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Paris pétanque club under threat from luxury hotel plans
A community pétanque club in the chic Paris neighbourhood of Montmartre is battling for survival after a luxury hotel filed plans for the walled garden that hosts its exclusive games.
Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP
For 50 years, the walled garden on the ultra-chic Rue Lepic has resonated with the metal clacks of pétanque, the French national bowling pastime, defying the gentrification that drew envious eyes.
Montmartre in the north of Paris is one of the few elevated areas in the relatively flat French capital and "the butte", as it is known, had for many years a rural feel that captivated artists.
Even now, with the area absorbed into the urban sprawl of central Paris, most residents still call it a village.
The garden is maintained by the non-profit organisation Club Lepic-Abbesses Pétanque (CLAP) and its 257 members, who say nothing less than the neighbourhood's soul is at stake as City Hall considers rival commercial projects for the site.
"You have job-seekers, pensioner and CEOs, a chef, a teacher. A 16-year-old can play with someone who's 80. Here you find all types, and it's this incredible social fabric that makes us what we are," said Maxime Liogier, the club's communications manager.
The players took over the 765 square metres of playing grounds, a rare remnant of the vegetation that once covered the butte, after the city bought the land from a daughter of a resident painter in 1972.
No formal contracts were signed but the city gave its tacit approval, connecting water and electricity for the clubhouse and letting the club reserve entry to members only.
The status quo prevailed until a few months ago, when the luxury boutique hotel next door filed a plan to turn the site into a for-profit affair. What better setting for lush wedding receptions or cocktail parties?
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Under a 2017 law, the city had to publish the proposal for use of public land and invite competing offers that are due by November 28th.
The move caught the CLAP off guard, especially since it had been trying to regularise its situation with local officials.
"Two months isn't a lot of time for us to come up with a project!" Liogier said.
An online petition to save the club has garnered around 4,300 signatures, though members seem to accept that their days of exclusive access are numbered.
"We want to keep the site in its current state, while opening it up as much as possible to the neighbourhood," Liogier said.
To that end, the club held an open house on Saturday, with members suggesting that schools would soon be invited so children could learn an activity more often associated with pensioners enjoying a game between glasses of beer or pastis.
"When a unique place like this is in danger, it breaks your heart," French tennis great and neighbour Yannick Noah told AFP.
"It's good to have commercial projects but maybe there's something more important — this bond between people."
But not everyone will be sad to see the club go. Alain Coquard, the influential president of the "Republic of Montmartre" preservation society, calls the CLAP an unaccountable clique that claims dominion over a "magical site" that should be open to everyone.
The stakes are high for the butte as it seeks to join UNESCO's ranks of protected World Heritage Sites.
"Can we leave a city's heritage, which belongs to all Parisian taxpayers, abandoned like this? Just give it to people who have turned it into the most exclusive club in Paris?" he said.
According to Coquard — who says he was refused entry the one time he was invited to play — private event operators are also preparing lucrative proposals for the city, which could be temping as the municipal debt load soars.
But his Republic is backing the bid by the Hotel Particulier next door, whose director Oscar Comtet declined to comment when contacted by AFP.
"We sided with him to ensure this corner of Montmartre is opened up," Coquard said, conjuring up a range of open-door events, maybe even an ice-skating rink, on the petanque grounds in winter.
But the CLAP is digging in. Older members recall a years-long battle in the 1980s to prevent the construction of a multi-storey carpark on the site.
Prominent neighbours including Jean-Pierre Cassel, father of star actor Vincent Cassel, chained themselves to the trees to scupper the project, and in 1991 the site was designated a protected landscape.
"If we have to, we'll do the same," Liogier said, though he remains confident that 50 years of taking care of the garden have not been in vain.
"We trust that the planning commission will pick the best project, which is us."
UPDATE: How Tuesday's pension strike will impact Paris
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Tuesday, January 31st marks a second day of mass strike action in protest at planned pension reforms - here's how the strike will impact services in the French capital.
Updated: 30 January 2023 17:27 CET
Rail workers, public transport employees and teachers are along the people who will walk out on Tuesday in the latest one-day strike as unions battle the government over plans to reform the pension system, including raising the retirement age from 62 to 64.
Here's how this will affect Paris – you can find full details of the nationwide service impacts HERE.
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Lines 1 and 14, which are automated, will run as normal, but are likely to be extremely busy. Line 14 currently closes at 10pm because of ongoing works. All other Metro lines will be running a limited service.
Line 4 – running all day, with 1 in 2 services at rush hour, and 1 in 4 the rest of the day
Line 2 – 1 in 2 normal services, closing at 8pm
Line 6 – running from 5.30am to 9.30am and 3.30pm to 7.30pm, running only between Nation and Denfert-Rochereau with 1 in 3 of normal services
Line 10 – morning only, 1 in 3 of normal services
Line 3bis – closed
The following lines will run only during rush hour – 7.30am to 9.30am and 4.30pm to 7.30pm;
Line 3 – 1 train in 3, open only between Pont de Levellaois-Bécon a Havre-Caumartin
Line 5 – 1 train in 3, open only between Bobigy-Pablo Picasso and Gare du Nord
Line 7 – 1 train in 3
Line 7bis – 1 train in 3
Line 8 – 1 train in 3, open only between Créteil-Pointe du Lac and Reuilly-Diderot
Line 12 – 1 train in 4
Line 11 – 1 train in 3 in the morning, 1 in 5 in the evening, open only between Belleville and Maire des Lilas
Line 13 – 1 train in 3, open only between Saint-Denis-Université/Les Cortilles and Invalides
[#MouvementSocial] À la suite d'un préavis appelant à une journée de grève interprofessionnelle le mardi 31 janvier, la #RATP prévoit un trafic très perturbé sur les réseaux RER et Métro et légèrement perturbé sur le réseau de surface (Bus et Tramway) ⤵ pic.twitter.com/PNc89lCAQm
— RATP Group (@RATPgroup) January 29, 2023
Keep in mind that some metro stations on lines that are operating may be closed. You can see the exhaustive list here.
The following metro stations will only be open during rush hour (7:30am to 9:30 am and 4:30pm to 7:30pm): Reuilly-Diderot, Bastille, Champs Elysées – Clémenceau, Stalingrad, and Villiers. The station "Hôtel de Ville" will only be open during the morning rush our period.
Some stations will be closed throughout the day, like Simplon, Strasbourg – Saint Denis, Réaumur-Sébastopol, Cité, Montparnasse-Bienvenüe, Pasteur, Hoche, Laumière, République, Richard Lenoir, Campo Formio, Château-Landon, Cadet, Opéra, Tolbiac, Trocadéro, Grands Boulevards, La Motte-Picquet – Grenelle, Duroc and Alésia.
On average, 8 in 10 of the normal services will run.
ON average, 8 in 10 of the normal services will run, a detailed timetable will be published on Monday evening.
RER A – 1 train in 2 during rush hour and 1 in 4 the rest of the day
RER B – 1 train in 2 during rush hour and 1 in 3 the rest of the day, stopping at Gare du Nord
RER C, D and E – 1 train in 10
Transilien – 1 train in 3 on lines H and U, 1 in 4 on line K and 1 in 10 of normal services on lines J, N, L, P and R.
The Eurostar has cancelled seven services – three from Paris to London, three from London to Paris and one from Brussels to London, but all other trains will run as normal. Find the full list of cancellations here
National and international rail services in and out of the capital will be severely disrupted, with 1 in 3 of the normal TGV services running and 2 in 10 of the normal TER services.
As for specific lines, TGV services in the north of the country will run 2 trains out of 5; services in the east will run 1 train out of 2; services in the west will run 1 train out of 4; services in the south east will run 1 train out of 2; and OUIGO services will run 2 trains out of 5.
SNCF said on their website on Monday that Thalys trains (French-Belgian) will run "almost normal" and that Lyria (lines connecting France and Switzerland) will be heavily disrupted. You can see updated information on the SNCF website here.
There will be some cancellations of flights, but only those arriving or leaving at Paris Orly airport. The civil aviation authority says that this will affect flights arriving or leaving between Monday evening and 6am on Wednesday – anyone with a flight to/from Orly booked between those times is advised to check with their airline.
#Perturbations | Mouvement social national interprofessionnel du 31 janvier 2023 pic.twitter.com/OLeSOmYOV8
— Direction générale de l'aviation civile 🇫🇷🇪🇺 (@DGAC) January 29, 2023
Air France announced on Monday that it expected one in 10 of its short to medium haul flights to be cancelled on Tuesday due to strike action. The company said that it did not expect the strikes to cause any cancellations for long-haul flights.
The airline said that those whose flights are cancelled may be eligible for credit or full refunds. Air France is also offering to no-fee postponements for travel until February 7. Customers were advised to check their flight status prior to leaving for the airport via the Air France app or website.
As of Monday, the civil aviation authority (DGAC) expected operations to run normally on Tuesday at the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, according to Le Parisien.
Many schools in the capital will be fully or partly closed for the day – the last one-day strike saw just under half of teachers taking part, and a similar turnout is expected this time.
The main teachers' union Snuipp-FSU said on Monday that around half of all nursery and primary school teachers would be striking.
Paris's Hotel de Ville will be closed on Tuesday, so administrative appointments will have to be rescheduled, although city services such as bin collection will continue as normal. The Communist leader Fabien Rossel has called for town halls across the country to close in solidarity with the strikes, but the final decision is up to individual mayors. The arrondissements mairies, therefore, may be open as normal.
There will be demonstrations and marches across the country, including in Paris where a large turnout is expected. The march will begin in Place d'Italie at 2pm, marching towards Place Vauban where it is expected to end at around 7pm.
Roads will be closed along the route including Avenue des Gobelins, Boulevard de Port Royal, Boulevard du Montparnasse, Boulevard des Invalides and place Vauban.
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There are great athletes in the sport of football, and then, there is Michael Adams. Up there in a universe of his own.
Defensive back, Vincent Ordinelli's football career began in the bleachers as he watched his older brother dominate the gridiron. It was there that he knew he would too, someday, play this great game.
Wide receiver, Ethan Adams, started watching the NFL at a very young age with his Dad. This led to Ethan joining his first team when he was in second grade.
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Ford built its subcompact Pinto from 1971 to 1980. The small and affordable car, which came in sedan, wagon, and hatchback body styles, was designed to compete with AMC's Gremlin and Chevy's Vega as well as small imports. Initially a big seller and popular with buyers, the Ford Pinto ended its run amid controversy. The safety of the gas tank in the Pinto led to a recall and several legal cases. In spite of its problems, or maybe because of the notoriety, the Pinto is making a comeback as an unusual collectible. Use the ads at FossilCars to track down one of these special cars for your collection.


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The 100 most important acronyms in English, Part 5: Government and military
This series is for people learning English as a second language. We explain some of the most common English acronyms and how to use them.
Part 1: General acronyms
Part 2: Business acronyms
Part 3: Internet slang
Part 4: Technology and medicine
Part 5: Government and Military
Part 6: Organizations and People
Countries and Governments
"U.S.A./The U.S."
(The United States of America)
People often refer to the United States of America as "The U.S." or "U.S.A." Between the two, "The U.S." is more common.
I was born in the U.S.
Note that you use "the" in front of "U.S." but not "U.S.A."
"The UK"
(The United Kingdom)
The "UK" is the country made up of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
I studied abroad in the UK for a semester in college.
"The EU"
(The European Union)
The "EU" is an organization of European countries that was formed in the early 1990s.
A majority of the countries in the EU use the Euro as their official currency.
"The UN"
(The United Nations)
The "UN" is an international organization that includes almost all of the countries in the world.
She got a chance to speak at the UN about her humanitarian work.
"The FBI"
(The Federal Bureau of Investigation)
The FBI is a law enforcement agency in the United States. They do things like prevent terrorist attacks within the U.S. and investigate big crimes like large-scale murders, bank robberies, and organizations that sell drugs.
When someone joins the FBI they have to go through a really thorough background check.
"The CIA"
(The Central Intelligence Agency)
The "CIA" is an agency of the U.S. government which collects information about other countries, terrorist suspects, and so on.
I was watching this movie about a CIA spy who has to go undercover to prevent a missile attack on the UN.
"The KGB"
(The Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti)
The "KGB" was a security and intelligence agency in the Soviet Union. Most English speakers know the name "KGB", although not many people know what it stands for.
Did you know that he's a former KGB officer?
"NASA"
(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
"NASA" is the organization in the United States that's responsible for missions in outer space.
My dream when I was a kid was to become an engineer at NASA.
"The DMV"
(The Department of Motor Vehicles)
In the U.S., each state has a "DMV". The DMV is where you would go to get a driver's license or a license plate for your car. DMV's are widely disliked in the U.S. because the service there is often slow and unfriendly.
I dread having to go to the DMV to renew my license.
"WWII"
(World War Two)
In writing, the second world war is often referred to as "WWII". When we talk about it out loud, we usually say "World War Two".
Both of our grandfathers fought in WWII.
"POW"
(Prisoner of war)
A soldier who is captured and held by another military force is a "POW".
He was held in a POW camp for over two years.
"HQ"
"Headquarters" is the main location for an organization. It's where things are planned.
We have new orders from HQ.
People also use "HQ" in a lot of non-military situations as well. For example, you can call a company's main office "HQ".
"ETA"
(Estimated time of arrival)
When you're traveling somewhere, the "ETA" is when you think you will arrive at your destination. In addition to the military, you can often hear "ETA" used on airplane flights:
Our ETA in Chicago is approximately 11:35 AM.
"MIA"
(Missing in action)
A soldier who is lost is "MIA".
You can also use this term to talk about a friend or coworker who you haven't heard from in a long time.
Stefan has been MIA for the last few weeks.
"DOA"
(Dead on arrival)
A person who has already died before help arrived is "DOA".
Police officers, EMTs, doctors, and so on also use this term.
We arrived on the scene at 9:05 PM. The victims were DOA.
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In the times when Nepal had neither airports nor highways, the only way to enter the secluded valley of Kathmandu was a walking trail crossing the Mahabarat range south-north from the Indian border. This ancient trade route was linked to the Silk Roads network and is known as the historical trail to Kathmandu. In western terms, it may seem we are talking about a very distant past, but in Nepal modern infrastructures are very recent: the India-Kathmandu highway (a dusty narrow windy road) was completed in 1956 and the airport in 1957, although regular jets did not start operating until 1972.
Hence, Bhimphedi had always enjoyed a strategic position: it safeguarded the only port in the Mahabharat range that opened the key to the Kathmandu valley, which was zealously protected in the past.
Being an unavoidable crossing point, Bhimphedi became a very important commercial hub and also nice place to stay and rest for a few days, as it was the first cool village after the hot Chitwan jungle, which in those days was infested with malaria. Thereby, many official buildings and rest-houses were built in the village, in many different architectural styles. The village was also a transportation hub where the travelers had to switch their transportation system from elephants, charts or trucks to palanquins, horses or simply walking. That's why Bhimphedi has an elephant's stable (Hattisar), which still houses more than 50 historical elephant saddles (aka haudas). Because of these facts, Bhimphedi happens to have a rich heritage of beautiful Rana, Newar and Rural architecture.
Shocking Transportation
This trail was anything but easy; similar descriptions can be read in different traveler's accounts, like the following one from 1937:
"On leaving Bhimphedi, one is faced with an ascent of over 2,000 feet, and although it has been improved out of all recognition in the last few years, the path, as it used to be, must have been the worst approach to any civilized capital in the world. It was, in reality, hardly more than a torrent bed, boulder-strewn and with a gradient varying between twenty-five and thirtly-five degrees".
The track was definitively hard, but travelers had the best part. The worst part was for the porters, who had to carry all sorts of unimaginable goods over their shoulders: from persons to palanquins; from bronze statues to huge pipes for dams; and from grand pianos to automobiles… and the petrol to run them!
Until the 1960s, any good entering Nepal had to be shoulder-borne through the steep slopes of Mahabarat. Bhimphedi holds a key position in the preservation of the historical memory of these old types of traditional transport. Unlike the rest of the world, where loads were always carried by animals, in Nepal they have always been carried by people, and this is a very curious fact about this country. As one journalist said:
"Cars are supposed to carry people, but in Nepal people carried cars"
Photo: MADAN PURASKAR PUSTAKALAYA
Photo: Volkmar Wentzel -1948. Published: National Geographic magazine -1950
Car-carriers on their way to Kathmandu. VideoFootage: S. Dillon Ripley papers, 1943-1974, Yale University library
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Just added a color palette to GridMaths, so it now has rectangles, lines, ellipses in few simple colors and weights. The idea is to help make diagrams clearer, and help with Venn diagrams and other cases where you want to group things together.
Heres a grid sheet comparing fractions : 2/3 and 4/5 … then we show the product and sum using the same visual representation.
If you look carefully, you may notice that I 'abuse' the grid in that each grid square is 1/5 high and 1/6 wide – so a 1 unit x 1 unit square is actually 6×5 grid squares. I think this is a legal abuse, in that we often graph things with different x and y axis scales.
The alternative is to have a resizeable non-square grid.. which I think creates too much complexity for not much gain. The philosophy of GridMaths is "keep it simple", so you can do the basics quickly and easily. I used to think more features = more power = better, but after my son showed me the Minecraft game, and all the cool things people have built with it, I changed my mind about this. I kept thinking.. why is Minecraft so popular, when you can do all that and more in Blender ? Blender is a superb free 3D modelling package, which like all powerful modelling packages takes a while to become proficient at. So, it dawned on me that Minecraft is so brilliant because it brings down the barrier to entry, and makes the 80% of things you need to do to make a world, really easy and quick for everyone.
My 9 year old son has discovered Chess, after watching the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer".
We bought a chess set so we could play with some chess puzzles and strategies.. but we were a bit dismayed at the quality of the plastic pieces. Anyway one thing led to another, and so I spent a couple days hacking up a web based Chess app.
In other news, Ive been fighting stockfish chess AI.. and it wins every time, except on the lowest setting. But its been fun to take up the game again, so I can play against my son and answer some of his questions/attacks.
The other day I was really enjoying some Anatomy Physiology lectures on YouTube by Professor Marian Diamond, who is in her 80s and still fired up with plenty of passion for the topic.
I made some handwritten notes as I followed along with the lectures, but wanted to try out some other ways to visualise things.
To get a feel for the placement of everything, I found it very handy to see things in 3D. The only serious web based anatomy browser I could find is biodigitalhuman.com .. its pretty impressive running in chrome or firefox. You can hide parts by anatomical system and drill down.. so you see only what your interested in. Then there is a way to generate a public link, to effectively save that view.
One of the things that works in these youtube lectures above is the simplified schematic diagrams she uses to show the essentials of whats going on. When you look at real anatomy, there is so much detail you cant parse it all until you know the 'lay of the land'.
SVG for lecture notes [ and interactive lessons ] ?
This diagram took a bit long as I was being too picky about how it looks – I used Inkscape on Linux, which is reasonably feature rich and stable these days. I also tried the web based editor svg-edit … its getting there, but the alpha was a bit unstable and the stable version didn't have a spline tool as far as I could see.
For making 'high-yield' succinct summary notes it would be really nice to have a nested text tree widget – so you can make bullet points that are indented several levels [ click to hide/expand would be handy too, for review].
These tools are getting pretty close to something that you can use for science or medicine lecture notes where you need text and diagrams in a web-friendly open format – something a bit more diagrammatic / visual than a wiki. SVG support is really improving with latest Android, and I think it was well supported previously on iPad/iPhone.
The other web based tool I have been really impressed with is the ChemDoodle web component that shows molecules in 3D using webGL in browser – proteins, amino acids etc – which you can manipulate with the mouse. I found it more responsive than jMol, which is the most well known molecule viewer, implemented in Java.
Lokenote is a very simple way to share notes based at a particular location… a kind of geo PostIt note taker.
Heres an example of a Lokenote.
Go here for the Lokenote app in iTunes.
There are great apps out there such as Gowalla, FourSquare, Yelp but I felt the need for something ultra simple with low overhead where you dont need to register or signup – just drop a note where you are, and leave it for other people to find.
I still see notices pasted up on supermarkets and on lampposts for Missing Cat, Part-time Work, Flatmate Needed or Garage Sale.. so I think there is a need for this kind of utility belt app. I specifically wanted a tool to jot down nice graffiti snippets from around St Kilda where I live, and mention handy places a non-local might not know about such as the well hidden laundry shop. Id like to give a virtual nod to some of the superb out of the way food places that exist in my version of Melbourne.
In developing Lokenote I took the 'Fire!… Ready? Aim' approach – I had a rough idea, started as simply as I could, implemented feverishly and only added things I thought were absolutely essential.
Not being able to entertain any extra features had the perverse effect of generating many more ideas.. but these had a more organic character growing out of reality. Beware ideas that have clean academic edges, they tend to not fit the world.
The process of building Lokenote gives me a a furtive and voyeuristic sense of the kind of realtime app which I think is just around the next bend.
But what might they actually do ?
Feedback is the best word I have to describe the qualitative difference of realtime apps.
An example – rather than go to a conference and wait for surveys to come in from attendees and adapt in time for the next event, the feedback loop is immediate enough to customise as it progresses. This already happens, with some presenters saying 'tweet me if you want more or less on this topic' – a tweet is more anonymous and less impolite than interrupting the speaker, and feedback is current.
We might see more prices that are changing moment to moment, or other micro-optimisations – the cost of a flight might be offered within a range, and be fixed only once the aircraft leaves the gate.
Most dating apps use the profile photo as the initial filter.. but Im not so sure that is the initial filter in Life.. sometimes people with unremarkable looks win you over and in fact become more attractive over time as conversation unveils their personality. So conversation as the initial filter might actually work.
The very same app could be a great way to generate ideas in business or science or political activism… it just seems the old chat room needs to be upgraded for the realtime web, so that it resides next to all the other things I do on the web. I might want to attach a web page or doc or graphic or photo or video to my realtime comment. Parties might agree to go private with some comments. You might want to limit the audience to a group or post anonymously then go back on-record.
We have all the plumbing to do this feasibly – technologies such as nginx, node.js, Mongo, Couch, Riak, Redis, Web Sockets, JSON, HTML5 are really at the point of becoming the normal way to write dynamic data-driven responsive web/mobile apps.
Its about taking some risk to walk over the local maxima and build these things that will make life simpler, leaving more time for people to enjoy the roses.
Well, those are my thoughts for now… enjoy, gord.
Xeno is a small demo project done over the weekend. Click matching alien heiroglyphs to dissappear them. Basic gameplay in HTML5 was pretty quick to prototype.
For the path checking.. at first I did an exhaustive depth first search of all empty squares, but this exploded combinatorially.. so I used memoizing to reduce the repeat subpaths.. and then added a heuristic to find straight paths if they exist. I probably should have looked up a decent path finding algorithm. Sometimes its good to do things the blunt way yourself, so that you understand the problem and can then enjoy the beauty of a more elegant approach.
Lost in the dense Cambodian jungle you see what looks like an outcropping of ancient ruins. Could that plynth be the entrance of an alien spacecraft which has lain dormant for thousands of years? You wipe away the dust showing an irregular pattern of grooves.. you accidentally spill some water on the console.
I see a lot of interest in custom UI for iPad. There are wonderful interactive books such as Alice and Im sure well see some very interesting interactive comics and graphic novels come out for the platform this Christmas.
Some brands have a certain graphic look and feel that is distinctive and they want to preserve that instead of the Apple 'native' look. Other clients want a native looking app done in HTML5 delivered faster than an approval process would allow.
I recently developed an iPad app for an US based startup company. The app gathers medical data at the scene of an emergency, and the designer came up with some excellent visual motifs, mixed in with traditional native UI elements.
Ive tended to develop custom UI in native Cocoa until this point, but the technology has been there for a while, as evidenced by apples own PastryKit. Now there are several good frameworks like jQTouch, Sencha and jQueryMobile, but more importantly one can google for the grab-bag of techniques and examples that showcase the power of accelerated webkit animations.
As you can see Ive implemented boolean [ ON | OFF ] slide toggle switches using an alpha mask and webkit transitions – pretty much any native UI is doable.
The other win is that my code seems a _lot_ smaller than if I did this in Cocoa / Objective C. I'm not knocking UIKit / iOS, the APIs are generally excellent.. but they are verbose in comparison.
I prototype a number of techniques to deliver interactive floor maps.
All in all SVG is an incredible format for these kinds of graphics, and I think well see a lot more interactive books, comics and StarTrek inspired custom UIs developed in SVG. Its a sane way to deliver to iPhone, iPad and various Android screen sizes with common code base and one set of graphics assets.
After many years of neglect and non-standards-compliance, I'm looking forward to seeing the upcoming IE9 release of Internet Explorer browser with accelerated graphics and native SVG support. Graphic designers will be set free to create and developers will be empowered to push the boundaries of the web to the next level.
I've added a secondary 'slave' circle, which I think introduces the idea of Fourier series in a natural way.
The animation starts as before with a sine curve, then you can add in the second circle by clicking 'toggle'.


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Change of course in the Donbass: Moscow spoke with Kiev in the ultimatum language
It seems that in Ukraine it was not in vain that they felt such fear of introducing amendments to the fundamental law of our country regarding the protection of the interests of compatriots, even those who are abroad. As they say, the ink did not have time to dry on the pages of the updated document, which some (not without reason) call the "presidential" or simply "Putin's" Constitution, when representatives of Kiev at the next negotiations in Berlin to resolve the situation in the Donbass faced unprecedented the tough position of the Russian side, which finally demanded that the "partners" cease to engage in fraud at the international level and move on to concrete actions.
The fact that the "non-wintering" is unlikely to heed these requirements, which, moreover, have a pronounced ultimatum character, is practically beyond doubt. Go to the realization of those real steps, under which he himself signed earlier, in the current political the situation for Kiev will be like death. Let's try to figure out why the Kremlin took such decisive steps right now and how the situation around the Donbass may develop in this connection.
Is it time to stop the comedy in Minsk?
One cannot but admit - to the maximum "tightening of nuts" in the negotiation process, Russia itself was prompted, first of all, by Kiev itself. Moreover, not only with my own categorical unwillingness to fulfill any agreements reached, but with frank attempts to reduce any summit in the Donbass (whether it's in Minsk, Normandy or any other format) into real foolishness, an empty show without any sense and meaning. The fact that the Ukrainians handed the highest state post to the comedian is their own business. But nobody will allow them to turn international politics into clowning on this basis. Perhaps the last straw in this regard was the provocative trick of the representatives of the "non-downland", who, as the "representatives of the Donbass", brought in two trumped figures - Sergey Garmash and Denis Kazan, as part of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk. This was already the most frank buffoonery, moreover, an open and deliberate spit in the face of those who really with full right to represent the interests of the DPR and LPR in Minsk.
Thus, Kiev allegedly "fulfilled" the condition that had been set for him for a long time: "to coordinate a settlement in the Donbass with representatives of Donetsk and Lugansk regions". This requirement is clearly indicated in paragraphs 11 and 12 of the Minsk Agreements signed by Ukraine. And what? There are two characters in the TKG who are well-known not only as the "Maydan", borosopischi, long and firmly sitting on grants from the West, but also as fierce supporters of the bloody "de-occupation" of Donbass, who have repeatedly openly declared the impracticability of the "Minsk agreements" as such inadmissibility of granting the region any special status.
And this is not to mention that for a long time these people have not been living in the region that these outright crooks are trying to "represent". In a word, dragging them to Minsk, Kiev is doing exactly the same thing that the Third Reich was trying to crank, claiming a gang of traitors to Vlasov, as "the legal representatives of the Russian people." In principle, after this there is nothing to talk about with the Ukrainian delegation. Nevertheless, at a meeting held in the German capital, the Russian side demanded very specific things - first of all, clear and distinct legislative support from Ukraine for the new status of Donbass. Not the adoption of some incomprehensible "intermediate" normative act, the effect of which is also "frozen" before the start of the elections in the Republics according to the scenario that suits Kyiv and which can subsequently be canceled at any time, but the full introduction of the corresponding amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine. The deadline for the discussion of the participants in the negotiation process of the relevant project was set quite specific - literally until today, until July 6, 2020.
There can be no doubt that they will not do anything like this in the "non-winter". This time, they probably will not even bother to imitate the process. The head of the Ukrainian negotiating group in Berlin, the head of the president's office, Andrei Yermak, has already erupted in a statement that the claims put forward are nothing more than "an attempt by Moscow to preserve the occupation of Donbass and force Ukraine to contain the quasi-republics of the DPR and LPR at its own expense," while emphasizing that the Ukrainian side "refuses to even discuss such demands." In turn, Vladimir Zelensky, who does not understand on what grounds to assert that the "Berlin meeting was very good," advised the representatives of Russia to "work on rhetoric," adding that "no one has the right to demand anything from Ukraine".
Is war ahead? Or the world for Donbass?
Which conclusions follow from this? They are very specific, albeit in a rather diplomatic form, voiced by Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of the presidential administration, who headed our delegation. According to him, despite the fact that "a complex and thorough discussion on all issues of the conflict settlement" took place in Berlin, there is no way to talk about a "breakthrough". Moreover, there can be no talk of the next meeting in the "Norman format" at the highest level, to which the Ukrainian side is so eager. According to Kozak, before this, Kiev should, firstly, "carry out a huge amount of work to implement the decisions adopted at the Paris summit on December 9, 2019," and secondly, do what the "non-winter" people have been stepping aside for all these years in conceivable and inconceivable ways - to agree with the Donbass.
In the wording of Dmitry Kozak, it sounds like this: Kiev and the Republics must decide "how they will live together and determine the trajectory of progress towards this joint life." And in this case, the Ukrainian side will have to make contact, of course, not by the jesters appointed by it, but with the true representatives of the will of the people of the DPR and LPR. It sounds beautiful, but ... In fact, this wording is the final "death sentence" for the "Minsk process." Over and over again, both under Poroshenko and Zelensky, the Ukrainian side insistently insists that under no circumstances will it sit down at the negotiating table with "terrorists". As for the republics themselves ... Best of all, their attitude to the possibility of "reintegration" in the bosom of trying to drown the rebellious "nenki" in the bosom is demonstrated by the recent statement by the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, who assessed the possibility of the region returning to Ukraine with its "neo-Nazi ideology" as "zero ".
So is war inevitable? Both Kiev politicians and their American "curators" today are just talking about this, trying to make up for the predicted dates of the "Russian attack" either for the Caucasus 2020 exercises or for some kind of "destabilization" that will happen in Ukraine in November- December of this year (exactly, during the local elections in the "non-fall" and presidential - in the United States). However, this crazy scenario would suit only Washington and Kiev. Moscow, apparently, has completely different plans. One gets the impression that its representatives deliberately "corner" the Ukrainian side, setting a priori conditions that are impossible for it. And this is done not at all in order to "find a reason for attack", but in order to demonstrate to the whole world, and first of all to the partners of the "Norman Four", the complete inability and unwillingness of the "all-winter" to fulfill the very "Minsk Agreements" to which The West so stubbornly ties sanction pressure on our country. "Minsk" has no future, it will inevitably be "buried", but Kiev, and not Moscow, should become its grave digger in the eyes of the "world community".
In this case, the hands will be untied, first of all, in Berlin and Paris, where they probably more than once bitterly regretted that they had climbed onto their own heads in the endless and unpromising process of "peaceful settlement". Now they dream of only one thing - to get out of this rotten swamp, and, it is highly desirable, without "face loss" at the international level. The office of the President of Ukraine, following the results of the negotiations in Berlin, issued a completely phantasmagoric message. If you believe him, then Germany, France and Ukraine "took a certain" consolidated position "at this summit, and Russia" took a break to think it over. " Judging by the rhetoric of Dmitry Kozak, all this is a lie from the first to the last word.
There is no "consensus" or "consolidation" between Paris, Berlin and Kiev, which by default implies that the leaders of France and Germany fully support the position of the Ukrainian side, does not exist at all. They simply want to end the civil war in Ukraine and normalize relations with Moscow. Europeans are also very worried about the possible prospect that crowds of migrants from the "non-fallow", where the situation with the coronavirus is becoming more and more unsuccessful, will pour in to them, who have somehow overcome the pandemic.
The best evidence of this thesis is the fact that Ukraine was among the countries whose citizens are now prohibited from entering the European Union, despite all the "visa-free". In the event that Kiev, under the increasing pressure of Moscow, which does not leave him room for "maneuver", will be forced to stop breaking comedy and officially recognize the inability to grant Donbass a "special status" as part of its state, thereby ending the armed confrontation, Europe is perhaps quite will arrange another option. Namely, a situation in which Moscow will give such a status to the region that brings her a headache. Already Russia, at the state level, openly "taking under the wing" of the republic, will definitely ensure a ceasefire, will not allow bloodshed and humanitarian catastrophe.
Do not forget that in the "Channel Four", contrary to all the efforts of Ukraine to push them there, there are no representatives of the United States who are doing everything just to continue the conflict. Macron and Merkel need neither war in such a great proximity to their own borders, nor restrictions on trade and economic cooperation with Russia - especially now, when the eurozone economy is bursting at all seams. There is one more point - the flaring up conflict between the USA and the European Union over the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline. The lifting of European sanctions against Russia would be an excellent "asymmetric response" to sanctions threats against German and other companies involved in this project. "Minsk-2", most likely, in the near future expects an inglorious death, but "Minsk-3" simply will not. Having been convinced of its own permissiveness, Ukraine began to play too much and did not react to the changes taking place both in Russia and around the world. Now she will have to pay for it.
Author: Alexander the Wild
Used photos: http://kremlin.ru
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Bulanov (Vladimir) 6 July 2020 10: 49
For negotiations with Getman Ukraine, Russia sent Kozak. It is interesting, but who is the most real Cossack in the opinion of the Ukrainians - Hetman Vladimir Zelensky, or a native of the Kirovograd region of Ukraine, deputy. before Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Kozak? Who rightfully owns the hetman's mace?
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beeper 6 July 2020 12: 01
Comrade Bulanov, your question is rhetorical!
Which Ukrainian "lawyer" is the hetman ?! Parody one, like Jagupop from "Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors"!
I, when in the second round of the Fashington farce the "election" prez voted against Blood Offal, meant that Kolomoytsev's "technical" creature ("winning" only on our mass protest voting against the destructive, anti-popular and anti-state, colonial "policy" of the servile "Euromaidan", and not "for"!) - a real spiteful (Vazelinovo Kholuy "scum" against the Donettans shot by the Banderonazis is unforgettable !!!) the clown at the post of "Maidan ukroprezik" will demonstrate to the entire Western "civilized world" a vivid picture of the brainless and impotent ameromarionism of the "w / Bandera" power!
And so it happened - Berlin and Paris, which actively supported the Kiev coup, are already turning back from these bloodthirsty "Maidan comedians", even despite the active "support" urges from Washington!
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A.Lex 7 July 2020 08: 24
Pischak, what kind of "comrade" is he to you and us? You don't see - he is drawing delirium. What hetman, what mace? Everything is mixed in his head - he lives in a fictional world.
And about how you voted and because of what ... we already know ... like who you rule (sorry, but it's true) rules ...
You, Alex, would be useful to read the post-Soviet Ukrainian press sometimes. Then you would see there a photo of Kuchma and others with a hetman's mace. And as for the vote - that was the vote in March 1991 on the preservation of the USSR.
On March 17, 1991, an All-Union referendum was held, which raised the question of preserving the Soviet Union. The people voted in favor, but as a result of the Belovezhsk agreements signed on December 8, 1991, the USSR collapsed.
And tell us, how did it happen that we all voted "for" the preservation of the USSR, but it turned out exactly the opposite? What conclusions have been drawn from this?
A.Lex 12 July 2020 21: 55
Vladimir, Vladimir .. well, here you ask children's questions. If you ask, you didn't live and don't know WHAT was happening at that time ... (and if you lived, then at such an age that you didn't see everything as it is — the children have their own perception of the world).
And in general - WHY do I need to read Bandera propaganda leaflets? Am I a masochist? For me, everything that was published after the collapse of the USSR is bullshit, especially on "ypkaine" ...
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King3214 (Sergius) 6 July 2020 18: 54
When there were hetmans, there were no Ukrainians.
And when the Ukrainians appeared, there were no more hetmans.
And in your head, they somehow coexist. gee-gee-gee-gee-gee
That's for sure! He just lives in a world invented for him by the Americans.
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Valentine (Valentin) 6 July 2020 12: 28
In this situation, Washington dominates everything - as it orders, so Ukraine will do, and America now needs maximum tension with Russia, its main political rival in the world arena, and it is she who brings the Ukrainian authorities to war with Russia, but with the help The United States, after all, the incomparability of the armed forces of Russia and Ukraine differs by more than a dozen times, and even there, in that country of "horses", there are few such crazy people who have expressed a desire to fight with us .... Today, July 6, some kind of "get-together" with the participation of Ukraine, and set this date as the "moment of truth" - you, Ukraine, have not been doing anything about the end of the shelling and the war for 6 years already, and there you continue to kill civilians, blood flows like a river there, and this already genocide of the entire population of Donbass, so we recognize these republics as sovereign and independent, and under our patronage, and in case of renewed hostilities against the LPNR, we will give you an adequate answer ... .- and no more snot and concerns, and we are no stranger to European and US hysteria.
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Arkharov (Grigory Arkharov) 6 July 2020 19: 35
Wow, what a warlike! You yourself will go and give you an adequate answer?
steelmaker 6 July 2020 12: 37
Moscow spoke with Kiev in the ultimatum language.
The ultimatum indicates the lead time. And do not wishful thinking. Kozak simply fulfills his salary. To begin with, I would have demanded that the shelling be stopped and, if not executed, Russia would already suppress the firing points. Another balabol.
kriten (Vladimir) 6 July 2020 14: 24
Ride to these meetings, where Germany and France, supporting ukrofashizm, support the Kiev position, but do not say it out loud - this is to continue to shame our country. In fact, it turns out, they go there for spitting in the face of our country.
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rotkiv04 (Victor) 6 July 2020 15: 40
Well, Ukraine will not fulfill the ultimatum, and what will the Kremlin do? The maximum - it will postpone the meeting in this fucking Norman format, and in Minsk they will let snot out and push the water in the mortar.
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Alexander Malchukov (Alexander Malchukov) 7 July 2020 06: 33
The position of Russia and the nature of its requirements have not changed in any way with the adoption of amendments to the Constitution of Russia, which the author so pathetically claims at the beginning of the article.
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ilik54 (ilik54) 7 July 2020 09: 05
Now a quarter of a million Russian citizens live in the DPR and LPR. Therefore, their protection is a matter of honor, conscience and state responsibility of Russia, the Russian government headed by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation headed by Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu. That's when they decide what needs to be done in our Donbass, then they will do it as it should in the interests of Russians and Russia.
So ukro-Bandera fascists must understand that the lawlessness in the territory of Donbass has come to an end!
Death ukro-Bandera fascists!
Death to the enemies and traitors of Russia and the Russians!
Go Russia!
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Elizaveta Zolotova (Elizaveta Zolotova) 7 July 2020 22: 06
I wait every day when a muzzle is put on this nasty Bandera gang and it will stop shooting in the Donbass. And so it will be very soon. What then will the defenders of the killers say?
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Essex62 (Alexander) 8 July 2020 06: 16
Here, you see, one hack does not allow - the kids are there and bills with real estate. After all, everything will go to dust. And yet the reason for all the wars between the bourgeois states has developed so historically objectively, the division of sales markets.
And what to sell to Russia. Hydrocarbons - so they are going with a bang, here we are in the forefront. For many years they allowed to kill Russian people, expressing concern, and then suddenly it felt like it. Why would you? And, well, yes, the constitution, "Amerz", was supplemented. Now, of course, hurray, forward to Kiev.
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Boragl (Boragl) 7 July 2020 14: 08
Quote: Arkharov
It will be necessary - I will go. Voroshilovgrad is my small Motherland.


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Badminton is een van de olympische sporten die beoefend worden tijdens de Olympische Jeugdzomerspelen 2010 in Singapore. De wedstrijden zullen worden gespeeld van 15 tot en met 19 augustus in het Singapore Indoor Stadium. Er zijn twee onderdelen: het jongens- en meisjes enkelspel.

Deelnemers
De deelnemers moeten in 1992 of 1993 geboren zijn. Het aantal deelnemers is door het IOC op 32 jongens en 32 meisjes gesteld.

Zowel bij de jongens als bij de meisjes kunnen maximaal 16 sporters zich kwalificeren via 5 continentale kampioenschappen in 2010 of de continentale ranglijst als er geen continentaal kampioenschap werd gehouden. Maximaal negen deelnemers worden aangewezen door het IOC en de Internationale Badmintonfederatie, waarbij er voor wordt gezorgd dat uiteindelijk elk land ten minste vier sporters kan laten deelnemen aan de Jeugdspelen. De overige plaatsen worden ingevuld op basis van de wereldranglijst.

Per land mogen maximaal 2 jongens en 2 meisjes mee doen, mits beiden in de top 7 van het WK voor junioren 2010 eindigden.
Bovendien geldt dat per land het totale aantal sporters, bekeken over alle individuele sporten en het basketbal tijdens deze Jeugdspelen, is beperkt tot 70.

Kalender

Opzet
Bij zowel de jongens en de meisjes worden de 32 deelnemers verdeeld in acht groepen van vier ingedeeld. Na een halve competitie gaan de groepswinnaars gaan door naar de knock-outfase die begint met de kwartfinale.

Medailles

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Badminton op de site van de Olympische Jeugdzomerspelen 2010
"Sport explanatory brochure; Sport−specific information; Badminton", IOC, 2010

Olympische Jeugdzomerspelen 2010
Badminton in 2010

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MacDonald said Gill is considered a mid-level gang associate, but he made it onto the upper levels of their public safety list, somewhere in the top 25.
Gill was out on bail for the attempted murder charge and is still on probation for firearm and drug offences, he said.
On the latest trafficking charges, Gill remains in jail at least until he appears in court again on Sept. 17.


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Q: Bridging two tap interfaces I am a total noob, this is my first ever experiment with kernel networking. I am attempting to create a bridge between two tap interfaces, and try to send traffic through. It is more of an experiment than for any particular purpose.
$ brctl showstp br0
br0
bridge id      8000.46846e0c0ff9
designated root    8000.46846e0c0ff9
root port         0            path cost          0
max age          20.00         bridge max age        20.00
hello time        2.00         bridge hello time      2.00
forward delay        15.00         bridge forward delay      15.00
ageing time         300.00
hello timer           1.98         tcn timer          0.00
topology change timer     0.00         gc timer         115.04
flags

tap1 (1)
port id        8001            state            forwarding
designated root    8000.46846e0c0ff9   path cost        100
designated bridge  8000.46846e0c0ff9   message age timer      0.00
designated port    8001            forward delay timer   10.34
designated cost       0            hold timer         0.98
flags

tap2 (2)
port id        8002            state            forwarding
designated root    8000.46846e0c0ff9   path cost        100
designated bridge  8000.46846e0c0ff9   message age timer      0.00
designated port    8002            forward delay timer    0.00
designated cost       0            hold timer         0.98
flags

I have the bridge  br0 created, with both tap1 and tap2 added. I have a program injecting ARP packets into tap1 using libpcap. Wireshark correctly shows the packets entering tap1. However, no packet shows up at tap2. I tried adding the follwing rule  in ebtables:
sudo ebtables -I INPUT --log --log-level debug
No packets show up in the logs. I'll appreciate any inputs.
EDIT: Adding more information. Injecting fake packets is indeed the application. My intention here is to simulate, fully in software and without VMs, how packets get forwarded through the linux kernel stack. I am not creating any new network namespaces. Perhaps that's the problem?
I only have two processes. The "read" process has a file descriptor open to tap2, and constantly tries to read from it. The write process has a file descriptor open to tap1 and waits for user prompt to send out the ARP query. The ARP query has a random source IP address. The source MAC address is set as the MAC address of tap1. Here is the output of tcpdump:
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on tap1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes
^[[A07:19:57.752990 ARP, Request who-has google-public-dns-a.google.com tell 0.0.248.17, length 28
    0x0000:  ffff ffff ffff ba9c 0589 16ad 0806 0001
    0x0010:  0800 0604 0001 ba9c 0589 16ad 0000 f811
    0x0020:  0000 0000 0000 0808 0808

I have configured tap1 and tap2 to not have IP addresses. Could that be the problem?
brctl addbr br0
ip tuntap add name tap1 mode tap
ip tuntap add name tap2 mode tap
brctl addif br0 tap1
brctl addif br0 tap2
ifconfig tap1 0.0.0.0 up
ifconfig tap2 0.0.0.0 up
ifconfig br0 10.0.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.1.255
ip link set br0 up
ip link set tap1 up
ip link set tap2 up

Based on the answer, I checked attaching various applications to tap2. I notice this: when no application is using tap1 or tap2, both interfaces don't have the LOWER_UP flag set.
4: br0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default
    link/ether 46:84:6e:0c:0f:f9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
25: tap1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master br0 state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 500
    link/ether ba:9c:05:89:16:ad brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
26: tap2: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master br0 state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 500

When I start the applications, the LOWER_UP flag becomes set:
4: br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP mode DEFAULT group default
    link/ether 46:84:6e:0c:0f:f9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
25: tap1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master br0 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 500
    link/ether ba:9c:05:89:16:ad brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
26: tap2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master br0 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 500
    link/ether 46:84:6e:0c:0f:f9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

I'm sorry this is turning out to be lengthy, I'm just hoping that there is enough information to make sense of the issue.

A: Just in case, because you said you are a total noob: A tun (layer 3) or tap (layer 2) interface is the network interface endpoint of an application, and the application can read and write packets from this network interface. What you create with ip tuntap add ... or the outdated tunctl are persistent names for such endpoints, and you'll normally still run the application, and it won't do anything unless you run the application.
As the application interacts with the network interface as a matter of design, there's no need to "inject" packets with a third party application, unless you mean by "inject' this normal interaction I described.
Also, if you want to play around with networking, I can recommend using network namespaces and veth pairs. Basically you can set up a lot of virtual computers on your computer that can mimic communication between real computers on a network.
So if you want to do that, and don't want to play with your own application creating and receiving packets, you don't need a tun/tap interface.
That said, I just tested your setup, with a slight variation because you didn't say what you use to "inject" packets: I used two socats to create to tap endpoint tap0a and tap1a, then I bridged them, and used another two socats in two different namespaces to create the correct packets for me. They need to be in a different namespace, as local packets will always be delivered via loopback lo.
And as expected, bridging tap devices works just fine.
So I suppose the problem is in the packet you are injecting: Wrong ethernet address, or no broadcast. Please edit your question with with tcpdump -xx ... output when you inject the ARP packet.
Or possibly you'd like to create network namespaces and bridge two endpoints of two veth-pairs instead? That's a lot simpler.
Edit
The ARP packet looks good. It seems like there's no application connected to tap2. If you do ip link, you shouldn't see a LOWER_UP flag for tap2. Guess: The bridge detects that the device is only partially up, and doesn't send packets to this port.
Try replacing it with a tap that has an application connected to it, something like
sudo socat TUN:10.0.2.2/24,tun-name=tapx,tun-type=tap,iff-up - | hexdump -C

(the 10.0.2.2/24 address doesn't do anything, but socat won't work if you don't specify an address), and in another terminal
sudo ip link set tapx master br0

(that replaces brctl addif), then inject your packet several times and see if you get a hexdump in the first window. Also check for LOWER_UP with ip link show dev tapx.
BTW, ifconfig and brctl are outdated. Use ip and bridge instead.
Not assigning IP addresses to the ports of the bridge doesn't matter, because bridge ports don't have IP addresses (if they got some assigned to them before they became enslaved by a bridge, they are ignored). See e.g. here.

A: I struggled a bunch with this and think I've arrived at a solution. Or, at least, a better understanding of what's going on.
It's important to keep in mind that the only way to deliver a packet to a tap interface on the receive side ("RX") is by writing that packet to the socket descriptor created by the process that opened the tap (via open("/dev/net/tun",...) and ioctl). Only one process can have this file descriptor at once. If a tap device is open, and another process tries to re-open another tap device with the same name, that system call will fail.
So when you have any other process, like wireshark, opening a raw socket and then binding that to tap0, it's only capable of writing traffic out of the system (from the perspective of the kernel). That is, wireshark should be bumping the TX counter of tap0, and only RX packets will be forwarded to the bridged interface.
You can check the counters for each like:
#!/bin/bash
for if in tap{0,1}; do
    stats=/sys/class/net/$if/statistics/
    rx=$(cat $stats/rx_packets)
    tx=$(cat $stats/tx_packets)
    echo "$if: rx=$rx, tx=$tx"
done

which outputs something like:
tap0: rx=0, tx=6
tap1: rx=0, tx=5

So in your specific case, I suspect that the problem is here:

I have a program injecting ARP packets into tap1 using libpcap. Wireshark correctly shows the packets entering tap1. However, no packet shows up at tap2.

How are you injecting ARP packets into tap1? I assume wireshark isn't calling fd = open("/dev/net/tun", ...) and ioctl(fd, TUNSETIFF, ...), so the packets sent will be TX, and therefore not bridged.
You'll need the program that opens tap0 to write packets to tap0's file descriptor to get those packets to be forwarded on br0 and show up on tap1.

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The 2018 United States Senate election in Montana was held on November 6, 2018, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Montana, concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

Although Montana went for Donald Trump by a margin of about 20 percent in 2016, incumbent Democratic Senator Jon Tester was reelected to a third term, defeating Republican State Auditor Matt Rosendale. Rosendale conceded on November 7, 2018. This was the first Senate election in which Tester received a majority of votes cast rather than a simple plurality.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominated
 Jon Tester, incumbent U.S. Senator

Endorsements

Results

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominated
 Matt Rosendale, Auditor of Montana and candidate for Congress in 2014

Eliminated in primary
 Troy Downing, veteran and businessman
 Russell Fagg, former Yellowstone County District Judge
 Albert Olszewski, state senator and candidate for lieutenant governor in 2012

Withdrew
 Ron Murray, businessman and candidate for the state house in 2010

Declined
 Tim Fox, Attorney General of Montana
 Robert J. O'Neill, former Navy SEAL (endorsed Troy Downing)
 Marc Racicot, former governor and former chairman of the Republican National Committee (endorsed Russell Fagg)
 Corey Stapleton, Secretary of State of Montana, candidate for governor in 2012 and candidate for Congress in 2014
 Ryan Zinke, former Secretary of the Interior and former U.S. Representative

Endorsements

Polling

Results

Libertarian primary

Candidates

Nominated
 Rick Breckenridge, 2016 candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives

In October 2018, Breckenridge told a reporter from the Associated Press that he opposed the use of dark money in politics. Breckenridge said that he realistically anticipated only receiving three or four percent of the vote in the general election, and that he endorsed Rosendale's efforts to stop the use of dark money in politics. The Associated Press interpreted Breckenridge's comments as a statement that Breckenridge was dropping out of the race and endorsing Rosendale. Breckenridge later stated that his use of the word "endorse" referred only to stopping the use of dark money in politics, and said he was still running for the Senate.

Green Party
Kelly won the Green Party nomination, but a Montana district court judge ruled that he had insufficient signatures to get on the ballot.

Candidates

Nominee (removed from ballot)
 Steve Kelly, artist and environmental activist

Eliminated in primary
 Timothy Adams

Results

General election

Debates
Complete video of debate, September 29, 2018
Complete video of debate, October 14, 2018

Predictions

Endorsements

Fundraising

Polling

Results

By county
From Secretary of State of Montana

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
 Chouteau (largest municipality: Fort Benton)
 Rosebud (largest municipality: Colstrip)
 Yellowstone (largest municipality: Billings)

References

External links
Candidates at Vote Smart
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Campaign finance at FEC
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Official campaign websites
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Il Cantone di Saint-André-de-l'Eure è una divisione amministrativa dell'Arrondissement di Évreux.

A seguito della riforma approvata con decreto del 25 febbraio 2014, che ha avuto attuazione dopo le elezioni dipartimentali del 2015, è passato da 30 a 33 comuni.

Composizione
I 30 comuni facenti parte prima della riforma del 2014 erano:
 Les Authieux
 Bois-le-Roi
 La Boissière
 Bretagnolles
 Champigny-la-Futelaye
 Chavigny-Bailleul
 Coudres
 La Couture-Boussey
 Croth
 Épieds
 Ézy-sur-Eure
 La Forêt-du-Parc
 Foucrainville
 Fresney
 Garencières
 Garennes-sur-Eure
 Grossœuvre
 L'Habit
 Ivry-la-Bataille
 Jumelles
 Lignerolles
 Marcilly-sur-Eure
 Mouettes
 Mousseaux-Neuville
 Prey
 Quessigny
 Saint-André-de-l'Eure
 Saint-Germain-de-Fresney
 Saint-Laurent-des-Bois
 Serez

Dal 2015 i comuni appartenenti al cantone sono i seguenti 33:
 Les Authieux
 Bois-le-Roi
 Bretagnolles
 Champigny-la-Futelaye
 Chavigny-Bailleul
 Coudres
 La Couture-Boussey
 Croth
 Épieds
 Ézy-sur-Eure
 La Forêt-du-Parc
 Foucrainville
 Fresney
 Garencières
 Garennes-sur-Eure
 Grossœuvre
 L'Habit
 Ivry-la-Bataille
 Jumelles
 Lignerolles
 Louye
 Marcilly-sur-Eure
 Mesnil-sur-l'Estrée
 Mouettes
 Mousseaux-Neuville
 Muzy
 Prey
 Quessigny
 Saint-André-de-l'Eure
 Saint-Georges-Motel
 Saint-Germain-de-Fresney
 Saint-Laurent-des-Bois
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Tag: Asian Centre for Human Rights
Diplomatic pressure ramps up on Maldives
The Canadian government and the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) have called for international action to secure the release of "political prisoners" in the Maldives.
Canada called on the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) to "urgently put the deteriorating situation in the Maldives on its formal agenda," while the ACHR called on the the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to adopt a resolution demanding the "unconditional release of all political prisoners" in the Maldives, including former President Mohamed Nasheed and former defence minister Mohamed Nazim.
The ACHR has special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council and provides information and complaints to national human rights institutions and the United Nations bodies and mechanisms.
The organization also called on the UNHRC to appoint a Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Maldives and to make a recommendation to the UN General Assembly to suspend the Maldives from the Human Rights Council.
The European parliament in April adopted a resolution condemning the "serious irregularities" of Nasheed's terrorism trial while US secretary of state John Kerry said during a visit to Sri Lanka that Nasheed was "imprisoned without due process".
"This is an injustice that needs to be addressed soon," he said.
Last week, US senators John McCain and Jack Reed urged their government to press for the release of all political prisoners in the Maldives.
Commonwealth values
Canada also called on the Maldivian government to release jailed opposition politicians.
"On June 12, protestors gathered in the Maldives capital, Malé, to call for the release of political prisoners, an independent judiciary, an end to politically motivated charges, and respect for freedom of expression and fundamental democratic values," Canadian foreign minister Rob Nicholson said in a statement yesterday.
"Canada strongly supports these objectives, which are consistent with Commonwealth values and principles as set out in the Charter of the Commonwealth."
In March, foreign minister Dunya Maumoon slammed alleged attempts to place the Maldives on the CMAG agenda over Nasheed's terrorism trial.
Former foreign minister and UN Special Rapporteur on Iran Dr Ahmed Shaheed said Canada's call shows "that countries in the commonwealth care about the Maldives."
Suspension from UNHRC
The 29th session of the UNHRC is taking place from June 15 to July 3 in Geneva, Switzerland. The inter-governmental body is comprised of 47 member states and meets for 10 weeks every year, in March, June and September.
The Maldives was first elected to the council in 2010 and re-elected for a second term in November 2013.
The prosecution and imprisonment of political opponents constitute "gross and systematic violations of human rights" as provided under the General Assembly resolution establishing the Human Rights Council and justifies the proposed measures, the ACHR said in a statement yesterday.
As the European parliament has adopted a resolution calling for Nasheed's release, the ACHR suggested that European Union members on the council should sponsor the resolution.
The foreign ministry said yesterday that the Maldives delegation will focus on "issues of priorities such as women's rights, children's rights, climate change, rule of law, among others."
"Trumped up charges"
The ACHR meanwhile accused President Abdulla Yameen of jailing political opponents under "trumped up charges" to bar rivals from contesting the 2018 presidential election.
"While key democratic leaders have been put behind bars under terrorism charges, President Yameen has taken little or no measures to counter real terrorists: over 200 Maldivians are currently fighting for Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria with at least four of them having died in the fighting," the ACHR claimed.
The judiciary remains unreformed since the 30-year autocratic reign of former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the ACHR continued, and currently serves as the "handmaiden" of President Yameen – "a replica of the rule by the Rajapaksa brothers which ended in neighbouring Sri Lanka in January 2015."
Adhaalath Party president Sheikh Imran Abdulla, Jumhooree Party (JP) deputy leader Ameen Ibrahim, and JP council member Sobah Rasheed have also been charged with terrorism and accused of inciting violence at a mass protest on May 1.
The terrorism charges cast doubt on the government's sincerity in calling for talks with opposition parties, the ACHR suggested.
The organisation noted that Nasheed's conviction on terrorism charges in March after a 19-day trial was widely criticised over apparent lack of due process.
Amnesty International called the conviction a "travesty of justice" while the UN human rights chief said Nasheed was sentenced after a "hasty and apparently unfair trial" and noted "flagrant irregularities."
The UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers noted "serious due process violations" such as denial of the opportunity to present defence witnesses, which led her to believe "the outcome of the trial may have been pre-determined."
Posted on June 16, 2015 June 16, 2015 Author Ahmed NaishCategories PoliticsTags Asian Centre for Human Rights, canada, former president mohamed nasheed, maldives news, political prisoners, president yameen, Rob Nicholson, un human rights council3 Comments on Diplomatic pressure ramps up on Maldives
Respect Criminal Court verdict, says President Yameen
President Abdulla Yameen has called on all parties to respect the Criminal Court's verdict against former President Mohamed Nasheed.
In a statement released by the President's Office last night, President Yameen noted that the opposition leader has "a constitutionally guaranteed right of appeal" to challenge his conviction on terrorism charges at the High Court.
"The government calls on its international partners to engage constructively, based on mutual respect and dialogue in consolidating and strengthening democratic values and institutions in the country," reads the brief statement.
"The government remains steadfast in ensuring the separation of powers as stipulated under the Maldivian constitution and upholding the rule of law in the country."
In the wake of the Criminal Court sentencing the opposition leader to 13 years in jail on Friday night (March 13), the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union expressed concern with the lack of due process, while Amnesty International said Nasheed's conviction "after a deeply flawed and politically motivated trial is a travesty of justice."
Domestically, the Human Rights Commission of Maldives said the former president was denied fundamental rights that guarantee a fair trial in line with the Maldives' obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
Moreover, human rights NGO Maldivian Democracy Network urged the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges to intervene in order to prevent a "slide back to autocracy," whilst Transparency Maldives expressed "grave concern" and stressed that Nasheed was denied legal representation, the right to appeal, and sufficient time to mount a defence.
However, President's Office Spokesperson Ibrahim Muaz Ali told Minivan News yesterday that he believed the Criminal Court "would have afforded due process in the conduct of Nasheed's trial."
"If you study this case, from the beginning to the end, it is clear the charges are not politically motivated," Muaz insisted.
President Yameen as head of state could not "interfere in judicial proceedings and is not to blame for court proceedings," he said.
Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma released a statement yesterday noting that the intergovernmental organisation would continue to closely follow the judicial process after the verdict.
The Commonwealth urged restraint and advised peaceful resolution of "differences of view" through dialogue.
"The Foreign Minister of Maldives, Hon Dunya Maumoon, has made recent public comments welcoming constructive and close dialogue with international organisations," the statement read.
The Commonwealth assured its commitment to working with the Maldives to address issues of concern.
"All societies should have the space and opportunity for dialogue in order to ensure that universally shared values are advanced, and to create a stable and harmonious future," the statement continued.
"All societies should also have national institutions that enjoy the confidence, trust and respect of the people they serve. The Commonwealth is committed to offering practical support in a collaborative partnership to achieve these goals in an enduring way."
The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) has meanwhile called on the UN to hold an emergency session on the situation in the Maldives.
The ACHR "urged the members of the UN Security Council to take necessary measures to seize assets and freeze accounts of President of Maldives Mr Abdulla Yameen, Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon, Prosecutor General Muhthaz Muhsin and the three judges overseeing Nasheed's trial i.e. Abdulla Didi, Abdul Bari Yoousuf and Sujau Usman and other key officials of the regime, impose travel restrictions and trade embargo, and withhold financial assistance and technical cooperation to the Maldives until the release of Nasheed."
"The trial is a travesty of justice – Judge [Abdulla Mohamed] who claims himself to have been illegally detained for which former President Nasheed was charged under terrorism charges still heads the Criminal Court trying Nasheed and effectively allowed his deputy, Judge Abdulla Didi, to convict Nasheed in a kangaroo trial. If the United Nations and international community fail to intervene now, democracy may never return to the Maldives," said ACHR Director Suhas Chakma.
The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia) also condemned the verdict and noted that Nasheed was "never investigated for the fresh charges of terrorism before trial."
"The trial of Nasheed was riddled with numerous violations of basic human rights and fair trial standards, and his conviction must be condemned. This is a clear case of political persecution and therefore the verdict is not surprising, considering the manner in which the court has conducted the trial," said Forum-Asia Executive Director Evelyn Balais-Serrano.
Democracy Network alerts UN Special Rapporteur on Independence of Judges on Nasheed's sham trial
Former President Nasheed found guilty of terrorism, sentenced to 13 years in prison
"This is not a court of law. This is injustice," Nasheed tells the Criminal Court
US, EU, and UK concerned over lack of due process in Nasheed trial
Nasheed trial "not free or fair," says Maldivian Democracy Network
Former President Nasheed appears in court with arm in makeshift sling
Posted on March 15, 2015 Author Minivan NewsCategories PoliticsTags amnesty international, Asian Centre for Human Rights, Commonwealth, criminal court, EU, former president mohamed nasheed, Forum-Asia, HRCM, india, international partners, maldives news, MDN, president yameen, terrorism, transparency maldives, uk, us8 Comments on Respect Criminal Court verdict, says President Yameen


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How to Get More Toad Rally Tickets in Super Mario Run
Learn how to get more Toad Rally Tickets so you can compete against your friends.
Published Dec. 15, 2016, noon about Super Mario Run
by Josh Hawkins
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Toad Rally is a new game mode in Super Mario Run. In this new mode, players can race against other players to earn the most coins and get the most fans, or Toads. These Toads will then join your kingdom, allowing you to build things in Kingdom Builder Mode. In this article, we'll show you how to get Toad Rally Tickets, so you can play this exciting mode.
How to Get Toad Rally Tickets
Getting more Toad Rally Tickets is quite easy when you think about it. Not only are there a ton of different ways for you to get new ones, but there are also plenty of opportunities throughout the game that allow players of any skill level to partake in the rewards. We outlined all the ways that you can get more Toad Rally Tickets below, so take a look and then collect as many as possible!
Complete Toad Rally Races
This one might seem a bit silly, but you have a chance to receive Toad Rally Tickets from competing in and winning Toad Rally matches. It's kind of funny when you stop to think about it, but it's also nice to know that you can earn back the Tickets that you spent by competing in this game mode.
Collect All 5 Pink Coins
Another way to earn additional Toad Rally Tickets is to find and collect all five of the Pink Coins in Super Mario Run's World Tour levels. Each time you find all five of the coins in a level, you'll be rewarded with a prize that can range from Toad Rally Tickets to a simple bundle coins to spend on your Kingdom's decorations. We also noticed that you have a small possibility to collect more Toad Rally Tickets while completing Worlds in World Tour for the first time.
Purchase the Full Game
Super Mario Run is a free to play game, but if you want to dive into everything that Nintendo's game has to offer, you'll need to invest in the full game. This costs $9.99, but the upside is you'll not only receive all the levels in World Tour, but you'll also get 3,000 coins, a Question Block decoration item and 20 Toad Rally Tickets. That's more than enough to help you get started.
Build Bonus Houses, Play Bonus Games
When upgrading your Kingdom, you'll often have the chance to purchase Bonus Houses, which slowly refill over time. When they are refilled, you can tap on them to go into a Bonus Game, which tasks you with collecting as many coins as possible while trying to find a chest with something worthwhile inside. We played through the Bonus House several times, and found that it's a nice way to earn additional Toad Rally Tickets, though it can be a bit tough to win at, since things are all based on chance and which path you choose to take in the game.
That's all we know about earning Toad Rally Tickets at the moment. As you can tell, there are plenty of ways to acquire more Tickets, and plenty of things to do to keep you entertained in Super Mario Run. You can learn more about the game by heading over to our Super Mario Run guide, and be sure to learn how to unlock all the characters in Super Mario Run before you go.
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On November 4, 2009 the State Legislature amended the Water Code with SBx7-6,	which mandates a statewide groundwater elevation monitoring program to track	seasonal and long-term trends in groundwater elevations in California's groundwater	basins. To achieve that goal, the amendment requires collaboration between local	monitoring entities and Department of Water Resources (DWR) to collect groundwater	elevation data. Collection and evaluation of such data on a statewide scale is an	important fundamental step toward improving management of California's groundwater	resources.
In accordance with this amendment to the Water Code, DWR developed the California	Statewide Groundwater Elevation Monitoring (CASGEM) program. The intent of the	CASGEM program is to establish a permanent, locally-managed program of regular and	systematic monitoring in all of California's alluvial groundwater basins.


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Why we should all care about the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
February 11, 2019 October 15, 2019 'Re-' Interdisciplinary Network
Image: Bell cast in 2002 to commemorate the 9/11 attacks in NY. Photograph by Kieran Doherty/Reuters.
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Last week Tower Hamlet's Council website crashed because of the volume of objections to a planning application by a New York hotel developer to convert the Whitechapel Bell Foundry into a luxury hotel. People are always lobbying to preserve an original building or object somewhere. This is different. It's about preserving a site-specific human practice. Centuries old, this shared knowledge offers unique participation in an extended community. It connects the modest shopfront in Whitechapel to a vast geography of time and space (its bells exist all over the world). It physically links us today with times in the past almost unimaginably different from our own. But the present is in unique dialogue with the past at the Bell Foundry because the practice is ongoing: it is this continuity that is at stake.
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry has been continuously hand casting giant bells for use around the world for the past 500 years or so. It cast Big Ben's bell – the sound we still hear every day on the BBC – and the Liberty Bell, as well as bells in many cathedrals in Europe. Its casting techniques in sand and loam date back millennia. The New York-based hotel developer who wants to capitalise on this history to attract luxury clientele (see the Spitalfields Life article, below) proposes displaying the odd bell or piece of machinery on plinths or behind glass in the repurposed space. But what is unique about the Whitechapel Bell Foundry isn't just the heavy bells themselves as objects, or even the huge weight and scale of the machinery – the vast tipping vats of molten metal, the dusty beams, floors, and workbenches, with centuries of accumulated graffiti – but the fact of the continuous human labour and skill the space itself contains. To a lay visitor, the continuity of this practice, in that space, seems to uncannily defeat the logics of time, of technological change, of generational change, of cultural change. It's an intangible value – ironically associated with the most tangible of objects. The ongoing casting of bells there makes the activity simultaneously local and global, current and historic. It's in East London, but has produced bells that belong to some of the world's most famous buildings – so in a sense it is world-connected – or gathers the world in its space. But once the practice stops, and objects are removed from that networked meaning and individuated as this bell or that bell, this machine or that machine, they become disconnected memorials 'to' a past, mediated by their framing as 'those', 'that', 'then'. And access to these framed inert museum pieces will be exclusive – that is part of their value. This monetisation of 'history' will create profits that flow to private, not public, benefit.
If the Foundry's continuous human practice in casting was an oral tradition, it could in theory come under UNESCO's safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. But it isn't. It is a business, profitable for centuries until recently when new methods were discovered to fix cracked bells. This is where the plan developed by Factum Arte and The UK Historic Building Preservation Trust becomes important – not just for the Bell Foundry, but for other such efforts to keep ancient practices – technological traditions – alive. They have a proposal that would keep the Foundry working profitably, as a Foundry, but in the modern marketplace – a commercially self-sustaining centre for historic research, as well as of production. Their plan enhances, makes more widely available, and preserves for the future the Foundry's existing status as a unique site of practice in the history of sound.
If you haven't already, please see below for how to register your objection to Tower Hamlets Council, join the campaign, or sign the petition.
The article below was originally written by The Gentle Author on the blog Spitalfields Life. We are reposting their work with the writer's permission in the hope that we can help spread the word about saving the Bell Foundry. You can access the original post here.
Raycliff Capital, the developers who want to turn the historic Whitechapel Bell Foundry into a bell-themed boutique hotel, have submitted their application to Tower Hamlets council for change of use from foundry to hotel. Now you get to have your say. Would you rather have the Whitechapel Bell Foundry converted into an upmarket hotel or would you rather it was a foundry, continuing a tradition of casting bells in Whitechapel that dates back to 1363?
A choice has to be made and Tower Hamlets council must establish which is the OPTIMUM VIABLE USE – this is a term in planning law which means the ideal purpose for a building. Since the Whitechapel Bell Foundry was built as a foundry and worked as a foundry for centuries, it is self-evident that this is the OPTIMUM VIABLE USE, not a boutique hotel.
United Kingdom Historic Building Preservation Trust (a charity with a distinguished track record in heritage-led regeneration) have announced a partnership with Factum Foundation (a global leader in the use of technology for the preservation of heritage and maker of sculptures for some of the world's most famous artists). Together, they have the resources to buy the buildings off the developer at market value and re-open them as a foundry, re-equipped with up-to-date machinery, for the production of bells and art casting.
Bippy Siegal, the New York tycoon who owns Raycliff Capital often works with business associate Richard Caring in hotel projects. Recognising that there is a viable alternative to their boutique hotel proposal, Raycliff Capital have appropriated the language of their rivals by claiming they are actually 'reinstating a foundry,' meaning that bell polishing will happen in the lobby of their hotel sometimes. The reality is they are reducing the foundry use by more than 90%. In spite of this attempt to muddy the waters, I think the difference between a boutique hotel and a bell foundry is quite obvious.
You can help save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry as a living foundry by submitting an objection to the boutique hotel proposal to Tower Hamlets council. Please take a moment this weekend to write your letter of objection. The more objections we can lodge the better, so please spread the word to your family and friends.
HOW TO OBJECT EFFECTIVELY:
Use your own words and add your own personal reasons for opposing the development. Any letters which simply duplicate the same wording will count only as one objection.
1. Quote the application reference: PA/19/00008/A1
2. Give your full name and postal address. You do not need to be a resident of Tower Hamlets or of the United Kingdom to register a comment but unless you give your postal address your objection will be discounted.
3. Be sure to state clearly that you are OBJECTING to Raycliff Capital's application.
4. Point out the 'OPTIMUM VIABLE USE' for the Whitechapel Bell Foundry is as a foundry not a boutique hotel.
5. Emphasise that you want it to continue as a foundry and there is a viable proposal to deliver this.
6. Request the council refuse Raycliff Capital's application for change of use from foundry to hotel.
WHERE TO SEND YOUR OBJECTION:
You can write an email to: planningandbuilding@towerhamlets.gov.uk
you can post your objection direct on the website by following this link to Planning and entering the application reference PA/19/00008/A1
you can send a letter to
Town Planning, Town Hall, Mulberry Place, 5 Clove Crescent, London, E14 2BG.
Contact the gentle author via @thegentleauthor or head over to www.spitalfieldslife.com
To keep up to date with the Save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry campaign, you can follow their twitter account @SavetheWbf
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