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 Annette Ducharme, Canadian musician and songwriter
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Das Summer Breeze Open Air (kurz SBOA) ist ein seit 1997 (mit Ausnahme von 1998, 2020 und 2021) jährlich stattfindendes Metal-Festival, auf dem Flugplatz des Aeroclubs Dinkelsbühl und mit ca. 40.000 Besuchern (Stand 2019) eines der größten in Deutschland. Das Festival findet in der Regel in der Woche des 15. Augusts von Mittwoch bis Samstag statt.

Geschichte

Die Veranstaltung fand bis 2005 in Abtsgmünd in der Nähe von Aalen statt und zog 2006 in das 40 km entfernte Dinkelsbühl um. Jedes Jahr treten über drei Tage ca. 120 Bands auf vier Bühnen auf, die Hauptbühne ist seit 2017 drehbar und ersetzt die ehemalige "Main Stage" und die "Pain Stage" indem sie sich dreht (Eine Band spielt, während die nächste aufbaut). Dadurch kommt es zu weniger Überschneidungen und zu keinen längeren Wartezeiten. Die zweite Bühne (Ehemalige Partyzelt, seit 2014 als Andenken an den 2013 verstorbenen Mitbegründer Michael "Mr. T." Trengert, T-Stage) befindet sich in der Nähe der Eingangsschleusen.

2010 bot das Festival erstmals eine weitere Bühne, die sog. Camel Stage, die neben der T-Stage platziert wurde. Diese Bühne wurde von der Zigaretten-Marke Camel promotet. 2019 wechselte der Promoter der Bühne, so dass die Bühne fortan den Namen Wera Tool Rebel Stage trägt. Seit 2010 wird Mittwochs eine Nuclear Blast Label Night veranstaltet mit Bands wie z. B. Equilibrium, Rage (Band) oder Unleashed. Die vierte Bühne lautet Ficken Party Stage und befindet sich auf dem Campground.

Die jährliche Besucherzahl stieg in den letzten Jahren sprunghaft an, im Jahr 2011 konnte das Festival um 39.000 Besucher verzeichnen. Um den Besucheransturm bewältigen zu können, wurden schrittweise die Anfahrtsmöglichkeiten sowie die Park- und Campingflächen vergrößert. Die Bühnenanlage wurde ebenfalls umgestellt, um den Zuschauern kürzere Wege zwischen den Bühnen zu ermöglichen. Seit 2007 bietet das Festival einen Biergarten. Die Merchandise-Einkaufsmeile wurde ebenfalls ausgebaut und liegt auf dem Bühnengelände direkt zwischen der Einlasskontrolle und den beiden Hauptbühnen T-Stage und Main Stage.

Außerdem wird ein kostenloser Shuttlebus-Service nach Dinkelsbühl und zurück angeboten, der regelmäßig im Zehn-Minuten-Takt verkehrt.

Das Camping ist ab Mittwoch im Ticketpreis enthalten, die Campingplätze öffnen jedoch traditionell bereits am Dienstag. Hierfür muss eine Extragebühr vor Ort entrichtet werden (15 €).

Das Campinggelände ist mit Duschen, gespülten Toiletten, Trinkwasserstellen, Dixi-Toiletten, kleinen Supermärkten, Essensständen und Info-Boards versehen und wird durchgehend von Polizei, Feuerwehr, Rettungsdiensten und Sicherheitsdienst patrouilliert.

Zudem gibt es mit dem Handicapped Camping einen speziellen Bereich für Besucher mit Behinderung / Rollstuhlfahrer / Schlafapnoiker. Das Gelände ist mit Podesten inkl. behindertengerechter Toiletten für Rollstuhlfahrer vor den Main Stage ausgerüstet. Es wird versucht das Festival so barrierefrei wie möglich zu gestalten.

Bands

Der Schwerpunkt der Bandauswahl liegt in einer Mischung aus Death Metal, Hardcore Punk, Metalcore und Thrash Metal. Es sind jedoch regelmäßig auch Bands aus anderen Metalrichtungen, Hard Rock, Folk Rock, sowie Mittelalter-Rock vertreten. Während 1997 noch keine allzu prominenten Bands auftraten, finden sich mittlerweile viele Größen des Genres in den aktuellen Line-ups. Beispiele sind Anthrax,  In Flames, Amon Amarth, Children of Bodom, Kreator, Subway to Sally, Saltatio Mortis, Sodom, Soilwork, Tankard, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Nightwish und Hatebreed.

Besondere Ereignisse
Zum zehnjährigen Jubiläum des Festivals im Jahr 2007 führte die Melodic-Death-Metal-Band Amon Amarth ein spezielles Bühnenprogramm mit Schauspieler-Wikingern auf. Außerdem wurde zu diesem Anlass ein eigenes Wikinger-Camp vor dem Bühnengelände eingerichtet.

2010 trat der Komiker Bülent Ceylan als Überraschungsgast mit einer 20-minütigen Show auf der Main Stage auf.

2015 verzeichnete das Festival auf ca. 45.000 Besucher nur vier Delikte wegen Körperverletzung.

2017 kam es überraschend zu einem doppelten Auftritt der Melodic-Death-Metal-Band Amon Amarth. Außerdem trat Doro zusammen mit Amon Amarth für einen Song auf.

2020 konnte das Festival aufgrund der COVID-19-Pandemie durch die staatlich angeordneten Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung des Virus nicht stattfinden.. Am 8. Juni 2021 wurde das Festival 2021 ebenfalls abgesagt.

Schwesterprojekt
In den Wintermonaten fand ein von den Summer-Breeze-Veranstaltern organisiertes Festival namens Winter Freeze statt, das allerdings nur einen Tag dauerte. Die Bandauswahl war der des Summer Breeze sehr ähnlich. Es traten ebenfalls bekanntere Bands auf. Das Festival gab es nur in den Jahren 2009, 2010 und 2011.

Für das Frühjahr 2023 wurde ein brasilianischer Ableger des Summer Breeze angekündigt, das Summer Breeze Brasil. Es soll als zweitägiges Festival mit ca. 40 Bands in São Paulo stattfinden.

Veröffentlichungen
 2002: Summer Breeze – All Areas 2002 (Warner Music Group)
 2004: Summer Breeze vs. Metal Blade (Promo-CD für die Festivalgäste)
 2005: Summer Breeze 2005 (Promo-CD für die Festivalgäste)
 2006: Summer Breeze 2006 (Promo-CD für die Festivalgäste)
 2008: Summer Breeze 2007 (DVD-Gratiszugabe für frühzeitige Ticketbestellung)
 2009: Summer Breeze 2008 (DVD-Gratiszugabe für frühzeitige Ticketbestellung)
 2010: Summer Breeze 2009 (DVD-Gratiszugabe für frühzeitige Ticketbestellung)
 2012: Summer Breeze 2010 (DVD-Gratiszugabe für frühzeitige Ticketbestellung)
 2013: Summer Breeze 2011 (DVD-Gratiszugabe für frühzeitige Ticketbestellung)
 2014: Summer Breeze 2012 (DVD-Gratiszugabe für frühzeitige Ticketbestellung)
 2015: Summer Breeze 2013 (DVD-Gratiszugabe für frühzeitige Ticketbestellung)
 2016: Summer Breeze 2014 (DVD-Gratiszugabe für frühzeitige Ticketbestellung)
 2017: Summer Breeze 2015 (DVD-Gratiszugabe für frühzeitige Ticketbestellung)

Literatur

 Alexander Philipp Hutzel: Homo Festivus: Das Summer Breeze Open Air und seine Besucher. Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-8288-7148-9.

Weblinks

 Website des Festivals

Einzelnachweise

Metalfestival in Deutschland
Musikveranstaltung in Bayern
Kultur (Dinkelsbühl)
Abtsgmünd
Musikveranstaltung in Baden-Württemberg
Erstveranstaltung 1997
Feste und Brauchtum (Baden-Württemberg)
Feste und Brauchtum (Bayern)
Veranstaltung im Landkreis Ansbach
Veranstaltung im Ostalbkreis

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So far, the most commonly expressed need for such functionality is that the management and/or the clients are used to seeing project plans and progress portrayed using a Gantt chart.
This post discusses the challenges in the propositions set forth by our current and potential users, and possible solutions to overcoming them – or at least somehow satisfying their needs.
Before going deeper into exploring the challenges and possibilities in satisfying these needs with having Gantt charts (or a Gantt chart export) in Agilefant, let's revisit what a Gantt chart is.
A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart […] that illustrates a project schedule. Gantt charts illustrate the start and finish dates of the […] the work breakdown structure of the project. Modern Gantt charts also show the dependency (i.e., precedence network) relationships between activities.
Gantt charts can be used to show current schedule status using percent-complete shadings and a vertical "TODAY" line as shown here.
Although now regarded as a common charting technique, Gantt charts were considered revolutionary when first introduced.
Gantt charts can also be used to depict the critical path of the project, that is, the shortest time the project can possibly take assuming that the durations of the activities on the critical path hold true.
An agile approach to managing a project is about setting a vision, and then, via iterative refinement, taking steps towards that vision – adjusting the vision, if the need for it becomes apparent as work progresses.
This is because of the underlying assumption that an agile approach is superior to up-front planning, when the nature of the project in question is something that is not well-understood and/or has not been completed before.
For a Gantt chart, we need to have some kind of calendar-based estimates for the durations of the activities in the project; but in an agile approach, calendar-based estimates are usually avoided – some practitioners even go as far as stating that no esimates is what should be strived for.
So, management and clients would like to have something which they cannot have. They're doing it wrong! Are we at a dead end?
It may sometimes seem that using an agile approach to plan and manage expert work has become mainstream. But I believe that at the time of writing this, we are at a point where the word 'agile' may have become mainstream, while the principles behind it are only slowly oozing their way into everyday practice, and at a selected minority of organizations and projects.
However, simply stating 'no, you can't have Gantt charts' may not be the most constructive way forwards either. A core value in Lean is to respect people, and in order to adhere to that, producing Gantt charts of a project sticking to an agile approach could sometimes be what's needed. And in any case, who am I to claim that it could not be so? If an organization requires a Gantt in order to let an agile initiative to start, then so be it.
Thus, in the rest of this post I explore how, and with what limitations (and possibly additional functionality), one could produce Gantt charts from data from an agile project. I'm using Agilefant as an example, because I closely know how it works.
Let's start with a simple example from the example dataset that comes along with a newly created Agilefant account – doing the Q4/2015 release of "The first zero-point energy car on the market".
While we can't at the start of the first sprint know whether the plan for it is realistic or not, let's for the sake of the argument assume that it is. That would mean that the scope of the project seems way too big, and scoping it down to some 26 points would be more realistic.
However, whether that's the case or not, will in a couple of weeks be evident from the burn-up graph – and even faster from the burndown graph of Sprint 1 itself.
But that's a sidetrack. Let's get back to our Gantt example.
Note, that setting an explicit start date for stories is, at the time of writing this yet possible in Agilefant. Should that be possible, we could – if we wanted – avoid some of the assumptions taken above, making the Gantt chart, at least in some sense, more "accurate".
Now, my question is, dear reader – would getting a graph similar to the above directly from Agilefant help you?
Your comments to jarno@agilefant.com are most welcome, and will be discussed in a future post which explores the topic further.


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The Only Story in History That Matters
Somewhere around the year 1700, the Savery steam engine seriously entered the market. The subsequent technological lineage led to the end of the world as humans had known it since the dawn of the species.
It wasn't a good steam engine (considering both thermodynamic and economic factors), but it made some headway. As a product, it was a whimper, relatively minor, but it was soon to be outdone by successors many times better.
Savery Steam Engine from Wikipedia, note the valve for cooling the surface of the vessel to the right, also consider the boiler on the left as the source of driving force, values a and b to switch modes of operation
My quest here is to consider what point in history might have been the point-of-no-return. Industrial steam applications grew furiously in the 200 years after the entrance of the Savery engine, with ebbs and flows therein. The Watt steam engine circa 1777 ushered into the world a coal-powered factory that was qualitatively the start of "The" Industrial Revolution. I'm learning about these events because I'm reading this book:
The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
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I have a particular kind of relationship with this source material, because I studied steam engines in depth in school myself. When I look at the Watt steam engine, I intuitively know what I'm looking at. It feels like a modern steam cycle, whereas the Savery design strikes me of something like a hybrid between science projects and a design of true utility.
Civilizations ebb and flow, and innovations do too. Knowledge has flowed over international boarders for all of history, and the cumulative quantity of knowledge seems to have mostly monotonically increased. But if the pace of growth had continued at roughly the same rate of increase, our current standard of life may not have occurred until 1,000 or 2,000 years after the present year. Something unique really did happen, and there was a surprisingly small (in the global sense) intellectual community about in which this happened.
William Rosen, the author of The Most Powerful Idea in the World, does justice to a much-overlooked concept that I think we all need to sober up to — innovation faces much greater headwinds than we give it credit for. Intelligence, itself, faces stiff penalties in the real world. Humans have profited enormously due to firstly the development of brains, and then secondly, as the result of the industrial revolution, but this does not mean that the instigators of those changes found it very profitable at all.
Actually, it's truly remarkable that James Watt attained a kind of affluence due to his contributions. Something was unique about the environment of the world he was born into, because being rewarded for improving efficiency of a process was not a thing for almost all of history.
Depressingly common crimes against intellect, creativity, and innovation that are endemic to human culture are explained very well in the book How to Fly a Horse. For the tl;dr, innovation does not work that way you think it does. Contributions to civilization are almost never made at the gain to the individual making the contribution.
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A fundamental shift was necessary in the relationship between the individual and society on this front — and I put it forth exactly that happened sometime in England in the last millennium. What that transition point was, I don't really know. The theories outlined in Why Nations Fail had some interesting insight on this point.
So let's return to when:
This one particular talk offers a compelling turning point of 1800, because there are actual graphs of output of the East versus West, and right around this point, the West's graph goes totally vertical.
I still struggle with this. Many things were still diverging from the rest of history before the actual start of the Industrial Revolution (1800), and the European age of Colonialism surely had some of those ingredients that led to the Industrial Revolution. Another way of viewing these circumstances is that the Industrial Revolution may not have been possible without the level of sophistication of Colonialism that the great powers started out with.
It's also interesting to argue about "why England?" It may have very well be some other nation that developed the steam engine if they had not. Nonetheless, there are several very unique arguments that answer the "why England?" question. For starters, there was a major shortage of wood, combined with extremely cold climatic conditions in the time preceding 1700. Many people have written about the coffee houses that allowed for people of different backgrounds to combine their ideas. I still doubt that similar things to Coffee Houses were not simultaneously happening in other nations around that time. The sheer power of England on the global scale was sure to have some relevance. Additionally, the nation was leading in government financial innovation by a couple of good case-in-point examples (such as the South Sea bubble), and had a relatively unique set of intellectual institutions.
It's hard to do enough justice to this final point. It seems almost like a "duh" point that the same intellectual environment allowed for the discovery of universal gravitation in the 1600s, and then the steam engine in the next century.
It's hard to mention Colonialism without also mentioning the brutality that came with it, but that point seems strange in this context. The European explorers were exactly non-unique in history because of their brutality and egotism. Those are fundamental components of the human condition in pre-industrial society. Technology only comes alongside with intellectual pursuit, and for whatever reason, England sparked the Industrial Revolution because a lot of that in a time when the economic pressures were ripe, and he civil institutions were permissive.
I find it very difficult to imagine an alternative history where the West went into decline right before the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and certainly this seems unreasonably implausible toward the end of the 1700s. However, there was a point, some point very close to the invention of patents, steam engines, and science itself where things could have turned hard in the other direction. The fact that civilization did not go down that road (this time) is really just about the only story in history that truly matters.
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Driving the Jaguar 3.8 E-Type, the Shape that Launched a Thousand Dreams
Road & Track's editor-at-large Peter Egan spends some time with the fixed-head coupe and roadster versions of the iconic sports car.
By Peter Egan
John Lamm
(This story first appeared in the May, 1997 issue of Road & Track.)
By long-standing automotive tradition, you are expected to remember exactly where you were when you saw your first E-Type Jaguar. The precise time and place, the color of the car, weather conditions and angle of the sun are supposed to be etched in your memory, almost like the anodyne flip side of that terrible moment when Kennedy was shot.
But many of us don't remember. I've asked half a dozen people who ought to, but they usually dissemble into a vague mixture of mutterings and shifty eye movements: "Let's see, let's see, when was it. . . Ha! Yes, I do remember; no, wait. . ."
You can't blame them. The stunning good looks of the Jaguar, for most of us, simply overshadowed and swept away any memory of our immediate surroundings. In most cases, it's the E-Type that's unforgettable, not where we were standing at the time.
There's another defense of this amnesia too: While the E-Type was both derivative of the D-Type and strikingly new, it somehow looked like a car we'd always known about but had never met, a natural shape waiting since Greek times for a modern Praxiteles to chisel away all the stone that didn't look like an E-Type.
Cars being more complex than statues (they've got stuff inside 'em), there was no single sculptor behind the new Jaguar, just the usual industrial team.
Most external shaping was the work of the brilliant young Malcolm Sayer, an automotive engineer who'd spent World War II doing aerodynamic work for the Bristol Aeroplane Company. A lively, energetic man who joined Jaguar in 1950, Sayer had the gift of thinking, instinctively and mathematically, in three dimensions.
Equally gifted was Sayer's famous boss, the founder and president of Jaguar, William Lyons (later to be Sir William ). From his early years as builder of the lovely Swallow sidecars, through all of the SS, XK and racing-type Jaguars, the unschooled but intuitive Lyons had shown a remarkable sense of both value and style in every thing he touched. He was not an engineer, but had that rarest of human traits, almost perfect good taste.
One look at most Jaguar prototypes—penned before Lyons had a chance to put in his gifted hand—and you're ready to get down on your knees and thank heaven he intervened. With a few subtle changes of proportion and line, they go from pretty good to downright brilliant.
William Heynes was chief engineer and mechanical interpreter of Lyons' dreams and intentions; Frank "Lofty" England towered over the project (literally) as Jaguar's service manager and race director; Norman Dewis, chief test driver, shook down the prototypes; and Bob Knight developed the E-Type's independent rear suspension, a system so good it's still the rear suspension of choice to hundreds of hot rodders.
Credits could go on forever; the point is, this was a very good team, nearly all of whom had five outright Le Mans victories under their belts and had just shifted their sights away from the sublime D-Type racing car to aim at the next big thing: a Jaguar racing car for the road. Well, sort of.
Here we get into the funny business of the car's name. Jaguar racing cars of the Fifties had been designated C-Type and D-Type, while the road cars had been XKs, followed by the model number. Yet within the factory, and for the European market, the new Jaguar was called the E-Type while in the U.S. it was introduced as the XK-E.
Floor wax or dessert topping? What was the deal? Was this Jaguar's new Le Mans contender or the replacement for the aging XK-150?
In a way, XK-E (a designation no longer favored by most enthusiasts) was probably the right name; the car was a little of each.With its monocoque passenger compartment/tail section, tube-framed engine bay and tilting bonnet, it was clearly descended from the D-Type. But its well-appointed interior, civilized 3.8 XK engine (borrowed directly from the XK-150S) and compliant suspension made it an ideal 2-place touring car. As Lofty England said, "The E-Type was the fruit of the racing years, not a race car itself."
None of this mattered to the throng of fans who stood transfixed, first in Geneva, then around the rotating platform at the New York auto show on April 1, 1961, gazing upon the very same Opalescent Bronze fixed-head coupe featured in the pages of this Salon. Peter Ustinov, Dick van Dyke, Paul Whiteman and the tall and glamorous model Marilyn Hanold stood nearby or posed with the car, but they were not the stars of this show.
People wrote checks on the spot and tried to hand them to any Jaguar staffer who could promise a car.
The new Jaguar was an absolute sensation. Not since the introduction of the XK-120 at the London show of 1948 had any sports car produced such a stir or so much favorable comment. The XK-E generated—along with the Mark IX—$30,600,000 in customer orders taken right at the show. People wrote checks on the spot and tried to hand them to any Jaguar staffer who could promise a car.
You had to muscle your way through a dense crowd to see them, but there were four E-Types parked under the Jaguar sign at the New York show that day: two fixed-head coupes and two roadsters, including our own bronze coupe (chassis number 885004—i.e., the fourth production coupe built), a British Racing Green coupe (885003), a cream roadster (875002) and a dark blue roadster (875003).
You can be sure those lucky throngs at the show remember quite vividly where they saw their first E-Type. Close up and in real life, the sheer detail and texture of the car were overwhelming.
It had a tail end like a wasp, with two chromed exhaust stingers sneaking up the underside; a steering wheel and instruments out of a Mike Hawthorn racing photo; wraparound bumpers that looked like half-retracted safety razors; delicate forged upper and lower A-arms that appeared incapable of holding the weight of the chassis, let alone the long, dense, XK engine with its polished cam covers and neat trio of 2-in. SU carburetors, which breathed through a back swept silver plenum atop an air cleaner the size of a Sears shop-vac. And then there were front torsion bars instead of springs, black-porcelained exhaust headers, wire wheels, knockoffs, glass-covered headlights...
The car seemed to have a hundred individual parts you'd gladly display in a trophy case; it was a virtual mother lode of future paperweights, conversation pieces, heraldic wall hangings and Druidic totems, all compacted into a single kinetic object of amazing sensuality and grace.
When you stood back and took it all in, the entire shape of the E-Type seemed charged purely with the task of delivering its own magnificent engine, which was wrapped tightly under that long bonnet bulge. The body, as Sayer himself said, was principally "a low-drag fairing around the mechanical parts..." There was a cockpit, of course, to fill the empty spaces next to the driveline, but almost as an after thought, like bunks in a submarine.
This, in fact, did not escape the notice of road testers, once the early E-Types were released to the public.
Originally, Sayer's design had stipulated a shallow floor well for the driver's heels, but production exigencies had deleted that feature, resulting in what are now known as "the early flat-floor E-Types." Tall drivers had little knee room to operate the pedals, and shorter drivers commented there was no place to rest their heels. The barrel-backed bucket seats, too, were slightly uncomfortable and didn't slide back very far. Both of these problems were corrected on later 3.8 and 4.2 cars; the floor well was put back in, the bulk head behind the seats was carved out for more movement, and the seats were redesigned.
On the mechanical front, the main complaint was the hardy but slow-shifting Jaguar-built gearbox with its Moss-style gears and non-synchro 1st. Jaguar was working on a new box, but it would not be introduced until the 4.2 Series 1 came out in October of 1964. There were other grumbles too: overheating in slow, hot traffic; leaking trunk and door seals; inadequate cock pit ventilation and scandalously high oil consumption.
The fact is, even after five years of hard work and development, Jaguar had more or less rushed the first E-Types into production for those 1961 auto shows, and the car was not quite ready for prime time. During that first summer, corrective measures slowed assembly lines to a crawl, so early orders took a long time to be filled.
But all these early nits were largely overlooked in the face of the E-Type's remarkable performance.
Here was a car advertised to go 150 mph at just a tick over its 6000-rpm redline, and British journalists from Autocar and The Motor had actually recorded two-way runs of 150 and 149.1 mph, respectively, on Belgian and Italian motorways. Never mind that these engines were carefully selected and bench-tested by Jaguar and that most owners were able to push their cars "only" into the mid-140-mph range at best, this was still an impressive speed in any car, let alone one that cost just $5595.
More to the point, any car with a 145-mph top speed could cruise at a genuine 100 mph without raising a sweat, which the E-Type did. Better still, the car felt safe and stable at these speeds. Sayer's years of racing experience and testing had paid off in superb dynamic stability. The Jaguar was also well balanced on winding roads. It cornered with mild understeer, while a useful amount of oversteer could be induced with hard throttle or a quick lift. All while providing a compliant, comfortable ride almost unknown in the sports cars of 1961.
In our September 1961 road test, R&T recorded a 0-60-mph time of 7.4 seconds and a 0-100 of 16.7 with the standard 3.31 rear end. Bystanders asked if it could beat a Corvette on acceleration and we said it could not, but it had a higher top speed and, with lower gearing, might trounce the Corvette on acceleration too. Not bad for a 2720-lb. car propelled by 230.6 cubic inches.
To some extent, the E-Type's performance envelope was limited by its 4-speed transmission, there being no room in the chassis for the overdrive unit used in earlier XK models. Still, the engine was so flexible, 265 (claimed) bhp at 5500 rpm and 260 lb.-ft. of torque on tap at 4000 rpm, a shortage of ratios was not really a problem.
Brakes, too, were excellent. Built by Dunlop, under license to Kelsey-Hayes, the 4-wheel discs hauled the car down smartly at a time when Corvettes and Porsche road cars, for instance, still had drums. In racing use, or on long mountain descents, the E-Type's brakes could be faded to a deep cherry red, but in normal daily use they were better than most. Rear brakes were in board, which reduced unsprung weight but made them a little harder to cool and service, while also putting heat into the differential oil seals.
But the rear suspension, with its four coil springs and tubular shocks, chunky lower links and fixed-length halfshafts acting as upper arms, was the very model of elegance. The suspension subframe was bolted to the car through four rubber isolation mounts and a set of trailing arms, so the whole chunk could easily be removed for service.
All in all, an amazing package, and so cheap! Here was one of the most beautiful and coveted cars on earth, and it could be purchased by ascetic first lieutenants, right-seat airline pilots and—yes—even journalists.
So I was naturally gratified to be sent to Northern California (on my 49th birthday) to look at two fine examples of the type. For this Salon we wanted to drive a fixed-head coupe and a roadster, and we found both in the San Francisco area.
One is the famous bronze 885004 New York show car, now owned by Mark Miller of Los Altos, California. The other, a 1963 3.8-liter Opalescent Maroon roadster, lovingly restored over three years by its owner, Steve Gasser, of nearby San Rafael. We drove and photographed both cars in the Napa Valley, in and around Far Niente Vineyards—owned by our friend and fellow Jaguar nut Gil Nickel.
Gasser drove up first, top down, on a clear, cool spring day. Steve is an attorney, originally from Albuquerque, who was born one year before his car was built. He has loved cars ever since he was a kid; Al Unser Sr. judged his soap-box racer in 1970.
After a long search, he found a straight, rust-free, original maroon restoration project in San Rafael in 1989. The car had not run in 17 years and was missing its radiator, but was otherwise complete. He paid $12,000 for it. "The E-Type has always been a favorite car of mine," he says. "I didn't know how cars worked and I wanted to learn."
Gasser farmed the bodywork and paint out to a shop, but did most of the mechanical assembly and detail work himself, with help and advice—and some shop space—from a professional mechanic named Steve Gordon of Vintage Auto Service in Oakland. They ended up with one of those crisp, perfect cars where everything works harmoniously, and the car has done 4000 trouble-free miles since its restoration. I'd never driven an early 3.8 car, so this was a good introduction.
Gasser's car has the later 1 1/2-in.-deep footwell, so the driving position felt pretty much like my old 4.2 roadster's, except for the barrel-backed bucket seats. These may be less than ideal on a long trip, but on first sitting they feel fine, if a little upright. The narrow pedal box precludes any heel-and-toe motion, mainly because the transmission tunnel and console prevent the necessary angling of your leg. The clutch pedal, typically, has a long, elephantine throw and engages only on the last inch or two of travel.
I'd heard the gear change was slow in the old-style box, and it is; you really have to let those revs drop and do a slow count between shifts ("one Mississippi...two Mississippi") or you get a minor grunch.
"I don't mind it," Gasser shrugs. "You just learn to use the torque of the engine and shift less often."
And that legendary engine torque is real. The car pulls away from a stop effortlessly, accelerates with steady, relentless force and cruises at highway speed with the calm assurance of a Merlin V-12 at part throttle. Get on the gas at 70 mph and you can feel those six long-stroke pistons start picking 'em up and putting 'em down; the car zooms up to 90 with a low, steady growl and no particular drama. And what else would you expect? Seventy mph is less than half speed.
Road feel is one of unshakable stability, with nice steering feedback. The car tracks straight and true with a compliant, comfortable ride, and the wind flutters the top of your cap but doesn't buffet the cockpit area; unshouted conversation is possible. Brakes are strong and linear, much better and more modern than I expected. As you get accustomed to it, even the slow gearbox has its charms. It somehow fits with the solid, industrial-machine quality of the car and requires you to contribute something to its operation.
It's more car than you need for mere sport, but that's a good part of its charm.
The E-Type, for all its aeronautical modernness, is one of the last sports cars made with that traditional sense of being a motorcar (accent on motor) rather than just a car. It's not a quick, nimble driver's car in the style of a Lotus Elan or a Miata, but a machine with its own special gait and bearing. You do drive an E-Type, but you are also partly aware of being taken for a ride, like the new owner of a highly trained but spirited war horse. It's more car than you need for mere sport, but that's a good part of its charm.
Our other E-Type, which arrived by trailer, had been completed only hours before these photographs were taken. Its owner, Mark Miller, had been up for about three weeks of days and nights building the car (again, with help from Steve Gordon) and was all but talking in tongues when he arrived. His coupe started, ran, drove and looked perfect, but was untested. We drove it briefly, but mostly just took its picture. Why all the last-minute work?
A little history: After this famous bronze coupe—probably the most photographed Jaguar in American history—left the New York auto show, it was sent to Charles Hornburg, the Jaguar distributor in Los Angeles. From there it made the rounds to some two dozen other western Jaguar dealers as a demo car and was also shown off at the Santa Barbara road races and other California circuits, doing parade laps for the crowd.
When production E-Types finally started rolling off the line, the coupe was sold out of Hornburg's Sunset Boulevard showroom in February, 1962, to Eddie MacHarg, who gave it to his wife, Ruth ("Judy"), for her 40th birthday. Eddie was well known in the music business, having been road manager for Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway, as well as music publisher to Irving Berlin and others.
After Eddie died in 1980, Mrs. MacHarg drove the car until 1989, then sold it to the Blackhawk Collection, Kenneth Behring's famous car museum in Danville, California. The museum did a nice display restoration, but, as Mark Miller says, "They didn't worry too much about the mechanical details."
When Mark heard the Blackhawk museum was thinking of selling the car last summer at Pebble Beach, he appealed to their mercy; he already had one of the roadsters from the New York show, he told them, and the two cars should be reunited. Hard to fault that logic, especially at a fair price, so Miller became the car's new owner.
He's been working on it ever since, rebuilding the drivetrain and returning the engine compartment to period look and specification. The pumpkin-colored cylinder head, he says, correctly reflects color photos from 1961 (later heads were more of a pale gold), but the color of the car itself is not original. It is currently painted Golden Sand, while the original was the more coppery Opalescent Bronze.
A distinctive giveaway to the car's early production is its external set of bonnet latches, which have to be opened with a large T-handled key. Just 500 of these "outside latch" cars were made before the dual release handles were moved inside the cockpit. The early latches tended to release accidentally on rough roads, and as Mark Miller warned me, the T-handle can easily snap the chromed pot-metal covers off the latch holes. The later interior latches work better, of course, but require more running around than a tennis match if you forget to release them before you get out of the car.
The flat floor also disappeared in February, 1962, after 2523 cars had been made. Miller's car felt a little more cramped than Gasser's later roadster in this respect, but not enough to make you run out and look for a different Jaguar.
As driven during our photo shoot, the coupe was probably no more than three hours away from mechanical perfection, needing little more than a final carb adjust. Miller had pulled out all the stops to have it done for us, and the evening after the photo session he went back to our hotel, rented a room and slept for 16 hours. Hollow-eyed from exhaustion, he'd been too tired to drive 100 miles back to his home.
The next day, upon seeing that golden coupe being loaded on its trailer and driven away, it occurred to me that the E-Type's handsome lines look so inevitable now, you tend to forget there was once a world without them. And yet the beauty of the car is much more than skin deep.
You have only to drive an E-Type, work on the engine or look at the car from any angle—inside, outside or underneath—to realize it has a quality and consistency of vision that goes all the way to its core. No fake hood scoops or rally stripes here; the unseen transmission housing is as beautiful in its own way as the roofline of the coupe or its glass-covered headlights. For all its style and flair, and even its few shortcomings, the car is completely real. There's a genuine echo of the Mulsanne
Straight resonating in every part. The E-Type seems to have been created by people who loved what they were doing and wanted, almost child like, to show us what they could make.
And what they made was the product of hard work, historical good fortune and pure inspiration from the deepest and most sincere yearnings of the human spirit. It's a graceful blend of craft and innocence whose like we may not see again.


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Q: Show $\{x_n\}$ is cauchy if $x_n = \frac{3+n}{\beta + n}$ and $\beta >10$ "Show $\{x_n\}$ is cauchy if $x_n = \frac{3+n}{\beta + n}$ and $\beta >10$"
I don't get the correct intuition behind $\beta >10$. I tried to solve the problem like this instead. $$\frac{3+n}{\beta +n}=\frac{n}{n+10}+\frac{3}{n+10}<n+\frac{3}{n}=\frac{n^2 +3}{n}$$
and $$\frac{n^2 +3}{n}<\frac{\epsilon}{2}$$
if $$n>\frac{2}{\epsilon}(n^2 +3).$$
If this were a valid option for $N$, we could then show $n,m > N \implies d(x_n, x_m)< \epsilon$. Why doesn't this method work? I think it's because this $N$ is too small.

A: First off, the Cauchy criteria applies for the difference of the terms $|a_m - a_n| < \epsilon$ and not for a single term. What you did is trying to solve for $a_n < \epsilon$ only. We have: for $m , n \ge N$, $|a_m - a_n| = \dfrac{(\beta - 3)|m-n|}{mn}< \dfrac{2(\beta-3)}{N}< \epsilon \iff N > \dfrac{2(\beta -3)}{\epsilon}$. Thus we can choose the $N$ based on the last inequality. Thus $\{a_n\}$ is Cauchy.

A: Hint: For given $\epsilon>0$, find $N$ such that $|x_n-1|<\frac 12\epsilon$ for all $n>N$. Then automatically $|x_n-x_m|<\epsilon$ for all $n,m.>N$

A: For cauchy convergence we must find how $|x_m - x_n|$ behaves. We have:
$$|x_m - x_n| = |\frac{3+m}{b+m} - \frac{3+n}{b+m}| = |\frac{3 - b}{b+m} + 1 - 1 - \frac{3 - b}{b+n}| = |3 - b||\frac{1}{b+m} - \frac{1}{b+n}| \le |3 - b|(\frac{1}{b+m} + \frac{1}{b+n})\space\space (1)$$
Suppose ,without loss of generality, that $m > n$. Then:
$$(1) \implies |x_m - x_n| \le 2\cdot|3 - b|\cdot\frac{1}{b+n}$$
For any $ε>0$, choose $n_0 = 2\cdot\frac{|3 - b|}{ε} - b$ and from here you can rove what you want.

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Remarks at the Baccalaureate Service - May 18, 2014
The class of 2014 has distinguished itself in talent, intellect, good humor, and community-mindedness. The quality of your closeness to each other is exceptional and lasting. You have stood apart from other graduating classes in defining your experience, even in the fact that we gather in our campus theatre instead of the chapel for this baccalaureate occasion.
You stand apart because of accidental circumstances that we will always remember together. Your senior year will be marked by the October fire in the chapel bell tower; and it was one of your classmates, a volunteer firefighter, who stood in the aerial bucket aiming a water canon at a blazing inferno for two hours. A member of your class did that. Your year is the only class that has not gathered for Baccalaureate in the chapel since Calvin Coolidge was the U.S. President. This distinction in our university history gives you particular status and responsibility.
In many ways, the circumstances of completing your senior year absent the chapel spire and perched rooster that stood almost 20 stories above the Quad, while still disorienting months later, gives you an important clue about your life and your life's work. Coincidentally, while our St. Lawrence horizon is missing a much-loved landmark of inspiration, other more famous places are at the same time adjusting to unexpected changes.
Almost three years ago, an earthquake in the piedmont of Virginia rippled through Washington, DC damaging the tallest features in that city of majestic distances. The Washington Monument, which took almost 40-years to build, was until this week shrouded in scaffolding of metal mesh to repair over 140 cracks in its structure. The Washington Monument looked like a difficult orthopedic solution to a compound fracture. Our campus is not the only instance of a temporarily altered landscape that is missing something familiar.
Most years at Baccalaureate, the graduating class will naturally express itself in the spirit of sustained creativity. In other words, after "trying on" a variety of ideas and possibilities while at St. Lawrence, our graduates possess a desire to build something new, a truly fresh enterprise, or a road different from other generations. There is no reason now to deviate from that ambition to be builders, to be the instigators of something new, to be brave enough for unmapped paths. But you, unlike other recent classes, have an added turn of reflection because you witnessed the collapse of the chapel spire. The world will always have its builders and people of big ideas, but it also, more than ever, needs its repairers when things tumble down.
The class of 2014 has potentially learned something more than other classes. The unexpected happens, often to break our hearts. A fire in the night comes unannounced. The symbol of a thousand dreams vanished. And it will be important, with all the positive skills developed as a St. Lawrence undergraduate, to know that fixing things is major part of life. The voice of a prophet speaks to us again, perhaps too often, "And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt… you shall be called the repairer of the breach." (Isaiah 58:12).
The place where Jane Austen is buried in England was nearly lost to the world about a hundred years ago. It is Winchester Cathedral, southwest of London, which was first constructed about a decade after the Norman Conquest of 1066. It's been around a long time, but was placed upon unsteady, fragile ground from the beginning. In fact, the ground was a peat bog, not any more secure than wetlands.
The original designers of Winchester Cathedral could not reach bedrock because the water tables were so high. Instead, they filled the area with the logs of beech trees, and then built the stone structure on top. The cathedral, in effect, was a barge floating on a bog, a kind of massive riverboat with marble spires and finials. The plan worked for many centuries, but over time the weight of the building and the decomposition of what stood between it and bedrock threatened to break the spine of the cathedral. To avoid imminent collapse, every trick of drainage and reinforcement was tried. Nothing worked.
One man made the difference. William Walker was a deep sea diver whose skills actually crossed with a desperate need. Holes were bored around the cathedral's perimeter, instantly filling up with about 25 feet of water. Walker, in a diving suit weighing 200 pounds, went down into the dark depths every day for nearly six years, first to clear the rotting timbers, then to shore up the foundation with over a million bricks and blocks. It worked. If you visit Jane Austen's tomb, as thousands of literary tourists do every year, you will also find a small statue of William Walker nearby. The inscription bears his name and the phrase "who saved the cathedral with his own hands."
What will each of us repair with our own hands? What will each of us help put back together in our lifetime? We will have our equivalent opportunities to strengthen a foundation, repair broken walls, or restore a tower of inspiration. I hope for each of you, because of this year, and symbolically because of the toppled chapel spire, you have understood the great responsibility of the repairer. Your hands shall one day be upon the new pinnacle. Your hands shall soon be upon the tolling bells. Your hands shall one day touch the shoulder of a St. Lawrence friend who needs you. You shall be called the repairer of the breach.
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Share your views and opinions of Brighton & Hove through photography and animation. A mini photography workshop facilitated by young people from the View-finder project at Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (formerly Falmer High School). Images and artwork will be uploaded to the View-finder project website.


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Volunteer organization that promotes Ag Education & Beef Promotion and raises money for Scholarships.
*Help lobby City of Red Bluff for new lighting on Walnut St. *Put in the new Christmas Tree. *Replace trees downtown. *Help pay for the Christmas Parade Downtown. *Help pay for planter maintenance. *Spent over $5000 last year to promote Christmas which is all for retail businesses. *Help sponsor Art Walk. The monies helps them pay for advertising to bring people to the event. *We co-host and help put on Beef N Brew which brings thousands of people Downtown. Treat Street. *We are lobbying for parking to be changed from parallel parking on Washington St. to angled parking so that more parking spacing will be available. *The sign project. We are using monies raised from Beef n Brew and redoing all the sign and sign poles in downtown Red Bluff. These monies are not assessment monies. *Sponsor Wednesday Chamber Farmer's Market.
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A young man, Mohib, falls in love with Zeba, an older woman. She tries to warn him about her past, but he proposes to her however their happiness is short lived as Zeba meets with an accident goes into coma.
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Q: How can I use PyInstaller to convert a python script which also import side script or packages I have to convert my python script to an EXE file. For this purpose I decided to use PyInstaller but I don't have a complete experince of it. When I ran the "-onefile" option to generate the exe, I see that exe file is not displaying the PyQt GUI at all. I ran this: pyinstaller --onefile converter_GUI.py
In my warnings log I see the following warnings:
This file lists modules PyInstaller was not able to find. This does not
necessarily mean this module is required for running you program. Python and
Python 3rd-party packages include a lot of conditional or optional modules. For
example the module 'ntpath' only exists on Windows, whereas the module
'posixpath' only exists on Posix systems.

Types if import:
* top-level: imported at the top-level - look at these first
* conditional: imported within an if-statement
* delayed: imported from within a function
* optional: imported within a try-except-statement

IMPORTANT: Do NOT post this list to the issue-tracker. Use it as a basis for
           yourself tracking down the missing module. Thanks!

missing module named pwd - imported by posixpath (delayed, conditional), shutil (delayed, optional), tarfile (optional), pathlib (delayed, optional), subprocess (delayed, conditional, optional), http.server (delayed, optional), webbrowser (delayed), netrc (delayed, conditional), getpass (delayed), distutils.util (delayed, conditional, optional)
missing module named grp - imported by shutil (delayed, optional), tarfile (optional), pathlib (delayed, optional), subprocess (delayed, conditional, optional)
missing module named _posixsubprocess - imported by subprocess (optional), multiprocessing.util (delayed)
missing module named fcntl - imported by subprocess (optional)
missing module named posix - imported by os (conditional, optional), shutil (conditional), importlib._bootstrap_external (conditional)
missing module named resource - imported by posix (top-level), test.support (delayed, conditional, optional)
missing module named _posixshmem - imported by multiprocessing.resource_tracker (conditional), multiprocessing.shared_memory (conditional)
missing module named _scproxy - imported by urllib.request (conditional)
missing module named termios - imported by tty (top-level), getpass (optional)
missing module named org - imported by copy (optional)
missing module named 'org.python' - imported by pickle (optional), xml.sax (delayed, conditional)
missing module named 'java.lang' - imported by platform (delayed, optional), xml.sax._exceptions (conditional)
missing module named multiprocessing.BufferTooShort - imported by multiprocessing (top-level), multiprocessing.connection (top-level)
missing module named multiprocessing.AuthenticationError - imported by multiprocessing (top-level), multiprocessing.connection (top-level)
missing module named _frozen_importlib_external - imported by importlib._bootstrap (delayed), importlib (optional), importlib.abc (optional), zipimport (top-level)
excluded module named _frozen_importlib - imported by importlib (optional), importlib.abc (optional), zipimport (top-level)
missing module named pep517 - imported by importlib.metadata (delayed)
missing module named asyncio.DefaultEventLoopPolicy - imported by asyncio (delayed, conditional), asyncio.events (delayed, conditional)
missing module named vms_lib - imported by platform (delayed, optional)
missing module named java - imported by platform (delayed)
missing module named _winreg - imported by platform (delayed, optional)
missing module named readline - imported by cmd (delayed, conditional, optional), code (delayed, conditional, optional), pdb (delayed, optional)
missing module named multiprocessing.get_context - imported by multiprocessing (top-level), multiprocessing.pool (top-level), multiprocessing.managers (top-level), multiprocessing.sharedctypes (top-level)
missing module named multiprocessing.TimeoutError - imported by multiprocessing (top-level), multiprocessing.pool (top-level)
missing module named multiprocessing.set_start_method - imported by multiprocessing (top-level), multiprocessing.spawn (top-level)
missing module named multiprocessing.get_start_method - imported by multiprocessing (top-level), multiprocessing.spawn (top-level)
missing module named pyimod03_importers - imported by C:\Users\cante\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\hooks\rthooks\pyi_rth_pkgutil.py (top-level)
missing module named msys_writer - imported by C:\Users\cante\OneDrive\Desktop\plan-conversion\converter_GUI.py (top-level)
missing module named dxfParser - imported by C:\Users\cante\OneDrive\Desktop\plan-conversion\converter_GUI.py (top-level)
missing module named mechanism - imported by C:\Users\cante\OneDrive\Desktop\plan-conversion\converter_GUI.py (top-level)

Do I need to use hooks or other options? I need your help with this, what command should I to use?
My project structure is as follows:

*

*Converter [FOLDER]

*

*EZDXF [SYSTEM LIBRARY]

*factory [FOLDER]

*svgwrite [FOLDER]

*converter_GUI.py [main is also here]

*parser.py

*mechasnism.py

*writer.py

Thank you very much


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Q: How can I split a deck of 52 cards into 4 hands of 13 in Java? For this project we are not able to use any collection classes. I have tried using a loop to create 4 arrays which each hold 13 cards, so they can later be sorted and presented to user. I can't work out how to populate 4 arrays with cards from the deck
My deal method:
public void deal() {
        for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
            Card[] hand = new Card[13];
            for (int j = 0; j < 13; j++) {
                hand[j] = deckOfCards[j];
                j++;
            }
        }
    }

A: It seems you have made a logical error. Lets make a dry run. The outer loop runs 4 times.
    for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)

Each time, a new array hand of type Card is created.
    Card[] hand = new Card[13];

Next we move to the j loop which runs 13 times for each value of i from 0-3,
    for (int j = 0; j < 13; j++)

Now inside the elements are stored in the array hand.
     //Logical error
     hand[j] = deckOfCards[j];

Now every time in the hand array, only the first 13 elements of deckOfCards are used.
You are not accessing elements from 13-51 of the array deckOfCards. To do that try changing this part of your code to this.
    hand[j] = deckOfCards[j + i*13];

This makes all the elements of deckOfCard to be accessed.
I hope I helped you.


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Tui stays on track for annual profit
HANNOVER – Despite the chaos at many airports, the world's largest travel group, Tui, is expecting almost as many holidaymakers as before the pandemic. As a result, the group should return "significantly" to daily profitability over the current financial year until the end of September.
This was confirmed by outgoing CEO Fritz Joussen and his designated successor Sebastian Ebel on Wednesday in Hanover. However, that didn't work out in the last quarter – mainly because Tui had to cancel many flights in Britain.
At the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, the news was first recognized with price cuts of up to four percent. After an hour and a half, however, Tui's share price turned into a profit zone and recently rose almost one percent to EUR 1.7115.
Industry expert Richard Clarke of analytics firm Bernstein Research expects a sunny summer for the travel group. The question, however, is how European consumers will behave next given the rising cost of living, he wrote in the morning.
During the last quarter, bottlenecks at many airports also caused problems for Tui. In May and June, the group had to cancel around 200 departures – notably in Great Britain and mainly in Manchester, said financial director Ebel, who will take over the management of the group on October 1. The deletions cost the group 75 million euros. Additionally, given the upheaval, customers have been reluctant to make reservations, the manager said.
Business is picking up now. So far, Tui has counted the bookings of 11.5 million customers for the summer, around 90% of the 2019 level. In the third quarter to the end of June, 5.1 million holidaymakers were traveling with You. That's 4.2 million more than a year earlier, when business was only on the back burner due to the corona pandemic.
Sales therefore jumped year on year from 650 million euros to 4.4 billion euros. Due to the impact of flight cancellations, adjusted operating income (adjusted EBIT) was negative at 27 million. A year earlier, the operating loss had even amounted to 670 million. In the end, the shareholders this time recorded a deficit of around 357 million euros after a less than 935 million euros in the same period last year. Analysts were only expecting a double-digit loss of $1 million.
Tui is struggling with the sharp increase in fuel costs. Due to its strained financial situation due to the pandemic, the group had hardly entered into any jet fuel hedging transactions this year. According to the board, he only looks better for the winter and next year.
On the other hand, customers have spent an average of 18% more money on their Tui holidays so far this summer than in 2019. Comparable trips have not become as expensive by this measure. On the contrary, people are booking package holidays, more comfortable rooms and longer stays more often than before, the council said. The extra income also helps the group cover increased kerosene costs.
Meanwhile, outgoing Tui boss Joussen said the state-rescued travel group's corona worries were over. Thanks to higher travel prices, the summer quarter will be the strongest in terms of sales in the company's history. "The crisis is over," Joussen said. However, this has not yet solved all the problems – for example with regard to debt.
Tui's management hopes to further reduce the mountain of debt from the Corona crisis with the recovery from the pandemic. Between the end of March and the end of June, Tui had reduced the weight of the net debt from around 600 million to 3.3 billion euros.
For the current financial year, Joussen and Ebel expect "significant" operating profit before special effects (adjusted EBIT). In the coming financial year, a positive business result is possible even after deducting interest and taxes. "I think we're on the right track there," Ebel said.
Meanwhile, inflation is a new challenge. According to Ebel, however, he doesn't expect rising costs to stop many customers from traveling soon. Even as disposable income declines, very few people are giving up vacations altogether, he said. However, it is conceivable that fewer long-distance trips will be booked in the future and that there will be more demand for closer destinations, such as Egypt instead of the Dominican Republic.
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Vote for your Game of the Year 2011
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Plus, place a vote and you'll go in the draw to WIN a Year's Supply of Games – that's one game of your choice each month throughout 2012!
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The Private International Terminal, located west of the Commercial International Airport Terminal was opened in December 2004, and is equipped with modern furniture, making it first in its class in terms of privacy, comfort and service of those who use it. This terminal, which shares a platform for aircraft parking with the Domestic Flight Terminal, has an area of 160 m long and 70 m wide, with a capacity to park more than 35 Jets at the same time.
Those who use the spacious Private Aviation Terminal of La Romana Airport feel safe and comfortable because it has a Premier Salon, a modular reception desk, bathrooms for ladies and gentlemen, a meeting room for 10 people, a private crew lounge with capacity of 10 people and personalized service.
Airport operational services are available 24 hours a day, every day, with capacity to provide weather information, refueling, ramp and passenger handling services, and large-scale rescue and firefighting services. Not to mention, the airport has an area for service and aircraft maintenance.
The Private Aviation Terminal also works in coordination with the Heliport of Casa de Campo located within the complex, and is only 5 minutes from the airport for passenger convenience. The Heliport accommodates six helicopters at a time, and manages parking for more in the La Romana airport.
This private terminal has the highest standards in quality and services: Servair Aero, Swissport Dominicana S.A., and International Aviation Services are companies authorized to manage the reservation for use of the terminal and grant complementary services for your comfort.


I had a busy November, and also had good intentions to blog about what I was doing and thinking. I started about a dozen draft posts, and then didn't finish them -- but I figure it's not too late to finish and post them in December. My mother-in-law created a piece of art titled "The wall of good intentions," which I'm vaulting over right now. Outdated / backdated posts to follow..


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Q: Simple but effective face detection algorithm using neural networks I'd like to have my undergrad machine learning students have the option of doing a face detection project using neural networks (constructed by the students using Keras). The algorithm should ideally be simple but able to detect faces in a group photo of our class. From what I've seen so far, implementing YOLO or R-CNN looks too complicated, and I think a simpler approach should be possible because YOLO and R-CNN are near state of the art and they do more than just face detection.
Any recommendations for a relatively simple face detection algorithm that could be used?

A: Relatively trivial approach to object (face) detection is to train a (convolutional) neural network to perform binary classification (face vs. no face) on image patches. Then you can pass patches of the tested image in a sliding window fashion (using certain stride for improved speed) to the network and see if it has detected a face in that region of the tested image. Finally, to handle various sizes of faces, you can process the tested image on several different scales.