The Palazzo Papadopoli is a Venetian palace built by Giovanni Giacomo de' Grigi (active from 1540 to 1575), around 1560. The façade overlooking the Grand Canal is decorated in the center with Palladian loggias resembling those of the architect Michele Sanmicheli (1484-1559), Mannerist architect of the Verona school. On the sides, simple windows with triangular pediments and curves are strongly influenced by the architecture of Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). Under the cornice appear small oval openings with frames characteristic of Jacopo Sansovino (1486-1570). The palace is surmounted by two obelisks, symbols of the Capitani da Mar. Rivaling the most prestigious buildings of the city, it is provided, just like the Ducal Palace, a Hall "of Four Doors" (Salone delle Quattro Porte).
This 16th century palace was built indeed for the family Coccina, from Bergamo. They had Veronese painting a huge and famous masterpiece for this palace, The Family Coccina Presented to The Virgin (1571).
After the disappearance of the last Coccina family member in 1748, the palace became Palazzo Tiepolo, when it was bought by the family of the great painter Giambattista Tiepolo. A painting on the ceiling of an alcove is attributed to him, and his son Giandomenico Tiepolo left there two scenes of 18th century Carnival of Venice, The Minuet and The Charlatan.
Subsequently, the palace passed from hand to hand before being purchased on January 25, 1864 by two brothers, Nicolo and Angelo-Papadopoli Aldobrandini. The Papadopoli, descents of a patrician family from Corfu, have a very good reputation. They inherited from their mother Maddalena the famous name of Aldobrandini, which notably was Pope Clement VIII's family name. In addition to being landowners and industrialists, the Papadopoli brothers were committed to the city politics and acknowledged as patrons of the arts.
Hence, to revive its splendor, the palace was considerably enlarged and redecorated entirely from 1874-1875. This undertaking was led by the architect Girolamo Levi and by the decorator and antique dealer Moises Michelangelo Guggenheim . The first was in charge of the work of expansion and modernization of the palace, the second of interior decoration. Guggenheim created a journey through the ages inside the Palazzo Papadopoli, conceived to amaze the guests. Every room is decorated in a different style, recreating aristocratic atmospheres. One walks from the solemn grand staircase, evoking Quattrocento, to the Rococo exuberance in the "Stucco Room"; from the scholarly and opulent ambiance in the "Hall of Four Doors", to the "Chinese Room"'s refined fantasies. The renovation was so important that a columnist wrote, in the "Gazzetta di Venezia": "The Palace Tiepolo of the sixteenth century gives birth to the Palace Papadopoli of the nineteenth century."
One of Nicolo's twin daughters, Maddalena, married the Prince of Castelviscardo and Governor of Rome, Ludovico Spada-Veralli-Potenziani. The Palace was left by Nicolo Aldobrandini-Papadopoli to his other daughter Vera, wed to the Earl Giberto Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga, and whose portrait was made by Umberto Brunelleschi.
The Palazzo Papadopoli on the Grand Canal, postcard of 20th century.
Luca Carlevaris, Palazzo Coccina on the Grand Canal, print from 1703.
Fernandino Ongania, photogravure of the Palazzo Papadopoli in 1890-1893, National Gallery of Canada.
Front of the Palazzo Papadopoli nowadays, Grand Canal, Venice.
Paolo Veronese, The Adoration of the Virgin by the Coccina family, 1571, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden.
Eugen von Blaas, Portrait of senator the Earl Nicolo Aldobrandini-Papadopoli, 1909, Correr Museum, Venice.
The grand staircase in Palazzo Papadopoli by Guggenheim, view at the bottom of the stairs.
The grand staircase in Palazzo Papadopoli by Guggenheim, view of the stairs.
The grand staircase in Palazzo Papadopoli by Guggenheim, view from the top.
The "stucco room", 2nd floor of Palazzo Papadopoli, decor by Guggenheim around the ceiling attributed to Giambattista Tiepolo.
Detail of Guggenheim's decor for the "stucco room".
Room decorated with rococo-styled "Chinoiseries", 2nd floor of Palazzo Papadopoli.
Palazzo Papadopoli's Portego (central room giving access to the apartments), decor by Guggenheim and modern furniture of the seven stars hotel since 2007.
Room in Palazzo Papadopoli, decor by Guggenheim.
The Papadopoli coat of arms, sculpted on the Palazzio and on some Guggenheim pieces of furniture.
Maddalena Aldobrandini-Papadopoli, Princess Spada-Pontenziani. Portrait by Vittorio Corcos, 1903.
Vera Aldobrandini-Papadopoli, Countess Arrivabene Gonzaga. Portrait by Umberto Brunelleschi, 1920.


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Combat helicopter Mi-28N "Night Hunter" - an attack helicopter designed for the search and destruction of tanks, armored and soft-skinned vehicles, and infantry of the enemy on the battlefield, and low-speed air targets.
ROSTOV-ON-DON, March 16 -. RIA NovostiRussia has signed two contracts for the export of attack helicopters Mi-28N ( "Night Stalker") with dual control, he told reporters on Wednesday the official representative of the developer enterprise helicopters - the holding company "Russian Helicopters".
About which the countries in question has not been formally reported.
"The unique capabilities of the new combat helicopter opened excellent prospects for its implementation both in Russia and abroad Currently signed two contracts for the supply of Mi-28NE with dual controls abroad.", - He said.
Serial production of the new export version of the Mi-28NE launched on March 16 at the plant "Rostvertol" (Rostov-on-Don). Among the most valuable benefits of the Mi-28NE not only his agility and the ability to use of the clock, but the firepower. Armament helicopter includes guided and unguided rocket armament, as well as a mobile unit, equipped with a gun, 30 millimeters.
In addition, the new version of the helicopter has a high resistance to combat damage, which is achieved through the use of advanced materials: the rotor blades of Mi-28NE with dual controls are made of composite materials. This allows you to safely complete the flight when hit by 20-30 mm caliber shells. The design of the fuel system excludes explosion or ignition of the fuel.Among other things, the minimum visibility is different helicopter for ground-based air defense.
the helicopter modification differs from the previous version of the dual management system that allows to control the machine from both the cockpit and the cabin of the pilot-operator, performing the function of instructor.
Combat helicopter Mi-28N "Night Hunter" (export version - Mi-28NE) is an attack helicopter designed for the search and destruction of tanks, armored and soft-skinned vehicles, and infantry of the enemy on the battlefield, and low-speed air targets.
In December 2015 Ryazan State Instrument-Making Plant (GRPZ) announced the start of production of the export version of the radar of the Russian attack helicopter Mi-28N "Night Hunter", delivered in Algeria and Iraq.
ليفهم الكل في السياسة ليس هناك حليف دائم ولا صديق دائم المصلحة هي الاولى المغرب سيمنح روسيا زيادة في حصص الصادرات من كل المنتوجات الفلاحية والحيوانية و الاسماك بالمقابل روسيا ستدخل شريك في كل شئ من تصدير للبترول والغاز المسال وبناء محطات الطاقة وإكتشاف البترول والصناعات التقيلة والخفيفة والتحويلية والصيدلة وبناء الاقمار الإصطناعية والاسلحة المتطورة بشرط ان هده الاسلحة تبقى طي الكتمان وفي سرية تامة ؛هنا البيان يوحي بان هناك اسلحة جد متطورة ستدخل إلى المغرب ما هي ما نوعها :المفاجأة تبقى رهينة الصدمة للأعداء.


Now that we've emerged from the gory details of XML DTDs, let's see how they work by creating a simple example. You can create a DTD with any text editor and a clear idea of how you want to mark up your XML documents. You'll need an XML parser and processing application to actually interpret and use your DTD, as well as a style sheet to permit XML-capable browsers to display your document.
Voila! The first declaration creates an element named address that contains a name element, one or more street elements, a city and state element, and an optional zip element. The address element has a single attribute, type, that must be specified and can have a value of either home or business.
The name element also contains other elements ? a first name, an optional middle name, and a last name ? each of which are defined in the subsequent DTD lines. These three elements have no nested tags and contain only parsed character data; i.e., the actual name of the person.
All these elements contain parsed character data. The zip element has an attribute named length that indicates the length of the zip code. If the length attribute is not specified, it is set to 5.
With an appropriate XML parser and an application to use this data, we can parse and store addresses, create addresses to share with other people and applications, and create display tools that would publish addresses in a wide range of styles and media. Although our DTD is simple, it has defined a standard way to capture address data that is easy to use and understand.


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Dr Dennis Gross is the latest addition to the skin care range at Mankind for many reasons. Created by NYC Dermatologist Dr Dennis Gross has always committed himself to the science of skin care. Using his early career and knowledge within the field of skin cancer research, Dr Dennis Gross strives to educate us all into recognizing our skin's needs and letting them replenish as much as possible.
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Pasifika cast excels in thoughtful production of The Mountaintop
November 1, 2017 November 1, 2017 Editor 173 Views Basement Theatre, David Fane, Fasitua Amosa, FCC, Martin Luther King Jr, Nicole Whippy, NZ Theatre, The Mountaintop, The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, The Mountaintop review, Theatre Review
The Mountaintop is a compelling emotional night's journey towards an inescapable fate as we join American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr in room 306 of The Lorraine Motel, the night before his assassination.
For those unfamiliar with American history, the play's title refers to the last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop" delivered by King the night before he was assassinated while leaving the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee on 4th of April,1968.
The play's staging is simple – two beds, a chair and a desk in a shabby motel room. The Basement Theatre's intimate space is the ideal setting for us to join King for what we, the audience, know will be his last night on earth.
The play has been produced by Pasifika Theatre movement FCC, under the direction of Fasitua Amosa, with an all Pasifika cast. Actor David Fane brings an icon to life as he plays the alternately blustering, anxious, flirty and masterful Preacher King, while Nicole Whippy is a delight as Camae, the seemingly ordinary room service maid with plenty of opinions of her own about how things ought to be.
As the play opens to Sam Cooke's classic A Change is Gonna come, the iconic King is all too human as he fusses over his missing toothbrush, getting cigarettes and disposing of his smelly shoes. Then, literally, a bolt of lighting heralds the arrival of the sassy Camae with a newspaper and a pot of coffee.
Fane and Whippy deliver outstanding performances as the pair argue, flirt, and ponder the accomplishments of the civil rights movement. It's a big ask for two characters to carry an entire play but for 85 minutes we are the delighted onlookers to verbal sparring of Camae and King as they veer from debating the tactics of Malcolm X, how to look sexy while smoking, whether King should keep his moustache and, as the fatal dawn approaches, King's terror of dying and leaving his work undone. It's alternately funny, inspiring and moving. By the play's end we share the heartache of King's inevitable death and, along with Camae, have been companions on King's journey to understanding that all things must come to an end and that the baton can be passed on.
Katori Hall's play is perhaps more meaningful now than when it was first released in a hopeful 2009, just as Barack Obama was elected President. Sadly, in the Trump era we are left reflecting if much has changed at all.
The Mountaintop is a creatively reimagined story that brings to life Martin Luther King Jr as a person rather than as an icon giving us an insight into the perils and enormity of the task he faced battling institutionalized racism.
The Mountaintop is on at The Basement Theatre until 11 November.
Reviewed by Adrienne Kohler
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Today is about prayer. Are we a prayerful church?
Mrs Prayer Meeting died recently at the First Neglected Church on Worldly Avenue. Born many years ago in the midst of great revivals, she was one of the most influential members of the church family. For the past several years Mrs. Prayer Meeting has been failing in health. At the last she was but a shadow of her former self. Her last whispered words were inquiries concerning the absence of her loved ones, now busy in the markets of trade and places of worldly amusements.
Experts, including Dr. Works, Dr. Reform, and Dr. Joiner, disagreed as to the cause of her fatal illness. They had administered large doses of organizations and socials, but to no avail. A postmortem showed that a deficiency of spiritual food, coupled with the lack of faith and general support, were contributing causes. Only a few were present at her death. In honor of her going, the church door will be closed on Wednesday nights.
Unfortunately, that obituary could be read in many churches and over many Christians.
But it is to be hoped that it never applies to us here in All Saints..
Now I find in this verse a comprehensive theology of the most powerful force in the universe, the power of prayer..The theology of kneeology. If we hope to see God move us in awesome power, we are going to have to get on our hypothetical knees.
So I want to talk to you about talking to God. Because when the church prays, God gets involved!
I think there are five keys to an effective prayer life.
He sometimes directly answers our prayers. Or He may delay answering our prayers for some time. Because God is sovereign He occasionally answers our prayers differently to how we are expecting. .And He sometimes denies our prayers so we don't always get what we think we want God will answer our prayers if we pray steadfastly.
How we pray is important and with whom we pray is just as important. God sometimes wants us to pray specifically and in unison with our brothers and sisters. Corporate prayer is part of our worship. All our hearts joined in praying for the same thing is very powerful.
Effective prayer is prayer that is sensitive to God. Did you realise that prayer is a two-way street? When you pray, God listens. But often, God talks back!
If only we all can learn to pray with such a surrendered heart! I don't know about you, but I'm glad God doesn't always give me everything I ask for.
God hears our prayers whether we pray together in church or alone. Whether our prayers are longer considered, and for specific needs, or arrow type prayers for an immediate situation.
Dear Lord, help me – every day – to find faith in the midst of the chaos. Give me the desire and ability to see You, hear You, talk to You, and give thanks to You. And as I do, I pray that I will draw nearer and nearer to You, and that my faith will grow as I understand in new, deeper ways that You are everything I ever hoped You would be.. And so much more. Amen.


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INTRODUCTION: In the early 90's I discovered Dark Sky Legion by William Barton which was quite different from the sf of the time - modern in sensibilities, but dark and quite explicit - and I have become a big fan of the author, tracking down and reading all his novels as well as most of the short fiction. I read almost all the author's novels starting with When Heaven Fell on publication and same with most of his short fiction from then on, while I reread some of the novels and novellas quite a few times since.
Some of his novels are outstanding sf that imho were ahead of the time since in the 90's the idea of explicitness and dark themes were not that popular at least here in the US, neither in fantasy nor in sf. Today the success of authors like Peter Hamilton made sf readers more comfortable with explicitness, while dark themes are the order of the day so to speak in much sff, so much so that there has recently been a cry to return to "optimism" and "positivity".
Using the Wikipedia link above and the summaries of the novels therein, I will present a short take of mine on each as well as some discussion of the newer stories from the author. I also strongly recommend readers to try the online novella The Man Who Counts - originally published on Sci-Fi and now archived on the Net - since for once it is just brilliant and for another it offers a perfect sample of Mr. Barton's themes and style so you may get hooked and want to track down his earlier novels also.
Hunting on Kunderer; August 1973 On a jungle world populated by dinosaur-like predators, a group of hunters must deal with deadly beasts, sabotage, and an alien studying human sexuality.
- One of the last novels I read from the author since it took the appearance of Amazon and their superb stock of used books, to track it down, this is a debut novel that is pulp-like but presaging the themes of the 90's novels; a very good debut and a short but satisfactory read (A-).
A Plague of All Cowards; August 1976 Zoltan Tharkie, a professional space pirate, is hired by the government of human civilization to track down an assassin.
- Same comment as above regarding when I got hold of A Plague of All Cowards which was weaker in many ways than Hunting on Kunderer since it reads like the start of a series and leaves a lot of loose ends; the weakest novel by the author alone, though entertaining enough and with great promise (B).
Iris; with Michael Capobianco, February 1990 A wandering and its moons hold awesome alien secrets for a group of dissatisfied colonists.
First in a series of four collaborations with M. Capobianco, Iris presents a pattern followed in the rest of the collaborations - a group of pretty unlikable but interesting characters on a space mission; this one features explicit gay sex among other such stuff which I think was quite rare for a *genre sf* novel of 1990 and the bickering and tension in the group is as important as the mysteries they encounter; a strong A and a powerful novel that mixes hard-sf and character study quite well.
Fellow Traveler; with Michael Capobianco, July 1991,The United States and the USSR squabble over the dangers and rewards of asteroid mining during the Cold War.
The only novel by the author that I did not get into and fast read it only; I could not suspend disbelief since real life events overtook its subject and it would have been better for this novel to be shelved and not published or rewritten completely to take into account the new realities or present the story as an alt-Earth one. This way the novel was badly dated before publication.
Dark Sky Legion; August 1992 An eternally young, millennia-old man in a far-future star empire is faced with difficult decisions about whether or not to destroy a planet in order to preserve the status quo.
This is space opera with a twist; the far-flung Metastatic human empire is held together by enforcers with absolute powers - called Televox - who are sent digitally at light speed and incarnated on arrival to troubleshoot problems and generally keep the status-quo; the Televox come from clone lines and their entire "family" can be punished or even culled as unfit for failure.
Maaron Denthurian is one such Televox who arrives in the sector containing the planet Olam and discovers some discrepancies on a routine inspection. Since he has authority and power to nuke the planet if offenses against the Metastatic empire warrant it, he is treated like a "god" by the locals who seemingly enjoy an Utopian life; however darker stuff lurks beyond the surface and Maaron will have to answer the ultimate question: where does his loyalty lie? Just awesome "new space opera" published when the term was barely used and an A++.
Yellow Matter; December 1993, no ISBN Signed and numbered chapbook published by TAL Publications, Leesburg, VA. A man sexually harassed by an alien creature eventually comes to prefer being treated as a sex object for this species.
A short chapbook which contains inter-species sex and is darker than even the rest of Mr. Barton's work; very short novella but superb if you are not squeamish (A).
When Heaven Fell; March 1995, A human mercenary for powerful alien conquerors returns to an enslaved Earth while on leave, finding a people both apathetic and desperate.
Another awesome novel from the author; an enigmatic galactic empire seemingly led by AI's called the Master Race discovers Earth and sends mercenary reptilian units to subdue it; after a heroic defense in which billions of humans die but 600,000 of the powerful alien warriors perish too, marking the humans as high-potential soldiers for the Masters - the reptilian warriors who are all female are on the cover too - Earth is technologically devolved and reduced to status of pleasure planet and mercenary recruiting ground.
A young boy at the time of the invasion, Athol Morrison joins the masters war academy and rises through the ranks to powerful commands in the masters service enjoying the perks that come with service like human pleasure "servants" and such; on a return leave to Earth some twenty years later, he wants to find his school sweetheart who did not make it through the academy entrance exams, while visiting his family which is not that happy to see him, especially that his brother resents the masters more and more.
This is a more realistic description of the consequences of an alien-invasion by a superior power than usually done in sf and is *the* novel for such imho. An A++ .
I also want to note that the theme of incomprehensible and powerful aliens that subdue humanity appears also in the cycle that contains the novel When We Were Real and several short stories including the masterpiece novella Engine of Desire.
The Transmigration of Souls; January 1996, A portal on the moon leads a team of international scientists—and the American soldiers sent to stop them—to alternate realities.
This is the most sense-of-wonder of the author's novels with a future Amerika that suddenly closes its borders, isolates itself from the rest of Earth and creates seemingly invincible soldiers who are used only to ensure all space activities cease; of course a multi-national Asian-European space crew escapes and discovers the reason for the Americans' seemingly irrational acts, while possibly ensuring the destruction not only of Earth but of Reality itself; a novel of alternate realities, The Transmigration of Souls is excellent if you like the solipsistic "poof, I can change the whole universe with an action and only I/my friends know it" and I tend to dislike that trope despite its appearance in favored novels like the last Kushiel novel (trope done by magic), The Golden Age or Geosynchron (trope done by manipulation of the nervous system). Still the trademark style of the author made it a strong A for me.
Acts of Conscience; January 1997, specialist mechanic acquires an FTL spaceship, discovers ominous signs on a colony world, and plays a part in the decision of whether or not to wipe out humanity for the sake of other species.
The third awesome novel of William Barton and another one that besides regular explicit sex, features inter-species one too. A young mechanic leading a limited and pointless life - work, booze, work, girls, work, booze - on a company controlled space station wins the lottery; not exactly, but the equivalent when a small tech company he has a bunch of shares in discovers something big and he holds on for a large enough buyout to get his own ftl spaceship; after some pointless voyages with his former co-workers, he goes on his own - only with the Guild approved pilot actually - to explore the known worlds and finds something quite unexpected (and dark of course) that may leave him influencing a crucial decision about the continual existence of humanity. A++ and the novel I would start the work of the author with since it is the most accesible and exuberant in some ways, despite its dark undercurrents.
Alpha Centauri; with Michael Capobianco, July 1997, A terrorist plague endangers an exploration ship; the leavings of ancient aliens suggest it might not matter whether they save themselves or not.
For some reasons I read this just after White Light and since as mentioned above it follows the same pattern as Iris and White Light - crew of interesting but dysfunctional people on a space mission - I liked it the least of the three. Has some original ideas about exploring the past through the "magic" of science and of course the style of the author kept me engrossed, but I think it is the weakest of the three space collaborations (A-).
White Light; with Michael Capobianco; October 1998,Two families travel to the heart of the universe and find a Tipleresque heaven.
The best of the 3 space collaborations and an A+, this is also the most metaphysical of the author's novels alongside The Transmigration of Souls. I also liked the character set the most here, though they are still not particularly likable, but their dynamic is probably the least dysfunctional in the three novels.
When We Were Real; June 1999, Darius Murphy escapes an oppressive religious matriarchy to find love and war in the darkness between the stars.
Part of a cycle including Engine of Desire (Asimovs, 08/02) and I think both Heart of Glass (Asimovs 01/00) and Soldier's Home (Asimovs, 05/99) in which humans create hybrids of humans and animals to exploit as work or pleasure slaves - called optimods - as well as weird cyborgs and more generally utilitarian machines that can couple and have children.
Darius Murphy of the summary above and Violet a purple furred human-fox optimod space pilot find love and war across space and time. While the novel is excellent, it has a bit of an incompleteness feeling since major events are alluded to and I think it was planned as a start of a series that did not continue except in short stories. Still a worthy read and a standalone in itself, but I would not start reading William Barton here. An A+ from me.
Selected Short Stories
Engine of Desire (Asimovs Aug 02)
Set in the far future of When We Were Real and featuring optimod pilot Crystal and sentient ship Tammuz as well as memorable sentient welding machine Mr. Pommesfrites and many references to the warring super aliens the Spinefellows - in whose domain humanity has found itself, "discovered" by another client race the Firefoxes- and their deadly enemies, the Starfish and of the special role humanity played in their Galaxy devastating conflict. Quite a few other alien civilization appear and the novella is just amazing and showcases Mr. Barton at his best.
Off on A Starship (Asimovs, Sept 2003)
And now for a change, sf as the typical adolescent male wish-fulfillment; literally this time since the narrator is a geeky, troubled 1960's teen with a passion for sf who on one night encounters a starship that whisks him away; of course this being a William Barton novella, it features the explicit sex that the usual representatives of the sub-genre avoided even to mention and it has several twists and turns and a darker subtext, though it is probably the most optimistic of the author's fiction.
The Man Who Counts (Sci-Fi, 2003)
A Mars prison for the worst Solar System criminals with a twist; most of the inmates are reborn as "pleasure" slaves for the rich and powerful, hormonally conditioned to do all in their power to sexually please first and foremost. Some are chemically castrated and used as un-sexed sort of caretakers; the narrator and title character, now known as Merry, whose dark past as a famous war hero and serial killer is slowly revealed is one the latter and when he meets the newest inmate Sparrow whom he thinks he knows from before, he sort of falls in love, castrated or not, and plans to escape with her. Of course there is much more going on than meets the eye. Here is their first meeting, though as mentioned you can read the story at the link provided.
"Utterly bewildered look on her face, eyes deeply puzzled, as if she had no idea where she was, or why she was here. Knowing why and where made it easy for me. That and knowing I deserved every bit of it. "
Overall, William Barton created an amazing body of sf novels in the 90's and I strongly recommend them, hoping they get the recognition they richly deserve since today I think their style and content is much more in tune with the times than it was on their original publication, when sff was still sanitized to a large extent.
Ian Sales said...
I've been a fan of Barton's fiction for many years. It's about time someone published a collection of his stories and novellas.
Liviu said...
I agree 100% and I would love to see his novels back in print too. They are generally easy to find them used on Amazon and the like but it would be nice if there would be some reissues
odo said...
Great post! Haven't heard of William Barton before, but now I'm really intrigued. Which novel would you recommend to start with? I love Space Opera (Peter Hamilton, Alistair Reynolds) and hard SF (Egan).
thank you for the kind words; I would recommend to start with Acts of Conscience or When Heaven Fell, though Dark Sky Legion will do too; all are standalone and complete
"When Heaven Fell" cries out for a sequel; it has one of the most dramatic cliff-hanging endings I know, but I've seen nothing to suggest Barton will ever tell the rest of the story.
I thought that Heaven Fell actually had a good ending - the rebellion is finally starting! Very in tone with the rest of the novel imho.
The book that truly cries out for a sequel (or better put the universe that I really would love to see much more in) is When We Were Real; The Engine of desire was excellent but I would have loved more, more...


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There is a lot of buzz, hype, critical analysis, and downright drivel out there about trends in marketing and ad spending. Some have even asked whether advertising is dead. They're wrong.
Advertising is not dead folks, it has become more vibrant and complex than ever. It's growing in the online world where aggressive metrics and analysis demand instant accountability.
Here's an experiment: Try to go the next five minutes without seeing some kind of add. Ooops, too late, already happened, right?
In the Q4 of 2009, online advertising hit a new all-time quarterly high of $6.3 billion. What's changing about advertising is that its morphing, and the metrics and data used to track it are becoming more sophisticated than ever.
Fragmentation. Ads are being sliced and diced into dozens of new media a minute. It used to be the 30-second TV spot. Now there's in-game advertising, viral video, and Web astroturfing.
Action-driven. Much of the focus on online advertising is shifting from Pay Per Click (PPC) to Cost Per Action (CPA). "Spray and Pray" is dying. Why are marketing companies struggling with the new ad trends? Because the goal posts get moved every six months. It used to be that PPC and cost per lead were where the action was, now it's CPA.
More metrics. Still counting page views? Bwahahaha! So 2006. On the Web, advertisers are now more interested in the total amount of engagement and "stickiness" with the target audience. What are the metrics? I believe we're starting a long-term trend to moving more into engagement metrics such as time on site.
More accountable budgets. Marketers are demanding more and more accountability from advertisers. That may be why the advertising market seems a lot tougher. If marketers start an ad campaign, they want a whole raft of metrics to show their program is working.
Software analysis driven. Think back to the old TV ad campaign. There was not a whole lot of data on how/why/if it worked. Most of it was about buzz and hype. Maybe there was a focus group. Mostly, executives had to have a gut feeling on if it worked. Now ad data can be processed in real-time to anlalyze the Return on Investment (ROI) of every single dollar. Analysis firms such as Omniture, Marketo, Eloqua, Salesforce.com, and others are becoming more sophisticated in tracking advertising, marketing programs, and audience patterns.
Where does this all lead? Advertising is being subsumed by the great online marketing Borg, a real-time processor of information and data. Yes, it's a long way from "Mad Men." Advertising has moved from art to science. Every action and reaction is now accountable. Get used to it.


This former Coast cover boy called it quits last week, citing als as the reason for his departure. Uteck served as deputy mayor for close to a year and continues to coach the St. Mary's Huskies football team. You would have made a great mayor, Larry. We're all sad to see you go.


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Veteran prop Orcades Crawford was still playing club rugby in Hawke's Bay in 2006, aged 40. Crawford had played well over 100 first class games for Hawke's Bay and latterly the Central Vikings, when he was called into the Hurricanes in 1998.
Initially a back up in the squad, Crawford saw game time in six of the last seven games and started the last three matches at loosehead prop after captain Mark Allen suffered a career ending neck injury against the Brumbies in round eight.
A mobile front rower, Crawford scored two tries for the Central Vikings against South Canterbury in their first ever NPC match in 1997. With the disintegration of the Vikings he returned to Hawke's Bay in 1999, before shifting north in 2000 to his home province East Coast a year after they had won the NPC Third Division. With Crawford on board East Coast won the Third Division title again in 2000 and accepted promotion to the Second Division for 2001. The fairytale continued unabated in 2001 when tiny East Coast with a mammoth pack led by Crawford were carried all the way to the second division final against Hawke's Bay, only losing 30-27 in the final.
Crawford was a former New Zealand Maori representative, playing two games for the Maori on tour to South Africa in 1994. Earlier in his career he represented New Zealand Secondary Schools in 1983-1984.
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The charitable football event for Gubkin University Cup is traditionally dedicated to the Oil and Gas Industry Workers Day, and organized by the Foundation of Gubkin University Alumni since 2005.
The tournament was opened by the Vice-Rector for Education at Gubkin University Marina Filatova, the Vice-Rector for Academic Work at Gubkin University Vladimir Koshelev, the Chair of the Public Council of the Foundation of Gubkin University Alumni Alexander Kochnev, the Deputy Chair of the Management Board of the Foundation of Gubkin University Roman Kotenko and the Executive Deputy Chair of the Management Board of the Foundation of Gubkin University Sergey Viryaskin.
This year 10 teams participated in the football tournament, including 8 teams representing oil and gas companies, including Rosneft, SIBUR Holding, Tatneft, Transneft, Zarubezhneft, MOSGAZ, RN-Trans, Industrial Trade Alliance, as well as the student team of Gubkin University and the team of graduate students of Gubkin University.
According to the tournament results, the winner and the holder of Gubkin University Cup in 2019 became the football team represented by Gubkin University graduates.


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Frederick Ashton
Sir Frederick Ashton was born in 1904 and spent his childhood in South America. He studied with Leonide Massine and Marie Rambert, who also gave him his first opportunities as a choreographer.
A Tragedy of Fashion, a commission in 1926, was his first ballet to be staged as part of a revue entitled Riverside Nights. In 1928, he joined Ida Rubinstein's company in Paris, where he also came under the influence of Bronislava Nijinska from whom, he acknowledged, he learned his craft. He came to England in 1929 to choreograph for Rambert and the Camargo Society. He also danced with the Rambert Company in both the classics and modern works, and partnered Tamara Karsavina, Lydia Lopokova and Alicia Markova, at the same time pursuing a successful career as a dancer in musicals and revues.
In 1931, he created his first work, Regatta, for Ninette de Valois' Vic-Wells Ballet, and four years later was invited to become Resident Choreographer. Ashton remained De Valois' associate until 1948 when his position as Associate Director was publicly recognized. In 1963, he succeeded Dame Ninette as Director of the company (now called The Royal Ballet), a position he held until he retired in 1970. In 1935, Ashton began his association with Margot Fonteyn, creating the Bride in Le Baiser de la Fée for her. Among the ballets he has since made with her in mind are Nocturne, Horoscope, Dante Sonata, Symphonic Variations, his first ballet for the Covent Garden stage Daphnis and Chloë, Ondine and Marguerite and Armand (for Fonteyn and Nureyev). Ashton's choreography has caused an unmistakably lyrical style to emerge in British ballet. In addition to comic and dramatic ballets and those of "pure" dance, his innate sense of theatre is always apparent.
Of nearly 100 ballets, many have been landmarks, including Cinderella, Daphnis and Chloë, The Two Pigeons, and Birthday Offering for the company's Silver Jubilee. In addition to the inspiration of Fonteyn, he created The Dream for Anotinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell. La Fille mal gardée, has been a brilliant success throughout the world, often mounted by Ashton himself.
More recent full scale ballets have been Rhapsody, created for Mikhail Baryshnikov, in honor of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's 80th birthday; Verdi Capricci, premiered on April 19, 1983, the opening night of The Royal Ballet's season at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York; and before that, A Month in the Country.
During 1985, Ashton choreographed a solo for Merle Park, La Chatte Metamorphoses en Femme, for a gala in honor of Fanny Elssler in Vienna and supervised London Festival Ballet's revival of his Romeo and Juliet. Ashton first worked in opera in 1934, when he staged Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts, in the United States. In 1953, he staged Gluck's Orfeo at Covent Garden, with Kathleen Ferrier singing the title role in her last appearance. Benjamin Britten's last opera Death in Venice, also includes dances choreographed by Ashton. In 1981, he created choreography for the Nightingale and the Fisherman (on Natalia Makarova and Anthony Dowell) for Igor Stravinsky's opera Le Rossignol for the Metropolitan Opera's triple-bill Stravinsky Centenary evening. In September, 1983, this production, with designs by David Hockney, was taken into the repertoire of the Royal Opera at Covent Garden.
Frederick Ashton was made a CBE in 1950, and knighted in 1962. In 1970, he became a Companion of Honour, and in October 1977, he was invited by The Queen to become a member of the Order of Merit. France admitted Ashton to the Legion d'Honneur in 1962 and Denmark made him a Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1963. Recognition of his achievement came in 1959 from the Royal Academy of Dancing, which gave him its Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award; in 1972 from the Carina Aria Foundation in Sweden with its Gold Medal; and with honorary degrees: as Doctor of Letters in the Universities of Durham (1962) and East Anglia (1967), and as Doctor of Music in the Universities of London (1970) and Oxford (1976).
On August, 19, 1988, Frederick Ashton died in his sleep at his country home in Eye, Suffolk. He was 83.
Ashton's works remain sparingly represented in Munich repertoire. The German premiere of his masterpiece La Fille mal gardée at the Nationaltheater in 1971, starring Gislinde Skroblin, Heinz Bosl and Ferenc Barbay in the leading roles, was a sensational success. The ballet remained in the repertory for decades until its restaging at the Bavarian State Ballet in 1994. After a prolonged break, this beloved ballet comedy returns to Munich in 2012 as part of the season "Very British?!".
In 1972, Ashton's Les Rendezvous was premiered at the Nationaltheater. The charming and brief work dissappeared from the repertoire shortly afterwards. Frederick Ashton's Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan was first seen at the Nationaltheater Munich in 1996, danced by Evelyn Hart. Ten years later, with Sherelle Charge and Stephanie Hancox as dancers, it was added to the repertory and is part of the mixed bill premiere Steps & Times in December 2011. The latter, a homage to British Dance, brings one of Ashton's most important works, Scènes de ballet to Munich for the first time. Completing the bill will be Voices of spring, Frederick Ashton's delightful and captivating pas de deux which was first seen in Munich in 2006 during the Terpsichore-Gala IV.
Another significant work of Sir Frederick Ashton will be performed as part of a guest appearance by the Birmingham Royal Ballet during the Ballet Festival Week 2012. Ashton's version of Shakespeare's The Dream has only been performed in part during the Ballet Festival Week Gala in 1972.
Past events with Frederick Ashton
07:30 PM Uhr · Nationaltheater
07:30 PM Uhr · Ingolstadt
Birthday Offering / Adam is / Sinfonie in C
Terpsichore-Gala XII
03:00 PM Uhr · Prinzregententheater
Steps & Times
09:00 PM Uhr · Granada
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"Without knowledge of self, there is no knowledge of God. Our wisdom, insofar as it ought to be deemed true and solid wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other."
A person is an 'embodied soul' made in the 'image of God' with complex, intertwined spiritual, biological, psychological and sociocultural facets.
Polis seeks to partner with local churches and other care providers for a more collaborative, comprehensive process of change. Ultimately, Polis is a conduit to the local church. The church is God's chosen vehicle for sustainable transformation and mission.


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Pan African steht für:

 Pan-African Congress, internationale Zusammenkünfte, siehe Pan-Afrikanischer Kongress
 Pan African Christian University College, College in Winneba, Ghana
 Pan African Development Information System, Abteilung der Wirtschaftskommission für Afrika
 Pan African Air Industries, eine ehemalige britische Fluggesellschaft
 Pan African Airlines, eine Fluggesellschaft in Nigeria
 Pan African Air Services, eine ehemalige Fluggesellschaft in Sierra Leone
 Pan African Express, eine ehemalige Fluggesellschaft in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo

Siehe auch:
 Pan Africanist Congress, südafrikanische Befreiungsbewegung
 Panafrikanisches Parlament, parlamentarisches Organ der Afrikanischen Union
 Panafrikanismus

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Should a colleague receive authorship for identifying a research gap and reviewing a manuscript?
A colleague of mine identified a research gap / problem and reviewed a manuscript of mine addressing said problem. Otherwise, he/she had no other contribution to the conceptualization and execution of the solution and to the writing of the paper.
Does he/she deserve authorship? I don't believe so but I have acknowledged his/her contributions in the acknowledgements section. If this is not standard practice in science, I am more than happy to include his/her name in the list of authors.
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Frustrated_StudentFrustrated_Student
Is the colleague pressuring you to be listed as an author? – Buzz Dec 22 '16 at 13:57
Not really, but I was wondering if it was the right thing to do. – Frustrated_Student Dec 22 '16 at 15:35
In mathematics, it is very common to have something to the effect of "The authors wish to thank Prof. X for introducing the central question of the article to them." in the acknowledgements. Or the introduction may start by "During [Famous Conference/private communication], Prof. X raised the question that...". Prof. X is usually not a coauthor in these cases. – Taladris Dec 23 '16 at 1:45
Identifying a research gap and reviewing a manuscript does not seem to warrant authorship to me.
Things would be different if your colleague had also worked with you in designing the study, experiment or research project to address the gap she or he identified. Or if your colleague had written part of the manuscript, say the summary of the existing state of the art.
Different disciplines have wildly different conventions on what constitutes enough contribution to warrant authorship. For instance, the American Psychological Association offers resources and a helpful scorecard. At the first link, we find:
An author is considered anyone involved with initial research design, data collection and analysis, manuscript drafting, and final approval. However, the following do not necessarily qualify for authorship: providing funding or resources, mentorship, or contributing research but not helping with the publication itself.
This does not seem to cover your colleague's contribution under the specific conventions in psychology.
I suggest you look over the websites of associations in your field, and/or of relevant journals/conferences, perhaps the venue where you are considering submitting your work. There may be similar resources specific to your field.
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It sounds strange to me that writing a summary of the existing state of the art would warrant authorship. I could understand if the article were a review paper, but a research one? – Frustrated_Student Dec 22 '16 at 12:04
I wouldn't say that writing a single section of the paper would be enough. But where I come from (psychology, one of the two hats I wear), the introduction section does represent quite a lot of work, since you do need to find, read, synthesize, sort and summarize all the relevant previous literature. If you look at that APA scorecard, writing the introduction has quite a high weight. Again, it should not be an author's only contribution. – Stephan Kolassa Dec 22 '16 at 12:30
Stephan Kolassa's answer is sound general advice.
However, let me add two more points:
For papers with multiple authors I like a contributions section where each author lists their contributions to the paper. If the contribution sounds embarrassingly small, that's an answer to the authorship question. On the other hand, you may be astonished how much other people did contribute.
Having the contributions spelled out makes me personally more lenient in the question of co-authorship, because editor and readers then have direct information on the contributions. (In one of our papers, an editor actually reordered the author list because of how important they judged the contributions.)
For the specific question, both "identified a research gap" and "did a review of the manuscript" can range anywhere from clearly not deserving authorship to major contribution:
identify research gap may be "I have a problem. Could anyone please solve it for me?" or it may be "I know this-and-that method from field A and have been looking into how field B uses that other method to do ... Taken together, those two approaches should work for solving our problem C, because ..." which may already be an outline of the idea behind the solution.
Internal review can also range from reading and spotting the 3 leftover typos over critically reading and not finding points to improve because the paper is already very good to major work in spotting scientifically weak points and making the paper understandable to the intended audience (I've been internally reviewing a manuscript and in the end became coauthor after spending in total an amount of time on that manuscript comparable to what I need for writing a paper of my own).
Also, personally I would consider it a similar contribution if someone "just" asks the 5 right critical questions right to the point within a couple of minutes compared to someone spending weeks and tons of emails in groping around the same issues but unable to express themselves clearly.
Stephan Kolassa
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@StephanKolassa: thanks for the edit and please excuse me for mis-spelling your name. – cbeleites supports Monica Dec 22 '16 at 12:51
HAH! It's true that sometimes a reviewer can actually contribute enough to be a co-author. However, I have encountered this situation for an external reviewer. It is obviously not appropriate to identify and include him in the author list so all I could do was acknowledge his contributions in the acknowledgement sections. – Frustrated_Student Dec 22 '16 at 13:02
Science is clearly a collaborative effort, and it is often difficult to claim with absolute certainty the contribution of everyone for a project involving several people.
Furthermore, academic stinginess (even if well meant) in my opinion never moves you and your research field of interest far away, by limiting constructive interactions.
Accordingly, if the identification of the research gap proved momentous and if the manuscript revision consisted in a genuine effort to contribute to the work, then I would definitely think this colleague qualifies as an author.
Whilst journals today have explicit and somewhat crude criteria for authorship, scholarly endeavors should ideally be based on ongoing efforts to maximize participation and inclusion.
Joe_74Joe_74
There is a difference between stinginess on the one hand, and certain minimal standards in recognizing contributions. The only person who can "maximize participation" is the (potential) author him- or herself... and I certainly don't want to "maximize inclusion" by indiscriminately adding authors that did not offer a genuine scholarly contribution, however one wants to define it. – Stephan Kolassa Dec 22 '16 at 12:36
@StephaKolassa I understand your concern. The words "identifying a research gap" are actually criptical, as is "reviewing the manuscript". From my part, I can simply tell you that the more people out there than can identify research gaps for my and review my manuscripts, the merrier. – Joe_74 Dec 22 '16 at 13:05
I find the subject very arbitrary, so here is my opinion based on my experience while working in different labs and cultures.
Although there are guidelines about who should be an author, like the ones mentioned in other answers, I find the practises by different labs/PIs to vary very much. Besides, these guides are just recommendations that researchers tend to follow or not.
Take this example.
The ICMJE recommends that authorship be based on the following 4 criteria:
Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND Final approval of the version to be published; AND Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
So, if we follow these guidelines, any co-author should have substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work or analyse the data or interpret the data.
Then it is required to participate in the draft. Either by writing and/or by reviewing it substantially.
Then to approve the manuscript and finally to be responsible for all its contents.
The first two are the actual contribution, the last two is the acceptance of the responsibilities that derive from having your name (or your signature) on a document: Do you approve the publication as ready? Can you stand for it and defend it?
Now, approving it might be a big deal in a way. To what extend should you agree with all the findings? (that can be an opinion based question to pose one day in SE). I can be almost certain that I know of people that are co-authors because they did contribute, although they don't necessarily know what is the paper about or they can't defend all of its aspects (e.g. in a interdisciplinary study, how can you defend a method that a colleague performed and you are not an expert on it or how can you defend a whole paper when your contribution was on a specific part of it).
But back to the first two: these are the questions you have to answer. It is about the contribution to the results and contribution to the draft. The question for you would be, the identified gap, was it significant enough to justify a change in the concept or the design of the project? If yes, then your colleague could deserve a co-authorship.
Next, did the reviewing of the manuscript require and offer significant intellectual input? If yes, you can cross this requirement also.
And the other two is questions your colleague has to answer if the first two are fulfilled.
In summary, the requirements recommended by the journals or other associations are a little arbitrary and ambiguous, I believe on purpose, because every study is special, every collaboration unique and every contribution, honestly, quite subjective. If you feel the contribution changed the way you saw your data and the input improved substantially the quality of your manuscript, then a co-authorship should be offered.
PS. I can't find it now, but I remember colleagues gossiping about paper(s) where the contribution of some of the co-authors was to be present in the project meeting and it was supposed to be written in the "contributions" field.
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Hagenuk Marinekommunikation (HMK), a subsidiary of ATLAS ELEKTRONIK, has been commissioned by the "ARGE K130 2nd Batch" consortium to supply integrated communication systems for units 6 to 10 of the Type K130 Corvettes.
The scope of supply includes radios of the complete telecommunications spectrum from 10 kHz to 20 GHz, which enable information to be exchanged with other ships, boats or shore stations via special input devices in the form of voice and data radio. These intelligent communication systems offer users the greatest possible support in their tasks and thus make a significant contribution to the reliable operation of ships and their crews. With that, Hagenuk Marinekommunikation will follow up the successful delivery for boats 1 to 5 of the first batch.
For Hagenuk Marinekommunikation, this delivery represents one of the largest single orders in the company's almost 120-year history. This order will secure the location and the jobs in Flintbek near Kiel, where communication systems for the German Navy and international navies have been developed and manufactured for over 20 years.
Managing Director Dr Georg Marschall emphasized: "Thanks to the very close cooperation both with our client and with support from the BAAINBw and the German Navy we are proud to develop a high-quality and reliable system that meets the complex communication requirements for national and international missions. And it is designed for future expansion."
The K130 consortium (ARGE K130) is an alliance of the Lürssen shipyard (Lürssen Werft GmbH & Co. KG) as the leading company, thyssenkrupp Marine Systems GmbH and German Naval Yards Kiel GmbH. At the end of last year, they had jointly signed the contract for the construction of five further corvettes of the Type K130 with the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw).
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A new kind of paint could offer an alternative to Games Workshop's pricey Contrast line
The Army Painter's new Speedpaint is receiving mixed reviews
By Charlie Hall@Charlie_L_Hall Jan 20, 2022, 11:00am EST
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Games Workshop surprised the world of miniature painting in 2019 with the introduction of Citadel Contrast Paints. The new and unusual formulation caused a bit of controversy at the time, but the line has grown to be incredibly popular among amateur and professional painters alike. Now The Army Painter is getting in on the action with its own version, called Speedpaint. The first retail samples are just now making it into the hands of YouTubers, and the results are very exciting.
Contrast Paint is a proprietary formulation, so only Games Workshop knows for sure what's inside each pot. But the concept is interesting. While traditional acrylic paints have a very thick formulation with lots of viscosity, Contrast Paints are much thinner. That feature allows you to build up opacity on 3D models a bit like using watercolor on paper. But Contrast Paints also tend to stay where you put them, sort of like the opposite of a wash. That makes painting some highly detailed miniatures a lot easier. Applied heavily, it also forms its own highlights and shadows — especially when used with a highly shaded black-and-white undercoat (also known as a zenithal undercoat). The long and the short of it is that with clever brush application, it can save you time and improve your results.
This Space Marine Heavy Intercessor was painted using Citadel Contrast Paints applied through an airbrush, using a technique shared on the Cult of Paint YouTube channel.
Photo: Charlie Hall/Polygon
Through an airbrush, however, techniques really open up with Contrast Paint, which behaves more like an artist-grade ink than a paint. I've taken to using multiple shades of similar colors to blend together highlights and shadows on my basecoat, giving me a much more interesting surface to add detail to. Contrast Paints are a powerful tool in my toolbox now, and I wouldn't want to go forward without them.
The Army Painter's Speedpaints, on the other hand, are being marketed in a very different way. The company calls it a "one-coat painting solution" that allows you to create "tabletop-quality miniatures in no time." If that sounds like a bit of a brute-force solution, that's because it is. The Army Painter is also the same company that sells a line of Quickshade Miniature Dips, whereby you just dip the whole damn thing into a metal can of goop, let the excess drip off, and then call it a day. So maybe one thick coat of paint is the company's idea of subtlety.
Regardless of what these paints say on the tin, YouTubers are putting them through their paces with techniques that they've honed over the last few years with Contrast Paints. The most thorough examination comes courtesy Brent Amberger of Goobertown Hobbies, a pro painter who also happens to be a chemist. The 16-minute video includes samples of every color in the line applied multiple ways, and even finishes with a high-resolution slideshow of every color once dried.
The verdict? Amberger is sold, it seems, especially with how thick coats dry into the recesses of his 3D-printed miniatures. The result is a much more intense line of shadow, and a more consistent result, he says, than when using Contrast Paints.
Over in Europe, Emil Nyström and the staff at Squidmar Miniatures are a lot less enthusiastic. They're simply not impressed by The Army Painter's range of colors, and downright disappointed by the paint's performance overall.
You can't beat the price, however, which is roughly half the cost of comparable Contrast Paint. Add in that these come in a dropper bottle with a metal mixing ball already inside, and you've got a decent value for your money.
Polygon has reached out to the company for some samples. Keep your eyes peeled for new techniques and use cases for The Army Painter's new line of Speedpaints, and we'll do the same.
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**Global feed production is at an all-time high. In the 2019 Global Feed Survey, Alltech estimates a strong 3% growth to 1.068 billion metric tons of feed produced.
Agweb.com reports, This is the third consecutive year the survey exceeded the billion-ton production mark.
Dr. Mark Lyons says the feed industry has seen 14.6% growth over the past five years. He says as the population grows, so does the middle class, which is well reflected in an increase in overall protein consumption.
**Breaking down the numbers, the Congressional Budget Office projects the 2018 Farm Bill will mandate spending of $428 billion dollars over the next 5 fiscal years.
According to agrimarketling.com, 76% of the spending will fund nutrition programs, with most going to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Crop insurance, farm commodity programs, and conservation programs account for nearly all of the remaining outlays.
Approximately 0.8 percent will fund other programs including trade, credit, rural development, research and extension, and horticulture.
**Exports of U.S. ethanol could hit a record 4 billion gallons a year in 2020.
That's according to Mike Dwyer, chief economist for the U.S. Grains Council.
As reported in agriculture.com, if the U.S. ethanol industry exports a total 4 billion gallons in 2020, it would more than double the current record of 1.62 billion gallons of ethanol exports set during the 2017-2018 marketing year when U.S. ethanol was exported to 74 countries.


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Chandanwadi is a neighbourhood in Mumbai donated by the  Hon. Jugonnath Sunkersett, one of the founding fathers of the city. It is the area around Marine Lines most famous for the Chandanwadi electric crematorium which opened in 1954.

Chandanwadi also consisted of B.I.T Blocks which consisted of 6 buildings, demolished in 2016. These buildings were more than 150 years old build during the British Era

Etymology
The name is derived from 2 Marathi words, Chandan meaning sandalwood in Marathi/Sanskrit and Wadi meaning backyard/farmyard.

In popular culture
The street was used in the famous song "Govinda Aale Re" depicting Shammi Kapoor from the 1963 film Bluff Master.

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MF Global's trustee sues ex-CEO Corzine
Jon Corzine, the former chief executive of the now bankrupt MF Global Holdings is being sued for what is called lax controls and risky practices. His attorney called the suit "a clear case of Monday morning quarterbacking." Credit: AP, 2011
By CHRISTINA REXRODE AND MARCY GORDON. The Associated Press Updated April 24, 2013 11:11 AM
The trustee in the MF Global Holdings bankruptcy case has sued ex-chief executive Jon Corzine and other former executives, alleging that they pushed the company into risky practices that ultimately led to its collapse.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in bankruptcy court in New York, says Corzine and two other top executives "dramatically changed" the company's business plan after he became chief executive in 2010. They then failed to update controls and other systems that were already weak, the lawsuit says.
Corzine pushed the company into making big bets on bonds issued by European countries, the lawsuit says, a move that proved disastrous during the implosion of the debt crisis the following summer. MF Global collapsed in October 2011.
Tuesday, a spokesman for Corzine called the lawsuit "a clear case of Monday morning quarterbacking." The spokesman said the lawsuit intentionally ignored the fact that some of MF Global's trading partners failed and didn't pay what they owed to MF Global.
According to the lawsuit, however, the company's controls were so poor that it couldn't determine its liquidity levels in real time. It portrays Corzine and others as aware of the risks but purposefully ignoring them.
Corzine, who stepped down as MF Global chief executive soon after the collapse, is the former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, a former Democratic U.S. senator and the former governor of New Jersey.
The lawsuit is notable not because of any significant revelations but because it represents an escalation in the battle between Corzine and the bankruptcy trustee, former FBI director Louis Freeh.
Freeh is overseeing the wind-down of MF Global Holdings, which means he is trying to recover money for creditors.
The suit seeks "damages in an amount to be determined at trial" and "other and further relief as the court deems appropriate."
By CHRISTINA REXRODE AND MARCY GORDON. The Associated Press


Permanent makeup is cosmetic tattooing, with coloured micro pigments being implanted into the upper dermis layer of skin, giving the appearance of makeup or a natural correction of missing hair, shape or pigment.
How long does cosmetic tattooing last ?
After the initial visits to give the result you wish to achieve, you should expect to do annual top ups to keep the colour looking fresh. Without further top ups the colour will fade away, but some will remain for many months or years. How long permanent makeup lasts is very individual, it depends on the colour used, how much colour was used, the persons skin, lifestyle and more. Most people find the effect lasts 9 – 18 months before needing the colour topped up. If the colour is not topped up it will over many months, or years, fade away but can in some instances leave a residue of colour in the skin for years to come.
The colour pigment fades to during this time cannot be predicted, nor how long it will take to fade completely. For this reason you should always choose to visit with someone who will create a good long term eyebrow shape for you. If Perfect Creations ever creates a fashion style of eyebrow, with colour implanted beyond what will ever be the clients natural shape, the client will have been advised of the long term implications.
Why do eyebrows sometimes fade orange, pink or grey ?
Eyebrows use brown pigments, and brown is made up of many colours. Just the same as when we colour our hair, and it fades over time, everyone holds on to certain elements of brown differently. Some people hold on to the warm tones, others the cool ones. This is not a problem as returning for your annual top up, a corrector colour can be added to your original colour, will help correct future fading. It has to be seen how you fade a colour, to see how to correct it for future years of good colour.
Why Does the pigment fade ?
Cosmetic Tattooing is also called Micropigmentation as it uses micro pigments. Because they lack size, they also lack density of colour, so the colour fades quicker. Were the pigment molecules bigger, the colour would be more dense and more permanent, just like normal tattoo ink.
Permanent Cosmetics (also known as Semi Permanent Make up, Micro pigmentation and Cosmetic Tattooing) allow women of all ages, and a growing number of men, to enhance and define their natural features creating a beautiful finish which will compliment or even replace the use of conventional make up.
Why not use permanent ink ?
Pigment, Ink whether permanent or not, changes colour over time, especially when exposed to the sun. Black pigment goes grey, green or blue, brown can go pink or orange. You can accept that for a body tattoo, but your eyebrows ? or as eyeliner ? Yes you can top up a permanent tattoo to keep the colour fresh, but you'll never be able to change the shape without lasering off the unwanted bits. Why would you want to change the shape ? …Does skin stay tight forever ? Do people have or need brow lifts ? If you've chosen a fashion style of brow to be tattooed on permanently, how much do styles change, and your style, will you want those eyebrows when you're 80, grey and wrinkly ?
Is cosmetic tattooing safe ?
When it's carried out by a fully trained and experienced technician, yes very. The pigments Perfect Creations use are from known sources in France. They are hygienically prepared and packaged, created from natural minerals, specifically selected for their safe, non-toxic, hypoallergenic properties. These cosmetic tattoo pigments are quite different from conventional tattoo inks. With conventional tattoo ink the colour is more opaque and can be implanted in clean dense lines with a single pass. It is not advisable to have cosmetic tattoos using permanent ink, would you want that same style and colour of eyebrow when you are 80 ?
Permanent make up is the art of using pigments, in the form of natural iron oxide to the dermal layer of the skin in almost any colour the client chooses. The results derived from permanent cosmetic enhancements are a convenient 'quick fix' with long lasting results – appropriate for today's busy life styles.
Do I need an allergy test ?
Does having a cosmetic tattoo hurt ?
Perfect Creations uses the Natural Enhancement branded Cosmedic digital machine, and like medical equipment this is safe by design against cross contamination. Perfect Creations use fully disposable 'single use only' applicator cartridges, and the pen like device used for the procedure is digitally controlled, and without deep vibration. Perfect Creations has both public and professional liability insurance to offer permanent cosmetic tattoo treatments.
Does using advanced digital equipment really make a difference ?
Permanent make up fades away and so colour boosts are required 12 – 18 months after in order to refresh the original enhancement.
Permanent make up for the lips ends the unwanted transfer of lipstick colour onto objects and people. Clients who suffer with visual impairment, and unsteady or arthritic hands find it difficult to apply topical cosmetics and so can benefit greatly.


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As police searched across five states for a man suspected of gunning down a Cleveland grandfather and posting the footage to Facebook, President Trump was tweeting about a book with no words.
The commander-in-chief, fresh off a separate Easter morning Twitter rant, cluttered his feed Monday morning with tweets about "Fox & Friends," jabs at Democrats and musings on the "fake media."
Top White House aide Kellyanne Conway — rising to Trump's defense in February after his public silence on a fatal Quebec mosque shooting drew criticism — said he "doesn't tweet about everything."
It seems the President will, however, tweet about anything. Here's what appeared to be on his mind after Steve Stephens, 37, allegedly shot 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr. Sunday afternoon in a murder that made national headlines.
"The recent Kansas election (Congress) was a really big media event, until the Republicans won. Now they play the same game with Georgia-BAD!" Trump wrote at 8:45 p.m. Sunday.
In the race for CIA Director Mike Pompeo's seat, Republican Ron Estes narrowly beat Democrat James Thompson last week in Kansas's 4th district — which Trump had won handily in the 2016 election. Tuesday's contest in Georgia for Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price's seat is also expected to be close.
At 8:07 a.m. Monday, the President tweeted, "'The first 90 days of my presidency has exposed the total failure of the last eight years of foreign policy!' So true. @foxandfriends."
He was ostensibly misquoting conservative author Michael J. Knowles, who appeared on "Fox & Friends" to promote his book, "Reasons to Vote for Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide."
"It is unbelievable how within the first 100 days of this presidency we have exposed the total failure of the last eight years of foreign policy," Knowles said on air.
Six minutes later, Trump plugged Knowles' work — a tome filled with blank pages — in a separate tweet.
"A great book for your reading enjoyment: 'REASONS TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS' by Michael J. Knowles," he wrote.
Soon after, the President zeroed in on one of his favorite punching bags. This time, he coined a corollary to "fake media": "real media."
"The Fake Media (not Real Media) has gotten even worse since the election. Every story is badly slanted. We have to hold them to the truth!" he tweeted.
Trump forged ahead tweeting about the Georgia election, but failed to spell "Congressional" correctly.
"The super Liberal Democrat in the Georgia Congressioal race tomorrow wants to protect criminals, allow illegal immigration and raise taxes!" he wrote.
The President, capping off a string of tweets that ignored the biggest national crime story of the day, retweeted a Drudge Report post linking to a Rasmussen poll touting a 50% Trump approval rating. Gallup's latest poll puts his job approval at 41%.


Patents are inherently wasting assets—they expire after approximately 20 years, after which they become dedicated to the public. And once dedicated to the public (and after any statutory damages period lapses—currently six years), they are non-monetizable.
If patents are inherently wasting assets, then why would an investor purchase shares of a patent? Namely, if the investor sits on them, they will become worthless. And if the investor owns shares that will expire in six months, then how can the investor sell them for full value?
The answer lies in the classification of the investment vehicle—it is the underlying technology, not just the underlying patents.
To illustrate, if Cloud X, Inc. puts its cloud computing portfolio on the exchange, investors would invest in the clouding-computing technology class. If Cloud X continually invents and files patents to add to the technology class, then the technology class will remain active, and investors are incentivized to invest in companies that invest in their own IP. But if Cloud X neglects to actively invent and file in the technology class, then the technology class would be wasting and investors would be disincentivized to invest.
By properly designating the investment class as the underlying technology as opposed to the patents themselves, this (1) overcomes the wasting-asset issue, and (2) creates an incentive for patent owners to continually invent and file patent applications in technology classes placed on the exchange.