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Ranking METALLICA: First To Worst, Blackened To Bruised
written by Rustyn Rose November 20, 2012
Five up, Five down
The almighty Metallica is a monolithic beast that is arguably the biggest "metal" band of all time, and certainly the most legendary thrash spectacle. All of this built on a mere five albums: Yet they are a mammoth statement of heaviness and speed, angst and anger.
Metallica, seed planted in Southern California, birthed in the Bay Area, and signed on the East Coast, while not the first, or perhaps even the best of the thrash hierarchy is definitively at the apex of the mountain. Despite the oft questioned choices the band has made since those immutable first five albums, it remains the iconic modern metal figurehead yet to be toppled or overshadowed.
Debates about Metallica's output after its first four or five albums have been drinking fodder for years. Swarm of Arrows guitarist Greg Frisenda declared, "…there is no Metallica after 1990."
The band has released a mere 10 studio albums over the course of 30 years, but each has found a place, good or bad, in the annals of rock history. Which of the band's first five albums is the best is a highly subjective argument. Fists could fly, blood could spill…still, for better or worse, we'll give it a stab:
1. Master of Puppets (1986)
For diehard Metallica fans, this is the band's masterpiece. In fact, we here at Metalholic had to thumb wrestle over which album to put first, but this is arguably a perfect metal album. Every track is bare knuckle brutality in sonic form. Sentimental points count too as this was bassist Cliff Burton's parting gift to the world before his tragic death. RIP Cliff. Only eight songs on this crushing performance, but every ounce of flesh gets pummeled from the opening track, "Battery" to "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" to the album closer, "Damage, Inc. Best song: "Master of Puppets" of course.
Master Of Puppets! Hands down! – Justin Manning (Crowned By Fire, guitarist)
2. Kill 'Em All (1983)
Each of the first four albums here could easily be in the first spot and some will argue that Ride The Lightning is stronger, but this is the table-setter. It all started with the anarchist riffage of "Hit The Lights", and the world of metal was forever changed. When the band recently performed its 30th anniversary four-night stand, they played more tracks off this album than any other. "Jump In the Fire", "Whiplash", "Phantom Lord"… it's just a mind-numbing debut. Best song: Seek and Destroy.
3. Ride The Lightning (1984)
Content wise this is the stronger of the band's first two records to most fans: It is an absolute metal titan. It loses out to the top two spots by sentimental millimeters. Plus there are only eight tracks (hey it's tough to make a valid argument for third place here, give us a break. We'll take any edge we can get). Brilliance in sonic form: "For Whom the Bell Tolls" the title track, "Fight Fire with Fire", and "Trapped Under Ice", this album is a hammer to the head. Best song: "Fade To Black".
4. …And Justice For All (1988)
The first post-Cliff Metallica album. A beast of a record. Jason Newsted's baptism. This opens a new doorway for the band: More experimentation and a more evolving signature. However, there were some drawbacks; songs that ran too long, the bass is lost in the mix, etc. Still, with tracks like "Blackened", "One", "Eye of the Beholder", and the title cut, Justice is simply a monumental piece of metal history. Best song: "Harvester of Sorrow".
5. Metallica aka The Black Album (1991)
The bandwagon album. Casual fans or new fans jumped on here, so for them this is the seminal masterpiece. It's not, but it's certainly brilliant in its own way. This record marked the band's height of commercial accessibility, and the pinnacle of its popularity. There simply was no other band on the planet in 1991, and this album was perhaps the most significant reason grunge was never quite able to completely annihilate metal. Even Metallica purists have to at least tip that hat for the band saving our beloved genre when it seemed one nail away from a sealed coffin. The black album was packed with anthemic arena crowd-pleasers like "Enter Sandman", "Wherever I May Roam", Sad But True", and "The Unforgiven". Best song: "Nothing Else Matters".
6. Death Magnetic (2008)
After the Load and god awful St. Anger albums, everyone wrote modern Metallica off, but Death Magnetic is a reminder of the band's early brilliance. Had they released this after the 91 album, they might have fared much better among their fans. "Cyanide" is primal Metallica. Other tracks like "All Nightmare Long", "The Day That Never Comes" and "Broken, Beat & Scarred" are all excellent examples of Metallica recapturing its fire. Skeptical fans who keep waiting for a repeat of Masters may not have given it a fair shake, but it's a solid album. Best song: "Cyanide".
7. Garage Inc. (1998)
This includes the original The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited. Hard to slip in an album full of covers, but really, it is far better than what follows. Metallica have always had a knack for covers and this record has an ample supply of greatness. Tributes to Queen, Thin Lizzy, Budgie, Diamond Head, Motorhead, and more. Best song: "Am I Evil?".
8. ReLoad (1997)
This was really part two of the previous year's Load album,and many fans considered both to be a load. Yet there was some great stuff here. Unfortunately there was also a lot of sonic discord and lack of continuity. The band seemed to meander in places, and it would prove to be Newsted's last album with the band. This seemed a bit heavier than its predecessor. Only about half the songs have ever been performed live, which is telling by itself. In fact, only "Fuel" sees regular stage action. Best song: "Fuel"
9. Load (1996)
You could flip-flop this and ReLoad. They both had shining moments, and they both had a serious dose of crap. Still, it was a lot better than much of the contrived shit out there though. The album had a bluesier vibe, and it seemed clear the band was trying to push its own envelope. Some of the more notable cuts included; "Until It Sleeps", "Hero of the Day", and "Mama Said". Best song: "King Nothing".
10. St. Anger (2003)
This was the band's low point, until the ill-conceived LuLu with Lou Reed, but even that had a unique artistic bent. No one is quite sure what Metallica were doing here. Even the band has a hard time keeping a straight face talking about this one, and the lack of live performances of the material since this tour speaks volumes. Still, some fans think it's brilliant. In a raw, back to the garage type of way, it does create an energetic spark. Best song: "Frantic".
Agree or disagree? Sound off below!
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Gruden's great, but Dandy Don was best
I just turned on Monday Night Football and Jon Gruden was talking, and I really like him as an analyst. He knows his stuff. That said, the late, great Don Meredith remains my all-time favorite. What follows is was what I wrote when Dandy Don died in December, 2010.
This will begin with this caveat: Don Meredith was one of my favorites. I pulled for him as a Dallas Cowboys quarterback before I was captivated by him as a most irreverent commentator of Monday Night Football.
Meredith, who died Sunday at 72, made us laugh. Out loud. He told us what we needed to know about the games, but he also put the sport in proper perspective. That is, football games are entertainment; they are not life and death. Football games, for fans, are parties and Meredith let us know in song when they were over.
Think country: Turn out the lights, the party's over, they say all good things must end. …
These days, the score can be 52-0 and the analysts will try to give you reason upon reason why you should still watch. Not Dandy Don. He'd break out into his best Willie Nelson impression, much to the consternation of Howard Cosell, who was MNF's Tolstoy to Meredith's Twain.
This is one of those columns when some background is a must for younger readers, since Meredith retired from broadcasting more than a quarter century ago and rarely made public appearances afterward. Before TV, he was a quarterback, first at SMU, which was known for a while as Southern Meredith University, and then for the Dallas Cowboys.
Meredith was the original Dallas Cowboy. The records will show Bob Lilly, the great defensive tackle, was the Cowboys' first draft choice, but the Cowboys signed Meredith, out of SMU, to a personal services contract before they even participated in a draft.
In many ways, Meredith's playing career simulated that of Chunkin' Charlie Conerly's with the Giants. Both spent the early years of their pro careers playing quarterback and taking beatings for lousy football teams. Only near the end did they play for decent teams. Presumably, for that reason, they are both under-appreciated where the Pro Football Hall of Fame is concerned.
Snap it on 'rutabaga'
Know this: Meredith is not under-appreciated by those who played with him, including former Mississippi State linebacking great and Mississippi Sports and College Football Hall of Famer D.D. Lewis.
Lewis was smoking a cigar and drinking a cup of coffee when his daughter text-messaged the news of Meredith's death Monday morning.
Lewis' thoughts immediately went back to his rookie season with the Cowboys in 1968 when Meredith led the Cowboys to a 12-2 record.
"Don was already a legend when I got there, but he was so friendly to me," Lewis said. "I adored him. He was a funny guy, but classy funny, really smart."
We heard back then – and legend still has it – Meredith and his coach, the stoic and much-revered Tom Landry, were often at odds. Lewis says there's much to that.
"Don was happy-go-lucky, carefree, always hanging out in the bars, having fun," Lewis said. "Coach Landry was such a straight arrow. He was always trying to change Don, and you just weren't going to change Don."
There was one game at Pittsburgh in the early years of the Dallas franchise, when the Steelers were just mauling Meredith. Cowboy veterans later told Lewis the story.
"They somehow had gotten our cadence and knew when we were going to snap the ball," Lewis said.
"So Meredith gets in the huddle and says, 'Boys, we're changing from numbers to vegetables. This one's on rutabaga.' So they go to the line and Don starts calling, 'Tomato, lettuce, green beans. . .' By the time he got to rutabaga, the Steelers were laughing too hard to even rush."
'It's been a good 'un'
That humor carried over big-time on TV.
Irreverent? He once referred to President Richard Nixon as "Tricky Dicky" and got called on the carpet for it. When Vice President Spiro Agnew visited the Monday Night booth, Meredith told him, "I didn't vote for you but that's sure a nice suit you got on."
Of playing for Landry, Meredith said, "He was such a perfectionist, he could have been married to Dolly Parton and he'd expect her to cook."
Monday, D.D. Lewis laughed out loud while telling his favorite Meredith story.
"We were flying out of New York after we had just beat up on the Giants pretty good," Lewis said. "Everybody's drinking, having a good time. Then, all the sudden, we hear this big boom and the plane starts lurching and shaking. The stewardesses were down on their hands and knees. I looked around the plane and some guys were praying and some were hollering and everybody was frightened."
Everybody but Meredith.
"I looked across the aisle and there sat Don," Lewis said, laughing. "He took a big swallow and a long drag off his cigarette, smiled and said, 'Well, boys, it's been a good 'un.' "
Yes sir, it was.

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Scottish school climate strikers limited to one day off for protests annually
16 August 2019, source edie newsroom
The City of Edinburgh Council has brought in new measures to prevent schoolchildren from taking more than one day out of lessons per academic year for climate strikes.
A spokesperson for the council said the move would widely be regarded as a "reasonable compromise"
Earlier today (16 August), the local authority's education committee met to discuss plans to limit the number of authorised absences which children at primary schools and secondary schools could take per academic year, for the purpose of joining the #Fridays4Future movement.
Started by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg last year, the movement has grown from a one-person protest to an international movement. The biggest school climate strike to date, on 15 March 2019, garnered the support of 1.4 million students in 112 countries – including Scotland.
However, that strike is soon due to be eclipsed in size by a week of international action – led by children and young people but backed by business leaders and politicians as well – beginning on 20 September.
In preparation for this week-long event, Conservative councillors at the City of Edinburgh Council had proposed an alteration to its school attendance policy, to forbid pupils from taking any time off for climate protests – regardless of whether they had signed permission from a parent or guardian.
The motion was heavily criticised by the Scottish Greens, who argued that it would result in young people being "treated like truants" rather than feeling "listened to".
In response to this clash, the coalition of Labour and SNP councillors who run the Council proposed a compromise – that primary and secondary school pupils should be allowed just one day off per academic year to take part in climate protests, and that they must provide signed permission to do so.
The motion was passed this morning at an education committee meeting, meaning that the parents or guardians of those who do choose to skip lessons for more than one day for climate protests could be fined.
"We support the young people making their voices heard regarding climate change as it is one of the most important issues that's facing the world," The City of Edinburgh Council's education convener Cllr Ian Perry said.
"However, there needs to be a balance struck and if we allow pupils more than one absence, the issue is that they could be regularly missing school which affects their education."
A spokesperson for the council added that the move would widely be regarded as a "reasonable compromise" – but the Scottish Greens have disagreed.
"Instead of taking this backwards step, the Council should recognise that these actions are not only admirable but that they are entirely in keeping with the Curriculum for Excellence and the objective of developing responsible citizens," Scottish Greens education spokesman Ross Greer said.
Brewing debate
The debate over whether politicians and local authorities should support school climate strikers has been building for several months.
Earlier this year, then-Prime Minister Theresa May argued that school climate strikers were increasing teacher workloads and wasting lesson time by leaving class to protest. She urged them to, instead, stay in school and study STEM subjects, that they might go on to develop environmental solutions in the future.
In contrast, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the protests were an "inspiring" display of passion. Moreover, several senior Conservative Party politicians have publicly spoken out against May's views on the matter, including Michael Gove and Claire Perry.
Sarah George
children | education | Scotland


ALS Research Forum | To Evaluate Stem Cell Therapies, Think Unilaterally?
To Evaluate Stem Cell Therapies, Think Unilaterally?
Motor neurons degenerate in ALS. Why these cells are destroyed remains unclear. Therefore, how to slow or stop this destruction of motor neurons in ALS remains an open question.
In the meantime, a growing number of scientists are turning to stem cells in hopes to promote motor neuron survival in people with ALS and/or reduce their toxicity (see December 2015 conference news). But how to evaluate these strategies in the clinic remains hotly debated.
Now, a research team at Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California reports that an emerging outcome measure, which involves monitoring muscle strength, may facilitate the evaluation of stem cell therapies for the disease (Rushton et al., 2017). The study, led by Clive Svendsen, found that functional decline of key muscles on the left and right side of people with ALS progressed at a similar rate. The results suggest that at least some stem cell therapies could be evaluated unilaterally by comparing the strength of muscles on the treated and untreated side for each of these muscle groups.
This side-by-side comparison, according to a subsequent power analysis, may enable clinicians to evaluate stem cell therapies for ALS in a smaller sample size without the need for sham surgeries and/or placebo injections. This unilateral approach is emerging as an alternative to evaluate a growing number of potential neuroprotective strategies for neurodegenerative diseases including ALS (see NCT02943850, NCT02478450; Glass et al., 2016).
The study is published on June 9 in Neurology.
The retrospective analysis, performed in collaboration with Cedar Sinai's Robert Baloh, studied the rates of decline of 6 upper and lower muscle groups in nearly 750 people with ALS determined by fixed dynamometry. These longitudinal datasets, previously collected by physical therapist Pat Andres and colleagues, now at Massachusetts General Hospital, capture the decline in strength of key muscles in people with ALS during at least a 16-month period measured by either the TUFTS Quantitative Neuromuscular Exam (TQNE) or more recently, the Accurate Test of Limb Isometric Strength (ATLIS) system (Andres et al., 1986; Shields et al., 1998; Andres et al., 2012.
The study builds on previous work, led by Barrow Institute's Jeremy Shefner in Phoenix, Arizona and Biogen's Toby Ferguson in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which found that monitoring the strength of key muscles using hand-held dynamometry is a reliable and reproducible approach to measure progression of ALS in a clinical setting and thereby, may facilitate the evaluation of potential therapies (see May 2017 conference news; Shefner et al., 2014).
Now, Svendsen's team is gearing up to evaluate their potential stem cell therapy for ALS. The strategy uses genetically engineered neural progenitor cells (NPCs) to deliver GDNF into the CNS in hopes to protect motor neurons in people with the disease (see April 2017 news; Gowing et al., 2014). The approach is at the phase 1 stage. Stay tuned.
Rushton DJ, Andres PL, Allred P, Baloh RH, Svendsen CN. Patients with ALS show highly correlated progression rates in left and right limb muscles. Neurology. 2017 Jun 9. [PubMed].
Shefner JM, Liu D, Leitner ML, Schoenfeld D, Johns DR, Ferguson T, Cudkowicz M. Quantitative strength testing in ALS clinical trials. Neurology. 2016 Aug 9;87(6):617-24. [PubMed].
Andres PL, Skerry LM, Munsat TL, Thornell BJ, Szymonifka J, Schoenfeld DA, Cudkowicz ME. Validation of a new strength measurement device for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis clinical trials. Muscle Nerve. 2012 Jan;45(1):81-5. [PubMed].
Andres PL, Hedlund W, Finison L, Conlon T, Felmus M, Munsat TL.Quantitative motor assessment in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neurology. 1986 Jul;36(7):937-41.[PubMed].
Glass JD, Hertzberg VS, Boulis NM, Riley J, Federici T, Polak M, Bordeau J, Fournier C, Johe K, Hazel T, Cudkowicz M, Atassi N, Borges LF, Rutkove SB, Duell J, Patil PG, Goutman SA, Feldman EL. Transplantation of spinal cord-derived neural stem cells for ALS: Analysis of phase 1 and 2 trials. Neurology. 2016 Jul 26;87(4):392-400. [PubMed].
Gowing G, Shelley B, Staggenborg K, Hurley A, Avalos P, Victoroff J, Latter J, Garcia L, Svendsen CN. Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor-secreting human neural progenitors show long-term survival, maturation into astrocytes, and no tumor formation following transplantation into the spinal cord of immunocompromised rats. Neuroreport. 2014 Apr 16;25(6):367-72. [PubMed].
Atassi N, Beghi E, Blanquer M, Boulis NM, Cantello R, Caponnetto C, Chiò A, Dunnett SB, Feldman EL, Vescovi A1, Mazzini L; attendees of the International Workshop on Progress in Stem Cells Research for ALS/MND. Intraspinal stem cell transplantation for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Ready for efficacy clinical trials? Cytotherapy. 2016 Dec;18(12):1471-1475. [PubMed].
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It's insane how much sleep you lose when preparing your car for an event, whether it's a track day or just a car meet. Making your car up to your expectations takes quite a bit of time and effort. Most of the crew had to get their car ready for our annual Royal Origin meet in Las Vegas. Not only did they have to get the car ready to floss, but they had to get it ready for a four hour trek into the desert.
Ryo, one of the crazier guys in our group had to get his fenders pulled and space our his rear wheels, so it doesn't rub against the frame anymore.
Crazy, how he's planning to drive this car to Vegas.
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Air master Vinh was trying to put together his air suspension for his STI.
The pieces to a very complicated puzzle.
Vinh's garage buddy, Bryan's M5 on DPE wheels.
Since the SC got some wheels now, I decided to put the Meisters back on my IS for the meet.
Damn, I miss driving around like a boss.
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Sadly, this car will be sold soon..
The master teaching the student.
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This year, with the theme of 'Globalizing 1Malaysia Innovations', Malaysia Showcase will be held in three venues around Southeast Asia and exhibit the cream of the crop in terms of Malaysian ingenuity, placing Malaysian innovators, entrepreneurs and all round corporate entities center stage with the goal of giving them the leg up they deserve to compete with the rest of the world. If Malaysians already buy Malaysian, the rest of the world should too.


Haha, very well, I will hold you to that!
We need to get the word out About Britcoin first. Guldencoin went up in value because people learned it existed.
What is your suggestion tho? William has been contacting news outlets already .
We're working hard on that, hoping to get some big media outlet publication very soon and our first merchant accepting BritCoin in Cardiff next week!
People are definitely buying in right now. They are just careful to not let the volume get up high enough to get the coin on the first, second or third page. Once it gets there, others see it and start buying in and so on.
Yea we're getting some good buy support, which is great. I just hope people stay patient and don't sell at the bid price!
I belive we will see a revival of country coins over the next few months, and as people see that merchants are starting to except this coin, it will have a big impact.
I agree with your country coin revival sentiment. As everyone knows, currency is based on faith, and with the amount of shitcoins floating around in a sea of scams that is currently the alt coin world, people will eventually turn to their respective county coins as this provides a sense of security and accountability. Country coins are able to do one thing global ones can't, adapt to the specific needs of an individual nations.
Acquiring merchants is very high on our list of priorities for September, with our first to be confirmed sometime with week and many more lined up. The reason we haven't pushed very hard on this until recently is we wanted to ensure the BritCoin network was stable and secure enough to be accepted by businesses, it has been 2 months and not one single problem.. So we believe we're good to go.
Is this merchant an actual physical bricks and mortar business or an on-line merchant?
Bricks, mortar and fashion! It's a clothes retailer in the centre of Cardiff, we are also talking to a few other merchants in the centre of town that are willing to accept BritCoin as method of payment, including a pub.. Which I'm sure will please you.
When the hordes come, the bottom price will be whatever traders now make it. Hopefully it's high!
Marketplace is in testing now. Expect it to launch soon.
When it does get noticed, there's only 10.8M in circulation, so expect a sharp price rise.


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Елліс () — острів, розташований у східній частині США y Верхній Затоці Нью-Йорку. Острів Елліс розташований на відстані 1,6 км на північ від Острова Свободи. Оригінальна площа острова була 21 458 м² але після розширення за рахунок завезення землі від будівництва метро острів збільшився до 129 619 м².

Назва походить від прізвища Самуеля Елліса, який придбав цей острів у 1785 році. З 1892 року на острові стала функціонувати іміграційна служба федерального уряду. Після пожежі 1897 року на Елліс Айленд побудували досі існуючу будівлю з цегли у стилі французького відродження. З 1900 року вона служила терміналом, через який в США прибули мільйони імігрантів. Як вважається, з 1892 р. до 1924 р. через Елліс Айленд було пропущено понад 16 мільйонів чоловік. Не менше третини з них осіли в самому Нью-Йорку. Пік припливу імігрантів припав на 1907 рік, коли через термінал пройшло майже 1,3 мільйона чоловік.

Від 1 січня, 1892 до 12 листопада 1954 р. Федерально-імміграційна станція на Острові Елліс пропустила приблизно 20 мільйонів людей, здебільшого з Європи. Сьогодні приблизно 100 мільйонів американських громадян мають родини, які пройшли через острів Елліс. Імміграційна служба припинила своє функціонування на острові у 1954 році, зараз там відкритий Музей імміграції, в якому є архів з персональними картками іммігрантів.

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Dems' Response to Rising Gas Prices? Buy a Tesla
Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon reports on the political implications of rising gas prices.
Gas prices are surging to record levels on President Joe Biden's watch, wreaking havoc on American pocketbooks. According to the AAA national average, one gallon of regular unleaded gasoline cost $4.25 as of March 9—surpassing the previous all-time high of $4.11 in July 2008. When Biden took office, the average price per gallon was just $2.39.
Democrats have responded by urging ordinary Americans to become Tesla owners like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), whose Model 3 Long Range has a retail price of between $46,000 and $59,000. Former comedian Stephen Colbert (estimated net worth: $75 million) said it was "important" for Americans to pay more for gas. "I'm willing to pay $4 a gallon," he said. "Hell, I'll pay $15 a gallon because I drive a Tesla."
Biden supporters have also tried to blame Russia's invasion of Ukraine for the rise in gas prices, but Democrats and left-wing activists have been working for years to ensure that prices remain high in an effort to make subsidized "green" energy sources more competitive on the open market. These efforts include banning oil production on federal land and pressuring oil companies to produce less oil.
The public is responding to the Biden administration's role in delivering higher prices.
A friend told me he recently saw prices jump 50 cents from the time he drove to work to the time he drove home. A gas station in Florida I stopped at last month had two "I did that" stickers on it. After someone had apparently tried to rip them off, someone else took a blue ballpoint pen and scrawled "FJB" on the front of the gas pump. Similar stickers have popped up in growing numbers all around the country.
It's obvious to everyone paying attention (except for Biden and his corporate media comms shop… but that's redundant) that the Democrat administration's policies, not just the Russians, are to blame for rising prices at the pump.


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May — the Nights of Isis Copia
Waciny Laredj
May — the Nights of Isis Copia is based on the life of the well-known Lebanese writer May Ziade and highlights the important role played by women in a society gripped by stifling patriarchy. May finds herself unfortunately positioned amongst the great male cultural figures of her day, including Taha Hussein and Mustafa Sadiq Al-Raf'i. Although they love her, and she is one of the first to receive them at her literary salon in the 1920s and 1930s, they also fear her. Despite working tirelessly on behalf of women, she is rejected as a Lebanese Christian woman and after losing people dear to her, suffers from depression and becomes a recluse. In an attempt to gain control of her finances, her nephew Joseph has her admitted into Al-'Usfouriyya, the mental hospital. The novel hones in on the moment of her 'madness' and her attempt to prove her sanity, even as the intellectual elite wage a cruel war against her, making no attempt to save her from the jaws of Al-'Usfouriyya.
Dar al-Adab
Country of origin Algeria
Waciny Laredj is an Algerian novelist born in 1954. He is a Professor at the Sorbonne University in Paris and the Central University of Algeria, having settled in Paris in 1994.


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Climate Impact: Extreme Events
Climate Impact: Human Health
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Climate Impact: Resource Depletion
Climate Impact: Sea Level Rise
Climate Impact: Terrestrial Ecosystems
Climate of Africa
Climate of the Baltic Sea Region
Climate of the European Alps
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Climate Systems and Climate Dynamics
Climate Systems and Climate Dynamics: Biogeochemistry
Climate Systems and Climate Dynamics: Theoretical Foundations
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History of Climate Science
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Past Climates
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Climate Impact: Human Health (1)
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Climate of Africa (1)
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Philipp Schmidt-Thomé
Climate change adaptation is the ability of a society or a natural system to adjust to the (changing) conditions that support life in a certain climate region, including weather extremes in that region. The current discussion on climate change adaptation began in the 1990s, with the publication of the Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Since the beginning of the 21st century, most countries, and many regions and municipalities have started to develop and implement climate change adaptation strategies and plans. But since the implementation of adaptation measures must be planned and conducted at the local level, a major challenge is to actually implement adaptation to climate change in practice. One challenge is that scientific results are mainly published on international or national levels, and political guidelines are written at transnational (e.g., European Union), national, or regional levels—these scientific results must be downscaled, interpreted, and adapted to local municipal or community levels. Needless to say, the challenges for implementation are also rooted in a large number of uncertainties, from long time spans to matters of scale, as well as in economic, political, and social interests. From a human perspective, climate change impacts occur rather slowly, while local decision makers are engaged with daily business over much shorter time spans. Among the obstacles to implementing adaptation measures to climate change are three major groups of uncertainties: (a) the uncertainties surrounding the development of our future climate, which include the exact climate sensitivity of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, the reliability of emission scenarios and underlying storylines, and inherent uncertainties in climate models; (b) uncertainties about anthropogenically induced climate change impacts (e.g., long-term sea level changes, changing weather patterns, and extreme events); and (c) uncertainties about the future development of socioeconomic and political structures as well as legislative frameworks. Besides slow changes, such as changing sea levels and vegetation zones, extreme events (natural hazards) are a factor of major importance. Many societies and their socioeconomic systems are not properly adapted to their current climate zones (e.g., intensive agriculture in dry zones) or to extreme events (e.g., housing built in flood-prone areas). Adaptation measures can be successful only by gaining common societal agreement on their necessity and overall benefit. Ideally, climate change adaptation measures are combined with disaster risk reduction measures to enhance resilience on short, medium, and long time scales. The role of uncertainties and time horizons is addressed by developing climate change adaptation measures on community level and in close cooperation with local actors and stakeholders, focusing on strengthening resilience by addressing current and emerging vulnerability patterns. Successful adaptation measures are usually achieved by developing "no-regret" measures, in other words—measures that have at least one function of immediate social and/or economic benefit as well as long-term, future benefits. To identify socially acceptable and financially viable adaptation measures successfully, it is useful to employ participatory tools that give all involved parties and decision makers the possibility to engage in the process of identifying adaptation measures that best fit collective needs.
Climate and Health across Africa
Benjamin F. Zaitchik
Humans have understood the importance of climate to human health since ancient times. In some cases, the connections appear to be obvious: a flood can cause drownings, a drought can lead to crop failure and hunger, and temperature extremes pose a risk of exposure. In other cases, the connections are veiled by complex or unobserved processes, such that the influence of climate on a disease epidemic or a conflict can be difficult to diagnose. In reality, however, all climate impacts on health are mediated by some combination of natural and human dynamics that cause individuals or populations to be vulnerable to the effects of a variable or changing climate. Understanding and managing negative health impacts of climate is a global challenge. The challenge is greater in regions with high poverty and weak institutions, however, and Africa is a continent where the health burden of climate is particularly acute. Observed climate variability in the modern era has been associated with widespread food insecurity, significant epidemics of infectious disease, and loss of life and livelihoods to climate extremes. Anthropogenic climate change is a further stress that has the potential to increase malnutrition, alter the distribution of diseases, and bring more frequent hydrological and temperature extremes to many regions across the continent. Skillful early warning systems and informed climate change adaptation strategies have the potential to enhance resilience to short-term climate variability and to buffer against negative impacts of climate change. But effective warnings and projections require both scientific and institutional capacity to address complex processes that are mediated by physical, ecological, and societal systems. Here the state of understanding climate impacts on health in Africa is summarized through a selective review that focuses on food security, infectious disease, and extreme events. The potential to apply scientific understanding to early warning and climate change projection is also considered.
Communicating About Climate Change, Natural Gas Development, and "Fracking": U.S. and International Perspectives
Christopher E. Clarke, Dylan Budgen, Darrick T.N. Evensen, Richard C. Stedman, Hilary S. Boudet, and Jeffrey B. Jacquet
The impacts associated with unconventional natural gas development (UGD) via hydraulic fracturing have generated considerable controversy and introduced terms such as "fracking" into the public lexicon. From a climate change perspective, transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable sources in order to potentially avoid the worst consequences of a warming planet will need to also consider the climate implications of increased UGD and natural gas use that follows. Specifically, how much greenhouse gas is emitted as natural gas is extracted, transported, and consumed relative to other energy sources? Is UGD a "cleaner" energy source? Compared to what? Does it postpone or "bridge" the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy? Public perception of UGD's climate impacts not only reflect individual attitudes but broader social discourse among stakeholder groups. Understanding these perceptions, their psychological and social factors antecedents, and how to engage audiences on this topic will play a key role in UGD's long-term trajectory, especially as it relates to climate change. An added challenge is that most public opinion studies specific to UGD's climate impacts (and indeed UGD in general) are limited to the United States, Canada, and a few countries in Europe and Africa, with other parts of the world entirely absent. Nonetheless, the studies that do exist highlight several common themes. In particular, UGD tends to be viewed as cleaner relative to fossil fuels because of the belief it produces less carbon emissions as a result of natural gas extraction and consumption. However, it tends to be viewed as dirtier relative to renewables amid the belief that it increases carbon emissions. This finding complements research showing that natural gas occupies a middle ground between renewables and other fossil fuels in terms of acceptance. Moreover, the extent UGD serves as a bridge energy source remains contentious, with some arguing that it and the natural gas it produces complement fossil fuels and facilitates a transition to renewables, while others claim that UGD entrenches society's continued reliance on the former. Overall, despite the contentious nature of these issues, UGD's climate impacts appear less salient across countries than other health, environmental, and economic impacts, perhaps because they are psychologically distant and difficult to experience directly. Amid efforts to convey the public health risks associated with a changing climate, we believe that emphasizing the public health dimensions of UGD's climate impacts can potentially make them more psychologically tangible. Positively framed messages emphasize that reducing carbon emissions tied to both unconventional natural gas extraction and natural gas consumption (relative to other fossil fuels) and thus mitigating the resultant climate change that follows benefits public health. Conversely, negatively framed messages emphasize that increasing carbon emissions (relative to renewables) and thus amplifying the resultant climate change adversely affects public health. At present, though, there is little evidence as to how these messages affect the perceived connection between UGD's climate impacts and public health and, in turn, support for UGD versus other energy types. Nor is it clear how these outcomes may vary across countries based on public sentiment toward UGD and climate change along with a variety of psychological and social factors that influence such sentiment. Data available for some countries offers tantalizing scenarios, but we remain limited due to the lack of social science research in countries outside the United States and a handful of others. We call for cross-national comparative studies that include places where UGD—and social science research on it—is still maturing.
Climate Change Communication in Colombia
Luisa Fernanda Lema Vélez, Daniel Hermelin, María Margarita Fontecha, and Dunia H. Urrego
Colombia is in a privileged position to take advantage of international climate agreements to finance sustainable development initiatives. The country is a signatory of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreements. As a non-Annex I party to the UNFCCC, Colombia produces low emissions in relation to global numbers (0.46% of total global emissions for 2010) and exhibits biogeographical conditions that are ideal for mitigation of climate change through greenhouse gas sequestration and emission reductions. Simultaneously, recent extreme climatic events have harshly compromised the country's economy, making Colombia's vulnerability to climate change evident. While these conditions should justify a strong approach to climate change communication that motivates decision making and leads to mitigation and adaptation, the majority of sectors still fall short of effectively communicating their climate change messages. Official information about climate change is often too technical and rarely includes a call for action. However, a few exceptions exist, including environmental education materials for children and a noteworthy recent strategy to deliver the Third Communication to the UNFCCC in a form that is more palatable to the general public. Despite strong research on climate change, particularly related to agricultural, environmental, and earth sciences, academic products are rarely communicated in a way that is easily understood by decision makers and has a clear impact on public policy. Messages from the mass media frequently confuse rather than inform the public. For instance, television news refers to weather-related disasters, climate variability, and climate change indiscriminately. This shapes an erroneous idea of climate change among the public and weakens the effectiveness of communications on the issue. The authors contrast the practices of these sectors with those of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working in Colombia to show how they address the specific climate communication needs facing the country. These NGOs directly face the challenge of working with diverse population groups in this multicultural, multiethnic, and megadiverse country. NGOs customize languages, channels, and messages for different audiences and contexts, with the ultimate goal of building capacity in local communities, influencing policymakers, and sensitizing the private sector. Strategies that result from the work of interdisciplinary groups, involve feedback from the audiences, and incorporate adaptive management have proven to be particularly effective.
Projected Oceanographical Changes in the Baltic Sea until 2100
H.E. Markus Meier and Sofia Saraiva
In this article, the concepts and background of regional climate modeling of the future Baltic Sea are summarized and state-of-the-art projections, climate change impact studies, and challenges are discussed. The focus is on projected oceanographic changes in future climate. However, as these changes may have a significant impact on biogeochemical cycling, nutrient load scenario simulations in future climates are briefly discussed as well. The Baltic Sea is special compared to other coastal seas as it is a tideless, semi-enclosed sea with large freshwater and nutrient supply from a partly heavily populated catchment area and a long response time of about 30 years, and as it is, in the early 21st century, warming faster than any other coastal sea in the world. Hence, policymakers request the development of nutrient load abatement strategies in future climate. For this purpose, large ensembles of coupled climate–environmental scenario simulations based upon high-resolution circulation models were developed to estimate changes in water temperature, salinity, sea-ice cover, sea level, oxygen, nutrient, and phytoplankton concentrations, and water transparency, together with uncertainty ranges. Uncertainties in scenario simulations of the Baltic Sea are considerable. Sources of uncertainties are global and regional climate model biases, natural variability, and unknown greenhouse gas emission and nutrient load scenarios. Unknown early 21st-century and future bioavailable nutrient loads from land and atmosphere and the experimental setup of the dynamical downscaling technique are perhaps the largest sources of uncertainties for marine biogeochemistry projections. The high uncertainties might potentially be reducible through investments in new multi-model ensemble simulations that are built on better experimental setups, improved models, and more plausible nutrient loads. The development of community models for the Baltic Sea region with improved performance and common coordinated experiments of scenario simulations is recommended.
Konrad Ott and Frederike Neuber
The means to combat dangerous anthropogenic climate change constitutes a portfolio. Beside abatement of greenhouse gas emissions, this portfolio entails adaptation to changing climate conditions, and so-called climate engineering measures. The overall portfolio has to be judged on technical, economic, and moral grounds. This requires an in-depth understanding of the moral aspects of climate engineering options. Climate engineering (CE) is a large-scale intentional intervention either in carbon cycles (carbon dioxide removal; CDR) or in solar radiation (solar radiation management; SRM). The ethical discourse on climate engineering has gained momentum since the 2010s. The set of arguments pro and contra specific CE technologies constitute a vast landscape of discourse. Single arguments must be analyzed with scrutiny according to their ethical background, their normative premises, their inferential logic, and their practical and political consequences. CE ethics, then, has a threefold task: (a) it must suppose a solid understanding of different CE technologies and their risks; (b) it has to analyze the moral arguments that speak in favor or against specific CE technologies; and (c) it has to assess the impacts of accepting or rejecting specific arguments for the overall climate portfolio's design. The global climate portfolio differs from ordinary investment portfolios since stakes are huge, moral values in dispute, risks and uncertainties pervasive, and collective decision-making urgent. Any argument has implications of how to design the overall portfolio best. From an ethical perspective, however, one must reflect upon the premises and inferential structures of the arguments as such. Analysis of arguments and mapping them logically can be seen as core business of CE ethics. Highly general arguments about CE usually fall short, since the diverse features of individual technologies may not be addressed by overarching arguments that necessarily homogenize different technologies. It can be stated with confidence that the moral profiles of CDR and SRM are highly different. Every single deployment scheme ought to be judged specifically, for it is a huge difference to propose SRM as a substitute for abatement, or to embed it within a comprehensive climate portfolio including abatement and adaptation, where SRM will be used sporadically and only for a matter of decades.
Impacts of Aerosols on Climate and Weather in the Hindu-Kush-Himalayas-Gangetic Region
William K. M. Lau
Situated at the southern edge of the Tibetan Plateau (TP), the Hindu-Kush-Himalayas-Gangetic (HKHG) region is under the clear and present danger of climate change. Flash-flood, landslide, and debris flow caused by extreme precipitation, as well as rapidly melting glaciers, threaten the water resources and livelihood of more than 1.2 billion people living in the region. Rapid industrialization and increased populations in recent decades have resulted in severe atmospheric and environmental pollution in the region. Because of its unique topography and dense population, the HKHG is not only a major source of pollution aerosol emissions, but also a major receptor of large quantities of natural dust aerosols transported from the deserts of West Asia and the Middle East during the premonsoon and early monsoon season (April–June). The dust aerosols, combined with local emissions of light-absorbing aerosols, that is, black carbon (BC), organic carbon (OC), and mineral dust, can (a) provide additional powerful heating to the atmosphere and (b) allow more sunlight to penetrate the snow layer by darkening the snow surface. Both effects will lead to accelerated melting of snowpack and glaciers in the HKHG region, amplifying the greenhouse warming effect. In addition, these light-absorbing aerosols can interact with monsoon winds and precipitation, affecting extreme precipitation events in the HKHG, as well as weather variability and climate change over the TP and the greater Asian monsoon region.
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IFIN to sell external corporate loan book
IL&FS Financial Services (IFIN), a 100% subsidiary of scam-hit IL&FS, has decided to sell its external corporate loan book. As per the decision, corporate loans of Rs 5,000 crore would be auctioned through a bidding process, IL&FS said in a statement.
IL&FS Fin to sell Rs 5,000-crore external corporate loan book
IL&FS Financial Services plans to sell its external corporate loan book worth about Rs 5,000 crore. It would be auctioned off through a bid process, and the public process of inviting bids is likely to be started this week. "The sale of the loans would be on cash consideration," the company said, adding that it is part of the overall process to reduce the debt of IL&FS.
IL&FS Financial to auction off Rs 5K cr corporate loans
IL&FS Financial Services (IFIN) has proposed to auction off its external corporate loan book worth about Rs 5,000 crore through a bid process, in an attempt to reduce the over-all debt of the IL&FS group. The process will be launched this week, a source in the know of the development said. As of March 2019, the assets under management of IFIN stood at Rs 18,000 crore, which includes external, internal loans and internal investments. The company is yet to declare its results for financial year 2019-20.
IL&FS arm IFIN to sell Rs 5K-cr external corporate loan book
IL&FS Financial Services (IFIN), a wholly owned subsidiary of IL&FS, is looking to sell its external corporate loan book worth close to Rs 5,000 crore, according to a source. The process, aimed at reducing the overall debt of IL&FS, will be launched this week, the source said. As of March 31, 2019, the non-banking finance company's asset under management stood at Rs 18,000 crore which includes external, internal loans and internal investments. The company is yet to declare its results for 2019-20.
We have to find a safety net for people who will be left out
At an e-Adda held last week, Uday Kotak, MD & CEO, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and President, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), spoke on the impact of Covid on the economy, risk aversion among banks, and how technology will drive business in the future
Trust to take over IL&FS road assets
The setting up of a framework to transfer road assets of IL&FS Transportation Networks (ITNL) into an InvIT has paved the way for resolution of about Rs 13,000-crore worth bad loans. An InvIT or an infrastructure investment trust is a mutual fund-like vehicle that is used to raise money by monetising operational assets. IL&FS has set up Roadstar Infra Private (RIIPL) as a new subsidiary of ITNL to act as a sponsor company for the road assets and has infused Rs 75 crore into it. Another arm, North Karnataka Expressway (NKEL) has been appointed as an investment manager to the proposed InvIT.
IL&FS Securities Services pays Rs 7.8L to settle case with Sebi
IL&FS Securities Services has settled with markets regulator Sebi a case of alleged violation of market norms in respect of its risk participation arrangement with IL&FS Financial Services. The firm paid Rs 7.8 lakh towards settlement charges, as per a settlement order issued n Wednesday.
All eyes on economy, Uday Kotak is guest at Express e-Adda today
INDIA'S Banking sector is at the centre of a push to get the economy back on track, working to ease stress on borrowers and stabilise the financial system, after a record GDP contraction of 23.9% in the June quarter. To discuss the way forward and reforms needed to boost growth,Uday Kotak,MD & CEO, Kotak Mahindra Bank,and President, Confederation of Indian Industry (CIl), will be the guest at the Express e-Adda Thursday.
IL&FS Maintains Aggregate Debt Addressed Estimates At Over 50,000 Crore In FY21 Despite Challenges
The Management and the New Board of IL&FS Limited today shared its quarterly update on the progress of the ongoing Group resolution process, maintaining its earlier estimates of addressing more than 50 per cent of the overall debt of over Rs 99,000 crore as of October 2018.
Despite pandemic IL&FS expects to address over Rs 50,000 crore debt in FY21
IL&FS Board is hopeful that it will be able to address the targetted debt of over Rs 50,000 crore in the current financial year despite the impact of the pandemic. It is hopeful of achieving the targeted debt resolution of over 50 per cent of the overall debt.


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Review: 'Stuck' is a Celebration of Life and Empathy
MOVIES / THEATER
Image courtesy of Vision Films
"In the city's underground, there's a symphony of sound…There's a beauty in the song, a kind of kinship that we borrow."
Have you ever ridden the subway surrounded by people, wondering what their stories are? What do you have in common? What brought you all together at this exact moment, in this specific subway car? The movie musical, Stuck, brings those exact questions to light. Stuck is a celebration of life and empathy at a time when society is constantly trying to tear us apart by our differences.
Amy Madigan Ashanti, Gerard Canonico, Arden Cho, and Omar Chaparro in 'Stuck.' Image courtesy of Vision Films.
The critically acclaimed New York City musical stars Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul), Amy Madigan (Gone Baby Gone, Field of Dreams), Grammy award winner Ashanti, Arden Cho (Teen Wolf, Chicago Med), Omar Chaparro (Pokémon Detective Pikachu, Show Dogs), and Gerard Canonico (Be More Chill, Not Fade Away). Stuck was written by Michael Berry and Riley Thomas, directed by Berry, and produced by Mike Witherall (John Wick) and Joe Mundo (Sunset Strip, Cardboard Boxer). The movie was based on Thomas' original stage musical, which opened in Chicago in 2008, and played off-Broadway with the New York Musical Festival in 2012.
Giancarlo Esposito and Gerard Canonico in Stuck. Image courtesy of Vision Films.
The pop musical movie is about six strangers who happen to get stuck on the same subway car in New York City. Throughout the movie, they learn about each other's past and present while confronting their own prejudices towards their ideas of each other. Through the power of music, the six strangers are able to unexpectedly change each other's lives, as well as realize that there is more to people than our brief assumptions we may have of them.
Throughout the movie, we get a glimpse into each characters' life through the songs they sing, whether that be about their current situation, future hopes, past experiences, or loved ones. The audience, along with the characters, gains a better understanding of who the people truly are outside of the subway car. The songs themselves range from a variety of genres depending on who is singing, which helps the characters tell their stories.
The movie ends as it begins: the subways continuing on, and people heading to and from their destinations. Yet for these six strangers, fellow acquaintances at the very least, their lives have been changed. They have left an imprint on each others' lives that will forever change their view of the world and those around them. "In the city's underground, there's a symphony of sound, a sonnet chaos for the lost before they're found. There's a beauty in the song, a kind of kinship that we borrow. For no matter how you hate it, I know I'll see you here tomorrow, down on the subway."
At its core, Stuck is about empathy and understanding, and compels us to examine how we may or may not see others for who they truly are. This heartwarming movie musical is a must see for anyone who needs a reminder of just how raw and beautiful the human experience can be.
Stuck is now available on both VOD and DVD!
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Nicole joined Nerds and Beyond in 2019 and is excited to finally get back into writing. As a life-long nerdy fangirl from New Jersey, she loves Supernatural and its fandom as well as anything Wayward, Kings of Con, Lucifer, Wynonna Earp, and the musical Bandstand. She's constantly listening to Louden Swain, The Station Breaks, Briana Buckmaster, The Avett Brothers, The Mots Nouveaux, or any of Aaron Mahnke's podcasts. When she's not [procrastinating] on Twitter, you can usually find her binging Netflix with her dog, reading fanfic, or daydreaming about being back in Arizona or Disney World!
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OSHChip is the work of one person.

My original plan was to create a platform specifically to support the
creation of custom chips within the constraints of the programmable
resources I built into the product. This is the "View 2" described on
the home page. My goal is to motivate electronic hobbyists who are
unlikely to ever have the opportunity to actually design and
manufacture a custom chip to experience most of the challenges and
rewards of the process, without the costs.

I had already spent about 2 years working with the Nordic
Semiconductors nRF51822 System On Chip (SOC) and considered it an
extremely good value for the price. Even without the 2.4 GHz radio,
the rest of the device is very competitive with microprocessors from
other companies. The biggest challenge for hobbyists though, is that
the nRF51822 is only available in QFN and BGA packages, which means a
hobbyist would need to design and manufacture a PCB before they could
use the nRF51822. Even after creating the PCB, there is the quite
significant challenge of soldering a fine pitch QFN device, or the even
harder fine pitch BGA. While there are multiple manufacturers of
modules that include this part, all the modules are surface mount, so
the end user still has to create a PCB. There are also other
challenges that hobbyists may not be up to, such as fine line PCB
design, and design techniques for 2.4 GHz antennae. OSHChip solves
these problems by dealing with the micro BGA package, antenna, power
supply decoupling, crystal frequency reference, and bring it out in a
package that is ready to be used in a standard solderless bread board.

I wanted to do as much as possible (within my cost constraints) to
create something as much like a standard chip as possible. This lead
to the 16 pin DIP form factor, and the custom pins that no other
processor board has (well the closest is the Basic Stamp products from
Parallax, but their pins are not as pretty as mine).

### Pros and Cons of OSHChip

There are good and bad points about any processor board product, here
are what I consider the main Pros and Cons for OSHChip.

#### Pros

- Very small size
- Very light weight
- 16 pin format with unique IC type pins, well matched to standard solderless bread boards
- Rapid prototyping with bread boards
- Very low power modes
- Fully functional from 1.8V to 3.6V (except for the LEDs which require at least 3.3V)
- 32 bit CPU, 256KB of Flash, 32KB of RAM
- Higher performance and more Flash and RAM than many models of Arduinos
- Bluetooth Low Energy radio
- Proprietary 2.4 GHz radio for chip-to-chip communications
- Broad range of built in peripherals, similar to most other micro processor products
- Except for ADC inputs, any peripheral function can be routed to any of the 14 I/O pins
- Efficient peripheral to peripheral Event/Task system that does not require CPU intervention
- Built in Red, Green, and Blue LEDs, that don't use any of the user's 14 I/O pins
- Extensive debug support
- Drag and drop programming.
- Existing support community at Nordic's web site
- Existing support community within the mbed environment
- Multiple compiler/IDE options already exist
- Open source hardware design, all files are on GitHub
- All software from OSHChip is Open Source, most of the software from Nordic is available in source form, except for the radio protocol stacks
- Looks cute

#### Cons

- Only 14 I/O pins
- I/O is not 5V compliant
- I/O pins are only designed to drive CMOS type loads (mostly)
- Not currently manufactured in high volume, so price is not as low as some recently announced very high volume development boards
- OSHChip community has not yet been established
- Relying on 1 person at OSHChip, and the developer communities at Nordic Semiconductor's DevZone for answering questions
- Currently minimal examples and tutorials
- It is assumed that you are familiar with processor boards, and you can navigate a processor chips data sheet and the API documentation provided by Nordic Semiconductor
- Initial support is only for C/C++
- Not yet integrated into the Arduino IDE
- Not designed to be soldered directly into a PCB (the pins may come out of the OSHChip board), should use a socket
- There are other 32 bit ARM CPU boards available with higher clock rates and higher performance

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§ 93-1 Adoption of standards.
§ 93-2 Local enforcing agency.
§ 93-3 Duties of agency.
§ 93-5 Appointment and qualifications of Chief Fire Marshal and employees.
§ 93-8 Smoke detectors and carbon monoxide alarms required; certification; fee.
§ 93-9 Permit fee; Fire Code status certificate fee.
§ 93-10 Fire Advisory Board.
§ 93-11 Board of Appeals.
§ 93-12 Enforcement; violations and penalties.
§ 93-15 Placement and contents.
§ 93-16 Maintenance and inspection.
§ 93-20 Violations and penalties.
Volunteer Fire Department — See Ch. 11.
Fire insurance — See Ch. 89.
Housing standards — See Ch. 112.
Smoke detectors — See Ch. 163.
Pursuant to Section 11 of the Uniform Fire Safety Act (P.L. 1983, c. 383), the New Jersey Uniform Fire Code (N.J.A.C. 5:70-1 et seq.) shall be enforced locally in the Township of Deerfield.
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 52:27D-192, et seq.
The local enforcing agency shall be the Township of Deerfield through its Bureau of Fire Prevention, which is hereby created therein. The Bureau of Fire Prevention shall hereinafter be known as the "local enforcing agency."
The local enforcing agency shall enforce the Uniform Fire Code in all buildings, structures and premises within the established boundaries of the Township of Deerfield other than one- and two-unit owner-occupied dwellings used exclusively for dwelling purposes and buildings, structures and premises owned or operated by the federal government, interstate agencies or the state.
The Bureau of Fire Prevention established by § 93-2 of this article shall be under the direct supervision and control of the Chief Fire Marshal, who shall report to the Township Committee.
The Bureau of Fire Prevention shall have at least one paid inspector, who may be the Chief Fire Marshal.
The Bureau of Fire Prevention, under the direct supervision of the Chief Fire Marshal, shall have a backup fire inspector with the title of Deputy Chief Fire Marshal.
Appointment and qualifications of the Chief Fire Marshal. The Chief Fire Marshal shall be certified by the state and appointed by the Township Committee from a list of three names submitted to the Township Committee by the Township Fire Chiefs.
Appointment and qualifications of inspectors and other employees. Inspectors and other employees of the enforcing agency shall be appointed by the governing body upon the recommendation of the Chief Fire Marshal. All life-hazard use inspectors shall be certified by the state.
The Chief Fire Marshal shall serve for a term of one year, running from January 1 to December 31. The Deputy Chief Fire Marshal shall serve for a term of one year, running from January 1 to December 31. Any vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired term.
Removal from office. The Chief Fire Marshal, inspectors and other employees of the agency shall be subject to removal by the Township Committee for inefficiency or misconduct. Before removal from office, all persons shall be afforded an opportunity to be heard by the Township Committee or a hearing officer designated by the same.
The Bureau of Fire Prevention established by § 93-2 of this article shall carry out periodic inspections of life-hazard uses required by the Uniform Fire Code on behalf of the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs.
Uses not classified above that are subject to the Uniform Fire Code will be classified as business uses.
Uses required to register with the state as life-hazard uses shall not be required to register under this section.
At the discretion of the Chief Fire Marshal, vacant buildings will be charged and inspected according to the previous use of the building.
In accordance with N.J.A.C. 5:70-4.19 of the Uniform Fire Code, all one- and two-family dwellings shall be certified to have had installed approved and tested smoke detectors and carbon monoxide alarms at the time of sale of the property.
It shall be the responsibility of the owner or his agent to obtain the proper certification of smoke detector and carbon monoxide alarm installation before the sale is final.
An employee of a licensed title company.
A licensed New Jersey real estate agent.
A licensed New Jersey fire subcode official.
A certified New Jersey Chief Fire Marshal.
A certified New Jersey fire inspector.
A certificate will be issued after an inspection or certification of compliance has been completed.
Requests for a CSDCMAC (certificate of smoke detector and carbon monoxide alarm compliance) received more than 10 business days prior to the change of occupant: $35.
Requests for a CSDCMAC received four to 10 business days prior to the change of occupant: $70.
Requests for a CSDCMAC received fewer than four business days prior to the change of occupant: $125.
The application fees for permits listed in N.J.A.C. 5:70-2.9(c) shall be established in accordance with the Uniform Fire Code of the State of New Jersey.
The cost for the issuance of a certificate of Fire Code status shall be $25.
The Fire Advisory Board shall consist of the following members: the Chief Fire Marshal, a Township Committee Member (Public Safety Chairman), the Coordinator of Emergency Management, the Township Fire Chiefs and the Assistant Chiefs.
The Board shall meet on a monthly basis.
The Board shall communicate and discuss firesafety, training and operational concerns among its members.
The Board shall assist the Chief Fire Marshal in formulating operational policies consistent with his responsibilities under the Uniform Fire Code.
The Board shall be chaired by the Chief Fire Marshal, who shall call the meetings.
Pursuant to N.J.A.C. 5:70-2.19(a)(1) of the Uniform Fire Code, any person aggrieved by any action of the local enforcing agency shall have the right to appeal to the local Construction Board of Appeals. If no such body exists, appeals shall be made to the County Construction Board of Appeals.
Enforcement, violations and penalties shall be managed in conformity with the Uniform Fire Safety Act, the Uniform Fire Code and all other laws of the State of New Jersey.
Any life hazard buildings with an automatic fire alarm or sprinkler system.
Any building or business that has any type of security gate(s) or gated communities.
Any building that contains large quantities of hazardous materials.
Any building that has a history of chronic false or nuisance fire alarms.
Prior to purchase and installation, the building or business owner shall meet with a representative from the Fire Marshal's office to determine the size box, placement and contents in said Knox Box.
It shall be the responsibility of the building or business owner to inform the Fire Marshal's office any time a key needs to be added to or changed from the Knox Box.
It shall be the responsibility of the business owner to ensure the maintenance of the Knox Box. Each Box will be checked annually by a representative of the Fire Marshal's office. Any repairs shall be noted at the time and repairs shall be completed within the specified time frame.
It shall be the duty of the Fire Marshal's office to enforce this article. The Knox Box installation shall be sited by the Fire Marshal's office during any inspection or complaint of any building or business. If the business or property owner refuses to comply, a citation will be issued through the Deerfield Township Municipal Court.
Should a business or building owner whose building fits the criteria listed above wish to not install a Knox Box System, said owner may submit a letter stating their reasons to the Chief Fire Marshal with in 10 days of being cited to install. At that time, the Chief Fire Marshal shall review the situation with the Fire Chief and a member of the Deerfield Township Committee to determine if a variance is warranted.
Upon notice from the Fire Marshal's office, a building or business owner shall have 30 days to order and receive a Knox Box. Upon receipt of the Knox Box, the building owner shall notify the Fire Marshal's office and make an appointment determine the placement and contents of the box.
The Knox Box shall be installed and ready for use no later than 10 days after meeting with the Fire Marshal's office.
The building or business owner shall not be responsible for delays caused by either the Fire Marshal's office or the Knox Box vendor.
Refusal to comply with this article shall be in violation of this article and punished by a penalty of no less than $100 and not more than $500 plus court costs.
If the violation remains unabated after 30 days from the date the original violation is issued a daily penalty of $100 will be imposed for each day thereafter that the violation remains unabated.


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Tim tried to commit suicide.
I hope Pilot isn't going to be the one driving.
Dewey was trying not to panic.
Angus might have a crush on Jean.
I'm certain Bryan would be willing to help.
Lana has really changed a lot since last year.
Jurevis is our team leader.
Elias doesn't need to know yet.
We could have a problem if Jinchao shows up early.
Josh is not on good terms with his family.
Granville asked me to help him.
Suzan certainly seems to be more effective than Presley.
Klaudia is out of control.
I think I want to meet Owen.
Price and Trent have been bosom friends for years.
Christophe bought an expensive car.
We'll take care of you, Kinch.
Felix is part of the survey team.
I gave Mwa a chance.
I wonder if Spencer can swim.
Janos put on his robe.
Oliver works six days a week.
Hsuan raised his son without any help.
Teriann and Nou moved into an apartment across from ours.
Anatoly grew up near Boston.
I'm sure Anatole wouldn't want to offend anyone.
Don't worry about Glynn. He isn't a threat.
Hurf looked sad and lonely.


Currently on tour with Andrew Jackson Jihad across Europe and soon to head to Fest in Florida, Bristol's finest present a new record.
Titled "Leaving", the record is alas not coming out on Bombed Out this time but it would be remiss of me not to mention it. Early indications (i.e. the couple of songs I've heard so far from it) suggest it's another great release and an essential follow-up to 2013's Betterment album.
Head on over to the Yo-Yo Records or Specialist Subject sites now to order your copy. We wish Lou and Minty all the best for the future and I'll aim to keep their gig listings up to date going forward anyway.
Well, the CDs came back from press exactly as we'd hoped and the pre-orders have been posted so I guess Betterment is officially "out".
We'll be in touch with our favourite record shops this week in order to twist their arms about stocking copies (we don't anticipate much twisting to be required if we're honest) so look out for updates on our Facebook or Twitter pages as and when.
In the meantime you can obviously order the CD direct from ourselves or head to our Bandcamp page for a digital download version. Hopefully we'll get some LP copies into our distro soon along with some older Caves releases.
If you'd rather buy direct from the band their extensive tour schedule for later in the year is now on the gigs page.
So, this kind of came out of the blue. We've known and liked the Bristol based punk-trio Caves for years (they played NYNS in 2011 and 2012) and earlier this year Dave got in touch to see whether we'd be interested in doing the CD and digital release of their next album (Yo-Yo Records are once again releasing the vinyl). We said yes... Tentatively.
Well, the tentativeness went out the window the second Betterment landed. This is by far the best thing the band have recorded. The production (a sterling job by Peter Miles) now gives all the songs the same urgency the band seem able to conjure up time and time again live and, thanks largely to the fact that it was recorded near-live, the band's energy completely remains intact.
More news as we get closer to release and a full Caves bio/gig dates will be added the site shortly - and, Jesus, there are a lot of them!
Anyway, as a taster of what's to come here are two brand new tracks from the album. "Rubino" especially had me grinning from ear to ear on first listen so please enjoy.


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Physoschistura är ett släkte av fiskar. Physoschistura ingår i familjen grönlingsfiskar.

Kladogram enligt Catalogue of Life:

Källor

Externa länkar

Grönlingsfiskar
Physoschistura


Autonomous vehicles are already a reality. Driverless taxis already exist in Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Singapore. An unmanned truck has made its first delivery in Colorado, while, in London, an autonomous minibus has been successfully tested.
BMW, Ford, General Motors, Toyota and Volkswagen promise to introduce self-driving cars to the market by 2020–2021. According to the estimates by BI Intelligence, there will be ten million cars fully or partially equipped with autonomous control devices by the early 2020s.
Self-driving passenger cars will be the first to enter the market, followed by buses and heavy goods vehicles and, finally, by mobile homes as a more complex type of vehicle. Experts at Tranio.com estimate self-driving mobile homes to become commonplace by as early as 2035–2040. This will affect lifestyles and the residential real estate market significantly.
The first mobile homes appeared in the 1950s and today the United States alone sells over 40,000 of them annually. These vehicles look like buses or trucks on the outside but like houses on the inside, with kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms.
Nowadays, motorhomes in the US are offered at prices ranging from $4,000–5,000 for a 1980s model to $3 million for a new, luxurious motorhome equipped with modern appliances.
In the future, mobile homes will be equipped with autonomous control systems. in addition, buyers will be able to purchase devices separately to equip previous generation motorhomes with autonomous capabilities. According to Quartz, self-driving equipment today costs $8,000–10,000 on average.
Even today, multimillion-dollar motorhomes can compete with the comforts of conventional residential properties. They are kitted out with all kinds of amenities: washing machines and dishwashers, TVs, "smart home" systems that manage appliances, underfloor heating and air conditioning to name but a few. The comforts of such mobile home have become so enticing that celebrities like Will Smith and Ashton Kutcher use them while filming.
solar panels and electric drives: motorhomes will run on solar energy and electricity, increasing demand for electric vehicle charging stations.
Self-driving mobile homes will most likely be slower than conventional motorhomes and HGVs, at least initially. However, there will be no special need for speed, as the car will keep running while the passengers are asleep. For the trips to become safer, special, unmanned vehicle may need their own road lanes.
The interior design of the vehicle will probably change too: as there will be no need for a driver, the space in the front part of the car will be free. Overall, mobile homes will become more spacious and ergonomic.
Imagine that, in the evening, you have a barbecue in the forest far out of town, at night, you fall asleep outdoors, under billions of stars, and when you wake up in the morning, your mobile home is already standing in traffic on its way to your office. You are having breakfast while the vehicle is running, and by the time you have had a shower and got dressed, it drops you off at the office door and you come to work beaming. In the evening, the mobile home picks you up from work, and you go back to the countryside. En route you relax while having supper, watching a film or reading a book.
Thanks to self-driving homes, people will have more spare time, but there will also be a side effect: such vehicles are going to reduce real estate liquidity, especially in the peripheral areas. Many will prefer mobile homes to cheap flats, especially if facing a choice between living in one and commuting from the suburbs to the centre by train every day. In addition, self-driving mobile homes will most likely be cheaper to rent than conventional flats. Properties in central locations will be less subject to the risk of losing their liquidity, as they are situated within walking distance of offices and other key facilities.
Now imagine that you are a freelancer travelling in your mobile home across America. the vehicle drives itself whilst you are working. You arrive at an interesting place, step out, enjoy beautiful views, visit cafes and museums and continue your way. Over six months you journey across the entire continent without wasting any time driving.
Another option is going on family holidays in your mobile home: setting off in the evening, sleeping 10–12 hours and then waking up in the morning in Las Vegas or at Disneyland.
Andrew M. Ryan, author and blogger, calculated that a tourist would have to rent 30 hotel rooms and pay 60 restaurant bills to see the main landmarks of 48 American states. a usual American road trip in a car costs $6,212, whereas a self-driving mobile home journey would cost $2,312 (i.e., 2.5 times cheaper). Autonomous self-driving mobile homes will make travelling both more comfortable and more cost-efficient. This will probably lead to fewer people staying at hotels and renting flats for short terms.
Several hundred mobile households may agree to meet somewhere in Nevada or Arizona via social networks and organise an enormous party. Alternatively, a hundred of these vehicles could have a massive barbecue on the outskirts of the city where a travelling restaurant has stopped. Other cars of this type may be turned into portable, self-service bars and shops.
People will certainly continue living in conventional houses and flats, but a significant proportion of young people may share the desire to live in self-driving mobile homes temporarily due to their mobility and affordability.
Purchasing mobile homes on credit will be popular too. The absence of a property tax in the USA for vehicles that remain on wheels and cannot be converted into static trailer homes will become a stimulus.


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On His last Punjab-tour in October 1973, Sant Kirpal Singh visited the Agriculture Farm located near Nawanshar. There was one room made of mud and one Pacca-room beside a little room for the water-pump. Master stayed there nearly for fifteen minutes. He took water from the water-pump and a grain of rice. Then He blessed Kirpal Sagar which now has been built beside the Farm.
With due permission of the Master, the name Manav Kendra was changed to Kirpal Sagar before Sant Kirpal Singh left His physical body. Kirpal means 'Grace', Sagar means 'Ocean' – thus the name Kirpal Sagar means 'Ocean of Grace'.
Master wants from heart that everyone should do the work (selfless service): Everyone should put his head and heart to do that work. It is His earnest desire, a desire from His heart, because He loves each child and wants to develop everyone. He is not having any connection with us on the physical level, but His contact is direct with the soul.
So blessed are those who are chosen for this purpose; they are very fortunate. Master always laid stress upon this subject (the importance of selfless service). Because in the lives of all competent Masters and their devotees, there was only one way: To live and to do for Him! And this is the ultimate goal. If the disciple is obliged to the Master, he says, "I have to do whatever my Master would tell me, it is my highest duty to obey His order."
Background of Kirpal Sagar
The place which Sant Kirpal Singh has chosen for Kirpal Sagar has also a background which first was not known to us. When we started the construction work, people from the surroundings came to us, and one of them told that an old person had been living there whose name was Chattar Singh; he was considered to be mad. To that place the cows were taken for grazing, and he used to sit along with the boys there. He never would return to his home, he stayed overnight in the forest, which was full of snakes. There was also a certain animal which always attacks man. It is not injurious, but its teeth are very sharp. One time, when taking rest, he was bitten by this animal and his nose was bleeding. Those boys wanted to take him to the doctor nearby for dressing the wound, but he said, "No, there is a hospital, I have got it dressed over there."
Sometimes the boys used to say, "Old man, you are smelling, you should take a bath." He would reply, "Yes, here is a Sarovar, a holy tank, I'm always taking a bath there." When they offered him to share their food, he answered, "No, there is a big common kitchen here, I always take the food from here." All the time he used to tell such things, and he even said, "There is a big temple, a house of God." So all people called him a mad person, who is seeing things where other people don't see anything. Now those persons from the neighbourhood believe that he was a holy man.
So, holy places are already fixed by the Masterpower. Kings, premiers, and rich persons can create cities, but holy places are built only by the Masters, they are built in the omnipresence of the Masterpower. The guidance of the Master continues every moment, and in spite of many problems in the beginning the commissioned Manav Kendra could be constructed.
It belongs to all human beings of the world
Kirpal Sagar is a common ground for all people to get together, irrespective of caste, colour, creed, religion or country. It belongs to all human beings of the world. In Kirpal Sagar no religion but the basic teaching of all religions is taught, which is one and the same and has been written with one opinion.
To keep the various outer rituals and rites of the different religions with their basic signification is no bar to true religion. Every religion teaches the universal teaching of the universal link among all human beings – the Brotherhood of Men under the Fatherhood of God. Religion is a very smooth pattern and a way to realize one's self, if one rises above the shackles of the religion.
Kirpal Sagar includes several facilities serving the well-being of man in all aspects:
Sarovar,
Kirpal Charitable Hospital,
Kirpal Sagar Academy,
Kirpal Harbhajan Public School,
Fathers' Home,
Kirpal Bhawan (Hall for lectures and conferences),
Guest House,
Agriculture and Dairy Farm,
Langar (Common Kitchen),
Several Workshops,
Park.
Kirpal Sagar is neither being built in the memory of Sant Kirpal Singh, nor is it a personal wish. It was the wish of Sant Kirpal Singh which is being fulfilled by all devoted disciples of Him.
Moreover, who learns and yearns or who wants to learn and yearn can also work in Kirpal Sagar, as it is the work of God, done by man but inspired by God. This is the highest but the rarest chance that ever comes in the life of a human being.
With nothing but Master's word we started the work and never doubted, we always worked according to His guidance.
Biji Surinder Kaur
Dr Harbhajan Singh – "The significance of Kirpal Sagar"
"Kirpal Sagar – Ocean of Grace"


It is an insult to the intelligence of the average person to present the current television commercial showing a convenience store clerk reading a book, chewing gum and generally appearing incompetent (it is also an insult against every real convenience store worker's competence!) informing a customer (who appears unable to walk and chew gum at the same time) what his share of the cost of smoking cigarettes is while buying a "slumpy." This ad is certainly a tie for "Worst TV Commercial" with the old anti-smoking cigarettes commercial portraying a barmaid who hated her job and her customers! This commercial portrays a convenience store clerk who would be terminated by her employer before the end of her first day on the job with the attitude displayed in this commercial.
Admit that those of the older generation who still smoke cigarettes are "doomed," stop hounding them and leave them be in peace.
health issues (look at the abject failure of Prohibition 1920-33).
Research the problem being faced in many states (such as New York) where "bootleg" online cigarettes are being brought in by the semi-load to avoid local/state taxes. We don't need this in North Dakota.
Quit wasting the taxpayers' money (the cigarettes for sale settlement money belongs to the residentss of North Dakota) on the current plethora of radio, television, billboards and print copy that insult our intelligence. The only people benefiting from these commercials are the advertising agencies that make them and the media that runs/prints them.
Begin to reduce the "anti-smoking cigarettes staff" in the county and state buildings around North Dakota. It appears that they almost are beginning to outnumber beleaguered smokers.
If we seriously want to benefit the health and well-being of North Dakota residents, then all of the money saved by implementing steps three and four should be given to local schools (public and private) to implement a long-term educational program for K-12 on the dangers of smoking cigarettes. These educational programs could also include some other issues important to young people, including the dangers of using mobile devices and/or texting while driving, suntanning booths and proper diets.


There's lots to be said about the Mediterranean diet, but researchers are finding out that it's more powerful than they had anticipated as far as being beneficial for your health.
One of the things I've recently read in a Time Magazine issue is that researchers at the U of Alabama and the U of Athens in Greece tracked more than 17,000 African-American and Caucasian men and women for four years and found that those who closely followed a Mediterranean diet were 13% less likely to develop memory and thinking problems than other participants.
An earlier study found that people who stuck to such a diet were less likely than others to show evidence on an MRI of having had a small stroke.
Researchers agree that no single food is responsible for the health-giving powers of the Mediterranean diet. Instead, the combo of nutrients you get from regularly eating this way is what makes it so special—along with the nutrients you avoid.
One notable study showed that compared with those eating a low-fat diet, people on a high-oil version of the Mediterranean diet had a 30% lower risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke or dying of heart disease.
Information Source: The Diet That Might Save Your Life, by Alexandra Sifferlin, Time Magazine 2013.