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package vtk.resourcemanagement.parser;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.springframework.core.io.DefaultResourceLoader;
import org.springframework.core.io.ResourceLoader;
import vtk.resourcemanagement.StructuredResourceDescription;
import vtk.resourcemanagement.StructuredResourceManager;

import static org.mockito.Matchers.any;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.doThrow;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;

public class StructuredResourceSpringAdapterTest {
    private StructuredResourceSpringAdapter springAdapter;
    private ResourceLoader resourceLoader;
    private StructuredResourceManager manager;
    private ApplicationContext applicationContext;

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        springAdapter = new StructuredResourceSpringAdapter();
        resourceLoader = new DefaultResourceLoader();
        manager = mock(StructuredResourceManager.class);
        applicationContext = mock(ApplicationContext.class);

        springAdapter.setDefaultTypeDefinitionFiles(
                new String[]{"classpath:/vtk/beans/structured-resources-test.vrtx"}
        );
        springAdapter.setResourceLoader(resourceLoader);
        springAdapter.setStructuredResourceManager(manager);
        springAdapter.setApplicationContext(applicationContext);
    }

    @Test(expected = IllegalArgumentException.class)
    public void parse_and_register_same_file_twice() throws Exception {
        springAdapter.afterPropertiesSet();
        doThrow(IllegalArgumentException.class).when(manager)
                .register(any(StructuredResourceDescription.class));
        springAdapter.parseAndRegister(
                resourceLoader.getResource("classpath:/vtk/beans/structured-resources-test.vrtx")
        );
    }
}

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namespace HedgeComm\DemoBundle\Controller;

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
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Docker Jobs in South Wales
Docker Vacancies
The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for Docker skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Docker over the 6 months to 18 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Wales > South Wales
Rank change year-on-year -12 +29 -1
Permanent jobs citing Docker 86 63 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 7.00% 8.55% 4.67%
As % of the System Software category 35.25% 47.01% 25.96%
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Docker is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for system software skills.
All System Software Skills
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Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.
Salary Trend in South Wales
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Docker in South Wales.
Salary Histogram in South Wales
Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in South Wales over the 6 months to 18 January 2022.
Job Locations in South Wales
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 18 January 2022. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
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Torfaen - 8 £55,000 -
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Glamorgan - 4 - -
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in South Wales
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5 2 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.33%) iPhone
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5 2 (2.33%) Smartphone
5 2 (2.33%) User Experience
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2 9 (10.47%) SC Cleared
1 4 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
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3 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.49%) Firmware
2 2 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.16%) KVM
3 18 (20.93%) Ansible
4 10 (11.63%) Puppet
5 7 (8.14%) Opscode Chef
6 3 (3.49%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (3.49%) Prometheus
2 7 (8.14%) SaltStack
3 5 (5.81%) Guidewire
4 3 (3.49%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.33%) Apple
5 2 (2.33%) Dell
5 2 (2.33%) VMware
6 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.16%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (1.16%) Vertica
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I haven't had the oppurtunity to write to you until now. I am in my hotel room on the edge of Great Lava at the tours first planetary destination. The people here are quite imposing in their looks as I suppose I am to them, but they are friendly and very intelligent and easy to talk to.
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Cool. That last one made me think of a TOOL album cover.
I keep seeing little people waking on a floor in front of that last one you posted...It must be about thirty feet high, and about seventy feet long.
A giant Diego Rivera type of mural..
Really bold and striking pieces..Congrats..
It was inspired by the abstract thread of course and my current fascination of using old images as materials and then exploring the variations just by turning a model around. Plus I am subject to fits of taking images for a ride in photoshop with mirroring, hue changes, blending etc. They turn out really abstract and results are unpredictable which makes it more fun. Then I can use that image as background, material or both. Sculptris makes a unique compositing tool. If the mat is spot on the lines are clean.
Thanks Spirit, in the middle behind him there are faces you cant see lol. I like Diego but I didn't realize he did such huge murals. Now I want to see one up close Its just fun seeing how the material can relate to structure and angle and whether I can yank an image out of it.
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Yes Stan, I am having flashbacks from the early 70s, Roger Dean and blacklight posters. I will be pushing this thread more but will probably tweak the first two images a bit first.
Realy like the green one Keep exploring this kind of stuff!
Very trippy visuals. Brings back memories of 90s techno flyer artworks and the "Lawnmover Man"-Movie.
Np Blue My brothers came from out of town and we spent a lot of time together drinking beer yesterday so I didnt have a chance to comment .
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NEW YORK (AP) - Corporate America has a profit problem. U.S company earnings are falling for the first time since 2009, when the economy was still reeling from the Great Recession.
The main culprit is the plunging price of oil, which has decimated earnings at big energy companies like Exxon Mobil and Chevron. Mining companies have also taken a beating because of tumbling prices for gold, silver and copper.
Earnings at energy companies dropped a staggering 59 percent in the third quarter, enough to drag overall profits for companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index down 1.5 percent, according to estimates by S&P Capital IQ. That marks the first quarterly decline in six years. Without the drag of energy companies, overall earnings would be up 6.2 percent.
To be sure, earnings are still high by historical standards, and the U.S. economy is continuing to slowly improve. But with stock indexes near record highs, the weak earnings make many stocks vulnerable to declines. And energy companies aren't the only ones having trouble earning money, as several thorny problems continue to nettle Corporate America.
The strong dollar makes it much harder for U.S. companies to compete in overseas markets; slowing growth in other countries, especially China, means weaker exports; and in the last week several big retailers like Macy's and Best Buy have reported weak sales and poor outlooks for the holiday shopping season.
This has a contributed to a trend that concerns some even more than feeble profits: Revenue for S&P 500 companies has shrunk in all three quarters so far this year.
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As a result, investors are going to need to be a lot more selective about what stocks they buy and not just assume that a recovering economy will mean equally good results for all good U.S. companies. For example, $1,000 invested in an index of S&P 500 energy stocks at the beginning of the year would be worth about $866 today, while the same amount in the S&P 500 index would be worth $1,015.
That's not to say, with results now in from 473 of the companies on the S&P 500 index, that the earnings news is all bad. Big profit gains at Alphabet, Google's parent company, the video game maker Activision, health care companies and consumer giants like Netflix and Amazon are helping to make up for the losses at energy and mining companies. This quarter, earnings per share for consumer discretionary companies rose 16 percent and profits for telecommunications and health care companies grew 15 percent, according to S&P Capital IQ.
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The Graduate Interviews: Maren Bosma
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Throughout your career you've never shied away from making your own opportunities, with Maconchy Quartet, Cat's Cradle Collective or later with the Bath Festival Orchestra. What was it that drove you to become more than just the performer?
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At the beginning of my, (I want to say my career, but I was like 15!) I was doing so many other things. I didn't really want to commit to violin. I started off doing a double major in violin and music theory because I wanted to do something else as well. I think in hindsight it was because I was scared that I would fail and end up empty-handed.
Over the years, I've become a little bit better, just choosing one thing and really going for that but I've always had this desire to do other things and to make the things that I want to do happen.
So, in order to facilitate that, I had to develop skills like project management and managing budgets and organising things, doing grant applications, liaising with people, venues and organisations. Then the things that I wanted to do just ended up happening. Some of them worked out and some of them didn't, but there was always just something happening. At least the fact that I was practising and liked playing the violin so much was in service of things that I wanted to do artistically.
What I will say with the Bath Festival Orchestra is, it would be unfair to say that was my opportunity that I created, because that was actually Peter Manning who really created the orchestra and then I kind of joined later on as their leader but that's not to me, I didn't do that.
The admin side of being a musician can be really time consuming to even the most organised musician. As someone who has successfully navigated the added admin of a project, what is your advice for getting admin done without it taking over your life?
I don't really know if I can answer that question satisfactorily.
I think there's always a risk that there's going to be patches where it does just take over your life. It's just the reality is how it works. In our industry with being self-employed, musicians have to get everything done ourselves whilst creating the space to do the things that we artistically want to do. Unfortunately, part of creating that space is succumbing to the admin waterfall of stuff.
I think the only way that has really helped me stay on top of it is to be incredibly, I want to say organised but organised in a way that you're working with a small child breaking everything down into tiny tasks and then crossing things off your list when it's done.
Basically if you want to do a project, all the admin can be really, really daunting at first but it doesn't have to be. If you write down all the things that you need to take into consideration and all the things that you need to get done. Make steps for all of those things, then it becomes comprehensible.
It sounds so obvious but from experience, not everyone does this - I haven't always done it! The times when I haven't worked like that have been really overwhelming and those projects are actually ones that more often than not ended up not working out in the end. The projects where I was very clinical and organised with everything broken down into tiny steps made it much easier to get stuff done and created a successful project.
Your Radio 3 programme for "Inside Music" last year was utterly fascinating, introducing me to works I'd never heard of before. How do you personally find new music? What's your current ear worm?
Mmm, let me think. I don't really listen to a lot of classical music in my free time, to be honest, you need to get away from it. Sometimes I'll have one album that I just listened to on repeat and it's something else every year but usually, it's non-classical music.
The way I discover new music is honestly just through meeting new people who are not necessarily in classical music.
I meet a lot of people through sort of peripheral engagements in the musical activities that I do. For example, I know some people who are filmmakers but who also who did something for the Bath Festival Orchestra, who also have a band. I'll discover that band and then a genre that I didn't know before, that's how it works for me.
For me what I like about discovering new music through new people is that it always has context. So you listen to something and you're kind of connected to a nice time that you have with someone or a recommendation that they made you. Eventually, if you listen to it enough, that context is replaced by your own associations with that music. Actually it happens quite quickly with me because if I discover something new that I like, I'll like compulsively, listen to it on repeat non-stop. Then when you revisit it you're transported back to that phase in your life where you were listening to that music all the time, you know, it's like a very nostalgic day experience.
So previously, it was Radiohead, Brad Mehldau, then I discovered Chris Thile and his band the Punch Brothers. I've been obsessed with the Punch Brothers for like two or three years now that it's just, it's like a progressive Bluegrass band - perhaps a bit strange but I love it! It's so so good!
What's next for you? Have you got any big projects your particularly excited about?
I've got a Bath Festival Orchestra concert in May at the Bath Festival and June, in Kings Place. But then the next one after that is September 28th at Cadogan Hall where I'll be performing Beethoven Concerto so that's a very big thing for me! It's quite scary actually, because it's all in the diary now, they've started the marketing and suddenly it's like Oh My God! They can't go back now!
What would be your advice for graduates wanting to create their own opportunities and ensembles?
My advice would be to just do it! It's so hard not to get intimidated, especially at the moment where everyone is trying to find something new to do. Then when you find your thing, having to justify it to so many different parties to prove that you're unique or that you're doing something else that no one else is doing.
It's exhausting but it's absolutely worth taking your ideas to different people, getting them to ask you critical questions so that you can make the best of the ideas that you have.
Ultimately though if you have the idea and you want to do it, just sit down and do it! Do your research, figure out what it is that you need to do to get done, figure out how much money you need, what grant applications you can do to get that money. Whatever you do, just get started! Once you do you'll get into a rhythm.
It's like I said earlier about the admin thing, just break everything down into small tasks and just do something every day.
That's my biggest advice because honestly, it's not a question of an inability to do things, lack of potential, or lack of talent. It's just that things can be so intimidating that you put them off or that you just end up not doing them.
When I was in college, I was constantly having all these new ideas and things that I suddenly felt really passionate about. I'm still trying to find that again after Covid because it's so discouraging to have ideas and for them to be shot down or for them to just go nowhere.
So that's my main advice, just do it!
If you want to hear more from Maren, you can check out her website, twitter, or Instagram.
Maren's next performance will be with Bath Festival Orchestra on 16th May 2022 at the Bath Festival.
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Research round-up
Stuck on an aging mitochondria
DNA repair enzymes become trapped in the mitochondrial membrane as the organelle ages
David Secko(dmsecko@interchange.ubc.ca)
Sep 2, 2003 | 2 min read
The mitochondrial theory of aging suggests that DNA damage in the mitochondrial genome leads to dysfunction and production of reactive oxygen species implicated in the aging process. This DNA damage partly results from mutagenic base lesions in the form of 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG) and uracil. Cells normally utilize DNA glycosylases, such an 8-oxoguannine-DNA glycosylase (OGG1) and uracil-DNA glycosylase (UDG), in the first step of repairing such DNA damage. Aging produces high levels of 8-oxoG damage in mitochondrial DNA, but the levels and activity of OGG1 are higher in mitochondrial extracts from older rodents. In the September 1 PNAS, Bartosz Szczesny and colleagues at the University of Texas Medical Branch show that this apparent inconsistency is caused by a large fraction of OGG1 being caught in the mitochondrial membrane (PNAS, DOI:10.1073/pnas.1932854100, September 1, 2003).
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Dr. Frank Addonizio joined the staff of Holly Hill Hospital in May 2015. Born and raised in New Jersey, he earned a BA in psychology from Stockton University and a master's degree and PhD in social work from the University of South Carolina. Dr. Addonizio is a licensed clinical social worker and licensed clinical addictions specialist.
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The national theater in Cairo is a cultural icon for art and literature in Egypt, unfortunately during some of the unfortunate events that went along with 25th January revolution the theater was burnt down and had to be reconstructed.
The old classic theme has been restored almost the same exactly as it was before the fire to give awesome looking authentic Egyptian interiors and architectural design, and this is where we were contacted to shoot the theater after the renovation has been finished.
Actually it was a happy moment for me as I love to shoot beautiful interiors/architecture, so on the time I took my equipment and went there shooting for a full day the main hall and stage, with all its lovely details and architectural features. We used a lot of lighting to bring it up, also the new building adjacent to the old one had its interface built from reflective glass, so when you look you can clearly watch the reflection of the old building on the glass of the new one which kind of represents the classic and modern look at the same time.
We had to run fast because we had a lot to shoot and not a lot of time to shoot all of it.
And now I leave you with few images from the project.


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Une boîte à cigares ou boite à cigares est une boîte destinée à contenir des cigares. On parle de boîte de cigares ou de boite de cigares quand une telle boîte est pleine.

Les boîtes à cigares, leurs étiquettes et les bagues des cigares sont considérées comme des objets d'art. Il existe des entreprises spécialisées, ainsi que des livres consacrés à ce sujet, traitant de la conception, de la signification et de l'importance des boîtes à cigares. Cela en fait des objets de collection.

Matières
Les boîtes de cigares traditionnelles sont faites en bois, en carton ou en papier. Le cèdre espagnol a été décrit comme la « meilleure » sorte de bois pour les boîtes à cigares à cause de son grain, de sa texture et de son odeur agréables. L'eucalyptus et le bois-jaune sont des substituts fréquents à ce bois, qui ont parfois été teints et parfumés pour y ressembler. D'autres bois typiques pour les boîtes à cigares comprennent l'acajou, l'orme et le chêne blanc. Des sortes moins répandues sont le tilleul, le noyer et le palissandre.

Confection

Il y a différents types de boites à cigares, correspondant à des utilisations différentes :
 présentoir à ouverture latérale ou à charnière contenant en général 25 ou 50 cigares ;
 boite arrondie contenant trois couches de cigares, comprenant respectivement 8, 9 et 8 cigares ;
 boîte plate avec deux couches de cigares, 12 en dessous et 13 au-dessus ;
 boîte de cigares pressés (pouvant donc prendre une forme rectangulaire), rangée en deux couches comprenant le même nombre de cigares.

Détournements

Des guitares et des ukulélés sont faits avec des boites à cigares et d'autres matériaux qui ne sont pas prévus normalement pour des instruments de musique.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Cigar box guitar
 Paquet de cigarettes

 Étui à cigarettes

Liens externes
 Cigar Containers that Store Our Past 1883-1935, chez The Canadian Museum of Civilization
  Mojo Hand Guitars - Custom Made Cigar Box Guitars

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Cigare
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Craft Beer Heroes: The Wheaty Crew
February 9, 2015, by Crafty Pint
For many years, the craft beer scene in South Australia seemed impervious to the changes being witnessed elsewhere in the country. Sure, it had a fair few microbreweries doing their thing, from the gasoline-fuelled, no holds barred brews of Brewboys to the more traditionally-minded Lobethal Bierhaus, and from the quietly-making-top-notch-beers-without-making-any-noise Goodieson to country hangouts like Woolshed in Renmark or wine country breweries like Barossa Valley Brewing and McLaren Vale. But when it came to places in the city to pick up a wide selection of quality beers you were restricted to a couple of bottleshops and a couple of pubs.
Thankfully, times they are a-changin' with heaps of new breweries either opened (including Smiling Samoyed, Clare Valley Brewing, Prancing Pony and Pikes) or set to open (Pirate Life and Young Henrys).
And equally thankfully, on the pub front, even before the options started to expand, Adelaide's beer lovers – and its beer-fancying visitors – have long had The Wheaty, the pub that sits in the unassuming suburb of Thebarton offering salvation and inspiration to all-comers and which is regarded by many a beer expert as the finest beer bar in the land.
Now well into its second decade under the stewardship of Jade Flavell, Emily Trott and Liz O'Dea, it offers up an irresistible mix of amazing beers in bottle and on tap, hugely welcoming and knowledgeable staff, excellent wines and rare spirits, live music and comedy, food trucks and, as of 2014, its own brewery on which the ladies and collaborators from all over the world brew under the Wheaty Brewing Corps banner.
They also host SA's closest thing to a beer week, Good Beer Wheaty, which segues into Melbourne's Good Beer Week and are awesome people to hang out with. All of which means it was a rather easy decision to invite them to become the latest in our Craft Beer Heroes*.
Over to Jade (above, hugging her hopback) to reveal all...
How do you fit into the wonderful world that is craft beer in Australia?
JF: Enthusiastically!
Co-owner / Publican of the Wheatsheaf Hotel and Brewer / Chief Propagandist of the Wheaty Brewing Corps.
What drew you to work in beer?
JF: Alaskan Smoked Porter changed my life. I'd been pouring Cooper's behind bars since I was 18 but it was a pint of Smoked Porter in San Francisco over 15 years ago that opened my eyes to how complex, characterful and delicious beer could be; my obsession with good beer was born.
So when we (co-publicans Emily Trott, Liz O'Dea and myself) bought The Wheaty 12 years ago there was never any doubt that craft beer would be a focal point of the pub as the opportunity to explore and develop craft beer and culture was a major driver in us having our own pub in the first place.
How long have you been promoting beer in your own particular way?
JF: Since 2003. Our aim with The Wheaty was to create the kind of pub we'd like to drink in and hope that enough other people would like to drink there too. And they did.
Our 'point of difference' has been the result of us pursuing our love of craft beer – rather than the other way round. We're also partial to good wine, odd whisk(e)y and original live music, which gives us ample opportunity to 'ambush' punters who may have come to the pub for 'other reasons' with good beer they didn't see coming…
What was the first ever job you had in the beer world?
JF: There wasn't much of a beer world in Adelaide 12 years ago, so we decided to make our own. When we first opened it was a struggle to find good craft beer (with several notable exceptions) but now we're spoilt for choice when it comes to excellent quality, be it local, interstate or imported.
Likewise, craft beer culture has come along in leaps and bounds; early days we often had to drag punters kicking and screaming in to the world of good beer, now punters are keeping us on our toes regarding new / limited releases. Fancy by Fancy [the special glasses they offer their best brews in] we've created a monster, and punters now expect to be able to enjoy a Fancy of world class beer every time they visit the pub. And that warms the cockles of my heart…
As Wayne Coyne, of The Flaming Lips, once pondered: "Why does it matter?"
JF: Because flavour, quality, character and community matter. Because life's too short to be careless. And because I've got a habit to maintain.
What's been your proudest / happiest moment as a craft beer advocate?
JF: Seeing a customer experience their 'light bulb' beer moment gives me a buzz every time.
Opening our onsite brewery and being able to brew whatever, however and whenever we want – and being lucky enough to collaborate with some of our own Craft Beer Heroes whose beers we've poured over the years rates pretty damn highly too.
Describe your craft beer utopia.
JF: A world in which craft beer is all beer and that beer is well made, characterful, delicious & ubiquitous. In which there's a good brewery on every other corner. Where big enough is big enough and the primary focus is on getting better rather than getting bigger. A world of kegs, cans, cold supply chains and cold storage. And a camaraderie that we never grow out of…
Water, malt, hops or yeast?
JF: Bugs. And Hops. But not at the same time.
If you had one minute in which to convert someone to craft beer, how would you spend it?
JF: Horses for courses: have a chat, find out what drinks / foods / flavours they like / dislike / are interested in; wax lyrical about the depth and breadth of beer styles and flavours; give them some beers to try (with flavours / characters they do and don't 'like') and throw in an appropriate analogy or two ('Loaf of white bread vs sour dough' etc). And do it all quickly.
And if you had three beers with which to convert someone, what would they be?
JF: Depends (see above).
Contrasting beers can work a treat; a beer similar to something (beer or otherwise) they like, one the polar opposite, and one wildcard punt – all top notch examples of the style.
In my experience it's not a 'one size fits all' thing; some people who 'don't drink beer' are left unmoved by gateway beers yet light up at the first sip of Russian Imperial Stout. There aren't many people who have a genuine love for and interest in flavor who don't like beer; they just haven't met the right beer yet. It's our job to help introduce them…
Thanks, Jade. Been too long since we called in; must rectify that...
You can check out our past Craft Beer Heroes articles: Miro and Corey Crooks. And look out for more throughout the year. Cheers!
*It looks like Emily and Liz have done a marvellous job of staying off camera for the past 12 years so Jade will have to star for all three!
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Craft Beer Heroes: Newstead, The Mill & Brewski At 5
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Craft Beer Heroes: Clodagh Harris
As The Fox Hotel in Collingwood prepares to host its tenth birthday bash, we caught up with one of its three founders. Clodagh Harris has been working in and around beer in Melbourne for two decades, educating and inspiring many others along the way. read on
Vale On Top At Adelaide Awards
Vale Brewing claimed Champion Large Brewery and Most Outstanding Beer In Show for their Fox Hat Phat Mongrel at the 2021 Royal Adelaide Beer and Cider Awards, which saw a large number of awards go to darker beers. read on


St Stephen's has always been known for its high musical standards.
it has continued to draw people into St Stephens. Throughout the year the church uses a variety of music, from early to contemporary to jazz.


What Will the Federal Reserve's Meeting Records Reveal?
Yesterday the world's financial markets closed mixed. In Europe, the FTSE 100 grew 1.88 percent to 6,961.77 points, the DAX gained 1.3 percent going up to 12,123.52 points, and the CAC 40 advanced 1.52 percent up to 5,151.19 points.
In Russia, the MICEX index fell 0.29 percent to 1,695.64 points while the RTS index added 0.02 percent reaching 971.24 points.
US equity posted a slight drop – the Dow Jones fell 0.03 percent to 17,875.42 points, the S&P 500 shed 0.21 percent down to 2,076.33 points, and the NASDAQ – 0.14 percent down to 4,910.23 points.
The NYMEX price of WTI oil futures for May rose by $1.84 and made $53.98 a barrel. The price of Brent oil futures for May delivery on London's ICE went up by $0.98 and reached $59.10 a barrel.
On the Forex market, EUR/USD displayed insignificant changes. Today, the Federal Reserve will publish its meeting records from 17-18 March. They may shed light on when the key interest rate will be raised, and the pair could react to the release of the meeting notes.


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We picked the best open-ended endings in the history of movies — OR DID WE?!?
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Ranking the Best Movie Animals of 2018
We ranked the best critters of the year, including dogs, cats, bears, and at least nightmare bear thing.


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La Sénégambie est, historiquement, une aire géographique correspondant approximativement aux bassins des fleuves Sénégal et Gambie. Il est important de noter qu'à l'origine l'espace dit « Sénégambie » diffère de la simple réunion du Sénégal et de la Gambie.

Préhistoire

L'étude du Néolithique sénégambien montre que la région est loin d'être entièrement prospectée, mais il est permis de remarquer que le Néolithique s'est épanoui avec bonheur à travers les  vestiges recueillis : industrie lithique, osseuse, poterie, œuvres d'art, etc. qui témoignent d'activités variées. Les haches de la carrière Diakité, fabriquées à partir d'une matière première en  provenance de la bordure orientale du Sénégal, seraient le témoignage d'une mobilité humaine sur une distance d'environ 600 km, au cours du Néolithique sénégambien.

La culture matérielle de la zone se retrouve dans l'ouest africain saharo-soudanais qui présentait des conditions écologiques et bioclimatiques favorables à l'épanouissement de cultures sédentaires. Par ailleurs, les représentants des  Néolithiques sénégambiens nous sont connus à travers un spécimen unique découvert à Khant, un amas en voie de disparition du fait de sa transformation en une carrière. Par ailleurs, l'insuffisance des fouilles archéologiques, combinée à la nature des stations qui sont de plein air, explique les lacunes constatées, lesquelles ne cessent d'empirer. Si des problèmes chronologiques et d'affinités des faciès néolithiques n'ont pas été véritablement résolus (il est possible de nommer les cultures sur la base des styles céramiques), d'autres menaces se sont manifestées, du  fait des impératifs économiques et de la pression anthropique. Ainsi, l'immense majorité des sites préhistoriques (un important  patrimoine) sont  perdus ou en voie de l'être : Kounoune, Patte-d'Oie sont entièrement urbanisés, Cap Manuel, etc.
Ce dernier, site classé au titre de la loi de 1971, est en sursis du fait d'un projet de construction d'un hôtel. L'archéologie préventive s'impose avant qu'il ne soit trop tard.

Postérité
Le toponyme est repris en 1982 pour désigner la Confédération de Sénégambie qui associe les deux pays pendant quelques années. Officialisée le , elle est dissoute le  par le Sénégal, lorsque la Gambie refuse de renforcer l'union

Ismaël Lô a sorti une chanson du nom de Sénégambie dans son album Iso.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Cercles mégalithiques de Sénégambie
 Histoire du Sénégal
 Histoire de la Gambie
 Fattatenda

Bibliographie

Liens externes
 Bibliographie très complète sur la Sénégambie (Charles Becker et Mamadou Diouf, Université Cheikh-Anta-Diop, 39)

Histoire du Sénégal
Histoire de la Gambie


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Lawrence Grant Twitchell (February 18, 1864 – April 23, 1930) was a professional baseball player from 1886 to 1896.  He played nine seasons in Major League Baseball, primarily as an outfielder but occasionally as a pitcher, with seven different major league clubs. His best seasons were spent with the Detroit Wolverines from 1886 to 1888, the Cleveland Spiders in 1889, and the Louisville Colonels from 1893 to 1894.

Known for his strong throwing arm, Twitchell once reportedly threw a baseball 407 feet, further than any other 19th century player. He also served as the manager of the Milwaukee Brewers during the 1895 and 1896 seasons.

Early years
Twitchell was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1864.  He first built his reputation as a baseball player while playing for the Oberlin College team.

Professional baseball career

Detroit Wolverines
Twitchell's major league career began inauspiciously in 1886 as a pitcher for the Detroit Wolverines. He was the starting pitcher in four games, threw two complete games, and compiled an 0–2 record with a 6.48 earned run average (ERA).  He had one hit and two strikeouts in 16 at bats for a .063 batting average.

In 1887, Twitchell spent his first full major league season with the 1887 Detroit team that won the National League pennant and defeated the St. Louis Browns in the 1887 World Series.  Twitchell continued to pitch for Detroit in 1887 and also appeared in 53 games as an outfielder, mostly in center field.  As a pitcher, he compiled the best winning percentage (.917) on the championship team with an 11–1 record.  He appeared in 15 games as a pitcher, 12 as a starter, pitched 11 complete games, and had a 4.33 ERA.  Twitchell also proved valuable as a batter with a .333 batting average, six triples, 51 RBIs and 12 stolen bases.  Twitchell also hit well in the World Series where he hit a home run and scored five runs.

In 1888, Twitchell completed his evolution from pitcher to outfielder.  He appeared in 131 games in Detroit's outfield and pitched only four innings in relief.  However, his batting average dropped by 90 points from .333 in 1887 to .244 in 1888.  He also contributed 19 doubles, four triples, five home runs, 67 RBIs and 14 stolen bases.  After winning the pennant in 1887, the 1888 team finished in fifth place with a 68–63 record.  With high salaries owed to the team's star players, and gate receipts declining markedly, the team folded in October 1888 season with the players being sold to other teams.  Twitchell was sold in December 1888 to the Cleveland Spiders along with Ed Beatin, Henry Gruber and Sy Sutcliffe.

Twitchell was known for his strong throwing arm, contributing to his success as both a pitcher and an outfielder.  One newspaper account published in 1905 states that he held the unofficial record for the longest throw of a baseball at 407 feet, two feet further than Ed Crane's official record of 405 feet.

Cleveland Spiders
Twitchell appeared in a career high 134 games as an outfielder for the Cleveland Spiders in 1889.  He compiled a .275 batting average with 16 doubles, 11 triples, four home runs, 95 RBIs and 17 stolen bases.  He ranked eighth in the National League in both triples and RBIs.  The high point of his career came on August 15, 1889, when he hit for the cycle, getting six hits and 16 total bases (a home run, three triples, a double and a single) in six at bats off Mike Madden of the Boston Beaneaters.  Twitchell also turned a double play from the outfield and scored five runs in the game, as Cleveland beat Boston by a 19–8 score.

Players' League
In 1890, Twitchell jumped to the new Players' League where he started the season with the Cleveland Infants and finished it with the Buffalo Bisons. In mid-July, the Infants sold him to the Bisons.  In a total of 100 Players' League games, he compiled a .222 batting average with four home runs and 53 RBIs.  Twitchell also returned to pitching in a significant way in 1890. He pitched in 13 games for the Bisons, threw 12 complete games, and compiled a 5–7 record with a 4.57 ERA.

Columbus and Washington
Twitchell began the 1891 season in the minor leagues with Omaha of the Western Association, compiling a .264 average with eight triples in 66 games.  On July 20, 1891, he signed with the Columbus Solons of the American Association.  In 57 games for Columbus, Twitchell hit .277 with four triples, two home runs, 35 RBIs, and 10 stolen bases.

In 1892, Twitchell returned to the National League with the Washington Senators.  He appeared in 51 games for the Senators, compiling a disappointing .218 batting average with five triples and 20 RBIs.  Twitchell also spent part of the 1892 season in the minor leagues playing for the Milwaukee Brewers and Indianapolis Hoosiers of the Western League .

Louisville

In 1893, Twitchell staged a brief comeback, having one of the best seasons of his career with the Louisville Colonels of the National League.  He compiled a .310 batting average and .377 on-base percentage and, in 45 games, contributed 11 doubles, three triples, two home runs, 31 RBIs and seven stolen bases.  Applying sabermetrics to his 1893 season, his Offensive Wins Above Replacement rating was the tied with the 1887 season for the highest of his career.

Twitchell concluded his major league career with Louisville in 1894. He compiled a .267 batting average in 52 games and appeared in his last major league game on July 7, 1894.

Milwaukee Brewers
After his major league career had ended, Twitchell continued playing in the minor leagues.  He appeared in 185 games for the Milwaukee Brewers of the Western League during the 1894 and 1895 seasons.  He also served as a player/manager for the Brewers in 1895 and 1896.

Later years
After retiring from baseball, Twitchell worked as a commercial salesman in Ohio.  On July 21, 1921, Twitchell played in the outfield for an old-timers team in a game against veteran sandlot players to celebrate Cleveland's 125th anniversary as a city.  Cy Young and Chief Zimmer made up the battery, and Hall of Famers Nap Lajoie and Elmer Flick also played.

Twitchell died in Cleveland in 1930. He was buried in Lakewood Park Cemetery in Rocky River, Ohio.

See also
 List of Major League Baseball single-game hits leaders
 List of Major League Baseball players to hit for the cycle

References

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1930 deaths
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Cleveland Spiders players
Cleveland Infants players
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Columbus Solons players
Washington Senators (1891–1899) players
Louisville Colonels players
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Kitchen Project #47: Festive kugelhopf
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Pannetone who? Plus in defence of bread = cake
Nicola Lamb
Welcome to today's edition of Kitchen Projects. It's so great to have you here.
Today, we are getting in the sprit and will be blurring the lines between cake and bread with a beautiful festive kugelhopf.
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For the love of festive breads (or should that be cakes?)
I'm on a bit of a yeast kick at the moment. There's something about the cold days and long nights that make me want to get cosy and lovingly tend to a bread over the course of an evening or afternoon.
In the UK, I feel like we have a pretty strict delineation between cake and bread. Even the softest brioche, which has much more in common with a victoria sponge than a bread roll, is likely categorised in the latter. We prefer to think of things like doughnuts and iced buns as bread before we think of them as cake. Yeasted cakes feel, or at least they did to me, a bit.. Er… 18th century?
But that's not because we are ahead of Europe in our thinking, it's because we are waaaay behind.
Think of that famous mistranslation - Marie Antoinette's "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche !" is quoted as "let them eat cake", which supports the whole bread CAN be cake, if we could be a bit more open minded. Weirdly, we are comfortable calling banana bread 'bread', even though it is without a doubt a cake. And what of teacakes? By either description - be it a raisin studded bun or a chocolate covered marshmallow atop a biscuit - is ambiguous but also definitely NOT a cake by any stretch of the imagination.
The defining characteristic of a bread, which I think we struggle to get our head around when it comes to cake, is that it must contain yeast. We're comfortable with using chemical reactions of baking powder, or baking soda, or aeration via creaming or egg foams to leaven cakes, but for some reason yeast leaves us scratching our heads.
I think yeast has an unfair reputation for being difficult, but in reality it is doing exactly the same as your baking powder or soda. Instead of reacting with an acid to create CO2, the yeast reacts (eats) sugars and ferments which has the by-product CO2. Same, same! Mainstream baking powder was not introduced until the mid 1800s, so it's no surprise many of the breads we know and love should really be considered OG cakes.
Meet the yeast cakes
There are a lot of yeasted cakes out there: Pannetone, which originated in the 1500s, was considered a luxury cake, it's close-crumbed sister Pandoro, along with Marie's aforementioned brioche. Kugelhopf, which originated in Austria, is a crown shaped sweet dough. Babka, simply named 'yeast cake' at Daniels in Fortune Green, has a divine cakey-ness about it and the beautiful 'Gateau Battu' from Picardy - literally the 'beaten cake' - is yeast based and firmly in the cake category.
I like to think of today's recipe as 'forgiveable fusion' - we are marrying the technique of gateau battu, with its highly yeasted formulation, with the strategy of pannetone, resulting in the texture of fluffy pandoro, all baked in a kugelhopf tin. This bread pushes the limit of what bread is and really blurs the line between a cake and a loaf - the juicy raisins combined with the chunks of white chocolate are really a delight to eat.
That kugelhopf shape & alternative tins
I'm always looking for ways to use my bundt tin. Although baking a cake in it is lovely, you can get a gorgeous panna cotta from it and today we'll be using it to make a take on kugelhopf.
Kugelhopf is a pannetone adjacent bread. Although kugelhopf is baked all year round, there is something festive about it - a twirly crown of bread, fit for any centrepiece. Much like a bundt cake, I'm not entirely sure whether kugelhopf refers to a shape as much as it refers to a particular formulation, but I have a beautiful recipe for you today.
I've included links to the tins that I use in the recipe. If you don't have a bundt or kugelhopf mould (understandable) then you could bake this in a regular cake tin. I would use a 6/7inch tin lined with tall greaseproof paper.
Let's talk pannetone real quick
Pannetone is considered a bit of a unicorn - the mention of the words 'pannetone season' strike both fear and joy amongst bakers.
Naturally fermented, these are challenging breads to perfect. Even a rigorous twice-daily (at least) starter feeding schedule - which must be started well in advance of the actual baking of the things - may not guarantee results: The reason why pannetone is seen as such a feat of bread engineering, especially when it is naturally leavened, is the sheer amount of fat and sugar in it, combined with the careful balancing act required to build significant gluten, as well as managing the yeasts so they don't get overwhelmed before the final performance (the bake, of course). The most outrageous pannetones - those with huge holes/gappy crumbs - have been pushed to the limit. You've probably seen it, but pannetones are so rich and fragile that they need to be cooled upside down so as not to immediately collapse. Dramatic or what?
Although I only have a few recipes to compare, the common features are extremely high protein bread flour, high levels of egg yolks (at least eight per pannetone!), an 80%-90% hydration level, handsome quantities of butter plus plenty of fillings. It's no surprise really that the poor thing can't hold itself up.
The dough low down
Because I wanted to help you create a festive loaf to give pannetone a run for its money, this thing is gloriously rich. We are packing it full of 50% fat, 40% sugar and coming in at almost 85% hydration. It is surprisingly easy to mix thanks to the technique I've borrowed from pannetone making: The two stage mix.
The two stage mix allows us to do several things. Firstly you are limiting the amount of sugar that the yeast is exposed to - as we know, sugar is good for yeast, but not too much of it. Too much sugar can have the effect of damaging yeast. On one hand, the sugar can be too much competition for the yeast as it can absorb too much of the available water, making fermentation sluggish. As well as this, too much sugar can make yeast overactive and produce too much excess alcohol as a byproduct of fermentation, which in turn makes the dough inhabitable and so 'kills' the yeast. Dramatic, right?
As well as this, the two stage mix allows us to develop significant gluten. When it comes to enriched doughs, almost everything gets in the way of gluten development. Fats (that's eggs and butter) have the effect of coating flour in butter, which prevents gluten development.
Let's look at it a bit closer by looking at the breakdown of each dough stage in bakers percentages so we can see what is going on:
Dough, stage 1:
The hydration of the first dough is a very manageable 55%. This means the dough comes together very easily. The sugar is also within the 'normal' realms of an enriched dough at just 13%.
The fat is at a relatively low 18% which means it won't get in the way of gluten development. Adding some of the butter in the first stage means we can add more later without the risks associated. If we were to add all the butter at once - a huge 70%! - there's a chance we could destabilise the dough too much.
Because of the increased sugar, fat and stress on the dough, we are doubling the standard amount of yeast (1.5% - 2%) in this recipe to 4.5% and we'll be using a preferment. Although this both contribute to the lift of the dough, they have slightly different roles - the preferment is for flavour and the yeast is for power! I've taken inspiration from Gateau Battu recipes for this formulation.
At this stage, we add egg for flavour, fat and additional moisture, the second lot of sugar, the salt (which had been held back so as not to interfere with fermentation) as well as the majority of the butter.
Although mixing this dough in one go would be possible, more things can go wrong. The large portion of sugar could easily play havoc with the yeasts and the high proportion of butter would affect gluten development. If you were to mix this all in one go, I think it might take almost 30-40 minutes of mixing on a high speed to come together which would almost certainly be the death of my KitchenAid. So this, to me, is the best of both worlds.
When you have finished mixing this dough, it will likely appear like no dough you've ever made before - it'll be stringy, extremely stretchy and shiny and almost more liquid than solid - it can be quite surprising.
The power of pre-ferments
I know pre-ferments sound ultra sciency and scary, but I promise they're not. They are low effort and high reward, especially this one. When I was thinking about how to create an airy light dough, I immediately thought about the Neapolitan pizza dough I like to make - it is powered by biga, a stiff pre-ferment. Today's preferment is the same one that I use for Pizza dough. It's dry and ugly and won't look like much, but it really helps this dough out.
We've discussed this before, but making a pre-ferment is like giving your dough a kickstart and allows you to build layers of flavour and complexity: the pre-ferment goes into the dough, the dough rises, the dough is shaped, and the dough is risen again before baking.
The cocoa first stage dough inc pre-ferment after first rise in action
With the pre-ferment, we've been able to sneak in extra hours of flavour building, creating new dimensions of dough-zen, without the worry of over-fermenting that leads to the potential issue of dough structure breakdown. As well as this, you're also getting to put in a big helping of well-developed gluten. Since gluten develops on its own, you'll be cutting down on the overall mixing time by including a portion of already developed dough.
Could you make this dough without the preferment? Yes. You could. I would increase the yeast very slightly (which I'll put details of below) and accept that I will not get quite as much flavour.
Even though our tins will be doing most of the work, shaping is still important.
Shaping is an important part of the bread making process because it creates tension in the dough that helps define the final structure. When you're working with a lower hydration dough, shaping is great, it can even be fun. But when things have a high hydration, it can be a chore and a half.
I tried to shape this dough in a few ways but it was pretty infuriating. From rolling it in a sausage and laying it in the pan, to balling it into a round then making a doughnut-esque hole in the middle, I tried it all. But in the end, I found this SO sticky that the easiest thing to do is pour it into the tin and pull it into shape. Not glamorous, but it works.
The other option is to put your dough into the fridge and let it chill. This will allow the butter to solidify/harden which makes it easier to work with.
Alright, let's make it.
White chocolate, raisin and orange kugelhopf
Want to make a ganache-infused chocolate version? Check out the recipe here.
For details on how to make the candied peel strips, click here.
1 x 7inch kugelhopf (this is the one I have)
For the preferment - 24-48 hours before
40g flour
1g dry yeast
If you are not using the preferment, increase the yeast to 8g
Dough, first stage
180g strong white bread flour
40g pre-ferment from above
Dough, second stage
50g egg
90g v soft butter
75g white chocolate, chopped into 0.5cm pieces
75g raisins, soaked in hot water before using
4g orange zest (approx 1 navel orange)
60g preferment
12g dry yeast
70g egg (sorry, x1.5!)
130g v. soft butter
100g white chocolate, chopped
100g raisins
8g orange zest
Method - preferment
Mix yeast with flour then add the water and stir in a bowl. It'll be dry and look very unappetising. This means you've made it correctly. Do your best to get all the dry bits involved but don't worry too much. It is meant to be rough.
Seal in an airtight tub and put in the fridge for 12-48 hours
This is how it will look. UGLY. But look at the fermentation / gluten!
Method - first dough
Put all the ingredients for the first dough in the bowl of a KitchenAid fitted with a dough hook
Mix on a medium-high speed until the dough comes together - it should be squishy, soft and well developed. It should take about 5-6 minutes
Place the dough into a container then cover with clingfilm
Put aside, somewhere warm if you can, for 1 hour. It should triple in size
Method - second dough
Place the fermented dough into the KitchenAid bowl
Stir with the dough hook then increase speed and add the egg slowly, followed by the sugar. Increase speed to medium
The dough will split apart at first but it will come back together. Once it is pulling away from the sides of the bowl, it's time to add the butter
Add the butter piece by piece. The dough will be extremely slack and extensible by the time you are finished. Don't be concerned!
Next add in the orange zest, white chocolate and soaked raisins and use the dough hook on a slow speed to incorporate - you may need to scrape down the bowl and re-incorporate
Butter the bundt/kugelhopf tin
Pour the dough into the pan as evenly as possible then spread out using your hands. Having greased hands helps. This doesn't seem very glamorous but it works!
To neaten it, pull the edges of the dough up into the centre to create a bit of surface tension
You can also shape it by pouring dough onto a floured surface then preshaping it then creating a hole in the middle, like this. It is really hard to work with though, so you've been warned!:
Pre-heat oven to 175c fan
Cover and leave for 45 mins - 1 hour. The dough will be extremely puffy and it will have doubled in size
Bake for 30 minutes. You can check internal temp has reached 93c if you want to be sure it is done
Leave to cool in the tin. It may deflate slightly, but don't worry
Finish with a dusting of icing sugar and candied orange peel, if desired. Store in an airtight container
Nicola, is there supposed to be more sugar added in the second stage of the dough? The text of this post suggests that the sugar should total 40%, but 70 g of sugar is something like 26% of the flour weight. I made the kugelhopf as written yesterday but did wonder afterwards whether there was supposed to be more sugar in the dough. It was lovely but did seem more breakfast-y than dessert-y.
Dec 2, 2021Liked by Nicola Lamb
Hello - Could I use some of my sourdough starter in place of the preferment, because I want to make it today but I don't want to lose the flavour of the preferment. I Keep my starter quite stiff so I wouldn't be adding too much extra water, if that helps? Thank you
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Please stay socially distant this Thanksgiving
It's what we have to do.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo on Tuesday urged residents to limit Thanksgiving gatherings to immediate family to limit the spread of COVID-19.
The county will send an emergency cell phone alert to all residents urging them to get tested for the virus, regardless of whether they have symptoms, as uncontrolled community spread has driven up new case and hospitalization numbers to a point higher than before Labor Day. Hidalgo and health officials fear a sustained surge like the one in June and July, which pushed Houston-area hospitals beyond their base ICU capacity.
"We reopened too soon," Hidalgo said. "We've seen every indicator move in the wrong direction."
Hidalgo's requests is voluntary, since Gov. Greg Abbott in April stripped local officials of the ability to issue their own COVID-related restrictions. The governor rebuffed Hidalgo's request in June for a new stay-at-home order; she warned during her annual State of the County remarks last week that new restrictions may be needed to combat this most recent wave of infections.
Before we get to the very well-known reasons why we should not be gathering in large quantities in our homes, let's take a moment to consider this.
An estimated one out of every six Texans — roughly 4.75 million people — has contracted COVID-19, according to a recent statistical analysis by the University of Texas at Austin COVID-19 Modeling Consortium. The analysis estimates that the virus is spreading rapidly and so far has infected more than 16 percent of people in Texas, far more than the state's tally.
"The speed at which things can get out of hand is a lot quicker than people expected," said Spencer Fox, associate director of the consortium.
The consortium's statistical modeling uses cell phone data to measure mobility and state hospitalization levels to determine where the virus is spreading and how many people have been infected. It is not a perfect predictor of the virus' spread, Fox cautioned, but it dovetails with state estimates.
The researchers' approximation of 4.75 million cases is "generally in the ballpark" of what state health officials believe is the true number of infections, said Chris Van Deusen, a spokesman for the Texas Department of State Health Services, which publishes the state's official COVID-19 infection figures.
"It varies by condition, but we know and expect that all kinds of diseases are underreported," Van Deusen said in an email.
In the Houston region, the UT consortium's projections have worsened recently because of the growing number of new infections and hospitalizations. There's a 76 percent chance the pandemic is growing here, according to the latest modeling, up from 47 percent on Friday. More than 1 million people — about 16 percent of Houston-area residents — have been infected with COVID-19, the UT researchers estimated.
The consortium estimated in October that there was at least an 80 percent chance the pandemic was growing in El Paso. That proved to be true. Cases and hospitalizations rose in that border city throughout late October and early November, overwhelming the local health care system. The model estimates that one in every three El Paso residents has contracted the virus since the start of the pandemic.
The modeling also shows the potential danger of letting the virus run rampant to establish herd immunity — a strategy that some critics of lockdowns say is worth trying.
In order for herd immunity to work before a vaccine is ready, roughly 60 percent of the population would have to be infected, or more than 17 million people, Fox said. Given the demand on hospitals in Texas now, with an estimated 16 percent of the population infected or recovered, the health care system would be overwhelmed if the coronavirus was allowed to spread unchecked.
"You can just think about what that would look like," he said.
So there's an excellent chance that someone at your Thanksgiving dinner has, or has had, COVID-19. If they are sick, they may not know it, which means they're out there spreading it without realizing it. Why would you want to take the chance?
Look, the weather forecast for Thanksgiving is beautiful. If you want to celebrate outdoors, with family or friends in a socially-distant manner while masked when you're not eating, you can reasonably do that. But don't be part of the problem, and especially don't be an asshole. Let's all try to live long enough to be able to get vaccinated for this thing. The Trib has more.
Even the White House thinks Texas sucks at COVID response
Greg Abbott has no interest in fighting COVID
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Biblical Seductions
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In addition to writing The Queen and The Spymaster and Biblical Seductions, Sandra E. Rapoport has coauthored two other books that blend Bible text with Midrash to tell the stories of the Bible's women. As a practicing attorney, Sandra specialized in litigating sexual harassment cases, and wrote numerous articles and ran workshops on preventing sexual harassment in the workplace. She also has written for law reviews and for Commentary on the issues of international law and terrorism, and consults to an auction house specializing in rare Hebrew books and manuscripts. Sandra completed Biblical Seductions while a Resident Scholar at Harvard University. In addition to teaching a lecture series and seminars while at Harvard, Sandra has taught on the faculties of the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, the Manhattan JCC, Project Identity, and the Yeshiva University Women's Organization. Her recent articles have appeared in The Jewish Week, the AMIT Journal, and JOFA Journal. Sandra continues to lecture, write, and teach classes on Bible subjects, and lives with her husband Sam in Manhattan.


Mаnу dog оwnеrѕ would lоvе to let thеіr dоgѕ run off lеаѕh of only thеу соuld gеt them to соmе on соmmаnd. I have friends who own Jасk Ruѕѕеll Terriers and have walked a few in my time (another profession). They are often known to be ѕwееt but ѕtubbоrn. They often comes when called, but other times are too interested in tracking to pay any attention. Thаt mеаnѕ I can't let hіm оff them off lеаѕh bесаuѕе I'm аfrаіd he'll run оff аnd nоt come when called.
Thаt mаkеѕ any dog a рrіѕоnеr of hіѕ lеаѕh! I dесіdеd tо delve into thе mаttеr bу fіndіng оut why a dog dоеѕn't соmе when called, and mоrе importantly, hоw tо get hіm tо соmе оn command so thаt I саn fееl аt еаѕе knоwіng he will come whеn I саll.
Tір #1 – All dоgѕ nееd еxеrсіѕе. But ѕоmе breeds nееd more еxеrсіѕе than оthеrѕ. Onе of thе mаіn reasons why уоur dоg wоn't come whеn саllеd is because he wаntѕ tо run around аnd рlау. It'ѕ hіѕ fоrm оf еxеrсіѕе. If уоu keep your dog соореd uр in thе house аll dау аnd оnlу wаlk him around thе block оnсе оr twісе, hе'ѕ gоіng to hаvе pent-up еnеrgу. When you саll, hе won't listen bесаuѕе hе knоwѕ hіѕ tіmе tо be outside and рlау іѕ lіmіtеd.
Thіnk оf your breed and whаt hе'ѕ bred fоr. Thіѕ wіll gіvе уоu a сluе аѕ tо hоw muсh еxеrсіѕе he needs. Fоr іnѕtаnсе, mу dog іѕ a Jack Ruѕѕеll Tеrrіеr. JRTѕ аrе brеd to wоrk аnd hunt. So I mаkе sure Jack gоеѕ tо thе dоg run for аt lеаѕt 45 mіnutеѕ tо аn hour in thе morning where he саn wrestle аnd play wіth the оthеr dоgѕ. In the еvеnіng, I tаkе him оut again tо thе dog run fоr аn hour ѕо hе саn рlау ѕоmе mоrе.
Tip #2 – When trаіnіng a dоg to come оn соmmаnd, mаkе sure when hе comes, уоu give рrаіѕе hіm. If уоu рunіѕh hіm fоr nоt coming, hе wіll associate соmіng to you wіth рunіѕhmеnt аnd tоtаllу avoid you.
Tip #3 – Whеn уоu tаkе your dоg tо thе park, make sure durіng play time уоu call уоur dog over to уоu. Give hіm a treat or реt hіm then ѕеnd him bасk tо play аgаіn. Whу? If you only саll уоur dоg whеn іt'ѕ tіmе tо gо, hе'll associate уоu'rе саllіng hіm wіth mеаnіng, "thе fun іѕ over" and won't соmе. Tо іntеrасt wіth him durіng play tіmе.
Tір #4 – Tеасh уоur dоg to come whеn саllеd іdеаllу whеn you gеt hіm аѕ a рuрру. Thе lоngеr you wаіt tо trаіn him tо come, thе harder іt wіll bе.
Tір #5 – If уоu'rе not ѕurе if уоur dog wіll соmе оr not, dоn't tаkе a сhаnсе. Kеер him on hіѕ lеаѕh. Sоmеtіmеѕ a dоg саn run bу, or a jogger mу ѕрrіnt раѕt уоu just whеn уоu tаkе hіm оff the lеаѕh.
In соnсluѕіоn, trу anticipating when уоur dоg іѕ lіkеlу tо соmе аnd when he's not. Mаkе sure whеn hе does come, you grаb his collar first so that hе dоеѕn't get аwау. Thеn, оf course, reward him.


They've figured out that animals have super senses that humans don't have, and elephants can feel the vibrations of the rainstorm with their feet! They used water waves to figure out how the vibrational waves travel through the ground and how sound waves travel through the air. They learned how to describe a wave using the words amplitude and wavelength, then figured out how the waves travel through the ground to the elephant!


Pol J Vet Sci 2014;17:149-159.
The presence of tumor within the serosal cavities, often connected with accumulation of serosal effusion, is a quite common problem in the small animal veterinary medicine. The first step in diagnosis of such cases is cytopathological examination. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the usefulness of cytology and immunocytochemistry, using commercially available antibodies (anti-cytokeratin, anti-vimentin, and anti-desmin), in differential diagnosis of malignant tumors located within serosal cavities in dogs. The final cytological diagnosis of carcinoma/adenocarcinoma, sarcoma, and mesothelioma was obtained on the basis of routine cytopathology and immunocytochemistry, and then confirmed by histopathology and immunohistochemistry. Cytoplasmic immunoreactivitiy of normal mesothelid cells and cytoplasmic immunoreactivity of hyperplastic mesothelial cells revealed constant and strong expression of all examined intermediate filaments: cytokeratin, vimentin and desmin. Application of routine cytopathology and immunocytochemistry allowed 32 neoplastic tumors to be detected: 19 cases of carcinomas/adenocarcinomas, 6 cases of sarcomas, 7 cases of mesotheliomas. Immunostaining of cytopathological samples with chosen set of antibodies: anti-cytokeratin, anti-vimentin, anti-desmin is a useful, and low invasive test for differentiation between mesotheliomas and carcinomas/adenocarcinomas in dogs.


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Q: How to precompile a file after filtering? I am building a .war file which contains a .jsp file. In the .jsp, there is some maven property variables, thus I need to filter it by using maven war plugin.
Besides that, I would like to precompile it, using mojo jspc plugin, and pack the .class file into the war file.
However, the filtered file is not compiled. The result war file consists the filtered .jsp file and the non filtered .class file.
How should I configure the pom.xml in order to compile the filtered .jsp?
My pom file is shown below:
  <build>
<finalName>${Component}</finalName>
<resources>
    <resource>
        <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
    </resource>
</resources>
<plugins>
  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
      <archiveClasses>true</archiveClasses>
      <attachClasses>true</attachClasses>
      <packagingExcludes>**/*.vpp,WEB-INF/web.xml,**/eclipselink.jar,**/coherence.jar,**  /toplink-grid.jar</packagingExcludes>
      <outputFileNameMapping>@{artifactId}@.@{extension}@</outputFileNameMapping>
      <webResources>
        <resource>
          <directory>src/main/webapp/verification</directory>
          <targetPath>verification</targetPath>
          <filtering>true</filtering>
        </resource>
      </webResources>
      <executions>
          <execution>
              <phase>process-resources</phase>
          </execution>
      </executions>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>

  <!-- start jspc -->

  <plugin>
     <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
     <artifactId>jspc-maven-plugin</artifactId>
     <executions>
         <execution>
             <id>jspc</id>
             <goals>
                 <goal>compile</goal>
             </goals>
              <phase>compile</phase>
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The JSP file is stored in src/main/webapp/verification

A: It is very probable that the plugins execute in the wrong order. Most plugins allow to change the phase they bind to, by adding e.g. <phase>generate-resources</phase>.  You need to explicitly bind the plugins to phases in such way to execute the filtering first. Phases are documented here. Choose the appropriate ones to bind to.
Btw, filtering JSPs directly is a pretty bad practice. Instead, generate a .properties file (filter it, or generate dynamically) and load it to Servlet context, so it's available to all JSPs. If you using Spring, this is a breeze. Example below (runtime.properties is the filtered/generated file):
<bean class="org.springframework.web.context.support.ServletContextAttributeExporter">
        <property name="attributes">
            <map>
                <entry key="config">
                    <util:properties location="classpath:runtime.properties"/>
                </entry>
            </map>
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Reconciling traditional livelihoods in Malaysia
By Julia Lawson
Orang Seletar children in Gelang Patah. Picture: Choo Chee Kuang
It's mid-July and I'm sitting in the back seat of a sedan, the air-conditioning roaring to help quell the 45-degree Celsius heat that beats down from the hot Malaysian sun. Outside my widow a shiny new city springs from freshly cleared ground, full of luxury condominiums plastered with 'For Sale' signs and ready for occupancy. This is Iskandar, an entirely new region being built from the ground up by the Malaysian government.
The Iskandar region consists of five development zones around the southernmost city in peninsular Malaysia, Johor Baru. Johor Baru is peninsular Malaysia's 'southern gateway,' only a 30-minute drive from the island city-state of Singapore. While the low prices of goods and services make Johor Baru a favourite shopping destination for Singaporeans looking to score a good deal, the Malaysian government hopes to turn this into a two-way street by providing the solution for Singapore's economic expansion and physical need for land. Malaysia is a country with great aspirations, and rocketing economic growth. By the year 2020 it aims to be classified as a high-income economy (as defined by the World Bank), meaning a per capita gross national income greater than $12,616. This is often considered to be synonymous with joining the ranks of developed, first world countries.
The Malaysian government and the project's ambitious planners bill the Iskandar development as a green city with a compact core that will promote walking and public transit. Its goal is to generate a physical and mental shift in Iskandar Malaysia's population.
As I gaze out of the window of the sedan, the landscape around me is barren, dry and desert-like. We pull into a gas station and I drag myself across the scorching parking lot to buy a bottle of water. While I can't help but question the walkability of a city where temperatures fester in the mid thirties throughout the year, I do appreciate that Iskandar Malaysia is trying to do things right. Yet, no matter how green a city, with a projected population of three million people by 2025, the process of creating Iskandar is not without consequences.
I plunge back into the car and we continue to head south to Gelang Patah, a traditional fishing community that has a large population of Malay indigenous people (Orang Seletar) and is situated on the Pulai River Estuary. The multi-national Ramsar Convention on Wetlands recognized this estuary for its biodiversity by naming it a Wetland of International Importance in 2003. At the base of the estuary lies Malaysia's largest intertidal seagrass meadow, home to estuarine crocodiles, dugongs, and seahorses. I am here to help survey the yellow seahorses (Hippocampus kuda) living in this seagrass meadow. Over the past decade, nearly 800 seahorses have been tagged and monitored in this seagrass meadow, making it one of the most intensively studied seahorse populations in the world.
The best time to survey for seahorses is at dawn, so we leave to survey the seagrass meadow as the scorching Malaysian sun begins to rise. As we speed along the Sungai Pulai towards the Johor Strait, the view is astonishing. I see how tightly sandwiched the seagrass meadow is between two rapidly developing nations, Malaysia to the north and Singapore to the south. The seemingly remote fishing community of Gelang Patah sits only a stone's throw from Singapore. As we get closer to Singapore, we begin to approach a daunting fleet of tankers that sit in the Johor Strait. Stepping onto to the largest seagrass meadow in peninsular Malaysia from our tiny boat seems surreal. The seagrass meadow is only exposed once a month when the tides are low enough for researchers to search for seahorses on foot.
In 2009 the local community began to express their concerns about the significant effect that the Iskandar development plan would have on their community and livelihood. The two primary concerns for the local people of Gelang Patah were the Tanjung Pelepas shipping port and Tanjung Bin Power plant. In order to go ahead, both developments would directly or indirectly remove mangrove forest and seagrass habitats, reducing the amount of space available to the fish and other creatures that the community relies on for food and income. Despite petitions and peaceful protests directed towards the Malaysian government, both projects have gone ahead, and are fully operational.
However, the biggest threat to the livelihoods of the fishers in Gelang Patah may be yet to come. A massive sea filling project is underway in the Johor Strait, the narrow strip of water running between Malaysia and Singapore. The new island will be christened "Forest City," and is the largest sea filling project in Malaysia to date. When complete it will be a luxury home island. The seagrass habitat at the base of the Pulai River Estuary, a critical habitat to the fish that call it home and the fishers of Gelang Patah, will be buried.
So where is the fine balance between the increasingly urbanized population of Malaysia and traditional livelihoods? The green aspirations of Iskandar Malaysia show cautious planning and consideration, but sea filling projects seem to counter the developer's objective to "preserve the biodiversity" of Iskandar Malaysia. The solution requires planners to meet the high standards they have set for themselves. They envision an Iskandar Malaysia that sets a global standard for green cities. With persistence, the success of a sustainable Iskandar Malaysia could indeed serve as a global example for other rapidly developing countries. I propose that Iskandar Malaysia both includes community-based knowledge systems in the development plan for Iskandar Malaysia, and considers the impacts the current development on traditional livelihoods. Supporting its own people through the rapid growth and development of the region should be a priority for the Malaysian government and Iskandar developers.
As our small motorboat pulls back into the jetty at Gelang Patah after a long morning of seahorse surveys, the impacts of the Iskandar development are not immediately apparent. The local children take a small boat across the Pulai River to reach their school, and long-tailed macaques scamper through the trees surrounding the community dock. However, our boatman tells us how catches that sustain the livelihood of the community members are receding. I think about my friends in Gelang Patah today and hope that Iskandar Malaysia will not leave them behind.
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