I received my tutor feedback for assignment 2 yesterday, and it can be read here. 2-hollywoodward-tutor-report. Overall, it was positive, although he seems to have picked up on my feelings of frustration with the work, and maybe I should tone that down for the assessment.
You have submitted a good assignment and demonstrated some excellent research and an ability to engage in critical analysis. It's clear that you have worked very hard on the assignment. Your input is solid and although you aren't entirely happy with the final images, I'd suggest that you have learnt a lot and the experience has been very beneficial. There are some points that you can address with the final selection and also points to bear in mind for future assignments. A little more controlled application at the time of taking the images would be beneficial and help you to produce images more aligned to your aims. Keep up with your focus and commitment as it is evident that you are progressing well.
Having left the images to one side for a while, I am now feeling better about them, and am coming round to the belief that they were among my better work. I take his point about controlling the portrait shoot more – I had never really done a formal shoot before, and there is much to learn about how to manage the meeting in order to get what I want out of it. Up to this point, I have largely been taking photographs of the client without direction, and this needs to change in future. I need to read some books by photographers who talk about this aspect of portrait photography, and two books I own need to be reviewed in detail, Jane Bown's Faces and Gregory Heisler's 50 portraits. I also plan to visit the Taylor Wessing exhibition in London in a couple of weeks and will review that from this viewpoint too.
You have produced an interesting assignment, and one that you have clearly laboured over! The submission is appropriate and reflects upon the brief's criteria. The premise for the project, photographing Parish Councilors is fine and demonstrates that you are considering the context of your work. The theme holds the series together and allows another layer to the work rather than it being just a set of random portraits.
The final images demonstrate your ability to apply critical analysis. On the face of it they are a set of classic minimalist portraits. They demonstrate a uniformity within their framing and camera position. Through your visual research you have identified an appropriate visual strategy. The main inspiration appears to be Joel Sternfeld's 'Stranger Passing' a solid body of work. However, as you have realised, producing these types of portraits is not as straight forward as it appears.
Previously I spoke about interacting with the sitter but make sure that you are in control. You should be directing the shoot. If you are too passive you will not make an interesting shot. I think that it's this control that is missing from a few of your shots and in some way your reliance on wanting to show your personal relationship has affected the outcome. Regarding their facial expressions, if you look at Sternfeld you will see that the majority of the sitters are almost expressionless, like the lady at the garage, this allows the image more ambiguity and gravitas. Often it appears that it is a fleeting moment, this needs working on by the photographer.
Your first portrait is the most successful as we discussed previously. No changes required for this one.
The guy at the phone box is not a bad portrait but I don't think it's what you had imagined, the smile is over familiar and the pose a little contrived. Hard to see from contact sheet but shot P1520046 looks like it may be a better option, remember though what I said about framing options.
I have posted both images (before & after) below. My concern about the second one is that the subject is in shadow in what is otherwise a bright, sunny image.
Man in the woods, again not such a bad shot but maybe would have been better him still and more effectively posed, how about shot P1520991, sitting down but still full frame, again can't see his expression though.
The second image was my alternative selection for this person. However, when I consulted my peers, they had felt that the fact he is seated distracts from the coherence of the whole series. For myself, I prefer it as an image, as it is more static than the walking one.
Yellow coat lady, I like the way she is standing, also note that she is not smiling feels more compelling. Again look at composition, should have shot landscape in camera she should ideally be shifted over to her left slightly, let the window frame her, window frame sticking out her head is annoying.
As it happens, the original photograph for this image was taken in landscape. I have cropped it differently above, as suggested by my tutor.
The final image is nearly there but it lacks a certain element to pull in the viewer, image P1530048 when cropped may be stronger. I think that you have neglected a stronger shot, (Amanda) images P1510890/P1510892 or P1510902, look good from what I can see on the contact sheet, try them in the final set.
Here are the before and after selections for image 5. Again, the second was another that I had considered, but rejected on the grounds that the positioning of the subject was out of kilter with the other images. However, that is no longer an issue as the overall positioning are now different, so I will include it instead of the first.
The first of these had been in my original selection, but was discounted by my peer group on the grounds that the background was not very informative. I prefer it to the second, so will reinstall it in the overall group, at the expense of the telephone box one, which I think is the weakest of the set.
So, after tutor feedback, the suggestion is that I go with the set below.
Plenty of reading there to keep me going.
This entry was posted in Assignment 2, Assignments and tagged Assignment 2, feedback on January 24, 2017 by Holly Woodward.
The early stages of the selection for this assignment were difficult, and I felt I was really struggling to obtain anything meaningful and coherent with my first few shoots. I have three series of images of different subjects during that period which just did not work, and which were not worthy of adding to the final set. (Copies of the contact sheets for these three, as well as the others are attached at the end of this post). I am therefore grateful for my tutor's suggestion not to rush the process, and to concentrate on what it is I like about this image below, which I had told him seemed to be the best of what I had so far achieved.
On mulling it over, I decided that the main features of the image I liked were the natural pose, which has a sense of dynamism and the fact that the person was directly engaged with the viewer in a way that expresses both their personality and their relationship with me, the photographer. The background is bland but has meaning to the subject, being farm land which is currently being prepared for a large housing development.
It therefore seemed sensible to concentrate less on the location (albeit still showing it as a background to the subject) and to focus more on a natural, unforced pose and expression, which expresses my own relationship with the subjects, and this made the shooting and selection process much easier for subsequent shoots. As a result of this thinking, the final three shoots were straightforward and lacked any of the angst and doubt of the first few.
Below, I have considered each of the sets of contact sheets. In most cases, these are a selection taken from a larger number of images in order to fit them onto one page. (I do not know why they have white lines across them, but it is not important for this exercise).
This was my first shoot, and although I am happy with the concept of the shoot, and particularly like P1510374, it subsequently became clear that the subjects were all going to be photographed outside and at full length, so reluctantly this set had to be dismissed.
There were a number of possibilities in this set. I particularly like the last image, and this was my first choice for this subject. However, on asking fellow students their opinion of the proposed series, this was the one that did not seem to fit. Apart from it being about a building, the colours and style seem to jar with the others, rather than flow, and I have decided to go with P1510400 instead.
This set was relatively easy to produce and there are several within in it that I like, especially P1510419, but th3e subject is too far away in the image, and so I have decided to use P1510424 instead. As mentioned above, this was the starting point for the final set of images.
Sadly, none of these were suitable. The weather was very bright sunshine, and there is a great deal of contrast in many of them. Also, the subject is posing rather more than I am aiming for, so this set has been rejected.
In my first shoot with this subject, there were similar problems to the shoot with Amanda, and the light was too harsh for successful images. I also was not happy with the decision to photograph the subject next to the sign – it looks forced and slightly peculiar. He was kind enough to allow me to undertake another shoot, and this was much better. For the purposes of this assignment, either P1520953 or P1520991 would work, but I decided to use the former on the basis that all the other selections were full length, so this one should be too.
This short shoot was not successful for a number of reasons. Again the weather was not helpful, and I did not have time to chat to the subject enough for him to feel comfortable about what I was doing. He therefore looks unhappy and posed in the shots, and I decided to leave any of this series out.
Bizarrely, the weather was also sunny for this shoot, but the telephone box happened to be in the shade of a large tree, which softened the light. Any of the last four would have been fine for the series, but I felt the composition was best in P1520073.
Another gloomy day for this shoot, and again there were several possibilities for the final selection, but I decided on P1530108 as the image most reflective of the person.
This selection process has been long, but I really benefitted from taking a step back for a while to allow some objectivity to enter the equation. I am also grateful to fellow students for the feedback they have given on the whole process and I am now more confident that the series reflects what I was hoping to achieve One of the elements of the final series which has been remarked upon is its autumnal feel, which is good because it lends a unifying seasonal background to all the images.
This entry was posted in Coursework, Part 2 - Street and studio, Part 2 assignment prep and tagged Assignment 2, portraits, selection, selection process on December 18, 2016 by Holly Woodward.
I haven't posted anything here for a little while and freely admit that gloom and despondency have been the order of the day. After my first four shoots for assignment 2, I am now unsure about whether my idea will work or not. The plan had been to create a space around each of the subjects which reflected their attitude to their role, i.e. detail people would have close-up images and strategists would have plenty of space around them. However, although this works for each person individually, I am not sure that it give coherence to the set as a whole, and I am wondering whether to go back to the drawing board. My preferred images of the four people I have photographed so far are shown below, and I'd love some feedback about what fellow students think.
Additionally, I have been talking to the people at the office about framing some of them and putting them up around the office, so they need to work for that too, and I am not sure about how people would react to some of them. They are not the sort of images most people are used to seeing.
I still plan to photograph another two or possibly three people for the series, but really want to keep a version of image 1 in the set, as this person is an important member of the team. Part of my issue is around going back and asking people if I can photograph them again, although none of them were at all negative about the idea and they all seemed keen to help.
However, despite this hiatus, I have been busy elsewhere. On a more positive note, I had an epiphany with regard to White Balance and went off to my local country park to photograph the autumn trees this weekend. (Until now, I have essentially only been using Auto White Balance). I was much happier with the colour balance in the images I produced, and am glad I have added this to my list of photography skills. Also, while I was standing there taking photographs, I started talking to various people, and one lady kindly allowed me to photograph her little girl, in exchange for a copy of the images. I sent her the images and was delighted, but a little flummoxed, to be asked by her if I was a commercial photographer, as she liked them so much.
Below, I have put a couple of the images I took, including one of the little girl.
My mentor, Stephen Bray, subsequently contacted me about the trees image, which I had posted on Facebook, and suggested that it might be better without the people lurking in the background. I responded saying that I had wondered that, and was considering whether another one might be better, featuring some people more prominently. His response is quoted below in full, and I need to think it over in more detail. I have versions with and without people as well as the one above, and look forward to a fairly detailed appraisal of the messages sent by each version.
My preference would be plain without the people, but that's just personal taste. Your image might work well in a collection – where the other photographs also show people obscured by nature. That would be enigmatic and cause people to stop and think, because the people's inclusion would obviously be deliberate.
Finally, I have been spending an inordinate amount of time trying to organise my Lightroom Catalog, Keywords and Collections in a more sensible way, to free up computer space. Last week, doing a search on my Catalog with Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder, I discovered that almost half of my images are duplicates, which might explain why my computer is slowly grinding to a halt. It's a slow process but should ultimately be worthwhile. As part of this, I have opened a new WordPress.org blog to shadow this one, while I learn how to use it – the processes seem to be very different from WordPress.com. The purpose of this was to allow me to export images directly from Lightroom to WordPress, but so far I haven't found a way to do it successfully, so the whole thing might have been a waste of time and money. Ho hum!
This entry was posted in Coursework, Part 2 - Street and studio, Part 2 assignment prep and tagged Assignment 2, autumn, duplicates, place, portraits, white balance on November 2, 2016 by Holly Woodward.


Text::NSP::Measures::2D::Fisher2::twotailed - Perl module implementation of the two-sided Fisher's exact test.
This module provides a naive implementation of the fishers twotailed exact tests. That is the implementation does not have any optimizations for performance. This will compute the factorials and the hypergeometric measures using direct multiplications.
A twotailed fishers test is calculated by adding the probabilities of all the contingency tables with probabilities less than the probability of the observed table. The twotailed fishers test tells us how likely it would be to observe an contingency table which is less prpbable than the current table.
RETURN VALUES : $twotailed .. Twotailed Fisher value.


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Q: How to write a catch-all (de)serializer for Jackson Writing a custom serializer is pretty easy when you know the type in advance. For eg. MyType one can write a MyTypeSerializer extends StdSerializer<MyType>. See http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonHowToCustomSerializers
But, let's say that:

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*I have objects of several types (interfaces) going through Jackson serialization.

*I don't know the type of theses objets in advance.

*I can't add annotations on theses types.

*all theses objets can be cast to a common type I know so that I can get its state data, type that is not part of their interface.

This means I need to write a Serializer that should handle all types ("catch-all") and can decide if it supports it (4.). I've naïvely tried a CatchAllSerializer extends StdSerializer<Object> but it's not triggered at all.
How do one write/register a serializer that will catch all types, can decide if it support a given type and provide serialization mechanism?

A: You can set a BeanSerializerModifier for the ObjectMapper to override all the bean serializers on your a delegating serializer that decides which form of serialization to use depending on the object type.
Here is an example:
public class JacksonSerializerModifier {
    public static interface A {

    }
    public static class B implements A {
        public String field1 = "value1";

        @Override
        public String toString() {
            return field1;
        }
    }
    public static class C implements A {
        public String field2 = "value2";

        @Override
        public String toString() {
            return field2;
        }
    }
    public static class D  {
        public String field3 = "value3";
    }

    private static class MyTypeSerializer extends JsonSerializer<Object> {
        private final JsonSerializer<Object> delegate;

        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
        public MyTypeSerializer(JsonSerializer<?> delegate) {
            this.delegate = (JsonSerializer<Object>) delegate;
        }

        @Override
        public void serialize(Object value, JsonGenerator jgen, SerializerProvider provider)
                throws IOException {
            if (value instanceof A) {
                jgen.writeString(value.toString());
            } else {
                delegate.serialize(value, jgen, provider);
            }
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws JsonProcessingException {
        SimpleModule module = new SimpleModule();
        module.setSerializerModifier(new BeanSerializerModifier() {
            @Override
            public JsonSerializer<?> modifySerializer(SerializationConfig config,
                                                      BeanDescription beanDesc,
                                                      JsonSerializer<?> serializer) {

                return new MyTypeSerializer(serializer);
            }
        });
        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
        mapper.registerModule(module);
        System.out.println(mapper.writeValueAsString(Arrays.asList(new B(), new C(), new D())));
    }

}

Output:
["value1","value2",{"field3":"value3"}]

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Ebersbach an der Fils is een gemeente in de Duitse deelstaat Baden-Württemberg, gelegen in het Landkreis Göppingen. De stad telt  inwoners.

Geografie
Ebersbach an der Fils heeft een oppervlakte van 26,27 km² en ligt in het zuidwesten van Duitsland.

Partnersteden
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  Ebersbach/Sa. (Duitsland), sinds 1991

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The City of Miami Beach has scrapped plans for a parking garage and public plaza designed by the late Zaha Hadid. Initiated in 2011, the project was supposed to replace two city-owned parking lots in the Collins Park neighborhood, situated behind the Miami City Ballet and local library. Initial cost estimates for the spiraling, all-white design came in at $50 million, around $23 million overbudget. The city and Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) collaborated on a design that brought costs down to $24 million, but city officials were not pleased with the more minimal garage 2.0: The structure had fewer parking spaces, the plaza was smaller, there was less space for retail, and the spirited signature curves of the original plan were muted or removed. Another version of the design (estimated cost: $29 million) was a good compromise for ZHA's local collaborator, Berenblum Busch Architecture. Gustavo Berenblum, principal, explained to the Miami Herald that the $29 million version retained the project's driving design elements, but that another price cut below that diminished the "essence" of the project. Hadid had a special connection the project: Although she lived mostly in London, she owned a second home near the planned garage. Next steps? The downtown still needs parking, so it's back to the drawing board. City officials will start the process afresh and request proposals for a garage that would also include housing on the upper stories. Perhaps the money saved on the project could go towards something pressing, like saving the city from mortal inundation.
UPDATE: Please read Sir Peter Cook's obituary of Zaha Hadid here. As the Architect's Newspaper (AN) reported earlier today, Zaha Hadid has passed away at age 65. According the Guardian, she was struck with fatal heart attack in a Miami hospital where she was being treated for bronchitis. In 2004, Dame Zaha Hadid, DBE, became the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. She was awarded the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011 as well as the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) gold medal in 2016. The Iraqi-born architect studied at London's Architectural Association (AA) from 1972-1977 and afterwards became a partner at OMA. In 1979 she established her eponymous London-based firm that would go on to produce a wide range of projects, including skyscrapers, art galleries, furniture, sets, and shoes, just to name a few. In a release forwarded to AN, Tom Pritzker, Chairman of the Hyatt Foundation which sponsors the Pritzker Architecture Prize, wrote "Zaha represented the highest aspirations of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. She combined her vision and intellect with a force of personality that left no room for complacency. She made a real difference." Lord Peter Palumbo, the Chair of the Jury of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, said "The world of culture has lost a standard-bearer for the art of architecture. Zaha Hadid fought prejudice all her life with great success. And this, in addition to her genius as an architect, will secure her legacy for all time." This past December 2015, AN's managing editor Olivia Martin had the chance to speak with Hadid at the Chicago Architecture Biennial. AN invites you to revisit that interview here. Speaking of her own architectural style, she said "It evolved over time and is always evolving. It looks similar, but it constantly changes… maybe not radically, but continuously." Recent project from her firm included this hotel in Rio de Janeiro, her first project in South America, and these residences near New York City's High Line. AN will continue to cover her passing with a full obituary in the near future.
UPDATE: Please read Sir Peter Cook's obituary of Zaha Hadid here. Zaha Hadid has died of a heart attack at age 65 in Miami, according to the BBC. Her world-famous designs included architecture, fashion, products, and more.
Zaha Hadid is designing another skyscraper in Australia. Following designs for a trio of towers in Brisbane and a pair of towers in Gold Coast, the London-based architect has just submitted plans for another tower, this time in Melbourne. Like the Brisbane and Gold Coast towers, the proposed project, a 54-story mixed-use skyscraper, also employs a sculptural, tapered expression, creating more open space at the base. Despite the notion that Melbourne is reaching an oversupply of residential housing units, the tower will comprise 420 apartments, 118,000 square feet of retail space, and 60,000 square feet of commercial office space. "If more residential units are not supplied to meet demand, prices will simply become too expensive," Zaha Hadid Architects Director Gianluca Racana told Australia's Financial Review. Other features of the project include a public ground-level plaza as well as a new north-south laneway connecting Collins Street, where the tower will be located, with adjacent Francis Street. Due to recent height and density restrictions for the Central Business District set forth by Minister of Planning Richard Wynne, the development of Hadid's newest Australian tower was delayed. Plans for the project underwent significant height reduction to comply with the new rules, which have been criticized by developers since they were announced this past September. Even with the alterations to its design, the project's plot ratio is still beyond the maximum requirement allowed under the new law. The developer is hoping that the project's proposed contributions to the public realm, including the public plaza and the new thoroughfare, will prove exceptional when plans are sent to the minister for approval.
Zaha Hadid is not only one of the best known architects in the world, but after pursuing her own personal visionary path for over forty years, she is one of the most bankable. Her drawings and design objects are all over the 2015 design fairs this week in Miami. Revolution Precrafted Properties is showing a backyard pavilion (top) and Sarah Myerscough Gallery from London is showing a series of collaborative vessels by Zaha Hadid and Gareth Neal (below), that sell for $30,000 (plus tax). In addition, the star of Harvard's design schools kickoff party at Miami developer Craig Robins' house was his bespoke Corian bathroom designed by Ms. Hadid. Not even the David Adjaye–designed backyard pavilion was a match for this all white maintaince room.
Renowned architect Zaha Hadid has unveiled interior renderings of her futuristic, 11-story residential development located at 520 West 28th Street in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, which, believe it or not, is her first residential building in the Big Apple. The curvaceous tower stands 135 feet tall and features two- to five-bedroom floor plans that range from a price tag of $4.95 million to $50 million. The tower will be outfitted with a 2,500-square-foot sculpture deck, art from Friends of the High Line, an automated underground parking lot with a robot-operated storage facility, a double-height lobby, an entertainment lounge, and a 12-seat IMAX screening room. The development will also include a 75-foot pool, a gym, and a luxury spa suite equipped with a spa pool, cold plunge pool, waterfall shower, sauna, steam room, chaise lounges, and massage beds. The unit's bathrooms will be comprised of electrochromic glass with a frosting feature, and the kitchens will include high-end appliances by Gaggenau. The new complex is slated to open in late 2016 or early 2017. Based on the complex's website, it looks like developers are looking to "casually" add Hadid's name to the building title. Perhaps, following the lead of New York By Gehry? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.


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Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute to be reorganized into foundation
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The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) will be reorganized into a foundation. The government adopted a corresponding decision today.
The government says the decision is conditioned by the need to create more favorable conditions for the implementation of development programs.
The change of status will help improve the management efficiency and ensure investments from different sources, including the Diaspora.
The AGMI is expected to grow into a scientific center with a higher level of autonomy, with will engage foreign researchers, scholars into genocide studies with a view of shaping attitude toward the Armenian genocide among the international community to ensure due comprehension of the issue in the outer world.
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Homework: Is it too much?
Some students stress out a lot over homework assigned by teachers. Most students tend to have sport practices, after school activities, or even band practice, but can still manage to finish all their homework. On the bright side, they finished all their homework, but stayed up hours causing them to lose sleep. 90% of students lose sleep on school nights due to the amounts of homework teachers give. If teachers were to minimize the amount of homework they leave, I'm pretty sure students would have enough sleep. Middle school and High School students spend about 1-3 hours doing homework for each teacher they have and that doesn't include projects.


Life & Beyond : SOME 'SMART' SMARTPHONE AFTERTHOUGHTS!
-- How really smart a smartphone is?
-- Should your smartphone be smart enough to make you look dumb?
-- How long should the life of your smartphone be?
-- Should there be a mental barrier on how much you should spend for a smartphone?
-- What should be your upper mental barrier on the pricing front when you are looking for a new smartphone?
-- Do smartphones with sky-high prices justify with smartness of their tech specs or it is just about that premium brand you are ready to pay for? In that case, you need to think if you are really smart enough?
-- On an average, what percentage of a high-end smartphone features are fully used?
-- What should be the line you need to draw between you and your smartphone usage habits?
-- Should your smartphone be Hulk or Batwoman – the gigantic, ever-enlarging screens - or that four-inch or so curvaceous comfort?
-- Should your smartphone be Barack Obama or Xi Jinping – should it add spontaneously to you – or should it make you cautious to add it to your lifestyle?


In French Polynesia, the Warsaw Convention is applicable according to the Articles L.321-3 and L.322-3 of the Civil Aviation Code, which governs the Carrier's liability even when the transport is not international as per the definition within this Convention. The Warsaw Convention governs and may limit the liability of Carriers for death or bodily injury and respect in case of loss of or damage to Baggage.
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Real space vortex imaging methods are powerful tools to understand pinning mechanisms and identify features that increase the critical current. Mostly used probes, as for instance Bitter decoration and magnetic scanning probe techniques, are sensitive to the spatial variations of the magnetic properties around vortices. But these are restricted to relatively low magnetic fields, where the magnetic contrast is large enough.
Scanning tunneling spectroscopy measures the spatial dependence of the superconducting density of states—giving vivid images of vortex cores. Spatial resolution is superior to magnetic contrast techniques and the vortex lattice is imaged from well separated vortices up to the upper critical field. Experiments can be made from very low temperatures up to the critical temperature, and currents can be also applied during imaging.
However, STM is a surface sensitive technique and its use has been traditionally limited to materials with excellent surface properties. In particular, imaging studies in nanostructured superconductors are notoriously lacking, in spite of the need to understand nanoscale vortex interactions for controlling dissipative behavior. Here I will present a recent work where we image up to several thousands of vortices one by one in a nanostructured superconducting thin film at 100 mK . The nanostructuring consists of a one-dimensional modulation created by focused ion beam. We visualize the order-disorder transition of the lattice, obtaining the critical exponents of positional and angular correlations. This fully characterizes the transition, driven by non-thermal (zero temperature) modifications of intervortex interactions induced by the magnetic field. Our results show that the one-dimensional nanostructure favors the ordered hexagonal lattice in a large range of magnetic fields. I will also discuss ongoing work, including direct imaging of local vortex dissipation maps in presence of currents and vortex arrangements in tilted magnetic fields.
Work supported by Spanish MINECO, CIG Marie Curie grant, Axa Research Fund and FBBVA.
A new vortex pinning landscape has arisen from the finely tuning of the nanostructure of superconducting CSD-YBCO films with the insertion of randomly oriented nanoparticles . Angular dependent transport measurements and advanced STEM investigations have been performed to deeply understand the superconducting performance of nanocomposites. In particular, we have measured IV curves over an extensive range of temperatures, magnetic fields and orientations that have provided very conclusive information about the dominating pinning and dynamics of vortices in the different H-T regions of the phase diagram.
We have developed a new methodology to quantify the effectiveness of the intergrowths-originated strains in terms of vortex dynamics and we have also deeply studied the activation energies of different pinning contributions. A characteristic vortex pinning energy associated to diverse pinning centers present in the sample (point defects, nanostrain, twin boundaries, stacking faults and intrinsic pinning) has been determined, regardless the particular nanocomposite considered. The higher vortex pinning energies have been found for anisotropic pinning centers, minimum energies for the isotropic weak pinning contributions and intermediate energies for isotropic-strong defects. The total contribution of each defect to the vortex pinning has been found to be strongly dependent on the sample nanostructure and on the H-T region evaluated.
We have established a correlation between processing, microstructure and physical properties by analysing samples with different stacking fault length and density. Our results show that besides the enhancement of pinning performance at intermediate temperatures due to isotropic strong pinning contribution, effective isotropic-weak pinning defects are needed to obtain the best performances at low temperatures. Anisotropic defects are dominating the pinning phase diagram at high temperatures.
Jc of REBa2Cu3O7 (REBCO: RE=Y, Gd, Sm, etc.) coated conductors is increased by BZO, BSO, and BHO nanorods. However, it decreases significantly when the magnetic field is inclined from the c-axis of the films, leading to the appearance of Jc peak at B || c. On the contrary, Jc of random point pins such as Y2O3, BZO, and Y211 nanoparticles, whose diameters are several times of coherence length, is hardly changed; the Jc angular dependence is isotropic without any peak at B || c. Thinking about applications of REBCO coated conductors, desired features of Jc are isotropic and high enough under magnetic fields. In this framework, nanoparticle pinning is interesting because the in-field Jc at temperatures below 65 K is high and its Tc is not so suppressed by nanoparticle insertion. However, the detailed distribution control of nanoparticles is very difficult, so that the Bose glass state is destroyed, resulting in the decrease of Birr(T) and Jc -B characteristics. These results suggest that the intermediate anisotropy range of flux pinning between both limits should be examined. Hybrid APCs, combined with differently shaped pinning centers such as nanorods and nanoparticles, holds a key for obtaining higher Birr(T) and Jc -B characteristics in REBCO coated conductors. We reports the present efforts to control Jc anisotropy and Jc -B characteristics at 65-77 K range as well as Birr(T) by using several kinds of nanorods and nanoparticles. It was very difficult so far to theoretically predict broad Jc peak at B || c in Jc(θ) angular dependence. We propose a new theoretical model based on the energy gain by flux pinning to derive angular dependent Jc(θ) of REBCO films with hybrid APCs. Obtained results are in good agreement with experimental ones.
This work was supported by KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Science Research (S), Grant Number 23226014.
The critical current densities Jcs at magnetic field increased by introducing BaMO3 (BMO) pinning centers (M=Zr, Sn, Hf) into SmBCO films using the various PLD techniquie. For example, BaHfO3 (BHO)-doped SmBa2Cu3Ox films by the conventinal PLD process in improving its straight of BHO nanorod on the LaAlO3 substrate has high Fp=27 GN/m3 and Birr =15.0T (77K). The low-angle annular dark-field STEM observes slightly bright contrast regions around BHO nanorods on a BHO-doped SmBa2Cu3Ox. The dislocation positions estimated by the Geometric Phase Analysis (GPA) of STEM images are corresponding to the origin on the radial bright contrast. We considered that the slightly bright contrast region spread in radial is the strain field.
Using the low temperature growth technique with the seed layer(LTG), we can design and control the higher density and fine inclined BHO nanorods of SmBCO films, as changing lower substrate temperature. The optimum level of BHO doping was found to be 5.6 vol%, which achieved Maximum Fp = 14.2 GN/m2 at B=6T, 77K, that is less than the high Fp PLD sample. On the other hand, at low measurement temperatures, the LTG film shows high flux pinning force ;FpMAX is 407 GN/m3 at 40 K, 10 T and 779 GN/m3 @ 20 K, 9 T, respectively. Furthermore BHO-doped GdBa2Cu3Ox layers on IBAD-MgO tapes shows the high irreversibility filed (Birr) over 15T at 77.3K.
Nanorods are introduced into REBCO films to improve Jc at high temperature and under high magnetic field. In the last decade, the growth technique of the nanorods has been enthusiastically studied from the chemical point of view. Finally, highly dense BaHfO3 (BHO) nanorods are successfully introduced into SmBCO films with a slight suppression of Tc by using the low temperature growth (LTG) technique. In this work, we discuss vortex pinning as an approach on the physical point of view by considering the Bose glass theory established in 1990's.
We fabricated SmBCO films with BHO nanorods using the alternating-targets technique and the low temperature growth technique with pulsed laser deposition, and measured Jc and the resistivity using a transport method. Critical exponents calculated from the temperature dependences of the resistivity are ~ 4 at magnetic fields less than the matching fields, indicating the Bose glass phase is possibly realized. According to Jc properties, the flux pinning strength drastically decreases in a high temperature region, where a delocalization of vortices occurs. As a result, the coexisting behavior of the correlated pinning and random pinning can be seen as the double peak in the flux pinning force density Fp curves above the delocalization temperature Tdl. Since the Tdl value strongly depends on the distance between nanorods, we can optimize the nanorod introduction for the application temperature.
Nanoinclusions (nanoparticles, NPs,  or nanorods ), can induce strong vortex pinning in YBa2Cu3O7-x (YBCO). The effects are observed in dc measurements of Jc  and also in vortex dynamic measurements in a wide range of frequencies, from intermediate 1-104 Hz  to -surprisingly- microwaves . The comparison of pinning at different frequency regimes shed light on the state of the vortex matter when nanorods are present . Recently, it has been shown that strong pinning in solution-derived YBCO films with secondary-phase NPs (BYTO, BZO…) is associated to the creation of a network of nanostrained regions emerging from the NP surfaces, acting as isotropic-strong pinning centers . We present here an extensive investigation of the pinning properties in YBCO and YBCO/BYTO nanostructured superconducting thin films, as measured in the high-frequency regime (microwave surface impedance, 48 GHz). The analysis of the field-dependent microwave data (µ0H ≤ 0.8 T, T ≥ 63 K) using the generalized model of relaxational vortex dynamics  yielded the elastic-to-dissipative impedance ratio r—parameter and the Labusch parameter kp, the elastic vortex restoring force in the pinning well. We find that, even at our very high measuring frequency, the flux lines are very strongly pinned in YBCO/BYTO. YBCO and YBCO/BYTO exhibit different dependences r(H) and kp(H), demonstrating different vortex regimes. Results are compared and discussed with dc transport measurements of Jc(H,T) on twin samples.
The controlled growth of self-assembled secondary-phase nanostructures, such as vertically aligned nanorods, has provided an essential means for enhancing pinning properties of High Tc superconducting films. The nanorod diameter is a critical parameter and controlling it is important to achieving an optimal pinning through selecting the compatible nanorod materials for a given superconducting matrix. Such a control requires an understanding of the underlying physics of the formation of the nanorods. We have thus studied the dependence of the lattice strain energy due to the formation of the nanorods on the elastic properties of the secondary phase oxide and the lattice mismatch between the film and nanorods. The analytical solution of the strain energy is obtained by solving equilibrium equations of the lattice strain under the condition of coherent interfaces between the film and nanorods. An energy balance model for the formation of the nanorods is used to evaluate the importance of the strain energy and the film/nanorod interface energy to the nanorod diameter. A correlation between the nanorod diameter and the elastic properties of the secondary phase oxides in YBCO/nanorod composite films has been discovered, which can be used to predict the energetically-preferred nanorod diameter for a given secondary phase oxide. Besides a direct comparison with experimentally demonstrated nanorods in YBCO films, such as BaZrO3, BaSnO3, and BaHfO3, a few examples of new oxides have been identified that could yield the nanorods of different diameters. This elastic energy model can be used as a guidance in the quest of the self-assembled nanorods with different diameters in YBCO films.


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Kim Ho
Education & parenting, Life
on July 4, 2019, 10:16 a.m.
While physically disciplining children remains legal in Indonesia, Indonesian parents are divided on whether this should be, latest YouGov research finds.
A third (32%) of parents think physical punishment should be made illegal, and the same amount (32%) think that it shouldn't. The remaining third (33%) are undecided. Those who don't use corporal punishment at home are more in favour of criminalising it than those who do. (44% vs. 28%).
Although not all parents agree on whether corporal punishment should be illegal, the majority (73%) carry out physical discipline at home. One in seven (14%) do this often, while three in ten (30%) does this sometimes, and the remaining three in ten (29%) does so rarely. A quarter (25%) never physically punish their children. Lower SES groups are more likely to physically punish their children than Upper SES groups (82% vs. 70%).
Eight in ten (82%) Indonesian parents were subject to corporal punishment growing up. Data shows that those who grew up being physically punished are far more likely to conduct the same punishment on their own children, compared to those who did not (82% vs. 36%).
Almost half (46%) of Indonesian parents think that physical punishment amounts to child abuse. Surprisingly, those who were subject to corporal punishment as children as less likely to think of it as child abuse, as compared with those who were not (43% vs. 66%).
Overall, over half (55%) of parents think that physical punishment is sometimes necessary. However, a similar number (52%) believe that it could worsen behavioural problems.
Jake Gammon, Head of Omnibus APAC at YouGov Omnibus commented: "Parenting styles vary, and the question of whether a child should be subject to corporal punishment is one that tends to spark debate. While it appears most Indonesian parents are comfortable with physically disciplining their children at home, they are split in thinking whether the law should come into play."
***Results based on 1,231 Indonesian parents surveyed by YouGov Omnibu


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Anything you want!
"Anything you want," she said.
"Anything? How about if I want to do something kinky?"
"I don't mind," she confirmed, "Although I don't really like being hurt. Pain doesn't turn me on at all."
"But you don't mind giving a bit of pain, do you? You keep on about men needing a good spanking!"
She laughed at that. "I've never actually tried it," she admitted. "I do quite like the idea!"
"Well you're not spanking me." He was definite about that.
"What a pity," she said, still laughing. "I ought to try it with someone one day. I think I'd really like to do it properly."
"What do you mean 'properly'? Either you do it, or you don't. What's 'properly'?"
"Oh, you know. Have him so he can't get away until I've finished. Give him a good hard spanking until his backside is bright red. Maybe gag him, so he can't make a noise and I can just do it to him until I've had enough."
"You are kinky," he said disapprovingly. "You're not doing anything like that to me."
"No," she said, with more than a hint of disappointment in her voice. "I know. That's why I said anything you want. What would you really like to do?"
He hesitated.
"Come on," she said smiling at him, "There must be something that particularly excites you, something you've never done but you would really like to."
"Well..." Still he hesitated.
"Oh do come on," she said, stamping her foot impatiently. "Surely you're not shy? You can't be afraid to tell me. There's hardly anything we haven't talked about."
"I'm not sure I'd like it," he explained.
"You'll never know if you don't try it," she told him. "And if you don't tell me, then there's no chance you're even going to half try it."
"OK. I want a woman to sit on me."
She shrugged. "That's not so bad," she said, "But I don't really understand how that's exciting."
"No," he blushed and stammered. "I think I'd like a woman sitting right on me, on my face, so I was right under her, looking up at her. So I couldn't get her off until she wanted to get off."
He was not looking at her. He stared at the floor, somewhat embarrassed and not knowing how she would react.
"That's no problem," she said softly. "The trouble is that you would push me off easily if I sat on you."
"I don't think I would," he replied, still looking down at the floor, "You're quite heavy and..."
She slapped him playfully. "Are you calling me fat?" she said with mock anger.
"No, no, of course not. It's just you're not exactly skinny, and if your whole weight was on me and I was flat on my back, I don't think I could push you off."
"You could if you really tried," she said positively. "When you really wanted to, you would have no trouble at all. Unless..."
"Unless what?" he prompted her.
"Unless I tied you up. Comfortably, of course. Just enough so you couldn't push me off."
He laughed. "You only want me tied up so you can spank me!"
"No," she was a little indignant. "I wouldn't do that. I'll only sit on you, like you want. I said I'd do anything you want, and I don't mind this at all. It would be fun."
He turned away.
"Don't you trust me?" she asked, an edge of real annoyance in her voice.
"Of course I trust you."
"Well then? Let's do it."
"Really?" There was no mistaking the excitement in his voice.
"Of course. My bed is the best place. Comfortable but not too soft, and easy to tie you on to it."
She took him by the hand and led him upstairs into her bedroom.
"Ready?" she asked.
"Look, I'm really not sure..."
"Make up your mind. Either you want my body on top of you, or you don't. It's your choice."
"I do," he said enthusiastically, then his enthusiasm wavered. "But you don't actually need to tie me to the bed, do you?"
"I suppose not," she agreed. "You said you didn't want to be able to push me off you. I could just tie your wrists to your legs and maybe tie your ankles together. I don't think you could push me off if you were tied like that."
She rummaged in a wardrobe and produced some old scarves. "These would be perfect," she said. "Get your clothes off. We can't do this with you fully dressed."
"You could do it without me taking all my clothes off," he objected.
She shook her head. "It wouldn't feel right," she told him. "You wouldn't feel right either. You like this because I'll be in control and you'll be helpless and vulnerable underneath me. It will be so much better if you are completely naked, won't it?"
"That's not the only reason I like it," he pointed out. "You know I like to kiss you down there, and this is like that but sort of better. I think."
"That's an added bonus," she said with a grin, then she looked serious. "So are you getting your clothes off or not?"
He undressed, a little nervously. She knotted one of the scarves around his right wrist and tied it securely to his thigh, then did the same with the other wrist.
"All right?" she asked. "Now lie on the bed."
With some difficulty, he manoeuvred himself onto the bed. She promptly tied his ankles together.
"Feeling helpless?" she asked cheerily.
"Absolutely!" he confirmed, trying to sit up. She pushed him down flat on his back.
"The question is," she asked thoughtfully, "Whether I should wear any clothes when I sit on you."
She looked at him closely, expecting an answer and seeing he was having difficulty in finding one.
"I have some very sexy clothes," she reminded him. "You really like the feel of some of my underwear, don't you? How would you like that pressed against your face while I sit on you?"
"You have some beautiful clothes," he agreed. "I love the silky ones, and the lacy ones, and those leather ones are very exciting."
"I can see just how much you like them," she said, reaching towards his groin and tweaking his hardness playfully. He arched his back, pushing upwards towards her.
"No chance," she said, slapping his erection away from her. "We're not here to do that. We're here to investigate facesitting."
She stood up and went to the drawers in the corner of the room.
"Which ones?" she asked him.
"I like all of them," he told her.
"All of them?"
"As long as you're inside them, they're all beautiful," he said.
"We'll start," she told him, "With my leotard."
She waved them at him. He watched as she undressed completely and then put on the leotard that she had just shown him. She jumped onto the bed and knelt astride him.
"Here we go," she said, and sat firmly over his mouth and nose, her thighs either side of his head keeping him steady and unable to move.
He was unable to breathe. It was instant, and he was not ready for it. In that single movement she had totally cut off his air and replaced it with her resilient flesh under the thin covering of her leotard.
He struggled frantically. This was not what he had expected. He had anticipated being unable to breathe, briefly, while girl in leotard was sitting on him, but was completely unprepared for total airlessness without any warning or preliminary.
She pressed down on him, effectively controlling his struggles and preventing him from moving. He was far underneath her; too far, for her liking. After less than a minute she raised herself, and heard his gasping, desperate breathing.
"How was that?" she asked. "I think I sat on you quite well."
"I couldn't breathe at all," he spluttered. "I nearly died."
"Don't be silly," she told him. "I was only on top of you for a few seconds. Anyway, I think I got the position wrong. It wasn't much fun for me at all. I need to try a different angle."
Before he could say anything else, she pressed down again. This time she leaned forward, positioning herself so that his mouth and nose pressed much further forward on her than last time.
Leotard-clad girl gave a small sigh of pleasure and satisfaction. This was much better. He was wriggling as much as he could with her weight on him, once again unable to breathe and this time she was hurting his nose.
She eased herself backwards and forwards, rocking gently on him and enjoying the mild physical stimulation that pressing on him was giving her. Yes, she thought, I could do this for hours. He had given up trying to wriggle from under her. As she rocked, he was able to snatch small gulps of air from under her. It was neither pleasant nor comfortable, but it was survivable. He heard her little sighs of pleasure and thought that surely she soon would give that shuddering groan of climax she always reached when he had been kissing her down there. He waited patiently, completely unaware that the subtle differences of being on top rather than on her back and wearing this leotard, however flimsy the barrier between her and him actually was, meant that she would not reach that point. She enjoyed it; it felt nice; it was arousing. It was not, and never would be orgasmic. She continued for twenty minutes. Finally she raised herself once more and looked down at him.
"You all right under there?" she enquired.
"OK, I think," he said bravely now that she had finished. "I think you've bruised my face."
"Oh that's no problem," she told him. "I'll turn round now, so it will be softer for you." By the time he had realised what she had just said, she had turned and her buttocks had descended on his face. He felt himself drowning in a sea of flesh and silkiness. His nose seemed to disappear between the cleft of her buttocks, yet he could breathe without too much difficulty.
"That's not comfortable," she commented. She raised herself a fraction and reached down with her hands, taking one of her buttocks in each and easing them wider apart. She twisted around on top of him until she found a position in which she felt happier, then let her weight down on him and let go of her buttocks. She was not particularly large as she had pointed out earlier, but it felt to him as though her buttocks slapped together onto his face like two almighty pillows with the force of a hydraulic press behind them. He could not speak; he could not breathe through his mouth, but through his nose he could sniff enough air from around and from under the fleshy mass pressing on him to keep him alive.
"Oooh. That feels really nice." What was she doing? It took him a moment before he realised that she must have one hand down the bottom of her leotard. He felt a slight movement, then as her muscles tensed so did her buttocks, crushing in on his face and totally blocking his air supply once more. Again he panicked. It lasted twenty of thirty seconds, and then she relaxed. He was ready, more than ready, for all of this to stop. He wished he had never mentioned any of it. Now she had done it, and tried both ways round at various angles, she would be getting off him and it would be over. He relaxed, and reflected that it was an interesting experience, bizarrely enjoyable in an uncomfortable sort of way, but one that he would probably not ask her to repeat. At that moment her buttocks tensed again, and he could feel the movements of her fingers on her front. Once more he was airless for somewhere between twenty and thirty seconds before she relaxed again.
"Mmmm," she sighed. "This is wonderful. I really could do this all night." An hour later she finally climbed from him. She took off her leotard and stood by the drawers in the corner of the room.
"What are you doing? Let me go now," he demanded. She turned in surprise. "What?" "Let me go," he repeated. "We've done it. We've done facesitting. Now let me go."
"Done it?" She seemed puzzled. "We've done it with my black, tank leotard, but when I asked you, you said you wanted it with all my clothes. You said you liked them all."
She slipped on white gym leotard. "That's ridiculous," he protested. "I just said I liked them all."
"I'm pleased you like them," she told him, "Because I have dozens of leotards."
"I think," she said as she advanced towards him once more, "We might be here for a long time, a very long time."
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Women vs men mixed martial arts is the sexiest of UFC actions in the world! When clothed woman beats a naked man it looks funny, sexy and really cool! Any gymanst, ballet dancer or female swimmer is a perfect athlete, let ballerina put her dance leotard on and we will see who is stronger - woman or man! Especially if they are colledge teens who fights each other in high school combat arena. Female advantage is her outfit, long sleeved gymnastics leotard or onepiece racing swim suit with t-back, it protects her feminine body and makes a girl more confident when her male opponent must fight nude, he has no chances against lady clad in sexy legless bodysuit. Female fighter defeats him with easy, just one swift kick in the balls and big muscle strong male begs her for mercy, scrambling under her feet like a real whimp! What a power of female legs - he can't resist and must worship and lick a feet and combat boots of his mistress who have defeated him with ballbusting attack!
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Q: Products on category pages keep disappearing until reindex The products on my website in the category achieves pages keep disappearing and I have to run indexer reindex every 24 hours or so. I tried both Reindex by schedule and Update on save but the problem persists. What I see on the website is 'No products found for this category.'

A: You need to confirm that your Elastic Search configure properly and running properly as well.

A: FIX: Changing the value of Elasticsearch Index Prefix in Stores -> Configuration -> Catalog -> Catalog -> Catalog Search to another value fixes the problem as stated here: https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.4/config-guide/elasticsearch/configure-magento.html


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UPDATE: Abandon New Born, Face 6 Months Jail Term, Reps' Bill Proposes
Date: 07-12-2022 8:52 am (1 month ago) | Author: onuigbo felicia
felicilin at 7-12-2022 08:52 AM (1 month ago)
A bill seeking to criminalize the abandonment of newly born babies by parents with a penalty of six months jail term, yesterday, passed for second reading at the House of Representatives.
Tilted,
"A Bill for an Act to Amend the Child Rights Act, Cap. C50, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 to impose sanction on any parent who abandons a new born child and absconds after birth; and for Related Matters (HB. 1442)," it was sponsored by Sergius Ogun.
In the lead debate on the general principle of the bill at plenary, Ogun said the bill craved for a minor amendment to the Child's Right Act to stop parents from abandoning their child after delivery.
He said a new sub-section 3 would be introduced into the extant section 14 of the principal Act, explaining that the new sub-section would stipulate that a parent who abandons a child at the time or place of his birth, he shall be guilty of an offence and upon conviction be liable to fine of two hundred thousand naira or imprisonment for six months or both.
In his contribution to the bill, Ossai Nicholas Ossai also supported the bill.
"I support this bill, I further add that it's a duty of parents who have brought children to world to care for them. But at the same time government has a duty to also compliment the duty of parents. Every person has obligation to contribute to society. We have social security in USA. Whereby you are not working and you are not able to take care of your child, social security is there. It is in that principle that majority of our northern states are yet to domesticate this law, this law must have a human face,"
he said.
But in his remarks, the Deputy Speaker, Idris Wase, who presided over the session countered Ossai on the domestication of the bill, saying he veered off from the current debate.
The bill was later put to a voice vote, where a majority of the lawmakers supported it through second reading.
Posted: at 7-12-2022 08:52 AM (1 month ago) | Addicted Hero
should be 6 years!!! those run away mother must be jail
kp45 at 7-12-2022 10:02 PM (1 month ago)
6 months is small now...


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Q: RFID конвертирование? Два считывателя. Читают по разному одни и те же ключи. Как привести к общему значению между ними? (какой алгоритм)
Примеры:
знач считывателя #1 = знач считывателя #2
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ключ 1) 0010670272 = 3f00a2d0c0;
ключ 2) 0035095307 = 280217830b;
ключ 3) 1521149537 = 565aaae661;
ключ 4) 1518434594 = 565a817922;

A: Считыватель 1 возвращает десятичное значение, считыватель 2 шестнадцатиричное.
Для конвертации преобразуйте оба в двоичные и отбросьте 8 (?) ведущих битов у кода, полученного со считывателя 2. Остатки идентичны (с точностью до ведущих нулей):
0010670272                 101000101101000011000000
3f00a2d0c0 0011111100000000101000101101000011000000

1518434594          1011010100000010111100100100010
565a817922 0101011001011010100000010111100100100010

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Для сравнения показаний второго прибора c показаниями первого в Excel используйте следующий макрос (поместить в common-модуль, использовать при написании формул):
Public Function Hex32_to_Dec(HexVal) As Long
    Hex32_to_Dec = "&H" & Right(Trim(CStr(HexVal)), 8)
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Prior to the IPO in April 2011, share capital of Etalon Group consisted of 223,529,400 ordinary shares, each par value of 0.00005 GBP, which were fully paid and issued. Following the IPO, Etalon's share capital consists of 294,957,971 issued and outstanding ordinary shares, each par value of 0.00005 GBP. 193,747,322 ordinary shares are deposited for the issuance of Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) pursuant to the Deposit Agreement between Etalon Group and the Bank of New York Mellon. 191,637,559 shares are represented by Regulation S GDRs and 2,109,763 by Rule 144A GDRs under the United States Securities Act of 1933.
According to the IPO Prospectus Etalon Group may list up to 294,957,971 GDRs, therefore additional 188,814,048 ordinary shares may be deposited to issue GDRs under the UK Listing Authority block listing application.


In the movie Love the Coopers, Charlotte Cooper declares, "This is the only time of the year when we are all together. I want the perfect Christmas!" I would hope that most of us have enough emotional maturity and life experience to know that there is no such thing as the perfect Christmas. There was nothing perfect about the first Christmas. A very pregnant Mary had to ride a donkey with Joseph walking by her side from Nazareth to Bethlehem to register so they could be taxed by the Roman Government. Once in Bethlehem, there was nothing but No Vacancy signs at all the inns. The last space available was in a stable which was nothing more than a dark, damp cave amongst the animals.
The world dreamed of a perfect Messiah for an imperfect world but a perfect Messiah in their eyes was one with prestige, influence, power, and military might. What they and we got was a humble servant that ultimately would die a criminal's death.
As you read about Jesus' birth as told by the different evangelists—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—you quickly learn that Jesus birth and life are not about perfection. Jesus birth is about Incarnation. Incarnation means that God steps into the messy, mundane, miserable, and miraculous parts of our lives.
The story of Advent and Christmas is the story of "im-perfection," not perfection. The birth of Jesus is not one perfect story. It is one im-perfect story. In fact, God's perfect plan for human salvation and redemption is an imperfect plan. And what made the perfect imperfect was an "i.m."—which made "im-perfection" perfect.
The "i.m." is God's greatest gift. That "i.m." is the incarnated ("i") messiah ("m"). The deliberateness of God to plunge headfirst into the incarnated existence of this sinful world is the greatest gift, the grandest miracle, of Christmas. The im-perfection of everything in the Christmas story is what makes it the perfect Christmas—the perfect expression of God's redemptive messing around in this messed up world.
As you move through this Advent season, gather with family and friends, and push through the holiday crowds, my prayer is that you have an Imperfect Christmas. Have a Christmas that celebrates the imperfections of your church, friends, family, community, hopes, and dreams. In the midst of it all may you welcome an imperfect Savior who was God's perfect gift to the world.


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Amazon Shoppers Are Calling This Car Trash Can the Perfect Solution To Serial Messiness
It's so tempting to just leave the rubbish in your car until the next day when you've had a difficult day at work...but it starts to build up quickly, especially if you're a messy person.
So, what better way to assure your car is squeaky clean than to invest in a car trash can that can be the perfect solution to your messiness...
This compact car trash can is the perfect solution to your clean car dreams...
And it doesn't just serve as a trash can either! You can use it for the rubbish you always reluctantly throw into the back of your car, but you can also use it as a drinks cooler, or even for storage!
With a wonderful 4.3-star review at just $14.99, how can you go wrong?
"This is the perfect item for your car! It's easy to use and clean!" one person excitedly claimed in the review section.
"I like it make my car looking good. Neat !!" another boasted.
It really doesn't look like this trash can has any faults! "This vehicle trash can/bag comes in very handy on the road. It's well-made and comes as advertised. It holds a decent amount and comes at a fair price," someone said, when talking about being on the road for a while...
We've all been there, haven't we? Driving through Mcdonald's or KFC after a busy day at work, tired, and 'accidentally' throwing our rubbish in the back once we are done with it, and then forgetting about it when we make it home!
And it piles up doesn't it...before you know it you're having to do a full clean up of your car...ugh not fun at all. In fact, I couldn't think of anything worse.
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An awesome display of craftsmanship and style designed by Gunni Omann this is model #13.
It features Gunni Omanns signature angled handles and solid teak base with splayed legs. All doors slide with ease and drawers are silky smooth. This sideboard is in excellent condition and the perfect addition to finish off your living area.


An undetermined number of 2016 MacBook Pro models are suffering from disturbing graphical rendering issues, with owners reporting full screen artifacts, screen tearing, flashing, random "glitches" and even system crashes. The issue, however, is related to overzealous third-party software and is not indicative of a critical hardware flaw.
Reports of graphics related issues first surfaced shortly after the new MacBook Pro lineup arrived in customers' hands last month and have only increased in recent days. Apple's Support Communities website, for example, contains multiple posts (1, 2, 3, 4) from concerned owners of both 13- and 15-inch 2016 MacBook Pro variants.
Initial reports were unable to pin down a root cause of the errors, but sources familiar with matter informed AppleInsider that overaggressive or otherwise sloppy code distributed in third-party software is to blame. That said, a small number of users report seeing similar problems with Apple's own Photos app.
In a serious case chronicled by a MacRumors forum member Jan Becker, a new 15-inch MacBook Pro configured with an optional AMD Radeon Pro 460 GPU encountered trouble and ultimately crashed while transcoding video in Adobe Premiere Pro. Becker consequently took the machine into an Apple store for replacement.
The incident did not go unnoticed by Apple. Becker said he received a call from the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., where a team of engineers asked him to help replicate the glitch over the phone and requested access to the affected laptop for further investigation.
Circumstantial evidence suggests 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar models equipped with the Radeon Pro 460 are most impacted by offending software, which makes sense considering Apple's top-end machines are commonly used for computationally intensive video and image editing tasks. Identical reports of graphical maladies are cropping up from owners of 15-inch MacBook Pro models running standard AMD Radeon Pro 450 and AMD Radeon Pro 455 GPUs.
Perhaps most telling are similar issues seen in 13-inch MacBook Pro models, both with and without Touch Bar. Since the 13-inch variants rely on a different graphics processing system than their larger siblings, specifically Intel's integrated Iris graphics chips, the problem can likely chalked up to faulty software.
Update: Apple has informed us that users experiencing the graphical distortions elsewhere than un-updated software should contact Apple support or make a Genius Bar appointment for case documentation.


This Thanksgiving, we're giving you something to be thankful for: expert tips and tricks for making one of the busiest travel days of the year easier than ever. From the getting there to the heading home, and every minute in between, this survival guide will help you tackle every (turkey) leg of the trip.
After all, if you're going to try lugging a green bean casserole across the country—or maybe ditching dinner and taking advantage of a long weekend—you might as well be equipped with all the apps and insider info necessary to make your Turkey Day travels as seamless as possible.
We'll help you unlock lounge access to kill time on a layover, and avoid the most congested roads so you arrive at your Thanksgiving feast faster, easier, and without having to ruffle too many feathers in the process.
If your bringing Thanksgiving dinner with you, take note of the 10 foods the TSA will take away from you. That means no in-flight Turkey Day shots, gravy boats, or cranberry sauce. Check it, or, quite frankly, just wait until you get there.
Fly direct. Holidays are notorious for late departures and busy airports, and you could miss your connecting flight. Book direct and avoid the headache of finding an alternative flight, or seek the earliest flight possible: you're less likely to have a delay the earlier you're scheduled to leave.
According to a TSA Spokesperson, you'll want to get to the airport at least 90 minutes before your flight on Thanksgiving. Hopefully, you won't be in line for much more than the average (20-25 minutes), especially if you leave your pork tamales at home.
Got a delay? A flight cancellation? Cool off in one of the more than 500 airport lounge listed on LoungeBuddy: an app that helps you locate pay-as-you-go and free lounges in airports worldwide. You can even sort by the amenity of you dreams (complimentary cocktails or a hot shower, anyone?).
Build in a little R&R while waiting for your boarding call at airports across the globe. There's the JetBlue lounge at JFK in New York, where guests can drop in for a quick Swedish massage or manicure, and Xpress Spa's mobile app spa treatments at more than 50 locations. Just order a treatment on your phone, and an aesthetician will roll up to pamper you at the gate.
Hopefully, you already have Global Entry or TSA PreCheck. If you don't, tuck this away in your things-to-know-for-Thanksgiving-2016 file. If you do have one of these cards, make sure you enter your Known Traveler number (you'll find it on the upper left-hand corner of your card) into your booking info if you're flying with a participating airline. You'll save plenty of time and hassle getting through security.
Strategically pack your bag, and security will seem like a breeze—even without PreCheck. Try TSA-approved containers, like these GoToob's spill-proof, drip-free bottles, and keep your laptop at the top of your bag.
Don't fly back the day after Thanksgiving. It's the second busiest travel day of the year, with more than 2.9 million scheduled seats. Surprisingly, Thanksgiving doesn't even hit the Top 50 list: it falls in at a cool 121. Busier than average, sure, but nothing to get upset about.
Earn some extra cash on your drive home by joining the Roadie Community: an app that connects drivers with packages that need delivery. Also good for over-eager Christmas shoppers ready to deliver their gifts.
Not everything about a pre-Thanksgiving drive has to be a drag. With the GasBuddy app, you can locate stations en route with the lowest prices.
Depending on which city you're flying into, you can skip the mile-long taxi line and request an Uber or Lyft. Be warned, though: some cities ban ride-share companies from picking up travelers at the airport or tack on extra fees. Here's a rundown of how easy it is to get an Uber in eleven major U.S. cities.
Let someone else drive you. Trains aren't subject to holiday traffic and accidents like cars are, and Amtrak services more than 500 destinations across the country. Train travel can even offer some unexpected perks, like Amtrak's Red Cap service. Free of charge, and available in 12 major city stations, attendants donning red uniforms will help you stash your bags for you—and board early. Master Amtrak, and traveling during holidays may not be half the headache you expected.
Avoid being on the road between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. if you're driving the day before Thanksgiving. According to Google, that's the busiest traffic time for this holiday. Prepare yourself with our most interesting stats, facts, and figures about Thanksgiving travel.
If you need a last-minute rental car (or, heck, a not-last-minute rental car) download Silvercar. No junky clunkers, no hassle. Simply download the Silvercar app and reserve your car at airports (LAX, MIA) in many U.S. cities (including Manhattan, NYC). You'll unlock the vehicle with a QR-code, pair your phone with the vehicle for hands-free calls and music, and drive in style. All Silvercars are Audi A4s.
Make sure your Pup has a happy Thanksgiving, too. Find a sitter on Rover.com—they're located in 10,000 cities around the country. Leave your dog at home while you travel, or have someone watch him or her while the family is over for dinner: ideal for keeping yappy guests from the feast.
Family gatherings can be stressful. Unwind with an on-demand massage from Zeel. They'll deliver a masseuse to your home, or help you book an appointment at a nearby massage. Uncle Bob will be much easier to stomach after 60 minutes of Zen.
Don't cry over burnt turkey! Resy will help you book a last-minute table at hot spots or no-reservations outposts in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.—many for no fee. Table8 has access to availabilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and San Francisco, too. Traveling to (or having a staycation in) New York? The Twitter handle Last Minute Eatin' scrapes OpenTable to pull available tables at some of the city's hottest restaurants.
ClassPass members may not know about the program's biggest perk: access to classes in all ClassPass cities. Work up an appetite—or, rather, work off that pumpkin pie—in 34 cities around the world, from Melbourne to Raleigh, North Carolina.


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Disney to pour billions into its theme parks
The company's parks and resorts are a key part of its overall growth plan
Photo credit: Coolcaesar - Wikimedia Commons
Disney will be investing around $24 billion to "supercharge its theme park division," according to a report from the New York Times. The company will spend more money on parks than it did on Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar combined (more than $15 billion).
Disney's parks, resorts, and other vacation destinations -- a roster that includes six locations in America, France, China, and Japan, as well as the Disney Cruise Line -- will receive new attractions and immersive upgrades.
"It can't just be special — it has to be spectacular," Bob Chapek, Disney's theme park chairman, told the Times.
'Enhancement on steroids'
Chapek, who described the overall expansion plan as "enhancement on steroids," said a major goal is to add capacity to Disney's most popular parks (Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea). Other locations will get upgrades that will help spread visitors more evenly throughout the grounds.
"You can only let so many people in a park before you start to impede on satisfaction level," Chapek said.
Several resorts will get "Frozen" and Marvel rides, and a "Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge" park is headed to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida next year. The latter will feature provide guests with an interactive experience where they can board an Imperial Star Destroyer or "pilot" the Millennium Falcon.
Star Wars enhancements will also arrive at its hotel, where Disney is expected to unveil an experience of sleeping aboard a luxury Star Wars starship. In place of regular windows, the company will have screens projecting a view of space as the ship travels through the galaxy.
Disney's investment in its Cruise Line will also be significant. The company has ordered three new ships costing roughly $1.25 billion each. Disney is also buying 746 acres on a Bahamian island to build a second Caribbean port.
Parks continue to do well
The company's parks and resorts have continued to do well in recent years. They've seen a 100 percent increase in profits over the last five years. Disney reported an estimated $4.5 billion for the 2018 fiscal year, according to The Times.
"It's the highest return on investment that Disney has," said bank analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Jessica Reif.
By contrast, the company's TV networks, like ESPN and ABC, pulled in a profit of $6.6 billion, a 3 percent decline.
Disney gains total control of Hulu
Disney announces pricing for upcoming streaming service
Disney bans smoking, vaping, and large strollers from its parks
Disney says yes to selling its stake in Sky to Comcast
Disney ups its offer for 21st Century Fox assets
Disney reveals two new streaming services in challenge to Netflix
Disney agrees to provide $3.8 million in back pay


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Sometimes athletes just don't hear what their coach is saying . . . whether you are guiding their diet, training or performance, make sure they hear you.
You can't hear. Honestly if you have a high school boy who will eat lean protein, vegetables and clear water for his life, is that pretty good advice.
Having said that, let's work this out.
There are times in your life when you will not have park bench workouts and kingly eating. In other words, a reasonable diet and reasonable workouts. How much of your life should be like that? I think, most of the time.
There are times when maybe you have a reunion coming up. You want to ratchet down your diet, so that would be the warrior diet, a kind of a tough, warrior diet. I suggest you still train reasonably then. I bet you could do that once or maybe twice a year—maybe once a year for most of us.
As an athlete, there are times I have to ratchet up my training. Say, I'm going to set myself up for the Nationals or getting ready for the State meet. Okay, we just slid over to a bus bench workout.
When I'm coaching you, I expect you to show up at 8 o'clock on Friday and I want you to win the State meet. Why?
That's what I told you to do. I'm the coach and I'm always right.
It actually works out when you say it like that.
About twice a year, I can probably put myself onto a peaking program and ride it up on the exercise side. They're tough workouts, but I better have a reasonable diet. Marty Gallagher thinks this. Tommy Kono thinks this.
That's what they hear. How often can you do that?
Years ago when I was in college I had friends who were bodybuilders. When they were getting ready for a contest, I went to help them train. You would think it was because of my genius, but no, it was literally to help them train.
One guy was on just lettuce for a few weeks. That's all he ate. When trained, he would do a set and fall on the floor during his rest period. My job was to pick him up and get him back to the incline bench. He would then kind of wither away. He didn't hit the ground every time, but let's say for half of the workout. The rest of the time he was just a drooling mass. How often can you do that?
Here's the thing. That's what your clients think. That's what my athletes think.
You don't have to worry about dieting when you run the 400 meters. I'll take care of that for you. Eat the biggest lunch you can. Don't worry about it. You'll see it again.
Chip Conrad and Dan John show you how to not only get better results from your training, but also rediscover your passion for it. In these two presentations, they discuss motivation, goal-setting and provide a principles-based approach to training to help you reach those goals as quickly as possible.
Dan John has been competing and lecturing about the art and science of strength coaching for 30 years and considers Now What? to be his best work. This book is the companion to his Now What? video, and the related books Intervention and Can You Go.
The ever-creative Chip Conrad challenges us in Why on Earth? Excerpts from our Sweet Chant of Frantic Power to think deeper about why we need strength, why we want it, and how to share it.