and the situation could worsen in coming months as production at the country's biggest reserve, Reliance Industries' D6 block in the Krishna-Godavari basin, is expected to fall further from already low levels.
Author(s): Rajat Guha, Subhash Narayan
Source: Financial Express (New Delhi)
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Power producers oppose pooling of gas with RLNG
Major power producers in the private and public sector, including Tata Power, NTPC, Torrent Power and Mahagenco, have opposed the proposal floated by the Association of Power Producers (APP) to pool domestic gas with RLNG (regasified liquefied natural gas). They have opposed the move on the ground that this would lead to higher tariffs.
In its submission to the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) on the gas pooling issue, Tata Power said that its Trombay power station was allocated 1.5 million metric standard cubic metres per day (mmscmd) when ONGC flaring first started.
Author(s): Sujay Mehdudia
Source: Hindu (New Delhi)
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Solar Mission Completes 89% of Capacity Goal
The National Solar Mission, which aims to install 20,000 MW capacity of solar energy by 2020, has commissioned 89% of its allotted capacity in its first stage, government officials said.
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Coal India enters fuel supply pacts with 5 companies
New Delhi State-owned Coal India (CIL) has so far entered into fuel supply pacts with five power firms for minimum assured supply of coal as per a government directive.
"So far five firms have signed fuel supply agreements with CIL, including Lanco Anpara Power and Bajaj Hindustan," a source in the know of the development said.
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Lanco commissions 56-MW solar PV power plants in Gujarat
Lanco Solar has announced the commissioning of 56 MW grid-connected solar photovoltaic power plants in Gujarat.
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Lanco Solar completes 56-MW grid connected photovoltaic power plants in Gujarat
Lanco Solar, a fully-owned subsidiary of Lanco Infratech, has announced the completion of a total of 56 MW grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants in Gujarat.
This includes three plants of 35 MW owned by Lanco Infratech and an additional 21 MW built as turnkey EPC for other developers — the Gujarat Power Corporation Ltd., GSPC Pipavav Power Company Ltd, GHI Energy Pvt Ltd., and Gujarat State Electricity Corporation.
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PETALUMA, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- July 6, 2005 -- MarketLive, Inc. (http://www.marketlive.com), the leading developer of e-commerce technology and services for Intelligent Selling® on the Web, today announced the launch of the new Trek Bicycle online store, www.TrekBikes.com.
With millions of cyclists around the world now tracking the 2005 Tour de France, the staff at Trek expects a significant site traffic spike and the new store is prepared to handle the load. The online store, designed with Trek's extensive customer base of cycling enthusiasts in mind, is a cycling fan's dream.
The technology used to support this experience-driven outreach to its customer base is the MarketLive® E-Commerce Platform. The platform offers an industry-leading e-commerce solution including a merchandising system, customer loyalty tools, campaign management, real-time personalization, order management, and product administration -- and easy manageability for marketing staff without the need for IT technologists.
The new TrekBikes.com store uses the MarketLive E-Commerce Platform to deliver highly engaging online customer experiences to support the Trek retail channel. In addition to the shopping experience, online visitors can connect to extensive editorial coverage of the cycling world and read up on the events as they unfold. The Trek site takes the cycling experience one step further for customers by offering destination travel packages and daily inspiration to fuel the athlete in all. Adding to the fun, fans can purchase the cool gadgets -- the same time piece, athletic wear, bike shoes, and accessories -- one would need to train just like Lance. The Trek site uniquely extends a traditional retail experience offering many online opportunities to deepen its relationship with customers. While many cycling accessories can be purchased online, an even larger selection including Vapor Helmets, Incite Computers, Discovery Jerseys, and the new InterChange Pack Systems are only available at the local retail shops. Online visitors are also incented to visit local retailers to try out the latest demo bike equipment.
"We've teamed with MarketLive to launch our new store to provide an outstanding online customer experience," said Tonja Green, eCommerce Manager, Trek Bikes. "With MarketLive, our online marketing team can focus on our customers and the design of their online experience while leveraging the extensive capabilities of the MarketLive® E-Commerce solution."
"It is apparent in the design of the TrekBikes.com site that the Trek team has a deep understanding of its customers," said Ken Burke, CEO at MarketLive, Inc. "Trek has used the industry leading features of the MarketLive E-Commerce Platform to create an exceptional online customer experience that's sure to build customer loyalty and close ties to the Trek brand."
MarketLive (http://www.marketlive.com) is a nationally recognized e-commerce technology company serving the catalog, direct marketing, retail, and manufacturing industries. The MarketLive® product is the company's enterprise-class Java™-based e-commerce application built specifically to address the need for a powerful, effective online e-commerce merchandising engine.


Samuel G. Suddarth, Receipt to James H. Graham, 3 June 1864, Misc. QM Expenditures, 1863-1865, QMG Box 10; Folder 1864 Clothing, Camp & Garrison Equipage, Telegraph Expenses, Some Claim Letters; Bundle 2, Kentucky Department of Military Affairs, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0002-222-0102, (accessed April 20, 2019).
To_ J. H. Graham Opr Dr.
I certify that the above account is correct and just; that the services were rendered as stated; and that they were necessary for the public service.
Received at Frankfort, Kentucky, the 3d of June, 1864, of S. G. SUDDARTH, Quarter-master General of Kentucky Volunteers, the sum of Thirty Dollars and [ ] Cents, in full of the above account.
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The Saturday morning dawned with a bit of rain. Apparently people had not been active at the OH2YOTA station late in the night because they started to gather at the main building way before the official wake-up call. We got a nice breakfast, a combination of traditional Finnish porridge and leftovers from the intercultural evening last night. Did you know that you can use the Norwegian Geitost as a topping to oatmeal porridge?
Today was the first day of real action. We started with two lectures about different ways of spending time outdoors with a radio: ARDF and OHFF. Keijo, OH2ETM, introduced us to ARDF, amateur radio direction finding, or casually: radio orienteering, or even more casually: fox hunting. Keijo was wearing the official Finnish team outfit from a world championship competition where he represented Finland. Anu, OH6ME, had prepared an introduction to OHFF, or how to activate nature sites on radio. OHFF would be on schedule tomorrow, but today we had a chance to try radio orienteering.
So after lunch everyone stuffed their pant legs into their socks (tick prevention action) and headed for the forest, to find the 'foxes' Keijo had planted there. Some guys had changed to real orienteering equipment, and they were the first to finish the track, too. The sweaty Swedes emerged from the forest, asking first for coffee and then for sauna. Others took it a bit more easy, a nice walk in the forest.
Every night ends with a relaxing sauna, and today we got to enjoy barbecue Makkara = sausage as well. Too bad the morning rain was not heavy enough to put an end to the grass fire warning, and we were not able to have a full experience of open-fire barbecue. Safety first, and so we used gas to burn the sausages.
Fun fact: In Finland (at least some parts of it) the mustard types are graded HF, VHF, UHF, and SHF, depending on the intensity of the taste!
This morning the Swedish NOTA team woke up in Åbo after a night spent on the ferry. After a short breakfast on a restaurant we all stuffed ourselves into the cars and went to Salo. After about 40 min (plus minus some navigation errors) we arrived in Leirisalo where the camp is held.
After arrival, we started mounting the Yagi-antenna and we got it half way up before lunch.
The lunch (a nice tasting soup) was extra nice tasting due to us being tired and hungry and because of the very good company. The tower work continued after lunch, but we still had a lot to do when the last bunch of people arrived by a charter bus.
It is amazing what the Finnish radio amateurs can do! We found out that everyone participating and organising the camp was a licensed amateur radio operator, from the cook to the bus driver. The Finnish youth team had done a great work in recruiting help for the camp.
The camp site, Leirisalo, comprises a main building, sleeping quarters, summer kitchen with cold eating facilities, and a sauna. The youth team had even delivered a lake next to the sauna, WOW. We were warned of snakes and mosquitoes, the former being poisonous but luckily the latter being the more probable ones to attack us. The place is surrounded by forest on one side and the lake on the other side. Today, the Finnish weather struck us really warm and pleasing, and we are hoping for it to continue so for the whole weekend.
We will be QRV on most short-wave bands during the weekend and we try to activate most modes as well.
We hope to hear you on the bands!
Also on Sundays it started again at 8 o'clock with breakfast. Since this also meant the last day, the last things were packed into the suitcase, checked out at the hotel and then it was the last time to the amateur radio centre. Arrived here, the Saturday afternoon was continued: three timeslots were offered for further workshops, groups, conversations and handicrafts, whereby one had partly also opportunity to catch up missed workshops from the previous day. The offer was again fully exploited and there was still a lot of radio transmission in the tower as DF0YOTA.
Before lunch, there was a joint final round in which many of the self-organised programme items were summarised. Thus one could be shown once again how diverse the contributions of the young people were in the self-organized Barcamp style.
Afterwards everyone had the opportunity to anonymously write down their thoughts about the Subregional Camp in Baunatal. With the help of a divided feedback wall all participants, but also the Orga, could be told again what was on their hearts. This possibility was well accepted and subsequently read aloud. The three participants, who had received their DE callsign the evening before, of course received their certificates!
For lunch there were delicious homemade cheese noodles, which were completely taken over by some participants and everything was organized by themselves!
Afterwards it was time to say goodbye to the first ones, who unfortunately had to go home. But some could still stay and help to clean up.
After the last things had been tidied up, the supervisors handed over the YOTA flag signed by all 60 participants to the DARC management on behalf of the youngsters.
More reports and pictures will follow in the next few days, so be curious.
After a long day yesterday, the second day started early again. From 8 a.m. onwards all participants were present at breakfast in the hotel. Everyone strengthened themselves for the long day ahead. Afterwards the whole group went to the DARC Headquarters. There we were already friendly expected.
At the beginning three groups were divided which visited alternately the CQDL editor-in-chief Stefan (DH5FFL), the chief of the QSL sorting Dietmar (DL1ZAX) and in representation for the DARC management the DARC youth coordinator Gerrit (DH8GHH) and punched with questions to the respective topic areas. Thus the process of the CQDL – from the first contribution idea up to the finished CQDL -, the way of the QSL cards from our home QTH over Baunatal up to the receiver and the individual coworkers and their tasks in the DARC were presented.
After the question hours were over, we returned to the entrance area for a leisurely lunch. Participant Mathis (DL7MLP) programmed his own booking system for beverages with RFID chip cards – alias the camp name badges – and tried it out directly. Afterwards we went next door to the amateur radio centre, where we continued directly with a short guided tour through the camp rooms Alpha, Bravo, Charly, Delta, Echo, Foxtrott and Golf, as well as through the radio tower.
The rest of the day was explained afterwards. First, everyone who had offered a workshop should briefly introduce the content and find a suitable time slot and room for it. At the end a well filled program on the whiteboard resulted, so that everyone could get an individual overview, when the points of interest for everyone took place. At the same time DFØYOTA was activated from the tower. So there was a lot of radio work, SDRs were examined, Raspberry Pis were programmed, satellite QSOs were explained and done, DXPediton experiences were exchanged, lectures were held, (ARDF) foxes were hunted and much more! Everybody just had something to do and it definitely didn't get boring. Due to the flexible programe everyone could pursue their own interests in amateur radio. The positive side effect was also that during the course of the day almost every one of the 60 participants talked to each other and got to know each other better.
Pizzas were delivered to the amateur radio centre just in time for dinner afterwards. So every youngster found something to his/her taste. Moreover, the evening continued freshly fortified and we let the day pass in review together. Everyone returned to the hotel with a smile on their faces. Unfortunately the departure from the YOTA Subregional Camp is scheduled for tomorrow … but more in the next report.
While everything was ready to welcome the arriving participants at the Hotel Stadt Baunatal , the last preparations were still in progress at the headquarter.
In the course of the afternoon, the youngsters gradually arrived. After they checked in, the prepared hall filled up. After a short greeting of the participants, the YOTA program of the IARU R1 was presented – after all, the subregional camp is also a part of it! After further organizational hints, there was a small introduction round; this made it easier to learn the names. Afterwards there was enough time to get to know each other during dinner.
After the last participants had arrived during the evening, the intercultural evening took place – as it is the tradition at every YOTA camp. All participants had brought something special from their own region. The most creative things were presented and the most diverse stories told. This was a good opportunity to get to know each other. Afterwards the young people let the evening end together. Tomorrow we will continue with workshops and radio operation as DF0YOTA from the tower of the DARC headquarter.
At the beginning of February, I saw that LX7I will host the YCP for the ARRL DX SSB. I immediately applied after checking transportation. Three weeks after I was notified that I had been selected to be one of the youngsters to go to LX land. We all arrived on Friday afternoon and after a first get-together, we start to get sorted in the shack.
For this experience I met the other team members: HA8RT, DK4EE, DL8GM, DC2CL or Tomi, Louis, Markus and Claudia. It was a really good time with them at the station, sharing experiences, discussing the hobby in our own respective countries and enjoying simple off-air time or pile-up time.
As expected from a Multi-one, Multi-two and Multi-Multi (all in one HI), LX7I station is well organized, the antenna dispatch system is great.
The 22 antennas on the 6 towers, full sized beams, stacked beams, fixed or not, dipoles, verticals, (plus the RX beverages) were awesome for me. As a fan of large antennas, stacking methods, performance comparison, speaking with LX2A Phillipe, the owner of the station, was a great pleasure. It was also very interesting to see the background of a big gun station and its evolution.
It was not my first experience in contesting, but there have been lots of first times @LX7I for me: my first radio operation outside F land as LX/F4HWS, my first ARRL DX SSB, my first time operating monobander Yagi on 40 and stacks on upper bands and my first time in M2 category.
I love the feeling of challenge operation though the friendship relation that you can create on the air and in the shack of course!
The best memories of this WE in LX was the arrival with the meeting of everyone, the warming up session with good pile up from LX/F4HWS, LX/DK3EE, LX/DC2CL, the off times with the group, and the last minutes of the contest at night, fingers crossed, with all the team in the shack, behind Tomi on 80M and Louis on 160M fighting for our last QSO: a new multiplier on the top band!
Finally, competition with ED1R, E7DX and LZ5R was intense and excitement has increased with the live score sharing web site, "cqcontest.net".
I think that every youngster of the YOTA group who is interested by this type of event or contests should definitely apply. This is a great opportunity to operate big stations, get more experience with ham radio, meet great people, contesters, and friends, and finally to have fun in what they like.
Thanks to everyone, see you for the next one.
LX7I YCP Team, Tom F4HWS.
At the beginning of 2019 the Youngsters in Austria were working together on some international YOTA projects, for example the YOTA online shop where you can buy clothes and accessories with YOTA branding. Of course the profits go to support YOTA projects such as the summer camp. Furthermore we were meeting to plan events in the summer months. Most of our plans are for the summer holiday period for 2 reasons. Firstly the weather makes outdoor activities much more enjoyable so it is possible to organise camping trips and field days for example. Furthermore most youngsters are still at school or university so in the holidays they have time and are not worrying about exams and the like. We have some big plans, however we can't talk about them just yet.
Furthermore some of the youngsters were preparing for future contest operations by acquiring new masts for the contest station oe1w where there are always many youngsters helping out building the station and operating. Another activity which we are preparing and which will happen soon is the expansion of the antenna system in the Austrian club's headquarter station. A 12 metre Hummel mast and a 4 square will be added to the station soon. Most of the construction, mounting antennas etc. is done by youngsters. It's always a fun day of working together on such projects. These kind of get togethers are also the perfect opportunity to introduce new youngsters to the community and to show them the kind of fun things that we do.
What are we working with right now?
Right now we are planning the trip to NOTA in april (which we are looking forward to a lot!) while trying to recruit as many people as possible to join. We have also started planning for the autumn events via meeting over skype.
For youngsters to develop more fun ideas to bring back home to our activities.
A smaller follow up event to meet our NOTA friends in Sweden from the previous NOTA and for the youngsters who did not manage to participate in NOTA.
Lighter, more casual events at three club stations for the youngsters to get active with the exciting DYM-Signal during three entire weekends (fri-sun).
When a youngster who has never before heard of amateur radio asks you what it is, how do you explain it in a few short sentences?
Ham radio is a way to talk with basically anyone anywhere, you only need a radio and an antenna and you are off! And yes, of course there's internet and mobile phones that makes it possible to talk to anyone in a very simple way, but that is not the point for us. We can compare it with sailing as an example, even though you can take the ferry to Islands such as Gotland, people still sail. Radio is a hobby just like sailing which gives you more control over what you are doing while you can continue to learn even more about it.
Ham exams took place in February. Four students of our course gain courage and managed their Novice class. Another three members of OM3KFF upgraded themselves to Extra class. Now, we will have more time for practice and also we are going to start Morse code lessons.
We also use contests for training of beginners, mainly SSB and RTTY. We did part time easy operation in CQWW SSB, Mexico RTTY, CQ WPX RTTY. CQ 160m SSB, ARRL SSB and CQ WPX SSB are following soon.
I gathered participants for summer YOTA camp in Bulgaria who replied public call. After discussion with youngsters and their parents, we agreed a new team leader (Bety OM1DP).
…how do you explain it in a few short sentences?
During the winter we have some interesting contests in OK. So we were sure to take part in them. First was 2m Christmas contest where OL18YOTA made huge success by taking 4th place in Adult Multi category, Martina will tell you more. In February there is 2m/70cm QRP contest. Honza has really adventurous story from this contest. So keep reading.
Under a callsign OL18YOTA we took a part in the Christmas contest.
Contest was on 26th December, in two parts from 08.00 – 11.00 and 12.00 – 15.00 UTC.
With the ICOM IC-7600, TR 144 H, PA-800W and 2 x 10 el. Yagi antenna we did 204 QSOs. Best DX was DL1KFS with 838 km. This number of QSOs brought us the 4th place in the Multi category 144MHz. For some of us it was the first time in Christmas contest and also the first longer contest.
One of the best opportunities for real men is the annual Winter QRP contest held every year on 1st Sunday of February. The contest starts at 9:00 UTC and consists of two separate two-hours periods – first on 70 cm and second on 2 m bands. Only 10 W power output is permitted, so the best way how to win the first place (awarded by the little "snowman" statuette) is participation from the highest hill you can find in your neighborhood. But imagine, that it's winter time and in Czech republic there is normally about approximately two meters of snow cover in the mountains!
"Sometimes in December I made a choice to take part in the Winter QRP contest on VHF/UHF. And because I have never participated this competition before, I didn't realise that portable operation in winter from mountains is not so easy as I imagined. So I decided to visit the highest hill nearby – Velka Destna (asl 1115 m). I persuaded also my friend Martin (he is not a ham) to come with me, because I needed someone to help me with all the necessary equipment – FT-817, batteries, 6 el and 10 el yagis, tent, shovel, and so on.
Our little expedition started at 7 am when we packed the car and in 40 minutes we reached the parking place in 900 m asl, 3,5 km far from the top of the hill. First three kilometers were quite easy. The "road" went through the forest, so the 80 km/h wind (which we expected according to the weather forecast) was not a problem so far. But the last 200 meters to the top were a real hell – every second step we falled down into the snow cover so deeply, that it was very physically difficult to stand up again, especially with heavy backpacks. Aprx. 30 minutes before contest we started to build the tent and both antennas. In the strong freezing wind it was not so easy and we finally started our CQ´s almost 40 minutes after the beginning of the contest!
Because of bad propagation, short antennas, terrible FT-817 (it is really not a TRX for a real contesting HI), icing and of course because of the lack experiences with this contest (it was our first participation) we reached only 24 QSO´s on 70 cm and 52 QSO´s on 2 m. So the result was a far far away from our expectations (we wanted to manage 40 QSO on 70 cm and minimally 65 QSO on 2 m).
Nevertheless the most important thing than number of QSO´s is the excellent feeling that we managed this hard challenge and even when the nature is against you, you can deal with that and you overcome yourself. Looking forward the W QRP 2020!


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AMSTERDAM – Bayern Munich wing prodigy Julian Green has now sealed a season-long loan move to Bundesliga rivals Hamburg, his agent confirmed to MLSsoccer.com on Sunday.
Originally reported by Sky Sports News HD in Germany, the move was completed late Sunday night after finalization of the details and a medical exam. There is no purchase option attached to the deal.
"Julian is going to play for Hamburg for one year," Green rep Katharina Schrott told MLSsoccer.com.
The US attacker, whose lone first-team appearance for Bayern came in last year's UEFA Champions League group stage, joins an HSV side with but one point and no goals from their first two Bundesliga matches of the season.
Green's first chance at a debut will come when Hamburg make the short trip to face Hannover 96 next Sunday.
Before that, though, he will join the US national team in Prague for Wednesday's friendly against the Czech Republic. Green has three caps for the USMNT, including one against Belgium at the 2014 World Cup, in which he scored on hsi first touch.


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Q: How can i speed up my python program Below is my script:
from math import trunc

def solver(number,number2, numberofdigits):
    seq = str(number),str(number2), str(number - number2)
    digits = "".join(seq)
    goodChecks = 0
    count= numberofdigits/3
    for i in range(1,10):
        if digits.count(str(i)) == count:
            goodChecks += 1
    if goodChecks == 9:
        return digits
    else:
        return False

middlenumberdic = {}
middlenumber =[]
successes = 0
num_of_digits = int(input("please enter a number of digits, which is a multiple of 3"))
if num_of_digits == 3:
    minY = 381
    maxY = 987
if num_of_digits == 6:
    minY =246912
    maxY = 998877

if num_of_digits == 3:
    minX = 123
if num_of_digits == 6:
    minX =123123

for y in range(minY, maxY+1):
    numberlist = []
    if y%100 == 0:
        print(y)
    for x in range(minX,trunc(y/2)):
        digits = solver(y,x,num_of_digits)
        if digits is not False:
            successes += 2
            print(digits)
            numberlist.extend([x,y-x])
            middlenumber.extend([x, y-x])

print("")
print("I found: ", successes, " successful solution to your brainteaser")
if successes < 20:
    print("there were almost no solutions")
elif successes < 100:
    print("there were not many solutions")
elif successes < 1000:
    print("there were more than a hundred solutions it is definitely not impossible :)")
else:
    print("that's a lot of successes")

print("All the ", successes, " succesful solutions i am now going to show you :)")
print("There were ", len(middlenumber) - len(set(middlenumber)) , " duplicates, by the way :)")

items = sorted(middlenumberdic.items())
for key, value in items :
    if not not value:
        print(key, " : ", ", ".join( repr(e) for e in value ))

So i have created a brainteaser, which i called the "impossible problem". In this brainteaser, the aim was to create a valid 3 digit subtraction which used every number from 1 to 9
Here is an example of one of the solutions: 873-254=619 this works because every number is used once.
For more information watch this video i made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2i1nOy6mfo&ab_channel=EpicVideos
After finding it hard to come up with answers i created this program. What it basically does is iterate through every possible 3 digit subtraction and if it finds one which fits the criteria it prints it.
My program worked quite well but then i decided could you do the same for 6 digits? For the 3 digit problem the program had 9^6 possiblitys to iterate over. Which is a measly 531,441 iterations. However for the 6 digit there is 9^12 possiblity, Which is a collosal 282,429,536,481 iterations. This is going to take my computer days to solve.
I have already tried optimizing my program but i can't figure out how to do it any faster. So if you see that at any point there is a way i could optimize it, please could you tell me. Thankyou

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Emilio Cavenaghi, né en 1852 à Caravaggio et mort en 1876 à Milan, est un peintre italien.

Biographie
Emilio Cavenaghi naît en 1852 à Caravaggio. Comme son frère Luigi, Emilio Cavenaghi est élève de Bertini à l'Accademia de Milan.

La Stanza Poldi et The Music Amateur, sont deux de ses meilleures œuvres. Il réalise également de nombreuses gravures sur bois pour les illustrations de livres.

Il peint les décorations et le sipario (rideau) du théâtre Manzoni.

Il reste longtemps à Pise à cause de sa santé. Là-bas, il peint des sujets architecturaux.

Emilio Cavenaghi meurt en 1876 à Milan.

Notes et références

Annexes

Article connexe
 Liste de peintres italiens

Bibliographie

Liens externes

Naissance en avril 1852
Naissance à Caravaggio
Décès en décembre 1876
Décès à Milan
Peintre italien du XIXe siècle
Décès à 24 ans

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Home Death Notices JASON QUENTIN HAGEN
JASON QUENTIN HAGEN
In loving memory of Jason Quentin Hagen, 38 years, who passed away peacefully on Sunday, September 25, 2011 at the Sudbury Regional Hospital with his loving family at his side. Beloved husband of Mariolen (Groeneweg) Hagen. Loving father of Bastiaan and Olivia. Cherished son of Robert and Linda (Knott) Hagen, Mindemoya. Loving brother to Angela Hagen and James Hagen (Carolyn). Dear son-in-law of Wim and Eva Groeneweg. Special brother-in-law to Raul and Veronica Groeneweg, Adriana and Ryan Sherriff, Barbara Groeneweg and Debora and Alejandro Gomez. Lovingly remembered by his nieces and nephews Lawson, Lillian, Liam, Anja, Raulito, Caty, Alejandro and Memo. Also cherished by many aunts, uncles, and cousins. A life resident of Lively, Jason married Mariolen (nee Groeneweg) in 1999. As a teenager he had been a cadet in the Irish Regiment #2964 Walden where he excelled in activities and competitions later becoming an instructor and mentor to other cadets. Jason graduated from Laurentian University and eventually secured a job with Vale. He was presently a superintendent in Matte Processing. Jason had an inspired work ethic and led by example garnering the respect, loyalty and friendship of his colleagues and fellow workers. He enjoyed travelling, the outdoors, hunting, woodworking, and especially all his time spent on Manitoulin Island. Jason will be remembered for his wonderful smile and selfless spirit always putting others needs before his own. The priority of his life was his loving family especially his children whom he taught to always try their best and to be proud of who they are and what they did. Jason lived life to the fullest embracing everyday with passion and purpose. He was never afraid to try anything and was always up to a challenge. For Jason nothing was impossible. Rested at the Lougheed Funeral Home, 252 Regent Street, at Hazel Street, Sudbury. Prayers were at 3 pm on Tuesday, September 27, 2011. Funeral Mass was in the St. Stanislaus Church, Copper Cliff on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 10 am. Cremation with interment in the Waters Cemetery.
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Q: How can .m3u8 and .ts streams or videos properly be saved, without any pixelated or corrupted frames? VLC or FFMPEG, or anything else I was wondering how to save contents of .m3u8, generally any that works, using VLC at "Open Network Stream".
I saw that these files often contain .ts files, that are named "playlist".
I've also tried to locally download the .m3u8, then edit the playlist .ts files to point to the server URL, so that I can load it in VLC and play it. Like that, I was able to choose the part I wanted to save.
Now, when it comes to saving it, there were some issues, basically the frames didn't look like they were supposed, compared to how the video plays in the website or on VLC, I guess, though I am not sure about that. This issue occurs when selecting "Converting", not sure if there are options that I can provide, so that the quality doesn't break.
If you would play one of these .m3u8 files on VLC Player, there are loading issues at the beginning. It seems like that some video related data has first to be gathered, because after that, no issues occured anymore. And I think the "Converting" option in VLC doesn't seem to be doing that, by default at least.

Therefore, the other method I tried, was to click on "Stream" in VLC, this allows me to "Stream" a content in VLC to a file. This seemed to have worked fine, however the quality wasn't great, especially when a lot of color appeared, you ended up seeing a lot of pixels.
And now I am wonder, how can you save one of these things properly?


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Free lecture asks "Whose Museums, Whose Heritage, Who Pays?"
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News from our partners University Centre Shrewsbury
Sir Neil Cossons
A leader of national museums and heritage organisations will present a free lecture at University Centre Shrewsbury (UCS) tomorrow on the future of Britain's museums and heritage.
On Wednesday 27 April 2016 Sir Neil Cossons OBE will ask "Whose Museums, Whose Heritage, Who Pays?"
People are invited to the lecture, which is taking place as part of the Rowley's Heritage Lectures series, at Rowley's House in Barker Street, from 7pm to 8.30pm.
Sir Neil said:
"The debate on the future of Britain's museums and heritage is becoming increasingly intense. What is their future in the face of changing public interests and attitudes and reductions in public spending? Radical new solutions are in the air.
"At the lecture, I'll aim to set out some of the background to why we are where we are and consider some options for the future."
Sir Neil has been active in the fields of industrial archaeology and heritage since the early 1960s.
He was the first director of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust from 1971 to 1983; Director of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, from 1983 to 1986 and Director of the Science Museum, London, from 1986 to 2000. From 2000 until 2007 he was Chairman of English Heritage, the principal adviser on the historic environment of England.
Sir Neil was appointed OBE in 1982 and knighted for services to museums and heritage in 1994. He is a member for the University for Shropshire Advisory Board, which provides strategic direction for UCS, and has recently been appointed a trustee of the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The series of Rowley's Heritage Lectures will continue on Wednesday 11 May 2016 when Professor Stewart Ainsworth will explore how new research is contributing to the understanding of the archaeology of the First World War in this country.
The lecture "Fields of Fire: The Archaeological Legacy of Lord Kitchener" will be held at Rowley's House from 7pm to 8.30pm.
Prof Ainsworth was formerly a Senior Investigator and Project Manager with English Heritage and is well known as the landscape archaeologist with Channel 4's Time Team. He is a Visiting Professor with the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Chester.
To book places for the lectures email communications@ucshrewsbury.ac.uk or call 01743 297185.
Alternatively, people can visit the information point at Guildhall at Frankwell Quay (SY3 8HQ) which is open from 9am to 5pm Monday to Thursday and 9am to 4pm on Fridays or Rowley's House at Barker Street (SY1 1QH) on Wednesdays between 11am and 2pm.
For further details on UCS events go to: www.ucshrewsbury.ac.uk/public-events.


The kitchen is the most dangerous room in the house. Sure, you could conceivably drown in the bathroom, and I will leave hypothetical scenarios to your imagination. But that's about it. It is the kitchen where true chaos can reign.
Knives—blunt ones—bounce off fruit and cut through thumbs; sharp ones require concentration and no distractions. The kitchen sink is the only one in the house without a drain hole. Turn away and it flows into flood mode. Then there is the stove—the crucible of fire. Even if it is not a gas stove, burns come with the territory; and it is so easy to forget about a pot of soup and let it either boil over, or worse yet boil down to some sort of elastic cement.
I remember once putting a large pot of lobster carcasses on very low heat to slowly reduce for what would be an intensely delicious stock, perfect to infuse a risotto or chowder. We came back a little later than expected. Well, to be frank, I totally forgot about it. We opened the door to a revolting smell of burnt shells. The old, heirloom white enamel pot was scorched and never recovered. It took weeks to rid the flat of the smell of a charnel house.
So the kitchen is the most dangerous room in the house. It demands vigilance. As we become comfortable with our tools, our implements for sawing and cutting, our fire-breathing stove, we unwind a little. The rhythm of cooking is something we look forward to. And just as we relax, enter the cat.
The cat is crazy. This is our third cat. Each lived its life to its fullest and, after a while, we got another. The house is not the same without one. There was a cat before I arrived. There is one now.
This one is nuts. She is black. We have found that short-haired black cats are friendlier. Apparently, a cat's coat colour indicates which neurotransmitters are firing, and that affects behaviour. It has something to do with dopamine. Animal behaviour expert Temple Grandin agrees and that's good enough for me. As well, I, with a low-level cat-hair allergy, am somehow not affected by black short-haired cats.
So we have a small, black cat. A small quiet black cat, in the early morning, in a dark kitchen. Even with the lights on, it is easy to step back, smoosh a paw and hear a yowl fierce enough for me to drop the morning porridge.
Then there are her endearing predilections—investigating running tap water, swatting the pen that hangs on a string near the kitchen phone, slowly moving her food bowl from the corner into the middle of the kitchen, deciding that the kitchen rugs, specifically positioned to catch splatters, really need to be bundled into the corner.
A dog, it seems, would solve our problems. Dogs know the meaning of the word "sit" or "stay" or "get out of the kitchen." Cats hear everything and know the meaning of nothing. As the video game Assassin's Creed puts it, "Nothing is true. Everything is permitted." Obviously, this was written for a cat.
When our first cat died, we looked at getting a dog. This was sort of an unspoken agreement between Celina and me. She had the cat. Then she got me. Then I could have a dog.
We went to look at poodles. They were beautiful. Gorgeous, full-size standard brown poodles from a respected local breeder. I looked one in the face and we knew right away who would be the alpha male. So we stay with cats.
This one also happens to be very cute. Like babies, cuteness goes a long way.
It has been a few months since this one entered our lives. I can say that she and I have reached an accommodation in the kitchen. If the cat's bowl always has some food in it, I get to use the rest of the kitchen. So far she is training me well.
I have been mucking about with tofu recently, getting ideas from Deborah Madison's book This Can't be Tofu. The key seems to be to disguise it.
Drain firm tofu, cut it into squares, and fry them until golden on all sides. These are tasty added to a vegetable stir-fry or a tomato sauce. Soft or silken tofu is excellent in a dip.
Blend together a half-cup each of yogurt, soft tofu, and sour cream or mayonnaise, a tablespoon or two of good olive oil, a clove of garlic mashed with salt, several grindings of black pepper, a dash of cayenne and a tablespoon of your favourite fresh herbs—dill or basil are particularly good. Thin it out for salad dressing. Leave it thick for a dip.
So far, the cat isn't interested.
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We have a dog who plunks herself in the middle of the kitchen and simply will not move. She weighs 35 pounds, so we climb over and around her. She does get up to clean the kitchen floor whenever anything drops that is remotely interesting to eat. She avoids pieces of onion.


This is a vintage 1930s 5ml bottle of Miracle by Lentheric Type PERFUME BASE from the H. Carles factory in France. It is i a clear glass, French square type bottle with black bakelite screw cap and Norda paper label.
I just tested this with a smelling strip and it has a very herbal, woody scent. I find a trace of geranium and carnation over leather.
This is a base used for the creation of Miracle by Lentheric type floral chypre perfumes. This would be perfect for anyone interested in creating their own perfume, studying fragrance and raw materials or for vintage fragrance collecting. This is very old and the contents may no longer be usable and the label has wear or staining. I do not guarantee any fragrance or contents contained within the bottle.
Miracle was launched in 1924. It may have been created by perfumer Jean Carles as this is what is written on the bottle. It was classified as a floral leather chypre fragrance for women. Consists of a mixed bouquet of flowers and herbs, just slightly spiced with carnation and lilies, on a leathery chypre base.


O(1)-time LRU which grows more space-efficient as the number of LRU sets increases, introduced by this paper from CS7260, spring 2010. VLHU (Volatile Least Heavily Used) is a replacement algorithm designed to allow large-scale changes in the tracked set over time, but to be resistant against a burst of new entries. These properties are desirable, for instance, when tracking entities in a network which can be temporarily overwhelmed by an attacker capable of spoofing, or tracking memory locations in a computer when non-temporal bursting traffic (say, a block of text being passed read only once by an online algorithm) is equivalent to the size of the cache.
Source code can be found at GitHub: http://github.com/dankamongmen/lrumap.
VLHU is a data structure of, to the best of my knowledge, my creation. It is a sufficiently trivial idea that I'm sure it's been invented and discarded countless times. I first used it in the Reflex Interceptor in 2003.
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There are always some major announcements that happen at the VGAs, and if you remember The Last of Us was revealed last year at the show, surprising many. This year, however, we will see a new character in the game and she is supposed to be pretty damn amazing.
We know for a fact that The Last of Us and Gears of War: Judgement will be at the show, but there are plenty more planned as well. The show will be hosted by Samuel L Jackson, and you can expect Geoff Keighley to play a major part as well.
Keighley started hyping the new reveals and said, "and of course we've got some amazing surprises of announcements of new games that will be coming in the future, far beyond sort of summer of 2013.
The VGAs will be held on December 7th i.e. next Friday. Will Microsoft give a tease of its next-gen console? Will Sony announce some new exclusives? Or maybe, we could see Mass Effect 3 winning GOTY and honored at the show… but that definitely looks unlikely heh? *ducks for cover*.
EA has announced a tentative release window for Dragon Age 3, which is set for sometime next year. So if that ends up being true, we could see a trailer at the show. However, recently there was a rumour about the game being delayed to next-gen.
Thanks, Major Nelson. Via GamingEverything.


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Q: Loading data into django haystack database indexing with solr i have some existing data in json that i would like to load into the django haystack database and do indexing using solr(rebuild_index).
I have roughly about 100k records and i do not want to use fixtures to do it. I find fixtures quite confusing to understand.

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*Is it possible that django can point to the solr index without using a database?

*Is it possible to store the whole json file into the database without serialization?

*If i generate my index using solr and the JSON file, is it possible to store the solr index into the database?

*If i am forced to use fixtures, is there a good example of people using fixtures?

A: Haystack is a great solution when you want to combine the Django ORM (backed by a database like MySQL or Postgres) with a search platform like Solr or Elasticsearch.
If you don't have models defined for your data, or your data does not like in a DB set up with the Django ORM, then you're better off just using a python/solr library like solrpy. See: http://django-haystack.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq.html#when-should-i-not-be-using-haystack
Note that when you use Haystack, you will have data in both your DB and the search index. If you just Solr, you without Haystack, you just need data in Solr.
With solr, you can bulk import into your index from a JSON file. See: import data from JSON in solr


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Список премьер-министров Шри-Ланки включает в себя руководителей правительства страны, до 1972 года официально называвшейся Цейлон (от  «Синхала двипа», остров сингалов), со времени образования первого правительства коронной колонии Британский Цейлон в 1947 году, в преддверии предоставления в 1948 году независимости доминиону Цейлон. До 1978 года премьер-министр Шри-Ланки (, , ) являлся главой правительства, а до 1977 года традиционно совмещал полномочия министра обороны и иностранных дел (). В 1972 году страна была провозглашена Республикой Шри-Ланки, в 1977 году в её конституцию были внесены изменения, согласно которым главой правительства стал президент, а полномочия премьер-министра определены как его заместителя по руководству президентским кабинетом министров. В 1978 году эти положения были закреплены в новой конституции, провозгласившей страну Демократической Социалистической Республикой Шри-Ланки. В случае смерти, недееспособности или невозможности исполнять полномочия президента, премьер-министр замещает его до избрания преемника (что было реализовано в 1993 году после убийства президента Ранасингхе Премадасы, замещённого премьер-министром Дингири Виджетунге).

Применённая в первых столбцах таблицы нумерация является условной. Также условным является использование в первых столбцах цветовой заливки, служащей для упрощения восприятия принадлежности лиц к различным политическим силам без необходимости обращения к столбцу, отражающему партийную принадлежность. В столбце «Выборы» отражены состоявшиеся выборные процедуры, сформировавшие состав парламента, поддержавший правительство. Имена персон в списке последовательно приведены на сингальском и тамильском языках, являющихся в стране государственными; для политико-исторических терминов, как правило, приводится их написание и на английском языке, имеющем статус официального.

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Британский Цейлон (1947—1948)

В коронной колонии Британский Цейлон (, , ) исполнительной властью с 1798 года обладал губернатор (), назначаемый монархом (по совету британского премьер-министра), представлявший как монарха, так и британское правительство, и являвшийся главой исполнительного совета Цейлона.

Лишь после согласования в 1946 году проекта  с 23 августа по 20 сентября 1947 года были проведены , по итогам которых получившая большинство  24 сентября сформировала правительство во главе с Доном Сенанаяке.

Цейлон (1948—1972)

 года вступила в силу , предоставившая Цейлону статус доминиона и распространившая на него правовую систему Вестминстерского статута. Главой доминиона Цейлон (, , ) являлся британский монарх, представленный на острове генерал-губернатором ().

Правительство доминиона формировалось из числа депутатов Палаты представителей (нижней палаты парламента Цейлона) партией, получившей большинство на парламентских выборов. Формальное назначение номинированных парламентариями членов кабинета осуществлялось генерал-губернатором.

В 1960 году правительство возглавила Сиримаво Бандаранаике, избранная председателем Партии свободы после гибели в результате покушения её мужа Соломона Бандаранаике и ставшая первой в мире женщиной — премьер-министром. После возвращения к власти в 1970 году она же инициировала созыв Учредительной ассамблеи по разработке текста .

Шри-Ланка (1972—1978)

С 1970 года специально созванная Учредительная ассамблея работала над текстом , которая вступила в силу 22 мая 1972 года. В соответствии с нею страна становилась парламентской республикой (Республика Шри-Ланка, , , ), в которой полномочия правительства, отвечающего перед парламентом и формируемого из депутатов от партий, обладающих в нём большинством голосов, превалировали над полномочиями президента страны, провозглашённого главой государства. Был упразднён Сенат (верхняя палата парламента), члены нижней палаты стали депутатами однопалатной Национальной ассамблеи (до следующих выборов, назначенных через 5 лет после конституционных изменений). Президентом (, , ) был избран последний генерал-губернатор Уильям Гопаллава.

Одержав победу на ,  во главе с Джуниусом Джаявардене, внесла 4 сентября 1977 года в конституцию поправки, сосредоточившие полноту исполнительной власти у президента, ставшего главой государства и правительства. Пост премьер-министра был переосмыслен, получив статус помощника президента по руководству правительством, при этом право его занять сохранилось у лидера партии или коалиции, выигравшей парламентские выборы. Первым президентом, получившим новый объём полномочий, стал оставивший для этого пост премьер-министра Джаявардене (4 февраля 1978 года).

ДСР Шри-Ланка (после 1978)
 года вступила в силу новая Конституция Шри-Ланки, по которой страна стала называться Демократическая Социалистическая Республика Шри-Ланка (, , ). Новая конституция сохранила основные положения, внесённые поправками 1977 года по установлению президентской республики, что косвенно отразилось в появлении традиции наименования кабинета министров по имени возглавляющего его президента, а не премьер-министра.

Диаграмма пребывания в должности

1 — Объединённая национальная партия; 2 — Партия свободы; 3 — Народный фронт; 4 — Объединённая народная партия

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People living with HIV (PLWH) are particularly affected in their sexual life. Medical support of PLWH's sexuality is increasingly proposed however no data are available. We assessed the interest of PLWH for sexual and emotional health support within a French HIV outpatient care facility.
Anonymous questionnaire proposed to PVWH attending our facility. Five types of consultations were investigated: overall sexual and emotional health; HIV transmission and prevention; sexually transmitted diseases; sexual practices; recreational drugs. Cluster analysis in order to identify groups of PLWH with similar expectations.
One hundred and thirty-eight questionnaires completed: 64.5% were interested by at least one type of consultation. No significant differences between clusters by gender, age, or sexual orientation.
These results confirm patients' demand for sexual and emotional health support in the frame of PLWH's health care. Patients declaring no interest for this type of consultation were no different from those interested.
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Q: error_handler() or set_error_handler() I practice an exam in the book (webbot, sspider, sscreen and scrapers) but it didn't go well.
the result is :Warning: set_error_handler() expects the argument (BAD RESULT0) to be a valid callback
<?php
    include("LIB/LIB_http.php");
    $page = http_get($target="http://123blablabla",$ref="");
    if($page['STATUS']['http_code']!="200")
        set_error_handler("BAD RESULT".$page['STATUS']['http_code']);
?>

Could someone help me how to use error_handler() or set_error_handler()?

A: There is no error_handler function. And the set_error_handler function is used to set a function / class that will handle errors when they happen.
It seems you are looking for the trigger_error function
if($page['STATUS']['http_code']!="200") {
    trigger_error("BAD RESULT".$page['STATUS']['http_code'], E_USER_ERROR);
}

A: Did you read about error handlers before? ofcourse set_error_handler expects you to provide it a function, not a string. Although error handler functions are not used conditionally inside if blocks, but for your code it would be like:
<?php
include("LIB/LIB_http.php");
$page = http_get($target="http://123blablabla",$ref="");
if($page['STATUS']['http_code']!="200")
    set_error_handler("yourErrorHandler");

function yourErrorHandler()
{
   echo "BAD RESULT;
?

?>


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Ahead of Tuesday's Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft is highlighting discounts on a handful of laptops and tablets.
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We are delighted to announce that we have invested in a Carestream CS8100 3D CBCT scanner which allows us to produce superb 3D images of the teeth and surrounding tissues, so we can look at the anatomical structures in detail from any angle. The benefits to both ourselves and our patients are enormous.
We can assess the oral health of our patients, diagnose problems not visible with ordinary 2D images, plan complex treatments such as root canal and orthodontic cases, produce guides to allow for exact implant placement and monitor the efficacy of treatments.
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Our purpose-built surgeries are modern and uncluttered, with touch-screen technology to keep surfaces clear. All our systems are computerised, from dental notes to the records from our autoclave.
We use low-dose digital x-rays and panoramic scans as well as 3D imaging to give us instant images and use our intra-oral camera to show you pictures of your mouth.
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Outside the surgeries, we have a dedicated instrument sterilisation area, equipped beyond the current guidelines, to ensure your safety and that of our team.


The visitor center auditorium at Soldiers Delight NEA was the site of SDCI's annual pumpkin carving program on the Saturday before Halloween. Families with children and couples alike took carving implements in hand to render bright orange gourds into all manner of fanciful designs and ghoulish grins.
At 6:00 p.m. participants gathered with their pumpkins at tables adorned with bowls for discards and chose patterns from thick stacks of paper cut-outs. Baskets filled with the accoutrements of pumpkin-carving lined one side of the auditorium, including knives, scrapers and outline-poking implements, felt-tip markers, scotch tape, tea-light candles, scissors and damp washcloths for cleanup afterward.
Almost two dozen participants tried their hand at transforming pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns. Everyone lined up outside afterward to display their works of art for photographs, content in the knowledge that proceeds for our annual event always go toward a worthy cause -- the rehabilitation and conservation of the unique and globally rare ecosystem that comprises Soldiers Delight NEA.


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Q: Principal component analysis (PCA) assumptions I used PCA to reduce a 180 dimensions feature space in 3 principal components.
Afterwards I used k-mean clustering to cluster the data according to the 3 principal components of PCA.
I read in wikipedia that principal components are guaranteed to be independent if the data set is jointly normally distributed. I didn't calculate the jointly distribution of all my features (180)...is that a problem?
Which are the assumptions (if any) or the best practices in using PCA for dimensionality reductions?


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EVEN IF I FEEL SO SAD, WASH IT ALL AWAY.
YOU CAN CLIMB UP FROM THE DEEP NO FEAR IN YOUR MIND.
SMILE OF YOUR BARE HANDS.
STRETCH YOUR ARMS THE BEST YOU CAN.
AND THE SMILE OF YOUR BARE HANDS.
EVEN IF YOU LOSE YOUR WAY, GO AHEAD GET TIED DOWN.
WHATEVER YOU FALL INTO, YOU'VE GOT YOUR OWN FEELINGS.
YOU CAN WALK ALONG THE DEEP TRAIL OF SADNESS.
STRETCH YOUR ARMS MUCH HIGHER.
THE DAYS WITHOUT SUNLIGHT, GLOWS IS GONE.
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YOUR HANDS WITH NO LIGHT, ARE COMING ALONG TO.
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GIVE ME SOME WORDS PLEASE, AFTER EVERYTHING HAS GONE.
I KNOW AS I LOOK AT YOU.
THOSE LONG THOUGHTS AFTER THE END.


Based on single family curbside waste audits, approximately 96,700 tonnes of food waste (edible and inedible) is generated annually. This equates to approximately 209 kg per single family household every year.
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The City's Green Bin organics program is unique since, in addition to food scraps, it also accepts other organic waste such as diapers, sanitary products and soiled tissues, napkins and paper towels.
The majority (79 per cent) of food waste, including edible and inedible food, in single family households is correctly placed in the Green Bin.
Between April 2016 and December 2017, more than 430,000 new, larger and animal-resistant Green Bins were delivered to single family households in Toronto.
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Handling a boss in Cuphead.
The 1930's cartoon style of Cuphead, from Studio MDHR demanded a soundtrack just as unique. Kris Maddigan, a professional percussionist, spent years reverse-engineering the iconic jazz styles of the first half of the 20th century, including Ragtime, Dixieland and Big Band music. As he told me, it was a project that stretched all his musical muscles.
Kris' unique soundtrack for Cuphead even has a "period" vinyl release from IAM8Bit, which looks like a vintage RCA record from the 1930's, and it's already in its second pressing!
IAM8bit's special Cuphead soundtrack vinyl.
Performers include former members of Toronto's Boss Brass, and many others.
Music Respawn! Stephen Baysted Revs Into High Gear For Project Cars 2!
There's no music as you're racing your 1974 E-Type Jag around legendary tracks like Spa. Instead, composer and sound designer for Project Cars 2, Stephen Baysted says his music is created to set the scene and get the player anticipating the racing action that's about to start. That included some very personal recollections about the mental game of racing from Ben Collins, the Stig on the BBC's original Top Gear series!