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Cemetery Candle Sales in Slovenia: an Abbreviated History
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By Bob R	 On Oct 30, 2016 2
Not a history really, just some scattered notes in an attempt to attach some numbers to this image that only begins to illustrate what a massive industry cemetery candles are here in Slovenia.
This is a picture of a stall in Ljubljana's central market, taken on Saturday; in this case the Saturday before Dan Mrtvih, or Day of the Dead, when more than half the country will visit their local cemeteries and leave new candles very similar to these.
If you haven't experienced it, you'll have little idea what I'm talking about. The numbers are pretty staggering, given the country's small size and population of just over two million.
Recent data –the most recent I've been able to track down after a quick bit of research– shows that Slovenians light between 6,000 and 7,000 metric tons of cemetery candles annually, placing Slovenia at the top of the charts along with Austria and Poland. That's some 23 million candles, averaging 12 per person.
According to figures cited in this story in The Slovenia Times, those 23 million candles accounted for 3% of the country's total waste in 2011. That figure dropped dramatically to about 15 million the following year after, but waste remains a major problem. About 5,870 metric tons of candles were sold in 2012, with less than half, about 2,400 tons, recycled.
By one candle manufacturer's estimate, more than one-third of the annual number will be lit and left on Tuesday, the Day of the Dead holiday. Most of those bags above were empty by the end of the afternoon.
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jaimelazarte says 3 years ago
Interesting report on the cemetery candle sale and use in Slovenia. This afternoon, I was trying to associate of different cultures remembering the dead or associated with the dead on days close to the end of October and beginning of November; starting with Dewali in India on October 30, Halloween in USA on October 31st, Dia de los Muertos in Mexico on November 1st, and Day of the Innocent on November 2nd in Spain and Peru.
Well, in Slovenia eternal fire got a bit short. 😀 Was talking about this to amore just yesterday and compared it to the Italian sensible way of paying a fixed annual sum to the cemetery and then they keep the (artificial) candle going for a grave of your choice non-stop. Even though you can also see steadily blinking candles that work for quite some time in Slovenian cemeteries more and more, it's true that only lighting a real candle will do it, for my family too. I think this is a remnant of living in a socialist republic: one does not go to churches, but feels one has to do something at least once a year. You know – in case. 🙂


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Group 1 enters the UK market
30/03/2007 in Latest News
A second US-based dealer group has begun building a business in the UK.
Group 1 Automotive, whose head office is in Houston, Texas, has bought £91.5m turnover Chandlers Garage in south-east England. Chandlers has BMW/Mini dealerships in Brighton, Worthing and Hailsham.
The first US-based group to invest in a UK motor retail operation was United Auto Group, run by Roger Penske. It bought the top 10 AM100 group Sytner in 2002, and has 10 UK BMW outlets.
Jim O'Donnell, BMW UK managing director, put Group 1 in touch with Chandlers. He says: "This means there's another big, powerful group representing BMW that knows how to grow volume."
"The UK has been a closed door operation, that's to say that within its curtain we'd like you to expand but if you're outside the curtain we won't let you in. Block exemption was playing to the demands of Sytner, Pendragon and Inchcape, and the industry needed another big player to increase the competition."
Earl Hesterberg, Group 1 president and chief executive, says Group 1 will retain the Chandlers trading name. He has been eyeing the UK's market for a while, and has been in talks with a number of carmakers.
"For a US company looking to expand, the UK represents the least riskiest market outside the US," says Hesterberg, who has headed Group 1 since 2005.
Overseeing the UK operation will be Hesterberg's former Ford of Europe colleague Ian Twinley, chairman of John Grose group. Hesterberg hopes to share ideas and best practices with Twinley, which will benefit Group 1 and John Grose.
He adds: "We're planning to grow our presence in the UK. We've nothing in mind at the moment; we have to digest this first."
Group 1 and Earl Hesterberg
Since flotation in 1997, Group 1 Automotive has established a network of 104 dealerships with 143 franchises and 28 bodyshops for 33 carmakers in the USA. These operate under more than 20 dealer brands.
Hesterberg joined as CEO in April 2005. Prior to that he was group vice president for marketing, sales and service at Ford Motor Company North America, a post he gained after five years in the same role at Ford of Europe, during which he established Ford Retail.
Earlier in his career he held senior positions with Nissan and Infiniti in the USA, Nissan Europe and Gulf States Toyota.
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Driving to Geronimo's Grave: A collection of Joe R. Lansdale's favorites
Driving to Geronimo's Grave by Joe R. Lansdale
See, here's why I read Joe R. Lansdale; in Driving to Geronimo's Grave (2018), there is a short story called "Wrestling with Jesus." The story is about wrestling and male bonding. It's violent. It's gross and vulgar. The plot involves two men gambling over a woman. There are two women characters; one is weak and venial and the other is evil and manipulative. It has foul language. It's funny. Generally, only "it's funny" would even remotely attract me to a story like this, but "Wrestling with Jesus," which follows the relationship of a lonely teenage boy and an octogenarian wrestler, is probably my favorite of this 2018 story collection.
Marvin, the teen boy in the story, is a target for bullies in his new neighborhood, where his mother has moved them after the sudden death of his father. Marvin can't fight, and he is resigned to being a permanent victim until X-Man, an eighty-plus wrestler, rescues him from the bullies and offers to teach him to fight. The reason, X-Man says, is because he has to get into fighting trim for a bout with Jesus. Every five years, on Christmas Eve, Jesus (not the son of God, just a guy,) and X-Man wrestle for the favor of a once-beautiful, enigmatic woman named Felina. Marvin's mother has a new boyfriend whom Marvin dislikes, and when he tells his mother that it's either him or the boyfriend, she chooses the boyfriend. Meanwhile, X-Man tells Marvin the story of Felina. She was beautiful and sexually wild, and he couldn't get enough of her. While he was winning his bouts, she never left his side, but once he lost to Jesus, he lost Felina. At one point, X-Man tells Marvin that Felina took a lock of his hair and wrapped it up in a pipe cleaner, and he is sure that she is a witch who has put a spell on him, and probably Jesus too. The climax of the story is the famous bout, which will turn out to be X-Man's last match.
I loved this story, partly because the "male bonding" is generational. X-Man is a father-figure to Marvin, and the most important thing he teaches Marvin is to trust himself. At the end of the story, even though X-Man has taught Marvin fighting and wrestling moves, Marvin uses his brain to help his friend. Moments in the story, like a Thanksgiving dinner of turkey lunch-meat sandwiches with mustard, warmed my heart. While Felina is evil, she is a powerful character who drives the plot (and there is also a folkloric element to her, as there is through the entire story). And the final moments of the wrestling match made me cry, "Oh, no!" while simultaneously laughing out loud. And that, really, is why I read Lansdale.
Driving to Geronimo's Grave has six stories and each comes with an afterword, or actually "after-notes," by the author. Many of them focus on the genesis of the story. Some range rather far afield. They're all interesting.
In the title story, Lansdale perfectly depicts the southwest Dust Bowl era, as teenager Chauncey and his tomboy rapscallion sister Terri drive to Oklahoma to pick up the body of a dead uncle. Terri is a wonderfully-realized character captured nearly entirely through her dialogue.
"You robbed a dead man for sleeping in your chicken coop?" Terri said. "Why didn't you just take his shoes too?"
Mr. Wentworth cleared his throat. "Well, they was the same size as mine, and he didn't need them."
Wentworth lifted a foot and showed us a brown brogan…
"'Damn," Terri said, looking down at the shoes on Mr. Wentworth's feet. "You did take his shoes."
The story is dust-bowl atmospheric and filled with memorable dialogue. The entire set-up is perfectly picaresque; the concept of a teenage boy who doesn't even know how to get to Oklahoma driving there to pick up the untended dead body of a relative he barely remembers is just ridiculous, and that's part of what works here. The other thing that makes this story work is Terri. Honestly, the plot depends on a coincidence so large that I found it implausible, but I still enjoyed it.
In the after-notes, Landale says that his parents grew up during the Great Depression and he grew up hearing stories about it. His values: to be frugal, to re-use things, come from his parents, even if he does poke gentle fun at the drawers filled with rubber bands, string, paperclips and paper.
"Robo Rapid" has the flavor of a Pulp Age science fiction story with Lansdale's unique stamp. In a post-apocalyptic world, a girl sets out across a hostile desert to rescue her brother and sister from murderous robots. The robots are huge war machines (think "Transformers"), originally programmed and piloted by humans, until the robots killed their pilots. They became ascendant, but they did not reverse their programming, so they still raid and kill humans. Lansdale conjures a vivid and scary desert world, and Sheann is brave young woman who finds an unlikely ally. The crazy visuals of this tale, concretely realized, elevate it beyond pulp.
Landsale says that the title "Robo Rapid" popped into his head several years before he had a story to go with it. It came together with an idea for an anthology based on the artwork of Dave McKean.
"In the Mad Mountains," as you can probably tell from the title, is Lansdale's take on eldritch horror, Lovecraft-style. The story opens with a shipwreck in the dead of night, of an ocean liner that has struck an iceberg. We readers think we know where we are. We are wrong. One lifeboat full of survivors makes it to a frozen wasteland, littered with preserved wrecks of other ships from many eras, and even the occasional airplane. From there, the story grows creepier and more compellingly Lovecraftian, as two classic Lansdale characters try to survive in an eerie, alien world. It is not a pastiche of Lovecraft, although I'm sure Lansdale could do that if he wanted. It's a Lansdale story told in the style of gothic horror.
I thought Landale ranged far afield in his after-notes for this one. After noting in detail all the reasons he wasn't a Lovecraft fan particularly, he talks about the influence Lovecraft exerted on the field. Then he talked about his difficulties with the removal of Lovecraft's bust from the World Fantasy Award. He contrasts that move with the removal of Civil-Rights-era Confederate statues, which he agrees need to come down, but makes the argument that Lovecraft was "a man of his time," not unlike Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs, both of whom were obviously racist. Lansdale expresses his opinion clearly, and while I don't agree with him (REH and Burroughs were never the "face" of a prestigious writing award), I appreciated the chance to read his thoughts on the matter.
"The Projectionist" is a mournful bit of crime drama, told from the point of view of a lonely projectionist in a 1950s small-town movie theater. He's been there since his twenties, a reliable loner, who has developed a crush on Sally, a new "usherette" the theater owner has hired. The projectionist's only other real friend is Bert, the retired projectionist who mentored him. One day, two thugs show up to shake down the theater owner. Sally is fearful and asks the projectionist to walk her home. The projectionist grows more worried about the threat to the theater, and contacts Bert. Bert says that the thugs are part of a gang of five, known to be moving in on the theater's neighborhood. Bert's past, and the projectionist's for that matter, are not as simple as the reader might have thought, but the two men decide to deal with the problem. The story has a heartbreaking simplicity that shines through its noirish structure.
Lansdale says the story came from a Lawrence Block suggestion for an anthology based on the work of artist Edward Hopper. Lansdale found a painting of an usherette and it inspired the story. If it's the Hopper painting I think it is, I don't completely see how it inspired "The Projectionist," but I'm glad it did.
"Everything Sparkles in Hell" is an old-fashioned story in which Men Survive the Wilderness. In this case, the wilderness is embodied in the form of an angry, vengeful mama grizzly bear. Nat Love is a Black US Marshal in post-Civil War Arkansas. This time the men he's pursuing have led him far out of his jurisdiction, and he'd deep in the Rocky Mountains in winter. When one of the trio of thieves and murderers he's chasing splits off from the others, the outlaw kills a random bear cub. The mother bear kills him but now she is taking revenge on any human she can find. Nat and his partner Choctaw, a tracker, want to find and bring back the remaining two outlaws without becoming bear food themselves. Part of the pleasure of this story is simply that it's "competence porn." Nat is very, very good at what he does. Choctaw is brilliant at tracking. The men use guns, muscle, nerve and strategy to find and capture the outlaws without getting at-risk civilians hurt (at which they're moderately successful), and without getting eaten by the bear. On the way back, though, they discover that the grizzly is still there, and she is not done. Vivid action makes "Everything Sparkles in Hell" a real page-turner.
In this, the final story of the book, Lansdale uses his after-notes to provide some information about cowboys. Roughly one-third of the western "cowpokes" were African-American, Native American or Mexican, a fact that Hollywood, decades later, chose to whitewash. "Nat Love" is based on an actual Black marshal, who wrote a melodramatic "autobiography" in the early twentieth century. His book seems largely accurate with some scenes intensified for the pulp readers back east. Lansdale was captivated by this historical person and began writing stories based on him. He completed a western novel about a black marshal in the 1980s but couldn't sell it because publishers said, "Black people don't read and white people don't read books about black people." Think about that. Lansdale didn't sell the book until the aughts.
Nat Love is a great character with a great narrative voice and he's a good choice to round out the collection. If you like quirky, mostly male characters, crime or noirish stories with the occasional fantasy-horror or science fiction story as a change of pace, pick up Driving to Geronimo's Grave.
Published in October 2018. From the Dusty Great Depression to the far future, to the wild west, to the era of big fin automobiles, soda shops and double features, as well as dark journey on an icy ocean full of ravenous sharks and a fantastic shipwreck that leads its survivors into a nightmarish Lovecraftian world of monsters and mystery, Joe R. Lansdale returns with a pack of stories for your consumption and enjoyment. There's even killer machines, a big ole grizzly bear, and entertaining story notes. Joe R. Lansdale has been writing novels and stories, as well as screenplays and comics, for over forty-five years, and this is his latest concoction, encompassing stories informed by a variety of genres, but not quite comfortably fitting into any of them. The reason is simple. Joe R. Lansdale is his own genre.
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October 18th, 2018. Marion Deeds | Joe R. Lansdale | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Marion Deeds, with us since March, 2011, is the author of the fantasy novella ALUMINUM LEAVES. Her short fiction has appeared in the anthologies BEYOND THE STARS, THE WAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, STRANGE CALIFORNIA, and in Podcastle, The Noyo River Review, Daily Science Fiction and Flash Fiction Online. She's retired from 35 years in county government, and spends some of her free time volunteering at a second-hand bookstore in her home town. You can read her blog at deedsandwords.com, and follow her on Twitter: @mariond_d.
Kat Hooper / October 29, 2018
I read his first HAP AND LEONARD novel earlier this year and really enjoyed it.
Marion Deeds / October 29, 2018
I've read two of those and liked both of them.
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Q: SQL querying dataframes inside list Given the dataframes
df1 <- data.frame(CustomerId=c(1:6),Product=c(rep("Toaster",3),rep("Radio",3)))
df2 <- data.frame(CustomerId=c(2,4,6),State=c(rep("Alabama",2),rep("Ohio",1)))

are stored in a list
dflist <- c(df1,df2)

how do I run sqldf queries (joins) on these dataframes?
Failed attempts:
test <- sqldf("select a.CustomerId, a.Product, b.State from dflist[1] a
          inner join dflist[2] b on b.id = a.id")

test <- sqldf("select a.CustomerId, a.Product, b.State from dflist$df1 a
          inner join dflist$df2 b on b.CustomerId = a.CustomerId")

A: If you copy your data.frames from the list to a new environment, then you can use the envir argument to sqldf or by naming the elements of the list, and using with.
Note a couple of things:

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*I create dflist using list not c.

note the difference
str(c(df1,df2))
##List of 4
## $ CustomerId: int [1:6] 1 2 3 4 5 6
## $ Product   : Factor w/ 2 levels "Radio","Toaster": 2 2 2 1 1 1
## $ CustomerId: num [1:3] 2 4 6
## $ State     : Factor w/ 2 levels "Alabama","Ohio": 1 1 2

str(list(df1,df2))
##List of 2
## $ :'data.frame': 6 obs. of  2 variables:
##  ..$ CustomerId: int [1:6] 1 2 3 4 5 6
##  ..$ Product   : Factor w/ 2 levels "Radio","Toaster": 2 2 2 1 1 1
## $ :'data.frame': 3 obs. of  2 variables:
##  ..$ CustomerId: num [1:3] 2 4 6
##  ..$ State     : Factor w/ 2 levels "Alabama","Ohio": 1 1 2

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*I have adjusted the sql queries to reflect the names within the data.frames (as per your second approach)

the named data
dflist <- list(df1,df2)
names(dflist) <- c('df1','df2')

Create a new environment to work in
# create a new environment

e <- new.env()
# assign the elements of dflist to this new environment
for(.x in names(dflist)){
  assign(value = dflist[[.x]], x=.x, envir = e)
}

# this could also be done using mapply / lapply
# eg
# invisible(mapply(assign, value = dflist, x = names(dflist), MoreArgs =list(envir = e)))
# run the sql query
sqldf("select a.CustomerId, a.Product, b.State from df1 a
          inner join df2 b on b.CustomerId = a.CustomerId", envir = e)

##  CustomerId Product   State
## 1          2 Toaster Alabama
## 2          4   Radio Alabama
## 3          6   Radio    Ohio

A simpler approach using with
you could simply use with which evalulates locally (important that dflist is a named list here)
# this is far simpler!!
with(dflist,sqldf("select a.CustomerId, a.Product, b.State from df1 a
           inner join df2 b on b.CustomerId = a.CustomerId"))

Another simple approach using proto

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*Thanks to @G.Grothendieck (see the comments

This uses the proto package which is loaded with sqldf
dflist <- list(a = df1, b = df2)
sqldf( "select a.CustomerId, a.Product, b.State from df1 a
         inner join df2 b on b.CustomerId = a.CustomerId",
         envir = as.proto(dflist))

Using data.table
Or you could use data.table which gives sql-like approaches (see FAQ 2.16)
library(data.table)
dflist <- list(data.table(df1),data.table(df2))
names(dflist) <- c('df1','df2')
invisible(lapply(dflist, setkeyv, 'CustomerId'))
with(dflist, df1[df2])
##    CustomerId Product   State
## 1:          2 Toaster Alabama
## 2:          4   Radio Alabama
## 3:          6   Radio    Ohio

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Q: Use API key pairs for users for API gateway I have a web app running with its APIs all behind AWS API Gateway. It is currently authenticated using Cognito token.
Now I want to the users to be able to set up API key pairs (id and secret) so that they will have an alternative way to authenticate and access their account programmatically, similar to this (https://support.binance.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002502072-How-to-create-API).
I am aware some solutions (non-optimal IMO, please correct me if I am wrong):

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*API keys from API gateway could be used, but according to the documentation, it's not meant for authentication.

*We could use IAM credentials for it, but I am not sure if it's a good practice to assign IAM credentials to users (rather than internal devs).

What is the best way to achieve something like this (https://support.binance.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002502072-How-to-create-API) with API gateway?

A: I would propose implementing a request based Lambda authorizer [1].
Looking at your example, it seems you expect to enforce some customized security policies as well (i.e., IP address based check, enabling specific APIs).

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*Your Cognito user pool will still be used for username/password based authentication to your web app.

*My idea is to store users' API keys and the custom security policy in a separate data storage (eg- DynamoDB).

*Then users can use these API keys when invoking the API.

*API Gateway will trigger the Lambda authorizer and the Lambda authorizer is responsible to validate the API keys in the incoming request and generate an IAM policy based on your custom security policy.

[1] See the section named "Create a Lambda Function of a Lambda Authorizer of the REQUEST type" in https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/apigateway-use-lambda-authorizer.html


Watch most music clips involving female singers and clothing appears to be an optional extra. With rampant sexuality comprehensively whipping a good voice in the marketing stakes, Sing The Truth comes as a pleasant aberration, the focus being squarely on three exceptional singers.
Angelique Kidjo is the irrepressible powerhouse of Afro-beat. Dianne Reeves is among the most sophisticated contemporary jazz singers, and Lizz Wright, the youngest, effortlessly melds jazz, r'n'b, gospel and folk into a soul-food whole.
Beginning as a Nina Simone tribute in 2004, Sing The Truth has become a wider celebration of distinguished female singers. For Sydney Festival it spotlights the work of Miriam Makeba, Odetta and Abbey Lincoln, with the singers backed by an all-star band led by drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and including pianist Geri Allen.
Makeba, the South African known as Mama Africa, was the Dark Continent's first singing star to break through in the west. Odetta brought her operatic voice to bear on spirituals, blues, folk and more, and Abbey Lincoln was a towering jazz singer. All three were not-to-be-denied activists for civil rights.
"All those women have paved the way for us to be where we are today," says Kidjo, whose telephone manner is just as feisty and bubbly as her stage presence.
Kidjo can barely contain her enthusiasm for the rapport between the three of them. "We just clicked like we were sisters," she chirps. "We can look at each other without talking and know exactly what we're thinking. It's only usually with my family members that I have that kind of feeling. To be able to experience that in my work with two women like them makes the world worth it for me, I have to tell you.


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Jean-Philippe Blondel
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Andrzej Bursa
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Philippe Costamagna
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Margriet de Moor
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Adrien Goetz
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Yitzhak Gormezano Goren
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Marek Hlasko
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Walter Kappacher
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Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Pierre Le-Tan
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Vladimir Lorchenkov
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Pedro Mairal
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Charif Majdalani, born in Lebanon in 1960, is often likened to a Lebanese Proust. Majdalani lived in France from 1980 to 1993 and now teaches French literature at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut. The original French version of his novel Moving the Palace won the 2008 François Mauriac Prize from the Académie Française as well as the Prix […]
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) was among the most renowned novelists of the twentieth century and received the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. His first novel, Buddenbrooks, was published in 1901 and found great success in Germany. Mann, however, was deprived of German citizenship in 1936 by the Nazi regime and eventually sought refuge in the United […]
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Irène Némirovsky (1903-1942) was born in Kiev into a Jewish banking family. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, she moved to France and wrote in French. Némirovsky was baptized as a Catholic in 1939, three years before her arrest and deportation to Auschwitz where she died. Her best-known novel, Suite Française, was published posthumously and translated into […]
Anna Maria Ortese
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Alexander Pschera
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Alexis Ragougneau
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Igiaba Scego
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Agur Schiff
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Salvatore Settis is an archaeologist and art historian who has been the director of the Getty Research Institute of Los Angeles and the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. He is chairman of the Louvre Museum's Scientific Council and author of several books on art history as well as a regular contributor to major Italian newspapers […]
Dana Shem-Ur
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Lea Singer
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Ersi Sotiropoulos
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Martin Suter
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Hans von Trotha
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Klaus Wivel
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Shemi Zarhin
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Alison Anderson
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Georg Bauer
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Antonina W. Bouis
Antonina W. Bouis is one of the leading translators of Russian literature working today. She has translated over eighty works from authors such as Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Sakharov, Sergei Dovlatov, and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Bouis, previously executive director of the Soros Foundation in the former USSR, lives in New York City.
Nick Caistor
Nick Caistor is a translator, journalist and author of non-fiction books. He has translated some 40 books from Spanish and Portuguese. These include works by Paulo Coelho, Alan Pauls, Martin Kohan, Eduardo Mendoza, Juan Marsé and Manuel Vázquez Montalban.
Jessica Cohen
Jessica Cohen shared the 2017 Man Booker International Prize with author David Grossman for her translation of A Horse Walks into a Bar. She has translated works by Amos Oz, Etgar Keret, Dorit Rabinyan, Ronit Matalon, Nir Baram, and others.
Howard Curtis
Howard Curtis has almost thirty years of experience as a literary translator from French, Italian and Spanish. Among the many authors he has translated are Flaubert, Balzac, Pirandello, Simenon, Filippo Bologna, Carole Martinez, Paolo Sorrentino and Santiago Gamboa.
Sheila Dickie
Sheila Dickie studied German and drama at Bristol University and has taught German. She has translated a novel by Claude Michelet from French, and lives in Henley-on-Thames, England.
David Doherty studied English and literary linguistics in Glasgow before moving to Amsterdam, where he has been working as a translator for over twenty years.
Karen Emmerich
Karen Emmerich has published a dozen book-length translations of modern Greek poetry and prose. She was awarded the 2019 National Translation Award for What's Left of the Night by Ersi Sotiropoulos. Emmerich teaches comparative literature at Princeton.
Jill Foulston
Jill Foulston is the translator of novels by Erri de Luca, Augusto de Angelis and Piero Chiara. She lives in London.
Edward Gauvin
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Ann Goldstein
Ann Goldstein has translated The Neapolitan Novels and other works by Elena Ferrante, as well as writings by Primo Levi, Giacomo Leopardi and Pier Paolo Pasolini. She is a former editor at The New Yorker.
Yardenne Greenspan
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Katherine Gregor
Katherine Gregor has translated works by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Andrea Japp, Luigi Pirandello, Carlo Goldoni and Alexander Pushkin.
Mark Kline
Mark Kline is an American writer and translator living in Copenhagen. His translations include kingsize, a prize-winning collection of Danish avant-garde poetry by Mette Moestrup, as well as children's books, essays, and short stories.
Elisabeth Lauffer
Elisabeth Lauffer is the recipient of the 2014 Gutekunst Translation Prize. After graduating from Wesleyan University she lived in Berlin where she worked as a commercial translator and then obtained a master's in education from Harvard.
Natasha Lehrer
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato is a Brazilian writer and literary translator who lives in New York and St. Louis.
Jenny McPhee
Jenny McPhee has translated works by Giacomo Leopardi, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, Paolo Maurensig and Pope John Paul II.
Tomasz Mirkowicz
Tomasz Mirkowicz, translator of American and British fiction, was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1953. Among others, he translated the works of Ken Kesey, George Orwell, Jerzy Kosinski, Harry Matthews, Robert Coover, Alan Sillitoe and Charles Bukowski.
Michael F. Moore
Michael F. Moore has translated works by Alessandro Manzoni, Alberto Moravia and Primo Levi. Prior to becoming an interpreter at the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations, he studied sculpture at the Brera Academy in Milan.
Steph Morris studied fine art at Goldsmiths' College, London, and history of art at Chelsea College of Art. He has translated the diaries of East German writer Brigitte Reimann as well as nonfiction books about Joseph Beuys and Pina Bausch, and has been a translator in residence at the Europäisches Übersetzer-Kollegium, in Straelen, Germany.
Eric Mosbacher
Eric Mosbacher translated over one hundred works including writings by Ignazio Silone, Giovanni Verga, Leo Perutz, Sigmund Freud, Siegfried Kracauer and Witold Gombrowicz.
André Naffis-Sahely
André Naffis-Sahely is a translator and poet. He was born in Venice and grew up in Abu Dhabi.
Wiesiek Powaga
Wiesiek Powaga is a translator and author. Among his translations are letters of Bruno Schulz and Witold Gombrowicz, an anthology of Polish fantasy writing, poetry, drama, and a novel by Andrzej Stasiuk. He has written for television and trained as a make-up artist and a wig-maker at the Warsaw Opera House.
Alta L. Price translates from Italian and German, and was awarded the 2013 Gutekunst Prize. Her publications include work by Corrado Augias, Dana Grigorcea, Jürgen Holstein, and Martin Mosebach.
Jamie Richards
Jamie Richards is a translator based in Milan. She holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon. Her translations include Igort's Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks, Giovanni Orelli's Walaschek's Dream, and Jellyfish by Giancarlo Pastore.
Christine Shuttleworth
Christine Shuttleworth grew up in London, the daughter of the German-language writers Hilde Spiel and Peter de Mendelssohn, who emigrated there in 1936.
Arabella Spencer
Arabella Spencer studied German and philosophy at King's College London and literary translation at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. She has lived in Munich and Seville and currently lives in London.
Ross Ufberg
Ross Ufberg is a writer and translator of literature from Russian and Polish. A graduate of Hamilton College, he is a PhD Candidate at Columbia University in the Slavic Department, and a cofounder of New Vessel Press.
Claire Wadie
Claire Wadie has a Masters in Translation from the University of Bristol and won the Peirene Stevns Translation Prize for Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur. She has taught French and Spanish in British secondary schools for many years.
Max Weiss teaches the history of the modern Middle East at Princeton University. He has translated books by Nihad Sirees, Dunya Mikhail and Samar Yazbek.
Michael Z. Wise
Michael Z. Wise is cofounder of New Vessel Press.
Frank Wynne
Frank Wynne is an award-winning translator from French and Spanish, who has translated works by Michel Houellebecq, Claude Lanzmann, Frédéric Beigbeder and Yasmina Khadra. He is the author of I Was Vermeer, a nonfiction book about art forger Han van Meegeren.


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If you shave your beard or head, the hair comes back faster, thicker, and coarser
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Stubble may look darker and coarser because it has not yet been exposed to sun and other wearing elements. Once it grows in, it looks identical to the hair that was shaved away, Caroll said.
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It is true that the development of penises and toes (as well as clitorises and fingers) are influenced by the same gene. But the length of one does not predict the length of the other.
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For example, a 2002 study, headed by Jyoti Shah at St. Mary's Hospital in London, compared foot size to carefully measured privates (all 104 penises were stretched to their longest length for consistency.) No correlation was found.
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We last brought you news from Broken Poetz earlier in the year when they dropped "The Pen, The Pad & The Things We Had". Well, now they're back with a freshly-baked 6-track E.P., offered on a "pay-what-you-can" basis. (You know the score by now, if you like what you hear, give the artist some money).
"Break My Heart In 2" opens with some funky trumpets, aided by a whack of bass, a luscious female vocal hook, and intelligent verses from both emcees. This one is a guaranteed head banger.
"Trying Hard To Speak" is another joint packed with human emotion, the struggle to make sense of life, and as the title suggests, the difficulty in finding words to express feelings. The track leads into "Get Myself Straight" featuring the vocals of Jade Fuller. This track showcases yet again the Poetz' ability to express memories, evoke empathy and display tremendous honesty through their words.
The 6-track release rounds off with "Goin' Out Tonight", an upbeat party-themed number which echoes the trials and tribulations of a night out. Women, drinks, rapping, all the essential elements are present. This is a great culmination to "The Self Fulfilling Prophecies", and leaves the listener on a happy note, with humorous wordplay nested amongst the catchy beat.
Those who like introspective, intelligent Hip Hop will find themselves at home with Broken Poetz. The lyrics are on point, and the beats are complete and prone to some head nodding.
Grab the release from here, and have a listen below. We'll be publishing the lyrics soon, so keep an eye out, and consider signing up to our weekly lyrics in your inbox service. If you're in or around Andover on Friday 6th December, you can catch Broken Poetz performing their material alongside Dead Players. Find the flyer below the Bandcamp stream below.
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Innovation is now more critical than ever for business success and improving the customer experience, says Campus Travel's General Manager, Melissa Elf.
Flight Centre Travel Group's (FCTG) corporate division, which includes Campus Travel, is a finalist in the 2018 Australian Travel Awards 'Innovation' category. The company was also named one of the top 20 most innovative ASX200 companies.
The top 20 innovation list was compiled by Campus Collective, a consulting firm that has analysed ASX200 companies using their annual reports, company announcements and documented evidence of revenues from new products that did not exist five years ago.
Melissa said Campus Travel was acutely aware of how important innovation was to the future of academic travel.
"A lot of the feedback we receive from customers via client meetings and surveys is around technology and innovation. We believe the conversations we are having with clients about enhancing processes or programs, is critical for the development of technology – how it looks, how it works and how it will ultimately help to improve the customer experience," Melissa said.
Melissa said academic and research organisations were looking to their travel providers for guidance on how they can use new technology to transform their programs and take them to the next level of efficiency.
"Whether this is through a new online booking tool, more in-depth reporting and analytics or being able to provide bespoke travel management solutions – clients are keen to learn what is next in the travel sector and what these developments mean for them. Clients are interested in strategies that will help to transform their travel programs and travel providers that can take clients on this journey successfully, are being looked upon favourably.
Campus Travel recently launched to market a revolutionary, new online booking tool 'Savi', which harnesses the very latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Savi's unique functionality provides a personal and tailored experience for different users and also includes travel options and modules that are exclusive to FCTG.
"The product will totally change the way our customers are interacting with and booking their travel online," Melissa said.
Melissa added Campus Travel had also released the mobile app Sam (Smart Assistant for Mobile), a pocket travel assistant that employs a blend of artificial intelligence and integrated consultant support to help travellers with everything from itinerary management to bookings, service and support.


When implementing DevSecOps, it's just as important to know why you're doing it as it is to understand the process. Let's talk about the ''why'' of DevSecOps.
In IT, it is especially easy to get caught up in the "how" of just about any facet of our work. It all seems so mechanical, just tell me what tools to use and how you want it architected and we can go bang out a solution, it's what we do. DevOps and DevSecOps have been no different as we tend to focus on the CI/CD pipelines and which tools to integrate into it. Hopefully, this article will ground us in what DevOps is when we pull back the curtain and why that matters.
To me, DevOps is fundamentally about creating a culture of learning. This is in stark contrast to the prescriptive and heavily planned nature of the past. Instead of trying to gather all of the requirements and understand all of the use cases, and then telling people what to do, we learn as we go.
Any quick search on DevOps and culture should take you to the acronym, CALMS. Originally coined CAMS by John Willis and Damon Edwards after the first US-based DevOpsDays event held in Mountainview California in 2010, it stood for Culture, Automation, Measurement, and Sharing. Jez Humble later added the L, for Lean, making it CALMS.
The problem with an acronym is it comes off as a list of things but I want to connect them all. For me, it always starts with A Culture of... A culture of automation, a culture of lean, a culture of measurement and a culture of sharing. Where "culture" means, the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization. In simple terms, expected norms, all of which support a culture of learning and going faster.
DevSecOps is still a culture of learning but we are explicitly inviting Security to the game of delivering customer value faster. Security can no longer keep to themselves and be seen as a barrier to delivery; instead, we want them to embrace automation, lean, measurement, and sharing, like the rest of us, and learn to become an accelerator.
It should be uncontroversial to say that everyone at a given company wants to deliver customer value, faster with high quality. In today's terms, customer value is mostly delivered via software, high quality means secure, performant, and free of defects. Assuming we can all agree on this simple concept we can start to see how our cultural norms help us achieve these goals. Automation and Lean are all about going faster while removing waste. Measurement and Sharing help us to continuously learn. Organizations that have cultivated a culture of learning become not just resilient to change, but adept at it, which is true agility.
While being resilient to change is helpful for when we need to react to disruptions in our industry there is another benefit. William Pollard, a principal founder of the Oakridge Institute of Nuclear Studies has said "Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow." Being innovative can mean your organization is the one doing the disrupting and forcing the competition to react, testing their agility.
"A learning organization is a group of people who are continually enhancing their capabilities to create what they want to create."
"The only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization's ability to learn faster than the competition."


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Listening to Dryandra Woodland
Dryandra Woodland is a unique habitat on Noongar Wiilman boodja, home to endangered species such as the numbat and woylie, and a predator-proof area for boodies, malas and bilbies. This small woodland sits like an island within the vast sea of the western wheatbelt—the largest land clearing event in history.
Listening to Dryandra Woodland is an expansive, video-captioned sound installation, representing accumulated efforts to foster relationships within this place. Over five hours of recordings comprising conversations, music, and field recording, are assembled generatively in a piece situated somewhere between documentary and installation.
Dyed fabrics hang in the room, imbued with the woodland's shapes and colours, as these recordings are sounded by four speakers and tactile vibrations.
Listening to Dryandra Woodland was commissioned by Liquid Architecture, and has been supported by Tone List and the Western Australian government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries. The artists acknowledge the Wiilman Noongar people as the custodians of Dryandra Woodlands, and would also like to thank the woodland caretakers, John and Lisa, and sonic contributors Jim Denley and Dale Gorfinkel.
We are currently working with Alisa Blakeney to produce an online version of this exhibition.


The brand new 2014 Chevrolet Corvette C7 Stingray's are just starting to hit the streets and we've got some dyno results from one of the first customer purchased cars. The new C7 Corvette is powered by a direct injected 6.2L V8 with active fuel management and variable valve timing rated at 460HP from Chevy.
To see just how much power the new Vette makes in the real world, the folks over at LPE put this great looking Cyber Grey Metallic Stingray Covette on their DynoJet for a few baseline pulls. The new Corvette did very well putting down 416 horsepower and 416 ft-lbs of torque to the rear wheels through the 7 speed manual transmission. Using a 15% drivetrain loss this puts the new Corvette at 489 horsepower and torque which is almost as much as what the old Corvette C6 Z06 was rated at.
Sweet, they finished the baseline dyno on my car. Next is the post-supercharger dyno.


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Why have protests in Algeria increased despite Bouteflika stepping down?
Accusing 82-year-old Bouteflika of "tricks" to stay in power once his mandate ends, demonstrators rallied again on Friday
Algerians demonstrate during the first Friday rally since the president's surprise announcement this week that he would not seek re-election but was cancelling April polls, in central Algiers on March 15, 2019. – A vast crowd marched through Algiers Friday to demand President Abdelaziz Bouteflika step down, after he said he would not contest re-election but was cancelling April polls. Men, women and children gathered in a festive atmosphere in the centre of the Algerian capital, in numbers that appeared to match last Friday's demonstration when tens of thousands took to the streets across the country, an AFP correspondent said. (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI / AFP)
Tens of thousands of Algerian protesters have dismissed President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's promise not to seek a fifth term — but what are those in power likely to do next?
Bouteflika has proposed a "national conference" to carry out reforms before scheduling elections, meaning he will stay in power until a vote takes place.
What do protesters want?
Algerians first took to the streets on February 22 to rally against Bouteflika's decision to stand for re-election, despite the ailing leader rarely being seen in public since a 2013 stroke.
The president said Monday he would withdraw his candidacy, but angered protesters by de facto extending his fourth term indefinitely.
Accusing 82-year-old Bouteflika of "tricks" to stay in power once his mandate ends, demonstrators rallied again on Friday to demand their president step down after two decades in power.
The mobilisation was described as historic, with even more Algerians joining protests than the previous week when participation was estimated in the tens of thousands.
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What is the official response?
As part of the measures announced on Monday, Bouteflika ordered a government reshuffle and replaced unpopular prime minister Ahmed Ouyahia with former interior minister Noureddine Bedoui.
While the removal of Ouyahia satisfied some, the promotion of Bedoui — who as interior minister oversaw the strict ban on demonstrations in Algiers — has failed to convince all protesters.
The new premier has promised to bring technocrats into government, including "young experts, men and women".
Finding technocrats willing to join a much-scorned administration, which Bedoui has pledged would be short-term, may however prove difficult.
Algerians want "radical change, not a change of puppets," one protest sign read Friday.
The central demand of demonstrators has remained the same: an end to Bouteflika's rule, along with that of his entourage and the political system they put in place.
Will protests dwindle?
Since rallies began, authorities appear to have been playing a waiting game. But there is no sign the demonstrators are running out of steam.
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Algerians were traumatised by the civil war 1992 to 2002 and officials have capitalised on their fears, suggesting the regime is the only protection against a return to chaos.
While this has long prevented people from taking to the streets, the current protests show they are now pushing back against the all-powerful state.
Algerians of all ages have brought a celebratory atmosphere to the rallies, defying the protest ban in the capital to wave their country's flag.
There are concerns among some protesters that the fatigue which accompanies the holy month of Ramadan, which begins in early May, could damp down their movement.
Will there be a violent crackdown?
The violent repression of protests in unlikely, as police have appeared overwhelmed in the face of such vast crowds.
The demonstrations have largely been peaceful, with no incidents reported in the provinces over the past three weeks.
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In Algiers, there have been clashes on the sidelines at the end of each Friday protest, in which some young people have hurled stones at police.
Such incidents have been notably rare given the sheer size of the protests, and volunteers in Algiers have cleaned up the streets following demonstrations.
There is currently no indication that authorities will seek a violent end to demonstrations, particularly given the global attention on Algeria.
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