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Dispatches from CPD 2012: Will We Take Action to Make Things Better Or Just Keep Re-Writing Plans?
At this extremely important time for the globe, we need to ensure that the outcome documents of this year's, and forthcoming meetings of the Commission on Population and Development are strong and will guarantee an increased focus on young people and their sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Dave is a volunteer youth delegate to the Commission on Population and Development, working with the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
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This morning, the 45th session of the Commission on Population and Development officially began. Delegates from around the globe registered and entered the United Nations Headquarters in New York City to discuss the future of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and how countries can best implement the Programme of Action (PoA) that was formulated in Cairo in 1994. For the first time in recent years it was attended by the United Nations' Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, who opened the proceedings, applauding the large number of youth delegates attending this year.
So, the CPD process has been going for a while and it was imagined that the PoA would be implemented by 2014. As we are just two years away from this date there are still many unmet needs of people around the globe, particularly adolescents and youth. The implementation of the PoA is clearly going to be incomplete by 2014 and you can see this in your day-to-day lives when hearing about how many young people do not have the knowledge or agency to exercise their own rights and dictate decisions concerning their own bodies.
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Given that there is clearly a great deal of work left to do in this extremely important field, there is a large amount of talk around a new stage in SRHR and development known as 'ICPD+20 and beyond.' The United Nations and its member countries need to evaluate the successes and shortcomings of the PoA and decide on a future direction. One of the ways that will assist with determining the focus for what the CPD process will look like after 2014 is a global survey that the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is conducting over the next year. This survey aims to find out what countries are doing to implement the PoA and look at how their efforts could be improved in order to ensure all people are able to attain their sexual and reproductive health.
All of this talk is wonderful and it shows that the community is still committed to implementing the PoA. However, young people at the CPD want some assurance that the CPD process will not just continue for another 20 years and become 'ICPD to infinity and beyond': we want action, and a sense of urgency, from member states and civil society. We want real, concrete movements that will ensure the PoA is met sooner rather than later.
What is also very timely about this year's Commission is that other big development programmes, such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are coming to the end of their term and consequently there is a whole new global development agenda being formulated. At this extremely important time for the globe, we need to ensure that the outcome documents of this year's and forthcoming meetings of the CPD are strong and will guarantee an increased focus on young people and their sexual and reproductive health and rights.


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Gallerie Sparta, the new Sunset Plaza art gallery had its VIP exclusive opening reception on Saturday, June 8, 2013 from 6:00PM – 9:00PM. Art collectors, many of the showcased artists, and several of the entertainment industry's best attended the opening including Hilary Duff, Tess Broussard (Comedy Central's Nick Kroll Show), Alex Lombard (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter), Arlene Klasky (American animator), Amber Scholl (Entertainment Reporter) and many more.
The French International art gallery, Gallery Sparta successfully showcased some of the most sought after and critically acclaimed international artists including: Hedva Ser, Israeli born French and English trained artist who is one of Europe's most talented sculptors and is UNESCO's Ambassador of Peace; Yvonne Domenge, Mexico's foremost female living sculptor and 2008 Beijing Olympics featured artist; Alfredo Antognini, 75 year old "Argentinean Master Painter;" Helen Bayley, RISD trained Renaissance artist; Christian Breed, RISD trained and named the "New Jackson Pollock;" Michel Bocart, considered the most skilled and original Belgium painters and named "The Belgian Contemporary Master Painter;" Lee Bowers, Cal Arts trained intuitive artists and co-owner of Gallerie Sparta; Bari Kumar, Indian born OTIS Art Institute trained painter, Shane Guffogg, Cal Arts trained California native who was an assistant to Ed Ruscha for 23 years; and Wendy Waugh, New York Academy of Art trained and mentee of Claude Falcone. For many of these artists, this is the first time their work has been showcased in California.
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Pete Frates can no longer speak. But in the last two and a half weeks, a video posted on Facebook by Mr. Frates, a 29-year-old former college baseball player, has inspired people like Bill Gates, LeBron James, Chris Christie and Taylor Swift to dump a bucket of ice on their heads and speak out for his cause.
The "Ice Bucket Challenge" has lit social media on fire, raising both money and awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. About 30,000 Americans now have the disease, which attacks nerve cells and ultimately leads to total paralysis, though the mind remains sharp. Life expectancy is typically two to five years from the time of diagnosis.
The stunt goes like this: People make a video of themselves dumping a bucket of ice water on their heads, post it on Facebook, Instagram or other social media sites, and then challenge friends to do the same within 24 hours or donate $100 to ALS. (Many do both.)
People have shared more than 1.2 million videos on Facebook between June 1 and Aug. 13 and mentioned the phenomenon more than 2.2 million times on Twitter since July 29, according to those sites. Donations to the ALS Association have spiked. As of Sunday, the association said it had received $13.3 million in donations since July 29, compared with $1.7 million during the same period last year. It said there were about 260,000 new donors. (With a spate of celebrities and business executives joining in over the past few days and pledging contributions, that number is expected to rise.)
The Ice Bucket Challenge had been making the rounds on the Internet for several weeks before it was tied to ALS. Matt Lauer, the host of NBC's Today Show, had water poured over his head on July 15 after being challenged by the golfer Greg Norman.
Mr. Lauer said that he would donate money to the Hospice of Palm Beach County. He challenged Brian Williams, Martha Stewart and Howard Stern.
In late July, Mr. Frates learned about the challenge from his friend Pat Quinn, a New Yorker who also has ALS, and wanted to turn the trend into a fund-raiser for the disease.
Mr. Frates nominated himself for the challenge. Instead of having ice water poured on his head — "ice water and ALS are a bad mix," he said on his Facebook page — he posted a video of himself bouncing his head to "Ice Ice Baby," the 1989 hit song by the rapper Vanilla Ice. He challenged some friends, and the stunt spread quickly through Boston circles, then across the web until last week when a parade of boldfaced names joined in. (Last week, Mr. Frates again took the challenge, this time having ice dumped on his head at Boston Red Sox's Fenway Park.)
"Did we ever imagine the level of awareness or the money that is coming in? In our dreams we did," said Mr. Frates's mother, Nancy Frates.
There has been a backlash. Some have criticized the campaign for so-called slacktivism, where people will click and post online for social causes with little actual impact on the cause. "There are a lot of things wrong with the Ice Bucket Challenge, but the most annoying is that it's basically narcissism masked as altruism," said Arielle Pardes, a writer for Vice. On Slate, Will Oremus urged people to take the "no ice bucket challenge" and just donate the money.
Ms. Frates said that her son, the former captain of the Boston College baseball team, had been "living the life" when he called a family meeting in 2012. He revealed his illness and said that he did not want to whine, but would instead use the diagnosis as an opportunity to positively affect other people's lives.
The disease has progressed quickly in the past six months. Mr. Frates has lost the ability to move his arms and legs and now communicates through eye-gaze technology, his mother said. He was married last year to Julie Frates, whom he met eight months before he learned that he had ALS. They are expecting a baby in September.
In a video last December, Mr. Frates said: "The story right now goes: You've got ALS, have it for a little while, a long while, but either way, the end is always the same. ALS always wins. So in order to rewrite the end of it, we need to raise awareness, money."


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This week's top political tech story was the faceoff between lawyers for the Bush administration and Electronic Frontier Foundation attorneys who want a court to strike down a provision of the FISA Amendment Act granting retroactive immunity to telecoms that participated in the NSA's program of warrantless wiretapping. A judge will now have to decide whether the controversial statute gives the attorney general too much discretion to block claims that implicate the Fourth Amendment.
Tom Lerher's ironic musical homage to National Brotherhood Week painted the absurd specter of "Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark... dancing cheek to cheek." Almost as bizarre was the Capitol Hill Event this week that saw telecoms joining hands with Free Press and Public Knowledge to call for implementation of a national broadband strategy. Cupid's arrow, in this case, is the prospect of a massive economic stimulus package that players across the tech world hope will lead to serious public investment in broadband deployment.
Last week's verdict in the Lori Drew cyberbullying case sparked a round of worried conversation among legal eagles who fear that the decision opens the door to a broader reclassification of terms-of-service violations as federal crimes. If creating a bogus MySpace profile counts as a form of computer hacking, are we all potential felons?
Barack Obama's transition site adopted a Creative Commons license, to cheers from the Free Culture crowd. But we also wondered why the move was necessary: Should a dot-gov site have any intellectual property rights to waive in the first place?
Integrated "superchecks" across multiple government databases are supposed to let gun vendors verify that customers are eligible to own firearms. But queries by Delaware cops have raised eyebrows—especially since one of those databases contains sensitive mental health records.
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- A Canadian documentarist brings the copyfight to a theater near you.
- Dutch courts rule that ISPs must block a popular peer-to-peer site.
- Nate Anderson looked at the EU's ongoing telecom law overhaul.
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Trench warfare
Here's a maths question: what do you get when you have two opposing sides, with the exact same amount of men, firepower, munitions, planes, effort, military tactics, intelligence, resources and total unwillingness to move for anyone else? You get a bloody pointless stalemate, that's what.
But never fear, there is an alternative - trench warfare. This ensures that all the men, firepower, munitions, planes, effort, military tactics, intelligence and resources[1] can alllllllllll be put to use and neither side has to move an inch from where they sit with pride. Basically whoever starves to death first loses.
Stalemates are a waste of time. Before the invention of trench warfare, nations were perfectly happy to cede their part in a war just to avoid total lack of progress for anyone whatsoever, even at the risk of overturning their lands, people and reputation to the enemy scum. But now, the enemy scum can be held permanently at bay with no further risk to your nation's possessions by simply digging down hard at the ground, forming two ditches on either side of a mucky mud-bath of a field, and taking it in turns to feed men to the other side's machine guns.
It may also turn into a massive bloodbath of a field, but there is no point in worrying here (unless you actually own a farm).
History and origins[edit]
Wars of the world were at their height in the middle ages. You can keep your Korean conflicts[3] and Seven Years' wars[4], the Medieval ages knew how to fight a battle. Shining knights in armour, longbows firing archers, spearmen piking catapults, etc, etc. Such primitive weaponry, yet the armies of the age found the time to beautify chivalry in battle, induct heroic heroes in the annals of heroism, engraved swords that represent the ivy of death to constrict the evil enemy. And who could forget the scores of men that used to show up for the morning battle? 120,000, 130,000 or even 150,000 men used to meet another just in the hopes of battering a pillock for being born on the wrong side of the border. It's like watching Leeds play away.
And then White people decided to use gunpowder for war instead of celebration. It ruined everything that made war so great, quite frankly. Horsemen were no longer allowed to gallop jubilantly in the direction of the on-foot enemy with intention to stick a lance in someone's miserable face, because he is now immediately at due risk of getting shot, just as he even gets close to anyone. All the glory of running to another to exchange swipes of the blade, completely gone.
This was replaced by the early period of gunpowder where cannons were heavily relied on for any tactical advantage concerning gunpower. Handguns existed too, but they were so inaccurate a soldier could only hope to pierce the sky or scare off a naive native in whatever area he was colonising at the time. Even when the guns were upgraded for better accuracy, they just too so long to reload. Gunmen took organised positions similar to everyone else on the field, forming a queue (like in the post office) to take shots at wherever the enemy are anyway. Once fired, the gunman is sent to the back of the queue (just like in the post office), unless he was shot beforehand (again, just like in the post office), reloads and rejoins the queue to have another crack. These manoeuvres are all done completely out in the open, so you were at full risk of getting killed by more accurate, and yet even deadlier, weapons.
Now it was the time of hiding behind objects and letting go off a potshot every now and then. This came around just after the mid 1800s or so. The Crimean War and the American Civil War both had various flirtations with trench warfare, and at last, for the first time since the middle ages, things were looking up. The power of the redoubt (a sort of temporary fortress[5], the successor to the bouncy castle[6]) was diminished by yet more accurate and strategic arrangement of cannons, some of which were starting to turn into the modern variants of artillery that would be used extensively in WWI. And by extensively, I mean they enlarged the barrel so shells could be fired at the general direction of an enemy nation, straight from home ("hoping for the best" was a necessary addition, however, further wars were instigated when shells flew into other nations).
But by the early 20th century it became clear that modern and accurate bolt-action rifles (with easier loading times), highly powerful machine gun emplacements and more obliquely ranged cannons would create a scene for war impervious to any old field that all land-based mêlées and shootouts had been waged upon until then - trench warfare simply came along naturally. To adapt these new weapons for battle, a regular-joe field would have to be terraformed to accommodate soldiers of warring nations. There are various methods of doing this:
- Mass digging - The most simple yet most popular idea, get a huge digging effort going to develop the land with a carefully planned and heavily structured network of trenches, with stiff wooden planks upholding key parapets for charging-at-the-enemy purposes and underground quarters for sleeping-until-that-happens exercises. Unfortunately, a mass dig tends to give troops the impression that they're digging their own graves, but that's merely a byword for trenches if you ask me.
- Build man-made structures - Combines the above option but with more reinforced defences. More wooden planks are used, which keeps out the dirt and enlivens the trench, and concrete is poured in certain areas for protection against artillery fire and so on. However, the main problem is that adding more wooden planks can shorten the length of the trenches (and therefore the front line) and concrete is just far too much money and hassle. Besides, the above idea should make up for this lack of care in soldier's lives anyway.
- Bulldoze the land - Lacks the god is in the detail finish of the above two options, but is an otherwise ideal choice. Sometimes a rocky, barren plain proves too hard a ground for spades to dig into. Luckily, rocky, barren plains are only encountered in Eastern Europe and nobody will ever need to invade them again. Yet.
- Just shell the hell out of the place until craters form natural points for cover - Not the initial course of plan, but the war effort is eventually reduced to this obvious method. A commanding officer may deign to shell a trench through no man's land to connect his trench with the enemy trench, thus avoiding all the machine guns and mines that irritate his men. If a charge is (somehow!) successful, the triumphant division may find that all the allied artillery shells had missed the enemy trenches by a good length - so upping the amount of shells fired may not be a good idea for morale.
Realistically, any of the four ideas above should work out fine. Hopefully no-one is strafed by enemy fire or bombed to death in the process of digging trenches because
that's what'll probably happen there's no risk of that at all.
Well, the use of a trench is quite clear. I suppose you could think of it as a geographical feature on your ordnance survey that gives you cover from battery shells, that have an annoying tendency to rain down on your position every now and then.
Good trench[edit]
You're standing in your trench, in the exact centre of your assigned area. Note that you are still a good four feet from the parapet that leads out into no-man's land, and that you have a clear wide area of six or seven feet around you. Lots of space to have a game of cricket with the chaps when the artillery is being realigned.
The other men around you are comfy and well adjusted to their surroundings. They are happy and jovial and, when prompted, often blurt out Wilde-esque titbits of wit about the silly war they've just got themselves into. They are well versed in poetry, have regular book club meetings and can argue the finer reasons of allied France's early-1800s re-entry into a constitutional monarchy system[7] after half a century of crass imperialism that had exasperated the nation of la belle. There is always one keen soldier who does an excellent impression of Buster Keaton when moods are (very rarely) low.
The squadron sergeant is a jolly sort of fellow and is very understanding when you wish to give the daily big push a rest for a month or two so you can finish off Charles Dickens' Great Expectations that you've borrowed from the trench library that houses all authors from the renaissance period to the recent impressionist era. The sergeant, in fact, encourages your healthy habit of really sticking into a good book in the trenches and tells you hourly of how he's looking very forward to when you finally finish whatever novel it is you're reading so he can discuss the flow and craftwork of the words, the emotional and relate-able development of the characters, the deep riddles in the plot and so on - he just wants to talk to you about everything in literary English.
Fellow troops very rarely die, and if so, he probably forgot to keep track of his rations or how many cigarettes he was smoking or his thirst level whilst deeply immersed in the story of whatever book he's trying to read in one sitting, so he can talk to the squadron sergeant about it enthusiastically. Maybe one or three will die in the daily skirmish with the enemy, but that is all due to carelessness on both sides - they'll most likely apologise immediately if they accidentally shoot you in the spine, and you'll be expected to shout back not at all, old fellow!" upon falling to the muddy field. If you happen to be in the area when this mysteriously occurs to someone else, you might be expected to carry out his body to the coffin-builders shop just in Trench B which makes luxury coffins fit for soldiers to die in. You can tell the old chap "jolly bad luck, old boy" when he's put in his coffin and you may have a good chance of hearing his droll retort ("Dying? That's the last thing I'll do!"). Burials are 20 miles behind the front line, and therefore it's a good chance for you to get out of the trench, stretch your legs and have a game of tennis on the barracks' veranda with the men as part of the wake festivities.
Food rations are plentiful and exuberant, just what the doctor ordered as far as the general in command is concerned. Roasted pheasants, roasted beef, lobster au gratin and buckets of champagne are regular ditties on the menu at teatime, otherwise you may have to make-do with roast Sunday dinner every now and then. Rationing back home takes its toll too, you know. All meals are eaten on the same table as the officers who sit behind the desks back home at the HQ a few miles from the trenches. They're used to eating squarer meals so they might as well eat with the rest of the men.
The enemy are a very accommodating troupe of people and when they're not pretending to put you under fire (to keep up the war atmosphere for the propaganda cameramen), they will most likely send messages, via a fluffy homing pigeon, to your trench, attempting to put you in your place regarding gothic literature that they seem so obsessed with. Nonetheless, they are always charming and polite connoisseurs, even if they are a bunch of Immanuel Kant lovers - sometimes you start to think this war is propagated by literary clashes. They always have a good point though, it can be hard to argue with them over who the best authors are of the previous century.
In general, a good trench in wartime is a cosy, second home with no expense to yourself. If only they were in every war.
Bad trench[edit]
This would have to be the worst kind of trench, that is so bad that you seriously think twice about the idea of war and you'd probably stop reading Rupert Brooke's poetry quite abruptly as a result. I've thought about this a lot, I've not really sure I've heard of many trenches that went totally wrong, but I suppose I can have a crack at it. Here we go:
You're standing in your trench, in the exact centre of your assigned area. The parapet of the trench that gives entrance to no-man's land is a worrying half a foot (or less) above your head, and you have about a foot of space between the watering hole that acts as your sleeping space and your entire squadron's latrine, to the ladder that takes you over the top. The limited space offers little time to fret about claustrophobia and cholera.
The other men around you are scattered across the trench and paint a pretty dismal picture to write home about. They are each in deep depression, lost in their surroundings, feel as if the trench gets smaller each day and refuse to talk to another. Attempts to converse with one of them yield no conclusions and they won't even tell you what their first name is, or what they did before the war started. There is always the one adverse soldier who does an unfunny impression of Lord Kitchener when moods are (all the time) very, very low. Everyone tries to chortle at him just to remind themselves of laughter.
The squadron sergeant is the closest person you'll get to an enemy who's not behind a machine gun on the other side. Give the man any excuse to skip the daily push and he'll laugh and spit on the floor to give you something to clean with your uniform. He is a mean, horrible bastard who swears hourly that he hates your guts and would like to see nothing more than your blood mixed in with the sewage on the ditch in the trench that he uses to generate water rations. He probably actually looks forward to seeing you fling yourself out in no-man's land. If you desert or disobey orders, you will most likely be court-martialled and executed by firing squad.
You see fellow troops dying nearly all the time and, if they don't, that's probably because you died before they could. Disease and fear can destroy the immune system and kill you, but most likely you'll be shot to death by heavy machine gun fire or blown to tiny smithereens by landmines in the daily skirmish with the enemy. If you somehow survive and come back, you'll be given a spade and directed to an area of the cramped trench in which to dig another hole. Not for you to gain extra cover from enemy shell fire, but for your dead comrades fallen in battle. Most plots are already occupied and you may find yourself actually digging up bodies of men who died last week. You dig away anyway at the behest of your captain.
Food rations are thin and lack substantial energy properties, which are the only thing the doctor can prescribe for anything and the general in command is probably too lazy to care less. Rations are sufficient initially, but, as time goes by, rations are cut rapidly to the point where meat is rarely served each month. If it is served, it probably doesn't meet dietitians' standard for daily calorie intake, which is too small for soldiers serving in wartime anyway - unless they do absolutely nothing but sit in a trench, so this can work out in the end. However, the meat rations are not usually farmyard-sourced and vegetables are soon replaced by turnips (which also later substitute flour in bread), and then finally weeds from the local area.
The enemy are a very vicious bastion of mooks and, when they're putting you under a hail of bullets (to keep up the war atmosphere for the propaganda cameramen), they will most likely send 500lb shells, via an ugly array of artillery, to your trench, attempting to keep you in your hole full of deep puddles and corpses. Nonetheless, they are always resolute and never stop firing, even if they are a bunch of cunts, quite frankly - sometimes you start to think this war is propagated by social ignorances. They always have a good vantage point, it can be hard to get back at them over which the best empire was of the previous century.
In general, a bad trench is a inescapable hellhole that descends ever further into the earth than Dante ever dared to go.
Of course all of this never happened.
Crimean War[edit]
The conflict in what is now southern Ukraine was the first battle to prove fortifications to be nothing but redundant in the face of modern gunpowder and reveal the power of the trenches.
Where redoubts fell, a trench rose from the rubble (well, not "rose" exactly, uh... permeated?) to provide protection. The trenches proved to be too low for cannon fire to hit with aplomb, and the protection from the earth brought natural shelter. Since the Crimea didn't exactly sell mobile forts for the protection of the invading British and French forces, a spade did just as well in this regard.
It's a slight shame this was also the first conflict to be documented via photography. There were some paintings, but now the realities of war would surge past the idealistic imagery propagated from an artist's paintbrush just after his commanding officer peruses a revolver to suggest to the artist to exact his tremendous imagination on the canvas, instead of portraying the truth. However, photographs at this point were in sepia, black and white, or whatever, so the
drab, murky, general brownness colours of the rainbow that enlivened the trenches were not shown accurately.
Some battle in the American Civil war... Siege of Petersburg[edit]
One of the earliest engagements regarding trenches that I can think would be that beginning part of the film Cold Mountain[8], where Jude Law and the other ones are cowering under cover of the earth or something...
I don't remember the name of the battle. Found it[9]. Disregard the previous part.
Anyway, as it does in the film, the Siege of Petersburg sees plenty of young men resorting to trench tactics. Ulysses S. Grant ordered... actually, I don't know anything about this battle, but it did have trenches and that in it.
Um... I'm unsure what to say really. I remember what happens in the film though. Basically there's all these Union troops about to kill the fuck out of Jude Law and his depressed Confederates, who are entrenched from the Yankees. It turns out there was a Union operation stringing a load of explosives under (or near) the trenches of the bored Confederates and then, something about a rabbit, then they all get blown up (except the Union and Jude Law and some others). Then, going in for the kill, the Union charge to polish off the survivors, but clumsily fall in the hole where the trench used to be or something, craters and suchlike. Some sort of obscured mêlée is the result, someone gets stabbed, Jude Law (he's English, for goodness' sake) goes crazy with a buckshot revolver he handily finds on the floor, and then scene changes suddenly, loads of dead Union troops or something (even though they eventually win).
So there you have it. I've no idea what actually happened in the siege itself, but thank god there was a movie, huh? Anyway, it does show the advantage of staying in your trench. Anyone who tries to advance from their trench to the other just get killed regardless of how much they explode the enemy beforehand. Stay in your trench.
Gallipoli campaign[edit]
The second year of the Great War. Everyone's dying in wars everywhere and Lord Kitchener wants something done about it. Even Kitchener is concerned by the sudden drop in population in Europe, which was in desperate need for help from bombs and everything. The only solution, of course, is more war, this time relocated to the sunnier shores of Turkey, the peninsular body housing the faltering Ottoman Empire. After all those bloody Turks had only gone and uh... done something... I don't know what they did, but war it was.
This was a prime time opportunity for the ANZAC troops to come along to Europe and do a fair bit of dying everywhere. After all, the allied forces were keenly represented by the British, French and Russians elsewhere in Europe, so the ANZACs had to settle for the rotten apple (coincidentally the army rations) in the Dardanelles, where the British supplies were denied access to Russia (the supplies of which: jewellery for crowns, camphor wood for thrones, ermine for capes, etc, goods that had a long-term future). To aid him in the Dardanelles, Lord Kitchener appointed Sir Ian Hamilton, who himself admitted he knew nothing about fighting conditions in Turkey, nor the armies that peopled the shores. Was this a campaign destined for failure and more death by the hundred thousands?
Well - yeah, actually. Oh well. At least trench warfare was used to a keen extent by the invading ANZAC forces. Men going over the parapet, mown down by machine guns, etc, etc. Whatever.
Battle of the Somme[edit]
Full article on the Somme found here.
This is the big one. Quite frankly, all trench battles should adhere to the standards raised in the poppy fields of the Somme.
If the usage of trenches is to be for deterring the enemy, there is no greater example. Very little progress was made during the advances, and when one side decided to cede from the fields, it was done by carefully withdrawing their army with tactical precision, which still prolonged the war by a further two years. On the first day alone, the British army suffered 57,000 casualties. The Germans lost so many on that same day, even the army statistics squadron were killed.
The intensity of WWI trench warfare meant about 10% of the fighting soldiers were killed. This compared to 4.5% killed during WWII. The Somme on its own contributed its fair share of trench deaths that outclasses its successor. Therefore, I certainly know which war I would go back in time to; the Somme is far manlier than anything else in existence.
The trenches in this battle were so effective, that the result for the Somme is considered by historians to be indecisive[10]. That's right, despite the efforts from both sides, the trenches ensured total neutralisation to the proceedings. By using trenches, everyone can see that any kind of war can even be averted because it's just a waste of time.
Just like this section here.
Battle of Kursk[edit]
This WWII trench battle probably holds the record for longest trench ever built - 3000 miles to be exact. That's mind boggling, even to me. The job of digging it went to the 10,000 Red Army and civilian workers who happened to be in the area, who also went on to lay 1,000,000 landmines. An astonishing 1,500,000 men (a ratio of 2.5:1 of Soviet troops against Nazi troops) took part in this battle, not including the 6,300 tanks (2:1), 35,000 pieces of artillery and mortars (4:1), 5,000 aircraft (almost 1:1) strafed and were shot down in this gargantuan conflict.
Oh and loads died too, I guess. At least this battle showed that even the thinnest of trenches can be the longest, and hold the greatest number of men. Mathematics, eh?
Sadly still, soon after WWII trench warfare thinned out entirely. A lot of suggestions have been made for why this is the case today, but the simple fact is that wars nowadays just don't have as high an attendance record as they used to. Battles have gone from featuring sheer numbers of 30,000 men on 30,000 to 12 men against another 12. Modern weaponry and tactics take so much care to avoid such rough situations in war, that even amateur soldiers know how to avoid using a trench to attain victory in the field.
Tanks ruined everything too. Bumbling over plains and hills alike, tanks reduced carefully lain trenches to mere ditches on the path to the enemy. They tore past anything from rocks to trees, rumbling loudly, leaving behind massive tracks and spoiling your afternoon tea. Tanks... such an appalling idea - a man inside an automatic vehicle covered in heavy armour and a large weapon... What would the horsed knights in chain mail from the middle ages have thought if they saw these infernal machines? They would've been bloody disgusted, I can tell you.
And also since the mid-20th century, trench warfare has been seen as primitive. You are more likely to be considered hi-tech if you brandish a bronze shield in a firefight than if you dig a trench for the protection of yourself and everyone else. Trenches came back briefly as a North Vietnamese tactic during their war in the 1960s, but they were brushed aside by the invad- oh wait, the North won that didn't they? I guess the future isn't all bad for trench warfare then. Maybe some huge war somewhere in the 2010s will see it make a return...
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- ↑ http://battlefieldsofamerica.com/petersburg/
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Need to get to first? Don't use your head
Diving slides to that base come with too much risk, too little reward
Let's allow the fastest man in baseball to succinctly explain why the headfirst slide into first base is -- how do we put this delicately? -- dumb.
"It slows you down," Billy Hamilton said.
Anything capable of slowing down a player who can routinely get from home to first in about 3.8 seconds is probably not worthy of recommendation. And yes, there have been multiple scientific studies over the years (a recent one by ESPN's Sport Science found a 10-millisecond difference between running through the bag and diving into it) that do a decent job of proving Hamilton's point.
But even if we could call it a tie in the timing between the two options, the dive inherently poses more injury risk than the sprint.
"The problem," said Blue Jays coach Luis Rivera, "is guys slide too late, so they jam their fingers against the bag or get hurt going over the bag."
Alas, scientific scrutiny and the injury issue tends to get trumped by instinct in the heat of the moment. You see something, you want it, you reach for it. This is what we do. From the time we're little kids reaching for the cookie jar to the time we're old-timers plopped on the couch and reaching for the remote control. We reach for that which we must have.
In Major League Baseball, it has been proven time and time again that players won't let the physical risk prevent them from following their instincts.
That's why Josh Hamilton is on the disabled list with a torn ligament in his left thumb, the most notable victim of the instinct injury in 2014 -- but almost certainly not the last.
"You tell them, 'Don't do it,'" said Royals manager Ned Yost. "But with the competitive spirit they have, they just react."
So if we're going to operate on the premise that some players are going to slide headfirst into first base, is there a "proper" method of doing so? A means to mitigate the risk of injury?
Or is it just plain dumb all around?
A's veteran Nick Punto is adamant that while going headfirst into first is never recommended, there is a discernible difference between a "slide" and a "dive." The dive, he explained to the San Francisco Chronicle, is the way to go, because the friction of body against dirt is what slows a player down on a slide. And in explaining his methodology of avoiding injury, Punto said, "Your fingers have to be up when you hit the bag and your thumbs have to be tucked."
Punto is 100 percent entitled to his opinion, and Lord knows he loves the headfirst dive into first. Last September, he did it (while playing for the Dodgers) on a single to center field, not realizing the ball had skirted through the infield.
But when I ran the notion of a "proper" means of diving into first by some other folks in the game, I got precisely what I expected:
And then disapproval.
"The only reason to slide into first is to avoid a tag," Pirates baserunning coach Rick Sofield said. "If the throw is high and wide and you want to avoid the tag, I get it. But sliding is not the fastest way to the bag. For me, there is no sliding into first base unless you feel you can avoid the tag."
And even then, the threat of injury is real. Last year, in a game against the White Sox, the Indians' Michael Bourn hit a groundball down the first-base line that Adam Dunn fielded and flipped to left-handed reliever Matt Thornton. Because Thornton's glove hand was in line with Bourn's route to the bag, Bourn opted to hit the dirt and take his chances.
"I've had that happen before where I would have been safe but got tagged," Bourn said. "So I said, 'I'm not going to let that happen anymore. I'll slide.'"
So Bourn slid. And what happened?
"My hand got stepped on," he said, shaking his head. "That didn't work out like I wanted it to."
Bourn missed nearly a month with a laceration on his right index finger.
"I'm not doing that no more," he said. "Unless we're in the playoffs."
Did you catch that? Bourn got five stitches in his finger and missed 23 games, but he'd still dive headfirst into first again in an October scenario. While the injury was a reminder of the regular-season risk the injury poses, the outcome of the play reinforced the goal of the tactic in the first place.
Bourn, after all, was called safe on that infield single.
"It goes back to the competitive fire," Sofield said. "These guys are like horses who want to stick their noses out. Headfirst sliding gives them a more competitive mode in their mind."
In theory, going headfirst does allow a player to adjust his trajectory based on where the throw arrives and the position of the defender, so that's one slight positive. In the past, some players have said that the headfirst slide diverts the attention of the umpire at first base and potentially gives the advantage to the runner, but that would seem to be a less-reliable notion now in the age of instant replay review.
There is one other indefensible-yet-discernible advantage to the headfirst dive into first:
It looks cool.
"At times, it's perception," the Blue Jays' Jose Bautista said. "I do know some guys do the false hustle slide into first base, because it looks like they're trying harder. But that's not the majority."
While the headfirst slide into other bases does have some scientific studies on its side, the option of speeding through the bag simply creates a different equation at first. And the inability to grip the batting gloves, as some basestealers do, as a means to protecting the thumb is not available to a guy sprinting out of the batter's box.
That's why the idea is drilled into the minds of amateurs and Minor Leaguers alike: On close plays at first base, before you go headfirst, use your head first.
"The proper way to do it," said Yost, "is don't do it."


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The announcement took place at a Development Exchange in Washington, D.C., where winners showcased their projects and discussed the impact they plan to achieve through the introduction of their new technologies in emerging markets. The Development Exchange also comprised speeches by USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah, Ambassador of Sweden to the United States Bjorn Lyrvall, and African inventor Kelvin Doe. Video messages were provided by thought leaders such as chef and social entrepreneur Jose Andres.
Powering Agriculture, launched in 2012, is a program designed to link renewable energy technologies with farmers and agribusinesses in low-income countries. Increasing their access to clean energy solutions empowers farmers to produce more and better quality food and products, and move that food to more distant markets. These advancements feed families, build businesses, and empower communities with affordable, sustainable, and market-based solutions.
To learn more about the Powering Agriculture Round 1 award winners go to: www.poweringag.org/2013-winners.


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Ford Aspire Price in Hardoi
Ford Aspire On Road Price in Hardoi August 2020
|On Road Price
|Aspire Ambiente
|Rs. 7.1 Lakh
|Aspire Trend
|Rs. 7.77 Lakh
|Aspire Titanium
|Rs. 8.32 Lakh
|Aspire Titanium Plus
|Rs. 8.71 Lakh
|Aspire Trend Diesel
|Rs. 9.01 Lakh
|Aspire Titanium Diesel
|Rs. 9.57 Lakh
|Aspire Titanium Plus Diesel
|Rs. 9.95 Lakh
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Ambiente (Petrol) Ex-Showroom PriceNoida* Rs. 6.09 Lakh RTO + Road Tax + Others Rs. 71,063OthersExtended WarrantyRs. 9,999Std. AccessoriesRs. 3,322Zero Dep InsuranceRs. 3,022 Insurance Rs. 30,693 On-Road Price Noida* Rs. 7.1 Lakh
Trend (Petrol) Ex-Showroom PriceNoida* Rs. 6.69 Lakh RTO + Road Tax + Others Rs. 76,165OthersExtended WarrantyRs. 9,999Std. AccessoriesRs. 3,322Zero Dep InsuranceRs. 3,324 Insurance Rs. 32,239 On-Road Price Noida* Rs. 7.77 Lakh
Titanium (Petrol) Ex-Showroom PriceNoida* Rs. 7.19 Lakh RTO + Road Tax + Others Rs. 80,418OthersExtended WarrantyRs. 9,999Std. AccessoriesRs. 3,322Zero Dep InsuranceRs. 3,577 Insurance Rs. 33,527 On-Road Price Noida* Rs. 8.32 Lakh
Titanium Plus (Petrol) Ex-Showroom PriceNoida* Rs. 7.54 Lakh RTO + Road Tax + Others Rs. 83,394OthersExtended WarrantyRs. 9,999Std. AccessoriesRs. 3,322Zero Dep InsuranceRs. 3,753 Insurance Rs. 34,429 On-Road Price Noida* Rs. 8.71 Lakh
Trend Diesel (Diesel) Ex-Showroom PriceNoida* Rs. 7.79 Lakh RTO + Road Tax + Others Rs. 87,919OthersExtended WarrantyRs. 12,499Std. AccessoriesRs. 3,322Zero Dep InsuranceRs. 3,778 Insurance Rs. 34,558 On-Road Price Noida* Rs. 9.01 Lakh
Titanium Diesel (Diesel) Ex-Showroom PriceNoida* Rs. 8.29 Lakh RTO + Road Tax + Others Rs. 92,172OthersExtended WarrantyRs. 12,499Std. AccessoriesRs. 3,322Zero Dep InsuranceRs. 4,031 Insurance Rs. 35,846 On-Road Price Noida* Rs. 9.57 Lakh
Titanium Plus Diesel (Diesel) Ex-Showroom PriceNoida* Rs. 8.64 Lakh RTO + Road Tax + Others Rs. 95,148OthersExtended WarrantyRs. 12,499Std. AccessoriesRs. 3,322Zero Dep InsuranceRs. 4,207 Insurance Rs. 36,747 On-Road Price Noida* Rs. 9.95 Lakh
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- For a perfect car choice, a comparison is to be done on the basis of price, size, space, mileage, performance, features, and other specs. The ex-showroom price of Ford Aspire Ambiente (base) and Tata Nexon 1.2 Revotron XM (base) are Rs. 5.89 lakh and Rs. 7.49 lakh respectively. The claimed mileage of the Ford Aspire petrol is 20.4 kmpl and the Tata Nexon petrol is 17 kmpl. In technical specifications, Ford Aspire Ambiente is powered by an 1194 cc engine whereas, Tata Nexon 1.2 Revotron XE is powered by an 1198 cc engine. For a detailed comparison, follow the below link - Compare. Moreover, you can have a test drive of the cars for a better idea of comfort and drive quality by visiting the nearest dealer in your city. You can click on the following link to see the details of the nearest dealership and selecting your city accordingly - Dealers.
- Go with the Tata Nexon XZ+ It is better than every other car im the segment In terms of Power, Engine, performance, comfortable driving, Suspension, ground clearance, entertainment and infotainment system, Best build quality and safest car in India.
- Nexon is better
- The best economical variant that you can pick for Ford Aspire is Trend which fills all the blanks that make the base Ambient variant appear stripped. In comfort you get features like Rear centre armrest, tachometer, rear power window and remote keyless entry. We recommend it with full confidence and suggest you should skip this variant if you can spend more and check out the Trend+.
- Hi SantunuEngine is same in all varient difference is extra features so you can go for any varient as per your budget and feature requirements....for you information Abs and two air bags are standard...You can choose as per budget....Hope you get the answer of your query if you are happy with the answer then hit the like button
- Honda Amaze falls in the price bracket of Rs.5.93 - 9.79 Lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi) and that for Maruti Dzire and Ford Aspire is Rs.5.83 - 9.58 Lakh and Rs.5.88 - 9.0 Lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi), respectively. In order to know which is a better car per your requirements, check out the below article:- Sub-4 Metre Sedans Compared: Ford Aspire vs Honda Amaze vs Maruti Suzuki Dzire
- Ford aspire is very good pick up wise mileage wise everything good
- Dzire is the best , Amaze is costlier one
- New petrol engine of aspire is very good
- Go for Suzuki celerio
- All the cars are good enough and have their own forte. In terms of safety, if we talk about Zest, it got 4-star in GNCAP crash test whereas we can expect a good result with Ford Aspire too as it offers 6 airbags in its top variants. In terms of economy, Aspire would be a be easy to maintain as compare to other two. In terms of comfort, Amaze has a upper hand, it offers smooth engines and have great suspensions too. We would suggest you to take a test drive in order to clear your all doubts. Click on the given link to get your nearest dealership details: https://www.zigwheels.com/dealers
- All card have own design , among aspire, amaze and zest, as I am having zest, zest is 4 star rated safety in crash test, best power , best mileage , harman kardon is amazing music system which is not present in any amaze or aspire..... zest have very good suspension amongst both. personally I had seen projector headlamp is not present amongst both ;zest have
- Tata zest is certified 4star rating in crash test and is comfortable also
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The ex-showroom price of the top petrol variant of Ford Aspire 2018 is 7.54 Lakh.
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GWE or General Way Explanation is one terminology in DPK Theory, is mean:
Explanation about anything which consistent and suitable with general guide in Islam. Islam give two kind of guide to manage our lives, namely detail guide and general guide . Detail guide is detail explanation such about marriage, faraid system [inheritance system in Islam], how to perform solat etc. General guide in Islam is about worldly, how to manage world and ourlives concerning it such about any creation which made by human being such concept, theory, scientific research, technology, engineering, modern medical etc. With these two kind of guidance, Islam became The True Perfect and Best Religion , which perfect until doomsday. This also show enough evidence which show ISLAM is not prophet Muhammad's creation but Islam is Allah's [GOD] creation and become very strong evidence that only ISLAM is a true religion.
Never exist any motor use vehicle like car at prophet Muhammad era. So, why must we stop our car when the traffic lamp become RED? Prophet Muhammad never says that we must stop our car when the traffic lamp become red. ISLAM never says like that!! However, in Al-Quran, Allah said that which is mean do not put ourselves in damage situation. This sentence "DO NOT PUT OURSELVES IN DAMAGE SITUATION" is one example for general guidance which be general way. When we be stubborn , I mean direct drive our car although the traffic lamp be red, accident might happen and this mean is we put ourselves in damage situation. So, the rule " must stop our vehicle when the lamp is red " is consistent and suitable with this general way explanation in Islam. Actually, whatever we create and it suitable with general guidance or general way in Islam, we can treat it as ISLAM TEACHING ALSO. WOW! very perfect ISLAM, BE DUE TO MATTER LIKE THIS because general way in Islam make ISLAM suitable for every race, genie, country, place, era and whole suitation until DOOMSDAY!!!
When Allah [GOD] command us to do something or command us do not do something, this because Allah know what the best for us because Allah know everything. Allah know whole about what were happen in past history, now and future. Allah create anything, so, impossible if Allah did not know the best guidance for us to manage our lives. Allah is perfect 100%. Has not anything weakness. No exist other God except Allah. Allah has not birthday. No exist other God create Allah. Allah direct life without stop. Never die and impossible die and never has any weakness or badness although one matter because Allah is perfect and is a true God.
Allah did not like what we imagine about Allah. What we imagine about Allah, which is mean " ALLAH IS SAME WITH WHAT ALLAH CREATE" is crazy and false fact because the true fact is " ALLAH IS NOT SAME WITH ANYTHING". Allah can see but this is not mean that Allah has eye. Allah did not need food, beverage, sex, sleep and whole other matter which not living creature and living creature like us need. In Al-Quran, exist sentence which show meaning such " Allah's hand". This mean, is not Allah has hand like us. HAND here might is mean Allah deed or Allah's power.
When Allah want to create something, Allah only says, " Exist". So, what Allah want it exist, certainly exist. Allah has not face like us. We cannot say that Allah is like thus, is like that et cetera because human being, genie and angel only can know about how Allah when human being, genie and angel succeed enter paradise. Although Gabriel is angel chief but Gabriel never see Allah although Gabriel can get any command from Allah. Prophet Muhammad said that human being can see Allah if they succeed enter to paradise, not hell.
Allah love human being who love Allah, human being who has good manner, nice characteristic, always obedient to Allah. We are not special human being like prophet Muhammad. We make many sin everyday. Our heart become very dirty BE due to make many sin everyday. We said we already repent but we make those sin again. May tomorrow or next more we make sin again. Ohh! We are too weak. Our faith are very weak . Ohh God please forgive us. Please clean our dirty heart………. before we DIE.


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In 2005, a son named Simon was born to Darren and Phyllis Sudman of Lafayette Hill, who are now 42 and 41, respectively. He weighed six pounds, 15 ounces at birth, and had an APGAR score of eight and nine. (This is a quick test performed on a baby at one and five minutes after birth. The one-minute score determines how well the baby tolerated the birthing process.)
Every few hours he would finish a bottle, except for a four-hour stretch overnight. In other words, he seemed to be perfectly normal. However, at seven weeks of age, Simon smiled for the first time, and 47 days later he died.
By all signs, Simon Sudman appeared to be healthy and normal, but his heart had a tiny unknown defect called Long QT Syndrome. His parents had never heard of this condition before, let alone known that Phyllis also had the condition. Many people think that sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is strictly an adult phenomenon, but the fact is that SCA is the number one killer of student athletes. It is also responsible for up to 15% of all sudden infant deaths, according to a study conducted by Dr. Michael Ackerman at the Mayo Clinic.
Simon was one of thousands of children to die of sudden cardiac arrest in 2005. Some were babies, and others were high school athletes. When children are born in the U.S., they receive a battery of genetic tests as recommended by the American College of Medical Genetics, but they are not tested for the conditions that may lead to SCA.
Instead of retreating into a shell of self-absorption and solitude, which would have been understandable, the Sudmans decided to do everything in their power to keep other children from suffering the same fate as Simon.
So in 2005 they established Simon's Fund in memory of Simon. "We have raised about $1 million since then," Darren told us last Friday. Thanks to the funds the Sudmans have raised, the organization is able to provide free heart screenings to children, primarily in the Greater Philadelphia area.
The fund organizes and facilitates the screenings with medical teams. This May, they hosted their first Mother's Day screening where they screened moms and kids. They also sponsor medical research projects, host awareness events, work with major medical institutions and promote legislation.
As a result of Simon's Fund, 5,931 heart screenings have been done, and 49 students have discovered unknown, potentially fatal heart conditions. One of those children is Valerie Krawitz, 12, who will be entering 7th grade this fall at Colonial Middle School in Plymouth Meeting.
Thanks to Simon's Fund, Valerie had a heart screening at the age of 7, which led to a diagnosis of Long QT Syndrome and an Atrial Septal Defect (ASD). As a result, she underwent heart surgery to repair the ASD. She now takes beta-blockers for the Long QT. Her physical activity is limited, and she is careful not to engage in any physical activity that could potentially be dangerous. But she is alive and well.
According to Jeffrey Krawitz, her father, "The doctor's quote to us was, 'If this isn't repaired, her life will be shortened.' She would have only lived to be in her 20s if the hole hadn't been discovered and repaired. Simon's Fund, quite simply, saved our daughter's life. There is no possible way to ever thank the Sudman family for the gift that we are able to keep, Valerie. The fact that they, in their son's honor, have been able to accomplish so much and continue to save other people's children through Simon's Fund is truly amazing. Simon's name will continue to live on through every heart that keeps beating because of Simon and his family."
According to the Sudmans, getting your child's heart screened, coupled with a complete family medical history, is the best way to prevent sudden cardiac arrest and death. A heart screening, which begins with an electrocardiogram (ECG), takes about two minutes and records the heart's electrical rhythm (the squiggly lines). An ECG can detect up to 85% of all of the conditions that lead to sudden cardiac arrest.
The conditions that lead to SCA and death fall into two categories: structural and electrical. A structural heart defect, like cardiomyopathy, prevents the heart from working properly; it's too big, or the parts are in the wrong places. An electrical heart defect, like Long QT Syndrome, interrupts the heart's rhythm, but most of these conditions are detectable and treatable.
The Sudmans not only have been educating parents about the need for their children to be heart-screened, but they also worked tirelessly to get the Pennsylvania State Legislature to pass the nation's first law to protect student athletes' hearts. Called the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Act, it officially became law on May 29, 2012, when it was signed by Gov. Tom Corbett.
The legislation requires coaches to remove any student athlete who exhibits signs or symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest such as dizziness, fainting, chest pains, etc., while participating in an athletic event. If the student athlete has a history of these symptoms at any time prior to or following an athletic activity, he or she cannot return to participation until evaluated and cleared in writing by a licensed physician or certified registered nurse.
For more information about Simon's Fund, call 610-662-6948, email firstname.lastname@example.com or write to Simon's Fund, PO Box 61, Lafayette Hill, PA 19444.


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(Pocket-lint) - Lenovo had been promising a "better way" of using your tablet and the result is the Lenovo Yoga Tablet, a tablet that comes with its own hinged stand.
Lenovo took to the stage at a launch event in Milan, paralleled with an event in Los Angeles starring Lenovo's "new employee" Ashton Kutcher, to introduce a new design of Android tablet.
The "better way" comes down to a rounded edge, which makes the Yoga Tablet a multi-mode device, just like the company's other Yoga products. In this case, Lenovo is touting three ways of using the tablet: hold mode, tilt mode and finally stand mode.
One glimpse at the tablet will reveal how this is achieved, the rounded edge incorporating a larger battery, promising 18 hours of use, as well as acting as a hinge for the integrated stand.
The "hold mode" was described as being inspired by holding a magazine, echoing the sort of sentiments we heard from Sony at the launch of the Sony Tablet S in 2011, who at the time said it was inspired by a folded newspaper.
Launching on Android 4.2.2, it comes with an interface that's been slightly tweaked by Lenovo. Internally you'll find a 1.2GHz MTK quad-core processor with 1GB of RAM. There's 16GB of internal memory, along with a microSD card slot for expansion, neatly tucked around the back.
On the rear is a 5-megapixel camera, with a front-facing 1.6-megapixel snapper for all your selfies and video calling.
There will be two sizes of Lenovo Yoga Tablet available, an 8-inch model and a 10-inch model, offering the same design and modes of use, but providing two price points: €229 and €299 respectively. Both models offer a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution.
The Lenovo Yoga Tablet will be launching across Europe in November.


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System Monitoring With Atop
atop is a useful tool that displays system load information alongside process information in a similar style to top.Tip of the Trade: Atop makes it easy to keep on top of system monitoring. This useful tool displays system load information alongside process information in a style similar to top.
As in the screenshot below illustrates, the top window shows system-level information and the bottom one process information.
|Atop in Action
The lines in the top window show:
- PRC: Total CPU time in system and user mode, total number of processes and of zombie processes, and the number of processes that exited during the polling interval. The default polling interval is 10 seconds. Use 'i' to change it interactively or 'z' to pause it.
- CPU and CPL: CPU utilization and load (averaged over 1, 5 and 15 minutes).
- MEM and SWP: Amount of memory and swap space that is available and where it's allocated. vmcom and vmlim show how much virtual memory space is committed and what the limit is.
- DSK: disk utilization. avio shows the average number of milliseconds per request.
- NET: Network utilization for the TCP layer ("transport"), the IP layer ("network") and each interface.
All of these use color to indicate if there are any problems.
The bottom window shows active processes (use 'a' to toggle showing all processes). 'g' shows the default process information, or use 'm' to show memory information. VGROW and RGROW on the memory information screen show the increase in virtual and memory usage during the polling interval; check the man page for further information about other columns. Note that you can also kill a process from here by hitting 'k'.
There are various other top-alike programs out there for other resources. Try iftop, for example, to take a look at your network interface statistics! Or htop to get top information in colour and with scrolling.
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