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[Nov 30, 2012] Or the rationale for the naming and the existence of this blog.
With HAIPAD I7 IPS 1024*600 Multitouch Screen with Android 4.0 Dual Camera 1080P HDMI [Merimobiles.com, Sept 10, 2012] available for $99.99 with free shipping worldwide we have a new disruption on the tablet market which has historical significance, and as such it is the manifestation of a new strategic inflection point not only for the tablet market but for the ICT industry as a whole:
- It is a commercial achievement of the once non-commercial goal of OLPC's $100 computer.
- It is close to the current entry-level Apple product, the iPad mini costing at least $299.99 ($329 at the Apple Store):
– an IPS display of 7-inch vs. 7.9-inch;
– a resolution of 1024*600 vs. 1024*768;
– a SoC with a single core ARM Cortex-A8 CPU @1.2GHz and a quad-core Mali-400 MP GPU (9.9 GFLOPS) vs. a SoC with a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU @1GHz and a dual-core PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU (16 GFLOPS);
- It has much more parity with the current entry-level Samsung product, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (WiFi) 8GB costing now $179.99 but earlier introduced for $249.99:
– 7" WSVGA(1024×600) PLS TFT display, where PLS stands for Plane to Line Switching, the Samsung equivalent of the IPS technology championed by its rival LG;
– SoC with a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU @1GHz and a quad-core Mali-400 MP GPU (9.9 GFLOPS);
– 2MP main (rear) camera on HAIPAD i7 vs. a 3MP one on the Samsung;
– 0.3MP front camera for video call on both;
– the same 1GB RAM and 8GB ROM (Flash) memory as the HAIPAD I7;
– the same Android 4.0 as the HAIPAD I7;
- But the Allwinner A10 SoC in the HAIPAD I7 is beating all those entry-level products of the 1st tier brands and even higher level offerings with its inherent super HD 2160p (4K UHDTV, also called Quad HD) video decoding capability vs. the 1080p (full HD) capability of almost all other SoCs on the market (albeit the HAIPAD I7 is utilizing only 1080p out of that, but offering that via an HDMI output as well, unlike the other SoCs). Since the A10 SoC is built using a 55nm technology and this video capability (CedarX) is the IP of Allwinner, the company will have a significant competitive advantage in long term as well. (Note that Intel is preparing a 4K capability on its upcoming Haswell SoCs produced by 22nm technology, while Qualcomm has only 1080p even on its next-generation 28nm Snapdragon S4 class SoCs.) With current A10 the company foresees 2160p opportunities for tablet applications and for vehicle multimedia center applications.
- When the upcoming Allwinner
A30A20/A31 SoCs ( officially not yet announcedAllwinner A31 SoC is here with products and the A20 SoC, its A10 pin-compatible dual-core is coming in February 2013 [Dec 10-20, 2012]) will be available in the products of 2013 as widely as the A10/A13 ones this year the company will have similar competitive advantage in CPUs (quadcore ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore) and in GPUs (eight-core PowerVR SGX544MP8) as well. Since the A30A20/A31 SoCs are built using 28nm technology their price will not be much higher than the current bulk price of $7/$5 of the A10/A13 varieties. (Note that at least three A30/A31 based tablet designs have already been leaked by the Chinese site IMP3.net: that of 普耐尔Ployer, that of 艾蔻ICOO, and the CT972-Q tablet from 七彩虹Colorfly.) Given the market leadership position taken by the A10/A13 in their very first year (as of Nov 20 estimate):
the new
A30A20/A31 products will have a similar success story of their own in 2013, i.e. sales of tens of millions of unit in addition to the continued success of A10/A13. Mid-year A30/A31 tablet prices of the 7-inch IPS varieties will be around $100 again as it is now for A10/A13 tablets of similar kind. The Chinese SoC houses competing with Allwinner (Rockchip etc. – see the above chart) will adjust their products to that in the same way as they did in 2012.
- My estimation is that there could be at least 50 million Allwinner Axx SoCs sold in 2013, and their number could reach as high as 100 million. Homeland competitors could deliver another 40 to 80 million units. This will pose a very significant challenge to the current leaders of the global market. With super cheap but powerful and high-quality Chinese SoCs as much as 100 million tablet products from PRC may come just to the 2013 external market at prices ranging from $50 to $150. This will immediately effect not only the opportunities and the business performance of the current branded tablet vendors, but most importantly the market situation for such core technology vendors as Microsoft, Intel and Qualcomm in a fundamental way.
To understand the impact here is a chart from the same DIGITIMES Research (see Digitimes Research: White-box tablet shipments to surpass 50 million units in 2012 [DIGITIMES, Nov 13, 2012]):
From this and Digitimes Research: Global tablet shipments to surpass that of notebooks in 2013 [DIGITIMES Research, Nov 19, 2012] we may come to the following table:
|(million units)
|iPad shipments
|89.0 [84.0]
|Non-iPad brand shipments
|51.0 [46.0]
|White-box shipments
|70.0 [100.0]
|210.0 [230.0]
|Notebook shipments
|189.0 [184.0]
The white-box shipments are exactly those tablet products mentioned above as coming from PRC (People's Republic of China). My estimate of that volume is even higher by 30 million units with which the white-box shipments will be 100 million units in 2013.
The overall outcome will be somewhere between two extremes:
- When price elasticity will be able to help in selling those additional 30 million white-box units in the cheapo $50…$150 range, then the other numbers won't be affected.
- When such cheapo tablet prices of additional 30 million white-box units will help 100% replacement for other categories in the table only, then those 30 million units will decrease the numbers in other categories.
When one is taking a kind of middle road then may assume 100 million white-box shipments (30 million units more) with 84 million iPads, 46 million non-iPad brand tablets and 184 million notebooks. These are the numbers I put into square brackets in the table.
This little exercise is showing that with just 43% increase in the shipment of white-box tablets iPad shipment growth will be just 5% vs. 11%, non-iPad brand shipments will grow by only 19% vs. 31%, and notebook shipments will decline by 4.2% vs. 1.6%.
The more dramatic effect, however, is that while overall tablet shipments will grow by 36%, notebook shipments will decline by 4.2%. And these will be extremely bad news for both Microsoft and Intel, especially in terms of the strategic stance of the Windows 8 against Android (as the white-box tablet shipments will be all Android, and for Windows 8 year 2013 will be its 1st on the market with meaning the new version is not able to sustain even the yearly unit volume of the Windows against the onslaught of the much more affordable Android tablets).
If this scenario will happen on the market, or even a scenario which is worse than that from Windows point of view, then for both Microsoft and Intel it will mean that they should give up their premium pricing strategy, i.e.
– introduce sub $50 (or even deeply sub $50) per unit fees (versions) for large volumes both in Windows 8 licenses and Intel SoCs instead of the current dominance of the ~$100 unit fees;
– and introduce that extremely fast.
But, do not forget, the Chinese SoC invasion of the global client device market will be stronger again in 2014, so even that reaction on Microsoft and Intel side could already be too late.
That is at stake in the upcoming very first year, and to record all the events happening in this particular battle is the reason for introducing this blog.


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|Andromeda Galaxy
The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years (2.4×1019 km) from Earth[1] in the Andromeda constellation. Also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, it is often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy, but not the closest galaxy overall. It gets its name from the area of the sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which was named after the mythological princess Andromeda. The Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains the Milky Way, the Triangulum Galaxy, and about 30 other smaller galaxies. Although the largest, the Andromeda Galaxy may not be the most massive, as recent findings suggest that the Milky Way contains more dark matter and could be the most massive in the grouping.[2] The 2006 observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that M31 contains one trillion (1012) stars:[3] at least twice the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy, which is estimated to be 200–400 billion.[4]
The Andromeda Galaxy is estimated to be 7.1×1011 solar masses.[5] In comparison a 2009 study estimated that the Milky Way and M31 are about equal in mass,[6] while a 2006 study put the mass of the Milky Way at ~80% of the mass of the Andromeda Galaxy. The two galaxies are expected to collide in 3.75 billion years, eventually merging to form a giant elliptical galaxy.[7]
At an apparent magnitude of 3.4, the Andromeda Galaxy is one of the brightest Messier objects,[8] making it visible to the naked eye on moonless nights even when viewed from areas with moderate light pollution. Although it appears more than six times as wide as the full Moon when photographed through a larger telescope, only the brighter central region is visible to the naked eye or when viewed using binoculars or a small telescope.
Observation history
The Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi wrote a tantalizing line about the chained constellation in his Book of Fixed Stars around 964, describing it as a "small cloud".[9][10] Star charts of that period have it labeled as the Little Cloud.[10] The first description of the object based on telescopic observation was given by German astronomer Simon Marius on December 15, 1612.[11] Charles Messier catalogued it as object M31 in 1764 and incorrectly credited Marius as the discoverer, unaware of Al Sufi's earlier work. In 1785, the astronomer William Herschel noted a faint reddish hue in the core region of the M31. He believed it to be the nearest of all the "great nebulae" and based on the colour and magnitude of the nebula, he incorrectly guessed that it was no more than 2,000 times the distance of Sirius.
William Huggins in 1864 observed the spectrum of M31 and noted that it differed from a gaseous nebula.[12] The spectra of M31 displayed a continuum of frequencies, superimposed with dark absorption lines that help identify the chemical composition of an object. The Andromeda nebula was very similar to the spectra of individual stars, and from this it was deduced that M31 had a stellar nature. In 1885, a supernova (known as S Andromedae) was seen in M31, the first and so far only one observed in that galaxy. At the time M31 was considered to be a nearby object, so the cause was thought to be a much less luminous and unrelated event called a nova, and was named accordingly "Nova 1885".[13]
The first photographs of M31 were taken in 1887 by Isaac Roberts from his private observatory in Sussex, England. The long-duration exposure allowed the spiral structure of the galaxy to be seen for the first time.[14] However, at the time this object was still commonly believed to be a nebula within our galaxy, and Roberts mistakenly believed that M31 and similar spiral nebulae were actually solar systems being formed, with the satellites nascent planets[citation needed]. The radial velocity of this object with respect to our solar system was measured in 1912 by Vesto Slipher at the Lowell Observatory, using spectroscopy. The result was the largest velocity recorded at that time, at 69, moving in the direction of the Sun.[15]
Island universe
In 1917, American astronomer Heber Curtis observed a nova within M31. Searching the photographic record, 11 more novae were discovered. Curtis noticed that these novae were, on average, 10 magnitudes fainter than those that occurred elsewhere in the sky. As a result he was able to come up with a distance estimate of 69. He became a proponent of the so-called "island universes" hypothesis, which held that spiral nebulae were actually independent galaxies.[16]
In 1920, the Great Debate between Harlow Shapley and Curtis took place, concerning the nature of the Milky Way, spiral nebulae, and the dimensions of the universe. To support his claim that the Great Andromeda Nebula (M31) was an external galaxy, Curtis also noted the appearance of dark lanes resembling the dust clouds in our own Galaxy, as well as the significant Doppler shift. In 1922 Ernst Öpik presented a very elegant and simple astrophysical method to estimate the distance of M31. His result put the Andromeda Nebula far outside our Galaxy at a distance of about 450,000 parsec, which is about 1,500,000 ly.[17] Edwin Hubble settled the debate in 1925 when he identified extragalactic Cepheid variable stars for the first time on astronomical photos of M31. These were made using the 2.5-metre (100-in) Hooker telescope, and they enabled the distance of Great Andromeda Nebula to be determined. His measurement demonstrated conclusively that this feature was not a cluster of stars and gas within our Galaxy, but an entirely separate galaxy located a significant distance from our own.[18]
M31 plays an important role in galactic studies, since it is the nearest spiral galaxy (although not the nearest galaxy). In 1943 Walter Baade was the first person to resolve stars in the central region of the Andromeda Galaxy. Based on his observations of this galaxy, he was able to discern two distinct populations of stars based on their metallicity, naming the young, high velocity stars in the disk Type I and the older, red stars in the bulge Type II. This nomenclature was subsequently adopted for stars within the Milky Way, and elsewhere. (The existence of two distinct populations had been noted earlier by Jan Oort.)[20] Dr. Baade also discovered that there were two types of Cepheid variables, which resulted in a doubling of the distance estimate to M31, as well as the remainder of the Universe.[21]
Radio emission from the Andromeda Galaxy was first detected by Hanbury Brown and Cyril Hazard at Jodrell Bank Observatory using the 218-ft Transit Telescope, and was announced in 1950[22] (Earlier observations were made by radio astronomy pioneer Grote Reber in 1940, but were inconclusive, and were later shown to be an order of magnitude too high). The first radio maps of the galaxy were made in the 1950s by John Baldwin and collaborators at the Cambridge Radio Astronomy Group.[23] The core of the Andromeda Galaxy is called 2C 56 in the 2C radio astronomy catalogue. In 2009, the first planet may have been discovered in the Andromeda Galaxy. This candidate was detected using a technique called microlensing, which is caused by the deflection of light by a massive object.[24]
The measured distance to the Andromeda Galaxy was doubled in 1953 when it was discovered that there is another, dimmer type of Cepheid. In the 1990s, measurements of both standard red giants as well as red clump stars from the Hipparcos satellite measurements were used to calibrate the Cepheid distances.[25][26]
Formation and History
According to a team of astronomers reporting in 2010, M31 was formed out of the collision of two smaller galaxies between 5 and 9 billion years ago.[27]
A paper published in 2012[28] has outlined M31's basic history since its birth. According to it, Andromeda was born roughly 10 billion years ago from the merger of many smaller protogalaxies, leading to a galaxy smaller than the one we see today.
The most important event in M31's past history was the merger mentioned above that took place 8 billion years ago. This violent collision formed most of its (metal-rich) galactic halo and extended disk and during that epoch Andromeda's star formation would be very high, to the point of becoming a Luminous infrared galaxy for roughly 100 millon years.
2–4 billion years ago, M31 and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) had a very close passage. This event produced high levels of star formation across the Andromeda Galaxy's disk – even some globular clusters – and disturbed M33's outer disk.
While there has been activity during the last 2 billion years, this has been much lower than during the past. There have been interactions with satellite galaxies like M32, M110, or others that have already disappeared absorbed by M31 that have formed structures like Andromeda's Giant Stellar Stream and a merger roughly 100 million years ago that is behind a counter-rotating disk of gas found in the center of M31 as well as the presence there of a relatively young (100 million years) stellar population. During this epoch, star formation through M31's disk decreased to the point of nearly shutting down to increasing again relatively recently.
Recent distance estimate
At least four distinct techniques have been used to measure distances to the Andromeda Galaxy.
In 2003, using the infrared surface brightness fluctuations (I-SBF) and adjusting for the new period-luminosity value of Freedman et al. 2001 and using a metallicity correction of −0.2 mag dex−1 in (O/H), an estimate of 69 was derived.
Using the Cepheid variable method, an estimate of 2.51 ± 0.13 Mly (770 ± 40 kpc) was reported in 2004.[5][29]
In 2005 Ignasi Ribas (CSIC, Institute for Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC)) and colleagues announced the discovery of an eclipsing binary star in the Andromeda Galaxy. The binary star, designated M31VJ00443799+4129236,Template:Efn has two luminous and hot blue stars of types O and B. By studying the eclipses of the stars, which occur every 3.54969 days, the astronomers were able to measure their sizes. Knowing the sizes and temperatures of the stars, they were able to measure the absolute magnitude of the stars. When the visual and absolute magnitudes are known, the distance to the star can be measured. The stars lie at a distance of 69 and the whole Andromeda Galaxy at about 69.[1] This new value is in excellent agreement with the previous, independent Cepheid-based distance value.
M31 is close enough that the Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB) method may also be used to estimate its distance. The estimated distance to M31 using this technique in 2005 yielded 69.[30]
Averaged together, all these distance measurements give a combined distance estimate of 69.Template:Efn Based upon the above distance, the diameter of M31 at the widest point is estimated to be 69.Template:Efn Applying trigonometry (arctangent), that figures to extending at an apparent 3.18° angle in the sky.
Mass and luminosity estimates
Mass estimates for the Andromeda Galaxy's halo (including dark matter) give a value of approximately 1.23×1012 M☉[31] (or 1.2 trillion solar masses) compared to 1.9×1012 M☉ for the Milky Way. Thus M31 may be less massive than our own galaxy, although the error range is still too large to say for certain. Even so, the masses of the Milky Way and M31 are comparable, and M31's spheroid actually has a higher stellar density than that of the Milky Way.[32]
In particular, M31 appears to have significantly more common stars than the Milky Way, and the estimated luminosity of M31, ~2.6×1010 L☉, is about 25% higher than that of our own galaxy.[33] However the rate of star formation in the Milky Way is much higher, with M31 producing only about one solar mass per year compared to 3–5 solar masses for the Milky Way. The rate of supernovae in the Milky Way is also double that of M31.[34] This suggests that M31 once experienced a great star formation phase, but is now in a relative state of quiescence, whereas the Milky Way is experiencing more active star formation.[33] Should this continue, the luminosity in the Milky Way may eventually overtake that of M31.
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Based on its appearance in visible light, the Andromeda Galaxy is classified as an SA(s)b galaxy in the de Vaucouleurs–Sandage extended classification system of spiral galaxies.[35] However, data from the 2MASS survey showed that the bulge of M31 has a box-like appearance, which implies that the galaxy is actually a barred spiral galaxy like the Milky Way, with the Andromeda Galaxy's bar viewed almost directly along its long axis.[36]
In 2005, astronomers used the Keck telescopes to show that the tenuous sprinkle of stars extending outward from the galaxy is actually part of the main disk itself.[37] This means that the spiral disk of stars in M31 is three times larger in diameter than previously estimated. This constitutes evidence that there is a vast, extended stellar disk that makes the galaxy more than 69 in diameter. Previously, estimates of the Andromeda Galaxy's size ranged from 69 across.
The galaxy is inclined an estimated 77° relative to the Earth (where an angle of 90° would be viewed directly from the side). Analysis of the cross-sectional shape of the galaxy appears to demonstrate a pronounced, S-shaped warp, rather than just a flat disk.[38] A possible cause of such a warp could be gravitational interaction with the satellite galaxies near M31. The galaxy M33 could be responsible for some warp in M31's arms, though more precise distances and radial velocities are required.
Spectroscopic studies have provided detailed measurements of the rotational velocity of M31 at various radii from the core. In the vicinity of the core, the rotational velocity climbs to a peak of 69 at a radius of 69, then descends to a minimum at 69 where the rotation velocity may be as low as 69. Thereafter the velocity steadily climbs again out to a radius of 69, where it reaches a peak of 69. The velocities slowly decline beyond that distance, dropping to around 69 at 69. These velocity measurements imply a concentrated mass of about 6×109 M☉ in the nucleus. The total mass of the galaxy increases linearly out to 69, then more slowly beyond that radius.[39]
The spiral arms of M31 are outlined by a series of H II regions that Baade described as resembling "beads on a string". They appear to be tightly wound, although they are more widely spaced than in our galaxy.[40] Rectified images of the galaxy show a fairly normal spiral galaxy with the arms wound up in a clockwise direction. There are two continuous trailing arms that are separated from each other by a minimum of about 69. These can be followed outward from a distance of roughly 69 from the core. The most likely cause of the spiral pattern is thought to be interaction with galaxy M32. This can be seen by the displacement of the neutral hydrogen clouds from the stars.[41]
In 1998, images from the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory demonstrated that the overall form of the Andromeda Galaxy may be transitioning into a ring galaxy. The gas and dust within M31 is generally formed into several overlapping rings, with a particularly prominent ring formed at a radius of 69 from the core.[42] This ring is hidden from visible light images of the galaxy because it is composed primarily of cold dust.
Close examination of the inner region of M31 showed a smaller dust ring that is believed to have been caused by the interaction with M32 more than 200 million years ago. Simulations show that the smaller galaxy passed through the disk of the galaxy in Andromeda along the latter's polar axis. This collision stripped more than half the mass from the smaller M32 and created the ring structures in M31.[43]
Studies of the extended halo of M31 show that it is roughly comparable to that of the Milky Way, with stars in the halo being generally "metal-poor", and increasingly so with greater distance.[32] This evidence indicates that the two galaxies have followed similar evolutionary paths. They are likely to have accreted and assimilated about 1–200 low-mass galaxies during the past 12 billion years.[44] The stars in the extended halos of M31 and the Milky Way may extend nearly one-third the distance separating the two galaxies.
M31 is known to harbor a dense and compact star cluster at its very center. In a large telescope it creates a visual impression of a star embedded in the more diffuse surrounding bulge. The luminosity of the nucleus is in excess of the most luminous globular clusters.[citation needed]
In 1991 Tod R. Lauer used WFPC, then on board the Hubble Space Telescope, to image M31's inner nucleus. The nucleus consists of two concentrations separated by 69. The brighter concentration, designated as P1, is offset from the center of the galaxy. The dimmer concentration, P2, falls at the true center of the galaxy and contains a black hole measured at 3–5 × 107 M☉ in 1993,[45] and at 1.1–2.3 × 108 M☉ in 2005.[46] The velocity dispersion of material around it is measured to be ≈ 160 km/s.[47]
Scott Tremaine has proposed that the observed double nucleus could be explained if P1 is the projection of a disk of stars in an eccentric orbit around the central black hole.[48] The eccentricity is such that stars linger at the orbital apocenter, creating a concentration of stars. P2 also contains a compact disk of hot, spectral class A stars. The A stars are not evident in redder filters, but in blue and ultraviolet light they dominate the nucleus, causing P2 to appear more prominent than P1.[49]
While at the initial time of its discovery it was hypothesized that the brighter portion of the double nucleus was the remnant of a small galaxy "cannibalized" by M31,[50] this is no longer considered a viable explanation, largely because such a nucleus would have an exceedingly short lifetime due to tidal disruption by the central black hole. While this could be partially resolved if P1 had its own black hole to stabilize it, the distribution of stars in P1 does not suggest that there is a black hole at its center.[48]
Discrete sources
Apparently, by late 1968, no X-rays had been detected from the Andromeda Galaxy.[51] A balloon flight on October 20, 1970, set an upper limit for detectable hard X-rays from M31.[52]
Multiple X-ray sources have since been detected in the Andromeda Galaxy, using observations from the ESA's XMM-Newton orbiting observatory. Robin Barnard et al. hypothesized that these are candidate black holes or neutron stars, which are heating incoming gas to millions of kelvins and emitting X-rays. The spectrum of the neutron stars is the same as the hypothesized black holes, but can be distinguished by their masses.[53]
There are approximately 460 globular clusters associated with the Andromeda Galaxy.[54] The most massive of these clusters, identified as Mayall II, nicknamed Globular One, has a greater luminosity than any other known globular cluster in the Local Group of galaxies.[55] It contains several million stars, and is about twice as luminous as Omega Centauri, the brightest known globular cluster in the Milky Way. Globular One (or G1) has several stellar populations and a structure too massive for an ordinary globular. As a result, some consider G1 to be the remnant core of a dwarf galaxy that was consumed by M31 in the distant past.[56] The globular with the greatest apparent brightness is G76 which is located in the south-west arm's eastern half.[10] Another massive globular cluster -named 037-B327-, discovered in 2006 as is heavily reddened by the Andromeda Galaxy's interstellar dust, was thought to be more massive than G1 and the largest cluster of the Local Group;[57] however other studies have shown is actually similar in properties to G1.[58]
Unlike the globular clusters of the Milky Way, that show a relatively low age dispersion, Andromeda's globular clusters have a much larger range of ages: from systems as old as the galaxy itself to much younger systems, with ages between a few hundred million years to five billion years[59]
In 2005, astronomers discovered a completely new type of star cluster in M31. The new-found clusters contain hundreds of thousands of stars, a similar number of stars that can be found in globular clusters. What distinguishes them from the globular clusters is that they are much larger–several hundred light-years across–and hundreds of times less dense. The distances between the stars are, therefore, much greater within the newly discovered extended clusters.[60]
In the year 2012, a microquasar, a radio burst emanating from a smaller black hole, was detected in the Andromeda Galaxy. The progenitor black hole was located near the galactic center and had about 10 $ \begin{smallmatrix}M_\odot\end{smallmatrix} $. Discovered through a data collected by the ESA's XMM-Newton probe, and subsequently observed by NASA's Swift and Chandra, the Very Large Array, and the Very Long Baseline Array, the microquasar was the first observed within the Andromeda Galaxy and the first outside of the Milky Way Galaxy.[61]
Like the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy has satellite galaxies, consisting of 14 known dwarf galaxies. The best known and most readily observed satellite galaxies are M32 and M110. Based on current evidence, it appears that M32 underwent a close encounter with M31 (Andromeda) in the past. M32 may once have been a larger galaxy that had its stellar disk removed by M31, and underwent a sharp increase of star formation in the core region, which lasted until the relatively recent past.[62]
M110 also appears to be interacting with M31, and astronomers have found in the halo of M31 a stream of metal-rich stars that appear to have been stripped from these satellite galaxies.[63] M110 does contain a dusty lane, which may indicate recent or ongoing star formation.[64]
In 2006 it was discovered that nine of these galaxies lie along a plane that intersects the core of the Andromeda Galaxy, rather than being randomly arranged as would be expected from independent interactions. This may indicate a common tidal origin for the satellites.[65]
Future collision with the Milky Way
The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way at about 69 which is about 1.96 billion to 2.74 billion miles per year,[66] making it one of the few blueshifted galaxies. The Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way are thus expected to collide in about 4.5 billion years, although the details are uncertain since Andromeda's tangential velocity with respect to the Milky Way is known to only within about a factor of two.[67] A likely outcome of the collision is that the galaxies will merge to form a giant elliptical galaxy.[68] Such events are frequent among the galaxies in galaxy groups. The fate of the Earth and the Solar System in the event of a collision is currently unknown. If the galaxies do not merge, there is a small chance that the Solar System could be ejected from the Milky Way or join M31.[69]
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Tikiar was a Mekuun Corporation starfighter.
The Tikiars were sleek, dark, two-person starfighters named after the Tikiarri. Their thrusters made unique quintuple starburst patterns.
They were used by the Judicial Forces at the time of the Battle of Naboo. Also the House Vandron used this type of starfighters. In 33 BBY, the House Vandron used the starfighters to escort the Prominence and the Ecliptic to the planet Asmeru. But when the Nebula Front took over the escort, the Tikiars flew away.
During the years of the New Republic, they were a favorite of the noble houses of Senex sector; House Vandron had a large fleet of them.
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AA ticket agent Denice Miracle is being credited as the miracle that saved two teenage girls from a potential life of slavery.
Miracle is an AA ticket agent at Sacramento International Airport. Her suspicions were aroused when two teenage girls checked in for a trip to New York. Neither had ID, neither had much baggage, the tickets were in first class, and were only one-way.
Checking on who purchased the tickets, Miracle noted the name of the credit card holder did not match the last name either of the girls had provided.
In an interview with KOVR, Miracle explained why she called police.
It was a first-class ticket. It was very expensive. I told a supervisor, 'I'm going to call the sheriff. It just doesn't feel right to me.
Sheriffs arrived at the airport and spoke to the girls. The teens admitted they were going to New York to "model" for a guy they met on Instagram named "Drey". He had promised them $2,000 each.
At this point, sheriffs were suspicious but reached out to Drey on social media. Within minutes of reaching out to him, all his social media accounts were shut down.
Police explained to the girls that they were likely to be victimized. The teenagers pushed back, but were shocked to learn they had no return tickets from New York.
The teen's parents were notified…they had been told the girl's were spending the night at a friends house.
Sometimes being nosy is a good thing. Miracle could have just "minded her own business" but she likely saved the two young women from an unpleasant weekend and potentially even slavery.
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Lake Success, New York
Monday, 2 June 1947 at 3:00 p.m.
Mr. HOO (Assistant Secretary-General): The second meeting of the Special Committee on Palestine is called to order.
Mr. HOO (Assistant Secretary-General): You have before you the agenda of today's meeting. Is there any objection to the adoption of the agenda, or any observations on that point?
(No response)
Mr. HOO (Assistant Secretary-General): The agenda is considered adopted.
Mr. HOO (Assistant Secretary-General): The second point on the agenda is the election of a Chairman.
Mr. FONTAINA (Uruguay): I nominate, as Chairman of this Committee, the representative of Guatemala Ambassador, Garcia Granados.
Mr. BRILEJ (Yugoslavia): I wish to support the nomination made by the representative of Uruguay. As we all know, we must have the greatest possible measure of impartiality in regard to the question of Palestine. I am certain that the most objective conditions for such impartiality exist precisely in Guatemala, not only because that country is among those furthest removed from Palestine geographically, but because it is one of those least involved in the issue of Palestine. Dr. Garcia Granados was chief of the Guatemalan delegation at the special session of the General Assembly, and I think he would make an excellent Chairman of the Special Committee on Palestine.
Mr. RAND (Canada): I am quite sure that we need as a Chairman someone who has had considerable experience in judicial administration.
For that reason I nominate Mr. Sandstrom. He has had long judicial experience and a long judicial career in his own country. He is Chief Justice of Sweden. I think the Committee might be well-advised to take the opportunity of selecting him as its Chairman.
Mr. ENTEZAM (Iran) (Interpretation from French): When I asked to speak I thought we would be confronted with only one candidate. However, we now have two nominations. I support the nomination made by the representative of Canada, the nomination of Chief Justice Sandstrom of Sweden as Chairman of this Committee. He is also the representative of a country which is not involved in the question of Palestine. I believe Chief Justice Sandstrom is, perhaps, even more neutral than many of us here.
We are all well acquainted with his eminent career as a jurist. I repeat, I support the nomination of Chief Justice Sandstrom as Chairman of this Committee.
Mr. HOO (Assistant Secretary-General): Does the Committee wish to vote now on the two nominees or are there any further nominations?
Mr. HOOD (Australia): Would not the proper procedure be to proceed to the balloting now?
Mr. HOO (Assistant Secretary-General): If the Committee desires, we can proceed to the balloting. The vote will be by secret ballot. As soon as the box is here, the ballots will be distributed and the Committee can proceed with the election of a Chairman, if it so desires.
Only two nominations have been made. The two names which have been proposed are Mr. Granados and Chief Justice Emil Sandstrom. We shall take a vote by secret ballot. The representatives are asked to write down on their ballots either one of the two nominees, since they are the only two who have been nominated.
(A vote was then taken by secret ballot with the following result)
Mr. HOO (Assistant Secretary-General): Mr. Sandstrom has received seven votes out of the eleven votes cast, which is the majority required, and he is, therefore, elected as Chairman of this Committee.
I think my duties are now terminated, and I shall ask Mr. Sandstrom to take his place in the Chair.
(Mr. Sandstrom assumed the Chair)
CHAIRMAN: As I assume the Chairmanship of the Committee, I want to thank you gentlemen for the confidence you have shown me. It certainly is a very difficult task that has fallen upon me but I am confident that I will enjoy your wholehearted assistance and, with our joint efforts, we shall be able to achieve the mission which has been given to us.
Mr. FONTAINA (Uruguay) (Interpretation from French): What I want to say is prompted by the fact that Mr. Entezam mentioned that we were all apparently in agreement in wanting you, Mr. Sandstrom, to be elected Chairman. I want to assure you that no one spoke to me on the subject of the Chairmanship of this Committee. If there was any understanding on this subject, I was left out of it.
CHAIRMAN: The next point to be taken up is the election of a Vice-Chairman; are there any nominations?
Mr. HOOD (Australia): I have the pleasure to nominate as Vice-Chairman the representative of Peru.
Mr. BLOM (Netherlands): I want to second the nomination of the representative of Peru as Vice-Chairman of the Committee.
CHAIRMAN: The representative of Peru is the only person nominated as Vice-Chairman. If there is no other nomination, I will consider the representative of Peru elected as Vice-Chairman of this Committee.
(No objection voiced.)
Mr. ULLOA (Peru) (Interpretation from French): I want to thank my colleagues for the signal honour which they have bestowed upon me in electing me Vice-Chairman of this Committee.
CHAIRMAN: Point 3 is the next matter on the agenda: "Discussion of Plan of work of the Committee." First to be considered is a draft letter to be addressed to organizations which lodged applications for hearing during the Special Session of the General Assembly. There has been a working group which the Secretary has dealt with the question and which is proposing a letter which the will read.
SECRETARY: "Draft letter to be addressed to organizations which lodged applications for hearing during the Special Session of the General Assembly.
"The Special Committee on Palestine has given careful consideration to the request of your organization to present its views on the question of Palestine during the Special Session of the General Assembly. In examining your application the Committee has borne in mind the fact that, while the First Committee of the General Assembly, after examining a number of applications for hearing, decided to hear only the Arab Higher Committee and the Jewish Agency for Palestine, it specifically noted that its decision 'did not exclude the possibility of all these organizations being heard by the Committee of Investigation once it had been established.'
"In view of the very short time at its disposal, the Special Committee feels that it will not be practicable at the present time to grant in this country an oral hearing to all the organizations which have asked to be heard.
"Because the Committee wishes, however, to give the fullest possible consideration to every relevant opinion, your organization is requested, if you may wish, to submit in written form (preferably in thirty copies), on or before 6 June, both your views on the question of Palestine and information regarding the extent to which your organization considers itself representative of any element of the population of Palestine.
"After examining your statement, the Special Committee will be in a position to decide whether its work will require that in addition an oral hearing be granted to your organization."
CHAIRMAN: Does anyone want to speak on this question?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN: As that does not seem to be the case, may I then consider the text of this letter as adopted?
(No objection.)
CHAIRMAN (Interpretation from French): The letter is adopted and copies will be sent to all the organizations which have requested hearings.
(Chairman continued in English as follows:)
Certain rules of procedure were discussed this morning by the Working Group, and we might now take these questions, discuss them, and decide on them here.
We will proceed, I think, by reading these rules one by one.
SECRETARY: "The Mandatory Power, the Arab Higher Committee, and the Jewish Agency for Palestine may appoint liaison officers to the Committee who shall supply such information or render such other assistance as the Committee may require. The liaison officers may, suo motu, present at the discretion of the Committee such information as they may think advisable."
CHAIRMAN: Does anyone want to speak on this point?
Mr. HOOD (Australia): If I am in order in anticipating the discussion a little, I would, with your permission, say a few words on this first rule in relation to the rules which follow.
I feel a little concerned at the disproportion in precision between this rule and the following rules.
If I may draw your attention to the following rules, they are, on the face of them, detailed provisions to meet detailed contingencies within the work of the Committee. The first rule, however, the one which has just been read by the Secretary, is a rule in wide terms, which clearly, of course, leaves a good deal to the discretion of the Committee, which is right and proper.
Nonetheless, the work of the liaison officers in practice will have many aspects, and I think we would save ourselves some time, trouble, and. discussion later on if, as far as possible, now that we have this opportunity before proceeding to Palestine, we laid down in slightly more detail and slightly more precision the framework within which liaison officers, if we agree to invite them, shall carry out their functions.
One particular contingency which I have in mind is the actual degree of participation: of the liaison officers, if again they are attached to the Committee in the work of the Committee.
The first provision laid down here does, of course, leave it open to the Committee to decide at its discretion what that degree of participation shall be. I still think, however, that it would be wiser at this stage to attempt some more precision in that particular respect. For example, at the public meetings of the Committee liaison officers will have a clear right of attendance on the minimum basis of being members of the public. Do we stop at that? Do we see them sitting in the body of the meeting chamber, or do we invite them, as is within our discretion, to sit at the table of the Committee itself? If we do the latter, are they entitled to take part in the public discussions which are current at that moment? We can say "Yes", or "No, they are not." The actual decision at the moment is immaterial to me. I am pressing neither one point nor the other.
May I repeat that I am attempting merely to anticipate a contingency which will certainly arise.
In the second place, if in the interrogation of witnesses before the Committee, the liaison officers wish to present questions themselves to the witnesses, and wish to interrogate witnesses -- if you like, cross-examine them -- we cannot decide either to accord them that right or to refuse them that right. Once again, the decision is another matter, but I do say that we are not really meeting the situation which will certainly arise by providing merely at this stage such general formal words as are set out in the document before us. I think all parties concerned in this matter are entitled to know clearly the mind of the Committee on at least those two points which I have mentioned.
We can add to this first provision certain words which will dispose of those particular matters. I myself would prefer to see that done in view particularly of the quite substantial detail which is set out in the following clauses. Alternatively, I would like to pose the question to you at this time with a view to my colleagues on the Committee expressing their opinion on the matter, and, if as we would hope, there is substantial agreement at least that agreement can go on record as part of the discussions which we are holding today. That would be an alternative to actually writing further words into this first provision.
I will say no more at the moment. I have posed the question and repeat that in my view it is essential at this preliminary stage in our work that we reach somewhat more precision on these points.
CHAIRMAN: Do you propose, Mr. Hood. the re-framing of this rule?
Mr. ROOD (Australia): As I have said, I would like to see further phrases or a couple of phrases added. I would rather not put them forward at the moment, although I have them ready, in the hope that there will be some further expression of view around this table.
CHAIRMAN: Before I ask the Members of the Committee to state their position on this question, I should like to state my own impression of the discussion we had this morning. My impression was that we had ruled out the proposal that these liaison officers should sit in the Committee. They would of course be present at the public hearings just as anybody else. Upon the question whether they are to be allowed to put questions to the witnesses, my impression was that we would hold this matter entirely in our hands and that we should decide from case, to case how to deal with such matters.
Furthermore, in general I think it is rather wise at this time to keep this rule in somewhat vague form because we do not know exactly what questions may come up. I believe it is advantageous for the Committee to have this question entirely in its hands.
Sir ABDUR RAHMAN (India): I wish to add very little after what has been said, but I think it is time that we have our notions clearly set forth with regard to the position of the liaison officers. The liaison officers are representatives of the various parties for whom they appear. They are not and will not be members of the Committee. They are merely representatives of the various parties and the Committee can deal with those parties through them because those parties cannot be physically with the Committee. They can communicate their desires or orders to these persons and they will comply with such wishes on behalf of the persons whom they represent. They cannot certainly sit with the Committee as members of the Committee. They will not be members of the Committee and they cannot legitimately ask for that concession. They can certainly put questions, if permitted by the Committee, and I am sure the Committee will not be unreasonable. In addition, if they do not misuse their positions, they will assist the Committee in coming to a decision. They will be permitted to do all that is necessary in order to ascertain the truth for which this Committee has come into being. They certainly have a right of attendance in the Committee, as has any member of the public; but they also have an additional right to present the case of the parties whom they represent, and in that connection they may adduce evidence. They may produce documents. They may do such other things as may be necessary, but at that point their function ends. They can do nothing more in so far as the deliberations or the decisions of the Committee are concerned. It will be for the Committee to come to a decision without their intervention and without their presence. They will not be entitled to be present at the deliberations of the Committee or in the private discussions which take place between the Members of the Committee.
Mt. BLOM (Netherlands): I support the point of view expressed by the Chairman and by the representative of India. I believe we should maintain the sentence we are discussing now just as it stands. I do not think there is any logical reason to add or delete anything at this stage. As you know, at a later stage we could always add to our Rules of Procedure. I believe at the present stage we should retain this as it stands now.
Mr. RAND (Canada): As the paragraph states, these are officers attached to the Committee. They must be available and accessible for all purposes of elucidation and assistance. I think it would be undesirable to limit the scope of action of the Committee in any way. I hoped myself free to avail myself of any assistance that they can be to me either in relation to some written submission or in relation to oral statements. I think where it is contemplated that we may call upon them for other assistance, that may assume any form the Committee may see fit to request.
CHAIRMAN: Do you believe, Mr. Rand, that this can be executed with the framing that we have, or do you propose some alterations to it?
Mr. RAND (Canada): I believe it is all contained within the present paragraph.
CHAIRMAN: Does any other Member wish to speak?
CHAIRMAN: As no other Member wishes to speak, I shall ask Mr. Hood if he would like to put his proposal in the form of a new draft.
Mr. HOOD (Australia): I do not propose to suggest an actual text for inclusion in this working paper. Having heard the three or four expressions of view given just now, I appreciate that they do go some little way toward meeting the point I made. To a degree there has already been some elucidation of what is meant by this first provision of our working rules. At the same time I merely add that I do not completely share the assumption of other Members of the Committee that the matter has thereby been disposed of.
Previously I mentioned the fact that an approach had already been made to the Committee in respect of the attachment of the liaison officers. Putting ourselves in the place of the party who made that request or other parties that may make further requests, we would agree would we not, that the interpretation of this provision in the paper before us leaves a good deal to be desired in the way of exactness? One coming for the first time might well inquire as to exactly what was meant and exactly what the extent of the functions of the liaison officers was intended to be. That seems to me to be an obvious consequence of the attitude which this Committee as a whole has evidently taken. I may be wrong and nothing may flow from it; we may sail very smoothly through these particular currents. But it is equally possible, in my opinion, that we will have exactly this type of debate on some future occasions more than once concerning interpreting exactly what we do mean by these words. I leave the attitude of the Australian delegation with you on this point.
CHAIRMAN: If there is no proposition to change the wording of the first rule, may I then consider it as adopted?
CHAIRMAN: The first rule is adopted.
Then we will proceed to the rules under the heading "Oral and written Testimony."
SECRETARY: Rule No. 1: "The Committee may at its discretion, invite representatives of Governments or organizations or private individuals to submit oral or written testimony on any relevant matter."
CHAIRMAN: Does anyone want to express his opinion on this rule? (No response.)
CHAIRMAN: Since this seems not to be the case, may I then consider Rule No. 1 under the heading "Oral and Written Testimony" as adopted?
CHAIRMAN: It is adopted.
SECRETARY: Rule No. 2: "Requests for oral hearing shall contain an indication of the subject or subjects on which the witness desires to testify."
CHAIRMAN: Does anyone wish to speak on this point?
CHAIRMAN: May I then consider the point adopted.
SECRETARY: Rule No. 3: "The Committee may refer to a sub-committee for examination and recommend such requests to present oral testimony as it deems advisable."
CHAIRMAN: Does anyone want to express his opinion here?
CHAIRMAN: Since this seems not to be the case, may I consider this rule as adopted?
SECRETARY: Rule No. 4: "The Committee shall in each case decide the time and place of the hearing of any witness from whom it may decide to receive oral testimony, The Committee may advise any witness to submit his testimony in writing."
CHAIRMAN: Does anyone want to speak on this Rule?
CHAIRMAN: Since this seems not to be the case, I will consider it as adopted.
SECRETARY: Rule No. 5 "The Committee, on the basis of the time available to it, may limit either the number of witnesses or the time to be allowed to any witness.
CHAIRMAN: Is there anyone who wants to speak on this point?
CHAIRMAN: Since this seems not to be the case, I will, consider it as adopted.
SECRETARY: Rule No. 6 "The Committee may refer to a sub-committee for study and report such written testimony as it may deem advisable."
Mr. HOOD (Australia): On reading this provision again, I am not quite sure that I understand what it means. I can understand the reference of written matter to the sub-committee for study. That is clear enough. But what in fact, is meant by the word "report"? What is it meant to signify? Does it mean that the sub-committee will deal with and dispose finally of any given segment of the evidence presented and report to the full Committee, thereby, excluding the full Committee probably from studying those documents itself? That is possibly, exaggerating what would happen, but on the face of it, on the wording of the clause, that could happen. In other words, the word "report" seemed to me to be slightly over emphatic in this connection, and it may be thought to anticipate the work of the Committee proper on the written documents.
In short, I would prefer to see the omission of the words "and report" — to study certainly, but not to report.
CHAIRMAN: May I pass the question of the representative of Australia to someone who was present when this rule was framed?
Sir ABDUR RAHMAN (India): Now, the words "end report" are clear enough. I do not understand what the difficulty is which is presenting itself to Mr. Hood. If a matter is referred to a sub-committee, the sub-committee will either do something or do nothing at all. If it does anything, how is the parent committee which appointed that sub-committee to know what has been done by the sub-committee? When the results of the labors of the sub-committee are reported to the committee which appointed it, that is a report. A report is not a final conclusion; it is the expression by the sub-committee to its parent body of its conclusions or its opinions in regard to a certain matter. In the same way, as we are a committee of the General Assembly, our decisions will not be binding on the General Assembly. The General Assembly can supersede our decisions, overrule them. By the same token, we would be able to scrutinize and examine the correctness of the conclusions arrived at by the sub-committee, if the matter has been referred to a sub-committee.
I do not understand the difficulty. No other words could possibly have been used except the words which have been used — "and report" — because if you delete these words, then the whole thing becomes useless. You refer the matter to a sub-committee. The sub-committee studies the matter, keeps mum, and does nothing more. Then, what was the use of sending the matter to a sub-committee at all? If you do it with a certain objective then that objective has to be communicated to you, the result of that labor has to be communicated to you; and that is a report.
I do not understand what the difficulty is which is troubling Mr. Hood in this matter.
CHAIRMAN: Does any other representative wish to speak?
Mr. ENTEZAM (Iran) (Interpretation from French): If the explanations given by our colleague from India are satisfactory, that is very good. If not, I think I could add something to them.
Our intention in writing this paragraph was as follows: If, for example, the committee receives written reports, it may study them or, if it wishes, appoint a sub-committee to study them. Then, the sub-committee might return to the committee and say, "Well, we ought to have some more written reports and study them again or have another hearing on this subject." The committee might then again appoint a sub-committee to do this work. The sub-committee would report to the full committee; and the full committee, of course, has a perfect right to adopt or not to adopt the findings contained in the report of the sub-committee.
The very word "report" implies in itself that the sub-committee will not take any decision but that it will be up to the committee to adopt or not to adopt the report of the sub-committee.
CHAIRMAN: Then, do you, Mr. Hood, propose the deletion of the words "and report"?
Mr. HOOD (Australia): Having heard what is in the minds of certain of my colleagues of the Committee I would not press this point. It is a trivial one.
If we said "for study and preliminary report" it might make perfectly clear what we all have in mind, if that is acceptable to the Committee. It does satisfy my point.
Sir ABDUR RAHMAN (India): Mr. Hood has just now used the word "preliminary". It is not preliminary at all. It may or may not be so. The sub-committee will make a report. It is going to be final as far as it is concerned. Therefore, I do not think the use of the word "preliminary" by Mr. Hood is really a good use in that place.
CHAIRMAN: I think the essential thing is that this report be made to the Committee and not to the General Assembly.
Mr. HOOD (Australia): My word "preliminary" is meant to refer to the Committee. It had reference to the Committee, of course, and not to the sub-committee.
However, if there is something more to be said on this matter, I shall begin to think there is something in my point after all. I still confess to being uncertain as to what is meant by these words "and report."
CHAIRMAN: Do you maintain your proposition or may I consider it as withdrawn?
Mr. HOOD: (Australia): I propose the insertion of the word "preliminary".
Mr. LISICKY (Czechoslovakia): Would it not meet the objection of the representative of Australia if we replaced the word "report" with the word "comment" which is not as formal as "report"?
CHAIRMAN: Is not that expression rather vague?
Mr. LISICKY (Czechoslovakia): A comment is in reality a report, but it is not called so, and that is the difference.
CHAIRMAN: There are two items to be voted on: the adoption of Rule 6 as framed by the Working Group and changing the word "report" to "comment".
We will vote first on the rule as it stands.
Mr. ENTEZAM: (Iran) (Interpretation from French): I think we should first put to a vote the amendment to the rule. If that is rejected, we can then proceed to vote on the rule as it stands.
CHAIRMAN: We will first vote on whether to change the word "report" to "comment".
(A vote was taken by a show of hands.)
CHAIRMAN: There were four in favour and eight against the change. The amendment is rejected.
We will now vote on the rule as it stands.
CHAIRMAN: Rule 6 is adopted unanimously.
The six rules are adopted and they will be inserted in the proper place in the rules of procedure which will finally be adopted by the Committee.
Mr. HOO (Assistant Secretary-General): After we adjourn this meeting, beginning from 5 p.m. this afternoon, all the representatives, alternates and staff members, who are going with the Committee to Palestine, are requested to go to the dispensary of the United Nations, which is in a room off the main hall. The entrance is marked with a Red Cross.
They are requested to do so in order to get the inoculations which they may want to have. Even if they do not want any inoculations because they already have them, they are requested to go to the dispensary to make the necessary administrative arrangements with respect to passports, United Nations certificates and financial questions.
Sir ABDUR RAHMAN (India): Many of us who have come from outside this country — from India and other places — have had to take their inoculations before they came here. We gave our certificates to the health officers of this country before we were allowed to land. Also, we have not brought our passports with us.
Mr. HOO (Assistant Secretary-General): Our dispensary will not require any certificates. If you say that you have already received inoculations, we will believe you. We are not forcing inoculations on anybody. It is for your convenience, if you have not received them.
However, it would be a good thing if you would go to the dispensary, because you will obtain all the information necessary with respect to administrative and financial questions.
CHAIRMAN: since it is already-half-past four and the representatives are expected to meet at five o'clock in the dispensary, I do not think we can have a private meeting as we had intended. We will meet in private tomorrow at eleven o'clock in Conference Room 11.


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Alright guys, I'm going on an adventure. Dublin, Barcelona, Florence, Lima, Cuzco. And then back to New York. I will try to become a Doctor along the way. But before I go, here's the last cover in my beautiful apartment in Brooklyn. You will be deeply missed.


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A moving ode to music and musicians which ruminates on the nature of success…
Searching for Sugar Man paints the musician Rodriguez as an almost spectral figure who drifts on the fringes of music society, unseen and yet possessed with the clarity of sight and lyricism that can equally paint the world in mystery as it can inspire revolution. He is a man who had two critically acclaimed albums which were instant classics to those in the know, but which failed to gain any traction in America. Then he killed himself. Depending upon who's version of the legend you listen to he either calmly sat on stage whilst setting himself alight or pulled a gun out and shot himself in front of his audience. Either way he died apparently unaware that his songs had become the voice of the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa.
The first question which this excellent documentary poses is simply 'how can a man who was so influential have been forgotten?'. It's a good one. It seems incredible that a musician who many claim to have been the poet of the times, above even Dylan, and who's ghost continues to hang around in Detroit's corners, streets and bars can have been completely forgotten. Particularly so when you realise that he is thought of as more famous than the Beatles over in South Africa. Is it a simple case of the American people's poor taste in music? Is it the fault of greedy executives? Was he just unlucky? The film poses all of these questions and more, but quite rightly it doesn't provide any straight answers. Then whilst you are swelling with a strong sense of indignation and outrage the film switches gears and takes you on a detective story that's more thrilling than anything you will see in a Hollywood movie.
This film works on a number of levels; it's a compelling narrative of one man and his family, it's a touching and slightly incredible investigation into how an artist can instinctively touch so many souls from varied backgrounds and it's also a love song to the art of music and those who can channel its power into instruments and lyrics.What is perhaps most praiseworthy here is that the film doesn't seek to sweep away its many profound and important questions with easy answers, instead it strives just to present the facts of its case and let people discover Rodriguez's work and perhaps feel inspired to do their own research too.
The film could have perhaps benefited from looking just a little further into exactly how his music became the rallying anthem during the Apartheid years. Here the film does feel just a little underdeveloped however it is not a great loss as the film sweeps you along a moving story which can't dwell in any one place too long. Which on the flipside is a technique that often works in the film's favour, it's lightness being such an integral part of the film's ethereal portrait of its subject. Your're going to come away with plenty of questions about this musician but you'll be grateful for it; not just because you'll have discovered a new artist to explore but also because it is quite the ride which the film takes you on.
What is the film's greatest strength? The fact that this is more compelling and exciting than most thrillers you'll find.
Its greatest weakness? The look into how and why he became the anthem of choice during the Apartheid years.
Would I see it again? Certainly. It's an emotional experience, not only because of the particular story it tells but also because it genuinely reminds us why music is such a powerful and involving art.
Thanks for reading, please do fire your thoughts out in the comment box below!


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Chris specialized in personal injury and workers' compensation cases. After graduating in 1976 from Harvard Law School, Chris was appointed Assistant District Attorney for the 7th Judicial District of Colorado. He prosecuted criminal cases from shoplifting to murder, acquiring extensive courtroom experience that served him well in advocating for his clients.
Following his service in the D.A.'s office, Chris moved to Grand Junction and dedicated his legal career to vindicating the rights of injured employees. He represented over 4,000 workers' compensation claimants between 1981 and 2019. Chris was recognized by his peers for his professional skills and accomplishments in Super Lawyers Magazine from 2006 until his retirement from the firm in 2019.
Chris is an active member of the state bars of Colorado, California, and New York and has appeared in numerous state and federal district courts across Colorado and the country. He successfully argued workers' compensation cases in the Colorado Court of Appeals and Colorado Supreme Court.


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Scales House
Scales House was a large six storey building located on Montreal Street Christchurch, which is a main city thoroughfare in the Christchurch CBD. When the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes hit this structure was severely damaged. The damage was such that it prevented any access to the building by personnel. The remote control Bobcat was craned into each level of the structure to safely perform soft strip works. This project required immense forward planning and management of our critical path.


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This is a combination of three recipes, which was going to be either absolutely fabulous or a complete overload of flavours and ingredients. It turned out to the first option and so I am recording it for future reference.
Servings: 4
800g butternut squash, peeled and cut into 2cm chunks
1 medium bunch of spring onions, trimmed and halved
a few splashes of olive oil
4 cloves of garlic with skin on
2 cm chunk of fresh ginger
2-3 bay leaves
1/2 tsp fennel seeds, lightly crushed
1 tsp coriander seeds, lightly crushed
1 tsp cumin seeds, lightly crushed
100g rocket
cooking chorizo
Soy balsamic dressing:
3 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1/2 tbsp soy sauce, I used dark one
1 fresh red chilli seeded and finely chopped
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
1 tsp clear honey
Heath the over to 220C/fan 200C/gas 6. Place the squash, spring onions and garlic in a large roasting tin. Drizzle with 1 tbsp olive oil and sprinkle with seeds and season. Roast for 30 minutes, shaking the tray a couple of times to keep it from sticking.
Whilst roasting slice the chorizo and dry fry until crispy. Set aside.
Pop the garlic cloves from the skins, mash and stir into the dressing. Whisk together the dressing ingredients.
Put the rocket in a salad serving bowl and arrange the squash on top. Pour the dressing over, sprinkle with the crispy chorizo and serve.


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In January 1991 Publishing News reported that Christina Foyle, a favourite of mine, had just finished reading Singular Encounters and found it quite diverting. Christina and I had got on remarkably well when I interviewed her for Women. She told me how she had adored her father and how much she had learned from him.
My father was really rather a gambler. He was always up to something. Once, coming back from America, he kept playing cards with some rather sharp people. First of all, he won quite a lot, about a thousand pounds a day – this was in the 1930s – and then he lost it all and a lot more besides. He told these men – they were real sharpers – that he couldn't pay, but they accepted a cheque. Then I had to get off the boat very quickly at Southampton to stop the cheque. He used to give me all those sorts of things to do. And then there was a lot of money owing him from the Soviet Union, with all kinds of bad debts, and he sent me over there to collect them. I went to Russia, by myself, when I was twenty-one. I went all over Russia, but most of the people who owed us money had either been executed or gone to Siberia. I didn't have much luck.
Christina was very entertaining and a good raconteur:
When I first came to Foyle's, it was a wonderful time. There were very many great writers about: Bernard Shaw and Wells and Kipling, Conan Doyle. They all used to come into the shop, and they were charming to me. That's why I started my luncheons, because customers used to say you're so lucky, you meet all these great people, I wish I had your opportunities. So I said to my father, we ought to give a luncheon and let our customers come and meet these writers. So my father said, well, you've nothing much to do, why don't you arrange it? That's how our luncheons came about. But I found that, although I was so young, they never patronized me or talked down to me at all. I used to go round and call on these people, asking them to come and speak, and they always said yes. And we've had them from that day to this. The first lunch we gave was for Lord Darling, the famous Lord Chief Justice and Lord Alfred Douglas came, who had been involved in the Wilde affair years before; and then our most recent lunch was for Jeffrey Archer, who wasn't born when we started them. So it's been marvellous, and I can hardly think of a time when I've had any unpleasant experiences.
She was a woman to whom I could relate. She often invited me to a Foyle's luncheon, usually held at Grosvenor House Hotel, and invariably seated me next to her. She was worldly and gossipy and it was enchanting to be in her company. On one occasion she told me how Colonel Gadaffi of Libya would send Foyle's a cheque for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and ask her to choose the books for him. She loved her profession and she loved people. The two strands were completely interlinked in her life.


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Maryland guard Trimble to return for sophomore season
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Maryland freshman guard Melo Trimble will return for another season with the Terrapins.
Coach Mark Turgeon says Trimble made the decision after considering a possible jump to the NBA.
Turgeon said Wednesday that Trimble discussed his options with the coach and family members before deciding that returning to Maryland was the best choice.
Trimble says he wants to build on what he and his teammates accomplished this season.
With Trimble playing a key role, Maryland finished second in the Big Ten and won a game in the NCAA Tournament before being eliminated by West Virginia.
Trimble ran the offense and led the Terrapins in scoring, averaging 16.2 points per game. He made 207 free throws, third-most in Maryland history for a season.


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All You Need To Know About Still Life Paintings
The Pleasing Charm of Still Life Paintings- Historical References
You will be amazed to learn about the fascinating technical concept of still life painting. It is certainly a form of art usually a painting or drawing a bunch of objects. As we surely know that objects cannot move, that is why the word "still" has been implied to them. Talking particularly about the previous ancient times, the objects were preferably fruits, flowers and other different sorts of dead animals and food, therefore the name "life" is introduced to it. Interestingly, the French speak of still life as nature morte which means dead nature. Now let's gather some knowledgeable information about the start of still life art.
The Ancient Era of Egyptians in the World of Still Life Art
Undoubtedly, people around the world have been drawing and painting collections of items for more than thousand years ago. Chiefly, the Egyptians stressed upon painting bulks of offerings for their holy gods in tombs or temples. Inquisitively, the ancients showed least interest in shading or perspective. They hardly believed in making things have a realistic appearance. They suggested unrealistic and mesmerizing work more over realism. They simply wanted express the significance of object that they chose to draw. For instance, this painting shows grapes, onions, apricots, meat which is likely to be a feast of their god.
The Intriguing Fascination of Greeks and Romans
Romans and Greek people weren't dry or boring. They were a part of this still life artistic work where the artists painted objects enjoyably. Their efforts are said to be more realistic than those of the Egyptian artists. It will be exiting to know that loads of mosaics of objects that terribly attracted people arousing their ultimate attention. You can see the cheerful objects presented on floors of museums or villas. The most striking part is the roman tow which is basically uniquely covered by ash. The town is interestingly known as Pompeii where these paintings bring sparkle and glow to the city. As we spoke of Egyptians, they weren't indulged in shading or coloring the objects but on the other hand, the Greeks and Romans more efficiently and effectively took part in this side of painting which was pleasantly related to shades and colors.
The Strange Enchantment of Vanitas Still Life Paintings
Peculiarly, the most charming part of history states the meaning of Vanitas which is a passage of Bible in revelations. Surprisingly, it means "vanity of vanities, everything or all is vanity". The incredible idea behind was linked with people who love joy and pleasure in their life. They appreciated and adored those things which would add colors to their lives and give them the strong feeling of being wealthy or important. The chief aspect about vanity paintings lies in their reality which speaks of them as expensive and magical fanciful objects, wine goblets and musical instruments for pleasantness. These fancy paintings also remind people of the horrifying times such as hourglass or candle, death portraying human skull mostly.
The Heavenly Engulfment of Twentieth Century Still Life Paintings
In the modern era of 20th century, the artists did not refrain from designing still art paintings. They still occupy a large space and make the artistic world full of delight with their voluptuousness. All the great artists have learnt marvelously how to paint and draw and they have their own ways of expressing the talent. New shapes, color, tones makes the entire painting picture look extremely attractive magnetically pulling the seekers attention. After several experiments, once they have mastered this form of enthralling art, they then hold the tendency to spin the world around with the paint brush in their hand by making the world and objects look highly inviting and beautiful.
Still Life Paintings- Old is Really Gold
Through thorough research of 1950s and 1660s, it has been put forward some witnesses on Amsterdam. It talks to us about the time when Amsterdam became political, social and financial capital of lush green Netherlands. At this stage, marvelously skilled still life painters like van Beyeren and Willem Kalf introduced fancy displayed still life art by creating and featuring expensive objects and fruits such as Venetian glassware, Chinese porcelain, trays and silver-gilt cups usually furnished in shining and lustrous light and a smooth velvety environment. In these splendid admiring works of Willem van Aelst, Heem, Rachel Ruysch and the unbelievably influential artist Jan van Huysum, the focus was more on the aesthetic temptation and beauteous function apparent in every still life painting which has been more conspicuous than any other time.
Evolution of Still Life Paintings
Moreover, in the middle of 1600s, still paintings showed dead games for instance Jan Weenix s Falconers amazed the world by creating aristocratic image depicting country life. In the previous decades, paintings of dead games had been in fashion the Netherlands of Spanish where Frans Snyder along with his companion Jan Fyt changed portraits of unfortunate hares, deer, fowl and other animals into detailed and impressive essays in texture and color and also into testaments of life which was comfortably lived on straggling estates. By the arrival of 1700, Flemish, French, Dutch and German specialities had strangely turned out to be less obviously distinguishable with the Dutch painters working enthusiastically for foreign princes and flourishing market with still life art all over Europe.
Simple Illustrious Notes on Still Life Paintings
- Over the years, artists have proudly chosen the subject regarding still life and they support their choice with various reasons; to expose or reflect the position of their owner in either haughty or humble way; for the expressing symbolic meaning that discloses the a mysterious though, idea or hidden story; to preserve and capture natural beauty of ephemeral object fruit or flower; to explain the artists great skills of painting technique or as a gripping and controlled structure to reveal the abstract qualities of elements which are basically shown as visuals.
- Speaking particularly about tradition, still life art has been the drawing of objects such as flowers, fruits and household items which are mostly seen settled on the table top.
- The mind blowing artist Harmen Steenwyck demonstrated items that reflected a secret message to the audience.
- Chardin overjoyed the world by showing enchanting beauty in the glaring household objects which are present in our surroundings.
- Juan Griss utilized his skill of still life by experimenting it in a way of predicting and anticipating objects existing in time and space.
- Amazingly, still life as a full grown subject provided people with a chain of exuberant artists of various eras. They explore the relationship with worldly objects that are a part of our surroundings.
- As the world drastically evolves, artifacts, new products and modern median will ceaselessly continue to give suggestions on new avenues for re invention of the emphatically pleasant form of art which is the wondrous still life art.


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Markets Mixed as Investors Continue to Worry Over Lack of Fiscal Cliff Progress
Markets finished mixed on Friday after the monthly jobs report showed more jobs were added than previously expected, but more adults also stopped looking for work. There was no fiscal cliff progress made, as the President and Speaker remained far apart on several issues, including tax increases. Shares of Apple (AAPL) closed down 9% for the week on worries about the sustainability of high profit margins and of competitors being a larger threat to the company. Another report released Friday by Reuters/ University of Michigan showed that consumer confidence was lower than expected, down from 82.7 in November to 74.5 in December.
Word on the Street
- Goldman Sachs (GS) got hit with a $1.5M penalty for trading fiasco in 2007.
- AIG (AIG) is reportedly to be in talks to sell its aircraft leasing business for $5B to a Chinese consortium.
- Shares of Citrix (CTXS) got a boost from takeover speculation.
- Germany's Central Bank sharply slashed its predictions for its own country's economic growth next year.
- For the week, the price of U.S. crude oil dropped over 3%.
- Pilots at American Airlines ratified a new labor deal.
Interesting Tidbits
Published on Dec 6, 2012By InvestorGuide Staff
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08 Oct Dark Cave tour with Kayak and Zipline (1 day)
Hang Toi (Dark cave) is a branch of Phong Nha cave system with 5,558m long and 80m high; the entry of cave is 30m high and 10m wide with heavy forest around the cave mouth. Dark Cave was discovered in the years of Vietnam War by local people and used as a bomb shelter
Hang Toi has a primitive beauty with thousands of several spectacular stalagmite and stalactites. This is a shelter of many species of animals like bat and swift, especially, Ha Tinh langur – one of primate species listed in the Vietnam Red Data Book. Especially, Mr. L.Deharveng, a Russian scientist, on January 9th 1995, collected, discovered and proclaimed a specimen of a species of new crab (called Nemoron nomas) in Dark Cave. This specimen is now being kept in the Museum of Zoology, the National University of Singapore.
We provided headlight, zipline, kayak and specialized equipment, visitors can have wonderful experience of taking the adventurous tour to discover Dark Cave, swimming in the cool water of Thuy Tien lake inside the cave.
Tour itinerary:
Our tour guide and driver will pick up at your hotel in Hue City (6:30 – 7:00 am) / Dong Hoi (10:00 – 10:30 am), transfer to Phong Nha – World's Natural Heritage
Stop on the way to visit the ruin of La Vang Church and drive by DMZ of Vietnam in Quang Tri Province
Lunch at Son Doong restaurant
Continue to drive to Dark Cave Center, change your suite, prepare Gopro Camera for interesting zipline from outside tower to the mouth of Dark Cave. Then start sightseeing and discovering the Dark Cave, swimming in the cool water of Thuy Tien lake inside the cave. Walk under the mud with plastic sandals
Later do Kayak on Chay river for sightseeing Rustic village and green fields, limestone mountains in the park
And do other zipline, jumping into the river, do swimming, sun bathing … and other water sport games
Back to Dong Hoi / Hue City
The end of tour.
Price for join group tour (SIC): 38 usd /person
- Pickup from Hue City (7:00 am) and from Dong Hoi (10:30 am) and from Phong Nha (11:00 am)
- Drop off from Hue City (19:30 pm) and from Dong Hoi (16:30 pm) and from Phong Nha (15:30 pm)
- Over 5 persons: please contact us for better price for private tour
- Car or van (Depart from Dong Hoi)
- Tour supervisor
- Lunch at local restaurant
- Entrance fee and National Park permit
- Local boat or kayak if mentioned
- Zipline on Chay River
- Cave equipment: plastic sandals, life jackets, caving helmets and lights
Excluded: Drink and other expenses.
Please bring your swimming suite, dry bag or water proof bag to keep your electronics while exploring the Dark Cave and other water sport games. There are lockers at reception room, but recommend not to bring valuable things, bring some money for extra coca or beer
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