Moving beyond the present post-heroic perspective known from leadership and entrepreneurship research that emphasizes the importance of external context, we shift the focus from the entrepreneurial luminary and his or her core team to the entrepreneurial firm as an organization with employees. This organizational view captures the vital role of employees, in particular for deepening the external relationships of the firm. Towards this end, the authors investigate how three antecedents increase the organizational innovativeness of start-ups: (i) the external relationships of the start-up; (ii) the initiation and maintenance of such relationships through networking by entrepreneurs and employees; and (iii) the differentiation of hierarchical levels in this process. A survey-based study drawing from the data of 96 entrepreneurs and 228 employees in start-ups is conducted. To analyse the data, the authors tested the conditional indirect effects through a multilevel moderated mediation analysis. According to the results, interorganizational relationships (IORs) are particularly effective for entrepreneurial innovativeness if networking practices are pursued at the employee level. The collective involvement of employees in fact has a mediation effect compared with the individual efforts developed by the entrepreneur. These findings advance the post-heroic perspective by emphasizing the distinctive role of employees in the utilization of IORs.


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Emma Withington / September 20, 2017
As my mystery character wakes up in a maze of maize and a group of sentient corn scuttles off, I wonder what I've gotten myself into. Is Maize set to be a disappoint-maize, or will it be a-maize-ing? Stop now, if you don't want any more puns.
There's a lot to love here, particularly when it comes down to pure originality – I mean, sentient corn? A Russian teddy bear named Vladdy? English muffins? I'm listening. The weird is my playground. Is it wonderful though? My ancient brain always reverts back to Myst when a puzzle adventure game lands in my lap, and forever sits as the benchmark which pushed the genre forward back in the 90's. From that perspective, let's look at what Maize does right. For one, its atmosphere hits the mark. While it's certainly a humorous experience in many ways, it is also incredibly unsettling – from the diegetic, minimalist soundscape of rustles and whirs to stuff like this:
Get me the hell outta here! That's terrifying, right? But it's great that it is – it certainly evoked a physical response, the 'Christ on a bike!' kind. You soon discover that these are the two 'scientists' behind the creation of sentient corn, thanks to a misinterpreted memo from the US government. No Nobel Prize winners here… Honestly, this painting asks more questions than are answered and that's probably for the best. As you can see, Maize carries a striking visual art-style with seriously impressive corny corn. No, I mean corny, like, seriously corny looking corn…horrifyingly good corn! You know what I mean. Hopefully.
In Maize you are treated to corn encounters of the third kind and interactions with Vladdy who, quite frankly, isn't the most motivational chap. Kinda wanted to slap the little guy for incessantly insulting my intelligence. Maize's self-aware, dark humour carries the player through from the word 'go'. In particular, via brilliantly scripted text based narration that's attached to folio and useable inventory 'garbage', as Vladdy would say. The barmy 'garbage' in question ranges from an English Muffin to a Sweaty Headband; awful spy novels to Fabergé eggs, and the most expensive lockpick in history! This narration not only describes what's in front of you, but the actions your character takes after picking up the item in question and your thought process. You get to know you, but realise quite quickly that you're not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. Oh! And you have a solid, sedimentary relationship with…rocks.
The thing you did was important, probably.
Where Maize so far has gained a bunch of Myst points, it loses a few in its puzzle design and linearity; lacking the same level of originality as the core idea of Maize itself. Myst wasn't perfect, but what I'm getting at here is that it didn't have an identity crisis. It was an adventure/puzzle game, plain and simple. Maize, mechanically, is a little confused. Exploration is limited to specific areas as you progress, setting you on a very linear path which gets roadblocked with orange boxes. This alone, isn't necessarily so bad and does reflect an aspect of the narrative – the corn guiding you, in a sense. Another factor is that your character seems to be a few biscuits short of a packet and could probably use the assistance.
The hand-holding continues, however. If you bring up the description of a useable item, nine times out of ten it will tell you exactly where to put it (not like that!) and when you're in said specified location, highlighted placement outlines pop up leaving no scope for critical thinking. Suddenly, it flips sporadically into the observational puzzle you've been hoping for! Although when it's no longer an obvious walkthrough, this takes you aback. Oh dang, I have to work this out myself? I got so used to not thinking! Oh, if I only had a brain…
With this in mind you become unsure if Maize truly intends to be a puzzle adventure game or Stanley Parable-esque interactive fiction. The puzzling elements are overly satirical and likely seeks to parody the puzzle game; while humour is Maize's strong point, some of this doesn't always quite land if that's the case. The interactive fiction elements are far stronger than the puzzles and why Maize is definitely worth a go. Some serious world building takes place in the 'poorly planned' Research Facility – smattered with post-it arguments which remind you of your student fridge, featuring back and forth between the scientists; a corny recording studio, the crazed motivations of other staff members in journals or memos, and of course your own path of self-discovery. With just a little gameplay clarity, Maize could be one of the best adventure puzzlers – or pieces of interactive fiction – available. Maize doesn't take itself seriously by any means, so you shouldn't either. Don't expect sophisticated puzzles and enjoy the absolutely absurd tale presented to you. Why not eat some popcorn while you play? Get into the mood, get your corn on.
Maize is an 80's Spielberg movie on crack. That is all.

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This can be filed under Things Everyone Knew Donald Trump Would Say.
Appearing on Fox News Monday, "The Donald" said his endorsement helped Romney win by nearly 30 points.
1) Who are "a lot of people?" Is there anyone, anywhere, who has said anything about Trump's endorsement helping Romney in Nevada? All I did in Nevada was talk to voters, and never met one who moved over to Romney because of Trump. I heard a bunch of them laughing about it!
2) It's not just that Romney actually did worse in Nevada this year than he did in 2012. Nevada was the first of five primary or caucus states where Romney got markedly fewer votes than he did four years ago. According to CNN's updated count of the state (the network was way ahead of the local party), Romney won 16,486 votes in Nevada's caucus day preference poll, 50.1 percent of the total. In 2008 – in a race with more candidates – Romney won 22,646 votes, 51 percent of the total.
And so Trump is taking credit for Romney's least impressive win so far. The man is good. This is huge.


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After Superstorm Sandy rampaged through the Hudson River waterfront, B&B worked with subcontractors and associates to rebuild a portion of the Hoboken waterfront. The storm had torn up piers, bulkheads, waterfront parks and walkways. This popular destination for residents and visitors was successfully reinforced and rebuilt to a higher, stronger standard. The project was completed on-time for the start of summer 2013.


In this chapter, we presented a method to automatically generate category hierar-chies and identify category themes. The documents were first transformed to a set of feature vectors. The vectors were used as input to train the self-organizing map. Two maps the word cluster map and the document cluster map were obtained by labeling the neurons in the map with words and documents, respectively. An automatic category generation process was applied to the document cluster map to find some dominating neurons that are centroids of some super-clusters. The category terms of super-clusters were also determined. The same processes were applied recursively to each super-clusters to reveal the structure of the categories. Our method used neither human-provided terms nor predefined category structure. Text categorization can easily be achieved in our method.


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Past the church there is the row of cottages where the families that no longer have fathers live by the grace of the parish, squeezed into small rooms with Mrs Colson and Mrs Wells taking in washing when they can get it, and then the road curves around, the hedges spring up high, and there is a loosely pebbled lane leading off, downwards, in the direction of the river.
The trees grow over this lane, forming a darkened tunnel, and the birdsong is loud at this hour. My boots skip over the pebbles with purpose as I approach my love's cottage. His house is a little way from the village, where the old sisters Wayly once lived. They died within a day of each other, from the influenza. At the funeral the Reverend Mountcastle said he thought they never wanted to be parted from each other, but I thought of how they never served a cup of tea without a saucer, or a slice of cake without a fork, and simply considered themselves to be a matching pair for the sake of neatness.
The garden is not so neat now. Mr Tiller is not a gardener; well, why would a man grow seedlings when he can nurture souls? And I like this wild tangle that protects his door. The roses, no longer trained, do not follow the latticework, but grow out at stubborn angles from the wall to escape the shadow of the house. And the vegetable patches, one on either side of the path, have the rocky clumps, weeds and stones of a wilderness upon them. Where do these stones come from? My father's fields fill up with them throughout the year, and they must be removed come the spring. It's as if they work their way up through the earth at night.
The grasses have grown so thick around the walls of the house that I have to push them aside, but at least there are no nettles. I am able to work my way around the corner of the house and then crouch down without worrying about stings and scratches. I find a hiding place; I am ensconced amongst green leaves with the delicate fronds tickling my ears and teasing my hair. I will have to comb my hair out carefully later. Later, when I return to my room and face my father's wrath for my lateness, I will be a changed woman.
Aliya Whiteley was born in Devon, UK, in 1974. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction and has been published in places such as The Guardian, Interzone, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Black Static, Strange Horizons, and anthologies such as Fox Spirit's European Monsters and Lonely Planet's Better than Fiction I and II. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice, and won the Drabblecast People's Choice Award in 2007.
Her novella for Unsung Stories, The Beauty, was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award and a Sabotage Award, and appeared on the Honors List for the James Tiptree Jr Award. Her writing is often violent, tender, terrifying and funny. It has garnered much critical praise and provoked discussion. Other published works of hers include a collection of short stories, a novel from Dog Horn Publishing, and a blackly comic crime novel from Macmillan. Further details can be found on her website and she tweets most days as @AliyaWhiteley.


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With so many options, it can be hard to know where to start.
Keith Law - Oct 12, 2019 11:30 am UTC
Enlarge / Rails & Sails, World map side.
13. Rails & Sails, World map
Rails and Sails is the longest Ticket to Ride game, as players compete to build routes on a map of the entire world by placing trains and ships. Some train spaces require two cards to place one train, while some ship cards show two boats so you can place two for one. After you choose your initial route tickets, you then decide how you want to split up your pieces between trains and ships (you are limited to 60 total), returning extras to the box. Players must build harbors in coastal cities to connect their land and sea routes, paying two train cards and two ship cards to do so. The route deck contains Tour cards that contain more than two cities and that offer two options—complete the Tour in order and get the full bonus, or connect all cities in any order for a smaller bonus—with an enormous penalty if you take the card but don't finish it. The game takes 30-60 minutes longer than regular Ticket to Ride, which I think is too long for a game of this weight.
The Old West map.
12. Old West
Sold in one package with the France map, the Old West expansion really restricts where players can build in an attempt to mimic actual railroad company expansions in the western states and territories of the US in the 19th century. Each player picks a start city and must build routes outward from there. Players also get three city tokens and can use these to claim up to three cities over the course of the game as they connect to those cities with trains; this allows them to score points even if another player builds a route into one of those cities. If you build a route into a city owned by another player, but you don't have a city marker at the other end of the route, you score no points while the other player scores for the route. It's a very different game from the original because you have to build your routes from a starting city and must always keep them connected.
Enlarge / Rails & Sails, Great Lakes side.
11. Rails & Sales, Great Lakes map
The same game as on the World map, but on a smaller board, with only 50 trains/ships per player rather than 60. It thus has a shorter playing time than the World map but still runs a bit longer than regular Ticket to Ride. It's also one of the few boards with a map featuring Sault Ste Marie and Duluth!
Enlarge / Nordic countries.
10. Nordic Countries
A map for two or three players that features a nine-train route along the northeastern edge of the board from Murmansk to Lieska—which is worth a whopping 27 points. You can't use locomotives as wild cards anywhere on the board—they only work for tunnels and ferries, or as a set of locomotives to fill a grey track—but on that Murmansk route you can trade in a set of any four cards as a wild for one space. This is one of the most claustrophobic boards in the Ticket to Ride universe, although with three players you can use both tracks where there's a double route between cities. Available on the app.
Enlarge / Scenic Pennsylvania!
9. Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania map introduces shares of stock, with only a loose connection to what you're doing on the map itself. Drawing route cards and placing trains remains the same, but most tracks on the board that connect two cities also have one or more railroad company symbols next to them. When you place trains on such a track, you choose the topmost share of stock from any of those companies. At the end of the game, whoever has the most, the second-most, and the third-most shares in each company earns additional points, with ties broken by whoever took the earliest share. Each railroad has different numbers of shares and different rewards, and the shares are named after famous historical railroads (as in some other well-known board game...). Tabletop version is bundled with the UK map. Available on the app.
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8. Heart of Africa
Heart of Africa runs from the southern tip of the Sahara down to south Africa and east to Madagascar, introducing special Terrain cards that allow players to double the value of routes they place if they can also play Terrain cards that match the route's terrain type (indicated by train color). One minor quibble: the use of old European names (Léopoldville, Salisbury, Port Florence) feels like an unnecessary form of authenticity, given the brutal history of colonization in sub-Saharan Africa.
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We will introduce activities we did there.
We went there to learn about local production for local consumption or four days.
We visited Green building and tried to ride the You Bike. The library of Green building(☆) we visited generated electricity by solar panels, and had beautiful scenery that the library was in harmony with nature. "You Bike" is the system of rental cycle and popular in Taipei. While we were in Taipei, we ate Chinese food, but there were a lot of dishes, so we couldn't eat all. Also, we always used the bus, in spite of short moving. We ourselves should have been careful of eco-friendly actions in Taipei because we went there to learn about the environment.
In Taiwan, motor cycles are popularized, so when we went out to the town early in the morning, we encountered the rush caused by the motor cycles. The number of You-Bike users is gradually increasing, and there are people who use You Bike as the commuting way.
☆ Green building: the building which is made from natural material and make the most of the newest technology. For example, to set solar panels on the roof, to reuse rain and so on.
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MAJ Klandrud is originally from Brookfield, WI. In 2004 he graduated from Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Cum Laude) in history and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Air Defense Artillery Branch.
His previous assignments include platoon leader time with D/1-43 ADA, Osan Airbase, Republic of Korea and B/1-7 ADA, Fort Bliss, Texas. MAJ Klandrud continued his career at Fort Bliss with 1-7 ADA as a Training Officer and a Battery Executive Officer. MAJ Klandrud did his first battery command with C/3-4 ADAR, Fort Bragg, NC before completing his second command of A/4 ADA at Fort Bliss, TX. After command MAJ Klandrud deployed to RC-West Afghanistan as the operations officer of a Provincial Reconstruction Team. Upon his promotion, MAJ Klandrud was stationed in Kaiserslautern, Germany with 10th AAMDC and served as an ADAFCO and SGS. His most recent assignment was Executive Officer of Combined Task Force Defender – 35th ADA BDE in the Republic of Korea.
MAJ Klandrud is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College, Air Defense Artillery Captain's Career Course, Air Defense Artillery Officer Basic Course, Airborne School, and the Army Mountain Warfare School Summer Course.
MAJ Klandrud's awards include the Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal (2 OLC), Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal (1 OLC), Korean Defense Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, NATO ISAF Medal, and the Army Parachutist Badge.
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Пою́щие дворы́ — детско-юношеский фестиваль бардовской песни. Проводится в Челябинске ежегодно в конце марта начиная с 1999.

Программа фестиваля включает в себя концерт «Соловушки» для участников младше 10 лет, конкурс для участников старше 10 лет, а также мастер-классы и концерты гостей, жюри и лауреатов прошлых лет.

География фестиваля
Большинство участников фестиваля — жители Челябинска и Копейска. Фестиваль является областным: помимо местных жителей традиционно участвуют гости из Чебаркуля, Миасса, Златоуста и других городов Челябинской области.

Конкурс
В конкурсе принимают участие дети и подростки в возрасте от 10 до 25 лет (до 2007 — до 18). Конкурс проводится в два тура по 4 номинациям (автор, исполнитель, дуэт, ансамбль) в нескольких (двух-трёх) возрастных группах.

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 страница о фестивале на сайте Челябинской молодёжной ассоциации авторской песни.

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Today's update finds Agatha feeling and looking better than I could hope. I wanted to share some photos of her favorite puppy sitting position, from a distance that allows her to observe and wag but keeps little people from bothering her beautiful long ears which attract puppies like a magnet.
She loves the babies (see that wagging tail?) but as the matriarch of Foxglove, she has certain privileges and even the puppies adore her with wide-eyed enthusiasm.
(Look at this next photo closely, what a priceless puppy face lol).
Prayers that this finds you cozy and like us, grateful for another day and its blessings.
Agatha warms my heart! I'm thankful that she is doing so well!
Thank you Ellen, she was ready for a second helping of supper tonight, she's such a tough little girl!
God is so very good! I'm grateful your precious Agatha is doing so well. She looks beautiful. May God continue to bless her in the days and weeks ahead.
Amen & Amen! Thank you for the prayers my friend!
Tears of thankfulness that Agatha is feeling better…and likewise you and John! Blessings for many more days like this for her ahead. 💕 And these new puppies are just darling!


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Building upon the performance legacy of the original FAST™ LSX™ Gen III Manifold, the new LSXR™ 102mm Intake Manifold features a three-piece modular design that allows easy disassembly and porting. Extensive testing led to a runner design that is longer and less restrictive, yielding both torque and power gains over the stock intake. New to this design is the ability to remove individual runners from the manifold for modification.
The LSXR™ is constructed from a proprietary advanced polymer material which offers a host of benefits over aluminum aftermarket intakes, including lighter weight, strength and improved heat dissipating characteristics. While the LSXR™ features a 102mm air inlet that is perfectly suited for the FAST™ Big Mouth 102mm Throttle Body™, it can also be used with stock or aftermarket 90mm or 92mm throttle bodies. Other features include integrated nitrous bungs and perfect bolt-on fitment that allows the use of factory accessories without modification or clearance concerns.


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By Amy Maxmen Harnessing the cloud Free platforms for powering your genomics and proteomics data analysis using processing power rented in the sky No longer must biologists covet the computer clusters of their colleagues. Cloud-computing—computing power accessed over the Internet—lets biologists without their own computer cluster store and analyze floods of data. The main space for rent is on Amazon Web Services (AWS), where, for less than $1 per hour
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Free platforms for powering your genomics and proteomics data analysis using processing power rented in the sky
No longer must biologists covet the computer clusters of their colleagues. Cloud-computing—computing power accessed over the Internet—lets biologists without their own computer cluster store and analyze floods of data. The main space for rent is on Amazon Web Services (AWS), where, for less than $1 per hour, researchers can have access to powerful processors only as they need them.
Integrating bioinformatics programs with the cloud requires considerable computer expertise. Luckily, developers are creating free and easy-to-operate platforms for genomics and proteomics. After paying for space on the cloud, researchers can use these programs to analyze data as simply as they'd plan a vacation online.
Cloud-computing is relatively new, therefore the bugs have yet to be realized. Certain developers voice concern about Amazon's virtual monopoly on rentable cloud space. And as...
Hypothetical concerns aside, Deepak Singh, a business development manager at Amazon Web Services who works with scientists interested in data analytics using the cloud, predicts that it will enable the increasingly crucial role of bioinformatics in the life sciences. "Sure, there are facilities with their own computer infrastructure," Singh says, "but if they had to do it again today, they'd think about it differently."
The Scientist talked to developers of some emerging free programs that use the cloud to help solve some basic bioinformatics problems biologists face in analyzing genomics and proteomics data. Here's what they said.
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Problem: Genome-wide association studies and microarray experiments require computationally intense statistical analyses. But few biologists have the computer resources or programming skills required, limiting who can collaborate on such analyses.
Project: Elastic-R (www.elastic-r.org)
Developer: Karim Chine, Director of Cloud Era Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Solution: Chine created Elastic-R for biologists to run complicated statistical analyses on vast datasets. The platform allows researchers to run stats with a variety of statistical software programs from their laptop, iPhone, or any device with a Web browser by computing the statistics on Amazon's cloud. What's more, users can grant others access to their "virtual workbench" so that collaborators in different places can manipulate the data together in real time. Chine compares the collaborative aspect of the program to Google docs. "Everything you do with the data," he says, "right down to entering in numbers onto Excel, can be done on a browser that you, in New York, and I, in Boston, can see."
Pro: Users can take snapshots of their analysis on the cloud, which includes the environment required to process the data, the spreadsheets, and all of the interfaces created to explore the data. Snapshots can be shared or downloaded to local machines. "Let's say the reviewers of a paper want to know how we did our analysis—we could just give them a label identifying a snapshot," Chine explains. "The reviewer can then manipulate our data using our specific software tools from within a standard Web browser to check our results."
Con: At the moment, Elastic-R incorporates various open-source programs because paying for the use of these programs isn't an issue. However, although Elastic-R is theoretically able to incorporate private statistical software like MATLAB and Sas as well, it can't until companies think of a way to let people pay to use their software on a need-to-use basis in cloud environments. Traditionally the companies that own private software charge for a license to use it; however, when the software runs in the cloud, it might be used only briefly by certain collaborators in a project, complicating payment schemes. Companies with licensed programs like Sas and MATLAB should adopt a pay-per-use software model that could be implemented on Amazon's cloud, says Chine.
Facebook for Genes
Problem: Publically available gene- and protein-related applications and databases such as HapMap, GeneAtlas, RefSeek, and GeneWiki don't pool all of the information available about any given gene that a researcher might identify in a genome sequence, a genome-wide association study, or a microarray analysis.
Project: BioGPS (biogps.gnf.org)
Developer: Andrew Su, associate director of bioinformatics, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego
Users customize their own gene annotation environment as they would their Google homepage.
Solution: Su developed BioGPS to aggregate such information and allow users to dictate what parts of each database or analysis tool are most useful to them. Users customize their own gene annotation environment as they would their Google homepage—only that instead of displaying updates on weather, celebrities, and the local news, users can choose to see 3-D crystal structures, alternative splicing information, related reagents, or gene expression data. More than 300 applications (called plug-ins) are currently available on BioGPS, ranging from the annotation tool Ensembl to the gene expression database GeneAtlas. And with the same type of social networking features that allow Amazon.com to recommend books to customers, BioGPS users can learn what the most popular plug-ins are and which users pay attention to the same genes they do. Su says the social features reduce duplicated efforts and enable discovery. "You gain serendipity," he says.
Pro: Because BioGPS improves as more people join, Su strives to make it enticing for a community beyond computer-savvy bioinformaticians by making it simple to use.
Con: Plug-ins provide data to users in an unstructured format, which allows data providers with basic programming skills to contribute to BioGPS. Yet as a result, this unstructured data isn't easily formatted for further bioinformatics analyses. In other words, BioGPS plug-in architecture is amenable to aggregation, but not integration.
Genomics Mashup
Problem: Asking multitiered questions that require data integration from various programs is computationally intensive when datasets get large. For example, to find SNPs and then determine which genes in a sequence contain the most SNPs, one needs to compare all human exons (roughly 357,000) to all human SNPs (roughly 12,350,000).
Project: Galaxy (g2.bx.psu.edu)
Developer: James Taylor, assistant professor, Departments of Biology and of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta
Solution: Taylor's team created Galaxy, a pipeline for analyzing sequencing data from start to finish on one online data analysis platform. It uses the information from various genomic databases and algorithms from existing bioinformatics programs to run analyses on multiprocessor computer clusters in the cloud. Galaxy lets users start from raw data, derive information from that data, and compare or integrate it with other data sources—all without leaving a Web browser. For example, a user can import raw sequence data from a ChIP-seq experiment, align sequences to a reference genome with the program Bowtie, identify regions enriched for protein-DNA binding with the program MACS, and compare the enriched regions to annotations from a database like Ensembl.
Pro: The variety of pipelines created and used by some 10,000 registered Galaxy users is a testament to the usability of the platform, says Taylor.
Con: While storing every dataset is possible with Galaxy, the many layers in these analyses require a lot of storage space. Using Amazon's cloud for all of this storage can come with a hefty price tag.
Speedy SNP Seeker
Problem: Aligning genomes and detecting SNPs becomes incredibly complicated as the number of DNA sequences available for comparison increases.
Project: Crossbow (bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/crossbow/index.shtml)
Developer: Steven Salzberg, Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland
Solution: Salzberg and his team developed "Crossbow" for whole genome analysis in the cloud. Crossbow combines two programs (the alignment program, Bowtie, with the SNP detector, SOAPsnp) designed to handle the mountains of data generated by next-generation sequencing. Unlike Galaxy, this program is made for mapping billions of reads and then computing SNPs, says Salzberg.
Pro: Analysis on speed. Using Crossbow, Salzberg's team analyzed more than 35-fold coverage of a human genome in 3 hours for about $85 using a 40-node, 320-core cluster on Amazon's cloud.
Con: Researchers must have access to a high-speed computer connection from the onset because uploading large human datasets onto the cloud requires sufficiently powerful bandwidth. "If I gave you 300 gigabytes of data, I doubt you could upload that dataset at most universities," says Salzberg.
Protein Power
Problem: It's not just gene-related experiments that are producing a flood of data—proteomics has blossomed, too, as new and improved mass spectrometers generate mountains of raw data comprising mixtures of thousands of proteins. Researchers identify proteins in the mix by using powerful computers to compare the sample against thousands of existing entries in a database. "It's hard to own the computers fast enough to process the data," explains developer Andy Greene, "and hard to spend time and money to maintain them once the analysis is over."
Project: Virtual Proteomics Data Analysis Cluster (proteomics.mcw.edu/vipdac)
Developer: Andy Greene, Director of the Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center, Medical College of Wisconsin
"Uploading data onto the cloud is the rate- limiting step."
Solution: Greene developed ViPDAC for cloud-based analyses on large proteomics datasets. With ViPDAC, multiple analyses can run simultaneously, so that users can try things they normally wouldn't have tried before because of a lack of computer resources, Greene says. For example, a user can test how changing the parameters in parallel analyses alters the output of a protein search. ViPDAC gives users estimates of how much time and money an analysis will take so that they can determine how many processors they'd like to rent. "If there's a conference in 2 weeks, you can opt for the ViPDAC analysis that will take 1 week, use 10 processors, and cost 75 cents" says Greene. "Or if you need the data for a lab meeting today, you might decide to pay the $250 for 5,000 processors because it's on your PI's card."
Pro: Greene's team compared a search for proteases in a sample of rat urine using a local cluster and using the cloud with ViPDAC. From their results, they extrapolated that searching the entire sample on a desktop computer would take 140 days, as compared to 5.7 days using a 20-node ViPDAC cluster.
Con: Uploading data onto the cloud is the rate-limiting step. If the connection between an institution and the cloud is slow, it can take hours to upload data from a local server onto the cloud.


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È stato campione sui 3000 metri siepi ai Giochi del Mediterraneo di Pescara 2009 e medaglia d'oro a squadre (bronzo individuale) nella Coppa Europa dei 10000 metri a Cagliari 2015 e vicecampione a squadre nell'edizione di Skopje 2014.

In Italia ha vinto sei titoli nazionali assoluti in quattro specialità diverse ed è campione in carica sui 3000 metri siepi.

Biografia
Dopo essere nato in Marocco nel 1984, risiede in Italia dal 1996, a Castello di Calepio, gareggiando prima con l'Atletica Brescia 1950 e poi nell'Atletica Bergamo 1959; quindi nel 2009 passa alla Cento Torri Pavia. Ottiene la cittadinanza italiana nel 2012; da allora, il suo club è diventato l'Atletica Riccardi Milano.

Nel 2007, il 4 agosto, ottiene sui 3000 m siepi un promettente 8'29"13 ad Uden nei Paesi Bassi.

Da marocchino gareggia nel 2008 ai Mondiali di corsa campestre ad Edimburgo (Gran Bretagna) terminando al 30º posto la prova individuale e 5º nella classifica a squadre.

Sempre come marocchino, vince la medaglia d'oro ai Giochi del Mediterraneo del 2009 a Pescara, col primato dei Giochi, 8'13"11, anche personale (il precedente era di 8'19"37 corso in Marocco a Rabat il 23 maggio 2009). Migliora il primato personale sempre in Marocco a Tangeri il 12 luglio 2009 con 8'08"86.

Il 18 agosto 2009 diventa il primo squalificato per doping (al clenbuterolo) ai Mondiali di Berlino in Germania (non prende il via alla finale dei 3000 m siepi per la quale si era qualificato).

Dopo la squalifica di tre anni, riprende a gareggiare a livello agonistico il 4 settembre del 2012 a Rovereto sui 5000 m corsi in 13'41"93.

Doppietta di titoli italiani assoluti nel 2013: 10000 m su pista e 3000 m siepi.

Il 23 luglio 2013 è convocato nella Nazionale italiana ai Mondiali di Mosca (Russia) dove viene squalificato in batteria per passaggio non corretto sulle siepi.

Tris di titoli italiani assoluti nel 2014: 3000 m indoor, corsa campestre e 10000 m su pista.

Vicecampione a Skopje (Macedonia) nella classifica a squadre della Coppa Europa 10000 m (quarto posto individuale); decimo classificato sui 5000 m all'Europeo per nazioni svoltosi a Braunschweig in Germania.

Campione italiano assoluto sui 3000 m siepi a Torino 2015; medaglia d'argento nella corsa campestre e quarto posto agli assoluti indoor sui 3000 m.

Medaglia d'oro nella classifica a squadre (bronzo nella prova individuale) alla Coppa Europa 10000 m svoltasi in Italia a Cagliari; quinta posizione sui 5000 m all'Europeo per nazioni in Russia a Čeboksary. Fuori in batteria sui 3000 m siepi ai Mondiali di Pechino (Cina).

Il 27 luglio 2016 viene squalificato dal C.O.N.I. per aver saltato tre controlli antidoping in un anno, perdendo così l'opportunità di partecipare ai Giochi di Rio. L'8 agosto 2016 il presidente della Sezione Prima Ter del Tar del Lazio, Riccardo Savoia, ha stabilito che l'azzurro potrà partecipare alla gara olimpica dei 3mila siepi.

Progressione

5000 metri

3000 metri siepi

Palmarès

Campionati nazionali
 2 volte campione italiano assoluto dei 3000 m siepi (2013, 2015)
 1 volta campione italiano assoluto di corsa campestre (2014)
 1 volta campione italiano assoluto indoor sui 3000 m (2014)
 2 volte campione italiano assoluto dei 10000 m (2013, 2014)

2013
  ai Campionati italiani 10000 m, (Ancona), 10000 m - 28'56"27
  ai Campionati italiani assoluti, (Milano), 3000 m siepi - 8'40"76

2014
  ai Campionati italiani assoluti indoor, (Ancona), 3000 m - 7'58"53
  ai Campionati italiani di corsa campestre, (Nove-Marostica), 10 km - 30'07
  ai Campionati italiani 10000 m, (Ferrara), 10000 m - 28'14"87

2015
 4º ai Campionati italiani assoluti indoor, (Padova), 3000 m - 8'10"56
  ai Campionati italiani assoluti di corsa campestre, (Fiuggi), 10 km - 30'16
  ai Campionati italiani assoluti, (Torino), 3000 m siepi - 8'30"35

2016
  ai campionati italiani assoluti, 3000 m siepi - 8'31"25

Altre competizioni internazionali
2002
 12º al Palio delle Porte ( Martinengo) - 31'07"

2003
  al Cross della Badia ( Badia), gara juniores

2004
 13º al Palio delle Porte ( Martinengo) - 30'43"
  al Trofeo Alberto Zanni ( Vertova)

2005
 8º alla Montefortiana Turà ( Monteforte d'Alpone), 10,6 km - 31'23"
  al Trofeo Alberto Zanni ( Vertova)

2006
 7º alla Mezza maratona di Bedizzole ( Bedizzole) - 1h07'35"
 10º alla Corrida di San Geminiano ( Modena), 13,1 km - 40'13"
 5º alla Asics Run ( Cuneo) - 28'42"
  alla Tuttadritta ( Torino) - 29'26"
  al Trofeo Alberto Zanni ( Vertova)
 7º al Cross della Vallagarina ( Villa Lagarina) - 29'45"

2007
 7º alla Stramilano ( Milano) - 1h03'43"
 11º al Giro Media Blenio ( Dongio) - 30'05"
  alla Brescia Ten ( Brescia) - 28'59"
  al Trofeo Sempione ( Milano)
  alla Peuerbacher Silvesterlauf ( Peuerbach), 6,8 km - 19'02"
  alla Cinque Mulini ( San Vittore Olona) - 32'06"

2008
 5º alla Parelloop ( Brunssum) - 28'33"
 9º al Giro al Sas ( Trento) - 29'46"
 7º alla Peuerbacher Silvesterlauf ( Peuerbach), 6,8 km - 19'51"
 5º alla Cinque Mulini ( San Vittore Olona) - 32'34"
 8º al Campaccio ( San Giorgio su Legnano) - 30'09"
 9º al Cross della Vallagarina ( Villa Lagarina) - 27'12"
 10º all'Eurocross ( Diekirch)- 30'32"

2009
 9º all'Athletissima ( Losanna), 3000 m piani - 7'48"18
  alla Brescia Ten ( Brescia) - 29'55"

2012
  alla Milano Fit Marathon ( Milano) - 1h06'56"
 6º al Memorial Peppe Greco ( Scicli) - 30'21"
  al Trofeo Montestella ( Milano) - 30'21"
  al Trofeo Alberto Zanni ( Vertova)
 9º al Giro Podistico Città di Pordenone ( Pordenone), 6,92 km - 20'23"

2013
 4º alla Royal 10 ( L'Aia) - 29'00"
 8º alla Amatrice-Configno ( Amatrice), 8,4 km - 26'11"
 4º al Sylvestercross ( Soest) - 35'37"

2014
 4º nella Coppa Europa 10000 m, ( Skopje), 10000 m - 28'38"03
  nella Coppa Europa 10000 m, ( Skopje), Classifica a squadre - 1:27'36"24
 10º all'Europeo per nazioni, ( Braunschweig), 5000 m - 14'28"89
 12º alla Roma-Ostia ( Roma) - 1h02'38"
 4º alla Korschenbroich City-Lauf ( Korschenbroich) - 29'16"
 32º alla Corrida Pédestre Internationale de Houilles ( Houilles) - 30'49"
  alla Acht van Apeldoorn ( Apeldoorn), 8 km - 23'41"
  al Trofeo Cassa Rurale Valsugana e Tesino ( Ospedaletto), 5,5 km - 15'48"
 7º al Campaccio ( San Giorgio su Legnano) - 29'53"

2015
  nella Coppa Europa 10000 m, ( Cagliari), 10000 m - 28'39"01
  nella Coppa Europa 10000 m, ( Cagliari), Classifica a squadre - 1:26'23"97
 5º all'Europeo per nazioni, ( Čeboksary), 5000 m - 14'16"54
  alla Maratona di Roma ( Roma) - 2h14'04"
 7º alla Maratona di Praga ( Praga) - 2h12'17"
 9º alla Mezza maratona di Karlovy Vary ( Karlovy Vary) - 1h05'18"
  alla Mezza Maratona sul Brembo ( Dalmine) - 1h06'32"
  alla Mezza maratona di Lecco ( Lecco) - 1h06'50"
  al Giro di Bisceglie ( Bisceglie), 10,8 km - 33'28"
  alla Korschenbroich City-Lauf ( Korschenbroich) - 29'09"
 6º alla Scalata al Castello ( Arezzo)- 30'06"
 15º alla Volata Napola-Mokarta ( Mokarta) - 31'59"
 4º alla Gonnesa Corre ( Gonnesa), 8,2 km - 24'25"
 4º alla Acht van Apeldoorn ( Apeldoorn), 8 km - 23'16"
  al Trofeo Cassa Rurale Valsugana e Tesino ( Ospedaletto), 5,5 km - 16'02"
 12º al Sylvestercross ( Soest) - 36'48"
 8º all'Abdij Cross ( Kerkrade) - 34'02"

2016
 9º al Meeting international Mohammed VI d'athlétisme de Rabat ( Rabat), 3000 m siepi - 8'21"92
  alla Stramagenta ( Magenta) - 30'24"

Note

Voci correlate
 Italia ai campionati del mondo di atletica leggera 2013
 Italia ai campionati del mondo di atletica leggera 2015

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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 Jamel Chatbi su atletica.me

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ⱴ (V с завитком) — буква расширенной латиницы. Использовалась в африканской фонологии для обозначения губно-зубного одноударного согласного, пока для данного звука отсутствовал символ в Международном фонетическом алфавите. В 2005 году, по предложению, сделанному Олсоном и Хайеком в 1999 году, для звука был утверждён официальный символ ⱱ.

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Q: I also did vs Me too I thought it was hard at school.
If my response on such phrase is:

I also did.

or

Me too.

Does it mean the same and it doesn't contain any difference? Which response is more popular in this context?

A:
I thought it was hard at school.

The usual ways to agree include:

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*Me too.

*I did, too.

*So did I.

All of these are perfectly fine in everyday conversation, although "Me too" is more colloquial and "So did I" slightly more formal.
Other variations (specific to the first person's statement that you're replying to) include "I thought so, too" and "I thought so as well" (though I think "as well" is rarely used in the US).
"I also did" and "I did, also" are grammatically correct, but less common.  "I also did" sounds slightly awkward (even though "I also" sounds fine as part of a longer sentence).

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CHAS collections volunteers attend bucket shakes and supermarket bag packs in a range of businesses and town centres across Scotland.
Fundraising groups are the face of CHAS in the community, raising money and the profile of the charity. Groups deliver fundraising events to raise vital funds to support children with a life-shortening condition across Scotland.
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NEW ALBUM: GRACE VICTORIA | LOVE & JUSTICE
Singer-songwriter Grace Victoria D'Haiti, BC '21, has released her brand new album entitled "Love & Justice." Grace Victoria's career has flourished on TikTok and beyond, so have her songs, both in terms of their arrangements and astute political messaging. Take: "Down in Virginia." Clocking up almost half a million streams on Spotify, it's a jazzy, bossa-nova-tinged lilt that focuses on D'Haiti's experience of being a Black woman in the South, as well as the pervasive discrimination that exists far beyond the stretches of her home state. Written around the time George Floyd was brutally murdered at the hands of white police officer Derek Chauvin, it's a complete examination of the racism and aggression faced by Black people daily and the sinister extent to which the white liberal left is complicit in such behaviours. Another track on the album titled "Black Looks Better on Me," is about blackfishing, and in the song, she sings, "Embrace your skin, let it be/ Complaining 'bout your whiteness is aggressive/ because our country's fabric is oppressive." The song is simultaneously an anthem for Black people to celebrate their culture and dig at those who appropriate it. Victoria grew up in a musical home where her mother owns a small music business, she and her siblings play many instruments, and she has been writing songs since she was about four.


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Education in China, ca. 1840-present
Series: Global Economic History Series, Volume: 17/4 and The Quantitative Economic History of China, Volume: 17/4
Authors: Meimei Wang, Bas van Leeuwen, and Jieli Li
In Education in China, ca. 1840–present Meimei Wang, Bas van Leeuwen and Jieli Li offer a description of the transformation of the Chinese education system from the traditional Confucian teaching system to a modern mode. In doing so, they touch on various debates about education such as the speed of the educational modernization around 1900, the role of female education, and the economic efficiency of education. This description is combined with relevant data stretching from the second half of 19th century to present collected mainly from statistical archives and contemporary investigations.
Mao Zedong Thought
Author: Wang Fanxi
Editor / Translator: Gregor Benton
Wang Fanxi, a leader of the Chinese Trotskyists, wrote this book on Mao more than fifty years ago. He did so while in exile in the then Portuguese colony of Macau, across the water from Hong Kong, where he had been sent in 1949 to represent his comrades in China, soon to disappear for decades into Mao's jails. The book is an analytical study whose strength lies less in describing Mao's life than in explaining Maoism and setting out a radical view on it as a political movement and a current of thought within the Marxist tradition to which both Wang and Mao belonged. With its clear and provoking thesis, it has, since its writing, stood the test of time far better than the hundreds of descriptive studies that have in the meantime come and gone.
Factory Politics in the People's Republic of China
Series: Rethinking Socialism and Reform in China, Volume: 5
Volume Editor: Joel Andreas
Over the past seven decades—since the 1949 Revolution—every aspect of Chinese society has been profoundly transformed multiple times. No sector has experienced more tumultuous twists and turns than industry. The eight articles contained in this volume examine these twists and turns, focusing on those aspects of industrial relations that involve contention and power, that is, factory politics. They were selected among articles that have appeared in the Chinese journal Open Times (开放时代) over the past decade. Because Open Times has a well-earned reputation for publishing diverse viewpoints, it has been able to attract some of the very best scholarship in China.
The Fundamental Dynamic Effect on Reform and Opening in China
Series: China in the World, Volume: 7
Editor: SHAO Binhong
Contentious Politics in China
Causes, Dynamics, and Consequences
Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences and Brill Research Perspectives in Governance and Public Policy in China
Authors: Manfred Elfstrom and Yao Li
China has become a land of protests, though the Chinese state possesses considerable administrative capacity. In this volume, Manfred Elfstrom and Yao Li provide an overview of Chinese contentious politics. They dig deep into major forms of social conflict, explore structural explanations for why protest occurs in China, and describe the ways in which various organizations and framings of issues by citizens affect how protests play out. Shifting to where grassroots activism ultimately leads, Elfstrom and Li survey China's coercive and conciliatory institutions for maintaining social control, document and explain patterns in the state's handling of different types of resistance, and examine the social and political impact of unrest. This work not only contributes to a deeper understanding of contentious politics and governance in China, but also provides insights for studies of social movements and authoritarian politics in general.
Urban Chinese Governance, Contention, and Social Control in the New Millennium
Editor: William Hurst
This collection includes seven essays translated from the leading Chinese-language journal Open Times. Bringing together a wide range of leading experts across several disciplines, this book offers critical insights on some of the most important questions of contemporary urban Chinese politics and society. Drawing on extensive research across different localities and issues in China, the chapters offer rich data and fresh analyses of the shifting contours of urban governance, social mobilization and contention, and mechanisms of social control in the new Millennium. Taken together, this collection represents the most comprehensive look in some years at how urban Chinese political institutions have adapted and responded to challenges and how social actors and groups have mobilized to press for redress of substantial new grievances.
The Ebb and Flow of Chinese Petroleum
A Story Told by a Witness
Series: Ideas, History, and Modern China, Volume: 21
Author: Mao Huahe
Editors / Translators: Mao Yiran and Thomas M. Seay
For the first time, a work that breaks with the official Chinese government narrative concerning the petroleum industry and provides the true story as personally experienced by the author, Mao Huahe, a thirty-year veteran and executive in the oil industry. Mao witnessed first-hand the breakthrough discovery of the Daqing Oilfield, the behind-the-scenes political machinations and turmoil of the Cultural Revolution and the subsequent reform and opening period, and details the effects these events had upon China's petroleum industry.
Political Economy of Globalization and China's Options
Political Economy of Globalization and China's Options offers the political economy of globalization and China's options in response to globalization's retrogression, and the construction of world order. What are the strategies for upgrading the competitiveness of an emerging major power? Why does world need a new concept of openness? What are the four major challenges for the world economy? How do Chinese scholars think of in an "Anti-Globalization" environment? What are the five major objectives of global politics? Besides answering these basic questions, we will also consider other issues: the triangular relationship among China, the United States, and Russia; Rise of China and transformation of international order; understanding nuclear security and safety issues from the perspective of global governance.
Agricultural Development in Qing China
A Quantitative Study, 1661-1911
Author: Zhihong Shi
In Agricultural Development in Qing China: A Quantitative Study, 1661-1911 SHI Zhihong offers for the first time an overview of agricultural development in Qing China in the English language. Being by far the largest sector in one of the largest economies in the world, understanding its development is crucial not only for agricultural studies, but also to advance economic debates such as on the Great Divergence.
Combining the recent quantitative paradigm with the more traditional scholarly approach, this book uses a great number of primary sources to arrive at new and revised estimates of crucial indicators such as land acreage, crop yield, pasture, and total output. Its main conclusion is that a serious economic and social problem occurred since the mid-Qing, where agriculture was increasingly less able to feed a growing population, which was a major factor contributing to the growing crisis in the rule of the dynasty.
From Accelerated Accumulation to Socialist Market Economy in China
Economic Discourse and Development from 1953 to the Present
Series: China Studies, Volume: 38
Authors: Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard and Koen Rutten
In From Accelerated Accumulation to Socialist Market Economy in China, Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Koen Rutten examine China's indigenous economic discourse and its relation to both economic policy-making and the overall trajectory of development from the First Five Year Plan in 1953 to 2016. In so doing, this volume demonstrates that although the form of the current economic system and its theoretical underpinnings bear scant resemblance to those of the planned economy, economic policy-making still relies on the principle of accelerated accumulation, which lay at the heart of the economic development project in the early years of the People's Republic.


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IN: West Bengal: Relief for New Town residents: App to locate empty slots for best use of parking spaces
Has it become a bit frustrating for you to park your vehicles in New Town because you fail to find a slot in the parking place?
Don't worry, the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) is going to put in place one of the most advanced mechanisms in New Town by ensuring that not a single slot for parking is left empty. http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/relief-for-new-town-residents-app-to-locate-empty-slots-for-best-use-of-parking-spaces-349415
The New Town Kolkata Development Authority is coming up with a smart parking app which will help people identify the empty slots for cars and maximum use of the parking place. The whole operation would be done through a sensor system. The new system will be felicitated by an agency which will be engaged by the NKDA.
Debashis Sen chairman of the NKDA on Wednesday said that they are planning to introduce a smart parking app only to ensure that none of the slots in a parking area remains empty. Often it was found that people face inconveniences as the empty slot could not be navigated properly. The slots at the farthest corner remain empty due to the manual parking system. He was talking at a symposium "Infrastructure Development and Management in Future Cities" organised by RCG School of Infrastructure Design and Management (RCGSIDM), IIT Kharagpur at a city hotel.
The sensor aided system will help the driver to reach to the slot demarcated for him/her. As the people at the parking places go by the toll data at the gate they cannot determine where exactly the empty slot is situated.
The new system will help people to reserve the empty slot and easily access it.
A demo has already been given by a startup company, Sen maintained.
He also said that they are bringing in new innovations to reduce the road accidents in New Town. There will be a new mechanism operated with the help of the CCTVs to identify and intercept the errant drivers. A real time alert will be delivered to the traffic sergeant in the area the accused driver is heading to.
If any irrational behavior is detected on the part of the drivers, an alert would be triggered and the details of the vehicle would be shared with the on duty traffic police officers.
Sen also reiterated how E-governance has been given a paramount importance and services are being provide to the people online.
The NKDA is also introducing online sanction of building plans which is the first in the country. Online filing of taxes would be conducted. Many graduate youths are being trained on how to help elderly persons to submit their taxes online. The youths will be provided incentives.
Quelle/Source: Millennium Post, 17.04.2019


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Der Dolmen von Kercadoret ist eine von vielen Megalithanlagen in der Umgebung von Locmariaquer im Département Morbihan in der Bretagne. Das jungsteinzeitliche Bauwerk wurde im Jahr 1929 als Monument historique geschützt.

Lage
Der Dolmen steht knapp 4,0 Kilometer nordwestlich von Locmariaquer rechts der D781 auf einem privaten Wiesengrundstück. Je nach Jahreszeit ist er mehr oder weniger dicht bewachsen. Dolmen ist in Frankreich der Oberbegriff für Megalithanlagen aller Art (siehe: Französische Nomenklatur).

Datierung
Eine Datierung des Bauwerks ist schwierig, da nur sehr wenige Steine vorhanden sind, die überdies keinerlei Ornamentik aufweisen; auch eine Wiederverwendung von Steinen ist nicht festzustellen. Dadurch unterscheidet sich der Dolmen von Kercadoret von den meisten anderen Megalithbauwerken im Gebiet von Locmariaquer. Die einfache – etwas grobe – Steinbearbeitung macht eine späte Bauzeit (um 3500 v. Chr.) wahrscheinlich.

Architektur
Der etwa 2,10 × 2,50 m messende Dolmen besteht aus sechs Tragsteinen mit einer einzigen Deckplatte; die Grabkammer erreicht eine Höhe von maximal 1,50 m – möglicherweise sind die Tragsteine auf der rechten Seite des Eingangs im sandigen Untergrund eingesunken. Vor der eigentlichen Grabkammer befinden sich zwei nach innen eingezogene Orthostaten, die ehemals möglicherweise – Genaueres ist bislang nicht erforscht – den Übergang zu einem inzwischen verschwundenen Gang (allée couverte) darstellten. Der Dolmen war wohl ursprünglich von einem Hügel aus kleineren Steinen (Cairn) bedeckt, der später von Menschenhand abgetragen wurde.

Sonstiges
In der Grabkammer wurden vier bronzezeitliche Speer- und Pfeilspitzen aus der Zeit um 1500 v. Chr. gefunden.
In der Nähe liegen die Gezeitenmühle und der Dolmen von Coët-Courzo.

Siehe auch
 Megalithanlagen der Bretagne

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 Jacques Briard: Die Megalithen der Bretagne. Éditions Gisserot, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-87747-065-2, S. 47.

Weblinks

 Dolmen von Kercadoret – Fotos (zuletzt abgerufen am 17. Dezember 2012)
 Dolmen von Kercadoret – Fotos (zuletzt abgerufen am 17. Dezember 2012)
 Megalithbauten bei Locmariaquer (französisch; zuletzt abgerufen am 17. Dezember 2012)

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Kercadoret
Kercadoret
Kercadoret
Monument historique in Locmariaquer
Monument historique seit 1929


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SEC Enforcement Remains Focused on Crypto — Chair Gensler Says He's 'Impressed' With Enforcement Results – Regulation Bitcoin News
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says its Enforcement Division "remains focused on the rapidly evolving crypto asset securities space." The securities regulator filed 760 enforcement actions in total this fiscal year. SEC Chairman Gary Gensler commented: "I continue to be impressed with our Division of Enforcement."
SEC Focused on Enforcement
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced its enforcement results for the fiscal year 2022 on Tuesday.
During that time, the SEC "filed 760 enforcement actions and recovered a record $6.4 billion in penalties and disgorgement on behalf of the investing public," the regulator explained. The total number of enforcement actions represents a 9% increase over the prior year.
SEC Chairman Gary Gensler opined:
I continue to be impressed with our Division of Enforcement … Enforcement results change from year to year. What stays the same is the staff's commitment to follow the facts wherever they lead.
The SEC noted that regarding the crypto industry, it announced in May the addition of 20 positions to the renamed Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit (previously called the Cyber Unit), nearly doubling that unit's staffing. The agency emphasized:
Enforcement remains focused on the rapidly evolving crypto asset securities space.
Staff across the SEC's Division of Enforcement also continued to investigate potential crypto-related misconduct, leading to several significant enforcement actions, the regulator described. They included charges against Blockfi Lending LLC, charges against 11 individuals for their alleged roles in crypto Ponzi scheme Forsage, and "insider trading charges" against former Coinbase product manager Ishan Wahi and his associates.
Gensler has often been criticized for his enforcement-centric approach to regulating the crypto industry. Following the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, a growing number of lawmakers have called on the SEC to tighten crypto oversight. The SEC chief said the crypto field is "significantly non-compliant."
Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) has urged the SEC to take decisive action to regulate the industry. The White House, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard, and several U.S. senators have all called for proper crypto oversight. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) stressed that crypto needs "more aggressive enforcement," noting that she will keep pushing the SEC to enforce the law.
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Sonoma Coast Half-Bottle
The grapes for this Pinot Noir came from a who's who of iconic cool-climate Pinot Noir vineyards in the famed Sonoma Coast region.
Opulent in the glass, this wine has a garnet color and ripe black currant aromas. The palate is dynamic and bright, with vibrant flavors of plum, baking spice and cocoa underscored by a firm, acid-driven structure and fine dusty tannins that carry through to a lingering finish.
Opulent in the glass, this wine has a garnet color and ripe black currant aromas. The palate is dynamic and bright, with vibrant flavors of plum, baking spice, and cocoa underscored by a firm, acid-driven structure and fine dusty tannins that carry through to a lingering finish.
The grapes for this Pinot Noir came from a handful of top vineyards throughout the Sonoma Coast AVA, with a focus on some of the finest sub-appellations within the region. The blend includes grapes from our Thale's Estate Vineyard in the heart of the Russian River Valley, Dale Ricci's Vineyard in Carneros, Noble Vineyard in the Petaluma Gap, and Wohler Vineyard in the Russian River Valley. Due to the cool coastal influences that shape the climate at all of these vineyards, they produce amazing Pinot Noir. At the same time, the diversity of these sites creates the foundation for complex aromatics and beautifully layered flavors in the final blend.
Because the 2018 growing season was one of the naturally high yields, we worked closely with our grower's partners to thin the fruit in order to bring each vineyard into ideal balance. The clusters ripened slowly, and in general, 2018 was a late harvest. The fruit came in pristine and healthy starting September 10th through September 18th of 2018.
The majority of the grapes were destemmed into small-lot fermenters to capture the uniqueness of each site. About 15% of our fruit was fermented with whole clusters to add fruit aromas and rich complexity to the final wine. Following a two-week fermentation, the lots were drained from the skins and put into French oak barrels to age for ten months. 21% new oak was used during aging to accentuate the structure and color of the wine, without overwhelming the delicate aromas of this fine coastal Pinot Noir. We bottled on August 23rd of 2019.


The rate of new simulation releases on Facebook shows no signs of slowing. Instead, the genre seems to be metastasizing into every possible niche: malls, resorts, hospitals, bakeries and a dozen commercial activities are all possible. Rather than pigeonhole you into a single theme, Pretty Simpl's new title My Shops lets you choose the type of shops you'd like to manage.
My Shops begins with the fast and furious experience of running a bakery. Each shop has a pyramid of pre-assigned customers. In the case of the bakery, you start with four whimsically-named Nice People whose every baking desire you must satisfy by keeping up to eight different types of goods in stock and ensuring the building meets the "Beauty" standards of the more finicky shoppers.
Goods are kept in stock by sending delivery trucks out. The more expensive the item, the longer it takes. Successively larger trucks can be built by asking friends to send parts or by purchasing the items with Cash, My Shop's micro-currency. Having the item in stock will earn coins, the in-game currency used to purchase further stock or upgrades to the building to increase its size or Beauty.
Increasing the Beauty of a particular shop (including a cake shop, pet store, clothing store, and candy shop, plus five as-yet-unannounced slots) is where My Shops truly shines — and where it also begins its uphill climb towards drudgery.
Each shop has a level associated with its size, with expansions of width or height unlocked by ever-increasing expenditures of Coin. This allows the shop to carry more goods and gives the player the ability to modify the exterior of the building to reach different Beauty goals.
There are a dizzying array of options to expand, starting with the shape of the building. Three components have set placements: roofs, building shape, and doors (so that the hefty customer Chuck Morris can get in) but you can have two roofs and five doors. Free placement makes for an architect's playground (or nightmare) with 15-45 choices in outside decorations, wall decorations, windows, signs, doors, and wall materials.
Themes exists for each type of shop and once purchased can be used on other shops – who says a cupcake isn't an appropriate wall decoration for the pet store? There are also themes within the options – Japanese, haunted, igloo, Hawaiian – to build your shop just so.
But with Beauty a requirement for new customers and the function of beauty based upon the amount spent, not any combination of theme, it quickly becomes expensive to make your customers happy. The player learns very quickly that no bonuses are given for using a particular theme, and only the simple outlay of coin (and particularly real cash) that will satisfy the next customer. This detracts from any true ability to be creative with the store fronts.
Your social network has no real bearing on success or failure, except possibly to speed up the arduous process of leveling to buy the next shop for a prodigious outlay of coin. Experience levels are based upon the Love your visitors have for your shops, which you click them to receive. But this is based on a timer, so the best one can hope for is to visit every two hours, order more goods if necessary and click 18-25 customers.
Once every 24 hours, you can also click a friend to earn 500 coins and some love. Beyond this, there's no direct social interaction — no working in the shop, earning the friend additional experience, nothing. Friends can gift, and this is the only way — other than cash — to purchase upgrades for delivery trucks. But friends interact so little that the discussion boards are rife with links to trade truck parts.
Other than the ability to customize your shop into an abomination of loveliness, My Shops does have one of the best UIs I've come across in a Facebook title. It is clean, friendly and fast. Not only is it easy to get to the information needed, but there are multiple pathways, most achieved with one click. And as should be required in any half-way decent economic simulation, there are graphs comparing sales on the street, by shop, by week and by month. Again, these are all user-friendly and easily accessible.
But despite its great design, from the tutorial onward, My Shops is balanced in such a manner that it is difficult to earn the very large sums of coin needed to advance in any reasonable time frame. One must either buy more coin or grind all day, hoping never to make a mistake, miss a delivery time, or upset a customer. If this balance is fixed, My Shops do quite well, with a level of personalization and accessibility unique to Facebook.