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Raleigh, N.C. - The NC State men's soccer team defeating visiting Virginia Tech 2-0, in the Pack's final contest before next week's ACC Tournament. The Wolfpack (8-7-2, 2-4-1 ACC) used two second half goals from junior Aaron King for the win on Senior Day at Method Road Soccer Stadium. The Wolfpack defense shutout the Hokies (9-9-1, 2-5 ACC), earning NC State its third consecutive shutout.
After a scoreless first half, in which NC State posted a 7-2 advantage in shots, the Pack's offense got going in the second frame. Aaron King was the benefactor from two crosses from the right wing into the penalty box for his team leading 10th and 11th goals of the season.
Both of King's goals started with junior Bryant Salter's work on the right wing. On the first goal, Salter dribbled into the Hokie penalty box, and slid the ball over to freshman Hugh Cronin. Cronin then quickly passed the ball over to King who netted his first goal at 54:43.
NC State would then go on to add an insurance goal in the 69th minute, the exact same way the first goal happened. Salter once again dribbled into the PK box, this time he slid a ball to King at the top of the 18-yard box, and King recorded the multi-goal game.
NC State got a strong performance from keeper Jorge Gonzalez who recorded five saves on the day for his sixth shutout this season. Senior Justin Branch also recorded a back save on the day, as he cleared a Virginia Tech shot off the goalline with just under eight minutes left to preserve the shutout. Fellow seniors Chris Catlett and Chiedu Chukwumah were also honored before the contest.
NC State will next play in the ACC Tournament starting next Wednesday at SAS Soccer Stadium. NC State's opponent and game time will be determined Sunday night.


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Mindy McCready was never a suspect in David Wilson's death says sheriff - report
When Mindy McCready's boyfriend, David Wilson, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, there were reports that mentioned McCready as a possible suspect. She went on "Today" to address those reports, saying she was not involved in any way with his death, and that it was the hardest thing she had ever gone through.
An investigation into Wilson's death confirmed it as a suicide. Now, Cleburne County Sheriff Marty Moss is talking about the death, specifically what role McCready was believed to have played in it. Moss says Mindy was never considered a suspect, or even a person of interest in the case, according to TMZ. "Mindy never changed her story," Moss says.
McCready died Sunday night of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Before taking her own life, She reportedly shot her dog as well.
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French cybersecurity firms increasingly successful in fast-growing market
Interview : Thibaut Barde, UBIFRANCE's Project Manager for Digital Trust & Cyber Security,
In 2013, there was a 12% year-on-year rise in cybersecurity attacks, with nearly 60% of them causing either brand damage or direct revenue loss to businesses. This, coupled with highly publicized commercial and government breaches of IT security, has increased the demand for cybersecurity services. French companies are strongly placed in this growing market and their advanced solutions are in demand.
The 12% year-on-year increase in cybersecurity attacks that affected businesses in 2013 (Source: IBM 2014 Cyber Security Intelligence Index), regrettable as it may be, translates into the fact that the IT-security sector is experiencing sustained growth in this segment of the market. High-profile cases, such as the cyber-attacks on US retail chain Target, have raised awareness among business executives.
While US-based and British companies dominate current business in this sector, client entities are looking for alternatives in order to alleviate their worries of government intrusion. In this respect, French specialist companies are a strong contender in the eyes of many professionals and executives working for SMEs and start-ups, but also at established, larger groups: these clients are leveraging the French know-how stemming from top R&D centres and universities.
In 2013, the French cybersecurity sector was valued at more than $2 billion. The French network-security sector offers a wide range of services, including B2B IT solutions meeting strategic challenges, and comprises many world champions such as Atos, Orange, Sogeti, Bull, Cassidian and the cybersecurity division at Thales.
Thanks to their advanced technical research laboratories, more particularly in cryptology and encryption, French players are recognized worldwide. According to Thibaut Barde, UBIFRANCE's Project Manager for Digital Trust & Cyber Security, "The reason for cutting-edge technology [thriving in France] is the quality of French universities in the field of engineering, which is known globally. Research laboratories associated with these universities train the best engineers of tomorrow."
Secure IC SAS is a shining example of a company that has been working with top graduates having come out of the French educational system in order to become a thought leader in cybersecurity. Its platforms provide the highest level of security on a client entity's embedded systems, preventing hacking and reverse engineering as well as protecting intellectual property and proprietary data. In 2013, Secure IC SAS won a Sesame Award for innovation in the manufacturing and testing of IT products.
French start-ups and SMEs have developed out of a strong domestic talent pool and many have decided to join forces under the HexaTrust label, which regroups 20 hi-tech SMEs that are keen to offer a co-ordinated, total service package to their clients. These software vendors and integrators provide a full range of products and services dedicated to the protection of the critical infrastructure of businesses and institutions from cyber-attacks. The HexaTrust umbrella group's portfolio of current and potential clients is diverse and growing, including businesses and public-sector agencies of all sizes.
Due to the dramatic increase in the level of sophistication and intensity of cyber-attacks, public- and private-sector investment in cybersecurity is growing fast and is expected to rise by nearly 10% per year between now and 2017. This trend illustrates the promising opportunities that exist for a large business looking for a new market, or for a dynamic SME scaling up a new product.
Thibaut Barde of UBIFRANCE Paris explains that, "France's distance from recent scandals [involving the international and covert collection of data by various government agencies, as revealed in the media] is favourable for French players since awareness on the use of data takes place at a global level. This has helped to build the profile of the industry and has generated increasing concerns for [the security of] personal data, which is a real asset for the French in particular: it is important when it comes to data-storage companies, among others."
Many French companies in the sector are choosing to develop an international business outlook. French players have strong opportunities to seize in this market thanks to their technological expertise, combined with the diversity of products and services they can offer.
UBIFRANCE is here to help, with a strong presence at next year's Infosecurity Europe trade event, where there will be as many as 15 French companies looking to expand their presence into the British market and other European markets. Infosecurity Europe will take place from 2 to 4 June 2015 at the Olympia exhibition centre, in central London (UK).
For further information about the trade show, please go to: http://www.infosec.co.uk/
For further information about UBIFRANCE, please go to: http://www.ubifrance.com/
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The robotics exhibition, held in March in Lyon, was one of the most awaited times for Innorobo. For the first time, the French company Aldebaran Robotics showed Romeo, this 1,40 meter humanoid described as " a true companion and personal assistant " for the elderly. The android is able to walk, to see in three dimensions and to talk. With its 40 kg, the carbon fiber and rubber robot will soon be able to open doors and to place objects on a table.
Developed since 2009, the project is structured around "Cap Robotique", an organisation of 21 companies within the "Cap Digital" cluster. Over the last five years, Romeo has seen its capabilities and features increased. Scientists have worked on its ability to recognise objects, but Romeo still takes time to identify them.
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Romeo can have short conversations from information collected on Linkedin, Google Contact and Google Calendar applications. Then, the robot can use the biography, relationships and agenda of his interlocutors to carry out discussions. Work has also been done on Romeo's emotional interaction; the robot should be able to tell which behaviour to adopt depending on the situation.
At the moment, only four European laboratories have acquired the first prototypes. The project should end in the coming months. The company Aldebaran Robotics will have its humanoid tested under real conditions in 2016 before introducing it in retirement homes around 2017 to 2019.
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The final goal is for Romeo to assist the elderly. Ultimately, it will be able to write down the appointments of his interlocutor, remind him to buy milk before going shopping or help him to eat. Romeo will be able as well to read his interlocutor's prescription and may remind him the medication dosage. And if the robot is worried about the condition of his patient, he will be able to contact the hotline center that will take control of the humanoid to assess the situation.
Source : Le Figaro, 18/03/2014
12 innovative French SMEs have created a digital trust alliance called HexaTrust. Representatives of French excellence in innovative solutions, these software vendors and Integrators have come together to provide a full range of efficient and consistent products and services dedicated to the security of critical infrastructures.
This combination meets the needs of enterprises, administrations, public and private organizations of all sizes, keen to receive European and French innovative offers, covering all their IT security needs.
Building on their presence on the European market, HexaTrust members also want to accelerate their international development by sharing their experience, their networks and means of access to global markets.
The 12 companies involved in is centre of excellence are Wallix, Keynectis, Opentrust, Deny All, Ilex, Netheos, Sistech, inWebo, Olfeo, Brainwave, Vade Retro Technology, Arismore et Bertin Technologies.
Open data in France is a growing phenomenon. A mobile app called ToutNantesBouge.fr has been launched recently. This app provides information on public transports such as timetables, public car parks and their availability, carpool, traffic and roadwork's in progress, in Nantes city and its metropolis. GFI Informatique uses the public data published on the website data.nantes.fr and transforms it into meaningful and valuable information for the users of the app. GFI Informatique has positioned itself as one of the leading IT service firms in France and Southern Europe. It is now an international IT services group employing around 10,000 people and is headquartered in Saint-Ouen, France. The company is organised around four business lines: Consulting, systems integration, outsourcing and software solutions. This company has already launched a similar website called "Tout Rennes Bouge" and the related app available on Android and iOS.
Nimble Apps Limited, a French fast-growing publisher of online sales analysis and forecasting solution SalesClic, will create 10 new jobs over the next three years in their new European headquarter in the Digital Hub in Dublin. The company also recently started staffing a US and UK focused sales and marketing team. IDA Ireland, which is responsible for attracting foreign investments to Ireland, worked closely with the Paris-based company on this case.
Nimble Apps Ltd. is a SaaS company (Software as a Service) whose primary product, SalesClic, bridges the gap between traditional CRM software and all-purpose business intelligence software. SalesClic brings analytical and forecasting techniques inspired by decision and financial theories to the B2B sales process, in clear user-friendly web interfaces. SalesClic integrates with Salesforce and Google Apps. Speaking at the announcement, Thomas Oriol, Director of Nimble Apps, said: "(…) Ireland offers us all of the necessary components to assist us to internationalise our business, such as access to markets, a skilled workforce and a pro-business environment."
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Source: IDA Ireland
The French company Sogeti announced last week an expansion of its operations in Ireland. Indeed, Sogeti, owned by Capgemini will create 65 new jobs in Dublin and Galway. Sogeti is implemented in Ireland since 1979 and this investment will allow the creation of high skilled and graduate positions in the IT sector. The recruitment is already in progress. This expansion can be explained by the dynamism of the IT sector in Ireland and Sogeti became, throughout the years, a key part of the IT infrastructure of Irish based multinationals by helping them to deliver their international business. Jean-François Courtines, Chief Sales Officer and Head of Alliances of the Sogeti Group also highlighted that the talented workforce available in Ireland greatly influenced this decision. The company was named the world's number one testing services provider (Ovum Research) in 2011 and experienced a significant growth across its services lines recently. The Irish market is described as "strategic market for the group" (Jeff Schmalbach, CEO, Sogeti Ireland). Sogeti is a leading provider of professional technology services, specializing in Application Development and Management, End to End Quality Assurance, and ERP Solutions (120,000 consultants worldwide).
In order to enhance the worldwide visibility of the French know-how, Ubifrance, redesigned its portal for French exporters and is now called The French Suppliers Portal ( www.ubifrance.com ). This website is a tool that is aimed at French exporters but is also dedicated to Irish companies willing to create added-value by choosing to source in France. Visitors can make a multilingual research by name, products, services, sub-categories, geographic areas and also look for an event, market information and news. Ubifrance has offices in 57 countries around the world and each of those offices publishes in blogs that have also being improved especially for overseas counterparts. In order to replace firmafrance.com, Ubifrance's worldwide blog has now a research tool only dedicated to our Irish partners with a comprehensive directory of the French offer.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need any help regarding this tool!
UBIFRANCE, the French agency for international business developement, comes under the aegis of France's Ministry for the Economy, Industry & Employment. UBIFRANCE lies at the heart of France's public-sector export support framework.


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FAYETTE, Iowa - Volunteers at the Fayette County Food Shelf are getting back to work after a fire destroyed the pantry on New Year's Eve.
The building's owners now know it was an electrical fire.
Today was the first day back at work after flames filled the food shelf.
"I am blown away that they are back up and running after a week after having a fire," said Northeast Iowa Food Bank Director of Programs, Karen Erickson.
With each box of food, volunteers are taking a step towards recovery.
"We were all in shock, I think ... we are just going to keep going forward, not backwards," said Food Shelf Volunteer Roxanne Conrade.
Conrade has worked at the food shelf for a long time.
"I know there's a lot of them out there that probably need help," Conrade said.
She said they're spreading the word that people who need help can come to the temporary location. They're setting up shop here at the Northeast Iowa Professional Building on East Clark Street.
"The professional building board, that's where we are at, offered us three months' rent free," said Fayette County Food Shelf Manager Karen Martin.
Food donations came in by the car load.
"I've been getting a lot of donations today, which is very good," Conrade said.
The Northeast Iowa Food Bank made a large delivery and the second will come next week. In all, it will add up to about $1,500 worth of food. The food bank said money set aside in a disaster fund helped them pay for the donation.
"This was a special delivery this morning to make sure they could get up and running," Erickson said.
For all of this to come together so quickly, these volunteers would say this day is just as sweet as the box of sugar donated as part of their recovery efforts.
"You just want to hug everybody," Martin said.
As the unpacking continues, volunteers are ready to serve people in Fayette County.
The temporary location of the Fayette County Food Shelf is the Northeast Iowa Professional Building at 201 East Clark Street in Fayette. The phone number is 563-425-3399. It will be open every Monday from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. and every Thursday from 1:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m.
You can also still help the Fayette Food Shelf. Monetary donations can be mailed to P.O. Box 711 Fayette Iowa, 52142.
The food shelf eventually plans to move into a building next to their old site in about three months.
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Alumni Travel with President Weiss
Monday, June 15, 2015–June 23, 2015
8:00 am–8:00 pm
Join Haverford President Daniel H. Weiss on a cruise from Venice to Athens along the Dalmatian coast. Travelers will visit five countries and up to eight UNESCO World Heritage sites exploring the cultural influence of the Roman, Greek, Byzantine, Venetian, and Slavic civilizations.
Native American History and Culture Festival
March 29 to April 10, 2014
Native American history and culture will be the focus of a diverse array of events happening on campus.
Saturday, March 29, 2014
3:00–5:00 p.m.
Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change: Toward Right Relationships with America's Native Peoples
Led by Paula Palmer of Boulder Friends Meeting. Sponsored by Haverford's Office of Quaker Affairs, the workshop is aimed at helping participants acquire a greater awareness of the historical and ongoing wrongs committed against Native Americans, and explore ideas for actions that are locally appropriate. Registration encouraged.
Multicultural Center, Stokes Hall
April 1—6, 2014
John Co'ií Residency
Navajo spiritual leader John Co'ií Cook begins a week-long residency at Haverford in conjunction with the course "Native American Music and Belief," which is taught by composer and Professor of Music Curt Cacioppo. Along with class visits and a colloquium (co-sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs), Cook will participate in a public conversation with Cacioppo about Navajo ceremonial practice prior to an April 6 concert performance of the composer's Kinaaldá: the Rite of Changing Woman by the Borromeo String Quartet.
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2:00–2:45 p.m.
Preconcert Talk
John Co'ií Cook, Navajo ethicist and spiritual leader, dialogues with Curt Cacioppo about the meaning of the ceremony that inspired Kinaaldá: the Rite of Changing Woman, and the relevance of Navajo traditional lifeways to solving mainstream American problems today.
Marshall Auditorium, Roberts Hall
3:00–5:00 p.m.
Borromeo String Quartet
Their program will feature the Bartók String Quartet No. 4, Quartet No. 5: Kinaaldá by Curt Cacioppo, and the Dvorak Quartet No. 11 in C major, Op. 61. Ticket prices are $15 (Gen), $12 (Sr), $8 (Stu), $5 (ages 7-17), bi-co free, and free shuttle service is available from the visitors' parking lot. For more information: (610) 896-1011 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
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Exhibit Opening: "As Crow Flies Counterclockwise"
The opening reception for Pato Hebert's and Shelley DePaul's exhibition As Crow Flies Counterclockwise in Magill Library's Sharpless Gallery. Chief of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania, DePaul has developed a curriculum to teach the Lenape language. She worked with Hebert, a sculptor, to create the exhibition, which is inspired by the traditional Lenape prophecy of The Fourth Crow.
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CRAWFORD – The East Oktibbeha Titans dropped a tough 47-6 decision to Nanih Waiya in their last home game of the season Friday night.
The Titans lost their fourth straight game to fall to 4-5 overall and 3-4 in Class A, Region 3.
"Nanih Waiya was a pretty good team, but we really haven't played well the last few games," East Oktibbeha coach Randy Brooks said. "Injuries have just depleted us and we're ending up playing 7th and 8th graders."
Davalyn Bell scored the only touchdown for the Titans on a 1-yard quarterback sneak in the second half.
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'Bermuda triangle' of space oozes radiation, crashes computers
By Carol Christian | May 27, 2014
Photo By Associated PressIn this Sunday, April 20, 2014, image made from a frame grabbed from NASA-TV, the SpaceX Dragon resupply capsule is seen after being berthed on to the International Space Station. At the time of this frame grab the capsule was traveling over Brazil at 10:14 a.m. EDT Sunday. (AP Photo/NASA-TV)
Photo By .This artist rendering provided by NASA shows the Van Allen radiation belts around Earth. A new study published Thursday Feb. 28, 2013, in the journal Science reports that NASA's recently launched twin satellites to the region discovered a third, temporary ring. It appeared for a month before a shock wave from the sun destroyed it. Scientists are still trying to figure out how often this happens.
Keep clicking to see other spectacular space images from the Hubble Space Telesope.
Photo By NASASee more of the most amazing images of space captured by NASA.Resembling the fury of a raging sea, this 1999 image hows a bubbly ocean of glowing hydrogen gas and small amounts of other elements such as oxygen and sulfur within M17, about 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius.
Photo By NASAThe Sombrero galaxy, seen in May-June 2003. As seen from Earth, the galaxy is tilted nearly edge-on. We view it from just six degrees south of its equatorial plane.
Photo By APBright blue, newly formed stars are blowing a cavity in the center of a star-forming region known as N90.
Photo By NASAAn image of a dying star named NGC 6369 on Nov. 7, 2002. The star is 2,000 to 5,000 light-years from Earth and is similar in mass to our Sun. The halo surrounding the star is caused by the shedding of the outer layers during the final stages of its life.
Photo By NASAHubble took this true-color view of Jupiter on Feb. 17. Jupiter's trademark belts and zones of high- and low-pressure regions appear in crisp detail. Circular convection cells can be seen at high northern and southern latitudes.
Photo By NASAA view of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, showing clusters of hot young blue stars along its spiral arms, and clouds of hydrogen gas glowing in red. The galaxy is visible from the Southern Hemisphere.
Photo By NASAThis is one of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble cameras of the Carina Nebula. The image shows a 50 light-year-wide view of the tumultuous central region of the nebula, where a maelstrom of star birth and death is taking place.
Photo By NASAThis Hubble photo shows a portion of the Carina Nebula. The photo was released Tuesday to celebrate the 17th anniversary of the launch of the telescope. The image shows a towering "mountain" of cold hydrogen gas at the site of a new star formation.
Photo By NASAThe Hubble Space Telescope drifts away from the shuttle Discovery's cargo bay door on April 25, 1990.
Photo By NASAAn image of a dying star named NGC 6369 on Nov. 7, 2002. The star is 2,000 to 5,000 light-years from Earth and is similar in mass to our Sun. The ghostly halo surrounding the star is caused by the shedding of the star's outer layers during the final stages of its life cycle.
Photo By NASAHubble took this shot of Mars on June 26, 2003. Mars was approximately 43 million miles from Earth, the closest the planet had been to Earth in 15 years. Large amounts of seasonal dust storms can be seen in this image.
Photo By NASAHubble photographs Pluto, center, with its two moons, from far right, Hydra and Nix, respectively. Pluto's other moon, Charon, is seen closest to Pluto.
Photo By NASAHere is Pismis 24-1, a bright young star that lies in the core of the small open star cluster Pismis 24, which are the bright stars in this Hubble image. Pismis 24-1 is about 8,000 light-years from Earth.
Photo By NASAPart of the constellation Scorpius is centered on the large emission nebula NGC 6357, which has star cluster Pismis 24 in its center. This image is a color composite.
Photo By HO/AFP/Getty ImagesJupiter's southern aurora.
Photo By NASAThis image shows Saturn's moon Titan, left, as its shadow falls on Saturn with its rings on edge to Earth. These edge-on alignments of the rings occur about once every 15 years.
Photo By NASAA sharp image in 1999 of the brilliant nebula called the "Red Rectangle." The nebula was discovered in the early 1970s.
Photo By APThe former planet Pluto, center, with its two moons, from far right, Hydra and Nix, respectively. Pluto's other moon, Charon, is seen closest to Pluto.
Photo By APHold the pickles, hold the lettuce. This object, nicknamed Gomez's Hamburger, is a sunlike star nearing the end of its life.
Photo By Getty ImagesA nearly perfect ring of hot, blue stars pinwheel around the yellow nucleus of an unusual galaxy known as Hoag's Object.
Photo By Getty ImagesA dying star named NGC 6369, also known as the "Little Ghost Nebula," is 2,000 to 5,000 light years from earth. The ghostly halo surrounding the star is caused by the shedding of the star's outer layers during the final stages of its life cycle.
Photo By Getty ImagesA grouping of galaxies engage in a slow dance of destruction that will last for billions of years. The tightly packed galaxies are beginning to rip stars from each other and distort their shapes.
Photo By APThe Bug Nebula is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. At its center lies a superhot, dying star smothered in a blanket of hailstones.
Photo By APThe galaxy UGC 10214, dubbed the "Tadpole," resides about 420 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. Its distorted shape was caused by a very blue, compact galaxy visible in the upper left corner.
Photo By APA violent and chaotic-looking mass of gas and dust, denoted N 63A, is the remains of a massive star that exploded, spewing its gaseous layers out into an already turbulent region.
Photo By APA spiral galaxy M51 (NGC5194), known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, and NGC 5195, the small, yellowish galaxy at the outermost tip of one of the Whirlpool's arms.
Photo By ERICH KARKOSCHKA/APA view of Saturn from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Camera exposures in four filters were combined to form the image and render the colors similar to what the eye would see through a telescope.
Photo By APThis stellar relic is nicknamed the 'Eskimo' Nebula (NGC 2392) because, when viewed through ground-based telescopes, it resembles a face surrounded by a fur parka.
Photo By APThis object, called the Rotten Egg Nebula because it contains a lot of sulphur, was caused by violent gas collisions that produced supersonic shock fronts in a dying star.
Photo By APPlanetary nebula IC 418, known as the Spirograph Nebula, is located 2,000 light years from Earth and is the final stage of the evolution of a star similar to the sun.
Photo By APA unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing details of its warped dusty disk and showing how colliding galaxies spawn the formation of new generations of stars.
Photo By APThe galaxy NGC 4013, a brilliant bandlike structure, that might be a ring of newly formed stars seen edge-on.
Photo By APA tumultuous collision between four galaxies located 1 billion light-years from Earth. The galactic car wreck is creating a torrent of new stars.
Photo By APAmong the images recorded by the Hubble since its deployment in 1990 is this crimson pillar of gas and dust called the Cone Nebulla (NGC 2264).
Photo By APA watercolor fantasyland? No. It's the center of the Omega Nebula, a hotbed of newly born stars wrapped in colorful blankets of gas and cradled in an enormous cold, dark hydrogen cloud.
Photo By AFP/Getty ImagesMars on Oct. 28, within a day of its closest approach to Earth. A large, red dust storm appears as the brighter, redder cloudy region in the middle of the planet's disk.
Photo By AFP/Getty ImagesThe Eagle Nebula located 7,000 light years away in the Serpens constellation. The image shows the region's entire network of turbulent clouds and newborn stars in infrared light.
Photo By AFP/Getty ImagesThe Boomerang Nebula, a reflecting cloud of dust and gas that has two nearly symmetric lobes of matter that are being ejected from a central star.
There really is a "Bermuda Triangle" of space, NASA scientists agree. They just don't call it that.
Officially known as the South Atlantic Anomaly, the extraterrestrial Bermuda Triangle is found over much of South America and extends out over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil.
It's not really a triangle and in fact has gained the nickname "the duck" for the shape of its primary core.
What scientists know is that intense radiation in the area wreaks havoc on computers and other electronic systems aboard spacecraft, sometimes necessitating that these devices be turned off while passing through this area.
The International Space Station had required extra shielding to deal with the issue.
The region is also thought to cause strange "shooting stars," in astronauts' visual field.
The South Atlantic Anomaly is part of the Van Allen radiation belts, two rings around the Earth that bombard the planet with charged protons. The anomaly is the result of a dip in the Earth's magnetic field, which allows cosmic rays and charged particles to dip lower into the Earth's atmosphere.
The anomaly's proximity to Earth fluctuates between 200 and 1,300 kilometers, according to the Goddard Space Flight Center.


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The Vision: TastyBites is a QSR food company launched TAKEAWAY with Open Kitchen concept; the aim was to serve appetising, aromatic, visually tempting, and delicious tasting Pizza, wholesome and quality food at affordable rates prepared in clean and hygienic environment.
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Aparna Joshi 's work focuses on multilevel issues in workplace diversity, gender issues in science an engineering, collaboration in global and distributed teams, generational issues in the workplace, and international and cross-cultural management. Her work in the area of gender dynamics in engineering work groups was recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant. Her research appears in the, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Organization Science. Aparna's work has received the Academy of Management's Saroj Parasuraman Award in 2010, the Dorothy Harlow Distinguished Paper Award in 2006 and 2008, the Ulrich-Lake Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Human Resource Management Journal, and the Academy of Management's Best Dissertation Award (Gender and Diversity in Organizations division) and has also been featured in the Cincinnati Enquirer, USA Today, and the Times of India. Prior to joining Smeal she was on the faculty of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. She has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and is currently an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Journal. She was awarded the 2014 Cummings Award for Early to Mid-Career Scholarly Achievement, one of the highest professional honors in the field, by the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management.
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Aparna's NSF funded research focuses on status based dynamics in multidisciplinary science and engineering groups. These groups are assembled to pool expertise and knowledge, solve complex and critical problems, and advance innovation. Yet, managing social dynamics in work groups has been an enduring challenge. This challenge is magnified when work groups represent diversity in terms of gender, ethnicity, or cultural backgrounds. From a policy standpoint, the attraction and retention of female and minority scientists and engineers has been a concern in both academic and corporate settings. The findings from the proposed research will inform initiatives for facilitating inclusive and productive working relationships at the group level that will ultimately lead to the more optimal utilization of the diverse expertise represented in these groups. Specifically, the proposed research will have broad impacts on three stakeholder groups – engineering faculty, students, and managers in high-technology organizations.
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Joshi, A., Son, J., & Roh, H.2014, "When can women close the gap? A meta-analytic test of sex differences in performance and rewards,", Academy of Management Journal, In Press,
Joshi, A. & Knight, A.2014, "Who defers to whom and why? Dual pathways linking demographic differences and dyadic deference to team effectiveness", Academy of Management Journal, in press,
Joshi, A.2014, "By whom and when is women's expertise recognized? The interactive effects of gender and education in science and engineering teams", Administrative Science Quarterly, 59, 202-239.
Gajendran, R,& Joshi,A.2013, "Inclusion and Identification in Virtual Teams: Does Leader-Member Virtual Communication Matter?", Journal of Applied Psychology, 97, 1252-1261.
Joshi, A., Dencker, J., & Franz, G.2011, "Generations in organizations", Research in Organizational Behavior, 31, 177-205.
Joshi, A., Dencker, J., Franz, G., & Martocchio. J.2010, "Unpacking generational identities in organizations", Academy of Management Review, 35, pp.392-414.
Joshi, A., & Roh., H.2009, "The role of context in work team diversity research: A meta-analytic review", Academy of Management Journal, 52, pp.599-628.
Joshi A., Lazarova., M., & Liao, H.2009, "Getting everyone on board: The role of inspirational leadership in geographically dispersed teams", Organization Science, 20, pp.240-252.
Liao, H., Chuang, A., Joshi., A.2008, "In the eye of the beholder: Understanding why people think they are different, and when perceived dissimilarity leads to turnover", Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 106, pp.106-124.
Joshi., A.2006, "The influence of organizational demography on the external networking behavior of teams", Academy of Management Review, 31, pp.583-597.
Joshi, A., Liao, H., & Jackson, S.E. 2006, "Cross-level effects of workplace diversity on sales performance and pay", Academy of Management Journal, 49, pp.459-481.
Liao, H., Joshi A., & Chuang, A. 2004, "Sticking out like a sore thumb: Employee dissimilarity and deviance", Personnel Psychology, 57, pp.969-1000.
Jackson, S.E. & Joshi A. 2004., "Diversity in social context: A multi-attribute, multi-level analysis of team diversity and performance in a sales organization.", Journal of Organizational Behavior, 25, pp.675-702.
Leonard, J., Levine, D., & Joshi A.2004, "Do birds of a feather shop together? The effects on performance of employees' similarity with one another and with customers.", Journal of Organizational Behavior, 25, pp.731-754..
Jackson, S. E., Joshi, A., & Erhardt, N. L. 2003., "Recent research on team and organizational diversity: SWOT analysis and implications.", Journal of Management, 29, pp.801-830.
Gully, S., Incalcaterra, K., Joshi, A., & Beaubin, J. 2002., "A meta-analysis of team-efficacy, potency, and performance: Interdependence and level of analysis as moderators of observed relationships.", Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, pp.819-832.
Caligiuri, P., Hyland, M., Joshi A., & Bross, A. 1998., "Testing a theoretical model for examining the relationship between family adjustment and expatriates' work adjustment.", Journal Applied Psychology, 83, pp.598-614.
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 struck the northwest coast of Costa Rica Wednesday, resulting in the death of at least one person, the U.S. Geological Survey said. NOAA Tsunami Warning Center issues a "tsunami watch": Although sea level readings do not indicate that a tsunami was generated, there may have been destructive waves along coastlines near the earthquake epicenter.
The quake struck Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula, on the Pacific coast about 87 miles west of the capital, San Jose. It was centered more than 28 miles deep. The Geological Survey originally measured the quake at magnitude 7.9, but later revised it downward.
NOAA Tsunami Warning Center: Although sea level readings do not indicate that a tsunami was generated, there may have been destructive waves along coastlines near the earthquake epicenter. For those areas - when no major waves are observed for two hours after the estimated time of arrival or damaging waves have not occurred for at least two hours - then local authorities can assume the treat has passed. Danger to boats and coastal structures can continue for several hours due to rapid currents. As local conditions can cause wide variations in tsunami wave action - the 'all clear' determination must be made by local authorities.
A woman in the northwestern town of Filadelfia died from a heart attack believed to be a result of the shock of the quake, Jesus Escalona of the Costa Rican Red Cross said. The woman was in her 50s.
The earthquake did not generate any aftershocks, said Julie Dutton of the USGS. She said the agency has received reports of some damage.
The epicenter was just six miles away from the city of Hojancha.
"It started out pretty mild, but then it really got going," said Bill Root, owner of a hotel in Samara, also near the epicenter. "It was a very strong earthquake. Everything was falling off the shelves and the ground was rolling."
Hours after the quake, authorities canceled all tsunami warnings and watches.
CNN affiliate Teletica showed people streaming out of buildings when the earthquake hit.
Telephone service was knocked out in cities near the epicenter, Teletica reported. The station showed photos submitted by viewers of a partially collapsed bridge over the Rio Sucio and a landslide on a highway. Other photos showed floors littered with merchandise inside of stores and homes with minor damages.
"It's unnerving when solid concrete beneath you is shaking from side to side. It was pretty scary," said David Boddinger, editor of the English-language Tico Times in San Jose.
There is some damage, including debris that has fallen on the roads, and damage to the roads themselves at a spot on the Nicoya Peninsula about 14 kilometers (8 miles) from the epicenter, Boddinger said.
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Davis Breaks Career HR Mark; Season Ends in Regional Final
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ATHENS, Ga. - Junior Renada Davis became NC State softball's career home run leader with her 50th round-tripper, but the Wolfpack dropped a pair of games against 7th-ranked and No. 4 overall seed Georgia Sunday evening at Jack Turner Stadium.
"I'm really proud of this team," said head coach Shawn Rychcik. "I like the way we competed. I thought our energy was good after the long rain delay. I think the first five in their lineup are as good as I've ever faced in my time coaching. They put relentless pressure on you hitting as well as on the mound. We really respect them and I expect them to go far in this tournament."
NC State advanced to Sunday's regional final with a 2-0 record, becoming just the fifth team to beat a top-four seed before a regional final since 2005. The Wolfpack also made school history in the process as the 2014 team was the first-ever team to win the first two games of a regional.
Rychcik's squad concludes the season with a 36-18 record, after claiming the program's second consecutive trip to an NCAA Regional.
Georgia won the first game of the day 9-1 to force a winner-take-all contest. The Bulldogs, which rank third in the nation in home runs per game, scored all of their runs in the game off of home runs. The squad scored two runs in the first and third innings to take a 4-0 lead into the fourth inning.
"I think they changed the lineup a little bit and stacked the holes that we were able to work around yesterday," Rychcik added. "They were much more aggressive (today) and maybe were a little bit passive the first time we played them. They came out swinging today and put some pressure on us when we got in a couple of holes early in the game."
The Bulldogs tacked on three additional runs in the fifth and two more in the seventh. State scored its lone run of the game on Davis' home run which broke the program record for career homers. The junior shortstop entered the contest with 49 and needed only one more to move into first place all-time. Her 19th round-tripper of the season gave her that distinction.
"As a junior, I'm looking forward to next year," said Davis. "Next year there will be even more drive because it will be my last year. Getting this far and doing better this year than we did last year in Tennessee means it can only get better."
In the second game of the day, Georgia continued its hot-hitting as the squad scored two runs in the top of the first to take a 2-0 lead. The Bulldogs used a big fourth inning to extend the lead to 6-0 after plating four runs in the frame.
The Wolfpack held Georgia scoreless in the second and fourth innings, but the Bulldogs scored two additional runs in the bottom of the fifth to win by the mercy rule, 8-0.
NC State finishes the year with a team batting average of .275, which is the highest for any Wolfpack squad in program history. Its .357 on-base percentage ties as the best in school history.


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GREAT NECK, NY (PRWEB) February 15, 2013
To mark Kidney Health Awareness Month in March, the North Shore-LIJ Health System's Janet and John Raggio Nephrology Institute will hold free education events in Glen Cove, Great Neck, Jamaica and Manhasset to increase awareness about kidney disease
Kidney disease blocks the body's ability to clean the blood stream, explained Steven Fishbane, MD, vice president for network dialysis services at North Shore-LIJ. The disease can lead to the need for dialysis or transplantation. The two biggest causes of kidney disease are high blood pressure and diabetes. According to the National Kidney Foundation, approximately 26 million adult Americans have chronic kidney disease.
Kidney disease is often hard to detect, although sometimes swelling in the legs or blood in the urine might be a sign of the disease, Dr. Fishbane said. Blood and urine tests are typically done to determine if someone has the disease.
To increase awareness about kidney disease, the Raggio Institute is hosting these education events:
Bilingual staff will be able to answer questions in Spanish, Korean, Chinese and Hindu. There will also be blood pressure and urine screenings. From 7 to 8 p.m., there will be a workshop entitled "How to Keep Your Kidneys Healthy."
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The Secretary for Home Affairs, Mr Tsang Tak-sing, today (September 3)extended his heartfelt congratulations to the Hong Kong Rugby team on winning a silver medal in Rugby Sevens (Men) at the 12th National Games now being held in Liaoning Province.
"The athletes have demonstrated their team spirit as well as excellent skills and perseverance in winning the medals. I hope other Hong Kong athletes will continue to do their utmost and strive for the best results for Hong Kong."
The Hong Kong delegation has so far won one silver and two bronze medals at the 12th National Games.
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April has been a busy month on base. The last of the field parties went out, in daytime temperatures below –30 °C for the most part. Mark, Andy, Jon and Duncan had a great time at the hinge zone, but conversation for the evening radio scheds revolved largely around how cold it was! I think that our field trips bring home to us just how harsh this environment can be – It is possible to stay warm in these temperatures, but we have to keep the work rate up to maintain it (and therefore have to eat accordingly in the evening to refuel!).
|The rest of the month has seen us getting ready for sun-down. The sun has been sinking lower and lower as we head towards 'winter', and the 28th was predicted to be the last day that we would see the sun at all for 105 days! Something that we all take so much for granted is about to disappear, and I know that it will be a very special day when I first feel the warmth of the sun on my back again. Lack of sun over winter brings with it certain challenges. Everyone knows how difficult it can be to get out of bed on a dark and cold morning. Even now we get no hint of daylight until late morning, and that can make the first few hours of work a real challenge. Lack of regular bright light can also play havoc with our body clocks, which may in turn lead to sleep or mood problems. The lighting at Halley is thought to be too dull to provide the stimulus that we normally get from the sun. My research here involves monitoring sleep quality and body clock phase to monitor these effects. Thanks to enthusiasm from the rest of the base I now have an army of volunteers keeping sleep diaries, and wearing actiwatches to monitor activity levels and light exposure. Halley in fact provides a perfect place to do this sort of research because the seasons here are so extreme, and much of the research carried out has taken it's place in world medical literature on the topic of sleep and night-shift work.
Anyway, such an important time of year can't pass by without a party. Saturday saw us outside over the brightest part of the day for some outdoor sports. Sumo wrestling provided us with huge entertainment while on the ship on the way into Halley, so we repeated it here – huge thermal suits for wearing while ski-dooing stuffed with pillows provided the padding we needed. Andy also set us up an assault course to be tackled on the Elans (the smallest, lightest and most manoeverable of the ski-doos we have on base). Ben (our mechanic) rode the course in the fastest time, but was closely followed behind by Cathy (one of the met angels).
At 2.45pm, just as the sun disappeared below the horizon for the last time, we followed Halley tradition and lowered the union jack from the flag-pole. Mark S had the honour of doing this as he is the oldest base member – Elaine (the youngest on base) will raise the flag again once the sun reappears. Mark read us a quote about the disappearance of the sun by Admiral Byrd, an American who wintered alone in the Antarctic in 1934. The flag was then raffled off, and was appropriately won by Mark himself, who had so fittingly marked sun-down for us.
In the evening we headed for the garage for a barbecue. I am never likely to experience such an amazing barbecue anywhere else. At –30 °C we had to drink our beers sharpish before they froze!!! Once the eating was done the dancing started inside. Jon and Mr Sharp had been working away to provide us with most excellent disco lights – and Club Nido was kicking! Antarctic fashion may well catch on for clubbing back home – especially our huge mukluk boots!!!
Late in the evening we retired to the 'chill-out room' - groups of us have been out over the past few weeks building an igloo, and it provided an excellent post-club venue! It fitted 10 of us inside with plenty room to stretch legs out. We now have several volunteers who want to sleep out in it - myself included!!!
All in all we saw the sun off in great style.
Other activities on base carry on much as before . Our gym is becoming very popular - so much so that we're almost making bookings for a time slot! Mark R and Annette have been keeping Jon, Andy, Elaine and myself hurting with regular circuit sessions; Steve, Duncan, Annette and Mark can be found swinging gracefully around on the climbing wall; Dougie has been spotted doing some aikido training; and Ben, Kev and Mickey are more likely to be found lifting unfeasibly heavy weights. Mark S is a keen and very fit runner, and regularly runs round the base perimeter. He provides the spur to get me out running too! As well as this, Stu has been providing us with a fortnightly showing of the huge reel-to-reel collection that has been built up at Halley over the years, and Monday may well turn out to be a regular bridge night. We are lucky to have so many group activities set up this winter, while everyone appreciates that time alone is often called for too. I think we have the balance about right so far!
From now it is only 6 weeks or so until midwinter - a huge celebration on Antarctic bases. Preparations here have begun already!!!
Happy 90th Birthday Granny!
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The Art of Hanging On
From the "Letting Go Mixtape" (Fall 2014)
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Sneakout - "The Art of Hanging On" (Official Music Video)
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Skinny dipping in your neighbor's pool on hot summer nights. House parties while parents are away. Jumping a fence for that once-in-a-lifetime view. When a story starts with, "... this one time, we snuck out...", you know it's going to be a good one. Young and old trouble needs a soundtrack, and Sneakout's got you covered.
Under his previous moniker Victory, Fleming has enjoyed enviable success as a fully independent artist, having his songs featured in several high-profile ads and television shows. Highlights include a year-long national campaign for Cadillac, an international 2014 Fall Fashion Week campaign for iPhone and Burberry, and a recent episode of the hit HBO series GIRLS.
Fuzzy, effervescent indie-pop with a mischievous California swagger, Sneakout's music sits comfortably within a playlist of Divine Fits, Broken Bells, and Talking Heads. Formerly known as Victory, Sneakout is the creative vehicle of one Robert Fleming, who writes, performs, produces, and records each track. With the help of a tight live four-piece band and some notable mixing talents to help round out the sound on the stage and on record, Sneakout is quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with.
Sneakout's new Letting Go mixtape features a combination of brand new songs, remixes, a re-interpretation of the Lana Del Rey hit "West Coast", and acoustic versions of some of the tracks you might recognize from those prime TV/ad placements. The first single "The Art of Hanging On" is currently being played on The World Famous KROQ in Los Angeles.
"I want to live vicariously through my music", says Fleming. "I write songs where I can be anyone I want to be and I can live anyway I want to live. 'The Art of Hanging On', featured on the mixtape, is my homage to living in the moment. We shouldn't stop breaking out of our comfort zones because our hair is turning gray and our backs get sore. I have so much more fun now, and get myself into way more trouble than I ever did. Aging should be our motivation for truly Letting Go."
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Where does conflict come from? The answer to this question is becoming ever more elusive, even in cases where we appear to know the answers, the protagonists and the situations well enough. Roee Rosen's text, "The Law is Laughing: Fragments Following the War in Gaza," asks what role the law occupies in a protracted conflict. The question itself is structured around the over-determination of protagonism and on an understanding of conflict that revolves around a narcissistic and negative doubling of the protagonist. Rosen's mode of interpretation is itself both comedic and comic, banking on the startle response of the reader, familiar with and worn-out by terms of the situation to which he refers.
In his essay "Laughter" (1900), Henri Bergson proposes, broadly, that a situation that is comic is structured around the coexistence of contradiction within a singular situation without one element of the combination ever overwhelming the other, except in a punctuated manner.1 These punctuations are revelatory moments that elicit release in the form of laughter. For Bergson, the reigning contradiction is a mechanistic arrangement that gives off the illusion of life. If the procedural matrix of the law is a form of such mechanistic arrangement, then we might read Rosen's fragments as identifying those moments in which the law seems, perversely, to come to life as though through the periodic and repeated lifting of a veil.
The first instance of this unveiling is in the parsing of the names of various military operations whose cheerful meanings carefully and meaningfully veil the horror of the operations themselves. These names do not conceal any hoped-for outcomes, but in fact provide semiotic cover for enacting certain forms of destruction. The reading of those names through the veil of that semiotic cover is a process rich with revelation, especially insofar as it points to the contradiction between meaning and action, between nominal and verbal forms. As Bergson puts it, in comedy, one is faced with "manner seeking to outdo the matter, the letter aiming at ousting the spirit."
The fragment itself bears testimony to the punctuated temporality of a protracted civil war that in turn bears the enormous weight of a fundamental contradiction, that between ethical and unethical forms of militancy. The law imagines itself to be on the side of sovereignty and professional soldering and against terror and un-civility, yet the lines between the ethical and unethical are continuously blurring within the spaces of conflict.
Each episode, each action, in this protracted conflict is marked by the law's negation of itself, that is to say, its violation of norms upheld as sovereign, by sovereign authority.
This self-transgression that turns the lawgiver, the state, into a criminal, results in confounding the boundaries of sovereignty. When the state itself thus negates the concept of the law, what is happening may be read as a simultaneous and, of course, contradictory expansion and contraction of the scope of the law and sovereignty under the guise of a singular set of procedures. "An effect, which grows by arithmetical progression, so that the cause, insignificant at the outset, culminates by a necessary evolution in a result as important as it is unexpected." (Bergson, 113) Rosen suggests that events progress in a punctuated fashion and their effects are ejected values. If the comedic effect lies in maintaining an illusion of life in relation to a mechanistic arrangement, then the zombie is the perfect choice of metaphor—neither fully living nor fully dead, the zombie periodically returns to haunt the scene of the crime, thus revealing the law's transgressions.
Through each fragment, each punctuation, we can discern the increasing urgency of understanding the comedic structure of sovereign law, the chief protagonist in this protracted civil war. Rosen writes: "When the law is constituted on its own negation, its comic mode is not set against the law (as Deleuze understands humor and irony). This comic mode is not driven by a discontent with what is (for instance, as a defiance against wrongdoing or a reaction to fear or horror), but is rather prompted by a paradoxical attempt to stabilize and preserve the law in its condition of self-negation. (…) The comic resonance is thus the result of a condition by which the state itself negates the concept of the law." This self-negation takes myriad forms: the benign and even cheerful naming of events; the multiplication of forms of illegality that might be legal and legalities that might in fact be illegal; the negation of the border and the disavowal of sovereignty as a means of maintaining an occupation; the consequent confusion of who belongs as a citizen; and, finally, the refusal even to simulate ideals of justice and good-will as required by the norms of nationalism.
How then does the law maintain itself as law? Rosen's fragments suggest that the comedic mode is critical to sovereign self-maintenance. In this mode, life itself is negated while its illusion is maintained through the perpetuation of mechanistic arrangements. In this mode, the law imposes its sovereignty while provoking suspicion about its own seriousness. But its effects are realized primarily in its performative dimension. Linguistic anthropologists and poststructuralist critics suggest that performative acts are a special genre of speech or other behavior that are constitutive of meaning in and of themselves. While the law presupposes the citizenry as its interpretive community, its constant violations of its own normative limits open a space of uncertainty about this community. The law's performative violations of its own limits speculatively seek out an alternative community, constituted by and therefore accepting of its violations. What is inherently comedic about this mode of operation is its episodic but profound engagement with normative limits, at once presupposing and constituting those limits. The law is not humorous but comedic, laughter is not just a release but constitutive of the citizen. The sovereign laughs at and laughs with the citizen thus negating the oppositional dimension of laughter instead, bringing to the fore its focus on contradiction, the mixing of mechanistic form with the episodic illusion of life.
The particular contradictions that are brought together in the operations of the law prompt reversals of commonsense understandings—as when the assertion of good citizenship becomes an act of mutiny against a law-negating state rather than an act of conformity. Each episode begins to be measured in terms of possible reversals. Rosen's fragments might be read similarly, mimicking the sovereign's comic mode, they work as critique precisely because their seriousness is articulated in a veiled language—not of death and destruction alone, but of how the illusion of life is ostensibly maintained.
1Bergson's essay "Laughter" is reprinted in Comedy, edited by Wylie Sypher. Johns Hopkins Paperbacks (1956). The quotes in this commentary are drawn from this edition.
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