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__label__wiki	0.510231	0.510231	New photo-enhancement technology hopes to identify Gulf Tanker Terrorists. The US Navy has released new photos of the aftermath of the attack on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. The images are said to show an Iranian speedboat, approaching one of the vessels to remove an unexploded limpet mine. Officials are asking if anyone can help identify the Gulf tanker terrorists pictured here. The new images show the same episode earlier featured in a very low-quality black and white video released by the US military. The new pictures – clearer and colored – appear to be screengrabs from aerial footage of the incident. National Security Advisor John Bolton says that he doesn’t know who it is and that the perpetrator, “doesn’t look familiar.” National security adviser John Bolton speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, in Washington. The White House says President Donald Trump has directed a “vast, government-wide effort” to protect American elections after Russian attempts to interfere in 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) The pictures show a speedboat, said to be Iranian, approaching the Japanese-owned tanker ‘Kokuka Courageous’ from the starboard side and removing a device that Pentagon insists is a limpet mine. According to Washington, this imagery somehow proves that Tehran was behind the attack. “Iran is responsible for the attack based on video evidence and the resources and proficiency needed to quickly remove the unexploded limpet mine,” the US military said in a statement. The incident has led to rising tension between the countries and a self-awarded Nobel Peace Prize. Tags: John Bolton, tanker terrorist, terrorism Previous Thousands of immigrants risk their lives to get into American ‘concentration camps’ Next Dem debate to be live auction; candidates to bid for votes with other people’s money	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1228
__label__cc	0.723529	0.276471	Shining a Light on Criminal Defense and Civil Rights in Georgia and Beyond ← Doris Lessing, 1919-2013 Sandy Hook, Newtown: One Year Later → Judge Martin and the Eleventh Circuit The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has issued some noteworthy decisions in the last few weeks concerning the rights of foreign nationals in both criminal and civil proceedings. One case, Gupta v. McGahey, No. 11-1420, concerned the right of an immigrant to sue immigration officers for civil rights violations; the Eleventh Circuit ultimately decided he had no such right. Another case, United States v. Garza-Mendez, No. 12-13643, involved an effort by an immigrant to reduce his sentence for a federal conviction of unlawful entry by obtaining a “clarification” order from a state court judge for a prior domestic violence conviction which had been used by federal prosecutors to enhance his sentence; the Eleventh Circuit turned aside this effort, as did the lower court, finding that the order was just a belated effort by the immigrant party to influence the outcome of his federal case. In the last case, Donawa v. U.S. Att’y General, No. 12-13526, a foreign national of Antigua tried to avoid deportation by arguing that two prior Florida convictions for drug-related offenses which immigration authorities had used to initiate deportations proceedings against him were not deportable offenses; the Eleventh Circuit agreed in part and sent the case back to the immigration judge for a second look. In each of these three cases, Judge Martin ended up on the side of the immigrant. She was alone in that regard in two of the cases where she issued strong dissents and took her colleagues to task for what she believed was their “astonishing” and “cursory” legal reasoning. As someone who spent most of her legal career prosecuting individuals, one might find Judge Martin’s positions surprising. But one’s past experience is not always a reliable predictor of future action. In fact, the two sometimes have no discernible correlation; Obama is a good example of that. It will be interesting to see how Judge Martin develops as a jurist and to what extent she is able to influence other members of the Eleventh Circuit, or instead alienates them. If the court’s recent decisions are any indication, Judge Wilson has signaled that he too may be prepared to speak out when his colleagues reach an unjust result. This entry was posted in Civil Rights, Criminal Law, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Immigration. Bookmark the permalink. Subscribe to the Invisible Man Subscribe to the Blog’s RSS Feeds A criminal defense and civil rights blog in Atlanta, Georgia, dedicated to the "invisible man." Albert Wan is a criminal defense and civil rights attorney in Atlanta, GA. Search The Invisible Man Freedom’s Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose My Commencement Speech Say It Plain At Least We’re Not Earth Atlanta News Bad Politics Baseball Civil Rights Clemency Collateral Consequences Criminal Law Criminal Procedure Death Penalty Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Georgia News Immigration Immigration Law International News Journalism Personal Police Corruption Postconviction Matters Social Justice Solo Practice News U.S. News U.S. Supreme Court Uncategorized Tag, You’re It! ACLU Adam Liptak Adverse Collateral Consequences Alliance for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Baseball Brian Nichols Brooklyn Dodgers Brown v. Board of Education Chaidez Chaidez v. United States Civil Rights collateral consequence Creative Steps Day Camp criminal history Criminal Law Dallas Morning News Death Penalty Discrimination Due Process Effective Assistance of Counsel Election Day Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Executive Clemency Expungement Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Florida Supreme Court Fourth Amendment George Orwell Georgia Department of Corrections Georgia Public Defender Standards Council Hillary Clinton Immigration Immigration Consequences Income Inequality Independence Day Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Invisible Man John G. Roberts Journalism Julia Tuttle Causeway Juvenile Justice Kurt Vonnegut Maricopa County Martin Luther King Jr. Miami-Dade Miranda v. Arizona national lawyer's guild New York Mets New York Times Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Northeast Philadelphia Opening Day Padilla v. Kentucky Peachtree Road Race Police Misconduct Postconviction Presidential Pardon Ralph Ellison Retroactivity Sandy Hook school shooting Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Sex Offender Laws Sheriff Joe Arpaio Sonia Sotomayor South Carolina Southern Center for Human Rights Syria TalkLeft Teague v. Lane Terrorism The Valley Swim Club Tony Judt U.S. Supreme Court Voting Rights Act	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1229
__label__wiki	0.801349	0.801349	India's Contribution to Science & Technology ashish raval Contact ashish raval Postby ashish raval » 14 Aug 2007 19:43 Well this guy is talking the ultimate truth about Indian Mathematics. Since the modern India is now rediscovering its roots in science and technology. We are now coming out of brainwashed mindset severely suppressed under british rule. I am 'elephantish' about India's future. Re: Proud to be Indian Postby Raj » 15 Aug 2007 03:28 joshvajohn wrote: Vande mataram..... ..... PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN. Let the world know what we stand for. India never invaded any country in her last 100000 years of history. Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Andrew Theogift Jeyanth S I don't have time to go through all your "facts" . I just checked couple of your "facts" which I know are not true. The Chola Dynasty of medieval India was a dominant seapower in the Indian Ocean, an avid maritime trader and diplomatic entity with Song China. Rajaraja Chola I (reigned 985 to 1014) and his son Rajendra Chola I (reigned 1014-42), who were from the Dravidian kingdom in southern India, sent out a great naval expedition that occupied parts of Myanmar, Malaya, and Sumatra. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_warfare There are several non- Indo-european languages in Europe. For example, Hungarian. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761 ... guage.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages shyamd Postby shyamd » 15 Aug 2007 14:30 [url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070814/asp/frontpage/story_8191214.asp]Unsung Newtons of India - Researchers trace calculus roots to wizards of Kerala[/url] [quote]New Delhi, Aug. 13: Isaac Newton may have developed one of the most elegant and useful tools of mathematics using ideas that had originated in Kerala more than 200 years before his time, new research suggests. Science historians have long attributed the origins of calculus â€” a bedrock of mathematics, physics and even economics â€” to Newton and other 17th-century European mathematicians. But researchers in Britain have gathered evidence that a basic component of calculus, developed by mathematicians in Kerala during the 14th and 15th centuries, was passed on to Jesuit scholars who may have carried it to Europe. George Gheverghese Joseph at the University of Manchester and Dennis Almeida at the University of Exeter analysed mathematical contributions of Madhava, Nilakantha and other mathematicians who lived in Kerala between 1340 and 1540. They also searched through obscure Jesuit documents scattered in archives in Italy, Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands. â€œWe have strong circumstantial evidence that mathematics from the Kerala school influenced the development of modern mathematics in Europe centuries later,â€ sanjaykumar Postby sanjaykumar » 15 Aug 2007 22:27 Well it is somewhat suprising Mahadeva did not write in Sanskrit. BTW this Joseph guy has a superb command of language. no haranguing but makes the point with the required amount of comtempt and even hostility. svinayak Postby svinayak » 18 Aug 2007 11:55 http://www.physorg.com/news106238636.html Indians predated Newton 'discovery' by 250 years Discussion at PhysOrgForum A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton according to new research. Dr George Gheverghese Joseph from The University of Manchester says the 'Kerala School' identified the 'infinite series'- one of the basic components of calculus - in about 1350. The discovery is currently - and wrongly - attributed in books to Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz at the end of the seventeenth centuries. The team from the Universities of Manchester and Exeter reveal the Kerala School also discovered what amounted to the Pi series and used it to calculate Pi correct to 9, 10 and later 17 decimal places. And there is strong circumstantial evidence that the Indians passed on their discoveries to mathematically knowledgeable Jesuit missionaries who visited India during the fifteenth century. That knowledge, they argue, may have eventually been passed on to Newton himself. Dr Joseph made the revelations while trawling through obscure Indian papers for a yet to be published third edition of his best selling book 'The Crest of the Peacock: the Non-European Roots of Mathematics' by Princeton University Press. He said: "The beginnings of modern maths is usually seen as a European achievement but the discoveries in medieval India between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries have been ignored or forgotten. "The brilliance of Newton's work at the end of the seventeenth century stands undiminished - especially when it came to the algorithms of calculus. "But other names from the Kerala School, notably Madhava and Nilakantha, should stand shoulder to shoulder with him as they discovered the other great component of calculus- infinite series. "There were many reasons why the contribution of the Kerala school has not been acknowledged - a prime reason is neglect of scientific ideas emanating from the Non-European world - a legacy of European colonialism and beyond. "But there is also little knowledge of the medieval form of the local language of Kerala, Malayalam, in which some of most seminal texts, such as the Yuktibhasa, from much of the documentation of this remarkable mathematics is written." He added: "For some unfathomable reasons, the standard of evidence required to claim transmission of knowledge from East to West is greater than the standard of evidence required to knowledge from West to East. "Certainly it's hard to imagine that the West would abandon a 500-year-old tradition of importing knowledge and books from India and the Islamic world. "But we've found evidence which goes far beyond that: for example, there was plenty of opportunity to collect the information as European Jesuits were present in the area at that time. "They were learned with a strong background in maths and were well versed in the local languages. "And there was strong motivation: Pope Gregory XIII set up a committee to look into modernising the Julian calendar. "On the committee was the German Jesuit astronomer/mathematician Clavius who repeatedly requested information on how people constructed calendars in other parts of the world. The Kerala School was undoubtedly a leading light in this area. "Similarly there was a rising need for better navigational methods including keeping accurate time on voyages of exploration and large prizes were offered to mathematicians who specialised in astronomy. "Again, there were many such requests for information across the world from leading Jesuit researchers in Europe. Kerala mathematicians were hugely skilled in this area." Go thru the discussion. They are unable to reconcile that it is different ethnicity http://forum.physorg.com/index.php?showtopic=17070 Hello I just registered, and I was the one who posted that Newtons achievements is by no means getting diminished. Here are some of my observations, 1. The very post started of this thread posted in a panicking tone, so did many users in the middle as if Newton is losing popularity. 2. Seeing that panick it propelled me to post a report on Indian telegraph where it clearly stated that Newton is where he is, remains undimished. 3. The level of panick like the fellow guest has shown in his arguments reflects the psychological issue of facing facts verificable by scientifical means. I admit you have defeated me! The Indians invented the toilet, yet today they still * in the streets (or in Dell sponsored toilet streets), don't eat the cows even at the point of starvation, yet the Greek slaves did the same thing 2000+ years ago, and shame on them! Now you've told me alright! Forget about who influenced who, since Alexander's Greek/European army never conquered part of India thousands of years before bringing their science/philosophy with them, and the Silk road didn't reach all the way from the Byzantium to China bringing new ideas to an otherwise isolated and backwards people....and by the way don't you guys still bury female newborns alive, and also have a classification of your people according to the darkness of the skin? Did you even read about what Gandhi called Africans, and how he despised on being put in the same vote as them by the ruling white class? Forget about "it suits me" revisionist history, and read about the truth once in a while. I'd, too, would love to believe the great conspiracy of a contingent of white scientists stealing the great idea of the door-knob from some poor black man, yet I can't help being reduced to uncontrollable laughter at the thought. I don't doubt they might have made these discoveries all on their own, yet their very isolation would have precluded much influence on western culture. If a tree falls in the forest... I think I can challenge you on each of the points raised above based on logic and science, Your hatred and racism triumphs your level of intellect. Social evils as part of cultural evolution has nothing to do with the civilization that once existed. Regarding revisionist history whose talking of history? We are talking Science!, It proves nothing now ofcourse if you admit of proving your acknowledging the orientalist history, poppy puff theories like bronze age came from Europe to India, your discrediting the very name of this forum because logic and science including genetics says otherwise. Ofcourse your each point can be challenged but that is not the topic or debacle of this forum nor I want to do that, so instead of touching the broader spectrum (indirectly means failing to argue logically on the right spectrum) and keeping your racist viewpoints on, you should get some REAL education so that you can argue with logic and science and not with myths and fictions. Or perhaps you should simply go to the forums where your viewpoints are accepted triumphing fiction/myth over science/logic. I say again Newtons achievement remains diminished and he was a great scientist. Clearly a great theoretical achievement that CLEARLY explains why the first ever airplane flew over , and the first ever car, and train, rolled over, Indian soil. I'm still kinda confused over how you people ever influenced cultures that didn't even know that you even existed. No offence but you really need to learn things first other than just flowery English and you need to stop ranting that you knoweth all without proper scientifically verificable proof on the table, The Indian civilization in various forms has cross-influenced many civilizations and got influenced in the process as well, and has had trade with them and there was cross-cultural influences among other civilizations like mesopotamia, roman civilization et al. I just made that short and simple to understand for you. Postby mandrake » 18 Aug 2007 12:55 acharya the above reply was by me, I hope I replied and framed the reply properly. It was so weird to see the unnecassary panic among them even after saying tens of times Newtons fame is not getting diminished, why is it hard for someone to accept something verificable by SCIENCE and LOGIC? Cross posting from two forums, It is interesting that only now they are discussing these matters. Almost a century ago Brijendranath Seal had shown how bhAskara of the yAdava period had developed the concept of the derivative as in differential calculus. bhAskara had used the term tatkAlika for the derivative. He clear distinguished speed that is sthUlagati and the differential of motion or sUkShma-gati that is velocity and supplies a formula which is essentially the derivative of motion at a point (or slope of the tangent of the curve) to calculate velocity. bhAskara himself clarifies in golAdhyAya that his use of the derivative is an improvement over the approximations of brahmagupta before him. The key point to note is that calculus among the Nambuthiris did not evolve in isolation but is a part of the older mathematical tradition of India. Based on the coeval yAdava kings we can place bhAskara' s birth around 1114 CE, well before Leibniz or Newton. durvasa Postby durvasa » 18 Aug 2007 13:04 Wow! So we Indians should be proud of the fact that we never invaded anyone in 100000000 years but every Tom Mo and Harry invaded and screwed us?? Or we should be proud of the fact that so many scientists, doctors, engineers could not find satisfying and well-paying jobs in India and had to leave their country?? I would be proud when Tiranga gets unfurled on Mecca, Medina, Hindukush renamed as Islamkush/Hankush and top global scholars live in Nalandas and Kanchis, happily pursuing their scientific interests among hundreds of top-class Indian scientists, even though they have to occasionally stave off RM Bhais trying to milch â€˜economic rentâ€™ payable to commoners. That time has not yet come, but itâ€™s not that far off. durvasa wrote: Wow! So we Indians should be proud of the fact that we never invaded anyone in 100000000 years but every Tom Mo and Harry invaded and screwed us?? No offence but a part of your post I dont agree with, lets not give the oppurtunists a single chance to raise fingure against this refers to the tiranga stuf, Your first point is what I agree with you completely, We have literally lots of catching up to do. When the very user posted such post (regarding % of indians working) it should have been deleted, this thread is a excellent thread and should be kept in archives...imho. Rest Assured we all want India to shine, and we need to do more towards achieving that. Location: Ban se dar nahin lagta , chootiyon se lagta hai . Postby negi » 18 Aug 2007 13:18 The point is all over the world scientific community is very protective and in a state of denial when any new entrant questions the already established conjectures or attributes an achievement or discovery to some other individual. Aryabhata,Bhaskara,Brahmagupta,Panini,Susruta,Varahamihir (pardon me dont remember all) all are known to have contributed to their respective fields what west/EU claims to be theirs.Problem is if at all their exists a documented thesis of the work of above mentioned greats why not decipher them and put them to use by incorporating in our curricula .Just have a look at the number of foreign universities doing research on areas like vedic mathematics and ayurveda vis a vis India (I wont be surprised if former stumble upon some of this and build upon it further to claim having made a new discovery we will be found wanting again ). I am sure works like Leelavati and Varahamihir's calculation of nCr deserve to be in our curricula. Just to give a brief idea of advancement in science and technology in India . Varahmihir in his treatise 'Bharat Samhita' describes the types of earthquakes and the ways to predict the occurence of the same "Varamihir writes that earthquakes occur due to the peculiar tilt of the Prithvi (earth) towards the northern side. Today modern astronomers have proved that the earth is tilted on its axis. "Varamihir further writes that due to this tilt the Northern Hemisphere of the earth is more likely to be earthquake prone. Historically, research has shown that 80 per cent of the total earthquakes take place in the northern half of the earth." Varamihir has written that human beings are animals and just like animals, human beings too show signs of an impending earthquake. "But due to ahamkar (pride) about his intellect human beings fail to recognise signs that animals who are much more developed feel." Today, many scientist have found that in earthquake ravaged areas changes in animal and human health are due to certain positively and negative charged ions that are released into the air. Describing other earthquakes Varamihir has said that the Vayumandal earthquake is preceded by peculiar smoke emissions in the sky, strong winds that uproot trees, and destroy jungles. It is also characterised by blunted rays of sun. The Agnimandal earthquake can be predicted if indicators like "ulka varsha", ie falling stars, are visible in the sky. If the temperature soars and clouds are reduced, water tables deplete and intensity of the sun increases. One week before the Varunmandal earthquake strange lights are seen similar to lightening during rains. There is a sudden flow of insects especially bees, writes Varamihir. INDIAN SCIENCE FICTION CONTEST - Deadline Sep 30,2007 Okay, I'm posting this here, since I couldn't find a better thread category, but feel that some person(s) from this forum should participate: An Indian science fiction contest is being held, with a deadline of September 30, 2007: http://www.thescian.com/?q=node/16 Even though the deadline is not that far away, they're only asking for submissions under 6000 words -- so a short story, in other words. That could be doable for anybody here who's interested. At least somebody from BR should be able to come up with a Tom Clancy genre of story. Besides, with all the hot air here, you'd think that 6000 words would be a piece of cake. Postby ramana » 20 Aug 2007 20:17 One more on the infinite series from Pioneer, 20 August 2007 From Kerala to infinity In their stunning new research, Dennis Francis Almeida and George Gheverghese Joseph show how mathematicians in Kerala developed the infinite series more than 250 years before Isaac Newton is credited to have done so. It was Jesuit missionaries who carried Kerala's knowledge to Europe According to literature the general methods of the calculus were invented independently by Newton and Leibniz in the late 17th century after exploiting the works of European pioneers such as Fermat, Roberval, Taylor, Gregory, Pascal, and Bernoulli in the preceding half century. However, what appears to be less well known is that the fundamental elements of the calculus including numerical integration methods and infinite series derivations for 'pi' and for trigonometric functions such as sin x, cos x and tan-1 x (the so-called Gregory series) had already been discovered over 250 years earlier in Kerala. These developments first occurred in the works of the Kerala mathematician Madhava and were subsequently elaborated on by his followers Nilakantha Somayaji, Jyesthadeva, Sankara Variyar and others between the 14th and 16th centuries. In the latter half of the 20th century there has been some acknowledgement of these facts outside India. There are several modern European histories of mathematics which acknowledge the work of the Kerala school. However it needs to be pointed out that this acknowledgement is not necessarily universal. For example, in the recent past a paper by Fiegenbaum on the history of the calculus makes no acknowledgement of the work of the Kerala school. However, prior to the publication of Fiegenbaum's paper, several renowned publications detailing the Keralese calculus had already appeared in the West. Such a viewpoint may have its origins in the Eurocentrism that was formulated during the period colonisation by some European nations. In the early part of the second millennium evaluations of Indian mathematics or, to be precise, astronomy were generally from Arab commentators. They tended to indicate that Indian science and mathematics was independently derived. Some, like Said Al-Andalusi, claimed it to be of a high order: "(The Indians) have acquired immense information and reached the zenith in their knowledge of the movements of the stars (astronomy) and the secrets of the skies (astrology) as well as other mathematical studies. After all that, they have surpassed all the other peoples in their knowledge of medical science and the strengths of various drugs, the characteristics of compounds, and the peculiarities of substances." Others like Al-Biruni were more critical. He asserted that Indian mathematics and astronomy was much like the vast mathematical literature of the 21st century - uneven with a few good quality research papers and a majority of error strewn publications. Nevertheless a common element in these early evaluations is the uniqueness of the development of Indian mathematics. However by the 19th century and contemporaneous with the establishment of European colonies in the East, the views of European scholars about the supposed superiority of European knowledge was developing racist overtones. This inclination for ignoring advances in and priority of discovery by non-European mathematicians persisted until even very recent times. For example there is no mention of the work of the Kerala School in Edwards' text on the history of the calculus nor in articles on the history of infinite series by historians of mathematics such as Abeles and Fiegenbaum. A possible reason for such puzzling standards in scholarship may have been the rising Eurocentrism that accompanied European colonisation. With this phenomenon, the assumption of White superiority became dominant over a wide range of activities, including the writing of the history of mathematics. The rise of nationalism in 19th century Europe and the consequent search for the roots of European civilisation, led to an obsession with Greece and the myth of Greek culture as the cradle of all knowledge and values and Europe becoming heir to Greek learning and values. While we understand the strength of nationalist pride in the evaluation of the achievements of scientists, we do find difficulty in the qualitative comparison between two developments founded on different epistemological bases. It is worthwhile stating here that the initial development of the calculus in 17th century Europe followed the paradigm of Euclidean geometry in which generalisation was important and in which the infinite was a difficult issue. On the other hand, from the 15th century onwards the Kerala mathematicians employed computational mathematics with floating point numbers to understand the notion of the infinitesimal and derive infinite series for certain targeted functions. -- Excerpted from 'Kerala Mathematics and its Possible Transmission to Europe' by Dennis Francis Almeida, University of Exeter & George Gheverghese Joseph, University of Manchester. This was originally published in Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal. What we need now is research to tie the origin of sauces to French advent in India and the transmission of that knowledge to improve French cooking! Postby Vipul » 06 Sep 2007 18:36 Bose Einstein feat in India. Ten days before they got married, physicists Sanjukta Roy and Saptarishi Chaudhuri gave themselves what they consider was their best wedding gift â€” and physicists across India may have reason to celebrate. The researchers at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, led by physicist C.S. Unnikrishnan, have produced for the first time in India an exotic state of matter, first predicted 82 years ago by Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose. The TIFR scientists used magnetic fields and lasers to cool atoms to an extremely low temperature â€” a whisker above minus 273.15 C, or absolute zero â€” and created a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC), sometimes called the fifth state of matter. Physicists Eric Cornell, Carl Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle in the US beat the world to a BEC in 1995 â€” for which they got the Nobel Prize in 2001. Since then, dozens of laboratories across the world have produced BECs. None in India. â€œItâ€™s nice to â€” finally â€” have a BEC in the land of Bose,â€ abhischekcc Location: If I can’t move the gods, I’ll stir up hell Contact abhischekcc Postby abhischekcc » 06 Sep 2007 18:59 Congratulations to the team producing the BEC!!! Location: Skies over BRFATA Contact Rahul M Postby Rahul M » 06 Sep 2007 19:00 This BEC by Prof Unnikrishnan's group is infact the largest in the world till date !! Postby sanjaykumar » 06 Sep 2007 19:09 admit you have defeated me! The Indians invented the toilet, yet today they still * in the streets (or in Dell sponsored toilet streets), don't eat the cows even at the point of starvation, yet the Greek slaves did the same thing 2000+ years ago, and shame on them! Now you've told me alright! Is it fair to quote some white trash who has taught himself to put hs paws on a keyboard when he should be out lynching Black people? However this does bring up a point on discrimination against non-Christian, non-White people in science. I visited an institute in Alberta where there was only one Chinese and no Indians from about 30 workers. University of British Columbia was only a few years ago of limits to non-White faculty. Until Michael Smith its biggest affiliation was by Khorana. Japan is committing $20 billion (IIRC) to claim several tens of Nobels in the next 30 years. Postby Vick » 07 Sep 2007 07:23 A mountainous heap of Indian science and research articles from the Indian Academy of Sciences. If one uses the search function, one might even be able to find scintilating articles like: Indian explosions of 11 May 1998: Analysis of regional Lg and Rayleigh waves All the above methods consistently gave yield estimates of 58 Â± 5 kt (refs 2, 3). This estimate is in agreement with the yield of the thermonuclear device of POK2 obtained as 50 Â± 10 kt from the post shot radio-chemical analysis5. Yield estimation of Indian nuclear tests of 1998 Postby emsin » 18 Sep 2007 21:30 I had a hilarious time on an American forum a few years back..i went asked the yanks in it..Name me 5 things that Americans have invented totally without using help from India in some way in the scientific, technological arena..and the trailor trash and everyone was first on..hey are you like serious..? I said yes..so one started with baseball and was reminded about scientific and tech..another said computers..i told him computer is not a single invention as many components are in it..so he said Pentium..was reminded about Dham. Another smartass told me he uses AMD k6..but slithered into the background when reminded it was again Dham..then cam wireless..which i claimed was Bose and not Marconi as verified by IEEE..believe me..it was after tremendous difficulty and many hours that they were able to put up 5 items..even then i'd not played the decimal system card..thought i'd leavethat for another day. But it was great fun..i could make out for some it was changing the thinking as they verified links that it was an Indian who invented wireless and not Marconi.. Yes i forgot they mentioned nukes too...but then i mentioned Photonics and the mass energy work done by S Bose- Einstein and Ramans in photonics which made the A Bomb possible..Also that Oppenheimer along with these people made nukes possible. No contribution of Xian America.. It was really hilarious.. This one can be put up on yank forums.. Over hundred years ago. In 1895, full eight years before the Wright Brothers` first flight at Kitty hawk, North Carolina, USA, Shivkar Bapuji Talpade and his wife gave a thrilling demonstration flight on the Chowpatty beach in Mumbaiâ€¦â€¦â€¦The purpose of this article is to let the world know that the first plane in the modern era was made in India. http://www.ivarta.com/columns/OL_040312.htm I did'nt know where exactly to post this..but may be of interest to some.. [quote]AMSTERDAM: Most of the universe - 96%, to be exact - is made of dark matter and energy whose composition we simply do not fathom, a Nobel laureate told physicists gathered this week to explore the intersection of the infinitely small and the infinitely large. "We think we understand the universe, but we only understand four per cent of everything," said James Watson Cronin, who won the 1980 Nobel for physics by proving that certain subatomic reactions escape the laws of fundamental symmetry. According the most recent models, he said, 73% of cosmic energy seems to consist of â€œdark energyâ€ In 1895, full eight years before the Wright Brothers` first flight at Kitty hawk, North Carolina, USA, Shivkar Bapuji Talpade and his wife gave a thrilling demonstration flight on the Chowpatty beach in Mumbai With an ion engine. Postby Vipul » 12 Dec 2007 23:15 Indian physicists trap light in 'nano' soup. Indian scientists have demonstrated how to trap and retrieve light using a soup of micro and nano sized magnetic spheres - a major milestone in the path toward developing optical computers. The researchers claim that their unique mixture of tiny particles works at room temperature, holds photons, the particles of light, for far longer than other systems, and can also be tuned with a magnet to store any wavelength of visible light. The discovery made by a team led by Rasbindu Mehta at Bhavnagar University in Gujarat was first announced in the November issue of the Current Science journal published by the Indian Academy of Science in Bangalore. Now, a report published in the latest issue of the Royal Chemical Society of London's journal Chemistry World says the discovery could pave the way for photonic 'microchips' that use photons for processing optical information in the same way electrons are manipulated in silicon chips in today's electronic devices and computers. For over a decade, scientists have been working towards light-based computing that could be many times faster than electronics as light travels at a speed of approximately 300,000 km per second. Any microchip designed to process optical signals has to store photons, perhaps by slowing or trapping light in carefully designed crystals. Mehta's team coated micron-size magnetite spheres with oleic acid and dispersed them through a ferrofluid, which is a suspension of much smaller magnetic nanoparticles. When an external magnetic field was applied to the fluid, which was held in a glass cell, laser light passing through the medium was trapped inside. Photons escaped when the field was switched off. "It is fantastic," said Hema Ramachandran, who heads the photonics unit at the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, and was one of several physicists who witnessed the demonstration. "It was a chance discovery," said Mehta's colleague Rajesh Patel. While investigating the optical properties of their transparent fluid, the researchers noticed that in a certain magnetic field range, light scattering - both forward and backward - became zero. "We thought the light got trapped inside," said Patel. "So, we switched off the laser (which was shining light through the system) and then the magnetic field, and there it was - a flash of colour lighting up our dark room." Mehta told IANS that his group is yet to develop a theory to explain this novel phenomenon. He believes that the spheres are aligned by the magnetic field and form micro cavities - filled by the ferrofluid - in which the photons get trapped, resonating back and forth. Changing the external magnetic field alters the refractive index of the cavities that in turn decides which wavelength of light is trapped by the system. And what is more, according to Mehta, photons can be stored for as long as the magnetic field is switched on. "This is the first visual evidence of storage and retrieval of light for a long and controllable duration. In all other reports, storage time of photons is restricted to a few nanoseconds," he said Experiments by physicists in the US have involved stopping light altogether by using a gas of sodium or rubidium atoms chilled to near absolute zero, though that system is too complex and not practical for microchips. Although Mehta's team seems to have chanced on a method for taming light that is simple, inexpensive and unsophisticated, its practical application is still years away. Rudranathh Postby Rudranathh » 06 Jan 2008 21:54 Indian craftsmen, artisans used nanotech 2000 yrs ago : Nobel laureate Robert Curl Jr Visakhapatnam (PTI): Indian craftsmen and artisans used nanotechnology extensively about 2000 years ago to make weapons and long lasting cave paintings, a Nobel laureate of Chemistry said here. However, the craftsmen were completely unaware that they were practising carbon nano-techniques that are the most sought after in the current age. Citing examples of the famous Damascus blades used in the famous sword of Tipu Sultan and Ajanta Paintings, Nobel laureate Robert Curl Jr. said studies have found existence of carbon nano particles in both. On the sword scientists found carbon nanotubes, cylindrical arrangements of carbon atoms first discovered in 1991 and now made in laboratories all over the world. "Our ancestors have been unwittingly using the technology for over 2,000 years and carbon nano for about 500 years. Carbon nanotechnology is much older than carbon nanoscience," Curl said at the ongoing 95th Indian Science Congress here. The 74-year-old scientist from the US shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto for the discovery of the carbon cage compounds, known as fullerenes. Indian craftsmen used unique smelting techniques to manufacture the Damascus blades which led to nanotisation giving them a unique long-lasting edge. They had the technology to make wootz steel, a 'high-grade' steel that was highly prized and much sought after across several regions of the world over nearly two millennia. Wootz also had a high percentage of carbon, which was introduced by incorporating wood and other organic matter during fabrication. India, for ages, was a leading exporter of this steel which was used to make Persian daggers which were quite popular in Europe centuries ago. The technique to manufacture wootz declined steadily and has not been in use since the 17th century, Curl said. Dilbu Location: Deep in the badlands of BRFATA Postby Dilbu » 16 Jan 2008 21:15 Made in Mumbai, wanted by the world The worldâ€™s smallest wearable cardiac monitor, a toffee-sized silicon locket, is almost ready at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B). While the tiny computer that can store a weekâ€™s electrocardiogram (ECG) data awaits a manufacturer, it is already in demand. IIT engineers borrow it, rig some adjustments and the locket meant to monitor a heart without hospital visits measures tremors in buildings instead. ShibaPJ Postby ShibaPJ » 17 Jan 2008 01:33 A great development, if claims are true. Global eye on start-up converting garbage into fuel T Raghavendra Rao, director, Sustainable Technologies and Environmental Projects (STEPS) filed for a global patent last year for his technique of converting waste â€” think plastic, sewage, slaughterhouse waste, hospital waste, petroleum byproducts â€” into liquid fuel and gas. And itâ€™s easy on the environment, for the process does not emit heat-trapping gases that contribute to global warming. The technology is winning rave reviews. â€œWe would like to see this powerful innovation commercialised around the world, not just Texas,â€™â€™ James Vance, business development manager of the global commercialisation group, IC2 Institute, told HT from the University of Texas. â€œWe believe it should be able to convert most, and perhaps all types of hydrocarbon-based waste to fuel.â€ Postby Rudranathh » 08 Feb 2008 12:29 ramana wrote: Pioneer, Op-Ed, 7 Feb., 2008 India taught Arabs science Second Opinion: Priyadarsi Dutta Under the Abassid Caliphate in Baghdad (750-1258), the efflorescence of Islam's scientific genius was not as indigenous a development as Jim Al-Khalili claims in "Islam's forgotten geniuses" (February 3). "There is a certain analogy between civilisations and infectious disease. Both pass from one community to another, and whenever one breaks out, one of our first thoughts is, where did the infection come from?" said De Lacy O'Leary (How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs). O'Leary reminds us that West Asia had long been exposed to Greek science and scholarship. Following Alexander's victory, the region became a part of the Seleucid empire. Greek science passed on to Arab hands through Christian Syriacs: "The Christian Church in its earliest period was essentially a Hellenising force. Its language was Greek and its first outspread was amongst those who were Greek in speech and culture, if not in race." O'Leary has dealt with the influence of Indian scholarship and science on Arabs. He, however, believed that Indian influence was actually a rehash of fundamental Greek science developed in the University of Alexandria. Contemporary researcher and accomplished doctor Premendra Priyadarshi, in his book Zero is Not the Only Story, argues that Alexandria's science resulted from transmission of Indian knowledge through Alexander's conquest. The transmission of Hindu knowledge to Baghdad was still well known. Mohammed bin Qasim led the Arab conquest of Sindh in 712. They set up several JunÃ»d and AmsÃ¢r (military and civil colonies) in Sindh like Mansura, Kuzdar, Kandabel, Baiza, etc. Arab scholars who had migrated to Baghdad during the Caliphate of Mansur (753-774) carried with them two Sanskrit books Brahmasphutasiddhanta and Khanda-khadyaka. Arabs learnt the first principles of scientific astronomy from these. Arabs also learnt Hindu numerals and hence these were called HindsÃ¢s. During the Caliphate of Harun Al-Rashid (786-808), Arab scholars came to India to study science. Hindu physicians were invited to occupy top positions in Baghdadi hospitals. "It was India, not Greece" says EB Havell in Aryan Rule in India, "that taught Islam... its philosophy, esoteric religious ideals and... most characteristic expressions in literature, art and architecture." IAS officer patents bi-piston combustion engine Anupam Rana \| Ranchi Scientists works day in and day out to 'patent' their inventions, but a senior IAS officer of Jharkhand has also patented a product. Principal secretary of Civil Aviation department AK Pandey has patented a rotary bi-piston internal combustion engine and compression, mainly used in automobile engines. The bi-piston engine can also be used in aircraft as well as railway engines. The invention is aimed at revolutionising automobile industry all over the world. In a traditional engine, the piston moves to and fro inside a cylinder and generates power for movement of vehicles. They are also very heavy. But Pandey's bi-piston will rotate and the engine made of it will be lighter. After the invention of steam engine and later petrol and diesel engines, much development has taken place to increase the efficiency of engines. But the basic movement of piston remained to and fro inside the machine, says Pandey. Pandey pointed out his bi-piston engine would reduce the weight of engines of vehicles like automobiles, aircraft and trains and ultimately revolutionise the industry. "Bi-piston engine will consume less fuel too. And it would be cost effective for the consumer to buy vehicles having bi-piston engine," Pandey said. Pandey said his bi-piston engine is the advanced form as movement of pistons within the engines will be simple and reliable. Pandey, who has done MSc physics and PHd in Nuclear Physics, used most of the Government holidays and weekends to design the piston for commercial use. However, he has not taken special holidays from the concerned department to complete his pet project. Principal Secretary of department of science and technology, Jharkhand, AK Basu handed over the plaque of patent to Pandey at a regional seminar on Intellectual Property Rights organised by National Research Development Corporation (NDMC) in association with the Department of Science and Technology at a hotel in Ranchi on Thursday. Basu applauded the efforts of Pandey for his dedication in inventing the 'engine' while performing jobs in the Government department in a different capacity. "I am sure this will inspire other Government officials as well as scientists to patent their inventions," said Basu. NDMC Regional manager V Raghuram said that the Government undertaking was promoting the Government officials as well as scientists to patent their products. "And Jharkhand has become pioneer in areas of patenting. The dedicated senior IAS officer has patented his work, which is not so easy in the competitive world," Raghuram said. Seminar on patent begins Pioneer News Service \| Ranchi National Research Development Corporation (NDMC) in association with the department of science and technology, Jharkhand, has organised a two-day workshop to focus on the significance of Intellectual Property Right and innovation management mega event. And to inform the scientists, academicians, industry professionals, technocrats about the nitty-gritty of the intellectual property rights. Around 100 delegates from Jharkhand, Bihar, North-Eastern and north-western States have assembled to take part in the workshop. Location: cavernous sinus Postby Omar » 12 Apr 2008 08:48 Xposted from Indian Education Thread: Indian Scientific Output Here is how India ranks compared to the rest of the world in terms of publications output in peer-reviewed journals over a 10 year period. (This data was obtained from the ISI Web of Knowledge Essential Science Indicators.) Chemistry-11th Physics-15th Clinical Medicine-27th Biochemistry-22th Material Sciences-8th Engineering-16th Plant & Animal Science-21st Geosciences-18th Pharmacology & Toxicology-17th Space Science-23rd Molecular Biology and Genetics-28th Postby sanjaykumar » 12 Apr 2008 09:26 That would put it likely below Netherlands. I don't understand why the Indians aren't at #2 or 3. This is not a very capital or equipment intensive field, although it is exceptionally fast moving. Re: India's Contribution to Science & Technology Postby Vipul » 02 Jul 2008 19:22 India's first permanent research station in the Arctic inaugurated. The Indian who made the Big Bang test necessary. Of the three main past and present physicists behind the landmark proton-smashing quantum physics experiment in Geneva on Wednesday, one has a Nobel Prize, the other is waiting to find out if he has one, and the third never got one. The third man is the Bose of the ‘Higgs boson’ experiment — Satyendra Nath Bose. It is Bose after whom the sub-atomic particle ‘boson’ is named — probably the only noun in the English language named after an Indian (hence never capitalised). The Large Hadron Collider experiment in Switzerland on Wednesday could not have happened without Bose and Albert Einstein. In 1924, Bose sent a paper to Einstein describing a statistical model that eventually led to the discovery of the Bose-Einstein condensate phenomenon. The paper laid the basis for describing one of the two categories of the elementary particles that make up an atom — one was boson, and the other came to be known as fermion, after the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. Einstein had already won the Nobel in 1921 for services to theoretical physics and the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, and Fermi won it in 1938.Decades later, in 1964, the British scientist Peter Higgs returned from a walk in the Scottish mountains to tell his colleagues that he had just experienced his “one big idea”, which could hold a clue to how matter in the universe got its mass in the billionth of a second after the Big Bang. Higgs eventually came up with his theory of the Higgs boson, a boson that gives mass to all other subatomic particles that happen to interact with it in a ‘Higgs field’. The more they interact, the heavier they become. And the ones that don’t interact don’t gather mass.The theory could not only throw further light on the creation of the universe, but also help explain the shape of it. Wednesday’s experiment at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland, where protons will be smashed against each other at great speed, will be the first attempt to actually observe the Higgs boson - nicknamed the ‘God particle’. So far, it is the last undetected elementary particle, also called a fundamental particle, going by the standard theory of particle physics. Higgs, who is professor emeritus at Edinburgh University, is now widely tipped to win the Nobel, particularly if the Higgs boson is detected. The first Nobels for physics in the 21st century went jointly to three Americans — Eric Cornell, Carl Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle. The won it for creating the ‘condensate’ — a new type of matter — that Bose and Einstein had postulated. According to Bose’s grandson Falguni Sarkar, six other physicists have won the Nobel for work in the area of Bose statistics. However, 34 years after his death, the Nobel continues to elude Satyendra Nath Bose himself. Sharon Ann Holgate, a British science writer and broadcaster who made an acclaimed radio documentary on Bose for the BBC some years ago, said she had no doubt the Indian deserved a Nobel. “I certainly do think he deserved the Nobel. When I was researching my documentary I was outraged that this man was so brilliant, yet so overlooked, perhaps because of institutionalised racism. No one gave a damn because he was an Indian,” she told IANS. “I was really angry, and wanted to make him a bit more widely known.” Holgate added. Indian connection in Big Bang experiment. The world's most powerful physics experiment that completed its first major test today in Europe breathes an Indian link with 30 scientists from India including a couple also behind the attempt to replicate the "Big Bang" that created the Universe 13.7 billion years ago. The Indian flag flew high when the world's largest particle collider successfully fired a beam of protons all the way around a 27-km tunnel on the France-Switzerland border near Geneva in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe and study its formation. Around 200 of the 2,000 scientists involved in the ten billion dollar multi-nation 'mother of all experiments' are of Indian origin. India has made major scientific and technological contribution to this new atom smasher also called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), according to scientists of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). LHC is expected to answer several facts of fundamental nature of the universe that remains a mystery after the World's costliest experiment. Indian laboratories, led by Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT) at Indore, have contributed substantially towards construction of the accelerator (LHC) itself, with many components being fabricated by Indian industry and supplied to CERN, Prof Atul Gurtu, senior scientist, department of high energy physics, TIFR told PTI. In the scientific side, two Indian teams are involved in different experiments. They included a scientist couple -- Sudhir Raniwala and his wife Rashmi-- from Jaipur. They are Associate Professors. Sudhir Ranawala allayed safety fears about the high-speed collisions in the tunnel. "Cosmic rays in the universe send particles with much greater energies than those being achieved in the lab. So there is nothing to worry about," he said. Postby Amber G. » 10 Sep 2008 21:55 To add to Vipul's post - x post from Nukkad: The LHC is ON! Check out this picture The leader of CMS experiment guy is Indian origin - T. Virdee. Speaking about Bose, a funny anecdote (as told by his student, in a not-that-old issue of Physics today) When Dirac (Famous Noble prize winning physicist - antimatter / Fermi-Dirac Statistics) was visiting Calcutta, after his lecture they got in a car for a drive to hotel. Prof Dirac and His wife got in the back seat, while the driver, Prof Bose, and one student got in the front.. another person was there and Prof Bose and this student started making room for him in the front too (They were trying to be polite to the guest and his wife and not crowd them) .. at this point Dirac was trying to tell this person to come in the back (as front seat was already crowded). Bose, without missing a beat said: "No, You in the back follow Fermi-Dirac, and we in the front - Bose Einstein (statistics)." and everyone erupted in laughter.. (For those who are not familiar - Dirac statistics (eg followed by, fermions - eg electrons etc) allows only one particle per quantum state while Bose statistics (followed by bosons) allows many. Bose Einstein condensation is for bosons only ) Added later: Thanks to google : I can find this story here Another well know anecdote about him (copied from wiki article) Once the great scientist, Niels Bohr, was delivering a lecture. Bose presided. At one stage the lecturer had some difficulty in explaining a point. He had been writing on the blackboard; he stopped and, turning to Bose, said, "Can Professor Bose help me?" All the while Satyendranath had been sitting with his eyes shut. The audience could not help smiling at Professor Bohr's words. But to their great surprise, Bose opened his eyes; in an instant he solved the lecturer's difficulty. Then he sat down and once again closed his eyes SaraLax Location: redemption land Postby SaraLax » 10 Sep 2008 23:06 Vipul wrote: Indian connection in Big Bang experiment. Hope below is not a repost. Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology's Newsletter from 2004 that gives Info on the Indian work with respect to the Precision magnet positioning system jacks for large hadron collider project of CERN The LHC is housed in a tunnel having a circumference of 27km about 100 meters below the ground. It has more than 1600 superconducting magnets along its circumference for bending and focusing the beams. These huge magnet assemblies, each weighing more than 32 tons with a length of 15 meters, need to be positioned with a precision of 50 micrometer all along the 27km length. CAT, has conceptualized, designed & developed precision-positioning devices that allow precise positioning of these huge magnets in the tunnel and maintenance of these devices. These devices called precision magnet positioning system (PMPS) jacks enable one person to move the huge magnet and position it with a very high setting resolution. The jacks have to maintain these positions for a long time under the action of variable transverse forces. In fact the set position should remain within 100 micrometer when the transverse force reaches a value of 0.5 ton and within 1mm under a very severe transverse load of 8 tons. Three jacks in a tripod configuration with proper layout are used under one magnet, which yield the required freedom as well as control for the alignment. A total of 6800 numbers of these devices are being made in Indian industry and being supplied to CERN under this agreement. More than 2400 jacks have been shipped to CERN, after successful manufacture and testing from Indo-German Tool Room, Indore and Avasarala Automation Limited, Bangalore. All 6800 PMPS jacks will be supplied by the mid of 2005. RRCAT's is just the biggest contribution. numerous other Indian institutes have their own contribution to LHC. I know for example that a chip (used in ALICE IIRC) has been designed at SINP/VECC and made in India by SCL. many other DAE institutes are probably involved in similar projects. ha, I found a paper on this very subject http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/aug252004/441.pdf the LHC official page lists the India among participating nations but the names of individual institutes is yet to appear. (same with japan and russia) http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/Organization.htm Postby ashish raval » 12 Sep 2008 13:56 Higgs-Boson - Satyendra Nath Bose connection http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Bose_The_Indian_behind_the_Higgs_boson_experiment/articleshow/3467548.cms Postby SRay » 07 Oct 2008 02:20 Another article on the Indian wootz steel used in Damascus swords. And an explanation of the distinct patterns and strength of the steel, and why the art died out. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Myste ... 1611003676 Postby Vikramaditya » 07 Oct 2008 03:32 Woaah what a fantastic thread !! .... I have been reading this for hours soo much I did not know ... Postby svinayak » 27 Oct 2008 04:20 http://satyameva-jayate.org/2007/01/12/ ... echnology/ Does no one remember the Indian contribution to Technology? I came across this excellent, very powerful and well-researched article by �karigar�: Karnataki Karbon Nanotube Swords- forget S Indian Wootz!�� Please read in full and circulate widely. It is a shame that widespread ignorance still persists about our achievements in Sciences, Mathematics and various disciplines of technology. While on the subject, please also have a look at one of my earlier articles: �Does no one remember the Hindu contribution to Mathematics?� ****************************� Just got done reading the NY times article attached below. Apparently, “Cutting edge Technology” of Carbon Nanotubes & nanoscale wires of cementite, can be found in “Damascene swords” made out of “Wootz” steel, whose technology was perfected in ancient Oh the great Western (& Westernized Indian) media, & us, its uninformed, unsuspecting, & uncritical consumers! Not many of us have been taught the solid base Ancient India had in the metallurgical Sciences/Arts (until the Western world swooped in to “civilize” us).�� The Mehrauli pillar in Delhi, made in the Magadhan times, & rustless till today, is just dismissed as a “wonder” by us Western Educated Indians, in line with the rest of the world that doesn’t have time for Indian thought. Research , if any, is done by Westerners, who will of course, package it into their own systems (as seen in article below). And given time, the Indian element will be forgotten, as it has so often happened in the past & present. Thus “Our” modern Metallurgy books can boast in typical fashion-“As a science, metallurgy has yet to celebrate its centenary, yet in its brief history it has amassed a tremendous store of knowledge. The ceremonial swords of the Sumarai (sic), the warrior aristocrats of Japan, were the works of beauty & art a thousand years ago. The sword makers of Toledo & Damascus made their cities famous by their craftsmanship & the quality of their steel. These men knew nothing of the science of metallurgy though well practised in its art.” [Ref: Preface for "Heat Treatment Fundamentals" By S Collard Churchill, first Pub. 1958 in UK by The Machinery Publishing Co Ltd.] Now if “Wootz” steel is known to be the origin of the excellence of the “Damascus” & “Toledo” blades, and seemingly, an early example of that “cutting edge western innovation” of “NANOTECHNOLOGY”, wouldn’t the credit go to this steel & people who perfected it, rather than the swordmakers who after all were just using an “imported technology” ? But no.�� The author, in typical fashion, “Hail”s the “user” as the Nano technologist (�”All hail the great 17th-century nanotechnologist Assad Ullah!“) , and only mentions�in passing the “Technology” of “Wootz” steel he’s using. Guess one should be thankful for “Wootz” even being mentioned! For more details on Wootz and Indian Metallurgy, etc, in general, refer to the following.� Karigar has painstakingly compiled the evidence and references here�He deserves our gratitude for the work.�REF 1. LINGUISTIC AVATARS OF WOOTZ: THE ANCINET INDIAN STEEL �(summarized by respected Historian DP Agrawal, Original By J. Le Coze ) Excerpt-This steel making process was practiced in peninsular India since great antiquity. The ancient Indian steel was known as Damascene steel in Persia and was in great demand in the Persian courts of the First Millennium BC. Even Alexander was presented a sword made of such steel. Coze studied the etymology of the terms denoting steel. �Taking into account the fact that the names given to steel in different languages have always a technical content (hardness, resistance, etc.), Le Coze traced the transformation of the term Wootz, denoting the Indian crucible steel, through the Arab texts of the 9-12th centuries AD describing the preparation of the crucible steel named fulad. He discovered that fulad had an Indian origin of the word as transformed by Arab travellers. Wootzis the name given to a crucible steel prepared in India. Coze informs that it first occurred in printed form in the 1795 Pearson’s report. This steel was abundantly studied in Western Europe during the 19th century AD because of its special characteristics: high hardness, difficulty in forging, unknown procedures, etc. However, the origin of the name itself is unclear even if it has been proposed by Yule and Burnell in the Hobson-Jobson Dictionary that the word Wootz could come from ukku in the Kannada language. It must be noticed that, according to Hammer- Purgstall, there was no Arab word for steel, which explain the use of Persian words. Fuladh prepared by melting in small crucibles can be considered as a steel in our modem classification, due to its properties (hardness, quench hardened ability, etc.). The word fuladh means “the purified” as explained by Al-Kindi. This word can be found as puladh, for instance in Chardin (1711 AD) who called this product; poulad jauherder, acier onde, which means “watering steel”, a characteristic of what was called Damascene steel in Europe. In Russian the corresponding word is bulat and in Mongol bolot. In the 19th century AD, it was accepted as evident by European metallurgists that the ancient word bulat / fuladh and the newly introduced one Wootz represented the same kind of high carbon crucible steel (1-2wt % C) which should have been used by Muslim blacksmiths to forge the so called Damascene blades, the secret of which had been lost as was said by Russian and European metallurgists of that time. Textures of ‘Wootz’: Techno-cultural insights on steel, cast iron & ferrous metals in South Indian antiquity� by Dr.(Ms.) Sharada Srinivasan. (B.Tech, IIT, Mumbai, MA, SOAS, Ph.D., Archaeometallurgy, Institute of Archaeology, London) National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore, 560012Excerpt-�.the intriguing high-carbon ‘wootz’ steel for which India has been famed in antiquity and which forms an important part of its scientific heritage, from the point of view of exploring its antiquity and properties (with special emphasis on investigations on material from previously undocumented old production sites that were uncovered by the author in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in southern India.) ��European travellers and geologists such as Buchanan, Percy and Voysey from the seventeenth century onwards have described the production of ‘wootz’ steel ingots by crucible processes over large parts of southern India including Golconda in Andhra Pradesh, the former Mysore state (in Karnataka) and Salem district in Tamil Nadu. Cyril Stanley Smith (1980) has given an account of the European fascination with ‘wootz’ steel ingots from southern India and attempts to replicate it for industrial production which spurred the development of metallurgy and metallography in the 18 th-19th centuries, inviting the attention of scientists of the repute of Michael Faraday, inventor of electricity. Studies on some late medieval ‘wootz’ ingots have shown them to be of high-carbon steel (1-1.5% C), which was a novelty in Europe where only low-carbon steels (less than 0.8% C) had been in vogue. Wootz ingots were also reputed to have been used to make the artistically patterned ‘ Damascus’ swords. Indeed, ancient India deserves a special niche in the annals of western science not only for pioneering the semi-industrial production of metallic zinc and high-carbon steel, but also for indirectly spurring their modern metallurgical advances and metallurgical study in Europe leading to the Industrial Revolution , as pointed out in overviews by the author with S. Ranganathan on metallurgical heritage of mankind and on wootz steel (Srinivasan and Ranganathan 1997, 1998, 2003 in press). As such, more studies have been made on iron in Indian antiquity than on steel. D. P. Agrawal, Bhanu Prakash, V. Tripathi and D. K. Chakrabarti have written on the development of iron metallurgy in ancient India while studies on the famed iron pillar have been made by T.R. Anantharaman, A. K. Lahiri and R. Balasubramanium. As far as wootz steel is concerned, Thelma Lowe has extensively surveyed and technically studied crucible steel production sites in Konasamudram, while Martha Goodway, Paul Craddock and K.N.P Rao have made studies on the late medieval site of Gatihosahalli recorded by the European travellers. J. D. Verhoeven has simulated the production of Damascus sword blades of high-carbon steel and studied the formation of patterns, while O. Sherby has written on properties observed in ultra-high carbon steels produced under laboratory conditions such as superplasticity. � REF 3.NYT Article Below- (this caused my above piece)� Damascus sabers contain carbon nanotubes, as well as nanoscale wires of cementite, giving them a moir� pattern. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/science/28observ.html By HENRY FOUNTAIN Published: November 28, 2006All hail the great 17th-century nanotechnologist Assad Ullah! Web Links: Carbon Nanotubes in an Ancient Damascus Sabre (Nature) �Actually, he was a swordmaker, one in a long line of smiths who forged the legendary weapons known as Damascus sabers. They were strong yet flexible and supremely sharp, which European warriors first discovered, much to their misfortune, at the hands of Muslims during the Crusades. �The recipe for making Damascus steel was lost at the end of the 18th century, so no one knew the reasons for its remarkable qualities. But an analysis by 21st-century researchers in Germany provides a clue:Damascus sabers, they report in Nature, contain carbon nanotubes. �Using a transmission electron microscope, Peter Paufler of the Technical University of Dresden and colleagues looked at a very thin sample of steel from a saber made by Assad Ullah, who worked in what is now Iran. What they saw seemed for all the world like carbon nanotubes, cylindrical arrangements of carbon atoms first discovered in 1991 and now made in laboratories all over the world. Further analysis confirmed that that was what they were. “If you look at the spacing of the atomic layers in these nanotubes,” Dr. Paufler said, “the spacing is the same as reported by others studying mass-produced nanotubes.”The steel also contains nanoscale wires of cementite, an extremely hard carbon-iron compound, that were probably formed inside the nanotubes, like the filling in a cannoli. These nanowires give Damascus sabers another distinctive characteristic: a moir� pattern of banding on the steel. Swordmakers used special high-carbon steel cakes, called wootz, which were made in India from iron ore that contained vanadium and other impurities. �Wootz also had a high percentage of carbon, which was introduced by incorporating wood and other organic matter during fabrication. Dr. Paufler said the vanadium and other impurities could have acted as catalysts to turn some of the carbon atoms in the steel into nanotubes during the heating and reheating of forging. Of course, Assad Ullah and other swordsmiths would have had no idea that they were creating carbon nanotubes. “They just did tremendous empirical work,” Dr. Paufler said. “They optimized the procedure over centuries in order to get the most strength.” —————- Paper cited in the article above- At http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v4 ... htmlNature 444, 286 (16 November 2006) \| doi:10.1038/444286a; Received 24 July 2006; Accepted 25 October 2006; Published online 15 November 2006 Materials: Carbon nanotubes in an ancient Damascus sabre M. Reibold1, 2, P. Paufler1, A. A. Levin 1, W. Kochmann1, N. P�tzke 1 and D. C. Meyer1 The steel of Damascus blades, which were first encountered by the Crusaders when fighting against Muslims, had features not found in European steels � a characteristic wavy banding pattern known as damask, extraordinary mechanical properties, and an exceptionally sharp cutting edge. Here we use high-resolution transmission electron microscopy to examine a sample of Damascus sabre steel from the seventeenth century and find that it contains carbon nanotubes as well as cementite nanowires. This microstructure may offer insight into the beautiful banding pattern of the ultrahigh-carbon steel created from an ancient recipe that was lost long ago. 1. Institut fur Strukturphysik, Technische Universit�t Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany 2. Triebenberg Laboratory, Technische Universit�t Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany 3. Kr�llsstrasse 4b, 06766 Wolfen, Germany Correspondence to: P. Paufler (Email): paufler@physik.tu-dresden.de� Sometime ago, I had written a speech on behalf of L.N Mittal to Arcelor shareholders - amidst all the fuss. Link at http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/story ... oryId=5114 A quote from there: “My name is Lakshmi Mittal. Many of you may only recently have heard of me. But what is going on right now, in fact, will become a familiar challenge of the 21st century � where far-away forces and people will increasingly impact, unexpectedly, upon our everyday lives. “I am from India, where we have sought to cope with such forces for centuries. In our own industry, steel, I would like to note a statement by Sir Thomas Holland, the (British) Chairman of the Industrial Commission (in India), who in 1908 admired the ‘high quality’ of Indian iron. He even gave Indians credit for ‘the early anticipation of the process now employed in Europe for the manufacture of high-class steels”.” The European Union’s Economic and Social Committee republished this “speech” as part of a debate on relocation. I am sure it will be harder to get such facts into our school curriculum in India than into an EU official site. Comment by Tosh Sheshabalaya \| January 15, 2007	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1233
__label__cc	0.585952	0.414048	joshwand/What Killed Waterfall could Kill Agile.textile Code Revisions 6 Stars 37 Forks 6 What Killed Waterfall Could Kill Agile. What Killed Waterfall could Kill Agile.textile ganked from unreadable scribd doc here: http://cleancoder.posterous.com/what-killed-waterfall-could-kill-agile Robert C. Martin In 1970 a software engineer named Dr. Winston W. Royce wrote a seminal paper entitled Managing the Development of Large Software Systems. This paper described the software process that Royce felt was appropriate for large-scale systems. As a designer for the Aerospace industry, he was uniquely qualified. He began the paper by setting up a straw-man process to knock down. He described this naïve process as “grandiose”. He depicted it with a simple diagram on an early page of his paper. Then the paper methodically tears this “grandiose” process apart. In the end, Royce proposed a far more nuanced and insightful approach, leaving the reader to giggle at the silliness of the “grandiose” model. Royce’s paper was an instant hit. It was cited in many other papers, including several very important process documents in the early ’70s. One of the most influential of these was DOD2167, the document that described the software development process for the American Department of Defense. Royce was acclaimed, and became known as the father of the DOD process. There was just one problem. The process that DOD2167 adopted was Royce’s straw man! Apparently the authors of DOD2167 did not actually read Royce’s paper; because they adopted the “grandiose”, naïve process that Royce’s paper had derided. To his great chagrin, Dr. Winston W. Royce became known as the father of the waterfall. Though Royce railed and fought against it, the snowball was in motion. It kept on growing as it rolled down the mountains of software companies and industrial countries. Year by year the waterfall gained in popularity leaving it’s father to wonder about the justice of the universe and whether there was intelligent life on Earth. By the middle of the 1990s, the waterfall process dominated the world of software. The field of Software Engineering was defined by it; and by the catalog of analysis and design documents that Architects, Designers, and Analysts were expected to produce. Coding was a detail — the least important part of the process. If you wrote your documents well, and drew all the necessary diagrams, then you were doing it right. You were an engineer. The code could be left to the to the unwashed minions in the cellar. This attitude created a schism in the technical community. There were the elite Architects, Designers, and System Analysts who did the real engineering by satisfying the first two phases of the waterfall. And then there were the grunts who actually had to make everything work in the final phase. When the project got behind schedule, it was the grunts who worked overtime. When the project failed, it was the grunts who bore the blame. This was a great deal for the elite Architects, Designers, and Analysts! Who wouldn’t want a job like that? You have the authority to specify everything, and none of the responsibility to actually make it work. You get to command a high-salary, the respect of your peers, and the envy of the masses; and there’s almost no way you can fail. When bad things happen, you can always blame it on the programmers. Yes, this is a bit of an exaggeration; but only just a bit. The attitudes of elitism were very real. Those who could analyze and design were considered too valuable to waste on mere coding. Code became the orphaned child of Software Engineering. By 1998 the cracks were already appearing in the waterfall edifice. Programmers everywhere were starting to reject the elitism of the Architects, Analysts, and Designers. They started complaining about the rigidity and weight of the waterfall mantle they were forced to wear. Beedle, Devos, Schwaber, and Sutherland had published their seminal paper on Scrum, and Kent Beck had created a movement around eXtreme Programming (XP). Scrum broke the waterfall apart. Rather than spending months or years creating reams of documents through a series of sequential phases, Scrum suggested that a team of developers should work in short 30-day1 cycles to implement features. 1 Nowadays two weeks is more common than 30 days. Scrum and XP teams have found that too much can go wrong in a month. Scrum suggested that the development team should decide when and if a document was necessary. Scrum took the emphasis away from documents and artifacts, and put it squarely on getting features working, and on the decision making power of the team. Scrum broke the monopoly on authority held by the elites and put it in the hands of the development team. XP took this a step farther by increasing the emphasis on the act of programming, and by declaring code to be important. XP is the integration of Scrum with a set of engineering disciplines. Those engineering disciplines have a huge effect! Scrum is a day-by-day process. It provides a framework that describes what your day will be like, but it says nothing at all about how you should work in the hours and minutes of that day. XP is a minute-by-minute process. The engineering disciplines of XP fill your day. XP provides guidance for the creation of each line of code. It provides a framework within which coding and design decision can be made. Scrum is a subjective process: The team rules. There is no objective measure of success, or of quality, or even of completion. It is up to the team to define these things. The engineering disciplines of XP add some objective measures to Scrum. XP defines design and code quality, and provides guidance on how to achieve it. XP defines the meaning of done, and how done-ness can be measured. By 2001 the software community was a-buzz with these revolutionary ideas. The Agile Manifesto had been written, and had become the centerpiece behind an energetic, enthusiastic, and growing movement. The very definition of Software Engineering was being challenged, and that challenge was succeeding. The elitism engendered by Waterfall was being attacked. Neither Scrum nor XP had any role for an elitist who assumed authority without taking responsibility. In Scrum, the rule of the team is stronger than the rule of an Architect or Designer. Contributions are welcome, but not necessarily followed. XP took this even farther. If you wanted to contribute to an XP team, you were welcome; but you took explicit responsibility for your contributions. For Architects and Designers that meant they wrote some code. For Analysts, that meant they wrote tests. Everyone on the team had the responsibility to make things work. For a while it looked like Software Engineering elitism was dying; that authority and responsibility had been aligned once and for all. But elitism is a tough thing to kill. Whenever you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can be sure that Paul’s outrage will be less than Peter’s. Both XP and Scrum defined the role of a coach. It is the coach’s responsibility to defend the process. The coach reminds everyone of their commitment to their disciplines and to the process. When the schedule looms, and customers are angry, it is the coach who reminds the team that the best way to meet the schedule and calm the managers is to hold to their disciplines. In Scrum, this role was called “Scrum Master”. XP defined the role of coach quite informally. The role would float between members of the team. One month it would be Joe, the next it would be Jane. It was not a title, and it conferred no authority. There were no decisions to be made, and no power of enforcement granted. The coach had the responsibility to remind, not to command. In Scrum, something different happened… The very first Certified Scrum Master course was taught at the Object Mentor offices in Vernon Hills, Illinois. Ken Schwaber called me up and asked if I had a training room he could use. I told him I would be more than pleased to host his course. He kindly allowed many of the people who worked for me at the time to attend for free, and to become CSMs. Frankly, I thought the idea was a bit silly. I didn’t think thousands of people would be lining up to get their certifications. But I had not considered the lure of elitism. It didn’t occur to me that this special training course, coupled to the term Certified Scrum Master, would become a wedge to break the alignment between authority and responsibility. Who was it who lined up to take the CSM courses? Was it Scrum team members who wanted to help their teams? Was it programmers and testers? Yes, there were certainly some CSMs who came from existing teams. But the vast majority of CSMs have a project management background. In essence they have added CSM to the PMBOK. They have become CSMs so that they have the authority to manage Scrum teams. This was never the intent. The role of the coach was to act as a gentle reminder of process and discipline. The coach was never supposed to manage the project or the schedule! Indeed, these two roles were supposed to be adversarial! It is the project manager’s role to remind the team about the schedule and to encourage them to change something so that the schedule can be met. It is the coach’s role to remind the team to hold to the process. True XP coaches are not project managers nor are they team leaders. They do not lead the team to success, and cannot claim credit for that success. Indeed, the role is considered optional because mature teams will probably not need frequent reminders. But CSMs often assume the role of team leader. They are viewed as a critical component of the team; without whom the team cannot function. In XP a team without a coach is no big deal; but a scrum team without a scrum master is an oxymoron. Indeed, the role of Scrum Master is considered so important, that it requires certification to obtain. If your Scrum team does not have a Certified Scrum Master, then something must be wrong with you. When a Scrum team succeeds, it is the CSM who steps forward to receive the award (on behalf of the team, of course). But what happens when a Scrum team fails? Is it the CSM who steps forward and falls on his sword? Does the CSM take the lashes and protect the team? The elitism is back, and it’s growing. More courses with certifications are available, and even more are envisioned. Other training companies are offering their own certifications. After all, the lure of elitism is a great moneymaker. The snowball is rolling down the mountain, and getting bigger with each turn. And when the revolution comes… ? I can only hope that when Scrum goes down it doesn’t take the whole Agile movement with it ghost commented Nov 24, 2010 Thank you for making it work without Flash ;-) bolthar commented Nov 24, 2010 Well, this is what's bound to happen when you start to name things. "Agile" is doomed too... it's been since when the name "Agile" started to pop up in conferences and on resumès. When you invent a label it comes with a cost: everyone can use it. And guess who likes labels a lot? Usually someone who has poor knowledge of the subject but needs some handles because he has to make decisions about it (hint: management). If you can code, you're a programmer. If you're the best coder in your team, you're the team leader. It's really as simple as this. Nobody who actually is a team leader needs labels - the only ones who can give you real authority are your teammates... the ones who (when the time comes) will have to trust you and submit to your authority. Sunracer commented Nov 24, 2010 In practice, "elitism" can kill any process. It's not the fault of Scrum if the process is not run correctly, and when something else comes and replaces Scrum, also that process will be ruined by those who manage it to hell. Authority without responsibility is something straight from Dilbert, and we all know the success rate of those projects. :-) jdtekki commented Nov 24, 2010 I can agree that a lot of people are cashing in on the buzzwords to make more money (you can hardly blame anyone for that). And this inevitably creates elitism. The role of management is to ensure egos and attitudes remain in check. Passing out awards to the PM/CSM/Lead is a management problem, not a process problem. marekkirejczyk commented Nov 24, 2010 I like this idea of Scrum elites "only if you make it exactly as we say it will work". What about inspect & adapt? We are not using Scrum for a long time now. Moved to custom process based on Kanban. Whoever is doing Scrum exactly as learned on the course is ... doing it wrong. matid commented Nov 24, 2010 Formalism and an abundance of buzzwords is why I never liked scrum in the first place. Agile is about being adaptive, no one formalised system can ever meet this requirement. jrep commented Nov 24, 2010 The article's grasp of the abuses of Scrum is as flawless as its grasp of the mysterious career of "Waterfall - The Process That Never Was." But there's no need to be so tribal about this. Of course there are drones collecting merit badges in the world, and the hazard of feeding those animals made "Certification" a bit controversial in Scrum circles from the outset. But since the actual training is about facilitation not leading, empowerment not glory, adapting and leaning the process, and maturing the team so the formal role can wither away, it's more in the line of a (perhaps Quixotic) battle against the abuses the article catalogs. boringuser commented Nov 24, 2010 I think you're spot on about how what really matters is the team, not anyone who would take credit for the team. But the picture you paint of Scrum and Scrum Masters doesn't apply to my company. I work for a very humongous online retailer and here the "coach" role you describe in XP is played by managers and team members and project managers. Project managers often wear the hat of "Scrum Master" but for us that simply means they manage the Scrum artifacts and do the day-to-day work of keeping everyone apprised of progress and schedules and dependencies. They also unblock the team by helping to solve problems with internal and external dependencies, and so on. When the team succeeds or fails the entire team succeeds or fails. In my nearly 4 years here I have never seen a Scrum Master or project manager or even manager take credit for the success of a project. In short: Just because you use Scrum doesn't mean you're going to have some elitist role that takes the credit or works against the best interests of the team. You might have this, but then again any process is vulnerable to arrogance and corruption, even XP. JonKernPA commented Nov 25, 2010 it would be nice if these comments were on bob's OP. Good point, JonKernPA: re-commented over there. samehsz commented Jan 23, 2011 Software development is almost entirely dependent on people. Required technical skilled to do the work is the property of people we hire. People want to be commensurate for the skills they have. Three options: Elite rules: risk returning back to command and control People who do the work rule: risk is that technical devs with low people skills are in leading position. No body rules: risk is companies want some person to be in charge artboy1963 commented Jan 26, 2012 chill out guys you are blinded by the red mist if you do not see that we all have different skills and levels of that skill if you have a perfect cross functional team then all roles of a scrum team can be the developers/testers etc (except the prod owner) in what walk of life do you not find controls or rules? preferably these are soft, made to be broken, but there to hug and support if you go off track. certification: what does this help with? stopping any old numpty saying he is a surgeon!!!! "yeah i'll do your brain surgery , step out back" its just that experience should back the certs and you should choose your roles based on the knowledge needed. the only scrum guide is from the scrum.org if you do not follow that you are not doing scrum, it does not mean you dont have a better idea, just that you are not doing scrum as i say, take a chill pill, play nicely, communicate freely, diverge to converge and all agree on what it is you really want. laterz dudes	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1239
__label__cc	0.747749	0.252251	df243d589bc69b9461965a0315dfa72a7298ffdb initial git commit Tilman Steinweg committed Oct 01, 2015 %------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------% \chapter{\label{cha:STF-Inversion}Source Time Function Inversion} \textbf{Introduction:}\\ Update of manual and standard input files to IFOS2D ca729b19 laura.gassner committed Jan 28, 2016 To remove the contribution of the unknown source time function (STF) from the waveform residuals, it is necessary to design a filter which minimizes the misfit to the field recordings and raw synthetics. The library libstfinv from Thomas Forbriger was exported from TFSoftware and can be used with a C API in IFOS2D. The purpose of this library is to provide methods for the derivation of source-time-functions in approaches to full waveform inversion. Given a set of recorded data and a set of synthetic data (typically, but not necessarilly the impulse response of the subsurface) a source time function is obtained due to some optimization citerion. The synthetic waveforms are convolved with this wavelet and the convolved synthetics as well as the wavelet itself are returned to the user. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 The source time wavelet in this context not necessarily is the actual force time history of the source used in the experiment or a similar quantity of physical meaning. The source time wavelet simply is the wavelet which minimizes the misfit between synthetic and recorded waveforms due to some misfit condition, if the synthetics are concolved with this wavelet. In particular this implies that the synthetics not necessarily must be the impulse response (Greens function) of the subsurface, they may simply be synthetic waveform computed for some generic source wavelet (like a Ricker wavelet). The derived source time function then have to be understood with respect to this generic wavelet.\\ \newline The library provides different engines to find an optimal source time wavelet. The basic steps of operation are: \begin{enumerate} \item An engine is initialized. At this step pointers to arrays are passed to the engine together with some header information. The engines memorizes these pointers and expects to find the recorded data as well as the synthetics at the inidcated locations in memory. \item The run()-function of the engine is called. The engine takes the recorded and synthetic data currently found at the memory arrays, calculates an optimzed wavelet and returns the wavelet together with the convolved synthetics by copying them to the memory locations inidicated by the initializer of the engine. This step is repeated after each computation of synthetic data. \item The engine is removed once the iteration of inversion is terminated. \textbf{How to construct parameter strings:}\\ A specific engine is selected by passing a parameter string to the library interface. This parameter string may further contain parameters to control the execution mode of the engine. The parameter string starts with an ID-sequence identifying the desired engine. In the parameter string the ID-sequence is terminated by a colon (:).\\ After selecting the desired engine, the interface function strips of the ID-sequence as well as the colon from the parameter string and initializes the engine, passing the references to user workspace as well as the rest of the parameter string. The rest of the parameter string may consist of several control parameters being separated by colons (:). Each control parameter may just be a flag (switch to turn an option on) or may come along with a parameter value. The value of the parameter is separated by an equal sign (=). \item To select frequency domain least squares and shift the returned source time function by 0.4s and switch on verbose mode, pass the following parameter string:\\ \textit{fdlsq:tshift=0.4:verbose} \item To select frequency domain least squares, apply offset dependent weights and use a power of two to speed up the FFT:\\ \textit{fdlsq:pow2:exp=1.4} \textbf{Detailed description of the engine 'Fourier domain least squares (fdlsq)'}\\ \item $d_{lk}$ is the Fourier coefficient of recorded data at Frequency $f_l$ and receiver $k$ at offset $r_k$, \item $s_{lk}$ is the Fourier coefficient of the corresponding synthetics and \item $q_l$ is that of the sought source time function, then this engine will minimize the objective function\\ E=\sum\limits_{l,k}\left\|w_{lk}\, \left(d_{lk}-s_{lk}q_l\right) \right\|^2+\sum\limits_{l}\lambda^2\left\|q_l\right\|^2 =\chi^2+\psi^2 with respect to the real part $q_l^\prime$ and the imaginary part $q_l^{\prime\prime}$ of q_l=q_l^\prime+i\,q_l^{\prime\prime}. In the above expression \chi^2=\sum\limits_{l,k}\left\|w_{lk}\, \right\|^2 is the data misfit with weights $w_{lk}$ and \psi^2=\sum\limits_{l}\lambda^2\left\|q_l\right\|^2 is used for regularization and will introduce a water-level in the deconvolution. $\lambda$ will balance both contributions. \frac{\partial E}{\partial q_l^\prime}\stackrel{!}{=}0 \quad\wedge\quad \frac{\partial E}{\partial q_l^{\prime\prime}}\stackrel{!}{=}0 result in (\cite{Forbriger:01}, appendix A.3) q_l=\frac{ \eta^2\sum\limits_{k}f_k^2\,s_{kl}^\ast\,d_{kl} }{ \lambda^2+\eta^2\sum\limits_{k}f_k^2\,s_{kl}^\ast\,s_{kl} \quad\forall\, l w_{lk}=\eta\,f_k and $f_k$ is a receiver specific weighting factor. Now $\eta$ and $\lambda$ have to be used to balance the regularization. We aim to specify a waterlevel as a fraction of synthetic data energy.\\ \textbf{Setting up the waterlevel:}\\ The misfit equals one if the scaled energy of the residual $d_{lk}-s_{lk}q_l$ equals the scaled energy of the synthetics $s_{lk}$ and \eta^2=\frac{1}{\sum\limits_k f_k^2\sum\limits_l \left\|s_{lk}\right\|^2} is the reciprocal of the scaled energy of the synthetics. If we then choose \frac{\lambda^2}{\eta^2}=\frac{\epsilon^2}{N\eta^2}= \frac{\epsilon^2}{N}\sum\limits_k f_k^2\sum\limits_{l=0}^{N-1} \left\|s_{lk}\right\|^2 where $N$ is the number of frequencies, then $\epsilon^2$ will specify a waterlevel as a fraction of the scaled energy of the synthetics.\\ \textbf{Using Parceval's Theorem to calculate signal energy:}\\ Parceval's Theorem for a signal $a(t)$ and its Fourier transform $\tilde{a}(\omega)$ is \int\limits_{-\infty}^{+\infty}\bigl\|a(t)\bigr\|^2\,\textrm{d} t= \int\limits_{-\infty}^{+\infty}\bigl\|\tilde{a}(\omega)\bigr\|^2\, \frac{\textrm{d} \omega}{2\pi}. If $S_{jk}$ are the time series samples corresponding to the Fourier coefficients $\tilde{s}_{lk}$ and $\Delta t$ is the sampling interval then \sum\limits_{k=0}^{M-1}\left\|S_{jk}\right\|^2\,\Delta t= \sum\limits_{l=0}^{M-1}\left\|\tilde{s}_{lk}\right\|^2\,\frac{1}{M\,\Delta t}, where $M=2N$ is the number of samples in the time series. In the above calculation the energy sum only uses the positive frequencies and \sum\limits_k f_k^2\sum\limits_{l=0}^{N-1}\left\|\tilde{s}_{lk}\right\|^2 N\,(\Delta t)^2\, \sum\limits_k f_k^2 \sum\limits_{j=0}^{2N-1}\left\|S_{jk}\right\|^2. Fourier coefficients $s_{lk}$ calculated by the stfinv::STFFourierDomainEngine are not scaled (see documentation of libfourierxx and libfftw3), such that \Delta t\,s_{lk}=\tilde{s}_{lk} (both, $s_{lk}$ and $\tilde{s}_{lk}$ are Fourier coefficients). Consequently \sum\limits_k f_k^2\sum\limits_{l=0}^{N-1}\left\|s_{lk}\right\|^2 N\, \textbf{Final calculation recipe:}\\ The solution to our problem is \sum\limits_{k}f_k^2\,s_{lk}^\ast\,d_{lk} \epsilon^2\,\sum\limits_k f_k^2 \sum\limits_{j=0}^{2N-1}\left\|S_{jk}\right\|^2 +\sum\limits_{k}f_k^2\,s_{lk}^\ast\,s_{lk} \quad\forall\, l, is the sum of the squared sample values $S_{jk}$ of the synthetic time series for receiver $k$, $f_k$ are the scaling factors, and $\epsilon^2$ is the water level parameter. Author: Thomas Forbriger. For more information see \href{http://www.opentoast.de/Data_analysis_code_soutifu_and_libstfinv.php}{http://www.opentoast.de/Data\_analysis\_code\_soutifu\_and\_libstfinv.php} .	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1240
__label__wiki	0.638305	0.638305	Map of America's River Basins Show Our Nation's Hidden Beauty Eve Peyser Filed to:pretty things Image: Fejetlenfej/Imgur As the election nears, our country can at times feel like a hideous and hateful place. Let this map of the United States’ river basins made by Imgur user Fejetlenfej remind you that, at the very least, our country can be beautiful. Fejetlenfej—a geographer who sells their maps on Etsy—created the image using QGIS software, which is an open-source geographic information system. The map depicts both“the permanent and temporary streams and rivers,” the creator explained. They divided the streams into catchment areas, which show when rainfall flows into a river, lake, or reservoir. Using the Strahler Stream Order Classification, which is a system used by geologists to define stream sizes, Fejetlenfej explained that on the map, “the higher the stream order, the thicker the line.” Bask in the beauty of our nation’s river basins for a moment today. Before it’s too late. [Imgur via the Daily Mail] More from Gizmodo Spend Your Sunday Playing Around With This Cool Wind Map Where Was the Last Place on Earth Discovered by Humans? This Is the Most Detailed Hydrogen Map of the Milky Way Ever Created Eve Peyser was the night editor at Gizmodo. TwitterPosts Keys PGP Fingerprint: 957A 1627 4F02 7D0A D06F A932 C495 5354 C69B E640	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1242
__label__cc	0.703148	0.296852	FRACTURED AIR The universe is making music all the time Posts Tagged ‘Richard Horowitz’ Fractured Air x Blogothèque – S02E09 \| September mix Australian-born composer and songwriter Carla dal Forno’s eagerly-anticipated new material comes in the form of “The Garden”, a 12” for UK’s Blackest Ever Black, due for release on October 6th and folow-up to her sublime debut full-length “You Know What It’s Like”. Dal Forno is also a member of the trio F ingers (alongside Samuel Karmel and Tarquin Manek) who release their second LP, “Awkwardly Blissing Out”, this month. Recorded in Melbourne and Berlin between 2015–17, the album is the follow-up to the trio’s 2015 debut album “Hide Before Dinner”. Dal Forno’s own mixes (originally made for Berlin Community Radio while residing in the German capital; she now compiles monthly hour-long shows for NTS Radio) are always an indispensable source for music (Circuit 7’s “Eastern Dreams” from our September mixtape is one such example). The forever-inspiring Chicago-based artist Circuit des Yeux (Haley Fohr) releases her magnificent fifth studio album “Reaching For Indigo” on U.S. independent Drag City on 20th October. Unveiled so far is the mesmerising new single “Black Fly” which confirms Fohr as one of independent music’s most singular voices and fascinating contemporary music-makers. Anthology Recordings – Mexican Summer’s reissue imprint – release the majestic compilation “Feel The Music Vol. 1” next month. Compiled by Paul Major – pioneering record dealer and frontman of the band Endless Boogie – this truly special record effortlessly spans sounds and styles (folk, psychedelia, blues, rock n roll) while unearthing a plethora of truly unique (and largely unknown to wider audiences) songwriters from a golden age of music. September’s mix also features new releases from possibly the year’s most anticipated pair of albums which come courtesy of both Four Tet (“New Energy”, Text) and Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Constellation). Electronic maestro Four Tet and his monumental “New Energy” album (available via his Text imprint from 29th September); Montréal’s mythical Godspeed You! Black Emperor unleash their sublime seventh album “Luciferian Towers” via Constellation which confirm the band (as if confirmation was ever necessary) as one of the world’s most ceaselessly innovative and breathtaking bands. To listen on La Blogothèque: http://www.blogotheque.net/2017/09/29/fractured-air-x-blogotheque-s02e09-september-mix/ 01. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – “Fam/Famine” (Constellation) 02. Dungen – “Achmed Flyger” (Version 1) (Versions by Prins Thomas) (Smalltown Supersound) 03. James Holden & The Animal Spirits – “Each Moment Like The First” (Border Community) 04. Circuit des Yeux – “Black Fly” (Drag City) 05. Forest Swords – “Raw Language” (Ninja Tune) 06. Yasuaki Shimizu – “Seiko 1” (Crammed Discs) 07. Ariel Pink – “Feels Like Heaven” (Mexican Summer) 08. The Smiths — “The Hand That Rocks The Cradle” (Rough Trade) 09. Arthur Russell – “Get Around To It” (Rough Trade, Audika) 10. Nausea – “No Conversation” (Ecstatic) 11. Circuit 7 – “Eastern Dreams” (Minimal Wave) 12. Carla dal Forno – “The Garden” (Blackest Ever Black) 13. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – “To Feel Your Best” (Western Vinyl) 14. Richard Horowitz – “Eros Never Stops Dreaming” (RVNG Intl) 15. F Ingers – “Your Confused” (Blackest Ever Black) 16. Geinoh Yamashirogumi – “Kaneda” (Akira OST, Milan) 17. Sanza – “Sounout” (Original Mix) (Music For Dreams) 18. Burial – “Rodent” (Hyperdub) 19. Four Tet – “Scientists” (Text) 20. Actress & London Contemporary Orchestra – “Audio Track 5” (Ninja Tune) 21. Carmen Villain – “Red Desert” (Smalltown Supersound) 22. Blue Iverson – “Who Shot Lucious Lyon?” (Self-Released) 23. Darius – “I Feel The Need To Carry On” (Anthology Recordings) 24. Bill Mackay & Ryley Walker – “Dragonfly” (Drag City) 25. Ry Cooder – “I Knew These People” (excerpt) (Paris Texas OST, Warner Bros.) 26. Sun Kil Moon – “Si, Paloma” (Caldo Verde) Compiled by Fractured Air, September 2017. The copyright in these recordings is the property of the individual artists and/or record labels. If you like the music, please support the artist by buying their records. http://www.blogotheque.net/ https://fracturedair.com/ Posted in MIXTAPE Tagged with Actress, Ariel Pink, Arthur Russell, Bill MacKay, Blue Iverson, Burial, Carla dal Forno, Carmen Villain, Circuit 7, Circuit Des Yeux, Darius, Dungen, F ingers, Forest Swords, Four Tet, Geinoh Yamashirogumi, Godspeed You! 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__label__wiki	0.674092	0.674092	Hannah Bonner Author-Illustrator Dining With Dinosaurs Three books in one! When Fish Got Feet When Bugs Were Big When Dinos Dawned Project Type: Books Dining with Dinosaurs, A Tasty Guide to Mesozoic Munching Dining with Dinosaurs takes you on a tour of who ate whom (and what) in the Mesozoic. You will learn all about the ancient food web, from enormous long-neck herbivores to teensy blood-drinking fleas. Along the way, you’ll encounter Spinosaurus on the search for fish, raptors hunting in packs, plants telling you how they eat sunlight, and scientists sharing their knowledge in comic-book style interviews. Get ready to be amused, surprised, and maybe even a bit grossed out when you learn what was on the prehistoric menu. The book is intended for ages 7 – 12, and anyone else who likes their science delivered with lots of pictures and a sense of humor. Praise for Dining with Dinosaurs: “Five-star fare for librovores.”— Kirkus Reviews (starred review) (Read more at: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/hannah-bonner/dining-with-dinosaurs/) “The author set out to write a book about the ‘vores’ and she has succeeded admirably. From the midnight snack on the front cover to the selected sources at the back, this junior reader is packed full of scientific fact; all presented in a fun and exciting manner.” – Dinosaurnews.org Where to buy: from any on line bookstore, or at your local bookstore. http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781426321054 http://tinyurl.com/Amazon-Dining-Dinosaurs Ages 7 – 12 (and anyone else who likes science delivered with lots of pictures and a sense of humor) Published by National Geographic Children’s Books THREE BOOKS IN ONE! When Fish Got Feet, When Bugs Were Big and When Dinos Dawned, a Cartoon Prehistory of Life on Earth When Fish Got Feet, When Bugs Were Big and When Dinos Dawned consists of my three previous books for National Geographic Kids rolled into a single paperback volume. I was delighted to have a chance to update some of the science (for instance the giant spider Megarachne turned out not to be a spider at all but a eurypterid, a kind of aquatic scorpion) and I also added ten new pages of activities and a new and improved family tree of the vertebrates. When Fish Got Feet, When Bugs Were Big and When Dinos Dawned takes us from the Silurian Period, 440 million years ago, when the oceans were teeming with life but land was mostly barren, all the way to the early Mesozoic, when dinosaurs, mammals and much, much more put in their appearance. This book is for kids of all ages, from 7 to 107. It’s picture-based, of course, but it also packs in a whole lot of scientific information. So much, in fact, that Berkeley professor Cindy Looy assigns it as required reading to undergraduates taking her paleobotany course so they get an entertaining, visual overview of life on the planet prior to delving into more detailed scientific literature. Praise for the When trilogy: “Bonner is smashing. She has the hand of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the humor of a stand-up comedienne.” – Kirk Johnson, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. “Every school and every family home with ‘smaller persons’ and those with an interest in science should have a copy of Hannah’s book on their shelves. If there is one book which makes earth science fun for youngsters or their teacher/parent presenters, this is it. Go and grab a copy on Amazon if it’s not already in your local bookstore.” — Roger Smith, Dinosaurnews.org https://www.amazon.com/When-Fish-Feet-Dinos-Dawned/dp/142632104X National Geographic Children’s Books August 2015 48 pages ISBN 978-1426321047 Paperback When Fish Got Feet, Sharks got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm (CONFUSION ALERT: The title of the three-in-one version of my When trilogy, When Fish Got Feet, When Bugs Were Big and When Dinos Dawned, includes the titles of all three individual books; as a result, if you type “When Fish Got Feet” into an on-line search, you will find both the stand-alone volume and the more recent three-in-one book. If what you want is the three-in-one, look for the yellow National Geographic border.) Life before the dinosaurs doesn’t normally get much coverage, which isn’t really fair since the planet was already a happening place long before dinosaurs appeared on the scene. The solution? When Fish Got Feet, which tells the story of the our planet and the plants and animals that lived on it WAY before the dinosaurs – about 440 to 360 million years ago to be exact, during the Silurian and Devonian periods. At the beginning of the book, the oceans are teeming with life, including big sea scorpions and crazy-looking jawless fish, but dry land is almost completely empty. We follow the evolution of plants as they gradually make the planet green and fertile (and cooler, because they soak up lots of CO2). Many invertebrates come onto land as well, and we also see how fish with jaws evolve and one group in particular develops legs and crawls out of the water to join the fun. These were the first tetrapods, or four-legged animals. Praise for When Fish Got Feet, Sharks got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm: “This exemplary science book will serve report writers well and captivate casual readers.” –School Library Journal (starred review) “Bonner serves up a second heaping course of science that will both stick to the ribs and tickle them.” – Kirkus Reviews “The science is first-rate… Equally effective are the multilayered cartoonlike illustrations containing cultural references for both adults and children. Most of the illustrations are not just funny but truly scientific, demonstrating the power of illustration to help make scientific ideas clearer through clever visual metaphors.” —Hornbook New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing October 2007 48p. Hardcover ISBN 9781426300783 Paperback ISBN: 97814263054673 When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange, and Tetrapods Stalked the Earth When Bugs Were Big tells the story of life on our planet in the Carboniferous and Permian periods, the last two periods of the Paleozoic Era. You’ll be surprised to discover how many fascinating plants and animals preceded the much more famous dinosaurs of the Mesozoic, from giant insects flitting among the weird trees of the coal swamps in the Carboniferous to a huge array of mammal ancestors and dominated the landscape in the Permian. The book ends with the most devastating extinction ever: the end-Permian extinction, which set the stage for the next era, the Mesozoic. NOTE: When Bugs Were Big is no longer in print, but used copies are available on line. Better yet, you can spring for When the one-volume version of the When trilogy, When Fish Got Feet, When Bugs Were Big and When Dinos Dawned, which includes several updates on the science and a bonus picture of the Tully Monster that was not in the original book. Praise for When Bugs Were Big: “Presented with verve and humor…Kids who dig dinosaurs will read the book purely for pleasure.” –Booklist (starred review) “Bonner takes a lighthearted approach to a fascinating topic… The facts and the fun work well together, and it’s always clear which is which.” –School Library Journal (starred review) “This is terrific. I think every paleontologist working on terrestrial organisms will want a copy. Maybe a lot of them. The reconstructions are great and would be wonderful to use in a college classroom.” –Bill DiMichele, Curator of Fossil Plants, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. Booklist’s Top 10 Science Books for Youth March 2004 48p. Hardcover ISBN 978-0792263265 When Dinos Dawned, Mammals Got Munched, and Pterosaurs Took Flight In When Dinos Dawned, Mammals Got Munched, and Pterosaurs took Flight, A Cartoon Prehistory of Life in the Triassic, the survivors of the humongous end-Permian extinction evolve and diversify to fill every nook and cranny of the planet in a burst of evolutionary creativity. On land, forests of non-flowering plants reached new heights of diversity, insects evolved all sorts of techniques for eating the plants, and a host of odd archosaurs evolved, including the earliest dinosaurs. In the oceans, ichthyosaurs and other marine reptiles took center stage for the first time. Our shrew-like mammalian ancestors also emerged, fur and all (we think). The stage was set for the start of the true Age of Dinosaurs in the next period, the Jurassic. Praise for When Dinos Dawned: “Both casual and confirmed fans will devour this delicious blend of fact and foolery with relish.” –Kirkus (starred review) “This book may attract a bigger readership than just dino-fanatics and goes deeper and broader in scope than a typical litany of dinosaur species. It is proof that complexity does not have to be boring.” –Booklist “Bonner strikes again! This book tells the tale of life on Earth getting back on its feet after the biggest extinction ever. It’s a must for every paleo fan.” –Cindy Looy, assistant professor of integrative biology at the University of California Berkeley and curator at the University of California Museum of Paleontology April 2012 48p Recreating the deep past of Planet Earth How life changed the planet, and how the planet changed life: an exhibit in process Free Download: Dedication Labels Evolve or Perish: The Board Game New Book Announcement: Dining With Dinosaurs	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1261
__label__wiki	0.726755	0.726755	Maduro’s latest ploy failed. But it’s a bad sign he’s hunkering down — with Putin’s help. Washington Post - 2020-01-07T07:51:24.000Z Washington Post—Venezuela presents a test of Trump’s affinity for Russia. Help Australian wildlife with Humble’s latest 29-game bundle. With the ongoing bushfires in Australia, Humble has launched a new Australia Fire Relief Bundle designed to help organizations working to save and rehabilitate animals affected by the disaster. Those who donate a minimum of $25 will get access to alm What is sign stealing? Making sense of Major League Baseball’s latest scandal. How and when did the Astros start stealing signs, how were they caught, and everything else you need to know. 27 Problems With Media’s Latest Failed Attack On Attorney General William Barr Every paragraph in the nearly 10,000-word New Yorker article has significant problems. Taken together, it is just one long string of innuendos insinuating that William Barr is evil. How U.S. Firms Helped Africa’s Richest Woman Exploit Her Country’s Wealth Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola’s former president, built an empire in a country mired in corruption. Western consultants were her advisers. IG Report Bombshell: Did The FBI And DOJ Ask Putin’s Buddy To Help Get Trump? DOJ official Bruce Ohr called a meeting of several federal agencies to discuss ‘working with’ a Russian oligarch because of his belief, premised on the unverified Steele dossier, that Trump was corrupt. What’s Putin’s reaction? Reporters answer readers’ questions about Iran and the U.S. strike that killed Soleimani. Washington Post The View’s co-hosts have completely stopped talking to McCain backstage: ‘It’s bad — Meghan’s so rude’ www.rawstory.com Here’s how Vladimir Putin’s political shake-up could pan out Global News Message from Nancy Pelosi: ‘It’s not about how bad they are. It’s about how good we are’ Here’s everything in MLB’s case on the Astros’ sign-stealing www.nydailynews.com Athletes are helping victims of Australia’s bushfires. Here’s how you can, too SBNation.com More headlines on this day Copyright © Headline Bits. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners, authors and source websites. By using this website, you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1270
__label__wiki	0.92229	0.92229	Home Statistics Others Chris Ingham Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics Chris Ingham Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics Chris Ingham Quick Info Zodiac Sign Cancer Spouse Sarah Ingham Chris Ingham is an English social media entertainer and professional inline roller skater who is best known for his contribution to the popular family channel titled “The Ingham Family,” to which they upload daily vlogs, travel, and fun family content. He is also known to be the father of distinguished social media stars Isabelle, Esmè, Isla, and Jace Ingham and wife to YouTuber Sarah Ingham. Chris also has a secondary eponymous YouTube channel to which he uploads videos of his inline roller skating skills. He has amassed a huge fan base with more than 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube and more than 200k followers on Instagram. Christopher Ingham Chris Ingham as seen in a selfie taken in July 2019 (Chris Ingham / Instagram) Social Media Entertainer, Inline Roller Skater Chris self-manages his career. 5 ft 9 in or 175 cm Chris Ingham has dated – Sarah Ingham (2006-Present) – They have 2 daughters named Esmé Ingham (b. June 20, 2009) and Isla Ingham (b. April 9, 2012), a son named Jace Ingham (b. March 28, 2019), and a step-daughter named Isabelle Ingham (Step-Daughter) (b. September 2, 2005). Chris Ingham as seen in a selfie with his wife Sarah Ingham in December 2018 (Chris Ingham / Instagram) Emo hairstyle Thin upper lip Squints to the left when he smiles Chris Ingham as seen in a selfie taken in Alcúdia, Majorca, Spain in May 2019 (Chris Ingham / Instagram) Chris Ingham Favorite Things Place To Perform His Trick – Alleyoop Source – Instagram Chris Ingham as seen in a picture whilst performing a railing trick in April 2018 (Chris Ingham / Instagram) Chris Ingham Facts He uploaded his first video titled “Sarah’s 30th Birthday SURPRISE Weekend in LONDON!!” to the family channel in December 2015. However, he had started that channel as early as October 2011. Chris runs a third channel titled IFAM Extras. He started inline roller skating when he was quite young and has stuck with his dream ever since. He even films his stunts and tricks and uploads it to his eponymous channel that he began in March 2015. Chris edits and vlogs the videos that they shoot. Besides the videos he uploads to his channel, Chris also shares a lot of pictures of the family’s adventure and trips on his Instagram. Chris and YouTuber Bryan Lanning are both fathers of YouTube channel families. He has a dog named Prinny. During their 2018 Arndale meet and greet event, more than 4000 people turned up for the event. It made headlines the following day. In 2018, Chris was bombarded with criticism after having been accused of sending inappropriate messages to teenage girls who were fans of the family. Amongst the many accusations, Daily Mail reported that he had asked a girl to “drop her towel and send her a photo” and in another, he had asked a teenage fan to meet him in the night while they were in the same place on a holiday. Chris uploaded a 23-minute video to his channel in 2018. He denied the allegations that were put against him and made a clear statement stating that he had never done anything as such. In August 2019, Chris and his family were slammed online as they went out into the water while filming on a Spanish beach trip and left their 4-month-old baby Jace back at their resting place. After the video was posted to their channel, it immediately began to gain criticism and The Sun headlined it as “Disgusting.” The family had been accused of selling a replica doll to a fan in 2019. The incident was reported to social services. Featured Image By Chris Ingham / Instagram Chris Ingham Social Media Entertainer Dion Cubbins Sophie Rundle Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics Louise Thompson Height Weight Body Statistics Julianne Moore Workout Routine and Diet Plan	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1273
__label__cc	0.712031	0.287969	Pharmacology publications Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/42004 Title: Lack of influence of CYP2D6 genotype on the clearance of (R)- (S)- and racemic-methadon Author: Coller, J. Joergensen, C. Foster, D. James, H. Gillis, D. Christrup, L. Somogyi, A. Citation: International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 2007; 45(7):410-417 Publisher: Dustri-Verlag Dr Karl Feistle Responsibility: J.K. Coller, C. Joergensen, D.J.R. Foster, H. James, D. Gillis, L. Christrup and A.A. Somogyi Abstract: Objective: To investigate the influence of CYP2D6 genotype on the oral clearance of (R)-, (S)- and rac-methadone. Methods: In this retrospective study, CYP2D6 genotypes were identified in 56 methadone maintained subjects. Plasma concentrations of (R)-, (S)- and rac-methadone were determined by stereoselective HPLC and sufficient data were available to estimate the apparent oral clearances of (R)-, (S)- and rac-methadone using a population kinetic model in 37 of the genotyped subjects. Results: The CYP2D6 allele frequencies were similar to those previously reported in Caucasians, the most common being: CYP2D61 (35.2%), CYP2D62 (12.0%) and CYP2D6*4 (22.2%). Three unknown SNPs were found in four subjects: 1811G > A (n = 1), 1834C > T (n = 1) and 2720G > C (n = 2). The oral clearances of (R)-, (S)- and rac-methadone varied 5.4-, 6.8- and 6.1-fold, respectively. No significant differences in methadone oral clearance were found between CYP2D6 genotypic PM, IM and EM (p = 0.57, 0.40 and 0.43 for (R)-, (S)- and rac-methadone, respectively). Only 1 subject had duplication of functional CYP2D6 alleles and the oral clearance of the three analytes was not markedly altered. Conclusions: CYP2D6 poor, intermediate and extensive metabolizer genotypes did not appear to impact on the oral clearance of (R)-, (S)- or rac-methadone. In addition, methadone dosage requirements were not influenced by CYP2D6 genotypes in these subjects. However, the impact of duplication of functional CYP2D6 alleles on oral clearance and dosage requirements requires further investigation. Keywords: Humans; Pain; Opioid-Related Disorders; Methadone; Cytochrome P-450 CYP2D6; Analgesics, Opioid; Pregnancy; Genotype; Phenotype; Alleles; Stereoisomerism; Adult; Female; Male DOI: 10.5414/CPP45410 Published version: http://www.clinnephrol.com/index.php?id=93&issueId=221&PHPSESSID=dfae7d08008d5cbb7b9d03c685c7254b Appears in Collections: Pharmacology publications	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1278
__label__wiki	0.615217	0.615217	IMANIFESTO Rating: NPP Is In "Serious Trouble" – Kofi Adams Former National Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress [NDC] Kofi Adams is of a view that the ruling New Patriotic Party [NPP] has failed Ghanaians after promising ‘heaven on earth’ during the 2016 election year. His comment comes after education and policy think tank, IMANI Africa scored the Nana Akufo-Addo government an overall mark of 48.78% with regards to the fulfillment of its 2016 manifesto promises. The think tank also scored the government 54.35% for how it has managed the economy, stating that out of a total of 162 promises, only 41 have been implemented. This Kofi Adams said is “not good for this government, they have failed. More than two years and you score below 50%? They are in serious trouble. They have a lot to do. It’s a bad score for the NPP.” Speaking on NEAT FM’s morning show dubbed ‘Ghana Montie’ – the Buem constituency parliamentary aspirant said the ‘IMANIFESTO’ rating “should be a worry to members of the NPP.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1280
__label__cc	0.713479	0.286521	AU Store Athabasca University Shield Historical Foundations of Modern Science (C3) myAU Login Login in Securely Side panel Menu HIST404 (C3) HIST 404: Historical Foundations of Modern Science (C3) This course is designed primarily for science students in the last year of a BS program, and for history students in the last year of a BA (History) program. As such, History 404 uses a range of primary and secondary materials as well as visual media, notably, the thirteen episodes that make up the lecture series A History of Science in Society. With the exception of the textbooks and some readings, this course will be internet based. For students who do not have access to high-speed internet, a print version of the course Study Guide has been supplied. Those students can borrow the audio-visual material through the AU Library. Students with no prior knowledge of the history of science can benefit from the course but some background in history would be helpful; university-level research, reading, and writing skills are mandatory. Coordinator: gregj Course Communication Tools Course and Student Manual Course Glossary of Key Concepts Course Evaluation Survey Open, Flexible, and Everywhere Undergraduate Calendar Graduate Calendar Program Plans Give to AU © 2017 Athabasca University is a world-class leader in online and distance education. Based in Alberta and available online around the world, we are Canada's Open University. Privacy Policy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1282
__label__wiki	0.945102	0.945102	Audi boss arrested in diesel probe 18 June 2018 \| 10:23 am (FILES) In this file photo taken on May 18, 2017 Rupert Stadler, CEO of German car producer Audi AG, arrives at Audi’s annual general meeting in Neckarsulm, Germany. Audi chief executive Rupert Stadler has been arrested on suspicion of fraud in connection with parent company Volkswagen’s “dieselgate” emissions cheating scandal, German prosecutors said on June 18, 2018. Christof STACHE / AFP Audi chief executive Rupert Stadler has been arrested in connection with parent company Volkswagen’s “dieselgate” emissions cheating scandal, German prosecutors said Monday. The dramatic development comes a week after Munich prosecutors raided Stadler’s home after charging him with fraud and the falsification of documents that allowed diesel vehicles equipped with cheating software to be sold to European customers. Prosecutors said the arrest was justified because of the “risk of concealment of evidence”. Audi confirmed the arrest to AFP, declining to give further details. “For Mr Stadler, the presumption of innocence continues to apply,” a spokesman said in a statement. Stadler’s arrest is the most high-profile yet in the dieselgate crisis, which started when the Volkswagen group admitted in 2015 to equipping some 11 million diesels worldwide with “defeat devices” designed to dupe pollution tests. VW’s luxury subsidiary Audi has long faced suspicions that its engineers developed the software used in the scam. Audi’s former head of engine development was taken into custody in September 2017. German authorities earlier this month ordered the recall of some 60,000 Audi A6 and A7 cars across Europe to remove illegal emissions control software, using a different technique however than the one at the heart of dieselgate. Former VW chief executive Martin Winterkorn stepped down soon after the scandal broke in September 2015, while successor Matthias Mueller was hastily replaced earlier this year. Both are suspected of knowing earlier than they have so far admitted about the cheating, meaning they may have failed in their duty to inform investors in the car giant about the financial risks. US prosecutors also indicted Winterkorn last month, saying he knew of the company’s emissions cheating as early as May 2014 but decided to continue. Present boss Herbert Diess has been accused of knowing about diesel cheating before it became public — an allegation rejected by the firm last month. The scandal has so far cost the VW group more than 25 billion euros ($29 billion) in buybacks, fines and compensation, and the company remains mired in legal woes at home and abroad. AudiRupert StadlerVolkswagen	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1283
__label__cc	0.541778	0.458222	El Escorial & the Valley of the Fallen About the Royal Monastery of El Escorial & Basilica of the Valley of the Fallen During this tour you will visit the Royal Monastery of El Escorial. This is an impressive architectural ensemble, declared a World Heritage Site. You will also visit the Valley of the Fallen, a basilica that stands out for its gigantic size. Royal Monastery of El Escorial The tour starts at El Escorial. This beautiful monastery is a symbol of the Spanish power in the 16th century which commemorates the battle of St. Quentin. It is also a mausoleum for Charles V. The monastery was built in Renaissance style and it had been considered the eighth wonder of the world. The visit includes the Habsburg Palace, the Kings and Princes Mausoleum, the Chapter House and the Basilica. Basilica of the Valley of the Fallen After enjoying the lovely monastery, the tour will continue to El Escorial, which is 9 km from the monastery. This enormous monument was built between 1940 and 1959 to honour the fallen during the Spanish Civil War. The basilica is carved into the mountain at 1350 metres of altitude, where an impressive 150 metres high cross places itself over the magnificent nature reserve of Madrid mountain range. Comfortable shoes are recommended. You will receive your voucher by e-mail, print the voucher and get access The Tour includes Air conditioned motor coach Multilingual official guide Entrance to the Royal Monastery of El Escorial Entrance to the Valley of the Fallen and the Basilic Starting time: daily (except on Monday) at 8.30 am Duration: approx. 5 hours. Season: all year, except on a few dates which are pre-blocked in our calendar for your convenience. Children and seniors have a different rate Languages: English, Spanish and Chinese guaranteed Exclusions: Lunch, beverages or other services not specified above. Start point : San Nicolás 15 End point: Bus Parking Plaza de Oriente, Level -2 Please contact us if you have questions. We are more than willing to help you! Prado Museum Madrid Tapas Adventure Walking Tour From € 119.00 Day Tour Don Quixote Experience This tour in Madrid is organized by Julia Travel, Pablo Iglesias, 84, 08908 L'Hospitalet, Barcelona	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1286
__label__cc	0.525806	0.474194	sign up for Hope’s newsletter to receive news and updates Tag: Orphans of Empire The London Foundling Hospital Posted on: January 12, 2020 January 12, 2020 I recently ran across Orphans of Empire by Helen Berry, a new nonfiction book chronicling the history of the London Foundling Hospital, Britain’s first home for abandoned children, a find that thrilled me to no end because a) lifeline Anglophile b) lifelong history geek and c) the LFH is the principal setting for my late Regency romance, Claimed By the Rogue. The LFH was founded by sea captain Thomas Coram, a childless widower with a hefty purse and the heart to match it. Appalled by the 1,000 children abandoned to the London streets each year, Captain Coram resolved to put his money where his morals were. In 1735 he petitioned Britain’s King George II to establish a “hospital” (a philanthropic institution dispensing hospitality) for the education and maintenance of foundlings. Twenty-one aristocratic ladies signed on to Coram’s petition, which quickly picked up steam as a fashionable philanthropy. Coram received his Royal Charter in 1739; the first children were admitted in 1741. Prominent patrons included the painter, William Hogarth and composer George Frideric Handel; the latter served as the hospital’s first governor. The LFH no longer exists – the gracious Georgian brickwork building in Bloomsbury was demolished in 1926 and the institution ended in the 1950s – but its 200+ year history is preserved in the Foundling Museum in Brunswick Square. Perhaps the most feeling artifacts on exhibit are also the humblest: the museum’s collection of Foundling Tokens – buttons, jewelry, coins etc. – left behind by the mothers, a last tangible link to the child they hoped one day to reclaim. Sadly, such hoped for reunions were rare; the vast majority of tokens remain with the museum. If an orphanage sounds like an unconventional setting for a Regency romance, you would be right! In Claimed By The Rogue, my heroine, Lady Phoebe Tremont, volunteers at the LFH after her fiance, Captain Robert Bellamy, is presumed lost at sea. Six years later, Robert returns to find a very different Phoebe than the sweet, pampered miss he left behind. Fiercely devoted to the foundlings under her care, determined to continue in her duties despite her impending marriage to an expat French aristocrat, Phoebe is very much a woman ahead of her time. To win her back, Robert makes an offer not even Phoebe can refuse. He’ll donate 100 pounds a day to the institution she lives and breathes provided Phoebe allows him to shadow her in her daily duties. Spoiler Alert! He falls head over feet for the new impassioned, socially-minded Phoebe – it IS a romance – as well as the adorable orphans under her care. Enjoy this short excerpt from Claimed By The Rogue and join me on Twitter @hopetarr and Instagram @hopectarr where I post fun historical tidbits at #HistoryMatters. “Don’t you ever rest?” Robert asked, trailing Phoebe down yet another labyrinthine passageway. So far they’d visited the governors’ court room, chapel, girls’ dormitory, boys’ dormitory, sundry classrooms, and even the morgue, all of it at a brisk to breakneck pace. She glanced back at him over her shoulder. “I haven’t the need, but don’t let me hinder you from doing so.” “No, I’m fine. I was only concerned for you.” “Hmm,” was all she said before darting down yet another white-walled corridor. Lengthening his stride, he found himself wondering how it was that such a graceful woman managed to move so swiftly. The indolent maid of his memory seemed to have acquired the gait of a racehorse, not that he considered complaining of it. Admiring the hind view of those slender, swaying hips made for a deucedly pleasant pastime even if the reek of turpentine and lemon oil was beginning to block his nose. The ended their tour at the infirmary. The strong smell of vinegar permeated the vicinity. A glass-front apothecary cabinet containing myriad meticulously labeled clear jars, a washing bench outfitted with a bandage roller and stacked bedpans and a leather bound ledger presumably for recording the circumstances of patients comprised the long, narrow room. Phoebe’s hushed conference with the attending nurse secured their admission. Robert followed her along the queue of narrow cots, all but one of them unoccupied. “Feeling a bit better today, Sally?” Phoebe asked, pausing to rest her hand upon the child’s brow, her swollen jaw banded by a camphorous cloth. The girl, Sally, shook her head, wincing. “Tooth hurts terrible.” Phoebe stroked a hank of brown hair back from the girl’s forehead. “I’m sure it does, poppet, but at least your fever’s down. Once the foulness finishes draining, you’ll be right as rain.” Dull eyes looked up into hers. “Yes, miss.” Most in Phoebe’s position would have moved along but instead she lingered. “I was going to give this to you later but now shall serve.” She reached into her gown’s pocket and pulled out a cloth-covered doll. The fevered little face lit. “Oh, miss, thank you!” Phoebe tucked the doll into the crook of Sally’s arm and straightened. “Not only a doll but a magic doll. Whenever your tooth troubles you, squeeze upon her and she’ll help keep the pain away.” Looking on, Robert felt a powerful pull in the vicinity of his heart. Phoebe had the makings of a marvelous mother. The earlier scene in the classroom and now this strengthened his resolve to do all in his power to ensure that her future children would be his, not Bouchart’s. Seeing her about to turn back to him, he quickly made a mask of his face. “You needn’t fear infection,” she said archly, misreading him yet again. “Mostly we treat minor injuries, sprained ankles and, in Sally’s case, toothache. More serious cases are transported to St. George’s.” “My constitution is that of an ox,” he answered, no idle boast. Given the fevers and pestilence to which he’d been exposed, an abscessed tooth and a few running noses hardly seemed of note. Stepping away from the beds with Phoebe, he asked, “How did you come to volunteer here?” She hesitated. “In an odd way, I have you to thank for it.” “I?” Even strongly suspecting he would regret it, he had to ask, “How so?” “After we were told you were…lost, I wasn’t entirely certain what to do with myself, how to go on. Coming here began as a crutch, a reason to rise from bed each morning. Over time I began adding days, heartened that it was in my power to do some good.” His kitchen conversation with Chelsea came back to him. She draped herself in black crepe and bombazine for a full year as though she were your widow in truth. There were times we feared she might take her own life. “How does your mother feel about your laboring?” She lanced him a look. “You mean my eccentricity, or so Mother calls it. She’s pinning her hopes on marriage proving the cure. To be fair, I should admit that she is hardly alone in her censure. Barring Chelsea and Anthony, most members of the ton think I’m daft to spend my days fraternizing with orphaned children, whom they’re convinced will amount to nothing more than cutpurses and prostitutes. Watching her closely, he ventured, “And Bouchart, what does he say?” She hesitated, the pause telling or so it seemed to Robert. “Aristide tolerates my employment for the present though he too assumes I’ll give it up of my own accord once we’re wed.” She paused, her quicksilver gaze honing onto his. “He’s mistaken.” “I admire you for following your passion.” She looked at him askance. A renegade curl clung to the side of her cheek, which was neither pale nor waxen as it had been after her faint but a healthy, becoming pink. Resisting the urge to reach out and brush it back, he shook his head. “No really I do.” Admire her though he did, he was in no way inured to how enticing she not only looked but smelled—vanilla from the milled soap she’d always favored, lavender from the eau de cologne she preferred to perfume, and some spicy citrus scent he didn’t recall from before but badly wanted to sample. A baby’s balling drew their attention outside. Robert joined her at the window overlooking the front lawn. Fifty-odd women and children, the latter of various ages from infancy to adolescence, stood in queue extending from the arcaded entrance gate to the circular drive. The group had grown considerably since Robert had arrived. Passing them by, he’d seen more than one cheek tracked with tears but aside from the occasional wailing infant, they’d waited in stoic silence. It seemed they waited still. “Good God, there are so many of them.” Letting the curtain drop, Phoebe sighed. “I know. Every Monday brings the same sad sight. I’d thought by now to be accustomed to it, but after five years it still breaks my heart.” “Have the London parish houses grown so lax in dispensing relief? Her arch look told him he’d said the wrong thing—again. “They’ve not come for alms but to surrender their children. Only babes of twelve months or younger are accepted, and the mother must stipulate that the child is the fruit of her first fall—born out of wedlock. Admission is by ballot. Every Monday, a man is sent out with a leather bag of colored marbles. Each woman is entitled to draw only one from the bag. White entitles her child to admission subject to passing the medical examination, red to be put on a waiting list in case one of the accepted children is found to suffer from a malady of an infectious nature, and black—” “Mother and child are turned away?” Eyes suspiciously bright, she nodded. “It sounds heartless, I know, and in a way it is, but we haven’t beds for them all. Truth be told, we haven’t room for the ones we do take in. Presently we’re at four hundred and ten and that’s with several of the younger boys and girls sleeping two to a cot.” He’d thought himself hardened to sad, suffering sights, but apparently he wasn’t as toughened as he’d supposed. “What will happen to them?” “Once they pass the medical examination, they’re sent to the country for fostering. At four or five years of age, they’re brought back here, the boys to learn a trade, the girls to train for domestic employment. When the boys reach fourteen, the governors arrange indentures for them; many end up enlisting in the army. Settling the girls is more difficult, but every effort is made to find them suitable situations.” Like a surgeon probing a wound, he had to know. “And what of those who are turned away?” She shrugged but once again her eyes, silver blue irises awash in unshed tears, confirmed how very deeply she cared. “Some will be abandoned. Others will starve alongside their mothers. Still others still will seek refuge in the workhouses or…worse.” A pained look crossed her face. “Last winter a newborn was discovered in a…rubbish bin behind the hospital kitchen. He’d been dead some hours, of exposure or so the resident physician judged.” She turned her face away. He braced a hand upon the sill, bringing their bodies ever so slightly brushing. “Surely something more may be done? What of the fathers? Haven’t they any say in whether or not their children are given up?” She turned back to glare at him, her quicksilver gaze once more sharp as Damascus steel. “Do you honestly believe that even one of those women standing out there would give up her child if she might choose another course, if she herself hadn’t been abandoned?” Abandoned—so there it was, the crux of Phoebe’s philanthropic passion. Clearly she felt an affinity with these women who’d been abandoned by their men to fend for their offspring and themselves. “I only meant that it seems a father should have some rights, some say at the very least. Conceiving a child requires both parties, after all.” Gaze on hers, he owned how very much he wanted to make love with her and babies with her, the yearning to plant his seed inside her so fiercely primal he felt a sudden aching in his loins. “One of the prerequisites for participating in the balloting is that the father must have deserted both mother and child. Deserted, Robert. I’d think you of all people would understand that.” He swallowed against the pain pushing a path up his throat. “I didn’t desert you.” She answered with a sharp laugh. “You chose to stay away and leave me to think you dead. If that’s not desertion, what is?” “I chose to return when I knew I might be a fit husband for you in every way.” After the torturers had gotten through with him, it had taken him months before he’d been able to stand the sight of himself in a mirror; closer to two years before he could bear so much as a hand upon his shoulder without flinching. How could he have come to her then, broken, a wreck? Better to allow her to think him dead and remember him as he’d been then to foist the leavings of himself upon her, a shell empty of all but pain and horror. Returning ere now would have been the ultimate selfishness or so he’d told himself. But staring into Phoebe’s face, he was no longer so supremely certain. The woman before him was fashioned of sturdier stuff than the girl he’d left behind. That girl would have crumpled at the sight of him but the strong, poised woman he saw before him might have proven equal to the task. Her gaze narrowed. “And now you are too late, for I have a husband or at least I shall before the month is out.” Before the month is out! Robert felt as though an invisible fist plowed him in the solar plexus. In the past, controlling his reaction to the pain, pretending to no longer feel or care, had served as his best defense, his strongest weapon. Calling upon that hard-learned stoicism now, he summoned a smile. “What a coincidence, for I too will be embarking upon my next voyage at the month’s end but not before I have the pleasure of seeing you as a bride, I hope.” Phoebe’s smile slipped. “For now, I am afraid I must away. I have another appointment to attend.” “Pray do not let me keep you from your pressing business,” she retorted, sounding much like her mother. Judging from her planted stance, he gathered she didn’t mean to walk him out. Just as well, he supposed for he needed some time to recover from the blow she’d just dealt him. Heading for the door, he turned back. “What ungodly hour shall I arrive tomorrow?” She shrugged. “Anytime or not at all, as you wish.” “If you treat all your benefactors in such a shrewish fashion, ‘tis a mercy you have a roof and four walls,” he answered, a deliberate reminder that he was, in point, paying for her company if not her goodwill. Releasing a sigh, she capitulated, “Oh, very well, nine o’ clock sharp and mind if you’re late, I shall bar the classroom door and you may wait out in the hallway until the session finishes.” “My dearest Phoebe, I wouldn’t dream of being late.” Stepping out into the hallway, Robert considered that six years was quite late enough. He didn’t mean to waste so much as a single second more. Copyright: Hope Tarr To read the rest of Lady Phoebe and Robert’s second chance at love story, buy the ebook at any of these online retailers. Posted in HistoryMatters, Writing Life Tagged: #HistoryMatters, Coram, Georgian London, Handel, History Matters, Hogarth, Jane Austen, London Foundling Hospital, Orphans of Empire, Regency London, Regency rakes, Regency romance Hope is the author of four screenplays and twenty-five historical and contemporary romances. Browse past works Tomorrow’s Destiny in Ebook AND Audiobook! Tempting back in paperback! Enjoy the first chapter FREE Use these hashtags to follow Hope on social media: #IRISHEYES – Fun (and occasionally bizarre) factoids about Ireland, and the Irish experience in New York, with a focus on the NYC neighborhoods and sites featured in the book. #HISTORYMATTERS – More of the aforementioned fun factoids only about history in general. 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__label__wiki	0.891039	0.891039	Sodexo bags Bronze at independ... Sodexo bags Bronze at independent school in a first for Scotland Scotland bronze food for life PDF Document Sodexo has achieved bronze Food for Life Catering Mark at Beaconhurst School in Scotland. It's the first time an independent school in Scotland, and only the second in the UK, has gained the certification. The company has won the prestigious national award for the standard of its school meals service at the Stirlingshire School, where 400 meals are served each day to its pupils, from nursery right through to senior school. John Owen, Headmaster from Beaconhurst School said: “Healthy, tasty food that is locally sourced not only forms a key part of our school’s philosophy; it also makes sense! We have also recently been awarded our Eco Green Flag and our partnership with Sodexo underpins the school’s ethos. We have a fantastic community spirit across all our age groups from nursery to senior school. “The quality of our food combined with the social interaction in the dining hall is a key part in how we achieve this community spirit and we are absolutely delighted that Marie Brunton, Sodexo Catering Manager at Beaconhurst has achieved this highly coveted award.” The Food for Life Catering Mark is a unique, UK-wide scheme which rewards public and private sector caterers who serve fresh food that is free from controversial additives and better for animal welfare. At bronze, the Food for Life Catering Mark ensures that: At least 75% of the dishes on the menu are freshly prepared All meat is from farms which satisfy UK welfare standards and can be traced back to the farm All eggs are from cage free hens Meals do not contain any undesirable food additives, hydrogenated fats or GM ingredients No endangered fish is served Graham Box, managing director, Sodexo in Scotland, said: “We are delighted to have achieved the Soil Association’s bronze Food for Life Catering Mark at Beaconhurst School and especially so as it is the first independent school in Scotland to secure this accolade. "This is an excellent achievement and I am extremely proud of the efforts our staff have made to ensure the health and wellbeing of the young people they cater for at the school. We look forward to building on our partnership with the Food for Life Scotland team.” Soil Association Scotland director Laura Stewart said: “We are delighted that Sodexo has achieved the bronze Food for Life Catering Mark for Beaconhurst’s school meals service. Food plays such an essential role in our health and wellbeing throughout our lives, and it is vital that our children can enjoy fresh, seasonal, healthy and tasty meals that are not only good for them, but better for the planet too. “The Catering Mark helps to provide much needed reassurance about where food comes from, particularly in these unsettling times in which food provenance is questioned. “I’d like to extend my congratulations to the team at Sodexo and at Beaconhurst School for all of their hard work and dedication to achieving the award.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1296
__label__cc	0.566155	0.433845	Ideal for hiking between sea and land, along the coast Located in Landscape of the Vineyard of Pico Island, in the Municipality of Madalena, Parish of São Mateus, Lugar do Areeiro. This area was classified by UNESCO in 2004 as a World Heritage Site. It emphasizes vineyards planted in the ground of lava and long walls of basaltic stone, erected by the human hand, to protect the bacelos of grape from the wind and the sea water. Ilhéu do Areeiro offers rest, contemplation and quiet moments in family, taking advantage of the Atlantic Ocean and the Nature of the Island and the Pico Mountain. It has two separate apartments, with T1 and T5 typologies (shared kitchen and wc) with all comfort with free access to Internet, cable TV and telephone, thermal and acoustic insulation, air conditioning and access facilitated by ramp for wheelchairs. Outside there are common barbecue and picnic areas with a covered terrace, a porch with a jacuzzi, a garden and a flowerbed with herbs and medicinal plants, and private access to each unit. A few meters away there is a small bathing area that allows tranquil sea bathing, recreational diving or spearfishing. Near the Ilhéu do Areeiro exists walking trails, fishing areas and natural parks. Ilhéu do Areeiro Ilhéu do Areeiro - Caminho das Adegas n.º6, Areeiro, 9950-501 São Mateus do Pico T. +351 91 069 77 90 E. ilheudoareeiro@gmail.com © 2017	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1297
__label__cc	0.655227	0.344773	Where Does New York Rank Among the Nation’s Most Obese States? The obesity epidemic across the United States isn't getting better. According to WalletHub, the country spends over $200 billion in annual health care costs related to obesity. So where are the country's biggest states, and where exactly does New York rank among them? WalletHub has once again released their annual obesity number,. and the results are quite staggering. The website used three key dimensions: 1) Obesity & Overweight Prevalence, 2) Health Consequences and 3) Food & Fitness. Each dimension of research was then evaluated using twenty nine different metrics. WalletHub graded each metric using a 100 point scale. So where is New York? Number 40. Not too bad, compared to other states - though last year, New York was 44th. Like the rest of the country, New Yorkers continue to get bigger.According to state health records, twenty five percent of residents in the New York are now considered obese. Here's the fattest states in America: 24) Pennsylvania. 29) New Jersey. 48) Connecticut 49) Massachusetts Idiot Crashes Car Attempting to 'Drift' on Route 44 in New Paltz We Tour 21 Abandoned Businesses on Route 9 Hudson Valley Waitress Brought to Tears Over Surprise Tip New York Lake Named Most Beautiful in America Top 6 Hudson Valley Restaurants Featured on Food Network Enormous Fish Live in Hidden Cave Under City of Poughkeepsie	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1301
__label__wiki	0.543927	0.543927	Dynamics in Music: The Key To Emotional Productions “All things change and will no longer be; constantly bear in mind how many of these changes you have already witnessed. The universe is transformation; life is your perception of it.” – Marcus Aurelius A New Way to think about Dynamics in Music We’re about to dive deep into why dynamics are the key to creating emotional music – but first, let’s step back in time. It was a summer of dusty roads and tanlines, and I was impressed with one of my travel companions, a photographer with an especially sharp eye. We were biking through parts of America I had only read about — the great plains of Indiana, summer typhoons in Arizona, and the Mojave desert. At every turn, my friend was ready with his camera. It was an extension of how he saw the world. I always admired the depth and emotional power of his photos — how he captured a moment with action, intrigue, and clarity. Years later, when I had a camera of my own, I asked him for his secret. And I’ll never forget his answer… “I turn my viewfinder to black and white — that forces me to look at the light in a scene.” Light! It was the Master Key — the one thing that will never steer you wrong when taking a photo. I was stunned at how simple it was. From that moment, I started hunting for the Master Key of music. I wasn’t optimistic. How could there be one answer to the hundreds of questions that need to be answered in every composition, mixdown, and arrangement? Well, you can imagine my surprise when I discovered how many words within our musical vocabulary allude to the same theme. Balance, Difference, Contrast, Change, A and B, Separation, Depth — the list goes on and on. These words all bring us home to one thing: Dynamics. The concept of Dynamics is at the heart of what makes music memorable, special, and relatable to our lives. Every Day is Opposite Day “Distance and difference are the secret tonic to creativity. When we get home, home is still the same, but something in our minds has changed, and that changes everything.” – Jonah Leher Do you remember the scene in The Incredibles, where the villain whispers “when everyone is super… no one will be.” Chilling, right? It’s exactly this that makes the dynamics theory work. If every element in your song is drowned in reverb, nothing sounds far away. If a song’s energy stays constant, there’s no emotional lift by starting in one place and ending in another. To add emotional impact to a song, there must be change. Let’s say you write (or borrow) a great chord progression. By shifting from sustained chords in one section to staccato 16th notes in another, your dynamic choice offers the listener another point of reference. It’s like being whisked away on a bullet train — wistfully looking back at those distant mountains of stable chords. If you kept those sustained piano chords for the entire song, you would be narrowly looking at a close cropped photograph of one subject. Through dynamics, the camera pulls away and establishes a foreground and a background. Space, dimension, and depth are created through difference. Change creates context. Vivid impressions are made through their vitality, intensity, and energy. But, contrast is needed to have this effect. It’s like throwing paint against a white brick wall — a brilliant result is created by two things that were individually quite dull. This is one of the most consistent bits of feedback I share with my students time and time again. They will often create a good idea, but then repeat it ad nauseum. I know, it sounds harsh — but that’s the reality. If you create an amazing idea, or sound, or 8-bar loop, you have to find ways to maintain the interest in that idea, which, lo and behold, might include removing it from the song once in a while. If we think of dynamics simply as change, we can use this knowledge to create push and pull — a feeling of tension and release — in our tracks. As a cousin of dynamics, tension and release is another fundamental principle of creating emotional music. Tension and release comes down to setting a series of expectations throughout your track. Back to your chord progression — when you introduce the contrasting rhythm, the listener’s ears perk up. They start to wonder if the mountains will return around the next bend, or if they’re speeding away into a new landscape for the rest of their journey. As a composer, you can have a dramatic effect on your listener by confirming or denying their expectations. You can steer into a bittersweet emotional impact by returning with some type of difference — perhaps a key change, a new rhythm, or new instruments. The great thing about tension and release is that it can be created many different ways. One of the most effective is through chord changes. You can use dominant chords to signal a change in direction. Try ascending and descending motion, inversions, chromatic steps, and surprise chords to create dynamics. In electronic music, sweeping filters open and using pitch risers during a build are tried and true methods of signaling an emotionally satisfying moment on the horizon. Don’t be afraid to layer risers, and take your automation seriously. Attention to detail on individual tracks is what it takes to achieve a professional sound — don’t take the easy road by automating a filter on the Master Bus. For further reading, check out 6 Tips for Effective Build Ups. By broadening our minds to think of dynamics as change, we see how dynamics are necessary for creating tension and release. A big, lush “Wall of Sound” chorus is fulfilling precisely because it comes after a sparse, lower energy section. If your song is a full frequency attack from beginning to end, you’ll never have a chance to build into a rewarding release. It sounds obvious, but to have a high energy section, there must be moments of lower energy. 12 Ways to Use Dynamics In Your Music Dynamics in music, or a dynamic choice can made by asking two questions: “What do I have?”, and “How can it change?” Here are some of our favorite ways to create emotion through change. Feel free to attempt to apply these directly in your music today. 1. Move from sustained (legato) chords to rhythmic (staccato) chords. 2. Crescendo — build from a moment of low energy to a satisfying release. 3. Add or remove an element from the percussion every 8 bars. 4. Use the human voice when possible — use it early and often. Vocals are cheat codes for interest. 5. Remove or change your kick during drum fills. 6. You don’t want your drums to hit at the same volume every time. Change the velocity and timing of your notes, and complement steady grooves with fills to keep things dynamic. 7. Pharrell Williams says music lives in the transitions. Using a combination of reversed cymbals, reverb tails, and impacts will add movement in your own tracks. Learning how to effectively use reversed elements is an important step in making your music sound more professional. 8. Make subtle changes over time. You can do this with almost every parameter, including synth amp cutoffs, stereo width, reverb/delay/chorus mix, tremolo intensity, hi and low pass filters, drive in saturation or distortion plugins, panning, aux send amounts, and more. If it can be automated, it can be used to create dynamics in music. 9. Melodic fills — change something about the ending of your melodic idea every 8 or 16 bars. 10. Create harmonic change by inverting your chords the second time through the progression, or adding a few 7th or 9ths. For further reading, see A Simple Man’s Guide to Music Theory for Producers. 11.Move an instrument from the foreground to the background, and vice versa. Try having the keys play your lead melody, and let the vocals wash into a background pad. 12. Key, tempo, and instrument changes are time tested techniques. Rhythm changes can be useful – try going to your chorus a measure early, or holding the build for an extra beat before the drop. 6 Examples of Dynamics in Music 1. Coldplay – Fix You I remember hearing the epic final chorus of Fix You by Coldplay for the first time and immediately restarting the song. I didn’t know at the time, but Fix You is a dynamic masterpiece. Listen to how Chris Martin ends his first chorus at 1:29. Then what happens at the same part in the song at 2:35? That. Is. Dynamics. The emotional impact comes because he has built an expectation, but then denies it. Instead, he offers us something much more raw and unrestrained. But, we’re not done — listen to how it is brought in at 4:26, and how gently it ends. Jonny Buckland knows that he can’t come out of the gate with the guitar hook. It feels satisfying because it arrives after an initial section of sparsity and restraint. Coldplay found out long ago that dynamics are the ultimate storytelling tool. 2. Louis the Child -Better Not The dynamics of the lead synth in Better Not by Louis The Child make the performance feel human and groovy. At 1:24, there is an interesting lead synth melody but, the volume variations in the notes are what makes this song special. Accents to create a groove are a great example of just how catchy dynamic changes can be. 3. Bebetta – Megalon Megalon by Bebetta is a fantastic example of compositional dynamics that keep a song interesting. Here, a simple three-note arpeggio melody is slowly introduced throughout the course of the song, initially a backing element and atmospheric layer. But in the breakdown of the track, all the other elements of the song go away, leaving just the arpeggio —the softer original synth transforms into a huge, aggressive bass arpeggio for the main drop of the song. 4. Petit Biscuit – Problems Sidechain has become a staple in the world of electronic music. Many songs effectively use the groove and pump of sidechain compression to introduce rhythm, and Problems by Petit Biscuit is one that stands out above the rest. After the intro (at 0:17), there is a pump of aggressive sidechain compression on the white noise and pad. This change in dynamics after a more ambient intro increases the energy and musicality of the track. 5. Sailor & I – Turn Around Âme’s remix to Turn Around by Sailor & I is a beautifully simple example of dynamics. The track is a brooding 8-minute deep house track with exceptionally simple production. A 1-bar arpeggio loop plays the entire length of the track — which, on paper, sounds like it should be absolutely terrible to listen to — but, the dynamics of this sound keep it interesting for the entire track. The filter cutoff opens and closes, the resonance changes, the sound gets washed out in reverb, and then it becomes totally dry again. It becomes an evolving and dynamic base that the other elements of the track can ride.. 6. Mike Posner – I Took a Pill in Ibiza (Seeb Remix) Seeb’s Remix of I Took a Pill in Ibiza starts with Mike Posner’s vocal and some soft synth plucks. The filter opens slowly over the course of the verse, but it’s really the drop at 1:30 that hits hard. Why does it feel so impactful? Because it’s full of contrast. We go from Mike’s lyrical hook (“All I know are sad songs”), to a full frequency synth barrage. The kick enters while the lyrics step down for a searing vocal chop lead. With the lyrics gone, and this big up-front lead on top of a higher energy chorus, we can lose ourselves until the lead vocal returns to emphasize the message. For those looking to try something similar in their own productions: the vocal lead is a short snippet of Mike’s voice spread across a keyboard in a pitched sampler (like Ableton’s Simpler, Logic’s EXS24, or the TAL Sampler). The pitch glide is dialed in to taste, and the sound is processed quite heavily with compression, distortion, and EQ to tame the lows and emphasize the stereo width in the highs. If you’re using Ableton’s Sampler, try dialing in some FM Synthesis with a short decay. Bring in a touch of volume, and adjust the coarse and fine knobs to taste. It can add a great burst of harmonic energy to the attack of any sound. Though it’s not as deep as we can go with a full week of vocal production in our Masterclass, you must treat this sound like a lead instrument and process it to be forward, bright, and present. Guitar amps and other types of distortion can be fun to experiment with here. We Live in a Dynamic World “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis Our lives are dynamic. Nothing ever has consistent energy; we wake up — sometimes tired, sometimes refreshed — and the day surges and dips in energy. Our conversations are dynamic. We lean in to speak in hushed tones, and raise our voices to address a group. We laugh and cry on the same day — sometimes in the same moment! We feel close to people who live in other time zones, and miles away from the people sitting next to us. Being human exists in the space between A and B: life and death, comedy and tragedy, innocence and experience. To understand either we need to know both. In fact, I would argue that the only constant in life is change itself. And in music, that is the biggest problem with almost all amateur productions: they don’t move enough. Every artist must think about the emotional impact they intend for their work. For some, the ultimate goal is to create music with life, humanity, and shared experience. And for those artists, there is no solution better than injecting music with dynamics — the lifeblood of what makes our human experience so real, beautiful, and unique. Next time you’re introducing a new element in a song, ask yourself – “How can I include its opposite? In what ways can this change?” With practice, your music will become more dimensional and full of life. How else do you include dynamics in your music? Want us to cover a few more inspirational artists in the compositional dynamics roundup? Let us know! arrangementbandsdynamicsElectronic Music ProductionElectronic Music Production Schoolemotional musicfeelsFinishing MusicHow To Get Better At MixingHyperbitsHyperbits MasterclassMusic ProductionMusic Production School	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1306
__label__wiki	0.976528	0.976528	Dec 15 2016, 3:15pm the breakthroughs of 2016 2016 was tough. But as the late, great Leonard Cohen once sang, “There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." As the new year approaches and we bid out with the old, here are some of our favorite breakthrough faces from the magazine... Photography Letty Schmiterlow Name: Adwoa Aboah Occupation: The model using her experience with and understanding of depression and addiction to open up a frank discussion about mental health, body image, and sexuality with girls around the world. What we said: "With her shaved head, feline eyes, and freckles, Adwoa has an unforgettable face; she's beautiful. Team this with her warmth and amazing sense of style and you'd be forgiven for thinking she's got life sorted: self-assured and confident. But looks can be deceiving, and the past two years have seen the model face the hardest and darkest days of her life. Struggling with depression and addiction, she's been in and out of rehab, culminating in a suicide attempt at the end of 2014. Thankfully, out of tragedy comes triumph, and now sober, Adwoa is determined to use her experiences to provide other girls with a safe space to talk about the issues we all face growing up — a space where they can share their worries, and use female creativity as a tool for change." - Holly Shackleton Photography Mario Sorrenti, Fashion Director Alastair McKimm Name: Dilone Occupation: The model so cool they named her once. What we said: "Dilone is the 21-year-old beauty from Long Island who's so cool she's only known by one name. Fresh as a daisy, she took the fashion world by storm when she walked in Bottega Veneta's fall/winter 16 menswear show. Growing up in a very hectic Dominican household, Dilone would often put on plays with her nine 'crazy' siblings, which is how she first fell in love with acting. But after being scouted by her mother agency, DNA, she put her Hollywood dreams on hold and put her best feet forward onto the nearest catwalk." - Tish Weinstock Photography Alasdair McLellan, Styling Benjamin Bruno Name: Selena Forrest Occupation: The quad-riding, Aaliyah-loving model who's taking the industry by storm. What we said: "Born and bred in Louisiana, Selena Forrest spent her formative years doing things that most kids do, like hanging out with all the other tomboys and rolling around in mud. After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Selena and her family fled to California, where the 17-year-old beauty currently lives today. It was on a beach in Cali that she was first discovered and the rest, as they say, is history. (Well, it was after she finally got her braces off, after taking a pair of pliers to her teeth.) Since then, Selena has walked catwalks from Loewe to Louis Vuitton, bagged campaigns for DKNY and Proenza Schouler, and even found time to grace the cover of i-D's The Futurewise Issue — all in the space of a year. She's the model of the moment." - Tish Weinstock Photography Quentin Jones Name: Molly Goddard Occupation: The Rei Kawakubo-approved London designer who just wants to have fun. What we said: "Molly Goddard is like a ray of sunshine. Go to one of her shows and you're left with a giant smile across your face, feeling like you want to dance, and get to know her too" - Tish Weinstock Photography Matt Jones, Styling Annina Mislin Name: Charlie Heaton Occupation: The British actor at the center of this year's biggest, weirdest Netflix sensation, Stranger Things. What we said: "Charlie Heaton is still pinching himself. Two years ago, he was just a normal kid, doing things that normal kids do, like going to gigs and hanging out with friends. Now he's being sent scripts from all over the world. In fact, he's currently on a set somewhere in Spain, shooting Marrowbone, a psychological thriller, with Mia Goth and Anya Taylor-Joy. For the 22-year-old, things are pretty strange indeed." - Tish Weinstock Photography Matt Jones Name: Sasha Lane Occupation: The streetcast star of American Honey, one of the most prescient and important movies of 2016. What we said: "There's no doubting Sasha's luminescence. The star of this year's standout indie made an instant impression in American Honey, her film debut. As soon as she steps onscreen — cigarette tipped in her lips, chipped nails, scavenging for scraps, hitching a lift with her two similarly raggedy siblings, dreads tumbled roughly on top of her head — she is utterly believable as Star, scraping through life, navigating hunger, abuse, and neglect. She's instantly captivating, and more than holds her own against Shia LaBeouf and Riley Keough, despite having zero experience." - Hattie Collins Photography Harley Weir, Styling Julia Sarr-Jamois Name: Lineisy Montero Occupation: The fashion world's hottest commodity with a heart of gold. What we said: "Discovered at an amusement park in her hometown of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, the 19-year-old beauty is signed to NEXT Models, lives in Paris, and walked her first ever runway show as an exclusive for Prada. Since her debut last year, Lineisy's star has been firmly in the ascendant, rising from unknown to model of the moment — new face to the face. At the fall/winter 16 shows in New York, London, Milan, and Paris Lineisy walked a staggering 61 shows, and her elegant, fresh-faced beauty shone in every one." - Tish Weinstock Name: Charles Jeffrey Occupation: The Scottish designer bringing fearlessness back into fashion. What we said: "Skin, passion, and chaos: three words Charles Jeffrey used to describe his recent spring/summer 17 show, the LOVERBOY impresario's second season as part of Fashion East's MAN group. It sounds like — as it always does when talking about the Scottish designer's collection-cum-VF Dalston clubnight — a presentation we'd want to be inside. Somewhere beyond the rose strewn runway and Gareth Wrighton film playing on the wall and amongst the great Space Odyssey of backstage — a world where sweaters are shredded and heads are painted blue." - Matthew Whitehouse Photography Todd Cole, Styling Turner Name: Ashton Sanders Occupation: The star of universally acclaimed, Barry Jenkins-directed breakout of festival season, Moonlight. What we said: "His film Moonlight is, to put it simply, the kind of movie that you very rarely see. Not only a brilliant and intelligent portrayal of both the contemporary black and gay experience, but also the intersectionality of those two things; a topic that has, as Ashton puts it, 'been swept under the rug for too long.'" - Matthew Whitehouse Photography Oliver Hadlee Pearch, Styling Max Clark Name: Stormzy Occupation: The MC from south London whose self-made rise to the top has been impressively innovative and unilaterally DIY. What we said: "It was written, Michael Omari's success. It was written long before he became Stormzy. It was written long before he released 'Shut Up' or 'Know Me From.' It was written before the MOBO, AIM, and Rated awards. It was written before the 100 million plus YouTube hits, gigs around the globe, top 10 hits, talks at Oxford University, endorsement deals with adidas, launches with David Beckham, and birthday parties at Thorpe Park. Before Ibiza residencies and boxing matches with Anthony Joshua, acting roles in Brotherhood, and watching Soccer AM on a fan's sofa in south London, it was written. Maybe it was written when he shed the skin of Michael to become Stormzy. It was written maybe even before that, in the womb of his mother, Mrs. Abigail Owuo. It was written because, like grime, Stormzy was simply meant to be. It was written because he wrote it and because he believes it. It was written and it's still being written." - Hattie Collins Name: Harley Weir Occupation: The most in demand photographer in the industry. What we said: "As the creator of beautiful and visually seductive images, Harley Weir has become one of the biggest fashion image-makers of recent years. Weir captures the industry's consciousness through her singular vision of the sensuality and tenderness of the human body. Her work frequently explores nudity without making sex the focus. Looking at Harley's images is like peering through a keyhole into a different world — one that's coloured sepia, umber, and ochre, full of romantic and regal subjects. It's simply not enough to look at Harley's images, you want to touch them, be in them." - Lynette Nylander	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1307
__label__wiki	0.851543	0.851543	Brain secrets that flow in our blood Our blood can be used to uncover genetic secrets inside the brain, according to new research from University of Queensland scientists. Professor Jian Yang from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) and Queensland Brain Institute, and Dr Ting Qi from IMB led a team that discovered blood samples can be used to identify gene targets for brain-related traits and diseases such as IQ and schizophrenia. Professor Yang said this discovery will open up new avenues of research and improve our ability to unravel the complexity of brain disease. “Identifying gene targets for brain diseases is an essential part of understanding disease risk and developing treatment and prevention strategies,” he said. “But the effects of individual genes on brain traits are often very small, meaning we require large numbers of samples to find the gene targets, and there are only a few hundred brain samples available in most databases.” “We wondered whether we could overcome this issue by using blood samples, which are much easier to give and therefore number in tens of thousands, to identify gene targets for brain-related complex traits and diseases.” L-R: Professor Jian Yang and Dr Ting Qi Professor Yang, Dr Qi and the team found that the local genetic controls of gene expression in brain are very similar to those in blood. “This discovery provides strong justification for using genetic effects on gene expression estimated from blood samples as a proxy for those in the brain to boost the power of our studies to identify the genes underlying brain traits and disorders,” Dr Qi said. “Using blood data enabled us to find 97 genes associated with IQ, schizophrenia, years of education and cigarette smoking, compared to 61 using brain data alone.” Professor Yang last year won the Frank Fenner Prize for Life Scientist of the Year at the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science, and this year alone has made several significant discoveries, including on using genetic data to identify modifiable disease risk factors, pinpointing the genes and epigenetic factors that are linked to specific diseases,natural selection and evolution. The study was published overnight in international scientific journal Nature Communications, and was funded by the Australian Research Council, the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, the US National Institutes of Health and the Sylvia & Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation. Help IMB research IMB newsletters Brain injury and disease UQ Project Three Billion Wray/Visscher/Yang Group Casting a wide web: IMB on the search for spider venom Vale Dr Rosamond Siemon: Historian leaves kidney health legacy Funding could improve the lives of children with brain cancer Husband and wife researchers receive AMs for significant ser... A/Prof Irina Vetter - UQ Women Create Change Ambassador Privacy & Terms of use \| Feedback \| Updated: 13 Jul 2018	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1312
__label__wiki	0.750548	0.750548	LOCATION: Home » Knowledge Centre » Immigration law update for 13 July to 19 July 2019 Immigration law update for 13 July to 19 July 2019 By Paul Richmond - Immigration Barrister Welcome to the Richmond Chambers immigration law update for the week of 13 July to 19 July 2019. Highlights this week include updated guidance for Turkish ECAA business and employed applications, new Tier 2 and 5 Sponsor Guidance and three new judgments from the Court of Appeal on exclusion from refugee status, legitimate expectation in the context of deportation and the powers of the Secretary of State to detain those who suffer from mental health conditions pending removal from the United Kingdom. Application process and practice 18.7.2019: News Story: Sky News: New migrants to be tracked by digital IDs post-Brexit, leaked Home Office documents reveal. 13.7.2019: ILPA (membership required): TLScontact have introduced a Settlement Scanning Service which offers settlement visa customers (overseas) applying in a TLScontact location, their sponsors and their legal representatives the option to submit supporting documents at a UK Settlement Scanning Hub in London. Asylum process and practice 18.7.2019: Guidance: India: updated country policy and information notes. 18.7.2019: News Story: EIN: Refugee Council and ASAP welcome significant improvements in new Home Office domestic violence guidance. 17.7.2019: Case-Law: MAB (Iraq) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWCA Civ 1253: Whether it was open to the First Tier Tribunal to conclude that the appellant doctor was excluded from protection by the Refugee Convention on the ground that the medical assistance he gave to victims of torture, knowing that some of them might be tortured again, meant that he was complicit in their torture and thus liable for a crime against humanity. The Court of Appeal held that Article 1F of the Convention has to be applied with caution. It requires “a close examination of the facts” and “a carefully reasoned decision as to precisely why the person is excluded from protection under the Convention”. The First Tier Tribunal did not carry out a sufficiently “detailed and individualised examination of the facts” to support the conclusion of complicity which they reached. Appeal allowed. 17.7.2019: Guidance: Turkey: updated country policy and information notes. 17.7.2019: Guidance: Ukraine: updated country policy and information notes. 16.7.2019: Guidance: Domestic abuse: responding to reports of domestic abuse from asylum seekers. Guidance on what caseworkers must do where an asylum seeker reports an incident of domestic abuse while their asylum claim is being considered. 16.7.2019: Guidance: Asylum policy bulletins: Asylum policy guidance replacing previous policy bulletins on asylum support. 15.7.2019: News Story: Guardian: Home Office lied to EU states so it could deport slavery victims, say whistleblowers. It is claimed that the third country unit, now renamed Dublin cessation unit (DCU), lied to EU member states to remove victims of human trafficking and modern slavery in breach of European law. British nationality law 15.7.2019: Guidance: Form MN1: Guidance: Guidance to register a child under 18 as a British citizen. Enforcement, detention, removal and deportation 18.7.2019: Case-Law: MA (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWCA Civ 1252: The Appellant was married to a British citizen and had six children. He had a conviction for manslaughter for which he had been sentenced to a term of 4 years imprisonment. In October 2012 the respondent decided not to take any deportation action. Then, in August 2016, the respondent decided to deport him, even though no further offence had been committed. The Court held that there was no legitimate expectation that the respondent would not deport the appellant unless he committed a further offence or came to the adverse notice of the respondent and the changes in the law following the introduction of the Immigration Act 2014 were sufficient to entitle the respondent to review the appellant’s position and form a view as to whether the circumstances fell within s.117C(6). Appeal dismissed. 16.7.2019: Case-Law: ASK, R (On the Application Of) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWCA Civ 1239: Linked appeals concerning the powers of the Secretary of State to detain those who suffer from mental health conditions pending removal from the United Kingdom. European Union law, EEA free movement, settled status and Brexit 18.7.2019: Guidance: EU Settlement Scheme: evidence of UK residence. 15.7.2019: News Story: Guardian: Flawed Home Office app stops EU citizen getting settled status. Technical problem detected in Home Office Brexit app for EU citizens. 16.6.2019: ILPA: Call For Evidence: ILPA has issued a call for evidence and feedback on UKVI’s work regarding Family & Human Rights and The Service & Support Centre Network by close of play on Tuesday 30th July 2019. Immigration control and the hostile environment 18.7.2019: News Story: Independent: Home Office revoked tens of thousands of visas using ‘misleading, incomplete and unsafe’ evidence, official report reveals. 18.7.2019: Opinion: Guardian: Africans arriving here are all assumed to be fleeing – but it’s the UK that risks losing out. 17.7.2019: News Story: EIN: Coalition of All-Party Parliamentary Groups publishes report on the difficulties and discrimination faced by African visa applicants. 16.7.2019: Report: Onward: Beyond the Net Migration Target. The report argues that the new Prime Minister should replace the net migration target with a new system of migration control that is properly accountable to Parliament and which forces every Whitehall department to set out their migration impact annually. Under the plans, a new body, the Office for Migration Responsibility, would ministers to account for delivering on their own migration promises. Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration 18.7.2019: Call for evidence: An inspection of the Home Office’s identification and handling of irregular arrivals and entrants. The Chief Inspector invites anyone with knowledge or experience of the Home Office’s identification and handling of irregular arrivals and entrants to submit evidence for his next inspection. Migration Advisory Committee 17.7.2019: Transparency Data: Migration Advisory Committee meeting minutes 2019. Minutes of meetings held by the Migration Advisory Committee in 2019. 18.7.2019: Explainer: The Royal Society: UK science and immigration: why the UK needs an internationally competitive visa offer. 16.7.2019: News Story: EIN: Entrepreneurs Network finds foreign-born entrepreneurs are making a massive contribution to the UK. 17.7.2019: News story: Life in the UK test contract awarded: PSI Services has been awarded the Life in the UK contract by the Home Office. 17.7.2019: Guidance: Updated Sponsor Guidance: Sponsor a Tier 2 or 5 worker: guidance for employers. Turkish Businesspersons and Workers 18.7.2019: Guidance: Updated Turkish ECAA business guidance for business applications under the Turkish EC Association Agreement. 18.7.2019: Guidance: Updated ECAA Turkish employed applications guidance on how applications are considered from Turkish workers for an extension of stay, after one year with the same employer. Immigration law update for 10 August to 16 August 2019 By Paul Richmond Welcome to the Richmond Chambers immigration law update for the week of 10 August to 16 August 2019. Another quiet week last week in terms of legal developments, with just a couple of updated country policy... Immigration law update for 3 August to 9 August 2019 Welcome to the Richmond Chambers immigration law update for the week of 3 August to 9 August 2019. A relatively quiet week last week, but highlights include Boris Johnson setting out his vision to cement the UK... Immigration law update for 27 July to 2 August 2019 Welcome to the Richmond Chambers immigration law update for the week of 27 July to 2 August 2019. Highlights this week include decisions from the Court of Appeal on the ‘Devaseelan’ guidelines, cessation... Welcome to the Richmond Chambers immigration law update for the week of 20 July to 26 July 2019. Highlights this week include a new decision from the Supreme Court on the right of permanent residence in the... Immigration law update for 6 July to 12 July 2019 Welcome to the Richmond Chambers immigration law update for the week of 6 July to 12 July 2019. Highlights this week include the Upper Tribunal provides guidance on appealable decisions, permission to appeal...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1313
__label__wiki	0.522205	0.522205	S. Rly to facilitate bulk movement through ‘Kairali Queen’ The Southern Railway is to focus the SME segment in Kerala in a big way to facilitate bulk movement of cargo through its special train – Kairali Queen – initiated by the Railways for goods movement in the State, Mr Rajesh Agarwal, Divisional Manager, SR, has said. Speaking at an interactive meeting organised by the Kerala Chamber of Commerce and Industry here, Mr Agarwal said that the special train will enable SME’s to get the benefit of rake movement, as the train Kairali Queen is aimed at encouraging SME entrepreneurs in agro based products/industry of Kerala. It is an offer by the Railways to facilitate bulk movement of products to long destinations. However, Mr Agarwal pointed out that the huge potential of the Indian Railways is unutilised in the State. By bringing SMEs under the railway umbrella, he said the trade and industry will prosper in the State. Today, bulk movement is through roads, he said and called upon businessmen, freight forwarders to take the initiative to shift the cargo movement through rail. The mobilisation of goods from Kochi port to various destinations through rail transit will be much cheaper and effective than road transport. There are plans to promote goods transport and priority would be given to move containers from Vallarpadam terminal, he said. He said the idea is to aggregate one rake in (42 or at least 30-40 wagons) in one day. Simultaneous loading can be done on the same day to same destinations at 3-4 locations. The train will ply two days in a month each for Delhi, Gujarat, Kanpur, Mumbai, Kolkata etc. Loading can be done from 4 different places, any type of commodity, any number of wagons, to a single destination. There are four loading points in the State which comprises Angamali Goods Shed, Willingdon Island, Changanassery or Alappuzha Goods shed and Kollam or Kayamkulam goods shed. The advantages over road transit were that the rail can move 50-60 tonnes a wagon with much cheaper freight and smaller and assured transit time. There will be no issues of check posts, Octroi etc. and not affected by day/night/weather/agitation. The location of the train is available with the Goods Shed Supervisor through Railways FOIS network. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/logistics/article2577289.ece?ref=wl_industry-and-economy on November 5, 2011 at 2:19 am Leave a Comment Tags: ‘Kairali Queen' The URI to TrackBack this entry is: https://indianrlys.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/s-rly-to-facilitate-bulk-movement-through-%e2%80%98kairali-queen/trackback/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1316
__label__cc	0.660538	0.339462	Home » Assessments - Development and Retention » New platform supports paperless assessment and development centres New platform supports paperless assessment and development centres September 18, 2017 Aon's Assessment Solutions A web-based platform which enables recruiters to plan, create, implement and manage more efficient, paperless assessment and development centres is now available from cut-e, the international assessment specialist. Called enAC, the platform automates the process of planning and managing assessment or development centres. It enables recruiters to create individual and group exercises, using customised content based on the requirements of specific roles. Using tablets, observers are able to easily rate participants and take paperless notes. The platform then consolidates all the collected behavioural observations, comments, ratings and test scores for each participant and creates an instantly-available competency-based report, highlighting their strengths and development needs, with relevant interview questions and notes for structured feedback sessions. “Assessment and development centres play an important role in identifying suitable individuals but typically they involve bundles of files, papers, observation sheets and physical reports,” said Dr Achim Preuss, Chief Technology Officer at cut-e. “With a paperless process, you can do it all online. enAC provides the content expertise that allows recruiters to quickly organise and deliver tailored, professional assessment and development centres. It speeds up the entire process, enabling far more efficient administration and a seamless participant and assessor experience, all of which helps to differentiate your employer brand.” Developed by papilio AG, a Swiss management consultancy, enAC is a secure and easy-to-use platform which can be integrated into any applicant tracking system. Online assessments from cut-e can be included in the process, to assess your organisation’s competencies or the predefined role competencies that are included in the enAC system. The platform provides behavioural indicators, suggested role plays, analysis exercises, development measures and competency-based interview questions that are suitable for a range of different roles. These include graduate; first-line, middle and senior manager; project manager; sales representative; service staff and commercial and technical specialist positions. “With paperless assessment and development centres, the participants complete all of the assessments and exercises via a tablet device,” said Dr Preuss. “Assessors also use a tablet to access relevant candidate information and to enter their ratings, comments and notes directly into the system. This means they don’t have to transcribe their handwritten notes later. Recruiters no longer have to print and collate assessment materials and they get instant access to all the participant information, scores, notes and reports in one place.” The enAC system can be customised to reflect the corporate branding, competencies, rating scales, processes and reporting preferences of any organisation. The system is available in English, French, German and Italian. Andrea Jones, Resourcing Business Partner for Early Careers at O2 Telefónica, said: “We have used cut-e’s paperless assessment centre enAC for many assessment centres in multiple business areas and are delighted with the results. enAC creates an engaging and stress-free process for assessors and candidates and allows us to make quality hiring decisions quicker.” Christopher Murphy, Volume Recruitment Manager at easyJet, said: “We have integrated cut-e’s paperless assessment centre into our selection process for both pilots and cabin crew. The simplicity of the scoring and validity of results allows us to select the very best talent in a seamless and impactful way.” Stuart Woods, Talent and Capability Manager for Early Careers at the Bank of Ireland, said: “enAC helps us to maximise objectivity at assessment centres, ensuring the focus is on behavioural fit and not background. It also ensures an innovative and straightforward experience for both assessors and candidates.” cut-e is an Aon company. For further information about enAC and paperless assessment and development centres, please visit www.cut-e.com/enac Background notes: Founded in 2002, cut-e (pronounced ‘cute’) provides online tests, questionnaires and gamified assessments for attraction, selection, talent management and development. In May 2017, cut-e was acquired by Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions. cut-e and Aon, as Aon Assessment Solutions, undertake 30 million assessments each year in 90 countries and 40 languages. 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__label__cc	0.695091	0.304909	Letter: Property rights a civil liberty - Southern Cross 22 April 2018 - Your article (‘What Church says on Land Redistribution’, 28 March 2018) opens with sentiments common among Catholic social thinkers: ‘The Catholic Church recognises the right to private property, but this right is subordinate to the common good and the needs of the wider community’. A nod at the right to private property, followed by a dismissal of it. Property rights a civil liberty Your article (‘What Church says on Land Redistribution’, 28 March 2018) opens with sentiments common among Catholic social thinkers: ‘The Catholic Church recognises the right to private property, but this right is subordinate to the common good and the needs of the wider community’. A nod at the right to private property, followed by a dismissal of it. This is unfortunate. Church teaching regards the holding of private property as natural and positive. This is made clear in the Catechism and in Rerum Novarum. The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, notes further that private property ‘constitutes one of the conditions for civil liberty’. It is true that Church teaching does not view the right to property as absolute. The principle, however, needs to remain intact. The idea that property rights inhibit the common good is a pernicious one. It is contrary to Church teaching, and invariably brings suffering. Totalitarian regimes typically use the deprivation of property to cripple opposition, real or potential. The Church has often faced this in ‘revolutionary’ societies in the past century. It is also a mistake to assume that property rights are only valuable for the affluent and powerful. Poor people stand to suffer greatly when their small-scale holdings – a couple of acres of farmland, a small apartment, a few head of livestock – are not afforded protection. The world over, governments dispossess poor folk in the name of development. The ‘relocation’ of communities in Brazil and China from homes to which they lacked formal, legal title, in preparation for large sporting events is a prime example. There are lessons here for South Africa. Redress measures such as land reform and housing provision are important. But they need to empower their beneficiaries, granting ownership and title deeds, and bringing them into structures of ownership – consonant with Church teaching, and making social and economic sense. At present, the trajectory of policy is to retain state ownership, making assets conditionally available to ‘beneficiaries’. This does little for real redistribution or the empowerment of ordinary people. Rather than dismissing the value of property rights, the Church should affirm them, as intrinsic to the people’s dignity and prospects for prosperity. Terence Corrigan, Johannesburg © 2018 South African Institute of Race Relations CMS Website by Juizi Terms & Conditions \| Privacy Policy \| Accuracy Guarantee \| Sponsors & Donors	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1339
__label__cc	0.707081	0.292919	Tag: Yu-Gi-Oh Cards A pre-preparation of rites Like I mentioned in my post showing off the character sketches from my novel-in-progress, this Friday I will be presenting my Senior Honors Project at the Honors Project Interdisciplinary Conference. We got the official email with the final schedule brochure and everything. It’s happening. Not only is it happening, it’s coming up at full speed. So most of my day has been spent preparing the Powerpoint I’ll be using. A few weeks back the Honors Program Director Sandra Perez asked me to help another student who wanted to do a creative writing project, as she said the pre-preparation I’d done was impressive. That experience wound up being my lightbulb of inspiration. I realized that my project was better grounded in a Pre-Preparation of Rites than “I wrote part of a book.” By the end, I’ve come to find that a whole lot of preparation was involved in my novel. Most of it is stuff I’ve discussed on the blog before. The character sketches, map-making, research into Dungeons and Dragons and plotting out the story among them. But then there are more exotic elements to the process as an overarching narrative — Such as my inspirational material, John Scalzi’s Redshirts and the prep work on earlier creative writing pieces. And let’s not forget the elements I have yet to talk about. Notably backend research into creating believable cultures for my fantasy world. I asked my old professor Paulo Simoes for some advice because a lot of his background involves researching ancient societies, figuring out how they tick. He recommended trying to model my fictional cultures and the events that characterize my world off of real-world societies. After all, he says it’s a successful strategy for shows like Game of Thrones, which modeled its famous Red Wedding scene after massacres in Scotland. Image courtesy of Game of Thrones Memes and Quotes Blogspot Game of Thrones is in vogue to reference right now, yeah? I’d hope so. Because I’m more than happy to capitalize on that, even though I haven’t personally watched the show. For my project, however, I am not utilizing Game of Thrones in any capacity. Rather, I’m using “The Story of Civilization” collection of historical novels to base parts of my book on periods of history. As suggested by Dr. Simoes. Along the way, I’ve been trying to craft the oral part of the presentation: I have 15 minutes to present, and then I’ll have to be ready for five minutes of audience questions. I’m hoping I’ll be all put together and confident by then. While getting prepared, I took some time off with my Mom to go out and put something sweet together with the drawings from Elizabeth: Just a little something to help remember the project by. Doesn’t it look nice? I think it looks really nice, personally. Paulo Simoes Pre-Preparation of Rites The Story of Civilization Chaos in flight in Fire Emblem Heroes In times long abandoned, the Goddess of Dawn split her being in twine. She feared her strength after nearly flooding the planet to prevent war between her creations. Out of that split came a Goddess of Chaos, the manifestation of shed emotions, and a Goddess of Order, who believed life could only be perfect if chaos was destroyed. But her followers advised she instead seal chaos away in a medallion. A medallion which would become known as Tellius’ “Fire Emblem.” When a new war breaks out years later, Yune takes shape as a small bird and befriends a persecuted girl, helping her lead the crusade for peace so they can prevent the Goddess of Order from passing judgement on all living beings. Yune — Chaos Goddess Chaos Manifest (Might = 14, Range = 2) Grants Resistance +3. If a penalty inflicted by a skill like Panic or Threaten and/or a negative status effect (preventing counterattacks or restricting movement) is active on foe, grants Attack +6 during combat and unit makes a guaranteed follow-up attack. Glacies (Cooldown = 4) Boosts damage by 80 percent of unit’s Resistance. Attack/Resistance Bond (A Skill) If unit is adjacent to an ally, grants Attack and Resistance +5 during combat. Sabotage Resistance (B Skill) At start of the turn, if any foe’s Resistance ≤ unit’s Resistance -3 and that foe is adjacent to another, inflicts Resistance -7 on that foe through its next action. Chaos Named (C Skill) At start of the turn, if foes within three columns have Resistance ≤ unit’s Resistance -3, inflicts -5 on their highest stat through their next actions (When calculating, treat Attack -15. Calculates each stat penalty independently). Told you guys I would try to do lore for Mythic Heroes. I’ve never played Radiant Dawn, so everything here is based on cursory research. Hopefully I did the story justice! I have a bit more of a connection with the chaotic entities related to Black Luster Soldier from Yu-Gi-Oh!. However, Yune has an interesting backstory — and is a cute character. Her skills also feel properly ‘chaotic’ in their design to drop a variety of stats based on her superior Resistance. Yet I’m not sure I’ll be putting a whole lot of resources into summoning our first Dark Mythic Hero. Flying green tome is a unit type I could use (only having the outdated Spring Camilla), but not enough that I’m looking to blow my orb stash. Especially considering her entourage: Ryoma — Supreme Samurai Myrrh — Spooky Monster Celica — Warrior Priestess Lucina — Glorious Archer Azura — Vallite Songstress Ophelia — Dramatic Heroine Kagero — Beverage Ninja Lewyn — Guiding Breeze Eir — Merciful Death Mia — Moonlit Witch Lyn — Brave Lady I have all of these units outside of Lewyn and Mia. Or… I did before summoning on the banner. Now I’m only missing Yune and Mia. Considering I only spent about 20 orbs to get this guy, I’ll probably lay back and let Yune pass. I’m not sure she alone is worth risking the waste of orbs. Especially considering green stones were a rarity in my few summon attempts. If nothing else, I got to see this sweet bit of pretentious Goddess dialogue in her Legendary Battle Map introduction: So I’ve got that going for me. Gotta love these Legendary/Mythic Hero banners. Easy to write and quick to set before I go to bed. Though this one is underwhelming enough that I may also wrote a piece about my interview for Gladeo later — considering I’m conducting it around the time this is automatically set to post. But if I don’t, I’ll see you all tomorrow! In the meantime, let me know what you think of Yune. I don’t have much experience with her, but I do think she’s a cute little thing. I’ll just be over here waiting for Naga or Mila to show up as Mythic Heroes before I get really excited. Or Fomortiis/Lyon if you want to get crazy. Black Luster Soldier Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn Gladeo Legendary Battle Map Lewyn Micaiah Mythic Heroes Tellius Yune ‘Dark Magic Destruction’ deck profile — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links Duel Links has kind of fallen out of favor in my phone app priority list for some time now. It’s not that I don’t still love the game. I do. But Konami has a tendency to… Power creep a little faster than I’m comfortable with as a free-to-play user. By power creep, I mean they add a new box of cards about once every two-to-three weeks. Don’t get me wrong, I completely understand why that’s the decision they’ve made. New boxes mean a host of new cards that redefine the Player vs. Player metagame and keep the community thriving with new strategies. It makes sense and is arguably a good business decision. But because I don’t pay to buy the new boxes out, I wind up still stuck using a slowly accumulating set of gems to buy out older boxes while people are kicking everyone around with the newest stuff. While I still love the game for the computer-driven content that’s also constantly being added in, having myself be stuck in place on the PvP ladder because I can’t get past the newest, strongest card combinations without dumb luck is frustrating. The PvP is half the draw of Duel Links, as it’s the real place to test out decks and earn good rewards. So it’s a shame that being so frustrated with it has taken away some of the fun of the game for me right now. However, in the face of that frustration, I’ve decided to take a different approach than just giving up. On April 26, the character level cap for every Legendary Duelist in the game was increased from 40 to 45. This meant a number of things for the game, but most notably: More gems and a new character-specific card for each duelist. Many of the new level-up cards are just okay at best in my opinion. But two of them specifically stood out. Yami Yugi and Arkana both received a new support card for the Dark Magician archetype. Seeing those two additional cards and remembering how much fun I used to have playing my Dark Magician/Dark Magician Girl combo deck inspired me to try to play a fun, nostalgic deck again rather than a purely meta-driven one. Thus, my ‘Dark Magic Destruction’ deck was born. It’s not the best deck in the world, but it has a bunch of super fun combo pieces that I’ve been enjoying playing more than most everything else since counter-fairies got a short-lived buff a few months back. Because I’ve been having so much fun with the old DM, I wanted to bring back something from the days of old on my blog: Deck profiles. I only did one about a year ago for a Bakura-driven fiend monster deck that I used during the 2017 World Championships. Seems fitting to have that format return now that I’m hitting the 2018 World Championship Qualifiers with a brand new, classic deck. I’m looking to write a lot over the summer, and I’m going to try new things with this post in particular using the knowledge of formatting I’ve accumulated via Fire Emblem posts and using my newfound video powers. So perhaps deck profiles are something that can see a return more frequently with new decks I try out over the next few months. Let me know if that’s something you’d be interested in seeing! For now, with that prologue about my current Duel Links journey out-of-the-way, let’s jump in. Welcome to the dark carnival, everyone. Obviously this isn’t your daddy’s Dark Magician. No no, this is the special red Dark Magician, utilized by Arkana the Rare Hunter during Yu-Gi-Oh!’s Battle City arc in the original anime. For all intents and purposes, red Dark Magician is exactly the same as the original Dark Magician. Same stats, same description, same level, everything. The red guy is basically an angsty, cool teenage reprint of the classic monster. A cool reprint with probably one of the best play mats in the game. Just saying. So why use him instead of the classic, iconic DM? Well… This version of the card has a special animation when summoned by Arkana specifically. And we’re using Arkana today, not Yugi. See Arkana has a special skill called ‘Master of Magicians’ that helps grease the combo wheels of this particular deck. It allows him to draw one of three cards from outside of the deck (Dark Magic Attack, Thousand Knives and Dark Magic Expanded) after losing half his life points. As you’ll see, it works perfectly with Dark Magic Curtain, one of his signature cards. Now that you understand the skill helping drive the deck, let’s break down the actual cards making up that deck. How could I start with anyone else? Dark Magician is a normal monster that typically requires two monster tributes to summon. However, given the fact that it became the de facto mascot for Yu-Gi-Oh! as a whole through its use by the original protagonist Yugi Muto, the card has received a heaping helping of support throughout the years that makes it a still viable boss monster to bring out. In Duel Links, that support has slowly come out through things like the level-up rewards for Yami Yugi and Arkana, as I mentioned before, as well as in part through support via Tea Gardner and Yugi Muto. Most of the strategies he uses involve cycling through spells that both allow for easier summoning, for drawing cards and for dealing with the opponent’s board. My deck is something of a mix of all three. Skilled Dark Magician is one of the newer cards added for Dark Magician through Arkana level-up rewards. He’s an effect monster that can be immediately summoned with a fairly chunky 1900 attack and 1700 defense point spread that allows players to tribute him off when three spell counters are placed on the card (via separate spell cards being used while he’s on the field) to summon DM from the hand, deck or graveyard. It’s the ‘deck or graveyard’ part of that statement that makes our skilled friend here so special. In a deck that utilizes combining and chaining spells for large plays, it’s rather easy to build up those three counters in the right circumstances, which means you can have a powerful unit early duel that has utility and revival capabilities late in the game. Trust me, when I explain how the spells work together, you’ll see why he’s such a good card. I do wish there were three available, but two is a solid amount for now. Now THIS is the real combo-maker of the deck. Magician’s Rod is a fairly unique support monster for the Dark Magician deck that facilitates a lot of different things because it has a number of effects — more than making up for the somewhat slim 1600 attack and downright disgraceful 100 defense. First and foremost, summoning the Rod allows players to pull a spell or trap from the deck that lists ‘Dark Magician’ in some capacity. In my deck specifically there are three spells that do so, and each are important at different points in the duel. In other words, this is the card you want in your opening hand to start working a bunch of different combos, but when late game comes he becomes more of a liability due to that low attack. The secondary effect is less useful, but it has potential to help. When Magician’s Rod is in the graveyard, if a spell or trap is used during the opponent’s turn (except during the damage step), the player can tribute one of their monsters to add the Rod back into their hand. There’s some synergy to this effect in conjunction with the next card on my list, Blue Dragon Summoner. However, more often than not one use of the Magician’s Rod will lead to the exhaustion of most of its combo-making cards, so there isn’t a whole lot of point adding it back to your hand when there are no more cards to draw with it. In other words, don’t be dumb like me and accidentally tribute your Dark Magician during your opponent’s turn to leave yourself open for the kill. Bad idea. As I mentioned before, Blue Dragon here has some synergy with Magician’s Rod because of its primary effect: allowing players to add a normal monster (Dragon, Warrior or Spellcaster) from the deck to the hand when it’s sent from the field to the graveyard. Obviously Dark Magician is the target for this effect. Being able to add that sucker to the hand is more often than not a benefit because it gives you a boss monster to summon and thins out the deck — or gives you cards not during your draw phase, thus making it more likely to draw other cards during said draw phase. Yu-Gi-Oh! is a game of statistics, man. What makes Blue Dragon special is that the drawing aspect works for both battle destruction and card effect destruction. Thus you can get a Dark Magician by using the Summoner as bait for an attack just as easily as you can get one by making him tribute fodder for something like Mgician’s Rod. Theoretically Legion the Fiend Jester could also be an apt card to fill this slot over Blue Dragon, as he has the same draw effect and an extra assistance effect for tribute summoning. But I have a soft spot for Blue Dragon, he’s an old favorite of mine. Plus his 1500 attack allows for a little more battle utility than Legion’s 1300. The Spells In this Dark Magician deck, there are three spell cards that are useful specifically for the Magician himself, those that can be drawn out by Magician’s Rod. I’m going to go over those first in the order that I’d argue they’re useful to have throughout the duel. Another Arkana level-up exclusive card, Dark Magic Curtain is a magical (pun slightly intended?) playmaker to have in your opening hand for a duel. By paying half of their life points, a player is able to summon Dark Magician from the deck. However, for the rest of that turn, no other summons can be conducted — though monsters can be set. If it’s turn one and this card is available, not only can you thin your deck one card by pulling out a Dark Magician, you can instantly summon it and start the duel with a 2500 attack monster on deck. On top of that, this card is the primary reason to run the Arkana-varient of the Dark Magician deck. The average 2000 life point cost (half of the 4000 starting point) is just enough to activate his ‘Master of Magicians’ skill, which instantly adds an extra card into one’s hand. As amazing as all of this sounds — and frankly is through proper execution — there are downsides. For one, if all of your Dark Magicians are already in the hand or on the field, Curtain becomes an instantly dead card unless somehow the boss monster gets shuffled back into the deck. On top of that, not being able to summon for the rest of the turn kind of sucks. It means players need to choose between using the Curtain or playing a number of other combinations at once. Though Blue Dragon is a good card to set, to be fair. Long story short: If you have this card starting out or can use Magician’s Rod to grab it right away, you’re golden. If it’s stuck at the bottom of the deck until its time has passed, it’s worth nothing. This card is the newest Yami Yugi level-up reward that essentially inspired me to make this whole deck in the first place. With Dark Magic Inheritance, players can banish two spell cards from the graveyard to add a ‘Dark Magician’ or ‘Dark Magician Girl’ centered spell or trap from the deck to the hand. Because of how many spells are in this deck, it’s not hard to get two of them in the graveyard. Until you manage to do so it’s a dead card, but the second it isn’t a dead card it becomes a great way to thin the deck given that it’s a quick play spell, allowing one to activate it easily during whichever phase of the battle they prefer. In my experience, the best practice with Dark Magic Inheritance is to summon DM using Curtain, then either activate the spell Arkana draws through ‘Master of Magicians’ or use an Enemy Controller, and afterward you’ll be able to draw out Dark Magic Attack from the deck for more deck thinning and the chance to wipe out the opponent’s field. Unfortunately, the window to use Inheritance is a bit small considering there’s only two other cards in the deck it can draw, but that’s more on my personal decisions for what to include than on the card itself. If you want to add more DM cards into the deck, it becomes wildly more useful. Nice returns on investment. Honestly there isn’t much to say about this card. When you control Dark Magician, you can wipe out your opponent’s back row of cards. Every spell and trap they control. Simple. Clean. Effective. So effective, in fact, that I decided to use this instead of the similar monster-based equivalent, Thousand Knives. That spell allows you to destroy one monster on the field, which has much less utility in the long-run than a board wipe in my opinion. Sure there are cases where the opponent can still activate their spells and traps in response to this wipe and mess with your turn, like using an enemy controller to stop you from attacking. But in my opinion, forcing those kinds of plays rather than letting them utilize the cards at an opportune moment is always preferential. Now we’re into the spells that aren’t necessarily Dark Magician-specific. Even if for the purposes of this deck, Ancient Rules may as well be. Level-up rewards from Seto Kaiba’s younger brother Mokuba, Ancient Rules simply allows the player to special summon a level five or higher normal monster from the hand. Have a Dark Magician in hand? Well now it’s on the field. Plus you can normal summon that Skilled Dark Magician you’re holding onto for a totally fatal knockout. Again, simple. While it may be another card that’s ‘dead’ with no Magician in hand, the deck has enough drawing power in my experience to make up for that. Though I will admit at this point in the profile that a lot of the deck’s contents can be considered dead cards. Which is a seemingly unfortunate reality of playing around a single big boss monster. So this card is here to help mitigate the risk: I’ve talked about Enemy Controller a few times now, and that’s because it’s essentially the staple card that can be placed on any and all decks in Duel Links. Few other cards offer as much utility as this. Change your opponent’s card to defense or attack position when desired. Tribute your own monster to steal an opponent’s monster. Complete either task during basically any part of the battle due to the quick play aspect of this spell. It’s just endlessly useful for protection and offensive strategies. Always a good choice when thinking of something to add into a deck. Champion’s Vigilance is another card that’s essentially dead when not used in conjunction with Dark Magician… But I love it so much that I couldn’t not include it. When you have a level seven or higher normal monster on the field, anything your opponent does can be negated once. They summon a monster? Negate and destroy it. Activate a protecting spell card? Negate and destroy it. Try to lower your attack with a trap card? Negate and destroy it. I’ve had so many clutch moments where a field wipe with Dark Magic Attack leads to an immediate victory because you know the first thing they do next turn, likely summoning a monster, will just be a waste. I do understand how unfortunately limited the card’s utility is, however. Not only is it a dead draw without Dark Magician available, but even if he’s available you still need a turn of placed face-down waiting before being able to activate it. That’s why I only included one, to mitigate the risk of starting with three Champion’s Vigilance in an opening hand. The last card on my list here is another solid, generic defensive card. When Wall of Disruption is activated, every face-up attack position monster your opponent controls loses 800 attack points for each monster they control on the field. Though that means defense position monsters are safe, anything not in defense position can lose up to 2400 attack, which will neuter essentially everything in the game. That includes any monster that would negate directly targeting cards, since the Wall is non-targeting. So take that White Night Dragon. I mostly just have one of these here since Dark Magician being the strongest thing on the board is a risky thing more often than not. Gosh, that was a slog to write out. Hopefully it’s just informative and explanatory enough to help anyone who doesn’t regularly play the game, though! As I briefly mentioned way up at the top of this mountain of words, part of the reason I went through with this small project was discovering the ability to upload videos to YouTube for my own personal use here. But not just that. In this case, I also figured out a way to record what’s happening on my phone screen. As a result, please enjoy this sizable duel that I recorded as an example of the Dark Magic deck succeeding: Though I didn’t have the opportunity to utilize my 1-2 combo of Dark Magic Inheritance in this match-up, I was able to pull off the Skilled Dark Magician tribute, which is a much more rare occurrence in my book. Plus it’s a good example of Enemy Controller coming in clutch and saving the day. Of course the magic of editing and selection means you all don’t have to see the many, many loses I accumulated before getting this successful match-up. As I noted throughout this post, many of the Dark Magician-specific cards are dead draws if their combo pieces aren’t available. Despite those loses, I still think the deck is a lot of fun. And boy is it fantastic when you happen to draw just the right opening hand to demolish an opponent. For example, this other duel I happened to save: On the one hand I feel bad about how quickly I was able to demoralize this Bonz. But on the other hand… God what a satisfying victory. Also, side note, amazing how both videos wound up with the same thumbnail image. Totally didn’t plan that out or anything. With that said, I suppose that wraps up my thoughts and advice on using an Arkana Dark Magician deck in Duel Links. Hopefully someone out there found this interesting and helpful, and if you did please let me know in the comments down below! At the same time I’m interested in doing some more of these, so if there are any decks or cards anyone out there wants to see utilized in some way, shape or form, I’d love to take a crack at it. Any and all suggestions would be appreciated! … So long as I actually have those cards, of course. But I’m sure you knew that. If you made it this far, thanks so much for sticking with me! Hope you have a great rest of the day. Duel Links Duel Links Deck Profile Duel Links division Qualifiers Yami Yugi Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links Yu-Gi-Oh World Championships The True Cost of a Shadow Game — Gaming Economies I’ve wanted to write something on this topic for some time now, and after I declared Duel Links my favorite game of 2017 I figure it’s as good a time as ever to do something with the game. As strange as it sounds when mentioning that I’ll be talking about a nostalgic anime-based card game simulator, Duel Links in particular has piqued my interest regarding the different versions of in-game economies utilized by microtransaction-based games. I can actually pinpoint exactly when I decided I was interested in delving into this topic. It was on October 23, when I took this screenshot of exactly what inspired me: For those of you who don’t play Duel Links and don’t understand exactly what this shows, I’ll elaborate on the subject in stages to give everyone a full understanding. The main economy in Duel Links is based on gems. They are arguably the most valuable collectible in the game because you use them to purchase packs of cards from boxes. What are Card Boxes? Yu-Gi-Oh! is a card game with a long, long history and easily hundreds of thousands of cards in its overall catalog. These cards are released in boxes that often correspond to one theme or another, and those themes can contain a variety of cards that fit together in closer-knit groups called archetypes. As an easy example, a card pack that’s themed around Spellcasters might contain a number of monsters, spells or traps that support the Dark Magician archetype (made popular by the headlining character of the original anime series). The mobile game Duel Links works in the same way, with Konami releasing boxes of cards at least once a month to try and catch up to the amount available in the real life trading card game. These boxes switch off on each release between a full box and a mini box. They are headlined by one monster that tends to have the most additional support in the pack. However, in full packs especially there are often a number of archetypes given support. Servant of Kings was the seventh mini box in the game and one of 17 available as of December 31. It features Dark Magician of Chaos, which ties into the Dark Magician archetype I mentioned earlier, but beyond that frankly has a much more eclectic range of supportive cards than most mini boxes do. With that general game context out of the way, now I can delve into the economy itself. When buying card boxes, gems are your best friend. How are gems utilized? The two kinds of boxes in Duel Links are similar but ultimately different animals. ~ In a single main box, there are 600 cards available which are split into 200 packs that players can open. Of the four card rarities, things break down like this: Cards from the “Galactic Origin” Main Box 10 cards are “Ultra Rare” with one of each kind of UR card available 24 cards are “Super Rare” with two of each kind of SR card available 192 cards are “Rare” with six of each kind of R card available 374 cards are “Not Rare” with eight or nine of each kind of N card available Regardless of rarity, there are 100 unique cards to get in the box. ~ In a single mini box, there are 240 cards available which are split into 80 packs that players can open. Of the four card rarities, things break down like this: Cards from the “Echoes of Silence” Mini Box Two cards are “Ultra Rare” with one of each kind of UR card available Eight cards are “Super Rare” with one of each kind of SR card available 70 cards are “Rare” with five of each kind of R card available 160 cards are “Not Rare” with 10 of each kind of N card available Regardless of rarity, there are 40 unique cards to get in the box. Each individual pack contains three cards and can be purchased for 50 gems. A single pack purchase is always available to players, but as more gems are collected a larger collective buying option becomes available. By that, I don’t mean you get a discount for larger purchases. Purchasing discounts are exclusive to spending real money on cards. Rather, you simply get to do larger pack opening sessions the more gems you have. When you have 100 gems you can open two packs at a time, when you have 150 gems you can open three packs at a time, and so on. There’s a cap at 10 packs, which costs 500 gems. In one sense, it seems strange to cap things off there. Yet 10 packs is a perfect place to cap things off because it breaks down the boxes in a digestible way. Under the way this system has been set up, 500 gems becomes a recognizable baseline that players (or at least that I) aim for before opening packs. By waiting to get to 500 gems before buying, the 600 cards in a main box are distilled into 24 pack opening sessions and the 240 cards in a mini box are distilled into eight pack opening sessions. That kind of bite-sized dividing is very clever because it gives players a goal to work up to and makes an intimidatingly large task into an easier, far more enjoyable series of tasks. After all, it’s much more of an accomplishable idea to collect 500 gems eight or 24 times than it is to collect 4,000 gems for a full mini box or 12,000 gems for a full main box. Add onto that the graphical interface involved with each pack opening and you get that small scale addicting purchase system mobile games like this are known for. That said, I haven’t even mentioning the fact that every box, in theory, should be opened three times. In Duel Links, the deck you can build based on the cards you collect are limited. There’s a maximum of 30 cards usable per deck (with five extra deck cards for fusion monsters), and you can only have three of a given card in each deck – with the exception of a few cards that are on a limited list, of course. When you start a duel, each player’s deck is shuffled and four cards are drawn. As a result, a deck should be built to offer the greatest odds of having cards that are needed to win in an opening hand. As the game’s metagame had come to dictate, that means decks typically stick to the minimum 20 card requirement and have two-to-three copies of the important cards. So, if you want those three copies of the ever-present Super Rare card Wall of Disruption in your deck, you need to reset the “Servants of Kings” mini box three times, since each box only has one copy. If that Super Rare is the last card you pull in all three of those boxes by sheer dumb luck, you’ll have to spend 12,000 gems in all. Of course that also means it might not take every pack in the box to get all of the Super Rare and Ultra Rare cards, you could get them all right when you start opening packs for a given box. That’s where I cycle back to what inspired me to do this post in the first place. In this run at the “Servants of Kings” box, I wound up having to spend exactly 4,000 gems to clean out everything because one of the two Ultra Rare cards was the last one I needed. Instead of getting a veritable bargain of 3,950 gems, I got stuck with full price. Something about that really got into my head, and I decided to analyze this economic system after getting stuck in that position. I find that overall Duel Links has a far more reasonable economy in place than most mobile games, despite the fact that this project’s inspiration began with my being screwed over. How can you collect gems? There are many ways to collect gems in Duel Links, and I would argue one of the best aspects of the game is the fact that there are certain means of collection that are limitless. The chief means of collecting gems is leveling up. Players advance through a series of stages in the game, with multiple missions offering challenges that impede advancement. These missions always include one that provides gems for completing every other challenge in a stage. However, the biggest collection of gems come from leveling up Legendary Duelist characters. There is currently a level 40 cap on these characters (which has the potential to increase). As they advance through these levels players gain access to multiple rewards, including new cards and skills to fit that character or related archetypes, multiple concurrent deck building options for the character and gems. Levels 28 through 30 are the most satisfying when it comes to gem collecting. All together, each character can gross 2,290 gems by leveling up to 40. With the recent additions of Bonz and Arcana as playable Legendary Duelists, there are 25 characters available in Duel Links. Thus, you can get a grand total of 57,250 gems by leveling up each character to the max. Plus a couple dozen extra gems from overall player missions that additionally reward leveling up these characters. While this is the primary pool of gems available in Duel Links, at the end it amounts to the equivalent of completely buying out four mini boxes if a player wants three copies of the Super and Ultra Rare cards. In hindsight, not necessarily the most lucrative deal in a game with eight mini boxes and nine main boxes, with more being released about once a month. Luckily, more characters are released fairly regularly and there are plenty of other gem deposits available to cash in on. One of the more valuable but less consistent sources of gems are special giveaways for holidays, in-game events, the release of a new box and compensation for mistakes Konami has made (such as the game going offline unexpectedly). A cache of gems also becomes available every month when the Ranked Dueling arena resets. As you play against other duelists around the world, you can get gems through ranking up and as rewards for reaching a certain amount of wins in a season. In fact, once you get the final displayed reward at 120 victories, every couple dozen victories will also give you 30 gems at a pop. Similarly, a number of gems become available as periodic score-based rewards during things like Duel-A-Thons, Duelist Chronicles or limited time character unlocking events. Character Unlock Events Duelist Chronicles Card lottery rewards Beyond that, there are three “daily” small sources of gems to make use of. I use daily in quotes because technically only one of these sources is a truly daily activity. That activity is watching a random duel recording from a match between two other players. Learn all the fanciest Player-versus-Player duel strategies from this fancy television box on the PvP Arena screen. The other sources are technically daily but with some technicalities. In the Duel School, players can take on a duel with a borrowed deck once a day that offers a random reward. On occasion, that reward is three gems: The other rewards this challenge cycles through includes 20 general keys, seven colored keys and 5,000 gold (easily the most useful of the three). Not a lot, but it’s something. As an added note, the Duel School also opens a few missions allowing players to practice new strategies available when a new purchasable card box opens. The new card box challenges include full duels with loaner decks and limited turn tests meant to show off specific combinations of cards. The third “daily” source of gems is tapping environmental features on each screen of the overworld. The fountain next to the Legendary Duelist gate The lanterns in front of the PvP Arena The hologram card on top of the Shop The trash can in front of the Card Studio As an added note, the pictures I’ve displayed are from the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX world. The objects I mentioned are exactly the same in the original Yu-Gi-Oh! world. These four can be activated at least once a day to get between one and five gems each, with the objects refreshing multiple times a day. That means if someone is lucky they can get 20 gems in a shot throughout the day. Fair warning, however, more often than not each object only gives one gem at a time. What really makes the system of gem collection in Duel Links special, however, is the fact that farming Legendary Duelists at the Gate offers an infinite source of potential gems. When you spend a certain amount of keys collected by dueling Standard Duelists, you can battle one of the Legendary Duelist characters from the first two anime series. Duking it out with these higher level Duelists has a random chance of providing players with boxes of five, 10 or 15 gems a pop in their eight potential assessment rewards. The chance of getting gems is increased when considering the fact that bonus gems are rewarded in place of a skill that had already been unlocked. Even if this kind of gem earning is considerably more tedious than something like leveling up a character for large stipends, as I mentioned before one can battle Legendary Duelists as often as they want so long as they have the keys to spare. Trust me, after a fair amount of time has been invested in the game, keys are no longer a concern. If a player desires, they can grind up gems infinitely between taking on Legendary Duelists and Ranked Duels. When that idea meshes with the finite amount of collectibles available in Duel Links at one time, the true genius of the system shines through. While nobody will likely ever collect every box-purchasable card through grinding alone because of how long it would take, it’s entirely possible to do so. The goal is achievable because you’re guaranteed to get everything in a given box eventually. It’s way different than the system in other free-to-play mobile titles where random number generation applies to what you get at one time during a purchase, but the amount of options that random generation chooses between stays in a large pool each time. Currently, this kind of system where I can consistently set goals and earn my way up to them in bits at a time is my absolute favorite form of microtransaction-based gaming because when I do feel frustrated seeing this: Recurring through-line for the win. I’ll always know that I’m guaranteed to get that Man-Eater Bug in my next purchase no matter what. Then, once I have all three of them in my collection, I never have to look at that particular box ever again. In my head, that’s a real, tangible sense of accomplishment. Plus, let’s not forget that even if you don’t want to spend any gems, you can get tons of cards through Legendary Duelists, leveling up characters and through special events. These cards can either stand on their own or support card archetypes in certain boxes, so a player can pick and choose what boxes they want to buy from to build the decks they want. I don’t throw the term around that often, but it’s a fairly genius way to handle things in my opinion. Even if Konami releases card boxes a bit too frequently to make total purchase completion an achievable goal in a set timeframe without potentially spending some money anyway. As one final note for any players curious about jumping into Duel Links: Do not ever look at the incessant phishing offers in the global chats. Those are always scams. End of story. Based on this (I believe fairly comprehensive) guide I’ve put together on the economy of Duel Links, what do you think of the system they’ve put together? In your opinion, are there other games that do the microtransaction push more fairly for players? This kind of analysis is a longer project that I’m interested in delving into for other games as well, so if you enjoyed the post or have suggestions for how to make it better, please feel free to let me know! Card Box Gaming Economies Super Rare Cards Ultra Rare Cards Sick days and trading card games I haven’t been feeling so hot today, so most of my morning and afternoon has been spent sleeping. However, the part of my day that hasn’t been spent sleeping (or writing this, to be fair) has been spent taking a little trip down memory lane. After getting my friend addicted to Duel Links – you’re welcome by the way, Sam – she dug up some of her old physical Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. So I did the same thing: Turns out these things weren’t quite as deeply buried in my closet as I thought they were. Though clearly I was not all that organized when I played Yu-Gi-Oh! some time ago, as I left the cards in my box in utter disarray. Obviously that meant it was time to spend the next hour or so looking through what cards I have and organizing them for potential future use. The first step I took when approaching the problem of sorting such a large, disorganized collection was splitting them into cards I recognize from my time playing Duel Links vs. cards that were completely new to my current understanding of the game. Piles of cards from Duel Links (left) vs. Cards not in Duel Links (right) This first step was eye-opening in a number of ways. For one thing, it helped to show me just how many cards I own – which is way more than I expected honestly. I know I was really into the cards at one point, but I didn’t realize I spent this much money buying packs and such. Going through each and every one of the cards I own also gave me a bit of a deeper appreciation both for Duel Links and for the time I spent playing the game as a kid. When I was younger, I collected Yu-Gi-Oh! cards but honestly never had any idea how to play the game. Outside of watching the original anime series or playing what I remember to be a dumb Yu-Gi-Oh!-based game for the Gamecube, I never spent too much extra time actually learning the rules for how everything works in the card game. In fact, I distinctly remember having a Yu-Gi-Oh!-themed birthday party one year in elementary school where my friend Chris Beattie brought over some instructional video so my group at the time could watch it, learn the game and actually play with our cards the proper way. We never did, since I also remember the rest of us rejecting the idea in place of playing more of that dumb Gamecube game. Part of me wonders if I would have stuck with the game more consistently if we had learned way back then, but I suppose that delves into endless Butterfly Effect territory that I’m not really here to analyze. Now that I do understand how the game works, I honestly appreciate the sheer complexity of how everything works so much more. There are plenty of cards in my left-hand piles that I actually use on a daily basis in Duel Links, so knowing that I had them way back when I didn’t even understand the rules is kind of mind-boggling. On top of that, the size of my collection on the right-hand side, all the cards that aren’t currently in the mobile game, blows my mind just in that there’s so much more potential for the game to grow. I’m sure I don’t even have a decent percentile of all the cards that have ever been put into production, and in a way that makes me excited to see more cards added to the mobile game so I can learn how they all interact and create cool decks. Once I finished separating my cards once, I decided to do it a second time into six different categories: Normal Monsters, Effect Monsters, Ritual Monsters (and Ritual Spells), Fusion Monsters, Spell Cards and Trap Cards. Oh, and I also separated out the instructional manuals and play mats: Made them into a cute little triangle. Because why not? I could have been way more specific and deep with my divisions, splitting up the monster cards by type and attribute or splitting up the spell cards by type, for example. But I’m still pretty tired, so I decided not to go quite that deep. Maybe I’ll take things a step forward in the future. So for now, I’ve left things at this: Major categories with brand new dividing cards. Far more pleasing to the eye and easy to identify than what I had originally. Originally, the best I could comprehend was that Sanga of the Thunder was sitting on top of everything else on the right side. Real helpful, past me. Speaking of Sanga of the Thunder, one thing I found while sorting through my cards was that I seemed to be ready to play the Paradox Brothers-themed deck well before I knew that was a themed deck to play. The only thing I’m missing is a Gate Guardian card. If I had that, I could probably build a pretty cool deck with these cards and whatever else I have buried away. This isn’t the only cool set of cards I was able to find in my collection. Here’s some Red-Eyes and dragon-related cards that I was able to find. Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon was actually one of the first things I saw, and I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t be willing to shell out money to get copies of it in Duel Links to use for myself. It looks absolutely amazing. I also wouldn’t complain about having three copies of Stamping Destruction in the game, since it’s a pretty hard to get Ultra Rare card. But oh well, I’ll get there eventually. In the meantime, check these out: These three Sphinx cards look wicked and have some crazy effects. These three and the Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon are definitely the cards I’m really hoping these show up in Duel Links so I can use them. A bunch of the cards I found have strong sentimental value just from being iconic in the anime. Swords of Revealing Light definitely hit me the hardest, though I can’t deny that the old school art for Dark Magician is seriously wicked. You could apparently get this old version of Dark Magician in Duel Links if you were playing at a certain point, but I was not playing at the time. So… Oh well. Missed opportunity for me there I suppose. Also, while we’re on the subject of those cards, I apparently have a wide breadth of cards Yugi Muto used: I build all sorts of decks with these cards nowadays, so it ties into the idea of knowing I had them way back when and respecting them that much more now. Another good example of cards I’m using now comes in an actually very relevant form. When I found A Legendary Ocean in my collection, I couldn’t help but laugh hysterically. The deck I’m showing on the right was actually just built yesterday when I began to grind Mako Tsunami up to lv. 40. The timing of that specific card showing up right after I pulled together something to showcase that card is just too perfect. Some of the more interesting cards I have are those printed in foreign languages. I have no idea why I have cards in any languages other than English, since I don’t really speak any languages other than English and a few sentences in Mandarin. It’s strange, as I have way more than the two I’m showing above. Yet, I don’t think it’s necessarily bad. If anything, it makes these cards a little bit more unique. In other interesting card print differences come these ‘magic’ cards: I’m so used to just calling these ‘spell’ cards that seeing ‘magic’ instead really caught me off guard. I suppose that’s just what they used to be called or something. Having the cards written like this is probably more valuable as a result, I’d think. Also speaking of unique, valuable cards, I had a good set of highly coveted prismatic print cards hidden away just ready to be rediscovered. The title for my favorite prismatic card definitely goes to Nightmare Penguin. Seriously, just think about it. First things first, its name is Nightmare Penguin. That’s incredible in its own right. The art doesn’t disappoint either, evoking images of Oswald Cobblepot in the best possible way. On top of that the card has a pretty cool ability and nice defense for a four star monster. So basically I lied earlier when I said I just wanted to see the Red-Eyes monster and the sphinx monsters in Duel Links. I want to see Nightmare Penguin get added too, Konami. Finally, I also found my prized Egyptian God Cards: Obelisk the Tormentor and Slifer the Sky Dragon. Or, at least, they were some of my most prized possessions at one point in time. I remember shelling out extra at card shops to get these and having week-long arguments with my Yu-Gi-Oh!-playing friend group over whether or not they were legitimate or not. I always adamantly argued they were real, of course. However… Now that I’m older and looking at them next to the rest, I have to admit that they look pretty fake. It’s a shame when considering how much I stood by them growing up, but honestly it’s not all that unexpected. Oh well, either way I’ll still have the memories with these being wicked cool. They still look pretty rad too, so I’ll be happy to show them off for the sake of those memories at least. I know this medium of talking about things after the fact with screenshots and some text isn’t necessarily the most dynamic way of experiencing these sorts of things, but I hope you all enjoyed going through these old Yu-Gi-Oh! cards as much as I did! Obviously I didn’t show off all of them, since that would probably take a few years, but the highlights are great either way. Since I’m so into Duel Links and talk about it here on occasion, I figured these real card memories would be a nice thing to share on here as well. Even if my rambling might be a little more incoherent than usual since I’m not feeling great. Just in case it did bug some of you, I’ll leave things off on this note. Some of my favorite ‘funny text’ cards: Oh I’m sorry, what was that? You say there was a piece of Exodia slipped into that small slideshow somewhere? A piece of Exodia not chucked into the ocean by Weevil Underwood? Huh… Strange. #1pieceof5 #humblebrag Yu-Gi-Oh Anime The sweet taste of success I’ve been playing Duel Links even more obsessively than usual since the 2017 World Championship Qualifiers began last Wednesday, determined to hit Platinum Rank 1 so I could get the mysterious Super Rare card reward. It has been a long, hard road so far, as it seems like everyone has been bringing out their best decks for the competition. However, thanks to hard work, plenty of determination and – most importantly – the reminder to believe in the Heart of the Cards from my buddy Aaron (a funny and great guy who is also a pretty phenomenal copy editor that I’m sure is going places now that he’s a Cal State Fullerton graduate, so check him out on twitter), I finally did it: Finally reaching this goal is especially exciting as it’s the first time I’ve ever made it to a rank this high! It was a fairly lofty goal I set for myself at the beginning of this event that I’m happy I was able to reach. Granted, the last victory I got leading to it was from the rage quit of a guy I got a really solid opening hand against… But hey, a victory by default is still a victory, right? I’d say so, especially when that victory leads to the big prize. One thing you might notice in that victory shot is the lack of Yami Bakura and the fiend deck I spent so much time talking about in my last post. Well… As it turned out, that deck was far less perfect in execution than it was on paper. I’m looking into some possibilities for making it better, but what I have at the moment didn’t take me that much further than the early Silver ranks. At the very least I need more powerful fiend monsters to fill out my ranks, which I’m working on now. Luckily, I had a deck using Hammer Shark summoning tricks as Mako Tsunami and a very meta-saturated “Gravekeepers” archetype deck with Yami Yugi to carry me through. Don’t worry, I won’t subject everyone to my long-winded discussions of the cards in each of those decks. Those can potentially be subjects for another day. Just wanted to say that those are what ultimately got me to my prize. Now just what was the prize I was working up to in the end? As it turned out, what I thought was the promise of a brand new and unrevealed Super Rare card was actually the opportunity to choose a Super Rare card for free out of a pre-determined list. The list of cards to choose from came from the available pool of Legendary Duelist rewards and from the cards available to obtain via the Card Trader. Thus, they’re all theoretically able to be earned in other ways… But considering how difficult many of them can be to get, it’s still a welcome and much appreciated reward. My only real problem with the prize was the sheer amount of choices to pick from. I counted it out, there were 115 possible cards. Seriously, you never truly come to see the problems with having an abundance of choices until you have to pick one out of 115 options. Eventually I did come to a decision and chose my third copy of Enemy Controller, which is a Super Rare reward card you can receive from dueling Seto Kaiba. Enemy Controller is arguably the best, most versatile spell card in Duel Links. Both of the effects it can activate (at close to any time you want since it is a Quick-Play Spell) are useful in a variety of situations. The first, switching the battle position of an enemy monster, can save your side from attack or allow you access to their weaker stat spreads. The second, tributing your own monster to take control of an opponent’s monster, has a hugely diverse range of possible effects. Tributing your own monster can trigger a number of things in its own right, but then once you have the opponent’s monster in your possession you can activate any effects they can use, attack your opponent with their own power or tribute it off to summon a different powerful monster. It’s a great card overall, and having three of them will give me plenty of usability going forward, even if it meant sacrificing quicker access to more Gravekeeper monsters or cards I don’t yet have like Sage’s Stone. Now that I’ve hit that benchmark I’ve been desperately clawing my way toward, I’ll likely continue to see if I can get to King of Games… But the amazing decks everyone seems to own at this stage of competitive play certainly won’t make that easy. For now I’m just happy I was able to make it to the personal goal I set. To celebrate, I even made myself some homemade burgers. These cooked slabs of ground beef, like my victory over a small army of duelists, taste oh so sweet. 2017 Yu-Gi-Oh World Championships Enemy Controller Gravekeepers Hammer Shark Heart of the Cards King of Games Qualifiers begin: Will I have the Heart of the Cards? I have been playing Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links since Spring Break, and in that time I would argue that I’ve gathered a good amount of cards and have become fairly competent at pulling decks together to play with. Thus, I think it’s about time that I try my hand at a pretty serious event that just began, an event serious enough that I feel it’s worth talking about. The qualifying rounds for the Duel Links division of the 2017 Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championships have begun, signified by the iconic Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon hanging out omnipresently across the Duel Links hub world: Thar she blows, cap’n. More complete details of the World Championships can be found here (for the Duel Links division) and here (for the Trading Card Game division), but the part I’m interested in boils down to this. Starting today, June 1, the usual ranked duels player-versus-player portion of the Duel Links multiplayer hub has been replaced with Qualifier Duels. Anyone who reaches the highest duelist ranking (King of Games) by June 9 will advance onto the Final Qualifiers, which last until June 11. Winning duels during the Final Qualifiers earns a player points, and at the end the top ranking players will get to attend the World Championships in London, England. Only 12 players will get to go to the Championships in August, with usership divided by world region. Two players will get to go from North America, which means that out of the untold number of players on this continent, I’ll be competing for two spots. To be completely honest, from everything I’ve seen from players who are way better than me… I’m not holding my breath. I’ve never made it to King of Games even without the added flare of competition this will obviously drudge up, so I would be surprised to get anywhere close. But hey, a trip to London wouldn’t be so bad… So what the hell. I’ll do my darnedest. Even if I don’t make it to the coveted Final Qualifiers, there will be prizes available for my troubles all the same. Every player who competes in even one Qualifier duel will receive a fancy Game Mat and Card Sleeves themed after the World Championships, and depending on what rank a player reaches they also receive a number of other prizes on the way up. For the uninitiated laypersons I’m sure are among you, the gems that are rewards for Bronze, Silver and Gold ranks are used to purchase card packs from a number of packs currently available in the game. Nothing special necessarily, but they are the building blocks of this free-to-play title and are highly coveted as a result. Reaching Platinum earns players a Super Rare Card that, naturally, we aren’t being told about ahead of time. Total mystery, likely something super good. I haven’t made it to Platinum before, so that’s currently my main goal. I’m always ready to get new cards. Reaching King of Games nets players an Ultra Rare Jewel, which can be used to buy Ultra Rare Cards from the game’s Card Trader (which cycles through new stock every 12 hours). Also, it allows advancement to the Final Qualifiers, like I said before. That’s really about it to be honest. Nothing too complicated, it’s just an exciting chance at something big on the heels of the last big event, which was the arrival of a new Legendary Duelist (The Paradox Brothers, for anyone who has a nostalgic interest in the show like I do). So, it’s about time I quit writing about it and get busy pushing toward my goal of at least hitting Platinum Rank 1 for the first time in my history of playing. Okay, so I still have some more I’d like to write about. Namely, I have a whole big display about the main deck I’m planning on using for the Qualifiers. However, I know that’s getting into the nitty gritty of things that a lot of people aren’t going to want to sit through, so I’m going to put it below a read more. That way, anyone interested can read on, and anyone who isn’t can just go on with their lives. A win-win, I’d say! So, until next time, wish me luck on competing, and tell me all about what your favorite games based on things that are nostalgic to you in some way in the comments below! Duel Links definitely hits that itch for me, so I’m interested to hear what you all might have to say on the matter. 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__label__cc	0.690665	0.309335	Jon Kaneko-James History, Fiction and Thoughts on Writing Things D&D Got Right: Magical Rings Magical Rings are one of my favourite things about D&D. The idea of having something that won’t ever wear out, but gives you superpowers, is one of the coolest things I could possibly imagine. My only regret was that my group only allowed you to have one ring on each hand. I would have been the Mr. T of magical jewellery. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, one of the greatest Neoplatonic thinkers of the 16th century (who also became a doctor, a feminist, a sceptic, and a lawyer who defended witches while humiliating witch-hunters) talked about rings: “Rings impress their virtue upon us, inasmuch as they do affect the spirit of him that carries them with gladness or sadness, and render him courteous or terrible, bold or fearful, amiable or hateful; inasmuch as they do fortify us against sicknessm poisons, enemies, evil spirits, and all manner of hurtful things, or, at least will not suffer us to be kept under them.” And for every wacky D&D power you can find in the Dungeon Master’s Guide, you can find works of magical artistry merging astrological theories with ‘Natural Magic’ and Christian mysticism. Whether or not magic has ever really existed, people have been making magical rings for thousands of years. In what was Chaldea, a semitic nation nestled in the corner of the Babylonian Empire, archaeologists are still finding rings dedicated to the seven planetary spirits, corresponding with the planets of astrology. Likewise, the ancient Hebrews made astrological talismans out of parchment and knotted chord, and seem to have worn them as rings – not to mention that runic rings have been found in pre-Christian Nordic burials. Continue reading “Things D&D Got Right: Magical Rings” Author jonkjPosted on October 28, 2014 August 27, 2018 Categories Amulets and Talismans, Learned Magic, Religion and the Occult, Strange History, The Devil, Things D&D Got Right, Whole ArticleTags Books, Christian Mythology, D&D, Demonology, Demons, Dungeons and Dragons, Folklore, Greek Magical Papyri, History, Legendary Magicians, Magic, Magic Items, Magical Rings, Medieval, Medieval Religion, Mythology, Social History., Sorcerers, Supernatural, Unexplained MysteriesLeave a comment on Things D&D Got Right: Magical Rings Codex Gigas: The Devil’s Bible You might know if you’ve read my bio, but I work as a tour guide at the Globe Theatre. There are many reasons why I love the Globe, not least of which is that I get to make a living from history – but also because you never know who you’re talking to. In this case I was at the entrance telling getting people onto tours, when I started having a chat with one of the security guards. We talked about his travels in Eastern Europe and South America, touching on Voodou, Santeria, Brujha and Macamba (none of which I pronounced correctly, despite having studied them). It was inevitable that we eventually got onto the topic of The Devil. We talked a little about the medieval fear of The Devil when he said, “You’ve heard of the Codex Gigas? The Codex Gigas? No? Look it up later.” Here’s what I learned… Continue reading “Codex Gigas: The Devil’s Bible” Author jonkjPosted on October 24, 2014 August 27, 2018 Categories Books and Writers, English Folklore, Learned Magic, Medieval Monsters, Religion and the Occult, Strange History, The Devil, Whole ArticleTags Austin Friars, Benedictine Friars, Benedictine Monastery of Podlazic, Benedictine Monk, Books, Canterbury, Christian Mythology, Codex Gigas, Demonology, Demons, Folklore, History, Legendary Magicians, Lucifer, Medieval, Medieval Chronicles, Medieval Religion, Mythology, Necromancy, Satan, Social History., Sorcerers, St. Augustine's, The Codex Gigas, Vulgate Bible, YorkLeave a comment on Codex Gigas: The Devil’s Bible Magico-Medical Talismans 2, A Deeper Analysis of the Middleham Jewel As mentioned in a previous blog post, the Middleham Jewel contained the word ‘Ananizapta’, which was a charm against epilepsy, also known as ‘the falling sickness’ or ‘the sacred disease’ by various parties. One manuscript where the charm is found suggests that the meaning of the word is “May the antidote of the Nazarene prevail over death by poison! May the Trinity sanctify food and drink! Amen”, while, according to Claude Lecouteux, another manuscript defines it as “May the bitterness of the Nazarene’s death remove us from the verdict of eternal damnation, by the power of the Father, for a harsher persecution,” which is based on the idea that the word is an acronym for Ancient Greek. Whatever the true meaning of the word inscribed on the talisman, the rest of its construction can be traced back to the rules laid down in Middle Eastern books of ‘Natural Magic’ that made their way to Europe after the end of the Crusades. With these texts came ideas dating back to the Classical world that metals, stones and plants were infused by the power of various planets, which could give them powers to affect magical cures if they were properly calibrated. Continue reading “Magico-Medical Talismans 2, A Deeper Analysis of the Middleham Jewel” Author jonkjPosted on October 21, 2014 August 27, 2018 Categories Amulets and Talismans, Books and Writers, Learned Magic, Religion and the Occult, Strange History, Whole ArticleTags 17th Century, Astrology, Books, Christian Mythology, Folklore, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, History, Legendary Magicians, Magic, Medicine, Medico-Magical, Medieval, Medieval Chronicles, Medieval Religion, Middleham, Middleham Jewel, Mythology, Natural Magic, Social History., Sorcerers, The Yorkshire Museum2 Comments on Magico-Medical Talismans 2, A Deeper Analysis of the Middleham Jewel Hamlet’s Father: Ghost or Demon? Marcellus: What, has this thing appeared again tonight? Bernado: I have seen nothing… Marcellus: Horatio says ’tis but our fantasy, And will not let belief take hold of him, Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us… that if this apparition come, He may approve our eyes and speak of it. Horatio: But soft, behold, lo where it comes again! I’ll cross it though it blast me. Stay, illusion. If thou has any sound or use of voice, If there be any good thing to be done that may to thee do ease, and grace to me, If thou art privy to thy country’s fate, which happily foreknowing may avoid, Oh speak. If thou hast uphoarded in thy life, Extorted treasure in the womb of the earth, For which they say you spirits oft walk in death, Speak of it… Marcellus: Shall I strike at it with my partisan? Horatio: Do it if it will not stand. Marcellus: ‘Tis gone. We do it wrong being so majestical To offer it the show of violence, For it is as the air invulnerable, And our vail blows malicious mockery. Bernado: It was about to speak when the cock crew. Marcellus: It faded on the crowing of the cock. Above is an abridged version of the scene from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet where three officers of the watch witness the ghost of Hamlet’s father haunting the castle of Elsinore. When Hamlet himself, already identified as a bit of an odd bird, meets the ghost he says: Hamlet: Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com’st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. I’ll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane… Here, we see that the spirit seen in the castle of Elsinore has three possible identities: ghost, demon, or hallucination. Continue reading “Hamlet’s Father: Ghost or Demon?” Author jonkjPosted on October 18, 2014 Categories Religion and the Occult, Shakespeare, Strange History, Whole ArticleTags Buried Treasure, Christian Mythology, Demonology, Early Modern, Ghost, Necromancy, Nigromancy, Reformation, ReligionLeave a comment on Hamlet’s Father: Ghost or Demon? Medieval Folklore that D&D Got Right: Undead Knights and Dungeons Full of Treasure If you follow this blog, you might have realised that I’m a bit of a geek: not just a folklore and mythology geek, but a geek in general. Knowing this, it probably won’t be a surprise that I spent much of my childhood playing Dungeons and Dragons. Even as an adult, I can still be found playing tabletop from time to time (but not D&D anymore, now I play 1930s-style pulp adventure games, where sexy occult historians get dragged into adventures with breathy femme fatales…) Dungeons and Dragons was the creation of Gary Gygax, and was originally released as a supplement for a wargaming system called Chainmail. Over the years, and certainly by the time I was playing, a number of fantasy words were released with increasingly different world-building to anything you’d ever seen in real medieval history. However, hidden at the core of D&D, buried, unspoken, in the rules and mechanics of the system (a system widely mocked for being pernickety and bureaucratic) are a set of tropes that represent a loving recreation of Medieval European folklore. Just as the Ancient Egyptians worried about how the dead would support themselves in the afterlife, so did the Medieval Europeans. In the Early Middle Ages it was an important part of German Law that the dead were entitled to be buried with up to a third of their wealth so that they could support themselves in the life after death. Continue reading “Medieval Folklore that D&D Got Right: Undead Knights and Dungeons Full of Treasure” Author jonkjPosted on October 15, 2014 August 27, 2018 Categories Medieval Monsters, Strange History, Things D&D Got Right, Whole ArticleTags Christian Mythology, Cockatrice, D&D, Dragons, Dungeon, Folklore, Grettir, History, Medieval, Medieval Chronicles, Medieval European folklore, Medieval Religion, Mythology, Real Monsters, Revanents, RPGs, Social History., Strange Creatures, Supernatural, Undead, Wherwell Priory, Zombie5 Comments on Medieval Folklore that D&D Got Right: Undead Knights and Dungeons Full of Treasure Things that Made Our Ancestors Afraid of the Dark (Part One of an Occasional Series) Photo by flickr.com/photos/timo_w2s/ As modern people we don’t always appreciate it, but the world has changed for us only very, very recently. There was a world not so long ago where milk was seasonal and streetlights didn’t exist. In this milkless era two-thirds of Britain was covered in thick forest that swallowed up the light, meaning that on a cloudy or moonless night those forests would be filled with invisible ditches, riverbanks and pitfalls. The 17th Century diary of a Reverend Heywood in Yorkshire records of how a man walked out of his house only to vanish without trace. Another Yorkshireman, Arthur Jessop, lost his way and fell into a stone pit. In Aberdeenshire a fifteen year old girl died in 1739 because she lost her way on the path and fell down a freshly dug grave. One elderly Suffock farmer even boasted that he’d been going around at night without injuring himself, although he had once fallen off his horse and gone down a steep riverbank. Even the cities were pretty bad: until the early 18th Century there was no obligation for the city authorities to provide any sort of artificial light, and paving was a ragtag mix of the cheapest stone that various householders could get their hands on (since the house owner was directly responsible for paving the section outside his house, and your average slumlord wasn’t going to fork out on much.) This meant rain, darkness and garbage created a slick coating of grease and faeces the put hundreds of soon-to-be-dead people into the river Thames over the years. Continue reading “Things that Made Our Ancestors Afraid of the Dark (Part One of an Occasional Series)” Author jonkjPosted on October 13, 2014 Categories English Folklore, Medieval Monsters, Religion and the Occult, Strange History, Whole ArticleTags Arthur Jessop, Britain, Christian Mythology, Darkness, Demons, Medieval, Medieval Chronicles, Medieval Religion, Mythology, Night time, Nighttime, Real Monsters, Social History., Supernatural, Thanatology, Unexplained Mysteries4 Comments on Things that Made Our Ancestors Afraid of the Dark (Part One of an Occasional Series) Medico-Magical Talismans and the Middleham Jewel In 1985, a metal-detectorist found the Middleham Jewel, a possibly 15th century magico-medical talisman found in the verges of a bridal path near Middleham castle itself. The artefact is just 6.4cm high, with a beautiful sapphire stone. It has a loop at the top for use as as pendant, with a compartment, possibly designed to contain some sort of healing relic. The rest of the Jewel’s design is linked with its purpose: an extract from the Latin mass, a scene from the crucifixion, and the word ‘Ananizapta’, a charm against epilepsy. The idea of magical talismans for medicine was a mainstay of medieval medical thought. After the Crusades, a wave of culture came from the Middle East: works of philosophy and science previously lost had been perfectly preserved and developed upon in the Muslim East. The City of Toledo became a cultural melting pot, translating works of Hermetic Philosophy and Arab medicine into Latin, Hebrew and Spanish. So, why does this mean a medieval lady would be trying to cure her epilepsy with a magical amulet? Continue reading “Medico-Magical Talismans and the Middleham Jewel” Author jonkjPosted on October 10, 2014 August 27, 2018 Categories Books and Writers, Religion and the Occult, Strange History, Whole ArticleTags Christian Mythology, Folklore, History, Legendary Magicians, Magical Healing, Magical Medicine, Magico-medical, Medieval, Medieval Chronicles, Medieval Religion, Midleham Jewel, Mythology, Renaissance, Restoration, Social History., Sorcerers, Talisman2 Comments on Medico-Magical Talismans and the Middleham Jewel The Tempestuous, Folly-Filled Reign of Edward II No one could accuse the reign of Edward II of being dull. Coming to the throne in 1307, one of his earliest actions was to declare the Knights Templar as heretics and sodomites ( and of possessing a talking brass head ). He’d already been a fairly controversial Prince of Wales. His father, had ripped out a handful of Edward’s hair after the young prince had tried to persuade the Plantagenet king that Edward’s favourite, Piers Gaveston, should be created the Count of Ponthieu. Instead, Edward’s father (Edward I) banished the knight, enraged at “…the undue intimacy which the young Lord Edward had adopted towards him.” Despite declaring the Knights Templar as sexual deviants, there has always been a suspicion that Edward II was a homosexual himself, perhaps explaining the addition of ‘Soddomy’ to what was otherwise a fairly standard set of misbehaviour accusations. What can be said is that Edward had a politically and socially unhealthy fascination with Piers Gaveston. His first act upon becoming King was to recall Gaveston from banishment, and upon marrying Princess Isabella of France he immediately gave the most pleasing (and valuable) jewells to Gaveston as gifts. In fact, one of the biggest indictments of Edward is that whether he was straight or gay, he was an idiot. After offending the twelve year old Princess of France (and her father, Philip IV) he engaged in openly mocking his most powerful barons, calling the Earl of Warwick the ‘Black Hound of Arden’ and ignoring affairs of state to shower gifts and clothes on Gaveston, who he’d created as the Earl of Cornwall (even at the time, their love was rumoured to be more than friendship, although I do think that if Edward had been a better governor, fewer of his subjects would have cared.) After a series of humiliations that included Edward abandoning her at Tynemouth Abbey (or so wrote a Monk of St. Albans, John de Trokelow), Isabella began to turn against her neglectful husband. She wasn’t alone: the reason that Edward had abandoned her in 1312 was because he was being chased by an army of dissatisfied Barons, who captured and executed Gaveston (this didn’t teach Edward, he just took a new favourite in Hugh Despencer). By 1321, Isabella had joined forces with her lover, Roger Mortimer (whose direct descendant is the modern explorer Sir Ranulf Fiennes) to lead a rebellion against Edward and the hated Despensers, which resulted in his imprisoning at Berkeley Castle, where, on the 11th of Octorber he was quietly put to death. The manner of his death is somewhat disputed: local lore in Berkeley is that he was killed with a red-hot poker shoved up his backside, and that the people of Berkeley could hear his screams for miles around, although contemporary chroniclers said that he died of either suffocation or strangulation. Donations Keep This Blog Running The contents of this blog are entirely free and always will be. I have a couple of books out, but the vast majority of the work I do, especially my historical work, is a labour of love. With that said, creating this content costs me money: I pay for access to academic journals, to a professional quality research library, for trips to specialised collections and archives, and for courses in Latin, Archive Skills and Paleography. If you’ve read this material and found it useful, please consider donating a small amount of money towards my work. If one in a hundred of the people who see my blog this week bought me a coffee via Ko-fi, it would make a huge difference to my ability to deliver. If one in fifty did, I’d be able to significantly increase my output. Author jonkjPosted on October 8, 2014 August 27, 2018 Categories Strange History, Whole ArticleTags France, Gay Kings, History, Isabella, Knights Templar, Plantagentet, Ranulph FiennesLeave a comment on The Tempestuous, Folly-Filled Reign of Edward II Saint or Witch? The Fine Line in the Supernatural Before the Enlightenment How and Why? What makes a witch? It’s been a long time since you’d find anyone who argued it was the talent for magical power. Of the factors that come together to make someone a witch, alleged magical power was only one of many. Witch stories have a strange mirror in the very myths made up society and religion for much society until the advent of the Reformation. Part of this was how history was written. Almost until the Enlightenment, history was seen as an expression of the art of rhetoric. Historical events mines for morally pleasing stories, which could be adapted without troubling the historian’s conscience. Adding to that, pre-Reformation law in Britain (which continued unmodified during the witch trials in many other places) involved torture as a mainstay of the trial process. Judges could only find a defendant guilty if they were able to secure two witness statements that agreed perfectly, or if the defendant could be persuaded to confess. The regulations for assessing the two statements were surprisingly strict, leaving many Judges little option other than to secure a confession. Circumstantial evidence was enough to secure the Judge’s suspicion, which was grounds for torture. Suspected witches would be coerced into spinning a narrative that their interrogators could take into court. Motivated by the pain of torture, and the knowledge that their torturers could only stop when they’d reached a mutually agreeable narrative, witches would draw on the stories of their everyday lives. Finally, many accusers would fall back on the stories they’d been culturally primed with in order to understand what they believed to be terrifying magical attacks. Continue reading “Saint or Witch? The Fine Line in the Supernatural Before the Enlightenment” Author jonkjPosted on October 6, 2014 August 27, 2018 Categories Religion and the Occult, Strange History, Whole ArticleTags Christian Mythology, Folklore, History, Medieval Religion, Supernatural, Witch Trials, WitchcraftLeave a comment on Saint or Witch? The Fine Line in the Supernatural Before the Enlightenment 3 Strangest Medieval Creatures One of my favourite things about the medieval supernatural is the general strangeness: not silly strangeness – like bananas with fangs – but proper, John Carpenter’s The Thing, level strangeness. The strange and supernatural have a dream (or nightmare) logic that you never quite get if you just sit down and try to create something horrible with your conscious creative powers. With that in mind, here are some of my favourite strange and disturbing creatures. The Thing That Heralded The Great Fire of London There were supposed to have been a lot of strange occurrences around the Great Fire of London: there was a pyramid of fire seen above London from St. James’ to Whitehall, it rained fish in Kent, and a group of apocalyptic anti-monarchists called (paradoxically) the Fifth Monarchists even predicted a fiery apocalypse on September 2nd, when the Great Fire started at 2am on that very day. None of them were as strange as what the Spanish Ambassador to London said had been born up on Cornhill, only a few months before the Great Fire itself: “A deformed monster… horrible in shape and colour. Part of him was fiery red and part of him yellow, on his chest was a human face. He had the legs of a bull, the feet of a man, the tail of a wolf, the breasts of a goat, the shoulders of a camel, a long body and in place of a head a kind of tumour with the ears of a horse. Such monstrous prodigies are permitted by God to appear to mankind as harbingers of calamities.” Shapeshifting Medieval Spooks As I’ve blogged before, the medieval dead are much more interesting and deadly than the ghosts of Victorian horror stories. The ghost in the 1963 film The Haunting will hammer at your door, play tricks on you, and possibly drive you mad, but a revenant from Medieval England will kick its way in, drag you out of bed and beat you to death with its bare hands. One of the other things the medieval revenant does is change shape prodigiously. M R James, my favourite writer of ghost stories, was no stranger to physically aggressive ghosts. The spook in ‘A Warning To The Curious’ isn’t trying to drive anyone mad. It finds the archaeologist who dug up its crown, stalks him, and gives him the kind of lethal violencing you’d reserve for someone who mugged your grandmother. One of the other things that medieval revenants are good at is shape-changing disturbingly, which was something else that M R James knew all about. He was a Professor of Medieval Literature, and actually translated a collection of 14th century ghost stories now known as the Bylands Manuscript. The ghosts here appear in a number of strange shapes: one appears as, “a horse standing on its hind legs, holding its front legs high up in front of itself…” which changes shape so that, “…it appeared in the shape of a rolling bale of hay, with a light glowing at its centre.” The same revenant later turns itself into a goat, while another tells a human witness about a spirit that appears in, “the shape of a bullock without a mouth, eyes, or ears, and no matter how often he is sworn to confession, he is not able to speak.” A Vampire that Robert Pattinson Couldn’t Play The strangest supernatural/folkloric creature that I’ve heard about recently is flagged as a Vampire in Claude Lecouteux’s book, The Secret History of Vampires. The story comes Schmitz, Germany, in 1565: “A woman… gave birth to a diabolical being that had no head or feet. On its chest, near the left shoulder it bore a mouth, and near its right shoulder, an ear. It had suction cups instead of fingers, like a frog of toad; its entire body was the colour of liver and shook like lard or jelly. When the midwife set this being into a tub seat or basin to wash it, it emitted the most horrible cries… On the orders of His Lordship, Vratslaus, the aborted child was exhumed, placed on a cart, and given to the executioner to burn outside the village. Despite the enormous quantity of wood burned, it proved impossible to annihilate this diabolical mass; even the clothes in which it had been swaddled remained damp despite the heat of the raging flames, until the executioner cut it into tiny pieces and destroyed them in fire with the greatest difficulty. Author jonkjPosted on October 3, 2014 August 27, 2018 Categories English Folklore, Medieval Monsters, Whole ArticleTags Apocalypse, Christian Mythology, Folklore, Medieval, Medieval Religion, Mythology, Real Monsters, Strange Creatures, VampiresLeave a comment on 3 Strangest Medieval Creatures Amulets and Talismans Books and Writers D&D vs History Demon Biographies English Folklore From Spooky Isles Irish Folklore Learned Magic Religion and the Occult Scottish Folklore Things D&D Got Right Welsh Folklore Jon Kaneko-James Proudly powered by WordPress	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1351
__label__cc	0.698901	0.301099	ISTW-2015 ISTW 2015 Web Pages: Agenda and Presentations Workshop Photos Accommodations / Hotel Objectives and Topics Reception and Banquet Registration and Payment Forms Travel to Princeton Abstract Submission (CLOSED) Upload Presentation (CLOSED) From Newark Liberty International Airport - passengers may take the AirTrain to the RailLink station, where they should transfer to the New Jersey Transit (800-772-2222) train to Princeton Junction Train Station on the Northeast Corridor Line. After arriving at the Princeton Junction Train Station, take a cab to your hotel or to the Princeton Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Trains have limited space for baggage. From Philadelphia International Airport - take Septa's Rail Line (215-580-7800) to 30th Street Station and transfer to the train to Trenton, where you'll connect to the New Jersey Transit, Northeast Corridor Line train to Princeton Junction/Princeton. Trains have limited space for baggage. Traveling to/from Princeton and to/from the local airports using the State Shuttle airport shuttle service: Reservations for trips from the airport must be made in advance of your trip. To place a reservation, call 1-800-822-9797 or 1-732-938-6666 State Shuttle offers economical direct scheduled service to and from Newark Liberty, JFK International, LaGuardia, Atlantic City, and Philadelphia airports connecting with several locations in the Princeton area. Please check their website for current rates. Visa, Mastercard, American Express, travelers checks, and cash are accepted. Passengers are permitted two large suitcases and one carry-on per person. Oversized luggage will be loaded on a space available basis. Since there are several stops on the route, the trip to Princeton can take up to two hours from Newark Liberty and Philadelphia airports, and up to four hours from JFK and LaGuardia airports, assuming no delays.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1356
__label__cc	0.551124	0.448876	BoxingFight Previews DAZN, A Case Study in Boxing’s Popularity in the U.S. Lukie Ketelle 2019-04-03 03 Apr 2019 Lukie Ketelle photo: Lukie Ketelle DAZN will see changes according to Bloomberg, but I can’t for the life of me tell you if the change is good or bad. A brief history of the streaming service, DAZN launched in 2016, but 2018 in the U.S., with an emphasis placed upon on-demand sports viewing without the need for a cable television package, most of which are north of $200 nowadays at times. The concept was simple, if you like sports, buy our monthly sports subscription service and DAZN will become the Netflix equivelant for sports streaming. Things haven’t been all rosy at DAZN for a number of reason – one of which being it doesn’t have the top two American sports on the network – that being football and basketball. It seems it will be a no-brainer that DAZN will be in the running when those rights come up for the NBA and NFL, and John Skipper, the one in charge at DAZN, is known for gobbling up rights to sports properties, as he did during his tenure at ESPN. What is truly noticeable about DAZN in its infancy in America is how much boxing has an impact on the culture at large (or not) and if boxing alone can sustain a business based around sports programming, as boxing is the major sport they’re promoting and selling subscriptions with. DAZN right now offers arguably the most marquee fighters in boxing from pound-for-pound number one fighter “Canelo” Alvarez, heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua as well as a beloved middleweight Gennady Golovkin. That being said, just last week, nearly a month before “Canelo” Alvarez faces Daniel Jacobs at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 4th, we saw changes to the DAZN subscription plan. PPRICE POINT The original offer of $9.99 a month was done away with and replaced with a flat fee of $99.99 for a whole year, which is cheaper than the original plan, but at a month-to-month rate, or individualized pay-per-view price it’ll now be $19.99 a month. Also, notable that the free trial is no longer available. For those who had subscribed to the original rate of $9.99, they will only be billed that fee all of this year, with a price change taking place next year for them. So now it comes down to how much do people love boxing and can it stay the course as DAZN looks to gain the rights to a major American sport in a forthcoming bidding war in the near future. DAZN currently offers content from Matchroom Boxing USA, Golden Boy Promotions, Bellator MMA and forms of MLB programming, mostly a dialogue show. The answer seems to be yes, but as a devout boxing fan that I am, I do notice, outside of the major stars of their network, a lot of fighters come and go with little culturally impact on their platform. Canelo, Golovkin, and Joshua have all been a part of bouts that have pulled in huge live gate numbers with Canelo and Golovkin making nearly 50 million dollars alone in two fights in just the live gate, and Joshua having 80,000-90,000 fans packed into arenas. Investing in these fighters, who have monetized their stardom, you’d think would be financially fruitful. On top of that, boxing is one of the older and more archaic sports, and quite simply, using an app, and streaming boxing seems to be hard for a group of people who greatly enjoy boxing content. Which means an element of learning has to be built into the DAZN model as well as the inital growing pains Now, this isn’t an indictment on their platform as fighters come and go often in boxing on all networks, but it speaks to boxing as a whole. Boxing isn’t a business that a start-up company looking to be a major sports broadcasting entity has built upon in the United States since maybe ABC’s “Wide World of Sports”, decades ago – the current state of money in the sport would say otherwise. It could work, and I hope it does, but it also requires a lot from boxing fans, who get somewhat abused with bad boxing match-ups from time-to-time as well as abuse the sport themselves by not supporting or investing money and/or time into bouts that help grow the sport. Thus we tend to be in a stagnant spot every year with good fights and bad fights alike, not unlike a swimmer treading in water. Boxing is the red light district of sports. One in which criminals freely roam and are praised for past performances in and out of the ring and reporters are mocked if you brought up questionable issues in their character of that aforementioned individual. In short, boxing isn’t really a mainstream sport, but DAZN, I guess, is hoping that the current anarchy in America, might help in an uptick in boxing viewership? Or did I just overthink everything and is it simply that boxing rights were the easiest to acquire and that they’re overpaying fighters in order to create desirable content that can be used as leverage to work out deals with bigger sports in the future? Or is boxing more popular than ever, and it will just lead to sports revolution in the modern era? Who knows? The big worry I have right now is boxing is in a finical boom with streaming services and great live gate numbers for desirable fights, but what if it doesn’t create a net-positive, but rather a net-negative, meaning it creates a loss of money rather than the allocation of funds. DAZN’s model is to basically cater to hardcore boxing fans, giving them the content they use to stream from seedy, malware infected websites to watch world ranked fighters fight in obscure countries or bring those fights to America and/or Great Britain with better production value. While also hoping that fans of the major fighters on the network will buy subscriptions yearly even if they don’t watch every bout the service offers, they still view it as a value-laden investment based off their marquee tentpole events and a yearly plan being cheaper than month-to-month. Fighters like two-division world champion Demetrius Andrade, IBF super featherweight world champion Tevin Farmer and even popular super lightweight Regis Prograis have benefited finically from the DAZN service, but the big question now will be, will the big fighters (Canelo, Golovkin, and Joshua) bring home the return on investment? Also, will some of these younger fighters like Diego Pacheco turn into stars down the round, getting built from the ground up. The sales pitch for DAZN is essentially for the price of little over one pay-per-view, you get a year of boxing content with it. The downside for some might be that the fighters are nuanced and at times in developmental stages even if they hold a world title, that might not engage all, as well as the fan will see differences in boxing qualityy from card to card, that will have dramatic peaks and valleys. DAZN is now becoming a case study of how important boxing is an America. If DAZN is a success, boxing is back, if it doesn’t boxing will more than likely ended up further and further on these streaming sites until they end up on Tor. Boxing will always have a place in America, and someone will always invest in it, but DAZN will show what our ceiling as a sport quite possibly could be since they have money, stars, and the willingness to put on some shows of interest. Tags:#boxingCanelo AlvarezCase StudyDAZNGennady Golovkinsalesubscription plan Carlos Adames vs Frank Galarza featured on Crawford vs Khan PPV undercard Steve Forbes, Victor Morales Jr top Oregon card Saturday night Lukie Ketelle DAY FIVE U.S. OLYMPIC BOXING TRIALS RESULTS, HALF OF THE FINALS SET	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1360
__label__wiki	0.959219	0.959219	Ryan Garcia now a legit contender after KOing Valenzuela Super featherweight Ryan Garcia (12-0 11KOs) made an impressive statement by beating the [expletive] out of Cesar Valenzuela, a game veteran who has made a career of close fights against prospects. Garcia dropped Valenzuela in the first round and then stopped him standing in the third round just before the THE MOST FEARED 130 LBS. PROSPECT, ANDY VENCES Andy “El Tiburon” Vences (19-0 11KOs) of San Jose, CA returns to the ring on November 11th against Jairo Ochoa Hernandez (18-12 9KOs) in an eight-round fight on the undercard of a national televised card on ESPN taking place from the SaveMart Center in Fresno, CA headlined by undefeated 2012 Jezreel Corrales signs with Golden Boy Promotions In one of its finest acquisitions yet, Golden Boy Promotions has signed current WBA Super Featherweight World Champion Jezreel “El Invisible” Corrales (21-1, 8 KOs) to a multi-year promotional deal that will provide a runway for the sensational Panamanian boxer to cement his status as one of the all-time greatest Andy Vences talks about July 9th return in Lemoore, CA Top Rank 130 lbs. prospect Andy Vences(15-0 10KOs) from San Jose, CA will return to action July 9th at the Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino in Lemoore, CA. The bout will more than likely be televised as Vences will face of Guadalajara, Mexico. The card will be headlined by Jose Ramirez, who is fresh Mikey Garcia gets his release from Top Rank After two years or so, Mikey Garcia might return to the ring after a lengthy legal battle with his promoter, Top Rank, that had some (including myself) wondering if he would ever box again. The announcement came on “The Morning Punch-In Show With RB & Jae” hosted by Michelle Rosado in Jhonny Gonzalez to move up in weight Former two division world champion Jhonny Gonzalez has decided to take his talents to 130 lbs. for his next fight. Gonzalez was outclassed by Gary Russell Jr. in March in which he was dropped multiple times and eventually stopped in the fourth round. Gonzalez is expected to return in Miura Stops 50 Cent Fighter Billy Dib in Three Rounds WBC super featherweight champ Takashi Miura destroyed former champion Billy Dib in Tokyo, Japan. Miura never faced any opposition from Dib who seemed unable to mount any form of sustainable offense as it was all Miura up until the stoppage in the middle of the third round. In the first	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1361
__label__cc	0.676064	0.323936	JBoard.tv A message board for fans of the Jeopardy! television show. TwelveFootBoy is our JBoardie of the Month! Home Board index Game Discussions Tuesday, July 8, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS] This is where all of the games are discussed. Moderators: alietr, trainman, econgator, dhkendall Fan-created archive of games and players Contact Archivists Post by Archivists » Tue Jul 08, 2014 11:30 am Game Recap for Show #6877, 2014-07-08 Campbell Warner, a military attorney originally from Rock Hill, South Carolina Maire Kennedy, an adventure specialist from Santa Rosa, California Justin Nigro, a coalition director originally from Ashtabula, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,599) Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. An excellently played game yesterday on Jeopardy! --except for final, which was missed by all three players. But fittingly, Justin, who had the most money going into the Final Jeopardy! Round had the most money coming out of it also, and that's why he's back here today to face Maire and Campbell. Nice to have you with us. Good luck. Here we go, the Jeopardy! Round, which today will feature these categories... JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES 2 TERMS MAKE A NEW BAND NAME (5/5) POLITICS (5/5) SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS (5/5) GOOD TRY! (5/5) FATHERLY NICKNAMES (3/5, including 1 correct Daily Double) CONSONANT-FREE STATE CAPITALS (4/5) (Alex: You have to add the consonants in order to come up with the correct response.) THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS Campbell: 12 R, 0 W Maire: 10 R (including 1 DD), 0 W Justin: 5 R, 0 W Clues revealed: 30 Triple Stumpers: 3 Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $1,800 SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK Maire: $4,000 Justin: $1,800 Campbell: $1,400 CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS Alex: Campbell Warner, military attorney. Romantic kinda guy. Wanted to send his girlfriend a special gift, which was? Campbell: The state flower of Minnesota. She had just moved to Kansas. I had, too, and she was a little homesick, so this was our third date, I think. Decided I would do something romantic for her. Turns out it's basically an endangered bog flower. Can't find it anywhere, let alone the state of Kansas. So had to default to a regular bouquet, but I told her what I was looking for, and she thought it was sweet and we ended up married, so it worked out in the end. Alex: Good move. Good move. Alex: Uh, Maire Kennedy, adventure specialist. Maire: That's right. Alex: Which means what? Maire: Well, I work for a small group travel company, and it's not adventure in the sense of, like, rock-climbing and white river rafting, but about the cultural adventure, so we have trips all over the world, all seven continents, so I spend all day talking about travel, and I get to travel a lot myself. Alex: Have you ever planned any trips to South Africa? Maire: Uh, well, I'm going to Kenya later this year, so I'm thinking about heading down to South Africa afterwards. Alex: Wonderful vacation can be had there. Maire: Excellent. Alex: Now, Justin Nigro is our champion. Once worked with a 5-time Jeopardy! champion who now occupies a very important post in our government. Tell us. Justin: That's right. Uh, once, uh, I was in state government in Ohio, and I worked for Richard Cordray, who's now currently the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, uh, which I got wrong in Final Jeopardy! yesterday... [Laughter] Justin: So, sorry, Rich. Alex: Well, it made him feel good that you thought of him in that way, even though your response was incorrect at the time. JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE Maire found the Daily Double on the 27th clue. Justin had $3,000, Maire had $4,800, and Campbell was at $6,600. Maire wagered $2,000. FATHERLY NICKNAMES $800: This merchant known as the "Father of the Dime Store" opened his first store in 1879 after borrowing $300 TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND CONSONANT-FREE STATE CAPITALS $200: Actually not in Hawaii: AAAEE FATHERLY NICKNAMES $1000: In 735 this "Father of English History" died shortly after finishing a translation of the Gospel of St. John FATHERLY NICKNAMES $600: This "Father of Angling" was a well-known writer of biographies, his first being a short account of John Donne (Alex: The author of The Compleat Angler, [].) SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND Re: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS] DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES LITERARY CLERGYMEN (2/5, including 1 missed Daily Double) SOME "BUT"s ABOUT IT (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double) LOOKING FOR LOVE ON REALITY TV (4/5) OH, LOOK AT THE TIME (5/5) HERE'S YOUR HAT (5/5) MUST YOU BE GOING? (4/5) Campbell: 14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W Maire: 8 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $7,600 FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE Campbell snagged the next Daily Double on the 5th clue. Justin had $4,400, Maire had $7,200, and Campbell was at $8,600. Campbell wagered $1,400. SOME "BUT"s ABOUT IT $1600: In traditional debate, each side makes both a constructive speech & this kind of speech SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE It was Maire who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 10th clue. Justin had $4,800, Maire had $9,200, and Campbell was at $12,000. Maire wagered $3,000. LITERARY CLERGYMEN $800: Father Lankester Merrin is this title character of a 1971 William Peter Blatty book (Maire: I don't know.) TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND LOOKING FOR LOVE ON REALITY TV $2000: Girlfriend, it's the network where you'll find "Find Me My Man" & "Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too" (Maire: What is Lifetime?) MUST YOU BE GOING? $2000: To this Dutch dependency that'a the southern third of a Caribbean island, yes; it gets a "double A" rating LITERARY CLERGYMEN $1600: Famed evangelist Billy Sunday reportedly called Sinclair Lewis "Satan's Cohort" for writing this 1927 novel LITERARY CLERGYMEN $2000: Hugo wrote that this Archdeacon of Notre Dame "had been destined from infancy... for the ecclesiastical state" SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY! Campbell: $22,000 (lock-tie game) Maire: $11,000 PREFINAL REMARKS Alex: None of our contestants has a science background, and so no one is favored as we deal with SCIENCE WORDS. Here is the clue for everyone... FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY SCIENCE WORDS VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES Lock-tie for first place; crush for second place. Campbell: Wager $0 to guarantee your return for the next game, or, if you'd rather lose today than face Maire tomorrow, wager $22,000 to maximize your winnings (or $8,399 to keep from dropping into third place). Maire: You don't have any guarantee at second place, but who cares when you've got a shot at tying for first? Wager $11,000. Justin: You have the hope of surpassing Maire for second place if you come up with the correct response or if your opponent fails to. Bet between $4,201 and $6,799. FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE Appropriately, this word from Latin for "unfold" isn't in the first edition of "Origin of Species", but does appear in later editions Justin: $6,800 + $0 = $6,800 (What is evolve?) (3rd place) Maire: $11,000 + $2,601 = $13,601 (What is Evolution?) (2nd place) Campbell: $22,000 + $0 = $22,000 (What is Evolution?) (New champion: $22,000) (Alex: [To Justin] We will accept that.) Total Potential Lach Trash: $9,400 GAME DYNAMICS CORYAT SCORES Campbell: $22,200, 26 R (including 1 DD), 0 W Maire: $12,800, 18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) Justin: $6,800, 8 R, 0 W Campbell: 27/59 = .458 Maire: 19/60 = .317 Justin: 9/58 = .155 Team: 55/63 = .873 MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES POLITICS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a seating diagram on the monitor, with seats categorized into red, blue, and green.) The seating arrangement used today in France's legislature is the same as in the 18th century, when these two directional 2-word terms for conservatives & liberals originated CONSONANT-FREE STATE CAPITALS $1000: OOUU (Alex: Yeah, we tricked... well, we tried to trick you on that last clue.) HERE'S YOUR HAT $1200: This "aquatic" hat was once popular for summer wear HERE'S YOUR HAT $2000: Liebchen, a Tyrolean hat is green und usually has one of these in the brim, from einem Vogel [Alex reads the clue with a German accent.] MUST YOU BE GOING? $400: To this French Riviera city, oui! Hit the Promenade de la Croisette & catch a film or 5 [Alex reads "Must you be going..." at the beginning of the clue, but it does not appear onscreen.] CORRECT RESPONSES (Frank W.) Woolworth the Venerable Bede Izaak Walton a rebuttal Elmer Gantry left-wing & right-wing a boater a feather Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much Post by jeff6286 » Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:54 pm Appropriately, this word from Latin for "unfold" isn't in the 1st edition of "Origin of Species" but does appear in later editions. What is evolution or evolve? (both accepted, as Justin said evolve) Campbell Warner: $22,000+$0=$22,000...now a 1-day champion with $22,000 Maire Kennedy: $11,000+$2,601=$13,601 Justin NIgro: $6,800+$0=6,800 Last edited by jeff6286 on Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:55 pm, edited 1 time in total. chalupabatman786 Post by chalupabatman786 » Tue Jul 08, 2014 6:49 pm Might be the single worst wager I've ever seen. Even worse than Brazil's performance earlier today. Boardeh Location: LAND OF LINCOLN Post by Carpe Diem » Tue Jul 08, 2014 6:51 pm Hopefully Vermonter didn't/doesn't watch today's game at the gym or wherever. "Tournament of Champions Contestants Honor Cindy Stowell" jpr281 Loyal Jeopardista Location: WABC-TV territory Post by jpr281 » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:27 pm Did Campbell run the sports category? I think it's an understatement to say what a horrible wager that was. Last edited by jpr281 on Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:33 pm, edited 1 time in total. econgator Let's Go Mets! Post by econgator » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:28 pm Just ... wow. xxaaaxx Post by xxaaaxx » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:28 pm xxaaaxx, yesterday wrote: Is it some sort of unwritten rule that 2nd place must make the all-in wager EXCEPT when it actually makes strategic sense? Yikes. Maybe when I stop laughing I'll be able to form coherent thoughts, but for now I'll just repeat myself. Post by lisa0012 » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:29 pm Her wager was as bad as the Brazilian soccer team. Lumosityfan 2014 Teen Tournament Champion Location: Edison, NJ Post by Lumosityfan » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:30 pm Really now? Did that just happen? (Once again, bad wagering is prevalent in Jeopardy!. Tsk, tsk, tsk.) If anything, she would have realized that she was a couple of dollars away from it being a lock and bet everything, knowing that that was the only way to win. I was thoroughly expecting there to be co-champions, and yet now we have to wait once again. Jeopardizing questions since 2004! 2014 Jeopardy! Teen Tournament Champion heelsrule1988 Sports Jeopardy! Alum/VVL #19 Location: Fayetteville, NC Post by heelsrule1988 » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:31 pm "I hate playing Jeopardy, and I really don't want to play again... you go ahead and have this one, Campbell!" -- Maire esrever Post by esrever » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:34 pm Not sure what Maire was thinking by wagering only $2600 of her $11,000 in FJ. Picked up Lach trash: "Tallahassee", "Bede", "Isaac Walton" Got FJ. TheyCallMeMrKid Swimming in the Jeopardy! Pool Post by TheyCallMeMrKid » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:35 pm No no no no no no no no no... Sheepin' it real. Post by zakharov » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:42 pm "Literary Clergymen" was damn hard. My first 0/5 in a long time. The only one I might have plausibly gotten was "The Exorcist." Ran "Look at the Time" and "Must You Be Going," which saved my Coryat. Instaget FJ with evolve. 4-time pool swimmer - last audition June 2019 Follow me on Twitter @JakeMHS skullturf Married to a Jeopardy! Champion Post by skullturf » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:44 pm I had a good game. I was a little slow in the J round, blanking on some things that should have been obvious. I had a momentary brain fart on Nancy Pelosi, muddling her together in my mind with other California politicians like Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer. I also blanked on Michael Redgrave's first name, and unthinkingly blurted out "bipartisanship" instead of "partisanship". However, I made up for it in DJ, missing only four clues. FJ was somewhere between "instaget" and "instaguess" for me. I didn't previously know that the word "evolution" didn't appear in the 1st edition of "Origin of Species", and I also didn't know the etymology of the word "evolution", but I had a vague notion that the word "involution" might possibly have something to do with things folding in on themselves. Perhaps more importantly, the word "evolution" was conspicuously absent from the clue. Sometimes, FJ clues can be approached in that way: you "squint" a little bit, and ask yourself "What word is suggested by the topics in this clue without being explicitly in the clue?" I didn't like the band names category in the J round, and I find that I don't usually like those categories (even though I went 4 for 5 in this one). Am I just being fussy? Or do other people share my distaste for those categories? My favorite trivia questions rely on pre-existing interesting facts about the world, not "read the writer's mind and decide what two words the writer liked the sound of." OK so..J! writers, I have a suggestion. Find some lighter fluid, and pour it all over that Band Name category. Then set it on fire. Once the fire burns itself out (hopefully not before consuming your writers' notes for the rest of the season), flush the ashes down the toilet. For refreshment, stick your heads in the bowl while it swirls. Last edited by xxaaaxx on Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:46 pm, edited 1 time in total. Post by Leander » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:45 pm I thought the New Band Names category was sort of ridiculous. I hope we don't see it again. Edit: I see someone expressed my opinion much more gracefully. xxaaaxx wrote: OK so..J! writers, I have a suggestion. Find some lighter fluid, and pour it all over that Band Name category. Then set it on fire. Once the fire burns itself out (hopefully not before consuming your writers' notes for the rest of the season), flush the ashes down the toilet. For refreshment, stick your heads in the bowl while it swirls. nod* Maire's FJ wager was better than this category. Post by ACW » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:59 pm Got FJ (fun fact: e+volo=roll from). Question: If you were Campbell, would you take the guaranteed $22k or try for the win? I'd do the former. Post by Dudd » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:59 pm I also really hated the state capitals category Return to “Game Discussions”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1363
__label__wiki	0.582445	0.582445	When is it going to be the day? I've been mentally prepping a piece on the political exploitation of tragedy. But now we're hit with a different tragedy and a different politics. As I write we are in the first hours after the Connecticut school shooting. The names aren't out yet, the grim body count keeps changing, but it's clear many people, mostly children, are dead. I didn't grow up with guns. I don't understand guns, I don't like guns. On no other issue is America's urban-rural divide as big as it is on guns. Not on race, not on religion, not on the role of government, nothing is as big a difference in culture and mindset as guns. Rural America hears "gun control" and envisions the black helicopters coming to get their hunting rifles. Urban America looks at it as a way to stop tragedies like today. And on no other issue has single-issue politics been as effective. It's almost a joke to even discuss "gun control" as a live issue. Congress didn't do anything even when one of their own members was shot in the head. The Democrats gave up after the very mild measures like the Brady Bill of the early 1990s, and even thouse small wins extracted a heavy political price. Saturday Night live spoofed it well in their debate parody on October 20, just days after another mass shooting: Candy Crowley: Okay. Our next question comes from Lisa Goldstein. Lisa? Lisa Goldstein: I was wondering what either one of you would do to keep dangerous assault weapons, like AK-47s, off the streets? Mitt Romney: Uhhh... nothing. President Barack Obama: I would also do nothing. The sad part: I couldn't even find which one of the three mass shootings that month was being referenced. Because the day after that mock debate there was another mass shooting at a Wisconsin mall. We're numbed to it. The tragedy holds our attention for a few days, or even just hours, then fades. Today we're in that moment of attention again. "Today is not the day" to discuss gun control, says the president's press secretary. Doesn't matter which president, which party. Our hearts go out to the victims. Just a sick individual. Cliche upon cliche. It's common enough that we have a standard set of responses. We dispatch grief counselors - a whole specialty schooled in this scenario - but we never talk seriously about guns. The tragedy is always looked at outside the context of the policy. But if today is not the day, when is it ever going to be the day? Guns don't kill people, the NRA says, people kill people. True. But people without guns kill far fewer people. You can't stab 27 people - that's the body count at this moment - in minutes. I'm never going to run for office again so I'll say it: If I could change one thing in the Constitution, it would be the Second Amendment. But we need far more than a change of law, far more than even a change in the Constitution here. We need to sever the outdated frontier mentality that equates guns with the American identity. And it looks like we need to do that before we can break the political stranglehold that pushes "rights" to the extreme and facilitates tragedies like this.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1364
__label__wiki	0.739649	0.739649	The genius of George Orwell Who would have imagined that sixteen hundred words in praise of the Common Toad, knocked out to fill a newspaper column in April 1946, would be worth reprinting sixty years later? But here it is, with many of the characteristic Orwell delights, the unglamorous subject matter, the unnoticed detail (''a toad has about the most beautiful eye of any living creature'') the baleful glare, the profound belief in humanity. Because what the piece is really about, of course, is not the toad itself, but the thrill of that most promising time of year, the spring, even as seen from Orwell's dingy Islington flat. When he produced articles like this, hair-shirted fellow socialists got cross. Why wasn't he spending his time promoting discontent, denouncing the establishment, glorifying the machine-driven future? It is a mark of his greatness that Orwell didn't care. They – whoever they might be – cannot stop you enjoying spring. The essay ends: "The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it." It all reads so effortlessly. And yet it cannot have been produced without toil. He tells us in Why I Write that he found writing a book ''a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness" and even the shorter pieces, knocked out for magazines or newspapers, must often have been a chore. There is the research, for one thing. His generous, insightful analysis of Charles Dickens shows not merely a close familiarity with 13 of his novels, but also with those of Trollope, Thackeray and a host of long-forgotten writers, too. For his caustic piece on Boys' Weeklies he evidently immersed himself in mountains of the things. The result is a piece so deft and witty that it has you laughing out loud. Here, for example, is his list of the national characteristics of the foreigners who make occasional appearances in this bizarre genre: Frenchman: Excitable. Wears beard, gesticulates wildly. Spaniard, Mexican, etc.: Sinister, treacherous. Arab, Afghan, etc.: Sinister, treacherous. Chinese: Sinister, treacherous. Wears pigtail. Italian: Excitable. Grinds barrel-organ or carries stiletto. Swede, Dane, etc.: Kind-hearted, stupid. Negro: Comic, very faithful. How one longs for him to have lived long enough to be let loose on the lads' mags culture of the early twenty-first century. Because something paradoxical has happened to us. The abundance of the mass media offers a greater choice than ever. We are adrift in a sea of newspapers, magazines, radio, television and limitless cyberspace. It is not merely that the more there is, the less any individual part of it matters. It is that so little seems intended to have any meaning. You will find nothing much here about fashion, Westminster politics, gossip, relationships, must-have gadgets and holidays, not a mention of the hints dropped by payroll propagandists, nor a word from anonymous ''sources close to'' some soon-to-be forgotten minister, and nothing about television, pop music, or most of the other subjects which enable our increasingly feeble newspapers to trail their ink across page after page. What you will find, instead, is an abundance of everything from the life of a book reviewer to how it is to watch a man hanged. The impeccable style is one thing. But if I had to sum up what makes Orwell's essays so remarkable it is that they always surprise you. Sometimes it is the choice of subject matter: how many journalists can write with any authority on what is like to queue to be let into an overnight shelter for the homeless? More often, it's the unexpected insight. He can write a 60-page essay on Charles Dickens which frequently seems to be tending to a conclusion that he was a sentimental old fool, but then come to an unexpectedly affectionate final judgment. You have travelled with him on his journey and are rather startled, and pleased, to discover where you have ended up. The Dickens essay was an attempt to worry away at why he was such a successful writer and is the longest in this collection. But it is infused with the same spirit of personal engagement as everything else. It is that amazing ability to make you believe that you would have felt as he felt that is his genius. Take Shooting an Elephant, which recounts an incident during his time as a policeman in Burma. It is a remarkable piece. There is, firstly, the language. When he first sees the elephant, which is said to have run amok, it is standing, beating a bunch of grass against its knees, ''with that preoccupied grandmotherly air that elephants have". In the seconds after pulling the trigger the beast remains standing, but ''a mysterious, terrible change had come over the elephant... every line of his body altered... He looked suddenly stricken, shrunken, immensely old". Then the elephant sags to its knees, its mouth slobbering. And, the utterly perfect sentence: ''An enormous senility seemed to have settled upon him.'' Being Orwell, of course, the event is put to political purpose, demonstrating the futility of the imperial project. He has already told us that ''every white man's life in the East was one long struggle not to be laughed at''. Then he reveals in the last sentence that he had killed the elephant ''solely to avoid looking a fool". Yes, you think, that makes perfect sense. It is hard to imagine many people less suited to the job of an imperial policeman than Orwell. Yet, while he hated imperialism, he could still remark that the British empire was ''a great deal better than the younger empires that are going to supplant it". In another essay, My Country Right or Left, he admits to finding it childish that he feels it faintly sacrilegious not to stand to attention during ''God Save the King", but that he would sooner have that instinct "than be like the left-wing intellectuals who are so 'enlightened' that they cannot understand the most ordinary emotions". There is something very striking about his patriotism. It was laid out most obviously in his manifesto for a post-war revolution, The Lion and The Unicorn, but his love of England informs just about everything he wrote. It is there like a defiant bugle call rallying us to appreciate kippers, crumpets, marmalade and stilton cheese in In Defence of English Cooking. It is there like a comforting cup of tea in Decline of the English Murder. Both belong to a time when – seen from this distance – English life appears to have been more settled, less commercial, more neighbourly and less racked by uncertainty of purpose. You cannot read a piece like Bookshop Memories without immediately conjuring up the bad suits and rank smell of dead cigarettes. They could not have been written about any other country on earth. It is, of course, as a ''political'' writer that he is now best-known. Sixty years after publication, Nineteen Eighty-Four remains the greatest fictional demolition of totalitarianism, and any decently educated 12-year-old can explain what Animal Farm is about. But, in truth, there is almost none of his successful work, either fiction or non-fiction, that is not political. His work is always about that basic question – why do we live like this? What marks it out from other political writing is not merely the quality of the prose, but its moral authority. Where does this come from? Would he have produced such luminescent work had he not had his first unsuitable job? If he had not suffered at the hands of oafs at his ghastly prep school? If he had not had the years of failure? I think the answer to all these questions is ''no". But he also had the paradoxical good fortune to live in evil times. There could be no accommodation with fascism – it was either resistance or capitulation, and everything he wrote from the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War until his death was infused with the same urgent imperative to resist totalitarianism. Of course, some of it is absurdly overstated. Can he really have believed that "only revolution can save England, that has been obvious for years... I dare say the London gutters will have to run with blood," in 1940? But evil times force harsh judgments. Orwell could toss off sentences like that with greater authority than most because of the quality not merely of his writing but of his experience. When he spoke of life at the bottom of the heap he did so as someone who had lived as a scullion and a tramp. When he talked of war and death he did so as someone who had fought in war and seen people die. The experiences had translated a natural hatred of authority into a political manifesto of sorts. What Orwell's experiences – both as figure of authority and as scullion – had given him was a lived understanding of the human condition. It was this grounding in reality that bestowed a more profound political instinct than would be available to some sloganeering zealot. He had acquired a capacity to empathise with the foot-soldiers of history, the put-upon people generally taken for granted, ignored or squashed by the great isms of one sort or another. It conferred upon him the remarkable ability to achieve what every journalist and essayist seeks. He could tell the truth. Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell with a new introduction by Jeremy Paxman, Penguin Classics, £9.99. This article was first published in 2009. Courtesy of The Telegraph. Original article here. A wake-up call for those sick of politics Something’s clearly wrong with British politics but that’s no reason not to vote in the general election What Empire did for Britain For hundreds of years, Britain shaped the history of the world. Yet it is shocking, says Jeremy Paxman, how little we appreciate the enduring effect of the colonial spirit on all our lives in this country Richard Burton, Victorian explorer ‘Ruffian Dick’ spoke 40 languages, infiltrated male brothels and Mecca and is remembered as Britain’s most flamboyant adventurer Churchill would fail in politics today Former Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman claimed the wartime Prime Minister was 'a parliamentary one-off'	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1367
__label__cc	0.634536	0.365464	Home › NoSQL › Exploring NoSQL: Fine Tuning CAP with Riak Exploring NoSQL: Fine Tuning CAP with Riak Posted on February 28, 2012 by Jim Downey — Leave a comment In previous posts, I explored MongoDB and Redis. MongoDB, a document-oriented database, allows developers to work with JSON documents in interesting ways. Redis offers developers a set of fundamental data structures upon which to build applications. Riak, in contrast, offers only the simplest of interfaces: put a key-value pair and get a value by its key. Values are simple binary strings, of which Riak understands nothing. It cannot operate on these values as JSON objects or sets or hashes. It cannot even increment a scalar numeric value. But Riak does provide developers with the power to fine tune the trade-offs between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. To understand the why of Riak, let us review the CAP Theorem, the conjecture that distributed databases must sacrifice one of three desirable characteristics: consistency, availability, or partition tolerance. Partitioning, in this context, means a network failure that prevents some of the nodes in a database from communicating with others even though each node may remain accessible to some clients. At a large enough scale of distribution, with hundreds or thousands of nodes scattered around the globe, the possibility of partitioning becomes real enough that it must be anticipated. And if partitioning is anticipated, it follows that it may not always be possible to distribute a write across all nodes such that the value remains consistent. And if a write cannot be distributed across all nodes, the database must either reject the write, making the system unavailable, or commit the write to only a subset of nodes, making the system inconsistent. So scalability demands distribution, and distribution demands trade-offs, trade-offs that developers must understand, control, and accommodate. Riak enables developers to fine tune these trade-offs through three numeric dials: N, W, and R. Each value in Riak will be replicated to N nodes. Each write will be considered a success once the data has been replicated to W nodes. And each read will return successfully after results are returned from R nodes. Adjusting these three values creates data stores of fundamentally different natures. The difference by which N exceeds W defines how many nodes may become unavailable before a write would fail. The greater this difference, the greater the availability, but the greater the likelihood of inconsistency. Likewise, the difference by which N exceeds R defines how many nodes may become unavailable before a read would fail. The lower R, the greater the availability, the greater the load capacity, the lower the latency, but the greater the chance of inconsistency. If W plus R is greater than N, then the database achieves a form of consistency; because of the overlap, the read will include at least one node holding the latest value. [See subsequent post that clarifies this point.] If a network partitions such that more than one partition contains at least W servers, it is possible for more than one client to update the same value, creating separate but valid versions. Riak refers to these forked versions as siblings. And while Riak can resolve the conflict in favor of the latest write, it could also be configured to return multiple siblings, leaving the work of resolving the conflict to the client application, which makes sense because the client understands the business logic. And how does Riak distribute values to N nodes? Riak hashes each key using a consistent algorithm, producing an integer that falls within one of many equally sized partitions of a 160-bit integer space, an addressing system Riak refers to as a ring. Each Riak vnode (one physical node hosts multiple vnodes) claims one partition, making it responsible for storing values with key hashes falling within the address range of that partition. Multiple vnodes will claim the same partition, which forms the basis of replication. Each node tracks the vnodes available in the cluster and their respective partitions, making it possible for any node to direct a write across the necessary number of vnodes. Riak supports three application programming interfaces, a native Erlang interface, a Protocol Buffers interface, and a RESTful HTTP interface. The REST interface provides a really simple means to put and get values. And Basho, the company behind Riak, provides drivers for several popular languages: Erlang, Javascript, Java, PHP, Python, and Ruby. To get started setting up a development server and exploring the API, I suggest following along with the Riak fast track tutorial. ‹ MongoDB Aggregation Framework: The SQL of NoSQL Eventual Consistency: How Eventual? How Consistent? › Posted in NoSQL, Riak	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1370
__label__cc	0.540439	0.459561	3 Futures by Peter T. McQueeny October 22, 2014 October 22, 2014 by Jonas Lee Writing: ★★★★★ Story: ★★★★★ Characters: ★★★★ 1/2 Cover: ★★★★ Overall: ★★★★ (4.625) This book was given to me as an ARC in exchange for an honest review. 3 Futures is a collection of three stories by author Peter T. McQueeny. I must say that it was an absolute blast getting back into what I find as the epitome of Sci-Fi. Not just hinting at the future or space travel or any other elements therein. Peter takes each story and leaves the reader’s mind to run openly through the possibilities of life in the distant future while playing back to the essential qualities of an actual plot running parallel. Whether the story involved elements of supernatural, to surreal to downright androids, Peter is a craftsman of words and worlds and I see his works rising up to infinite levels of possibility. Everyone who has a love of stories should read 3 Futures and it’s a must for Sci-Fi enthusiasts. The Critical Points: Peter masterfully crafts his words together, leaves enough room to not explain the technologies to death and had a remarkable editor as I saw really no errors to my untrained eye. Each story had a different scenario, still sticking to futuristic setting but with different contexts. All three were entertaining to sift through and kept me engaged to come back for more. Father Jim Frankenstein is my favorite, I see a little John Constantine in him and hope he resurfaces in another novel. The second story was all that I really had issues with. There wasn’t much of a connection to the people and it ebbed & flowed rather quickly from one point of reference to the next. The last story, brilliant job in conveying the lead character and his struggles to stay awake. The cover is the only areas I would take away a full star. It’s not that it’s bad, I see the reference to the priest, but the three images don’t really speak to me in terms of “pick me up and read more” so for that I had to look objectively as when I first received the novel. The Sci-Fi genre has many ups and even more downs some days. Whereas I am a firm lover of Star Wars, I find that the Sci-Fi genre gets inundated with similar space travels and strays away from its roots. Science (plausible, explainable) Fiction (made up) is like having full flavored “diet M&M’s” that actually take off pounds in my book. Point is, Peter has a way of bring the genre back into the cradle of life that Sci-Fi was intended. He tells a story that just happens to take place in the future. He adds the plausible, thinkable technology or social structure and allows the reader to explore with their own thoughts. Reading his work really made me analyze my own and I hope I can shape my stories with more thought the next time I write. Find Peter’s book through the links below and his blog post. You can also follow him through Twitter @FrFrankenstein 3 Futures (only $.99 on Kindle!) Peter’s Page Androids Author Demons Future Humanity Possession Roots Sci-fi Science Fiction Technology Vampires Who Wants to be In a Book? A little help for Jonas Lee	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1372
__label__wiki	0.708294	0.708294	Britannica Kids Kids Maryland profile Population1: (2010) 5,773,552; (2018 est.) 6,042,718 Total area (sq mi): Total area (sq km): Larry Hogan (Republican) State nickname: Old Line State Date of admission: State motto: "Fatti Maschii, Parole Femine (Manly Deeds, Womanly Words)" State bird: State flower: State song: “Maryland, My Maryland” U.S. senators: Chris Van Hollen (Democrat) Benjamin L. Cardin (Democrat) Seats in U.S. House of Representatives: 8 (of 435) Eastern (GMT − 5 hours) (1) Excluding military abroad.(2) Original state; date shown is that of ratification of Constitution. In the 1630s King Charles I of England gave an English nobleman—George Calvert, or Lord Baltimore—the right to set up a colony in America. The new colony was named Maryland in honor of the king’s wife, Queen Henrietta Maria (Mary). Maryland is nicknamed the Old Line State. The nickname refers to Maryland’s Revolutionary War troops, known as the Maryland Line. The capital of Maryland is Annapolis. Maryland was named after Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of Great Britain.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1377
__label__cc	0.553815	0.446185	kottke.org posts about weather Nicolaus Wegner Time-lapse film of two seasons of supercell storms posted by Patrick Tanguay Aug 02, 2019 We often talk about the damage we are doing to nature, and as often about the catastrophes this is bringing across the globe. And well we should. But we have to also remember that even when it looks enraged, nature is also worth our admiration. Mike Oblinsky gives us a good opportunity for this with his Vorticity 2 film. For seven and a half minutes massive clouds tear through open skies across plains and mountain ranges, rainbows brighten the calm after the storms, and sheets of rain obliterate horizon lines. What’s the Weather Like on Mars Right Now? Now that the InSight lander is up and running on Mars, NASA is using the probe’s weather instrumentation to provide a daily weather report from the red planet. The report is delayed by a day or so (communications delay? non-essential data delay?), but it’s still really cool to see what the temperature, wind speed, and barometric pressure is at Elysium Planitia. I’d just like to note for the record that at some point on Monday, it was actually warmer on Mars than it is right now in Vermont. ♫ Gotta get up, gotta get out, gotta get out into the Martian sun… ♫ Wind Speeds Hit 171 MPH Atop Mount Washington Yesterday As you can see on the US wind map, it’s been blustery in New England for the past couple of days. Yesterday the observatory atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire recorded a wind gust of 171 mph, the fastest gust ever recorded there in the month of February. This is what yesterday’s “Hays Chart” looked like: While it’s more that 50 mph slower than the 1934 record of 231 mph (!!), a look at the historical record shows that it’s one of the strongest winds ever recorded there and the strongest one since 1985. While the observatory building itself is rated for winds up to 300 mph, humans venturing out at that speed might blow away. Here’s what a person battling 70-100 mph winds looks like: On Instagram, someone at the observatory said of last night’s winds: We could absolutely hear the winds yesterday! Sounded like a constant rumble similar to an earthquake. At the height of the storm our coffee mugs were shaking across the table and our bullet proof windows were constantly flexing back and forth. (thx, meg) It’s So Cold Out! Where’s the Global Warming?! In what is now an annual tradition, when the temperatures in some part of the US plunge below zero degrees on the Fahrenheit scale, some nitwit Republican climate change-denier live-tweets from the back pocket of industry something like “It’s so cold out where’s the global warming when we need it???? #OwnTheLibs”. This time around, it was our very own Shitwhistle-in-Chief who tweeted merrily about the current polar vortex bearing down on the Midwest: In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you! Some time ago, Randall Munroe addressed what severe cold in the US has to do with climate change on XKCD: it used to be colder a lot more often but we don’t really remember it. When I was a kid growing up in Wisconsin, I recall experiencing overnight low temperatures in the -30°F to -40°F range several times and vividly remember being stranded in my house for a week in 1996 when the all-time record low for the state (-55°F) was established in nearby Couderay. Munroe’s observation isn’t even the whole story. Jennifer Francis, senior scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center, writes that the polar vortex bringing cold air into the Midwest is connected to the rapidly warming Arctic. Because of rapid Arctic warming, the north/south temperature difference has diminished. This reduces pressure differences between the Arctic and mid-latitudes, weakening jet stream winds. And just as slow-moving rivers typically take a winding route, a slower-flowing jet stream tends to meander. Large north/south undulations in the jet stream generate wave energy in the atmosphere. If they are wavy and persistent enough, the energy can travel upward and disrupt the stratospheric polar vortex. Sometimes this upper vortex becomes so distorted that it splits into two or more swirling eddies. These “daughter” vortices tend to wander southward, bringing their very cold air with them and leaving behind a warmer-than-normal Arctic. (via @mkonnikova) Jennifer Francis A Year in Weather This is mesmerizing to watch for a few minutes: a time lapse map of weather activity across the entire US in 2018. I was thinking it would be instructive to see this sped up a bit more, that perhaps different patterns might reveal themselves, and then I remembered that you can control the playback speed on YouTube videos…just click the gear icon. I think I like the 2X version better. (via @DesignObserver) Watch how smoke, dust, and salt circulate in the Earth’s atmosphere Using a combination of satellite data and mathematical weather models, scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center made this simulation that shows how aerosols like dust, smoke, and salt were circulated in the atmosphere during the 2017 hurricane season. It’s amazing to see how far some of these things spread. During the 2017 hurricane season, the storms are visible because of the sea salt that is captured by the storms. Strong winds at the surface lift the sea salt into the atmosphere and the particles are incorporated into the storm. Hurricane Irma is the first big storm that spawns off the coast of Africa. As the storm spins up, the Saharan dust is absorbed in cloud droplets and washed out of the storm as rain. This process happens with most of the storms, except for Hurricane Ophelia. Forming more northward than most storms, Ophelia traveled to the east picking up dust from the Sahara and smoke from large fires in Portugal. Retaining its tropical storm state farther northward than any system in the Atlantic, Ophelia carried the smoke and dust into Ireland and the UK. I watched this several times to pick up on different things…the hurricanes of course, but also how smoke from the forest fires in the Pacific Northwest makes it all the way to Scotland (!!!) and dust from the Sahara desert makes it to the Caribbean (also !!!). (via phil plait) Update: All that dust from the Sahara blowing across the ocean? Some of the dust, 27 million tons per year on average, is deposited in the Amazon basin in South America, providing the ecosystem there vital phosphorus: This trans-continental journey of dust is important because of what is in the dust, Yu said. Specifically the dust picked up from the Bodélé Depression in Chad, an ancient lake bed where rock minerals composed of dead microorganisms are loaded with phosphorus. Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for plant proteins and growth, which the Amazon rain forest depends on in order to flourish. (via tom whitwell) Monster thunderstorm supercell in Montana This photo of a storm supercell in Montana taken by Ryan Wunsch? Wowza. I can see why people get hooked on chasing these storms about western North America…I’d love to see something like that in person. (via @meredithfrost) Ryan Wunsch Time lapse of a cloud inversion filling the Grand Canyon with an undulating vaporous ocean Usually, the air nearest the Earth is the warmest and it gets cooler as the altitude increases. But sometimes, there’s a meteorological inversion and colder air gets trapped near the ground with a layer of warmer air on top. While working on a dark sky project, Harun Mehmedinovic shot a time lapse movie of a rare cloud inversion in the Grand Canyon, in which the entire canyon is filled nearly to the brim with fluffy clouds. (via colossal) Harun Mehmedinovic Beautiful time lapse of clouds, rain storms, and dust storms Photographer and filmmaker Mike Olbinski shot 85,000 frames at 8K resolution to make this 7-minute time-lapse film of storms of all shapes and sizes doing their thing. Just slip on the headphones, put the video on fullscreen, and then sit back & watch. A tonic for these troubled times. (via slate) Mike Olbinski Storm photography by Mitch Dobrowner Mitch Dobrowner takes wonderfully dramatic black & white photos of clouds and storms from across the plains of the central United States. Dobrowner, who lives in California, became “addicted” to photography as a teen after discovering Ansel Adams and Minor White but then gave it up to spend energy on his career and family. A few years ago, he picked his old obsession back up and these storm photos are the result. (via colossal) Incredible rescue of a women from her sinking car in Baton Rouge floodwaters Louisiana is currently experiencing a 500-year rainstorm, pushing rivers to record highs and causing historic floods. In Baton Rouge, a woman was rescued from her car just before it sank into the water by a courageous rescue crew. Well done, guys. Wind walking atop Mount Washington The top of Mount Washington, in New Hampshire, is one of the windiest places on Earth. In 1934, a windspeed of 231 mph was recorded — a record that stood until a typhoon-powered wind topped 254 mph in Australia — and the wind chill value on a January day in 2004 was -102.59 °F. So, it’s a cold, windy place. Yesterday, the winds on Mount Washington only got up to 109 mph, but it still created the perfect conditions for people to fly themselves like kites and bad conditions for walking. Here’s what living and working up there is like. Wind on the summit is an experience that you can’t just describe to understand. It makes you fully appreciate that air is in fact a fluid and not empty space. It is really impossible to safely face down hundred-mile-per-hour winds almost anywhere else; you’d either be risking your life trying to hike into them (I was exhausted after several minutes of playing in the wind) or risking your life in a hurricane, where flying debris and shrapnel poses a huge threat. (via @EricHolthaus) Update: It is also impossible to eat in high winds. (via @kyleslattery) Snowboarding on the streets of Manhattan Just as he did a couple of years ago, Casey Neistat busted out his board yesterday and went snowboarding behind a 4WD Jeep in the blizzard covered streets of Manhattan. (thx, david) El Nino explained The forecast high temperature for Christmas Eve in New York City is 66°F. What the hell is going on? Climate change? Yes, but mostly the balmy East Coast temps are due to a super-strong El Niño.1 In the video above, Vox explains what El Niño is and how the Pacific weather pattern affects weather around the globe (including the East Coast of the US). El Niño is a weather phenomenon that occurs irregularly in the eastern tropical Pacific every two to seven years. When the trade winds that usually blow from east to west weaken, sea surface temperatures start rising, setting off a chain of atmospheric impacts. El Niños can be strong or weak. Strong events can temporarily disrupt weather patterns around the world, typically making certain regions wetter (Peru or California, say) and others drier (Southeast Asia). Some countries suffer major damage as a result. Although the severity of this and future El Niños may be due to greenhouse warming. Complex systems, yo!↩ Forecasting awesome sunsets A team of three Pennsylvania meteorologists is now providing a coast-to-coast sunset quality forecast. The team behind SunsetWx has already published a thorough methodology of its algorithm and a case study of successfully predicted “vivid” sunsets its first day of forecasting last week. Basically, the model blends high-resolution forecasts of humidity, pressure changes, and clouds at various levels of the atmosphere, weighting wispy upper-level clouds the strongest and penalizing for thick, low-level clouds or average clear sky evenings. They totally called Sunday’s bonkers NYC sunset, so maybe they’re worth a follow. Sunset photo by @AirlineFlyer. Slow motion lightning Slow motion video of a South Dakota lightning storm shot at 2000 fps. I love the little tendrils “sent out” by the clouds before a big strike happens. It’s like nature is searching for the optimal path for the energy to travel and then BAM! Double tornadoes, double rainbows, double hailstones Storm-chasing photographer Kelly DeLay recently took a photo of a massive storm supercell featuring two simultaneous tornadoes. About 30 minutes after snapping that once-in-lifetime photo, DeLay captured a shot of the same supercell with one tornado, a double rainbow, and several streaking hailstones: That’s like the everything bagel of storm photography. (via 500px iso) Kelly DeLay More Stormscapes This time lapse video of storm clouds by Nicolaus Wegner is flat-out incredible, by far the best of its kind. Crank up the sound for this one. Previously: Stormscapes 1. (via bad astronomy) Realtime map of lightning strikes This map showing where lighting strikes are happening right now is kind of great: Average delay is about 3-5 seconds. Make sure you turn the sound up too. That’s the North American map…there are also maps for Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America, although only NA, Europe, and Australia seem to have detectors in place. The detection system is volunteer community effort. Anyone who wants to can buy a detection kit (for around 200 Euro) and hook it up to the Internet to provide strike data. In turn, the data collected from stations is made available to any station owner. See also the wind map of the Earth and the realtime map of global ocean currents. Female hurricanes deadlier than male hurricanes? According to a new study, hurricanes with female names kill more people because Americans are less fearful of storms named after women: The stereotypes that underlie these judgments are subtle and not necessarily hostile toward women — they may involve viewing women as warmer and less aggressive than men. Then again, maybe this study blows… (If your first name is Hurricane, I don’t even care what your last name is.) Other aspects of the team’s analysis didn’t make sense to Lazo. For example, they included indirect deaths in their fatality counts, which includes people who, say, are killed by fallen electrical lines in the clean-up after a storm. “How would gender name influence that sort of fatality?” he asks. He also notes that the damage a hurricane inflicts depends on things like how buildings are constructed, and other actions that we take long before a hurricane is named, or even before it forms. Thunderstorm supercells From Stephen Locke, a time lapse video of thunderstorm supercells forming near Climax, Kansas. Jiminy, that’s breathtaking. I didn’t know there was so much rotation involved in thunderstorms…the entire cloud structure is rotating. (via bad astronomy) Climate change? More like climate changed. According to the National Climate Assessment, climate change has already affected the US in significant ways. This map from the NY Times shows the change in temperatures from around the country, specifically the “1991-2012 average temperature compared with 1901-1960 average”. Among the report’s findings? As I’ve noted before, weather is getting weirder and more bursty, not just hotter. One of the report’s most striking findings concerned the rising frequency of torrential rains. Scientists have expected this effect for decades because more water is evaporating from a warming ocean surface, and the warmer atmosphere is able to hold the excess vapor, which then falls as rain or snow. But even the leading experts have been surprised by the scope of the change. The report found that the eastern half of the country is receiving more precipitation in general. And over the past half-century, the proportion of precipitation that is falling in very heavy rain events has jumped by 71 percent in the Northeast, by 37 percent in the Midwest and by 27 percent in the South, the report found. Nonlinear systems, man. NYC snowboarding This is fucking great and crazy…when the snow hit NYC yesterday, Casey Neistat grabbed his snowboard and went snowboarding behind a Jeep in the East Village. Stormscapes Nicolaus Wegner shot some gorgeous footage of thunderstorms and cloud formations in South Dakota and Wyoming during the summer of 2013. (via devour) The weight of rain In a presentation for the Visualized conference, Jonathan Corum says that he looks for the “weight of rain” when working on data graphics. So when I’m looking at data, or working on an explanatory graphic, these are the moments I’m looking for. Little “Aha!” moments that I can point to, and say “Look here, something happened,” and then try to explain. Often those small moments can help lead a reader into the graphic, or help to explain the whole. The actual non-metaphorical weight of rain is surprisingly heavy; an inch of rain on an acre of land weighs 113.31 tons. Jonathan Corum The weather outside is frightful It sounds odd that a city would be digging out from a few inches of snow. But Atlanta residents were faced with a whole lot of chaos (and even more traffic) when they were hit with some unusually white weather. We’re talking about kids spending the night their schools, commutes a few miles that took more than ten hours, helicopters searching for stranded drivers, and a call to the National Guard for help. From InFocus, here’s a collection of photos that will give you a good idea of what happens when snowstorm hits a population not accustomed to that kind of weather. Talking about the weather used to be a euphemism for talking about nothing. Now it can mean talking about everything. Update: This is the best post I read about the snowfall in the South. But if you’re making light of the situation, or more realistically using it to reinforce your view of the South and the people in it as full of backwards blubberers, you are an asshole. It’s hard to remember sometimes, but things are different in places you do not personally live. When it snows where you live, the salt and the snowplows are out on the streets before you even wake up. When you talk about six inches of snow in your city, you are almost definitely talking about six inches of snow on the median strip and shoulder, and highways that are slick, but clear. I’d take that over two inches of snow and ice on every major road any day. When it snows where you live, it is the latest in a string of snowfalls that date back centuries. You own a car with four-wheel-drive for that very purpose. You may even own snow tires. This is great! You are prepared. But waking up in Birmingham to snow is like waking up in New Hampshire to quicksand. Wind map of the Earth You’ve probably seen the cool wind map of the US, but there’s one for the whole Earth now. (via df) Big Thanksgiving storm brewing on the east coast? The internet’s resident meteorologist Eric Holthaus (who incidentally has given up flying because of climate change) warns that a major storm could be on its way to the East Coast in time for Thanksgiving and Hanukkah (which overlap this year and then not again until the year 79811). Technically, the storm is a nor’easter but is looking more like a tropical storm in the computer models: At this point, the most likely scenario would be cold, wind-driven rain in the big coastal US cities, with up to a foot of snow stretching from inland New England as far south as the Carolinas. The cold would stick around after the storm exits, with high temperatures in the 20s and wind chills possibly in the single digits as far south as New Jersey on Black Friday. According to this afternoon’s iteration of the Euro model (a meteorological model that famously predicted superstorm Sandy’s rare left hook into New Jersey six days out), at the storm’s peak, wind gusts on Cape Cod could approach hurricane force. We’re still a ways out, so things might change, but travel safely next week, folks. (via @marcprecipice) Eric Holthaus New weather site: Forecast From the team that brought you Dark Sky, an app that has saved (or at least kept dry) my bacon more times than I can count, comes Forecast, a weather web site that incorporates several of the features that made Dark Sky great. From the announcement: Rather than cram these things into Dark Sky, we decided to do something grander: create our own full-featured weather service from scratch, complete with 7-day forecasts that cover the whole world, beautiful weather visualizations, and a time machine for exploring the weather in the past and far future. You can access it from all of your devices, whether it be your laptop, iPhone, Android phone, or tablet. On top of all that, we’re providing this data to other developers, in the hopes that a truly independent weather community can thrive in the era of increasing corporate consolidation.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1383
__label__wiki	0.626602	0.626602	Home › News & Gossip BET To Air Full Day Of Programming Dedicated To Prince On First Anniversary Of His Death A proper way to honor the legend. Danielle Jennings It’s hard to believe that almost a year ago one of the most innovative and unforgettable music legends passed awat. April 21 will mark the first anniversary of Prince’s death and while many fans still find it hard to grasp that he is no longer with us, BET is committed to showing him the proper respect. Source: getty / Getty BET has just announced that the network will devote an entire day of programming to the legacy of Prince. BET, BET Soul, BET Jams and Centric are all involved in the broadcasting tribute. Shadow and Act has the full details. The Prince tribute line-up includes: — BET HONORS PRINCE: Last year, the world lost the singer-songwriter, actor, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and dancer Prince Rogers Nelson. To remember and celebrate the artistic genius of this Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, as the 1-year anniversary of his passing approaches, the network will air a multiplatform slate of programming Friday, April 21. — BET – 2016 BET AWARDS (RE-AIR) HIGHLIGHT: an all-star tribute featuring Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu, Janelle Monáe, Jennifer Hudson, The Roots, Prince’s long time friend Sheila E. and others influenced by his music. — BET SOUL Beginning at 6:00AM, 24 hours of Prince and Prince protégé videos and live performances — BET JAMS Prince-themed music videos will be airing at these hours: 9AM, 12PM, 5PM, 8PM, 1AM and 4AM ET — CENTRIC Prince-themed programming ALL morning from 4:00 – 10:00AM In addition to television programming, BET will also roll out these social media tributes: The BET and CENTRIC TV Logo will be purple on all BET social media platforms. There will be live tweets broadcast on air all day with the Twitter hashtag #BETRemembersPrince starting on April 19. Also, a funny Top 10 countdown of Prince’s shadiest moments called The Shades of Prince and celebrity confessionals revealing where they were when they learned of Prince’s passing, his influence on their careers, and what his life meant to them. Check out today’s Top Stories here: https://hellobeautiful.com/2936309/aaron-hernandez-suicide/ https://hellobeautiful.com/2936214/keshia-knight-pulliam-reportedly-concerned-for-infant-daughters-safety-around-ed-hartwell/ BET To Air Full Day Of Programming Dedicated To Prince On First Anniversary Of His Death was originally published on hellobeautiful.com BET Network , celebrity news , Entertainment News , music news , prince , prince anniversary , prince tribute , TV news	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1402
__label__cc	0.671128	0.328872	Evidence for the associated production of the Higgs boson and a top quark pair with the ATLAS detector (ATLAS Collaboration) Research Center for Advanced Particle Physics A search for the associated production of the Higgs boson with a top quark pair (ttH) is reported. The search is performed in multilepton final states using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at a center-of-mass energy s=13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. Higgs boson decays to WW∗, ττ, and ZZ∗ are targeted. Seven final states, categorized by the number and flavor of charged-lepton candidates, are examined for the presence of the Standard Model Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV and a pair of top quarks. An excess of events over the expected background from Standard Model processes is found with an observed significance of 4.1 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 2.8 standard deviations. The best fit for the ttH production cross section is σ(ttH)=790-210+230 fb, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction of 507-50+35 fb. The combination of this result with other ttH searches from the ATLAS experiment using the Higgs boson decay modes to bb, γγ and ZZ∗→4, has an observed significance of 4.2 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 3.8 standard deviations. This provides evidence for the ttH production mode. Physical Review D Higgs bosons (ATLAS Collaboration) (2018). Evidence for the associated production of the Higgs boson and a top quark pair with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D, 97(7), [072003]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072003 Evidence for the associated production of the Higgs boson and a top quark pair with the ATLAS detector. / (ATLAS Collaboration). In: Physical Review D, Vol. 97, No. 7, 072003, 01.04.2018. (ATLAS Collaboration) 2018, 'Evidence for the associated production of the Higgs boson and a top quark pair with the ATLAS detector', Physical Review D, vol. 97, no. 7, 072003. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072003 (ATLAS Collaboration). Evidence for the associated production of the Higgs boson and a top quark pair with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D. 2018 Apr 1;97(7). 072003. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072003 (ATLAS Collaboration). / Evidence for the associated production of the Higgs boson and a top quark pair with the ATLAS detector. 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An excess of events over the expected background from Standard Model processes is found with an observed significance of 4.1 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 2.8 standard deviations. The best fit for the ttH production cross section is σ(ttH)=790-210+230 fb, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction of 507-50+35 fb. The combination of this result with other ttH searches from the ATLAS experiment using the Higgs boson decay modes to bb, γγ and ZZ∗→4, has an observed significance of 4.2 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 3.8 standard deviations. This provides evidence for the ttH production mode.", author = "{(ATLAS Collaboration)} and M. Aaboud and G. Aad and B. Abbott and O. Abdinov and B. Abeloos and Abidi, {S. H.} and Abouzeid, {O. S.} and Abraham, {N. L.} and H. Abramowicz and H. Abreu and Y. Abulaiti and Acharya, {B. S.} and S. Adachi and L. Adamczyk and J. Adelman and M. Adersberger and T. Adye and Affolder, {A. A.} and Y. Afik and C. 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The search is performed in multilepton final states using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at a center-of-mass energy s=13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. Higgs boson decays to WW∗, ττ, and ZZ∗ are targeted. Seven final states, categorized by the number and flavor of charged-lepton candidates, are examined for the presence of the Standard Model Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV and a pair of top quarks. An excess of events over the expected background from Standard Model processes is found with an observed significance of 4.1 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 2.8 standard deviations. The best fit for the ttH production cross section is σ(ttH)=790-210+230 fb, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction of 507-50+35 fb. The combination of this result with other ttH searches from the ATLAS experiment using the Higgs boson decay modes to bb, γγ and ZZ∗→4, has an observed significance of 4.2 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 3.8 standard deviations. This provides evidence for the ttH production mode. AB - A search for the associated production of the Higgs boson with a top quark pair (ttH) is reported. The search is performed in multilepton final states using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at a center-of-mass energy s=13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. Higgs boson decays to WW∗, ττ, and ZZ∗ are targeted. Seven final states, categorized by the number and flavor of charged-lepton candidates, are examined for the presence of the Standard Model Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV and a pair of top quarks. An excess of events over the expected background from Standard Model processes is found with an observed significance of 4.1 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 2.8 standard deviations. The best fit for the ttH production cross section is σ(ttH)=790-210+230 fb, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction of 507-50+35 fb. The combination of this result with other ttH searches from the ATLAS experiment using the Higgs boson decay modes to bb, γγ and ZZ∗→4, has an observed significance of 4.2 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 3.8 standard deviations. This provides evidence for the ttH production mode. U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072003 DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072003 JO - Physical Review D JF - Physical Review D 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072003	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1403
__label__wiki	0.709001	0.709001	Ground uplift related to permeability enhancement following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in the Kanto Plain, Japan 6. Geodesy Kazuya Ishitsuka, Toshifumi Matsuoka, Takuya Nishimura, Takeshi Tsuji, Tamer Elgharbawi Earth Science and Technology We investigated the post-seismic surface displacement of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake around the Kanto Plain (including the capital area of Japan), which is located approximately 400 km from the epicenter, using a global positioning system network during 2005-2015 and persistent scatterer interferometry of TerraSAR-X data from March 2011 to November 2012. Uniform uplift owing to viscoelastic relaxation and afterslip on the plain has been reported previously. In addition to the general trend, we identified areas where the surface displacement velocity was faster than the surrounding areas, as much as ~7 mm/year for 3 years after the earthquake and with a velocity decay over time. Local uplift areas were ~30 × 50 km2 and showed a complex spatial distribution with an irregular shape. Based on an observed groundwater level increase, we deduce that the local ground uplift was induced by a permeability enhancement and a pore pressure increase in the aquifer system, which is attributable to mainshock vibration. earth, planets and space Tohoku earthquake 2011 TerraSAR-X earthquake epicenter pore pressure Ishitsuka, K., Matsuoka, T., Nishimura, T., Tsuji, T., & Elgharbawi, T. (2017). Ground uplift related to permeability enhancement following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in the Kanto Plain, Japan 6. Geodesy. earth, planets and space, 69(1), [81]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-017-0666-7 Ground uplift related to permeability enhancement following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in the Kanto Plain, Japan 6. Geodesy. / Ishitsuka, Kazuya; Matsuoka, Toshifumi; Nishimura, Takuya; Tsuji, Takeshi; Elgharbawi, Tamer. In: earth, planets and space, Vol. 69, No. 1, 81, 01.12.2017. Ishitsuka, K, Matsuoka, T, Nishimura, T, Tsuji, T & Elgharbawi, T 2017, 'Ground uplift related to permeability enhancement following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in the Kanto Plain, Japan 6. Geodesy', earth, planets and space, vol. 69, no. 1, 81. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-017-0666-7 Ishitsuka K, Matsuoka T, Nishimura T, Tsuji T, Elgharbawi T. Ground uplift related to permeability enhancement following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in the Kanto Plain, Japan 6. Geodesy. earth, planets and space. 2017 Dec 1;69(1). 81. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-017-0666-7 Ishitsuka, Kazuya ; Matsuoka, Toshifumi ; Nishimura, Takuya ; Tsuji, Takeshi ; Elgharbawi, Tamer. / Ground uplift related to permeability enhancement following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in the Kanto Plain, Japan 6. Geodesy. In: earth, planets and space. 2017 ; Vol. 69, No. 1. @article{3ed927bb10bf4e1a8df94b3813ca80be, title = "Ground uplift related to permeability enhancement following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in the Kanto Plain, Japan 6. Geodesy", abstract = "We investigated the post-seismic surface displacement of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake around the Kanto Plain (including the capital area of Japan), which is located approximately 400 km from the epicenter, using a global positioning system network during 2005-2015 and persistent scatterer interferometry of TerraSAR-X data from March 2011 to November 2012. Uniform uplift owing to viscoelastic relaxation and afterslip on the plain has been reported previously. In addition to the general trend, we identified areas where the surface displacement velocity was faster than the surrounding areas, as much as ~7 mm/year for 3 years after the earthquake and with a velocity decay over time. Local uplift areas were ~30 × 50 km2 and showed a complex spatial distribution with an irregular shape. Based on an observed groundwater level increase, we deduce that the local ground uplift was induced by a permeability enhancement and a pore pressure increase in the aquifer system, which is attributable to mainshock vibration.", author = "Kazuya Ishitsuka and Toshifumi Matsuoka and Takuya Nishimura and Takeshi Tsuji and Tamer Elgharbawi", journal = "Earth, Planets and Space", publisher = "Terra Scientific Publishing Company", T1 - Ground uplift related to permeability enhancement following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in the Kanto Plain, Japan 6. 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Based on an observed groundwater level increase, we deduce that the local ground uplift was induced by a permeability enhancement and a pore pressure increase in the aquifer system, which is attributable to mainshock vibration. AB - We investigated the post-seismic surface displacement of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake around the Kanto Plain (including the capital area of Japan), which is located approximately 400 km from the epicenter, using a global positioning system network during 2005-2015 and persistent scatterer interferometry of TerraSAR-X data from March 2011 to November 2012. Uniform uplift owing to viscoelastic relaxation and afterslip on the plain has been reported previously. In addition to the general trend, we identified areas where the surface displacement velocity was faster than the surrounding areas, as much as ~7 mm/year for 3 years after the earthquake and with a velocity decay over time. Local uplift areas were ~30 × 50 km2 and showed a complex spatial distribution with an irregular shape. Based on an observed groundwater level increase, we deduce that the local ground uplift was induced by a permeability enhancement and a pore pressure increase in the aquifer system, which is attributable to mainshock vibration. JO - Earth, Planets and Space JF - Earth, Planets and Space	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1404
__label__wiki	0.654866	0.654866	LER Expert Consultation LER Pediatrics Editorial Supplements Author Guidlines (PDF) Turning Objective Data into Treatment A Real-World Approach to Diabetic Footcare Orthotic management of CMT: Dynamic solutions for active lifestyles In Step With Pediatric Hypotonia – 2014 LER: Special Editorial Supplements Author Guidelines (PDF) Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome Remains a Challenge for Clinicians, Painful for Patients iStockphoto.com #821820304 While most agree it is an overuse injury, treating MTSS (aka shin splints) should involve rest, proper diet, and sometimes avoiding NSAIDS. By Cary Groner It’s been decades since I had a case of shin splints, but I remember vividly how painful it was. I was 20 years old and overtraining—especially given the sorry state of my running shoes—and I felt as if I had a burning coal lodged along the medial side of my left shank. Every step hurt. In those days, sports medicine was relatively primitive; I visited a doctor, but his best treatment suggestion was to run a hefty six-inch needle down through the length of the sore area and inject it at intervals with corticosteroids. I didn’t know much about shin splints, but I knew a crazy idea when I heard one, so I declined his offer and hightailed it out of there. We now call this condition medial tibial stress syndrome, or MTSS, and the good news is that our understanding of it has improved significantly. The bad news is that treatment options, while no longer in the Dark Ages, are still far from optimal. Defining Terms MTSS is a common overuse injury consisting of exercise-induced pain over the anterior tibia; incidence runs as high as 20% in runners and up to 35% in military recruits, and it accounts for roughly 16% of all running injuries.1,2 The site of bony injury usually has an overlying periostitis (inflammation of the tissue around the bone) that correlates with the tendonous attachments of the soleus, flexor digitorum longus, and posterior tibialis. Cause and effect can be shaky, though; it isn’t clear whether the periostitis precedes cortical microtrauma or follows it.3 MTSS is usually stubborn, in any case, with recovery measured in months.4 Although overtraining is generally recognized as the primary cause of MTSS, other risk factors are still being elucidated. A 2013 meta-analysis, by researchers at the University of Canberra in Australia, reported that several factors appeared important including female gender, body mass index (BMI), fewer years of running experience, and navicular drop.5 Phillip Newman, PhD, that study’s lead author, told LER that he became interested in MTSS because as a military trainer his treatment outcomes for it were poor. “It was frustrating,” he said. “I really wanted to identify the best evidence. The papers we reviewed investigated more than 70 risk factors, but only 8 or 9 ended up having a strong evidence base behind them.” Newman, who is a clinical associate professor of physical therapy at the university’s Research Institute for Sport and Exercise, noted that although clarifying risk factors has been helpful, many of those (such as gender) aren’t easily modifiable. This elevates the importance of addressing aspects of those risks via training and therapy when possible. For example, women may be more prone to MTSS because of “female athlete triad”—high levels of physical activity that can lead to hormonal and menstrual disturbances.6,7 “Combine that with less than optimal nutrition, and musculoskeletal breakdown quickly follows,” Newman explained. “Lower body weight and BMI is one marker for that problem, and in that sense the syndrome can also occur in males.” Risk factors such as BMI, that is, may not present in the obvious way. While overweight athletes increase their risk of MTSS due to the increased stress placed on bone and adjacent tissues, underweight ones do too. “Women are probably more prone to the triad and the low energy availability that comes with it, but they also tend to be less muscular and more often hypermobile than men,” Newman pointed out. “That makes me wonder if their increased risk results from a combination of those factors.” Gender might not be easily modifiable, in other words, but an alert trainer would know when an athlete of either sex was taking in too few calories to balance hormones and repair or replace bone—and that’s an easier intervention to make. Michael Chang, MD, an orthopedist in private practice in Los Angeles, agreed. “The triad increases risk because the body can’t handle the exercise stress,” he said. “If you can’t remodel the bone to manage that, you’re more likely to have problems, including stress fractures.” Newman’s findings in the 2013 paper were sometimes perplexing. For example, his team reported that although pronated foot structure was not ultimately a significant risk factor for MTSS, navicular drop was. Given that the latter is often considered a component of a pronated foot, this raised obvious questions. “I don’t fully understand it,” Newman admitted. “Assessing pronation can be subjective, and involves a variety of measures including calcaneal angle, forefoot and rearfoot angles, arch height, and so on. Navicular drop, by contrast, is a simple, objective measure that may signify hypermobility as well as pronation. This may suggest that training the foot muscles is important in prevention and treatment of MTSS.” More recent studies have reported that MTSS may be associated with passive range of motion, muscle strength, plantar pressure distributions, and gait kinematics;8 and with BMI, navicular drop, and some ranges of motion.2 A better understanding of risk factors may help clinicians diagnose MTSS more readily, particularly given that imaging can’t easily identify the problem.9 Part of the diagnosis involves differentiating MTSS from other conditions that may present similarly, however, in which case imaging becomes useful. Care is required because although MTSS itself isn’t considered serious, those other problems—tibial stress fractures and exertional compartment syndrome—can be. Clinicians can often tell the difference between MTSS and a stress fracture simply by location, Newman said. “Stress fractures are usually much more localized to the top half of the tibia, whereas MTSS is typically in a five-centimeter spread in the distal half.” Chang noted that how the patient describes the problem is often a key to differential diagnosis. “You ask them where it hurts and watch their response,” Chang said. “If they have MTSS, they usually rub their hand up and down the medial side of the tibia and say, ‘It hurts from here to here.’ If they have a stress fracture, they’ll point with their index finger and say, ‘It hurts right here.’ It’s very point-specific.” Chang likes to start with a plain x-ray, but will order an MRI if he suspects a fracture that isn’t visible on x-ray. Compartment syndrome, by contrast, is a sudden-onset emergency that results when injury to a muscle causes so much edema that it cuts off circulation and the tissue begins to die. “If you see the classic P’s—paresthesia, pulselessness, and pallor—and the anterior or lateral compartment is hard as a rock, they should go straight to the ER or to an orthopedist for treatment,” Chang said. The Nature of the Beast MTSS is frustrating to treat partly because no one knows exactly what sort of problem it is. Some experts think it occurs primarily in the bone due to the stresses placed on it; others suspect the periosteal tissues, since that’s often where most of the pain lies; still others propose the adjacent muscles and tendons as an initial source of weakness, from which the subsequent problems arise.1 “We still don’t know exactly what structure is the source of pain,” said Newman. “It could have something to do with the interface between muscle and bone in the lower tibia—how robust the bone and periosteal tissue is in an individual. Bone and muscle have a strong physiologic relationship—muscle signals to bone and vice versa—so when one of them is under stress, the other responds accordingly. When you have a site like that of MTSS, where muscle doesn’t directly attach to bone, it may be more susceptible to undetected load.” Michael Gross, PT, PhD, a professor of physical therapy at the University of North Carolina, told LER that he suspects several causes for MTSS. …clarifying risk factors has been helpful, [however] many, such as gender, aren’t easily modifiable. This elevates the importance of addressing aspects of those risks via training and therapy when possible. Phillip Newman, PhD “When you’ve got a condition that’s multifactorial, it’s difficult to draw a link between variable A and pathology B,” he acknowledged. “But the typical location of pain in MTSS suggests to me that it could be related to pronation, which can be driven by tibial varum, forefoot varus, and tight triceps surae. That in turn could lead to passive stretching of the tibialis posterior and tugging on the periosteum.” Gross has seen enough patients with excessive curvature of the tibia in both the frontal and sagittal planes that he’s come to suspect that as a contributing cause of stress fractures. “Would that be associated with MTSS, though?” he asked. “It’s hard for me to buy into that story.” Increasingly, researchers speculate that MTSS and tibial stress fractures may represent a continuum of injuries that share common sources. For example, several studies have proposed bone stress, a result of tibial bending and remodeling, as a likely cause of MTSS symptoms.5 “A lot of variables go into this,” said Chang. “Is there a continuum? We think there is. Can it be influenced? We really don’t know.” Kenneth Cameron, PhD, MPH, ATC, is the director of orthopedic and sports medicine research at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He’s writing a position statement on MTSS for the National Athletic Trainers Association, and he too considers these conditions part of a whole. “We have a lot of experience with MTSS in military populations, and I think these injuries do occur on a continuum,” he said. “That includes periostitis, probably caused by muscle forces on the bone, all the way up to stress fractures.” For Newman, data to assess all this would include finite element models that better analyze where stresses occur in the running gait cycle. “That would help us understand loading patterns, how leg muscles absorb ground reaction forces, and so on,” he said. As it happens, researchers at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia, have recently undertaken a study that may help. Karen Mickle, PhD, a research fellow at the university’s Institute for Health and Sport, together with her PhD student Joshua Mattock of the University of Wollongong, hope to shed light on whether lower-leg muscle strength and morphology affect the type of tibial bending that leads to stress fractures and possibly to MTSS.10 “I’m a coach as well as a researcher, and I’m particularly interested in how foot- and leg-muscle weakness can contribute to injuries,” Mickle said. “We see MTSS a lot in our distance runners, and I’d like to keep them injury free.” Mickle and her colleagues will study two groups of runners, both of which will receive the same initial assessments, including foot-posture index and cross-sectional thickness measures of the tibialis anterior, the peroneals, the soleus, the flexor digitorum longus, the flexor hallucis longus, and the gastrocs—as well as strength assessments of those muscles. The researchers will also assess subjects’ bone density via ultrasound, and measure kinematics, EMG, and plantar pressure during treadmill tests. The first cohort comprises uninjured runners who will commit to 30K of running weekly for the next year (or until they’re injured); the second group will consist of runners who’ve been running at that level but have recently developed symptoms suggestive of MTSS. Mickle won’t ask them to keep up that training load, obviously, but she does want to assess them before they cut back, to remove the atrophy variable from the equation. “We’re interested in how these muscles might be protecting the bone by absorbing ground reaction forces,” Mickle said. “We want to see, prospectively, how structure and function may differ in those who develop MTSS versus those who don’t.” Although results won’t be available for a year, Mickle said, preliminary data suggest that subjects without MTSS have significantly stronger calves than those who do. However, subjects with MTSS had thicker gastrocs than those without it, even though overall calf girth was roughly the same. It seems paradoxical, but in fact it may not be. “This may suggest some difference in those deeper plantar flexor muscles,” Mickle said. “I’d like to determine what role these muscles play, because that suggests an approach to rehab and training that could be tailored to the individual athlete with MTSS.” Training and Rehab Despite the ongoing uncertainties about the source of MTSS, physicians and trainers have achieved a rough consensus about how best to prevent it from occurring and treat it when it does. “I think the most important is the training plan,” said Kenneth Cameron. “If you have a proper plan with progressive increases in distance and intensity, you’re much less likely to experience a tibial stress injury.” For those who have been injured, rest is vital, he added. “Both rest and diet—avoiding energy deficiency—are really important. There’s also compelling evidence emerging that NSAIDs should not be used with bone stress injury, as they may inhibit healing.”11 Said Mike Gross, “Mainly you want to settle down the tissue using ice, and address overuse issues. Get them to lose weight if they need to. Cycling is a good way for these patients to exercise, especially if you position the malleoli over the pedal so the plantar flexors get a rest.” Michael Chang emphasized that in the case of MTSS, rest doesn’t mean all rest. “Ideally, you want to identify the training error, then fall back to a lower level of activity to allow the healing process to occur,” he said. “You want to maintain some level of fitness while allowing the injury to heal—not based on time, but on symptoms.” Cary Groner is a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay area. Winters M. The diagnosis and management of medial tibial stress syndrome : an evidence update. Unfallchirurg. 2019. Winkelmann ZK, Anderson D, Games KE, Eberman LE. 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__label__wiki	0.677479	0.677479	RYA Scotland become the first Sports Governing Body to receive the LGBT Charter We were thrilled to have Joe Fitzpatrick MSP, the Minister for Public Health, Sport and Wellbeing, present RYA Scotland with the LGBT Charter award at the 4th sportscotland Equalities and Inclusion Conference at Hampden Park this week. RYA Scotland are the first Sports governing body to receive the LGBT Charter. Receiving the Charter Certificate from the Minister, James Allan Chief Executive Officer of RYA Scotland said: “Since achieving the Sport Councils Advanced Equality Standard in 2016, we knew we needed a better understanding of the LGBT+ community and their connection to boating in Scotland. LGBT Youth Scotland have challenged and supported us along this journey and we have made changes to our principles, policies and practice as a result of our learning. At the same time we have found great confidence in our existing approaches to inclusion and equality in general and have developed a deeper appreciation of just how embedded equality truly is across our sport. Completing the Foundation level of the Charter sends a very positive message that RYA Scotland is a champion of LGBT inclusion. It is a reflection of the inclusive nature of boating across Scotland and our commitment to our strategy that boating in Scotland is ‘A Place for Everyone’” Jane Griffin, Head of Partnerships at LGBT Youth Scotland said. “As a member of the boating community myself I’m especially proud of the work RYA Scotland has undertaken as part of their LGBT Charter journey. They have reached out far and wide into the community, involving people in all areas of boating and putting real thought into their inclusive practice. They have shared their learning with partners across the UK and are absolutely focused on making boating in Scotland a place where everyone is welcome and free to be themselves. We look forward to continuing to work with the team in the future.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1421
__label__wiki	0.770943	0.770943	15154 Mulholland Drive, Bel Air, CA 90077 BY Gary Gold 15154 Mulholland Drive, Bel Air, CA 90077 15154 Mulholland Drive, Bel... 15154 Mulholland ... FURNISHED LEASE: A one-of-a-kind, original Mid Century Modern jewel up a long driveway on legendary Mulholland Drive. This masterpiece offers sweeping panoramic city light views. Renowned Case Study architect Rodney Walker designed and dwelled in this private compound that he built-in 1950. Newly updated and fully furnished with sleek, geometric Mid Century forms, this 3 bedroom open-floor-plan design seamlessly blends clean lines of steel, wood, and glass. Walker's unique architectural sensibilities abound throughout. Fleetwood sliding doors harmoniously merge indoor and outdoor living. Interior details include newly updated bathrooms and kitchens, epoxy-metallic concrete floors and a wood-burning fireplace The backyard with stunning views features an "Endless Pool" with multiple lounging & entertaining areas and a grassy lawn. There is ample parking, a Tesla charger in a double carport, Ring doorbell and a newly landscaped private entry. Room for 8 cars to park on the property. check_box_outline_blank sqft select_all sqft home yr Gary Gold VIEW PORTFOLIO Gary@SoldByGold.net http://soldbygold.net/ Gary Gold is a marquee name in luxury real estate and his sale of The Playboy Mansion sets a record as the first residence to sell over $100,000,000 in Los Angeles. Gary is also one of its most successful trend setting agents. He’s an internationally recognized expert known for his creative use of technology, marketing and publicity to sell some of the finest homes in the world. Gary has sold thousands of estates and luxury properties over the course of his career and is a sought after speaker at industry conferences. Gary has been cited as an expert for publications and broadcasts that include CNN, Fortune, Barron’s, Wall Street Journal and The London Telegraph. Gary Gold began his career in real estate over 25 years ago and has been a top producer with Hilton & Hyland since its inception. More Properties by Gary Gold • FOR SALE $22,980,000 5.0bd 8.0ba 10050sqft 9719 Heather Rd, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, USA $6,745,000 5.0bd 8.0ba 6674sqft 16133 Alcima Ave, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272, USA • SOLD 5331 Shenandoah Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90056, USA • FOR LEASE $20,000 3.0bd 5.0ba 3478sqft 1440 Stone Canyon Rd, Bel-Air, CA 90077, USA $19,800,000 6.0bd 6.0ba 6200sqft 30 Portuguese Bend Rd, Rolling Hills, CA 90274, USA 7812 Veragua Dr, Playa Del Rey, CA 90293, USA 155 S Medio Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90049, USA 9311 Readcrest Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, USA © All Rights Reserved 2020 - ListingZen - Real Estate Property SEARCH \| MANAGE \| DISTRIBUTE	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1427
__label__wiki	0.582677	0.582677	Home 24/7 Banyan Tree Holdings Prepares for Disruption to Steer New Directions Pacific, Banyan Tree Holdings Prepares for Disruption to Steer New Directions Source: Media Outreach SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 16 December 2019 – Known as an innovative disruptor with responsible entrepreneurship at its heart, Banyan Tree Holdings strengthens its founding competitive edge in people to future proof its mission of sustainable value creation for all stakeholders. L-R: Banyan Tree Group’s big family celebrating its 25th Anniversary; Founder and Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings Mr Ho Kwon Ping receiving the HICAP Lifetime Achievement Award from The BHN Group President Mr Jeff Higley; Annual Talent Development Programme. Celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year, Banyan Tree Holdings continues to stand tall as one of the few steadfastly independent hospitality companies in a rapidly consolidating industry. “Set against an increasingly competitive and uncertain landscape, we are now in the middle of the river of change. We have left the home bank but not reached the safety of the farshore. And we need to be aware that we are in this zone. Being an independent company is to our advantage for timely business decisions and expansions. We have the conviction and the game plan of using our Group’s size to play to our strengths – being nimble and responsive to change. With an emphasis on integration, process redesign and strengthening of our digital infrastructure, we are confident of stronger brand delivery and performance as we step into the next 25 years and beyond,” said Mr Ho Kwon Ping, Founder and Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings. Catalysing the next phase of growth, the Group is staking its edge on its agile organisational structure and lateral capabilities of an integrated hospitality ecosystem. It has evolved from a boutique chain to a multi-branded global hospitality leader in its own right, with a footprint set to double in the next five years and consistent brand recognition with over 140 awards in 2019 and 2535 awards won since inception. This year, the list included – Published and distributed with permission of Media-Outreach.com. Previous articleSirex connects startups and investors with IEO Plus Next articleSnell’s contribution to Massey remembered http://www.livenews.co.nz Kids to get a taste of triathlon Children’s Commissioner releases snapshot Spiralling DHB deficits prove the pie is too small UN landmark case for people displaced by climate change Business – Orignair’s new Nelson-Wellington Route Welcomed by Business	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1429
__label__wiki	0.678142	0.678142	Featured News Pastors Politics Hillary Clinton’s Pastor’s Book Pulled From Shelves For “Massive Plagiarism” Oops! Birds of a feather, huh?You might recall Hillary Clinton recently saying she wanted to become a pastor. Yes, true story!When asked what motivated that decision, she cited her pastor, Bill Shillady, as her inspiration.Well, I Birds of a feather, huh? You might recall Hillary Clinton recently saying she wanted to become a pastor. Yes, true story! When asked what motivated that decision, she cited her pastor, Bill Shillady, as her inspiration. Well, I know this will shock some of you, but Hillary Clinton just can’t stop associating with shady characters. Hey, “shady” and “Shillady” sound almost the same! How about that. Read More: The Clinton Kill List Piles Up! Read More: Hillary Clinton Claims to Commune With the Spirit Of Eleanor Roosevelt Now comes news that the Reverend Shillady is reported to have plagiarized most of his book. So much so that it’s being pulled from shelves. Oh, say it ain’t so, Shady Shillady! Way to go Hillary, you sure know how to pick winners….kind of like when you picked yourself to win as President! LOL! Price Disclaimer Here are more details, from The Washington Post: Hillary Clinton said that the email her spiritual adviser, the Rev. Bill Shillady, sent her on the morning after she lost the 2016 presidential election helped her heal from her devastating defeat. It wasn’t until months later, when Shillady published that email in a book, that it came to light that he had plagiarized the words that so moved the candidate. Now, less than a month after the book’s publication, the publishing house that printed it says it is pulling the book off the shelves because it’s riddled with plagiarism. “Abingdon Press initiated an extensive review of the book and was alarmed to discover other content unattributed by the author. Abingdon Press has zero tolerance for plagiarism,” the Rev. Brian K. Milford, the president of the publishing company, said in a statement. “Consequently, we have discontinued sales, will remove existing copies from all sales outlets, and will have them destroyed along with our existing inventory.” Shillady, who did not respond to a Washington Post reporter’s call on Tuesday evening, sent an emailed statement: “I deeply regret my actions. I was wrong and there is no excuse for it. I apologize to those whose work I mistakenly did not attribute. I apologize to those I have disappointed, including Secretary Hillary Clinton, Abingdon Press, and all the writers and others who have helped me publish and promote this book. I ask for everyone’s forgiveness.” His book, “Strong for a Moment Like This,” compiled the emails that he and other pastors sent to Clinton every morning of her campaign. She read the morning emails, which contained a biblical passage, a short sermon and a prayer, throughout her grueling run for president. Please comment below, we’d love to hear your thoughts! mashsb_jsonshares: {"total":0,"error":"","facebook_shares":0,"twitter":0,"facebook_total":74,"facebook_likes":"74","facebook_comments":"0"}	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1430
__label__wiki	0.667188	0.667188	SmackDown LIVE Highlight Rundown – Orton and Styles Have a War of Words (3/12/19) Scott Edwards Photo: WWE SmackDown LIVE followed an up and down Monday Night Raw, with a chance to capitalize on some hot angles coming from WWE Fastlane. From Shane McMahon turning on The Miz, to what is next with the WWE Championship, it was a guarantee that this episode would be must see. And it ended up being very good, with lots of questions answered and matches made. Let’s get into it. The Viper goes after The Phenomenal One For weeks now, Randy Orton has inserted himself in multiple AJ Styles interviews, either leaving a comment that doesn’t sit well with Styles or would seemingly look down on Styles in the process. At Fastlane, AJ Styles got Orton back finally after all these weeks when he surprised him with a Phenomenal Forearm. When it comes to last night on SmackDown, Randy Orton went for the kill with some of the words he said. He didn’t understand the thought that SmackDown LIVE was the house that AJ Styles built considering Orton has been there since 2002 while Styles was wrestling in front of 12 people for $10 a night. And how he became the youngest WWE Champion in history in 2004 while Styles was shaking hands with opponents in the bingo halls. Finally, when Orton brought up 2005, the line that had fans buzzing said. “In 2005, AJ was in Florida getting a tan with Dixie Carter and I was facing The Undertaker at WrestleMania.” While this comment was far and away from the last burn of the night between these two, it was certainly one that brought the buzz that the WWE wanted. Randy would relay that he was here until Style’s arrival in the WWE being a world champion in the biggest company in the world while it took him so long to even get there. Orton was on fire here, getting to the point that he built this house, not Styles, long before he even got there in fact. Styles finally had enough and made his way out to the ring. Styles would make the point that guys built like Randy Orton couldn’t hang with guys on the indies. He would even continue to say that Orton’s RKO was just a knock off Diamond Cutter. But Orton wasn’t going down silent, asking Styles if he could really say that he and none of his “indie pals” never ripped anyone off, hitting him with the “Too Sweet”. They continued in what was an awesome back and forth, discussing how Styles’ indie pals are surrounding Orton in the backstage now, how they earned their way while Randy always had help by the likes of Evolution, Legacy, Rated RKO, and even The Wyatt Family. Orton said Styles doesn’t get to choose if he has the upper hand or not, and hit Styles with the best line of the night; “As long as you want to rent a room out in my house, see I’m the landlord and rents due you son of a bitch” which had the crowd gasping. Styles would response in the best way possible, saying he can get his rent, but it will be at WrestleMania. This entire segment was money by both Orton and Styles, as it becomes very clear that this may already be one of the hottest feuds heading into the biggest show of them all. Becky Lynch Drops the Mic on Charlotte Flair “The Man” Becky Lynch was out to finally talk about her opportunity that she earned back, as she also seemingly laughed at the number of roadblocks she faced despite winning the Royal Rumble back in January. She continued saying how this match was always her, she put it in motion when she chose Ronda Rousey, and of course Charlotte was added by Vince McMahon but that would not stop her. She brought up playing Rousey like a fiddle, getting her so riled up that she eventually did Becky’s bidding for her. Lynch continued to go at Rousey because the rivalry here is still between these two and no one can truly understand Charlotte’s spot. Charlotte made her way out to bring up the fact that while Becky was getting suspended, she was there putting in all the work. She continued down the road she used months earlier of how being hot for six months is nothing, while being hot like she has been for four years is why this is her main event. Charlotte said she will raise up Ronda Rousey and Becky at WrestleMania when they bow down to “The Queen”. Becky would come back with the point of the night, saying how Charlotte has had the division by a chokehold for four years, however it took “The Man” to get into the main event of WrestleMania. She would drop the mic on Charlotte, saying they don’t need a Queen, they just need “The Man”. This feud continues to stay hot despite continuous changes to the story, and that is a credit to the three involved, the three who will make history in the main event of WrestleMania. SmackDown LIVE MVP: The New Day All night long it was wondered what was Vince McMahon’s WrestleMania proposal to Kofi Kingston. And before we even got told of that announcement, fans were cheering “We Want Kofi” from the start. Earlier in the night, an eight-man tag was going on and before the match could finish, The New Day had no problem taking every single man out to send a message to Vince that they were not going to stop until Kofi Kingston gets his justice. As Vince McMahon headed to the ring at the end of the night, The New Day would cut him off. And they weren’t having fun like usual, but they were showing a legitimate edge to themselves. Big E and Xavier Woods would go after Vince, saying how they do everything they possibly can for this company, and it is ridiculous that they can’t give Kofi the right opportunity. And the key part of all of this is that Kofi Kingston never takes his eyes off of Vince McMahon. What made this segment so great was the feeling of how truly real Big E and Woods were coming off here. There is no one in that company that has wanted success for Kofi Kingston more than those two, and it truly showed. Vince would say how Kofi deserves nothing; Kofi would have been in a championship match a long time ago if he deserved it. He would continue saying he will be in the hall of fame, but not as a single competitor, but as a member of The New Day. Vince would bring up his conversation with Daniel Bryan earlier in the night, and they would bring back a very familiar term. Vince agreed with what Daniel Bryan had said, which was simply that Kofi was a B+ player, exactly what Bryan was called back on his road to the championship at WrestleMania 30. Kofi would finally talk, saying that he isn’t asking for a handout. He loves his job, the fact he can provide for his family, saying he is blessed. Kofi said he wasn’t going to complain, but all he wanted was to know what he had to do in order to get the singles match that he feels he has earned after all this time. Unexpectedly, out came Randy Orton, Samoa Joe, The Bar, and Rowan. Vince said that next week, Kofi has to get through the gauntlet of all these men, and if he does, he receives his shot at WrestleMania. They’d run to the ring to try and take out The New Day, however they would stand tall as Kofi Kingston prepares for the biggest match of his career. In a great WWE.com Exclusive, The New Day discussed next week and what is coming. Kofi said that all he needed was this opportunity, and while it is a tall mountain to climb, he is ready to do so. Big E followed up saying that the fun and games are being put aside here, it is time for them to take what they deserve. Woods would also follow, saying that this was why The New Day was made originally, to be seen as equals, and you can guarantee that Kofi Kingston will be the next WWE Champion. SmackDown LIVE continues to deliver as we head into WrestleMania. Can Kofi Kingston survive the gauntlet and get a shot at the WWE Championship? We will see. Big E Dixie Carter Rated RKO The Wyatt Family Vince McMahon WWE Championship Previous articlePreview: Quintessential Pro Wrestling (3/14/19) Next articlePreview: WWL Todo o Nada (3/15/19) My name is Scott and I have been writing in multiple sports for a few years now. My interests come all over the world of sports, talking about pro wrestling, NFL, NHL, and the MLB. I am currently a student in college as well. Join me on my writing journey. SmackDown Highlights – John Morrison In Action (1/17/19)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1432
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__label__wiki	0.799727	0.799727	Superman Confidential #9 Superman finds himself trapped as a prisoner on New Genesis, with only one way to escape. It's a battle of the titans as Superman faces off against Orion. Dan Abnett Andy Lanning Chris Batista Prentis Rollins Cam Smith Anthology Superhero Pulp Superman: Confidential The Man of Steel was rocketed to Earth as a baby, last son of a dying planet. Raised as Clark Kent in the cornfields of Smallville, he moved to Metropolis to be a reporter and use his powers for the good of all humanity... SUPERMAN CONFIDENTIAL tells stories from key moments in his history! Superman: Up in the Sky (2019-) Following a home invasion that ends in murder, Superman is put on the trail of a Metropolis mystery by Batman—but can even the Man of Steel discover the truth behind these tragic deaths, or their ties to the far-off world of Rann? These stories by Tom King with art by Andy Kubert guest-starring Green Lantern and other heroes were originally published in SUPERMAN GIANT #3 and #4. Superman: Leviathan Rising Special (2019) An all-star roster of writers and artists highlight the new threat of Leviathan, but also tees up new ongoing series for Jimmy Olsen by writer Matt Fraction and artist Steve Lieber, and Lois Lane by writer Greg Rucka and artist Mike Perkins, coming in June! As Leviathan enacts a plan to take down Superman, it’s up to Lois, Jimmy and the heroes of the DC Universe to rescue the Man of Steel. Superman: Year One (2019-) From the burning world of Krypton to the bucolic fields of Kansas, the first chapter of SUPERMAN YEAR ONE tracks Clark Kent's youth in Kansas, as he comes to terms with his strange powers and struggles to find his place in our world. Mysteries of Love in Space (2019) Sometimes love can make you feel like you’re from another planet...but what if you actually were? Join Superman, The New Gods, Green Lantern, Starro, Hawkgirl and even the Teen Titans’ new sensation Crush for eight tales of romance that will whisk you to the moon and back!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1445
__label__wiki	0.551427	0.551427	GET THE LATEST LOBE LOG UPDATES Can Turkey and Israel Reconcile? October 1, 2019 Guest Contributor 10 Comments The Mavi Marmara (Free Gaza Movement via Flickr) by Bulent Aras There has been a cyclical pattern to Turkish-Israeli relations over the past several decades. These two countries share similar characteristics in terms of their Western institutions and policy attitudes, multi-ethnic and secular societies, and complicated relations with their Arab neighbors and Iran. At the same time, there have been differences in state building, the historical trajectories of their relations in the region, their alliance patterns, and their ties with international powers. Israel and Turkey have been reconciled at times when they have faced a common threat or had a common ally that could bring them together. As an example of the former, bilateral relations were at their highest point in the 1990s due to shared concerns about Iran. Turkish officials had two major concerns in those years: the rise of political Islam and difficulties with the Kurds. They believed that Iran was interfering to worsen these problems in Turkey. These concerns resonated with Israel’s threat perception regarding Iran, and the two countries experienced a rapid improvement in political, security, and military relations in this period. Their military cooperation even extended to joint exercises and saw Israeli fighter pilots training in Turkish airspace. Relations between Turkey and Israel hit bottom when Israeli Defense Forces commandos raided the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in international waters in May 2010 and killed 10 Turkish citizens. The Gaza Flotilla aimed to break the Israeli naval blockade on Gaza. The vessel that the Israelis attacked, the Mavi Marmara, was owned by a Turkish humanitarian NGO, the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH). It was the largest ship in this flotilla and held mainly Turkish passengers. Turkey immediately downgraded its diplomatic relations with Israel to the level of second secretary and Israel withdrew its ambassador from Ankara. Following the Mavi Marmara incident, Ankara demanded three conditions for the normalization of relations with Israel—an official Israeli apology, the lifting of the Gaza blockade, and compensation for the victims. U.S. President Barack Obama arranged a phone call between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Netanyahu apologized for the incident and agreed to pay compensation in March 2013. This renormalization was only made possible through U.S. intervention, as a persuasive ally of both countries. The reconciliation that followed Israel’s apology did not last very long. Although the two countries restored their relations to the ambassadorial level in 2016, Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador after Israeli security forces killed 60 Palestinian protesters in Gaza in May 2018. As of today, Israel and Turkey have neither have a common threat nor a common friend in regional and international relations. The problem is a shortage of political will on both sides to end this structural pattern, which shifts responsibility for maintaining their relations to outside actors. Tensions in Turkish-Israeli relations have been exploited by populist politicians in both countries to consolidate their domestic support. At the same time, Turkish and Israeli policy-makers have able to protect economic relations from the strains caused by these political problems. Total trade between Turkey and Israel exceeded $8 billion in 2018 and is likely to increase. There have been positive developments on the political front. Recent elections in Turkey and Israel have suggested that the political power of hardline forces in both countries is diminishing, raising the prospect of more adaptable foreign policy. The securitization of politics in Israel and Turkey has been a major barrier preventing a genuine attempt to normalize relations. Though limited, there may be a chance now to restructure the Turkey-Israel relationship to overcome the structural challenges in light of both domestic and regional politics. Regionally, Turkish and Israeli leaders share concerns regarding Iran, though the Israeli government regards Iran as a much more significant threat than does Turkey’s. For the right wing government in Israel, Iran is an existential threat and all options should be on the table when it comes to dealing with Tehran. Turkey’s nationalist-conservative government has called for restraint and dialogue in dealing with Iran, but despite Erdogan’s stated objections to U.S. sanctions against Iran, Turkey has largely complied with them. Though they agree that Iran presents a challenge, this divergence of opinion on how to deal with it is a possible source of tension in Turkish-Israeli relations. Factors like the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign against Iran, the escalation of Saudi-Iranian tensions to a dangerous level, the worsening situation in Syria, the deepening of the intra-Gulf rivalry, the presence of nearby failed states (e.g., Yemen and Libya), and the spread of various forms of transnational extremism have changed the context for relations between Turkey and Israel. The cyclical pattern in their relationship does not correspond to the demands of regional geopolitics. It is no longer possible to preserve a controlled tension in their relations in the current multi-threat environment. It will not be easy to change the Turkey-Israel relationship, but resisting change would be swimming against the tide. Israeli and Turkish leaders must first consider that they have no alternative in the current regional environment but to maintain relations with one another. Neither has any diplomatic alternative to the other, and cutting ties would not benefit either’s regional policies. Second, they should understand that non-state entities, extremist threats, and Iran’s regional role (particularly in Syria), among other issues, are common concerns in both countries. Third, Turkey and Israel should avoid taking part in rival regional blocs, whose aims are not necessarily in the best interests of either country. A rational recalibration in Turkish and Israeli foreign policies would make reconciliation easier, once political elites recognize that the cyclical pattern and continuous securitization of their relationship does not serve the interests of their countries. Failing to recalibrate would mean not only losing the benefits of the normalization, but sticking to harmful policies. Recent developments in Turkish and Israeli politics have opened a window for change in their relationship. Taking advantage of that window will require the emergence of a mutual political will for reconciliation. Bulent Aras is a Senior Scholar at the Istanbul Policy Center, Visiting Researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Advisor at Gulf State Analytics. Analysis, Israel, Turkey Bulent Aras, Israel, Turkey Articles by guest writers. Previous Article← Something’s Happening and You Don’t Know What It Is, Do You, Mr. Sisi Next ArticleChallenging Western Media Narratives about Khashoggi → SHOW 10 COMMENTS Bulent, you are trying too hard. The Turks were always the enemies of Jews. This will never change! Hamas admitted that most of the 60 killed were its own terrorists, & the others were Islamic Jihad & PFLP KHOSROW Dr Aras, as a Turkish scholar, wishing to see a closer cooperation between Turkey and Israel sounds so anxious that he makes it difficult to conclude as to whether he is speaking for the Turkish government or for the Zionists! Political, economic and military cooperations between Turkey and Israel cannot merely be based on mutual interests, especially given the Zionists policies towards the Palestinians. It would have been helpful had Dr Aras looked deeper into the mindset that Turkey shares with the Apartheid regime; e.g. decades of brutality towards the Kurdish population of Turkey, that to a less degree resembles the Zionists’ decades of brutality towards the Palestinians. Of course, to have the US President, a leading supporter of the apartheid regime, interven to reconcile the Zionist killers with the Turkish leader – given the criminality of the Zionists policies that led to the murder of the Turkish citizens, and the increasing isolation that the apartheid regime has been experiencing – it is not so difficult to see that Dr Aras is indeed speaking for the Zionists; in the virtual world wishing to be as helpful as was President Obama. Israel has wisely forged new alliances with Greece and Cyprus, as Turkey continues its covert support of Hamas, Hezbollah and ISIS affiliates. Israel is also developing diplomatic overtures to other Balkan nations. The Turkish leadership accuses Israel of atrocities while glossing over its own atrocities, past and present. It is inomprehensible how a nation with such an atrocious hisory of murderous treatment toward its minorities can accuse Israel of being Nazi-like. Neo-Ottomanism is a real threat not only to the Balkans and the Arab world, but also to Israel. On what basis should reconciliation occur when Israel continues its unjust and oppressive policies to the Palestinians? For Erdogan it is about the Palestinians treatment. Until Israel changes it’s treatment I see no possibility of change. And Israel will not do this because it sees changes in this direction as the first step in its loss of identity as a racist Jewish state. 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__label__cc	0.636095	0.363905	← Lentils and mosques: Moth ki Masjid Home Delivery Review: Sushiya → Taqdeer (1967) Taqdeer—a remake of the Konkani film Nirmonn (1966, directed by A Salaam, who also directed Taqdeer)—wouldn’t have been a film I’d have watched had it not been for one particular song that I like a lot: Jab-jab bahaar aayi aur phool muskuraaye. I noticed the film was up on Youtube (incidentally, this is a surprisingly good print, and with seemingly no arbitrary snipping off of sections). So I settled down one night to watch. For the song. And discovered that the film wasn’t bad—and was somewhat different from the usual. This story is set in Goa (and, interestingly—possibly because it was a remake of a Konkani film?—a Goa that has very few of the tropes most Hindi films associate with that state). We are introduced to Gopal (Bharat Bhushan), who teaches music to local children and makes very little money out of it. Gopal is painfully aware of just how hand-to-mouth existence is for him, his wife Sharda (Shalini Mardolkar, reprising her role from Nirmonn) and their three children, Mala, Sushil, and Geeta. He is in debt, for instance, to a local seth, and has had to mortgage his ramshackle home in order to pay off the seth. Also part of the story is Vijay (Kamal Kapoor), a very wealthy man who has been childhood friends with Gopal. Gopal trusts and likes Vijay—is even open to, when Vijay insists, borrowing a small sum of money from the man—but Sharda hates him. This, it emerges, is because Vijay had once wanted to marry her; when she turned him down in preference for Gopal, he was so bitter and resentful that he started telling nasty tales about Sharda’s morals—or lack of them. Even now, though he’s friendly with Gopal and asks after Sharda and the children, Vijay has far from forgiven Sharda for having spurned him. Things have been so bad for Gopal and family that Gopal has been searching for a job more lucrative than simply teaching music. He finally gets employment aboard a ship. He will be gone for perhaps a year, he tells Sharda; but at least he’ll earn well, and once he’s back, they will all be together again. Now, as a sort of send-off for him, the little family gets together and Gopal sings their favourite song: Jab-jab bahaar aayi aur phool muskuraaye. The children join in too, Gopal helping their little fingers find the correct keys on the piano. Then Gopal leaves, and the family is heartbroken—but hopeful, too, because Papa will eventually be back. Things are difficult, too, for Sharda as she tries to keep her home afloat, but she persists. Until one night, when—in a terrible storm—a gust of wind shakes Gopal’s photo (hanging in its frame on the wall) and sends it crashing to the floor, shattering the glass. [Yes, we all know what that means]. And, sure enough, somewhere at sea, there’s another horrible storm and the ship Gopal is on sinks. When a worried Sharda hurries to the shipping company’s office to ask if her husband is safe, a grim-faced employee gives her the list of survivors, with the sad news that Gopal’s name is not on that list. He has drowned in the shipwreck. Sharda is shattered, of course, but she barely has time to grieve, because there are her children to be looked after. The little money that she had is soon gone, and a desperate Sharda is reduced to looking for any work she can find. A labourer digging a hole scoffs at her when she asks for work: she should look for women’s work, he says. And when Sharda asks a man for work—she will cook, clean, wash, anything—he asks suggestively if she really means anything. Vijay comes by, and seeing Sharda’s plight, suggests she marry him. After all, he has wanted her all these years. And now, without Gopal there, and with the children to be brought up, how will she manage? He is very wealthy; if she marries him, she and her children will never want for anything. Sharda refuses outright. She will not marry Vijay, no matter what. To her surprise, the only other true friend the family has—Uncle Lobo, a poor and derelict drunk—also advises Sharda that she might be better off getting married. It’s the only way out of this disaster. Sharda insists that she will manage, somehow. She has begun doing odd jobs—laundry for one woman, for example—and surely it is just a matter of time before money starts coming in. But payments are slow to come, and there’s not a grain left in the house. The children are so weak and desperate with hunger that little Sushil, while his mother is away trying to get payment due for the laundry, steals a pao from a vendor. He doesn’t get caught, but when Sharda comes home and finds her three children sharing that one piece of bread –and looking guilty, trying to hide it away when they see her—she realizes that this has gone far enough. So she goes to Vijay and tells him that yes, she will marry him. With a few frames of the children dressed up and looking glum, and an equally somber Sharda getting married to Vijay, we skip forward a few years… …to East Africa. Here, we see a bunch of children throwing stones at a bedraggled, bearded man (whom, if you look beyond the shrubbery, you can recognize as Gopal). The man is quickly rescued by someone from the local Indian community. It turns out that Gopal—not that anyone knows what his name is, since he’s lost his memory—was found washed up on the shore years ago, and nobody knows who he is, though the man who’s now rescued him from the belligerent children was the one who’d taken him in years ago and has sort-of-sheltered him ever since. There is, sometime after this episode, a party of the local Indian community, at the nearby club. Gopal isn’t invited, but happens to be in the vicinity, and therefore overhears a song that’s being sung by a visiting Indian girl. It is Jab-jab bahaar aayi aur phool muskuraaye, and—as you’d have guessed, if you’ve seen a sufficient number of Hindi films—it jogs Gopal’s memory. Especially when he bursts into the room and questions the surprised singer and her father. They tell him where she learnt the song (she was one of Gopal’s young students years earlier in Goa). Gopal’s memories come rushing back, and all he can think of is how he must go back to Sharda and the children as soon as he possibly can. The singer’s father is magnanimous enough to offer to pay for Gopal’s fare back to Goa, so Gopal is soon on the ship… …little aware that life has changed a lot for Sharda, Mala, Sushil and Geeta. They’re all now, thanks to Sharda’s having married Vijay, very well off. Geeta (a very pretty Farida Jalal, in what seems to have been her first role as an adult) is still, however, the same generous and kind-hearted person she had been as a little girl; Mala (Kajal) and Sushil (Sushil Kumar, of Dosti and Dhool ka Phool fame) still remember—as does Geeta—with fondness the song their father had taught them. And Sharda, even though she wears a mask of wealthy gentility, has still not forgotten Gopal. And, as Geeta says in a moment of sorrow, has never smiled since the day they heard of Gopal’s death. But Gopal, even when he realizes how much his family still loves him, finds it hard to reveal himself to them. He knows how torn Sharda will be—and what of these bright young people, these near-strangers whom he loves so much? Will they be able to accept this poverty-stricken old man? Taqdeer came as a pleasant surprise to me. This is an unusual film, unusual in that it steers clear of the typical romantic-youthful-love trope. There is love here, and lots of it, but it’s the mature love, the understanding and mutual respect and trust between Gopal and Sharda; and it’s the love of a father for his children, and vice-versa. The only hint of romantic love between young people is a very brief scene—a couple of short dialogues each—between Geeta and her boyfriend Suresh (Jalal Agha). That’s it. No wooing, no courtship, no will-she-won’t-she. Also, Taqdeer is unusual in that while it’s set in Goa, everybody speaks perfectly normal Hindi, and there are only two Christian characters who play brief roles in the film: Uncle Lobo, and a comic named Johnny Fernandes. That’s it (and, by the way, both Uncle Lobo and Johnny also speak correct Hindi). This could, actually, have been a story set anywhere—and the universality of it is what speaks loud and clear. What I liked about this film: The simplicity of it, the somewhat unusual plot (as I’ve mentioned in the two paragraphs just preceding this), and the fairly good script. This is a touching little story, fairly well-told, with not many complications. It’s more a story of emotion than of action, so if you’re looking for a gripping plot, this isn’t for you. It is also less melodramatic than most other ‘family dramas’ I’ve seen (I’m thinking AVM Productions, here). Two songs. Laxmikant-Pyarelal composed the music for Taqdeer, and though none of the songs are outright bad, the one which really stands out is the beautiful Jab-jab bahaar aayi. It’s lovely in all its three renditions: the one by Mohammad Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar’s version, and the one by Usha Mangeshkar and Mahendra Kapoor. Another relatively little-known song, but a sweet one nevertheless, is Aaiye bahaar ko hum baant lein. And, Farida Jalal. She is very pretty and I found her chemistry with Bharat Bhushan endearing. The cinematography, too, is good—and there are some interesting little symbols here and there (not just that rather obvious one of Gopal’s shattered photo). For instance, there’s the broken cart, one wheel askew, which appears in the frame when a bereft Sharda—who thinks she’s widowed—goes off to try and get some money to keep body and soul together. What I didn’t like: The brief comic side plot about Johnny, a useless good for nothing whose only connection to the main characters is that he’s constantly conning Suresh and Kishore (Mala’s fiancé) of small amounts. This is a pretty pointless addition to the story and could easily have been done away with. Also, after Sharda marries Vijay, we get to see close to nothing of what sort of relationship these two have. It’s obvious, from later scenes, that Vijay has been a good father to her children—they even call him Papa—but how do the two of them get on? This isn’t one of those earth-shatteringly poignant films. It’s not, by any means, a typical masala entertainer. But it’s a fairly decent little film about family ties. Posted in Dusted Off \| Tagged A Salaam, Bharat Bhushan, Bollywood, Farida Jalal, film review, Hindi cinema, Jalal Agha, Kajal, Kamal Kapoor, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Nirmonn, remake, Shalini Mardolkar, Sushil Kumar, Taqdeer 46 thoughts on “Taqdeer (1967)” Archana Kapoor Wow, that was a detailed review! Must catch it some day! Thanks for sharing :) Cheers, Archana http://www.drishti.co Thank you! Whenever you watch it (if you do), let me know what you thought of it. :-) harveypam Now, that sounds good. No clichéd characters. Okay, well only a few. Will try to look this up! Jalal Agha and Farida Jalal look so pretty. A pity, that both of them didn’t get lead roles in HIndi films. As usual well-written review! You seem to be really inspired by the movie! Terence Lyons Yes it sound good to whatever I read I found this movie fairly surprising, Harvey. I hadn’t been expecting much – Bharat Bhushan’s not a favourite of mine, and I had never even heard of Shalini Mardolkar before, but I watched it for the song. And was pleasantly surprised, because it was such an unusual film. The end does become a little predictable, but still. Songsstoriesbooksandmore Nice review, as always, Madhu. Heard about this movie for the first time when you made your ‘spring songs’ post (though had heard the songs). Sounds like an interesting movie. Shall catch it sometime – more for a pretty Farida Jalal. Yes, Harini – Farida Jalal is certainly a good reason to watch Taqdeer! She doesn’t make an appearance until about halfway through the film, but after that, she’s pretty much the focus of the film. And is very pretty, in that wholesome sort of way. Not a glamourpuss, just lovely. Anu Warrier This sounds very interesting, Madhu. (At least, your review makes it out to be… grin ) I have to watch it some time. Thanks for the recommendation. Glad you liked the review, Anu! Taqdeer isn’t one of those films I’d say you must watch (especially knowing our usual state of affairs – WDIGTT?!), but it’s certainly far better – and different – than a lot of others. The Animation Commendation This was one of the first Indian movies I remember seeing, so this has HUGE nostalgic factor for me! I can remember all the songs and find myself singing them to myself every now and then: Jab Jab Bahar Aayee, Papa Jaldi Aaja Na, O Dilwalo Matwalo, etc. I literally can get teary-eyed just because of how much nostalgia I have for this movie. And it is a good movie too. Wow! That is – well, cool, I guess. :-) I hadn’t even heard of Taqdeer till a couple of months back, and then when I found it and watched it, I wished it was better-known. It’s certainly a good movie. The first Hindi film I remember watching was CID. Very little of it made sense to me back then (I was about 9, I think, or possibly younger), but one scene – where Waheeda Rehman lies wounded in a hospital bed and Shakila sits in a chair while the criminal comes up behind her – made an indelible impression on me). World of Cinema When this film released I remember the song jab jab bahar was always airing on the radio and also the song papa jaldi aa jaana was a super hit. I was small so I obviously did not have much of a choice but to depend on my parents to take me. They did not see it neither did I but I remember whenever any of the filmwallahs came to our home, they praised Farida Jalal and Jalal Agha. He had just passed out of FTII and done this film and everyone in the industry was all praise for Agha Saab’s son, truly he was a natural, unfortunately he did not live long. As for the scene where Bharat Bhushan’s photograph breaks, well how often have we laughed at such scenes that portend a disaster, well in my life just before my father passed away we saw such signs for real, one of them being a diya lit during Diwali slightly burned a piece of furniture, that was the last Diwali we celebr Uh oh! What happened how did that incomplete comment get published? Any way as I was saying that was the last Diwali we celebrated with dad. I will not bore you with stories of the other signs. Sorry the entire comment above has appeared in italics, this is what happens when you are rushing. Not a problem, Shilpi. I corrected the italics in your original comment; I hope you don’t mind. That’s a sad little story about the diya burning a piece of furniture at Diwali before your father passed away. What other signs, by the way, if you don’t mind sharing? Actually, I suppose truth is stranger than fiction. I have an aunt – my father’s sister – who occasionally dreams that she is being followed through her house by a snake that crawls on the ceiling. Every time she’s had that dream, someone known to her has died. Very creepy. It is also very disturbing for her, as you can imagine. Oh my goodness, that is really creepy and scary. .As for my father, what I can share is that during the one year before he passed away, in almost all his films he seemed to have a death scene. I remember my brother had taken some of our relatives – who were eager to see a film shoot- to a location shoot of Hum Tum Aur Woh the scene that was being enacted by my father and Vinod Khanna was my father’s death scene. My father was then a hale and hearty man, in fact till his death he showed no sign of any ailment, but still while watching that scene my brother later told me that he had a sense of foreboding. Then there was this incident that happened during the making of Ankhon Ankhhon Mein, I mentioned it in my blog. We came to know about it from reports of it appearing in the press after my father passed away. My father had shot his death scene but it appears he was not fully satisfied, he called up J.Om Prakash the film’s producer asking him whether he needed to re-shoot the scene, the producer said no it was fine, there was no need for him and a few days later my father re-enacted the scene for real. Obviously J.Om Prakash was affected by it and therefore mentioned it to the journalists. Just reading that made my hair stand on end. What a sad set of coincidences. You know, it’s also another coincidence: just the other day I was thinking how it must be for elderly actors and actresses who end up playing dying characters in one production after the other (this actually resulted from my having watched a lot of Korean TV series and films, in most of which the same actors and actresses keep appearing – especially in the older roles). It made me think: Doesn’t it get them depressed? Doesn’t it keep reminding them of their mortaility? It is Tasty Ma I do not think so, I used to see my father doing these scenes in a rather routine manner, he appeared to be more concerned about his performance than about his mortality. I guess when you are young you do not think about death, but what did affect him was music director Jaikishan’s death because Jaikishan was very young and coincidentally my father passed away 6 months later. Oops forgot change my name, anyway you know it is me. HA! HA! Once again.This is hilarious, so much for me taking care to give the name in accordance to your post, Funny. No problem! I do know it’s you, and it doesn’t matter anyway – we have people here writing under all sorts of names. :-) Yes, I’d heard too that Jaikishan had passed away at an early age. Hadn’t known it was just 6 months before your father. That must have come as quite a blow. There is something particularly sad about someone dying before their time… you always wonder what all they could have achieved, how much more joy they could have brought the rest of us (and not merely their family and friends, but in cases like this, people whom they didn’t even know) had they lived on. Riaz Shaikh Are you Tarun Bose’ daughter? I don’t know if Shilpi will come back to this post, so I may as well answer on her behalf. Yes, she’s Tarun Bose’s daughter. She even has a wonderful blog documenting her father’s career: http://tarunbosencinema.blogspot.in/ rationalraj2000 Thanks for the review.It may be interesting to know that this film was dubbed in malayalam as “Vidhi” and in a small descripit village in Kerala ran for over 3 years! Its songs were very popular, the malayalam version sung by Yesudas. I hadn’t known that! Thank you for telling me. I hadn’t known that either! But I had heard S Janaki’s version of Jab jab bahaar aaye, and had thought the tune was copied; I didn’t realise this was from the dubbed film. kokilagupta I have seen a very pretty and chubby Farida Jalal in ‘Aaradhna’ and like dher a lot .Thanks for the links , I loved her here.. she is slimmer and pristine in the lesser known song about bahaar …. A very nice review.. I agree with you on all points and appreciate the cart symbol you have pointed out . I might have missed it otherwise :) Yes, Farida Jalal is really cute in Aradhana! And I liked her in Mahal and Majboor too. And Kaala Sona. The role in Taqdeer is probably the most significant of hers from all her early films that I’ve seen, and she’s really lovely. PS . so in the end Bharat Bhushan’s character did not reveal himself ? Spoiler ahead: No, no. How can that happen in Hindi cinema? ;-) This one is different, but not that different. Towards the end it actually does veer off somewhat predictably – Gopal’s children, having been children when he left, aren’t able to recognise him, but both Sharda and Vijay come across him separately, and recognise him. So Vijay decides it’s best to kill Gopal, and arranges for an ‘accident’ in a mine. But thanks to Gopal’s son and future son-in-law, who suddenly discover who he is, he is saved. So the family is happily reunited in the end. Spoiler ends. “Now, as a sort of send-off for him, the little family gets together and Gopal sings their favourite song: Jab-jab bahaar aayi aur phool muskuraaye. ” I have had the exact same interest in this movie (the song Jab-Jab Bahar aayi is such a serene song!) However, the only deterrant for me was Bharatbhushan and the inherent sadness he brings with his presence (sorry, didn’t mean to bash Bharatbhushan) I always wondered about this beautiful and romantic song as to why Bharatbhushan looks so sad and why the tone is so poignant even when he is with his family. So, after reading your review now it makes sense why the mood of the song is depressing. However, to me the lyrics still don’t fully make align with the mood. Is he talking about the future when he will miss her and the family? Why does he then say that I miss you when I see spring/flowers etc. (Jab-Jab bahar aayi, aur phool muksuraye, mujhe tum yaad aaye). Is it just my quirky way of looking at things? Heh. You will find no objections from me if you choose to bash Bharat Bhushan! ;-) There’s something pretty mounrful about him at the best of times – he’s one of those actors who can’t seem to summon up a truly light-hearted smile no matter how cheery the situation. I do remember him being not too bad in a comedy opposite Anita Guha (I’ve forgotten which one, now), but that was about it. I don’t think the lyrics have much to do with the situation of the song, actually – just there for the sake of it, the sort of lyrics that should be taken in isolation from the situation. HaI I wonder if the lyricist wrote the song for the situation where Gopal is all by himself and missing his wife and family but then the director chose to do it well before the intended situation. Anyway, who cares? Rafi really put his heart and soul in the song! It does sound like a decent movie though. . Might actually watch it. That sounds like a plausible explanation! Actually, the song is so nice, I wouldn’t be surprised if the director decided it was worthy of being repeated all through the film, even if it had been meant only for one occasion (of the three times it appears, only the third – the duet, when Gopal’s now-adult children sing it – is appropriate to the lyrics). Bharat Bhushan is in the league of predictable artists of bollywood: Nirupa “Roye” -> Careless Mother Nasir Hussain -> Born with a Weak Heart Bharat Bhushan -> Prone to Injuries/Accidents (always seen with Band-aids mostly on forehead) And bechaargi ki jeeti-jaagti moorat, Leela Chitnis. :-) The list is getting longer.. I also agree with the Laxmi Pyare discussion started by Chris and your comment about not having an all-melodious movie album. Dosti was perhaps one exception where I liked all the songs from the movie. Still at times like you said I get surprised by some of the compositions they made. Beautiful songs like “Yeh Dil Tum Bin Kahin Lagta nahi” from Izzat but the rest of the songs from this movie are passe.. Yes, Dosti was one film which had one superb song after the other – excellent music, and complemented by great lyrics too. Parasmani too, while otherwise a totally whacky film, had an excellent score – in fact, I would say the only reason (unless you are keen on really tacky Hindi fantasy films!) to watch it is the music. WutheringWillow There is a Bengali movie called Mayar Sansar (1962). I saw it as a kid so memories are a bit hazy but as far as I remember it had the same story line. I’ll try and look out for it. Of all the Bengali films I’ve seen that were remade in Hindi, I’ve invariably found the Bengali version to be superior, so I’m curious. This film is a direct scene to scene remake of the Konkani film , not any Bengali film and ‘Nirmonn’ also means “fate” in Konkani. The storyline of the Bengali film could be same maybe because all these films are based on this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Arden Ah. i had absolutely no idea about the existence of Enoch Arden. Yes, that of course would account for the similarity in storyline between the Bengali film and Nirmonn/Taqdeer. A nice film and good review. Bharat Bhushan was 47 when this film released. He did look old when he is supposed to be a young man. I probably won’t have liked this film if that had continued for the whole film. Was the music of ‘Jab Jab bahaar aayi’ inspired from its equivalent in Nirmonn “Claudia’ (https://youtu.be/4uvbIB8WpA0) ? I like a lot of their music but Laxmikant Pyarelal have been rather lucky in surviving scrutiny for their copied tunes (the famous music of Rishi Kapoor’s Karz for instance) , their bad music post the 70s – they were very busy till the early 90s – but somehow went under the radar and above all , their insistence in using the aging voice of Lataji ( with due respect , I can’t handle her duets of a certain era , no matter how great the music was!). I had listened to Claudia when I was writing this review, because I wanted to see if there was any similarity. While there is a marked similarity in the picturisation – down to camera angles, etc, both in the male version of the song and the later duet (picturised, in Taqdeer, on Farida Jalal, Sushil Kumar and Kajal), I didn’t think the music was at all similar. I have to admit Laxmikant-Pyarelal aren’t among my favourite music directors of the 60s. True, they did have some very good scores, but they are the sort of composers for whom I end up liking maybe one or two songs from a film, not like SD Burman, OP Nayyar, Salil Chaudhary, Madan Mohan or Ravi, who could give you a film full of one fabulous song after another…. and I completely agree with you re: Lata’s later songs. Really, the mere thought of some of those horrible late 80s and 90s songs gives me the shivers. Neeru Interestingly enough, I watched the movie too because of jab jab bahar aayi. I have it in one of those old song collection videos and was always curious about the movie. I really liked your review. Yes, I wondered too about the relationship between Vijay and Sharda. She always seems cold towards him, yet he has never hated her children. They seemed be well taken care of. I had also always liked the papa kadi aa Jana song, just did not know it was from this movie. The line ” guidiya chahe na laana, papa jaldi aa jana” says volumes about the love the kids had for their father. That is what I liked about the film. The strong bond between the family members. Thank you for commenting, Neeru! Frankly, at first glance, the only thing that seemed attractive to me about Taqdeer was Jab-jab bahaar aayi: I don’t like Bharat Bhushan, I had never heard of Shalini Mardolkar, and I missed seeing Farida Jalal’s name in the cast on the Youtube page. So I basically began watching this film just for the song – and what a pleasant surprise it turned out to be. As you point out, such a good example of the strong bond between family members. Leave a Reply to dustedoff Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1453
__label__cc	0.636865	0.363135	Movie and TV reviews and analyses Delve in to the labyrinth of entertainment Contact with questions, requests, anything? TV Articles Best Arrowverse couple from each show Raelonus TV Articles August 28, 2019 3 Minutes For every bad Arrowverse couple out there there’s also a good one. This can even apply to the worst of them: For the one in every show that is the worst there’s one that’s the best. This article takes a look at the greatest Arrowverse couple from each show. The Flash: Joe West and Cecile Horton With all the crap he has had to put up with, Joe definitely deserves happiness in his life. And he got a second chance at love in the form of Central City’s DA Cecile Horton. With the two both being single parents for most of their lives, the two really managed to understand the struggles of being alone in raising children and it proved to be a core part of building such a stable and happy relationship between the two. As practically family to the Wests and a member of Team Flash, Cecile proved to be an underrated part of it bringing in something funny and sometimes heartwarming in every moment. The two are almost so healthy it’s too good and knowing relationship drama in the Arrowverse, I keep expecting one bit of foolishness to screw it up. Good on you for not going that route CW! Keep it up. Arrow: John Diggle and Lyla Michaels While these two couldn’t work things out between them the first time around, that didn’t keep them from having a stable relationship. Sure they had disagreements but the drama is mostly resolved in lieu of bigger problems. These two knew each other like the back of their own hands and the fact that not too much is focused on their falling outs but still legitimately resolved them proves just how solid they are together. When they do fight it has some legitimate character development or the two actors just manage to knock it out of the park. Legends of Tomorrow: Sara Lance and Ava Sharpe Even if you do prefer Sara and Nyssa, it’s undeniable that these two share a special connection. Both started off as enemies with Sara being a rule breaker as a Legend and Ava as a member of the Time Bureau going strictly by the book. But as time went on they found out they had a lot in common and both prior and during their relationship they balanced each other out challenged each other in ways that brought out their best traits. And through all the Legends shenanigans it is always nice when these two get time to just be happy together. Supergirl: Maggie Sawyer and Alex Danvers Alex realizing she was gay and her walking the path to accepting that was a very moving journey in itself and her relationship with Maggie not only furthered that but also worked into the show. Both had a lot to learn about themselves and each other when they first met and with each episode not only did they feel genuine in heart and humor thanks to the actors’ chemistry and each scene between them in each episode felt like a step forward not only in their relationship but them as characters. And Maggie proved to be an amazing ally to team Supergirl easily deducing Kara’s identity, being a member of law enforcement, and having expertise in ways Supergirl herself didn’t. Despite being engaged by season 3, due to Floriana Lima getting a role on a new show the two were written to break up over not wanting children and it was heart breaking. Alex has moved on with Kelly Olsen but no matter what they have in the next season they will not compare to these two. Who are your favorite Arrowverse couples? Any you disagree with? Leave your thoughts in the comments below! Published by Raelonus My name is Neal Sastry. I have a passion for movies and television which is why I started this website. While I do like others, my main passions are animation and superheroes View all posts by Raelonus Previous Post Worst Arrowverse couple from each show Next Post A Look Back on Blues’ Clues	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1457
__label__wiki	0.503381	0.503381	Our Policy Pillars The Ward Six Vision Team Request a Sign Meet with Mark Home » Our Vision “It is important for our City Council to provide leadership on the next generation of decisions in city spending, land use, in building a more sustainable future for our children and for enhancing quality of life for all residents. I intend for my education in Public Administration and Economics, my experience in building more livable communities, and my desire to represent a balance of interests to guide me in providing that leadership on City Council.” – Mark Prebble As your City Councillor, I will serve the diverse interests of our Ward 6 communities with assured and progressive leadership while advancing a vision for Saskatoon as city that is Liveable, Environmentally Sustainable and Inclusive, joining the ranks of the forward-thinking cities in North America – one which people of all ages, races, orientations and abilities can call home and are supported in. 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A modern city that achieves strong environmental sustainability objectives and spending efficiencies through a philosophical shift to SMART growth planning. I will advocate to make Saskatoon an innovator in building efficiency practices and a leader in sustainable urban design. That includes priority investments in a first class transit system, quality and complete roads (designed for bicyclists, pedestrians, and transit alike) and public buildings that embrace energy efficient design, technical and architectural innovation and human-scale spaces. I will also work to establish Saskatoon’s first municipal energy efficiency standard for all new residential building construction in Saskatoon. I will be a proponent for moving our city away from approaches to urban planning that yield more concrete, further sprawl and waste. 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__label__cc	0.665794	0.334206	My favorite part of all of this is when I can inspire and wake up others to where their inner light comes on and they are ready to shine! I know leaving my Federal job has already inspired many to take a leap of faith and courageously move forward to live the life they want rather than settle! I have conducted vision board workshops since 2006 helping to guide others to identify visuals that get them excited and match their passions “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” Paulo Coelho Having worked with over 300 individuals, to set out both professional and personal goals, I am able to work successfully with a diverse group of people. I encourage you to do your research first and read about my story and background to determine if you would like an opportunity to connect. You will be very surprised at the outcome when you do. "For anyone who is struggling with the stresses and disappointments that is the all to common lot of life today, author Meg Nocero's "The Magical Guide to Bliss: Daily Keys to Unlock your Dreams, Spirit and Inner Bliss" will prove to be a a lifeline leading us on a life-changing journey of self-discovery." NOCERO IN THE NEWS Nocero’s The Magical Guide to Bliss: Daily Keys to Unlock Your Dreams, Spirit & Inner Bliss is the guide that empowered and paved the way for La Bella Farfalla, Beautiful Butterfly. In many ways, these two, like Paulo Coelho’s The Pilgrimage and The Alchemist are companions, to truly comprehend how the protagonist transformed her life in La Bella Farfalla, you can experience the channeled wisdom in The Magical Guide to Bliss. La Bella Farfalla, Beautiful Butterfly, is Liz Gilbert meets Paulo Coelho, where the protagonist experiences a devastating loss, allows the process to envelop her, transform her, so that she emerges anew, free to live the creative life she always wanted. GET YOUR BLISS NOW From my book Open your eyes; this remains a wonderful world…The world is filled with enough pessimists; you can be a part of the solution for a more enlightened universe by seizing optimism as your set point. With these kind of magical choices, you can be a vital part of rewriting a new, dominant paradigm that allows you to immerse in the things that matter most with an attitude of gratitude. You can smile with open eyes as you really start to see the trees that are green and the sky that is blue. And mimicking the words of Louis Armstrong, you will think to yourself that it has always been a wonderful world. Meg Nocero: Speaker, Coach, Author Time to Manifest the Life of Your Dreams! Meg Nocero, Esq. is an attorney (former federal prosecutor), inspirational speaker, certified empowerment coach and award winning author of The Magical Guide to Bliss, Daily Keys to Unlock Your Dreams, Spirit & Inner Bliss. She holds a BA in Spanish, with a concentration in Italian from Boston College; a MA in International Affairs from the University of Miami; and a JD from St. Thomas University School of Law. She is a member of the Florida Bar and serves on the Wellness Committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association in South Florida. She holds certifications as a Federal Law Enforcement Training Center instructor, from the DHS/ICE Mentoring Program, from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching, and the International Coaching Federation. She is currently pursuing a Certificate in Happiness Studies. She runs Butterflies & Bliss, LLC, founded a non-profit called S.H.I.N.E. Networking Inc. that provides educational scholarships to young innovative leaders, is a Love Button Global Movement Ambassador, and a contributing author for Amy Butler’s on-line magazine publication called Blossom. Meg appeared on CNN Español with Ismael Cala and now hosts a monthly You Tube channel called Meg Nocero: Manifesting with Meg: Come Alive to the Beauty of Your Dreams. In addition, she is a contributing writer for Thrive Girl Thrive, A Woman’s Guide for Abundant Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Wellbeing and author of a handbook of affirmations called Sparkle & Shine, 108 M.A.N.T.R.A.s to Brighten Your Day and Lighten Your Way. She recently won the 2019 Independent Press Award for Motivational Books. Butterflies & Bliss, LLC www.MegNocero.com For inquiries email megnocero@mac.com Connect with Meg (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn) @MegNocero	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1473
__label__wiki	0.600168	0.600168	• 19 Jun 2014 This messaging app has $1 million in funding and all it does is say ‘Yo’ By Lauren Granger Read nextCollaborative consumption: eBay, entrepreneurship and Africa’s mass potential In a world of tweets, status updates, IMs, plus ones, likes, comments, emails and Snapchats, things can sometimes get a bit noisy. Which is why something as simple as an app that just says ‘Yo’ to your friends is making waves. To clarify: there is an app, called Yo, which exists for the sole purpose of messaging other people with the app to say ‘Yo’. That’s it. No added functionality, no photos, nothing extra. The app is essentially comprised of one central stripy home screen which allows you to add friends (via Twitter, SMS, Facebook or importing your phone contacts) and then tap on their usernames to send them a casual ‘Yo’. They will receive a push notification and, if their phone isn’t on silent, hear the sounds of cute robotic voice saying “Yo”. The brainchild of Israeli entrepreneur Or Arbel, the app has attracted US$1-million in funding from his former boss’s investment fund, and (according to the Financial Times) has gone on to gain more than 50 000 users who have sent more than 4-million messages to date. It was devised after Arbel’s supervisor Moshe Hogeg asked him to design a simple app that would allow him to call his assistant without having to type a lengthy message. He later turned the idea, after 8 hours of coding, into Yo. Using the initial funding round, Arbel has moved to San Francisco, where he’s hoping to turn the app into a starting point for a company centred around simple messaging. Speaking to Think Progress, Arbel described how it takes 11 taps to send a “Yo” on WhatsApp, but just two with his app, creating a way for friends and brands to share simple messages effectively. He’s currently working on an API for brands to use, which could some day see your favourite coffee shop sending you a ‘Yo’ when your latte is ready. Yo is available on Android and iOS, and, according to one reviewer, has the potential to change your life “forever yo”. Download with caution. Lauren Granger Posted in UncategorisedTagged Mobile apps, Yo Collaborative consumption: eBay, entrepreneurship and Africa’s mass potential Ventureburn • 19 Jun 2014	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1476
__label__cc	0.726233	0.273767	Search for the world’s best view metrowebukmetroTuesday 24 Oct 2006 3:36 pm In the biggest poll of its kind, the public can vote for their favourite view – anywhere in the world – for a chance to win a holiday to that destination. To find the most inspiring views in the world, Jacob’s Creek has teamed up with over 250 of the world’s best travelled wine drinkers – the British Guild of Travel Writers – to compile a shortlist of 50, and now it’s up to the public to share their memories and decide which ones come out top. In the biggest poll of its kind, the public can vote for their favourite view from today at www.welcometoourplace.com/views See a gallery of some of the best views here There are some classics and some surprises but whatever your tastes, there are 50 spectacular options ranging from sunset at Hong Kong harbour to the chilled vista from the Terrace at Space in Ibiza and the magnificent coastline of the Gower Peninsular in Wales. Every vote registered online will be entered into a prize draw to win a trip for two to the top view of their choice* and, of course, a bottle of Jacob’s Creek to enjoy while admiring it. Twenty five runners up will receive a bottle of Jacob’s Creek and a copy of The View From Our Place: The Australian Winemaker’s Inside Track to Enjoying Australian Wine, by Phil Laffer. Launching the search. Lifestyle expert Carl Honore says,’ This is more than just a prize draw; the search for the greatest view is also about emphasising the importance to people of taking time out to enjoy the simple things in life like a beautiful view, good food or a nice glass of wine.’ Jacob’s Creek has certainly been the catalyst for many a conversation lasting long into the night putting the world to rights and listing the world’s best views looks like it will certainly keep the conversation going. *(up to the value of £2500) THE JACOB’S CREEK SHORT LIST: Argentina, the glaciers of Patagonia. Australia, Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House. Australia, Litchfield National Park, Darwin. Bora Bora, sunset over the beach. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro from the Sugar Loaf. Canada, the Rockies from the Rocky Mountaineer train. China, Shanghai skyline from the Bund at night. China, The Great Wall. Cuba, the sea breaking over the Malecon, Havana. Egypt, sunrise over the Pyramids, Cairo. England, Devon Sea from the Grand Hotel, Torquay. England, London from the Thames. Ethiopia, the rock churches of Lalibela. France, Hotel du Cap, Antibes. France, watching the world go by from a pavement café in Montmartre, Paris. Greece, sailing into the harbour, Santorini. Hong Kong, the harbour at night from the Peak. Ibiza, the Terrace at Space. India, the rock formations of Hampi. Ireland, the Antrim Coast Road. Italy, the Duomo, Florence. Italy, view of Santa Maria de la Saluta from Gritti Palace, Venice. Japan, the temple gardens of Kyoto. Jordan, the first view of the Treasury from the Siq, Petra. Jost Van Dyke, White Bay. Kenya, the slopes of Kilimanjaro. Mallorca, Sa Foradada Deia. Mauritius, watching the sunset from a hot tub on the beach. Mexico, ruins of Tulum. Namibia, the Namib desert. Nepal, looking at Annapurna from Poon Hill. New Zealand, looking out over Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown. Norway, cruising the fjords. Peru, the ruins of Machu Picchu. Russia, Red Square, Moscow. Russia, the Summer Palace in Winter, St Petersburg. Sardinia, Porto San Paulo beach and Tavolara Island. Scotland, Buachaille Etive Mor near Glencoe. South Africa, overlooking a waterhole in the Kruger National Park. South Africa, view of Table Mountain, Cape Town. Spain, view of Barcelona from Guell Park. Switzerland, Aletsch glacier and the Alps. Tanzania, view of Ngorongoro Crater. Turkey, the Blue Mosque, Istanbul. USA, the Grand Canyon. USA, the Manhattan skyline from the Staten Island ferry, New York. Venezuela, Angel Falls. Wales, Rhosili beach, Gower. Zambia, the view of Victoria Falls from the Livingstone Hotel. Zanzibar, watching the sunset from Africa House hotel. Bora BoraCairoCape TownCubaEgyptEthiopiaFlorenceGreeceHavanaIstanbulKatie PriceKenyaKyotoMachu PicchuMauritiusMexicoNamibiaNepalNorwayPeruQueenstownRed SquareShanghaiSwitzerlandSydney Harbour BridgeTanzaniaTurkeyVenezuelaVeniceZambia Katie Price refuses to answer cheat question during awkward I Have Never game Peter Andre shares sweet clip of wife Emily playing with daughter Amelia and it is so pure Three men stabbed to death were builders	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1478
__label__cc	0.541937	0.458063	Epidemiology and classification of post-traumatic headache: What do we know and how do we move forward? Comment on Lucas et al., "prevalence and characterization of headache following mild TBI" Ann I. Scher, Teshamae S Monteith Post-Traumatic Headache Scher, A. I., & Monteith, T. S. (2014). Epidemiology and classification of post-traumatic headache: What do we know and how do we move forward? Comment on Lucas et al., "prevalence and characterization of headache following mild TBI". Cephalalgia, 34(2), 83-85. https://doi.org/10.1177/0333102413499644 Epidemiology and classification of post-traumatic headache : What do we know and how do we move forward? Comment on Lucas et al., "prevalence and characterization of headache following mild TBI". / Scher, Ann I.; Monteith, Teshamae S. In: Cephalalgia, Vol. 34, No. 2, 01.02.2014, p. 83-85. Scher, AI & Monteith, TS 2014, 'Epidemiology and classification of post-traumatic headache: What do we know and how do we move forward? Comment on Lucas et al., "prevalence and characterization of headache following mild TBI"', Cephalalgia, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 83-85. https://doi.org/10.1177/0333102413499644 Scher AI, Monteith TS. Epidemiology and classification of post-traumatic headache: What do we know and how do we move forward? Comment on Lucas et al., "prevalence and characterization of headache following mild TBI". Cephalalgia. 2014 Feb 1;34(2):83-85. https://doi.org/10.1177/0333102413499644 Scher, Ann I. ; Monteith, Teshamae S. / Epidemiology and classification of post-traumatic headache : What do we know and how do we move forward? Comment on Lucas et al., "prevalence and characterization of headache following mild TBI". In: Cephalalgia. 2014 ; Vol. 34, No. 2. pp. 83-85. @article{a1abce5ee6b749aa9b680e04595198ab, title = "Epidemiology and classification of post-traumatic headache: What do we know and how do we move forward? Comment on Lucas et al., {"}prevalence and characterization of headache following mild TBI{"}", author = "Scher, {Ann I.} and Monteith, {Teshamae S}", journal = "Cephalalgia", T1 - Epidemiology and classification of post-traumatic headache T2 - What do we know and how do we move forward? Comment on Lucas et al., "prevalence and characterization of headache following mild TBI" AU - Scher, Ann I. AU - Monteith, Teshamae S JO - Cephalalgia JF - Cephalalgia	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1481
__label__wiki	0.58885	0.58885	Phosphocitrate inhibits a basic calcium phosphate and calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal-induced mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade signal transduction pathway Deepu Nair, Ravi P. Misra, John D. Sallis, Herman S Cheung Calcium deposition diseases caused by calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) and basic calcium phosphate (BCP) crystals are a significant source of morbidity in the elderly. We have shown previously that both types of crystals can induce mitogenesis, as well as metalloproteinase synthesis and secretion by fibroblasts and chondrocytes. These responses may promote degradation of articular tissues. We have also shown previously that both CPPD and BCP crystals activate expression of the c-fos and c-jun proto- oncogenes. Phosphocitrate (PC) can specifically block mitogenesis and proto- oncogene expression induced by either BCP or CPPD crystals in 3T3 cells and human fibroblasts, suggesting that PC may be an effective therapy for calcium deposition diseases. To understand how PC inhibits BCP and CPPD-mediated cellular effects, we have investigated the mechanism by which BCP and CPPD transduce signals to the nucleus. Here we demonstrate that BCP and CPPD crystals activate a protein kinase signal transduction pathway involving p42 and p44 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases (ERK 2 and ERK 1). BCP and CPPD also cause phosphorylation of a nuclear transcription factor, cyclic AMP response element-binding protein (CREB), on serine 133, a residue essential for CREB's ability to transactivate. Treatment of cells with PC at concentrations of 10-3 to 10-5 M blocked both the activation of p42/p44 MAP kinases, and CREB serine 133 phosphorylation, in a dose-dependent fashion. At 10-3 M, a PC analogue, n-sulfo-2-aminotricarballylate and titrate also modulate this signal transduction pathway. Inhibition by PC is specific for BCP- and CPPD-mediated signaling, since all three compounds had no effect on serum-induced p42/P44 or interleukin-1β induced p38 MAP kinase activities. Treatment of cells with an inhibitor of MEK1, an upstream activator of MAPKs, significantly inhibited crystal-induced cell proliferation, suggesting that the MAPK pathway is a significant mediator of crystal-induced signals. Calcium Pyrophosphate Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1 jun Genes Chondrocalcinosis 3T3 Cells p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases phosphocitrate Nair, D., Misra, R. P., Sallis, J. D., & Cheung, H. S. (1997). Phosphocitrate inhibits a basic calcium phosphate and calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal-induced mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade signal transduction pathway. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 272(30), 18920-18925. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.272.30.18920 Phosphocitrate inhibits a basic calcium phosphate and calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal-induced mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade signal transduction pathway. / Nair, Deepu; Misra, Ravi P.; Sallis, John D.; Cheung, Herman S. Nair, D, Misra, RP, Sallis, JD & Cheung, HS 1997, 'Phosphocitrate inhibits a basic calcium phosphate and calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal-induced mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade signal transduction pathway', Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 272, no. 30, pp. 18920-18925. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.272.30.18920 Nair D, Misra RP, Sallis JD, Cheung HS. Phosphocitrate inhibits a basic calcium phosphate and calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal-induced mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade signal transduction pathway. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 1997 Aug 12;272(30):18920-18925. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.272.30.18920 Nair, Deepu ; Misra, Ravi P. ; Sallis, John D. ; Cheung, Herman S. / Phosphocitrate inhibits a basic calcium phosphate and calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal-induced mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade signal transduction pathway. In: Journal of Biological Chemistry. 1997 ; Vol. 272, No. 30. pp. 18920-18925. @article{e0b1dcc4d6a6424d8091c7d97ace9771, title = "Phosphocitrate inhibits a basic calcium phosphate and calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal-induced mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade signal transduction pathway", abstract = "Calcium deposition diseases caused by calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) and basic calcium phosphate (BCP) crystals are a significant source of morbidity in the elderly. We have shown previously that both types of crystals can induce mitogenesis, as well as metalloproteinase synthesis and secretion by fibroblasts and chondrocytes. These responses may promote degradation of articular tissues. We have also shown previously that both CPPD and BCP crystals activate expression of the c-fos and c-jun proto- oncogenes. Phosphocitrate (PC) can specifically block mitogenesis and proto- oncogene expression induced by either BCP or CPPD crystals in 3T3 cells and human fibroblasts, suggesting that PC may be an effective therapy for calcium deposition diseases. To understand how PC inhibits BCP and CPPD-mediated cellular effects, we have investigated the mechanism by which BCP and CPPD transduce signals to the nucleus. Here we demonstrate that BCP and CPPD crystals activate a protein kinase signal transduction pathway involving p42 and p44 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases (ERK 2 and ERK 1). BCP and CPPD also cause phosphorylation of a nuclear transcription factor, cyclic AMP response element-binding protein (CREB), on serine 133, a residue essential for CREB's ability to transactivate. Treatment of cells with PC at concentrations of 10-3 to 10-5 M blocked both the activation of p42/p44 MAP kinases, and CREB serine 133 phosphorylation, in a dose-dependent fashion. At 10-3 M, a PC analogue, n-sulfo-2-aminotricarballylate and titrate also modulate this signal transduction pathway. Inhibition by PC is specific for BCP- and CPPD-mediated signaling, since all three compounds had no effect on serum-induced p42/P44 or interleukin-1β induced p38 MAP kinase activities. Treatment of cells with an inhibitor of MEK1, an upstream activator of MAPKs, significantly inhibited crystal-induced cell proliferation, suggesting that the MAPK pathway is a significant mediator of crystal-induced signals.", author = "Deepu Nair and Misra, {Ravi P.} and Sallis, {John D.} and Cheung, {Herman S}", doi = "10.1074/jbc.272.30.18920", T1 - Phosphocitrate inhibits a basic calcium phosphate and calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal-induced mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade signal transduction pathway AU - Nair, Deepu AU - Misra, Ravi P. AU - Sallis, John D. AU - Cheung, Herman S N2 - Calcium deposition diseases caused by calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) and basic calcium phosphate (BCP) crystals are a significant source of morbidity in the elderly. We have shown previously that both types of crystals can induce mitogenesis, as well as metalloproteinase synthesis and secretion by fibroblasts and chondrocytes. These responses may promote degradation of articular tissues. We have also shown previously that both CPPD and BCP crystals activate expression of the c-fos and c-jun proto- oncogenes. Phosphocitrate (PC) can specifically block mitogenesis and proto- oncogene expression induced by either BCP or CPPD crystals in 3T3 cells and human fibroblasts, suggesting that PC may be an effective therapy for calcium deposition diseases. To understand how PC inhibits BCP and CPPD-mediated cellular effects, we have investigated the mechanism by which BCP and CPPD transduce signals to the nucleus. Here we demonstrate that BCP and CPPD crystals activate a protein kinase signal transduction pathway involving p42 and p44 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases (ERK 2 and ERK 1). BCP and CPPD also cause phosphorylation of a nuclear transcription factor, cyclic AMP response element-binding protein (CREB), on serine 133, a residue essential for CREB's ability to transactivate. Treatment of cells with PC at concentrations of 10-3 to 10-5 M blocked both the activation of p42/p44 MAP kinases, and CREB serine 133 phosphorylation, in a dose-dependent fashion. At 10-3 M, a PC analogue, n-sulfo-2-aminotricarballylate and titrate also modulate this signal transduction pathway. Inhibition by PC is specific for BCP- and CPPD-mediated signaling, since all three compounds had no effect on serum-induced p42/P44 or interleukin-1β induced p38 MAP kinase activities. Treatment of cells with an inhibitor of MEK1, an upstream activator of MAPKs, significantly inhibited crystal-induced cell proliferation, suggesting that the MAPK pathway is a significant mediator of crystal-induced signals. AB - Calcium deposition diseases caused by calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) and basic calcium phosphate (BCP) crystals are a significant source of morbidity in the elderly. We have shown previously that both types of crystals can induce mitogenesis, as well as metalloproteinase synthesis and secretion by fibroblasts and chondrocytes. These responses may promote degradation of articular tissues. We have also shown previously that both CPPD and BCP crystals activate expression of the c-fos and c-jun proto- oncogenes. Phosphocitrate (PC) can specifically block mitogenesis and proto- oncogene expression induced by either BCP or CPPD crystals in 3T3 cells and human fibroblasts, suggesting that PC may be an effective therapy for calcium deposition diseases. To understand how PC inhibits BCP and CPPD-mediated cellular effects, we have investigated the mechanism by which BCP and CPPD transduce signals to the nucleus. Here we demonstrate that BCP and CPPD crystals activate a protein kinase signal transduction pathway involving p42 and p44 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases (ERK 2 and ERK 1). BCP and CPPD also cause phosphorylation of a nuclear transcription factor, cyclic AMP response element-binding protein (CREB), on serine 133, a residue essential for CREB's ability to transactivate. Treatment of cells with PC at concentrations of 10-3 to 10-5 M blocked both the activation of p42/p44 MAP kinases, and CREB serine 133 phosphorylation, in a dose-dependent fashion. At 10-3 M, a PC analogue, n-sulfo-2-aminotricarballylate and titrate also modulate this signal transduction pathway. Inhibition by PC is specific for BCP- and CPPD-mediated signaling, since all three compounds had no effect on serum-induced p42/P44 or interleukin-1β induced p38 MAP kinase activities. Treatment of cells with an inhibitor of MEK1, an upstream activator of MAPKs, significantly inhibited crystal-induced cell proliferation, suggesting that the MAPK pathway is a significant mediator of crystal-induced signals. 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__label__wiki	0.788596	0.788596	jig-the-film » Electronic » Cheryl Cole - 3 Words Cheryl Cole - 3 Words album Cheryl_Cole Dance-pop 2010 UK Performer: Cheryl Cole Title: 3 Words Style: Dance-pop Format: ADX AHX WAV VQF MOD AIFF AC3 3 Words is the debut studio album by English singer Cheryl Cole released on 23 October 2009 by Fascination Records. Cole's first solo performance was on American rapper will. am's "Heartbreaker" (2008), on which she sang additional vocals. Following this it was announced that Cole's band Girls Aloud would take a break from releasing material who, at the time of the album's release, had enjoyed five successful albums and twenty consecutive top-ten singles. 50+ видео Воспроизвести все. Воспроизвести. Микс – Cheryl Cole - 3 WordsYouTube. Re: Cheryl Cole - Three Words (Solo Album - 26th October). I must admit, I didn't have much hope for this after the clips I listened to last week but as per usual, those pesky 30 second snippets cannot be trusted and won't be in future. I've ended up liking almost every song on the album. I'll need a few more listens before I can decide what is worthy of being a single but right now I'm liking Parachute and Stand Up. SoSeductive, Oct 22, 2009. Re: Cheryl Cole - Three Words (Solo Album - 26th October) Just as Whitney Houston's comeback album follows an autobiographical subtext in which most of the material deals with her overcoming her tribulations, so does Cheryl Cole's solo debut appear to follow an equivalent subtext in which the path to romantic fulfillment is pock-marked with treachery, uncertainty and secrecy. Download this: 3 Words, Rain On Me. We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view. Producer, Written-By – Steve Kipner, Wayne WilkinsWritten-By – Andre Merritt. Rain On Me. Producer, Written-By – Sam Watters, Wayne WilkinsWritten-By – Louis Biancaniello, Olivia Waithe, Steve Kipner. Make Me Cry. Producer – will. am Written-By – Caleb Speir, Cheryl Cole, William Adams. Copies originally sold at HMV included a 'Calendar Card' with the album cover on one side and a mini 2010 calendar on the other. Heaven" contains samples from "Is You" by . written by Andreas Meid. Happy Hour" contains samples from "Nevermore" by Renaldo Domino, written by Richard Pegue. The rest of the album goes in and out of your system like colonic irrigation. Consisting mainly of R&B that stays a safe two-chevron distance behind the cutting edge, it's utterly devoid of joy, and it's very telling that the only memorable hooks are someone else's: a bit of Duran's "Planet Earth" on "Stand Up", and the looped intro from Fleetwood Mac's "Little Lies" on "Boy Like You". Just when you think it can't get any worse, Will. Seven years after Girls Aloud broke out on the scene, Cheryl Cole emerged as its breakout star, the beauty who stood above the rest. Cole's captivating charm made her the perfect pop star, and her better-than-most's voice never slowed her down. In the last quarter of the 2000s, she found her own success away from her multi-platinum roots by becoming the fourth judge on the monstrously successful . television program The X-Factor. Cole's role as a judge and mentor to contestants made her even more of a celebrity than she already was - quite a feat - and helped Cole gain the. co Singles & Albums. You can make changes to the tracklist directly on MusicBrainz. Enter the url below of the most international release on MusicBrainz. The album may disappoint Cole's oldest fans. At its best, Girls Aloud's work with the Xenomania production team was smart, inventive and delightful. As a clean break with the Girls Aloud sound, 3 Words at first sounds like a throwback to the 90s, when acts like Louise Redknapp would put us to sleep with their unshakeably nice R&B lite. Parts of this album never pass beyond conservative pleasantries. But the shift in sound was still necessary. Most of 3 Words doesn't provide that: it's ultimately too tentative and slight to be more than a footnote in Cheryl Cole's unstoppable celebrity story. 1 –Cheryl Cole 3 Words Featuring – Will I Am 2 –Cheryl Cole Parachute 3:40 3 –Cheryl Cole Heaven 4 –Cheryl Cole Fight For This Love 3:43 5 –Cheryl Cole Rain On Me 3:50 6 –Cheryl Cole Make Me Cry 4:35 7 –Cheryl Cole Happy Hour 4:06 8 –Cheryl Cole Stand Up 3:24 9 –Cheryl Cole Don't Talk About This Love 3:45 10 –Cheryl Cole Boy Like You 11 –Will I Am Heartbreaker Featuring – Cheryl Cole (P) 2009 Polydor Ltd (UK). (C) 2010 Polydor Ltd (UK). Manufactured and printed in Thailand. BIEM/ SABAM. 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__label__cc	0.593136	0.406864	Category Archives: Christian high school On point as point guard Jerry Ballard’s buddies rued his absence on the football team this year, but he’s making up for it by starring at point guard on Lighthouse Christian Academy’s basketball team, which won yesterday against Highland Hall Waldorf School in Northridge. It wasn’t the successive concussions from boxing that kept him out of football, he says. It was the wrist and ankle injuries from the year prior. An uninjured Jerry was darting nimbly all over the court, stealing balls, pressing forward, firing off passes, shots and layups. He led LCA to 55-20 victory Tuesday. “We expected to be a little rusty coming out of the (winter) break,” said Coach David Horowitz. “We didn’t have any practices. We focused on working together, getting our team chemistry early. The guys executed the play well. They didn’t get upset if they made a mistake. They learned from it, recovered from it. I saw them grow over the course of the game.” The Saints dominated on rebounds and snuffed Highland Hall on defense. They stole balls and made fast breaks for layups. Read the rest: Lighthouse Christian Academy Santa Monica basketball. Posted in basketball, Christian education, Christian high school, Christian high school Los Angeles, christian high school santa monica, Christian school, Christian school Los Angeles, Christian schools, Christians in basketball, education, high school basketball, lighthouse christian academy, Lighthouse Church, Lighthouse Church Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Santa Monica Christian school, West Los Angeles Christian school, westside los angeles Tagged Highland Hall, Jerry Ballard, Marcus Scribner, Zachary Brewer Apparently being good at chemistry helps you in basketball After winning its third straight basketball game, Lighthouse Christian Academy credits for its breakout success its science program, specifically, chemistry class. “A young team playing their third game together is going to have to go through some growing pains every time a game starts, so the first quarter is going to be a little rough,” says David Horowitz. “But as we play, the team chemistry, the cohesiveness, begins to show up on the court and in the second, third and fourth quarter, the team bonds and does nothing but get better and stronger.” Pilgrim School just west of Downtown Los Angeles of was fired-up. With a couple of towering players (one was 6’4″, another was 6’1″), the Patriots looked to notch their first victory against the inexperienced Saints, who debuted this year. But Lighthouse tightened up its game by the end of the first quarter, down 13-17. In the second quarter, LCA took the lead with Pilgrim close behind 26-22. In the critical third quarter the Saints pulled away 45-35. Read the rest: the importance of team chemistry for basketball. Posted in basketball, Christ, Christian, Christian high school, Christian high school Los Angeles, christian high school santa monica, christian humility, Christian living, Christian news, Christian school, Christian school Los Angeles, Christian schools, christian sports, Christians in basketball, high school, high school basketball, private school, private schools, real Christianity, Santa Monica Christian school, schools, small schools, sports, varsity sports, West Los Angeles Christian school It’s Africa Time Nine years ago, Josie Bowen was the awkward, shy adopted missionaries’ kid from West Africa who didn’t fit in the small private school in Santa Monica. Today, the sophomore is ready to take over America. Milken Community School was probably glad they racked up 47 points in the first half against Lighthouse Christian Academy to assure their final victory. Because a sleeping giant was waking. In the second half, Josie beasted out. On kickoff return, he ran the full 80-yard field, smashing through Wildcats, to score a touchdown. There were no cuts, no jukes, just Cruise missile launched straight up the field. This was no fluke. The volcano had been rumbling for three games. On Lighthouse’s fourth game Thursday night, Josie Bowen was in full eruption. Gentle Jekyll transformed into hideous Hyde, and CIF’s southern section 8-man football won’t ever be the same again. Josie made seven tackles, three kickoff returns and one run. He appeared to harness the kinetic energy from hits received to increase his speed and power. Or maybe the Vibranium kicked in. Fledgling Lighthouse suffered a serious casualty in its first game when point man, Levi Photenhauer tore his ACL. Fellow senior Marcus Scribner would be hard-pressed to drive the team forward single-handedly and a dour season was forecast. But other players stepped up. Sophomore Steven Lahood and senior Hosea Ashcraft delivered on offense, and skater Pat Cannon showed a previously unseen maturity as QB. But the biggest revelation was the kid weened on soccer in Africa. “I was kind of lost last year. I was crying, like, ‘I don’t wanna be on this team,'” Josie says. “My team did amazing blocks, and I just ran through the hole. I feel amazing. I just feel like I ran 100 laps and I feel nothing. I just ran through the herd.” Read the rest of African missionary turns beast in American football high school. Posted in 8-man football, Christian, Christian attitude, Christian family, Christian high school, Christian high school Los Angeles, christian high school santa monica, Christian news, Christian school, Christian school Los Angeles, Christian schools, christian sports, Christian testimony, Christianity, Christianity in action, football, high school football, real Christianity, real issues Christianity, Santa Monica Christian school Tagged cif, Hyde, Jekyll, Levi photenhauer, Lighthouse Christian Academy, Milken Community School, Mosie Bowen, Rob Scribner, Vibrarium, wakanda, Wreck-It Ralph 300 (how a small Christian school in Santa Monica puts up a fight in football) This was not King Leonidas’ battle. It was Gideon’s. After witnessing Lighthouse’ undermanned but courageous stand against his team, Downey’s coach Mike Nuño compared his Santa Monica opponents to the Old Testament hero who vanquished the Midianites with an army of just 300. “You’re like Gideon’s warriors,” Nuño told them after Saturday’s game. “You guys are the 300 that stayed and say, ‘Man, we’re going to go out there and do this thing.’ It takes heart. You guys battle and battle and battle. You guys come out with a small group year after year after year and fight until the end.” If Lighthouse Christian Academy got compared to Gideon’s 300, it lost like Leonidas’ 300, overwhelmed by the endless swarming hordes of the Persian Empire. Despite a late first-half, valiant but quixotic surge, the Saints lost 21-62 against Calvary Chapel Christian School of Downey in CIF’s Southern Section 8-man football league. “I coached 16 players one year, and it was the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” Nuño said. “You come out with 10 or 12 players. I applaud you guys for that.” LCA and the Grizzlies were roughly even at the beginning of the game as players sized each other up, identified strengths and weaknesses and sought to exploit opportunities. Realizing their superior firepower, the Grizzlies began to pull away, making the score 6-24. But then a short kickoff gave Lighthouse a short field to drive for a touchdown. Senior Marcus Scribner caught a pass in the 2nd quarter for a touchdown to make it — with the subsequent 2 point conversion — 14-24. Downey discovered they could essentially block Lighthouse as long as they needed to make the long bomb pass and quickly added a TD. When Lighthouse tried to reply, the Grizzlies stymied their advance. Despite a dazzling one-handed catch and subsequent power scramble from senior Hosea Ashcraft, the Saints were unable to capitalize and had to punt. The Grizzlies shot their effective long pass down the right side to 1st and goal. It seemed they would pull away definitively in the scoring. But sophomore David Hutchinson tackled a running back for a 2-yard loss, and two passes bounced off the receivers hands brought an unexpected stop to the Downey steamroll. Read the rest of Christian school Santa Monica football fight. Posted in 8-man football, Christian, Christian education, Christian high school, Christian high school Los Angeles, christian high school santa monica, Christian living, Christian school, Christian school Los Angeles, Christian schools, christian sports, Christian testimony, Christianity, Christianity in action, football, God, high school football, Jesus, Lighthouse Church Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Santa Monica Christian school, West Los Angeles Christian school, westside los angeles Tagged 300, California, calvary chapel, Calvary Chapel Christian School, cif, David Hutchinson, Downey, Gideon, King Leonidas, Marcus Scribner, Midianites, Mike Nuno The quiet kid is heard in football He was the quietest of five brothers. While his older brothers fought and his younger brother was being the mischievous clown, Steven Lahood was the quiet — and obedient — of the siblings, both at home and at school. But Friday, Steven made himself heard, first with a touchdown on the second play of the game and then by stripping the ball from Teach Tech Charter High player and running almost for a touchdown in what was Lighthouse’s last chance to overtake its opponents. Despite the sophomore’s eruption on the football field, Lighthouse Christian Academy of Santa Monica lost its opening game 25-38 in its sputtered bid to establish league dominance this year. 2019 was supposed to be the year for the Saints. With a crop of talented, speedy and big seniors, LCA hoped to win by big margins. But key man, Levi Photenhauer, injured his knee in the first quarter and went out for the game. Without the speed of “Cheese” (as coach calls him for his shock of red hair), the Saints’ offense centered pretty much around hulkish Marcus Scribner, who trains constantly and wants to crack the NFL. “We became one-dimensional,” said Head Coach Zach Scribner, Marcus’ uncle. Marcus delivered. After a controversial ref’s call annulled a Lighthouse touchdown because of a smart block by Marcus, the blond-haired kid returned undaunted to the offense and caught a pass to not be denied the TD. But it was not enough. At the end of the day, the Tech’s Rams from Los Angeles, weaved and wobbled their way through the Saints enough times to secure the win. Read the rest about Small Christian School’s football team. Posted in 8-man football, Christian high school, Christian high school Los Angeles, christian high school santa monica, Christian news, Christian school, Christian school Los Angeles, Christian schools, christian sports, Christianity, Financial Talk, football, high school football, Jesus, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Santa Monica Christian school, West Los Angeles Christian school, westside los angeles Tagged Levi photenhauer, Lighthouse Christian Academy, Marcus Scribner, Steven Lahood From zero to hero Jordan Sheppard was the hero Wednesday as Lighthouse Christian Academy attempted to hold back the tsunami of Newbury Park Adventist Academy in co-ed soccer. That’s because the inexperienced goalie parried countless shots. “His hands must be hurting,” the referee quipped after the game. Jordan, 17, appreciates the chance to play. Had it not been for Lighthouse opening its doors, Jordan says he’d be on the wrong path in life. “Without Lighthouse, I think my life would be somewhere on the lines of being in jail or about to go to jail — or dead,” Jordan says bluntly. “One of those three.” Lighthouse lost 1-6. Without Jordan’s class act in the box, it would have been worse. But even when it loses, Lighthouse is winning — with what matters most. It’s stories like Jordan’s that people LCA’s fabled history. As a Christian ministry, LCA prepares the college-bound, and at the same time it reaches at-risk youth. Understandably, not all succeed, but the stories of those who do are pure gold. Coach Junior Cervantes was a similar story; from a Pacoima street tagger he turned into a college student, outstanding husband, son-in-law to Senior Pastor Rob Scribner of the Lighthouse Church in Santa Monica. In terms of pure sports, Wednesday’s loss was an act of revenge. Newbury has been a league champion and a tough rival for Lighthouse. For the last three or four matchups, LCA has managed to get the upper hand. The Gators were anxious to best the Saints. They fielded a top-notch team that moved the ball with precision and speed. They harried LCA all over the field. The Gators came ready to bite. So unrelenting was their offense, the Saints were driven back to their half and only defended for most of the first half. Coach Junior had to re-adjust at half time to offer some counter attack. Hosea Ashcraft pulled a foul outside of the box, fired the free kick around the wall bending it low on the far post for a consolation goal. It was the Saints’ first loss of the season in four games in CIF Southern Section’s Omega League. While the results were disheartening for the Saints, the game was nevertheless exhilarating. That’s because Newbury, playing at a high level, raised the level of the Saints players. The best way to get better is to play against better teams. The supporting cast of non-soccer players got takeaways. They would have to work on ball control, improve on their passing, use their brain more in terms finding their position on the field. They need to use less touches and execute quicker. As a newbie before the net, Jordan had to learn too. But the hulking 6-footer was up for the challenge and came off like a pro. How did he learn how to dive and perform the acrobats to frustrate Gator shot time after time? “I just watched videos and I learned from different coaches. They all taught me what to do,” Jordan says. “I just go with the flow. People tell me what to do and I accept it and I learn from my mistakes.” After learning to escape the unforgiving streets, learning goalie is easy. The senior credits a higher source for his own personal beating-of-the-odds. “I didn’t do anything. It was all God. It was because of the friends He gave me,” Jordan says. “It was because of the stepping stones that He put in my life and the different achievements. If I wasn’t at Lighthouse I don’t think I would be a Christian and having so much fun playing.” Posted in at risk students, bible, Christian, Christian education, Christian high school, Christian high school Los Angeles, christian high school santa monica, Christianity, education, God, God's work, Jesus, Santa Monica Christian school, West Los Angeles Christian school Tagged jordan sheppard, Lighthouse Christian Academy, Los Angeles, Santa Monica 3 pigs, 1 wolf and 10 students learn journalism at Lighthouse Christian Academy Tasked with converting The Three Little Pigs into a journalism article, LCA students show flair and fun. Two pigs dead, another survived wolf attack By Jose Hueso and Rachel Post — Two pigs were eaten and a third successfully defended himself against a ravenous wolf who blew the houses down of the first two pigs yesterday in the woods. Unable to blow down the third house which was made of bricks, the wolf entered with malicious intent by way of the chimney. He was unaware that the chimney was booby-trapped. He fell into a pot of boiling water on the fire of the chimney and died. The third pig ate the boiled predator. The wolf was able to knock down the first two pigs’ houses by blowing with all his might against them. One was made of hay and the other of sticks. “I’ll huff and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow your house down,” the wolf threatened. But huffing and puffing and blowing didn’t work against the house of bricks. Two pigs dead, wolf gets into hot water By Joey Catalano, Ryan Zepeda and Zhang Xiao-Tong — Two pigs were found eaten alive inside a killer wolf’s stomach yesterday in the woods. Local residents say the wolf was spotted blowing down the two pigs’ houses. “He was just saying, ‘I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down!’ to all those poor piggies,” said Julie Rabbit. The houses were made of sticks and hay. But a third pig escaped unscathed when the wolf attempted unsuccessfully to flatten his brick house. Foiled in his huffing and puffing, the wolf attempted to get the third pig by shimmying down the chimney. The quick-witted third pig put a pot of boiling water on the fire in the chimney, and the wolf only fell to his death in the hot water. ‘Another brick in the wall’ not a bad thing, pigs learn By Kiera Sivrican and Wang Jingtong — A big bad wolf assaulted three little pigs in a rage of hunger yesterday in the woods, blowing two of their three houses down. The famished wolf left his woods for a meal, when he stumbled on the three pigs, who had just finished building their separate houses as seemed best to each: one of hay, one of sticks, one of bricks. Read the rest of the Los Angeles specialized high school writing program Posted in Christian, Christian education, Christian high school, Christian high school Los Angeles, christian high school santa monica, faith, fake news, fiction, Financial Talk, Jesus, journalism, news reporting, writing Tagged Los Angeles, Santa Monica, specialized high school writing program Revival in public schools through Christians in athletics Whenever Christians complain about declining attendance in established churches, Josh Brodt pipes up about the thousands of kids who accept Jesus every year. Revival is happening in our public schools, he says. “We’ve seen quite a revival taking place in the San Fernando Valley,” says Josh, 34. “Students are hungry for something real, something more than what the world offers. It’s clear to me that students need genuine faith in something more than themselves, and they’re searching for that. “It’s been phenomenal to see.” Josh works for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which coordinates with students to bring professional and college athletes to talk to high school sports teams. He personally meets with coaches and students at 15 high schools. Last academic year, FCA workers in the San Fernando Valley, a part of Los Angeles that holds about half its population, saw 459 kids get saved, and they gave away 2,000 Bibles. The year prior, 900 students accepted Jesus, he says. “A lot of students feel like outsiders, like they don’t have a place to belong, a place to call their own.” Josh says. “FCA is a place where people can belong, a spiritual community where students can feel comfortable.” “On campuses people are desperate for God, they’re desperate for Jesus,” he adds. “A lot of them are recognizing that, and they’re making decisions towards that end.” Media and sociological reports harp on declining memberships in established protestant churches and the growth of “nones,” people who report to Census and other surveys as having no religion. But these depressing numbers don’t tell the whole story. While “established” churches may be declining and closing, those same surveys don’t catch the number of new churches opening simply because they don’t register them. And while the number of “nones” grows significantly, the hopelessness of a meaningless and moral-less worldview make for a ripe harvest field. Read more about revival in public schools. Posted in America, athletics, Christian, Christian high school, Christian news, Christianity, Christianity in Athletics, declining membership churches, faith, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, God, God's work, Jesus, Los Angeles, nones, San Fernando Valley Tagged football, soccer, volleyball This changes everything in missionology When Howon Chun showed up at Lighthouse Christian Academy in Santa Monica, he was a confirmed atheist. “I thought religion is for those who are weak psychologically,” said the Korean foreign exchange student. “Christianity was just one of many religions, and I was not really interested at all. I thought Christians were unstable and just wasting their time going to church. I thought the church was corrupt and only wanted to get their money.” His perspective changed after a year of hearing Bible class and then voluntarily attending a Bible conference in Tucson with his host dad (who happened to also be his principal and teacher). He was surprised by the thousands of people whose joy was evident. He decided he should at least re-evaluate his atheism. If this many people believe they are saved by Jesus, how can I ignore what they believe? he thought. “I liked their energy. I wanted to have a purpose in life like them. I learned that Christians weren’t weird. They have a loving community. They weren’t corrupt.” Howon wound up hanging around for three more years at Lighthouse. He just graduated, acing the SAT math with a perfect score, and enrolled in Cal Poly San Luis Obispo to study business. Part of his college choice based on accompanying his host dad, who is planting a church nearby Pismo Beach. Howon’s story upends the traditional missionary model of sending workers into the foreign field. Here’s a vein of gold. The Christian Examiner reported that 300,000 Chinese students alone enrolled in American schools in 2016, and they prefer Christian schools, regardless of their government’s atheistic values. There’s much discussion about how the surge in foreign students, who pay higher tuition than natives, has been a blessing to struggling private schools (public schools have strict limits on the amount of foreign students they can receive). But there is precious little discussion about making a concerted effort to evangelize them. Read the rest about evangelizing parachute students. Posted in China, Christian high school, Christian news, Christianity, Financial Talk, japan, Jesus, korea, lifestyle, lighthouse christian academy, Los Angeles, missionaries, missionary, missionology, Thailand A water roller coaster Most people think of camping as something they would never want to experience: Sleeping on the dank ground, eating only unsavory camp food, days without showering and nothing to do. But going on a trip at Lighthouse Christian Academy will change that. I came to the Lighthouse when I was in seventh grade. They also offer the rafting trip to the students who attend our gradeschool counterpart the Lighthouse Church School, but it wasn’t until my freshman year that I decided to go on the rafting trip. What shocked me was the lack of people that wanted to go. With the urging of Mrs. Lisa Clancy, I decided to go and had a great time. Now during my sophomore year, the trip rolled around and no one seemed like they wanted to go. Granted some people had other engagements but the group of people that went was small. Even though the group was small, it was a fun time. The drive to the campsite seemed short because you bonded with the people in the car — or slept. When we arrived at the campsite, all of us from the Santa Monica Christian school were all taken aback by the breathtaking nature around us. The campsite that the school goes to every year was better than any campsite I had been to before. There was indoor plumbing, a pool, and a small shop if you wanted to buy snacks. This made the camping part of the trip so much easier. The rafting part of the trip was both frightening and entertaining. We rafted one of the more harder rivers, and though some people had a better time than others, the scared feeling before you rafted is worth it. There is an adrenaline rush you feel when you’re riding a literal water roller coaster. Read the rest of the rafting trip story. Posted in Christian high school, christian high school santa monica, Christianity, Los Angeles, private schools, rafting trip, Santa Monica, Santa Monica Christian school, schools Tagged Bible, Christian schools, church, Faith, God, Jesus, ministry, pastors Happiness is fruit I spend oodles of hours — thankless hours — doing SEO for my school. I believed in this school. It’s a Christian school in Santa Monica, but leaders didn’t really have a publicity strategy. I guess they just “left it to God in prayer” but did little else. There were more than one who rolled his eyes when I told them what I was doing. Some said nothing would come of my efforts; it was impossible. I worked for two years. It was a lot of work, but it fit our budget of $0.00. Ha! That’s ok. Joy comes with the fruit. Ruby had been bullied at her prior school, so the Christian environment was going to help her heal and provided her love. Others signed up. Actually, last year was supposed to be the year we were going to have to close the school. Church leaders were going to sell the property. But I believed in the old vision for the Lighthouse Christian Academy, the vision to save souls and disciple kids — my kids too! — through the school. So God did a miracle. The school grew 50% — an unheard of rebound. (I’m making a manual available if you similarly have a Christian school off the radar that you need students for to not close.) Now, I’m starting a church in Van Nuys. It’s pretty gimmicky, but I’m calling myself the Valley Boy Pastor. I’ve had one family from my apartment complex come and a foursome of young adult ladies sign up. Just today, Brittany asked if I could go outreaching with them Saturday (I’ll be in Guatemala). Whoa! Usually it’s the pastor who tries to get the church members to go to outreach, not the other way around. God is doing great things, and the joy comes in the fruit. I pray for my all blogging friends to enter into a season of great fruitfulness. Posted in Christian high school, Christianity, education, lighthouse christian academy Tagged Bible, Christian education, Faith, fruit, God, Jesus, ministry, private school, school, SEO, Valley Boy Pastor, Van Nuys Our Chinese students loved surfing at our Santa Monica Christian high school The author, left, is a student in my World Literature class and completed this article as an assignment By Jasmine Zhang, Lighthouse Christian Academy sophomore The first time Brenda Liu and I, students from China, surfed and felt the crash of the waves, we thought we were going to die. “I was so scared,” said Brenda Liu. “The big waves almost killed me. I saw how the big waves could whirl people away.” I am from Yunnan, a highland in Southern China. I had only seen the sea in pictures and video before. The sea exercised a wonderful attraction over me. I love the sea and swimming. I like surfing, even though I am not very good at it. So when I enrolled at Lighthouse Christian Academy in Santa Monica, I opted for surfing elective. Actually quite a few of us Chinese foreign exchange students took the class, which in the Fall semester had seven students. Brenda agrees with me about surfing. “I thought: ‘I am young. I should try something new and different and keep learning,’” Brenda said. “I knew how to swim and snowboard, so I thought surfing would not be so difficult.” It turns out it WAS difficult for us international students. But it is fun. “At the beginning, I was so excited and felt that I was going to do something very marvelous,” Brenda said. “I was surprised by how the sea is really salty. I basically didn’t even stand on the board the first time.” Even though at our first outing we didn’t surf too spectacularly, we did see a dolphin, something we had never seen before. “That was the most interesting thing,” Brenda said. Read the rest of the story 美国留学. Posted in Christian high school, 美国留学, Santa Monica, 中国留学生 Tagged Chinese students, 美国留学, education, Faith, foreign exchange students, international students, Jesus, Lighthouse Christian Academy, salvation, Santa Monica, schools, surfing, teachers, 中国留学生 Getting stronger mentally, Lighthouse soccer comes from behind to tie From the looks of LCA’s come-from-behind 2-2 tie against Newbury Park Adventist Academy Tuesday, the Saints are getting the mental toughness needed to step up their competitiveness. “We had a good attitude when we went down 1-0,” said Captain Adrian Brizuela. “I was really surprised we kept our composure.” Coach Jack Mefford started Brizuela in goal because he’s as brilliant as he is fearless between the posts. Preferring Brizuela over freshman Justin Berry was a strategic decision to lock down the final approach to goal. But in classic give-and-take, it also hobbled the Saints’ ability to advance forward with possession. Brizuela is an irreplaceable motor in the midfield, in tandem with new sophomore Erhan Meric, a crack from Turkey. At half time, the Saints were losing 0-1 from a free kick when the Saints bungled a wall set-up. In the second half, Newbury again struck on a corner kick when Lighthouse midfielders failed to get back to mark up. The shot sailed over the goalie’s head and was chested into the net on the far post. Newbury was winning 0-2, and they cackled as they sniffed blood. The last time the Lighthouse Christian Academy faced Newbury in December, the Santa Monica Christian high school conceded four goals in the second half to lose a half-time advantage of 2-0. The meltdown resulted, in part, from emotional weakness. Soccer is, after all, a psychological game as much as any other sport. Since it’s a low-scoring game, even one goal is enough to sink a knife in the heart of players. They slow down, they stop fighting, they stop pushing for goal. They pray for the final whistle to come, and they scurry off the field with their tails between their legs. But Lighthouse mustered a resilience not seen before. Coach switched Brizuela into the midfield and the balance of the game shifted. Newbury couldn’t find an answer to the reconfigured 11 men on the field. And Berry owned the Lighthouse goal, applying the quick reflex he inherited from growing up in a basketball family. With 25 minutes to time, Newbury defenders fouled Lighthouse striker, Will Clancy, in the area, and Brizuela didn’t fail on the penalty kick making it 1-2. Within five minutes, Brizuela again performed his magic. On a throw-in from the left, Brizuela chested the ball expertly, spun and fired with no bounce into the top left corner. Newbury players were shocked. Lacking the tough and speedy Tex Hagoski (out due to sickness) to hold the defensive line, sophomores Abraham Kennedy and Alex Cervantez worked overtime to stymie the Newbury attack. And the tie score remained. In Southern California’s Omega League, Lightouse is now 1-1-3. “Our defense really helped us,” Brizuela said. “Abraham and Alex really stepped up to the plate.” Editor’s note: This article was original published here. Jamie Roman wrote it, and I edited it. Posted in Christian high school, Santa Monica, soccer Tagged Christianity, class, college prep, education, Faith, God, inspiration, Jesus, mental toughness, motivation, private school, sports, strength, thoughts, ticlee.. editeed, varsity Can’t keep Jack in the box Jack Mefford, principal of Lighthouse Christian Academy, doesn’t only teach. He preaches, administrates, swims, plays water polo, coaches soccer, makes movies, raises four kids and… Maybe it would be shorter to list the things he cannot do. Did I say he double-minored and played trumpet in UCLA marching band? The debonair summa cum laude graduate has a long resume typical of Ivy League graduates who command top pay at top jobs. So what is he doing leading LCA with its (less than) ordinary pay scale? “Money doesn’t mean anything,” he said. “When I was a youth and didn’t know God and prayed to see if he was real, the first thing I asked Him was for love and the second was a purpose in life. He has given me both – my purpose is here serving the kids.” “Meff” – as LCA kids call him – accepts anyone who has made a mistake in life and wants a second chance. He believes everyone is entitled to one. Raised in a farm town called Dinuba near Fresno, California, Mefford learned from his air force dad to work hard, be disciplined, value family and to achieve. He didn’t learn about God until he reached early adulthood. The early trappings of success didn’t satisfy. “I had everything the world had to offer, and I felt something missing. I was doing everything they told me to do. I was following the script, and it was not enough,” he said. “I felt there had to be something more, something eternal.” He began attending a church and later got linked up with Pastor George Neos at UCLA. Neos was pioneering a church at UCLA on campus. Mefford received a flyer and decided to attend only because his car broke down. He was quickly impressed with Pastor George Neos’s over-the-top earnestness and how Christianity affected his life. The on-campus church migrated to Yale Street, Santa Monica, and Jack came along with his sweetheart, Nicolene. They married and when they graduated, they didn’t go where their careers would lead – they stayed where their God had led. Instead of scooping up a lucrative job, Jack immediately began teaching in the Lighthouse Church School (which is LCA’s older brother, having kindergarten to middle school). He would also join his pastor on mission trips to Guatemala. When Pastor George accepted a new assignment as the Hesperia pastor, Jack took over administration of the LCA. Sadly, Mefford struggled with an inner sadness that he shared with not many; his wife couldn’t have children. His dream of having a large family was floundering from early marriage. Nicolene suffered four consecutive miscarriages until, after a lot of praying, God finally granted a miracle. He has now been blessed with four kids. Mefford’s first daughter, Emma is six years old, his second, Jackson is four, Ethan is two and Weston is 11 months. He claims all children are miracles and is thankful to God everyday for his offspring. Man of many abilities, Jack Mefford has done many wonderful things for Lighthouse. Editor’s Note: This article was first published here. It was written by Petrina Gratton, my journalism student at the Lighthouse Christian Academy. Posted in Christian high school, Los Angeles, Santa Monica Tagged Christianity, Faith, George Neos, inspiration, Jack Mefford, Jesus, Lighthouse Christian Academy, Nicolene Mefford, private school, thought My high school improves its soccer record Lighthouse Christian Academy capped an extraordinary week of soccer with a 2-2 tie against Ribet Academy yesterday. The Saints’ erstwhile haphazard program is taking shape and coordinating better. “They played hard and were more organized than ever,” said Junior Cervantes, who stepped in to coach for Jack Mefford. With enrollment at 50, the small Christian school flounders around the bottom of the table. With just one or two club players and the rest of the team coaxed into playing after football season, it’s difficult to drill a championship team. But with three games this week, the Saints tied Westmark in Encino on Monday, beat Concordia 3-0 on Tuesday and drew against the Frogs Thursday. At such a busy time, the loss of head coach Mefford, out for emergency family issues, was inopportune in terms of soccer. But Cervantes, an LCA graduate and former club star, filled in without missing a beat. Senior Adrian Brizuela was up to his old tricks and created danger throughout the game. He gives the impression of being a lackadaisical player to defenders until suddenly a solid opportunity materializes and he instantly pulls out his knife and begins slitting to goal. Read the rest of the article. Posted in Christian education, Christian high school, Santa Monica, soccer Tagged Christianity, Faith, God, inspiration, Jesus, motivation, sports, teamwork How do you make poetry relevant? Volley’d and thunder’d; Storm’d at with shot and shell, The assignment was The Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson, but the students’ eyes were going dry with boredom at the Lighthouse Christian Academy in Santa Monica. Vain were my pleas to see the danger, to feel the passion, to live the moment. So what do I do? I showed the students Black Hawk Down, which retells the death of 18 deaths and 73 wounded among Rangers and Delta Force operators in Somalia in 1993. Deprived of heavier armored vehicles by a Clinton administration who deemed them “too high profile,” American soldiers were overrun when things started going wrong: Todd Blackburn missed the rope on the drop in, two helicopters were shot down. Throughout the afternoon and night, the U.S. tried to evacuate the wounded and rescue the surrounded. Flower children never do well commanding armies. Tennyson’s tributes the brave British soldiers who charged — to their deaths — in the Battle of Balaclava against the Russians in 1854 that showed similar incompetent leadership resulting in extraordinary courage and needless death. You can take your fantasy Star Wars. I’ll take reality; it’s far more exciting. Posted in Christian education, Christian high school, Santa Monica Tagged battle of balaclava, battle of mogadishu, black hawk down, charge of the light brigade, Clintons, crimean war, futile military campaigns, how to make literature relevant, how to teach poetry, inept leadership, inspiration, Jesus, literature, military campaigns, motivation, poetry, somalia, teachers, teaching, tennyson One coach is chill, the other, read to kill Posted on January 3, 2016 \| 1 comment If you mess up on the football field, one coach is forgiving. For the other coach, that’s the end of you. “I’m probably too soft,” admits Coach Zach Scribner. “And Justin is maybe a little too intense. We sometimes disagree on strategy and how to push the players to their potential, but I always stand behind him” When it comes to coaching style, Justin Kayne and Scribner, who tag-team train LCA‘s 8-man team, could hardly be more of polar opposites. Though they are inseparable friends from high school, they are not Rosencrantz and Guildenstern on the sideline or on the practice field. Scribner is an easy-going guy who likes golf. Kayne revels in the testosterone proofing of this American iteration of Roman gladiator sport. When things go bad, Scribner is unflappable, while Kayne throws his clipboard down and growls about writing letters to league organizers for a bad call from refs. Scribner perfected his coaching technique by playing Madden. Kayne credits his coach, former LCA Principal George Neos, a Dartmouth star, with smelting steel in his heart. Read the rest of the article here: Christian sports. Posted in Christian high school, education, football Tagged Christianity, coaching styles, Faith, God, inspiration, Jesus, Lighthouse Christian Academy, motivation, personalities, Santa Monica, varsity One soul worth more than 15 million views My friend, Dr. Bob, is now officially famous, with 15 million views of his video “The Hold” and appearances on Good Morning America and Dr. Oz. But I don’t think his heart will change. He’s a vibrant Christian. As an SEO, I helped promote his video so that it caught the attention of some influencer, who reposted it and it caught the attention of massive online media. He’s being called the “Baby Whisperer” for his intuitive way to calm fussy tykes. I don’t think I want to be famous myself. I’ve found a greater joy, the happiness of saving souls. I work at a Christian high school in Santa Monica. The smiling faces you in the photo are some of the people who have exited the misery of bullying at school and entered the joy of Jesus. One soul is worth more than 15 million views. Posted in Christian high school, Christianity, Financial Talk Tagged baby whisperer, Bible, Dr. Robert Hamilton, Faith, God, Jesus, Lighthouse Christian Academy, Lighthouse Church, souls, the hold A bright spot on a dismal loss \| Christian football team loses vs. Hillcrest Checking Caleb for concussion after he got zonked. Get that guy some glue. One of the bright spots in Lighthouse Christian Academy‘s 14-66 loss to Hillcrest Christian of Thousand Oaks was a freshman who just became old enough to play. Caleb Zerihum made tackles. He foiled receivers. He ran down ball carriers. He scrambled after Tex Hagoski to provide some key blocking on a touchdown run. He grabbed an onside kick. He caught a pass. And he dropped the ball – twice. On the onside kick, Caleb nabbed it deftly. Coach had told him to smother the ball, but the freshman is famous for forgetting instructions. Or maybe he thought he would try his hand at being the charging bull Tex who sprints, slashes and bashes his way through defenders. Caleb is bashful, but on Friday, he didn’t bash his way through the onslaught of Hillcrest tacklers. He got hit so hard he fumbled the ball. Later in the game, he Caleb caught the ball, and in his eagerness to elude defenders he bobbled the ball. His moment of glory fizzled. For the next game, will that be Elmer’s or superglue? Continuing reading Christian football. Posted in Christian education, Christian high school, Christian school, Christianity Tagged college prep, Faith, football, high school, Jesus, Lighthouse Christian Academy, private school, Santa Monica This ice-breaker is a gut-buster \| Santa Monica Christian High School This is how we welcomed students today to the family of Lighthouse Christian Academy, a small Westside college prep with a strong Biblical base. This sort of thing is not my specialty. The donut-eating race was promoted by the student council, of which my son is a part. It seems like the new kids really felt welcomed. Now it’s time to roll up the sleeves and get into studies. As always, I’m teaching English literature and Spanish. I’ll keep y’all up to date, and I thank you for your prayers for our school. Posted in Christian high school Tagged Christian school, classroom, donut, education, Faith, fun, ice breaker, inspiration, Jesus, learning, Santa Monica, teaching, Westside	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1492
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__label__wiki	0.711606	0.711606	Andrew Sodroski True-ish detective: Unpacking “Manhunt: Unabomber” on Netflix streaming The eight-part Discovery Channel series Manhunt: Unabomber is one of the most thoroughly captivating, entertaining pieces of bullshit in the entire canon of true-crime TV. Bullshit because Manhunt takes narrative liberties that are extreme even for Hollywood. The fabrication starts with a focus more on the FBI Unabomb investigation than on Ted Kacyznski. Nothing wrong with this approach, of course. But when a minor player in the real case (profiler Jim Fitzgerald, here Sam Worthington in the lead role) is turned into a modern-day Sherlock Holmes—and his near-omniscience is only exaggerated by pitting him as a stereotypical underdog genius—the formula might be hard to swallow for true-crime die-hards looking for the level of point-by-point attention to historical detail that, say, Zodiac obsessed over. On the flip side, if you view this thing merely as an exercise in historical fiction (rather than the true-crime retelling it poses as), you’d be hard-pressed to find a more engrossing piece of detective TV over the past couple years. Not exactly selling itself… While we’re on the subject of missteps by an otherwise- phenomenal series, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the reason it took me a year to get around to watching this: piss-poor marketing. Take the reason half the world has seen Mindhunter (a series incredibly similar, and no more compelling) and not this: With the dubious Discovery Channel stamp on a bland, gray canvas featuring an unrecognizable actor posing as the Unabomber, the cover art here suggests a hammy, low-budget direct-to-DVD thriller. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Again, A-lister Sam Worthington stars (Netflix has increased his facial presence on its streaming page since they picked this up in late-2017). Manhunt also spares no expense on its strong cinematography, recreation of period and place, and reputable side cast (Jane Lynch as Janet Reno, Mark Duplass as Kaczynski’s brother). It actually feels a lot closer to the high-quality cinematographic and suspense work of Fincher in Mindhunter and Zodiac than it does, say, Lifetime’s Jodi Arias story. UNABROTHER: Mark Duplass as David Kaczynski And where Worthington does a fine job in a hyperbolized role, one of the greatest accomplishments of Manhunt is Paul Bettany’s dynamic portrayal of Kazcynski. Rarely do serial killer stories so impactfully display the humanity of their… serial killers. And that’s probably a good segue to get into the narrative meat of the show. The first episode opens with a calm-yet-sinister voiceover imploring: “I want you to think about the mail, for a minute. Stop taking it for granted like some complacent, sleepwalking sheep. And really think about it. I promise you, you will find the U.S. mail a worthy object of your contemplation.” This device (Bettany reading from the Unabomber letters and manifesto) is employed periodically throughout the series, both as a tool to get into Kaczynski’s mind and also as an empathic ploy that begins to explain why our protagonist (Worthington) becomes dangerously smitten with Kaczynski’s theories. “Mind. Blown.” As Fitzgerald ascends from average-Joe Philly beat cop to he-man detective, he’s brought in by the FBI to build a profile on the elusive Unabomber. With the help of a faithful assistant (Keisha Castle-Hughes), Fitzgerald probes the case from new angles, identifying patterns in the Unabomber’s letters that lead to what he dubs “forensic linguistics.” As bosses second-guess him at every turn, Fitzgerald continually saves face with last-moment revelations. This is not a spoiler, as Fitz and Ted face-off early on—part of Manhunt‘s effective nonlinear narrative. (They never met in real life, if you were wondering.) While Worthington’s Fitzgerald is clearly a fabricated hero-character constructed for the sake of thrilling cinema, that construction is quite effective. Perhaps part of what makes Manhunt so intriguing is that as Fitz’s Kaczynski obsession begins to manifest in his personal behavior and ideologies (down to living in an isolated cabin in the woods and growing a laughably fake beard), we are confronted with a dark and ugly truth: Ted Kaczynski, the man responsible for the brutal murder and disfiguration of so many innocents, was in fact a sane, brilliant ideologist whose theories were, by and large, very relatable to good people. Like Fitz. Or you. Or me. “He just has the courage to live according to his ideals,” Fitz says at one point when refuting the popular notion that Kaczynski, was insane. “I respect that.” There’s no denying that Kaczynski is painted with a very sympathetic brush in this series—one that might understably offend families of the innocent people who Kaczynski maimed and killed. But again, part of what makes the Unabomber case so interesting is that Ted Kaczynski wasn’t a psychopath or lunatic, but rather a passionate human who did some horribly misguided shit to get his desperate plea about the state of humanity across to the rest of humanity. One particularly poignant and haunting scene shows Bettany frolicking in the woods to a classical symphony played on an old gramophone. Here, he looks like some ethereal pan creature—a hybrid of Thoreau and Baryshnikov—enchanted by the sublime beauty of nature, and an inextricable part of it. It’s this side of Kaczynski that’s relatable. Bettany brings a disturbing level of gravity to his portrayal of Kaczynski, showing his many sides: the idealistic naturalist who cares for and is enchanted by the world; the creepy, angsty social outcast; the egomaniacal tortured genius who decided to play god. In all, this is an expertly crafted detective series with an incredible turn by its antagonist. I’d be playing spoiler if I were to get into my views about why this series is both Grade-A cinema and Grade-A bullshit. Suffice it to say that you’ll probably see what I’m talking about as it unfolds. Tags Andrew Sodroski, best detective shows on netflix, best of netflix 2018, best serial killer series, best series on netflix, best thrillers on netflix, david fincher, Greg Yaitanes, Jane Lynch, Jim Clemente, Manhunt: Unabomber, Mark Duplass, Mindhunter, Paul Bettany, Sam Worthington, serial killer shows, Ted Kaczynski, Tony Gittelson, zodiac	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1501
__label__cc	0.552059	0.447941	Eid in Mogadishu: Fear Overshadows Celebrations Ali M. Rage, Al-Shabab spokesman, leads Eid prayer Somaliland Press:- In one of its rarest occasions, the city of Mogadishu today felt like a city of peace and calm rather than the deadly war zone that it has become renowned for over the last few decades. The thunderous roar of mortars and rockets and the rapid exchange of gun fire remained eerily muted this morning, and as if to honour the blessed occasion of Eid, the city remained silent. The frequently pounded Bakara market, though still healing from yesterday’s heavy shelling, closed its doors to business and public and a steady trickle of people, young and old, made their way towards the prayer site. Reveling in the rare moments of respite from the barrage of mortars that have recently pulverized much of the city, a multitude of men and women moved at aـ leisurely stroll while ecstatic children, blowing multicoloured balloons and whistles, trailed the footsteps of their parents, merrily frolicking on the streets. Their radiant faces displayed, for once, that long lost look of innocence, delight and happiness. To mark the occasion of Eid, thousands of Mogadishu residents made their way towards Maslax, a Siyad Barre-era military compound now occupied by Al-Shabab. Though the stadium was the usual spot for Eid prayers, as it is large enough to accommodate the thousands of residents, it was abandoned in the last hour for fears that Amisom forces might shell the congregation in retaliation for the attack at the airport that killed several AU and government troops. The Islamists, however, have organized several locations in and around Mogadishu to accommodate the influx of residents rushing to the congregational morning prayers that marked the end of the fasting season and the beginning of family reunions and splendid feasts. Filed under Al-Shabaab, Islam, Islamists, Mogadishans, Mogadishu, Sheikh Sharif, Somalia, TFG Tagged with Abu Zubeyr, Al-Shabaab, Al-Shabab, Ali Mohamud Rage, AMISOM, Eid, Harakat al-Shabaab Mujahideen, Islamists, Maslax, Mogadishans, Mogadishu, Sharif, Sheik Sharif, TFG	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1511
__label__cc	0.682154	0.317846	All users must adhere to the Army.ca Conduct Guidelines. Milnet.ca Forums » Army.ca » Combat Elements » Topic: The Role of Infantry (and other Combat Arms) Author Topic: The Role of Infantry (and other Combat Arms) (Read 49545 times) SirTwonish The Role of Infantry (and other Combat Arms) I am a new recruit in PRes and while we were running in formation our M cpl was asking us questions as we went along. Length weight of a C7 etc... He also asked us what is the role of the infantry? It goes something like this: To close with and defeat the enemy day or night regardless of weather or terrain something something something. I have just started and I was wondering what the role of the infantry is word for word, I don't want to feel retarded next time he asks! Thanks! KevinB Has Been Army.ca Fixture As a Matter of Fact the Sky is Blue in my world... Re: Purpose of Infantry The role of the infantry is to close with and destroy the enemy, by day or by night, in all weather conditions, and terrain. Kevin S. Boland Manager, Federal Sales FN America, LLC Office: 703.288.3500 x181 \| Mobile: 703-244-1758 \| Fax: 703.288.4505 www.fnhusa.com "There ain't no hat badge on a helmet!" Army.ca Veteran "Oh, what a glorious sight, Warm-reekin, rich!" Quote from: Infidel-6 on January 09, 2008, 13:10:37 +1 to the Infidel!... with particular emphasis on "destroy" Train like your life depends on it. Some day, it may. Technoviking DANCE TO THE TECHNOVIKING. Army.ca Subscriber Army.ca Legend Here I go, raining on a parade again: The role of Infantry To close with and destroy the enemy. Just in case it comes up The role of armour To defeat the enemy through the aggressive use of firepower and battlefield mobility. So, there I was.... Future Pensioner How about this version: To close with and destroy the enemy. To kill or capture him. To seize and hold ground by day or by night regardless of season weather or terrain. DUCIMUS Quote from: Future Pensioner on January 09, 2008, 14:39:33 How about "no". "My" source is B-GL-392-001/FP-001 "The Infantry Battalion in Battle", Volume 1, Chapter 1, Section 2 "Role and Tasks", and I quote: 6. The role of the infantry is to close with and destroy the enemy. 7. Well armed individuals with fighting spirit and dogged determination constitute the backbone of the infantry battalion. All the rest - vehicles, stores and equipment - merely exist to assist the infantry soldier to carry out the mission. It is by determination and the skillful use of weapons and ground that the battalion succeeds in battle. 8. The infantry battalion may be assigned the following tasks: a. to destroy the enemy in close combat; b. to defend a position by the holding of ground; c. to fight as covering force troops; d. to act as all or part of a reserve to counter-attack or block; e. to participate in airmobile, airborne or amphibious operations; f. to establish surveillance and conduct patrols; g. to conduct security tasks, including rear area security; and h. to exploit the effects of NBC weapons. NB: Edited for spelling « Last Edit: January 09, 2008, 15:50:22 by Mortarman Rockpainter » Fishbone Jones MSC -7245. "Some people will only like you if you fit inside their box. Don't be afraid to shove that box up their ass." Army.ca Myth Quote from: Mortarman Rockpainter on January 09, 2008, 14:34:55 aka 'Speed & Violence' Corruption in politics doesn't scare me. What scares me is how comfortable people are doing nothing about it. NFLD Sapper CFSME STAFF Or how about that of the Engineers The Primary Role. To assist friendly troops to fight, move and live, and to denying the same ability to the enemy; and The Secondary Role. To fight as infantry. Ref: B-GL-361-001/FP-001 LAND FORCE ENGINEER OPERATIONS – VOLUME 1 (ENGLISH) Ch. 1. Section 1 Role First in, Last out Sappers Lead the Way Just tell your wife she owes your life to some Muddy Old Engineer, Some dusty, crusty, croaking, joking Muddy Old Engineer I stand corrected. Thank you. dapaterson Mostly Harmless. But never forget the foreword to B-GL-372-005/FP-001, paragraph 4: Unless otherwise noted, masculine pronouns contained herein refer to both genders. ... this non-sequitur brought to you by CH3CH2OH... This posting made in accordance with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, section 2(b): Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/1.html Directing Staff Honey Badger FTW! And if you would have wrote that on the TKT at the Infantry School it would have been marked wrong by Standards (I know because I remember bringing this up). Yet another sign that we don't even know our own doctrine! Since we're discussing the role of the infantry, here is a reading assignment for everyone: http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/caj/documents/vol_09/iss_1/CAJ_vol9.1_09_e.pdf "Overall it appears that much of the apparent complexity of modern war stems in practice from the self-imposed complexity of modern HQs" LCol J.P. Storr Quote from: Infanteer on January 11, 2008, 13:21:16 I remember also bringing that up to the former SME for DP 1.1. Being Australian, he always used that definition that included "to kill or capture him, etc". That really fried my cheese! To engage with the population and destroy the enemy at close quarters. That is the role envisioned by the author for the infantry. I would disagree. I believe that the role of the infantry should remain as it is: to close with and destroy the enemy. Remember, "destroy" traditionally implies that the enemy must not be capable of conducting operations without being reconstituted. That works well in a conventional, peer enemy force situation. In the COE, however, "destroy" has a new meaning, I believe. So, instead of only destroying through firepower, I would posit that the infantry can destroy the enemy through engaging the population, undermining the enemy and instilling confidence in your force. These are necessary (IMHO) for winning in COIN. Perhaps some of the tasks that can be assigned to the infantry also include "engage the population?" Still, for me, I don't think defitions need changing. WHAT we do may need changing, or even how we do it, but the role of the infantry, the first principle, in my professional opinion, should remain "to close with and destroy the enemy." (It is a good article: I recommend that everyone read the article on the link posted by Infanteer) Info Curator, Baker & Food Slut Army.ca Relic Haven't read the article yet, but based on the explanation above, how about "To close with and destroy the enemy, through direct or indirect fires, or by neutralizing the enemy's popular support" “The risk of insult is the price of clarity.” -- Roy H. Williams The words I share here are my own, not those of anyone else or anybody I may be affiliated with. Tony Prudori MILNEWS.ca - Twitter Quote from: milnewstbay on January 11, 2008, 14:25:30 I've always liked the simplicity of "to close with and destroy the enemy" says what we do, as "through direct or indirect fires, or by neutralising the enemy's popular support" would tell us how to do it. In mission command, "how" is left to the commander. Also, it's easier to learn and memorise for tests Chris Pook Wha daur say Mass in ma lug! ...Now, that infantryman must also have certain attributes of a “beat cop.” LCol Eyre's closing line. That is the role envisioned by the author for the infantry. I would disagree. I believe that the role of the infantry should remain as it is: to close with and destroy the enemy. The guy with the can of whitewash. The second position makes everything easier. There is a training focus. There is moral clarity. But, I most humbly suggest, that is not what a government can supply. I have argued that the soldier is first and foremost an agent of the Crown (or the sovereign people for those silly types that require democracy in all things). The Crown needs to control its spaces and places. Places are where the people are. Spaces are where people might be. People don't easily self-identify as targets and non-targets. Only members of the military tribe seem to have that propensity. The Government requires people to act as its agents to engage other people. By choosing to act as agents then the types involved also self-identify as targets - might as well give them uniforms. The ongoing question of the difference between the Policeman and the Soldier is ultimately a non-question. Both of them are agents of the Crown whose role is to enforce the Crown's wishes. Fortunately, in Canada, the Crown wishes a peaceful, secure environment.. The Policeman expects to come home most nights after a day on the job. But he works every day. The Soldier doesn't work everyday (ducking now). He trains every day and gets paid for that but he really only works occasionally. Most importantly, when he does work, he doesn't have the same expectation of coming home that the Copper does. That difference in expectations is not a function of the role of the Agent so much as it is a function of the environment to which they are assigned. Soldiers are assigned to target rich environments. Policemen are assigned to target poor environments. Unfortunately the scale of poor to rich is a sliding scale and sometimes the targets have to be sifted. And this brings us back to Dragoons raised as mobile infantry to police the spaces. And to Gendarmerie, and Carabinieri and Marechausse and Mounties and British South African Constabulary..... It is no accident that the Cold War infantry was an endangered species. The Cold War was predicated on people in uniforms operating in target rich environments with moral clarity of purpose. The targets self identified. The Shock Forces (Cavalry and Artillery - tanks to nukes and everything in between) didn't have to worry about finding something to fight with). Now that that period of silliness is behind us we are back to where we started. The Government needs to find people to sift out the wolves from the sheep and to identify the target rich space from the target poor spaces so that they can appropriately assign personnel: police to target poor zones, soldiers (or should it be Shock Forces) to target rich spaces. The Continentals, accepting of a Standing Army and no concept of Minimum Force, have no trouble maintaining a separate domestic army of gendarmes to control the spaces. Their police control the places and their armies control their borders and beyond. Us Anglo types (and our Huguenot friends) rebelled very precisely and exactly against that very type of standing domestic army, whether it be Jimmy the Sixth and First's paid reivers on the borders, Charles II's Highland Host and Dragoons in Ayrshire, Louis XIV's Dragons in the Vendee and the Palatinate, or George II's Black Watch. Consequently the Brits have had to maintain an infantry heavy army to supply the Crown with the capabilities that Louis's Dragoos supplied him. The Crown needs bodies to operate in the Grey Zone that is neither target rich nor target poor. They need Policemen that can take Shock Action when the situation warrants rather than waiting for someone else to handle it. At the same time they need Shock Forces that will find their own targets and not piss off the population in the process. Apparently our Cold War raised Army doesn't want the job. Unfortunately the prognosis for Shock Forces is not that great in the absence of self-identified targets. Given such a shortage the Shock Forces are not likely to get much usage and end up going the way of the Guild of Wagon Wheel Spoke Makers. « Last Edit: January 11, 2008, 15:16:43 by Kirkhill » "If change isn’t allowed to be a process, it becomes an event." - Penny Mordaunt 10/10/2019 Of course there might be another option. Remove CIMIC from the CF (I think I hear Edward nodding) and have it created as a separate SMALL corps of agents of the Crown with specializaition in the Grey Zone and exposure to both Policing and Shock Action in their training and selection. Then assign Shock Forces and Police as the situation demands. Of course that would require subordinating the Military to the Civilian District CIMIC Officer. It would leave the Military free to concentrate on Shock Action. Of course it would also require a CIMIC agent with every deployed package. So if the smallest deployable package were the Company/Combat Team we would only need 50 or so CIMIC Officers (and their staff). If, on the other hand we were deploying Fire Teams to villages then each Fire Team would need a separate CIMIC Officer to call their shots. 2 Tms/Sect 6 Tms/Pl 18 Tms/Coy 54 Tms/Bn 162 Tms/Bde 486 Tms/Cdn Army requiring the creation of 486 CIMIC Agents and Staffs to supervise their activities and utilize their capabilities That is only converting the Infantry The Cavalry and Artillery (complete with Panzer Grenadiers) would remain as Shock Forces dedicated to destroying targets. Engineers find themselves swinging both ways. Service Support likewise. But that brings us to the concept of an Officer being a Commissioned agent of the Crown and being assigned a competent Corporal's Guard by the local Centurion/RSM. Here's a fun quiz. Who can name the role of armour prior to it becoming what is posted here? Army.ca Fossil To defeat the enemy throught the aggressive use of firepower and shock action. DISCLAIMER: The opinions and arguments of George Wallace posted on this Site are solely those of George Wallace and not the opinion of Army.ca and are posted for information purposes only. Unless so stated, they are reflective of my opinion -- and my opinion only, a right that I enjoy along with every other Canadian citizen. Quote from: George Wallace on January 11, 2008, 19:35:11 Maybe, but lets go earlier to something that does not even resemble that phrase. You thinking of the motto? Through the mud and the blood to the green fields beyond. (General Worthington) No. I've got something else & a reference to back me up. Re: The Role of Infantry (and other Combat Arms) In the spirit of official references, here is what we get from B-GL-301-002/FP-001 THE BATTLE GROUP IN OPERATIONS, Change 2, 1992-02-03 FIELD ARTILLERY - Role. Field artillery contributes to the defeat of the enemy by indirect fire AIR DEFENCE ARTILLERY - Role. Air defence artillery prevents enemy aircraft from interfering with land operations. TANKS - Role. The tank defeats the enemy by the aggressive use of firepower and battlefield mobility. ARMOURED RECONNAISSANCE - Role. Armoured reconnaissance obtains and relays timely information about the enemy and the ground, and contributes to battlefield security. TANK DESTROYERS - Role. Tank destroyers (TDs) destroy enemy armour. INFANTRY - Role. Infantry closes with and destroys the enemy. LONG RANGE ANTI-ARMOUR WEAPONS - Role. The long range anti-armour weapon (LRAAW) destroys enemy armour. ENGINEERS - Role. Engineers assist the land force to live, move and fight on the battlefield and work to deny the same to the enemy. Engineers may also be employed as infantry when required. and as found in B-GL-371-003/FP-001 Field Artillery Operational Procedures, 27 Aug 2000 and in B-GL-371-000/FP-001 Field Artillery Doctrine, 22 Jun 1999: The role of the field artillery is to assist in the defeat of the enemy with indirect fire as part of the all-arms battle. .... but I'm still waiting to see if anyone can dig out a really old definition of the role of Armoured. daftandbarmy The Older I Get, The Better I Was Slightly off topic, but a good one for a new infantryman to have handy as required: THE INFANTRYMAN " Let us be clear about three facts. First of all, all battles and all wars are won in the end by the infantryman. Secondly, the infantryman always bears the brunt. His casualties are heavier, he suffers greater extremes of discomfort and fatigue than the other arms. Thirdly, the art of the infantryman is less stereotyped and far harder to acquire than that of any other arm." 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__label__wiki	0.532445	0.532445	Boydo's Tech Talk Don't cross the data streams – it would be bad… Neowin Articles and Reviews Insider Guru Blogs Using Blog Content About Boydo Uninstall and Remove EasyBits GO Draft R18+ Guidelines for Computer Games Released ARM CPUs and Windows 8 – What Does it Mean? By Boyd Chan in Android, CPU, Intel, iOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Processors, Technology, Windows 95, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP It’s no secret now that Windows 8 is going to be compatible with ARM CPUs. This is an interesting move as the general belief in the technical ranks was that Microsoft would scale up Windows Phone to the tablet form factor rather than have another tilt at shoehorning its desktop operating system into low powered tablets (an approach that hasn’t worked tremendously well in the past). One thing that has been in common across tablets from the Windows 95, XP and Vista eras is the x86 CPU (more often than not designed by Intel). Over time, these CPUs have had more and more instructions packed into them and, in most cases, successive generations of CPUs have possessed a superset of instruction sets compared to prior generations (things like MMX, SSE, SSE2, etc). Unfortunately, what this also means is while a CPU is powered up all of those extra bits of silicon are chewing up power even when they are not in use. This is exactly what you don’t want in mobile or portable devices when battery life is a big deal. The benefit of ARM CPUs is that they can be tailored to provide only the specific instructions required for the purpose in which they will be used. For instance, it makes no sense to include video decoding instructions in a CPU when it is only going to be used in a network router. ARM CPUs can be found in portable consoles such as the Nintendo 3DS/DS, smartphones such as the Samsung Galaxy S and Apple iPhone, and digital SLR cameras like the Cnanon EOS 5D Mark II. These CPUs very much have the stranglehold in the mobile space and have proven to provide the best . Intel has attempted to compete in this space with its XScale CPUs which appeared in heaps of old Windows Mobile devices last decade but never gained a foothold. In terms of the low end computer market (i.e. netbooks), Intel has produce incredibly stripped down CPUs like the Intel Atom that do enough to run a computer with minimal performance. Unfortunately for Intel, Microsoft’s inclusion of ARM CPUs could make the use of lower end x86 CPUs like the Atom a poor choice and give ARM CPUs even more penetration into the market. I guess we will see what sort of impact this move by Microsoft will have on the industry and Intel as time progresses. A Windows tablet might just give Android and iOS a run for their money. Android, Apple, ARM, Atom, CPU, Google, Intel, iOS, Microsoft, MMX, SSE, SSE2, x86 Boyd Chan My name is Boyd and I’m a Service Management Specialist with a knack for operational data gathering, transformation, analysis and reporting. I obtained my Masters of Science in Information Technology through the University of New South Wales @ The Australia Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA). I was also part of an online community known as the Panasonic Insider Crew in the capacity of “Insider Guru” for Panasonic Australia where I interacted with other tech enthusiasts and find out more about Panasonic's latest gadgets. I love technology, gadgets and the Internet and maintain a keen interest in these areas locally, nationally and globally. I hope by sharing my views on these topics that people will receive an honest point of view from someone external to the media and genuinely interested in the issues. 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__label__wiki	0.798234	0.798234	Drought support for students Home > The Hon Dan Tehan MP > Drought support for students Thursday 7 November 2019 Media Release Families affected by drought will be supported to continue accessing education. The Morrison Government will provide an additional $15 million to schools and child care centres attended by children from drought-affected areas. Minister for Education Dan Tehan said the Government would provide $10 million to drought-affected schools through the Special Circumstances program and $5 million to support child care centres experiencing decreased demand and financial pressure as a result of drought. "Our Government is helping parents affected by drought who are worried about their children’s education and whether they can afford child care or school," Mr Tehan said. "Many of these schools are taking money out of their own pockets to waive fees and subsidise fees to ensure that families can continue to send their children to school. "We’re helping schools and helping child care centres to keep their doors open to help families affected by drought to continue to access education. "This program was very successful when we rolled it out to support families affected by the North Queensland floods earlier this year." The Morrison Government has now announced more than $1 billion in additional funding to support drought-hit families and communities since the election. Last modified on Friday 5 April 2019 [14621\|27401]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1522
__label__wiki	0.613858	0.613858	Mariam Veiszadeh Speeches & Media Cultural diversity now on the menu Posted on July 7, 2012 by mariamveiszadeh With the notion of multiculturalism being kicked around like a political football, the diversity being showcased on reality TV shows such as MasterChef Australia is a testament to the fact that the infamous M-word is here to stay – and not just in the form of Chinese dumplings and Turkish kebabs. The MasterChef 2012 contestants this year included not only people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds but also from several religious backgrounds too. Georgian-born schoolteacher Alice Zaslavsky has a Jewish background, which she says has influenced her cooking style. Public servant Dalvinder Dhami said early on in the show that she had virtually no experience in cooking with beef due to her Hindu faith. And paediatric nurse Amina Elshafei is a devout Muslim. Her impressive culinary skills, bubbly nature and infectious smile made her an early favourite on the show. Woman’s Day described her as the “contestant the whole country has fallen head over heels for”. Despite early predictions that she could take out the title, Amina narrowly missed out on a top 10 placing in a double elimination on Thursday night. Her surprise departure sent shock waves through the social media world, with her fans on Twitter expressing outrage at how some contestants were able to make their way into the top 10 over Amina. Truth be told, I was one of them. But in any event, the MasterChef set this year seems to be far more inclusive and diverse than ever before. The effect of showcasing such diversity on prime-time TV means the mere presence of an effervescent character and visibly Muslim person such as Amina has played a significant role in breaking down commonly held cultural and religious stereotypes. With national studies concluding that anti-Muslim sentiment in Australia sits at just under 50 per cent, real, positive coverage of Muslim women is to be welcomed. The results of a parliamentary inquiry, due in August, will investigate Australia’s acceptance of people from culturally diverse backgrounds. It will conclude that one of the largest issues facing our nation is the acceptance of – you guessed it – Muslims. Sadly, Muslim women such as Amina who choose to wear the hijab (head scarf) have often borne the brunt of animosity, racism and discrimination. But fortunately the situation has improved, particularly compared to the hostility Muslims faced in the immediate aftermath of September 11. Many Muslims will tell you that the increased levels of enmity directed at them during that period have instilled in them a strong sense of identity and a desire to proactively engage with the media and the public to demystify their faith. This is certainly true for me. Given this climate, it’s incredibly refreshing to see someone like Amina on TV not being defined by her religion or her hijab alone. Amina is a shining beacon of hope who has helped to create a positive image of Muslims just by being herself, instead of trying to represent an entire faith of 1.5 billion people. She has been judged purely on her cooking ability, on her own merits, not favoured nor discriminated against due to her faith. That is great progress. What’s more impressive and heartening is how Australia has come to embrace Amina. Fans have inundated her Facebook page. Logie award-winner Chrissie Swan tweeted: “Whenever I look at Amina, or hear her speak, I get a rush of what can only be described as love. Warm, fuzzy, sunny love.” Many, including Chrissie, admitted to being moved to tears when she was eliminated on Thursday night’s episode. Amina’s mixed family heritage is a beautiful example of the diversity of the Muslim community in Australia. It negates the assumption that all Muslims are Arabs. Largely defined by our religion, we are often seen and treated as some sort of homogenous blob, ignoring the fact Muslims are ethnically and culturally diverse. Amina’s father is Egyptian and her mother South Korean. She is the only woman in her immediate family who has chosen to wear the hijab. It’s a personal choice which some women choose to embrace and others don’t. It is a fact that one of the best ways to tackle racism, discrimination and eliminate the fear of the “other” is to interact and engage in inter-faith, inter-cultural and inter-community dialogue. No one is born racist. Racism is taught, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and it can be untaught. The so-called “fear” of Islam often arises because of the lack of interaction between those who hold this “fear” with your everyday, garden-variety Muslims. Amina gave viewers a valuable insight into Muslim Australia, brightening the slightly battered image we have. This is no small achievement. So, why I am pointing out what may seem to some to be the bleeding obvious? To applaud those in the media world who are getting the depiction of Muslims and other minority groups right for a change, irrespective of whether they are doing it overtly or inadvertently. And, to encourage others to adopt a similar approach. What’s apparent is that there is a gradual and welcoming shift in attitudes. Dare I say that Muslim women are moving beyond being merely tolerated. Perhaps we are even being celebrated. Mariam Veiszadeh is a Muslim lawyer and advocate. 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__label__cc	0.630225	0.369775	Have questions? We’d ❤ to help! We are here to answer any question you may have. Reach out to us and we will respond as soon as we can. Central Namibia Namib Naukluft Park NamibRand Reserve Coastal Namibia Kolmanskop Ghost town Caprivi and Kavango Khaudum Park Nkasa Rupara Park Mudumu Park All Tours & Safaris Namibian Culture Namibia Travel Destination: Otjikoto Lake Driving on the B1 main road, making your way from Tsumeb on a hot dusty day, some activity, the abundance of greenery or a glint of turquoise is bound to catch your eye just off the tar road. You will be rewarded to explore the area to discover the oasis that is the uniquely remarkable Otjikoto Lake. Tranquil emerald green waters that transform to a turquoise blue when kissed by the sunlight. Surrounded by limestone and dolomite structures of rock it provides a peaceful scene to relax under a tree and enjoy this natural phenomenon. At first glance it might look like just a small circular lake but there is much more to the Otjikoto Lake than what meets the eye. Named after the Herero People, the word otjikoto means deep hole in Otjiherero and alternatively spelled Oshikoto, the region it is situated in is named after the lake. Accurately named, the lake is fascinatingly just a top section of an underground river system and the depth has been very difficult to determine. It varies from 62 meters at the side and has been estimated to be more than 142 meters deep thus earning it the name of the bottomless lake. Situated on 600 million year old Otavi mountain land, Otjikoto Lake is a sinkhole lake that was created by a collapsing dolomite cave. Made of carbonates the rocks are a testament of how the land has aged and eroded over time. Declared a national monument in 1972, the lake has many stories to tell and amongst the most interesting is the board situated on site telling of the weapons that are still in the lake after being dumped by German Schutztruppe (protection forces) in World War I. After holding out for more than a year the Germans surrendered to the South African Union in 1915 but not before dumping all their weapons and artillery in the Otjikoto Lake to prevent the soldiers from making use of them. A lot of these war materials have been retrieved and can be seen today in the museum in the small mining town of Tsumeb, a twenty minute drive from the lake. Legend has it that there is treasure to be found in the lake in the form of a sealed safe containing six million gold Marks. The safe was also lowered into the lake by the Germans but never to be seen again. There is many a folklore told by the locals surrounding the Oktjikoto Lake and although it makes for an incredible scuba diving spot it is forbidden to swim in the lake. The peculiar shape of the lake and the undercurrents of the underground river make it a dangerous place to swim. Despite spotting people swimming in the lake through the years many locals still believe that no one can go into the Otjikoto Lake and come out alive. Otjikoto Lake has a larger sister only thirty minutes-drive away on private farm land and despite claims that Lake Guinas and Otjikoto Lake share the same underground river there has been no proof of the speculation. Lake Guinas is also a picturesque locale and is larger and deeper than Otjikoto Lake and together they are the only two permanent natural lakes in Namibia. Otjikoto Lake is also home to a few types of fish species but there is one type which is endemic to this lake called the Otjikoto Tilapia. You can make a stop at the Arts and Crafts Centre in Tsumeb to see folk crafts, fascinating trinkets and woodwork. On the path from the entrance to the Lake you will come across a mini zoo to see some local animals up close. It is well worth it to set aside a day to make a trip to the fascinating Otjikoto Lake with its stories and beautiful turquoise water. Namibia Destinations is a proud member of the Namibia Tourism Board, the Official travel and hospitality governing body of Namibia. NTB Tour Facilitator: TFA00157 14 General Murtala Muhammed Ave, Windhoek, Namibia info@namibiadestinations.com Local Namibian Lingo Truly Namibian Potjie Recipe The fishing season is around the corner! Things to consider when having a self-drive safari in Namibia © Copyright Namibia Destinations 2018 All Rights Reserved Developed by Namwebsites.com To be included: Satellite Phone Navigation System Air-Compressor	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1539
__label__wiki	0.986533	0.986533	Russia: Skripal resettlement akin to 'abduction' Yulia Skripal leaves hospital more than five weeks after she and her father Sergei were poisoned in Salisbury. By Martin Brunt, Crime Correspondent, and Alix Culbertson, News Reporter Tuesday 10 April 2018 15:15, UK Salisbury spy Image: Yulia Skripal is no longer in a critical condition Russia has said any secret resettlement of the spy poisoned in Salisbury and his daughter will be seen as "abduction". The threat came hours after it was revealed Yulia Skripal has been discharged from hospital, five weeks after she and her father, Sergei Skripal, were found slumped on a bench in central Salisbury on 4 March after they were poisoned. Having made a rapid recovery in recent days, Ms Skripal was discharged on Monday and taken to a secure location. The Russian Embassy in London said that if the Skripals were resettled in the USA, Australia, Canada or New Zealand and offered new identities - as reported - it would be "another gross violation of international law". A statement said: "With a secret resettlement of Mr and Ms Skripal all opportunities to hear their version of the events of 4 March will highly likely be lost forever. "The world, while having no opportunity to interact with them, will have every reason to see this as an abduction of the two Russian nationals or at least as their isolation." Christine Blanshard, deputy chief executive and medical director at Salisbury District Hospital, said both Ms Skripal, 33, and her father, 66, have been responding well to treatment in the five weeks they have been in hospital. More from Salisbury Spy Salisbury attack: Novichok deaths still affecting UK-Russia relations, PM tells Putin Second Salisbury officer was poisoned by novichok, say police Novichok survivor 'getting close' to normality after Salisbury poisoning UK never asked to interview Salisbury suspects, claims Russian ambassador 'Highly likely' GRU hacked UK institute countering Russian fake news Downing Street makes Twitter gaffe as PM visits Salisbury a year after novichok attack She said they have received "round-the-clock" care and revealed that nerve agents cause hallucinations and sickness. Image: Sergei Skripal and Yulia Skripal were found slumped on a bench in Salisbury on 4 March Mr Skripal is making good progress and will be discharged "in due course" but is recovering more slowly than his daughter, she added. They were contaminated by the nerve agent novichok, thought to have been smeared hours earlier on the handle of Mr Skripal's front door at his home on the edge of the city. His daughter had arrived the day before on a visit from her home in Moscow. For nearly a month both were in a critical condition, but they have recently made a remarkable recovery. Reacting to the news Ms Skripal had been discharged, the Russian Embassy in London tweeted its congratulations but said it needed "urgent proof" that she was not being influenced. We congratulate Yulia Skripal on her recovery. Yet we need urgent proof that what is being done to her is done on her own free will. — Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) April 10, 2018 Theresa May said: "Obviously I welcome the fact that Yulia Skripal has been discharged from hospital and I wish her the best for her continuing recovery." When contacted on Tuesday morning Viktoria Skripal, Yulia's cousin, said she had only just heard, via the story broken by Sky News, that her cousin had been discharged. She has since been trying to contact her. "I think Britain will insist that she claims asylum," she said, adding: "I've tried lots of numbers for her but have had no response. "How should I feel? I'm feeling pleased that she's well enough to be released from hospital. "So far my feelings are unclear because I have not seen her and nobody has seen her, we've just had information." Skripal cousin: 'I've heard nothing' At the end of last week Viktoria Skripal said she had been denied a UK visa to travel to Salisbury to visit her cousin and uncle. At the end of March, Prime Minister Theresa May said doctors indicated the Skripals "may never recover fully" as she announced that more than 130 people in Salisbury could potentially have been exposed to the nerve agent. The poisoning of the Skripals prompted nearly 30 countries to expel more than 150 Russian diplomats in solidarity with the UK after it blamed Russia for poisoning the family. Russia has reacted by expelling other countries' diplomats and closing down the US consulate in St Petersburg - after Donald Trump closed the Russian consulate in Seattle	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1540
__label__wiki	0.932822	0.932822	Home Technology Apple and Qualcomm settle billion-dollar lawsuit Apple and Qualcomm settle billion-dollar lawsuit Tech giants Apple and Qualcomm have agreed to settle all ongoing lawsuits, putting an end to a long-running battle with billions of dollars at stake. "All litigation between the two companies worldwide" has been dropped, the firms said in a joint statement. The surprise settlement brings an end to a long-running battle over the cost of the processors that phones use to connect to mobile networks. Apple accused chip-maker Qualcomm of overcharging, a claim the firm denied. The settlement includes a payment from Apple to Qualcomm, but the firms did not disclose its size. The two firms have also agreed a six-year global patent licensing agreement and also agreed for Qualcomm to supply parts to Apple for multiple years. This means that Qualcomm's modem chips are likely to be used again in Apple's newest iPhone models. The iPhone used to rely entirely on Qualcomm's chips, but from 2016 Apple started using rival Intel's modem chips in some models. Shares in Qualcomm surged 23% after the announcement, while Apple's remained flat. Ben Wood, chief of research at CCS Insight said the settlement was "a huge vindication for Qualcomm". "[It is] likely an acknowledgement by Apple that it had run out of options, particularly when it comes to 5G. "There was a growing body of evidence that Intel, its current chipset provider, was struggling to deliver a 5G solution in a timely manner," he added. After news of the settlement became public, Intel announced it would be withdrawing from the business of making 5G modems for smartphones. The row between Apple and Qualcomm began in 2017, when Apple first filed a legal complaint. It claimed that Qualcomm's dominance in phone technology let it get away with charging high fees. Qualcomm has an extensive patent portfolio covering many of the technologies used in smartphones and derives a significant amount of its annual revenue through licence payments from phone makers. It argued that its technology covers more than just these basic chips, called modems, and that is why it asked electronics firms to pay the fees. Qualcomm had also accused Apple of using the legal system as a way to pay less for its technologies.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1542
__label__wiki	0.94444	0.94444	TNS Lit Scene Lit news aggregated by the School of Writing at the New School LIT & 12th Street Journal at AWP 2013 By Creative Writing at The New School / in 12th Street, Lit, MFA, Past Events, Publications of the School of Writing, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / March 12, 2013 So...we're back! AWP 2013 was an incredible and exhausting experience. It was personally my first time attending and I've never seen so many eager and enthusiastic authors in my life. The New School h... Write What You Don’t Know with Kiran Desai and Laren McClung By Creative Writing at The New School / in Fiction, Nonfiction, Past Events, TNS Lit Scene / March 12, 2013 Kiran Desai (author of The Inheritance of Loss) and Laren McClung (author of the poetry collection, Between Here and Monkey Mountain) joined MFA faculty member Tiphanie Yanique for a forum about esche... GET LIT with Mental Marginalia Reading at AWP By Creative Writing at The New School / in Lit, MFA, Past Events, Publications of the School of Writing, TNS Lit Scene / March 8, 2013 Give your AWP '13 experience the proper climax by joining LIT Journal and the Mental Marginalia Reading Series Saturday March 9th for a thunderous reading in The Napolean Room at Club Café (209 Colum... MFA 2012 Alum Lisa Marie Basile Interviewed by VIDA By Creative Writing at The New School / in Graduates, MFA, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / March 7, 2013 New School MFA alum Lisa Marie Basile was recently interviewed by VIDA about the press she founded, Patasola Press. VIDA recently released "The Count" for 2012 where the organization highlights the... Mario Zambrano’s “Lotería” Previewed on LibraryJournal By Creative Writing at The New School / in Fiction, Graduates, New & Forthcoming, People, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / March 6, 2013 Mario Zambrano, who graduated from the Riggio Honors Program in 2011, has had his upcoming debut novel, Lotería, previewed on Library Journal's Fiction Previews list. Library Journal refers to the... Maryrose Wood Reads at The New School By Creative Writing at The New School / in Past Events, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / March 6, 2013 Maryrose Wood, author of the acclaimed series, The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, visited the School of Writing Tuesday March 5th to read and discuss her newest addition to the series, The Uns... The Next Big Thing: Amy Lawless By Creative Writing at The New School / in Graduates, MFA, New & Forthcoming, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / March 5, 2013 Recently, MFA '07 alum Amy Lawless participated in The Next Big Thing project where she talked about her upcoming book of poems, My Dead (Octopus Books 2013). She has graciously agreed to allow us to ... Give Me Everything You Have by James Lasdun is Now Available By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, New & Forthcoming, Nonfiction, People, TNS Lit Scene / March 5, 2013 MFA faculty member James Lasdun's new memoir, Give Me Everything You Have, is now available from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. On the Lasdun's memoir, Joyce Carol Oates wrote: “Here is a chilling acc... LIT Magazine Issue #23 Launch at AWP 2013 The widely acclaimed and categorically adored LIT Magazine will be launching their newest issue at AWP 2013. Join us on Friday, March 8th, from 6-7:30 to share in our astonishment as LIT hosts a sp... 12th Street and LIT Journal Joint Reading at AWP 2013 By Creative Writing at The New School / in 12th Street, Lit, MFA, New & Forthcoming, Past Events, People, Publications of the School of Writing, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / March 4, 2013 Our favorite literary journals 12th St and Lit Magazine will be entwining their literary ecosystems in a joint reading during AWP 2013. Please join us on Friday, March 8 from 4:30-5:30 pm for a cha... MFA Student Dianne Masucci Interviews NBCC Winner Andrew Solomon By Creative Writing at The New School / in MFA, NBCC 2014 Finalist Interviews, Nonfiction, People, TNS Lit Scene / March 2, 2013 Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the New School Graduate Writing Program, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are able to provide for... MFA Student Halle Murcek Interviews NBCC Winner Ben Fountain By Creative Writing at The New School / in Fiction, MFA, NBCC 2014 Finalist Interviews, People, TNS Lit Scene / March 2, 2013 National Book Critics Circle 2012 Award Ceremony Hosted at The New School By Creative Writing at The New School / in Past Events, TNS Lit Scene / March 2, 2013 The School of Writing was delighted to host the National Book Critics Circle Award Ceremony for 2012 books. Many congratulations to this year's finalists and winners. 2012 Winners Fiction B... MFA Student Brooke Ellsworth Interviews NBCC Winner D. A. Powell By Creative Writing at The New School / in MFA, NBCC 2014 Finalist Interviews, People, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / March 2, 2013 New School Alum Patricia McCormick named a Finalist for the National Book Awards By Creative Writing at The New School / in Graduates, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / November 11, 2012 Never Fall Down by The New School Alum Patricia McCormick, has been named a finalist for the National Book Awards in the category of Young People's Literature. "Well-written and heart-breaking, t... Luis Jaramillo’s The Doctor’s Wife Chosen as a Best Book of 2012 By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene / November 6, 2012 New School faculty member and alum Luis Jaramillo's The Doctor's Wife, winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection prize, and an Oprah's Book of the Week, has been selected as a Best Book of 2012 o... Catherine Barnett Wins the James Laughlin Award for The Game of Boxes By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, MFA, People, Poetry, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / October 20, 2012 MFA and Riggio Honors Program faculty member Catherine Barnett has been named the winner of the prestigious 2012 James Laughlin Award for her incredible and heart-rending book of poems, The Game of B... New School Faculty Member Craig Teicher Publishes ‘To Keep Love Blurry’ By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Faculty, MFA, People, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / August 22, 2012 New School faculty member, Craig Morgan Teicher, has published his third book with BOA Editions: To Keep Love Blurry. The collection deftly brings lyrical innovation and refreshing formalism together... Associate Director Laura Cronk Wins 2011 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Graduates, MFA, People, Poetry, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / May 4, 2012 We're delighted to report that School of Writing Associate Director and MFA alum Laura Cronk has been awarded the 2011 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize for her recently released first collection of poe... 1 ...14 15 16 17 18 19	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1546
__label__wiki	0.501672	0.501672	US neither confirms nor denies tapping Turkey’s intelligence head Hakan Fidan inlichtingen(operatie(s)), Islamic State (IS), Millî Istihbarat Teşkilâti (MIT) Turkey, NSA, National Security Agency, Turkey, United States of America USA US Department of State Spokesperson John Kirby refused to comment during Thursday’s daily press briefing on a German magazine’s claim that the US’s National Security Agency (NSA) had spied on Hakan Fidan, the chief of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT), in order to collect information on a high level security meeting about the possible Turkish intervention in Syria to protect a Turkish enclave there last year. When asked about a report by the Germany-based Focus magazine asserting the NSA [lees verder] Turkish military says MIT shipped weapons to al-Qaeda arms trade / wapenhandel, Millî Istihbarat Teşkilâti (MIT) Turkey, Syria, Terrorism, Turkey Secret official documents about the searching of three trucks belonging to Turkey’s national intelligence service (MIT) have been leaked online, once again corroborating suspicions that Ankara has not been playing a clean game in Syria. According to the authenticated documents, the trucks were found to be transporting missiles, mortars and anti-aircraft ammunition. The Gendarmerie General Command, which authored the reports, alleged, “The trucks were carrying weapons and supplies to the al-Qaeda terror organization.” But Turkish readers could not see the [lees verder] ISIL suspect: MİT helped us smuggle arms to radical groups in Syria arms trade / wapenhandel, Millî Istihbarat Teşkilâti (MIT) Turkey, Syria, Turkey Mehmet Aşkar, one of the 11 suspected members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) currently being tried by the niğde High Criminal court, has said that Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) helped them smuggle arms to opposition groups in Syria during the early stages of the country’s civil war, a Turkish daily has reported. According to a story published in the Cumhuriyet daily on Monday, Turkish authorities are trying to divert public attention from the case [lees verder] Is Gladio still alive in Turkey? CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, Gladio, Millî Istihbarat Teşkilâti (MIT) Turkey, Turkey, United States of America USA A recent decision by a public prosecutor’s office to drop a five-year case investigating top-secret documents found at a Turkish military headquarters has revived suspicions that now-defunct Gladio-type illegal structures from the Cold War years within NATO might still be alive in this member of the alliance. Counter-Guerrilla was the name of the Turkish branch of Operation Gladio, a clandestine anti-communist initiative within NATO backed by the US during the Cold War years to counter also a possible Soviet invasion [lees verder] BFP Exclusive- William Engdahl on Operation Gladio, Fethullah Gülen & One World Government “CIA’s Graham Fuller: One of the early advocates of using Muslim Brotherhood & Gülen Cemaat to advance US foreign policy.” The following is the translation of an interview with William Engdahl conducted by journalist Deniz Ülkütekin of Turkey’s Cumhuriyet: As I read you started to research about Gulen Cemaat when you came to Turkey for a conference. What was the thing that attracted your interest about Gulen and his members? WE: I am a geopolitical researcher and author now for [lees verder] Skandale, Organisation, Geschichte NSA, Mossad und die verräterische Nackttänzerin – so spionieren die Geheimdienste Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (Abin), B.amt für Verf.schutz Terror.bekämpf. (BVT), BND, Bundesnachrichtendienst, Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI), CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, DEA, Drug Enforcement Administration, DGSE, Duitsland, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FSB, Federal Security Service (Russia), GCSB, Gov. Com. Security Bur. (N. Zealand), Heeres-Abwehramt (HAA oder HabwA), Heeresnachrichtenamt (HNaA oder HNA), inlichtingen(operatie(s)), internet surveillance, MI5, The Security Service (Mili. Int. Sect. 5), MI6, Secret Int. Service (Mili. Int. Sect. 6), Militärischer Abschirmdienst (MAD), Millî Istihbarat Teşkilâti (MIT) Turkey, Ministry of State Security (MSS), Mossad, NSA, National Security Agency, Prism, Suojelupoliisi (Supo), telefoontap/eavesdropping, Tempora, United States of America USA, XKeyscore Eine Chronik der Geheimdienstarbeit: Von Meisterspionin Mata Hari bis zur Cyber-Spionage der NSA Geheimdienste wie NSA, Mossad oder BND scheinen tun zu können, was sie wollen: Überwachen, ausspionieren, töten – ihre Methoden sind dabei nicht immer legal. FOCUS Online zeigt die interessantesten Geheimdienste der Welt, ihre Organisation, ihre Geschichte, ihre Skandale. Die Enthüllungen des ehemaligen Geheimdienstlers Edward Snowden zeigen, wie zügellos und weit verbreitet heute abgehört wird. Dabei richtet sich die Arbeit der Geheimdienste nicht nur gegen Offizielle und Politiker. [lees verder]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1548
__label__wiki	0.571792	0.571792	Black Nativity (27-Nov-2013) Director: Kasi Lemmons Writer: Kasi Lemmons From libretto by: Langston Hughes Keywords: Drama, Christmas Film adaptation of the Langston Hughes play of the same name follows a rough-and-tumble Baltimore teen's journey towards self-discovery. Intended as a modern-day silver-screen retelling of Langston Hughes' Christmas play of the same name, Black Nativity centers on Langston Cobbs, a street-smart young man struggling through life with single mother Naima in urban Baltimore, as an eviction from their apartment forces him to spend the Christmas season with his extended family in New York City. Thrust into new surroundings with the Reverend Cornell Cobbs and wife Aretha at his side, Langston embarks on a religious journey towards self-discovery filled with lessons about faith, family, and togetherness in an oft-unforgiving world. Angela Bassett Actor 16-Aug-1958 Got her groove back Mary J. Blige Musician 11-Jan-1971 Pop/R&B diva Vondie Curtis-Hall Film Director 30-Sep-1956 Glitter Jennifer Hudson Actor 12-Sep-1981 Dreamgirls Nas Rapper 14-Sep-1973 Illmatic Tyrese Actor 30-Dec-1978 Baby Boy Forest Whitaker Actor 15-Jul-1961 Ghost Dog	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1549
__label__wiki	0.849981	0.849981	Yeezy Breezy: Kanye West’s Dating History September 26, 2019 11:51AM by OK Staff Kanye West's love life includes a long string of models. by OK Staff Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are the happily married parents of four children. But before they met each other, they dated all sorts of people. Kanye had an exceptionally long list while living the rock star lifestyle as one of the biggest rappers in the world. MORE: KIM KARDASHIAN WANTS TO LIVE IN WYOMING WITH KANYE WEST & THEIR KIDS IN 10 YEARS Exactly who was Kanye hooking up with? Who, other than Kim, almost became Mrs. West? How hot did things get with Amber Rose? And who were the gold-diggers he sang about? You will be amazed at who made the list. MORE: KANYE WEST HILARIOUSLY CAUGHT CHECKING OUT WIFE KIM KARDASHIAN’S BUTT Take a deep dive into Kanye’s relationship history with our gallery as we go in chronological order of who ultimately led to Kim. 1. Sumeke Rainey: 1996-2002. Sumeke Rainey dated Kanye West when they were in high school, but the graduation rang the final bell on Kanye’s first relationship. 2. Alexis Phifer: 2002-2008. This on-again, off-again relationship with fashion designer Alexis Phifer apparently moved briefly into an engagement in 2006 while vacationing in Capri, but it only lasted 18 months and completely broke down by 2008. 3. Brooke Crittendon: 2005-2006. During one of those off-again moments with Alexis, Kanye turned his attention to Brooke Crittendon, who was an aspiring actress at the time. She went on to find fame in BET’s Harlem Nights and called her brief time with Kanye “a trip to Disneyland.” 4. Sessilee Lopez: 2008. Sessille Lopez was cast by Kanye to be in his Flashing Lights video, and he made it clear that he wanted to give her a greater role in his private life. But things didn’t work out and they parted ways. 5. Amber Rose: 2008-2010. Kanye and Amber Rose were quite an item for two years. But it all came crashing down when Kim showed up on the scene. Amber told the press that Kim was “a homewrecker! They were both [lying]. They were both [being unfaithful to] me and Reggie with each other… She was sending pictures, and I was like, 'Kim, just stop. Don’t be that person'.” Amber’s now married to Wiz Khalifa. 6. Virginie Maury: 2010. Virginie Maury, a French model, was spotted making out with Kanye in Cannes. They were not seen together again making for just a whirlwind 24 hours. Photo credit: Shutterstcok 7. Angela Martini: 2010. If tabloid rumors are to be believed, this was Kanye’s Fatal Attraction. Miss Universe Albania Angela Martini went from a fling with Kanye to flinging herself at him and allegedly being banned from a launch party Kanye was attending. Martini’s spokespeople denied it claiming the made-up stories were down to a "suspected stalker" of her own. 8. Selita Ebanks: 2010. Kanye clearly enjoyed spending time with Selita Ebanks, an ex-Victoria’s Secret model who’d also appeared in his music video for Runaway. It only lasted for a month, and Selita later denied that they had dated. 9. Melody Thornton: 2010. Was this even a relationship? Melody Thornton, a Pussycat Doll, was seen holding hands with Kanye on a red carpet or two but that’s where it seemed to have ended. 10. Chanel Iman: 2010-2011. Kanye seemed to jump to model Chanel Iman for awhile in 2010, but Chanel denies it. “Rumors are rumors. I've always loved his music. He's an incredible performer,” she said. 11. Kate Upton: 2011. Another Victoria’s Secret model — Kate Upton — was allegedly seen flirting with Kanye at a Victoria’s Secret VIP Swim Event. They left holding each other’s hands but were never seen out together again. 12. Kim Kardashian: 2012-Present. Shortly after Kim Kardashian’s marriage to Kris Humphries fell apart — 72 days after saying “I do,” — Kanye began showing up at events with Kim in tow. Or should that be Kim showed up at events with Kanye in tow? Either way, they’ve since married and had four kids together. ONE YEAR AGO, TODAY Amber Rose Confesses She 'Tried Selling Crack' To Feed Her Family	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1554
__label__cc	0.551116	0.448884	Some Little Things Twitter Can Do To Get Better Twitter is often making news — sometimes for the right, and sometimes for the wrong reasons. And whenever that happens, everyone piles on with their opinion and suggestions on how to save it, remake it, or improve it. Today it is my turn to play armchair quarterback/fantasy league manager, and propose some modest improvements to Twitter. Last week, Twitter (the company) lit Twitter, the service (and technology news media) on fire, when rumors emerged that the company was thinking about a 10,000 character option. This is “Twitter wanting to suck all our writing into their platform. But they didn’t invent the idea, so don’t blame Jack,” wrote Dave Winer on his blog. That decison is akin to being Medium, except on Twitter. Or like Facebook Notes on Facebook. Or Facebook trying to keep everyone on Facebook using Instant Articles. Pick anyone of the analogies – Twitter wants to keep people on Twitter longer. Twitter wants new people to come to Twitter, more often. That meme, made me wonder is instead of trying to be yet another content island, shouldn’t Twitter focus on doing things to improve the experience, if not for new users, but for others who come to the service often. I mean Twitter had 300 million users and getting even a tenth of that total to come back several times a day will be enough for Twitter to sell more advertising. So any improvement can be good for the company. Take for example, the “quote a tweet” feature. I really enjoy the idea of being able to quote a tweet, and write a complete response to it, giving it some context. It is one of the smarter additions to the service. Why doesn’t Twitter take it one step even further and embed entire conversations, so there is always some context for anyone who casually stumbles across the conversation. You aren’t teaching people new behaviors, but instead are making the current features easier and more usable. Why stop at quotes? Why not remove any penalty for attached media payloads and thus give all 140 characters for tweeting your thoughts. Similarly, why don’t they start introducing simple, easy to use feature enhancements that can help Twitter become more useful for non-Tweeters. Polls aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, but they are interesting when seen in the context of news — how about encouraging their media partners to create polls that can spark a conversation, both on Twitter or off-Twitter. Twitter, thanks to its unique ability to gather news links, chatter and Internet sentiment, can easily create the next generation “Front (News) Page of the Internet.” Twitter is the embodiment of “sources go direct” movement Winer has talked about for a while – they should be highlighting that, and only accelerate that behavior. If I were them, I wouldn’t even try to do anyting daring — just make it look like the front page of a newspaper. I do have detailed and specific ideas, but for now I will keep them to myself! How to blog today Zuck, Dick and the 90-Day Curse Less Twitter Dave Winer on Inside Bill’s Brain Previous Previous post: Why are flash sales services failing? Next Next post: Windows Phone vs iPhone: Claim Chowder	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1557
__label__cc	0.547501	0.452499	9th Annual Nolafunk Series During Jazz Fest Samantha Fish Announces Show at NYC’s PlayStation Theater in December The Marcus King Band Announces December Show at New York’s Iconic Beacon Theatre Phish After-Party Series Initial Line-Up Announcement Brass Against To Play April 20 Show At Gramercy Theatre CEG Presents Music News Concerts In & Around NYC After-Party CEG Presents Funk Grateful Dead Jam Jam Band Jazz Fest New Orleans News Nolafunk Show Announcements Tribute 8th Annual Nolafunk Series During Jazz Fest Announces Late Night Performances by Voodoo Dead and Marcus King Band December 12, 2018 Juliette Veale 0 Comment NEW ORLEANS, LA (Dec. 11, 2018) CEG Presents and Nolafunk are excited to present two nights of Voodoo Dead and two nights of the Marcus King Band as part of the 8th Annual Nolafunk Series During Jazz Fest. The series takes place during the evenings and weekends of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, from April 25 – May 5, 2019. As always, the series features a diverse collection of special performances from musicians inside and out of the New Orleans cultural sphere who all embrace the spirit and essence of the city. The series has preserved its tradition of unique lineup pairings, combining older and younger musicians, as well as national acts with local legends. Performing during Jazz Fest for the fifth year in a row is Voodoo Dead, featuring Steve Kimock (RatDog), George Porter, Jr. (The Meters), Jeff Chimenti (Dead and Co.), Al Schnier (moe.), and JM Kimock (Mike Gordon), with special guests to be announced. Voodoo Dead shows are an amalgamation of Grateful Dead music, New Orleans music, and everything in between. Its performances continue to be among the most sought-after late-nights of Jazz Fest each year. Voodoo Dead will perform at Republic NOLA on May 4 and 5, the final nights of the festival. The fast-rising Marcus King Band is on a mission to create a fresh musical experience that ties together rock, blues, and soul into a distinctly Southern lineage. The now 22-year old King has been trading licks for years with famous fans and mentors Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks whenever their paths have crossed, and has been deemed “One of music’s next great guitarists” (Washington Post). The Marcus King Band will be making its highly anticipated debut during Jazz Fest this year, performing a late-night show Republic NOLA on Friday May 3 (technically 5/4 at 1:30am) with Special Guests TBA, and at Howlin’ Wolf on Saturday May 4 with support from the New Orleans-based collective Naughty Professor. As previously announced, the Nolafunk series also includes Freedia Fest, headlined by New Orleans’ treasure and champion of Bounce music, Big Freedia. This is will be the fourth year in a row that Big Freedia has performed at Republic NOLA during the second weekend of Jazz Fest. The first three years were all Sold Out! This year should be no different. Freedia Fest also features performances by Boyfriend and Khris Royal & Dark Matter, with all acts backed up by Dark Matter. Under the Nolafunk moniker, Manhattan-based CEG honors the musical heroes and spirit of New Orleans in many cities year ‘round, producing concerts with many of the Big Easy’s finest musicians, such as Rebirth Brass Band, Samantha Fish, Anders Osborne, Marc Broussard, Tab Benoit and many more. In addition, CEG amasses all-star Nola-centric lineups for both the annual Nolafunk Mardi Gras Ball and the annual Nolafunk Summer Jazz Fest. CEG & Nolafunk have been producing shows in New Orleans since 2007. Fans can sign up for the Nolafunk email list at www.nolafunk.com/nola for exclusive information and access to other pre-sales. 8th Annual Nolafunk Series During Jazz Fest Complete Line-Up To Date FREEDIA FEST Big Freedia Khris Royal & Dark Matter *All acts by Dark Matter Republic NOLA Friday May 3, 2019 8:00pm Doors 9:00pm Show Ticket Link: http://bit.ly/FreediaFest Plus Special Guests TBA Late-Night 1:30am (Technically early AM 5/4) Ticket Link: http://bit.ly/MKB_Late_5-3-19 with Naughty Professor Howlin’ Wolf Saturday May 4, 2019 9pm Doors 10pm Show Ticket Link: http://bit.ly/MKB_5-4-2019 Voodoo Dead featuring Steve Kimock, George Porter Jr., Jeff Chimenti, Al Schnier, and JM Kimock plus special guests Ticket Link: http://bit.ly/VoodooDead_5-4-19 Sunday May 5, 2019 More shows to be announced soon. Show announcements, series information, and tickets can be found at www.nolafunk.com/nola. Sign up for the Nolafunk email list on the website to receive updates on special guest additions, exclusive pre-sale access and discounts. ← 8th Annual Nolafunk Series During Jazz Fest Makes Initial Announcement With “Freedia Fest” Widespread Panic Keyboardist Announces “JoJo Hermann’s Mardi Gras Party” Featuring A Special Solo Set And Performance With Slim Wednesday Plus Special Guests → Join the CEG Presents Mailing List 10 Interesting Facts About New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Philip Lassiter Talks Prince, Snarky Puppy, & New Album Neal Morse Discusses New Music, His International Tour, and Playing at NYC’s Gramercy Theatre (8/22/17) Laith Al-Saadi Discusses Life Before and After NBC’s The Voice (B.B. King’s NYC, 3/24/17) Interview: Greg & Jeremy of Pigeons Playing Ping Pong (11/18, Irving Plaza) Copyright © 2020 CEG Presents Music News. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1568
__label__cc	0.717277	0.282723	Cyber Physics Startups and Business Startup Life Charity and Volunteering Life in Russia Experience Saint Petersburg Sports and Lifestyle Feed The Snow Leopard 3 May 2018, 00:28UTC+31705 Travel Tips: Veliki Novgorod The ancient city of Veliki (Great) Novgorod offers a trip back in time and a taste of Russian culture and cuisine a few hours away from St. Petersburg. The first time my grandparents brought me to Novgorod for May holidays, I must have been around six or seven. I remember the monumental Kremlin walls, covered in orange moss, stout white churches, and that spring scent of cut grass and rainstorm. And the fact that I almost got left on the other side of the Ilmen Lake, but that’s another story. I have been back many times as an adult, and every time have found something delightful, be it the outdoor museum of Russian culture and crafts or delicious honey drink served in a restaurant in heart of the Kremlin. The Novgorod Kremlin One of the oldest Russian cities and part of UNESCO heritage, Novgorod was first mentioned in year 859. It’s proud of its history as an early republic where “veche,” or the gathering, ruled on important issues by voting as early as in 12th century. In the 15th century, Novgorod and its lands join Moscow as part of Russia and it continued to keep its importance in trade routes between East and West. There’s a good chance that the first thing you’ll visit in Novgorod is the Kremlin. This ancient fortress is fun to explore whether you feel like climbing to the top of stone walls and towers for a view of the surroundings and the Ilmen Lake, or spending some time in the museums exploring the city’s history and Russian culture in general. Its crown jewel is one of the oldest Russian orthodox churches – St. Sofia Cathedral - dating back to 1045 and home to several famous, and some say, miracle-making, icons. Even if you’re far from the Russian Orthodox religion, it’s worth the visit for its architecture, beautiful frescos and that indescribable feeling of connection to something greater. Depicting key characters in the country’s history, the monument to Russia’s 1000-Year Anniversary, also on the Kremlin grounds, is a fantastic visual way to travel through the ages. Beautiful domes and traditional crafts If you’re in town for a weekend, consider spending the second day at the nearby Yuriev Monastery and Vitoslavlitsi, an outdoor museum of wooden architecture. They’re both about 15 minutes by bus N7 and N7A from downtown. One of the oldest Russian monasteries, Yuriev Monastery dates back to 1119 and blends ancient Russian orthodox traditions and 19-century architecture. Its signature is the cathedral topped with blue domes with golden stars. On a hot day, it’s also a great place to enjoy an afternoon on the beach. Vitoslavlitsi outdoor museum features historic wooden buildings, ranging from ordinary homes to beautiful churches, all made out of wood and many without a single nail. It’s a perfect place to step back in time and enjoy Russian country life was like, complete with traditional outfits, songs and crafts. On a hot day, you’ve got to try a traditional non-alcoholic drink “kvas” made from rye bread. The museum is open from 10 am till 6 pm and closed on Mondays. What to take home Walking around Novgorod, not to mention Vitoslavitsi, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to by traditional wooden and birch-tree bark crafts. A breadbasket purchased has lasted me over almost two decades and is still going strong. Another great souvenir is pryaniki – or a local version of gingerbreads. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes and often have delicious fillings, such as honey or fruit jam. The biggest challenge is actually saving them for their intended recipient. 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__label__cc	0.729493	0.270507	NuLegacy Gold Appoints New Chief Financial Officer May 3, 2013 Reno, NV - NuLegacy Gold Corporation (NUG:V) is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael N. Waldkirch as its new Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Waldkirch will be replacing Mr. Adrian Rothwell. The Board would like to thank Mr. Rothwell, who has joined Goldcorp Inc.'s (G:T) strategy team, for his valuable contribution to the company. Mr. Waldkirch has extensive experience in financial management, providing a wide variety of accounting and financial consulting services to public and private clients including as Chief Financial Officer of Gold Standard Ventures Corp (GSV:V). He is the founding partner (1999) of the public accounting firm Michael Waldkirch and Company Inc., holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from the University of British Columbia and has been a Certified General Accountant since 1998. NuLegacy Gold, a Nevada based exploration company, is entirely focused on delineating an oxide gold resource in its near-surface "Iceberg" deposit. The deposit is located on NuLegacy's Red Hill Project, an 'option to joint-venture' with Barrick Gold Inc. in the prolific Cortez gold-trend of Nevada. The Iceberg gold deposit has similar geology to Barrick Gold's adjacent multi-million ounce Goldrush discovery. For further information please phone 604-638-4959 or contact James Anderson at james@nuggold.com, Albert Matter at albert@nuggold.com or Roger Steininger, COO at roger@nuggold.com; or visit our website at www.nulegacygold.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1571
__label__wiki	0.644226	0.644226	the girl with colitis goes by * nursemyra’s nickname is Dr. Know. I earned it because I know every nook and cranny of the gimcrack and can name all 126 patients and their various ailments. that’s only the tip of the iceberg. my brain is full of shit interesting stuff and if I’m asked a work related question am rarely lost for an answer. though I was momentarily speechless today when a colleague said “I always come to you when I need something done. you’re such a suppository of information.” want to play a little game? leave ONE example of either a mondegreen or a malapropism in the comments section and the best one gets a fridge magnet from the australian national continence helpline (I know you want one) * mondegreen on February 13, 2008 at 6:57 am Comments (35) The URI to TrackBack this entry is: https://nursemyra.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/the-girl-with-colitis-goes-by/trackback/ On February 13, 2008 at 7:47 am kyknoord said: Richard Lederer would be proud. I’m fond of a line from that old Louis Armstrong favourite: …the bright blessed day, the dogs say goodnight… (Incidentally, maybe your colleague was referring to the fact that you explain things so well, everybody gets it in the end) First Prize winner On February 13, 2008 at 10:48 am ian in hamburg said: I would cross the continence to meet the fridge magnate, but maybe he’d think I was being inmalappropriate. Nevertheless, I wish you’d give out their number. They sound like a streak of laughs. On February 13, 2008 at 11:56 am daisyfae said: it’d be funny if it weren’t so sad. oh, and he really said it… “We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.” On February 13, 2008 at 2:11 pm Woeful said: This is pretty funny, but even more so after I just read this post! On February 13, 2008 at 3:29 pm Ghosty said: Oh, the title! Yeah, the Beatles song! “Lucy and This Guy are Dying …” On February 13, 2008 at 5:50 pm Tracey said: Just this morning on one of my elists, someone said “Leslie, could you resent this information because the link didn’t come through” . Why yes, I think I resemble that remark, too. On February 13, 2008 at 6:53 pm azahar said: You’re not worried that all this competing for the fridge magnate might create a little dysentery among the ranks? I hope ian won’t be prostate with grief if he doesn’t win … On February 13, 2008 at 7:12 pm gail said: Here’s one from the original Mrs. Malaprop: “She is as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.” Gail, this one was a winner, I LOVE it. I had to stick to the rules unfortunately, but you can still get a prize (see below) On February 13, 2008 at 8:01 pm Uncle Keith said: A woman at work says, “Cut off your nose despite your face.” On February 13, 2008 at 9:20 pm 70steen said: Oh my mind is blank…. all I can think of of (which are in neither category) are 2 things that used to have me snickering as a teen that my mum would say in all innocence ‘I think I will have it off with Bill this afternoon ‘ (meaning she would half a days leave to go out with her partner) ‘You can’t beat a good ham shank!’ (meaning a cut of meat on the bone hee hee ) On February 13, 2008 at 11:40 pm ricardo said: singing…….. “blinded by the light! revved up like a douche, another runner in the night!” by the way Clay from my blog wanted you to know that he continues to act up and needs to be spanked by you at the Gimcrack. I am only the messenger. they are his words and thoughts. On February 13, 2008 at 11:49 pm PushBiker said: I have a friend named Burrel who is in his mid-sventies. He is an ex-newspaperman and still writes a humor column for a local senior citizen newspaper. Although he is an Okie, he is quite articulate except for his frequent malapropisms. My favorite was one morning at the coffee shop when one of the other imbibers accidentally expressed a political opinion that he absolutely did not mean. “Well,’ said Burrell, ‘that sounds to me like a fraudulent slip” Burrel’s homespum humor can be found here: http://burrelsworld.blogspot.com/ On February 13, 2008 at 11:53 pm gail said: I led the pidgeons to the flag of the united states of america And to the republic where witches’ stand One nation under guard invisible With liverty and just us four, all And “round young virgin” in Silent Night. On February 14, 2008 at 12:32 am Lord Likely said: Do you also know every nook and cranny of all Gimcrack’s patients, my dear Nurse? On February 14, 2008 at 3:04 am renalfailure said: I heard that girl with colitis line before… some stand-up comic had a bit about misheard lyrics. Can’t remember who he was. I remember a clip from the Howard Stern radio show where one of his people was talking about a cooking recipe and actually said “and you serenade the meat” instead of marinade. On February 14, 2008 at 7:19 am anaglyph said: There was that famous Go Gos’ song ‘Alex the Seal’… On February 14, 2008 at 7:24 am nursemyra said: hahaha. but the malapropism I’ve been trying to remember, and the one I hoped you’d mention, involves the word “auger”….. On February 14, 2008 at 8:42 am ian in hamburg said: I have my brain stuck permanently on the pun channel, so am incapable of coming up with an original Miss Malaprop. But speaking of misheard lyrics, do check out: Kiss this Guy a website dedicated entirely to lyrics you thought you knew, but didn’t. You’ll probably recognise right away that ‘Scuze me while I kiss this guy as a widespread misinterpretation of a Hendrix lyric: …while I kiss the sky. And so: who gets that fridge magnet? ooh Ian, I didn’t know you were so keen for a fridge magnet. I was going to leave the competition open for a little longer but you’ve forced my hand. it was very very difficult to pick a winner from all the great submissions. After much deliberation, I’d narrowed it down to three but had to eliminate Gail because she entered more than once. rules is rules. drum role: runner up is Ghosty for “Lucy and This Guy are Dying” double drum role: the winner is Kyknoord for “the bright blessed day, the dogs say goodnight” BUT….. there are NO losers at the gimcrack.everyone who entered is eligible for a prize if they send their snail mail address to nurse myra rocky@geko.net.au On February 14, 2008 at 10:18 am anaglyph said: I dunno. This doesn’t all go well… On February 14, 2008 at 12:10 pm Radioactive Jam said: After listening to the Christmas song “We Three Kings,” our son asked, What’s the third king’s name? What do you mean, we said. There’s Orrie and Tom. Who’s the third king? On February 14, 2008 at 8:17 pm Beaverboosh said: Apologies, late as ususal! From work colleagues of xmas past: “Let’s nip this one in the butt” “That’s a mute point” “You are so fascist” (meant facaecious) “What a bunch of pedaphiles” (meant neophytes) On February 14, 2008 at 9:31 pm nursemyra said: RaJ: when my youngest son was at kindergarten he told me about a new child he had made friends with. he said his name was “One Seven Dwarf”. I asked the teacher who the new child was and she replied “Juan Salvador” Beaverboosh: oh dear is right! but you’re still in line for a prize if you want to send your snail mail address 🙂 On February 15, 2008 at 2:20 am ~m said: the post title stopped me. I thought I was the only one in the world that verbally changed that Beatle lyric. You are an interesting one, NM . . . On February 15, 2008 at 8:36 am Beaverboosh said: malapropism squared! “What a bunch of pedaphiles” (meant Philistine’s) Aplogies, the doctor has recently changed my medication! and how’s that working for you 🙂 On February 15, 2008 at 11:52 am Beaverboosh said: Ok so far but am suffering from vowel droppings in aplogies! On February 17, 2008 at 12:20 am genki gal said: you are a “suppository of information” – I am definitely going to use that one – I love it. On February 17, 2008 at 12:26 am nursemyra said: it’s all yours genki gal xx On February 19, 2008 at 4:46 am alejna said: I know I’m late for the contest, but I have some misheard lyrics to offer. I had a friend whose father was horrified that Depeche Mode had a song called “I Just Can’t Get It Up.” you mean that’s not the lyrics? no wonder I get strange looks when I sing that song at karaoke…. On March 6, 2008 at 9:06 pm atticus said: I used to teach school and once had a student bring me a note from his mother that said… “Teremy was not at school yesterday because he was sick. Please accuse him.” On March 6, 2008 at 9:53 pm nursemyra said: Teremy? Teremy? I’m too busy laughing at the name to get to the malapropism 🙂 (do you have a blog atticus?) On May 12, 2008 at 8:42 am poxy competition « gimcrack hospital (PG) said: […] the use of condoms as an important part of healthy sexual practices. some time ago I ran a little competition for the best mondegreen or malapropism, now I think it’s time for another […] Leave a Reply to kyknoord Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1572
__label__cc	0.524912	0.475088	Promoting research partnerships to improve veterans’ health NAVREF is proud to recognize Cohen Veterans Bioscience as our Champion Sponsor About NAVREF History Of NAVREF About The NPC VA and NPCs: A Unique Public Private Partnership NPCs: A Legal Oddity VA Annual Report to Congress NPC Statutes 2020 NAVREF Annual Conference NAVREF Accelerator Fund In 1988 Congress passed legislation that allowed Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers to establish nonprofit research corporations (NPCs), forming a unique public/private partnership that dramatically broadened VA’s ability to benefit from private and non-VA public support for research conducted at VA medical centers. With passage of P.L. 100-322 in 1988 [codified at 38 U.S.C. §§7361-7366], Congress authorized VA medical centers to establish nonprofit research corporations to serve as “flexible funding mechanisms for the conduct of approved research and education” [§7361(a)]. Twenty-five years after enactment, VA has some 80-85 separate, state-chartered corporations scattered throughout the country, all subject to VA oversight and regulation. Prior to 1988, private and non-VA federal funds available to support VA-approved research could be administered only through ill-suited mechanisms such as General Post Funds. These were established primarily to give gifts to veterans and to administer their bequests, and they are subject to restrictive policies regarding use of funds. Alternatively, non-VA funds were administered by the affiliated medical school which charged substantial "overhead" rates and generally retained such amounts for university purposes. Clearly, a more effective mechanism for handling non-VA research funds was needed. After deliberation, Congress settled on allowing VA medical centers to establish independent, state-chartered nonprofit corporations. The objective was to delineate separation between VA and the corporations, and to provide the convenience and oversight of local management. Making them subject to federal oversight provided assurance that they would be operated in accordance with the highest standards of fiscal and administrative management. The initial purpose of the VA affiliated NPCs was to facilitate research at the VA medical centers where they were established. Subsequently, Congress expanded their authority to include supporting VA’s patient and staff education and training missions. 1717 K ST NW Suite 900 P: 301-656-5005 \| admin@navref.org VA Annual Report frrwasffea	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1584
__label__wiki	0.743889	0.743889	Jamal Crawford hopeful he can return for the Clippers this season By Sean HighkinMar 26, 2015, 7:00 PM EDT A few days ago, Clippers head coach Doc Rivers told reporters there was a chance Jamal Crawford’s bruised right calf was bad enough that it would keep him out for the rest of the season. But on Thursday, Crawford seemed much more optimistic that he’ll be back before the start of the playoffs. From the Los Angeles Times‘ Ben Bolch: “It’s just a slow process because this is a sensitive area,” said Crawford, who has had his calf drained to promote healing. “This is probably the weirdest [injury] because you just don’t see it happen in basketball.” Crawford, 35, is familiar with the downside to returning from an injury prematurely. He came back in late March of last season after missing eight of the nine previous games because of a strained left calf. After playing in five games, he had to sit out the next five when the calf became aggravated. Asked if he was concerned his current injury might end his season, Crawford said, “No, I’m not worried. I believe I’ll be fine.” A Crawford return would certainly be welcome for the Clippers. He’s their main weapon off the bench, a second unit that otherwise has relied on scoring from the likes of Nate Robinson and Hedo Turkoglu. It’s hard to see them going far in the playoffs without the reigning Sixth Man of the Year. Tags: Hedo Turkoglu, Jamal Crawford, Los Angeles Clippers, Nate Robinson Anthony Davis returning for Lakers-Celtics Gregory Shamus/Getty Images Anthony Davis‘ father said he didn’t want his son playing for the Celtics, given how they treated Isaiah Thomas. Davis’ agent, Rich Paul, tried to dissuade Boston from trading for the star big. For someone who neither played for the Celtics nor in a playoff series against them, Davis has generated plenty of animosity in Boston. But nobody can accuse Davis of ducking the Celtics. After missing the last five games due to a butt injury, Davis will return for the Lakers’ game in Boston today. Mike Trudell of the Lakers: Anthony Davis is available to play for tonight’s game in Boston. — Mike Trudell (@LakersReporter) January 20, 2020 Davis has jumped headfirst into playing playing for the Lakers and everything that comes with it. Playing in Boston – given Los Angeles’ rivalry with the Celtics, given his personal history with them – is entering the eye of the storm. Should be fun. Kemba Walker and Jaylen Brown will also return for the Celtics. Abby Chin of NBC Sports Boston: Kemba Walker (knee) and Jaylen Brown (thumb) expect to play tonight for the #Celtics against the #Lakers. — Abby Chin (@tvabby) January 20, 2020 Lakers, 76ers reportedly interested in trade for Derrick Rose January 20, 2020 10:01 pm EST Chris Paul scores 28, leads Thunder rally to hand Rockets fourth straight loss January 20, 2020 9:44 pm EST J.J. Redick: Players more concerned with Instagram than winning January 20, 2020 7:00 pm EST Anthony Davis returning for Lakers-Celtics January 20, 2020 5:00 pm EST Chandler Parsons hires law firm, which calls car-crash injuries potentially career-ending January 20, 2020 3:00 pm EST Kyrie Irving on getting criticized: ‘They crucified Martin Luther King’ January 20, 2020 1:00 pm EST Report: Knicks not interested in trading for Pistons center Andre Drummond January 20, 2020 11:16 am EST Kristaps Porzingis expected to return Tuesday vs. Clippers after 10-game absence January 20, 2020 9:00 am EST Watch Domantas Sabonis’ first career triple-double leads Pacers past Nuggets January 20, 2020 8:00 am EST Kent Bazemore reportedly to stay in Sacramento, Dewayne Dedmon still wants out January 19, 2020 11:00 pm EST Kyrie Irving badgers Nets teammates with weird theory connecting himself to Julius Erving January 19, 2020 9:00 pm EST Report: Stephen Curry targeting return for Warriors-Wizards on March 1 January 19, 2020 7:00 pm EST Watch Klay Thompson’s emotional jersey retirement at Washington State January 19, 2020 5:00 pm EST Luka Doncic on Kings: ‘I honestly thought they were going to pick me’ January 19, 2020 3:00 pm EST Royce O’Neale agrees to four-year, $36 million contract extension to stay in Utah January 19, 2020 12:45 pm EST Marcus Smart’s Celtics record 11 threes still not enough to beat Suns January 19, 2020 12:00 pm EST LeBron James gets ‘M-V-P’ chants in Houston January 19, 2020 9:58 am EST Check out Stephen Curry the sideline reporter (VIDEO) January 19, 2020 8:00 am EST LeBron James drops 31, leads Lakers comeback to beat Rockets January 19, 2020 2:19 am EST Watch Kawhi Leonard’s 39 points spark Clippers rally past Pelicans 133-130 January 18, 2020 10:50 pm EST Giannis Antetokounmpo: NBA system wants you to flop, but ‘that’s not who I am’ January 18, 2020 9:00 pm EST Report: LeBron James views Jason Kidd as only living peer for basketball intelligence January 18, 2020 7:00 pm EST Report: In money-saving trade, Trail Blazers swap Kent Bazemore for Kings’ Trevor Ariza January 18, 2020 5:56 pm EST Mike Conley listed as probable, reportedly to return to Jazz lineup Saturday night January 18, 2020 4:43 pm EST Karl-Anthony Towns shoots down trade rumors, and was that a dig at Jimmy Butler? 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Barrett out at least a week with right ankle sprain January 18, 2020 12:55 am EST Heat: Justise Winslow out at least two more weeks January 18, 2020 12:08 am EST Kevin Huerter’s 3-pointer gives Hawks first win in San Antonio in his lifetime (video) January 17, 2020 11:15 pm EST Buddy Hield on Kings getting booed at home: ‘That’s how Sacramento fans are’ January 17, 2020 10:00 pm EST 76ers play 6-on-5 vs. Bulls (video) January 17, 2020 9:00 pm EST Thirty days after being called ‘day-to-day,’ Karl-Anthony Towns returns to Timberwolves January 17, 2020 8:00 pm EST Knicks’ Marcus Morris after 23-point loss to Suns: ‘We were a better team’ January 17, 2020 7:00 pm EST Kyrie Irving on his leadership style: ‘It’s not like I’m an a****** yelling at everybody’ January 17, 2020 6:00 pm EST Report: NBA cancels vote for in-season tournament, play-in tournament January 17, 2020 4:55 pm EST LeBron James again leads NBA jersey sales, Giannis Antetokounmpo second January 17, 2020 3:58 pm EST Frustrated Bradley Beal reportedly ‘angry with and emotional’ about Wizards January 17, 2020 3:04 pm EST	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1585
__label__cc	0.741772	0.258228	Five fiendishly fun things to do in Cheshire for Halloween Home Blog Five fiendishly fun things to do in Cheshire for Halloween Stuck for ideas on what to do for Halloween in Cheshire this year? The good news is that Halloween falls during half term do there’s plenty of time to go on a devilish day out and practice your best scary face ready for trick and treating. We’ve put together a list of five Halloween-themed things to do in Cheshire so grab your best costume and your pumpkin lantern and get ready to have some fun. Spend half term at Hogwarts Noodle Performance Arts Cheshire is holding a Harry Potter-themed holiday club to add a touch of magic to October half term. Suitable for would-be witches and wizards aged between four and 12, The Venue in Gadbrook Road, Rudheath, near Northwich, will be transformed into Hogwarts for the day on Tuesday, October 29. The full day session starts promptly at 9am and there will be a short performance for parents at 3.30pm. Get your wands ready to learn some spooky spells and play ghoulish games under the watchful eye of Professors Snape and McGonagall. A must for fans of Harry Potter, places are limited so be sure to book early here. The holiday club costs £25 and £20 for any additional siblings. 2. Hunt for treasure with zombie pirates Follow a treasure trail with a twist at Blakemere Village this half term. Children aged between three and 11 are invited to discover hidden items left behind many years ago by a creepy crew of zombie pirates. Trail maps can be purchased for £3 each between 10am and 4pm from the Visitor Information Centre from October 19 to November 3. Everyone who completes a trail map will receive an activity prize. 3. Fight off dragons in a haunted house Tatton Park’s Medieval Old Hall is said to be one of Britain’s most haunted buildings. But this Halloween there is more than the odd ghost and ghoul to deal with as visitors will be expected to save the hall from a fiery dragon attack. The Great Wizard’s Gathering is a two-hour family-friendly interactive adventure which will include a range of spellbinding workshops as part of your magical mission. Tickets are £10 each, including adults but babies under 12 months will be admitted free of charge. The event runs from Saturday, October 26 to Thursday, October 31 4. Watch owls take flight at night The Gauntlet Birds of Prey Eagle and Vulture Park, in Manchester Road, Knutsford, is holding its annual Halloween party on Saturday, October 26. The event runs from 7pm until 9.30pm and includes an outdoor moonlit flying demonstration involving some of the centre’s owls. There will also be an indoor demonstration, a buffet supper, Halloween games and fancy dress. Party-goers are also invited to bring along their carved pumpkins to be judged in a competition to win free family admission. Tickets are £17 and can be booked online. 5. Have a ghoulish giggle at the theatre For something a little bit different, why not take a trip to the theatre to watch The Addams Family? The Mid Cheshire Youth Theatre are performing this musical comedy, based on the characters from the famous film and TV series, at The Grange Theatre in Hartford, near Northwich, from Thursday, October 24 to Saturday, October 26. Watch Gomez, Morticia and their children Wednesday and Pugsley brought to life on the stage with songs, dances and plenty of laughs. The show starts at 7.30pm each night and tickets are available now.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1588
__label__cc	0.743334	0.256666	Northlight utilizes theatre in its broadest capacity to act as a conduit between us and our community. Our programs fulfill self-identified needs within that community using applicable theatre skills and resources. These dynamic engagement and outreach initiatives align with Northlight’s mission of reflecting our community to the world and the world to our community. Northlight has customized partnerships with local organizations including YWCA Evanston/North Shore, Y.O.U., Family Focus, Evanston Scholars, Youth Jobs Center, the Illinois Holocaust Museum, and Skokie Public Library. Programs are tailored for each organization, and use theatre skills and activities for purposes such as building confidence, teaching self-care, or addressing community concerns. Northlight provides free tickets to our partner organizations through our Arts for Everyone initiative. Northlight’s Youth Council, the NLYC, is comprised of North Shore and Chicago teens who act as Northlight ambassadors within their peer community, while learning about all facets of professional theatre. Watch to Learn More: Northlight’s Community Engagement Programming is supported in part by: Arts for Everyone is an initiative that provides free tickets to every production in our mainstage season. Northlight hopes to help break down the barriers that keep anyone in our community from attending live theatre, starting with ticket cost. We currently provide free tickets to participants at all of our existing community partnership organizations, and plan for expansion as the program develops. Northlight is committed to reaching a broader, more diverse audience and anticipates the Arts for Everyone program will help achieve this objective. For more information about Arts for Everyone, read the press release from the launch of the program. The Davee Foundation is a major supporter of Arts for Everyone. Northlight Youth Council, NLYC, is comprised of North Shore and Chicago teens who act as Northlight ambassadors within their peer community, while learning about all facets of professional theatre. Learn More.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1589
__label__cc	0.688274	0.311726	All other Nottingham Schools Discussions Nottingham Schools Forums Bilborough Grammar School By Moobug, January 19, 2012 in All other Nottingham Schools Discussions katyjay 4,360 GIGA NOTTSTALGIAN Location:Sun City West, USA Interests:Reading, walking, golf, bowling, cards. That's alright then! BilboroughShirley 1,101 Location:Warwickshire Donald Scrimshaw's grandmother used to live in the flats opposite where I lived back in the 1960s. My mum and I used to talk to her a lot. A lovely elderly lady. She said Donald only wanted to be a jockey and he was not happy at Bilborough Grammar School. I remember him. Tats was in our maths set. I am sure that he was the one who brought a small tape recorder into school with a recording of a loo flushing. We were not normally quiet for Miss Conway in maths but on that day we all knew about the recording and on the signal we were quiet. He turned the recording on and the poor woman was helpless with laughing. She was very nice and I liked maths but these days we would say that Miss Conway was not assertive enough! Bilbraborn 1,585 Interests:History. Local History. All old forms of Transport especially steam trains. Antiques & Collectables. I was taught Maths by Miss Conway and I also liked her. Current Nottingham Post Bygones supplement has a double page article about Bilborough Grammar in the 1960s including photos with one or two people that I knew. annswabey 498 Super Nottstalgian Location:ashford Anyone remember Miss Betts? Deputy Head and French teacher. She has sadly died - notice in the Post today http://www.family-announcements.co.uk/nottingham/view/3906335/betts Noticed that Anne. Didn't realise she was living in that particular care home. She never taught me but I had great respect for her. She taught me for A level French. A good teacher, although strict! firbeck 852 MEMBER OFFLINE Location:Braintree, Essex Interests:Most things Adieu et reposer en paix, Ruth Betts. I was surprised to see that 'Betsy' was only 83, that meant that when she taught me, some 50 years ago now, she would have been only in her early to mid 30's, she always seemed much older than that at the time, but, I suppose as a teenager, anyone over 30 seemed ancient to us, however, if you think about it, to be elevated to Vice Principle of, let's face it, a top Grammar School, at such an early age, was quite impressive. She clearly had talent as a teacher, whatever some people may have thought of her strict attitude, but that was the way of things at the time, the one's that were too strict were hated, the 'friendly' one's generally failed, she seemed to get the balance right, well, as far as her teaching abilities were concerned. I used to go on 'Friends Reunited' as a means of contacting old friends, I just had a look on there, which I haven't done for a while, and somebody came across her as long ago as July 2000 in Queens Medical Centre, suffering from extreme Alzheimers and being more or less unable to remember her days at BGS, how sad. I recall being taught French in my first year at BGS by Mr Newcombe, I must have been pretty good at it as for the second year I was given the choice of either doing the additional subject of German or Russian. I chose German, probably due to my old man's part in the war and wanting to watch war films without needing subtitles. A good choice, 50+ years on and I can still watch 'Das Boot' without subtitles, as well as converse in Bavarian bars without an interpreter. Ruth Betts took over my French lessons in the second year and carried them through until the 5th form when I was put in to do the GCE exam 9 months early, it worked and relieved me of the pressures of having to do the thing the next summer, along with Maths and English Language, which I also passed, nice to know before Xmas 1966!! I found 'Betsy' a very enigmatic person, yes she was strict, but one of the best teachers I had. She was frumpy and old fashioned, wore woolly tartan skirts and green jumpers, had generally unkempt hair and never wore make up, or shaved her legs. However, she had a very curvy figure, which, if you are reading this, Steve Wood, we used to often comment on!! The noticeable thing about Betsy was the 'Strawberry' birthmark on her cheek. On the speech day ceremonies, she would plaster make up on herself in order to hide it, she must have been very self conscious about this, understandably, perhaps that's why she was so severe on the girls in particular, with regard to their dress codes and hair length, who knows, was she jealous of their natural appearance, who knows. As far as I was concerned, she was a great teacher, I could go on about my amazing business moments in France where I could hold my own due to Betsy's teaching of French, but I will leave it there. Miss Betts always seemed positively ancient to be too, but, as you say, probably anyone above a certain seemed much older to us. She did dress quite frumpily too, but i do know what you're talking about when you very politely describe her as "very curvy"! You must have been taught French and German in a different way to me at BGS. Couldn't understand a German film now even though I did A Level. "O" Level language standard was pretty basic I was driving home from work tonight and was a little late as I had to call in and get a tyre sorted. As the traffic on Western Boulevard was a little heavier at that later time, I took a short cut along Trentham Drive. I just got to Prestwood Drive and saw Mr Jacobs (or is it now Dr Jacobs) walking along the pavement, presumably going home as he lives that way. I just had to stop for a chat. He must be quite old now but looks really well and is still very alert. I told him who I was but he actually recognised me. The first thing he asked me was if I still collected stamps. He used to run the stamp collecting club at BGS. I told him that I collected just about anything interesting, buying and selling on Ebay. He loved that. If you are reading this Firbeck, he also asked how you are. Bless him. It really made my day. It is great to hear that Mr Jacobs is well and in good form. In was never in one of his teaching groups but I remember him running the school library. Such a nice man. Pleased to hear that he's still around. He was my form teacher for a year and I was also in a couple of his English classes - a lovely man Can't remember him ever raising his hand to anyone. His method was to make you look an idiot. He did that to me a couple of times and I really did deserve it. mercurydancer 995 Location:North! I remember Dr Jacobs from Bilborough College. Little chap, big beard, I thought he had gone a long time ago. When I saw him not long ago he looked well for his age. He must be quite old now. We did have quite a chat and he seems in possession of all his faculties bless him. How on earth did Cyril Jacobs remember me, we must have made a profound impression on him in some way. The last time I saw him was at a production of Under Milk Wood in 1970, after I'd left.My then/now girlfriend (long story) was playing the prostitute in the play, silly sod didn't bother getting changed afterwards, we went to The Pelican and the blokes in there decided she was up for it, we left in a hurry!!! read, R.E.A.D. 19 I have scan read the comments and articles about BGS, seen lots about Mr (Willy) Williams, Miss Betts (yes, I agree back in 1968 seemed awfuly old) Miss Tomlinson (who taught my sister) Fruit Robinson (I wonder if he is still giving out detentions - or perhaps I was just born bad) Mrs Beelby (what a love) can't remember the younger teacher who worked with her '70 - 72 Mr Jacobs (old school gent) Mr Bristow (glad he got head ship even if acting) Peter Hutchinson (RIP) no mention of David Bland (Biology) does anyone else remember him, to me he was far from bland, he (and many girls) sparked my interest in biology :-) Fron the intake of 1968 students, does anyone remember Philip Stott, always wondered if he became a scientist (perfectly suited back then)? Jill Sparrow 7,669 Location:Utopia Interests:Mediaevalist and Catwoman! Welcome to Nottstalgia, read R.E.A.D. look forward to sharing your memories of school days! I remember Mr Bristow as being a nice bloke, he never taught me but I recall after I left Portsmouth Poly without completing the course, I needed a reference for the architects company I was about to join. I phoned up BGS and Bristow happened to be the new head. The next day there was a knock on the door and there he was, he handed me an envelope containing a glowing reference and wished me good luck, Williams would probably have ignored it. I've been looking back at some of these posts, quite interesting to reflect on teachers and pupils. I recall Mr Beardsworth the school caretaker, he was always in the boiler room playing poker with his assistants and swearing profusely, Bilbraborn and I used to peer through the boiler room windows and listen in! Wasn't the boiler room under the changing rooms. I agree firbeck, Mr Bristow was a good guy. He taught the group I was in for A level physics. He stayed very calm when my friend and I filled the downstairs physics lab with smoke. We had to set up 6 lead accumulators to power the experiment. We were talking and did not notice that we had connected them in series! Mr Yarnell said I would never pass the exam. Mr Bristow was good and I passed. Just discovered that the quote box can be deleted so I edited it out. This is a learning curve! Never had these problems before. Read You must have been in the same year as me. I remember Mr Bland but dropped Biology as soon as poss, because I hated it. The other DS teacher was Miss Donaldson, later Mrs Payne. In such an academic school, she used to really annoy us by saying things like "You'll never get a man, girls, unless you can cook!" Phillip Stott was in my class for 1st and 2nd year, but no idea what happened to him. Think he would be described as a geek, these days! I remember Mr Bland. For A-level biology we had two teachers, him and Mr Chollerton. Mr Bland did the plant physiology part and he spent too much time dictating notes from his file. After the first couple of weeks I asked him "when we get to the end of your file have we finished?". He was not impressed but he did say yes. Mr Chollerton was great. He did all the good stuff about DNA. He inspired me and made me want to study biological science for my degree. Had forgotten about Mr Chollerton, but he taught me for 1st and perhaps 2nd year. Still didn't enjoy the subject!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1592
__label__wiki	0.939163	0.939163	Predatory, Poisonous, Vacuous. To Understand Boris Johnson Start With the Spectator by Aaron Bastani Predatory, Poisonous, Vacuous. To Understand Boris Johnson Start With the Spectator by Aaron Bastani @Aaronbastani Britain’s media is erratic, biased and often hysterical. But while most people are familiar with the country’s billionaire-owned newspapers, from Viscount Rothermere’s Daily Mail to Rupert Murdoch’s Sun and Times, less frequently mentioned are periodicals like The Spectator – in print since 1828 and a bastion of conservatism from the start. While the magazine’s provenance precedes the Great Reform Act, its current proprietors – the Barclay Brothers – are conspicuously 21st century. Making their money in property, hotels, shipping and retail they are worth £3bn and enjoy non-dom status on their privately-owned enclave of Brecqhou in the Channel Islands. When the Barclays purchased The Spectator, alongside both Telegraph titles in 2004, its editor was one Boris Johnson – a rising political celebrity at the magazine’s helm since 1999. Elected as MP for Henley in 2001, Johnson’s diary was divided between parliamentary and constituency business, his editorship, a column with the Telegraph and increasingly high profile TV appearances. A seemingly impossible set of commitments you might think – which explains why, when offered the role five years earlier, Johnson promised to demure from pursuing political ambitions. As would prove so frequently the case thereafter, he eventually thought it best to break that vow and mumble something about Winston Churchill doing it. Understanding Johnson’s politics, and the kind of party he now leads, requires a certain familiarity with The Spectator – particularly under his tutelage. The man and magazine operate at the interface of Westminster media and politics – centrifugal forces in a landscape shaped not only by elite interests but a terrifyingly small clutch of people based in London. Similarly, both publication and persona exhibit a decades-long disregard for honesty and decency – and yet both are given a free pass by the establishment. No False Consolations This Election Campaign Showed the Left’s Power. Win or Lose We Must Continue to Build a Socialist Future How Corbyn’s Labour Changed the Minds of Young Scottish Voters During Johnson’s stint as editor, from 1999 to 2005, The Spectator more closely resembled a political satire than a serious publication. The staff’s output, and behaviour, was unprofessional by instinct, this being most obvious in the racist and sexist comments which frequently peppered the magazine’s pages. Here the outlet’s most consistent performer was Taki Theodoracopulos, whose High Life column had featured since 1977. In 2003 Taki wrote, “boy, oh boy was Enoch (Powell) – God rest his soul – ever right!” Elsewhere he referred to himself as a “soi-disant anti-Semite” and said he’d rather “be a Turk than a Paki”. He once even wrote how “orientals… have larger brains and higher IQ scores. Blacks are at the other pole” and how “Britain is being mugged by black hoodlums”. All of the above statements, remarkably, were written while Boris Johnson was his editor. While undoubtedly the worst offender, Taki was closer to the norm than exception. Indeed Johnson himself, writing in 1999, claimed British youngsters had “an almost Nigerian interest in money” – the kind of rhetoric that would become his signature as he frequently deployed words such as ‘piccaniny’ (a small black child, and used by Enoch Powell in his ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech) and ‘coolie’ (a south Asian labourer). More than just bigoted bombast Johnson would even explicitly lament the end of empire – something he most memorably did in 2002 writing, “the problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge any more”. None of this ended with the departure of Johnson as editor. More recently Taki penned a piece titled “In Praise of the Wehrmacht” (this was rapidly amended online) while last month Rod Liddle denigrated an MP, Labour’s Rosie Duffield, after she spoke of her own experience in an abusive relationship. Unsurprisingly Liddle managed to include some Islamophobia for good measure: “It was principally the student vote that won Canterbury for the sobbing and oppressed Rosie ‘#MeToo’ Duffield. Please don’t let that happen again. My own choice of election date would be a day when universities are closed and Muslims are forbidden to do anything on pain of hell, or something.” While Tory MP David Lidington called Liddle’s piece “a serious lapse of judgement” by the magazine, it was anything but. The Spectator, for many years, has been the crucible for the mainstream right’s collapse – and for much of it Johnson was either the conductor-in-chief or its baritone in the spotlight. The behaviour of the magazine’s journalists was often as ugly as its prose. It’s no surprise Liddle should diminish ‘Me Too’ – after all this is a man who cheated on his wife (within days of their marriage) with a member of staff who, while heavily pregnant with his child, he would then assault – subsequently accepting a police caution. Johnson himself had an affair with Petronella Wyatt, also at the magazine, who became pregnant twice while they were together with Johnson allegedly promising her he would leave his then wife Marina Wheeler. There was Kimberley Fortier, whose affair with David Blanket meant the Labour Home Secretary had to resign from his position, as Johnson did from his in the shadow cabinet. These shambolic events would even inform a play, predictably written by Toby Young, titled Whose the Daddy? Despite this state of feverish chaos the Spectator’s purchase by the Barclays, alongside the Tories being firmly ensconced in opposition, meant it provided fertile ground for the right to re-compose. In 2004 the BBC’s Andrew Neil became the magazine’s Chairman – a position he retains today. When Johnson left in 2005 the BBC heavyweight remarked, how the “editorial breadth and quality under his editorship has been unrivalled” and that “in many ways, he will be irreplaceable”. Johnson quickly moved to the heart of the Tories, joining David Cameron’s inner sanctum, before being elected as London Mayor in 2008. Wider currents were now shifting in British politics: in a digital age legacy media was increasingly a plaything for billionaires – Alexander Lebedev purchased The Evening Standard in 2009, while LBC was purchased by Global Media in 2007. Meanwhile individuals who dominate today’s party – Dominic Raab, Priti Patel, Liz Truss, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nadhim Zahawi and Michael Gove were elected to parliament (all but Gove took their seats in 2010). While Cameron and Osborne were in sharp focus at the front, in the background – alongside the rise of UKIP – was a eurosceptic party increasingly at odds with modern Britain. Boris Johnson, with his connections to the billionaire press and senior figures in the BBC, was their tribune. The twin events of the global financial crisis, which decimated Labour, and the Brexit vote, which upended Cameron’s government, meant the court jester became the leading man. While Michael Gove was a leader writer at The Times, and Johnson was editing The Spectator, Dominic Cummings – who would later work for both men – was in a relationship with Mary Wakefield. The two were married in 2011 and today Wakefield is a commissioning editor for The Spectator. What Johnson’s circle represents, then, should be viewed as nothing less than the complete integration of media, propaganda and electoral politics, less ‘rotating door’ than self-service checkout. Emblematic of this supposedly acceptable state of affairs was Andrew Neil’s BBC interview with Jeremy Corbyn. Neil, as already mentioned, is chairman of The Spectator and openly praised Johnson on his departure as editor. The Scot is a fine interviewer, easily the BBC’s best, but he is also a former editor at The Sunday Times who wears an Adam Smith Institute tie on air. Imagine a senior BBC journalist wearing an RMT or Fire Brigade Union tie in a similar setting. There’s a strong argument that both are permissible, of course, but I wouldn’t hold your breath regarding the latter. Neil interviewing Corbyn is as fair as Paul Mason having the opportunity to interrogate Boris Johnson. But alas that prize went to Andrew Marr, a person so professionally distant from the corridors of political power that the launch party for his 2014 novel Head of State was in 10 Downing Street. Every Summer the leading lights of British conservatism congregate for the Spectator’s Summer party. Alongside Tory MPs, think-tankers and journalists from places like the Telegraph, Mail and Times are senior BBC staff – like Laura Kuenssberg, Andrew Neil and Andrew Marr. Impartiality? I’ll believe it when all three are spotted supping beer at the Durham Miner’s Gala. In truth The Spectator, like Johnson, reveals much that is wrong with British politics. Elite capture by the billionaire class; the disintegration of any barrier, and thus accountability, between media and politics; the evacuation of any core values beyond opportunism and self-enrichment; a predatory disposition to the public at large. And meanwhile, while the right was brutally honest about what it believed, BBC editors ate the amuse-bouche and laughed. But it’s no joke, this decadent descent is the future of British politics – or at least that’s the plan. Aaron Bastani is a Novara Media co-founder and contributing editor. For more from Aaron, sign up to his newsletter here. Opinion: If a Royal Couple Can’t Challenge Britain’s Sick Press, What Hope Does a Progressive Politician Have? No one expected it to be Harry and Meghan who led the charge against the depraved British press, writes Aaron Bastani, but the way the Duke and Duchess are being treated shows why no one else could do it, and makes a compelling case for media reform. Labour’s Next Leader Must Be Able to Talk About Class and Climate Justice As Boris Johnson’s government inevitably fails to take action on climate change we will begin to experience harsher climate shocks. Labour needs a leader comfortable stepping up to interpret these events by laying the blame at Johnson’s feet and articulating a compelling socialist response. GE2019: This Election Campaign Showed the Left’s Power. Win or Lose We Must Continue to Build a Socialist Future Whatever happens today, the task of the left over the coming years must be to continue to build up a self-confident socialist movement that understands itself as independent of, though tightly linked to, the Labour party, and with organic links to communities up and down the country, argues Grace Blakeley. Whatever happens today, we are still living through the interregnum between worlds and our choice remains: socialism or barbarism. Long Read: The Centrist Delusion: ‘Middle Ground’ Politics Aren’t Moderate, They’re Dangerous In every civilisation, the centre ground of political opinion has been home to dangerous, inaccurate and oppressive ideas. The toxic centrism currently pervading Britain and rest of the world requires a rapid, bold, ambitious change of direction, writes Raoul Martinez. GE2019: How Corbyn’s Labour Changed the Minds of Young Scottish Voters Speaking with young Scottish voters, Lauren Gilmour traces how and why their allegiances have switched from the Scottish National Party and independence to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour. GE2019: Has Nigel Farage’s Climbdown Guaranteed a Tory Win in the South Coast’s Most Brexit Town? Bognor Regis and Littlehampton voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU in 2016. With the Brexit Party standing down in this election, the Conservatives are expected to win a large majority. But on the ground, nobody seems enthusiastic about this, Natalie Leal reports, with feelings of frustration and helplessness characterising most conversations about politics. How to Get Brexit Done ✅ Boris Johnson says that if you give him and his Conservative party a majority at the general election he’ll be able to ‘get Brexit done’. But is that actually true?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1594
__label__wiki	0.840834	0.840834	Banking on Brexit: Is a Pro-remain Platform Enough to Win Canterbury? by Louis Matheou John Fielding, Flickr by Louis Matheou In a monumental turn of events, the 2017 general election saw Canterbury elect Labour’s Rosie Duffield as its MP with a majority of 187, ending almost two centuries of Conservative and Conservative-allied rule. The campaign to hold the seat in 2019 has been built on the appeal of Duffield’s pro-Remain stance to a constituency that voted to stay in the EU at 54 percent. Should this strategy fail to peel away Europhilic Lib Dems in the numbers needed to deliver another majority, the question, come Friday morning, will be whether a broader alliance could have been formed by more heavily pitching the transformative policies of Labour’s manifesto at a local level. Duffield’s success back in 2017 was attributed to Canterbury’s significant student population and draft of new voters, as well as the Corbyn insurgency with its activist base and Duffield’s position on Brexit. A similar confluence is possible again in 2019 but far from certain. Both Duffield and members of the Constituency Labour Party’s Executive Committee have talked down the importance of the student vote, but it will undoubtedly play a major part on Thursday. The city’s three universities – Kent, Canterbury Christ Church and the University for the Creative Arts – contribute between 30,000 and 40,000 people to a constituency totalling 160,000. Both the institutions themselves and Labour Students, the official student wing of the party, have pushed voter registration and, despite initial fears over the timing of the election, polling day will fall within term-time and many students will be present to cast their ballot. Then there are over 2,700 younger voters stepping into the election booth for the first time and research by the Intergenerational Foundation suggests that just a ten percent increase in turnout between ages 18-34 will disproportionately favour Labour. Many students have of course been drawn to the party by the Corbyn project, as has a raft of devoted activists who in 2017 pounded asphalt and earth alongside community and existing party campaigners. The Canterbury district includes not only the city itself but also the harbour-town of Whitstable, along with the Momentum-made inroads through historic urban rural divide, which came about through canvassing some of the long-held Tory villages for the first time. In a piece of mythology from the night of the count, witnesses recall that then MP for Canterbury Julian Brazier first began to fear for his 30-year-long rule when he was told he had lost Littlebourne, a parish in the ward of Little Stour and Adisham that forms part of a Conservative orbital around the city. All about Brexit. The leaflets and letters being distributed by campaigners in 2019 bill Duffield as the Remain candidate and reveal the wager made by her campaign team that Brexit is the constituency’s bankable electoral feature. It’s possible they are right. Canterbury did vote to stay in the EU in 2016 and, even though Conservative candidate Anna Firth is standing as the only Leave candidate (since the Brexit Party are not standing in the seat), there are signs that a coalition of Remainers might have been forged. A cross-party group called “Remainers for Duffield” has been campaigning in Canterbury for a tactical vote, with former Conservative candidate Joe Egerton vocally supporting Duffield (under the hashtag #ToriesForRosie). Liberal Democrat candidate Tim Walker took the decision to stand down in mid-November to avoid dividing the Remain vote. “I don’t trust Corbyn on Brexit,” he explained in a piece in The Guardian, “but I share with many members of my party locally a visceral dread of the Commons being filled with people like Firth.” With such a small margin in Canterbury, “the nightmare that kept me awake was posing awkwardly at the count beside a vanquished Duffield as the Tory Brexiter raised her hands in triumph. I wanted no part in that.” Lib Dem HQ has unsurprisingly decided to field another candidate, Claire Malcolmson, but anecdotal evidence from the doorstep suggests their voters might be falling in behind Labour. Neither Malcolmson nor Firth are from Canterbury, leaving Duffield as the only local candidate from the major parties. It’s worth pointing out that Duffield’s campaign has not focused exclusively on Brexit. Conversations on the doorstep do not follow a script and the reopening of Kent and Canterbury Hospital’s A&E, funding for schools and police, along with the protection of local green spaces are also on the agenda. Over the last few years, Duffield has spoken to concerns about homelessness and rent and at recent hustings made cases for the prioritisation of social care and mental health provision. But it’s also clear that Labour has lost Brexit voters in Canterbury. As one canvasser describes it: “I’ve been told by many people that they were traditionally Labour supporters but for the first time they don’t know or will vote for the Tories because there is no Brexit party candidate in Canterbury.” A missed opportunity? A campaign that sought to utilise the manifesto’s offer of a new withdrawal agreement and option to Remain as well as proposing something more substantive could retain some of this traditional support while also speaking to concerns that go beyond Brexit. Between 2013 and 2017, Canterbury had the fifth highest rate of deaths among the homeless in England and Wales and there was traction amongst the CLP structure for a campaign that addressed the crises of homelessness and affordability in the city and Whitstable. The decision to focus on Remain instead has left a pronounced distance between the campaign and the transformative vision of the party’s manifesto. On Friday we will know if the axis of students, Corbynites and Europhiles was enough. Louis Matheou is a PhD student in Philosophy. After Defeat One month after Labour's catastrophic defeat, James Butler is joined by Richard Seymour to dig into attempts to understand the loss, and how the left moves on from it. Opinion: Keir Starmer’s Call to End Factionalism Must Not Mean a Return to the Status Quo There is a promise the leadership hopeful could make, argues Michael Walker, which would fulfil his desire to end damaging internecine war without undermining accountability: open selections. #ACFM: The Comedown The #ACFM crew take stock in the wake of Labour’s defeat and the dawning of a new year. Shit Jobs for All: the Many Horrors of the Zero Hours Contract Huge commutes, poor pay and unpaid overtime. Agency worker and journalist Laith Saad speaks with his colleagues about the precarity and exploitation that goes hand-in-hand with a zero hours contract. Letters: Members Should Have the Say on Who Momentum Backs for Labour Leader In this letter to Momentum and its members, Kallum Pembro and Elliot Dugdale argue that the process for deciding the organisation's Labour leadership endorsement shouldn't happen behind closed doors. It Woz Remain Wot Lost It? On this episode of #TyskySour Aaron Bastani is joined by Paul Mason as they discuss Labour’s election results. Did the commitment to a ‘people’s vote’ destroy any chance of winning? Opinion: Learning the Lessons of Labour’s Northern Nightmare Will Take Longer Than a Weekend Beyond Brexit and Corbyn, Labour's foothold in England's mining belt has been weakening for years, writes Craig Gent. Rebuilding trust and confidence will require a patient process involving hard truths - and no amount of hot takes on social media will change that.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1595
__label__wiki	0.761274	0.761274	Rankify Analytics Try Rankify Analytics Rankify Analytics Knowledge Center Philip Zeplin YouTube Consulting Home / Interviews / The Calm Brit: Interview with YouTube gamer BestInSlot The Calm Brit: Interview with YouTube gamer BestInSlot By Philip Zeplin / Comment: 1 / Conor, known as BestInSlot (also known as ForAdventure!) on this channel on YouTube, is a gamer that sticks out. Since his start in 2011, Conor has released over 2.400 videos, which has garnered him over 138 million views, and has almost 300.000 fans subscribing to his daily uploads. Estimated read time: 8 minutes When I originally created the Rankify YouTube course, Conor AKA BestInSlot was awesome enough to let me test out a few theories for a case study, on some of his videos back in 2013. I’ve been lucky enough to sporadically keep contact with him since then, and I was very happy to get a positive answer back, when I contacted him about doing an interview about his channel. He’s also as bad at playing horror games as I am, so he gets bonus points in my book for that. While he intiailly became a big hit due to his Skyrim series, Conor mostly uploads dinosaur related videos these days, catching people off guard with his calm, casual approach to gaming. When Conor started his channel, which he runs solo by himself, he was a university student studying Biomedical Science, with no particular history in computer games, apart from playing them, back in September 2011. Conor says he started up his channel, mainly because he was bored with classes at the time. “Honestly? I hated my course at university! I was bored senseless” he says, adding he was inspired by Yogscast at the time. “I was playing games anyway so I figured why not just record them at the same time?” These days, his channel gets around 150.000 views a day, and while his demography changes with each video, he they are “on average late teens to early twenties and these days they tend to have some form of interest in dinosaurs and palaeontology which is sort of, my niche.” But he laments that, as with many big channels, as his community grows, so do the troublemakers, but he still feels very positive about his many fans “Like all channels I guess I have some people prone to arguing or abusive behaviour but on the whole they’re a good bunch who get really excited about particular series”. Early Success with Skyrim Conor found early success with his very popular Skyrim series, which he has released well over 200 different videos of. “I was extremely excited about Skyrim and by using a VPN set to Australia I managed to get hold of my copy earlier than pretty much anybody else who was actively uploading to Youtube at the time. I pushed out video after video after video, and jumped from under 100 subscribers to 3000 within a handful of weeks.” When looking at his channel, many probably assume that his channel was a hit from the start, but that wasn’t really the case. Rather, several of his first videos did so poorly, he decided to delete them after getting bigger, “Most people think the first game I played was Skyrim, because once it took off I deleted about 4-5 series that I’d already done and I’ve gained the vast majority of subscribers since then. But I’d actually finished playthroughs of FEAR 3, Bastion, Warhammer 40k and Dead Island. They averaged something like 20 views per video.” A lot has changed since then, however. “I used to be the only gaming channel that focused on dinosaurs, but that’s not really the case anymore. I’m not here to blow things up and have crap spinning all over my video… it’s just, enjoying the game, some British banter, nice and chill. I hope.” In particular, his very calm style of videos is one of the key things that many notice first about him. That, and Conor being very British. “Well I think the first (edit: reaction) is probably “is he British?”! And after that, I think people react to my somewhat…calmer style. I’m not big on the excessive screaming and yelling that so many people seem to prefer, slightly more mature in style I’d hope is what they think.” “The day you hit 100k is a pretty big moment and the little plaque still sits proudly on my TV stand in the middle of the room. But, moreso than that, I think realising this could (for now at least) be a job that could sustain me and allow me to live off it was a pretty big thing, much to the chagrin of most of my friends!” When I asked Conor how the process for creating his videos is, it becomes clear that it varies. Some videos are quick, some take longer – but combined with his calm and more casual style of videos, it doesn’t appear to be the time-killer many might assume. “Depends how much editing I need to do but on a typical episode of let’s say Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis… an hour? If that.” He says editing in particular, isn’t really what takes him a lot of time. “It’s 20-25 minutes of sitting down to record followed by throwing together a ‘On the previous episode’ segment in editing and chucking in some intro music. I’m not big on jump-cuts and the like. If it’s a multiplayer game or something that suits highlights more then a video can take a few hours but it’s really just dragging files about and cutting them at the right times.” When it comes to software, he isn’t parcticularly fancy either, keeping up appearances of the laid back Brit’: “In terms of software I use PowerDirector for editing/processing (don’t recommend it… learn Vegas instead), Action! for recording and the Elgato software for capturing consoles and the iPad.” But if we dive over into the hardware part, as with most gamers, things start becoming a bit more hardcore. “I’ve got a pretty stocked custom-water cooled PC with a completely unnecessary GTX Titan in it, a Yeti Blue microphone which is rigged up with a microphone stand/wire thing and a boom supressor, a Razr Blackwidow keyboard and mouse, and a really awful monitor that I desperately need to replace.” Is there a video you are particularly proud of? “My channel trailer. I’m not a big editor, I don’t do many cuts or include a lot of music but I put a bit of effort in that and I still love it a year later.” Advice for new YouTubers Of course, I wanted to know if Conor had any advice, when it came to starting up a new YouTube channel, with several years of experience on his back. “Be consistent, be yourself, find a niche. Consistency is massive particularly if you’re just going to be playing through a game, nobody wants to see part 1 of a story-based game and then not get to see part 2 for another week or something.” Particularly being consistent, is one of the key areas to doing well, but also one of the harder ones, he adds. “It’s been 4 and a half years now and I’ve uploaded 10+ videos every single week for pretty much the entirety of that time… that’s an insane amount of hours put into speaking over random gameplay. There was a point back in the later Skyrim days where it was getting to me because the channel seemed to stall and I actually emailed my partner manager telling him I was closing down the channel. Thankfully I changed my mind.”, but with that said, he says even now it can still get to him, “I’m in a similar state right now where things aren’t going splendidly (in the past year I’ve had two months off, not through choice) and it’s tough to stay chipper and excited about work when it’s stalling.” “Youtube is a horribly disgustingly horrendously crowded market these days. If anybody is looking to get into it, just, do it because you love it, not because you think you’ll get rich.” “If you’re starting up you must think you have something to offer – so offer it”. later adding “I see far too many clones of Pewdiepie and the like… why would we need a clone when we have the original? You be you.” I think many of us can only nod in agreement with that statement, and more often than not, it feels like you’ve discovered some great hidden secret, when you find a YouTuber who isn’t just trying to copy someone else. But it’s about more than that, it’s also about being realistic with expectations, he says – there’s literally millions of YouTube channels, but less than 10.000 of those ever reach 1 million subscribers. “Most of us won’t be million subscriber channels, hell the vast majority won’t hit 100k in their lifetime (them’s the breaks) but you do this because you love it and because it’s a great feeling having someone enjoy what you do.” What lies in the future? Focusing on his fascination with dinosaurs, Conor hopes to evolve his channel over the years into something more educnational, once he’s done with his second degree in Palaeontology. “The hope is to go a slightly more educational route, separate myself from the pack by providing a unique combination of gaming and education but we’ll see.” But Conor says he also realizes, that if he wants to safeguard his future more, his content needs to move from being 100% on YouTube, to also being on platforms he can control more himself. “I honestly think this may be a downfall I need to correct – Youtube probably won’t last forever and a personal website that drives traffic with ads I 100% control would seem like a good idea.” Further, he hopes to get a chance to get back into non-profit work, if he gets the chance, “I did a 24 hour gaming stream for Extra Life at one point, and I’d love to do it again this year.” Finally, he adds that he himself isn’t sure, that this is what he wants to keep doing years down the road. “This isn’t really what I want to do for the rest of my life, but it’s a fun job that lets me travel, and if the channel even still exists and can pay for my livelihood in 5 years I’ll be pretty happy.” A big thanks to Conor / BestInSlot for being up for letting us get some insight into his channel and history, and if you haven’t already, be sure to head over and subscribe to his channel! 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__label__cc	0.681283	0.318717	EU missions sign Green Pledge with their partners to mark World’s Environment day Over 15 partners signed the “Green Pledge” with the European Union on June 7, 2019, committing to adopt a number of sustainable measures in their organization including discontinuing the use of single use plastics, managing waste responsibly and reducing water and electricity consumption. Sports associations, universities, civil society organizations, industry partners & service providers signed the Green Pledge and joined the #LeadTheGreenChange campaign, which was launched by the European Union Delegation to India and the European Union Member States today in New Delhi. Building on the ‘Green Pledge’ adopted on the World Environment Day in 2018, the Delegation of the European Union and the Embassies of the European Union Member States in New Delhi took stock of the implementation of the Green Pledges from 2018 and launched a social media campaign, “Lead the Green Change”, thereby inviting the general public, institutions, associations, corporates & universities to join in to reduce their carbon footprint and greening the planet. Partners who signed the Green Pledge include Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), four leading universities, namely Amrita University, Coimbatore / Amritapuri; Jadavpur University, Kolkata; Savitribai Phule University, Pune; and Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati; three Delhi based luxury hotels -The Park, The Oberoi and The Lodi Hotel; leading civil society and developmental organizations including Development Alternatives, Project Mumbai, International Institute of Waste Management, Karo Sambhav, the Holy Cow Box, and Ploggers of India regional sports associations including Karnataka State Cricket Association and Goa Football Association. PM Modi’s first multilateral summit engagement this week for SCO summit US: Indian college intern sentenced to 60 months for helping in telemarketing scam ‘Attempt to split China will end in shattered bones’: Xi on Hong Kong protests 35 dead as Typhoon Hagibis slams Japan; thousands of rescue workers deployed US says up to 1,000 troops to withdraw from northern Syria US-China trade talks ‘going very well’, says Donald Trump NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarter of 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1598
__label__wiki	0.642651	0.642651	Apocatastasis This article or section needs a cleanup to bring it to a higher standard of quality. Recommendation: See talk page. More detailed comments may be noted on the talk page. You can help OrthodoxWiki by editing it, especially to conform to the Style Manual and the suggestions in How to write a great article. 2.1 Origen 2.2 Clement of Alexandria 2.3 Gregory of Nyssa 2.4 Evagrius Ponticus 2.5 Isaac of Syria 2.6 The Church reaction to Origenism 3 Modern Advocates 4 Sources and External links 5 Other articles of interest Apokatastasis (alternately apocatastasis from Greek: ἀποκατάστασις; literally, "restoration" or "return") is the teaching that everyone will, in the end, be saved. It looks toward the ultimate reconciliation of good and evil; all creatures endowed with reason, angels and humans, will eventually come to a harmony in God's kingdom. It is based on, among other things, St. Peter's speech in Acts 3.21 ("Christ Jesus who must remain in heaven until the time of the final restoration of all things χρόνων ἀποκαταστάσεως πάντων") and St. Paul's letter to Timothy in which he says that it is God's will that all men should be saved (1 Timothy 2.4). For Origen, this explicitly included the devil. In effect, apocatastasis denies the final reality of hell, and interprets all Biblical references to the "fires of hell" not as an eternal punishment, but a tool of divine teaching and correction, akin to purgatory. The implication is that hell exists to separate good from evil in the soul. Among Catholics in the twentieth-century, this doctrine was reinvigorated especially by Hans Urs von Balthasar, who, in his book Dare We Hope 'That All Men Be Saved? (1988), expressed a qualified version of apocatastasis in which we may "hope" that all will be saved. Keeping in mind the conciliar condemnation of Origen, Orthodox theologians who tend towards universalism (the belief that all will be saved) usually argue that all may be saved. St. Augustine wrote the following about Origen: "I am aware that I now have to engage in a debate, devoid of rancor, those compassionate Christians who refuse to believe that the punishment of hell will be everlasting either in the case of all those men whom the completely just Judge accounts deserving of that chastisement, or at least in the case of some of them; they hold that they are to be set free after fixed limits of time have been passed, the periods being longer or shorter in proportion to the magnitude offences. On this subject the most compassionate of all was Origen who believed that the Devil himself and his angels will be rescued from their torments and brought into the company of the holy angels, after the more severe and more lasting chastisements appropriate to their deserts. But the Church has rejected Origen's teaching, and not without good reason, on account of this opinion and a number of others... "Very different, however, is the error, promoted by tenderness of heart and human compassion, of those who suppose that the miseries of those condemned by that judgement will be temporal, whereas the felicity of all men, who are released after a shorter or longer period, will be everlasting. Now if this opinion is good and true, just because it is compassionate, then it will be the better and the truer the more compassionate it is. Then let the fountain of compassion be deepened and enlarged until it extends as far as the evil angels, who must be set free, although, of course, after many ages, and ages of any length that can be imagined! ...For all that, his error would manifestly surpass all errors in its perversity, its wrong-headed contradiction of the express words of God, by the same margin as, in his own estimation, his belief surpasses all other opinions in its clemency." — St. Augustine of Hippo, City of God 21.17 (trans. Bettenson) St. Gregory of Nyssa accepted the idea of apocatastasis from Origen. However, this part of St. Gregory's writings has been unequivocally rejected by the subsequent Church Fathers: St. Varsanofios the Great, criticizing the doctrine of apocatastasis, when asked about St. Gregory's opinion, has answered: "do not think that people, though also saints, could completely understand all depths of God... Even if a saint speaks about such opinions, you will not find that he confirmed the words as though had the statement from above, but that they resulted from the doctrine of his former teachers, and he, trusting their knowledge of them, did not inquire of God whether it was true."citation needed St. Herman of Constantinople has also expressed a negative opinion of the doctrine, but he supposes that the works of St. Gregory have been damaged by Origenists: "those who liked that absurd idea, as if for demons and for people who will be subjected to eternal punishment, is possible to expect the discontinuance... they have taken his clean and sensible works and have added the dark and disastrous poison of Origen's nonsense."citation needed St. Mark of Ephesus, after citing St. Gregory, exclaims: "Are we wrong when we do not believe those words of St. Gregory of Nyssa, considering them forgeries, or, even if they are original, to not accept as contradictory to Scripture and to the general dogma?"citation needed St. Maximus the Confessor, rejecting an Origenistic interpretation of apocatastasis, considered that St. Gregory used this term "in sense of restoration of cognitive forces of the man in that condition of the correct relation to truth."citation needed St. Photius the Great has expressed the Church's general interpretation in one phrase: "that in works of St. Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, where restoration is mentioned, it is not accepted by the Church."citation needed Evagrius Ponticus Isaac of Syria The Church reaction to Origenism The anathemas of the local Council of Constantinople in 453, which is understood by most commentators to be confirmed by the Fifth Ecumenical Council in 553, posthumously excommunicated Origen and anyone following specific points of his teachings. These anathemas condemned his protology of pre-existent souls and his eschatology of universal restoration of all things "which follows from" his protology1: If anyone asserts the fabulous pre-existence of souls, and shall assert the monstrous restoration which follows from it: let him be anathema. (First anathema against Origen) If anyone shall say that all reasonable beings will one day be united in one, when the hypostases as well as the numbers and the bodies shall have disappeared, and that the knowledge of the world to come will carry with it the ruin of the worlds, and the rejection of bodies as also the abolition of [all] names, and that there shall be finally an identity of the γνῶσις and of the hypostasis; moreover, that in this pretended apocatastasis, spirits only will continue to exist, as it was in the feigned pre-existence: let him be anathema. (Fourteenth anathema against Origen)2 The decisions of ecumenical councils have universal authority in the Orthodox Church. Only doctrinal definitions have the force of dogma. Local councils only have authority within specific geographic limits. Modern Advocates Known proponents of either a qualified or unqualified doctrine of apocatastasis within the Orthodox Church include: Nikolai Berdyaev Archpriest Sergius Bulgakov St Sophrony (Sakharov) Archimandrite Lazarus (Moore) Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia David Bentley Hart Some prominent twentieth century non-Orthodox theologians who advocated this include: Richard John Neuhaus - Fr. Neuhaus follows von Balthasar's position which rejects any explicit doctrine that damnation is not a possibility. For his explanation, see FT0108. F. W. Farrar C. S. Lewis - at least, this claim is asserted in a dissertation entitled "All Will Be Well" Sources and External links 1 Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia, "Dare we hope for the salvation of all?" in The Inner Kingdom: The Collected Works, vol. I, (Crestwood, NY: SVS Press, 2000). 2 The Anathemas against Origen, Anathema I, XIV. Online at CCEL. Access date: Dec 9, 2010. Catholic Encyclopedia article The Population of Hell by Avery Cardinal Dulles, First Things133 (May 2003): 36-41 Will all be saved? - Richard J. Neuhaus, First Things 115 (August/September 2001): 77-104. The Inflated Reputation of Hans Urs von Balthasar New Oxford Review, March 2000. Is Hell Closed Up & Boarded Over? - by David Watt, New Oxford Review, Feb. 1999. On Hope, Heaven and Hell - by Nick Jr. Healy, The University Concourse, Volume II, Issue 9. May 6, 1997. Von Balthasar and Salvation - by James T. O'Connor, Homiletic & Pastoral Review, July 1989. Adventures in New Testament Greek: Apocatastasis - a poem by Scott Cairns, Philokalia: New and Selected Poems, Zoo Press, March 1, 2002. 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__label__wiki	0.658239	0.658239	Industry Partners and Employers Visit Campus in Search of Future Workforce Industry partners and employers will gather at OSU Institute of Technology’s Summer Career Fair Tuesday, June 11, in hopes of finding students for their future workforce. This summer’s Career Fair provides opportunities for industry partners to meet with OSUIT’s highly skilled and trained students from Construction Technologies, Energy Technologies, Engineering Technologies, Information Technologies, Truck Technician and Visual Communications. The event allows students to make connections, meet representatives from potential employers and internship sponsors in their field of study and to learn about opportunities for their future career. James Weygandt, Truck Technician program instructor, said that he feels these career fairs are an absolute must for students. “We highly encourage our students to participate,” said Weygandt. “What better way for our students to build their relationship with employers in the field than to meet them face to face in our environment?” Weygandt said this type of format where the employers come to campus helps relieve some pressure for students to meet “on our turf.” Viki Little, senior administrative assistant for the vice president of Academic Affairs, said there are around 30 industry partners registered for the summer career fair. The spring career fair introduced a new color dot system for employers and students which will continue for the summer fair. To enable company representatives to easily identify students, each student will be given a name tag with a color dot representing the school under which their program lies. Industry partners are given cards with color dots representing the schools that had been identified as an interest. Each student is also given a color-coded list of industry partners who had expressed an interest in meeting students from their school. Little said that although many of the same employers continue to attend each semester, the summer career fair features a few employers who did not attend the spring career fair. “OSUIT has the opportunity to build relationships with our employers/partners on an entirely different level during our career fair,” said Weygandt. “We also have the opportunity to speak with employers or partners attending the career fair that may not have known we offer particular programs here on campus, and this really opens the door to numerous opportunities.” For more information about the Summer Career Fair, visit osuit.edu or contact Viki Little at viki.little@okstate.edu.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1605
__label__cc	0.514238	0.485762	M Tariq In Search of New Laws for a Gluten Kingdom Mohammed Saleem Tariq The enthusiasm for gluten avoidance in a growing market is met by improvements in sensitive detection methods for analysing gluten content. Paradoxically, manufacturers employ no such systems in the production process but continue to market their product as gluten free, a significant risk posed to an undetermined coeliac population. This paper resonates with an immunological response that causes gastrointestinal scarring and villous atrophy with the conventional description of personal injury. This thesis divulges into evaluating potential inadequacies of gluten labelling laws which not only present a diagnostic challenge for general practitioners in the UK but it also exposes a less than adequate form of available legal protection to those who suffer adverse reactions as a result of gluten digestion. Central to this discussion is whether a claim brought in misrepresentation, negligence and/or under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 could be sustained. An interesting comparison is then made with the legal regimes of neighboring jurisdictions furthering the theme of a legally un-catered for gluten kingdom. Coeliac, litigation, misrepresentation, negligence. Ultra-Wideband Slot Antenna with Notched Band for World Interoperability for Microwave Access Rezaul Azim, A. Toaha Mobashsher, M. Tariqul Islam In this paper a novel ultra-wideband (UWB) slot antenna with band notch characteristics for world interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) is proposed. The designed antenna consists of a rectangular radiating patch and a ground plane with tapered shape slot. To realize a notch band, a curved parasitic element has been etched out along with the radiating patch. It is observed that by adjusting the length, thickness and position of the parasitic element, the proposed antenna can achieved an impedance bandwidth of 8.01GHz (2.84 to 10.85GHz) with a notched band of 3.28-3.85GHz. Compared to the recently reported band notch antennas, the proposed antenna has a simple configuration to realize band notch characteristics in order to mitigate the potential interference between WiMAX and UWB system. Furthermore, a stable radiation pattern and moderate gain except at the notched band makes the proposed antenna suitable for various UWB applications. Band notch, Filter element, Ultra-wideband (UWB), WiMAX. Techno-Legal Interplay of Domain Names: A Study with Reference to India M. Tariq Banday, Farooq A. Mir Internet has unfolded its potential and its users are now quite convinced that it is a cost effective, flexible, efficient and viable option to carry out different business activities disregard of any physical or geographical boundaries. These intrinsic properties of Internet have raised innumerable legal issues that are difficult to resolve within the boundaries of existing legal régime which has a different scheme of things. Internet has impacted most of the branches of law more particularly Intellectual property jurisprudence which has engendered many IP issues including interplay of trademark and domain names. There is neither any separate legislation nor any express provision in the existing Trademark Act, 1999, which is relatively recent in origin and enacted at the time when theses issued had seized the attention of the courts in other jurisdictions. A host of legal issues cropped by the intersection of trademark and domain names which have been left for the courts to decide. The courts in India have seized this opportunity and have laid down a number of principles. This paper appraises approaches adopted by Indian courts in resolving domain name disputes and compares them with theories evolved and established in other jurisdictions. DNS, Domain Name, Trademarks, Passing off and Judicial Approach. Environmental Effects on Energy Consumption of Smart Grid Consumers S. M. Ali, A. Salam Khan, A. U. Khan, M. Tariq, M. S. Hussain, B. A. Abbasi, I. Hussain, U. Farid Environment and surrounding plays a pivotal rule in structuring life-style of the consumers. Living standards intern effect the energy consumption of the consumers. In smart grid paradigm, climate drifts, weather parameter and green environmental directly relates to the energy profiles of the various consumers, such as residential, commercial and industrial. Considering above factors helps policy in shaping utility load curves and optimal management of demand and supply. Thus, there is a pressing need to develop correlation models of load and weather parameters and critical analysis of the factors effecting energy profiles of smart grid consumers. In this paper, we elaborated various environment and weather parameter factors effecting demand of consumers. Moreover, we developed correlation models, such as Pearson, Spearman, and Kendall, an inter-relation between dependent (load) parameter and independent (weather) parameters. Furthermore, we validated our discussion with real-time data of Texas State. The numerical simulations proved the effective relation of climatic drifts with energy consumption of smart grid consumers. Climatic drifts, correlation analysis, energy consumption, smart grid, weather parameter. A Dose Distribution Approach Using Monte Carlo Simulation in Dosimetric Accuracy Calculation for Treating the Lung Tumor Md Abdullah Al Mashud, M. Tariquzzaman, M. Jahangir Alam, Tapan Kumar Godder, M. Mahbubur Rahman This paper presents a Monte Carlo (MC) method-based dose distributions on lung tumor for 6 MV photon beam to improve the dosimetric accuracy for cancer treatment. The polystyrene which is tissue equivalent material to the lung tumor density is used in this research. In the empirical calculations, TRS-398 formalism of IAEA has been used, and the setup was made according to the ICRU recommendations. The research outcomes were compared with the state-of-the-art experimental results. From the experimental results, it is observed that the proposed based approach provides more accurate results and improves the accuracy than the existing approaches. The average %variation between measured and TPS simulated values was obtained 1.337±0.531, which shows a substantial improvement comparing with the state-of-the-art technology. Lung tumor, Monte Carlo, polystyrene, elekta synergy, Monaco Planning System.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1611
__label__wiki	0.661667	0.661667	Children’s Art Area Artist Info & Registration Sponsor Info & Registration Pastels on Fifth to bring biggest group of chalk artists yet to downtown Loveland on Saturday Photo courtesy Loveland Reporter-Herald By Paul Albani-Burgio \| Loveland Reporter Herald Loveland may be full of art, but the city’s sidewalks are one place that generally remain plain. Well, usually. For one day in early September, that plainness goes out the window downtown as Fifth Street becomes a patchwork of performance artistry in chalk for the city’s annual Pastels on Fifth chalk festival. Now in its eighth year, Pastels on Fifth will bring more than 150 artists to the area of Fifth Street adjacent to the Loveland Museum to create chalk masterpieces right on the sidewalk. The event raises money for the Loveland domestic violence victims organization Alternatives to Violence by selling sponsorships for each artist’s piece and charging festival attendees $1 for a chance to vote on the People’s Choice award for best piece. Loveland artist Amanda Gress is one of the artists who will be hitting the paint to create a chalk art piece for this year’s event. “I just think chalk art festivals like this are really interesting because you have professionals, students and amateurs all trying to contribute to a whole,” she said. “The whole thing ends up becoming almost like one picture or like a montage.” Gress, who said she is contemplating whether to do a chalk picture of a succulent or a portrait for her piece, said the festival is also a gratifying experience for the participating artists because it gives them a chance to have their work seen by people who might not regularly seek out art. “Not everyone wants to go into a stuffy gallery or museum,” Gress said. “This is a chance for the everyday person to see artists working right from the street and be part of watching them make a piece.” This year’s festival will also provide its attendees with the chance to see one artist create a piece on a whole new surface: a car. That vehicle is being provided by Loveland Ford, which has tasked one of its employees who is also an artist with painting the vehicle’s surface with chalkboard paint and then drawing a chalk image on top of it. The chalked-up car will be auctioned off with the proceeds going to Alternatives to Violence in October. The festival will also offer a chance for local kids to try their hand at creating their own chalk art pieces in a children’s area where they will also be able to enjoy cupcakes and other activities. Visitors of all ages, meanwhile, will enjoy performances by six bands, food trucks and several art vendors. Amanda Waddell, an event organizer, said this year’s event has already raised $41,000, surpassing the total from last year’s festival of $38,000. Still, she said organizers are hoping to bring in “a couple thousand more” from donations they will collect at the festival. It will be money well-spent, Waddell said. “Everybody knows somebody that has been affected by violence, and with how much Northern Colorado has been growing, this organization needs more resources,” she said. “It helps all of us by helping keep the community safe and Loveland on its feet.” Original article published in Loveland Reporter Herald. Event Updates (5) Pastels in the Media (9) Learn More & Give Copyright ©2011-2019 Pastels on 5th. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1615
__label__cc	0.661501	0.338499	US9653148B1 - Multi-bank memory device and system - Google Patents Multi-bank memory device and system Download PDF US9653148B1 US9653148B1 US15/047,605 US201615047605A US9653148B1 US 9653148 B1 US9653148 B1 US 9653148B1 US 201615047605 A US201615047605 A US 201615047605A US 9653148 B1 US9653148 B1 US 9653148B1 memory banks data bus Tah-Kang Joseph Ting Gyh-Bin Wang Ming-Hung Wang PieceMakers Tech Inc 2016-02-18 Application filed by PieceMakers Tech Inc filed Critical PieceMakers Tech Inc 2016-02-18 Priority to US15/047,605 priority Critical patent/US9653148B1/en 2016-02-18 Assigned to Piecemakers Technology, Inc. reassignment Piecemakers Technology, Inc. ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: TING, TAH-KANG JOSEPH, WANG, GYH-BIN, WANG, MING-HUNG 2017-05-16 Publication of US9653148B1 publication Critical patent/US9653148B1/en 2020-01-20 Application status is Active legal-status Critical 230000015654 memory Effects 0 abstract claims description 120 238000003860 storage Methods 0 abstract claims description 41 230000000875 corresponding Effects 0 abstract claims description 11 239000000872 buffers Substances 0 claims description 17 230000001360 synchronised Effects 0 claims description 7 230000003139 buffering Effects 0 claims description 3 230000000630 rising Effects 0 description 14 230000004044 response Effects 0 description 2 230000003213 activating Effects 0 description 1 230000004075 alteration Effects 0 description 1 230000002457 bidirectional Effects 0 description 1 230000003247 decreasing Effects 0 description 1 G11—INFORMATION STORAGE G11C—STATIC STORES G11C11/00—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor G11C11/21—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor using electric elements G11C11/34—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor using electric elements using semiconductor devices G11C11/40—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor using electric elements using semiconductor devices using transistors G11C11/401—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor using electric elements using semiconductor devices using transistors forming cells needing refreshing or charge regeneration, i.e. dynamic cells G11C11/4063—Auxiliary circuits, e.g. for addressing, decoding, driving, writing, sensing or timing G11C11/407—Auxiliary circuits, e.g. for addressing, decoding, driving, writing, sensing or timing for memory cells of the field-effect type G11C11/409—Read-write [R-W] circuits G11C11/4093—Input/output [I/O] data interface arrangements, e.g. data buffers G11C11/4076—Timing circuits G11C11/4094—Bit-line management or control circuits G11C7/00—Arrangements for writing information into, or reading information out from, a digital store G11C7/10—Input/output [I/O] data interface arrangements, e.g. I/O data control circuits, I/O data buffers G11C7/1015—Read-write modes for single port memories, i.e. having either a random port or a serial port G11C7/103—Read-write modes for single port memories, i.e. having either a random port or a serial port using serially addressed read-write data registers G11C11/4096—Input/output [I/O] data management or control circuits, e.g. reading or writing circuits, I/O drivers or bit-line switches G11C2207/00—Indexing scheme relating to arrangements for writing information into, or reading information out from, a digital store G11C2207/22—Control and timing of internal memory operations G11C2207/2272—Latency related aspects G11C7/1051—Data output circuits, e.g. read-out amplifiers, data output buffers, data output registers, data output level conversion circuits G11C7/106—Data output latches A memory device includes a common data bus, a plurality of memory banks and a control circuit. The memory banks are coupled to the common data bus. The memory banks share the common data bus. Each of the memory banks includes a storage device and a data register. The data register is coupled between the storage device the common data bus, and is arranged for storing data read from the storage device. The control circuit is coupled to storage devices and data registers of the memory banks, and is arranged for referring to an address signal and an access signal to control the storage device of said each memory bank to output the data to the corresponding data register, and referring to the address signal and a programmable latency time to control the data registers to output data from the memory banks to the common data bus. The disclosed embodiments of the present invention relate to memory, and more particularly, to a multi-bank memory device capable of referring to a programmable latency time to continuously output data from multiple memory banks to a common data bus. 2. Description of the Prior Art A conventional memory utilizes data registers (FIFO) for temporary storage of data due to access latency. Please refer to FIG. 1, which is a block diagram illustrating a conventional dynamic random access memory (DRAM) 100. A shown in FIG. 1, a control circuit 104 controls each of a plurality of decoders (DEC) 110_1-110_3 to decode an address signal ADD according to an access signal ACS (a clock signal), and data read from a plurality of memory cell arrays 106_1-106_3 are transmitted to a plurality of sense amplifiers 120_1-120_3 through a plurality of data paths SA1-SA3, respectively. Next, the sense amplifiers 120_1-120_3 immediately transmit the data read from the memory cell arrays 106_1-106_3 to data register(s) 130 (e.g. a first-in first-out register (FIFO)) through a common data bus 160 (which is shared by a plurality of memory banks 102_1-102_3), and an off-chip driver (OCD) 140 of an output circuit 132 receives an output of the data register(s) (FIFO) 130 to generate a data output DQ, wherein data output timing of the data register(s) (FIFO) 130 is controlled by the control circuit 104. Additionally, in a write mode, an input buffer 150 of the output circuit 132 receives data to be written, and transmits the data to be written to the data register(s) (FIFO) 130 through the common data bus 160. FIG. 2 illustrates a timing diagram of the DRAM 100 shown in FIG. 1 which operates in a burst mode to access the same memory bank continuously. For illustrative purposes, a plurality of rising edges of the access signal ACS are labeled R0-R15 in FIG. 2. At the rising edge R0, the memory bank 102_1 enables data access according to an output of the DEC 110_1. After a period of time (an address access time (tAA)), data D0-D3 are read from the memory cell array 106_1 to the data path SA1 (at a time point between the rising edge R4 and the rising edge R5), and the sense amplifier 120_1 transmits the data D0-D3 to the data register(s) (FIFO) 130 through the common data bus 160. As the DRAM 100 has a read latency of 9 clock cycles, the data D0-D3 are outputted from the OCD 140 at the rising edges R9-R12 respectively. Similarly, data D4-D5 read from the memory cell array 106_2 are outputted from the OCD 140 at the rising edges R13-R14 respectively, and data D6-D7 read from the memory cell array 106_3 are outputted from the OCD 140 at the rising edges R15-R15 respectively. As can be seen from FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, a first-in first-out register is used to buffer continuous burst data before a long column address strobe (CAS) latency is satisfied. However, this causes an increase in circuit area and manufacturing costs. Similar problems are also encountered when data are read out from different memory banks of the DRAM 100 in sequence. It is therefore one objective of the present invention to provide a multi-bank memory device, which is capable of referring to a programmable latency time to continuously output data from multiple memory banks to a common data bus, to solve the above problems. According to an embodiment of the present invention, an exemplary memory device is disclosed. The exemplary memory device comprises a common data bus, a plurality of memory banks and a control circuit. The memory banks are coupled to the common data bus. The memory banks share the common data bus. Each of the memory banks comprises a storage device and a data register. The data register is coupled between the storage device the common data bus, and is arranged for storing data read from the storage device. The control circuit is coupled to storage devices and data registers of the memory banks, and is arranged for referring to an address signal and an access signal to control the storage device of said each memory bank to output the data to the corresponding data register, and referring to the address signal and a programmable latency time of more than 10 clock cycles to control the data registers of the memory banks to output data from the memory banks to the common data bus. As the proposed memory device may refer to a programmable latency time to output data from a selected one of a plurality of memory banks to a common data bus shared by the memory banks of a multi-bank memory device, there can be no need to dispose data register(s) (FIFO) between the common data bus and an external data bus externally connected to the proposed memory device. Additionally, the proposed memory device may perform continuous data access (e.g. burst access) by enabling respective data access operations of a plurality of memory banks alternately without the use of data register(s) (FIFO). Hence, not only is circuit area saved, but also manufacturing costs are reduced. These and other objectives of the present invention will no doubt become obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art after reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment that is illustrated in the various figures and drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a conventional dynamic random access memory. FIG. 2 illustrates a timing diagram of the dynamic random access memory shown in FIG. 1 which operates in a burst mode to access the same memory bank continuously. FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary memory device according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 illustrates a timing diagram of the memory device shown in FIG. 3 which operates in a continuous read mode according to an embodiment of the present invention. The proposed multi-bank memory device may latch a data element read from a memory cell before the data element is outputted to a common data bus shared by all memory banks, and determine when to output the latched data element to the common data bus, thus reducing circuit area and enhancing operating performance. For example, by alternately enabling a plurality of memory banks to perform data access (e.g. data access in a burst mode), the proposed memory device may realize seamless continuous data access without the use of data register(s) (FIFO). The proposed memory architecture may be employed in a synchronous memory device or an asynchronous memory device. Further description is provided below. Please refer to FIG. 3, which is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary memory device according to an embodiment of the present invention. The memory device 200 may include, but is not limited to, a common data bus 260, a plurality of memory banks 202_1-202_N, a control circuit 212 and an output circuit 232, wherein N is a positive integer. The memory banks 202_1-202_N are coupled to the common data bus 260, wherein the common data bus 260 is shared by the memory banks 202_1-202_N. The control circuit 212 is coupled to the memory banks 202_1-202_N and the output circuit 232, and may be arranged for generating an access signal ACS and an address signal ADD to control data access operations of the memory banks 202_1-202_N, and referring to the address signal ADD and a programmable latency time to control the memory banks 202_1-202_N to output data to the output circuit 232 through the common data bus 260. The output circuit 232 is coupled between the common data bus 260 and an external data bus EXB externally connected to the memory device 200, and is arranged for generate a data output DQ according to the data received from the common data bus 260. In this embodiment, each of the memory banks 202_1-202_N may include a storage device (one of storage devices 206_1-206_N) and a data register (one of data registers 220_1-220_N), wherein the data register is coupled between the storage device and the common data bus 260, and is arranged for storing data read from the storage device. The control circuit 212 may refer to the address signal ADD and the access signal ACS to control the storage device (one of the storage devices 206_1-206_N) to output the data to the data register (a corresponding one of the data registers 220_1-220_N) through a data path (a corresponding one of data paths A1-AN), and referring to the address signal ADD and the programmable latency time to control the data register to output the data stored in the data register to the common data bus 260. Specifically, the control circuit 212 may refer to the address signal ADD to determine which of the data registers 220_1-220_N should output the data stored therein, and the control circuit 212 may refer to the programmable latency time to determine data output timing of a selected data register. Byway of example but not limitation, in a case where the memory device 200 operates in a synchronous mode (e.g. the memory device 200 is implemented by a synchronous memory device), the programmable latency time may be duration of a predetermined number of clock cycles of the access signal ACS (e.g. a clock signal). In another case where the memory device 200 operates in an asynchronous mode (e.g. the memory device 200 is implemented by an asynchronous memory device), and the programmable latency time may be a predetermined delay time of the access signal ACS. In one implementation, the programmable latency time may be programmed/set to be more than 10 clock cycles. For example, each clock cycle may equal a minimum clock cycle time utilized in the memory device 200. In another example, the programmable latency time may be programmed/set by the control circuit 212. Additionally, in some embodiments, the control circuit 212 may refer to the address signal ADD and the programmable latency time of more than 10 clock cycles to control the data registers 220_1-220_N to continuously output data from the memory banks 202_1-202_N to the common data bus 260. Related description will be given later. In another implementation, at least one of the data registers 220_1-220_N may be implemented by a single-stage data buffer. In yet another implementation, at least one of the data registers 220_1-220_N may be implemented by a multi-stage data buffer. As long as a data register within a memory bank may refer to a programmable latency time to output data to a common data bus shared by all memory banks of a multi-bank memory device, various modifications and alternatives may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. As the memory device 200 may latch a data element read from a storage device (e.g. a memory cell array) in a corresponding data register before the data element is outputted to the common data bus 260, and program when the corresponding data register should output the latched data element to the common data bus 260, the memory device 200 need not a buffer register which is disposed on the common data bus 260 for buffering data, thus reducing circuit area and manufacturing costs. Further, the control circuit 212 may enable the memory banks 202_1-202_N alternately so that respective data stored in the memory banks 202_1-202_N may be outputted alternately from the output circuit 232. By way of example but not limitation, the control circuit 212 may enable the memory banks 202_1-202_N alternately so that each storage device outputs one data element at a time, and control the data registers 220_1-220_N to refer to an activation sequence of the memory banks 202_1-202_N to output respective data elements read from the storage devices 206_1-206_N one at a time. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, the output circuit 232 may include, but is not limited to, a drive circuit (implemented by an off-chip driver (OCD) 240 in this embodiment) and an input buffer 250. The OCD 240 may be directly coupled to the common data bus 260, and is arranged for driving the data received from the common data bus 260 onto an external data bus EXB. Additionally, when the memory device 200 operates in a write mode, the input buffer 250 may receive data WD (e.g. data to be written) and transmit the data WD to at least one of the memory banks 202_1-202_N through the common data bus 260. In other words, the common data bus 260 may be used as a bidirectional data bus in this embodiment. Please note that the common data bus 260 may be indirectly coupled to the OCD 240 (e.g. the driver circuit). By way of example but not limitation, the memory device 200 may further include at least one buffer stage (not shown in FIG. 3), wherein the at least one buffer stage is coupled between the common data bus 260 and the OCD 240 (or the output circuit 232), and is arranged for buffering the data received from the common data bus 260 and outputting the buffered data to the OCD 240. Next, the OCD 240 may drive the buffered data outputted from the at least one buffer stage onto the external data bus EXB. In a case where the memory device 200 operates in a continuous read mode (e.g. a burst access mode, in which a memory device transfers a plurality of data elements continuously without interruption), after enabling a memory bank to perform a read operation (e.g. accessing one data element), the control circuit 212 may not enable the memory bank to perform another read operation until the programmable latency time (e.g. a read latency time) has elapsed, thereby ensuring each data element read from a storage device of the memory bank may be outputted from the memory bank. The programmable latency time may be controlled by the control circuit 212, and may be a period of time during which data (e.g. a data element) to be read is read from the storage device and outputted to the common data bus 260. In other words, the control circuit 212 may control the memory banks 202_1-202_N to perform read operations alternately according to the address signal ADD and the access signal ACS, and control a time interval between two consecutive read operations performed by one of the memory banks to be longer than a corresponding read latency time of the memory bank (i.e. the one of the memory banks). It should be noted that, in a case where the number of the memory banks 202_1-202_N is sufficiently large, the output circuit 232 may output the data elements read from the memory banks 202_1-202_N alternately and continuously without temporarily storing the data elements in data register (s) (e.g. FIFO (s)) in advance. In other words, there may be no need to dispose data register(s) (FIFO(s)) between the common data bus 260 and the external data bus EXB, thus decreasing circuit area and manufacturing costs. By way of example but not limitation, in a case where the memory device 200 is implemented by a synchronous memory device, the access signal ACS may be implemented by a clock signal, and the number of the memory banks 202_1-202_N may be greater than the programmable latency time (a read latency time) divided by a clock cycle time of the clock signal. In another case where the memory device 200 is implemented by an asynchronous memory device, the access signal ACS may indicate a plurality of address read commands, and the number of the memory banks 202_1-202_N may be greater than the programmable latency time (a read latency time) divided by a time interval between two consecutive address read commands of the read commands. Accordingly, the control circuit 212 may not enable data access of a storage device of a memory bank until a corresponding data register outputs a data element read from the storage device in response to previous data access. The output circuit 232 may have no FIFO(s) disposed therein. Since two consecutive clock cycles may be regarded as two consecutive address read commands in a synchronous operating mode of a memory device, the determination of the number of the memory banks 202_1-202_N in a synchronous/asynchronous memory device may be summarized as follows: when the access signal ACS indicates a plurality of address read commands, the number of the memory banks 202_1-202_N may be greater than the programmable latency time divided by a time interval between two consecutive address read commands. For a better understanding of the present invention, FIG. 4 illustrates a timing diagram of the memory device 200 shown in FIG. 3 which operates in a continuous read mode according to an embodiment of the present invention. Please refer to FIG. 4 in conjunction with FIG. 3. For illustrative purposes, the access signal ACS shown in FIG. 3 may be implemented by a clock signal CK shown in FIG. 4 in this embodiment, wherein the control circuit 212 may set a read latency of each memory bank to 9 clock cycles (i.e. nine times a clock cycle of the clock signal CK), and the number of the memory banks 202_1-202_N may be 14 (N is 14). However, this is not meant to be a limitation of the present invention. Additionally, a plurality of rising edges of the clock signal CK are labeled r0-r14 in FIG. 4 respectively to facilitate description of the proposed memory control mechanism. Firstly, at the rising edge r0, the control circuit 212 may enable the storage device 206_1 of the memory bank 202_1 to transmit a data element Q(1) to the data register 220_1. After an internal memory read time TIR has elapsed, the data element Q(1) stored in the storage device 206_1 may be read out thereof (i.e. the rising r4). As the control circuit 212 may control the memory banks 202_1-202_N alternately to perform read operations, respective data elements stored in the memory banks 202_2-202_N (e.g. data elements Q(2)-Q(N)) may be outputted to the data paths A2-AN at the rising edges r5-rN+3 (not shown in FIG. 4), respectively. In this embodiment, a read latency time of each memory bank may be set to the read latency multiplied by a clock cycle time of the clock signal CK. Hence, the data element Q(1) may be outputted to the common data bus 260 at the rising edge r9, the data element Q(2) may be outputted to the common data bus 260 at the rising edge r10, and so on. Next, the output circuit 232 (or the OCD 240) may output the data elements Q(1)-Q(N) in sequence as the data output DQ. Please note that, before the data of the memory banks 202_1-202_N are outputted to the common data bus 260, the control circuit 212 may control the data registers 220_1-220_N to latch (or temporarily store) respective received data a programmable period of time (e.g. a read latency time) first and then output the respective latched data. Additionally, in order to avoid that a read operation is performed on a storage device (e.g. one of the storage devices 206_1-206_N) to read a next data element when a current data element to be read has not been read out of the storage device, the control circuit 212 may set the read latency time to be longer than a period of time during which data stored in the storage device is read out of the storage device (e.g. the internal memory read time TIR). After the memory bank 202_N is enabled to perform data access, the control circuit 212 may enable the memory bank 202_1 again to perform another read operation (e.g. at the rising edge r14). As a time interval TIC between two consecutive read operations performed by the memory bank 202_1 is longer than a read latency time thereof (e.g. nine times the clock cycle time of the clock signal CK), each data element outputted from the storage device 206_1 (e.g. the data elements Q(1) and Q(N+1)) may be successfully outputted from the output circuit 232. Although a product of the read latency and the clock cycle time of the clock signal CK is used as a read latency time of each memory bank in the above embodiments, this is not meant to be a limitation of the present invention. For example, the read latency multiplied by the clock cycle time of the clock signal CK may be longer than the read latency time so as to ensure data integrity. Additionally, the control circuit 212 may set different read latency times (or different read latencies) in response to different clock cycle times. In order to ensure that the number of the memory banks 202_1-202_N is large enough to realize seamless data access, the number of the memory banks 202_1-202_N may be set to a value greater than a read latency time divided by a minimum clock cycle time of the clock signal CK (i.e. a minimum time interval between two consecutive address read commands). It should be noted that, in a case where the control circuit 212 uses a product of the read latency and the clock cycle time of the clock signal CK as a read latency time of each memory bank, the number of the memory banks 202_1-202_N may be set to a positive integer greater than the read latency set by the control circuit 212. Further, the architecture of the output circuit 232 shown in FIG. 3 is for illustrative purposes only, and is not meant to be a limitation of the present invention. It is possible to employ other types of circuits (no data register (FIFO) is included therein) capable of outputting data elements read from the memory banks 202_1-202_N in sequence. In one implementation, each of the storage devices 206_1-206_N may include a memory cell array, wherein a time interval between two consecutive read operations (e.g. the time interval TIC) performed by one of the memory banks may be longer than a row cycle time of the one of the memory banks so as to ensure integrity of data read from the one of the memory banks. By way of example but not limitation, the memory device 200 may be implemented by a DRAM, wherein each of the memory banks 202_1-202_N may perform data access only once within a single row cycle time (tRC). Additionally, the number of the memory banks 202_1-202_N may be greater than the row cycle time divided by the clock cycle time of the clock signal CK, wherein the clock cycle time may be a minimum cycle time of the clock signal CK (i.e. a minimum time interval between two consecutive address read commands). Hence, the output circuit 232 may continuously and alternately output data elements read from the memory banks 202_1-202_N without the need to temporarily store the data elements in a data register (FIFO) in advance. Furthermore, the control circuit 212 may set the read latency time to be shorter the row cycle time. In other words, the read latency time set by the control circuit 212 may be between the internal memory read time TIR and the row cycle time of each memory bank. In addition to alternately reading data elements of the memory banks 202_1-202_N, the control circuit 212 may enable the memory banks 202_1-202_N alternately to perform write operations. Specifically, the control circuit 212 may write data elements to be written into the memory banks 202_1-202_N for further processing (e.g. read operations). It should be noted that, although the proposed memory control mechanism is described using the clock signal CK shown in FIG. 4, this is not meant to be a limitation of the present invention. In an alternative design, the memory device 200 shown in FIG. 3 may be implemented by an asynchronous memory device, wherein the access signal ACS shown in FIG. 3 may indicate a plurality of address read commands (e.g. the access signal ACS may be implemented by a command signal). To ensure that the number of the memory banks 202_1-202_N is large enough to realize seamless data access, the number of the memory banks 202_1-202_N may be set to a value greater than a programmable latency time (a read latency time) divided by a minimum time interval between two consecutive address read commands of the address read commands (i.e. a minimum interval between two valid address read commands). In another alternative design, when the memory device 200 shown in FIG. 3 is implemented by an asynchronous memory device and each of the storage devices 206_1-206_N of the asynchronous memory device includes a memory cell array, the access signal ACS shown in FIG. 3 may indicate a plurality of address read commands (similar to a plurality of clock cycles shown in FIG. 4), the number of the memory banks 202_1-202_N may be greater than a row cycle time of one of the memory banks divided by a minimum time interval between two consecutive address read commands of the address read commands so as to ensure integrity of data read therefrom. As a person skilled in the art should understand the operation of an asynchronous memory device employing the proposed memory control mechanism after reading the paragraphs directed to FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, similar description is not repeated. To sum up, as the proposed memory device may refer to a programmable latency time to output data from a selected one of a plurality of memory banks to a common data bus shared by the memory banks of a multi-bank memory device, there can be no need to dispose data register (s) (FIFO (s)) between the common data bus and an external data bus externally connected to the proposed memory device. Additionally, the proposed memory device may perform continuous data access (e.g. burst access) by alternately enabling respective data access operations of a plurality of memory banks without the use of buffer register(s) (e.g. first-in first-out register (s)). Hence, not only is circuit area saved, but also manufacturing costs are reduced. Those skilled in the art will readily observe that numerous modifications and alterations of the device and method may be made while retaining the teachings of the invention. Accordingly, the above disclosure should be construed as limited only by the metes and bounds of the appended claims. 1. A memory device, comprising: a common data bus; a plurality of memory banks, coupled to the common data bus, wherein the memory banks share the common data bus, and each of the memory banks comprises: a storage device; and a data register, coupled between the storage device and the common data bus, the data register arranged for storing data read from the storage device; and a control circuit, coupled to storage devices and data registers of the memory banks, the control circuit arranged for referring to an address signal and an access signal to control the storage device of said each memory bank to output the data to the corresponding data register, and referring to the address signal and a programmable latency time of more than 10 clock cycles to determine a programmable period of time elapsed between when the corresponding data register receives the data transmitted from the storage device and when the corresponding data register outputs the data to the common data bus, in order to control the data registers of the memory banks to continuously output data from the memory banks to the common data bus. 2. The memory device of claim 1, wherein the data register is a single-stage data buffer. 3. The memory device of claim 1, wherein the data register is a multi-stage data buffer. 4. The memory device of claim 1, wherein the memory device operates in a synchronous mode, and the programmable latency time is a duration of a predetermined number of clock cycles of the access signal. 5. The memory device of claim 1, wherein the memory device operates in an asynchronous mode, and the programmable latency time is a predetermined delay time of the access signal. 6. The memory device of claim 1, further comprising: a drive circuit, directly coupled to the common data bus, the drive circuit arranged for driving the data received from the common data bus onto an external data bus externally connected to the memory device. at least one buffer stage, coupled to the common data bus, the at least one buffer stage arranged for buffering the data received from the common data bus and outputting the buffered data; and a drive circuit, coupled to the at least one buffer stage, the drive circuit arranged for driving the buffered data outputted from the at least one buffer stage onto an external data bus externally connected to the memory device. 8. The memory device of claim 1, wherein the access signal indicates a plurality of address read commands, each of storage devices of the memory banks comprises a memory cell array, and a number of the memory banks is greater than a row cycle time of one of the memory banks divided by a minimum time interval between two consecutive address read commands of the address read commands. 9. The memory device of claim 1, wherein the access signal indicates a plurality of address read commands, and a number of the memory banks is greater than the programmable latency time divided by a minimum time interval between two consecutive address read commands of the address read commands. 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__label__cc	0.512293	0.487707	Teaching and Outreach Paul Gazzillo Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Central Florida STEM Day Check out photos from our event, “What’s in My Computer?” STEM Day is a one-day event for K-12 students hosted by UCF’s College of Engineering and Computer Science. APPLeSEEd Lab The Applied Programming Languages, Software Engineering, and Education (APPLeSEEd) Lab tackles problems in software, security, and systems and cultivates computational thinking. CyberSP Cluster The Cyber Security and Privacy (CyberSP) Cluster is a university-wide research cluster formed as part of the Faculty Cluster Initiative that focuses on security and privacy in cyberspace. Paul Gazzillo is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Central Florida. He received his PhD from NYU and previously worked as a Post-Doc at Yale and a Research Scholar at Stevens Institute. His research aims to make it easier to develop safe and secure software, and it spans programming languages, security, software engineering, and systems. Projects include analysis of configurable systems, side-channel attack detection, and concurrent smart contracts. His work has been published in venues such as PLDI, ESEC/FSE, and PODC and has been recognized with a SIGPLAN Research Highlight. Alexandra Arriola and Reeder Ward have joined as undergraduate research assistants. Went on a podcast to discuss privacy considerations for consumer smart devices. Went on local news to discuss tips for consumer cybersecurity. Julian Braha, Kai Garcia, Jacob Thomas, and Connor Westcott ran our Stem Day event "What Is Inside My Computer?". Genoveva Fossas has joined as an undergraduate research assistant. I gave a talk, "Good Engineering Makes for Good Science", at The Third ROSE Festival at ESEC/FSE 2019 Sayma Sultana has joined as a graduate research assistant. See all news here. © 2020 Paul Gazzillo. Powered by Jekyll & Minimal Mistakes.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1618
__label__cc	0.577862	0.422138	Why is there a predilection for the tricuspid valve (TV) infection among injection drug users (IDUs) with infective endocarditis (IE)? February 26, 2017 FA Manian MD, MPHCocaine;, Endocarditis;, IV drug use;, Pulmonary hypertension;, Right-sided endocarditis;, Staphylococcus aureus;, Talc;, Tricuspid valve;Leave a comment Although right-sided IE accounts for only 9% of IE cases among non IDUs, in IDUs it accounts for over three-quarters of IE cases1. Several potential mechanisms have been posited to explain susceptibility of TV to infection in IDUs, including endothelial damage due to repeated inoculation of small bacterial loads, specific substances (eg talc) injected with drugs, cocaine-induced vasospasm and thrombus formation, and drug-induced pulmonary hypertension associated with increased pressure gradients and turbulence. In addition, facilitation of bacterial adhesion due to the deposition of immune complexes (eg antibody vs antigens in injected drugs) on the TV and coating of the injected particulate matter with bacterial adherence matrix molecules on valve surfaces may also play an important role1,2. Add to these potential factors a higher risk nasal and cutaneous colonization with Staphylococcus aureus (a common cause of IE) among IDUs, and we have a perfect storm! Frontera JA, Gradon JD. Right-sided endocarditis in injection drug users: review of proposed mechanisms of pathogenesis. Clin Infect Dis 2000;30:374-9. Chahood J, Yakan AS, Saad H, et al. Right-sided infective endocarditis and pulmonary infiltrates: An update. Cardiol Rev 2016;24:230-37. How should I interpret high serum vitamin B12 levels in my patient with anemia? February 22, 2017 October 16, 2018 FA Manian MD, MPHB12;, Hepatocellular carcinoma;, Homocysteine;, Hypercobalaminemia;, Leukemia;, Methylmalonic acid;, Myelodysplastic syndrome;, Transcobalamin;Leave a comment High serum B12 levels, aka hypercobalaminemia (HC), is not rare among hospitalized patients with 1 study reporting “high” (813-1355 pg/ml) and “very high” (>1355 pg/ml) serum B12 levels in 13 and 7% of patients, respectively1. Common causes include excess B12 intake, solid neoplasms (particularly, hepatocellular carcinoma and metastatic neoplastic liver disease), blood disorders (eg, myelodysplastic syndrome, CML, and acute leukemias, particularly AML3), and other liver diseases, including alcohol-related diseases as well as acute and chronic hepatitis. Other inflammatory states and renal failure have also been reported2. Paradoxically, even in the presence of HC, a functional B12 deficiency may still exist. This may be related to poor B12 delivery to cells due to its high binding by transport proteins transcobalamin I and III in HC which may in turn cause a decrease in the binding of B12 to transcobalamin II, a key player in B12 transport to tissues2. In this setting, elevated serum methylmalonic acid and homocysteine levels may be helpful. Arendt JFB, Nexo E. Cobalamin related parameters and disease patterns in patients with increased serum cobalamin levels. PLoS ONE 2012;9:e45979. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0045979 Andres E, Serraj K, Zhu J. et al. The pathophysiology of elevated vitamin B12 in clinical practice. Q J Med 2013;106:505-515.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23447660 How does azithromycin (AZ) benefit patients with severe COPD or cystic fibrosis (CF)? February 17, 2017 November 8, 2019 FA Manian MD, MPHAzithromycin;, Bronchiectasis;, COPD;, Cystic fibrosis, Pseudomonas;, Rhinovirus;Leave a comment AZ is a macrolide antibiotic which interferes with bacterial protein synthesis by binding to the 50S ribosomal subunit. It is often used to treat acute respiratory tract infections due to Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, as well as Mycoplasma, Chlamydia, and Legionella sp1. Although it has no in vitro activity against many aerobic gram-negative bacilli such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, its chronic use has often been associated with a significant reduction in the frequency of disease exacerbations in patients with chronic bronchiectasis and colonization due to this organism, including patients with COPD or CF1-3. Because P. aeruginosa is invariably macrolide-resistant, the beneficial effect of AZ in chronically infected or colonized patients must be due to factors other than its direct effect on bacterial replication. Several mechanisms have been invoked including: 1. Inhibition of quorum-sensing dependent virulence factor and biofilm production 2.Blunting of host inflammatory response (eg, ↑IL-10, and ↓ IL-1ß, IL-6, IL-8, TNF-α, and ↓ chemotaxis); and 3. Enhanced antiviral response1. The latter finding is quite unexpected but AZ appears to augment interferon response to rhinovirus in bronchial cells of COPD patients3. With respiratory viruses (including rhinoviruses) causing 20-55% of all COPD exacerbations, perhaps this is another way AZ may help the host! Who would have thought!! Liked this post? Download the app on your smartphone and sign up under MENU to catch future pearls straight in your inbox, all for free! Vos R, Vanaudenaerde BM, Verleden SE, et al. Anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory properties of azithromycin involved in treatment and prevention of chronic lung allograft rejection. Transplantation 2012;94:101-109. Cochrane review. Treatment with macrolide antibiotics for people with cystic fibrosis and chronic chest infection. Nov 14, 2012. http://www.cochrane.org/CD002203/CF_treatment-with-macrolide-antibiotics-for-people-with-cystic-fibrosis-and-chronic-chest-infection Menzel M, Akbarshahi H, Bjermer L, et al. Azithromycin induces anti-viral effects in cultured bronchial epithelial cells from COPD. Scientific Reports 2016; 6:28698. DOI:10.1038/srep 28698. How accurate is EKG when evaluating for left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH)? February 16, 2017 September 6, 2017 FA Manian MD, MPHaVL;, Cornell voltage criteria;, EKG, Gubner criteria;, Left ventricular hypertrophy;, MRI;, Romhilt-Estes criteria;, Sokolow-Lyon criteria;Leave a comment A systematic review comparing 6 EKG criteria for LVH (including commonly used Sokolow-Lyon [defined below], Cornell voltage index or product, Gubner, and Romhilt-Estes scores 4 or 5) with echocardiography reported very low median sensitivities; “highest” sensitivity was found using the Sokolow-Lyon criteria (median 21%, 4-52%). Median specificities were 89% (53-100%) and 99% (71-100%) for Sokolow-Lyon and Romhilt-Estes criteria (5 points) (1). More recently, MRI has become the gold standard for in-vivo LV mass measurement. In a study involving patients with aortic stenosis undergoing MRI, EKG generally had poor negative predictive value (NPV) (<70% by most criteria), but high positive predictive value (PPV) (>90% by most criteria) for LVH; for Sokolow-Lyon criteria, the NPV and PPV were 46% and 90%, respectively (2). In another MRI study involving patients with various cardiovascular conditions (eg hypertension, CAD), RaVL alone (>10mm) performed better than Sokolow-Lyon (AUC 0.78, specificity 95.5%) but its sensitivity was still nothing to brag about (36.5%) (3). So, EKGs are better at ruling in than ruling out LVH! LVH definition of selected EKG indexes Sokolow-Lyon index: SV1+(RV5 or V6)>35 mm Cornell voltage index: men, RaVL+SV3>28 mm; women, RaVL+SV3>20 mm Modified Cornell: RaVL>11mm (>10 mm, ref. 3) Gubner: RI+SIII>24mm 1.Pewsner D, Juni P, Egger M, et al. Accuracy of electrocardiography in diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy in arterial hypertension: systematic review. BMJ 2007. doi:10.1136/bmj.39276.636354.AE https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2001078 2.Buchner S, Debl K, Haimerl J, et al. Electrocardiographic diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy in aortic valve disease: evaluation of ECG criteria by cardiovascular magnetic resonance. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2009; 11:18. https://jcmr-online.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1532-429X-11-18 3.Courand P-Y, Grandjean A, Charles P, et al. R wave in aVL lead is a robust index of left ventricular hypertrophy: a cardiac MRI study. Am J Hypertension 2015;28:1038-48. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25588700 Contributed in part by Khin-Kyemon Aung, medical student, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Why should I pay attention to the augmented vector right (aVR) EKG lead in my patient with chest pain? February 12, 2017 December 31, 2019 FA Manian MD, MPHACS;, Acute coronary syndrome, aVR lead, Chest pain, EKG, Ischemia;, LAD;, LMCA;, Myocardial infarction;, ST elevation;, STEMI;Leave a comment Lead aVR is often “neglected” because of its non-adjacent location to other EKG leads (Fig 1) and poor awareness of its potential utility in detecting myocardial ischemia. In acute coronary syndrome (ACS), ST-elevation (STE) in aVR (≥1mm) with diffuse ST depression in other leads (Fig 2) is usually a sign of severe left main coronary artery (LMCA), proximal left anterior descending (LAD), or 3-vessel coronary disease, and is associated with poor prognosis1-3. In some patients with LMCA thrombosis, the EKG changes may be non-specific but STE in aVR should still raise suspicion for ischemia1. Possible mechanisms for STE in aVR include diffuse anterolateral subendocardial ischemia or transmural infarction of the basal portion of the heart. The possibility of an anatomical variant of the Purkinje fibers leading to the absence of STE in the anterior leads in some patients with transmural anterior infarction is another reason to pay attention to aVR. Fig 1. Standard EKG limb leads. Note that aVR is “in the fringes”. Fig 2. 35 year old female with ACS due to LMCA spasm. Note STE in aVR with ST segment depression in leads V3-6, I, aVL, II, and aVF (Courtesy National Library of Medicine) Kossaify A. ST segment elevation in aVR: clinical syndrome in acute coronary syndrome. Clin Med Insights: Case Reports 2013:6. Kireyev D, Arkhipov MV, Zador ST. Clinical utility of aVR-the neglected electrocardiographic lead. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol 2010;15:175-180. Wong –CK, Gao W, Stewart RAH, et al. aVR ST elevation: an important but neglected sign in ST elevation acute myocardial infarction. Eur Heart J 2010;31:1845-1853. De Winter RJ, Verouden NJ, Wellens HJ, et al. A new ECG sign of proximal LAD occlusion. N Engl J Med 2008;359:2071-3. When should I consider bicarbonate (BC) replacement in my patient with renal insufficiency? February 10, 2017 July 6, 2017 FA Manian MD, MPHAcute kidney injury;, Bicarbonate;, Chronic kidney disease;Leave a comment Metabolic acidosis is one of the earliest complications of chronic kidney disease (CKD), with a direct correlation between the decline in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and reduction in serum BC1. Epidemiologic studies in patients with CKD have reported an independent association between serum BC (<22 meq/L considered low) and adverse renal outcomes and mortality1. Limited data from small interventional trials of alkali therapy supplementation and dietary interventions (eg, increased fruit and vegetable intake) have shown the benefits of raising serum BC. Specifically, 1 study involving patients with CKD stages 4 and 5 and another involving CKD stage 2 hypertensive nephropathy reported slower decline in creatinine clearance/eGFR in patients receiving BC replacement2,3. Less is known on the potential benefit of BC replacement in patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) with a recent Cochrane review finding no randomized controlled trials4 and national guidelines not recommending either in favor or against its use AKI5. Of note, BC therapy has also been associated with sodium and fluid overload, an increase in lactate and PCO2, and a decrease in serum ionized calcium6. Dobre M, Rahman M, Hostetter TH. Current status of bicarbonate in CKD. J Am Soc Nephrol 2015;26:515-523. de Brito-Ashurst I, Varagunam M, Raftery MJ, et al. Bicarbonate supplementation slows progression of CKD and improves nutritional status. J Am Soc Nephrol 2009; 20: 2075–2084. Mahajan A, Simoni J, Sheather SJ, et al. Daily oral sodium bicarbonate preserves glomerular filtration rate by slowing its decline in early hypertensive nephropathy. Kidney Int 2010;78: 303–309. Hewitt J, Uniacke M, Hansi NK, et al. Sodium bicarbonate supplements for treating acute kidney injury. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2012; Jun 13; (6):CD009204. doi: 10.1002/14651858. Palevsky PM, Liu KD, Brophy PD, et al. KDOQI US commentary on the 2012 KDIGO clinical practice guideline for acute kidney injury. Am J Kidney Dis 2013;61:649-72. Sabatini S, Kurtzman NA. Bicarbonate therapy in severe metabolic acidosis. J Am Soc Nephrol 2009;20:692-695. Contributed in part by Cynthia Cooper, MD, Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA. How exactly do urinary tract infections (UTIs) cause delirium in my elderly patients? February 10, 2017 March 25, 2018 FA Manian MD, MPHCytokines; IL-6;, Delirium;, Dysuria;, Infection;, Inflammation, Pain;, Sepsis, Sympathetic nervous system;, UTILeave a comment UTIs are often considered in the differential diagnosis of causes of delirium in the elderly. Though largely speculative, 2 possible pathophysiologic basis for this association are suggested:1-3 Direct brain insult (eg, in the setting of sepsis/hypotension) Indirect aberrant stress response, involving cytokines/inflammatory pathways, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal [HPA] axis and sympathetic nervous system (SNS). One or both pathways can interact with the neurotransmitter and intracellular signal transduction systems underlying delirium in the brain, which may already be impaired in the elderly due to age-related or other pathologic changes. The indirect aberrant stress pathway suggests that not only pain and discomfort (eg from dysuria) can contribute to delirium but UTI-associated circulating cytokines may also cause delirium. Indeed, a large study of older adults undergoing elective surgery found a significant association between delirium postoperatively (postop day 2) and serum proinflammatory cytokine levels such as IL-6. 4 The corollary is that bacteriuria is unlikely to be associated with delirium in the absence of significant systemic inflammatory response, pain or discomfort. 1.Trzepacz P, van der Mast R. The neuropathophysiology of delirium. In Lindesay J, Rockwood K, Macdonald A (Eds.). Delirium in old age, pp. 51–90. Oxford University Press, Oxford , 2002. 2.Flacker JM, Lipsitz LA. Neural mechanisms of delirium: current hypotheses and evolving concepts. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 1999; 54: B239–B246 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10411009 3. Maclullich AM, Ferguson KJ, Miller T, de Rooij SE, Cunningham C. Unravelling the pathophysiology of delirium: a focus on the role of aberrant stress responses. J Psychosom Res. 2008;65:229–38. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18707945 4. Vasunilashom SM, Ngo L, Inouye SK, et al. Cytokines and postoperative delirium in older patients undergoing major elective surgery. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2015;70:1289-95. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4817082/pdf/glv083.pdf Contributed by Henrietta Afari MD, Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA When is the best time to obtain blood cultures (BCs) from my patient admitted with recent fevers? February 10, 2017 February 10, 2017 FA Manian MD, MPHBacteremia;, Blood cultures;, feverLeave a comment A common medical myth is that the yield of BCs is highest when obtained around the time of a fever spike. In 1989, an abstract reported a non-significant trend toward higher frequency of positive BCs in the period immediately before a fever spike1. In 1994, another study found no significant difference between the yield of simultaneous and serial (separated by a few hrs) BCs2, supporting the current practice of collecting ≥2 sets of BCs simultaneously. In 2008, a multicenter retrospective study found that the likelihood of detecting bacteremia was not significantly enhanced by collecting BCs at the time of fever3. Instead, obtaining an adequate blood volume (~40 – 60mL for each episode), and collecting ≥2 sets of BCs under strict aseptic technique were emphasized4. BCs should be obtained prior to antibiotic administration. So in our patient, BCs should be obtained if sepsis is suspected, irrespective of fever. Thomson RB, et al. Timing of blood culture collection from febrile patients. Abstr. C-227. 89th Annual Meeting American Society of Microbiology, Washington, DC, 1989. Li J, et al. Effects of volume and periodicity on blood cultures. J Clin Microbiol. 1994; 32:2829-2831. Riedel S, et al. Timing of specimen collection for blood cultures from febrile patients with bacteremia. J Clin Microbiol. 2008;46:1381-1385. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI). Principles and Procedures for Blood Cultures: Approved Guideline. 2007. CLSI document M47-A. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, Wayne, PA Contributed by Henrietta Afari, MD, Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA Is the combination of piperacillin-tazobactam and vancomycin (PT-V) nephrotoxic? February 8, 2017 November 5, 2019 FA Manian MD, MPHAcute interstitial nephritis;, Acute tubular necrosis;, Piperacillin;, Vancomycin;Leave a comment Despite its widespread use for over 20 years, PT-V has only recently been linked to higher risk of AKI when compared to vancomycin+/- other β-lactams, particularly cefepime1,2. A 2016 meta-analysis of 14 observational studies reported an AKI incidence ranging from 11%-48.8% for PT-V (used for ≥48 h in most studies), with an adjusted O.R. of 3.11 (95% C.I. 1.77-5.47) when compared to other vancomycin treatment groups1. Of note, nephrotoxicity associated with PT-V appears to occur earlier than the comparative groups (median 3 days vs 5 days of therapy, respectively), with the highest daily incidence observed on days 4 and 52. Although the exact mechanism(s) of nephrotoxicity in patients receiving PT-V is unknown, both piperacillin and vancomycin have been implicated in acute renal tubular dysfunction/necrosis and acute interstitial nephritis3-5. Collectively, these findings are only a reminder to be more judicious in the selection and duration of treatment of even “safe” antibiotics. Liked this post? Get the app for your smart phone and sign up under MENU and catch future pearls right into your mailbox! Hammond DA, Smith MN, Chenghui Li, et al. Systematic review and meta-analysis of acute kidney injury associated with concomitant vancomycin and piperacillin/tazobactam. Clin Infect Dis 2016 ciw811.doi:10.1093cid/ciw811.https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/64/5/666/2666529 Navalkele B, Pogue JM, Karino S, et al. Risk of acute kidney injury in patients on concomitant vancomycin an dpiperacillin-tazobactam compared to those on vancomycin and cefepime. Clin Infect Dis 2017;64:116-123. https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/64/2/116/2698878 Hayashi T, Watanabe Y, Kumano K, et al. Pharmacokinetic studies on the concomitant administration of piperacillin and cefazolin, and piperacillin and cefoperazone in rabbits. J Antibiotics 1986; 34:699-712. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3733519 Polderman KH, Girbes ARJ. Piperacillin-induced magnesium and potassium loss in intensive care unit patients. Intensive Care Med 2002;28:530-522. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-002-1244-3 Htike NL, Santoro J, Gilbert B, et al. Biopsy-proven vancomycin-associated interstitial nephritis and acute tubular necrosis. Clin Exp Nephrol 2012;16:320-324. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10157-011-0559-1	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1624
__label__cc	0.744022	0.255978	Introducing Webhooks APIProduct Updates This one is for the programmers and the teams who build on top of the Planning Center API. We're excited to introduce webhooks! Webhooks give your website or application a way to receive updates from Planning Center in real time, without having to continuously poll the API and hunt for changes. Read the documentation. Starting With Planning Center People In this initial release, we're starting small and focusing on Planning Center People. Besides, that's where most people's integration journey starts anyway. As time goes on, we'll start adding more hooks for other Planning Center applications. Webhooks 101 Let's say I'm building an application, and I want to keep my member database up to date with Planning Center People, the central people database for all of Planning Center. Oh, and I want to make sure basic contact data is up to date, too. So, I want to be updated whenever someone is added, when someone is removed, or their email address or phone numbers change. I first head over to https://api.planningcenteronline.com, log in, and then head to the new Webhooks tab: Time to set up a new subscription for my application! I could set up a single endpoint for all my webhook subscriptions (like https://myapplication.com/planning-center-integration), but I'm going to be a bit more organized. I'll set up a specific URL for people updates like this: https://myapplication.com/planning-center-integration/person-update) and subscribe it to all the relevant webhooks. Upon review, I can see that my URL is up and running, and all the subscriptions are active: If I click on one the people.v2.events.person.created subscription, it looks like someone was just added to Planning Center People! Clicking "Delivery" let's me review the request and the response from my own application server. Here's the data object: Well, hello Gene! My application has received that JSON payload just seconds after Gene was added to Planning Center. My application can now take that data and, in this case, create Gene's person record on my end. I can also use the links object to initiate other API calls related to our new member. The Gritty Details We took a look at the webhook systems we like using, stole some ideas, and came up with some of our own: The webhook API is largely self-documenting. It's built on the back of the existing REST API. There's an interface for inspecting requests and responses. You can initiate manual redeliveries for easier debugging. There are no rate limits. The system is also built to handle brief outtages on your end. Undelivered webhooks will automatically retry up to 16 times with an exponential backoff. You'll receive an email after it's failed for an hour and another email after the final try (over 5 days after the first failure). After that, the webhook subscription is automatically deactivated. It can be easily reactivated once you've located your server administrator who has been deep in the Brazilian jungle on a journey of self discovery 🏕. Please drop by the #api channel in the Planning Center Slack Community and let us know what you think and which types of webhooks you'd like to see. As always, you can let us know if you encounter any issues in Github. And if you've never gotten started with developing on our API, check out developer page to get started. Your fellow developers, ~ Planning Center More Reliable Integrations with API Updates Planning Center API v1 Deprecation Introducing the API Explorer Get Your Workflows Organized Now you can keep your list of workflows nice and tidy by assigning each workflow to a category, campus, or both! Applicant Pay for Background Checks Today's update is a single checkbox you can click if you want people to pay for their own background checks, rather than having the church pay for it.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1630
__label__wiki	0.95521	0.95521	Universitywide New Brunswick RBHS Newark Camden Online Rutgers Health Search term Select resource to search This site All sites People Events Buildings RBHS Search submit Rutgers University Rutgers University Policy Library About the Policy Library Recent Policy Updates Download the Policy Template How to Develop a New Policy How to Revise a Policy How to Rescind a Policy Current Policies in Microsoft Word (NetID Required) What is a university policy? What is a procedure? How are policies organized? What is a policy template? What kinds of policies do you write? Who makes and approves policies? How long does it take to develop a new policy or revise an existing one? How can I get a copy of a policy? Can I make suggestions to improve a policy that has already been issued? Where do I call if I have a question on a policy? How can I get a university policy started from my office or department? A university policy is a document that (1) states the university’s position on a particular issue, and (2) includes procedures for compliance. A university policy is defined by all of the following criteria: It has broad application throughout the university. It helps ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, promotes operational efficiencies, enhances the university’s mission, or reduces institutional risks The subject matter requires university Board of Governors, president, and/or executive officer review and approval for policy issuance and major changes If a policy fits these criteria, it is a university policy. If it does not, it is a departmental, office, or unit policy. For more information on the policy process, see University Regulation 50.1.13, Formulation, Issuance, and Maintenance of University Policies. Procedures are steps taken to implement a policy. Generally, procedures will be provided as direct links to the appropriate procedures held on departmental websites. How are the policies organized? Policies are organized in ten functional-based sections grouping policies together under logical headings. The policy template is an easy to use, standardized format to lend structure and ensure consistency from one policy document to another. An explanation of the terms used in the policy template is available here. The Office of the Secretary of the University oversees development of policies that have application throughout the university, as represented by the ten University Regulations Sections. These policies are board, academic, administrative or financial in nature and cover subjects as diverse as governance, academic matters, fiscal management, operating practices, and human resources that affect faculty, students, staff, vendors, and visitors. Senior executives (e.g., senior vice presidents, vice presidents, chancellors, etc.) provide general oversight of the university unit or department (the responsible office) that will develop a particular policy or revise an existing policy and be accountable for the accuracy of its subject matter, its issuance, and timely updating. This office also will be responsible to ensure that procedures and guidelines necessary to carry out the policy are current and available on the appropriate departmental or unit website. The final approving body will be a senior executive, the Board of Governors, or, in some cases, the Boards of Governors and Trustees. A policy in development or revision goes through a rigorous review and approval process during which the policy is “fleshed out,” meaning that appropriate university constituents are consulted. Depending on the nature of the policy, these constituents may include senior executives, general counsel, vice presidents, chancellors, provosts, deans, administrators, business managers, faculty, students, and others. The entire process to develop a new policy often takes six months or more. However, revisions to existing policy may take only a few days or weeks, depending on the extent and nature of the modifications. The policies that have been issued through the formal policy delegation process are available to read and print online at http://policies.rutgers.edu. Policies that have been standardized are accessible in PDF (portable document format). If you need information on a policy listed in the repository that has not yet been standardized, or if the policy is listed as “in revision,” contact the Responsible Office listed in the policy template. You can also contact the Office of the Secretary of the University at secretary@oq.rutgers.edu for assistance. Absolutely. Feedback about policies may be sent directly to the Responsible Office contact listed in the policy template or the Office of the Secretary of the University at secretary@oq.rutgers.edu. Typographical or other simple errors that you submit will be changed immediately online. Suggested changes of a more substantive nature will be forwarded to the senior executive responsible for the policy, and revision to the policy will take place when appropriate. Policies posted on the University Policy Library website at http://policies.rutgers.edu have a Contacts Section directing you to the appropriate office for answers to your questions. If you are unsure of where to call contact the Responsible Office or email the Office of the Secretary of the University at secretary@oq.rutgers.edu for assistance. Please see the How to Develop a New Policy page on this website. Also, the Office of the Secretary of the University at secretary@oq.rutgers.edu or 848-932-7434 is equipped to assist you with questions you have about the process in general or if you want to know whether a university policy is warranted in a particular situation. For questions or comments about this site, contact the Secretary of the University. Contact RU-info at 732-445-info (4636) \| Questions? Ask Colonel Henry or text us at 732-662-2664. \| Webmaster Website accessibility concerns? Contact IT Accessibility Team	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1634

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