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Filmmaker Retrospective: The Controlled Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville
Posted on April 19, 2015 April 19, 2015 by Matheus Massias
Jean-Pierre Melville was born Jean-Pierre Grumbach, in Paris, France, in 1917, to a family of Alsatian Jews. During World War II he joined the French Resistance and adopted Melville as his nom de guerre after Herman Melville, his favorite American author. When the war was over, he decided to keep it.
Prior to the war, however, Jean-Pierre Grumbach was a zealous cinephile and he even shot some 16mm homemade films with a camera that was given to him by his father.
Throughout his career, from 1946 (the year he made a short film called to Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Clown) to 1972, Melville made thirteen feature films, and most of them were highly acclaimed, not only by the audience and critics, but by such important filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and Nicolas Winding Refn, who, one can plainly see, influenced by Melville in one way or another.
For the most part, Melville's films delve into the underworld of policemen and hoodlums; forging an individual and fresh crime genre with stylized doses of noir, Melville was undoubtedly influenced by American films that were finally available for viewing after the Liberation.
Thus, the very word hoodlum was chosen (originally in reference to Melville's character Bob the gambler asserting that he has a "hood's face") to illustrate and (attempt to) summarize and define Melville's oeuvre, even though it is not the most descriptive word and his films are not only about heists and hoodlums – a theme which can find an excellent social explanation in wretched, post-war France -, Melville, as a post-war filmmaker, who was also directly involved in the war (see Code Name Melville), portrayed the difficulties and the distresses of wartime France with sensibility, as one can observe in his "unofficial" war trilogy.
Moreover, Melville was a fluent adaptor, most of his films derives from literature, but his approach is quite filmic, and the way he directed and employed mise-en-scène was a cornerstone (though he regarded directing a "tedious formality", he rather enjoyed writing and editing).
He was the godfather of Nouvelle Vague (Godard's jump cuts in Breathless owns a lot to Melville's advice), one of the few independent filmmakers who owned a studio, and one of the artists who hoped for a new cinema: "It seems to me that all over the world, cinema has reached its definitive though imperfect form as a 'monument', whose keystones are action and movement. So do we have to stick forever to the rules, followed a thousand times, which, year in year out, produced five good films? Can we not try something new? Can we not learn from the lessons of the past and try to renew this art form?"
Melville was the breath of fresh air that French cinema needed, and when he died in 1973, at 55, he was already an established filmmaker. In Breathless, Melville plays a writer, Parvulesco, and Jean Seberg's character, among other interviewers, asks him "What's your great ambition?" and he answers with the following: "To become immortal, and then die." That was exactly what Melville did.
1. Le Silence de la mer aka The Silence of the Sea (1949)
Melville's first feature film was based on a wartime novel written by the French author Jean Bruller, who, by the time of World War II, had published his books under a pen name, Vercors. Bruller was a member of the French Resistance, and Le Silence de la mer became a symbol of resistance.
In the opening scene of the film there is a man standing on the pavement by a stone parapet; while he is in the foreground, a man carrying a briefcase appears in the background. The man leaves the briefcase near the first man, he opens it, and under some clothes and newspapers there is a book titled Le Silence de la mer.
The man looks through the pages, which include a dedication to the memory of an assassinated poet, Saint-Pol-Roux; the other pages of the book are the opening credits of the film, presenting the cast and the crew, which remind the viewer very much of the opening of Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels, released in 1941.
Additional information about The Silence of the Sea has stated that the film does not claim to provide any solution to the relations between France and Germany. Most of the film takes place in the living room of an old man's house, which he shares with his niece (Nicole Stephane).
Melville applies a common literary device, the off-screen narration, provided by the old man (Jean-Marie Robain), which is very interesting when the old man and his niece hardly speak a word throughout the film. It is 1941 and France is occupied by Germans; the old man has to allow a German officer (Howard Vernon) to lodge in his house.
Melville's mise-en-scène is balanced, with mildly lighting and serene camera movements; it is also noteworthy how resourceful Melville is when framing characters through doors or windows, or using mirrors along with eye-line matches.
Every night, when the old man is smoking his pipe and his niece is knitting, the German officer steps in and speaks his mind, commenting on the differences between French and German culture and so on. The old man and his niece only listen to the officer, and they do not say a word.
Melville's framing is quite precise; the film includes two shots that are especially memorable for their beautiful composition: it is winter and Werner von Ebrennac (the German officer) says that his room is very cold so he is going to warm himself by the fire for a moment — though he is framed in the center of the shot, we can see the fire, as well as the old man's left hand and both of the niece's hands knitting in the margins of the frame.
Minutes later, there is a low-angle shot from the hearth, and we can see the officer's face (this happens more than once in the film, and since it is known that Melville is one of Tarantino's favorite directors, it looks like a clear-cut inspiration for Tarantino's trademark, the trunk shot) and he ponders "How is this different from a fire at home? The wood, the hearth, the flame are the same, but the light is different.
This one depends on the objects it lights, the people in this room." The dialogue and mise-en-scène perfectly match. Furthermore, Melville's use of close-ups and his editing (made by himself and Henri Decaë) are rather classic, with fade-ins and fade-outs, wipes, and also an interesting pan shot from the officer's face to a church, in which he recalls Chartres in a flashback.
Then, there is another flashback, in which he tells about his former lover. Near the end of the film, when Ebrennac meets other German officers, Melville uses a sequence shot of nearly two minutes, combining a travelling and overhead crane shot.
The Silence of the Sea may seem boring due to the German officer's monologues and the resolute silence of the French denizens, in addition to the annoying clock ticking in the living room. However, Melville's debut is a great film, acclaimed both critically and commercially (also particularly appreciated by Vercors, who had sworn he would burn the film if he did not like it).
2. Les Enfants terribles aka The Terrible Children (1950)
Melville's second film, Les Enfants terribles, is another adaptation. It is not just any adaptation though; his first feature succeeded well enough to have attracted the attention of Jean Cocteau, who granted his eponymous novel to Melville for an adaptation. Cocteau also provides off-screen narration in the film.
As the opening credits are rolling, there is an ethereal shot, in black and white, in a sort of Dutch angle, depicting a tree and a woman standing next to what appears to be a deathbed — later on, the same shot will appear again, revealing what it is all about.
The rhythm of the shots in Les Enfants terribles is more dynamic than in Le Silence de la mer, maybe because now Melville is working with children (though the cast members seem much older), instead of adults. If Nicole Stéphane, did not speak much in Melville's previous picture as the old man's niece, now she gives a hell of a performance as Elisabeth, Paul's older, protective but insidious sister.
Les Enfants terribles, as the title indicates, could easily be placed in the "troublemaking children" genre; the opening sequence of the film takes place at school with Paul (Edouard Dermithe) looking for a boy named Dargelos. "There was snow that evening. Parts of the school were under construction and became a perfect battlefield for the boys", Cocteau narrates.
Dargelos hits Paul in the chest with a snowball; he falls to the ground and his nose bleeds. Paul is then taken home by his friend Gerard (Jacques Bernard); he soon grows ill and is nursed by his sister who also takes care of their mother, who dies later. Paul and Elisabeth have an uncanny relationship; they share the same room and play a sort of game that is not made clear during the film, but, in sum, seems to consist of annoying each other.
Because of his poor health, Paul cannot go back to school and he is afraid he will not see Dargelos again, who has been expelled from school after throwing pepper in the principal's face. Paul keeps a photo of Dargelos, who played a female lead in school, Racine's Athalie. The homoerotic tone between Paul and Dargelos is not explored beyond that, which may leave viewers feeling relentlessly curious.
Elisabeth decides to get a job, so she starts working as a model and there she meets a girl named Agathe (Renée Cosima). Agathe, just like Gerard, goes to live with the siblings; against Paul's will, she takes the mother's bedroom. The viewer can tell that Cosima plays both Dargelos and Agathe; thus, Agathe becomes intrigued when she sees Dargelos's photo and thinks it is her.
Les Enfant terribles is a film with startling young performances, driven primarily by Elisabeth's manipulative deeds. In addition, the sibling relationship is so nuanced and dark that it reminds one of Isabelle and Théo in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers; the denouement of Melville's second film is as tragic as it is unimaginable.
3. Quand tu liras cette lettre aka When You Read This Letter (1953)
Melville's third film is not as good as his previous ones. However, it too thoughtfully portarys the intricacies of human beings and their relationships. The title, When You Read This Letter, may allude to Max Öphuls's Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), or, rather, to the particular line from the letter, "By the time you read this letter, I may be dead."
The characters of the film, unacquainted with each other, end up all connected in a sort of comedy of errors. There is nothing comic, however; Melville executes a bitter sequence that leads to tragedy once again. The plot, written by Jacques Deval, revolves around the womanizer Max Trivet (Philippe Lemaire), the sisters Thérèse (Juliette Greco) and Denise Voise (Irène Galter), the rich lady Irène Faugeret (Yvonne Sanson), and Max's friend, Biquet (Daniel Cauchy).
Max gets involved with the three of them in unexpected and crooked ways: Irène is a married woman, Denise is raped by him (she, therefore, attempts suicide and leaves a letter) and her sister forces him to marry her; and indeed, he falls in love with Thérèse after all.
This is a mere spoiler, but the plot is not over yet, Melville gets even more bitter. Stylistically speaking, it is noteworthy how Melville employs dolly shots on his characters in order to focus on them and reveal tension or distress. This technique is more emphasized in his next film, the noirish Bob the Gambler.
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Today's update is about the clubhouse, the first building available in Boss Golf!
The main function of the building is controlling AI access to the course. It knows which AI is currently playing, the capacity for people on the course (which will be tweakable later), and decides when to spawn a new player. In the screenshot above, you can see 3 AI golfers just loitering around the clubhouse, as their idling/golfing routines haven't kicked in yet!
For now, the clubhouse is placed randomly, and cannot be moved/removed. Accordingly, the terrain where the clubhouse is placed cannot be raised/lowered. You'll also be able to click on it as a shortcut for the information on your golf resort, which is useful for aspiring golf tycoons.
As the gameplay systems expand, you'll be able to tweak membership, decide on prices, course opening hours, all sorts of little things through this main building, as well as expand it, change its appearance and whatnot.
For 0.3, I'm working on the saving system and on blending the player golf gameplay with the AI golf gameplay. Your character will have to queue up for the hole like any AI character does, and you'll get a notification letting you know when your turn is up! With the save/loading, you'll be able to continue working on your course as the alpha progresses too!
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Q: Orchard cms Extending Menu Item part What's the best way to extent the Menu part in orchard ?
I want to use the normal menu part for most content types.
But I also want a Custom MainNavigationMenuPart. that has all the things the menu part has but adds a media picker field and a text field to it. - These items that will display on menu rollover.
Option 1
I think this is the best way to go ...
I've looked at writing a custom Menu part - but it seem like a lot of functionality for how the menu part currently work is there, I'm not sure how best to tap into this in a DRY way.
I can add a MenuPartItem to my customPart, so main menu part model would look like this
public class MainMenuPart : ContentPart<MainMenuRecord>
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        public MenuPart MenuPart { get; set; }

        public string ShortDescription
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*I want to use the exiting MenuPartItemEditor.

*how do I save this information in the record for the part?

Option 2
I've looked also at adding fields to the menu part (via cms).
My menu part now looks like this on the back end

Here I have customise the admin view for the menu depending on the content type.
Buy creating a Parts.Navigation.Menu.Edit.cshtml in Views/EditorTemplates, in my custom them I have access to the menu part, but I can seem to control the display of the fileds I have added to the part. (menu image, highlight, and short description)
Here is the custom Parts.Navigation.Menu.Edit.cshtml (original found in Orchard.Core/Navigation/Views/EditorTemplates/Parts.Navigation.Menu.Edit.cshtml)
@model Orchard.Core.Navigation.ViewModels.MenuPartViewModel

@using Orchard.ContentManagement
@using Orchard.Core.Navigation.Models;

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        var sd = ((dynamic)Model.ContentItem).MenuPart.ShortDescription;

        @sd

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            @Html.HiddenFor(m => m.OnMenu, true)
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                @T("Menu text (will appear on main menu)")
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        </fieldset>
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with no success.


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Lots of debate recently about this topic. We hear phrases bandied about like "Bitcoin IS the Blockchain", or "Blockchains without Bitcoin don't make sense" or such. To me that's nonsense, put forth by an increasingly desperate group of Bitcoin maximalists. Yes, I think the recent wave of (non-Bitcoin) blockchain adopters, including the likes of VISA, NASDAQ, Microsoft, IBM, large banks and others is a trend that's here to stay. And yes, for those who are interested, I think Bitcoin has a great chance of surviving anyway.
In my recent article on LTB, I make the case that the blockchain is the innovation, the fundamental technical advancement that will find new application domains. I try to argue that Bitcoin will (rightfully) strive to become more and more competitive in the financial services space, and will specialize accordingly. Meanwhile technologists will continue to treat blockchains as the unique building blocks they are.
People will try crazy things to be sure. Blockchain based everything under the sun? They're terribly inefficient by design, so there will be failed ventures. But so many things like supply chain management might be improved by judicious use of blockchains, that the tech is likely to sneak its way into many areas of life. Anyway, feel free to comment if you agree or disagree - there's no right answer here, only opinions.


The romantic idea of an overnight train ride bumping its way through the rugged jungle covered mountains of central Thailand to the north turned out a little different than we expected.
On Saturday morning we left Koh Samui towards Bangkok for our much anticipated overnight train ride to Chiang Mai, the kids are so looking forward to the bunk beds.
We were under the impression when booking this part of our trip that it would be a fairly easy 1 hour ferry boat trip, then taxi for 30 minutes to Surat Thani airport, then onto Bangkok to catch the train.
Well, 30 something hours later we have made it to Chiang Mai!
Brent and I are somewhat frazzled, yet remarkably the kids are still happy.
Let's recap a little so you get the full experience.
We are picked up at our hotel in a mini van for an hour drive to the ferry port picking up a few other passengers on along way, then we are transferred to a larger bus on which we sit stationery for 30 minutes, before they drive us around the corner to load the ferry.
The ferry is a good size with backpackers hanging out on the decks and locals sitting inside on those rows of plastic chairs.
The trip across to the mainland takes about 90 minutes, of which most of it is spent watching an incredibly very violent Thai film about some "good" kungfu dude fighting literally 1,000's other "bad" kungfu dudes, luckily the kids were cruising around and missed most of it. Jett does not need any more encouragement.
On the other side, we get back on our bus and take a 1 hour trip to the town of Surat Thani , the kids just crash out on there seats, such little backpackers already and basically able will sleep anywhere.
Surat Thani is like most big towns in Thailand with traffic & people going in every direction, far to many power lines per pole hanging over dirty streets in front of either old buildings that look great or new ones that look old.
The bus driver stops outside what looks like some random cafe but upon entering we find backpacks and their owners stacked high on the walls, everyone waiting for the word that their bus is here.
Of course the kids say they are hungry, so Brent believing we've got 30 minutes before our bus gets here, ventures out for chicken satays and fresh pineapple for a snack.
When he comes back through the door with that beautiful smelling food, every western person there looked at us but we don't give them a 2nd thought, with the kids ripping into the satays from some little roadside stall, beautiful.
Surprisingly enough the bus arrives relatively on time and off we go again on a short 40 or so minute trip to the airport.
Thank God, we are here, the doors open to the terminal building and we are hit by this over bearing smell of urine. The kids don't even mention it yet Brent and I are dry retching!!! Where the smell is coming from is a place we decide not to venture to so hang on until the plane trip as they are much nicer toilets.
The flight is a quick one and for a change of pace, we use the time to knock over some home work.
Upon arrival at Bangkok Airport, the fun really begins, we have 2.5 hours to get from Bangkok airport to the central railway station, which by all accounts on trusty trip advisor, is at least 2 hours away with no hold ups.
As you can imagine, I am tense and B.J optimistic.
Whilst waiting for our bags to come, we notice my backpack, with it's padlock, lodged in the conveyor belt that feeds the luggage claim area which jams the belt setting off alarms and flashing red lights.
I should have expected it from my Kiwi husband but was totally unprepared when jumps on top of the luggage area and starts to yank it free, with all the pulling, the padlock breaking in the process with the end flying out into the crowd.
This does the job but he doesn't get off straight away, staying up there feeding other peices of luggage out to the waiting passengers.
It is only when security and the Thai police start to head my way and he sees the sheer panic on my face, that he decides it is a good time to go, much to the disappointment of the other backpackers still waiting for their bags.
The train from Bangkok Airport is on an over pass which offers great views into the back yard and living conditions of a vast residential area between the city and outer suburbs and it very obvious that we are travelling close to the rainy seaon.
It appears that every house is surrounded by water, the mozzies down there must be incrediable but racing by in air-conditioned, if not a little cramped comfort, it all seems a bit sureal.
We switch trains after a short walk down some little back street to the subway and before we know it, arrive at the main train station with 30 minutes to spare and time to grab some juice and food before yet again, joining the waiting throng of backpackers.
It turns out the 30 minutes we had up our sleeve to wait for the train to depart became 2.5 hours as the train was 2 hours late leaving the station!!
Boarding the train, the kids were absolutely jumping put of their skin, with the bunk beds, disgusting toilets and the thought of sleeping on the train for the night, best hotel yet was their comment!
I was pleasantly surprised when a lovely lady comes by and offers us more juice, thinking, wow free juice, the kids may need some in the morning, I grab a few.
Oh what was I thinking, an invoice scribbled on paper gets dropped off shortly afterwards at prices that make the 7/11 back home look cheap!!
With the kids settling into our 4 berth cabin and saying how cool this is, we were not quite convinced as them due to the 9, yes 9 Irish backpackers ordering the first of what turns out to be massive amounts of beer in the cabin right next to ours.
Needless to say, they talked and sang all night long, a couple of times Brent had words with them and suggested they go to the Karaoke Carriage up the front off the train but they said it was too smoky.
At one stage, they were singing "I wish I was back in Derry" we wished they bloody well were as well.
Maddi was again not effected at all as she had ear plugs in and slept like a baby, Jetti was disturbed during the night and didn't get a full nights sleep. BJ and I managed just 2 hours sleep from around 4am when they finally passed out.
Needless to say we were a little grumpy in the morning, however sound of our kids, full of beans playing outside the sleeping Irish groups cabin bought yet another wry smile to our faces, oh and the locals in other cabins as well.
Karma has a funny way of getting back at you sometimes.
Anyway we are finally here in Chiang Mai, staying in another amazing guest house, but that's another story.
Kylie has been looking forward to coming back to Koh Samui as she came here with her brother and a friend some 15 years ago, what will it be like?
Let me tell you, the Koh Samui that she remembered has vanished.
Upon getting off the ferry, you are accousted by taxi drivers all pushing and shoving you for a fair, promising a good deal but knowing you have kids and that you really need to get them to feed and bathed soon.
The drive to Chaweng Beach Resort is a bumpy affair where we decided to play a little game to keep the kids occupied, spot the dog, does anyone have any idea on just how many skinny dogs there are on this island?
It wasn't long before we changed rules to pregnant dogs with less than 4 legs but still they just kept coming, amazing.
Even though our resort it is in an extremely beautiful location, the street that runs behind it is a mixture of massage parlours, restaurants, bars, cheap clothing stalls, even more massage parlours and an amazing amount of traffic that never stops.
I have to say the massage girls were ever so slighlty off the main walking area but there are plenty of guys out offering massages to everyone and anyone who would stop, along with shoes, phones, shirts and discount laundry.
Cars pumping music promoting one of the local clubs (I remember a few) motorbikes, cars, taxi's and far to many tourists on mopeds that have no idea on how to ride one safely.
Apparently there is at least one bad accident daily, we will be giving the mopeds a miss at this location for sure.
Our hotel is an opulent oasis, a haven from the madness, we went all out here spending about double the $100 per night budget we planned on, sometimes you have to spoil yourselves.
Boardwalks weave themselves through the stunning tropical gardens over fish ponds with coloured fish that our children are slowly killing due to over feeding.
Our villa is ridiculously lavish, opulence is an under statement, it looks across the beautiful pool to the picturesque beach. We are feeling feeling very spoilt!
Kyles think's she saw the bungalows that they stayed in all those years ago, yet they are considerably more flash than they were back then, but not as nice as where we are.
The weather is hot and sunny, our days area spent relaxing by the pool, walking and swimming at the beach, eating chicken satays, fresh pineapple, coconut drinks and corn on the cob lathered with butter and salt.
The best corn we have ever eaten which is sold by hawkers along the beach.
There are even guys carrying plastic placards with ice-cream for sale on one side, and lingerie clad beauties on the other side, you have to admire their style.
The kids have been nothing short of fantastic, with Maddi coming out of her shell like you have never imagined, greeting the Thais in there own language and making lots of new friends.
Jetti mentions home a lot and talks of his friends. He is receiving a lot of attention from the Thai's and sometimes finds it a bit much, being called "handsome boy" every 5 minutes and families asking if they can keep him must be a little unsettling for a 5 year old but he doing so well.
Brent and I absolutely loving spending time as a family, and really enjoying every part of our adventure so far, Koh Samui may not be our perfect holiday destination and but it has been a nice break for the kids.
We won't come back here to see if there are nicer places to stay than Chaweng because we managed to loop the Island in our travels and its just a dirty, dog filled place that is not what we are after, sorry Koh Samui, maybe in another 15 years, probably not!
Krabi or the little coastal town of Ao Nang is just beautiful and kind of like a small Halong Bay as this area is also famous for its amazing cliffs that rise haphazously out of the earth and ocean.
The beach itself not sand we're used to but more like crushed shells and the water crystal clear blue, with long-tail boats moored just off shore, it certainly makes the perfect photo opportunity.
Brent or as we now refer to him Mr Fujiyama, is now as attached to his camera as he was to his Iphone back home, very scary indeed!!
Maddi has had her first OMG (oh my god) moment when she enters our hotel room which is decorated from wall to ceiling with teak wood, however it iss the view of the pool from our balcony which stops her in her tracks. Water spouting elephant stautes, a bridge to an island in the middle and a kids area, what more could a water baby need, very impressed.
We spent four nights here relaxing, enjoying the people and in the beginning, seeing very few other westerners about. Brent could not have picked a more perfect spot to celebrate his 43 birthday. He even went for a massage paid THB 300 ($9) which after speaking to other travellers was pretty expensive.
He said the room was a basically a box with little curtained of cubicles and 6 foot ceilings and assures me there was no happy ending!
We decided to venture out on a day trip via long-tail boat with kayaking trip to Hong Island.
A bit of snorkeling and also visited a picturesque lagoon which was filled with thousands of starfish.
Maddi or starfish girl as we now call her would dive down and hand them out to the Singaporean Family that was on our trip.
A picnic stop for lunch was at Paradise Island which was not so much paradise anymore due to the rubbish they casually discard in the sea, which is very sad but there were still lots of fish to feed or for Jett to try and smack with his googles.
Then the fun really began, we kayaked around Hong Island which was calm on one side and bloody treacherous on the other.
You will be happy to know we had life jackets on but that was about it. No radio, no rescue boat, no hope if we capsize!!
Our trip home with ever increasing wind and massive waves pouring over the bow and edge of our old timber boat with a very hot smelling and roaring engine, was bad enough to have our Singaporean family both praying and vomiting.
Poor little Jetti went out in sympathy with his first experience of seasickness. Old Lucky (Brent) held it together!!
We really enjoyed our stay in Krabi, the Thai's are drawn to the kids with everybody calling Jett "handsome Boy" and Maddi has the "girly boy's" playing with her hair while we have dinner.
Kylie has been a slight hand sanitizer freak (thanks Rav) yet the more she seems to use it, the more Jett plays like a dog on any floor and Maddi runs her hands down every banister in sight.
Today they come out of a Restaurant kitchen munching on an unpeeled carrot washed in the local water.
We also found the roadside stalls selling banana pancakes we have been looking and the kids just sit there in the dirt so Kylie has given up worrying.
By the way, I am happy to say that so far we have all been lucky and still solid if you know what I mean!!


Hippocrates, the father of medicine, considered beer to have valuable medicinal qualities. Homer gives us a vivid description of how Alkinoos, king of Phaeacians, kept in his palace gold and silver kraters filled with wine made of barley (beer). Zythos, the greek word for beer, also comes up in texts of the ancient Greek geographer Strabo as well as of the ancient Greek historian Diodorus (from Sicily). The word comes from the verb zeo which means to boil and it appears that zythos was the name of an Egyptian drink made of barley.
How was the first modern Greek beer born?
When Otto, the first king of Greece, settled in the country in 1833, he brought with him scientists and beer specialists from Bavaria – his native land, with a view to boosting the domestic beer industry. So, in 1840, according to reliable sources, the first manually operated brewery was set up in Greece, to cater for the needs of the Bavarian officials and military men who were stationed in the country at the time.
However, it is not quite clear who among Melcher, Fischer, Waweck and Seel was the first to run this particular brewery, as they had all opened up beer businesses during the 1840's in Athens. Ioannis Fix (Fuchs) came to Greece in 1850; he stayed and worked as an apprentice in Melcher's brewery which he bought from his heirs in 1866. He is the maker of one of the best and oldest Greek beers. The factory he built in 1893 was later enlarged by his son Karl. On the site of the old installations a newer building was constructed which still stands in present-day Syngrou Ave. Works are currently under way to house the National Museum of Contemporary Art in the premises.
Breweries in other parts of the country were also created by Greek beer makers, such as Lorentzos Mamos who opened his business in Patras (1876); others followed, namely K. Lampros, Damianos, Kostis and M. & E. Klonaridis Bros in Athens, Stelios Tsokaropoulos in Piraeus and Mangiolos-Karampetsos and Petros Mamos – the first Greek certified beer maker – in Patras.
Another modern – for its time - brewing facility was set up in 1892 in Thessaloniki by Josef Misrachi and Solomon Fernandez. In time, factory installations grew bigger and its name was changed to Olympus Brewery. Later on it got merged with Naoussa Brewery, thus creating the Olympus-Naoussa Brewery. In 1928, the Fix Company absorbed it. The brewery was kept running until the mid-80s when it was finally closed down.
As soon as you try it, you will find that apart from being very tasty, the variety and body of Greek beer clearly differentiates it from the standard choice of "non-alcoholic refreshment". This means that as an accompaniment to a meal it will pass the test with flying colours.
Greek beer will allow more successful combinations with food than wine does, it will accompany many tasty Greek dishes and mezedes [titbits].
• Mouth-watering ladera (vegetables or pulses cooked in olive oil) typical of the Greek cuisine, pasta, and hors d' oeuvres such as eggplant salad will have a red beer as an accompaniment.
Last but not least, Premium beer is a special category in itself as it is quite a particular type with regard to taste, aroma, alcohol content, complexity, shelf life, and gourmet combinations. Usually an evening drink, it is consumed from autumn until the first warm months; it is the right choice of drink for a full-course dinner but you can also enjoy it on its own during a night out.


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Government House is the official residence of the governor of Bermuda. It is located on Langton Hill, overlooking the North Shore in Hamilton, Pembroke. Government House is also the official residence of the Bermudian head of state (currently King Charles III) when staying in Bermuda.

History, architecture and grounds

Built in the Italianate style, Government House was designed by architect William Cardy Hallet and built in 1892. It replaced an earlier residence called "Mount Langton" (after a Scottish estate belonging to Sir James Cockburn, 9th Baronet, of Langton, Berwickshire, Governor of Bermuda from 1811 to 1812, from 1814 to 1816 and from 1817 to 1819) which had served as Government House from 1815 when the seat of government was moved from St. George's. Built with stone imported from France, it is a landmark which is visible from the road or water with its off-white stone towers and arches. The house's grounds consist of , making them one of the largest open spaces left in Bermuda.

Government House has more than 30 rooms, including a large drawing room and dining room for formal entertaining, both of which open onto a long enclosed glass sun terrace overlooking the pool and garden. All the paintings are of Bermuda images, and the theme continues upstairs through the corridors and upstairs in The Royal Suite, and the private quarters of the governor which overlook the North Shore towards Hamilton Harbour, and the four guest bedrooms whose verandah offers views of Hamilton. Some of the artwork is part of the Government Collection, the rest is on loan from Masterworks Foundation and local artists and these are always changing.

Outside the main entrance to the house are three cannons, which have been in their present position since 1919. On either side of the cannons are two Washingtonia filifera (Petticoat Palms) planted by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in February 1975. From the terrace opposite there used to be steps down into the garden; it was close to these that on the night of March 10, 1973, the then governor Sir Richard Sharples was murdered, together with his aide-de-camp, Captain Hugh Sayers, and his dog.

To the left are the West Gates and on the terrace is a Podocarpus macrophyllus (Japanese yew tree), planted by Governor Sir Alexander Hood and Lady Hood to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. On the next terrace there is a Juniperus bermudiana (Bermuda cedar) planted by Winston Churchill in 1942 after his visit to the United States to meet President Franklin Roosevelt and address a joint session of the United States Congress. On the same level there is a Dictyosperma (princess palm) planted in 1963 by Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, a Roystonea regia (royal palm) planted by Princess Margaret in 1975 and a Thrinax parviflora (thatch palm) planted by Margaret Thatcher in 1981. On the terrace below, on either side of the path, are a pair of Syagrus romanzoffiana (queen palms) planted by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in 1994. Near to the next flight of steps is another Podocarpus macrophyllus planted by Queen Elizabeth II in November 1953.

Down the steps there is an avenue of Bermuda cedars, the first on the left planted by Sir Edward Richards, the first black Bermudian to head the government of the Island. Two others bear the names of Princess Alexandra and Princess Margaret. Just to the left of the bottom of the path there is a royal poinciana planted by the Duke of Windsor on in 1940, and  back towards the house a royal palm planted by Prince George, Duke of Kent, in 1928.

Across the lawn towards the garage and outbuildings or Government House takes is a Delonix regia planted by Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, in 1970. Behind is the old drive lined with Phoenix canariensis (Canary Island date palms). Sloping down to the right are woodlands with a paddock and a meadow. Beyond the site of the old house, the flat area to the right of the cottage, there is a semi circular area of grass on which stands a Mangifera indica (mango tree) planted by Prince George, later King George V, and Bermuda's first Hevea brasiliensis (rubber tree), planted by Governor Lt. Colonel William Reid in 1840. On either side of the cutting leading to the entrance to the grounds are evergreen shrubs, and large bougainvillea vines over 100 years old cover the  walls.

Opposite the cottage there is a flight of steps leading down into the Marsh Folly Gardens. In this sheltered and well-wooded area there some of the oldest white cedars on the island. On the other side of the road is a rock garden. Back towards the terrace is a collection of Arecaceae (palms) planted by British prime ministers and US presidents: John Major (1991), George H. W. Bush (1990 and 1991), Margaret Thatcher (1990), Harold Macmillan (1961), Edward Heath (1972) and Richard Nixon (late 1960s).

As the largest open green area in Pembroke Parish, it has every endemic and native species of vegetation that existed before the colonisation of Bermuda. These are crucial to ward off erosion and wind damage from hurricanes. The grounds of Government House were severely damaged by Hurricane Fabian on September 5, 2004, and there is underway a long-term programme of clear-up, re-landscaping and planting. Five gardeners from the Parks Department of the Bermuda government maintain the grounds.

Government House today
Government House is used for national and ceremonial functions, as well as receptions and meetings with foreign dignitaries and heads of state. As well as being the official residence of the governor's family, it is also a working office employing executive, secretarial and domestic staff for the governor and the deputy governor (who resides elsewhere).

Although the governor is King Charles III's representative, appointed by the British government, the upkeep of Government House (and the governor's own salary, staff and other expenses) is the responsibility of the Government of Bermuda.

See also
 Governor of Bermuda
 Government Houses of the British Empire and Commonwealth

References

External links
 Further information on Government House

Official residences in Bermuda
Government Houses of the British Empire and Commonwealth
British colonial architecture
Houses completed in 1892
Government buildings completed in 1892
Italianate architecture
Gardens in Bermuda
Hamilton, Bermuda

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Lajos Pálinkás (born 21 May 1964 in Zirc, Veszprém) is a Hungarian sport shooter. He has competed for Hungary in pistol shooting at four Olympics (1992 to 2004), and has been close to an Olympic medal in 1996 (finishing seventh in the rapid fire pistol). Outside the Olympic career, Palinkas has produced a career tally of four medals in a major international competition, a total of three (one gold and two bronze) at numerous meets of the ISSF World Cup series and a bronze under the senior category at the 1989 European Championships.

Career
Having started the sport since the age of thirteen, Pálinkás has been training throughout his shooting career under coach Mihály Tesánszky for the national team at Zámolyi Shooting Range () on the outskirts of the nation's capital Budapest.

Pálinkás competed internationally for Hungary at the age of twenty-five, and simultaneously pocketed his first medal with a bronze in rapid fire shooting at the 1989 European Championships in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Three years later, Pálinkás made his first Hungarian team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, finishing twenty-second in the rapid fire pistol with 579 points.

On his second Olympic appearance at Atlanta 1996, Pálinkás upgraded from his four-year fresh Olympic feat in Barcelona to successfully grab the eighth and last seed for his first Olympic final in the rapid fire pistol with a qualifying score of 586. Battling against the most experienced shooters in the finale, Pálinkás came up with a steady aim to shoot a substantial 99.9 for a seventh-place finish at 685.9, just five points away from the Olympic medal haul.

In 1999, Pálinkás reached the peak of his career on the international stage, as he claimed his first individual gold medal at the ISSF World Cup meet in Seoul, South Korea with 692.7 points. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Pálinkás extended his Olympic program to two events that he had never done before in his sporting career, competing in both air and rapid fire pistol shooting. In his first event, the 10 m air pistol, held on the first day of the Games, Pálinkás fired a score of 570 points to finish in a distant twenty-ninth place from a field of forty-three shooters. Five days later, on 21 September, Pálinkás sought to repeat his Olympic finale bid from Atlanta in the 25 m rapid fire pistol, but fell out of his contention to fourteenth with a qualifying score of 579, dropping five points from the final cutoff.

Three years later, Pálinkás bounced back from a disastrous Olympic feat in Sydney to nail the fourth position, his best career result after fourteen years, at the European Championships in Plzen, Czech Republic with 687.8, just one point short of the bronze medal won by Germany's Klaus-Dieter Schmidt. Although he failed to medal, Pálinkás secured an Olympic quota place for Hungary on his fourth Games.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Pálinkás decided to drop the air pistol and instead focus on his specialty in the men's 25 m rapid fire pistol. He had registered a minimum qualifying score of 586 to compete as a 40-year-old veteran for his fourth Hungarian team, following a fourth-place finish at the European Championships a year earlier. Pálinkás got off to a bristling start with a perfect 100 on his initial try, until he aimed a rapid, four-second shot poorly at the very end of the first stage that saw him stumble down the leaderboard with a relatively low mark. He followed his miserable first day score of 287 with a much improved 290 on the remaining half of the competition, but his tally of 577 points was not enough to put him through to the final, forcing him in a two-way tie with Switzerland's Niki Marty for the twelfth position.

Olympic results

References

External links

1964 births
Living people
Hungarian male sport shooters
Olympic shooters of Hungary
Shooters at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Veszprém County


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Orlando Magic News
Magic turn up defense as they get back to their brand of basketball
By Roy Parry
| CLEVELAND
During Friday night's game in Cleveland, the Orlando Magic had a chance to score at least 125 points during three consecutive games for the first time in franchise history.
They didn't, and they could not care less.
Some wins won't be pretty — or feature the kind of shotmaking the Magic previously put on display against the Wizards (127-120 win) and the Suns (128-114 win). It's more about how the team plays rather than how many points it puts up.
In Friday's 93-87 win over the Cavaliers, the Magic got back to playing the kind of basketball that was behind the resiliency they showed last season and they want to make their identity.
This was Magic basketball, or at least what more like they want it to be, and players were proud of the effort.
"We won that game defensively," Magic shooting guard Evan Fournier said.
The victory extended Orlando's win streak to a season-best four games.
Fournier had one of a handful of key defensive plays the Magic turned in during a fourth quarter that saw them bounce back from a rough offensive third quarter.
Magic stay hot, beat Cavaliers to extend win streak to four games
The Orlando Magic got a fourth-quarter scoring surge from Terrence Ross, helping the team earn a 93-87 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers Friday night at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse.
"Their defense was good. We had stretches, particularly in the third quarter, where we struggled to create shots, but I thought we got back to defending harder," Magic coach Steve Clifford said.
There was a lot to unpack from a defensive standpoint.
Orlando held Cleveland to 17 fourth-quarter points on 7-of-24 shooting (29.2%). The last time they held a team under 20 points in a quarter was Nov. 20 in Toronto. The Raptors managed just 17 points in the third quarter.
Friday's effort was one of the Magic's best defensive quarters in some time, and they needed it.
"It's just a matter of getting back to Magic basketball, which is a hard-playing team, out-execute teams and just be disciplined defensively," Fournier said.
For the game, Orlando allowed 42 points in the paint — below its season average of 44.7 per game (which ranks seventh in the league) — and blocked nine shots.
The Magic's defensive effort looks more impressive considering how aggressive they played (10 steals, nine blocks) and yet committed just 13 fouls. They also recorded 16 deflections.
Jonathan Isaac was the primary contributor in the blocked-shots category with four. It's the sixth time this season he's recorded at least four blocks.
"His individual defense has improved a lot, too, but as a help defender he's terrific," Clifford said of Isaac, who now leads the NBA in blocks per game (2.8).
The defensive push began with just less than 10 minutes left to play when Michael Carter-Williams tipped the ball away from Kevin Porter Jr. to create a steal. The turnover led to an Aaron Gordon driving basket, and he was fouled by Larry Nance Jr. on the play. Gordon's ensuing free throw tied the game at 76-76.
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Orlando turned up its defense over the final five minutes. After a 3-pointer by Isaac snapped an 81-81 tie, Khem Birch blocked a shot attempt in the lane by Jordan Clarkson.
On the next Cleveland possession, Markelle Fultz recovered from the screen on a pick-and-roll to contest a 15-foot jumper by Sexton from behind.
Then the Cavaliers looked like they were in position to take the lead when Cedi Osman drove into the lane for a short jumper. But Birch stayed in front of Osman and timed his jump perfectly to contest the shot attempt.
Osman missed and Fultz pushed the ball up the floor after grabbing the rebound. He was fouled going to the basket and made the two free throws that followed. That sequence gave the Magic an 88-85 lead with 1:34 to play.
On the ensuing possession, Fournier came up with a blocked shot on a drive by Sexton, who finished with 15 drives into the paint and had been difficult to contain with the ball.
But the 6-foot-7 Fournier used his height advantage and played off Sexton enough to keep him away from the basket.
"I did not open up on my stance, I tried to just stay in front of him," Fournier said. "He's fast and aggressive and I've got the length over him, so I wanted to make the shot difficult. I was not even trying to block the shot, but I got a piece of it."
Two possessions later, Gordon ran down Sexton on a fast break and blocked the layup attempt off the backboard.
Terrence Ross rebounded the miss and was fouled. He made both free throws to put the Magic up 90-85 and make it a two-possession game.
"We played good defense in the fourth quarter," Clifford said.
The Magic weren't without their hiccups, though. They allowed just eight second-chance points, but four of those came at crucial points in the fourth quarter.
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Osman missed a 3 attempt but the ball wound up in Sexton's hands when no Magic player went for the rebound. Sexton easily converted the second-chance opportunity to make it a one-point game with 4:11 left.
Nearly two minutes later, Nance delivered a tip-in that pulled the Cavaliers within 86-85 with 2:19 remaining.
"We can't give possessions away, but we did some good things," Clifford said. "Listen, winning on the road is difficult, and I thought [the Cavaliers] played really well, really hard. Really hard."
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Congratulations to a number of the School's Upper Sixth A2 Biologists who were recently informed of their success in the esteemed British Biology Olympiad 2016. The assessment, which featured over 9000 contestants from across the U.K., was undertaken by the pupils in January with results published only a couple of weeks ago.
Following the assessment the school was informed that Susannah Ashfield had achieved the highest honour available - a Gold Award, with Daniel Weir attaining Silver, Olivia Cullen, Matthew Dane and Medani Elshibly each receiving Bronze Awards and both James Cartlidge and Andrew Ross being Highly Commended.
This was the first year in which all of Grosvenor's participants were recognised for their achievements, which reflects extremely well on the teaching of the School's Biology department, led by Mrs Janet Auld.
Well done to all involved in this year's Olympiad and we now wish each of the competing pupils the best of luck as they commence their A2 examinations over the coming weeks.
Grosvenor's successful British Biology Award participants 2016 (from left to right): Daniel Weir, Olivia Cullen, Andrew Ross, Matthew Dane, James Cartlidge, Susannah Ashfield and Medani Elshibly.


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Swedish pop star Robyn has warned fans they are facing a long wait for her next album because she is "nowhere near finished" with the follow-up to 2010's Body Talk.
The With Every Heartbeat hitmaker admits she has only just headed back into the studio to start coming up with new material, but she has yet to decide what her next project will be.
She tells Britain's The Guardian newspaper, "I've started working again. I don't know what it will be - it's too early to say if it's going to be an album, or an Ep. I don't even know if it's going to be my own music. We shall see.
"I see people messaging me on my Twitter and sometimes I feel bad because I'm nowhere near finished with the album - it's probably going to be a while before you hear anything new from me."
However, Robyn has given fans something to keep them interested in her music - she has just filmed a new video for her Snoop Dogg collaboration U Should Know Better, although devotees will already be familiar with the track as it was first released three years ago.
Asked why she has decided to revisit the tune now, she explains that the promo director, Maria Wahlberg, had "a really good idea; that's the only reason".
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Q: MYSQL Advanced select distinct values with corresponding ID which are not in anothe table EDITED:
I have a huge problem with SELECT DISTINCT values from one of my table.
Table 1 :T1
pid      thing       sub-thing     tnumber
-------------------------------------------
1       A1212       A01A00001     123456
2       A1212       A01A00002     123457
3       A1212       A01A00002     123458
4       A1214       A01B00001     123459
5       A1214       A01B00002     123460
6       A1214       A01B00001     123461
7       A1217       C01A00001     123462

Table 2 :T2
id        pid      thing       sub-thing         tnumber    h1
--------------------------------------------------------------
1          3            A1212       A01A00002     123458   False

I need to SELECT all DISTINCT sub-things for every thing from Table T1 which are NOT in Table T2 and, most important - only sub-thing with the highest tnumber (for ex. with max(id)).
Result Should leave records 2, 4 from T1 because there are identical sub-things with higher tnumber and of course leave record 3 from T1 because it's in the T2.
Final result should be like this
id      thing       sub-thing     tnumber
-------------------------------------------
1       A1212       A01A00001     123456
5       A1214       A01B00002     123460
6       A1214       A01B00001     123461
7       A1217       C01A00001     123462

Thanks to everyone here, the syntax I've tried is:
SELECT DISTINCT t1.pid, t1.thing, t1.subthing, t1.tnumber
FROM t1 INNER JOIN
(SELECT t1.thing, t1.subthing, max(t1.tnumber) as tnumber FROM t1 LEFT OUTER JOIN t2 o ON t1.pid=o.pid WHERE o.pid IS NULL
AND t1.added>'2015-10-31'
GROUP BY t1.subthing, thing)
as b using (subthing, thing, tnumber) ;

Now I need to add a condition that the records from T1 where T1.pid is NOT in T2.pid AND t2.h1=false should NOT be given in final result.

A: This query will return the MAX(id) for every subthing:
SELECT subthing, MAX(id) AS max_id
FROM t1
WHERE subthing NOT IN (SELECT subthing FROM t2)
GROUP BY subthing;

(i think that you want to exclude all subthings that are present in t2)
Then with this query you can retrieve all the other columns for the maximum id:
SELECT t1.*
FROM t1
WHERE ID IN (
    SELECT MAX(id) AS max_id
    FROM t1
    WHERE subthing NOT IN (SELECT subthing FROM t2)
    GROUP BY subthing
  )

Please see a fiddle here. If yow want better performances, you could try with a LEFT JOIN:
SELECT ta.*
FROM
  t1 AS ta LEFT JOIN t1 AS tb
  ON ta.subthing=tb.subthing
     AND ta.id<tb.id
WHERE
  ta.subthing NOT IN (SELECT subthing FROM t2)
  AND tb.id IS NULL

(please make sure that t1.id is indexed, and also an index on subthing on both tables should help).

A: try left outer join:
    select distinct t1.id, t1.thing, t1.subthing, t1.tnumber from t1 inner join (SELECT t1.thing, subthing, max(t1.tnumber) as tnumber
FROM t1 left outer join t2 using (subthing) where t2.subthing is NULL GROUP BY subthing, thing) as b using (subthing, thing, tnumber) ;

create a concatenated Index:
create index index_name t1(subthing, thing, tnumber);

A: Try something like that ?
SELECT *
FROM T1
WHERE CONCAT_WS('-', thing, `sub-thing`, tnumber) IN
(SELECT CONCAT_WS('-', thing, `sub-thing`, max_tnumber)
FROM (
    SELECT MAX(tnumber) AS max_tnumber, thing, `sub-thing`
    FROM T1
    WHERE T1.`sub-thing` NOT IN (SELECT `sub-thing` FROM T2)
    GROUP BY thing, `sub-thing`
) as view
);

A: I Found One issue in following LFJ syntax:
SELECT t1.id, t1.thing, subthing, max(t1.tnumber) as tnumber
FROM t1 left outer join t2 using (subthing) where t2.subthing is NULL GROUP BY subthing, thing;

will result
4       A1214       A01B00001     123459

in stead of
6       A1214       A01B00001     123461

id=4 is the first ID for that sub-thing but number 123461 is from the max tnumber but max tnumber is in record id=6.
I think syntax should start with:
SELECT max(t1.id), t1.thing (...)

A: Some modification I've made based on @LFJ syntax.
'changed `t1.id` column to `t1.pid`'
'changed `t2.id_table_t1` column to `t2.pid`'
'and JOINed tables via `pid` columns'
SELECT DISTINCT t1.pid, t1.thing, t1.subthing, t1.tnumber
FROM t1 INNER JOIN
(SELECT t1.thing, t1.subthing, max(t1.tnumber) as tnumber FROM t1 LEFT OUTER JOIN t2 o ON t1.pid=o.pid WHERE o.pid IS NULL
AND t1.added>'2015-10-31'
GROUP BY t1.subthing, thing)
as b using (subthing, thing, tnumber) ;

Result is the same but comparision is via pid column (old ID) , not tnumber column, which means even if in the T2.tnumber is whatever value the result will be the same :)
I think this is the end. Maybe it'll help somebody in future.
Thanks a lot.


Deficiencies in the training of crew on ferries and other inland water vessels were cited as one of the four main causes of ferry fatalities by the Bangladesh Ferry Safety Working Group (government, owners, operators, labor, academics and NGOs).
The Bangladesh Department of Shipping identified six arenas that needed attention for crew training. For each of these arenas, a training module was developed.
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Java versioning, or version control, has long been the bane for many an IT Manager. By default, java will apply the latest installed version to a particular application or website. This can cause some obvious headaches due to the nature of how many of these third-party applications were designed, and what versions of java they find compatible. In multi-user environments, it can be even more complex and costly to try to manage the assortment of java versions that may be required.


The 50X3 has the power, functions and quality you would expect in an upper end tri-band transceiver. It is based on a proven design, and I have found no issues with the radio over the past few weeks. A bit more power on 220 would have been a plus, but it still gets me into the local repeaters fine. This is definitely one of the nicest mobile transceivers I've used; and yes, I've owned the "big 3".
Baofeng Tech mentioned to me that there are several improvements in the BTECH UV-50X3 over the similar radios that came before it. Specifically, we should find improvements to the receiver, microphone, and 220 MHz.
The UV-50X3 radios are starting to hit the street, so we should start seeing what people think of them.
One of the concerns with the Chinese radios has been spurious transmissions. Baofeng Tech posted some pictures of their testing of the new BTECH UV-50X3 tri-band mobile.


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Reports of certain doom have been flooding the media since the eclipse. Students and teachers alike gathered with their loved ones on Aug. 21 on the football field to watch the moon pass over the sun. Since the spectacular celestial phenomenon took place, the public now believes the world is rapidly coming to an end.
"I think I'll take this opportunity to continue to procrastinate," junior Dee Lay said. "I love being able to put off my responsibilities in a relaxed state.
Yet that tiny little voice in my head always comes back and tells me the world isn't actually going to end, then I procrastinate in an intense and stressed state."
Like Lay, the rest of the public insists on making rash decisions, citing their belief that Earth is barreling headfirst into an undeniable Armageddon. Wild actions are already beginning to take place. So far, students have already been observed: watching a ten-hour reading of the Bee Movie, stealing candy from helpless children, writing fanfictions, and falling in love with baked potatoes.
"I ate a burger for the first time in 42 years," sophomore Jim Ratt said. "Normally, I yell at a picture of myself for dinner, then I spoil myself and lick an apple for dessert. Now that Earth is hurtling into sure destruction, I just had to know what happiness tasted like. Now that I know, I can't go back; grease has stolen my soul. I've found joy, it is tangible, it is a chicken nugget."
Surprisingly, the public has quickly become accepting of their immediate annihilation. People are using the world's end to justify their stupid decisions. Students are bringing the unhealthiest of snacks to wild parties, where they snort ungodly hard drugs, such as raw Kool-Aid powder and Pixy Stix sugar, like the devilish beasts they are. Meanwhile, others like freshman Kay Oss are now spending the vast majority of their time on the wrong side of the law.
"I've already torn the tag off my mattress that specifically told me to not tear it off," Oss said. "I don't know what possessed me to do it. I've turned into an animal. But the coppers can't throw me in the slammer if there's no slammer to throw me into. I'm living off the grid where no one can find me now. I ca n't take any chances anymore, not when I'm being this reckless."
While no one is exactly sure when the world will finally end, students and staff are taking full and total advantage of their supposedly unfortunate situation. Rather than getting broken up about the end of the world, students are celebrating; maybe something can be learned from them. Instead of weeping about the end, they laugh about what happened in life. Or maybe I'm just looking too hard into this and we're all just finding excuses to be lazy.
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McCallum, who was in his first season with the Spurs, was acquired from the Sacramento Kings in exchange for a future second round draft pick on July 9, 2015. He saw action in 31 games for the Silver and Black, averaging 2.2 points, 1.1 assists and 1.0 rebounds in 8.3 minutes.
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If you want to become a better Muay Thai Fighter than sparring is a must. Unless you are a Thai fighter with 300 fights under your belt, sparring can drastically help you improve your game. Not only is sparring going to help you work on your timing, combinations, and movement in the ring, it will also get your prepared to take a punch. Here are the 5 sparring tips I learned while training in Thailand that will help you take your Muay Thai game to the next level.
The first thing trainers will tell you when you get to Thailand is Relax! Most people don't realize that relaxing your muscles will actually allow everything to come smoother is sparring. Being completed relaxed will help you lean back more to avoid high kicks or simple block more kicks.
If you ever watch beginners spar the first thing you will notice is their entire bodies are tensed up. This is often from the fear of the unknown. When you are sparring you don't know what your opponent is going to do, this can often cause anxiety that causes the muscles to tense up. By being relaxed you will be able to respond faster to any attacks that your opponent throws.
One of the most important aspects about being relaxed when you are sparring is to conserve energy. If it is your second training session of the day and you already ran 10 kilometers, clinched, hit pads, and finished your bag work in the morning session, there is a good chance you won't have 100% energy. Being relaxed when you are sparring, hitting pads or even on the bag is a great habit to ensure that you aren't losing energy by tensing your muscles.
Develop a fighting rhythm – If you have ever seen a Thai fight you will notice their body's rock back and forth in almost a rhythmic dance. This technique ensures the fighter is relaxed and ready to strike or defend at any moment.
Always Work on Your Weaknesses!
Unless you are a top level fighter like Saenchai, most fighters have weaknesses in their game. While nobody ever wants to admit their weaknesses in fighting, it is important to understand areas of your style that can be improved.
Remember that sparring is the best time to work on your weaknesses!
The best place and time to work on your skill set is during sparring with other people. This is true of you are sparring with people that have less experience than you or more experience.
If you know that you can "beat somebody" in sparring that you should switch your stance to Southpaw (Read This Article: How to Counter Southpaw Fighters) if you are an orthodox fighter or even tell yourself that you will try and work on certain techniques like your left kick. Setting certain goals during sparring is a great way to try and improve certain aspects of your game.
Muay Thai is an art that you will continually be improving and getting better at. No matter how many fights you have, there is always something that you can work on for your next fight.
Focus on Specific Techniques and Combinations – If you have a bad right kick than only use right kicks during your next sparring session or work on a new combination.
Always try and challenge yourself when you are sparring – If you are sparring with beginners than you should consider "artificially handicapping" yourself so you cannot use your stronger techniques.
Try New Stuff – Don't stick to the same combinations that you always use, try and use new stuff.
Sparring is the perfect time to work on your weaknesses. Even if your opponent is getting the better of you, focus on trying to make your game better by doing the things that you are not good at.
Sparring new people is a great way to put you out of your comfort zone. The first time you spar with someone you won't have any idea of the combinations they like to throw and how aggressive they are. This is beneficial because it simulates the same unknown factors that you have when you fight. By sparring new opponents you will have the challenge of breaking down your opponent's game on the spot.
Sparring with the same sparring partners makes things feel safe and less stressful. Focusing on trying to spar guys who are better than you and people that you have never sparred with before will get you used to being in situations that are unfamiliar.
One of the benefits of training at a gym in Thailand is you constantly have fighters coming in from different parts of the world. Having fresh faces to spar against week in week out ensures that you never get stagnant when you spar. You also have to be prepared for the odd Russian guy who comes in and tries to knock you out in a sparring session. Not knowing how hard you opponent will go ensures that don't take any sparring lightly, especially if it's the first time sparring with someone.
It is also important to have sparring partners who go various levels of intensity. If you only spar with people who go light and don't hit hard then you will be in for a shock when you fight in the ring. While you don't want to be trying to knock your sparring partner out, going at a higher intensity is good because it helps simulate an actual fight situation.
Having an ego when you spar is bad for you and everyone around you. Nobody wants to have a guy at the gym with a big ego who walks around like he's god's gift to muay thai. The truth is, no matter how good you think you are, there are people out there who are better. Having a humble attitude will go a long way in the sport of muay thai.
You should never worry about what people are thinking of you while you a training. The only thing that should be on your mind is how you are going to get better. What are the steps you need to take to improve your muay thai game. Muay thai is about constantly evolving to become a better fighter.
Don't be afraid to ask your sparring partner questions during or after your sparring session. The best way to improve your game is to ask people what they see when they spar you.
Getting another perspective on your muay thai game is a great way to improve. There are certain things you do when you spar that you probably don't even realize. For example, you might telegraph your kicks before you kick. This is something that can be hard to realize if you don't have someone telling you.
Do you see any tell signs that I'm about to kick or punch?
How do I react when I get hit?
Asking your sparring partners and your coaches questions is a great way to help improve your game. Remember that constant improving is something you should be striving for day in day out.
If you enjoyed reading this article you should check out my Muay Thai Strategy book. In this book I talk about the importance of developing your fundamentals, with a whole chapter dedicated to sparring.
Good article. I guess I agree on the most part of them. I am not really qualified to tell.
What I have noticed during sparring is that there is probably an evolution one must go trough. So when you have been training and sparring you seem to reach a certain point where you might say that the line dividing sparring with fighting is fading. So I can imagine that a great fighter can not fully exercise his abilities in sparring. As a samurai would not train with a real sword, how would you spar at your highest level without damaging your partner or yourself?


In his fiscal 2014 budget, President Barack Obama proposed a "strategic review" of TVA, including whether the government should divest itself of TVA.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called the Tennessee Valley Authority "neither fish nor fowl" when he proposed the federal utility as one of his New Deal programs in 1933.
Roosevelt described TVA as "a corporation clothed with the power of government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise." On May 18, TVA will mark its 80th birthday. As it does, it may also face an accounting of whether it should wear the cloak of government or take on the trappings of a free enterprise operation.
In a section titled "Reorganizing, Consolidating and Streamlining Government," the budget proposal notes that, although TVA funds itself through electricity sales and bond financing, its debt counts against the federal deficit.
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There was a quiet humor, and upon occasion a keen wit, in General Lee, which was only appreciated by those who came into intimate contact with him. Hon. B. H. Hill, in the speech from which an extract in the previous chapter is taken, gives the following:
"Lee sometimes indulged in satire, to which his greatness gave point in power. He was especially severe on newspaper criticisms of military movements — subjects about which the writers knew nothing.
"We made a great mistake, Mr. Hill, in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake," he said to me, after General Bragg ceased to command the Army of Tennessee, an event Lee deplored.
"What mistake is that, general?"
"Why, sir, in the beginning we appointed all our worst generals to command the armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers. As you know, I have planned some campaigns and quite a number of battles. I have given the work all the care and thought I could, and sometimes, when my plans were completed, as far as I could see, they seemed to be perfect. But when I have fought them through, I have discovered defects and occasionally wondered I did not see some of the defects in advance.
When it was all over, I found by reading a newspaper that these best editor generals saw all the defects plainly from the start. Unfortunately, they did not communicate their knowledge to me until it was too late." Then, after a pause, he added, with a beautiful, grave expression I can never forget: "I have no ambition but to serve the Confederacy, and do all I can to win our independence. I an willing to serve in any capacity to which the authorities may assign me. I have done the best I could in the field, and have not succeeded as I could wish. I am willing to yield my place to these best generals, and I will do my best for the cause in editing newspapers, after the fact."
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The public yearned for war, relishing the events read by them in their newspapers. Favorites were chosen, and Jeb Stuart made a beautiful show of performing for them. Beauregard got thoroughly miffed by the same principle as Lee, and would come to publish early on, a direct order to remove them, (Atlanta Constitution), from the premises of encampments, predating the Federal Policy. Richmond, Letcher and Lee, both were thoroughly canvassed by a Jeff Davis spy to ascertain the condition of affairs from late April to the end of May, when (D. B. ?) Duncan disappeared. He had arrived when Alexander Stephens paid respect by visiting there, and sent his reports to the Secretary of War in Alabama, covering 5 weeks with incipient criticism. He disappeared about the time Sam Cooper was in Abingdon. Clandestine reporters such as this one mentioned were very dangerous too. Thanks,
Lubliner.
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D. G. Duncan was the name, Montgomery, Alabama was the place.
On the newspaper remark, in Chapter 2 of Douglass Freeman's Biography of Lee, the abridgment by Richard Hartwell, in Chapter V on page 124-5, I quote, "Virtually no attempt was made to set up an intelligence system as a part of the general staff. Reports om the general plans and movements of the Federal forces were gleaned from Northern newspapers, or were gathered from travellers and private letters. Some of the most important movements were wrongly reported or were not discovered at all. The Virginia press, in its zeal to inform to readers, informed the enemy as well, and helped to create in Lee a dislike for newspaper methods." End of quote. Beauregard had this order published on June 29, 1861, again I quote the ORA this time, "I beg to request of you that you admonish those under your command not to write anything for public or private use relative to the condition and future operations of this army, for if correct, the enemy will take advantage of it, and if incorrect, it might as well not be communicated, unless for a special purpose, which should be judged of by those in command alone. Moreover the Army Regulations were most positive on that subject, and should be enforced, if still so. I have to request that you would endeavor to find out the author of the last communication referred to that he may be ordered away from the vicinity of this army forthwith. Unless we can maintain secrecy we might as well disband our forces at once under the present circumstances. Yours Truly, Brigadier-General Beauregard, Commanding." End of quote. (Lubliner).
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Leaders of General Motors over the weekend said they have picked their Spring Hill manufacturing complex to begin making a new seven-seat Cadillac crossover.
The project calls for a $300 million investment and state officials say the decision will lead the hiring of hundreds.
GM executives detailed their plans for the Cadillac XT6 ahead of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, which starts Monday. The XT6 will be built on the same platform as the GMC Acadia, one of two models already being made in Maury County. The new model will be available to order this spring and marks the latest piece of good news for GM's Spring Hill team, which was spared from big cuts announced late last year. (GM late last week said more than 100 workers from its Lordstown, Ohio, plant will relocate to Middle Tennessee.)
"I'd like to thank GM for its continued commitment to Tennessee," Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe said. "GM's decision to add yet another vehicle […] to its product line in Spring Hill speaks volumes about the high-quality workforce and business climate that global businesses can find in Tennessee."
General Motors in late November announced plans to to cut more than 14,000 white and blue collar jobs, reducing it's amount of salaried employees by 15 percent. In addition, General Motors announced the closure of five separate plants across North America.
The announcement comes shortly after General Motors had offered a buyout to 18,000 of its salaried employees, which was described as a "cost efficiency" measure. Those plans spared operations and personnel in Spring Hill.
GM's Spring Hill car manufacturing/assembly and engine operations employ more than 3,000 people, about 2,600 of them hourly. The plant opened in 1990 as the home of the company's former Saturn brand.
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