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Treatment options for Crohn's disease tend to focus on symptom control, but new research highlights a potential treatment option that targets a pathway in the immune system itself.
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Coronavirus: What Happens When You Get Infected?
There are many types of coronaviruses. Some give you the common cold. The new coronavirus behind the 2019-2020 pandemic causes an illness called COVID-19.
How Does Coronavirus Attack Your Body?
A virus infects your body by entering healthy cells. There, the invader makes copies of itself and multiplies throughout your body.
The new coronavirus latches its spiky surface proteins to receptors on healthy cells, especially those in your lungs.
Specifically, the viral proteins bust into cells through ACE2 receptors. Once inside, the coronavirus hijacks healthy cells and takes command. Eventually, it kills some of the healthy cells.
How Does Coronavirus Move Through Your Body?
COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, starts with droplets from an infected person's cough, sneeze, or breath. They could be in the air or on a surface that you touch before touching your eyes, nose, or mouth. That gives the virus a passage to the mucous membranes in your throat. Within 2 to 14 days, your immune system may respond with symptoms including:CONTINUE READING BELOW
- Fever
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- Shortness of breath
- Trouble breathing
- Fatigue
- Chills, sometimes with shaking
- Body aches
- Headache
- A sore throat
- Loss of taste
- Loss of smell
- Nausea
- Diarrhea
The virus moves down your respiratory tract. That's the airway that includes your mouth, nose, throat, and lungs. Your lower airways have more ACE2 receptors than the rest of your respiratory tract. So COVID-19 is more likely to go deeper than viruses like the common cold.
Your lungs might become inflamed, making it tough for you to breathe. This can lead to pneumonia, an infection of the tiny air sacs (called alveoli) inside your lungs where your blood exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide.
If your doctor does a CT scan of your chest, they'll probably see shadows or patchy areas called "ground-glass opacity."
For most people, the symptoms end with a cough and a fever. More than 8 in 10 cases are mild. But for some, the infection gets more severe. About 5 to 8 days after symptoms begin, they have shortness of breath (known as dyspnea). Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) begins a few days later.
ARDS can cause rapid breathing, a fast heart rate, dizziness, and sweating. It damages the tissues and blood vessels in your alveoli, causing debris to collect inside them. This makes it harder or even impossible for you to breathe.
Many people who get ARDS need help breathing from a machine called a ventilator.
As fluid collects in your lungs, they carry less oxygen to your blood. That means your blood may not supply your organs with enough oxygen to survive. This can cause your kidneys, lungs, and liver to shut down and stop working.
Not everyone who has COVID-19 has these serious complications. And not everyone needs medical care. But if your symptoms include trouble breathing, get help right away.NEWSLETTERStay Up-to-Date on COVID-19
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Some people also have symptoms including:
- Pinkeye
- Rashes
- Liver problems or damage
- Heart problems
- Kidney damage
- Dangerous blood clots, including in their legs, lungs, and arteries. Some clots may cause a stroke.
Researchers are also looking into a few reports of skin rashes, including some reddish-purple spots on fingers or toes.
A few children and teens have been admitted to the hospital with an inflammatory syndrome that may be linked to the new coronavirus. Symptoms include a fever, rash, belly pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and heart problems. The syndrome, now being referred to as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C is similar to toxic shock or to Kawasaki disease, a condition in children that causes inflammation in blood vessels. We're still learning about these cases.
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Coronavirus: Adults should take vitamin D, researchers say
The Government should immediately change recommendations for vitamin D supplements as a matter of urgency by urging all adults to take them during the coronavirus pandemic, according to scientists at Trinity College Dublin.
This follows evidence highlighting the association between vitamin D levels and mortality from Covid-19 produced by Dr Eamon Laird and Prof Rose Anne Kenny, who lead the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing.
They analysed European adult population studies completed since 1999 which measured vitamin D, and compared vitamin D and death rates from Covid-19.
The pivotal role of vitamin D in fighting viral infections is known but it can also "support the immune system through a number of immune pathways" involved in fighting Covid-19, they conclude in a study published in the Irish Medical Journal.
The correlation is so strong taking vitamin D should be advised immediately, Prof Kenny said. This was because vitamin D deficiency was common among those at risk of Covid-19 (particularly older people); there was no toxic risk from taking it at the recommended dosage level, and growing evidence of benefits.
Last week, scientists at Northwestern University in the US found those with severe vitamin D deficiency were twice as likely to experience Covid-19 complications.
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Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. But, he ruled by terror, and millions of his own citizens died during his brutal reign. Born into poverty, Stalin became involved in revolutionary politics, as well as criminal activities, as a young man. After Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin died, Stalin outmaneuvered his rivals for control of the party. Once in power, he collectivised farming and had potential enemies executed or sent to forced labor camps. Stalin aligned with the United States and Britain in World War II but afterward engaged in an increasingly tense relationship with the West known as the Cold War. After his death, the Soviets initiated a de-Stalinization process.


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Helena Thompson is an award-winning script writer and Artistic Director of S.P.I.D. Theatre. She studied playwriting at Birmingham University and English at Cambridge University, and was on the National Theatre's attachment scheme. Her plays for BBC Radio 4 include The Burning Times (Ivy) (Radio Times' Pick of the Week) and Superyou. Her play Arthur's World (Bush Theatre) is published by Oberon. Her interactive experience iAm (nominated for an Offie award) toured the Arcola, Southwark Playhouse and Bush Theatre. Her plays Bluebeard's Wives (ICA) and Open House (Riverside Studios, Time Out Critic's Choice) are published by Plays International. Her short film High Above the Sky (ITV First Light Best Film Award) has won two distribution deals, three prizes and over a hundred festival screenings worldwide.
The award-winning company S.P.I.D. (Social Political Innovative Direct) was founded by Helena Thompson in 2005 to champion high quality community theatre on council estates. The charity works on estates throughout the United Kingdom creating youth shows, professional shows, youth films and tours. Shows bring audiences together using immersive, participatory, promenade or site-specific techniques. Prizes include Time Out Critic's Choice, an Offie Award nomination, Fringe Report's Best Outreach Company and ITV First Light Best Film Award.
S.P.I.D. is based in the historic Kensal House Estate, ten minutes from Grenfell Tower. The charity advocates against the destruction of social housing and fights for increased investment in estates and to improve rights for those who live and work there. S.P.I.D. are proud to have raised £2.4 million to refurbish their own neglected, historic council estate community rooms.


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ET.New Jersey Gives Voters Email, Fax Options
By LISA FLEISHER
Voters in New Jersey now have two more ways to send in their ballots in an already unusual election season complicated by superstorm Sandy: via fax and email.
The Christie administration said Saturday that the additional options are aimed at giving displaced residents and emergency workers another way to vote and that the ballots would be cast provisionally. Administration officials urged people who could to vote early or through the normal process.
The administration said people could cast those ballots in two steps. First, they should email or fax an application for a mail-in ballot through their county clerk's office.
Once that application is approved, voters can email or fax the ballot by 8 p.m. Tuesday.
"This has been an extraordinary storm that has created unthinkable destruction across our state, and we know many people have questions about how and where to cast their vote in Tuesday's election," said Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno, who doubles as the secretary of state and oversees elections. "To help alleviate pressure on polling places, we encourage voters to either use electronic voting or the extended hours at county offices to cast their vote."
People will also be able to vote somewhere other than the county in which they are registered, the administration said.
Mail-in ballots must be postmarked by Nov. 5.
Many places in New Jersey were slowly seeing the lights flick back on Saturday. But any polling places without power by Tuesday will also have trucks with backup options for voting by paper ballot. Gov. Chris Christie said voters could go back to the "old-fashioned way," even if it might take a bit more time to count the votes.
County election offices have been ordered to open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. this weekend, and Mr. Christie encouraged people to vote early. People can also vote in person at their county clerks' offices until 3 p.m. Tuesday.


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O.J. Simpson's current appeal for a new trial has the potential to shed light on an issue that affects countless lesser-known defendants in the US court system: bad lawyering. Along the way, he might get a helping hand from the US Supreme Court.
Mr. Simpson is seeking a ruling overturning his conviction of armed robbery and kidnapping of sports memorabilia dealers in 2007. He says his counsel was inadequate and that his lawyer misled co-counsel.
"I had never sold any of my personal memorabilia, ever,'' he testified Wednesday, dressed in prison blues.
Squabbles between lawyers and their clients and co-counsels are not uncommon, says Robert Pugsley, a professor at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles.
"Most clients in this situation are so poor or low on the economic scale that their bad lawyering doesn't get much attention, and so the issue remains largely unnoticed," he adds. "Whether Simpson prevails or not, this proceeding has a great chance to put the spotlight on this widespread problem."
Yet appeals like the one Simpson is bringing only rarely meet with success.
"He actually has a case with merits, but these are extreme, uphill battles because you are asking a court to substitute its own judgment, years later with faded memories, for that of the judge at the time," says Rene Sandler, of Sandler Law LLC in Rockville, Md., who has two decades of experience in such cases.
Simpson's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel "will predictably devolve into a 'he said, he said,' conflicting, fact-based narrative by Simpson and his former attorney," says Professor Pugsley. Simpson's counsel in the robbery case that went to trial in 2008, Yale Galanter, has refused to comment publicly but is scheduled to testify Friday.
Potentially working in Simpson's favor is a US Supreme Court ruling last session (Missouri v. Frye) that held that the guarantee of "effective assistance of counsel" extends to the consideration and negotiation of pleas – Simpson's key complaint.
Co-counsel in the 2008 trial, Gabriel Grasso, said on the stand this week that while Mr. Galanter told him he'd talk with Simpson about a proposed plea deal, Galanter never told Mr. Grasso why he rejected it. Grasso said he didn't know if Simpson was even told.
"O.J. might have the good luck to rely on the Supreme Court's decision last term in Missouri v. Frye. Timing is everything," says Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
Although the decision is to be made by a single judge rather than a jury, the perceived veracity of Simpson is important. How did he do?
This is the first time Simpson has testified at any of his trials, going back to 1995's so-called "trial of the century," in which he was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. He was later convicted in a civil trial and ordered to pay more than $35 million to the two families, but again, never testified.
Though this trial is unrelated, "He's been wanting to tell his story. He's excited about telling his story," Simpson's current attorney, Ozzie Fumo, told the Associated Press.
Simpson maintains that advice from Galanter not to testify in 2008 is, in fact, part of the reason for this week's appeal.
"While prison has had a major effect on his physical appearance, with weight gain, puffiness, and graying hair, O.J. Simpson did not show any signals of deception as he testified," writes Lillian Glass, author of "Toxic People: 10 Ways Of Dealing With People Who Make Your Life Miserable," in an e-mail. "He is fluent and doesn't hesitate and appears plausible. O.J also sounds and shows plausible signs with regards to his not using weapons."
"He appeared forthcoming, especially about his drinking and his drinking at breakfast and throughout the morning. O.J.'s explanation of security makes sense," she says.
The appeal is taking place in Las Vegas, and this is Simpson's last chance under Nevada law to prove that he was wrongly convicted. A federal court appeal is still possible.
However, the standard of proof is so high that Simpson is unlikely to meet it, even if the judge believes everything he says, says Norman Garland, a professor at Southwestern Law School.
"Simpson has to prove not only that the advice given to him was deficient, but that he was prejudiced by that deficiency," says Professor Garland. "The requirements for demonstrating ineffective assistance of counsel are demanding, and the defendant must overcome a strong presumption that counsel's performance was within the range of competent representation in order to prevail."


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Just in time for the holidays, astronomers have come across a new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, that some say resembles a wreath. You might even think of the red dust cloud as a cheery red bow, and the bluish-white stars as silver bells. This star-forming nebula is named Barnard 3. Baby stars are being born throughout the dusty region, while the "silver bell" stars are located both in front of, and behind, the nebula.
The bright star in the middle of the red cloud, called HD 278942, is so luminous that it is likely causing most of the surrounding clouds to glow. The red cloud is probably made of dust that is more metallic and cooler than the surrounding regions. The yellow-green region poking into the picture from the left like a sprig of holly is similar to the rest of the green "wreath" material, only more dense.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages and operates the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The principal investigator, Edward Wright, is at UCLA. The mission was competitively selected under NASA's Explorers Program managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The science instrument was built by the Space Dynamics Laboratory, Logan, Utah, and the spacecraft was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. Science operations and data processing take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
More information is online at http://www.nasa.gov/wise, http://wise.astro.ucla.edu and http://jpl.nasa.gov/wise .


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The first Saturday of each month Brown County residents may use the facility for free.
The pool closes 30 minutes before the rest of the facility.
The pool will also be closed Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1:30-3:30.
If you are not a member, you may use the facility any time by paying a guest fee:
$3 for ages 14 and under
$4 for ages 15 to 17
$5 for ages 18 and up
Guests of Hills O'Brown Vacation Rental have complimentary day passes.
The Brown County Y is a member of the AWAY program. We honor other Y memberships for 3 FREE visits per calendar year.
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The T3/B ("B" for Bigsby) is a semi-hollowbody electric constructed from sapele rather than the traditional mahogany and topped with a beautiful, quilted maple top. The body is hollowed out, but leaves a solid block in the center where the quilted, bookmatched maple piece is laid directly on top. The 21-fret sapele neck with ebony fingerboard is styled in a very comfortable and fast shallow C profile that is bolted on with Taylor's proprietary T-Lock. Though the guitar uses a bolt-on configuration, it isn't chunky or obtrusive in any way, and it feels rock solid, no doubt due to the design of the neck joint. Both the T3/B and T3 (stop tail piece) models incorporate a roller-style bridge, which in the case of the Bigsby is excellent for combating the tuning issues associated with that style of vibrato. It includes the standard 2-humbucker design with 3-way toggle and a master volume and tone control, but there's a lot more than meets the eye. The pickups are not the typical PAF-style, but Taylor's own Style 2 HD (high definition) humbuckers with coil-splitting activated by pulling up on the volume knob—and a tone control that adds a second capacitor by pulling up. The range of tones possible grows exponentially with these additions, but more on that later. Finally, the whole guitar is tastefully appointed with chrome pickup rings, knobs, strap buttons, and Taylor's own tuners.
The T3/B I reviewed came in a Honey Sunburst finish (see page 2), but that just doesn't do the finish justice. Not only was the quilt top the most gorgeous I've ever seen; the finish was so rich and deep I had a hard time figuring out if I should play it or just look at it! The good news is this guitar plays as good as it looks, which was a nice realization. The neck is instantly comfortable and fast playing, without feeling like your hand would cramp due to lack of substance. It sort of combined the best of all neck shapes into one, and lent itself to just about any style of playing—always feeling easy. The action was set up to be just a hair higher than low, which was perfect for big bends and chords that rang clean without fretting out. The neck offers good access to the 21st fret on the higher strings, but was a little more limited past the 15th fret on the fourth, fifth, and sixth strings. What I found refreshing was the way the neck joint felt seamlessly connected to the body, and low profile, unlike some traditional designs. Taylor clearly thought through these designs when coming up with the guitar, and it paid off big time. That wasn't the only area that stood out, as even the detail of the volume and tone knobs is brilliant: they look like art deco top hats, and they feel better than any guitar I've played in my life. The taper of both knobs is smooth and controlled, and they exhibit a weight to them that feels fantastic and deliberate when rolling them up or down. The sum of these details adds up to a solid feeling and fun guitar to play.
If Taylor had stopped at the 2-humbucker, 3-way switch design they would've had a winning guitar. But they didn't, and I'm really glad they decided to go the extra mile, because there are a lot of fantastic tones to be found. The Style 2 HD pickups have a very clean and articulate sound. I wouldn't call them PAF-like… in fact, I don't really have anything to compare them to. They're incredibly versatile and worked well through every amp I played them on. But it wasn't until I pulled the volume knob up and split the coils that the real tonal magic became apparent. Again, the coil-tap wasn't the familiar Strat sound of a single coil, just a more articulate and less weighty sound than the humbucker. It was very useful in a variety of situations and allowed me to dial in just the right amount of heft or leanness, depending on my needs. To top it off, the tone control actually did something! Rolling back the tone all the way sounds like it shifts the mid frequency rather than the typical dark tone, and pulling up shifts the tone again by adding another cap to the control, giving more versatility to the shape. This is one of those rare guitars that doesn't necessarily have a stock setting to it. Where I usually tend to go straight to the bridge pickup with volume and tone full-up, I ended up using every combination of pickup, coil tap and tone variation. It was amazing to hear one guitar shine in so many different ways.


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One of the common failures of Discover 3 and Range Rover Sport models is the failure of the CJB often incorrectly called the BCU, This crucial unit often fails due to water ingress and short circuits in the wiring which blow circuits, this often results in all manner of faults displayed on the instrument cluster such as HDC Fault, Air Suspension Inactive, failure of seat and mirror adjustment and sometimes the inability to start the vehicle.
Another common problem is the loss of all keys to the vehicle, this can prevent the programming of a replacement and MAY only be resolved by the purchase of a new Key from Land Rover and delays of a week or more while you wait for the key to arrive, which then may or may not require programming and cause even more delays.
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This week's top Apple news at Ars touched on the media's "responsibility" to discuss gay men and women in tech, some tricks you can apply to your old Apple TV, jailbreak developer "comex" scoring an internship at Apple, new details about iTunes Match, and more. If you need to catch up, we have all the best tidbits right here:
How-to: run new media center software on your original Apple TV: Many first-generation Apple TVs have been retired to the depths of the living room closet by now, but you can extend their life by "hacking" Apple TVs with third-party media software like Boxee or XBMC. Ars shows you how.
Does the press have an ethical duty to out powerful gays in tech?: The man some are calling the Most Powerful Person in Tech is at the center of a journalistic debate over social justice, reporting, and ethics. This editorial argues that his decision to remain silent on his private life does not create an ethical imperative for journalists to break that silence.
Apple hands internship to Jailbreakme.com developer "comex": Persistent hacking of Apple's mobile OS has lead one 19-year-old straight to an internship with the company. Jailbreaks may be annoying to Apple, but talent is apparently always a good thing.
Apple's worldwide court battles against Samsung: where they stand and what they mean: Apple has managed to get Samsung to delay launching the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia. Along with small wins in Germany and The Netherlands, Apple may be hoping to slow Samsung's smartphone and tablet growth with a thousand paper cuts. Unless Apple wins a serious injunction in the US or elsewhere, though, even an eventual win by Apple may wind up being a Pyrrhic victory.
Apple explains: iTunes Match beta "streaming" isn't streaming at all: The iTunes Match beta released to developers on Monday seemed to reveal both streaming and downloading options to iTunes or iOS devices. Apple, however, says the service is download only.
Apple relents, begins selling "old" Final Cut Studio again: The launch of Final Cut Pro X was controversial among pro users, who continue to protest the discontinuation of the legacy version of Final Cut Studio. But now, it appears that Apple has relented—a tiny bit—by making Final Cut Studio available again to customers.
Ding dong, iTunes TV rentals are dead: Only a year after it first introduced iTunes TV rentals, Apple has decided to kill them. The company confirmed on Friday that it decided to go back to purchases only, especially now that users can stream their iTunes purchases to their devices.
Apple may still challenge cable with TV subscription service: Would you cancel your cable subscription if you could subscribe to a TV service from Apple? Such a thing is still a possibility, according to recent reports, though there will likely be resistance from the TV industry.
Financial Times pulls iOS apps, directs users to new Web app: It was only a matter of time before Apple and the Financial Times came to an impasse over Apple's new in-app subscription rules. Now, the publication has decided to pull its iOS apps from the App Store, telling users to check out its HTML5-based Web app instead.
Apple reportedly setting up system for remote iPhone diagnostics: A new tool reportedly being implemented by Apple would allow support technicians to access some iPhone diagnostic information remotely via the Web.
Whether you're in the US getting ready to grill out on Labor Day or you're on the other side of the world, have a fun and relaxing weekend!


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The Resurrection of Christ in the St. Mary Altar in Cracow. On the Problem of Body and Movement in the Art of Veit Stoss
The figure of Christ was treated from the perspective of the Medieval Christian concept of the purified body of the Resurrected. Christ embodies most clearly what theologians called the dos agilitatis. This comes out in the bold straightforward movements in the figure of Christ. Veit Stoss achieved this effect through a unique, ingenious combination of pictorial elements from earleir representations of this theme. As model must have served the no longer extant Resurrection ascribed to Hans Pleydenwurff, as well as one by Caspar Isenmann. An analysis of the Veit Stoss Resurrection in the context of the whole program of the opened retable shows the many layers of reciprocal relations of ideas between the particular parts of the altar.
Giorgio Vasari and Benvenuto Cellini were two of the most articulate and opinionated artists of the mid-sixteenth century. As participants in the paragone debates of 1547 / 48 and 1564, they argued eloquently for the superiority of their respective arts: painting and sculpture. In their other writings they discussed with technical acumen the application of theoretical ideas to the practice of making art. Surprisingly, the techniques they recommended and praised in their essays on l'arte del disegnare were not the methods they practiced in their ownhandling of line. According to Cellini the "bellissimo modo di disegnare" is a contour drawing that has been modelled "as in paintings". But pictorial passages in Cellini's two known finished drawings are overwhelmed by schematic hatchings and an insistence on contour line, thus creating a drawing that is not unlike schiacciato relief. Vasari assumes a position that is squarely opposite to that of Cellini. He designates a contour drawing as "the most masterful" use of the medium but, regardless of his stated preference for purely linear works, he typically modeled his drawings in the manner recommended by Cellini. Vasari's drawings are rendered "as [...] paintings." When Vasari and Cellini apply the practical value of l'arte del disegnare to bozzetti, their opposing positions on the paragone are made abundantly clear.
Caravaggio painted two versions of the Lute Player: one for Vincenzo Giustiniani, to be identified with the picture in the Hermitage Museum, the other for Cardinal Del Monte, to be associated with a newly attributed painting in a private collection. The sitter's sexual ambiguity is considered not as evidence of homoerotic overtones but in reference to the natural appearance of a castrato singing to the accompaniment of his lute. A castrato named Montoia actually lived at the same time as Caravaggio in Del Monte's palace, and this fact corroborated an important interest at that time for this newly emerging musical personality. Caravaggio's particular use of allegorical references is also considered, and these are compared to a later allegorical portrait of a castrato: Andrea Sacchi's Apollo Crowning Marc' Antonio Pasqualini. The latter glorifies a castrato's literary and poetical ambitions and most likely was conceived for the artist himself. Portraits have become the tangible symbols of fame and social position achieved by castrati in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Caravaggio's informal portrayals, on the other hand, evoke more specifically the erotic and sensual qualities of a castrato's particular manner of singing.
Courbet's The Sleepers may be seen as a Realist interpretation of the latent lesbianism evident in many eighteenth-century works with the mythological subject of Diana. The theme of lesbianism was popular in the nineteenth century, especially with artists or writers who advocated Realism or Naturalism, including Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Maupassant, Zola and Flaubert. Lesbianism was, as well, a preferred theme of popular erotica, witness the lithographs of Deveria or Tassaert. In Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin, lesbianism is one expression of the author's theory of art-for-art's sake, his attack on bourgeois conventions and morality. In Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, lesbianism expresses his struggle between extremes of debauchery and asceticism. With the fin-de-siecle, lesbianism, along with androgyny, hermaphroditism and incest, figures in the works of Decadent authors. This theme also has a sociological or psychological context, reflecting the artist's, writer's or patron's personal response to an actual social phenomenon.
Connoisseurship has been criticized as subjective and unscientific. Yet it fosters several skills central to our activity as historians of art: a practiced eye, visual memory, sensitivity to quality, and an ability to re-create the creations of artists. And connoisseurship has more in common with contemporary scientific inquiry than with the empirical, positivist model of science on the basis of which it is still being criticized as unscientific. In practice, the attributions of connoisseurship and the hypotheses of science may be dependent, for the individual and for the context in which he or she operates, upon the interaction of the following: (1) the authority of the person uttering the hypothetical "truth", (2) the correspondence of the hypothesis with observable phenomena whose observation is in part determined by that "truth", (3) the internal coherence of the hypothesis and its consistency with related "truths", and (4) the fruitfulness of the "truth" in leading to further "truths".


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Jason Ajemian premieres a new video!
Jason Ajemian has released a live video of him performing a little country medley of "Our Love Keeps Us Together" and "Automobile" at Union Pool earlier this year.
If Jason is your jam (and by God he ought to be!), you still have three more days to help out his Kickstarter campaign. New Atlantis and Sundmagi Records, two musician-curated labels from the mid-Atlantic USA, are joining forces to present a new series of releases that will document rising voices from the creative music underground, and unearth historic archival recordings from established myths. The first trio of offerings from the two labels are slated for an August 9th release. The free jazz-meets-trunk-thumping-indie funk of Jason Ajemian and the HighLife's Riding the Light into the Bird's Eye; the fire-breathing, dazzling 'free rock' rockers of Matta Gawa's Tambora; and the spacious, dynamic solo electric 12-stringer-ringer guitar compositions of Nick Millevoi's Black Shadow of a Bird each demonstrate the unique, eclectic identity of these two labels.
A worthy cause indeed!
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It looks like we're going to get to see how a real world missile defense system performs under hostile fire.
Iron Dome to Become Operational
Following the recent escalation on the Gaza strip border, the IDF will deploy for the first time the Iron Dome missile defense system in strategic locations in the south of Israel as soon as Sunday, in order to shot down rockets and mortar shells fired at Israeli civilians.
The Iron Dome is a one of a kind portable anti missile system, designed to protect an area stretching over 10 square kilometers from short-range rockets and mortar shells. The system can calculate whether the rockets fired are a threat to civilian population or strategic sites based on their trajectory, thus intercepting only the ones which pose a threat and not handling the ones which will land in open areas.
The Israeli Defense Forces hope the system will perform as expected and intercept all incoming rockets. If it does do so, the IDF will mark another unprecedented historical achievement, which could mean a "game changer" in the Middle East.
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if Iron Dome works, what will the frustrated Hamas terrorists do, or the Hezbollah terrorists for that matter, with their vast Iranian supplied arsenal rendered useless?
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2013 will be an exciting year for me: Amrita RaoNov 14, 2012 IANS
Mumbai, Nov 14 (IANS) Actress Amrita Rao, last seen in the 2011-film "Love U...Mr. Kalakaar!", is looking forward to the New Year when two of her films will be released.
"Two of my films will release in 2013 - one is 'Jolly LLB' which will release in March hopefully and 'Singh Saab the Great', which is releasing in August. I will start filming for it in December-January. So I am looking forward to 2013, it's going to be an exciting year of releases," the 31-year-old said here at an event organised by People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Talking about vegetarianism in Bollywood, Amrita said: "In Bollywood, the toughest thing is when actors have to build their bodies, go gymming and they need a lot of protein intake. Because we don't eat non-veg, vegetarians always lack that protein element."
However, she insists vegetarians can have a great body too.
"Of course, there are a lot of substitutes for protein - there is paneer, all kinds of sprouts. I would like to tell everybody, Shahid Kapoor and our wrestler Sushil Kumar, both of them are vegetarians and have built bodies," she said.
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Thug. Goon. Bum. Neanderthal.
Troll the Internet long enough and you're bound to find any derogatory comment you like about Dema Kovalenko, easily the most polemic figure still playing in the 2010 MLS postseason.
The veteran LA Galaxy midfielder has spent 12 seasons in the league carving out an identity which forces those who follow him into two directly opposed camps: those who hate him, and those who know him.
The first group is the larger one, occupied most vocally by media members, opposing fans and anonymous online sucker-punchers who have loathed Kovalenko for more than a decade. He is a fearless midfielder, a crunching tackler and the guy veterans warn the rookies about during the week before the game.
[inline_node:317494]The second group is a fraternity of old-schoolers who have suited up alongside Kovalenko or coached him. They're the ones who have seen the results of Kovalenko's ruthless competitive streak as well as his natural talent, a combination that has made him the quintessential teammate you love to have and you hate to lose.
Kovalenko, for his part, finds a bit of comfort in both camps. He knows he's openly loathed from the outside but quietly respected from within, and that's simply the fate you're handed when you play like he does.
But he's not about to show a great deal of contrition for the way he plays, a style that has netted him six career ejections during the regular season and 14 career postseason yellow cards, more than any other player in league history.
He's not about to change his ways now, more than a decade into a career that has him knocking on the door of another MLS title.
So pick a side now, because here's what's clear about Dema Kovalenko: He's not going anywhere.
Competitive By Nature
Professional athletes are inherently competitive. Kovalenko's competitive streak, however, borders on compulsion. Born in Kiev, Kovalenko's competitive nature comes from his father, a former athlete who spent 12 years as a professional soccer referee in Ukraine. According to Kovalenko, the relationship was often marred by tears and frustration, the results of a father who mercilessly challenged his son at nearly every turn: soccer, basketball, anything.
"It made me angry," Kovalenko said. "Sometimes I wouldn't go home because he would make fun of me, or he told me I was no good. I cried, and I was angry. That's where I get it from."
That fire, however, eventually helped make Kovalenko one of the most sought-after prep soccer players in the country after he emigrated to the suburbs of Rochester, N.Y., as a teenager. Though he was courted by a host of top-flight schools (Bruce Arena badly wanted Kovalenko to play for his Virginia Cavaliers before the coach bolted for D.C. United in 1996), he settled on head coach Jerry Yeagley and Indiana, where he teamed with fellow countrymen Yuri Lavrinenko and Aleksey Korol to form the "Ukraine Train" and win the 1998 NCAA title.
He landed in 1999 with the defending MLS champion Chicago Fire, where he was an instant fit into a club that already carried a wealth of European players and largely echoed the city's affinity for hard-working, blue-collar players.
[inline_node:323134]During his rookie season, he earned a reputation on the team for a crazy but endearing personality and penchant for competition anywhere he could find it. He compulsively wagered with teammates over tasks no one figured he could do, like juggling a golf ball on his head 50 times or bouncing a 20-pound medicine ball on his head until he was nearly unable to walk in from the parking lot the next day.
"He's doubled his salary every year by taking rookies' money," recalled Ben Olsen, a former teammate at D.C. United. "He wins. He wins at gambling, he wins at ping pong, he wins at everything."
It was an extension of what he'd learned as a kid. Competition and earning money ("I like to get paid," Kovalenko says) drove him then and continue to drive him now.
Kovalenko was aggressive and cocksure even as a rookie, backed by a decent-sized contract, a brand new Lexus parked in the lot and an unwavering belief that he was good enough to start on the best team in the league.
In the few minutes he earned as a rookie in coach Bob Bradley's group, Kovalenko made lasting impressions.
"If he's going in on a tackle, he's not going in half. He's going all the way," former Fire teammate C.J. Brown said. "A 50-50 challenge is usually 75-25 for him."
Kovalenko wound up spending four seasons in Chicago, winning a US Open Cup with the team in 2000 and earning All-Star nods in 2001 and 2002. But the first of two dark signature moments in his career perhaps overshadowed the accomplishments.
He went in on a tackle against Dallas Burn midfielder Brandon Pollard during the postseason that year that broke Pollard's leg and effectively ended his career.
"It was just a freak accident," Kovalenko said. "I was chasing him and I stepped on his foot. Honestly, if that happens 100 more times, it doesn't end up like that. It was a weird. It wasn't like I hit him or anything, I just stepped on his heel.
"It was crazy actually," he added. "How many games had I watched around the world? I'd never seen anything like that."
Battler Or Thug?
Kovalenko earned a wealth of friends and success in Chicago, but salary cap issues eventually forced him out before the 2003 season in a trade to D.C. United.
The critics who blasted Kovalenko for his rough play and the Pollard incident received even more fodder just four games into Kovalenko's first season in DC. This time it was FC Dallas regular Ronnie O'Brien at the receiving end of a crunching tackle. O'Brien's tibia snapped and he was shelved him until October.
[inline_node:323135]Was it simply bad luck for Kovalenko, or history repeating itself for a player quietly becoming the dirtiest figure in the league? Even those around him at the time weren't sure what to make of such a stigma that still plagues Kovalenko today.
"I've seen enough broken legs and ankles in my time to know that some are the result of bad tackles, and some are completely freaky," Olsen said. "I don't necessarily know if he's gotten a bad rep in this league. He plays hard, let's be honest. And teams don't usually like playing against those guys."
"He's gone into some pretty bad tackles, and you can go back and inspect them and say, 'Wow, that was a late tackle,' or 'That was a dirty tackle," Brown said. "But if you sit down and talk with Dema, you would never come out of that conversation thinking he would hurt someone. He gets caught up in the heat of the game and he just goes in harder than anyone else."
The critics were less cordial, and they've hung on for years.
Longtime Soccer America contributor and 2010 National Soccer Hall of Fame inductee Paul Gardner, for example, recently put the veteran midfielder in his crosshairs in a Nov. 3 post that said the referees in the Western Conference semifinal series against Seattle went soft on Kovalenko, and ESPN's commentators failed to call a spade a spade after all these years.
"How many more broken legs does it take before 'a battler' becomes 'a thug,' before 'aggressive' becomes 'vicious?'" Gardner wrote. "For my part, I see no reason to wait for another tragedy. I've seen enough of Dema Kovalenko to feel perfectly comfortable in calling him a dirty player."
Kovalenko has apologized repeatedly for both the Pollard and O'Brien incidents and tried his best to make peace with the episodes. Internally, he believes he has accomplished just that.
"It bothered me for a while," he said. "It bothered me a lot. You don't wish it to anybody, but it happened. People around the league know me and they know that's not the kind of player I want to be.
"I go into tackles and I go hard, but there's never an intention to hurt anyone," he added. "It's a cruel game sometimes, and things happen."
Back On The Brink
But for all the vitriol sent Kovalenko's way, he's still standing. And those who know him best remain staunchly in his corner.
"If he's not a part of your group, then you're not gonna like this guy," Galaxy assistant coach Dave Sarachan said. "But once you get him in your own locker room and you get to know him personally, you start to appreciate a kind of guy like Dema."
Kovalenko's been with the Galaxy since before the 2009 season, when Bruce Arena scooped him up after a short but critical year in Real Salt Lake, where RSL head coach Jason Kreis said Kovalenko's competitive fire and experience played an "absolutely instrumental role in turning the culture around."
[inline_node:323136]"To talk about what he does on the field is one thing, but to carry that over to saying he's a bad person or that he has a bad character flaw, no chance," Kreis said.
He's appeared in a 24 regular-season matches while batting injuries over the last two seasons, but Kovalenko returned to the LA starting lineup for good in early September after injuries had limited to just four league matches this year.
He was quintessentially Kovalenko in the first leg of the semifinal series against Seattle, frustrating Sounders midfielder Osvaldo Alonso and bodying up on phenom Fredy Montero before being booked with another yellow card in the 64th minute and pulled. Coincidence or not, LA won, 1-0. He put in a similar performance in the second leg.
And he'll play a vital role for the Galaxy in Sunday's Western Conference Championship against visiting FC Dallas, with LA seeking a second straight berth in the MLS Cup and Kovalenko looking for his fourth career shot at an MLS crown.
The notion of Kovalenko's winning another title to further validate a controversial career is tough to stomach, at least for those who never had a taste for him in the first place.
But that's never mattered much anyway to the man at the center of the fury.
"Whatever I have left, one year, two year, three years, I'm here only for one reason: to win games," Kovalenko said. "Sometimes it's not the best way, it's not the prettiest way, not the right way, but you gotta get results. And that's why I'm here."


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Lessons are a must. I have struggled for years trying to learn from my friends. They may know what to do but do not know how to communicate it. They also are off sailing ao aren't around to tell me what I am doing wrong.
I took a lesson this last weekend and my sailing took a large leap forward. Money well spent. We spend so much traveling back and forth from Seattle that the extra cost while it seems high was worth it so I can enjoy the river more. My husband is also talking of taking a lesson next weekend because I told him all the things I learned that he was doing wrong. ;~)
I agree that outside the hook is probably the best place to learn how to water start. The wind isn't the best but there is not danger of getting blown away so much you can't get back to where you started.
Exit strategy is important for anyone. The unexpected can always happen. My husband floated 2 1/2 miles down river this weekend at Stevenson when the wind died while he was sailing. Forunately some fishermen rescued him and spent 30 minutes taking him back to the Bob's Beach and I am assuming they had to go back to their original launching spot. Just goes to show you, it is a good thing to share the river.
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 12:35 pm
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Laura&Joe wrote:
My husband floated 2 1/2 miles down river this weekend at Stevenson when the wind died while he was sailing. Forunately some fishermen rescued him and spent 30 minutes taking him back to the Bob's Beach
The simple Exit Strategy for Bob's Beach, in non-zero E or W winds, is the beach at the Cascade Locks marina and ferry terminal. It's 1.4 miles from Bob's (2.5 takes you under the bridge), and you just walk ashore on a nice beach, lay your gear on the grass, walk into the terminal or the parking lot, hitch a ride to Bob's or phone somebody at Bob's to come get you, and grab a bite of lunch or go to the bathroom while waiting. It's easy, safe, and quick if there's even the slightest breeze to allow some steering, even if butt-sailing a sinker. Scope it out on Google Earth or in person the next time you're there and make that part of your plan. Last time I did that took me <15 minutes from coming ashore to getting back to Bob's, and I was alone that trip.
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 12:43 pm
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For the record... He has taken 3 lessons and his waterstart 1 lesson is Thursday. however, there are a few things the instructors don't teach. That is all Im saying. I learned without lessons due to being a teenager without a parent to supply the cost of lessons. Wish things were different becuse it took me a LONG time to get things to work correctly by reading a book. Although I must say.. my brother went in with me on the first set of gear and he never read the book.. and spent more time floating downriver... so all forms of training have some value.
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:49 pm
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Yes ... unless conflicting techniques or instructor impatience lead to frustration. I suggest you get the instructor's permission to observe the lessons so your homework time together reinforces, rather than compounds, his learning curve (presuming, or course, you get a good instructor; I've seen some useless ones, including one of the world's biggest names in instruction many years ago). Observe and evaluate.
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 2:02 pm
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Roger that
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:36 pm
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Here's an idea: if you do take Junior to ThreeMile, drive west around the fenced Indian in-lieu site, park at the west end of the lagoon INSIDE the lagoon (where the west jetty meets the shoreline), and tell Junior that if he disappears downwind you can drive to the boat ramps and pick him up (check out those spots in advance).
The walkback inside that end of the lagoon may be easier than the walkback east of the launch ramps. I don't know.
I heard a rumor the launch spot inside the very west end of the lagoon is no longer accessible. For several reasons, including Google Earth closeups, I doubt that. I suspect that what's been lost is access to the lagoon shoreline inside the in-lieu site.
Again, 3Mile is very often -- actually,
, in most midsummer scenarios -- dead even when it's blowing 4.X at Arlington. You'll want to use NOAA's Boardman/Hermiston zone forecast at
and the Loroc's sensor #27 to predict and measure 3Mile's winds. Frontal winds generally tend to penetrate further east than thermally boosted ones and have been our primary wind source out east for two years now, but the thermally boosted wind is steadier and can last for a few days rather than this and last years' more typical hours or one day.
Up through 2010, most of my trips into that area or to its west warranted taking my motor home and sailing for 2 to several consecutive days many times ... probably 15-20 times per season. This year, beginning in early April, only one blow has lasted more than one day out east (my biggest sail is a 6.2). I've saved a thousand bucks on gasoline by driving my SUV instead, but I'd far prefer spending the extra bucks and having much more and better wind to show for it. What all this means to you is that more of the wind has been frontal, so reaches 3Mile better, but it's of shorter duration, increasing the risk factor of your long drive from Portland. Realize, too, that my comments are based only on careful observation, not written logs. They are generalities founded on my and other TriCities sailors with a collective century of sailing out east.
Get that kid waterstarting consistently and all those concerns fade. Then, anywhere west of Rufus, he'll have the wind pushing him east and the escalator pushing him west. Ya launch, sail eastward, then raise yer sail to go east and lower it to head west. Barring strong current, which is forecast to last all summer at John Day Dam (Maryhill), what could be easier than that?
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:29 pm
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when my buddies and I were learning in the gorge (we were in High school) there was no event site. The marina was the best spot, we'd only go to the hook if it was closed cause the pro-am. being able to touch is so helpfull that's why maybe the hook, doug's or Floras are the best. Floras is the best for jibing you only go a 1/4 mile then you got to jibe, miss you stand up and go back but get 4 times the try's. if your worried about forecasting its not all that hard, use noaa at the very least.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:51 am
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RocRobster, nice to meet you and see you and your son at the beach yesterday! He looks like he's doing great! Yeah, cleaning out the sand is a chore, but in my opinion worth it for the amount of space you have there... as you found out, it sure makes an "I just wanna get it!" run pretty painless! Hope to see you out there again! Tell Roman good luck with the waterstart lesson.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 7:48 pm
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tweeky wrote:
RocRobster, nice to meet you and see you and your son at the beach yesterday! He looks like he's doing great! Yeah, cleaning out the sand is a chore, but in my opinion worth it for the amount of space you have there... as you found out, it sure makes an "I just wanna get it!" run pretty painless! Hope to see you out there again! Tell Roman good luck with the waterstart lesson.
Personally I think Roman had a good lesson. But then again I'm biased
A lot of improvement in 2 hours....
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:37 pm
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Andymc- me too at the marina, but the son's board has a deep tuttle box and the only fin is a 44 and the water is too shallow for it.
Tweeky - Thanks, was nice meeting you too and love the site. will be fun to go there after work when I can. It is a hassle to clean up, especially after dark, but definately different and interesing sailing conditions.
JohnL - It was good to see Roman pull off his first waterstart, And learn that sailing isn't automatically the same going port and starboard..
He is having dreams now of waterstarting...lol, let the fun begin!
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KProxy Extension is the definitive weapon against censorship. Bypass any filter and protect your identity with just one click. It is extremely easy to use and it works great even if you are under an Internet proxy (at work, university, library, etc). Also, KProxy Extension can be used by any program or device that can connect to Internet through a proxy.
If you don't have Google Chrome or Firefox installed in your computer and you are under Windows, please, read the point Install KProxy Browser.
KProxy Extension is available on the Google Chrome Store here: KProxy Extension for Google Chrome download
Once installed the extension you will find a new button in your Google Chrome browser.
Click on it and you will find this screen:
And that's all. Now, go to Start KProxy.
If you don't have Google Chrome or Firefox installed in your computer and you are under Windows, please, read the point Install KProxy Browser.
KProxy Extension is available on the Firefox Addons here: KProxy Extension for Firefox download
Once installed the extension you will find a new button in your Firefox.
Click on it and you will find this screen:
And that's all. Now, go to Start KProxy.
You don't have a Google Chrome or Firefox in your computer, so you have to download the KProxy Browser. KProxy browser is a Portable Google Chrome with the KProxy Extension preconfigured. Download it, unzip it in your computer where you want and that's all :).
KProxy Browser is a 100% portable solution, so you can copy it in a pen drive and use it everywhere.
Open the KProxy Browser and a Firefox like this will be opened.
And that's all, the browser is already using KProxy servers.
Notice the blue button with a hat on the right, just click it and you will open KProxy Extension popup to change servers or fill your account data.
You have installed KProxy Extension. Notice that you have a new icon, a gray hat, on the top right corner. KProxy is turned off at this moment. To start it, just click on the hat that will show a popup and then the big green button:
Now, KProxy Extension will find automatically a server for you, this may take a few seconds. Once connected you will find a screen like this:
Now, your browser is browsing under KProxy Servers! :) Notice that you are connected to the location on green. You can change your location clicking on any of the other locations.
If you get a screen like this, then probably you are under a company filter, please go to Bypass a company filter with KProxy Agent and follow the instructions.
When you change to any available location, KProxy Extension will pick automatically a server for you, but also you can select a single server. Just click on the button that is on the right of the location, all servers for that location will be shown. You can change to any of them with just one click on the connect button. You may notice that you can't connect at this moment with PRO servers. You need a PRO account in order to access to them.
A server could be temporarily down or even banned, in that case, when you click on the connect button you will get a screen like this:
Here you can mark the server as banned, if you are sure the server will not work anymore in your network. You can recover the server at any time.
Notice you also have a button to start an automatic server search to find an available server. Let KProxy do the work for you!
If you click on the account button, you will see the state of your account. If you haven't access to PRO servers, you will find how much time you have browsed and how much data you have transferred. For using PRO servers and unlimited access, you need a KProxy Account and purchase the PRO service.
Once purchased the PRO account, you have to log in it on KProxy Extension. The account screen will show the next information:
The activation of your PRO account may take a few minutes, but probably it will be activated instantly. If you have any problem, you can send us an email to email@example.com and we will attend you ASAP.
Remember that the PRO account gives to you unlimited access to fast servers, also, you help us to keep this service reliable for everyone
Google Chrome doesn't allow to use extensions in incognito mode by default. If you want to use KProxy extension in incognito mode you have to grant access to it.
- Open a new tab on your Google Chrome and write this on the browser bar chrome://extensions/, you will get the next screen:
- You will find there KProxy Extension
- Click on the Allow in incognito check of the KProxy Extension
You will need an external program to bypass a company filter.
STEP 1. Unzip it on any folder. Installation finised! :)
STEP 2. Execute the KProxyAgent.exe program.
STEP 3. Start again the KProxy Extension clicking on the green button.
WARNING: Windows will ask to you to allow the program to open a local port the first time you use the program. You have to allow it to make it work.
And that is!. Now the KProxy Extension should bypass magically the company filter.
It is a portable program, you can even save it on a pen drive and execute it anywhere
STEP 1. Unzip it on any folder.
STEP 2. You need to have installed at least Java 8 to execute it.
STEP 3. Open a Terminal window, go to the installation folder and execute sh KProxyAgent.sh.
STEP 4. Start again the KProxy Extension clicking on the green button.
KProxy Agent will try to autoconfigure the proxy settings of your computer. If it doesn't work please go to Configure manually KProxy Agent settings.
Once KProxy Agent is running and proxy settings are ok, the KProxy Extension should bypass magically the company filter. Just go to your browser and try to start KProxy Extension again.
Once started, KProxy Agent should configure the proxy settings automatically but you can do it manually if it doesn't work. Notice that once you have opened KProxy Agent you will find
a tray icon saying that KProxy Agent is running.
Just double-click on it or right click and select "Change Proxy Settings". A new tab will be opened on your browser with KProxy Agent proxy settings configuration screen
If you don't find the tray icon, or the tab never opened, don't panic. Just open a window on your browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:3333/kproxyagent.html
You will see how KProxy Agent autodetect your proxy settings, but you can change them manually and save them. You can back to autodetection on any time. If you need help on how to configure settings, keep reading the next point.
Companies, universities, libraries, etc have filters very often to ban arbitrarily Internet sites. The browser then is configured to use a local proxy to connect to Internet. You can get the information with easy with Google Chrome:
Open a new tab and copy this on the browser bar: chrome://net-internals/#proxy.
You will find this information under Effective proxy settings:
- Your browser uses DIRECT connections. No filter is configured.
You don't need KProxy Agent.
- Your browser uses a filter configured with "PAC script: url_to_pac_script", that is, an automatic configuration script.
You need KProxy Agent.
- Your browser uses a filter configured with "Proxy server: address:port".
You need KProxy Agent.
Long story made short: because APIs on Chrome and Firefox that supported this feature in past versions of KProxy Extension will be discontinued on 2018, so we have to move to an external program. It is sad, but we have to live with it.
The good news are that KProxy Agent:
- It is a portable program that doesn't need to be installed, just unzip and run. It can be executed even in a pen drive
- It works better on autodetection of proxy settings on every operating system than previous version based on Chrome and Firefox APIs
- It is far more efficient
KProxy Agent emulates an Internet proxy. Any program that can use Internet proxies, can connect to Internet using KProxy Extension. Other devices (in example a PS3 or a cell phone) that can configure a HTTP proxy can be configured to connect to Internet under KProxy servers.
For any program in your computer, configure the proxy (address:port)
For any device, the IP address must be the IP address of your computer
Obviously, you have to start KProxy Extension and run KProxy Agent in your computer to make it work.
Your browser is not using the KProxy Extension.
- Check that KProxy Extension is installed
- Check that KProxy Extension is enabled
- Check that KProxy Extension is running
- You are under a company proxy and need to install KProxy Agent. Please, check Bypass a company filter with KProxy Agent section and follow the instructions.
- You have installed KProxy Agent, but it is no started. Please, go to the folder where you unzipped KProxy Agent and run it
- Antivirus is preventing KProxy Agent to start. Please, turn off the antivirus and windows firewall temporarily to check if this is the issue. If you found that this is the problem you have to configure your antivirus and/or windows firewall to allow open connections on port 3333
- You have installed KProxy Agent, you have started it but it closes. Please check that there is no other program listening on port 3333
- Please, check that you are logged into the extension and you have credits available. Click on the blue hat, then account.
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How would you write a fast, internally synchronized queue, one that callers can use without any explicit external locking or other synchronization? Let us count the ways...or four of them, at least, and compare their performance. We'll start with a baseline program and then successively apply three optimization techniques, each time stopping to measure each change's relative performance for queue items of different sizes to see how much each trick really bought us.
All versions of the code we'll consider have one thing in common: They control concurrency using (the equivalent of) two spinlocks, one for each end of the queue. Our goal in refining the code is to allow separate threads calling
Produce and/or
Consume to run as concurrently as possible, while also improving scalability to get more total throughput through the queue when we use larger numbers of producer and/or consumer threads.
I'll analyze the throughput of each version of the code by varying three values:
- The number of producer threads. In my test harness, each producer thread is a tight loop that calls
Producewith no other work.
- The number of consumers. Each consumer thread is a tight loop that calls
Consumewith no other work.
- The size of the queued objects: I'll test queues of objects of two different sizes"small" and "large" objects that each contain 10 and 100 strings, respectively, of length 26 characters, so that enqueueing or dequeueing an object costs 10 or 100 deep string copies. This actually lets us accomplish two things: a) to measure how performance depends on the size and copying cost of the queued objects; and b) to indirectly simulate the performance effect of how much "other work" the producer and consumer threads may be doing on real-world workloads, which don't usually call
Consumein tight loops that just throw away the values without using them.
Let's dive in.
Example 1: Baseline
The baseline program is adapted from the code in [1] by adding a spinlock on each end of the queue to allow only one producer and one consumer to update the queue at a time. We will allow some concurrency among producer threads because the producer spinlock doesn't cover the entire body of the
Produce function, but we will allow only one call to
Consume to run at a time. This code follows the policy in [1] that only producer threads ever actually change the queue; consumed nodes aren't freed by the consumer, but are lazily cleaned up by the next producer.
The contained objects are held by value:
// Example 1: Baseline code // template <typename T> struct LowLockQueue { private: struct Node { Node( T val ) : value(val), next(nullptr) { } T value; atomic<Node*> next; };
The control variables include pointers to the
first and
last nodes in the underlying list, and a pointer to a
divider element that marks the boundary between the producer and consumer:
Node *first, *last; // for producer only atomic<Node*> divider; // shared atomic<bool> producerLock; // shared by producers atomic<bool> consumerLock; // shared by consumers
Note that, as described in [1], we always maintain at least one dummy node at the front, so the first unconsumed node is actually the one after
divider. Any nodes before
divider are already consumed nodes that can be lazily freed by the next producer. The constructor sets up that invariant, and the destructor (in Java or .NET, the
disposer) simply walks the list to free it:
public: LowLockQueue() { first = divider = last = new Node( T() ); producerLock = consumerLock = false; } ~LowLockQueue() { while( first != nullptr ) { Node* tmp = first; first = tmp->next; delete tmp; } }
Consume copies the value contained in the first unconsumed node to the caller and updates
divider to mark that the node has been consumed. Note that the entire body of
Consume is inside the critical section, which means we get no concurrency among consumers in this version of the code:
bool Consume( T& result ) { while( consumerLock.exchange(true) ) { } // acquire exclusivity if( divider->next != nullptr ) { // if queue is nonempty result = divider->next->value; // copy it back to the caller divider = divider->next; // publish that we took an item consumerLock = false; // release exclusivity return true; // and report success } consumerLock = false; // release exclusivity return false; // queue was empty }
Produce allocates a new node and adds
it to the tail of the list, then performs the lazy cleanup of consumed nodes at the front of the list, if any. Note that not all of the body of
Produce is inside the exclusive critical sectionmany producers can concurrently be allocating their new nodes and copying their new item's value into them, which allows some concurrency among producers:
bool Produce( const T& t ) { Node* tmp = new Node( t ); // do work off to the side while( producerLock.exchange(true) ) { } // acquire exclusivity last->next = tmp; // publish the new item last = last->next; // (more about this later) while( first != divider ) { // lazy cleanup Node* tmp = first; first = first->next; delete tmp; } producerLock = false; // release exclusivity return true; } };
How well would you expect this version of the code to scale for different numbers of producers and consumers, or for different kinds of queued objects? Let's find out.
Measuring Example 1
Figure 1 shows the results of running Example 1 using different numbers of producer and consumer threads, and the two sizes of queued objects. The larger the circle, the better the throughput; and each graph has a corner note showing the "max" (largest circle) and "min" (smallest circle) values on that graph. Note the size of each circle represents the relative throughput for that graph only; in this example, even the smallest result on the left-hand graph (where the minimum value is 18,700 objects moved through the queue per second, where each object contains 10 strings) is better than the largest circle on the right-hand graph (11,300 objects per second, where each object contains 100 strings).
This test already illustrates four important properties to consider for parallel throughput. The first key property is overall throughput, or the total amount of work the system is able to accomplish. Here, we can move up to 88,000 small objects or 11,300 objects through the Example 1 queue every second.
The second key property is scalability, or the ability to use more cores to get more work done. For both sizes of queued objects, Example 1 isn't very scalable at all: We get our best throughput at two producers and one consumer, and adding more producers and consumers doesn't get more objects through the queue.
The third key property is contention, or how much different threads interfere with each other by fighting for resources. The small-object case (left graph) shows acute contention, because total throughput drops dramatically when more producers and/or consumers are addedeven when those producers and consumers are running on otherwise-idle cores, which unfortunately is a great example of negative scalability. For larger queued objects, the problem is still visible but much less acute; throughput does not drop off as rapidly, at least not until we get to the dashed line.
Incidentally, speaking of that dashed line, I never described the hardware I used to run these tests. If you've been wondering about how many cores were available on my test machine, you can read the answer off the right-hand graph: The dashed line where we see a major performance cliff is where #
consumers + #
producers = 24, the number of CPU cores on the test system.
The right-hand graph's diagonal dropoff is a classic artifact of the fourth key property, the cost of oversubscription, or having more CPU-bound work ready to execute than available hardware to execute it. Clearly, we can't scale to more cores than actually exist on a given machine, but there can be a real cost to exceeding that number. In this example, especially when more than half the available threads are producers, oversubscription causes a dramatic increase in churn and contention and loss of overall system throughput. In this test case, a larger number of consumers had less effect, as illustrated by the "spillover" across the top part of the graph.
Let's see if we can improve total throughput and scalability, while driving down contention and the cost of oversubscription.


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