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This essay provides a framework for understanding the ideological roots of the current global crisis that I believe is more useful than the now tired Left Right political spectrum. I use this framework to provide a commentary on current political machinations around Climate Change and Peak Oil. Building from the same energetic literacy that informs Permaculture and Future Scenarios, it challenges much of the strategic logic behind current mainstream climate change activism. Like the Future Scenarios work, this essay is intended to help environmental and social activists better avoid the obstacles to effective action in a chaotic age.
David Holmgren is best known as the co-originator of the permaculture concept. He lives with his partner Su Dennett at Melliodora, a permaculture demonstration site in Hepburn, Central Victoria.
[This posting at EB consists of selections from the original essay. The PDF of the complete essay can be downloaded from David Holmgren's website in the "Writings" section.]
The unfolding climate/energy/economic crisis is heating up a very old rift in global industrial politics. This rift derives from two core beliefs on what constitutes the source of wealth. Does wealth come from human creativity and innovation or is it found in the natural world? Is human capacity the source or a by-product of real power?
I believe two alternative (and mostly complementary) paradigms that are implied by these questions, have shaped the history of the modern world perhaps more so than the Left-Right political ideologies. I characterise these increasingly conflicted paradigms by the following shorthand: faith in wealth and power from "human brilliance" (meaning "faith in human brilliance to overcome physical limitations.") verses faith that wealth and power emerge from control of "holes in the ground", ie. physical resources.1
In a world of energy descent and climate change, both these beliefs are failing and increasingly we see the believers of both paradigms at war in a futile battle for control of the world. and
Understanding the nature of this ideological battle is as critical for environmental and social activists as is the understanding of the science behind Climate Change and Peak Oil. Because this ideological divide and battle has been little recognised by historians and social commentators, it is easy to come to the conclusion that one of these paradigms is benign while the other is lethal, without really understanding the nature and implications of these respective ideologies.
Climate activists in particular tend to focus on the fossil energy industries as the "enemies" (both for generating greenhouse gases and funding climate change denial), but naturally see any parties accepting the new climate change agenda as allies. I believe that many of the global players promoting the climate agenda are as dangerous as those denying that agenda. How can this be so?
Ecological perspectives on human brilliance
I should first acknowledge my perspective in this rift. I believe that the current peak in global oil production represents an effective (net) energy peak for humanity and that we are entering an era of ongoing and effectively permanent "energy descent." The scale of this change is without precedent in human history. A transition to a world of less energy requires widespread "energetic literacy" so that we can learn how to work with less and avoid some costly mistakes when we can least afford them. The era of extraordinary energy growth and abundance has left the populace and the politicians of the industrial world without an intuitive understanding of energy, since, by its very excess we have not needed to appreciate its nuances.
… Consequently this essay more strongly critiques the unrestrained faith in human creativity and innovation to overcome physical limitations, than the equally doomed faith in digging wealth out of the earth, since the latter, if becoming outdated, at least acknowledges the significance of energy resources.
Faith in Human Brilliance
Faith in human brilliance to overcome physical limitations is widespread and pervasive in society.
Since the European Enlightenment, the marvel of increasing cultural and technological complexity has created a cultural hubris about human achievements that has displaced the humility of older spiritual traditions about the power and mystery of nature.
For example many social justice and environmental advocates, as well as bureaucrats and diplomats believe the construction of regulations and rules based on negotiation and compromise are the fundamental keys to collective wealth and its wise control. Technologists, educators, and journalists also tend towards the belief that thinking, discussion and debate are the way to solve problems. Economists and business entrepreneurs tend to share this faith in human brilliance and have been much more powerful participants in focusing the tools of science to create real wealth though production and market transactions. While there is obvious merit and some truth in these perspectives, they are incomplete insofar as they ignore the energy base which makes these perspectives possible.
… Our money and markets are the most complex products of this deeply ingrained faith in human brilliance. And just as their foundational beliefs are incomplete, so is their expression extremely dangerous. …
Wealth from Nature
While faith in human brilliance might be to the dominant paridigm, a significant and number of influential people in modern society hold the opposite belief: that wealth comes from nature (in which I include the belief that wealth comes from "holes in the ground"). Because so few people in modern urbanised societies have intimate experience of the ways in which we depend on renewable and non-renewable natural resources, the intuitive basis for these beliefs has been in decline for hundreds of years.
Farmers, forest workers and fishermen along with more self-reliant rural dwellers are natural adherents to this view of the world. Miners and engineers dependent on and responsible for the exploitation of nature's non-renewable wealth also tend to hold this view for fairly obvious reasons. The military services are another sector of society where this world view remains common. Those who recognise this potent power from nature often conclude that the power of the gun is ultimately what guarantees control, especially of the "holes in the ground" that yield the fantastically concentrated non-renewable energy and resources. Unlike capitalists and socialists, many of those with faith in power from the ground, are less concerned whether the total system is growing, stagnant or declining, but more focused on how to remain on the top of the heap, whatever its size.
… As I have pointed out, faith in human brilliance can focus on individual and entrepreneurial capacity (Right) or alternatively, collective and co-operative capacity (Left). Similarly faith in power from nature can lead to the conclusion about "survival of the fittest" (Right) or co-operative sharing of limited resources (Left). …
History of beliefs in energy and money
To understand how conflict between money and energy in modern society is shaping the climate/energy/economic crisis, we need to explore its historical origins. I believe this exploration using the lens of ecology is part of a larger process by which we begin to tell a new story of human transformation relevant to the energy descent future after fossil fuels.
The ancestry of the first force – the belief that wealth comes from "holes in the ground", i.e. physical resources we mine from the earth – can be seen in the feudal lords who presided over tracts of fertile farmland and productive forests that were the primary sources of material wealth before fossil fuels. These feudal elites had an intimate knowledge of the estates that were the source of their wealth and power and so maintained a sort of "energetic literacy" even if they regarded the productivity of the land as primarily a gift from god. The successes of European medieval societies based on the limited but renewable resources of the land eventually came up against ecological limits that were expressed through loss of forests, wars between sovereign nations, and disease (the Black Death). …
Wealth from Human Ingenuity
The ancestry of the second force, the belief that "human brilliance" is the source of wealth, can be traced back to the urban intellectuals and merchants of the European Enlightenment who believed that human ingenuity and organisation were the critical forces in wealth creation and control. While wealth from colonised lands provided the material wealth for European expansion, cultural factors associated with religion (the Protestant reformation) and capitalism (sovereign corporations and modern banking) were critical in facilitating the process. Central to this thesis were the ideas of Adam Smith and others who eulogised the "invisible hand" of the market and castigated the medieval guild economies that Smith saw as impeding progress. The guilds regulated their respective trades or professions to maintain traditions and high standards of craft while controlling competition and discouraging radical innovation. The fact that the guild economies were adapted to the steady-state economy of the middle ages has escaped the notice of most of the academic cheerleaders for market-based economies of continuous growth.
Marx is of course the great ideological counterpoint to Smith's adoration of the role of capital in creating wealth. Marx saw that human labour and cooperative capacity were the undervalued sources of wealth that capitalists exploited to convert natural resources to real wealth. I see Marxism and societies designed on Marxist principles – both mild and radical variants – as simply different expressions of this same tendency to believe that human labour, creativity and organization are the sources of wealth.
This faith in "human brilliance" in both its capitalist and socialist forms must be acknowledged as drivers of the growth in European economic power and organisational complexity that overpowered the older land-based feudal power.
…The IT revolution was the key factor in the final push towards a full spectrum globalised economy dominated by corporations, but it was the ballooning virtual economies of finance and investment services that benefited most from the IT revolution. While much was made of the individual and social network empowerment potential that eventually emerged after the turn of the millennium, vastly more IT capacity is taken up by porn than is used by wikipedia, and the breakdown of communities of place and isolation of individuals most likely exceeds the gains from the extraordinary but fragile network communities made possible by the internet. All of these processes expanded the power of money at the expense of awareness of the role of energy in feeding the machine of economic growth.
… It is clear enough that the dominance of the West over OPEC, Russia and the Central Asian republics reinforced the faith in the power of markets over crude resources from holes in the ground. In the 1990s analysis suggesting resource rich countries were more likely to have dysfunctional economies, corrupt governments and conflict than resource poor countries, was perversely interpreted as showing how marginal these resources were to the human progress. The alternative explanation, that this pattern reflected the hegemonic control of an oppressive geopolitical order by the resource consuming countries, was less widely acknowledged. Both interpretations reinforced faith in the power of human creativity and money over resource wealth.
This is part of a collective mythology of modernism, that wit and cunning (of the city trader) always outsmarts honest hard work (of the farmer).
Peak Oil and Resource Nationalism
The turn of the millennium saw new factors at work. Rising oil prices, increased gas production and dependence of European countries on Russian gas has provided a strong base for resurgent Russian economic and political power. Under Putin plundering of Russian resources by the oligarchs to feed the West was replaced by a resurgent Russian nationalism that shocked western corporations and media.
In the US, the Bush administration, controlled by oil men and military strategists, sidelined the diplomats and the bankers that held sway during the Clinton years with a renewed focus on control of the oil resources of the Middle East and the gas resources of Central Asia.
9/11 provided the green light to shock western democracies from their slothful assumption about resource security through total war. Judging by their actions, and various statements, it seems likely that many key advisors and actors in the Bush administration were better informed about the parlous prospects for global oil and gas production in the coming decades than the most gloomy and best informed of Peak Oil researchers and communicators to whom I was paying attention in the late 1990's.
But to portray the Bush administration as just representing the forces of energetic realism would be false, because domestically, the "Mandarins" of Treasury and the Federal Reserve were freed to blow the most spectacular bubble economy in history. These masters of money created castles in the air of unprecedented proportions based on real estate speculation and consumption debt. The partial collapse of this bubble economy can be seen as the most important factor in the demise of Bush administration, rather than the loss of civil rights, or abuse of international law in pursuit of its fantastic "war on terror". The timing of the collapse of the bubble economy acted to distract the media and the public from the likely concurrent peak of global oil production, and the contribution of oil (and other resource) price spikes to the global recession. …
Permaculture: harmonising energetic realism & design creativity
While my analysis of the more basic forces at work behind the current political machinations may be interesting, my purpose is not simply armchair analysis. The love of money and greed for energy are both monstrous cancers of our culture. We need to better understand both so we can predict their moves, and plan our own actions for resilient transition into a new culture not beholden to fossil energy or money. The idea that we have to choose between allying ourselves with either of the dangerous wounded monsters is a false choice.
My aim is to empower environmental activists, social entrepreneurs and humble householders to be most effective in three simultaneous domains of action.
- Help their families survive and thrive through turbulent times
- Contribute to a better society than would otherwise have been the case
- Contribute to the preservation and development of skills that will be useful to future generations grappling with the realities of energy descent.
The idea that we have to choose between allying ourselves with either of the dangerous wounded monsters in their life and death struggle for control of the declining era of fossil fuelled industrial culture, is a false choice. We should heighten our awareness of the nature of both of these monstrous cancers of our culture, so we can better predict their moves, and plan our own actions for resilient transition into a new culture not beholden to oil or money.
I see permaculture, especially when it is understood through its ethics and design principles, as providing a framework for creating that culture, based on the regenerated cycles of nature. Anyone who is familiar with permaculture ethics, design principles and strategies will understand that my equal rejection of the respective power from fossil energyoil and money does not indicate that I see no useful core of truth in these primal tendencies driving our waning global industrial culture.
In using the term "energetic realism" to describe one of these forces, I am acknowledging see the living and non-living elements of Gaia as the foundation for any human wealth. Through my teaching of permaculture, I have always emphasised that fossil fuels are not bad, but a gift from nature, that we have wasted. Permaculture earthworks designs make use of the raw power of fossil fuelled machines to shape the land in ways that allow us , and future generation,to enhance the biological productivity of landscapes. We have the unique opportunity to use that fossil fuel to create those structures that future generations will be able to maintain (by hand if necessary).
In using the term "human brilliance" to describe the creativity that includes concepts as complex as money, I recognise acknowledge human creativity and flexibility to adapt to changing circumstance is the best asset we have. While we do not have the power to rewrite the laws of thermodynamics that limit and shape human realities, we do have a remarkable capacity to reshape our individual and collective conception of reality in ways that facilitate rather than hinder cultural evolution.from first principles to reflect energetic realities and ethical valuescan be redesigned money that While we do not have the power to rewrite the laws of thermodynamics that limit and shape human realities, we do have a remarkable capacity to reshape our individual and collective conception of reality in ways that facilitate rather than hinder cultural evolution. Money is simply a collective mental construct that we can redesign from first principles to reflect energetic realities and ethical valuesand change.
The old saying that it is the love of money rather than money itself which is the source of evil in the world is worth repeating. that ye ou[You lost me here, ]This saying can be further interpreted to mean money that is arbitrarily created, without being tied to real wealth from nature, and that every day earns interest, that must be repaid by growth in our extraction of real wealth from nature, has embedded the love of money as central to our culture.
Permaculture strategies for creating household and community economies using gift, barter and simple non-interest bearing local currencies, are examples of how we can design new forms of money to allow appropriate exchange of goods and services in resilient and relocalised economies that will grow at the margins abandoned by the dinosaurs of the declining global industrial culture.
Let's not waste our effort or emotions on hoping that either of the dinosaurs will save us; rather, let us get on with our tasks while we keep an eagle eye open for any threats from both fossil energyoil and money.
About David Holmgren
Holmgren co-wrote the first permaculture text Permaculture One in 1976 with Bill Mollison (published in 1978). With his 2002 book Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability David re-emerged from the relative shadows as the leading intellectual force of the permaculture movement. Rob Hopkins, founder of the popular Transition Towns initiatives in the UK, described Principles and Pathways as "the most important book of the last 15 years." Holmgren's most recent book is Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change

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|2011-04-12, 19:45
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I really hate how people always exaggerate that. That scene where Hayate thinks anyone could beat her was clearly her overblowing it, given the comedic tone of that chapter.
Besides, why would they give a rival to Hayate that she couldn't actually fight properly?
|2011-04-12, 20:17
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Not really. Hayate's a powerful mage with powerful spells, but said spells require long casting times and she's left defenseless while preparing. In a one on one fight anyone could fly right up to her and get a shot in. Even if she defended if you keep the pressure on her she'd never get a spell off. That's why she has 4 guardian knights and 2 unison devices to cover her.
Anyways, what sticks out to me is how bad the character models are in those images. Particularly the faces.
|2011-04-13, 08:59
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A bit like asking the Incredible Hulk to do embroidery.
|2011-04-13, 14:16
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Talent. Or lack of it in Hayate's case. Spell A is not spell B, and just as someone can utterly suck at drawing but be a magnificent musician, someone can make very big bangs but suck at casting defensive spells.
Yeah, it's a crappy excuse, but that's what we got.
|2011-04-13, 15:26
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Does she actually have crap for defense, though? In the latest Force, Curren attacked her from by surprise, so Hayate had no chance to cast any shielding spells--and unlike Nanoha, Fate, etc., she does not have an Intelligent Device, so she wouldn't get the benefit of "automatic" defenses cast by the Device.
|2011-04-13, 18:35
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I guess it could be something people inferred from other information, even if it didn't outright state that. Saying Caro could beat you without summoning certainly does imply that, even if she would probably need Fried to properly attack her.
Hell, I read a fanfic that said an ordinary rifle could get past her defenses, so it's certainly a fairly wide belief.
|2011-04-13, 18:38
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A rifle shot getting past is something I find unlikely. Personally, I feel that Hayate stating that Caro could defeat her doesn't necessarily mean that her defensive capabilities are weak (though they probably are), but that she's unable to keep up in an actual fight, and someone like Caro could just whittle her down without much effort, defense or no.
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Hayate said that Caro would be the only one she could take in a fight, but then she remembered that Caro is being trained by Nanoha, so Hayate would be screwed after all.
Anyways, that's just Hayate's role. She's not meant to be charging the front lines by herself. She's meant to hang back, give orders, and provide heavy fire support.
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Which I still think she was exaggerating a little. Caro can't even fly.
And I'd be fine with that if they actually gave her good scenes revolving around those attributes. They had that subplot thing with Regius, but that kind of petered out, and the times she's used a big spell on enemies, they just got away anyway. But we should probably take this to one of the manga threads at this point.
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Talking about that, it would be nice to have legitimate evidence of the Yagami-ke famed status as an amazing Fighting Team, everyone in ViVid talks about how strong they are as a team but that's never showed onscreen. Hayate wil get her chance to shine as a capable field commander/heavy fire support once she manage to pull off the entire Wolkenritter in a battle which is supposedly the way the are most effective in combat.
For the moment their incredible teamwork performance is only an informed ability.
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Contaminated drinking wells. Deep sea oil spills. Homeland security threats. These are a few examples of how Dr. Fabien Josse, professor of electrical and computer engineering and the 2013 recipient of the Lawrence G. Haggerty Faculty Award for Research Excellence, is using his skills to contribute to finding answers to some of the world's most pressing problems.
With support from Marquette's Microsensor Research Lab team, Josse is investigating and developing novel sensors and sensor systems that can be used in liquid applications. Josse and his team have developed microacoustic wave-based sensors and microcantilevers to detect fuel and oil contamination, as well as contaminates such as organophosphate pesticides, which are used in agricultural production and can leak into groundwater, causing harm when ingested or absorbed through the skin.
In addition to designing new sensors to detect these harmful chemicals in real time, he and his colleagues are working to develop models that predict and optimize sensor responses. Current monitoring and testing techniques for liquids are time-consuming, expensive and often require field collection, transportation to a lab and then analysis. Josse says the goal of his research is "to build sensors to accelerate remediation by rapidly identifying and quantifying harmful contaminants and pollutants."
During his 30 years on campus, Josse has secured more than $5.6 million in funding and is widely recognized for his contributions to the field of liquid-based sensors. Less than a year after completing his doctorate and beginning his career at Marquette, Josse applied for his first National Science Foundation grant. With feedback and guidance from his mentor and doctoral adviser at the University of Maine, Dr. John Vetelino, Josse was awarded the prestigious Research Initiation Grant, now known as a Career Grant. He was the first to receive such a grant in the College of Engineering and has since been awarded six additional grants from the NSF.
"The example and support provided by my mentor are qualities I've tried to emulate throughout my career," says Josse, who has helped 17 Ph.D. students reach graduation, and continues to review and provide feedback on their current grant proposals. He is also a firm believer in the teacher-scholar model, typically taking on four courses each academic year while still managing to produce more than 165 publications during his Marquette tenure. He has presented his research to cutting-edge corporations and government entities, including Chevron, Rockwell Automation, the Army and Naval Research Labs, the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Smart Sensors and the National Institutes of Health.
Josse is respected for his ability to collaborate not only on campus, but throughout the country and world. "Fabien is actively contributing to solving important global issues, such as monitoring the health of drinking water," says Dr. Robert H. Bishop, Opus Dean of the College of Engineering. "He has built impressive international collaborations while also reaching across Marquette's campus to further not only his research, but the research of others as well."


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The risk of transmitting HIV among serodiscordant couples may be higher than the zero transmissions seen in the PARTNER study, even when the positive partner is on treatment and condoms are being used consistently, according to a study published in the journal AIDS.
The study estimated the sexual risk of HIV transmission over one- and 10-year periods among MSM (men who have sex with men) and heterosexual serodiscordant couples, using a mathematical model based on current transmission and reduction rates. It is important to note that the model does not predict real-world risk; rather, it points out how risk accumulates over time, using conservative estimates on how much risk is reduced when using different prevention methods.
The following reductions in transmission risk were assumed: 80% from consistent condom use; 54% from circumcision in the negative male partner in a heterosexual couple; 73% from circumcision in the negative partner in an MSM couple; 71% from PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) in heterosexual couples; 44% from PrEP in MSM couples; and 96% from ART (antiretroviral therapy) use by the HIV-positive partner.
For all couples:
For MSM couples:
For heterosexual couples (female positive partner):
For heterosexual couples (male positive partner):
The researchers intended to use this model to comprehensively present short- and long-term risks, using current transmission rates and risk ratios, ultimately highlighting three main points:
While these results may be alarming, the study had many limitations. The researchers did not take into account whether the positive patients on treatment had undetectable viral loads, a key part of reducing transmission risk. There also may have been some social desirability bias when reporting the use of condoms, which could underestimate condom efficacy. The model also assumes that couples are monogamous and had sex six times a month, but as the authors note, "the cumulative probability of HIV transmission changes most when the frequency of sex acts is varied." Lastly, the use of PrEP was not limited to those who had detectable levels in their blood, even though effective PrEP requires adherence.
Moreover, as we've seen in the PARTNER study, there were zero transmissions when the positive partner was on treatment and had an undetectable viral load.
"This model was not designed to predict actual transmission risk for real-world serodiscordant couples over the course of a multiyear relationship. Rather, our intent is to emphasize how risk accumulates over time under various strategies and show the relative differences between strategies," the authors concluded.
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text: Patrick Geoffray wrote: > While we are at it, here is my wish list for the next MPI specs: > > a) only non-blocking calls. If there are no blocking calls, nobody will > use them. While this makes sense technically, nobody will probably offer an MPI implementation without MPI_Send for the next 20 years for compatibility reasons, so we can just forget about it. > b) non-blocking calls for collectives too, there is no excuse. Yes, even > an asynchronous barrier. No problem here - barrier_enter() and barrier_leaver() are not new. > c) ban of the ANY_SENDER wildcard: a world of optimization goes away > with this convenience. I think this could best be achieved with an assertion like those for one-sided and I/O. There are situations where ANY_SENDER is needed, or at least avoids large programming overheads. > d) throw away the user defined datatypes, or at least restrict it to > regular strides. This is nonsense: user-defined datatypes do not cause any overhead if you don't use them, there are ways to implemenent them very efficiently, and you can't do without in many situations (like MPI-IO). > e) get rid of one-sided communications: if someone is serious about it, > it uses something like ARMCI or UPC or even low level vendor interfaces. Instead, I propose to rework the MPI one-sided communications for a more simple and flexible semantic. The current definition does not match todays network capabilities, but was designed to allow a simple implemenentation for slow/non-RDMA networks. > Rob, you are politically connected, could you make it happen, please ? > :-) One person alone can't do this. The best place to discuss such things is the MPI users group meeting (EuroPVM/MPI, this year in Capri/Italy). Also, adding mpi.h to the standard to define an ABI is a good thing. Joachim -- Joachim Worringen - NEC C&C research lab St.Augustin fon +49-2241-9252.20 - fax .99 - http://www.ccrl-nece.de


text: On 04/08/2008 10:28 PM, Morgan Tørvolt wrote: >> Knoppix didn't want to start (couldn't read the CD, not sure why, maybe >> too old), but I found a Ubuntu 7.04 live/install CD. Started with that, >> no difference. I did find something else: I've got three different >> lenghts CI cables. One approx. 60cm, a few others approx. 40cm and some >> approx. 4cm. With 60cm, both the offical Mediaguard CAM and Xcam won't >> initialize. With 40cm, the Xcam still won't and the Mediaguard will init >> about 50% of the time. With 4cm, both Xcam and Mediaguard will always >> init. But it still doesn't work properly, even with the 4cm cable I >> couldn't get a picture with the Mediaguard, and I had a picture for >> about half a minute with the Xcam after which Kaffeine would freeze. > > Not surprising. Many of the CAMs are really picky about timing and signalling. > The Conax 4.00 cam works every time for me. What I suggest is that you > try the patch I have linked to from > http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TechnoTrend_TT-budget_S-1500#CAM_tests > Which is this: > http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2007-July/019116.html > > There is some manual labour to get this patch working, but once done, > all the CAMs I have initializes perfectly. I have no idea if the > cable-length affects the process less after the patching, but it sure > helps on initializing the CAMs I have. > >> I'm not sure if it's a driver problem, all I know is that this started >> right after installing a new v4l-dvb a few weeks ago. The problem seems >> to have no cause: >> >> Not the DVB-card, as the S2-3200 had the same problem. >> Not the CI cable, tried many different cables and I don't believe they >> are all broken the same way. >> Not the CI-daughterboard, I even bought new ones with no result. >> Not the current v4l-dvb loaded, because a Ubuntu 7.04 live CD (kernel >> 2.6.20 iirc) has the same result now. >> Not the computer, because the setup didn't work in another computer either. >> Not the CAM, all CAMs work fine in a Vantage standalone. >> >> And note I have used this setup, S-1500+CI+long cable+Xcam for months >> without any problems. > > You said you changed your powersupply. To a more powerful one? Some > PSUs does give away troublesome noise, especially when heavily loaded. > Also, some powerful PSUs have much of the power on wrong voltages, or > spread across different cables, so that you might actually be pushing > the PSU to it's limits on one circuit, while swapping some power > cables would solve the whole issue. > > BTW, the CI daughterboard is very simple, like in _very_ simple. It is > very unlikely that this will break. If something is broken with CI, it > would probably be the cable or the tuner-card. > > -Morgan- > Yeah, more power! Another computer (AMD Geode NX1750 and a laptop harddrive, the 480W Antec is very very bored) gives the same result. My regular computer was turned off when I tested that. The patch made no difference whatsoever. The Xcam is actually not picky at all, it is well known for working in pretty much any receiver - and it does. For example, KNC1 CI's are quite picky but the Xcam has no problems with that. Even the Matrix Reborn won't run in a KNC1, yet the Xcam does. I installed the card on Windows to test a bit. I also noted the CI works better on Linux when I fold the CI cable in tinfoil. Here's an overview of some tests: *Windows, unshielded 40cm cable: Xcam sometimes takes a while to init, but works on all tested channels after that (including RTL4 and RTL5). Matrix Reborn: similar result. *Linux, v4l-dvb from hg april 12, 40cm cable in tinfoil: Xcam does init and works. But RTL4, RTL5 (http://nl.kingofsat.net/pack-canaldigitaal.php) give only sound. The videoPID is correct and I did a rescan. Audio is gone if I remove the CAM, so it is encrypted. Matrix similar result, no picture on RTL4 and RTL5 here either, but apart from that it seems to work. *Linux, v4l-dvb from hg april 12, unshielded 40cm cable: Xcam does not init anymore. Not at all. Just "Invalid PC card inserted :(". Matrix Reborn does init, but init fails sometimes as well. When it does init, I can watch most channels.. But not RTL4 or RTL5 (only sound). SCM Conax 4.00e: init sometimes, but can't even get into the menu. Don't have a Conax subscription card right now. RTL4 and RTL5 do work on Windows or a standalone receiver with CI. I also tried to disable all the power in the house and did a test with UPS, but the Xcam still would not init with the unshielded cable. So no electrical devices in the house went bad. The UPS or display are not the source either, tried unplugging them. And a S-1500, T-1500 and S2-3200 are all doing the same thing. I've also got a Aston 1.05 and official Mediaguard CAM to test if required. Pim


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After an exciting first night, it was time for the Fantastic Four to come back and pick more strong voices for their teams. Going into the night, Christina and CeeLo both had two singers, Blake only had one and Adam had landed the most talent, with three.
Starting off the competition was 16-year-old Jersey girl Jacquie Lee. After singing in children's hospitals, it was time for her to take her gift to a bigger stage. In classic "The Voice" fashion, Jacquie performed the Amy Winehouse power ballad "Back to Black." Coaches Christina and Blake turned around to see who had the voice to match the power of the song. All eyes were on Jacquie (and her boots) as she decided to go with coach Christina and move on to the next rounds.
We really look forward to seeing those Aldo boots on CeeLo later in the season.
Following in the footsteps of young Jacquie to team Christina was 20-year-old Destinee Quinn. Tired of playing biker bars, the Arizona native performed "Cowboy Take Me Away," a performance that grabbed the attention of coach CeeLo as well. Although the country singer made her way to Team Christina, coach Blake already has plans to steal her in the battle rounds.
In a night full of surprises, no one was more shocked than the judges when they learned that one contestant wasn't playing his … bowtie? Barry Black took the stage to perform "What You Won't Do For Love," starting off his performance with a mouth horn that grabbed the attention of both Adam and Blake.
After showing coaches that he indeed wasn't playing his bowtie, it was time for the former hotel manager to make his parents proud and pick a team. Barry decided to take his "weird and wonderful" talents to Team Adam.
Coming from a family with a father in a band and a grandmother who sang with (and turned down) Elvis, Cole Vosbury came to "The Voice" with a lot to prove. The 22-year-old Louisiana native performed one of the competition's most unconventional audition songs ever. "Movin on Up" (Yes, "The Jeffersons" theme song). Coach CeeLo was the only person who turned his chair for the eager performer, automatically landing his first member of team Ceelo in night two. Joining Cole was Jonny Gray, a former airman from Austin, Texas, who showed what a great fit he would be for team Ceelo with his performance of "All These Things That I've Done."
While it looked like a night full of success, two contestants didn't have what it takes to join any of the teams. Nineteen-year-old Mike Unser hoped to win over the coaches with his rock-star edge and performance of "Dirty Little Secret." While none of the judges had any problems with his performance, it just wasn't the time for Mike (or his amazing hair) to shine. Just like Mike, 16-year-old Sammy C was told to come back and try again, after a performance of "Where is the Love" that showcased his rapping and singing abilities.
Sidebar: Can we ask the coaches why they aren't turning around if there are no flaws in a performance? Just one of the more confusing aspects of the blind auditions, I guess.
Coming into the night with only one person on his team, three-time champion Blake Shelton was ready to pick up some talent that would hopefully get him to win number four. His first pick of the night came in the form of 19-year-old Holly Henry, whose performance of Coldplay's "The Scientist" earned her an automatic chair spin from Coach Blake after one word. While all four coaches fought to have Holly on their team, she decided to take the country route and go with team Blake.
Holly's teammates from the night include Austin Jenckes, a Washington native who performed "Simple Man" in honor of his late father, the voice of Tommy Pickles and one of the stars of "The Adventures of Pee Wee Herman," E.G. Daily. (Not only was she full of talent, but childhood nostalgia, too.)
The final contestant of the night came as a surprise to everyone in the audience, as well as all four judges. Hailing all the way from the beautiful island of Jamaica, Tessanne Chin blew the entire competition out of the water with her performance of Pink's "Try." It was no surprise that Tessanne got the attention of all four judges, who were willing to fight hard to have her on their team. In the end, Tessanne decided to go with Coach Adam.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Coker's men's tennis team suffered their first Conference Carolinas loss of the season on Tuesday with a 9-0 loss to Lees-McRae. The men battled hard, but were unable to come away with a win over the Bobcats.
James Corfield (Auckland, New Zealand) and Guillermo Aylou (Zaragoza, Spain) came up just short in No. 1 singles losing 8-5, while Corfield's singles match was also close. He lost at No. 1 singles 7-5, 6-3.
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The markets climbed Monday, led by a strong performance in the technology sector. However, trading was cautious as traders closely eyed events Europe.
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As of 3:50 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 29.1 points, or 0.22%, to 13184, the S&P 500 climbed 1.6 points, or 0.11%, to 1420 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 10.5 points, or 0.35%, to 2988. The FOX 50 dipped 0.24 point to 1046.
The technology sector was the best performer by a fairly wide margin, followed by health-care and industrial stocks. On the other side of the spectrum, the financial and utility sectors struggled.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti revealed plans over the weekend to resign. While the timetable was not immediately established, he said if the fiscal budget for next year is passed quickly, he will resign immediately.
Monti, an expert in economics, was put into power last November after the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi with the mandate of fixing the eurozone's third-biggest economy and getting its fiscal house back in order. However, austerity measures there have been highly unpopular. Now, the move threatens to plunge the country back into political chaos and will almost certainly set the stage for early elections, analysts say. Indeed, Berlusconi has already thrown his hat into the ring.
"Irrespective of what we see in the next few days, political/electoral uncertainty coupled with campaign rhetoric and resultant headlines could yet see (bond) markets unsettled again," Alastair Newton, an analyst with Nomura wrote in a note to clients. "If markets do become unsettled over Italy we may see contagion into other eurozone economies, perhaps particularly Spain."
The yield on Italy's benchmark 10-year note jumped roughly 0.3-percentage point from Friday's close to 4.81%. Spain's 10-year yield climbed 0.2-percentage point to 5.62%. Both yields have fallen dramatically since September when the European Central Bank pledged to do whatever is necessary to keep borrowing costs for soaring uncontrollably as many market participants feared.
Market participants were also expected to pay close attention to budget talks in Washington, D.C. President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner met over the weekend for face-to-face talks. However, neither revealed the specific content. Boehner finds himself in a particularly tough position because he will need to convince disparate GOP caucuses in House to agree to any budget plan.
Elsewhere, AIG (NYSE:AIG) said it reached a deal to sell its airplane leasing business to a consortium of Chinese companies for $4.8 billion. Honeywell (NYSE:HON) unveiled plans to buy Intermec for $600 million. Ingersoll-Rand (NYSE:IR) said it will spin off its residential and commercial security businesses. It also said it is boosting its quarterly dividend by 31% and announced a new $2 billion share buyback program.
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Vatican City: The renovations on the papal apartment are finished, but Pope Francis has decided to stay put in the Vatican hotel for the time being.
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Update: The Galaxy (8-4-6) will have to get up pretty early in the morning to catch the Timbers (6-6-9), who have won twice in a row in comeback fashion. … The Galaxy are coming off an interesting week, getting drilled by Manchester United, 7-0, in an exhibition before going on the road to score a 3-1 Monday night win over first-place Seattle. … The Galaxy have 30 points but are locked in a three-way tie for third place in the MLS Western Conference standings. Portland has 27 points and is in seventh place. … The Galaxy lead the league with a goal differential of plus-13. Portland, with a league-high 35 goals, has also allowed 35 goals, third most in MLS. … Gyasi Zardes continues to roll and has six goals in his last seven games. Landon Donovan added a goal and two assists against Seattle. The league's all-time leading scorer is now 12 assists away from matching Steve Ralston's career mark of 135. … Diego Valerti, who delivered the last two winning goals for Portland, has five goals and a team-leading eight assists.
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10 Best Nolan North Characters
Nolan North is in everything. Everything.
His IMDB page is a mile long list littered with video games from 1999 right on up to the present. Name a video game and it's more than likely that he's provided some vocals to any one of its characters. From adventurer, to mad scientist to Batman villain, North is a man of a million voices. Yes, he also does a pretty good Christopher Walken.
Here you'll find a list of the 10 best Nolan North characters ever to caress your little gamer ear holes.
10. Eredan (Lord of the Rings: War in the North)
If you choose to fight the forces of evil as a Human Ranger in The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, then your ears will be delighted to find the voice of Nolan North behind your character. If you thought that even the Lord of the Rings was safe from the aural pleasures of Mr. North, then you would be quite wrong.
9. Hades (God of War III)
Frequently you'll be playing a game and it will be painfully obvious that Nolan is the voice actor behind the character. The mark of a great voice artist is when they sell a character so different, that it comes as a complete surprise. None of Nolan's silky syllables or signature snark are on display here, just a throat full of gravel that would make Tom Waits jealous.
8. Prince (Prince of Persia)
Subtlety is the secret ingredient to any great voice actor. Nolan North frequently lends his speaking voice to any number of characters, but each of them is slightly different than the others. He plays the Prince, in the cell-shaded reboot of Prince of Persia, a little more hard and cynical than is usual light-hearted adventurers. He brought a different kind of edge to the Prince that didn't need eyeliner and a Godsmack track.
7. Desmond Miles (Assassin's Creed Series)
For some reason, Nolan North's voice is the voice you hear in your head when someone mentions the "every man." That simple association made him the perfect casting choice for Desmond Miles. Desmond is a stand in for you, the person playing the game, and the way he voices Miles, you almost start believing that it's your own. That is, until you start getting rejection slips from voice over tryouts.
6. Doctor N Gin (Crash Team Racing)
Crash Bandicoot is one of the most beloved franchises in Playstation history. Of course, Mr. North would be one of the voices on call to bring one of its many characters to life. Starting with Crash Team Racing, Nolan assumed the voice of Doctor N. Gin and brought a raucous sense of insanity to the character. For all that giggling, he lands himself a place in the 10 Best Nolan North Characters.
5. Darkling (The Darkness 2)
North is well versed at playing creepy monsters. He does it with such conviction that you forget that there is actually a man behind that digital Darkling. As Jackie Estocato's sidekick, Nolan presents us with a likeable little trickster that loves to dismember people and revels in toilet humor. Who doesn't though, really?
4. Personality Cores (Portal 2)
If anyone could voice a series of ridiculous personality cores used to render that double-crossing jerk Wheatley useless, it would have to be Nolan North. He lends an unique voice to each core you need to attach to Wheatley at the climax of Portal 2. There is even Rick the Adventure Core, which less than subtly pokes fun at Nolan's more heroic characters.
3. Defective Turret (Portal 2)
The Portal games are already chock full of memorable voices, so standing out against the likes of Wheatley and GLaDOS looked to be completely impossible. But of course, this is Nolan North we're talking about. He took a seemingly throwaway character like a defective turret and injected him with enough frantic and neurotic hilarity to make George Costanza ask him to calm down. That's why that little defective hunk of Aperture metal made it to our list of the 10 Best Nolan North Characters.
2. The Penguin (Arkham City)
Nolan North really shines when you give him a bad guy to voice. His portrayal of The Penguin in Arkham City brings about a whole new take on the legendary Batman baddie. With that Cockney drawl and twinge of raspiness in his voice, North makes The Penguin much more menacing and real than Danny DeVito ever could.
1. Nathan Drake (Uncharted Series)
It should hardly come as a surprise that Nathan Drake tops our list of the 10 Best Nolan North Characters. He's the quintessential adventure hero with all the snappy comebacks and acrobatics to back it up. No task is too large and no slightly cursed treasure is too evil to deter him. It is hard to imagine Drake sounding like anyone else but Nolan North and hopefully we never will hear it.
There you have it folks, the 10 best Nolan North characters. Have any comments or suggestions? Maybe a few characters we failed to mention? Let us know down in the comments.


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Student Research Competition
The Student Research Competition (SRC) provides a forum for innovative research conducted by ACM student members and gives students the opportunity to share their ideas and research results with the computer graphics community, by presenting their work in person at SIGGRAPH 2008 and competing for awards and prizes. The Student Research Competition is supported by the ACM SRC and is sponsored by Microsoft Research.
The Student Research Competition is open to all ACM student members enrolled in higher learning institutions, in both undergraduate and graduate levels. Submissions must be from individuals only (see SRC Frequently Asked Questions).
The competition comprises three rounds. In the first round, participants are invited to present their poster presentations at SIGGRAPH 2008, in the Posters program. In the second round, a panel of judges will select the finalists, after examining the work, poster, and oral presentation of each participant. In the third and final round, three winners will be selected after the finalists present their work in a special SRC session. The winners receive monetary prizes, which for 2007 were $US 500, $US 300, and $US 200.
Before submitting your work, please review the SRC Frequently Asked Questions, and in case you have more questions, use this form to contact us.
Participate in this exciting competition and submit your work for the SIGGRAPH 2008 Student Research Competition!
SIGGRAPH 2008 SRC ChairDoug James
Cornell University


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Brewster For over 100 years, Brewster has been helping our guests to experience the best of Canada and the Rocky Mountains! It is our home, and we know it best! Brewster offers tours to Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper, Vancouver, the Canadian Rockies, Quebec and more. On a Brewster tour you can travel by bus, car, plane, helicopter, train, boat, jeep and horseback! See the majestic Rocky Mountains and experience the diverse wildlife while staying in a broad selection of fine hotels and resorts.
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Information on bus and CTrain (metro). Moving Calgarians Since 1909, Calgary Transit has been moving Calgarians since 1909 - that's almost 90 years of service! Over the next century we will continue to change and grow with Calgary, as we have for the past century. Calgary¹s transit service was responsible for many aspects of Calgary¹s growth and development.
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Healthcare for the aging is one of the fastest growing industries in the United States, especially in the area of nursing homes. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, there are currently 1.9 million beds in 18,000 nursing facilities in the United States, so there's no lack of work for electrical contractors who have the low-voltage know-how and foresight to pursue this niche business.
Patient room call systems
The patient room call system is one of the most important systems found in nursing homes. There are two basic types: emergency call and nurse call.
An emergency call system allows patients to signal for help using audio tone and lamp indicators in master directories located at nurse stations. When activated, a corridor lamp illuminates outside the patient's room, and nursing personnel can readily find the room quickly.
Nurse call systems provide tone and lamp activation and two-way voice. This gives attending nurses and aides the ability to communicate directly with a patient before they visit their room.
Two types of call units are used in patient rooms: bedside and bathroom. Bedside stations consist of a momentary pushbutton switch on a handheld unit, which is attached to a cord usually terminated in a ¼-inch phono plug. A clip on the cord is used to secure the button where the patient can readily find it.
A typical bathroom station consists of a single-gang wall plate with a call switch in the middle. In most cases, a pull string is secured to the call switch lever, allowing patients to pull it when help is needed. This is used in shower rooms and public bathrooms throughout the facility.
In most systems, the attending nurse or aide must cancel the call from the patient's bedside or bathroom station instead of at the directory.
Traditional systems require multiple-conductor cable usage between nurse call directories, corridor lamps and patient room stations. The type of cable will depend on the system's make and model.
Most emergency-call systems on the market use four-conductor cable. One conductor serves as a common, negative return. One supplies a steady, positive voltage for bedside activation. A third supplies a pulsing, positive for bathroom station activation. The fourth conductor carries either a steady or pulsing voltage to the directory and corridor lamps.
In most cases, constant and steady lamp power signifies bed activation, and a flashing display signifies bathroom activity. In older systems, two lamps may be used to differentiate between the two—one white and the other red.
Electronic access control
There are two additional ways to enhance patient safety and security in a nursing home. One involves the use of a patient wandering system, and the other involves the use of access control. Both systems are used to ensure the safety and security of special-needs patients.
Whereas most commercial access-control applications involve the regulation of outside ingress, in a typical nursing home, it's used to control egress.
Although there are stringent fire codes related to egress, it often is necessary in a nursing facility to restrict egress where it concerns patients with special needs, such as Alzheimer's disease. In special wards, access control often is used to provide egress only for authorized personnel and members of the general public. The authority having jurisdiction must approve special egress arrangements with regard to compliance with local building and fire codes.
Patient wandering systems
According to the National Institute on Aging, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health: "Dementia is a brain disorder that seriously affects a person's ability to carry out daily activities. The most common form of dementia among older people is Alzheimer's disease, which initially involves the parts of the brain that control thought, memory and language."
Patient wandering systems are used at perimeter exits in many nursing homes that care for patients suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Locking arrangements ensure patient safety by not allowing egress to patients identified as having special needs.
Perimeter exits are typically left unlocked to allow ready egress. When a special-needs patient approaches an exit, however, the doors lock and an alarm sounds. For that to happen, a small transponder in a wristband or ankle bracelet is placed on the patient or wheelchair, and a radio receiver at the door "listens" for a radio signal emitted by the transponder.
There are other low-voltage systems that ECs can readily sell and service in nursing homes, such as closed-circuit television, cable television and door intercoms.
COLOMBO is a 32-year veteran in the security and life safety markets. He currently is director with FireNetOnline.com and a nationally recognized trade journalist located in East Canton, Ohio.


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TOKYO (Reuters) - Magic tricks and straight answers are all part of being Santa in Japan - at least according to Tokyo's Santa Claus Academy, which trains St. Nicks in a country with little Christian tradition and a Christmas that's far more retail than religion.
On a recent weekend, 88 Santa wannabes packed the school in Tokyo's fashionable Roppongi district for a crash course in how to behave as "Santa-san," as the man in red is known in Japan.
"There are many children who don't believe in Santa Claus anymore," said Masaki Azuma, head of the school. "So I said to myself, 'Let's bring Santa Claus back.'"
The morning session began with Azuma training students in the mindset of being Santa Claus, such as not to reply to anything unless addressed as "Santa-san," along with teaching them magic tricks, which Azuma recommends as a good ice-breaker for often shy tots.
The rest of the session was devoted to answering the difficult questions that children have a habit of posing, such as "My house doesn't have a chimney and we also have a security system, so how will you be able to come in and deliver my present?"
The academy's answer is that Santa, whose job is to deliver presents no matter what, will find a way. Also, the home security system should recognize him and let him in.
After this, the students dressed in their Santa outfits to stroll streets in the busy Omotesando district, exchanging high fives with shoppers and occasionally stopping to pose for pictures.
"Not only were we able to attract attention, we also interacted and made each other's days," said Kazuko Iida, who visits local preschools and retirement homes during the Christmas season.
Despite nearing 70, Azuma has vowed to press on with his school, believing it has a key role to fulfill.
"Even as times change, Santa Claus is a figure that needs to live in the hearts of everyone," he said.
Reporting by Kimiteru Tsuruta, editing by Elaine Lies


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The Nordic List
Published: 2018-05-16
Since 2015 the Nordic countries have been collaborating to develop a common registry of authorized research publication channels with bibliographic data on journals, series and publishers. Denmark, Finland and Norway have joined their national lists of authorized research publication channels, used for indicators in the national performance-based research funding systems. Sweden, Iceland, Greenland and Faroe Islands do not have a similar funding system but are planning to use such lists as a tool for a national or Nordic overview of authorized research publication channels.
NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data, have coordinated the technical development in 2017 and the work is funded by NordForsk and The Presidency of the Nordic Council. The plan for technical development agreed upon by the collaboration and funding is finished by summer 2018.
The Nordic list consists of a bibliographic dataset on the publication channels listed in each countries national database. The national lists are joined technically which gives all the countries a common source of information desirable from the perspective of resource efficiency and as a tool for the countries without a list. The list provides more information by updating the bibliographic data in the national databases and facilitates an overview of research output in the Nordic countries.
The Nordic List application and database are hosted in a cloud solution and available via a log in solution. Access is restricted to the contributing stakeholders. The data model for the Nordic list is complete and supports publishers, series, journals and conferences, with associated data fields. The list supports metadata, both from the individual lists, and unique to the Nordic list (registration dates, modification dates, history, comments etc.) OECD fields are added and the connections to fields from the stakeholders are matched. There has been much work in resolving duplicate information in the list. Currently we are working on the application in the list on exposing more of the developed functionality and information. Danish data has been limited until now, and more complete data will be imported. Some preset statistics have been added and will be implemented in the user interface. Export of the data are possible through use of excel. There have been thoughts on developing an api` solution for exporting data from the list. If the collaboration decides to add this functionality, this will require more resources and time in organizing and documentation.


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News - 04.10.10
Malbec has its own World Day
Malbec, Argentina's flagship varietal, now has its own world day, as Wines of Argentina has decided to establish April 17th as Malbec World Day, a celebration that will be a must within the wine agenda worldwide.
Malbec, Argentina's flagship varietal, now has its own world day, as Wines of Argentina has decided to establish April 17th as Malbec World Day, a celebration that will be a must within the wine agenda worldwide.
Malbec has been acclaimed by European palates – especially the English and French – who have indulged in this variety since the times of the Roman Empire until modern times. Centuries later, this variety found in Argentina the ideal environment to reach unprecedented levels of quality and produce unique wines of international renown. Today Argentina is the largest producer of Malbec in the world. Malbec has become the national star and is grown all over the country's wine regions. That is why Wines of Argentina decided to pay this tribute to this emblematic variety.
The Malbec World Day celebrations will be held for the first time next year on April 17th. Cities like New York, London and Mendoza will be hosting events organized to honor the wine that has lately experienced the greatest international growth. The Big Apple represents the North American market (the main export market for Argentine wines); the United Kingdom stands as a symbol of the historical expansion of this variety in the European context; and Mendoza is Argentina's wine capital and the birthplace of Malbec. These major cities will be hosting seminars, wine tastings and special activities at restaurants and wineshops that will be featuring Malbec as the main star. There will also be exclusive parties with special guests and celebrities of the wine trade.
Why was April 17th the date chosen?
Malbec originated in Bordeaux in the southwest of France where this variety was cultivated and whose resulting wines bore the name of the place: Cahors wines. These wines gained recognition during the times of the Roman Empire and their prestige was consolidated in the Middle Ages to gain full recognition in modern times. The conquest of the English market was a crucial step for the success of Cahors wines. This process started with the wedding between the King of England and the Duchess of Aquitaine, which brought the southwest of France under the rule of the English king. Since then, the British market turned its attention to the French wine from that region, and a culture of appreciation of Malbec began to develop in England and around the world. When the phylloxera plague destroyed French viticulture towards the end of the 19th century, the "Cot" fell into oblivion. However, a culture of appreciation of Malbec had already consolidated.
It was on this basis that Argentine Malbec developed some time later. It was brought to our country by Michel Aimé Pouget (1821-1875) from France, an agronomist who was hired by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento to run the Quinta Agronómica de Mendoza.
After the model of France, this Quinta Normal sought to incorporate new varietals as a way to boost the national wine industry. This initiative was well received by the Governor of Mendoza, Pedro Pascual Segura. On April 17 1853, they submitted to the Provincial Legislature a bill for the foundation of a Quinta Normal and a School of Agriculture. The House of Representatives dealt with the bill enacting it as law on September 6 1853.
Pouget arrived in Mendoza in 1853, at the age of 32, and took charge of the Quinta. He brought plants, seeds and several types of grape varieties from France, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir and Malbec.
At the end of the 19th century, viticulture experienced exponential development in the hands of Italian and French immigrants, and so did Malbec, which adapted quickly to the varied terroirs offered by our geography and produced better wines than it did in its original land. In this way, over the course of time and after a lot of hard work, Malbec began to shape up as Argentina's flagship variety.
The efforts made by Pouget, Sarmiento and the Quinta Normal of Mendoza played a key role in that process. To Wines of Argentina, April 17th is a day that represents both the transformation of Argentina's wine industry and the starting point for the development of Malbec as its flagship variety and international emblem of the country's viticulture and winemaking.


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Rich Martin is the Managing Director of Hygienic Art galleries and event venue in downtown New London, which has just launched its summer season of concerts and movies. On Thursday from 5-7 p.m., the Hygienic will host the 100th episode celebration of The Day's Live Lunch Break series* with John Fries performing. There will be food and a cash bar.
Martin also serves as president of New London Music Festivals, the non-profit that runs the annual I Am Fest, the Whalie Awards and Traditions among other events. He also owns an old school vinyl shop and recording company downtown called The Telegraph with his wife, musician Daphne Lee Martin. Finally, you can find him lending a hand behind the bar Martin now and then at the venerable Dutch Tavern.
Say you have a modern-day high school locker. Whose picture would be hanging in it?
I've got a huge crush for the pop singer Daphne Lee Martin.
What's your favorite sandwich?
Hands down it's the meatloaf sandwich at Washington Street Coffee House.
You're locked in a museum for a night, which one would it be?
Here in Connecticut it would have to be the Wadsworth Atheneum. It's a really funky and cool collection and they are home to one of my fave paintings of all time: Max Ernst's Europe After the Rain.
What's your favorite word in a language other than English?
Ras-le-bol. I'm a francophile. Always loved the French and all things Français and I've "had it up to here" with your freedom fries.
Who played at your first live concert?
Styx. It was the "Kilroy Was Here" tour with all its crazy robot-or-man theatrics. First one that really mattered most? Paisley Jungle at Roll On America - bought my first bass and started a band after that one!
Sorry to have to tell you this, but an asteroid is going to wipe out all humanity next week. So, what's your last meal and who is coming to dinner?
We tend to go big for parties in our home so I'd probably invite the whole city over and call it a potluck. May as well have as much variety as possible at the end, no?
What's was the first album you ever bought and where did you buy it?
I got a $50 bill for my birthday and went to Caldor in Groton and purchased The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," Styx's "Paradise Theater," and two singles - Joan Jett's "I Love Rock & Roll" and J. Geils Band's "Centerfold." The b-side to that last one, "Rage in the Cage" still rules.
Who is on your Mount Rushmore of bass players?
Peter Hook of Joy Division, Peter Hook of New Order, Noel Redding of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and the inimitable Charles Mingus.
Other than your smartphone, name an item you can't live without:
I can live without my smartphone, I know I can, please take it away.
Item you should live without and keep meaning to get rid of:
I can't get rid of anything in this life. I'm a pack rat and a collector and just this side of a hoarder.
You're a DJ at club. What's the night's last song?
Either "Fool's Gold" by Stone Roses or "Blue Monday" by New Order. Gotta keep the party going as long as possible.
What's the last television show you binge-watched?
Halfway through "Dexter" at the moment but the last full run was the incredible "House of Cards." I'm a total political junky so this show is pure ecstasy to me. Still can't believe they killed off Zoe though - just awful! ... Wait, should I have said "spoiler alert" before saying that?
What poem have you read more than any other?
T.S. Eliot's 'Four Quartets' - an incredible meditation on time, reality, and faith. I always find some peace and solace reading it, and it reaffirms that in so many ways it's the questioning, not the knowing, that matters in life.
If you present day you could give advice to younger you, what would it be?
Embrace life and live it to the fullest. Everything's going to be ok.
Last book you couldn't put down:
"How to Manage Non-Profits in the 21st Century" - not too sexy but it reaffirmed a lot about the reality of my life.
What's a word you can never spell correctly on the first try:
Seperate, wait, no, i mean separate... ugggh.
Which movie, television show or theatrical production most accurately depicts life as managing director of Hygienic Art and a record shop owner?
"Groundhog Day" as produced by Fellini.
Coffee or tea?
Coffee but it needs to be a good strong roast not some gas station colored water.
Saturday night or Sunday morning?
For me that's usually considered one period of time.
Golden Street in New London or "Golden Road To Unlimited Devotion" by The Grateful Dead?
Ahhh, well ya know, there's a pretty cool record store here on said street in New London where you can experience both at the same time.
Anagrams or palindromes?
I'm an 'avid diva' when it comes to palindromes.
What is your pet peeve?
Singular? Is it possible to have just one? Litter bugs, people who don't recycle, overly loud motorcycles, "panhandlanding," dog poop on sidewalks...
What historical event would you like to have witnessed?
I would have loved to hear Martin Luther King preach or give a speech in person. These days we are so desperately lacking in leaders with a vision of shared community and the ability to give it voice for all to celebrate.
What is your favorite place in Connecticut to recharge or find serenity?
I just take a stroll down to the Waterfront Park here in New London. It's an amazing vista of energy, transportation and an incredible passageway to the open sea. Add in the Charles W. Morgan or the Eagle and its hard to not wax poetic and see everything in a more positive light. I feel truly blessed to live in this incredible city.
Who alive today do you most admire?
Anyone who is pursuing a their dreams to the fullest and not letting life hold them back. Life's too short and we are all heroes and superstars.
* This series celebrates local music and local musicians. You can view the complete archive of Live Lunch Break performances here.
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Groton City police charge four with prostitution-related offenses
Flyers remove statue of late singer Kate Smith over racism claims
General Assembly committee deals blow to many priest abuse victims
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Kirklees Council could net up to half-a-million pounds when it auctions off two of its plots next month.
Two plots in our district are to go under the hammer – one in Batley and one in Dewsbury – along with five others elsewhere in Kirklees.
Dryfield House in Healey Lane, Batley, has the heftiest price tag of them all with guide price of £300,000-£350,000.
It is described as a character period property and heritage asset and has planning permission for change of use from offices to flats and outline consent for seven houses in the grounds.
Dryfield House was the home of Michael Sheard, a textile manufacturer based at Hick Lane Mill, and later John Sheard, who was his son and a Mayor of Batley.
The former Dewsbury Register Office in Wellington Street is listed with a guide price of £95,000. It already has planning consent for conversion into four flats.
Kirklees made the application in September 2013 in a bid to tempt commuters into the town. The stone building had served as the register office for North Kirklees until the service moved to Dewsbury Town Hall in autumn 2012.
The auction is on September 11 in Ainley Top.


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Can You Guess the Celebrity Cleavage?
You might be able to guess today's celebrity cleavage if you're a fan of television shows and teen romantic comedies.
These perky pups belong to an actress who's made a name for herself by starring on a popular show on The WB/CW network that ran from 2003 to 2012.
She also helped Brittany Snow, Arielle Kebbel and Ashanti try to destroy the reputation of the hottest guy in school in a romantic comedy that hit theaters in 2006. Here's a hint: she played the slutty hippie girl.
These days, she plays a detective on an NBC drama, so you might have seen her pretty face again. Can you guess who it is?