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South Suburban Mayors Sign Letter Protesting Proposed Metra Cuts
Trib Local Orland Park
September 15, 2011
By Jeff Vorva
Twenty-two elected officials, including several mayors in the south suburbs, signed a letter sent to Metra protesting a proposal to cut Saturday service and reduce weekday service on area lines.
The letter to Metra CEO Alexander Clifford and written by Congressman Dan Lipinski said, "We write to express our strong opposition to the service reductions proposed during the agency's July and August Board meetings. These measures would yield very few savings in the context of the Fiscal Year 2012 budget shortfall and would likely disenfranchise many riders. Therefore, we strongly urge Metra to reconsider the proposed (Southwest Service) cuts and continue to work with us to ensure an adequate level of service along the line."
During an August meeting, Metra told board members it faced a $100 million deficit and came up with a list of proposals to save money, including the elimination of Saturday service in the southwest. Trains on the Southwest line currently do not run on Sundays. Another proposal would wipe out weekeday service between 179th Street and Manhattan on two trains.
The board of directors for Metra next meet Friday. Village of Orland Park Trustee Brad O'Halloran, who is also on the Metra board, hopes the letter has some influence.
"The congressmen and the other mayors affected by this make it clear that there is a lot of support to keep the service," O'Halloran said. "I'm certainly going to fight that to make sure it stays in that direction."
O'Halloran said after August's meeting that the savings would result in less than $1 million a year. He said he would "vociferously" fight for keeping the services status quo. "I'm one vote, but I will be heard. That's the best way to put it." he said.
Area mayors who signed the letter to Metra include Dan McLaughlin (Orland Park), James Daley (Homer Glen), Kyle Hastings (Orland Hills), William Borgo (Manhattan), Tim Baldermann (New Lenox), Robert Straz (Palos Heights), Gerald Bennett (Palos Hills), John Mahoney (Palos Park) and Edward Zabrocki (Tinley Park).
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Imagine that you're a college basketball player and find out that Michael Jordan is the stands on a scouting trip. Or that you're fresh out of law school and learn that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is interviewing you for that junior partner position. Or you're in a garage band and Dave Grohl is reviewing your show for Rolling Stone.
That's basically what just happened to Johannes Wieland and Joshua Hausman, two newly minted economists who will be presenting a paper on Japan's attempts to break free from deflation and slow growth at the Brookings Institution's invitation-only spring conference next month.
And who will be critiquing the paper? None other than Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman and former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
"The two just suggested themselves. Who else would you want to hear discussing the work?" said Justin Wolfers, a senior fellow at Brookings who handled the agenda.
Brookings sought out Wieland, an economist at the University of California-San Diego, in hopes of getting a fresh perspective on so-called Abenomics, the nickname for Japan's economic experiment under Prime Minster Shinzo Abe. Wieland brought in Hausman, his classmate from UC-Berkeley and a former research assistant at the Fed who worked briefly under Bernanke. Both earned their doctorates last year.
"I think we're going to learn a lot more because these are guys who don't have dug-in positions," Wolfers said. "Young authors are hungry, willing to get in, get their hands dirty."
The Brookings conference always draws some heavy-hitters, but it's safe to say that the authors didn't expect quite such an illustrious panel. Of course, they're not the only highlights in this wonkfest. Princeton professor and former White House chief economist Alan Krueger will present research on long-term unemployment, while Citigroup exec and former Congressional Budget Office director Peter Orszag will discuss a paper on the impact of the Obama administration's stimulus plan.
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- Continuing the Highlander Tradition
A list of our student-athletes and coaches who have gone on to careers in baseball.
- Going to the Pros
A list of our student-athletes who have been drafted or signed free agent contracts in professional baseball.
The honorees, in order of "retirement"
Eric Show - #19
Show's number was retired in 1985, a year after he helped lead the San Diego Padres to a World Series appearance with a 15-9 mark. His Highlander career lasted from 1975 through 1978, when he was drafted by the Padres. He posted a team-high seven wins with seven complete games in 1975 and led the team in wins with five in 1978
In his major league career, Show was 101-89 with the San Diego Padres and Oakland Athletics.
Jack Carroll - #1 Fan
Carroll never played a game for UCR, but he was honored posthumously in 1998 as UCR's Number 1 fan. A long time booster, Carroll was involved in baseball at a variety of levels. He was recognized for all that he had done for baseball in the Riverside community throughout his life.
The Highlanders still use the number 1, but Carroll will always be known as the team's number 1 fan.
Troy Percival - #40
Best known as an All-Star Closer for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Cardinals and now the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Percival's major league number 40 was retired in the 2003 season, just a few months after he closed out the then Anaheim Angels' first World Championship in club history. Percival never wore the number 40 for UCR, nor did he pitch for the Highlanders. At UCR, he wore 28 as a defensive minded catcher with a cannon for an arm. He did not become a pitcher until he was a minor leaguer in the Angels organization.
Jack Smitheran - #2
The former Highlander head coach's number was retired prior to the alumni game in January 2006. In a collegiate coaching career spanning 35 years, Smitheran posted a record of 1,097-770-3, including a 974-709-3 mark in 31 years at UC Riverside and a 123-104 record in four years at the Division I level. In his tenure, he guided the evolution of the Highlander program from an unknown Division II school into a Division II NCAA champion and eventually into a Division I postseason qualifier.


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A group of about four armed men attacked and robbed passengers travelling from Twifu-Praso in the Central Region to the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi early Monday.
The robbers, who wore face masks and wielded AK 47 rifles, intercepted the Sprinter bus on which they were travelling at Adiembra and ordered the driver to stop amid sporadic shooting.
A male passenger in the back seat of the bus was wounded on the buttocks as the robbers held them hostage at about 3 a.m in an operation which lasted about 20 minutes.
The driver of the Sprinter bus, with registration AW 3297-13, who identified himself only as Moro abandoned the vehicle and fled into the bush, throwing away his ignition keys, phone and money.
Among the heavy losers, are a shoe seller who lost over four thousand cedis and some Nigerien nationals said to be returning home who also lost their life savings.
The attack compelled the traumatized traders to abandon the trip and return home empty-handed after lodging complaints with the Assin Fosu police.
Police were yet to visit the crime scene at the time of filing this report.
But reports say attacks of this nature are becoming an annual affair. Similar attacks have been recorded in previous years on the Twifu Praso-Assin Fosu stretch.


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Answered Prayers By Danielle Steel (Book Review)
PAPERBACK edition
Danielle Steel captivates her readers in this heartwarming tale of adversity, faith, strength, love, answered prayers and ultimate triumph...
Svelte, intelligent, affluent and wholesomely good looking, that was what the world perceived Faith Madison to be. At forty-seven, the New Yorker seemed to have it all, a successful husband at the pinnacle of his merchant banking career, a beautiful home and two beautiful daughters who were both advancing their respective careers.
Steel's heartwarming tale unravels in the first chapter that Faith is a lonely woman with a disturbing past and that she is still mourning her best friend and brother Jack, who has died three years ago. The brother-sister duo had forged an inseparable bond since childhood after Faith revealed her secret to him. And he had taken her secret to his grave. I think that this secret should have been revealed later on in the novel to assist in the creation of a twist and it is this that adds to the overall predictability of Steel's tale.
Faith's husband Alex, is emotionally unattached and distant, much like her militant-like stepfather had been. Alex is psychologically abusive, often resorting to emotional blackmail when Faith disagrees with his self centered motives.
The tale picks up its pace when Faith attends her stepfathers' funeral and reacquaints herself with her and Jack's dear childhood friend, Brad Patterson. Faith is suffering a bad case of empty nest syndrome as both her daughters are away at college and expresses to Brad her heartfelt desire to return to law school. Brad, a married father of twin boys is practicing criminal law and changing the lives of youth, much to his overbearing lawyer wife's chagrin.
Tensions run high between Faith and Alex when Faith is adamant about preparing for her LSAT exam and returning to law school. However, Zoe, her youngest daughter and Brad support Faith's academic decision.
Being the emotionally blackmailer to note, Alex attests his infidelity to Faiths' need for a career other than her role as his wife. He also tries to poison their oldest daughter, Eloise against her mother.
Faith's life becomes tumultuous very quickly when Alex demands a divorce and tries to evict her. She holds onto her sanity through her faith in God and rekindled friendship with Jack, who has become her rock in the midst of her tribulations. Brad is unhappy in his marriage and the two characters often turn to the church, prayer and each other to find peace and comfort in their turbulent lives. They realize that they have fallen in love, though neither wants to admit it.
Disaster strikes Brad's family when one of his twin sons is injured in Africa. This incident painfully reveals to Brad the revelation that his marriage is finally over.
The plot moves along expeditiously from the second half and is engaging from its' exposition to its' denouement. Although utterly predictable, it is a warm tale of adversity, faith, strength, love, answered prayers and ultimate triumph.
International bestselling author Danielle Steel
I am a big Fan of D Steele. Have read and still have many of her books. I wasn't aware of this one and will definitely buy it. Thanks for the review.
Great. "Finding time" for anyone to read anything is a rare event these days. I'll give you this link and then you can request a review copy if you wish. This link will allow you to explore the four novels. Find one that looks good to you. "Lean against the Wind" is the shortest ( novelette) and could be your best bet. I love working up HUBS/reviews with others. You will see a few of my HUBS with others.
Here's one with Michele
This link explores the four novels.
I enjoyed this very much. You have this laid out beautifully and it is easy to understand. I read DS many years ago and always enjoyed her novels. Keep up the great HUBS. Up one and bneautiful. I'm now your fan! I am working a series of 5 novels, "Seeds from Heaven" that touches on a lot of the things you mention. One might ask, "What would the Messiah's message be today if he traveled the Earth during our time?" Book one is now published, "Lean against the Wind."
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A Market Model for Inflation
15 Pages Posted: 17 Aug 2004
Date Written: January 2004
The various macro econometrics model for inflation are helpless when it comes to the pricing of inflation derivatives. The only article targeting inflation option pricing, the Jarrow Yildirim model, relies on non observable data. This makes the estimation of the model parameters a non trivial problem. In addition, their framework do not examine any relationship between the most liquid inflation derivatives instruments: the year to year and zero coupon swap. To fill this gap, we see how to derive a model on inflation, based on traded and liquid market instrument. Applying the same strategy as the one for a market model on interest rates, we derive no-arbitrage relationship between zero coupon and year to year swaps. We explain how to compute the convexity adjustment and what relationship the volatility surface should satisfy. Within this framework, it becomes much easier to estimate model parameters and to price inflation derivatives in a consistent way.
Keywords: Inflation index, forward, zero-coupon, year-on-year, volatility cube, convexity adjustment
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The high-rise at 500 N. Lake Shore Drive is the second-most expensive in the city, with rents for a one-bedroom apartment approaching $3,000 a month, well beyond the reach of most Chicago residents.
But that's not too much for theChicago Housing Authority, which has used federal tax dollars to pick up most of the tab for four lucky residents in the year-old building, with its sweeping views of Lake Michigan, a concierge and a dog-grooming center.
The tenants moved in over the past two years as part of a push by the CHA to expand its housing voucher program so that more low-income residents can leave the city's roughest neighborhoods and start a new life in places with low poverty and crime and close to good schools and jobs.
Yet some landlords say it's a mistake to use scarce tax dollars to pay ultra-high rents for a fortunate few when more than 15,000 people sit on the CHA's voucher waiting list.
"This is nuts," says landlord Tony Rossi, president of Chicago-based RMK Management Corp., who describes himself as a liberal Democrat. "In a situation where you're dealing with a low-income person, do they really need a 25th-floor apartment with a lake view? It just doesn't make sense to me."
It doesn't make any sense to U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, either. The Peoria Republican last month pushed a measure through the House to curb the payments and says he is seeking an investigation by the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which pays for the voucher program and sets many of its rules.
"This is about making sure that people are not abusing the system," he says.
The CHA says in a statement that the "exception payments" for high-cost apartments cover less than 2 percent of the authority's roughly 38,000 outstanding vouchers. The higher payments—known as supervouchers—are necessary to help low-income residents move into better neighborhoods, which have few affordable housing options, the authority says.
Most landlords agree with the effort to expand the use of "housing choice vouchers," formerly known as Section 8 vouchers, to more prosperous parts of the city. Vouchers have become a bigger part of the CHA's policy since it tore down big public housing projects like Cabrini-Green, offering recipients more flexibility to choose where to live so they can escape the cycle of poverty.
Under the voucher program, which is federally funded but run by local agencies like the CHA, an eligible resident can rent an apartment in a privately owned building. Voucher holders generally must pay up to 30 percent of their monthly income, if they have any, to cover rent and utilities, with the CHA picking up the rest.
The CHA has approved supervouchers for low-income residents in some of the most expensive apartment buildings in the city.
HUD caps how much the CHA can pay a landlord. A few years ago, the CHA could not pay more than 110 percent of a fair market rent calculated by HUD. The current fair market rent in Cook County for a one-bedroom apartment is $826 a month.
But HUD allowed the CHA to change its rules in 2010, pushing the cap up to 300 percent in designated "opportunity areas," such as downtown and Lakeview, where poverty is low and subsidized housing is scarce.
Raising the threshold was essential because rents are so much higher in opportunity areas, making them off-limits under the old restrictions, says Alexander Polikoff, co-director of public housing at Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, an advocacy group.
"It was from a good motivation and a sound policy reason," he says. "The CHA is to be commended for being one of the only housing authorities in the country that understands the idea of housing mobility."
The CHA has approved 706 supervouchers since HUD signed off on the higher limits, and the number has jumped in the past two years. The CHA approved 364 in the first half of the year, up from 291 for all of 2013, 44 in 2012 and seven in 2011, according to the authority. Eighty-seven payments exceeded 200 percent of HUD's fair market rent in the first six months of the year, versus 49 for 2013 overall.
Eleven leases hit the 300 percent cap in the first six months of 2014, up from three for last year, according to the CHA. High-end apartment buildings with the highest voucher payments included 500 N. Lake Shore Drive,Aqua Tower in Lakeshore East and the Streeter in Streeterville.
In the South Loop, the CHA is subsidizing three tenants at Amli 900, a 440-unit building at 900 S. Clark St.
"Amli supports the efforts in a number of communities across the country in which we operate to provide affordable housing to qualified people," Greg Mutz, CEO of Chicago-based Amli Residential, which owns the building, says in a statement. "Amli does not support the push to provide luxury rental housing to a lucky few when so many are on the waiting list for basic housing."
According to the CHA, 15,230 people were on its waiting list for housing vouchers at the end of 2013.
Even Mr. Polikoff, who supports the CHA's broader push, says subsidizing low-income residents in ultra-high-rent buildings is "an inappropriate use of taxpayer money."
In its statement, the CHA says exception payments provide "CHA families the ability to choose where they want to live and enjoy the great diversity that Chicago communities have to offer." A HUD spokesman declines to comment.
Some building owners are happy for the business. Justin Elliott, principal at Chicago-based Marc Realty Residential, has few complaints after the CHA approved supervouchers for 36 leases this year and last in a 96-unit building Marc owned at 2300 S. Michigan Ave. Marc recently sold the building, which had the most supervouchers by far among all properties, according to the CHA.
"All in all, we viewed this as a very positive experience," Mr. Elliott says.
Still, the image of a person on public assistance living in a luxury apartment building could generate a political problem for HUD and the CHA.
In Washington, Mr. Schock's proposal would prohibit exception payments above 120 percent of an area's fair market value calculation. The measure is not expected to go far in the Senate.
Closer to home, Mr. Polikoff says CHA officials told him that the authority plans to lower the cap to 150 percent. The CHA won't confirm that, but its statement did not rule out a change:
"As it does every initiative, CHA has and will continue to evaluate program impact and make adjustments as necessary to ensure it meets objectives—with the ultimate goal of expanding housing options for families in a variety of Chicago neighborhoods."


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I am CRAZY busy! Do I always say that? I'm sorry, I'm sure you are too, so thanks for taking a moment to check out my posts! So, since you and I both don't really have much time to go through a full-blown blog post, I thought it would be fun to do a little Show-and-Tell without the "Tell" part. So, here are a couple things I've been up to in the last couple of weeks that I wanted to share. Warning: The News story only works in Internet Explorer and instead of clicking the picture, click the text below to go to the site. The Animoto video works fine from any browser.
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Little National Hotel
This stylish hotel situated on the edge of the Australian capital's 'Parliamentary Triangle' is perfect for business travellers and couples seeking sleek city accommodation with a soul; guests enjoy access to five-star facilities at a sister hotel right across the road.
- Cal Flyn, Travel writer
The Little National, aimed at Canberra's roving mobs of civil servants and parliamentary hangers-on, is ideally placed for a host of government buildings, including the Department of Foreign Affairs next door and Parliament House itself, a five-minute walk away. The National Gallery of Australia, National Library and Lake Burley Griffin are all about a twenty-minute walk away.
A nearby bus stop takes visitors into the centre, while bikes are available to hire at 33 Australian Dollars (£19) for 24 hours.
Style & character
The hotel is admittedly somewhat unprepossessing from the outside, perched as it is above a (tastefully concealed) multi-storey car park. But once inside, all doubts evaporate. The polished concrete floor and double-height ceiling in the lobby set the tone, while upstairs a minimalist, Japanese-influenced aesthetic reigns. Intricate paper sculptures by Australian artist Benja Harney are exhibited in clean white corridors, while the monochrome bedrooms feature dark floorboards, white walls and black four-poster beds. A tetsubin (cast-iron Japanese teapot) and two cups are placed on a tray on the bed in welcome.
Service & facilities
Essentially the Little National aims to offer the trappings of a luxury hotel without the price tag. All the facilities of its sister hotel, the five-star Hotel Realm, (including bars, restaurants, gym, spa and 25-metre lap pool), are open to Little National guests, the trade-off being that you have to walk across the road to access them.
On site, a 24-hour 'library' offers desks, power-sockets and tea/coffee on tap, lending a collegiate atmosphere. A running club meets twice weekly. Service is friendly and unpretentious.
- Bar
- Fitness centre
- Laundry
- Parking
- Pool
- Sauna
- Spa
- Steam room/hammam
Rooms are not large, but have an immediate wow factor thanks to the enormous four-poster, super king-sized bed and a floor-to-ceiling window. Blackout blinds and mood-lighting are controlled by buttons behind the headboard, while the kettle, Nespresso machine and ironing board are hidden behind cupboard doors. The bathroom boasts a rainfall shower and vanity-lit mirror.
Food & drink
There is no on-site restaurant; those seeking a cooked meal must cross over to the Hotel Realm or another restaurant in the 'Realm Precinct'. Neither is there room service, although microwave meals pre-prepared by the Realm's chef can be purchased from reception around the clock for 15 Australian Dollars (£8.70). A café on the ground floor offers coffee, cake, sandwiches and salads, but shuts at 3.30pm.
Value for money
Prices are dynamic but start from 139 Australian Dollars (£80), rising to around 180 Australian Dollars (£105) when parliament is in session. This includes Wi-Fi, local calls and in-room movies, but not breakfast. Despite the unusual set up, in terms of shared facilities, it can't be escaped that the Little National offers extraordinary bang for your buck — with access to five-star facilities and the feel of luxury at a fraction of the cost.
Access for guests with disabilities?
There is step-free access to all rooms. Several have shower seats and extra space for maneuvering wheelchairs.
No, it has a grown-up vibe and no facility for extra beds, or interconnecting rooms.


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- City
- Kotor
- Street
- Kostanjica
- House number
- 23
- Settlement
- Kostanjica - Kotor
- Floor
- Attic
size & age
- Size
- 69 m2
- Age of the building
- 2014
- Grade of completeness
- 100
technical data
- Overall Condition
- Excellent
- Rooms
- 2
- Elevator
- yes
Short Description
Kostanjica is an old fishing village in the very heart of the Boka Kotorska bay. The bay is the deepest natural fjord in the Mediterranean Sea, and the scenery around it (including the steep mountains which come almost to the waterfront) is spectacular. It is located across the old Mediterranean town Perast which is under the protection of UNESCO as a culturally historical treasure of Europe along with Kotor. Natural beaches with extremely transparent water, wild forest of chestnut by which the village got its name as well as the vicinity of the most elite part of Boka – towns Perast and Kotor makes this location on most attractive locations on the Montenegrin coast.
- Electricity
- Water
- Sewerage
- Telephone
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Visibility of Venus/Jupiter conjunctions
Looking at the exceptionally close cases, of less than a minute (.0167 degree) separation
Range of years: -620 to 35 (621 BC to 35 AD)
Observer position: Jerusalem
Here I'll mostly be using the astronomical numbering system for years, in which 1AD = 1, 1BC = 0, 2BC = -1, 3BC = -2, 621BC = -620, etc. For this first time span all cases are shown, whether or not the point of closest conjunction was visible from Jerusalem. Data is from Solex, except for time and altitude of the two cases with negative altitudes far below the horizon. When in the mode that views the sky from the perspective of a particular geographical location, Solex doesn't include events more than 30 degrees below the horizon. So these four data points, marked by outlined boxes, are from Stellarium. This might result in small inconsistencies, but the time is likely within 5 minutes and the altitude within 1 degree of what Solex would have calculated. The point in the Sabbath and Jubilee cycles of each conjunction is marked by brown shading for the first year, or purple shading for the last year of the cycle. Note that during the Babylonian captivity there is a 12-year shift in the Sabbath/Jubilee cycle which affects the years -573 and earlier. The unmarked column next to the Sabbath cycle column is the year number used for Sabbath calculations. This is the Julian year in which the fall-oriented Hebrew year begins.
Visibility of the point of closest conjunction
For all but three cases, the point of closest conjunction was not visible from Jerusalem because it occurred during daylight hours, between about 06:00 and 18:00. The three cases which are potentially visible in terms of this daylight factor are shaded in pink. For two of these remaining three cases, the point of closest conjunction was not visible from Jerusalem because it occurred far below the horizon, leaving only one case whose point of closest conjunction was visible from Jerusalem. The cases which were above the horizon are shaded in blue, so the one visible case is the one shaded in both pink and blue, in the year ‑2 (3/2 BC). This has been additionally marked by brown shading.
Brightness of the conjunctions
The brightness of the conjunctions is largely determined by the magnitude of the brighter of the two planets, Venus. The more negative values of magnitude are the brighter magnitudes. From this we see the two brightest cases to have been in the years -463 and -2. These have been shaded in yellow. But as previously noted, the conjunction of -463 couldn't be seen at its closest point because it occurred below the horizon.
In the years -620 to 35 then, the Venus/Jupiter conjunction of the year -2 (3/2 BC) stood out from all the similar conjunctions as being one of the two brightest cases, and as the only case whose closest point of conjunction was visible from Jerusalem. How rare is this then, for such a conjunction to actually be observable from Jerusalem? If we expand the range of years, will we find other cases where the point of closest conjunction was observable?
Range of years: -5000 to 2100
This is a lot of years to look at, so I'll limit the data this time to showing only the visible cases. After eliminating the cases in which the point of closest conjunction occurred during daylight hours or below the horizon, only the following 12 cases remain:
Looking at these occurrences in Stellarium for comparison, it does a fairly decent job of matching these results back to around ‑4000. Further back than that, the separation is off by not just seconds but by many minutes of arc from the Solex results. I take this to probably be a general breakdown of Stellarium's precision when going back this far. For the dates more recent than ‑4000, Stellarium agrees at least that all these conjunctions fit the category of closer than 1 minute separation. Given some other known inaccuracies of Stellarium for ancient dates, I put much more confidence in Solex's estimate of closest approach. As for time differences between Stellarium and Solex, they are within 30 minutes of each other back to the year -3000, and within 2 hours of each other back to -4000. Part of this difference could just be a matter of what Delta T correction is being used.
Brightness of the conjunctions
This time we find the conjunction of the year -2 (3/2 BC) to be the clear winner for brightness. Looking at just these cases whose point of closest conjunction was visible from Jerusalem, none of the other contenders come close.
During the Babylonian captivity there's a discontinuity in the Sabbath/Jubilee cycle which amounts to shifting or delaying the cycle by 12 or 61 years. More study is needed to determine precisely where to place the transition point. It's clear that the old cycle applies to the years ‑623 and earlier, and the new cycle to the years ‑513 and later. The best transition point may be at Ezekiel's Jubilee in the year ‑574, delaying that Jubilee to the year ‑562. For now that's how I'm handling it. In the first table this discontinuity affects only the first data point, for the year ‑618, making it the 5th year of a Sabbath cycle where otherwise it would have been a Sabbath year. In the second table the discontinuity affects all data points prior to the year ‑2, with the result that none of them are the first or last year of a Sabbath or Jubilee cycle, with the exception of just the year ‑2884. It would be interesting to try to identify whether this date has any significance, but trying to make any historical connections will likely be very challenging. It's a very old date, possibly from the early years of Noah's life, over 500 years before the flood – an era for which we have only very sketchy records.
For now the significant observation to make is just that after the year ‑2884, back sometime before Noah's flood, there isn't another Sabbath-year-oriented occurrence until the year ‑2. So even with this expanded range of years, the Venus/Jupiter conjunction of the year ‑2 (3/2 BC) stands out as quite a special event.


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In Japan, Infectious Disease Surveillance Center (IDSC) of National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) is notified the results of isolation/detection of infectious agents from prefectural and municipal public health institutes (PHIs). Their information are based on the laboratory identification done by PHIs for the specimens collected at sentinel clinics/hospitals under the National Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases (NESID), occasionally at non-sentinel sites and at health centers.
From gastroenteritis cases, norovirus and other viruses (sapovirus, rotavirus, astrovirus etc.) are detected.
Figure 1. Weekly reports of norovirus, sapovirus and rotavirus detection, 2014/15- 2016/17 season
Figure 2. Detection of norovirus, sapovirus and rotavirus by prefecture, 2016/17 season (2014/15-2015/16)
Figure 3. Weekly detection of norovirus by prefecture ,2016/17
Figure 4. Monthly norovirus outbreaks, 2010/11-2016/17 season CSV
*2015/16 season: Week 36/September of 2015 - Week 35/August of 2016
2014/15 season: Week 36/September of 2014 - Week 35/August of 2015
**Data for current and previous weeks will be updated by additional reports.
***Weekly reports of astrovirus detection, 2010/11-2016/17 season (as of June 1, 2017)
Link to Detection of norovirus GII/4 2012 variant in Japan (National Institute of Health Sciences)
Detection of gastroenteritis viruses in Japan, 2013/14 season (as of May 14, 2015)
Detection of gastroenteritis viruses in Japan, 2012/13 season (as of October 24, 2013)
Detection of gastroenteritis viruses in Japan, 2011/12 season (as of November 8, 2012)
Infectious Agents Surveillance Report, Infectious Disease Surveillance Center,
National Institute of Infectious Diseases


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Discuss e-commerce: its advancement and future perspectives
Discuss e-commerce: its advancement and future perspectives
"An e-commerce transaction stands out as the sale or decide to buy of goods or products and services greater than home pc mediated networks", purchase is been put and brought about digital community a range of payment could either be digital or manual. E-commerce has revolutionized the complete practical experience of commerce at each sellers' and buyer's finishes staying a virtual save of possibly goods or services. Reserving tickets and shopping for apparel sitting down at your home next few actions through the world wide web is just a simplest illustration of what ecommerce is providing us at the moment.
Advancement of ecommerce goes back to the day of improvement of pcs but the serious breakthrough was in 1960's when EDI- Electronic Data Trade was utilized by sizable companies properties and army departments to share knowledge. Later on right after 19 decades in 1979, ASC X12 was produced by American Nationwide Expectations Institute, which was used to share documents typically for internet marketing business purpose around the world.https://fastessays.co.uk/compare_and_contrast_essay Tim Berners Lee an inventor of World-wide-web in 1989 that's till day is utilized for sharing of data around a worldwide system. He then in1990 launched HTTP and HTML which then could very well be made use of as on line monetary transaction medium. In 1995 Amazon started its operation by advertising books web-based, and after that came eBay providing platform to sellers to sell and clients to acquire the products in their alternative. Now both have become significant promote participant in ecommerce sector.
I assume later on, e-commerce enterprises would commence providing custom made products and solutions to potential clients. Right this moment, these merchants are offering standard merchandise but one particular high-quality day they would start selling custom-made products and services. Digital demo rooms for every product may be capable of evaluate the scale of customer's shoe measurement, or some other products' sizing which way the featuring would turned out to be a little more and much more custom-made. Also, with far more facts, merchants can be capable to suggest a lot better individualized materials. I truly feel a person key change that may happen down the road of e-commerce tends to be that a hybrid shopping have for your consumers combining leisure of procuring from any where and therefore the joys of searching with household and close friends. Just about every person likes to buy inside the service in their associates. Social looking would arise with a great deal more progress of technological know-how. Service providers also could launch by making use of avatars and synthetic intelligence to deliver digital shopping representatives to users. Innovations in technological innovation might possibly shift the shopping experience. M-Commerce has currently emerged being a competitor to e-Commerce. Technological know-how organisations are attempting to usher in a radical change inside of the on a daily basis wear goods. A recent example would Samsung's gear with its telephones. A whole lot more plus more products would bring about a more hybrid buying clients. Organizations would need to the touch the end users on an all round basis.
E commerce also has the opportunity to reinforce and unify the worldwide market. As Catherine L. Mann claims in her study paper, digital commerce in building international locations:
"Electronic commerce and its connected routines around the online market place could very well be the engines that develop domestic financial well-being through liberalization of domestic expert services, a little more speedy integration into globalization of manufacturing, and leap-frogging of obtainable engineering. Digital commerce integrates the domestic and world wide marketplaces from its enormously inception."
This will establish to generally be a boon towards international community. Anybody could be able to enjoy the most effective points in all elements with the entire world at a particular destination.
E Commerce as of at the moment is in its nascent phase. Inside many years to come, it will get modified alone in addition to change the way of corporation and searching throughout the planet. Institutions would end up a bit more customer-centered than in the past before and potential consumers is going to be able to order what exactly they ever preferred.


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Rock It Down
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During the Month of March both groups were well attended as usual. We listened to an Indian Meditation, one of Glen Harrold's visualisation CDs and Earth and Universe.
There was a combined outing to the Karma Guen Diamond Way Buddhist Retreat Center. Where 16 of us braved the cold and wind and met at Trapiche before going in convoy to the centre.
We were met by Rob who gave us a guided tour of the Karma Guen, but unfortunately did not know the history of the drawings around the centre. He then did a meditation for us which was hard to hear as he was quietly spoken and the wind was howling outside. He then took us to their gift shop where we had ample time to purchase goods, some gifts are made by the staff that work there, and also there were books and CDs you could purchase. At 13.30 a gong was struck to let everyone know that lunch was ready. The food was delicious and plenty of it and we had chance to speak to other co workers that were staying at the retreat. Finally some us got back into the cars and a few decided to walk up to the Estupa, by now the wind had dropped and the sun was shining on us. We left about 16.00 the trip cost 5€ including the food.
If anyone wants to go for a full guided tour you can go any Sunday afternoon


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MM Prishvin
Kashcheev's chain
The first book. Kurymushka.
In Yelets, my hometown, all the old merchants' surnames were double. Our first family name, Prishvin, was generic, official, and the second, "street", was the Alpatovs.
I was born in 1873 in the village of Khrushchev, Solovyov volost, Yelets county, Orel province. The village of Khrushchev was a small village with thatched roofs and earthen floors. Near the village was the manor of the landowner. I was born in this big landlord's house. This small estate, about 200 acres, was bought by my grandfather Dmitri Ivanovich Prishvin from a nobleman, General Levshin. After the family division Khrushchev got my father, Mikhail Dmitrievich Prishvin. So it happened that Yeletsky merchant's son, my father, became a landowner. In the estate my father began to breed Orlov trotters, he traveled them and more than once in Orel took prizes. Still my father was a wonderful gardener, an excellent hunter and led a cheerful life. How sorry I am for my father, who did not know how to get out to something more serious than life-long life.
Happened one day, he lost a large amount of money in the cards; to pay the debt, had to sell the entire stud farm and lay the estate on a double mortgage. My father did not survive the misfortune, he died, and my mother, a woman of forty years with five children, allowed me to work all my life "on the bank."
My mother,
In our house there was an ancient, made still with serf hands, huge armchair Kurym. Nobody knew why it was called that way. They said that as a boy I was very much like an armchair, but I did not know what it was like. Often I thought, sitting in this huge chair. I thought that each of us has a life like a shell of a folding Easter egg. Sometimes everything lived starts to fly off like a shell, and a little boy Kurymushka comes out at the bedside of his sick father. His father made a sign with his only healthy hand, and his mother gave him a sheet of paper and a pencil. He painted some extraordinary animals and signed: blue beavers.
That night everyone was running around with fire, they were beating and whispering. In the morning Kurymushka learned that his father had died. Of all the conversations, Kurymushka realized that some Bank had grabbed Mom and she would work for him; it is still not good that he is an orphan, that "we are merchants" and that the land will pass to the peasants. Only blue beavers were good.
Mother always gets up before the sun and leaves in the fields. At dinner she sits tanned and mighty, eats and talks about matters with the elder, Ivan Mihalych. Later in the autumn, when it starts to get dark early, the time of the guests comes. A neighbor often visits her mother Sofya Alexandrovna and Aunt Dounia. Kurymushka adds to himself tales of them.
It was, it seems to Kurymushka, three suitors from Sofya Alexandrovna, two good, and one Mad. The elder ordered Sofya Alexandrovna to go for good, but she went after the Mad. The mad master was an atheist, but what this means, Kurymushka did not know. Sofya Alexandrovna wanted to get away from Madness, but the elder ordered to be patient. She tolerated and obeyed the old man in everything.
Another fairy tale was about Dounia. One of my mother's brothers had a boy named Garibaldi. He lived in a big house with Dunia. When Garibaldi became big, he raised an uprising in this house and left. With him left his sister Dunia. Where they left – it was impossible to know. For some reason they hated the tsar, such a good, liberator of the peasants.
There was a peasant Gusek in the village. He often stomped in the hall and begged the earthmen for his mother. Mother gave the earth, but it did not bring any benefit. Guska had a dream: to catch a white quail and sell to merchants for a lot of money. But although he spent to catch quail all the time, he came across nothing but gray. Even Kurymushka happened to go hunting with him.
When the estate come visit, feral brothers Little Peterkin, gymnasium, run up an abandoned garden. Little Peterkin also need to run away from the guests, and do not pass the beater from the brothers for a joy. One day, Kurymushka's secret desire came true: all the guests were seized by the guests, and they sat at the table like tied rappers. Near Kurymushki was a dish with dried pears. He stole one – and in his pocket. Brother Kolya noticed this and began to force Kurymushka to carry different things for him, threatening to tell everyone about the pear. Once even a twenty-dollar had to be pulled out of his mother's purse. Every day the power of the secret of the dried pear grew, and then another disaster arrived.
The brothers beat the biggest priest's goose with sticks to roast it on the fire, like Robinson. They disappear on the "mischievous trail" leading through the wheat to some unknown place. Kurymushka – secretly behind them. Wheat from all sides, like a forest, but the big Blue looks from above and sees everything. It became scary. Kurymushka decided to join the brothers – come what may. Only he began to approach, when suddenly one of the brothers dropped his gander. The goose banged loudly on the ground – and how he would scream. Kurymushka jumped into the wheat and ran, leaving behind a wide road. On this road a bloody gander set off after him. Kurymushka was sure that this Blue punished the villains and let the gander go. On the run, he read all the prayers that he knew until he got out of the wheat. It did not occur to Kurymushka to make a secret from the bloody gander a secret against the brothers. He only realized,
Once in Khrushchev, General Levshin drove with his daughter Masha, asked permission to bypass the estate, in which she lived for many years. For Kurymushka, the girl became a fairy-tale beauty, Marya Morevna. Masha stayed to stay and immediately tamed the wild schoolboys, and Kurymushku relieved from the mystery of the dried pear.
Since my mother hired a new groom, Ivan. He was so terrible that even Maria Ivanovna was a little afraid of him, but Kurymushka thought for a long time that it was not Balda. Ivan always did something nasty with the maid on the stove. Kurymushka thought that this was his terrible secret. They also said that Ivan was a spitting Alexander Mikhailovich, a mad master. One winter evening there was a rumor: the king was killed. Ivan said that now the Lord will be cut, and the land will be dismantled. Then the police arrived and took Ivan away somewhere.
It's a bright day. The houses were told: "Today Masha will come." Sofya Alexandrovna said that Masha is expansive and she must go to the old man, she will learn humility. Kurymushka understands these words in his own way. Sofya Aleksandrovna wants to give Masha to the old man. Now the old man seems to him Kashchei immortal. But he will tell Marya Morevna and Kashchei all the same.
Mother gathers guests. This time they are waiting for the Madman himself. Sofya Aleksandrovna took him to the old man, and he changed a lot. At dinner the conversation about the tsar came, but Dunia did not like it: she did not like the new tsar either. There was a heavy silence at the table, as if Kashchei had tied all his chain. To break this chain, Kurymushka loudly asked why everyone was talking about Ivan: the spitting Alexander Mikhailovich. As if something had broken at the table, and Kurymushka was sent to bed. At night, he did not sleep – he was sorry that he could not break Kashcheev's chain. Then he made his way to Marya Morevna, told her about Kashchei and quietly fell asleep in her bed when a large Blue entered the room.
Kurymushka became a schoolboy. He was placed in a boarding house by a kind German woman, Wilhelmina Schmol. A wave picked up Kurymushka and threw it on the very back of the desk, next to the schoolgirl – the repeater named Achilles. He immediately told Kurymushka about the teachers. Director – a fair Latvian. For him the main thing is neatness in clothes. The inspector likes to read Gogol's funny stories and the very first laughs. The laughter goes on in the classroom, like in a monkey forest, for which the Monkeys nicknamed it. The goat, the geography teacher, is considered to be crazy, with him – how lucky. The most terrible teacher of mathematics is the cow's death. If he set the unit for the first time, the unit will remain the whole year, and the student will be called a cow.
Kurymushka became a cow at the first lesson of mathematics. But he dealt with geography with great pleasure, and Kozel said that something would come out of him, maybe a great traveler. Kurymushka thought: what it's like to be a traveler, and decided to go to Asia in search of a country where blue beavers live. To this feat he beat two of his friends: Achilles and Sasha Ryurikov, nicknamed Rurik. After careful gathering, the expedition set off and continued for three days. Returned travelers to the homeland of the village of Krupkin. During the expedition the travelers were heroes in the eyes of all the gymnasiums of the city, but when they were brought back, they tortured Kurymushka in the gymnasium for a long time. They followed and said: "I went to Asia, I came to the gymnasium".
Passed year after year. Deep somewhere in the shower, as if covered with ashes, the country of blue beavers slept. And so, when Alpatova began to curl her fair hair and slightly tapered tendrils, when all classmates began to dream of dancing in the girls' gymnasium and write poetry to Vera Sokolova, as if the volcano had exploded, and everything turned somersault.
Against the fourth grade, where Alpatov studied, there was a physical cabinet. Once he looked at the amazing machines, and one of the older students, Nezgovorov, spoke to him and gave him a book on physics. Gradually, Alpatov entered the circle of high school students, where they read forbidden literature. There Alpatova was called Kupidosha because of curly hair. In order not to call him that, Alpatov cut his hair nylon, and even rejected Vera Sokolova.
Soon Alpatov decided that it remained for him to learn about the latter, it seemed to him, an unknown and great secret. There was a whole group of students in the class headed by Kalakutsk, they knew about it all. Alpatov asked him directly about this. Kalakutsk has agreed to take him to his friend, Nastya. "Nastya loves boys, she will treat you alive," said Kalakutsky, "but we must drink for courage." In the hare way, for free, he led Alpatov to Nastya. On the way he said that the Hare is also walking here, but the Kozel is not, he is with him. Nastya was a large porcelain woman with bright spots on her cheeks. Alpatov was very frightened, vodka for courage did not help, he ran away. All night long, he had nightmares about Hare and Goat.
The next morning Alpatov went to the gymnasium with a vague decision to start his life in a completely different way. The first was a lesson in geography. Seeing the goat, Alpatov remembered that he had been told about him. Misha became disgusted, he began to be rude to Kozlu. In the end, Alpatova was expelled from the classroom, and then from the gymnasium.
Uncle Kurymushki, a rich Siberian merchant and steamer Ivan Astakhov, appeared in the sister's house whenever there was any trouble. He also appeared this time. Through a dream Kurymushka heard the conversations of the elders. They talked about Guska, as if he, like Adam, had been driven out of paradise to plow, but the land was completely taken away by the landlords. They talked about Marya Morevna, that she lives in Florence, in a family, she washes the floors, erases, prepares, teaches children, and she is idolized there. And then my uncle offered to take Kurymushka with him to Siberia, to Asia. Uncle Ivan was always an example of luck and luck in the family, and his mother hoped that he would make a son out of a son. Kurymushka himself was glad that he was finally going to Asia.
First we went by fast train. My uncle, who always studied something, bought at the station in Nizhny Novgorod a large encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron and forced Kurymushka to read aloud the articles with the letter "A". Then they moved to the steamer. Sailed along the Kama, then by train – through the severe Ural Mountains. And now, finally, the pillar, on one side of which is written: "Europe", and on the other: "Asia." Then we sailed on the ship "Ivan Astakhov". The ship carried the settlers, descendants of the second Adam, who did not get land. The old god was bored with the complaints of the first Adam, and he created another man. The second Adam also sinned and was banished from paradise in the sweat of his face to cultivate the land. Only God forgot that the earth is already occupied, and now the new Adam wanders in search of free land, but nowhere does he find.
Ivan Astakhov, the commander of the Siberian punks, a two-storey house with a tower, built a steamshipman, huge and gloomy, not resembling anything. At the bottom there are twelve rooms and at the top there is the same number, on the tower – a telescope. In this palace, Ivan Astakhov lived alone, only the silent footman walked around the house the trained footman Alexander.
My uncle arranged Alpatov for a gymnasium. It takes two years. The first one is Alpatov in the gymnasium. He is very proud, it is difficult for him to give everything, and that is why he is lonely. Everything goes to achieve the first, and among the other students there is an interesting, mysterious and inaccessible life. There was a group in the gymnasium, the director was her secret leader. Nikolay Opolin, a swarthy and strong young man, had time to feed his family, and to be in the first disciples. The director's son, Lyova, became a real scientist. Popovich Fortifikantov, a beginner of the philosophers, was transferred from the seminary for freethinking. There was also a Ukrainian, a lazy fellow, but he was the best at politics. Semen Lunin, the poorest in the class, fed his family and was engaged in statistics. This company in the classroom seated next door, they also did not part with the changes. No matter how hard the Alpatov tried to join them, nothing happened,
Throughout Siberia, a rumor ran that the mighty and unyielding Ivan Astakhov, when he brought bread and salt to the heir to the Russian throne, was scared, did not finish his speech, and dropped his silver dish at his feet. Finally, Astakhov himself appeared. Never saw Mikhail his uncle like that. Now the head of the Siberian punks met enthusiastic stories about the heir. Hearing about this, the director of the gymnasium came to Astakhov and immediately stopped everything. Seeing the director at the window, Misha went downstairs to listen. It turned out that the director creates a school of people's leaders in the gymnasium. Alpatov was stunned. He spent three years on unnecessary achievements, and they were preparing for a great cause. And again he is the second Adam without earth. Two weeks later, Alpatov came to his uncle to say goodbye: he graduated from the course and left for Russia.
Alpatov died an old nanny, this event changed all of Maria Ivanovna's plans and even threatened to upset her anniversary. During this time Maria Ivanovna bought out the estate and refurbished everything. Throughout the province, it was the glory of a wonderful hostess. From the very first days after the death of the nurse, it turned out that she had the whole housekeeping, and only because of this Maria Ivanovna could regularly manage the affairs of the estate. She tried to shift part of the economy to her eldest daughter, Lydia, but she was completely unprepared for this, and they constantly quarreled. Maria Ivanovna did not know what to do with her daughter-to send for courses or to marry.
Soon after Easter, Maria Ivanovna received a letter from Misha's son that he had graduated from high school, but he did not want to serve with his uncle, but would enter the Polytechnic and become an engineer.
In the end, Maria Ivanovna decided to share her entire household among the children. She wrote to them, and the sons began to come together. The first to arrive was Nikolai's eldest son. He was an extraordinary lazy person, he dreamed of settling down somewhere in a remote town and was fishing all day long. Soon came a lively and gypsy-looking medical student Alexander, and then a future judge, Sergei. Mikhail was the last to appear. Mother asked everyone what to do with Lydia, but they could not advise her anything.
Alpatov went around his native places, hunted with Gus on quails and looked in school to Dunia. In the city he met Yefim Nesgovorov. He was in an underground organization, where he joined the Alpatov. Misha told Yefim about the school of people's leaders, and he immediately became interested in this idea. At the head of the organization was Danilych. Misha was instructed to translate from the German Bebel "Woman and Socialism".
Alexander was going to marry the poor noblewoman Maria Otletayeva. He completely changed, became a stranger, spoke enthusiastically about his future relatives, and this greatly tormented Maria Ivanovna. Misha has also changed. He considers himself an obstetrician of history, he must cut the umbilical cord that connects man and god and liberate the world from the kashchey chain.
The second book. Marriage flight.
Maria Ivanovna heard the news that Misha had been arrested and put in jail. At first she was very excited, but then gradually calmed down. Many guests came to see Maria Ivanovna on her anniversary. The Otletayevs brought their distant relative Inna Rostovtsev with them. In the evening, Maria Ivanovna persuaded Inna to stay with her. She saw in Inna Turgenevskaya girl.
The case of Alpatov was investigated by a comrade of the prosecutor from St. Petersburg, Mr. Anatsevich. He had the idea to collect from all higher educational institutions the students' initial applications, check the handwriting with the documents found during the search, and so establish the personalities of the "school of proletarian leaders". Mikhail Alpatov was arrested at the very beginning of the investigation. In the courtyard of the prison to which he was brought, a real wild crane named Fomka was nursed. He had a broken wing, and he lived here for the second year. Alpatova was put in solitary confinement № 27. Most of all, Misha was depressed by the constant observation of him through the peephole in the door. In order not to go insane, Alpatov invented himself as "a trip" to the North Pole, where, khreya over gold, Kashchei sits immortal. Misha calculated, how many diagonals of the camera will be required for the whole trip. It was an inner journey in return for the present.
In prison, political people had meetings with girls who were not known to prisoners, as with brides. Sometimes even there were marriages.
Alpatov liked the warder Kuzmich, and with his help he managed to move to a lighter chamber. From the window one could see a huge tree and a crane of Fomka. From time to time Anatevich came to Alpatovy, persuaded him to repent, promised to ease the punishment, but Misha did not give up. Slowly creeping time, like a prison wool blanket. Snow.
When the day began to arrive, Misha received a letter from Inna Rostovtseva's "bride". From the letter it became clear that he would be released after Easter, and he should go abroad, where he would meet with Inna. It was the Spring Festival. A "bride" came to Alpatova. She entered the meeting room under a thick veil and stood on the other side of the grate. His face, he never saw, but remembered the voice.
Alpatov fell into anguish. Once he fought his fist against the wall to replace the mental pain of the physical. From behind the wall he was answered by a knock. It was Yefim Nezgovorov. They began to talk with the help of the Morse code. Then it was noticed, and it all ended.
On one clear spring day, a flock of cranes began to swirl over the prison. With them flew Fomka.
After Easter, Alpatov was released. Gendarme captain ordered him to choose a city for three years. Michael promised to go abroad in a week. Swaying, with a huge knot on his shoulder, Alpatov approaches the gate and lets out the watchman.
Michael moved to a foreign car in Verzhbolov and rushed to Europe. On the way, he met Nina Belyaeva. She, like Inna, graduated from the Smolny and now went to study in Germany. Alpatov did not know that she was a close friend of Rostovtseva. Nina liked Mikhail.
Alpatov came to Berlin and settled in a cheap apartment with metalworker Otto Schwartz. Schwartz was a Social Democrat only because it was profitable for him. This did not prevent him from bowing to the emperor Wilhelm.
Wanting to find Inna, Alpatov filed a request to the address table. Soon came the reply with the address. It was still early for visits, and Mikhail decided first to go to university. There Alpatov long tormented the clerks with certificates, wishing to find out which department Inna had registered, but her name was nowhere to be found. At last he decided to go to Inna, but she was gone: an hour ago she went to Yen. Alpatov rushed after her. The yen is a small city, and all foreigners stopped at Frau Professor Nipperdai. Innu Alpatov again did not find, but he was described in detail by her further route: first Wartburg, then Dresden. Inna forgot her white shawl from the professor and Alpatov took her with him as a talisman.
He chased Inna through Green Germany and lagged behind for two days, then for a day. On the pier at Elba he was informed that the Russian lady-in-waiting had driven to Dresden yesterday, accompanied by a young Swede. Alpatov decided that in Dresden she would go and see the "Sistine Madonna".
The picture was as big as the ocean. Alpatov for a long time could not tear himself away from it. In the hall where the painting hung, Mikhail unexpectedly met Yefim Nezgovorov. He confessed to Alpatov that he was drawn to destroy the Madonna, for him she was an idol. Yefim reminded Alpatov of his duty, but Misha this man became unpleasant. They broke up.
The same day Alpatov met Nina and invited her to his hotel to drink tea. There she accidentally saw Inna's white shawl. Misha found out that Rostovtsev and Belyaeva were friends, and that Inna went to Paris with a young Swede.
Alpatov gave himself up to the influence of Yefim. Nezgovorov suggested that Misha go to Leipzig to study and gradually organize there, in a Russian colony, a Marxist circle. Alpatov was delighted with this proposal, promised to work as at home, having lost sight of the fact that he himself was already different. After this chase after the elusive bride, Alpatov wanted to get rid of all his whims from his head with great work.
At the University of Leipzig Alpatov enrolled at once for all courses he was interested in. He was not only Russian, there were a lot of them. Aksenov, a handsome blond blond, was from Simbirsk. A tall brunette with black burning eyes, like a French hypnotist, turned out to be Ambar from Petersburg. Chizhov from Yekaterinburg is a strange man in a blue shirt with a gray jacket without a waistcoat. Rosa Katzenellenbogen from Pinsk came with fiery red hair and frequent freckles. There were many more Russians, and everyone wanted to study philosophy.
At the first meeting of the Russian colony, Alpatov understood that it would not be possible to organize a circle here. He went out into the street depressed and stricken. On the boulevard Misha met Ambarova. He admitted that only in Leipzig he has three wives, and before that he lived in Rome, in Paris, in Zurich. Ambarov said good-bye to Alpatov and asked him to visit him in the technical laboratory, where he works every day.
Alpatov was carried away by chemistry and also began to work in the laboratory. His neighbor was Rosa Katzellenbogen. Ambar taught him a lot.
It is very possible that the whole trouble came from Alpatov because of the volume of the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, which he once bought in a bookshop. Having learned this book, Alpatov could no longer listen to philosophical lectures and write down everything in the notebook. No, real knowledge flies like a meteor, and Alpatov rushed to work at a single point, abandoned all lectures and did only tests in the laboratory. A month later, he was far ahead of Rosa, but chemistry is given by measured labor. Alpatov met with higher mathematics, and now day and night he sits over integrals, to which he is utterly incapable. Rose easily overtakes him. With astonishment, he asks Rosa, what is her success. She calmly explains that she is studying chemistry for pharmaceuticals, and eventually becomes a pharmacist in the Pinsk pharmacy.
In the evening, Alpatov goes somewhere vaguely along the boulevard and again meets Ambarov by the arm with his new wife. They go down to one of the basement pubs and sit down at the white marble table. Talk about women. Ambarov was a satiated person, and he started chemistry because he was interested in explosives – only they give real power. This frightened Alpatov-he recognized the madman in Ambarov.
At this time, one burdock from Concordia so brazenly watched the swing of the legs of his third wife, Ambarov, that Alpatov could not stand it and showed him his tongue. Bursh summoned him to a duel. Alpatov wanted to apologize, but then decided that it was embarrassing: then all Russians would be considered cowards. For several days Misha is attending a fencing master. The duel took place in a large, well-ventilated room, fought on shlegerah to the first blood. It was not a duel, but, rather, a rite, to which the Germans took very seriously. After the duel, a friendly drinking took place. Alpatov was stunned by the stupidity of everything that was happening. Unable to even laugh, he quickly began to drink beer. I woke up Alpatov in the morning on someone's wide double bed. A young woman was sleeping beside him. Alpatov peered at him and barely understood the cruel joke of Ambarov: with him lay that same third wife,
Humiliated and crushed, Alpatov steals into the street. Everywhere a great movement, everyone is preparing to celebrate the New Year. Alpatov finds out in the crowd Rosa Katzenellenbogen, and they come together to have breakfast in a small cafe. Under the influence of all that happened, the Alpatians almost asked Rosa to marry him, but in time woke up. It was Rosa who led him to think of becoming an engineer for draining swamps, a peatmaster.
At home Alpatova was waiting for the guest – Yefim Nezgovorov, the very same Yefim, who was dearer to him in his homeland, who did not recognize anything but revolution. Nezgovorov realized that Alpatov had not fulfilled the instructions, and between them everything was over.
For several years Alpatov lived in Leipzig, in the family of a widow of one famous composer. The course of marsh sciences was almost over. Alpatova remained on her graduate project of the hydrotrophic machine to make a red circle in order to emphasize her own invention. In the drawing room, there was no necessary carmine for it, I had to go after him home. On the way back to the drawing room, Alpatov saw a summer round cloud at the end of the street in the sky – the first sign of spring. This cloud reminded Alpatova of his spring light, it called to break from the spot, fly into the blue world. He sat in the omnibus, walking towards the cloud, in which, by a strange accident, only young girls sat. One of them called Alpatova. He recognized the voice: it was Inna.
They spent all day together. Inna told about the Swede: he had an upset stomach, she helped – bought a medicine and parted with him in Brussels. The next morning Alpatov woke up as a child, ready to embrace the whole world with love. Together with the coffee he was given a letter on a tray. "I'm not the one you love: you made up your own bride, and I, too, can not love you in one day." Good-bye, I'm leaving at night, "was in this letter. Alpatov puts the last group on the graduation project and buys a ticket to Moscow. Here comes another letter: she is in Paris, repents and calls him to her.
In Paris, the carnival, which is there in the middle of the post. They meet in the Luxembourg garden near the Medici fountain, and again spend the whole day together. Inna confessed that she was afraid of her mother – she would not accept Michael. Inna's mother was a born countess, and her father was a merchant. For the sake of her, he changed his name (he was Chizhikov, became Rostovtsev), refused to study, dropped out of the university and became a real national counselor in the forest department. But in spite of everything, he remained for her Chizhikov. After much agony and hesitation, it was decided: Alpatov goes to Russia to arrange her situation, and she studies at the Sorbonne and waits for him.
Alpatov stayed a little on the estate with his mother. At this time, Gusek dies – he never caught a white quail. Misha tells his mother that he intends to marry Inna. Maria Ivanovna was very happy about this news. Before the trip to St. Petersburg Alpatov wanted to stay in Moscow for several days. There he was immediately summoned to the police. The colonel, who was assigned this case, turned out to be a good man. They agreed: he will send a request abroad, and while he will go, Alpatov will have time to create a position in Petersburg.
In St. Petersburg Alpatov came to Petro Petrovich Rostovtsev and asked him to arrange for a live job. Rostovtsev promised him a place in the department. Places had to wait, and Rostovtsev took while Alpatova to his secretary, to work on an encyclopedia of flora and fauna. They worked at night, and during the day Alpatov wrote long, crazy letters to his bride. Rostovtsev he never admitted that he was in love with his daughter.
Inna did not write for a long time, and then a letter came from her, which was for Alpatova as a glass of poison. The letter read: "We speak different languages, we do not follow the path, this time I firmly and resolutely say: no." It turned out that the world "in return for Inna" does not exist. Alpatova suddenly felt drawn to nature, wanted to see tits on birches, and he went without seeing anything around him. Behind him, without losing sight of, was a small man with a cake of pine nuts. Alpatov noticed the little man only when he went out of town, and suddenly he realized that he had been sent a phyler, and the most stupid one. Reaching out his hand, Alpatov squeezed his neck with relish, and then pushed him with his knee and told him to run away. He runs away without looking back.
After a seven-day wanderings in the vicinity of St. Petersburg, Alpatov came up with the idea: to open his father, who fell in love with him, and go to her. Returning to St. Petersburg, Mikhail with horror learns that Peter Petrovich died. He was buried at Volkov cemetery, among scientists and writers.
Some time later, Alpatov returned to St. Petersburg. He again received a letter from Inna and hoped for reconciliation. On the train with him spoke a stranger. He called himself Pavel Filippovich Chernomashentsev, a longtime acquaintance of Maria Ivanovna. Chernomashentsev knew about Alpatov's life to the smallest detail and was, as it later turned out, an agent assigned to Alpatov for surveillance. Waiting for Chernoma Ashentsev to fall asleep, Alpatov came out at the first station he came across. At first he wanted to take another train and get to Petersburg, but suddenly he heard the spring song of black grouses in the forest surrounding the small station, and went to the sound. On the way, he fell over his neck into the icy water and lit a fire to dry out, and then threw all things into the fire that reminded him of Inna, lay down on a juniper bush and fell sound asleep.
Alpatova found a local hunter Churka and led to the river. At that time the ice started, and Alpatov saw his: dirty ice floes floated like links in the broken Kashchey chain.
This autobiographical novel "Kashcheev's chain" ends. But it seems to me possible to tell here how Alpatov became a writer after he "went into nature."
The first person to leave a mark on my life was my mother. In this man I see, as in a pure mirror, that my good motherland, for whom it is worth living on earth and standing up for her. After met on my way a great wanderer Gorky Alexei Maksimovich. This was after the 1905 revolution. I told him how during my student years, as a chemist, I went to the Caucasus to destroy the phylloxera in the vineyards, I was then with something twenty years. I then joined the Marxists and became acquainted with the work of August Bebel "A Woman in the Past, Present and Future". Later, the "woman of the future" turned for me into Marya Morevna. Gorky called me a romantic.
Having told this conversation with Gorky, I ran for about ten years ahead of the time in which I felt the opportunity to become a writer. At that time I was a student in Riga, and after the Caucasus I came to work in the Social Democratic Party under the leadership of Danilich (Vasily Danilovich Ulrich). I tried to do the most, but was extremely incapable of political work and suffered greatly from my inability. According to the Riga case, I was in prison and was in exile. After I managed to escape to Germany. There, my "romance" with German Social-Democracy was cracked and I started to study.
Soon I found myself a zemstvo agronomist in the city of Klin in the Moscow province. I went out and fell ill with an unknown mental illness. The roots of this disease were fueled by my painful and unsuccessful love for the vanished bride. The secret of my illness was that I began to be afraid of sharp objects. Every time I saw a sharp object, I wanted to grab it and use it. This was aggravated by the fact that I had to trade in braids, sickles, axes and suchlike things. In the end, I wrote a confession letter and went to Moscow to the well-known psychiatrist Professor Merzheevsky. The professor was leaving. He hastily read my confession, said: "Nothing special" and with a quick movement pinned it, like a beetle, on a long needle for prikolki incoming papers. His advice was: take a bath at 27 degrees. Likely, he understood my illness simply as a disease of growth. Driven to the extreme, I turned to the first neurologist who came across. A small man with red hair gave me a box of pills, refused money and promised: "In a month you will be healthy." And it happened.
Once I went from Moscow to Yelets. There was this in one station. It was difficult to wait for the train. From boredom I took a sheet of paper and began to write some memories from my childhood. When I came to my senses, I realized that the greatest discovery in my life had come to pass – I now have nothing to fear from myself and my loneliness. Then I had not the slightest idea that it could be printed and live by it.
Driving one day in a cab, I remembered the house where my savior, a neurologist, lived. I decided to go and thank him. To my amazement, it was not a doctor – I then made a mistake on the floor. He just felt sorry that such a young man is tormented by trifles, and he gave me pills made from powdered sugar. I was cured by an ordinary optician.
Since childhood, I was taught that for great, real happiness, you need to put all your soul for friends and to be left with nothing. But in a long life it turned out that good friends, realizing a worthy person, they themselves begin to serve him and pay for his good. So it seems to me that I, like the whole Russian person, are strong with this happiness!


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Art and architecture in the Alt Empordà
Alt Empordà is a region with deep-rooted cultural traditions on all levels, whether it is artistic, cultural and architectural heritage or its many nature and leisure activities.
The city of Roses is a particularly noteworthy tourist area. The Bay of Roses and the town itself offer a variety of relaxing environments and beautiful landscapes. There are countless walks, hikes and adventure sports, not to mention markets, the town centre and castles, fortresses, the Aiguamolls Wetlands or the Cap de Creus Nature Reserve.


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Jipe Safari – Silves – (We Drive)We want to share our experience in driving 4x4 vehicles while, at the same time, showing you landscapes that are difficult to visit other way.
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Our 3-hour drive to Silves, despite being the shortest, is extremely beautiful and with lots of off-road driving. The initial part entails some difficulties to habituation to off road practice but the satisfaction of being able to overcome the obstacles will be worth it.
After stopping a few times to enjoy the scenery and take some pictures, we will visit the beautiful Natural Park of Sítio das Fontes.
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Accessibility is absolutely central to Courtney's artworks.
First off, they're made of clay, a timeless, universal material with a long, built-in history of familiar human connections.
The morning sun pours through windows while a white cat ("Bobby") spies from the top of the stairs (there are, in all, three cats living here, it turns out).
Meanwhile, one of Courtney's three-headed camels peers out the window; there's construction going on down the block.
Fashioned with purpose and imagination, they have accumulated in our living spaces around needs of food and shelter, desire and memory.
Matt Nordgren tells her, "I think you're the mayor of Dallas now." I would like to see Courtney handle the public-comments part of a Dallas City Council meeting. "Which, I'm single now," Matt Nordgren adds, in case there was any confusion. As far as you or I or anyone else knows at this point, they could be cancerous. When someone points out that interns sometimes work for free, Courtney says, "Then you have to go through all their school. The show opens with a brunch at Courtney's friend's house. But don't look in the bathroom, because there's a crazy message written in lipstick on the mirror. An important part of his art practice is about maintaining that innocence, a sense of wonder and play while making art, even after years of formal education, teaching, and residencies abroad.One technique is to use molds — industrial molds, molds he makes of everyday objects, molds he makes of his own pieces — to create multiple parts which are then assembled in seemingly random ways.


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Just in case you needed another excuse to enjoy a big bowl of swirly spaghetti, I've come up with a few of Perth's best pasta joints that you need to get your fork into ASAP.
Franco Forte
Located in the heart of Northbridge, this pasta place is pumping out the goods every night of the week. Start off with some antipasto – bread, cacciatore sausage, Sicilian green olives and other good stuff, then take your time trying to digest all of that before you scoff down your large (or small) bowl of carby goodness. For the 'healthy' pasta addicts, the Kale Pesto is always a hit – kale, lemon, pine nuts and pecorino. But if you're after something more satisfying, the Guanciale carbonara has got your tastebuds under control. And of course if you manage to save room for dessert, Chico Gelato is within walking distance, so you can basically burn of the carbs you just ate. Winning.
4/189 William St, Northbridge
There's never a day that this restaurant isn't busy, and there's definately a reason for that. Pretty much everything on the menu is worth ordering, so big groups with share plates are always a good idea. The guys here import their ingredients straight from Italy, so if you close your eyes and try hard enough, you'll think you've been teleported to the streets of Rome. Their pizza's sport a thin, but soft base, making it easy to lose count of your pizza slice consumption. If you're after gnocchi, ravioli or tagliatelle, you'll find it here. And if you save room for dessert, then you're in for a real Italian treat. The bombolone here is too good to share.
250 Oxford St, Leederville
Lulu La Delizia
When the former head chef from Lalla Rookh ventures out in to Subiaco to start up his own pasta bar, only great things can be expected. The trattoria is named after Joel Valvasori-Pereza's grandmother, and it's nothing short of traditional Italian. From the handmade pasta to the Sanbitter bottles, you can expect a real taste of Northern Italy at Lulu La Delizia. As for the food, you'll be stuck for hours trying to decide between the pumpkin and mascarpone ravioli with sage butter or the tagliatelle with veal, pork, vegetable and red wine ragu. And if you can't decide on a dessert, why not split the Panacotta and Tiramisu (or eat them both, who's judging?).
5/97 Rokeby Rd, Subiaco
Solo Pasta
For creative pasta made fresh in-house, Solo Pasta is your new go-to. Setting up shop in the heart of Mount Lawley, these guys are serving up pasta by the length. Choose between beetroot, spinach or classic pasta, select your pasta length and then pick your sauce – tomato base, cream base or olive oil base. The best part about this pasta joint is that every time you go, your dish can be completely different.
628 Beaufort Street, Mt Lawley