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Materiais Ablativos é a designação atribuída aos materiais utilizados na proteção térmica de veículos espacias ou armas de defesa como misseis intercontinentais. Como veículos de reentrada atmosférica estão são expostos a altas temperaturas devido ao atrito com a atmosfera, é necessário utilizar materiais capazes de proteger os sistemas internos da capsula, onde a temperatura deve ser mantida a níveis toleráveis aos seres humanos e sistemas eletrônicos.

História

A Necessidade de Proteção Térmica para veículos de Reentrada
Os materiais ablativos foram desenvolvidos durante a corrida espacial, aquecida pela guerra fria. No entanto, só foi possível desenvolver esse tipo de material com a evolução dos materiais compósitos, os quais resistem a altas temperaturas e são leves, ideais para aplicações aeroespaciais.

Como a atmosfera opões-se ao movimento de reentrada do veículo espacial, devido a alta velocidade a força de fricção gera calor fazendo com que a superfícies cheguem a temperaturas próximas a 3000 K.

Principais Pesquisadores

Os principais pesquisadores desses materiais são as agencias governamentais de exploração espacial, como a NASA, ESA, e Agencia Espacial Russa. Entretanto, nos últimos anos, companhias como a SpaceX e outras empresas privadas vem desenvolvendo pesquisas para criar materiais de proteção térmica eficientes e que resistam a altas temperaturas.

Tipos de Materiais Ablativos

Aplicações
As principais aplicações dos materiais ablativos encontram-se no campo da exploração espacial, dadas as necessidades de absorver e dissipar calor em uma reentrada atmosférica.

Como a geração de calor devido ao atrito com a atmosfera é muito alta, é necessário a utilização de materiais com alta condutibilidade térmica para  impedir o superaquecimento dos sistemas de controle e abrigo da cápsula de reentrada.

Como o material retém muito calor, devido a baixa condutibilidade, quando ele atinge a temperatura de evaporação ele carrega muita energia junto com a perda de massa, dissipando assim muito calor.

Curiosidades

Sonda Huygens
Cassini-Huygens é uma missão conjunta entre a  NASA / ESA / ASI, lançada em 15 de outubro de 1997. Após sete anos de jornada interplanetária, chegou a Saturno em 1 de julho de 2004. Esta  sonda pesava cerca de 320 kg e consistia em um módulo de descida coberto com uma "casca dura" para proteger das temperaturas extremas experimentadas durante a descida pela atmosfera. O anteparo pesava cerca de 88 kg e foi feito de uma estrutura tipo sanduíche, consistindo de um favo de mel de alumínio com películas de plástico reforçado com fibra de carbono (CFRP), e de dois diferentes materiais de proteção térmica ablativos em cada face, sendo eles o AQ60/I usado na face frontal, que compreende um feltro feito de fibras curtas de sílica reforçadas com resina fenólica; e O Prosial, usado na face posterior, sendo este  um elastômero de silicone com excelentes propriedades térmicas contendo esferas ocas de sílica para diminuir sua densidade, sendo sua aplicação da modalidade de pulverização na superfície.

Bibliografias

 Multiscale Modeling of Carbon/Phenolic Composite Thermal Protection Materials: Atomistic to Effective Properties. Disponível em: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20160009114.pdf
 Brooks, William A., Jr.; Tompkins, Stephen S.; and Swann, Robert T.: Flight and Ground Tests of Apollo Heat-Shield Material. Conference on Langley Research Related to Apollo Mission, NASA SP-101, 1965.
 Scala, Sinclaire M.; and Gilbert, Leon M.: Thermal Degradation of a Char-Forming Plastic During Hypersonic Flight. ARS J., vol. 32, no. 6, June 1962.

Materiais compostos
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SC 131 European Security Perspectives Field Study - Madrid , 10 Oct 2017
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For the fifth stop on its European Security Perspectives Field Study, Senior Course 131 was in Spain. In Madrid, the day began with a visit to the Parliament (Congreso de los Diputados) and Course Members had the opportunity to talk with Parliamentarians. The group was welcomed by the Chairman of the Defence Committee, His Excellency José Maria Barrera Fontes. In his short introduction, he underlined how stability is crucial for economic growth and the well-being of the population. He also confirmed Spain's commitment to international organizations in general and to NATO, for example on the question of dedicating 2% of GDP to defence spending.
Course Members then moved to the CESEDEN, the Centre for Defence Studies of the Spanish Armed Forces. They were welcomed by Major General D. Francisco de Paula Bisbal Pons, Deputy Director of the CESEDEN, who gave the floor to Major General Luis A. Ruiz de Gordoa Pérez de Leceta, Deputy Director for Plans and International Relations in the Ministry of Defence, to present Spanish Defence Policy. He first presented challenges, dangers and threats from a globalized world perspective, including cyber as well as the classic ground, sea and air dimensions. He insisted on terrorism and interestingly complemented the often cited "arc of instability" with a "ring of fire" around the Sahel to explain the importance of the region. Moving to NATO, he spoke about the current debates within the Alliance like the prioritization between the so-called "Eastern" and "Southern" flanks, as well as the 2% of GDP spending rule. He also showed concretely the commitment of Spain to the different operations of the major international organizations. These examples afforded a concrete explanation of defence policy. The presentation was followed by a discussion with Course Members.
This session was followed by another presentation made by LtCol Jose Ramón Blanco Castro from the Planning Division of the Spanish Joint Staff, who talked about the Defence Planning Process of the Spanish Armed Forces. He explained the relationship between the different forms of planning (force, resources, personal, material, operational, etc.) and showed clearly all the steps leading to a coherent capability plan, from the definition phase to execution, including the review and reporting of progress. He then presented various procurement projects in areas such as submarines, armoured vehicles, frigates, satellites and drones. At the end of his presentation, he illustrated how the Spanish Planning Process (spanning 2+6 years) is synchronized with the NATO Defence Planning Process (NDPP, over a period of 4 years).
The session was greatly appreciated by Course Members. From political discussions to the realization of procurement programmes, Spain showed very coherent processes, well thought out and pragmatically implemented. The Senior Course received a warm welcome in Spain, where some "Anciens" of the NDC attended the sessions and helped with organization. The College is very grateful for this successful visit.
SC 131 European Security Perspectives Field Study - Madrid , 10 Oct 2017 11 Oct. 2017 Senior Course 131 in a meeting room of the Spanish Parliament, during the discussion with parliamentarians
SC 131 European Security Perspectives Field Study - Madrid , 10 Oct 2017 11 Oct. 2017 Seven members of the Spanish Parliament Defence Committee were present to interact with Senior Course 131. On the left, Col Gonzalo Sánchez Gamboa, the Spanish SNR at the NDC, who moderated the debates; and on the right, BG (ret) F. Mičánek, Dean of the NDC.
SC 131 European Security Perspectives Field Study - Madrid , 10 Oct 2017 11 Oct. 2017 SC 131 Course Member Col C. Zuck (DEU F) asking a question about cyber defence during the Q&A with Members of the Parliamentary Defense Committee
SC 131 European Security Perspectives Field Study - Madrid , 10 Oct 2017 11 Oct. 2017 Major General D. Francisco de Paula Bisbal during his welcome address in the Spanish Armed Forces Centre for Defence Studies
SC 131 European Security Perspectives Field Study - Madrid , 10 Oct 2017 11 Oct. 2017 The impressive entrance of the CESEDEN in Madrid
SC 131 European Security Perspectives Field Study - Madrid , 10 Oct 2017 11 Oct. 2017 Major General Luis A. Ruiz de Gordoa Pérez de Leceta during his presentation about the Spanish Defence Planning Process
SC 131 European Security Perspectives Field Study - Madrid , 10 Oct 2017 11 Oct. 2017 SC 131 Course Member LtCol Bart Hensler (USA A) delivering the closing remarks after the presentation by Major General Luis A. Ruiz de Gordoa Pérez de Leceta
SC 131 European Security Perspectives Field Study - Madrid , 10 Oct 2017 11 Oct. 2017 LtCol José Ramón Blanco Castro during his presentation about the Spanish Defence Planning Process
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, December 10, 2021 — Alpha Lithium Corporation (TSX.V: ALLI) (OTC: APHLF) (Frankfurt: 2P62) ("Alpha" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce it has closed the previously announced short form prospectus offering, on a bought deal basis, for gross proceeds of $25,012,500.
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The Offering was conducted by Echelon Capital Markets (the "Underwriter"). A total of 25,012,500 Units of the Company at a price per Unit of $1.00 (the "Offering") were issued, inclusive of the exercise of the over-allotment option in its entirety. Each Unit consists of one common share of the Company and one half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole warrant, a "Warrant"), each Warrant being exercisable into one additional common share of the Company for a period of 24 months from the date of closing (the "Closing") at an exercise price of $1.45. The Underwriter received cash commission of $1,440,750 and Underwriter's options that allow the Underwriter to purchase up to 1,440,750 Units of the Company, with the same terms as the Units issued in connection with the Offering, at a price of $1.00 for a period of 24 months from Closing.
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Николай Павлович фон Эттер(; 1833—1891) — русский военный деятель, генерал-лейтенант, начальник 1-й гвардейской кавалерийской дивизии.

Биография
Родился  года в семье командира 2-й бригады 21-й пехотной дивизии Павла Васильевича Эттера.

В 13 лет он был определён в Финляндский кадетский корпус; 20 октября 1848 года был переведён в Пажеский корпус, где находился до 1852 года. При выпуске из корпуса 13 августа 1852 года из камер-пажей его произвели в корнеты и назначили в лейб-гвардии Конный полк, с которым он участвовал в Крымской кампании. Через три года он был уже поручиком, с 12 апреля 1859 года — штабс-ротмистром; 13 апреля 1860 года произведён в ротмистры и назначен эскадронным командиром того же, лейб-гвардии Конного полка. В полковники Эттер был произведён 20 апреля 1864 года, но командование полком получил через несколько лет: с 22 сентября 1869 года (или 1868?) он был командиром 6-го гусарского Клястицкого полка (по 13.06.1872?). Затем, с 23 декабря 1873 года до 2 марта 1878 года командовал лейб-гвардии Уланским полком; 27 июля 1875 года был произведён в генерал-майоры и 27 июля 1876 года зачислен в Свиту Его Императорского Величества, с оставлением в прежней должности. Во время посещения России иностранными Высочайшими особами, Эттер несколько раз назначался в их свиту и получил ряд иностранных орденов.

С началом русско-турецкой войны 1877—1878 гг. Эттер со своим Уланским полком принял в ней непосредственное участие во многих боях и стычках с неприятелем и в нескольких разведочных кавалерийских рекогносцировках. За храбрость и распорядительность был награждён золотым оружием с надписью «За храбрость» и орденом Св. Станислава 1-й степени с мечами.

В 1878 году Н. П. Эттер был назначен командиром 3-й бригады 2-й гвардейской кавалерийской дивизии, с оставлением в Свите, и в том же году зачислен в списки лейб-гвардии Уланского полка. С 30 августа 1881 года Эттер командовал 7-й кавалерийской дивизией, а с 4 марта 1884 года — 10-й кавалерийской дивизией; 6 мая 1884 года был произведён в генерал-лейтенанты. С 3 ноября 1887 года — начальник 1-й гвардейской кавалерийской дивизии.

Умер  года.

Награды
 российские
 орден Св. Анны 3-й ст. (1861)
 орден Св. Станислава 2-й ст. с императорской короной (1864)
 орден Св. Анны 2-й ст. (1866), императорская корона к ордену — в 1868
 орден Св. Владимира 4-й ст. (1871)
 орден Св. Владимира 3-й ст. (1874)
 Золотое оружие «За храбрость» (1878)
 орден Св. Станислава 1-й ст. с мечами (1878)
 орден Св. Анны 1-й ст. (1881)
 орден Св. Владимира 2-й ст. (1885)
 орден Белого орла (1888)

 иностранные
 австрийский орден Леопольда, командорский знак (1874)
 шведский орден Святого Олафа, командорский знак 2-й ст. (1875)
 Императорский австрийский орден Франца Иосифа, командорский крест со звездой (1876)
 румынский орден Короны 2-й ст. (1883 или 1886)
 прусский орден Короны 1-й ст. (1888)
 черногорский орден Князя Даниила I 1-й ст. (1889)

Семья
 1868 года женился на Софье Александровне Спечинской (1842/1843—1871). В 1869 году у них родился сын Павел, в 1870 году — дочь Софья. В 1871 году скончалась жена, в 1872 году — сын; оба были похоронены в Донском монастыре.

В ноябре 1876 года женился второй раз, на Софье Андреевне Засецкой (1855—1939) — внучке героя Отечественной войны 1812 года Дениса Давыдова. У них было двое детей: Юлия (1879—1960) и Николай (1882—?).

Примечания

Литература

 Пажи за 183 года (1711—1894). Биографии бывших пажей с портретами / Собр. и изд. О. фон Фрейман. — Фридрихсгамн, 1894. — С. 473—474.
 Эттер Николай Павлович // Список генералам по старшинству. Составлен по 1-е сентября 1891 г. — С. 204.

Ссылки
 von Etter, Nikolai Paul Karl

Николай Павлович
Выпускники Пажеского корпуса
Генерал-лейтенанты (Российская империя)
Участники Крымской войны
Участники Русско-турецкой войны (1877—1878)
Кавалеры золотого оружия «За храбрость»

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To Lijiang on the Road to Tibet
On the outskirts of Lijiang, Yunnan Province, Wu Ka Meng "reads" the Naxi pictographs outside Da Baoji temple
May 31, 2012, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China: When we boarded the Chinese train known as the "hard sleeper" bound for Lijiang, China, just southeast of Tibet, Mrs. Huang Yi Yun hoisted her petite frame on top of a 2nd-tier bunk bed next to mine and assured me she was born to shop.
Not that she meant "shopping"in the conventional sense, although she does love bargains. Mrs. Huang shops for every bit of life experience her alimony and retirement funds can afford her after a 31 year career pushing papers in a Guangzhou provincial government office.
At the age of fifty one, she's savoring the possibilities of life, including the correspondence she maintains with more than one potential new partner on Match.com. Yi Yun speaks very little English, but she's good with a dictionary. She's seen her daughter graduate from International College Beijing/UC Denver so far to the North. And now she's free to travel to parts of China she's never seen and to invite foreigners like me along because of the ties of affection and respect that seem to illuminate relationships between teachers and their students. In this case her daughter Carmen Wu (Wu Ka Meng), a gifted film maker and my teaching assistant in the spring semester, befriended me and asked her mother to engineer this trip to Southwest China via plane, trains, horseback, and Ford Explorer van.
Mrs. Huang Yi Yun and her daughter, Carmen
Lijiang is a paradise to hip young Chinese. The town is situated 410 miles north of Kunming, an eight hour lurch and stop train ride. Lijiang also has a history dominated by the Naxi ethnic minority that ruled the Tibetan borderlands for more than a thousand years. The Naxi were shamans, lovers, musicians, and traders. Women ruled at home and conducted small businesses in town (the society was actually matrilineal), while men stayed home, farmed, played music, and tended the children. The Naxi were also famous for their pictographic language and the charming chalets they built of exposed knotty pine (think Northern California) to withstand earthquakes — including a big one that leveled much of the modern concrete town in 1996, killing 300 people and injuring 17,000. Apparently the government decided that Naxi traditional architecture held up better than concrete, so it rebuilt much of Lijiang in old style with World Bank funding, which turned the town into a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1999 (Frommer's Guide to China 2008). This apparently was the kiss of death for low prices. It also encouraged Han merchants to flood Lijiang with tourist junk and to change the culture of the town from Naxi to Esselen Disneyland.
Today Lijiang is loaded with Chinese, Tibetan, and Naxi chachkas: kites, prayer wheels, lanterns, jade bracelets, silver tea sets that look exactly alike, jade chess sets, hand-beaten silver bracelets that look exactly alike (you can go from shop to shop to see who gives it to you for less), and scads of hand-loomed shawls of brilliant fuchsia, earth tones and aqua blues that can be gotten on the cheap if you know how to bargain (more on that anon). Lodging is unusual because it tends to feature plush towels, Euro-style showers and lovely clean linens. Lijiang also has clear air and azure skies, real Western toilets, ski lifts, and all those authentic Yunnan coffee shops and nightclubs near the town's market center (aka si fang jie, which means roughly "SQUARE" street). The city is known for its views of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain – actually a range of 13 peaks, the highest around 6000 meters – just 15 kilometers north. The views are pristine and breathtaking.
At Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, my Chinese student Nora Qi signed a death pact with her boyfriend Abel, jumping off the highest peak with him in a story she submitted to my English class. In the story, Nora and Abel brought food and wine for a final holiday at Lijiang, holing up in a Jade Dragon cave; and, in the tradition of lovers spurned by disapproving parents, the couple jumped off a cliff together when their provisions ran out. Despite a fall of more than 5000 meters, Nora and Abel miraculously survived and were reunited in a hospital room where Nora's parents tearfully acknowledged the couple's extraordinary bond.
Historically, Lijiang is considered a suicide capital for lovers. According to foreign accounts, the Naxi people are extraordinarily strong willed and hot blooded, and since parents over the centuries have adopted the Han tradition of making matches for their children at birth, many young people historically have found it much easier to hang or poison themselves than to cope with mother and father's unending disapproval. Naxi women were especially fearless and expert at trade, commerce, and tying their lovers' feet with their own to heavy stones to end it all in the bottom of the upper Yangtze River, which snakes around Lijiang and heads from the Tibetan plateau eastward toward the ocean. Other Lijiang heroines were known to push chosen lovers off a cliff while keeping desperate relatives at bay with a sword, then running themselves through.
The history books claim that Naxi society was effectively acculturated/subsumed to Han customs. For example, although the Naxi Mu (木) family ruled Lijiang for 22 generations, virtually all the surviving paintings about the Mus make them look like Confucian bureaucrats. Unlike other minorities of the region, who were freer in their mating and marriage habits, Naxi families unfortunately would pledge daughters and sons to other prominent families' infants at birth. So many unhappy marriages resulted that Lijiang's most romantic couples frequently took their own lives rather than bear the shame of loveless, arranged unions, according to Peter Goullart, a Russian writer and emigre who lived in Lijiang around the time of Joseph Rock and documented native suicide habits in his book, Forgotten Kingdom (Yunnan Publishing Cooperative). In addition, the Naxi's belief in dongba (a mixture of Shamanism, Daoism, and Tibetan Buddhism), a spirit world, entirely removed the stigma of suicide. Couples who took the poison of a local black root (aconite) boiled in oil, which instantly paralyzed their vocal cords and prevented them from shouting or groaning in death agony, were nonetheless offered post-humous Harlallu cleansing ceremonies by shamans and a chance to enter heaven. (1) Many Naxi parents apparently preferred to mourn their daughters and sons' shortened lives rather than bear the stigma of becoming grandparents to an illegitimate child or an abandoned spouse. Morever, Naxi women were trained to finance their own suicide-pact ceremonies known as yuwoo. Beautiful clothes, the best of foods and wines, had to be gathered to satisfy the spirits of the underworld. If, for example, a weak-willed boy did not want to die, the stronger Naxi girls took over. Goulart relayed that the Naxi preserved their own legends of Juliet and Romeo in an ancient manuscript known as the Book of Kamegamiki (2). This woman, with "great dark and lustrous eyes [which seemed] to promise and beckon," regaled her handsome lover with the music of the Jew's harp, luring him to the mountains to complete the yuwoo ceremony after she was betrothed hopelessly to a wealthy but plain man. Apparently "she was a persistent and possessive woman and finally drove him to distraction with her promptings." The boy did not want to die, but he was trapped, and the couple took the poison.
Today, Lijiang is considered more of an escape for the living. During our time there — 8 days all together, we didn't see anybody die. What we did see were hundreds of young and affluent couples from Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and other cities enjoying the plush town, the shops, and the various other distractions — from pony rides to side trips to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, all part of the escape from the roaring, dirty big cities.
Normally I don't have much time teaching four classes in Beijing to study the vagaries of northwest Yunnan geography or ethnography. But Lijiang (丽 江) meaning "Beautiful River"), situated on a high plateau roughly the same elevation as Machu Picchu, seemed worth the trip . The city of 300,000 is on the road leading from Kunming to Shangri-la (in Chinese Xiang-ge-lila). Before the train was built, Lijiang was reached by truck, plane, or caravan from Chengdu (Sichuan Province) to the East and Kunming to the south. Writer Goullart, who was assigned a post as Depot Master by the Nationalists (and H.H. Kung) during World War II, wrote extensively about Lijiang life (Forgotten Kingdom, Yunnan People's Publishing House) in 1957. Goullart was something of a good samaritan; he started medical clinics and spinning wheel silk and wool cooperatives among the Naxi women in the 1940s. He also describes a horrifying trip required to reach Lijiang at the time, since there was no railroad. He took the Burma Road from Kunming to Hsaikwan, a draughty little town with bedbugs of "a specially hardy and big variety" that nearly ate him alive after he had traveled a distance over perilous hairpin turns for some 250 miles. Thereafter he peeled off for another 160 miles via steep precipices to Lijiang over caravan trail, hoping to evade local bandits. Goullart stopped in Tali (Dali), where he mounted the local "chariots" on two wheels with old rubber tires pulled by horses. "[The chariots] were so primitive that I always thought of them as something that Pharaoh might have sent to fetch old Jacob to Egypt,' Goullart writes. "The road was not a road at all but a trail of boulders, crossed by unbridged mountain steams, and along this the conveyance creak[ed and swayed] violently from side to side. Sometimes the bumps were so hard that passengers were thrown up against the ceiling and one man had his head nearly split open [p. 16]."
To me, the Chinese "hard sleeper" train wasn't much better. Sometimes it purred; sometimes it lurched and stopped, lurched and stopped again, for half an hour or so at a time, whereupon the lavatory doors would inexplicably lock. I slept not a wink that night headed to Lodging, nor on the way back, trying to squeeze my Western body into the second of three stacked military-style bunks perhaps no more than 24 inches in width. The bunks in the hard sleeper are 'open compartment' so no one sleeps with in a compartment with privacy [soft sleepers have doors, plush pillows, and wide-double berths.] In hard sleeper class, passenger simply mill down a narrow corridor and pass the bodies stacked three on a side, six to an open compartment; it's quite a peep show.
Mrs. Huang, however, a lithe woman with an hourglass shape, hoisted herself up on her bunk next to mine and threw her arms back onto the pillow, sighing with relief. She wore stretch pants and a light sweater. Her hair was crisply done and she laughed and speculated about all the sights and sounds of the Lijiang she had also never seen before (Mrs. Huang was actually born in Yunnan, but had never been north to this town). Meanwhile her daughter, Carmen, my Beijing film student, sat next to me on my bunk. She was all scrunched up, checking her Jen Jen messages and her thousands of photographs because she was too excited to sleep. Dr. Brown in the bunk below made a tent of his sheet and changed beneath it into his pajamas. Then he stood up and gave everyone in the car – including two young strangers — a fashion show. I stared up at the black ceiling of the bunk above me and tried to arrange my little halogen headlight on a hook so I could find it in the dark. I read a few paragraphs on my Nook. I tried to find a place to put my feet, at one time dangling them over the side of the bunk. I thought about going to the bathroom, which was actually an aperture in the floor of the train. With the lights doused, around 11:30 pm, I glanced to my side. Mrs. Huang was dreaming and immobile, one arm thrown back over her head. I don't think she moved the entire night.
I had met Mrs. Huang Yi Yun on SKYPE in February. Carmen and I had batted around the idea of taking an adventure to Tibet or Yunnan, and suddenly Mrs. Huang was involved. I was expecting, somehow, a rotund laomazi in a ch'i pao to greet me on the computer screen. Instead I met a beautiful woman in a modern pearl-colored suit. She spoke Mandarin softly and slowly, with just enough of that Southern second-language twang to make her words seem mellifluous to me, an American who learned Chinese in Fujian-dominated Taiwan. Yi Yun instantly addressed me "Dear Dr. Ai" or "Teacher Ai," and assuring me she was thrilled to take on all the travel and lodging arrangements, as troublesome as that might be. All I needed to do was specify what we should see, then forward her 5000 RMB, around $850, and all arrangements would be taken care of satisfactorily (periodically throughout the spring she kept checking with me – and her relatives in Kunming — to ensure the accommodations were satisfactory. They were).
When we arrived that morning in Lijiang it was gray and cloudy. We were met by an attache to the hotel Mrs. Huang had arranged who drove us cheerlessly to the Old Town. The back streets were dirty, ugly, and rutted. There was dog poop on the sidewalks. But when we came from the muddy parking lot through a passage to our our hotel (named "Blossoming Hill"), we discovered nothing but charm, dark knotty pine, carved wooden tables in courtyards filled with fruit bowls and wi-fi, and 2 story-high bougainvillea. The fixtures and giant plush beds of our hotel with crisp white linens and luxurious bed covers reminded me of Chiang Mai (Thailand). The streets (we stayed on Wuyi Street) were narrow, winding, cobblestoned, and festooned with fuchsia and deep purple blossoms.
The Lijiang Old Town is full of bougainvillea
Dr. John Brown resting in our hotel rocking chair
It rained for three straight days. The rain is of a special quality there; it fills the rivers that flow from the upper Yangtze and the town itself is built above sluices that open up and wash the streets clean. It is a miniature Venice. We spent the first two days exploring the town, then found a driver, Mr. Ho, to take us out to surrounding towns and the historic Da Bao Ji temple in Bai Sha, about 12 kilometers Northwest of the city. This temple was probably the most out-of-the-way site we visited; it was basically left to itself yet features Ming and Qing dynasty frescoes of uncommon quality painted by Naxi, Tibetan, Bai and Han artists. The Buddhist influence is unmistakable (there is a golden fresco of Buddha teaching his disciples there). There are also traces of Lamaism and Daoism in the designs, since the native Naxi combined elements of many religions, especially a belief in dongba (which literally means 'scripture reader'), which comfortably mixed shamans with Tibetan Buddhist practices and a bit of Lao Tzu thrown in. The temple offered many quiet courtyards of contemplation.
Chinese frescoes outside of Lijiang. Scenes of Han life are unmistakable.
Not far from Bai Sha is Shu he, which is known for its Tea Horse Museum (there's an admissions fee, but you get a guide) and collection of old photographs of Naxi life, including some of the Austrian naturalist Joseph Rock's famous ones of horses being hauled via rope and zip line over the roiling waters of the upper Yangtze. Rock was a huge influence in Lijiang from around 1922 until the Communist take-over in 1949 which forced him to leave. He was a brilliant photographer; and his images of the life of shamans, warriors and brigands of the Minchia, Bai, and Naxi who warred and worshipped in the Tibetan borderlands brings the original culture of the area to life. (See the book, Lamas, Princes, and Brigands: Joseph Rock's Photographs of the Tibetan Borderlands of China , ed. by Michael Aris. New York: China House Gallery, 1992). Self-taught, he knew dozens of languages, researched the ethnography and natural history of the area, collecting and categorizing thousands of plants, and wrote long ethnographic tomes which were inevitably rewritten for National Geographic and turned into articles published in the magazine.
Some of Joseph Rock's photographs on display: Naked Naxi swimmers used inflated goat bladders to ford the Yangtze
One of the places he visited (and we stopped there, too) was the Dajue Palace, part of the Mu Family holdings. This museum contains six gorgeous frescoes showing much more Han influence than Naxi, with bare attempts to explain the significance of the frescoes in both Chinese and "Chinglish." The museum and palace contain chronologies and genealogies of the Mu family, who were apparently stripped of power when
the Manchus began Sinifying the entire country beginning in the 17th century — odd that "faux Han" (the Manchu), like reformed smokers, tried to stamp out the influence of local minority rule.
After seeing the frescoes, we topped off our visit with lunch in another water-logged village, Shuhe (also designated as a tourist area near Lijiang). An elderly poet and healer who sells his books, paintings, and other manuscripts, along with potions, inks, and brews, served us decent bowls of noodles and eggplant sandwiches, and we ate heartily and discussed lots of things with him, although we didn't buy anything, even though I thought about it.
In the afternoon we headed to a place known as Yufeng Si, a small lamasery at the foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, which belongs to the Scarlet Sect of Tibetan Buddhism. There, if you climb a huge amount of stairs, and John Brown and I did, in pouring rain, you'll find the wanduo shancha (10,000 flower camelia tree), which was formed from a combination of two trees planted by monks between 1465 and 1597, according to the Frommer Guidebook (Wiley, 2010). Alas, when we were there, at the beginning of June, the tree was not in blossom, but it is alleged to bloom 20 times between March and June, bearing 20,000 blossoms. The view was great anyway, and the tree's branches are strangely planar and rectangular, somewhat like a bas relief, reminding me how careful Buddhist monks are with their expressions of holy life.
Bending fernleaf hedge willow (Tamarix chinensis) at Da Bao Ji Temple. (c) Arielle Emmett & Associates LLC
My student Wu Ka Meng (Carmen) was the real shutterbug in the group. During the early spring festival before our trip, Carmen went by herself to Suzhou and took 1785 photographs either of herself and/or the immediate Suzhou city surroundings (mostly composed of canals, temples, and traditional Chinese red lanterns along with crowds of tourists). Ka Meng insisted that I examine every single photo in her camera, including the roughly 20 percent that were out of focus. She's searching for the killer professional shot that can make a reputation. Also, she's a film and photography buff who wants to become a theatrical or movie director, whether in the U.S., China, or Hong Kong, an ambition that her mother, even without direct experience or exposure to the arts, gently understands.
Normally, the girl is uber-competent and commands a classroom or a film shoot from the moment she arrives. But in front of her Mom, whose olive skin and perfectly bouffant, tinted hair reminds me of a 1960s auburn helmet, Carmen melts into girlish giggles, holding up two fingers to make the "peace" sign for each photo op until everyone around her, myself included, wants to shake her.
I don't fully understand this behavior. Perhaps in the eyes of her adoring parent, Carmen is free to act like another "Little Empress," one of hundreds of millions of solo kids without brothers or sisters created during the time of the official "One-Child" policy in China enforced for the past two and half decades. Perhaps all Chinese kids revert to playing the kid when they're around their parents who spoil them. Carmen is no exception. But actually there might be other explanations. After showing so much responsibility in school, perhaps it's just a release to go back and be an adored child. And perhaps Carmen found it boring to be photographed, especially hanging around her mother and elder teacher and her colleague-friend, Dr. Brown.
In any event, her mother evidently loved being beside her every moment, especially when the weather began clearing and we passed by a tableau of strange (and cartoonish looking ) Naxi pictographs, part of an obscure language that supposedly only well educated historians and shamans of the ancient Naxi language truly understand. Carmen and she had begun a round of aggressive purchasing. Both Yi Yun and her daughter bought Naxi-style shawls of every make and color, which Carmen wrapped one around herself like an Indian princess. I remember that we were driving to that TAemple of 10,000 camelia blossoms, on the road leading North out of Lijiang proper to the foothills beneath the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (which we couldn't see yet). Carmen stopped for a moment and I took this picture:
Yi Yun had spent the earliest days working the shops for the best deals. At one particular fabric shop, where she assured me the quality was best, she ultimately purchased more than 40 shawls of every color — pinks and blacks, fuschias, lavenders, puces, earth tones, reds, and more, each for about 35 or 40 Yuan apiece (that's roughly equivalent to US$5 -$7). She then shipped them in bunches back home for distribution to family and friends. Without her it would have cost me easily double for the few I did purchase. Yi Yun has a very soft-spoken technique of bargaining; she will turn away from the shop owner, pace to another side of the store within the owner's view, and earnestly talk to me or her daughter about the quality of the fabrics and whether they are truly genuine, hand-crafted, and worth it. Then she shakes her head and returns to the owner, saying, "Sir, I saw a fabric of comparable quality in so and so shop? Can you discount it a little bit more, especially if I buy… three dozen?"
It worked. It always worked.
When it was pouring rain, on the way to the Buddhist temple, Yufeng Si, we stopped at a roadside vendor perched on a muddy hill leading to those prodigious stair steps up to the Ten Thousand blossom temple. As the rain progressed from drizzle to downpour, each second brought lower and lower purchases prices as we stood in front of the vendors humming and hawing with our umbrellas getting wet. Yi Yun and Carmen bought hats of Yak fur, as did I.
When I consider that 17 years ago, when I last visited China, the country was still under the grip of rigid Communist ideology and just the beginnings of a consumer economy and opportunities for spending among the middle class, this buying spree seems remarkable to me. Here were a mother and daughter who spoke a different language (Cantonese and Mandarin in a pinch), who came from the opposite end of the world. Yet we shared the same taste, the same jokes, and the same love of Yak fur, horseback rides through the Lijiang mountains, trips to pagodas and thundering gorges. Who would have thought?
At the top of the hill a group of old Naxi women were singing traditional songs just at the entrance of the temple. Naxi music is very beautiful, but pretty much extinct except for the old women who keep it up for the tourists. The group, dressed in their traditional blue caps, had something like a guitar case out in front of them and they were getting very wet. Something possessed me to plunk down 20 yuan, and the old women grabbed hands and sang for me energetically, as though I had just wound up a toy. The contribution actually made a difference, and they asked me to pose with them, which I declined to do.
The truth is I didn't know much about Lijiang or any other place we were going. I'm a little embarrassed by that. All I knew is that the famed city was known for its gorgeous scenery. It was said once to have had naked Naxi swimmers who girded themselves with gigantic goatskin bladders as they forded the Yangtze's rapids to transport their goods and livestock from one bank to the other. There were many wars and internecine fighting among tribes. On the map Lijiang sat directly east of Myanmar and 100 kilometers southeast of Zhongdian or Shangri-la (pronounced Xiang-ge-lila in Chinese), the rough approximation of James Hilton's paradise described in Lost Horizon.
Dr. John Brown knew much more about these places than I did; he had had the time to read about them, fortunately. So once the rain abated, around the fourth day, our group decided to go by car to 30 kilometer-long Tiger Leaping Gorge (Hutiao Xia), which is the Yangtze's version of the Niagara falls of a single hairpin stretch of the Grand Canyon. Mr. Hu obliged us; the car trip was uneventful. The numbers of steps down to the platform above the gorge were daunting, but Dr. Brown, who is remarkably fit for his 81 years, handled it gracefully, as did Yu Yun and Carmen. The muddy rapids roared to such a deafening pitch that I knew that no one could possibly survive a tumble into these waters. And in one part, where hikers emerge on the other side from a several day trek (we did not take this trek, to my regret; the weather would not permit it), we could see a gigantic pool of styrofoam cups, tires, and other assorted junk trapped in a whirlpool inside an inlet. This is the place that is sufficiently narrow that legend says a Tiger leaped over the river (the canyon reaches a depth of over 3000 meters). Too bad it turned into the Yangtze's garbage dump.
Our trip beyond Tiger Leaping Gorge was to that incredible legendary place where people are supposed to say young — Shangri-la. Our van wound for about six hours up and down lovely and manicured mountain farms festooned with tiny trees (evidently a part of the Chinese government's attempts to reforest the mountains). We bought oxygen, but didn't need it despite a reported elevation of around 12,000 feet (I had climbed 'Dead Woman's Pass' in Machu Picchu 8 years ago; the elevation there topped 14,000 feet). We grew a little restless in the car, hoping that Shangri-la would be something as wonderful as Hilton had once described it in the novel. At one point, though, as descended into the valley of Shangri-La, we stopped in a field and noticed a group of teenage Tibetan monks frolicking in rows of pink flowers (the pinkies resemble heather, although I am not sure they are heather). Carmen once again willingly provided another photo op.
Lao Mu, resting during our horseback riding trip
But when we got to Shangri-la, we once again had to ask what Gertrude's Stein asked nearly a hundred years ago: "Is there a there there?" The town that claims the geographic identity of James Hilton's magical novel is actually a pretty beaten up place with plenty of Communist Red Stars on concrete block buildings. The hotels are dirty, in the main. The ones we inspected were sufficiently pricy and dirty (we even saw a giant cockroach in one of the bathrooms) that we asked Mr. Mu to drive us back — crazy people that we were — that very night. He drove expertly, and we tried to sleep along the way. Something inside me once again had to acknowledge a disappointment in a place so fully touted in movies and novels. I realized then, of course, that we had not reached the true Shangri-la. That place had to reside in what had happened between us in Lijiang; it was not a matter of place; it was a matter of joint experience.
Yi Yun the cowgirl
The rest of the trip was taken up with a short boat ride in a swampy Lijiang lake with crappy food at a peasant lunch stand and a horseback ride through the mountains, led by an enterprising peasant named Mu who unfortunately held the reins for Dr. Brown's lead horse (Brown, an accomplished equestrian, found this arrangement quite frustrating). Mu and his tall, handsome son were good souls (didn't say whether he was a descendent of the powerful Lijiang Mu family) and told me the government hadn't improved things too much for people; life pretty much went on the same. The last days in Lijiang, Brown, Carmen, and I went to a mountaintop on the eastern flank of Lion HIll (Shizi Shan) which separates the old town from the new, and passed Wanggu Lou, a temple-park which supposedly has the tallest wooden pagoda in China, with massive 22 m high pillars made from old local wood (the temple gates were shut). We went on to Helong Tang Gong yuan (Black Dragon Pool Park), about a mile north of the old town, and enjoyed sweeping views of the distant snow-capped Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and the surrounding valleys. It was in the viewing pagoda that I found Peter Goullart's marvelous book, Forbidden Kingdom, and it was there that i realized finally that my journey to Lijiang (the intellectual part at least), had just begun.
Within a few days I had to say goodbye to Mrs. Huang. I don't know if I'll ever see her or her daughter Carmen again, but I hope so. As I write this account, I'm back in America, with no immediate hope of returning to China anytime soon.
Sometimes she writes me about her daughter's current issues trying to pass the TOEFL exam and find the right graduate school in either Hong Kong or America (actually Carmen speaks English very well — we're talking a few refinements, not a major overhaul needed). Sometimes we exchange emails about a left over bank account we share. But as time goes on, we correspond less and less. It's not that we're less connected (at least the tether I feel for her is still very strong), but we're far away from each other now. When you're in China, everything seems possible, and you can get close to people and have an experience and yet be casual about it because you think it will happen again. But not always. Now I realize just how lucky I was to land a week in Yunnan paradise with this Mom and her daughter. For Yi Yun and Carmen's hospitality and caring alone, I'm grateful. For her kindness and gentle touch, along with a natural curiosity about her country and the best shopping deals to be had — well, I'm impressed. But the thing I can't forget is how entirely modern Huang Yi Yun really is, and how beautifully we communicated. I realize it doesn't matter if we were born on opposite sides of the world, or that we speak through gestures as much as words. We shared a sensibility and a vision. And we had just enough time together in Lijiang to make the vision come true.
The Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in June: A few of Lijiang's new town to the north, from the pagoda at Heilong Tan Gongyuan (Black Dragon Pool Park).
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Samsung is rolling out a small OTA update for the European model of Galaxy S6 (SM-G920F).
and enhanced features and further improvements to the performance.
screen variant, the S6 Edge, confirms GSMArena after observing the phone's stability.
Interested users who want to manually install the update, can check our guide below.
You should have an unlocked Galaxy S6 Edge SM-G925F model.
The phone will lose custom ROM once the stock update is installed.
Also, the custom recovery will be replaced by the stock version.
device, verify the model number by navigating to Settings>> About phone>> Model number and then install firmware based on the model number.
Step 10: The installation should start now.


I was lucky enough to come across this Eagle twice in the three days that I was in La Brenne. The first time I thought it was a Buzzard then I realised it was far too big!! It was only later, when Iooked at this first early morning picture, that I realised it was carrying a snake!


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Sainte-Eulalie-d'Eymet ist eine Ortschaft und eine ehemalige französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand: ) im Département Dordogne in der Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine (vor 2016: Aquitanien). Die Gemeinde gehörte zum Arrondissement Bergerac und zum Kanton Sud-Bergeracois.

Der Erlass vom 25. September 2018 legte mit Wirkung zum 1. Januar 2019 die Eingliederung von Sainte-Eulalie-d'Eymet als Commune déléguée zusammen mit den früheren Gemeinden Sainte-Innocence und Saint-Julien-d'Eymet zur Commune nouvelle Saint-Julien-Innocence-Eulalie fest. Der Verwaltungssitz befindet sich in Sainte-Innocence.

Der Name in der okzitanischen Sprache lautet Senta Eulària d'Aimet und leitet sich von der heiligen Eulalia von Barcelona ab.

Die Einwohner werden Eulaliens und Eulaliennes genannt.

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Sainte-Eulalie-d'Eymet liegt circa 20 Kilometer südwestlich von Bergerac im Gebiet Bergeracois der historischen Provinz Périgord an der südlichen Grenze zum benachbarten Département Lot-et-Garonne.

Umgeben wird Sainte-Eulalie-d'Eymet von den fünf Nachbargemeinden und einer delegierten Gemeinde:

Einwohnerentwicklung
Nach Beginn der Aufzeichnungen stieg die Einwohnerzahl in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts auf einen Höchststand von 265. In der Folgezeit sank die Größe von Sainte-Eulalie-d'Eymet bei kurzen Erholungsphasen bis zur Jahrtausendwende auf rund 70 Einwohner, bevor eine Phase mit moderatem Wachstum einsetzte, die heute noch anhält.

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Pfarrkirche Saint-Barthélemy romanischer Bau aus dem 12. Jahrhundert
 Herrenhaus Graulet aus dem 17. Jahrhundert

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Kamerhe arrives in the East, conflict minerals guidelines and murder of bishop's wife
Some stories to watch:
Vital Kamerhe left for a tour of the East of the country immediately after launching his UNC political party on Tuesday. On Wednesday, he was in Goma, where a melee broke out between police, his supporters and people who turned out to stone his convoy. Given the commotion, Kamerhe was unable to hold his public rally. Kamerhe claims that he was blocked from speaking officially to his supporters; government officials say that the election campaign hasn't started yet, so he can't be carrying out such events. Yesterday he arrived in Bukavu, where a large crowd of supporters turned out to greet him.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published their proposed guidelines for conflict minerals legislation, you can download them here. The SEC was required by the conflict minerals legislation passed last year in Congress to propose a set of regulations to implement the bill. Also, the UN has published a more accessible version of their own, very similar guidelines. In the meantime, the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), meeting in Lusaka on Wednesday, signed an agreement on making the minerals trade more transparent.
Bishop Levy Mbala, the head of the Church of Christ in the Congo - one of the largest protestant church groups in the country - was wounded and his wife killed in an attack on their house in Goma on Monday. The cause of the attack is not yet known; the attackers wore balaclavas to conceal their faces.
KS said...
SEC Guidelines have been deleted! Do you know anywhere else it's posted?
Ok, should be working now - try the link again.
Richard Mwamba said...
Hi jason, it's my first time to check on this blog and found it pretty interesting. I'm from DRC, but this site seems to be the only one that carries geniune reporting. When will you be back on the blog?
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Ferrari unveils Hypercar in new livery ahead of WEC lead class run
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Ferrari has unveiled the '499P' – its Hypercar – as it readies itself for the premier class run in the FIA WEC series and Le Mans 24 Hours.
50 years on: return to the elite class of the World Endurance Championship
Imola, 29th October 2022 – 499P is the name of the new Le Mans Hypercar with which Ferrari will tackle the FIA WEC World Endurance Championship in the elite class from 2023, a name evoking the history of the Prancing Horse manufacturer. In the past, prototypes were identified by the letter 'P', frequently preceded by the number of the engine's unitary displacement. The 499P is no exception. The car is an outcome of a vision proudly rooted in the past, that gave rise to the legend of today, enabling the company to achieve 22 world titles and 9 overall wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Nevertheless, it has its sights set firmly on the future, both in terms of the technical and design content that the prototype features. The livery, with which the 499P will debut at the forthcoming 1000 Miles of Sebring, includes a revived version of the renowned 312 P colour scheme from the 1970s, which also visually underscores the historical connections interrupted 50 years ago, but that have remained ever present in the brand's essence. For this reason, one of the Maranello-entered endurance cars will be adorned with the number 50, while the other will bear the number 51, one of the most successful ever. The official line-up of who will race the 499P will be the subject of future communications.
Le Mans Hypercar: winning DNA
The new FIA (Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile) and ACO (Automobile Club de l'Ouest) technical regulations outlined for the Hypercar class have led Ferrari to embark on an innovation and development path to produce a Le Mans Hypercar (LMH), faithful to tradition, that sees the track as the ideal terrain for developing cutting-edge technological solutions to be integrated onto its road cars. The 499P is a manifesto to Ferrari's commitment to endurance racing.
The four-wheel drive prototype complies with the technical regulations and requirements of the hybrid-engined Le Mans Hypercar class, delivering a maximum power of 500 kW to the wheels and with a minimum weight of no less than 1,030 kilos. In defining the 499P, the company has drawn on the vast resources of technical, professional and human excellence that epitomise the Maranello marque, entrusting the management to Attività Sportive GT, under the direction of Antonello Coletta and the technical supervision of Ferdinando Cannizzo, head of the department in charge of engineering and development of Sports and GT racing cars.
New hybrid power
The 499P's hybrid powertrain combines a mid-rear power unit with an electric motor powering the front axle. The internal combustion engine (ICE) has a maximum regulation-limited output to the wheels of 500 kW (680 cv) and is derived from the road-going twin-turbo V6 family. The ICE, which shares the architecture of the engine fitted to the 296 GT3, has undergone a thorough overhaul by Ferrari's engineers, aimed both at developing ad hoc solutions for the prototype and lightening the overall weight. Among the specific characteristics of the 499P's V6 is the fact that the engine is load-bearing and therefore performs a valuable structural function, compared to the versions fitted to competition GT cars, where the engine is mounted onto the car's rear sub-chassis.
The second 'soul' of the hybrid powertrain is the ERS – Energy Recovery System – with a maximum power output of 200 kW (272 cv). The electric motor is equipped with a differential and is driven by a battery that is recharged during deceleration and braking, requiring no external power source. The battery pack, with a nominal voltage of 900v, benefits from experience honed in Formula 1, although it was purpose-built for the project. The 499P's overall maximum power output is 500 kW (680 cv) and the powertrain is coupled to a seven-speed sequential gearbox.
Wind designed
The design of the new Ferrari 499P was refined with the support of the Ferrari Styling Centre under the direction of Flavio Manzoni. The car's technical and aerodynamic features have been enhanced by means of simple, sinuous shapes: – an explicit expression of Ferrari's DNA. The balance between tense lines and flowing surfaces, expressed in a futuristic, pure and iconic language, defines a clear yet essential architecture. The bodywork of the prototype is sculpted from a flat surface, from which the side pods and wheelarches develop harmoniously.
Aerodynamic flows pass through the side pods over the recesses between the main ridges surrounding the cockpit, cooling the radiators concealed beneath the bodywork. On the Ferrari 499P, the surface area of the wheel arches, a Ferrari hallmark, are characterised by large louvres, aimed at reducing the pressure inside the wheel housings. Together with the headlight clusters, they imbue the nose with a sense of character and expressiveness, with subtle references to the styling traits first introduced on the Ferrari Daytona SP3.
The rear is the ultimate expression of how to blend technology, aerodynamics and design. A subtle carbon-fibre skin covers the various functions, leaving the wheels and suspension completely visible. The tail is characterised by a double horizontal wing; the main wing and upper flaps have been meticulously designed to guarantee the necessary downforce and achieve maximum performance.
The lower wing also features a 'light bar' that enriches the rear design with a decisive yet minimalist touch. Finally, in a dominant position above the car is a multiple air intake that feeds the V6 engine intake and supplies cooling air to the battery and gearbox.
Innovative technologies
Built on an all-new carbon-fibre monocoque chassis, the Ferrari 499P features solutions that represent the cutting edge of motor sport technology. The geometry of the double wishbone, push-rod-type suspension results in outstanding qualities of damping stiffness, the benefits of which are evident at both maximum velocity as well as in cornering. The electronics systems are developed from and further innovate upon the experience honed in the world of GT racing.
No less sophisticated is the braking system, which integrates a brake-by-wire system necessary to allow the recovery of kinetic energy by the front electric axle under braking. The system has been developed to combine precision and speed of response with reliability and durability, complementary aspects that are one of the keys to success in endurance racing. The electric front axle uses energy recovered while braking, storing it in the high-voltage battery before transmitting torque to the front wheels when a certain speed is attained, thus helping boost the performance on the tracks scheduled to host the 2023 calendar.
Partnership with AF Corse
The Ferrari 499P will be managed on track by Maranello technicians and engineers with the collaboration of AF Corse. The partnership continues the winning streak which began in the 2006 FIA GT with the F430 GT2 that secured Team, Driver and Constructor titles in its debut season. The vast majority of GT successes in recent years have been the result of the partnership between Ferrari and AF Corse, including all those achieved in the World Endurance Championship (WEC) since its inception in 2012.
John Elkann, Ferrari Executive Chairman: "The 499 P sees us return to compete for outright victory in the WEC series. When we decided to commit to this project, we embarked on a path of innovation and development, faithful to our tradition that sees the track as the ideal terrain to push the boundaries of cutting-edge technological solutions, solutions that in time will be transferred to our road cars. We enter this challenge with humility, but conscious of a history that has taken us to over 20 world endurance titles and 9 overall victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.".
Antonello Coletta, Head of Ferrari Attività Sportive GT: "The 499P is a dream come true. Today is an important moment for all the people who have worked so hard on this project over the past two years. We wanted to pay homage to our history, with many references, both large and small, to a past made up of successes and titles. We do so however, looking ahead, creating a manifesto of our commitment to the world endurance championship. The 499P is a prototype that is decidedly Ferrari, in the fullest sense of the term, and it gives us an enormous thrill to finally show it to our clients and to the many enthusiasts of the marque".
Ferdinando Cannizzo, Head of Ferrari GT Track Car Development: "For the whole team and myself, this is a really thrilling moment. We know that we have a huge responsibility. We have designed and engineered a car that is brand new and particularly complex in every aspect. This unprecedented challenge motivated everyone into all-encompassing, all-sharing collaboration involving every department of our company and our technical partners. Starting from a blank sheet of paper was a source of unique and continuous motivation in order to find effective solutions to guarantee the 499P's performance and reliability.
"From the very first shakedown to the first race, we have planned a very intense development programme, both on the test bench and on the track, which has given us some interesting feedback. The work of synthesis that awaits us over the coming weeks, and which will see us involved in further track testing, is the most important for fine-tuning and the final integration of all the systems. We still have a lot of kilometres to go, but the team is aware of the importance of the project and will continue to show commitment, passion, maturity and great professionalism."
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— Ferrari Hypercar (@FerrariHypercar) October 29, 2022
The world is witnessing history as Ferrari reveal the Ferrari 499P Hypercar set to compete in the 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship and at Le Mans.
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Q: JavaScript equation solver library Is there a JavaScript library or function that will solve equations for variables?
Such as 9 = 3 + x and solve for x. But it should also solve more advanced equations that include sine, cosine, and tangent.

A: A quick search turns up algebra.js and js-solver. I don't know anything about them, but they seem legit. algebra.js has a nice OOP API, but doesn't appear to handle trigonometric functions.

A: Look at the script at Newton's Method Program for f(x)=0. It solves the equation using Newton's tangent method.

A: I'd like to propose nerdamer. It can algebraically solve up to quartic functions and it can numerically solve a range of functions. Another library to consider is Algebrite.

//solve linear equations
var x = nerdamer.solve('(x+1)*3=x-6', 'x');
console.log(x.toString());
//quadratic
var x2 = nerdamer.solve('x^2-8x+15', 'x');
console.log(x2.toString());
//quadratic algebraically
var x3 = nerdamer.solve('x^2-ax+3*b', 'x');
console.log(x3.toString());
//multiple roots
var x4 = nerdamer.solve('x^6+41*x^5+652*x^4+5102*x^3+20581*x^2+40361*x+30030', 'x');
console.log(x4.toString());
//functions - numerically around to zero up to a predefined range
var x5 = nerdamer.solve('cos(x)^2+sin(x-1)', 'x');
console.log(x5.toString());
//solve a system of linear equations
var x6 = nerdamer.solveEquations(['2x+y=7', 'x-y+3z=11', 'y-z=-1']);
console.log(x6.toString());
//solve a system of nonlinear equations
var x7 = nerdamer.solveEquations(['3*x^2/y=2', 'z*x*y-1=35', '5*z^2+7=52']);
console.log(x7.toString());

A: You can approximate the solution by doing what excel calls "Goal Seek" - testing values for x until both sides of the equation approximately match. You can do this by splitting the equation by the "=" sign, replacing each occurence of x with a value, evaling both sides, and determining if the difference falls below a certain threshold. While relatively simple, there are flaws to this method though (other than the fact that it is an approximation), for example the algorithm may think the two sides are converging when in fact it is just a local min/max and will diverge after the difference falls just below your threshold. You'll also need to test multiple start points to solve equations with more than one solution.
For a program to actually solve an equation as a human would (by rearranging the two sides of the equation and applying inverse functions, derivatives/integrals and whatnot) is far more complex, and somehow feels entirely proprietary ;)

A: Ceres.js can find the solution to an array of equations of the form f(x) = 0. It is ported from C++ to JavaScript with Emscripten. The file is a bit large but if you need a really high performance solver this is your best bet. It runs in web-assembly so the speed is high.
Here is an example:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

Powell Function

This is an example of the solution of the powell function using Ceres.js

<textarea id="demo" rows="40" cols="170">
</textarea>

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namespace msf {

class StreamWriter {
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  Error writeBytes(ArrayRef<uint8_t> Buffer);
  Error writeInteger(uint8_t Int);
  Error writeInteger(uint16_t Dest);
  Error writeInteger(uint32_t Dest);
  Error writeInteger(uint64_t Dest);
  Error writeInteger(int8_t Int);
  Error writeInteger(int16_t Dest);
  Error writeInteger(int32_t Dest);
  Error writeInteger(int64_t Dest);
  Error writeZeroString(StringRef Str);
  Error writeFixedString(StringRef Str);
  Error writeStreamRef(ReadableStreamRef Ref);
  Error writeStreamRef(ReadableStreamRef Ref, uint32_t Size);

  template <typename T> Error writeEnum(T Num) {
    return writeInteger(
        static_cast<typename std::underlying_type<T>::type>(Num));
  }

  template <typename T> Error writeObject(const T &Obj) {
    static_assert(!std::is_pointer<T>::value,
                  "writeObject should not be used with pointers, to write "
                  "the pointed-to value dereference the pointer before calling "
                  "writeObject");
    return writeBytes(
        ArrayRef<uint8_t>(reinterpret_cast<const uint8_t *>(&Obj), sizeof(T)));
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  template <typename T> Error writeArray(ArrayRef<T> Array) {
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      return make_error<MSFError>(msf_error_code::insufficient_buffer);

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  template <typename T, typename U>
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Sahih Bukhari Book 6. Menstrual Periods
Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 6, Hadith Number 293
Narated By Al-Qasim : 'Aisha said, "We set out with the sole intention of performing Hajj and when we reached Sarif, (a place six miles from Mecca) I got my menses. Allah's Apostle came to me while I was weeping.…
Narated By 'Aisha : While in menses, I used to comb the hair of Allah's Apostle.
Narated By 'Urwa : A person asked me, "Can a woman in menses serve me? And can a Junub woman come close to me?" I replied, "All this is easy for me. All of them can serve me, and there…
Narated By 'Aisha : The Prophet used to lean on my lap and recite Qur'an while I was in menses.
Narated By Um Salama : While I was laying with the Prophet under a single woolen sheet, I got the menses. I slipped away and put on the clothes for menses. He said, "Have you got "Nifas" (menses)?" I replied,…
Narated By 'Aisha : The Prophet and I used to take a bath from a single pot while we were Junub. During the menses, he used to order me to put on an Izar (dress worn below the waist) and…
Narated By 'Abdur-Rahman bin Al-Aswad : (On the authority of his father) 'Aisha said: "Whenever Allah's Apostle wanted to fondle anyone of us during her periods (menses), he used to order her to put on an Izar and start fondling…
Narated By Maimuna : When ever Allah's Apostle wanted to fondle any of his wives during the periods (menses), he used to ask her to wear an Izar.
Narated By Abu Said Al-Khudri : Once Allah's Apostle went out to the Musalla (to offer the prayer) o 'Id-al-Adha or Al-Fitr prayer. Then he passed by the women and said, "O women! Give alms, as I have seen that…
Narated By 'Aisha : We set out with the Prophet for Hajj and when we reached Sarif I got my menses. When the Prophet came to me, I was weeping. He asked, "Why are you weeping?" I said, "I wish…
Narated By 'Aisha : Fatima bint Abi Hubaish said to Allah's Apostle, "O Allah's Apostle! I do not become clean (from bleeding). Shall I give up my prayers?" Allah's Apostle replied: "No, because it is from a blood vessel and…
Narated By Asma' bint Abi Bakr : A woman asked Allah's Apostle, "O Allah's Apostle! What should we do, if the blood of menses falls on our clothes?" Allah's Apostle replied, "If the blood of menses falls on the garment…
Narated By 'Aisha : Whenever anyone of us got her menses, she, on becoming clean, used to take hold of the blood spot and rub the blood off her garment, and pour water over it and wash that portion thoroughly…
Narated By 'Aisha : Once one of the wives of the Prophet did Itikaf along with him and she was getting bleeding in between her periods. She used to see the blood (from her private parts) and she would perhaps…
Narated By 'Aisha : "One of the wives of Allah's Apostle joined him in l'tikaf and she noticed blood and yellowish discharge (from her private parts) and put a dish under her when she prayed."


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Gardens (June 20-25, 2006)
Gary O'Brien
Evening in Meredith's Garden
Michael J. Oistad
Shoto-Teien Japanese Gardens
Jose Manuel O´Donovan Soler
La Rocalla (Rocky Area)
Elche, Spain
22/06/2006 - 11:30 local time (GMT + 1:00)
© 2006 Jose Manuel O´Donovan Soler, All Rights Reserved.
The Huerto Del Cura has a status of Artistic Garden and is famous in Elche and all of Spain for its great variety of Mediterranean, tropical and oriental plants. The gardens main feature are its palm trees set in a relaxed and quiet atmosphere so everyone can walk around and enjoy the vegetation. Amongst the great variety are collections of other plants from all over the world inlcuding a lot of species that have adapted to the local climate and conditions. The Huerto del cura also has typical Spanish Mediterranean vegetation such as Lemon trees, Orange trees, etc. The gardens most important asset is a unique palm tree, La Palmera Imperial (Imperial Palm tree) of eight arms (see WWP Gardens By Antonio Victor Garcia Serrano).
The Huerto Del cura is a recognized landmark in the whole region. Species such as myrtles, jasmines, geranium, bamboo, yuccas, hibiscus or rubber plants live and share the same environment in total harmony contributing to the beauty and culture of the garden.
The particular area of the Huerto which is captured in the panorama is known as La Rocalla (Rocky Area). This area has a wide range of cactuses which were given or purchased by the owners since the fifties and have gradually been introduced into this location inside the Huerto.The cactuses, rocks and ponds which make up this rocky area give it an exotic touch. Note the turtles basking in the sun ontop of the rocks by the pond.
The Huerto Del cura is a significant symbol of the city and a great attraction as it gathers tourists from all over. It is a place where one can quietly and peacefully interact with and truly appreciate the beauty of nature.
I would like to thank Don Francisco Orts Serrano and Don Manuel A. Mas Mas for giving us access to the Huerto and allowing us to take the panoramas as well as providing us with information about the Huertos History.
Francisco Orts Serrano, Jose Orts Serrano, Santiago Orts Perez. El huerto del Cura. Ediciones huerto del Cura, November 2000. Legal deposit: A-1062-2000. http://www.huertodelcura.com
Location, photographs and post-production by Jose Manuel O'Donovan Soler.
Supervision by Antonio V. Garcia-Serrano.
Europe / Spain
Lat: 38° 15' 52.79" N
Long: 0° 41' 26.91" W
Precision is: High. Pinpoints the exact spot.
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Shutter speed 1/125, Aperture f11 ISO 100, RAW.
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U.N. Environment Programme Urged to Protect Nature and Humankind from Electromagnetic Fields (EMF)
New York, NY, July 22, 2019. The Advisors to the International EMF Scientist Appeal, representing 248 scientists from 42 nations, have resubmitted The Appeal to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director, Inger Andersen, requesting the UNEP reassess the potential biological impacts of next generation 4Gand 5G telecommunication technologies to plants, animals and humans.
There is particular urgency at this time as new antennas will be densely located throughout residential neighborhoods using much higher frequencies, with greater biologically disruptive pulsations, more dangerous signaling characteristics, plus transmitting equipment on, and inside, homes and buildings.
The Advisors to The Appeal recommend UNEP seriously weigh heavily the findings of the independent, non-industry associated EMF science.
See video of spokesperson for The Appeal, the late Martin Blank, Ph.D. of Columbia University, and read the recent letter to the UNEP and The Appeal.
The Appeal highlights the World Health Organization's (WHO) conflicting positions about EMF risk. The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified radiofrequency radiation as a Group 2B "Possible Carcinogen" in 2011, and extremely low frequency fields in 2001.
Nonetheless, the WHO continues to ignore its own agency's recommendations and favors guidelines recommended by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), a private German NGO with industry ties long criticized for promoting guidelines not protective of humans, and falsely assuming authority.
In addition, it should be noted that no nation has established EMF exposure guidelines aiming to protect animals and plants.
The Appeal calls on the United Nations to resolve the inconsistencies among its sub-organizations and to seriously address the rapidly escalating health and environmental crisis caused by man-made EMF pollution.
Leadership is needed now, especially in light of urgent warnings from international scientists about 4G/5G antenna densification, the Internet of Things (IoT), and plans for significant radiation from space emitted by tens of thousands of satellites now being launched.
The Advisors to the International EMF Scientist Appeal – Annie Sasco, MD, Dr.PH., Henry Lai, Ph.D., Joel Moskowitz, Ph.D., Ronald Melnick, Ph.D. and Magda Havas, Ph.D., call on the UNEP to be a strong voice for the total environment of the planet, and an effective catalyst within the United Nations with regards to the biological and health effects of electromagnetic pollution.
In the letter to UNEP, Dr. Havas, Professor Emeritus, Trent University's School of the Environment, Canada, details serious effects on plants, insects and wildlife from electromagnetic fields that are well documented in the scientific literature.
Ronald Melnick, Ph.D., Advisor to The Appeal and former scientist at the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH), who managed the design and development of the NTP's recently published $30 million animal study showing a clear link between radio frequency radiation (RFR) and cancer, states: "Results from the NTP study show that the previously held assumption that radiofrequency radiation cannot cause cancer or other adverse health effects is clearly wrong."
Policymakers the world over should take note.
See International EMF Scientist Appeal and Letter to UNEP (June 25, 2019)
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thank you for this post
nick schaus
see the news of a "bee kill" in California next to a 5G antenna ——- thousands dead
I am less concerned about the unverified EMF concerns than I am about the actual interference 5G systems can cause with weather projection systems.
https://www.aip.org/fyi/2019/noaa-warns-5g-spectrum-interference-presents-major-threat-weather-forecasts
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September 27, 2015 September 28, 2015 Huckleberry Hax
Disappearing places
Rarely a month seems to go by without news that some place or another in Second Life is to disappear. I read recently that The Trace by Kylie Jaxxon, a beautiful, windswept beach sim which I wrote about in May last year, is to close soon. Leka by Kate Bergdorf, an island of peaceful spots and footpaths which I wrote about in February, has also just closed, to be redeveloped over the next couple of weeks into an art gallery. There are countless stopping points in my long SL journey which now no longer exist. The original Blue Angel Poet's Dive shut its doors many years ago, as did its replacement (the latest version now resides in Chelsea). Sawtooth Mountain Resort, which landscaped for a couple of years the ground level of the mainland sim I've lived in since May 2007, is now just a distant memory. And does anyone remember The Greenies?
Places disappear from the virtual world for different reasons. Sometimes it's a lack of money. Sometimes the money is there but the engagement from residents just isn't and the owner's interest wanes. Sometimes, the owner just wants to try something different. Sometimes the owner leaves SL. Sometimes the owner dies.
It's tempting to regard the metaverse as ephemeral in a way that the real world simply isn't, though a contemplation of life soon corrects that notion. I can think of many places In my own personal history which no longer exist. Buildings get demolished. Open spaces get built on. A school I worked in a few years ago and which I was very fond of was recently bulldozed to make way for housing, and I wonder often what that must feel like for the people who once attended it as children: a piece of their story is gone now, they can no longer go back there and look upon it and experience that sensation of old memories awoken. Ultimately, there is no such thing as 'permanent'. Even the mountains and valleys and oceans of our planet have a shelf life. One day, our sun will die and Earth will be no more. One day, the universe will end and every accomplishment which ever took place within it will be lost. The metaverse is no different from real life, it's just that everything is speeded up many times.
Even so, in an age where digital storage is cheaper than it's ever been, it seems bizarre that virtual places are so transient, so fleeting, so momentary. It is so easy to preserve, and yet we don't. The same can be said of the internet as a whole, where websites come and go, largely because digital bits need someone to keep on paying someone else money in order for them to remain in place. There is at least the Internet Archive, a repository founded in 1996 which contains now nearly half a trillion archived web pages as well as millions of books, videos, images and audio files, and over a hundred thousand old software titles. No facility exists there, unfortunately, for the preservation of Second Life places, nor does any such facility exist elsewhere. Then again, the archive itself is still just a collection of data on a collection of servers somewhere, which someone is paying someone to maintain. It could all too easily be switched off one day.
We're still awaiting the supposed virtual reality revolution; reportedly, it lies just around the corner. The Oculus rift is due to be released early next year. Project Sansar is under development. I don't know about you, but this pre-VR period is starting to feel a little worn-out. I'm no longer sure I believe it's going to have the pervasive impact its architects are hoping for. But I do still believe that, at some point in the future, VR in some shape or form will become a mainstream activity. When it does, there will be perhaps a rise in interest in metaverse history. But there will be no ruins to poke through, no abandoned sims to explore; all those virtual places where once people met and interacted and came away with new ideas – all those places which once molded people, just as books and films and music and physical places have shaped human thinking through the centuries – will be gone. Perhaps then an effort will be made to preserve the new things which are added, but from now until that moment all we create will be created from sand. So I guess it's up to us – the bloggers – to document those places, to recount some of the experiences, to publish a few of the photos, to stick a pin in the map of our virtual world which can tell anyone who ever looks one day, "this place existed and I was there."
The latest SL impending closure I've read about is Le Mont Saint-Michel, a huge, sim-sized recreation of the French island monastery in Normandy which I've visited many times over the years and have some very fond memories of. It featured in my recent video, "What Second Life means to me." A vastly ambitious build, the sim replicates every aspect of the island, from its narrow, winding streets to the sea wall which encircles the commune to the quiet monastery at the top. It's an old build in terms of its technology, a construction mostly from basic prims which could probably be done in a quarter of the land impact today if created from mesh components. Having visited the real life place several times myself, I recognise that it's not an exact replica of the Mont – nor could it be, starting from these basic building blocks and given the resource restrictions in place in SL. But the scale of the build is overwhelming. It is a work of great passion and incredible grace, and I am sad that it will soon disappear. My most frequented spot in the sim is the tiny balcony terrace at the back of Le café Poulard. When I sit there now, I can still recall past company, and the once whispered words, "Come home with me." Second Life will not be the same without this place.
I have an interest in old technology and the things created with it. It always fascinates me to hear people younger than me say how such-and-such a game or such-and-such a TV programme from years past look terrible, dismissing these things as unimportant in their obsolescence. 'The graphics are rubbish.' 'The special effects are appalling.' But these were the expressions of our souls with the tools we had available at the time; these were the creations of people who could have chosen to sit and do nothing, and instead tried to create something new and big with what they had, something which introduced new thoughts to those who engaged with it and took us all one step further forward. There is no greater treasure to humanity than the thoughts and wonderings and creations – and sheer effort – of people, and I will always be moved by the struggle and ingenuity that can be seen in these artefacts of our existence. It is the very essence of our story.
One day – and it's probably a day not all that far away – SL will look hideously antiquated next to whatever the new norm is. Tomorrow's generation will look at the images which remain and say, "the graphics look rubbish'. They will not see the countless hours spent creating. They will not see the dedication or the passion or the desire to create something new which inspires other people. And that is okay, because that's how people are. But they won't all be that dismissive; some will pause to wonder, "what was it like to be a resident of SL?" Some of them might be driven to find out.
I really hope there will be something for them to explore.
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Love what you wrote and the photos too! <3
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Miss D Ember says:
Reblogged this on Caledon: possessed of character and commented:
You have to walk this to believe how grand it is.
Huckleberry Hax writes a postcard farewell with excellent pictures.
I've walk those pixel streets and encourage you to try it before it is gone.
I finally got around to reading this oh so well written and thoughtful post. I don't know if you will see this but I must be getting older as I'm feeling rather nostalgic these days myself. I try not to get to attached to places in SL as it's hard enough to have lost some places of the heart ( except that they live on in spirit) in real life. All life is about loss. Our old cabin by the lake is in ruins and my childhood house on the hill was redeveloped though the foundations were kept. Give one of my stories a read sometime if you have time. ( no pressure) Ghosts at the Lake has much the same sentiments .


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Q: SQLAlchemy: обращаться к связанным объектам после закрытия сессии У меня есть много моделей связанных сами с собой и друг с другом, и эти связи нужно использовать в логике сервера. Код довольно сложный, поэтому нельзя сохранять сессии после выполнения запроса. Вместо этого я пытаюсь пред загрузить все объекты:
def db_get_structure():
    with Session(my_engine) as session:
        deps = {x.id: x for x in session.query(Department).all()}
        ...
        return (deps, ...)

def some_logic(id):
    struct = db_get_structure()
    return some_other_logic(struct.deps[id].owner)

Однако я получаю следующую ошибку несмотря на то, что все объекты уже подгружены:

sqlalchemy.orm.exc.DetachedInstanceError: Parent instance <Department at 0x10476e780> is not bound to a Session; lazy load operation of attribute 'owner' cannot proceed

Возможно ли как-то связать загруженные объекты друг с другом так, чтобы использовать их связи после закрытия сессии?


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