Particularly for New Zealand hikers/trampers, this UK outdoor sock company have recently released their first fully waterproof sock, called the 'Storm Sock' range - with a lightweight, medium and heavyweight sock available. To achieve this, the hi-tech sock has three layers: an inner sock, HydroTech membrane and outer sock. If you are in the UK, you can purchase from a number of stockists (check here), or here in New Zealand, you'll have to order from Amazon, or check your nearest outdoor stockist. Dry toes for the win! Thanks Bridgedale.
We've actually just purchased this book (what can I say, suckers for a pretty cover and lots of big beautiful mountain pictures!) and have spent a few hours poring over the pages, planning some bucket list hikes. Buy online from Book Depository, or find in most book shops.
Are you looking for something practical, that's also good for the environment? Look no further than these brilliant beeswax wraps from LilyBee Wrap. Great for wrapping your sammies, homemade bars, baking, holding your trail mix on hikes. Trust us on this one, we've tried other cheaper brands, but they loose their coating very quickly. These wraps are quality and come in many different sizes and patterns. Order now and they will easily bee here for Christmas!
In New Zealand we hike in all conditions. Keeping your phone dry but also handy for photos is a real mission. A good waterproof phone case means you can still keep it in your pocket instead of in a dry bag at the bottom of your pack.
Leatherman is a trusted brand and super useful tool when you are out in the bush. Compact and lightweight (241g), the Leatherman Wave has 17 tools (think pliers, scissors, knives, bottle opener -essential! etc) it is stainless steel and comes with a 25-year warranty. Could get you out of many tricky situations. You can purchase from Tightlines New Zealand.
Merino tops are great for hiking in, they keep you warm when it's cool, cool when it's warm and even if they get wet they stay warm next to the skin, unlike cotton. Another lesser known benefit is that they do not smell after a day of wear and sweat - perfect for light packers (think 1 shirt, 2 days!). Icebreaker is one of our favourite New Zealand brands, and outdoor lovers can never have too many good quality, merino polo t-shirts.
For piece of mind, you can't go past a decent first aid kit and this 208 piece, hard-shell kit has all the essentials plus more.
We actually have one of these (my husband is a tech-geek!) and they are brilliant! Wrap them around a fencepost, tree, branch, whatever you can find and get some great shots or video footage. They are a little creepy looking, but must admit quite fun to play with! Noel Leeming currently have these in stock in New Zealand. Here's a review of the best flexi tripod to buy if you want to make certain you are buying the best.
Never heard of a foam roller? Well let me tell you my friend, after a long hard day of hiking around New Zealand backcountry tracks, your calf and quad muscles will be feeling it! Particularly great for those with short, tight calf muscles, regular foam rolling after hiking will get the blood and oxygen flowing through those muscles again and promote muscle elasticity and flexibility.
One watch to rule them all! A watch, GPS tracker with topo maps loaded with more functionality than we can list here.


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This is a test video of what's allegedly the first fully 3-D printed plastic gun (previously: an AR-15 with 3-D printed receiver) firing a bullet and not shattering to pieces in the shooter's hands like I expected. PROTIP: Never bring a plastic fork to a knife fight. I've never tasted so much of my own blood before.
...Wilson's weapon is almost entirely plastic: Fifteen of its 16 pieces have been created inside an $8,000 second-hand Stratasys Dimension SST 3D printer, a machine that lays down threads of melted polymer that add up to precisely-shaped solid objects just as easily as a traditional printer lays ink on a page. The only non-printed piece is a common hardware store nail used as its firing pin.
So yeah, apparently 3-D printed guns are right around the corner. Possibly waiting to take your wallet and purse. Which is exactly why I don't carry a wallet. Keep your money in your man-bra -- that's what I do. "Man-bra?" I meant to say shoe.
Thanks to Evil Ares (two tips in a row, bro -- you're mad evil!) and Dubin, who refuse to 3-D print weapons because they like to forge them from magic the way swordsmiths and magicians would to get together to do in medieval times.
The version I saw yesterday said it lasted 6 shots and had 2 metal pieces, the second one being just a piece of scrap concealed inside the gun to prevent it from violating a law against undetectable firearms. What I really want to know though is what happens when it breaks!?!? 'splosions? Loss of finger? Does the shell shoot out the back at you? I guess you have to print your own to find out.
I imagine that when the gun fails it will do just like other 3d printed guns do, just fail and fall apart.
My question as well. Certainly not practical in a gun fight. But even in target practice are you gambling with losing fingers?
IT's called the liberator. If you look back in history there was another pistol called the FP45 liberator. It was a single shot stamped steel insurgency weapon. aka. A crappy zipgun used to procure superior weapons. I imagine this is supposed to be used in a similar manner.
Is it me or was there something a little ostentatious about that whole video? Someone get him a poncho and a cigar.
I'm just going to assume he had some reservations about shooting it, perhaps previous prints had exploded in his hand.
WHERE IS MY 3-D PRINTED CAT / FERRET LAUNCHER FOR HOME DEFENSE? Seriously what better way to deter thieves then to launch pissed off cats/ferrets at their faces at a rate of 3 animals per second? Don't bother. there is none. Guns are over.
They could print a metal gun, but part of the one-up-manship is printing the gun from plastic. It isn't necessarily to make a "good" gun, but to show off that they can print a working gun from plastics.
i print mine from turds.... take that plastic gun manufacturers!


Myriam Faucher Bilodeau will lead this immersive and original cooking workshop for teens while drawing on the distinctive culinary traditions of her native Quebec. This hands-on workshop is a unique and creative opportunity to introduce students to our northern neighbor. Not to worry, they will have plenty to eat! Who knew French could be so fun during February vacation?
If your teen has any allergies, especially to gluten, eggs or dairy, please inform us by emailing info@frenchculturalcenter.org or by calling 617-912-0400. This is to ensure that the workshop can accommodate as many dietary requirements as possible.
Born and raised in Québec, the French province of Canada, Myriam is a touche-à-tout: she likes to knit, cook, read, run, do yoga, write, ski and, above all, she likes to discover new cultures. Back home, she worked as a communications advisor for government, university, and community organizations. Now, she is finishing a degree in Professional French Writing.


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Joshua Tumwine, the complainant, seeks a declaration that by recognizing the business and taxation of 10 percent exercise on mobile money withdrawal, the ministries responsible are infringing the Constitution.
Tumwine has dragged the Attorney General (AG) and the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) to court claiming that the move undermines the rule of law and the constitutional mandate of the Bank of Uganda therefore going against the provisos of the Constitution.
The Kampala city economist seeks a permanent injunction restraining the Attorney General and URA and their agents from continuing to recognize the act that promotes unequal and discriminatory treatment under the law.
This comes after finance minister Maria Kiwanuka said she planned to raise $16.5 million (£10.6 million) by imposing a levy on incoming international phone calls to plug a $214 million hole in the budget after donors cut aid due to corruption accusation. The 10 percent tax is expected to raise some $12 million annually.
The mobile money tax is said to amount to a criminal offence under the Financial Institutions. It also enables the offender to evade criminal sanctions since it measures to violation of the Constitution.
The high tax imposition on the telecommunications product could affect the 8.9 million customers using six mobile phone networks in the country especially those in remote areas where banking facilities are inaccessible.


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title: "Linux swap shenanigans"
date: 2022-02-01T17:03:13-05:00
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---

In this post we will cover a few linux swap recipes.

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## Empty swap space

Completely empty (_flush_) swap space:

```shell
% swapoff --all && swapon --all
```

## Decrease swappiness

Emptying is too extreme. Why did you get so much swap in the first place?
A small tweak is to decrease the sensibility of the system to swap:

```shell
$ cat /etc/sysctl.d/90-custom.conf
vm.swappiness=20
vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50
```

The default swappiness of the Linux kernel these days is 60%, which IMHO is
quite aggressive for desktop usage. By decreasing it to 20%, our system will
only start to swap once we use more than 80% of total RAM. In other words, only
when there is 20% or less of free / available RAM.

[`vfs_cache_pressure`](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt):

> This percentage value controls the tendency of the kernel to reclaim the
> memory which is used for caching of directory and inode objects.

> At the default value of vfs_cache_pressure=100 the kernel will attempt to
> reclaim dentries and inodes at a "fair" rate with respect to pagecache and
> swapcache reclaim.  Decreasing vfs_cache_pressure causes the kernel to prefer
> to retain dentry and inode caches. When vfs_cache_pressure=0, the kernel will
> never reclaim dentries and inodes due to memory pressure and this can easily
> lead to out-of-memory conditions. Increasing vfs_cache_pressure beyond 100
> causes the kernel to prefer to reclaim dentries and inodes.

However, `/etc/sysctl.d` settings will only be applied after a reboot. To apply
them immediately, use the `sysctl(8)` command:

```shell
% sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/90-custom.conf
vm.swappiness = 20
vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 50
```

## Use a swapfile

If you find yourself with a fully partitioned disk without any dedicated swap
partition, there's a trick to adding swap anyway: Use a swap file! [Everything is
a file](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file) anyway!

```shell
# https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap#Swap_file

# Create the swap file: 8GiB in this case, to match our total RAM
% dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=8000 status=progress

# Set restricting permissions
% chmod 600 /swapfile

# Format the ~~partition~~ file
% mkswap /swapfile

# Activate the swap file
% swapon /swapfile
```

You can check it's working correctly by inspecting `/proc/swaps`:

```shell
% cat /proc/swaps
Filename				Type		Size		Used		Priority
/swapfile                               file		8388604		0		-2
```

Then finally add it to your `/etc/fstab` so that it is automatically mounted in subsequent boots:

```shell
# swap file
/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0
```

## Add ZRAM swap

Explaining `zram` is out of scope if this post, but check out the
[ArchWiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improving_performance#zram_or_zswap)
or [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zram).

The recipe I use in Arch Linux is the [`zramswap`](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zramswap/) package:

1. Install the package.
2. Set desired zram swap percentage, I picked 20%:

```shell
% cat /etc/zramswap.conf
ZRAM_SIZE_PERCENT=20
```

3. Enable/Start the service:

```shell
% systemctl enable --now zramswap
% systemctl status zramswap
● zramswap.service - Zram-based swap (compressed RAM block devices)
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/zramswap.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (exited) since Tue 2022-02-01 16:13:37 EST; 7h ago
   Main PID: 582 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 27ms

Feb 01 16:13:37 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Zram-based swap (compressed RAM block devices)...
Feb 01 16:13:37 localhost.localdomain zramctrl[627]: Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1.5 GiB (1654009856 bytes)
Feb 01 16:13:37 localhost.localdomain zramctrl[627]: LABEL=zram0, UUID=a39e0131-f102-4503-a1e7-a3e0ca330126
Feb 01 16:13:37 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Finished Zram-based swap (compressed RAM block devices).
```

You can inspect `/proc/swaps` again to check it's working properly[^1]:

```shell
% cat /proc/swaps
Filename				Type		Size		Used		Priority
/swapfile                               file		8388604		0		-2
/dev/zram0                              partition	1615244		0		100
```

[^1]: zswap should have more priority than the swap file.

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This post by telegram_ about African fashion contains some amazing images of street style:
Stockholm. Paris. London. New York. Helsinki. Milan. Tokyo.
These seem to be to go-to places when it comes to "street-style" and what's hot in general on most fashion blogs, but I just wanted to share some of the street-style you'll find on the African continent. Most of these were taken by Chris Saunders, a South African based photographer whose made it a point to capture the emerging style of South African youth. South African street style is rarely sleek and chic - it's irreverent, vibrant and daring. It mixes patterns and textures, with echoes of mid 70s style (and just a splash of "geek chic").
Plus some high fashion shots advertising the fabric:
(I know, nobody could walk in this outfit, but still: visual vaVOOM)
book: the affected provincial's companion
Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy has written a lovely book called The Affected Provincial's Companion.
The book may go out of print soon, at least in its present form, so I'm just going to start right up front by recommending it to anyone who appreciates a touch of flair and charm. The book is ostensibly aimed at men, and would be a treat for your favorite dapper gent, but I found plenty in here to love. It is well suited for gift-giving, because it's such a gorgeous artifact: beautifully embossed green hardcover with scarlet endsheets decorated in birds, moths, frogs and such.
Whimsy writes in his preface that he considers it to be "of great importance that we develop for ourselves an ability to coax enchantment from even the most prosaic of settings, lest we fall into despair and abandon the vision of a more joyous, gentle world." That for me sums up the pleasure of this book: it suggests the possibility of living a more delightful life.
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There's this scene at the end of The Devil Wears Prada. It's the inevitable "happy ending" where the nice girl, having learned her lesson about the dangers of losing her soul to the vicious fashion industry, goes back to her old life, her old boyfriend, her old (though jazzed up) look. The nice girl, Andy, opens the conversation by telling her estranged boyfriend, Nate: "You were right... about everything." He smiles incredulously, and they're back together.
I'm incredulous too. He was right about what, exactly? About all the pouting and refusing to talk to her when she came home late and exhausted? About telling her he didn't like the free clothes that looked fantastic on her? About the vague complaint that she was betraying "everything they believed in"?
What they believe in is never made clear; one presumes, between all the evenings where her friends hang out drinking and bitching about their crappy jobs, they've been thinking about maybe volunteering for the Peace Corps someday. Anyway, we get the point; their values have more to do with lifestyle than ideas. (No wonder they have to fight against the allure of fashion!) Fresh out of college, what Andy's crowd believes in, mostly, is maintaining their sense of who they are. Largely defined by who they're not: they consider themselves anti-fashion people, so placing any importance on fashion is a betrayal.
Andy knows this, and feels so guilty about it that it never once occurs to her to argue the reverse: that Nate has no respect for her hard work in a job that's changing her life. Instead, ultimately, she quits the world of her boss, Miranda Priestly, and sinks back into the comfortingly familiar and less demanding dynamics of her college relationships. You get the feeling she hasn't so much claimed her independence as given over control to a gentler tyranny.
The interesting thing about Andy's job isn't the fashion per se, unless you happen to be interested in fashion. What's fascinating is how it immerses her in a completely new world, in which she begins with no knowledge or competence, and gradually works her way up to being a capable, respected professional. The experience is also a springboard to whatever other kinds of work she might want to do. Not only for the reasons she thinks (resume, references, industry contacts), but because it's turning her into the kind of confident person who can get things done. It's teaching her to be an adult.
The job pretty much sucks, in lots of ways: it's stressful, often menial, it puts her in contact with awful people, and it eats her life. But it's also an amazing apprenticeship and challenge. She's given herself a year to stay with it, which seems like the right amount of time for her; unlike Miranda, Andy doesn't want her life to revolve around this field forever. But then she doesn't stick out the year. Miranda is disappointed. I'm a little disappointed too.
Her boyfriend is thrilled. Right away he starts making plans for how she can come be with him when he moves to Boston. Never mind that she's applying for jobs in New York. You get the feeling Andy has learned her lesson from watching her boss's latest marriage end in divorce. She's overheard one argument between Miranda and her husband, and the fight wasn't about Miranda being a massive bitch; it was about her husband's anger that she's the more famous and powerful public figure. He didn't like being "Mister Priestly".
Andy isn't going to make that mistake. Just in case actually quitting her job and showing her soft white underbelly isn't enough, she sits there in that final scene and smiles while Nate reprimands her some more. He says that she had given him up, for what? For shoes, belts, hats, handbags. She meekly agrees with him, but he's wrong. It wasn't the accessories that took her time and attention away from him. It was the work.
The Devil Wears Prada isn't a truly great movie, but I can't dismiss it as just another smug cautionary tale of a naive girl who loses and then regains her integrity. That may have been the original intention of the book it was based on. But the subtle way the film undercuts the obvious surface message, mainly through the contrast between Meryl Streep's smart, passionate, powerhouse performance as Miranda and Anne Hathaway's pretty/vacant Andy, makes the moral more complex. We know from the start how the story will end, but I didn't expect that saccharine conclusion to turn out so bittersweet.
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'verse
awesome dinosaurs
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barth anderson
beautiful monstrosities
benjamin rosenbaum
best press conference ever
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shakespearian tragedy is hilarious
tim pratt
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package com.vaadin.tests.minitutorials.broadcastingmessages;

import com.vaadin.annotations.Push;
import com.vaadin.server.VaadinRequest;
import com.vaadin.tests.minitutorials.broadcastingmessages.Broadcaster.BroadcastListener;
import com.vaadin.ui.Button;
import com.vaadin.ui.Notification;
import com.vaadin.ui.Notification.Type;
import com.vaadin.ui.UI;
import com.vaadin.ui.VerticalLayout;
import com.vaadin.v7.ui.TextArea;

@Push
public class BroadcasterUI extends UI implements BroadcastListener {

    @Override
    protected void init(VaadinRequest request) {
        final VerticalLayout layout = new VerticalLayout();
        layout.setMargin(true);
        setContent(layout);

        final TextArea message = new TextArea("",
                "The system is going down for maintenance in 10 minutes");
        layout.addComponent(message);

        final Button button = new Button("Broadcast");
        layout.addComponent(button);
        button.addClickListener(
                event -> Broadcaster.broadcast(message.getValue()));

        // Register broadcast listener
        Broadcaster.register(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void detach() {
        Broadcaster.unregister(this);
        super.detach();
    }

    @Override
    public void receiveBroadcast(final String message) {
        access(() -> {
            Notification n = new Notification("Message received", message,
                    Type.TRAY_NOTIFICATION);
            n.show(getPage());
        });
    }

}


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Minivans get a bad rap. They're boxes on wheels. They're only for soccer moms. Neither criticism seems fair to me, and one reason is the 2015 Toyota Sienna.
Manufactured since 1997 when it replaced the Toyota Previa, the 2015 Toyota Sienna has been refreshed in the fourth year of the third generation introduced in 2011.
Among the most versatile and safe vehicles available, the Toyota Sienna received a new tail light and interior design refresh. The Sienna SE reverted to the original pre-facelift "sport" tail lights and Sky Blue Pearl, Creme Brulee Metallic and Attitude Black Metallic are new exterior color choices.
My weekly driver was the Toyota Sienna SE, the eight-seater and one of five main available trims. It also featured the Premium sub-trim. While other trims are available in seven or eight-passenger configuration, the SE is only available with the eight-passenger option. The seven-passenger configuration includes second-row captain's chairs.
The 2015 Toyota Sienna has a refreshed exterior design.
The 2015 Toyota Sienna has automatic sliding side doors.
The 2015 Toyota Sienna has superior overall vision.
All trims come standard with front-wheel drive, but the LE, XLE and Limited are also available with all-wheel drive.
One of the Sienna's best attributes is a Toyota trait — lots of standard equipment. The SE model takes the long laundry list of features from the L and LE models and adds a significant stockpile of sporty upgrades.
Consider: 19-inch alloy wheels, a unique front fascia (with foglights, LED running lights and mesh inserts) and lower-body skirting. The SE also has sportier suspension tuning, a power liftgate, perforated leather upholstery (for rows one and two; row three gets leatherette premium vinyl), heated front seats and unique gauges with a larger multipurpose display.
The SE Premium adds a sunroof, keyless ignition and entry, blind-spot and rear-cross-traffic warning systems, a navigation system, Entune smartphone app integration, rear-seat entertainment system (with HDMI inputs, RCA jacks, a DVD player and a large screen that can be split to display two different sources) and the Driver Easy Speak system, which broadcasts the driver's voice through the rear speakers.
As a minivan loaded with safety and technology equipment, the Toyota Sienna, like the Honda Odyssey, its main competitor, no longer has any relation to the stodgy reputation of minivans of yesteryear.
The Toyota Sienna further defines the new minivan when it's driven. The 3.5-liter, V6 with 266-horsepower features a six-speed automatic transmission. The shift knob is ideally placed low and on slight angle on the console for easy access.
Considering it's a minivan, the Sienna accelerates and arrives at highway speed steadily and quietly. It's surprisingly agile during U-turns, maneuvering around in tight driveways or weaving past tight spot on urban city streets. The Sienna was never cumbersome.
The Sienna, like other minivans, features high seating. It has a smaller, compact hood and thus good front and overall vision. The automatic sliding side doors and tail lift and the easily sliding second row of seats further add to the vehicle's appeal.
Takes some muscle to maneuver heavy third-row seats.
Second row of seats don't fold to the floor.
Fuel economy: 18 mpg (city), 25 mpg (highway), 21 mpg (combined), six-speed automatic transmission.
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price: $39,680.00.
"This mid-cycle refresh includes substantial improvements to the interior's quality, ergonomics and design. Taken together this round of upgrades to the 2015 Toyota Sienna further elevates its position as one of our top-recommended minivans." — Edmunds.
"Now, the 2015 Toyota Sienna is even more enticing thanks to a revised interior and a host of new features that leave us appreciating the van more than ever. We're still not sure if we'd buy the latest Sienna over the Odyssey, though." — AutoTrader.
"Up-to-date in terms of infotainment and connectivity, quiet, comfortable, roomy, versatile-the 2015 Sienna has an almost bewildering array of appealing attributes. It's not the class athlete, but, as ever, it's a strong candidate for most likely to succeed." — Car and Driver.


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Fourth Expert Working Group on the preservation of the Bamiyan World Heritage site
7-9 December 2005
The Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan includes some of the most important examples of Gandharan art in the world, despite the Taliban's destruction of its two monumental Buddhas in 2001. The Expert Working Group on the Preservation of the Bamiyan site was formed in 2002 within the framework of the coordination mandate for all cultural projects in the country entrusted to UNESCO by the Afghan government. It will meet for the fourth time in Kabul from 7 to 10 December 2005.
This Expert Group coordinates activities carried out under the UNESCO project "Safeguarding of the Bamiyan site," for which the Japanese government granted a total of $3.1 million. The project aims at conserving the cultural heritage of the Bamiyan Valley, inscribed on the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2003.
Following the previous Bamiyan working groups and the efforts carried out in 2005, a group of Afghan and international experts will examine the progress of the consolidation of cliffs and niches, the preservation of mural paintings, the conservation of the remains of the statues of the Buddha, the preparation of the master plan, the development of the archaeological survey and the creation of a 3D model map. It will also, as it has in the past, make concrete recommendations on follow-up activities.
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Georgia produces a number of local beers. A beer tradition has existed in Georgia since ancient times in the mountainous regions of Khevsureti and Tusheti. After independence from the Soviet Union, Georgia revived its beer production and introduced its high quality beers to the market. The first and most popular of Georgian beer was Kazbegi. As of today, beer production in Georgia is still growing, offering high quality beers thanks to the high quality mountain spring waters in Georgia and to German designed beer factories. There are also many foreign beers like Heineken, Bitburger, Lowenbrau, Guinness, etc.
Georgia has one of the oldest wine-making traditions in the world and has been called the birthplace of wine also as "Cradle of Wine", due to archaeological findings which indicate wine production back to 6000 BC. Due to this fact, Georgians have some of the best wines in the world. Thanks to the ancient tradition of wine production and amazing climate, Georgian wine holds its strong competition with French and Italian. Definitely try out Georgian wine. Unfortunately, you are not allowed to export home-bottled wine, which is often the best kind. Georgian wines are actually quite famous. It may be true that they are little known in the West, but this definitely does not include some 280 million people in the former Soviet Union where Georgian wines remain a welcomed drink at any dining table.


Bill received his Associate's Degree at the age of 13 and went on to achieve a BS in Electrical Engineering. He received both his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer from Illinois Tech. In 2011 he was awarded IIT's prestigious Outstanding Young Alumnus Award. He has his MBA from the University of Chicago and sits on the technical committees of SMTAI, SMTA Counterfeit Conference, and SMTA LED Conference, Components for Military and Space Electronics Conference, SPIE Photonics, and the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium. Dr. Cardoso has written two books and over 150 technical publications.
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Kevin D. Donohue received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1987. He is currently the Databeam Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Kentucky. His work has contributed to the general area of signal processing systems with applications in medical imaging, biomedical signal analysis, non-destructive evaluation, radar detection, and audio sensor networks with over $4 million of funding in these areas and over 100 technical publications. He has served the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Kentucky in an administrative capacity; 4 years as Interim Department Chair, and 8.5 years as Director of Undergraduate Studies. He co-founded Signal Solutions, LLC based on technology he developed to non-invasively and automatically track sleep and wake behaviors in rodents primarily for high-throughput behavioral studies. This equipment is currently used in animal research laboratories throughout the USA and around the world.
Jiang Hsieh received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1989. He was a Principle Research Scientist in the Applied Research Department of Siemens Gammasonics Inc. from 1984 to 1989, and later joined the Applied Science Lab of GE Medical Systems. He is now a Chief Scientist of GE Healthcare and an Adjunct Professor in the Medical Physics Department of University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds over 250 US patents, and has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles, book chapters, and textbooks. He taught short courses at annual meetings of Radiological Society of North American (RSNA), annual meetings of American Association of Physics in Medicine (AAPM), Medical Imaging Conferences of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), and Medical Imaging Conferences of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). He is a fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), AAPM, IEEE, and SPIE.
Bruno Lequesne received the Certified-Engineer degree from Centrale-Supélec, France, in 1978, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA, in 1984. He worked for 30 years in the automotive industry on transportation electrification research and industrial drives before starting his own consultancy, E-Motors Consulting, LLC, in 2014. His automotive involvement includes working at General Motors Research Laboratories (1984-1999) and Delphi Research Laboratories (1999-2006). In September 2006, he moved to the Delphi Powertrain Division to manage a group within the Advanced Powertrain Engineering organization (2006-2009). After a year at the University of Alabama, he joined Eaton Corporate Research & Technology group to focus on the electrification of commercial vehicles and advanced industrial drives (2010-2014). Since starting his consultancy, he has contributed to the automotive, aerospace and renewable energy industries, working on motors, actuators, and systems. He is also an expert witness with courtroom experience. Dr. Lequesne holds 52 patents with 1 more pending, primarily on sensors, linear actuators, and automotive applications. He is the recipient of eleven Best Paper Awards, eight from the IEEE- Industry Applications Society (IAS), including two Transactions Paper Awards, and three from the Society of Automotive Engineers, including the Colwell (2000) and the Bendix (2007) awards. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1997, and received the Nikola Tesla Award in 2016. He is also past president (2011-2012) of the IEEE Industry Applications Society, and currently serves on the board of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Community where he chairs the Long Range Planning Committee.
Mr. McCoy is president of McCoy Energy Consulting, LLC, specializing in grid operations, maintenance practices and asset due-diligence. Mr. McCoy is also a principal of Atlantic Wind Connection. He was president of Trans-Elect Development Company, LLC from 1999 through late-2011. Prior to joining Trans-Elect, McCoy was Senior Vice President of Unicom, Senior Vice President of Commonwealth Edison ("ComEd"), and led ComEd's Transmission Group. McCoy had direct responsibility for a wide variety of activities at ComEd, including the planning, design, construction, and operation functions for its transmission and distribution systems. McCoy was chairman of the Mid-America Interconnected Network, one of the NERC Reliability Councils, a board member of NERC, chairman of National Electric Energy Testing, Research & Applications Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a member of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Research Advisory Committee. McCoy a past-president of WIRES, a national organization that promotes the economic expansion of a strong and well-planned electric transmission network. He currently serves on New Brunswick Power's Board of Directors.
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Kenneth Zdunek is CTO and Senior VP of Roberson and Associates, LLC, a technology and management consulting firm in Schaumburg, Illinois. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and has over 40 years of experience in research, analysis, and development of wireless communications systems. Concurrently, he is an Adjunct Professor in Electrical Engineering at IIT, where he conducts research in the area of dynamic spectrum access, spectrum sharing, and efficient spectrum utilization. He has taught graduate courses in wireless communication system design. Prior to Roberson and Associates, which he helped found in 2009, he was VP of Networks Research at Motorola, Inc. At Motorola, Dr. Zdunek was Vice President of Networks Research and was twice awarded Motorola's Patent of the Year for inventions used in cellular voice-data integration and cellular system roaming. He holds 17 other patents, including patents used in public safety wireless networks. Dr. Zdunek was awarded the PhD.EE degree from IIT, and BSEE and MSEE degrees from Northwestern University. He is an advocate of K-12 STEM education and is on the Board of Directors, and is a past President, of the Chicago Public Schools Student Science Fair, Inc.


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1932.05.03 出生于美国
Robert Osborne was the host on Turner Classic Movies from its inception in 1994, in large part due to his deep and abiding love and knowledge of film. Osborne got his start working for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The ever-perspicacious Ball suggested that Osborne combine his interest in classic film and training in journalism, and write instead of act. Osborne took this advice and produced "Academy Awards Illustrated" a book which then begat his years at The Hollywood Reporter. He also became the official historian of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. An elegant and unassuming man, Osborne combined a startling facility with movie names, dates, and facts with the gift to tell a good story and ability to be a gracious host.详情
Robert Osborne was the host on Turner Classic Movies from its inception in 1994, in large part due to his deep and abiding love and knowledge of film. Osborne got his start working for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The ever-perspicacious Ball suggested that Osborne combine his interest in classic film and training in journalism, and write instead of act. Osborne took this advice and produced "Academy Awards Illustrated" a book which then begat his years at The Hollywood Reporter. He also became the official historian of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. An elegant and unassuming man, Osborne combined a startling facility with movie names, dates, and facts with the gift to tell a good story and ability to be a gracious host.
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Four bedrooms, two baths and one fantastic address in the most desirable section of North Hollywood. This spacious home features hardwood floors, light filtering blinds, a fully remodeled kitchen, stainless steel appliances and laundry hookups as well as custom tile and energy efficient windows and doors. The backyard has a very open space and feel with a custom pool and a lovely terrace section for patio table & chairs.
Large lot in Toluca Woods with pool. Great location. Property is a fixer with great potential.


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by Nadine Darling	Read author interview December 15, 2006
When the shit went down Joe moved into the aquarium, and the security guard let him.
"I can't give you any money," said Joe.
The security guard looked the way he should: thick around, thinning hair, stuffed like a fist in his blue uniform.
He said to Joe, "What you do with your life is your own business." He was progressive in his thinking, he said. "You want to live in the aquarium? Accept it. Own the thing."
There was something kind in his eyes, thought Joe, and Joe wanted to tell him things, to hear that there was an answer to things, a reason. He said, "I'll bet you wonder how a guy comes to live in an aquarium."
"No," said the guard, and smiled, "I wonder how a guy becomes a security guard."
He handed Joe a mop and a set of keys with a shimmering dolphin key-chain. "Hide in the employee john during the day and during evening tours," he said. "Pick up after yourself. Try not to provoke the larger mammals."
Joe lived with the jellyfish. This seemed consistent with his non-aquarium life. He was tired all the time; he slept beneath the massive tank, to him a glowing, tapered nautical lava-lamp, ominous and sick with life. He woke to this, to the Blood Bellies and the Lion's Manes and the Egg Yolk Jellies, their hypnotic bloat and gradual rise to the surface, tentacles drifting behind like curdled fly-strips; he climbed to the top of the tank and watched them idling there all neon mucous-y and he knew that he'd done the right thing.
There were others like him. Sal Casey camped out near the tide pools—or touch pools—a bit of throwaway half-filth that kept Sal entertained for hours. Come visit me at the touch pools! he would say. It's always a party at the touch pools! Joe visited him sometimes for late night suppers of peanut butter crackers and Hostess cupcakes, and they named the hermit crabs, the limpets, the sea lemons. The purple sea urchin they called Harry.
"I had a boy called Harry once," Sal said one night as he and Joe attempted to play checkers with the star fish. Joe nodded; he was not completely at ease with Sal, who was missing several teeth and laughed in a dry heaves sort of way, a way that was most disturbing when trumpeted through the halls of an empty aquarium.
"What happened to him?" asked Joe.
"He went into the water," said Sal. He lifted a brown snail from the touch pool and turned it over dripping in his hand; its body reacted to the air, to the light, it wedged down into its shell, all shutter and flee, like a compressed heart or eye. "He went into the water."
"I know what it's like," said Joe. "I know. I could tell you."
Sal sniffed. He set the snail back into the water and said, "You gonna eat that cupcake?"
Blue lived with the otters. She was a girl Joe's age and very beautiful in the face. She swam with the otters; they flocked around her like floating paparazzi; they pressed beneath her chin and slept beneath her arms and she plucked at them, put her fingers in their mouths, talked for them in funny voices. She said that when she died she would come back as an otter, because they were adorable but aloof. Everyone loved them but accepted the fact that they couldn't be counted on.
One night Joe and Blue lay out on the plastic rocks below the track lighting and Joe propped up on one arm and said, "Let me tell you something."
"All right," said Blue.
Joe could barely breathe he was so excited. He told about the package that came to his house that day, to his old house, the one on land without the otters and rays. He told about who opened the package, and what was inside. He fell on his words and he picked up and said them again. There was a card with the package. The card read This is going to change your life. He'd found the card later, its edges charred as toast crusts, on the bottom step in the hallway. This is going to change your life. He explained the sound when the package was opened, like the end of something—the world, a song—from the other side of the house. He told about the walk from the office to the hallway and what he saw. About how, when he was standing there, the smoke alarm went off and how he jumped. Every car alarm in the neighborhood went off, he said, one after the other like a funeral procession.
When he was through he turned and looked at Blue she looked back at him and he was so grateful, so happy. An otter blew at her ear and she shooed it away.
She said, "Well."
"Why are you here?" asked Joe. "Who left you? What did you lose?"
"I just like otters," said Blue.
"Me, too," said Joe. He covered his face with his hands and everything everywhere was that aquarium world, that lap of water, that bleached smell of salt.
Nadine Darling lives in Beverly, Massachusetts, with her husband, Kenneth, who she couldn't love more if his pockets were filled with candy. She is currently writing her first novel to avoid getting a real job.
This appeared in Issue Fifteen of SmokeLong Quarterly.
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