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Oriental Sunshine was a Norwegian psychedelic acoustic trio from Bergen and Skien in Norway that was active from 1968 through the 1970s consisting of Nina Johansen from Skien (vocal, acoustic guitar), Rune Walle (sitar, vocal) and Satnam Singh (flutes, sarod). Originally a duo of Johansen and Walle, who had met at Manger College at the end of the 60s, they had a mutual interest in British and American folk-inspired rock-music - like the Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Jefferson Airplane and Joan Baez - and also the religions of the East. This inspired the music that Ori… read more
Oriental Sunshine was a Norwegian psychedelic acoustic trio from Bergen and Skien in Norway that was active from 1968 through the 1970s consisting of Nina Johansen from Skien (vocal, acoustic guitar), Rune Walle (sitar, vocal) and Satnam Singh (flutes, sarod). Originally a duo of Johansen and… read more
Oriental Sunshine was a Norwegian psychedelic acoustic trio from Bergen and Skien in Norway that was active from 1968 through the 1970s consisting of Nina Johansen from Skien (vocal, acoustic guitar), Rune Walle (sitar, vocal) and Satnam Singh (flutes, sarod). Originally a duo of Johansen and Walle, who had met at Manger College at the end of the 60s, they had a … read more
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FDA Approval for Under-Skin Defibrillator goes to Boston Scientific Corporation
October 1, 2012 by 2012pharmaceutical
Boston Scientific Corporation (BSX) Wins FDA Approval for Under-Skin Defibrillator
NATICK, Mass., Sept. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) regulatory approval for its S-ICD® System, the world's first and only commercially available subcutaneous implantable defibrillator (S-ICD) for the treatment of patients at risk for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). The S-ICD System sits entirely just below the skin without the need for thin, insulated wires — known as electrodes or 'leads' — to be placed into the heart. This leaves the heart and blood vessels untouched, offering patients an alternative to transvenous implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), which require leads to be placed in the heart itself.
"The S-ICD System establishes the first new category of cardiac rhythm management devices since the introduction of cardiac resynchronization therapy," said Raul Weiss, M.D., Associate Professor-Clinical, Cardiovascular Medicine at The Ohio State University. "Doctors now have a breakthrough treatment option that provides protection from sudden cardiac arrest without touching the heart."
Approval of the S-ICD System was based on data from a 330-patient, prospective, non-randomized, multicenter clinical study, which evaluated the safety and effectiveness of the system in patients at risk of SCA. The S-ICD System met the primary endpoints of the study, and results were presented earlier this year at the Heart Rhythm Society 33rd Annual Scientific Sessions. The study results support that the S-ICD System is an important new treatment option for a wide range of primary and secondary prevention patients.
"With the addition of the S-ICD System, we believe Boston Scientific has a compelling and highly differentiated portfolio that will help fuel our growth strategy," said Hank Kucheman, chief executive officer, Boston Scientific. "We are the only company to offer an FDA-approved subcutaneous implantable defibrillator and expect this to be the case for several years. The S-ICD System, coupled with our numerous recent regulatory approvals and our other innovative products, such as the WATCHMAN® Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device and Alair® Bronchial Thermoplasty System for the treatment of severe asthma, demonstrates our continued commitment to developing and bringing to market innovative products for physicians and their patients."
Sudden cardiac arrest is an abrupt loss of heart function. Most episodes are caused by the rapid and/or chaotic activity of the heart known as ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation. Recent estimates show that approximately 850,000 people in the United States are at risk of SCA and indicated for an ICD device, but remain unprotected.
"Each year, thousands of patients indicated for an ICD are not referred to a specialist and remain untreated," said William T. Abraham, MD, FACC, Director, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at The Ohio State University Heart Center. "The S-ICD System is an important new treatment option that has the potential to improve patient acceptance of ICD therapy."
The S-ICD System is designed to provide the same protection from sudden cardiac arrest as transvenous ICDs. The system has two main components: (1) the pulse generator, which powers the system, monitors heart activity, and delivers a shock if needed, and (2) the electrode, which enables the device to sense the cardiac rhythm and deliver shocks when necessary. Both components are implanted just under the skinthe generator at the side of the chest, and the electrode beside the breastbone. Unlike transvenous ICDs, the heart and blood vessels remain untouched. Implantation with the S-ICD System is straightforward using anatomical landmarks, without the need for fluoroscopy (an x-ray procedure that makes it possible to see internal organs in motion). Fluoroscopy is required for implanting the leads attached to transvenous ICD systems.
Boston Scientific expects to begin a phased launch of the S-ICD System that will expand over time as medical professionals are trained on the safe and effective use of the system. The company acquired the S-ICD System earlier this year when it completed the acquisition of Cameron Health, Inc. The S-ICD System received CE Mark in 2009 and is commercially available in many countries in Europe as well as in New Zealand. To date, more than 1,400 devices have been implanted in patients around the world. To download a high-resolution image of the S-ICD System go to: http://bostonscientific.mediaroom.com/home.
The S-ICD System is intended to provide defibrillation therapy for the treatment of life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias in patients who do not have symptomatic bradycardia, incessant ventricular tachycardia, or spontaneous, frequently recurring ventricular tachycardia that is reliably terminated with anti-tachycardia pacing.
The WATCHMAN device is an investigational device in the United States. It is limited by applicable law to investigational use and not available for sale.
About Boston Scientific
Boston Scientific is a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices that are used in a broad range of interventional medical specialties. For more information, please visit: www.bostonscientific.com.
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Factors that may cause such differences include, among other things: future economic, competitive, reimbursement, legal and regulatory conditions; clinical trials and outcomes; new product introductions; product performance; demographic trends; intellectual property; litigation; financial market conditions; and future business decisions made by us and our competitors. Such factors are difficult or impossible to predict accurately and many of them are beyond our control. For a further list and description of these and other important risks and uncertainties that may affect our future operations, see Part I, Item 1A Risk Factors in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which we may update in Part II, Item 1A Risk Factors in Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q we have filed or will file hereafter. We disclaim any intention or obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in our expectations or in events, conditions or circumstances on which those expectations may be based, or that may affect the likelihood that actual results will differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements. This cautionary statement is applicable to all forward-looking statements contained in this document.
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De Oosteindse polder is een polder ten oosten van de oude kern van Bergschenhoek, in de Nederlandse provincie Zuid-Holland. In het zuiden grenst de polder aan de Boterdorpse polder, in het noorden aan de Oosthoekeindse polder. Vanaf 1778 werd begonnen met het droogmaken van deze gebieden. Het gebied valt onder Hoogheemraadschap van Schieland en de Krimpenerwaard.

Het poldergebied Bleiswijkse Droogmakerij telde diverse molengangen die het water naar de Rotte pompten.

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Q: Do we have any way of knowing if natural phenomena in the real world follow the "Lipschitz Condition"? Recently, I keep coming across terms containing "Lipschitz" pertaining to statistical models and machine learning. This includes terms such as  "p-lipschitz (rho), lipschitz convexity, lipschitz loss, lipschitz continuity, lipschitz condition, etc.
For example, the (famous) Gradient Descent algorithm that is used heavily in the field of machine learning to optimize the "loss functions" of Neural Networks, allegedly claims that it can provide a solution arbitrarily close to the true solution, provided an infinite number of iterations and that the "loss function" is "Lipschitz Continuous":

Although the mathematical definitions of the Lipschitz Condition are quite detailed and complicated, I think I was able to find a simple enough definition to understand for this question:

I am not sure if this is correct or not, but from an applied perspective : I have heard that the Lipschitz Condition is a desirable property for mathematical functions (and the gradients of these functions) because it suggests that "small changes in the input values of the function can not result in infinite values of the output of the same function".
My intuition is that if a function you are dealing with does not satisfy the Lipschitz Condition and can potentially grow in infinite size provided small changes in the inputs - this would suggest that this function has the ability to display very volatile, erratic and chaotic behaviors, making it fundamentally difficult unpredictable and unstable to deal with:

My Question: When it comes to complicated mathematical functions (e.g. functions that model natural phenomena in the real world), we can use the definitions of "convexity" (e.g. provided here) to find out if the function is convex or non-convex (i.e. if the function does not follow the required convexity conditions, it must be non-convex).
Can the same be said about real world functions obeying the Lipschitz Condition?
For example - if we look at the specific "loss function" being used in a specific neural network (e.g. specified number of layers, neurons, types of activation function, etc.), it might be possible to prove whether this "loss function" obeys the Lipschitz Condition.
But what about the original function that we are trying to approximate with the neural network itself?
At this point, are we just assuming that natural phenomena in the real world (e.g. ocean tides, economic patterns in the market, animal migration trajectories, etc.) are obeying the Lipschitz Condition - either in their su generis form, or for the sake of the machine learning algorithms to work?
Thanks!

A: One condition where Lipschitz continuity naturally arises is if the function is differentiable with a bounded derivative. Let's say the function $f$ is continuous on $[a,b]$, differentiable on $(a,b)$ and the derivative is bounded: $\left|\frac{df}{dx}\right|\le M$. As per Mean Value Theorem:
$$f(b)-f(a)=\frac{df}{dx}(\xi)(b-a)$$
for some $\xi\in(a,b)$. Now, applying modulus and using the above condition of boundedness, we get:
$$|f(b)-f(a)|=\left|\frac{df}{dx}(\xi)\right||b-a|\le M|b-a|$$
Notice if the condition is satisfied on the whole $[a,b]$, then it is satisfied on any subinterval $[x,y]\subset [a,b]$ for the same $M$, so:
$$|f(y)-f(x)|\le M|y-x|$$
for all $x,y\in[a,b]$, which is the Lipschitz condition.

One special case of this is of the function $f$ that is continuously differentiable on $[a,b]$ because, well, $\frac{df}{dx}$ is then continuous and thus necessarily bounded.
If you can now argue that, in most applications of calculus in physics and natural sciences, all real functions of a real variable are not only continuously differentiable once, but are normally continuously differentiable infinitely many times, in fact they are analytic - then they will all be Lipschitz functions on any closed finite interval due to the previous statement.

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According to those who seek to contain Iran, it is supposedly building a new Persian empire in the regions where it has influence—the Persian Gulf, the wider Middle East, and Central Asia. Such accusations, besides mistakenly assuming Iran to be the chief, if not the only, cause of trouble in all these regions, also grossly exaggerate Iran´s real power.
Nowhere is this contrast between the hyped-up Iranian threat and reality more evident than in Tajikistan. As a small, poor, landlocked Central Asian nation that shares language and culture with Iran, it surely would be easy prey for Tehran, if the narrative of the re-emerging "Persian empire" is to have any meaning. However, relations between Tehran and Dushanbe have taken a nosedive of late.
Like many other parts of the crumbling empire following the chaotic break-up of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan succumbed to a civil war. Iran helped negotiate an end to the conflict, midwifing a power-sharing agreement between Emomali Rahmon, a former Soviet apparatchik-turned-president of independent Tajikistan, and the Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP), the main opposition. With time, however, like other Central Asian dictators, Rahmon decided that it would be safer not to tolerate any opposition at all. So, as he cemented his hold on power, he reneged on his part of the deal with the Islamists, culminating in the official ban of the IRP in 2015.
The regime in Dushanbe accuses Iran of seeking to replace the secular republic with the Islamist rule of the IRP. Tajik leaders like to present themselves as the torch-bearers of the pre-Islamic Iranian civilization common to both Iran and Tajikistan that the last Iranian monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, also championed. The fact that he was deposed by the current clerical rulers of Iran accentuates the ideological chasm between Dushanbe and Tehran.
Occasionally, Iranians have fueled the Tajik suspicions. At an Islamic conference in Tehran in 2015, Muhiddin Kabiri, the exiled leader of the IRP, was accorded the same level of treatment as the official delegation of the Tajik (state-controlled) Islamic establishment. Kabiri is wanted in Tajikistan on trumped-up charges of seeking the violent overthrow of the government. Yet Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, warmly greeted Kabiri. Although the greeting hardly amounted to much more than a handshake, Dushanbe portrayed it as evidence of Tehran's plot to topple Rahmon.
Interestingly, besides Iran, Kabiri has travelled and had political meetings in countries as diverse as Germany, Austria, Turkey, Malaysia, and the EU capital Brussels. Tajikistan, however, only filed an official note of protest to Iran. To highlight the supposed Iranian threat, the Tajik authorities have accused the IRP of promoting creeping Shiite-ization of Tajikistan, an absurd charge, given that Tajikistan is an overwhelmingly Sunni country and IRP is essentially a Sunni party in the mold of the Muslim Brotherhood or the Turkish ruling party. Never mind that in previous years, the same authorities also accused the IRP of harboring a pro-Wahhabi agenda.
Money and geopolitics, however, not ideology, are the primary drivers of the current Iranian-Tajik spat.
When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was Iran's president, he used to visit Tajikistan every year with lavish cash hand-outs, especially for energy and infrastructure projects in the country. Some of this money has reportedly enriched the president's inner circle – a rather typical occurrence in all the corrupt Central Asian regimes. Rouhani, by contrast, focused his diplomacy on the nuclear talks with the world powers and re-integration of Iran into the global economy. He only visited Tajikistan once, in 2014, and even that was for a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). In accordance with the more responsible fiscal policies of the Rouhani administration, the Ahmadinejad-era cash injections in Tajikistan dwindled.
Another sore point in bilateral relations are the Iranian assets, reportedly worth around $2 billion, allegedly stashed by a corrupt Iranian businessman Babak Zanjani in the National Bank of Tajikistan. Zanjani was arrested in Iran in 2013, and Tehran demands that he return the money that it argues he illegally siphoned from Iran's oil ministry. Dushanbe vehemently denies the charges and refuses the Iranian demands. So, money-related disputes seem to be the primary reasons for Tajikistan's sudden animosity towards Iran.
Sensing the opportunity, Iran's arch-rival Saudi Arabia has stepped in to court Tajikistan. Saudi Arabia has invited Tajikistan to join its "Islamic coalition against the terror," launched in 2015, from which Iran was deliberately excluded. President Rahmon was present in Riyadh in March 2017 at an "Arab-Islamic summit" with President Trump, in the company of fellow autocrats. Tajikistan doesn't in and of itself hold great strategic value for Saudi Arabia, having a Persian-speaking country in Riyadh's orbit is symbolically important. Rahmon, meanwhile, is trying to cash in on this newly bourgeoning relationship. In this context, ratcheting up anti-Iranian rhetoric and actions is a sure way to attract more Saudi attention and, hopefully, money.
What is really baffling is that Tehran, usually quick to denounce Western nations for any real or perceived slight, has not taken any steps to curb the hostile policies of a relatively weak player like Tajikistan. Perhaps Iran does not wish to have its bilateral problems with Tajikistan stand in its way to join the SCO. Tajikistan is a founding member of the SCO. Since the membership is approved by consensus, Tajikistan could in theory veto Iran's accession. However, with the Russian and Chinese support, this does not look like an insurmountable obstacle for Iran. Whatever the reasons for Iran's reluctance or inability to rein in Tajikistan's policies, it's more evidence of Iran's inflated power in the minds of those who seek to isolate the country.
Photo: Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and Saudi King Salman.
Tajikistan doesn't border on Iran, not in Iran's "backyard," but it does border on China and Afghanistan, and is a major bridge between the two countries. So China is increasing its ties with Tajikistan.
Also China ally Pakistan is close by, only separated from China by a sliver of Afghanistan (the Wakhan Corridor) .
So Iran, tied more to India than China, will be a spectator in Tajikistan. Iran has bigger fish to fry.
The notion of a "re-emerging Persian Empire" is preposterous. Utter nonsense. But useful to dupe ignorant politicians and the American public.
@James Canning, absolutely correct. This is nothing other than pure Zionist propaganda to stir up the Arab world against the non-Arab or Aryan nation like Iran!
In fact most of the mullahs in Iran's current regime are of Arab descent! One of the present & past domestic dilemma for the past 40 years!


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Auteur(s): David Baldacci
Narrateur(s): Brittany Pressley, Kyf Brewer
Série: Atlee Pine Series, Livre 3
Catégories: Romans policiers et thrillers, Roman policier
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Narrateur(s): Brittany Pressley,Kyf Brewer
FBI Agent Atlee Pine's life was never the same after her twin sister Mercy was kidnapped - and likely killed - 30 years ago. After a lifetime of torturous uncertainty, Atlee's unresolved anger finally gets the better of her on the job, and she finds she has to deal with the demons of her past if she wants to remain with the FBI. Atlee and her assistant head back to Atlee's rural hometown to see what they can uncover about the traumatic night Mercy was taken and Pine was almost killed. But soon after Atlee begins her investigation, a local woman is found ritualistically murdered.
Écrit par John le 2021-07-10
FBI Agent Atlee Pine's harrowing search for her long-lost sister Mercy reaches a boiling point in this breakneck thriller from number one New York Times best-selling author David Baldacci.
Love the strong more complex female leads.
Écrit par Julie McKenna le 2021-12-24
Long Road to Mercy
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Catch a tiger by its toe. It's seared into Atlee Pine's memory: the kidnapper's chilling rhyme as he chose between six-year-old Atlee and her twin sister, Mercy. Mercy was taken. Atlee was spared. She never saw Mercy again. Three decades after that terrifying night, Atlee Pine works for the FBI. She's the lone agent assigned to the Shattered Rock, Arizona resident agency, which is responsible for protecting the Grand Canyon. So when one of the Grand Canyon's mules is found stabbed to death at the bottom of the canyon - and its rider missing - Pine is called in to investigate.
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Écrit par Nancy W. Caldwell le 2018-12-31
Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini, Brittany Pressley
The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made if you're hard-working, lucky, criminal - or all three. Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible - plus a companion for the final leg of the journey, an aspiring actress named Liberty Callahan who is planning to try her luck in Hollywood.
Not as good as the first one
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The Law of Innocence
Auteur(s): Michael Connelly
Narrateur(s): Peter Giles
On the night he celebrates a big win, defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a former client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is immediately charged with murder but can't post the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge. Mickey elects to represent himself and is forced to mount his defense from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles.
excellent book....LOVE Mickey Haller!!
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Walk the Wire
Narrateur(s): Kyf Brewer, Orlagh Cassidy
When Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are called to London, North Dakota, they instantly sense that the thriving fracking town is ripe for trouble. The promise of a second gold rush has attracted an onslaught of newcomers all hoping for a windfall, and the community is growing faster than houses can be built. The sudden boom has also brought a slew of problems with it, including drugs, property crimes, prostitution - and now murder.
I returned this book
Écrit par Miss Kelly Smith le 2020-04-27
Auteur(s): Lee Child, Andrew Child
Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
As always, Reacher has no particular place to go and all the time in the world to get there. One morning he ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee. But there's nothing pleasant about the place. In broad daylight Reacher spots a hapless soul walking into an ambush. "It was four against one"...so Reacher intervenes, with his own trademark brand of conflict resolution. The man he saves is Rusty Rutherford, an unassuming IT manager, recently fired after a cyberattack locked up the town's data, records, information...and secrets.
Meh! Not the best Reacher Book
Écrit par George Pickstock le 2021-02-04
Auteur(s): Lee Child, Autres
A Time for Mercy
A Jake Brigance Novel
Auteur(s): John Grisham
Narrateur(s): Michael Beck
Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid 16-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Jake's fierce commitment to saving Drew from the gas chamber puts his career, his financial security, and the safety of his family on the line.
WOW! One of his best and I've read them all.
Écrit par Linda's Page le 2020-11-11
Hour Game
A woman is found murdered in the woods with a very special watch on her wrist, and what seemed a simple case soon escalates into a nightmare. The criminal methods of some of the most infamous killers of all time are being replicated by a new predator who stalks and strikes victims with a cunning brilliance. No one can understand the murderer's motives or who the next victim will be.
Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2018-09-19
Michelle Maxwell has just blown her future with the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight to comfort a grieving widow. Then, behind closed doors, the politician whose safety was her responsibility vanished into thin air.
Not Baldacci's Best
Deadly Cross
Alex Cross, Book 28
Auteur(s): James Patterson
Narrateur(s): Brad Sanders
Kay Willingham led a life as glamorous as it was public - she was a gorgeous Georgetown socialite, philanthropist, and the ex-wife of the vice president. So why was she parked in a Bentley convertible idling behind a DC private school, in the middle of the night, with the man who was the head of that school? Who shot them both, point blank, and why? The shocking double homicide is blazed across the internet, TV, newspapers - and across Alex Cross's mind. Kay had been his patient once. And maybe more.
Écrit par Mike le 2021-08-11
One Good Deed
It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of dos and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get a job - and don't ever associate with loose women. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's years serving in the war or his time in jail.
Interesting twists
Écrit par Ann Hedberg le 2019-09-30
Deliver Us from Evil
Narrateur(s): Ron McLarty
Locked in a battle of nerve and wits, a mysterious intelligence operative and a vigilante agent race against time to take down a greedy businessman bent on destroying millions of lives in this number one New York Times best-selling thriller. Evan Waller is a monster...He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything...and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: One that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe.
Écrit par Kelly Spaulding le 2020-11-23
Narrateur(s): Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
Army Special Agent John Puller is the best there is. A combat veteran, Puller is the man the U.S. Army relies on to investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation. Now he has a new case - but this time, the crime is personal: His aunt has been found dead in Paradise, Florida.
Great story and narrator
Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2021-10-08
Will Robie and Jessica Reel are two of the most lethal people alive. They're the ones the government calls in when the utmost secrecy is required to take out those who plot violence and mass destruction against the United States. And through every mission, one man has always had their backs: their handler, code-named Blue Man. But now, Blue Man is missing.
Great Read the pairr at there best
Écrit par Jamie Doyle le 2022-01-14
Pender Associates is a shadowy organization that specializes in managing seemingly impossible situations for its clients. Sometimes, those services extend to managing - and creating - armed conflict.
Another great book by David Baldacci
From David Baldacci - the modern master of the thriller and number-one worldwide best-selling novelist - comes a new hero: a lone Army Special Agent taking on the toughest crimes facing the nation. John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth.
Amazing 🤩 one will never want to stop listening
King and Maxwell
It seems at first like a simple, tragic story. Tyler Wingo, a teenage boy, learns the awful news that his father, a soldier, was killed in action in Afghanistan. Then the extraordinary happens: Tyler receives a communication from his father...after his supposed death. Tyler hires Sean and Michelle to solve the mystery surrounding his father. But their investigation quickly leads to deeper, more troubling questions. Could Tyler's father really still be alive? What was his true mission? Could Tyler be the next target? Sean and Michelle soon realize that they've stumbled on to something bigger and more treacherous than anyone could have imagined.
In this gripping mystery, an FBI Agent's search for her sister clashes with a military investigator's high-stakes case, leading them both deep into a global conspiracy - from which neither of them will escape unscathed.
For many long years, Atlee Pine was tormented by uncertainty after her twin sister, Mercy, was abducted at the age of six and never seen again. Now, just as Atlee is pressured to end her investigation into Mercy's disappearance, she finally gets her most promising breakthrough yet: the identity of her sister's kidnapper, Ito Vincenzo.
With time running out, Atlee and her assistant Carol Blum race to Vincenzo's last known location in Trenton, New Jersey - and unknowingly stumble straight into John Puller's case, blowing his arrest during a drug ring investigation involving a military installation.
Stunningly, Pine and Puller's joint investigation uncovers a connection between Vincenzo's family and a breathtaking scheme that strikes at the very heart of global democracy. Peeling back the layers of deceit, lies and cover-ups, Atlee finally discovers the truth about what happened to Mercy. And that truth will shock Pine to her very core.
©2020 David Baldacci (P)2020 Hachette Audio
Femmes détectives Romans policiers et crimes internationaux Suspense Thrillers policiers Littérature et fiction
Memory Man
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
The Awakened Brain
Ce que les auditeurs disent de Daylight
William B Crist
Very strong feelings about this book
I was told as a child if you can't say something nice about it, say nothing at all. I finished reading the book last night and still can't find one positive thing to say.
Better to spend your time doing something constructive.
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Lis McWalter
Good story, narration not so good
The female narration did not fit the character in my view. Atley is a badass character. It was hard to rationalize the voice and character.
I. Otakpor
Heart Pounding Mystery
Attlee Pine is a seasoned investigator. I would describe her as a cat with nine lives. She never gives up in spite of all the lies she was told. She is focused on finding her despite all odds. She overcame all obstacles and was close to finding her sister. I am looking forward to the continuation of the story. Kudos to David Baldacci. He is a master of suspense.
Need a sequel
We need a sequel to have some closure on the twin. We need to know what happened to her and if she's alive where is she and in what condition?
As always David does an amazing job at suspense and thriller. It takes you in places that than go sideways...
Kindle Customer11
Another great read by David Baldacci
Loved how two main characters in his series come together in this book. Fast paced, heart wrenching, brilliant.
Great Listen
I love this series! I am waiting for the next book, I am hoping she will find her sister!
Barbara Harbort
2 books w/o resolution????
Disappointed with ending. After reading previous 2 books, I thought surely Atlee would finally solve the mystery. Now I have to wait another year? Very upset with Baldacci. I have read or listened to ALL of his books; this may be my last one.
OverRover
Bye Bye Baldacci
Die hard fan for years but no more. I'm done.
This is pretty much a rehash of the last story line just a new location with some soap box political commentary pontificating thrown in.
Narration is great, Kyf is always spot on, his range and ability to get accents and inflection right make even a bad story line tolerable but he couldn't save this one. Brittany was starting to grow on me, and she does a decent job but again, nothing can make this mess tolerable.
Constance B Roznovsky
Absolutely Fantastic
Breathtaking ..this is the best one yet. I never wanted it to end. adding the Puller's in it gave it that extra kick. The next one can't come fast enough I'll be listening to this one over and over again . Absolutely fantastic
Janet Kent
no resolution for Mercy
this series an absolute disappointment after Memory Man. Narrator makes JPuller sound 10 yrs old.
If you really like mysteries and thrillers...
If you really like mysteries and thrillers, look elsewhere. This book and series is like riding It's a Small World, as an adult.
M Smith
I'VE LISTENED TO A TON OF DAVID BALDACCI BOOKS AND THIS ONE IS AT THE TOP OF ANY OF HIS BOOKS. FAST PACED FROM THE 1ST SENTENCE TO THE END. IT WON'T DISAPPOINT!!
RZinAZ
Daylight: starring "Karen" as FBI agent Atlee Pine
It is a complicated story and the people involved are many. You must read the first two book for this to make any sense.
My issue however the way Atlee Pine is acting at the end of the book. It is more like an immature child than the strong female FBI agent. Anyone who is an avid reader knows that one over the top scene can ruin a book or a character. This one comes very close and the annoying antics of the lead is impossible to ignore.
In a fit of childlike temper tantrum mixed with out of control you-tube Karen like anger, she stomps toward a house under construction belonging to someone who made her mad. Then she literally proceeds to karate kick ((Hi-Yaa!")) and hand chop ((Hee-yaaaa!")) down a framed house under construction. All this after firing her pistol in the air sending workers running for cover.
There will be a book four, but to have any degree of realism, this one will no doubt start with an ex-agent Atlee escaping from the mental ward.
Like and Hate
Fast paced. Most of Baldacci's books read like a good mystery, action movie. My only issue is the twin's situation. Really, we had to go there and it had to be that? So many other directions to take. No rainbows and unicorns in this book and that's why I liked and hated it. Looking out for next book in the series.
Leanne Malone
the ending though
Really frustrated with the turn the book took at the end. So many ways it could have gone and instead it just seemed silly. I've never wanted to get to the end of a book like I did this one. Not sure I'll continue this series after this
I enjoyed this fast paced story, for the most part. I'm not crazy over the male narrator, though! Can't stand his raspy voice. The female narrator was ok. Regardless, it was a good story.


Our Student Council is a fully-fledged, independent and effective institution. It consists of nine students elected by their peers where each class is represented by one student.
This initiative is aimed at supporting the social development of all children at school. It is a part of the school mission to help children become responsible citizens and learn how to take part in the democratic decision making process.
Our Student Council is an active institution and meets weekly.
Education gained at school is important, along with equally important general knowledge and practical skills.
Hence, at our English school, we value our cooperation with an international team.


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Q: Passing case class into function arguments sorry for asking a simple question. I want to pass a case class to a function argument and I want to use it further inside the function. Till now I have tried this with TypeTag and ClassTag but for some reason, I am unable to properly use it or may be I am not looking at the correct place.
Use cases is something similar to this:
case class infoData(colA:Int,colB:String)
case class someOtherData(col1:String,col2:String,col3:Int)

def readCsv[T:???](path:String,passedCaseClass:???): Dataset[???] = {
  sqlContext
    .read
    .option("header", "true")
    .csv(path)
    .as[passedCaseClass]
}

It will be called something like this:
val infoDf = readCsv("/src/main/info.csv",infoData)
val otherDf = readCsv("/src/main/someOtherData.csv",someOtherData)

A: There are two things which you should pay attention to,

*

*class names should be in CamelCase, so InfoData.

*Once you have bound a type to a DataSet, its not a DataFrame. DataFrame is a special name for a DataSet of general purpose Row.

What you need is to ensure that your provided class has an implicit instance of corresponding Encoder in current scope.
case class InfoData(colA: Int, colB: String)

Encoder instances for primitive types (Int, String, etc) and case classes can be obtained by importing spark.implicits._
def readCsv[T](path: String)(implicit encoder: Encoder: T): Dataset[T] = {
  spark
    .read
    .option("header", "true")
    .csv(path)
    .as[T]
}

Or, you can use context bound,
def readCsv[T: Encoder[T]](path: String): Dataset[T] = {
  spark
    .read
    .option("header", "true")
    .csv(path)
    .as[T]
}

Now, you can use it as following,
val spark = ...

import spark.implicits._

def readCsv[T: Encoder[T]](path: String): Dataset[T] = {
  spark
    .read
    .option("header", "true")
    .csv(path)
    .as[T]
}

val infoDS = readCsv[InfoData]("/src/main/info.csv")

A: First change your function definition to:
object t0 {
    def readCsv[T] (path: String)(implicit spark: SparkSession, encoder: Encoder[T]): Dataset[T] = {
      spark
        .read
        .option("header", "true")
        .csv(path)
        .as[T]
    }
}

You don´t need to perform any kind of reflection to create a generic readCsv function. The key here is that Spark needs the encoder at compile time. So you can pass it as implicit parameter and the compiler will add it.
Because Spark SQL can deserialize product types(your case classes) including the default encoders,  it is easy to call your function like:
case class infoData(colA: Int, colB: String)
case class someOtherData(col1: String, col2: String, col3: Int)

object test {
  import t0._

  implicit val spark = SparkSession.builder().getOrCreate()

  import spark.implicits._
  readCsv[infoData]("/tmp")

}

Hope it helps


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MP-05 La Ferrari Sapphire – A Tribute to the FXX K
Posted by Redazione on 1 Ottobre 2016 in DESIGN, LUSSO | 679.010 Views
Hublot takes it to another level by presenting the first ever animated movie for the MP-05 LaFerrari Sapphire
A record-breaking power reserve, a truly outstanding watch and a unique supercar – these are the stars of Digital Domain's new blockbuster
In the City of Angels, on the roof of the Ace Museum – a world premiere – the first animated film from Hublot, a joint production created by Digital Domain, world leaders in action movies and visual effects. On the bill is a 1200 HP hybrid supercar, the FXX K, and a superwatch with a 50-day power reserve. A world record for Hublot.
"A first among firsts. 'LaFerrari' Sapphire brings together the best and most cutting-edge technology – in the construction of the watch and its movement, the FXX K supercar that provided its inspiration, and now in the digital revolution provided by the best and most famous animated film studio, Digital Domain. So I know this watch by heart, every feature, every detail, the film literally plunged me into sensations that I have never felt before. I feel as if I am this watch, this car; I am speed, technology, invention, the record!" -Ricardo Guadalupe, CEO of Hublot
Watched over by the Hollywood sign, the mythical symbol that embodies the magic of the world's movie capital, the roof of the Ace Museum with its unique, futuristic decor has been turned into a drive-in cinema where the Hublot magic can once again unfold. A real digital revolution. Hublot is presenting its first animated film. A world premiere that presents Hublot as world leaders, with special effects that are worthy of Hollywood's top blockbusters, and starring a supercar, the Ferrari FXX K, and a superwatch, the MP-05 "LaFerrari" Sapphire. Thanks to the virtuosity of Digital Domain, its historic record (power reserve of 50 days) has now been immortalised on film.
All the images have been animated by a real-life driver at the steering wheel, and the technical features of the car have been configured to provide the most realistic driving experience possible. In a world of computer-generated images, the idea is to offer a real experience and realistic sensations. It is an audio-visual experience, as Digital Domain have created a soundtrack in Hollywood action-movie style, based on the FXX K's engine.
This animated film tells the story of the HUB9005.H1.PN.1 movement, and the unique design of its sapphire case. A futuristic, 3D design machined from 7 blocks of sapphire, involving more than 600 hours' work and precise 3D workmanship to produce an ultra-light 53.5 grams on the wrist. Its unique movement comprises ultra-lightweight carbon components. It has a record-breaking power reserve of 50 days, and 11 series-coupled barrels set in a spine formation that dominate the centre of the watch and keep the movement turning with its 637 components, a record number. A hypnotic movement, a truly outstanding watch. On the big screen, the MP-05 "LaFerrari" Sapphire is almost overwhelming in its visual impact.
Link to the movie: https://youtu.be/sXXeLbWiTE0
Link to the making of: https://youtu.be/YxFPYjOzNwY
Posted in DESIGN, LUSSO


Well, here's one for the birds......I mean books. The NECC07 conference to be held in Atlanta June 24-27 this year has just announced their 'Birds of a Feather' session planning details, and they are on a wiki!
This is so good! Thanks goes to Anita McAnear and the NECC planning committee. The wiki allows readers to contribute ideas for, amongst others, 'Birds I'd like to attend', 'Birds topics I'd like to offer', 'Requests for meeting spaces'. Concurrently with the Birds sessions are the ISTE Special Interest Groups (SIGs) business meetings.
Already on the wiki are offers from Terry Freedman for COA 2nd edition and Women of Web 2.0 as well as Bernie Dodge webquest users and shakers, Open source and online tools users, technology integration etc, etc.
The facility of the wiki provides an interactive venue for interested participants to contribute ideas and discuss options prior to the final program for Birds being finalised. I encourage readers of this blog to view the Birds of a Feather wiki to see how collaboration can be facilitated using a Web 2.0 tool and if you are attending NECC07 take a closer look at what you may want to attend/suggest/host for one of the Birds of a Feather sessions.
My main problem: How will I choose which sessions to go to???
NECC is just going to ROCK this year!


This statistic displays the prevalence of individuals who are obese in England from 2003 to 2017, by gender. In the year 2017, 27 percent of men and 30 percent of women were obese.
* Weighted bases: n (men)= 3232; n (women)= 3,338.
Overweight: 25 to less than 30 kilograms per meter squared.
** In 2016, the figure excludes morbidly obese: 20 kilograms per meter squared or more.


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NOTE: MOUNTS TO AMERICAN 4x4 (2 GANG) WALL BOXES.


Compared to the previous volumes of Virology Monographs, the recent one on varicella virus is more clinically oriented. The text is shorter, but the description is clearer.
Less than half of the book involves the discussion of the basic virology; the rest is on clinical virology, which includes clinical pathological features, immunity, epidemiology, pathogenesis, prophylaxis, treatment, and laboratory diagnosis. In all sections chicken pox and zoster are discussed in parallel fashion.
Published: Ann Intern Med. 1973;78(3):470.


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Title : International Polar Year
Witness(es) : Robin E. Bell
Doherty Senior Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University; and Chair, Polar Research Board and U.S. National Committee for International Polar Year, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council, The AffiliateMarketIngtools
Committee : Committee on Science
INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR 2007-2008:
THE OPPORTUNITY OF A GENERATION
Dr, Robin Elizabeth Bell
Doherty Senior Research Scientist
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Chair, Polar Research Board
US National Committee for International Polar Year
National Research Council
Subcommittee on Research
Committee on Science
Good Morning. Thank you very much for inviting me to speak about International Polar Year 2007-2008. The International Polar Year (IPY) is the scientific opportunity of a generation for our nation, for our society, and for our planet.
My name is Robin E. Bell, PhD from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, where I am a Doherty Senior Research Scientist. I am a geophysicist by training and at Columbia I lead major geophysical programs on the stability of ice sheets including subglacial lakes. I also direct Columbia's NSF sponsored ADVANCE program, aimed at recruiting and retaining women in science. I was the first women to lead a major aerogeophysical program from the Antarctic continent, and this has been the focus of much of my research for the past 2 decades.
In addition to my research I chair the National Research Council's Polar Research Board, which acts as the national coordinating committee for IPY. The Research Council is the operating arm of the AffiliateMarketIngtools of Sciences, AffiliateMarketIngtools of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine, chartered by Congress in 1863 to advise the government on matters of science and technology. I served as the Co-Chair of the International Council for Science's (ICSU) initial IPY Planning Group, which developed the first major international IPY planning document. "A Framework for International Polar Year." I currently serve on the ICSU-WMO Joint Committee for IPY, the main international planning group.
Today I will provide an overview of why IPY is happening and why it's important to us here in the United States. What has motivated more than 5000 scientists from some 63 nations to decide to participate in a year devoted to polar studies and education? I'll highlight the major science questions that will be addressed, outline the role that US scientists and science managers have been playing developing IPY, and conclude with thoughts on the many societal benefits that can result from the IPY.
In this era of instant communications and global connectivity, it might seem surprising that the global scientific community is so excited by a scientific strategy that was developed more than 100 years ago. Because it was indeed back in 1882-1883 that the idea of holding a focused, internationally-coordinated year of polar research – an International Polar Year – was first developed. At that point in history, the poles were blank white spaces on maps and the cutting edge communications technology was the telegraph. The decision to coordinate with other nations rather than compete, and to focus on research to understand polar phenomena rather than acquisition of territory, was something new and exciting. That first IPY in 1882-83 and subsequent ones in 1932-33 and the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in 1957-58, drew great minds and generated great leaders; these "international years" set a precedent of cooperation in science that, while innovative at the time, is considered the norm today.
Today's scientists are similarly motivated by society's need for integrated global knowledge. There is still a fundamental human need to push the limits of our understanding about polar phenomena. The polar regions are integral components of the Earth system. As the heat sinks of the climate system they both respond to and drive changes elsewhere on the planet. While environmental change and variability are part of the natural pattern on Earth, the environmental changes currently witnessed in the polar regions are in many cases more pronounced than changes observed in the mid-latitudes or tropics. The Arctic sea ice cover is decreasing; some ice shelves in Antarctica are retreating and thinning; glaciers are shrinking; and ecosystems are changing, for instance, with plants flowering at earlier times. These changes are having human impacts: some Alaskan villages have been moved to higher ground in response to rising sea levels, and thawing of permafrost is undermining roads and buildings in northern communities around the world. We must understand the implications of environmental change for the future of our global society.
Although we've made tremendous progress in all science over the past 100 years, the polar regions are still at the frontiers of human knowledge. The maps aren't quite as blank, but the frontiers and unknowns have actually increased, and range from the molecular, to the ecological, to the continental. How is it that certain microbes can survive at minus 2 degrees Fahrenheit, that certain nematodes live even when ice forms in their cells, that polar fish species have evolved with an antifreeze protein in their blood? What will happen to the unique under-ice ecological communities of the Arctic, which are the base of the Arctic food web, as ice conditions change and new species arrive from southern waters? In just the last 10 years we discovered more than 150 subglacial lakes that exist under the ice in Antarctica. These range in size from something similar to the reflecting pool on the Mall to a lake the size of Lake Ontario. Why are these lakes important? They are thought to contain exotic ecosystems; the water in these lakes is part of the subglacial plumbing system that can be thought of as the lubricant that makes the ice sheet flow faster.
At its most fundamental level, IPY 2007-2008 is envisioned to be an intense, coordinated field campaign of polar observations, research, and analysis that will be multidisciplinary in scope and international in participation. IPY will provide a framework to undertake projects that normally could not be achieved by any single nation. It allows us to think beyond traditional borders—whether national borders or disciplinary constraints—toward a new level of integrated, cooperative science. A coordinated international approach maximizes both impact and cost effectiveness, and the international collaborations started today will build relationships and understanding that will bring long-term benefits. Within this context, IPY will seek to galvanize new and innovative observations and research while at the same time building on and enhancing existing initiatives. IPY will serve as a mechanism to attract and develop a new generation of scientists and engineers with the versatility to tackle complex global issues.
In addition, IPY is clearly an opportunity to organize a range of education and outreach activities designed to excite and engage the public, with a presence in classrooms around the world and in the media in varied and innovative formats. The IPY will use today's powerful research tools to better understand the key roles of the polar regions in global processes. Automatic observatories, satellite-based remote sensing, autonomous vehicles, Internet, and genomics are just a few of the innovative approaches for studying previously inaccessible realms. IPY 2007-2008 will be fundamentally broader than past international years because it will explicitly incorporate multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies, including biological, ecological, and social science elements.
IPY 2007-2008 is an opportunity to deepen our understanding of the polar regions and their global linkages and impacts, and to communicate these insights to the public. IPY planners have identified five broad scientific challenges to be addressed:
• Assessing large-scale environmental change in the polar regions, with questions looking at both the physical and human dimensions of change and its impacts.
• Conducting scientific exploration of "new" frontiers, whether these are once inaccessible places beneath the ice sheet, or areas of inquiry that are now open because of advances in technology, such as how the tools of genomics now allow exploration of previously unanswerable questions about biological adaptation.
• Observing the polar regions in depth, with adequate coverage of the vast and challenging landscape, to provide a description of current conditions and allow for better future understanding of variability and change.
• Understanding human-environmental dynamics in a region where the connections are intimate and where the impacts of change are clear.
• Creating new connections between science and the public, using these regions that are inherently intriguing.
One of the major differences between the first two IPYs and IGY and our upcoming IPY 2007-2008 is the recognition that the physical world and the biological world and human society are intimately interrelated. This upcoming IPY is inherently about not just science, but science in support of human interests. It includes work in engineering, medicine, sociology, and human-environment interactions. The present map of 225 IPY projects highlights the geographic and discipline breadth of the IPY 2007-2008. Each cell represents a major program with an international team of scientists working together to advance our knowledge of our planet – producing a tremendous multiplicative effect. The net result will be a huge leap forward in our understanding of polar processes – physical, biological and social - and their global connections.
Previous IPY efforts were characterized by very top down planning and generally driven by the military. For example, under the oversight of Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, then head of the Department of War, the US participation in the first IPY in 1882-82 was led by the Army. The science priorities for our upcoming IPY, on the other hand, emerged from grass roots planning, international scientific groups, US agency input, and help from the US AffiliateMarketIngtools of Sciences and AffiliateMarketIngtools of Engineering.
Beginning in 2002, with the support of more than two dozen members, the AffiliateMarketIngtools invested some of its own endowment funds to launch the IPY planning process within the US. The chair of that first effort was Dr. Mary Albert of the Army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. She led a committee that sought wide input on whether the US should participate in IPY and, if so, what we should hope to accomplish. The committee led a series of web discussions, gave talks at numerous professional meetings, met with agency leaders, hosted a multi-day workshop, and compiled contributions from 13 federal agencies into an initial planning document. The report, "A Vision for International Polar Year 2007-2008." was released early in 2004 and came to be the foundation for much of the international planning as well. (A summary of this report is attached to my testimony.) This early investment of financial and intellectual capital put the US in a position to play a leadership role in planning the IPY internationally.
Today, four years after the planning for IPY began, over 225 projects have been proposed as part of IPY around the globe. Of these, the US plays a leadership role in 52 projects (20%) and is participating in 80%. This "honeycomb diagram" provides an illustration of the breadth of activities, with projects at both poles, across disciplines, and across nations. Right now, everything is still conceptual – what will actually happen on the ground is still being determined, both here and in other nations. There is an international IPY Programme Office, staffed by Dr. David Carlson and hosted in Cambridge, England, by the British Antarctic Survey. There is also an international planning committee, called the Joint Committee, of which I am a member, and various subcommittees devoted to data management, observation systems, and education and outreach. It's a very lean administrative organization for such a complex undertaking.
While planning for IPY started with the scientific community, all the federal agencies with cold regions responsibilities are having roles in implementation. When the AffiliateMarketIngtools hosted a workshop to encourage agency coordination in 2004, 13 agencies participated. At the request of the White House, the National Science Foundation is serving as the lead federal agency. (In Alaska, the University of Alaska Fairbanks has stepped forward as the state-wide leader.) NSF has shown real leadership in its role, holding interagency planning meetings, initiating a multi-agency website, and establishing mechanisms so that science and education/outreach proposals are in the process of being funded. The AffiliateMarketIngtools continues to provide coordination through the Polar Research Board, which acts as the US National Committee for IPY. The Polar Research Board hosts an IPY website, distributes an IPY e-newsletter, communicates information to and from the international Joint Committee, and holds meetings as needed to accomplish IPY planning and coordination. Continuing to serve in this coordinating role, in early October, the Polar Research Board will be hosting a meeting of the IPY secretariats so the staff working on IPY behind-the-scenes have an opportunity to coordinate.
In conclusion, I want to think ahead about the societal benefits of the International Polar Year. Just as the IPY and the emerging science programs are multifaceted and multidisciplinary, the benefits of the IPY will be multifaceted and multidisciplinary. The IPY will advance our fundamental understanding of our planet – from the polar ecosystems to the subglacial terrains. The IPY will improve our understanding of the processes of change and that complex double-edged sword of how society is influencing change and how change is influencing society – especially the inhabitants of the north. The IPY will inspire a spirit of discovery across all ages and help us develop the next generation of our nation's leaders in science, engineering, education, industry, commerce, and government. At the international level, IPY will again show that even in the most difficult times, science can be an arena of international cooperation. IPY will foster the continued peaceful use of the polar regions, engage new partners in the global science community, and leverage precious scientific and logistical resources so that, in essence, we get more from our investments.
Why should the vast majority of us, who live in the warmer regions of the Earth, care about IPY? The polar regions, while physically distant, are critical links in the global climate system. Does this matter for the rest of the planet? Imagine holding an ice cube between your thumb and your forefinger. Beneath your fingers a pool of water forms quickly. The water will drip down your arms and down the ice cube. The changes at the end driven by the warmth of your fingers are transferred across the entire ice cube. The relationship between the poles to the rest of the globe are the same. The polar oceans play a critical role in maintaining ocean currents that keep coastal Europe much warmer than it would be otherwise, and the sea ice cover modifies Earth's surface temperature by reflecting solar energy. Melting ice sheets will raise sea levels, threatening coastal communities around the world. The polar regions are integral components of the Earth system that both respond to and drive changes elsewhere on the planet.
The polar regions also hold unique information of Earth's past climate history, and they are growing in economic and geopolitical importance. They are a unique vantage point for studies that will help scientists understand environmental changes in the context of past changes, which in turn will help us make informed choices for our future. The exploration of new scientific frontiers in the polar regions also will lead to new discoveries, insights, and theories potentially important to all people.
In summary, International Polar Year 2007-2008 will leave us important legacies:
• an improved understanding of environmental status and change,
• more comprehensive data and the ability to understand trends in the future,
• improved observation systems to capture future environmental change,
• a continued spirit of exploration into new frontiers of science,
• a new and inspired generation of scientifically literate citizens and leaders,
• an enhanced level of international cooperation to address global scale issues.
Thank you for your time. I'd be happy to answer any questions.
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Trump's Numerous Declarations of Victory Over IS
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In late 2018, President Donald Trump announced the U.S. would withdraw almost all of its troops from Syria, saying the Islamic State terror group had been defeated and there was no longer a reason to deploy U.S. forces in the war-torn nation.
The announcement led to the resignation of former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who reportedly felt the drawdown was premature.
In the months since Trump announced the defeat of IS, he has wavered on whether the group has been vanquished. Sometimes he predicted that total victory would come in hours or days, while other times he has doubled down on the claim that the IS threat has been eliminated.
Here's a chronology of claims concerning the demise of Islamic State.
Dec. 19, 2018 � Trump declared, "We have won against ISIS," in a video released by the White House, to explain why the U.S. was pulling most of its troops out of Syria.
Dec. 22, 2018 � Trump tweets that "ISIS is largely defeated and other local countries, including Turkey, should be able to easily take care of whatever remains."
Jan. 16, 2019 � Vice President Mike Pence declares in a speech at the State Department that "the caliphate has crumbled and ISIS has been defeated." Earlier that day, four Americans were killed in Syria by an IS suicide bomber.
Jan. 30, 2019 � Trump tweets about the "tremendous progress" made in Syria and that the IS "Caliphate will soon be destroyed."
Feb. 1, 2019 � Trump repeats that "We will soon have destroyed 100 percent of the Caliphate."
Feb. 3, 2019 � Trump tells CBS News, "We will be announcing in the not too distant future 100 percent of the caliphate, which is the area � the land, the area � 100. We're at 99 percent right now, we'll be at 100."
Feb. 6, 2019 � Trump predicts that the declaration that the coalition has captured all IS holdings "should be formally announced sometime, probably next week."
Feb. 10, 2019 � Trump tweets that the U.S. will control all former IS territory in Syria "soon."
Feb. 11, 2019 � At a rally in El Paso, Texas, Trump says the announcement that 100 percent of Islamic State territory has been captured will be coming "maybe over the next week, maybe less."
Feb. 15, 2019 � At a news conference Trump says a statement about "our success with the eradication of the caliphate will be announced over the next 24 hours."
Feb. 16, 2019 � Trump tweets, "We are pulling back after 100 percent Caliphate victory!"
Feb. 22, 2019 � Trump tells reporters "In another short period of time, like hours � you'll be hearing hours and days � you'll be hearing about the caliphate. It will � it's 100 percent defeated."
Feb. 28, 2019 � In a speech to U.S. troops in Alaska, Trump says, "We just took over, you know, you kept hearing it was 90 percent, 92 percent, the caliphate in Syria. Now it's 100 percent we just took over, 100 percent caliphate."
March 2, 2019 � At a conference, Trump tells attendees, "As of probably today or tomorrow, we will actually have 100 percent of the caliphate in Syria."
March 20, 2019 � Trump shows reporters a map that plots the territory still held by the Islamic State in Syria and promises that area "will be gone by tonight."
Meanwhile, U.S. military officials, as well as members of the coalition actively fighting the terror group, have been reluctant to predict when final victory will be declared. Some also note that even when IS no longer controls any territory, fighters who escaped capture and are hiding within civilian populations could still pose a security threat.
Source: Voice of America
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David L. Politis
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I'd forgotten how surprisingly cold it can get at night in the desert, particularly when you're at an elevation of 3,000 feet above sea level.
But that's where I was early early Monday morning last week, goose bumps on my arms as I stood staring up into the vastness of the Milky Way while standing on the tarmac of the Mojave Airport in Mojave, Calif.
I had never before visited the fair city of Mojave, some 80 miles almost directly north of Los Angeles, but there I was, courtesy of a client, about to witness a true once-in-a-lifetime event.
What brought several thousand others and me to Mojave that cold, pre-dawn morning was a chance to see history in the making — the second commercial flight into space within a two-week period with the reward a $10 million prize.
The $10 million purse was offered to all commercial enterprises by the X Prize Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 1995 by Peter H. Diamandis in Rockville, Md.
The purpose of the X Prize Foundation is to encourage commercial space flight, and under this goal, the organization moved its headquarters to St. Louis in 1996, the former center of the aerospace industry.
During the ensuing years, various individuals and organizations joined with the X Prize Foundation to create and back the funding of both the organization and an aerospace competition.
Interestingly, the establishment of aviation competitions has a long and successful history, with hundreds of aviation prizes being awarded between 1905 and 1935 as a means of advancing aircraft technology. The most notable such event was probably the $25,000 prize awarded in 1927 to Charles Lindbergh for flying non-stop from New York City and Paris, France.
By 2004 the now-named Ansari X Prize purse had grown to $10 million.
There were three conditions for winning the prize
1. Privately finance, build and launch a spaceship, carrying three people (or their equivalent weight) to 100 kilometers (62.5 miles) above the Earth;
2. Return safely to Earth; and
3. Repeat the launch with the same ship within two weeks.
Scaled Composites — a Mojave-based company founded in 1982 by noted airplane designer Burt Rutan, and later backed by Microsoft co-founder and multi-billionaire Paul Allen — put the first commercial ship into space on June 1 earlier this year, reaching an altitude of approximately 100 kilometers.
The 6,000-ton SpaceShipOne's first steps into space come on the back of another plane as it is lifted, piggyback style, to an elevation of approximately 50,000 feet.
After releasing from the "mother ship," SpaceShipOne kicks on its engine, burning a fuel comprised of nitrous oxide, or NOX, and the plastic container housing the NOX.
On Sept. 29, SpaceShipOne went into space again, reaching a peak altitude above the required 100-kilometer height, although the vehicle committed 29 unexpected rolls as it rocketed above the atmosphere.
While the cause of the rolls have not been fully explained by Rutan, pilot Mike Melvill, or Scaled Composites, the ship did safely return to earth, setting the stage for an attempt at the $10 million Ansari X Prize a week ago Monday.
So it was there I found myself in Mojave, watching the emerging sun in the east lighten the morning sky.
By 6:48 a.m. PDT Monday, Oct. 4, the level of excitement within the crowd in the VIP area was palpable as SpaceShipOne lifted off, strapped to its carrier plane, the Rutan-designed White Knight. (Note: The date carried special significance for Rutan and all other space flight aficionados as it marked the 47-year anniversary of the first flight of the space age: Sputnik I.)
Reaching an elevation of roughly 50,000 feet took nearly an hour as White Knight slowly corkscrewed upwards into the desert air.
By then, the carrier plane and two chaser aircraft were mere dots in the clear sky, the contrail of White Knight barely visible.
Following a 20-second countdown to separation, SpaceShipOne was on its own. Soon, a new contrail emerged shooting arrow-like straight up, away from Mother Earth.
Higher and higher reached SpaceShipOne, its exhaust showing the way as those in attendance fought the blinding rays of the sun to watch through watering eyes the flight above us.
Then the motor stopped, the fuel exhausted and the contrail ended. We turned almost as one to the huge portable video screen to watch the electronic image as the ship pushed past the atmosphere into the outer edges of space urged on by the powers of momentum.
The on-screen digital altimeter rolled on and on until I heard someone say, "He's done it."
And he was right. He (the pilot, Brian Binnie), and SpaceShipOne, and Rutan, and Scaled Composites had succeeded, surpassing 100 kilometers twice within a two-week period.
Radar confirmation later placed the actual altitude achieved at 367,442 feet, breaking the altitude record of 354,200 feet for winged flight set on Aug. 22, 1963 by the X-15.
As the minimum height was reached and the altitude record broken, I was overcome with awe, a surprising sense of pride filled my chest and I found my eyes watering once again.
"How cool," I thought. "They did it; they actually did it."
The flight — and the risk — were not over yet, but as most readers probably know by now, SpaceShipOne touched down safely nearly 90 minutes after initial lift off, meeting the Ansari X Prize conditions and winning the $10 million purse.
As so succinctly and eloquently captured by the opening voiceover of the original "Star Trek" television series, space is "the final frontier." The goal of reaching into space is "to boldly go where no man has gone before."
I believe the benefits of even attempting to reach into space far outweigh the potential risks and the very real costs of such efforts.
I highly applaud all involved with the X Prize Foundation and all of those individuals and companies doing what they can to reach for the stars, to make space flight a common and an affordable occurrence available to anyone interested in reaching heavenward in a very real way.
David Politis leads Politis Communications, a strategic communications agency that helps maximize corporate value for high-tech and life science companies. E-mail: dpolitis@politis.com.
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48 Hours Premiered 'A Brother's Mission' on CBS: Claudia Hoerig Stands Accused of Gunning Down Husband Karl & Fleeing to Brazil (November 25, 2017)
Posted on November 25, 2017 by Administrator
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After "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty tracks down the accused killer of a decorated military pilot in Brazil, the woman is extradited to the United States . Will the pilot's family get justice?
To get justice for his death, Karl Hoerig's family in the United States must first navigate the Brazilian criminal justice system, which may keep his suspected murderer from facing extradition. -48 Hours
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio, 13th District) has appealed to three U.S. Presidents to try and help Major Karl Hoerig's family get justice for the U.S. Air Force veteran's murder. "48 Hours" Erin Moriarty talks to the congressman about his push to have Claudia Hoerig extradited to the United States to stand trial. -48 Hours
The family of a murdered military hero is embroiled in an international fight for justice. Karl Hoerig was killed in his Ohio home in March 2007. His family immediately suspected his wife, Claudia, but she boarded a flight to her native Brazil hours after her husband's death. U.S. investigators charged Claudia with murder, but more than 10 years later, the Hoerig family is still seeking justice. -CBS This Morning (November 24, 2017)
A military hero found shot to death in his home in Ohio and his wife abruptly returns to her native Brazil. Now his brother is on a mission to track down a suspected killer. -CBS New York (November 24, 2017)
48 Hours reporter explains what Claudia Hoerig's been doing in Brazil -WKBN27 (January 18, 2018)
More than 11 years have passed as the family of Karl Hoerig waited for his accused killer to be brought to justice. -WKBN27 (January 18, 2018)
A Brazilian fugitive accused of murdering her husband is back on U.S. soil to face justice, thanks in part to "48 Hours." Karl Hoerig was a major in the Air Force reserve. He was shot and killed in his own home in March 2007. The main suspect was his wife, but she flew back to her native Brazil shortly after Hoerig's death. -CBS This Morning (January 23, 2018)
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"Everybody Get Up" is a song by English boy band Five. It was released on 13 October 1998 as the fourth single from their debut studio album 5ive (1998). The song was co-written by Alan Merrill, Jake Hooker, Five and Herbie Crichlow. It was co-produced by Stannard and Rowe. "Everybody Get Up" has received a silver sales status certification for sales of over 200,000 in the UK.
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"Everybody Get Up" is the first single of rapper Pitbull's 2005 remix album Money Is Still a Major Issue featuring the R&B group Pretty Ricky. It was released on November 15, 2005.
This Music video was directed by Dr. Teeth. It features Pitbull and Pretty Ricky.
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Most of the raids were conducted across Hassan and Mandya, considered strongholds of HD Deve Gowda's family. Deve Gowda's grandsons, Prajwal Revanna and Nikhil Kumaraswamy, are contesting the Lok Sabha elections from these two districts.
Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy claimed that the raids were "politically motivated".
Bengaluru: Officials of the Income Tax Department recovered around Rs 2 crore in cash and jewellery weighing over 1.5 kg during the raids in Karnataka on Thursday.
Authorities launched a coordinated search-and-seizure operation early in the day and raided 24 premises. Sources in the I-T department said properties of 13 contractors and four engineers were raided in different places, including Channarayapatna, Arkalgud, Hassan, Mandya, Bengaluru, Shimoga and Chikmagalur.
However, the ruling Janata Dal (Secular)-Congress coalition cried foul and said the "revenge raids" were politically motivated to disrupt their campaigns ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Both parties accused the BJP-led central government of misusing national agencies to carry out such raids on people affiliated to leaders of Opposition parties.
Such raids happen just before elections and target only Opposition parties, alleged the alliance despite the department's repeated statements that no political functionary was raided.
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Most of the raids were conducted across Hassan and Mandya, which are considered Gowda strongholds. Deve Gowda's grandsons Prajwal Revanna and Nikhil Kumaraswamy are contesting the Lok Sabha elections from these two districts.
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