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Gandule Rice A Puerto Rican dish with local Hawaiian flavor. Labor intensive, but also delicious. One ingredient, pigeon pea, is Native to Africa and is also called ‘Congo pea’ and ‘no-eyed pea’; achiote seeds are slightly musky-flavored seeds of the annatto tree, available whole or ground in East Indian, Spanish and Latin American markets. Buy whole seeds when they’re a rusty red color; brown seeds are old and flavorless. Achiote seeds are also called ‘annatto’ which, in its paste and powder form, is used in the United States to color butter, margarine, cheese and smoked fish.
Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a large saucepan over medium high heat. Add pork and brown in oil. Meanwhile, place remaining oil in a small saucepan over medium heat and add achiote seeds. Heat until oil becomes very dark orange/red. Remove from heat and set aside.Advertisement
To the browned pork add the onion, cilantro, garlic, salt and pepper. Cook to reduce veggies, then add the tomato sauce, pigeon peas and olives. Mix well. Strain achiote/oil mixture into pork mixture and stir together. Reduce heat to low and let simmer for 10 minutes.
Add uncooked rice and water to pork mixture; stir well. Raise temperature to high, cover saucepan and bring all to a boil. Stir again, reduce heat to low and cover; let cook on low about 10 minutes. Remove cover, stir again, replace cover and cook another 10 minutes; stir again. Remove from heat and allow to stand 15 minutes.
Per Serving: 615 calories; protein 18.6g; carbohydrates 71.7g; fat 27.6g; cholesterol 48.3mg; sodium 1112.1mg.

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National carmaker Proton Holdings Bhd is adopting an alphanumerical naming system for its future models beginning with the X70, its first sports utility vehicle (SUV).
Sales and Marketing vice-president Abdul Rashid Musa said the letter X is synonymous with crossover or SUV vehicles, while the number 70 denoted the size or class of the SUV and would enable Proton to adopt a logical system to add bigger or smaller models in the future.
“This is the first time an alphanumerical naming system is used on a Proton model as our research shows it will make it easier to sell in Asean countries and other international markets, as there are no language barriers to overcome,” he told reporters at the preview of the new SUV in Kuala Lumpur today.
Proton chief executive officer Li Chunrong said Proton's adoption of the new naming system would make customers more focused on the brand name as compared with the model name.
Abdul Rashid, who is also the chief executive officer of Proton Edar Sdn Bhd, the distribution arm of Proton, said the SUV would open for booking tomorrow at all Proton 3S and 4S centres with a fee of RM1,000.
However, he declined to reveal the retail price of the X70.
Li said a series of customer events, spanning seven cities, would be held from September 19 to November 4, to promote the vehicle before the SUV is launched at year-end.
"Our plan is to reach nearly 6,000 people but that is only a small portion of the potential buyers we are targeting," he said.
Meanwhile, on the SUV market, Abdul Rashid said the local SUV market still lagged behind regional and international markets in terms of SUV contributions to total industry volume (TIV).
He said SUV only contributed about 11 percent of the local TIV compared with 15 percent in Asean, and 34 percent globally.
In the international market, he said SUV accounted for 40 per cent of TIV in both China and North America.

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The growth in undergraduates has been dramatic over the past 15 years, rising from the equivalent of one school-leaver in eight in 1979 to one in three now. Some, the CBI among them, would like to see this trend continue to keep pace with even higher and more steeply rising participation rates among our industrial competitors. In those countries student support arrangements tend to be even less generous and drop-out rates even higher: Germany, for instance, enrols a third more undergraduates than Britain but 50 to 60 per cent of them never complete the course compared with 13 per cent in the UK.
But this difference is now being eroded. According to the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, the numbers of students leaving courses for reasons other than exam failure is rising fast. The rate is already greater than the rate of growth in student numbers. On top of that, nobody knows how many cases of academic failure are attributable to students working to earn their keep rather than to pass their exams. One university in three now runs a job club or bureau for students in recognition of their need to supplement their income.
Even for the small minority of students who receive it, the full means-tested grant is no longer adequate. Frozen in 1991, the intention was that students would be able to supplement their grant, and the expected parental contribution, with a government loan that would gradually increase in size as the value of the grant element decayed. That, of course, assumed that parents were still able and willing to make the parental contribution called for in most cases; an assumption about dependency, stable and extended relationships and disposable incomes that simply does not pertain in many families.
The present loan system has proved what it always promised to be; a regressive disincentive to the worst-off to better themselves through education. The low interest and conditions of the loan may seem benign enough to the moderately pecunious mortgage-payer used to a regular salary cheque; the graduate does not have to start repaying the loan until he or she earns the equivalent of 85 per cent of the national average wage, though once they do they are expected to pay it off in 60 monthly fixed instalments. Viewed from the other end of a financial telescope it does not seem such an inviting proposition to 18-year- olds.
Wastage rates in the UK may be comparatively low. But it can be in no one's interest to increase the waste and disappointment these represent. It is no longer possible to turn back the clock, however. Since 1991, the numbers eligible for student support in higher education have increased by a third. That makes a return to the full means-tested grant an unpalatable prospect for any Government - or tax- payer - particularly if student support for continuing or further education is also to be contemplated to create a fairer ladder of opportunity.
Instead the Government, like Labour and the CVCP, must now, as part of its current review of higher education, look at a loan system that promises less consumer resistance; one in which repayments are extended less dauntingly over a longer period, more graduated according to income and collected through the income tax or National Insurance system.
But it is right that the review being carried out by the higher education minister Tim Boswell should also be asking other questions: what - or who - is university education for? Do we really need half our school-leavers to be graduates, as the CBI suggests, and if so in what disciplines? Or is it at the technician level that the crucial skills shortages exist and what part should universities play in meeting those? As Gillian Shephard put it this week: "While the objectives in the 1963 Robbins report remain broadly valid, there is now more emphasis on higher education's role in underpinning a modern competitive economy."

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I really think Silicon Valley needs to get beyond its insular way of thinking.
The 2017 Nissan Rogue SL is a great example of how tech features are becoming more prevalent and affordable.
Legal streaming services help reduce piracy, a report finds, news that would have been helpful in the Napster era.
While I too am very concerned, technology and its impact on the global economy is much bigger than any president.
Philadelphia-based non-profit TechGirlz takes on the challenge of getting young girls to stick with STEM education.
VR could allow car shoppers to test out various aspects of a vehicle from the comfort of their own computer.
Twitter and Facebook have to go or next time their power could cause serious damage to our society.
This week, Stacey tackles what you should consider when building a new smart home and security cam options.
Recent trips to New York City, Hong Kong, and London got me interested in second-gen transportation gadgets.
History will show that the stylus was the one thing that kept Redmond from replicating the success of the iPhone.
I see the transfer to an iOS-based mobile device over the next three to four years.
Developing its own connected car platform allows Toyota to control its dashboard destiny and driver's data.
The MacBook Pro's Touch Bar is a pathetic stop gap to having a full touch screen, but fanboys will probably love it.
Rumors suggest Apple will tackle AR/VR on the iPhone, perhaps via a special strip on the bottom of the screen,
OnStar Go markets things to car owners via machine learning and drivers' data. It's not as creepy as it sounds.


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Tail Blazers was conceived as a source of holistic, healthy pet choices in Calgary in 2000 and is now franchised across Alberta, BC and Ontario. They carry high-quality foods, treats, and supplements for dogs and cats with a smattering of quality toys and gear thrown in. There are eight locations in Calgary to choose from. The Copperfield store has limited variety and several visits have proved that staff are unwilling to accept that an ultra-high protein, grain-free diet might not be ideal for every dog.
The Acadia location is outstanding. Leslie, the owner, is extremely knowledgeable about healthy products and embraces the idea that dogs come in all shapes, sizes and health conditions, and that appropriate diets are dog-specific. Leslie’s service is above and beyond all my expectations: she’s happily ordered kibble for me that the store doesn’t usually stock and contacted suppliers for more information about products. I’ve witnessed her pulling a product from the shelf when it did not meet her quality standards. Tail Blazers is the only vendor I’ve found that sells eggshell calcium. This is a five-star pet shop.

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Collector’s Choice Music has just issued four historic live albums by the Jefferson Airplane. The first was recorded at the Fillmore Auditorium October 15, 1966 and was singer Signe Anderson’s final concert with the group. The second was recorded a day later and featured Grace Slick’s debut with the group. Release number three is from a pair of shows recorded about a month later and finds Grace Slick settling in as a member of the band.
The fourth album in the series is Jefferson Airplane: Return To The Matrix 02/01/68, which features two discs and 103 minutes of unreleased live music by one of the premier bands of the psychedelic era.
Recorded about sixteen months after Grace’s debut, she has now settled in as a key component of Jefferson Airplane. When she was hired, it is doubtful if the band members realized that they were getting one of the great female voices in rock history in addition to a woman who would become symbolic of the era. By late 1968, though, she had become the visual focal point of the band.
The Jefferson Airplane was one of those bands who would take their short, concise studio tracks and stretch them out when playing live. The instrumental skills of Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen, and Jack Cassady were some of the best that rock had to offer. Their studio albums may have been commercially successful, but their live skills and reputation would ensure their induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
Return To The Matrix finds the band at the height of their powers. They had been on the road and in the recording studio for three years. They could now draw material from three of their signature albums, Surrealistic Pillow, After Bathing At Baxter’s, and Crown Of Creation.
Grace Slick also brought two songs with her from her first group, The Great Society. Both “Somebody To Love” and “White Rabbit would become hit singles and be ranked among The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time by Rolling Stone Magazine. Slick is in fine vocal form and “Somebody To Love,” which begins the concert, immediately ramps up the energy. Her “Two Heads” is also a nice performance as well.
Marty Balin’s vocals were always a nice counterpoint to Slick’s, whether as the lead, in support, or as a duet. Here he is best represented by “It’s No Secret,” “Plastic Fantastic Lover,” “Today,” and “Share A Little Joke.”
The old rock song “Kansas City” was a staple of their live act at the time although they would use it as a jumping off point for their guitar excursions. The last three tracks present the concert Airplane at its best as they cover about a half hour of time. “Ice Cream Phoenix,” Donovan’s “Fat Angel,” and the ten minute closer “Ballad Of You And Me And Pooneil” stand among their best live work.
It is nice that the Jefferson Airplane vaults have been opened. Return To The Matrix is a stunning document of the era and one of the bands that defined American rock.

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Mining Cell Phones to Improve Multimobility
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- Acquire and use cell phone data for multimodal transportation planning
- Use the ArcGIS Hot Spot Tool data to collect data from cell phones to help you identify the most popular destinations within a study area for planning purposes
- Contrast traditional traffic-count data with robust cell phone information to develop efficient transit and multimodal transportation recommendations tied to mode-share improvements and trip reductions
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The Lake Tahoe Basin has realized steady growth in visitation. As the populations of California and Nevada increase, so do the annual visitors to this majestic destination offering beaches, hiking trails, waterfalls, mountain biking, snow skiing, gaming, restaurants, shopping, and accommodations. Yet the 72-mile, two-lane roadway around much of the lake cannot be expanded due to environmental and topographic constraints, making traffic congestion commonplace on hot-summer and fresh-powder days. The Tahoe Transportation District intends to create a more robust multimodal transportation system to reduce the need for a personal car once visitors arrive into the basin. By shifting visitor and local trips to frequent buses, establishing convenient bike-share stations, and encouraging walking through expanded sidewalks, the Tahoe Transportation District can reduce the congestion and help protect the environment. To successfully create a Multimodal Transportation Plan for the Tahoe Basin, the project team analyzed months of cellular device data. Learn how the information painted a more complete picture of the comprehensive travel patterns of visitors, residents, and commuters into and around the Lake Basin than traditional traffic-count data ever could.


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11.11.2023, 22:00, Maxx 3
Welcome to the amazing world of the Winnipeg Film Group! A programme to discover how the remote and somewhat dull Canadian city of Winnipeg, home of Guy Maddin, has since the 1970s been a place of innovative, border-crossing, and basically crazy cinema. Across animation, fiction, and documentary, there’s a common experimental touch to the styles of the many directors who started filmmaking with the Winnipeg Film Group, the cradle of a unique cinematic extravaganza.
Primiti Too Taa
Colin Morton/Ed Ackerman / Canada 1986 / 2'45" / colour / English / Exp/Ani
A delightful animated poem made with only a typewriter and simple vocal messages, based on the 1920s sound poem «Ursonate» (Sonata in Primitive Sounds) by the German avant-garde artist Kurt Schwitters. The human voice provides the music while words and syllables dance in this short film, which has won several international awards, including a Bronze Apple from the National Educational Film and Video Festival. The film was a six-week collaboration between filmmaker and artist Ed Ackerman and writer and poet Colin Morton.
The Dead Father
Guy Maddin / Canada 1985 / 24'30" / 16mm / black & white / English / Fic/Exp
A young man, whose father has died, experiences an array of post-mortal brushes with his dead father. This grey comedy takes the dark subject matter and produces humorous results.
The Animated Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Leslie Supnet / Canada 2008 / 1'40" / Beta SP NTSC / colour / English / Ani
An animated tribute to Jeff Krulik and John Heyn's 1986 video documentary classic «Heavy Metal Parking Lot». Remaining faithful to no-budget filmmaking, Supnet reconstructs her favourite scenes using cut-out characters made out of aged paper, glue, and ink.
Ryan Steel / Canada 2022 / 11'11" / colour / English / Fic
A mute loner encounters ambivalent feelings, first loves, and the heartbreak of pre-adolescence at a haunted summer camp.
Springtime in Greenland
John Paizs / Canada 1981 / 24'24" / colour / English / Fic
A lifetime of suburbia in a half hour, «Springtime in Greenland» uses 1950s cinematic conventions to tell a story about the sophomoric inhabitants of a fictional utopia. Meet Nick. He's silent, aloof, and straining against suburban values.
Matthew Rankin/Mike Maryniuk / Canada 2008 / 3'35" / Beta SP NTSC / colour / Ani/Doc/Exp
«Cattle Call» is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Using a variety of classic and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, cut-outs, open-exposures, hole-punching, and rubbing letraset directly on the celluloid) filmmakers Maryniuk and Rankin have tried to create images as dazzlingly abstract, absurd, and adrenalizing as the incredible language of auctioneering itself. It is our hope that the film will induce near-bovine levels of dumbfoundedness in all those who gaze upon it.
We’re Talking Vulva
Tracy Traeger/Shawna Dempsey/Lorri Millan / Canada 1990 / 5' / colour / English / Clip
At long last, everything you've always wanted to know about «down there» but were afraid to ask. A tender tale wherein our heroine, Ms. V. soul sisters her way into your heart with the hottest rap this side of the uterus. She sings!!! She dances!!! She's big!!! It's a wear and care manual, it's a delightful tour, it's a rock video.
Deco Dawson / Canada 2005 / 9'8" / DCP / colour / no dialogue / Clip/Exp
Equal parts improvisational performance, experimental film, behind-the-scenes documentary, music video, and audio composition, «Dumb Angel» features sensational 17-year old rock drummer Anders Erickson in a strange, acute hyper-reality, where the unfaltering magic of cinema happens right before the camera’s eye.

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Celine luggage bag beige black is made of lambskin and suede, which feels soft and smooth. This Celine bag is designed in multifunctional features. There is a inside falp pocket especially designing for cell phone, wallets, card and coin. Then, Outside with two handles can’t be longer. In front side there is a zip pocket to match the two handles and shape of bag, they general look like a smiling face.
Size :12 1/4" x 18 1/8" x 7 5/8" / 31cm(H) x 46cm (W)x 19cm(L)
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‘Embarrassing’ Suns hit new low, Power star’s milestone game turns ugly: The 3-2-1
The Gold Coast Suns’ season is in free fall, with a blistering Port Adelaide side condemning Stuart Dew’s men to yet another heavy loss at Metricon Stadium, 12.9 (81) to 4.7 (31).
For the Power, the healthy win could prove vital in the race for a double chance, while the Suns have sunk to 16th on the ladder as a result of the comprehensive loss.
The Suns will enter a Round 15 game against 18th-placed North Melbourne far from certainties, while the Power will host the Sydney Swans at the Adelaide Oval.
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Hard-running midfielder Touk Miller almost immediately began racking up the footy with ease, with the Suns starting relatively well and kicking the first goal via Ben King.
A near-instant reply from Port Adelaide young gun Connor Rozee levelled the scores.
From there the Power began to kick into gear, capitalising on a litany of poor disposals from the Suns to take an extend a lead.
Steven Motlop was brilliant for Port Adelaide, entering quarter-time with 12 touches and a goal.
The Power continued to pile on the goals, but there was a worrying sign for Ken Hinkley as veteran star Robbie Gray came from the ground and went straight to the change-rooms with what appeared to be a knee injury.
After conceding seven unanswered goals, the Suns finally broke the drought on the scoreboard with a goal to Alex Sexton.
It was a rare show of fight from the Suns, however, as the Power turned a 34 point lead at half-time into a 58 point buffer by the end of the third term with four unanswered goals.
“It’s been embarrassing, frankly,” Brisbane Lions great Jonathan Brown said of the Suns at three-quarter time.
“I know that’s a harsh word, but this is AFL football.”
In less positive news, the Power lost another player to injury, with Lachie Jones joining Robbie Gray on the sidelines.
It was a case of going through the motions for the Power in the final term, although they did miss out on a chance to significantly boost their percentage, with the Suns winning the final term.
THE 3-2-1 (by Ben Cotton)
3) Gold Coast ‘embarrassing’ amid another failed season
The Suns barely threw a punch as the Power handed them their fifth loss in their last six games.
It marks another wasted season for the 4-9 Suns with finals now all but ruled out, marking their 11th-straight campaign of missing the post-season.
They were comprehensively beaten in all facets of the game against the Power and uncompetitive throughout the contest – losing the disposal count (-94), uncontested marks (-19), contested possessions (-21) and inside 50s (-5).
Brisbane Lions great Johnathan Brown highlighted how their inability to shut down oppositions’ uncontested marking game was a major issue.
“The issue coming out of last week for the Gold Coast Suns playing Fremantle was them taking 119 uncontested marks. Stuart Dew addressed that during the week to the media,” he said on Fox Footy.
“What do we see early in the first quarter? The same thing. Port able to just take easy uncontested marks, move the ball with quite freedom from defensive 50 to the other end. The Suns’ application, their intensity, team defence, their want to cut out that options just hasn’t been there all day.
“Apart from the first five minutes of the game this has been really disappointing. Yes, they’re young, but there’s no excuse for the lack of effort and the ability for Port Adelaide just to waltz through. It’s been embarrassing frankly, I know that’s a harsh word but this is AFL football.”
Speaking at half-time, Bulldogs champion Brad Johnson was critical of the Suns in several areas, labelling them “their own worst enemy”.
“Efficiency all over the ground has been no good, handballs to the feet on the ground, they’re their own worst enemy the Gold Coast Suns. And normally I’m really positive with where they need to go as a club,” he said.
“But today has been a disaster for a half, they’ve got players that are non-existent out there, their bigs aren’t having an impact whatsoever and they’re just allowing Port to walk out.”
Adelaide Crows legend Mark Ricciuto highlighted how despite trailing by 34 points at half time, the Suns came out with a lack of intent in the second half.
Early in the third quarter Gold Coast’s pressure rating was 150 (ranked poor) to Port Adelaide’s 250 (ranked elite).
“Gold Coast would’ve got a spray at half time about their lack of pressure on the opposition consistently in the first half. You’d think they’d come out breathing fire, they’re getting pumped and are delivering nothing in this third quarter,” Ricciuto said.
2) Wines a Brownlow smoky?
Ollie Wines had another monster showing to lead Port Adelaide into fourth position on the ladder with a 9-4 record.
He racked up career-high 44 disposals, including 17 contested possessions, in a best on-ground performance, also finishing with eight marks, five tackles and 680 metres gained.
It continues the star midfielder’s career-best 2021 season, averaging 35 disposals, over four tackles, five clearances and five inside 50s to earn coaches’ votes in nine out of a possible 12 games.
“Would he be leading their best and fairest Mark Riccituo?” Brown asked.
To which Ricciuto replied: “He’d be right up there in the Brownlow as well I think.”
Wines told Fox Footy post-match that he was pleased with his team’s efforts, heaping praise on the back six.
“A good performance, probably from a midfield perspective we didn’t get it right throughout the day,” he said.
“But our backs were super today, they intercepted everything. On this ground we were able to get our running game going and score pretty well.”
1) The Suns’ shining light
One man who can hold his head up high amid the Suns’ struggles this season is Touk Miller. And that theme continued in this contest.
Despite Port Adelaide dominating the game, Miller didn’t stop trying all day with immense work rate, fighting tirelessly from contest to contest.
He finished with a team-high 31 disposals, 15 of which were contested, plus nine tackles.
And it was his defensive efforts and two-way running that particularly earned praise from Jonathan Brown.
Brown highlighted that Miller sets a “work rate benchmark” for his teammates to follow - an area where he believes they aren’t delivering in.
“That’s a problem for his Gold Coast Suns teammates, you’ve got a work rate benchmark. This guy is 100 per cent every time he goes. He just wants to get to the ball first, he wants to contribute whether it’s win that contested ball or to a lay a tackle,” Brown said.
“And that’s been a disappointing thing for me, not enough of his Gold Coast teammates have been prepared to work away from those contests even though they’re not going to win the football.”
Brown said pre-game that he thought Miller has all the qualities to be the Gold Coast Suns’ next skipper, believing he should take over from 2022.
“He should be the skipper from next year I think. He was Vic Metro captain in 2014, people speak about his leadership qualities,” Brown said.
“He doesn’t discriminate what game it is, what quarter it is, what the scoreboard says, he just works. He sets a great example, and the Gold Coast Suns need more example setters.”
Recap Gold Coast v Port Adelaide in our blog below!


GPUs have a smaller instruction set than a CPU does, but that means that from an architecture POV all the instructions in a GPU have a combination of slower CPU equivalent instructions?
I agree with @pmw1234, there is no theory. The intrsuction sets on CPU and GPU are both Turing complete, therefore CPU/GPU can do, in theory, whatever the other can. I found a dicussion for this on Quora, maybe you will be interested.
Note that, for one single thread, GPU processes slower than CPU (on average, device dependent) and it is much less flexible. GPU achieve its acceleration via a large number of concurrent threads (organized in warps -> blocks -> grids) processing the same or similar tasks, which resembles to SIMD in the CPU context. There are a few things that could make GPU much faster than CPU for some of the tasks:
- Large scale GPU-thread-based parallelism (therefore, SIMD-like processing)
- Latency hiding, I believe this would be a good reference: latency hiding
- Memory management (shared / texture memory) / asynchronous load & store
- Stream-based multiprocessing
Actually to the best of my knowledge, GPU threads can be very limitted for some tasks. For example, it does not perform as efficient as CPU threads when the program focuses more on branching logics than data-driven computation and large-scale similar simple tasks. There is a concept called "warp divergence" describing that when different threads in a GPU warp diverge during if-else branching, these threads could be serialized. Therefore, if your code (task) relies heavily on branching, you should be very careful when coding on GPU. A simple example is "select-like" function.
CPU however, is well-designed for handling context changing, the switch between multiple processes, branch prediction and out-of-order execution (therefore well pipelined) therefore each core can process very sophisticated tasks independently. As a simple analogy, a CPU is like a handful of extremely efficient workers who can work independently while a GPU is like a large number of normal workers who work well in groups. Both of them are similarly capable while they focus differently.


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52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 46: How to Make Paper Models
For this week’s blog I thought I’d have a go at paper modelling, as we have in our Copyright Deposit Collection a little work published in 1824 entitled Papyro-plastics, or the art of modelling in paper, translated from the German of Bernard Heinrich Blasche (a professor at the Seminary of Schnepfenthal) by David Boileau. The term ‘papyro-plastics’ for paper modelling is explained in the preface:
as the art of making cork models of architectural monuments on a small scale, has obtained on the continent the appellation of Phelloplastics, from the Greek word Φελλος, cork; we think ourselves warranted by this analogy in denominating the art of modelling in paper Papyro-plastics.
The work itself was intended as an instructive amusement for children, with the object of introducing them to the most common and practical applications of geometry and fostering an ardour for mathematics through the conversion of quadrangles and parallelograms into objects such as tables, houses, bridges, and ships.
In addition to teaching manual dexterity, giving a knowledge of proportions, and a taste for the arts of design, paper modelling would also afford “a salutary antidote to that listless indolence, that pernicious love of cards, or that rage of reading any book at random, which are unfortunately tolerated in many respectable families”.
The idea of combining education and entertainment for children was not a new phenomenon in the 19th century, but had been advocated as early as 1693 by John Locke in his Some thoughts concerning education.
Our copy of Papyro Plastics is the first edition, but a second edition followed one year later in 1825, the first edition having sold out in a few months. The second edition was enlarged, improved, and corrected, and “Many of the flat paper figures having been found rather incorrect upon trial, they have all been redrawn”. This wasn’t boding well for my attempts, but nothing loath, I set about the task.
The work itself is set out methodically. It begins with preliminary requisites and directions, describing how the drawing is undertaken (with a pair of compasses, brass ruler, and ruler in the shape of a triangle), the cutting (with scissors or penknife), the folding (where particular attention should be paid to ensure in a straight line), the joining (using glue, gum arabic, paste, or wafers – sadly not the edible kind, but ones which were converted in to a kind of paste when properly wetted), the thickness of glue (to be like the white of an egg), the painting (to be performed in the usual way with brushes of an appropriate size to the cut paper), the thickness of the paper (it should be strong, stiff, and very smooth), before ending with the directive that “objects ought not to be represented on too large or on too small a scale.”
So, armed with the materials which I would need (I opted for the scissors, and have to confess to using a plastic ruler, and a colouring pencil rather paint), I then proceeded to follow the forty exercises in drawing with compasses and ruler. These begin with the simple “To draw a right or straight line”, moving through “To place the length of a given line exactly in the middle of another line”, to the more complicated “To make four Lines meet at their Extremities”.
It is important to follow these through in sequence, otherwise instructions in later articles don’t make sense – I accidentally skipped exercise 35 (“To draw a circular Arch through three given Points which are not in a straight line”), which meant that when following the directions for drawing a regular polygon (exercise 36), I was somewhat stumped when told to “seek in s t and w for a point on which to rest the end of the compasses in order to describe the curve line which goes through the points s, t, w […]” – the very action which is described in exercise 35!
The idea is that you progress through each of exercises before attempting to make any of the models. Then, rather than turning to the model which you find most interesting (I like the sound of the Ancient Tower, or perhaps the Windmill), you should progress through each model in order, as they are arranged in complexity from easiest to hardest. So I restrained myself, and started at the beginning, with the first item being a die.
This seemed very straight forward, consisting of squares joined together, and is probably something which I attempted at primary school many moons ago.
I then had a go at making the chair, the second item. I have to admit that I had two attempts at this. The first time I was somewhat bamboozled by the instructions, and, being impatient, I just tried to copy the template on Plate 12.
Unsurprisingly, my chair didn’t turn out quite the same. I hadn’t realised that the lower fretwork in the back was where the fold for the seat was intended, and as such I wasn’t quite sure what I was supped to be doing with the flaps at either side of the back.
I then decided to follow the advice of the author:
should you not succeed at once, be not deterred; try once more with greater attention, seek for the cause of your failure, and avoid the mistake into which you had been betrayed. Repeated attempts are sure to be crowned with success.
My cause of failure was not to follow the instructions! So, going back for a second attempt I tried to get all the proportions correct – for instance, the depth of the seat was one fifth its length, the tops of the legs one sixth of their height, and so on.
I also realised, whilst looking at my previous attempt, that the sides of the back were probably supposed to be in line with the back legs (hence my previous confusion about the ‘flaps’) – and indeed, the instructions make this clear: “If the parts now meet exactly, as for instance the point l the point m, proceed to glueing” [see the template below]. I still wasn’t sure about the proportions between the width and depth of the seat (“the seat is somewhat narrower than long”), so I again based my judgement upon the template on Table 12.
Everything seemed to be going much more smoothly this time, although my fears regarding the errors in the first edition appear to have been founded, for it wasn’t clear from the template that the two dotted lines for the back not only had to be folded, but also cut up to the base of the first piece of fretwork in order for everything to line up; and there is no border drawn on for sticking the back right leg in place.
Observant readers of the instructions may have noticed that there is a final piece to the chair, which I didn’t attach – a rectangle to go across the top of the back of the chair. This was simply due to the fact that I wasn’t sure how this piece fitted, and so decided not to meddle with my model. But it also seems to be an optional addition, the description starting “If”.
The finished product now more closely resembles that in the book (or so I think). Whether this repeated attempt was a crowned success, I shall leave that for others to decide!


Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival fund drive is almost done
Vail, CO, Colorado
The Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival is asking for help to complete its 2009 fund drive. The festival, generated an estimated $10.9 million for the Vail Valley in 2008. Throughout that time, Bravo has relied on the community and its patrons to continue operating.
The six-week festival, which runs July 1 to Aug. 4, will this year host the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. The Festival will also include chamber music performances and educational programs.
To learn more about the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, call 970-827-5700 or go to http://www.vailmusicfestival.org.


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The Luddite machine-breaking outbreaks in 1812 were not solely an urban or industrial phenomenon. Using a case study of the Horbury district in the West Riding, this article shows that Luddism, and especially popular fear of Luddism, was heightened by ancillary activities, both criminal and customary, occurring on the semi-rural peripheries of urban-industrial areas. Incendiarism was a common feature of social conflict in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century England. This article also demonstrates how the environment and landscape of the industrialising Pennines shaped the disturbances of 1812. Luddites were defending their customary 'task-scapes' that were increasingly being enclosed by aggrandising landlords and manufacturers. Luddism can only be understood within a longer and more holistic context of regional social tensions and customary practices of resistance.
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More Moore in Austin
While in Austin for Galactics performance at ACL Saturday, Stanton Moore will play a pair of pickup gigs. On Saturday, Moore, Austin resident Papa Mali, Galactic bassist Robert Mercurio and Galactic keyboardist Rich Vogel will perform together at Jovita’s. On Sunday, the Stanton Moore Trio featuring Robert Walter and Will Bernard will perform at the citys Parish Room. The drummer will then head home to New Orleans for a show with Walter and Cranston Clement at Chickie Wa Wa Monday. The always busy Moore will also perform with Garage a Trois at Brazils Tudo e Jazz.


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Although it seems like inflation is sky-rocketing in China due to its escalating consumer price index, according to chairman of the leading food enterprise COFCO Ning Gaoning, grain prices will be stabilized because of the country’s “substantial reserves.” While corn will probably drop, rice and wheat – two of the country’s major grains – will remain in high supply this year. Indeed last year the country’s grain output increased nearly 3 percent with its rice inventory-to-consumption ratio being around 18 percent higher than anywhere in the world.
Ning claimed that the escalation in world food prices was due to “global demands and extreme weather in major grain producing areas” along with general inflation and speculation. He dismissed the claim that the price of agricultural products were behind global inflation since the recent peaks in farm produces occurred way later than those of other industrial products. Ning also predicted a high inflation in the next second months with a weakening from July to the end of 2011 but claimed that expectations were weaker this month because of various governmental measures to ensure market supply.
As well, Ning noted how China still potentially has the capacit to increase the amount of grain it produces due to better rural infrastructure, and more low-yield farmland productivity. Farmers are being encouraged to increase production and the government has invested significant funds in rural water conservation and farm irrigation projects.

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text: Found this on Pinterest and did myself a little happy dance. You can wash and reuse your cricut mats. Just buy a cheap scrubber from the dollar store- the kind that does NOT have metal in it. The plastic kind. Then use water and a drop of dish-soap and scrub quite vigorously. Wipe off the excess water and allow them to air dry and they should be like brand new.

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My mother is having frequent urination for last few days. Urine comes in sufficient quantity every hour with foam and it cuts the skin around the areas wherever it gets spread. It creates too much itching and irritation in the skin. Kindly let me know how it could be cured at home without seeing a doctor. If not, who can treat it best. A urologist or a gynecologist? Thank you.
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More than frequent visits for urinating. An urge to piss at all times. Numbing and weird sensations in d virginal area. A little burning sensation while urinating.
What is creatinine serum test for? how does higher creatinine impact a person? how can we reduce or control higher creatinine?
Sir I am suffering from kidney disease my creatine is 2.2 but I am feeling very much weakness and feel sluggish. Not getting interest in working etc I am taking ayurveda as well as allopathic but no respnse?
I am a male. For the past 3 months morning I have blood in urine. But urine culture and routine is normal. I have seen 3 times intermittently waking up morning white discharge with no smell and itching. But I fear of gonorrhea? If I had caught gonorrhoea urine culture could have got it or not? Today instead of blood in urine I have cloudy urine. From 3 weeks I have nasal congestion not relieving also sound in ear while swallowing. When I get up brushing time sneezing slight secretions coming. Other wise only nasal congestion. What is the reason for all?
I have doubt regarding the color of my urin, since 2 days it is yellow in color, is there anything to worry or is it normal?
The presence of red blood cells in the urine is called hematuria. If there are sufficient red cells, the urine turns to a bright red, pink or cola shade. Frequently, the urine looks totally ordinary because there is insufficient blood to change the colour. In this situation, the condition is called 'microscopic' hematuria.
The most common causes of hematuria are given below:
- Urinary tract infection (UTI)
- Kidney stones
- Tumours in the kidney or bladder
- Exercise: In this case, the blood is produced in the urine after strenuous activity. It is more commonly experienced by male patients.
- Injury: Traumatic damage to any part of the urinary tract, from the kidneys to the urethral opening, can cause hematuria.
The symptoms of hematuria vary depending upon the condition. These are as follows:
- Glomerulonephritis: If the glomerulonephritis is not serious, it may not show any signs. If the symptoms do show up, they can cause swelling, particularly in the lower furthest points(the thighs, legs, feet, and toes), decreased urine, and hypertension.
- Kidney or bladder infection: Symptoms rely on the site of the diseaseand can even cause extreme pain on one side of the lower back, fever, chills, nausea with vomiting, and pain in the bladder.
- Prostate infection: There can be pain in the lower back or in the region between the scrotum and rearend. Pain with discharge, blood in the semen, andfever and chills can also occuronce in a while.
- Tumour in the kidney or bladder: Most kidney and bladder problems develop without bringing about any pain or uneasiness. At the point when side effects build up, abdomen pain may be persistent.
- Kidney stones: When a kidney stone gets attached to the ureters, it can bring about extreme pain in the back, side or crotch, with nausea and difficulties in urination.
Based upon the suspected cause of hematuria, some of the treatments may include the following:
- Urine culture: In this test, a urine sample is extracted and examined to check whether bacteria has developed. This test is used to find a case of a kidney or bladder disease.
- Computed tomography (CT) of the kidneys, ureters and bladder: For most cases,a CT scan is conducted. This helps in viewing the internal organs and finding the areas that may have been affected by the condition. It also shows the extent of the damage and the spread of the disease so that a proper treatment plan may be laid out.
- Ultrasound: This test uses sound waves to create images that can show whether or not a kidney mass is a non cancerous. This method can also be used to find out whether or not there are any kidney stones, which may be causing hematuria.
- Cystoscopy: In this test, the specialist embeds an adaptable telescope into the urethra and passes it into the bladder to investigate the bladder lining for tumours or different issues.

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At the start of all workflows in Chronopolis we have our tools to package data into a file layout. Typically this will be handled by one of our Intake services, but occasionally is done in an ad-hoc fashion if data needs to be ingested manually. This is an action which as taken once so that the file layout can be distributed throughout the Chronopolis network. Currently we only supply our own packaging library for the BagIt format.
For an OCFL implementation, we need to make decisions around whether or not we want to create a wrapper around another project, or create our own library.
In order to operate nominally, we would need to make sure any library we use can handle the following cases:
- Creating an initial OCFL Object
- Updating with a partial OCFL Object
- Purging of data from an OCFL Object
- Validating an OCFL Object, a specific version of an OCFL Object, and the metadata for an OCFL Object (e.g. making sure the
inventory.jsoncontains all files, the sidecar has the correct checksum, etc)
- Handling additional metadata (ACE Tokens, application logs)
- Understanding different addressing schemes
OCFL Storage Roots DECISION
For Chronopolis, we have a decision to make here in terms of where the Storage Roots will exist. It is important to keep in mind that a Storage Root can contain zero or more OCFL Objects.
If the Storage Root were to exist at the same level as our preservation root, we could use the Depositor root as a namespace for OCFL Objects. However, it would require that the entire preservation filesystem is updated if we move to a new version of the OCFL specification. If a Preservation Root is used as the OCFL Storage Root, then the Replication service would likely require additional updates in order to check that the OCFL Storage Root exists or create it.
The first place we can have a Storage Root is at the root of each Depositor’s directory. This likely does not make sense because these files are not tracked by the ACE Audit and preservation files at this level are not transferred by the replication process. Therefor a separate process would need to be created in order to create the Storage Root for a depositor. There exists a similar issue to the preservation root as well that all OCFL Objects under a Depositor Root should conform to the OCFL version specified in the root.
Finally we can place the Storage Root at the package level. While this creates some extra data which needs to be transferred, it provides the opportunity to create the Storage Root at Intake and distribute that through the network. This also provides the opportunity to explore multi-part OCFL packages by creating multiple OCFL Objects under a single Storage Root for a given deposit. It also allows for a more staggered approach to having OCFL versions in the Chronopolis repository, as new versions of OCFL layouts could be propagated as work is done in order to support them.
In the OTM specification, a versioning scheme is used which allows for a Repository pass data to a DDP such that it can have multiple versions. In the Deposit DDP Workflow, a
version-id is specified as an extra json field in order to store this information. In order to be compatible with the OTM specification, we will need to ensure that we can read and write arbitrary json fields to the
inventory.json of an OCFL Object.
The OTM specification also includes a workflow for deleting data from a DDP. Depending on how the Chronopolis team plans on implementing this workflow for the DDP, we may want to include some knowledge about this in the packager.
If we opt to create our own OCFL packaging library, there are many things which we need to be aware of and make decisions on. Some of these are not necessarily technical decisions, but things which we can drive through our own idea of what constitutes best practices for OCFL in Chronopolis.
We should keep the implementation notes from the OCFL team in mind to keep things such as versioning numbering consistent with what is expected from the specification.
OCFL Storage Root
The first piece which our OCFL library would need is creating and listing OCFL storage roots. This is a fairly basic operation, and includes the namaste and some optional files describing the OCFL spec. If the Storage Root is going to be part of the preservation object, then the files would need to be generated, and directories created for each OCFL Object to be created.
The main focus of the library should revolve around the OCFL Object. The Object level is more well defined with respect to what it should be in Chronopolis, and as such there is less discussion around what decisions we need to make. For this we need the basics: creation, update, and validation.
It might be good consider an OCFL Object to be open or closed and work on it as needed. For example, if an OCFL Object is open:
- files can be added and modified to a
contentdirectory of the
- metadata such as tokens or log files can be added
- the inventory can be updated
Once an OCFL Object is closed it should be locked and the associated process doing the finalization should write the new inventory sidecar. An OCFL Object which is closed should not have any operations succeed, and might be best defined by having the sidecar in place.
Inventory As A Database
As the inventory for an OCFL Object is a json file, we will need to be mindful of how that impacts processing. If consuming the json file has too much overhead, it could be persisted to a sqlite database temporarily while the OCFL Object is being worked on. This would allow the library to be able to query if files exist in a OCFL Object, the digest it expects to find, as well as easily inserting new versions and files.
When an OCFL Object is ready to be finalized, this database could be written out as the
In order to store information about actions taken on an OCFL Object, a
logs directory is specified by the OCFL specification. The information we may wish to store within this directory is:
- ACE Tokens
- Pertinent Event Log Information
- Checksum validation
- File copying/moving
As these are actions taken in specific versions, we will want to use the
created timestamp for a
version in order to keep data in the
logs directory organized. In addition, each file written to the
logs directory should have a sidecar which can be used for validation as the files themselves will not be subject to any validation processes within the OCFL specification.
When creating a new version of an OCFL Object, we will want to initialize the OCFL Object from the root
inventory.json. As payload and version files will never be overwritten, we do not need to include them when a new version is ready to be constructed.
The workflow for a new version should look similar to:
- Increment the version
- Bump the head
- Create a new version stanza
- Create a new version directory
- Create a new log-version directory
- For each file:
- Query the
manifestfor the checksum of the file
- If the checksum does not exist
- copy the file to the version content directory
- add the
- note: the
filenameshould be the path from the OCFL Object root, i.e.
- note: the
- mark for ACE Token creation
- If the checksum does not exist
- Create an entry in the
stateblock for the
- Query the
- Request all marked files for ACE Tokens
- If embedding tokens: write all ACE Tokens to
logs/version-created/ace-token-storewith a related sidecar for validation
- Register ACE Tokens with Ingest Server
- If embedding tokens: write all ACE Tokens to
- Finalize any logging
- Finalize OCFL Object by writing
The packager itself should not be concerned with creating forward deltas, and as such should not have to understand any semantics of different content addressing schemes. Therefore the amount of addressing the packager should have an understanding of is limited to knowing the following:
manifestcontains the content path of the file
- this will be used for deduplication, so only one entry will exist
statecontains the logical path of the file
- this will be used for understanding what the OCFL Object looks like in the event the data needs to be returned to a Depositor
The name of an OCFL Object can continue to be similar with Chronopolis current naming standards.
The OCFL Specification also includes a fixity block which can be used to store the checksums for each file organized by the checksum algorithm. This allows additional verification to be run on each file. For Chronopolis, we will be using the checksum in the
manifest block, so this information would become redundant. That does not mean there is no value in it, but it does not have as much value to the needs of the Chronopolis network.
Depending on if the checksum algorithms are aligned between Chronopolis and the service bringing data in (in this case, the OTM Bridge), we may want to store additional checksums here. For example, if the OTM Bridge returns
md5 checksums but we wish to use
sha512, we can persist the
md5 checksums in the
fixity block then use
sha512 for the
manifest and other needs.
Discussion needs to occur within the Chronopolis team in order to determine what exactly the workflow should be allowed to do. This outline should be taken as a preliminary look into how deletion can be handled.
As part of the OTM specification, we may also need to handle purging of files from an OCFL Object. For this workflow, we should follow the recommended steps outlined in the implementation notes.
This would be part of a larger workflow, and the steps handled by the packager would be centered around creating a new OCFL Object and inserting versions for each existing version of the object. If a
stub object is to be used in place of what was purged, this would be included in order to overwrite any existing data at a Chronopolis node.
Currently there are a few libraries which are attempting to implement the OCFL specification:
Many of the decisions we make on applying and creating OCFL Storage Roots and Objects would apply to any existing libraries as well. If choosing to go this route we would need to make sure all operations are supported and that we can handle any errors gracefully in the event of failure. In the case of the Go library, executing external processes in java does not always make for the prettiest workflow but can be managed. The java library would integrate easily with our existing codebase and could be forked or modified in order to suit our workflow needs.
Each of the two libraries should go through an evaluation phase in order to determine
- if our workflow needs are met and if not how they can be resolved
- ease of integration with our codebase
- including additional development we may wish to consider, e.g. creating an API which exposes the library for Chronopolis workflows
- ease of contribution to the library
One a library is chosen for use, incorporating it into the codebase is the next step. How this gets exposed to other Chronopolis services will be up to the developers implementing the changes, as it can be done in multiple ways.


Unlike any international tech event, this year at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona people showed an intensive interest on the use of 5G networks. As expected, the 5G network would be offering exponential gains over its predecessor 4G in terms of the two main things, speed and capacity. Anyhow, 2020 is the anticipated year for the implementation of the 5G networks however lately, Ericsson, the Stockholm-based communications technology and services company has demonstrated the pre-standard 5G network technology by displaying its ability of achieving 5 gbps speed.
5G Network Development Activity
Ericsson employed the novel “radio interface concept” along with an advanced Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology. For the development of the 5G technology, the company made use of antenna technologies with larger bandwidths, soaring frequencies and smaller transmission time intervals. Exclusively for 5G trials, radio base stations for baseband units and radio units are being developed. Other major areas that are being into consideration are small cells in an assorted network setting, higher frequency bands of 15 GHz along with higher speed & higher capacity backhaul transmission.
Development of highly developed radio technologies is the major stepping-stone towards the concretization of a 5G future. Since 5G will have one of the major impact on the core of mobile networks, which will revolutionize the entire mobile milieu so the team is working in tandem with similar major players like NTT DOCOMO and SK Telecom. Nevertheless, 5G technology is still in its nascent stage since work is yet to be done in terms of the new spectrum allocation.
Leveraging the ability of 5G
5G would be a game changer especially when we talk about the emergence of internet of things within our life. To make it an affordable option and of course a reality high-speed network ability will become the foundation for any provider. Same technology will also herald the techo age of driverless vehicles running across the highways.
With the birth of 5G networks, we would be witnessing limitless access to information along with sharing of the same across the globe. Then connectivity would be ubiquitous and not be limited to telephonic products but extended to other areas of applications included appliances and vehicles.


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HONG KONG -- A contraction in retail sales at Hong Kong-based Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group eased somewhat in the quarter ended June, although the world's largest publicly-listed jeweler still warned of headwinds in China's luxury goods industry.
The group's quarterly retail sales in Hong Kong and Macau fell 22% on the year, while those in mainland China fell 13%, resulting in an overall drop of 17%. Sales of gem-set jewelry at mainland stores open for at least a year declined 12%, half the drop posted a quarter ago.
"[Fiscal] 2017 will still be a very challenging year," said managing director Kent Wong on Monday, adding that the recent rally in the gold price had not stimulated a "gold rush" and that the demand for gold products would reflect "China's wider economic slowdown." He expects sales figures in the next quarter will still be in negative territory, due to the high levels seen a year earlier.
The jewelry chain is controlled by the family of Hong Kong tycoon Cheng Yu-tung, whose business includes developer New World Development.
The group announced plans to shut seven or eight stores in Hong Kong and Macau to cut costs, after announcing in June its steepest full-year profit slump of 46% since its 2011 listing. Its plan to add 50-60 stores in mainland China to its network of 2,315 sales outlets remains unchanged.
Smaller rival Tse Sui Luen Jewellery said its net profit plunged 40.6% last year, while Luk Fook's net profit dived 41%.
Hong Kong retailers saw their sales in May shrink for the 15th consecutive month, hit hard by the double whammy of sluggish local consumption and fewer wealthy mainland Chinese buyers.
The combined impacts of a weaker Chinese yuan and austerity measures in mainland China have discouraged ostentatious spending. In May, the fall in Hong Kong sales of luxury goods, including jewelry and watches, widened to 18.7% on the year, in line with a steep decline in mainland tourist arrivals, who account for nearly 80% of total visitors.
Calling the operating environment "still tough," Kevin Guo, an analyst at Guotai Junan, said the outlook for Hong Kong's jewelry sector has not shown any signs of improvement. The Shanghai-based brokerage maintained a "reduce" rating for Chow Tai Fook over the next 12 months.
But HSBC was more bullish, upgrading Chow Tai Fook to a "hold" in late June.
Before earnings were announced, the jeweler's shares closed 2.64% higher at HK$5.83 on Monday. They have rebounded nearly 38% in value from the trough they reached in late January, as bargain hunters moved in on the stock, outperforming the 8.5% gain in the Hang Seng Index in the same period.
"[Chow Tai Fook] is finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel," wrote Lina Yan, a consumer analyst at HSBC. "We believe the company is at the end of a downgrade cycle" due to improved profit margins that have benefited from rental adjustments recently, she said.


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You may like to read: BS6 TVS Jupiter Scooter Prices Hiked for All Variants
Earlier the motor company has launched the BS6 version of TVS NTorq 125 in the range of Rs 65,975-Rs 72455. (Ex-showroom). If we consider the features and specifications of the NTorq series it remains the same as before. TVS NTORQ 125 BS6 produces 9.25bhp power at 7500 rpm and 10.5Nm maximum torque. It has a 124.79 cc Single Cylinder Air Cooled 3 value engine. In India TVS NTORQ 125 is the only scooter that provides 3 valve engines. The front tire is a Remora (a tire used in racing bikes/cars) that has a 220mm Disc. The Tyres both in the front and the back are 12-inch alloy wheels.
You may like to read: Honda estimates two wheeler sales dropped
The scooter has a full LED headlamp and tail lamp. Suspension duties are handled by telescopic front forks and gas-filled hydraulic rear shock absorber. Combi-Braking system is there in the scooter. TVS SmartXonnect is also there in the BS6 variant that connects the vehicle to the phone with the help of Bluetooth enabled app. Now one can get access to navigation, SMS alerts call vehicle diagnostics, etc while riding the scooter.
The premium version named as the race edition has features like the LED headlamp with T shaped diffused LED DRL’s, body panels of red-black and silver-colored, hazard light, etc. The major competitors of TVS NTORQ 125 are Honda Grazia, Aprilia SR 125, and Suzuki Access 125. More bike and car news: Latest Automobile News


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If you are not too rough with it, like some people are, The Walter PPK is a good gun. There is a problem with the slider mechanism, where it hangs up after repeated use. This is not a problem with the gun, but due to the washer inside the gun squishing and spreading from the compression. To fix it, simply remove the slider, remove the cocking mechanism (The black cylinder that attaches to the slider) and then file down the silver ring at the back of the mechanism to remove this resistance. Good as new.
The gun is usually fairly priced, although its accuracy is fairly poor. This is a great prop gun due to the gas blow back. Overall, a good gun let down by a few problems and a plastic BB magazine. Dont be too rough on it and you should be fine.
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You Make the Call: Does the tenant have a legally valid claim for FHA discrimination?
Ruling: The Pennsylvania federal court rejects summary judgment for the landlord and allows the case to go to trial, citing well-established case law finding that the FHA does protect victims of domestic violence given its disproportionate impact on women and minorities [Butler v. Sundo Capital, LLC, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 171736, 2021 WL 4134034].
Takeaway: There are three important morals to take from the Butler case:
- Domestic violence victims can sue for housing discrimination under the FHA (as well as many state laws, including Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, New Jersey, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin);
- Zero-tolerance policies that lump victims and purveyors of domestic violence together for adverse treatment is a form of discrimination the law prohibits; and
- Protection for domestic violence victims may include allowing them out of their lease early without penalty if they must move out to avoid threatened violence.


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If you want to eat at home (lunch or dinner) the price is 35 € for couple (wine included). And you can enjoy excellent Italian delights.
turistic guide to visit the town of Sorrento and all the nature trail of the peninsula
Amazing villa …see more
Small apt inside a lemon garden, ten minutes from city center by car and 20 minutes from Sorrento The apt is separeted from the owner house,. You will have keys to enter and go out from property. …see more
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Additional beds (2 available): € 105 per week, Refundable damage deposit to be paid in Euros on arrival - Domestic pets Not allowed - …see more
Villa Idylle consists of 9 bedrooms, each one is decorated with trendy design and all have sea view.
Villa, 9 Double/Twin option bedrooms (sleeps 18), 2 sofa bed at an extra cost ( sleeps 4 ), 1 dining/sitting room, 1 kitchen, 9 bathrooms, swimming pool, private parkin …see more
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Casa di Giulietta is a 50 m2 lovely independent house and sits on the ridge that separates, at its narrowest point, Massa Lubrense.It can host up to 4 persons and has a private terrace offering marvellous views. …see more
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday (Feb 25) said it has identified the Maruti Eeco car used in the deadly terror attack on February 14 in Pulwama which claimed the lives of 40 CRPF soldiers.
The vehicle owner Sajaad Bhat is a resident of Bijbehera in J&K’s district Annatnag who was directly involved in the attack and has been absconding.
The NIA investigators with the support of forensic and automobile expert has been able to identify the vehicle used in the blast as a Maruti Eeco having chassis number MA3ERLF1SOO183735 and engine number G12BN164140.
An official spokesman said the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has made a significant breakthrough in the investigation by identifying the vehicle and its owner after piecing together remnants of the car recovered from the scene of the blast.
The vehicle was sold to Mohammed Jalil Ahmed Haqani, a resident of heaven colony in Anantnag in 2011, and subsequently it was sold seven times and finally sold to Sajaad Bhat.
“He was a student of Siraj-ul-Uloom [a madarsa], Shopian. A raid was conducted by an NIA team at his house with the help of J&K Police on February 23. However, Bhat was found not present in his house and thereafter has been evading arrest. He has reportedly now joined JeM. A photograph to this effect has also appeared in social media where he is seen holding weapons,” spokesperson added.
The vehicle was used by Adil Ahmad Dar, the JeM terrorist who, drove the car from the service lane and rammed it into the CRPF convoy killing 40 CRPF personnel and injuring others. Ever since the incident, the security forces have come down heavily on terror operatives within the state and a number of encounters have taken place since then.


The project senseSoar of the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich aims at the design and autonomous operation of a small solar airplane. Whilst unmanned aircraft are already successfully applied in the defense sector, this project targets strictly non-military applications.
At a size of only 3 meters wingspan, the airplane is easy to deploy and may be operated close to the ground. We target high autonomy in the sense of flight time but also with respect to user interaction. Three application scenarios are given in the following that underline the potential of small autonomous endurance airplanes:
After disasters strike, such as earthquakes or floods, the situation often remains chaotic for several days because the overview is missing. It is also only after one or two days that high resolution satellite imagery is available to the responder teams. Using small unmanned aircraft acquiring imagery and building detailed maps would help clarify the situation, estimate damages, and even find survivors and dispatch responder teams effectively.
Search and Rescue in remote areas such as mountains or water is mainly performed by manned helicopters. However, the search part suffers from dependency on weather and visibility requirements. Also, using large swarms of helicopters for time-efficient searching is not practical due to lack of resources. The deployment of cheap small unmanned endurance aircraft has the potential of filling these gaps and allowing efficient searching also in difficult environmental conditions. Certainly, the use of a thermal camera will enhance the performance of such a system.
Areas in danger of wild fires are currently still monitored by local observation stations. Full coverage and fast localization of fire outbreaks is difficult to achieve. Therefore, constant monitoring by small solar airplanes in sustained flight would offer a new quality of monitoring and fire localization at minimal maintenance.
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Based on conceptual design considerations, a Solar Airplane prototype featuring the necessary sensors, communication capabilities and processing power is developed.
Apart from implementation of a state-of-the-art low-level controller, the focus is given to robustness in the sense of safe, failure-tolerant operation not requiring any special skills from the operator. This necessarily implies building up a terrain map on-board the airplane and also detecting other aircraft in order to safely avoid collisions with either of them.
Also, different cases of failure need to be covered: on the one hand, the controller needs to be able to detect actuator malfunctions and react accordingly both at the low level as well as at the high level with adapting the mission and regenerating paths. On the other hand, the navigation must not completely fail in the case of sensor malfunction, in particular GPS loss. Therefore, an odometry system is suggested based on vision, IMU and pressure sensors that integrates well with the GPS supported localization and mapping framework.
At the highest level, a mission task manager will need to be designed, detecting the different issues and suggesting solutions.
As an overall contribution, a guideline of how to design Small Unmanned Solar Endurance Aircraft for different mission requirements both at the conceptual level as well as at the details level is expected.
On the road of integrating Unmanned Aircraft in civil airspace, this project will attempt to offer solutions using and extending state-of-the art machine vision, sensor fusion, low and high level control making unmanned aircraft more intelligent and their operation more robust and fail-safe. The following three topics are seen as the most important core technology:
Small and slow flying endurance UAS require lightweight actuators that have a comparably high failure rate. It is thus crucial to offer solutions of detecting and compensating failures. Since system modeling is a prerequisite for this technology, power-efficient control strategy development by making use of the redundancies will be going hand-in-hand. The resulting fail-safe and efficient controller compensates one of the major deficiencies of small and slow UAS, but it will be equally applicable to UAS of any size and weight increasing their robustness and safety.
Autonomous UAS operation implies the capability of intelligently detecting terrain and intruder aircraft in order to also automatically react. Research in this area is ongoing, but lightweight, low-power and low-cost options do still not exist. Using vision as the primary means of range sensing is the direct analogy to a human pilot in Visual Flight Conditions (VMC). The fusion with IMU, GPS and pressure information is expected to provide a powerful and robust solution at minimum weight and power consumption which is platform independent. While collision warning systems such as TCAS or Flarm are well established, they rely on all intruder aircraft to have them installed. Thus, the non-cooperative sense-and-avoid technology to be developed is regarded very useful also for future UAS and when it comes to their integration with civil airspace. Last but not least, it is also imaginable to be used as pilot assistance in manned aviation allowing a further improvement of flight safety.
Easy operation of highly autonomous UAS was set a primary goal of this project and is a hot research topic. The last but very important level of autonomy is provided by automatic landing. While GPS or laser guided landing to a fixed installation has been a solved problem, the small UAS should be given the capability of landing without such further installations also at remote locations in emergency scenarios. Small UAS would experience a dramatic gain in interest upon the successful demonstration of such technology – rendering them more flexible in operation, more failure-tolerant and safer compared to existing systems.
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Stefan Leutenegger, ETH Zurich
Autonomous Systems Lab
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Thomas Baumgartner, ETH Zurich
Autonomous Systems Lab
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Konrad Rudin , ETH Zurich
Autonomous Systems Lab
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Bihar’s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said that he will not realign with his former ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as long as he is alive, reported PTI. The CM also accused the BJP of using central investigation agencies to target political opponents, including Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) President Lalu Prasad Yadav.
Recalling the era of political leaders like Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani, and Murli Manohar Joshi, Kumar said that they were “so different” and those “currently at the helm of affairs listen to nobody”. Kumar made the comments while addressing a gathering at Bihar’s Samastipur district on Friday.
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“They had lodged a case against Lalu, which caused me to sever my ties with him. Nothing came of it. And now when we are together again, they are lodging fresh cases. You can figure out the style of functioning of these people,” Kumar told the gathering, without mentioning BJP, reported PTI.
Lalu was named in an IRCTC land for a hotel scam, in which his son and current Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav are also named as accused, a few years ago. On October 8, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a charge-sheet against Lalu, his wife Rabri Devi, and 14 others in connection with a land-for-job scam during Lalu’s tenure as railway minister in the UPA-1 government.
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Machine learning and materials informatics approaches for evaluating the interfacial properties of fiber-reinforced composites
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|Online published||2 Jul 2021|
|Publication status||Published - 1 Oct 2021|
|Link to Scopus||https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85110453537&origin=recordpage|
Fiber pullout tests have been frequently performed to determine the interfacial properties of fiber-reinforced composites. However, traditional experimental approaches and numerical investigations are restrained by being both labor-intensive and time-consuming. Hence, an accurate and effectual prediction of the interfacial properties is of paramount importance for composite design and tailoring. This work for the first time presents machine learning-assisted models to determine the interfacial properties based on previous micro-bond tests. Through a comparison between the pullout test results and prediction results, the effectiveness of the proposed model in the prediction of the interfacial shear strength and the maximum force is verified. The relationship between influencing attributes and interfacial properties can be reliably captured. It can be referred from the mean impact value analysis of the proposed models that the interfacial properties are significantly dependent on the fiber's diameters. This work reveals that gradient boosting regressor (GBR) and artificial neural networks (ANN) exhibit adequate generalization and interpretation abilities. Besides, both ANN and GBR, with small datasets, have tremendous potential for a wide array of applications in predicting the shear resistance properties in fiber-reinforced composites.
- Fiber-reinforced composites, Interfacial shear strength, Machine learning, Maximum force, Predictive modeling
Composite Structures, Vol. 273, 114328, 01.10.2021.
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In the year 2014 I suddenly started getting threatening calls from ICICI Bank officials and email in my official email id. One of the representative by name Mr.Pxxxxxxj Sxxxxxh from Bangalore had called my supervisor and asked him being a defaulter how come the organization keeping me in the system?
I had complained to MD of ICICI Bank. The MD office very politely refused the complain and replied to my brother-in-law instead of me.
ICICI Bank had complained to my HR and I got a memo from my HR asking to clear entire dues immediately.
I could not bare the pressure and as per the instruction of Mr. Pxxxxj Sxxxxxh I had made a payment of Rs.79,670/- on dated 16/01/2015 to ICICI Bank vide HDFC Bank Cheque No:00003. He had told me that this will be the full and final payment against the car loan taken by my brother-in-law.
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