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The ECOplast workshop, organized under the scope of the ECOplast - European Research Project aims at presenting and discuss cutting edge progresses in tailor-made bio-composites – from design an production to present and prospective applications.
Conscious of the increasing ecological awareness along with new legislation that boosted the demand for products with a high ecological image both science and industry partners are aiming to develop biopolymers based on renewable resources that fulfill the required specifications of the highly demanding automotive industry.
The ECOplast workshop will address the recent developments of new biomass-based composites, biopolymer production, novel reinforcements, nanofillers and additives, and the adaptation of conventional processing techniques for the next generation of bioplastics.
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Last month, NVIDIA revealed its Kayla development platform that combines a quad core Tegra System on a Chip (SoC) with a NVIDIA Kepler GPU. Kayla will out later this year, but that has not stopped other board makers from putting together their own solutions. One such solution that began shipping earlier this week is the mITX GPU Devkit from SECO.
The new mITX GPU Devkit is a hardware platform for developers to program CUDA applications for mobile devices, desktops, workstations, and HPC servers. It combines a NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, 2GB of RAM, and 4GB of internal storage (eMMC) on a Qseven module with a Mini-ITX form factor motherboard. Developers can then plug their own CUDA-capable graphics card into the single PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot (which actually runs at x4 speeds). Additional storage can be added via an internal SATA connection, and cameras can be hooked up using the CIC headers.
Rear IO on the mITX GPU Devkit includes:
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The SECO platform is a proving to be popular for GPGPU in the server space, especially with systems like Pedraforca. The intention of using these types of platforms in servers is to save power by using a low power ARM chip for inter-node communication and basic tasks while the real computing is done solely on the graphics cards. With Intel's upcoming Haswell-based Xeon chips getting down to 13W TPDs though, systems like this are going to be more difficult to justify. SECO is mostly positioning this platform as a development board, however. One use in that respect is to begin optimizing GPU-accelerated code for mobile devices. With future Tegra chips to get CUDA-compatible graphics cards, new software development and optimization of existing GPGPU code for smartphones and tablet will be increasingly important.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook's announcement earlier this month that the company will start building Macs closer to home in 2013 was seen as a milestone that could help jump-start U.S. manufacturing.
But over the past few years, factories in the American South from the Carolinas to Alabama to Kentucky have already experienced such a rebirth.
Both U.S. and foreign companies have opened plants in southeastern states in recent years, many since the end of the recession. Others are expanding existing plants or have plans to break ground in 2013.
In South Carolina, Boeing builds 787 Dreamliners just north of Charleston, and Starbucks roasts coffee beans in St. Matthews, outside Columbia. General Electric is once again making water heaters and refrigerators at its gigantic Appliance Park plant in Louisville, Ky. A Mobile, Ala., shipyard run by Austal USA is growing so quickly that in the past two years the Australian company's workforce has swollen from 800 to 3,300.
Over the past year, North Carolina's Secretary of Commerce Keith Crisco says about 80 percent of the new companies coming to the state involved some form of manufacturing. "That's a big number for us, and the jobs are better than they were," he said.
Companies are taking advantage of state- and local-funded business incentives and convenient transportation routes, as well as the Southeastern U.S.'s lower cost of living and a largely non-union labor force that's inexpensive relative to other parts of the country.
Although hundreds of thousands of factory jobs have disappeared in the South and across the country over the past two decades due to automation and outsourcing to cheaper labor markets in China, Vietnam and elsewhere, the United States remains a manufacturing powerhouse. The country still produces 18.2 percent of the world's manufactured goods, edging out China's 17.6 percent, according to the latest figures from the National Association of Manufacturers and World Bank.
Today, however, even Chinese companies are building factories in the Southeast, ducking rising labor costs at home, and to be closer to customers and take advantage of the region's pro-business policies. One of the first was appliance maker Haier Group, which opened a $40 million refrigerator factory in Camden, S.C., a dozen years ago. One of the latest is Lenovo Group Ltd., which operates a fulfillment center in Whitsett, N.C. In October, Lenovo announced plans to begin making ThinkPads there in 2013, adding an estimated 115 jobs to an existing workforce of 2,200.
While factory jobs haven't returned to pre-recession levels, they're getting there. In Georgia and Tennessee, manufacturing employment grew 3 percent in the 12 months ending in October, nearly twice the national average of 1.6 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Factory employment was above average in Alabama (2.9 percent), South Carolina (2.4 percent) and Mississippi (2 percent) as well.
"It's a business climate like you won't find anywhere else," says Doug Woodward, an economics professor at the University of South Carolina and incoming president of the North American Regional Science Council, which studies local economies.
Low-cost labor is one of the region's big draws. Economists cite the lack of a large union presence as a benefit since it allows companies to move factory workers from job to job as needs change. In seven Southern states, union members account for less than 5 percent of the workforce. That's less than half of the 11.8 percent national average, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"It's all about flexibility," Brian Leathers, senior vice president and chief financial officer for Austal USA, told NBC News. "Because we treat our people properly -- benefits, pay, safe working conditions -- there's not a need for representation."
However, critics point to academic and economic research showing that in right-to-work states, wages and benefits are lower. "They're just not as well compensated," says Matthew W. Finkin, an employment law expert and professor at the University of Illinois' law school . "So they're creating more jobs and giving more work to people, but they're not giving the benefits and other aspects of employee protections (workers would) have in other states if they were in (a) union."
The local chapter of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association has been unsuccessful in three attempts to organize Austal's Mobile, Ala., shipyard. A representative of Local 441 could not be reached for comment. A representative of the SMWIA's national office declined to comment.
Crisco maintains that manufacturing jobs coming into the South pay more because they require more technical skills. He argues that right-to-work laws are only one factor drawing companies to the region, along with generous workforce training programs and incentives such as tax breaks that South Carolina gives to companies making substantial capital investments in the area. "Sure, it's controversial about incentives, but in terms of locating manufacturing jobs here, it's been fairly successful," Woodward says.
Here's a look at activity in a handful of southern states where manufacturing jobs are on the rise:
South Carolina
South Carolina's manufacturing industry lost 100,000 jobs during the 2000s before the 2007-2009 recession wiped out another 40,000, Woodward says.
Recent moves by Boeing, BMW, Michelin, and other tire and auto parts manufacturers and durable goods makers to open or expand factories have reversed that trend. Boeing alone created 8,000 new jobs in the past two years, Woodward says. "We've gained 10,000 to 15,000 jobs," he says. "Our immediate prospects are very good, but it's going to be a long road if we're going to recover" historic manufacturing employment levels.
In January, BMW said it would add 300 people to an existing workforce of 7,000 at a highly automated auto manufacturing plant in Greer, the company's largest factory outside of Germany. The expansion will to boost annual production to 350,000 by 2014. "The deep roots of the workforce here in manufacturing are really helpful and we developed a close relationship with the local tech colleges to improve our workforce," BMW Manufacturing President Josef Kerscher said in a late November talk at the University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business. "I'm really satisfied seeing how well prepared our workforce is for advanced manufacturing."
North Carolina
The textile and apparel makers that made up the bulk of North Carolina's traditional manufacturing sector "left and are not coming back," Crisco says. They're being replaced with companies like Lenovo, which is moving ThinkPad manufacturing to the state from Mexico.
Jeld-Wen, an Oregon-based window and door maker, announced on Dec. 13 that it is moving its North American headquarters to Charlotte, adding 142 management and administrative jobs. The company already operates two manufacturing plants in the area with 2,200 employees.
In 2012, manufacturing accounts for 20 percent of North Carolina's gross domestic product, and that doesn't include recently announced deals that will add to manufacturing employment in the near future, Crisco says.
In Mobile, Austal is building high-speed, aluminum ships for the U.S. Navy, made to quickly deliver troops to a war zone or disaster area.
Austal is one of many foreign companies that have opened factories in and around Mobile in the past decade, a group that includes Mercedes Benz, Honda, Toyota and Hyundai. In 2013, Airbus will join the list. The European aircraft manufacturer is expected to break ground on a $600 million complex in 2013 and begin assembling planes there two years later, creating 1,000 jobs, according to the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce.
Though mega deals like the one with Airbus get the most attention, 94 percent of factories in the tri-county area around Mobile are domestic, says chamber spokeswoman Susan Rak-Blanchard. Attracting smaller companies that bring 50 to 150 jobs to the area has been "our bread and butter over the years," she says.
The number of people working at GE's famed Appliance Park industrial complex in Louisville peaked at 23,000 in the early 1970s before starting to drop a decade later and hitting bottom in 2011 at less than 2,000, according to a recent report in The Atlantic. In February, the company returned to the plant, making low-energy water heaters there instead of having them built by a Chinese contractor. A month later, GE moved a refrigerator assembly line from Mexico to the plant, according to the report.
(GE is a minority owner in NBCUniversal.)
So far, GE has poured $800 million into revamping manufacturing operations at the facility, including $150 million on a new dishwasher assembly line. According to the company, factory workers helped design the line to be faster and safer, and as a result per-unit production time has dropped 65 percent.
"Companies are looking for a lower cost place to do business and a skilled workforce," said David King, Central South Carolina Alliance marketing vice president. "It doesn't get more basic than that."


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D'Oh! Springfield In 'Simpsons' Was Based On Town In Oregon All Along
D'Oh! Springfield In 'Simpsons' Was Based On Town In Oregon All Along
Ay Caramba! Simpsons creator Matt Groening has revealed the location of the real Springfield: It's in Oregon.
In an interview with Smithsonian magazine, posted online Tuesday, Groening credits the name to the hit TV show Father Knows Best.
The show "took place in the town of Springfield, and I was thrilled because I imagined that it was the town next to Portland, my hometown," he says. "When I grew up, I realized it was just a fictitious name. I also figured out that Springfield was one of the most common names for a city in the U.S. In anticipation of the success of the show, I thought, 'This will be cool; everyone will think it's their Springfield.' And they do."
The topic of Springfield's real location has much discussion among fans of the show, which has been on the air for more than 20 years.
"I don't want to ruin it for people, you know?" Groening says. "Whenever people say it's Springfield, Ohio, or Springfield, Massachusetts, or Springfield, wherever, I always go, 'Yup, that's right.'"
But The Associated Press says Groening said he has long given fake answers about the Simpsons' hometown, leaving open the possibility the revelation to Smithsonian magazine itself is fake.
According to the AP:
The show has made a running joke of hiding the true Springfield's location. In one episode, daughter Lisa points to Springfield on a map, but the animated "camera view" is blocked by son Bart's head.
But there should have been plenty of clues that the characters on the Simpsons were drawn from Groening's own childhood.
The names of many characters on the show — Flanders, Kearney, Lovejoy — correspond to street names in Portland, Ore. Indeed, Groening says his goal was to "name every character after streets in Portland, but we were in a hurry so I dropped the idea."
Another clue: The Simpsons live on Evergreen Terrace – also the name of the street the Groenings lived on. And, of course, Homer, Marge, Lisa and Maggie are named after Groening's parents and sisters, respectively.
The town of Springfield, Ore., had already claimed the show as its own. When Niel Laudati, the community relations manager for Springfield, Ore., was told about Groening's announcement, he told the AP: "Oh, OK, we knew that."
The town's Facebook page features a signed plaque from Groening when he visited the town before The Simpsons Movie was released in 2007.
"Yo to Springfield Oregon – The Real Springfield!" the plaque reads. It's signed: "Your pal, Matt Groening Proud Oregonian! 2007."
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I really want to be able to snark on this show but I am in from about minute three, when they get so excited about 'Breadsticks', the delicious all you can eat bread restaurant. Girls making out because "I'm like a lizard, I need something warm beneath me or I can't digest my food". It's cheap, but it gets me in. So immediately I'm on a seesaw of whether to buy this or not.
Rachel and Finn decide they have to be good and throw the competition to be nice and save the regionals. Or the sectionals? Here's the deal, whatever the hell it is will only happen in February sweeps. Because 'Nationals' will be in New York in May sweeps. Unless they keep these kids in their sophomore year forever. Which is a possibility. I'm on a down.
Still down: Lea Michele's bangs have outstayed their welcome. What IS it with bangs like that? I've had them, I've seen it happen to others – they look totally fresh for three weeks and then they're just exhausting and aging. Why?
Glee is walking aournd some pretty fine lines here. "If I pursued a girl the way you pursued me it would be harassment." Yep. "I don't have a problem with gay dudes, but they do, and we live in their world." I would like to believe this isn't true, but I bet it is in parts of the Midwest. A major up, and an up to Kurt, usually so unimpeachable, for playing the guilt just about right.
Also an up? The best part of this show is the relationship between Kurt and his dad. They talk openly, they always have. They navigate around each other's poor points, but they are so sensitive to one another. Nobody tells Kurt to stop trying to drag people over to his way of thinking – which is just as bad as pushing the Christian right, as we well know – but it's implied, subtly, sweetly. We get that this is a struggle this boy will continue with.
A down: how many showers do Teenage Boys take? I know it's great that it's a sexy place to set a scene, but realism wise, teenage boys never, ever wash. Right? I mean, isn't that why math class always kind of reeked? Then again, no girls in any gym class I was ever in EVER showered, so maybe it was our fault. In retrospect.
An up: Realism check. Screw Gossip Girl and 90210 – these guys are excited about a free dinner at a chain, because that's probably the reality for most kids their age.
BIG BIG UP: At this point in the show I realize we're not going to see Ms. Pillsbury! Or any annoying adult plot! No SUE! (I know you're preparing your voodoo doll of me, some of you.)
A down, disguised as an up: Chris Colfer is the reason all of this works because he's ridiculously endearing, but let's talk about how no high school kid is that self-posessed. I know we saw him get tossed in dumpsters early on, but where's the hurt that happened to him somewhere along the way? What did he go through to be this self-actualized? Is this just what it's like to grow up millennial with lots of media access? Glee the show seems to believe you still get tossed in dumpsters but maybe you're OK about it because you wear Marc Jacobs. In this age of "It gets better" I would love to believe it's true but I'm hedging my bets.
An up, disguised as a down: I delight in ragging hard on Quinn. Here are some of the reasons why. She's bland. Her blonde simperingness does nothing for me. Her quest to 'be on top' never looks like anything except curling her ponytail right - and her voice is full of air. But -- she really does do a nice job when she's required every now and then to emote, specifically as a character who doesn't want to emote or feel. So I am acknowledging this.
A down: If you wanted me to root for Mercedes and Santana, could they have sung something with, like, a melody? Vocal Olympics sometimes just feel exclusionary.
An up: Mike Chang and Tina's song was really really cute. Again, they're acknowledging things. Like that he can't sing. Which makes me impressed. Or maybe they're just trying to get to all the jokes before all the critics can.
Up: Okay, fine. "I thought I was over somebody, but I'm not." "The Clintons?" HEH.
An up: I really have to give it up to this show. As much as it drives me bazonks sometimes, it's big ups to the differently abled actually being in the show. Artie isn't just a setpiece – at least, no more than any of the others. He gets storylines, he gets action, they are not just making him a tertiarty figure.
Major down: Wait, what? Why exactly were Finn and Rachel eliminated? I get that they threw the competition, but…it was just because it was a nun and priest, in theory? As if anyone in the damn place cares about the maligning of the clergy? Are we serious now? Do you want me to believe that Santana has feelings about a priest, ever at all? Or that Mr. Schue cares? Quinn, OK, I can kind of buy. And Rachel and Finn knew this?
Down: Quinn and New Guy sing a song that gives us the exact season arc for the next five episodes. Fine, we get it, they will date, someone will get their heart broken, the end.
Another major down: ….and then they ruin it by having Artie get all emo about his sex being 'important'. I mean, come on. Is he a teenage boy, or isn't he? Maybe I'm totally out of touch, but come ON. I thought we're supposed to believe he's just like any other teenage boy.
And then, this one I can't decide, up or down - Rachel and Kurt decide the best way to deal with themselves is to sing another duet, and I am so, so conflicted over this. Because the song is all jazzy swingy New-York-At-Christmas, and I am a cheeseball, and I LOVE that stuff, and yet it's so utterly nerdy and they look like they're in their early 30s in their satin outfits, and Lea Michele hasn't learned to belt without giving herself a double chin that she doesn't have, and I want to kill them both and this show for acknowledging that this kind of thing can even appear on TV. And that this is what teenagers care about
So….where does that leave us in the tally, again?
Here's my final thought. I know the deal with being kind of a loser in high school. I know you're shocked. I know the deal with thinking nobody's ever going to understand you. But a friend of mine once told me a book editor said "show me a kid who had trouble growing up, and I'll show you a potential bestselling author". The idea being that suffering when you're young (if you can call being slusheed 'suffering') makes you better equipped for the real world.
So is this show a one hour reprieve in a long hard growing-up process that is being a teenager? Or is it telling kids that you should only ever let your freak flag fly, dress up in your satin outfits and imagine that you're headed for Broadway? I mean, Glee clubs make people happy. Is this American Idol disease disguised, or would a 14 year old me smack me for being so cynical? I imagine this is a season-long discussion, but still. Let me know.
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MIAMI BEACH, FL (October 3, 2011) – Patients with Merkel Cell Carcinoma who underwent a procedure called sentinel lymph node biopsy (SNLB) had a lower risk of cancer recurrence after two years, according to a study by researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Center. When the biopsy's results were used to guide subsequent tests and treatment, these patients had longer survival rates than patients who had not undergone the procedure.
"Sentinel lymph node biopsy, or SNLB, can be used to recommend which way to proceed with a patient's treatment," says Aruna Turaka, a radiation oncologist at Fox Chase and lead author on the new study. Turaka will present her team's findings at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for Radiation Oncology on Monday, October 3.
"Right now, with almost all patients, even stage I patients, we recommend radiation to the local site. But this study can help us make more judicious use of treatment and identify who will be most benefited to the regional lymph nodes," Turaka says.
Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare and aggressive type of skin cancer that forms in cells at the bottom of the epidermis, usually striking older people and people with weakened immune systems. The tumor often appears as a painless, fast-growing lump on a part of the body exposed to the sun, including the head and neck, the trunk, and legs and arms. The cancer is believed to metastasize from an early stage, first spreading to nearby regional lymph nodes. It may spread to other lymph nodes, as well as the lungs and other organs. The first lymph node where cancer cells appear is called the sentinel lymph node.
Because the disease metastasizes so quickly, Turaka says, it's important to identify the patients most at risk for a recurrence of cancer at or near the site of the original tumor. The new study may provide a way for practitioners to use sentinel lymph nodes to guide treatment and thereby reduce the likelihood of cancer returning to the same area. Patients diagnosed with Merkel Cell Carcinoma first undergo surgery to excise the primary tumor; most are then treated with radiation to the site.
In the last decade, sentinel lymph node biopsy has grown increasingly popular as a way to study and assess the extent of different types of cancer in the body. In an SLNB, the sentinel lymph node is identified, removed and studied. If cancerous cells are not detected, then the patient may avoid more follow-up surgery. If cancerous cells are detected, then the patient may have to undergo a lymph node dissection (LD), which is a more invasive procedure.
"Lymph node dissection is a definitely a big surgery," says Turaka, "and extensive surgery is always associated with high morbidity."
A patient with merkel cell carcinoma only receives further radiation if the SNLB comes back positive for cancer cells. If the biopsy is free of cancer cells, the patients is not given radiation and does not need to undergo surgery, says Turaka.
She and her colleagues studied the records of 88 patients from Fox Chase Cancer Center who were diagnosed with merkel cell carcinoma between 1990 and 2010. Of those, 41 had undergone SLNB. The researchers found that in 42 percent of patients whose SLNB turned up cancerous cells, cancer returned to same area within two years. Only 22 percent of patients with negative SLNB results had locoregional recurrences.
In addition, Turaka and her team found that patients who had undergone SLNB had higher two-year overall survival and disease-free survival rates compared to patients who had not undergone the surgery.
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I'd like to offer a simple proposal that, if enacted, could generate a great deal of a most precious resource: moral clarity.
It concerns the death penalty.
Opponents of capital punishment for murderers argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family, not only on behalf of society.
In order to make this as clear as possible, here is my proposal: Americans should be able to declare what they want the state to do on their behalf if they are murdered. Those who wish the state to keep their murderer alive for all of his natural years should wear, let us say, a green bracelet and/or place a green dot on their driver's license or license plate. And those who want their convicted murderer put to death can wear a red bracelet and/or have a red dot on their license.
Just as I have a pink "donor" circle on my driver's license signifying that in case I die, I wish to provide my organs to help keep some person alive, I wish to make it known that if I am murdered, I do not want my murderer kept alive a day longer than legally necessary.
There are a number of reasons for recommending such a policy.
First, as noted, it is clarifying for the individual. It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. It is one thing to oppose the death penalty when others are killed, but if you have to decide what happens if it is you who is murdered, the mind focuses with greater clarity.
Before deciding which color to choose, let a woman imagine herself raped and then stabbed to death. And let her further imagine that if this happened to her, she now has some say in determining what happens to the person who did this to her. She is no longer a silent corpse. Her voice will be heard, perhaps even be determinative of her killer's fate.
Likewise, the woman who truly opposes death for any murderer, no matter how heinous and sadistic his actions, will also now have the ability to speak from the grave. No matter how much her family may seek the death penalty, family members will have no say. Any woman — or man — who passionately opposes the death penalty under every conceivable circumstance can now help to ensure that at least in his or her case, a murderer's life that might have been taken might now be preserved. There is no more direct way to give death-penalty abolitionists the right to have a say over the fate of a murderer.
Second, such a choice gives great power to the individual. Abolitionists who live in pro-death-penalty Texas, for example, can now have a say on a matter of enormous moral magnitude.
And pro-death penalty citizens living in states that have either legally or de facto abolished the death penalty regain a sense of power over their life (or death, to be precise).
The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible. But this has been undermined in the last 50 years, as the state has gotten ever more powerful. Giving murder victims say over their murderer's fate would be a small but symbolically significant step in Americans reasserting the importance of the individual. It's hard to imagine a more appropriate arena than in determining what happens to the person who murdered you.
As dark as thoughts of one's own murder may be, we all think about it. And I don't think I speak only for myself in saying that I would rest just a tiny bit better knowing that if I were murdered, my murderer might not be allowed to watch TV; read books; exercise; develop relationships with people inside and outside of prison; surf the Internet; sing; listen to music; have his health care needs addressed; and be visited by loved ones while I lay in my grave.
And for those opposed to the death penalty, they, too, will be able to rest a bit easier. They will be assured that even men who came to their home, raped all the females in their family, and then set the house on fire with the family inside — as happened in Connecticut a few years ago — would never be killed by the state.
Third, it would be interesting to see if these color-coded bracelets and licenses had any effect on who gets murdered. Clearly, when the murder is a crime of passion, it is hard to imagine that a would-be murderer would stop himself from killing someone upon noticing a red bracelet or a red dot on a license plate. But crimes of passion are generally not, in any event, punished by death. On the other hand, in murders that could be capital crimes, it is possible (not necessarily likely, but possible) that a murderer (or even more likely, his accomplice, if there were one) might just re-think murdering the victim.
Fourth, choosing which color bracelet or dot on one's license not only forces people to confront their own consciences, but it will undoubtedly engender deep discussions with others. To cite but one example, it can surely help singles who are dating. If you're against the death penalty, and your date drives up with a red bracelet and/or dot on his license plate, you'll have either a far deeper discussion than you would have otherwise have had at dinner, or you'll spare yourself the time and expense of a date that will probably go nowhere.
These are some of the arguments for the plan. I can't think of one good argument against it — unless you're an abolitionist who is fearful of seeing red.
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Bahamas ratifies the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
Vienna, Austria, 27 November 2007 -
On 26 November, the Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Brent Symonette, announced that he had signed the instrument of ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). The instrument had been sent to the United Nations headquarters in New York on that same day.
The ratification of the Bahamas brings the total number of Treaty ratifications to 141. The Bahamas signed the CTBT on 4 February 2005.
The announcement was made at the opening of a workshop on CTBT cooperation for States in the Caribbean region, held in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, on 26-28 November 2007. The workshop is particularly important since several of the countries in the Caribbean are yet to sign and ratify the Treaty. Of the 11 countries that in addition to the Bahamas participate in the workshop, six have already ratified the Treaty (Antigua and Barbuda, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Suriname), whereas five have yet to sign and ratify it (Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago). Issues that are being discussed include the promotion of the entry into force and the universalization of the Treaty, how to enhance ways to strengthen capacity building in the region, and the CTBT verification regime and its related technologies as well as their civil and scientific applications.
The workshop is organized jointly by the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) and the Government of the Bahamas, and financed by the Government of Austria.
To date, 177 States have signed the CTBT. To enter into force, however, the Treaty must be signed and ratified by the 44 States listed in Annex 2 to the Treaty. These States participated in the negotiations of the Treaty in 1996 and possessed nuclear power or research reactors at the time. Thirty-four of these States have ratified the Treaty, including the three nuclear weapon States France, Russian Federation and the United Kingdom. The ten remaining States are China, Colombia, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Islamic Republic of Iran, Israel, Pakistan and the United States of America.
The CTBT bans all nuclear explosions. A verification regime is being built to monitor compliance with the Treaty. 337 facilities world-wide will monitor the underground, the oceans and the atmosphere for any sign of a nuclear explosion. Today, more than 215 facilities send data to the International Data Center at the CTBTO in Vienna.


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So, I have text on a textpane.
When i hit the save button i want to know if the file already exists on the disk because in that case i want to "update" that file and if that file does not exists I want to create it with the text which is inside the textpane.
When the the first hit on the save button will be this :
if(fileChooser.showSaveDialog(this) != JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) return; File f = fileChooser.getSelectedFile(); if(f == null) return; try{ FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream(f); rtf.write(fout, textArea.getDocument(), 0, textArea.getDocument().getLength()); } catch(IOException e) {} catch(BadLocationException e) {} catch(NullPointerException e) {} frame.setTitle(fileChooser.getSelectedFile().getName()); }
Ok, now I know that the file exists on the disc because with the code that i posted the final user saved it.
The second hit in the same save button will just do the "update" of the file (modifications, etc).
How can I do it ?
Any tips please ?


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Revision as of 08:54, 22 August 2012 by Jan.sievers.sap.com (Talk | contribs) (→Improvements and Fixes)
Tycho 0.16.0 is currently in development. This page shows a preview of features which will be available in the 0.16.0 release.
SNAPSHOT builds
To try the most recent snapshot build of 0.16.0, simply add the following snippet to your (parent) pom.xml and set tycho version to 0.16.0-SNAPSHOT.
<pluginRepositories> <pluginRepository> <id>tycho-snapshots</id> <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public/</url> </pluginRepository> </pluginRepositories>
List of bug fixes and enhancements in 0.16.0
New and Noteworthy
New Features
- Support for parallel test execution with JUnit >= 4.7 has been added.
If you use Junit >= 4.7, you can now have test classes or methods executed by several threads in parallel by adding -Dparallel=classes|methods|both on the commandline or by configuring
<plugin> <groupId>org.eclipse.tycho</groupId> <artifactId>tycho-surefire-plugin</artifactId> <version>${tycho-version}</version> <configuration> <parallel>classes|methods|both</parallel> </configuration> </plugin>
Executing tests in parallel can be useful e.g. if you have long-running integration tests which are not CPU-bound.
Under the hood, this feature was enabled by porting the junit4.7 surefire provider to Tycho.
- Reproducible Version Qualifiers
- A new plugin to validate target platforms. This plugin takes as input one or several target platforms and ensures they can be resolved, fails otherwise
<plugin> <groupId>org.eclipse.tycho.extras</groupId> <artifactId>target-platform-validation-plugin</artifactId> <version>${tychoExtrasVersion}</version> <executions> <execution> <phase>validate</phase> <goals> <goal>validate-target-platform</goal> </goals> <configuration> <targetFiles> <param>indigo.target</param> <param>juno.target</param> </targetFiles> <failOnError>true</failOnError> </configuration> </execution> </executions> </plugin>
Improvements and Fixes
- If several tycho versions were inadvertently mixed within the same reactor, this could lead to cryptic errors like ClassCastExceptions. This situation is now detected early and the build will fail with a clear error message
- Providing credentials for a p2 repository specified in a target file is now more convenient – the use of the non-standard id attribute in target files is no longer necessary (
bug 377086).
- Access to p2 repository can be redirected to a mirror location. This now works for both target files and repositories specified in the POM (
bug 356016).
- tycho-compiler-plugin now has a boolean option requireJREPackageImports which will fail the build if set to true and packages provided by the JDK are not explicitly imported.
This is the design-time equivalent of setting equinox runtime option osgi.compatibility.bootdelegation=false.
- Support for test frameworks is extensible now. This means you can add support for test frameworks other than JUnit if you provide an implementation of TestFrameworkProvider.
- The tycho-p2-director-plugin can now create product installations which have meta-requirements on the installer. This for example allows to execute custom touchpoint actions during the installation. See the integration test for an example.
- Added a property "tycho.considerLocal" which allows to control whether artifacts installed in the local maven repository by previous tycho builds should be considered by the resolver or not.
- if not set, behaviour is unchanged (local metadata is considered by the resolver, but warn if local-only IUs were used)
- if set to true, consider local metadata and do not warn about usage of locally installed IUs
- if set to false, ignore local-only metadata
The property can be specified on the commandline and in settings.xml.


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Song of the Kauri has been over five years in the making.
I have had 3 children and built a house over that time. The world has undergone myriad changes and the glaciers are melting. In just over 10 times that time frame a Kauri forest would be ready to harvest. Song of the Kauri has been an amazing journey full of friends and adventures, songs and challenges.
Now it's on the screen, set free finally to tell it's story. I was entrusted to tell this story and am humbled by the challenge. The characters are here inside the film, forever embedded into the landscape that is motion pictures.
A documentary should enchant and entertain but it should also question and incite revolution. It should cry out for those who can't hear, it should support the voices of those who can't speak. SOTK has a quiet voice, a singsong voice, a voice from the past and a voice of the future. Aotearoa is calling. Please take our film and let it travel a part of the road with you.
– Mathurin Molgat, director
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Now is the Time of Monsters. What Comes After Nations?
2017, Mar 23, Thu — 2017, Mar 25, Sat
By laying bare the framing conditions of the nation-state, their exclusionary mechanisms and the structural violence anchored within them, Now is the Time of Monsters picks up a phrase by Antonio Gramsci to open up a space for the decisive question: How can one think beyond the limits of the nation-state system?
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Friday, March 16, 2012
PhotoHunt - Play & Creative
A colourful and creative play area spotted at Innsbruck in Austria. It looks inviting and pleasing to the eye and so much different from our boring playgrounds back home. A great place for children and families to have fun and play. :)
Sandi's PhotoHunt
Gattina's PhotoHunting
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Yes, they are very attractive for the children. We have similar playgrounds here. The photo is colorful with a nice natural background.ReplyDelete
Looking at your theme, I realised I did next week's theme for Gattina's photohunt. Shucks. :DReplyDelete
We have some interesting playgrounds in SG too. It makes playing more fun for the young kids.
Oh! Very cute and colorful playground! : DReplyDelete
This is like way too creative. Very colourful. :)ReplyDelete
Then again...how come no kids are playing? :DReplyDelete
Looks like a fun place to play! :)ReplyDelete
What a fun play space. I love the way the equipment is painted.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSaturday, March 17, 2012 1:47:00 AM
very colorful play area. i'm sure kids will find many creative ways of play here.ReplyDelete
Have to admit that that area looks more creative than an outright play area because it seems very metallic with sharp edges! But if you're careful, it should be okay and be a place to have lots of fun! :bReplyDelete
- AnonymousSaturday, March 17, 2012 1:47:00 PM
Great colors and light!ReplyDelete
so cold, no one is playing.ReplyDelete
How sweet, makes me regret that I am too tall to play on them not too old, lol !ReplyDelete
Hi there, what a great photo and choice for the two themes. I love the colorful playground equipment and I'm envious of the what's even beyond the playground. A beautiful setting.ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful weekend.
That is a fabulous play ground!ReplyDelete
Thanks for Playing The Saturday PhotoHunt.
It looks fun and colorful to entice any child to want to play here, but not on this cold day.ReplyDelete
sure looks a fun place!!!ReplyDelete
Good picture, I see you are also in the mountains.ReplyDelete
I love playgrounds. I want to play here. :)ReplyDelete
What a fun looking area! I would be tempted to play with the kids! The playgrounds in London have some sort of spongy tarmac on them, to prevent serious scrapes. It is clever but ugly.ReplyDelete


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For Web surfers tired of having their browser activities tracked and who want to make anonymous searches, the new Epic Privacy Browser from Hidden Reflex may be just the thing – with the added bonus of some faster download speeds.
The browser, free to download, proxies all search requests so they can't be traced back to actual source IP addresses, and it has a one-click proxy feature that can invoke the same proxy for any other type of browser activity, according to Alok Bhardwaj, founder and CEO of Hidden Reflex.
SECURITY: Experts question if Google's Chrome Apps is worth the risk
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The browser won't accept third-party cookies and blocks trackers as well as ads, which often include trackers. The average Web page contains six trackers, he says, with some having up to 40. A side benefit of blocking them is faster download speeds from some sites because without ads and trackers less information is downloaded to build pages, Bhardwaj says.
Epic blocks referer data sent to search engines to prevent those engines from gathering and selling the data to advertisers.
But it's hard to prevent all referer data from being mined because it's actually needed for desired functionality. "This is an example of where privacy is really hard to do as comprehensively as we'd like," he says, "when we block all referers for all sites then the Internet effectively breaks as tons of e-commerce, banking and other sites base authentication on the referer data."
Epic is based on the open-source code Chromium, the underpinnings of the Google Chrome browser. In Epic, all Google tracking and Web services are removed, Bhardwaj says. Those services include auto-translate, address bar suggest, spell-check, URL check, malware check and home sync.
None of a users' browsing traffic passes through Hidden Reflex servers so it has no record of where users have browsed to. Services such as address-bar auto-fill are handled locally, he says.
Since Epic purges stored data when the browser closes it loses some conveniences such as login cookies that would automatically log users in to sites they've visited before. "Epic is by default in a rather extreme private browsing mode," Bhardwaj says. "At least one reason for this is that in the past there have been bugs that exposed your entire browsing history and more."
Tim Greene covers Microsoft and unified communications for Network World and writes the Mostly Microsoft blog. Reach him at email@example.com and follow him on Twitter@Tim_Greene.


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Now he is being criticized for participating in a service where people of other faiths were not only present but expressed prayers and words of faith. Here is a brief overview of the situation.
Pastor Rob Morris, who leads the Christ the King Lutheran Church in Newtown and had a young congregant die in the shooting, offered the closing benediction at the interfaith event.In an open letter posted online, Pastor Matthew C. Harrison, the president of Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, wrote that because of "the presence of prayers and religious readings" and the fact that "other clergy were vested for their participation," the event was a "joint worship with other religions."
"I could draw no conclusion other than that this was a step beyond the bounds of practice allowed by the Scriptures," Harrison wrote. "There is sometimes a real tension between wanting to bear witness to Christ and at the same time avoiding situations which may give the impression that our differences with respect to who God is, who Jesus is, how he deals with us, and how we get to heaven, really don't matter in the end."
Harrison then "asked Pastor Morris to apologize for taking part in the service" because he "violated the limits set by Scripture regarding joint worship" and "gave offense" to the Lutheran leadership.
A day after Harrison's letter was posted, Morris apologized in another open letter."To those who believe that I have endorsed false teaching, I assure you that was not my intent, and I give you my unreserved apologies," Morris wrote in a letter to the Lutheran leadership. "I apologize where I have caused offense by pushing Christian freedom too far, and I request you charitably receive my apology."
In the same letter, however, Morris defends his decision to participate, writing that he believed his participation was "not an act of joint worship, but an act of community chaplaincy.""Those who have followed the news reports are aware that this event is not quite like anything that has happened before," Morris wrote. "I believe (and I fervently pray) that my ministry will never involve a parallel situation to the one that faced my congregation and community that weekend."
See the full article here.
I will tip my hand here and admit that I don't see the problem. It is not like the pastor was attending regular services at the local mosque or was suggesting that all gods are the same. He represented a Christian voice at multi-faith service. I don't see that he did anything wrong here.
What do you think? And before you comment please keep in mind not to focus your comments on the denomination he represents since I suspect there are others who are also critical of his participation.


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**Try to do this in common between ad2OLschema and the kludge_acl and objectclass modules.
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*external Heimdal use (Andrew)
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Revision as of 10:05, 1 July 2008
Plans for fortnight ending 12 July 2008
- wmi integration (Jelmer)
- upload openchange and samba-gtk into Debian (Jelmer)
- hdb_samba4 (Jelmer)
- eliminate last EJS (minschema.js, samba3sam.js)
- Continue packaging of OpenChange and Samba4 for Fedora
- Improve LDAP backend from a technology preview to a deployable system (Andrew)
- Start work on smart card login (Andrew)
- Including setting up DogTag certificate system (Andrew)
- Rework schema handling to know about auxillary classes (Andrew)
- Try to do this in common between ad2OLschema and the kludge_acl and objectclass modules.
Plans for fortnight ending 28 June 2008
- external Heimdal use (Andrew)
- Created Samba 4 and OpenChange RPM packages (Andrew)
- test TEST_LDAP=yes (Andrew)
- Fixed Franky build for odd make versions (Jelmer)
Plans for fortnight ending 14 June 2008
- Linked attributes for 'net vampire' (Andrew)
- AES Key support (check with docs and Win2008 on format) in samdb (Andrew)
- Work to make ldb merge easier for Simo (andrew)
- Any work required to merge NTP patch with ntp.org distribution (Andrew)
- Work with alpha testers on any issues that come up in production deployments of Samba4 (Andrew)
Achieved so far
- Samba4 alpha4 release (andrew)
- without LDB merge, which seems a while off yet
- Sync ldap.py test with it's (now obsolete) ldap.js predecessor (andrew)
- Add python bindings for NetBIOS (Jelmer)
- Improve portability of Franky build (Jelmer)
- Asked Microsoft about AES key formats (Andrew)
- Just getting the data from Win2008 failed due to other reasons
- Continued the battle with Microsoft over NTP documentation (Andrew)
- Worked on package of Heimdal for Fedora (Andrew)
- As a preview to packaging Samba4 for Fedora
Plans for fortnight ending 31 May 2008
- Linked attributes for 'net vampire' (andrew)
- Make a Samba 4.0 alpha4 release if the ldb branch gets merged
http://packages.debian.org/testing/python/python-wmi (Jelmer)
Achieved so far
- Implement NTP signing (andrew)
- Patch posted to ntp.org for consideration: NTP bugzilla item with patch
- ntp_signd now started by default in samba4
- Finish CLDAP and NBT netlogon parsing. (Andrew)
- Including expected value tests (critical to ensuring we return the *right* answer)
- This should help things like Group Policy, which rely on this 'DC ping' functionality
- Merge Simo's ldb branch with current v4-0-test (abartlet)
- Should make Simo's merge task easier.
- Removed smbpython and restructured Python modules hierarchy to not clutter Python namespace (Jelmer)
- Merged improvements made by Wilco and Jelmer to the registry during SambaXP (Jelmer)
- Added documentation to most Python modules and improved descriptions. (Jelmer)
- Fixed memory bug in autogenerated DCE/RPC Python bindings (Jelmer)
- Several test infrastructure improvements. (Jelmer)
- Print full test path for easy inclusion in knownfail lists
- Make test case name part of test name to allow a test to have different results against different test cases
- Set PYTHONPATH during test runs
- Removed unused old EJS DCE/RPC bindings and testscripts (Jelmer)
- Make it easier to use various libraries externally without including all of Samba 4's build system (Jelmer)
- Updated Samba 4, OpenChange and Samba-Gtk Debian packages, now passes lintian. (Jelmer)
- Announced on the OpenChange website (http://www.openchange.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=7&Itemid=77)
- Added Python bindings for IRPC / Messaging interfaces (Jelmer)
- Rewrote smbstatus in Python
- Added mechanism for doing "raw" DCE/RPC requests from Python (Jelmer)
- Also initial work on a script that should attempt to figure out IDL by probing
- Exposed more DCE/RPC internals from Python bindings (Jelmer)
- Initial work on WSGI implementation in web_server/ (Jelmer)
- Added combined buildsystem for Franky
Plans for fortnight ending 17 May 2008
- Fix our CLDAP netlogon processing to match description in [MS-ADTS] 7.3.3 (andrew)
- Use this to fix and test group policy handling on Win2000 and WinXP clients
Achieved so far
- Partial security=server implementation, awaiting VFS proxy merge for testing (Andrew)
- Removed a large number of dead build farm hosts in response to automated mails (Andrew)
- Brought back old (D)COM code and made it compile again (Jelmer)
- Merged GNU make branch (Jelmer)
- Now allows using system Python with Samba Python modules
- Finished Samba 4 Debian package together with Christian (Jelmer)
- Updated Debian packages for OpenChange and Samba-Gtk (Jelmer)
- Most of the parsing work towards the CLDAP/NBT netlogon consolidation (Andrew)
Plans for fortnight ending 3 May 2008
- Build Farm improvements
- See if we can use SQLite to get a bit more done
- make build farm summary page use sqlite
- host list, by last reported time
- last reported time on host individual page
- Finish security=server re-implementation in Samba4
- Finish ncacn_http implementation
Achieved so far
- Very useful Visit to Sam's home company for 2 days
- Chat with principals to encourage them
- Jelmer prepared WAFS branch for merging
- Looks like further development will be upstream, which is great
- Jelmer did some initial work on tests for proxy code
- Andrew Started work on 'security=server' re-implementation for Samba4
- This will allow WAFS to hijack an unsigned connection as a man in the middle attack.
- Andrew fixed 'make test' to fail if PIDL tests fail
- Build Farm
- make build farm send e-mails to dead hosts (based on SQLite database)
Achievements for fortnight ending ending 19 April 2008
- Successfully gave 3 presentations
- Samba4 status report (Both)
- Samba4 and the LDAP backend / Little barber shop of horrors (Andrew)
- RPC Scripting using Python (Jelmer)
- Worked with Sam Liddicott
- He has implemented the start of a WAFS (latency reducing) proxy for Samba4
- Organised to visit his companies office
- Improved code coverage to give better 'headline' figure for presentation (Andrew)
- Working with Kai's winbind work to run metze's structure based tests
- Kai worked on blackbox tests
- Required fixing up parts of winbind (untested code is broken code, Andrew)
- Fixed bugs in Pidl reported by Volker (Jelmer)
- Added knownfailure support in test code (Jelmer)
- Split out policy library into separate git repository (Jelmer)
- Worked with Wilco on more registry tests (Jelmer)
- Fixed several Python usability bits (Jelmer)
- Fixed duplication in blackbox tests (Jelmer)
- Initial work on ncacn_http support (Jelmer)
- Discussions with Guenther, Michael about reconciling registry, libsmbdotconf and smbdotconf in Samba 3 and 4 (Jelmer)


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So I disembarked (hilariously described on the ferry's website as 'dismemberment')…
…onto the native soil of country number 169, South Korea – a place at pains to remind you that it's the only divided country in the world. Which it is. If you ignore Cyprus/Northern Cyprus. And Ireland/Northern Ireland. And Israel/Palestine. And North Sudan/South Sudan. And Somalia/Somaliland. And China/Taiwan. And Pakistan/Bangladesh. And Mongolia/Inner Mongolia. And Macedonia/Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. And Georgia/South Ossetia/Abkhazia. And Azerbaijan/Nagorno-Karabakh. And…
But pedantry aside, North and South Korea have been officially at war for over fifty years now (there was only a ceasefire, not a peace treaty) and now we have a crazy situation in which the southern half of the country is one of the richest and most progressive in the world, while the northern half is a basketcase and something akin to George Orwell's 1984, if 1984 had been even more weird and depressing than it already is.
In 1980, South Korea had an economic output on a par with Afghanistan. Now it's in the G20. Meanwhile, North Korea hasn't just gone backwards, it has regressed to the point where it is needs to have its nappy changed by China every two hours. With a short-arsed madman in charge (and his freakishly similar-looking son poised to take over as soon as he croaks), the future is not bright for the poor bastards living in one of the last strongholds of (a-hem) 'communism'. Or as I like to call it, 'autocratic fasci-commie-nutty-meanie-bollocks'.
But the big question (that I hoped to answer this week) was this: How The Hell Are You Going To Visit North Korea?
I get asked this a lot, just as I used to get asked about Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq (why does nobody ask me how I'm going to get to the Marshall Islands eh? Now for that question I have NO answer). My usual response would be 'er… by stepping over the border…?', but I guess I owe something of a more detailed explanation. In my research (yes, I did research this odyssey, believe it or not), I sussed out two ways of doing it.
Plan A:
There is a company called Young Pioneers Tour which runs trips from Beijing that enter North Korea on the train and spend three days shepherding you around Pyongyang before taking the train back to China. This trip would take five days in total and cost up to $1000.
Plan B:
I could visit the 'Peace Village' set up in the middle of the Demilitarised Zone (the DMZ) and enter one of the five white huts that literally straddle the border between the North and South Korea. Half the hut is in the sovereign territory of North Korea, so as long as I manage to walk to the far side of the hut, I can quite legitimately cross North Korea off my list. As I was going to be in Seoul anyway, this trip would take less than a day and cost $50.
For reasons that are glaringly obvious, I went for Plan B. Anyone who has a problem with this can meet me behind the bikesheds after school for a damn good kicking. Be the first person to visit every capital city without flying why dontcha? At the moment I'm a year over schedule and stupidly over budget: I've got bigger fish to fry.
So before this fish frying could begin in earnest, I had some housekeeping to do. Taiwan was giving me headaches as I had originally planned to take the ferry from Japan to Taiwan and then take a cargo ship or something back to China (probably Hong Kong). The bad news is that the Japan-Taiwan ferry stopped in 2007, yet another victim of low-priced flights. The good news is… well, I'll tell you next week, but it meant that I needed yet ANOTHER Chinese visa (why oh why didn't I just get a multiple entry one I'll never know).
So I accompanied Dane off the ferry and onto the Seoul metro (nice!) to his backpackers (Inside Backpackers, would recommend) and there I booked a trip to the DMZ for the next day. The nice lady on reception found a visa agent for me to use – the Chinese Embassy in South Korea no longer accepts visa applications by real people. I headed over to the office and gave in my passport. But there was a problem. In order to get the visa by the earliest date (which would be next Monday) I would have to give proof that I had already been granted a Chinese visa.
And my Chinese visa was in my other passport. The group visa I got in Nepal was on a separate piece of paper, not in my passport. This meant I would have to hand in both passports. As I wanted to visit Japan this weekend, this was something of an arse. Eventually I got the guy to agree to give me one passport back tomorrow so I could still do the Japanese thing. Yet another bit of unforeseeable Odyssey madness.
To add a little flavour to proceedings, next Tuesday is a big public holiday in South Korea, so if I didn't pick up my visa then, I would be waiting until the end of the month.
I headed back to the nice backpackers to pick up my stuff, but I would not be staying there: once a CouchSurfer, always a CouchSurfer. My host in Korea was a guy called John from Atlanta, Georgia who quite possibly qualifies as the coolest CouchSurf host of all time (up there with Gui in Mozambique), I mean, this guy WAS the Big Lebowski. He will be henceforth referred to as The Dude.
He had a tiny flat which managed to cram in at least five CouchSurfers Tardis-style, at any one time. When I arrived he was already hosting a couple who had been biking it from France all the way here to Seoul, which was mighty impressive. I mapped out a spot on the floor and cast out my worries.
The Dude wanted to go out on the raz, something I cannot for the life of me fathom why anyone would think was a bad idea, aside from the fact I had to be at the backpackers for 7.15am to do the DMZ tour. I've made tighter deadlines than that, and so The Dude and I hit the streets of Seoul looking for Seoul food and a place to eat.
We didn't have to look very far. The Dude treated me to some authentic Korean barbecue (where you cook the meat yourself on a circular hotplate in the middle of the table) and then we hit the city.
Seoul is flashy, it's lively, it's neon, it's welcoming, it's loud – and, best of all, it's pretty cheap (compared with other capital cities). We went to a string of different places, meeting up with The Dude's rather large set of ex-pat mates from all over the world and getting progressively more and more intoxicated until at 3am I decided it might be time to come home for at least a couple of hours kip.
DAY 625: You Don't Need To See His Identification
So after a literal 40 winks I was up again at 6am and heading across town on the excellent metro system (Liverpool, goddamn it, when I get back, you and me are having WORDS) to get to the backpackers. With nothing else to read, I was perusing the DMZ tour brochure when something rather ugly and red on the back page caught my eye: the words YOU MUST CARRY YOUR PASSPORT AT ALL TIMES.
I ran to the backpackers, but it was not going to happen. No chance. Forget it. Goddamn it – this is one of the reasons I have two passports, so I can go places while one is in an embassy – and both of them where with the bloody visa agent.
But I can go tomorrow, right?
Wrong. The tour was full tomorrow. There was no tour on Sunday or Monday and Tuesday was the beginning of this holiday – there wouldn't be another tour for the next ten days.
So after a fit of swearing that would make Roger Mellie blush, I stormed back to The Dude's flat with my tail between my legs. When the going gets tough, the tough get onto Google. They couldn't be the only tour company in town, they couldn't…
They weren't.
Thank the maker, I found another tour company and this one was nowhere near as unreasonable when it came to what time I had to get up in the morning: the tour left at 10.40am. I booked the trip, headed over to the visa agents, picked up my passport and Happy Days.
Friday night was a bit of a repeat of last night. It involved Seoul, a city I now love, some tasty goddamn food and something to do with beer. And possibly some dancing. We stayed out way past your bedtime, but I can do that because, contrary to what my teachers would have had you believe, I am big and I am clever.
What wasn't clever was the fact that, on the eve of what would be a great victory (and great television) my camera, Javier, threw another of it's periodic spazzes and this wasn't a simple fix or even a cunning workaround: the cartridge that holds the video tape had completely gone la-la. Even if I did make it to North Korea tomorrow, there would be no High-Definition evidence. I bet on the TV show they say 'Graham was told not to film, so he captured the experience on his phone' or something. That'd work.
DAY 626: Through Early Morning Fog I See
This morning was infinitely more pleasant. I had time for a shower and everything.
I was even early getting to the hotel from which the tour departed: an unusual occurrence for me as I generally like to show up 30 seconds before anything departs, much in the manner of Sherlock Holmes. Just to put the willies up me, somebody had written something on my website along the lines of "they sometimes don't let you walk to the far end of the peace hut". That weighed heavy on my mind, but hey-ho, whatcha gonna do? If all else failed, there was always Plan A.
My bus buddy on the trip was a British guy called Mark Who worked in the video games industry. At LAST! Somebody with an interesting job! And if you don't think working in the video games industry is interesting, then you are a fool and a bigot, you smell of turnips and your dog thinks you're an idiot. The video games industry is bigger than Hollywood and, unlike Britain's (ha!) television industry and our (oh dear god no!) film 'industry', our video game makers are some of the best (and most successful) in the world. Did I mention that the Grand Theft Auto series is Scottish? I probably should have. It's made more money than the Lord of the Rings films, although you won't hear anyone from the Scottish Tourist Board harping on about it, sadly enough.
Anyway, me and Mark got on like the proverbial house on fire as we chatted about Zero Punctuation and the upcoming Goldeneye remake. We were taken to places called things like The Bridge of No Return and then deep into the DMZ itself, a place where you can be refused entry for looking too scruffy or even – eek! – having long hair.
Luckily for me, the guy with the shotgun from Easy Rider wasn't on duty today.
So before long we were in the 'Peace Village' where negotiations take place between representatives of the two Koreas. A line runs down the middle of the village, much in the manner of Felix Unger's line in The Odd Couple. This is the line that may not be crossed: to do so would be an act of War. However, there are five small huts that straddle this line. During meetings between the north and south, the representatives sit on their respective side of a table which is positioned right in the middle of the room: the line of demarcation runs down the middle of it. I guess they have to be careful not to stretch out their feet: North Korea is, after all, a nuclear power (a fact that is truly terrifying).
We entered the middle hut and before anyone could tell me not to, I ran around the table and to the far side: Kim Jong-Il be damned, I was in North Korea!! Here's a secret video I shot whilst in the Peace Hut:
A massive ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY countries now officially visited and just THIRTY to go (fifteen of which should be a cakewalk), I felt like cracking open the champagne, but the guards in this area looked a little stern for some reason, so I thought I'd best leave it until later. All too easy…
On the way back from the village I bought my 'I went to North Korea and all I got was this lousy T-shirt' T-shirt while Mark got himself some North Korean money. You could buy DMZ teddy bears and everything: I wonder if they have them on the North side?
When I got back to The Dude's, my fellow CouchSurfers had been replaced by a couple of Turkish girls called Asli and Selma and a guy from Germany called Paul. Baffled at the prospect of why anyone would willingly stay in on a Saturday night, we headed out, drawn like moths to a flame to the flashy neon lights and scrummy scran that the streets had to offer.
Along the way we met drifters, strangers, vagabonds, rapscallions, ne'er-do-wells, scallywags, ruffians, thieves, princesses, courtesans, belly-dancers, disco-dancers, crusties, greebos, sex-kittens, pie-eyed galoots, slack-jawed gawkers and flannel-footed mugwumps.
Needless to say, we had a blast. I LOVE COUCHSURFING!!!
Day 627: The South of The South
Shaking a hangover off is an undisputed talent of mine, but making up for lost hours of sleep is another matter entire. This being the case I refrained from picking myself up off the floor (as was the plan) for a very, very long time. But now I needed to head to country number 171 – Japan – post haste. Now I had one of my passports I needed to get there and back before end of play tomorrow or else I would be more stuffed than a stuffed toy that's just eaten a seven-course meal which consisted entirely of stuffing.
The plan was to head down to Busan the south of South Korea, get the last ferry over to the Japanese city of Fukuoka (please don't ask me how that is pronounced, I'm told it's Fu-Coke-Ah, but the way I say it would have me banished from the dinner table), spend the night and then return in the morning. However, by the time I got to the train station something happened that I hadn't considered – the trains were sold out for the next few hours. Ah. As it only took a few hours to get to Busan (excellent, excellent trains BTW Korea – give yourself a pat on the back), I hadn't really considered that possibility. As it was, and given the best laid plans of mice and men, I didn't get to Busan until 9pm – too late for the ferry (or so I thought… I think they actually run until eleven).
So I checked into the nearest backpackers (the Indy hostel – seemed appropriate somehow) and resolved to get up at the crack of dawn the next morning. This resolve was slightly compromised by the other resolution I had set myself – find a KFC. After 4 days of nothing but Korean food, I was hankering for something that wasn't weird or slimy or alive. I walked until well past midnight, but the flashy neon-lit streets of Busan hummed only one tune: my way or the highway. I made do with a burger from a street stall.
Day 628: Nonsense On Stilts
Would you believe that I not only managed to haul myself out of bed at 6am, but that I also managed to get a ticket for the first crazy ferry over to Japan – and man, was it a crazy ferry. Like nothing I've EVER seen before, the Beetle is a boat that does away with the age-old problem of the hull having to part all that water by simply (and seemingly impossibly) driving through the water ON STILTS.
No, really.
Whoever invented this abomination of aquadynamics should be lauded and feared in equal measure. I take my hat off to you sir.
The journey was smoother than a silk cigar and before I really knew what was going on I was in Country 171, or Japan as people who aren't on The Odyssey like to call it.
Because I needed to get back for my passport, Fukuoka only got a cursory glance, I'm afraid. But there wasn't much to see. My friend Stringer tells me this is a big Yakuza city – the mayor was recently assassinated – but from where I was standing, it looked like a big Ya-loser city: all concrete and overpasses and dull. I had an hour before the return journey, so I thought I'd give the place the benefit of the doubt and go for a walk – I also needed to find an ATM – my departure tax could only be paid in yen.
I didn't find much. Just some streets and some buildings and a 7-Eleven. Maybe the port area is just poo and the rest of the town is 'happening', as the kids say. Had I more time and more money, I would have loved to head up to Tokyo on the bullet train and hang out with Stringer, but not this trip, I'm afraid. I took my Yen and headed back to the ferry terminal.
Biff bash bosh I was back in Busan (man that Beetle is FAST) and within an hour I was hurtling north on a train. I guess because I've never been to Japan before, and it's one of the few countries that I hadn't been to before The Odyssey began that I really really wanted to see, I felt like I owed Japan an explanation.
The yachting season around the Pacific ends in December. If I don't get to The Marshall Islands before then, there is little chance of me getting there before NEXT MAY. Sorry Japan, I really, really need to get them there skates on. But don't worry: I'll be back.
I arrived in Seoul just before 6pm and I ran like the wind to the passport agency, praying to Bacchus that it was still open. I knocked on the door. No answer. I knocked again and opened the door… thank the god of wine… it was still open. But my passport wasn't there. It had been picked up by the German guy and the Turkish girls that were CouchSurfing at The Dudes.
You fookin' LEGENDS!
I headed back to The Dudes he took me out on his motorbike (did I mention he was a DUDE?) razzing it about town like we weren't made of squishy human bodyparts. Weeeeeee!
Day 629: Octopussy Galore
With my passport in hand and North Korea and Japan in the bag, there was nothing keeping me in Korea save the craic. As I mentioned a couple of days ago, today was the start of a big festival here in Korea, so I was worried that I might not get a space on tonight's ferry back to Qingdao in China.
Luckily for me, Asli and Selma, the Turkish girls, had got the very same ferry as me a couple of days ago and had befriended the captain and the first mate (very resourceful – I should have brought them with me). Selma gave the first mate a call on The Dude's phone and he said he'd meet me at the terminal at 4pm and sort me out with a ticket.
What a guy!
So we headed out for lunch, and since this was going to be my last Korean meal, The Dude wanted it to be special: so, inspired by Oldboy, we headed out to eat some traditional Korean LIVE OCTOPUS. Stupidly, I took all my bags with me, which was a BAD CALL as no sooner had we left the flat but the heavens opened and it rained down so much it made the Niagara Falls look like a light shower. Everything (especially my shoes) got SOAKED. Rats!
But eventually we made it to the fish market, bought the –ahem- merchandise and headed over to a nearby restaurant (accessed by wading through a torrent of hooky overflowing drain water) and sat down for the coolest meal I've ever partaken in, if only because I felt like I was Captain Kirk having to eat the crazy alien food on some crazy alien planet and – let's face it – octopuses look like crazy alien beings.
The tentacles squirmed around in my plate. You have to dip them in oil so the suckers don't fix themselves to your oesophagus on the way down. Then chew it well (you don't want it attaching itself to your stomach lining) and it's down the hatch. GULP!
As somebody once said; you should try everything in life at least once, with the exception of incest and country dancing.
I got to the ferry terminal in Incheon bang on time (thanks to The Dude paying my fare – we were all out of working cash machines) and to my surprise there were still tickets available for the ferry so I didn't have to bother the first mate. I got stamped out and clambered aboard: back to China, for the third time.
So then, South Korea: you're a great little place ain't yah? Not as autocratic as China and not as expensive as Japan. Gastronomically and culturally a nice mix of the two. Could do with a few more cash machines that take foreign cards, but other than that, you're doing a great job, carry on.


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