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Alexander Heights Apartments – Phase II
€512,605 Guide Price
Alexander Heights, Paphos, Cyprus, CY
Property Features
- Stunning views of the Mediterranean Sea
- Close to a wide range of amenities within a gated five-star resort
- Communal Swimming Pool
- Air conditioning / heating
- Total plot area of 250 square metres
Property Summary
Aphrodite Hills Resort is the first ever gated five star, fully integrated golf, leisure and real estate development in Cyprus. The resort is ranked among the top 20 best resorts in the world and has won many awards.
Occupying a scenic and beautiful location, gently sloping towards the Mediterranean Sea, Aphrodite Hills occupies a 234-hectare site between Paphos (15 kilometres to the east) and Limassol (45 kilometres to the west). It sits on either side of the Randi Gorge, overlooking the spot where Aphrodite is said to have risen from the sea. It's a peaceful and relaxing place with so many facilities and amenities, there's never a reason to stray too far.
The resort is in the area called Palaepaphos (Old Paphos) and is near the seaside village of Petra tou Romiou. This is the mythical birthplace of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, and the founding myth is interwoven with the town such that Old Paphos became the most famous and important place for worshiping Aphrodite in the ancient world. In Greco-Roman times, Paphos was the island's capital, and it is well known for the remains of the Roman governor's palace, where extensive, fine mosaics are a major tourist attraction. Paul the Apostle visited the town during the first century AD. The town of Paphos is included in the official UNESCO list of cultural and natural treasures of the world's heritage.
Paphos enjoys a subtropical-Mediterranean climate, with the mildest temperatures on the island. Paphos has been selected as a European Capital of Culture for 2017.
Just a couple of minutes from the resort hotel, there's a private beach, with umbrellas and sunbeds, and just a 15-minute shuttle ride away is Avdimou Bay, which switches between pebbles and sand, and comes with crystal-clear waters and a couple of great fish tavernas. There's also a Blue Flag beach at Pissouri, around fifteen minutes' drive away.
Cyprus is easily accessible, with daily flights from the UK and numerous other European destinations.
These are beautiful and spacious apartments set in two-storey units, each with just four homes to each unit. The apartments all have stunning views of the Mediterranean or the golf course.
This is a three bedroom, two bathroom ground floor apartment with rooms that are spacious and extremely comfortable. The apartment has been finished to a high standard throughout as would be expected of a five-star resort.
The kitchen units of the apartments are completed in an Italian style. The bathrooms of the building are made of fine quality lavish Crema Royal Marble. The whole building has parquet floors throughout. The building provides a concealed dual air conditioning and heating system. Apartment owners and their guests have exclusive access to beautifully landscaped gardens with attractive swimming pools.
The building is made in such a style that both a traditional and modern style of architecture is met. The apartment has an airy open-plan living area and kitchen opening out onto a delightful terrace where you can relax and take in the view. There are two bedrooms plus a large master bedroom with en suite bathroom and doors that open out to the terrace. There is also a conveniently located shower room. The remaining two bedrooms feature a second terrace at the rear of the property.
- Fabulous location, with panoramic sea & golf course views
- Ground floor of 122 square metres
- Covered verandas of 22 square metres
- Total covered area of 144 square metres
- Total uncovered area of 106 square metres
- Total plot of 250 square metres
Please note that prices are quoted net of VAT and any other fees/rates that may be applicable. The apartments are now close to completion and will be ready for handover by the spring of 2018. Flexible payment plans are available.


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The purpose of assessing a problem-solving effort is to help you make better decisions by answering two specific questions. First, did the problem decline? Answering this question helps you decide whether to end the problem-solving effort and focus resources on other problems. Second, if the problem did decline, did the response cause the decline? Answering this question helps you decide whether to apply the response to similar problems.
This introduction to problem-solving assessments is intended to help you design evaluations to answer the two questions above. It was written for those who are responsible for evaluating the effectiveness of responses to problems, and who have a basic understanding of problem-oriented policing and the problem-solving process. This guide assumes a basic understanding of the SARA problem-solving process (scanning, analysis, response, and assessment), but it requires little or no experience with assessing problem solutions.
This guide was written based on the assumption that you have no outside assistance. Nevertheless, you should seek the advice and help of researchers with training and experience in evaluation, particularly if the problem you are addressing is large and complex. Requesting aid from an independent outside evaluator can be particularly helpful if there is controversy over a response's usefulness. Local colleges and universities are a good source for such expertise. Many social science departmentseconomics, political science, sociology, psychology, and criminal justice/criminologyhave faculty and graduate students who are knowledgeable in program evaluation and related topics.
This guide is a companion reference to the Problem-Oriented Guides for Police series. Each guide in the series suggests ways to measure a particular problem, and describes possible responses to it. Though the evaluation principles discussed here are intended to apply to the specific problems in the guides, you should be able to apply them to any problemsolving project.
This is an introduction to a complex subject, and it emphasizes evaluation methods that are the most relevant to problem-oriented policing. You should consult the list of recommended readings at the end of the guide if you are interested in exploring the topic of evaluation in greater detail.
Excluded from this discussion is any mention of significance testing and statistical estimation. Though useful methods, they cannot be described in a guide of this length sufficiently enough for you to effectively use them.
As stated, this guide is about aiding decisionmaking. There are two key decisions to make regarding any problem-solving effort. First, did the problem decline enough for you to end the effort and apply resources elsewhere? If the problem did not decline substantially, then the job is not done. In such a case, the most appropriate decision may be to reanalyze the problem and develop a new response. Second, if the problem did decline substantially, then it might be worthwhile to apply the response to similar problems.
This guide focuses on the first decisionwhether to end the problem-solving effort. The second decision has to do with future response applications. If the problem declined substantially, and if the response at least partly caused the decline, then you might consider using the response with other problems. But if the problem did not decline, or if it got worse, and this was due to an ineffective response, then future problem-solvers should be alerted so they can develop better responses to similar problems. Future decisions about whether to use the response depend in part on assessment information. In this regard, assessment is an essential part of police organizational learning. Without assessments, problemsolvers are constantly reinventing the wheel, and run the risk of repeating the same mistakes. Nevertheless, obtaining valid information to aid in decision-making increases the complexity of assessments.
Making either decision requires a detailed understanding of the problem, of how the response is supposed to reduce the problem, and of the context in which the response has been implemented.1 For this reason, the evaluation process begins after it is identified in the scanning stage.
This guide discusses two simple designspre-post and interrupted time series. The pre-post design is useful in making only the first type of decisionwhether to end the problem-solving effort. The time series design can aid in making both types of decisions.
Finally, it is worth mentioning how the guide is organized. The body of the text addresses fundamental issues in constructing simple but useful evaluations. The endnotes provide a link to more-technical books on evaluation. Many of these clarify terminology. The appendixes expand on material in the text. Appendix A uses an extended example to show why evaluating responses over longer periods provides a better understanding of response effectiveness. Appendix B describes two advanced designs involving comparison (or "control" groups). Appendix C explains how to calculate a response's net effect on a problem. Appendix D provides a summary of the designs' strengths and weaknesses. Finally, Appendix E provides a checklist for going through the evaluation process, selecting the most applicable design, and drawing reasonable conclusions from evaluation results. You should read the body of the text before examining the appendixes.
In summary, this guide explains, in ordinary language, those aspects of evaluation methods that are most important to police when addressing problems. In the next section, we will examine how evaluation fits within the SARA problemsolving process. We will then examine the two major types of evaluationprocess and impact.
It is important to distinguish between evaluation and assessment. Evaluation is scientific process for determining if a problem declined and if the solution caused the decline. As we will see, it begins at the moment the problem-solving process begins and continues through the completion of the effort. Assessment occurs at the final stage in the SARA problem-solving process.2 It is the culmination of the evaluation process, the time when you draw conclusions about the problem and its solutions.
Though assessment is the final stage of both evaluation and problem solving, critical decisions about the evaluation are made throughout the process, as indicated in Figure 1. The left side shows the standard SARA process and some of the most basic questions asked at each stage. It also draws attention to the fact that the assessment may produce information requiring the problem-solver to go back to earlier stages to make modifications. This is particularly the case if the response was not as successful as expected.
The right side of Figure 1 lists critical questions to address to conduct an evaluation. During the scanning stage, you must define the problem with sufficient precision to measure it. You will collect baseline data on the nature and scope of the problem during the analysis phase. Virtually every important question to be addressed during analysis will be important during assessment. This is because, during assessment, you want to know if the problem has changed. So data uncovered during analysis become vital baseline information (or "preresponse measures") during assessment.
Fig. 1. The problem-solving process and evaluation
During the response stage, while developing a strategy to reduce the problem, you should also develop an accountability mechanism to be sure the various participants in the response do what they should be doing. As we will see later, one type of evaluationprocessis closely tied to accountability. Thus, while developing a response, it is important to determine how to assess accountability. Also, the type of response has a major influence on how you design the other type of evaluationimpact.
During assessment, you answer the following questions: Did the response occur as planned? Did the problem decline? If so, are there good reasons to believe the decline resulted from the response?
In summary, you begin planning for an evaluation when you take on a problem. The evaluation builds throughout the SARA process, culminates during the assessment, and provides findings that help you determine if you should revisit earlier stages to improve the response. You can use the checklist in Appendix E as a general guide to evaluation throughout the SARA process.
There are two types of evaluations. You should conduct both. As we will see later, they complement each other.
Process evaluations ask the following questions: Did the response occur as planned? Did all the response components work? Or, stated more bluntly, Did you do what you said you would do? This is a question of accountability.
Let's start with a hypothetical example. A problem-solving team, after a careful analysis, determines that, to curb a street prostitution problem, they will ask the city's traffic engineering department to make a major thoroughfare oneway, and to create several dead-end streets to thwart cruising by "johns." This will be done immediately after a comprehensive crackdown on the prostitutes in the target area. Convicted prostitutes will be given probation under the condition that they do not enter the target area for a year. Finally, a nonprofit organization will help prostitutes who want to leave their line of work gain the necessary skills for legitimate employment. The vice squad, district patrol officers, prosecutor, local judges, probation office, sheriff's department, traffic engineering department, and nonprofit organization all agree to this plan.
A process evaluation will determine whether the crackdown occurred and, if so, how many arrests police made; whether the traffic engineering department altered street patterns as planned; and how many prostitutes asked for job skills assistance and found legitimate employment. The process evaluation will also examine whether everything occurred in the planned sequence. If you find that the crackdown occurred after the street alterations, that the police arrested only a fraction of the prostitutes, and that none of the prostitutes sought job skills, then you will suspect that the plan was not fully carried out, nor was it carried out in the specified sequence. You might conclude that the response was a colossal failure. However, the evidence provided gives us no indication of success or failure, because a process evaluation does not answer the question, What happened to the problem?
To determine what happened to the problem, you need an impact evaluation. An impact evaluation asks the following questions: Did the problem decline? If so, did the response cause the decline? Continuing with our prostitution example, let's look at how it might work. During the analysis stage of the problem-solving process, patrol officers and vice detectives conduct a census of prostitutes operating in the target area. They also ask the traffic engineering department to install traffic counters on the major thoroughfare and critical side streets to measure traffic flow. This is done to determine how customers move through the area. The vice squad makes covert video recordings of the target area to document how prostitutes interact with potential customers. All of this is done before the problem-solving team selects a response, and the information gained helps the team to do so.
After the response is implemented (though not the planned response, as we have seen), the team decides to repeat these measures to see if the problem has declined. They discover that instead of the 23 prostitutes counted in the first census, only 10 can be found. They also find that there has been a slight decline in traffic on the major thoroughfare on Friday and Saturday nights, but not at other times. However, there has been a substantial decline in side street traffic on Friday and Saturday nights. New covert video recordings show that prostitutes in the area have changed how they approach vehicles, and are acting more cautiously. In short, the team has evidence that the problem has declined after response implementation.
So what has caused the problem to decline? You may be tempted to jump right into trying to answer this question, because it will help you determine if you can attribute the decline to the response. However, this question may not be as important as it first appears. After all, if the goal is to reduce or eliminate the problem, and this occurs, what difference does it make what the cause is? The answer is that it does not matter in the least, unless you are interested in using the same response for similar problems. If you have no interest in using the response again, then all that matters is that you have achieved the goal. You can then use the resources devoted to addressing the problem on some more pressing concern. But if you believe you can use the response again, it is very important to determine if the response caused the decline in the problem.
Let's assume the prostitution problem-solving team believes the response might be useful for addressing similar problems. The response, though not implemented according to plan, might have caused the decline, but it is also possible that something else caused the decline. There are two reasons the team takes this second possibility seriously. First, the actual response was somewhat haphazard, unlike the planned response. If the planned response had been implemented, the team would have a plausible explanation for the decline. But the jury-rigged nature of the actual response makes it a far less plausible explanation for the decline. Second, the impact evaluation is not particularly strong. Later, we will discuss why this is a weak evaluation, and what can be done to strengthen it.
Process and impact evaluations answer different questions, so their combined results are often highly informative. Table 1 summarizes the information you can glean from both evaluations. As you will see in Appendix E, the interpretation of this table depends on the type of design used for the impact evaluation. For the moment, however, we will assume that the evaluation design can show whether the response caused the problem to decline.
|Process Evaluation Results
|Response implemented as planned, or nearly so
|Response not implemented, or implemented in a radically different manner than planned
|Impact Evaluation Results
|Problem declined
|A. Evidence that the response caused the decline
|C. Suggests that other factors may have caused the decline, or that the response was accidentally effective
|Problem did not decline
|B. Evidence that the response was ineffective, and that a different response should be tried
|D. Little is learned. Perhaps if the response had been implemented as planned, the problem would have declined, but this is speculative
Table 1: Interpreting Results of Process and Impact Evaluations
When a response is implemented as planned (or nearly so), the conclusions are much easier to interpret (cells A and B). When the response is not implemented as planned, we have more difficulty determining what happened, and what to do next (cells C and D). Cell D is particularly troublesome because all you really know is that "we did not do it, and it did not work." Should you try to implement your original plan, or should you start over from scratch?
Outcomes that fall into cell C merit further discussion. The decline in the problem means that you could end the problem-solving process and go on to something else. If the problem has declined considerably, this might be satisfactory. If, however, the problem is still too big, then you do not know whether to continue or increase the response (on the assumption that it is working, but more is needed). Alternatively, you could seek a different response (on the assumption that the response is not working, and something else is needed). In addition, you do not know if the response will be useful for similar problems. In short, it is difficult to replicate successes when you do not know why you were successful. The basic lesson is that all assessments should contain both a process and an impact evaluation.
A process evaluation involves comparing the planned response with what actually occurred. Much of this information becomes apparent while managing a problemsolving process. If the vice squad is supposed to arrest prostitutes in the target area, you can determine whether they have from departmental records and discussions with squad members. There will be judgment calls, nevertheless. For example, how many arrests are required? The response plan may call for the arrest of 75 percent of the prostitutes, but only 60 percent are arrested. Whether this is a serious violation of the plan may be difficult to determine. Much of a process evaluation is descriptive (these people did these things, in this order, using these procedures). Nevertheless, numbers can help. In our example, data on traffic volume show where street alterations have changed driving patterns, and these pattern changes are consistent with what was anticipated in the response plan.
In short, a process evaluation tells what happened, when and to whom. Though it does not tell whether the response affected the problem, it is very useful for determining how to interpret impact evaluation results.
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I have had these tagine pots pushed to the back of my cupboard for a year! When I was making a meal plan for the week, I found a website that featured a tasty looking tagine recipe.So today was the day!
I was thinking that the process would be a lot of work, which explains the year that the pots sat collecting dust. I was surprised to find that making this dish only requires chopping of the vegetables and letting the cute little pots and oven do the rest.
Note: Simmering vegetables with spices in the oven makes the house smell good!
Moroccan Vegetable Tagine
3-4 small potatoes-peeled and diced
1 onion-sliced
2 tbsp fresh ginger-minced
2 cloves garlic-slice
1 cinnamon stick-broken in half
1/3 cup raisins
1 can diced tomatoes
2 cups chickpeas
1 tsp ground cumin
1/4 tsp turmeric
1 cup vegetable stock
Couscous-cooked according to package
fresh cilantro- garnish
Preheat oven to 350
In a bowl combine ingredients, stir it up to coat the vegetables with the spices.
Scoop into tagine and bake for 1 1/2 hours.
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Scientists have been plagued by Einstein's theories which state nothing can travel faster than light. But over the past decade or so, we have seen a new branch of physics theorized, one which might give Einstein cause for pause. It's called Superluminal Electromagnetic Field / Wave Propagation, which is basically a form of faster than light relativity. Experiments have been conducted by several scientists which involve light and radio sources traveling at speeds well in excess of the speed of light. Seem possible?
Earlier this year, a physicist called John Singleton created an application of this theory which he believes could greatly advance semiconductors.
Called a polarization synchrotron, the device combines radio waves with a rapidly spinning magnetic field. The effect is described as "abusing the radio waves so severely that they finally give in and travel faster than light".
Singleton says:
If you take a laser and shine it on the moon and swing it rather gently, for example, the spot on the moon travels faster than the speed of light. If an effect can do that, it makes you wonder if you can do things with light to get the equivalent of a sonic boom.
Being applied to semiconductors, the idea of transmitting data across the entire width of a CPU in a single clock, or even less than that, would mean faster caches, the ability to communicate across separate pieces of silicon nearly instantly (1 clock cycle), which means semiconductors could be made piece meal, being assembled wirelessly in the final package through EM frequencies which operate only over a few centimeters.
Singleton believes the principle could also explain pulsars, which emit high frequency, extremely intense light that nobody can really explain a cause for today. He also sees medical, communication and space exploration as potential other uses.
He has been given a $3 million grant by the Department of Energy to continue his research on a three-year project.
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Rick's Opinion
Horse puckey. I'm a solid Einsteinian. Nothing can travel faster than light. Period. End of story. These things which are being observed in the laboratory do not negate Einstein's theories of relativity (special, general), which are quite correct.
However, that's not to say that they were incomplete in much the same way Newton's theories explained motion adequately outside of an intense gravitational field or at high speed where relativistic effects are observable.
What these scientists are creating is the experimental knowledge necessary to create the Grand Unification Theory, which unifies all four forces into a single theory, allowing each of them to be interchanged.
While it may have real applications in semiconductor devices, I cannot believe it will be anything other than laboratory experiments for the foreseeable future because the polarization synchrotron is not a small device. You can't create this thing in a few nanometers (at least not today, and probably not tomorrow). It takes big things to make that happen.
Still, the idea of having every component on a computer with only a power source running to it, with everything else being handled wirelessly is potentially very exciting. It would open up a whole new processor model, whereby a single CPU as it exists today does not have to only be fed from its decoders. Remote devices could "stuff" computer instructions into the CPU as necessary, just by broadcasting a "please process this" request into the airwaves. The CPU receives it, schedules it, processes it, and sends back the data with a "here you are" flag attached, indicating the deed is done.
While such a design would undoubtedly require massive coordination and synching protocols, that's all it would require. It would not be beyond the realm of possibility.
It also would mean that multiple close-proximity devices could produce more powerful parallel compute abilities. Imagine playing back a 1080p video on your cell phone. If it's a little choppy, put your wife's cell phone right next to it, and now you have more than enough processing power.
Regardless of practical application, an interesting bit of news. And it does inspire the imagination. It just doesn't seem practically feasible or attainable, at least not in my lifetime. Should I be proven wrong within the next three years, I'll issue a public apology to all of the Geek.com readers I misled with my opinion.


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Wizards announcer mistakes Trevor Ariza's last-second airball for 'dagger'
By Ben Golliver
It's not often that you witness a player go from hero to goat and an announcer go from SportsCenter to the blooper reels in the same five-second span.
The closing seconds of the Pistons' 96-95 win over the Wizards in Washington won't soon be forgotten, albeit for all the wrong reasons.
Trailing by one with 12 seconds remaining, Washington guard Bradley Beal attacked from the top of the key, opting to kick the ball out to the left wing rather than attempt a shot in traffic. The ball bounced around the perimeter with just seconds left, eventually finding its way to Trevor Ariza, who launched a three-pointer from the left corner over Kyle Singler with just a few ticks to play.
Ariza's shot hit nothing but net; unfortunately, though, it was the outside of the net, as the airballed attempt came up well short. Even more unfortunately, Wizards play-by-play broadcaster Steve Buckhantz thought the shot went through, screaming "Dagger!" to punctuate the game-winner that never actually happened.
"Ariza from the baseline for three and the Wizards with a miraculous comeback in Washington," Buckhantz said, as the Pistons celebrated and the Wizards trudged back to their bench.
The juxtaposition of Buckhantz's excitement with the Wizards' slumped shoulders and the Pistons' relief is priceless. Eventually, replays clued in the broadcast team as to what had taken place, and the full awkwardness of the moment sank in.
"The dagger has been retracted," Buckhantz eventually conceded.
Ariza, a career 31.7 percent three-point shooter, actually hit 4-of-7 from deep to score a team-high 22 points. Brandon Knight led the Pistons with a game-high 32 points.
Washington dropped to 18-38 and had its three-game winning streak snapped. Detroit improved to 23-37 and broke a three-game skid.
UPDATE: Ariza's shot fooled Pistons play-by-play announcer George Blaha, too:
Hat tip: ProBasketballTalk | Wizards video via YouTube user DeeKee4200


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Over the last couple of years, the number of telemedicine vendors out there fighting for business has exploded. These include DoctoronDemand, GoTelecare, HealthTap, MDLIVE, American Well and many, many more.
Health plans are jumping on the bandwagon too. For example, United Healthcare has been running a popular national television campaign advertising its "virtual clinic" services. UHC is my plan, so I can attest that this service — shown as embedded in its member site — hasn't been rolled out yet, but that only makes its desire to get out in front of the trend more noteworthy.
Telemedicine models in play include companies that recruit providers and sell them to consumers, vendors who enable telemedicine via proprietary platforms and firms that lead with community building. At present the direct-to-consumer players seem to be somewhat ahead, simply because they've already begun developing a national brand, but the story doesn't end there.
Though consumer-facing telemedicine companies probably have a viable business model, they'll have to build a memorable consumer brand to make it, something that takes a great deal of time and money. On the other hand, vendors that offer white-label telemedicine technology to hospitals and health plans have at least as much to gain, without having to win the loyalty of fickle consumers.
One telemedicine player doing just that is Nashville-based PointNurse, which has developed a distributed collaboration and communications platform providers can use to deliver telemedicine services. I just spoke to CEO Cyrus Maaghul, who gave me a company overview, and was interested to hear that his venture is taking things in some new directions.
PointNurse is different than most companies in the telemedicine space for a few reasons.
For one thing, the platform includes block chain capabilities, which allow providers to accumulate credits for both community participation and actual care delivery. (In case you aren't familiar with block chain technology, which powers crypto currency Bitcoin, you may want to click here.)
These credits aren't just for fun. Eventually, when providers accumulate enough credits, they get a pro-rata share of a dedicated pool of equity.
Consumers, for their part, are given a multi-signature wallet which stores both their personal and clinical information, resulting more or less in a PHR with added capabilities. PointNurse hasn't yet devised a way to share the data with provider EMRs, but that's a short-term goal.
A wide range of providers can participate in PointNurse, including not only MDs but also nurse practitioners, pharmacists, RNs, LPNs and elder advocates.
A sister venture, HealthCombix, will license the technology underlying PointNurse to hospitals and payers. HealthCombix will provide APIs and tools to build their own distributed applications.
As Maaghul sees it, it's critical for providers to realize more than a short-term benefit from participating in telemedicine. "I wanted to make providers feel highly motivated — that they can gain from this [arrangement]," Maaghul said. "This creates value for the patient."
Of course, there's no proof yet that this or any particular telemedicine business model is going to capture its market niche. In fact, it's not even clear what niches will emerge in this space; after all, though it's moving fast it's far from mature.
That being said, this approach has some intriguing aspects. I'll be interested to see whether its business model and and unusual underlying technology work out.


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The premise of the book is that you have to control your destiny, do not depend on luck and do not think it will happen automatically. Creating a new business category happens only once, hence 0 to 1 (technology). Whereas incremental progress is 1 to n (globalization). Thiel outlines how to make that happen, drawing from his experience as one of the founders of PayPal and Palintir. He offers very good advice, but no magic bullet, because there are no magic bullets.
Brief chapter overviews:
In the 1999 crash, businesses learned the wrong lessons and they are still practicing them. They should have learned to be bold, plan, not enter competitive markets and put energy into distribution.
You must create a monopoly company. Monopolies are what drive the future as they allow founders to do long term planning vs. short term planning. Competition kills the ability to do long term planning so avoid it at all costs.
To build a monopoly company you need some combination of proprietary technology, network effects, economies of scale and branding.
You must take control of your future by planning for it, chance will not get you there.
Remember the power law, only a small percentage of companies can ever succeed at a substantial scale. When it comes to your own life think hard about what will be valuable in the future, then pursue that will everything you have.
To build a valuable company you have to do something nobody has done before. To do that you have to tap into secrets that aren't already universally understood.
When starting a new company you have to start right and have committed founders that add value.
Company culture should be of like minded people with individual talents. Internal conflict will tear a startup apart.
It is essential to have distribution and count it as part of your initial design. A company that has a product without good distribution is doomed to failure.
The computer should be a complement to human activity, it should supplement decision making.
If you want a successful business you must answer the following questions:
Do you have a breakthrough technology? Why is now the right time? Are you starting with a big share of a small market? Do you have the right team? Do you have a way to deliver your product? Will your position be defensible for 10 – 20 years? Have you identified a unique opportunity that others don't see?
Thiel's overriding question is whether we will be able to escape from optimistic indefinite and get back to optimistic definite. To do this we must think for ourselves and build businesses that go from 0 to 1. I get the feeling Thiel isn't so optimistic about this.
I thoroughly enjoyed Thiel's book and feel that he shared some of his secrets with us. I also think it is important to move the dial back to doing some planning after moving so far toward indeterminism. Creating a unique technology is no doubt a difficult task, but it is what is needed to keep our society moving forward. As a country we need to create the proper incentives so that smart people work on hard problems instead of spending that intellectual capital in the markets. It should be just as attractive for someone with the capabilities to be a scientist or engineer as it is to be a Wall St. trader/analyst. How do we get there?
A special thanks the Zero to One team for the advanced reader's copy!
If you get the following error when running python setup.py install:
error in setup command: Error parsing somemodule/setup.cfg: OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
It is because git is not installed. On debian apt-get install git-core and you should be all set.
I wanted to find the average process memory usage on Debian wheezy to calculate MaxClients.
I used this script to do it:
sudo ps -ef | grep apache2 | grep -v ^$USER | awk '{ print $2 '} | xargs sudo pmap -d | grep ^mapped: | awk '{ print $4 }' | cut -dK -f1 | awk '{SUM += $1} END { print SUM/NR }'
Quick explanation, starts out with a process list, filters for apache2, removes the grep command from the list, prints the second column, uses pmap to display memory usage, then grep to filter out the mapped memory. Again printing the fourth column, then using cut to remove the K, and awk to sum up the records. NR in awk is the number of input records seen so far.
To get MaxClients divide your total memory (minus some margin for other system processes) by the average process memory usage to get the number for MaxClients.
Example, 50K process size, memory of 1.8G, 1.8G/50K = 36
Note you shouldn't use the ps VSZ as it includes shared memory.
I was getting the following errors because the squeeze packages are too old for 9.2:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: postgresql-9.1 : Depends: libpq5 (>= 9.1~) but 8.4.13-0squeeze1 is to be installed Depends: postgresql-client-9.1 but it is not going to be installed Depends: postgresql-common (>= 115~) but 113+squeeze1 is to be installed
These are the steps I took to get postgresql 9.2 running on debian squeeze:
Add backports to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -t squeeze-backports install libpq5 postgresql-common
Add the postgresql repo to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://pgapt.debian.net/ squeeze-pgdg main 9.0 9.2 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.2
Instructions have changed a bit, check out https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt
While setting up a homepage slider, I used a modified version of the solutions found here. The solution provided worked great, except I needed a clickable version.
Create a new template called views-slideshow-slide-counter.tpl.php (notice that I changed it from above as I needed the ID to make the click work):
In application.js:
(function($) { $(document).ready(function() { Drupal.viewsSlideshowSlideCounter.transitionBegin = function (options) { $('#views_slideshow_slide_counter_' + options.slideshowID + ' span').removeClass('active'); $('#views_slideshow_slide_counter_' + options.slideshowID + ' .num' + (options.slideNum + 1)).addClass('active'); }; $('.slide-block').click(function() { var id = $(this).attr('id').split('-').pop(); var options = {'action': 'goToSlide', 'slideshowID': 'homepage_slider-block', 'slideNum': parseInt(id)}; Drupal.viewsSlideshow.action(options); }); }); })(jQuery);
Hope this helps someone trying to figure out how to make the pager clickable.
"As soon as A observes something which seems to him to be wrong, from which X is suffering, A talks it over with B, and A and B then propose to get a law passed to remedy the evil and help X. Their law always proposes to determine what C shall do for X or, in the better case, what A, B and C shall do for X. As for A and B, who get a law to make themselves do for X what they are willing to do for him, we have nothing to say except that they might better have done it without any law, but what I want to do is to look up C. I want to show you what manner of man he is. I call him the Forgotten Man. Perhaps the appellation is not strictly correct. He is the man who never is thought of. He is the victim of the reformer, social speculator and philanthropist, and I hope to show you before I get through that he deserves your notice both for his character and for the many burdens which are laid upon him."
I think academia would be a better place and with a little less ego if we all followed your lead on this! Finally, you're working on well-being now. What can we do to boost our well-being?
I can think of three things. First, change the way you use your time. Time is the ultimate finite resource – we should use it as if it is. Second, try to pay attention to the things that make your life better rather than concentrating on the things that make your life worse. And the third I think is to invest your time on activities that you will continue to pay attention to. For example when people buy a car they imagine themselves driving the car and enjoying it. But most of the time when you actually own the car and are driving it you're not attending to it. However, when you are socialising with friends you are attending to that activity. So there are activities that are attention-rich intrinsically. If there are good activities that are attention rich you should work on them – you should try to have a lot of them in your life. I think people don't do that enough.
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Since the recent outage, I've been looking for simple scripts to take a snapshot of a volume and only keep a certain number of these snapshots around. I wanted something that I could run from cron in different intervals for different volumes. I found a few scripts lying around, none of which I really liked so I decided to put together one in ruby.
I created the awstools gem, submitted a patch to amazon-ec2 to allow filter requests on the snapshot api and now I have the tool I was looking for.
Check it out here and let me know what you think.
Until my patch is accepted you'll have to use my fork of the amazon-ec2 gem. Which means you'll have to clone it to your machine, build the gem with "gem build amazon-ec2.gemspec" then install that gem with "gem install amazon-ec2…".
To install awstools
gem install awstools
Or to build it yourself, clone the repo to your machine, and then run:
cd awstools bundle gem build awstools.gemspec gem install awstools-0.0.1.gem
Once installed you can run something like the following from cron:
0 0 * * * snapshots -v volume-id -d "Some Description" -k 2
That will take a snapshot once a day and only keep two snapshots on hand.
Note that there is an -s flag to simulate, so you can see what it will actually do without creating or deleting any snapshots.
If you see all the volumes at amazon fly by, its because you aren't using my fork of amazon-ec2.
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I want to know that while pronouncing this letter dhaad, does the tip of the tongue play any role or not?
Assalaam U Alaikum,
I have read the makhraj of 'Daad' which is [This letter is articulated from the one or both sides of the tongue and from the molars and the gum area next to the molars. The posterior one third of the side of the tongue is used for this letter. This letter can be articulated from one side (right or left) of the tongue alone, or from both sides of the tongue simultaneously]
I want to know that while pronouncing this letter does the tip of the tongue plays any role or not?. Because when I try to recite this word I always feel that the tip of my tongue touches the area of the makhraj of 'Raa' slightly.
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
The tip of the tongue does not play a role in the sound of the ; if it does by error, then the sound is more like a than a . The tip of the tongue rests or lightly touches the gums, but there should be no pressure on the gums. As long as the tip of the tongue is lightly touching the gum area and no pressure is put on the gums, insha' Allah you will avoid the mistake of the sounding like a .
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Lamb Meal, Rice, Wheat, Corn, Poultry Meal, Poultry Fat, Corn Gluten, Wheat Shorts, Beet Pulp, Protein-Hydrolysate, Dried Brewers Yeast, Sodium, Potassium Chloride, Chicory Powder, Yeast.
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Crude Protein 27.0%
Crude Fat 15.0%
Crude Fibre 2.3%
Moisture 8.0%
Crude Ash 7.1%
Calcium 1.35%
Phosphorous 1.00%
Potassium 0.65%
Sodium 0.40%
Magnesium 0.12%
Vit A 18000 iu/kg
Vit D3 1450 iu/kg
Vit E (Alpha-Tocopherolacetat) 180 iu/kg
Copper (as copper-II-sulfate, pentahydrate) 11 iu/kg
Metabolizable Energy 16.0 MJ/kg
Omega 3 0.31%
Omega 6 2.10%
Ratio Omega 6/Omega 3 6.8:1
Expected contents of other vitamins and trace elements (not guaranteed)
Vit. B1 14 mg/kg
Vit. B2 14 mg/kg
Vit. B6 8 mg/kg
Vit. B12 120 mcg/kg
Biotin 600 mcg/kg
Pantothenic acid 36 mg/kg
Nicotenic acid 60 mg/kg
Folic acid 3 mg/kg
Vit. K 1 mg/kg
Vit. C 84 mg/kg
Choline Chloride 2.5 mg/kg
Iron 150 mg/kg
Zinc 190 mg/kg
Manganese 30 mg/kg
Cobalt 0.4 mg/kg
Iodine 3 mg/kg
Selenium 0.4 mg/kg
Vitamin A 18000 IU/kg
Vitamin D3 1450 IU/kg
Vitamin E (Alpha-Tocopherolacetat) 180 IU/kg
Copper (as copper-II-sulfae, pentahydrate) 11 IU/kg
With Antioxidants (extracts of tocopherols of natural origin, propyl gallate)
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First ingredient is a named meat product
Insufficient meat content, meat and fat of unidentifiable origin, controversial filler
The first ingredient in the food is a named meat meal. There is a second meat ingredient fifth on the ingredient list, but this is not identified by species. "Poultry" could be any fowl and may also vary by source. Unidentified ingredients like this are usually cheap and of very low quality. We prefer not to see them used in dog foods. The fat ingredient is similarly of low quality and unidentifiable source. Protein hydrolysate (usually from whey) is a low quality means of boosting the protein content of the food.
The next ingredients are grains - six of them - making this appear a very grain heavy food, with very little meat content likely. Rice is a decent quality grain, but the use of corn and wheat are less desirable. Corn is of limited value, being a difficult to digest grain that is also commonly implicated in food allergies. In corn gluten form it is that part of the commercial shelled corn that remains after the extraction of the larger portion of the starch, gluten, and term by the processes employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup. In plain English, the remains of corn after most of the nutritious bits have been removed. Wheat is believed by many to be the number one cause of food allergy problems in dogs. As wheat shorts this consists of "fine particles of wheat bran, wheat germ, wheat flour, and the offal from the tail of the mill. This product must be obtained in the usual process of commercial milling and must contain not more than 7% crude fiber". In simpler terms, the floor sweepings from processing of wheat for flour and other products.
Beet pulp is controversial filler which appears to be used in large quantities in this food. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
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By Patrick Cronin
Seacoast Sunday, Sunday, September 16, 2012
[The following article is courtesy of Seacoast Sunday and Seacoast Online.]
Blue Lobster Brewing Co. owner Michael Benoit, left, and head brewer David Sakolsky represent one of several new nanobreweries in Hampton. [Rich Beauchesne]
HAMPTON — Beer connoisseurs looking to tap into unique and distinctive beers don't have to go far. Here and throughout the Granite State, the craft-brew business is booming.
Smuttynose Brewery and Redhook Brewery have been staples in the Seacoast for more than a decade. Now a new crop of nanobreweries is springing up, including Throwback Brewery in North Hampton and the Blue Lobster Brewing Company in Hampton.
"I look at it more as a resurgence," said Michael Benoit. The owner of Blue Lobster Brewing will be opening his tasting room in the next few weeks at 845 Lafayette Road in Hampton.
"It's going back to the farm table movement, where beer should be localized," Benoit said. "If I'm on vacation somewhere, why would I travel to drink a beer when I can get it in San Diego, Boston or Milwaukee. People want different."
Back to beer's roots
Peter Egelston, owner of Smuttynose Brewery, said the resurgence of local breweries is a nationwide trend.
Smuttynose is the state's largest and oldest craft brewery. Egelston said when he first opened his brewery 25 years ago, there were fewer than 50 craft breweries in the United States. Today there are more than 2,000, with "hundreds more coming online," he said.
But Egelston was quick to point out there was a similar number of breweries back in 1865 until prohibition came along in 1919.
"By the time prohibition was repealed, most of the 2,000 breweries were gone," Egelston said. "So brewing has always been a local phenomenon. What is happening now is the beer business is finally getting back to its historical roots, which involves a lot of small breweries operating with a fairly small local footprint."
Egelston, who recalls the bleak days in the 1960s through the '80s, when there wasn't a choice and all the beer tasted the same, said he welcomes the competition.
"I'm a big believer in competition," he said. "Competition makes us all better."
Nanobreweries on tap
Bill Herlicka, owner of White Birch Brewing in Hooksett, has the distinction of being the first nanobrewery in the state.
A nanobrewery is a very small brewing operation, with a limit on the amount of beer it makes. Blue Lobster's Benoit said he is limited to 2,000 31-gallon barrels per year.
Recent changes in state legislation, Herlicka said, however, have made it easier to open nanobreweries.
"When I first started, the state of New Hampshire did not recognize nano as a distinct brewery operation," Herlicka said. "I was a brewery, just the same as Smuttynose."
Changes to the law, included removing restrictions on tasting rooms, the amount of beer that can be sold off premises and reducing the annual licensing fee to $240 from $1,200.
While he no longer is a nanobrewery, Herlicka said those changes have made it easier for others to get into the business.
"Adjusting the government fees associated with it in turn led to more nanos," he said.
One of the new nanobreweries is Throwback Brewery, which opened in 2011, operating out of small warehouse with a tasting room at 121 Lafayette Road in North Hampton.
Owners Annette Lee and partner Nicole Carrier said the response to their nanobrewery has been overwhelming. While recent changes in the law have helped small breweries, she doesn't believe that is why you see so many opening.
"I think it's more to do with the demand from consumers," Carrier said.
Beer the new wine?
Egelston said he's not surprised more people are seeking out craft and speciality beers over the mass-produced ones.
"There is a whole world of beer out there that people are just now starting to discover," Egelston said.
Blue Lobster's Benoit said beer is becoming what wine is to wine lovers. "To me, from a certain extent, it's even more creative than wine," said Benoit, who has been brewing his own beer since 1983.
"There is a wide range of styles, flavors, choices in beer that rivals wine and exceeds wine in a lot of cases."
While chefs have been matching wine with dinners for decades, Benoit said the same can be done with beer.
"A good chief can take an interesting interpretation of a beer and create quite a dish to stand up to it," he said. "So, I think you're going to see more of that as time goes on."
Herlicka said a big part of the new demand is that beer consumers age 21 to 35 have grown up in this second wave of local breweries.
"Beer is social, and that hasn't changed," Herlicka said. "But now, people are looking for unique beers and they are looking for flavors. Mouth feel, aroma, flavor and aftertaste are all important elements."
Future is bright
Egelston said he believes the craft beer market will continue to expand. "It's still a relatively small part of the overall beer industry," he said. "Fewer than one out 10 beers that are sold are craft beers. So, 90 percent of the beers that are consumed in this country are not craft. There is a lot of room for growth in the industry."
Carrier said stores selling speciality craft beers such as Top Shelf Brews in Hampton, as well as local beer festivals, will continue that growth as consumers become more educated.
Another new state law passed this year, which Carrier and Lee testified in support of, allows local breweries for the first time to sell beer at farmers markets across the state.
"That just gives us further exposure," Carrier said.
Benoit said he views the new local breweries in the area as a good thing because it will also drive tourism.
"It worked wonders for Kentucky and Tennessee for the bourbon and whisky trade," he said. "The more places that crop up in a centralized location, the better off we all are."
Egelston said the days of just a handful of beers on the market are over.
"It would be like going back to the time when the only cheese was Kraft American singles," Egelston said. "We are not going back to that. Those days are long gone."
Several nanobreweries call Hampton home, including the Blue Lobster Brewing Co. [Rich Beauchesne]
The fermentation tanks at the new Hampton nanobrewery. [Rich Beauchesne]


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John Travolta Lawsuit: Flight History May Contradict Accuser's Claim
Flight records suggest the actor was not in L.A. on Jan. 16, the day of an alleged assault
A masseur's sexual-assault claim against John Travolta appears to be unraveling even further, as flight records suggest the actor was not in Los Angeles on the morning of the alleged incident.
TMZ.com has posted flight records and documents apparently showing that Travolta, 58, arrived in New York from L.A. in the early hours of Jan. 16. The site has also posted photos of the actor during a wardrobe fitting later that day in New York's Greenwich Hotel. According to the lawsuit, the alleged incident occurred at 10 a.m. in Beverly Hills. (The flight can't be independently verified through public flight-tracking services because his plane's flight records are blocked.)
Travolta's attorney previously provided PEOPLE a photograph and a Mr. Chow restaurant receipt as proof his client was in New York that day.
The attorney has strongly denied all claims made by the L.A. masseur, as well as claims from a second masseur in Atlanta, who later joined the lawsuit against the actor. Each accuser is seeking $2 million in damages.
Okorie Okorocha, the lawyer for both plaintiffs, has said other accusers may come forward as well.
Travolta's attorney calls both accusations "absurd and fictional," and suggested the second accuser based his fabricated story on media reports that said Travolta was in Atlanta working on a movie.


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From what I understand, Thundercat mastermind Stephen Bruner seems to be a truly admirable character. Never once distracted by narcissistic concerns of fame and success, the man's been quietly contributing his cosmic bass touch to projects from Sucidal Tendancies to Sa-Ra Creative Partners to Snoop Dogg over the duration of his adult life. It was only with the encouragement of friend and similarly cloistered sonic experimenter Flying Lotus (who would later become The Golden Age of Apocalypse's producer; the pair previously worked together on last year's FlyLo release Cosmogramma) that Bruner began to allow his own music to shoot off into the stratosphere.
Because that's exactly what this sprawling, space-age album does. The familial lineage of both artist and producer (Thundercat the son of Temptations drummer Ronald Bruner Sr., and FlyLo the great-nephew of Alice Coltrane, wife of John Coltrane) are prominent touchstones on the record, but they're threaded amongst an entirely independent musical character that includes Bruner's skittering, serpentine bass solos and a particular (very 16-bit) synth vernacular. This is wonderful up until the point where it forces the sound to tread a tricky line between 'space-age' and 'Space Invaders' (see: 'Jamboree'). Of course, it's hard to get away from the fact that the record is a product of two friends working together, and unquestionably having a laugh doing so. Nobody's about to argue that the pair are channelling only their deepest and most profound artistic visions when opener 'HooooooO' turns out to be 23 seconds centred around a sample of the title sequence to Eighties American animation ThunderCats (evidently, Bruner's love of the cartoon explains the origins of his nickname).
Aside from this, The Golden Age of Apocalypse's only moment not penned by Bruner himself is the anti-gravity drifting of George Duke cover 'For Love I Come'. Following two-and-a-half minutes of pupil-dilating buoyancy that showcases his layered R&B harmony vocals (also: 'Walkin''), the track collapses into a much denser composition where featherweight, stuttering drums work contrary to another distinctive, twitchy bass run.
The only danger in releasing an album that's as much built upon the sound of a pulsing wah-wah bass as it is a series of steady jazz grooves is that listeners might be left thinking they've mistakenly picked up a particularly imaginative porno soundtrack. Which is why the phrase 'not ma' cup of tea' is undoubtedly going to get hurled at this record from some quarters. But there's a completely unique blend of textures and a desire for musical experimentation running through the bloodstream of The Golden Age of Apocalypse, and it would be a great shame to see that overlooked.
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 9, 2012 — /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Sports fans in San Francisco couldn't be happier, as their baseball team just won their second World Series in a three year time span. But Giants' fans aren't the only people who should be happy in the Bay Area. According to recent statistics, property owners in San Francisco also have something to smile about! Eight times each year, the Federal Reserve publishes the "Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions", better known as the "Beige Book", which gives an economic snapshot of all 12 Federal Reserve districts — including San Francisco. The "Beige Book" came out in mid-October, and it indicates that the residential real estate market in the metropolitan San Francisco area is recovering much quicker than in other cities across the country. For example, the median sales price for a home in the Bay Area continues to rise, and in September, it hit its highest level in more than four years. In September 2012, the median price in the nine-county area climbed to $429,000. That's a 17.5% increase from September 2011, when the median was $365,000.
Job growth and low interest rates are also bringing more buyers into the area. The unemployment rate around San Francisco has fallen to 7.4% — down from a high of 10.1% in January 2010. With more buyers eager to purchase a home now so they can take advantage of the all-time low interest rates that are available, there is a shortage of homes for sale in the Bay Area. While that's bad news for buyers, it's good news for sellers. After all, with fewer homes available on the market, sellers can raise their listing prices. And speaking of fewer homes on the market, San Francisco also is leading the way in foreclosure reduction. Last week, it was announced that foreclosure filings in the San Francisco area fell 36% when compared to the same time period last year. A big part of that comes from investors who are purchasing foreclosure properties and fixing them up to rent, instead of reselling them once the needed repairs have been made. But residential properties in San Francisco aren't the only hot commodities in town. Commercial real estate is also seeing a boom in the Bay Area. Kilroy Realty Corporation is building two new skyscrapers in town, and their CEO says they already have interested clients wanting to lease space in the buildings. The first, a 400,000 square foot, 27-story project, will break ground in the first quarter of next year, and construction of the second building should get underway in late 2013. In an interview with San Francisco Business Times, the company's CEO, John Kilroy said, "I can tell you I do not believe in the trees growing to the sky. But I have never seen so much visible demand from such a diverse group of people as I have seen in San Francisco and the Bay Area right now." With so many interested clients, but limited commercial space, the demand outweighs the inventory at this time, so economists speculate that Kilroy won't be the only company building commercial properties in San Francisco in the months and years to come. What does all this mean? If you're looking for a home in San Francisco, expect to pay more. If you own a business that is looking to move to the Bay Area, or relocate within it, also expect to pay a pretty penny. And finally, if you're a seller — of either a residential or commercial piece of real estate — you may be able to cash in on the high demand in the area and make more money than you initially hoped or planned when selling your property. http://www.RealtyPin.com
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Jean-Luc Picard
fictional Star Trek character
Jean-Luc Picard (13 July 2305–) is a character in the Star Trek fictional universe, the captain of the USS Enterprise-D and the Enterprise-E. He was played by British actor Patrick Stewart in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent films.
- Make it so.
- Catchphrase first used in "Encounter At Farpoint" (28 September 1987) by Gene Roddenberry, and thereafter used in many episodes and films, instructing a crew member to execute an order.
- Engage.
- Catchphrase first used in "Encounter At Farpoint" (28 September 1987) by Gene Roddenberry, and thereafter used in many episodes and films, instructing a crew member to execute an order sending the Enterprise on warp speed.
- Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
- Catchphrase used in many episodes
- Part of having feelings is learning to integrate them into your life, Data, ...learning to live with them. No matter what the circumstances ... Sometimes it takes courage to try, Data. Courage can be an emotion too.
- Star Trek Generations (1994) story by Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore and Rick Berman
- Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal.
- Star Trek Generations (1994) story by Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore and Rick Berman; On living in the moment
- Reports of my assimilation are greatly exaggerated.
- Emerging on the Enterprise-E bridge with his humanity fully intact, in Star Trek: First Contact (1996) story by Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore and Rick Berman; a derivative of the statement "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" attributed to Mark Twain, paraphrasing his remark: "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
- The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!
- Star Trek: First Contact (1996) story by Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore and Rick Berman
- If there is one ideal that the Federation holds most dear, it is that all men, all races can be united.
- Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) story by John Logan, Rick Berman and Brent Spiner; On Equality and Peace
- If your issues are with me, then deal with me. This has nothing to do with my ship, nothing to do with the Federation!
- Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) story by John Logan, Rick Berman and Brent Spiner; On facing issues Head-On
- Buried deep within you, beneath all the years of pain and anger, there is something that has never been nurtured: the potential to make yourself a better man. And that is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are. Oh, yes — I know you. There was a time you looked at the stars and dreamed of what might be.
- Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) story by John Logan, Rick Berman and Brent Spiner; On dreaming about a better life
Star Trek: The Next GenerationEdit
- Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before!
- Introduction spoken during the opening credits of each episode, derived from the introduction to the original Star Trek series. Both versions are by Gene Roddenberry; the original referred to a "five year mission" rather than a "continuing mission", and said "no man" rather than "no one". it also reused in Star Trek Beyond.
- If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are.
- "Encounter At Farpoint" (28 September 1987) by Gene Roddenberry
- There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions.
- "Justice" (9 November 1987) by Worley Thorne and Ralph Wills
- Things are only impossible until they're not!
- "When the Bough Breaks" (15 February 1988) by Hannah Louise Shearer; On persistance
- The Prime Directive is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy ... and a very correct one. History has proven again and again that whenever mankind interferes with a less developed civilization, no matter how well intentioned that interference may be, the results are invariably disastrous.
- "Symbiosis" (18 April 1988) by Robert Lewin
- You say you are true evil? Shall I tell you what true evil is? It is to submit to you. It is when we surrender our freedom, our dignity instead of defying you.
- "Skin of Evil" (25 April 1988) by Joseph Stefano
- No being is so important that he can usurp the rights of another.
- "The Schizoid Man" (23 January 1989) by Richard Manning and Hans Beimler
- Your Honour, the courtroom is a crucible. In it we burn away irrelevancies until we are left with a pure product, the truth for all time.
- "The Measure of a Man" (13 February 1989) by Melinda M. Snodgrass
- It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.
- "Peak Performance" (10 July 1989) by David Kemper
- 'A matter of internal security.' The age-old cry of the oppressor.
- "The Hunted" (8 January 1990) by Robin Bernheim
- Being first at any cost is not always the point.
- "Tin Man" (23 March 1990) by Dennis Putman Bailey and David Bischoff
- Let's make sure history never forgets the name ... Enterprise.
- Statement to the entire crew in the alternate timeline towards the end of "Yesterday's Enterprise" (19 February 1990) story by Trent Christopher Ganino, Eric A. Stillwell Ira Steven Behr, Richard Manning, Hans Beimler, Ronald D. Moore
- There are times, sir, when men of good conscience cannot blindly follow orders. You acknowledge their sentience, but ignore their personal liberties and freedom. Order a man to turn his child over to the state? Not while I'm his captain.
- "The Offspring", (12 March 1990) by René Echevarria
- You may test that assumption at your convenience.
- "Sins of the Father" (19 March 1990) by Drew Deighan; after being challenged by a Klingon to fight who said that Picard as a Federation officer would not fight.
- Imprisonment is an injury, regardless of how you justify it.
- "Allegiance" (26 March 1990) by Richard Manning and Hans Beimler
- I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile.
- "The Best of Both Worlds (18 June 1990) by Michael Piller
- You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy. "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged.
- "The Drumhead" (29 April 1991) by Jeri Taylor
- The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think.
- "The Drumhead" (29 April 1991) by Jeri Taylor
- Jean-Luc Picard: We think we've come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches, is all ancient history. Then, before you can blink an eye, suddenly, it threatens to start all over again.
- Worf: I believed her. I... helped her. I did not see her for what she was.
- Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Worf, villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well-camouflaged.
- Worf: I think... after yesterday people will not be so ready to trust her.
- Jean-Luc Picard: Maybe. But she, or someone like her, will always be with us. Waiting for the right climate in which to flourish, spreading fear in the name of righteousness. [...] Vigilance, Mr. Worf. That is the price we must continually pay.
- "The Drumhead" (29 April 1991) by Jeri Taylor
- I'd be delighted to offer any advice I have on understanding women. When I have some, I'll let you know.
- "In Theory" (3 June 1991) by Joe Menosky and Ronald D. Moore
- Seize the time... Live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.
- "The Inner Light" (1 June 1992) by Morgan Gendel and Peter Allan Fields
- There are four lights!
- "Chain of Command" (21 December 1992) by Frank Abatemarco
- Picard had been captured by the Cardassians and had been tortured. The torturer had constantly asked Picard how many lights did he see. Every time Picard answered he was electrocuted and told there were five lights.The point the Cardassian was trying to make is he broke Picard. In the end Picard showed his torturer that he didn't win, and told him how many lights there were.
- No, I am not dead. Because I refuse to believe the afterlife is run by you. The universe is not so badly designed!
- "Tapestry" (15 February 1993) by Ronald D. Moore
- There is a way out of every box, a solution to every puzzle; it's just a matter of finding it.
- "Attached" (8 November 1993) by Nick Sagan; On persistance
- We are what we are, and we're doing the best we can. It is not for you to set the standards by which we should be judged!
- "All Good Things..." (23 May 1994) by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore; On being judged by Q and the Q Continuum
- Now, this will put the ship at risk. Quite frankly, we may not survive. But I want you to believe that I am doing this for a greater purpose, and that what is at stake here is more than any of you can possibly imagine. I know you have your doubts about me, about each other, about this ship.All I can say is that although we have only been together for a short time, I know that you are the finest crew in the fleet. And I would trust each of you with my life. So, I am asking you for a leap of faith — and to trust me.
- "All Good Things..." (23 May 1994) by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore; On having faith in others
- So, five-card stud, nothing wild. And the sky's the limit.
- "All Good Things..." (23 May 1994) by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore; Last line of the series
Quotes about PicardEdit
- Alphabetized by author
- Captain Picard, is the exact opposite of a Hollywood action-hero.
- Dirk Baecker, in Inclusion/ Exclusiom (2002), p. 76
- Captain Picard is the hero we need right now. He exemplifies in some ways even more then James Kirk—and I'm not gonna get into the Kirk vs Picard argument because I love Captain Kirk, he was my first captain—but Picard is even more of an exemplar of everything that is best about Star Trek's vision for the future.
- Michael Chabon, "Captain Picard is the hero we need, says Star Trek writer Michael Chabon", by Richard Trenholm, CNET, (11/7/2018); as quoted in "Michael Chabon on Honoring Star Trek Canon and How Picard Is 'The Hero We Need Right Now'", by Beth Elderkin, IO9, (11/9/2018).
- Picard stands as the bearer of Starfleet's conscience and an exemplar of moral autonomy.
- Kevin Decker and Jason Eberl Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant (2008), p. 141
- Captain Picard is perceived to be a gentler soul than Captain Kirk.
- Marc Dipaol, in War, Politics and Superheroes : Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film (2011), p. 30
- The new captain of the Enterprise, Jean-Luc Picard, is the wise man. He rules the Enterprise with a sagely wisdom.
- Pallab Ghosh, in "Klingons on the Starship Bow" in New Scientist Vo. 117, issue 1605 (24 March 1988), p. 63
- As shown in his speech and actions, Picard is a man of intelligence, courage, integrity, compassion, courtesy.
- Mark Jancovich and James Lyons, in Quality Popular Television : Cult TV, The Industry and Fans (2003), p. 111
- Patrick Stewart's identification with Jean-Luc Picard is a prime exemplar of the extreme entanglement between actor and character produced by cult television programs, yet in Stewart's case this entanglement has not precluded a very active and successful post-Star Trek career.
- Sara Gwenllian-Jones and Roberta E. Pearson, in Cult Television (2004), p. 65
- Those ... who are familiar with the character Captain Picard, already know him to be the leader that we all wish we worked for, whose leadership gives us confidence and comfort in meeting the challenges we face each and every day, and the type of leader that we should strive to become.
- Wess Roberts and Bill Ross in Make It So : Leadership Lessons from Star Trek, The Next Generation (1995), p. xi
- Picard and his crew were all human carbon copies of Spock—even-keeled, rational, and almost impossibly ethical. (Spock himself says so of Picard in "Unification," the one "Next Generation" episode in which he appears.) That left little room for identification. You could aspire to be more like Picard, the very model of compassion and culture, but you could never truly understand his moral universe. He was nothing like us twenty-first-century humans. He was too alien.
- Manu Saadia, "The Enduring Lessons of "Star Trek"", The New Yorker, (September 8, 2016).
- The bridge of the Enterprise, under the moderate and controlled command of Captain Picard, is a locus of "enlightened understanding."
- Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Freakery: cultural spectacles of the extraordinary body (1996), p. 334
- The new captain, Jean-Luc Picard, was French and enjoyed reading, classical music, William Shakespeare, archaeology, and theatre.
- Gary Westfahl, in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy : Themes, Works, and Wonders (2005) Vol. 3, p. 1264
- Captain Picard is not the swashbuckler that Captain Kirk was.
- Grace Lee Whitney, Jim Denney, and Leonard Nimoy in The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy (1998), p. 81
- Only question I
Ever thought was hard
Was do I like Kirk,
Or do I like Picard?
- Weird Al Yankovic, "White & Nerdy", Straight Outta Lynwood (2006)
External linksEdit
- Biography of Jean-Luc Picard at the official Star Trek website
- Jean-Luc Picard at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
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|Feature films
|The Original Series
|The Motion Picture (1979) · The Wrath of Khan (1982) · The Search for Spock (1984) · The Voyage Home (1986) · The Final Frontier (1989) · The Undiscovered Country (1991)
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|Generations (1994) · First Contact (1996) · Insurrection (1998) · Nemesis (2002)
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|Star Trek (2009) · Into Darkness (2013) · Beyond (2016)
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The panoramic views from the Servcorp office on the 18th floor of the Sahab Tower are amongst the most stunning views of Kuwait city, overlooking the Arabian Gulf sea and city's landmarks. Located in the heart of the financial district, it's a preferred location of several multinational corporations. The lower 3 levels of the building are occupied by a selection of major fashion brands and cafés.
Besides easy access to bus and taxi stations, the tower also provides easy access to the Riyadh Highway and airport highway, and Kuwait International Airport is a 20 minute drive away. The tower is equipped with 24 hour secure underground parking, a mosque and is surrounded by a number of banks and 5 star hotels.
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Taxis are available around the city.
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Tel: 2247 9720/1
Lorenzo (Italian restaurant)
Tel: 2254 1900
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Tel: 2259 7430
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