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2017 named 'greenest ever' for electricity
Came across some very good statistics today! According to Carbon Brief, more than half of the electricity in the UK came from low-carbon sources for the first time in 2017. This is an amazing milestone on all counts. This basically means that more electricity was generated in 2017 between nuclear and renewables than all the fossil fuels combined. According to the Carbon Brief report, wind alone generated more than twice as much electricity as coal, supplying more power every month except in January.
"The UK electricity sector passed a string of other symbolic markers in 2017, from its first coal-free day since 1882 to new records for wind and solar generation. This led NGO WWF to dub the year the 'greenest ever' for electricity – with prime minister Theresa May tweeting her support."
This is on par with the findings in 2016 when wind-farms generated more electricity than coal. However what is more astounding in 2017 is that low-carbon sources supplied more than half the total of the electricity generated for the first time. The share from nuclear and renewables has doubled between 2009 and 2017, just breaking the 50% mark.
Fossil fuels, on the other hand, supplied 47.5% of generation, down from 75.4% in 2010, according to Carbon Brief. With coal generation having plummeted over the past five years, the lion's share of today's fossil supply comes from gas.
Notably, coal generation fell by a further 25% in 2017 to 23TWh. Meanwhile, gas generation also fell, down 7% to 134TWh, well below its 175TWh output in 2010. Nevertheless, gas was the single largest fuel by far, supplying some 40% of generation in 2017.
Nonetheless, the emissions from the power sector remain far above the levels needed to meet the legally-binding UK carbon targets under the Paris Climate Agreement despite the progress in decarbonising the rest of the economy being limited.
It would be safe to presume that the rise of low-carbon electricity has been steadily increasing in no small part thanks to the government-initiated incentives for renewables. However, additional subsidies in the medium term have been ruled out by the government, beyond those already agreed and/or promised. Saying that, Carbon Brief believes that as the cost for renewables declines, a subsidy-free deployment might still be a possibility.
Although the largest increase in low-carbon electricity generation came from a single source – wind – which was up 31% to 49 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2017, nuclear remains the single largest source in the UK, and the second largest overall. Last year saw figures from nuclear soar a whopping 70TWh.
Other renewables that also generated more in 2017 than the year before includes solar, rising 11% and biomass by 4%, despite a fuel supply problem at Drax, the UK's largest power station, which has converted half its capacity to burn wood pellets.
A snippet from the Carbon Brief report states:
It's worth adding that the 31TWh of biomass electricity comes from a wide range of sources. Large sites burning wood, such as Drax, have become controversial, due to uncertainty over how long it will take for new, growing trees to offset raised carbon emissions at the power plant, particularly if trees are harvested exclusively to generate electricity.
In a recent guest article for Carbon Brief, Prof Sir John Beddington, the UK government's chief scientific adviser between 2008 and 2013, wrote: "A reasonable estimate [for this case] might be that every kilowatt hour of wood at least doubles the emissions over a period of 30 years that might otherwise occur even if the alternative were fossil fuels."
According to Electric Insight's estimates, the carbon intensity of UK power fell by 10% to 237gCO2/kWh in 2017, half the 508gCO2/kWh in 2012. (Note that this estimate covers all electricity supplied in the UK, including imported power from France and the Netherlands. In 2017, the UK sourced 15TWh from imports, up from zero in 2010. Last year saw a slight decrease on 2016, after a raft of nuclear plants were taken offline in France for repairs).
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Polygon awards grant funding to Smarter Contracts
Smarter Contracts, the company responsible for building the patent-pending data privacy and consent management platform - Pulse, is delighted to announce that it has received grant funding from Polygon.
Polygon is one of the largest blockchain protocols in the world and provides a framework for building and connecting Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks. The grant was awarded to Smarter Contracts after they completed a rigorous selection process, designed to ensure that Polygon only provides funding to worthy projects that they believe can add long-term value to the Polygon network.
The grant will be used to further the development of the Pulse platform and has been awarded to Smarter Contracts at a time when they have extended the functionality of Pulse to ensure it can deliver greater privacy and rewards for those participating in DeFi and the metaverse via the use of The Pulse Token.
Wayne Lloyd, CEO of Smarter Contracts, states: "We're extremely grateful that Polygon has awarded this grant to us. Their support not only allows Smarter Contracts to continue its business growth trajectory but it also provides us with more of the capital we need to invest in order to deepen the features of the Pulse platform even further."
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Muay Thai is one of the most internationally recognizable forms of boxing in the world. But it's more than just exciting to watch; practicing Muay Thai is actually very beneficial for your health. There are many amazing benefits to training in Muay Thai, especially if you decide to head to a specialized training camp in Thailand, where thousands of people interested in practicing this exciting sport visit every year to improve their overall wellness. Let's take a closer look at some of the most significant ways that Muay Thai will make you healthier–and happier.
To truly excel with Muay Thai, you'll have to do plenty of training that targets your muscle strength. Over time, you will increase the strength of your muscles while also gradually improving your muscle's endurance. This means you don't just get the benefit of gaining muscle–you also get the benefit of being a stronger Muay Thai fighter!
Muay Thai training is an intense exercise that will keep your body and your mind sharp and fit. One of the great things about using Muay Thai as part of your fitness regime is that with regular training, it can actually count as your essential regular exercise. Regular exercise helps prevent a host of health problems and will help you get in better and healthier shape!
One of the most popular ways to learn and practice Muay Thai is to go to the source itself: Thailand! Thailand offers professional Muay Thai training camp opportunities for people who want to fully immerse themselves in learning the art and skill of Muay Thai style boxing. If you travel to Thailand and dedicate yourself to one of these training camps, you'll find that you are rewarded with better physical health–and mental health, as well. Travel can be a way to reduce stress and promote relaxation, and what better place to visit than Thailand?
Muay Thai from http://www.chalongmuaythai.com is a cardio workout that will help you improve your health in nearly countless ways. Chalong Muay Thai is good camp for you. Cardio workouts are essential for a healthy body; and regular cardio exercise is a standard part of any fitness regime. The reason why this type of workout is so essential for health is that cardio workout gets your heart rate and breathing ramped up for at least 10 minutes, helping you burn calories, reduce fat, and even gain muscle depending on the type of cardio workout you're doing. Cardio workouts improve your health in an endless number of ways, most significantly: it reduces your chance of heart disease, heart attack, stroke, diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure. Keeping these health problems at bay can help you lead a much longer and better life. And there's no better way to get healthy, stay healthy, and have an exciting time doing it than through the art of Muay Thai.


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Formula One is coming to an end in Malaysia as Sepang International Circuit and F1 organizers have confirmed that 2017 will be the final race. Sepang International Circuit has hosted Formula 1 since 1999, and both Formula 1 and SIC say they are determined to make this year's event in October a fitting finale for Malaysia's one and only F1 circuit.
Formula 1 has made Malaysia a tourist attraction since it becomes a regular fixture on the calendar. The series has also created a huge fan base from its annual F1-derived programs and pre-race activities. We have yet to hear from Sepang circuit on their take of the decision to drop out from Formula 1. From the current economic situation in the country, the domestic organizers probably felt that it was no longer necessary to host an F1 race as the cost of hosting an F1 race costs very, very high and spectator numbers have dropped significantly over the years.
The 2016 F1 Malaysian round has been moved to 29 September till 2 October since the track's refurbishment early last year. Fans of F1 in the country are advised to grab their tickets now to witness the finale of the Malaysian F1 Grand Prix, this October. The Malaysian round offers fans with plenty of single-seater action including the GP2, GP3 and other spectacular support races. Last season, the GP2 series saw local driver Nabil Jeffri take to the action driving for Arden International, while Akash Neil Nandy drove for Jenzer Motorsports in the GP3 series. 2016 F1 race saw both Red Bull Racing drivers clinch a one-two finish with Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen finishing in the top two spots. It was Ricciardo first win of the 2016 season. Mercedes-AMG F1 team's Nico Rosberg, who was crowned 2016 champion, came home third behind the Red Bulls. Crowd favorite Lewis Hamilton dropped out of contention of the Malaysian GP after his engine blew up during the race.
Last season, Sepang circuit registered a total attendance of 83,828, which was an increase of roughly 4% over 2015. But, in the past, attendance for the Malaysian round usually rang up to 100,000 or more. Again, the decision to terminate hosting an F1 race is due to ministerial calls to cease hosting premier racing events to reduce or rather cut high costs, as well as curb the insufficient returns from hosting a major race event.
This year GP will be the 19th F1 Malaysia GP, scheduled for 29 September to 1 October. The Malaysian race comes right after the Singapore F1 GP, and this edition will be the end of all things Formula 1 in Malaysia.


Canopies that can be securely tied to a vehicle will only need weights on the legs that are not tied to the vehicle. It is recommended to tie your canopy frame to a vehicle whenever possible. Canopy tops, if loose will flap in the wind. Flapping in the wind is what makes them tear. Loose tops also cause them to hold water when it rains and can break your canopy.
Canopy tops should be able to be released quickly in the event of sudden winds. Don't try to hold down your canopy, you will only get injured. Release the canopy top at the corners instead.
The best idea I have seen and one that has been endorsed on other markets and art fairs is the use of PVC pipe. You could always purchase canopy weights from various manufacturers, but they tend to be expensive. The goal is to get 40 or 50 pounds of weight on each canopy leg.
Concrete blocks/ buckets etc. pose a tripping hazard - as do water bottles. Water bottles can leak and are not heavy enough. A 4 litre water bottle (windshield washer bottle for example) weighs approximately (4 x 2.2 pounds =) 8.8 pounds. To reach 40 lbs you would need 5 on each leg which is not practical.
1/ Drill a hole in the center of one of the end caps sized to fit the eyelet bolt. Put a nut, then a washer on the eyelet bolt. Put the bolt in the hole, then put a washer and nut on the bolt from the inside of the cap and tighten. This will be the top cap. You may want to use some thread lock on the nuts or other means of securing the nuts since once the weights are assembled, they cannot be disassembled to tighten the nuts if they come loose.
2/ Apply PVC adhesive on the bottom end cap and attach to the bottom end of the PVC tube. Allow to dry for 3 hours.
3/ Fill the pipe with sand up to the desired weight. The advisable weight is around 40 to 50 lbs.
4/ Apply PVC adhesive to the top cap and put it in place on the PVC pipe. Allow to dry for 3 hours.
5/ Repeat for the remaining pieces of PVC tube, end caps and eyelet bolts.
6/ Place the weights next to each canopy leg and wrap with the Velcro straps to prevent them from falling over.
7/ Attach the cam straps to the weights and the frame of your canopy. Tighten the straps but not enough to lift the weights off the ground. The canopy frame is not designed to hold the weight. Note: ropes are not recommended since they will often stretch when wet and may come loose.
PVC glue is specially formulated for PVC pipe - no other glue will do. Once end caps are glued on with PVC glue, they will be impossible to remove.
For handling sake, rather than making 40 - 50 pound weights, you could make twice as many 20-25 pound weights.


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Trans Augrabies MTB 2020
MTB Beginner	( 3 Events )
The Trans Augrabies MTB Stage Race is held over 3 Days and 3 individual stages. Register for one of the events below to compete over ONE day of this 3 Day Stage Race.
The Trans Augrabies MTB Beginner Event is aimed at mountain bike riders who want to experience the beauty of the Green Kalahari, but who aren't quite fit enough to exceed the 50 or 100 km race mark just yet. The Beginner Event offers 3 difficulty levels, over three unique routes to choose from. Day one is the recommended route for Single Stage riders during the Trans Augrabies MTB, as it offers scenery covering both Riemvasmaak and Augrabies Falls over an 82 km stretch. Day Two is slightly longer at 86 km but keeps mainly to the Augrabies Falls National Park itself. Day Three might be the shortest of the three options at 55 km, but it is also the most technical of the routes and takes riders away from the park towards Khamkirri, on the opposite side of the Orange River.
MTB Experience	( 3 Events )
The Trans Augrabies MTB Stage Race is held over 3 Days and 3 individual stages. Register for one of the events below to compete over TWO days of this 3 Day Stage Race.
The Trans Augrabies MTB Experience is aimed at intermediate mountain bike riders who want to experience the beauty of the Green Kalahari, but who wants to also push themselves to their personal limits. The MTB Experience offers 3 difficulty levels, over three route combinations to choose from. Riders that are new to Stage Racing, but not mountain biking are advised to go for the first option, combining Day 1 & 3, as this offers the best coverage of the entire race route, including technical single tracks and good portions of all other track types, but also offers the shortest route at 137 km, with an entire day of rest, repairs and recuperation in between stages. In contrast, both the other options do not have this rest period in between. Day 1 & 2 combines Augrabies Falls and Riemvasmaak into a 168 km scenic experience, which might be the longest of the three, but still slightly easier than the final option, Day 2 & 3, which might be shorter at 141 km, but includes the technical single track of Khamkirri on the opposite side of the Orange River.
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Warriors lose security man Walker, athletic…
Warriors lose security man Walker, athletic trainer Lane
By Janie Mccauley and The Associated Press |
PUBLISHED: July 10, 2018 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 6, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Golden State Warriors security man Ralph Walker, who in recent seasons had primarily worked closely with Stephen Curry, has departed the organization to spend more time with family.
Walker confirmed his exit via text message, saying, "Will miss you all." He had been a fixture on the Golden State sidelines and almost anywhere Curry went, staying close to the two-time MVP at home and on the road. Walker is a former member of the Oakland Police Department.
Also Tuesday, the Warriors said athletic trainer Chelsea Lane had departed for a job running the Atlanta Hawks training staff. She played a key role in getting Curry back from a knee injury this postseason as the Warriors won a second straight championship and third in four years — and Lane worked back several other stars from late-season injuries, too, such as Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson and Andre Iguodala.
Golden State also announced the re-signing of big man Kevon Looney that had been agreed to last week when free agency began. Looney, receiving a one-year deal for the minimum, averaged 4.0 points and 3.3 rebounds in 13.8 minutes per game and earned five postseason starts.
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First-Person-Shooter Movie PANDEMIC out now, starring Alfie Allen, Mekhi Phifer | Invision Game Community
First-Person-Shooter Movie PANDEMIC out now, starring Alfie Allen, Mekhi Phifer
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Content Media is set to release Virus Breakout Thriller "Pandemic" on major VOD platforms in the UK and Ireland on Monday 23rd May 2016. The first-person shooter movie stars Alfie Allen ("Game of Thrones"), Mekhi Phifer ("Insurgent"), Missi Pyle ("Gone Girl"), Rachel Nichols ("Star Trek"), Paul Guilfoyle ("CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), Danielle Rose Russell ("Aloha") and Pat Healy (Captain America: The Winter Soldier).
Set in the near future, a zombie virus of epic proportions has overtaken the planet. There are more infected than uninfected, and humanity is losing its grip on survival. Its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren (Rachel Nichols) is a doctor, who, after the fall of New York, comes to Los Angeles to lead the charge in the hunt for uninfected civilian survivors. Lauren's objective is simple – lead her team into the field and rescue survivors.
Lauren and her team: Gunner (Mekhi Phifer), Denise (Missi Pyle) and Wheeler (Alfie Allen) put on their anti-contamination suits, complete with cameras so their experiences can be used for research, and leave the compound. But nothing could have prepared them for the mayhem they are about to walk into…
"Pandemic" was directed by John Suits from a script by Dustin T. Benson, and produced by New Artists Alliance founders Gabriel Cowan and John Suits. It was filmed on location In Los Angeles, CA, and was released in the U.S. in theaters and VOD platforms by XLrator Media on 1st April 2016.
John Suits says: "Growing up as a fan of First Person Shooters, I'd always been fascinated by the concept of melding the perspectives into narrative storytelling, When I first came across the script for "Pandemic" I was immediately hooked and desperately wanted to make the film. The actors had to treat the camera like a character. The cast was amazing and completely up to the task."
Get ready for "Pandemic" when it releases in the UK and Ireland on major VOD platforms courtesy of Content Media, and on DVD through Platform Entertainment, on 23rd May 2016!
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From The Titanium Physicists Podcast - Radio telescopes have really crummy resolution.but if we line them up and hook them together, using a technique called "radio interferometry" we can see the head of a screw 300 km away. This episode, our guest is Ben Acker, one of the authors of "the thrilling adventure hour". amazing! Our Physicists are Rupinder Brar and Sabrina Stierwalt! exciting!


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The LiveRoof Deep System has a soil depth of 6" and can accommodate a broad variety of traditional perennials including many native species (with irrigation). It is also ideal for the rooftop growing of vegetables.


Test your interior design skills and take part in a memorable adventure in Homescapes! Your main aim is to collect special chips, making a combination of three that suits one another. With the help of these chips, you will add more comfort to your charming little house located on a calm and nice street. But this is not all – the story will begin right after you make your first step in the house! There is a large amount of bright and well-designed levels here, where you will have to furnish and decorate the rooms, opening new chapters, and learning interesting stories about the family that used to live there.


More than 100, it turned out, and their remains had rested there undisturbed for nearly six millennia. What Oates's team found that hot autumn day in 2006 were the remnants of a ferocious battle or a brutal mass murder on a scale unprecedented for such an early date. And the inadvertent discovery lay within sight of what is currently our best and oldest evidence of early urban life. Digging just a few hundred yards away on the main mound of what today is called Tell Brak, the archaeologists recently uncovered large buildings and extensive workshops from the same period—around 3800 B.C.—as well as imported material and fancy tableware.
The dual finds make Brak a unique window into the time when humans first began to live in cities, trade over long distances, and, apparently, organize warfare on a mass scale. The conventional wisdom holds that urban living began nearly 1,000 years later and nearly 1,000 miles to the southeast in the so-called cradle of civilization once known as Sumer, located in today's Iraq. When civilization arrived in this northern edge of the Mesopotamian plain, the story goes, it was bestowed by the Sumerians from fabled cities like Ur, Uruk, Eridu. But this hulking mound in a remote corner of Syria (tell means "hill") offers a radical new view of just how, where, and why our globalized lifestyle may have gotten its start.
Like hundreds of other mounds in this region, Brak was built up over millennia as homeowners knocked down their decaying mud-brick houses and erected new structures on top of the remains. This tell towers over all others in the region, rising about 130 feet above the plain. The site contains a mini–mountain range of eroded hills and valleys covering more than 120 acres, surrounded by a sprawl of smaller mounds circling the central core like satellites. People lived here for at least 3,000 years, and probably much longer. Brak was abandoned around 1200 B.C. during the chaotic time when the Hittite empire collapsed and the Bronze Age ended.
The Sumerians seem benevolent in many of the images that they left behind, which depict feathered skirts, round faces, and shaved heads. Some artifacts had hinted at violence, but the new evidence from Brak shows that conflict at the time of urbanization was at times appallingly brutal. When forensic scientists pieced together what took place during that bloody event, it was gruesome by any standard. The corpses of the losers in the conflict were left for weeks to rot in the sun, then dragged and shoved into shallow pits. The winners carved pointed sticks out of some of their enemies' bones, slaughtered prize cows, feasted on roast beef, and tossed the scraps and plates on top of the decaying bodies.
"There was a big party of people feasting," says Oates matter-of-factly, passing cookies around the table during afternoon tea in Brak's cramped mud-brick dining hall.
At first glance, Oates seems an unlikely figure to revolutionize our understanding of the ancient world. She spent most of her middle years raising three children while assisting her husband, David, who directed excavations in Iraq and Syria for several decades. A self-described "dutiful wife," Oates says she was left to draw potsherds—"the boring stuff." These bits of broken pottery are both the bane and the backbone of Middle Eastern archaeology, providing crucial data on how, when, and who lived in a particular place. They are also as ubiquitous as sand on a beach. As I approach the campsite at Brak, nestled in a small hollow within the massive hill, my taxi's tires crunch with the sound of ancient pot pieces being pulverized.
That is a vital quality in the complicated and sometimes dangerous world of Middle Eastern archaeology. When the Baath Party of Saddam Hussein took over in Iraq in 1968, "heads and bodies were displayed in the square near our home, and we had to make detours so the children wouldn't see them," Oates recalls. The family moved the next year from Baghdad to London so David could take a professorship at an archaeology institute. In the mid-1970s, David decided that he wanted to tackle Brak, which lay just across the Iraqi border in Syria but was nevertheless part of Mesopotamia—the storied lands around and between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The dramatic site of Brak had been briefly excavated by Mallowan in the 1930s, but Christie found it not to her liking, since rainfall was too sparse for the flowers she loved to grow; they split their time with another ancient mound farther north with a slightly wetter climate.
Brak was in the archaeological boondocks. Virtually all the action during previous decades had focused on southern Iraq, in the low-lying alluvial plain that merges with the Persian Gulf. Work there had uncovered enormous ancient cities dating back to 3000 B.C. and even earlier. Mallowan worked at Ur, the legendary birthplace of Abraham, where he met Christie and helped his mentor Leonard Woolley excavate royal tombs dating to 2500 B.C. German archaeologists found the fabled metropolis of Uruk, celebrated as the place where writing originated and where the famous King Gilgamesh reigned; Uruk appears to have been a bustling metropolis by 3500 B.C. Nearby were the ruins of Eridu, viewed by the Sumerians themselves as the world's oldest city. These ruins yielded evidence of a small building, possibly a temple, dating to 5500 B.C.
The silt laid down by thousands of years of floods coupled with the frequent rebuilding of these sites in ancient times made it difficult to penetrate down to their origins. So we know precious little about how Sumerian cities began to evolve. By contrast, much if not all of Brak sits above the floodplain. That makes its earlier levels more accessible, theoretically. In the course of his dig here, Mallowan had uncovered a mysterious building he called the Eye Temple, for its thousands of unique votive objects with flat, trapezoidal bodies and thick necks topped with pairs of huge eyes. He also found evidence of richly decorated copper and gold work as well as small clay cones painted on their ends to adorn walls. This was a style popular in distant Uruk in the centuries after 3500 B.C., so Mallowan assumed the edifice was a southern concoction. He did not suspect that under his feet was evidence of an urban society independent of ancient Sumer, and at least as old.
Arriving at Brak in 1976, Joan Oates wanted to explore the period before 3500 B.C. to see if settlement there predated the influx of southern influence. But her husband vetoed the plan as too risky. A huge mound like Brak is no simple wedding cake, with early layers below and later layers above; rather, it is a mind-bogglingly complicated mass of jumbled history. Wind and rain have had their way with the site in the 3,000 years since it was completely abandoned. Broken pottery bits have drifted down slopes, mixing with earlier potsherds. Foundations have vanished in sudden flash floods. A stone throne sits overturned in a deep gully, far from where its royal occupant once sat. Try to reach an early layer, David Oates knew, and you might find yourself exhausting both your time and money before you hit pay dirt.
And money has been a perpetual source of anxiety at Brak. The British School of Archaeology in Iraq and, later, the McDonald Institute at Cambridge University have supported the dig, but the Oates team has had to be frugal. Team members live in canvas tents during the spring and fall seasons—stifling on the frequent hot days, and uncomfortable at night when temperatures can plunge to near freezing. Only this year did electricity arrive.
So Joan patiently bided her time as she and her husband excavated the rich upper layers of the high mound. Then one day in 1981, her son spotted signs of a thick-walled building just below the surface on the northeast end of Brak, and her husband began to dig along what proved to be a fortification from the second millennium B.C. But in one corner of the excavation, Joan discovered bits of pottery dating back a thousand years farther. "I said, 'This is where we can get at the fourth millennium B.C.,'" she recalls. This time her husband agreed.
It took a decade of arduous work on a steep section of the hillside to carve back through the centuries. Even the 2004 death of her husband did not halt Oates's efforts. One morning, as if we are setting out for a stroll through the English countryside, she takes me on a walk across the mound to the massive wedge-shaped hole she and a generation of archaeologists and local workers have carefully made, its back wall soaring more than 30 feet. A slight woman in an off-white windbreaker, Oates pauses in the trench and peers around. She looks annoyed. "You are seeing here only a fraction of what's going on, a little window on the economy of the past," she says. "It's terribly frustrating." But even that small fraction that she and her team—made up largely of Syrian, American, and British excavators—have found is nothing short of revolutionary.
One of the most dramatic discoveries at Tell Brak is a large building with massive redbrick walls and ovens nearly 10 feet across. The types of pottery found, along with radiocarbon analysis of ash deposits, date the building to about 3800 B.C. By contrast, few large structures have been found from a time before 3500 B.C. in southern Iraq. Scattered across the building's floor was a varied collection of objects, from large piles of raw flint and obsidian from Turkey to finished blades. All about lay an array of beautiful stones collected and stored for making beads: jasper, marble, serpentine, diorite. The site also contained a large chunk of bitumen, a valuable tarlike substance used to bind stone or wood, which had to have been imported from eastern Iraq or Turkey. Mother-of-pearl inlays lay cut and ready to be placed in jewelry. The remains of sheep and goats abounded, as did spindle whorls, probably used to make yarn, and simple looms—all clear signs of weaving activity.
Beneath the redbrick building, Oates and her team found a more modest one dating to about 4000 B.C. This earlier structure was a center of craft production on a large scale and was also a busy site of communal cooking, judging from its huge ovens set next to plastered basins and bins. Just outside ran a street paved with pottery shards, headed for what Oates believes was a north gate facing the resource-rich mountains of Turkey.
Next door, Oates uncovered a large edifice with a massive basalt threshold and thick walls, entered by passing through two small rooms, perhaps guardhouses. She believes this is the oldest administrative center yet known. Nearby, the excavators found bits of clay stamped with lion and snake motifs, seals that signified ownership of property, and a statuette with large eyes. At the Eye Temple, the site of an earlier dig on the southern side of the mound, Oates found signs that the earliest structure here dates back to about 3800 B.C. And nearby, in another trench, her team found traces of a brick platform and a wall built 1,000 years before that.
These excavations prove that Tell Brak was a place of impressive wealth and sophistication, an important trading center and a major (and previously unappreciated) player in the early game of civilization. It even had suburbs. Oates invited a team of American archaeologists to examine the area beyond the high mound, which covers only about one-fifth of the site's nearly 750 acres. The remainder lies within the halo of smaller mounds circling the site. By methodically sampling the area inside and outside this halo—a laborious task of mapping, examining pottery, and digging small test pits—the researchers concluded that Brak covered 320 acres in the period between 3900 and 3400 B.C. Some 20,000 people may have lived within the city limits, and dozens of smaller sites lay within a 10-mile radius. And this large population—only Uruk in southern Mesopotamia is thought to have been as large in this era—was supported without any irrigation.
Ur (coincidentally sharing the name of the famed southern Mesopotamian city) was the first to jump into the trench made by that backhoe in 2006 at the small mound just north of Brak's central hill. But it was left to Arkadiusz Soltysiak, a Polish bioarchaeologist, to sort through the human bones. He found no infants and few elderly and determined that some of the victims had suffered traumatic injuries, as might come from a blow by club or mace, that had already healed before they were killed. The incomplete, scattered skeletons made it hard for him to establish the gender of the victims, but surviving teeth hinted at a population of adolescents and young adults. Some of them also appear to have suffered from malnutrition.
Soltysiak leans toward the theory that this event at what locals call Tell Majnuna was a massacre, noting that some of the bones are from people not of warrior age. If so, it could have been an inside job. Others think the dead might have been locals who rebelled or otherwise offended the city's elite, were put to death, and then were denied decent burial. But Augusta McMahon, who is the Brak dig's field director, argues that the scene more closely resembles an attack. "The age profile, the piles of bodies, and the rubbish context says battlefield cleanup," she tells me as we trudge through green wheat fields from the high mound to Majnuna. "And the corpse abuse—the way they were haphazardly piled up, the way femurs were made into tools—says the victims were enemies of whoever buried them." One possible scenario, she says, is that Brak's enemies attacked from the outside and managed to kill some civilians in the melee before being routed.
In either case, nabbing food or finished goods may have been a motive for the bloodshed. (Two years ago, grain shortages during a drought led to riots in this part of modern-day Syria.) Brak's obvious concentration of wealth would pose a temptation to outsiders.
Soltysiak and McMahon agree on what happened next. The victors or perpetrators left their victims on the field for weeks or even months. The rotting corpses were eventually hauled to the shallow depression at Majnuna and unceremoniously dumped. The total body count is clearly in the hundreds, though for now excavations there have ceased. About 10 yards from the mass grave, the team found another cache of bones that are probably the result of the same incident: mostly skulls and femurs, stacked in relatively neat piles. Two dozen of the femurs were whittled at one end to a point, perhaps to dig around in the skulls of the dead, but for what purpose is unknown. Soltysiak recalls being startled to discover the human bones that had been made into tools here.
And it was just the start of a series of violent acts that shook ancient Brak. Back at Majnuna, McMahon points out another mass grave, dating to a century or so later, adjacent to the first pit. One clump of bones looks as if it had been piled into a bag that decayed. Just a few yards away is another mass of human bones, dating to about 3600 B.C. The victims in both slaughters appear to be young, the skeletons are jumbled, and there are no grave goods, which would have been typical in a formal burial.
Along with the bones are all manner of refuse, such as broken pottery and flint tools. Majnuna seems to have been one of Brak's main dumps. One possibility is that the waves of enemies who threatened the city—whether rebellious locals or foreign raiders—were treated like garbage. As we step off the mound, the man who owns the area containing the mass graves pulls up in his new GM pickup. "Come for breakfast!" he insists with typical Arab hospitality. As we walk down the dusty road to his home, he pulls a gun from his holster to admire it.
Violence at the dawn of civilization was not unique to Brak. An hour's drive to the east is Hamoukar, which was a thriving settlement during the early and mid-fourth millennium B.C., around the time that Brak arose. Echoing the sophistication of its neighbor, Hamoukar had well-planned houses with courtyards, large ovens, seal impressions in the form of lions killing deer (a style seen at Brak as well). Recently a joint Syrian and American team found evidence of a battle around 3500 B.C. in which Hamoukar buildings were destroyed.
This attack may have been more than an incursion by marauders looking for food or goods. At that time, the southern city of Uruk began to expand its influence, and Uruk-style pottery appears throughout the Middle East. Possibly those southerners ran into opposition from the formidable northern settlements of Hamoukar and Brak, whose inhabitants may have resented the growing power of Uruk and its allies. Brak and Hamoukar were burned around the same time, but "evidence of both northern and southern material suggests a peaceful coexistence afterward," Oates says. "The 'destroyers' could well have come from Anatolia or anywhere else." By 3400 B.C., pottery typical of Uruk predominated, and Brak's Eye Temple had been renovated in a southern Mesopotamian style. When Brak appears in the historical record in the third millennium, it is as the important city of Nagar. Overwhelmed by superior technology, better military organization, or a persuasive new ideology, the pioneering civilization at Brak and its environs became an adjunct of the south, which went on to create even grander city-states, bureaucracies, and empires.
Violence and cultural sophistication may in fact have gone hand in hand in creating the first urban societies. "Tell Brak is not just another archaeological site but a place where new aspects of humanity emerged, and our work has the potential to explain them," Ur says. Finding answers in Iraq may not be possible for a very long time, given the political troubles there. This gives the exploratory digs in Syria a special urgency.
Brak's independent advances in the north came to an abrupt end, but perhaps not a dead end. Maybe the interaction between the two competing visions, whether through trade or warfare (or both), helped spur the innovations that changed our world. "Civilization spreads like a virus. It happens in clusters and not in isolation," says Guillermo Algaze, an archaeologist at the University of California at San Diego. In the past decade, excavators have begun to find evidence to support this idea around the globe. A thousand years after Brak lost its independence, an astonishing array of urban sites sprang up across the Iranian plateau, central Asia, and the Arabian Peninsula. In the following 1,000 years, a host of interacting cultures contributed to what emerged as Chinese civilization.
Eyes peeled, Oates continues her push to dig even deeper into Brak's past. "She's brilliant—and she's changed the field," Algaze says. "And she'll get to those earlier levels." Unlike her old friend Agatha Christie, Oates is after bigger game than a single murderer. In the ultimate whodunit of civilization, the ancient people of Tell Brak were, at the very least, important accomplices.


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about 25% are market orders?
I ran this bot overnight after figuring out you have to split your funds between fiat and coins (I'd like coins only, not wait for the buy order and sell order to both fill). Even though there was not a single order placed at a loss, I ended up losing a good amount of money because about 25% of the orders placed were market orders, even with "post only" ticked.
Re: about 25% are market orders?
Where is this happening? Because there is a difference between market making and market making. Officially market making describes 2 things. It describes making the spread smaller (like we do with the market making bot) or it can describe a situation where order should be placed in the orderbook and where it is not setup to be filled quickly (this last one is known as "post only").


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Q: ios how to extract all rangeOfString of an array in a for loop? I want to extract all "daughter" of a NSarray.
For example, nsarray is made like this:
hello
hi
hello daughter
my goodness
daughter (someone)
my daughter
how are you?
etc.

And I want to extract all lines that contain "daughter". Could you point me in right direction?
My current code is:
for (NSString *mystring in self.array)
{
    if ([mystring rangeOfString:searchText].location!=NSNotFound)

{
   NSUInteger idx = [self.array indexOfObject:mystring];
   [self.filterarray addObject: mystring];
}
}

A: NSArray *lines = ...;
NSArray *filteredLines = [lines filteredArrayUsingPredicate:[NSPredicate predicateWithBlock:^BOOL(NSString *string, NSDictionary *bindings) {
    return ([string rangeOfString:searchText].location != NSNotFound);
}]];

(requires iOS 4.0 or later)
If you need to support earlier system versions use this:
NSArray *lines = ...;
NSArray *filteredLines = [lines filteredArrayUsingPredicate:[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"(SELF contains[c] %@)", searchText]];

(requires iOS 3.0 or later)

A: NSString *textViewText = @"hello hi hello daughter my goodness daughter (someone) my daughter how are you? etc.";

NSMutableAttributedString *attributedString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:textViewText];

NSArray *highlightWords = @[@"daughter",@"hello"];

for(NSString *word in highlightWords)
{
    NSRange range = NSMakeRange(0, textViewText.length);
    do{
        range = [textViewText rangeOfString:word options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch range:range];
        [attributedString addAttribute:NSForegroundColorAttributeName value:[UIColor redColor] range:range];
        if (range.location != NSNotFound)
            range = NSMakeRange(range.location + 1, textViewText.length - (range.location + 1));
    }while(range.location != NSNotFound);

}

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Chettinad Hari Shree Vidyalayam is managed by the Chettinad Group under the auspices of the Gandhinagar Education Society. A request by the members of the society to help educate the children from the Gandhinagar and Raja Annamalaipuram led Padmabhushan Dr. Rajah Sir M.A. Muthiah Chettiar to establish schools for children of all age groups. From 1956 until now, several schools have been established by the Chettinad family and many of them are functioning as charitable institutions.
Hari Shree was founded in 2004 with a vision to create a safe, emotionally secure, joyful environment, while being rooted to our culture. The philosophy of the school is inspired by Swami Dayananda Saraswati.
We aim to enable children to become compassionate and responsible global citizens, to think globally and act locally, contributing towards a sustainable future. Our focus is to shift from 'I' to 'we', 'me' to 'us' and 'my' to 'our'.
The school is affiliated to the Council for Indian Schools Certificate Examinations (ICSE / ISC board)
Educate individuals to become compassionate responsible global citizens and contribute towards a sustainable development.
To provide a culturally rich, joyful learning environment that empowers students to be lifelong learners who are reflective, collaborative, creative contributors.
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The identity of Hari Shree Vidyalayam is inspired by the Sahasrara Chakra. As per the yogic traditions, the Sahasrara Chakra relates to pure consciousness, and it is from this chakra that all the other chakras emanate. The word Sahasrara translates to 'a lotus with 1000 or infinite petals'. The overall form of the logo also resonates with the form of a glowing sun in our astronomical space. The overall energies emitted by the union of this form and its colours symbolize generosity, focus, leadership, warmth of the community and friendships.


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Students in Engineers Without Borders build projects to improve the quality of life for communities near and far
by TJ Triolo | Jan 20, 2023 | Features, Students
Students in Arizona State University's Engineers Without Borders chapter combine their knowledge from across engineering disciplines to help improve access to power, clean water and more around the world. Photo courtesy of ASU chapter of Engineers Without Borders
Katie Sue Pascavis, co-president of Arizona State University's chapter of Engineers Without Borders, decided to join the club after learning about the organization's globally impactful service projects. The ASU chapter of Engineers Without Borders exists to help empower communities around the world to meet basic human needs. Pascavis got involved as a first-year student in one of the club's projects to help provide drinking water in the Kenyan village of Naki.
Pascavis, now a senior mechanical engineering major in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and a global health major in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU, says that she felt especially called to help with the Kenya team, led by undergraduate Barrett, the Honors College students Tatum Mcmillan, a sophomore majoring in biomedical engineering, and Jayashree Adivarahan, who is pursuing a double major in electrical engineering and computer science.
"Many children there fall ill from drinking the current water in Naki," she says. "I knew I wanted to join this team so I could help build a safe drinking water source for the community."
That motivation inspired her to become a project lead for the Kenyan international project.
ASU's Engineers Without Borders chapter is part of the national-scale professional and student organization, Engineers Without Borders USA. The local professional chapter provides mentorship to the ASU chapter, guiding student teams through each project's completion.
ASU Engineers Without Borders projects also involve corporate and nonprofit partners that donate resources to ensure student initiatives provide maximum impact to the communities they serve. The club also partners with Engineering Projects in Community Service, commonly known as EPICS, for assistance.
EPICS is a national, award-winning social entrepreneurship program that ASU students can also take for course credit. EPICS participants can enroll in one of two undergraduate courses, FSE 104: EPICS Gold Feasibility and Planning or FSE 404: EPICS Gold: EPICS in Action, while solving problems in underserved communities using their engineering skillsets. With similar goals to ASU Engineers Without Borders, the two organizations' collaboration is a natural fit for EPICS Director and Lecturer Jared Schoepf, a faculty advisor for ASU Engineers Without Borders.
"The most rewarding part of EPICS and Engineers Without Borders is that students never ask 'when will I apply this knowledge or equation,'" Schoepf says. "Instead, they are actively applying their skills on each real project."
In addition to gaining practical engineering experience that changes lives for the better, students network with mentors, learn from guest speakers and take part in skill sessions to continue learning beyond the classroom.
"Our students are not waiting to make an impact after graduation; they are making an impact today," Schoepf says.
Aside from the Kenyan international project, the ASU Engineers Without Borders chapter has four other large projects currently in progress. Their other international project, in Ethiopia, works to provide plastic recycling capabilities for Ethiopia's Simien Mountains National Park and a nearby town, Debark. The area is heavily littered with nearly 120,000 plastic water bottles that are left by visitors annually.
The project seeks to implement small-scale plastic shredders and injection machines that can handle the entire capacity of littered water bottles each year. Shredders would reduce the water bottles down to small flakes of plastic and the injection machines would melt the flakes down and mold them into new products such as cups, plates, toys and even construction materials.
Kaleb Tefera, a project co-lead and second-year computer science major, says he knew the project was perfect for him after attending a general ASU Engineers Without Borders meeting.
"Because I grew up in Ethiopia, I thought I could really help the team as I can speak the language in the region," Tefera says. "I could also make connections in the area, as well as understand and explain any cultural differences that might be new to the team."
The student team aims to travel to Ethiopia to work with community members and local engineering students to set up the machines later this year. They plan to continue to work with the students and community to develop skills and maintain the machines together thereafter.
While the project will initially only feature the machines in Debark, the team will make the design accessible for communities across Ethiopia. ASU Engineers Without Borders partners with universities in Ethiopia to share their design knowledge with local students. They even hope to make the design open source for sustainability efforts around the world.
"I am very excited to see where this project is going and I'm glad to be a part of it," says project co-lead Tyler Norkus, a second-year mechanical engineering major. "I feel like it could have a great impact for the community in Debark, as the goal is to create a circular economy based on recycling plastic and create more jobs there."
ASU Engineers Without Borders is also working on three stateside projects in Arizona. One of the student teams is implementing mountain bike trails to encourage ecotourism and provide local children with an after-school activity. Another student team is building dams to restore irrigation capabilities to a farming community and the third student team is working to provide solar electricity for sustainable energy.
Students interested in helping communities around the world through ASU Engineers Without Borders can attend a general meeting, held Wednesday evenings on ASU's Tempe campus in Engineering G Wing 120/122.
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Leopoldov (před rokem 1948 Mestečko; maďarsky: Lipótvár, později Újvároska; německy: Leopoldstadt) je slovenské město ležící v Trnavském kraji v okrese Hlohovec. Žije zde  obyvatel a je důležitým železničním uzlem. V povědomí Čechů ulpělo díky tomu, že je zde věznice Leopoldov, v níž byli v 50. letech komunistickou vládou vězněni a likvidováni političní vězni.

Historie
Leopoldov byl založen v roce 1664 z iniciativy Leopolda I., po němž dnes nese jméno. Založení pevnostního města (městský status udělen zároveň se zprovozněním pevnosti v roce 1669) bylo součástí císařových snah zastavit pronikání Osmanské říše do hloubi Horních Uher. Leopoldovská pevnost začala postupně ztrácet svůj vojenský význam na konci 17. a počátku 18. století po sérii zdrcujících porážek, které Habsburkové Osmanské říši uštědřili a které způsobily, že se hranice posunuly daleko na jih. Pevnost pak našla uplatnění jen jako méně významná vojenská základna při vzpourách proti Habsburkům. V roce 1855 byla vlastní pevnost přestavěna na věznici, která smutně proslula zejména v 50. letech 20. století, kdy v ní českoslovenští komunisté věznili a likvidovali politické vězně. Věznice byla zdrojem proslulosti města i po roce 1989 – např. díky vzpouře vězňů z roku 1990 a útěku 7 vězňů doprovázeném vraždou 5 dozorců (1991).

Památky
 Leopoldovská pevnost (dnes věznice pro těžké zločince)
 kostel sv. Ignáce z Loyoly

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Související články
 Věznice Leopoldov

Externí odkazy

  Oficiální stránky města
  Informace o městě na mesto.sk
  Železničná stanica Leopoldov na Rail.sk

Města na Slovensku
Obce v okrese Hlohovec
Města v regionu Dolní Pováží
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LinkedIn Boosts Security With New Session Alert and Privacy Control Tools
Sep 04, 2014Swati Khandelwal
With a need to give more controls in users' hands, LinkedIn has introduced a few new security features that the company says will help users of the social network for professionals keep their accounts and data more secure.
SESSION ALERTS
Just like Google, Facebook, Yahoo and other online services, LinkedIn has added a new option within the settings tab that allows users to see where and on what devices they are logged into their account. From there, users can sign out of various sessions with one click.
This will include details about the users' current sessions, the browser name, operating system, carrier and IP address, which is used to give an approximate location of the device through which the session is occurring.
Just like the Facebook feature, LinkedIn lets people to approve the devices to be used, and if somebody accesses a user's LinkedIn account from an unapproved device it will alert user.
PASSWORD ALERTS
LinkedIn has also introduced its password change email alerts. Like many online services, LinkedIn will now alert users via an email when their password reset has initiated, and when it has been changed. It will also give you a sense of where that request originated as well.
"The added information gives your more insight into when and where the account change took place, including the date and time and details on the device the device the changes were made on such as the browser it was running, the Operating System (OS), IP address, and approximate physical location," LinkedIn's head of privacy and security Madhu Gupta explained in a blog post.
REQUEST YOUR DATA ARCHIVE
Furthermore, LinkedIn is making users' stored data totally accessible to the users who created it, so that users can export it and see their each and every activity and account history, including who invited you to join, when you last logged in, updates, IP records and many more.
In short, you can request access to your archive of activity and data on LinkedIn and it may take 72 hours for LinkedIn to compile the archive, after which you'll receive an email with a link to your entire data.
"We are in the process of rolling these three new tools out globally now and encourage you to take a look at your settings today to see two of these new tools. It's also a good opportunity to remind yourself of all your settings and make sure they are right for how you are using LinkedIn now," wrote Gupta.
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Q: Infinite dimensional division algebras with finite center, and their involutions Let $q$ be a prime power, and $D$ a non-commutative division algebra (skew field) over $\mathbb{F}_q$ (the finite field with $q$ elements) such that the center $C(D)$ equals $\mathbb{F}_q$.

Question 1: Do such division algebras exist? Are there "simple" examples?

The only non-commutative division algebras over finite fields I know are skew Laurent series. E.g. $D=\mathbb F_{q^2}((t))$, where $t$ induces by conjugation on the coefficients $c\in\mathbb F_{q^2}$ the unique involutory field automorphism, i.e. $tc = c^qt$.
Then $\mathbb F_q$ embeds into $D$, but $C(D)$ is infinite as it contains all even powers of $t$. Maybe the construction can be modified to make the center finite? I am not quite sure where to look for more information or examples. All literature I found so far deals primarily with finite-dimensional division algebras.

Question 2: What are good references on infinite dimensional division algebras? Books, articles, surveys, anything?

Based on an example for such an object, I hope to get a better feeling for the following problem: We now also have an automorphism $\gamma$ of $D$ of order 1 or 2, and an involutory anti-automorphism $\sigma$ of $D$.
Call a (commutative!) subfield $\mathbb K$ of $D$ nice if $\gamma$ and $\sigma$ restrict to it, i.e. if $\mathbb K^\sigma = \mathbb K = \mathbb K^\gamma$.

Question 3: What can be said about the nice subfields of $D$? In particular, how large can one make nice subfields; are there infinite ones?

Clearly the (finite) center is nice. And I think that one can always find a nice subfield with $q^2$ elements, but beyond that... ? Maybe looking at some special cases helps:

Question 4: What can we say if $\gamma$ is trivial?

If $D$ contains an element $t$ of infinite (multiplicative) order, then we get an infinite nice subfield: Either $t+t^\sigma$ has infinite order and then we can adjoin that to the center; or else, let $n$ be its finite order. Then $1=(t+t^\sigma)^{np}=t^{np}+(t^{np})^\sigma$, hence $t^{np}$ (which has infinite order) commutes with $(t^{np})^\sigma$ can we can adjoin that to the center. This motivates

Question 5: Does $D$ necessarily contain an element of infinite (multiplicative) order?

Of course one can now look at further special cases of my problem, e.g. the case that $\gamma$ and $\sigma$ commute seems to be in reach. But this still seems pretty far from the general question.

A: PM Cohn's "Skew fields: Theory of general divison rings", CUP 1995 should prove a valuable reference.
In particular, Proposition 2.3.5 states that for each field $k$ there is a skew field $D$ whose centre is $k$ and such that $D$ is infinite-dimensional over $k$.


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Paul Stewart (born Paul Sternberg; March 13, 1908 – February 17, 1986) was an American character actor, director and producer who worked in theatre, radio, films and television. He frequently portrayed cynical and sinister characters throughout his career.

A friend and associate of Orson Welles for many years, Stewart helped Welles get his first job in radio and was associate producer of the celebrated radio program "The War of the Worlds", in which he also performed. One of the Mercury Theatre players who made their film debut in Welles's landmark film Citizen Kane, Stewart portrayed Kane's butler and valet, Raymond. He appeared in 50 films, and performed in or directed some 5,000 radio and television shows.

Biography
Paul Stewart was born in Manhattan, New York, on March 13, 1908, as Paul Sternberg. His parents were Maurice D. Sternberg, a salesman and credit agent for a textile manufacturer, and Nathalie C. (née Nathanson) Sternberg; both were born in Minneapolis. Stewart attended public school and completed two years at Columbia University, studying law. He had received first place in the Belasco Theatre Tournament in 1925 and decided on an acting career.

Stewart began his stage career in New York as teenager. He made his Broadway debut in 1930, in Subway Express. He next appeared in the 1931 play, Two Seconds, adapted as a film the next year.

In 1932, after two additional Broadway credits, Stewart moved to Cincinnati and went to work at radio station WLW. There, in 1928, radio pioneer Fred Smith had created the program Newscasting, which in 1931 evolved into the popular national news series, The March of Time. For 13 months Stewart worked in all aspects of radio production at WLW – acting, announcing, directing, producing, writing and creating sound effects. When he returned to New York he was on The March of Time and a member of radio's elite corps of actors.

In 1934, Stewart introduced Orson Welles to director Knowles Entrikin, who gave Welles his first job on radio, on The American School of the Air. "I'd been turning up for auditions and never landing a job until I met Paul Stewart," Welles recalled. "He's a lovely man; for years he was one of the main pillars of our Mercury broadcasts. He can't be given too much credit."

In March 1935 Stewart saw Welles's stage performance in Archibald MacLeish's verse play Panic, and recommended him to director Homer Fickett. Welles was auditioned and hired to join the repertory company that presented The March of Time.

"It was like a stock company, whose members were the aristocrats of this relatively new profession of radio acting," wrote fellow actor Joseph Julian. At that time Julian had to content himself with being an indistinguishable voice in crowd scenes, envying this "hallowed circle" that included Stewart, Welles, Kenny Delmar, Arlene Francis, Gary Merrill, Agnes Moorehead, Jeanette Nolan, Everett Sloane, Richard Widmark, Art Carney, Ray Collins, Pedro de Cordoba, Ted de Corsia, Juano Hernandez, Nancy Kelly, John McIntire, Jack Smart and Dwight Weist. The March of Time was one of radio's most popular shows.

Stewart was a founder of the American Federation of Radio Artists in August 1937, and one of its inaugural officers. He carried card number 39 in the union and was a frequent delegate at the national convention. He was also a board member of the Screen Actors Guild, and a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Stewart played various roles throughout Welles's memorable tenure as Lamont Cranston in The Shadow (September 1937–September 1938).

In 1938 Welles expanded the range of the Mercury Theatre from Broadway to network radio with his CBS series, The Mercury Theatre on the Air, and Stewart became his associate producer. In addition to playing a number of roles in the drama series and its sponsored continuation, The Campbell Playhouse, Stewart made significant contributions to the celebrated broadcast, "The War of the Worlds", as rehearsal director, actor and co-writer.

Welles later said that Stewart deserved the largest share of the credit for the quality of "The War of the Worlds".

On January 14, 1939, in Arlington, Virginia, Stewart married actress and singer Peg LaCentra (1910–1996), a vocalist with Artie Shaw's first orchestra who worked in radio, films and television. That September Welles called Stewart in New York.

"The telephone rang and I heard the unmistakable voice of Orson Welles, speaking from California," Stewart recalled:Well, when Orson said he had a part for you, you went. So I left New York to play my first role in a picture at 500 dollars a week, three weeks' guarantee. I was on Citizen Kane for 11 weeks. … My first shot was a close-up in which Orson wanted a special smoke effect from my cigarette. I was rigged with tube that went under my clothes and down my finger to the cigarette, but somehow the contraption wouldn't exude smoke. "I want long cigarettes – the Russian kind!" Orson ordered. Everyone waited while the prop man fetched some Russian cigarettes. Just before the scene Orson Welles warned me: "Your head is going to fill the screen at the Radio City Music Hall" – at that time Citizen Kane was booked for the Music Hall. Then he said in his gruff manner, "Turn 'em." But just before I started, he added quietly in his warm voice, "Good luck." I blew the first take. It was 30, 40 takes before I completed a shot that Orson liked – and I had only one line. That was almost 30 years ago, but even today I have people repeat it to me, including young students. The line was: "Rosebud … I'll tell you about Rosebud …"

Stewart's most famous role is his screen debut as Raymond, the cynical butler in Citizen Kane (1941). Actress Ruth Warrick, who portrayed Kane's first wife, remembered Stewart saying to her at the film's New York premiere, "From this night on, wherever we go or whatever we do in our lives, we will always be identified with Citizen Kane."

On the stage, Stewart appeared in the Mercury Theatre's acclaimed production of Native Son, directed by Welles and produced by John Houseman at the St. James Theatre March 24–June 28, 1941.

During World War II Stewart served with the New York-based Office of War Information (1941–43) and narrated documentaries including The World at War (1942). He worked under John Houseman at the newly created Voice of America (1942–43), broadcasting news, editorials and commentary from the U.S. press, and quotes from notable speeches, to audiences in Europe. When Houseman took his oath of allegiance as a U.S. citizen in March 1943, he chose Stewart to accompany him as his witness.

Stewart was given leave to go to Hollywood to act in a few wartime films, including Mr. Lucky (1943), and worked as a barker in The Mercury Wonder Show, a magic-and-variety show produced by Welles and Joseph Cotten as a morale-boosting entertainment for U.S. soldiers. Because of his comprehensive radio experience, Stewart was called upon by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. to prepare radio programs used to promote the purchase of War Bonds during World War II. He produced and directed Welles's Fifth War Loan broadcast from the Hollywood Bowl June 14, 1944, and produced, directed and acted in a number of patriotic episodes of the Cavalcade of America radio series.

After the war Stewart went to work for David O. Selznick and Dore Schary as a writer, director and producer, and directed screen tests for Paramount Pictures. Stewart's many feature film credits as an actor include The Window, Champion, Twelve O'Clock High, Deadline – U.S.A., The Bad and the Beautiful, The Juggler, Kiss Me Deadly, King Creole, In Cold Blood, The Day of the Locust and W.C. Fields and Me, in which he portrayed Florenz Ziegfeld.

In 1950 Stewart took over the role of Doc in Joshua Logan's Broadway production of Mister Roberts, starring Henry Fonda.

A Democrat, he campaigned for Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 presidential election.

On television, Stewart's director credits include the syndicated series, Top Secret (1954–55), in which he costarred with the young Gena Rowlands, and a notable episode of the TV series The Twilight Zone, "Little Girl Lost" (1962). He was host, narrator and actor in the syndicated series Deadline (1959–61) and appeared in episodes of The Ford Theatre Hour, Suspense, Playhouse 90, Alcoa Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Asphalt Jungle, Perry Mason, Dr. Kildare, Mannix, Mission Impossible, The Name of the Game ("L.A. 2017"), McMillan & Wife, Columbo, The Rockford Files, Lou Grant and Remington Steele, among many other TV series.

Orson Welles called upon Stewart to play a role in his film, The Other Side of the Wind, shot in the 1970s and left unfinished until its release in 2018. When Welles died at his home in Hollywood, California on October 10, 1985, Stewart was the first of his friends to arrive.

Stewart died at the age of 77 of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on February 17, 1986, after a long illness.

He had suffered a heart attack in 1974 during the first two weeks' filming of Richard Brooks's Western, Bite the Bullet, in which he was replaced.

In the 1999 film RKO 281, Paul Stewart was portrayed by Adrian Schiller.

Theatre credits

Radio credits
Paul Stewart played in or directed 5,000 radio and TV shows, usually without credit.

Actor

Director, producer

Film and television credits

Actor

Director, producer

References

External links

"Native Son: Best-Selling Novel is Turned into Tense Drama Strikingly Staged by Orson Welles" Life, April 7, 1941, pp. 94–96Photograph of Stewart appears on page 95
War of the Worlds – An Update on the Paul Stewart lacquer set – Blog post about the acquisition and status of Paul Stewart's 78 rpm recordings of the Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" (October 27, 2013)

1908 births
1986 deaths
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male radio actors
American male stage actors
American radio directors
American radio producers
American television directors
Jewish American male actors
Male actors from New York City
20th-century American male actors
California Democrats
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People of the United States Office of War Information
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