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Death of a Classmate - Alan Shirley CHRISTNER -20th Co.
Alan Shirley CHRISTNER, 86, passed away peacefully at home on March 1, 2019 after an eight-month battle with cancer. Alan was born in Pittsburgh, PA on November 22, 1932. He leaves behind his beloved and devoted wife of 38 years, Margaret Christner; and a large, loving family of six children and their spouses that include, Alan and Michele Christner III, Edward and Charity Christner, Richard and Karen Christner, Pamela Ann Christner, Kathy and Alan Giner, and Karen and Kevin Good. He was also "Opa" to his 10 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. We also wish to recognize the loving care and comfort provided by the staff of Suncoast Hospice and Visiting Angels. Alan was a United States Naval Academy graduate, Class of 54', a fighter pilot, and a retired Lt. Colonel, Squadron Commander, 27th Tactical Fighter Squadron, MacDill AFB, FL. Following his Air Force career, Alan graduated from Stetson Law School and enjoyed many successful years practicing law on Indian Rocks Beach with his wife Margaret. He was also an avid tennis and golf player. A one-hour Celebration of Life will be held on Friday, March 29 at 11:30 a.m. at Serenity Funeral Home, 13401 Indian Rocks Road, followed by his interment at Bay Pines National Cemetery, 10000 Bay Pines Boulevard, at 1:30 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society. Keep 'em, Flying Alan!
Published in the Tampa Bay Times from Mar. 3 to Mar. 17, 2019
Serenity Funeral Home & Serenity Gardens Memorial Park
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Finding patterns helps us make sense of our world, break down complicated issues and predict how certain events might unfold. It also plays a critical role in understanding a complex biological issue: cancer.
Joshua Hiller, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics and computer science at Adelphi, recently completed two research reports in mathematical carcinogenesis, a field devoted to developing mathematical models for the way cancer develops in the body.
His reports have yielded surprising discoveries that could transform cancer treatment and prevention, and potentially save lives.
In his first report, "Characteristic Patterns of Cancer Incidence," Dr. Hiller and his team analyzed 1,200 cancer studies published over 60 years across six continents to find common themes about how those cancers developed.
"We were trying to figure out exactly what a good mathematical model should look like," Dr. Hiller said.
The risk of getting cancer is high early on, but if it doesn't appear by a certain age, usually around 20, then the risk is low, but gradually increases similar to a power law. This pattern commonly applies to childhood cancers and cancers caused by sexually transmitted diseases.
The risk of cancer decreases in extreme old age, a fact that existing biological models can't explain. Dr. Hiller and his team proposed that this happens because human tissue regenerates less as people age, so there are fewer opportunities for cancer to form.
With these insights, scientists could potentially develop new ways to help prevent, diagnose and treat cancer worldwide.
In the second study, "Asymptotic Relative Risk Results from a Simplified Armitage and Doll Model of Carcinogenesis," Dr. Hiller and his team used mathematical models to figure out the probability of cancer appearing in two groups: former smokers and organ transplant recipients.
Former smokers are always at an increased risk of developing lung cancer. However, that increased risk decreases over time.
Organ transplant recipients have an increased risk of developing all types of cancer. Unlike former smokers, their risk increases with time.
Based on these discoveries, Dr. Hiller and his team recommended specific methods of cancer screenings that doctors could implement.
"Clinicians should continue to monitor people who have stopped smoking, treating them as smokers for five more years or so," Dr. Hiller said. "They can lower the amount of surveillance after that." This is less costly and invasive than administering increased screenings indefinitely.
For transplant recipients, the team recommends increasing the frequency and range of surveillance over time, since their risk of developing all types of cancer increases. These checks for transplant recipients will be more costly and invasive than they are for former smokers—but they will also be most effective.
Dr. Hiller's research demonstrates the importance of mathematics in the field of cancer research. He hopes to share his methods with his Adelphi students by offering a course in mathematical oncology, which involves using math to study and treat tumors.
October 31, 2018 Adelphi Professor Is a Leading Voice in Understanding Leadership News Jean Lau Chin, Ed.D., a professor at Adelphi University's Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology and a recognized authority on leadership, spent six months studying global and diverse leadership as the 2018 Fulbright Scholar as Distinguished Chair at the University of Sydney in Australia.
October 3, 2018 In Marine Biology, Classes Are a Shore Thing News Science classes at Adelphi often incorporate field study. The marine biology class taught by Aaren Freemen, Ph.D., virtually revolves around it, engaging in what Dr. Freeman calls "boots in the mud type of work." | {
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Sunday, February 5, 2023 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
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Try your hand at playing castañuelas from MIM's collection! This percussion instrument is known for its unique sound, which is heard throughout Spanish folk music.
Gallery Talk: Spanish Instruments
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Europe Gallery
Walk through the Europe Gallery with Matthew Zeller, curator for Europe, on a brief tour of the Spain exhibit.
Performance: Ana María Ruimonte
11:30 a.m.–noon, Saturday
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Enjoy the beauty of Spanish opera in this performance from internationally renowned opera singer Ana María Ruimonte, which features renditions of traditional zarzuela and sefardí songs.
Performance: Galician Bagpipes
11:30 a.m.–noon, Sunday
Hear the unique sound of the Galician gaita (bagpipe).
Curator Talk
12:30–1:00 p.m.
Event Room 2
Join Matthew Zeller, curator for Europe, for a talk on the cultural, historical, and musical significance of Spain, highlighting the country's musical traditions and featuring instruments on loan from the Museu de la Música de Barcelona, Spain.
Performance: The Flamenco Jazz Project
1:15–2:00 p.m.
Watch renowned flamenco guitarist Chris B. Jácome and the Flamenco Jazz Project in this fun and lively performance.
Workshop: Flamenco Dance
Learn the movements of Spanish flamenco dances and use them during the day's final performance!
Performance: Julia Chacón Flamenco Theatre
Experience fiery footwork, intricate arm movements, and beautifully designed costumes during a performance from the Julia Chacón Flamenco Theatre. Watch internationally trained dancers and musicians demonstrate the sights and sounds of southern Spain's flamenco musical style.
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Enjoy a menu of delicious global cuisine with fresh entrées, salads, soups, and grill items showcasing local produce and flavors from around the world.
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Short Story Help Needed
July 12, 2019 Café Society28 Comments
As the heading says, I am looking for some help here. Six months ago I started a Readers Group in the retirement complex where I now live. We meet once a month and share our reading experiences since we last met over tea, coffee and a large box of biscuits. It's been very successful, not least because it has brought some people out of their apartments who would not normally join in with other activities. One of these is my friend Graeme, who is in the early stages of dementia. I think he is so brave to come and join in our discussions despite the fact he is finding it increasingly hard to recall what he has read. I have suggested that he makes a few notes about what he wants to say to bring with him and that has helped but the time is coming when getting pleasure from a full length novel is going to be more difficult and so I tentatively asked if he would be interested in reading some short stories. The problem is that, like me, Graeme primarily reads for plot and short stories don't always fit with that type of reader's tastes. Furthermore, his real passion at the moment is Dan Brown and with my very limited knowledge of the genre I can't think of a collection I could recommend that would fit his preferences. I brought very few volumes of short stories with me when I came here and they are nearly all written by women. I certainly don't have anything I think would be suitable. Can anyone suggest anything that might be appropriate? I would be very grateful and I know Graeme and his wife would be as well. Thank you in advance.
Reading Groups, Reading Matter
Reviews ~ Catching Up
June 21, 2019 Café Society14 Comments
I've really fallen behind with my reviews over the past couple of weeks, partly because I've had a lot of preparation to do for other projects and partly because once more the dentist is looming large in my life. She told me on Tuesday that all the excavating that had to be done back in April when the rogue root was discovered embedded in my jaw means that before any restoration can be done I'm going to have to have a bone graft and a pin put in place. "You might want to clear your diary for the following week," she said, rather ominously. I am choosing to interpret that as, "expect at least a fortnight of untold misery". At least, that way, if I'm over-reacting I will have been prepared for the very worst. Anyway, in order to clear the decks I thought I would just offer a series of mini reviews so that I can start afresh at the beginning of next week.
An Officer and a Spy ~ Robert Harris
This was the second from my 15 Books of Summer list. It's the first time I've joined in with this particular challenge and I can already see that I have approached it all wrong and may need to reorganise myself. Nevertheless, that did nothing to dim my pleasure in this book. As I've said before I chose it because I wanted to know more about the Dreyfus Affair, which rocked France during the last decade of the Nineteenth Century and wasn't really resolved until almost the end of the 1900s. I've had a patchy experience where Harris is concerned but I thought this book was excellent. Told from the point of view of a French Army Officer, Georges Picquart, it starts on the morning on which Dreyfus, found guilty of passing secrets to the Germans, is publicly humiliated by having all the insignias of rank and regiment torn from his uniform. Picquart has been involved in bringing this about and is rewarded by being placed in charge of the intelligence unit that had been responsible for bringing Dreyfus down. Once he has access to all the unit's secrets, however, Georges starts to suspect that the case against Dreyfus may well have been at best flawed, at worst manufactured, and so begins to dig more deeply into the affair. What he discovers is a conspiracy to protect the positions of the men in power in both army and state at whatever cost to the truth even if that cost should include men's lives.
This is a chilling story extremely well told. It is particularly chilling because of the parallels so easily drawn with our own times: the incipient anti-semitism at the heart of national institutions, the conspiracy to cover-up the wrong doings of men of power, and the ease with which the media can stir up mob hysteria in the populous. It needs Picquart at its heart, a man determined to uncover the truth despite the cost to himself, otherwise the reader would come away thoroughly ashamed to be a member of the human race.
A Closed and Common Orbit ~ Becky Chambers
This was the novel chosen for Wednesday's book group meeting and it provoked a lot of discussion. It is the second in a sequence of three science fiction books and although those who had read the first thought you didn't need to know what had gone before the rest of us disagreed. The storyline stood on its own, but we felt we had missed a lot of the 'world-building' that had happened in the first novel and were at times floundering a bit. Like most science fiction, the book asks questions about the way in which a society works which can be seen as relevant to both the fictional world and our own. In this instance these were mainly to do with the autonomy of the individual, gender fluidity and the definition of sentience. Although not everyone agreed with me, my own feelings were that these were treated with too light a hand. I did find myself wondering who the intended audience was, because personally this was a book I would have given to teenagers rather than to adults.
Black Summer ~ M W Craven
Just before Christmas, I wrote about The Puppet Show, the first in Craven's Washington Poe series, here. As I said then, Craven was my crime fiction discovery of the year and Black Summer has only served to reinforce this view. DS Washington Poe is now back with the Serious Crime Analysis Section (SCAS) full time. Based, as it is, in Hampshire, this means that he spends far less time than he would like in his beloved Cumbria but this changes when a young woman walks into the Alston library and tells the police officer based there once a month as a 'problem solver' that she is Elizabeth Keaton. As far as the law is concerned Elizabeth Keaton was killed six years previously and it was Poe who was mainly responsible for putting her father, world famous chef, Jared Keaton, behind bars for her murder. If Elizabeth is still alive then Jared is innocent and given that very few people would argue that he is a dangerous psychopath, this doesn't bode well for Poe. Matters become even more complicated when Elizabeth vanishes for a second time and the evidence seems to suggest that Poe has something to do with her disappearance. Never one to suffer fools gladly, the DS has made enemies in his home force and as some of those climb the ranks they are only too pleased to have the opportunity to bring him to book. However, while Washington may have enemies he also has friends, two in particular: his immediate boss, DI Stephanie Flynn and the brilliant, if socially inept, young analyst, Tilly Bradshaw. When, at two in the afternoon, Poe texts Tilly to say that he is in trouble he expects that she will drop everything and turn up sometime the following afternoon. Fifteen hours early at three in the morning isn't quite been what he's been counting on, but Poe is Tilly's friend and in her book that's what friends do. Tilly Bradshaw is one of my favourite characters in fiction. Her incisive mind cuts through everything. I don't care that she frequently doesn't know how to act in a social situation. Tilly tells it how it is and I applaud her for it. What is more, she is brilliant at discerning patterns and, although I don't think there is quite enough Tilly in this book, she it is who finally has the insight that explains what is going on and leads the case to its conclusion. Possibly the best thing about this book is the way in which it ends because it makes it clear that there is going to be a third in the series. If you enjoy crime fiction and you haven't read Craven then I can't recommend him too highly.
20 Books of Summer, Book Reviews, Crime Fiction, Literary Fiction, Reading Groups, Science Fiction
Bellman and Black ~ Diane Setterfield
February 21, 2019 Café Society13 Comments
At a time when everyone else in the blogging world seems to be reading Diane Setterfield's latest novel, Once Upon A River, I found myself picking up her previous offering, Bellman and Black, it being this month's choice for one of my Book Groups. I didn't particularly enjoy Setterfield's first novel, The Thirteenth Tale, even though it was such a commercial success, and the fact that it was promoted on the cover as a ghost story didn't do anything to attract me to this second volume – I haven't read ghost stories since I was fourteen. But that's the whole point of a Book Group, isn't it? Or at least it is of the two to which I belong. We read books we would otherwise never have picked up because we trust the instincts of the other group members. I find it very hard to believe, but this particular group is now in its seventeenth year and during that time I have discovered several authors whose books I would never normally have picked up but who now feature regularly on my reading lists. So, remembering that the person who had chosen this also introduced me to David Mitchell and Kamila Shamsie, I dived in.
When William Bellman is ten, cheered on by his cousin Charles and friends Fred and Luke, he takes up his catapult, pulls off a remarkable shot and kills a rook. This is the novel's opening scene and the reader is encouraged to believe that this incident will colour everything that happens to William from that day on. Although a grandson of the local Mill owner, it is not William who is in line to take up the business but his cousin, Charles. However, Charles has no interest in the business, indeed no interest in living in England. His love of painting takes him off to Italy and it is William who joins Paul, his uncle, in the family concern and whose fresh eye and keen brain soon transforms the Mill and all the associated trades. When his grandfather dies and Paul takes over there is nothing left to stand in the way of William one day succeeding his uncle and not only running, but substantially expanding and innovating the Mill himself. Happily married and with four small children everything seems to be going William's way until an unnamed epidemic (we speculated either typhoid or diphtheria) hits the village and his wife and three youngest children die while Dora, his eldest, is left both disabled and disfigured.
At each of the funerals he is called upon to attend William is drawn to a shadowy figure in black, someone he feels he should know but just can't quite pin down in his memory. Memory is something that William avoids, even though Dora tries to recall the family life that they had once known. William is all to do with thought and as the book reminds us,
[there] is a story much older than this one in which two ravens – which are nothing but large rooks – were companions and advisors to the great God of the north. One bird was called Huginn, which in that place and time meant Thought, and the other Muninn, which meant Memory.
In giving himself over entirely to thought and neglecting to remember his family and all those who were important to him, William cuts himself off from the people who love him and who might have saved him as he becomes more and more obsessed with meeting what he sees as an obligation to the black-coated, shadowy figure from the graveyard. And yet, ironically, it is memory which is at the root of his next great business success as he goes on to found the magnificent London emporium, Bellman & Black, where everything you need to commemorate your recently departed loved one can be found under one roof. It was the description of the building and the fitting out of this store (one bound to bring almost unlimited success at the height of Victorian mourning traditions) that I enjoyed most. Bought up in trade and with a love of ordering and organising, I was fascinated by the minutiae of how William builds this new business from quite literally the ground upwards. But, although his name is over the door and on all the carriages and letterheads, the mysterious Black is never seen and gradually his absence begins to build in importance in William's mind and brings about the novel's conclusion.
We had a really good discussion about this book, mainly because although we had all found it eminently readable, we none of us thought that it quite held together. Our main complaint was that Setterfield had started too many ideas and not really developed any of them sufficiently. Too often we felt we were having to search for an explanation as to how a particular incident fitted into the overall scheme of things and as a result the ideas, if not the narrative itself, seemed disjointed and not fully developed. Our estimation of the character of William, however, differed. While some found his obsession with his work disturbing and difficult to understand, others felt it chimed with the experience of trying to build a career in a challenging climate. Ulitimately, of course, William fails because to be obsessed with death in life is to deny living, until all that is left is death itself, those things which make living worthwhile having never been enjoyed. The book begins and ends with William's death. Whether or not he can be said to have lived in the interim is for the individual reader to decide.
Book Reviews, Literary Fiction, Reading Groups, Wednesday Book Group
Sunday Retrospective ~ February 17th 2019
It's been a busy week! It started with a visit to the dentist, never a good move. In this case even less of a good move than usual as we ended up planning an intensive programme of further visits over the next six months or so. There's a passage in one of Helene Hanff's books where she tells how she has been intending to visit London only to discover that she is going to have to spend her savings on dental treatment instead. I know just how she must have felt. As I watched the projected costs mounting I could hear Jolyon Bear (he who keeps hold of the purse strings) in my head telling me that it is going to be the library for me for the next year or two.
Then I had my first assignment to write for my Shakespeare course – only 500 words, but that actually made it all the more difficult. I just about managed it (518) in as much as I answered the question, but there was no room for eloquence and I always feel that anything you write should take account of the "music" of the words as well as the content. This felt more like a simple check list of the points I needed to make than anything else. Submitting it electronically was fun too as the instructions provided bore very little resemblance to what actually happened when I tried to download it onto the University site. In the end one of the other students (a software engineer) and I found a way to get round the problem but IT support and I are going to have words tomorrow morning. A Russell Group University should not be making mistakes like that.
So, all in all there has been very little time for reading or blogging this week. I have just finished Mari Hannah's latest Oliver and Stone novel, The Scandal, which comes out at the beginning of March so I will leave a review until nearer the publication date. I like Hannah's work very much and for the most part this was no exception. My one quibble was that she stood on a particular soapbox and thumped a particular drum rather too loudly and obviously and weakened her argument as a result, but more later.
I am also halfway through Diane Setterfield's second novel, Bellman and Black which is next week's Book Group choice. I was one of the few people who didn't like The Thirteenth Tale. I was getting along fine with it until about three quarters of the way through and then the plot lost credibility for me and I felt cheated. I was getting along fine with this book too until yesterday when it suddenly took a turn that left me feeling a bit grubby for reading it, so I'm not certain how I'm going to respond to what I still have left to read. Still, at least there will be something to talk about next Wednesday. One of the things that I am most interested in is how unusual a choice it is for the person whose turn it was to select the book. I'm also interested in the fact that I feel that way. Perhaps we stereotype each other as particular categories of readers too easily. It's a lazy way of thinking.
Reading Groups, Shakespeare, Sunday Retrospective
New Book Group
October 22, 2018 Café Society24 Comments
Having settled into my new surroundings one of the things that I wanted to do was expand my circle of local friends. I chose where I was going to move to quite deliberately because I already knew a good number of people living here, but they are all from within a certain circle and I thought it would be good to broaden that out. The obvious way forward was to join a(nother) book group, but there were certain problems with that. Firstly, the local library group already has sixteen members, which I consider too many for a decent discussion, and secondly, I belong to two groups which read and discuss specified novels and having two books a month dictated by other people's tastes is quite enough, thank you. So, I approached the library about starting a different sort of group, although one that I have had experience of before, and this evening we are to have our first meeting.
The idea is very simple. We (no more than a dozen or it becomes impractical) will meet once a month to each talk briefly about what we have read since the last time we got together. There are all sorts of benefits to this sort of group. No one feels any pressure to read something they are not enjoying. There isn't the problem of everyone trying to get hold of limited library copies of the same book. (The librarians particularly like that aspect!) You can come along even if you are still struggling with whatever you were trying to read last month and simply comment on your progress or lack thereof. It doesn't matter how you have accessed the book; there is one young woman interested who is blind and always uses audiobooks. And, perhaps most importantly, you get to 'meet' new authors that you might never otherwise have thought of reading. This is how I first came across writers like Patrick Gale and Richard Russo, now both 'must reads' as far as I'm concerned. This latter point can mean that even though we don't set out to be a discussion group discussion will often arise because over time a number of people will have read the same book and inevitably have a variety of views about it. (Note to self: don't damn anything outright, it might be someone else's favourite ever book and you may never see them again.)
I have no idea how many are going to turn up this evening. We have advertised the group in the library and in the local newspapers. (The Bears were very aggrieved that only my picture turned up in the Bromsgrove Standard; they thought it would have been much more effective if they had been included as well, probably quite rightly.) I am expecting at least four but the librarians say they have had several enquiries from people who haven't spoken to me so it could be that we are full from the word go. I shall just have to wait and see. Further reports as the week progresses!
Library Group, Reading Groups
Marching Forward
March 3, 2016 Café Society12 Comments
February was not really a great reading month, I'm afraid. With the exception of a couple of very good crime novels, Claire McGowan's A Savage Hunger, which I reviewed in the previous post, and Alafair Burke's The Ex, the review for which will be in the next edition of Shiny New Books, I wasn't really knocked out by anything else that I read. Mind you, as a month it had a lot to live up to given that my January reading included Elizabeth Strout's My Name is Lucy Barton and Eva Dolan's After You Die and, even though it had an extra day, February is still a short month so I won't complain too much but just look forward to March and hope for better things.
My book group reading consists of two re-reads balanced by not only a book but an author that is new to me. The Monday Group asked for some crime fiction and as that is a group set up to look at novels shortlisted for book awards I decided to go for Sara Paretsky's Blacklist which won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in 2004. I'm not certain how well this is going to go down, but I enjoy the way in which Paretsky explores the links between crime, politics and big business interests and makes it clear that while you may catch the people at the bottom, or even those in the middle, at the moment bringing down those at the top is still proving more than difficult. If nothing else it will introduce almost everyone in that group to an author they haven't read before.
The other re-read is Huxley's Brave New World. I did this with a different group a couple of years ago and it works really well in discussion not only in respect of its literary merits but also in terms of asking just how prophetic the author's vision was. I have to say that I'm not certain myself that Huxley intended it to be prophetic but it's a good point for debate, nevertheless. My only qualm about that one is that we have one member in the group who always wants happy books, suitable for (and I quote!) ladies of a certain age. I'm not sure quite what she's going to make of this.
The author new to me is Adam Foulds and the book that has been chosen is his first novel, The Truth About These Strange Times. Other than that I've had quite a job getting a copy from the library I know nothing about this at all, so if any of you have read it and have any comments before I start on it next week I shall be interested to read them.
As far as other reading goes the month is going to primarily taken up with tackling all those books that I said I was going to read over my long weekend off. I hadn't realised just how tired I was and in the end I found myself doing more re-reading simply because I hadn't the energy to tackle anything new. I did read one of the review copies I had on hand and I began Helen Dunmore's Exposure, but, for personal reasons, I've found it a particularly difficult read and I'm having to take it just in small sections. I'll talk more about that when I review it. That does mean, however, that I still have Slade House and The Noise of Time waiting to be read as well as a couple of crime novels to review for NetGalley. Given all that I don't think I should be looking any further ahead right now. I can add to the list if I find I'm running out of material. At the moment, that seems unlikely.
Crime Fiction, Looking Forward, Monday Book Group, Reading Groups
Sunday Round-Up
January 24, 2016 Café Society17 Comments
I was hoping to get several more reviews written over the course of this past week but, as so often happens, life got in the way, so in lieu I'll just offer a few quick thoughts about the two most recent book group discussions on Ian McEwan's The Children Act and David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet.
The group with which I read The Children Act were most exercised by whether or not the main character, Fiona Maye, was believable. For me, however, this wasn't really the issue. I think I've reached the point where I just accept that McEwan has no idea how women think and behave and so I let that stand as a given and concentrate on what else I think he is concerned with. In this novel I was more interested in what it was he was trying to say about the law and the individual's relationship with it. It seems clear to me that this is his primary interest. Why else start with what is an overt reference to Dickens' Bleak House?
London. Trinity term one week old. Implacable June weather.
I decided in the end that what McEwan was trying to examine was the way in which, even in situations where our children's wellbeing is at stake, we want to place the onus of decision onto an outside body, despite the fact that, in his opinion, this is to abdicate our personal responsibility. He offers several examples of families passing through the courts whose children are in need of medical or educational intervention and in each instance there is a sense of parental relief when the outcome is decided by someone else. However, he also provides examples of two such cases where the judge concerned has made a mistake that has had life long repercussions for the families involved and his ffinal* verdict on Fiona appears to be that she needs to recognise her responsibility to exercise judgment in her behaviour towards children outside of the trappings of the court as well as within.
There are a lot of seems and appears in that because I don't think McEwan manages to make his point of view clear, possibly because, as so many of the group recognised, he doesn't make Fiona herself believable. And, while I don't disagree with the idea that we all need to take responsibility for the welfare of society in general and especially of children, I'm also bothered by an approach which seems to question the centrality of the judiciary. Yes, they sometimes get it wrong, but what happens if you take the law away? I have run across a number of literary instances recently that very strongly make the point that if the law is bent, neglected or personalised then the very pillars on which society stands are threatened. I'm teaching The Merchant of Venice this term and not only The Duke and Balthazar/Portia recognise the irretrievable damage that will be done to the State if Shylock is denied his bond, so too does Antonio, who very definitely has the most to lose. Then, it's not long since I reviewed Claire McGowan's latest Northern Ireland based novel, The Silent Dead, where the question of retaliatory 'justice' is foregrounded and in which the ffinal* judgment is that however fflawed* the justice system might sometimes be it is infinitely superior to what would happen if there was no system at all. And I have never been able to forget the conversation between Thomas More and his son-in-law in Robert Bolt's play A Man For All Seasons:
Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast — man's laws, not God's — and if you cut them down — and you're just the man to do it — d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
We take decisions out of the hands of the law at our own peril, I think.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet was a much happier reading experience. I was so glad that this had been chosen because I have been trying to ffind* time to read more David Mitchell ever since being bowled over by The Bone Clocks, however, he is not a writer you can hurry and there just hasn't been a large enough space when I could explore his earlier novels.
As far as Mitchell goes, this, I understand, is a comparatively straightforward narrative, although exploring a complexity of issues, mostly to do with the question of translation. Many of the main characters in the novel are interpreters who work for the Japanese state as linguistic go-betweens for the ruling powers and the Dutch traders of the late eighteenth century. But, while they may haltingly fffind* the words for a literal translation, interpreting the society behind the words is a very different matter. Even as the novel draws to a close the reader is left puzzling over a nation that can be so isolationist that it will not allow a son who is half Japanese and whose mother is dead to leave to be with his Dutch father. The writing is beautiful, the characterisation superb, but it is a solid read, so don't embark on it unless you have the time to give it the attention it deserves.
I hope the forthcoming week is going to be slightly easier, especially as I've already got behind in my course on Dorothy L Sayers and could do with a few spare hours to catch up. I have discovered, however, that it is possible to have too much of a good thing even where books are concerned, and my reading of the Wimsey novels has slowed considerably. In particular, I fell foul of Five Red Herrings, which I seem to remember not being very keen on when I read the books the ffirst* time round. I'm now half way through Have His Carcase and should really do my best to ffinish* it over the weekend. What are your plans for a damp and soggy Sunday afternoon, I wonder?
N.B. I do know how to spell the words marked thus*, but the WordPress program is refusing to spell them with just one 'f'. It's two or nothing, so I have chosen to go for two. Is anyone else having this problem?
Book Reviews, Reading Groups, Reading Matter, Wednesday Book Group
A Spool of Blue Thread ~ Anne Tyler
January 9, 2016 Café Society17 Comments
About a third of the way through Anne Tyler latest novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, the entire Whitshank family set off to spend a week at the beach. This isn't a spur of the moment vacation. Not only do the Whitshanks spend the same week on the Delaware coast every summer, they spend it in the same house. And, they are not the only family with fixed habits when it comes to taking a holiday.
"The next-door people are back," Jeannie called, stepping in from the screen porch.
Next door was almost the only house as unassuming as theirs was, and the people she was referring to had been renting it for at least as long as the Whitshanks had been renting theirs. Oddly enough, though, the two families never socialized.
They may not socialise, but the Whitshanks do speculate about the nature of the family and watch for changes year by year.
[T]hey continued to come, the mother taking her early morning walks along the beach…the daughters in the company of boyfriends who metamorphosed into husbands, by and by, and then a little boy appearing and later a little girl.
"The grandson has brought a friend this year," Jeannie reported. "Oh, that makes me want to cry."
"Cry! What for?" Hugh asked her.
"It's the … circularity, I guess. When we first saw the next-door people the daughters were the ones bringing friends, and now the grandson is, and it starts all over again."
"You sure have given these folks a lot of thought," Hugh said.
"Well, they're us, in a way," Jeannie said.
And, just as the Whitshanks watch the changes in the next-door family so we, the readers, do the same for them. When the book begins we have as unfocused a notion of the dynamics in Tyler's Baltimore family as their holiday neighbours do. Do we
find the Whitshanks attractive? Intriguing? [Do we] admire their large numbers and their closeness? Or [have we] noticed a hidden crack somewhere?
Well, if we haven't noticed the crack, indeed the cracks, by the time we read about the annual holiday then we haven't been paying enough attention, because what Tyler gives us in this novel is a portrait of an apparently stable, loving family that unwinds as we observe it. Like a spool of thread which, when first purchased, appears tightly bound and compact, the moment you start to pull at a loose end the whole structure begins to fall apart. What is more, once that has happened, you can never rewind and recover the sense of completeness and perfection that you had before. Indeed one crack exposes another and then another until there is little left of the image with which you began.
The process begins slowly enough. We are aware from early on that the elder Whitshank boy, Denny, is a source of family disquiet, but it isn't until Denny himself, in a reported conversation with Abby, his mother, drops the bombshell that Stem, the youngest Whitshank, is in fact not a Whitshank at all, that the process really begins to gain momentum. And from then on in we watch as all that we have been led to believe about the stability of the family, all the stories that they have told about the Whitshank past, the stories on which their sense of who they are is built, crumbles before our eyes. We move back through the generations, discovering at each stage how different the reality of the Whitshank's family history is from the picture that they present to the world.
And yet, they are still Whitshanks. Oh, it may be Stem, the abandoned child, who shares their name but not their blood, who takes on that family name in the form of the business, but it the end it is Denny who proves himself to be the direct descendent of those first Baltimore Whitshanks, Junior and Linnie Mae. In a reflection of the circularity that Jeannie recognised in their beach-side neighbours, the novel concludes with Denny's return to a woman who clearly loves him but to whom, in an echo of his grandfather's earlier behaviour, he has been unable to commit, and we are left with the sense that perhaps this time he really will be able to build a relationship that has some lasting stability. It may not be as strong or as perfect as they would like the world to think, but it will have a utility out which a future can be forged. Some of that trailing thread is being rewound and while it may not be possible to return it to its original pristine condition it will serve for the day to day purpose of holding a family together.
While the Whitshanks may not be the picture of family perfection that they would like to appear, Tyler's depiction of them comes pretty close to perfection. Time and again I found myself drawing parallels between situations in either my own family or those of people to whom I am close enough to have been allowed to see the cracks. And for me, I think her greatest achievement is the sense of hope that she provides for such families. Because, despite the flaws, the difficulties, the betrayals, that we witness, in the end we recognise there is still love in this family, there is still mutual support, there is still a sense that while the thread may not be as tightly bound as it could be, they are all part of that same spool. This may be a novel that charts our growing awareness, as outsiders, of the dysfunctional nature of the Whitshank family, but ultimately it is also a novel that says, in fact, any family at which you look closely is probably going to be pretty dysfunctional one way and another. But you know what? In the end they are going to survive because they are bound by that blue thread and as long as it isn't actually severed it can be wound back in and remain whole. And, as Jeannie points out, the family we are observing is us, in a way, which means that Tyler is also saying that there is a good chance for the survival of any family, just so long as you're willing to hold on tight to the end of that spool of blue thread.
Book Reviews, Monday Book Group, Reading Groups
I am always envious of those readers who seem to be able to look forward to the coming year and make reading plans which they confidently forecast they are going to be able to carry out successfully. For me this has always seemed to be the surest route to failure. It's a bit like the Great Expectations experience writ large. As the year goes by so I am repeatedly faced with my inability to live up to the predictions I made with such confidence back at the beginning of January. Nevertheless, I still continue to try and beat the fates by outlining my intentions even if it is only in the broadest possible way. So here goes for 2016.
At the top of the list go three dozen or so books many of which I don't yet know the titles of. These are the books that I'll need to read for my three book groups and the August Summer School. January's selections are Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread, Ian McEwan's The Children Act and David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. The first two will be re-reads but the Mitchell is new and I'm excited about that as I really loved The Bone Clocks and have wanted a reason to fit more of his work into the schedule ever since.
Another inescapable list will be books to do with the Shakespeare plays I shall be teaching during the year. The groups focus on one play a term and this year we are going to be studying The Merchant of Venice, Othello and Antony and Cleopatra. Lots of blood and violence there then. Othello and Antony and Cleopatra were my A level texts and it will be interesting to come back to them from a very different point of view. We don't focus on close readings but rather on how the plays fit into the era in which they were written, their publishing history and the ways in which they have been produced on the stage from Shakespeare's time to the present. This year, for at least one of the plays (The Merchant of Venice) there will be an updated novel version available as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project. Howard Jacobson's Shylock Is My Name is due to be published in February. I have been very sceptical about this enterprise, but having heard Jacobson talk about the book last summer I probably will read it. Tracy Chevalier is tackling the Othello re-write, but there is no publication date as yet.
The other reading to which I am already committed is that for my course on Dorothy L Sayers. I still have more than half a dozen of the Peter Wimsey novels to finish as well as all the short stories. I am not a short story reader and I suspect I shall only tackle those if it becomes obvious that I can't complete the module without doing so. The course finishes at Easter but I'm hoping that it will jump start another project I've had in mind for some time. I read an inordinate amount of crime fiction but without any real direction or purpose. What I would like to do is use the essays in The Companion to Crime Fiction as an organising tool to undertake a more deliberate exploration of the genre, be that through a chronological approach or according to sub-genre. I'm particularly interested in the ways in which plots are organised and how they are signalled to the reader. Has that changed over time? Are there specific features associated with specific sub-genres or perhaps specific countries of origin? What I would really like to do is set up another book group to facilitate discussion but whether I would have the time to run a fourth is doubtful.
Over and above these, as it were, social reading commitments there is, of course, my little list. I've already marked down any of my 'must read' authors who have books due between now and the middle of the year and as soon as I can I shall put in library reservations for them. In any one twelve month period the number of novels I get through in this category probably runs to about thirty so, when you add that to what I've already outlined, you're coming very close to the hundred odd books that I get through in a year. Perhaps then I had better stop at this point or there will be no room for any serendipitous reads that I discover as 2016 goes on. Will I, I wonder, have the courage to come back in twelve months time and see how well I've managed to stick to my forecast? That, I suspect will depend on how successful I've been.
Crime Fiction, Reading Groups, Reading Matter, Shakespeare, Summer School, Theatre
Life Class ~ Pat Barker
December 10, 2015 Café Society11 Comments
One of the things I really appreciate about belonging to a book group is that every now and again a novel will turn up on our schedule that has somehow slipped out of my tbr pile before I've managed to get round to reading it. This was the case with Pat Barker's Life Class and, as it was the first of a trilogy, that has meant that I have also had to postpone reading Toby's Room and the more recently published Noonday. It was because the member who suggested it wanted to read Noonday but, like myself, hadn't read the earlier novels, that we ended up discussing Life Class at the beginning of the week and we had some very differing reactions to the novel.
I expect that by now everyone else has encountered the work and knows what it is about so very briefly, as a reminder, it is set just before and then, latterly, about a month into, the onset of the First World War. Initially we meet three art students studying at the Slade under the renown surgeon turned teacher of life drawing, Henry Tonks. Paul Tarrant, Kit Neville and Elinor Brooke each display very different talents and very different approaches towards their work as artists. Paul seems to be able to do nothing to please Tonks and is seriously questioning whether he has made the right decision in coming to London. Kit, on the other hand, has had some success and is prepared to be as commercial as is necessary to make money from his art. Elinor perhaps has the most difficult time because she has to battle not only to get her work appreciated but also with the prejudice against a woman studying art rather than preparing herself for what is generally seen as her real role in life, namely as someone's wife. The difference in the ways in which each of these characters face their situations is expertly drawn and appreciating this set of contrasts prepares the reader for the more substantial contrast to come.
Nothing, however, prepares the young artists for what is about to happen. The move into the clearing stations for the wounded in France is as sudden for the reader as was the onset of war for the peoples of Europe. Paul in particular is completely unequipped for the Life Class in which he now find himself enrolled as he encounters the reality of what can be done to the human body in the name of war and the suffering that consequently ensues. Now the disarticulated limbs are not simply plaster casts studied for aesthetic purposes, they are the shattered remains of young men who had no idea of what they were heading out to when they enlisted and now no real idea as to what they are fighting for. The clearing station becomes another studio as artists turned surgeons struggle to understand the ways in which the human body works in order to save the lives of those who have become their unwitting 'models'.
In general, we were in agreement about the book seen simply in the terms I've described. We all very much enjoyed it, although there was one dissenting voice who thought that the first section was too long. Where we differed was in respect of the way in which Barker had made use of real people to populate her work of fiction.
In many works of historical fiction mention will be made in passing of individuals who actually existed. That is the case here both with Tonks and with Ottoline Morrell, who later in the work befriends Elinor. No one had a problem with that. Discussion centred, rather, on the question of the extent to which the characters of Paul, Kit and Elinor were based on real artists of the day. Locally we had an exhibition last year of the works of Richard Nevinson and it didn't take much to link him with Kit, especially as Nevinson's given name was Christopher. One of the most striking works in the show was of a large barn being used as a hospital before there were any real medical facilities set up in France. this is exactly the situation that Kit and Paul find themselves in when they first go out with the intention of serving as ambulance drivers. Rather more tentative was the identification of Paul as Paul Nash. What we know of Paul Tarrant's background doesn't fit, even though Nash did have considerable wartime experience. However, Elinor is more easily linked to Dora Carrington, not the least because her connection to Ottoline Morrell would bring her into the Bloomsbury circle, the group of painters and writers with whom Carrington is inevitably associated. Where we, as a group, differed was in how far we thought we should take what we knew of the real people into consideration when discussing the actions of the characters in the novel. Is it valid, for example, when asking whether or not Elinor's conduct in a given situation is believable to justify your response by reference to what you know of Dora Carrington's actual behaviour?
I'm still not certain where I stand on this. If you, as the reader, are not in a position to make those identifications and draw those parallels then the character that the writer has offered has still to be able to stand up to scrutiny when you question the nature of their behaviour. And yet real people do behave in ways which if you attributed them to a character in a novel no one would endorse as credible. In the end we had to agree to differ because the discussion was getting quite heated. I wonder what you think? | {
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The 1989 Arab Club Champions Cup was played in Morocco in the city of Marrakesh. Wydad Athletic Club won the competition for the first time beating in the final Al-Hilal.
Participants
Preliminary round
Zone 1 (Gulf Area)
Al-Muharraq and Fanja SC advanced to the final tournament.
Zone 2 (Red Sea)
Preliminary round tournament held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Al-Hilal advanced to the final tournament. Al Ahly withdrew from the final tournament after qualification, it had been replaced by Wydad Casablanca.
Zone 3 (North Africa)
Preliminary round tournament held in Sousse, Tunisia.
JS Tizi Ouzou and Étoile du Sahel advanced to the final tournament.
JS Tizi Ouzou renamed JS Kabylie from the season 1989-90 and played under this name in the final tournament.
Zone 4 (East Region)
Preliminary round tournament held in Baghdad, Iraq. Syria, Jordan and Palestine withdrew their participant.
Al-Tayaran and Al-Ansar SC advanced to the final tournament.
Final Tournament
Final tournament held in Marrakesh, Morocco from 19 November to 2 December 1989.
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage
Bracket
Semi-finals
Third place match
Final
Winners
References
External links
7th Arab Club Champions Cup 1989 - rsssf.com
UAFA Club Cup, 1989
UAFA Club Cup, 1989
1989 | {
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To confirm the notes of the meeting of the Panel held on 31 January 2019.
The notes of the meeting of the Task and Finish Panel held on 31 January 2019 were agreed as a correct record subject to including the word 'stronger' when referring to any of the Select Committees, so that they would read Stronger Communities, Stronger Council and Stronger Place Select Committee.
(d) That the Panel review the terms of reference of the existing select committees in terms of relevance and consider whether these could be improved.
The Panel noted its terms of reference, which had been agreed by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee at its meeting on 18 December 2018.
To review the work programme for the Panel.
The Panel noted their Work Programme.
(c) arrangements for the development of work programmes for the new select committees.
The Panel should also seek to finalise its recommendations to be made to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee at its meeting on 16 April 2019, in order that an appropriate report can be prepared for presentation to the Committee by the Chairman of the Panel.
If required, a further meeting of the Panel has been arranged for 14 March 2019, to conclude the review of the select committee framework.
The Panel considered the draft Terms of Reference and draft Work Programmes for the three proposed Select Committees. They noted that a revised and extended work programme for the Stronger Communities Select Committee had been tabled. This added extra items to the work programme, with the Strategic Director adding proposed dates to each item of work. She noted that the new Select Committees were not orientated towards services; they were more cross cutting and so as yet they had not had any officer resources applied to them.
A member raised a question on which Select Committee should look into certain specific subjects such as the provision of mobility scooters or the sheltered housing review as all the Select Committees seemed to have similar Terms of Reference. And, how these subjects could be raised to a Committee as a request to be reviewed. The Panel was told that if the question was customer related it could go through the Chairman of the appropriate Committee. They can also go via the O&S Committee or officers, who could feed the request into the correct committee.
It was also noted that this new Select Committee system would be reviewed within a year to see if it needed modification.
The Panel debated if the Audit and Governance Committee could send items to the Select Committee to review. They noted that the Audit and Governance Committee had a very specific role and there may not be a lot of cross over in their work. But as they reported to Council, the Council could ask for a Select Committee to review a specific item. However, it may be possible to refer things up to that committee if it was warranted.
The Panel considered the Work Programme for the Stronger Communities Select Committee. I was suggested that scrutiny of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy be added to the work programme; this could either be the County Council's or EFDC's strategy, as long as it affected the residents of this district.
AGREED: that the Health and Wellbeing strategy be added to the Stronger Communities Select Committee.
The Panel also noted that the Police and Crime Commissioner had been talking about volunteer officers in the district. Could they ask for some feedback from the Chief Officers. In response to this the Chairman said that the Terms of Reference were flexible and things could be brought in if warranted.
Another suggestion of the Panel was to ask officers who represented the Council on the Neighbourhood Group meetings (based around health) to report back to the Select Committee to keep them informed of what was happening, especially around mental health issues. The Chairman said that these topics did fit into the Select Committee's Terms of Reference.
AGREED: that EFDC representatives on the Neighbourhood Group meetings be asked to report to the Committee especially on mental health issues.
The Panel reviewed the draft set of Terms of Reference. They noted that the word 'Plan' ... view the full minutes text for item 15.
The Panel formally thanked the officers for their work in providing material for this Panel to consider in pursuance of their Terms of Reference.
To note that, if required, a further meeting of the Panel will be held at 7.00pm on 14 March 2019.
The Panel agreed that this would be their last meeting and another one would not be required. The Chairman would present a report on their findings and recommendations to the April meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee. | {
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I love outdoor neighborhood markets! Especially, in the midst of the hustle and bustle of a big city. Like the smell and taste of things long remembered, there's something about them that is wonderfully pleasing. I imagine the farmers bringing their harvest in during the wee hours of the morning before the rest of us wake.
Last Thursday, I happened upon just such a farmer's market while walking along the riverfront. Well, not the "big city" kind, but still a city market. It's wonderful fruits and vegetables, baked goods and flowers beckoned me and my need to investigate such things took over.
Walking through it triggered memories of other "market" exploration in DC, NY, Napa and Europe. I love the locally harvested and homemade. They're simply more delectable. I think my love of local markets came from freshly harvested food my father had grown and from traveling through Europe. While in France and Spain, most of our meals consisted of wonderful baked goods, cheeses and fruits from traditional outdoor markets. Here at home, many local markets have evolved and now carry organics, finally crafted cheeses, spreads, dips and oils, all the while, still maintaining their homespun feel. Their aromas are as equally wonderful, familiar and comforting as the smells of childhood can be. The kind that give you pause like, freshly mown grass, campfires or salt spray. I don't really need to understand why the mind does this. I just embrace it.
Travel and outings don't always have to be about the grandiose or the extravagant, sometimes it's the simple things that give us a sense of connection to a place, causing us to feel deeply rooted or immersed in a place. So do a little research of your own and check out your local farmers market or on your next trip ask the locals where and when. Your senses will thank you. | {
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There has been a consistent theme drummed out by the Blitzboks in Singapore this week' where they are preparing for the eighth leg of the 2017/18 World Sevens Series – 'focus and process'.
Coach Neil Powell believes the side veered from their usual script of staying in the moment at the recent Commonwealth Games.
Their lacklustre performance on the Gold Coast was put down to a team too fixated on outcomes rather than focused on the minutiae within a game.
By thinking of end results' the Blitzboks' standards dropped as minds were not fully engaged with immediate tasks. Powell has been driving the message of 'process' home all week.
The players have taken up the script as they look to maintain and even build on their slender three-point lead over Fiji at the top of the standings.
"Follow the process and the result will look after itself'" forward Dylan Sage said.
South Africa face Samoa in game one on Saturday followed by Canada and Argentina in Pool C.
"This is without doubt a very competitive series and teams such as Fiji and New Zealand are playing fantastic sevens at the moment'" said Sage.
Captain Kyle Brown was on script too: "We often said one game will not define us or what we stand for as a Springbok Sevens team' yet that second half performance against England in the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast was one that did show some shortcomings in our attitude'" said Brown.
"We were in fact defined by that one game as it also knocked us off the podium and we left Australia without a medal' disappointing many' including ourselves."
To help with sharpen minds and re-energise the squad Powell included six youngsters from the SA Sevens Academy in the squad for Singapore.
They did duty in round seven in Hong Kong and earned third – a superb result considering their inexperience.
"There can be no doubt that some of the new guys in the squad brought some energy and excitement and reminded some of the more established players what if felt like.
"It impacted on all of us'" said Brown' now South Africa's second most experienced player ever.
"Good performances in Hong Kong were rewarded and those guys can again show what they are capable of.
"There is little sense in trying to shackle their energy and the way they play as that was what delivered them a medal in Hong Kong' so the senior heads in the team will provide the composure and sense of structure where needed. | {
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La Salle tastes fourth defeat after misfiring against vengeful UP
By Pen Al Ty
Take this result as one for the process.
With a first round win over the University of the Philippines Fighting Maroons under their belt, the De La Salle University Men's Football Team succumbed to a payback from the defending champions with a 0-2 loss, Sunday afternoon, at FEU-Diliman.
La Salle conceded the first at the 8th minute. The defense failed to mark Karl Bugayong who headed the ball past goalie Gab Villacin from the corner at the 8th minute.
Yoshi Koizumi and Mikio Umilin had sniffs at the Fighting Maroons' box, but luck was just not on La Salle's side.
The game was then out of La Salle's reach early in the second half when UP skipper Kintaro Miyagi doubled his side's lead.
It was a painful loss for the Green & White, but the path towards the Final Four is still in their hands.
La Salle still has 13 points in the table and its next game will be against an Ateneo de Manila University side that is out for revenge on April 4, 2019, 3:30 PM.
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Kent Wakeford is co-founder and Vice Chairman of Gen.G esports, a leading esports team ownership group. Gen.G is home to numerous highly acclaimed esports teams including 'Seoul Dynasty' in the Overwatch League, the 2017 League of Legends World Champion team, as well as teams playing PUBG, Call of Duty, Fortnite and Apex Legends. Prior, Kent was COO of Kabam, where he helped grow Kabam to a globally diverse company with over 1,000 employees in 7 countries. Kabam games were played by over 500 million people around the world. Kent currently serves on the Board of Directors of Skillz, the leading mobile esports platform, FanAI, a data analytics platform connecting brands with tradition and esports teams, and is co-founder of Forte Labs, a blockchain technology company.
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Chrissie Scelsi
Chrissie Scelsi is U.S. General Counsel for Wargaming (USA), Inc., where she is responsible for legal and business matters for the company's operatings in the United States, including esports and licensing. Prior to joining Wargaming, she practiced in entertainment and new media law as principal of Scelsi Entertainment and New Media Law. Ms. Scelsi has served as in house counsel for an international game based-simulations company, where she was responsible for advising on software licensing matters, government contracting and regulatory compliance matters, trademarks, copyright, and corporate issues.
She has served as an editor of the book Computer Games and Virtual Worlds: A New Frontier in Intellectual Property Law, which was published by the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law, is a chapter contributor to The American Bar Association's Legal Guide to Video Game Development, and is the author of the PunkLawyer Blog. Ms. Scelsi has served as the Chair of the Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section of the Florida Bar. She has been named as one of the top eight Central Florida attorneys with Twitterati status by the Orlando Business Journal based on number of followers for her @punklawyer handle. Ms. Scelsi received her B.B.A. in marketing from Loyola University New Orleans, a J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law, and a LL.M. in Entertainment and Media Law from Southwestern School of Law.
Craig Donato
Craig Donato is the Chief Business Officer at Roblox. He currently oversees Business Development and Developer Relations.
Prior to Roblox, Donato led Business Development and Monetization at Nextdoor, a social network for neighborhoods. He also was the CEO and co-founder of Oodle, a local community marketplace that was acquired by QVC in 2012.
Donato holds an MBA from Stanford Business School and BS in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.
As President of Skybound Interactive, Dan Murray oversees the company's robust gaming business. He works closely with the industry's leading publishers, developers and investors to extend Skybound's IP into mobile and console games.
Skybound's game slate includes Telltale's The Walking Dead series, Scopely's The Walking Dead: Road to Survival, Night School's Oxenfree, Free Range Games' Labyrinth, Disruptor Beam's The Walking Dead: March to War, and Other Ocean's Giant Cop: Justice Above All. In addition, Skybound Interactive has a handful of video game projects in the pipeline including Overkill's The Walking Dead.
Prior to joining Skybound, Dan ran worldwide business development for Foundation 9 Entertainment, the largest independent videogame developer in the world creating franchise-based video games on every major platform. During this tenure he helped close over 60 major video game deals including Killer Instinct and Strider.
Dan graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Finance.
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Bernard Kim
Bernard Kim serves as Zynga's President of Publishing. He is a mobile gaming and interactive entertainment veteran with more than 15 years of experience.
To-date, more than one billion people around the world have played Zynga's games, including the world's largest social poker game, Zynga Poker; the world's most popular mobile word game, Words With Friends; and the #1 Top Grossing Mobile Racing Game, CSR Racing 2. As Zynga's President of Publishing, Bernard is responsible for overseeing how the company brings these games and services to players through our network, consumer insights, product management, marketing, user acquisition, ad monetization, communications, business development and strategic partnerships.
Prior to joining Zynga, Bernard spent nearly 10 years at Electronic Arts Inc., most recently as the company's Senior Vice President of Mobile Publishing. In that role, he oversaw EA's mobile distribution, strategy, product management, analytics, network engagement, marketing, revenue demand planning, business development, third-party publishing, mergers and acquisitions and Sandbox. During his tenure at EA, Bernard also led EA's games division in Asia and helped bring EA franchises including SimCity, Star Wars, The Sims, The Simpsons, Real Racing and EA SPORTS to billions of players.
Prior to joining EA, Bernard served as Director of Sales and Channel Strategy at The Walt Disney Company, where he led sales and retail for Disney Mobile.
Bernard holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in both Economics and Communications from Boston College.
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Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology admits 21 to master's program
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skolkovo Tech) has accepted 21 outstanding Russian students from 14 different universities into its interdisciplinary master's degree program uniting teaching, research and innovation.
For the next three years, the students, each holding at least a bachelor's degree, will research and collaborate with leading international scholars, focusing their activities around entrepreneurship and technology commercialization.
"The main challenge in building this university is finding the right people," said Skolkovo Tech President Edward Crawley, also the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. "As I look at this first group of self-motivated and passionate students, I feel that Skolkovo Tech is really starting to feel like a university. With the development of our research centers and the continued progress in establishing the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, I know these students will have the opportunities necessary to excel."
Skolkovo Tech strives to develop the world's next generation of brilliant scientists and engineers to serve as role models for future Russian scholars. With the education and experience students gain at Skolkovo Tech, they will contribute to improving the quality of life, health and economic stability of the nation.
The first class underwent a rigorous admissions process, designed to assess their academic abilities, leadership qualities and potential. Students from all over Russia, with academic interests in information technologies and energy science and technology, submitted applications, recommendations and descriptions of their successes in academia and research. From this first pool, 41 finalists were chosen to participate in a selection weekend on May 11-13.
During this second stage, expert advisers, MIT alumni and Skolkovo Tech senior staff evaluated the students through engineering and design exercises, TOEFL exams and individual interviews. Finally, an admissions committee, consisting of Crawley and other Skolkovo Tech senior staff, convened and selected the final group of students.
Skolkovo Tech Director of Students Bram Caplan said, "The students are a fabulous group who exceeded our expectations in their technical knowledge and innovative potential. It is apparent that each student desires to apply the knowledge they would gain at Skolkovo Tech to solve the pressing problems of our day."
The inaugural student class will attend a four-week Innovation Workshop at MIT in August to develop camaraderie within the group and introduce them to selected topics in entrepreneurship and innovation. Afterward, the students will begin their three-year master's program in September, including a year abroad at one of four leading research universities — MIT, Imperial College London, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich or Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — and undergo a pilot program in entrepreneurship and innovation.
All students participating in the program will receive a fellowship that provides funding for the costs of the program.
Describing why she was excited to become a member of Skolkovo Tech's founding class, Anastasia Uryasheva said, "Judging from my experience at Selection Weekend, Skolkovo Tech will be a place where innovation, entrepreneurship, engineering, technology and fun mix into one great thing in the company of hardworking, motivated, and result-driven people."
SkTech/MIT Initiative
Skolkovo Tech
ARCHIVE: "Skolkovo Foundation and MIT to collaborate on developing the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology"
Education, teaching, academics
Skolkovo | {
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Revision taproom opens at Pignic in Reno; Imperial bar sells.
A happy pig, it turns out, is a hoppy pig.
The folks from Pignic Pub & Patio and Revision Brewing Co. of Sparks have opened a Revision taproom on the second floor of Pignic's renovated 1916 Craftsman home at 235 Flint St., just south of downtown Reno.
Ryan Goldhammer and Trevor Leppek own Pignic, a bar and community grill and gathering spot. Revision, a fairly recent arrival to the Northern Nevada brewing scene, won a gold medal for its Revision IPA at the 2018 World Beer Cup.
The Revision taproom is composed of a trio of themed rooms: the Study overlooking the front garden, the Trophy Room (darts and mounted Nevada wildlife) looking onto the grill yard, and the Parisian Powder Room (vintage vanities and boudoir art) with a view across the sun deck.
The taproom offers more than a dozen Revision releases, classic cocktails with a twist from a bar inspired by the Gilded Age, and Revision packaged beer and growlers to go. There also are three televisions for game day.
In other Reno bar news . . .
Two weeks ago, I received an e-mail alert from BizBuySell, an online business marketplace, about an "Iconic Downtown Bar" in Reno that had been listed, a bar that helped establish the city's craft beer and cocktail culture. The listing agent could not reveal the name of the bar or other identifying information.
Hmm. I tossed around a few names with a crafty colleague and eventually settled on Imperial Bar & Lounge, though a few details in the listing didn't seem to match Imperial.
After that, I forgot about the mystery until this morning, when the owners of Imperial announced on social media they'd sold the bar after 12 years on Arlington Avenue.
The BizBuySell listing, it turns out, wasn't for Imperial, according to the agent, but isn't it funny how coincidence works? | {
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Pretty Maids Debut "My Soul To Take" Video
Posted on March 10, 2014 by Skid in Needs Reviewed, Uncategorized // 0 Comments
Pretty Maids have released a video for "My Soul to Take", taken from the upcoming album 'Louder Than Ever', due for release on March 21st in Europe and March 25th in North America through Frontiers Records.
After celebrating their 30th Anniversary as a band and the release of their latest monumental release 'Motherland', the Danish melodic hard rockers are serving the fans with 'Louder Than Ever'. This is not a completely new album but consists of eight re-recorded classic songs from the 1995 to 2006 era plus four brand new songs specially written for this record and a special bonus DVD including archive footage from the '80s, brand new interviews, and plenty of cool material for the fans!
"The reason for doing this project is to give those songs a different spin with the band and producer we have now," explains Pretty Maids singer Ronnie Atkins. It is an in-between album until the band completes the next studio album with new tunes. Pretty Maids will appear in the spring and summer in selected dates in support of the new album's release.
Courtesy of www.sleazeroxx.com | {
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Bad Moms Christmas was on my radar for a while. I knew it starred incredible actresses and after I saw the trailer, I knew I had to see it, if I got the opportunity. I'd failed to see Bad Moms but the trailer for the sequel gave me hope that I could still enjoy Bad Moms Christmas without having seen the first film. That hope was absolutely fulfilled with fun, heart and Christmas cheer.
Bad Moms Christmas, written and directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, returns to the concept of the original film, that of three overworked and stressed out moms dealing with all the burdens of Christmas as well as the arrival of their own mothers, visiting and providing their own expectations to the holiday. Amy Mitchell (Mila Kunis) just wants a relaxing Christmas with her children, Jane (Oona Laurence), Dylan (Emjay Anthony) along with her new boyfriend Jessie (Jay Hernandez) and his daughter Lori (Ariana Greenblatt). Unfortunately, she doesn't get it.
Another thing I noticed is that the storyline is predictable. There is the conflict between the three women along with their confrontation of their mothers. While it works, mostly due to the great lines, fantastic timing and acting on the part of all of the women, there were very few surprises. It played with familiar dynamics which will resonate with a wide audience but isn't groundbreaking. | {
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Further investigation led detectives to believe that Erica left her two children in the care of someone else's 6-year-old girl.
The mother was arrested at an undisclosed Columbus location around 6 p.m. Tuesday on felony warrants charging her with murder and second-degree cruelty to children.
She was booked into Muscogee County Jail but later transferred to the Marion County Jail. | {
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Tryptophan depletion in SSRI-recovered depressed outpatients
M. K. Spillmann, A. J W Van der Does, M. A. Rankin, R. D. Vuolo, Jonathan E. Alpert, A. A. Nierenberg, J. F. Rosenbaum, D. Hayden, D. Schoenfeld, M. Fava
Rationale: Recently, a number of studies have challenged the finding that acute tryptophan depletion (TD) increases depressive symptoms in medicated, formerly depressed patients. The present study examined the effects of acute nutritional TD on remitted depressed patients currently treated with selective serotonin reup-take inhibitors. In an attempt to clarify conflicting earlier findings, the effects of a number of clinical variables on outcome were also investigated. Methods: Ten patients underwent TD in a double-blind, controlled, balanced crossover fashion. The control session followed the procedure of Krahn et al. (1996 Neuropsychopharmacology 15:325-328). Sessions were 5-8 days apart. Results: TD was significantly related to increased scores on clinician-rated depression and anxiety scales, and on self-rated depression, anxiety, and somatic symptoms. The control challenge had no effect, despite the fact that the reductions in plasma tryptophan during the control session were unexpectedly high. Some evidence was found for a threshold in the relationship between reduction of plasma tryptophan and mood response. Conclusions: The mood effect of TD in medicated, formerly depressed patients was confirmed. A threshold may exist for mood effects following TD, implying that recent negative findings may have been caused by insufficient depletion. No other predicting or mediating factors were identified, although the variable "history of response pattern to medication" deserves further study.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s002130000669
Depression Antidepressant
Mood effect
Tryptophan depletion
Spillmann, M. K., Van der Does, A. J. W., Rankin, M. A., Vuolo, R. D., Alpert, J. E., Nierenberg, A. A., ... Fava, M. (2001). Tryptophan depletion in SSRI-recovered depressed outpatients. Psychopharmacology, 155(2), 123-127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002130000669
Tryptophan depletion in SSRI-recovered depressed outpatients. / Spillmann, M. K.; Van der Does, A. J W; Rankin, M. A.; Vuolo, R. D.; Alpert, Jonathan E.; Nierenberg, A. A.; Rosenbaum, J. F.; Hayden, D.; Schoenfeld, D.; Fava, M.
In: Psychopharmacology, Vol. 155, No. 2, 2001, p. 123-127.
Spillmann, MK, Van der Does, AJW, Rankin, MA, Vuolo, RD, Alpert, JE, Nierenberg, AA, Rosenbaum, JF, Hayden, D, Schoenfeld, D & Fava, M 2001, 'Tryptophan depletion in SSRI-recovered depressed outpatients', Psychopharmacology, vol. 155, no. 2, pp. 123-127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002130000669
Spillmann MK, Van der Does AJW, Rankin MA, Vuolo RD, Alpert JE, Nierenberg AA et al. Tryptophan depletion in SSRI-recovered depressed outpatients. Psychopharmacology. 2001;155(2):123-127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002130000669
Spillmann, M. K. ; Van der Does, A. J W ; Rankin, M. A. ; Vuolo, R. D. ; Alpert, Jonathan E. ; Nierenberg, A. A. ; Rosenbaum, J. F. ; Hayden, D. ; Schoenfeld, D. ; Fava, M. / Tryptophan depletion in SSRI-recovered depressed outpatients. In: Psychopharmacology. 2001 ; Vol. 155, No. 2. pp. 123-127.
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Builder to settle with 85 workers in overtime case
By Patrick J. McDonnell
Pablo Nunez, a carpenter by trade, says he is accustomed to working 10-hour shifts, sometimes six days a week, on home-building sites throughout Southern California. But legally mandated overtime pay was almost as unheard of at job sites, he says, as visits from labor inspectors.
"The only person getting overtime might be the brother of the foreman," Nunez said.
The Corona resident is among 85 residential construction workers from California, Nevada and Arizona who will share $242,301 in unpaid wages after settling a federal lawsuit last month against a major home-builder, Boise, Idaho-based Building Materials Holding Corp.
The suit, brought with the help of the Laborers' International Union of North America, alleged that the company and its subsidiaries systematically failed to pay employees for hours worked, did not provide overtime or breaks and kept workers off the clock while they traveled between job sites and waited for materials to arrive.
The company denies the charges but agreed to settle the suit, said William Claster, an Irvine-based attorney for the firm. The company filed for bankruptcy in June.
Claster declined further comment. But industry officials called wage theft an aberration.
"It is essential that builders and subcontractors take care of their employees and follow employment and labor laws," said Julie Senter, a spokeswoman for the Building Industry Assn. of Southern California. "And we're confident the vast majority of the industry does just that."
But advocates say the case illustrates how wage fraud is pervasive in the home-building industry, which relies heavily on immigrant labor, often hired through subcontractors.
What is unusual in this case, they say, is that the workers found a legal recourse.
Most victimized laborers don't have the know-how to file suits, experts say.
A recent academic study surveyed more than 4,000 low-wage workers in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and found that employees in home construction and other industries are routinely victims of wage theft.
In one finding, the study, by scholars from UCLA, the City University of New York and other institutions, noted that 76% of eligible workers surveyed were not paid the overtime mandated in federal law.
Government enforcement of wage guidelines has been ineffective, the study found.
The number of federal inspectors enforcing minimum wage and overtime laws declined by almost one-third between 1980 and 2007, researchers noted, while the nation's labor force grew by more than half.
Wage theft was the norm in the home-construction industry even during the housing boom years, according to labor activists.
But the practice worsened as home sales ebbed, critics say.
As the bottom fell out of the market, many workers endured slashed hours and pay cuts as a prelude to unemployment.
"It wasn't just the homeowners affected by all this, it was also these workers who were building the homes and creating wealth for others," said David Zacarias, organizing director for the Laborers' International Union of North America.
The union, which is attempting to organize the largely non-union home-construction industry, says it has half a million members.
Jose Ivan Carpio, who is among the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said he worked for three years for a Building Materials Holding Corp. subsidiary building condominiums in Orange County, earning as much as $14 an hour.
Like others, he said he never received overtime, though he regularly put in 10 or more hours a day, often working Saturdays.
As the industry slumped, Carpio said, his pay was slashed to $10 an hour and his hours dropped.
He was recently laid off, he said, and is now working irregularly, living on savings and unable to send money back to his wife and two children in Mexico.
"We helped this company make a lot of money," said Carpio, 29, "but we saw very little of it."
Nunez, 38, said he has worked for decades in the housing industry, earning as much as $16 an hour as a skilled carpenter.
He was able to buy a home and achieve a middle-class standard of living. But he lost his job as the industry crashed, he said, forcing him to sell his house and move with his family into an apartment shared with friends.
"When times are good, the companies are pressuring you to work more and more hours," Nunez said. "But they never want to pay you what your work is truly worth."
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Patrick J. McDonnell
Patrick J. McDonnell is the Los Angeles Times Mexico City bureau chief and previously headed LAT bureaus in Beirut, Buenos Aires and Baghdad. A native of the Bronx, McDonnell is a graduate of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and was a Nieman fellow at Harvard. | {
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by patlabelle45 January 30, 20177:22 pm
You Win Some and You Lose Some; Bulldogs split games at the Dunk
In the first of the two games the Girl's Basketball team controlled the play of the game for almost the entire game. Jr. Hannah Jerrier led the team with commanding post play dropping a double-double on the Sharon Eagles finishing with an astounding 26 points and 11 rebounds. Sr. Emma Murphy was also influential in the win tacking on another 13 points.
Despite a late Eagles surge the team held on for a strong 58-49 win; the team's second in a row in what is showing up to be a late season charge for the Lady Bulldogs.
The Dogs' will look to keep their winning ways going Tuesday February 3rd 6:30pm at Oliver Ames.
As for the boys game, it was not the typical style of basketball fans were used to seeing.
Uncharacteristic turnovers for key players, an inability to contest the three-ball or protect the paint plagued the Dogs' throughout.
In typical Bulldog fashion it was a low scoring first half and despite all the mistakes a 23-18 lead for Sharon did not seem insurmountable.
With that being said for nearly the entire game it felt as if Canton was on the brink of a comeback and to give credit where it is due the Eagles continued to respond with timely threes.
After halftime Sharon never gave way to the lead and with some garbage time free throws ultimately won the game by a score of 62-53.
(Jr.) Tony Harris led the Dogs' with 21 points while (Soph.) Devin Foster chipped in 8 of his own.
The Dogs' will look to bounce back Tuesday February 3rd home at 6:30pm against Oliver Ames with playoffs on the line.
As for the student section it's fair to say it was a great experience for those who attended. The court-side seats were something that even at at the high school level were awesome to watch from and the proximity to the court did not stop the cheers.
Line of the Game: "I love Vin Diesel but that was a Fast Five!"
In response to a five second call against the Bulldogs. Also second time a Fast and Furious movie has been mentioned in this blog..that series never dies.
Hand up, not the best day for the Stoody but a frustrating game may have got to us a little bit #WeAreOntoOA
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nChain's Road to Genesis and unlimited BSV scaling at CoinGeek Seoul
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The first day of CoinGeek Seoul was dedicated to Bitcoin's technical power, and there was a lot of talk about how Bitcoin is coming more powerful on its road to Genesis. Several developers from nChain, led by Technical Director Steve Shadders, took the stage to explain exactly what they're doing to bring Bitcoin SV (BSV) back into alignment with Satoshi's original vision, and allow it to scale the blockchain to an unlimited degree.
Shadders began the discussion by giving a bit of a history on Bitcoin, describing how it was held back needlessly by Bitcoin Core developers. But now that it's following its original vision once again as BSV and being allowed to scale, it's showing very healthy growth, with constantly increasing transaction counts, block sizes, and usage, all positive indicators that its going in the right direction.
He then teased a few big changes coming when BSV returns to its genesis. OP_RETURN, which was limited for so long, will soon have the ability to have multiple OP_RETURNs in the same transaction. Big numbers is coming to BSV, allowing it to have cryptography in script for the first time. It will also expand beyond the current three scripting options to have many more.
One point he explained at length was the deprecation of Pay-to-script-hash (P2SH), which is being done for both technical and philosophical reasons. It's being made up for by the introducing of accumulator multisig, and dove deep into the code of how that will work.
The goal of all this is to increase the security of zero confirmation transactions, or zero conf. Building confidence in zero conf is important to scaling, Shadders explained, because it builds confidence that bigger things can be done without a potential lack of security or funds.
Shadders then introduced Daniel Connolly, Lead Developer of the Bitcoin SV node project, to explain to the crowd what Terranode is. "Terranode is bitcoin server software that has been rebuilt from the ground up for enterprise and scale," he explained simply.
What it hopes to accomplish is 50,000 transactions per second, with big blocks and big transactions. It will do this with better messaging, allowing for large data and streaming data support. It will also have more efficient data stores, keeping only what's necessary to keep the blockchain going.
Terranode already exists in an experimental stage, working on both the Mainnet and Scaling Test Network (STN). He also noted that a P2P system is currently in development.
Next, John Murphy was welcomed to the stage. He is the Lead Developer of the Nakasendo SDK team.
What is Nakasendo? If you've been following Dr. Craig Wright's writings, you'll already be familiar with the concept. It allows for public shared secrets or functions, without individual members giving up any privacy involuntarily. "You don't have a single private key, the private key has been split into multiple shares and these can be distributed across multiple parties or players," he said.
Murphy conducted a live demonstration of working Nakasendo code for the audience, demonstrating that the tools to allow board members to make decisions for their enterprises on the blockchain is already within reach.
Finally, Dr. Alex Mackay, a researcher at nChain, took the stage in the afternoon to talk about how simplified payment verification (SPV) can be introduced in a low bandwidth process to increase merchant adoption.
To spread crypto adoption, Mackay noted, crypto payments have to get closer to how fiat payments work, and specifically, how we traditionally pay for items at a check-out counter. The customer needs to be able to spend BSV without being online, putting the burden on the merchant to broadcast the transaction.
To do this, a low bandwidth SPV system is the solution. Customers will have wallets which can be offline the majority of the time, with only the ability to pay for transactions with contained block headers UTXOs, Input Txs and Merkle paths. Merchants, on the other hand, will have systems which can be branched throughout a location with a central hub, receiving those payments and broadcasting them to the blockchain.
It's a system that may not be too far away from reality, as it's been built to work with BIP270.
The folks at nChain hope that these new pieces of infrastructure will help BSV towards its goal of scaling, and every single element discussed by the team at CoinGeek Seoul does that in one way or another. Faster transactions, bigger blocks, and more possibilities are being promised to the users and enterprises who chose BSV.
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Energy is the spirit of CoinGeek Seoul
CoinGeek's conference in Seoul has barely started, but its theme is already clear. And you don't need to understand computer code to get it. Just walk the halls in Le Meridien hotel and you can feel it.
It's all about energy. The energy in the Bitcoin SV ecosystem. The energy of entrepreneurship in China and the Far East. And the energy in prospect as Bitcoin SV continues to evolve as a technology, with its important Genesis upgrade just a few months ahead.
The energy was palpable in the line of people waiting to get into the sold-out Bitcoin Association meetup at the top of the hotel opposite the conference venue last night. And it's obvious when you look at the crowded schedule of speakers at the two days of the conference, many of them making their first appearance on the platform that CoinGeek is offering them.
They're not all new to the game. Some, like Stephan Nilsson, the founder of UNISOT, have spoken before. But 'regulars' such as Stephan have come to Seoul with even more confidence than they had at the CoinGeek Toronto conference back in May.
Since then, Stephan has acquired investors, staff and – most important – potential customers who are knocking on his door, he says. His ambition, to provide supply chain tracking using the BSV blockchain, carries conviction because of his previous experience in the industry. Last year he was working out how the salmon industry in his native Norway could benefit from the security and detail that blockchain technology offers. Now he's working to produce an 'off the shelf' supply chain solution that could be used in any industry.
Newcomers were actively encouraged to take part in the Seoul conference by a new feature, Pitch Day, where 14 BSV-based startups were invited to present in front of a panel of investors. One of them, a Chinese startup, CityonChain, was another example of the energy with which the opportunities created by BSV are being taken up in China in particular.
CityonChain invites users to 'buy' a city with BSV payments. It offered an empty map of the world and waited for people to start bidding for cities. They did. Many cities were snapped up for one US dollar each – the starting price which CityonChain had set. But it's what happened next that was interesting. Owners were free to resell their cities and it soon became clear that there were buyers out there. The city of Seoul, for instance (below), was resold after a couple of weeks for $2999 – with CityonChain taking a cut of the transaction. The person who bought Seoul is now asking a $2 million. That's real optimism! The idea is for city owners to make money by taking advertising and providing other services – such as placing the CoinGeek Conference logo on the map.
The point, in a wider context, is that people are coming up with business ideas, making money from day one, and expanding the BSV ecosystem. At the same time, they're generating transactions on the BSV blockchain that will ensure the profitability, and therefore future security, of the network.
Nobody would deny there's a degree of tribalism in the crypto world. But what feels healthy about the BSV tribe in Seoul is that there's an outward-looking focus on developing technology and creating new products and services. It's the users and customers that this conference is interested in, not crypto rivals, or even, how we got here. The energy is directed to building the future. And it's in the nature of building on BSV, that success for one promotes success for all.
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The Bitcoin Vision: Episode 23
Founding President of the Bitcoin Association Jimmy Nguyen brings us this week's episode of the Bitcoin Vision from Siberia, Russia. Nguyen had the privilege of being one of the guest speakers at the recent Baikal Blockchain and Crypto Summit, where he educated the delegates about Bitcoin SV (BSV) and why it's the only blockchain project that's able to scale to meet enterprise needs.
The BSV community continues to prepare for the eagerly anticipated Genesis protocol upgrade set to take place in February 2020. Everyone in the BSV ecosystem will have a role to play in the upgrade — from miners, to developers, to wallets and exchanges. And to make it easier and more convenient to keep up with all the developments leading up to the upgrade, you can enable notifications directly to your email via a new feature on the Bitcoin SV website.
Nguyen also highlighted the recent developments by BSV/DEVS directory, the one-stop shop for all Bitcoin SV-related developer resources. It announced recently on Twitter that it is now supporting user accounts. Users can now claim any listing as theirs and also make any edits or updates as they deem fit. The directory also added support for file uploads, giving the users the ability to attach manuals, specifications and other related materials to their applications.
For the non-developers, there's something for you as well. The OnChain BSV/MAPS feature is constantly being updated with new locations where BSV is accepted by merchants near you.
BSV Galaxy is a Bitcoin SV artists collective allowing members to find and collaborate with other members, as well as business development of artists projects. As the founders noted on the website, the platform seeks to "help you to use the Bitcoin SV Blockchain to create new tools, applications, and ultimately change the world into a better place using Proof of Work."
For the week's Satoshi shoutout, Nguyen applauded the Bitcoin SV Node Team. Lead developer Daniel Connolly recently wrote a blog post about how the BSV blockchain has proven itself as a reliable method of processing enormous numbers of transactions. The post was written to correct a false narrative that had been advanced by some crypto media sites that the Bitcoin SV blockchain had undergone a three-way fork after the Quasar protocol upgrade. The post puts to bed these allegations and clarifies that the BSV network is performing reliably and is still proving itself to be the superior blockchain project.
While you're at it, also check out the previous episodes of The Bitcoin Vision here.
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Steve Shadders: Bitcoin SV proving it can scale for businesses now
Bitcoin SV's (BSV) recent Quasar upgrade is cause for much celebration, as it not only helped return Bitcoin one step closer to its original protocol, but also introduced a whole new level of blockchain scaling to BSV. CoinGeek's Sarah Parsons caught up with nChain Technical Director Steve Shadders at a recent London BSV meetup, where they talked about the upgrade and its importance.
The London BSV gathering was a merry one, as the Quasar upgrade went as well as you could hope for. "We're kind of giving a bit of a post-mortem of the Quasar upgrade, I think I can safely say that it was a very boring event, which is fantastic because with enterprise software changes, that's kind of exactly what you want," Shadders said. "I mean, we had an operations stream set up and we had contact with all of the kind of key players in the Bitcoin SV ecosystem. But we pretty much sat there and watched the upgrade activate. We fired Satoshi Shotgun and mined a block bigger than 128MB, which was necessary to lock the upgrade in. And it all went pretty smoothly, nothing unexpected. So yeah, job done."
Parsons asked Shadders what businesses should take away from the Quasar upgrade. "I think it's really quite critical for businesses that are looking to invest time and money in building a service on top of Bitcoin SV, Shadders replied. "Because most services, I mean, if you're building a business, the aim is to scale. You want your business to start at whatever size it does, and it gets bigger and bigger, and bigger, and bigger. And of course, if your business is related to Bitcoin that means it's got to be able to scale on top of Bitcoin."
While other crypto hobby projects have promised that their blockchains will be ready at some point in the future, Shadders explained that such a thought process just won't cut it for the real Bitcoin. "Now, I think, our philosophy at the Bitcoin SV Node team is that it's not good enough for us to say to people, 'Oh, by the time your business has scaled, we'll be ready. Trust us,'" he said. "What we're actually doing with the Quasar upgrade is demonstrating right now, that we can handle the future scale of whatever your business is. So you've got the confidence, not hoping that we'll be able to pull it off some time in the future, we're showing that it can be done right now."
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Crypto media creates fake news after Quasar upgrade
Bitcoin SV (BSV) recently underwent the Quasar protocol upgrade, lifting the block size hard cap from 128 MB to 2 GB. The upgrade enables BSV to increase the number of transactions processed per second from the current 300+ to 1,000+, making it the only Bitcoin project that unlocks the true power of Bitcoin's original design, proving that it's not a hobbyist project.
And as would be expected of any protocol upgrade in the Bitcoin ecosystem, there were a few minor set-backs and opportunities to improve; however, a few media outlets and research firms blew this out of proportion, reporting that there was a temporary fork of the blockchain into three chains.
According to one media outlet, over 35% of nodes failed to follow the update and this was portrayed as a monstrosity. It further claimed that this was the result of miner centralization in the BSV ecosystem, with small miners were just acting as pawns, standing no chance of making a profit.
One of the most misquoted and misunderstood events was with Money Button. The wallet went down for a few hours after its BSV node ran out of memory and crashed during a stress test. The Money Button team quickly upgraded their underpowered node to be sufficient for the largest block sizes that are currently possible.
Some media outlets quoted Money Button's blog post in which it stated, "Since we do not earn money from transaction fees like miners, it will be too expensive for us to run a node."
While this is true, the Money Button team went ahead to explain that wallets don't need to run a node. Instead of entering an arms race in upgrading infrastructure, the wallets are best served by moving towards the Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) as Dr. Craig Wright envisioned when he launched Bitcoin a decade ago. This was conveniently omitted from these reports.
BSV has also been criticized for being ambitious and futuristic enough to increase the block size hard cap. According to some, these "unrealistic" block sizes will prove to be an attack vector, effectively making BSV less secure. What's more, there have been claims that current hardware is unable to handle such volumes.
These claims have been proven false. As is publicly available on the BSV website, the recommended system requirements for BSV miners prove that mid-range hardware can sufficiently participate in BSV mining.
On July 24 when the Quasar protocol upgrade occurred, BSV functioned exactly as Satoshi Nakamoto envisioned. A majority of the miners were running one of the Quasar update compatible versions. For the miners, the upgrade was a godsend since it gave them more responsibility over Bitcoin and enabled them to earn more from transaction fees than they have previously. After the upgrade, the non-consensus chain was mined for a short time until the miners on that chain were economically incentivized to join the consensus chain. After all, this is how Satoshi intended for Bitcoin to function.
There have been calls for Bitcoin to scale for years now. Ironically, when BSV found the solution through the Quasar protocol upgrade, some media outlets were quick to criticize. The little mishaps as happened with Money Button aren't something to criticize but rather to learn from. In any case, in the past, we've seen plenty of global businesses experience hitches in scaling. Amazon is the best example, with the global e-commerce giant being known to experience technical difficulties on days such as Black Friday. However, no one ever calls Amazon out and asks them to stop selling so much. Similarly, BSV will continue to scale and fulfill Satoshi's vision of a global secure and scalable peer-to-peer payments system.
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Bitcoin SV handles 2 million transactions in massive stress test
With the recent historic Quasar protocol upgrade, which saw Bitcoin SV's (BSV) maximum block size increased to 2GB, Operation Data Blast immediately proved that the upgrade was successful, creating world record block sizes from transactions full of content data. Just recently, Chinese BSV supporter Aaron Zhou wanted to test the blockchain's ability to handle as many transactions as possible.
As he reveals in his blog post, "Bitcoin SV main network stress test report @ 2019-08-03," Zhou felt a stress test for a massive amount of transactions was necessary. During the test, which lasted for more than two hours, he broadcast more than 2 million transactions, creating a blocks of 808,000 transactions with a size of 210MB and another of 702,000 transactions, with size 183MB. All told, this resulted in transaction fees of over 2 BSV for each of the mentioned block.
The BSV blockchain performed admirably, with no blocks orphaned, and no block reorganizations being needed. However, it did show that the stress of that many transactions could cause temporary outages with some blockchain and wallet services.
For example, Zhou noted that Blockchair, Money Button, WhatsOnChain, BitcoinBlocks.live and Bchsvexplorer all had temporary setbacks during the stress test. While this could be due to the same node memory issues that service providers have has experienced in the past, it's also possible that their website and database services, totally unrelated to the blockchain or their nodes, couldn't keep up with the speed and load of updates created by the blockchain.
Zhou made sure to commend BSV.BTC.com, Bitfire.io, Mempool, and Unwriter's applications, which all worked perfectly during the stress test
Zhou's conclusions were such:
Quasar is an important network upgrade, and BSV is on the road to dealing with massive transactions and continued expansion.
1. Large block propagation and verification, normal
2. Massive transaction dissemination and verification, normal
But you can do better. It is noted that the two chunks are very long-out, because it is a very time-consuming operation to verify massive transactions, which is where future improvements can be made.
The lesson to take away from this stress test is that the blockchain is ready to handle the load, but the businesses who contribute to its infrastructure will need to keep pace.
The BSV Node team has informed CoinGeek that it was able to handle the load of the stress test with only 8GB of memory in its node, but recommends having 16-32GB of RAM to be safe. At the same time, make sure the rest of your infrastructure, like web services and connecting databases, can keep up with the impressive load of transactions coming across the blockchain.
Now that Bitcoin is professionalizing, it's important that everyone involved professionalize as well. BSV is not a hobby project; it's the future data ledger and digital currency of the world, and it requires the infrastructure to support it for those ambitions. As great as this test could have gone, the real transactions will be coming soon, and all partners involved will need to be ready for it to prove that BSV is the blockchain for enterprise usage.
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Operation Data Blast shows Bitcoin SV's power
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On Sunday, thanks to the recent Quasar upgrade on Bitcoin SV (BSV) that raised the block cap to 2 gigabytes (GB), BSV enthusiasts conducted a large initiative to upload data to the blockchain. Not only was it successful, but it reiterated the fact that on-chain scaling of an order of magnitude larger than anyone thought possible on a blockchain is possible and sustainable.
Operation Data Blast, as the event was called, brought "hundreds of Bitcoin Society members" together to "upload meaningful media onto Bitcoin's public blockchain." The activity is still underway, as of this writing, and is expected to last through "Monday lunchtime in Asia Pacific." By providing a large window, BSV and crypto enthusiasts from around the world have an opportunity to participate.
According to Dr. Roy Murphy, who helped organize the event, "Bitcoin isn't where it should be after a decade. Being usurped by various entities with nefarious intent has created forks of the original protocol and the carefully orchestrated manipulation by these bad actors have destroyed many of the key tenets of Bitcoin, whilst coercing bucket-shop crypto exchanges to capture the trading Tickers of Bitcoin (XBT and BTC) by centrally governed entities whose objective is to command and hobble the Bitcoin protocol via the hostile takeover of protocol development."
He adds, "With this in mind, 'Operation Data Blast' is the swan song, a last hurrah to those who spent so much time and effort into diminishing the integrity and genius of Satoshi Nakamoto's creation. It's giving 'the bird' to those who restricted Bitcoin to 1MB [megabyte] blocks, servicing a paltry 7 transactions per second to line the pockets of those interests whose only wish was corruption, anonymity, control, destruction and power."
If anyone expected the large data upload to be a burden for the BSV blockchain (and there were definitely some BTC shills counting on it), they were greatly disappointed it. On the evening of July 28, as pointed out by Derek Moore on Twitter, "Bitcoin SV produced 4 ~250 MB blocks and a plethora of big blocks today during a User-Activated Stress Test (UAST) during which valuable data was archived on-chain, totaling about 2.5 GB of multimedia & hypermedia content."
The Quasar upgrade on BSV was nothing short of a huge success. When the Large Hadron Collider was preparing to slam two particles together in September 2008, many people thought the world was going to come to an end. When BSV announced it would be raising the block cap to 2GB, many people that the crypto world was going to come to an end. Just like CERN proved them wrong in 2008, BSV has proved everyone wrong in 2019.
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2GB blocks achieved: BSV Quasar upgrade proves to be more than successful
Bitcoin SV (BSV) successfully rolled out the Quasar update on July 24 in an effort to push the block size cap up to 2 gigabytes (GB). Despite assertions by anti-BSV shills that the sky would come crashing down after the upgrade was complete, just the opposite has happened. Not only was the update successful, but several 2GB blocks have already been seen — six in a row, as a matter of fact.
The blockchain hasn't crashed, the Bitcoin ecosystem hasn't come to a grinding halt, and it hasn't started raining fishes. What has happened, though, is that WhatsOnChain shows consecutive 2GB blocks being mined on the BSV Scaling Test Network (STN). The STN is a live network that is available for businesses to use to test limits for their applications before launching them on the mainnet.
2GB blocks on STN!! pic.twitter.com/6y2pbCb3qG
— WhatsOnChain (@WhatsOnChain) July 24, 2019
Shortly after the Quasar update was live, the first 148MB block was seen. This effectively cemented Quasar as the new software for the BSV blockchain. Knowing that 2GB blocks are easily achieved, there is a considerable more amount of development that can take place on the BSV network.
The 147mb block is now buried under 6 additional blocks. I think we can call it now.
Quasar upgrade is locked in. https://t.co/HU8dqzEIEo
— Shadders (@shadders333) July 24, 2019
According to the Bitcoin Association, "The Quasar upgrade represents a key step in BSV's journey to unlock the massive on-chain scaling power that was always possible with Bitcoin, and enable BSV to become the global enterprise blockchain. BSV can already handle 300+ transactions per second comfortably; this capacity is continually being expanded and is expected to cross 1000+ transactions per second in the coming months after the Quasar network upgrade. This level of capacity can compete with VISA payment network capacity and also supports enterprise applications."
BSV has now become the first — and only — blockchain to process 2GB blocks on-chain. While virtually everyone else said it couldn't be done, BSV has proven that Satoshi was correct when he asserted in his early writing that large block sizes were not only possible, but were expected on Bitcoin's blockchain. Bitcoin Core (BTC) pundits have asserted since the beginning of time that anything larger than 128 megabytes (MB) would cause the blockchain to implode.
With Quasar in place, the next step is the Genesis upgrade. This is planned for next February and is designed to completely remove all block-size caps. If building business solutions on the blockchain is feasible with a 2GB limit, imagine the possibilities with no limit.
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Bitcoin SV increases default block size hard cap to 2GB with Quasar upgrade
Bitcoin has taken another big step in returning to its original protocol and pursuing its path of massive scaling. The Bitcoin SV Node team are planning a July 24 upgrade of the Bitcoin SV (BSV) network, nicknamed the "Quasar" protocol upgrade. With the upgrade, the BSV network will have a significantly higher default block size "hard cap" of 2GB.
Previously outlined by the Bitcoin SV Node team's July 13 blog post, "Quasar upgrade 24th July recommendations – roadmap to Genesis part 2," the only change of the update is to increase the hard cap on block sizes; however that is a significant change indeed. The previous hard cap of 128MB has already been hit by the BSV community, with real world usage reaching that limit several times in the past four months.
In testing on the BSV Scaling Test Network, BSV has already proven to be capable of mining much larger blocks, with 1.4GB blocks mined in testing. Now that larger limits are rolling out to the mainnet, the whole world can experience the benefits of massive blockchain scaling made possible on BSV. The greater block capacity will enable 1,000+ transactions per second on the BSV network, and even higher with more technical improvements.
As the BSV Node team has noted, the 2GB block size limit is a default "hard cap." Miners are free to set their hard cap to a lower level. In fact, miners representing a significant portion of the BSV network mining hash have signaled that they will set their hard cap to 512MB, which would form a different form of hard cap—the "consensus" hard cap. For the BSV Node team's recommendations and instructions for mining nodes and anyone else who runs an instance of Bitcoin SV software ("blockchain listeners" who do not write to the blockchain, such as exchanges and wallet operators), refer to their blog post here.
The Quasar upgrade is a key step toward the ultimate goal. When the Genesis protocol upgrade comes on February 4, 2020, Bitcoin will be returned to its original protocol as closely as possible while removing entirely the default hard cap. Going forward, protocol developers will not determine a default hard cap setting. Instead, scaling will be truly unlimited, and miners will have the freedom to set block size limits to numbers they are comfortable with, and market forces will determine how much Bitcoin can and will scale, as Satoshi Nakamoto originally intended.
Only with the scaling on the BSV blockchain—through the Quasar upgrade and then what Genesis will unleash in 2020—can the world's enterprises build to the level they require. As limits are removed from the Bitcoin blockchain, more transactions can be handled per block and transaction fees will remain very low; thus big businesses can begin transferring their business models to a blockchain that can handle the countless of payments and data transactions—including at a micro-level—they require in a new digital economy powered by Bitcoin.
And unlike other attempted blockchain platforms, which either can't or are unwilling to scale massively, BSV is proving that by scaling block sizes massively, transaction fees are kept low enough to enable new business uses, while greater volumes of transaction fees possible with bigger blocks create an incentive for miners to keep the blockchain secure.
The Quasar update is already an important leap forward in Bitcoin's history, allowing it to handle significantly more volume than any other public blockchain. It is just a step along the road to Genesis though, when Bitcoin will return to its original protocol and Satoshi Vision of unlimited scaling.
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Bitcoin SV and the roadmap to Genesis
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The Bitcoin SV (BSV) project continues to do what no other blockchain thought possible—scale on chain in a massive way that puts it in line with what is seen by the world's major credit card companies. The project has been steadily working on different aspects of the "Roadmap to Genesis" and Steve Shadders has issued an update on the progress. To say that BSV is capable of doing what no other blockchain can do would be an understatement of epic proportion.
According to the latest information, the roadmap from last August until the second quarter of this year has seen all of the items fulfilled, or close to being completed, except for one, parallel block validation. This was put on the back burner in favor of other network improvements that were expected to provide a greater return on investment.
Coming soon will be a network upgrade called Quasar. It is currently scheduled for July 24 and centers on increased scaling capabilities. According to Shadders, "We have previously signalled an intent to raise the cap to 512MB however after consultation with the Bitcoin Association (the owner of the Bitcoin SV project) and miners representing a significant majority of hash rate it has been decided that the Bitcoin SV software will implement a default of 2GB in July."
The logic behind the increased default is simple. By raising the cap, and allowing miners to set a limit of 512MB, the network will be able to see more scaling as it becomes necessary without having to introduce additional upgrades or forks.
The next big upgrade following Quasar is scheduled for February 4, 2020. It will provide a number of protocol restoration changes designed to return the network to the original Bitcoin protocol. It is aptly called Genesis and is scheduled for "11 years, 1 month and 1 day after the original Genesis block."
The announcement continues, "The Genesis upgrade will also address scaling. We believe that by late in 2019 the Bitcoin SV node software will have implemented all of the safety mechanisms required to allow us to eliminate the block size cap altogether and let miners manage it without intervention from developers. So long as those changes are completed we intend to bring the planned date for allowing unlimited block size forward by almost a year and lift the cap completely in the Genesis upgrade."
Unlike blockchains such as Bitcoin Cash that allowed developers to make all the decisions, BSV is publishing data in order to receive community feedback before moving forward. This creates a completely transparent network that is truly decentralized and built by the community, not by a few individuals who want to control the entire ecosystem.
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On the heels of his Genesis node, Unwriter introduces Babel
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Bitcoin developer Unwriter has quickly become one of the most proficient coders for the Bitcoin SV (BSV) blockchain. Just after announcing his new Genesis BitDB node project, he's at it again, this time introducing another BitDB node. The latest endeavor is called Babel.
In a new Medium post by the developer, Unwriter reveals the new BitDB node, explaining that it is designed for data-only Bitcoin applications. Instead of being used for money transfers, the platform is able to query those apps that use the OP_RETURN code to store data.
As Unwriter states in the post, "Most Bitcoin applications that use the blockchain as a database DO NOT need all the transaction details, because they only need to query OP_RETURN outputs and a couple of other attributes." He adds that many of the features offered in a full node query, such as script database or graph database, are useful for many Bitcoin apps, but not all of them need to be able to access all of the data at the same time.
Babel was designed to provide a streamlined mechanism that will query OP_RETURN outputs, as well as only a few other useful attributes. It is "a subset of the Genesis.Bitdb designed specifically for data intensive Bitcoin applications."
As with Genesis, Babel relies on the original address format of Bitcoin. Because it is streamlined, it is faster and more efficient than a full BitDB node and doesn't use as much memory. Since it is a subtree of a full node, it incorporates the same Bitquery format as do the other nodes.
Babel only stores OP_RETURN output – the rest is stored as "null;" any transactions that don't include an OP_RETURN output are ignored. Inputs are reduced to only store the input addresses, not the hash and index of previous transaction. In addition, the output produced by queries on Babel only contain push data – b0, h0, s0, b1, h1, s1, b2, h2, s2, etc.
According to Unwriter's post, "Because the transactions are stored in BitDB according to the same schema as the full node, you can easily switch between a Genesis node and a Babel node.
"Because it stores much less than a full node, the Babel node can stay lean, which means more people will be able to afford to run the node in the future, not to mention higher performance that comes from specialization."
Babel, like Genesis, is currently in beta. Once it is tweaked, Unwriter will make it open sourced and he welcomes all data builders to begin using it as it transforms.
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Iron Maiden - Estadio Chile, Santiago, Chile, Ian. 15, 2001, during the '' Brave New World Tour '' 2000-2002.
The Clansman (Harris)
Bruce Dickinson:Vocals
Steve Harris:Bass
Janick Gers:Guitar
Dave Murray:Guitar
Adrian Smith:Guitar
Nicko McBrain:Drums
[Lyrics]
Wake alone in the hills with the wind in your face
It feels good to be proud and be free and a race
That is part of a clan and to live on highlands
And the air that you breathe, so pure and so clean
When alone on the hills with the wind in your hair
With a longing to feel just to be free
It is the right to believe in the need to be free
It's a time when you die and without asking why
Can't you see what they do, they are grinding us down
They are taking our land that belongs to the clans
Not alone with a dream, just a want to be free
With a need to belong, I am a clansman
Freedom! Freedom!
It's a time wrought with fear, it's a land wrought with change
If ancestors could hear what is happening now
They would turn in their graves, they would all be ashamed
That the land of the free has been written in chains
And I know what I want when the timing is right
And I'll take what is mine, I am the clansman
And I swear to defend and we'll fight to the end
And I swear that I'll never be taken alive
And I know that we'll stand and we'll fight for our land
And I swear that my bairns will be born free
And I'll take what I want, I am the clansman
No, no we can't let them take anymore
No we can't let them take anymore, we're the land of the free(x4)
With a need to belong, I am the clansman
'The Clansman' is a song from Iron Maiden's album ''Virtual XI '',released in 1998.
''Started as two separate ideas, then put them together and it worked! It's got a Celtic flavour to the music which is why I wrote the lyrics about the Scottish clans. They were inspired also by the Braveheart and Rob Roy films. '' (Steve Harris)
'The Clansman' is clearly inspired by the 1995 movie Braveheart starring and directed by Mel Gibson. Another film about the History of Scotland was also released the same year, namely Rob Roy, and Steve said it was an inspiration for the song as well. But, whereas William Wallace was a true hero of Scotland and contributed massively in the struggle against the English, Rob Roy -- although considered a hero too by many -- was nothing more than a crook, a thief and a double-agent, who never really did anything in the fight for the freedom of his country.
The song describes the struggle of the Scottish clans to free themselves of English oppression, and the ill-intentioned people who tried to see some analogies with the Ku-Klux-Klan in the lyrics are sorely mistaken. This is a song about freedom and resistance against an oppressor, and there is no hint of racism in it whatsoever -- and those who think there is are urged to re-read the lyrics! The chorus itself is especially reminiscent of William Wallace's final dying cry "Freedom!" in the movie (in reality, considering that the poor man had just had his bowels removed, it would have been nothing more than a whisper, if anything). This is an epic Harris song, equal to any of his past epics including 'Rime Of The Ancient Mariner' or 'To Tame A Land'. In fact, this song would be perfectly at home on any of the Maiden albums from the Golden Age.
'Virtual XI' (pronounced: Virtual Eleven) is the 11th studio album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. The album was released on March 23, 1998. It was the second and final Iron Maiden album recorded with vocalist Blaze Bayley. The album is slightly unusual in the Iron Maiden catalogue for its extensive keyboard use. For this album all the keyboard parts were performed by bandfounder / bassist Steve Harris whereas on previous albums the keyboard parts were handled by session musician Michael Kenney. The album also had a reduced songwriting input from Janick Gers compared to the previous Iron Maiden albums since he joined the band in 1990.
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Karoro is a suburb to the south-west of Greymouth on the West Coast of New Zealand.
Demographics
Karoro had a population of 1,017 at the 2018 New Zealand census, a decrease of 36 people (-3.4%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 9 people (0.9%) since the 2006 census. There were 408 households. There were 510 males and 507 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.01 males per female. The median age was 47.1 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 177 people (17.4%) aged under 15 years, 138 (13.6%) aged 15 to 29, 480 (47.2%) aged 30 to 64, and 225 (22.1%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 92.6% European/Pākehā, 6.8% Māori, 0.6% Pacific peoples, 2.7% Asian, and 2.4% other ethnicities (totals add to more than 100% since people could identify with multiple ethnicities).
The proportion of people born overseas was 11.8%, compared with 27.1% nationally.
Although some people objected to giving their religion, 46.6% had no religion, 43.7% were Christian, 0.9% were Hindu, 0.3% were Buddhist and 1.2% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 123 (14.6%) people had a bachelor or higher degree, and 186 (22.1%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $37,000, compared with $31,800 nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 468 (55.7%) people were employed full-time, 120 (14.3%) were part-time, and 15 (1.8%) were unemployed.
Education
Karoro School is a coeducational full primary (years 1–8) school with a roll of students as of The school celebrated its 50th jubilee in 2008.
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The executive protection industry lives in a glass house. Let's improve standardization instead of throwing stones.
November 7, 2018 - By Christian West & Jared Van Driessche
Tags: Executive protection, Standardization
One of the frustrating things about the executive protection industry is how EP practitioners tear each other down instead of building each other up. As soon as something negative about an EP practitioner makes the news, we're quick to point fingers and play Monday morning quarterback even though we don't know all the facts.
This tendency has been eminently clear in the case of Pascal Duvier, the executive protection professional who was working with Kim Kardashian when she was robbed at gunpoint for millions worth of jewelry in Paris in 2016. We've had dozens of conversations with colleagues in the industry about the event, and Pascal got torn to shreds by practically everyone – even though none of them were there, have all the details, or have any clue about the context in which the robbery took place or the scope of work agreement between the protector and the protectees.
Once the information about the robbery went public, the Monday morning quarterbacks crawled out of their La-Z-Boys to crow about how Pascal was an ill-prepared amateur and a disgrace to our profession. Social media groups (with more members than there are active agents in the industry) lit up with how things would have been different if they had been the ones covering Kim and her family. They would have armed guards on the street. They would have halls and walls folks outside Kim's door. They would have separate teams for Kim's sister. They would have taught the concierge krav maga.
Deservedly or not, Pascal's standing has taken a massive hit. But before the Paris robbery, Pascal had a great reputation in the EP industry. Many would have even argued that he was one of the industry standard bearers. You don't need to believe us, just look at his LinkedIn profile, where eleven different colleagues, clients, and other industry peers were quite happy to put their names on letters of recommendation and endorse his company's services to others. One doesn't get this type of recognition overnight, which tells us he provided service that clients enjoyed. So, let's not throw stones at this man without knowing all the facts.
Just when you think things can't get any worse, they can
Two years to the day after the heist, Pascal was sued by Kim Kardashian's insurance company for more than $6 million dollars.
The insurance company that had to pay out for the stolen jewels is trying to recoup at least part of their losses by having Pascal foot the bill. Their arguments? That Pascal was "negligent", in "breach of contract" and displayed "gross negligence, recklessness and/or willful and wanton misconduct" for his role during the robbery at the hotel.
We include just a snippet of the insurance company's case against Pascal below. You can read the whole legal complaint here, including the insurance company's claim that it was Pascal's duty to ensure that the concierge of the exclusive hotel had security training.
What's your standard for "reasonable care"? What are the executive protection industry's standards?
Now, we're not legal experts, and some might say our knowledge of the law is limited to a handful of lawyer jokes. But we do often work with legal counsel, and we know that "reasonable care" is a thing. It's something lawyers often refer to when talking about negligence. According to TheLaw.com, reasonable care is defined as
"A measure or a standard of caution and awareness for the safety of self and others that the average prudent person would use under the circumstances. The reasonable care test is a subjective test to determine whether a person committed negligence in their actions, not exercising reasonable care."
Let's unpack that just a bit:
In this context "the average prudent person" doesn't refer to your smart Aunt Sally or what she would do. It refers to what the average executive protection professional, or company, would do.
As any EP professional knows, the "circumstances" relevant for evaluating EP work include a wide variety of things, from the quality of RTVAs to agent readiness, to scope of work agreements, and not least to what the client has agreed to pay for.
Let's remember that "subjective" is the opposite of "objective". In other words, we're on a slippery slope here, folks, one that slides more towards opinions and feelings than to verifiable facts or specific standards.
In light of this, the insurance company's claim begs a lot of questions that even a lot of us with decades of experience in the EP industry would have a hard time answering. How the Monday morning quarterbacks and an insurance company have all the answers is beyond us.
What would the average, prudent executive protection company have done in the circumstances? What is the average EP company, anyway? Something like Pascal's ProtectSecurity Inc. and other more or less one-man shows? Something like AS Solution or Gavin de Becker? Somewhere in between?
What are all the relevant circumstances? How do we come up with a balanced way of understanding them? What happens when circumstances such as perceived risk point a detail leader in one direction, risk mitigation resources subject to budget constraints point in another, and the whims of a principal point in a third?
But the lawsuit against Pascal also raises more general – and important – questions about the standards that should be applied to the evaluation of executive protection work:
What are the industry standards that we can benchmark against?
Are we talking the U.S. Secret Service's or the mom-and-pop EP company's standards?
How do EP professionals learn these standards? From competing, for-profit EP schools?
How do you control whether practitioners follow any standards at all?
What's the executive protection industry's equivalent of the "Generally Accepted Accounting Principles" that auditors and the SEC rely on?
What do these non-existent standards even mean when the principal is the boss with the right not only to tell vendors what they want and don't want in terms of protection strategy, tactics, and operational detail, regardless of any RTVA, but of course also decide what they're willing to pay for, and when?
EP professionals live in a glass house. Let's be careful about throwing stones.
Let's be real with each other: Any EP company in the world would jump at the opportunity to protect Kim and her family, some of the highest-profile A-listers on the planet. That was true before the robbery, it was true the day after the robbery, and it's true today. Like Pascal, we'd take on the work so we could make money to provide for our own families, and we'd be thrilled at the opportunity to grow the operation and show the principal and others the right way to do security.
Whether you're a fledgling EP startup that is starving for work or an established multi-million-dollar company, the rules of the game are similar. You can give the principal all of your best security recommendations, and they might be very good indeed, but at the end of the day, you only get to do what the client agrees to do. In other words, you only provide clients with what they're willing to pay for.
If you're covering a client who's returned to her hotel for the night and wants you to provide coverage for her family while they're out clubbing, you're going to do what the boss asks you to do. You can say that you'd be the one to convince her that you need to stay with her the whole time for her protection, and the others should just hit the hay instead of going out, but if she asked you to go, you'd go. We don't know how many times we've heard principals say something like, "I'm comfortable here at the hotel, please check on my family (sisters, kids, parents, etc.)." This is common practice in our industry: the principals want you for what they want you for, and the moment they feel comfortable and safe, you're dismissed. Unlike the kind of security heads of state and other government officials receive, or corporate executives with board-mandated coverage, celebrities' protection is elective, after all, not obligatory.
It might be right, according to your standards, that counter-surveillance teams, more team members, and ninjas hiding in the trees are what's necessary to get the job done. But if the client isn't willing to go along with and pay for it, you aren't able to dictate your standards and you wouldn't have any job at all. We have no idea about the circumstances surrounding Pascal's scope of work with the Kardashians, but we do know that there are plenty of minimalist security operations heading up the creek without a paddle or a compass and that there are plenty of EP practitioners willing to hop on board and go for the ride, doing the best they can under the circumstances. It's all any of us can do, really: provide the absolute best security we can with the resources we have available.
You can say that you would have talked to the client beforehand about the security consequences of not having a full-blown team, but honestly, how far would you press the point? Would you really decide not to protect the principal if she dismissed some of your recommendations? Almost all of the clients we've worked in our decades-long careers have elected to go against recommendations made by us and other team members. We didn't fire any of them. It doesn't make sense – in terms security or business – to pack it all in if things don't go our way. Like any other relationship, there will always be plenty of give-and-take between principals and their EP team.
Where is the drive towards standardization in the executive protection industry?
We look at all of this as an issue of industry standardization. Or, more precisely, lack thereof.
The executive protection industry sometimes feels like the wild west. While different territories do have some (wildly disparate) legislation concerning basic security training and firearms, the EP industry has no public, unambiguous standards that are commonly shared or widely ascribed to. There is practically no regulation or oversight. The sheriff in Dodge sets the standards for what's acceptable in Dodge, and those apply only as long as he's in charge and you don't leave town.
Every EP school has its own take on what comprises essential training. Every EP company has its own version of good SOPs and quality control. This is not to say that there are no standards or more or less accepted versions of best practice. There are. But industry-wide, they are not explicitly articulated, objectively verifiable, or easily benchmarked against.
Don't get us wrong. We're not saying the lawsuit against Pascal is frivolous – that's not for us to decide. We do believe, however, that he and other EP practitioners, our principals, their and our insurers, and all other stakeholders would be better off if we had better, agreed ways of determining how well we do what we do. Standardization would help in many ways.
Although the security industry does have the Certified Protection Professional (CPP) certification, and this does have high standards, you don't need to be a CPP to hang your EP shingle up or work in the security business. The CPP covers a broad range of qualifications, and that's great. But we need something more specific.
The EP industry needs to develop its own standards. We could all learn something from the accountants and their Generally Accepted Accounting Principles without turning into bean counters.
Standardized training curricula, evaluations, and certifications would all be steps in the right direction. Standardized quality assurance methods would help both protector and protectees know who's on the ball and who isn't. If we sat down as an industry to determine how and where standardization would make the most sense, we're sure we would make a much longer list that would have helped determine what's up and down in Pascal's case – and the others that are sure to come.
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Christian West
Christian has been active in the executive protection industry since the late 1980s, when he worked for Danish musicians who relocated to Hollywood. Upon returning to Denmark, he founded his own EP company, which he quickly grew into Scandinavia's largest, before it was acquired by Securitas.
Christian founded AS Solution in 2003, and again in 2009 followed his international clients to the US, where he is now based. An active member of ASIS and a leader in the corporate executive protection industry, Christian has personally planned and led high-profile engagements in over 76 countries for a wide variety of corporate and high net worth individual clients, including the international roadshow for the biggest IPO in history.
Jared Van Driessche
Guest blogger, CEO, Asgard Technology Group, Inc
As CEO of Asgard Technology Group, Jared Van Driessche is responsible for strategic leadership and oversight of the company and its first app, ProtectionManager. Over the course of his long and diverse career, Jared has planned, executed and led close protection details for CEOs, dignitaries, heads of state, boards of directors, celebrities, and various public figures on more than 300 international trips to over 70 different countries. He has extensive international experience, including the provision of close protection and threat assessment to clients in high-risk environments throughout Africa, Asia, Central America, South America, Europe, and the Middle East.
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De vuurtoren van Nash Point (Nash Point Lighthouse) staat in de county borough Vale of Glamorgan in het zuiden van Wales in het Verenigd Koninkrijk. De vuurtoren fungeert als navigatiemiddel voor schepen die door het Kanaal van Bristol varen. Hij vestigt de aandacht op de voor de scheepvaart gevaarlijke Nash Sands. Deze zandbanken waren voor de bouw van de toren verantwoordelijk voor het vergaan van een groot aantal schepen en opvarenden. De toren vormde oorspronkelijk een lichtlijn met een lagere vuurtoren die zich ongeveer 300 m ten westen bevond. Dit lage licht werd in 1924 uitgeschakeld.
De toren was bemand tot 5 augustus 1998. Na de automatisatie werd het beheer van de installatie overgenomen door het Planning Centre van Trinity House in Harwich in het Engelse Essex. Trinity House is verantwoordelijk voor de navigatiemiddelen in Engeland, Wales, Gibraltar en de Kanaaleilanden.
Kenmerken en uitrusting
De 37 m hoge toren heeft een conische vorm met een brede basis die naar boven toe versmalt en werd volledig wit geschilderd. In het lichthuis bevindt zich een roterend catadioptrisch systeem met een brandpuntsafstand van 360 mm dat het licht bundelt dat door elektrische gloeilampen met een vermogen van 150 W wordt opgewekt. Dit licht, dat een sterkte heeft van 134.000 candela, is zichtbaar tot op een afstand van 21 zeemijl (ongeveer 39 km) en bevindt zich 56 m boven het zeeniveau. De toren genereert twee witte schitteringen om de 15 seconden. Een gekleurd scherm, dat voor een deel van het glas in het lichthuis werd geplaatst, zorgt voor een rode sector die de positie van de zandbanken aangeeft.
154 m ten westen van de toren staat een dienstgebouw dat de apparatuur bevat voor het mistsignaal. Op het dak van dit gebouw bevinden zich twee misthoorns van het type diaphone die worden aangestuurd door perslucht. Het signaal bestond uit twee opeenvolgende identieke tonen. Alhoewel de normale werking van de installatie rond 1995 werd stopgezet, weerklinken de misthoorns omwille van de bezoekers nog twee keer per maand. Dit gebeurt ook bij bijzondere gelegenheden zoals schoolbezoeken of huwelijken.
Geschiedenis
Bouw van twee torens en uitschakeling van het lage licht
Op 1 oktober 1831 werden de fundamenten aangebracht voor twee torens die samen een lichtlijn zouden vormden. De tussenafstand tussen de twee gebouwen bedroeg 302 m. Door een koers te volgen waarbij de lichten van de westelijke lage toren (low light) en de oostelijke hoge toren (high light) verticaal boven elkaar zichtbaar waren konden schippers de gevaarlijke zandbanken in het Kanaal van Bristol vermijden. De continu brandende lichten in beide torens werden voor het eerst ontstoken op 1 september 1832. De oostelijke toren had een hoogte van 37 m, de westelijke toren was 25 m hoog.
Trinity House, de vennootschap die de torens beheerde, had de gronden al voor 1831 verworven, maar door het vergaan van het passagiersschip Frolic in maart van datzelfde jaar, waarbij alle 78 opvarenden om het leven kwamen, werd de bouw van de beide bouwwerken bespoedigd. De raderstoomboot was onderweg van Haverfordwest naar Bristol toen hij op de zandbanken liep. Bij de ramp kwamen een aantal hooggeplaatste officieren om, waaronder een generaal. De beroering die het scheepsongeval bij de bevolking veroorzaakte deed het bouwproces versnellen.
Het ontwerp van de twee complexen wordt toegeschreven aan James Walker, hoofdingenieur bij Trinity House. Waarschijnlijk was ook Joseph Nelson samen met zijn neef verantwoordelijk voor de planning en de bouw van de torens. De gebouwen werden opgetrokken uit blue lias, een soort kalksteen die ter plaatse onderaan de kust werd gewonnen en vervolgens naar de bouwwerf werd gehesen.
Na 1920 werden de Nash Sands aangegeven door een rode sector in het hoge licht. Hiervoor werd een rood scherm voor een deel van de lens in het lichthuis geplaatst. Het licht in de lage toren, die nu overbodig bleek, werd in 1924 definitief gedoofd. Het gebouw bleef bewaard, maar het lichthuis en bijhorende apparatuur werden na 1950 verwijderd.
Lichtbronnen
Bij hun ingebruikname werden de torens verlicht door Argandse lampen. Later werd een brander van het type Hood geïntroduceerd, een lichtbron die gevoed werd door paraffinedampen. Na de buitendienststelling van het lage licht in 1924 werd de lens in de overblijvende toren vervangen. Er werd ook een mechanisme geïnstalleerd dat werd aangedreven door een gewicht dat door een gietijzeren buis in het midden van de toren daalde en er voor zorgde dat het licht een flitsend karakter kreeg. In 1960 werd de vuurtoren verbonden met het lichtnet. Hierdoor kon het lichthuis vanaf 1971 worden verlicht door elektrische lampen met een vermogen van 1.500 W. Later werd opnieuw een modernisering doorgevoerd. De oude optiek werd verwijderd en vervangen door een compactere die werd verlicht door een lamp van 150 W.
Mistsignaal
De apparatuur voor het mistsignaal werd in een afzonderlijk gebouw ondergebracht dat in 1906 was opgericht. De twee misthoorns die op het dak gemonteerd waren werden met perslucht gevoed. Dieselmotoren van het type Ruston dreven een compressor aan die de misthoorns van samengeperste lucht voorzag. Deze diesels zouden 60 jaar dienstdoen. In 1966 werden ze vervangen door motoren van het type Gardner. Het mistsignaal werd rond 1995 officieel buiten dienst gesteld, maar de installatie verkeert in goede staat zodat ze bij bijzondere gelegenheden opnieuw in werking kan gesteld worden.
Bemanning
Na de indienststelling van de beide vuurtorens stond er voor de wachters telkens per toren een verblijf ter beschikking. Rond 1900 werden bij elke toren twee nieuwe woningen bijgebouwd terwijl het oorspronkelijk verblijf uitgebreid werd, waardoor er in totaal vier woongelegenheden ontstonden Drie woningen waren voorbehouden voor de vuurtorenwachters en hun gezinnen die de dienst waarnamen op Nash Point. De vierde woning stond ter beschikking van de familie van wachters die een toren elders bemanden en waar voor gezinsleden geen verblijfsruimte voorzien was.
Nash Point werd als laatste toren in Wales geautomatiseerd in 1998. Op 5 augustus van datzelfde jaar verliet de laatste wachter het complex. Daarmee was de vuurtoren de voorlaatste in het Verenigd Koninkrijk waarvan de bemanning teruggeroepen werd.
Geregistreerde monumenten, natuurgebied en toeristische functie
Het vroegere lagere licht, de actieve vuurtoren, de misthoorninstallatie en alle bijhorende gebouwen werden ingeschreven als grade II listed building op de Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. Hiermee werden de bouwwerken aangeduid als gebouwen van speciaal belang. Dit betekent dat er de nodige inspanningen moeten geleverd worden om ze te onderhouden en ze in hun huidige staat te bewaren.
Het complex ligt in een natuurgebied waar in 1977 een zeldzame soort knoldistel werd aangetroffen, de Cirsium tuberosum. Omwille van deze plant en de variatie in de overige fauna en flora werden de vuurtoren en zijn omgeving aangeduid als een gebied van uitzonderlijk wetenschappelijk belang (Site of Special Scientific Interest). De vuurtoren vervult ook een toeristische functie: twee wachterswoningen worden te huur aangeboden als vakantiewoningen, er werd een bezoekerscentrum ingericht en het gebouwencomplex wordt ook geregeld gebruikt voor huwelijksceremoniën.
Herstel van kusterosie
Het kalkgesteente onder de vuurtoren wordt door de voortdurende golfslag aangetast en uitgevreten waardoor er onder het complex een overhangende kust ontstaat die een bedreiging vormt voor de stabiliteit van het bouwwerk. Om deze erosie tegen te gaan werd rond 2000 een project opgestart waarbij de openingen en holten in de rots werden afgedicht en de verdere uitbreiding van de overhang werd tegengegaan door het aanbrengen van ter plaatse gewonnen kalkstenen blokken. Deze oplossing kostte Trinity House ongeveer £ 400 per jaar.
Nash Point
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Interview: Jai Singh
Jai Singh has had one of the best seats from which to watch the theater that is Silicon Valley. He founded CNET News.com in 1996, and has presided over the technology news site since.
He saw CNET become part of that theater this summer, when Google pledged not to talk to the company for a year after an article on privacy divulged personal information about Google's CEO (that was found by using Google). But the two were on speaking terms again after a couple of months.
PRWeek: Google's decision to not talk to CNET became a hot topic in the tech media and PR circles. How would you describe the state of relationships now between tech companies and the media?
Jai Singh: In general, it's fine. If a company doesn't want to give you a story, it won't. But if we waited for PR pros to give us stories, we'd all be out of business.
PRWeek: Some have said that because there is so much media out there, Google felt there were other ways to reach its audience without CNET. How has this simultaneous fragmentation and growth of media outlets impacted the mainstream media?
Singh: We're going through a redesign right now. In that effort, we're looking at the fragmentation of the media. The users are dictating more and more. There really isn't a monopoly. The New York Times is not the only paper in town. The bloggers have their place, the mainstream media has its place, and we have our place. All of us are coexisting, and the readers are benefiting.
We serve up to 100 million unique users a month across the network [all of CNET's properties, including News.com]; we are a top-ten media property. We are bridging the gap between the mainstream and the blogosphere. It's a very symbiotic relationship, because a lot of blogs comment on what we report on. So it's not competition from a news perspective.
PRWeek: Is the media doing a good job covering tech? In discussing the media's culpability in the rise and fall of the bubble, you once said, "You can't have media darlings without the media."
Singh: Lesson learned. We got caught up in the internet bubble. Now there's more deep thought. We're more circumspect. So now it's interesting to cover the competitive battles. We're writing about that from both a business and personal perspective. If you look at any of these tech companies, all of them are talking about the personal connection [of their technology], as well as the business. It's a fun time for me as a journalist to be writing about these companies.
PRWeek: What has changed about the kind of technology stories being told today?
Singh: Consumer use is driving the adoption of technology faster than corporate use. Look at [instant messaging]. It was a consumer tool. Now it's a corporate tool. In a lot of ways, it's the consumer who is on the cutting edge of technology adoption.
PRWeek: What distinguishes CNET's coverage, and how has that evolved?
Singh: The biggest change we've made is that we're more focused on the personal aspect [of technology], as well as the professional aspect. Our initiative is to cover the business, politics, and culture of technology, as it impacts everything we do. We want to make sure we put the reader's voice into everything we do.
Name: Jai Singh
Company: CNET Networks
Title: SVP and editor-in-chief, CNET News.com
Preferred contact method: [email protected]
Website: www.news.com
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Clive Rowe, Information Technology, Project, and Business Consulting.
Information Technology, Project, and Business Consulting.
On its own a dictionary is just a collection of words. An author helps those words tell their story. On its own information is just a collection of numbers. I can help your numbers tell their story. Numbers, like words, mean nothing on their own. Those numbers must be crafted into a story that is accurate, true, and compelling. I can help you find the story behind your data. That story will be accurate (factually correct), true (representing some worthwhile insight), and compelling (understandable in a way that leads to action).
I am a business analyst and project manager with a wide range of experience. Someone who understands business and technology. A professional who can work with technical or business teams. A clear and effective communicator. A resource you can rely on.
Twenty years experience in IT and business reengineering projects.
Understand the interdependencies of business and technology: have written business requirements documents, developed functional and technical specifications, performed risk analysis, and mapped business processes.
Extensive experience with the UniVerse MultiValue database (part of the IBM U2 family).
Performed risk analysis and maintained risk management plans.
Created prototype for electronic data collection and processing, replacing paper forms and faxes with customer self-service model.
Managed projects that created, trader support (market "dashboard"), and trade management (track the performance of individual trades) systems.
Analyzed client business processes to create efficiencies, generate cost savings, and ensure compliance with federal regulations (HIPAA).
Worked with a Six Sigma team to map business processes and develop quality metrics.
Designed a proprietary trading system (market timing and position sizing).
Performed modeling, statistical analysis, and back testing of proprietary trading systems.
Twenty years of experience across many industries and in three countries. Provided solutions, programmed software, and analyzed problems in a variety of business areas. These include, supply chain management, postal operations, finance, reinsurance (including a Lloyd's of London syndicate), legal practice management, membership and subscription, and wholesale distribution.
UniVerse® is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
Microsoft®, Excel®, and Visual Basic® are registered trademarks of ... well ... Microsoft. | {
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Q: setOnItemClickListener gives a compile error in ListView activity I have been following a tutorial on ListView and the following code gives errors. I have searched all the forums I can find but I keep coming up with the same recommended code. Maybe all the forums are quoting old versions and perhaps Android has moved on.
Anyway, here is the code and the error message:
getListView().setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener()
{
//@Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
int position, long id)
{
// TODO Sort out error and add function code
}
});
Error message:
Multiple markers at this line
-The method setOnItemClickListener(AdapterView.OnItemClickListener in the type
AdapterView <ListAdapter> is not applicable for the arguments (new OnItemClickListener(){})
-OnItemClickListener cannot be resolved to a type
Any offers?
A: You should be able to solve this by specifying the parent class of onItemClickListener like this:
myListView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
A: Try this
ListView listView = getListView();
listView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener()
{
//@Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
int position, long id)
{
// TODO Sort out error and add function code
}
});
A: I suggest like that,If there is ListView, extends ListActivity and handle listitem click in onListItemClick
@Override
protected void onListItemClick(ListView list, View view, int position, long id) {
super.onListItemClick(list, view, position, id);
//handle listitem click.
}
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Technological advances in business systems and paper products are driving the demand for greater sophistication in the printed output from devices such as automated teller (ATM) and point-of-sale (POS) machines. Lithotech supplies the rolls for these machines, as well as fax rolls, in a variety of paper stocks and widths, roll diameters and configurations.
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Technological advances in business systems and paper products are driving the demand for greater sophistication in the printed output from devices such as automated teller (ATM) and point-of-sale (POS) machines.
Lithotech supplies the rolls for these machines, as well as fax rolls, in a variety of paper stocks and widths, roll diameters and configurations. | {
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27 September - 3 October
Ellis Park
SA Spring Open Media Team
THIEM SLIDES BACK TO CLAY FOR TWO WEEKS BEFORE HEADING TO HARD COURTS
With back-to-back ATP Masters 1000 tournaments coming up in Montreal and Cincinnati—and the last Grand Slam of the year, the US Open, shortly afterwards—many of the top players are shifting gears from grass courts to hard right now.
But some players, including Dominic Thiem, are going back to clay, which we last saw at Roland Garros.
The world No. 4 is the top seed at this week's Hamburg European Open, a 500-level clay-court event in Hamburg, Germany. The following week, he'll play the 250-level Generali Open in Kitzbuhel, Austria.
Thiem has been the second-best player on clay after Rafael Nadal for the last few years, reaching back-to-back semifinals at Roland Garros in 2016 and 2017, and back-to-back finals in 2018 and 2019.
But after another deep run in Paris, Thiem elected not to play any grass-court lead-up tournaments, and he was subsequently ousted from Wimbledon in the first round. He received one of the tougher first-round draws in former No. 11 Sam Querrey, who eventually made the quarterfinals.
No more grass for Thiem
"But it's a lot of experience, too. I'll see how I do it next year. I like to play on grass, and of course I'd love to do better at Wimbledon, but playing that deep at the French Open, it's a tricky situation."
"Last year and this year together I played four grass-court matches, which is not a lot at all," Thiem said after that loss to Querrey. "I mean, all the clay-court season, it takes a lot out of me. I gave everything I had physically and also mentally in all of the six weeks until the end of the French Open. Then I had to take the decision to come to Wimbledon without any preparation, and then of course it's very tough to face Querrey, who loves grass, in my first official grass-court match of the year.
SA Spring Open
Ellis Park Tennis Courts
29 Bertrams Road
New Doornfontein | {
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The Hamptons are a series of developments in Peterborough that pre-date teh NPPF for they were begun in the mid 1990s. Parts are however still in construction with 8,500 new homes eventually to be built. Much of the development uses former clay pits and brick works, but some of it is located on what was more open countryside. There are a number of areas of water and green spaces which enhance the area. There is a local shopping area but a big attraction is a large shopping mall with many high street names. This caters for shoppers from a wide area, having good access to strategic roads via the A15.
The developments are well served by frequent bus services, with real time information screens at key bus stops and brand new buses. Observation on the visit (weekday outside peak commuting times) suggest that the bus services are well used across the age and social ranges and the Census 2011 information conforms that bus use into Peterborough is comparatively high although teh vast majority of people travel by car. The buses serve the Serpentine shopping centre, and the bus stop is located close to the main entrance and has a dedicated space so that bus users can wait in a shelter away from the road traffic movements and exhaust fumes. Bus access to the shopping centre complex is via bus gates so that at busy times the bus is not delayed by congestion into and in the (substantial) car park. The bus routes penetrate the developments, facilitated by the layout which does not feature as many cul de sacs as is often seen in new housing areas.
Our visits to new housing developments were made in 2016-18. The information given about the developments was correct at the time of our visits. | {
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a person employed by another, especially to perform domestic duties.
a person in the service of another.
Her agency had to take her out of the country that very evening after it was made clear that the servant had sworn to kill her.
She mistook him for a servant and fed him kindly; later, she found out that the man was a top advisor to a major general.
"Like all great leaders, Swenson was a servant," President Obama said yesterday.
Last evening went to Mr. Moors house to see his servant girl Susan.
Did God take upon him the form of a servant, and must thou domineer and have the highest place?
When he got home he asked the servant briefly if Mr. Conking had come.
c.1200, "personal or domestic attendant," from Old French servant "servant; foot-soldier," noun use of servant "serving, waiting," present participle of servir "to attend, wait upon" (see serve (v.)).
Meaning "professed lover, one devoted to the service of a lady" is from mid-14c. In North American colonies and U.S., the usual designation for "slave" 17c.-18c. (in 14c.-15c. and later in Biblical translations the word often was used to render Latin servus, Greek doulos "slave"). Public servant is attested from 1670s. | {
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Thurmond: Falcons Offer Good Test For 'D'
Julie Bacanskas
As the Eagles prepare to take on the Falcons this Monday, the pressure will be on the team's secondary. With an Atlanta offense consisting of players like quarterback Matt Ryan and wide receivers Julio Jones and Roddy White, the defense will need to be ready to play.
Walter Thurmond, however, thinks the group is up for the challenge, its first challenge of the year.
"I think that's the number one concern for any defensive group in the league though is not to give up those X-plays," Thurmond said. "That just shows that the offense is getting quick turnaround, changing the field and putting themselves in position to score.
"It is going to be a good test because this is one of the best tandems in the league with Julio and Roddy White and Matt Ryan's throwing the ball to them. It's going to be a great test for us to see where our cover ability is and make a name for the secondary."
He and the rest of the Eagles' defense are prepared for the deep balls they know are going to come. Reducing the X-plays, gains of 20 yards or more, was a focal point of the offseason after the Eagles allowed a league-high 72 such passes in 2014. Staying true to their technique and remaining disciplined throughout the entirety of the game will be key, especially going up against Jones.
When asked about the wide receiver, Thurmond explained the biggest obstacle when defending Jones is his size and speed. However, the Eagles don't want to focus solely on a plan for Jones. They'll need to prepare for the team in its entirety to have success.
"He's a premier receiver, top-five receiver in this league. When you're that good, he does command some attention and focus, but we don't want to deviate from the game plan and just put all our attention toward him," Thurmond said. "It's also going to take the whole defense, and obviously our front four getting after the quarterback and pressing Matt Ryan and making him make some bad decisions."
To watch the entire interview with Walter Thurmond, click here or on the video player above. | {
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Head Lice Pictures: What do Head Lice, Louse, Nits and Eggs Look Like?
These head lice pictures have been magnified. The size of an adult louse, is between two and three millimetres long. A nymph, which is an adolescent louse, is between one and two millimetres long.
The head lice eggs are just 0.5 millimetres to two millimetres in length. They are firmly attached to the hair shaft, as you can see in these head lice pictures and generally about one centimetre from the scalp.
Sometimes it can be helpful to use a magnifying glass when treating head lice to help you locate these tiny parasites. | {
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February is Op Bag pack we're wanting as many bag packing events happening at supermarkets as we can.
Can you help? YES! Anyone can organise a pack bag at their local supermarket.
Lets get as many supermarkets taking part as we can. Please let us know where you are bag packing so we can add it to our list and promote it for you.
Help us to get more money raised so we can support more sufferers of PTSD and their families as we can. | {
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I want your job you stud muffin.
Here I am sitting at home with a 5 year old while my girlfriend is at work and working on a computer program while sponge bob is playing on the media center.
I might come out some Saturday in the next couple of months. Me and busy_squirrel.
No longer a member since I now work at 7:30am. I HATE morning shifts. Gimme back my swing shift dammit!!!!!
Woah, it's liek 3am and i need to be up at 8 to work on the tib. | {
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Касянчук — українське прізвище.
Відомі носії
Касянчук Григорій Васильович (1967—2022) — український військовослужбовець, солдат Збройних сил України, учасник російсько-української війни. Почесний громадянин міста Тернополя (2023, посмертно).
Касянчук (Касіянчук) Іван Дмитрович (1932 — ?) — український радянський діяч, новатор виробництва, бригадир столярного цеху, майстер-деревообробник Ділятинського лісокомбінату Надвірнянського району Івано-Франківської області.
Касянчук Костянтин Вікторович (нар. 1979) — український хокеїст, лівий нападник.
Касянчук Роман Олександрович (1987—2022) — солдат Збройних Сил України, учасник російсько-української війни, що загинув у ході російського вторгнення в Україну в 2022 році.
Примітки | {
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There are many reasons why your existing Wi-Fi router is perhaps inadequate to spread the goodness of the world wide web connectivity for your home. One of them could be that the indoor area it is supposed to cover is far too large, and it just doesn't have the power or range to stretch itself that much. Secondly, homes are usually not designed in straight lines or spread out in a perfect circle, and that leads to loss of signals that your router emits every time it encounters a wall or a thick piece of furniture. And finally, the number of walls between the router and the device accessing the internet also has a bearing on what sort of wireless signals and internet speeds you will experience in the farther corners of your home.
But what do you do? Apart from cursing everything under the sun, you can perhaps splurge on a really expensive Wi-Fi router and hope it offers better range. Chances are, more often than not, it won't. That is because a Wi-Fi router in most homes is not placed exactly in the geometric centre. What should you do, in that case? Shift into a smaller home? Kill all your dreams of being able to play PUBG after you tuck into the bed for the night? Never be able to stream Netflix on your bedroom TV? Fret not, because there is a rather simple solution—a Wi-Fi Mesh system, that links multiple nodes to talk to each other and spread the Wi-Fi signals across your home. With no discrimination whatsoever.
Though Wi-Fi Mesh systems aren't exactly the most affordable, prices have started coming down off late. The latest kid on the block is the Tenda Nova MW6, and the set of 3 units which claims to cover 6000 square meter, is priced at Rs 14,500 and you can get a two unit set (if you have a smaller home) for around Rs 12,000.
Just as with all other Wi-Fi Mesh system, what you get with the Nova MW6 is a base unit that connects with your internet connection (if it is a cable or a fiber line, for instance) or an existing internet modem (if you have a DSL broadband connection, for instance). Then there are the accompanying units, two more in this specific configuration, which then wireless hook-up with each other to extend the effective and usable range of Wi-Fi signal across your entire home.
The design itself of each of these units is something worth admitting. They simply are designed like cubes, and considerably smaller than some of its more expensive rivals. This looks quite cool to look at when you keep this on a table, and can be effectively hidden away as well if that is what you would prefer. The matte white colour finish, the tiny LED light indicating the status of connectivity and the power as well as connectivity ports hidden behind and below each Nova MW6 unit gives it a very clean look overall.
Inside each of these Nova MW6 units is a Realtek RTL8197FS SoC with a 1 GHz processor, 128 MB RAM, and 16 MB storage. You really don't need to worry about the processing power in a Wi-Fi modem (we never have come across one that was too slow to manage the internet connection plugged into it), and the same applies for a Wi-Fi Mesh and each of the nodes in play. This is a dual-band system, which has a theoretical maximum bandwidth of 867Mbps on the 5GHz band and 300Mbps on the 2.4Ghz band. For the mesh functionality that includes the data transfers between the different units, the Tenda Nova MW6 uses the 867Mbps pipeline, which means you may find some reduction in download speeds if you end up connecting multiple devices with different nodes at the same time. At this price, we really wouldn't hold this up as a big limitation however. Let us take the example of the Linksys Velop (around Rs 15,000 for set of two and Rs 22,900 for set of three) which brings to the table a tri-band dual stream with two 5GHz bands (up to 867Mbps) and one 2.4GHz band (up to 400Mbps)—one 5GHz band is dedicated for the backhaul task to link the nodes together. With a dedicated backhaul pipeline, you will not see any reduction in broadband speeds with range or network congestion.
But for whatever the Tenda Nova MW6 may lack on the spec sheet in comparison with more expensive alternatives, chances are this will be more than adequate for your 50Mbps, 100Mbps and 300Mbps internet connections at home. With that as the standard comparison point, the internet speeds and bandwidth across the three nodes is the same as the Linksys Velop and the Netgear Orbi. It is only for high bandwidth usage scenarios where the Nova MW6 Wi-Fi Mesh may struggle in speed comparisons—but then again, those users would probably be looking at something more powerful anyway. This worked well for us, be it on Android phones, iPhones and iPads, Windows laptops, MacBooks, the Nvidia Shield and the Sony PlayStation 4.
Setting this up doesn't take up your time. You need to download the Tenda Wi-Fi app (free for Android and iOS) to set this up, get the Wi-Fi access point ready and connect the mesh units as well. Interestingly, there is no option to have different identifications for the 2.4GHz and the 5GHz bands, something that quite a few routers allow, but it isn't a deal-breaker by any stretch of the imagination. The Nova MW6 will automatically detect the device you are using, the distance from the nearest node and switch you between the 2.4Ghz and 5GHz bands. You can set up a guest network, and even set parental controls including giving children access to the internet for certain hours in the day.
As things stand, this is the most cost-effective solution for replacing your inadequate or old Wi-Fi router. It is simple enough to set up, works well for home broadband usage environments and is quite hassle free to use. You will just be glad to have uninterrupted internet all around the home. | {
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"Nichol in his History of Leicestershire also writes of him [John de Segrave].
John de Segrave, the eldest son, died ten years before his father, so Gilbert the second son became heir to the immense property to which he largely added, adding among other matters, the whole town of Kegworth by grant from Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester. He was sent in 1253 as Ambassador to France where he lost his life by treachery."
John died without issue (children).
[S854] Segrave Family, The, 1066-1935, Charles W. Segrave, (Novello & Co., London, 1936). | {
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Keeping the grip is essential, no matter what you do. If you go for drag racing, time attack or even drifting. Traction means control, full control means that you can use the full potential of your car. There are many, if not countless, ways to improve a cars handling.
It starts with the tires and goes from there actually through the whole car. But for this time we will settle with the next best part after the tires, the coilovers. My car already was equipped with a tein HA suspension when it arrived from japan. Not knowing that, it was a nice surprise. When I decided to rebuild the car I made the plans to take a closer look on the coilovers as well. After all they were more than ten years old.
As you might have seen in the header image. The tein coilovers were in a pretty bad condition. Further more the shock test showed that two shocks were bleeding. Unfortunately tein was not able to deliver replacement parts.
Almost settling with the idea to test a low budget coilover set fortune smiled on me and I was able to lay my hands on a used R33 GTR aragosta Track coilover set.
Albeit being in used condition too, the price was so ridiculously low that I can put that into refurbishment. To this point I had already dismembered the tein coilovers which now had to share its place with the new shiny aragosta parts. The r33 shocks are two inches shorter than the r34 ones. Technicaly they will fit, but the ride height might be a "little bit" low.
Ignoring the HKS clutch you might notice the oldschool cusco front camber arms. While they only give a certain influence on camber we will take a closer look on them – and the reasons I preffere those – next time. | {
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Charles Tillman's wife delivers healthy baby
The wife of the Chicago Bears cornerback gave birth to the couple's fourth child.
By Jordan Sargent Nov 14, 2012, 8:43am CST
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The controversy over Charles Tillman's decision to potentially miss the Chicago Bears' Week 10 game against the Houston Texans if his wife went into labor turned out to be much ado about nothing, as Tillman played in Chicago's 13-6 loss to the Texans. On Tuesday, Tillman tweeted that both his wife and new baby are healthy.
Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers... Wife and baby are doing great.
— Charles Tillman (@peanuttillman) November 13, 2012
Tillman's newest child joins his two sons and daughter. Tillman's first daughter, Tiana, was born with a condition called "cardiomyopathy," which required her to have a heart transplant in 2008. In 2011, Tillman's wife was featured on "Oprah," where she met the mother of her daughter's heart donor.
Tillman has been the catalyst for Chicago's elite defense in 2012, having forced seven fumbles along with two interceptions, both of which he's returned for touchdowns.
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Getting to Know the Cast of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: Part 10!
Can you believe it? We're finally at our last cast member profile. We've had 10 posts, 11 profiles and 1 VERY awesome group of talented and energetic people. I hope you've had fun getting to know the cast, and are even more excited to come see them completely rock out during the show. Remember, tickets are on sale now! Follow the link to order them before they sell out! http://ow.ly/dMicU
Michal Kolaczkowski
Hometown: Shelby Township, MI
Training: MSU
Q: What are you most excited about for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson?
A: "That is a big question! I'm excited about the underlying message of the show, and to play angry because I'm not!"
Q: Who is your favorite American president?
A: "Abraham Lincoln, because he could lead a group, his presence was so strong."
Getting to Know the Cast of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: Part 9!
It's beautiful fall Friday here in Michigan and we're celebrating! How you may as by giving you another round of Friday 2 for 1 cast member profiles! Get to know Seth and Matt!
Seth Burke
Role: Music Director/ Rock Star
Hometown: Eaton Rapids, MI
A: "It's a tie. I like the relevancy of the message at this time, but like every teenage musician, I too had an emo phase that didn't go so far..."
Q: Whow is your favorite American president?
A: "That's really hard, I tend to focus on more current presidents...I guess either Roosevelt. They both were able to make decisions with out pissing people off."
Matt Eldred
Role: James Monroe/Ensemble
Hometown: Okemos, MI
A: " I guess the thing is...the energy of my fellow cast members, it's very exciting."
A: "Clinton. I always thought he was a B.A. He just did what he wanted and made people think it was their idea, he got it done."
You may remember today's featured cast member, Michael Banghart, from his role in our production of Next Fall last March. With his many roles in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Michael is trading in the drama in favor of making audiences laugh. Why don't you come out and see how he and the rest of our cast do? Tickets are on sale now, just click the link to order: http://ow.ly/dMicU
Role: John Quincy Adams/Ensemble
Hometown: Lansing, MI
Training: LCC
A: "Seeing how people react to the material, that is what I'm the most excited about!"
A: "Chester A. Arthur the 21st President. He came in after Garfield was assassinated. When he came into office he was hated, and by the time he left everyone loved him. It's usually the opposite of that these days."
Historians have said many things about Andrew Jackson, and his wife Rachel, and not all of them agree about Jackson's legacy and impact. The one thing that historians agree on, is the love that Rachel and Andrew shared. Meet our very own Rachel Jackson, Mary Maurer!
Role: Rachel/Ensemble
Hometown: Lansing, MI by way of San Jose, CA
Training: Loyola Marymount
A: "Seeing it all come together, it's not a style I'm used to, so I'm excited to see it all put together with costumes! That's my favorite part of a show."
Q:Who is your favorite American president?
A: "Not to be cliche, but Obama. I'm not a super political person and it was such a huge moment. I saw him speak at Mizzou [University of Missouri] and it felt like being a part of history."
The cast and crew of BBAJ has been having TONS of fun rehearsing , we can't wait to show you what we've been working on. But until then, we have another cast member profile to tide you over until Opening Night arrives!
Role: Ensemble
Hometown: Lake Orion, MI
A: "I am most excited about rocking out. it's so far out of my comfort zone and I can't wait to do it!"
A: "Bill Clinton, because he is so likeable! And because he gets his stuff done, and he's a little scandalous... I love it!"
Getting to Know the Cast of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: Part 4, MSU Edition!
Meet Adair Whalen
Role: Elizabeth/Ensemble
Hometown: Grandville, MI
Q: What are you most excited about for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson? A: "I'm excited to be back in a musical! I'm pumped to be in a rock musical because it's my favorite genre to sing."
Q: Who is your favorite American president? A: "Obama, because I appreciate his enthusiasm and share many of his views."
Meet Chad Badgero
Director/All Around Rock star
Hometown: Mason, MI
A: "I'm excited about the questions that will be raised for our audience about who and how we elect as our officials. I'm also excited to do a show in a new style that we haven't done before."
A: " Lincoln, because I feel like he was one of the first presidents who held us, as a country, accountable for our actions and then was bold and brave enough to act on them.
TGIF! In honor of the beautiful weather, and the end of the work week we're treating you to an extra cast member profile! Today we're featuring Alec and Matt! As well as being all around rock stars, the guys portray two of our amazingly nefarious politicians, John Calhoun and Henry Clay.
Alec J. Nagy
Role: John Calhoun/Ensemble
Hometown: Williamston, MI
A: "It's my first show in a year and a half, so I'm just excited to come back and be up on stage, especially in a musical and a musical of this style."
A: "Taft. Because he's hilarious! He just seems like a goofball, I mean, he got stuck in a bathtub."
Matt Land
Role: Henry Clay/Ensemble
Hometown: Lansing
Training: LCC and in his first year at MSU
A: "The music-the idea of a rock musical, I've always wanted to do one. I'm also happy because I've auditioned for Peppermint Creek the past 4 years, and am excited to finally get to join one of the productions."
A: "Abe. Because he's got a sweet stove pipe hat and beard."
Have a safe and fun weekend everyone! In honor of tomorrow's football game we will be featuring 2 MSU grads from our cast. Got any guesses as to which Spartans will be gracing our site tomorrow?
Today's we are happy to introduce to you one of our most energetic cast members, Sammy Le!
Hometown: Holt, MI
A: "Getting to dress up like an Emo girl!"
A: "Lincoln, because he's tall and I like tall men:)"
As we promised earlier on our Facebook page, we will be shining the spotlight on a different cast member during the rehearsal process of our newest show, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson playing October 4th to the 13th!
So get excited and get ready to keep checking back here for a new profile everyday! First up? Chad William Baker, a new face here at Peppermint Creek:
Role: Van Buren/Ensemble
Hometown: Burton, MI
Training: Saginaw Valley State University
A: "I haven't done a rock musical in a long time, especially of one with this subject matter!"
A: "I'd have to say Abraham Lincoln. I'm allegedly related to him according to my uncle who does genealogy so that, and he's awesome!"
Thanks to Chad for being the first volunteer for the series!
Don't forget to like us on Facebook so you can be sure that you don't miss the opportunity to get to know our amazing cast members!
Passion Statement
To produce contemporary theatre that addresses vital issues in our society, raises awareness, and encourages dialogue while entertaining.
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
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Folk music is in the business of dancing between country and indie. Too much like a neighborhood garage band to carry out the twangs of country, but not garage enough to ditch vintage notes all together. Out of Los Angeles, Lord Huron produces music sitting in that crossroad of genres.
New single "Wait by the River" dropped on February 16, the third of their 2018 releases. It takes their standard lovelorn approach and envisions it as a waltz. The sickly sweet tone wants to seduce the listener, and it's easy to have on repeat for hours. If the lyrics didn't tell a story of obsession, the song would be enough to lull you to sleep. As a progression of their style, it is set apart from older songs without abandoning them.
"Wait by the River" is a part of the upcoming Vide Noir album. While the previous releases were two halves of a whole, this one stands on its own. "Wait by the River" goes out of its way to be as different as possible whilst meeting the theme Lord Huron has developed. Despite differences in mood, a listen through offers a prediction for the final album. Smoky, mysterious and melancholic — Lord Huron nails the "driving at night" sensation without being repetitive.
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Towers of Ajura
Christos Liardakis
Screenshot by Christos Liardakis
Rating – 4 stars
Anyone with an interest in game design, including Northeastern Illinois University's (NEIU) very own John Gronli and Sean Katamay, knows all about role-playing game (RPG) makers, one of the most basic of game design programs. In fact, Gronli and Katamay used the program to create Towers of Ajura. Although it is already for sale, the game's official launch event will be held on Nov. 17 at the PC Zone Internet Café (5400 N. Kedzie) at 4 p.m.
The game starts with the player in a dying world where the gods have given up all hope for humanity. The idea is to survive and remove any enemies that get in the way. One has the ability to upgrade and customize cities and any areas taken over as they see fit, all while adventuring and leveling up their characters. There is no single correct way to beat the game; simply pick a starting class and appearance and start playing. The only down side is a few bugs, which can be taken care of by updates the developers themselves make available on the website and have promptly taken care of.
Most old fashioned RPGs tend to play out in a linear style of gameplay. Towers of Ajura is a sandbox style. The difference between the two modes of play is quite profound. In a linear game, a predetermined route is set and there is no straying outside of the borders set by the game designers. While there can be side quests or events to do while playing, chances are that these events will be directly related to the primary objective of concluding the game. Everything goes step by step in a predetermined series.
In a sandbox style game the player can take multiple pathways to reach the final objective of game completion. Missions and side quests are aplenty as there is no set method of getting to the end. Players will get where they're going at their own pace. Players even have the option to completely branch off from the main quest and simply do as they please.
With graphics similar to that of the NES, Towers of Ajura is a nice throwback game to the '90s. That is as far as its simplicity goes. The battle system for enemy encounters is more complex than most games dare to try nowadays, as is the advanced strategy system for managing towns, towers and cities.
Towers of Ajura, released about a month ago, can be purchased for just $3 through the game site on http://toa.darklorestudio.com. Check out a trailer on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZn6PI6DwXw. This game is not for people looking for the latest graphics. The selling point is in the quality of the gameplay and the immense possibilities available from customizing towers to selecting what statistics to level up and abilities to learn. | {
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'My footsteps may be slow but I will get there'
Paralyzed by a bullet during an armed robbery, a man from the Eastern Cape graduated from the University of Fort Hare (UFH) exactly 14 years later.
Fikile Ngcani from Comfimvaba matriculated in 2013 at age aged 31.
He was shot in the head during an armed robbery in Johannesburg on May 18, 2008. The gunshots left the 40-year-old paralyzed on the right side of his body, damaging his bladder and causing damage to his bladder and speech impediment.
"I went to the local shop to buy airtime. As I was about to enter the store, I heard shots and orders to lie on the floor, which I did. I was shot while lying face down on the ground," he said.
After recovering in hospital for three months, he decided to move back to the Eastern Cape.
"I lived with my grandmother who had no income. We only had one meal a day and there was no money for transportation to physical therapy. I became hopeless," he said.
He wasn't ready to give up, however. "I dropped out of school in 11th grade. I knew it would be difficult to get back into the school system, but I was determined."
Fortunately, he was accepted into a local school where he was placed at the age of 28 in the 10th grade. Class. "My high school bachelor's pass was my ticket to the university," he said.
Ngcani applied to the UFH and initially studied business administration and work psychology (BCom).
In 2016, in the second year of his BCom studies, Prof. Willie Chinyamerindi nominated Ngcani for an essay writing competition.
His essay, My steps may be slow, but I will make it there, earned him the first prize of R40,000.
Ngcani enrolled for a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2019. With only one hand to write, he managed to complete his studies in the prescribed manner in three years.
"My current goal is to earn an honors degree. However, I have to pay off my student debt first. I'm hoping for financial support to achieve my goal.
"Only now do I realize how far I've come since the day of shooting. I've faced so many obstacles, but I never gave up," Ngcani said.
He needs to secure employment as he relies on his disability allowance.
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Luigi Cigolla (* 17. August 1942 in Vigo di Fassa) ist ein italienischer Politiker.
Biographie
Cigolla studierte an der Universität Bologna Fremdsprachen und Politikwissenschaft. Seit 1976 arbeitete er in der Südtiroler Landesverwaltung.
1993 wurde Cigolla auf der Liste Democrazia Cristiana – Partito Popolare Alto Adige in den Südtiroler Landtag und damit gleichzeitig den Regionalrat Trentino-Südtirol gewählt. 1994 wurde er im Kabinett Durnwalder II Mitglied der Landesregierung, in der er für italienische Schule und Kultur sowie Wohnungsbau zuständig war. Von 1998 bis 2003 war er als Vertreter von Il Centro – Unione Democratica dell'Alto Adige erneut Landtagsabgeordneter, woraufhin er im Kabinett Durnwalder III mit denselben Zuständigkeiten betraut wurde. 2003 gelang ihm – diesmal als Vertreter der Unione Autonomista – ein drittes Mal der Einzug in den Landtag. Bis 2008 war er im Kabinett Durnwalder IV Landesrat für die Ressorts Vermögensverwaltung, italienische
Kultur und Wohnungsbau; nach der Wahl Luisa Gnecchis 2008 in die italienische Abgeordnetenkammer diente er zusätzlich noch kurzzeitig als Landeshauptmannstellvertreter.
Literatur
Südtiroler Landesregierung (Hrsg.): Südtirol-Handbuch 2002. Broschüre, Bozen 2002, S. 97 (online)
Weblinks
Einzelnachweise
Landtagsabgeordneter (Südtirol)
Landeshauptmannstellvertreter (Südtirol)
Mitglied der Democrazia Cristiana
Absolvent der Universität Bologna
Italiener
Geboren 1942
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Q: c++ "error:passing 'const std::vector' as 'this' argument discards qualifiers [-fpermissive]" I am trying to implement this POMDP solver with given examples for my decision making problem and I followed the documentation in the repository to build different relevant classes and functions in the header file
class SimpleState: public State {
public:
int position;
int context;
int time;
SimpleState();
SimpleState(int _position, int _context, int _time) :
rat_position(_position),
context(_context),
time(_time) {
}
SimpleState(int _state_id);
~SimpleState();
std::string text() const;
};
SimpleState::SimpleState() {
}
class StarMazeProblem : public DSPOMDP,
public MDP {
protected:
std::vector<std::vector<std::vector<State> > > transition_probabilities_; //state, action, [state, weight]
mutable MemoryPool<SimpleState> memory_pool_;
std::vector<SimpleState*> states_;
mutable std::vector<ValuedAction> mdp_policy_;
public:
enum {CENTER = 0, RIGHT = 1, LEFT = 2};
public:
StarMazeProblem();
int NumStates() const;
void ComputeDefaultActions(std::string type) const;
ParticleUpperBound* CreateParticleUpperBound(std::string name = "DEFAULT") const;//?
ScenarioUpperBound* CreateScenarioUpperBound(std::string name = "DEFAULT",
std::string particle_bound_name = "DEFAULT") const;
ScenarioLowerBound* CreateScenarioLowerBound(std::string name = "DEFAULT",
std::string particle_bound_name = "DEFAULT") const;
}
and in the starmaze.cpp file the relevant lines are
int StarMazeProblem::NumStates() const {
return CONTEXT * POSITIONS * TIME;
}
void StarMazeProblem::ComputeDefaultActions(string type) const {
cerr << "Default action = " << type << endl;
if (type == "MDP") {
const_cast<StarMazeProblem*>(this)->ComputeOptimalPolicyUsingVI();
int num_states = NumStates();
default_action_.resize(num_states);
double value = 0;
for (int s = 0; s < num_states; s++) {
default_action_[s] = policy_[s].action;
value += policy_[s].value;
}
} else {
cerr << "Unsupported default action type " << type << endl;
exit(0);
}
}
ScenarioLowerBound* StarMazeProblem::CreateScenarioLowerBound(string name,
string particle_bound_name="DEFAULT") const {
const DSPOMDP* model = this;
const StateIndexer* indexer = this;
const StatePolicy* policy = this;
ScenarioLowerBound* bound = NULL;
if (name == "TRIVIAL" ) {
bound = new TrivialParticleLowerBound(this);
} else if (name == "RANDOM") {
bound = new RandomPolicy(this,
CreateParticleLowerBound(particle_bound_name));
} else if (name == "MODE" || name == "DEFAULT") {
ComputeDefaultActions("MDP");
bound = new ModeStatePolicy(model, *indexer, *policy,
CreateParticleLowerBound(particle_bound_name));
} else {
cerr << "Unsupported scenario lower bound: " << name << endl;
exit(1);
}
return bound;
}
here I got the following error for the above code:
src/starmaze.cpp:301:36: error: passing 'const std::vector<int>' as 'this' argument discards qualifiers [-fpermissive]
default_action_.resize(num_states);
^
In file included from /opt/local/include/gcc7/c++/vector:64:0,
from ../../../include/despot/interface/lower_bound.h:4,
from ../../../include/despot/core/builtin_lower_bounds.h:4,
from src/starmaze.h:3,
from src/starmaze.cpp:1:
/opt/local/include/gcc7/c++/bits/stl_vector.h:689:7: note: in call to 'void std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::resize(std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::size_type) [with _Tp = int; _Alloc = std::allocator<int>; std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::size_type = long unsigned int]'
resize(size_type __new_size)
^~~~~~
I have basic c++ knowledge and I could not figure out the reason for the error since I followed the examples. Any suggestion?
A: Important to know before reading
I've looked over this code several times, and cannot find where default_action_ is declared as a const std::vector<int>. This leads me to assume (based on the fact that the compiler recognizes it as such) that the variable is declared in one of the parent classes: public DSPOMDP, public MDP.
You are trying to modify a const vector<int>
This issue is pretty straight-forward.
You cannot change a const std::vector<Ty>
The whole point of making something const is to prevent the programmer from changing it.
Whatever you are trying to do here, you should consider copying the vector data into a new vector, and make the changes to it in the copy.
Okay so let's say you decided to do the naughty deed and remove const from the *.h file wherever it may be. You'll still have an issue (see below)
You are trying to modify the class instance from a const method
This is if you removed const from the vector
The default_action_.resize(num_states); is going to cause the compiler to yell at you.
The issue here is now your method StarMazeProblem::ComputeDefaultActions() is specified as const. This means you cannot change your class instance in any way from within that function/class method. What you are doing is modifying the default_action_ vector by calling resize() on it. This inevitably changes the class instance which is forbidden because your method is declared const and your default_action_ vector is declared somewhere in your class hierarchy. Additionally you are changing the vector directly by assigning it to an rvalue (See code below)
int num_states = NumStates();
default_action_.resize(num_states); // <---- default_action_ cannot be modified
for (int s = 0; s < num_states; s++) {
default_action_[s] = policy_[s].action; // <---- default_action_ cannot be modified
value += policy_[s].value;
}
Solution
You need a copy of the vector you are trying to modify. Going into h files and changing them without knowing 100% exactly what you are doing is never the answer.
Making a temporary vector in the class method, copying the data to it, and manipulating the copy is completely allowed and will not give you any compiler errors; however, this approach may completely avoid your official goal. It looks like you are really trying to change the default_action_ vector and that almost seems like your true goal here.
It's hard for me to give you a definitive answer on this specific topic. Mainly because I do not know what this entire class hierarchy does or what it is for exactly (I briefly looked over the code in the link provided.)
What you'll need to do ultimately is determine why you are trying to change that vector, and why it was made const by the original developers. Then you can determine if there is a better way other than explicitly removing the constness of the vector.
If you are still trying to make changes to the class instance read below
This solution part has to do with the qualifier of the class you are dealing with.
You can either remove the constant qualifier from the class method if it is absolutely necessary to make changes to the class instance from within that method.
OR
Find an alternative method for what you are trying to do, and break it up into multiple method calls on the class instance.
A: You've made ComputeDefaultActions() const-qualified, but there is very little that says that it should be.
*
*It calls ComputeOptimalPolicyUsingVI() which is not const-qualified since it changes the internal state of *this. You've worked around that by casting away const on this - but that function resizes policy_ to also be NumStates() big which ComputeDefaultActions() depends on - otherwise the internal loop would be very dangerous.
*It changes default_action_ by resizeing it and by assigning its elements. This may be a mistake, if the computation made is actually meant to not change *this but ... (see next bullet)
*It doesn't return anything. Everything the function does is to change the internal state of *this. The computed value is just dropped at the end of the calculation and it's not even used internally in the function. Either make the function return value or remove value completely.
Suggested changes:
#include <algorithm>
#include <stdexcept>
void StarMazeProblem::ComputeDefaultActions(string type) { // non-const
cerr << "Default action = " << type << endl;
if (type == "MDP") {
ComputeOptimalPolicyUsingVI(); // no casting needed
default_action_.resize(policy_.size()); // dependency made clear
// Use the standard transform function:
std::transform(policy_.begin(), policy_.end(), default_action_.begin(),
[](const auto& p) { return p.action; });
} else {
// friendlier than exit():
throw std::runtime_error("Unsupported default action type " + type);
}
}
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require 'spec_helper'
module Squeel
module Nodes
describe SubqueryJoin do
before(:each) do
@j =
if activerecord_version_at_least('4.1.0')
SubqueryJoin.new(OrderItem.all.as('items'), dsl {(items.orderable_id == id) & (items.orderable_type == 'Seat')} )
else
SubqueryJoin.new(OrderItem.scoped.as('items'), dsl {(items.orderable_id == id) & (items.orderable_type == 'Seat')} )
end
end
it 'defaults to Squeel::InnerJoin' do
@j.type.should eq Squeel::InnerJoin
end
it 'allows setting join type' do
@j.outer
@j.type.should eq Squeel::OuterJoin
end
it 'subquery should be a Nodes::As' do
@j.subquery.should be_kind_of(As)
end
it 'constraints should be a node' do
@j.constraints.should be_kind_of(Node)
end
it 'only convert an ActiveRecord::Relation to a SubqueryJoin' do
j =
if activerecord_version_at_least('4.1.0')
OrderItem.all.as('items').on{(items.orderable_id == id) & (items.orderable_type == 'Seat')}
else
OrderItem.scoped.as('items').on{(items.orderable_id == id) & (items.orderable_type == 'Seat')}
end
j.should be_kind_of(SubqueryJoin)
expect { As.new('name', 'alias').on{(items.orderable_id == id) & (items.orderable_type == 'Seat')} }.to raise_error
end
end
end
end
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UPS's slogan is "what can Brown do for you?" Tomorrow, the men's lacrosse team is hoping that Brown can be on the losing end of No.1 Cornell's final Ivy League victory of the season. If the Red beats the Bears in its penultimate regular season game, it will clinch sole possession of the Ancient Eight crown for the second time in three years and the 16th time in school history.
Cornell (11-0, 5-0 Ivy) is coming off a 10-6 victory over then-No. 5 Princeton last Saturday. With the win, the Red clinched at least a share of the Ivy League crown for the fifth straight season. Junior John Glynn led Cornell with three goals and an assist, and seniors Brian Clayton and Henry Bartlett added two goals apiece. The Red's defensive unit held Peter Trombino, the Tigers' leading scorer, to only one assist. In goal, senior co-captain Matt McMonagle stopped 19 Princeton shots, matching a career high and earning him Ivy League Player of the Week honors for the second time this season. Still, Cornell still has some room for improvement before tomorrow's game.
Brown (7-5, 1-3) has had an up and down season, and is coming off a 14-8 victory over Hartford last weekend. The Bears started their season 4-1, but have gone 3-4 in their last seven games. During this latest stretch, Brown lost a game to Dartmouth in four overtimes, which was the longest game in Bears lacrosse history.
Brown is led by senior David Madeira, an honorable mention All-Ivy selection last year. This season, the attackman leads the team with 22 goals to go along with three assists. The Bears also boast freshman Thomas Muldoon, who has notched 21 goals and nine assists for a team-high 30 points. Muldoon also has recorded two game-winning goals this year. Senior Alex Buckley leads the squad with 13 assists and ranks third with 22 points.
On the defensive end, senior Bobby Shields has made 10 starts and has collected 23 ground balls. Cornell will also have to watch out for junior Brian Sharnick, who has started all 12 games for Brown and has picked up eight ground balls. Classmate Reed Deluca has made 10 starts and has recorded 17 ground balls.
At the face-off "X," Brown freshman Charlie Kenney has won 44-of-104 face-offs, good for a .423 percentage. Sophomore Nic Bell has a 35-of-94 mark, giving him a .372 percentage.
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The NFL Draft, arguably one of the most exciting days of the entire year, has finally arrived. With no clear consensus as to the top talent in this year's class, there should be a great deal of activity starting tomorrow at noon, when the Raiders finally go on the clock. However, given the current draft order, here is how I expect the first round to unfold.
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Dancing on Thatcher\'s Grave: Brixton\'s Iron Lady Death Party Ends in Looting and Arrests [VIDEO]
By Dominic Gover
April 9, 2013 10:34 BST
An impromptu street party to celebrate Margaret Thatcher's death span out of control with a charity shop attacked, clashes with police and a number of people arrested.
About 100 people were out on the streets in Brixton in south London to cheer the death of the former prime minister, who died from a stroke.
A noticeboard at the famous Ritzy cinema was hijacked by partygoers who swapped the letters on it to read 'Margaret Thatcher's Dead'.
Smashed glass was strewn over the street after the window of charity shop Barnardos was kicked in. Two women were arrested on suspicion of burglary and were held overnight in police cells.
Police officers were attacked, said witnesses, with extra numbers drafted in to stop revellers spilling out on to the roads and blocking traffic.
IBTimes UK reporter Ewan Palmer was at the scene. He said: "There was the notion that this morbid celebration has been planned in thousands of people's heads for more than 30 years.
"Police stood by and watched as more and more people arrived with their drink and banners mocking her death. Shouts of 'Maggie, Maggie, Maggie! Dead, dead, dead!' rang around gleefully.
"Chalk was handed out so people could graffiti their own message on the ground and surrounding walls.
"There were even two guys playing double bass and acoustic guitar in the crowd for a singalong. At the start of the evening, the whole thing resembled a middle-class music festival more than a raucous demo.
"Almost inevitably after a few hours of people drinking in the streets, this escalated into scenes of unrest between people and riot police, resulting in arrests and even serious injury."
Cause for celebration: Man with homemade placard
The revellers downed alcohol and brandished placards reading "The bitch is dead" and "Rejoice! Thatcher is dead" Many revellers appeared younger than the 23 years which have passed since Thatcher left office.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "Police dealt with a group of approximately 100 people in Brixton who caused low-level disorder, including throwing missiles at officers.
"In order to protect the community and to ensure the highways remained clear, extra officers were deployed."
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The Khasi Indigenous Faith
By Esther Syiem
The Khasis are people indigenous to the Khasi and Jaiñtia Hills, (Meghalaya) and to the adjoining plains of Kamrup and Nagoan in the North (Assam) and Sylhet regions (Bangladesh) in the South. Their main habitat lies between 25o1' and 26o5' North Latitude and 90o47' and 92o52' East Longitude. The total Khasi population in 1991 was approximately 1 million people (inclusive of the Khasi population in Bangladesh). Unlike in the neighbouring states of Nagaland and Mizoram, in Meghalaya, the conversion into Christianity that took place in the late nineteenth century was a little less than seventy percent. Hence the indigenous faith has strong adherents even today. There have been adaptations and changes in some ceremonies and rituals, but the underlying philosophy has remained the same.
The creation myth of the Khasis runs like this:
God who had created earth and her husband, and who had given them the children they asked for, placed seven families on Earth and nine in Heaven. The seven he placed on the rngi (sunny) side of Lum Sohpet Bneng where food was always in plentiful supply. At the beginning the seven families kept their promise to God, in which the Divine Decree that was given to them by Him, became the ruling principle of their lives. They were in touch with the nine families above through the Jingkieng Ksiar or the Golden Ladder that He had made for them.
The children of the seven families, of hynñiew trep hynñiew skum tilled the soil diligently and lived in harmony with their clansmen above, going up and down the jingkieng ksiar. God had also planted the diengϊei or the ϊei tree as reminder of their promise to Him. However, one day Sormoh and Sorphin two children of hynñiew trep hynñiew skum met a creature not of their world, who pointed to the imminent danger of the Ïei tree covering all of earth with its expanding foliage.
Sormoh and Sorphin, who had fallen under the influence of this creature, passed on their fears to the others who, before long decided to cut down the offending tree. Every man was called upon to bring his axe to cut it down. After a gruelling day of trying to hack the tree down they returned home in the evening only to continue with their self-appointed task in the morning. When they came back the next day they found that the tree had healed itself almost miraculously. This continued for several days until a little bird, a phreit happened upon them and told them of a tiger that came every night to lick the cut to make the tree whole again. The only solution it explained to them was to place their axes with their sharpened end outwards so that when the tiger came to lick the tree its tongue would be cut off. Sure enough this was what happened. It was now only a matter of time before the tree was felled.
We are told that when the tree was felled, Lum Sohpet Bneng receded from heaven and the children of hynñiew trep hynñiew skum found themselves irreversibly cut off from God and the other nine families above. This tale has a specific place in Khasi religion and culture in which the Divine Decree, said to have been imparted by God to the seven families who made the earth their home helped them carry on with the task of rebuilding their lives.
Thus the philosophy of Khasi religion is reflected in the common dictum: tip briew tip Blei; kamai ϊa ka hok; and tip kur tip kha commonly known as the Divine Decree. It lays the foundation of a society that must take into account the interpenetration of the physical with the extra-physical. Its brevity may easily be mistaken for simplicity but it does not allow reduction to a few simplistic norms.
To be tip briew tip Blei is to be informed of the hierarchies of knowledge and the existence of a world order that places human beings above all other creatures. Knowing man in the sense of recognising and respecting another, places the individual on the right course. The ability to know God results in a shared sense of community that weaves society together.
To kamai ϊa ka hok has the dual implication of following a work-ethic that, over and above everything else that is material, emphasises completely upon the working for or the earning of truth in this life. The stress is upon integrity and a disciplined sense of righteousness that has to be maintained at all times.
To be tip kur tip kha is an important dictum in Khasi society. Being matrilineal, lineage is traced from the mother; responsibility, hence, lies with the mother to identify relatives to her children such as the paternal and maternal relations that literally extend the family's roof, ban ϊar u tnum u tyndai. Paternal relations, ki kñia kha, beginning with the paternal grandmother, hold special respect as they give the children rooted consciousness of who they are and where they belong: a full sense of themselves. The cardinal virtue of knowing one's paternal and maternal relations is that the taboo of incest and intra-clan marriage may be pre-empted. The social norms and values that spring from this dictum establish a society that upholds the sanctity of familial values.
These are the three cornerstones of Khasi thought around which is structured the entire world-view of the Khasi. In as much as the fireplace or the hearth is symbolic of domestic stability which in turn is an important attribute of society, the three maxims are the three symbolic corner-stones that make up the fireplace. It is at this intersection of the domestic and the social that the religious finds proper definition. Within the ambit of Khasi life, religion as such is not a separate institution presided over by a religious functionary. Khasi religion is clan-based Ka Niam kur and the clan elder acts as the mediator between his clan and God; hence his significance within the Khasi household. In the various clans or kur, prayers, rituals, and sacrifices were usually performed by the eldest maternal uncle of the clan. His esteem within the clan and, consequently, within society, depends on his ability to negotiate the social and the spiritual, the physical and the metaphysical. Whatever rituals there are to be performed, these are usually clan-specific.
Khasi culture has always upheld the existence of one supreme deity, U Blei Nongbuh Nongthaw, "God the Creator and God the Maker", and the life concurrent with such a belief. It is a culture that has always preferred to explain its existence in mythic rather than in historic terms. This is connected with the elevation and installation of the oral to a position of centrality as a result of the mythical loss of the written script. (This has reference to another tale in which the messenger lost the script given to him by God). The oral or the spoken word, ka ktien, rationalises the ultimate meaning of existence in a way that is geared towards the preservation of a mystical sense of life, where the rngiew or the aura that radiates from an individual and even the entire community must be kept alive.
The rngiew speaks of an inner force that is difficult to conceal. In maturity it is almost tangible and is a natural protection against all negative influences. Even a child may possess a strong rngiew or be eh rngiew and, therefore, prove able to withstand the suppressive forces that may threaten him/her. Giving a child a name is the first step towards empowering its rngiew.
Three epithets have been used to describe God: U Blei, U Trai Kynrad, U Bastad; God the Maker, the Master, the All-Knowing One. And it is always at the altar (there are no temples as such but a sanctified space may be created within a family home or public place invoked by prayer) of U Blei that the elder, sometimes the priest called in from the priestly family, or as is the case now the shaman, invokes empowerment for the performance of his sanctified duty. With God above and supplicating humankind below, prayers and rituals for different occasions follow strictly according to the occasion.
Some indigenous beliefs, customs and practices still exercise a strong hold upon Christians; what is considered religious truth by the follower of the indigenous faith maybe considered myth for others. But by and large both Christian and follower of the Khasi faith have been able to overcome the differences that brought a rift at the start of the 20th century, which was the cause for the evolution of Khasi literature and thought.
Esther Syiem is Professor of English Literature at the North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. She has been involved in the study of Khasi folk literature for more than a decade and has written on Khasi folklore, myth, and history. A bilingual writer and established poet, some of her publications include two collections of poetry: Oral Scriptings and Of Wit and Wisdom of Follies and Frailties. Other works include The Languages of Meghalaya (with G. N. Devy), Race of the Rivers, Oral Discourse in Khasi Folk Narrative, and a play in Khasi, Ka Nam. She has published with Orient Blackswan, Tulika, Easternbook Publishers and Writer's Workshop.
Tags: Minor Faiths, South Asia, syncretism
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PUBLISHED: 10:32 PM 25 Jan 2017
You're FIRED: Trump Gets Rid Of Corrupt VA Officials On Day One, Fires CEO As Swamp Drained
by Joseph Laney
Trump Making Good To Overhaul VA. YOU"RE FIRED!
Trump Making Good To Overhaul VA. YOU'RE FIRED!
Our veterans deserve the best medical care available. In a time where we subsidize illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities, neglecting our vets is nothing less than criminal. President Donald Trump has pledged to reverse this shameful tragedy.
The woefully inadequate bureaucracy known as the Veterans Administration needs a top to bottom overhaul. Every single person in this country owes their freedom to our brave warriors. The last eight years have seen the VA degenerate to third world status. It didn't have far to go.
Most veterans will tell you the medical staff is mostly adequate. Getting to them is the problem. Many vets, especially those with mental issues, fall through the cracks. Corruption and abuse have long been a cancer at the VA. Non-medical personnel have been a source of abuse and corruption. Trump has already begun to stop the hemorrhaging. Days into Donald Trump's administration, heads are finally beginning to roll at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Two notoriously corrupt employees in Puerto Rico were fired this week, indicating that more may be on the way.
One is the hospital's CEO, DeWayne Hamlin, who offered an employee $305,000 to quit after she played a role in exposing his drug arrest.
"Mr. DeWayne Hamlin was removed from federal service effective January 20, 2017," the VA said. Jan. 20 was Inauguration Day.
Under former Secretary of Veterans Affairs Bob McDonald, the agency ignored years of evidence about shoddy work ethic, theft and whistleblower retaliation. The VA finally began a months-long investigative proceeding last year, after an outside agency, the Office of Special Counsel, prodded VA leadership. Scandal, controversy and veterans care in the United States have gone hand-in-hand for virtually as long as there's been a republic.
After the Revolutionary War, for instance, payments promised by Congress to disabled veterans were left up to the states, and only a few thousand of those who served ever received anything.
Congress created the Veterans Bureau in 1921, to administer assistance to World War I veterans. It quickly devolved into corruption, and was abolished nine years later under a cloud of scandal. Thousands of World War I veterans and their families marched on Washington to demand payment of promised war bonuses. In an embarrassing spectacle, federal troops forcibly removed veterans who refused to end their protest.
President Harry Truman accepted the resignation of VA Administrator Frank Hines in 1945, after a series of news reports detailing shoddy care in VA-run hospitals. The American Legion led the charge seeking the ouster of VA Administrator Gen. Omar Bradley, citing an ongoing lack of facilities, troubles faced by hundreds of thousands of veterans in getting services and a proposal to limit access to services for some combat veterans.
Fell Through The Cracks
In 1947, a government commission on reforming government uncovered enormous waste, duplication and inadequate care in the VA system and called for wholesale changes in the agency's structure. A second government reform commission in 1955 again found widespread instances of waste and poor care in the VA system.
Vietnam veterans in the early 1970's grew increasingly frustrated with the VA for failing to better fund treatment and assistance programs, and later to recognize exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange by troops in Vietnam as the cause for numerous medical problems among veterans.
Ron Kovic, the subject of the book and movie, "Born on the Fourth of July," interrupted Richard Nixon's GOP presidential nomination acceptance speech, saying, according to his biography, "I'm a Vietnam veteran. I gave America my all, and the leaders of this government threw me and others away to rot in their VA hospitals."
Kovic led a 19-day hunger strike at a federal building in Los Angeles to protest poor treatment of veterans in VA hospitals. He and fellow veterans demanded to meet with VA Director Donald Johnson. The embattled director eventually flew to California to meet with the activists, but left after they rejected his demand to meet in the VA's office in the building. The ensuing uproar resulted in widespread criticism of Johnson. A few weeks later, Johnson resigned after President Richard Nixon announces an investigation into VA operations.
A General Accounting Office investigation into Denver's VA hospital found numerous shortcomings in patient care, including veterans whose surgical dressings were rarely changed. The GAO also looked at the New Orleans VA hospital, and found ever-increasing patient loads were contributing to a decline in the quality of care there, as well.
Congressional investigators in 1984 found evidence that VA officials had diverted or refused to spend more than $40 million that Congress approved to help Vietnam veterans with readjustment problems. The VA's Inspector General's office found 93 physicians working for the agency have sanctions against their medical licenses.
Outrage erupted after documents revealed some senior VA officials received bonuses of up to $33,000 despite a backlog of hundreds of thousands of benefits cases and an internal review that found numerous problems, some of them critical, at VA facilities across the nation.
Our Obligation As A Free Nation
Nine Ohio veterans tested positive for hepatitis after routine dental work at a VA clinic in Dayton, Ohio. A dentist at the VA medical center there acknowledged not washing his hands or even changing gloves between patients for 18 years. More recently, at least 19 veterans died at VA hospitals in 2010 and 2011 because of delays in diagnosis and treatment. At least 40 veterans died while waiting for appointments to see a doctor at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care system.
A VA employee was placed on administrative leave after an email surfaced in which the employee discussed "gaming the system a bit" to manipulate waiting times. The suspension came a day after a scheduling clerk in San Antonio admitted to "cooking the books" to shorten apparent waiting times. Three days later, two employees in Durham, North Carolina, were placed on leave over similar allegations.
The problems at the VA are deeply embedded. It has a culture of corruption, abuse, neglect, and waste. It will take all the power President Trump can bring to bear on a broken system.
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Die Wahl zum Repräsentantenhaus in Nepal 2017 fand am 26. November 2017 und 7. Dezember 2017 statt. Dies war die erste Wahl des neu geschaffenen Unterhauses, des Pratinidhi Sabha, des nepalesischen Parlaments entsprechend der neuen Verfassung von 2015.
Wahlergebnis
Das Wahlbündnis zwischen der Kommunistischen Partei Nepals (Vereinigte Marxisten-Leninisten) (CPN-UML), angeführt vom ehemaligen Ministerpräsidenten Khadga Prasad Oli, und der Kommunistischen Partei Nepals – Maoistisches Zentrum (CPN-MC), angeführt vom ehemaligen Ministerpräsidenten Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda", gewann die Wahlen. Die Nepalesische Kongresspartei (NC) vom bisherigen Premierminister Sher Bahadur Deuba wurde Zweite.
Am 15. Februar 2017 wurde Khadga Prasad Oli als neuer Ministerpräsident vereidigt. Mit der Einberufung des Repräsentantenhauses und der Nationalversammlung am 5. März 2018 endete offiziell das 2007 eingerichtete Interimsparlament. Die Nationalversammlung wurde kurze Zeit später im Februar 2018 gewählt.
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Super brave me climbed up that high bridge to get some nice shots taken by Stefan. Coming down again I had to jump into Stefan's arms while he was catching me. So totally adventurous guys! And I've thought of posting another 10 Facts about me this time. I have done that some months ago already – you can find the post here. Alright, so here we go, another 10 randomly taken facts about me.
My iPhone is set in english ever since I've got one.I do not even know how it's like to have it set in german. Even temperature and clock is set in "american".
BTW I've done a traineeship as a election campaign trainee for Barack Obama in 2008. Hooray, yes we can and thank you for 8 years, Mr. President!!!
I'm very afraid of height, so do you even believe me that bridge here was that high enough call myself "brave"?! I can assure you it was, haha!
…But in summer time I'm likely to wear more dresses and skirts – it's more comfy when it's hot.
I have turned 25 years old this year in February.
Stefan and me moved to Munich into our first apartment 5 years ago.
I hate reading books, I guess I have never finished any book, it just bores me. Ugh!
Hope you enjoyed peeps! Let me know some fun fact of you, too! I'd love to read some. Happy Sunday, xoxo, Paula.
Wow! Daredevil, Haha. Lovely pictures.
love learning these facts!! such a fun post idea!
Such fun facts about you!
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J6 committee releases Ray Epps' testimony
A man suspected to be a government provocateur during the January 6 riot at the US Capitol testified before the Congressional committee about his actions. Listen Here:
McConnell says he opposes Jan. 6 commission bill
"After careful consideration, I've made the decision to oppose the House Democrats slanted and unbalanced proposal for another commission to study the events of Jan. 6," McConnell said from the Senate floor. The speech comes hours after meeting with Senate Republicans early Wednesday morning. The Minority Leader has tried to rally other GOP members behind his efforts to block any commission from becoming law.
'We Are Not A Match': Bumble rejection leads to arrest for Capitol rioter
"I did storm the Capitol," Chapman embellished on the dating site under the alias Robert Erick, according to court filings on Thursday. "I made it all the way into the Statuary Hall!" However, his potential match wasn't thrilled by the conversation starter. "We are not a match," they replied and contacted authorities.
North Carolina man turns himself in after attack at U.S. Capitol
Horn's Facebook account showed several statements about being in the Capitol on Jan. 6 during the attack in Washington D.C., and he also made a live video recording while inside the Capitol. According to court documents, two people say they recognized Horn from an Instagram post by The New York Times and called the FBI.
Trump-appointed State Department official stormed Capitol, assaulted police, FBI says
Federico Guillermo Klein, 42, was taken into custody by authorities and faces multiple felony charges related to the riot, including knowingly engaging in an act of violence against any person or property in a restricted building or grounds. He remained at the State Department until Jan. 19.
FBI arrests two in North Carolina involved in U.S. Capitol insurrection
Laura Steele, 52, of Thomasville, North Carolina was taken into custody by Federal agents on Wednesday in Greensboro. She, along with five other individuals, are charged as co-defendant in a preexisting case of the United States v. Thomas Caldwell, Donovan Crowl, and Jessica Watkins.
McCrory: Why are political leaders afraid to investigate anarchists?
Why are political leaders afraid to investigate anarchists from the left and right? As a former mayor and governor, I actually did do my duty and enforced the law against rioters who destroy property, attack police officers, and kill citizens.
McCrory: If you talk about violence and destruction, count me out
After watching the videos of the death and destruction done by rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6th during yesterday's impeachment trial of Donald Trump, it became apparent to me this country needs civility again. It's not just the actions of what happened that day in Washington D.C., but we as a society have reached a point where people are driven by anger; instead of kindness
Trump impeachment defense says it unconstitutional to try former President
David Schoen, a seasoned civil and criminal lawyer, took the argument further by insinuating there could be another civil war if Trump is convicted."This trial will tear this country apart, perhaps like we have only seen once before in our history," Schoen said.
FBI arrests third person from North Carolina in U.S. Capitol insurrection
Virginia Marie Spencer, also known as Jenny Spencer, turned herself into authorities before her court appearance in Durham, N.C. on Monday, according to the FBI. She was interviewed by the FBI on Jan. 19 after the arrest warrant for her husband, Christopher Raphael Spencer, was issued on Jan. 18. | {
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Q: Why does R appear to be a lazy match I want to use stri_replace_all_regex to replace string see as follows:
It's known that R default to greedy matching, but why it appears lazy matching here?
library(stringi)
a <- c('abc2','xycd2','mnb345')
b <- c('ab','abc','xyc','mnb','mn')
stri_replace_all_regex(a, "\\b" %s+% b %s+% "\\S+", b, vectorize_all=FALSE)
The result is [1] "ab" "xyc" "mn", which is not what I want. I
expected "abc" "xyc" "mnb".
A: You are calling stri_replace_all_regex with four arguments:
a is length 3. That's the str argument.
"\\b" %s+% b %s+% "\\S+" is length 5. (It would be a lot easier to read if you had used paste0("\\b", b, "\\S+"), but that's beside the point.) That's the pattern argument.
b is length 5. That's the replacement argument.
The last argument is vectorize_all=FALSE.
What it tries to do is documented as follows:
However, for stri_replace_all*, if vectorize_all is FALSE, then each
substring matching any of the supplied patterns is replaced by a
corresponding replacement string. In such a case, the vectorization is
over str, and - independently - over pattern and replacement. In other
words, this is equivalent to something like for (i in 1:npatterns) str <- stri_replace_all(str, pattern[i], replacement[i]). Note that you
must set length(pattern) >= length(replacement).
That's pretty sloppy documentation (I want to know what it does, not "something like" what it does!), but I think the process is as follows:
Your first pattern is "\\bab\\S+". That says "word boundary followed by ab followed by one or more non-whitespace chars". That matches all of a[1], so a[1] is replaced by b[1], which is "ab". It then tries the four other patterns, but none of them match, so you get "ab" as output.
The handling of a[3] is more complicated. The first match replaces it with "mnb", based on pattern[4]. Then a second replacement happens, because "mnb" matches pattern[5], and it gets changed again to "mn".
When you say R defaults to greedy matching, that's when doing a single regular expression match. You're doing five separate greedy matches, not one big greedy match.
EDITED to add:
I don't know the stringi functions well, but in the base regex functions you can do this with just one regex:
a <- c('abc2','xycd2','mnb345')
b <- c('ab','abc','xyc','mnb','mn')
# Build a big pattern:
# "|" means "or", "(" ... ") capture the match
pattern <- paste0("\\b(", b, ")\\S+", collapse = "|")
pattern
#> [1] "\\b(ab)\\S+|\\b(abc)\\S+|\\b(xyc)\\S+|\\b(mnb)\\S+|\\b(mn)\\S+"
# \\1 etc contain whatever matched the parenthesized
# patterns. Only one will match, the rest will be empty
gsub(pattern, "\\1\\2\\3\\4\\5", a)
#> [1] "ab" "xyc" "mnb"
# I would have guessed the greedy rule would have found "abc"
# Try again:
pattern <- paste0("\\b(", b[c(2, 1, 3:5)], ")\\S+", collapse = "|")
pattern
#> [1] "\\b(abc)\\S+|\\b(ab)\\S+|\\b(xyc)\\S+|\\b(mnb)\\S+|\\b(mn)\\S+"
gsub(pattern, "\\1\\2\\3\\4\\5", a)
#> [1] "abc" "xyc" "mnb"
Created on 2023-02-13 with reprex v2.0.2
It appears the "|" takes the first match, not the greedy match. I don't think the R docs specify it one way or the other.
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By Melissa Chan Posted on July 12, 2013
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Police are looking for the suspects responsible for a string of robberies in Queens and Manhattan.
The thieves, both males and females, have robbed a number of victims at gunpoint in the two boroughs at least eight separate times, authorities said.
They usually work in pairs and have a pattern of approaching unsuspecting victims, displaying either a firearm or knife, and then demanding their possessions — often their PIN numbers, too — before fleeing, police said.
Two black males took a woman's purse and jewelry at gunpoint during the first instance on June 29. The robbery took place near Slocum Crescent and Greenway Terrace.
The next day, a 24-year-old female victim entered a four-door sedan, which she believed to be a cab, and was robbed by three black women inside the vehicle. They took her purse, debit card and demanded her PIN number before dropping her off in front of 467 West 49th Street, police said.
The crimes continue up until at least July 5, when a black female robbed a 33-year-old man in Manhattan near Perry Street and Hudson Street at gunpoint. She demanded the PIN number to his debit card and robbed him of his belongings before fleeing.
A victim's hands were bound by a cord, in one instance, while two suspects withdrew money from his account at a nearby ATM, police said.
Authorities say both male and female suspects are black and in their early to mid 20s.
One female is about 5-feet-8, between 180 and 190 pounds, while the other is 5-feet-2, between 110 and 115 pounds.
One male suspect is about 6-feet, 180 pounds and the other is described as 5-feet-5.
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How to Count Komodo Dragons
Camera traps worked about as well as physical traps at detecting the presence of Komodo dragons―and, in certain areas, did even better, an analysis reveals. The finding is significant because Komodo populations are threatened by human activities
By Douglas Main, OurAmazingPlanet on April 1, 2013
How do you count Komodo dragons? With some cameras and the element of surprise.
Camera traps are frequently used to take pictures and monitor populations of large mammals like tigers and leopards, but until now, they haven't been used often to count Komodo dragonsthe world's largest lizardsor other reptiles and amphibians.
Recent research suggests that they can and should be used to keep tabs on these animals, and that cameras may beat the physical traps currently used to monitor Komodo dragon populations.
Camera traps work by taking pictures when alerted to the presence of an animal by a motion detector, often an infrared one that detects heat. That's a potential problem for reptiles and amphibians, which are cold-blooded, and thus often have the same temperature as the surrounding environment.
But the study, published online last week in the journal PLOS ONE, found that cameras worked about as well as traps at detecting the presence of Komodo dragonsand, in certain areas, did even better. Plus, they require much less manpower to operate, and are far less expensive. With cameras, there is also no need to set up a large trap, bait it with goat meat and free the animal afterward.
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The finding is significant, considering Komodo populations are threatened by human activities and that many lizards and amphibians are in decline around the world. Camera traps could help keep monitor these reptilian beasts elsewhere.
The Komodo dragons' body temperatures were apparently warm enough to be detected by the camera, the study found (although the lizards are active during the daylight, when infrared sensors aren't always necessary). However, other lizards may not be recorded so easily, the study authors noted.
The study took place in eastern Indonesia, among the five islands where the predatory lizards live. Unlike most lizards, Komodo dragons are apex predators, and eat animals as large as water buffalo. They've achieved this position atop the food chain through their sheer size, toxic venom and sharp teeth. Plus, there is a lack of large mammals with which to compete.
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Adult male Komodo dragons can grow up to 10 feet (3 meters) long and weigh as much as 192 pounds (87 kilograms), according to the study. The animals attack and eat just about anything, including deer, goats, pigs, dogs and occasionally humans.
The lizards are currently considered vulnerableone step away from being endangeredby the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Komodo dragons are quite intimidating when feeding, ripping apart their prey quickly with their 60-some serrated teeth, according to the Smithsonian's National Zoo. Komodos can eat up to 80 percent of their body weight in one sitting. If they are threatened, however, they can quickly vomit much of their stomach contents and run away — their top speed is about 13 mph (20 km/h). Young dragons face difficult lives, as they are often eaten by adult Komodo dragons, providing the grown-ups with about 10 percent of their diet.
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By Mike Madriaga
"I believe I had this COVID-19 virus a few weeks ago," said Sunnie. "I never felt so sick in my life."
Sunnie, 54, from Pacific Beach and a registered nurse, requested we not publish her last name.
I sent Sunnie a direct message on March 22, hours after Governor Newson called on young people to obey the stay-at-home order he made a couple of days earlier.
I asked Sunnie to look outside of her window and explain what the Pacific Beach section of the boardwalk looked like.
"There are still many people today," she said, comparing the crowd to the photos by her 28-year-old-neighbor, Max Nodland.
"I live 500 feet from this," Sunnie said.
"Mike, the wall photo was taken at 1:12 pm on March 21," Nodland said to me in a direct message, "that was in front of Woody's in Pacific Beach."
On Nodland's series of photos that went viral over the weekend, the Pacific Beach boardwalk, which is about two blocks away from his home, appeared packed with visitors not following six-foot social-distancing. On his wall photo, San Diegans sit inches from one another; on another photo, over 30 strollers walk on the boardwalk, inches apart.
"My girlfriend didn't want me to post them because she thought I might get the beach shut down," said Nodland, an e-commerce specialist and amateur photographer, "and we've been using walks on the sand as a way to get out of the house; the people on the sand were doing a great job of distancing."
Photographers around San Diego County and Tijuana are capturing empty streets and freeways that would normally be bustling with activity and then posting the "surreal and lifeless" photos on social media.
"I was hoping it was dead and brought my camera to take some pictures of what I assumed would be an empty beach," Nodland continued, "and when I got there — I was somewhat surprised."
A couple commenters blamed the "YOLO [You Only Live Once] post-millennial spring breakers" for being out and about, in which the commenters were likely swayed by recent mainstream reports of Florida spring breakers congregating and "super-spreading" on their beaches.
"I saw a ton of spring breakers here last weekend," Nodland said, "there seemed to be fewer this weekend. Today there was a wide age range represented — definitely not skewing young. I think the bulk age range was between 25-45."
Cristbel Adams from Imperial Beach lives close to their pier about 21 miles south of PB; she direct-messaged me an Instagram video of "yolo spring breakers."
"People are still hanging out like nothing, and not respecting the social distance," she explained. "Look, Mike, I'm originally from Venezuela, and I have been in many lockdowns there; the difference is that in my country the military takes actions if you don't follow the rules.
"And we are supposed to be in quarantine and they say we have to stay home, [yet] there's a farmer's market open in Little Italy. I just watched the news and they said it's OK. as long as the people keep the social distance."
Nodland and IB residents noticed surfers surfing by both of their piers.
"There's nothing bad about surfing," opined Adams, "because they just jump in the ocean alone, [keep their distance] and go back home without social contact."
Others not heeding our governor's orders by staying home are still practicing social distancing as they hike and mountain bike out in the boondocks, and many are heading east to off-road in the desert by El Centro and Yuma.
San Diego kids and teens are seen hosting dance parties with live DJs, and forming group chats where they are video conferencing and dancing in their parents' and guardians' homes.
For 21 and up San Diegans, they now have the option of picking up alcohol packed hand-mixed drinks, or they can have them delivered to their homes. On March 20, a "Notice of Regulatory Relief" passed by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, went into effect, and states in part: "bona fide eating places (i.e., restaurants) selling beer, wine, and pre-mixed drinks or cocktails for consumption off the licensed premises may do so when sold in conjunction with meals prepared for pick-up or delivery."
Over the weekend "young San Diegans" were reportedly congregating at Chula Vista, Ocean Beach and Pacific Beach house parties, with over ten individuals, and playing loud music and consuming alcohol — disobeying the "boomers" in their lives.
"Actually the young are the future so maybe stop acting superior since you aren't," posted a female on her social media. "And if you really think we aren't struggling in this garbage heap of a world that has been passed down to us to fix, then you are very mistaken and arrogant. It's fine though, it will definitely be a struggle for you when you need us to take care of you in your old age if this kind of mindset continues. And yes it's harsh but it's getting really old hearing people bash the younger generations when they are the only ones who will be around long enough to make a significant difference."
At about 2 pm on March 22, Nodland sent me a photo of the boardwalk and it appeared as packed as the day before when his photos went viral; mainstream news reported of the San Diego Police Department blocking access to city of San Diego beach parking lots.
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Big Brother's Bit On the Side returns week nights with Rylan Clark-Neal. Joining him will be a variety of celebrity panellists and an audience of BB fans to debate hot topics, reveal exclusives and go behind the scenes of the main show.
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The Big Brother House has been transformed into a slick, stark monochrome world. Whilst everything may appear to be black and white – that certainly won't be the case. Viewers should prepare for a 'yin and yang' style force to evolve Big Brother for a new generation. This force will affect the Housemates for better or for worse. So who will survive the summer and win £100,000? You decide!
Sounds like BB14 mixed with BB15.
Have they decreased the prize fund?
Hmmm. Interesting. This will be either be amazing or tragic. Depends how they pull it off!
This does now put to bed the BBUS format obsession?
I wonder what about the housemates for this series? Are they in some kind of sequester already? If not, they can read all the news and notes like that one above as well as everyone. And that'd ruin it all. And if they are in sequester already, isn't it insane to be cut from outside world for that long? I'm curious.
@ Adam. Idk. It certainly sounds like more of a gameshow now though.
I wonder if we're getting the full promo today.
If they were already locked away, surely that would mean launch within two weeks? Do the HMs even go into "hiding" these days?
Nothing in that info couldn't be gleaned from what we know already tbh.
I think it'll deffo launch around Fri 10th June. Was hoping for Fri 3rd but I've realised Up Late With Rylan is still on then.
I think it's a total brand new format never seen before by the sounds of it.
Good being unknown housemates and bad being people in the paper everyone likes such as Most Cunningham and Barbie Boy?
Maybe a 2 part launch again this year?
BB15's theme was revealed on the 16th May and it launched 5th June, so perhaps A Fri 10th could be possible.
I thought the extension was gonna be a task arena, which sounds more feasible with this news.
So no celeb vs civilian? | {
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The City of Fayetteville is centrally located in Mid-America. It is 35 miles from the Arkansas-Missouri border and 25 miles from the Arkansas-Oklahoma border. The City of Fayetteville is one of 5 big cities in the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area). This MSA forms the Northwest Arkansas Region and it comprises of Washington, Benton, and Madison counties in Arkansas and McDonald county in Missouri. Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers MSA is one of 4 MSAs in Arkansas and 323 in the United States. The largest city in this MSA is the City of Fayetteville. Population-wise, the Fayetteville MSA ranked 105th in the US.
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Although limited in boot compatibility*, the TR-2 binding is not limited in features and performance. Ski Trab developed a unique heel design that uses downward pressure to maximize steering precision. It also lets you change from ski-mode to walk-mode without exiting the binding; just press down with your pole. At the toe, the wings can open to the side, enabling a twisting release like an alpine binding. These highlights combine to make the Trab TR-2 one of the more interesting ski-touring bindings on the market.
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* Please note this binding is compatible only with La Sportiva Spectre 2.0, Spitfire 2.0, Sideral 2.0, Starlet 2.0, and SCARPA Spirit boots.
Hi, your specs say that the touring mode has a flat walk mode and 2 riser levels, but I think it actually just has a semi-flat walk mode with a single riser.
Hi James, The walk mode is very close to flat because the toe piece with pins sits up higher. With that being said, the boot will not lie flush against the ski like some other tech bindings. I've updated the specs to just read "2". Hope this helps, thanks for pointing this out.
Does 'crampon ready' mean that the crampon attachment comes with the TR2 binding, or do I still need to purchase the crampon attachment, from the SKITRAB parts tab? Thanks!
Hey Sami! "Crampon ready" indicates that you can attach crampons straight out of the box with no extra parts! It's compatible with Dynafit style crampons.
Would it be possible to mate the Trab TR 2 toe piece with the ATK Haute Route heel piece to lighten up the rig/work around the boot compatibility issues while maintaining the alpine binding-like releasability?
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Q: Define setup.py dependencies from a private PyPI I'd like to install dependencies from my private PyPI by specifying them within a setup.py.
I've already tried to specify where to find dependencies within the dependency_links this way:
setup(
...
install_requires=["foo==1.0"],
dependency_links=["https://my.private.pypi/"],
...
)
I've also tried to define the entire URL within the dependency_links:
setup(
...
install_requires=[],
dependency_links=["https://my.private.pypi/foo/foo-1.0.tar.gz"],
...
)
but when I try to install with python setup.py install, neither of them worked for me.
Can anybody help me?
EDITS:
With the first piece of code I got this error:
...
Installed .../test-1.0.0-py3.7.egg
Processing dependencies for test==1.0.0
Searching for foo==1.0
Reading https://my.private.pypi/
Reading https://pypi.org/simple/foo/
Couldn't find index page for 'foo' (maybe misspelled?)
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Reading https://pypi.org/simple/
No local packages or working download links found for foo==1.0
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('foo==1.0')
while in the second case I didn't get any error, just the following:
...
Installed .../test-1.0.0-py3.7.egg
Processing dependencies for test==1.0.0
Finished processing dependencies for test==1.0.0
UPDATE 1:
I've tried to change the setup.py following sinoroc's instructions. Now my setup.py looks like this:
setup(
...
install_requires=["foo==1.0"],
dependency_links=["https://username:[email protected]/folder/foo/foo-1.0.tar.gz"],
...
)
I built the library test with python setup.py sdist and tried to install it with pip install /tmp/test/dist/test-1.0.0.tar.gz, but I still get this error:
Processing /tmp/test/dist/test-1.0.0.tar.gz
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement foo==1.0 (from test==1.0.0) (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for foo==1.0 (from test==1.0.0)
Regarding the private PyPi, I don't have any additional information because I'm not the administrator of it. As you can see, I just have the credentials (username and password) for that server.
Additionally, that PyPi is organised in sub-folders, https://my.private.pypi/folder/.. where the dependency I want to install is.
UPDATE 2:
By running pip install --verbose /tmp/test/dist/test-1.0.0.tar.gz, it seams there is only 1 location where to search for the library foo, in the public server https://pypi.org/simple/foo/ and not in our private server https://my.private.pypi/folder/foo/.
Here the output:
...
1 location(s) to search for versions of foo:
* https://pypi.org/simple/foo/
Getting page https://pypi.org/simple/foo/
Found index url https://pypi.org/simple
Looking up "https://pypi.org/simple/foo/" in the cache
Request header has "max_age" as 0, cache bypassed
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): pypi.org:443
https://pypi.org:443 "GET /simple/foo/ HTTP/1.1" 404 13
Status code 404 not in (200, 203, 300, 301)
Could not fetch URL https://pypi.org/simple/foo/: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://pypi.org/simple/foo/ - skipping
Given no hashes to check 0 links for project 'foo': discarding no candidates
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement foo==1.0 (from test==1.0.0) (from versions: none)
Cleaning up...
Removing source in /private/var/...
Removed build tracker '/private/var/...'
ERROR: No matching distribution found for foo==1.0 (from test==1.0.0)
Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
A: In your second attempt, I believe you should still have foo==1.0 in the install_requires.
Update
Be aware that pip does not support dependency_links (it used to, but does not anymore).
For pip, the alternative is to use command line options such as --index-url, --extra-index-url, or --find-links. These options can not be enforced on the user of your project (contrary to the dependency links from setuptools), so they have to be properly documented. To facilitate this, a good idea is to provide an example of a requirements.txt file to the users of your project. This file can contain some of pip options.
For example:
# requirements.txt
# ...
--find-links 'https://my.private.pypi/'
foo==1.0
# ...
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Jeff Huntington's paintings have a tendency to feel like portraits, even when his subjects are flora and fauna. Jeff is my husband. We have been friends for 23 years: since we were undergraduates at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. From this intimate perspective, I can tell you that the path of his artistic obsessions can be winding and sometimes dark, littered with images of shimmering beauty and crushing heartbreak. From sensuously rendered paintings of birds, flowers, and tropical fish, to portraits of young victims of the Khmer Rouge, he paints with unflagging single-mindedness and imparts his subjects with scrupulous care. Always, he returns to the human face.
Jeff's earliest work, completed when he was eight years old, comprised a series: Portraits of a Toucan. Other series followed, including painted copies of Star Wars trading cards, copies of Old Master paintings, hundreds of plein air (outdoor) landscapes, and always, portraits. He is a compulsive counter and maker of lists, inclined to keep records of everything: from his vast body of work, to books read and birds sighted. His series of paintings, like his lists, seem to confer equal importance to all of his subjects; flowers are put on display in a way that is just as confrontational as the fragmented human faces representing the confusion of a mind addled by Alzheimer's. His subjects gaze with dead-eyed stares or unsettling expressions of malicious glee. Deceptively beautiful, these paintings are eye candy that leaves the viewer with an uneasy cerebral aftertaste.
When I met Jeff in 1991, he had been painting for over a decade. Though he struggled in school, he eventually earned a General Education Development (GED) credential, created a massive portfolio of paintings, and applied to the Corcoran, where he was awarded a partial scholarship. Having found fertile ground for artistic growth, Jeff was an ambitious student with a remarkable ability to rally others to participate in extramural pop-up gallery projects.
At the Corcoran, Jeff became an assistant to artist and teacher William Newman, who trained him in Old Master painting techniques. This relationship would prove to be the foundation for his future painting. In addition to the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree Jeff earned at the Corcoran, he holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he attended on a full scholarship, an honor only bestowed on one student per year.
Drawn to New York City in 1998, Jeff worked as an art handler while continuing to paint prolifically. His job gave him access to the behind-the-scenes art world. "How else do you get direct contact with all levels of the 'Art World Pyramid?'" Jeff said over a recent breakfast at the Metropolitan Kitchen and Lounge. "You have to be the scum at the bottom of the pyramid." He became animated as he quickly sketched, explaining how an art handler interacts with each tier (see pyramid graphic).
Jeff worked for such blue-chip art collectors as Marc and Livia Straus, maintaining their vast art collection. While attending one of the Straus' parties, Jeff met artist Tim Rollins, who is known for his collaboration with at-risk students, collectively known as Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival).
Jeff's move to Annapolis in 2002 proved difficult. Homesick for urban life, he entered a period of depression. Annapolis didn't seem to be a friendly home for his style of painting; most local art seemed to focus on the town's maritime character. Two years later, Jeff created an energizing workplace for himself, opening Jahru Studio, where he currently offers screen-printing and design services. In 2011, Jeff met Jimi Davies, and Jahru Studio also became home base for JaH-HaHa Collaborative Art (Jeff Alan Huntington + Jimi HaHa). The "artners" spent the next two years producing hundreds of works, including mixed media paintings, murals, and limited-edition prints. Through this partnership, Jeff discovered that Annapolis had a burgeoning community of talented artists. Fortified by new friendships, he became involved in local outreach programs, mentoring young artists and teaching collaborative art with Jimi. He is an adjunct professor at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, where he continues the lineage of Bill Newman's teachings along with his own style of collage painting and collaboration.
Jeff's latest project, 49@49, was conceived last September when he attended Omar Said's one-man play The Pear Tree, performed in a then-empty storefront owned by Brian and Sarah Cahalan, right next to their café, 49 West. He was deeply moved, not only by the electrifying performance, but also by the rapt attentiveness of the audience. The same night, Jeff was offered a show at 49 West. With a newfound fondness for the local characters that flock to the café, he set out to paint 49 portraits of these kindred spirits, often incorporating costumes and poses from the work of Old Masters, but sometimes using the subject's own garb and accessories.
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Who Was Really Responsible for the Norway Massacre?
The German lawyer Michael Mannheimer draws conclusions about where the responsibility for the Oslo atrocities lies, based on the type of "logic" habitually employed by the MSM.
His observations were posted last month as a comment on a article at Politically Incorrect. Many thanks to JLH for the translation.
Why No Guilt Attaches to Islam Critics for the Massacre in Oslo
by Michael Mannheimer
Don't let it make you crazy! The Mainstream Media and The Bleeding Hearts as well as the political establishment are being exposed by their attacks against Christianity and Islam-critical forums. Here are a few examples of their argumentation.
1. Despite a thousand kinds of exhortations to hatred, violence and murder from the texts of Islam and its contemporary apologists, the MSM argues in EVERY INSTANCE of the more than 17,000 (!) terrorist acts committed by Muslims nowadays that these acts have NOTHING to do with Islam, and that the majority of Muslims are moderate.
Now, however, with a SINGLE terrorist act by a non-Muslim — specifically a SINGLE Christian (!), that reasoning does not apply: Suddenly, Mainstream-Media-And-Bleeding-Hearts, Inc. holds all of Christianity responsible for it.
2. Over one million dead from the 17,000 Islamic terrorist acts VERSUS 90 dead from one isolated Christian terrorist strike. Such a difference could be represented on the page of a newspaper by an ordinary bar graph. Using one-tenth of a millimeter for each person killed, the bar for Islam would be one-hundred meters long; the bar for the Norwegian assassin would be all of 9 millimeters. If you still wanted to use this kind of bar graph, you would have to choose a measure of a thousandth of a millimeter for each person killed. This would yield a bar of ten centimeters for Islam. The bar for non-Islamic attacks would be visible only under a microscope.
3. According to the popular standard, cui bono? (who profits?), Islam and/or its Western supporters, in line with their characteristic mindset, should be identified as the beneficiaries of the Norwegian attack. Because both of them profit most from this terrorist act. I wager, however, that this time no one will be reading about any such conspiracy theories.
4. If the political establishment really wanted to push the guilt for the Norwegian attack onto the Islam-critical forums, then they should ask themselves why they have never yet proceeded against the countless Islamic hate forums. These, logically, should bear the guilt for Islamic terrorist acts. There is no escape for them from this logical defect in their argument without admitting that they had been secretly supporting Islamic terror against the West. Even if this were true, none of them would admit it. And if one of them did do that, he would be defamed by the Western political establishment as an "isolated instance" or "psychologically disturbed."
5. Should the political establishment reproach Islam-critical forums with their contributing to hatred of Islam and therewith to this terrorist act, the establishment would be officially admitting for the first time that words do in fact lead to actions. In regard to Islam and especially in regard to some 2,000 calls from the Koran and the hadiths for the murder of all "infidels," the political establishment has always denied this principle or equated it in the must rudimentary fashion by referring to the Mecca suras.
So if the political establishment should harass or forbid all Islam-critical forums, this should be supported without reservation… provided the political establishment is logically consistent enough to also forbid all Islamic forums as the cause of the entire problem. In which case, Islam-critical forums would be rendered obsolete.
6. The Norway massacre can also be portrayed as the act of a desperate person, whose rage at the cumulative degradation of Norway and its Western-Christian foundation was expressed in this terrorist act. If Palestinian terrorism can be justified by the "occupation" of Palestine by infidel Jews — and this is done especially by PC Norwegians — why then are they incapable of similarly understanding or explaining the terrorist act of an individual Christian directed against the occupation of his country by Islam?
The answer is clear. It is not that Islam is occupying Norway and the rest of Europe. Rather, the political establishment — against the will of their own populations — is allowing Muslims by the millions into Norway and the other countries of Europe. The chief responsibility for the universal Islamization of Western countries is attributable solely to the overwhelmingly leftist — although in the best case also Bleeding Heart — political establishment of those countries. They alone were and are the ones who in the last fifty years have brought into their lands millions of Muslims who are incapable of adapting to the indigenous culture and values. They were authorized to do this by no one but themselves.
7. You can, if you like, interpret this terrorist act as the long- foreseen beginning of a civil war in Europe… as the desperate act of a (still lone) indigenous citizen, using the tools of desperation to prevent Europe's drift toward an Islamic caliphate. It is interesting that this act of terrorism pertained not only to Muslims, but also to parts of the political establishment. Not just the CIA but other Western secret services as well have long predicted this scenario. So Norway, 2011 is considered the prelude to a beginning civil war by indigenous citizens in defense of their continent. That need not mean that now all Europeans will reach for their weapons. But presumably the start has been made. No wonder the political establishment is taking fright.
In the Oslo terrorist act, the facts and the conclusions to be drawn from them are unrelated to one another, except that the defenders of Islam and the contemporary critics of Christianity (the "political establishment") are united in combating and abolishing the West in general and Christianity in particular.
The defenders of Islam are collaborators with the Islamic ideology of hatred, they have brought Muslims by the million into their lands and have, in unprecedented measure, changed the face of Europe until it is unrecognizable. In doing so, they have oppressed the will of the majority of indigenous Europeans and are ipso facto responsible for the Norway massacre.
Previous posts by Michael Mannheimer:
2010 Nov 21 Islam as the Victor of Western Value-Relativism
28 The Principle of Abrogation in the Quran
Dec 19 Eurabia: The Planned Islamization of Europe
(Updated to correct an error in the intro)
Westward Ho said...
No wonder the political establishment is taking fright.
"Taking fright." I think it's just a momentary shiver at this moment.
But it has me thinking about how fear motivates the dhimmi tyrants, fear of Islamic wrath (combined with self-hate) lies behind their perverse relationship with Islam. Their succeptibility to do things when faced with threat of wrath should be well noted by those indigenous Euros seeking to convince them to "please represent our interests."
Their "taking fright" may be the answer. They need to fear their betrayed countrymen more than they fear both Islamic brutality and liberal salon objection.
Repeatedly hearing messages like Paul Weston's may helpfully disturb their complacency.
A quote:
You have made us revolutionaries. And whilst your behaviour suggests you fear Islam more than you fear us, let me tell you something, you lying, betraying, treacherous, socialist careerists:
We might not hold power today, but given another decade, we will, and then we will hold you to account. You will appear before a Nuremberg-style court, and you will be tried for treason, and you will be tried for crimes against humanity, and for the first time in a very long time you will be answerable to us!
trencherbone said...
We can eventually overcome the MSM's dhimmitude by publishing the truth about Islam, coming at it from every possible angle, in every relevant context, on every available forum.
Here is a list of resources for the struggle against Islam, indexed in alphabetical order.
May I suggest this analysis is wholly supported by the great work "Imperium" by Francis Parker Yockey, which interested readers can find at Amazon and other sites. Written in 1949 it accurately described 60 years in advance the events in Norway and what is likely to erupt throughout Europe and North America,
Breivik acted with cold logic:
1. He did not fight muslim immigrants. He fought those who let them in.
2. He targeted the central offices of the government in the city centre, which caught all the attention of the police. Then he could operate calmly in the surroundings.
3. He hurt the responsible politicians the most he could imagine, by killing their kids.
4. His goal was to attract the attention of media. He was so confident he had succeeded, that he did not kill himself, nor fight the police, when they arrived, but he gave in to them.
He was not insane. He was an intelligent fanatic. His thoughts are now spread over the whole of the globe.
He chose to live. He may have noted that media have a habit of giving the worst criminals a voice sooner or later. . .
World traveller said...
There is no doubt that Breivik is a raving lunatic. He is most likely also a right wing extremist, but I wonder if he hasn't been manipulated and groomed by a leftist/anarchist/pro-islam organisation. The only winners of his horrible massacre are the muslims and their collaborators. You can now NOT critisize islam or communism in Norway and Sweden.
blogagog said...
"Who Was Really Responsible for the Norway Massacre?"
I'm pretty sure Anders Breivik was the responsible party.
Expelliarmus13 said...
@blogagog: Of course he was, but the question here is: what brought him to doing something like this?
We all know the answer to that!... even if there is no excuse for his actions, there is a logical explanation.
A decent summary, but the argument tacitly accepts the proposition that Brievik was a Christian. This is wobbly, and demonstrably false.
Sagunto said...
Archimedes2 -
"[..] the argument tacitly accepts the proposition that Brievik was a Christian. This is wobbly, and demonstrably false."
Kind regs from Amsterdam,
Sag.
nimbus said...
Trencherbone, what an excellent blog/resource!
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Lake Lanier, Georgia: Taking Advantage of the Lake Effect
By: Peter Francesconi
Photo courtesy of Hall County Parks & Leisure
Just 45 minutes north of Atlanta, Lake Lanier and Hall County in Georgia are ready to explode with action.
"In the last couple of years, we've seen the sports market grow—and we're targeting that," says Jennifer Norman, vice president of the Lake Lanier Convention and Visitors Bureau. "We try to find the sports that fit our destination the best."
But in many respects, that seems to leave the field wide open. The area has played host to tennis, baseball, softball, golf, soccer, lacrosse, triathlons and more.
One major growth area, Norman says, is the large fishing tournaments that come to Lake Lanier. "We have incredible fishing here," she says. "Anglers love Lake Lanier. We've been especially successful at recruiting large bass-fishing tournaments."
In August, the huge Forrest Wood Cup will be back at Lake Lanier, which hosted the fishing tournament in 2010, too. The event brings in anglers from all over the country, competing for a top prize that in the past has been up to $1 million.
Lake Lanier, at its full level, has about 39,000 surface acres of water and nearly 700 miles of shoreline. The fish habitat is managed by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers in conjunction with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and includes various types of bass and trout. Large striped bass, known for their fighting ability, have become a major sport fish and have been stocked in many areas of the lake.
The lake also features a "mega-ramp" at Laurel Park on the north end—which is a 350-foot-long boat ramp, over 1,000-feet in elevation, that supports launches of up to six boats at one time. The mega-ramp project also included the construction of a fishing tournament staging area, restrooms and plenty of parking. In addition, there is boat access from many other locations throughout the counties that surround the lake.
Growth of Adventure Racing
Another sports segment that has been expanding in the Lake Lanier area is adventure racing, which can be composed of a variety of disciplines such as running, paddling, biking, swimming and many more, lasting from hours to days, and pitting individuals and teams against each other. "Adventure races draw a huge number of participants, because they start the events in waves, rather than all at once," says Norman.
The Lake Lanier Islands Resort is the place for adventure races. The resort recently took one of its golf courses, Pine Isle, out of service, so that vast, varied space is now being used for adventure racing. "Race organizers can come in and build their obstacles right on the golf course, without having to do too much work," says Norman. "It's all very turn-key."
Photo courtesy of Lake Lanier Convention and Visitors Bureau
Triathlons are another big segment of the sports destination market for Lake Lanier. "We've been big into triathlons; they've been very successful here," says Norman. The Lake Lanier Islands Triathlon Festival is held every June, and for the last five years, the area also has hosted the Iron Girl Atlanta Women's Triathlon, attracting some of the best triathletes from across the country.
The Lake Lanier CVB works closely with Hall County Parks & Leisure Services to provide sports event planners with all they may need to create a successful event. And Hall County, with nearly 1,500 acres of park space in 24 parks, has top facilities that are perfect for various sports events and tournaments.
The premier soccer venue in the Lake Lanier area is the Allen Creek Soccer Complex, jointly owned and managed by the city of Gainesville and Hall County. The 89-acre, special-use park features nine lighted natural-grass fields, three concession areas, and a 2,500-seat stadium. Allen Creek has played host to both soccer and lacrosse tournaments that typically have drawn more than 3,500 participants.
"We also have a vast array of softball and youth baseball fields that can accommodate tournaments," says Kelly Norman, program coordinator for Hall County Parks & Leisure. "And we have premier tennis facilities, too."
Alberta Banks Park has three baseball and two softball fields, in addition to "Field of Dreams," an ADA-accessible, rubber-surfaced ball field that can accommodate players who are handicapped or who have special needs. The park also has two concession areas. In addition, Alberta Banks Park includes the Bobby Bailey Tennis Center, which features 12 lighted hard-surface tennis courts, suitable for tennis tournaments for adults and juniors.
The 25-acre Hog Mountain Sports Complex has three baseball/softball fields, one multipurpose field, and six lighted hard-surface tennis courts, along with a concession area and restrooms. At Laurel Park, in addition to the mega ramp for boats, the venue features two Little League and two softball fields, a concession area, and three restroom buildings.
"We're also very interested in accommodating special-needs recreation opportunities," says Hall County's Kelly Norman. "Last year we hosted the U.S. Power Soccer Association at the Mulberry Creek Park & Community Center, where participants played wheelchair soccer in the two basketball gyms." Mulberry Creek is a 22-acre park with a 28,000-square-foot community center that includes two full-size gyms, a fitness center and meeting rooms.
The county also has another 28,000-square-foot multipurpose indoor facility at the 90-acre East Hall Park & Community Center. Outdoors, the East Hall sports complex features three baseball/softball fields, four tennis courts, a regulation track, and two concession stands with restrooms; indoors, there are two full-size gymnasiums, along with a fitness center and meeting rooms.
The newest facility is the 127-acre North Hall Park & Community Center, which has four lighted baseball fields with batting cages, a large multi-purpose field surrounded by a six-lane track, and a concession stand. The park also will have a natural-style trail for mountain biking, running and walking. In addition, the massive 56,000-square foot Community Center building will feature two large gymnasiums, a fitness area with indoor walking track, and locker rooms. The facility also will have a 6,000-square-foot banquet room, complete with divider walls and a full catering kitchen, as well as a game room, technology center and indoor café.
Photo courtesy of Hall County Parks
Lakeside Golf
Golf also is a big draw at Lake Lanier. The course at Legacy on Lanier Golf Club, at Lake Lanier Islands Resort, features stunning views of the lake, with 12 holes right along the water. The Legacy course, designed by Billy Fuller, has hosted numerous charity tournaments and corporate outings.
The Chattahoochee Golf Club features a Robert Trent Jones Sr.-designed course, and the Lanier Golf Club course was designed by Joseph L. Lee. Other courses in the area are Chicopee Woods and Chestatee Golf Club.
The CVB's Jennifer Norman says Lake Lanier is particularly interested in pulling in sports that "not everyone has a place for." Rowing, for instance, has become popular at the lake. "A lot of Ivy League schools come down to Lake Lanier to do their spring break rowing camps." (During the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Lake Lanier was the Olympic venue for canoeing and rowing.) The area also hosts cheerleading camps and events during the summer.
When not involved in tournaments or events, sports participants and their families have a myriad of other activities and attractions to choose from, including hiking, biking, boating, sailing, swimming and much more. There are a variety of restaurants all over the area, including the Collegiate Grill in Gainesville, which was rated by USA Today as having the best burger in Georgia.
The area has more than 1,000 rooms available, including about 300 at the full-service Lake Lanier Islands Resort, and accommodations vary to fit all budgets. There also are lakeside homes and condos available, along with cabins and campgrounds.
"This is such a wonderful, easily accessible location," Jennifer Norman says. "Whether you want to play on, in or around Lake Lanier, we can help make your event memorable."
Find out more about Lake Lanier at www.lakelaniercvb.com or call 770-536-5209.
Lake Lanier Convention & Visitors Bureau
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Q: Solving a matrix least squares problem with a fixed Frobenius norm constraint I am trying to solve for X an equation of the form :
Min ||AXB-CXD|| s.t. ||X||_F=1,
where , A, C are m-by-m matrices, and B, D are n-by-b matrices. Is there any effective algorithms?
Any hint is greatly appreciated :-)
A: Your problem is equivalent to
$\min \| AXB - CXD \|_{F}^{2} $
subject to
$\| X \|_{F}^{2} = 1$.
Here, squaring the norms simplifies the calculations below without changing the optimal solutions.
The key idea is that this problem is really a linear least squares problem in the entries of the matrix $X$. If you let the vector $u$ be defined by
$u=\mbox{vec}(X)=\left[
\begin{array}{c}
X_{1,1} \\
X_{2,1} \\
\vdots \\
X_{m,1} \\
X_{1,2} \\
X_{2,2} \\
\vdots \\
\vdots \\
X_{m,n}
\end{array}
\right]$
Then $\mbox{vec}(AXB-CXD)$ can be written as
$\mbox{vec}(AXB-CXD)=Gu$
where the entries of G can be computed by a tedious calculation. In terms of $G$ and $u$, your problem is now
$\min \| Gu \|_{2}^{2}$
subject to
$\| u \|_{2}^{2}=1$.
This can be written as
$\min u^{T}G^{T}Gu$
subject to
$u^{T}u=1$.
This is simply the problem of finding a normalized eigenvector of $G^{T}G$ corresponding to the smallest eigenvalue of $G^{T}G$.
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Willow Smith Would Be Open to Having a Polyamorous Relationship: 'I Love Men and Women Equally'
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Willow Smith wouldn't be opposed to a polyamorous relationship.
The 18-year-old sat down with her mother, Jada Pinkett Smith, and grandmother, Adrienne Banfield Norris, on Monday's episode of Red Table Talk in which they tackled the subject of polyamorous romances.
"I couldn't see myself in a quadruple, I mean, anything could happen," Willow said. "Personally, male and female — that's all I need."
"I love men and women equally. So I would definitely want one man and one woman," she continued. "I feel like I could be polyfidelitous with those two people. I'm not the kind of person that is constantly looking for new sexual experiences. I focus a lot on the emotional connection, and I feel like if I were to find two people of the different genders that I really connected with and we had a romantic and sexual connection, I don't feel like I would feel the need to try to go find more."
While Willow expressed her openness to exploring unconventional relationships, she did explain, "If your intention is just to have sex all the time with whoever you want that doesn't sit well with me. That's not aligned with my purpose."
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Pinkett Smith, 47, supported her daughter, saying, "Listen, you know me, Willow — whatever makes you happy."
Banfield Norris struggled to accept the idea, however.
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"I'm listening to you guys, and I'm trying to stay open minded but my gut tells me this is a bunch of frakkle-nakkle," she said.
Monday's episode focused on the polyamorous relationship with a "throuple" — Thomas, his wife Catherine and his girlfriend Nicole.
The episode comes after Pinkett Smith won the Trailblazer Award at the 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards last week.
"Often we applaud the trails that people blaze in the external world that we can see, but very rarely do we applaud the trails that are blazed in the hidden rooms of the mind, that are full of uncertainty, false beliefs, and pain," she told the crowd while accepting the award.
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"It's these eternal obstacles that must be challenged in order to muster the courage to forge new paths that we can see in the world," she continued before noting, "Every last person in this room must do that at some capacity."
"That means that every single person in this room is trailblazing, whether it's within or without," she added. "So as you honor me tonight, I wanna honor all of you and I wanna say here's to us for all of our trailblazing!"
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When talking about irrational fears that kids have, we need to remember one thing – Children's fears are not irrational, they are just differently rational. Those fears are completely rational if you base your view on how a child of a specific age understands the world. After all, we are all irrationally afraid of the unknown.
This is probably the most common irrational fear that kids have. You can't find this irrational, because it's, in fact, a very rational fear. They fear of the dark because darkness could hold anything and in their mind it's possible that darkness hold things that are not good.
Monsters could be anywhere – in the closet, under the bed, sitting on the window… You have to understand that in children's world, the fantasy is often a part of reality. You can deal with fear of monsters easily. The monsters in the room can be scared away by a big cuddly guard bear in bed, or some other superhero toy. We had a 'monsters in the bedroom' incident recently. You can read how we dealt with that.
This is the fear my daughter (and us) have been dealing with. We live near the beach, but this summer we were on the beach maybe 2-3 times. Why? Because even a little splash on her leg from someone passing by made her scream like she'd been cut with a knife. Like someone is torturing her. Well, what did we do to help her? Nothing. She didn't go into the sea this summer. We showed empathy and tried to understand her fear. We validate her fear and didn't tell her it's silly.
When it comes to all irrational fears kids have, just saying something like "It sounds like you are really scared" can help then feel more calm and connected to you. Remember: no matter how silly a fear sounds, the emotions behind those irrational fears are real.
Next step is showing them that you are not afraid. That way you will also help them get confidence.
Be patient and motivating – and don't ever again think that those irrational fears are actually rational!
Mine definitely have a fear of the dark but I think most kids have that at some point. These look like great book selections to help kids get past their fears!
A friend of mine's son had a phase of being afraid of buttons (as in, clothes buttons) – not sure how unusual that is? It's called Koumpounophobia and apparently Steve Jobs had it too! | {
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NICHE CANADA – National Institute for Cannabis Health and Education
Apr 21, 2017, 10:14 ET
NICHE CANADA – National Institute for Cannabis Health and Education (CNW Group/NICHE CANADA – National Institute for Cannabis Health and Education)
As Canada wakes up after yesterday's 4/20 protest events, April 21st provides a great opportunity to start looking at what comes next, after the protesting and celebrating, says NICHE CANADA CEO
VANCOUVER, April 21, 2017 /CNW/ - Celebrations and protests are healthy and lively, but as with all things, moderation is key. Promoting responsible consumption is a key point in the government's plan to legalize cannabis, and at NICHE we want to see the Canadian public respect this wonderful and fascinating plant and its many diverse uses.
In Canada, we now find ourselves not at the end of prohibition, but at the beginning of a long process of dismantling said cannabis laws and building a new regulatory system that makes sense for all Canadians.
This goal is laudable and shows real leadership from our government in taking on a large scale, responsible, public-health approach to this still-controversial topic. Pending the passage of legislation, hopefully later this year or in early 2018, Canada will become the first G20 nation to formally legalize and regulate cannabis at the federal level.
"This is sure to continue to generate headlines around the world, but beyond these headlines and broad goals, this implementation will be an unprecedented effort for all of Canada," said Rasode. "Effectively communicating these goals in a way that ensures this is a smooth transition is key. This is, as we see it, the real work—and it is only just beginning."
When the federal government's task force on cannabis legalization and regulation released their final report, A Framework for the Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis in Canada, they identified several key issues, including minimizing the harms of use, establishing a safe and responsible supply chain, enforcing public safety and protection, maintaining a separate medical access framework to support patients, and building upon existing and new organizations to develop and coordinate national research and surveillance activities. NICHE CEO Barinder Rasode says, "At NICHE we seek to help address many of these issues to help ensure a successful transition from nearly a century of prohibition to an era of smart and responsible management of cannabis in Canada."
Based in Vancouver, with a national vision, NICHE was established in 2017 after discussions with federal and provincial governments, industry leaders, universities, patients, consumers, non-governmental organizations, law enforcement agencies and other stakeholders.
One key issue NICHE is currently focussing on is addressing the concerns of those unsure of how legalization will impact their communities. Effectively communicating the government's intentions and the mechanisms and debates behind them to all stakeholders in all communities will help realize the federal government's goal of a successful, cooperative approach to this new legislation.
Connecting elected officials at various levels of government with those who have experience with subjects like retail zoning or provincial distribution through NICHE's growing network of advisors can allow for a cohesive and collaborative implementation of rules and regulations. Connecting concerned community stakeholders with government and industry leaders who can both listen to concerns as well as give feedback on the broader goals and timeline of legalization will help address potential problems or concerns as they arise.
While the government's historic goal of legalizing cannabis will continue to make headlines here and abroad, communicating the subtle nuances of what this means for your community, your town or city, your province, is where we believe the hard work starts. That's our NICHE. We're ready to help.
As the Task Force notes at the end of their report: addressing legalization requires input from all sectors and Canadians in order to shape the best long-term approach for everyone, engagement with experts, provinces and territories, and Canadians is key.
We seek to help facilitate this process.
SOURCE NICHE CANADA – National Institute for Cannabis Health and Education
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Q: countTrailingZeros for Integer I was wondering if there was a fast way to calculate the number of trailing zeros of an Integer in Haskell. This operation makes sense for Integer but is unfortunately wrapped up with other operations that don't make sense in FiniteBits. The only way I know to do this is with a loop. Isn't there a faster way to do this?
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The Eastern Østfold Line () is a railway line which runs between Ski and Sarpsborg. It follows a more eastern route than the Østfold Line, with which it adjoins at both Ski Station and Sarpsborg Station, serving the Indre Østfold district. The line is single track and electrified. The Eastern Line serves the hourly R22 services of the Oslo Commuter Rail, operated by Vy. There is no regular traffic south of Rakkestad Station, although the line can be used for freight trains when the Western Line is closed.
The line was built at the same time as the Østfold Line, but opened three years later, on 24 November 1882. Stations were designed by Balthazar Lange. The Eastern Line has always featured fewer trains and had a lower standard. The line was electrified in 1958. It became the first line in Norway to feature the European Rail Traffic Management System, becoming operational in 2015.
Route
The Eastern Østfold Line runs from Ski Station through the municipalities of Ski, Tomter, Hobøl, Eidsberg, Mysen, Rakkestad and Sarpsborg. It largely runs eastwards from Ski, then turns southward at Mysen. With a length of it provides an alternative route to the Østfold Line between Ski and Sarpsborg. The line is single track and electrified at . It is the only railway in Norway to feature ERTMS, with both GSM-R and European Train Control System (ETCS) Level 2. The line's peak elevation of is reached at Eidsberg Station.
The term Østfold Line is most commonly used to describe the section from Oslo via Moss to Kornsjø. This is sometimes also referred to as the Western Line. Both uses exclude the section from Ski via Askim to Sarpsborg, known as the Eastern Line. At other times Østfold Line is used to refer to the entire network, both via Moss and Askim. Sometimes Western Line is used to only describe the section from Ski via Moss to Sarpsborg. Although the eastern and western branches were initially planned as equals, the western has become dominant due to it always having had a higher standard and serving all through trains.
History
Planning
The lack of early interest in a railway in Østfold was caused by the ice-free Oslofjord and the perceived non-necessity of build a line where a suitable waterway already existed. Proposals for a railway through the county then known as Smaalenene were first launched with two independent letters to the editor in 1866. They exemplified the debate which would follow, with one proposing a route along the coast through the larger coastal towns, while the other proposed an inner route via Askim and Rakkestad. Preliminary surveys were carried out the following year, which also investigated two routes to the Swedish border, one via Tistedalen and one along Iddefjord. The government was at first less enthusiastic, in part because they were concerned that no line would be built on the Swedish side.
By 1872 the disagreement over an interior or coastal route was raging and a compromise was proposed in which the line would be built with two branches. The government recommended a twin-armed line on 5 April 1873 and was approved in Parliament on 5 June. Detailed surveying was led by Carl Abraham Pihl and concluded on 31 March 1874. He wanted the route to take the shortest possible way from Askim to Rakkestad, bypassing Mysen. The short-cut was not endorsed by Parliament. With increasing cost estimates, Parliament decided to reduce the standard on the Eastern Line. The line was approved with 59 against 42 votes in Parliament on 4 June 1874.
Construction
Construction commenced in 1874, initially only on the section from Oslo to Halden. Work was subdivided into eleven sections on the Western Line and four on the Eastern Line. The former received a rail weight of 30 kilograms per meter (60 lb/ft). Work on the Eastern Line did not start until 1877. It received a track weight of only 25 kilograms per meter (50 lb/ft). A recession hit in 1877 and the government stopped all construction for a period, initially only continuing it on the Western Line. This caused an uproar along the line and municipal councils sent inn demands that construction resume. Funding was thus granted again in 1878. About 1,100 people were hired to work on the Eastern Line.
Most of the workforce were Swedish immigrants. Groundwork was conducted directly by the railway based on accords, with the track was laid by contractors.
The Østfold Line was the first railway in Norway were all bridges were built with iron. This allowed for the construction of viaducts at some places, which changed the mass balance allowing the line to follow a better gradient. The most prominent on the Eastern Line was the Solberg Viaduct, the Hobøl Viaduct and the Langnes Bridge. The bridges and viaducts were all designed by Axel Jacob Petersson.
The Western Line from Oslo to Halden was taken into revenue service on 2 January 1879. Construction of the Eastern Line was delayed and was opened in stages. The section from Ski to Spydeberg taken into use on 1 February 1882. Next followed the line to Slitu on 17 July. Ordinary operations commenced on 24 November.
Steam operations
From the 1890s there were two morning trains which ran from Mysen to Oslo. The station was therefore equipped with a roundhouse for two locomotives.
A military battery was established at Langnes Bridge in 1899.
Askim Station became a hub for three branch lines. The Kykkelsrud Line was built in 1899to allow access to the pulp mill Glommens Træslliperi. It was extended to Kykkelsrud between 1914 and 1918 in conjunction with the construction of Kykkelsrud Power Station. The Vamma Line was completed in 1909 and later extended. It was used to construct Vamma Power Station. The first was the Solbergfoss Line, which opened in 1918 to allow the construction of Solbergfoss Power Station. The line proved popular and continued with passenger train operations until 4 January 1965. Hafslund built the Hafslund Line from the Eastern Line to their main plant. Built between 1897 and 1899, it remained in use until 1974. The same years there was also a branch line from Rakkestad Station to Rakkestad Tegelverk.
Railcars were introduced on the Eastern Line in 1928. This was a move to make the train more competitive against buses and trucks, which had better surface coverage than the train. The railcars would initially stop at request, normally at level crossings. This was formalized in 1932, when 38 new stations were official established. A large number of these were closed in 1947. The Østfold Line was electrified in 1940, after which all trains on the Eastern Line stopped at Ski for transshipment. Throughout the 1950s there grew up more urban areas around some of the largest stations. The most prominent were Askim, Mysen and Rakkestad, which all received a prominent town center and grain silos.
Electric operations
The Eastern Line was finished electrified on 4 December 1958. The allowed for faster and direct services to the capital. The electrification cost 17 million kroner. Services were predominantly offered with NSB Class 68 multiple units. Later NSB Class 69 became prominent, but the Eastern Line was among the last lines to see them in regular use. When NSB Class 72 was introduced in 2002, the Eastern Line was among the first places it was introduced. Passenger services between Rakkestad and Sarpsborg were terminated on 15 June 2003.
A triangular track was installed at Hafslund Station south of Sarpsborg, operative from 7 April 1995. Trains which wanted to run from the Eastern Line southwards towards Halden previously had to drive into Sarpsborg Station and then change direction. The new connection line made this unnecessary. Four stations with very low patronage, Drømtorp, Langli, Langnes and Askim Næringspark, were closed in 2012.
The Eastern Østfold Line was chosen as a trial line for implementing the European Rail Traffic Management System in Norway. Trials first ran in November 2013 on the section from Rakkestad to Sarpsborg, as this line did not have regular traffic. The entire line was upgraded for a total 1.2 billion kroner in the following years. In addition to a new signaling system and centralized traffic control, the platforms and stations at Kråkstad, Tomter, Spydeberg, Askim and Mysen were modernized. At the same time NSB started using their newest Class 75 multiple units. The upgrades were official opened on 31 August 2015.
Operations
Regular trains on the Eastern Østfold Line consist of an hourly service from Mysen to Ski and onward via the Østfold Line to Oslo Central Station and then onwards along the Drammen Line to Skøyen Station. In addition there are some rush-hour trains which operate all the way to Rakkestad. Travel time from Mysen to Oslo S is one hour and four minutes, and 41 minutes to Ski.
There is no regular freight traffic on the line. However, if there are closures of the Western Østfold Line, the Eastern Line can be used as a bypass if the trains are equipped with ERTMS.
Architecture
Peter Andreas Blix was hired to design the stations on the Østfold Line, but quit before those on the Eastern Line were designed. The job thus fell to his successor Balthazar Lange, who continued largely in the same style as Blix. The Eastern Line received standardized designs. Second-class stations were built at Spydeberg, Askim and Rakkestad, each which were . Third-class stations were built at Kråkstad, Tomter, Slitu, Mysen, Eidsberg, Gautestad and Ise. All the buildings were wooden with rich decorations, especially on the gables.
Future
The Follo Line is under construction and is scheduled for completion in December 2022. It will allow trains to run directly from Ski to Oslo in 11 minutes, down from 23 minutes today. The National Rail Administration has expressed desires to cut the travel time from Mysen to Oslo to 45 minutes. Removal of less used stations, better signaling and the Follo Line are the means by which they hope to achieve this. Critical for this is to reroute the access from the Eastern Line in to Ski Station. With the current layout, they come in from the east and as such cannot access the new line without crossing over all the tracks. To avoid this, a new connection needs to be built with the Eastern Line leaving Ski Station to the south, the one track flying over Western Line and then following a new route to a point around Kråkstad Station.
References
Bibliography
Østfold Line
Railway lines in Viken
Railway lines opened in 1882
1882 establishments in Norway
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Village Sermons
By Robert Drummond B. Rawnsley
SERMON VII.
FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT.
THE NECESSITY OF REPENTANCE.
ST. LUKE xiii. 3.-"Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish."
THE season of Lent, on which we are now entering, has always, from very early times, been set apart for a period of humiliation and sorrow for sin,—a period which is especially appointed for calling our old ways to remembrance, for reflecting upon the punishments we have justly deserved, and for supplicating God's mercy and forgiveness. The time of this season is forty days, for which several reasons have been alleged; such as the drowning of the world with the great flood of waters; the number of days allotted to the Ninevites for their repentance; the duration of the fasts of Moses and Elias; and above all, because when our Blessed Saviour,-He who had
no sin to repent of, no forgiveness to entreat, yet for some wise and holy purpose, thought fit to retire into the wilderness to solitude and silent meditation,-He observed the same length of time; He fasted forty days and forty nights.
Whoever will consider these things, (be his practice what it may at this particular season,) he cannot but think that the number of days has not been fixed without due attention to the will of the Spirit as manifested in Holy Scripture, and that this period of Lent, forming as it does a considerable portion of the year, is not too long for the purpose at which it aims, the leading of sinners to repen
tance.
And yet, my brethren, how little regard do we pay to this season; how changed is the observance of Lent to what it was in the earlier times!
With us it passes too generally as every portion of the year does, without producing in us one single effort more than ordinary after repentance. We go on as at other times in the daily business of our calling; we are neither less nor more attentive to our soul's health,-neither less nor more diligent in the use of the means of grace; our prayers are not more earnest or more frequent than at other seasons ; our minds are not troubled with meditations upon our past transgressions; our consciences are not convinced of sin; rarely do we lament the errors of
our former lives, and rarely do the fruits of a new We do not deny ourselves put any unusual restraint
and better life appear. in any indulgence, nor
upon our passions. I ask is not this the case with the generality? But it was not so of old: then, indeed, did men worthily lament them of their sins. Then did they turn to the Lord with all their heart, with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning : and this they did, not from formality—not because they trusted in the merit of the outward penance, but because they felt keenly the corruption of their evil nature, and could not endure the burden of unforgiven sin.
Therefore did they with willing earnestness, avail themselves of this season for redoubling their prayers, for mortifying their evil propensities, for seeking fresh supplies of the aid of that Holy Spirit, without which we can do nothing.
Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, which we barely notice, which but for the meeting of two or three together in God's house, to hear the sentence of His anger and judgment against sinners, and to join in those sorrowful confessions of our unworthiness, and in those expressive petitions for pardon, that the Church puts into our mouths,-Ash Wednesday, which but for this imperfect remembrance of it, would altogether slip out of our memory, has its name from an act of severe discipline, to which
the early Christians had recourse, to testify the depth of their sorrow and humiliation; they used to clothe themselves in the coarsest garments, and sprinkle ashes on their hands and faces; saying one to another, "Remember O man that thou art ashes, and unto dust thou shalt return."
To cover the head with ashes, was regarded aforetime as a mark of the deepest sorrow, and there are numerous examples of its being done in Holy Scripture. When Jonah preached to the Ninevites, the king (we read)" arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth and sat in ashes." And who is there who does not call to mind our Saviour's words, respecting the impenitence, and blindness of those cities wherein He had gone preaching the Gospel of His Kingdom. "Woe unto thee Chorazin! Woe unto thee Bethsaida! for if the mighty works which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes."
I mention these things, my brethren, not because it is likely that we should in these days be led to imitate this particular act of penance, but only to show you, that repentance has ever been deemed a work of labour,-a work of self-abasement,-a work very needful to be done, and one that cannot be delayed with safety; we cannot suppose that it is less
necessary for us, than it was for those who have gone before us, (and who lived in days purer than our own,) to humble ourselves, on the recollection of our many misdeeds, before the Lord our God, and to beg Him to have mercy upon us; we cannot suppose that we are less sinners than they were,— less in need of forgiveness. No, my brethren, our neglect of this season is no proof of our being able to do without it; our inattention to the disease of our souls is no proof that they are sound. cept we repent, we shall all likewise perish.
Let me then exhort you to consider well, the object of this present season. It is a season for retirement, for reflection, for earnest prayer, for selfhumiliation, for self-abasement. It has been
handed down to us from the beginning, as the universal observance of the christian church. It is sanctified by its being connected in its origin, with the solitude and humiliation of our Lord. It is, therefore, to be set apart from the ordinary course of our life, to be dedicated to the remembrance of our sins, and of Him who died, that we might be saved from the consequences of them,-remembrances very painful, very sorrowful, but yet very requisite for us. In other words, it is a season set apart for repentance; and as such it should be used, or else instead of being of service to us, it will only do us harm: like every other neglected privi | {
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Q: How to simplify object mapping in ES6? I am currently using the following code, to pickup some properties from action.payload and assign to object weather.
I would like to know if there is a more elegant and concise way to do the same operation in ES6.
let weather = {}
weather.name = action.payload.name
weather.country = action.payload.sys.country
weather.temperature = action.payload.main.temp
weather.temperatureMin = action.payload.main.temp_min
weather.temperatureMax = action.payload.main.temp_max
weather.weatherMain = action.payload.weather[0].main
weather.weatherDescription = action.payload.weather[0].description
weather.weatherIcon = action.payload.weather[0].icon
weather.updatedTime = new Date().toString()
weather.windDegree = action.payload.wind.deg
weather.windSpeed = action.payload.wind.speed
weather.visibility = action.payload.visibility
A: There is no particular language-level magic here. You are pulling from multiple levels of the action object, and renaming many properties on the fly. If the names were remaining constant, object destructuring and structuring assignments might solve the problem outright. But as it stands, about the greatest clarity you can get is by not duplicating so many names. E.g.:
let payload = action.payload
let weather = {
name: payload.name,
country: payload.sys.country,
temperature: payload.main.temp,
temperatureMin: payload.main.temp_min,
temperatureMax: payload.main.temp_max,
weatherMain: payload.weather[0].main,
weatherDescription: payload.weather[0].description,
weatherIcon: payload.weather[0].icon,
updatedTime: new Date().toString(),
windDegree: payload.wind.deg,
windSpeed: payload.wind.speed,
visibility: payload.visibility
}
It is certainly possible to use more ES2015 destructuring features as part of this assignment. For example:
const { payload } = action
const { main, weather, wind, sys } = payload
let weather = {
name: payload.name,
country: sys.country,
temperature: main.temp,
temperatureMin: main.temp_min,
temperatureMax: main.temp_max,
weatherMain: weather[0].main,
weatherDescription: weather[0].description,
weatherIcon: weather[0].icon,
updatedTime: new Date().toString(),
windDegree: wind.deg,
windSpeed: wind.speed,
visibility: payload.visibility
}
I do not generally recommend this further step. To my thinking, this doesn't necessarily make things clearer. At least, there are trade-offs to consider. The natural correspondence between the original object and its multiple levels of structure becomes more hidden; one needs to remember and interpret the origins of sub-objects like wind, weather, main, and sys. But on the plus side it's both more concise and more aggressive in ES2015 use. You'll have to judge whether this is better or just fancier.
A: You could do for example object destructuring, MDN. Less writing.
const { payload } = action;
let weather = {
name : payload.name,
country: payload.sys.country
...
}
you can destructure object properties even more like so:
const { payload : { name, weather, wind } } = action;
See working example:
const action = {
payload : {
name: 'John',
sys: {
country: 'USA'
},
main: {
temp_min: 0,
temp_max: 30
},
weather : [
{
main: 'test',
description: 'long description',
icon : 'icon-weather'
},
{
main: 'test2',
description: 'long description2',
icon : 'icon-weather'
}
],
wind : {
deg: 123,
speed: 123
},
visibility : 'ok',
date: new Date().toString()
}
}
const { payload : { name, weather, wind } } = action;
console.log(name, weather, wind);
A: Object destructuring can help you.
// Example action.
const action = {
payload: {
name: 'lorem',
sys: {
country: 'ipsum'
},
main: {
temp: '30',
temp_min: '15',
temp_max: '30'
},
weather: [
{
main: {
temp: '50',
temp_min: '15',
temp_max: '60'
},
description: 'lorem ipsum',
icon: 'test.ico'
}
],
wind: {
deg: '30',
speed: '180'
},
visibility: '20'
},
// ...
}
// User provided function.
const makeWeatherOriginal = (action) => {
let weather = {}
weather.name = action.payload.name
weather.country = action.payload.sys.country
weather.temperature = action.payload.main.temp
weather.temperatureMin = action.payload.main.temp_min
weather.temperatureMax = action.payload.main.temp_max
weather.weatherMain = action.payload.weather[0].main
weather.weatherDescription = action.payload.weather[0].description
weather.weatherIcon = action.payload.weather[0].icon
weather.updatedTime = new Date().toString()
weather.windDegree = action.payload.wind.deg
weather.windSpeed = action.payload.wind.speed
weather.visibility = action.payload.visibility
return weather
}
// Example function using ES2015 object destructuring.
const makeWeather = (action) => {
// Object destructuring: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Destructuring_assignment#Object_destructuring
const {
payload: {
name,
sys: {
country
},
main: {
temp,
temp_min,
temp_max
},
weather,
wind: {
deg,
speed
},
visibility
}
} = action
const computedWeather = {
name,
country,
temperature: temp,
temperatureMin: temp_min,
temperatureMax: temp_max,
weatherMain: weather[0].main,
weatherDescription: weather[0].description,
weatherIcon: weather[0].icon,
updatedTime: new Date().toString(),
windDegree: deg,
windSpeed: speed,
visibility
}
return computedWeather
}
const computedOne = makeWeather(action)
const computedTwo = makeWeatherOriginal(action)
const computedOneJson = JSON.stringify(computedOne)
const computedTwoJson = JSON.stringify(computedTwo)
if(computedOneJson === computedTwoJson) {
document.querySelector('#result').innerHTML = "Success.";
}
<div id="result">
</div>
A: If we talk about ES6, you can use Proxy to proxy through object properties.
Example for playing with it: https://jsfiddle.net/wostex/y19rz7fj/1/
Create a mapping of desired props to source props:
const mapProps = {
name: 'name',
country: 'sys.country',
temperature: 'main.temp',
temperatureMin: 'main.temp_min',
visibility: 'visibility'
}
Then define a proxy handler:
const handler = {
get: function(t, p) {
const newKey = mapProps[p];
const levels = newKey.split('.');
return (levels.length > 1)
? levels.reduce((o, c) => o[c], t)
: t[newKey]
}
}
Assuming your source object looks like this:
const source = {
name: 'Name',
sys: {
country: 'AU'
},
main: {
temp: '34',
temp_min: '13'
},
visibility: '35%'
}
You can create a proxy object like this:
const newObj = new Proxy(source, handler)
Now you can access your properties like this:
newObj.temperatureMin // returns 13 (>>source.main.temp_min)
Things to do: expand handler to deal with [] notations and handle object methods.
Full example:
const source = {
name: 'Name',
sys: {
country: 'AU'
},
main: {
temp: '34',
temp_min: '13'
},
visibility: '35%'
}
const mapProps = {
name: 'name',
country: 'sys.country',
temperature: 'main.temp',
temperatureMin: 'main.temp_min',
visibility: 'visibility'
}
const handler = {
get: function(t, p) {
const newKey = mapProps[p];
const levels = newKey.split('.');
return (levels.length > 1)
? levels.reduce((o, c) => o[c], t)
: t[newKey]
}
}
const proxy = new Proxy(source, handler)
for (let k in mapProps) {
console.log( proxy[k] )
}
A: You can use destructuring assignment as an expression, or define a function to pass the object to, to avoid declaring variables globally, return object from function.
const o = {action:
{payload:
{name:1
, sys:{country:2}
, main:{temp:3,temp_min:4, temp_max:5}
, weather:[{main:6, description:7, icon:8}]
, wind:{speed:9, deg:10}
, visibility:11}
}
};
let weather = {};
{
const w = weather;
(
{name: w.name
, sys: {country: w.country}
, main: {temp: w.temperature, temp_min: w.temperatureMin, temp_max: w.temperatureMax}
, weather: [{main: w.weatherMain, description: w.weatherDescription, icon: w.weatherIcon}]
, updateTime: w.updateTime = new Date().toString()
, wind: {deg: w.windDegree, speed: w.windSpeed}
, visibility: w.visibility
} = o.action.payload
);
}
console.log(weather);
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