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Swedish Meatballs
I was craving simple comfort food and I remembered my friend Currié saying she loved making Swedish Meatballs so I decided to give them a try. They were fairly simple to make and had just a little bit of clean up which is always a plus. I didn't have lingonberry jelly to add to the sauce but the recipe said I could use raspberry jelly instead. I'll admit I was a bit nervous about adding the jelly so I only put in a small amount but I am glad I added it. The jelly gave it a subtle sweetness that made the sauce taste delicious. The meatballs were moist and tender and tasted wonderful in the sauce. You can serve these meatballs over egg noodles but my kids wanted me to serve them over mashed potatoes. My husband and I really liked this dinner and it was a big hit with both of my kids who wanted the leftovers in their thermoses the following day for lunch. Love that!
Swedish Meatballs:
Adapted recipe and photos by For the Love of Cooking.net
Original recipe by Simply Recipes
1/2 sweet yellow onion, diced VERY finely or grated
1 tsp butter
1/4 cup of milk
2 slices of bread, crusts removed, bread cut into pieces
1 egg
1 lb of ground beef (93/7)
1 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cardamom
1 tsp black pepper
3 tbsp butter
2 1/2 tbsp flour
2 cups of beef stock, warmed
1/4 cup of sour cream
Sea salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste
2 tsp of lingonberry, cranberry, red currant, or raspberry jelly, more or less, to taste (optional)
Sauté the onion in 1 tsp of butter over medium heat until softened, about 3-4 minutes.
While the onions are cooking, mix the bread pieces with the milk then set aside for a few minutes until soaked through. Once it is soaked, pulverize with an immersion blender or food processor (it will be goopy). Pour into a large bowl.
Add the onions to the bread mixture along with the eggs, ground beef, salt, nutmeg, cardamom, and pepper. Using your hands, mix well until the ingredients are well combined.
Roll the meat into balls and place onto a plate. I made 18 meatballs but you can make them smaller or larger to suit your needs.
Heat 3 tbsp of butter to a large skillet over medium heat. When the butter has melted add half of the meatballs to the pan (don't overcrowd the pan). Brown the meatballs slowly on all sides. Be gentle when you turn them so they don't break apart. Do not cook the meatballs all the way through, only brown them at this stage. Once browned, remove them to a plate and cook the remaining meatballs.
Once all of the meatballs are cooked and the skillet is empty, add the flour to the same skillet. Whisk the butter in the pan (from cooking the meatballs) with the flour until it is the color of coffee with cream; this is a classic roux. As the roux is cooking, heat the beef stock until warm. When the roux has cooked to the coffee with cream color, add the warmed beef stock a little at a time. Keep stirring and adding stock slowly until the sauce because silky.
Add the meatballs back to the sauce and turn the heat down to low. Cover with a lid and cook for 10 minutes.
To finish the sauce, remove the meatballs to a serving bowl then add the sour cream and (if using) jelly to the sauce and stir until well combined. Taste the sauce and add more salt and pepper or jelly if needed. Serve the meatballs and sauce over egg noodles or mashed potatoes. Enjoy!


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KEMCO have announced that Antiquia Lost for the Xbox One family of devices including the Xbox One X, and Windows 10 PCs is set to hit the Microsoft Store today! Standard price is $14.99.
Bine, a young man who lives in a small rural village, spends his days peacefully, doing jobs and dealing with demons for the villagers. One day, he is asked by Lunaria, a girl who lives near the village, to go with her to the royal capital.
After a journey full of surprises, the two of them arrive at the capital. They are thrilled to be in the city for the first time, but they are greeted by one of the castle soldiers who are supposed to protect the citizens.
With more and more disappearances occurring, the rulers' expectations are mixed.
And there is a forgotten existence, too…
The birth of a scavenger heroine!
The heroine, Lunaria, does not have levels like other characters. By eating gems, her statuses are strengthened, and she can learn skills.
Of course you can let her eat gems that aren't needed, and she will also eat gems dropped by demons. She really is a scavenger heroine, and eating gems makes her stronger and stronger!
In battle, she has a powerful death-blow skill: she can mimic monsters!
Trust between allies is the key to victory
As trust between Bine (the main character) and his allies increases, more and more powerful skills which borrow allies' strength become possible!
Mount powerful attacks by making use of the different characteristics of each tribe.
Special actions, such as smashing rocks or squeezing through narrow gaps, are also possible, depending on the character at the head of the party.
Build deeper and deeper links with allies, defeat enemies, and try to find all the hidden items!
Plant seeds and harvest items
By planting beans in plant pots, you can harvest many different items.
There are fruits to increase statuses, and every now and again, you might grow something incredible!
A wide range of achievements
The game features many well-loved achievements, including weapon development and arenas where you can fight against strong enemies. This is not a game you will tire of quickly!
Also, there are still things to look forward to even once you complete the game!


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Despite the Internet revolution, traditional fax machines still prove useful in many industries. However, dmFax introduces intelligent new features that maximise the 'simple' advantages of fax technology while overcoming many of the technical hassles.
To get started, just select a number to become your company fax number. Choosing one that's in sequence with your phone new number is a good idea. Then dmFax will do the rest.
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- There's no need to phone the office to see if a fax has arrived. Check your email inbox instead
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Thanks to improvements in technology, it's easier than ever to be green.
Solar panels and electric vehicles (EVs) are two prime examples of technologies that can help people minimize their environmental footprint, without sacrificing comfort or having to radically change their daily behavior. But the question still remains: How much of an environmental benefit do these technologies actually produce? And, are there actions that owners of these technologies can take to minimize their pollution footprint even more?
A new paper by my colleagues and me, recently published in Energy Economics, attempts to answer these two questions for households in Austin, Texas. These homes are part of Pecan Street Inc., a living smart-grid laboratory with the largest customer energy-use database on the planet. Using detailed household-level data from 2013-2015, we were able to track solar panel performance and EV use and charging patterns, and match these actions to two important environmental impacts: water use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Our paper confirms that, in Texas, residential solar panels uses less water and pollutes the air less than using the central-grid power (based on its electricity sources during those years), and driving an EV instead of a gasoline vehicle generally reduces the household's water and emission footprint, even though EVs charge from the grid. Moreover, our analysis demonstrates how carefully examining energy-use data can help us make sure we're maximizing clean energy's benefits.
Energy-water connection
People may know that burning fossil fuels – whether to create electricity or drive gasoline vehicles – emits gasses that pollute the air. But you may ask, how do the central electric grid and cars use water?
Solar panels and electric vehicles will help pave the way to a cleaner future, but we must dig into the details to ensure we maximize the environmental benefits.
Water is used to produce many forms of energy, including both fossil-fuel based electricity and gasoline. For electricity generation in a natural gas or coal plant, large quantities of water are used for process-related needs, as well as to cool the power plant. The production and refinement of gasoline also uses a lot of water; in fact, we calculate that it takes about 4 gallons of water to produce one gallon of gasoline.
Wind and solar PV, on the other hand, need virtually no water to create power, and they do not emit GHGs or other pollutants in the process.
The solar findings
Because solar panels consume no water and emit no pollution, installing a solar panel allows a household to reduce both the water use and air pollution associated with grid electricity.
In fact, we find that solar panels in Texas have a very large and positive impact on both water and GHG emissions, reducing a household's combined footprint by about 75 percent (a previous Pecan Street study also found solar panels reduce homes' water-intensity by approximately 79 percent).
In Texas during the day when the sun shines, the main power sources are natural gas and coal. So, if you're getting some or all of your power from your own solar panels, you're avoiding using that high-GHG emitting, thirsty electricity from the grid.
Importantly, we find that a household can improve its environmental footprint even further by facing its solar panels south, capturing more sun throughout the day. However, this can conflict with local electric system attempts to maximize production during periods of peak demand, generally in the afternoon when people are getting home from school and work. For example, Pecan Street provided subsidies for solar owners in their community who face their panels west, thereby generating more electricity during that afternoon period, but less overall over the course of the day. Less electricity from the solar panels overall means more water use and emissions from the central grid.
This contradiction highlights the importance of analyzing data. A better understanding of hourly energy usage and emissions can inform electric system policies and pricing that lead to a reduction in total costs, including those related to the environment.
The EV findings
Understanding electric vehicles' environmental impact by these measurements is a bit trickier, because EVs avoid gasoline (thereby reducing water use and GHGs), but they also charge using the grid, which in Texas is largely powered by fossil fuels (thereby increasing both water use and GHG emissions).
Our paper therefore tested whether, on net, EVs are good for the environment – in this case by reducing water use and GHGs – in Texas.
To be able to quantify the environmental benefits of EVs, we needed to think about what vehicle the household would have driven had it not purchased an EV. Vehicle owners have many choices in the marketplace, and fuel efficiency is not the only deciding factor. For example, a family with many children or someone who needs to haul a trailer may not be willing to trade off vehicle size or horsepower in favor of a more compact EV. On the other hand, a person who likes small cars may place greater weight on fuel efficiency; this person's alternative to an EV is more likely to be a hybrid, whereas the large family's alternative vehicle is more likely to be a minivan.
Understanding what the alternative choice would have been is key in measuring the environmental impact of an EV: the less fuel-efficient the alternative vehicle, the better the EV is for the environment. For example, if you switch from driving a gas-guzzler to an EV, that's more beneficial than someone switching from a hybrid. In fact, we find that if the household's alternative-choice vehicle is a hybrid, using an EV can actually increase its net water use – the reduction in gasoline use is very small due to the high efficiency of the hybrid, and the EV is charged with thirsty grid electricity.
That said, we find that EVs always reduce GHG emissions, on net, regardless of the alternative vehicle. Although the benefits do vary largely with the efficiency of the alternative vehicle they would always increase the cleaner the grid becomes.
Our findings related to EVs suggest three distinct policy solutions:
- Ensure that vehicles such as SUVs and trucks have electric offerings, which manufacturers like Tesla and Volvo are already working on. This will help steer those who require larger sized vehicles towards choosing an electric option, thereby drastically reducing their environmental footprint.
- When people purchase a new EV, a well-designed rebate program that pays them to surrender their inefficient vehicle to be destroyed (such as an improved "Cash-for-Clunkers" program from 2009) could lead to even greater reductions in the environmental impacts of driving.
- Ensure more grid electricity comes from solar and wind, thereby further improving the water- and emission-intensity of EVs. Especially as EV adoption increases, having a clean grid will help us achieve a more environmentally-friendly transportation sector.
Solar panels and electric vehicles will help pave the way to a cleaner future, but we must dig into the details to ensure we maximize the environmental benefits. The more data we have and examine, the better that decision-makers can design energy programs and incentives to improve our environmental footprint.
Photo source: Pecan Street, Inc.


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Ma.gnolia, a social bookmarking service is down, lost all their user data and they don't know if / when they can recover.
This is as bad as it can get for any Web 2.0 service (and more importantly for users), and the backlash against Cloud services has already started. My first reaction is taking Stowe Boyd's approach – a quick overview of how safe my own data is.
Update: also read Krish's post @ ClouDave: Magnolia Effect – Should We Trust The Clouds?


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JEvents is a well known and Loved Events Calendar / Management solution for Joomla. JEvents provides a full events and calendar solution for your Joomla! site. Showing your events in listings or as a visual monthly calendar view, create complex repeats patterns, import and export your events with a couple of clicks, offer a feed with your latest events. The JEvents calendar is translated into more than 40 languages so we are likely to have a translation for your website. JEvents offer Complex repeating event patterns, repeating event exceptions, importing and exporting of calendars, a sophisticated layout editor for event detail, event calendar, upcoming event list and even event creation pages.
The JEvents package includes the main component, several modules and plugins to provide a feature rich solution to cover all of your event / calendar needs. Here is a quick rundown of what is included:
Events Component
- One-off Events and complex repeat patterns of events that can be created and viewed in an attractive calendar and a variety of list formats
- Multiple design layouts possible and customisable as we follow the Joomla! template override standards.
- Fully compatible with Joomla MVC framework
- iCal imports and exports of events and calendars - import a calendar from Google and from your phone and present the merged list of events in a singular calendar or event list view
- Repeat event exception handling - remove one event repeat or change the event repeat date, the repeat time or the event description etc.
- Support all day events or events with no end times
- Events can be placed in multiple categories and calendar views that can be customised to show events from all or some of these categories
- Optional checking for overlapping events on a global or category specific basis - so you can block event creation when the new event overlaps with an existing event
Custom layouts editor
If you're not happy with the default output - we offer a unique Layout editing tool to perfect the presentation of your single event pages, event lists and calendar views of your events. With just some basic HTML and CSS you can really customise the whole page to create the perfect event calendar for your needs
- Edit how to display your events in: Events Detail page, Event List views or in the Monthly Calendar cells.
- You can even customise the event editing page to make it easier for your users to submit events or edit an existing event
- Custom layouts can be category specific, so your sports events can be laid out differently to your music events etc.
- Running a multilingual site? Your layouts can also be language specific!! You can create translations of your events too so your visitors will see the details of each event in their own language.
- Event Calendar module provides you with a basic monthly calendar view. Coloured to highlight when events are occurring and links to day lists of events or directly to single events.
- Latest events module (List of events) which gives a highly configurable summary of upcoming events, recently created events or popular events
- Events legend (Category List) - displayed alongside the component gives you a summary of event categories and an easy way to limit the events shown to specific categories
- Filter module allows you to filter/search the events being displayed using a variety of search filters which are selectable within the module.
Events Search Plugin
- A search plugin that enables the global Joomla search to search from the events in your event calendar
JEvents speaks Afrikaans, Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese -
Present your Events Calendar in the language of your users
JEvents has been powering event and calendar functionality on Joomla websites since 2006 and we have helped countless users to get their website running with a fully functional events / calendar system and will keep on providing JEvents for the foreseeable future. We are passionate about Joomla! and have been from the beginning so we are not going anywhere soon.
JEvents 3.4 is available for general download - this is a Joomla 3.x native component that takes JEvents to the next level using jQuery and Bootstrap.
Addons Available
Free and paid extensions are available to further extend the functionality of JEvents from our site and from 3rd party developers. You can therefore further and enhance your events management and presentation capabilities.
- Version:
- 3.6.80
- Developer:
- Geraint Edwards
- Last updated:
May 23 2024
1 month ago - Date added:
- Mar 05 2006
- License:
- GPLv2 or later
- Type:
- Free download
- Includes:
- c m p
- Compatibility:
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Cisco Systems is giving network administrators new tools to handle the flood of personal mobile devices that employees are using to access corporate networks and data.
Cisco officials said that the new offerings, announced March 20, are designed to create a comprehensive approach to the growing trend of bring your own device (BYOD), which the rapid adoption of such mobile devices as smartphones and tablets-and employees desire to use them at work-is fueling.
The BYOD trend puts greater management and security pressures on network administrators, and it's not going to slow. However, how much corporations are embracing the trend varies. In a recent survey, Cisco found that 75 percent of IT managers in the United States say there need to be new rules and policies around security and device use. However, many also seem to be ignoring the issue: 48 percent of respondents said their companies would never authorize employees to bring their own devices, while 57 percent admitted that some employees use personal devices without consent.
That said, a survey by Avanade found that about 60 percent of companies are adopting their IT infrastructures to handle the BYOD trend.
Most major networking vendors-from Juniper Networks and Extreme Networks to Alcatel-Lucent and AirTight Networks-are pushing features and technologies designed to address the trend.
Cisco officials said their new tools offer a more wide-ranging approach to the problem.
"The BYOD trend is here to stay, but companies must move beyond the basic act of connecting user-owned devices to a comprehensive BYOD strategy to meet employee demands," Sujai Hajela, vice president and general manager of Cisco's Wireless Networking Business Unit, said in a statement. "Unlike competitors, Cisco is approaching BYOD holistically."
The networking vendor's new tools are based on its Borderless Network initiative, with Cisco's Identify Services Engine (ISE) offering some key enhancements. Among those is ISE 1.1MR, which makes it easier for employees to self-provision their own devices and lift some of that burden from the IT department. In addition, Cisco officials are looking to integrate mobile device management (MDM) solutions from the likes of AirWatch, Good, MobileIron and Zenprise into ISE, which would give IT administrators greater control over device access and policies, such as requiring the devices to have a pin lock, not allowing jailbroken devices onto the network, and being able to remotely wipe data on lost or stolen devices.
The importance of such policies was highlighted in Cisco's "Connected World Technology Report," which said that 70 percent of employees worldwide admit to breaking IT policies.
In addition, Cisco is upgrading its wireless LAN offerings with its new United Wireless Network Software 7.2, which offers users a better video experience though its VideoStream technology, and with the ability to enable a single controller to support up to 3,000 access points and 30,000 clients. That addresses the growing trend of people having more than one or two mobile devices. The new software also offers optimized Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support, a key feature, given that 71 percent of smartphones and tablets-1.6 billion-will be IPv6-capable by 2016, according to Cisco.
For more, read the original eWeek article: Cisco Takes a Holistic Approach to BYOD.


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XLIX. The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans
THROUGHOUT the twelfth century there were many signs that the European intelligence was recovering courage and leisure, and preparing to take up again the intellectual enterprises of the first Greek scientific enquiries and such speculations as those of the Italian Lucretius. The causes of this revival were many and complex. The suppression of private war, the higher standards of comfort and security that followed the crusades, and the stimulation of men's minds by the experiences of these expeditions were no doubt necessary preliminary conditions. Trade was reviving; cities were recovering ease and safety; the standard of education was arising in the church and spreading among laymen. The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were a period of growing, independent or quasi-independent cities; Venice, Florence, Genoa, Lisbon, Paris, Bruges, London, Antwerp, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Novgorod, Wisby and Bergen for example. They were all trading cities with many travellers, and where men trade and travel they talk and think. The polemics of the Popes and princes, the conspicuous savagery and wickedness of the persecution of heretics, were exciting men to doubt the authority of the church and question and discuss fundamental things.
We have seen how the Arabs were the means of restoring Aristotle to Europe, and how such a prince as Frederick II acted as a channel through which Arabic philosophy and science played upon the renascent European mind. Still more influential in the stirring up of men's ideas were the Jews. Their very existence was a note of interrogation to the claims of the church. And finally the secret, fascinating enquiries of the alchemists were spreading far and wide and setting men to the petty, furtive and yet fruitful resumption of experimental science.
And the stir in men's minds was by no means confined now to the independent and well educated. The mind of the common man was awake in the world as it had never been before in all the experience of mankind. In spite of priest and persecution, Christianity does seem to have carried a mental ferment wherever its teaching reached. It established a direct relation between the conscience of the individual man and the God of Righteousness, so that now if need arose he had the courage to form his own judgment upon prince or prelate or creed.
As early as the eleventh century philosophical discussion had begun again in Europe, and there were great and growing universities at Paris, Oxford, Bologna and other centres. There medieval "schoolmen" took up again and thrashed out a series of questions upon the value and meaning of words that were a necessary preliminary to clear thinking in the scientific age that was to follow. And standing by himself because of his distinctive genius was Roger Bacon (circa 1210 to circa 1293), a Franciscan of Oxford, the father of modern experimental science. His name deserves a prominence in our history second only to that of Aristotle.
His writings are one long tirade against ignorance. He told his age it was ignorant, an incredibly bold thing to do. Nowadays a man may tell the world it is as silly as it is solemn, that all its methods are still infantile and clumsy and its dogmas childish assumptions, without much physical danger; but these peoples of the middle ages when they were not actually being massacred or starving or dying of pestilence, were passionately convinced of the wisdom, the completeness and finality of their beliefs, and disposed to resent any reflections upon them very bitterly. Roger Bacon's writings were like a flash of light in a profound darkness. He combined his attack upon the ignorance of his times with a wealth of suggestion for the increase of knowledge. In his passionate insistence upon the need of experiment and of collecting knowledge, the spirit of Aristotle lives again in him. "Experiment, experiment," that is the burthen of Roger Bacon.
Yet of Aristotle himself Roger Bacon fell foul. He fell foul of him because men, instead of facing facts boldly, sat in rooms and pored over the bad Latin translations which were then all that was available of the master. "If I had my way," he wrote, in his intemperate fashion, "I should burn all the books of Aristotle, for the study of them can only lead to a loss of time, produce error, and increase ignorance," a sentiment that Aristotle would probably have echoed could he have returned to a world in which his works were not so much read as worshipped-and that, as Roger Bacon showed, in these most abominable translations.
Throughout his books, a little disguised by the necessity of seeming to square it all with orthodoxy for fear of the prison and worse, Roger Bacon shouted to mankind, "Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!" Four chief sources of ignorance he denounced; respect for authority, custom, the sense of the ignorant crowd, and the vain, proud unteachableness of our dispositions. Overcome but these, and a world of power would open to men: -
"Machines for navigating are possible without rowers, so that great ships suited to river or ocean, guided by one man, may be borne with greater speed than if they were full of men. Likewise cars may be made so that without a draught animal they may be moved cum impetu inoestimable, as we deem the scythed chariots to have been from which antiquity fought. And flying machines are possible, so that a man may sit in the middle turning some device by which artificial wings may beat the air in the manner of a flying bird."
So Roger Bacon wrote, but three more centuries were to elapse before men began any systematic attempts to explore the hidden stores of power and interest he realized so clearly existed beneath the dull surface of human affairs.
But the Saracenic world not only gave Christendom the stimulus of its philosophers and alchemists; it also gave it paper. It is scarcely too much to say that paper made the intellectual revival of Europe possible. Paper originated in China, where its use probably goes back to the second century B.C. In 751 the Chinese made an attack upon the Arab Moslems in Samarkand; they were repulsed, and among the prisoners taken from them were some skilled papermakers, from whom the art was learnt. Arabic paper manuscripts from the ninth century onward still exist. The manufacture entered Christendom either through Greece or by the capture of Moorish paper-mills during the Christian reconquest of Spain. But under the Christian Spanish the product deteriorated sadly. Good paper was not made in Christian Europe until the end of the thirteenth century, and then it was Italy which led the world. Only by the fourteenth century did the manufacture reach Germany, and not until the end of that century was it abundant and cheap enough for the printing of books to be a practicable business proposition. Thereupon printing followed naturally and necessarily, for printing is the most obvious of inventions, and the intellectual life of the world entered upon a new and far more vigorous phase. It ceased to be a little trickle from mind to mind; it became a broad flood, in which thousands and presently scores and hundreds of thousands of minds participated.
One immediate result of this achievement of printing was the appearance of an abundance of Bibles in the world. Another was a cheapening of school-books. The knowledge of reading spread swiftly. There was not only a great increase of books in the world, but the books that were now made were plainer to read and so easier to understand. Instead of toiling at a crabbed text and then thinking over its significance, readers now could think unimpeded as they read. With this increase in the facility of reading, the reading public grew. The book ceased to be a highly decorated toy or a scholar's mystery. People began to write books to be read as well as looked at by ordinary people. They wrote in the ordinary language and not in Latin. With the fourteenth century the real history of the European literature begins.
So far we have been dealing only with the Saracenic share in the European revival. Let us turn now to the influence of the Mongol conquests. They stimulated the geographical imagination of Europe enormously. For a time under the Great Khan, all Asia and Western Europe enjoyed an open intercourse; all the roads were temporarily open, and representatives of every nation appeared at the court of Karakorum. The barriers between Europe and Asia set up by the religious feud of Christianity and Islam were lowered. Great hopes were entertained by the papacy for the conversion of the Mongols to Christianity. Their only religion so far had been Shumanism, a primitive paganism. Envoys of the Pope, Buddhist priests from India, Parisian and Italian and Chinese artificers, Byzantine and Armenian merchants, mingled with Arab officials and Persian and Indian astronomers and mathematicians at the Mongol court. We hear too much in history of the campaigns and massacres of the Mongols, and not enough of their curiosity and desire for learning. Not perhaps as an originative people, but as transmitters of knowledge and method their influence upon the world's history has been very great. And everything one can learn of the vague and romantic personalities of Jengis or Kublai tends to confirm the impression that these men were at least as understanding and creative monarchs as either that flamboyant but egotistical figure Alexander the Great or that raiser of political ghosts, that energetic but illiterate theologian Charlemagne.
One of the most interesting of these visitors to the Mongol Court was a certain Venetian, Marco Polo, who afterwards set down his story in a book. He went to China about 1272 with his father and uncle, who had already once made the journey. The Great Khan had been deeply impressed by the elder Polos; they were the first men of the "Latin" peoples he had seen; and he sent them back with enquiries for teachers and learned men who could explain Christianity to him, and for various other European things that had aroused his curiosity. Their visit with Marco was their second visit.
The three Polos started by way of Palestine and not by the Crimea, as in their previous expedition. They had with them a gold tablet and other indications from the Great Khan that must have greatly facilitated their journey. The Great Khan had asked for some oil from the lamp that burns in the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem; and so thither they first went, and then by way of Cilicia into Armenia. They went thus far north because the Sultan of Egypt was raiding the Mongol domains at this time. Thence they came by way of Mesopotamia to Ormuz on the Persian Gulf, as if they contemplated a sea voyage. At Ormuz they met merchants from India. For some reason they did not take ship, but instead turned northward through the Persian deserts, and so by way of Balkh over the Pamir to Kashgar, and by way of Kotan and the Lob Nor into the Hwang-ho valley and on to Pekin. At Pekin was the Great Khan, and they were hospitably entertained.
Marco particularly pleased Kublai; he was young and clever, and it is clear he had mastered the Tartar language very thoroughly. He was given an official position and sent on several missions, chiefly in south-west China. The tale he had to tell of vast stretches of smiling and prosperous country, "all the way excellent hostelries for travellers," and "fine vineyards, fields and gardens," of "many abbeys" of Buddhist monks, of manufactures of "cloth of silk and gold and many fine taffetas," a "constant succession of cities and boroughs," and so on, first roused the incredulity and then fired the imagination of all Europe. He told of Burmah, and of its great armies with hundreds of elephants, and how these animals were defeated by the Mongol bowmen, and also of the Mongol conquest of Pegu. He told of Japan, and greatly exaggerated the amount of gold in that country. For three years Marco ruled the city of Yang-chow as governor, and he probably impressed the Chinese inhabitants as being very little more of a foreigner than any Tartar would have been. He may also have been sent on a mission to India. Chinese records mention a certain Polo attached to the imperial council in 1277, a very valuable confirmation of the general truth of the Polo story.
The publication of Marco Polo's travels produced a profound effect upon the European imagination. The European literature, and especially the European romance of the fifteenth century, echoes with the names in Marco Polo's story, with Cathay (North China) and Cambulac (Pekin) and the like.
Two centuries later, among the readers of the Travels of Marco Polo was a certain Genoese mariner, Christopher Columbus, who conceived the brilliant idea of sailing westward round the world to China. In Seville there is a copy of the Travels with marginal notes by Columbus. There were many reasons why the thought of a Genoese should be turned in this direction. Until its capture by the Turks in 1453 Constantinople had been an impartial trading mart between the Western world and the East, and the Genoese had traded there freely. But the "Latin" Venetians, the bitter rivals of the Genoese, had been the allies and helpers of the Turks against the Greeks, and with the coming of the Turks Constantinople turned an unfriendly face upon Genoese trade. The long forgotten discovery that the world was round had gradually resumed its sway over men's minds. The idea of going westward to China was therefore a fairly obvious one. It was encouraged by two things. The mariner's compass had now been invented and men were no longer left to the mercy of a fine night and the stars to determine the direction in which they were sailing, and the Normans, Catalonians and Genoese and Portuguese had already pushed out into the Atlantic as far as the Canary Isles, Madeira and the Azores.
Yet Columbus found many difficulties before he could get ships to put his idea to the test. He went from one European Court to another. Finally at Granada, just won from the Moors, he secured the patronage of Ferdinand and Isabella, and was able to set out across the unknown ocean in three small ships. After a voyage of two months and nine days he came to a land which he believed to be India, but which was really a new continent, whose distinct existence the old world had never hitherto suspected. He returned to Spain with gold, cotton, strange beasts and birds, and two wild-eyed painted Indians to be baptized. They were called Indians because, to the end of his days, he believed that this land he had found was India. Only in the course of several years did men begin to realize that the whole new continent of America was added to the world's resources.
The success of Columbus stimulated overseas enterprise enormously. In 1497 the Portuguese sailed round Africa to India, and in 1515 there were Portuguese ships in Java. In 1519 Magellan, a Portuguese sailor in Spanish employment, sailed out of Seville westward with five ships, of which one, the Vittoria, came back up the river to Seville in 1522, the first ship that had ever circumnavigated the world. Thirty-one men were aboard her, survivors of two-hundred-and-eighty who had started. Magellan himself had been killed in the Philippine Isles.
Printed paper books, a new realization of the round world as a thing altogether attainable, a new vision of strange lands, strange animals and plants, strange manners and customs, discoveries overseas and in the skies and in the ways and materials of life burst upon the European mind. The Greek classics, buried and forgotten for so long, were speedily being printed and studied, and were colouring men's thoughts with the dreams of Plato and the traditions of an age of republican freedom and dignity. The Roman dominion had first brought law and order to Western Europe, and the Latin Church had restored it; but under both Pagan and Catholic Rome curiosity and innovation were subordinate to and restrained by organization. The reign of the Latin mind was now drawing to an end. Between the thirteenth and the sixteenth century the European Aryans, thanks to the stimulating influence of Semite and Mongol and the rediscovery of the Greek classics, broke away from the Latin tradition and rose again to the intellectual and material leadership of mankind.


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Eyeware Raises CHF 1.9M to Bring 3D Eye Tracking to Consumer Devices
3D eye tracking startup Eyeware closes its first round of CHF 1.9M in venture funding. Expert in computer vision, Eyeware develops software that enables consumer devices, cars and robots with 3D cameras to sense and analyze the attention of users.
The Swiss deep tech startup Eyeware announced today the closing of its seed financing round of 1.9M CHF ($1.9M USD). Eyeware develops 3D eye tracking software for depth sensing enabled consumer devices. The seed round was led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), in partnership with TRUMPF Venture GmbH, Swiss Startup Group, and Zurich Kantonalbank.
Eyeware is a spin-off of Idiap Research Institute and EPFL. Created in September 2016, Eyeware Tech SA has collaborated with multiple industrial partners to prototype and develop innovative eye tracking applications. One of the projects presented publicly is the BionicWorkplace: a concept for a futuristic factory workplace containing a collaborative robotic arm developed by the German corporate Festo and presented at the Hannover Messe 2018.
More recently, Eyeware technology was presented as part of an automotive solution during CES 2019. Eyeware software can use autograde time-of-flight cameras to estimate attention of drivers for in-cabin monitoring and infotainment systems. The proposed system can contribute to reducing the number of road accidents caused by drivers who lose attention at the wheel.
The capital will be used by the Eyeware team to bring the 3D eye tracking development kit ready for integration into consumer applications. Eyeware is also looking to expand its corporate partnerships in the US and China.
Speaking about the investment, Dr. Kenneth Funes, Founder & CEO of Eyeware said:
"Our vision is to enable communication with machines in a natural and intuitive way, just like you would with a friend standing in front of you. Eye tracking and attention sensing is a game changing technology for human-machine communication, as it will make interaction with our devices faster, more intuitive and more accessible.
"Eyeware technology is the result of intensive research, and we are confident to be opening the doors for exciting new opportunities in eye tracking applications for daily use. We have been extremely fortunate to receive the support of a well-connected and experienced group of investors that shares our vision and is committed to work with us to achieve it."
Axel Nitsch, Investment Manager at HTGF, said about the investment in Eyeware:
"Eyeware's revolutionary approach to enable attention understanding in industrial and consumer applications brings state-of-the-art technology to a next level. We have a strong belief that the extraordinary team around Kenneth will be able to change the landscape of human machine interaction. HTGF is very happy to be part of this journey."
Dr. Dieter Kraft, Managing Director of TRUMPF Venture and Board member of Eyeware, also commented that:
"Attention sensing by eye tracking is the missing link in a multimodal human machine interaction. We are delighted to support the Eyeware team and help to bring the product to market."
For more info, feel free to contact us at [email protected].
Eyeware is a Swiss computer vision startup developing 3D eye tracking software for consumer cameras with depth sensing. Eyeware launched in September 2016, as a spin-off from the Idiap Research Institute, with the mission to bring 3D eye tracking to consumer devices. In collaboration with industrial partners, Eyeware is bringing to market attention sensing applications in multiple industries, including robotics, automotive, healthcare, consumer devices, and retail.
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is a seed investor that finances high-potential, tech-driven startups. With EUR 892.5 million in total investment volume across three funds and an international network of partners, HTGF has already helped forge 500 startups since 2005. HTGF's focus is on high-tech startups in a range of sectors, including software, hardware and life sciences / chemistry.
The high-tech company TRUMPF offers production solutions in the machine tool and laser sectors. With our corporate venture capital arm TRUMPF Venture, we are both a strategic partner and a venture capital investor for startups with an industrial focus. The TRUMPF group has about 13,400 employees in nearly all the countries of Europe, North and South America, and Asia and achieved sales of 3.6 billion euros in fiscal 2017/18.
The SWISS STARTUP GROUP is a privately financed Swiss venture platform to scout, analyze, accelerate and invest in the most promising early stage startups. Within the last years, SSUG has created a unique business execution platform where top early stage startups, venture investors, corporate partners, academic partners and mentors meet, exchange, accelerate and invest.
Zurich Kantonalbank (ZKB) is the biggest cantonal bank in Switzerland and one of the biggest Swiss banks, with total assets of CHF 164 billion and more than 5,000 employees.


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Thanos supports different tracing backends that implements opentracing.Tracer
All clients are configured using --tracing.config-file
to reference to the configuration file or --tracing.config
to put yaml config directly.
flags? #You can either pass YAML file defined below in --tracing.config-file
or pass the YAML content directly using --tracing.config
. We recommend the latter as it gives an explicit static view of configuration for each component. It also saves you the fuss of creating and managing additional file.
Don't be afraid of multiline flags!
In Kubernetes it is as easy as (on Thanos sidecar example):
- args:
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- |
--objstore.config=type: GCS
bucket: <bucket>
- --prometheus.url=http://localhost:9090
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--tracing.config=type: STACKDRIVER
service_name: ""
project_id: <project>
sample_factor: 16
- --tsdb.path=/prometheus-data
interfaceAt that point, anyone can use your provider by spec.
Current tracing supported backends:
Client for https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger tracing.
type: JAEGER
service_name: ""
disabled: false
rpc_metrics: false
tags: ""
sampler_type: ""
sampler_param: 0
sampler_manager_host_port: ""
sampler_max_operations: 0
sampler_refresh_interval: 0s
reporter_max_queue_size: 0
reporter_flush_interval: 0s
reporter_log_spans: false
endpoint: ""
user: ""
password: ""
agent_host: ""
agent_port: 0
Client for https://cloud.google.com/trace/ tracing.
type: STACKDRIVER
service_name: ""
project_id: ""
sample_factor: 0
Client for https://www.elastic.co/products/apm tracing.
type: ELASTIC_APM
service_name: ""
service_version: ""
service_environment: ""
sample_rate: 0
Client for Ligthstep.
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Fukushima Nuclear Plant Leak: Japan Government May Use Emergency Reserves For Cleanup, Government Takes Control Of Recovery Operations From Tepco
The Japanese government has wrested control of clean-up operations at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant from its beleaguered operator, which has been accused of mismanaging the process, and is considering using budget reserves to fund its recovery, Toshimitsu Motegi, the trade and industry minister, said, on Monday.
Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, which operates the plant said it would seek the help of foreign decommissioning experts to contain leakage of radioactive water, after admitting last week that tons of highly contaminated water had leaked from one of its storage tanks that stored the water used as coolants for the damaged nuclear reactors. The leak, considered as one of the worst in a series of mishaps at the stricken nuclear facility, had forced the country to issue a level 3 danger warning, last week.
The trade minister, who visited the facility late on Monday, blamed the operator's lax maintenance for the leaks and said he would establish a task force to monitor the clean-up at the crippled plant to avoid further instances of leakages, in a clear indication that the government is taking control of recovery operations at the crippled plant.
"The urgency of the situation is very high," Motegi said. "From here on the government will take charge," he told reporters after visiting the facility, Associated Press, or AP, reported.
The Japanese government has $3.5 billion in its emergency reserve funds for the year 2013-14, and the government could use this to fund the clean-up operations.
"For measures that require sophisticated technology, we will appropriately implement them as the government while collaborating with authorities on fiscal measures, including the use of a reserve fund," Motegi said, according to Reuters.
Tepco President Naomi Hirose, who accompanied Motegi during the visit, apologized for the leaks and said the company would be forming a new task force and will build additional tanks to store the contaminated water, AP reported.
Tepco was heavily criticized for its failure in containing the damage at the Fukushima plant, which in March 2011, was hit by a giant tsunami triggered by an earthquake that ravaged the nuclear plant, and damaged its back-up generators and cooling system, leading to a meltdown of its reactors.
Earlier this month, after months of denial, Tepco admitted that the radioactive water leaking from the plant's storage tanks and underground tunnels had reached the Pacific Ocean. Following the confirmation of the leaks, Japan's nuclear watch dog had said that the crisis at the Fukushima plant had escalated beyond the control of Tepco.
Last week, Tepco, acknowledging its failure in handling the crisis said that it would seek the help of international decommissioning experts on ways to control leaks and disposing the contaminated water at the plant.
The crisis, experts point out, is more severe than Tepco has ascertained, as the process of cooling the melted reactors has to continue to prevent the reactors from achieving a state of criticality, or from triggering a self-sustaining chain of nuclear reactions.
The tons of radioactive water from the plant are currently stored in huge tanks, and due to flaws in their design and other issues, some of the tanks and underground tunnels have been leaking, contaminating the surroundings. Although some amount of the water is being treated with filters to reduce its radioactivity, experts point out that disposing the contaminated filters would also pose challenges.
The drainage system in the wrecked nuclear plant already contains more than 20,000 tons of water with high levels of radioactivity, and more than 1,000 giant tanks that were built to hold the contaminated water around the facility are nearly full, posing new challenges to the operator.
Meanwhile, Russia, which had offered its help to clean up the Fukushima facility two years ago, has repeated its offer to help Japan in dealing with the crisis.
"In our globalized nuclear industry we don't have national accidents, they are all international," Vladimir Asmolov, first deputy director general of Rosenergoatom, the state-owned Russian nuclear utility said, according to Japan Daily Press report.
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Zanzibar Expedition Programs
Zanzibar Expedition Programs
The cost of the full package of services - 1940 $*
Africa. Tanzania. Zanzibar Archipelago
Program Category: excursions, sea, beach, various water activities
The complexity of the program: easy
Duration: 7 DAYS
Season: all year round
Program cost: 1940 USD
The state of Tanzania (United Republic of Tanzania) is located in the eastern part of central Africa, washed by the Indian Ocean, in which there are a number of islands, including the archipelago of Zanzibar. The capital is Dodoma.
On the territory of Tanzania are: 15 National Parks, the highest mountain in Africa - Kilimanjaro (5895 m), the largest freshwater lake in Africa - Lake Victoria.
Kilimanjaro International Airport, located between the cities of Arusha and Moshi, approximately 50 km south-west from the top of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Kilimanjaro is the highest point in Africa (5895 m), an extinct stratovolcano located in northeastern Tanzania, near the cities of Arusha and Moshi.
Archipelago of Zanzibar. There are two main islands that make up the mysterious, yet romantic name ZANZIBAR, Unguja the capital island and Pemba her smaller twin sister. Early Indian sea farers made it a stopping of point with their trading caravans called the island "ZENJI BAR" meaning the black coasts.
- The Island has some of the best beaches anywhere in Africa and arguably the world
- Nungwi - large village and the famous beach. The place has a party atmosphere
- Matemwe - long idyllic stretch of coast, offering fine sand and a great base from which to go snorkelling or diving.
- Kendwa - calm, long and wide stretch of coast, offering a lot of entertainment and accommodation options
- Pongwe beach - located in a small cove along the coast covered with palm trees. This place is suitable for couples and romantics.
- Mnemba Island - atoll set just off the northeast coast near Matemwe. Diving at Mnemba is stunning, on the inside it's like being in a giant aquarium and the outside offers excellent wall and drift dives. The island itself is a breeding ground for turtles and they are often seen gliding by along with dolphins, huge schools of fish, whale sharks and humpbacks when in season.
- The Stone City is the story of Zanzibar. Stone Town is a World Heritage site and is the most atmospheric and vibrant of all the remaining traditional Swahili settlements. Architecturally it's a fusion of African and Arab influences not dissimilar to the medinas of Morocco with its narrow streets, twists and turns.
- The Anglican Cathedral - first Cathedral in East Africa been built in 1870s by the Universities Mission to Central Africa.
Jozani Forest and Sultan's Palace - Getting married on Zanzibar is becoming more and more popular.
- Spice Tour - no trip to Zanzibar would be complete without a tour of a traditional spice farm. Over the years Zanzibar has been one of the largest exporters of cloves and other spices.
- Swim with Wild Dolphins - unique opportunity to track and swim with one of the oceans most captivating creatures. Each morning the local pod of dolphins wake from their overnight spot in Menai Bay and prepare themselves for the day ahead, playing with the tourists is just part of their morning routine.
- Snorkeling. The safari blue excursion offers full day sailing around mangroves and snorkeling along some of the best coral reefs Zanzibar has to offer followed by the best seafood barbeque you will ever have and an exotic fruit tasting session
- Prison Island. It is wood boat trip to one of Zanzibar shore islet. The island has a large number of giant tortoises and was imported from Seychelles in 19th century. The prison ruins, coral rag forest trail and also beautiful peacocks. It has also beautiful cl reef ideal for snorkelling and lovely white sand for sun bathing.
- Accommodation is Bad and Breakfast, hotel 4*, 2-bed room
- All Transfers,
- Tours,
- Lunch during the tours,
- Guide,
- Intres fee,
- Equipment of snokling and soft drink.
- Visa
- Alcohol
- Diner and Tip for Guides
- Private things
- Tip for Guide it depend of Trip's if the trip is half day they will pay from $-10 Or $-20. If is full day they will pay $-25 Or $-30.
Zanzibar, 7 days
Meet and greet at Zanzibar airport then picked up and drive to stone town hotel tausi palace
Morning at 8:30 picked up from hotel to fumba village where you will meet your special boat special Guided safari blue tour: It is about visting three different sand banks and you stop in one of those for Sea food lunch where by later you do snorkeling and having chance of seeing dolphin. It is full day back at 17:30 fumba village and arrives at hotel around 17:30 back to hotel at tausi palace overnight
Morning after breakfast pick up from the hotel to Morning after breakfast at 9:30 picked up to spice farm where you can see different types of spice and how they grow up plus tasting the seasonal fruits and to experience the normal life of the local people in the village then will have lunch at spice farm, After meal will have town tour where you can have amazing history of the heart of the Zanzibar island as known as stone town ,whereby you have chance to see the slave market site ,daily market ,house of wonder ,old fort ,palace museum and narrow street then will have chance to do shopping ,this tour will be full day. Then drive to north at amani bungalow overnight
Morning time at 8am pick up from hotel to prison where you will the gentle tortoise and enjoy the blue ocean by doing snorkeling then will be drive to the natural aquarium to swim with see turtose then drive back to hotel at amani bungalow
Morning after breakfast at 10: 00 am.pick up from the hotel and will have a specila boat to ho to mnemba island for snorkeling half day then will be back at your hotel for lunch and relaxing ,overnight to amaan bungalow
Full day relaxing at the hotel and overnight
Pick up from the hotel to Zanzibar airport for flight back to your country


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SURAT: Surat railroad station is on course to turn into the first in the country to experience change under the redevelopment strategy for stations as declared by railway minister Suresh Prabhu in the announcement of estimated receipts and use for 2015-16 for Indian Railways displayed by him in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
The re-improvement of Surat rail line station would happen on 2.27 lakh square meter of area close to the station fitting in with the Indian Railways, Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) and Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC). A unique reason vehicle (SPV) is prone to be framed by them for the Rs 5,000 crore venture.
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Educational Technology Cell (ET Cell)
The department has Educational Technology cell (E T Cell) to lend relevant technological support to the ongoing instructional activities as well as the in-service education programmes. It has a rich library of educational films, film-strips, video recording and audio cassettes besides the requisite hardware. There is TV viewing room to watch telecasts / video Playbacks of educational programmes. The ET Cell has a modern audio studio with a spacious recording room and other production facilities. In the last few decades, the E T Cell has developed more than 400 audio programmes in the areas of language teaching value education, child psychology, astronomy, guidance and counseling, etc., for use by students, teacher and teacher trainers. The Cell has undertaken collaborative projects with the States in the region for curriculum based audio cassettes which are subsequently distributed to the beneficiaries by the States.
Currently, the studio is equipped with the facilities of digitalizing the video and audio cassettes. The functions of the ET cell are: To provide audio resource support to the pre and in-service training programmes of the Institute; and To develop prototype audio educational software and E- content in different subject areas for school education for wider dissemination to schools, teacher education institutions and State level organizations.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered that one gene in a common fungus acts as a master regulator, and deleting it has opened access to a wealth of new compounds that have never before been studied – with the potential to identify new antibiotics.
The finding was announced today in the journal PLOS Genetics, in research supported by the National Institutes of Health and the American Cancer Society.
Scientists succeeded in flipping a genetic switch that had silenced more than 2,000 genes in this fungus, the cereal pathogen Fusarium graminearum. Until now this had kept it from producing novel compounds that may have useful properties, particularly for use in medicine but also perhaps in agriculture, industry, or biofuel production.
"About a third of the genome of many fungi has always been silent in the laboratory," said Michael Freitag, an associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics in the OSU College of Science. "Many fungi have antibacterial properties. It was no accident that penicillin was discovered from a fungus, and the genes for these compounds are usually in the silent regions of genomes.
"What we haven't been able to do is turn on more of the genome of these fungi, see the full range of compounds that could be produced by expression of their genes," he said. "Our finding should open the door to the study of dozens of new compounds, and we'll probably see some biochemistry we've never seen before."
In the past, the search for new antibiotics was usually done by changing the environment in which a fungus or other life form grew, and see if those changes generated the formation of a compound with antibiotic properties.
"The problem is, with the approaches of the past we've already found most of the low-hanging fruit, and that's why we've had to search in places like deep sea vents or corals to find anything new," Freitag said. "With traditional approaches there's not that much left to be discovered. But now that we can change the genome-wide expression of fungi, we may see a whole new range of compounds we didn't even know existed."
The gene that was deleted in this case regulates the methylation of histones, the proteins around which DNA is wound, Freitag said. Creating a mutant without this gene allowed new expression, or overexpression of about 25 percent of the genome of this fungus, and the formation of many "secondary metabolites," the researchers found.
The gene that was deleted, kmt6, encodes a master regulator that affects the expression of hundreds of genetic pathways, researchers say. It's been conserved through millions of years, in life forms as diverse as plants, fungi, fruit flies and humans.
The discovery of new antibiotics is of increasing importance, researchers say, as bacteria, parasites and fungi are becoming increasingly resistant to older drugs.
"Our studies will open the door to future precise 'epigenetic engineering' of gene clusters that generate bioactive compounds, e.g. putative mycotoxins, antibiotics and industrial feedstocks," the researchers wrote in the conclusion of their report.
Editor's Note: Digital images are available to illustrate this story:
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A corn stem infected with Fusarium graminearum: http://bit.ly/1h0SZK8
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Atlas Copco combines PACE technology with HardHat on updated XATS 138 portable compressor
Atlas Copco has combined its PACE technology with its HardHat polyethylene canopy on the updated XATS 138 single-axle portable compressor. The new design offers construction contractors and rental fleet operators a mix of toughness and versatility.
"The XATS 138 will now come equipped as standard with the latest and toughest HardHat design, which is corrosion-free, lightweight and crack-resistant," said Hendrik Timmermans, Vice-President, Marketing for Atlas Copco's Portable Energy division. "This, combined with its exceptional versatility, which enables it to power up to four hand-held hydraulic breakers at once, means end users can realise a high return on investment."
The flexibility of the XATS 138 comes from its intuitive PACE pressure adjustment system that enables end users to precisely match air flow and pressure to their specific application needs. With the PACE (Pressure Adjusted through Cognitive Electronics) system, operating pressures can be adjusted, in a matter of seconds, by increments of 0.1 bar via an intuitive XC2003 controller. The fully integrated, ergonomically positioned controller facilitates diagnostics, tracks the compressor's utilisation and indicates planned service interventions.
The compressor has now been enhanced further with the addition of the HardHat canopy, which protects vital internal components and ensures its performance and appearance is optimised for many years of continuous service. This helps the XATS 138 to retain a high resale value and provides customers with outstanding total cost of ownership.
The XATS 138 provides extended service intervals, both for the compressor: 1000 hours or once every two years on average, and engine: 500 hours or once a year on average. This, combined with the long life of all consumable parts, reduces the total cost of operation and increases utilisation. Spin-on filters and a spin-on air/oil separator element means all consumables can be changed in minutes.
The bodywork of the XATS 138 is also protected by a three-layer corrosion resistance system, including a Zincor, primer and a powder coating. Meanwhile, a spillage-free frame, which is fitted as standard, is guaranteed to contain all fluids.
Lightweight and compact, the compressor is mounted on a single axle, thus enhancing its manoeuvrability. The compressor's small footprint makes it easier to tow compared to other models in the same power class.
The XATS 138 is powered by a 4-cylinder, Stage 3B compliant, Kubota engine. Additionally, it comes equipped with a DOC-DPF after-treatment exhaust system, which provides emission compliance at no additional cost. Operating parameters are -20 °C to +45 °C. The compressor is also best-in-class in terms of fuel economy: capable of achieving a 25 per cent fuel saving at normal load. The normal effective working pressure range is 7-10.3 bar with a flow of 5.5-7.0 m3/min.
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We've officially changed our name to Red Arrow Games to help distinguish ourselves a little better from other companies in the space. We hope you like the new name as much as we do! :)
Red Apple Games had some server issues that affected access to some of our video tutorials in the eMagic series.
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eMagic Revealed: Amazing Palm recently broke the top 300 Paid entertainment apps in Asia and received the iPhone Apps Plus Best award.
eMagic Revealed: Jokers Wild will be #6 in the series and should be finished in another week or two. I created this routine myself and I think you'll find it very enjoyable. Keep your eye here for the latest info!
eMagic Revealed: Rope Change is free for a limited time. It's a great effect for beginners, and can be done with a length of rope you can purchase at your local hardware store.
WoW TCG Match Recorder is now complete and just needs to go through the Blizzard and then Apple approval process. I'm not sure how long it will take at Blizzard, but Apple should only be a few weeks so I'm estimating October 2009 before it's available for download. I also uploaded a new demo video. Click here to watch it.
WoW TCG Match Recorder is coming along great and on schedule for a September release. You can see the demo video if you click here.
eMagic Revealed is now available in the AppStore. Be sure to check it out!
eMagic Revealed tricks 1-5 are finally done and the webpages are now in place. Be sure to check 'em out! The iTunes links won't work until the apps are approved, but they should be available soon!
eMagic Card and The Pocket Studio Audience were both approved by Apple and will be in the App Store tomorrow!
eMagic Card has been in review at Apple for over 3 weeks now (with no feedback whatsoever) so I decided to make a simple and fun app while I was waiting.
It's called the Pocket Studio Audience and I just finished it last night and am pretty happy with it. I'll put it into review next week.
The website is finally functional. Our first application will be going into submission in a few days.
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Via the Vancouver Sun, an interesting look at a greenhouse, perched atop a Richards Street parkade in downtown Vancouver, which employs a four-metre-high system of hundreds of suspended trays that move to maximize exposure to natural light:
A unique mechanized greenhouse operation will deliver its first crop of salad greens, herbs and spinach today and begin to pay back a $2-million investment.
The greenhouse, perched atop a Richards Street parkade in downtown Vancouver, employs a four-metre-high system of hundreds of suspended trays that move to maximize exposure to natural light and to facilitate harvesting.
Alterrus' vertical greenhouse prototype has been operating in a greenhouse at England's Paignton Zoo for three years, providing food for the animals. But all eyes are on Vancouver to see if the system can turn a profit as a standalone business, according to the company's strategic adviser Donovan Woollard.
The Vancouver-based company, which trades on the Canadian National Stock Exchange and has a market capitalization of $9.5 million, went back to the market for $500,000 in operating capital earlier this year.
Alterrus showed an operating loss of $417,453 for its most recent fiscal quarter and on its balance sheet, the company states it has accumulated $53 million in losses during its development stage.
"Our priority is to show that this is a viable way to grow food," said Woollard. "We've already shown that VertiCrop can grow produce."
The parkade greenhouse — built on a 6,000-square-foot space it leases from the City of Vancouver — is just a short bike ride from its prized customers, grocer Urban Fare, and high-end restaurants such as Cioppino's, Hawksworth, Boneta and farm-to-table concept restaurant Fable.
That proximity is vital because downtown customers will take delivery of their orders from Shift Urban Cargo, a bicycle-based delivery firm. By serving clients within a few blocks of the greenhouse, lettuce can go from greenhouse to plate within hours.
"I like the idea of fresh urban foods right next door," said Cioppino's chef Pino Posteraro.
By building upwards in vertical arrays, the Alterrus design effectively turns one square metre of greenhouse into four and produces about 20 times the food of a similarly sized field, Woollard said.
The company's branding trades heavily on sustainability and the local food zeitgeist, selling produce under the brand name Local Garden.
"It used to be that 80 per cent of what we ate was grown locally, so we are trying to directly replace imported produce from 1,500 to 2,000 kilometres away," said Woollard. "The way we operate also employs a broader social purpose."
Alterrus recently won B Corp status, a certification for sustainable business practices. "We are the first publicly traded company to achieve that," Woollard said.
Plants grown in the VertiCrop system use about eight per cent of the water required for typical California field crops. All the nutrients used in the soilless cultivation system are recovered rather than leaching into groundwater or washing into streams.
Greenhouse workers who pick, wash and pack produce are hired through Mission Possible, a local non-profit agency that helps people find jobs after extended periods out of the workforce.
Most of the greenhouse's power consumption needs for lighting, temperature control and mechanical operations are satisfied by hydroelectric power, with a minimal carbon footprint.
In addition to their commercial clients, Local Garden greens will be made available to customers of SPUD.ca, a firm that specializes in home-delivered organic and local sustainable foods.
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What a weird summer this has been and how quickly the world order is changing. While Team GB scored more medals than at any time in the past hundred years, the US media felt obliged to hoodwink their fellow Americans into believing that their Olympic heroes had not been humiliatingly outclassed by the Chinese. How was this achieved? By changing the rules, of course. With China scoring 51 gold medals to the USA's paltry 36, the American media simply invented a brand new rule: rank by total medal count … and who wins in this new world order? Why, America of course, by 110 to China's paltry 100! Awe, you really thought those Commies could beat the land of the free? Boy, are those Communists natural born rule breakers. Bad old Russia even risked being kicked out of the Eurovision Song Contest (or something like that) for protecting its own backyard by going into sweet little lawless old Georgia, birthplace of the West's favourite uncle, Joseph Stalin. Western politicians were suitably outraged, of course, despite the fact that the United States protects its own backyard 100 times more fiercely that Boot-In & Co would ever dare. And precisely where is America's backyard? Why, it's the whole of the rest of the world, natch. Indeed, my mind is so aglow with cynical thoughts that I'd better fuck off now, before I make any inappropriate comments about … well, you know … the Greedheads, homophobia, misogyny, the failures of multi-culturalism, organized religion, car culture, climate change…
MOSS & MEMORY COLLECTION by Ruhr Hunter
THE NEBULOUS DREAMS by Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat
ACOUSTIKA E.P. by Acoustika
BACK TO MINUS by TL0741
CHOTOCABRA by Moho
EMOTION/REPETITION by Connie Capri Organ Chamber Orchestra
LOVE STORY Love Documentary
And with that, I shall cut out for another month. And though I hope to see some of you at the forthcoming Liverpool show on September 12th, I wish all of you a healthy autumn with the added possibilities of a riotous Indian Summer sneaking in there somewhere!
Mucho love (und Macho Hugs)
JULIAN (Lord Yatesbury)


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