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In 1st grade students start to work on different topics in Science. They manipulate, observe, make assumptions, draw and understand. The Science program is an important part of our curriculum, from 1st to 8th grade. Learning Geography at SDFAS is really easy since families come from all over the world. We just need to talk about where we are coming to go on a trip in our imaginations! This is what the 3rd graders did today when they presented during the Forum about the countries, cities and states they come from. From Asia to America through Africa, all continents have been visited while listening Mariachis, Frank Sinatra or “yodeling”. By François Tregouët The students in fourth grade have started learning how to relate multiplication and division through the use of arrays. We were able to use the pattern blocks to demonstrate our understanding of building arrays. The students always benefit from having the opportunity to manipulate in mathematics! So a big thank you from us for your donations! Last week, 1st graders began working on robotics with François Tregouet. They will enjoy this activity until December break. They are learning how to code, but they also count, add, subtract, and communicate using a precise vocabulary.

One man, two aliens; no it’s not a weird pornography movie, it’s DC’s latest attempt at a superhero movie. I say ‘attempt’, because quite frankly it is underwhelming. Sure, they’ve stuck a new guy in the bat suit, but that just isn’t enough. Don’t get me wrong, Ben Affleck gave it a good shot, but Christian Bales shoes are big ones to fill. When two franchises collide, it needs to be effortlessly executed. Did DC triumph in this area? Absolutely not. But it’s not all bad, the special effects, whilst potentially overcompensating for a rubbish storyline, were definitely a delight to behold; I mean, who doesn’t love an explosion or two? Morale of this story; DC need to spend more time in pre-production, and less time with the stunts department.

Timeline of Memorial Creation In 2009 at the MLK march, the City of San Marcos erected a temporary sign at the intersection of LBJ and MLK Dr. The blue sign remained for six years while the work continued. In 2010 Hays County commissioners transferred the 248 square feet located at the corner of LBJ and MLK Drives to the City of San Marcos for the memorial. The City surveyed the space and local fundraising began. 150 local residents made contributions of $1 to $1000, eventually totaling $6736. Other donors included the League of Women Voters, the San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, and the MLK Celebration Poetry Slam at Texas State. The San Marcos Arts Commission approved the Crossroads Memorial grant for $100,000. In 2011 a request for artists' qualifications brought submissions from 54 artists from across the United States. A selection committee worked for months to review each artist's qualifications. They chose three finalists and in 2012, the finalists presented their designs to the selection committee and to over 100 local residents at the Activity Center. [photos] After deliberation, the committee and various commissions and the City Council unanimously chose Aaron Hussey's revised design which includes an image from the meeting between King and Johnson in the Oval Office on January 18, 1964, just over 50 years ago. In 2013 at the MLK celebration, we celebrated the groundbreaking for the LBJ-MLK Crossroads Memorial. Planning for this dedication began with City staff and the Crossroads committee. Dr. Dave Nolan's undergraduate Visual Storytelling class at Texas State made a film about the project. The site was prepared and the concrete poured and the memorial installed. Sixteen years after the initial vision and six years after the planning began, the community dedicated the memorial.

Black-Eyed Peas and Red Beans Colorful sweet peppers make this savory side dish attractive as well as delicious. Rate This! Black-Eyed Peas and Red Beans Rate This! Directions - Rinse red beans; drain. In a large saucepan combine red beans and 3 cups water. Cover and let stand overnight. (Or, bring to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, for 2 mintues. Remove from heat. Cover and let stand for 1 hour.) - Drain the red beans, discarding the soaking liquid. Rinse the beans and return them to the saucepan. Add 3 cups fresh water, black-eyed peas, bay leaf, and salt. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 45 to 60 minutes or until peas and beans are tender. Drain, discarding the bay leaf. - Meanwhile, in a large skillet cook bacon until crisp. Drain on paper towels, reserving 1 tablespoon drippings in skillet. Crumble bacon; set aside. - Add sweet pepper, onion, garlic, thyme, red pepper, and black pepper to skillet. Cook until vegetables are tender. Stir in beans, peas, and bacon. Heat through. Makes 6 servings. From the Test Kitchen * If you cannot find dry black-eyed peas, substitute 1-1/2 to 2 cups of frozen or drained canned peas for each 1/2 cup of dry peas. Add during the last 15 mintues of cooking. Nutrition Facts (Black-Eyed Peas and Red Beans) - Per serving: - 154 kcal , - 2 g fat - (1 g sat. fat , - 3 mg chol. , - 246 mg sodium , - 25 g carb. , - 4 g fiber , - 9 g pro.

Solidarity (Polish trade union) facts for kids Solidarity is a trade union founded in August-September 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland. Subsequently, it was the first independent union in a Warsaw Pact country to be recognised by the state. The union's membership peaked at 10 million in September 1981, representing one-third of the country's working-age population. Solidarity's leader, Lech Wałęsa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and the union is widely recognised as having played a central role in the end of communist rule in Poland. In the 1980s, Solidarity was a broad anti-bureaucratic social movement, using methods of civil resistance to advance the causes of workers' rights and social change. Government attempts in the early 1980s to destroy the union through the imposition of martial law and the use of political repression failed. Operating underground, with significant financial support from the Vatican and the United States, estimated to be as much as US$50 million, the union survived and by the latter 1980s had entered into negotiations with the government. The 1989 round table talks between the government and the Solidarity-led opposition produced agreement for the 1989 legislative elections, the country's first pluralistic election since 1947. By the end of August, a Solidarity-led coalition government was formed and in December 1990, Wałęsa was elected President of Poland. Following Poland's transition to liberal capitalism in the 1990s and the extensive privatization of state assets, Solidarity's membership and influence declined significantly; by 2010, 30 years after being founded, the union had lost more than 90% of its original membership. Images for kids The logo of Solidarność painted on an overturned Soviet era T-55 in Prague in 1990 In Spanish: Solidaridad (Polonia) para niños Solidarity (Polish trade union) Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.

Giant pandas have become China's poster child for endangered species, but now another iconic animal in the country can claim to be even rarer than the bears. There are just 1,000 individual Yangtze finless porpoises left in the wild, according to a new report. That's less than half of what a similar survey of the porpoises found six years ago. The rapidly dwindling numbers have conservationists worried that the species could vanish from the wild as early as 2025. "The species is moving fast toward its extinction," said Wang Ding, head of the expedition to count the porpoises and a professor at the Institute of Hydrobiology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Yangtze finless porpoises, the only freshwater finless porpoise in the world, live mainly in the Yangtze River and China's Dongting and Poyang lakes. They are threatened by shrinking food resources and man-made disturbances like shipping traffic. The expedition, which took place over 44 days last fall, comes after a similar trek along the Yangtze in 2007 failed to find any surviving Baiji dolphins, a close relative of the finless porpoise that was subsequently declared functionally extinct. The new report showed that some finless porpoises are splintering off into relatively isolated groups, which could hurt their ability to reproduce. The scientists also noted that more of the animals seemed to be flocking to wharf and port areas, perhaps to look for food. "They may risk their lives for rich fish bait resources there," Wang said in a statement from the World Wildlife Fund, a conservation group involved in the report. "But busy shipping traffic close to the port areas poses a threat to the survival of finless porpoise." Other finless porpoises seemed to be avoiding human disturbances and were spotted gathering in dense groups in waters not open to ship traffic. But that strategy could backfire — in these waters, the animals risk getting caught in illegal fishing traps. As part of their conservation recommendations, the report authors urge for a year-round fishing ban in all river dolphin reserves, and for new reserves to be established in Poyang Lake and along the Yangtze. The report, called the 2012 Yangtze Freshwater Dolphin Survey Report, was released Thursday (March 28). Follow Megan Gannon on Twitter and Google+. Follow us @livescience, Facebook & Google+. Original article on LiveScience.com.

>BREAKING from Afghanistan: While the Biden administration claims to be ramping up evacuations, military evacuations are getting cancelled. One of our SIV clients just had his flight to safety cancelled with the following note: >"Due to present security conditions, we are unfortunately unable to offer you relocation on this flight. Please DO NOT report to the airport. Continue to shelter in place. We will maintain your information on record and seek to offer you relocation options as soon as possible." >The security of our Afghan allies grows more dire by the hour. The Biden administration needs to get as many people as possible on planes before it is too late https://twitter.com/IRAP/status/1427053285924614147?s=20

One of the happiest atmospheric audio discoveries I’ve made in this life is the sound of rain falling on to the weatherproof coating of my tent as I lie, huddled in my sleeping bag, breathing shallowly and listening (in the otherwise total silence) to the near/far, soft/intense liquid sounds, hoping that they stop soon, whilst hoping they will never end. That kind of breathless audio bubble, the moment of sound that surrounds and comforts and lasts for so very long, was recently recreated for me by an altogether different, but equally atmospheric source. The recording entity known as Only In The Mornings eased its way in to my ears in a stealthy, breathless style that held me captive and made me want to wrap myself up in its sound. You know how you feel when you just want to spoil yourself? You don’t want the TV on because that would be too intrusive. Instead, you want your comfortable jeans, a hot drink, a bar of chocolate, a good book, subdued lighting and some cotton-wool music to complete the self-centredness. You know those times? Well the next time that happens to you, the music you need to have is ‘Exhausted Not Asleep’ from the EP Hubert by Only In The Mornings. Or maybe ‘Trapped Windows’ by Only In The Mornings. Or maybe my very favourite piece of selfish wrapping-up music, ‘Fljótavík’ from the album Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust by Sigur Rós That’s how much I rate the atmospheric, soothing, ethereal qualities that Brian Ward, aka Only In The Mornings brings to ease my troubled head. His beautifully constructed, underplayed musical melodrama – in content and performance – makes his work stand out from so many other artists who are vying for the same ground. You can hear ‘Trapped Windows’ in episode 102 of This Reality Podcast, but when you do listen, you should keep in mind that everything you hear comes from just one person. Keep your ears open, I’m sure there’ll be more of Brian Ward/Only In The Mornings in future podcasts. It has to be an easier way of surrounding yourself in audio cotton-wool than getting in to your tent in the rain!

Makes sense. And doesn't hurt to have a little encouragement from some inspiring makers, tinkerers and doers. Below are artists who inspire me to create. Go with it. Audio Track from "IRA GLASS ON STORY TELLING, PART 3 OF 4"

Looking for hotels in Cardiff? Here at myhotelbreak we have a selection of handpicked hotels in Cardiff. Discover everything Cardiff offers whilst enjoying a great value break at one of our hotels in the city. Cardiff is the epicentre of Wales. Great attractions and museums, the walks and scenery of Cardiff Bay as well as the array of great bars and restaurants. It’s a real European city with what’s on offer. We really recommend visiting the Castle in the city centre and the Edwardian and Victorian Arcades that overlap each other through the city. Cardiff is also a sporting institution so whether you’re in town for the rugby or football, you’ll find a city that’s friendly and with loads on to see and do. When looking to book your next break in Cardiff look no further than us here at myhotelbreak. We have the best offers on hotels in Cardiff. Added to this our deals are wide ranging from dbb, to tribute nights and adventure breaks. The list goes on. We recommend heading over to our Private Facebook Group where you can get hints and tips on hotels and amenities in Cardiff from our other members as well as the myhotelbreak team. Why our hotels in Cardiff? We only work with hotels that are handpicked. Our hotels need to be of the highest possible standard. This covers the hotel rooms making sure they are spacious, clean and advertised as they should be, making sure the hotel is in easy access to popular amenities as well as making sure the leisure side and restaurants are memorable and everything our guests ask for. We’re with you every step of the way from when you book online or by phone till when you arrive at the hotel. We make sure that everything is as it should be; we’re just a call away if you need us. With over 20 years’ experience we know what it takes in making our customer’s hotel dreams come true. We also have really good relationships with our hotels in Cardiff which means we’re able to bring our guests the best possible deals when they are available. Confidently book your next break in Cardiff with myhotelbreak. Check out our last minute deals too.

My undergraduate degree was at Mansfield College, University of Oxford. I initially studied Mathematics, specialising in fluid dynamics, numerical methods and mathematical physics. At the end of my third year I undertook a summer research project investigating large-scale structures in turbulent fluids. I then switched to Mathematical and Theoretical Physics for my Masters year, graduating with a first class MMathPhys degree. My masters thesis used self-consistent field theory to model polymer melts. My research will investigate the behaviour of the thin gas layer formed when a liquid droplet impacts onto a solid surface, in particular the motion of the line where the liquid makes contact with the solid. Fractal-like contact patterns have been observed in Leidenfrost conditions, when the solid is significantly hotter than the boiling point of the liquid droplet. This problem contains physics beyond those captured by the classic Navier-Stokes equations of fluid dynamics, including moving contact lines and kinetic effects in the gas film. This modelling will involve multi-scale numerical simulations using the finite element method.

If you were hurt in a car accident, slip and fall accident, or another incident caused by the negligent actions of another party, you may be interested in filing a personal injury claim. An injury claim may allow you to recover financial compensation for your medical bills, lost income, and other damages caused by the accident. North Carolina personal injury lawsuits are subject to the state’s laws regarding “contributory negligence.” It is important to learn about how this law may affect your eligibility for damages. Many different elements can cause a person to be injured in an accident. Sometimes, the injured person’s own actions caused or contributed to the severity of his or her injuries. Personal injury claims involving shared fault are handled differently depending on the applicable state laws. North Carolina is one of the few states that follow a legal doctrine called “contributory negligence.” This means that you are not entitled to any damages if your injuries were caused by your own negligence. Even if your actions were only 1 percent the cause of the accident, you are typically barred from recovering compensation. However, your negligent actions must have contributed to your injuries in order for this negligence to prevent you from collecting damages. If you acted recklessly but this behavior did not cause or worsen the injury-causing accident, your negligence does not prevent you from recovering damages.

It is commonly believed that there are no better experts on snow than Eskimos, as many of us have probably heard that they have more than 500 words for snow. It is not unreasonable to think this, given that their lives depend on the intensity of the snowfall, thickness and even density of the snow cover. But is it really true that they have so many terms to describe a snow flurry that surrounds them? Yes … Kind of … Well, not really. The whole idea came from German anthropologist Franz Boas, who claimed in the introduction to his 1911 Handbook of American Indian Languages that Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow. The first problem with this statement is, however, that there is more than one ‘Eskimo’ language, since the term ‘Eskimos’ refers to the Yupik and Inuit peoples that live in Alaska, Canada, Siberia and Greenland and who speak many different languages that include multiple dialects of each. And what is even more problematic, the Inuit and Yupik languages are polysynthetic i.e. their words are generated by combining a limited set of roots and suffixes. This allows them to describe complicated situations by using only one word generated by combing many root words and suffixes. For instance ‘dinliltla’ (one Inuit word) means ‘little balls of snow that cling to Husky fur’ (9 English words) – if we count that sentence as one word, it truly means that Eskimos have a heck of a lot of words for snow … and for everything else too. We still can count how many root words Eskimos have for snow even though it can be problematic which are a ‘snow word’ and which are not, but most linguists agree that there are as many ‘snow words’ as in every other language. This means that if we are looking for snow experts we don’t have to look that far. All we need to do is to look outside the window!

Amid the harsh, icy lands of ancient Europe, early man found himself an unexpected companion — the snarling, carnivorous wolf — which would eventually become his modern-day counterpart’s best furry friend. New genetic analysis of 148 prehistoric and modern animals has revealed that our present-day pooches, from dingos to Saint Bernards, are most closely related to either ancient or modern European canines. The comprehensive study points to places like Germany and Switzerland as to where domestication of dogs likely began, and to free-roaming wolves evolving into the Rovers and Spots we know and love today. The study was published online Thursday in the journal Science. “The first dogs looked like wolves,” said study author and evolutionary biologist Robert K. Wayne of the University of California at Los Angeles. “It took some time before these proto-dogs started to look different.” Wayne and his colleagues estimate domestication occurred around 18,800 to 32,100 years ago, when ice sheets extended over much of Europe’s northern lands. Hunter-gatherers feasted on huge kills, such as mammoths. But at the same time, early men looked over their shoulders for predatory cave bears and lions. So when a few of the friendlier wolves started to hang around for leftover mammoth, perhaps the humans didn’t mind because they provided a little extra protection. They began the first step toward domestication by co-existing with wolves in a mutually beneficial relationship, the scientists speculate. The docile wolves bred and stuck with their new human friends. They stopped intermingling as much with the wild wolves. After generations upon generations of selective breeding, wolves slowly became more like the dogs of today — still the only large carnivore ever domesticated, said Wayne. They even adapted to a high-starch diet, leaving them in better shape during human society’s later forays into agriculture. Although there was no question that modern dogs descended from wolves, recent research findings clashed over where and when domestication originated. Archeologists dug up the oldest dog-like fossils dating back 36,000 years ago in Western Europe and Siberia, but it wasn’t certain if they truly were the bones of earlydogs or some other creature. Curiously, the latest genetic studies traced back the family tree of modern dogs and wolves to canine origins in the Middle East or East Asia — tens of thousands of years after those first fossils. “The fossils spoke for Europe, but the genetics spoke for Asia,” said study author and population geneticist at Finland’s University of Turku Olaf Thalmann. “At some point, you have to combine the two stories.” So that’s exactly what Thalmann and his colleagues set out to do. The team gathered genetic data from 18 prehistoric dog-like fossils from Eurasia and the New World, along with a slew from present-day dogs and wolves. They nabbed insight on how to best work with old, battered DNA from the groundbreaking sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2010. “Ancient DNA is shattered into many, many small pieces,” said National Institutes of Health geneticist Elaine Ostrander, who was not involved in the study. “When you have an ancient sample, sequencing the mitochondrial DNA is the right first thing to do.” Mitochondria are mini-organs inside cells that also contain a bit of DNA, like the nucleus. But the DNA in the nucleus only has two copies, compared to up to a thousand copies of mitochondrial DNA in a single cell. When it comes to extracting prehistoric DNA, the more backup copies, the better. In total, the team input 148 complete and partial mitochondrial sequences into a model that spit out an evolutionary tree. To the researchers’ surprise, all four of the living groupings of modern dogs had their closest ancestors in Europe, not Asia. One group including a Siberian husky and a Great Dane had sequences most closely related to that of an ancient wolf from Switzerland. Ancestors for a second set of present-day dogs containing a pit bull terrier and a cocker spaniel included two ancient dogs found in Germany. Also, two of the oldest fossils, including one from Siberia, were from creatures not directly related to today’s pooches. Thalmann thinks these may have been unsuccessful domestication efforts, where these wolves became partly dog-like, but the branch of evolution got cut short somehow. “There is not a single proto-dog — Eve, or Spot, they would call that dog — from which modern dog breeds descended,” said Ostrander. Today more than 300 breeds exist with humans continuing to select for fancier or odder traits. The majority of these are only a few hundred years old. Ostrander, who has done research on dog genetics for over 20 years, finds the results plausible given human trade routes and population migrations. “Using state-of-the-art genome technologies, they have come up with very clear answers about what is likely to be the location of major dog domestication events,” she said. “All the pieces fit together very nicely.”

Melanoma—Early Detection and Prevention Saves Lives Whether it affects a specific individual or a close loved one, cancer is a condition that touches everyone in some capacity. When we talk about feet, an important cancer to understand is malignant melanoma. Catching this disease early improves the success rate of treatment, but preventing it in the first place is even better. What Is Melanoma? Melanoma is widely-regarded as the most serious form of skin cancer and is often found in human cells (melanocytes) that create melanin. In rare occasions, it may develop in eyes and internal organs. Melanin is responsible for pigmentation and is the reason skin darkens when exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light. With overexposure to UV radiation—either by short, intense bursts or lower levels absorbed over an extended period—the melanocytes sustain DNA damage, which leads to masses of cancerous cells. At this time, researchers are not entirely sure exactly how the DNA becomes damaged and causes melanoma, but the link between UV radiation and melanoma is quite evident. What Are the Symptoms of Melanoma? Early detection for melanoma is integral for effectively treating the condition. The mortality rate of this particular cancer is rather high for the simple reason that it is usually discovered in a late stage. With this in mind, it is essential to know that the primary sign of this cancer is irregular moles. We will discuss those momentarily, but note that a dark spot visible under a toenail might be malignant melanoma. More likely, it is simply blood pooled in the nail bed, but this situation still warrants a visit to our office for confirmation. How Can I Recognize an Irregular Mole? Whereas some moles are fine, unusual ones might be cancerous. When you want to easily identify an irregular mole, remember your ABC’s: - A – Asymmetrical Shape. If each half of a mole looks different from the other, it is worth investigating. Symmetry—where two halves look the same, except reversed (like in a mirror)—is what you hope to observe. - B – Irregular Border. A mole that has a blurred, notched, or ragged border should be examined by a professional. - C – Changes in Color. As opposed to the solid, singular color of a normal mole, a cancerous mole typically has multiple colors in an uneven distribution. - D – Diameter. Size matters when it comes to moles – anything greater than 5 or 6 millimeters (about the size of pencil’s eraser) should raise a red flag. - E – Evolving. Non-cancerous moles are consistent and will, more or less, stay around the same size and shape. If you have a mole that changes color, shape, or size, it is cause for concern. If you have a mole that is round or oval-shaped, smaller than the size of a pencil eraser, has a distinct border, and is uniform in color—often brown, tan, or black—then you probably don’t have anything to worry about. Almost everyone has between 10 and 45 normal moles found throughout their bodies. Are There Preventative Measures for Melanoma? When it comes to melanoma, the good news is that viable prevention measures can decrease your likelihood of having to deal with it. Most are centered on avoiding, or limiting, exposure to harmful UV rays, including: - Avoid direct sunlight between 10 am and 4 pm, when the sun’s rays are the strongest. - Wear sunscreen of at least SPF 15 and protective clothing all year round. - Do not use tanning beds. - Examine your skin on a regular basis. (This won’t prevent melanoma, but it will help you identify the cancer early.) When Should I Make an Appointment? Early detection and treatment is your best bet for a successful recovery from skin cancer. As soon as you note an irregular mole, contact our office for the soonest possible appointment. We will assess the situation and take a skin biopsy to accurately diagnose whether or not it is cancerous. When the results come back, we will review them together and determine a treatment plan. Dallas Podiatry Works is your partner in foot health every step of the way. Schedule an appointment at either our Plano or Dallas, TX offices by calling us toll free at (888) 716-5283, or use our online form today. Photo Credit: Unsplash via pixabay.com

On Wednesday, January 20th, The Real Estate Publishing Group hosted the 14th Annual Commercial Real Estate Forecast at The Hyatt Regency in Chicago. Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner: The event kicked off with a spirited and candid assessment of the state of Illinois by Governor Bruce Rauner. The successful business entrepreneur admitted that politics is harder than business as democracy is designed to change slowly. Rauner feels the public is getting only half the story from the media and strongly encouraged the audience to read a well written story published January 4th by Investors Daily. Chicago CBD core assets are attractive and interesting due to 24/7 dynamic and demographics the city offers however taxes and fiscal issues are a concern. Companies now view real estate as an asset that drives business, important to retain and attract talent and the real estate provides an opportunity to effect cultural changes through a move into newly designed space. Growth companies from the health and tech sectors have been driving demand with tech sector employment growth at 16% over the past 4 years. Looking forward there is concern on tech companies’ financials and ascertaining if financial growth plans are realistic. CBD class “A” space vacancy rate hovering in the 6% range, with difficulty finding large blocks of good space within the existing inventory. Cap rates will remain flat; may rise in 2016. 3 new office towers will be added to CBD inventory in 2017-2018, all 75% pre-leased; could possibly see a fourth tower move towards development if an anchor tenant is secured. Relied heavily on retail sector to fill industrial buildings in 2015; e-commerce is driving building requirements to include 40’ clear ceiling heights, multi-story configuration and heavy automation. Investors focused on the coasts for industrial investments as those markets see stronger rent growth, in the 5-6% range. The O’Hare submarket has coastal characteristics with strong demand and a vacancy rate near 0% for class “A” buildings. Investors want to place capital in this submarket. See the Industrial Market breakout session summary below for more industrial highlights. Beginning to see stress for some retailers as the holiday season was dismal for retailers. Big box retailer key to success is location and need to be best in class, yet not necessarily profitable. Rental rate increases are hard to achieve as store sales have not changed much. Availability of capital has keep investment sales volume up and should stay the same into 2016, may see a little cap rate compression. Investors are willing to pay for core assets in core locations. Since 2007, companies moving from the suburbs and out of state have resulted in 44 transactions totaling 4 million SF with 60% of these deals landing in the West Loop submarket (companies want to be close to the train stations). A growing population is needed for a growing economy with the millennials soon to become the largest demographic group. One panelists view on millennials: have huge college debt, no savings, hop jobs every couple of years and don’t buy “things” but spend money on experiences such as travel, and 70% do not have driver’s license. Trend towards Transit Oriented Developments (TOD) both in the city and the suburbs as housing values are tied to transit with room in both the city and suburbs for growth of this type of development. Real estate cost is a small P/L line item compared to a company’s labor cost, estimated between $30-$40 PSF. Companies want to be close to their talent pool. The suburban office market does not have an absorption problem, the suburbs have a perception problem. One business publication runs every story on companies moving into the city yet did not run the story on Verizon’s 160,000 SF new lease at Continental Towers because they did not get the exclusive. The Chicago metropolitan area is home to 30 Fortune 500 companies, 20 of which are located in the suburbs. NAI Hiffman research tallied absorption from 2010 – 2015: 5.9 million SF in the CBD vs 7.3 million SF in the suburbs. All suburban office markets have one class “A” building with an asking rate over $30 PSF. Tenant market activity during 2015 encompassed packaging companies as well as e-commerce companies. Any negative shift in consumer confidence could impact demand into 2016. Additional demand drivers included organic growth and consolidations. The labor component is huge driver for tenants as companies are now looking at labor studies in addition to logistics studies when contemplating a move. The distribution facility is becoming the new factory and features include: extra land to accommodate parking (employees and/or trailer), power, security, expansion capabilities. Due to the capital expense of infrastructure, flexibility is critical. The Chicago metropolitan area industrial market historically has experienced market equilibrium with a vacancy rate at 8%. With the current rate at 7.24%, today’s market is in favor of the landlord with rent growth in the 2-3% range and anticipated to trend higher. The outlook for the Chicago industrial market was generally optimistic with some concern about demand keeping pace with supply in 2016. The timing for a pre-cast order now requires a 10-month lead time which will be beneficial should demand begin to taper. If demand increases, developers may need to look at creative ways to address the precast delivery timeline. Class “A” industrial assets will see cap rates sub 5% into 2016 as there is a great deal of capital chasing core product with a limited inventory of class “A” industrial product. Andy Hochberg with Next Realty, LLC shared his business philosophy which is no longer governed by the old real estate adage, location, location, location. Through his successes in 2008, he filters opportunities now through location, liquidity and luck. All panelists echoed the luck sentiment, timing is key.

The construction of a freight rail link between Tanzania and Uganda is expected to begin soon. This follows a 2011 agreement between the two countries to upgrade the existing 400 km railway from Tanga to Arusha, and construct a 480km rail track from Arusha to Musoma port. Cargo en-route to Kampala will then cross Lake Victoria by ship. Under the $3.58 billion deal, the two countries will also construct a new Mwambani port in Tanga and expand Musoma dock and the new Kampala port at Bukasa area. Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Tanzanian Ministry of EAC Co-operation, Amantius Msole, while not specifying the time frame for the implementation of the project, said that both the feasibility study and the engineering designs for railway would be completed by the end of this month. Upset by costly logistical challenges between Dar es Salaam and Mombasa ports, Uganda has been looking for alternative trade routes in the region. Dr Chebrat Slepher, the Uganda’s State minister responsible for Transport , said that the new route would reduce congestion at the key regional ports of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam. This is due to the fact that Tanga and Musoma ports will specifically handle cargo traffic destined for Uganda and South Sudan. “The most interesting part of this project is that it would reduce congestion at the key regional ports of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam” Dr Slepher said during the agreement signing in Tanzania recently. Source: The East African

I actually enjoyed going to school just because it kept me busy and out of my head. When a friend introduced me to marijuana, I took to it like a fish to water. It made me forget who I was and how shitty I felt for a few blissful hours and it pretty soon became the centerpiece for my social life. Most of my experiences in high school are remembered through a haze of weed smoke or at least what I can remember. It all came screeching to a halt when high school ended. I didn't have that distraction of class and an instant-access social life any more. The weed became even more of a crutch to keep me sane and adjusted. Then I had my first bad high. I was on a burn run with some of my smoking buddies and suddenly felt strange. My heart started racing and I started getting all these paranoid thoughts in my head about the worst things I could think of. Dying, losing family and friends, the end of the world, etc. What sent me over the edge was that I was having some sexual identity issues at the time so the idea of potentially being gay/bi/queer/whatever and having what little security and support I had disappear because of it scared the hell out of me. I made the driver pull over and I ran into the woods next the road and sat on a rock for a good 45 minutes shaking and puking my guts out. I gave up smoking right then and there and haven't touched it since.

The Policy DA fosters a holistic and comprehensive approach to problem engagement that advances learning, scholarship, and practical solutions to global societal issues. The following principles support this holistic approach. A variety of spaces are important to foster effective collaboration: small, large, casual and informal or “ad hoc,” spaces to support both short term and long-term collaboration, experiential learning and independent learning. Spaces that are adaptable and flexible in use are crucial. BYOD--Bring your own device, plug in and improvise away. Space must accommodate the distance component, equipped with the right technology, that is central to Virginia Tech as a global land-grant university. People must be able to connect with ease across the campuses of VT as well as with people and events around the globe. Spaces are needed for simulating decision making in complex settings. Examples include virtual fusion centers, decision theaters, studio spaces, lab experimental space, project spaces, and more. These spaces need the flexibility and technology to create the circumstances for a range of complex settings from local to international, security to questions to infrastructure planning, and more. Facilities and space should include a security component both to eliminate external eavesdropping and the facility could pilot or showcase “best practice” data/process security measures. The Policy DA should engage with all DAs to build opportunities for and understandings of the importance of shared space, but there must be guaranteed time for each to use the space. Each Destination Area should have dedicated space to promote/amplify collaboration through a policy focus. Spaces with hubs for collaboration and small offices all around (no faculty member gets more than one office on campus). The “policy space” can and should be multiple spaces: 1) spaces for faculty and advanced graduate students and postdoctoral researchers for collaborative research, grant development; 2) space for outreach, engaging the community and the world; 3) space for pedagogy, experiential learning, independent learning, collaborative teaching and incorporation of technology and innovation. Currently, the Institute for Society, Culture and Environment provides meeting space for the Policy DA and can help facilitate space requests until specific Policy DA space and facilities are available.

Aims and objectives The Tadrart Acacus is a massif averaging 150km long and 50km wide located in the Fazzan region, in the south western corner of Libya. Italian archaeological research carried out over the last fifty years has already illuminated the richness of the archaeological and rock art heritage of the area, which has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage list. Nevertheless, previous research has focused mainly on prehistory and on the Holocene paintings and engravings of the region whilst leaving aside a systematic investigation of the historical rock inscriptions which also occur throughout the massif. Valuable and astonishing remains dating to historical times are undoubtedly represented by these writings incised along the cliffs that cross the massif. Vaguely described as tifinagh inscriptions, a Tuareg word indicating the traditional writing still in use throughout the Sahara desert, they are a remarkable record related to the history, both ancient and modern, of the Acacus mountains. According to research carried out in other North African regions (i.e. Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania, Algeria), the age of those scripts ranges from the second century BC up to current times. In contrast to what has been done elsewhere, the Libyan rock scripts of the Tadrart Acacus have never been the object of systematic recording, even though they represent a unique and available 'archive' of inscribed material from the Garamantian period up to the present time. The location of these inscriptions, which have been reported in the course of several archaeological surveys, is known but no real cataloguing or photographic campaign has been carried out so far. The written records are carved in rock walls and range from a simple short incised line to longer, articulated inscriptions which constitute a crucial source of the individual and social memory of the communities that have been living in the area over the last two millennia. The rock of the Acacus has allowed for the preservation of a unique palimpsest of written documentation, from the Old Libyan up to the present times. In the last decade the area has been severely threatened by the increasing number of tourists visiting an environment which is extremely fragile and not well suited to hosting such numbers. This phenomenon has already led to the damage of some of the most beautiful and easily accessible rock art galleries, having a strong impact on rock walls which include the inscriptions. Each year this situation is getting worse, in spite of the efforts of the local management authority. This is especially true for those areas which are close to the main passageways through the mountain, which means the mountain passes and the rock walls close to the principal routes crossing the Acacus, and those places where water is available. Unfortunately, these areas are also the places where long historical inscriptions most frequently occur. This means that they are constantly at risk. Moreover, in the last fifteen years, the whole region has experienced a strong impact due to oil exploration and exploitation. The Messak Settafet (located to the NW of the Acacus, but culturally related to it), has been seriously affected by seismic lines and oil fields that have badly damaged part of the plateau area and its archaeological heritage. Oil Surveys have also been carried out in the area surrounding the oasis of Ghat, directly adjacent to the Acacus mountains, and certainly represent a further threat. The aim of the project is to identify, locate, catalogue, photograph and document the state of conservation of all the rock inscriptions along the four main passes through the Acacus mountains crossed from ancient times. This includes rock walls related to the main caravan routes and to the places where water is available, which will be the richest areas in inscriptions and the most endangered. This will provide a digital archive of the written records. The work will be carried out with the collaboration of the Libyan Department of Antiquities in Tripoli and with the Jarma Archaeological Museum, which is the local institution in charge of the management of the cultural heritage of the area. This will contribute to raising the awareness of local personnel of the importance of safeguarding and archiving this kind of written documentation in their region. The seeming durability of stone no longer ensures the preservation of these remains, and under the pressure of contemporary exigencies this neglected part of past and present life requires urgent recording. The archive of the Italian-Libyan Archaeological Mission in the Acacus, working in the area since 1955, has been the base to locate several sites. This EAP project enabled specific field work to be carried out in order to locate, photograph and when possible give a topographic rendering of the panels inscribed with tifinagh characters with the most up-date technologies. The number of relevant sites increased dramatically (from around 15 sites to more than one hundred). The photographic documentation was the core of the programme but the coordinates, physiographic position, location, type and size of the support, technique(s), state of preservation, relevance, potential risks, and the damage to the inscriptions were also recorded. From a theoretical and methodological viewpoint, the recording of tifinagh inscriptions was a real challenge. The complexity of the type of documentation – pecked or engraved inscriptions on often uneven and irregular sandstone support – has been faced by creating an archive based on a specific (and original) taxonomic hierarchy. The site, considered as the physical location of tifinagh inscriptions in the space, was subdivided, when possible, in a series of subsequent units, named surface and panels. Definition, description and recording have been done for all the three levels, creating a clear documentation for all the sites identified in the field. The bare nature of the support of the inscription(s) led the project to explore different techniques of recording and visual rendering: some sites have been therefore mapped by means of Electronic Total Station (ETA) and Differential GPS and then processed with specific software. The 3D rendering of Acacus rock inscriptions represent a methodological advance which can hopefully be adopted in other contexts, facilitating the adoption of a shared archive management of inscription realised on “unusual” supports, such as the uneven surfaces of desert environments. On the basis of the amount and complexity of inscriptions 35 very relevant sites were recorded, with multiple panels inscribed; 56 relevant sites; and 32 sites with an average degree of relevance. Moreover a preliminary analysis of the content, in order to provide a first chronology for the study area, has been carried out. The first archive of tifinagh rock inscriptions in the region of the Acacus mountain and of the whole Fezzan has thus been created. A copy of the digital archive has been given to the Head of the Libyan Department of Archaeology in Tripoli and to the Director of the Jerma Museum; one copy is also in the University of Rome La Sapienza and one copy with the British Library. The digital archive will be placed in the Mission website, with free access to anybody registering the site. This research was met with enthusiasm by the local people involved, from the Department of Archaeology to the desert guides, who, for the first time, considered the tifinagh inscriptions as an important source of information on their history. The Head of the Libyan Department of Archaeology gave his full approval to the project and allowed the photographic campaign, while the Director of the Jerma Museum, Dr Saad Saleh Abdulaziz, was directly involved in the fieldwork and proved to be invaluable also in the attempt to raise awareness amongst local people of the importance of preserving the integrity of the inscribed sites. EAP gave the Mission the opportunity to enlarge the research field to the issue of tifinagh, so far understudied. As a result, one of the largest tifinagh collections available so far has been recorded, that can improve knowledge of these writings. Furthermore, preliminary study has already proved the relevance of those scripts to the comprehension of the historical and current landscape, revealing some unexpected traits of human-environment interaction in the Acacus range. Some critical issues are clearly traced: the relevance of water points; some major paths within the landscape; the focus on passes and crossroads. Read an article on this project published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. Read online the open access article: The ‘written landscape’ of the central Sahara: recording and digitising the Tifinagh inscriptions in the Tadrart Acacus Mountains, published in the EAP Anniversary publication From Dust to Digital. The article can also be downloaded as a PDF (736KB). The records copied by this project have been catalogued as: - EAP265/1 Digital images of Tifinagh inscriptions at the Acacus Mountains in Libya, created during fieldwork by the Italian-Libyan Archeaological Mission in the Acacus and Messak

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This is a readable and engaging introduction to world religions. It explores the main religions of both East and West, situating them in a cross-cultural context and using a powerful dramatic metaphor to bring them alive for students. It covers: The nature of "religion" in terms of cross-culturally applicable concepts developed in the history of religions The internal coherence of religious worldviews in terms of individual traditions and the "families" to which they belong. The diversity of the world's living spiritual traditions, using categories and choosing content susceptible to comparative analysis. The key persons who animate each of the world's living religions including: founders and key historical figures, divine presences, and religious adherents. The values, teachings and spiritual technologies embodied in key religious texts, including scriptures, myths, philosophies, and laws. The key cultural products, such as rituals, and arts that reflect the integrity of the religious traditions in terms of sacred space and sacred time. Additional features include: half tones, line drawings, timelines, summary boxes, and a glossary.Urubshurow, Victoria Kennick is the author of 'Introducing World Religions', published 2008 under ISBN 9780415772709 and ISBN 0415772702.

and I hope girls are enjoying the last month of summer and the wonderful hot weather! So, for my August 2017 Spotlight card I used 'Expresso Bun' who looks like she's ready for a tea party with her cup! For this card I used EP designs 6x6 paper pack called: birthday wishes (I thought the designer paper with the cupcakes printed on it is perfect for my friend's daughter's birthday), Michael's Craft - recollection flower brads, and 110lb cardstocks, my copic markers and a little wink of stella for the bunny's cup!

During the 18th century, many African Americans were slaves, ex-slaves or generally ignored by the public. There are therefore few African American writers from this time period, but the ones who were able to write are groundbreakers. Phillis Wheatley was the first African American woman to publish a book and the first African American poet. In the 1760s, she was kidnapped in Western Africa and sold into slavery. She was taught to read and write, and in 1773 she wrote a collection of poems, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. It gained national attention, even coming to be praised by George Washington. Lucy Terry wrote the oldest known work of fiction by an African American. She was kidnapped in Africa and sold into slavery as an infant. Her freedom was purchased by Abijah Prince, a freed African American man, whom she then married. Her work, “Bars Fight” is a ballad about an attack by Native Americans on two white families in an area known as The Bars. Jupiter Hammon was the first African American to be published in the then newly independent United States of America (Wheatley’s collection of poems was first published in London before being published in the United States). A poet who was born into slavery, he never experienced emancipation, but in his famous Hammon address he said, "If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves." The 19th Century The Civil War had been fought, and the slaves were freed. Many more African Americans had access to good quality education, and many authors wrote about the struggles of ex-slaves, both when they were enslaved and when they were freed. W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington are perhaps the most famous African American authors at this time. Du Bois was the first African American to earn a doctorate, graduating from Harvard, and he was a founder of the NAACP. He wrote prolifically about what he called the “Negro Problem”, how African Americans felt about being considered problematic in society. Douglass became famous after publishing his autobiography about his life as a slave. White society was shocked to discover that slaves could be compelling and eloquent, and he took advantage of his new-found fame to promote equal rights for all people. Washington, unlike Du Bois and Douglass, was born in the Deep South and was intimately acquainted with the feelings of southern white people to their newly freed slaves. His writings were collections of his speeches trying to advance the causes of African Americans across the country. Other writers were working at this time as well. Octavia V. Rogers Albert interviewed former slaves in Louisiana to use as the basis for her book The House of Bondage. Like Washington, Charles Chesnutt wrote about the experience of ex-slaves in the post-Civil War south, but much of his work was fictionalized. Elizabeth Keckley was a freed slave who became the seamstress of Mary Todd Lincoln. Keckley wrote a book about her work with Mrs. Lincoln called Behind the Scenes. William Wells Brown wrote the first novel written by an African American, Clotel, which was published in London, where he lived at the time. The early 20th Century The 20th century saw many African American writers come to the forefront of the literary world. The Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights era created a fertile ground for writing. Anne Spencer spanned the gap between the writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. She socialized with Langston Hughes, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and W. E. B. Du Bois, among many others, and she was the first African American to have her poetry included in the Norton Anthology of American Poetry. Langston Hughes wrote in just about every format, but he was particularly feted for his work in poetry. He brought musical sensibilities to poetry, giving rise to the jazz poetry that helped define the style of the Harlem Renaissance. Zora Neal Hurston was famous during the Harlem Renaissance, but her work had fallen out of favor for several decades. She was reintroduced to the world in 1975 by Alice Walker, and she has stayed in the canon of American literature ever since. James Baldwin wrote in the middle of the century, publishing his first book in 1955. His work explored the racial, sexual and class distinctions of his time, looking particularly at the unspoken rules that governed people’s behavior. The late 20th and very early 21st Century It is early into the century, so most writers today have also written in the 20th century. These days, African American authors are no longer restricted to issues relating to race, instead exploring genres like horror and sci-fi in fiction and contemporary issues in poetry. Maya Angelou is the legendary poet, essayist and autobiographer well known for her book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. That book was a crucial contribution to African American feminism literature. Toni Morrison has written many novels, including Beloved. She has received many awards for her writings, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Alice Walker is most famous for writing The Color Purple, in which she uses the backdrop of 1930s Georgia to explore issues facing women and African Americans. Rita Dove is the first African American to serve as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress and the second African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her writings include On the Bus with Rosa Parks. ZZ Packer was highly lauded as an up and coming writing talent in her youth, and her subsequent output has proved that early praise correct. She has written Drinking Coffee Elsewhere and is currently the Writer-in-Residence at Tulane University. Samuel R. Delany is a renowned science fiction author. Winner of four Nebula and two Hugo awards, he has written titles including Babel-17, Nova, and the Return to Nevèrÿon series. David Anthony Durham concentrates his talent on the historical fiction and fantasy genres. His notable titles include Gabriel’s Story, which follows African American settlers as they make their way out west, and the Acacia Trilogy, an epic fantasy trilogy that is praised for its fully developed alternate world and the way it turns many fantasy tropes on their heads.

Scene stealer Kat Cunning will return as Sabine, likely hinting at the show taking place after Sabine's tour wraps up. Instead, they kill him with the help of , the Empress of the 's Terran Empire and now a Starfleet agent. Joe Biden is currently in a distant second with 17. But I don't have a clear distinction between them. At the time of Berg and Harberts' firing, production was underway on the fifth episode of the season, and a hiatus in filming was planned to follow that. It means connections you can't explain. Of course, some theories contradict some of the other things in the show. The Ba'ul retaliate to Starfleet's actions by attempting to commit genocide, but are stopped by the Red Angel, who Saru sees is a humanoid wearing a highly-advanced suit. Could someone further explain it to me? Netflix is a registered trademark of Netflix, Inc. The existence of an alternate reality means anything could happen. Do you want to see The Society return for a second season on Netflix? Teen drama season 1 is out now on Netflix, but what should fans expect from The Society season 2 on Netflix? However, other critics perceived the second season's depictions of violence as excessive. The majority of the key players were alive and kicking when the first chapter wrapped up, which means we would expect the following to all make a comeback: Allie Kathryn Newton , Will Jacques Colimon , Campbell Toby Wallace , Becca Gideon Adlon , Sam Sean Berdy , Harry Alex Fitzalan , Kelly Kristine Froseth , Helena Natasha Liu Bordizzo , Elle Olivia DeJonge , Gordie José Julián , Bean Salena Qureshi , Luke Alex MacNicoll , Grizz Jack Mulhern , Clark Spencer House , Jason Emilio Garcia-Sanchez , Gwen Olivia Nikkanen and Lexie Grace Victoria Cox , and others. . Section 31 Captain Leland assigns Tyler to Discovery as a liaison, to ensure that Discovery does not interfere with Section 31's own investigation into Spock. She appears to have accepted her new role in a society that she helped create. The authors of this site also have no affiliation with Netflix. She is also involved with Mayday and becomes June's first contact with the resistance group. The season was produced by in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment, with serving as. . He named 1995 as an influence for the filming style. Many of the female characters — with the exceptions of Allie, Cassandra, and steadfast Christian Helena Natasha Liu Bordizzo — feel interchangeable. I don't think we're looking for an endless, continuing nine or 10 year story. Unterdessen hat sich aber der Macher der Geschichte rund um die Teenager-Gesellschaft, Christopher Keyser, zu einer potentiellen Fortsetzung geäußert. Will there be a The Society season two on Netflix? Here's everything we know so far. . It begs the question which society? Both he and his wife were instrumental in Gilead's founding. She appears to have a soft spot for Janine and even goes so far as to address her by her given name on occasion. Pike agrees and resumes command of the Enterprise to keep Control distracted. Social outcasts Campbell Toby Wallace and Elle Olivia DeJonge gravitate towards each other, for wont of better options. After 10 incredibly tense episodes and one hell of a cliffhanger, we're already dying for the next season. Henry Zaga and Brandon Butler will also be back as Noah and Luca. Season 4 starts production in March 2020. Mount and Romijn both signed one year deals for the series, with their characters included as part of the series attempt to have the season align closer to the wider Star Trek continuity. Pike uses the Ba'ul's technology to trigger Vahar'ai in all Kelpiens, hoping the two species can instead work towards a peaceful solution once the Kelpiens are freed and learn the truth about their past from Saru's priestess sister Siranna. She's very dark, and what she goes through is so difficult for me to even understand that I had to do a lot of research.

or ghost image is an optical illusion that refers to an image continuing to appear in one's vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased. One of the most common afterimages is the bright glow that seems to float before one's eyes after staring at a light bulb or a headlight for a few seconds. The phenomenon of afterimages may be closely related to persistence of vision , which allows a rapid series of pictures to portray motion, which is the basis of animation Afterimages come in two forms, negative (inverted) and positive (retaining original color). The process behind positive afterimages is unknown, though thought to be related to neural adaptation. On the other hand, negative afterimages are a retinal phenomenon and are well understood. Negative afterimages are caused when the eye's photoreceptors , primarily those known as cone cells from the over stimulation and lose sensitivity. Normally the eye deals with this problem by rapidly moving the eye small amounts (see: microsaccade ), the motion later being "filtered out" so it is not noticeable. However if the color image is large enough that the small movements are not enough to change the color under one area of the retina , those cones will eventually tire or adapt and stop responding. The rod cells can also be affected by this. When the eyes are then diverted to a blank space, the adapted photoreceptors send out little signal and those colors remain muted. However, the surrounding cones that were not being excited by that color are still "fresh", and send out a strong signal. The signal is exactly the same as if looking at the opposite color, which is how the brain interprets it. Ewald Hering explained how the brain sees afterimages, in terms of three pairs of primary colors. This opponent process theory states that the human visual system interprets color information by processing signals from cones and rods in an antagonistic manner. The opponent color theory suggests that there are three opponent channels: red versus green, blue versus yellow, and black versus white. Responses to one color of an opponent channel are antagonistic to those to the other color. Therefore, a green image will produce a red afterimage. The green color tires out the green photoreceptors, so they produce a weaker signal. Anything resulting in less green, is interpreted as its paired primary color, which is red. Positive afterimages, by contrast, appear the same color as the original image. They are often very brief, lasting less than half a second, and may not occur unless the stimulus is very bright. The cause of positive afterimages is not well known, but possibly reflects persisting activity in the visual system where the retinal photoreceptor cells continue to send neural impulses to the occipital lobe , suggesting that the experience of a stimulus can vary with the intensity of the stimulus. As in most circumstances only very bright stimuli such as the sun produce positive afterimages, and a stimulus which elicits a positive image will usually trigger a negative afterimage quickly via the adaptation process. To experience this phenomenon, one can look at a bright source of light and then look away to a dark area, such as by closing the eyes. At first one should see a fading positive afterimage, likely followed by a negative afterimage that may last for much longer. In a visual disturbance called palinopsia , patients have an increased propensity for seeing afterimages, having both a reduced amount of time required to form an afterimage, and an increased duration of the afterimage. Positive afterimages are particularly noticeable, such that even routine eye movement is often accompanied by flickers of what the eye has scanned over (called "tracers"). However, increased negative afterimages are also experienced by palinopsia sufferers. It is unknown if the negative afterimages encountered in palinopsia are formed by the same process described above, although what little research that exists regarding the phenomena suggests that it is brain-related, and not eye-related. Palinopsia can be a persistent condition, but it is also experienced periodically by migraine

Digital illustration reinterpreting a book cover image of a book about getting fit. This personal project had the intention to try a different kind of illustration, with a theme I hadn’t explored until now, and trying to add dynamism. As it was a book about doing sport and stay active, I drew a woman making a big jump. I also wanted to explore the tittle with my own lettering.

Remember photon torpedos in Star Trek? Now there’s something new photon-wise, but even better than torpedos. The Financial Times spread the word today that UK researchers and various private industry groups from Europe and Asia unveiled yesterday a quantum computing chip structure that utilizes silicon chips and light (photons). According to the story, the processes it uses are said to be relatively compatible with existing technology and production processes. The research was unveiled this week at the British Science Festival. Here’s a highlight from the FT article: "A quantum computing device with 100 photons could in principle solve trillions of equations at the same time." How is this relevant to lawyers? For one, the power of research "in silico" will go up and thereby add even more speed to molecular biology relevant to tort claims. The technology – when it arrives in a few more years – also will have implications for failure to warn if everything can be simulated and predicted. Am I dreaming? Maybe a little, but consider the last statement of the FT article: “Just as wind tunnels are not used for aircraft designs any more but [have been] replaced by computer simulations, in the future we may be able to replace most chemistry labs with quantum computers,” says Prof O’Brien." Set out below is the press release from the University of Bristol: "An international research collaboration led by scientists from the University of Bristol, UK, has developed a new approach to quantum computing that could lead to the mass-manufacture of new quantum technologies. Scientists from the University of Bristol’s Centre for Quantum Photonics have developed a silicon chip that will pave the way to the mass-manufacture of miniature quantum chips. The announcement was made at the launch of the 2012 British Science Festival [4 to 9 September]. The leap from using glass-based circuits to silicon-based circuits is significant because fabricating quantum circuits in silicon has the major advantage of being compatible with modern microelectronics. Ultimately this technology could be integrated with conventional microelectronic circuits, and could one day allow the development of hybrid conventional / quantum microprocessors. The Bristol-led team have developed quantum chips from silicon — the same material routinely used en masse to build the tiny electrical processors in all computers and smart phones. However, unlike conventional silicon chips that work by controlling electrical current, these circuits manipulate single particles of light (photons) to perform calculations. These circuits exploit strange quantum mechanical effects such as superposition (the ability for a particle to be in two places at once) and entanglement (strong correlations between particles that would be nonsensical in our everyday world). The technology developed uses the same manufacturing techniques as conventional microelectronics, and could be economically scaled for mass-manufacture. These new circuits are compatible with existing optical fibre infrastructure and are ready to be deployed directly with the internet. Mark Thompson, Deputy Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics in the University’s School of Physics, said: “Using silicon to manipulate light, we have made circuits over 1000 times smaller than current glass-based technologies. It will be possible to mass-produce this kind of chip using standard microelectronic techniques, and the much smaller size means it can be incorporated in to technology and devices that would not previously have been compatible with glass chips.(emphasis added). “This is very much the start of a new field of quantum-engineering, where state-of-the-art micro-chip manufacturing techniques are used to develop new quantum technologies and will eventually realise quantum computers that will help us understand the most complex scientific problems.” Published in the New Journal of Physics1 the researchers have demonstrated quantum interference and manipulation of entanglement using silicon components just 10′s micrometres in size. The photonic quantum microchips were made using the silicon-on-insulator material system, which is the standard technology routinely used to make microprocessors found for example in the Xbox, Playstation,Wii, AMD processors and many others. This means that not only can these new devices be mass-manufactured using standard microelectronics processing that already exist, but they can also be combined with standard microelectronics circuits — ultimately enabling the development of hybrid quantum / conventional microprocessors. Along with recent demonstrations from the Bristol research group and other groups showing on-chip generation of photonics qubits2 and results from the US showing on-chip detection of single photons3, the Bristol-lead research team now believes that all the key components are in place to realise a fully functioning quantum processor — a powerful type of computer that uses quantum bits (qubits) rather than the conventional bits used in today’s computers. Quantum computers will have unprecedented computational power for tasks including search engines and the design of new materials and pharmaceuticals. This work, carried out with collaborators including Heriot-Watt University in Scotland and Delft University in the Netherlands, is an essential step towards the miniaturisations of quantum technologies.

I AM A FAILURE. Yes, I failed. I did not reach my goal of 56 hours of quality sleep this week. I got 55 instead. I may have failed but I still won. The benefits of getting the proper amount of sleep are well known: more energy, better mood, decreased risk of many diseases and conditions, yadda, yadda, yadda. If you read “Some Sleep Tips from a Professional” (click here) you know that getting quality sleep is more important than just getting a lot of sleep. This means not getting up in the middle of the night. This is best done by avoiding drinking a lot prior to sleeping, and also by taking part in a stress reducing activity like reading prior to going to bed. Today, more and more people are trying to get ahead, and they think they can get more done by cutting sleep out of their day. After just a week of getting an average of 7.8 hours of sleep I feel much more alert and I feel that I was more efficient while I was awake, therefore; I got more done than I thought possible. I feel more energetic, am able to work out better, am in a MUCH better mood (ask my wife), and just generally feel better overall. It has only been a week so far, but I can definately recommend that if you want to get more done, get more sleep.

- The Sounds of Sweet Nothing Listen to the track below You might remember back in October, when we posted London electro-goth duo Au Palais' exquisite single "Tender Mercy", taken from the forthcoming EP of the same name. Here's another cut from that EP, "Because the Night"; according to the band, it's an homage to Patti Smith (who also has a Bruce Springsteen-penned song of the same name). The Tender Mercy EP is set for a December 5 release via The Sounds of Sweet Nothing.

New scientific technology has been proven in Bavaria, Germany by the sole inventor Steven Alan Wolfowitz, B.ENG. Chemical.Fossil Fuels all contain methane, CH4, which is burned in power stations to produce electricity, and in furnaces producing steel, cement, etc. Most scientists believe this causes Global Warming and Climate Change which, if not curtailed can have extremely deleterious effects on all Life.

The work was reported in the October 16 issue of the journal Cell Host & Microbe. The study described the suppression of this immune response in mice infected with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, pointing to potential new avenues for the development of drug treatments for immunosuppressive diseases in humans. "It's the first demonstration that a virus causes suppression of the interferon response in vivo," says the paper's senior author Michael Oldstone, a Scripps Research professor and a pioneer in immune system studies. "This model explains how a secondary infection can be caused by a normal virus infection and this provides the guide for what to do and where to look in human diseases, which are of course more difficult." Mammals have two main ways to fight off infections. Adaptive immune responses are those that involve the production of antibodies and T lymphocytes that attack specific infections. In contrast, innate immune responses are genetically encoded and are generally the same regardless of infection type. One key component of the innate immune system is interferon, which plays a range of roles including direct antiviral effects, activating innate natural killer cells and adaptive T lymphocytes, which destroy a wide range of infectious invaders. To better understand this system, the Scripps Research team, spearheaded by Elina Zuniga, formerly a postdoctoral fellow in the Oldstone lab who is now assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego, worked with mice infected with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, a model Oldstone describes as a Rosetta Stone for understanding viral pathogenesis and immune system recognition of foreign substances like microbes and viruses. The researchers found that the virus suppressed the mouse immune system by interacting with immune cells known as plamacytoid dendritic cells, which are key producers of one of two critical groups of interferons, known as type I. When plasmacytoid dendritic cells come in contact with viruses and other foreign invaders, they bind with them via membrane proteins known as toll-like receptors. Under normal conditions, this binding triggers massive production of type I interferon that then triggers other immune responses. But the lymphocytic choriomeningits virus, and presumably other immunosupressor viruses like measles and HIV, disable this system. This then compromises other reactions, most critically activation of the natural killers that would otherwise destroy the virus-infected cells, as well as other invaders. The researchers showed that once in this infected condition, a secondary opportunistic agent, in this case the herpes virus murine cytomegalovirus, which the mice could have otherwise fought off, grew unchecked. Remarkably, opportunistic infections with herpes viruses are frequently observed in patients infected with HIV and the mechanism described in this study could well be one of the underlying causes. One critical aspect of the group's findings is that while the initial lymphotcytic choriomeningitis virus effectively blocked interferon production, it did not kill the dendritic cells, instead allowing them to function as long-term hosts. This allows such viruses to persist, causing persistent immunosuppression. "I think the implications are that many of the diseases we don't know the causes for, be they behavioral, mental, cardiovascular, or endocrine, may well be caused by viruses that persist without destroying the differentiated cells they infect, alter their functions, and by this means alter homeostasis and cause disease," says Oldstone. "Examples would be viruses that persistently infect neurons and cause problems in learning and behavior, viruses that infect oligodendrocytes and cause demyelination, and viruses that infect endocrine cells and alter their production of hormones. There may be some differences, but most certainly there are a lot of commonalities." Oldstone says that knowing such basic details about how a virus can suppress the mouse immune system could well aid the development of new treatments for the many immunosuppressive conditions such as HIV and measles that plague humans. "I think that our study opens up an avenue for people who work in those human diseases to translate our findings," says Oldstone. For now, Oldstone's group is focused on identifying the signals and molecules involved in the lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus's crippling of the dendritic cells' interferon production. Source: Scripps Research Institute Explore further: Sea star disease strikes peninsula marine centers

Drivers in Maryland looked at the road on Wednesday, and realized it shined for them. It was all yellow. An overturned tractor trailer spilled its contents — enough yellow and white road paint to fill an above-ground swimming pool — all over the highway, leaving the lanes looking like the federal government had commissioned Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock to team up and design road markings together. Because yellow road paint is designed to not come off pavement, the Maryland State Highway Administration needs to scrape it all off, a process that will take at least until Saturday night to complete. The driver of the truck had been texting before the accident took place. Yellow road paint is not the weirdest thing that has spilled out of a truck in 2015.

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IgA nephropathy, also known as Berger’s disease, is a kidney disorder. It occurs when antibodies called immunoglobulin A (IgA) build up in the kidney. This condition will result in inflammation of your kidney tissue. Over time, it would destroy your kidney’s ability to filter waste from your blood. IgA nephropathy (Berger’s disease) can appear suddenly or slowly worsen over time. It can occur in people of all ages but is most common in men in their teens to late 30s. Risk factors include: 1️⃣ Genes: This disorder is more common in some families and in certain ethnic groups. 2️⃣ Liver diseases: These include cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis B and C infections. 3️⃣ Infections: HIV and some bacterial infections. This frequency can help: ✅ Reduce bloody urine caused by red blood cells in the urine. ✅ Reduce proteinuria caused by protein leaking into your urine. ✅ Relieve swelling in your hands and feet. ✅ Reduce symptoms of chronic kidney disease. ✅ Relieve high blood pressure. Welcome to listen to this frequency and share it with your friends and family

, 2012 Flights from Spain to S. Miguel and Terceira double during the summer The increase of flights to the Spanish market with destination to Ponta Delgada and Terceira, which represents more 10,000 overnight stays than initially expected; the promotion of the Azores destination in the Dutch and German markets; and the creation of new products for the national market, such as the creation of a package for families and the Azores card, are some the measures announced by the Regional Secretary for the Economy, Luísa Schanderl, to mitigate the effects resulting from the failure of Finnish operator Hispania and the dropping overnight stays among the national market. The government official spoke during a hearing with Commission on Economy Affairs of the Azorean Parliament and considered that "the promotional strategy developed by the Government of the Azores has sought to mitigate these effects." "In fact, she said, "we have registered a drop in the number of overnight stays since the beginning of the year. Our promotional strategies have focused on attraction of foreign tourists. For example, the German market grew over 60 percent last April" and a Spanish operator "doubled the flights planned for Ponta Delgada and Angra do Heroísmo.” Moreover, Luísa Schanderl, also announced the reinforcement of the Azorean presence in the U.S. market with the creation of an initiative similar to 65 + in the flights to the United States and Canada "with attractive discount fares." The Regional Secretary emphasised that the cancellation of Finland was due to the collapse of Finish operator that brought tourists to the Azores while the operations of Norway and Poland were cancelled because the demands were lower than expected. In the case of Poland, “this was an operation undertaken due to the interest expressed by the tour operator." Anyway, "the cancellations have no financial impact on the Region since the support is only paid at the end of operations and upon submission of a report on programme implementation. Due to the cancellation of operations, the contracts which allocated the financial support according to the number of flights and the number of passengers will not be signed; therefore, these operators will not receive any payment," stressed the Regional Secretary for the Economy. Luísa Schanderl recalled the "deep recession in the national market" that "may contribute to a further decline as the National Government has admitted the possibility of implementing more austerity measures and, consequently, the number of national tourists can drop even lower." The situation of the national market led the Region to create the Azores card, a product that allows national tourists travelling the Azores to have a close estimate "of the costs during their holidays." "This card allows any family who chooses the Azores as a holiday destination to know exactly how much money will be spent on travel, accommodation and food." In fact, she added, "this card includes everything, but it allows tourists to have meals at the restaurant they have chosen and, in addition, several alternatives will be provided according to the card price and the establishments comprised by this

An international team of researchers has produced new maps of the material located between the stars in the Milky Way, moving astronomers closer to solving a stubborn interstellar mystery. An international team of sky scholars, including a key researcher from Johns Hopkins, has produced new maps of the material located between the stars in the Milky Way. The results should move astronomers closer to cracking a stardust puzzle that has vexed them for nearly a century. The maps and an accompanying journal article appear in the August 15 issue of the journal Science. The researchers say their work demonstrates a new way of uncovering the location and eventually the composition of the interstellar medium—the material found in the vast expanse between star systems within a galaxy. This material includes dust and gas composed of atoms and molecules that are left behind when a star dies. The material also supplies the building blocks for new stars and planets. “There’s an old saying that ‘We are all stardust,’ since all chemical elements heavier than helium are produced in stars,” says Rosemary Wyse, a Johns Hopkins professor of physics and astronomy who played a prominent role in the research and helped shape the Science paper. “But we still don’t know why stars form where they do. This study is giving us new clues about the interstellar medium out of which the stars form.” In particular, the researchers focused on a mysterious feature in the light from stars, a peculiarity called diffuse interstellar bands, or “DIBs.” A graduate student who photographed the light from distant stars discovered these dark bands in 1922. Analyzing rainbow-colored bands of starlight that have passed through space gives astronomers important information about the makeup of the space materials that the light has encountered. But in 1922, the grad student’s photographs yielded some dark lines indicating that some starlight was “missing” and that something in the interstellar medium between Earth and the star was absorbing the light. Since then, scientists have identified more than 400 of these diffuse interstellar bands, but the materials that cause the bands to appear and their precise location have remained a mystery. Researchers have speculated that the absorption of starlight that creates these dark bands points to the presence of unusually large, complex molecules, but proof of this has remained elusive. The nature of this puzzling material is important to astronomers because it could provide clues about the physical conditions and chemistry of these regions between stars. Such details serve as critical components in theories about how stars and galaxies are formed. Wyse said more concrete clues should emerge from the new pseudo-3D maps of the DIB-material within our Milky Way Galaxy, maps that were produced by the 23 scientists who contributed to the Science article. The maps were assembled from data collected over a 10-year period by the Radial Velocity Experiment, also known as RAVE. This project used the UK Schmidt Telescope in Australia to collect spectroscopic information from the light of as many as 150 stars at once. The maps are described as “pseudo-3D” because a specific mathematical form was assumed for the distribution in the vertical dimension that provides the distances from the plane of the Milky Way, with the maps presented in the remaining two dimensions. Wyse, who is on the executive board of the RAVE project, said the survey supplied the mapmakers with data related to 500,000 stars. The vast size of the sample enabled the mapmakers to determine the distances of the material that causes the DIBs and thus how the material is distributed throughout the Milky Way Galaxy. The resulting maps showed the intriguing result that the complex molecules thought to be responsible for the DIBs are distributed differently than another known component of the interstellar medium—the solid particles known as dust—also traced by the RAVE survey. Future studies can use the techniques outlined in the new paper to assemble other maps that should further solve the mysteries surrounding where DIBs are located and what materials cause them. “To figure out what something is, you first have to figure out where it is, and that’s what this paper does,” Wyse says. “Larger surveys will provide more details in the future. This paper has demonstrated how to do that.” Janez Kos and Tomaz Zwitter of the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia led the astronomy team that produced this paper. Wyse was the third author listed on the paper. RAVE is a multinational project with the participation of scientists from Australia, Germany, France, the U.K., Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and the U.S., coordinated by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam in Germany. Funding of RAVE, which guarantees extensive data, telescope, and instrument access is provided by the participating institutions and the national research foundations. Reference: “Pseudo–three-dimensional maps of the diffuse interstellar band at 862 nm” by Janez Kos, Tomaž Zwitter, Rosemary Wyse, Olivier Bienaymé, James Binney, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Kenneth Freeman, Brad K. Gibson, Gerry Gilmore, Eva K. Grebel, Amina Helmi, Georges Kordopatis, Ulisse Munari, Julio Navarro, Quentin Parker, Warren A. Reid, George Seabroke, Sanjib Sharma, Arnaud Siebert, Alessandro Siviero, Matthias Steinmetz, Fred G. Watson and Mary E. K. Williams, 15 August 2014, Science.

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Archive for Thursday, January 18, 2007 Natural wonders EMS teacher helps students to discover local prairies Students in Joe Pickett's seventh-grade science class Jan. 9 crouched against the wall. They were poised, ready to run. For the moment, the students weren't outside Eudora Middle School, but scrounging in the open Kansas prairie. There, the students left their familiar lives behind. They were coyotes and, worse, they were on the edge of starvation. Pickett signaled and they were off. Students dashed to and fro picking up colored bottle caps. After retrieving each cap the students returned to their place by the wall and ventured out again. The activity wasn't the first time his students experienced lessons in native Kansan wildlife. The coyote lesson, along with several field trips Pickett's class took over the year, is part of an ongoing project run by Kansas State University. Pickett was one of 10 teachers to take part in the Prairies Across Kansas project offered over the summer. There he learned how creative lessons connect his students to the local landscape. The project is part of a larger program called the Konza Environmental Education Program. "So far I've done one that involved them looking for different types of grasshopper species on the prairie," Pickett said. To accomplish the lesson, Pickett's students traveled to the nearby Aiken prairie where they partnered up and followed an imaginary line across the field. Pickett said the students methodically covered a certain area and recorded the types they captured. The students' work with grasshoppers will eventually go into a database compiled at the Konza Biological Prairie station as part of KEEP. His students did a similar project at the Kill Creek Prairie in Johnson County. Pickett said he felt the summer program benefited his teaching. He stayed at the station in Manhattan for the duration of the program. "It was really very rewarding to get to do something like that," Pickett said. "It's something I've really tried to do in class and expand on." Pickett said he modeled some of his field trips after geology lessons taught by eighth-grade teacher Dan Kuhlman. Kuhlman took his classes out to nearby sites to look for fossils, Pickett said. "He really encouraged me to do something like that," Pickett said. So far, the experience seems beneficial to the students, he said. "It's neat to see the kids enjoy something like that where they are really doing something," Pickett said. It's especially gratifying because the field trips closely mirror real world experiences, he said. Although Pickett's most recent outdoor lesson didn't translate directly to real world experiences, it still taught students a valuable ecological lesson. "It's just a fun thing that goes along with some of the ecologic concepts and gives the kids a chance to get outside," Pickett said. After gathering all the bottle caps, the students filed back into Pickett's classroom. There, they counted their haul. The group learned different colored bottle caps signified different resources available to the coyotes on the prairie. If a student didn't gather enough of a certain color cap, it meant their coyote didn't find enough food to survive. After comparing data, the class found out only about 30 percent of their pack survived. "It wasn't what I expected," seventh-grader Lyle Howell said. Commenting has been disabled for this item.

found out years later a girl i knew was murdered while walking to the mosque near us recently, i found out that a girl i knew when i was in elementary/middle school had been murdered by a man, walking to a mosque. it's very disheartening and i was sad as heck to find it in the news years after it happened. and the saddest thing of all, it was during ramadan, which is an important time for family to be together. i wish i could tell her family i'm very sorry for their loss, but death can be a deep wound for some and i don't want to cause them to become upset.

Prelude to Little Bighorn: Terry and Custer in the Badlands Winter’s ferocity held General Alfred Terry in Fort Lincoln in Mandan until May. Terry, with Lt. Col. George A. Custer, departed Fort Lincoln on May 17, 1876 to begin their campaign against the Sioux, more or less following General Sully’s trail from 12 years prior. While negotiating the terrain around the badlands, Custer was in charge of scouting the trail. Custer had a habit of getting too far ahead of Terry, who complained that they were wasting time and energy backtracking. Custer tended to show indifference to Terry’s superiority. For his part, Custer was lucky to have a command at all after recently causing headaches for President Grant in Washington. General Terry’s troops camped three miles south of modern Belfield, ND on May 26, and got their first view of the badlands the next day. Terry wrote to his sister, “I cannot attempt any description of ‘the bad lands.’ They are so utterly unlike anything which you have ever seen that no description of them could convey to you any ideas of what they are like. Horribly bare and desolate in general & yet picturesque at times to the extreme.” On May 29, 1876, Terry, Custer, and their troops camped just three miles south of present-day Medora, ND. Terry had expected to encounter the Sioux along the Little Missouri River, but found no sign of them. The troops took an extra day’s rest at their camp on the Little Missouri. Custer wrote to his wife Libby, “We found the Little Missouri River so crooked and the Bad Lands so impassable that in marching fifty miles today we forded the river thirty-four times. The bottom is quicksand. Many of the horses went down frequently tumbling their riders into the water; but all were in good spirits, and every one laughed at every one else’s mishaps.” By June 1, 1876, the weather changed to rain, then sleet, then snow. Terry and Custer’s troops were laid over near Square Butte, very near where Gen. Sully had fought with the Sioux twelve years prior. There they shivered and waited until June 3 before proceeding west out of the badlands and into Montana. On June 25, 1876, less than a month after passing through the badlands adjacent to today’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Custer was killed alongside 262 of his troops at the Battle of Little Bighorn. A crushing and embarrassing defeat for the Army, it was the last major victory for Plains Indian people against the U.S. Army. Following the disaster at Little Bighorn, the various bands that had gathered there split up. The United States, responding to public outcry, was re-energized to bring an end to decades of conflict. For his part, Sitting Bull escaped to Canada and held out until his surrender on July 19, 1881. Visitors to Theodore Roosevelt National Park may be interested in side trips to sites related to the Sully and Terry/Custer expeditions. Brochures printed by the U.S. Forest Service for the Custer Trail Auto Tour are available in park visitor centers. Visitors may also contact the U.S. Forest Service Dakota Prairie Grasslands Office directly for more information about the Custer Trail Auto Tour. Initial Rock, a sandstone boulder along the tour, has the initials of two of the privates (W.C. Williams from Company H and F. Neely from Company M) that were part of Custer’s ill-fated expedition. A monument at the Killdeer Mountains battle site is located near Killdeer, ND. Chorne, Laudie J. Following the Custer Trail. Trails West. Bismarck, ND. 1997. Print. Kelly, Fanny. Narrative of my captivity among the Sioux Indians. Mutual Publishing Company. Hartford, CT. 1871. Print. Kingsbury, Lt. David L. Sully’s Expedition Against the Sioux in 1864. Reprinted in Minnesota Historical Society Collections. 1898? Original printing date unknown. Michno, Gregory F. Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890. Mountain Press Publishing Company. Missoula, MT. 2003. Print. USDA Forest Service. Custer Trail Auto Tour. U.S. Government Printing Office. 2006. Pamphlet. Utley, Robert M. Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866 - 1891. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, NE. 1973. Print. Vestal, Stanley. Sitting Bull: Champion of the Sioux University of Oklahoma Press. 1980. Original printing 1932 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Print. Return to History & Culture - People.

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See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. */ package org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.models; import com.sun.jdi.ClassNotLoadedException; import com.sun.jdi.ClassType; import com.sun.jdi.Field; import com.sun.jdi.InvalidTypeException; import com.sun.jdi.ObjectReference; import com.sun.jdi.ReferenceType; import com.sun.jdi.Value; import java.util.logging.Level; import java.util.logging.Logger; import javax.security.auth.RefreshFailedException; import javax.security.auth.Refreshable; import org.netbeans.api.debugger.jpda.InvalidExpressionException; import org.netbeans.api.debugger.jpda.JPDAClassType; import org.netbeans.api.debugger.jpda.MutableVariable; import org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.JPDADebuggerImpl; import org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.jdi.ClassNotPreparedExceptionWrapper; import org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.jdi.ClassTypeWrapper; import org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.jdi.FieldWrapper; import org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.jdi.IllegalArgumentExceptionWrapper; import org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.jdi.InternalExceptionWrapper; import org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.jdi.ObjectCollectedExceptionWrapper; import org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.jdi.ObjectReferenceWrapper; import org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.jdi.ReferenceTypeWrapper; import org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.jdi.TypeComponentWrapper; import org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.jdi.VMDisconnectedExceptionWrapper; import org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.jdi.ValueWrapper; import org.openide.util.Exceptions; import org.openide.util.Mutex; /** * @author <NAME> */ public class ObjectFieldVariable extends AbstractObjectVariable implements MutableVariable, org.netbeans.api.debugger.jpda.Field, Refreshable { private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.getValue"); // NOI18N protected Field field; protected ObjectReference objectReference; // ObjectReference to retrieve value of an instance field from. protected ReferenceType classType; // ReferenceType to retrieve value of a static field from. protected String genericSignature; private boolean valueSet = true; private final Object valueLock = new Object(); private boolean valueRetrieved = false; private ObjectReference value; private ObjectFieldVariable ( JPDADebuggerImpl debugger, ObjectReference value, //String className, Field field, String parentID, ObjectReference objectReference ) { super ( debugger, value, getID(parentID, field) ); this.field = field; //this.className = className; this.objectReference = objectReference; } private static String getID(String parentID, Field field) { try { return parentID + '.' + TypeComponentWrapper.name(field) + "^"; } catch (InternalExceptionWrapper ex) { return parentID + '.' + ex.getCause().getLocalizedMessage() + "^"; } catch (VMDisconnectedExceptionWrapper ex) { return parentID + ".0^"; } } protected ObjectFieldVariable ( JPDADebuggerImpl debugger, ObjectReference value, //String className, Field field, String parentID, String genericSignature, ObjectReference objectReference ) { this ( debugger, value, field, parentID, objectReference ); this.genericSignature = genericSignature; } public ObjectFieldVariable ( JPDADebuggerImpl debugger, Field field, String parentID, String genericSignature, ObjectReference objectReference ) { this ( debugger, null, field, parentID, genericSignature, objectReference ); this.valueSet = false; } /** * Returns string representation of type of this variable. * * @return string representation of type of this variable. */ public String getName () { try { return TypeComponentWrapper.name(field); } catch (InternalExceptionWrapper ex) { return ex.getCause().getLocalizedMessage(); } catch (VMDisconnectedExceptionWrapper ex) { return ""; } } /** * Returns name of enclosing class. * * @return name of enclosing class */ public String getClassName () { try { return ReferenceTypeWrapper.name(TypeComponentWrapper.declaringType(field)); //className; } catch (InternalExceptionWrapper ex) { return ex.getCause().getLocalizedMessage(); } catch (ObjectCollectedExceptionWrapper ex) { return ""; } catch (VMDisconnectedExceptionWrapper ex) { return ""; } } public JPDAClassType getDeclaringClass() { return getDebugger().getClassType(getTheDeclaringClassType()); } private ReferenceType getTheDeclaringClassType() { ReferenceType type = classType; if (type == null) { classType = type = FieldVariable.getTheDeclaringClassType(objectReference, field); } return type; } /** * Returns string representation of type of this variable. * * @return string representation of type of this variable. */ public String getDeclaredType () { try { return FieldWrapper.typeName(field); } catch (InternalExceptionWrapper ex) { return ex.getLocalizedMessage(); } catch (VMDisconnectedExceptionWrapper ex) { return ""; } } public JPDAClassType getClassType() { Value value = getInnerValue(); if (value != null) { return super.getClassType(); } try { com.sun.jdi.Type type; try { type = FieldWrapper.type(field); } catch (InternalExceptionWrapper ex) { return null; } catch (VMDisconnectedExceptionWrapper ex) { return null; } catch (ObjectCollectedExceptionWrapper ocex) { return null; } if (type instanceof ReferenceType) { return getDebugger().getClassType((ReferenceType) type); } else { return null; } } catch (ClassNotLoadedException cnlex) { return null; } } /** * Returns <code>true</code> for static fields. * * @return <code>true</code> for static fields */ public boolean isStatic () { return TypeComponentWrapper.isStatic0(field); } @Override public boolean hasAllTypes() { if (valueSet || valueRetrieved) { return super.hasAllTypes(); } else { return false; } } @Override public Value getInnerValue() { if (valueSet) { return super.getInnerValue(); } synchronized (valueLock) { if (!valueRetrieved) { Value v; if (logger.isLoggable(Level.FINE)) { if (objectReference == null) { logger.fine("STARTED (OFV): "+getTheDeclaringClassType()+".getValue("+field+")"); } else { logger.fine("STARTED (OFV): "+objectReference+".getValue("+field+")"); } } assert !Mutex.EVENT.isReadAccess() : "Debugger communication in AWT Event Queue!"; try { if (objectReference == null) { v = ReferenceTypeWrapper.getValue (getTheDeclaringClassType(), field); } else { v = ObjectReferenceWrapper.getValue (objectReference, field); } } catch (ObjectCollectedExceptionWrapper ocex) { v = null; } catch (InternalExceptionWrapper ocex) { v = null; } catch (VMDisconnectedExceptionWrapper ocex) { v = null; } if (logger.isLoggable(Level.FINE)) { if (objectReference == null) { logger.fine("FINISHED(OFV): "+getTheDeclaringClassType()+".getValue("+field+") = "+v); } else { logger.fine("FINISHED(OFV): "+objectReference+".getValue("+field+") = "+v); } logger.log(Level.FINE, "Called from ", new IllegalStateException("TEST")); } this.value = (ObjectReference) v; this.valueRetrieved = true; } return value; } } protected void setValue (Value value) throws InvalidExpressionException { try { boolean set = false; if (objectReference != null) { ObjectReferenceWrapper.setValue(objectReference, field, value); set = true; } else { ReferenceType rt = getTheDeclaringClassType(); if (rt instanceof ClassType) { ClassType ct = (ClassType) rt; ClassTypeWrapper.setValue(ct, field, value); set = true; } } if (!set) { throw new InvalidExpressionException(field.toString()); } else if (!valueSet) { synchronized (valueLock) { this.value = (ObjectReference) value; } } } catch (IllegalArgumentExceptionWrapper ex) { throw new InvalidExpressionException (ex.getCause()); } catch (InvalidTypeException ex) { throw new InvalidExpressionException (ex); } catch (ClassNotLoadedException ex) { throw new InvalidExpressionException (ex); } catch (InternalExceptionWrapper ex) { throw new InvalidExpressionException (ex); } catch (VMDisconnectedExceptionWrapper ex) { throw new InvalidExpressionException (ex); } catch (ClassNotPreparedExceptionWrapper ex) { throw new InvalidExpressionException (ex); } catch (ObjectCollectedExceptionWrapper ex) { throw new InvalidExpressionException (ex); } } /** Does wait for the value to be evaluated. */ @Override public void refresh() throws RefreshFailedException { if (valueSet) return ; synchronized (valueLock) { if (!valueRetrieved) { getInnerValue(); } } } /** Tells whether the variable is fully initialized and getValue() * returns the value immediately. */ @Override public synchronized boolean isCurrent() { return valueSet || valueRetrieved; } @Override public ObjectFieldVariable clone() { String name; try { name = TypeComponentWrapper.name(field); } catch (InternalExceptionWrapper ex) { name = ex.getCause().getLocalizedMessage(); } catch (VMDisconnectedExceptionWrapper ex) { name = "0"; } ObjectFieldVariable clon = new ObjectFieldVariable(getDebugger(), (ObjectReference) getJDIValue(), field, getID().substring(0, getID().length() - ("." + name + (getJDIValue() instanceof ObjectReference ? "^" : "")).length()), genericSignature, objectReference); clon.classType = classType; return clon; } // other methods ........................................................... @Override public String toString () { try { return "ObjectFieldVariable " + TypeComponentWrapper.name(field); } catch (InternalExceptionWrapper ex) { return ex.getLocalizedMessage(); } catch (VMDisconnectedExceptionWrapper ex) { return "Disconnected"; } } }

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Plato’s Circle in the Mosaic of Pompeii By Katherine Joplin Although the literary foundation of Western philosophy, Plato today is almost a legendary figure, his very name sparking the image of higher learning, truth, and perspicuity. How ironic then that in a mosaic of Plato’s Academy, the biggest quandary might be which figure is Plato. The mosaic was constructed sometime between the 1st centuries BCE and CE, in the villa of T. Siminius Stephanus in Pompeii. Athens is visible in the upper right background, as well as what might be the Dipylon Gate with its bronze amphorae on top, which was not far from the academy. There is a sundial on a column, possibly representing philosophical views on time and transience. The border depicts elaborate festoons of leaves, fruits, and theatrical masks of fantastic creatures, as was common during this time period. Roman actors used megaphonic masks to amplify their voices; perhaps the artist added them to stress that the Academy’s wisdom should be heard. They could also be an allusion to the works of Plato, Aristotle, and Theophrastus, as they frequently discuss art and drama along with philosophy. The mosaic features seven men: six students and, presumably, their teacher, Plato. All the figures are deep in contemplation or discussion. Unfortunately, unlike medieval religious art, there is no halo or other compelling iconography to distinguish the hero from his students. Each figure is a viable candidate, with thoughtful expressions and pensive gestures. However, most scholars agree that the third man from the left, directly beneath the tree, is Plato. His position in the scene is telling: roughly in the center of the gathering, and nearest to the center of the mosaic. His robes are darker and more somber than the others’, immediately drawing the eye. While the others are merely contemplative, Plato seems to be speaking, perhaps lecturing. He is aligned perfectly with the tree (a sacred olive full of fruit, associated with the goddess of wisdom, Athena), so that it almost appears the tree is growing from him. Perhaps this was intentionally symbolic on the part of the artist: Plato is the root of knowledge, the foundation of the academy. Moreover, the dark tree, contrasted with the light background, directs the eye to this figure. This central man, most likely Plato, seems to be pointing at something with a stick. The traditional interpretations believe he is gesturing at the globe seen in the foreground. However, I believe it is also possible that he is pointing at a dark shadow on the ground. If this is true, this would make an even more compelling argument that the man in black is in fact Plato, since it may be a reference to his famous Allegory of the Cave, and his discussion of shadows versus reality. The shadow is depicted in exceptionally dark colors, leading some scholars (such as Carol Mattusch) to take it for a sandal, while an article from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli states it is a geometrical figure Plato is drawing. However, a closer examination shows it more closely resembles a very dark shadow, since it is darker in the middle and follows the edge of Plato’s foot. If indeed it is a shadow, the artist used much darker tesserae than for the other shadows the men cast. The pale tiles that make up the floor further emphasize this: these are lighter than the other shades in the background to create depth perception, but also perhaps to provide contrast for the shadow Plato is pointing at. The result is the eye jumps immediately to the black shape, then follows Plato’s figure up the tree. If this is true, then the artist specifically wanted the viewer to notice the shadow. If the man truly is discussing the shadow and the Allegory of the Cave, then he is almost certainly Plato. Plato’s famous student Aristotle may also make an appearance, though there is less compelling evidence for this. While Plato and the four men to the right make up their own circle, the two men on the left are having their own discussion. The brightly dressed figure to the farthest left, wearing a diadem, may well be Aristotle, who is coming up with his own ideas and discussing them with a fellow student. Only the man in yellow and the man in black are speaking in the mosaic; perhaps they are the only two with something to say. Although even more difficult to discern, another famous student of the Academy, Theophrastus, may be depicted on the farthest right, since the man’s hair appears darker and more youthful than all the others (Theophrastus was roughly thirteen years younger than Aristotle, and fifty-five years younger than Plato). There also appears to be a pile of stones behind the figure; this could possibly be a reference to Theophrastus’s work De Lapidibus (On Stones). The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli suggests the man to the right of Plato is a visitor because he keeps his hands and arms hidden under his cloak, as a sign of respect. It further surmises the first on the left could be Heraclites Pontico, the second on the left is Lysias, the second on the right is Senocrates, and the man to the very farthest right is Aristotle; however, no explanation is given for why these names are attached, though all were associated with Plato. G.W. Elderkin, in his American Journal of Archaeology article “Two Mosaics Representing the Seven Wise Men”, notes that while most historians assume the scene to be Plato’s Academy, the seven figures are also a clear reference to the seven wise men – “Seven Sages” – of ancient Greek tradition, whose names are Thales, Pittacus, Bias, Solon, Cleobulus, Myson, and Cheilon. He further notes that the scene resembles the Peripatetic of the Lyceum, with a view of the Athenian acropolis; this location is strongly associated with the Academy. It is quite possible that the mosaic is meant to represent both groups, Plato’s Academy and the Seven Sages of legend. Based on the interpretation that Plato is pointing to the globe, on the other hand, Mattusch suggests the companions could be some members of a ancient list of a dozen great ancient astronomers, such as Thales, Anaxagoras, Pythagoras, Xenophanes, Democritus, Eudoxus, Euctemon, Callipus, Meto, Philippus, Hipparchus, or Aratus. Mattusch also points out, however, the number of figures could be a connection to the Seven Sages, and further notes that the sages often had fluid identities, so Plato could conceivably be included among them. It seems an interesting comment on life, in an age where we assume we know so much, that we cannot even identify with certainty which man among a group of seven is the brilliant master of philosophy, whom we should surely know by some radiating aura of wisdom, by some physical mark of genius. Or perhaps disguising Plato among his fellows was the artist’s intention; when we gaze at the work, all we know is that we know nothing, not for sure, and perhaps any of us could be the genius. e.g., Plato’s Republic X; Aristotle’s Poetics 1449b-1450b “Academy of Plato.” Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. Thematic Image Gallery. G. W. Elderkin. “Two Mosaics Representing the Seven Wise Men.” American Journal of Archaeology. 39.1 (1935): 94-95. Elizabeth Mackey and Rachel Bernstein. “Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples.” Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Museum Associates/Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009. Academic Essay. Carol Mattusch. Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples. New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2008. 214-15.

In this country, conscientious objectors were generally, but not always, accorded exemption rights by the military authorities. When the United States entered into World War I, a number of Adventist soldiers were subjected to severe trials because of their stand as conscientious objectors. We quote: "There were times when the very existence of our work was threatened by those who were in military authority, concerning the misunderstandings and false reports sent to government headquarters. The federal department of justice received over ten thousand complaints against us, our published literature, and our work, during the first six months of war. "Many of our boys had to suffer terrible abuses at the hands of military officers and private soldiers for their loyalty to religious principles. . . . The Sabbath was the greatest test of all for our young men in the army. More than one hundred of our young men were court-martialed for refusing to do military duty on the Sabbath day. Over thirty were sentenced to Fort Leavenworth, as military prisoners, whose sentences ranged from ten to fifty years of imprisonment at hard work. "Their troubles had just begun when they were sent to Leavenworth. The military prison officials endeavored to compel our young men to work on the Sabbath at ordinary labor crushing stones. Of course, they could no more do this kind of labor in prison than they could do it out of prison in the military camps. "The prison officials endeavored to coerce them by meting dire punishments upon them. For refusing to work on the Sabbath, they were deprived of their daily rations and given only a few slices of bread and water, and the amount of stone they were to crush was greatly increased per day, and at night they were confined to underground dungeons and strapped on bare hardwood planks for their beds, and exposed to the dampness and the cold. This punishment lasted for two weeks. If they refused to work the second time upon the Sabbath day, they were put upon still smaller rations, and their hands were handcuffed behind their backs around the prison bars of their cells on a level almost with their shoulders, and in this awkward standing position without any relief they were compelled to stand for nine hours each day. Others were confined in dirty dark cells for months where they were unable to stand upright or lie down without being cramped for room." –F. C. Gilbert, Divine Predictions Fulfilled, pp. 397—399. Appeals were made to Senator W. G. Harding, who later became the 29th President of the United States and, through his assistance, those Adventist military prisoners were released from that inhuman form of punishment and were exempted from Sabbath labor in prison. They were finally released from prison parole. It is encouraging to know that some faithful Christians, following their personal convictions, decided to obey God rather than men and that they were prepared to suffer even martyrdom for Christ’s sake, if necessary. We have no controversy with these conscientious believers, although we may not agree with them on every point. However, according to evidence included in this book, the reader will see that the official position adopted by the Adventist Church as a church is completely different from the independent stand taken by those serious-minded Adventists as individuals.

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What is a Review? Model Airplane News, Jul 1998 by Marshall, Larry WAS TALKING to one of our ad representatives about Lanier RC, and I mentioned that I liked their larger aerobatic airplanes. Somehow this got back to Bubba Spivey, owner of Lanier. Shortly thereafter, I was talking with Bubba at a trade show. As is his style, he looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why do you like my kits?" What came to mind was the fact that they were solid, wood kits with good-fitting parts. I also like the fact that Lanier doesn't include any hardware, allowing me to use first-class hinges, clevises, etc., as I see fit and not charging me for hardware that I would typically throw away. I also like the way Bubba designs his fuselages, as the interlocking construction speeds building time; my principal reason for building from a kit rather than from scratch. Why am I boring you with this story? Certainly not to suggest that Lanier kits are better than those of many of Bubba's competitors; I could say similar things about many kits on the market today. Neither do I believe that my opinion about kits should matter to anyone. Rather, I've told you this story because it illustrates some important points about reviews that are worth mentioning. First, Bubba didn't ask me whether I liked his kits better than someone else's; he simply wanted to know what I liked about his product. This is the sort of approach we take with Model Airplane News product reviews as well. We are evaluating the product, asking whether it does its intended job and how well it does that job. When we contract a reviewer, this is what we expect him or her to answer for you. How that evaluation is done, however, is largely up to the reviewer. This is important, as it is the reviewer who decides what and what not to emphasize. We at Model Airplane News provide a format that requires reviewers to answer basic questions to fill our specifications box. We require that they report on flight characteristics to fulfill our flight performance profile, and we expect basic photo documentation of the product. But the evaluation of kit construction is up to the reviewer. The most crucial point to make about the review process, however, is that when modelers do product reviews for our magazine, or any other for that matter, they bring their expertise, their experience and their inexperience to the review process, and these things are reflected in their assessments. Experience and expertise will affect how the reviewer assesses the product. This is especially true of model aircraft kit reviews. I mentioned that I liked the fact that Lanier kits are wood. Someone who prefers to work in foam and glass might view what I consider a "feature" as "high parts count." If most of their experience comes from foam and glass projects, they may have problems building a wood kit that I would not experience, simply because of our different preferences and/or experience with this type of product. I like the fact that Lanier lets me use my own hardware, whereas another reviewer with a different view of hardware use might see this as something to complain about, feeling the manufacturer should provide hardware. Someone with less modeling experience than I might take issue with things I wouldn't even consider. For instance, he may not like the instruction manual. I tend to rely upon plans-not manuals-for my construction, and so I'm less likely to evaluate manuals in the same way as those who like to put check marks next to each step. Conversely, someone with more experience than I might find a product lacking in ways that I completely miss. Because of these differences among reviewers, you should use product reviews primarily to acquire information about products. At the same time, use caution when a reviewer starts voicing opinions. The distinction between observations and opinions is sometimes difficult to discern, but it is worth the effort to try. In interpreting opinions, you should ask some questions. Does the reviewer have the same background as you? Are his priorities the same as yours? What about his needs; are they similar? Sometimes you'll be able to answer these questions, sometimes not. But at least by asking the questions, you'll have half a chance at interpreting the reviewer's opinions in a way that can serve you. WHAT'S IN THE ISSUES This month, Jerry Nelson brings you the results of some fine camera-pointing at the QSAA's annual meet in Nevada. Once again, Jorg Vogelsang made the trip from Germany to show us the results of his fertile mind and superb modeling skills. This time he brought a twin-turbine ME-328, an experimental jet developed near the end of WW II. Our construction/plan presentation is a bit different this month. Jim Simpson presents not only his design for a simple, entry-level sailplane but he also tells us about a program he's involved with that gets young people started in R/C. Hope you like

No no no no no, this is equally his problem. Imagine if you weren't to talk to him about it and instead quit having sex because you feel inadequate? That would be his problem. So, tell him. Make it about you..."I feel like I'm not able to make you cum" so he knows that you aren't blaming him. If he seems open to suggestions offer up the no jack off proposal. Be sure to explain that it's a pressure issue blah blah, and that it can take a couple weeks. As long as you're as important to him as he is to you, I don't see it being an issue. Edit: whiskey made me do it. There might still be more.

EASTON, Conn. – Early one morning in December 1807, people across New England saw a bright fireball move across the sky, ending with three loud explosions heard over what was then Weston. Residents reported finding at least six large chunks of stone scattered around town after the event. Yale University geologist Benjamin Silliman later determined the cause of the commotion. The area, which is now part of Easton, was the site of the first documented meteorite crash in the Western Hemisphere. You can learn more about the historic event at the Easton Public Library starting Wednesday. Meteorites have been colliding with Earth since the beginning of time. But scientists didn’t fully understand the events until the early 19th century, says the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History’s website. European geologists collected their first proven meteorites after a meteor shower over France in 1803. But the Weston meteorite was the first collected specimen in the New World. “In Europe I had become acquainted with meteorites and the phenomena that usually attend their fall, and several specimens had come under my notice,” Silliman later wrote in his autobiography. “I did not dream of being favored by an event of this kind in my own vicinity, and occurring on a scale truly magnificent.” The last remaining piece of the meteorite, a stone weighing more than 35 pounds, has been a part of the Yale Peabody collection since 1825. The Historical Society of Easton has organized an exhibit dedicated to the meteorite, which will be on display at the Easton Public Library starting March 27. The exhibit will feature information on recent work to pinpoint the exact locations of the meteorite’s crash sites. It will also include stories about recent attempts to correct the historical scientific record about the crash. “Despite its importance as the first recorded fall of a meteorite in North America, the Weston Meteorite’s location became lost in confusion and rumor,” the historical society said in a statement. The exhibit will be open to the public during the library’s normal hours from March 27 to April 30. For more information, visit the Historical Society of Easton’s website. Click here to sign up for Daily Voice's free daily emails and news alerts.

Summary: The day Jesus arrived in the ancient city of Jerusalem, there’ was singing, shouting, dancing, even laying down branches and garments in the street in front of the donkey Jesus rode on. Of special interest is this foreign word, "Hosanna." What does the w Hosanna in the highest The day Jesus arrived in the ancient city of Jerusalem, there’ was singing, shouting, dancing, even laying down branches and garments in the street in front of the donkey Jesus rode on. Of special interest is this foreign word, "Hosanna." What does the word mean? We use it as a praise expression, much like we would say "Hallelujah," or "Praise the Lord," but doing so may cause us to miss the underlying meaning. The word is of Hebrew origin, formed from two words, "yashaw" and "naw". The first of these two words is familiar to us because it stands behind the name of Jesus. The angel who instructed Joseph, explained that Mary’s baby should have the name "Yeshua," ". . . because he will save his people from their sins." (Matthew 1:21) The word has a variety of possible translations: "help, liberate, preserve," literally, "make open, wide or free." The last syllable of our word "hosanna", "naw", is a primitive particle of incitement and entreaty, which may be rendered: "I pray now." Together these two words form a prayer, "Help, or save now, I (we) pray." In the New Testament, "hosanna" is only found in relation to this story - the Triumphal Entry celebrated on Palm Sunday. However, even though this Hebrew word may sound strange to our ears, it was well known to Jewish worshipers, having been taken right out of their worship book: "This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. O LORD, save us; O LORD, grant us success. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD. From the house of the LORD we bless you." (Psalm 118:24-26) Please note that this Psalm was recited as the procession of worshipers would approach the temple, quite possibly it was customary for pilgrims to chant this Psalm as they came to the temple at Passover time. However, this time, something is different, the worshippers are not merely going through the annual ritual, they are projecting these words toward the One who sits on the donkey, Jesus, the Savior. How do we know that? Well, because the religious leaders clearly understood that’s what was happening, and so they tried to stop what they thought to be blasphemy. In support of His own identity as the Son of God, the Messiah, Jesus not only refused to quiet the praise, but added that if they stopped, the stones would make up for their lack - the Lord must be praised, and Jesus is Lord! "Save now, we pray!" they chanted loudly, "Hosanna!" Even more closely related to the term "hosanna", are two Old Testament passages where we hear people use this word when making a plea before their King. The first is a story which appropriately comes from the reign of King David. Joab, who held a position equivalent to Secretary of Defense in David’s administration, noticed that the King missed his son Absalom who was in hiding after having killed his half brother, Amnon, in revenge for the rape of Absalom’s sister Tamar. So Joab concocted this scheme to get David to allow his son to return safely to Jerusalem. Finding a woman who would be good at acting the part of a grieving widow and mother, Joab dressed her in mourning clothes and sent her on a mission to King David. When she approached the King, she cried out, "Hosanna" - "Help me, O king!" (II Samuel 14:4) Then she spun her tale of woe, telling the King that her husband was dead, and in a fight, one of her sons killed the other son and now the town was demanding that the surviving son, her only remaining hope for support, be handed over to be executed.

The Meta Model is a set of language patterns which is designed to challenge surface structures in order to explore deep structures and reference structures. More precisely, it allows retrieving information which has been filtered by the experience modelling universals. Resources for change It is very useful tool in psychotherapy as NLP presupposes that people have the resources necessary to achieve the desired change, so the therapist is basically there to help the patient to retrieve them, and the Meta Model is used for this. Precision elicitation is the art of retrieving precise information from someone. This can be done for example to know exactly what someone wants in a client/supplier relationship. An interesting application of the NLP Meta Model is precision elicitation for knowledge management. Using the Meta Model in this work helps get the most detailed and complete transcription and formalisation of the underlying human experience. The Meta Model language patterns The language patterns divide into three groups as follows: - Simple deletion - Comparative deletion - Unspecified verb/noun - Lost performative - Mind reading - Universal quantifiers - Possibility/Necessity operators It can be noted that these language patterns are in fact the inverse of the Milton Model patterns. More precisely, these three sets (deletion, generalisation and distortion) are used in both models but for opposite purposes. In the Milton Model, they are used by the speaker to dismiss specifics (and leave the listener complete with his experience). In the Meta Model they are used to retrieve specifics (avoiding any interpretation).

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Publisher D3 Publisher Inc. and developer Yuke’s are finally bringing the popular Earth Defense Force: World Brothers to the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC this May. Earth Defense Force: World Brothers was released on December 24th, 2020, but exclusively in Japan. After garnering significant success over there, publisher D3 Publisher Inc, have decided to bring it over to the West. This is the latest game in the EDF franchise, and is, for the very first time, using 3D voxel style graphics, akin to Minecraft. It will also mark the very first time an Earth Defense Force title has graced the Nintendo Switch. What Is Earth Defense Force: World Brothers? It will be launching this May 27th. Unfortunately, no price has been announced yet. However, based on the prices of previous iterations, it’s likely to be around £39.99 – £49.99. Will you be buying it when it launches later this year? Let us know down in the comments below.

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THE eerie eye movements of people in a vegetative state can give an early warning that they are returning to conscious awareness, British A vegetative state is a mysterious limbo between sleep-like coma and consciousness. People who have suffered a traumatic brain injury can slip vegetative state for years—or in some cases, permanently. They have periods of wakefulness when their eyes are open and move, but they are move or speak and are apparently unaware of their surroundings. “It doesn’t look like anyone’s in there,” says Sarah Wilson, a psychologist at the University of Surrey in Guildford, who led the the new research. Wilson has found a way of picking up early signs of returning awareness in such people. “I think of the vegetative state as a pit or a cave,” she says. “These subtle behaviour patterns appear to be signs that brain-injured people are at last coming up to the surface, climbing out of the pit.” Vegetative state patients who later returned to consciousness showed a response to the world around them, Wilson found. They opened their eyes more often in response to sensory stimulation than patients who did not recover. Wilson and her colleagues began the research in response to a hunch about a man who had been in a vegetative state for more than five years. “We all had a funny feeling about this guy,” says Wilson. “Though we couldn’t see him us, we had this feeling at the back of our necks that we were being The researchers studied 24 patients in a vegetative state. Every 20 seconds over two 10-minute periods, they noted whether each patient’s eyes were open. This approach revealed that there were distinctive arousal patterns among who eventually emerged from vegetative states. Among the 12 patients who later regained consciousness, the level of arousal in the first 10-minute observation period started high, seemingly in the arrival of the observer, and then declined, Wilson and her colleagues in the latest issue of the journal Brain Injury. The same pattern occurred after a treatment session involving 20 minutes of “sensory designed to activate the patients’ senses of sight, touch, taste and hearing. None of the 12 patients who remained in a vegetative state during the study showed this distinctive arousal profile. The man who had inspired the research was one of those who recovered. After three months, “he suddenly laughed when I insulted him”, says Wilson. She stresses that it is far too early to suggest that a lack of the distinctive arousal pattern could be used to justify discontinuing life support for someone in a vegetative state. But she says her results stress the need for further research to improve the diagnosis and treatment of the estimated 1000 people in Britain now in vegetative states. In some cases, says Wilson, patients are being wrongly diagnosed as being in a vegetative state when they are actually suffering from lookalike conditions such as “locked in” syndrome, in which people are aware but unable to move or speak. These people should be given much more attention than those in a vegetative state, otherwise they become seriously distressed. “Only specialist units, where everyone dealing with these people on a daily basis is neurologically experienced, may twig what is happening,” says Wilson. Wilson’s research is “very important”, says Roger Wood, clinical director of the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust in Milton Keynes. “She is the only person doing it in Britain, if not the world.”

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This is one of those cases where the picture doesn’t do the recipe justice. Not that I didn’t capture the mouth-watering deliciousness (word?), but this dish tastes eons better than it looks. Not only is the tarragon and dijon sauce a lovely combination, but the bed of potatoes and pears–yes pears–goes “Wow!” in your mouth. Two thumbs up, though only because this was a Senior/Senior-ita date night dinner. Poor Junior was reduced to college cafeteria food and Junior Too had to make do with hot wings on the other side of town. Sorry, guys.

Female candidates get fewer votes, according to ANU research released today that analysed the performance of nearly 17,000 candidates who ran for the House of Representatives between 1903 and 2004. The study, conducted by ANU economist Dr Andrew Leigh and Oxford University student Ms Amy King, found that voters were consistently more likely to favour men. “On average, female candidates receive 0.6 percent fewer votes than male candidates”, said Ms King. In a federal electorate with 100,000 voters, this means that a woman running for office would receive 600 fewer votes than a man representing the same political party.” For major party candidates, the researchers found, the gender gap rose to around 1½ percent of the vote. “For one in ten races, this is the difference between winning and losing,” Ms King said. The researchers conducted the study by using candidates’ first names to code whether they were male or female. Their study accounted for party differences, incumbency, and a measure of the likelihood that a given party would win each seat. Although female candidates received fewer votes than male candidates in the 2004 election, the researchers found that the gap between male and female candidates has shrunk considerably over time. “In the 1920s, female candidates received 10 percent fewer votes than male candidates of the same party,” said Dr Leigh. “By the 1940s, the gender gap was still very large, around 5 percent. This helps explain why only three women were elected to the House of Representatives between 1901 and 1970.” “Since then, the gender voting gap has fallen, in line with the gender pay gap. It seems that discrimination in the labour market and at the ballot box move closely together. Both measures are improving, but women are still at a disadvantage.” Nationally, the researchers found, women benefited from having more female candidates running for office. But within the same electorate, they found that female candidates are harmed, not helped, when they are competing with more women on the ballot. A copy of the paper, Bias at the Ballot Box? Testing Whether Candidates’ Gender Affects Their Vote, is available at: econrsss.anu.edu.au/~aleigh/ Source: Australian National University Explore further: Schwarzenegger pushes Congress to save after-school funding

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The Friends 2016 exhibition again took place at West Lavington Manor by kind permission of the owner Andrew Doman and the late Ruth Tait. Details of the 27 artists who took part together with an image of their work are shown below. This exhibition was remarkably successful and as a result we pleased to be able to fund a bursary in Ruth’s memory. Details of this can be found under the heading Award 2017. ‘All of my work is drawn from nature. I was initially inspired to capture the colour and form of sea life from my experience of scuba diving in warm seas. Now I love combining the vibrant colours of glass with aluminium or copper to make creatures that bring a sense of fun and movement into the garden.’ Alison works in wire, fused glass and combinations of both, making figurative pieces for both indoors and outside. Her work captures the form and sense of movement in a piece whether of a dancer on point or a school of fish. She enjoys the juxtaposition of two dimensional and colourful glass mixed with mainly plain sliver wire to create a three dimensional sculpture. For this exhibition she has taken her inspirations from the natural world with an elegant peacock, swooping swallows and the flash of turquoise from a kingfisher flying by. Her flying fish have also taken to the air while a pheasant and duck strike a more restful pose. ‘I am inspired by colour, line and light in the natural world and am especially attracted to the design aesthetic of Scandinavia and Japan.’ Anna is the daughter of a Danish weaver who grew up surrounded by colour and yarn and is herself a graduate in textiles from Bath Spa University School of Art and Design. Using non-traditional materials Anna has developed an innovative stitching technique which she applies to one or more transparent surfaces to create vibrant 3D ‘drawings’. Until recently her work has mostly been to commission for interior spaces although a major commission for a Chelsea show garden was subsequently relocated to the Eden Project. Anna would very much like to create more work for outdoor settings and is currently exploring how she might use glass to enable her to translate her indoor textile screens into architectural artworks durable for outdoors. She recently won the Friends of the Garden 2015 bursary award which has funded her to progress this development through a foundation course at the Glass Hub. The piece Anna is exhibiting here is a screen print on glass and is made for placing in a garden setting. ‘I constantly find inspiration from the way plants in the garden burst into life and change throughout the seasons.’ Over the course of many years Anne has designed and developed an exceptional garden that sweeps around her Essex home and studio. Close observation of the plants here has led her to extend her sculpture vocabulary and experiment with organic forms. She is especially captivated by life unfurling in the form of leaves and flowers and the later development of seed pods. Each process implies controlled movement, a disciplined and mathematical precision and at the same time a display of immense internal energy. She strives to translate these into stone, or as here, on a larger scale into bronze or resin. Making at this scale is challenging. Anne works in an old aircraft hangar where the fumes and dust of hot carving of vast blocks of polystyrene are less likely to harm the environment. The resulting sculptures can then be moulded for casting in resin or bronze. Anne is a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. Her work has been exhibited widely both in this country and abroad and her large scale sculptures feature in private collections on both sides of the Atlantic. Her portrait sculpture is internationally recognised and her busts of Roy Jenkins, Michael Heseltine and John Major are held in the House of Commons collection of prominent politicians. ‘I am fascinated by the way juxtaposing transparent and solid materials allows for the play of light and shadow to create a unique experience for the viewer.’ Belinda’s early work as a figurative painter and sculptor reflected her desire to capture transparency. In her earlier work she left incomplete lines on drawings and incorporated a looseness in sculptures in stone or bronze. A more recent development using glass and metal has allowed her to completely transform her practice. The pieces shown here are typical of her current work. Each abstract sculpture is designed to encourage the viewer to look through and around them and to see the world in a new way. In making these pieces Belinda uses heat to slump glass, grinding into the resulting form to prevent the viewer from looking straight through an otherwise transparent material. The reflections made by mirrored metal introduce an additional dynamic, one completed by the changing light from sun and cloud and the seasonal changes that take place in a garden setting. Based in in London and Wiltshire, Belinda has a Masters in Creative Arts from UCA, Farnham. ‘My studio sits in the grounds of what was formerly the Keepers Cottage and much of my inspiration comes from what I see beyond the windows. I enjoy the quiet solitude of fishing in rivers and the thrill of a catch too.’ Bryan lives and works in rural Wiltshire surrounded by the type of environment that is reflected in his work. Wild birds were the focus of Bryan’s original inspiration and his portfolio of bronze sculptures is perhaps best known for these. More recently his work has extended to include paintings of landscapes, portraits and sporting subjects. He has exhibited widely in this country and at the prestigious ‘Birds in Art’ exhibition held annually in Wisconsin. ‘I love the challenge that comes from taking hard, unforgiving materials and turning them into sculptures that suggest softness and fragility.’ Carole’s unusual sculpting process takes the techniques of embroidery and origami and applies them to unforgiving materials such as roofing felt and wire mesh. Her inspiration comes from the natural world of coral reefs, wild and cultivated plants. Each piece expands the minutiae of these intricate life forms to human scale and in doing so challenges us to look at each one in a different way. Carole has a Fine Art degree from the University of Kent in Canterbury and is a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. She has exhibited widely in this country and in France and the USA and her work is held in numerous private and public collections. The pieces Carole is exhibiting here in wonderfully vibrant colours, are evocative of plant forms including her striking Amazonian lily pads in the lake. Critical mass by contrast is more subdued and hints at the fragility of the earth. ‘My work is a continual exploration of light and it never fails to surprise me!’ Chris initially studied furniture and design but a fascination with light led her to explore the physical and visual qualities of glass and she went on to study architectural scale glass at the Royal College of Art. Since then Chris has experimented with a wide range of forms for both internal and outside spaces using both glass and acrylic. The sculptural piece (Eclipse) hanging by the lake uses a special film (originally developed by NASA called dichroic) which causes the acrylic to project coloured light onto the surrounding foliage and change in colour depending on the angle of the sun or the viewer’s position. Chris has undertaken major public commissions in this country, most recently for Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 2015 her exhibitions included the Islamic Festival of Art in Sharjah, United Arab Emirate and a solo exhibition at the Shanghai Museum of Glass. ‘My work often begins with the human figure but I also love crossing boundaries and exploring abstract and conceptual art.’ In her current work, Henrietta explores the overlap between drawing and sculpture, the sketch and final polished piece, and the incorporation of the written word into the sculptural image. She believes sculpture is about communication and likes to explore the different ways it can achieve this, be it by resonating emotionally with the viewer, or by the ability of the piece to suggest a story. Henrietta gains full flexibility in her approach by working in stone, wood, metal, clay and plaster, often in combination. Each material has its own particular nature which influences and complements the image, as well as giving it physical form. Henrietta studied Art History at Cambridge University and Fine Art in London and Brussels. She now lives and works as a sculptor in Oxfordshire, producing thought-provoking works which take many different forms. She exhibits in the UK and internationally and has work in private and public collections across Europe. She is a member of the Oxford Sculptors’ Group, the Surrey Sculpture Society and the Medical Art Society. ‘My sculpture is inspired by pattern and structure in nature and focuses on silhouettes, shadows and the movement of leaf, branch, light and flame’ Ian’s background in graphic design influences his exploration of form, pattern and line. He designs intricate patterns for both freestanding and wall mounted sculptures for interior and exterior spaces. The final artwork is laser cut into a variety of materials transforming the drawn line into a tangible object. In 2015 his work ‘Eye of the Hurricane’ was selected for the Royal West of England Academy exhibition ‘Drawn’. More recently he was awarded a major commission by Notting Hill Housing Association to make three wall sculptures for an apartment building. His work has also been exhibited at Art Fairs in New York and Hong Kong and at the RHS Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Shows. Jenny is an artist blacksmith whose contemporary style sculptures combine galvanised steel and blown glass. Her work is inspired by nature and includes a wide range of architectural ironwork for gates and garden seating, water features and a range of small and large scale sculptures, mostly based on flower forms. Some of Jenny’s sculptural plant forms are much larger than life and here they introduce a new dynamic into the orchard. The scale and strength of their metal structure stands in contrast to the delicacy of the blown glass flowers, yet at the same time each of the elements move slightly in wind. Elsewhere Jenny’s smaller work introduces flowers into the yew avenue. All of Jenny’s pieces are galvanised forged steel and blown glass. ‘I am always on the lookout for a story or theme that can be developed as sculpture’. Born in Prague, Jitka grew up in Moravia where she studied and qualified as a doctor of medicine. Following a move to this country she studied ceramics at Croydon College of Art and Design, setting up a studio in London. Since moving to Bristol she has taught master classes at Cardiff University and at colleges in Bristol and Bath. She has also completed a stone masonry course at City of Bath College. Currently Jitka works in both clay and stone. Fascinated by people, their spontaneous movement and character, her ‘Talking Heads’ installation is created around a concept of ‘conversation’. Jitka uses slips, oxides, stains and glazes in a painterly fashion, building up layers of colour in vibrant combinations hoping to bring to life an imaginary dialogue between great personalities she admires. Her ‘Garden Spirits’ installation is a playful group of masks, representing the Creatures of Nature hiding in the garden and with their stylized features and brightly coloured glazes, they can amuse or scare. In her stone pieces, with the absence of colour, Jitka has taken up the challenge of telling the story through form only. ‘Briar Rose’ has been inspired by a particular version of a Sleeping Beauty story, where the briar rose thorn acts like the trigger of all events. The ‘Venus’ sculpture springs from Jitka’s passion for outdoor swimming, dipping or floating and represents a moment of calm and ease. Jitka’s work is held in public and private collections including the Musee National de Ceramique in Paris. ‘My inspiration comes from observing people and from capturing their quieter moments.’ Jo’s work is concerned with the human form and its relationships with and comparison to landscape and the surrounding environment. Jo’s sculptures are created in clay and fired to form unique work or cast in bronze resin to form limited editions. Her figures are ambiguous, self-contained characters – quiet, contemplative, serene, with their heads either bowed or looking skyward - they are together yet apart. Jo studied sculpture under Ivor Roberts-Jones and Michael Kenney at Goldsmiths and subsequently attended Reading University. Her work has been exhibited in many places including Chichester Cathedral, the Bishop’s Palace Gardens at Wells, The Life Building City of London, and many Galleries across the country. Her sculpture is held in private collections in the USA, Australia and Denmark as well as this country. ‘My inspiration comes from the ceramics of early South American civilisations, especially their symbolic use of human and animal imagery. My aim is to simplify these images to create sculptures that portray grace, pride and humour and breathe new life into their surroundings.’ Lilia Umaña-Clarke was born in Colombia where she trained as an architect. She moved to England in 1979 to study for a fine arts degree and completed a BA in that subject at the University of Hertfordshire. She now has a studio in Hackney, London and has exhibited in galleries across the UK as well as at RHS Garden Wisley and the Hampton Court flower show. She specialises in textured stoneware ceramics using her signature combination of dry glazes and oxides. ‘I love the way lettering in stone allows me to make a deeply personal and long lasting sculptural form that expresses a tribute, evokes a memory or simply makes a statement.’ From her studio in the Pewsey Vale, and based on her background in visual recognition, art and design, Lisi creates a wide range of original and beautifully crafted representational sculptures in stone and slate, inspired by themes as diverse as poetry, history, philosophy, science and the landscape. Many pieces are to bespoke commissions. The work especially created for this exhibition demonstrate Lisi’s ability to respond to her sense of the spirit of place and in some instances, also reveal her wonderfully quirky sense of humour. Each piece has unique lettering which is hand drawn and designed and then traditionally cut with a chisel and mallet resulting in individual, charismatic pieces of art for either an interior or exterior statement. One piece in particular is sure to intrigue visitors. ‘Tranquillity’ is designed to be placed near still water so that the word is revealed in a reflection. The light at this side of the lake is not ‘right’ for the greater part of the day so it is placed here with a mirror for visitors to appreciate its magic whenever they time their visit. ‘A good piece of lettering is as beautiful a thing to see as any sculpture or painting.’ Eric Gill. ‘My home and studio is on a medieval farm near Colchester. I constantly find inspiration in the history of the generations who have worked this land since the Bronze Age.’ Lucy studied sculpture at Colchester School of Art graduating in 2006. Since then she has developed her practice by further study with Suffolk based sculptor Miles Robinson. The landscape which surrounds Lucy’s everyday life informs all of her work. It influences the flowing shapes which typically evolve into birdlike or botanical forms pared down into a seemingly simplistic state. She loves the honesty of rusting metal and seeks to replicate this by using iron resin for much of her work when appropriate. Lucy sculpts directly in resin, a robust method that works well for some of her work. Many pieces are then subsequently cast in bronze, a process which enhances the delicacy and elegance of her sculpture. The pieces shown here are all in cast bronze. They are suitable for display indoors as well as outside. Lucy’s work features at the Sculpt Gallery in Essex and she has shown at RHS Hyde Hall and other outdoor exhibitions in the region. ‘What I am looking for in my work with 'clay and fire' lies in their own essential beauty - subjective, difficult to define, control or repeat - something to do with chance coincidence. My methods are as simple and direct as possible where chance has space to surprise. This leads me along a narrow ridge between my will and that of the material.’ Martin defines his vessels as 'pots in essence' whose raison d'être is the balance between form and surface. They seem to have depth and volume but on closer inspection are almost flat. Certain parallels can be drawn with the work of the German potter Hans Coper, whose non-regular three dimensional shapes, with their juxtapositions of forms, light and shade, invited multiple viewpoints like a Cézanne table-top or a Cubist still-life. His most recent work is preoccupied with the core of the work. After firing the prepared surfaces of these works are struck off with a hammer and chisel to reveal an archaeological looking ‘core’. These purely abstract sculptures combine a contemporary aesthetic with the shadow of times past. Martin lives and works in Germany. He has exhibited widely and his work is held in public collections including the Rijksmuseum NL, the Ichon Ceramic Museum in Korea, Frankfurt and other museums in Germany and the Jerwood Collection in this country. He has undertaken residencies in China, Japan, Canada and Slovenia. ‘In my work I try to capture the way much of what we see in nature is made up of simple repeated elements which combine to make a wonderfully coherent form – seed heads have a particular resonance for me and much of my inspiration comes from observing plants in my own garden.’ Mike studied silver-smithing at Camberwell School of Art and developed his sculptural work at the Royal College of Art after a year’s research of thin metal manipulation at Camberwell School of Art. His large sculptural work developed from using his silver-smithing skills on a grand scale. Each piece is a response to the complex shapes and structures of organic segmentation in plants and their seeds. This is apparent in the seamed segments of cut and beaten sheet metal, where the weld lines construct and describe the form. Mike exploits the malleable qualities of copper and aluminium so that the hammering and the conducted heat of the welding creates a patina of colour and texture onto the metal. This is sometimes enhanced by chemical patination and wax is applied to protect and enrich the surface. Mike’s other work ranges from small garden birds and fish, which can be bought individually or in groups to make a shoal or flock. He also designs and makes copper planters of all sizes, initially inspired by the hosta plants and poppy seed heads in his garden. His birdbaths, still water ponds and large bowls are simple forms designed to catch the rain. Mike’s work is represented in the Crafts Council Collection, and numerous private collections, both here and abroad. He teaches regularly at West Dean College including at the popular summer school in August. ‘I like my work to be seen in a garden context from where it originates, and hope you enjoy the mix of materials I use in new ways. I like my work to reflect both stillness and joy; so that whether on a balmy summer evening or a dull winter’s day you can look at the work and smile.’ Philippa is a Wiltshire based artist drawing much of her inspiration from walks in the countryside or beachcombing. Found and natural objects, such as seedpods, and discarded pieces of old metal inspire her, as much as looking down the microscope on her iphone!. Recent work has combined elements of clay and metal, focussing on the minute repetitions and patterns found in nature, which lead to movement. Literally, the whole being more than the sum of their parts. Her work has been exhibited and sold in Garden Sculpture shows across the South, Southwest and Wales, and she is member of the Oxford Sculpture Group. In 2015 Philippa was shortlisted for the Friends of the Garden bursary award. Her piece ‘Large Spiral’ was first exhibited earlier this year at the shortlisted artists group show at Pound Arts. ‘As husband and wife we share our studio. This gives rise to a fairly unique situation where we create our own individual sculptures as well as collaborating to create pieces with a third distinct voice’. Much of Sally’s work starts with drawing, painting and photography of the observed world. Investigating the co-existence of the environment with human interventions she is particularly interested in spaces where the boundaries are indistinct. Selected 2D explorations are then brought together and translated into a 3D model to be realised in glass. The use of pure, clear optical glass defines the enclosed form Sally is expressing. The long process of grinding and polishing takes place until the finely balanced form combines with layers of deep surface texture and engraving to emerge as a finished piece. The whole process can take up to a year. Richard starts from a different point, thinking in 3D from the outset, with the form and its title developing simultaneously from the original idea. Once he has begun to model the piece, refinements and variations are explored by drawing. Richard uses the same casting process as Sally, with the same meticulous attention to detail and fine polishing. His final process requires a great deal of nerve too. Using a hand held diamond saw he carves in to the highly polished surfaces. The resulting, highly personal mark making is always dramatic and at times appears to defy the laws of gravity. ‘Singular Moment’ exhibited here illustrates this approach. Sally and Richard have received numerous awards for their work and their sculptures can be found in many public collections including the V&A, M.A.V.A., Madrid and National Museums of Scotland. They exhibit widely, most recently at ‘London Art Fair’ – London and ‘Modern Masters’ - Munich International Fair, Munich. They are in an exhibition titled ‘Reflection’ at Salisbury Cathedral later this year. They are both members of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. ‘My designs are curvaceous, charmingly simple, almost two dimensional, which probably reflects my training as a graphic designer and my strong beliefs in the ‘less is more’ approach, stripping things back to the bare bones.’ Born in Yorkshire Simon studied graphics and photography at Sheffield Polytechnic, moving to the south coast in the 90’s, where for many years he worked as a graphic designer and photographer. Using illustrative techniques learnt during his time as a designer, Simon designed sculptural concepts purely for pleasure, wanting something to enhance his own garden. It was one of Simon’s design clients form the art world that encouraged him to pursue his idea of turning concept into reality. Simon’s designs are crafted from sheet steel using the latest laser cutting technology, which allows him to create pieces with beautifully simple flowing curves. Pieces are left to oxidise naturally, a process that highlights the intrinsic beauty of the material as the finish alters with time. Some pieces like Simon’s cow parsley gently sway in wind. Simon has undertaken commissions for private gardens across the UK and internationally. He has exhibited widely including at Doddington Hall, Gilbert White’s House and Garden and Marks Hall in Essex. ‘A passion for form based sculpture that responds to aesthetics within nature, helped me understand that the stunningly beautiful yet often simple laws that nature follow, result in what could most closely be described as perfection within our environment. A simple ratio that I often apply to my designs is 1.681, known as PHI or the Fibonacci sequence, which is a simply beautiful mathematical principle seen everywhere in the natural environment and is synonymous with beauty, balance and perfection. My work is mostly abstract in nature and comment on what is recognisable throughout ‘the everyday’ with the intention of making their audience spend time contemplating ‘the recognised’ and ‘the obscure’. I hope that in creating this sensation more time will be taken to appreciate the surrounding environment of the object I have made.’ In 2005 Thomas graduated from the Norwich School of Art and has since set up his practice as a sculptor in Norwich. From his studio in the city he works mainly to commission, predominantly using metals such as bronze, stainless steel and copper. He undertakes private, corporate and public commissions both in the UK and internationally as well as attending select exhibitions in the UK. Thomas's sculptures are influenced by the styles and features of master sculptors such as Hepworth, Moore, Gabo and Arp and he uses this to his advantage as he strives to develop a strong identity for his own work. Now entering his 10th year as a practising sculptor, his sculptures have a strong contemporary style and identity that is being sought out internationally by designers and collectors. Having built up a diverse portfolio around large scale exterior sculptures, Thomas is now entering an exciting new period of experimentation, to explore and push the boundaries of his designs. Two of the works featured here, ‘Aurora’ and ‘Crescent’ are his first in this new direction. ‘In my work I aim to capture the subtle communicative properties of the human form, I like to exaggerate and play with the fluid lines of the organic form, unifying small fragments like numerous lines in a sketch to build up a tangible figure’ Tobias graduated from Hereford College of the Arts in 2014 Before graduating he exhibited work at Quenington where he also received the Netherton prize for the most promising student. He has now established his own workshop and practice in Suffolk, exhibiting work across the country. His approach to making sculpture is to adopt the pose of a character and to understand the feel, weight and strain that the pose entails and to then express that in the sculpture. Tobias’ process is painstaking and involves building a coherent form by welding many small fragments of metal piece by piece. “The making of a mind surpasses the making of an object.” ‘My reinterpretation of this statement by American artist Jann Haworth informs the direction of my work. It is from making objects, involving a passion for varied materials and processes, that a previously unopened book covering philosophy, psychology, spirituality and human existence is informing my personal and professional development; the ‘making of my mind.’ Vivienne studied sculpture at The Art Academy, London SE1 where she obtained a first class diploma and was awarded the Wolfendale prize. This was followed by private commission work and the award of a collaborative commission for the Honourable Artillery Company London in 2013. Her work has been exhibited in several exhibitions in Southwark London, as well as Art at Ardington and The Bothy Vineyard (Oxfordshire Art Weeks), Art in Action Oxfordshire and KPMG City of London. The piece exhibited here is called ‘Enso, Reinterpreted’. Enso is a common symbol in Japanese calligraphy and in the Zen school of Buddhism. It can be either a closed or open circle and is usually two-dimensional. What appeals to Vivienne is its ability to mean nothing or everything, to be empty or full, present or absent. It represents the cyclical nature of existence. A remembered moment in time. In addition we will feature the work of some of the artists from previous exhibitions in our pop-up shop.

Researchers working with NASA's Cassini spacecraft have witnessed clouds of methane travelling across the northern region of Titan - Saturn's largest moon - on October 29-30, which they've turned into an incredible time-lapse video. Not only does the video provide us with a unique glimpse of the potentially habitable Titan, it provides a way for scientists to differentiate the noise - or interference - that shows up on images of the moon by mistake, from what's actually hovering above the surface. "Time-lapse movies like this allow scientists to observe the dynamics of clouds as they develop, move over the surface and fade," the Cassini team explains. "A time-lapse movie can also help to distinguish between noise in images (for example from cosmic rays hitting the detector) and faint clouds or fog." Using these videos, the team hopes to build a better understanding of the moon's climate - a task that researchers have been working on since Cassini was launched in 1997, and arrived at Saturn back in 2004. In the video below, you can see white clouds of methane form and move across the moon's surface at 7 to 10 metres per second (14 to 22 mph) before they dissipate, and fade out of existence. They look a lot like the clouds we see here on Earth. "There are also some small clouds over the region of small lakes farther north, which fade over the course of the movie," said the team. "This small grouping of clouds is moving at a speed of about 0.7 to 1.4 miles per hour (1 to 2 metres per second)." While the video itself is only 59 seconds long, it's actually the culmination of 11 hours of filming, with each frame taken 20 minutes apart. The team's footage loops six times during the short video, which just goes to show how hard it is to take images of a distant world. So far, this new video is the best observation of the cloud coverage that researchers have yet obtained, providing crucial data in the pursuit of Titan's climate secrets. In fact, the observation is already hinting at gaps in our understanding of the moon, because the researchers had predicted a larger amount of cloud cover during the early summer period in the north, but the new footage shows this isn't the case. Having a full climate model for the moon is important, because researchers think Titan could potentially be home to alien microorganisms that thrive in methane-based atmospheres. In fact, Titan is such a promising place for potential alien life, NASA plans on sending an autonomous submarine there to explore these rivers and seas in 2038. For now, Cassini will continue to monitor the moon's seasons throughout 2017. By that point, Cassini will have lasted about nine years longer than originally planned, and the team says they will destroy the craft in September by flying it into Saturn. This isn't the only time Cassini has been in the headlines lately. Earlier this year, an international team of researchers managed to use data collected by the craft to conclude that Titan is actually covered in deep canyons filled with liquid hydrocarbons, though how these canyons formed is still a mystery. Hopefully, as Cassini nears the end of its mission, we will unwrap the secrets of Titan's climate, creating a more completed picture of one of the most talked about moons in our Solar System.

Research in the Huckaba group will focus on three main areas: biomimetic metal complexes, organic materials, and hybrid organic/inorganic materials to be used in sensors and devices. Organic materials lend our lives many conveniences, through wood and paper products, plastics, and even displays for TVs and tablets. In this line of research, organic materials will be designed and synthesized that self-assemble from solution into solids with useful properties, such as: charge conduction, selective sensing, or electricity generation. In the future, society will need to harvest energy from a variety of sources, and not just the forces of the sun, wind, or hydropower. Vibration, temperature, and motion can also be used to generate power with materials that turn these impulses into electricity. In this line of research, novel ferroelectric and flexoelectric hybrid materials will be developed for sensing, electricity generation, light emission, and more.

Enrique Carmona Longoria, 93, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, at a local nursing home. Mr. Carmona Longoria was born in General Treviño, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and had been a resident of Laredo, Texas, for most of his life. He is preceded in death by his parents, Enrique Carmona and Matiana Longoria Carmona; siblings, Mirthala Uvaldo, Oscar A. Carmona, Minerva Gamboa, Nieves Carmona and Homero Carmona. Mertala and Ramon, Mario and Juan Cruz, San Juanita, Angelita, Teresa, Gerardo, Alejandro and Cristina, Oscar, Rolando, Laura, Chris, Darla and Yvonne; several great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; and siblings, Irma Carmona, Blanca Peña and Orfelinda Garza. Visitation will be Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. and a Vigil of the Deceased will be held at 7 p.m. in the Hernandez-Lopez and Sons Southside Chapels, Loop 20 and Zapata Hwy. Funeral services will begin at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, departing from the funeral home chapel. Holy Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m. at San Vicente De Paul Catholic Church.

&gt;If I can ask for a clarification, do you think that Democrats who suggest certain policies to help rural areas are lying, and that they actually want to hurt rural areas? * How is banning fracking going to help rural Americans? * How is defending lopsided trade deals that encourage outsourcing of manufacturing jobs going to help rural Americans? * How is destroying the last of the mining jobs in America through overbearing regulation (and not all of them are coal) going to help rural Americans? * How is importing millions of unskilled foreigners to compete against the now unemployed rural Americans, with little to no translatable skills, going to help rural Americans? * How does raising their taxes to help pay for free healthcare and school for those same foreigners going to help rural Americans? * How does raising their taxes to help pay off the student loans of privilege urban children who decided taking out $100k in debt for a useless feminist dance theory degree while their kids went to work for a living help rural Americans? * How does banning guns for people who live 30 minutes away from the nearest sheriffs station and in the middle of an area with wild and feral animals, help rural Americans? * How does insulting them for their religious beliefs help rural Americans? * How does denigrating them as "flyover country" as if they are nothing more than somewhere you have to pass through to get to the other coastal cities help rural America? * How does trying to ban gas automobiles and promote electric cars that have limited range when you have to drive hundreds of miles a day to get to and from work, to the store, etc help rural America? Bernie has admitted outright that his m4a plan requires increasing taxes on anybody making more than $29,000. Thats not even middle class, thats lower class. Thats what these people need, more taxes. And thats just for m4a, doesn't even talk about the rest of his pie in the sky insane plans. I won't even talk about the AOC's of the party who, whether or not they actually included it in the resolution or not, the draft was talking about banning or limiting cows. * How does limiting or banning cows help rural ranchers? * While we're on the subject of ranchers and cattle, how does Obama's WOTUS regulation help rural America when one day large swathes of their land became federally protected because it rained a little too much and suddenly a large puddle turned half their land into what Obama considered a protected waterway?

&gt; to also relate that is a law to have some kind of health insurance These are entirely different sorts of things. It's a crime to not have car insurance (in many place, and it's required in many places) but only if you want to drive a car. It's part of the "privilege" of driving a car. Whereas health insurance, for a time, carried with it an exemption for a little bit of tax that you might otherwise be required to pay, but that tax was eliminated, and it was never a crime to not have health insurance. And being alive is a right, not a privilege.

<reponame>Celebrate-future/deeplearning4j<filename>rl4j/rl4j-core/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/rl4j/network/ActorCriticNetwork.java /* * ****************************************************************************** * * * * * * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the * * terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0 which is available at * * https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. * * * * See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional * * information regarding copyright ownership. * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT * * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the * * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations * * under the License. * * * * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 * ***************************************************************************** */ package org.deeplearning4j.rl4j.network; import lombok.NonNull; import org.deeplearning4j.nn.graph.ComputationGraph; import org.deeplearning4j.nn.multilayer.MultiLayerNetwork; import org.nd4j.common.base.Preconditions; import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray; public class ActorCriticNetwork extends BaseNetwork<ActorCriticNetwork> { private static final String[] LABEL_NAMES = new String[] { CommonLabelNames.ActorCritic.Value, CommonLabelNames.ActorCritic.Policy }; private final boolean isCombined; private ActorCriticNetwork(INetworkHandler handler, boolean isCombined) { super(handler); this.isCombined = isCombined; } @Override protected NeuralNetOutput packageResult(INDArray[] output) { NeuralNetOutput result = new NeuralNetOutput(); result.put(CommonOutputNames.ActorCritic.Value, output[0]); result.put(CommonOutputNames.ActorCritic.Policy, output[1]); return result; } @Override public ActorCriticNetwork clone() { return new ActorCriticNetwork(getNetworkHandler().clone(), isCombined); } public static Builder builder() { return new Builder(); } public static class Builder { private final NetworkHelper networkHelper = new NetworkHelper(); private boolean isCombined; private ComputationGraph combinedNetwork; private ComputationGraph cgValueNetwork; private MultiLayerNetwork mlnValueNetwork; private ComputationGraph cgPolicyNetwork; private MultiLayerNetwork mlnPolicyNetwork; private String inputChannelName; private String[] channelNames; private ChannelToNetworkInputMapper.NetworkInputToChannelBinding[] networkInputsToFeatureBindings; public Builder withCombinedNetwork(@NonNull ComputationGraph combinedNetwork) { isCombined = true; this.combinedNetwork = combinedNetwork; return this; } public Builder withSeparateNetworks(@NonNull ComputationGraph valueNetwork, @NonNull ComputationGraph policyNetwork) { this.cgValueNetwork = valueNetwork; this.cgPolicyNetwork = policyNetwork; isCombined = false; return this; } public Builder withSeparateNetworks(@NonNull MultiLayerNetwork valueNetwork, @NonNull ComputationGraph policyNetwork) { this.mlnValueNetwork = valueNetwork; this.cgPolicyNetwork = policyNetwork; isCombined = false; return this; } public Builder withSeparateNetworks(@NonNull ComputationGraph valueNetwork, @NonNull MultiLayerNetwork policyNetwork) { this.cgValueNetwork = valueNetwork; this.mlnPolicyNetwork = policyNetwork; isCombined = false; return this; } public Builder withSeparateNetworks(@NonNull MultiLayerNetwork valueNetwork, @NonNull MultiLayerNetwork policyNetwork) { this.mlnValueNetwork = valueNetwork; this.mlnPolicyNetwork = policyNetwork; isCombined = false; return this; } public Builder inputBindings(ChannelToNetworkInputMapper.NetworkInputToChannelBinding[] networkInputsToFeatureBindings) { this.networkInputsToFeatureBindings = networkInputsToFeatureBindings; return this; } public Builder specificBinding(String inputChannelName) { this.inputChannelName = inputChannelName; return this; } public Builder channelNames(String[] channelNames) { this.channelNames = channelNames; return this; } public ActorCriticNetwork build() { INetworkHandler networkHandler; boolean isValueNetworkSet = !(cgValueNetwork == null && mlnValueNetwork == null); boolean isPolicyNetworkSet = !(cgPolicyNetwork == null && mlnPolicyNetwork == null); Preconditions.checkState(combinedNetwork != null || (isValueNetworkSet && isPolicyNetworkSet), "A network must be set."); if(isCombined) { networkHandler = (networkInputsToFeatureBindings == null) ? networkHelper.buildHandler(combinedNetwork, inputChannelName, channelNames, LABEL_NAMES, CommonGradientNames.ActorCritic.Combined) : networkHelper.buildHandler(combinedNetwork, networkInputsToFeatureBindings, channelNames, LABEL_NAMES, CommonGradientNames.ActorCritic.Combined); } else { INetworkHandler valueNetworkHandler; if(cgValueNetwork != null) { valueNetworkHandler = (networkInputsToFeatureBindings == null) ? networkHelper.buildHandler(cgValueNetwork, inputChannelName, channelNames, new String[] { CommonLabelNames.ActorCritic.Value }, CommonGradientNames.ActorCritic.Value) : networkHelper.buildHandler(cgValueNetwork, networkInputsToFeatureBindings, channelNames, LABEL_NAMES, CommonGradientNames.ActorCritic.Value); } else { valueNetworkHandler = networkHelper.buildHandler(mlnValueNetwork, inputChannelName, channelNames, CommonLabelNames.ActorCritic.Value, CommonGradientNames.ActorCritic.Value); } INetworkHandler policyNetworkHandler; if(cgPolicyNetwork != null) { policyNetworkHandler = (networkInputsToFeatureBindings == null) ? networkHelper.buildHandler(cgPolicyNetwork, inputChannelName, channelNames, new String[] { CommonLabelNames.ActorCritic.Policy }, CommonGradientNames.ActorCritic.Policy) : networkHelper.buildHandler(cgPolicyNetwork, networkInputsToFeatureBindings, channelNames, LABEL_NAMES, CommonGradientNames.ActorCritic.Policy); } else { policyNetworkHandler = networkHelper.buildHandler(mlnPolicyNetwork, inputChannelName, channelNames, CommonLabelNames.ActorCritic.Policy, CommonGradientNames.ActorCritic.Policy); } networkHandler = new CompoundNetworkHandler(valueNetworkHandler, policyNetworkHandler); } return new ActorCriticNetwork(networkHandler, isCombined); } } }

<gh_stars>0 export interface LANGUAGESINFO{ language: string, porcentage: number }

Firefox will stop supporting the Adobe Flash plugin, beginning with is being disabled by default from build 69 onwards. Firefox will end Adobe Flash support. In 2021 Flash Player will be completely blocked by Mozilla. This year, Mozilla Firefox will stop supporting the Adobe Flash plug-in. This will happen on September 3, with the release of the version 69 of the browser. It is worth noting that approximately one year later (in 2020) Flash will also be abandoned by its creators, so Mozilla's decision is anticipatory – its goal is to provide adequate security for users. Initially, Mozilla's developers did not plan to give up Adobe Flash support this year – the browser was supposed to continue to support the technology, displaying only messages informing the users that the site was using the plug-in. In the end, a different approach was chosen, as it was considered (probably rightly so) that continuous messages would only create unnecessary confusion. It is worth noting that Firefox version 69, will still allow us to enable Flash Player support manually in the settings (the function will simply be disabled by default). The consumer versions of Mozilla will lose this option at the beginning of 2020, and a few months later, the functionality will also be deprived of ESR (Extended Support Release). In 2021 the plug-in will be completely blocked. Google and Microsoft also plan to stop using Adobe Flash in their browsers. Thus, this technology will join other abandoned NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) plug-ins, such as Silverlight or Java. The reasons for this state of affairs can be traced back to the constant development of technology. In the past, these solutions were necessary to display certain types of objects on websites. Nowadays the plugins do not offer anything that modern browsers are not able to do on their own, and without unnecessarily exposing our computer to threats (the plugins create an additional software layer, which may reveal security holes).

“Traveling is like a collage of everyday time,” he wrote. Speaking as a musician — Mr. Ohtake has led two noise-rock bands — he said that he thought “the most extreme noise is silence.” Objects, then, would be the loudest things you could live with. A video, “The Last Silent Movie,” by Susan Hiller, provides a lilting, unsettling musical air to the fourth floor of “The Keeper.” Ms. Hiller, an anthropologist who became an artist, compiled audio samples of endangered and extinct languages, playing them in a video on a black screen with transcribed subtitles. The singsong and staccato of the work gives voice to the recognition that collecting can be a requiem. More optimistically in the same exhibition space is a thoughtful conversation: Ms. Bove’s installation of sculptures with works by Mr. Scarpa, known for his modern redesigns of museums. “When I first saw his work, I felt shocked — the strategies that he produced for historical work,” Ms. Bove said recently. “It’s counter to our traditions of museum design, to be neutral.” Ms. Bove created spatial juxtapositions and interactions that gave the group an intelligent integrity that is a hallmark of a collection greater than the sum of its parts. By its nature, collecting is subjective, even at its most encyclopedic. When collecting strives to become objective, the eccentricity veers into obsession. Oliver Croy, an Austrian artist who discovered 387 homemade building models in a bric-a-brac shop in Vienna in 1993, bought them, lived with them in a 131-square-foot apartment for several years and is no longer collecting, having skirted its edges. “I did therapy, so I gave up on that,” he said in a telephone interview. The models, built in the 1950s and ’60s by an insurance clerk, Peter Fritz, were given to the Wien Museum in Vienna. In another project, a keeper and the subject of his collection have forged a bond, with a rare self-knowledge on each end. For 62 years, Ye Jinglu sat for an annual studio portrait, the first in 1901. The photographs, shifting imperceptibly in background, costume and the real-time register of Mr. Ye’s advancing age, are a virtuosic portrait of a man’s life. In the last photograph, the confident-looking dandy of the initial one has softly disappeared, and the world has irrevocably changed. The collection was discovered by Tong Bingxue, a photography collector, in 2007. In his mind, Mr. Tong chased Mr. Ye back into the past. “I repeatedly perused the album,” he wrote in an email, “the man patiently telling me his stories by his appearance.” Mr. Tong contacted anyone who might have known Mr. Ye, including immediate family. “I leafed gingerly through the album again, the leaps from the Qing dynasty, to the Republic of China, and then, to the new China.” As he contemplated Mr. Ye’s life, he was able to contemplate his own. He called his relationship to this man “uncuttable.” Mr. Gioni, the curator, writes in his catalog essay that the desperate need to be extraordinary lies “at the root of human nature.” Most overtly it lies within the heart of collectors. But he concludes with the realization, “harsh and comforting,” that we are, in fact, just like everybody else. One of Mr. Gioni’s keepers might not agree. Wilson Bentley, born to a family of farmers in Vermont in 1865, was fascinated from childhood by the weather. He attached a microscope to a bellows camera and captured on film the intricate pattern of a single snowflake. As is now generally undisputed, each is unique. And so perhaps, as collectors — despite all that we “share” — are we all.

The next-gen version of Star Wars Jedi Fallen order is finally live, and here's how you can upgrade to it if you own the base game on PS4 and Xbox One. EA is bringing all its games to Steam, and the latest additions are none other than the Battlefield and Mass Effect franchises. We all know about the capability of EA DICE’s Frostbite engine through games like the Battlefield franchise, Need...

<issue_start><issue_comment>Title: Timestamps are deleted when using `create(orUpdate:on:)` (upserts) username_0: Assuming you have a model conforming to `Timestampable` you would expect that its `createdAt` and `updatedAt` values are updated properly. This works fine when using Fluent's `save()` method. It does not, when using `create(orUpdate:on:)`. ### Observed behavior _(given that `createdAt`/`updatedAt` are not set manually before upserting the model)_ - first creation works as expected (`createdAt`/`updatedAt` are set properly, as this is handled by Fluent's QueryBuilder `create(_ model: Result)`) - any subsequent updates using `create(orUpdate:on:)` will result into `createdAt`/`updatedAt` being reset to NULL ### Expected behavior When upserting ... - ... the value for `createdAt` should not change - ... the value for `updatedAt` should be updated to current `Date()`<issue_closed>

My apartment window shattered four days ago, and maintence hasn’t even reached out. edit: i’m in El Paso, TX As title says. I live in an apartment, and my bedroom window shattered. I live in a townhome and my bedroom is on the second story of said townhome. This happened on Friday, midday, and I was at work so my roommate texted me and told me that my window was completely shattered and our cat was anxiously waiting at our front door - thankfully perfectly fine (she was in my bedroom and got out). I requested maintence immediately and put the priority as emergency. If context is needed maintence must be requested via this app called residentportal. We dont know how the window broke- it was broken when my roommate got home and I was at work- but the glass is literally shattered and it fell straight down outside. There is literally a 4x4 empty hole in my wall. From what I can guess there’s only two ways this window can break: 1, it was just that shitty that after some branches hit it during the rainstorm (theres a tree right outside my window), it gave out and shattered, or 2, my cat— my tiny, five pound lazy-ass cat, broke it. I’m a lot more dubious about the second possibility because again, she is very small. We rescued her recently (stray) so she’s malnourished and she’s just a small-framed cat regardless. Additionaly, I made my bed and had a MASSIVE pile of squishmallows (like, four feet tall) on my bed, which is against the same wall the window is on and is also against the window itself kinda (theres a 6” gap for the windowsill so my bed isnt touching it) and they were literally undisturbed. Meaning it’s not like my cat got a running start and ran into the window with such force it shattered &amp; she fell, because the squishmallows would be knocked over. I don’t know when else would be a good time to mention this but the glass was very thin. Like, the glass from my 70$ IKEA display cabinet is genuinely thicker than my window. In a city that regularly gets hail &amp; heavy rain during monsoon season and has winds 40-60mph on the regular. My question is— because there’s literally been a HOLE in my wall for four days now (fri, sat, sun &amp; now mon), and I haven’t heard so much as a peep from my landlord, the apt. management company or maintence, do I have any legal recourse whatsoever? I haven’t even been able to stay in my own home because of this, both me &amp; my cat had to go to my parents’ house. It also drizzled on saturday so some of my stuff(curtains &amp; carpet) got wet. Apologies for this being so winded I’m just very upset about all this.

<reponame>Elyahu41/Terasology<filename>engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/gltf/deserializers/Matrix4fDeserializer.java<gh_stars>1000+ // Copyright 2021 The Terasology Foundation // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 package org.terasology.engine.rendering.gltf.deserializers; import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContext; import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializer; import com.google.gson.JsonElement; import com.google.gson.JsonParseException; import gnu.trove.list.TFloatList; import gnu.trove.list.array.TFloatArrayList; import org.joml.Matrix4f; import java.lang.reflect.Type; /** * Json deserializer for an Matrix4f. */ public class Matrix4fDeserializer implements JsonDeserializer<Matrix4f> { @Override public Matrix4f deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT, JsonDeserializationContext context) throws JsonParseException { TFloatList result = new TFloatArrayList(); json.getAsJsonArray().forEach(x -> result.add(x.getAsFloat())); if (result.size() != 16) { throw new JsonParseException("Incorrect number of values for ImmutableMatrix4f - expected 16"); } return new Matrix4f( result.get(0), result.get(1), result.get(2), result.get(3), result.get(4), result.get(5), result.get(6), result.get(7), result.get(8), result.get(9), result.get(10), result.get(11), result.get(12), result.get(13), result.get(14), result.get(15)); } }

Research project: Evolution of technology and tool use in 10,000 years of Aboriginal prehistory - Start date: - Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (ARC) For many years the timing of and reasons for the introduction, proliferation and decline of backed artefacts in south-eastern Australia has been much debated. Recent research indicates they were made at least 8500 years ago in south-eastern Australia, that they gradually increased in number, and that around 3500-3000 years ago proliferated to the extent that they are found in numerous sites and recorded in large numbers in individual sites. After around 1600 years ago, backed artefact numbers decreased markedly, and by the time of British colonisation were either not used or used to such a limited extent they were never seen or described by the first colonists. Two models used to explain their proliferation after 3500 years ago are that (a) they alleviated greater subsistence risk brought about by ENSO-intensified climatic pattern, and (b) their increased production reflected their symbolic value at a time of social re-organisation within Aboriginal societies, in which climatic change may be implicated in the construction of economic and social risk. Two prominent explanations of their use are as barbs or tips in spears and to cut human flesh in rituals. Our study is testing such assumptions by systematically examining assemblages of backed artefacts from selected Sydney Basin sites to ascertain their function through integrated use-wear and residue analyses. Our work to date indicates that backed artefacts were used in numerous ways, including activities in which objects of wood, non-woody plants, bone, hide and feathers were made and maintained, as well as subsistence activities in which animal and plant materials were prepared, being used variously for scraping, cutting, incising, and perhaps occasionally, on throwing or thrusting spears. Furthermore, backed artefacts were typically elements in composite tools which were often multi-purpose and multi-functional, perhaps used and/or recycled on several occasions. Dr Val Attenbrow , Principal Research Scientist

I have been long term unemployed. I met lots of people in similar situations. Some of them liked it. Many we're dumbfucks. The vast majority just wanted to work. Even the dumbfucks mostly wanted to work. While this was going on, Australia implemented some welfare reforms. One thing I did like (and I say this with some reluctance because it was the brain child of a politician with whom I otherwise think of as a complete waste of human space and who did all sorts of otherwise stupid/evil things) was Work for the Dole. Welfare recipients had to do a few hours of community work every week on top of their job search requirements. I was completely unsuited for the placement I was given... And it still helped. Eventually I arranged a new placement that suited my skills better. Getting people who otherwise aren't working and probably feel like shit about it, getting them out into the community and getting stuff done, is a great idea.

For sale, my Morgan Monroe soprano banjo uke. (Morgan Monroe and Eddy Finn are the same company, and when they launched the Eddy Finn line these were rebadged as Eddy Finns. Exact same uke except for the name on the headstock). Nice player, with a clear brash banjo-y tone guaranteed to bug the neighbors and scare the cat. After having it for a while, I've come to the conclusion I'd be happier with a banjo uke with a larger diameter body. No case, but I will double box it for shipping. $100 shipped, CONUS only. Since it looks like Phil has snagged this, what makes you say a larger body would suit you better? Just curious as I've been looking around at the b-ukes available. Since it looks like Phil has snagged this, what makes you say a larger body would suit you better? Just curious as I've been looking around and the b-ukes available. Mostly just a comfort thing. The body is just physically too small for me (& I favor sopranos). And I keep whacking my finger on one of the brackets. I think an 8" rim would work better for me. Have you checked your PM's yet? Awaiting your reply. I did, and tried to reply twice. Something's wonky. Will try again.

I just received the kit in the mail. I used stronger batteries than stock and got a good 3 minutes plus flying time on the wing. The hovercraft works great, especially on a smooth wooden floor. Haven;t tried it on water yet, but a nice little evening in the house flier?hovercraft. Just received my order nice timely fashion. Did a check of the order and sadly one of the extra batteries I ordered was mis labeled the instructions are absolutely confusing and vague. customer support is nonexistent, product support is also nonexistent if I didn’t spend hours setting up my Spectrum radio I might have a better review. I’m concerned that horizon sells all these wonderful things and they have absolutely nothing available to support them. I purchased an Inductrix Switch with wing from my local hobby shop, and am extremely disappointed by its performance. I envisioned 3-4 minute wing flights in the living room, but the longest I've been able to stay airborne is 26 seconds, as the craft doesn't have enough power to carry the wing beyond that. The battery that came with the model is good for about 16 seconds of flight. In drone mode without the wing, the model is capable of around 3 minutes of flight, but it's not that great as a drone. Hovercraft mode seems appropriate for a child but is otherwise not exciting. Overall, this product is a failure.

Without a man named Thucydides, the chances are slim that we'd know anything about the Peloponnesian War. A new book about the man attempts to correct what we know. For more than a quarter of a century, starting in 431 B.C., two Greek cities faced off. Sometimes they confronted each other directly, and sometimes through proxies and allies. Thucydides recorded the details of the conflict throughout the war and, Yale professor Donald Kagan tells NPR's Guy Raz, "invented the modern understanding of history." The war between Athens and Sparta has long since become an allegory of modern conflicts like the Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq — even Afghanistan. Historians and students of Thucydides all draw comparisons back to that ancient conflict. Kagan says Thucydides was the first person to apply rigorous scholarship in the approach to storytelling. Kagan's own four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War is considered a seminal work, widely cited by students and scholars. His latest book, Thucydides: The Reinvention of History, delves into the ancient author and why he may not have always told the truth. Thucydides was born around 455 B.C. to a noble Athenian family. During his youth, the Athenian empire was ruled by Pericles, who was something of a benign autocrat. But after Pericles' death in 429 B.C., the governance of Athens was taken over by a group of self-proclaimed democrats — most likely an affront to Thucydides' family, Kagan says, who would have had a deep skepticism of democracy. In his history of the conflict between Athens and Sparta, Thucydides attempts to assign blame for Athens' eventual demise on those democratic leaders. "I think he tried the best he could to be objective," Kagan says, but Kagan's new book is an attempt to revise and even correct some of Thucydides' accounts. Kagan draws upon other sources to argue that, at times, Thucydides is selective in the way he uses direct quotations and reconstructs events. Thucydides' work remains required reading at the U.S. military academies, and Kagan says there's still good reason. "One of the wonderful things that his work does is to make it clear to us what is so little clear when most people get into war — and that is how terrible war is." Copyright NPR. View this article on npr.org. GUY RAZ, host: Now, about 400 years before Catullus was writing his burlesque poetry, a man named Thucydides was writing about war, the Peloponnesian War. For more than a quarter century, starting in 431 B.C., two ancient Greek powers, Sparta and Athens, faced off, sometimes directly, sometimes through proxies and allies, in a war that has long since become an allegory for modern conflict. The Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq, historians and students of Thucydides have all drawn comparisons. Now, Yale professor Donald Kagan has written a new book about the way Thucydides covered the conflict between Athens and Sparta. The book is called "Thucydides: The Reinvention of History," and Donald Kagan joins me from New Haven, Connecticut. Welcome. Professor DONALD KAGAN (Classics and History, Yale University; Author, "Thucydides: The Reinvention of History"): Thank you very much. RAZ: Describe for us who Thucydides was. Prof. KAGAN: Thucydides was an Athenian. He lived in a democracy, but he himself was a man of noble birth, an interesting fellow because his family tradition would have been skeptical of democracy, and yet, he was elected general in the course of the Peloponnesian War at a time when the democratic forces were rampant. RAZ: He was basically operating at a time when history meant you wrote about gods, but he was different. I mean, he saw himself, as he calls himself, an objective historian. I mean, he was operating in some ways closer to the way modern historians operate than his contemporaries, right? Prof. KAGAN: In a certain sense, he invented the modern understanding of history. Thucydides jumps in, rejects all supernatural explanations of anything and insists upon applying reason and hard-nosed, critical examination of the evidence as the only way to achieve an understanding. RAZ: What do you make of the, sort of the allegorical aspect to this book? I mean, the Cold War is this great example that people have pointed to, where the U.S. and Russia were aligned against the Nazis, Athens and Sparta aligned against the Persians, and then once that conflict is over, they then face off against each other. Prof. KAGAN: It is a remarkable thing. His history is so widespread source in so many college courses and so many different kinds of institutions. I think that the major reason is the stunning similarity between what you just describe and the experience of United States and the Soviet Union in the middle and the latter parts of the 20th century. RAZ: Donald Kagan, I don't think I need to announce a spoiler alert here, but in the end, Athens loses badly, the empire collapses. Prof. KAGAN: It's good to have somebody remember that. (Soundbite of laughter) RAZ: Do you think in some ways, Thucydides' book is an anti-war book? Prof. KAGAN: No, but he - one of the wonderful things that his work does is to make it clear to us what is so little clear when most people get into a war, and that is how terrible war is, what the cost is not merely in the lives of the dead but what it does to a society if a war carries on for any period of time and really stresses a society, as war does. It's one of those great tests, like a terrible plague, which in fact comes in the course of the Peloponnesian War, and puts the character of a society to test. So I would say in that sense, he wants us to be very realistic and to understand the negative possibilities of war, but I think he would not simply say one ought not to fight wars. RAZ: And Donald Kagan, many historians have pointed to a pivotal moment in the demise of ancient Athens, the decision to invade Sicily in 415 B.C. That ends in disaster. Athens loses something like 200 ships, thousands of men, and throughout history, people have pointed to that example, you know, when countries make certain political decisions that turn out badly. Most recently, of course, the parallels were made with the decision to invade Iraq. Do you think that's a fair comparison? Prof. KAGAN: Well, no because the really important part of that story was how that undertaking, which made sense, although it wasn't a required action, turned into a disaster. And it was turned into a disaster, in my opinion, not in the original concept but in the political fighting and, finally, in the execution. So - I guess maybe there is some analogy. It seems to me, when I look at the Iraq situation, there were good reasons to be fearful of allowing Saddam Hussein to return to power, but then there are very good reasons for condemning the execution of the war that was brought against him. RAZ: One of the most notable places where Thucydides' "Peloponnesian War" is required reading is at West Point. What does he teach us about the nature of modern war? Prof. KAGAN: Well, I think it teaches us the nature, something about the nature of war at all times. He has the Athenians show up at Sparta in the time that the Spartans are discussing whether to go to war against Athens, just before the war really begins, and they put forward this triad of explaining why do states go to war. And the three things that he mentions are fear, honor and interest. To my mind, the great wisdom that's contained in that is for us to concentrate on this question of honor, and I put it another way, especially in the modern world. The fear and hatred of being dishonored, the slang word to be dissed, is what we want to think about. Nobody wants to be dissed, and so often, people really go to war even though the interest element is highly dubious, the fear element is manageable, but their concern at being dishonored is what really drives them forward. But modern Americans, when I talk to them, start out being very puzzled by that idea. RAZ: Why so? Prof. KAGAN: The think honor is a concept of another world. It has nothing to do with us. We don't really believe in those things. And so I use the analogy of go to your neighborhood bar, and go dis somebody there and see what happens. RAZ: Not something we recommend on this program. (Soundbite of laughter) RAZ: Donald Kagan is the Sterling professor of Classics and History at Yale. His new book is called "Thucydides: The Reinvention of History." Professor Kagan, thank you so much. Prof. KAGAN: It's my pleasure. Thank you very much. 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When high winds sweep through our area, it is not unusual for electrical service to be interrupted, sometimes for days at a time. For more than eight years now, a Generac GP 6500 gas-powered portable generator has provided my family with a reliable and effective way of dealing with the challenges of occasional, short-term power outages. Nine years ago, my wife and I fled suburbia for a log home in the woods. There we provide most of our own utilities. We provide our own water with a well, our own sewage treatment with a septic tank, and our own heat with firewood. The one utility that we don’t usually provide for ourselves is electricity. For that we depend on the local power company. One night about six months after we had moved into our home, a powerful wind storm roared through our area. Our power went down. A midnight call to the power company’s automated report line revealed that the outage was widespread, and that our electricity was not expected to be restored for more than a week. Early the next morning, my wife and I arrived at a local hardware store soon after it opened. There we purchased a Generac GP 6500 gas-powered portable generator. This was a situation where the adage “panic early” paid off. Long before noon, all of the generators in the store were sold out. When buying a generator, the first key question is, “How large a generator should I buy?” If the generator is too small, it will not support the desired load. If the generator is too large, it will consume an excessive amount of fuel. A person could calculate the absolute maximum wattage that the breaker box in their home can handle by multiplying the amperage of the main breaker by the voltage of the main breaker. Or they could multiply the amperage of the breaker for each circuit in the box by the voltage of each of those breakers, and then add the wattage for each of the breakers together. Each of these solutions would result in a number that is much too high. If a person is not constantly tripping every one of the circuit breakers in their box, then they are not running all of their various circuits continuously at maximum capacity. A better way to calculate optimum generator size is for the person to work their way from room to room in their home, and make note of absolutely every electrical item that they would want to be able to run simultaneously while operating on generator power. For example, the person might note that in the kitchen they want to run the refrigerator, the electric stove, the microwave, and the light fixtures simultaneously. In the basement they might note that they want to run the freezer, the well pump, the furnace fan, and the ceiling lights simultaneously. Lists of the typical wattage requirements for each of these types of devices are available on the internet at sites like this one. They could also find wattage requirements by checking the documentation of each individual item. The person could then total up all of the devices that they wish to run simultaneously, multiply by two to allow for start-up wattage, and purchase an appropriately sized generator. I chose a third option: I rushed to the hardware store in a state of desperation, and made a wild guess. I chose the second largest generator in the store. This is not the best strategy for finding the optimum sized generator, but I got lucky. The generator we selected ended up being the perfect size for our use. The Generac GP 6500 provides 6,500 watts of running power and 8,000 watts of peak motor/compressor starting power. According to statistics provided by our power company, the usage of our home is unusually low when compared with other households in our area. This may suggest that other households in our area would need a larger generator than the one we selected. I wanted to be able to use the generator without running an extension cord through a window to a power strip and then multiple cords from the power strip throughout the house to each individual device that I wanted to run. I also did not want to use an illegal and highly dangerous “suicide cord” with plugs on both ends to run from the generator to the house system. Instead, I hired a professional electrician from our church to install a power inlet box on the outside of the house to connect with a cord from the 220-volt outlet on the generator. He then connected the inlet box to the main panel through a transfer switch that would not allow the generator and the main power line to be connected to the circuit box at the same time. This would prevent the generator from backfeeding current into the main power line, and possibly electrocuting a lineman from the power company who was working to restore the outage. When I want to bring the generator online, I first connect the power cord from the 220-volt outlet on the generator to the power inlet box on the side of the house. Next, I go down to the circuit box in the basement, and turn off each of the breakers. This is to prevent the generator from being overloaded by the simultaneous startup of every appliance in the house. When all of the breakers in the circuit box are off, I start the generator. I use the transfer switch to bring the circuit box online with the generator rather than with the grid. Next, I turn on each of the breakers for the circuits that I wish to use, one at a time. This increases the load on the generator gradually, rather than all at once. When electrical service from the power company is restored, it is a simple matter to switch back to the grid. I simply shut down and unplug the generator and turn the transfer switch back to the grid. At the time when we purchased our generator, only gasoline-powered generators were in stock. Since that time, dual fuel and even tri-fuel generators have become more widely available. For someone who lives in an area with access to natural gas utilities, natural gas could be a very convenient source of fuel. For others, propane can be much more convenient than gasoline. For those with access to all three, options can be a wonderful thing. We do not run the generator continuously when the power is out. We only run it for an hour or two each morning and an hour or two each evening. This keeps the food in the refrigerator cool, the food in the freezer frozen, provides us with hot and cold running water to get ready in the morning, allows us to flush the toilet a couple of times a day, and allows us to cook a hot meal for supper without breaking out the camping equipment. The rest of the time we are able to get along well with a wood stove, candles, and battery-powered devices. During a recent power outage, we ran the generator for a total of about eight hours over the course of three days. During that time, the generator consumed about five gallons of gasoline. The fuel tank on the generator holds about 6.5 gallons. Like most portable generators, the Generac GP 6500 is unpleasantly noisy. One of the reasons we only run the generator for an hour or two each morning and an hour or two each evening is to conserve fuel. The other reason is that we just get sick of the racket. We moved to a log home in the woods because we like peace and quiet. There is no peace and quiet as long as the generator is running. The very first time we used the generator, we placed it on our front porch. That was a mistake. The sound and vibration produced by the generator carried through the planks of the porch and into the frame of the house. We have found that if we place the generator instead on the concrete-paver-and-gravel sidewalk next to the house, less sound and vibration carry into the house. When the power outage is over, there are a number of steps I take to prepare the generator to return to storage. First, I siphon as much gasoline as possible out of the tank. I then restart the generator, and run it until the tank and fuel line go dry. This prevents gasoline from seeping into the carburetor, evaporating there, and leaving the carburetor dirty. It also prevents the gasoline in the tank from going bad, and making the generator harder to start, the next time I need it. Every time I have run the tank dry, the generator has started on the first pull of the starter cord the next time I needed it. The one time I left residual fuel in the tank, I had a difficult time starting the generator the next time I needed it. After the fuel tank is dry, I drain the oil from the engine, and then refill it with fresh oil. Used oil contains acids that may corrode the internal parts of the engine. I refill the oil pan with fresh oil so that it is ready for immediate use the next time that I need it. Finally, I cover the generator to protect it from dust, and place it under a wide shelf in my barn. There it sits, out of sight and out of mind until the next time the power goes down. The Generac GP 6500 portable generator provides reliable and effective electrical service to our home during occasional, short-term power outages of up to several days in length. It is not designed for permanent or long-term use. Within these design limits, it is an excellent solution for powering a home with moderate electrical demand during a short-term, grid-down situation.

I picture that throughout the fight, Frankenstein gives out heavy blows that seriously damaged Freddy’s suit, but Freddy keeps going, not caring that he has a hole through his stomach and is missing a arm. As well, Freddy would keep on disappearing into the shadows, hiding til the perfect time to strike. As for the music, I think it would sound like the classic universal soundtracks at the beginning, before going into some more FNaF type music. And at the end of the song, it would sound a bit somber, as I think this fight should end with a bittersweet ending

We have been living for too long in a society where criminals (multimillionaires and billionaires) speak about justice, using the same expressions that, actually, apply to them, which they have heard and read in addresses made to them. Stubbornly and with the least bit of shame, they will do anything just to win the fight against the truth. This is a time when criminals spare no effort to undermine any hope that the rule of law will be restored. It is crucial to kill the hope of the opponent. In this case, the opponent is hope that life can be better and of better quality and that justice and the law are possible. When someone wants to hinder justice, they always lay hands on the law first. Certainly, in an extremely manipulative manner. The application of law through its loopholes and shortcomings (usually created deliberately) serves criminals to avoid justice. When the law is not applied, or is applied with difficulty, or even selectively, the media and social networks are activated. On behalf of the criminals, the media and the trolls both sue and prosecute, and at the end, they are also the executioners. The main goal of criminals is to portray themselves as victims, and those prosecuting them, as criminals. From subtle to direct and vulgar, violent and militant, the attacks on justice are aimed at people, individuals and groups, with the purpose to undermine the institutions, to ruin their reputation, to provoke anger among people, to create an image that “they’re all the same”, in order to gradually build an image of a victim, and not of a criminal. That’s how Stalin, and before him also Hitler and Mussolini, successfully played victims before the public, to later commit unprecedented crimes against humanity. Slobodan Milosevik also ended his speech on Gazimestan (June 28, 1989) with the words: “Long live Yugoslavia! Long live peace and brotherhood among the people!”. His speech is often marked as the beginning of the bloody fall of the Yugoslavian Federation. Putin is also a “poor victim of the evil West”, although he never has explained why millions of young Russians dream of leaving for the countries of the evil, and no one from over there wishes to settle in Russia. Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian butcher, is also a “victim” of the attack by the Western imperialists, and his armed forces and police, together with the Russian armada, “have done nothing wrong” to the Syrian people. On the contrary, they’re all victims, and even innocent, honest and dedicated fighters for justice. And so are Mickoski and company “victims” of Zaev’s “junta” (description of his party when it was in power). Although it has been said countless times before, they act like they’re deaf and continue with the theft and replacement of thesis, in parallel with the rapid infiltration everywhere in the system and in the public. Listening and reading the hysterical attacks carried out by those fighting against justice, and at the same time, also against the Macedonian strategic interests, it can easily be noticed that literally every word has been stolen from reports and messages directed to them in the 11 years of rule of terror of the criminal Family. September 13: SPO “transported” to the PPO,... September 16: Mandates, prosecutions,...

Jimmy Keohane isn't unhappy that Cork City have missed out on the "glamour tie" that Celtic would have provided in Europe. Instead it's Rosenborg who will travel to Turner's Cross in the Europa League next Thursday, and Keohane said: "We've got to fancy our chances that we can possibly put it up to them. "The objective is to go as far as we can in Europe, and I suppose we'd have a better chance against Rosenborg." At home, the Leesiders bounced back from their Champions Cup loss to Legia Warsaw with victories over Derry City and Bray Wanderers, scoring eight goals and conceding just once in the process. A Munster derby against Waterford tonight could provide a sterner test as Cork seek to leapfrog Dundalk at the summit again. "It was vital to respond, especially coming back off the Champions League games, and put the pressure back on Dundalk," said the Kilkenny man. "Obviously going ahead of them, we have to keep doing that while they're still in Europe and so this is a very big game, in terms of going back on top. "Waterford have had a very good season so far. Obviously their first half of the season, they looked very strong. "I know they've had a few bad results of late, especially against Limerick last weekend, but I'm sure they'll be raring to go against us. "When you've got new faces in, it always takes a short while to adjust and to bed in to the new team but I'm sure they'll be ready to go". If you haven't already, be sure to like our Irish Mirror Sport and Irish Mirror GAA pages on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

By Associated Press | August 13, 2007 Magglio Ordonez was simply trying to get an opposite-field hit when he led off the second inning. By the time the inning was over, Ordonez had two homers and a place alongside Al Kaline in Detroit Tigers lore. Ordonez hit two homers in an eight-run second and Detroit beat the Oakland Athletics, 11-6, yesterday to win consecutive games for the second time since mid-July. "It's an honor to be the second one to do it in Detroit history. It's really nice," the soft-spoken slugger said. Ordonez also surpassed 100 RBIs for the second straight season, helping the inconsistent Tigers move back into first place in the AL Central by a half-game over slumping Cleveland. Detroit's Placido Polanco also had a big day, tying a major league record by playing his 143d consecutive game without an error at second base. Luis Castillo set the mark for second basemen from May 30, 2006, to June 5, 2007, with Minnesota. Rangers 9, Devil Rays 1 -- Michael Young hit his 100th career homer, Marlon Byrd had a two-run single, and Willie Eyre threw 3 2/3 scoreless innings of emergency relief to lead host Texas past Tampa Bay. Eyre (4-5) came in when rookie lefthander Kason Gabbard left the game with a stiff left forearm after throwing only one pitch in the second. The team said Gabbard was day to day, but the injury could be a concern because Gabbard has had four arm operations in the past. The Rangers got Gabbard from Boston in the July 31 trade for closer Eric Gagne. David Murphy, an outfielder who came with Gabbard from Boston, went 3 for 4 with three doubles, three runs, and an RBI. Astros 6, Brewers 4 -- Craig Biggio homered after he was honored by the Astros, and Lance Berkman hit a tiebreaking shot leading off the eighth inning to start a four-run rally that lifted host Houston over Milwaukee. Berkman's homer off reliever Carlos Villaneuva, was his 21st of the season. It came three innings after Biggio went deep. In a ceremony before the game, the Astros honored the 20-year veteran for reaching 3,000 hits earlier this year. Geoff Jenkins homered twice for the Brewers. The loss kept Milwaukee from earning its first road series sweep since June 29 to July 1, 2004, at Colorado. Phillies 5, Braves 3 -- Ryan Howard hit a three-run homer to back another solid outing from Jamie Moyer, leading host Philadelphia over Atlanta and into second in the NL East. Moyer (11-8) allowed three runs and seven hits in 6 1/3 innings to win his fourth straight decision. The Phillies remained three games behind the NL East-leading Mets, while Atlanta fell 3 1/2 back. Blue Jays 4, Royals 1 -- A.J. Burnett, fresh off the disabled list, gave up three hits pitching into the eighth inning as visiting Toronto beat Kansas City. Burnett (6-6), who's been twice sidelined by shoulder strains, limited the Royals to two singles and an Alex Gordon home run over 7 1/3 innings. He struck out five in his first outing since June 28, but lost the shutout when Gordon led off the eighth with his 10th home run. Rockies 6, Cubs 3 -- Troy Tulowitzki homered and also hit a go-ahead two-run double against Kerry Wood in the sixth to lead host Colorado past Chicago. Padres 10, Reds 4 -- Brian Giles hit two home runs for the second consecutive day and Jake Peavy remained unbeaten (5-0) against Cincinnati as visiting San Diego set a franchise record with nine doubles and 12 extra-base hits. Nationals 7, Diamondbacks 6 -- Jesus Flores hit a tying homer in the ninth and Felipe Lopez drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly as Washington rallied from a five-run deficit to beat host Arizona for the first time in seven tries this season. Mariners 6, White Sox 0 -- At Chicago, Jeff Weaver (4-10) pitched his second shutout of the season and Adrian Beltre hit a two-run homer to lead Seattle to its 11th win in 15 games and keep the Mariners atop the AL wild-card standings. Angels 6, Twins 2 -- Jered Weaver pitched effectively into the eighth inning and Los Angeles got home runs from Chone Figgins and Jeff Mathis to complete a three-game sweep at Minnesota. Pirates 5, Giants 0 -- Tom Gorzelanny allowed five hits in his first career shutout, and Pittsburgh beat Barry Zito to finish off its first road sweep since early April. Mets 10, Marlins 4 -- Moises Alou homered twice and drove in four runs, helping host New York beat Florida to avoid a three-game sweep. Cardinals 12, Dodgers 2 -- Anthony Reyes (2-11) won his second game of the season and Ryan Ludwick homered and drove in four runs, helping surging St. Louis beat Los Angeles and complete a 5-2 homestand.

Today was Austin Museum Day with free access to several museums across the city. Did you know that the Austin Toy Museum was a thing? I found it over in East Austin on Cesar Chavez Street. It is more of a warehouse than anything else, but they let you wander through and remember some of the toys you had as a kid. Pretty cool! Check it out if you find yourself in downtown Austin.

Currency and Banking Reform in 19th-Century Britain As banks — central and otherwise — falter and fail across the globe, it is increasingly obvious that the problems of monetary policy that we face run deeper than merely finding the correct adjustment to a Taylor rule. It is trite but nevertheless true to say that great monetary reforms are necessary. The purpose of this article is not to argue for particular policies, but to examine a particularly important historical example of how (and how not) to go about monetary policy and reform. In the mid-19th century, Britain witnessed a lengthy and heated debate over the limitations to the powers of the Bank of England. Britain had been plagued with economic upheaval during the period 1797–1821, when it had abandoned the gold standard for an inconvertible paper currency. In addition, Britain's return to a convertible currency in 1821 failed to prevent a financial crisis in 1825, a crisis that generated widespread interest in the problems of money and banking. Monetary reform was desperately needed and was discussed widely in practically all circles of society. Over time, two major groups emerged in this dispute that became known as the Currency School and the Banking School. The goal of both camps was to discover the optimal method of limiting (or not limiting) banking practices so as to encourage economic stability. Many treatments of the Currency-Banking dispute focus narrowly on the opinions of key players, neglecting to explain the broader debate and its ultimate relevance for economics. In fact, some treatments of the history of thought ignore the debate altogether. For example, Joseph Schumpeter called it an "ephemeral controversy" ( 1963, p. 725), whereas for economists like Mises and Rothbard, it is a defining moment in the history of economics. Rothbard takes special pains to weave a historical narrative to help explain this important period in economic history. While both sides of the dispute supported a currency convertible into specie, they differed on the question as to whether it was necessary to impose further restrictions on banks of issue, in addition to convertibility, in order to safeguard the banking system. The Currency School, represented by men such as J.R. McCulloch, George Norman, Samuel Loyd (Lord Overstone), and Colonel Robert Torrens, was largely critical of the policies of the Bank of England, and sought to impose limitations on its ability to increase the supply of bank notes. The Currency School saw, albeit incompletely, that the excessive issue of notes by the Bank of England and its subsidiaries was the cause of the business cycle, and, to a certain extent, Currency supporters anticipated the theory of the cycle that was developed by Mises. The Currency School sought then to impose restrictions on the ability of the Bank of England to issue excessive amounts of notes. The School was guided by what became known as the Currency principle, which stated that "note issues would be correctly regulated if they were made to fluctuate in volume exactly as a purely metallic currency would have done" (Daugherty 1942). Another way of putting it would be to say that "[t]here is always a danger of an over-issue of bank notes, which therefore should be strictly regulated — so regulated that the notes might become mere tokens for metallic money" (Wu 2007, p. 130). As a response to the actions of the Bank of England, the Currency School proposed a simple, yet powerful limitation on the bank: a 100-percent reserve requirement on the issue of new bank notes. The Currency principle was eventually victorious in the legislative realm. In 1844, the Bank Charter Act (commonly called Peel's Act after Sir Robert Peel, a prominent member of the Currency School) was passed. It split the Bank of England into two branches, one branch to issue notes, and the other to handle the deposit business of the bank. The act imposed what was essentially a 100-percent reserve requirement onto the note-issuing department. However, the Currency School based their reform policy on a serious theoretical error. The Currency School famously argued that, unlike bank notes, demand deposits were not money, and thus were of no importance as far as bank policy and financial crises were concerned. Consequently, Peel's Act completely avoided any regulation whatever of the deposit-banking branch of the Bank of England. The opposing school of thought, the Banking School (led principally by John Fullarton and Thomas Tooke), attacked this distinction between notes and deposits, arguing that both performed the same economic function. Despite being correct on this point, the conclusion of the Banking School was that neither notes nor deposits should be subject to any restriction other than convertibility into specie. Any additional restrictions would hamper the ability of the banks to expand credit to meet an increase in demands of business. The Banking position was summed up in a Banking principle, which states, "The amount of paper notes in circulation [is] adequately controlled by the ordinary processes of competitive banking, and if the requirement of convertibility was maintained, could not exceed the needs of business for any appreciable length of time" (Viner 1937, p. 223). Banks are therefore purely passive instruments, expanding and contracting the supply of credit to meet the "needs of business." In other words, banks could not excessively issue credit no matter how hard they tried, because any excess funds loaned out would simply be returned to the bank. As Mises and others pointed out, however, the demand for credit on the part of business is not independent of bank policy, but relies heavily upon it, especially through the interest rate. The money rate of interest can be reduced below the natural rate, thus artificially increasing the demand for credit. There is therefore no restriction on the extension of credit of the sort imagined by the Banking School. Following the passage of Peel's Act, the Bank of England, although abiding by the new restrictions on note issue, began a large-scale expansion of its deposit-banking activities. This credit expansion fueled a speculative bubble that caused a drain on the specie reserves of the bank, and resulted in severe panics in 1847. Eventually, the 100-percent reserve provision of Peel's Act was suspended so as to prop up the central bank and its subsidiaries, thus negating the whole point of having the restriction to begin with. The crisis of 1847 was a terrible blow to the Currency School's reputation. As Rothbard and Mises emphasized, however, it was not the central doctrines of the Currency School that were at fault but only the error regarding the distinction between notes and deposits. Nevertheless, the fact that the banking system failed so soon after the Currency reform made it appear as if the Currency principle itself were at fault and that restricting the central bank could only lead to economic disaster. Although their system was faulty (except regarding the error of the Currency School), the Banking School consequently triumphed in terms of influence. The Banking attack on the mistakes of the Currency School, coupled with the failure of Peel's Act to prevent financial crises, falsely legitimized many of the Banking School's doctrines. Economists such as Tooke and Fullarton provided much of the theory of money and banking that was adopted and developed by economists such as John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Rudolf Hilferding, and possibly even John Maynard Keynes. Thus its influence was felt in many economic traditions, while the Currency School's influence was relatively benign. Although the Currency School enjoyed the de jure success, de facto victory went to the Banking School. In the eyes of the public and of many economists, it appeared that governance by the Currency principle had been disastrous, and therefore limitations on the central bank had proven, at best, unimportant for mitigating crises, and, at worst, a serious obstacle to sound banking practices. Even though Peel's Act remained nominally in effect until the First World War (and exists in highly amended form even to this day), it was repeatedly suspended during periods of crisis, and any claims the Currency School made regarding the elimination of crises were largely discredited in the public eye. The Currency School's efforts were redeemed, however, when Mises published The Theory of Money and Credit in 1912. Here, Mises systematically corrected the Currency School's errors and expanded their theories, producing the consistent explanation of the business cycle that the Currency School lacked. For example, Mises noted that the Banking School had been correct in one regard: bank notes and demand deposits do perform the same economic function and thus should receive the same treatment from the perspective of monetary policy. By this time, however, monetary theory had begun to move in a different direction. The theories of economists such as Irving Fisher and John Maynard Keynes were on the rise in the early decades of the 20th century, and the older theories — and just as importantly, the questions they sought to answer — fell out of fashion. With the rise of Keynesian and Monetarist economics and their many variations, many of the problems that vexed the Currency School were assumed away. Instead of investigating the ability of banks to expand the supply of credit and the effects of such expansion, the idea of a central bank carefully steering the economy via monetary policy began to be taken as a matter of course. The valuable opportunity that was presented by the Currency-Banking dispute, the possibility for systematic monetary reform, was largely wasted. The failure of the Currency School highlights the importance of basing economic policy and reform on sound economic theory. Theoretical errors that might appear minor in certain contexts can exercise an enormous impact on monetary history. In our own lifetime though, events have presented us with a severe financial crisis, and for the first time in decades, popular concern is growing regarding the rationale of the current system, and the conventional wisdom on the subject of money and banking is being challenged. Let us hope that today we have learned enough from past errors to correctly approach monetary reform, and that we have the intellectual fortitude to pursue it, so that future generations will not look at this period of history as merely another wasted opportunity for necessary, radical change. We might divide the different camps of the dispute further, for example, into the Currency, Banking, and Free-Banking Schools (White 1984), or, following Smith (1990), into four groups: Currency School, pro- and anti- central bank, and Banking School, pro- and anti- central bank. These further distinctions, however, do not play a vital role in our discussion. The actual provision of Peel's Act stated that notes could be issued to a ceiling of £14,000,000, beyond which it was only allowed to issue notes on a 100-percent specie reserve basis. Daugherty, Marion R. 1942. "The Currency-Banking Controversy, Part I." Southern Economic Journal 9 (2): 140–55. Schumpeter, Joseph A. 1963. The History of Economic Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press. Smith, Vera C. 1990. The Rationale of Central Banking and the Free Banking Alternative. Indianapolis: Liberty Press. Viner, Jacob. 1937. Studies in the Theory of International Trade. New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers. White, Lawrence H. 1984. Free Banking in Britain: Theory, Experience, and Debate, 1800-1845. New York: Cambridge University Press. Wu, Chi-Yuen. 1939. An Outline of International Price Theories. Reprint, Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007.

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On Friday, November 2, 2018, Deputy Kevin Kraft located Lisha Marie Blakely on Gobar Road in Lucerne Valley. Blakely was arrested without incident for carjacking and a parole violation and booked at High Desert Detention Center. She is currently being held without bail on a parole hold. The Victor Valley Sheriff’s Station is asking for the public's assistance in locating Lisha Marie Blakely. Blakely is a 31-year-old transient known to frequent Lucerne Valley and Hesperia. The victim and Blakely met over social media and arranged a meeting. The victim picked Blakely up and drove her to the unincorporated area of Apple Valley. Blakely produced a handgun and made the victim exit the vehicle, then left the area in his vehicle. Deputies have located the vehicle but need the public’s assistance in locating the whereabouts of Blakely. Lisa Marie Blakely is a Hispanic female, 31 years-old, 4’11” tall, 160lbs, with brown hair and brown eyes. She has multiple tattoos, including a diamond on her upper left cheek. Blakely should be considered armed and dangerous, if you see her do not attempt to approach her, please contact law enforcement. Anyone with information regarding Blakely’s whereabouts is urged to contact Detective J. Grantham at Victor Valley Sheriff’s Station, (760) 552-6800. Persons wishing to remain anonymous can report information to WeTip by calling 1-800-78-CRIME, or by accessing the website at www.wetip.com.

- brother (n.) - Old English broþor, from Proto-Germanic *brothar (cognates: Old Norse broðir, Danish broder, Old Frisian brother, Dutch broeder, German Bruder, Gothic bróþar), from PIE root *bhrater (cognates: Sanskrit bhrátár-, Old Persian brata, Greek phratér, Latin frater, Old Irish brathir, Welsh brawd, Lithuanian broterelis, Old Prussian brati, Old Church Slavonic bratru, Czech bratr "brother"). A highly stable word across the Indo-European languages. In the few cases where other words provide the sense, it is where the cognate of brother had been applied widely to "member of a fraternity," or where there was need to distinguish "son of the same mother" and "son of the same father." E.g. Greek adelphos, probably originally an adjective with frater and meaning, specifically, "brother of the womb" or "brother by blood;" and Spanish hermano "brother," from Latin germanus "full brother." As a familiar term of address from one man to another, it is attested from 1912 in U.S. slang; the specific use among blacks is recorded from 1973.

From my point of view, psychosomatics deals with the central question: How do I experience and evaluate my life? The psychological and somatic aspects come together and comprehensively depict the human being. In this context, I am particularly interested in transdiagnostic approaches and the influence of personality-related factors on psychotherapeutic treatment.