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Kingfisher Systems, Inc. Names Rich Breeden Vice President for Cyber Solutions
FALLS CHURCH VA, September 1, 2013 — Kingfisher Systems, Inc., a Virginia based business specializing in providing National Security support to the U.S. Government, is pleased to announce the arrival of the newest member to their management team, Rich Breeden, as Vice President for Cyber Solutions. Rich Breeden will report directly to Roy Reed, Jr., President and Chief Operating Officer. Rich Breeden has well over a decade of experience in management, strategy, business growth, and a technical understanding of the cyber domain that complements our company's future strategy. His focus will include development of cyberspace solutions, computer forensics, hardware and software assurance, penetration, and security operations center operations.
Roy Reed stated, "We are excited to have Rich join our company and look forward to capitalizing on his experience and insight as we continue to grow in both the Federal and commercial markets. Several of our corporate officers have had the pleasure of working with Rich in the past and he has the talent and DNA that we need take Kingfisher to the next level and capitalize on expanding our market share."
Prior to join Kingfisher Systems, Rich Breeden held key management and technical positions in cybersecurity, counterintelligence, and threat mitigation. He served as Deputy, Mission Assurance Group at Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. and Senior Principal at CACI International, Inc. Previous roles include: Executive Director at ManTech Mission, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions; Senior Counterintelligence Analyst at Athena Innovative Solutions and ManTech Security & Mission Assurance; and Special Agent for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Rich Breeden earned a Bachelor's Degree in Intelligence Studies from American Military University and Master's Degree in National Security Studies from American Military University. He is nearing completion of a Doctorate in Strategic Security through Henley-Putnam University.

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Projects in Chicago and St. Louis Show How Technology Can Support Inclusion
One of the principles we lift up in our report is to "build with, not for" affected communities. For technology to deliver on the promise of increased inclusion, design and implementation need to be grounded in the needs and priorities of communities. To do this equitably requires actively engaging and listening to residents throughout the process.
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As Cities Embrace New Modes Of Transit, Gaps In Accessibility Remain
(Pittsburgh) — How we get from one place to another can have a big impact on our lives. Conjure up the feeling of sitting in a hot car, stuck in gridlock, and compare it to taking a short bike ride to work or to meet a friend. It may not seem like a big deal, but the difference between the…
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How Can Melbourne Be Made More Accessible?
How does Melbourne rate compared to other cities, and whose responsibility is it to bring it up to scratch when it comes to making it livable for everyone? Ever heard of the city of Breda in southern Netherlands? The tiny municipality of just over 180,000 people is one of the most accessible places in the world, winning the 2019 Access…
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Will New York City Become the Most Accessible City in the World?
Do you think New York City can be the most accessible city in the world? That's Victor Calise's goal. He's the Commissioner for the New York City Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, and Jay spoke with him about how his disability catapulted him into his professional journey. They discussed what accessibility on a broad scale means, and how his…
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To Make A More Accessible City, Turn To The Sidewalk
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Amsterdam, New York, Barcelona Launch Cities Coalition for Digital Rights
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On Wednesday, November 14, 2018 — Amsterdam, Barcelona and New York City formally launched the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, a joint initiative to promote and track progress in protecting residents' and visitors' digital rights. The Cities Coalition for Digital Rights builds upon five shared principles to create policies, tools and resources to promote and protect resident and visitor rights…
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Video: Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff at CityLab Detroit
Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff at CityLab Detroit Sidewalk Labs is building a prototype for the urban future on Toronto's Eastern Waterfront. This project asks us to re-think relationships between governments, the private sector, and residents. Dan Doctoroff, Founder and CEO, Sidewalk Labs joins Jennifer Bradley, The Aspen Institute at CityLab Detroit. Timed Transcript: Please see video option. Transcript: (Archived…
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Inside Melbourne's High-Tech Vision and Smart City
Take a walk down one of the trendy little laneways in the heart of Melbourne, flat white in hand, and imagine: What will the city look like in five years? "The thing that people love about Melbourne is Melbourne as a place and an experience", says Ben Rimmer, Chief Executive of the City of Melbourne. We are sitting in his…
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Helsinki Ranked Fifth Worldwide In Terms Of Smart City Governance
The top-10 was rounded out by Montreal (6th), Boston (7th), Melbourne (8th), Barcelona (9th) and Shanghai (10th). A total of 140 cities of all sizes from around the world were evaluated based on existing smart city rankings, news articles and online resources to measure their commitment to building a smart city. Each city was then given a score of one…
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London's Chief Digital Officer Talks The Smart City Transition
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The Top 10 Smart Cities Around the World
Highest Ranked Smart Cities of 2018-19 Eden Strategy Institute and OXD (ONG&ONG Experience Design) have come up with the top 50 smart cities of 2018-19. According to Eden Strategy Institute, this is one-of-its-kind independent ranking conducted for the first time that takes into consideration the roles that city governments play in leading a smart city strategy. The research studied…
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What Does "Smart city" Mean?
Learn, adapt and innovate and thereby respond more effectively and promptly to changing circumstances by improving the intelligence of the city. They evolve towards a strong integration of all dimensions of human intelligence, collective intelligence, and also artificial intelligence within the city. The intelligence of cities "resides in the increasingly effective combination of digital telecommunication networks (the nerves), ubiquitously embedded…
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Seattle Rolls Out New Community Engagement Framework – News | Planetizen
Seattle wants to make it easier for residents to learn about developers' plans in their area. "Often in the design process," Stephen Fesler writes, "developments move to local design review boards where the proposals are seen for the first time and are well set in their direction having had little or no community feedback." A new set of guidelines, in effect starting…
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What Makes Singapore A Smart Nation And The Smartest City In The World?
Why is Singapore the smartest city in the world? Posted by Celine Delacharlerie | J, Jun, 2018 | Academic, Accelerators & Incubators, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Government, Open Innovation, Sharing Economy, Smart City, South-East Asia (Singapore, Indonesia…), Startups | | Singapore's status as a Smart Nation is internationally recognised. The city-state ranks first in the Global city performance index 2017. …
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Toronto Conference Live Streaming: How To Make Cities Both Smart And Inclusive
Cities around the world are looking for smart solutions to urban problems and are embracing technology to help them do so. At the same time, the gap between rich and poor in urban centres is growing – driving low income residents farther away from city centres. An upcoming conference held at the University of Toronto's downtown campus is exploring how…
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How Columbus is Accomplishing its Smart City Vision
At the end of 2015, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) launched a Smart City Challenge in which U.S. cities could submit proposals for funding to develop smart transportation systems that leveraged data and technology to improve urban mobility. In August 2016, nearly 80 applications and seven finalists later, the City of Columbus, OH secured a $40 million grant from…
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Inside Google's Plan To Build A Smart City Neighborhood In Toronto
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Citizen Engagement: Join or Watch Sidewalk Toronto Smart City Public Roundtable
The only way to make the neighborhood of the future a more sustainable, livable, and equitable place is by hearing from Torontonians of all backgrounds and perspectives. That's why we couldn't be more excited that more than 1,000 people have said they'll attend the first Sidewalk Toronto public roundtable next Tuesday, March 20. To help us hear from everyone, we've…
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Smart City London and Partners: Mayor Calls for Closer Ties With San Francisco
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Mayor Asks Londoners to Inform Smart City Planning
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"Summer Novel," a poem in Coachella Review Summer 2020
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Done, stand in the woods pages behind you insects screaming like nothing has happened.
(A bottle slips from your hand Beer into peat, the trees in German beer gardens relish their hops. leaves grow dense and shady)
It feels like a book, thumbs scrolling through time as if the screen is liquid, and the characters are impossibly relatable.
(Pour the whole bottle out into the ground. No need for the blurring.)
Behind you the house is lit, chapters snapping like magna tiles, slices of yellow and orange, warm the rooms, plexiglass attachments, coming together with relief.
(Leave the bottle there It's degradable, and your own yard. An awning of delectable shade will shelter you. Sand will return and all the pages too will vanish.)
Hand on the knob, return to the living more and less human. The children are sleeping, you haven't said goodnight.
Thea Goodman is the author of a novel, THE SUNSHINE WHEN SHE'S GONE (Henry Holt and Co. 2013.) Her fiction, essays and poetry have appeared in this journal, The Rumpus, The New England Review and other venues and have been awarded a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and The Columbia Fiction Award. She's at work on a new novel and poems and periodically teaches writing at The University of Chicago.
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The First Beta Weekend Event Begins August 7!
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Learn more about what we'll be testing in the first Beta Weekend Event for Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns.
by Colin Johanson on July 31, 2015
"I'm excited to announce our first Beta Weekend Event will be taking place starting at noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) on Friday, August 7, and running until noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) on Monday, August 10.These beta weekend events are an exciting opportunity for you, the player, to help shape the development process and the experience you'll have when Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns™ is completed. These are real beta tests, and you have the real opportunity to help shape the expansion with your feedback.
We're not going to show everything in the expansion in beta weekends; we want to keep a strong sense of discovery and not spoil huge parts of the story ahead of time. We're going to test enough to help us broadly understand how everything works and also apply those lessons to the parts of the game we won't be showing during beta weekends. For example, we'll only ever be showing the first story chapter and parts of the first map of the expansion during beta weekends to ensure that an entire world of discovery and excitement awaits you on launch day when you venture deeper into the jungle. After all, Guild Wars 2 is the game where the journey is the goal!
Players who have pre-purchased the expansion will see a new button appear on the character creation screen that allows them to create and play a fully geared, level-80 beta character of any race for the duration of the weekend.
Players who have pre-purchased may use their beta-character slots to try our new profession, the revenant, with all five full trait lines and all four core legends, including Shiro. You'll also be able to play with our new system that grows your character professions into new elite specializations—you'll be able to try out the chronomancer, dragonhunter, reaper, and tempest.
Beta characters will begin by playing through a brief shared battle in the Silverwastes that leads into the expansion jungle region, followed by the intro story step of the expansion. From there, they will land in Verdant Brink, the first map of the expansion, where about 25 percent of the total playable space of that first map will be available to play. You'll be able to train your Masteries in the jungle region as you play through the story and event content available in Verdant Brink.
Not only will you be able to take your characters to the jungle, you can take them into the existing game world as well! PvE, PvP, or WvW—feel free to try out the new profession or elite specializations on the live game with all your friends and guildies. To go along with this, we'll be turning on our map bonus reward system for beta characters only, helping players get a feel for how we'll keep the core game world relevant and rewarding with the release of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns.
We'll also turn on our new Stronghold PvP game mode for all players for the duration of the weekend, along with the new Mist Champion selection system. Players who pre-purchase Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns will have all currently revealed Mist Champions automatically unlocked for their use throughout the weekend.
Progress earned by beta characters over the course of the weekend will be preserved between BWE1 and BWE2 so that you can continue testing where you left off.
So what kind of feedback are we looking for? We want your thoughts on how fun it is to play as our new profession as well as the elite specializations. Do the elite specializations feel like they are creating an entirely new role for your main profession?
The jungle content is predominantly the same content we showed to a small audience in closed beta testing earlier this year, but it's more polished. We've done a lot of work to balance creature difficulty, and we'll be looking for your thoughts on the overall experience. Do you feel the need to use your entire skill bar in battles? Does teaming up with other players feel more rewarding? Do you find yourself wanting to change your skills and traits to overcome encounters? Warning—creatures will be more challenging than in the existing Guild Wars 2 world. (Note: This is not what we meant when we said "challenging group content" at the expansion's announcement—we'll announce the details of that in the future.)
You'll also find that as daytime outpost events are completed in Verdant Brink, Adventures with fully functional leaderboards and rewards will be unlocked for play. We're looking for comments on how well Adventures help accomplish the goals we set out for them here. And finally, we've done a lot of work since the closed beta test to continue progressing the nighttime meta-event within the jungle-floor-biome experience. Does night feel different from the daytime? Does it change the way you play while night is active? Is the nighttime meta-event experience that we've shown so far engaging and fun?
We're also looking for feedback on what it's like to progress and earn Masteries over the course of multiple days of gameplay in the jungle, as well as how it feels to use those Mastery abilities in the area provided. Does the Mastery system feel like a system that works to provide meaningful progression? Does it make you care about experience and Mastery points? Does it provide a framework that you think we could regularly add to in live updates?
We also want your take on how well the map reward system communicates rewards. Does it improve the experience of gathering materials if you're working on building items that require specific crafting materials that previously had no clear place to earn them? Does it feel like it will help keep the core world we've built today still a place you'll want to return to and play in, and do you feel rewarded for doing so?
Finally, we'll also be looking for feedback on the changes we've made to Stronghold and the revenant since our last testing event, including the addition of weapon swap on the revenant profession and the new additional messaging for key events in Stronghold.
Beta weekend events are a large milestone in the development of our expansion, and we can't wait to play the game with you over the weekend and to continue down the path that brings Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns to release!
While playing this weekend, don't forget to tune in Saturday at 10:00 a.m. CEST (1:00 a.m. Pacific Time) to our WTS Championship event, live from the show floor at gamescom. The four top PvP teams from around the world will compete for bragging rights and $50,000 in prizes. We'll also be announcing the details of one of our Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns features during the course of the tournament live on stream – you won't want to miss it! You can catch the broadcast live on the official Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel, or catch up with a recording on the official YouTube channel after the match.
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Pailín (, Krong Pailin) es un municipio (krong) en el centro de la provincia de Pailín en el noroeste de Camboya. El municipio se subdivide en 4 sangkats (cuartos) y 36 phums (pueblos). Según el censo 1998/2008 de Camboya, la ciudad de 575 km² tenía una población de 15 800 y 36 354 respectivamente.

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Outside of possibly Woody Allen, it's difficult to find more prolific filmmakers than Joel and Ethan Coen. Their latest film, A Serious Man, is the seventh they've shot and released this decade. However, with this film, they have chosen to eschew working with any of the Hollywood A-listers (George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks, et al.) who have been populating their work ever since the two finally gained critical and commercial success with Fargo back in 1996. Instead, the weight of this film is being carried by the up-and-coming actor Michael Stuhlbarg, who plays a Midwestern college professor whose life begins unraveling when his wife asks for a divorce and his university refuses to grant him tenure. Unlike almost every other trailer being released these days, this brilliantly cut piece focuses its energy on establishing mood rather than spoiling plot points. After the sloppy and oftentimes incoherent mess that was Burn After Reading, this project certainly looks to be a return to form for the Coen Brothers.


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Dr. Chu received her PhD degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with specialties in tropical medicine and medical microbiology. Dr. Chu's public health career was with the CDC where she served in multiple roles including being the Director of the CDC's system-wide laboratory enterprise. After leaving CDC, she returned to Colorado and now holds a clinical professor appointment at the Colorado School of Public Health. Concurrently, she works as senior technical consultant for USAID and WHO. Among her multiple roles for CDC, Dr. Chu was assigned to the WHO participating in the Global Outbreak and Response team, deploying for multiple outbreak responses to SARS, viral hemorrhagic fevers, pandemic influenza and natural disasters. She also led the biosafety and laboratory network activities for the WHO International Health Regulations team. She was assigned as the assistant director for public health to the White House during 2014-2015 where she was an integral part of the President's Ebola Task Force and coordinated the national reform on the Select Agent Rule. Currently, she is working with UNICEF/USAID on the delivery of Zika virus point of care diagnostics and with WHO on improving protection for healthcare workers fighting high threat pathogens (Ebola, influenza and respiratory diseases). Since February 12, 2020, Dr. Chu has joined the WHO experts group for infection control and prevention for the COVID-19 epidemic.
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AMD is grabbing mobile big time. Susquehanna is misinformed or misinforming. AMD's presence in the Laptop market has never been stronger. There are now many premium consumer and commercial laptop designs from HP, Dell and Lenovo. Just search for RyZEN on their websites. On HP.com alone, you find the following AMD RyZEN notebooks: HP EliteBook 735 (13.3"), HP EliteBook 745, EliteBook 755, HP ProBook 645, HP Envy x360 15 (15.6"), HP Envy x360 13 (13.3").... Dell has a slew of 13, 15, 17 notebooks powered by AMD RyZEN . Lenovo has the 2.5 lb 720s with RyZEN and is launching more. We have never seen AMD with such strong presence in the premium highend notebook space. AMD was previously only in the lowest end. Notebook is more than half of client computing. AMD will make much bigger profit in this sector.


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The Enigma Machine: How Alan Turing Helped Break the Unbreakable Nazi Code
in History, Math | January 17th, 2013 36 Comments
In 2001, none other than Sir Mick Jagger bought the rights to a novel by Robert Harris called Enigma. The novel, a fictionalized account of WWII British codebreakers, then became a feature film, written by Tom Stoppard, produced by Sir Mick, and starring Mr. Dougray Scott and Ms. Kate Winslett as derring-do Bletchley Park mathematicians and cryptanalysts employed in a race against time and the Nazis to break the fabled Enigma code before all hell breaks loose. It all sounds very dramatic (and I've heard the film is entertaining), but things didn't happen quite like that. Reality is never so formulaic or so good-looking. But the Enigma code was broken, and the story of the code machine and its eventual decryption is fascinating on its own terms. As University of Cambridge "Enigma Project Officer" Dr. James Grime says–in the series of videos above and below–it's a story of "how mathematicians can save lives." Still with me?
Okay, so in the first video above, Dr. Grime gives us a thorough tour of the Enigma machine (Sir Mick owns one, by the way… but back to the history…). Developed by the Germans, it's a marvelous encryption method set into a small box that when opened resembles little more than a fancy WWII-era typewriter. Oh, but it's clever, you see, because the Enigma machine (the one above belongs to science writer Simon Singh) translates ordinary messages into code through an ingenious method by which no letter in the code ever repeats, making it almost impossible to decode in the ordinary ways. The machine was quite complicated for its time; it works by sending the characters typed by the keys through a series of circuits—first through three rotors like those on a combination bike lock, but each with 26 places instead of ten.
Now at this point, the machine was nothing more than what was available to any bank or business wishing to transmit trade secrets. But the German military machines had an extra layer of encoding: at the front of their machines was a "plugboard," something like a small switchboard. This allowed the coding coming through the rotors to be resequenced for an extra level of scrambling. In the German military machines, the total number of possible combinations for message encryptions comes to a staggering figure in the quadrillions. (The exact number? 158,962,555,217,826,360,000). There's a little more to the machine than that, but Dr. Grime can explain it much better than I.
Of course, the Enigma Machine had to have a fatal flaw. Otherwise, no novel, no movie, no drama (and maybe no victory?). What was it, you ask? Amazingly, as you will learn above, the very thing that made the Enigma nearly impossible to break, its ability to encode messages without ever repeating a letter, also made the code decipherable. But first, Alan Turing had to step in. Sadly, Turing is missing from Enigma the film. (More sadly, he was disgraced by the country he served, which put him on trial for his sexuality and humiliated him to the point of suicide). But as Grime shows above, Turing is one of the real heroes of the Enigma code story. Cryptanalysts initially discovered that they could decipher ordinary words and phrases (like "Heil Hitler") in the Enigma messages by matching them up with strings of random letters that never repeated.
But this was not enough. In order for the Enigma code to work for the Germans, each operator—sender and receiver—had to have exactly the same settings on their rotors and plugboards. (The messages were transmitted over radio via Morse code). Each month had its own settings, printed on code sheets in soluble ink that easily dissolved in water. If the Allied codebreakers deciphered the settings, their decryption would be useless weeks later. Furthermore, the German navy had a more complicated method of encoding than either the army or air force. The Polish had developed a machine called the Bombe, which could decipher army and air force codes, but not navy. What Turing did, along with Gordon Welchman, was develop his own version of the Bombe machine, which allowed him to break any version of the Enigma code in under 20 minutes since it bypassed most of the tedious guesswork and trial and error involved in earlier by-hand methods.
This is all very dramatic stuff, and we haven't had one celebrity step in to dress it up. While I'm certain that Enigma the film is a treat, I'm grateful to Dr. Grime for his engagement with the actual codebreaking methods and real personalities involved.
A third video of extra footage and outtakes is available here if you're still hungry for more WWII codebreaking secrets.
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It was Poles who cracked Enigma, learn some history here:
"In December 1932, the Polish Cipher Bureau first broke Germany's military Enigma ciphers. Five weeks before the outbreak of World War II, on 25 July 1939, in Warsaw, they presented their Enigma-decryption techniques and equipment to French and British military intelligence."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine
As far as I know Polish scientists cracked Enigma. :)
Ning says:
Maybe actually watch the videos ???
He says the polish cracked the army and airforce enigma machines – but not the naval ones.
so if we are going to quote wikipedia – maybe use the right article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma
"Alan Turing, a Cambridge University mathematician and logician, provided much of the original thinking that led to the design of the cryptanalytical Bombe machines (an improvement of the Polish Bomba), and the eventual breaking of naval Enigma."
Właśnie, koledzy, obejrzyjcie najpierw filmy :)
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I wrote a small book about the breaking of the enigma code, if someone wants to know more about this topic:
http://www.bletchleypark.at
(ebook, pdf and audiobook are free!)
It was Poles who cracked Enigma!!! British liers!
f0ak says:
Może najpierw przeczytajcie artykuł, a nie robicie naszemu krajowi wstyd, potem się dziwicie, że reszta świata ma nas za idiotów. Tutaj cytat:
"The Polish had developed a machine called the Bombe, which could decipher army and air force codes, but not navy."
Pawel says:
Please don't mind comments made by some, who had been brought here because of false information posted on another website. Sadly they care not to read actual article, thus lacking basic knowledge and understanding.
To everyone who says that the Poles cracked the code.
The Polish did crack a type of the Engima Code, but, it was at the start of the war. Even before that. The Germans learned of them breaking the code. So, they changed it. So in fact, both the British and the Polish cracked the enigma code.
Dr. Miller at the NSA says the number of combinations was much bigger than the number stated in this article (3 X 10^114). Also, Mariam Rejewski (Polish mathematician) broke the first versions of enigma. Believe it or not, the Germans kept changing the machines to make it more difficult to crack. Both the Poles and the Brits put some great efforts in cracking enigma. Unfortunately, the Brits get most of the credit since the last bombes were made by them and they could crack all enigma codes.
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Karenji Ramsuer says:
I think everyone interested in cryptology must see the "mind of code breakers " to understand in detail the impact of the ENIGMA machine
Beautiful machine,
As far as I know the Enigma machine is stronger than current Credit Card, because in Enigma machine occur more possibility to encryption than in CC.
PS. Great article about Enigma, I was finding some article about this machine everywhere, and I think that this article is one of the best!
Amanda Barr says:
My grandfather, Alexander Barr, was also very involved in the work with enigma, I believe he was on the decoding team. Can anyone give me any details?
Wonderful videos about breaking the Enigma code. Dr. Grime makes a complicated subject accessible and exciting.
XZSY YIML XCVT DAFQ SHGB.
Kaitain says:
It's a bit of tired trope to claim that "the Poles cracked Enigma". They cracked an earlier, much easier version of Enigma. The one used by the Kriegsmarine during the war had a state space that was orders of magnitude larger. All the breakthroughs at Bletchley Park were specifically to address this vastly larger state space. This required both new computing machines and the invention of ingenious new heuristics for reducing the size of the state space.
The Polish work was just the starting point for ULTRA. By their own admission, the Poles did not have the resources to solve the later incarnations of Enigma.
I understood that partial knowledge of the encryption potential result is used to find the machine settings for the day. Is this a deductive or inductive process? Dr. Grime states that it is deductive.
The article states "its ability to encode messages without ever repeating a letter"… this is a complete misunderstanding of the functionality.
The machine was built in a way so that a letter could never be encoded as itself. That was the flaw… it allowed cribbing of common words like Heil Hitler to rule out the impossible decryptions that had letters encoded as themselves.
Perhaps read a book before you write an article.
Yes, but the German military invented their own version of the enigma machine. Alan Turing also developed a machine that could decipher the code in under 20 minutes, which helped the British enormously when the Germans changed the settings everyday towards the end of the war.
Thank you for these two fascinating videos! Especially loved the calculations as to how they derived the 159 quintillion (or a little less) possible combinations.
Sneha Anthony says:
This information really helped my research project. It's very interesting how Turing contributed to the war. I think it's amazing idea and I'm glad I got to learn about it.
There is a different between an "improvement" and a new invention. What Turing did was an improvement. The Polish already made machines that can crack the Enigma code. What the navy uses is just a little different from the army and air forces. It's unfair to give Turing too much credit because he got too much inspiration from others.
They did but the British made a much more advanced and quicker way to break it.
Interesting article. The English did a great job at overcoming the German Enigma machine. The Polish did a great job at overcoming the German Enigma machine too. Each country did what they needed to do without regard to credit. The entire world dynamic was at stake during WWII. We can all hope history does not repeat itself, but alas we have already forgotten the horrors of war. The middle east is ablaze and everyone has their hands on the "fire" button.
Stay thristy my friends!
The people at Bletchley Park recognise the fact that the Poles broke Enigma using mathematicians. They emphasise the point that they showed the way forward to breaking the Engima and Lorentz codes. Without the Poles, the British may have not had the head start they did.
Don't think it really matters who did what – the result is the same
What is more interesting is what happened to Rejewski – you would have thought the British might have made more use of him when he arrived in England – but he was given some minor code breaking role.
Mike Kinsman says:
Watch the movie "The Imitation Game". It's not tittled Enigma as suggested in this article.
Mike Marks says:
Why does the article say the movie is titled Enigma, when the real title of the movie ablut Enigma is The Imitation Game. I watched it this weekend.
MemphisBelle says:
Anyone out there admire the late Meredith Knox Gardner as much as I do? A cryptological hero like none other.
Gustav Vogels says:
A interesting article. I'm german and I adore Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman. For a period of more than two years I constructed a Electronic Turing-Welchman-Bombe. In a presentation on YOUTUBE with the title "Turing Welchman Bombe Electronic Bombe" I explain step by step the whole decryption procedure. If you don't speak german, let YOUTUBE translate it and look at the subtitle.
A lot of greetings from germany.
Gustav Vogels
Enigma (2001)
The Imitation Game (2014)
tyler shellabarger says:
usa and britain are good allies,


Our interview by new media news site GOAT went viral. #IntellectualProperty was trending as broader issues of design theft hit the millennial readership with some basic facts about Australia's lax IP protection for furniture and lighting.
Hot off the back of the original design by Miss Glass Home being knocked-off by Aldi - new media platform GOAT picked up the ball with one simple fact most creatives aren't aware of. If you post your design online prior to applying to design register the product with IP Australia - designs that appear in the public domain (including social media) can not be registered!
The UK and EU extend 1-2 years automatic protection to designs prior to design registration. Known as a 1 or 2 year 'Grace Period' - the time frame allows designers to refine design by seeking customer and industry feedback prior to launching the final design. Feedback typically comes from exhibiting prototypes at trade fairs, getting media exposure (print & online) and of course, via social media.
Unlike protected territories - Australia has no Grace Period. So if it's on Instagram first, forget applying for design registration!
The transcript below from GOAT - the millennial friendly 'mobile only' news site (*desktop reading possible via scrolling the iPhone icon).
Musos, writers and artists have their work covered by copyright. For designers, however, it's complicated.
There were twenty minutes in 2016, where I had invented something amazing.
Something strong, something useful, something that was going to change the world, something that I learned… after giving it a quick Google… had already been invented.
That was the end of my career as a designer. I didn't even get past the initial concept stage.
However, after reading a recent Facebook post from Miss Glass Home, I think that's as far as I'll ever get as a designer. As it seems that – especially in Australia – the big retailers are too quick to pinch from the little guys.
Miss Glass (AKA: furniture designer, Siobhan Glass) crafts ethical products, including stunning clothes airers and towel racks, in her studio in Melbourne.
Back in September last year, Siobhan was lucky enough to have one of her airers appear in an Aldi catalogue, where it was used to better display Aldi's range of discount towels.
Glass loaned the airer to Aldi for their shoot, as this was a huge break for a small designer. Aldi's catalogues have a national readership and Aldi Australia's Facebook page has over 500,000 likes. So, this looked like a massive break for the Miss Glass airer.
I'm happy to report that it worked, and people everywhere loved the design and began commenting on the Aldi Australia Facebook page, asking about buying the airer.
Sadly, however, they wouldn't buy it from Miss Glass.
As you can see in the above post, Miss Glass' ethical, locally produced, $329 piece of furniture had been replicated by Aldi, and re-sold for next-to-nothing.
Sadly, Glass hadn't registered the design with I.P Australia, and – as she's posted pictures of it to the company's Instagram account – she wasn't able to register the design anyway.
In short: if you chuck your design on Insta – you can't register it with IP Australia.
Speaking to Anne-Maree Sargeant at the Authentic Design Alliance, Anne-Maree told GOAT that this isn't the first time a new designer has had their products copied by a large chain, and the numbers are growing, as more craftspeople begin using the internet to sell their products.
Basically, if other people can see your design before it's registered, then big chains are free to "replicate" your product. Sargeant explained to us that while there are some pretty strong protections for fashion and graphic designers, "when it comes to furniture designers, lighting designers or designer-makers, they're open to knock-offs and counterfeits – even on home turf!
So, after seeing what this market has done to our farmers and growers, I hope that something changes for our makers and designers.
If not: we may not have a maker community for much longer.


Looking at context, language and form, Carol Atherton provides a close analysis of the Witches in Act 1, Scene 3 of Macbeth.
THIRD WITCH A drum, a drum!
At the start of Act 1, Scene 3 of Macbeth, we see the Witches preparing for their first encounter with Macbeth. The First Witch tells her companions that she has been insulted by a sailor's wife who refused to give her some of the chestnuts that she was eating ('"Give me!" quoth I. / "Aroint thee, witch!" the rump-fed ronyon cries' (1.3.5–6)). The First Witch says that she will take revenge by punishing the woman's husband, describing in detail what 'I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do' (1.1.10) to him: she will deprive him of sleep ('Sleep shall neither night nor day / Hang upon his penthouse lid' (1.3.19–20)) and ensure that his ship is tossed by the waves ('tempest-toss'd' (1.3.25)) and unable to find safe harbour. The passage ends with the Witches chanting a spell as they prepare to meet Macbeth, repeating a movement three times in the direction of each Witch in order to consolidate their power.
The witches with Macbeth in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Macbeth performed at the Barbican Theatre, London.
How does Shakespeare present the Witches here?
Shakespeare wrote Macbeth at a time when interest in witchcraft bordered on hysteria. Witches were blamed for causing illness, death and disaster, and were thought to punish their enemies by giving them nightmares, making their crops fail and their animals sicken. Witches were thought to allow the Devil to suckle from them in the form of an animal, such as 'Graymalkin' and 'Paddock', the grey cat and the toad mentioned by the Witches in Act 1, Scene 1. Those who were convicted were often tortured, their trials reported in grisly detail in pamphlets that circulated in their hundreds. Often, those accused of witchcraft lived on the edges of society: they were old, poor and unprotected, and were therefore easy to blame.
King James VI of Scotland was deeply concerned about the threat posed by witches. He believed that a group of witches had tried to kill him by drowning him while he was at sea (a curse echoed here by the First Witch). During his reign thousands of people in Scotland were put on trial for witchcraft. In 1604, under his rule as king of England and Wales, witchcraft was made a capital offence, meaning that anyone who was found guilty of being a witch could be executed. When Shakespeare wrote Macbeth in 1606, then, he knew that his audience would have felt a mixture of fear and fascination for the three 'weird sisters', their imaginations captivated by the mysterious meeting on the desolate heath with which the play begins.
Shakespeare's portrayal of the Witches in Act 1, Scene 3 draws directly on many of the beliefs about witchcraft that his audience would have held. They harm animals (as when the Second Witch reports, matter-of-factly, that she has been 'killing swine' (1.3.2)). Their power over the elements means that they can control the winds, raise storms and sail in sieves. They use gruesome ingredients such as body parts (the 'pilot's thumb' (1.3.28)) in their spells. They are also deeply vindictive. The First Witch vows to make the sailor suffer simply because his wife refuses to give in to her gluttonous demand. Her reaction is shockingly, disproportionately cruel: she vows to drain the life out of him until he is 'dry as hay' (1.3.18) and curses him with a tortuous inability to sleep, declaring 'He shall live a man forbid' (1.3.21) and that he shall 'dwindle, peak and pine' (1.3.23). This is a clear example of the crime known in Shakespeare's day as 'mischief following anger', a punishment inflicted as a result of some kind of grievance. Shakespeare uses this passage, then, to demonstrate the Witches' vindictive nature, leaving the audience in no doubt as to their connection with the powers of evil.
This engraving by J Caldwell of Henry Fuseli's painting shows the witches appearing to Macbeth and Banquo from within a storm.
These heavy stresses give the Witches' speech a sense of foreboding that emphasises their malevolence and unearthliness. In the First Witch's lines, they make her vendetta against the sailor seem relentless. At the end of this passage, when the Witches chant in unison, they bring a sense of eeriness.
FIRST WITCH	Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
Nine, meanwhile, is a multiple of three: therefore, 'nine' and 'nine times nine' multiplies and reinforces the power of the number three. Is Shakespeare suggesting that the Witches are a kind of unholy trinity? It's an obvious conclusion.
How does this scene fit into Macbeth as a whole?
This is the second time that we've met the Witches, and the second time that they've mentioned Macbeth, building a sense of anticipation for their forthcoming encounter. In Act 1, Scene 2, Macbeth is presented as a loyal warrior, a hero who fights valiantly on the battlefield to defend his country against invasion and treachery. Yet the association between Macbeth and the Witches introduces a different side to his character. The battle referred to by the Second Witch in Act 1, Scene 1 could be interpreted as not just a literal battle (the conflict raging between Scotland and Norway) but also a metaphorical battle: the battle for Macbeth's soul. It's significant, therefore, that Macbeth's first words to the Witches – 'So foul and fair a day I have not seen' (1.3.38) – echo the Witches' chant, 'Fair is foul, and foul is fair', from Act 1, Scene 1 (l. 11). Banquo soon echoes the Witches, too, asking Macbeth, 'Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear / Things that do sound so fair?' (1.3.51–52). This allusion is loaded with dramatic irony: while Banquo perceives the Witches' prophecies as 'fair', the audience is already aware things are not necessarily what they seem. Banquo introduces an element of doubt, too, by framing his observation within a question. The Witches' paradox – which indicates that appearances can be deceiving – is central to the play and reverberates through the major characters. Take Lady Macbeth, for example: 'look like th' innocent flower, / But be the serpent under't' (1.5.65–66).
When Macbeth and Banquo meet the Witches, their reactions give us an important insight into their personalities. Banquo is unafraid, but Macbeth 'start[s]' (1.3.51), or flinches, and 'seems rapt' (1.3.57), so mystified by their greeting that he is rendered speechless. Once he has regained his composure, he challenges the Witches to tell him more. They vanish, but it is not long before Macbeth finds that he is to become Thane of Cawdor – a 'truth' that immediately sets him wondering how the Witches' final prophecy will come about, and losing himself in the 'horrible imaginings' (1.3.138) that will eventually lead to the murder of King Duncan. Later in the play, it is Macbeth who seeks out the Witches, cementing his willingness to give himself over to the 'instruments of darkness' (1.3.124).
How have the Witches been interpreted?
It is Banquo who first describes the Witches. His words in Act 1, Scene 3 depict the Witches as stereotypical hags – 'withered' and 'wild', unearthly beings ('That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' Earth') with 'skinny lips', chapped ('choppy') fingers and beards (1.3.40–46). However, directors and designers have shown that the Witches don't have to be portrayed like this.
In Rupert Goold's 2010 film version of the play, starring Patrick Stewart as Macbeth, the Witches appear first as nurses in a nightmarish hospital, ripping out the heart of the wounded soldier. They later appear in the film in a number of other roles, including Lady Macbeth's attendants and serving-women at the banquet. In Justin Kurzel's 2015 production, starring Michael Fassbender as Macbeth, the witches are more conventional, looming through the mist at the edge of the battlefield and encircling Macbeth before greeting him in whispered voices. They are not physically grotesque, however, in the way that Banquo describes them. Interestingly, Kurzel gives us four witches: one is a child and two are young adults, while the eldest holds a baby. Other versions have drawn on the play's historical context: the actors who played the Witches in the Globe Theatre's 2010 production developed backstories for their characters that explained why they were isolated from society, leading to the vindictive behaviour they display in Act 1, Scene 3.
Carol Atherton is Head of English at Spalding Grammar School in Lincolnshire. She has worked with a number of organisations, including NATE, the British Library, the Poetry Archive and the British Council, and was made a Fellow of the English Association in 2009. A specialist in literary theory and pedagogy, she has written widely on the teaching of English Literature, curricular reform and the nature of disciplinary knowledge.


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1975 vs. 2018 - Badminton performance & gear over the years
Discussion in 'General Forum' started by s_mair, Oct 8, 2018.
s_mair Regular Member
Buried in the Mizuno rackets thread we've hit a topic which I think is worth giving some separate room for discussion.
For reference, here's the link: https://www.badmintoncentral.com/fo...no-badminton-2017.160986/page-73#post-2680713
From the way it developed there, I expect an interesting and controversial discsussion.
And once more for reference, here's a classic clip from the MS finals of the All England '75 with 8 times AE-winner Rudy Hartono vs. Sven Pri:
Both should be using full aluminium rackets given the time.
So the main questions are as follows:
How would a professional player from the mid 70s (including the original gear) perform in a match against a 2018 player with 2018 equipment?
How big would you rate the diffference in certain areas like stamina/fitness, court speed or hitting power?
How big would you rate the impact of the improved equipment (racket) alone?
And last but not least, how do you think a Rudy Hartono of '75 would perform in a match against any intermediate to advanced hobby player of today using today's equipment?
#1 s_mair, Oct 8, 2018
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The '75 players wouldn't score 5 points. The difference of graphite vs Aluminium rackets plus the tension is enormous - better power, better control, better everything. Additionally, players are more athletic, although I'm guessing that would be far less impactful than the equipment difference.
More specifically, players are more explosive due to better strength training (and getting rid of the notion that muscle and weight lifting slow you down), and they should have a bit better endurance under periodic stress (like badminton) as the training is geared towards that more heavily.
I think the old school player would actually perform better in a pure endurance test than modern players, or at least very comparable.
Difference in court speed should be roughly in line with the strength difference, maybe a bit smaller (timing and good coordination make up a lot of that and haven't improved much, if at all).
Rudy Hartono would still win vs the intermediate player, because he was definitely a great player, and would probably deceive the modern intermediate despite the equipment difference. I'm almost sure an advanced player (semi-pro or slightly below) would have a good chance of beating him, as training at the lower levels has gotten much better and the advantage of high tension graphite rackets would outweigh Hartono's advantage of talent and reading of the game.
Personally I believe 2008 LD was the peak of badminton for now. Doubles, I'm not so sure, that is so much more tactical that you can't really say how different styles would perform against each other...I want to say 2010-2012 CY/FHF / JJS/LYD, but I think that's a matter of opinion and preference
#2 j4ckie, Oct 9, 2018
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Charlie-SWUK Regular Member
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SW UK
I don't think the '75 player would match any modern player. They can barely grip the floor in those shoes.
I think we also need to consider the shuttles here. Shuttle construction has changed since 1975. Would a modern player use the same shuttle speed as an older player? It might be that the older players are using faster shuttles (as necessary for their hall and equipment at the time), and wouldn't be able to produce good length with modern standards. I remember seeing a picture of a really old shuttle - from the 20s I think - and the feathers are at a much steeper angle than any modern shuttle.
And I think the final thing, would they *survive* in those sweater vests?
I think the last question is very hard to answer. If you just handed them the racket and said "Play with this", I think they'd struggle; it'd be a huge shift in their muscle memory. They'd make a lot of mistakes I think. If they grew up with the kind of technology we have now, I think they'd beat intermediates without any real problem. Their techniques, particularly footwork, aren't what we would consider as standard now, but they'd still be strong enough to play county level easily.
#3 Charlie-SWUK, Oct 10, 2018
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Just watching that clip of the Sven Pri/Hartono match, the rackets used were not aluminium at all. They were wooden with steel shafts. It's especially obvious with Hartono's racket. Looks to be a Yonex B9100 Slim Stainless.
#4 ubootsg, Oct 17, 2018
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ubootsg said: ↑
Actually, I found it hard to clearly tell the rackets. I looked for the Yonex racket history and found that aluminum rackets were out since the early 70s - and being one of their top stars back in the days, I found it logical that at least Hartono was using a state of the art racket.
Anyway, even more impressive if these were truly steel/wood rackets. Of course, they wouldn't stand a chance against a top #500(?) player of today using today's equipment. But still they would wipe the floor with any recreational player out there. Just look at their shot consistency, court speed and stamina. No way that anything below "semi-pro" would be able to counter that over a whole match.
#5 s_mair, Oct 18, 2018
I decided to watch a clip of the following year 1976 All England final as well, this time a showdown between 2 Indonesians - the veteran Rudy Hartono and the up-and-coming Liem Swie King. As the clip was in Color I could see that Hartono was still using his wooden Yonex but Swie King already made the transition to an all-metal Carlton 3.7. One could hear from the sound of the smashes the lower tensions used in the strings. The pace of the play was also quite slower than contemporary championship play is now. Definitely the new technologies/materials have made a lot of difference in making the game a lot faster and the current scoring system kind of 'encourages' that as well. It certainly makes for a speedy and powerful us exciting court craft on display.
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Stamina and consistency don't matter if the shuttle gets punched to the floor though. I feel like they'd get smashed by good 4th league players here I'm pretty sure, although I'll readily admit that's kind of an unfair comparison as we're talking about taking someone and literally throwing them over 40 years into the future it'd obviously be different if those guys grew up with today's training.
#7 j4ckie, Oct 19, 2018
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I wonder how many of you here have played with a full wooden racket or a wooden racket with a steel shaft, and with the lower tensions, usually with guts (sheep guts to be exact) at around 18lb, it is a lot more bouncy than modern synthetic strings. Somebody told me not long ago that 3U rackets are too heavy, for an old timer like me, I seriously do not know how to respond as I learned to play with a steel racket....
The strategy was also quite different, the reason why they played at a slower pace was not just about the equipment and technique, it was also about stamina preservation. If I am not mistaken, they still needed to get service before you score. A 15pt game can stretch on for half an hour simply with the exchange of service.
#8 colekwok, Dec 4, 2018
colekwok said: ↑
AFAIK I'm probably the only person around who played regularly with a wood & steel racket back in Singapore and even now that I'm living in NZ. I'd rather not speculate on what if scenarios but rather speak from my own hands-on experience. Using those vintage rackets I'm able to take on players up to my skill level (about club standard) without too much difficulty.
All things being equal player-wise (age, skills & fitness level) the player with the current equipment of racket and shoes will have some advantage especially with the present scoring system in place which seem to work well for fast, attacking play.
Just to further qualify my statement. I've been playing for the last 40+ years and did play competitively at club level back in mid 80s through to the early 90s. I'm now in my mid 50s and only play socially. I've not stopped using vintage wood & steel and aluminium & steel rackets all through the past decades and have them very using for training, warm-up and refining my strokes.
#9 ubootsg, Dec 4, 2018
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We have one wooden frame racket hanging around at the club, I sometimes use it to play against beginners who just join the club (we are a very casual club anyway). It is always fun because the string is so loose that no matter how hard you smash, the shuttle simply does not pick up any momentum.
I believe that some players tend to adapt quicker than the others such as swapping rackets or shoes. Unless you are playing in top tournaments where minute differences or consistences can give you the edge, most can adapt and adjust quickly.
#10 colekwok, Dec 5, 2018
viver Regular Member
What if the current players using the 70's equipment and played the older players?
I did start playing with wooden racquets and then to Carlton 3.7X, then YY Blacken, and so on...
Hard to talk about comparisons of players of the older days vs current players. I remember speaking to my (former) coach once many years ago, asking to compare the then top players, Taufik, Lin Dan, Bao CH, Gade, Lei Chong Wei with him and players of his time. He said in terms of speed and power, the current crop could match theirs and probably a bit faster, but technically speaking, the older generation were better. Thinking a bit, didn't Lin Dan follow Tang Xinfu's directions to improve and became better player.
#11 viver, Dec 7, 2018
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Sounds like bias on his part tbh. I don't think we've seen players that were technically significantly better than Taufik for example, and there is no doubt players today are the most athletic they've ever been. Even compared to 2004 it's a massive difference, personally I'm not sure Taufik could win the Olympic Games today with his motivation issues. Although he'd also benefit from the improved training, so maybe he could, who knows
Theres just no comparison between the LD generation and 70s/80s players speed-wise. I still think 2008 LD is probably the fastest we've ever seen on a badminton court, and with how the game has evolved, I'm not sure we're gonna see someone play that aggressively again anytime soon.
#12 j4ckie, Dec 8, 2018
j4ckie said: ↑
You may be right when you say bias, but Lin Dan still had to listen to him regarding the aspects to improve in order to raise his game. Then, has badminton evolved that much or was just a catch-up by most of the countries? Do we see different schools of badminton in the current badminton powerhouses? I haven't really follow much the international scene lately, but most players I see plays the style (form) similar to the Chinese school.
My coach was a national team player in the 60-70s. When he compared the (then) current players was with past China top players. His analysis was speed and power were about the same - you can also try to find a past thread with references to an interview with former Chinese national player Fang Kaixiang with similar views.
It is very difficult to compare objectively speed and power when we do not have the players' data during training - as example, was told by an old-timer, Hou Jia Chang, a Chinese player in the 60-70s did under 30s, 30 repetitions from base to net in training; a female doubles player could lift over 200lbs, etc. This information while believable to me, there's no way I can prove them. Also, I do not have the numbers for the actual players to compare with. But to me, the technical aspects of the game, the older players were better.
It's useless if you can do something in training one time and then not apply it in competition. Training doesn't count. And all we can see on court is that the 70s/80s players were MUCH slower than LD in his prime. Also, going back to net 30 times isn't a good test of speed. Truly explosive speed is one, maybe two repetitions, 30 is strength endurance. Like the difference between a 100m and 1500m run - the 1500 dude is still really, really fast, but he couldn't hold a candle to the others in a 100m event. Same with badminton, maybe someone was really good at changing direction (at least in training) and was fairly quick with 30 repetitions back to net, but those 30-50cm they were behind LD going to the net with their maximum effort are absolutely crucial and game-changing. Also, jumping wasn't at a high level back then either, and that's almost entirely explosive strength (strength to body weight ratio, to be exact).
I'm not saying that the guys back then had less potential, but with training being way worse and sports science being in its infancy, not many came close to realizing their physical potential. What you describe as 'better technique' may just be the mechanics of moving a heavy racket being more pleasant to you, because I sure dont think anyone at that time was way better than today's technically gifted players (watch Goh V Shem's backhand drive, for example, insane...or Zhang Nan's drives....or Momota's net play...)
Anecdotes of someone lifting a lot dont say anything whatsoever about the overall level, even if we assume they are both true and the lift was clean. I've heard stories about LHI lifting huge weights as well, and LCW was rumoured to squat over twice his body weight almost 10 years ago...but without actually seeing the lifts, I will maintain reasonable doubt. Strength training as a whole has certainly improved, though, coaches being much more attentive to proper form and injury prevention.
Oh, and stamina/endurance training as well, with interval training being used instead of just long runs, which dont carry over to badminton very well (low intensity endurance training not preparing you for high intensity rallies).
#14 j4ckie, Dec 11, 2018
Borkya Regular Member
And what about the flooring? Sounds like they are playing on the deck of an old schooner or something, the floorboards are creaking so much! I'm sure modern flooring has a lot to do with quicker speeds and perhaps less injury.
But yeah, I would say these guys would get killed against a modern player. Forget the equipment (and the sweater vests) their footwork looks sloppy compared to the efficiency of a Lin Dan or LCW. So regardless of their power I think they would get killed on footwork alone. But I guess I can't really blame the players for that...those socks are riding up so high they probably cut off all the blood flow to their feet.
#15 Borkya, Dec 11, 2018
I am not quite sure if you are referring to raw speed and power or a player's speed and power on court only during competitions. Lin Dan as you mentioned is very fit and athletic and can move fast around the court. But how do you measure his speed around the court? Is he faster than Chen Tianlong, Yang Yang, Zhao Jianhua, Gade, Lei Chongwei, etc. He may or may not, and how fast can you move wearing the Dragonfly or Double Coin badminton shoes or how much power can he transfer to the shuttle with a wood or metal racquet of the 60's.
I played with some of the players' of the 70's and their speed and agility on the court is way past us as common players even past their prime. If you ask me, my impression was that these players around 40 and past their prime were faster than the juniors playing 2004 here for the Juniors World Championship, Chen Jin included.
#16 viver, Dec 14, 2018
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This was the first time I tried one of the hand masks. The first thing when I opened it was the strong scent. It smells like peach candy and I actually did not mind it because I like peach scented things. The smell did linger too. You get two gloves that are connected at the wrist, they are perforated so you can tear them apart easily. Then slip them on your hands. They are covered in plastic and then on the inside is another layer of cotton which is the mask part. I like that it was covered in plastic as you can move around with them on and do stuff. The essence is inside on the cottan part and it feels kind of squishy when you put your hands in. The main thing I did not like about these hands masks was that my skin shriveled up like it does when you have been in the water too long. They did feel kind of soft afterwards and they smelt nice but I did not notice a huge difference.


Chef Gui Alinat is a chef and freelance food photographer based in Tampa Bay, Florida.
He works for a variety of editorial and commercial clients interested in portraying the natural beauty of food.
His award-winning photos have been portrayed in a variety of printed and online publications.
In Chef Gui Alinat's Eat More, Burn More™ you'll get over 100 recipes so that you can continue to eat the foods you love and never have to feel awkward at dinners with family and friends. Even the pickiest eater in your family will love these meals. The end result is that you'll finally start losing weight faster than ever while loving every bite you put in your mouth.
The Chef's Repertoire is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device, and with iTunes on your computer. Books can be read with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device. The Chef's Répertoire e-book is the perfect electronic reference for every hospitality professional, food writer/blogger, and culinary enthusiast.
The Chef's Repertoire by chef Gui Alinat is a superb collection of classic dishes served on American menus with their pronunciations, origins, ingredients, and techniques.
Inspired by Le Repertoire de La Cuisine, it is a must-have for the professional or serious home chef.
The Chef's Repertoire has won a Cordon d'Or International Culinary Awards for Best Culinary Literature. It has received praised from celebrity chefs and other professionals.


Windsor is the southernmost city in Canada. It is on the southern shore of the Detroit River, due south and directly across the river from Detroit, Michigan in the United States. Windsor is a major contributor to Canada's automotive industry and has a storied history and a diverse culture.
According to the City of Windsor and data from Canada's 2016 Census, the City of Windsor's population grew by 3.0 percent between 2011 and 2016, from 210,891 to 217,188 residents. The population of the Windsor Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), which includes the towns of Amherstburg, LaSalle, Lakeshore and Tecumseh, grew by 3.1 percent during the same period from 319,246 to 329,144 residents. This makes it the 16th largest metropolitan area in Canada, bigger than Saskatoon, Regina, Sherbrooke, St. John's and Barrie.
Sarnia had a 2016 population of 71,594. It is the largest city on Lake Huron and in Lambton County. Sarnia is located approximately 100kms to the north of Windsor.
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package org.kuali.rice.krms.framework.engine.expression;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import org.kuali.rice.krms.api.engine.ExecutionEnvironment;
import org.kuali.rice.krms.framework.engine.Proposition;
import org.kuali.rice.krms.framework.engine.PropositionResult;

/**
 * An implementation of {@link Proposition} which uses a given {@link Expression}<Boolean>
 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
 *
 */
public class ExpressionBasedProposition implements Proposition {

	private final Expression<Boolean> expression;

    /**
     * Create an ExpressionBasedProposition with the given value
     * @param expression {@link Expression} to set the expression to
     */
	public ExpressionBasedProposition(Expression<Boolean> expression) {
		this.expression = expression;
	}

	@Override
	public PropositionResult evaluate(ExecutionEnvironment environment) {
		return new PropositionResult(expression.invoke(environment).booleanValue());
	}

    @Override
    public List<Proposition> getChildren() {
        return Collections.emptyList();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isCompound() {
        return false;
    }
}

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The Interior Design Brief was to create "something different" and contemporary, but with a casual and welcoming feel, using the excellent skills of Nautor's interior craftsmen. The direction determined by our initial design proposals resulted in a light grey, stained oak finish with a brushed treatment throughout, maintaining a link with the base material Nautor often uses for their interiors. We have complemented this with contemporary raised paneling on the upper sections of the walls, using a crown-cut veneer with bookmatched grain patterns.
Contrast is provided by the dark, crown-cut wenge floors, fitted with a distinctive cross plank detail. The interior has many details that make it extra special, ranging from the beautifully crafted, rounded corner details, to the handrail recesses and table finishes. Neutral soft furnishings in a selection of grey tones finish it all off and create a link with the grey color scheme of the deck hardware. It was a pleasure and a privilege to work in close collaboration with Nautor, who were always happy to supply ample samples that greatly supported the design process.
As a result, we were able to create a fully functional interior with all the required comfort and amenities constructed using lightweight foam and carbon cores in order to meet the strict weight requirements.


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600-й східний батальйон (, ) — військовий підрозділ Вермахту періоду Другої світової війни, що переважно складався з козаків.

Історія
З решток розбитих і відступаючих козачих підрозділів в Білорусі, полонених червоноармійців було сформовано у червні 1943 року 600-й східний батальйон, що складався з чотирьох рот. Батальйон перебував у підпорядкуванні штабу група армій «Центр». У середині листопаду 1943 батальйон перевели на північ Франції, де підпорядкували командуванню 7-ї армії. У січні 1944 батальйон розміщувався у нідерландській провінції Зеландія, звідки його перевели до Антверпену. На початку вересня у складі 15-ї армії групи армій В брав участь в боях за Антверпен, де зазнав значних втрат. Залишки батальйону відступили до Третього Рейху, де у грудні поповнили особовим складом і реформували у 600-й російський батальйон (). У січні 1945 батальйон перевели на полігон Гойберг, де формували 2-гу дивізію піхоти РОА.

Посилання
 http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/OstBataillone/OstBtl600.htm
 http://www.cossac-awards.narod.ru/Kazak_Wermacht1.html
 Сергей Чуев :: Проклятые солдаты. Предатели на стороне III рейха:

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Донські козацькі батальйони Вермахту
Військові формування, засновані 1944
Військові формування, розформовані 1945


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Dominick P. Gredoni
Sacred Heart Church
37 Schulyer Avenue
Obituary of Dominick P. Gredoni
Please share a memory of Dominick to include in a keepsake book for family and friends.
After a long and fulfilling life, Dominick P. Gredoni, 92, died peacefully at home in New Canaan on Friday, September 17, 2021. He was born in Stamford, CT to Dominick and Louise Gredoni on February 8, 1929.
Following graduation from Stamford High School in 1947 and the J.M. Wright Technical School in 1949, Dominick became a cabinet maker and was associated with Stamford Millwork for over 40 years. He served in the United States Army 43rd Infantry Division, trained at Camp Pickett, VA and was stationed in Germany during the Korean War. He remained friends with seven buddies from his unit and saw them regularly for 70 years. In his retirement, he learned the art of basket weaving, expertly crafting "Nontucket" baskets, as he called them, completely by hand, and gave to family and friends. He enjoyed Scottish Country dancing, skiing, and reading, especially books on World War II as well as mysteries.
In addition to his parents, he was pre-deceased by his sisters; Alice Schreiber, Tina Lucia, and Louisa Gredoni. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Catherine L. Gredoni (née Lucia), as well as three generations of nieces and nephews of whom he was very close to.
Dominick was a man of great integrity, beloved by all who were fortunate to have him in their life. He was a kind, gentle person with keen observations and insights, always saying the right thing at the right time, often employing his pleasantly wry sense of humor. Dedicated to his community and the welfare of others, he volunteered 3,600 hours over thirty years at the Waveny Care Center and donated nearly 20 gallons of blood in his lifetime.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Friday, September 24, 2021 at 10:30 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 37 Schulyer Avenue, Stamford, CT. Burial will follow at St. John Cemetery, 25 Camp Ave. Darien, CT.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the New Canaan Library or Waveny Care Center in New Canaan in his memory would be appreciated.


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Moragalla Junior School.
Moragalla Junior School is located in Beruwela, south of Colombo.
It is a mixed rural school with 199 pupils. The pupils are aged between 5 and 16, in classes from Grade 1 to Grade 11. The pupils in the primary classes Grade 1-5 are located in a separate premises close to the Junior school.
The senior school
The school records date back to 1954, though it was probably built in the 1930's. Prior to the tsunami in 2004 school numbers were declining, parents were sending their children to other schools in the locality. The government decided to close the school. However a number of locals got together to keep the school running. As a result of this, Mr. Peter Perera was appointed as the school principal. He did great work in keeping the school running.
One of his main achievements was contacting a local agency, the equivalent of our credit union and getting their sponsorship of the school. As a result of this, the credit union provided the necessary requirements of each new school entrant, bags, pens, water bottles, lunch boxes etc. School numbers have been gradually increasing.
He and the present Principal Madam Kumarasiri have also been successful in securing funding from schools in England, local hotels and the Saga Chartable Trust. The school is dependent on this funding.
Mr. Perera and Madam Kumarasiri
In 2004 the tsunami which devastated Indonesia completely destroyed part of the primary school building. The main building was flooded and almost all the books and equipment were destroyed beyond repair.
The Government provides free education in Sri Lanka, books and one uniform a year. But it is not enough to keep schools running.
A new school building is required and it is being funded by the Eden Hotel. Saga Charitable Trust are responsible for supplying electricity, computers, the photocopier, iron mesh on the windows among other things. They also established the volunteer programme of which we are the first guinea pigs!
Thoughts on my Volunteering Experience!
Not impressed Saga!
The weeks roll on.
The first week.
Orientation session
Why Volunteering?


Sarah Bay-Cheng is Professor of Theatre and Dance at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where she teaches theatre history and theory, dramatic literature, and contemporary performance. In 2015, she was a Fulbright Visiting Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Her recent publications include Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field (2015) and the book series Avant-Gardes in Performance at Palgrave. She serves on the Board of Directors for Performance Studies international (PSi) and the editorial boards of journals including Theatre Research in Canada and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Follow Sarah at www.sarahbaycheng.net and on Twitter @performaddict.
Pannill Camp is Associate Professor of Drama and Chair of the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis. He teaches courses on eighteenth-century theatre, performance theory, and topics including theatre space, acting, and contemporary comedy. His book, The First Frame: Theatre Space in Enlightenment France (2014) received an honorable mention for the ATHE Outstanding Book Award and was a finalist for the Kenshur Prize in Eighteenth-Century Studies. His research has also appeared in Theatre Journal, Philological Quarterly, and Performance Research. Follow Pannill on Twitter @pannill.
Harvey Young is Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Boston University. His seven book publications include Theatre & Race (2013) and Embodying Black Experience (2010). His research on the performance and experience of race has been profiled and/or cited in media including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), as editor of Theatre Survey, and is the President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). Learn more about Harvey at www.harveyyoung.net. Follow him on Twitter at @HarveyYoungBU.


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Life is meant to be easy and fun. You were never meant to struggle. Peace lives within you. All emotional struggle means one thing and one thing only; Somewhere along the way you've gotten lost. You've listened to others, and have been giving the outside world far too much power to influence. It's time to move inwards, to return home to the joy of being that is your birthright.
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