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A watch is defined as Swiss Made only when it carry the indications 'Swiss Made' or 'Swiss', or any other expression containing the word 'Swiss' or its translation. According to Swiss law, a watch is considered Swiss if:
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Predicting plants' responses to climate change: Scientists at the Garden apply their understanding of plants' responses to contemporary climate change to predict future responses to anticipated change. Garden researchers are using models to forecast changes in diversity in many parts of the world, such as the Eastern Arc Mountains biodiversity hotspot in Africa and the North American Central Highlands. The Garden also conducts an active horticultural climate research program to test whether warm-adapted species that previously could not have survived winters in St. Louis can now thrive here. Researchers associated with the Garden also take advantage of the urban heat island effect provided by the city to contrast the performance of economically important plants in the city and at Shaw Nature Reserve, where temperatures are several degrees cooler. In summary, this research suggests that plant communities will be greatly reorganized, and that many species already under threat will face increasing threats to their survival.
Taking conservation action: Researchers at the Garden are engaged in conservation projects to assist species' ability to adapt in a rapidly changing climate. The Garden maintains seed bank programs specifically for threatened and endangered species and the general goal of preserving 75% of regional species. Garden researchers are also developing a global network among botanical gardens to serve as "stepping stones" in assisting species' dispersal to climates that become newly favorable. The Garden also carries out ecological restoration and preservation programs in several countries since robust plant communities are more resilient to withstand anticipated climate change. At home and abroad, the Garden strives to set an example of sound science and sustainability to help preserve plant life and the natural and human communities that depend on it.


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Connecting to a Data Source
In the most simple case, a database can be a local file such as a Microsoft Access or SQLite database file. In a more advanced scenario, a database may reside on a remote or network database server which does not necessarily use the same operating system as the application that connects to it and consumes data. For example, while StyleVision runs on a Windows operating system, the database from which you want to access data (for example, MySQL) might run on a Linux machine.
To interact with various database types, both remote and local, StyleVision relies on the data connection interfaces and database drivers that are already available on your operating system or released periodically by the major database vendors. In the constantly evolving landscape of database technologies, this approach caters for better cross-platform flexibility and interoperability.
The following diagram illustrates, in a simplified way, data connectivity options available between StyleVision (illustrated as a generic client application) and a data store (which may be a database server or database file).
* Direct native connections are supported for SQLite, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL databases. To connect to such databases, no additional drivers are required to be installed on your system.
As shown in the diagram above, StyleVision can access any of the major database types through the following data access technologies:
•ADO (Microsoft® ActiveX® Data Objects), which, in its turn, uses an underlying OLE DB (Object Linking and Embedding, Database) provider
•ADO.NET (A set of libraries available in the Microsoft .NET Framework that enable interaction with data)
•JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)
•ODBC (Open Database Connectivity)
Note: | Some ADO.NET providers are not supported or have limited support. See ADO.NET Support Notes. |
About data access technologies
The data connection interface you should choose largely depends on your existing software infrastructure. You will typically choose the data access technology and the database driver which integrates tighter with the database system to which you want to connect. For example, to connect to a Microsoft Access 2013 database, you would build an ADO connection string that uses a native provider such as the Microsoft Office Access Database Engine OLE DB Provider. To connect to Oracle, on the other hand, you may want to download and install the latest JDBC, ODBC, or ADO.NET interfaces from the Oracle website.
While drivers for Windows products (such as Microsoft Access or SQL Server) may already be available on your Windows operating system, they may not be available for other database types. Major database vendors routinely release publicly available database client software and drivers which provide cross-platform access to the respective database through any combination of ADO, ADO.NET, ODBC, or JDBC. In addition to this, several third party drivers may be available for any of the above technologies. In most cases, there is more than one way to connect to the required database from your operating system, and, consequently, from StyleVision. The available features, performance parameters, and the known issues will typically vary based on the data access technology or drivers used.


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Ever since the birth of mass communications, our culture has been haunted by the idea of amnesia. In high-class books by the likes of George Orwell or Milan Kundera, forgetting becomes a political metaphor for the erasure of truth. Things are less ambitious in pop entertainments like Mementoor the Jason Bourne series. There, memory-loss is less a metaphor than a motor — a gimmick to drive the story forward.
This motor purrs like a Ferrari in The Tourist, a hit BBC series playing on HBO Max. Written by the Williams brothers, Harry and Jack — best known here for The Missing and Baptiste — this funny, suspenseful six-part thriller doesn't merely keep us guessing. It keeps its amnesiac hero guessing, too. He knows even less about his own story than we do.
A bearded, muscled-up Jamie Dornanstars as a T-shirt clad Irishman who gets in a car accident and winds up in a small town hospital in the Australian outback. Known simply as "The Man," he doesn't know who he is or how he got there. But soon after he leaves the hospital, he knows one thing for sure: Somebody wants to kill him.
As he seeks to find out who's after him and why, he's helped by two very different women. Luci (Shalom Brune-Franklin) is a waitress who we aren't quite sure what to make of. In contrast, it's easy to trust probationary constable Helen Chambers, played by Danielle Macdonald. Helen's a newbie cop who struggles with her weight and with a fiancé who speaks of her appearance with such passive-aggressive meanness that I kept hoping he'd become one of the show's murder victims.
While The Man's search for his identity is grippingly plotted, the show lets the action breathe. It takes time to enjoy his encounters with a wide range of oddball types, be it a goofy chess-playing pilot, a Greek mobster, the affably nutty woman who offers him lodging, or the enormous, cowboy-hatted hitman who has the self-satisfied theatricality of an escapee from a Tarantinomovie. That said, The Man knows he must keep moving to stay alive.
For all The Tourist's inventiveness — Episode 5 is a trip — it reminds us that even good pop culture is often derivative. The show's opening car crash sequence mimics theSteven Spielbergmovie Duel. More importantly, the Williams brothers are pretty clearly doing a Down Under riff on Fargo. Their series offers the same blend of violence and barbed humor, the same mythologizing of bleak, underpopulated places, and the same cavalcade of viciousness and folly that brings out the heroism in an ordinary person.
The show's moral center is Helen, who, in Macdonald's sensational performance, has our sympathy from the get-go. Her work is so scene-stealingly good that I would call this a career-making performance if I hadn't already said this about Macdonald's electric work as an aspiring New Jersey rapper in the indie film Patti Cake$.
Helen's transparent goodness makes her the perfect counterpoint to The Man, a handsome hunk who's a mystery, even to himself. It's a great role for Dornan, who, earlier in his career, had a slightly synthetic prettiness that made him ideal for creepy characters like the S&M billionaire in Fifty Shades of Grey. Here, he's a bit older, thicker, and rougher. And just as Brad Pittoften seems liberated when his good looks are masked a bit, Dornan gives his best performance as a man who isn't sure whether or not he's the hero of his own life.
Over the course of the six episodes, The Man struggles to learn whether, back before his accident, he was a good guy or a bad guy. And if he had been a villain, does he have to stay one, even after he starts remembering his past? I won't reveal what he discovers, though I feel obligated to say that you won't get a definitive answer this season. You'll have to watch Season 2 of The Tourist, not yet made, which I bet you will be more than happy to do.
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Weekly Previews That
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by Kam Williams
For movies opening July
5, 2013
Despicable Me 2 (PG for crude humor and mild action)
Action-oriented animated adventure finds reformed evildoer Gru (Steve Carell)
grudgingly leaving his recently-adopted daughters (Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier
and Elsie Fisher) to spy for the Anti-Villain League in order to apprehend a
diabolical criminal (Benjamin Bratt) bent on world domination. Voice cast
includes Kristen Wiig, Russell Brand and Dr. Ken Jeong.
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (R for sexuality, ethnic slurs
and pervasive profanity) Concert flick featuring highlights of the irreverent
comedian's 2012 stand-up tour across North America and Europe and culminating
with a sold-out performance at Madison
Square Garden.
The Lone Ranger (PG-13 for violence, intense action and
suggestive material) Armie Hammer handles the title role in this screen
adaptation of the classic Western TV series about a legendary lawman who fights
greed and corruption with the assistance of his trusty, Native American
sidekick (Johnny Depp). With Helena Bonham Carter, Barry Pepper and Tom
A Girl and a Gun (Unrated) Constitutional rights documentary
exploring 2nd Amendment issues relating to self-defense, power and
violence via frank interviews with red-blooded, pistol-packing mamas.
Hammer of the Gods (R for nudity, profanity, sexual references
and graphic violence) Norse fantasy revolving around a muscle-bound Viking
warrior (Charlie Bewley) who embarks on an epic journey in search of the
long-lost brother (Clive Standen) banished from the kingdom years earlier by
their monarch father (James Cosmo). With Elliot Cowan, Glynis Barber and Ivan
Just Like a Woman (R for profanity and sexuality) Tale of
female empowerment about a couple of miserably-married women (Sienna Miller and
Golshifteh Farahani) who travel from Chicago
to Sante Fe to enter a belly dancing competition. With Bahar Soomekh, Tim
Guinee and Roschdy Zem.
The Look of Love (Unrated) Rags-to-riches biopic about Paul
Raymond (Steve Coogan), the reclusive British businessman who became the United Kingdom's
wealthiest citizen before his death in 2008. Co-starring Anna Friel, Imogen
Poots and Shirley Henderson.
Stuck in Love (R for profanity, sexuality and teen drug and
alcohol abuse) Midlife crisis drama about a year in the life of a famous
novelist (Greg Kinnear) suffering from writer's block since being dumped by his
wife (Jennifer Connelly). Cast includes Kristen Bell, Lily Collins, Stephen
King and Patrick Schwarzenegger.
The Way, Way Back (PG-13 for mature themes, profanity,
sexuality and brief drug use) Coming-of-age dramedy about a 14 year-old
introvert (Liam James) befriended by the gregarious manager (Sam Rockwell) of a
water park. Ensemble cast includes Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Maya Rudolph,
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Since opening in June 1993, the Mid-Bay Bridge has served as an integral part of our north-south highway system in Northwest Florida. The 3.6 mile, two (2) lane toll bridge spanning the Choctawhatchee Bay in Okaloosa County, provides a primary transportation link between the communities of Niceville and Destin. The Bridge offers local citizens a convenient option for commuting to / from work, getting to school, shopping, or heading off to recreational activities. With the Spence Parkway now open, local travel is even more convenient, travel between I-10 and the beaches is quicker, and the hurricane evacuation route for southern Okaloosa County vastly improved.


text: From the examples given above it will be seen that, in respect of the words used, the Common and Honorific are practically two languages. (8). The Dictionary should also contain an English-Tibetan Vocabulary in which the Tibetan words may be written transliterated in the Roman Character with the reference against each to the page on which it is to be found in the Tibetan-English portion of the Dictionary, as in Jäschke's English-Tibetan Vocabulary. (9). The Materials for such a Dictionary will be— (1) all colloquial and current words in Jäschke, Desgodins, and the present Dictionary. (2) All words from recent Colloquial Primers or Grammars of the various dialects, which have not been included in the present dictionaries. Such are Henderson's Tibetan Manual; Amundsen's Primer of Standard Tibetan; Franke's Ladaki1 Grammar. (3) Printed lists in English of all the principal words in colloquial and current use, copies of which might be sent to various natives, missionaries, officials, and other local workers in Tibetan in various localities and dialects; and they might be asked to enter against each the words, if any, known to them or ascertained to be in general use. These lists should for clearness provide two columns: one for the common, and the other for the Honorific word (where such exists). With the above material there would be sufficient to compile a Standard Dictionary of the Colloquial and Current Language. These lists, on receipt, would be compared with the Central language which would be first compiled. Whenever the word in the dialectic lists agreed with the word in use in the Central language no separate entry would be made. Where it differed it would be entered with a letter indicating the dialect to which it belonged. I have indicated the lines which such a Dictionary should take. Its compilation would be a very fitting object for Government to undertake. The Dictionaries of Csoma de Körös, Jäschke, and the present one of Rai Sarat Chandra Das, all owe their existence to Government aid, and it may be expected that Government will shew in the future the same enlightened and liberal spirit that it has done in the past. With good arrangements for the collection of material, the compilation of such a Dictionary should not take much more than a year, and any cost and labour bestowed on it would be well repaid by the practical value of the results obtained. 1 J.A.S.B., Volume LXX, Part I, Extra No. 2.-1901. Notes on Chirānd in the District of Saran.—By Nundolal Dey, [Read June, 1903.] Chirānd is six miles to the east of Chupra. It is situated on the bank of the river Saraju. The Ganges formerly flowed past the town. Sir William Hunter in 1877 placed Chirand on the Ganges. The old dry bed of the Ganges still exists immediately to the south of Chupra, and beyond it runs the Saraju. The Sone and the Saraju now join the Ganges at Singhi, two miles to the east of Chirand. Chirand must at one time have been a celebrated place to have lent its name to Chupra, which is often called Chiran-Chupra by the people of other districts, Chiran being an abbreviation of the word Chirand. Extensive mounds of earth, said to be the remains of an ancient fort, still exist at this place, and the hermitage of Rishi Chyavana and two very small tanks called Jiach Kundu and Brahma Kundu in the Chirand-Māhātmya, situated at different portions of the site of the fort, are pointed out as vestiges of the ancient Hindu period. A fair takes place every year on the last day of the month of Kārttik at the spot which is called Chyavana-āsrama. Chirand is popularly known as the capital of king Mayūradhvaja, and the tradition still exists that he and his queen sawed down their son in order to satisfy the craving for human flesh of Siva who came to the king in the disguise of an old Brahman to test his generosity and charitable feeling for which he was celebrated, though he was afterwards restored to life by the satisfied god. But the tradition differs from the story given in the Jaimini-Bhārata3 which places the capital of Mayūradhvaja at Ratnapura, near the Nerbuda, and relates that Krishna in the disguise of an old Brāhman came to the king and told him that his only 1 Statistical Account of Bengal, Vol. XI, p. 263. 2 Chapters 45 and 46. son while coming to the town to marry the daughter of Krishna Sarmā, the priest of the king, was carried away by a lion which promised to release him in case he obtained the right half of Mayuradhvaja's body. Mayūradhvaja promised to give the right side of his body, and his head was cut off by his wife and his son Tāmradhvaja, by means of a saw (ārā), as preliminary to sever the right side of his body; but the old Brahman seeing that tears were trickling down the left eye of the severed head, refused to accept the right side of the body as, he stated, it was not given freely but in anguish, whereupon the severed head replied that the left side cried because it would perish uselessly without being of any service to a Brāhman. Krishna became highly satisfied with the answer: he revealed himself and restored the body to its former condition. Though the tradition may differ from the real story, yet the fact remains that in Chirand there is a tradition that someone's body was cut off at this place and that in connection with some religious notion. Four temples have been built on the high mound of earth, which was the site of the ancient fort, on account of the sanctity of the place, containing the images of Ramachandra and Krishna. Dr. Hoey has identified Chirānd with the ancient Vaisali,1 and he has given his reasons for such identification. There can be no doubt, however, that Chirānd was an ancient Buddhist town, for images of Buddha and other figures of the Buddhistic period have been exhumed from this place from time to time. I myself obtained there three figures when I visited it in May, 1902. I found them all stowed away in a corner of one of the temples called Aini Rama-Kā-Maṭhiā, and I was told that they had been obtained while digging the earth. One was the figure of Buddha in a meditative posture made of white marble; the second, a small figure of a woman holding a lotus made of basaltic stone; and the third, also a small figure of a woman but much worn out, made of red sandstone. At the time of Buddha the river Ganges was the boundary between the two kingdoms of Vaisali and Magadha, Vaisali being situated on the northern side of the river and Magadha on the southern. The capital of the kingdom of Vaisali was also called Vaisali, and the capital of Magadha was Pātaliputra. It is related in Buddhist works that Ananda, the favourite disciple and cousin of Buddha and the second patriarch of the Buddhist hierarchy after Buddha's death, entered into Nirvāṇa while he was crossing the river Ganges on his way from Magadha to Vaisali. After his death his body was divided into two equal parts : Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. LXIX,—Identification of Kusinara, Vaisali and other places. 1 one part was taken by Ajātasatru, king of Magadha, and the other by the Licchavis of Vaisali, and the latter built a tower over half the body at a place called Kūṭāgāra, or, as it was called, Mahāvana-Kūṭāgāra, the northern suburb of the town of Vaisali. This tower was visited by Fa Hian in the fifth century, and by Hinen Tsiang in the seventh century.8 The etymology of Chirand and the aforesaid tradition of Mayūradhvaja's son being sawed down into two portions at this place, and the fact that it was the site of an ancient Buddhist town, point out that it was the place where the tower was built over half the body of Ananda. The word Chirānd is composed of two words: Chir and Ånd. Chir means a portion cut off, and And is a contraction or corruption of Ananda, and hence the word Chirand means a portion cut off from Ananda's body. Chirānd therefore may be identified with the ancient Kūṭāgāra or Mahāvana-Kūṭāgāra, the northern suburb of Vaisali. But the difficulty of such identification is apparent. Vaisali has been identified by General Cunningham with Basarh on the left bank of the Gandak in the district of Muzaffarpur (Tirhut), though it should be observed that the river Gandak is not mentioned in connection with Vaisali either by Fa Hian or Hiuen Tsiang: the latter says that he crossed the Ganges in order to reach Vaisali from Drona-stupa which has been identified with Degwära. If Vaisali be Basarh, then certainly Chirand cannot be the northern suburb of Vaisali, as Chirand is situated about twenty-four miles to the south-west of Basarh. Mr. Carlleyle identifies the mounds of ancient ruins at Chirānd with the Drona or Kumbha stupa which was said to have been built by the Brahman Drona over the vessel or kumbha with which he divided the relics of Buddha into eight equal portions, each of which was equal to one drona in measure, and he supposes that Chir of the word Chiran refers to the division of the remains of Buddha. But there is much that is reasonable, at least worthy of the consideration of the archeologist, in the argument advanced by Dr. Hoey in identifying Chirānd with Vaisali, though it goes against the accepted identification of Vaisali with Basarh. There are big earthen 5 1 Beal's Travels of Fah Hian and Sung-yun, Chap. XXV, Bigandet's Life of Gantama, Chap. XI, and Chullavagga, ch. v, sec. 13 and ch. x, sec. 1. The Pilgrimage of Fa Hian from the French edition of the Foe Koue Ki (1848) : "Thence proceeding five yeou yan to the east, you come to the kingdom of Phi she li. Here are a great forest [Mahāvana] and a chapel of two stories [Küṭāgāra]; it was one of the stations of Foe, and here you see the Tower of half of the body of Ananda." 2 Beal's Fo-Kwo-Ki, Chapters XXV and XXVI. 3 Beal's Records of Western Countries, Book VII. 4 The Ancient Geography of India, page 443. 5. Archæological Report, Vol. XXII, p. 79. 12 mounds in Telpā which is two miles to the south-east of Chupra, one of which may be the remains of the tower of the bows and deposited arms, as Dr. Hoey supposes the village to have been the site of the ancient Chāpāla. This part of the country therefore ought to be thoroughly explored, and there can be no doubt that the exploration would yield some results of great archeological interest. Whether Chirānd was the ancient Mahāvana-Kūṭāgāra or not, there can be no doubt that even in its ruins it must have been a celebrated place as to have attracted the attention of Sultan Abul Muzaffar Husain Shah who built a beautiful mosque, now in ruins, upon a portion of the remains of the ancient fort or mounds in 909 Hijri, corresponding to 1503 A.C. The inscription on the mosque was noticed by Dr. Blochmann in 1874.1 The Sultan would not certainly have constructed the mosque at this place had it not been considered to be a sacred place by the Hindus. 1 Blochmann's Geography and History of Bengal, No. II, in the Journal of the -Asiatic Society of Bengal of 1874, page 304. |


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Syrian activists have posted thousands of videos of civilians killed and wounded in the 15-month-old conflict. But there have been many casualties on the government side as well, and they are on display at a military hospital in the capital, Damascus.
For Abdul Kareem Mustapha, a 51-year-old colonel in the Syrian army, the war came for him at 8:15 a.m. on his way to his military post.
Mustapha is among the wounded. He says he was on his way to work, riding in a military car with several others, when two taxis cut them off. Armed men started shooting, he says, killing one of the four officers in the car and wounding the others.
The colonel's fresh bandages are on his stomach and hands. He is sure his attackers were rebels from the Free Syrian Army. But he doesn't call them that. He says they are "terrorists" financed from outside Syria.
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Analysts and pundits are still debating how to define the Syrian fighting. On Tuesday, the U.N. under-secretary-general for peacekeeping operations, Herve Ladsous, told Reuters that the Syrian conflict could be called a civil war and that the government has lost control of parts of some cities to the rebels.
However the fighting is defined, it's clear that the casualties are mounting.
An army general runs the military hospital. His office has two life-size photographs of Syrian President Bashar Assad on the walls. The general does not want his own picture — or his name — published.
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Syrian activists say they have knocked out nearly 30 tanks. The burned remains of one tank were parked on the highway in central Syria, one place where the army has been on the offensive.
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The U.N. has called the violence unacceptable. On Tuesday, outside the northwestern town of Haffa in the foothills above Syria's Mediterranean coast, monitors say they were confronted by angry pro-government mobs. The mobs threw stones and metal bars to stop the convoy from entering the rebel-held town surrounded by the army.
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Damascus was one of those calm places Tuesday, but the rising number of casualties at the military hospital there shows that the different revolutions are now coming together.
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A crude oil spill from the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota last November has turned out to be nearly twice as big as first reported.
Around 407,000 gallons (338,900 imperial gallons) spilled onto farmland when the pipeline broke near Amherst in Marshall County on Nov. 16, a spokeswoman for pipeline owner TransCanada Corp., told the Aberdeen American News. TransCanada had originally put the spill at 210,000 gallons (174,860 imperial gallons).
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Whenever you buy an asset — a house, say, or a share of stock or some other investment instrument — and then sell it later for more than you paid for it, the profit is a capital gain. And unlike you and me, whose income mostly comes from wages, a big part of the income of rich people comes from capital gains. Naturally, then, rich people are extremely interested in having low tax rates on capital gains.
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Still, it's worth having some hard data about this too. In the context we're using here, capital formation refers to capital used for investment purposes, so in its nickel version the argument for low capital gains rates is that it encourages capital to be invested. This is a good thing, and if it were true it would be a powerful argument for low taxes on capital gains. But it's not. Jared Bernstein provides the chart below, which shows the growth of investment over time (blue line) and the capital gains tax rate (red line):
There's pretty much no correlation at all. Investment increases over time at a steady rate regardless of what the capital gains tax rate is. Bernstein comments:
There are a few economic principles that we consistently get wrong in ways that do lasting damage to our economy and diminish our future. At the top of this list are arguments about large behavioral responses to changes in tax rates. I don't think it's zero, but I've simply never seen compelling evidence that tax increases significantly hurt growth, labor supply, jobs, wages, or that rate decreases provide much of a boost the other way. And when you factor in the benefits of the investment and services government provides—something the literature tends to ignore—the hyper-responsiveness arguments are even less compelling.
Yep. All taxes have deadweight losses, and all taxes affect incentives, but the bulk of the research suggests that the size of the incentives is pretty modest. It's handy for rich people to pretend otherwise, and in particular to pretend that investment levels will skyrocket if capital gains tax rates are reduced, but the evidence for this is very slim. Still, it is a handy argument for rich people, and that's why it will never die.
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June 27, 2020
Source repository moved to github
Just a quick heads-up to the people working with the H-Craft sourcecode.
We had to move repositories to git as the Mercurial support on Bitbucket runs out end of the month.
You'll find the new links on our
H-Craft source
And big thanks to Bitbucket for hosting our repositories for free over the last years!
August 08, 2015
Bugfix for Linux: remove libts dependency
H-Craft did not start on some newer Linux systems with the error:
"Error while loading shared libraries: libts-0.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
If you have that problem please get a new download at:
DOWNLOAD hcraft_v1_3b.zip
Alternatively you can update by copying this
to hcraft/libs/linux_shared/libSDL-1.2.so.0
Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks to the users reporting this!
February 25, 2015
H-Craft Championship on Android and open source!
We proudly present our first Android game.
H-Craft Championship's beautiful 3D graphics are now available on mobile devices.
It's controls got reworked and finetuned and flying over the tracks is more fun than ever.
Get H-Craft Championship for your Android devices at
Google play
It's free to play and if you prefer you can upgrade to an adfree version.
But that's not all...
We love working with the Free Software community and had been supporting GNU/Linux years before Steam made it cool ;-)
So from today on we share the complete H-Craft Championship source code with all of you!
Check the details at our
H-Craft source
February 23, 2015
H-Craft Championship 1.3 released
Get H-Craft Championship 1.3 for Windows and Linux for free:
DOWNLOAD hcraft_v1_3.zip
We got much feedback about the controls over the years, so we decided to work on those.
- H-Craft still has this dream-like quality of flying over the tracks on a cushion of air.
- There are now energy walls around the tracks preventing falling off in many situations.
- Experts can still take short-cuts at corners.
- Steering has been fine-tuned to allow more control over the H-Crafts.
Additionally there have been many changes under the hood.
The Linux versions is now running on 64 bit and switched to OpenAL-Soft.
We hope this does fix the start problems some Linux systems had in the past.
Also our Android port has been finished and we are currently working to get it on google-play!
Check back later this week - we will have even more news...
March. 18, 2014
H-Craft Championship is now free!
From today on you can download and play the full version of H-Craft Championship:
DOWNLOAD hcraft_v1_2.zip
It should run on most Windows and Linux systems.
If you love the game check back in a few months! We're working on an Android version which will be released for a very low price.
Have fun!
: Some 64-bit Linux users report crashes on start. Also some have sound-troubles. Sorry for that.
In most cases it's possible to get it running by installing 32-bit compatibility libs.
Otherwise please try the Windows exe using WINE.
The next release will hopefully work better on 64-bit Linux. We plan to release it together with the Android version.
: Someone on http://gamingonlinux.com/ found another trick around Linux troubles. Start it with: padsp ./hcraft
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Nicole was encouraged by many of her teachers to seek out research opportunities in order to gain hands-on experience in science. She decided to participate in the Summer Scholars Program for the opportunity to work at an organization known for being a trailblazer in the field of genomic medicine.
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High concentrations of dust are observed in the air today, 12 November 2023, according to measurements from ground Stations of the Air Quality Monitoring Network operated by the Department of Labour Inspection.
The public, and particularly any vulnerable groups of population (children, older people, and the infirm) are urged to avoid circulating in open spaces until the observed episode has elapsed, as the small size of respirable particles in dust may have negative effects on human health.
The employers, based on The Safety and Health at Work (Code of Practice for the Protection of Persons at Work During Dust Episodes) Order of 2022 (P. I. 410/2022), must take appropriate measures (organizational and/or technical) after assessing any risks that their employees may face while working in open spaces, and it is recommended that workers in such spaces use appropriate means of personal protection.
In detail, the latest hourly dust concentrations measured at 11:00 am in the following areas are:
Nicosia: | 146.6 μg/m3 |
Limassol: | 75 μg/m3 |
Larnaca: | 139.4 μg/m3 |
Paralimni: | 101.5 μg/m3 |
Paphos: | 44.5 μg/m3 |
Zygi: | 91.5 μg/m3 |
Ayia Marina Xyliatou: | 88.3 μg/m3 |
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It's the same scene that Burden showed Mayor Michael Bloomberg when she took him on a tour of New York City more than 11 years ago, back when he was just starting to consider a run at the city's highest office. The tour along that waterfront, Burden says, was an emotional experience, since both she and Bloomberg saw an amenity that New Yorkers could potentially be enjoying but instead had long been denied.
Today, as Bloomberg's third and final term in office is drawing to a close, it's clear that the meeting had an impact on both of them. The two have taken to referring to New York's waterfront as the city's "sixth borough," and developments along the water -- from Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn to Freshkills Park in Staten Island to the East River Esplanade in Lower Manhattan -- have been among the administration's highest-profile undertakings.
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Those projects have been touted as economic development drivers, and they are. But just as important, they're key to the idea of livability -- that sometimes hard-to-define concept that makes it enjoyable to call a certain place home. "In the end, great public space is what makes people want to stay in the city," says Burden, who's held her position since Bloomberg first took office. "You live in this high-density, high-energy environment. These waterfront parks just changed how people feel about the city."Bloomberg's time in office has been about much more than parks, of course. America's most famous mayor has gained international attention for his ardent advocacy on issues like gun control, immigration reform, infrastructure investment and climate change. More controversially, he's well known -- and sometimes lampooned -- for enacting bans on trans fats, smoking in public places, and big, sugary beverages. But for New Yorkers, Bloomberg's most important legacy -- the one that affects their daily lives most -- may be the role he's played in reshaping the urban landscape. If predecessor Rudolph Giuliani was the mayor who made New York a safer place to live, Bloomberg is the guy who's made it a more pleasant one. Through an unprecedented emphasis on parks, pedestrians and development, Bloomberg's signal achievement could be the physical transformation of the city. His commitment to livability has put an indelible imprint on Gotham. Now, his mayoral tenure is coming to an end; a new leader will be elected in six months. And there's one question that underscores every conversation about the upcoming election: Can the momentum of the Bloomberg years continue?
There's a small park in SoHo called Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino Square. For decades, it was hardly more than a forgotten concrete triangle surrounded by streets on all sides. As Mitchell Moss, a New York University urban planning professor and media-dubbed "New Yorkologist," walks past Petrosino Park, he says it was a "shithouse for meth heads" until a few short years ago. Then things changed. The city (in a $2 million project championed by former Councilman Alan Gerson) enlarged the park and added new benches, trees and lighting. Today, it's a tony greenspace for neighborhood residents, workers and shoppers, who meet in Petrosino to share lunch, walk their dogs or just take a break. "Up until now, most mayors viewed parks as something they could cut," Moss says. That's changed, in dramatic fashion.
Petrosino Park is a small-scale example. Brooklyn Bridge Park is a much larger one. Creating a park along Brooklyn's disused post-industrial waterfront has been the subject of debate for 30 years. "Now it's one of the great gems of the city," Moss says. Progress is continuing on the 85-acre park, with bocce courts, soccer fields, summer concerts and even the occasional pop-up swimming pool. And there's an even bigger example on Staten Island, where the Fresh Kills landfill is being transformed into a 2,200-acre park. That project, which has been under way since 2008, will result in the largest park developed in the city in a century.
And, perhaps most famously, there's the completion of the High Line, the internationally known project that wrested a spectacular linear park from the ruins of long-abandoned elevated railroad tracks in Chelsea. The mile-long park has significantly altered the neighborhood around it, attracting tremendous new development and becoming a favorite spot for residents and visitors alike. "High Line" has become shorthand for planners and activists worldwide who want to transform the derelict into something dazzling.
"I think for a good 50 years, there was a sense that this is our city, and we're stuck with it," says Aaron Naparstek, a fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and founder of the website Streetsblog, which covers land-use and transportation policy in New York. "One of the really great legacies of the Bloomberg administration is going to be this sense that we can change things."
"We clearly have moved into a new era now where people see that it's really possible to redesign New York City streets, the waterfront, the public spaces and the parks," Naparstek continues. "These things are not just set in stone. These are things that we have control over."
Indeed, Bloomberg observers say he's been successful in making major changes in the city -- and getting them done quickly -- for two big reasons. For starters, he's a political outsider who is independently wealthy, making him beholden to nobody. "He's not afraid to take risks," says Robert Lieber, who served as Bloomberg's deputy mayor for economic development from 2008 to 2010. "He's not going to play it safe all the time."
Bloomberg also has a reputation for avoiding micromanagement, empowering his deputies and loyally defending them from any political fallout they may encounter. Those close to him say that while livability is absolutely one of the mayor's priorities, he's comfortable deferring the specifics to his lieutenants. "Really, he gives you an enormous amount of leeway to come up with your plans," Lieber says. "He'll support you and defend you. This is what a chief executive does. He knows how to run a business. If you're going to be effective at running a business, your effectiveness is being able to leverage the people that work for you."
Janette Sadik-Khan has perhaps been the biggest beneficiary of an administration that has been unafraid to shake things up. As Bloomberg's transportation commissioner since 2007, Sadik-Khan has transformed the role of her office by placing a serious emphasis on pedestrians and bicyclists. Under her leadership, the city has created 300 miles of bicycle lanes. She's been on a quest to make streets safer and more accessible to those who use modes of transportation besides driving. (As she points out, only about one-third of New Yorkers regularly drive.) And she's probably not exaggerating when she says her office has made the most significant changes to New York's roadways since one-way streets were introduced 50 years ago. "Our streets were out of balance," Sadik-Khan says. "They were not designed for the demands that are on them today. That's really what we're doing. And we've gotten a lot done."
In addition to the unprecedented proliferation of bike lanes in New York, the department this spring will help launch the largest bike-share program in the country, capitalizing on an urban amenity that has proven extraordinarily popular in other cities. And throughout New York, Sadik-Khan's department has embarked on an ambitious plaza program: Using planters and other barricades, the city has blocked off parts of some streets to establish pedestrian plazas with benches and chairs. (Unsurprisingly, much of her work has been praised by those who don't use cars, and demonized by those who do.)
Among the most prominent of the new plazas are those in Times Square and further south along Broadway, where pedestrians lounge or stroll along streets that were, at one time, major thoroughfares filled with honking cars. "Times Square -- that whole area -- was just a Gordian knot of traffic," Sadik-Khan says. "Ninety percent of the street was dedicated to cars, yet 90 percent of the people there were pedestrians. It was really out of balance. People don't go to Times Square to see the traffic."
Like others throughout the Bloomberg administration, Sadik-Khan focuses intently on data, and she uses it to help justify her programs. She says pedestrian deaths are down and business is up in places that have gotten the pedestrian/bicycle overhaul from her department. Still, that doesn't always make her popular. She's frequently been criticized by New York tabloids. The New York Post calls her the "psycho bike lady;" Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz calls her a "zealot." And the bike lanes have even become the subject of lawsuits.
Sadik-Khan says she doesn't worry about the political implications of her department's initiatives -- and that's something she says she has in common with her boss. After all, Times Square was pedestrianized in 2009, an election year. A mayor with a more conservative style might have waited until after November to pursue such an unusual undertaking, Sadik-Khan says. "I remember him telling me at the time, 'I don't ask my commissioners to do the right thing according to the political calendar; I ask my commissioners to do the right thing, period.' I think that pretty much says it all."
Still, Sadik-Khan (and Bloomberg by proxy) have been criticized for their hardball techniques. Her office has a reputation for literally transforming streets in the dark of night, which some believe is intended to make it difficult to block the work. The New York Times has chronicled a technique used by the administration -- and in particular the transportation department -- to launch projects as "pilots," as a clever way to cut through red tape and escape the typical city review process. When asked about her reputation as someone who's more effective at getting things done than building consensus, Sadik-Khan is unapologetic. "We really didn't have a choice. Our streets had been in suspended animation for 50 years."
Amanda Burden, the planning director, is the other half of the administration's team that has played a significant role in reshaping the city. Her approachable demeanor and affable tone belie her status as what some observers call the most influential person in the city's political power structure besides Bloomberg himself. She's been described as a woman with the ideals of Jane Jacobs and the power of Robert Moses. "If you're in love with cities, you say, 'What are the qualities that make me want to be in the city?'" she asks rhetorically as she explains her philosophy. "It's fun. There are choices. It's diverse, and [there's] always a sense of change -- something new and exciting. It's a sense of serendipity."
A former socialite and an heir to the Standard Oil fortune, Burden eschewed a life of privilege for a career in urban planning. She has worked on the City Planning Commission since 1990; when Bloomberg took office in 2002, he appointed her chair of the commission and head of the Planning Department. Since then, her office has led an ambitious program that has rezoned an unprecedented 40 percent of the city. To those not steeped in the world of planning, that accomplishment may not sound noteworthy. But it's been an integral part of opening access to the waterfront, facilitating parks improvements and developing land-use patterns most suited for the city's future population growth.
Bloomberg has elevated the prominence of planning and zoning issues, giving Burden's office unmatched influence and facilitating initiatives like the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project, a mixed-used real estate development being erected over a train yard along the western edge of Midtown Manhattan, or the development of Lower Manhattan's Seward Park, which will create a mixed-used space on six acres of underutilized land that will include a new market, commercial space and affordable housing. "People knew the status quo wasn't acceptable," says Moss, the NYU professor. "There was recognition that doing nothing was no longer valuable."
In New York, development occurs "as-of-right," meaning that if a developer wants to build something that conforms exactly to the existing zoning standards, he can do so with little more than a building permit. In reality, the city's zoning regulations are so outdated that developers frequently need special approval. The administration, through Burden, is changing those zoning guides to upzone for higher density in areas that are transit hubs like Jamaica, Queens; Downtown Brooklyn; and Long Island City -- and downzone in areas that aren't suited to big growth. Eventually, the goal is to make as-of-right development widespread, so that developers don't need special approval. "The concept of setting the table to allow these neighborhoods to grow and change is a positive thing," says Mitch Korbey, a land-use attorney and director of the planning department's Brooklyn office under Mayor Giuliani.
As Burden has gone through that process, she's gotten creative. In addition to using the traditional tools of her profession -- things like height limits and setback requirements -- she's including provisions that encourage bike parking, environmental components and affordable housing. "We use zoning for a variety of different things that nobody's even thought about," Burden says.
The city's most creative rezoning effort has been the High Line. In addition to being one of the earliest champions of the park itself, Burden created the rezoning mechanism that helped make the work possible. Owners of land underneath the rail line had wanted it demolished since it kept them from building vertically. Her office allowed landowners to sell those air rights to nearby sites where higher developments would be permitted. That's caused a real estate boom in the area surrounding the park, a stretch along the west side of Midtown Manhattan that had long been underdeveloped.
Burden has gained a reputation for having a granular focus on aesthetic design details. Supporters say that fine eye has served the city well, but some developers have called it strong-arming, and have accused Burden of overstepping her bounds as a civil servant. "From the outset," says one developer, "everyone was aware -- and has been aware -- that Amanda has to like it, or it won't happen."
Like Sadik-Khan, Burden makes no apologies for her style. "We've tried to raise the bar for what's expected in design. And that has really been important, not only for iconic, cultural buildings, but in areas like the South Bronx" where thousands of new housing developments are being built, she says.
And even if some developers have bristled at Burden's approach, it has served New York well, says Korbey. "Projects are better because of this. The city now has more attractive and exciting architecture."
New York is a better place to live now than it was a decade ago. It's difficult to find anyone who would dispute that sentiment. But can the progress on livability continue once Bloomberg has left office? Will the next mayor build something like the High Line? Will Bloomberg's successor tackle anything as ambitious as transforming Times Square? It's unclear, thanks in part to the wide-open field of candidates. Among them are Christine Quinn, the speaker of the New York City Council who's seen as Bloomberg's heir apparent; Public Advocate Bill de Blasio; Joseph Lhota, who recently resigned as chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority; Bill Thompson, the former city comptroller; and Joseph Liu, the current comptroller. There's a common thread here: All of those candidates come from typical political proving grounds. Moss, the planning professor, calls them an uninspiring bunch, and he warns of a possible "return to normalcy" under any of them. (John Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner of the Gristedes grocery store chain, announced his candidacy in late January; he hasn't held office before, but his candidacy is considered by many to be a long shot.) While there are many candidates, they've said little or nothing about what they plan to do with the city's physical space.
However it shakes out, Streetsblog's Naparstek says, New Yorkers will likely miss the independence that comes with a billionaire mayor who's a political outsider. "They'll get a reminder of what it's like to have a regular old Democrat back in city hall who really feels like he or she has to take heed and pay attention to whatever cranky rant is coming out in the Daily News on Thursdays," Naparstek says. "Mayor Bloomberg did have a unique ability, for better or for worse, to ignore a lot of that stuff and didn't really feel so beholden to it. The next mayor almost certainly is not going to be insulated."
Some urban advocates are concerned not just about livability in the abstract but about whether some of the administration's efforts may literally be undone. De Blasio has called Sadik-Khan a "radical," and Quinn has said Sadik-Khan's style has contributed to the controversy surrounding bike lanes. Some wonder whether the next mayor would literally start removing bike lanes.
And there are those who actually are leery of the Bloomberg livability campaign. Bloomberg's critics say the rash of development under his leadership has been a boon for developers and gentrifiers but has done little to benefit the average New Yorker. Marquee parks and public spaces are great for wealthy residents, 20-something urbanites and tourists, but critics say they haven't helped working-class families. "Is New York becoming a luxury item? And is it affordable the way it used to be?" asks Joseph Viteritti, chair of Hunter College's Urban Affairs & Planning Department. "These are the issues that I think will come up."
The administration doesn't put much stock in that criticism. "A growing city is a good thing," Burden says. "I don't think you'd turn your back on that."
Indeed, the administration often works hand in hand with community groups on many improvements like parks and plazas, says Bruce Berg, a political science professor at Fordham University. Those groups, now that they're mobilized, could continue to demand similar efforts under Bloomberg's successor. That's a notion echoed by Sadik-Khan, who says that in many cases the transformations happening in New York are more of a response to the wants and needs of residents than the product of anyone's political agenda. "A lot of times," says Sadik-Kahn, "the public leads the political officials, and I think that's the case here."
That may be true. But there's still a sense among many observers that it will be difficult for any successor to match Bloomberg's impact on the overall look and feel of New York City. "I think it's going to be very hard," says Moss, "for any mayor to equal what Mike Bloomberg has done."


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