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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 106
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 106
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Academic Privatization,LLC
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Who is AP?
Academic Privatization, LLC is a student housing developer which has a staff of professionals skilled in the full range of relevant disciplines including master planning, strategic planning, market research, feasibility analysis, programming, design, construction administration, financing, marketing, and operations to assume all risk of real estate development.
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Academic Privatization, LLC develops student housing projects on behalf of institutions of higher education by providing a team capable of accomplishing: planning, design, financing and construction. AP accepts all risks for the development of the student housing community. Most of our communities are on university campuses, and 90% utilize tax-exempt, off-credit bond financing.
What is AP's experience?
AP secured the first privatized ground lease for housing in:
The University of North Carolina consolidated system
The University of Kentucky consolidated system, and
The University System of Maryland, funded with bonds rated as Investment Grade.
AP has had repeat development business at 90% of state universities where it has completed an award. AP has received awards for over half of its housing communities. AP has never missed a deadline or a budget. AP's communities are all over 95% leased. The VPs on every single campus where AP has worked will provide a favorable and positive reference.
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Act as developer and assure bond financing for Student Housing owned by 501c3 or other entity for the benefit of the University on land ground leased from the University,
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Develop and own research facilities located adjacent to a college or university campus or on a site ground leased from the University,
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Consult or act as developer for recreational facilities which may be funded similarly to off-credit student housing and funded from student fees,
Manage Student Housing Communities or Research Facilities.
* Developer means conceptualize the facility, manage all aspects of design, financing and construction, and coordinate all development activities as agent for the benefit of the owner. It can also mean construction manager at risk acting as agent for the benefit of the owner.
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Hockey Legend Eddie Olczyk adds Royal Ascot horse racing to increasing list of NBC duties
June 12, 2019 by Editor Leave a Comment
Blackhawks analyst Eddie Olczyk Will be Live from Royal Ascot Next Week
Eddie Olczyk already bounces back and forth during the spring between the NHL playoffs and horse racing’s Triple Crown.
Now he’s adding a new stop on his pucks and ponies tour.
Olczyk will go from the broadcast booth at Boston’s TD Garden for Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final to Ascot Racecourse in England to work his first Royal Ascot. He and fellow American Britney Eurton will join British broadcaster Nick Luck for the NBC Sports telecast of the horse racing festival, which runs from June 18-22.
“It is their biggest stage, you could argue, across the pond,” Olczyk told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “I’ll get fitted for my tails and my top hat and get to work on Friday and Saturday.”
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Today, Dark Horses on NBC features Easy Goer / Sunday Silence Rivalry
June 2, 2018 by Editor Leave a Comment
NBC Sports presents the broadcast debut of Dark Horses, the story of the most unlikely rivalry in Triple Crown history, on Saturday, June 2 at 5 p.m. ET on NBC. Dark Horses brings viewers back to 1989 and the thrilling showdown between Easy Goer and Sunday Silence. For a preview of “Dark Horses,” click here.
With Justify racing for Triple Crown history next week in the 150th Belmont Stakes (Saturday, June 9, at 4 p.m. ET on NBC), the horse’s trainer and jockey both referenced these 1989 races following this year’s Preakness Stakes:
“Good Magic, he really put it to us. It was almost like the Sunday Silence-Easy Goer type [race]. They didn’t give it away. He was going to make us earn it…This is what makes horseracing…and these great horses. They just define themselves when they get in that situation.” – Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert
“Justify reminds me a lot of Easy Goer. He was a big, strong, beautiful horse like this one.” – Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith
Narrated by actress and Kentucky-native Ashley Judd, Dark Horses chronicles the competition between Easy Goer, who descended from racing royalty and one of the most powerful farms in the sport, and a relatively unheralded colt named Sunday Silence. The 60-minute documentary looks back at the 1989 racing season during which the two horses – who each had members of the well-known Hancock family on opposing sides – competing head-to-head in all three Triple Crown races, and the Breeders’ Cup Classic. The competition provided some of the most dynamic and compelling races in thoroughbred history.
The film features interviews with Arthur Hancock, the owner of Sunday Silence, host Al Michaels, race caller Tom Durkin, jockey Pat Valenzuela, who rode Sunday Silence during the Triple Crown races, Easy Goer’s jockey Pat Day, jockey Chris McCarron, who rode Sunday Silence at the 1989 Breeders’ Cup, and Shug McGaughey, Easy Goer’s trainer. Dark Horses was directed by Castor Fernandez (ESPN 30 for 30: “Brothers in Exile”).
Leading into the Belmont Stakes, NBCSN will air encore presentations on Wednesday, June 6 at 8 p.m. ET, Friday, June 8 at 7 p.m. ET, and Saturday, June 9 at 8 a.m. ET.
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The 2012 Road to the Kentucky Derby series will be broadcast on NBC and Versus, the little known cable channel that is changing its name to NBC Sports Network. The series will include eight preps for the KY Derby and begin on March 24 with coverage from Turfway Park. It will conclude with the huge racing day of April 14 when the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes and Arkansas Derby are contested.
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Usda salinity lab uc riverside
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The Stories Behind These Iconic Celebrity Hairstyles Will Shock You
Here are interesting stories behind the big name haircuts and the reasons are not really expected.
More so, there is this unsaid guarantee that you will be shocked with the standard explanations for the signature bangs.
1. Ariana Grande
The American beauty ‘Broke Free’ about her mark high ponytail to the Arianators after tremendous inquiries. She put a comment in a 2014 Facebook post. She wrote, “My actual hair is so broken that it looks absolutely ratchet and absurd when I let it down.”
OMG! Now that’s a major revelation.
She also said, “I tried wigs, they looked RIDICULOUS. Tried a weave because I am working on a new project and want to try some different looks and literally wanted to rip my scalp off.”
2. Katty Perry
The American singer-writer ‘Roar’ed the story behind the chopped locks to Ellen DeGeneres. The reason she expressed was color harm.
And you won’t believe she later fell in love with that.
She dished this to Ellen on the show, “I don’t know if you’ve ever dyed your hair too blonde, but sometimes your hair falls out when you go too blonde so that’s the way I handled it. At first, this was just to salvage my hair and then I was like, ‘I really believe that the universe has a plan for this.”
3. Jennifer Aniston
At whatever point her name strikes us, her photo of a sporty angular bob flies up. That unique look of hers was brought out by her long-time beautician Chris McMillan.
She came forth and stated the story behind her locks.
Rachel from FRIENDS said,”It wasn’t for a role. My hair went through a phase – I did this thing called a Brazilian and my hair did not react really well to it.”
4. Jennifer Lawrence
The talented American actress in films like ‘Winter’s Bone,’ ‘The Hunger Games,’ ‘X-Men’ and ‘Joy’ had experienced a pixie hairstyle as it should be. Would you be able to figure the motive behind why?
The ultra-famous style was a way to deal with the grow-out phase of her previous bob.
She said in 2013, “It grew to that awkward gross length and I kept putting it into a bun, so I just cut it off. It couldn’t have gotten any uglier!”
5. Kelly Rowland
She got her hair hacked for the part in ‘Destiny’s Child’. And, she did that to make her impression on individuals, to look different, to have her own personality.
She communicated about her breakthrough haircut with pride.
Kelly said, “Each lady in the group wanted to have their own identity. I didn’t want to do it. I was nervous about doing it… Tina Knowles-Lawson, our hairstylist at the time, she said, ‘You would look so great with short hair.’ She cut my hair, and it was so fly. I was one of a kind. Everybody had their look. Short hair was mine, and I loved it.”
6. Bella Hadid
In case you’re a Bella fan, at that point, you should know that she is a natural blonde. Or didn’t you know? FYI, when she started her career, she colored her hair dark with the goal that she isn’t confused with her perfect sister, Gigi Hadid.
Whoa! So, she did that for a better recognition and differentiation.
Bella said, “I just have a darker personality. And my sister being blonde and me being brunette, it’s a good separation. I put a blonde wig on and think it would be fun to go back, but I’m happy with my hair. Blondes are so angelic. My sister can get away with anything.”
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Clouds House
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) UPDATE: We continue to offer the same high standard of treatment during the Coronavirus outbreak that we have been offering our clients for almost 40 years. More than ever before, people who find themselves in the grip of addiction are struggling to access the treatment and support they need. Under the careful stewardship of Dr Simone Yule, our clinical lead at Clouds House, we have put in place measures to ensure that the risks to our clients and staff relating to Covid-19 are managed and mitigated in line with the government’s latest advice.
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Our experts provide life-saving treatment for individuals and families affected by all kinds of addiction including alcohol, drugs (prescribed and nonprescribed), gambling, gaming, sex and love, and some food related disorders. In addition, we teach addictions counselling to degree level at our Centre for Addiction Treatment Studies through courses which are accredited by The University of Bath. A 12 year evaluation of our Moving Parents and Children Together Programme (M-PACT) shows that this relatively brief intervention facilitates wide-ranging positive changes for families, even those with multiple, complex and long-standing problems.
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Action on Addiction builds thriving communities of recovery for individuals and families.
We aim to provide the best quality and most effective addiction treatment in the UK linked to a growing network of communities in recovery. As part of this aim, we manage a series of campaigns, including Addiction Awareness Week, which increase awareness of the far-reaching impact of addiction on individuals, families and communities, improve access to treatment for all those who need it, promote research into different facets of addiction, and remove the stigma associated with this life-stopping condition.
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Her Royal Highness joined Action on Addiction as patron in 2012. Since then, The Duchess has played a pivotal role in promoting the practical solutions we have developed to enable people to live their lives free from addiction, and also in challenging the stigma that surrounds it.
Help us tackle stigma
The world's first Addiction Awareness Week (10-16 June 2019) highlighted the far-reaching, widespread and negative impact of addiction, and the stigma associated with it. The YouGov poll commissioned for Addiction Awareness Week showed that well over half (63%) the British public knows someone who has had an addiction.
Help us build capability
The link between effective treatment and research is as important today as it was when Lady Parkinson and the late Professor Griffith Edwards established Action on Addiction in its original guise in 1989. The charity still actively campaigns to raise funds for vital research into different facets of addiction and the treatment of this life-stopping condition.
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Action on Addiction is the UK's only addictions charity that works across all the areas of treatment, research, family support and professional education. Find out more by downloading our brochures, impact reviews and evaluation reports which cover the many different areas of our work.
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In his job, Nathan did a lot of client entertaining, and found that casual drug use and excessive alcohol consumption were commonplace, and just the foundation his addiction needed to firmly establish itself in his life.
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Pars III 8x8
FNSS Defence Systems Inc
Armoured Vehicles
Wheeled armoured personnel carrier
PARS III 8X8 is the new generation of wheeled armored combat vehicle (WACV) designed and developed by FNSS Savunma Sistemleri A.Ş. PARS III 8X8 has been developed with a special emphasis on mobility, protection, payload and growth potential. The vehicles employ the latest designs and technologies with a focus on the performance and durability of modern military operational requirements. The vehicles are available in 4x4, 6x6 and 8x8 configurations. The PARS family of vehicles takes its name from the “Anatolian Leopard”.
The contract, signed by FNSS to meet the needs of the Royal Oman Army, covers the design, development, manufacture and supply of a total of 172 vehicles in 13 different configurations, as well as integrated logistics support services (ILS) that will be provided throughout Oman during the warranty period. term. While 145 of these machines will be PARS III 8x8, delivered in eight different configurations, the remaining 27 will be PARS III 6x6, delivered in five different configurations.
The PARS III 8X8 combat weight is 30,000 kg and is powered by a diesel engine. The powerpack consists of a water cooled diesel engine, coupled with a fully automatic transmission which generates a maximum road speed of up to 100 km/h. PARS III 8X8 is capable of maneuvering on a 60% vertical and 30% horizontal gradient, climbing 70 cm-high obstacles and crossing 200 cm-wide trenches. Thanks to the engine layout and favored balanced design, the vehicle has almost equal axle loads. This design approach gives the vehicle the ability to move comfortably even on loose and soft terrain, providing increased road-holding at high speeds and short braking distances. The vehicle has 8X8 driving characteristics, and all of its axles can be locked when necessary. The central tire inflation system allows the driver to adjust the tire pressures to suit different terrain.
It boasts the highest wheel navigation and lowest turn radius in its class.
The fully independent hydro-pneumatic suspension system, which gives the vehicle the highest wheel travel of its class, and ensures the best road holding under different road conditions. The PARS III 8X8 all-axle steering system gives the vehicle the lowest turning radius in its class at 8 m. The ability to lock the third axle’s steering system at high speeds, the ABS system and the engine brake all contribute to enhanced driving safety.
The two-man driver’s cab at front of the vehicle offers a 180° horizontal field of vision and a high level of driving safety and comfort. Large glass periscopes, and day and thermal cameras located at the front and rear of the vehicle provide the driver and commander with a wider field of vision.
With a range of over 700 km, the PARS III 8X8 has fuel tanks incorporating special measures to protect against explosion and puncture, and a reserve fuel tank under the armor can be called upon in emergencies. Solid discs inside the tires allow run-flat sustainability.
The PARS III 8X8 hull can be brought up to the level of protection required by the user thanks to the modular design armor system. The hull form, underbelly structure, base plates and specially developed mine-resistant seats are designed to protect personnel against high-level mine threats.
The modular connection of the vehicle subsystems to its mine-resistant hull ensures ease of maintenance and replacement, and it is this ease of maintenance, replacement of moving parts and power transmission systems in particular that make it superior to its counterparts. The power group architecture, which can be disassembled and reassembled in less than 60 minutes, allows the user to replace the engine on the field, as an additional benefit.
The PARS III 8X8 can be transported by air (A400, C17 & C5), sea, train or land.
Mission Specific Features
2 Thermal Cameras and 3 CCD Cameras in the Front and Rear, Providing Driver/ Commander with High Situational Awareness
Front and Rear Axle Steering
Central Tire Inflation (CTI) and Run Flat Tire Inserts
Integrated Auxiliary Power Unit (APU)
Integrated Survivability Suite
Modularity Allowing the Use Of Common Components
Hydro-Pneumatic Suspension System with Ride Height Control
PARS 8x8 Variants
PARS III 8x8 CFV
The CFV variant is the Cavalry Fighting Vehicle configuration of the PARS III 8x8 FoV`. The vehicle is armed with a 30-mm two man turret and capacity of carrying 7 personnel including driver, commander and gunner.
PARS III 8x8 IFV
The IFV variant is the Infantry Fighting Vehicle configuration of the PARS III 8x8 FoV`. The vehicle is armed with a 25-mm one man SABER Turret and capacity of carrying 11-12 personnel including driver, commander and gunner.
PARS III 8X8 ICV
The ICV variant is the Infantry Carrier Vehicle configuration of the PARS III 8x8 FoV`. The vehicle is armed with a 12.7-mm remote controlled weapon station (RCWS) and capacity of carrying 12 personnel including driver, commander and gunner.
PARS III 8x8 COMMAND POST
The CP is the Command post variant of PARS III 8X8 FoV’. It is used as an operational staff officer’s command post at Brigade and Battalion organization. It can also be configured as a Fire Direction Center. The vehicle is armed with a self defense 7.62 or 12.7-mm MG and has a capacity of carrying 8 personnel including driver, vehicle commander and staff officers.
PARS III 8X8 SPM
The SPM variant is a Self Propelled Mortar configuration to provide indirect fire support. The vehicle can be armed with a 81 or 120-mm mortar and a self-defense 7.62 or 12.7-mm MG. It has a capacity of carrying 4 personnel including driver, commander and 2 mortar crew.
PARS III 8X8 RV
The ARV variant is the Armored Recovery Vehicle configuration of the PARS III 8x8 FoV`. The ARV is fitted with a hydraulic crane mounted to the vehicle top plate and a hydraulic recovery winch mounted inside the vehicle, which facilitates the recovery and towing of both armored and non-armored vehicles. The vehicle is armed with a self defense 7.62 or 12.7-mm MG and capacity of carrying 5 personnel including driver, gunner and 2 technicians.
PARS III 8X8 AME
The AME is the Armored Medical Evacuation vehicle configuration of the PARS III 8x8 FoV`. The vehicle is a highly maneuverable, wheeled armored vehicle designed primarily for casualty evacuation from forward battle areas. It has a capacity of carrying a driver, commander and 2 medics with 2 x stretchers and 4 x seated casualties or 8 x seated casualties without stretchers.
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Barclays Eagle Labs: connecting the UK’s entrepreneurial ecosystem
The Business Finance Guide recently published an article based on an interview with BioCity titled 6 benefits of a business incubator. And so, building on this popular article, we interviewed Jon Hope, Director of Barclays Eagle Labs, a nationwide network of business incubators, which focuses on early-stage technology businesses, to hear their story.
Business incubators offer a range of resources such as physical space, coaching, and networking opportunities to accelerate the growth of early-stage businesses.
The beginning of a new year is a good opportunity to take stock of what’s happened over the past 12 months and decide the priorities for the year ahead. Whether it’s planning to improve your cash position, take on new staff, or to improve relationships with suppliers, a fresh look at your finances can help you reach the next stage in your business journey. Even if the start of the year is not the beginning of your financial year, it is sensible to set aside time to regularly review your finances.
1. What is Barclays Eagle Labs?
Jon: Eagle Labs is a network of 24 incubator spaces across the country, with a vision to connect the UK’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, drive digital skills development, and help grow the economy with innovation and creativity.
These are physical working spaces offering access to a number of industry programmes with a wealth of products and services designed to help UK businesses. These include:
accelerate UK business by providing a flexible workspace and access to mentoring, a support network, community, banking support and interesting opportunities.
drive collaborative innovation between high-potential startup tech businesses and large traditional corporates. At each location we cultivate a community of likeminded entrepreneurs who can learn and benefit from each other, at whatever business stage.
Running events and activities around demystifying industry 4.0. These help individuals, businesses and corporates learn about the new and emerging tech trends (e.g. AI, blockchain, 3D printing or IOT) which are changing how we’re all working now. They also help us prepare and make informed decisions about how these things will affect us in the medium term and long term too.
2. How did the idea come about?
Jon: We originally ran a programme called Digital Eagles, which helped colleagues, communities and businesses develop their digital skills. We then came across the Fab Labs concept (empty space that can be turned into a workshop offering digital fabrication and electrical equipment, helping people develop skills to make the most of the technology).
One of the unique qualities of this type of space is that it enables communities —from start-ups to hobbyists — to collaborate and share knowledge.
The initial premise was to take under-utilised Barclays branch space and create a community hub by developing our own Fab Lab concept. And so, Eagle Labs was born.
We opened our first lab in December 2015. It received a lot of engagement during the weekends and evenings, but less during weekdays. To counteract this imbalance, we opened up the next lab to start-ups and made it into an incubator with office and events space too.
3. What about present-day Eagle Labs?
Jon: There are now six sites which are run out of Barclays premises, with an additional 18 sites that operate as partnerships. We’ve joined forces with other business incubators, co-working spaces, universities, and organisations with a likeminded attitude. Together we help technology businesses grow, be successful, collaborate and create more jobs.
We have 38 partners across the programme, who are either working with us to provide physical space or by supporting the programme offering. It isn’t about us telling people what to do but providing trusted connections and helping people achieve what they want through our reliable network.
We’re focused on developing a large network of founders, innovators, entrepreneurs and corporates—those who are important to a successful UK ecosystem.
In doing so, we can help drive cultural change in our organisation as well as others.
4. What are the benefits of being an Eagle Labs member?
Jon: As an Eagle Labs resident, you not only gain access to a flexible workspace, but are also assigned an Ecosystem manager who will help you understand at what stage your business is and determine ways to support you.
We offer access to a partner network of banking colleagues, other SMEs, start-ups and larger corporations who can provide advice. We facilitate introductions for you. Our aim is to create a community and environment for collaboration—encouraging smaller businesses that have similar objectives to work together without the burden of the cost of permanent office space.
We also provide access to one-to-one mentoring and member events. For example, if people in the area need help with recruitment, Eagle Labs will organise a masterclass facilitated by a local expert or from our dedicated business mentors.
We’re not a desk rental service, we’re about supporting entrepreneurship and innovation. Our (proven) hypothesis is that we can have the greatest impact by supporting technology businesses at an early stage.
5. What does success look like?
Jon: For us, it’s a success when an early-stage business of two to three people joins and with help from the team and community around them, raises the funds needed and expands to 15–20 people, outgrowing us.
Eagle Labs success stories:
FiveAI – software for autonomous vehicles run by serial entrepreneur Stan Boland
Prowler –decision making software
Both raised a lot of money and grew rapidly from two or three people to over 20. They remain active members of our ecosystem and advise smaller businesses on their plans. It truly is about the community you create and providing younger businesses access to what we call the ‘rock stars.’
6. How can a business owner get involved with Eagle Labs?
Jon: Every location partners with local business associations and serial entrepreneurs in that community, with the aim of building relationships, raising the profile of Eagle Labs and encouraging people into our hubs.
If a business wants to join, they should start by speaking to one of our Ecosystem Managers from their local Eagle Lab. Prices and options will vary from location to location, so we recommend getting directly in touch. The local manager looks at what stage the business is, determines what kind of support it’s looking for and checks that it’s keen to collaborate.
Being an active part of the community is vital for our members. What we don’t want is them to walk into the office, close the door and never speak to anyone.
7. What is your vision for the future?
Jon: We’re looking to build Eagle Labs into a large-scale community. We’ve established a business model that’s genuinely platform-related through our physical network. The next step is to reflect and consolidate, create an online community and look for other regions that need a boost.
My priority at the moment is how to interconnect our physical network and enable the industrialisation of that support and exchange across the entirety of the UK.
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At the New Yorker, Anthony Lane reviews two films filled with sex.
Shame depicts the life of sex-obsessed Brandon, a New Yorker who fills every free moment with fucking. And in Sleeping Beauty, student Lucy earns cash by taking a sleeping pill and making her unconscious body available for the use of paying customers.
Though neither film is explicitly about fantasy, each describes a kind of fantasy. That of Sleeping Beauty — from the viewpoint of the client — is of easy control, availability. That of Shame is about extremes of emotion. It’s Apollo and Dionysius, transposed to a world where Apollo is getting in on sex.
Sex, here, isn’t necessarily sex — it’s a McGuffin which could stand for any activity which is coveted, or extreme, or intense. Anything which becomes an object of desire, which is fixated on and fantasized about, becomes twisted in a similar way. One kind of mind layers on organized parades of passive partners; another craves extremes of expressed emotion.
Nothing is so neat, of course. For a start, the taming of emotion has an apepal all of its own. Lane, coincidentally, suggests this of Shame director Steve McQueen. His earlier film Hunger:
was imperilled by the coolness of its own gaze. The wall of a jail cell, smeared with excrement as an act of protest, was filmed with such compositional care that it became, in effect, a work of abstract art, allowing us to forget what it actually was: human waste, applied with human rage, and surely unbearable to the human nose. McQueen could hardly be hipper, yet he remains, to an extent, an old-fashioned aesthete, drawn to extreme behavior in his characters not because of any trials of spirit that they undergo but because he is challenging himself to unleash the wildest material that he, wielding his camera, can then possess and tame.
And if the more you think about it, the convoluted all this gets. Not a breakdown, so much as epicycles upon epicycles, an Apollonian OCD trying to leave its grip on the chaos of human passion.
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July 19, 2013 DanielEngaged Anthropology Grant, Grant Programs
Engaged Anthropology Grant: Jessica Robbins and “Beyond ‘Active’ Aging and Abandonment”
Another grantee returns from their Engaged Anthropology Grant, with a report from Jessica Robbins of the University of Michigan!
“Beyond ‘Active’ Aging and Abandonment: Relations of Suffering, Care, and Hope in Postsocialist Poland”
On May 15-16, 2013, the University of Lower Silesia in Wrocław hosted two workshops funded by the Wenner-Gren Engaged Anthropology Grant awarded to Jessica Robbins. The workshops were based on Robbins’s doctoral research on aging in Poland, which found that experiences and ideals of aging in Poland are characterized by discursive and institutional contrasts between modern, progressive, and “active” older adults, and supposedly “backwards,” suffering, and abandoned elders in institutional care. Based on ethnographic findings that processes of relatedness provide other possibilities for moral personhood in old age, the workshops tried to avoid common practical and scholarly binary distinctions of in/dependence, East/West, and socialism/capitalism, and instead to forge connections among practitioners and scholars.
In the first workshop, entitled “Beyond Old Age: Development, Change, and Support,” a diverse and energetic group of scholars, professionals, and older Poles themselves discussed experiential and structural dimensions of growing old in Poland. Among the seventy-two participants were scholars of pedagogy, gerontology, psychiatry, psychology, and sociology; professionals in medical, educational, social work, caregiving, policy, and artistic fields; and older people who participate in Universities of the Third Age and other organizations specifically for older adults. Co-organized by Professor Elżbieta Siarkiewicz and Dr. Joanna Minta, the workshop began with opening talks given by the President of the University of Lower Silesia, Professor Robert Kwaśnica, Professors Mirosława Nowak-Dziemianowicz and Adam Zych, and Jessica Robbins. The remainder of the day was divided into three panel presentations followed by open discussion. Panelists on each of the three panels – Development, Change, and Support – approached the topic from their own particular experiential and professional position, thereby creating a broader understanding of these topics than suggested by any one discipline or experience alone.
During the energetic discussions that followed each panel, common themes emerged: the importance of education in late life; the need for physical, mental, social, and spiritual development in old age; the need for better social, medical, and educational resources for older people in Poland; the value of intergenerational relations; and the marginalization of certain populations of older people from programs focusing on activity in old age. During the coffee breaks and lunch, panelists and workshop participants had the opportunity to meet people with shared professional and personal interests in aging. During follow-up conversations, Robbins found that people who met at the workshop are already planning future collaborations. Along with a confirmation of the desire for more such interdisciplinary and creatively-structured events, a major finding of this workshop is that continued efforts must be made to include the most marginalized groups of older people in such discussions. As one workshop participant noted, the many organizations and institutions that help older people to become more integrated into society are very good at hoping those who want to be helped; however, discussions of programs like intergenerational theater do not provide much help to people such as former prisoners or the homeless elderly, who continue to face social exclusion and discrimination.
In the second workshop, entitled “Beyond Socialism and Postsocialism: Contemporary Ethnographic Perspectives on Central/Eastern Europe,” eight scholars came together for a discussion of current topical and theoretical trends and debates in anthropological studies of central Europe. Co-organized by Hana Červinková, Director of the International Institute for the Study of Culture and Education, and Associate Dean for International Education and Research at the University of Lower Silesia, and faculty at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Michał Buchowski, Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University, the workshop brought together doctoral students and faculty from Polish and Czech universities—the University of Lower Silesia (Wrocław), the University of Wrocław, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań), the University of Łódź, Charles University (Prague), and the Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic—who had lively discussions on the state of anthropological studies in the region based on their own ethnographic, anthropological, and historical research.
The interdisciplinary group included scholars of anthropology, education, and history who gave short presentations on a wide range of topics: gender, disability, kinship, medical anthropology, aging, nationalism, identity, ethnicity, education, and engaged anthropology. Despite these varying topics, the scholars found common ground in their discussions of personhood, memory, activism, inequality, orientalism, essentialism, phenomenology, methodology, and the anthropology of Eastern/Central Europe. Even though not all scholars found the categories of socialism and postsocialism useful, all felt the need to respond to these categories in some way, pointing to the ongoing role of these categories as disciplining structures for the region. As a result of this workshop, scholars will develop their presentations into articles to be published in a forthcoming issue of Cargo, the journal of the Czech Association for Social Anthropology.
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Abby Moghtader won both of her singles matches and her double matches. (UMW Athletics)
Abby Moghtader is a freshman on the UMW tennis team.
Although in her first year at UMW, Moghtader has played tennis her entire life. In UMW’s short, fall season, she won almost every match she played. Recently, she won the CAC Women’s Tennis Athlete of the Week honors for her outstanding performance over spring break in California where UMW played two teams in their conference. UMW beat both schools and Moghtader won both of her singles matches and her double matches and was awarded this honor for her hard work and talent.
While Moghtader has received many honors in high school for her tennis skills, this is her first award and recognition for tennis in college.
Since the fall season went well, Moghtader was eager to begin the first official spring season of her collegiate career.
The athlete has quickly bonded with her fellow teammates and finds tennis to be a true passion. She said, “the best part is the people on the team, they are amazing people.” The spring season had been very exciting for UMW women’s tennis, as they were so far undefeated. Unfortunately, the remainder of the season has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moghtader’s dedication to tennis and the UMW team is evident, and she displays perseverance. The freshman sprained her ankle during a match and still continued to play, finished the match and claimed the win.
“[I’m] honored to be recognized being on this amazing team of amazing players,” said Moghtader. With the season being suspended her first year of personal triumph at UMW has been abruptly cut short. Still, she is greatly looking forward to the next three years of playing tennis for the University of Mary Washington.
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Non-Empire Locations
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A place to centralize links to these things.
1 The North
2 The South
3 The East
4 The West
North of the Wall there exists a land of nomadic tribesmen. The language spoken there is Torghut.
Tribes and Clans we know of
The Happy Tribe
The Bloodspear Tribe
The Purple Hill Clan
The Blue Stone Clan
The Stormshock Clan
Borjigin - the clan of the Great Khan
Northern magic, see Non-Empire Magic and How Magic Works
Northern NPCs A summary, including what we know about the Great Khan and his family
Northern Locations/Groups
The Life Pagoda
The Circle of Blood
Southern magic, see Non-Empire Magic
Southern NPCs
Southern Gods
Sankara Stone
"Things digress a bit more - are there countries to the south? No, just the eternal sea."
From Worlds and Oceans, our first encounter with the lands of the East:
The ship travels for a while, and then arrives at a dark green coastline. Renyu says that it would be inappropriate to set foot on it at this time, because it would be very difficult to get them back again in time. The ship sails down the coastline, and there are triangular huts, like round yurts, in view, and mountains in the background. Some inhabitants, with redder skin than the Empire natives, are fishing along the shore. Renyu says that this is one of the other lands - they have spent all their lives in the land that the Dragon seized, but there are others. Grasshopper wonders who made this particular land. Renyu admits that who truly made these things is not something he knows - similar to the question of who made the land on which the Empire sites.
Takanata looks at the coast with the Eyes of the I Ching. He can see that the little coastal villages has a bunch of tepees, but the village itself is also, in the chi, one large tepee. And on the top of the large tepee perches a large black bird. Takanata isn't very familiar with birds, so he's sure it's not a magpie, but he doesn't recognize it. The bird eyes him carefully. Xian asks if this is far to the South (since the Southrons are also darker and redder than the people of the Empire), but Renyu says no, it is far far to the East.
Takanata wonders why there is not an Eastern Guardian, but Renyu says that questions are for later (and technically Takanata doesn't get one). Grasshopper asks if they can wait for the moon to rise - he wants to see what it looks like here - and Renyu agrees. The ship sails south for a while, and then north again, and the moon rises. The moon looks slightly different - in the Empire, it has patterns which suggest a woman and a rabbit, while here, the shapes are the same, but the patterns they make seem different. Then, there's a great howling, and a big... dog? is running out over the water, to Takanata's Eyes of the I Ching. Takanata isn't worried initially - it's a dog, and Dog is generally friendly.
He realizes, as it gets closer that it isn't a dog. The moon shifts, and a moonbeam shines on Captain Xie, and he tells the ship's crew to turn about, and the Moon's First Daughter pulls away from the spirit chasing them. The dog-thing sniffs deeply after the ship as it goes, and turns back to the shore, grinning.
Coyote has stated that the East has Too Many Bears.
Coyote Notes
Coyote Briefing:
Kiri shows up and apologizes for the extreme delay. Apparently, Renyu was supposed to deliver this a while ago, but he's tied up with the Sea Lord at the moment, so she's been asked by Whale to deliver it for them.
The long lost coyote briefing from Whale:
Coyote is a trickster spirit. Very much like Monkey. He's got a fair amount of punishing the vain and serious, but also much more identity confusion. He's often impersonating others, or getting others to impersonate each other, etc. Monkey tends towards a more physical comedy, Coyote is much more situational.
He's here in the Empire because he's temporarily in hiding from his own lands and realms. Whale doesn't really understand the details, but apparently Raven and Thunderbird are having a bit of a row between them, and it's Coyote's fault. The Blue Stone Bear is searching him out, and if he finds him, will drag Coyote back before the others and put the whole matter to bed. So, he's laying low.
But, he bores easily, so he's having fun in the Empire while things boil over at home. Monkey is using him, Fox is chastising him, Spider hasn't seen him, and Butterfly betrayed him. From Whale's point of view, he fits in well with all of them...
The Light: A faction from the West, who have "infiltrated" the Empire. They seem to be focused around Chaos/Freedom and have had schticks involving the breaking of rules. They have names that are weird and difficult to pronounce, and make unusual word choices when speaking, using synonyms to change the connotations of things.
We know of some conflict on board the Unconstrained, and a mutiny.
As usual, Ambassador Serafina of the Island and Prelate Gomez were wrangling at the time of the disaster. Once more, the Ambassador was expressing the futility of worshipping dead gods, while the prelate was expressing distaste at the ambassador's attitude towards men. The argument was cut short when Crane attacked.
NPCs from the Light:
Serafina - ran for Vice Mayor
Millicent (aka Shur Li)
Lucinda - Lijuan's majordomo at Foon
Runs of interest
Expedition to the Mountains of Heaven - in which we find a downed Light airship the Unconstrained.
The Noon Fool - in which we meet Millicent, who is a trap
Vice Mayor - in which Serafina joins the contest for Vice Mayor
Light and Dark - in which Lucinda and Sima face off at Foon
There was chaotic beast mastery and chaotic necromancy associated with the Unconstrained. They may merely have added "chaotic" to whatever was already there.
The Dark: A faction from the from "the western desert beyond the strait", of whom we have met only one representative (that we know of). They appear to be focused around Law/Order and Sima seems to have schticks about enforcing laws.
Sima, the Dark One - Justicar of the Tanzhe Plain
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Why the Triumph of Moderates Set Back Iran's Democracy
The stunning performance of Iran’s moderate forces in the Feb. 26 elections has prompted new optimism for democracy in the Islamic Republic. It should not.
Rouhani's Long-Term Game Plan
After over two years of intense negotiations, Iran was finally able to secure a clean bill of health from the IAEA in January, allowing the Rouhani government to build momentum for reforms in Iran's foreign policy and domestic politics. But making progress, especially on the latter front, will be much harder for Rouhani than reaching a nuclear agreement.
Karroubi to Khamenei: Take responsibility for failures of past 30 years
Iran’s border regions seeing an upsurge in militant activity
IRGC denies knowledge of Khamenei’s edict on armed forces’ role in economy
Khamenei’s ruling unlikely to loosen IRGC's grip on Iran's economy
Riyadh's increasing engagement with Kabul unnerves Tehran
Sadr’s top aide says relations with Iran to remain strong, calls for exit of U.S. troops
Lebanon's prime minister and lawmakers blast Iran’s top general for Hezbollah remarks
Iranian Embassy in Algeria accused of promoting sectarianism in North Africa
Zarif arrives in South Africa leading high-ranking trade delegation
Iran expands nuclear enrichment activity at Natanz facility
Khamenei rejects U.S. demands, threatens to resume high-level enrichment if talks with EU fail
Deep in the desert, Iran quietly advances missile technology
Before meeting Kim, Trump had to repudiate the Iran deal
U.S. sanctions five Iranians it says assisted Yemen's Houthis
Syrian official scoffs at U.S. demand to send Iranian forces home
Turkey, Iran, and the Gulf States: The Challenges of Rebuilding Regional Stability
About Iran Observed
The Middle East Institute’s IranObserved project provides daily tracking and analysis of Iranian policies and actions at home and abroad. The project aims to help policy makers and practitioners, as well as all organizations and individuals interested in the Middle East, to identify and understand the Islamic Republic’s soft power and hard power strategies, Iran’s regional proxies and support networks, major sociopolitical developments inside Iran, and Iranian political and military leaders that shape and implement Tehran’s domestic and external actions. The reports and analysis are drawn directly from the Farsi-language press and media published inside Iran.
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2019, Health Systems Research, Europe & Eurasia, Project, Health Systems Strengthening, Mental Health, Ongoing Projects
The 42-month duration project “Prevention of Addiction and Mental Health in Adolescents in Georgia (PAMAd)” aims to improve the health and wellbeing of adolescents and young people affected by substance use and common mental health disorders through effective service provision.
Project Objectives and Contributions
The research will have five main objectives:
to develop a phased and stratified service for Adolescents and young people affected by drug & substance use and common Mental Health (MH) problems, including those related to trauma (PAMAd service)
to measure the clinical effectiveness and unit costs of the PAMAd service through assessment of MH status and drug related risk behaviors
to determine the acceptability of the service to users;
to describe how the PAMAd service works in the LMIC setting, what factors facilitate or hinder service implementation, and why PAMAd achieves or does not achieve its aims;
to refine the service in the light of the findings of objectives 1-4 with a view to further development and scaling.
The study will assess effectiveness of the PAMAd through pre and post-test design without control groups with nested process evaluation. This offers a unique opportunity to use implementation research approach.
Organisations Involved
The project is jointly funded by the Department of International Development (DFID), the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
The research project is implemented in partnership with Global Initiative on Psychiatry – Tbilisi (GIP-Tbilisi), The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (UK) and Cardiff University (UK)
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Cocaine Triggers Endocannabinoid Release Through a Novel Mechanism
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This study found:
Cocaine can trigger release of the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) in the ventral tegmental area of the midbrain in mice, and this may play a role in cocaine use disorder.
Cocaine induces 2-AG release through a novel mechanism in which small membrane-enclosed spheres (i.e., vesicles) transport the 2-AG out of the cell.
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Endocannabinoids are compounds naturally occurring in the body and brain that bind to the same receptors as THC, the psychoactive component of cannabis. These compounds act throughout the brain, indicating that they have varied functions. In rats, cocaine exposure causes endocannabinoid levels to increase in brain areas that process pleasurable sensations, such as the ventral tegmental area (VTA). Researchers at NIDA’s Intramural Research Program (IRP) have now elucidated how cocaine may leverage endocannabinoids to mediate the drug’s effects. “We have identified a never-before-revealed mechanism in which cocaine drives the release of endogenous cannabinoids to influence synaptic function,” says Dr. Carl Lupica, Chief of the Electrophysiology Research Section at NIDA’s IRP.
Dr. Lupica; Dr. Tsung Ping-Su, Senior Investigator in NIDA’s Integrative Neuroscience Branch; and their colleagues investigated how cocaine enhanced the release of the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) in the VTA of mice. In 2015, Dr. Lupica’s group had shown that cocaine stimulates 2-AG production in that brain area, increasing dopamine neuron activity. Additionally, studies had shown that a molecule called sigma-1 receptor (Sig-1R), which participates in numerous signaling pathways in cells, can bind stimulant drugs, such as cocaine and methamphetamine. Sig-1R can also control the transport of various molecules within and out of neurons. One way to transport molecules out of cells is to package them into small, membrane-enclosed spheres (vesicles) that travel into the space between the cells where they release their cargo. The research team was now able to show how cocaine, Sig-1R, extracellular vesicles, and 2-AG release are linked.
Cocaine’s Interaction With Sig-1R Promotes 2-AG Release
Figure. Cocaine Promotes 2-AG Secretion by Inducing Extracellular Vesicle Release Cocaine’s interaction with norepinephrine transport molecules on norepinephrine-releasing neurons in the VTA enhances norepinephrine levels. This induces increased 2-AG production from its precursor, DAG, in dopamine-releasing neurons. The 2-AG is packaged into vesicles within the cell. At the same time, cocaine binds Sig-1R on the endoplasmic reticulum of the dopamine-releasing neurons. This interaction triggers a chain of events that ultimately causes the vesicles containing 2-AG to enter the extracellular space. There, the 2-AG is released so that it is free to interact with cannabinoid 1 (CB1) receptors on other neurons and modify those neuron’s actions. See full text description at end of article.
The investigators manipulated the Sig-1R signaling pathway in cultured cells to demonstrate how cocaine binding to this receptor can promote extracellular vesicle release from the cells. They then performed a series of studies in tissue slices of the mouse VTA to tease out the underlying molecular mechanisms. Their analyses identified a chain of events leading from cocaine exposure to 2-AG release in the VTA (see the Figure):
Cocaine binds to the norepinephrine transport protein on neurons in the VTA to increase norepinephrine levels, thereby stimulating 2-AG production in some of these neurons.
The 2-AG is packaged into vesicles within the neurons.
Simultaneously, cocaine binds to Sig-1R in the same cells.
This triggers a cascade of reactions involving several molecules within the cells that ultimately allow the 2-AG–containing vesicles to leave the cells and enter the extracellular space.
There, 2-AG is released from the vesicles so that it can bind to, and influence the activity of, neighboring neurons.
When the researchers interrupted this chain of events, for example by blocking or genetically eliminating Sig-1R function or inhibiting other involved molecules, cocaine could no longer induce release of the 2-AG–containing vesicles. This, in turn, prevented 2-AG from altering the function of its target neurons.
“The current study answers a long-standing question of how cocaine mobilizes endocannabinoid signaling across interneuronal spaces,” says Dr. Ping-Su. “The next step is examining how this signaling pathway is altered during cocaine use and after cocaine withdrawal.” The hope is that such analyses ultimately help identify new potential targets for treatment of cocaine use disorder.
The findings may also aid researchers in better understanding the role of intercellular communication in normal and disease states. “We would like to develop more refined approaches for studying extracellular vesicles in the brain, as these membrane packages represent a novel way for cells to send molecules to one another,” explains Dr. Lupica.
This study was supported by NIDA grants DA000487 and DA000206.
Text Description of Figure
The figure illustrates how cocaine promotes 2-AG secretion by inducing extracellular vesicle release. The upper left corner shows the axon terminal of a light-brown norepinephrine-releasing neuron. Two pink cylinders crossing the membrane of that neuron represent a norepinephrine transporter molecule, and a blue sphere next to it represents a cocaine molecule binding to the norepinephrine transporter. The upper right shows the axon terminal of a green GABA-releasing neuron. Reddish-brown cylinders crossing the membrane of the neuron represent a CB-1 receptor, which can bind THC and 2-AG.
The bottom part of the figure represents a dopamine-releasing neuron surrounded by a double membrane. Yellow cylinders crossing the membrane on the left represent a norepinephrine receptor, with light-brown spheres between this and the norepinephrine-releasing neuron representing increased release of norepinephrine molecules. Darker brown spheres to the right of the norepinephrine receptor represent DAG molecules, and red spheres further to the right represent 2-AG molecules. An arrow pointing from the norepinephrine receptor to the DAG molecules indicates that increased norepinephrine release and binding of the receptor acts on DAG, inducing its conversion to 2-AG, which is represented by two arrows between the DAG and 2-AG molecules.
On the right-hand side of the dopamine-releasing cell, protrusions in the cell membrane indicate the formation of vesicles that contain 2-AG; black circles containing additional red spheres in the space between the dopamine-releasing and GABA-releasing neurons represent released vesicles containing 2-AG that release the 2-AG so it can interact with the CB-1 receptor on the GABA-releasing neuron. A yellow structure at the bottom of the figure represents the endoplasmic reticulum of the dopamine-releasing neuron, with a purple angled shape representing a Sig-1R molecule to which a blue sphere representing a cocaine molecule is bound. Two arrows pointing from the Sig-1R molecule to the 2-AG molecules and the budding vesicles indicate that cocaine’s binding to Sig-1R triggers a chain of events that causes the vesicles containing 2-AG to enter the extracellular space.
Nakamura, Y., Dryanovski, D.I., Kimura, Y., et al. Cocaine-induced endocannabinoid signaling mediated by sigma-1 receptors and extracellular vesicle secretion. eLife. 2019;8:e47209. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.47209.
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Fred was tall, often though to be older than he actually was. This wasn’t helped by the fact he often had a much sterner expression than other kids his age.
Fred didn’t have an easy life before the massacre.
His parents died early on in life, he had no recollection of them, he lived with his grandparents who would always go on and on about how they were old and wouldn’t be around much longer. They said so out of concern as they searched for the right place to leave their precious grandson when they eventually passed.
None of those planned locations worked out.
The end came so suddenly and took so many.
Fred wouldn’t admit it, ever. But he was kind of relieved. He always felt like an outsider as a kid. Now he was at least part of a group. He lost everything, as did they all. And because of that they were there for each other. Fred loved Violet, Sarah and Danny like younger siblings. He loved them and would protect them from anything.
He looked up to Melany for her knowledge, to the twins cause they were older and acted cool.
May, Elizabeth and Emily, weren’t perfect, but they were the parents he never had, and he felt loved. He felt noticed and cared for.
But he’d lost so many before now, he could never feel entirely safe, he always felt like he was just one more disaster away from losing everything.
Not that he would ever talk about these feelings, he knew they weren’t normal, so he wrote them down in a cute little journal and kept it close. Trying to put on his best smile as the younger kids invited him to go play another game.
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DIVISION VIII: OPTICAL and INFRARED TECHNIQUES
Andreas Quirrenbach, David Silva, Rolf-Peter Kudritski, Michael G. Burton, Ian S. McLean, Eugene F. Milone, Jayant Murthy, Stephen T. Ridgway, Graẑzcirc;ina Tautvaiŝiene, Andrei A. Tokovinin, Guillermo Torres, Xiaonian ZHENG
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 7 / Issue T28A / December 2011
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 April 2012, p. 269
CARMENES: Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exo-earths with Near-infrared and optical Echelle Spectrographs
Andreas Quirrenbach, Pedro J. Amado, José A. Caballero, Holger Mandel, Reinhard Mundt, Ansgar Reiners, Ignasi Ribas, Miguel A. Sánchez Carrasco, Walter Seifert, the CARMENES Consortium
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 6 / Issue S276 / October 2010
CARMENES (Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exo-earths with Near-infrared and optical Echelle Spectrographs) is a next-generation instrument for the 3.5 m telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory. CARMENES will conduct a five-year exoplanet survey targeting ~300 M stars. The CARMENES instrument consists of two separate fiber-fed spectrographs covering the wavelength range from 0.52 to 1.7 μm at a spectral resolution of R = 85,000. The spectrographs are housed in a temperature-stabilized environment in vacuum tanks, to enable a 1 m/s radial velocity precision employing a simultaneous emission-line calibration.
DIVISION IX: OPTICAL & INFRARED TECHNIQUES
Andreas Quirrenbach, David R. Silva, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Michael G. Burton, Xiangqun Cui, Ian S. McLean, Eugene F. Milone, Jayant Murthy, Stephen T. Ridgway, Gražina Tautvaišiene, Andrei A. Tokovinin, Guillermo Torres
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 6 / Issue T27B / December 2010
Division IX provides a forum for astronomers engaged in the planning, development, construction, and calibration of optical and infrared telescopes and instrumentation, as well as observational procedures including data processing. A few years ago, discussions were started about changes in the structure of Division IX, with the aim of bringing it more in line with today's world of large coordinated projects and multi-national observatories. The course of this process, and further steps to be taken in the period from 2009 to 2012, were at the focus of the deliberations at the business meeting of Division IX at the IAU General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro.
Optical interferometry from the Earth
Andreas Quirrenbach
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 5 / Issue S261 / April 2009
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010, pp. 277-285
Print publication: April 2009
Ground-based optical interferometers can perform astrometric measurements with a precision approaching 10μas between pairs of stars separated by ~10″ on the sky. These narrow-angle measurements can be used to search for extrasolar planets and to determine their orbital parameters, to characterize microlensing events, and to measure the orbits of stars around the black hole at the center of our Galaxy.
DIVISION IX: OPTICAL AND INFRARED TECHNIQUES
Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Andreas Quirrenbach, Christiaan L. Sterken, Michael G. Burton, Xiangqun Cui, Martin Cullum, Michel Dennefeld, Peter Martinez, Guy S. Perrin, Andrei A. Tokovinin, Guillermo Torres, Stephane Udry
Division IX provides a forum for astronomers engaged in the planning, development, construction, and calibration of optical and infrared telescopes and instrumentation, as well as observational procedures including data processing.
COMMISSION 53: EXTRASOLAR PLANETS
Michel Mayor, Alan P. Boss, Paul R. Butler, William B. Hubbard, Philip A. Ianna, Martin Kürster, Jack J. Lissauer, Karen J. Meech, François Mignard, Alan J. Penny, Andreas Quirrenbach, Jill C. Tarter, Alfred Vidal-Madjar
Commission 53 on Extrasolar Planets was created at the 2006 Prague General Assembly of the IAU, in recognition of the outburst of astronomical progress in the field of extrasolar planet discovery, characterization, and theoretical work that has occurred since the discovery of the pulsar planets in 1992 and the discovery of the first planet in orbit around a solar-type star in 1995. Commission 53 is the logical successor to the IAU Working Group on Extrasolar Planets WG-ESP, which ended its six years of existence in August 2006. The founding president of Commission 53 is Michael Mayor, in honor of his seminal contributions to this new field of astronomy. The vice-president is Alan Boss, the former chair of the WG-ESP, and the members of the Commission 53 Organizing Committee are the other former members of the WG-ESP.
Binary Stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster
Rainer Köhler, Monika G. Petr-Gotzens, Mark J. McCaughrean, Jerome Bouvier, Gaspard Duchêne, Andreas Quirrenbach, Hans Zinnecker
We report on a high-spatial-resolution survey for binary stars in the periphery of the Orion Nebula Cluster, at 5–15 arcmin (0.65 – 2 pc) from the cluster center. We observed 228 stars with adaptive optics systems, in order to find companions at separations of 0.13 – 1.12 arcsec (60 – 500 AU), and detected 13 new binaries. Combined with the results of Petr (1998), we have a sample of 275 objects, about half of which have masses from the literature and high probabilities to be cluster members. We used an improved method to derive the completeness limits of the observations, which takes into account the elongated point spread function of stars at relatively large distances from the adaptive optics guide star. The multiplicity of stars with masses >2 M ⊙ is found to be significantly larger than that of low-mass stars. The companion star frequency of low-mass stars is comparable to that of main-sequence M-dwarfs, less than half that of solar-type main-sequence stars, and 3.5 to 5 times lower than in the Taurus-Auriga and Scorpius-Centaurus star-forming regions. We find the binary frequency of low-mass stars in the periphery of the cluster to be the same or only slightly higher than for stars in the cluster core (< 3′ from θ1C Ori). This is in contrast to the prediction of the theory that the low binary frequency in the cluster is caused by the disruption of binaries due to dynamical interactions. There are two ways out of this dilemma: Either the initial binary frequency in the Orion Nebula Cluster was lower than in Taurus-Auriga, or the Orion Nebula Cluster was originally much denser and dynamically more active. A detailed report of this work has been published in Astronomy & Astrophysics (Köhler et al. 2006).
Working Group on Extrasolar Planets
Alan P. Boss, R. Paul Butler, William B. Hubbard, Philip A. Ianna, Martin Kürster, Jack J. Lissauer, Michel Mayor, Karen J. Meech, Francois Mignard, Alan J. Penny, Andreas Quirrenbach, Jill C. Tarter, Alfred Vidal-Madjar
The Working Group on Extrasolar Planets (hereafter the WGESP) was created at a meeting of the IAU Executive Council in 1999 as a Working Group of IAU Division III and was renewed for three more years at the IAU General Assembly in 2003. The charge of the WGESP is to act as a focal point for international research on extrasolar planets. The membership of the WGESP has remained unchanged for the last three years.
Direct detection of exoplanets — science and techniques
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 1 / Issue S232 / November 2005
The direct detection of light emitted or reflected by extrasolar planets will soon allow studies of the physical properties of their surfaces and atmospheres. This article gives an overview of the scientific perspectives and the techniques that are currently being developed for observations of gas giants and terrestrial planets from the ground and in space.
Masses and Orbits of Extrasolar Planets: Preparation of Astrometric Observing Programs
Andreas Quirrenbach, Sabine Prink, David Mitchell
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 September 2017, pp. 65-68
Astrometry is the most powerful technique to determine dynamical masses and orbital parameters of extrasolar planets. The careful selection and characterization of reference stars is crucial for the success of any astrometric program. The best reference stars for NASA's Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) are distant K giants. The first sub-stellar companion to a K giant was recently detected serendipitously in a radial-velocity survey aimed at defining the SIM grid star strategy.
Working Group on Optical/IR Interferometry (Groupe De Travail Pour Interferometrie Optique/Infrarouge)
P. R. Lawson, John Davis, Christopher Haniff, Christian A. Hummel, Pierre J. Lena, Christoph Leinert, Harold A. MacAlister, Denis Mourard, Andreas Quirrenbach, Charles H. Townes
Journal: Transactions of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 25 / Issue 1 / 2002
Working Group on Extrasolar Planets: (Groupe De Travail Pour les Planetes Extra-Solaires)
Alan P. Boss, R. Paul Butler, William B. Hubbard, Philip A. Ianna, Martin Kürster, Jack J. Lissauer, Michel Mayor, Karen J. Meech, François Mignard, Alan J. Penny, Andreas Quirrenbach, Jill C. Tarter, Alfred Vidal-Madjar
Optical and Infrared Long–Baseline Interferometry: Application to Binary Star Science
Interferometric observations of binary stars have a profound impact on many areas of stellar astrophysics. This article gives a brief review of interferometric techniques applied to binaries, and of orbit determination and binary surveys with optical and infrared interferometers.
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If you were planning on seeing the Wall Street sequel in theaters next month, revise your plans. The studio has now pushed back the release of Money Never Sleeps to September 24.
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In an interview with The New York Times with Oliver Stone, the director talks about how his original Wall Street film caught the imagination of a whole generation of bankers that admired Gordon Gekko and his personification of excess. Actor Michael Douglas was also quoted about what it's like revisiting his character after 20 years.
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Froome increases Tour de France lead
July 14, 2016 Written by Admin
OVERALL leader Chris Froome produced another surprise attack to gain time on his Tour de France rivals, as Peter Sagan won Wednesday’s blustery 11th stage.
The two star riders broke away from the peloton with a teammate each, inside the final 13km of a 162.5km stage from Carcassonne to Montpellier, which was ridden at breakneck speed.
With Tinkoff’s Maciej Bodnar and Geraint Thomas of Sky helping their teammates, the front four quickly established a 20-second lead over a peloton that was slow to react. The move came with the sprinters’ teams manoeuvring to set up their leads for a bunch dash to the line.
But Sagan, the green jersey points leader, caught them out with a determined attack, alongside his teammate Bodnar.
Froome and his lieutenant Thomas were the only riders to react and quickly bridged over to the front two.
They had just enough of a gap for Froome to gain six seconds on the line, as well as another six bonus seconds. World champion Sagan easily won the sprint, with Froome second and Bodnar third.
It means Froome now leads fellow Briton Adam Yates by 28sec, with Dan Martin of Ireland third at 31sec. Froome’s main rival, Nairo Quintana, is fourth at 35sec. Following his break on a downhill finish to the seventh stage, where he gained 13sec, along with another 10sec bonus, it was another masterstroke from Froome.
A two-man breakaway set off onto the wide open plains on a stage where wind promised to be a complicating factor.
From early on that proved the case, as several crashes occurred in the bunch, one notably involving French climber Thibaut Pinot.
Australian Leigh Howard and French road race champion Arthur Vichot gallantly laboured on with what was always sure to be a futile escape. Yet the peloton felt comfortable enough to let them stretch their lead out to four and a half minutes.
But when Tinkoff, Etixx, and Sky put the hammer down, the leaders’ gap was halved within just a few kilometres.
The acceleration at the front, coupled with strong winds, saw the peloton split in two, with the second group quickly drifting out to a 40-second deficit before clawing their way back.
Yet no sooner had they joined up, when another burst at the front caused splits all over the peloton as the leaders’ advantage tumbled quickly down to just 20 seconds with 70km left.
The end came for Howard and Vichot with just more than 60km left, but the pace didn’t let up until the peloton passed the intermediate sprint, which was won by Marcel Kittel from Sagan and Mark Cavendish.
The slowing in pace allowed the distanced riders to latch back on to form one compact peloton with 35km left.
But the pace went up again 15km from the end with Sagan’s attack that again split the peloton all over the road. Thursday’s 12th stage will be shortened because of expected violent gusts of wind at the top of Mont Ventoux, organisers said on Wednesday. The stage from Montpellier will therefore end at Chalet Reynard, about 15.5km into the 21.5km ascent.
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OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: "I was born blue. If my mother hadn’t pushed me out quick as a cat, I would have been born dead and even bluer; her cord was wrapped tight around my neck. She looked at my little blue lips, my blue toes and baby fingers, and she named me after Kali, Kali Jai."
So begins the story of Kali Jai, whose grandmother accidentally-on-purpose misheard the instructions Kali Jai’s mother gave her before they locked her back up in juvie, and filled out a birth certificate with the name Paula Jane Vauss instead. Sounds the same, right?
Turns out Paula Jane/Kali Jai had things to be blue about. Life with Mom, for instance. While Kai (aka Karen Vauss) was a loving parent, she had a difficult time with sticking, meandering through serial relationships of varying intensity, Kali by her side. She may have been the inventor of the Go Bag, or at the very least a skilled expert in its use. And if Kali had grown attached to the man in their lives, so sorry, buh-bye, gotta go, see ya later. Off into the wild blue yonder until the next guy comes along. A tough situation for a kid.
Joshilyn Jackson writes of family and faith in her novels, and has a particular fondness for adolescent females.
"What a gift, a character whose frontal lobe has not finished developing! Teenagers don’t fully see the consequences of their actions. That’s Christmas for a novelist who likes blowing things up—both relationships and buildings—as much as I do." – from the Writer Unboxed interview
We meet Kali all grown up as she recalls her childhood. She is a fierce warrior of a divorce lawyer, who may seem, at times, to have more than two weapon-wielding arms, and a skirt made of human parts. Of course, Mom had described Kali in a more positive light. “Kali destroys only to renew, to restore justice. Kali brings fresh starts.” The fresh starts Paula/Kali seems most interested in bringing entail a divorce decree and a substantial fee. But there is a large gap in Kali’s life. She is doing well financially, so sends her mother money every month, but that is the extent of their relationship. What happened? The journey that follows is a fabulous story of a grown woman realizing, to her surprise, that she actually wants and needs family, and seeing hers come together, out of a clear blue sky, one orphan at a time.
"I’m very interested in the concept of how you make home, how you get it, and how you fight for it, and how you keep it." – from Public Libraries Online interview
In fact much of The Opposite of Everyone is about the coming together and breaking apart of families, about the yearning for home, whatever or wherever that may be, the lengths to which people might go to get that for themselves and how they cope with disappointment when the hope is unfulfilled.
The tale takes place in two time lines. The first is now, in which we see Paula as a professional, on occasion a basket case, unattached, and uninterested in becoming attached, content in her divorce gladiator life. But when her last check to Mom comes back, with a cryptic message attached, it is a bolt from the blue. Where is Kai? Why did she send back the check? What the hell does her message mean? Kali does a bit of digging, a fair bit of thinking, and opts to enlist the assistance of her usual PI, true-blue Zach Birdwine, erstwhile lover, and contributor of emotional complication to her life.
The other timeline is adolescent Kali. We get a look at her time in a group home, while mom was in jail again, showing how she survives, the friends and enemies she makes, the lessons she learns, and bits of the magic of her relationship with Kai. A third narrative thread concerns Paula’s work, dealing with divorce clients and nemeses.
(Kali the many-armed goddess – from FineArtAmerica.com)
The conjoining of Southern storytelling and Indian culture is unusual and effective. It came from a very concrete place:
"Three years ago, I started taking classes at Decatur Hot Yoga from the beautiful and excessively bendy Astrid Santana. She often begins class by telling a classic Hindu god pantheon story, but her sentence structure and word choices and even some images come out of the southern oral tradition. It is an odd and compelling blend. Because of Astrid I started dreaming the stories, and then I began reading them. Paula and Kali intersected in my head, and the novel took a sharp turn east."
Jackson was asked once what genre the though her work fit into.”Weirdo Fiction with a Shot of Southern Gothic Influence for Smart People Who Can Catch the Nuances but Who Like Narrative Drive, and Who Have a Sense of Humor but Who Are Willing to Go Down to Dark Places. Upside: Accurate. Downsides: Long. Hard to market,” she said. That sounds about right.
Kali Jai first appeared, as Paula, in Jackson’s prior novel, Someone Else’s Love Story, but there is no plot-line linkage between the books to keep one from reading them independently. Kali/Paula is a wonderful character, and Jackson shows how she came to be the person she is without making the faux pas of telling. While a somewhat feral divorce attorney might not sound like someone you would want to want to spend time with, don’t be fooled. There is a heart there, damaged, scarred, protected, but with chinks, openings, vulnerabilities. You will care about Paula/Kali, and be moved by her life and circumstances. Plus Jackson’s weaving in of Kai’s story-telling and iconography is nothing less than magical.
CONCLUSION: The Opposite of Everything is everything you could want in a book, engaging characters, who grow with time and experience, conflicts with resolutions that make sense (and don’t arrive out of the blue), concern over this peril and that, thematic substance, and some insight into elements of real life that are probably outside your experience. This is a read that may cause you to reach for the tissues by the end, but will leave you feeling anything but blue.
NOTE: Author picture courtesy of Booktrip.com. This review was first posted on Will's blog.
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Competition: Win The Americans Season 2 on DVD!
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Season 2 of the Cold War drama centres on the complex marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington D.C. shortly after Ronald Reagan is elected President. The arranged marriage of Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) – who have two children who know nothing about their parents’ true identity – grows more passionate and genuine by the day, but is constantly tested by the escalation of the Cold War and the intimate and dangerous relationships they must maintain with a network of spies and informants under their control.
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Home Bundesliga Ten Bundesliga Summer Transfers with the Best Value for Money
Sébastien Haller ~ FC Utrecht to Eintracht Frankfurt ~ £6.4m
Cult hero Alexander Meier is a tough act to follow in Frankfurt. It’s not just his knack for scoring crucial goals for Eintracht over the course of a career that included 136 goals for the club, but his leadership and desire to work hard from the front was always crucial, and even more so under Niko Kovac. But Meier is now thirty-four, and a wonderful career in the black and red of Frankfurt will soon come to an end. To fill big shoes, you need a player who is used to wearing them; enter Sébastien Haller.
Fourty-one goals in eighty-two appearances over the last three years for Utrecht in the Eredivisie is a very good return for a player who once couldn’t build a name for himself at Ligue 2 side AJ Auxerre. Built strong, instinctual in the box, incredibly effective in the air, and used to, like Meier, defending from the front, Haller is just the type of center forward to fill Meier’s boots.
There will undoubtedly be a bedding period for the player however, as leaping from the Eredivisie to the Bundesliga is a jump in class and quality. But for a player who was in the “black box” of Southampton in the Premier League—a club known for having an eye on Europe’s younger players—expectations surrounding Haller are nothing but positive.
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An American, but a lover of the beautiful game, Andrew Thompson has been active in the sport for 25 years as a player, a coach and now a freelance writer. He's a diehard Arsenal supporter, but also has a special place in his heart for Borussia Dortmund and the German Bundesliga. You can find other work of his at Outside of the Boot, A Bergkamp Wonderland, and he is a podcast regular with The Football Hipsters Podcast.
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GITEX Technology WeekInterviews
ManageEngine to Show Off its Entire Suite of IT Management Solutions for the GCC Market
By Future Tech Staff December 2, 2020
Nirmal Kumar Manoharan, the Regional Sales Director at ManageEngine, speaks about his company’s participation at GITEX 2020
Which products and solutions will you be showcasing at GITEX Technology Week?
We will be representing ourselves as a complete solutions provider for organisations across all sectors looking to deal with their IT management problems. We will be showcasing our entire suite of IT management solutions for the GCC market. We have a portfolio of over 40 products covering all IT requirements ranging from IT service management, operations management, active directory management, security and analytics, endpoint management and more.
What are your expectations from the event this year?
ManageEngine has been doing business in the Middle East since 2005 and we have been a part of GITEX since 2007 and consider it of strategic importance to us. Our relationship with GITEX and the region is too strong for a pandemic to get in the way. So, in a major way, our participation this year is to communicate our commitment to our customers and that we will continue to serve them.
We have had hundreds of thousands of interactions with customers, prospects and partners at GITEX. The benefits of these interactions accrue over years as it is a continuous process and we hope this year gives us the opportunity to have as many interactions as possible.
Do you hope for a business relief from the pandemic based on your engagements at the event?
While technology has been a net positive for our operations, we certainly did feel the economic and psychological impact of the pandemic. Though the situation is still unpredictable, we believe that 2021 will be a better year. We know this year GITEX would witness comparatively fewer visitors, but we look forward to meeting and thanking everyone who visit our booth (Hall 7, B-20) as it has been a challenging year for all of us.
What will be your theme of participation at GITEX?
Remote working brings with it new data security risks, especially the risk of both unintentional and malicious data exfiltration. Under this work-from-home scenario, the onus falls on IT teams to facilitate a secure remote working environment, which not only enables safe connection to remote devices, but also facilitates routine activities without sacrificing cybersecurity. Having said that, this year at GITEX our focus would be to promote the wide range of security solutions we have to offer.
ManageEngine’s Desktop Central and Password Manager Pro, help manage and secure endpoints and passwords, respectively. With the launch of sophisticated phishing attacks, organizations across all sectors must keep a close watch over user accounts. For instance, it’s vital to monitor users who log on from multiple locations simultaneously or who access multiple resources in a short period of time.
Therefore, our new-gen SIEM solutions such as Log360, which includes user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) capabilities, and our privileged access management solution, PAM360, can be very useful for enterprises. To provide remote employees the access they need to exclusive information within the corporate network, organizations have to ensure secure remote access. This can be done using our Remote Access Plus and Access Manager Plus solutions, which is available to organisations of every size.
How is your company weathering from the market effects on the pandemic?
The pandemic surely did bring us to a standstill with unanticipated challenges in the beginning of the year. However, we have managed to grow the business this year as well and hope to continue to do so for the rest of the year. Our wide range of solutions and their overall value proposition has remained strong, which has helped us weather the storm to a great extent. We have been able to provide uninterrupted support to our customers during this difficult time. We believe our customers appreciate this, which reflects in the growth of the business.
What were the key learnings over the past couple of months and how do you plan to use those to make changes to your regional strategies?
To the relief of many of us, it appears as if we’re on the verge of seeing a vaccine for COVID-19. Nevertheless, to put it mildly, the past year has been a trying time for the always-resilient information technology sector. Despite the litany of challenges the pandemic brought us, the key lessons we’ve learnt over the past few months are:
The pandemic obliterated conventional IT operations and associated processes. For the sake of business continuity, enterprises were forced to modify their on-premises IT infrastructure to facilitate increased remote access. Companies that adopted a solid cloud strategy were far less affected by the pandemic. Cloud makes it possible to dynamically add and remove virtual infrastructure, which in turn allows you to attend to any demands without compromising the security posture of the services.
The influx of IoT devices over the past few years altered the endpoint management space; however, the pandemic further changed the business operations landscape, and it has made endpoint security more important than ever. While cybersecurity firms continue to adapt to enterprise cybersecurity needs, remote work has made it clear that endpoint security is the baseline upon which any additional security policies must be deployed.
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Could Africa feed the world?
Those of you of a similar age to myself will almost certainly remember a song about feeding the world; part of the world that needed feeding at the time was sub-Saharan Africa, and sadly that is still the case in some locations (as well as in places on other continents). But is it possible that Africa could feed not only itself but the rest of the world as well? Kanayo Nwanze, the president of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development, seems to think it can:
Nwanze drew a sharp contrast between Gansu province, in northwest China, and parts of Africa that cannot feed itself. He said like many parts of the world, Gansu suffers from frequent drought, limited water for irrigation and severe soil erosion. Yet despite the weather and the harsh environment, the farmers in the Gansu programme area are feeding themselves and increasing their incomes.
“I met one farmer whose income had risen from only $2 (£1.20) a day in 2006 to $35 a day last year,” he exclaimed.
So when asked why this could be done in China but not Africa, Nwanze said the vital difference was government policy.
“What I saw in Gansu was the result of government policy to invest in rural areas and to reduce the gap between the rural and the urban and stem migration,” he said in a telephone interview. “It has a very harsh environment, it has only 300 millimetres of rain annually, compared to parts of the Sahel which gets 400-600 millimetres, but the government has invested in roads and electricity. We found a community willing to transform their lives by harvesting rainwater, using biogas, terracing mountain slopes. There are crops for livestock, they are growing vegetables, wheat and maize, and generating income that allows them to build resilience.”
While Somalia is a worst-case scenario, Nwanze continues, in Ethiopia and Djibouti there has been a lack of long-term investment that makes them vulnerable to climate change. “It is not enough to wait for crisis to turn to disaster to act. The rains will fail again, but governments have not invested in the ability of populations to resist drought.”
Nwanze argues that Africa is facing the fallout of decades of neglecting agriculture, a fault that lies with African governments and aid donors.
Mismanagement and climate change to blame, rather than some fundamental property of the continent itself? A Chinese province used as an exemplar of rural land development? Unthinkable! These are backward nations, desperately in need of the guiding hand of corporate capitalism and parliamentary democracy! </sarcasm>
I rather like imagining a future where Africa becomes an arable breadbasket with an economic boom based on mobile and wireless technologies. After all, it’s not looking any less likely than the so-called First World pulling its collective finger out of the arse of the investment banking sector, now is it?
Tags: africa, agriculture, development, economics, husbandry, management
Affetto: Child of the Uncanny Valley
You can thank IEE Spectrum and a bunch of roboticists from Osaka University for this excursion into the Uncanny Valley. Meet Affetto, a robot child designed for research into social development psychology. The fully-skinned version is moderately disturbing:
But the skinless facial motion test? Aaaaaaaarrrrgh!
And now I’ve been reminded of it (and we’re all in that creeped-out-by-supposedly-cuddly-technology frame of mind), bring some nineties-retro toy-based trauma to your Tuesday with the naked Furby orchestra:
Bonus material: mechanical “FurbyGurdy” sequencer/synth with MIDI control.
Enjoy your nightmares!
Tags: Android, child, circuit bending, development, Furby, psychology, robot, uncanny valley
The Courage to Suck
Luc Reid @ 04-08-2010
It seems that the best thing that ever happened to Harper Lee as a writer was also the worst thing that ever happened to Harper Lee as a writer.
In 1956, Lee received a gift of a year’s wages from friends who told her to “write whatever you please.” Let’s take a moment now for intense jealousy. All done? OK, let’s see what happened next.
Continue reading “The Courage to Suck”
Tags: advice, Brain Hacks for Writers, courage, development, failure, Fiction, Luc Reid, persistence, writing
Playing Our Way To the Future: Consumer Science and Technology goes Military
Brenda Cooper @ 10-02-2010
Last month, I spoke at a United States Army Training and Doctrine Command event billed as a mad scientist conference. That was actually quite an honor, and I enjoyed it more than I expected to, even though it was hard to spend three days thinking about threats based on new technology. I’ve got a blog entry up at my regular site that talks more about the conference, but suffice it to say I’ve been thinking about the military and science/science fiction. In the way of all attractive coincidences, I was also recently asked to write a military science fiction story. All that, and I’m basically a pacifist! Continue reading “Playing Our Way To the Future: Consumer Science and Technology goes Military”
Tags: Brenda Cooper, development, investment, repurposing, science fiction, technology, Today's Tomorrows
Psychohistory in the real world
Tom James @ 28-07-2009
Researchers at Indiana University believe that it may be possible to create a real-life version of Isaac Asimov’s concept of psychohistory:
Much as meteorologists predict the path and intensity of hurricanes, Indiana University’s Alessandro Vespignani believes we will one day predict with unprecedented foresight, specificity and scale such things as the economic and social effects of billions of new Internet users in China and India, or the exact location and number of airline flights to cancel around the world in order to halt the spread of a pandemic.
Psychohistory as described by Isaac Asimov holds that “while one cannot foresee the actions of a particular individual, the laws of statistics as applied to large groups of people could predict the general flow of future events.”
This certainly seems similar to the ideas of reality mining discussed here:
Vespignani writes that advances in complex networks theory and modeling, along with access to new data, will enable humans to achieve true predictive power in areas never before imagined. This capability will be realized as the one wild card in the mix — the social behavior of large aggregates of humans — becomes more definable through progress in data gathering, new informatics tools and increases in computational power.
It is an exciting direction, and offers the possibility of a black-swan style technological breakthrough. With improved data, through things like spimes and ubiquitous computing, combined with improved data processing techniques and communications there exists the possibility for a new and powerful way of studying, monitoring, and even controlling social and technological developments with precision.
[via Next Big Future][image from woodleywonderworks on flickr]
Tags: complexity, crowd, crowd control, development, epidemic, epidemics, epidemiology, forecasting, Isaac Asimov, mathematics, networks, physics, prediction, predictions, psychohistory, psychology, statistics, technoloy
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Mickey Mouse Makes His Triumphant Return in "Croissant de Triomphe"
Viva la Mickey Mouse!
By Gordon S. Miller on March 12, 2013 6:32 PM |
If you are like me, today's announcement by Disney CEO Robert Iger that 19 Mickey Mouse cartoons were being produced by Walt Disney Television Animation for the Disney Channel and Disney.com caused more trepidation than delight.
All too often over the years, beloved animated characters, including Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry to name three, have been revisited with lackluster results that reveal those responsible didn't understand what made the characters succeed in the first place. Not even legendary animators are immune from this, as I'll be the first to declare I don't care for non-daffy Daffy Duck, and that version was in some classic cartoons.
The executive producer and director for this new venture is Emmy Award-winning artist and director Paul Rudish (Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls). After seeing "Croissant de Triomphe," where Mickey, who appears in a modern version of his classic '30s design, must overcome obstacles on the streets of Paris to help Minnie at her cafe, I can't wait to see what comes next.
Rudish has not only created a funny cartoon filled with wonderful artwork, but it has an authenticity to it as if this is what a Mickey Mouse cartoon would have been like if Walt Disney had grown up in France.
Upcoming shorts include:
"Yodelberg" - Mickey longs to visit Minnie atop her mountaintop chalet but quickly realizes that the threat of avalanche has made the trek up the mountain more challenging than usual.
"No Service" - Mickey and Donald try to buy lunch from a beachside snack shack but are unceremoniously turned down because of the classic "No shirt, no shoes, no service" admonition (of course, Mickey doesn't wear a shirt and Donald doesn't wear shoes!).
To see "Croissant de Triomphe" for yourself, go to the Disney website. Then come back and tells us what you think.
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Practice Guide for Procuring Cloud Services - Hong Kong
Name of the programme: Practice Guide for Procuring Cloud Services
Governing of the standard: Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO), Government of Hong Kong:
Working Group on Cloud Computing Interoperability Standards (WGCCIS).
Working Group on Cloud Security and Privacy (WGCSP).
Working Group on Provision and Use of Cloud Services (WGPUCS).
Accreditation Body/Bodies: It is not a certification.
Scope: Security
Cloud-relevance: It refers to all types of service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and to all deployment models (Public, Hybrid, Private, Community).
Type of certifiable organisation: Mostly intended for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Type of trust models applicable: n/a
Is the certification proprietary or open: The documentation is freely available
Programme, status (operational, in development): n/a
The Practice Guide of Procuring Cloud Services is a collection of best practices and guidelines that is aimed mostly at users that are willing to adopt cloud technology. It lists a set of challenges and points of consideration that potential customers of the cloud should keep in mind when designing applications that are going to be deployed in the cloud. It is written in natural language and addresses a series of problems that exist in the domain of cloud computing that users need to be aware when shifting their businesses in the cloud in order to get the best out of it without compromising security.
The core aspects that are being examined in Practice Guide of Procuring Cloud Services are the following:
I. Service Cost
II. Service Level Agreements (SLA) & Service Level Objectives (SLO)
III. On Boarding & Off Boarding
IV. Service Operation
V. Security and Privacy Protections
VI. Service Commitments/Warranties
VII. Data Ownership & Location and IP Ownership
VIII. Service Default
IX. Contracting (Terms of Service)
More information and full Practice Guide for Procuring Cloud Services guide
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Cincinnati Marathon, Inc. is proud to announce PIG WORKS
We’ve got some exciting news to share with you!
The Board of Directors of Cincinnati Marathon Inc., the parent company of the Flying Pig Marathon, Queen Bee, TQL Beer Series and the FCC3, is proud to announce that the non-profit organization producing all of the above events will now be known as Pig Works! The organization that started with a little hometown marathon over twenty years ago has now established a diverse family of participatory events and a growing philanthropic footprint.
Pig Works is a race experience company with three goals:
Create fun participatory sporting events for individuals and groups of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds
Contribute to charitable causes that support the growth and development of our community here in Cincinnati and beyond
Promote a lifestyle that weaves movement and health into the fiber of our community and extends beyond the bounds of our event days
The new organization name will enable growth in participation and charitable giving while allowing each existing and beloved event brand to retain its name, personality and mission.
In 2019, our suite of races attracted 59,693 registrants across five weekends throughout the year resulting in 475,311.7 miles completed and more than $1,000,000 raised for charity. These registrants represented all 50 states and 29 foreign countries. In December, Race Raves ranked the Flying Pig Marathon the #1 marathon in the United States.
Complete list of all of our 2020 Pig Works events:
Feb. 29, 2020 –Bockfest 5K (first leg of the TQL Beer Series)
May, 1, 2020 – Fifty West Mile(second leg of the TQL Beer Series)
May 1-3, 2020 – Flying Pig Marathon Weekend, powered by P&G
June 13, 2020 – FCC3 (in partnership with FC Cincinnati)
Sept. 19, 2020 – Hudepohl 14K & 7K Brewery Run (final leg of the TQL Beer Series)
Oct. 9-10, 2020 – Queen Bee Half Marathon, empowered Kroger & P&G & Medpace 4 Miler
For more information about Pig Works and our events please visit www.PigWorks.org.
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Restriction on Entering SU Campus for Students
Takafumi Sakai
President, Saitama University
Dear Saitama University Students,
Due to the declaration of the state of emergency by the Japanese government and of Saitama Prefecture’s emergency measure, the university has been restricting students’ access to SU Okubo campus and extracurricular activities on and off campus from Friday, January 8 to Sunday, February 7. This is to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 viral transmission, and to protect the health of students.
In the following cases, however, students may enter by obtaining our prior approval.
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lasses will continue to be conducted face-to-face if the instructor deems it necessary.
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h. All other cases in which it is particularly necessary to conduct research, etc.
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When entering the campus, please carry your student ID card with you at all times so that you can present it in response to the request from staffs. In the case of research activities, approval from the dean or from the head of graduate school through your supervisor must be obtained in advance and must carry the approved email with you to present it upon request.
It is known that young, college-aged adults tend to have few or no symptoms and spread the infection without knowing it; therefore, we ask students to (1) refrain from going out unnecessarily, (2) refrain from traveling across prefectural borders, (3) refrain from attending meetings that involve dining, and (4) Refrain from going out after 8 p.m. unnecessarily. Please act with the strong awareness of the importance of “not getting infected” and “not letting others get infected”.
*Please note that this measure is subject to change depending on the situation of the COVID-19 infection in the future.
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Why That Much Corporate Money is in Politics is Not Discussed
by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 6/6/12 , 7:33 pm
I like Joel Connelly, but in his coverage this back and forth between the Association of Washington Business and the Inslee campaign, he misses the larger point.
“As you can imagine, accepting $100,000 from a major oil company openly supporting Mr. McKenna leaves the impression that the money is intended for eventual use on behalf of Mr. McKenna against Jay Inslee,” Shimomura wrote to the AWB.
“This raises serious concerns for us, and we imagine it will raise concerns for many viewers and voters as well.” Shimomura urged the Association of Washington Business to “return Tesoro’s contribution.”
One problem: Tesoro and Equilon (Shell) were using the AWB PAC not to support McKenna, but to pass through money to Tim Eyman’s Initiative 1185. Seattlepi.com and Northwest Progressive Institute both posted stories May 11 on the pass-through. Eyman, too, explained the arrangement in a letter to his followers.
Four big oil companies, BP ($100,000), ConocoPhillips ($100,000) Tesoro ($100,000) and Equilon ($50,000) are underwriting the I-1185 signature campaign while Eyman delivers populist sound bites. BP and ConocoPhillips gave directly to the campaign.
Maybe. But I think the larger point is still holy shit, the global warming industry is throwing around how much money, again? The fact that these companies — and they are anti-Inslee companies — freely spend this much money is a huge problem. For huge companies to spend more than what most people make in a year like it’s Monopoly money is a disgrace. I realize Joel covered it before, but for that to be an aside is taking your eye off the ball.
This whole problem could be solved by one federal court ruling that donating money to political campaigns violates corporations’ fiduciary responsibility to make money for their shareholders. The only way a court could not reach such a conclusion is by saying that buying politicians is a legitimate way to increase profits.
I suppose you could argue that $350,000 is creating (temporary) jobs for (paid) signature gatherers …
SJ spews:
I am with the pookah on this.
I have a related idea, under the Commerce clause, isn’t it true that Congress could require a federal charter? That charter could then define corps as not having certain powers of an individual … e.g. the vote and buying the vote.
Hell, I do not even like the idea of corps being able to donate money to charities.
Another part of the problem is fungibility.
Even if the oil money is passed along to Eyman, that frees up other funds (which might otherwise have been ticketed for Tim’s crapola) to be available for AWB to throw at McKenna.
wharfrat spews:
Roger @1 and 2; Interestingly yesterdays NYT business section had a story on bribery, concluding that in most circumstances bribery had a net positive contribution to share price and profitability and that the return far outweighed the risk. Buying politicians does reflect well on the fiduciary responsibilities of the corporation. Ray Bradbury would have spun a great yarn with this material.
kim jong chillin spews:
Thursday, 6/7/12 at 6:19 pm
I would prefer that campaign or political contributions be limited to te following:
Maximum contribution of $1000 per indivdual US citizen per year. No other contributions, monetary or otherwise, are acceptable. Penalty is 10 years in prison, no parole, no acceptions.
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Interview with: Karin Apollonia Müller
Interview by Daniel Augschöll and Anya Jasbär
1. In 1995 you moved from Germany to the United States, specifically to Los Angeles. How was it like to work in this area for the first time?
Los Angeles seemed unpredictable and unfamiliar, monotonous and anonymous – exactly what I was looking for in my investigation. I bought a beat up Chrysler New Yorker; when I closed the door and started the car it would tell me to fasten my seat belts and tell me that my oil pressure was low— most of the times the only voice I would hear. I drove around the city with my doors locked, looking for out interesting vantage points, sneaking into apartment buildings and trespassing on rooftops. I would stand on the roofs with shivering knees looking down at the city and marvel at how things came together. I felt I was on a stage and detached from the world.
2. Could you tell us how your condition of stranger, outsider, living and working in Los Angeles, changed from your first work Angels in Fall to On Edge? It seems like the photographs aren’t that detached anymore, despite your distant point of view. Like Tim Atherton said, “It feels like Müller has become less the visitor and more the settler or immigrant. Still not at home, but more at ease.”
When I was making the photographs for Angels in Fall I felt like a stranger, and I embraced this feeling, I wanted the view point to be that of an outsider and have a sense of the detachment I was experiencing. After a while I did begin to settle into this country, becoming more familiar with the culture, history and language. But I never felt completely at ease, there were always misunderstandings, miscommunications, and a sense of foreignness. I am more familiar with Los Angeles, and maybe that comes through in On Edge.
3. In Angels in Fall the people are a constant apparition. They are there, immobilized, far away from us, almost becoming part of the landscape. In On Edge they aren’t just part of the landscape any longer; they seem more actively involved, even if almost invisible. Could you tell us something about the significance of people in your photographs? Do you feel this difference between the two bodies of work?
My interest in photography has been the investigation of people, their relationship to landscape, to their environment, to their space. In Angels in fall I observe the space and eventually discover a solitary person, disrupting the vast open space. In On Edge I find locations, where the person becomes the (usually invisible) perpetrator.
4. The use of color in your photographs is remarkable. Could you tell us a little bit about the importance of color in your photographs, especially in On Edge and Angels in Fall?
The color palette in my photographs is a product of the particular light I am always searching for – it is a certain type of diffused light that seems to evoke things which are beyond visible. My mother would often call me asking why I was staying in Los Angeles for so long, and I would reply that I was waiting for the perfect light. It is rare and difficult to catch. Sometimes I would have to wait for months for the “decisive moment” of light.
5. When we look at your photographs we feel attracted by the beauty of light and colors, but at the same time we are consciously afraid by the threatening force of nature. It’s like your photographs are a contemporary manifestation of the sublime. We feel scared but at the same time attracted.
Traditionally nature was the source of feelings like fear and wonder at the same time; has the city replaced nature in this role? Do you agree with this identification of contemporary sublime?
In landscape the Sublime is exemplified by William Turner‘s sea storms and mountain scenes and in paintings by the violent dramas of Henry Fuseli. In 1756, Edmund Burke defined the sublime as an artistic effect producing the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling.
The emotions (you talk about fear and wonder) can be embodied by the majesty of nature but also by the grandeur of a city. I think the city did not replace nature in this role. The relationship between man and this world has always walked this line between wonder at the beauty and terror at the sheer power of nature. It is easy sometimes to forget either, I would hope my work could remind the viewer of this. – Maybe that’s contemporary sublime?
6. We often have the impression that the human made constructions in On Edge could fall apart from one moment to the other. Looking at the photographs we experience some kind of suspension, vulnerability. Do you think that the book form, and thus the sequence, emphasizes this aspect?
Every aspect of a photography book should contribute to communicating the themes and mood of the work; otherwise the book is simply a catalogue of collected images. On Edge is concerned with the vulnerability of the world, with respect to constructions and de-constructions, transgressions and fatuities, accidents and incidents, menace and dismay. This for example is reflected in the design by including a translucent dust jacket that protects the book whilst susceptible to damage, much like humanity’s fragility.
7. Some photographs from On Edge are like an interlude. I’m referring to griffith’s diptych or battle and power. What happens in those parts of the book? What is, in your opinion, the narrative meaning of these interruptions?
Interludes are important. They are poems, whispers. They offer pause and reflection. They surprise with new allegoric aspects. Regarding battle and power I would suggest an epilogue, a concluding sequence. At the end of the book is a coda, I like to call Eden—which may be a place we can return to.
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As of June 21, 2001, US federal agencies must make websites accessible to people with vision impairments, hearing problems, limited dexterity and other disabilities.Section 508, an amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, mandates that people with disabilities be given as easy access to government information, including through websites, as anyone else.Organizations not covered under Section 508 may need to provide accessible websites under the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, or other applicable laws. Website accessibility is an international issue: many countries have instituted laws based upon the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) put forth by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
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Find answers to these questions in this section with information from presentations given by Terry Chadwick on the subject at the April 9, 2002 meeting of Internet Professionals Northwest (IPN); the Internet Librarian 2001 Conference on November 6, 2001 in Pasadena, California;the CHIFOO meeting on Web Site Accessibility on August 22, 2001; and on September 17, 2001 at the Making Information Technology Accessible to Employees and the General Public with Disabilities Program, sponsored by the Northwest Disablity Business Technical Assistance Center (DBTAC).
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This presentation was given at the Internet Professionals Northwest meeting on June 13, 2000. (Last updated September 25, 2000)The Usability section includes a pagethat lists various validators for accessibility, html and java standards, color-blind optimized sites, and more. (Last updated April 17, 2001.)
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A new 3D-imaging system that will provide facial cosmetic procedure patients with an accurate prediction of results is being developed by researchers at the University of Western Australia.
Most health practitioners who perform cosmetic work use before and after 2D photographs to show their patients a prediction of results, which can be misleading and unreliable.
Winthrop Professor Mohammed Bennamoun from the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering said the team had developed a fully automatic system to produce a 3D analysis of the outcomes of facial procedures.
“It is a 3D system that compares two overlaid images to produce a single and precise evaluation of the actual effects of a cosmetic procedure,” he said. “The system indicates where the changes have occurred and by how much, in association with a probability-based predictive modelling system to help the patient understand the potential changes before treatment.” The award-winning, grant-funded research is a national collaboration with UWA and Adelaide-based Cosmetic Medicine Australia.
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Vaishno Devi Temple is the most-sought after pilgrimage of the Hindus. Located at Trikoot Parvat, Mata Vaishno Mandir is the holiest shrine of India and it is famous all over the World. The temple is accessible by a journey of 13 kms from Katra. Katra is a small town that falls in Udhampur district of Jammu. From Jammu, Katra lies at a distance of 50 kms.
Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple
Shree Padmanabhaswamy Temple is located in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India . The temple is built in Dravidian style of architecture associated with the temples located in the neighboring state of Tamil Nadu, featuring high walls and a 16th-century Gopuram. While the Moolasthanam of the temple is the Ananthapuram Temple in Kasargod, architecturally to some extent, the temple is a replica of the Adikesava Perumal temple located in Kanyakumari District. It is the richest Hindu temple in the world. In fact, in terms of precious metals and precious stones, it is by far the wealthiest institution and place of worship of any kind in the recorded history of the world.
Ujjaini Peetham-Mahakali Devi Temple,Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
The Mahakali sanctuary is situated in Ujjain. The devi is called Hara Sidhi Mata. The Maha kali (hara sidhi mata) was the aradhana devi of The colossal King Vikramadithya. It is said that King Vikramadithya has offered his head (sirassu) by slicing it 11 times to devi and each one of those circumstances devi influenced him to live by going along with it back. The embellishment in the sanctuary is diverse every day. To finish everything, there is Parvati devi, in the inside Hara Sidhi Mata, in the base Maha Kali statues.
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The beauty and radiance of Vishnu has captivated many and his praise sung from time immemorial. One glance of the lotus eyes Kamalakshan is enough to make one His slave for eternity. The truth of this was apparent when we reached the 9th C CE Olipathi Vishnugraham cave after a 45 km drive from Tiruchi on the highway towards Thanjavur.
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The temple is one of the Ashtavinayaka, the eight revered shrines of Ganeshain Maharashtra, India. The Ganesha form worshipped here is called Vigneshwara (spelt also as Vigneshvar(a), Vigneshwar : "Lord of obstacles") or Vignahar (spelt also as Vignahara, "Remover of obstacles") and is associated with the legend of Ganesha defeating Vignasura, the demon of obstacles
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We are pleased to include in this issue of Insurgent Notes a series of very detailed accounts and analyses of the gilets jaunes or yellow vests movement in France prepared by activists associated with Temps critiques. The texts are informed by a distinctive theoretical perspective (regarding capitalist reproduction and the possibility of revolution) and their sustained involvement in the yellow vests movement from its inception. The fine nuances of the reports allow the authors to convincingly argue that it is essential to be attentive to what is new in the movement and to escape from the dead-end of merely enumerating a movement’s shortcomings in light of traditional understandings of what anti-capitalist movements are supposed to be like.
We are writing this editorial note as mass protests in Hong Kong approach the six-month mark with little sign that they’re running out of steam. And within the last few weeks, mass (at times, insurrectionary) protests have erupted in Ecuador, Chile, Lebanon, Iraq, and Haiti. And, even in all but completely repressed Egypt, brave souls ventured forth into the streets.1
Like the “yellow-vests” in France, the protesters are typically driven by a profound sense of outrage over the apparently never-ending and frequently worsening miserableness of their existences and a conviction that representative governments do nothing to address their more or less desperate conditions, except to act in ways that make them worse. To the best of our knowledge, none of the mass protests has been grounded in struggles over wages or working conditions. Instead, they are, all but entirely, shaped by struggles over prices and taxes.
In Chile, in response to an increase in subway fares, high school students initiated a campaign of widespread fare evasions in Santiago by mass occupations of subway stations designed to encourage commuters to go right in without paying the fare. In one memorable instance, it appeared that a group of students would be driven off from a subway station by police—only to be rescued by hundreds of other students arriving on the next train. Subsequently, protesters attacked almost all of the 164 stations in the city’s subway system; they destroyed 45 and burned down 20. Although this is all but certainly a premature judgment, it may well be that preserving and operating the mass transit system during a period of revolt might well be a better tactical move than destroying it.
What is evident is that many millions of people across the world are disgusted enough with the existing state of affairs that they are prepared to take extreme measures (and great risks) to demand changes. As one commentator noted about a protester in Hong Kong who acknowledged that he was risking his life, “He could be almost anywhere.” At the same time, we know little about the extent to which the protests are having ripple effects. One protester interviewed in Chile argued that most of the protesters knew little about realities and developments elsewhere. On the other hand, a veteran Chinese diplomat warned in an official Communist Party newspaper: “The disaster of ‘chaos in Hong Kong’ has already hit the Western world. We can expect that other countries and cities may be struck by this deluge.”
The conjuncture of mass protests in many countries invites consideration of the extent to which they portend a new field of possibility for revolutionary movements. In 1906, Rosa Luxemburg returned from her visit to and participation in the Russian revolution of the previous year and authored an historical account and powerful analysis of the worldwide emergence of the mass strike as a new weapon in the hands of the revolutionary proletariat. See The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions. Among other things, she argued that no party could orchestrate a mass strike; its spontaneous character was, indeed, a defining feature of its revolutionary potential.
She wrote at a time when mass social democratic parties counted their combined memberships in the millions. The leaders of those parties assumed their right and obligation to command the class struggle within their respective nations, especially when they hoped to undermine and divert mass revolt, on behalf of the eventual triumph of the “slow and steady wins the race” theory of socialist victory. Not surprisingly, they seldom became adherents of a Luxemburgist mass strike strategy. Today, those kinds of parties have vanished from the face of the earth but it does not mean that the somewhat fantastic notions of workers’ vanguards leading the revolutionary forces have yet evaporated—at least in the minds of the handfuls of various true believers spread across the globe. Once again, however, events can teach lessons if we’re open to learning them. The mass revolts of 2019 were all but completely unexpected and remain “headless” revolts—no one is in charge. Indeed, any attempts to provide leadership from existing political groups have been met with scorn.
But, if the protests are to endure and be successful, there are issues that require attention. How can movements best insure their own sustainability? How can movements prepare for police and military repression or for effors by the government to restrict food supplies? How can such movements prepare for their own sustainability over time by addressing matters such as protections for those arrested and injured?
We have no answers to offer. But we do believe that extensive international exchanges among the revolting forces might begin to provide some. We believe that we need something of the same scope and ambition as Luxemburg demonstrated in 1906 now. Our French comrades have given us a good idea of how to begin.
We close, though, with a look back on the Occupy movement and the early days of the anti-police protests in the aftermath of the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. When they occurred, we published what we continue to think were valuable analyses. But we do not think that they were adequate enough so that they could, as the French activists have done, see more of the future in the present.
In Spain, recently, hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets of Barcelona to protest the jailing of leaders of the Catalonian separatist movement. We wouldn’t want to discount the significance of the development but we see it as having a different character from the other examples we’ve cited.↩︎
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20 Best TV Spin-Offs Ever – Pt.2: Top 10.
December 19, 2018 Dom Kureen Leave a comment
Yesterday Dom Kureen shared the first half of his TV spin-off top-20 with the world, today it’s time to find out which shows made the top ten.
*Years of broadcast and original series in parenthesis.
10. Saved By The Bell (1989-93, Good Morning Miss Bliss)
This is one case where the spin-off was far superior to the original. Wise cracking Zach Morris (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) leads up a cast of pretty young things and uber dorks, whose antics usually come with a life lesson attached. In hindsight it looks a little cheesy, but was must see TV for any kids in the early 90’s.
9. Knowing Me, Knowing You (1994-95, On The Hour/The Day Today)
Having begun life as a character featured on BBC Radio 4’s “On The Hour”, and transferred to television with “The Day Today”, the Alan Partridge character was given his own series in 1994, with this spoof chat show. Steve Coogan masterfully portrays the hapless presenter, whose desperate attempts to curry favour with his guests inevitably backfire.
8. Happy Days (1974-84, Love, American Style)
Based in the 1950’s and 60’s, no show has spawned as many spin-offs as Happy Days, which was a spin-off itself. More than 10 years on air ended when the diminishing value of the classic sitcom struck a nadir – “The Fonz” jumping over a shark on water skis, thus coining the term ‘jumping the shark’, used in modern vernacular to describe a TV programme in decline.
7. Absolutely Fabulous (1992-2012, French and Saunders)
A sitcom brilliant in its uncensored bad behaviour and satirical humour, “Ab Fab” featured Edina and Patsy, two hard-drinking, drug-taking, selfish middle-aged women. Their cruel humour zoning in on the hypocrisy of modern day society, much to the chagrin of Edina’s more moral and conservative daughter, Saffron.
6. CSI Miami (2002-12, CSI)
A Florida team of forensics investigators use cutting-edge scientific methods and old-fashioned police work to solve crimes. Horatio Caine (David Caruso) leads the way with understated brilliance, and as tough an act to follow as CSI was, its Miami successor was retrospectively the superior series.
5. A Different World (1987-93 The Cosby Show)
A Different World followed the student life of Denise Huxtable, played by the gorgeous, talented Lisa Bonet, as she ditched the comfort of the Cosby bosom to attend Hillman College. Bonet lasted one season before getting knocked up by Lenny Kravitz. Her departure (and that of a young Marisa Tomei) didn’t harm the show, with four superior seasons preceding a flat finale.
4. Sesame Street (1969-present, Sam and Friends)
A long-time favourite of children and adults, Sesame Street bridges many cultural and educational gaps and has to date aired 4,378 episodes over the course of almost half a century. Big Bird leads a cast of characters teaching children numbers, colours and the alphabet. Bert and Ernie, Oscar the Grouch and Grover are just a few of the other creatures involved in this show, set on a city street full of valuable learning opportunities.
3. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-94, Star Trek)
Featuring a bigger and better USS Enterprise than its parent series, “TNG” is set 78 years after the original, in the 24th century. Instead of Captain James Kirk, a less volatile and more mature Captain Jean-Luc Picard (played by ultra smooth thesp’ Patrick Stewart) heads the crew of various humans and alien creatures in their adventures in space, aka: the final frontier.
2. Frasier (1993-2004, Cheers)
While many of Cheers’ spin-offs were tacky cash ins, Frasier had the staying power and depth of cast to last for 11 years and wave adieu on its own terms. Kelsey Grammar plays radio psychiatrist Frasier Crane, whose charm and sophistication beautifully dovetail with the rest of the ensemble, most notably brother Niles, who often steals the show courtesy of the excellent David Hyde Pierce.
1. The Simpsons (1989-present, The Tracey Ullman Show)
Beginning life as a series of short sketches produced by Matt Groening based on his own family, “The Simpsons” soon extended into a 25 minute weekly cartoon of its own. Purists will argue that it peaked during seasons 4-8, and that everything after season 20 (now on no.26) has been an abomination. Forget that for a minute though, The Simpsons revolutionised the cartoon comedy genre, and richly deserves its place atop the pile.
So, there you have it – tomorrow we’ll take a look at the worst spin-offs of all time, make sure you return and feel free to leave a comment in the section below.
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The Daily Ghost #5 06/22/1997 St.Goarshausen, Koblenz, Germany
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Phish.net notes: This single-set performance was part of the WDR Festival that also featured Ezio, K’s Choice, John Hiatt, Reef, Primus, and Steve Winwood.
Composed Section
No segue to lead us into the song and it starts a bit more up tempo that some of the previous versions. Gordon is hammering the bass right from the get go. Fishman’s vocals are a bit louder than normal. Page gets into the clav and throws us right into the funk, with Gordon providing some company. Trey’s vocals are pretty good before the drop in, then he starts to yell it a bit. The pause isn’t too long and they manage not to mess up the drop in too bad…
Jam>Space Funk
3:03 we are already into the jam. The funk has created a great groove right at the start. Page sets the tone with his clav play. Gordon is still slapping pretty hard, he starts to settle back by about the 4:00 mark. Trey starts to take the lead at about 4:10.
At the 4:20 mark Trey starts to play a lick a couple times. Gordon is back for some slap and Page starts to push into space. The Jam goes into a total space direction as Mike picks up his trusty space lasers. He begins alternating between firing lasers and destroying the building with his slapping.
At the 5:00 min mark Page comes firing into space with the clav. Trey gets into a jazzy bluesy solo at about the 5:15 mark. Fishman is brilliant throughout this section, playing a rock beat then into more a jazz beat. Meanwhile Gordon and Page bring the funk. A LOT going here.
At about the 5:50 mark Gordon is back to full slap and the jam has been broken down again. Fishman looks to lead them down to the space and they follow. At 6:14 you can hear Trey play a funk lick and BOOM everyone picks it up from there. More FUNK!
At 6:34 Trey takes the lead and plays a great solo. Cutting through the funk and murk Page and Gordon are throwing down. This jam is distinctly Ghost.
Big Red…we are ready….let’s do this
7:55 and Page has moved to the piano (LM gets excited), Fishman is pushing this sucker with some awesome fills and Gordon is back to destruction. Trey has really built this solo and each note is so clear. This is gorgeous soul moving stuff. At 9:04 Fish’s “ooohs” come back while he tares through the festival. He begins to start section things off and more of a whole band throttle is coming.
The Force of the Phish
At about the 10:00 mark the entire band throttles it up. Cactus plays some of the loudest slaps I have ever heard and Fishman is just going ape shit. I am tired from just listening to him. Make sure to watch the video posted below to see just how hard Fish is throwing down as he is the true star here. Page is also hammering down on the keys and Big Red is over there cutting it up. This is a great minute of full band force. They just miss that last little push higher, still great stuff. Gordon fires a few lasers before they give way to Steve Winwood.
Ghost closer? You betcha! Second great Ghost in a row. Like the previous version this one has a great Funk>Groove>Fire feel to it. Two great Ghosts in a row…how about a third? I will just say it is easily one of my favorite under appreciated Ghosts.
Score: 8.1 (Very Similar to Ghost #4, I put it just a touch lower)
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# October 16, 2012, 7:57 pm
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TDG #0 06/06/1997 Brad Sands’s and Pete Carini’s House, aka “The Fourth Ball” aka “Bradstock”
TDG #1 06/13/1997 The S.F.X Center Dublin, Ireland
TDG #2 06/16/1997 Royal Albert Hall, London, England
TDG #3 06/19/1997
Arena, Vienna, Austria
TDG #4 06/20/1997 Archa Theater, Prague, Czech Republic
TDG #5 06/22/1997 St.Goarshausen, Koblenz, Germany
TDG #6 06/24/1997 La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France
TDG #7 07/01/1997 Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
TDG #8 07/03/1997 Serenadenhof, Nuremberg, Germany
TDG #9 07/09/1997 Le Transbordeur, Lyon/Villeurbanne, France
TDG #10 07/10/1997 Espace Julien, Marseilles, France
TDG #11 07/21/1997 Virginia Beach Amphitheater, Virginia Beach, VA
TDG #12 07/23/1997 Lakewood Amphitheater, Atlanta, GA
TDG #13 07/25/1997 Starplex Amphitheater, Dallas, TX
TDG#14 07/29/1997 Desert Sky Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ
TDG #15 07/31/1997 Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA
TDG #16 08/02/1997 Gorge Amphitheater, George, WA
TDG #17 08/06/1997 Riverport Amphitheater, Maryland Heights, MO
TDG #18 08/09/1997 Alpine Valley Music Theater, East Troy, WI
TDG #19 08/13/1997 Star Lake Amphitheater, Burgettstown, PA
TDG #20 08/16/1997 Loring Commerce Center at Loring Air Force Base (First Night of the Great Went)
TDG #21 11/17/1997 McNichols Arena, Denver, CO
TDG #22 11/21/1997 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA
TDG #23 11/28/1997 Worcester Centrum Centre, Worcester, MA
TDG #24 12/02/1997 CoreStates Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA
TDG #25 12/05/1997 CSU Convocation Center, Cleveland, OH
TDG #26 12/11/1997 Rochester War Memorial, Rochester, NY
TDG #27 12/13/1997 Pepsi Arena, Albany, NY
TDG #28 12/28/1997 USAir Arena, Landover, MD
TDG #29 04/04/1998 Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI
TDG #30 06/30/1998 The Grey Hall, Freetown Christiana, Copenhagen, Denmark
TDG #32 07/06/1998 Lucerna Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic
TDG #33 07/08/1998 Zeleste, Barcelona, Spain
TDG #35 07/21/1998 Desert Sky Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ
TDG #36 08/02/1998 Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN
TDG #37 08/07/1998 Walnut Creek Amphitheater, Raleigh, NC
TDG #38 08/16/1998 Loring Commerce Center at Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, ME (Lemonwheel Festival Night 2)
TDG #39 10/15/1998 The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
TDG #40 10/20/1998 Sony Music Studios, New York, NY
TDG #41 10/31/1998 Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, NV
TDG #42 11/071998 UIC Pavilion, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
TDG #43 11/11/1998 Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, MI
TDG #44 11/15/1998 Murphy Center, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
TDG #45 11/19/1998 Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem, NC
TDG #46 11/24/1998 New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, CT
TDG #47 12/31/1998 Madison Square Garden, New York, New York
TDG #49 07/15/1999 PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ
TDG #50 07/20/1999 Molson Amphitheater, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
TDG #51 07/23/1999 Polaris Amphitheater, Columbus, OH
TDG #52 07/30/1999 Naeba Ski Resort, Niigata, Japan
TDG #53
09/09/1999 GM Place, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
09/12/1999 Portland Meadows, Portland, OR
09/17/1999 Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA
09/22/1999 Pan American Center, Las Cruces, NM
10/04/1999 RedBird Arena, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
10/09/1999 Pepsi Arena, Albany, NY
12/11/1999 First Union Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA
12/30/1999 Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Big Cypress, FL
05/22/2000 Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY
6/15/2000 Big Cat, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan
07/01/2000 Meadows Music Theater, Hartford, CT
07/07/2000 Star Lake Amphitheater, Burgettstown, PA
09/22/2000 Allstate Arena, Rosemont, IL
09/27/2000 Fiddler’s Green, Englewood, CO
02/15/2003 Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, NV
02/26/2003 Worcester Centrum Centre, Worcester, MA
07/12/2003 Gorge Amphitheater, George, WA
07/27/2003 Alltel Pavilion, Raleigh, NC
08/03/2003 Loring Commerce Center at Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, ME
11/28/2003 Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY
12/29/2003 American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
06/20/2004 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
06/26/2004 Alpine Valley Music Theater, East Troy, WI
08/12/2004 Tweeter Center at the Waterfront, Camden, NJ
08/15/2004 Newport State Airport, Coventry, VT
03/07/2009 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA
06/04/2009 Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
06/09/2009 Asheville Civic Center, Asheville, NC
06/20/2009 Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI
07/30/2009 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
08/14/2009 The Comcast Theater, Hartford, CT
10/31/2009 Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA
11/21/2009 U.S. Bank Arena, Cincinnati, OH
11/28/2009 Times Union Center, Albany, NY
12/31/2009 American Airlines Arena, Miami, Florida
06/11/2010 Toyota Park, Bridgeview, IL
06/27/2010 Merriweather Post Pavillion, Columbia, MD
07/04/2010 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park, Alpharetta, GA
08/06/2010 William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA
10/10/2010 1stBank Center, Broomfield, CO
10/26/2010 Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester, NH
10/31/2010 Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ
12/31/2010 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
06/01/2011 PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ
TDG #100
06/17/2011 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater – Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
07/03/2011 Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, NY
08/10/2011 Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys, Stateline, NV
08/17/2011 UIC Pavilion, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
09/04/2011 Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO
12/31/20011 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
06/07/2012 DCU Center, Worcester, MA
06/24/2012 Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
08/15/2012 Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA
07/07/2013 Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
07/21/2013 FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island, Chicago, IL
07/01/2014 Xfinity Center, Mansfield, MA
07/08/2014 The Mann Center for Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA
07/12/2014 Randall’s Island, New York, NY
07/16/2014 DTE Energy Music Theater, Clarkston, MI
07/20/2014 FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island Chicago, IL
07/26/2014 Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD
08/02/2014 Oak Mountain Amphitheatre, Pelham, AL
08/29/2014 Dick’s Sporting Good Park, Commerce City, Co
10/21/2014 Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA
10/24/2014 The Forum, Inglewood, CA
10/27/2014 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Franciso, CA
10/31/2014 MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, NV
07/21/2015 Les Schwab Amphitheater, Bend, OR
07/28/2015 Austin 360 Amphitheater, Del Valle, TX
07/31/2015 Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood, Atlanta, GA
08/11/2015 The Mann Center For The Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA
08/14/2015 Walnut Creek Amphitheater, Raleigh, NC
08/03/2018 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park, Alpharetta, GA
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Home Non-Fiction Africa DSM and the Struggle for a Working Peoples' Political Alternative
DSM and the Struggle for a Working Peoples' Political Alternative
DSM and the Struggle for a Working Peoples' Political Alternative is a compilation of the written ideas and perspectives of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) for the liberation of the working and poor masses of Nigeria, Africa and internationally, from capitalist and imperialist exploitation.
These are not just dry treatises but political, agitational and programmatic statements and articles published in the organs of our political tendency - first known as Labour Militant, then Militant from 1995 and Socialist Democracy from 1998.
As mobilization and mass education documents, they were used to intervene at barricades and protests as well as during strikes and meetings of workers and youth activists at different stages in the development of the oppressed and exploited peoples of Nigeria. These struggles were waged at one point - and indeed for a prolonged period - against military despotism and then since 1999, against the anti-poor capitalist civilian ruling elite who took over power from their military counterparts.
The compilation covers the 27-year period of our Marxist tendency, its role and interventions in the struggle of Nigeria's working masses. It was a period hall-marked by the offering of appropriate perspectives, slogans and programmes in the course of the struggle aimed at ending capitalism and enthrone socialism in Nigeria.
Editor Sango, Segun
No. of Pages 434
Publisher Democratic Socialist Movement
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Nokia N9 : Redux
A year ago, I was introduced to MeeGo at the MeeGo Conference in Dublin. A Linux-based OS backed by Nokia and Intel, it was full of potential, designed to be the future of Linux for netbooks, tablets, smartphones and other embedded devices. Several thousand developers and hackers rejoiced at the free tablets Intel gave out to get MeeGo hardware into peoples' hands.
Not long afterwards, that MeeGo was dead.
MeeGo, as we saw it, died the moment Nokia announced that they were choosing Windows Phone as their future smartphone strategy. Nokia, in fact, was the most important proponent of MeeGo, as it was to be their saving grace in mobile; quite simply, if Nokia didn't make MeeGo succeed they were going to be history. Instead, Nokia chose plan B, switching to another platform entirely, leaving Intel with a massive project that they had neither the skills nor the will to complete. A few months after Nokia pulled out, Intel announced they were moving MeeGo development to a new web-based OS and leaving the rest to open-source maintainers.
Yet Nokia still promised that they would create a 'MeeGo' smartphone. It would be their Qt halo device, the flagship phone for the development platform that was quickly becoming the primary platform for their Symbian devices.
Expectations were high; photographs of prototype devices had leaked and the hardware was handsome - aluminum and glass, with a keen likeness to Apple's MacBook Pro. We expected a nerdy developer device with a moderately cool open source and hackable OS, a true successor to the N900.
Instead, Nokia unveiled a "concept car", stunningly beautiful with an amazing OS that blends the gorgeous design and ease of use of iOS with a real, hackable, GNU/Linux core. This concept car was actually coming to market, and they called it the N9.
I've written about the N9 before, and what I think about the OS based on the N950 developer device I was given. Now, I have the final retail hardware on my desk, and it's every bit as awesome as expected. The polycarbonate unibody construction feels amazing in hand. What they characterize as an inky black screen looks phenomenal. What I expected to be a crummy door on the top (for the USB port and microSIM slot) is a really nice mechanism, solid with a spring to it. The microSIM door slides sideways and pops out in a really nice way. The speaker system fascinates me, as even when you cover the speaker entirely your music doesn't drop off in volume or muffle horribly - you won't accidentally silence video playback or games by covering it with your hand. It does indeed feel faster and more stable than the N950 developer hardware, and the software keyboard is way easier to type on. Accidental edge-swipes are less likely now with the curved glass screen, so the entire UI metaphor works wonderfully. In short, it takes your breath away.
As a concept car, Nokia are only doing a limited run of N9s - 100,000 or so. Their MeeGo Harmattan OS is receding back behind the curtains, hopefully to return in another concept device in the future, whatever that may be. It sounds like Nokia is going to cannibalize Harmattan and bring a lot of this UI and design sense back to their non-smartphones with a new Linux-based OS called Meltemi. Indeed, the winds of change are blowing in the right direction. The N9 hardware design is being improved upon and re-used in Nokia's first Windows Phone device, the Lumia 800. I really believe Windows Phone was the right choice for Nokia (and that's why every app in our portfolio is either already ported to WP7, or soon will be).
For now, MeeGo may be dead. Harmattan may never see the light of day again either. But I get to drive a concept car. For that, thank you, Nokia.
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Home / All About Baseball / Major Leagues / LOD Weekly Grapefruit League Report
LOD Weekly Grapefruit League Report
The LOD Weekly Grapefruit League Report is your source for Grapefruit League news throughout Spring Training. Check back for spring training highlights and top stories from around the camps.
Grapefruit League Standings (as of 3/8/2018):
Yankees 10 3
Astros 10 5
Marlins 7 5
Red Sox 8 6
Nationals 7 7
Twins 6 6
Cardinals 6 6
Braves 6 7
Orioles 6 7
Rays 6 7
Tigers 6 8
Phillies 6 8
Blue Jays 6 8
Pirates 4 7
Mets 5 9
Latest Grapefruit League Team News:
J.D. Martinez watch: The Boston Red Sox new slugger finally appeared in a game on March 7th finishing 0 for 2, but on the very next day, Martinez showed the Boston faithful just why they should be excited this season as he finished 3 for 3, with a double and an RBI. Catcher Blake Swihart is still tearing it up in spring as he is batting .385 (10 for 26) and has hit safely in seven of the nine games he has played so far.
New York Yankees Aaron Judge, the reigning AL Rookie of the Year winner, is graced on the cover of MLB The Show 2018 video game. Miguel Andujar is tied for third in the Grapefruit League with four homers through nine games.
Atlanta Braves top outfield prospect Ronald Acuna hit his first home run on March 2nd and is now batting .393 (11 for 28) this spring.
New York Mets are hoping for a big season in 2018 and it all starts with their prized starting rotation. So far this spring Noah Syndergaard has been proving that he is ready to take the helm as the teams Ace. In 8.1 IP this spring, Thor has a 1.08 ERA, with 13 K’s, while allowing just one run on three hits, and three walks. Opponents are batting just .107 against him and he as a .072 WHIP. As for Matt Harvey, in two games he is 1-0, with a 1.80 ERA, allowing one run on four hits, three K’s in five innings of work. Lefty Steven Matz has struggled to find his groove so far as he has given up 10 runs in just 1.2 innings worked. Jacob deGrom will finally make his spring debut on Sunday.
St. Louis Cardinals Matt Carpenter has been sidelined with a back injury, is not looking to be read for opening day.
Miami Marlins continue to win ball games as they are 7-5 through 12 games, but when the real games begin, not sure the success on the field will be as great.
Houston Astros Kyle Tucker, a non-roster invitee to camp, is batting .400 (10 for 25), with a double, four home runs and 10 RBIs through 10 games.
Philadelphia Phillies reliever Francisco Rodriguez, which is hard to believe is now 36 years old, is showing that he may not be the same dominate pitcher but he is making a case that he can still get batters out. Through five games in relief, K-Rod has not given up a run, while allowing three hits, four strikeouts in 4.1 IP. He has allowed six walks but three of those came against the Yankees on March 1st.
Baltimore Orioles Manny Machado is still tearing up the spring batting .524 (11 for 21), with three doubles, two home runs and 12 RBIs through eight games.
Toronto Blue Jays prospect Vladimir Guerrero Jr. showed he may be just as good as his dad was, as he displayed his talents in his first spring game on Thursday finishing 4 for 5, with two runs scored.
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