Gorgeous footage of Sean Walling building one up in Petaluma.
FROM STEEL: The Making of a Soulcraft from michael evans on Vimeo.
A lot of little threads and thoughts today. Some of which will probably be edited out in the interests of coherency.
Got a decent ride in yesterday, after weeks and weeks of too-short, too-fast commute rides. Rolled out on a gorgeous, sunny Saturday - the kind of mid-November SF Bay Area weather which we who live here get very quiet about as our cycling brothers and sisters are discussing winter gloves and studded tires. First ride in memory where I didn't have my bag strapped to my back, and things felt light and smooth. Steered the Quickbeam over road and trail, enjoyed a freshly paved section of Paradise Drive, felt cosmically blessed when the surface turned back to bumpy and cracked and ripply, and all the race-folks fell behind on their high pressure 23C tires.
As a general rule, it seems to cause some consternation when a single-geared bicycle with tweed fender flaps goes past them over a rough and broken surface. Perhaps it's the head-slap enlightenment. Just one of the many services we offer.
Just realized that I didn't make a mileage post for the meager October tally. (tap, tap, tappity, tap) There.
Finally upgraded my phone (the Razr that wouldn't die), which means that I spent a couple evenings dinking around at the app store, up too late distracted by mostly less-than-useful technology. Was reasonably impressed by Pandora radio, which immediately knew about a couple of less-than-popular bands that I thought of. Only downside with them is the commercials. But, hey, nothing is "free"… Other than that there have been a few things, but I think I'm going to keep things reasonably austere for a while. (Maybe some folks will make some suggestions - so far the Photoshop, Sketchbook, Hipstamatic, StarWalk, Dragon Dictation and Evernote apps are all aboard and being used. Oh, and RedLaser, which is pretty much the end of retail as we know it. The one time waster I've allowed myself is Labyrinth.) None of which has to do with cycling.
For the past 30 days or so, rides have been of a different flavor. Busy times at the day job, more auditions now that I've got representation for voiceover work, and a few gigs have had me trying to compress more stuff into less time, and I often end up blasting home on the commute - curiously enough, often in time to get to yoga. Which must be some sort of a zen koan.
The whole practice of screaming homeward on a tallish, non-coastable gear seems to be paying off. On yesterday's loop, there was a little lapse at about an hour, I suspect as that's been the upper end of most of my rides of late, but then things started to notch into place. My legs and hips decided that they weren't going anywhere, and decided to help out for a bit longer, and the back and arms started to relax and act like springs rather than shock absorbers. And when I felt like ratcheting up the pressure a bit, it actually felt like there was some latent speed in there. I don't think I'm ready for the BASPS this year, but at least things aren't feeling entirely monovelocic.
Speaking of unaware drivers, I finally got a check from the insurance company to settle up property damage and expenses from the accident last June. It was a lesson in polite and helpful responses leading to no actual results, and a steadily stream of "oh, you know, we don't have a copy of …. " which had me re-faxing, re-emailing, and re-requesting medical clearances. For those of you keeping score at home, that was 15 months from the day of the accident. Just to clarify, this was the driver's insurance company who redefined methodical slowness - my auto insurance was spot on, helpful, going to bat for me and quick to point out what I should do (get copies of police report, photograph damages, etc.). CSAA really rocked, and this year was one of the few times that I re-upped with them that I was actually happy about it. Of course, I've been with for freakin' ever. But, in this day of online comparative pricing, and racing to the cheapest possible solution, I do wonder what the response would have been if I'd changed companies annually.
And, I am still of the opinion that it's not a good idea to arrest the forward motion of a bicycle by sticking your index finger between your brake lever and a truck door. Just in case there's any question about that.
…but it's always great to remind the next generation.
I do love Paris-Roubaix. It's been run 100-plus times over the nastiest excuse of "roads" that can be imagined. While there is a sense of this heritage in the other spring cycling classics, most of the others use topography and routes which have some concessions to aesthetics - picturesque towns, cobbled climbs which lead past ancient churches, winding country roads.
Paris-Roubaix is just hard. It runs through the fields over stone paths. In the rainy years, the muck and goo running across the pave creates some of the most enduring spring classic imagery.
That is not to say it is without beauty. I do find it beautiful. You have the Arenberg forest, and the classic finish at the Roubaix velodrome. It's just that it is also a hard, brutal and simple race. Not "simplistic". Simple. A long flat course that zigs and zags and lies open to the winds. A huge component of the race is chance. Ill-timed flats and inexplicable crashes on the pave have taken down more than one leader on the course.
But rarely do you get to see a better example of how a moment's inattention can cost the race than in this year's edition. Fabian Cancellara, a Swiss rider on the Saxo team, was coming off a big victory in the Tour of Flanders (have I mentioned I love the Spring Classics?) from the previous weekend. The Flanders/P-R double is a tempting prize.
Tom Boonen was aiming for his fourth Paris-Roubaix win, trying to equal the record of Roger De Vlaeminck, another Belgian who used to dominate the spring races. Boonen had been summarily dropped by Cancellara the week before, after the two of them broke away at Flanders.
Cancellara, who had astutely rolled forward, sees or senses that Boonen isn't there and just freakin' guns it. It's a jaw-dropping example of power. Cancellara is suddenly up the road with a gap, manages to catch the break before the next set of cobbles and then drops them sequentially as he ramps up the power on the dry and dusty cobbles.
If your Flemish isn't spot-on, you should note that he does this with 47 kilometers to go in the race.
Of course, the last thing you want to do is let the World Time Trial champion get a gap on a flat, windy course. Boonen, who had looked confident and strong in the 15 minutes before this happened, doesn't react quickly, can't bridge the gap and loses the race in the space of one or two minutes.
I found it to be nicely thought-provoking and inspiring. Makes me want to support Tim. It's encouraging to find the kind of quiet commitment that he demonstrates.
He also demonstrates a beautiful spin in a couple of side view shots. You don't just hop on a bike one morning and move like that. It comes from years and miles of honing, gaining efficiency, finding the right balance. Just beautiful.
To know where you are, you need to know where you came from.
Mountain Biking in the days of yore. Crested Butte - Pearl Pass ride from 1980.
Never saw either of these videos before, but recognize a few folks here and there. Pretty cool bit of history.
This has very, very little to do with cycling, but I really enjoyed this slightly slo-mo'd version of a cable car ride down Market Street in San Francisco. I've always been drawn to historical footage, but this one is really clean (Thanks to voice actor David J for posting a link to it!).
I'm not sure what part I like the best - the kid on the bike at around 30 seconds in is pretty good, especially as you can see a cable-car-awaiting pedestrian get totally freaked out as he approaches while looking back at the camera.
But, then the pedestrians in general get a big vote - the sauntering, let's-see-how-close-the-car-can-get-to-me, pace of those crossing in front; the sheer joy of the kid at running at a perfect pace to stay ahead of the street car.
The cross traffic is stunning as well. Reminds me of being out on the bay in a boat, caught near a turn in a sailing race, where folks are cutting right in front of you and there's nothing you can do about it.
Waxing Canvas from Cyclofiend on Vimeo.
JimG took the vid-cam in hand and logged some impressive footage of the Men's B Race in Doyle Park up in Santa Rosa.
CX Santa Rosa - Doyle Park - 2/14/09 from Cyclofiend on Vimeo.
Many of which were referenced in the writeup.
This bit of the story continues from here.
After peeling my muddy, soaked gear off and slipping into something at least dry, I wandered out to find the gang. JimG had brought brownies, and between those and a quick slug of strong and hot coffee from the thermos, I continued to feel pretty warm and upbeat. The folks up in Santa Rosa put on a right fine and homey show. At one tent, bags of free pretzels were in attendance. Others had food, beer and coffee offerings. Fundraising raffles and the BikeMonkey magazine folks. An exuberant marching band (the Hubbub Club) arrived to regale us with tunes. A couple of beautiful weimaraners and a puppy or two hung out, wondering both about all the complex smells about and the sanity of their owners for bringing them along on a sloppy day.
It felt like I was surfing a bit of the post-race elation, but as the capillaries began to constrict again, the cold and damp seeped in a little bit. After a quick facilities check, it seemed to make sense to sit for a spell and see if there was any reason to think that racing again was a good idea. I regained the motor vehicle, wrapped some jackets over myself and sipped my way through the Clif electrolyte beverage. When mixing it that morning, I realized that I had bought a "Hot Apple Cider" which the instructions specifically said was to be made hot - the implication of a glowingly warm drink being a friendly recharge. Ignoring those instructions, I had made it with cold water - it isn't like I had a large enough thermos to maintain another hot beverage anyway. Still, it was pretty good, and the chemical compounds seemed to do their thing.
Somewhere out on the other side of the front windshield, the women's wave went off. A few of the fast folks I recognized from the BASP races moved out to the front, the thickening mud making progress iffy and soiling the pink-and-flowereed Sheila Moon racing kits that were in attendance. Singlespeeds, A's and B's were all out in a 45 minute race. Whoever was off the front moved through the conditions with an amazing momentum and fluidity. But, her dark jersey quickly became mud-sodden, so by the time she went by, I couldn't pick out any logos (and as of right now, they still haven't posted results on the Bikemonkey.net site).
By this point, I had maybe an hour and half until the Old Guy Geared race at 2:30. I had two thoughts on the subject. One, I didn't feel totally torched by the first race, and in fact had felt a little better towards the end of it. Two, I have a pathological dislike for racing/riding for less time than it takes to get to the race/ride. At this point, I'd gone for about 15 minutes less than it took to get there (well, if you discount the warm-up riding).
Somewhere behind me, there was the of sound a large and heavy door swing shut on rusted ancient hinges, closing with a resonant echo that dissolved into eerie silence.
Since commitment to a stupid idea is often key, I decided to change back into a more cycling-oriented attire before completely losing my nerve. Luckily, I had a backup set of dry clothes, so there was not the chilling sensation of damp and muddy chamois contact. About this time, it struck me that the C. Xavier Hilsen was shod with my older, much more worn set of tires. If any course conditions cried for every bit of tire surface area and knibbly bite-ability, this was it. Conditions continued to degrade visibly as the other race laps continued.
Hemming and hawing a bit, time suddenly seemed much shorter, and the reappearance of JimG was highly fortuitous. He dove into the task of swapping my muddy front tire from the Quickbeam over to the Hilsen. Quicker than I could hand him levers and a pump, the newer tread was in place, and there was pretty much nothing left to do but race.
I pedaled around a little bit, found a Honey Stinger Gu-analog in my pocket and fired that down for whatever good it might do. Then lined up in the wave of guys who were old enough to know better. Putting my foot down as we waited for instructions, it seemed to set very deeply into the mud. There was no longer any grass left to speak of. When I picked my foot up for a second, the attached mud made it appreciably heavier. Of course, once you are out there with a number pinned to your side, you have pretty much traded away any opportunity to slink unnoticed back to the car.
An electric guitar version of the star-spangled banner played, and then the young pup B's headed out. A minute or so later, we dug in and saddled up. Things felt a little clunky at the start, and it seemed as though my swapped-in-from-the-MB1 WTB saddle was a trifle too high. Beginner's error, but no time to mess with it.
Actually. Honestly. The "beginner's error" in this race was bothering to bring a bike with gears. For the next 45 minutes or so, there was no chance of spinning out the Quickbeam, and although the C. X. Hilsen would've gotten jealous, I think it secretly would have been very happy to stay in the back of the dry vehicle. Plus, there would have been a few less surfaces to pile on mud.
I suppose for the first 15 minutes or so, things didn't really feel that bad. Slipped, slid and slogged a bit, to be sure, but nothing really horrible. Then I noticed that the mud seemed to be packing up a bit. Then a bit more. The bike began to get noticeably heavy. Then my body began to get noticeably heavy. The bicycle had an excuse, as it was adding mud that I couldn't manage to shed through momentum, the odd bunny hop or simply dropping the bike hard after shouldering it. The race became a bit of a slog.
They say when you're head is down, you're in a bit of trouble. In the above photo, you'll notice that if my head were any further down, it would start going up. I must point out though, in this small sized image of Gino's photo, it appears as though my eyes are closed too. They weren't. I mean, it wasn't that bad.
The course continued to dish out its challenges. The intended directional input seemed to matter less and less with each lap. Each time down the creek dip brought with it new and interesting explorations of geometry. I think I manged to stay upright most of the times, but it wasn't pretty and the tangential angle began earlier each time. The runups were, well…runups. In the singlespeed race, I'd managed to pedal up some of the time, but now the power had seeped out of my legs and it became a game of trying to ride the momentum to the moment of inertial loss, then hop off and try to find some angle of toe entry or foot splaying that would generate something resembling grip.
I think I cursed once. Well, I know I did. But, I did apologize.
However low optimism set in the west, somewhere through the mud-soaked haze I could hear Gino and JimG yelling. At some point, Gino ran alongside for a while (well, let's be honest here - he trotted… Ok…he at least walked briskly…) barking encouragement and snapping a few photos. I don't think I thanked him enough afterwards - it was actually quite helpful.
The short stair runup became a weird thing to fear each lap, but the tactile sensation became quite loathesome. As it was the one place to be shouldering the bike, I would grab the downtube. Each time, there was a thick, cold hunk of mud which would form into my glove, creating one of those weird, finger imprint shapes that was popular on golf club handles for a while.
The announcer took up some of the heckling as well, as I would generally go by with few, if any competitors around. At one point, I guess he figured out this was my second race, and offered the observation that it must've seemed like a good idea at the time. Only, he again mined that for all the humor it was worth.
Yep. Like I didn't think of that, myself.
I pedaled off into the sunset following the guy I never quite caught, chatted with him for a little bit while my breathing normalized. Then the gang caught up to me and the documentation ensued.
That, my friends, is one muddy bike. I guess it kinda gives away the fact that I didn't use the big ring too much during the race. But, it was over.
We hung for a while watching the A's go past. The rain which I'd prayed for during my race finally came. I used up 8 or 10 water bottles to try to knock off enough mud to load it onto the roof rack. JimG was kind enough to offer the use of the shower at his hotel room. Gino was resourceful enough to notice a stray hose outside the same hotel and I got to play euro-trash bike racer and hose everything off near the front entrance.
We rested a bit, and then headed up to Healdsburg, where aside from a tippy table dropping a pint or so of someone elsee's beer onto my lap, it continued to be a great evening. Bear Republic serves a great root beer and ale, some darned fine polenta and one of the zippiest concoctions of garlic fries you are likely to come across.
The company was off-the-charts great, and it was wonderful to cross the streams - introducing the Bay Areans and Chico Hooligans forged friendships which should continue to grow in future rides and outings.
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Nothing like the possibility of tetanus and ingesting motor oil while on the course. Urban decay never looked so beautiful. Another reason why Bilenky rocks.
First off, in between classes and projects last weekend, I finally cobbled together a finished video from the Golden Gate Park cyclocross race which took place on November 30th. This is the footage from the Men's A and Singlespeed race, which ran at the same time. Runs about 4:25 and has some music and folks yelling, so don't get caught if you are checking it from work.
Golden Gate Park Cyclocross - Men's A & Singlespeed - 11/30/08 from Cyclofiend on Vimeo.
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Here's the footage from the Men's B 35+/45+ race. Managed to stay on the winner's lap this time, which was a moral, if not specific victory. Also bumped into Morgan in real life, which was fun. Especially since I recognized him after he'd made an unsolicited complimentary comment on the C. Xavier Hilsen.
Cyclocross at Golden Gate Park - 11/30/08 - Men's B 35+/45+ from Cyclofiend on Vimeo.
Music is by the Stairwell Sisters and then Ry Cooder/Manuel Galban. More video to follow - there's footage from the Men's A and Singlespeed race which I'm going through now. Photos are already posted at flickr, though there will be some more added once they are sliced out of the video.
Undah Da Lights! Sierra Point Cyclocross from Cyclofiend on Vimeo.
This one was fun to put together. My wife shot the footage (as she did in the previous one as well) during the Men's B race at Sierra Point. This was the first race "under the lights". Music is from a Calexico song called "Close Behind", which has an overtly Morricone feel to it and the title seemed to fit. It runs a little less than 3 minutes. Enjoy!
Sierra Point Cyclocross - Mens B 35+/45+ from Cyclofiend on Vimeo.


~1973 - Caretaker begins working for the CIA.
September 16, 1978 - An earthquake in Tabas (file one, file two), Iran kills 25,000 people. It was caused by a time-travel experiment performed by SPECTRUM, who sent a box back in time but couldn't stabilize the quantum state, causing the item to be transported to underground around 250 meters down. Ivar Turgenev is named in a classified memo as an important figure to defect from the USSR.
April/May 1979 - An explosion at a chemical factory occurs in Sverdlovsk, USSR. An anthrax outbreak was used as a cover story. The explosion is also blamed on actions by SPECTRUM.
May 1983 - Caretaker helps Turgenev defect from the Soviet Union at a physics conference in Espoo. He takes the name Kristoff Zeladzny.
January 6, 2001 - Jake Starkey's office moves to room 210 at the Fock Center.
December 12, 2002 - Jake Starkey sees something at work that spooks him so badly that he runs, and stays in hiding for 10 months. Emails containing puzzles are sent to assorted players.
August 2003 - Meg Starkey's mother dies of pneumonia.
September 2003 - The Fock Center at NRU officially opens. According to Caretaker, it was actually operational for over a year prior.
October 2003 - The Coyote Dispatch has a series of reports on Catalina citizens complaining about the instability of the area power supply.
October 5, 2003 - Jake Starkey returns home after a 10 month absence.
October 8, 2003 - Jake Starkey is arrested at a press conference on charges of espionage.
October 25, 2003 - Caretaker says that he needs 30 days or more to get his sources together; a month-long hiatus ensues.
November 8, 2003 - NRU ID badges are slipped to Magesteff and Addlepated in Orlando.


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Cinema
Flower – film del 2017 diretto da Max Winkler

Geografia
Lago Flower – lago dello stato di New York (Stati Uniti d'America)

Musica
Flower – singolo dei Soundgarden del 1989
 Flower – singolo di Liz Phair del 1993
Flower – singolo dei L'Arc~en~Ciel del 1996
 Flower – album di Akira Jimbo del 1997
 Flower – album di Jody Watley del 1998
Flower – singolo di Koda Kumi del 2005
Flower – singolo di Gackt del 2009
Flower – singolo di Atsuko Maeda del 2011
Flower – singolo di Kylie Minogue del 2012

Persone
George Flower –  attore e sceneggiatore statunitense
Roswell P. Flower –  politico statunitense

Videogiochi
Flower – videogioco del 2009

Pagine correlate
Flowers
Classe Flower

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1919, July 23 – 2003, May 27
Geoffrey Bawa was Sri Lanka's most prolific and influential architect. His work has had tremendous impact upon architecture throughout Asia and is unanimously acclaimed by connoisseurs of architecture worldwide. Highly personal in his approach, evoking the pleasures of the senses that go hand in hand with the climate, landscape, and culture of ancient Ceylon, Bawa brought together an appreciation of the Western humanist tradition in architecture with needs and lifestyles of his own country. Although Bawa came to practice at the age of 38, his buildings over the last 25 or more years are widely acclaimed in Sri Lanka. The intense devotion he brings to composing his architecture in an intimate relationship with nature is witnessed by his attention to landscape and vegetation, the crucial setting for his architecture. His sensitivity to environment is reflected in his careful attention to the sequencing of space, the creation of vistas, courtyards, and walkways, the use of materials and treatment of details.
One of Bawa's earliest domestic buildings, a courtyard house built in Colombo for Ena De Silva in 1961, was the first to fuse elements of traditional Sinhalese domestic architecture with modern concepts of open planning, demonstrating that an outdoor life is viable on a tight urban plot. The Bentota Beach Hotel of 1968 was Sri Lanka's first purpose-built resort hotel, combining the conveniences required by demanding tourists with a sense of place and continuity that has rarely been matched. During the early 1970s a series of buildings for government departments developed ideas for the workplace in a tropical city, culminating in the StateMortgage Bank in Colombo, hailed at the time as one of the world's first bio-climatic high-rises.
Looking back over his career, two projects hold the key to an understanding of Bawa's work: the garden at Lunuganga that he has continued to fashion for almost fifty years, and his own house in Colombo's Bagatelle Road. Lunuganga is a distant retreat, an outpost on the edge of the known world, a civilized garden within the larger wilderness of Sri Lanka, transforming an ancient rubber estate into a series of outdoor rooms that evoke memories of Sacro Bosco and Stourhead. The town house, in contrast, is an introspective assemblage of courtyards, verandas and loggias, created by knocking together four tiny bungalows and adding a white entry tower that peers like a periscope across neighbouring rooftops towards the distant ocean. It is a haven of peace, an infinite garden of the mind, locked away within a busy and increasingly hostile city.
Since Bawa started out on his career, Sri Lanka's population has almost tripled, while its communities have been fractured by bitter political and ethnic disputes. Although it might be thought that his buildings have had no direct impact on the lives of ordinary people, Bawa has exerted a defining influence on the emerging architecture of independent Sri Lanka and on successive generations of younger architects. His ideas have spread across the island, providing a bridge between the past and the future, a mirror in which ordinary people can obtain a clearer image of their own evolving culture.
In 2001 Bawa received the Chariman's Award in the 8th cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and his stature has only grown since his death in 2003. Today he is widely acknowledged as the pioneer of "tropical modernism." "Design Icons: Geoffrey Bawa," broadcast in April 2017 on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio, succinctly summed up the degree of innovation evidenced by his work saying:
It's no exaggeration to say that architect Geoffrey Bawa transformed the look of South-East Asia. And yet what he did is so subtle that we almost take it for granted today. In short, Bawa-tailored modern buildings to a specific environment. It hardly seems revolutionary and yet no one else had done anything like it in the region. ("Design Icons: Geoffrey Bawa". Radio National. Accessed July 21, 2019. https://perma.cc/QT48-YG9P)
"Geoffrey Bawa Trust: Homepage". Geoffrey Bawa Trust. Accessed July 21, 2019. https://perma.cc/K8YF-PJSD http://www.geoffreybawa.com/.
Khan, Hassan-Uddin. 1995. In Contemporary Asian Architects. Köln: Taschen Books.
Robson, David. 2001. The Aga Khan Award for Architecture Chairman's Award.
State Mortgage Bank
The State Mortgage Bank building in Colombo was designed by Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa between 1976 and 1978. The tower is fairly atypical of Bawa's work, as the majority of his buildings emphasize the interconnection of building, ground, and landscape. Yet while the building is in many ways a departure from the prevalent interpretation of his architecture that emphasizes the picturesque or vernacular, it possesses a particular adaptation to climate and orientation not present in most tower buildings, evidencing the ecological sensitivity characteristic of Bawa's practice.
The State Mortgage Bank building is located 120 meters south of the tip of Beira lake, adjacent to the northern edge of Hyde Park. Its eastern elevation has continuous street frontage along TB Jayah Road, a secondary traffic artery in Colombo. The twelve story tower is the simple extrusion of an irregularly shaped floor plan. Consequently the building dimensions vary, but the tower is sixty meters long and thirty meters wide at its widest points. The longitudinal axis of the plan, which connects the easternmost and westernmost points of the building, is rotated forty-five degrees counter-clockwise from the north-south meridian.
The floor plan is roughly in the shape of a lozenge, with various crenellations along the exterior facades to accommodate building lobbies and vertical circulation towers. The shorter transverse axis of the plan runs from the northeast to the southwest, while the longer longitudinal axis runs from the northwest to the southeast. A triangular stairwell forms the vertex of the transverse axis on the south elevation, while a trapezoidal stairwell serves as the opposite vertex on the north elevation. The stairwell on the north elevation is surrounded by an elevator core and various enclosed service and lobby spaces. This cluster of walled rooms at the center of the northern elevation blocks views to the north from the interior of the main area of each floor and gives the building a subtle southern orientation.
The columnar arrangement is extremely simple. Only three round concrete columns are needed in the interior of the tower because the exterior envelope is a load bearing structure, as opposed to the curtain wall systems employed in most Colombo towers. Concrete columns spaced at regular intervals along the perimeter of the building support the edges of the concrete floor slabs; at points where the building envelope bends, the rectangular columns are doubled and oriented at perpendicular angles to the direction of each wall section.
The flattened lozenge shaped of the building maximizes the northern and southern exposures while limiting western and eastern exposures. This orientation both reduces solar gain and takes advantage of the prevailing air currents to provide passive ventilation. Deep concrete spandrels provide additional shading and regulate air-intake through louvers below the vision-glass of the windows. The windows are operable on all floors of the tower, pivoting around their central axes to allow building occupants to regulate cross-ventilation.
Though the building was commissioned in 1976 to house the State Mortgage Bank, a reorganization of the Sri Lankan government under the UNP in 1977 resulted in a reassignment of the building before its occupation. The building became instead the headquarters of the Mahaweli Authority, a government ministry founded in 1979 to manage the water and agricultural resources of the Mahaweli river basin. After occupation by the Mahaweli Authority, several key modifications were made to the tower, unfortunately detracting from the elegance of Bawa's original design. The staff of the ministry consisted largely of expatriates who did not wish to rely solely on the passive means of cooling that Bawa had designed. As a result the open floorplans were partitioned and individual air conditioners were installed in many of the exterior windows, cluttering the appearance of the facade and eliminating the visual and physical openness of the interior. The building was also repainted in much brighter colors than Bawa's original subdued color scheme. Security concerns eventually caused the government to define the boundaries of the ministry's site with high concrete walls and barbed wire, restricting the connection between the building and neighboring Hyde Park. The State Mortgage Bank building has not been widely published due to its perceived idiosyncrasy relative to Bawa's practice; however, it continues to provide a valuable model for building climatically-appropriate tower buildings in similar regions.
Robson, David. 2002. Geoffrey Bawa: The Complete Works. London: Thames & Husdon, 134-135.
"Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka." 2010. Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka. http://www.mahaweli.gov.lk/. [Accessed 15 June 2010]
Variant names
Mahaweli Development Ministry (Variant)
TB Jayah Road, Hyde Park, Colombo, Western Province
Geoffrey Bawa (architect) (1919, July 23 – 2003, May 27)
Government of Sri Lanka (client)
commercial, government
bank, government office
Associated collections
6.920004, 79.861739
House for Dr. Bartholomeusz
Osmund and Ena de Silva House
Lighthouse Hotel
Manager's Bungalow
Maskeliya, Sri Lanka
Martenstyn House
Kotte, Sri Lanka
P.C. de Saram Terrace House
Polontalawa Estate Bungalow
Polontalawa, Sri Lanka
Ruhunu University
Matara, Sri Lanka
Serendib Hotel
Bentota, Sri Lanka
St. Bridget's Montessori School
Wijewardene House
Yahapath Endera Farm School
Hanwella, Sri Lanka
Club Villa Hotel
Triton Hotel
Ahungalla, Sri Lanka
House for Lidia Gunasekera
Kandalama Hotel
Dambulla, Sri Lanka
De Soysa House
Jayakody House
Pradeep Jayewardene House
Mirissa, Sri Lanka
Madurai Club
Madurai, India
Agrarian Research and Training Institute
A.S.H. De Silva House
House for Chris and Carmel Raffel
33rd Lane
Bentota Beach Hotel
Yala Beach Hotel
Yala, Sri Lanka
Chapel for the Good Shepherd Convent
Bandarawela, Sri Lanka
Bashir Currimjee House
Port Louis, Mauritius
Hyatt Hotel
Banyan Tree Hotel
Tanjung Pinang, Indonesia
Larry Gordon House
Wakaya, Fiji
Modi House
Club Mediterranee
Nilaveli, Sri Lanka
Poddar House
Hotel at Pondicherry
Sarabhai House
Singapore Cloud Centre
Bishop's College
Fitzherbert House
Tangalle, Sri Lanka
Blue Water Hotel
Batujimbar Pavilions
Hotel Connamara Remodelling
Geoffrey Bawa Bibliography
David G. Robson
Genius of the Place: The Buildings and Landscapes of Geoffrey Bawa
David Robson, Philippa Baker
Geoffrey Bawa of Sri Lanka
Hasan-Uddin Khan, Shanti Jayawardene
Architecture Between the Culture-Nature Dualism: A Case Study of Geoffrey Bawa's Kandalama Hotel
Ceridwen Owen
Individual Houses: Indian Sub-Continent


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A process for isolating a protein fraction from an aqueous solution or suspension containing the said fraction in admixture with other substances, which comprises subjecting the aqueous solution or suspension to ultrafiltration to obtain a retentate, diluting the retentate, subjecting the diluted retentate to at least one further ultrafiltration treatment and recovering a retentate containing the protein fraction.
This invention relates to a process for isolating a protein fraction, to the protein fraction isolated by this process and to the use of the said fraction.
The separation of substances of high molecular weight, such as proteins for example, from substances of low molecular weight, such as salts, sugars, etc., can be carried out satisfactorily in a number of ways, in particular by microbial separation, by chemical separation and by physical separation. The formation of curd in cheese making is the classic example of microbial separation. It involves inter alia a transformation of casein, and leads to the special products which cheeses are. Chemical separation generally necessitates the intervention of third substances which, as a rule, have to be subsequently eliminated and which, in many cases, can only be eliminated with considerable difficulty.
These methods frequently amount to self-developing operations in the sense that, once separation has been initiated, matters follow their course autonomously, and culminate in a specific end product without any opportunity for effective intervention.
Unlike microbial and chemical separation, which often involve a change of phase and/or a change of state, physical separation generally takes place without affecting the proteins in any way. There are at present two forms of physical separation, namely separation on a molecular sieve or separation by ultrafiltration. Except for the adsorption phenomena, molecular-sieve separation, in which a solution containing the proteins is passed through a column filled with a suitable gel, is an operation of the all- or - nothing type, because any substance with molecular dimensions larger than the pores of the sieve is not retained, whilst smaller substances are trapped and blocked. Separation by ultrafiltration is not as instantaneous. Although the substances are distributed progressively on either side of a membrane in dependence upon their molecular dimensions, only substances of small molecular dimensions being able to pass through the membrane, the segregation produced results from a difference in tendency. If in practice it is desired to obtain a product of high concentration, it is necessary to carry out numerous individual separations on as many series-arranged membranes, or to work in a closed loop by recycling. However, polarisation phenomena tend to occur at the membranes, rendering them ineffective. These phenomena are more pronounced, the higher the concentration of the solution being treated. Finally, the viscosity of the product increases with its solids content. This increase in viscosity can only be counteracted with some difficulty by an increase in temperature, a factor to which proteins are extremely sensitive. For these various reasons, it is normally not possible, for example, to prepare by the ultrafiltration of milk and end product whose solids content exceeds approximately 25%, i.e. a protein: lactose ratio of around 3:1.
An object of the present invention is to obviate the disadvantages and limitations referred to above.
The present invention provides a process for isolating a protein fraction from an aqueous solution or suspension containing the said fraction in admixture with other substances, which comprises subjecting the aqueous solution or suspension to ultrafiltration, diluting the retentate of the aqueous solution of suspension, subjecting the diluted retentate to at least one further ultrafiltration treatment, and recovering a retentate containing the protein fraction.
It is clear that this process can be carried out using the cycle of operations defined above once or by repeating it several times.
The invention also relates to the protein fraction thus isolated and to a food product comprising or derived from the said protein fraction.
In the context of the invention, an aqueous solution or suspension containing a protein fraction in admixture with other substances is a colloidal solution or suspension of lactic proteins, such as whey, colostrum or the milk of a female animal. This milk can be, for example, a fresh milk, a reconstituted milk, for example a milk reconstituted from a powder or concentrated milk, an acidified milk or a milk whose composition has been modified. It can have been subjected to one or more of the pretreatments commonly applied in a dairy technology such as, for example, standardisation, clarification, homogenisation, centrifuging, acidification, pasteurisation, sterilisation (conventional processes, UHT or HTST), concentration.
The aqueous solution or suspension can even be a solution or suspension with a protein: lactose ratio higher than normal (about 0.7:1 for a milk and 0.17:1 for a whey), for example a milk retentate obtained by ultrafiltration and optionally having been subjected to one or more of the pretreatments referred to above. The aqueous solution or suspension can have a non-fat solids content of, for example, from 5 to 30%. In addition, although the ultrafiltration treatment can be carried out with a whole milk, it is normally preferred to use a skimmed milk in order to avoid over frequent clogging of the membranes. The limit value to be taken into consideration is of the order of 5% of fats.
Finally, another embodiment of the process comprises diluting an ultrafiltration retentate of concentrated whey. The diluent can be either whey or an ultrafiltration permeate.
In the context of the invention, concentrated whey is a whey whose solids content has been increased, irrespective of the means used to achieve this objective. This whey can be concentrated in particular by high-temperature evaporation or by ultrafiltration with or without dilution, or even by a combination of these two techniques.
So far as the whey or dilution permeate is concerned, its concentration, although of an arbitrary nature, will of course be lower than that of the retentate in the course of dilution.
As mentioned above, this particular embodiment enables the retentate to be diluted successively with different diluents, for example dilution with whey followed by dilution with water, or even dilution with a whey whose concentration can, if desired, decrease down to pure water.
According to the invention, an aqueous solution or suspension of proteins is passed through one or more membranes, which may be the same or different so that the proteins are all retained and non-protein substances are not. The working temperature and pressure should be compatible with the mechanical strength of the membranes or membrane-support assemblies. In general, the pressure is in the range from 1 to 60 atms and the temperature in the range from 0.degree. to 70.degree. C. In order not to affect either the integrity or the properties of the protein fraction, it is preferred to work at a temperature in the range from 5.degree. to 30.degree. C and under pressure of from 1 to 20 atms.
Dilution of the retentate is generally carried out with water which may be used in a volume of less than, equal to or greater than the volume of the permeate eliminated which can vary in the course of ultrafiltration. Dilution should be carried out at least once. This operation performs a modulating function insofar as it enables the chemical composition of the protein fraction to be regulated with precision. In addition, it is possible to dilute the retentate not only with pure water but also with acidified water or an aqueous solution or even with a succession of different aqueous phases. For example, dilution with a saline solution of with acidified water gives rise to ion exchange in the protein fraction whose salt or H.sup.+-ion content will depend inter alia upon the concentration of dilution solution. In addition, the salt can be a salt already present in the aqueous starting solution or suspension, or a salt which is foreign to it. It is also possible to dilute the retentate with water, acidified water or an aqueous solution to which small quantities of the starting solution or suspension have been added. In addition, if during an ultrafiltration treatment of milk, dilution is carried out with whey or with water, acidified water or an aqueous solution to which whey has been added, the protein fraction obtained is considerably enriched in lactalbumin, which allows a range of dairy products with high casein: lactalbumin ratios to be produced.
In one particular embodiment of the invention, an ultrafiltration retentate enamating from a whey concentrated approximately three times by high-temperature evaporation, and then another three times by ultrafiltration without dilution, is diluted by the addition of ordinary whey. The retentate is rapidly enriched in proteins, whilst its lactose content decreases progressively, and tends towards that of the whey used for dilution. This low content can be reduced even further by terminating ultrafiltration by dilution with water.
The practical application of the process according to the invention involves the use of an ultrafiltration module which, normally, comprises a large number of membranes arranged in series parallel to one another on supports in the form of porous plates arranged adjacent one another at regular intervals, or in the form of tubes arranged in bundles. Such ultrafiltration modules are commercially available to the chemical industry. There are different methods of using these modules. In a first, batch-type method, a batch of aqueous solution or suspension is subjected to ultrafiltration the retentate separately collected and, on completion of the operation, is reintroduced into the ultrafiltration module. These operations are repeated until the retentate or protein fraction has the required composition, dilution being carried out at least once. In another, semi-continuous method, a batch of aqueous solution or suspension is also treated, the difference being that the retentate formed is continuously recycled through the tank which, initially, contained the batch of aqueous starting solution or suspension. In this way, the retentate is initially mixed with the starting material and then with a less concentrated retentate.
Continuous or periodic dilution is carried out in the tank. For a given aqueous solution or suspension of proteins, and all other things being equal, evolution of the compositions as a function of time is preferably determined a single time, so that it is possible during production to obtain a suitable protein fraction simply by virtue of the ultrafiltration time.
Another method use, of commercial interest insofar as it is continuous, is based on the use of a group of identical or different modules arranged in series and comprising as many units as are necessary to obtain the required protein fraction. Dilution has to be carried out at least once, for example between two modules.
In one particular embodiment of the process according to the invention, a pasteurised or sterilised skimmed milk is treated in an ultrafiltration module under a pressure of from 1 to 20 atms, for example under a pressure of 10 atms, at a rate of flow of the permeate of 8 to 16 1/h per m.sup.2 of membrane and at a temperature of 5.degree. to 30.degree. C, for example at a temperature of 20.degree. C. This process is of the semi-continuous type defined above. The volume of the suspension in the tank is maintained at a substantially constant level by the addition of water. In another embodiment, dilution during ultrafiltration is only commenced after a certain time interval.
Variants of these two particular embodiments comprise treating a modified milk. For example, it is possible to treat an acidified milk at a pH equal to or above the isoelectric point of casein, generally in the range from 4.6 to 6.0, the milk having been acidified chemically and/or biologically.
By virtue of the process according to the invention, it is possible to obtain protein fractions whose compositions can be modulated and whose characteristic ratios by weight (for example protein: lactose) are spread over a wide continuous spectrum. These protein fractions can be directly used as food or as ingredients of food compositions, or as starting materials in the production of foodstuffs.
Among these protein fractions, some remarkable individual cases have been selected for illustrative purposes. Thus, it is possible to obtain from milk, protein fractions with protein: lactose ratios in the range from 3:1 to 20:1. Fractions of this kind, chemically renneted or acidified, coagulate without phase separation and give rise to food-grade gels which can be coloured and/or aromatised as required. If these fractions have been subjected to high-temperature concentration to a suitable solids content, for example 40%, renneting or acidification gives rise to solidification without any egress of serum, and products of the cheese type are obtained, which can be subsequently treated as required. If, in addition, dilution is carried out with pure water, the contents of mineral salts, except for the calcium bound partly to the casein, decrease very rapidly. This is the case, for example, with sodium. The simple restitution of lactose to the protein fraction obtained gives rise to the formation of a sodium-free milk of the kind recommended in dietetics. To obtain products of the same kind, but low in calcium, it is sufficient to start with an acidified milk in which some of the calcium, liberated from the casein, is eliminated during ultrafiltration accompanied by dilution.
Milks for human consumption can be prepared by modifying the composition of the starting milks or by carefully selected combinations of the operation described above.
By multiplying the ultrafiltration operations accompanied by dilution, it is possible to obtain from milk fractions with protein: lactose ratios of the order of 200:1. By drying at a low temperature (lyophilisation), it is possible to recover in dry form all the proteins of the starting solution or suspension. These proteins (casein, lactalbumin, etc.) are of particular interest because they have not undergone any denaturation during their isolation.
The process according to the invention applied to whey makes it possible to recover a neutral or acid protein fraction whose lactalbumin: lactose ratio can be varied as required. Fractions of this kind can be used with particular advantage in the production of high-protein beverages and soups and in the production of special products such as, for example, "humanised" milks.
The advantages of the process according to the invention are embodied in its simplicity and, above all, in the fact that it gives a product whose composition can be modulated individually across a completely continuous range. By adjusting the composition of the aqueous starting solution or suspension, for example by concentration or acidification, followed by dilution of the solution or suspension in the various ways described above, it is possible to obtain a product whose protein: lactose, casein: lactalbumin, calcium: sodium, calcium: casein ratios can themselves be continuously modulated.
In addition, by carrying out dilution with an aqueous volume comparable with that of the permeate eliminated, the solids content of the retentate can be reduced with industrially significant consequences. In this connection, the rate of flow through the membranes increases because the viscosity of the product decreases. Accordingly, there is no need to increase temperature and/or pressure during ultrafiltration with the result that there is no danger of the proteins and/or membranes being altered or of the composition of the two fractions (retentate, permeate) being modified in any way. In addition, the effectiveness of the membranes is affected to a limited extent only, because the polarisation layer in the vicinity of the membranes diminishes. Accordingly, washing of the module is particularly easy to the point where there is generally no need to apply enzymatic washing at relatively high cost.
The invention is illustrated by the following Examples, in which ratios and percentages correspond to weight values.
2,500 liters of skimmed milk, which has been pasteurised and clarified by filtration, are circulated in a DDS ultrafiltration module, type C5-40-28-4-600, consisting of 272 cellulose acetate membranes representing a total surface area of 28 square meters. The pressure on entry is 10 atms and the exit pressure 3 atms. The process is carried out in a closed circuit by means of a tank in which a constant level is maintained by the addition of water. After 9 hours' operation at ambient temperature, a protein fraction identical in volume with the starting milk is collected. 3% of vanilla flavouring, 0.02% of yellow food-grade colorant and 5% of saccharose are added to this protein fraction. After homogenisation, 0.03% of 1/10,000 rennet are added, and the product left standing for 3 hours at a temperature of 25.degree. C.
The product obtained is in the form of a very pleasant-tasting gel which can be used as a dessert-type food. Similar gels, but firmer in consistency, can be obtained in the same way from protein fractions prepared in accordance with Examples 2, 3 and 4.
2400 liters of pasteurised milk are concentrated in an evaporator until a solids content (Sc) of 18% is obtained. This concentrated milk is treated by ultrafiltration as described in Example 1 over a period of 9 hours. The protein fraction obtained is then standardised by the addition of 36% of fats (percentage calculated on the basis of the dry extract), after which the mixture is subjected to pasteurisation and homogenisation. The product is then concentrated by evaporation in vacuo to a solids content (Sc) of 40 to 50%, after which rennet and lactic ferments are added to obtain a cheese-grade curd which does not have to be drained and which can be directly moulded. This curd constitutes an unripened cheese which can either be consumed as such or which can be subjected to complementary treatments of the kind commonly applied in cheesemaking. Similar product, but of different consistency, can be obtained in the same way from the protein fractions prepared in accordance with Examples 1, 3 and 4.
1000 liters of skimmed milk are treated by ultrafiltration (UF) as described in Example 1 over a period of 1 hour and 20 minutes without any addition of water. 500 liters of a retentate with a solids content (Sc) of 12.5% and protein: lactose ratio of 1.43:1 are obtained. Water is then introduced into the tank in which a constant level is maintained. Ultrafiltration is continued for 6.5 hours, as indicated in Example 1.
A reconstituted milk is prepared by the addition of 448 liters of water to 67 kg of skimmed milk powder so as to form a milk with a solids content (Sc) of 13%. The 500 liters of milk obtained are treated by ultrafiltration (UF) with dilution over a period of 6 hours in accordance with the method described in Example 1.
1000 liters of pasteurised skimmed milk are circulated in the ultrafiltration module and under the conditions described in Example 1, the tank being maintained at a constant level by the addition of water. After 6 hours, the retentate obtained has a sodium content of only 0.019% (based on solids) which corresponds to a protein: sodium ratio of 4600:1 compared with 78:1 for the starting milk. Lactose and oligoelements are added to this product in suitable quantities with a view of preparing a dietetic milk of very low sodium content.
1000 liters of skimmed milk are treated as described in Example 1, water being added to the tank to keep it at a constant level. After approximately 30 hours' ultrafiltration with dilution, a retentate with a protein: lactose ratio of the order of 200:1 is recovered. This product is then concentrated by evaporation in vacuo and dried by lyophilisation. Approximately 35 kg of a powder of non-denatured lactic proteins are obtained. This powder can be used for reconstituting milks without lactose intended to replace mother's milk.
1000 liters of pasteurised milk are inoculated with lactic strains in a concentration of 3.permill.. When the pH reaches a value of 5.9, the acidified milk is introduced into an ultrafiltration module under the conditions described in Example 1. During operation acidified water with a pH in the range from 5 to 3 is added in a quantity sufficient to keep the tank at a constant level. After 13 hours' operation, a retentate with a protein: calcium ratio of 73:1, compared with 31:1 for the starting milk, is recovered. This low-calcium product is used in cheese making.
15,000 liters of pasteurised whey are treated as described in Example 1, the tank being maintained at a constant level by the addition of water. After 50 hours' ultrafiltration with dilution at ambient temperature, a retentate identical in volume with the starting whey is recovered. The product is pasteurised and then concentrated, after which it is spray-dried at a temperature of 75.degree. C. This temperature, which is the temperature of the air admitted into the drying chamber, corresponds to fact to a temperature of the particles of the order of 50.degree. C. 46% of the dried proteins recovered and 54% of sodium caseinate are then dry-mixed, giving a product rich in soluble proteins with a pH of 6.53 which can be used for correcting the casein: lactalbumin ratio in humanised milks.
15,000 liters of pasteurised whey are concentrated in an evaporator until a volume equal to one third of the initial volume is obtained. This whey is then treated in the same way as described in Example 1 for a period of 26 hours.
15,000 liters of pasteurised whey are concentrated in an evaporator until the initial volume has been reduced by half. The 7500 liters of concentrated whey obtained are treated by ultrafiltration (UF) in the apparatus and under the conditions described in Example 1 over a period of 15 hours without any addition of water. 1,500 liters of a retentate with a solids content (Sc) of 18.8% and a protein: lactose ratio of 0.72:1 are obtained. Water is then introduced into the tank to keep it at a constant level. The treatment is continued for 18 hours as mentioned above.
9260 liters of whey are concentrated in vacuo until this volume has been reduced to 3087 liters, i.e. to around one third of the initial volume. The concentrated whey, which has a protein: lactose ratio of 0.11, is ultrafiltered as described in Example 1until a volume of retentate equal to slightly less than one third of the volume of the concentrated whey used is obtained. During this operation, 2161 liters of permeate are eliminated and 926 liters of retentate with a protein: lactose ratio rising to 0.35 are recovered.
Ultrafiltration is continued by keeping the volume of retentate constant by the addition of whey. When this addition reaches 1600 liters, which corresponds to an elimnation of 1600 liters of permeate, ultrafiltration is stopped and a final retentate with a protein: lactose ratio of 1 is recovered.
The process is carried out as described in Example 11 to begin with. Following the addition of 1600 liters of whey, ultrafiltration is continued, and another 200 liters of water are added to replace the same quantity of permeate. The protein fraction recovered at the end of this operation has a protein: lactose ratio rising to 1.1.
1. A process for isolating a protein fraction from milk containing said fraction in admixture with other substances, which comprises subjecting said milk to ultrafiltration to obtain a first retentate and a permeate, diluting said retentate with a volume of acidic aqueous liquid having a pH between 3 and 5, said volume being equal to or greater than that of said permeate, subjecting the diluted retentate to at least one further ultrafiltration treatment and recovering a second retentate containing said protein fraction.
2. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the milk has a non-fat solids content of from 5 to 30%.
3. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the milk is skimmed milk or acidified milk.
4. A process as claimed in claim 2, wherein the milk has a fats content of 0 to 5%.
5. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ultrafiltration treatments are carried out at a temperature in the range from 5 to 30.degree. C.
6. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ultrafiltration treatments are carried out under an initial pressure of from 1 to 20 atms.
7. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the retentate is diluted by the addition of a volume of an aqueous phase substantially equal to the volume of permeate produced during ultrafiltration.
8. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the aqueous liquid is acidified water.
9. A process for isolating a protein fraction from acidic milk containing said fraction in admixture with other substances, which comprises subjecting said acidic milk to ultrafiltration to obtain a first retentate and a permeate, diluting said retentate with a volume of acidified water having a pH of from 5 to 3, said volume being equal to or greater than that of said permeate, subjecting the diluted retentate to at least one further ultrafiltration treatment and recovering a second retentate containing said protein fraction.
3707770 January 1973 Timmins et al.
Chem. Abstracts, vol. 77, 1972, 46796g, Fenton-May et al. Journal of Food Science, vol. 38, No. 1, Jan. 1973, Peri et al. pp. 135-140. Chem. Abstracts, vol. 79, 1973, 135417t, Peri et al. Food Technology, vol. 24, pp. 194-197, McDonough, et al. 1970. J. of Food Science, vol. 36, pp. 14-21 (Fenton-May et al.) and pp. 25-30 (Peri et al.), 1971. J. of Dairy Science, vol. 54, No. 10, Oct., 1971, McDonough et al. pp. 1406-1409. Chem. Abstracts, vol. 78, 1973 (Mar.), Coca-Cola.


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Q: Why Meyer's Singleton method is not thread-safe? I have read from many discussions that Meyers Singleton provides thread safety. To see that, I wrote a simple code as follows in C++14.
#include <iostream>
#include <thread>

class SingletonClass {
 public:
       static SingletonClass& Instance() {
           static SingletonClass instance;
           return instance;
       }

       void task1() {
           for (int i = 0; i < 50000; ++i)
               a++;
       }
       int getA() {return a;}

   private:
       SingletonClass()= default;
       ~SingletonClass()= default;
       SingletonClass(const SingletonClass&)= delete;
       SingletonClass& operator=(const SingletonClass&)= delete;

       int a;
};

void callSingleton() {
   SingletonClass::Instance().task1();
}

int main() {
   std::thread t1(callSingleton);
   std::thread t2(callSingleton);

   t1.join();
   t2.join();

   std::cout << "a: " << SingletonClass::Instance().getA() << std::endl;

   return 0;
}

I expect that a should be 100000 because this class is thread-safe. However, I cannot get 100000 value for a. I don't realize why this doesn't work if Meyers Singleton is thread-safe. Thanks in advance.

A: Because of data race in a.
void task1() {
    for (int i = 0; i < 50000; ++i){
        std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mLock);
        a++;
    }
}

or define
atomic<int> a;

For both, I get 100000.

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Have you ever found yourself in a new city, where you don't know anyone, and just wish you could have a hug? Well, now there's a business for that: professional cuddlers.
Who doesn't like a good cuddle session? That's the question a number of companionship businesses and freelance cuddlers are asking potential clients. The idea behind this profession, in which people are paid to platonically snuggle up with strangers, is that humans have an innate desire for contact but not everyone experiences human touch on a regular basis. According to these businesses, clients include lonely people looking for human contact or someone to talk to, PTSD sufferers, physical abuse victims, people with cerebral palsy or ALS, and individuals who simply find cuddling to be therapeutic. Workers in the "companionship industry" state that with the popularity of digital connections, in-person human contact is especially rare. They also say that most of their clients are male, because male friendships tend to include less physical contact than female friendships.
According to The Atlantic, professional cuddlers go for $60 to $80 an hour, and some say their service is even better than getting a hug from a friend. "We have this emotional reciprocity and emotional baggage attached to friends and family," Samantha Hess, a professional cuddler, told the magazine. "I don't have emotional history since I am a stranger, so there is no worry that I will judge them."
Can Hugs Fight The Common Cold?
There are some real benefits to physical touch.


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The Justice Wire
For the Commonwealth
Phila. DAO
Diversion is Up in Philadelphia
Philadelphia DAO
Diversion is up, though it may not appear so at first glance. Here's why.
Diversion is up in Philadelphia, although that may be not be immediately obvious when looking at the DAO's new Public Data Dashboard. Defendants have long had the option of diversion, which is a procedure by which a defendant participates in a program that is often court supervised and allows the defendant to resolve their case swiftly with the goal of rehabilitation instead of incarceration.
Examples of diversion programs are interventions for intimate partner abuse, which can be available in cases where the defendant agrees to complete a treatment program in order to be allowed to continue working and providing for dependents; and Veteran's Court, which provides specialized programs for eligible veterans as a rehabilitative alternative to incarceration.
Through September 2019, the diversion rate for drug possession cases was 28%. This means that for every 100 cases charged, 28 were diverted. That is the lowest diversion rate since 2014. By comparison, through September 2014, the DAO diverted 39% of drug possession cases. Additional context makes it apparent that diversion is actually up since 2018 — even if it doesn't seem so at first glance.
Decisions about how to handle cases are often influenced by factors beyond the control of the DAO. For example, the availability and size of diversion programs influences how many people can be diverted. Here, the relevance of drug testing and changes in city ordinances are discussed in relation to their diversion rates.
It is important to understand that the landscape of drug possession arrests in 2014 was different than it is today. Until October 20, 2014, cannabis (marijuana) possession was still fully criminalized in Philadelphia. On October 20, 2014, a new city ordinance effectively decriminalized cannabis, leading to an immediate and precipitous drop in possession cases. New charges for drug possession in Philadelphia dropped from over 700 per month to under 400 per month in the months after October 20, 2014. With the drop in charges came a similar drop in diversion: cannabis possession cases went from accounting for just over 50% of cases diverted in mid-2014 to at or below 40% in 2015–2017.
Going back to the second chart — diversion as a percent of non-dropped-cases — the diversion rate dropped in late 2014 because cannabis cases, which were a large proportion of overall possession arrests, were likely being diverted at a much higher rate than cases involving substances like heroin or crack or powder cocaine. By removing many of the frequently diverted cannabis cases from the system, the overall balance of possession cases started to lean more heavily toward less frequently diverted cases (note that there is a slight lag in the change in diversion rate as compared to the change in cases charged because the diversion rate measures cases when they are closed, not opened).
When District Attorney Krasner took office, he quickly instituted a policy of diverting more cases, including drug possession cases, and the rate rose precipitously despite the change in caseload that saw the removal of cannabis cases from the system.
So, despite the fact that at first glance the diversion rate for drug possession cases appears to have dropped since 2014, diversions have actually gone up.
If you would like to learn more about our diversion programs, click here. You can also learn how we developed the data here.
(Note: An earlier version of this story indicated that there is a drug testing backlog. Thanks to improved communication protocols between our office and the Office of Forensic Science, the OFS has been able to prioritize their work.)
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What are you doing on Saturday 29th October? Well, why not start your Halloween weekend off with something fun and a little different…and best of all its free! Running from 12pm-3pm, it should be the number 1 on your to do list!
Cyril Johnston Showroom, located on the Ballynahinch Rd, Carryduff are hosting their 'Race to the Giants' competition for kids (and big kids) of all ages. Entrants will speed around the inflatable race track in a fantastic Berg Go-Karts, aiming to set the fastest lap time in order to win 4 free tickets to see the Belfast Giants. And If winning free tickets wasn't enough, every entrant will also be entered into a raffle to get their hands on a Berg Go-Kart, worth up to £350, for absolutely free.
In order to keep things fair, the race will be divided into age categories with under 12, 13-16 and 16 and above all in with a chance to win 4 x tickets to see the local sporting heroes, The Belfast Giants, shred the ice down at the SSE arena.
So there has to be a catch right? …Wrong! Entry to the entire day's activities are completely FREE of charge and with spot prizes to be won on the day as well as the grand prizes, you'll even get complimentary refreshments. What more could you want?


While much is known about the microbial diversity in some hypersaline environments, little is known about those of salt mine tunnel soils. The objective of this study was to conduct a comprehensive phylogenetic comparison of the archaeal and bacterial communities present in Yipinglang salt mine (YPL) and Qiaohou salt mine (QH) tunnels differing in salinity and salt composition using 16S rRNA gene clone libraries. Two hundred twenty-eight sequences for QH and 182 sequences for YPL were analyzed by amplified ribosomal DNA-restriction analysis. Libraries revealed 44 bacterial and 57 archaeal different operational taxonomic units belonging to at least 8 bacterial and 3 archaeal divisions, but not all divisions were observed in both salt mines. The bacterial community affiliated with the Bacteroidetes was the most abundant (60% of clones) in QH, while the community in YPL was dominated by -Proteobacteria (45% of clones). All archaeal clones from QH were affiliated with Halobacteriaceae. In contrast, in the YPL library, 49% of clones belonged to Halobacteriaceae, 31% of clones related to unclassified archaea, and 21% of clones belonged to Crenarchaeota. Bioinformatic analysis and comparisons showed that the clone libraries were significantly different between two salt mines.


31/08/2014 · Ripping timber lengthwise (140x19 to 125x19) for window frame Jason , this can definitely be done the way you suggest although it does take a little practice to get a nice straight rip. If you have no experience ripping timber it might pay to cut a little oversize and plane to final size.... Split bricks are traditionally vintage bricks that have been "split" in half lengthwise to make them half the thickness of traditional bricks.
How to cut bricks and pavers with a wet brick saw. Once your masonry saw, tile saw or brick saw is set up and has been fitted with the correct diamond blade for cutting brick…... Bricks can be laid as soldiers (standing upright), stretchers (laid lengthwise along the wall) or headers (laid width wise along the wall). Bricks are laid with a mortar joint bonding them together. The profile of the mortar joint (pointing) can be varied depending on exposure or to create a specific visual effect.
Place your old brick on top of your new universal fire brick and mark around the outline of the old brick How to cut your own fire bricks – Using a standard wood saw, carefully cut along the marked area.... Cutting Lengthwise When you want to cut the material lengthwise, follow the same steps written above. Just make sure you have clamps or a stand that can hold both ends of the board so that you can make the slice without the boards falling or moving.
Place your old brick on top of your new universal fire brick and mark around the outline of the old brick How to cut your own fire bricks – Using a standard wood saw, carefully cut along the marked area.
Bricks can be laid as soldiers (standing upright), stretchers (laid lengthwise along the wall) or headers (laid width wise along the wall). Bricks are laid with a mortar joint bonding them together. The profile of the mortar joint (pointing) can be varied depending on exposure or to create a specific visual effect.
Cut the pieces of brick down into tiles. The same routine is used for cutting brick lengthwise and cutting brick across the width of the piece.
Quoins. These are the stones used for the corners of walls of a structure. Bat. It is the portion of brick cut across the width. Closer. It is the portion of the brick cut lengthwise in such a manner that its one long face remains uncut.


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Initiation of Isotretinoin Delayed in Patients With Severe Acne and Psychiatric History
Colby Stong
Patients with a psychiatric history — especially women — are less immediately treated with isotretinoin for their acne than patients without a psychiatric history.
Patients with severe acne and a psychiatric history frequently — especially women — experience a delay in initiation of isotretinoin, researchers reported in study findings published in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology.
The population-based study sought to determine whether isotretinoin was less frequently initiated in patients with severe acne and a psychiatric history compared with those without a psychiatric history.
Data were obtained from the Echantillon Généraliste des Bénéficiaires (EGB) database, which includes participants in the French health care insurance system. Patients were 15 to 25 years of age and received 1 or more tetracycline courses for acne from January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2018. Follow-up began with the initiation of tetracyclines, and psychiatric history was assessed with hospitalization data and psychotropic drug dispensations.
The time from baseline to isotretinoin initiation was the primary endpoint. Patients were censored at the time of death, when they left the EGB, or at the study's end. Cox proportional hazards analysis was used to assess the association between psychiatric history and time to isotretinoin introduction, with age as a time scale.
When prescribing systemic therapy for severe acne in patients with psychiatric morbidity, the individual risk-benefit ratio should be carefully assessed, and a careful follow-up should be implemented to assess changes.
A total of 5532 men (mean age, 18.02 [SD 2.7] years) and 7029 women (mean age, 19.01 [SD 3.1] years) were included. Second-line systemic anti-acne therapy with isotretinoin was initiated in 679 men and 535 women, and 5% of men and 7.1% of women presented with a psychiatric history.
Psychiatric history was associated with a longer time lapse to isotretinoin initiation after tetracycline initiation in women (hazard ratio [HR] 0.53; 95% CI, 0.35-0.82), according to multivariable analysis. The association was not significant in men (HR 0.73; 95% CI, 0.5-1.1) but also indicated a delay in isotretinoin treatment for those who had a psychiatric history. Low-income status (women: HR 0.56; 95% CI, 0.40-0.77; men: HR 0.50; 95% CI, 0.36-.067) and initial care by a nondermatologist (women: HR 0.43; 95% CI, 0.34-0.53; men: HR 0.61; 95% CI, 0.52-0.71) also were associated with an increased time lapse to isotretinoin initiation in men and women, investigators found. Other variables such as seasonal tetracycline starting period had a nonsignificant association, and no statistical interaction was found between psychiatric history and covariates.
Study limitations include the absence of clinical information on acne severity, and the low number of available socio-economic indicators could account for residual confounding.
"Reluctance to treat acne in this population could imply the perpetuation of the acne-related psychiatric morbidity, which would be alleviated with a highly efficacious anti-acne treatment such as isotretinoin," stated the study authors. "When prescribing systemic therapy for severe acne in patients with psychiatric morbidity, the individual risk-benefit ratio should be carefully assessed, and a careful follow-up should be implemented to assess changes."
Laurent C, Balusson F, Droitcourt C, et al. Association of psychiatric history with delay in the isotretinoin introduction among patients with severe acne: a French population cohort study. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. Published online November 26, 2022. doi:10.1111/jdv.18788
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Motorcycles That Sound Like Dance Moves
Motorcycles That Sound Like Dance Moves product 2013-11-15 00:10:15 https://www.rideapart.com/articles/255448/motorcycles-that-sound-like-dance-moves/ Suzuki Hayabusa Moto Guzzi Griso News, suzuki hayabusa, hayabusa, motorcycles, Triumph Thruxton, Thruxton, Harley-Davidson Motorcycles, Suzuki Motorcycles, Griso, Moto Guzzi Griso
By: Jon Langston
A list of motorcycles that sound like dance moves and what they would look like if performed in public.
The following is intended for entertainment purposes only. RideApart assumes no responsibility for injury or humiliation resulting from improper implementation. Now on to motorcycles that sound like dance moves and what they would look like if performed in public.
While RideApart staffer, Wes Siler called the Moto Guzzi's slick standard "one of the best handling street bikes out there," MG gave the bike an equally slick name that might have come from Mario Puzo's List of Rejected Corleone Brother Names.
Picture a smarmy lounge lizard named, say, Lorenzo or perhaps Leonello, in a booming dance club of unknown Euro-trash origin. Through the vapor of dry ice he spots his prey across the dance floor and unhooks yet another button on his shirt, fully exposing a gold St. Christopher medallion nestled in a sexy mop of greazy chest hair. He pulls his elbows into his sides, lets his Mephisto slip-ons - which, by the way, are also named Griso - shimmy across the floor. He thrusts his rigatoni-defined hips from side to side, his sopping wet silk shirt plastered to his back and his upper lip raised in a come-hither leer.
"Would you like dance?" he purrs. The bellisima is powerless to resist. The Griso claims yet another victim.
Harley-Davidson's touring mammoth might well have been a line dance.
Made popular in the 70s, the Electric Slide involves several participants kicking and clicking and electrically sliding across the dance floor to the sound of real, processed pop-with-a-twang country music no self-respecting cowboy would likely ever listen to. For true cowboy flavor, enthusiasts can pepper their moves with random floor pats, swingin' leg kicks, and imaginary lasso twirls.
It's also likely said cowboy would never get himself involved in an Electric Slide line. For evidence, we're reasonably sure you can see the Slide in full effect in the classic 80s movie Urban Cowboy, starring a young, blue-eyed and dreamy John Travolta. Not that ever we've seen the film … ahem. We're just guessing.
Luckily, the Harley resembles the dance in name only. If your Electra Glide starts doing the Electric Slide, our advice is to tuck, roll, and pray.
Triumph's prefabricated cafe racer is a kick of a bike. Likewise, this trendy new dance, aka the Thruxton, is a stripped-down, bare-bones approach to the dance floor. The key is to look good without doing anything special; in fact, extemporaneous moves are viewed as unnecessary and passé.
Thruxton dance-floor fashion consists of brand new duds that are designed to look "vintage" (i.e., old), disregarding completely that the original design and materials were improved upon or rendered obsolete for a reason.
Instead, the Thruxter stays low-pro and low-tech, zipping quickly in and out of dance floor traffic and cutting insouciantly between other boogiers on his way to the booth. This is usually followed by annoying the DJ with obscure requests and shameless name-dropping.
Next thing you know, everyone's doing it.
The Hayabusa is a white-knuckle ride across the linoleum. The name of this game is all flash and even more dash, involving elongated tails, gleaming bling, and extreme graphics. The look is so dashing many 'Busas are often seen only at dance recitals - never in the clubs.
But experts say it's not enough to look the part; if you represent, you best be prepared to back up your talk with moves to match. Dance-offs are a common occurrence.
Originally from Japan, the 'Busa requires blistering speed and blinding power so intense it has been known to injure its performers, often critically. In fact many who try to master it are never able to dance again. Because of the extreme danger inherent in its implementation, the Hayabusa should never be performed by amateurs.
On the flip side, the Macarena could show up as a special edition sportbike launched at the next AIMExpo... Hey, it's Friday.
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