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Resources on Medieval Literacy, Part 1
When we talk about Historical European Martial Arts we obviously tend to focus on the martial first and foremost. Most HEMA research emphasizes the content of the manuals themselves, parsing and reparsing the author’s words and comparing them line by line to other fencing manuals, crafting competing interpretations to test out in the gym and on the tournament floor. This has proven very useful for figuring out specific techniques and has helped elevate the current HEMA revival to the level it has reached today. But the approach also has built-in limitations, and when applied to trying to understand some of the most persistent ‘meta’ questions about the fight books it hasn’t held up as well. What little context research has been done in English so far tends to focus only on the personalities involved: who were the patrons of various fencing masters, which masters had membership in fencing guilds and so on. To a lesser extent the remainder has looked at the fighting that took place where and when the manuals were written: dueling and judicial combat, warfare and so forth.
Most of the debates which continue to rage across the interwebs today rely exclusively on the canonical interpretations of the ‘sacred’ text of the fight-books themselves, orphaned from the world they came from in a mysterious vacuum. Most HEMA researchers (let alone ordinary practitioners) remain content with an extremely vague sense of the martial context of the masters, fight-book authors, and fencing guilds, largely derived from the pop culture or genre literature. A whole slew of questions remain unanswered by these specific approaches. We wonder for example why manuals tended to be clustered in certain areas, why they focused on certain types of fighting and not others, and why we have found so few manuals produced before the turn of the 15th Century, and so many afterword. We have speculated about how fencing or warfare changed from the early to late medieval period, maybe we should be looking at the question another way.
One of the more obvious angles we have generally failed to adequately consider is the role of literacy in the period of the fencing manuals. If we are trying to understand the role of fencing books and other forms of martial arts literature, we should probably understand not only who fought, but also who could read. The cross section of the fighters and the readers, you might say. Illiterate people arguably have less need of books of any kind, less demand for them, than literate people do. And to some extent we can see that most of the fencing manuals, especially the early ones, seem to be written for an audience who already has a basic understanding of fencing.
Of course, if we go by the default pop culture assumptions about the medieval period, we would assume that very few people were literate and that those few who could read were members of the most elite social classes: kings, courtiers, and senior members of the Church. This rather simple story in turn strongly influences our understanding of who books were made for and who they were written by, and gives us a neat and clean narrative. But it doesn’t fit the manuals themselves and like most common assumptions about this period, it’s probably all wrong.
Zeroing in on the readers and the writers
Whether or not I can convince others of the importance of understanding the history of literacy in this period, it has been an interest of mine for the past six years. I have found some useful resources, and began to form tentative theories of what the “literate world” meant in at least some parts of medieval Europe. But there are gaps in my knowledge and I don’t yet have a complete picture, it would be foolish of me to attempt to fully create one. After all, as a friend recently reminded me, the past is a foreign country where one must tread carefully lest you offend the locals. The best we can do is paint a partial and very rough sketch. Even this though has a lot of value, and can be somewhat eye opening if you aren’t already familiar with just how different this period is from our general preconceptions.
We are lucky here in that literacy is an issue that has seen some serious scrutiny from Academia in the last few decades. Perhaps more importantly, there is an abundance of archeological and literary evidence and other clues which the academics have drawn from (and which we too can examine in our own special way if we choose to), which can help us understand a little bit about reading and writing and the production of books back in the time of the fencing masters. I’m going to share some of what I’ve found over the years here in the hope of encouraging other researchers to consider this angle in their own HEMA studies, and I selfishly hope, thereby contribute further to mine.
So without further digression, I’ll go right into a rough timeline I’ve put together, describing the development of literacy in the medieval period. To start with, we have to define the term and it’s starting point. People use different definitions of what they call medieval, but we can say that toward the end of the first millennium, the end of what we sometimes call the Migration Era or the Völkerwanderung,coincident with a general period of economic and military expansion in Europe, literacy went from something which was the province of elite theologians to an increasingly necessary tool of commerce. Before that happened though there was an intellectual flowering, and the immediate source of that came from beyond Christian Europe.
Precursor to Europe: The Muslim scholars
Medieval European intellectual life had its most direct precursors in the Islamic Golden Age. From the 8th – 12th Centuries, the Islamic world from Persia, to Syria, to the Moorish kingdoms of Al Andalus in what is now Spain, experienced an explosion of intellectual growth largely stimulated by the translation of texts from the ancient Greeks, whose work was further expanded upon and brilliantly developed by a series of scholars who can only be called geniuses. Major advances in the fields of chemistry, math, astronomy, biology, and medicine were established in this era which would remain influential in European schools and Universities for the next six or seven centuries.
Regardless of how you may feel about Islam in today, you really cannot understand the intellectual world of Medieval Europe without having at least a basic grasp of some of the great works of authors such as Al Razi (astronomy, chemistry), Avicenna (medicine), Al Kindi (astronomy, optics, cryptography), Al Jabir (mathematics, chemistry), and Al-Jayyānī (trigonometry) just to name a few. These men and others set the bar for translating and interpreting the Greek auctores, (roughly, “authorities”) who were of such importance in the early medieval period, such as Aristotle, Euclid, Hyppocrates, Ptolemy and Epicurus. The names of these Muslim scholars were as well known to Latin-Christian men of letters in the medieval period as the Classical auctores themselves were.
The last and most directly influential outpost of this Islamic flowering was the fantastic library of Cordoba in Al Andalus, which some people estimate had over 100,000 books. The importance of the library of Cordoba was noted by such important European scholars as the famous Saxon nun Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, who is believed to be the first person to write plays in Latin since Classical times. She called Cordoba ‘the ornament of the world’ due to the fantastic collection of Latin manuscripts there. The near total destruction of the library in the 11th Century at the behest of Muslim religious fanatics is arguably on par with the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
But in spite of this and many other disasters and outrages, correspondence between scholars in the Christian and Muslim worlds remained active and very important throughout the medieval period. For example the English Franciscan monk Roger Bacon of Oxford is believed to have learned the formula for gunpowder from friends, you might say pen pals, he was corresponding with in Moorish Spain, including Jewish and Muslim scholars. It would be difficult to overstate the importance of his publication of the formula for gunpowder in his Opus Majus in 1267, a little more than twenty years after the Mongols first introduced it on the battlefields of Eastern Europe.
The longest lasting legacy of the impact of the Muslim scholars was the continued use of their names as noms-de plume by European scholars in the late medieval period. For example one of the most famous books on chemistry was written by an unknown but very gifted 13th Century Spanish chemist we know only today as ‘pseudo Geber’, as he was pretending to be the more famous Persian scholar and alchemist ‘Geber’ or Al Jabir, aka Jābir ibn Hayyān “The pharmacist”.
Medieval scholars did not have the kind of prohibition against plagiarism that we have today, for example when the 15th Century German scholar Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller von Königsberg) discovered the works of Al-Jayyānī, (which were largely derived from Euclid and Ptolemy) he did little more than make a comment that he’d discovered a book with ‘marvelous secrets about triangles and circles’ which he published as his own treatise on trigonometry. This very book, incidentally, was used by Christopher Columbus to predict an eclipse to awe natives during a famous incident in the Caribbean (underscoring the point so well understood by the medieval scholars: these ancient books had real power). But the habit went both ways, and European scholars often shyly or slyly, out of convenience, playfully or with sinister purpose pretended to be scholars from the Muslim world.
It’s important to note that the Classical auctores were not only rediscovered via the Muslims. Irish monks, the Vaticans own libraries, and perhaps most importantly, the Byzantines preserved many priceless works of antiquity. Once their value became properly understood, starting in the 11th and 12th Century, Latin scholars also began to visit and search through abbeys, convents and monasteries throughout Europe, seeking the wisdom of the ancients. This correlated with rapid economic and social changes throughout Europe going on at this time, (but more about that in a moment). For some reason however, it seemed to be the Muslim scholars who really captured the imagination of the Latin scholars.
The 11th Century: A center of translation, and the world’s first university
The disappearance of Cordoba’s fantastic library was not the end of intellectual seething that had started in Europe, it simply shifted from the Muslim zone to the Christian zone. The fervor for the work of the ancients spread throughout monasteries and towns of northern Italy in the 11th Century, and the translations were increasingly being done in certain centers of activity in Spain, in Italy, and eventually in Flanders, and throughout the large abbeys and the more urbanized parts of Europe. Special centers of translation, such as the fantastic ‘school’ in Toledo began to coalesce. In other towns the art of interpretation became refined, and clusters of scholars began to specialize in medicine, or law, or theology, or astronomy.
The translating school in Toledo bears a second look. Originally organized by Raymond of Toledo, a far-sighted Archbishop with an obsession for Aristotle, the school took advantage of the proximity of many native Arabic and Hebrew speakers to begin translating the works of the Muslim masters. Early translators such as Gerard of Cremona, John of Seville, the Scotsman Michael Scot, and the Flemish Astronomer Rudolf of Bruges achieved wide fame due to their translations of important scientific manuscripts from Arabic into Latin. (This school continued to be important into the next century and we will return to it a bit later…)
As most HEMA researchers might very well assume, the next logical step from a translating school was to formally organize the process of interpreting and further developing the ideas of the ancient Greeks and the early medieval Persians and Arabs. In 1070, scholars in Italy located a compendium of Roman law from the era of Emperor Justinian I, which came to be called “The digest“. This was kind of the mother lode of late Roman law, and because of the advantage it conferred in lawsuits, students from all over Europe began to flock to the area to learn it’s secrets. In 1088 AD the natios of these students came together in the little town of Bologna and made international history by founding the world’s first true University. These days the University of Bologna is eclipsed by the fame of the world’s second University in Paris, but Bologna was arguably the more important of the two, because whereas Paris was a school of theology, Bologna was a secular school, initially a school of civil (Roman) law. This was a big deal in the intellectual landscape of Europe, as it opened the door to serious study of non-theological subjects, and made it acceptable to study the Classical auctores without debating how many angels could dance on the head of a pin.
Universities soon spread throughout Italy and beyond, (Oxford, in England, was the third) with at least 11 more founded before the end of the 13th Century, but Bologna retained a special position. This both due to the type of study that was done there (primarily law but many other subjects as well) and also to the way the school was organized, with students electing their professors and rectors (judges). To assert that Bologna remained the most important university in Italy one must only note that Dante, Boccacio and Petrarch were just a few of the schools more distinguished alumni.
It is important to note that the fervor for study was not entirely high minded, medieval scholars were deriving very pragmatic information from Greek classical masterpieces and the Muslim scholars. Chemistry to enable the separation of gold, silver, and copper from their ores, and to fix dyes; the secrets of geometry and architecture to build Cathedrals, castles, city walls and siege engines; medicine for obvious reasons, law to gain an edge in contracts and lawsuits, all had very immediate real world value. Even the study of theology contributed to the very practical world of Church politics and canon law. But perhaps most important were the advances in engineering.
Alongside the intellectual revolution of the 11th Century, there was another equally important one. We get a clue of what was coming in the domesday book of England in 1086, essentially the census by the Normans of their newly conquered land. The book lists more than 5,600 water mills in England at this time. Fifty six hundred. Within the lifetime of William the Conqueror, the labor of grinding grain had been all but eliminated even in one of the least urbanized regions of Europe. The dawning of an age of machines was at hand. Europe was already well into a dramatic transformation into the most mechanized society the world had ever seen.
The 12th Century: Mechanization, an economic revolution, the first paper mills
The 12th Century saw the rapid rise of thriving towns grouped together in several distinct regions of Europe. The most famous of these nascent urbanized zones are Northern Italy and Flanders. A little study reveals that the Rhineland and Catalonia were also important, as was Languedoc in France, and further north and East, Silesia in what is now Poland, Bohemia (now Czech), and lower Saxony all experienced the rapid growth of their urban centers. Though the money from merchant culture was driving much of the activity, during the early part of this era it was the spread of the overshot water wheel across the length and breadth of Europe, largely the work of Cistercian monks, which transformed European trading and religious centers with the rapid development of water powered machinery.
Water mills had been known in Roman times, and were improved somewhat by the Arabs, but were transformed by the Europeans. Devices of ½ horsepower had been increased by a factor of 12 to 6 horsepower, and a whole series of inventions such as the crankshaft, crank slider and camshaft expanded their usefulness exponentially. Camshafts were known to Greeks but were used only for automata and other toys.
Using the geometry of Euclid and the ideas of the famous robot maker Al Jazari and others, European engineers developed these devices into a critical component of mechanizing a wide range of processes, from sawing wood to fulling cloth to operating bellows of forges and mechanizing trip hammers.
By the 12th Century a small water mill could grind more grain than 40 slaves had been able to back in the days of the Roman Empire. Most towns had clusters of dozens of mills along their bridges and riverbanks, for example in the second half of the 12th Century the city of Toulouse had 60 floating mills operating in the river Garonne. In the 12th Century the use of mills for fulling, a critical step in fabric-making, spurred the growth of the textile industry and led to a dramatic acceleration in the spread of mills. Tidal mills were also developed in Europe at this time and spread widely, as did a new type of wind mill, the post mill, which turned when the wind changed direction, both devices spread mechanical power into the low lying coasts where the streams didn’t flow as fast.
To better understand what medieval mechanization was like, I highly recommend watching a few minutes of video, seeing them in action is more informative than anything you can read.
Water powered trip hammer in a village in Austria
A more typically medieval water mill grinding grain in England
A beautiful medieval sawmill in Norway
This labor saving revolution had cascading effects through society, initially in the agricultural, iron, ship building and textile industries, but soon to effect nearly all production in Europe one way or another. It was in Aragon (today Catalonia) where this proceeded the most rapidly, and it was here that the first true hydro-powered Paper mill in the world was built in 1144 AD[i]. The key technology of interest here is paper, a revolutionary writing material originally invented centuries earlier in China, but relatively new to Europe. Making paper with a water powered mill was a new thing under the sun and a serious game changer. It was at least as important a development in the history of literacy as the appearance of the first Universities.
The paper revolution
Writing materials were a problem in the early medieval era, because the source of papyrus, the original and best writing medium in antiquity, had been largely cut off by the Arab expansion of the 7th and 8th Centuries. As Henri Pirenne noted, the last Merovingian chancery document written on papyrus was in 692. This left Europeans stuck with using pieces of animal hide, the parchment and vellum which are so commonly associated with the medieval period in the popular imagination[ii]. Parchment (etc.) had some value, as it made for long lasting documents, but it was obviously expensive and labor intensive and not ideal for casual use by any means. And “casual use” was crucial to the spread of literacy.
The advent and spread of the water-powered paper-mill however introduced the production of paper on an industrial scale, which in turn made books much cheaper, made paper available to ordinary people, and returned reading and writing to the informal and prosaic world of commercial and private use. The new technology of the paper mill rapidly spread from what is today Spain to northern Italy where the towns were rising in economic and military power, and in intellectual ferment centered on the new Universities in Bologna, Modena and Padua. But paper was not just for local consumption, and it was in Italy where the paper mill quickly became the engine of a new major export industry. By 1268, the small town of Fabriano in Italy had 7 working paper mills. As with many other exports, much of this trade was “ultramontaine”, it went north across the Alps, where the Italians bought most of their woolen textile fabrics. The epicenter of the northern trade was an exotic and distant land called Flanders, where a new phenomenon began to emerge with the appearance of the Beguines.
(End of Part 1 – the Bibliography will be provided in the end of Part II)
[i] see J. N. H. LAWRANCE “The Spread of Lay Literacy in Late Medieval Castile”
[ii] It’s worth pointing out that birch bark was also used as a writing material, notably and most famously in some of the Russian cities like Novgorod, Pskov and Tver.


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The inspirational Ms Binoche
by SUSANNAH CONWAY, femail.co.uk
Journalists wax lyrical about her translucent skin, her ethereal qualities and how her screen magnetism overwhelms the viewer, and this is all actually quite true.
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Her make-up is minimal and faithful to her heritage, with full red lips or smoky eyes finished off with perfect blemish-free skin. Binoche perpetuates the myth of the French femme fatale: distant, detached and acutely beautiful.
Keeping her private life private means she appears to devote herself to her work. After winning the British over in The English Patient - 'But I thought you didn't like me' she famously quipped as she accepted her Bafta in 1997 - she came to London to star in Pirandello's Naked at the Almeida theatre for a mere £225 per week.
Her association with Lancome as the face of their fragrance Poeme resulted in her giving her fee to orphans in Cambodia. Brains, beauty and personal integrity. Juliette Binoche has it all.
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Hi everyone! Sorry for the lack of posts. I’ve been battling a head cold and have been slow on writing my posts and comments. I hope everyone had a great weekend! Chris and I had a busy one. We went up to Healdsburg Saturday to pick-up our wine shipment and had lunch. It was an all day affair. The drive took longer than both activities combined. Then on Sunday, we hosted brunch at our place. It was a busy weekend and on Sunday evening, I started feeling some sinus congestion and fatigue. I’ve been catching Z’s here and there on the couch and every time I awoke, I felt even more tired and my head felt foggy and dizzy. It was not a good feeling.
I made this pot of chili before I got sick and am wishing I had some right now! There’s nothing more comforting than a big bowl of something warm and comforting in front of your nose. A pumpkin chili is so perfect this time of the year. There’s a lot of pumpkin ingredients going on here — pumpkin ale, pumpkin purée and pumpkin pie spice. It was autumn in a bowl! Be sure to put this one in your dinner rotation this week, if you dig pumpkin and stay warm!
- 1 pound of ground beef
- 1 pound of sweet Italian sausage links, casings removed
- olive oil for cooking
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
- 1/2 pound of bone-in smoked ham steak, roughly chopped
- 1 poblano pepper, diced
- 1 jalapeño pepper, finely diced
- salt and pepper to season
- 2 tablespoons of tomato paste
- 3 tablespoons of chili powder
- 2 tablespoons of smoked paprika
- 1 1/2 tablespoons of pumpkin pie spice
- 1 1/2 tablespoons of ground cumin
- 1 tablespoon of ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon of dried oregano
- 1 dried bay leaf
- 1 (14.5 ounce) can of diced tomatoes
- 1 (15 ounce) can of kidney beans
- 1/4 cup of pumpkin purée
- 1 (12 ounce) bottle of pumpkin ale
- Garnish (optional):
shredded cheddar cheese
shredded pepper jack cheese
fresh scallions, finely chopped
fresh cilantro, finely chopped
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Wow, I’m always looking for new pumpkin recipes and this one is going in the books! 🙂
Well, I’m so late reading this post, I guess you’re back on your feet and dancing…lol! This chili is absolutely perfect! The spring here is quite chilly lately, so I’m craving this type of food.
Sorry you were under the weather — I’m sure this big bowl of goodness was comforting! I make pumpkin chili all the time but not usually with meat — I know my family will love this version (house full of dudes = carnivores). The pumpkin ale is also great! Thank you so much for linking up at Saturday Night Fever!!

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Star Wars is a movie franchise first and foremost, but that's not all it is. To get the whole, complete story, fans compile information from the world of books, comics, cartoons, video games, toys, breakfast cereals, and everything else you can imagine. And when it comes to The Last Jedi's utterly mysterious Supreme Leader Snoke, we're learning more him outside the film than we did on screen.
The Last Jedi Visual Dictionary has proved to be full of tantalizing facts about the Supreme Leader, but the latest revelation comes from The Last Jedi Visual Companion Magazine. As seen in a photo posted to Reddit, the first paragraph in Snoke's entry confirms not only that the Supreme Leader is not of the Sith (which we already knew), but also that he has "at least one other apprentice."
Obviously that's a bombshell. There's potential for a huge villain out there in the galaxy. The rest of the entry though, makes no further reference to that apprentice. It tells the story of Snoke's relationship with young Ben Solo, the rise of Kylo Ren and Snoke's involvement in episodes VII and VIII.
That raises some huge questions. Who is this apprentice? Are they still alive? Are they likely to appear in Episode IX, a different movie altogether, or some other form of media? This is Star Wars, so it is unlikely they'll be left in shadow forever. If there is another committed to the Dark Side, they'll make themselves known eventually. And as Snoke says, when that happens, the light will rise to meet them.
Written and directed by Rian Johnson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi stars Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn, Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron, Andy Serkis as Supreme Leader Snoke, Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux, Gwendoline Christie as Captain Phasma, Anthony Daniels as C-3PO, Lupita Nyong’o as Maz Kanata, Benicio Del Toro as ‘DJ’, Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico, Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, and the late Carrie Fisher as General Leia Organa. The film is in theaters worldwide.


Are Chinese incursions into Taiwan’s air defense zone a prelude to war?
Last weekend, China’s air force set new records for intrusions into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). Almost 150 warplanes – including heavy bombers and advanced fighters – entered Taiwan’s defense zone, adopting the same formation that they would during an actual attack.
While Taiwan’s ADIZ isn’t formally part of its airspace under international law, it is considered an important buffer zone around the island. That Beijing would order its air force to penetrate this zone, as it has with increasing regularity and force in recent months, has prompted many observers to ask just what is going on.
The sanguine view, of course, is that these incursions are nothing new or particularly significant. Such military gestures are simply Beijing’s way of reminding the government in Taipei that Taiwan is part of China and should not stray too far in the direction of formal independence. As long as Taiwan doesn’t make any serious moves in that direction, the gestures are just that — gestures. They are significant political signals, but not a cause for geopolitical concern.
But there is a different way of interpreting these events — one that is cause for concern.
According to this alternative interpretation, what we are witnessing now – and indeed have been over the past year or so – is a prelude to an actual invasion. Not prelude in the sense of probing Taiwan’s defense in preparation for an attack next month or even next year. Beijing is clearly not yet militarily prepared to act that soon. Rather, preparation in the sense of getting ready to launch a cross-straits invasion sometime in the years following 2025, the earliest point at which China will have the military ability to do so.
And why would Beijing be preparing to launch an invasion in that timeframe? A rising China could anticipate dominating the Western Pacific in the not-too-distant future, isolating Taiwan even further and eventually leaving Taipei with no choice but to acquiesce and unite with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). So why even consider using military force to achieve this goal? And what’s the big rush?
The answer, of course, is that the PRC’s leaders know that their country is peaking and that their chances of bringing Taiwan into the fold (either by intimidation or invasion) may never be as good as they are now. In the medium to long term, both economics and demographics are going to leave the PRC relatively much worse off than it is today.
On the one hand, the country’s heretofore meteoric economic rise is stalling out and there is every indication that it will become ensnared in a “middle income trap” that will undermine both its diplomatic influence and military power. On the other hand, the country’s population is both shrinking and getting old. This means fewer workers supporting a greater number of retirees, with all the predictable effects that this will have on the PRC’s ability to invest in the instruments of hard and soft power.
But these are longer term concerns. For now, the major impediment to Beijing’s core goal of unifying the two Chinas will be geopolitical in nature. Specifically, as the PRC has grown stronger and acted more like an aspiring hegemon in the Indo-Pacific region, a new and increasingly robust counter-hegemonic coalition has begun to form.
This has not taken the form of some sort of Asian NATO — a highly institutionalized, treaty-based mutual defense organization. Rather, it has taken the form of a constellation of partly overlapping “minilateral” arrangements facilitating intelligence sharing, military cooperation, supply chain security and other forms of defense-related collaboration.
Such minilaterals include the recently announced AUKUS security partnership, the Five Eyes intelligence consortium, the Five Powers Defence Arrangements, the Quad/Quad+, the India-Japan-US Trilateral Dialogue (and associated Malabar naval exercises), the India-Australia-Indonesia trilateral and bilateral defense arrangements such as those between the U.S. and Japan, the U.S. and South Korea and the U.S. and the Philippines.
These counter-hegemonic arrangements are a direct challenge to China’s increasingly assertive use of its newfound power — and an indirect source of support for Taiwan.
From Beijing’s perspective, the crystallization of this constellation of countervailing powers means that it will soon have to decide whether to roll the dice and launch an invasion or abandon all hope that Taiwan will ever be brought into the PRC, this latter option being unthinkable from the perspective of the Chinese Communist Party and its leadership.
Perhaps the best historical analogy is the case of Germany in the run up to World War I.
Germany did not go to war against France, Russia and Britain in 1914 because its leaders believed that they could easily achieve European preeminence by quickly defeating France and Russia and then bullying Britain into accepting German hegemony. Rather, Germany deliberately started the European war to keep from being overtaken by Russia.
German military planners saw a Russia growing demographically, developing industrially and building the kind of rail and road infrastructure necessary for rapid mobilization in time of war. And this terrified them. Indeed, it terrified them to the point that they determined they needed to trigger a war sooner rather than later, because sooner they might have some chance of defeating Russia and its allies, whereas later they would simply be crushed by them.
The parallels with China, if not exact, are obvious. The growing relative power of Beijing’s adversaries means that it has every incentive to invade Taiwan as soon as it has the means to do so, even if success is far from certain, rather than wait, when defeat is all but guaranteed.
The German decision to attack France through Belgium in 1914 was governed by a similar logic. It was, in effect, a roll of the dice — a “great gamble” as one historian put it. And the results were catastrophic, not only for Germany but for the entire world.
Let’s hope that history does not repeat itself – and certainly not as tragedy.
Andrew Latham is a professor of international relations at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn.
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Homegrown ride-hailing application Go-Jek has said the number of orders for ojek (motorcycle taxis) has dropped in five cities following the increase in fares on May 1.
The tariff increase was based on Transportation Ministerial Decree No. 348/2019 on calculation guidance for motorcycle taxi fares.
“We saw a decline in orders because of higher fares,” said Go-Jek chief of corporate affairs Nila Marita on Wednesday as reported by tempo.co.
Nila could not explain the details of the decline, but she stressed that the decline in orders occurred in five cities -- Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Surabaya and Makassar – among the largest cities in the country.
Nila stressed Go-Jek will communicate with government officials and the Transportation Ministry, which will carry out an evaluation on the regulation.
“We hope the trial [of the new rates] will be evaluated. We will convey the results [to the government] so that it can help inform and shape regulations,” she added.
The new fare under the decree was an increase of 11 to 20 percent on the previous rates imposed by ride-haling application providers.
The fares are differentiated into three zones. The first zone covers Sumatra, Bali and most of Java, the second zone is Greater Jakarta and the third zone is Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara, Maluku and Papua.
The minimum fares have been set at Rp 1,850 (13 US cents), Rp 2,000 and Rp 2,100 per kilometer for the first, second and third zones respectively, while the maximum fares were set at Rp 2,300, Rp 2,500 and Rp 2,600.
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Producing Temperature-Resistant Brackets With 3D Printing
The Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (Nuclear AMRC) is a collaboration of academic and industrial partners from across the nuclear supply chain that conducts research in advanced manufacturing solutions for the civil nuclear industry to help UK manufacturers win work at home and worldwide.
A project the centre has recently worked on aims to develop an autonomous welding solution for the welding of pressure vessels for the nuclear industry. To achieve this, the team had to integrate multiple sensors into the equipment in a hazardous, high-temperature environment.
Learn from Matthew Smart, the projects technical lead at the machining group at Nuclear AMRC, how the team used 3D printing to quickly iterate different designs and produced dozens of parts that withstood the elevated temperatures in close proximity to the welding.
Smart and the research team worked with the AMRC’s open access additive manufacturing station to manufacture the parts they needed. Read our case study to learn how open access to 3D printing can support hundreds of engineers across the site.
Why Welding Vessels Can Take Months in the Nuclear Industry
Current methods for welding pressure vessels require performing frequent hold points for manual inspection that requires cooling down and heating up components multiple times. This results in a lengthy process; welding a large vessel can take months. The Nuclear AMRC’s project aims to cut this lead time by developing an autonomous system that can detect flaws as they happen so the process is only halted if there is an actual flaw.
To analyze the welding process in real time, the researchers’ concept integrates a number of different sensors, such as laser scanners, acoustic monitoring, process monitoring for voltage and current, thermal imaging, and a camera system.
“The mechanical integration of all these different sensors is a challenge in this hazardous environment. We need to test different setups and orientations to find out where all the sensors are going to be. But we need to be very flexible in how we test and use the equipment because it's very expensive to book time on this machine,” Smart said.
Rapidly Iterating Sensor Configurations and Mounting Strategy With 3D Printing
The current sensor setup contains about a dozen different 3D printed parts, mainly washers that hold brackets together and a mounting system for the acoustic microphones. All of these parts have to be able to withstand the elevated temperatures in close proximity to the welding.
Formlabs High Temp Resin offers a heat deflection temperature (HDT) of 238 °C @ 0.45 MPa, making it ideal for parts that require high temperature resistance.
“If we had to make these parts through a traditional method, we would have had to be a lot more arduous in the design process in terms of capturing the requirements and fully locking down all of the exact tolerances before we fabricated the parts. Being able to 3D print the brackets means that we can go by a bit of trial and error, print multiple versions with different tolerances and test different orientations and sizes. It means that we can be a lot more innovative and test things much more quickly,” Smart said.
Being able to use 3D printing to rapidly test the different sensor configurations and mounting strategy let the team be very versatile and significantly reduced cost and time to get the parts fabricated.
“We would be talking about days of engineering time to get all the paperwork, sort the material, do design work, and subcontract a company, versus a couple of hours on a CAD program and then the cost of the plastic. It's fractional compared to doing it traditionally,” Smart said.
“You can't really quantify the agility of it, because it just lets you test and iterate much more. Let’s say if you sent a design for fabrication and it wasn't fit for purpose, you'd have to go through that again, so we'd be talking about weeks to go from testing one prototype to another. With 3D printing, it's two days. The pace of innovation is unquantifiable.”
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Smart worked with the Design and Prototyping Group at the AMRC to produce the 3D printed parts. The group recently installed a new additive manufacturing station with a fleet of 12 Form 2 stereolithography (SLA) 3D printers that provides open access to 3D printing to all engineers across the site.
“We work quite closely with the design group. They've been very forward in getting us involved and showing us what's achievable and available in terms of the equipment and how you can optimize the design to make it a quick and easy build with the 3D printers. Having that accessibility and knowledge of the capability is vital to be able to use it within the research group,” Smart said.
“If there wasn't [a 3D printing station], I would have been aware of the technology, but I wouldn't have known anything about the capabilities and how you go about designing something for us to manufacture. I've actually been trained on some of the machines, and being able to have free access to send components down there to be made is incredibly useful,” Smart said.
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2nd, If you’re new here and are wondering what this update is for: At the beginning of this year I started writing a memoir (Surviving The System; My Journey Through Foster Care). I have 9 Chapters completed and those will remain on my blog till the finished product is published, if you haven’t had the chance please feel free to take advantage and get started on the first 9 FREE chapters while they’re still up!
Now for all my faithful supporters who I left high and dry after Chapter 9… Don’t hate me! haha
I was kinda hoping I’d just randomly fall back into the writing groove but unfortunately it just didn’t happen that way. Ill spare all of you from the many excuses I could spew; pregnant and tired being one of them.
Ive come to realize that I have this annoying trait where the notion of disappointing people leads to going into hiding for a period of time. I’m working on it.
One of the most important things about writing to me is creating raw, honest, good quality material. I would never be ok with pushing out a chapter just for the sake of a deadline when I know in my heart I could do better. I could have squeezed the last few chapters out for sure but I didn’t start this just to finish. I started writing because I have a story to tell and I would be doing myself a disservice by releasing something only because I didn’t want others to be disappointed in me.
Alas, I’ve come to the end of an internal debate that I’ve found myself struggling with, and that is; the rest of my chapters will be shared when my book is actually ready to be published!
This is good news! As it’s an even bigger motivator to dive in and finish what I started!
I’m very proud to say that I am well over halfway done with the chapters, thanks to ALL OF YOU and your support every week! I never thought I’d get that 4th chapter in after having 3 of them written months prior to sharing with you all, let alone 9!!! I have all of the people who have supported me through this to thank; whether it be a like, comment, share or private message your support has filled my heart and truly motivated me to make it this far!
I am excited to regroup after popping this baby out and to share the final product of my hard work and emotional growth with all of you.
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Remember that you should eat or drink dairy for protein and carbs within 45 minutes of exericing. This is when the recovery process of your body is at its peak!
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Welcome to The "New" McCree Theatre's 2016-2017 Season
Thanks for visiting the New McCree Theatre’s web site. Our goal is to share our African American cultural and historical experiences with you by producing theatre productions that tell our story. Our intent is to also introduce you to our community’s gifted by showcasing their talents through those productions. Through this website we will keep you informed about all of our events and activities. It will also give you the opportunity to share your personal comments and reviews about each production.
We encourage you to visit this site often, share it with your friends, relatives, and others you may come into contact with.
At the New McCree Theatre” we are committed to presenting live theatre that is both unique and innovative, for you and with you, to create a synergism that is profound, magical and lasting.
McCree Theatre’s mission is to tell the African American Story in the African American Voice.
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Towers - Logistics
At least 2 hours to build structures and 5 minutes to test each one.
Groups of 2-4 students.
Each group of students needs:
- 1 cardboard base (approximately 25 cm by 25 cm)
- 30 straws
- 100 paper clips (one box)
- 20 straight pins
- 2 meters of string
The class needs:
- 10-20 sandbags consisting of 250 grams sand in a sandwich sized ziplock bag. The bag should be taped into a sausage shaped cylinder for rigidity and ease of mounting onto the towers.
- 1 earthquake tower testing platform with a movable platform connected to a rigid frame by rubber bands, springs, or a motor. Several designs may be found in the Sources section.
- 4 large binder clips to secure the cardboard bases to the shake table platform.


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Producer Chris Coen gave us this first look at the Childhood Of A Leader cast on his instagram today along with the caption “Some of our incredible cast…”
The production company requested that the picture be removed so we have done so but we will have lots more Childhood of A Leader goodies for you in the future!
Chris also shared this great behind the scenes pic from Day 11 of the shoot.
And Editor David Jancso shared this on his twitter
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Police: 5-year-old boy walks out of school, into subway
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department says a 5-year-old boy who wandered out of school without anyone noticing was found on a subway platform.
Police say the boy wandered away from kindergarten in Chelsea on Thursday afternoon. WABC-TV reports the boy walked two blocks and ended up on a platform for the C and E trains on 23rd Street.
A good Samaritan noticed the boy and alerted police, who contacted the school and the boy’s mother.
The Department of Education says it’s investigating and will take appropriate follow-up action.
Information from: WABC-TV, http://www.7online.com


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Volume 266, 2021Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources 2021
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Improving the efficiency of well workover solutions for the elimination of behind-the-casing flows
1 Expert at the Center for Technological Development, PAO Tatneft, Russia
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The article deals with the increase of profitability of water shutoff treatment (WST), which is used to eliminate behind-the-casing flows (cross-flow) in production and injection wells. It is presented that modern technologies of water shut-off works have low efficiency (success rate), especially in liquidation of non-perforating interval. Inefficient (wasteful) injection is currently one of the main problems in the development of oil and gas fields, as it significantly reduces the oil recovery factor in addition to the huge costs for oil companies for injection (operating costs). The article presents the results of hydrodynamic research and proposes methods for determining the presence of behind-the-casing flows (BCF) and methods for detecting wasteful injection without geophysical well-logging (a non-standard approach). The article also presents equipment for the elimination of the behind-the-casing flow and technology of its implementation.
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Box Flyer Drone - If you're considering purchasing a drone, this is a great place to get started. In the following information, I'll discuss all you must know before purchasing a drone for the very first time. During this page, I will probably be primarily speaking about digital camera drones, nevertheless, there will be some incredible suggestions for toy drones in addition to DIY drones.
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If you're purchasing a DJI drone, you could want to receive it straight from DJI. This is the reason why.
Should you buy a DJI drone from Best Buy, Amazon or another merchant, you are not assured to search out the most recent edition of the drone. DJI makes small changes to their very own drones each couple weeks.
Sometimes it's hardware and generally it is applications. These modifications normally improve security and reliability, and when it is a hardware shift, the very first place which gets the hardware would be your DJI Store. DJI additionally has free delivery.
If you're purchasing a digital camera drone which isn't created, by DJI, your absolute best bet probably likely to be the drone a part of Amazon. The perfect factor about purchasing drones out of Amazon is they have a incredible return policy and free transport to Prime members.
To get a hobby-grade drones, among the many largest retailers (if not the best) are named Interest King.
Interest King is just like the Walmart of wireless management. They have tens of 1000's of products for sale. Some items are items that they've made themselves, some are items that they've gotten permission to manufacture and in addition other issues they merely sell similar to another merchant.
Quite a lot of these drone parts sold at Interest King are wonderful, however a couple of are dreadful, so that you must learn the testimonials of whatever the part is that you're looking at. This way, you'll be able to view all the points which other men and women are having and verify if it is a incredible product or not.
One other place to search for DIY parts and even complete drone installations is that the classifieds section of RCGroups.com. You will uncover unimaginable bargains, however additionally it is possible to get scammed and ripped away. So watch out who you purchase from on the market. I might say about 95 p.c of the folks on there are tremendous to purchase from, simply look out for one more 5 p.c and you're going to be OK.
As a model new drone pilot that you must educate yourself to the airspace rules of the nation, and the general principles of safe flying, however in the interim, when you want to stay out of trouble, here are the very best practices which is able to apply to nearly all of nations including the United States.
As a drone Proprietor, Listed below are a few of the issues that that you must and must carry out:
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- Keep no less than 5 kilometers aside from all airports.
- Don't fly over four hundred feet over the ground.
- Don't fly over individuals with out consent
- Don't fly over government centers.
- Don't fly in federal parks.
- Don't fly over private property.
- Don't fly over flames or crime scenes.
- If you happen to're ever approached by the authorities, be considerate.
If I had been you, I might enroll my drone.
While you buy your digital camera, it is also clever to get it registered with the FAA. Technically, you do not need to enroll your drone when you're flying underneath the Special Rule for Mannequin Aircraft, nevertheless, it is not at all times possible to match the requirements of the rule, and it is much better to be safe than sorry. To enroll your drone, then you definately'll have to visit registermyuas. FAA.Gov. Do not worry, it is an inexpensive and effortless procedure. If you're purchasing a toy drone, then you should not have to register it as it may be less than the limitation of 0.5pounds.
If you're looking at digital camera drones, then just about all these will come ready to fly. Many toy dronelimitared to fly effectively, however hurrying drones normally want some additional installation.
Usually an RTF quadcopter does not require any setup or meeting, however you might must do some basic items like cost the battery up, arrange the propellers or Rename the management into the quadcopter (get them speaking to one another).
A BNF quadcopter typically comes totally assembled, however with no control. With BNF variations, you'll want to make use of the management which you've got (if it is suitable) or find a controller sold individually. 1 factor that you just want to pay attention to is that simply because a receiver and transmitter are on exactly the very same frequency which does not mean they'll work together.
In the analog days, in case you had a mic and receiver each working on exactly the very same frequency, then they had been nearly certain to work collectively. Now with digital communication that's all changed. Even when your receiver and transmitter are on exactly the very same station, they need to utilize exactly the very same manufacture protocol so as to speak to one another. So examine to make certain your management will work together with your individual drone prior to purchasing it.
ARF Drones are often such as quadcopter kits. They often don't embody a receiver or transmitter and will call for partial meeting. The definition of an ARF drone kit is quite broad, so when you go to ARF from the name, you must learn the outline completely.
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There are several distinct detectors inside a drone which make it function, and plenty of the sensors could also be affected by your surroundings.
1 frequent sensor that is more likely to interference is your GPS receiver. The GPS is the factor that informs your drone by which it may be, and with no incredible signal, bad issues can occur. There are a couple issues that impression GPS indicators, however the most important reason is not needing line-of-sight with sufficient satellites.
That is solely one of the vital important detectors, since it informs the drone exactly what route it is facing in order that it may use the GPS to navigate correctly. This is known as the toilet bowl impact! Finally, in case your drone has been doing so, it will crash.
Compass interferenyous among the many largest causes of drone crashes since it is not one thing that the average person is considering. What exactly causes this disturbance? Something produced from metal. Issues like big metallic buildings, park benches, automobiles electrical energy strains, and even metal on the flooring can impression your drone.
Everytime you do recalibrate your drone, then be certautomobiles, electricityit near metal items or ine calibration knowledge will doubtless be counter clockwise.
Moreover, DJIs new drones utilize the obstacle avoidance sensors and the principal digital camera to grasp their standing. That is the reason it's safe to fly drones such because the Spark inside.
Control vary specs don't think about radio interference. While you have a look on the specs for many drones, numbers such as "1 mile" seems like an excessive amount of selection, however this quantity might be deceiving. Nearly all of individuals don't reside in a location with no radio interference, in order that one mile selection can might be considerably influenced relying on where you are.
If you're in a moderate size does not reside may receive half of the marketed selection. Should you fly close by radio towers, then you could not get over a couple feet of scope. Flying in-between mountains, partitions, bushes and anything you'll be able to consider can even impression how much you could go.
1 factor which lengthy distance pilots must be fearful about is how giant they have to fly to keep line-of-sight together with the drone. In the event that it's best to fly over 1 mile off, the drone will probably be acquiring a sign that's larger than 5 times more profitable than when you're one thousand feet off. It follows that even tiny issues like bushes which are bothering you together with the drone may cause important interference or presumably a dropout.
Most digital camera drones using a GPS will return residence each time they lose signal, and DJI drones can even forestall challenges on the way back, but it does not mean that it's best to expect the drone to return. It is much better to prevent shedding signal and be secure, than possess the drone get a compass mistake while coming back and select to fly away into the sunset.
You may learn the fundamental rod movements for more securee. Whenpossessingarn what each stick does, there is nothing else you need to fret about when flying. The general controls to get a digital camera drone will probably be similar to a toy drone, however rather more secure. It's like you've obtained a digital camera mounted onto a giant crane, and also you additionally get to manage where it belongs.
Be part of a Drone Community.
As for me, I imagine everyone who possesses a drone (or wishes to purchase one) must be part of an web (or bodily) neighborhood of some type. There are lots of online drone boards on the market. Many are for normal objective andframesa few or to get very specific topics, like a specific product lineup or part.
Drone boards might be incredible, however that you must perceive what it is that you're making an attempt to inquire by which to ask and how to ask it. Sometimes folks can even look right down to you, merely since you requested a dumb question. When you have by no means been part of a web-based forum merely join one and have a look at how other men and women are asking questions.
Following is a listing of the best drone boards on the market. If you happen to did not already know, I really began a neighborhood myself often known as the my drone Inexperienced persons Group. The wonderful thing about the group is that it is for everybody (no drone problem is just too dumb!) And because there's no subcategories, you do not need to be concerned about in the event that you just're posting in the ideal location.
With all these drones offered in the present market, how can you go for the very best one for you personally?
We've got 28 variations of RC Drones within our scope. Simply by looking on the photos and studying merchandise copies, it's quite tough to resolve on the ideal drone to you, your loved ones or friends. Together with your hectic lifestyle and schedule, you don't have the luxurious of time and in addition be in a position to see all accessible videos on our website in addition to YouTube. To assist you go for the very best drone, we have categorized our broad vary for easy selection.
Drones have improved radically by way of construct quality and performance in the past couple of decades. Drones at the moment are less complicated to fly with enhanced equilibrium design and built in multi-axis gyroscope for superior stability. With these advancements, learning how to fly a drone is much less complicated and quicker than ever.
Finally, the primary questions You Must ask yourself to Verify the Ideally suited drone to you are:
- What's your means level?
- Are you going to be flying the drone inside or outdoors?
- Would you demand a digital camera?
- What's your finances?
- Ability Level.
It's essential to resolve on the drone that matches your means level. It's much too usually that we have noticed a more assured individual fly a excessive performance drone, simply to wreck it into a matter of moments! 100 percent of their time, the attribute is put on the equipment versus themselves.
To position this in view, do you push a potent V8 automobile in case you have not ever driven on a highway before? We expect you could possibly use the equivalent frequent sense and assemble your ability levels to guard yourself, your individual drone.
Flying the correct drone in the ideal surroundings is also quite important. A drone may also be used inside or outdoors and in some situations both. You need the power to make use of your drone's distinctive features and capability, this could solely be reached when you've obtained the required area to allow your drone loose. Do not use an out of doors drone, inside.
An outside drone is almost definitely a moderate to big size drone as a result of it has to have the power to accommodate mild outdoors wind. Flying an out of doors drone inside can cause any critical hurt to your individual property; your worse and drone state of affairs injures people. This goes the very same for using an indoor drone for outside use.
An indoor drone is a far smaller framework; these drones cannot cope with any wind turbulence since they've very tiny rotors. Flying an indoor drone outdoors, even in light wind illness can impression the drone flight equilibrium and drop control.
Possessing an on-board digital camera onto your individual drone allows you to capture your aerial expeditions for subsequent viewing. This adds a brand new element of enjoyment, as you'll be able to capture your aerial exploits and have the ability to see it at a later time in your laptop or Notebook. This form of RC Drone comes with an on-board digital camera which wirelessly transmits the film to an LCD display in addition to smartphones. With hours of training, you'll be able to browse the drones simply by looking on the display on the remote control. This permits for one to capture complete 1080p HD footage, paired with our FPV system, you might need an extremely sturdy professional drone program.
Setting a finances is probably the most important element in picking out the ideal drone. With our broad assortment of RC drones available, you will uncover ideal drone to fulfill your ability level and value range. We at all times suggest to start with cheaper price drones when you're simply starting and eventually make your manner into larger, stronger and more expensive drones. We do not advise shopping for the floor of the line drone (though really easy to fly and armed with features like one button remove and touchdown) to prevent disappointments for each parties. Grow your ability level and find the observe which you want and work your manner upward into the drone which you anticipate in flying.
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In addition, we offer a medium to larger sized drones acceptable for the novices. With numerous pace settings, the drone might be put to "sluggish" price that locations the drone to newcomer level preventing fast changes in acceleration and direction. This allows you to create your controller orientation while minimizing potential crashes. You possibly can elevate the speed levels as your ability level grows. You're going to be flying to be an professional very quickly!
It is necessary to take into account that the key to flying drones is sluggish rhythmic controller alterations. The major reason for laborious crashes is the abrupt shift in administration instructions that has the potential to render out the drone of equilibrium or quickly transitioned out of nice heights.
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A major thoroughfare through Washington and Holmes Counties is getting an upgrade, as 20 miles of State Road 79 will soon see four lanes.
The Florida Department of Transportation held a public meeting in Vernon on Tuesday to address the project.
FDOT says the project is good for business and it should increase safety as a more efficient hurricane evacuation route.
The meeting introduced two phases of a 4 phase project. B and C, as they are referred to, will 4 lane 9.2 miles of road from County Road 279 to I-10.
Residents of the area addressed concerns of right of way purchases and what the future expansion, set to begin in the Fall, will mean for their land adjacent to the road.
In addition to constructing grass medians in rural areas, new parallel bridges will be constructed over Cypress Creek and Open Creek.
FDOT Public Information Director, Ian Satter, says the project opens up the area to more industry as a major transport hub.
We're looking to help, with this widening, to enhance economic prosperity in the area. A larger corridor allows for more opportunity for business to come in and set up shop, for people to come in a set up jobs for Florida families, so these are all things that are a part of this widening process. By doing so, we're allowing the public to see a benefit of that through this meeting," said Satter.
The total project is expected to cost 98 million dollars.

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Me And Luke Wilson, we’re like THIS.
I think it’s time for a repeat of one of my most embarrassing moments, the Me And My Luke Wilson story. Please enjoy at my expense:
Wasn’t it just the other day I was telling you about the time I was hiking with my iPod up too high and annoyed a biker trying to get past me on the trail?
Yeah. It happened again today only the biker wasn’t annoyed and IT WAS LUKE WILSON. I so love it when the celebs show up in Tahoe.
Here’s how it went. I was on a very narrow trail, iPod up to blasting, and I was wailing along to Shattered by O.A.R. Having a great time, too. When suddenly Ashes (who was in front of me) turns and looks behind me.
Uh oh. Either there’s a bear behind me, or it’s—
Yep. A biker. I immediately nearly leap out of my skin.
He smiled. “Sorry, didn’t meant to scare you.”
I yanked my headphones out of my ear and stared at him. HORRIFIED because I’d been singing and probably dancing, and also tongue tied because holy shit, it’s Luke Wilson on a bike with a helmet and green hightops and cool sunglasses and that cute goofy smile and everything. “I’m sorry.” I think I stammered like a moron, too. “I had my iPod up too loud.”
He pulled his own ear buds out. “Me, too. No worries. Carry on!” And then he gave me a thumb’s up, smiled, and rode on by.
While I stood there staring after him thinking I NEED A PICTURE OF YOU FOR MY BLOG! LUKE! COME BACK! I SWEAR I’M NOT A STALKER!! LUKE??
I immediately called Alpha Man and told him what had happened. He was listened, and then said, “Tell me you didn’t make him take a picture for your blog.”
Ya think he knows me a little bit? “No, of course not. I wouldn’t do that.” Only because I couldn’t, because I’d been STAR-STRUCK.
“Did you chase him down?”
“No!” Only because he was on a bike and I’m lazy, but he didn’t have to know that. “Shesh. I have no idea who you think I am.”
“I know exactly who you are,” he said laughing.
Dammit. He does. But I don’t care. I saw Luke Wilson! And next time, Luke? I’m totally taking your picture.


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After a whirlwind of Ramadhan buffets recently, finally found a soothing oasis to really
unwind a little while, accompanied by a salmagundi of deliciously grilled
skewered treats at Ri Yakitori, under the good hands of Chef Isao, who has joined St Giles bandwagon recently.
Chef Isao and Sous Chef Zimiel
With a refined sense of style and contemporary touches, Ri-Yakitori delivers inventive and
traditional takes on Japanese Yakitori such as skewers of juicy chicken, tender beef and fresh vegetables, just to name a few, served alongside classic Japanese dishes as well.
Located at the Level 7 of The Gardens Hotel, this svelte establishment poised as a perfect venue for convivial dining, both casual or formal and even special occasion to commemorate it vividly. Amiable service awaiting diners upon arrival, before seated comfortably within the splendor environment of Zen-like ambiance, especially with the urbane and calming warm lighting.
There is even a room dedicated for ardent fans of pool to foster goodwill among comrades.Crisp julienned cabbage, served complimentary with savoury dipping (goma and special shoyu sauce) as a welcoming starter.
GRILLED CHICKEN SERVED WITH MIYABI SAUCE (MYR 30)
One of the latest addition to be introduced to epicurean this quarter, grilled chicken meat with special tangy sauce.
Dished out with fresh asparagus and mushroom slices, the chicken meats are succulently served in a bite-sized portion, making them much more convenient to be enjoyed hassle-free. The meats are lightly grilled on the skin till slightly brownish before topped off with appetizing bits of Japanese plum. Certainly makes a good palate opener.EBI TEMPURA (MYR 47)
Sizeable prawns are lighted coated with tempura and fried till golden brown. Crispy on the outside and remain soft and succulent within. Best eaten while hot for the crispy kick or dip into some tempura sauce should you prefer some moisture to your seafood fritters.
CHICKEN KEBAB (MYR 14)
Tender chicken meat grilled to perfection with crunchy cuts of capsicums and leek, served with teriyaki sauce. Nicely flavoured and not overly done.
Here comes the meaty plate, surely a joy for meat lovers!
From the foreground; MOMO (Chicken thigh –MYR 10), TEBA (Chicken Wings- MYR 10) and KAWA (Chicken Skin MYR 6), served with yakitori tare sauce.
Love the lush meat cutlet, very saporous albeit lightly marinated. The chicken wings are skillfully grilled to a silky texture in the inside while remaining crunchy on the skin. As for the rest skewered meats, they are thoroughly encased with soy fragrance, making them a very appealing nosh. I was wondering why the meat are so flavoursome despite none are involved in any long-hours marinade and then I was told that all yakitori are actually lightly sprayed with sake prior to grilling, giving it a heavier dose of culinary injection. Now that’s a great idea that deserves another thumbs up!
(For Muslim customers, this step of using sake would be excluded, so worry not ^^)
TSUKUNE (MYR 10)
Juicy homemade chicken meatball served with teriyaki sauce and mustard paste at the side.
Presented in the oblong-shaped unconventionally, this toothsome meatball does not compromise on the gustation, but continues tickle your taste bud with the unmistakably bounciness and juicy-packed patty. You could now temporarily forget about your mundane foot-long sausage I suppose (=
MUNE (MYR 8)
Cubes of juicy chicken breast served with bainiku sauce and oba leave.
I quite like the zesty taste projected by the umeboshi relish (popular pickled plum paste in Japan), that give the dish a balanced mixture of both sour and salty.
SHAKE OCHAZUKE (MYR17)
One of the most homey Japanese food. A hearty bowl of salmon rice soup, served with laces of salmon meat and Japanese pickles as accompaniment.
The imported pickles are especially appetizing, indirectly helps to spice up the overall dish.
KAMONAMBA (MYR 32)
Special soba noodles served in hot duck broth.
The clear soup broth is indeed a mirthful delight to bask in, would we better if the duck meat is more moist and tender.
If you are still up for some snacks, here you go.
Mentaiko Onigiri Rice Ball (MYR 21)
Triangular-shaped Japanese rice ball and served with pickled as well as imported mentaiko paste from Japan.
Another must-have in the house in this Japanese pizza liberally drizzled with savoury tonkatsu sauce. Each bite is mouthwateringly filled up with crisp cabbages generously, in addition to the richness of tonkatsu sauce, seaweed and bonito flakes. Simply an awesome grub from the Land of The Rising Sun!
As for the dessert choices to fix your sweet tooth craving, get ready to satiate from…….
YUZU SHERBET (MYR 12)
MACHA ICE CREAM (MYR 12)
Or lovely DORAYAKI with azuki paste and garnished with fruity strawberries.
During the weekends, the bar also presents live sport together with a menu that features a wide variety of Western and Malaysian fusion flavors. For more info, do stay tuned at Ri Yakitori page for more updates.
The menu is available for orders up to 11:00pm daily
Ri- Yakitori is pork-free but offer alcohol on its menu
Cheers for now and Carpe Diem! ❤ℒℴѵℯ❤
Location: Level 7, St Giles The Gardens- Grand Hotel & Residences, The Gardens, Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra, 59200 Kuala Lumpur.
Contact: +603 2268 1188 Ext.6323
Business Hours: 5pm – 1am Monday –Saturday (Sundays Closed)
Date of Visit: Jun 16, 2015 Other Ratings:
Value for Money 4


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Last fall, I took a trip down to the Valle de Guadalupe, just north of Ensenada in Baja California. People call it the Napa of Mexico, and sure, there are a surprising number of wineries, one dating all the way back to 1888. But what struck me even more was a particular design aesthetic. Architects, hoteliers, and restaurateurs were combining the best of what Baja had to offer — desert flora and fauna, traditional textiles, simple materials — with edgy tile, clean lines, and elements of industrial-chic. The result — I think of it as Baja Modern — is wholly unique, and, to me at least, visually irresistible.
The Hotel San Cristobal in Todos Santos crystallizes some of the best of Baja Modern — and nowhere is it as apparent as in the signature tile used throughout. Hotelier Liz Lambert said in an interview, "We found the woman who had done that original tile design and licensed it from her and changed some colors. It seems so Mexico to me, the green, red, orange, and blue. And then those colors became the colors of the hotel that are repeated everywhere." (The cement tiles are by Amethyst Artisan).
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Colorful handmade textiles, with humble roots, are all over Baja, from the street vendors in Tijuana to high-end hotels. At the Hotel San Cristobal, the hand-woven bedspreads came from a small village outside of Oaxaca.
The vibrant color you see in textiles carries through to the buildings themselves — as is the case at The Hotelito in Todos Santos, a bed and breakfast by the English designer Jenny Armit.
Reclaimed materials are ubiquitous in Baja — because in the vast mostly un-populated desert landscape, building materials are not always easy to come by. What design-minded folks have done different, though, is to use them in innovative ways — like the upended ships that serve as wine caves at Vena Cava, designed by architect Alejandro D'acosta."When you recycle a boat, or when you reuse an object, part of the original soul of the object is still there," D'Acosta told NPR.
For similar reasons, concrete floors are a common feature.
Plant ladies, stand down with your sprawling philodendrons and fiddle leaf figs. There's still something deeply compelling and architectural about simple desert plants. In Baja, they're a given — and where Baja modern is practiced, they're elevated and often take center stage.
Industrial minimalism reigns at Hotel Encuentro Guadalupe — a handful of shipping containers set in a mountain, looking east into the Valle. The vibe is perhaps best captured on the private decks, where old school Mexican chimeneas co-mingle with industrial-modern loveseats and tables.
Similar vibes can be found at the nearby Hotel Partana.
Simple, rustic materials are everywhere — like the hay bales and rock walls that artfully comprise Bar Bura, the cliffside outdoor bar at Cuatro Cuatros, just north of Ensenada, where 44 renowned architects have had a hand at creating a compound that is part winery, part adventure park, park glampground, and part private community.
And of course, there's the landscape itself — the star attraction in almost every Baja design. At its best, it's the roaring Pacific, captured perfectly at The Cape, in Cabo San Lucas.

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The return flow in the vacuum chamber of the vacuum evaporation coating equipment is directly proportional to the conductance of the pumping pipe, the pumping time, and the oil return rate of the unit. Therefore, the oil return rate of domestically made vacuum pumps is generally higher. This is because the longer the pumping time of the low-temperature vacuum chamber, the greater its return flow.
Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD for short) is a technology that uses physical methods to deposit thin films on substrates. The main function of the cooling system of the physical vapor deposition equipment is to cool the equipment parts, such as the vacuum pump set, the oil diffusion pump, the wall of the reaction chamber, the target source, etc. In order to achieve the overall cooling effect of the equipment, the current PVD equipment generally adopts flow channel cooling. Generally, for the parts that need to be cooled, due to the consideration of the need for anti-corrosion function, such parts are usually made of stainless steel or other Materials with strong corrosion resistance. The ice water machine pumps the cooled water into the above-mentioned components that need to be cooled, and finally returns to the ice water machine through the corresponding pipeline after cooling to realize a cooling water cycle. However, in the actual production process, due to the quality of the cooling water used and other unknown reasons, the above-mentioned cooling water pipelines such as the outer wall of the reaction chamber and the outer wall of the diffusion pump, especially the target source and other components, are caused by dirt precipitation. A common situation is that the yellow suspended solids produced after corrosion are dispersed in the cooling water, and enter all the above-mentioned components that need to be cooled with the cooling water and gradually deposit in them, resulting in a decrease in the effective cooling water flow rate and affecting the cooling effect. For the above-mentioned corrosives deposited in the cooling pipe on the outer wall of the diffusion pump and the liquid storage cavity of the reaction chamber, the usual method is to disassemble the target source for major cleaning and maintenance, which will consume more labor costs and easily cause Loss of work stoppage.
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New Zealand Diversity Forum: 20-22 August 2006
National identity, cultural diversity and harmonious race relations will be the subject of a wide range of meetings and forums as part of the third annual New Zealand Diversity Forum.
Last year’s Diversity Forum at Te Papa attracted over 400 participants to discuss the ‘Challenges of Cultural Diversity’.
This year, the forum will consist of four elements: a National Youth Forum on Sunday 20 August; Sector and Professional Meetings, Information Forums; and Special Topic Forums, a Mayoral Reception on Monday 21 August; and a Plenary Session at Te Papa on Tuesday 22 August.
The national youth forum on diversity, Rangatahi ki te Rangatira, will gather young people from throughout New Zealand to discuss race relations issues and to develop their input into the remainder of the Forum, including a youth challenge to be presented at the plenary session.
The Forum is organised by the Human Rights Commission as part of the New Zealand Diversity Action Programme with support from the Office of Ethnic Affairs, Te Papa, UNESCO, Te Puni Kokiri, Ministry of Social Development, the Asia New Zealand Foundation and the Wellington City Council.
The programme features a wide range of expert speakers. Key sessions and events are as follows:
Monday 21 August
Sector and Professional Meetings including:
- Media practitioners hosted by the Journalism Training Organisation
- Museum and gallery staff hosted by Te Papa
- Public library staff hosted by the National Library
- Local government staff hosted by Local Government New Zealand
- Diversity researchers hosted by the Victoria University Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research.
Information Forums including:
- Outward Bound on its multi-ethnic leadership courses
- The Office of Ethnic Affairs on its Intercultural Awareness and Communication Training Programme
- The Changemakers Forum on the Wellington Regional Refugee Health and Wellbeing Action Plan
- The Ministry of Health on Racial Discrimination and Health Outcomes
- Te Puni Kokiri on the Maori Potential Framework
- The NZ Police on their ethnic relations strategy
- The Human Rights Commission on Dealing with Discrimination
- The Human Rights Commission on Human Rights and the Treaty of Waitangi
- Work and Income New Zealand on access to employment.
Special Topic Forums including:
- An interfaith forum hosted by the Victoria University Religious Studies Programme
- Women and diversity, hosted by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs
- Cultural Diversity in the Arts, hosted by Creative New Zealand
- Community Languages, hosted by the Office of Ethnic Affairs
- Race Versus Need, Special Measures to Ensure Equality, hosted by the Victoria University Institute of Policy Studies
- The Art of Weaving – from ‘them and us’ to ‘we’: Bringing Diverse Communities Together
Forum participants will be welcomed at a Wellington City Council Mayoral Reception on the Monday evening from 5.30-7.30pm. The reception will provide an opportunity to network and discuss the day’s activities.
The NZ Diversity Forum Plenary Session will be held at Te Papa on Tuesday 22 August from 8.00-5.00 pm. It will include a powhiri and celebration of diversity at Te Papa Marae, keynote speakers, a youth challenge, and an information bazaar with resource booths from a wide variety of organisations contributing to intercultural understanding and harmonious race relations.
For registration details, please email email@example.com
Further information about the forum and the full draft programme can be found at www.hrc.co.nz/diversityforum