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The Grub Street Diet Jan. 27, 2012
Andrew Zimmern Feasts on Roasted Raccoon for Breakfast, Banana Pudding for Dessert
By Alan Sytsma
Zimmern digs in at Craft. Photo: Melissa Hom
As the host of Bizarre Foods on Travel Channel, which kicked off its latest season this week (airing Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT) , Andrew Zimmern made his name eating some seriously strange stuff. But he swears that things are different when he's off the clock: "I go home at night, I pick up the dry cleaning, and I make a roast chicken and some crispy potatoes and my wife and son and I sit down to a nice dinner." But that doesn't mean it's impossible for some errant offal to sneak into his day-to-day routine, especially when chefs recognize him in their restaurants. "The disaster for me is when I'm with my wife and son and we stop at a burger bar or something," Zimmern says, "and the chef decides to send out a month-old pig head from the freezer. I just want to eat a burger with my son!" Fortunately for Zimmern, there were no surprise pig heads this week while he was in New York — Zimmern, a native New Yorker who now lives in Minnesota, says he gets back to town about once a month — but there were plenty of other interesting things. For tales of sauteed duck testicles, calf-brain sandwiches, and much, much more, take a gander at this week's New York Diet.
I was at home. I had the last of my frozen bagels from Barney Greengrass. I have them send me bagels and smoked fish. There's no place in Minnesota to get good bagels.
Went to a bunch of meetings, skipped lunch, went to the airport and dined on fantastic airport lounge food. I like the Delta lounge in Minneapolis. They've got olives, little squares of cheese, and those hummus packets. Along with celery sticks and a Diet Coke, I make a little meal out of that.
Got on the plane and went to New York. On the way back from the airport, I got a hamburger at J.G. Melon. I grew up on 71st Street, and I love that J.G. Melon hamburger. Usually on the ride in from the airport, I'll call the restaurant and get something to go so I can swoop by in the car.
Dessert that night was Swedish Fish at the hotel. I think the most expensive meal by weight is the stuff that you get out of the minibar at hotels. Pound for pound, it's the spendiest food on the planet.
I was doing the Today show, so I had coffee and a bagel in the green room. For a proper breakfast, I got to eat what I was cooking on the show, which was roasted raccoon, geoduck clam sashimi, fried turtle, and a hog stomach sent up from Louisiana. Lester and Amy didn't eat any, so I got to pig out as soon as the cameras were off.
I went to a photo shoot at Craft afterward, for this article. So I got to have the roast chicken and sauteed wild mushrooms and the glazed carrots. I adore Craft. I was so thrilled that they got such a great review a few months ago in the New York Times, since the hard thing to do in the restaurant business is to stay relevant for a decade. I eat at Craft whenever I'm in town. My wife and I adore Craft. We can hop in there late, we sit at the bar. So to be able to have that private little lunch was just great. The only time I've ever been in there when it was literally empty.
Then I went for a meeting. I'm working with an organization called Services for the Underserved. It helps veterans who have fallen below the safety line. It provides housing and job placement for a lot of people. So I met one of the directors of the organization at Zabar's, and had a bagel and salmon. I tend to load up on my favorite things when I'm in New York.
I went downtown after that and had another lunch with my agent at Pastis. Had the eggs Hussard there. Poached eggs with both bordelaise sauce and hollandaise on an English muffin and roasted mushrooms — I love that dish.
I serve on the advisory board of a company called ProjectExplorer, which is a nonprofit that makes travel videos for kids. I met with the director over at Big Gay Ice Cream. And I had a Choinkwich, a Salty Pimp, some of their spicy hot chocolate. It was awesome.
Back to the hotel, and ate some Swedish creamed roe with crackers, one of the things I always try to pack and snack on.
Then I had a meeting with some publicists at Spice Market. I had the steamed mussels, and I had the tod mon pla, the little fish cakes they do that are so good. I did a shrimp with black-pepper noodles, and some pork satay. Delicious. And then I had their coconut sorbet for dessert. Spice Market is one of those restaurants like Craft. It's been around for a long time, and I think the food is better there now than it was when they opened. There were a couple years when the food was a little soft, but they really have buttoned things up.
Woke up early, and went up to Barney Greengrass. I sat there with the New York Times still warm from the printer and had the smoked-fish plate and toasted bagels, and orange juice and coffee. That's my private New York moment. I go there right when they open the doors every time that I'm in town.
Then I went back down to my hotel and spent the whole day working on three months of recipes and columns for Food & Wine. I'm one of the new food editors there, and was desperately trying to catch up on all of my content.
Later I met three of my agents at Wildwood Barbeque. And we had barbecue and root beer, and I sat and I watched the Giants game where they beat the 49ers, which was fantastic. That was heaven.
Got up, did the normal green room junk: fruit, yogurt, bagel, lots of coffee. And had nothing else to eat until lunch time when I doing a shoot for Inside Edition and I got to eat some of the food that I made for them, which was sauteed duck's testicles with white wine and herbs; and a calf's-brain sandwich. It was delicious.
Then I went and met a reporter for the New York Observer who's doing a story on me, and had dinner at Spotted Pig. I had the greatest hits. The liver toast, the roll mops, oysters, the pork belly, and sauteed skate wing. Fantastic.
Second dinner was at a place called LTO, where Eddie Huang was having his Chinese New Year celebration. He did a pop-up restaurant, basically, along with the people at Adidas. Killer food. Eddie is so talented. The steamed fish with five chiles was the best, and I had a fermented fish cake, bao-style. That was extraordinary.
It was another round of talk shows. I did The Chew and Anderson Cooper. I just ate the food all day long. So I got to eat a Thai chicken dish that I cooked with Mario Batali, and got to try some headcheese that I'd arranged to let Anderson Cooper taste. He was very brave. He's notoriously one of the pickiest eaters on the planet. I think he enjoyed talking with me; I don't think he enjoyed eating with me.
Then I did ABC News Now, and had a little more headcheese.
I raced out to the airport to catch my nighttime flight down to New Orleans. So I had a slice of New York City pizza in Concourse 5.
Car service picked me up in New Orleans and took me to dinner, where I had the most amazing meal I've had in years. My friend Don Link, who's the chef and owner of Herbsaint and Cochon, did a celebration dinner for me with twenty of my crewmates for my Toyota "Appetite for Life" series on MSN. Wild mustard greens with buttermilk dressing, house-cured ham, and gumbo, and a whole side of carved roast pig with dirty rice, and big bok choy that was seasoned with spices I brought him from China. Oh my God.
That day was Andrew Zimmern Day in Baton Rouge, which was amazing. I was named an official mayor, and the mayor's office gave me the key to the city. We were doing a fund-raiser for the United Way to help raise money and awareness for the victims of Hurricane Gustav. They're still suffering the effects. So we had a food truck meetup, and there was a place called the Curbside Truck. I had a burger with a fried egg and bacon.
Then I judged a jambalaya cook-off between the two reigning world champions, so I stuffed myself on jambalaya.
Dinner that night was at a roadside honky-tonk in Baton Rouge called Boutin's. I had boudin, cracklins, and fried shrimp.
Oh, and dessert. I drove back to the hotel in New Orleans. I was staying at the Roosevelt. My friend John Besh has a restaurant there called Domenica. They have a butterscotch banana pudding there that I always have to have.
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HONOLULU, Hawai'i – Michelle Berry recorded her eighth double-double of the season in a 22 point, 16 rebound effort and Lauren Nubla recorded a season-high 12 points as the Titans' dropped a hard-fought heartbreaker in Honolulu, 62-53 on Thursday night.
The Titans (2-18, 0-6 BWC) outshot the Wahine in three-pointers and free throws, yet were outrebounded 47-37 and outshot on the floor by only 1%.
The physical contest brought on a season-high for the Titans, accumulating 27 fouls while Dani Craig and Nubla both recorded their first foulouts of the season.
Dhanyel Johnson and Madison Crawford both made their first starts of the season, the first of Crawford's career and recorded a career-high 23 minutes.
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At the first media timeout, both teams had shot just a combined 4-17 as the Wahine led the Titans 7-3.
The Titans answered back with a quick five-point run yet their seven turnovers gave Hawai'i 10 points to lead the Titans 16-12 at the end of the first quarter.
Hawai'I dominated the start of the second quarter offensively yet back-to-back three's from Nubla and Portia Neale late in the first half cut the deficit to only six, trailing Hawai'i 31-37.
The Titans recorded 12 fouls in the first half while cleaning up on the glass and outrebounded the Big West rebounding leaders, 22-21.
The second half got off to a slow start as UH outscored the Titans 4-2 in the first five minutes of play. Yet the Titans continued to battle in the third, outscoring Hawai'i 11-7 to cut the deficit to only two at the end of the third quarter.
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Ronald Valentine Trubuhovich  (born 6 March 1929) is a medical doctor and a major pioneer of critical care medicine in New Zealand.

Background
Trubuhovich, who is of Dalmatian parentage, was born in New Plymouth, but after age 7 spent his childhood in Auckland. He was educated at St Peter's College of which he was dux in 1946 and 1947.

Medicine
He gained the degrees of Bachelor of Dental Surgery (Otago) (1953, with 2 distinctions in 1951), Bachelor of Medical Science (Otago) (1960) and Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (with distinction in Physiology, 1956) (Otago) (1961). He was awarded the J. Malcolm Prize in Physiology in 1956 and the Geigy Essay Prize in Psychiatry in 1962. He gained a Nuffield Dominion Scholarship to Oxford University and Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary in 1964 and completed a research MSc there. In 2019 he gained his doctorate, MD, from the University of Auckland with his thesis 'Resuscitation and the Origins of
Intensive Care/Critical Care Medicine'. His specialist qualifications include FFARCS, FANZCA and College of Intensive Care Medicine, Australia and New Zealand FCICMANZ.

Critical care
He was Deputy Medical Officer-in-Charge, 1968-1983, then headed the intensive or critical care services in Auckland at Auckland Hospital being Chairman of the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Auckland Hospital until obligatory formal retirement in 1994, although he continued working there for 4 more years. He was President of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (1981-1982), inaugural Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care, Australian & New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (1993–96), President of the Auckland Medical History Society (2008-9). He is a published author on medical history (resuscitation and intensive care medicine: with intensivist colleague Dr James A Judson he produced the 150 paged 'Intensive Care in New Zealand, A History of the New Zealand Region of ANZICS', 2001, for the 40th anniversary of their unit; also his self-published booklet, 2015, on the ill-health and death of Governor William Hobson).

Honours and awards
In the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours, Trubuhovich was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to medicine. In 2012, he was honoured by being named an "old boy of distinction" of his old school, St Peter's College.

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Living people
People from Auckland
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Utah Governor Vetoes Ridiculous Unconstitutional Content Moderation Bill; Makes His Brother-in-Law Sad
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Earlier this month, we noted that, to close out its session, the Utah legislature decided to pass
two separate blatantly unconstitutional bills. One requiring porn filters on internet-connected devices, and the other that tried to
overrule Section 230 (something states
can't do) and require all "social media corporations" to employ an "independent review board" to review content moderation decisions. It also says that social media companies must moderate in an "equitable" manner (whatever that means).
We went through all of the reasons why the bill was unconstitutional, as did others in Utah. In response, the bill's sponsor, Senator Michael McKell, gleefully told a local TV news station that he looked forward to wasting Utah taxpayers' hard earned money by defending it in court (he didn't say that it would be wasting the money — that's just us noting that it would be throwing away their money since the law is so clearly unconstitutional).
Thankfully, Utah Governor Spencer Cox (who happens to be Senator McKell's brother-in-law) has decided to veto the bill — his very first veto (as we noted earlier, he chose to sign the other unconstitutional bill about porn filters).
Oddly, Cox's office released two separate statements regarding the veto — only one of which notes that the bill was likely unconstitutional, while the other one seems to act like the bill just needs a few technical tweaks. It's almost as if he's trying to have it both ways and address two different audiences with two very different statements. The official veto statement makes it clear that the bill has serious constitutional issues:
Whatever course of action we take to protect online speech should seek to fully uphold the values enshrined in the First Amendment. While it is clear that something must be done, I believe that S.B. 228 raises significant constitutional concerns. And while I am proud that Utah is leading the effort to protect individuals' speech on the internet, I believe we will be well served to continue further coordination with our sister states to ensure faire access to the nation's largest public square.
Um, yeah, no. The government does not get to force anyone to host anyone's speech. That's not how it works. At all. The very notion of it is against the principles of the 1st Amendment.
The other statement, that Senator McKell himself posted to Twitter (after whining about the fact that his brother-in-law vetoed his bill) pretends that there are real serious issues involved in all of this, rather than silly, unconstitutional performative nonsense.
On a serious note, this is an issue that we need to spend more time on. Please see the attached press release. I'm optimistic we can find a better solution as we move forward. pic.twitter.com/8mhrHtddeZ
— Mike McKell (@mikemckellutah) March 23, 2021
That statement doesn't even mention the constitutional issues and instead suggests that there were merely "technical issues" that got in the way (apparently some in Utah think the 1st Amendment's prohibition on compelled speech, as well as the Constitution's Commerce Clause are merely "technical issues").
Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed S.B. 228 Electronic Free Speech Amendments, with consent from the Senate President, Speaker of the House and bill sponsors. After conversations with the legislative and executive branches, this action was jointly determined as the best path forward due to technical issues. Censorship by tech companies is a serious concern, and this action will not hinder nor prevent Utah from finding the right policy solution.
"The sponsors of this bill have raised valid questions about the impact social media platforms can have on public discourse and debate," said Gov. Cox. "Our country continues to grapple with very real and novel issues around freedom of speech, the rights of private companies and the toxic divisiveness caused by these new forms of connection, information and communication. While I have serious concerns about the bill, I appreciate the willingness of the bill's sponsors to continue to seek a better solution. Utah must be a leader in this space and I look forward to engaging with legislators and social media companies to address these legitimate concerns."
S.B. 228 had made significant headway and elevated Utah's position in conversations with big tech corporations. Utah policymakers along with the governor will work closely with stakeholders to ensure all Utahns have an equal opportunity to exercise their First Amendment right.
Um, yeah, you see, the 1st Amendment blocks the government (including the government of Utah) from making laws that impact individuals' rights to free expression. The government cannot seek to force private companies to host speech. So the very idea that they need to step in to make sure that "Utahns have an equal opportunity to exercise their First Amendment right" is nonsense.
Even more bizarre is that Cox allows his brother-in-law, who wrote the bill, to put in a completely nonsensical statement into the press release claiming (laughably) that it's actually the content moderation decisions of private companies that must violate the 1st Amendment:
"I appreciate the commitment from stakeholders who have agreed to work with the Legislature to craft a better solution that will increase transparency within social media corporations," said Sen. Mike McKell. "Censorship practices are un-American and likely unconstitutional. In Utah, we defend the right to freely express opinions and views, regardless of political or religious affiliation. The outcome of S.B. 228 is not ideal; however, the issue of free speech and online censorship remains a priority and policy will continue to be refined throughout interim."
That's not how any of this works. You don't get to force private companies to moderate the way the government wants them to moderate. That is what's unconstitutional. Utah: elect better people who will actually stand up for your constitutional rights, not try to demolish them while pretending that their attacks on the Constitution are no problem at all.
McKell further notes that as soon as the legislature is back in session he'll introduce a new version of his unconstitutional bill. I will take a wild guess and predict it will be equally unconstitutional. Especially since almost everyone involved in this ridiculous process keeps saying the same stupid things:
"Free speech is one of our most cherished American values and essential to democracy," said President J. Stuart Adams. "With the rise of social media, the issue of censorship has become increasingly prevalent, and the need for corporation transparency has proven necessary. While I support the concept and ideas of S.B. 228, after conversations with Gov. Cox, Speaker Wilson Sen. McKell and Rep. Brammer, we decided continuing the discussion regarding online censorship will be the most productive path forward. Together as Americans, we must ensure the right to speak freely remains intact, and I look forward to addressing this issue in the near future."
Everyone has the right to speak freely. What they do not have the right to do is to force others to host their speech or to tell them how they can make editorial and moderation decisions. That is an attack on their 1st Amendment rights. It would be nice if elected officials in Utah could understand this fundamental point behind the 1st Amendment. Tragically, that seems unlikely.
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Hamel was ordered to have no contact "whatsoever" with the girl; he also was ordered to complete sexual-offender treatment and abide by strict sex-offender probation conditions, court records state.
He pleaded guilty Aug. 15 to statutory sexual assault, corruption of a minor and indecent assault, records state.
As part of his negotiated plea agreement, charges including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child less than 16 and unlawful contact with a minor were dropped.
Northern York County Regional Police, who filed charges in May, said Hamel and the girl met online through the dating app Plenty of Fish and messaged back and forth.
The girl's profile claimed she was 21, police said, but the girl admitted to Hamel that she was just 14.
More:Md. cop charged with child sex offenses in York County
More:Police: Accused child rapist said 9-year-old 'was coming onto him'
'Run with it': Hamel sent photos of himself without clothes on to the girl during their phone exchanges, which included sexual talk, documents state.
"Can I tell you something? I like younger girls. Your age is OK with me," he wrote to her, according to court documents. "If you're willing to accept that, then I accept you for your age, too."
Hamel added that, "hopefully we can run with it," police said.
Police said Hamel picked up the girl near her home about 6:45 a.m. March 29 and drove her back to his home, where he licked her breasts, neck and stomach, then rubbed his groin against her while they were naked, documents state.
Hamel performed oral sex on the girl and also put his penis in her mouth, police said. He later told detectives he didn't have sex with her because the girl didn't want to, documents state.
Hamel drove the girl to West York Middle School about 12:45 p.m. and signed her in. He claimed to be her cousin and used a fake name, police said.
Hamel's defense attorney, Anthony Miley, did not return a phone message seeking comment.


My candy maker becomes invisible when my products are due to be collected. It reappears when I collect the products.
The Candy Maker can be purchased for 85,000 Coins at Level 39.
I'm just seeing the candy maker in my shop,but others arent(they are iOS also,same as me,and higher level),it's not available till level 39,was it always there,or is this new?
I think it is new. Others not seeing it may need to check for a version update.
I will see if a CM or developer will provide some information on this new appliance.
I got excited about this one. Being as I had a huge amount of coins put aside.
I was annoyed naturally when I saw it was level 39.
Sign....now I gotta hog my neighbors who have one and figure out what it makes.
Why must all new buildings be for super high levels? I wanna get mine now!
I've force closed the game, but I haven't restarted my device.
I think the candy maker disappears when it's heart has been helped. If it hasn't been helped it stays visible.
I doubt I will be able to put a photo on here, I'm not too tech savvy.
First thing in the morning, when all my machines have worked the night shift and folk have visited and helped around my farm, I go to collect from the candy maker and it's invisible. I don't see any sparkles, just floating produce.
This appears to be a loading issue. Have you tried restarting your device? Also, if you leave the game running in the background, then open it up again to play, it will cause the game to crash or stop loading. Whenever you exit the game, please always force-close the game, so that when you open the app again, the game will be synced up with our servers.
I've since restarted my device and I still have invisible issues.
I've noticed two of my neighbours have invisible candy maker issues too, maybe more have but I haven't taken any time to seek who has a problem or not.
I was able to tap on one neighbours invisible one and sparkles appeared.
The other nbr mentioned her's was invisible, but I didn't go looking.
I still have invisible issues with my candy maker and I'm noticing quite a few others do too.
It got me thinking....my candy maker is one of the only machines I have sped up using my gems. Could speeding it up and not letting it make itself slowly cause this invisible problem?
I noticed Stormie's candy maker was invisible when I visited this evening.
My chickens are invisible sometimes and I only see shadows! Doesn't happen often, every few days or so.
Regina;768619']The Candy Maker can be purchased for 85,000 Coins at Level 39.
Sorry to bump an old thread, but I didn't want to create a new one if I didn't have to.
You will probably receive mixed responses as to whether or not the candy machine is worth buying. I believe it is worth it and use it all the time.
That being said, it depends on your priorities... Do you need the feed mill or bait shop more at the moment?
The general advice I have always given is : buy the machines in the order that they are released to you, with the exception being the forge. I recommend buying the forge last when you have spare cash and nothing more important to work towards.
Just to add: there is nothing worse than being broke so I have always made sure I had extra money left over after puchase of a new machine. It is definitely worth waiting a few extra days or more to ensure a healthy bank balance after purchase.
Having the second bait shop is useful for events. (I sell my gait and don't fish much). Feed mills are great for feeding your animals, especially during events. I now have 5 mills and still manage to run out of animal food.
I agree with Pundoggity--buy the buildings in the order they come out.
Which game version are you using?
You're most welcome. :) I'll post here when I get an answer.


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Q: Is there only one separable Hilbert space of infinite dimension? The Hilbert dimension of a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ is defined as the cardinality of its total orthonormal basis. Moreover, two Hilbert spaces (over the same field) have the same Hilbert dimension,if and only if they are isomorphic.
A Hilbert space is separable if and only if it admits a countable orthonormal basis. However, the cardinality of the basis determines the Hilbert dimension, and hence the Hilbert space (for a given field, say $\mathbb{C}$). Therefore, there is only one separable Hilbert space of infinite dimension?
EDIT: by "only one" meaning that they are isomorphic as Hilbert spaces.

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Infragistics Collaborates with Microsoft to Bring New UI Toolkit to Blazor Users
10/22/2020, 3:00 PM (Source: GlobeNewswire)
Cranbury, NJ, Oct. 22, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Infragistics, a software company responsible for the UI/UX solutions powering the web, mobile and desktop applications of some of the world's largest enterprises, today announces its official release of Ignite UI for Blazor. The latest collaboration between Infragistics and Microsoft marks the expansion of Infragistics' already extensive UX/UI product portfolio. Now, Infragistics' enterprise UI toolkit is available to more than 5 Million .NET developers who can build interactive web applications without JavaScript, using Microsoft's Blazor.
The new open source framework gives enterprise developers an option for developing full-stack web applications using .NET and C# instead of JavaScript. Infragistics' Ignite UI is one of the most complete libraries of enterprise-grade web UI components on the market, and provides Blazor users with the developer-ready components they need to build fully-featured production web apps.
With this release, C# and .NET developers can leverage Infragistics' comprehensive library of Ignite UI components in Blazor without the need to code in JavaScript.
Infragistics' Ignite UI for Blazor includes:
Blazor Data Grid — A modern and architectural foundation with interactive UX features. Designed for high-performance and high-volume data scenarios.
Editors and Combo Box — Enable a complete in-line editing experience in the grid.
Charts — Designed to let users visualize any type of data and deliver interactive graphs, with their choice of more than 60 chart types. Optimized for real-time, streaming data scenarios.
Dock Manager — A component offered only by Infragistics, the Dock Manager delivers a Visual Studio-like window management experience, including docked panes, split panes, drag & drop window arrangement, and more.
Other Components Include the Ignite UI Data Chart, Stock Chart, Treemap, Pie Chart, Gauges, Geospatial Map and Date Picker.
"We have been optimizing our Ignite UI Components specifically for Blazor for months and are eager to see Microsoft's .NET developers users put them to work on the world's next applications," said Jason Beres, Senior VP of Developer Tools at Infragistics. "Our continued collaboration with Microsoft is critical to the exponential expansion of our web UI footprint."
"In Blazor we sought to introduce a framework that enables .NET developers to build modern full stack web apps with .NET," said Daniel Roth, ASP.NET Program Manager at Microsoft. "Our longtime partners at Infragistics are using their expertise to offer .NET developers the UI tools they need to build web applications without having to tackle JavaScript."
Infragistics has spent the past 31 years building UI and UX tools that companies like Fidelity, Exxon, IKEA and others rely on to build their core customer experiences.
The company's expansive portfolio of Web UI and UX solutions borrow from more than three decades of experience building enterprise-grade solutions that empower high-performing teams at the largest companies in the world.
Infragistics' Ignite UI web components are also available for frameworks including Angular, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, React, Web Components and more.
About Infragistics
Infragistics provides the world's largest enterprises with tools and solutions to accelerate application design and development, and foster team collaboration. More than two million developers worldwide use Infragistics' enterprise-ready UX and UI toolkits to rapidly prototype and build high-performing applications for the cloud, web, mobile and desktop. Infragistics' Reveal reimagines what business users can achieve with self-service business intelligence visualization, while its newest application, Indigo.Design, introduces design-to-code efficiencies during the designer-to-developer handoff. Infragistics clients represent 100% of the S&P 500, including global software providers who rely on Infragistics when reliability and performance are non-negotiable.
Beth Brody
BrodyPR
beth@brodypr.com


This is Kitty. The vet thinks his name is Titan. We are too embarrassed to tell the vet we call him Kitty, not Titan. Kitty won't let me put my things in the laundry basket. He threatens me if I go near, and he is far too heavy on the lid of the basket. So, I am forced to leave my dirty clothes on the floor.
I tell my better half this is the reason. She doesn't believe me.


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using System;
using Microsoft.Build.Construction;
using net.r_eg.MvsSln.Log;
using static net.r_eg.DllExport.Wizard.PostProc;
using MSBuildPostProc = RGiesecke.DllExport.MSBuild.PostProc;

namespace net.r_eg.DllExport.Wizard.Gears
{
    internal sealed class PostProcGear: IProjectGear
    {
        private readonly IProjectSvc prj;

        private IUserConfig Config => prj.Config;
        private ISender Log => Config.Log;

        private string Id => $"{Project.METALIB_PK_TOKEN}:PostProc";

        public void Install()
        {
            CfgPostProc(Config.PostProc.Type);
        }

        public void Uninstall(bool hardReset)
        {
            RemoveDerivativeTargets();
            RemovePostProcTarget();
        }

        public PostProcGear(IProjectSvc prj)
        {
            this.prj = prj ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(prj));
        }

        private void CfgPostProc(CmdType type)
        {
            prj.SetProperty(MSBuildProperties.DXP_POST_PROC_TYPE, (long)type);
            Log.send(this, $"Post-Processing type: {type}");

            if(type == CmdType.None) {
                return;
            }

            prj.SetProperty(MSBuildProperties.DXP_PROC_ENV, Config.PostProc.GetProcEnvAsString());
            Log.send(this, $"Proc-Env: {Config.PostProc.ProcEnv}");

            var target = prj.AddTarget(MSBuildTargets.DXP_POST_PROC);
            target.Label = Id;

            if((type & CmdType.Custom) == CmdType.Custom)
            {
                //TODO:
                Log.send(this, $"Post-Processing Custom type is not fully implemented: {type}", Message.Level.Warn);
                return;
            }

            if((type & (CmdType.DependentX86X64 | CmdType.DependentIntermediateFiles)) != 0)
            {
                CfgDepPostProc(AddRecursiveDependentsFor(MSBuildProperties.PRJ_TARGET_DIR, type), type);
            }
        }

        private void CfgDepPostProc(ProjectTargetElement dep, CmdType type)
        {
            if((type & CmdType.DependentX86X64) == CmdType.DependentX86X64)
            {
                AddTaskForX86X64(dep, type, 86);
                AddTaskForX86X64(dep, type, 64);
            }

            if((type & CmdType.DependentIntermediateFiles) == CmdType.DependentIntermediateFiles)
            {
                AddTasksIntermediateFiles(dep, type, "Before");
                AddTasksIntermediateFiles(dep, type, "After");
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// https://github.com/3F/DllExport/pull/148#issuecomment-624021746
        /// </summary>
        private ProjectTargetElement AddRecursiveDependentsFor(string id, CmdType type)
        {
            var target = AllocateDerivativeTarget("For" + id);

            target.AfterTargets = MSBuildTargets.DXP_POST_PROC;
            target.Label        = Id;
            target.Outputs      = $"%({GetDependentsTargetDir(type)}.Identity)";

            return target;
        }

        private void AddTaskForX86X64(ProjectTargetElement target, CmdType type, int arch)
        {
            var tCopy = target.AddTask("Copy");
            tCopy.SetParameter("SourceFiles", $"@(DllExportDirX{arch})");
            tCopy.SetParameter("DestinationFolder", $@"%({GetDependentsTargetDir(type)}.Identity)x{arch}\");
            tCopy.SetParameter("OverwriteReadOnlyFiles", "true");
        }

        private void AddTasksIntermediateFiles(ProjectTargetElement target, CmdType type, string dir)
        {
            var tCopy = target.AddTask("Copy");
            tCopy.SetParameter("SourceFiles", $"@(DllExportDir{dir})");
            tCopy.SetParameter("DestinationFolder", $@"%({GetDependentsTargetDir(type)}.Identity){dir}\");
            tCopy.SetParameter("OverwriteReadOnlyFiles", "true");
        }

        private ProjectTargetElement AllocateDerivativeTarget(string name) => prj.AddTarget(GetDerivativeTargetName(name));

        private string GetDependentsTargetDir(CmdType type)
        {
            if((type & CmdType.SeqDependentForSys) == CmdType.SeqDependentForSys) {
                return MSBuildPostProc.GetNameForSeqDependentsProperty(MSBuildProperties.PRJ_TARGET_DIR);
            }
            return MSBuildPostProc.GetNameForDependentsProperty(MSBuildProperties.PRJ_TARGET_DIR);
        }

        private void RemovePostProcTarget()
        {
            Log.send(this, $"Trying to remove post-proc-target `{MSBuildTargets.DXP_POST_PROC}`");
            while(prj.RemoveXmlTarget(MSBuildTargets.DXP_POST_PROC)) { }
        }

        private void RemoveDerivativeTargets()
        {
            foreach(var target in prj.XProject.Project.Xml.Targets)
            {
                if((target.Label != Id && target.Label != Project.METALIB_PK_TOKEN) // METALIB_PK_TOKEN was for 1.7.3 or less
                    || target.Name == MSBuildTargets.DXP_POST_PROC
                    || !target.Name.StartsWith(GetDerivativeTargetName(null)))
                {
                    continue;
                }

                Log.send(this, $"Remove derivative post-proc target `{target.Name}`", Message.Level.Trace);
                while(prj.RemoveXmlTarget(target.Name)) { }
            }
        }

        private string GetDerivativeTargetName(string name) => $"{MSBuildTargets.DXP_POST_PROC}{name}";
    }
}

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As we enter the 21st century there is a renewed awareness of the political, social, cultural and linguistic interrelationships among the nations of Europe. Understanding Europe involves not only commerce, politics and trade, but also all other areas that contribute to international links like culture, technology, media and communication. Recognising the importance that Europe plays on the global stage, the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a curriculum in European Studies that aims to use an inter-disciplinary approach to develop a comprehensive understanding of the societies and cultures of contemporary Europe.
European Studies is an exciting cross departmental programme administered by the Office of Programmes. Students have the option to pursue the European Studies program as a single major [B.A.(Hons) or BA], a shared major or a minor. The interdisciplinary course will take students through the history, politics, economics, language, literature and philosophy of the European continent, and examines the making of modern Europe, the European Union and their influence on the world today be it in international relations, institution building, trade or security.
Students will take French or German language modules that are offered by the Centre for Language Studies, as well as history, political science, philosophy, literature and geography modules that focus on Europe and the European Union. Prior knowledge of either French or German is not required for admission to the program and students may embark their European studies experience through taking elementary language modules. Subject to a placement test, those with prior knowledge of French or German may be admitted to a higher level module. Students who qualify for the Advanced French/German II or a higher module will be granted exemptions ranging from 4 to 8 MCs.
The programme has developed strong ties with the French and German embassies in Singapore as well as the Asia-Europe Foundation in Singapore. It also has links with the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and premier academic institutions such as the IEP Paris. With the support of these institutions, European Studies majors and minors can benefit from sponsorships and participation in summer schools, exchange programmes, internships, immersion programmes and cultural trips in Europe.
Career prospects for NUS graduates in European Studies are bright. Public sector bodies such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Communications and Information, IE Singapore, the Economic Development Board and the Singapore Tourism Board provide good career opportunities for graduates seeking a career in the Singapore Public Service. With several thousand European companies in Singapore and the continuing growth of trade ties between Singapore and Europe, graduates will no doubt find their skills in demand by private sector entities seeking to strengthen trade links between Europe and Asia.
Many of the programme's graduates have also proceeded abroad to pursue postgraduate qualifications; a good grounding in French or German in the program has allowed graduates to gain entry into elite European universities outside of the United Kingdom.


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Q: Failing to fetch my local API running in localhost (Amazon Cloud 9) I have a simple flask server that returns a JSON (flask automatically do that when you return a python dict) when it receives a GET request to / endpoint.

It's running on my 5000 port:

I know it's running and reachable as I managed to request to it, and receive a valid response, using curl, twice:

Both requests are logged into the server logs as well, on second print.
I'm trying to fetch to my server from a html/js script as:
const URL = "http://127.0.0.1:5000/"
fetch( URL )
.then(response=>response.json())
.then(json=>console.log(json))

or
const URL = "http://localhost:5000/"
fetch( URL )
.then(response=>response.json())
.then(json=>console.log(json))

But I get the same error twice:
1: GET http://localhost:5000/ net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
2: Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Failed to fetch

I know the code itself works because I managed to fetch Githubs API:
const URL = "https://api.github.com/users/nluizsoliveira"
fetch( URL )
.then(response=>response.json())
.then(json=>console.log(json))

I'm not sure why I can't fetch to my localhost. I think it has something to do with how cloud9 deals with ports. When removing http://localhost from the url:
const URL = ":5000"
fetch( URL )
.then(response=>response.json())
.then(json=>console.log(json))

the snippet also fails, but it seems that the request is somehow appending the url to my C9 url.
Have someone faced that situation before?
Thanks a lot in advance!

EDIT:
Just to clarify, i'm not running that js/html (directly) on my browser tab. I'm running it on the C9's built in browser, which is available through "preview running application":

A: With AWS Cloud 9 Preview, AWS gives you a private link like https://12a34567b8cd9012345ef67abcd890e1.vfs.cloud9.us-east-2.amazonaws.com which gives you access to your application. To get that link click preview application and copy it from the browser tab.
Use that link in your code instead of localhost. AWS Documentation:Preview a running application.


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Google has threatened to fire employees who have not been vaccinated
According to an internal memo obtained by CNBC, Google employees who haven't been vaccinated could be placed on forced leave and then fired if they don't follow the company's COVID-19 rules. Employees who would have been subject to President Biden's vaccine mandate, which is currently being challenged in the Senate and the courts, will reportedly be affected by the policy.
Google gave its employees until December 3rd to upload proof of vaccination or get approval for a medical or religious exemption, according to the memo. Anyone who fails to do either of these things by January 13th will be placed on a 30-day paid administrative leave, according to the company. According to CNBC, if they are still not in compliance after 30 days, they may be placed on unpaid leave for up to six months before being fired.
While the company expects the president's mandate to apply to the majority of employees, unvaccinated employees can look for positions that aren't covered by it, presumably ones outside of an office, according to the CNBC report. They'd have to be able to do the job remotely if they find one (or already have one). Google reportedly requires in-office employees to be vaccinated, claiming that frequent testing isn't an option. There's also the option of requesting a waiver.
Though the company hasn't said when employees will have to return to work after the emergence of the omicron variant, it does anticipate that a large portion of its workforce will be doing some work in person. According to CNBC, even remote workers will be required to be vaccinated if they are covered by the mandate.
Both pay and vaccination requirements have been contentious issues within the company; during a company all-hands meeting, executives were asked if they planned to raise wages to keep up with inflation (which they said they didn't). Last month, CNBC reported that Google had shared an anti-vaccine mandate manifesto signed by hundreds of employees.


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Israel's interim Defense Minister Netanyahu banned from posing with IDF troops ahead of elections
8 Feb, 2019 02:51
© Instagram / Benjamin Netanyahu
The Israeli Attorney-General has banned Benjamin Netanyahu and his ruling party from delivering political speeches to IDF troops or from publishing photos and videos featuring the PM with Israeli soldiers until after the election.
Canvassing the support of the military three months prior to the polls is forbidden by Israeli election law, so as not to confuse the public that the IDF might be backing a specific candidate. Ahead of the general election on April 9, the Labor Party (HaAvoda) filed a petition with the Israeli Attorney-General accusing Netanyahu of exploiting his post as Acting Defense Minister for campaign purposes.
A post shared by Benjamin Netanyahu נתניהו (@b.netanyahu) on Jan 23, 2019 at 5:01am PST
The opposition party claimed that Netanyahu and his Likud Party's "cold, cynical and narrow" use of pictures with soldiers on social media as well as in the press "misleads the voting public into thinking that the Israel Defense Force completely identifies with the Likud's election campaign."
A post shared by Benjamin Netanyahu נתניהו (@b.netanyahu) on Jan 23, 2019 at 10:36pm PST
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit sided with the opposition's concerns and banned the Prime Minister from using photos of his trips to IDF bases for election purposes 90 days ahead of the vote. He also forbade Netanyahu from delivering political speeches to soldiers. Violations of the bans could only be justified in case of a national emergency, the judge added, noting that the ruling applies to all political opponents.
"It is prohibited to use the IDF in election propaganda, such as utilizing IDF soldiers, publishing their pictures together with the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense and/or with any candidate on any party list," Mandelblit said.
Prior to Thursday's ruling, Likud defended its right to use photos of the IDF with the Prime Minister and Acting Defense Minister, noting that it only publishes "newsworthy and informative" footage. "Still photos documenting moments from the Prime Minister and defense minister's visits to bases during the course of his work cannot create a misleading impression among Israelis," the party said.
The Labor Party, meanwhile, claimed victory, once again accusing Netanyahu of turning "IDF soldiers into extras in his campaign."
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The Auburn Rotary Club will be having its annual Valentine's Day Sweetheart Dinner on February 14 from 6pm to 9pm at the Event Center Downtown in Opelika. The event will be $40 per couple, including live music, food, and drinks.
Rotarians, please bring your payment at the door and let the club president know if you are attending if you have not already. Please also note, there will be no meeting on Wednesday, February 15.


We were on our way to the Notre Dame Cathedral when my husband spotted two women sinking their teeth into a couple of cupcakes. He immediately stopped the women and asked where they got them! They directed us to a cupcake shop around the corner and told us that they served their favorite cupcakes in town! YES! I was actually going to enjoy cupcakes in Paris!
As I rounded the corner I saw the cutest little store front with Bertie's CupCakery sign out front! I was immediately impressed with how quaint and cute their store front was. With only a counter and case for cupcakes inside, Bertie's provided a small table and chairs outside to enjoy their cupcakes… a perfect place for an afternoon cupcake and coffee!
I could immediately tell that Bertie's CupCakery was an American-style cupcake shop! All their cupcakes were uniform in size and the piping on the frosting was all the same rosette. They had a pretty good selection of flavors, including traditional and unique!
Here's a look at a few of the flavors Bertie's had in their case (Left to right, top to bottom in the photo below).
Since I was with my Dad, husband and two kids we settled on four cupcakes (pictured below). Dad got the vanilla strawberry, Emily the Oreo, Dave chose Pistachio and I got Chocolate Chocolate. After I took the pictures of our cupcakes, I realized I didn't pick a cupcake out for Matty! So, I went back and got the Speculoos for him.
First up is the Oreo cupcake! The Oreo cupcake starts with a moist chocolate cake and is topped with a vanilla buttercream that's packed full of crushed Oreos all garnished with the cookie part of an Oreo.
If you love Oreo's, you'll love this cupcake from Bertie's! The frosting is soooooo good. I could probably eat it be the spoonfull… and if Emily would have let me, I would have licked it all off the top of her cupcake! HA!
Dad got the vanilla strawberry cupcake. I always say that you can really tell a lot about a cupcake shop by their vanilla cupcake. Is it moist? Does it taste like vanilla? Is it dense or does it have a fine crumb?
Well, I'm happy to say that this cupcake passes the test! Not only was the vanilla cake moist, it has a fine crumb and actually tasted like vanilla! It was topped with a smooth strawberry buttercream that actually tasted like fresh strawberries, not strawberry flavoring. I just hate it when cupcake shops use artificial flavoring in fruit flavors! The real thing is so much better!
Mmmmm chocolate. Yeaaaah. If you're a chocolate lover then you'll definitely be pleased with Bertie's Chocolate Chocolate cupcake. Moist chocolate cake topped with smooth milk chocolate buttercream made this cupcake my top pick!
I may have needed a glass of milk to go with it though… the chocolate was so rich and delicious!
Of course, my husband Dave picked the non-traditional flavor of Pistachio! This cupcake was a vanilla cupcake topped with a pistachio buttercream. Now, I can't say I am a big fan of pistachio flavor, but this cupcake wasn't too bad. My husband LOVED it. The pistachio flavor really came though in the buttercream and paired perfectly with the vanilla cake. The cupcake was garnished with a single pistachio, which was the perfect topper.
If you love the flavor of pistachio, then you'll definitely love this pistachio cupcake!
And if you don't believe me… just look at Matty. He licked off all the frosting first.
For someone who didn't think she was going to taste any cupcakes in Paris, Berite's CupCakery was a sweet surprise! Located just blocks from Notre Dame, Bertie's is the perfect place to stop for an afternoon snack and coffee! I definitely recommend this sweet bakery to anyone looking for an American-style cupcake in Paris!
Make sure to checkout the last three reviews I did of the bakeries in Paris and London! And next week, I'll be announcing the WINNER of the giveaway and sharing the sweets I found in Trouville, France!
I'm giving away a little swag I picked up along my travels to one lucky reader! One person will win The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook and a Lola's Cupcakery coffee mug! Simply fill out the form below! You must be 18+ to enter and have USA or Europe mailing address. Each week, with each new review, you'll have a chance to enter again to win! So keep coming back!
I love white chocolate truffle cupcakes with the truffles baked inside of the cake.
I definitely need to try the Biscofff butter creme. I love Biscoff anything!!
Ooh, the strawberry Vanilla looks so good 🙂 I have yet to try cookie butter, and they sell it in the stores here too.
ahhhh SHUT UP! Obsessed with these amazing cupcakes!!! Now I need to go to Paris-lol!
Wow definitely flavors I didn't expect in Paris. You don't happen to have a close recipe for the frosting they used? I had a cupcake in Fayetteville, AR last week and the huge mountain of frosting was so sicky sweet, I couldn't finish it. I have been craving Walnut flavor lately.
These all look sooo seriously good! Love the idea of the pistachio cupcakes!
I don't know if this is non-traditional, but I really loved a Margarita Cupcake I had.
My favorite traditional flavor cupcake is CHOCOLATE..!
I had a key lime pie cupcake a few years back… AMAZING! It is now my favorite type of cupcake.
I would love a pistachio flavored cupcake…PLEASE!
The wildest and best flavor that I have tried is Key Lime and Jalapeno….. tart, sweet and spicy and out of this world!
My son and I stopped at Berties when we were in Paris in March. We are from Nova Scotia, canada and I work with the owners aunt who suggested we go say hello. The cupcakes were spectacular! Best we've ever had. We had Oreo, Red Velvet and I think Peanut Butter or Chocolate. I don't remember anymore but, I can say that it didn't matter which one we were eating, it was just as good as the one before! The owner is from Newfoundland, Canada too so I was feeling proud as well as full of the best cupcakes ever! Oh, and we sat at that little round table too! It was a beautiful spot.
The Speculoos sounds WONDERFUL!! Where do I find the Biscoff frosting?? I live in Washington state, and don't recall ever seeing it in a store baking section. Help! I must try it!!
p.s. I totally enjoy your recipes & blogs! Thank you!
Wonderfully written review. Makes me want to go to Paris just to try this bakery!
My favorite cupcake is a french toast with maple bacon frosting.
I think something with blueberries and lemon would be heavenly in a cupcake.
This shop looks so adorable, it makes me miss being in Paris! And those are some BIG cupcakes!!


Global production of desalinated water has almost quadrupled since year 2000, with more than 18000 desalination plants operating worldwide. The pace of construction is expected to increase as the related technology evolves. This process based on reverse osmosis (RO) is the main chemical step in large-scale water treatment plants around the world. When pressurized seawater flows through the membrane, a complex polymer allows only water molecules to enter the system, blocking salt and other non-organic impurities.
Every day, millions of people benefit from seawater processed by Protec high-tech systems to fill the hydrographic deficits in their regions, whether in terms of domestic, agricultural, health or industrial use. Protec's fiber reinforced pressure vessels are key elements to reach the greatest effectiveness in the most relevant desalination scenarios around the world, such as the Ras Al-Khair plant in Saudi Arabia (largest and most technologically advanced hybrid water desalination plant on Earth) or the Claude "Bud" Lewis Carlsbad desalination plant in San Diego (biggest desalination facility in the USA). For the last several years, frequent drought in California has been an important factor when reconsidering the clear need to use desalinated seawater in order to fill the growing hydrographic deficit. Although rainfall is naturally limited in this western state, a recent calculation suggests that the 2012-2014 drought events have brought the worst dry seasons in the past 1200 years.
Process conditions are crucial when selecting the most adapted pressure vessel, but each industry has specific requirements that must be fulfilled, as well as characteristics that influence the election of the technology and its components. The pharmaceutical or food industries often require containers with polished surfaces and an easy-to-clean design, particularly during CIP operations. The chemical and petrochemical industries are dealing in many cases with extreme temperatures and pressure conditions, as well as highly corrosive products. Other kinds of equipment, such as pressure valves installed on boat decks or oil platforms, must be developed with the correct housing and coating in order to withstand extreme environmental conditions.
The importance of choosing the right material, shape and construction process is key to building the soul of a pressure vessel. Desalination industry works with a corrosive and highly abrasive substance: salt. Therefore, products and sensors highly resistant to corrosion are required. Equipment installed in areas with vibrations may have to be assembled in specific conditions with separate electronics. In high humidity areas and tropical climates, equipment designed especially for these conditions is the best option. However, versatile materials allow a pressure vessel to fit any industrial sector or requirement. Knowledge of the conditions in a process is fundamental.
All of Protec's products are designed and manufactured in accordance with the ASME Code, the most reputed International Safety Standard Regulation upon Fiber Reinforced Plastic Pressure Elements, drawn up decades ago specially for fiber reinforced plastic pressure vessels. Although their specialty is pressure vessels for desalination processes, Protec manufactures pressure systems and containers for multiple fields of application, such as vessels for pre-conditioned air unit ducts to supply planes parked in an airport and connected to the terminal with a Passenger Boarding Bridge (PBB), better known as "fingers".
Protec Arisawa is the global leader in custom fiber reinforced plastic pressure vessels for membrane filtration systems. With high-tech industrial facilities in Europe and America, Protec Arisawa is currently seeking to expand the company's field of activity to more mainstream markets and applications.
The ability to transform salted oceans in drinkable water is perhaps the greatest achievement in terms of human livelihood. Desalination processes, as well as many other expertise progressively improved by mankind over thousands of years, have known their major breakthroughs during the last century. Not so long ago, in 1828, a medical and physician French researcher named Henri Dutrochet turned science and investigation upside down when discovering the osmotic phenomenon such as we know it today. Even the theories about the actual functioning of life itself suffered sweeping changes: thanks to semipermeable membranes and natural variances of concentration between two solutions, Dutrochet proved that fundamental laws of physics and chemistry (and therefore mathematics) were able to clarify life's most basic processes. However, almost 50 years were necessary to develop the first successful artificial membranes, which opened the door to further and ambitious fields of research.
The beginning of the 20th century threw some light on the subject, and scientists settled the basic concept of "chemical energy of a solution". Physiochemical science as an independent discipline was born, laying the foundations for future thermodynamics chemical theories that could offer explanations to the osmotic phenomenon and, first and foremost, help understand osmotic pressure as the difference between chemical energy of two solutions.
After World War II, global issues changed in a definitive way. Pollution, overcrowding and water contamination emerged as future's major natural challenges. Fossil fuels low prices set the tone in development of first desalination plants, based on evaporation of sea water. These techniques, although very versatile and robust, were actual energy guzzlers, squandering up to 20 kWh / m3 in most cases. Furthermore, it was impossible to ignore that this kind of water treatment facilities used huge amounts of coal and fuel to produce steam, so the environmental issue became a compelling and legitimate reason to definitely discard the evaporation option.
The proposition of reverse osmosis by Charles E. Reid in 1953, dismissed at first instance, was the future key to dominate the seas. However, seawater reverse osmosis desalination procedures were called to depend on extremely complex membrane systems that gradually purify salt water piped straight from the ocean. Step by step, technology finally permitted to build membranes capable to handle saline solutions, and the world's first commercial reverse osmosis plant came into existence in 1963 in Coalinga (California, USA), with a new pilot program that lured the attention of water engineers and governments around the world.
The innovations and discoveries occurred along the last decades have made membrane technology efficient and affordable, converting clean water in an accessible good for many heavy industries. Today, reverse osmosis and membrane filtration components are utilized for thousand of different applications, and whole cities and countries survive thanks to desalted water.
Nowadays, new membrane technologies have completely displaced the old desalination systems based on water evaporation (both Multi-Stage Flash and Multiple-Effect Distillation). In addition, some new processes allow for recycling worn out membranes. The arguments that glimpse reverse osmosis desalination as the technology humanity will use for decades are strongly convincing. Refinement in all stages of the procedures makes this technique greener, economical and comfortable day by day. Now, Saudi Arabia is projecting the construction of the first solar powered desalination plant… Future is already here.
Protec Arisawa is the global leader in creating and manufacturing fiber reinforced plastic pressure vessels for membrane filtration systems. The Carlsbad water treatment plant (California), the largest and most technologically advanced seawater desalination plant in the USA, utilizes Protec pressure vessels in order to reach the highest effectiveness.
Protec's worldwide unique expertise in high-pressure vessels starts more than 60 years ago in Mungia, a small town located in the Basque Country, in northern Spain. After decades manufacturing plastic, resin, glass fiber and polymer, today Protec is the world leader in high-pressure vessels for desalination while the company seeks new business opportunities in unexplored fields.
At the beginning of the new millennium global industrial flows were changing so fast that Protec resolved to specialize its production in order to face the fierce competition from new markets. The decision was taken: high-pressure vessels would be the new leading product of the company. These high-tech devices consist in pipes designed to protect sophisticated membranes required in water treatment processes and desalination plants. It proved to be an excellent choice. The Basque enterprise worked hand in hand with some of the world's largest engineering firms in the deployment of desalination plants around the world. This success did not go unnoticed. The Arisawa Manufacturing Corporation – the only ASME certificate holder of the FRP pressure vessel in Japan- acquired Protec in 2010: a new and promising partnership was born, reaching a €21-million turnover record.
Unfortunately, nobody was able to predict that business would nosedive in 2011. The growth of global industrial market and new overseas competitors put the company on the ropes. Once again, the solution came through research, innovation and design. The Basque company worked side by side with a Japanese team to develop an accurate innovation project in order to cut costs down and remain competitive on the worldwide scene. These action guidelines have been Protec's leitmotiv since then. After an exhaustive study of every detail of the pressure vessels down to the last millimeter and improving each component, it was unanimously agreed that the fabrication process had to be changed altogether: no more machined parts, molding is the future. As a result, Protec is the world leader in high-pressure vessel for desalination applications.
In addition to reverse osmosis vessels, pharmaceutical equipment and superconductive material among other cutting-edge products, Protec is now working on its strategy to step into the food and drink industry, as well as into the oil and gas sector and other areas requiring water treatment equipment. Now the company works in an unexplored field: jet bridges or "fingers", the connector which most commonly extends from an airport terminal gate to an airplane.
With leading industrial facilities in USA and Europe, Protec Arisawa is the only pressure vessel manufacturer managing two production centers. A major proof of Protec Arisawa's reactiveness and flexibility is the absence of standard vessel models. Using the latest technologies enables the construction of complete installations, produced in a smaller, faster and compact scale, raising Protec as a composite expert manufacturer able to provide innovating solutions for most industrial and engineering sectors that require alternative and creative developments with these pieces of equipment. Of course, Protec's production complies with the worldwide recognized ASME standards. An expert Japanese team carries out weekly improvement tests on products, constantly optimizing their high-quality level, strength, weight and competitiveness. A perfectly coordinated international work group ensures effective lead times reduced to only three weeks from first contact to the delivery date, as well as personalized assistance and problem solving services.
According to sector's experts, the future of high-pressure vessels lies in Asia and Australia. Nowadays China and India are the largest markets in the region, due to increasing demand for electricity and power generation capacity additions. As the world is Protec Arisawa's natural market, the company will certainly be up to the task up to the task and is currently taking steps to strengthen the brand's name in South East Asia and Australia.
FRP Vessels are not only used in the Water Treatment Field and Protec Arisawa is also present developing and acting in different applications far away from the most usual ones.
One of those fields is the design and production of Pre-Conditioned Air units (PCAs) conductions for planes parked in the airport and connected to the terminal with Passenger Boarding Bridges (PBBs) for the last 2 decades. In this case, there´s a structure of 3 vessels connected and perfectly airproof to provide the selected temperature in the airplane cabin with its engines off.
The vessels combination has an independent automatic system to recover the internal hosepipe following the movements by the finger in the coupling maneuver with the plane fully integrated in the vessel structure. In the very end the vessels count with elements to house the flexible connections to be connected to the plane.
The vessels have a complex internal composite structure to allow their own smooth movements within the other ones in a telescopic motion, providing at the same time a perfect tightness avoiding any air leaks and reducing, hence, the energetic cost of providing the plane with the right temperature at every movement.
According to the specific finger design specifications, the vessel structure can have up to 3 different bodies which can be extended to their maximum length in case of need. Both the finger and the AC piping structure are connected to the terminal and the AC engine with a global element allowing both elements to swing to adequate and adapt themselves to the plane positioning, reducing the adapting effort for the flexible elements.
Protec Arisawa has the trust and prestige earned after almost 20 years experience in this field, being Protec products present in some of the busiest airports in Europe, spending a good deal of R&D effort on adapting ourselves to the newest finger generations and air traffic global industry requirements.


New Revelations from a Senior Trump Aide: The Man has no Morality!
This is an op-ed piece from the NY Times written by an anonymous senior aide inside the White House. Never before has anyone written anything about a President like this. This clearly shows the incompetence of the man who is President of the United States of America.
Please share, post, retweet this to everyone you can. We need to show the world that there are millions of us who do not support this man or his policies. We need to either impeach him or indict him. He can and has done real damage to the United States of America. The longer he remains in office, the more damage he will do.
I work for the president, but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.


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Indigenous and black people ask Duque to resume dialogues with the ELN
Posted by Gabriel Petatán on 21 January, 2019 21 January, 2019
The members of the Ethnic Commission for Peace request the president to reconsider his position against this guerrilla and offer themselves as mediators in the search for a negotiated solution to the conflict. The indigenous peoples and black members of the Ethnic Commission for Peace expressed their concern at President Duque's announcement to break the dialogues with the National Liberation Army (ELN) in the face of the wave of violence that such a decision would bring to their territories. They ask the president to continue with the peace process with this guerrilla and offer themselves as mediators for the dialogue.
Through a statement, the commission – integrated, among others, by the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC) and the Afro-Colombian National Peace Council (Conpa) – rejected the attack committed last Thursday, January 17 against the Cadet School General Santander, in Bogotá. ELN is responsible for the attack against the Santander General School. However, they ask the president "to consider the dialogue and the political solution as the only way out of the historical conflicts of injustice and social inequality that has left thousands of victims." The call of these peoples is produced when considering that in President Duque's mandate "airs of war have reappeared" that have put their territories at risk due to the actions of armed groups.
"As Ethnic Peoples, we continue to be at risk and in the midst of actors and armed actions of different actors and in different parts of the country," they said in the statement. Therefore, "we ask (President Duque) to reconsider his position, it is urgent to continue the dialogues with the ELN; a single life saved by the cessation of the armed conflict will have validated all the efforts that can be made."
Resume dialogue with ELN, the clamour of social leaders. In addition to the request to Duke to resume talks with that guerrilla, the ethnic peoples propose to serve as mediators in the search for dialogue. "As caregivers of life and with the greatest desire to live and build the territorial peace we dream of, we reiterate our commitment to building a peaceful country and offer ourselves as an Ethnic Commission for Peace and the Defense of Territorial Rights as mediators to continue the dialogue and make all possible efforts so that the negotiated solution remains the only alternative to armed confrontation", the document points out. The call of the Ethnic Commission joins other petitions that have already been raised from different sectors in the regions most affected by the conflict so that the Government reconsiders its decision to break the dialogues with the ELN and avoid a possible escalation of violence.
This text was originally published in Spanish on January 19 (2019), in the Digital Edition of the magazine El Espectador by Cristian Garavito.
Reference: Pueblos indígenas y negros le piden a Duque reanudar diálogos con el ELN.
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Old Radnor () is a village and community in Powys, Wales. The community includes Old Radnor and the villages of Yardro, Dolyhir, Burlingjobb, Evenjobb (), Kinnerton and Walton.  In the 2001 census and the 2011 Census the community had a population of 741 (390 male and 351 female) in 323 households. Old Radnor lies on a lane off the A44 to the west of the Wales–England border.

The 15th-century parish church, dedicated to Saint Stephen, is in perpendicular gothic style, and is noted for its early organ and organ case, early stained glass, fine rood screen and large pre-Norman font.  Lying adjacent are earthworks known as Old Radnor Castle, but it is unclear if it was ever in fact a fortification.

Riddings Brook, a tributary of the River Lugg, starts near Old Radnor. Old Radnor has one pub, the Harp Inn, a 15th-century farm house.

New Radnor, which had replaced Old Radnor as the county town of Radnorshire, is further to the west.

Governance
An Old Radnor electoral ward exists. The ward covers the communities of Old Radnor, New Radnor and Gladestry. It elects one county councillor to Powys County Council. At the 2011 Census this ward had a population of 1,562.

In 2018 a Review of Electoral Arrangements proposed that Old Radnor and Gladestry be included with nearby Painscastle under a new ward with the name Glasbury and Old Radnor. If accepted, the proposed change would take effect from the 2022 election.

At the local level, Old Radnor Community Council represents the community. It comprises up to eleven community councillors representing the community wards of Old Radnor/Walton and Kinnerton/Evenjobb.

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On Thanksgiving, Democrats Demand A Family Separation Policy
By Kylee Zempel
More than eight months after "15 days to flatten the curve," our so-called medical experts, politicos, and pundits are bidding us to avoid our family at all costs over the holidays, lest we die. This Thanksgiving week, family separation is the name of the game, with governors and local authorities implementing onerous restrictions to discourage people from leaving their homes.
"If you are planning to spend Thanksgiving with people outside your household, we urge you to reconsider," wrote a group of governors in the pages of the Washington Post. These authors included little tyrants such as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, whose lockdown orders arbitrarily outlawed the sale of gardening seeds while allowing patrons to purchase lottery tickets, Gov. Andy Beshear, who ordered that Kentucky police record church attendees' license plate numbers at Easter services as "the only way we can ensure that your decision doesn't kill someone else," and Gov. J.B. Pritzker, whose family violated his own lockdown orders on more than one occasion to travel to their second home in Florida.
Instead, these hypocritical governors insist, "Get together with your family via Zoom to ensure your loved ones stay safe." Nothing says grateful gathering like a conference call with your kin.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advise the same, qualifying Thanksgiving gatherings as "highest risk," although the CDC's own data suggests lockdowns could kill as many people as the Wuhan virus itself.
The media goes right along with all of it, instilling fear and shaming Americans who question them, while also violating health orders themselves and then lying about it. These media elites are already wishing us a very COVID Christmas too, with CNN's Jake Tapper declaring, "Christmas is probably not going to be possible."
'Short-Term' Is a Myth
"We must make short-term sacrifices for our long-term health," the governors wrote trying to make their rhetoric more palatable in the Washington Post article. "None of us wants the guilt of gathering and unwittingly spreading this virus to someone we love."
Nothing about these sacrifices has been "short-term," however. The March days turned into the summer weeks, which have led to the winter months, which is turning into a full year and more — just gone. The fearmongering has guilted families into objectifying their loved ones, viewing them as threats, and now many of them are gone anyway — dying of cancer, dying of old age, and dying alone. We've turned fear into our friend and family into our foe. Is this really best "for our long-term health"?
"Think about your last Thanksgiving and the people you were surrounded by — your parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters, neighbors and friends, or the family you have chosen for yourself," the group of governors urged. "Picture their faces — laughing with you, watching football with you or even arguing with you about politics. As hard as it will be to not see them this Thanksgiving, imagine how much harder it would be if their chairs are empty next year."
COVID-19 Rhetoric Is Exhausting and Absurd
Americans are exhausted of the rhetoric and are weary of trying to discern the right thing in the highly politicized pandemic. Of course we don't want to subject our friends and family to danger, and of course we don't want their chairs to be empty next year — but we are rational actors. We know every single time we gather around the table, it could be the last, pandemic or not. What is "thanksgiving" if not gratitude for the gracious gifts we don't deserve, including people, with whom our days are numbered? What an awful prospect to think of relinquishing our limited days with family as though time with them next year would be a guarantee.
Should we put our trust in the advice of health experts and the elected that have been known to lie and cheat, and hold at arm's length the people who most give us life lest they kill us? These "experts" are the same people who insist church is more dangerous than mass protests and rioting, and the same politicians who advise you to wear your mask between bites of food.
Is it so much more dangerous to gather with loved ones over a meal than to eat surrounded by strangers at a restaurant? What about our mental health? Is it wise to progress through the cold winter months, as seasonal depression sets in for many people, with a dismissive attitude toward those who should be under our care?
Joe Biden used the same "empty chair" rhetoric during the last presidential debate, warning that we're headed into a "dark winter." But are family separation policies and paralyzing fear of a virus really less dark than the possibility of physical death? Shouldn't we be permitted to make these assessments and take these risks without condemnation? Eliminating all risk goes against all the things American, and shunning community weakens the bonds that make life worth living.
Gather This Thanksgiving
Life is too short to live it in fear of dying. Of course, we should not be reckless, but rather prudent and charitable so we truly can enjoy an abundant Advent season and gather once again next November with gratitude.
For at-risk family members, use this opportunity to find ways to serve them and to demonstrate your affection even though they might not be present at your table this year. Their need for caution doesn't eradicate their need for community; don't make yourself feel better by cutting them out of your life and telling yourself it's for their safety.
For young, healthy family and friends — whose coronavirus recovery rate is north of 99.9 percent — gather, and give thanks. There's simply no rational reason to isolate yourself.
One public health expert even advised The Federalist that Americans should "have a Thanksgiving or Christmas get-together with no restrictions, but if older people (60+) are going to be present alongside younger people (18-60), be sure to get rapid antigen tests for everyone — especially the young — before the event." These are reasonable precautions.
The group of governors concluded, "We will get through this together." But that isn't true — and it isn't what they want. This holiday season, they want you to get through it alone. Be smart, but don't let the petty tyrants keep you away from your loved ones this holiday season. Cherish the time with them because it is fleeting.
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