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We will be launching our online registration system too- Ookeditse
The relaxing of Covid- 19 restrictions has come as a blessing for Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) as the party returns to its recruitment drive schedule
Before the restrictions, which barred gatherings were put in place, the BPF was engaged in a massive recruitment drive around the country.
Led by their Patron and Former President Ian Khama, the party had gone on the offensive, embarking on a countrywide tour and invading perceived ruling party strongholds such as Kumakwane, Moshupa, Kanye, Molepolole, Lentsweletau and Takatokwane among other villages.
In an interview with The Voice, the delighted BPF’s Spokesperson, Lawrence Ookeditse said that they were set to go back to their original schedule of the recruitment drive.
“We had long drawn our schedule and we will be announcing it next week,” he said before adding that the demand for BPF for membership was overwhelming.
Ookeditse said that although they will be continuing where they had left on the southern part of the country, they would also add some of the northern villages in their planning.
“We did a tour of a lot of villages in the southern part and it is time we focus a bit on the northern side too. We will also be launching an online registration system and building structures in all the regions,” Ookeditse explained.


This article originally appeared in The Big Timber Pioneer newspaper on May 6, 2010. It appears here with the permission of the publisher.
Living the Story
Sweetgrass exposed filmmaker to rigors of herders' lifestyle
By Patrick Cross, Big Timber Pioneer staff writer
Workdays in the mountains were long for Lucien Castaing-Taylor, beginning well before dawn and lasting nearly until the next dawn.
The mountains were far from family, too, far enough that he couldn't go home when the work day was through.
Climbing around boulders, up and down hills, working with domestic sheep that become half wild over several months grazing in the high country was tough enough. Add to this the dangers, the storms and lightning, the predators.
It was quiet, with few to talk to and fewer still who talk back, though there was plenty of time for telling stories with those sharing the labors and experience.
Often the only voices were the grumbles and bleats of the sheep, the barking dogs, a whinny and snort from a horse or maybe a wild song from a bull elk or a coyote. And always that of the wind.
The pay wasn't much, but the benefits of working in the Absaroka Mountains, often alone, bound less by the schedules of society and more those of nature provided its own compensation.
Castaing-Taylor, however, wasn't working as a sheepherder over those three summers in the wilderness south of Big Timber. He was filming the documentary Sweetgrass, which was shown at the Martin Theatre.
"It's not that easy to go in and out, its such a long way," Castaing-Taylor said of the mountains when he was in town for the premiere. "Plus, the first year I was a greenhorn. I was clueless in the mountains."
After first hearing about the herders and their sheep who travel over 150 miles to and from grazing allotments in the mountains, Castaing-Taylor didn't know what he would find when he came to investigate the possible documentary subject. And the Absarokas are a long way from his native United Kingdom and urban Colorado where he was working.
"Greenhorn" and "stupidly" are words he used often when describing his first adventures in the mountains, like with his first bear encounter.
"The first grizzly I saw charged me," he said.
As Pat Connolly, one of the herders featured in the film, told it, Castaing-Taylor had been loaned a .357 magnum revolver.
"It was useless," Castaing-Taylor grumbled. They heard gun shots, Connolly continued, and then on the radio one of the other herders reported seeing the bear running away. Then Castaing-Taylor came bursting through the bush, and "his eyes were this big," Connolly laughed with eyes showing no lids, "his nostrils were flarin', and he was packin' this pistol around."
"It's a good thing I'm such a bad shot and didn't hit the thing in six shots," Castaing-Taylor concluded.
But over the coming summers, he would gain more experience in the backcountry and a real love for the Absarokas. With his family living in Big Timber over that time and sharing some of the experience - his kids, age 3 and 5 at the time, even helped with trailing the sheep up the Boulder Road to Box Canyon - they felt at home here, too.
"The Allestads," who hold the grazing permit, "are like a second family to me," he said. He would also get an idea of how the film was going to be made.
The movie has no script, no narrator, and no director. According to the credits, Castaing-Taylor recorded, not directed, the film. This isn't just because sheep do not take direction well - just ask the herders about that - it is also because Castaing-Taylor wants the audience to be more involved when viewing the film.
In conventional documentaries, a narrator "talks down to the audience" by explaining everything, he said, and the film simply reinforces what the narrator said. The people in those films, even if they are the real people and not actors, usually just tell their stories. The films don't show the people living those stories.
In Sweetgrass, Castaing-Taylor wanted the "pictures to stand for themselves and the audience to interpret it for themselves," even though some viewers were frustrated by the lack of explanation -- some couldn't even figure out why one would bother taking sheep into the mountains to begin with.
To do this, he recorded the sights and sounds of everyday life in the mountains as experienced by participants in that lifestyle, similar to the concepts he currently teaches students at Harvard University's Sensory Ethnography Lab.
"We spent more money on the sound than on the cameras," he said of Sweetgrass, explaining that microphones and wireless transmitters with a half-mile range could be attached to subjects.
"Occasionally, I would put a (mic) on a horse or a dog or a sheep, but they often broke them, and they are expensive," Castaing-Taylor said. "But people broke them occasionally, too."
All this electronic equipment ran on batteries, which were charged with solar panels packed into the wilderness on a mule with hopes that it would be sunny.
And while there is a division of labor between those trailing the sheep into the high country or watching them once they are there, Castaing-Taylor was all over the place filming it all.
"I wanted to be everywhere," he said. "I wanted to be with the sheep, with the packstring, with the camp. Everything had the potential to be interesting."
He also spent a lot of time by himself sweeping his camera across the rolling, rocky landscape under the big sky's biggest clouds.
Running all over the mountains like this, often with a heavy camera mounted on a pole craning over his head and suspended by a shoulder harness "so I could occasionally put my hands down and get some blood back into my hands," took its toll on Castaing-Taylor. Later, he needed surgery on both feet and now has to wear special orthopedic shoes.
But the 200 hours of film he recorded has been "whittled down to two hours," by him and his wife, Ilisa Barbash, into a movie that has been well received at film festivals internationally.
Yet it was rejected by "dozens of film festivals" until being accepted at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival. After its positive reception there, others took interest.
Since then, it has been translated into five languages - French, Spanish, Russian, Polish, and German.
At the highly selective New York Film Festival, it was considered one of the best films of the year, "an incredible honor," Castaing-Taylor said.
And The New York Times' number one film critic, Manohla Dargis, who "makes Hollywood studio bosses quake in their shoes," according to Castaing-Taylor, not only reviewed the film but liked it.
Even urban audiences enjoyed the film, he said, and empathized with the herders' stress. But in some of the international showings, other herders came to see their American counterparts.
In the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, the film was shown in a country church after Mass. Spanish herders from the Pyrenees Mountains appreciated how the Americans took good care of their animals too, and the Germans who came to the Berlin Film Festival were amazed that the American herders "cuss like we do," Castaing-Taylor laughed.
For a film with very little dialogue, much of it is cussing, with some phrases proving difficult for some of the translators writing the foreign-language subtitles.
One scene, in which herder Connolly lays into the sheep after they have climbed over a ridge and dropped into another basin, has been described as "the best cussing scene in the history of movies," according to Castaing-Taylor. It is followed by a scene where Connolly makes an emotional phone call to his mother when the big man appears "tender, weak, vulnerable," Castaing-Taylor said.
Though another cleaner version of the film was made to show at Boulder church camps, he said, the shorter version "loses something."
"There's a certain potency that keeps you on the edge of your seat during those scenes," he said.
That ticked-off herder, Connolly, was pleased with how the film came out, though he hopes viewers don't take the offensive language the wrong way.
"At first, you wanna hide since its embarrassing," he said with an easy grin. "But then people come up to you and say, 'Hey, I do this too once a week.' It's life."
There is a lot of responsibility watching over someone's sheep and horses, "you're left with a man's life savings," Connolly explained, and the sheep can "get away in an afternoon and it will take you a couple days to get them back where they belong. It's a tough job."
During the cussing scene -- the one with the most cussing, that is -- Connolly explained that he had been pushing the "soured out" sheep too hard and they just "quit me."
"They're gonna stand there and say, 'what are you going to do about it?' and I'm standin' there beating myself in the head," he said.
The grizzlies come every few hours almost every night and sometimes even in the middle of the day, Connolly said -- bears that would have been secretive if it wasn't for the easy prey.
"I don't know if it's religious," as Castaing-Taylor put it, "but sheepherders feel this almost biblical charge to protect their sheep."
And on top of this, Connolly was a single dad worrying about a 6-year-old daughter.
"Plus, he had to tolerate me asking questions and being in the way," Castaing-Taylor added.
But not all of the film's viewers were empathetic, and some posted online criticisms of Connolly. While they do not bother him much, his daughter, Clancy, now 16, takes the criticism more "to heart."
In January, she wrote a letter to The New York Times, pointing out the challenges her dad faced, saying that he was "not being a baby" during the phone call scene, and that his life was "no vacation in the mountains."
"She sticks up for her dad," Connolly said. Castaing-Taylor said the letter made him cry.
Connolly also pointed out that he wasn't the only person working with the sheep who was caught swearing on film, "I'm just the one that got picked and got shown doing it."
Another complete film could be made with the cut footage, Castaing-Taylor said, and though he said he did his best, he called Sweetgrass "fragmentary, flawed and limited."
"It's never adequate to represent real life," he said, adding that he was humbled by the task. "You can never do the world as much justice as it deserves."
But Connolly praised the film, saying "you couldn't change it. It's as authentic as you can do."


Standards, Smart Grid, and IoT Adoption
This article originally appeared on IoT For All.
In Le Cailar, a small, picturesque village in the south of France, a company called Beoga, whose motto is “aime ton voisin,” literally “love thy neighbor,” has begun an experiment that could change how we produce, consume, and share electricity. Not only are the local citizens and press watching closely, but so are France’s electrical grid operator ENEDIS and state electricity actor Electricité de France (EDF).
Why should you care? Because solutions like Beoga’s could soon let you form your own “energy community,” leveraging existing energy assets to create a better planet and improve your finances.
- Reduce electricity production costs and bills.
- Reduce CO2 production, especially during peak electricity demand.
- Reduce demand on overloaded electricity grids lessoning grid investment and maintenance.
- Reduce fossil fuel dependence.
The Challenge: Keeping the Lights on in Paris
France derives approximately 70% of its energy from nuclear power. The origins of this policy date back to Charles de Gaulle and a strong desire for independence.
Historically this has served France well. France has benefitted from stable, arguably low-cost electricity and exported its nuclear know-how to many countries. Still, not even conservative state-dominated industries, like electricity, are impervious to technology’s disruptive effects and changing consumer sentiments.
Although France has long been a net exporter of electricity, domestic demand keeps growing thanks to all our gadgets and air-conditioning systems we all love. High energy demand stresses the electricity grid during the summer and winter months, in some rare cases causing network disruption events, like brownouts or blackouts.
Worse yet, these peak energy needs are serviced by generators that burn fossil fuels driving up costs and CO2 emissions. Since production is centralized in France, like most industrialized countries, France needs to build and maintain a massively expensive electricity grid and relay stations to deliver the electricity to its 35,000 villages and cities. Yes, including the City of Lights.
The Solution: The Tesla in your Garage
Beoga’s innovative solution allows any group of significant electricity producers to create “intelligent energy communities,” selling energy at peak demand and replenishing during off-hours.
The solution is composed of Beoga’s vision and expertise, distributed energy resources (DER), and IoT.
DERs are defined as anything that produces and stores electricity. Think of electric vehicles or solar panels. Once these DERs are connected, electricity can be sold during peak demand reducing demand for additional electricity generation and grids.
Beoga’s vision is to connect all these assets using 5G, IoT, and their software and algorithms in the cloud to let a community automatically trade electricity. In this case, the energy community is a village subdivision. Still, soon anybody who produces electricity, companies, a university, a fleet of electric local government vehicles could become a community.
Just a few years ago, this innovative solution would have been inconceivable.
Yes, solar panels existed, but electric cars were rare. However, this is changing quickly. According to the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the UK ambitiously plans to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 68 percent by 2030, mandating approximately half of the UK’s 35 million cars to be zero-emission vehicles.
Essentially there will be big batteries parked on every corner with government DER assets, especially car fleets, representing important untapped sources of electricity and revenue.
The Enablers: Global Standards 5G and Lightweight M2M (LwM2M)
However, before we can start siphoning off all this electricity from these different DERs, we need to get everything communicating, and that is where standards come in.
Beoga’s on-premise units, IoT objects, contain part of their solution and rely on often misunderstood 5G LTE-M connectivity to communicate with servers in the cloud.
Critics of 5G may fail to understand that 5G networks like LTE-M and NB-IoT fundamentally change the economics of connecting our world. 5G, unlike its competition, assures predictable pricing, quality of service, and long technological lifespans from the biggest cities to many small French villages.
Secondly, the cellular modems and chipsets connecting these devices, now at just a few dollars in some cases, keep coming down in price as the world centers on this standard and economies of scale increase.
Soon starting with smart meters and smart lighting and eventually spreading to millions of other devices, organizations will have an opportunity to reduce waste and leverage existing assets like never before. Truly we live in historical times, not unlike the Industrial Revolution and Guttenberg Press.
A second enabler is Lightweight M2M. LwM2M is an IoT device management standard supported by important smart city OEMs Itron and EDMI, and the uCIFI Alliance. uCIFI’s stated goal is to unlock smart city interoperability. LwM2M provides OEMs with a crucial set of standardized device management services, reducing the cost of connecting, securing, managing, updating, and sharing data.
How a standardized LwM2M development approach increases focus
While it is inspiring to imagine our brave new world, innovative solutions like Beoga’s and IoT, in general, are subject to a simple, cold calculus. Put simply, the lower the cost of building, operating, and exploiting the data, the more adoption and innovation accelerate.Mathematical Representation of IoT’s Value Proposition
Today Beoga will only work with suppliers who provide “open” solutions. Meaning manufacturers must provide a means to exchange data with their DERs. However, this requires Beoga to do costly integration work for each DER. Tomorrow Beoga will work only with suppliers who support the LwM2M standard, fundamentally changing the integration paradigm from expensive programming to that of a few mouse clicks.
Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand
This article was written a few days before April 22nd or Earth Day in part because technologies like DERs, 5G, and IoT have the potential to reshape our world for the better. The UK sees it with electric cars, and the UN sees it with IoT.
We can use these technologies to better manage critical resources like electricity, making our communities more livable while simultaneously reducing the resources needed to produce and deliver the essential goods and services every citizen needs.
Covid-19 taught us we need to build a more resilient world. If we want to spur innovative smart city solutions, adopting and supporting standards to expedite sharing data is critical.
Last year, to secure the IoT devices that will soon be responsible for delivering the goods and services we need to live, the US, Europe, and the UK government all adopted IoT cybersecurity regulations. Securing the devices is sensible and morally correct. Still, if, as UK Mathematician Clive Humby said, “Oil is the new data,” then communities that facilitate access to data will potentially become the next Arab Emirates.
How can we unlock data and accelerate IoT adoption? LwM2M allows businesses to build globally marketable products while unlocking data enhancing IoT’s core value proposition.
Municipalities can support innovation by assuring the infrastructure they adopt is standardized, secure, and interoperable.
Nationally, governments can accelerate innovation, improving the economy and lives of billions by supporting standards like LwM2M that reduce the costs of securely sharing data.


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This round table discussion will centre on the strategic deployment of technology within Arch Viz commercial projects and studios. James Orchard and Sam Slicer from FloodSlicer will review the creative decision making process that lies behind the creation of successful high end projects, referencing FloodSlicer projects that demonstrate high levels of technical prowess – in particular animations. The Arch Viz environments of the round table audience will be included and considered in discussions.
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- Discover how to attain best possible creative technical solutions
- Consider the use of technology in relation to historic trajectories and contemporary cultural relationships
- Discuss dissemination of knowledge in deadline-driven architecturally visualization environments, including research and development and introduction of new technologies

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This modern and spacious apartment offers stunning panoramic views of Berlin from an impressive bank of windows in the living area and not one, but two private balconies. The open-plan living area joins the galley-style kitchen creating the perfect environment for socializing and relaxing together with family and friends. Sleeping up to eight people in comfort and style, the apartment also offers a main bathroom with both a bathtub with a shower head, and a second bathroom with an additional toilet and wash basin. Accessible by elevator, it is located on the sixth and top floor of this modern apartment building, letting you escape the hustle and bustle of the street below. Danziger Straße is one of Prenzlauerberg’s main streets and just seconds away from an abundance of small boutiques, cafes, restaurants and bars. An 8 minute tram ride will take you from your front door to the foot of the iconic TV tower at Alexanderplatz!
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Hi, we are the GreatStay team (Leo, Ivo & Nataschal) and this is our story:
It all started here in Berlin, one of the most fascinating and dynamic cities in the world. Berlin embodies the spirit of a modern, liberal and creative lifestyle and combines cultural exchange with affordable quality living space. As the quote goes: “Berlin ist arm – aber sexy” (“Berlin is poor but sexy”). Founding partner and Managing Director Leo grew up in Berlin and witnessed first hand the transformation from crumbling post Soviet-era city, into one of Europe’s most vibrant, open minded and creative places.
In 2012 Ivo and Natascha joined Leo and together we are trying to make a vision work: Affordable but great living space for Berlin visitors. Ivo is one of the finest and most talented photographers and designers for real estates in Berlin and has an eye for details. Natascha in her role as Operatiosn Manager is the backbone of our daily business and manages the well being of our guests. Together we want to make your stay a GreatStay.


The wildfire danger for the Grande Prairie Forest Area is VERY HIGH.
The forecasted weather calls for gusty west winds at 20km/h with some up to 35km/h ahead of an approaching cold front. The risk of thunderstorms and lightning has increased the risk of more wildfires in the days to come as holdover fires and new lightning strikes are expected. A fire started in these conditions could result in a large hard to control wildfire.
GWF071 located 12 kilometers southwest of Grovedale was detected by our Bald MT lookout observer at 0.18 hectares. Early detection and quick action of firefighters were able to stop the fire from spreading. There are 2 firefighters and 1 helicopter working to extinguish this fire.
There are five active wildfires in the Grande Prairie Forest Area. Of these fires, two are classified as Being Held (BH) and three are Under Control (UC).
Since March 1, 2021 there have been 72 wildfires burning over 65 hectares in the Grande Prairie Forest Area. For more information on the current wildfire situation across the province of Alberta visit wildfirestatus.alberta.ca
A FIRE RESTRICTION is in place for Grande Prairie Forest due to hot and dry conditions, which will increase the fire danger. The fire restriction will remain in effect until conditions improve or change.
Under this restriction:
- Existing fire permits are suspended;
- All outdoor fires presently burning under permit must be extinguished, unless approved to continue by a Forest Officer;
- Safe wood campfires within fire rings in campgrounds and backyard fire pits are allowed.
- Wood campfires on public land
- Fireworks and exploding targets
- Wood campfires on private land
- Wood campfires within provincial campgrounds in a designated campfire ring
- Backyard fire pits on private land
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- Propane or natural gas fueled appliances
- Indoor wood fires
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Where campfires are allowed, it is important that they are completely extinguished. Be prepared with plenty of water to soak it , stir it, feel for heat, and repeat until the area is cold to the touch. Never leave a fire unattended, you can be held liable for suppression costs if the campfire becomes a wildfire. During times of elevated fire danger, a campfire is not encouraged.
All permits are suspended including burn barrels. No new fire permits will be issued until conditions change.
Check Alberta Fire Bans for the most up to date information on advisories, restrictions and bans in your area. Anyone living outside the FPA can contact their municipality for information about local fire permit requirements.
From March 1st until October 31st, fire permits are required for any burning except campfires in the Forest Protection Area (FPA).
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TRENTON — Per-pupil spending in New Jersey increased by an average 6.5 percent in 2009-10 from the previous year, but dropped in Newark and other urban districts, according to the state's annual School Report Card data being released today.
But acting Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf questioned the reliability of the state’s own data, saying some non-instructional areas, such as transportation and health benefits, should be included when comparing districts. If those costs were included, he said, per-pupil spending would be higher.
"The data are not completely accurate," said Cerf, who was appointed in December and is awaiting Senate confirmation. "They under-represent and drastically understate the per-pupil cost, and I’m committed to doing a better job on this in the future. These data need to improve."
According to the state Department of Education data, the average comparative per-pupil cost statewide rose by $850 — from $12,983 in the 2008-09 school year to $13,833 in 2009-10. But spending fell in 66 of the state’s roughly 600 districts, including Newark, East Orange, Trenton, Jersey City, Camden and Plainfield, according to the data.
In Newark, the state’s largest district, spending dropped from $19,058 in 2008-09 to $16,913 in 2009-10, the data show. Valerie Wilson, the Newark school business administrator, disputed the data, saying actual spending was $18,894.
Gov. Chris Christie has publicly criticized Newark for its spending and poor performance, saying last year that the city spent "$24,000 per pupil and public money for an absolutely disgraceful public education system."
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, a federal reporting agency, per pupil spending in Newark for the 2007-08 school year was at $23,500, a figure that includes costs for instruction, support services and other items.
Cerf said the state data paint an incomplete picture because they do not include non-instructional costs, such as transportation, health benefits, pension payments and food services.
"If you’re being asked to report how much is being spent per pupil, you should report how much is being spent per pupil, not exclude certain cost categories," he said.
The annual data, known as the New Jersey School Report Card, is a comprehensive collection of information on things such as teacher salary, class size, district spending, graduation rates and scores for New Jersey’s standardized tests and the SAT college admission tests.
To access the school report card for 2009-10, visit the New Jersey Department of Education's website.
The report, which is required by law, is being released one day after new regulations took effect capping superintendent salaries based on district size. According to the data, however, some districts where administrators’ pay would be cut have the lowest per-pupil spending.
Superintendents in Westfield and the Chathams, who face pay cuts of more than $40,000 each once their contracts expire, have argued the reductions, pushed by Gov. Chris Christie, are unwarranted. Higher salaries, they say, bring better talent to their districts.
Westfield spends $12,009 per pupil — 15 percent below the state average while the District of the Chathams spends $11,861. Both districts are among the top performers on the state’s standardized tests.
Julia Walker, Westfield’s school board president, said spending in the Union County district is low compared to similar districts because of Superintendent Margaret Dolan’s leadership. Dolan has been superintendent or assistant superintendent in Westfield for the last decade.
"Understanding the complexities of a district with an $84 million budget, 6,300 kids and 800 employees doesn’t happen overnight," Walker said. "She can see a way to make the district run efficiently because she has experience here."
THE REPORT CARD
The School Report Card divides districts into one of nine categories, or District Factor Groups, based on socioeconomic status.
According to the state data, the lowest spenders in each category were East Newark, Bellmawr, Elmwood Park, Swedesboro, East Greenwich, Harrison, Wenonah and Montgomery. Among charter schools, Classical Academy Charter School spent the lowest per pupil.
The highest per-pupil spending was found in Asbury Park, Sea Isle City, Highlands, West Cape May, Avalon, South Hunterdon Regional, Alpine and Saddle River, along with Englewood on the Palisades Charter School.
Overall, Avalon — a tiny district in Cape May County that consists of one school and 75 students — spent $35,882 per pupil in 2009-10, the highest in the state and more than twice the state average.
David Rauenzahn, chief school administrator in Avalon and neighboring Stone Harbor, which also has one school, said a declining enrollment is driving up per-pupil costs. The two districts already share many services, including his salary, in an effort to reduce costs.
In defense of a per-pupil cost that is more than twice the state average, Rauenzahn said student achievement in Avalon and Stone Harbor, is very good and residents support their schools, he said.
"All I can say is, look at the results," he said.
Find your school and click the link "School Report Card (print version)" on the right side, or view the DOE page here.


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This family-friendly Corfu hotel is located in Kanoni, within 1 mi (2 km) of Panagia Vlahernon Church, Mouse Island, and Museum of Palaeopolis. Aqualand is 2.8 mi (4.6 km) away.
A restaurant, an outdoor pool, and a bar/lounge are available at this hotel. Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a poolside bar, a 24-hour business center, and coffee/tea in a common area.
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Ariti Grand Hotel Corfu features an outdoor pool and a children's pool. The hotel offers a restaurant. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
This 4-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and a meeting room. 2 meeting rooms are available. This family-friendly hotel also offers spa services, a terrace, and tour/ticket assistance. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 156
- Number of floors - 6
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free breakfast
- Concierge services
- Conference space
- Pool umbrellas
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- One meeting room
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- Free self parking
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Pool sun loungers
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 85
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Spa services on site
- Children's pool
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- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
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Free self parking
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- In-room massage available
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- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
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- Separate bedroom
- Egyptian-cotton sheets
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Where to Eat
A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 7:30 AM and 10 AM.
Ariti Grand Hotel Corfu has a restaurant on site.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An outdoor pool and a children's pool are on site.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
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Check-out time is noon
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- Kids stay free! One child 2 years old or younger stays free when using existing bedding.
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- No pets or service animals allowed
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The 17-strong squad announced by England on Wednesday has been trimmed to 15 ahead of their Test against India which starts at Bristol next week.
The remaining players have now moved from Loughborough to a biosecure environment at Bristol ahead of the match.
The final XI will be chosen from the following 15 players:
- Heather Knight (Western Storm, captain)
- Emily Arlott (Central Sparks)
- Tammy Beaumont (Lightning)
- Katherine Brunt (Northern Diamonds)
- Kate Cross (Thunder)
- Sophia Dunkley (South East Stars)
- Sophie Ecclestone (Thunder)
- Georgia Elwiss (Southern Vipers)
- Tash Farrant (South East Stars)
- Amy Jones (Central Sparks)
- Nat Sciver (Northern Diamonds, vice captain)
- Anya Shrubsole (Western Storm)
- Mady Villiers (Sunrisers)
- Fran Wilson (Sunrisers)
- Lauren Winfield-Hill (Northern Diamonds)
Sarah Glenn (Central Sparks) and Freya Davies (South East Stars) have been released, and will now be able to play for their regions in tomorrow’s fourth round of matches in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy.


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I was going for a mood of mystery and isolation in this picture. I hope I achieved it.
I started this painting last week, but after my first session, I had omitted the tree trunk on the right, as it's a few feet out of the frame in real life. The artist who leads my landscape class persuaded me to put the tree in, and I'm glad I did! It adds interest, and it makes clear that some of the tree branches are in front of the house as well as behind it.
Gold star to anyone who can identify where the house is. Er, I know I haven't enabled comments yet; I'm working on it! I hope to have a comment system in place shortly.


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A United Nations official in Papua New Guinea says reviving the agriculture sector in the wake of the extended drought is vital for the country.
Thousands of people remain in distress in PNG as a result of the drought destroying their food gardens and now for many the impact of floods.
The UN Development Programme's country director, Roy Trivedy, said it will be months before food production is back to normal and one of the keys is restoring agriculture.
He said this means the National Agriculture Research Institute, NARI, and the people working on seeds and tools and early recovery are providing what is needed.
"With the right seeds, early germinating varieties, pest resistant varieties and so on - getting those out to communities. As well as providing for food and some amount of assistance with nutrition and so on, we need to make sure people have seeds and tools to plant with and so on."

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Hundreds of properties across Sheffield are having lifesaving sprinkler systems installed thanks to a partnership between the fire service and council.
More than 540 flats in Gleadless Valley, Westfield, Stannington and Netherthorpe are being targeted to dramatically improve fire safety measures.
One hundred homes have already benefited from the project that started in November and was devised by South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue and Sheffield Council.
The rest of the sprinkler systems are due to be fitted by September.
Technical fire safety manager Amy Jenkinson, urged any residents involved in the scheme to arrange for the work to be carried out immediately.
She said: “The combination of working smoke alarms and a home sprinkler system reduces the risk of death from fire by more than 80 per cent.
“Automatic fire sprinklers are most effective during the initial stage of a fire occurring, as a properly installed sprinkler will detect heat, initiate an alarm, and activate just moments after the flames appear.
“I would encourage everyone who receives a letter about the work to call the number provided as soon as possible so access can be arranged to carry out this essential work.
“The quicker the project is completed, the faster everybody’s safety is improved.”
A Sheffield Council spokesman said: “We are working hard to make sure that our tenants and leaseholders are fire safe and fully aware of the dangers a fire can bring, especially in flats and maisonettes.
“The fire suppression and sprinkler projects are a part of a large four-year investment programme for council housing in the city to ensure tenants are safe in their homes.”
The project follows the successful retrofitting of an automated sprinkler system at the Callow Mount block of flats in Gleadless Valley, which was internationally recognised for the improved safety it offers residents.


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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday and successfully reached orbit, live footage broadcast by Russia's space agency Roscosmos showed.
The crew members travelling to the International Space Station (ISS) are Kate Rubins, a NASA microbiologist who in 2016 became the first person to sequence DNA in space, and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.
The mission is the last scheduled Russian flight carrying a US crew member.
Since the space shuttle programme ended in 2011, NASA has relied on Russia to ferry its astronauts to the space station, an orbiting laboratory 250 miles above Earth that has housed international crews of astronauts continuously for nearly 20 years.
NASA has purchased additional crew seats from Russia as its public-private crew programme faced delays, with Rubins' mission being the most recent.
The US is scheduled to begin operational missions on SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule.
“We have an incredible partnership,” Rubins said in an interview from Russia's Star City before her flight. “We'll continue to train crews over here and we're going to have cosmonauts come to the Johnson Space Center and train.”
NASA and Roscosmos have committed to continue the flight-sharing partnership and are in talks to fly Russian astronauts on US vehicles and to fly US astronauts on Russian rockets when needed, a spokesperson for Roscosmos told Reuters.
“Of course, mutual flights are of interest for ISS reliability and continuous operations,” the spokesperson said. “This approach (mixed crew flights) will ensure delivery of the crew to the station, should a problem with the partner spacecraft occur.”
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This is a scarce original pencil signed etching by American artist Stephen Parrish. The title of this work is: "The Harbor of Cannes, 1886" . This image was created when in November of 1885 Parrish arrived in Cannes. "The harbor was so beautiful that it inspired this etching." (R.S.) The image measures 11 7/8X18 5/8, printed on a medium weight wove paper called "Imperial Japan". Excellent original condition, a rich warm tone to the sheet. This etching was last sold by Hermann Wunderlich, the label appeared on the back of the frame, this etching is currently matted, not framed. An excellent rich impression.. This image appears in the Schneider catalog as image number 116.
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Mitigation measures against severe accidents (SAs) are important from the viewpoint of safety of nuclear reactors. In some scenarios of the SAs, the core materials melt and fall into a water pool in the lower plenum as a jet. The molten material jet is broken up, and heat transfer between molten material and coolant is occurred. This process is called a fuel-coolant interaction (FCI).
The aim of the present study is to clarify the liquid jet behavior falling into a shallow pool. Our focus is on the atomization conditions of a liquid jet injected into the pool with insufficient depth.
In order to understand the jet behavior in a shallow pool, we performed observation of visualization with several methods and mapped observed flow regimes of jet against dimensionless numbers. As a results of observation, we succeeded visualization of internal flow.


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The flower market of Quang An is a new construction investment based on the location of the old market, aiming to bring in a new atmosphere to the district and the city.
The open structure enable clear circulation, smooth trading as well as harmony to the nature, making a fascinating destination for tourists.
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Vs Parity Previous USD/CNY Central Parity 6.1806 6.1796 USD/CNY OTC 0830 GMT 6.1317 -0.79% 6.1345 High 6.1357 -0.73% Low 6.1210 -0.96%
SHANGHAI--China's yuan rose against the U.S. dollar Monday as investors bet the Chinese currency will rise ahead of a presidential summit between the two countries later this week, despite the dollar's global strength and Beijing's effort to guide its currency slightly weaker.
On the over-the-counter market, the dollar finished at CNY6.1317 at 0830 GMT, down from Friday's close of CNY6.1345. It traded in a CNY6.1210-CNY6.1357 range.
The People's Bank of China set the dollar/yuan central parity rate, a reference exchange rate, at 6.1806, up from Friday's 6.1796, following the dollar's gains overseas. The Wall Street Journal Dollar Index, which tracks the U.S. dollar against a basket of currencies, was at 74.964 late Friday, up from about 74.8376 late Thursday. At 0830, the index was at 74.75.
The yuan may notch further gains in the run up to Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to the U.S. later this week, market participants said.
"The chances that the yuan will stay strong against the dollar in the short run are high," said a Shanghai-based trader with a foreign bank.
China has in the past moved to strengthen its currency ahead of important diplomatic visits and economic meetings to avoid controversy over the yuan, which some overseas politicians say is kept artificially low to boost China's exports.
The yuan has risen 1.6% since the start of the year.
Offshore, one-year dollar/yuan nondeliverable forward contracts fell to 6.2500/6.2520 from 6.2600/6.2630 late Friday, implying a 1.9% fall by the yuan over the next year.
In the offshore yuan market in Hong Kong, where the Chinese currency floats freely, the dollar was at CNY6.1360 late Monday, lower than CNY6.1450 late Friday.
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I have a gen1 motor that blew the front rod bearing (PO) Everything is in really good shape except the front rod and crank is most likely trashed. I have everything EXCEPT flywheel, stator and cover, carbs, and clutch side cover. I also have gen2 intake boots, flywheel, and clutch cover. Let me know you your are in need of anything. Bike had 11,642 miles on it when the motor went out.


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Adoption law changes criticised
NEW adoption laws coming into effect from Monday will allow more than 3000 Queenslanders to view information they were previously banned from seeing.
However, according to Bundaberg adoption campaigner Mick Gray, the changes are a “band-aid solution to a broken leg”.
Mr Gray criticised the legislation, saying adoptees who view the documents first must sign a waiver saying they will not contact their parents, or hold the government responsible for any past decisions.
Under the new laws, which will come into force on Monday, adopted people and birth parents will have the right to identifying information regardless of when the adoption took place.
Mr Gray, 35, who is an adoptee himself, says the Act will still prevent him from locating his sister because his mother signed a veto to contact.
“To see the documents you’ve basically got to sign a waiver,” he said.
“They are still treating us like second-class citizens. It’s a natural birthright to know who we are.
“It makes the adoptee feel shameful.”
Acting Child Safety Minister Karen Struthers said the Adoption Act would mark the most significant reform of Queensland’s adoption laws in more than 45 years.
“The new laws balance peoples’ right to information about their birth parents or son or daughter who was adopted, with the right of others to maintain their privacy,” she said.
“The new Act will give these people the right to access information about their own identity or that of a son or daughter for the first time.”


As Democrats desperately grapple for ways to discredit and oust President Donald Trumps’ U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett, the best charge they can come up with is that she calls herself a “handmaid” in a Christian organization – meaning a servant of God.
Since her nomination, Barrett’s approval has gone from a narrow 37% to 34% margin in favor of confirmation to a 46% to 31% margin in a Morning Consult poll released week, and the left now appears to be grasping at straws as more and more Americans see her as a qualified fit for the nation’s highest court.
“By a 15-point margin, significant plurality of voters now favor confirming ACB to Supreme Court,” Townhall’s Guy Benson tweeted Wednesday. “Less than 1/3 oppose.”
Adding to Democrats’ fears later that day, a Fox News survey revealed a majority of Americans want Barrett – a devout Catholic – confirmed.
Is that all you’ve got?
With time running out, the left is now attempting to portray Barrett as being subservient to a patriarchal system, with The Washington Post highlighting that the aspiring justice is referred to as a “handmaid” in her Christian faith group, People of Praise – a story that has been rehashed by the leftist daily.
This comes after Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) attack on Barrett, insisting that her religious “dogma” will skew her objectivity on the bench.
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However, it is argued that after any kind of objective inquiry is made on WaPo’s “handmaid” story, critics will find that the title has little to do with submission to a male-dominated system – as the left errantly suggests.
“Perhaps this is news to media organizations, but the handmaid concept applies to all Christians – not just the women,” Hotair explained. “We are all called to emulate Mary in her submission to the will of God, so that His work can be accomplished through us.”
This is clearly seen in Luke 1:38: “And Mary said, ‘Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; May it be done to me according to your word.’ Then the angel departed from her,” as translated in the New American Bible (Revised Edition).
Rich Lowry of National Review points this out, as well.
“All due respect to author Margaret Atwood and The Handmaid’s Tale, but Christians and Catholics have a very different view of the term ‘handmaid’ – one that apparently even escapes the WaPo’s religion reporters,” Lowry noted. “It’s modeled on Mary – not on her marriage to Joseph, but on her submission to the Lord. It comes straight out of Luke’s Gospel, in the very first chapter.”
This was also impressed by legal expert and conservative writer David French.
“The name comes from the Bible – not from Margaret Atwood,” French tweeted Wednesday. “It was never remotely controversial until that novel. Read Luke 1 for context, King James Version.”
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) sarcastically addressed the issue, as well.
“Catholic believes Catholic stuff – story at eleven,” Sasse recently quipped, according to Hotair. “This conspiracy theory that a brilliant jurist and an accomplished lawyer is secretly a subservient woman controlled by her husband’s ‘shadowy organization’ isn’t just stupid – it’s bigoted and sexist.”
He had more to say about the ridiculous nature of WaPo’s “gotcha” story.
“Newsflash: Catholics hang out with other Catholics,” Sasse told The Daily Caller in an interview. “There’s nothing nefarious about this.”
If Dems fail to trash Barrett, then what?
Democratic leaders have already revealed a few cards from their sleeve that they will play if and when Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court.
“[A]s Democrats’ bad-faith, straw-grasping demands for delays fall on deaf ears, the Biden campaign continues to conspicuously duck questions about potential court-packing under a hypothetical era of unified Democratic control,” Townhall reported. “Biden gave a major speech in Gettysburg underscoring the importance of unity and bipartisanship as touchstones of his would-be presidency, leading a number of observers to note that these were not the sentiments of a man interested in ending the filibuster and blowing up institutions.”
Many critics anticipate Biden posturing as being moderate before letting the far-left dictate his agenda – if elected in November.
“Biden’s personal instincts may not matter much if he knuckles under to harder-left elements after he wins, which is the whole thrust of the ‘trojan horse’ theory: Make nice, moderate sounds, get elected, then allow hardcore ideologues to set the agenda,” Townhall added. “Biden could go a long way to dispel those fears by unequivocally rejecting court-packing (and other potential power-grabs), but he’s bending over backward not to do so. His running mate doubled down with weak (and dishonest) evasions again [during the first vice-presidential debate Wednesday].”
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TOLLAND, Mass. — Voters at a special town meeting Saturday rejected a federal wild and scenic designation for the West Branch of the Farmington River, joining their neighbors in Sandisfield and Otis in reversing earlier votes in favor of the designation.
The wild and scenic designation has been approved by five Connecticut towns on the river: Colebrook, Hartland, Barkhamsted, New Hartford and Canton.
Without the approval of the Massachusetts towns, however, Congress may be asked to approve the designation for only the Connecticut portions of the river.
Wild and cenic designation provides federal protection for the river and requires environmental studies if highways or other major projects are built nearby.
Saturday morning about 90 people, a few from nearby towns, rode over roads made slippery by freezing rain and packed the town hall meeting room in this hill village on Route 57 just north of the Connecticut line.
Richard Richter, a town assessor, sought to continue consideration of the designation.
"It would be a crime to cut off all our choices by voting to rescind," Richter said.
But Richter's motion was rejected, and when the paper ballots, cast in an old wooden ballot box, were counted the tally was 51 to 27 to rescind approval.
About 50 people had expressed concern at a hearing last month that federal wild and scenic designation for the West Branch of the Farmington would someday mean loss of their land to supply the Hartford area with water.
Part of the resolution, approved last March and rescinded Saturday, said wild and scenic designation "would be based on the locally developed river conservation plan and would not involve federal acquisition or management of lands."
The West Branch of the Farmington River, just south of Massachusetts in Connecticut, has two large dams, including one at the Hogback Reservoir in Colebrook and Hartland that was built with
the objective of someday sending water through a mountain tunnel to the Metropolitan District Commission's Barkhamsted Reservoir, which supplies water to the Hartford area.
Upstream from the Hogback Reservoir is the larger Colebrook River Flood Control Reservoir, built by the federal government for flood control, recreation and the Metropolitan District Commission's water supply.
Part of Tolland borders the Colebrook River reservoir, which covers the area where the village of Colebrook River once stood.
"I'm sure you're aware of the town of Colebrook River that was wiped out," said Julian C. Work, chairman of Tolland's planning and zoning board. "Anything that smacks of that sort of control I'm against."
Work said that a year ago the designation was "approved overwhelmingly. But we weren't given all of the picture."
"I hope this sends a message to other federal protectionist programs," said Joseph J. Clark III of Tolland, spokesman for a group opposed to the designation.
"We want local control, we want to make our own decisions. We've got problems with federal decisions," Stephen Palmer, a machinist from Tolland, said. "People say we don't understand. We do understand. We feel confident with our own decisions.

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Pour the mixture into a bowl and add enough flour to make a workable dough. Roll it into balls and press down with the tines of a fork on a cookie sheet, or roll or pat out on a floured surface and cut into biscuit shapes. Place on a parchment-lined sheet and bake for 20 minutes, or until golden. To get them nice and hard, turn the oven off but leave them inside as the oven cools—when they're completely dried out, they'll last longer. If they still have some moisture to them, keep them in a sealed container in the fridge.
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Three people, Ismaël, Julie, and Alice, share a life together in Paris. Alice is into non-sex, and Julie is desperate to keep Ismaël but unhappy with their current life. She confides to her sister Jeanne that Ismaël is forcing her to break up for him. Julie dies almost literally of a broken heart and Ismaël becomes an emotional wreck. He dodges Julie’s loving family, tries to build on his friendship with Alice, but to spare himself pain he distances himself from emotion. Until Erwann. Erwann is a young kid determined to have Ismaël love him.
Louis Garrel is my favorite actor. He embodies cinematic spirit better than any performer today, and he reminds me a lot of Jean-Pierre Léaud. Léaud was a very divisive actor from the New Wave and is Garrel’s godfather, so the parallel is fair to draw. But Garrel is more accessible than Léaud maybe because he’s more handsome and his personality more playful and innocent. Even when he’s in bed with two women he retains his innocence. The secret might be that he’s a terrific actor. He has become a muse for Honoré, but the director’s true muse is Chiara Mastroianni. Love Songs was her first film for Honoré and she has since appeared in every one of his films, including a single shot in La belle personne. She is very good as Julie’s sister, and like her mother she can handle a musical. The dynamic between these three characters is the saddest thing about Love Songs. It is clear that Julie loves Ismaël because she gets so easily upset at him for disappointing her. For possibly many reasons, Ismaël is constantly keeping her away. We see him more than once avoiding true physical emotion with her, which only aids Julie’s worsening emotional health. When she dies, Ismaël is destroyed. Her family is destroyed, and Jeanne tries to get Ismaël to remain close to them. I think it quite clear that she is in love with him. And he constantly disappoints her, too. She finds a woman in his bed that isn’t Alice and Jeanne is hurt. She finds someone else in his bed and things become clearer for her, but not easier.
The obstacle the film might have with mainstream audiences is that it believes in pansexuality, the idea that sexual pleasure is not be limited by gender. I think that is a very unrealistic argument. Most people know which sexual partners appeal to them. But because Love Songs is a musical, I was swept away. That Erwann could get through to Ismaël is a satisfying finale but wholly unrealistic.
So a good question to ask: in a musical, is the story more important or the music? Can we forgive a fantasy if the music is so infectious? To each his own, but I certainly could. Love Songs has an implausible story. I don’t believe that Ismaël, who we’ve seen sexually linked with three different women, would fall for Erwann, a boy, no matter how adorable he is. Yet, this is a fantasy and I wanted to believe that Erwann’s potent amours would break Ismaël down and rebuild him. I’m probably using the wrong words to describe the situation. The film really isn’t sentimental or sappy.
Honoré’s greatest strength is the energy he brings to his films, an energy and rhythm always supported by the grittiness of real life. He is a cinefile two generations removed from the New Wave, and this connection is important to follow a lineage through the great history of French cinema. Honoré is the finest director of his generation, the thematic and stylistic heir of Godard and Truffaut. He doesn’t believe in simple emotions, at least as a filmmaker. That’s why parts of this film are heartbreaking. I haven’t seen my share of musicals, but what I understand is that they are happy, with happy endings. The ending of Love Songs is hopeful but the tragedy of loss always hangs over. Take the song “Au parc,” sung by Jeanne. She describes the renewing seasons and the ever-present playful children at the park she and her sister grew up in, but she always remembers, “It will all be there, except for you.” Or the unusual love song Ismaël sings to Erwann when they first make love. He asks Erwann to find Julie inside of him and kill her a second time so that Ismaël can move on. Their love is built on need more than sexual attraction. Erwann, a virgin, desires Ismaël and Ismaël needs a body to cling to.
The real revelation in the cast was of course Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet as Erwann. He’s since become a regular in French films. I like him a lot in this film. He has a terrific voice. If I had to name the scene-stealing performance though, I would signal out Clotilde Hesme. She plays Alice, the third party in the ménage-a-trois. I felt her role was not as substantial as Garrel’s or Ludivine Sagnier’s as Julie but Hesme has a quality about her that is charming and a regal look that I found stunning.
Alex Beaupain has written the music for every one of Honoré’s films. In what forms a trilogy, Dans Paris, Love Songs, and La belle personne are, in Beaupain’s words, ‘movies with songs’. Love Songs is their only full length musical. Beaupain is a great songwriter. His lyrics are intelligent, ironic, and absolutely charming. I listen to his two studio albums at the gym and I don’t even understand French. They just sound great. I won’t do a song by song breakdown, but “De bonnes raisons”, the opening number, is in many ways a call back to the 60s. Towards the end of this upbeat swanky song there’s a guitar riff, nearly buried under the lyrics, that is so 1960s it just makes you smile. “La Bastille” is one of the saddest songs in the film. Julie sings about how the rain outside empties the square of the angel statue of the Bastille. Each member of her family takes a section of the song, and we see that while they love and are happy, such happiness is joined with the sorrows of life.
But the storytelling remains simple. If I have one negative criticism it would be that the film is rushed. It’s almost 100 minutes but especially with my most recent viewing I felt the story was hurried through. Often times the pace is too quick; we aren’t given the time in between story beats to contemplate or even orient ourselves. Other times, especially in the latter half of the film, this rushed approach hinders the storytelling. Some things feel washed over just to get to the next musical number. For example, when Erwann gives Ismaël his keys, inviting him to stay, Ismaël not only has a change of heart by agreeing to go home with him, he seems excited by the idea. This is contrary to what he has just said. Such changes of mind are understandable, but the film doesn’t make his sudden change of mind clear.
The plot isn’t the thing. All I can say to recommend Love Songs is that it makes me happy. I can talk forever about these moments, like when Ismaël jokingly tries to cut off Alice’s tongue with a pair of scissors or when Alice kids him about not being circumcised when he’s Jewish; or when Alice, Julie and Ismaël dance on the streets of Paris; or the playful and dynamic song “Le distance” where Erwann tires to seduce Ismaël; and every scene with Julie’s family. Come to think of it, Love Songs is one of my favorite films, imperfect as it is, sad as parts of it is, but its energy and mood make it a lot of fun to watch.
Love Songs (2007)
(a.k.a. Chansons d'amour, Les)
Director: Christophe Honoré
Writer: Christophe Honoré
Stars: Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier, Clotilde Hesme, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet and Chiara Mastroianni
Music: Alex Beaupain
Runtime: 95 minutes
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Determination of the relative glomerular filtration rate of each kidney in man: Comparison between iohexol CT and 99mTc-DTPA scintigraphy
1995 (English)In: Acta Radiologica, ISSN 0284-1851, E-ISSN 1600-0455, Vol. 36, no 4, 410-417 p.Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Iohexol and 99mTc-DTPA were used in 43 patients to determine the relative glomerular filtration rate (GFR), i.e., the GFR of each kidney in percent of total GFR. The amount of any GFR marker accumulating in Bowman's space, tubuli and renal pelvis within a few minutes after i.v. injection, before any marker had left the kidney via the ureter, was defined as proportional to the GFR of that kidney. The renal accumulation of iohexol was determined by CT using 10 slices of 8-mm thickness 1 to 4 minutes after injection. The renal accumulation of 99mTc-DTPA was determined with a gamma camera within 2 minutes after injection. The correlation coefficient between the two methods was 0.98. Due to the higher radiation dose from CT than from 99mTc-DTPA injection, relative GFR determination with CT should be performed when there is also a diagnostic need to reveal morphology.
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1995. Vol. 36, no 4, 410-417 p.
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Miami New Year’s Events: 2018 Guide
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Miami is set for yet another art space
Miami is set for yet another art space.
This one will house two massive sculptures
6 NOT-TO-BE MISSED MIAMI ART INSTITUTIONS DURING ART BASEL


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8 days/7 nights
Admire the wealth of spectacular art, architecture and history on this amazing Vienna and Dubrovnik vacation. While in Vienna, see the highlights of world-renowned palaces and museums. Taste culinary specialties, and enjoy a performance at the Vienna State Opera House. Then take a one-way flight to Dubrovnik, the Pearl of the Adriatic. Stroll its cobblestone streets, relax in one of the beautiful beaches or take a ferry ride to the neighboring island of Korcula.
Arrival to Vienna airport, followed by private transfer to your hotel. Vienna, also described as Europe’s cultural capital, is a metropolis with unique charm, vibrancy and flair. It boasts outstanding infrastructure, is clean and safe, and has all the inspiration that you could wish for in order to discover this wonderful part of Europe. Enjoy the rest of the afternoon at leisure. Overnight at your choice of hotel in Vienna.
Visit the Spanish Riding School to see the Lipizzaner Stallions and take a behind-the-scenes tour of their stables. See the highlights of world-renowned palaces and museums such as the Albertina, Museums Quartier, Kunsthistorisches and Freud Museum. Tour architectural monuments that exemplify the best in Vienna’s Gothic, Baroque and Secessionist styles. Visit the favorite shops selling exquisite linens, crystal, chocolates, gourmet foods and antiques. Visit up-and-coming neighborhoods known for their designers and chefs. Taste local culinary specialties at our favorite stalls in the enormous Naschmarkt food market. Overnight at your choice of hotel in Vienna.
Vienna & Schönbrunn Tour
City Tour & Boat Ride
Danube Valley Tour
Vienna by Night Tour
Private transfer to the airport for your flight from Vienna to Dubrovnik, followed by a private transfer to your hotel. Day at leisure. The over a thousand year old history of Dubrovnik is visible in every part of this city. The city is a living museum and a live stage, and has an ideal connection between its historical past and the modern day. It is surrounded by medieval walls that are 1940 metres long and are preserved in their original form. They are open to visitors and are the city’s greatest attraction. Since 1979 the town has been under UNESCO protection. Overnight at your choice of hotel in Dubrovnik.
Tour this amazing walled city and admire its ancient art, culture and architecture. If you enjoy more active vacations, there is plenty to do in and around Dubrovnik. You will certainly love to explore the neighboring island of Kolocep on your sea kayaking tour, or engage is some hiking in the wonderful countryside. A full day trip to the island of Korcula is a great choice to spend a day and explore yet another unique Croatian’s island. The possibilities include trips to the neighboring country of Montenegro, or perhaps a tour to Mostar in Bosnia. Whatever your choices are, you will never have enough of your time in this amazing city. Overnight at your choice of hotel in Dubrovnik.
Dubrovnik Old Town Tour
Three Islands Cruise
Private transfer from the hotel to Dubrovnik airport.
Hotel K+K Hotel Maria Theresia ****, Vienna
Hotel More *****, Dubrovnik


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Published May 3, 2018
Day 8 of the 2018 Keyboard Festival featured the Rufus Ferguson Ensemble at Mt. Zion Lutheran Church; an afternoon performance by Kirill Gerstein and D. Terry Williams at the Wellspring Theater; and an evening performance by Benjamin Grosvenor at Dalton Center.
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Solar Panels Charging Process
Solar Panels Charging Process
Solar Panels Charging Process
------by EverExceed Corporation
Believe that a lot of people know solar panels, most have seen V - I curve. But many people confuse for charging principle and process, let me answer that question for you, with 18 v panels to charge a 12 v battery, for instance:
First, we see 18 V panels V - I characteristic curve:
We can see clearly the two parameters: the short circuit current and open circuit voltage
1. Short circuit current: as the name implies, is the positive and negative side current of solar panels when the short circuit. And in general, the current is determined by the light intensity. The stronger the light intensity is, the more solar panels absorb photons, thus the stronger the photoelectric effect is, the greater the current is.http://www.everexceed.com
2. The open circuit voltage: as the name implies, is the voltage when solar panels do not connect any of the load, usually the voltage is related to temperature.
When use 18 v solar panels to charge a battery through the solar controller, people will find solar panels on both ends of the voltage will be clamping in the storage battery voltage. Then he may ask:”I know that the voltage is 18V when the solar panels are open-circuit. At that time, the voltage is higher than the battery voltage, and it can charge for the batteries. But when connected with PWM solar charge controller, the voltage of solar panels immediately becomes 12.5V, which is equal to the battery voltage. Why it still can charge for the batteries? Is that charge controller really so wonderful?” http://www.everexceed.com
Is it what leads us to have that misunderstanding? I think it is the different characteristics between daily batteries and solar panels. The main differences are the internal resistance Rs (This resistance is typically European level.).
Let’s look at the battery model. Here I want to explain that the solar panels are common lead acid batteries. They are all batteries and have internal resistance. In general, the resistance of solar batteries is larger than the lead acid batteries’. http://www.everexceed.comHere I choose the most commonly used linear models, which is very similar with Thevenin’s equivalent model.
Supposed that U∝ stands for the open circuit voltage of the solar panel; U1 stands for the terminal voltage of the solar panel; I stands for the charging current of batteries.
U1 = U∝ - R*i ①
From the equation we can draw the following conclusions: if the internal resistance of the battery plate is zero, then the V-I curve would be a bold line marked in the figure. That is to say, at that time, whatever kind of batteries are connected, the terminal voltage o f solar panels is forever equal to the open circuit voltage(18V). It is pity that this kind of solar panel is not existed. So many factors make the internal resistance to be some small or some big. But, this conclusion applies to any battery.
Return to that question: “when the solar panel voltage is equal to the battery voltage, cant it charge for batteries?” The answer is: Yes.
Q: Why? For the solar charger controller? What kind of role does the controller play? http://www.everexceed.com
A: It is not because of solar charger controller. Even if the solar panel connects with both ends of batteries, it also can charge for the batteries. And the terminal voltage of batteries will soon be clamped into the battery voltage.
Look at the specific charging principles directly connected to the solar panels:
According to Kirchhoff’s voltage law:
U∝ - R*i = Ui+ i*Rb ②
Ub = Ui + i*Rb ③
Ub stands for the terminal voltage of batteries when charging; Rb stands for the internal resistance of batteries; Ui stands for the open circuit voltage of batteris, U∝ stands for the open circuit voltage of solar panels.
Because the Rb is very small, the fact is that the charging terminal voltage of batteries is almost similar to the open circuit voltage.
Conclusion: Because the battery resistance is very small, it leads to the similar terminal voltage of batteries when charging and not charging. The internal resistance of solar panels is relatively large, leading to the measured terminal voltage of solar panel immediately "fell "battery voltage value when charging the batteries.
Figure (3) is the simplified solar controller scheme. When Ub is high, the Q switch is open. The solar panel then turned to recharge the battery. http://www.everexceed.comWhen the switching frequency is very fast, we will feel the solar panel has been charging the battery all the way. While the proportion of opening and closing the switches decides the charging voltage of the batteries.
Simply to say, the controller can prevent the overcharging damage in the process of charging batteries, including the over-current charging and the overvoltage charging.
Fast charging stage: When the output short-circuit current of solar panel is almost equal to the current at the maximum output power, if the short-circuit current is less than the maximum allowable battery charging current, the switch can be turned directly to the battery fast charge mode. When the output voltage reaches Eb1, it needs to be switched to constant voltage charging phase.
Constant voltage charging stage: through the constant pressure control mode the microcontroller make the output voltage constant in Eb2, then the charging circuit switch stays in pwm control mode. With the internal voltage of battery increases, when the charge current is reduced to Ib2, it shall be switched to the charge stage.
Overcharge stage: At this stage, the charging current is stably Ib2, and the charging circuit will make the charging voltage rises to Eb2. At that time, the battery is full and switches to the floating charging stage.
Floating charging stage: also known as trickle charging stage. http://www.everexceed.com It can prevent battery self-discharge and power loss. The charging circuit will provide a precise control of battery float voltage. And the controller with temperature compensation will keep the battery full capacity status.
Another function of the controller is to control the battery discharge and prevent battery over discharge. Because the operation process is simple, here we will not discuss it specifically.
As the worldwide leading manufacturer of power solution products, EverExceed is focused on making high-quality, long-service-life and eco-friendly lead acid batteries and providing energy storage solutions for critical systems, warehousing heavy duty, universal applications, transportation applications, etc.
EverExceed, established in 1985, has its headquarter in Shenzhen, China, subsidiaries in UK, Hongkong and Singapore, and operations on six continents. Until now, we have three manufacturing plants and two research & development centers to supply power products with excellent quality, reasonable price, and best after-sale service all over the world.
For more information on EverExceed lead acid batteries, please visit: http://www.everexceed.com


You may have heard by now that Get Out almost had a very different (and much darker) ending. But it turns out the ending we got had some alternate versions, too.
In the clip above, Lil Rel Howery – who plays Rod, the TSA agent – tests out a bunch of different lines in a series of deleted outtakes.
It probably goes without saying that the entire video is a massive spoiler for Get Out. And even if it weren't, Rod's lines are way funnier if you've seen him in the movie. Howery is a comedic highlight of the film, a stand-in for us in the audience who want to scream at the characters to get the hell out of there.
But even if you haven't seen it yet, you're in luck. Jordan Peele's remarkable directorial debut is available to watch right now on Digital HD, and will be out on DVD, Blu-ray, and On Demand May 23.