Background Information on Lwandiso Njara and his work

Growing-up in a traditional Xhosa household, Lwandiso Njara's Catholic schooling by nuns from India and Switzerland exposed him to different ideologies and technologies and his spiritual and cultural identity was thus informed by a combination of western Catholicism and ancestral rituals. He visualizes this hybrid nature of his upbringing in works poignantly questioning whether the two realms can merge as one and to what extent the technological advances have replaced the soul of a culture in a changing global environment.

Njara’s new body of work ENGINEERING THE NEW JERUSALEM III - The Digital City often blatantly merges polarities in one body through using lambs, goats, cows and white doves fused with mechanical gears and engines, all acting as signifiers for the artist's own hybrid sense of identity.

“I believe that my work resembles or explores the new contemporary robotic or technological African urban identity; indicative of what future cities and people could look like”, he says.

According to Gordon Froud, HOD of Fine Art at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA, UJ) “…(Njara) imagines the fusion of technology and the human body as well as aspects of the animal body into a hybrid of the future. Taking the strength and instinct of the animal, the thought capacity of the human and the technical qualities of technology and combining these in an almost cyborg way into this ‘new’ creature, the African of the future. He extends this idea into machines taking on animalistic qualities almost embodying the spirit of the animal. I see his work as that of an Afrofuturist that is embracing the past and yet firmly on a trajectory to the future”.

His thematic titles and the content of his work continually alludes to the religious (Altar, God Engineering, New Jerusalem), merging it with ancestral symbols (the sacrificial goat, lamb) and technology (engineering, cogs and wheels). These threefold elements lie at the core of a recognition of the hybrid nature of his identity.

He morphs Western ideologies with his traditional Xhosa histories and cultural practise; the rural with the urban and the animalistic with technology in an effort to understand his own lived experience of a hybrid African identity in his reimagining of the future outcome of such a hybrid nature.

Njara initially focused on sculpture in concrete and bronze and had significant success with entries into national competitions, solo exhibitions and participation in major group shows during the period from 2009 to 2012. His unpolished and raw three-dimensional works, depicting animals with exposed innards consisting of various mechanisms and tools or a beheaded Madonna standing on a variety of cogs and wheels, suggest archaeological findings from a disintegrating world.

He now explores his themes primarily through drawing. In his graphite and pencil drawings the approach is more detailed, softer in texture, but powerfully positioned against an often-dark background and with distinct movement of objects – birds not flying out of natural volition, but in motion through technological intervention.

Lwandiso Njara was born in 1987 in a small Transkei village of Libode, situated in the picturesque Mpondo Valley. He still derives his inspiration from his formative years spent in this rural setting. After completing his secondary education at Port Elizabeth College, he moved to Pretoria where he completed a B Tech degree in Fine Arts at the Tshwane University of Technology.

Since then, he has exhibited regularly and has been the recipient of rewards such as the first prize in the Thami Mnyele Fine Arts competition (2012) as well as a merit award in the PPC Young Sculptor competition (2012) and a runner-up prize in the PPC competition in 2009.

The artist exhibit regularly with Lizamore and Associates and his work has been shown at the Cape Town and Turbine Art Fairs.

He currently resides in Cape Town.

Homi K. Bhabha [1], one of the most prominent post-colonial theorists, views the human world as “…composed of separate and unequal cultures, rather than as an integral human world…” disseminating the prevalence of “…imaginary peoples and places” (113).

Hybridisation, to him, stems from colonial relationships leading to a multicultural hybrid of the own and that of the coloniser’s identity.

According to Yannis Generalis [2], recipient of the UJ Chancellor's gold medal for most meritorious MTech (Visual Arts) research in 2020, "A broad spectrum of socio-cultural, as well as ideological 'mixing' may be examined using the lens of hybridity. When considering hybrid identities and hybrid art, we are compelled to explore visual ambiguity, contextual density and aesthetic inventiveness as evidence of creative strategies that have evolved from hybrid influences”.

“In the context of our country's post-colonial consciousness, the term 'Hybrid Vigour', when applied to the arts, may describe an intentional strategy in certain artists' work. Regenerations of expression that exhibit 'Hybrid Vigour' utilise more than one form of creative energy. In the process of accessing and activating multiple pre-existing modes, exciting new attributes begin to emerge in the artist's creative lexicon, he says."

Mark Dery, an American cultural critic, lecturer and author, is credited with the conception of the term Afrofuturism in 1993. [3] Broadly perceived as an artistic movement exploring the intersection between African culture/Black politics and science and technology, this term is defined as “… a cultural aesthetic that combines science-fiction, history and fantasy to explore the African-American experience and aims to connect those from the black diaspora with their forgotten African ancestry”. [4]

The allure of techno culture has drawn support not only from visual and performing artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers and fashionista, but is also perceived by academics and researchers as a powerful creative movement addressing the future of people from African descent, their relevance in contemporary society and the creation of a more just society.

Defining identity, the dictionary [5] indicates a distinct individual personality as persistent and unchanged and with distinct characteristics and homogenous representation.

The concept of identity within the postmodern epoch as proposed by 20th century philosophers such as Lyotard [6] and Baudrillard [7] [8] is however considered fluid, fragmented and unstable and always in the process of changing due to the effects of colonialization, late capitalism, globalisation and vast technological advances.

Formed by a myriad of cultural, social, economic and political influences and interactions, the postcolonial identity is a constant negotiation of the self within historical contexts and categories such as race, gender or class.

[1] Bhabha, Homi,K (1994). The Location of Culture. New York: Routledge

[2] Generalis, Yannis (2020). Excerpts from Master’s dissertation "Hybrid Vigour as creative strategy in the works of Grace Jones, Steven Cohen and my own "

[3] Dery, Mark (1993). "Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose". The South Atlantic Quarterly. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

[4] Art Terms. Afrofuturism. Tate Galleries, UK Date unknown. (Accessed 15 02 2021).

[5] (accessed 15 02 2021)

[6] Lyotard, J-F. (1984) The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Manchester: Manchester University Press

[7] Baudrillard, J. (1988) Selected Writings. Cambridge: Polity Press

[8] Baudrillard, J. (1994a) Simulacra and Simulation. Michigan: University of Michigan Press


This pair of dancing stars will one day collide and explode

Researchers explain the stellar movements of the Wolf-rayet binary star system called Apep, a true oddity in our galaxy.

This pair of dancing stars will one day collide and explode
The star system is called "Apep" after the Egyptian god of chaos with the same name.
The star system is called "Apep" after the Egyptian god of chaos with the same name. (European Southern Observatory/)

About 8,000 light-years from Earth, two stars dance. One of them takes the lead and spins aggressively around the other, with so much energy that it sucks away matter from its partner, forcing it to reveal its core. But the stationary star is powerful, too, boasting enough power to strip down the outer layers of its orbiting partner. The naked pair of stars is what astronomers call a “wolf-rayet binary star system,” and their dance will continue until they collapse into one another. Last week, a team of researchers uncovered some of the pair’s most intricate secrets.

This could be the first sighting of a fast-spinning wolf-rayet star binary system, “an idea that’s been floating around for 30 years, but we have not necessarily seen one until now,” says Mathieu Renzo, a researcher at the Center for Computational Astrophysics of the Flatiron Institute in NYC, and who was not involved with the study.

Since its discovery in 2018, Apep, as researchers call this particular pair of wolf-rayet stars, has baffled astronomers. Not only is it a real oddity—we have only found a few hundred in our galaxy—but it has some extremely rare features. The pair of stars is so incredibly hot and bright, that when they spin, they create stellar winds that can go as fast as 1% of the speed of light. This stellar wind is responsible for stripping the stars to their cores, and in the process creates a halo of dust around the pair. This dust should expand at the same speed as the wind moving it—but when researchers at the University of Sydney found Apep, they noticed that its dust was moving at just a quarter of the wind speed. That shouldn’t be—the finding almost defied logic.

“The logic was absolutely convoluted,” says astronomer Yinuo Han, lead author of the paper. In the paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the team proposes a mathematical model that explains the mismatches they saw in Apep’s images.

To craft this model, the team first had to analyze thousands of images taken over three years at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. “It’s not like we received a JPEG file. We receive the images in a very messy, almost obscure format,” Han explains. His first task was ‘cleaning up’ the images, removing all the light emitted by other stars and stellar bodies so they could see Apep more clearly.

Removing all that light noise allowed the team to take a detailed look at the two stars. They discovered that both stars are about 10 to 15 times more massive than the Sun and more than 100,000 times brighter. It takes them 125 years to complete a full orbit around each other, at a distance comparable to the size of our Solar System, according to a press release. This movement inspired the team, led by astronomer Peter Tuthill, to name the system after the Egyptian god of chaos, explains Han. “Apep [is represented] as a snake coiled up and sort of chasing the light in the middle,” he says. “[Apep] has to fight Ra, the Sun, and they chase each other every night.”

But more importantly, they were able to figure out that from Earth, we are looking at the central star “from above” so we see just one of its poles (like the Earth, stars have poles and equator). It was precisely that last bit of information that allowed them to develop a model that might explain the difference in speeds they were observing. They measured the wind speed coming out of the pole facing Earth, but the dust was coming out of the star’s equator. “It’s a very special star where the wind from the poles is much faster than the wind from the equator,” Han says.

How is this even possible? “When you have something moving very fast, you have the effect of centrifugal force on the spinning object,” explains Renzo. This force reshapes the star, making it flatter in the poles and rounder in the center—similar to a football—which makes the wind coming out of the star’s poles faster than the one pushing dust out of the equator. Since the two stars are dancing in a circular motion, the dust doesn’t expand in a straight line, but rather one that wraps into a spiral. “As the two stars orbit one another, this dust gets twisted and sculpted into a vast glowing sooty tail,” explained co-author Tuthill in a post about the discovery.

If the model is correct, the dance of Apep will end in the most intense explosion that we know of, a gamma ray burst. If the system was pointing towards the Earth, its future explosion could erase our planet’s ozone layer, exposing all living creatures to the Sun’s ultraviolet radiation. Thankfully, it’s pointed elsewhere; and having a fast spinning pair of wolf-rayet stars in our neighborhood will give us valuable information about the formation of other gamma-ray bursts, Han explains.

“The field of massive stars' evolution and explosion is booming right now,” Renzo says. “But most [telescopes] look for systems that are very far away, outside of our galaxy, and so it’s difficult to have a lot of data. This system provides you with a very complex system very close, so you can have a lot of detail. It’s very important to push both these directions to understand better the life of stars.”


Transitions: Pathways to a Post-Carbon Future

NOMIS Research Project

One of the most urgent challenges facing the human species—and the planet—is the need to transition to a carbon-neutral economy. To some, this seems an impossible task. Yet human society, ever resilient and adaptive, has undergone comparable paradigmatic changes multiple times in the past with the shift to agriculture, urbanization, the Industrial Revolution and globalization. Even more rapid transformations are associated with the digital economy, many of which are being accelerated by the current global pandemic.

Like these other transitions, efforts to limit global climate change take place at many levels of society. There are agreements and directives promoted by the institutions of global governance and states. Civil society actors and social movements actively push for change as well. Corporations and industries are beginning to acknowledge their responsibilities to reduce their carbon footprints and see opportunities to gain strategic advantages over peers that lag behind. Cities, too, are often moving ahead of slow-moving or recalcitrant states, providing real-time experiments from which others can learn. New values and ethics are being articulated and embraced. The COVID-19 pandemic signals the need to pay greater attention to the relationship between humans and the environment, and states have displayed an unanticipated capacity to respond to large-scale problems at breakneck speed.

Transitions: Pathways to a Post-Carbon Future is combining insights from the deep history of social transformation, the literature on technological change and a multi-sited ethnography to investigate the range of responses to climate change. It involves research and collaboration at institutions of global governance, climate change think tanks, and sites of innovation and design within specific sectors of the economy.

The project is being led by Stuart Kirsch at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (US).


A detailed simulation study of three-dimensional laboratory experiments, representing steamflooding in a tar sand reservoir underlain by a communicating water zone was conducted to validate a thermal simulator and to delineate important process effects. Four experiments which included effects of injection rate and unconfined patterns were simulated. The same input properties were used in all runs.

Calculated results agree well with the measured data for oil production rate, cumulative oil recovery, produced water/oil ratio, temperature profiles in the model at different times, and the oil saturation profile at the end of the flood for all experiments. The linear model for three-phase oil relative permeability predicts steamflood residual oil saturation more accurately than the Stone's II model. For unconfined patterns, a significant portion of displaced oil can escape through the bottomwater zone.

References and illustrations at end of paper.

Computer simulations are widely used for field-scale performance calculations of steam injection processes. However, some major differences have been observed between the field data and the simulator-predicted performance.1 These differences are generally attributed to the lack of detailed reservoir geology, relative permeability data, three-phase oil relative permeability models, and/or migration of fluid across the reservoir boundaries. Therefore, to lower the uncertainty in the predictions, a (non-unique) history match of the observed field data is often performed as a prelude to process variation or parametric studies.2,3

Three-dimensional, scaled, physical models have also been extensively used to investigate and predict steamflood performance.4,5 High-pressure models employ actual field crude oil and reservoir pressures and temperatures. Thus, they represent real compositional and flow behaviors of the crude oil. However, all parameters are not scaled in physical models. Numerical models, on the other hand, sometimes employ simplifying assumptions or semi-empirical models to describe complex processes; for example, three-phase oil relative permeability and high-temperature rock-fluid interaction. Therefore, physical and numerical models can complement each other as a means of investigating process mechanisms.

Physical models are ideal for validating numerical simulators and for evaluating modeling and input parameters. They have simple geology, well-defined boundary conditions, and known initial saturations. In addition, detailed injection and production data, temperature profiles, and residual saturation profiles are generally obtained in a laboratory model study. However, little published information is available on detailed comparisons of three-dimensional laboratory vs. numerical model studies.

Shutler 6 simulated one-eighth of a five-spot laboratory experiment using a two-dimensional, wedge-shaped, cross-sectional (x-z) model. Shutler showed good comparison between the calculated and measured cumulative recovery curves. He did not compare any other measured and calculated data.

Coates et. al.7 compared Intercomp's three-dimensional model against Shutler's6 data and Getty's laboratory experimental data for a quarter of a five-spot model. They compared the cumulative recovery curves and temperature contours for one experiment and showed reasonable agreement. The discrepancy between the model and observed data was speculated to be caused by the inhomogeneities in the sand pack, non-uniform initial oil distributions, and relative permeability curves and their temperature dependence.

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Beware any politician talking about the coloured tapes of bureaucracy

Some of the Australian media on May 8 2019 began quoting the current Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, over his concerns about the “green tape” of environmental laws and something called “the expansion of union “red tape””. (Nine Australia’s papers, paywalled) Crikey’s Bernard Keane asks “Does Australia really have a ‘green tape’ crisis?” (paywalled) and proceeds to answer, No we don’t. But where there is Green Tape, the Red Tape of occupational health and safety (OHS) follows.

What Morrison means by “union red tape” is unclear. The newspapers included this quote from him:

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Blackjack-a popular game in online casinos However, the dealer

Blackjack-a popular game in online casinos

The basic game consists of three parts: betting, blackjack play, and dealer call. The first part, betting, involves the ball player betting on the amount you wish to bet, called “buy”. The next part, playing blackjack, includes paying the full amount of the bet, also known as “payout”. The third and final section of the game is simply to call the dealer and lose your bet. In order for the player to win, he must beat the dealer’s blackjack card rating. Optimum card class in a blackjack hand is “Nine”, with Aces, Kings, Queens, Jacks and Tens being lower.

Another basic technique for Blackjack may be the range game strategy. This is basically a variation of the typical strategy of card matching. This allows players to see in case a particular combination of cards is worth the stake. 카지노사이트 If so, the ball player bets exactly the same amount but plays conservatively with much fewer hands. Using this method, your chances of gaining significant profits increase.

Blackjack in some casinos is named River Blackjack. In this variant, the player goes to a river having an open table. In a normal blackjack game, two players sit at opposite ends of a table facing one another. In River Blackjack, both players sit opposite one another but are put at opposite ends of the table from where they started the game.

The Twenty-One card game is among the most popular games in the world. In this version of Blackjack, players are blindfolded and receive a deck of cards. Then your numbers are drawn. Following the player sees the number coming out, 21 is named and everyone gets exactly the same amount because the cards drawn.


Smoke Systems

High performance two stroke engines scavenge the exhaust stream in order to increase power output.  If smoke producing fluids are injected into the exhaust stream before the muffler i.e. right at the cylinder they will be drawn back into the cylinder and burned along with the ordinary fuel/oil/air mixture.  This may cause the engine to overheat.  That is, if you believe that mixing the smoke fluid with the oil/gas mixture and then running it through the engine would not be a problem, then it may be OK.  Consider, however, that adding additional oil may cause overheating.

If you install a smoke system, the fluids should be injected AFTER the tuned scavenging chamber, not before.  A properly installed smoke system in the Top 80, for example, requires the injector to be placed just before the muffler rather than adjacent to the cylinder (the scavenging system).


Tokyo “Might” Be Uber’s First Asian Launch

TechCrunch’s Kim-Mai Cutler and I are in the Land of the Rising Sun this week, completing a series of startup interviews and talks, and guest moderating TechCrunch Disrupt Tokyo 2012.

When asked directly whether or not Tokyo was absolutely the company’s first choice for an Asian launch, he said “possibly,” explaining that Uber’s Asian launch strategy was contingent on getting the right people involved. He also mentioned that the startup, which has raised a total of $49.5 million in funding thus far, had someone on the ground in Hong Kong, but Japan was the first city he personally had visited.

If the company does choose to launch in Tokyo first, it faces, just like it’s faced everywhere else, challenges from all sides. The city of Tokyo is glutted with taxis since Japan’s economic downturn eliminated many other forms of gainful employment, around 58k licensed cabs at last count. It’s unclear whether the startup, which doesn’t own any black cars itself, would require a license of transportation from either the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or the Tokyo Metropolitan Transportation department to operate here.

It’s also unclear whether Hong Kong, which already boasts a few taxi apps, would be a better market for Uber than Tokyo with regards to regulation and demand. Despite the influx of cabs in Tokyo, it’s still an incredibly laborious trek to the Narita International Airport, which is about a two-hour bus or train ride away from Tokyo’s city center. A taxi to Narita costs a prohibitive $300 and might even be slower than a bus, because taxis have to clear a series of tolls to leave Tokyo proper.

What is clear is that, despite increasing setbacks and criticism, Kalanick remains singularly focused on expanding the Uber platform and is full speed ahead as far international plans are concerned. The CEO, who ended up taking a bus to and from the airport during his stay in Nihon, was headed to the US for a pit stop, then Australia next.


Quick Answer: How Do You Write Logistic Regression Results?

What does a logistic regression tell you?

How do you describe regression results?

How do you analyze multiple regression results?

Interpret the key results for Multiple RegressionStep 1: Determine whether the association between the response and the term is statistically significant.Step 2: Determine how well the model fits your data.Step 3: Determine whether your model meets the assumptions of the analysis.

How do you interpret regression output?

What is the output of a regression in ML?

In Regression, the output variable must be of continuous nature or real value. In Classification, the output variable must be a discrete value. The task of the regression algorithm is to map the input value (x) with the continuous output variable(y). … Regression Algorithms are used with continuous data.

What is logistic regression with example?

Logistic Regression is one of the most commonly used Machine Learning algorithms that is used to model a binary variable that takes only 2 values – 0 and 1. The objective of Logistic Regression is to develop a mathematical equation that can give us a score in the range of 0 to 1.

What are the limitations of logistic regression?

How do you interpret OLS results?

Statistics: How Should I interpret results of OLS?R-squared: It signifies the “percentage variation in dependent that is explained by independent variables”. … Adj. … Prob(F-Statistic): This tells the overall significance of the regression. … AIC/BIC: It stands for Akaike’s Information Criteria and is used for model selection.More items…•

How do you know if a coefficient is statistically significant?

If the p-value is less than the significance level (α = 0.05)Decision: Reject the null hypothesis.Conclusion: “There is sufficient evidence to conclude that there is a significant linear relationship between x and y because the correlation coefficient is significantly different from zero.”

When should logistic regression be used?

Why do we use multiple regression analysis?

First, it might be used to identify the strength of the effect that the independent variables have on a dependent variable. … That is, multiple linear regression analysis helps us to understand how much will the dependent variable change when we change the independent variables.

What is multiple regression example?

What is the regression coefficient?


USAREUR's Persistent Presence

Wednesday May 7, 2014

What is it?

The exercises, conducted by U.S. Army Europe Soldiers and host nation forces, are a demonstration of U.S. commitment to NATO and to the nation’s collective defense responsibilities through increased ground, air, and naval force presence. The intent of the supplementary exercises is to reassure NATO allies that the U.S. commitment to meeting the nation’s Article 5 obligations is unwavering. This action comes at the request of the host nation governments who have welcomed U.S. troops inside their sovereign borders.

What has the Army done?

What continued efforts does the Army have planned for the future?

The exercises are all part of the U.S. Army Europe annual training and exercise schedule designed to achieve the command’s strategic objective of enhancing security cooperation and interoperability within the European theater.

Why is this important to the Army?

The Army has a duty to demonstrate America’s land force commitment to NATO and U.S. collective defense responsibilities. A persistent presence and rotational training in Europe helps to reassure our allies as it builds the Army’s ability to function in joint, multinational, multiservice and interagency environments, and sets the conditions for creating effective coalitions.


Three reasons to wave goodbye to steel

Jon Lawson

Composite materials are not a new concept, but advancements in technology mean that these materials are beginning to surpass traditional building resources in popularity. Nick Cowley explains the advantages of choosing a composite over steel

According to discoveries by archaeologists, the earliest examples of composite materials were documented through ancient tomb paintings, illustrating the combination of straw and mud to build homes and other structures. Composite materials are certainly not a new concept, but technology advancements mean that the benefits these materials afford is seeing them surpass traditional building resources.

Lightweight and low cost

As a general rule of thumb, composite materials are significantly lighter than traditional alternatives. Glass reinforced plastic (GRP) composites, for example, are 80 percent lighter than steel and 30% lighter than standard aluminium. For the transportation, infrastructure and aerospace industries, this weight reduction can dramatically lower the cost of transportation and installation. The potential to ease the installation process may be music to the ears for many end users, but the benefits of lightweight composites go beyond this basic advantage.

Opting for a lighter alternative can generate long-term operational savings. For example, NASA and Boeing recently collaborated to develop the world’s lightest and largest composite cryogenic tank. The tank was created using lightweight composite materials and was designed to hold fuel on deep space missions - a positive step towards a NASA objective to reduce rocket launch costs by 2%.

The lightweight properties of composite materials can also assist in adhering to industry regulations and mean reduced health and safety hazards. Something that is 80% lighter than steel is much less likely to cause serious injury during installation if it were dropped while being moved.

Strong yet flexible

Humans have been combining materials to create stronger and denser compounds for years, so it comes as no surprise that composites have become the material of choice for modern aircrafts, civil structures and automobiles. However, compared to the ancient approach of combining mud and straw, today’s composites are increasingly complex and, in turn, much more flexible.

By combining specific resins and reinforcements, end users are able to meet the specific strength requirements of any application. For design engineers, this provides the flexibility to tailor the properties of the final product depending on what the product will be used for and the stress it is likely to be exposed to.

The specific strength of a material, also known as its strength-to-weight ratio, is a vital consideration during product design. Steel is indisputably strong, but in comparison to its heavy mass, the strength-to-weight ratio is relatively poor. As an alternative, engineers and designers are beginning to discard traditional heavy-duty metals and are choosing strong - but lightweight - alternatives instead, like GRP.

Composite materials also come out on top when measuring tensile strength. Tensile strength describes the amount of stress, damage or friction a material can withstand before it breaks, cracks or bends out of shape. Ultimately, the strength of composites can vary depending on its design factors, however, the tensile strength of a composite material can range up to 2,410 mega-pascals (MPa) compared to a disappointing 690 MPa for steel.

Durable with low maintenance

The popularity of steel came about due to its long-term durability. Admittedly, the long-term sturdiness of modern composites is slightly harder to estimate, as many modern composite structures in use are yet to reach the end of their lifespan.

For example, the first all-composite bridge in the United States was installed more than 20 years ago and has been in constant service ever since. Despite dealing with repeatedly applied loads, the bridge shows no sign of damage. Judging by this example and the low levels of wear on many other composite structures, it would appear that composite materials rival their metal predecessors for durability.

It is not only brute force that composite materials are able to withstand. Composites are also robust when dealing with adverse weather conditions. Unlike metal, composites will not warp, shrink or rust. They also hold up well against environmental factors like UV damage, temperature changes and chemical exposure. Composites are unlikely to suffer from unexpected damage and as a result, require virtually no upkeep, keeping maintenance costs to a minimum.

The technological advancements of composite materials have come a long way since the straw and mud used by the ancient Egyptians. However, the advantages of this manufacturing concept have remained the same; taking the individual benefits of a number of different materials to create a superior product.

Nick Cowley is country manager of composite technology specialist, MCL Group.

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Het geheim van Delft

Maurits Binger / NL, 1917 / 62 min.

Lily Bouwmeester and Annie Bos, two divas of the early Dutch cinema, star in this spectacular production by Maurits Binger’s Hollandia Film company. A striking feature of this successful mix of crime and melodrama is its ingenious use of tinting and the action scenes: Annie Bos let herself be tied to the wing of a windmill for the film’s final scene.

How does that famous Delft Blue pottery acquire its beautiful shine? The nephew of an inventor working for an earthenware factory is determined to worm the secret out of his uncle even if it means the poor man gets sent to prison. The inventor”s daughters Lily Bouwmeester and Annie Bos turn the tables in a spectacular final scene, with a key role reserved for a classic Dutch symbol, the windmill.

Binger”s ninth feature film was long regarded as lost, but was recovered and restored to its former glory by the Filmmuseum in 1995. The restoration also highlighted Binger”s resourceful use of tinting, employing different gradations of colour. Sometimes he even varied the background colour within a single take.

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Improving Virtual Meetings

The demand for virtual meetings increased as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic closed offices, introduced social distancing and halted business travel. As the COVID-19 threat shifts and offices reopen, virtual meetings will continue to be a viable way to conduct business with employees, customers and other stakeholders.

Virtual meetings require more planning than in-person meetings to be effective. Here we explore the common challenges and best practices to help meeting leaders drive


A Game of Thrones Boardgame

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A game of warfare, diplomacy, and intrigue, based on George R.R. Martin’s fantasy novels. View larger.

Claim the Iron Throne

Based on the bestselling fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin (now a hit HBO series), A Game of Thrones: The Board Game draws players into a war-torn world of sun-scorched sands, lush forests, and chilling northlands. Each player takes control of one of six Great Houses of Westeros, then sets out on an epic campaign of combat and politics to secure total dominance.

This board game includes clear, detailed rules to guide you through setup and gameplay. Play begins when each person receives an army of footmen, knights, siege engines and ship units as well as a set of order tokens and other necessary components. Each player also receives a deck of unique house cards, which represent important characters from A Song of Ice and Fire and are used as leaders in battles against rival houses.

Vibrant Art and Intricate Detailing

A Game of Thrones: The Board Game captures the most memorable elements of George R.R. Martin’s popular series. The detailed board represents an accurate map of Westeros, and the tokens and cards convey many of its most significant locations and characters. Attractive marbled plastic figures shaped as footmen, knights, ships, and siege engines display your military might to the realm while contributing to the game’s overall medieval aesthetic.

Game board is enhanced with figures, battle cards, tokens, and overlays.

Raise Your House to Dominance

Game play proceeds over the course of ten rounds, after which the player who has claimed the most areas containing castles or strongholds is declared the winner. If at any time throughout the game a player controls seven such areas, that player may immediately claim victory.

Each round in the game is made up of three phases: the Westeros Phase, the Planning Phase, and the Action Phase. The Westeros Phase represents special events and the day-to-day activities in Westeros. In the Planning Phase, players secretly assign orders to all of their units. This portion of the game emphasizes diplomacy and deduction. Can players trust their so-called allies, or is a timely betrayal in the making? Finally, during the Action Phase, orders are revealed, alliances crumble, and fierce battles decide the players’ fates.

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A World of Intrigue, Diplomacy, and Warfare

Fragile alliances will form and break over the course of each game, as players promise support to neighboring Houses only to betray them for their own selfish ends. But beware; as the war unfolds, the barbaric Wildings (which are controlled automatically by the game) work to amass their forces in the far north. Players must occasionally set aside their differences to face a common foe–or face the consequences together.

A Game of Thrones: The Board Game draws you into a vibrant gaming world, bringing your favorite characters to life. The board resembles paint on distressed parchment for an old-world look, while the token and card art exhibits intricate detailing fans of the novels will recognize and enjoy.

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Sourceforge's Mirrored Content Gets a Hand

With over 180,000 open source projects in its repository, SourceForge.net has a lot of files it needs to track and serve.

It can become a challenge to manage all those downloads. For the most part, Sourceforge relies on a system of globally distributed mirror sites that help to deliver open source application files and programs to users.

Now, the mirror system itself is gaining a new mirror in the US thanks to a donation from network vendor CDNetworks. The mirror will help Sourceforge manage its open source delivery efforts, and the growth of those efforts.

The new mirror brings the total number of Sourceforge mirrors globally to 18 and comes at a time when content providers are increasingly looking to content delivery networks like CDNetworks and its chief competitor Akamai to reliably distribute and deliver content.

Beyond that, CDNetworks is staying coy on costs involved.

"The value is purely expressed in Gigabytes used because we don't have an exact knowledge of what the volume will be," Robert J. Gribnau, vice president of sales, CDNetworks US and Europe, told InternetNews.com.

"If you use the market rate times the volume that will provide a value. It's material enough that I can't share the usage numbers."

Gribnau noted that current market rates hover between 20 and 25 cents per gigabyte. SourceForge VP Jay Seirmarco told InternetNews.com that on a typical day the mirror network serves 3 million downloads, though that's a number that can spike upwards. Seirmarco noted that on Wednesday of this week the SourceForge mirror network served 3.9 million downloads totaling 30.1 Terabytes of data.

SourceForge has two types of mirror sites in its delivery network, partial and full. The CDNetworks deployment is a full mirror and represents approximately 8 TB of open source data.

Seirmarco explained that SourceForge directs traffic to its mirror network by way of a redirector. The redirector does an IP lookup and figures out where someone is located and then autoselects a mirror based on the address. A user can also select a mirror manually if you have a preference.

Though CDNetworks has a network of 65 nodes around the world, the new SourceForge mirror will be co-located at one of CDNetworks US nodes. Gribnau noted that SourceForge will get dedicated infrastructure and will not be shared across the broader global network. He added that CDNetworks already has one SourceForge mirror operational in Korea, so the US mirror represents and expansion of the donation.

As to why CDNetworks is donating the network capacity, it's simply a matter of giving back to open source and investing in open source. Gribnau commented that CDNetworks benefits from open source and uses it in its own infrastructure.

One of the key open source tools used by both CDNetworks and SourceForge is the rsync application that helps to synchronize multiple nodes in a distributed computing environment.

"In some countries it is non trivial to have a mirror with many TeraBytes of storage and just to sync that is a challenge," Seirmarco said.

He added that SourceForge must synchronize multiple-terabytes of data across the mirror with no errors and its something they do reliably day after day.

With the new mirror donation SourceForge may also get a leg up on its competition. For a time SourceForge had no real large competitors in the open source code repository space. That has changed in recent years with the launch of Google Code in 2006.

Seirmarco doesn't necessarily see Google Code as a competitor though he did note there is a degree of co-opetition. He added that in his view it benefits the open source world generally that there are choices.

"We in many ways are our biggest competitor," Seirmarco said. "We have to improve our offering and I think that we're best positioned to offer open source."


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NX CAM QuickTip - Generate operations and save part files at the push of a button?

Is it possible to integrate a function in NX that generates an operation with just one click and saves the partfile? This question reached us via the comments after our last QuickTip. Actually, the answer here is "No, that's not possible!", but we didn't want to give up on that and looked for a way and finally found it.


So Potent Art

Actor and author Emily Carding’s latest book So Potent Art: The Magic of Shakespeare (due July 2021), explores how Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets are suffused with magic, prophecy, astrology, alchemy, herbalism, witchcraft, hauntings, and divine intervention. Emily (left, pictured as Richard III) talks about her background; where Shakespeare (and his audience) came across their knowledge of magic; whether it’s actual or metaphorical; what we’ve learned from the documentary The Wizard of Oz; paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law; how the supernatural was perhaps less fantastical back then than it is now; reclaiming pejorative terms as empowering; and the always-important reminder that we should look to our own sources of beauty and inspiration. Be the light! (Length 21:53)

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‘To further women’s advancement, we need to radically change our approach’

11 December 2020

What kind of impact is the current crisis having on society, and women in particular?
There is a growing gap between urban and rural populations. In rural areas, schools are shut down. Yet, for millions of women and children, there are no alternatives to in-person education because they lack electricity, computer equipment, an internet connection for remote learning, etc. Low-income neighbourhoods in big cities are also facing these kinds of problems, which points to a different sort of gap, one of inequality within cities. We need to resolve these structural inequality and social rights issues quickly, especially if we want to help women, as they are all too often the first to be affected by such realities.

What do you think should be done?

Major crises like this one create a lot of opportunities. To further women’s advancement, it’s time to radically change our approach and discard any strategies that have already failed. It’s hard to control everything everywhere at the exact same time. So, we’d do better to select a few countries and set out concrete objectives for women’s socioeconomic progress. This should be done in clearly defined sectors such as mining, construction, education and the public sector. The next step is to determine action targets and establish a timeline for their implementation while mobilising social activists, corporate actors and political leaders. General recommendations aren’t going to cut it.

What barriers continue to stand in the way of gender equality?
There are still a lot of them, starting with the psychological barriers men experience. But women have them, too, and sadly some feel they can’t break the glass ceiling and get the senior positions they want. But they can! We have to break down these barriers one by one. That demands concrete action and is exactly the approach I took in Mozambique with my team, in partnership with UNICEF, in the area of girls’ primary education. We need accurate data to identify stumbling blocks, including those within families, and find the right course of action.

And in the corporate world?

The same approach applies. We have to define specific indicators to know how to achieve our goal of equality: what is the proportion of women in management bodies, boards of directors and leadership roles at all levels? I was successful in doing this in Kenya, where we put every major company to the test. We showed them that it was in their best interest, including performance-wise, to change. We even recommended certain female executives to them. It was a very concrete approach. Once again, generalities just don’t get the job done. We can also build on the best practices of companies like Ecobank Group, which has been successful in promoting women on a massive scale, and we can ensure that others learn from this type of initiative.

Any final thoughts?

We have to do more than just set objectives; we have to show people how to achieve them within a given time frame. I know that women are ready. What I tell young women, especially those in the business world, is that you have the skills, so don’t be afraid to use them.


Joe Biden will take over the office as the 46th President of the United States on 20th January 2021. There are various speculations about the fact that how will Biden run his office for the upcoming four years and will his term of office be similar to that of the former President Barack Obama or will he carve out his distinct image as Joe Biden.

Barack Obama was the first Black President of the United States and his elections were dealt with quite a lot of enthusiasm. It was his style and way of working that led him to win the Presidential elections for the second time wherein he served as the President for eight consecutive years.

How is the situation different in the case of Joe Biden?

When Obama became the President, the supporters of Bernie Sanders (Left Bloc of the Democratic Party) did not put any pressure on him and were not forceful during his term as the President. The things are not similar when it comes to the win of Biden. This is because, for these four years, the people of America were subjected to the dictatorial rule led by President Donald Trump. The people strongly opposed this dictatorial rule.

Bernie Sanders’s withdrawal from the race for the choice of the nominee from the Democratic Party paved way for Joe Biden to become the final candidate from Democratic Party contesting in the Presidential elections. However, the supporters of Sanders (with Left programmers) have successfully won, both in the Senate and the Congress as well. When it comes to the State Legislatures, the progressives have shown a better performance with big numbers.

The Problem of Majority that might arise

The current majority of the Senate is in the hands of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party is just two seats away from taking over the Republican Party to get the majority. The elections that are going to be held in January 2021 will decide the final winner of the Senate, whether the Republican Party will continue to hold the majority of Democratic Party will succeed.

If the Democratic Party is unable to win the two seats in the Senate to acquire a majority, it would make the administration for Joe Biden very tough. President Donald Trump is planning to contest again for President in 2024 and is very much dissatisfied with the defeat that he is encountering. The Republican Party will use their majority against Joe Biden (used by the GOP) and will block the bills, especially those bills that will make Biden popular amongst Americans.

This will highly affect the administration because Joe Biden will then not be able to freely execute out his schemes. He is currently working on similar lines as Barack Obama when it comes to his policies but the time ahead is going to be tough if the Party is unable to win the two Senate seats.

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Quick Answer: Can Bailiffs Use Police To Gain Entry?

Can bailiffs turn up without warning?

Bailiffs, Have not received a Notice of Enforcement.

That doesnt mean you are off the hook for the debt, it means the bailiff will find it difficult to recover it or recover their enforcement fees..

What bailiffs Cannot take?

Bailiffs can’t take:things that belong to other people – this includes things that belong to your children.pets or guide dogs.vehicles, tools or computer equipment you need for your job or for study, up to a total value of £1,350.a Motability vehicle or a vehicle displaying a valid Blue Badge.

What can a bailiff take from my home?

From your home, bailiffs can take any items that belong to you, any jointly-owned items, any cash, cheques, or other monetary items you may have such as bonds or pawn tickets. They can’t take any items that are leased or on hire-purchase or any items that belong to somebody else or a child.

Can enforcement officers enter your property?

Can High Court bailiffs force entry? High Court enforcement officers (HCEOs) will try to enter your home to look for goods, but they can’t force their way in on the first visit. This means they can’t: push past you.

Can I become a bailiff with a criminal record?

To become a certificated bailiff, an applicant needs to: Satisfy a county court judge that they do not hold a criminal record, are a fit and proper person to hold a certificate and have sufficient knowledge of the law.

Can a bailiff refuse a payment plan?

If you have to pay the debt in a set time You might be asked to pay your debt back within 6 months or a year – for example, if you have a council tax debt. Bailiffs can’t ask you to pay within a set time if you’re in a situation that makes it hard for you to deal with them.

Can bailiffs check DVLA?

Bailiffs should always check the DVLA and Hire Purchase Index to confirm ownership of a vehicle before taking it into control. … But they can’t take your vehicle if it’s parked on someone else’s private land, unless they have a court order allowing this.

What happens if you can’t afford a court fine?

If you don’t, the court can: take the money from your wages or benefits. send bailiffs to your home to collect what you owe – you’ll have to pay bailiff’s fees as well as your outstanding fine.

What do you do if a bailiff knocks on your door?

Contact National Debtline who can explain the situation for your specific debt. When a bailiff can’t force entry you should not let them in. The first key rule of dealing with bailiffs is don’t open the door to them unless you have talked to a debt adviser who says they can force entry.

What can enforcement officers not do?

Enforcement Officers will not seize the following goods: that are essential for the basic domestic needs of the Defendant and their family e.g. clothing, bedding, furniture and other items of equipment.

Can a bailiff take my sons Xbox?

Can bailiffs force entry?

Bailiffs are only allowed to try to come into your home between 6am and 9pm. … Depending on the kind of debt you owe, the bailiff will sometimes have the right to force entry by asking a locksmith to open your door if you won’t let them in.

How long can bailiffs chase you for?

If you do the bailiffs can visit your home after 7 days. As well as collecting payment for the debt they can charge you fees so you could end up owing more money. There are things you can do to stop them coming if you act quickly.

What qualifications do I need to be a bailiff?

There are no formal qualifications needed to become a Bailiff, however, you will need a Bailiff General Certificate before you get started (there is no study involved for this certification).

What percentage do bailiffs get?

court fees if the bailiffs had to apply to court to deal with your case. selling your belongings – including advertising the sale and auctioneer’s fees. an online auction for selling your belongings – you can be charged up to 7.5% of any money made through the sale.

How much does a bailiff make a year?

An entry level court bailiff (1-3 years of experience) earns an average salary of $42,968. On the other end, a senior level court bailiff (8+ years of experience) earns an average salary of $69,663.

Do bailiffs use ANPR?

Can an enforcement officer close down food premises?

With regards to food hygiene and safety, an EHO has the power to do all of the following: Enter into any premises – It is against the law to refuse entry of an EHO into your premises. Control of premises – An EHO has the power to enforce legal notices if businesses are in breach of the Food Safety Act 1990.


Brandon Allen has established himself as one of the UK’s most in demand saxophonists and bandleaders.

He has performed extensively throughout the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, both as a leader and sideman.

Throughout his career he has worked with top international artists including Eric Clapton, Paloma Faith, Kyle Eastwood, Tony Lakatos, Adam Nussbaum, Gary Husband, Stefano Di Battista, US3, The Blockheads and many others.

The ‘Stanley Turrentine Project’ came about because of a deep admiration and respect for the late great saxophonist’s musical approach and output.

Brandon’s highly acclaimed ‘Gene Ammons Project’ came into existence because of a similar admiration.

Selections from Ammons’ entire career were reinterpreted, seeking to capture the the spirit of the music as well as exploring the stylistic changes that occurred throughout tenor saxophonist’s 30 year career.

The repertoire of the ‘Stanley Turrentine Project’ is slightly more specific, drawing from Turrentine’s releases on the Bluenote and CTI labels.

In addition, some of Turrentine’s renditions of rock/pop hits of the 60’s and 70’s will be reimagined by Brandon’s exciting new quartet.

Expect soulful saxophone playing accompanied by a hard swinging and funky rhythm section.

(London Jazz News)

Band lineup:

Brandon Allen - tenor saxophone

Will Barry - piano and keyboards

Conor Chaplin - basses

Dave Ingamels - drums

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Resurrected? The Domestic Determinants of Russia’s Conduct Abroad

"Russia is never so strong as it wants to be, nor as weak as it is thought to be," Winston Churchill once observed. In the last decade, Russia has invaded two neighbors, seizing territory from both, re-established a Soviet air base in Syria and intervened in a conflict outside post-Soviet borders for the first time in 25 years. Under Vladimir Putin, has Russia been resurrected as a major power barely a quarter century after the collapse of the Soviet empire?  What is a great power in the 21st century? In reviving Russia’s international political aspirations, Mr. Putin implicitly has in mind metrics of power, as do international relations theorists, and foreign policy makers trying to understand Russia’s contemporary role in international relations.  But what are they, exactly? Is Russia’s resurrection real or merely imagined? How can we tell and why does it matter? How are Russia’s global ambitions related to its domestic conditions? This presentation, based on a  book project in process, will discuss some of the domestic determinants – both resources and constraints -- of Russia’s increasingly assertive conduct abroad.

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CDC Order Requiring all Passengers on U.S.-Bound Flights to Have COVID-19 Viral Test

On January 12, 2021, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) stated that CDC has issued "an Order requiring all air passengers arriving to the US from a foreign country to get tested no more than 3 days before their flight departs and to provide proof of the negative result or documentation of having recovered from COVID-19 to the airline before boarding the flight. This Order will go into effect on January 26, 2021."

A set of CDC Frequently Asked Questions clarifies that "This Order applies to all air passengers, 2 years of age or older, traveling into the US, including US citizens and legal permanent residents."

January 12, 2021 CDC media statement that effective January 26, 2021 states: "Air passengers are required to get a viral test (a test for current infection) within the 3 days before their flight to the U.S. departs, and provide written documentation of their laboratory test result (paper or electronic copy) to the airline or provide documentation of having recovered from COVID-19. Airlines must confirm the negative test result for all passengers or documentation of recovery before they board. If a passenger does not provide documentation of a negative test or recovery, or chooses not to take a test, the airline must deny boarding to the passenger... This order was signed by the CDC Director on January 12, 2021 and will become effective on January 26, 2021."

On January 21, 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order on Promoting COVID-19 Safety in Domestic and International Travel, which directs relevant agencies to assess the January 12, 2021 CDC order requiring a negative COVID-19 test result for airline passengers traveling into the United States, and, based on that assessment, take any further appropriate actions and planning regarding air, land, and sea travel.

On January 25, 2021, the Department of State published a Fact Sheet titled, Negative COVID-19 Test Required for Travel to the United States Beginning January 26.


Interactive Experiences

I use a Microsoft Kinect camera device for creating interactive projection pieces.

The viewers’ silhouette and body motion can interact with the graphical world which is projected large onto a wall or screen. Several viewers at a time are represented in the scene.

Memories of Rain

Moon Series

Dance at BRICK

I like the immersive qualities of this medium: To fill a space with sound and projected visuals, interactive simulated imagery, allowing multiple viewers to enter the space unencumbered by devices. A style of immersion quite different from a virtual reality experience.

Third-Person Identity

Also I am enjoying displaying the viewer in a third-person perspective, yet fully-integrated into the simulated world, and interactive. Again, distinct from the first-person sensibility of a virtual reality experience.


Psycomedy with Nathan Cassidy

Psycomedy with Nathan Cassidy

What makes a stand up comedian tick? How do they handle heckles and bad gigs? Are they brave or just mal adjusted individuals? And what makes them want to do this impossible job in the first place?

Join Nathan Cassidy, stand up comedian and BA Sci in Psychology – a first from Bristol University – as he delves into the dark recesses of the comedian’s psyche in Psycomedy.

Psycomedy has charted in India, Iceland, Macau, Singapore, Mongolia, France, Ireland, the UK, and was briefly number one in Argentina!

'There are plenty of laddish comedy podcasts out there with blokes laughing a bit too loudly at each other. This, thankfully, isn't one of them. It's thoughtful, sensitive, and also funny! Nathan is a cracking host who listens carefully and only interjects to steer conversation to deeper, more interesting elements of what it takes to be a comic.' BBC Radio.

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What Does Clonus Mean?

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Clonus is a sequence of involuntary or reflexive muscular contractions which transpire due to the unexpected stretching of the muscle. The word originates from the Greek word "klonos," which means turmoil. Occurrence of the clonus is a signal of a possible neurological abnormality, which implies that there can be a likelihood of a stroke, spine related problems or multiple sclerosis.

Unlike the "sudden twitch of the muscle" or the fasciculation caused by the motor neuron in the spinal cord,(the lower motor neuron), the clonus is caused by the upper body neuron whose cell body is situated in the cerebral cortex. Clonus is mostly prevalent in the ankles. One can also test the occurrence of the clonus in the knees by rapidly pushing the knee cap toward the toe.

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On mathematical structure in a broad sense (Japanese)

Hiroki Yagisita
2020 Zenodo
For example, a ring is a structure of the language $\{+,-,\times,0,1\}$, and a ring is not a structure of the language $\{+,-,\times,\cdot^{-1},0,1\}$ because the domain of the operation $\cdot^{-1}$ of the multiplicative inverse is not the whole. In general, it is not officially possible to introduce a function symbol into a partial function. In this paper, we consider "a structure in a broad sense" that allows a partial function as the interpretation of a function symbol, we give its
more » ... e give its semantics and a Hilbert-style formal deductive system, and we prove the completeness theorem. Regarding sequent calculus and natural deduction, it may not be difficult, but it is an unsolved problem. ------ Intuitionistic logic, Kripke model. (This is the Japanese version.)
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Miura Sadahiro

Miura Clan

Mimasaka Province

Lifespan:  15xx to 15xx

Rank:  bushō

Title:  Noto-no-kami

Clan:  Miura

Father:  Miura Sadahisa

Siblings:  Sadahiro, Sadakatsu

Miura Sadahiro served as a bushō during the Sengoku period.  He was also known as Noto-no-kami.

Sadahiro was born as the eldest son of Miura Sadahisa based in Mimasaka Province.  His younger brother was Miura Sadakatsu.

After the death of his father on 9/16 of Tenbun 17 (1548), Sadahiro inherited the headship of the clan.  Thereafter, as the main heir to the family, he served under the Amago clan of Izumo Province, but later returned to Mimasaka.  Together with Maki Naoharu and others, Sadahiro aimed to revive the Miura clan which had collapsed following an invasion of Mimasaka by Mimura Iechika, a daimyō based in Bitchū Province.

In the second month of 1566, while engaging in deliberations with his senior retainers at the Kōzen Temple in the village of Momi in Mimasaka, Iechika was shot and killed by matchlocks wielded by Endō Hidekiyo and his brother, Endō Toshimichi, ordered by Ukita Naoie.  At the time, this marked a rare assassination by firearms.  Sadahiro took advantage of this opportunity to recapture his landholdings.

On 2/19 of Eiroku 11 (1568),  Sadahiro was attacked by Mōri Motonari, leading to the death of his uncle, Miura Sadamori.  In addition, the Mōri army toppled Sadahiro’s base at Katsuyama Castle and, once again, he was ousted from his territory.  In 1570, Sadahiro recovered his territory with the support of Yamanaka Yukimori, a retainer of the Amago clan and leader of the Amago Revival Army.

In 1574, when Uragami Munekage and Ukita Naoie came into conflict, Sadahiro aligned with the Uragami clan and brought into the alliance Mimura Motochika (Iechika’s second son and heir) of Bitchū.  This led to clashes against the Ukita clan and, in 1575, an invasion by the Mōri following their pacification of Bitchū.  In the ninth month, Sadahiro surrendered to Ukita Naoie after the Siege of Tenjinayama Castle.

In 1582, Sadahiro participated in the Battle of Bitchū-Takamatsu.  He later died of illness in Hayashida in Harima Province.


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COVID-19 changes passengers

83% of air passengers are confident that they will not return to their previous travel habits after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This is the result of a global passenger poll commissioned by the international satellite communications company Inmarsat. The study was conducted among 9,500 respondents from 12 countries and became the largest since the beginning of the pandemic.

While the majority of passengers (60%) are satisfied with the aviation industry's response to the "plague of the 21st century," it was found that 41% of them expect to travel less by any means, and 31% plan to fly less. But there are early signs that travelers are regaining confidence: 47% of those surveyed expect to be ready to fly within the next six months.

The respondents answered that they are more afraid of contracting the virus abroad than on the plane. In general, they feel confident about servicing on board and interacting with flight attendants, but they are less comfortable using the toilet during the flight and being in close proximity to other people. They see salvation in social distancing and digitalization of the service.

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Frequent question: How do you cook white rice at high altitude?

I use 1 cup rice, 2 cups of water or broth. Using a much bigger bowl, I stir the rice and liquid. Cover tightly and set on high for 5 minutes then WITHOUT stirring lift the cover to release steam and set it for 15 minutes at 50% power. Pull it out of the microwave, leave the lid on for at least 7 minutes.

How do you cook white rice in high altitude?

Follow the standard ratio of 2 cups of water for each 1 cup of dry long-grain white rice when cooking at altitudes between 3,000 and 5,000 feet. Increase the water by 2 tablespoons to 1/4 cup for altitudes above 5,000 feet, adjusting the amount upward as you go up in altitude.

Does rice cook differently at high altitude?

Rice. Like pasta, rice will take longer to cook in high altitudes. However, you need to be more precise when adding water to a pot of rice. Boil the rice in just 15-20% more water than usual, and add a few minutes to the cook time.

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How do you adjust for high altitude cooking?

High Altitude Baking — Good Rules of Thumb

  1. Oven Temperature. Increase by 15-25℉ …
  2. Baking Time. Decrease by 20-30% …
  3. Flour. Increase by 1 tbsp at 3,500 ft, and by 1 tbsp per 1,500 ft. …
  4. Sugar. Decrease by 1 tbsp per cup. …
  5. Liquids. Increase by 1 to 2 tbsp per 1,000 ft, and 1 ½ tsp per additional 1,000 ft. …
  6. Baking Powder/Soda. …
  7. Yeast.

Why cooking of rice at higher altitudes is difficult?

Answer. Atmospheric pressure at higher altitudes is low and boils water below (100^{circ} mathrm{C}) because the boiling point of water is directly proportional to the pressure on its surface. As less boiling point is required at higher altitudes therefore it is less difficult to cook rice.

How do you make fluffy rice at high altitude?

Using a much bigger bowl, I stir the rice and liquid. Cover tightly and set on high for 5 minutes then WITHOUT stirring lift the cover to release steam and set it for 15 minutes at 50% power. Pull it out of the microwave, leave the lid on for at least 7 minutes. Then fluff and replace cover until ready to use or serve.

How long does it take to bake a potato at high altitude?

Start checking at 50 minutes in the oven. If you’re baking jumbo-size potatoes it could take up to 15 or even 30 minutes longer, depending on the altitude over 3,000 feet. I live at 5,280 ft. and find I need to add about 15 minutes, depending on the potato size.

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Changes at high altitude

Does food taste different at high altitude?

Once at altitude, the combination of the dry air and pressure change reduces our taste bud sensitivity. … In fact, our perception of saltiness and sweetness drops by around 30 percent at high altitude, according to a 2010 study by the German airline Lufthansa.

How do you cook pasta at high altitude?

Pasta, for example, may take seven minutes to reach the al dente state at sea level, but it could take nine or 10 minutes to achieve the same result at 3,000 feet. In addition to adjusting cooking times, you should also keep a tight-fitting lid on the pot when you cook at high altitudes.

Does food cook faster at higher altitudes?

At high altitudes: Air pressure is lower, so foods take longer to cook. Temperatures and/or cook times may need to be increased. Water boils at a lower temperature, so foods prepared with water (such as pastas and soups) may take longer to cook.

Does food take longer to cook at higher altitudes?

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Does meat cook slower at high altitude?

A. Some foods take longer to cook by some methods at altitudes higher than 3,000 feet above sea level. But other foods actually take less time, according to the Department of Agriculture. … Any food prepared with moist-heat methods, like boiling or simmering, will take longer to become fully cooked.

Why does cooking time increase at high altitude?

At higher altitudes, say like mountains, cooking food is difficult. Higher altitudes means lower atmospheric pressure and thus lower boiling point. … So, at higher altitude, food needs to be cooked for a longer time due to the lower in boiling point of water.

Why it is difficult to boil water on mountain?

Answer: Because at high altitude atmosphere pressure is low;therefore,boiling points of water decrease and so it does not provide the required heat energy for cooking.

Why do fountain pens leak at high altitudes?

Due to pressure difference at high altitude, the air column exerts a pressure on the ink of the fountain pen. … A certain situation arises when the atmospheric pressure (outside pressure) becomes as extreme that the ink in the fountain pen flows out of the pen or starts leaking.

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Hoping for Spring, Hoping for Earth

April’s reputation as a changeable, capricious month is well established, but it seems to have been particularly fickle this year. Each suggestion of spring was followed by a wintry interlude. Our early garden bloomers—hyacinths and daffodils—spent more time weighed down by snow or encrusted by frost than with their cheerful heads held high. After admiring our neighbors’ crocuses from the distance for years, last autumn I finally remembered to buy and plant some bulbs around our house. A number of them produced beautiful blossoms, only to wilt before their time because of late freezes.

Living along the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at 6,000 feet, we know that winter doesn’t technically end until mid-May. Despite that knowledge, my memory is short-lived and each spring the weather surprises me anew. My gratitude for the moisture brought by recent rains and snow notwithstanding, I am happy that we seem to have rounded a corner, with more mellow temperatures prevailing both at nighttime and during the day. I sincerely hope that the lupines and columbines poised to flower soon will be spared winter’s chill grip.

The floral awakening is a lovely reminder of the welcome change of the seasons, and the no less anticipated return of migratory birds confirms that a page has been turned in the yearbook of Mother Earth. While shorebirds and wading birds en route from their wintering grounds in the Southern United States, Mexico, Central or South America to their breeding grounds in more northern climes have been showing up on time, the arrival of many songbirds has been delayed this spring. If we needed a reminder of how tenuous the lives of wild animals are, the deep freeze that assailed Texas and other states in February confirmed that countless creatures depend on finely tuned rhythms, killing some and impeding others. Birds whose survival depends on plants and insects to sustain them during their journey were adversely affected by the storm.

The prospect of more frequent and severe recurrences of similarly calamitous events is disconcerting to the core. For eons, humans living close to nature and its cycles have known about the interconnectedness of all things. Our modern societies, increasingly removed and distant from nature’s finely tuned ways, have lost that understanding and wisdom, not only at our own peril, but to the detriment of myriad fellow species. We need to find that understanding and wisdom again. There is no alternative.

This is my slightly belated post in honor of Earth Day, which we celebrated on April 22. Every day is Earth Day, should be Earth Day, needs to be Earth Day. Without Earth, there is no future.


Qatar Airways adds new features to its mobile application

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Qatar Airways has announced significant updates to its mobile app that allow passengers to plan their travel with greater ease, helping minimise physical contact and interactions throughout their journey.

Members of Qatar Airways Privilege Club will earn 1,000 Qmiles when they download the mobile app.

With an updated, intuitively designed look and feel, the Qatar Airways mobile app now presents a personalised home screen that provides the most relevant information to each user. For those with an upcoming flight, the mobile app’s existing ‘My Trips’ feature will now be displayed on the home screen, highlighting the most important information at each stage of their journey. For those without a current booking, special offers will be displayed, tailored to their location.

Additionally, the mobile app is now available in the Arabic language, demonstrating the airline’s commitment to Arabic-speaking customers around the world.

Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, Akbar Al Baker, said: “Our refreshed mobile app is the perfect travel companion for our passengers, allowing them to take control of their travel plans, keep them informed at all times and, importantly in the current climate, limit physical contact throughout their journey.

“At Qatar Airways, we continue to invest in award-winning, five-star products and services across all stages of our customers’ journey, and digital technology plays an important role in this. Our customers expect their digital interactions with the Qatar Airways brand to be as smooth and seamless as their journey onboard, and we are working to ensure that our digital products contine to be world-class.”

With the airline’s mobile app’s ‘MyTrips’ feature, now prominently presented on the home screen, passengers can select their preferred seat and meals in advance, check-in online, download their boarding pass to a mobile wallet, and generate a baggage tag to print and attach to their luggage at home.

Passengers can also enable notifications through the mobile app to receive important alerts about their upcoming flight’s departure times, check-in, boarding and baggage collection. Throughout the passenger’s journey, the mobile app can be used to track baggage and book Meet and Assist services at Hamad International Airport in Doha.

Other features of Qatar Airways’ mobile app will continue to be offered to its customers. Before travel, customers can use the mobile app to check the latest information on country and travel requirements, including visa and passport information.

Providing seamless booking options, the mobile app also includes a camera tool, allowing passengers to capture a photo of their passport or payment card without having to manually enter this information upon check out.

Meanwhile, members of Qatar Airways’ loyalty programme, Privilege Club, can use the app to seamlessly log in with fingerprint or facial recognition, book a trip using Cash + Qmiles, redeem Privilege Club awards, manage their accounts, and much more. Customers can download the mobile app at

To ensure travellers can plan their travel with peace of mind in the current climate, the airline has extended its booking policies to offer even more choice to its passengers. The airline allows unlimited date changes, and passengers can change their destination as often as they need if it is within 5,000 miles of the original one.


Boys battle eating disorders

CATHY SAUNDERSThe West Australian

Boys seeking the Goth image, or a lean, muscular and mean look, or maintenance of their status as an elite sportsman all figure among the increasing number of boys, some as young as 10, who are unhappy with their body image and are harming their health as a result.

Of the 120 or so adolescents who are on the books of the Princess Margaret Hospital Eating Disorders Program at any one time, 10 per cent are male. This compares with only about 5 per cent 10 years ago but is still considered an under- representation of the true extent of the problem.

An eating disorder in children and adolescents is defined as eating behaviour that interferes with growth and development, cognitive function, schoolwork, mood, peer relationships and social interactions. In extreme cases, it can lead to hair loss, bone density loss, heart problems, organ failure and suicide.

According to psychologist Chris Harris, the PMH program's co-ordinator of clinical services, body dissatisfaction can lead to poor self-esteem and dieting which, in turn, can result in eating disorders.

"The data is suggesting there is an increase in adolescent males with body dissatisfaction," he said.

This disillusionment partly stemmed from the changing roles of young males within society, who might no longer be seen as the main provider.

"There is a lack of clarity around their role identity," Mr Harris said, adding that this could lead to anxiety and depression.

Many kept their problem hidden, largely because eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia were seen as a female domain.

Boys often presented with different problems from girls. They might have shape rather than weight concerns and were more likely to be chasing muscularity and athleticism. In some cases, they suffered a perceptual distortion that made them believe that as they got leaner, they were becoming more muscular.

"They get stuck on the misperception that absence of body fat means leanness and muscularity," Mr Harris said. "So some young men, even though they are quite emaciated, keep perceiving themselves as actually muscular."

The worlds of media, advertising, fashion and sports featured role models that teenagers aspired to.

"You see the muscularity, the waxing and you start to see the discrepancy between the actual, or how most adolescent males are, and the images being presented," Mr Harris said. "Whenever there is that discrepancy, it leads to the ambiguity of wondering where they fit, causing anxiety."

A report in late October by the National Advisory Group on Body Image encouraged advertisers, the media and the fashion industry to promote more positive body image messages.

The group's Proposed National Strategy on Body Image, commissioned by the Federal Government to help address the growing problem of negative body image among the youth of today, recommended using healthy weight models, realistic images of people and disclosure when such images had been digitally manipulated.

Under-aged, "size-zero" fashion models would be outlawed and only people older than 16, and who had a variety of body shapes and sizes, would be able to model adult fashion.

In Mission Australia's national survey of young Australians in 2007, body image was rated as the top concern. It was the third biggest issue last year.

The problem has also prompted the establishment of the Eating Disorders Australian National Network, a national collaboration of more than 80 organisations aiming for evidence-based prevention, early intervention and management strategies for eating disorders.

Julie McCormack, specialist clinical psychologist and the PMH program's co-ordinator of research and training, said adolescents who were elite athletes and needed to maintain a certain body weight, such as swimmers, gymnasts, footballers, rowers, dancers and jockeys, could fall into a pattern of disordered eating.

Others were dissatisfied with their body for different reasons.

"Some young men are concerned about being Goth, white, skinny," she said. "It depends on their youth subculture."

One myth that needed to be dispelled was that an eating disorder could be detected by looking at a person.

Some people were thin because that was their body make-up or they might have a medical condition. Others might be overweight but struggling with binge eating.

Another myth was that people with anorexia didn't eat at all. Indeed, some boys would be eating but because they exercised excessively, they were still starved of sufficient nutrition.

The problem of eating disorders was non-discriminatory, affecting boys across all ethnic and socioeconomic groups, from city and country, and was usually picked up by parents, siblings, schoolteachers, nurses or friends.

Most boys admitted to PMH would stay for three to four weeks. Those in the outpatient program typically remained in it for one to three years.

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Destination: Ubud

is a town on the Indonesian island of Bali in Ubud District, located amongst rice paddies and steep ravines in the central foothills of the Gianyar regency. Promoted as an arts and culture center, it has developed large tourism industry.

Ubud’s population of about 112,490 people and receives more than 3 million foreign tourists each year. The area surrounding the town is made up of small farms, rice paddies, agroforestry plantations, and tourist accommodations. As of 2018, more tourists visited Ubud than Denpasar in southern Bali.

Market scene in Ubud, around 1912

Eighth-century legend tells of a Javanese priest, Rsi Markendya, who meditated at the confluence of two rivers (an auspicious site for Hindus) at the Ubud locality of Campuhan. Here he founded the Gunung Lebah Temple on the valley floor, the site of which remains a pilgrim destination.[5]

In the late nineteenth century, Ubud became the seat of feudal lords who owed their allegiance to the king of Gianyar, at one time the most powerful of Bali’s southern states. The lords were members of the Balinese Kshatriya caste of Suk and were significant supporters of the village’s increasingly renowned arts scene.[5]

Tourism on the island

developed after the arrival of Walter Spies, an ethnic German born in Russia who taught painting and music, and dabbled in dance. Spies and foreign painters Willem Hofker and Rudolf Bonnet entertained celebrities including Charlie ChaplinNoël CowardBarbara HuttonH.G. Wells, and Vicki Baum. They brought in some of the greatest artists from all over Bali to teach and train the Balinese in arts, helping Ubud become the cultural center of Bali.

Another foreign artist Han Snel was a Dutch soldier who discovered Ubud after his military service building a studio with his new wife Siti, his painting captured the imagination of both foreigners and Balinese alike with his invigorating synthesis of both cultures.[6]

Antonio Blanco a Spanish/American artist lived in Ubud from 1952 till his death in 1999.[7]

A new burst of creative energy came in the 1960s after the arrival of Dutch painter Arie Smit (b. 1916) and the development of the Young Artists Movement.

The Bali tourist boom since the late 1960s has seen much development in the town; however, it remains a center of artistic pursuit.[5]

In 2002, terrorist bombings caused a decline in tourism throughout Bali including Ubud. In response to this, a writer’s festival was created, Writers and Readers Festival to help revive tourism, the island’s main economic lifeline.

The main street is Jalan Raya Ubud (Jalan Raya means main road), which runs east-west through the center of town. Two long roads, Jalan Monkey Forest and Jalan Hanoman extend south from Jalan Raya Ubud.

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Quantum Mechanics

Cohen-Tannoudji:Quantum Mechanics
Autor: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji / Bernard Diu / Frank Laloe / Nicole Ostrowsky / Daniel Ostrowsky
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This new, third volume of Cohen-Tannoudji's groundbreaking textbook covers advanced topics of quantum mechanics such as uncorrelated and correlated identical particles, the quantum theory of the electromagnetic field, absorption, emission and scattering of photons by atoms, and quantum entanglement. Written in a didactically unrivalled manner, the textbook explains the fundamental concepts in seven chapters which are elaborated in accompanying complements that provide more detailed discussions, examples and applications.

Completing the success story: the third and final volume of the quantum mechanics textbook written by 1997 Nobel laureate Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and his colleagues Bernard Diu and Franck Laloë
As easily comprehensible as possible: all steps of the physical background and its mathematical representation are spelled out explicitly
Comprehensive: in addition to the fundamentals themselves, the books comes with a wealth of elaborately explained examples and applications

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji was a researcher at the Kastler-Brossel laboratory of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris where he also studied and received his PhD in 1962. In 1973 he became Professor of atomic and molecular physics at the Collège des France. His main research interests were optical pumping, quantum optics and atom-photon interactions. In 1997, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, together with Steven Chu and William D. Phillips, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms.

Bernard Diu was Professor at the Denis Diderot University (Paris VII). He was engaged in research at the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and High Energy where his focus was on strong interactions physics and statistical mechanics.

Franck Laloë was a researcher at the Kastler-Brossel laboratory of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. His first assignment was with the University of Paris VI before he was appointed to the CNRS, the French National Research Center. His research was focused on optical pumping, statistical mechanics of quantum gases, musical acoustics and the foundations of quantum mechanics.

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