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Sustainable urban mobility is one of today's challenges facing urban planners and administrators around the world. Mass transit systems can be very expensive and require constant maintenance and personal vehicles can cause traffic nightmares. One option for the modern commuter is a scooter which is often electric powered but as such must be left charged to avoid damage to the battery. Adding solar charging to an electric scooter avoids this issue.
Now there is a new option for a solar powered electric scooter (otherwise known as the solar electric scooter or SEC) under development.
Finally a Decent Solar Powered Electric Scooter
Solar Electric Scooters Inc. is the brainchild of Tony VenMeeteren and Mike Donnell. The manufacturers of the scooter have stated that it allows people to commute while at the same time keeping the planet's water and air healthy. The California based duo spent the last four years designing and developing the electric scooter.
The scooter uses a PV panel as its riding platform. The team used an old scooter which had a 24-volt system as their platform for research. With the addition of solar cells for charging they feel they have a great new option for scooter enthusiasts.
The designers have stated that you can travel a distance of 20 miles at a speed of 15 mph on the SEC. The scooter stores its power using a state-of-art lithium-ion battery which is located under the platform.
There are three main ways of charging the SES:
-Kicking the stand and packing it in sunlight (every hour in the sun is equivalent to one mile's energy)
-Using the 4-feet pull out charging code that can be plugged to a standard power outlet
-Remove the battery and connect it to a 3-amp power external charger
-A combination of traditional charging techniques and the solar option
The creators of the scooter also consider way to protect it from theft. For the moment the driver can use a cable or chain and lock as they would with any two wheeled vehicle. In the future the company has hinted that they may add an option for a tracking device.
The use of electric scooters is gaining popularity among commuters that have short but daily commutes. The design of the scooter is meant for 350 lb (159 kg) with 250 lb being considered safe. This type of solar powered vehicle can be much less expensive for fuel and insurance than other forms of transport. However, it is not the most appropriate mode of transport in hilly areas.
VenMereen and Donell are now working on plans for mass production of their product and they plan to help fund the move with crwod funding. The couple has launched a campaign known as the "When You Wish project". Part of the money raised through the fundraising will go to charities such as Erase Poverty and Friends of the Earth. The company has also pledged 2 % of its net profits to the provision of scooters to the less privileged US students.
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Mason is currently…
Looking forward to – Spending lots of time with the Grandmas. He'll be with Grandma J at our house Thursday and Friday night and then spend Saturday and Sunday with Grandma B and Papa. Grandma J offers lots of singing, playing cars, and tickling and Grandma B has his beloved "traaaac-tor" and more Thomas and cooking paraphernalia than an entire store. No wonder he's excited
Making – block towers and then knocking them down. That's been a favorite this week
Working on – potty training. He peed in the potty twice in one day this week. WAHOO!!!
Reading – "Goodnight Wonder Pets" and "Llama Llama Nighty Night" every night before bed. He takes another Wonder Pets book to bed with him, that I refuse to try to read him because it has waaay too many words for Mr. "Turn the Page, I'm Impatient"
Listening to – everyone and everything. The things that are coming out of his mouth these days amuse me to no end and I know he's just picking up language from listening to everyone around him. The other day I told him we didn't have a second ice pack and he responded "Mason need two ice. Daddy go to work and make two ice!" Really kid?!
Mason's Mom is currently…
Looking forward to: RockFest! Today kicks off four days of fun in the sun with my honey while we listen to awesome bands such as Shinedown, Poison, Hollywood Undead, and Papa Roach. Going to see outdoor concerts is kind of our summer "thing" and we've been looking forward to this for quite a while. Yay music and a few days off from work!
Making – zero progress on any To Do list. If I liked actually getting mundane stuff accomplished as much as I liked making lists about it, my house would be a lot cleaner!
Working on – Couch to 5k! I've always hated running but am continually drawn to this program because they make it seem like ANYONE can do it. I'm super out of shape and wanted to do something that didn't require videos and weights and two hours a day or something, so I'm trying this. Today I'll be doing Day One of Week Two, which means it's the 4th "workout" and officially the longest I've ever stuck with any sort of fitness thing. Yay me!
Reading – Just finished Jodi Picoult (and daughter's) "Between the Lines" and was reminded that I really don't like fairy tales or anything remotely fantasy. Just started "Some Assembly Required" by Anne Lamott and am 8 books behind on my goal to read 104 books this year.
Listening to: In a few hours, lots of rock music. See above.
So what are you up to? Come link up!
This time last year –First Jeep Ride / 16 Months
Two years ago – Spoke Too Soon? / Playing in B&W / 4 Month Growth Spurt

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Gotta be X man
It was my nickname for my Jr. year in HS
It's the letter of the unknown
It's the letter of the most used variable
It's mysterious.
It results in good names like Xavier Nady or who can forget
"Scissor me Xerxes!"
The Scientology God is named Xenu, if Ron Hubbard is right, we must hail the X
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Karachi authorities plan 'cloud seeding' to scale down effects of lethal heatwave
Rains are the only natural way to supply water to the megapolis, but the absence of these and scorching weather for past few days have seriously troubled Karachi's residents with the death toll now at over 500.
Authorities today hinted at using artificial rain in Karachi. Under this process a chemical will be sprinkled on clouds via airplanes, which will force the clouds to rain.
Director General of Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), Dr Ghulam Rasul has that artificial rain was meant to overcome the heat wave.
Sources quoted Dr Ghulam Rasul as saying that "Most favourable weather for artificial rain is monsoon season. Success rate of such rains are higher than the procedures done during the non-monsoon days. Monsoon days in Pakistan fall from July to September."
The process of generating artificial rain is called Cloud Seeding – a form of weather modification – an attempt to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls from clouds, by dispersing substances into the air that serve as cloud condensation or ice nuclei, which alter the microphysical processes within the cloud. The usual intent is to increase precipitation (rain or snow).
But the question is whether this method is inexpensive and sure-shot?
It is pertinent to mention that many developed countries have utilized the method of artificial rain during drought. Middle East countries are also using this technology to convert deserts into green land.
Questions regarding such a proposal
Scientists say the process will require a huge sum, which our government does not have, secondly there is no assurance whether it will rain.
If it rains even then the city is so vast that it is not possible for anyone to get it rained over completely.
Artificial rain also requires temperature at 5 degrees Celsius and 70 percent moist air – where will the authorities get these conditions from?
Former president Pervez Musharraf had also once excused from one such attempt.
However, it is yet another thing if such a plan is being pondered over only to waste the money of tax-payers, otherwise a tank-full of water can also be supplied to every house in Karachi with this amount.
What is 'cloud' seeding and how effective is it?
Cloud seeding or the practice of making rain involves the use of silver iodide, potassium iodide and dry ice (solid carbon dioxide). Table salt has also been used in industrialized countries. The procedure is based on the fact that the equilibrium vapour pressure is lower over ice than over water.
The formation of ice particles in super cooled clouds allows those particles to grow at the expense of liquid droplets. If sufficient growth takes place, the particles become heavy enough to fall as precipitation from clouds that otherwise would produce no precipitation. This process is known as "static" seeding.
Seeding of warm-season or tropical cumulonimbus clouds seeks to exploit the latent heat released by freezing. This strategy of "dynamic" seeding assumes that the additional latent heat adds buoyancy, strengthens updrafts, ensures more low-level convergence, and ultimately causes rapid growth of properly selected clouds.
Environmental impact of 'cloud seeding'
Silver iodide can cause temporary incapacitation or possible residual injury to humans and mammals with intense or continued but not chronic exposure. However, there have been several detailed ecological studies that showed negligible environmental and health impacts


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Kane: Identify and keep the clients you "like".
While our own Holden Oliver's on one of his important-but-demented "I love rock n' roll and hate all things PC" and "alternative lifestyles of the famous" jags, see a great Tom Kane post re: keeping just the clients you want and "like". Rather than self-indulgent and pie-in-the-sky, this principle is both logical and, for corporate lawyers, a must for doing first-rate work. Life's short and practicing law is hard. And bad clients are poison. Rule 1 at WAC? is Represent Only Clients You "Like". See Tom's "Decide on Ideal Clients by Identifying Clients You Don't Want", in one of his most repeated and critical themes.
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How do you cope with jealousy?
I have been feeling jealous, not overly so, but when my husband is with me I want his undivided attention but then he starts calling our third... and then our third's friend. Must be nice to have that many friends. I have no one to talk to... I am stuck with message boards. I feel like I am being left out of everything, though my husband says the opposite. But I also can't talk about my feelings with him because I don't say things well and it just leads to him being angry because I am still trying to get my head wrapped around actually having a girlfriend.
Just needed to vent and this is the only place I have to talk about the lifestyle and how I am trying to get used to living it, it's way different than talking about it.
Hi Louise,
So sorry you're going through a rough time. Hopefully you will find friendship here on this forum. As for jealousy, there are tons and tons of threads here about what it is, how to cope, etc.
Use the search function at the top of the page - use advanced search to find either terms or tags. Whenever you post, you can add a tag to your message, by scrolling down to the bottom where it says Edit Tags. i just added two to this thread.
If you have more specific questions, there are lots of wise folks here who can help. Welcome!
The world opens up... when you do.
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Jealousy is usually a fear or needs not being met. You said in your post what need is not being met... companionship with like minded people. So go and create that for yourself. You are responsible for opening doors that allow things into your life... it sound like your partner has shown you a door, you could take it, or find your own.
It sounds like you need to get out and do some stuff. Go to some things on your own maybe and see who you meet. The only way to meet people in person is to go to places in person. I suggest going and having no expectation of finding instant friendship. Go to something you know you will enjoy and just sit back and observe the first or second time...
Maybe a poly event? If there isn't one in your area, put the word out to those you know that are poly or interested and meet them somewhere for coffee, or drinks or whatever... start a group that meets to talk about some issues like jealousy. Not only could you make some like minded friends, but find some others that are going through similar things and be able to bounce issues off of them for support.
There is much under tag searches under "jealousy" btw.
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Thank you! I will do that search later this evening when I have some free time!
I do need to get out, there just don't seem to be enough hours in the day/week/month for that. I'm working and studying for the bar exam (not taking it until 2012 but I've been out of school for 5 years, I need the full year and a half to study), I want to spend time with my kids, I have a craft business that I'm trying to keep going to bring in a little extra $$$... plus, around here anyway, going out requires money. Which we have, but just enough to get by... there's not a lot of extra to hang out at a coffee shop or anything. And I've been out of "public life" for so long... I'm not even sure I remember how to talk to people I don't know (or that I know through my husband, I'm great at sharing friends with him, LOL).
I know no one in the life, except on the message boards. My husband has a circle of friends at school that know our views (because they know both my husband and our girlfriend - they came out to a few of their close friends), but around here... no one knows and I don't know anyone. I looked for "meetups" but the closest is 4 hours away. And with everything else I have going on, I'm not sure I'd have the time to organize anything of that nature.
I'm not a very public person, I'm definitely a home-body which doesn't help the emotional (read: lonely) aspects of this life. I know that next year will be better. We are getting a place where he is that is big enough for me and the kids to go and stay for a week or so throughout the year, so all of us (the whole triad) can have more opportunities to be together, but it would also take some of the pressure of driving off my husband (it's a 14 hour round trip for him to come home, that's a lot of wasted study time for the weekends he gets to come home). And the best news is that he'll be finished with school a year from May. Hip, hip hooray! So this separation is only temporary.
Now... to figure out something cheap to do to get out of this house and try to meet people for the few hours I have available in the month. LOL
Thank you!
Sometimes these things take time. It sounds like you are aware of what you need... if you start now working towards it, it will happen... okay you don't like coffee shops, maybe you can start a poly crafting circle... a friend of mine here has a poly "stitch and bitch" at her house once a month... everyone comes and sew, knits, whatever... hangs out and talks, gets projects done. Its a great way to kill two birds with one stone.
Being creative might mean that you will meet some people without putting too much pressure on yourself. If you know this, adapt your ideas to it. I bet there are other poly people that are just as anxious about meeting people in coffee shops. Never know who you will find until you start getting on inviting and creating events that suit you.
Good luck
I really like the crafting circle idea. Tea, coffee, cookies and crafts while sitting around the living room chatting... THAT is my idea of a good time (ok, I'm a dork, I admit it, LOL).
Any ideas on how to meet other poly people in the area? I looked for meetups but the closest was 4 hours away.
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Twitter warns some users over possible government hacking2015-12-15 03:01 by Daniela
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Twitter has alerted its users that their accounts may have been hacked by state-sponsored hackers. The service sent emails with information that hackers may have been trying to obtain phone numbers, email addresses and IP addresses from users' accounts. Currently, there is "no evidence" that they succeeded.
A Twitter spokesman has confirmed the authenticity of the emails but haven't provided further information.
"As a precaution, we are alerting you that your Twitter account is one of a small group of accounts that may have been targeted by state-sponsored actors," one e-mail warned. "We believe that these actors (possibly associated with a government) may have been trying to obtain information such as e-mail addresses, IP addresses and/or phone numbers."
Twitter is not the first tech company to alert about hacker attacks. Facebook and Google also notify users who may have been targeted by state-sponsored hackers.
State-sponsored hackers are the most sophisticated and well-resourced hackers. They often use cyber attacks to conduct espionage or steal intellectual property.
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A while ago, I helped a buddy of mine build a computer. The thing is, he was on a super-tight budget but didn't want to compromise when it came to performance parts like the video card, ram, and processor. So, to save money, he pulled a couple hard drives out of old computers. And I do mean old. I believe their sizes were 10GB and 30GB. He later bought a modern hard drive with plenty of room (500GB+), but this was after using the computer for several weeks with only the two oldies.
In retrospect, this seems like a bad idea, but at the time we were setting things up, I thought it would be best if he installed Windows on the 10GB disk, and then kept everything else (programs, documents, etc) on the 30GB disk, sort of for organizational purposes. But I guess I didn't help him enough, because he kept installing stuff on the 10GB disk, simply because that was the default location that programs tried to install to, and I guess he didn't realize it. And now, of course, even though he has a modern HD, he is more or less married to the 10GB because it has the operating system on it. It's just starting to be a real pain overall, because the system still thinks that's where it should store everything, it keeps filling up and he has to go clean it out, etc etc.
Anyways, my question is simply what is the best solution to this problem? I understand that RAID combines several hard drives so that the OS sort of treats them as if they were one drive; this sounds like an excellent solution, but can you set up RAID on disks which have previously been operating independently without reformatting them or anything like that? If so, I'd be thankful to anyone who could point me towards a good tutorial on setting up RAID.
Would it be better to somehow transfer the files on the 10GB to the 500GB? How would this be done?
I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks for your time
Just spoke with him, he says if there's any way to do the "transfer" option then that would be preferable, because running 3 HDs is tying up all of the power cables from his PSU, and he'd rather ditch the two old discs to free up some molex cables.
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The Porsche Macan (Macan means tiger in Indonesia) SUV is now available to order with price starting from £43,300 and will be available next year April 2014.
The vehicle looks like its sibling Cayenne with a slim tail light as well as a sloping rear window. The platform used for the car is the one used for the Audi Q5. The two share a similar high strength steel floorpan, bulk heads and body structure along with various driveline, chassis and electrical components.
The SUV measuring at 4699mm in length, 1923mm in width and 1624mm in height, the Macan is 146mm shorter, 16mm narrower and 82mm lower than the second-generation Cayenne - itself due to receive a mid-life facelift in 2014. Also 70mm longer, 24mm wider and 30mm lower than the Q5.
All model of Macan comes with PDK double-clutch transmission and ofcouse four-wheel drive.
Macan S is the entry-level model which has a twin-turbo, 3.0-litre V6 petrol engine that develops 335bhp and gives a 0-62 mph time of 5.4sec. EU combined fuel consumption is 32.5mpg.
Mecan turbo has 3.6-litre, twin-turbo V6 petrol engine (is the first time used by Porche model) that develops 394bhp and gives a 0-62 mph time of 4.8sec or 4.6sec. EU combined fuel consumption is 31.7mpg.
The sole diesel option will be the Macan S Diesel, which has a turbocharged 3.0-litre V6 engine that provides EU Combined fuel economy of 46.3mpg and CO2 emissions of 159g/km. It accelerates from 0-62 mph in 6.3 seconds and has a top speed of 143 mph.
Porsche is expected to develop more affordable variants of its new SUV, including four-cylinder Macan and Macan Diesel models - a move that will make it the first Porsche to be offered with four-cylinder power since the demise of the 968 in 1995.
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GREENACRES CITY — An ebullient Jim Quigley walked into his reception at Alfredo`s Restaurant in Lake Worth Tuesday night and announced to his group of supporters that he had reclaimed the post he had left only four months earlier.
``I said by only one -- that`s all I needed!`` Quigley said about his narrow victory over incumbent Mayor Jim Rawlins.
Quigley reclaimed the post with 51 percent of the vote.
Former City Clerk Evelyn Wheeles defeated District 1 incumbent Councilman Wally Tietboehl by taking 58 percent of the vote.
In the District 5 race, political newcomer Robert Young defeated retired trucking manager David Cook.
``I`ve always made the contention that Jim Rawlins is a good councilman, but I`m a better mayor,`` Quigley said moments after announcing his victory. ``All I can say is, thank God, the people agree with me.``
Rawlins was reached at his home after the results were counted. ``Big money won it,`` he said. ``The mayor`s office is back in the control of the developers.``
The 46-year-old Rawlins assumed the post in November when Quigley resigned to run for the District 5 County Commission seat. After losing that race, the 38- year-old New York City native decided to run for mayor, a post he held previously for almost four years.
The role the mayor should assume when working with commercial developers was a major issue in the race.
Quigley said he felt the mayor should be a a liaision between the city, developers and residents.
Rawlins` approach was more conservative -- he refused to meet privately with developers and claimed credit for being one of the council`s most vociferous watchdogs of growth since becoming a council member seven years ago.
The two men served on the council together for almost four years and worked side by side on the city`s volunteer fire department. This election, however, was the first time they faced each other at the polls.


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Welcome to John Stainer School
We are very proud to be a harmonious, richly multi-cultural, innercity primary school with more than 32 languages spoken and more than 34 cultures represented.
We were delighted to be graded as outstanding in all areas of our last OFSTED inspection – the result of brilliant teamwork by the staff, children, parents and governors.
Our beautiful new building with enormous glass geodesic dome on the roof has meant we can become two forms of entry throughout, and so more local children have the opportunity to learn in a really beautiful and exciting environment.
I look forward to meeting with you at one of our open days, if you are not already part of the John Stainer family. I hope we will forge a strong home and school partnership that will enable your child to make amazing progress, life-long friends and become resilient and highly skilled citizens for the future.
Sue Harte – Headteacher
Announcement - School CouncilThe School Council are trying to make our school safer by taking down the number plates of drivers parking illegally on the road in the morning. We also regularly invite traffic enforcement officers down and many parents have been ticketed. Please abide by the law and keep our children
Announcement - No scootersNo scooters are allowed on school premises because of the high number of accidents and dangerous driving by children not being controlled. All cyclists must dismount and wheel their bikes into the playground. Children must take their bikes around the back of the school.
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Atlanta Hawks vs. Toronto Raptors Pick-Odds-Prediction 11/1/13
Toronto Raptors (1-0) at Atlanta Hawks (0-1)
NBA Basketball: Friday, November 1, 2013 at 7:30 pm (Philips Arena)
The Line: Atlanta Hawks -2.5 -- Over/Under: 195.5 See the Latest Odds
The Toronto Raptors have a tough task ahead of them on Friday as the Raptors head to Atlanta to face the Hawks.
The Atlanta Hawks have started their season off 0-1, following a loss to the Mavs on Wednesday, 118-109. The Hawks are a very good team, just ran into a very motivated Mavs squad in their opener. Atlanta did well offensively against the Mavericks, as five different players reached double digit points on the night. Leading the way for the Hawks was Teague, who finished with 20 points and nine assists against the Mavs. Offensively, Atlanta was fine…defense, well that is another issue altogether. Monta Ellis went off against the Hawks, finishing with 32 points on the night, while three other Mavericks reached double digits, Nowitzki and Carter, each reaching the 20 point mark on the night.
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The Toronto Raptors earned a win in their opener, defeating the Boston Celtics 93-87 on Wednesday night. This was a strong win for the Raptors, but Toronto traditionally plays well at home, and now having to travel to Atlanta will be a tough task. The Raptors did a nice job of distributing the ball against Boston, as four different Raptors reached double digit points on the night, while Hansbrough, and Valanciunas, each had double digit rebounds for the Raptors. This is a decent, but definitely not great Toronto team by any stretch, and traditionally the Raptors are even worse away from their home court.
The total has gone under in six of the last nine games for the Raptors. Toronto is just 2-9 overall in their last 11 games against the Hawks. Atlanta is just 2-7 overall in their last nine games, and the Hawks are 2-8 against the spread in their last ten games at home. The Hawks are 8-2 overall in their last ten home games against the Raptors.
Neither one of these teams will be contending for any kind of title this season, but the Hawks are the better squad here. The one angle I really like is the fact that the Raptors have to travel to Atlanta. The Hawks can light up the scoreboard, and with the travel for the Raptors, I look for them to play a little soft defensively. The Raptors will get theirs as well with the Hawks having a somewhat weak defense. Look for plenty of points to be scored on Friday in Atlanta, making the over my free pick.
The over is my free pick on this game, but my strongest play of the day is on this game, and I will post that pick in the premium section today. So be sure to check it out.


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New Releases
Version 2.0.5 Beta introduces CSD support for new Java 11 syntax (var in lambda parameters), and UML support for changes to the class file format in Java 11.
Version 2.0.5 Alpha 6 introduces support for the new Java 10 'var' type inference mechanism, for both CSD generation and interactions. Note that syntactically 'var' is a predefined type, so the jGRASP editor window will correctly color it as an identifier rather than a keyword.
Microsoft OneDrive On-Demand Problems
If you are attempting to compile Java source files from a OneDrive folder on Windows 10, the compile may fail with a "not a file" message. You can correct this by turning off "Files on Demand" in the OneDrive settings, if you have sufficient disk space for all your OneDrive files. Otherwise, you will need to copy the source files to a normal folder to work on them, then back to the OneDrive folder when done.
Mac High Sierra Problems
Mac Java 6 does not work correctly on High Sierra. If you are encountering problems, please install Oracle JDK 8 or higher.
About jGRASP
jGRASP is a lightweight development environment, created specifically to provide automatic generation of software visualizations to improve the comprehensibility of software. jGRASP is implemented in Java, and runs on all platforms with a Java Virtual Machine (Java version 1.5 or higher). jGRASP produces Control Structure Diagrams (CSDs) for Java, C, C++, Objective-C, Python, Ada, and VHDL; Complexity Profile Graphs (CPGs) for Java and Ada; UML class diagrams for Java; and has dynamic object viewers and a viewer canvas that work in conjunction with an integrated debugger and workbench for Java. The viewers include a data structure identifier mechanism which recognizes objects that represent traditional data structures such as stacks, queues, linked lists, binary trees, and hash tables, and then displays them in an intuitive textbook-like presentation view.
jGRASP is developed by the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University.
Note on Tutorials
We are in the process of updating the tutorials for jGRASP 2.0. The four updated tutorials that are available now cover most of the new features.
The development of jGRASP has been supported by a research grant from the National Science Foundation.
The development of previous versions of GRASP was supported by research grants from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).


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An amazing thing happened on the way to the 2016 election. The primary season confounded one of the fondest wishes of neoliberalism: to abolish the need for collective solutions to collective problems. Two huge anti-mainstream insurgencies—the one, Donald Trump's, captured the Republican nomination, and the other, behind Bernie Sanders, came tantalizingly close to snatching the Democratic nomination from Hillary Clinton—have been demanding active government intervention to address America's social pain. Whatever their profound differences, both sharply reject the dominant trend of a generation.
We have, over these years, been pushed and pulled towards an individualist dystopia in which, according to its proponents, it would be unnecessary (and unthinkable) for governments to do more than the most minimal tasks. A social and political transformation has been taking place that includes reshaping realities as well as attitudes. The new arrangements have many names: neoliberalism, austerity, privatization of government services, free-market globalization. It has led to numerous practical changes including charter schools, "the end of welfare as we know it," prisons for profit, warfare using mercenaries, deregulation of banking, NAFTA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the growth of the "precariat." Even breakthrough government programs such as prescription-drug coverage and the Affordable Care Act have been designed to be carried out by corporations and built on private profit and individual responsibility.
Although we are getting used to these changes, their bizarre character can be captured by an odd-sounding expression: What has been taking place over the past generation is the desocialization of social pain. These changes have been implementing Margaret Thatcher's mission "to change the soul" of the underlying population. She had in mind making people less dependent, less prone to look to unions and to government to solve their problems, and thus more willing to assume responsibility for their lives. This was, of course, in keeping with her main contention that "There is no such thing as society. There are only individuals and families." Right-wing think tanks and media have been drumming this into anyone who will listen for a generation, reshaping values, ideas, and attitudes in an immensely effective, well-organized, and lavishly funded effort. They have implored us to turn away from treating the public realm as a terrain for improvement and change. They have pitched, as the dominant value of American society, that each of us is on our own.
Even in our individualist society, this goes sharply against a core belief: that our individual well-being is tied in with the well-being of the society, and that collective well-being is an essential goal that we can and should pursue. Thus it was not outlandish that President Lyndon Johnson should declare a "War on Poverty" in 1965, or even that a majority of Americans believed that poverty could be eliminated in their lifetimes. Thus urban renewal, Model Cities, Head Start, unemployment benefits, manpower training, and dozens of other forms of social responsibility.


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Substitute Mathieu Manset salvaged a point for Reading with two late goals in a dramatic 2-2 draw against Millwall.
Reading saw their Premier League dream shattered by Swansea in a 4-2 defeat at Wembley in May but staked their claim to be among the frontrunners again this season with a fine comeback.
Former Reading striker Darius Henderson put the away side ahead before John Marquis doubled their advantage, but Manset, introduced in the 68th minute, grabbed a late double to ensure the spoils were shared.
The hosts started brightly, with Jimmy Kebe flashing a shot narrowly wide of David Forde's near post.
At the other end Hamer Bouazza jinked his way to the edge of the box before firing wide as the visitors signalled their intent.
James Henry whipped in a corner soon after and found the head of Tamika Mkandawire but his effort failed to trouble Adam Federici.
Reading's in-demand striker Shane Long, who scored 28 goals in the last campaign, had to leave the field for treatment in the 20th minute but he was reintroduced soon after.
Kebe continued to threaten with his pace, drifting past two opponents before being thwarted by Mkandawire as he lined up a shot.
Both sides struggled to maintain the pace they had set in the early stages as the first half drew to a close.
Darren Ward briefly set pulses racing again when he shoved Noel Hunt following a challenge between the two, but referee Dave Phillips kept his cards in his pocket.
Federici was called into action soon after the restart when Henry tried his luck from distance and, having parried the initial effort, the goalkeeper was quickly back on his feet to deny Marquis, though the flag had already gone up for offside.
But there was nothing he could do to keep out Henderson's header four minutes into the second half, with the lively Henry providing the cross from the left.
Henderson started his career at Reading and also returned to haunt them last season when he scored twice for Sheffield United in a 3-2 win.
Brian McDermott's side responded positively and Long did superbly well to control Jem Karacan's pass before rifling a shot against the crossbar.
Hunt came within inches of levelling the scores on the hour but could not quite make contact with Kebe's drilled cross.
But it was the visitors who struck next when, in 62nd minute, Henry and Liam Trotter linked well before laying on a cross for Marquis to provide the finish.
The experienced Ian Harte tried to rally his team-mates and fizzed in a low cross which somehow eluded everyone in the packed penalty area.
McDermott made a late double change, introducing Manset and Hal Robson-Kanu for Hunt and Karacan.
Manset gave Reading a glimmer of hope with a stunning long-range drive in the 86th minute then headed home Kebe's cross with a minute of normal time remaining.


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Alcatel One Touch Fire with Firefox OS hit Balkan
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Alcatel One Touch Fire is the one of Firefox OS-based smartphone, this phone is now has been landed in Balkan, Hungary and Serbia. This phone is available through Deutsche telekom, while in the Greece this phone is available through Cosmote.
For your reminder, Alcatel One Touch Fire is the Firefox OS smartphone that has 3,5 ich screen size, the phone come with 1GHz Qualcomm processor and its 256MB of RAM, the phone is also has 3G, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.


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Dreaming of an island vacation while struggling to stay warm? The rolling wave design of the Oceanie Hat & Mitts will help you imagine warm tropical waters, while keeping your head and hands free from chills. Simple decreases create the undulating waves, which act like ribbing, giving you a close fit. Using only one skein of yarn, this project will pack easily in your carry-on bag for that island getaway!
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Sri Lanka will be able to determine the extent of the economic impact gained from the island's tourism sector referred to as the Tourism Satellite Account by the end of next year, following the completion of ongoing surveys, a senior government official said.
According to the Chief Executive Officer of the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA), Malraj Kiriella the surveys are presently being conducted independently by the SLTDA and the Department of Census and Statistics of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
"We have already inserted the relevant questions required to ascertain the tourism impact in the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) and the SLTDA's survey through questionnaires being given for tourists at the Airport," Kiriella told the Sunday Observer.
He noted that the information will help determine the tourism sector's contribution to the national economy and help the country effectively plan its infrastructure such as water or transportation going forward.
The Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) is a standard statistical framework and the main tool for the economic measurement of tourism. TSA data provides a better understanding of the place of tourism in an economy and enables a range of economic analysis. For example, it becomes possible to apply economic modeling techniques (like Input-Output analysis) to TSA data in order to estimate the indirect and induced effects of tourism in an economy.
The Tourism Satellite Account: Recommended Methodological Framework 2008 provides the updated common conceptual framework for constructing a TSA. It adopts the basic system of concepts, classifications, definitions, tables and aggregates of the System of National Accounts 2008 (SNA 2008), the international standard for a systematic summary of national economic activity, from a functional perspective.
The TSA thus allows for the harmonization and reconciliation of tourism statistics from an economic (National Accounts) perspective. This enables the generation of tourism economic data (such as Tourism Direct GDP) that is comparable with other economic statistics.
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Elder Scrolls - Redguard
Cheat Codes:
Press [F12] to display the console window. Then, type "Item add,"
using a value from the following list.
Gold - 2
Stoneskin potion - 3
Health potion - 4
Ring of invisibility - 5
Vola's ring - 6
Sabre - 7
Rusty key - 8
Gold key - 9
Silver key - 10
Amulet - 11
Soul gem - 12
Soul sword - 13
Crowbar - 14
Peg rune - 15
Peg rune 2 - 16
Peg rune 3 - 17
Orc's blood - 19
Orc's blood with ? - 20
Spider's milk - 21
Spider's milk with ? - 22
Ectoplasm - 23
Ectoplasm with ? - 24
Hist sap - 25
Hist sap with ? - 26
Dwarven lore book - 27
Dwarven gear - 28
Glass vial - 29
Glass vial filled with elixer - 30
Iron weight - 31
Bucket - 32
Bucket full of water - 33
Gauntlet rune - 34
Elven artifact book - 35
Redguard heroes book - 37
Hammerfell book on flora - 38
Map from makio - 39
Leather pouch of gold - 40
Crendel's stolen map - 41
Silver boat - 42
Shovel - 43
Aloe - 44
Torch - 45
Monocle eyepiece - 46
Flag - 47
Silver locket - 48
League insignia parchment - 49
Joto's jail map - 50
Flask of lillandril - 51
Hundings tailsman - 52
Izsara's journal - 53
Feather - 54
Kithral's journal The dead monk - 55
Folks firmament book - 56
Izara's journal locked - 57
Star stone - 58
Key to warehouse - 59
Key izara's house - 60
Spell - 61
Glass bottle empty - 64
Glass bottle with water - 65
Glass bottle mixed with water and aloe - 66
Strength potion - 67
Bandage - 68
Bandage with blood - 69
Sabre - 70
Sabre - 71
Sabre - 72
Sabre - 73
Bone key - 74
Press [F12] to display the console window.
Then, type ITEM ADD, [object number] using
a value from the following list:
2 - gold
3 - stoneskin potion
4 - health potion
5 - ring of invisibility
6 - Vola's Ring
7 - sabre
8 - rusty key
9 - gold key
10 - silver key
11 - amulet
12 - soul gem
13 - soul sword
14 - crowbar
15 - peg rune
16 - peg rune 2
17 - peg rune 3
19 - orc's blood
20 - orc's blood with
21 - spider's milk
22 - spider's milk with
23 - ectoplasm
24 - ectoplasm with
25 - Hist sap
26 - Hist sap with
27 - Dwarven lore book
28 - Dwarven gear
29 - glass vial
30 - glass vial filled with elixer
31 - iron weight
32 - bucket
33 - bucket full of water
34 - gauntlet rune
35 - Elven Artifact book
37 - Redguard Heroes book
38 - Hammerfell book on Flora
39 - map from Makio
40 - leather pouch of gold
41 - Crendel's stolen map
42 - silver boat
43 - shovel
44 - aloe
45 - torch
46 - monocle eyepiece
47 - flag
48 - silver locket
49 - league insignia parchment
50 - Joto's Jail map
51 - Flask of Lillandril
52 - Hundings Tailsman
53 - Izsara's Journal
54 - feather
55 - Kithral's journal. The dead monk
56 - Folks Firmament book
57 - Izara's journal locked
58 - star stone
59 - key to warehouse
60 - key Izara's house
61 - spell
64 - glass bottle empty
65 - glass bottle with water
66 - glass bottle mixed with water and aloe
67 - strength potion
68 - bandage
69 - bandage with blood
70 - sabre
71 - sabre
72 - sabre
73 - sabre
74 - bone key
Redguard Tips
Fighting Tips
One of the most frustrating things when I first started
the game was continually losing at sword fights... even
the easiest opponent could often beat me. Here are a few
tips I've picked up along the way that may help you.
Patience: This is really the key thing in any fight.
The game is not a shoot-'em-up action game where you
need quick reflexes to survive. Rather, a good wit and
a little strategy go much further. Often I lose or am
badly wounded when I try to rush my victory. A good
offense is a good defense, they say.
Practice: Your first stop when you start the game should
be the Draggin' Tale inn. After you talk to your friend
Tobais and the barkeep Dreekius, the chaps sitting at the
table drinking can be easily convinced into a fight.
You lose no health while fighting them, and it is good
experience combating multiple opponents. Please note that
these lads are quite drunk and are about the worst fighters
in Stros M'Kai.
Jumping: An interesting move is attacking while jumping.
If you can get the timing right you kill some foes without
them being able to attack. The maneuver goes something like:
Defend Off-Jump-Attack-Defend On. This works best when you are
downhill from your opponent; otherwise you'll have to attack
later on during the jump. If you are hit before or while you
start jumping, your attack will always miss, I find. You will
have to adjust your attack time when in the air. I've found
that while fighting on level ground, I have to attack at the
top of my jump. As long as your opponent does not attack you
on the way up or before you attack him, it appears that he
cannot hit you.
Facing Your Opponent: This sounds simple enough, but can be
tricky when fighting multiple opponents. They will usually
sound off whenever they switch, but I've seen people attack
me from behind without much warning. It took me a few fights
to get to know where to face to most effectively hit and defend.
Auto-Defend: This lifesaver will make Cyrus perfectly defend any
incoming attacks if you aren't doing anything else at the time
(although I think you can move around). I'd recommend using this
at least for a while when starting the game. Once your fighting
skills increase, you can turn this off (using F7) and see how
truly skilled you are.
Slash: The single slash is one of your basic moves. It is quick,
which minimizes the amount of time you're not defending,
but is short-range.
Thrust: I find this move (Forward+Attack) to be one of the
better attacks, mostly due to its speed and range. If you
miss, you can quickly go back on the defense and it reaches
farther than a slash.
Lunge: This has a further range than the thrust, but I find
it harder to pull off on the keyboard. Also, if you miss you
are more vulnerable to an attack.
Finding Gold
Your survival in Stros M'Kai depends primarily on your health,
your health depends on your supply of healing potions, and
those potions depend on your spare gold. Further, gold can buy
lots of other useful things, some of them required at one time
or another. Here's a few places to find some extra cash:
Guards and other monsters generally carry some gold, if your sword
skill is up to getting it.
Kotaro, the bald guy sitting on the docks, can give you a job
paying 100 before, and 200 after you deliver an amulet from
N'Gasta to Richton.
In the lower harbor tower (near the docks with stairs leading
to a 2nd story door), a chest in the bottom floor contains some gold.
In the town of Saintsport at the south end of the island is a
house with some gold and potions lying around. There is also
some gold lying outside in the town. Watch out for the crazy
person here who will attack you.
South, down the shore from Saintsport, is a shipwreck with some
gold...and another crazy person to attack you.
North from the shipwreck is a skeleton of a large creature with
some gold lying around.
Submitted by: arun prakash
Go in to your game folder and open Combat.ini. Change Cyrus damage
to 100 to kill with one hit. Change everyone elses damage to 0 and
you cannot die by being hit
Propose to Frankie:
Submitted by: Naum
Give the ring to Frankie after rescuing her. (She will "think about
it.") Show her the diamonds before turning them over to the police.
She will kiss you and accept your proposal.
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During the 1920s Benito Mussolini pursued a cautious foreign policy, trying to present his new fascist regime as a responsible and stable actor on the international scene. After the Corfu incident of 1923, in fact, the Italian leader adopted a conciliatory attitude toward France and Great Britain, even supporting the main tenets of the Treaty of Locarno in 1925. Meanwhile he also signed an agreement with Yugoslavia, which renounced to all Italian pretences over Dalmatia in exchange for the control of the city of Fiume (Rijeka). These diplomatic moves guaranteed widespread popularity to the fascist regime both in London and Paris, and they also gave interesting colonial rewards to Italy, previously denied at the Versailles Peace Conference of 1919: in 1924, for example, the British government handed over the entire Somali Jubaland to Italian control, including the important port of Kismayu, while a subsequent exchange of notes confirmed the traditional spheres of influence of the two countries in the independent kingdom of Ethiopia. Four years later a formal Treaty of Arbitration and Friendship was concluded between Rome and Addis Ababa, allowing the construction of a great motor road from the colony of Eritrea to the heart of Ethiopia: Ras Tafari (later Negus with the name of Haile Selassie) also accepted the massive introduction of Italian military and economic advisors in his country, hoping to modernize the traditional semi-feudal structure of Ethiopian society. Anti-fascist intellectuals like Gaetano Salvemini were literally furious about all this condescension toward Mussolini's requests, and they warned Western democracies of the violent nature of the fascist regime, ready to overthrow the Versailles settlement in favour of its own nationalist goals. These warnings were ignored by French and British authorities, but they proved dramatically correct after 1931, when the fascist regime launched a more aggressive foreign policy in Europe and East Africa.
Indeed, Mussolini had always been convinced of the "unfairness" of the Paris peace settlement, hoping to transform the Mediterranean into a "Latin Sea", free from the presence of the British navy. This grandiose idea take the geographical form of a vast Italian sphere of influence – similar for extension to the ancient Roman empire – going from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, from Dalmatia to Sudan. And the final aim was to transform Italy into a self-sufficient nation, directing external emigration toward Africa and protecting the fascist corporative economy from the recurrent crises of modern Western capitalism. In 1922 Mussolini had already expressed these ambitions to his loyal lieutenants, showing an intellectual consistency later denied by modern historians: "The route is mapped – the Paris peace settlement had to be overturned and Italian rights recognised in the Adriatic. This was to be followed by Italian expansion in the Mediterranean and Africa." Ten years later, after a careful consolidation of his regime, the Duce was ready to put in practice his beliefs, shaking the foundations of the new international order emerged after the Great War. And he did so with swift ruthlessness, without any kind of moral concern over the means employed in the pursuit of his new Roman empire.
The first aggressive moves of fascist Italy were in North Africa, where Mussolini wished to restore the regional hegemony lost by his country in the last decades of the nineteenth century. France's position in Tunisia and Morocco was openly challenged, while Libya became part of the Italian metropolitan territory, ending twenty years of bitter anti-colonial resistance led by the Senussi. The methods of this "absorption" were extremely brutal: local religious leaders were hanged on the public square of Tripoli and Benghazi, while thousands of Arab farmers were deported in desert concentration camps, where they were compelled to choose between submission and starvation. In 1934 the country was completely "pacified" and opened to the regular flux of Italian settlers. Then, in autumn 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia, using aerial bombing and toxic gases against the ill-equipped forces of Haile Selassie. Occupied Addis Ababa, the Italian army ruled the country with harsh measures, including frequent acts of absolute violence: in 1937, for example, Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani ordered the massacre of the monks of Debre Libanos in retaliation for a failed assassination attempt against his persona. Almost 300 men were killed in this brutal reprisal, and their unburied bones were still visible to the British soldiers who occupied the monastery in 1941. The event is still known in Ethiopia as Yekatit 12 (February 19 according to the Gregorian calendar), and there is a huge monument commemorating its victims in the core of Addis Ababa.
Strong of these early "successes", Mussolini continued to pursue an aggressive political programme in Europe, supporting the Ustasha movement in Croatia and sending troops to help General Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War. From 1936 he also began to develop strong relations with Germany and Japan, two other powers interested in the violent overthrowing of the Paris peace settlement. Three years later, he still saw Italy as a prisoner of Western democracies in the Mediterranean: "The bars of this prison are Corsica, Tunisia, Malta and Cyprus – its sentinels are Gibraltar and Suez." Thus, in June 1940, he decided to side with Hitler in the current war against France and the British Empire, dreaming to extend his political influence over the Balkans and the Maghreb. It was an ill-fated gamble, with terrible consequences for the Italian people: in May 1943 all colonial territories in Africa had been occupied by the Allies, while the same Italian mainland was the object of massive, devastating aerial attacks. With the ensuing invasion of Sicily, Mussolini was deposed and arrested by King Victor Emmanuel III, but this desperate move didn't spare the country from a brutal war fought on its own soil. Thus a devastated Italy was completely liberated by the Allies only in April 1945, after other two years of national catastrophe.
This gloomy future was certainly unimaginable to Italian fascists in the late 1930s, when they were celebrating the new imperial consciousness of their country. Indeed, all the branches of culture were mobilized in support of Mussolini's ambitious project, with a special focus on geography, seen as a crucial discipline in the promotion of Italian international power. In 1934 four great map tablets representing the expansion of the Roman empire were put on Via dell'Impero (Via dei Fori Imperiali), in the centre of Rome, establishing a direct parallel between Mussolini's regime and the past glories of the Italian capital. Meanwhile an impressive national section was displayed at the Exposition du Sahara in Paris, where several maps of Libya were shown to the public as a symbol of the Italian success in surveying and measuring such desert land. Five years later, thanks to the favour of Minister Giuseppe Bottai, Ernesto Massi and Giorgio Roletto, both professors at the University of Trieste, created Geopolitica, a journal devoted to the investigation and exaltation of Italy's position on the map of the world.
Inspired by the contemporary writings of Karl Haushofer, Massi and Roletto tried to blend all the physical, economic, and political factors of the Italian empire into a common analytical synthesis, useful for the propaganda campaign against British and French colonial rule in Africa. In one of their maps, for example, South Africa was represented as an aggressive state, ready to submerge the neighbouring colonies of Portugal and Belgium, while another chart stressed instead an ideal geographical axis between Berlin, Rome, and Tripoli, giving scientific sanction to the political alliance between Hitler and Mussolini in the Mediterranean region. In October 1940, after the declaration of war against Britain and France, Geopolitica also re-launched the idea of Eurafrica as a single geopolitical unit, following the original concept developed by Coudenhove-Kalergi and Haushofer ten years before: drawing upon the ancient notion of "Mare Nostrum", in fact, Massi and Roletto emphasized the vision of a common economic space from South Africa to Scandinavia, closed to any influence from the Anglo-Saxon world and dominated in equal measure by the Italo-German axis. Presented at a time when the Italian war effort was encountering serious problems in North Africa, this scheme probably wished to restore Mussolini's prestige in the eyes of the Italian public, insisting on the feasibility of the Duce's imperial project. Its propagandistic success is doubtful, however, because one year later even Massi and Roletto parted their intellectual ways due to public delusion and personal disagreement. Indeed, if Roletto insisted on a close affiliation with German geopolitics, Massi began instead to pursue an alternative scheme, more based on spiritual rather than material factors. With Mario Morandi, who substituted Roletto at the head of the magazine in 1941, Massi tried to promote a new geopolitics, free from the environmental determinism of the Nazis and open instead to the dynamic activity of the "human will": "[We] intend to restore the importance of man in geographical studies, by considering also his spiritual, psychical and racial aspects…We intend to emphasize political will as a determining factor in the anthropogeographical field."
Conscious of the limits of Italian racialism, quite different from the extreme theories so popular in Germany, Massi saw instead the Mediterranean as an economic living space, open to the peaceful integration of the different ethnic groups present in the region. And this space was basically independent from the German ally, favouring autonomy and neutrality in international affairs; there should be no external interference in it, preserving the original sphere of action of the new Italian empire. In this sense, Geopolitica supported a warm policy of friendship and cooperation with the Muslim peoples of the Middle East, condemning British imperialism in Palestine and presenting Italy as the liberating power of the Mashreq. This suggestion didn't get lost to the regime: indeed, when Rommel's army invaded Egypt in 1942, Mussolini flew immediately to Libya, where he made several speeches in favour of Mediterranean union and Arab independence. But the following disaster of El Alamein destroyed even this last imperial ambition in African territory. At the same time Geopolitica closed its editorial life, ending up on the dusty shelves of public archives.
Massi's theoretical legacy, however, survived the catastrophe of the World War, inspiring sometimes Italian political actions during the 1960s. Helped by Giorgio La Pira, the mayor of Florence, Enrico Mattei established good relationships with the Nasser regime in Egypt, and he also tried to create a successful energetic partnership with other African nations, satisfying the rising oil demands of the Italian industry. After his mysterious death in 1962, this policy has been pursued by his main creature, ENI, which continue to challenge British, French, and American economic interests in the area, with the partial support of the Italian government. And this is probably the most interesting, unexpected development of Mussolini's geopolitical ambitions in the Mediterranean.
Simone Pelizza, University of Leeds
The lion of the desert, 1981, directed by Moustapha Akkad.
Historical review of the movie by an Italian historian.
Suggested readings:
Marco Antonsich, 'Geopolitica: The Geographical and Imperial Consciousness of Fascist Italy', Geopolitics, 14:2 (2009), pp. 256-77.
David Atkinson, ' Arrows, Empires, and Ambitions: The Geopolitical Cartography of Fascist Italy', in J.C. Stone (ed.), Maps and Africa: Proceedings of a colloquium at the University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen African Studies, 1994), pp. 43-65.
Angelo Del Boca, L'Africa nella coscienza degli Italiani: miti, memorie, errori, sconfitte (Milano: Mondadori, 2002).
Stefano Fabei, Mussolini e la resistenza palestinese (Milano: Mursia, 2005).
Nicola Labanca, Oltremare: storia dell'espansione coloniale italiana (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2002).
Heather Hyde Minor, 'Mapping Mussolini: Ritual and cartography in public art during the second Roman Empire', Imago Mundi, 51:1 (1999), pp. 147-62.
Esmonde M. Robertson, Mussolini as Empire-Builder: Europe and Africa, 1932-36 (London: Macmillan, 1977).


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Good King Hal (5th from the left) had a feeling he would be explaining this scene to his therapist for years to come.
And so, after belting around up to Penrith, then Essex, then Kent, then Disneyland, Paris, it was back to Essex for a brief stop and then down to Somerset again. On the Friday evening I was to do my one man "Henry's Horrid History" show at Barrington Court. We had tried running this show a couple of times in the past. The first time it had been a last minute organisation and had involved slapping posters in local shops and me wandering around Ilminster with a load of fliers handing them out to bewildered pensioners. It hadn't gone badly - about half full. The second time around some nameless twit over at Montacute House completely forgot to include the show in the "What's On" section of the local National Trust area hand out. Consequently we had to cancel the show as no one booked at all. GRRRRR! This time around all had been included in the local "What's On.." , I had also slapped up posters in a lot of local shops and many of the people I had met at my previous two walkabouts at Barrington had said they were coming back. So you can guess the turnout on the night. Yup, about half full again. Arse. But the audience seemed to really enjoy the show, they laughed heartily, joined in and Matthew Applegate at Barrington Court was a very happy chap. It would have been nice to a have filled the place up, but we did our best. And fighting apathy has always been difficult and thankless.
I am back off to Rochester Cathedral this weekend for a ribbon cutting ceremony, and then I have schools in Norfolk and Buckinghamshire to do later in the week. And then - Chutfest '09 at Barrington Court. Watch this space.


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|Kicking off the voting for this year's favorite ad icons and slogans is Jerry Shereshewsky, Yahoo's ambassador plenipotentiary to Madison Avenue, who was accompanied by Tony the Tiger, the Pillsbury Doughboy and a host of other brand symbols come to life in Times Square. Click to see larger photo.
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Helping to emphasize the fact that the event launched the voting for the best advertising slogan and icon were a bevy of scantily clad Las Vegas showgirls, promoting the "What happens here, stays here" tagline, a group handing out foam Energizer Bunny ears and, of course, ad icons ranging from Cap'n Crunch to the California raisins, among others. The public may cast their ballots in a Times Square voting booth or online at advertisingweek.yahoo.com. This year, 26 brand icons and 26 slogans are in the running.
Ken Kaess, Advertising Week 2005 co-chair and president-CEO of DDB Worldwide, said last year's contest drew 600,000 votes, with M&M's brand characters, AFLAC Duck, Tony the Tiger, Mr. Peanut and Pillsbury Doughboy taking the top spots.
31 organizations
The event, sponsored by the American Association of Advertising Agencies and 30 other professional organizations representing advertising, marketing and media professionals, is in its second year and faced some criticism last year for focusing its attention on past icons instead of the future of advertising.
"Walking around the street with these icons, people feel good," Mr. Kaess told Advertising Age at the start of 2004's event. "If that was the only thing we're doing, then I could take a hit on that. That's just one component of the week."
The icons will gather again this September in Times Square, this time led by the Budweiser Clydesdales, in a procession to start Advertising Week.
Winners announced
Winners of the 2005 election will be announced at a ceremony on Madison Avenue Sept. 26, the first day of the event, which will be held Sept. 26-30 in New York. Voting is open online through Sept. 23.


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Not about religion, but…maybe.
In Sunday's NYTimes Magazine, Michael Lewis pens a marvelous, beautifully written piece about his old high school baseball coach and changing times.
The changing times are, of course, parents who want their kids to be stars, but don't want them to have to suffer or work for it.
Be careful if you're a teacher and you read this piece: you might strain your neck nodding in agreement.
And it's just so wonderfully written:
As the other team continued to erupt with joy, Fitz glanced at the runner on third base, a reedy fellow with an aspiring mustache, and said, "Pick him off." Then he walked off and left me all alone.
If Zeus had landed on the pitcher's mound and issued the command, it would have had no greater effect. The chances of picking a man off third base are never good, and even worse in a close game, when everyone's paying attention. But this was Fitz talking, and I can still recall, 30 years later, the sensation he created in me. I didn't have words for it then, but I do now: I am about to show the world, and myself, what I can do.
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If you don't know anything about the world – and if your life depends on it – you have to use trial and error to find out what is going on in your environment. In this situation it's the only way you can learn, and it's the basic manner in which evolution discovers survival strategies in populations. Evolution consists of an iterative cycle of reproduction with variation, environmental selection of the best strategies, followed by new rounds of reproduction, and so on.
Exploring this approach to solve difficult practical problems is the focus of the community behind the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conferences and also the GECCO 2011, which July 13-16, 2011, gathered some 600 delegates in Dublin. They are scientists and engineers as well as practitioners from industry, business, policy and the arts. This community meets every other year at different locations to discuss results, problems and visions for utilizing computational methods based on a variety problem solving strategies inspired from biological systems.
I can't do justice to the many interesting presentations and ideas showcased at this meeting, so please have a look at the program here. For the non-scientists, perhaps the many GECCO competitions are the most intriguing and accessible. They include the evolution of race-car autopilots, development of financial time series predictors, the evolution of the best sounding music as well as websites where kids can evolve intriguing 3D objects, have them printed, and then sent them to their home addresses.
Since I'm not an expert on evolutionary computational methods and thus a bit of an outsider to the GECCO community, I'll share a few observations below, which I also discussed with old and new colleagues during the conference.
In the 20 years the GECCO community has existed, it has indisputably proven the validity of using evolutionary approaches. These methods can indeed solve hard problems in many areas. That is a significant achievement and an advancement of science. My guess is that this success (the methods really work!), combined with a fascination with evolution, are the main reasons for the vitality and the continued growth of the community.
However, the community, as most new professional communities, has a bit of a tribal feel. With all its successes, I suspect the GECCO community could benefit from more interactions with the traditional operational research (OR) and statistics modeling communities. It would be good to compare and contrast these evolutionary and swarm based approaches with more classical OR and statistics problem solving methods. Once you learn something about your problem / environment you can do better than the naïve trial and error searches.
To use a biological metaphor: Life evolved successfully for some 3+ billion years solving survival problems only utilizing the naive trial and error method. However, at some point life invented intelligence, which turned out to be an extremely efficient survival skill.
In this context, intelligence means that individuals can learn about their environment, or their "fitness function", based on their previous experiences. This means that an individual doesn't always need to risk its life on simple trial and error learning, but can react and learn more about its environment based on what it already has learned. For example, if you once walked close to a big striped cat and were almost eaten, you should probably run before you get close to a big black cat. You don't need to repeat this "getting close to" experiment when you see another big cat even if the cat has a different color.
For the computing analogy this means that as you learn something about your environment, your fitness function, you can utilize this knowledge to develop a more efficient search strategy for finding solutions to your problem. You are no longer dependent on an unbiased trial and error process. Most real-life problems have some structure to them (correlations in their fitness functions), which means that intelligent searches come out ahead of naive evolutionary- or swarm searches. Also, many real life problems involve co-evolving individuals, which together change the environment and thus the involved fitness functions, which is a further challenge for problem solving.
A continued exploration of what evolution can do for you as a problem solver, as well as addressing some of the mentioned above issues, is in part where I believe the GECCO community is heading.
Besides the many lectures and technical discussions, I certainly enjoyed the Irish hospitality, the lively pubs, the visit to the Guinness Brewing Company, the Irish folk dance, and a swim in the beautiful Irish Sea at Howth. I must admit the latter was a bit cold even for a seasoned Dane.


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Another from the May 2012 issue of Everyday Food magazine is Skillet Shrimp and Orzo.Only a few simple ingredients create such a full flavoured dinner we all just loved. The combo of tomato – basil – garlic – shrimp, is a total match. This seems like an improved and simplified version of the cover shot of the first Everyday Food book, Great Food Fast – Shrimp, Tomato & Basil Pasta. I recall not being all that impressed with that recipe in particular. It lacked umph. Well this dinner we had last night was the solution doing justice to all the ingredients. Infact, it was outright addictive. I think Owen's become quite the little foodie guy when he had a forkful of orzo observing - "Orzo is just like rice and pasta!" Overall we highly recommend trying this recipe for yourself.
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Meeting Minutes
The Mayor and Board of Commissioners met in regular session on September 19, 2002. The following members were present: Commissioner Robert Pulley, Commissioner Bid Lindsey, Commissioner Buford Goolsby, Mayor Blake Lay, and Commissioner Chris Gowen.
With a quorum present, the meeting was called to order.
The meeting opened with Prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance.
A motion was made by Commissioner Gowen to approve the minutes of the September 5, 2002 meeting, with a second by Commissioner Goolsby. Motion passed.
Mayor Lay announced that Mr. Shane Hughes, a member of the Planning Commission, has resigned due to a business opportunity out of state. The Planning Commission asked that the number of board members be reduced to nine (9) rather than the present ten (10) in order to more easily achieve a quorum. We will honor that request and make the Lawrenceburg Planning Commission a nine (9) member board.
We have also been invited to attend a ribbon cutting on Monday, September 23, at 10:00 a.m. at the new entrance building to Rotary Park. I want to thank everyone involved in that building. It is the first thing seen when entering the park; this is a very attractive addition to the park.
A Public Hearing on Ordinance #957, the 2002-2003 Annual Budget was opened. With no one wishing to address the Commission on Ordinance #957, the Public Hearing closed.
Attorney Betz presented two ordinances and two resolutions for consideration.
Ordinance # 957 - To approve the budget appropriations of revenue and expenditures for the 2002-2003 fiscal year providing for the operation, administration and maintenance for the municipal government for the City of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Motion to approve on second and final reading was made by Commissioner Pulley, with a second by Commissioner Gowen. Motion passed unanimously.
Ordinance # 958 – To establish the 2002 property tax rate; to levy taxes and to levy ad valorem taxes on all property, real and personal, within the corporate limits of the City of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, subject to taxation. Motion to approve on second and final reading was made by Commissioner Lindsey, with a second by Commissioner Goolsby. Motion passed unanimously.
Resolution # 2002-19-9A – To enter into a grant agreement between the State of Tennessee Department of Transportation, Governor's Highway Safety Office, and the City of Lawrenceburg Police Department. Governor's Highway Safety Mini-grant Number IN2-02-01 in the amount of $10,000.00 to be used in the performance of the child passenger safety, and the seat-belt "Click-it or Ticket" Safety Programs. The funds may be used for equipment, overtime, and supplies applied to the safety programs. Motion to approve was made by Commissioner Lindsey, with a second by Commissioner Gowen. Motion passed unanimously.
Resolution # 2002-19-9B – To enter into a grant agreement with TML Risk Management Pool Safety Partners Loss Control Matching Grant Program up to Two Thousand ($2,000.00) Dollars. Motion to approve was made by Commissioner Lindsey, with a second by Commissioner Goolsby. Motion passed unanimously.
City Administrator David Huseman informed the Commission that the City's new web page; www.cityoflawrenceburgtn.com is up and going strong. Also, information on Question 2 for the November ballot will soon be distributed, to educate our citizens on the question.
Under Citizen's Request - Mr. C.F. McGee addressed the Commission on general issues. One issue was the present and future rates on water and sewer to residents, industries and commercial consumers. He was also interested in the fund amount given to non-profit organizations by the City of Lawrenceburg.
Mayor Lay invited Mr. McGee to the Utilities Board Meeting that is being held today at 11:00 a.m., at the Public Utility Building. This is a public meeting and anyone can attend. Mayor Lay also informed Mr. McGee that the budget is public information, and anyone may come by and see David Huseman for any information or questions concerning the budget.
With no further business to come before the Board, a motion was made by Commissioner Gowen to adjourn, with a second by Commissioner Goolsby. Meeting adjourned.
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27 Sept 2016
Repurposing Classic Buildings Proves a Hit with Taiwan Tourists
Heritage sites sensitively reinvented as hotels and high-end outlets emerge as popular visitor attractions.
As has already become something of a trend in Hong Kong, Taiwan is now looking to restore and refurbish a number of its heritage buildings. This has seen several historic sites redeveloped for leisure or hospitality purposes, with the finished projects proving hugely popular with both residents and visitors.
A prime example of this is the former staff quarters of the Taiwan Cooperative Bank, set in the Da'an district of Taipei. Back in August, the site reopened as the Folio Daan Taipei, the first own-branded hotel established by Fubon Hospitality Management, part of the Fubon Group.
As a key part of the project, Fubon's design team was at pains to conserve the original townhouse architectural style of the building. They also retained and restored a number of the building's original features, including its granite outer walls and balconies. In the process of reinventing and repurposing this classic building, the hotel group's overall concern was to revive the style and look of the Taipei of the 1950s.
This move to restore classic properties has been popular in Taiwan for some time now. As a result, a number of once dilapidated buildings in Tainan's Anping and West Central district, as well as in the Dadaocheng area of Taipei, have been reinvented as boutique hotels.
In every case, the priority was to create a luxurious modern interior, while retaining the retro stylings and features of the exterior of the building. Maintaining a perfect balance between the old and the new is seen as crucial when it comes to attracting both local and overseas patrons.
In addition to the hotel sector, this move to restore classic buildings has also been taken up by restaurants and coffee shops. In the case of Starbucks, its Manka store in the Wanhua district of Taipei occupies the former residence of the Lin family, a site officially designated as a heritage building. The project marks the first time the coffee chain has restored an historic building in Taiwan. Widely seen as a success, the Manka site now enjoys substantial patronage, with its popularity said to be at least partially down to the sensitive way the restoration was completed.
Similar success has met a number of redevelopment projects undertaken by Dawncake, the popular upmarket Taiwanese confectioner and souvenir shop. The company has restored two sites in Taichung – the 4th Credit Coop Bank and the Miyahara Eye Hospital – with both now proving to be hugely popular with local and overseas patrons.
The HOK Café – a new high street brand launched by Kuo Yuan Ye (House of Kuo), the Taiwanese cake and pastry giant – has found success with a similar policy. The outlet currently operates from a refurbished 80-year-old building in the Shilin district of Taipei.
Acknowledging the success of these initiatives, Taiwan's Tourism Bureau has now issued revised guidelines for the operation of bed and breakfast establishments in the territory. These new guidelines make it easier for new hospitality facilities to be opened in heritage buildings, as long as the unique features of these sites are retained.
The adoption of the new guidelines will be particularly welcomed by operators in the Anping district of Tainan and the Dadaocheng district of Taipei, both of which are at risk of violating the law as it previously stood. With the new regulations coming into effect before the end of the year, it is expected the change will trigger a new wave of refurbishments and repurposing across the territory.
Lillian Kao, Taiwan Office


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