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Character and... Screen Life (Vol. 3, 2017) /
Navigating a Pokemon Go World
Rafic Sinno University of Dubuque
Keywords: Character, Character and, Character and Screen Life, Navigating a Pokemon Go World, Niantec, Augmented reality, Nintendo, Distraction, Habit, Addiction, Behavioral addiction, Responsibility, Normative principles
Pokemon Go is one of the most popular and widely adopted augmented reality games in the world. The benefits and consequences of playing the game have been highlighted in local, national, and international news stories and are the subject of emerging academic research. Yet the larger questions to consider: how can we exhibit good character in augmented reality world? How does such technology shape our personal and social interactions outside the game? What role do we play in shaping how we interact with augmented technology? And, ultimately, how should we respond in our desire to be people of good character?
Character and... Screen Life (Vol. 3, 2017)
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Angiographic features, surgical management and outcomes of proximal middle cerebral artery aneurysms
Dong Hyuk Park, Shin Hyuk Kang, Jang Bo Lee, Dong Jun Lim, Taek Hyun Kwon, Yong Gu Chung, Hoon Kap Lee
Objective: Understanding the microanatomy of the proximal middle cerebral artery (M1) and its early branches is very important for aneurysm surgery in this region. However, few articles provide detailed descriptions of such aneurysms. We report the angiographic characteristics of a series of M1 aneurysms and our experience with M1 aneurysm surgery. Materials and methods: Twenty-three patients with 25 (combined) M1 aneurysms presented to our institution from January 2001 to December 2006. We examined the general characteristics and angiographic features of the M1 aneurysms, such as site, size, direction, and their association with early branches. Results: Of the 23 patients with M1 aneurysms, 13 were women and 10 were men. Nineteen of the aneurysms had ruptured prior to presentation. Multiple aneurysms were observed in 10 of the patients. Angiography showed that 14 of the aneurysms were less than 5 mm in size, and most of the aneurysmal projections were superior. Eighteen of the aneurysms involved early frontal branches and three involved the lenticulostriate arteries. Postoperative infarction was seen in eight patients. Five of the eight patients showed either no or slight neurological deficits at the follow-up visit. One patient, however, suffered from hemiparesis and aphasia that corresponded to the vascular territory of the early frontal branches and lenticulostriate arteries. Two patients had a total MCA infarction and a posterior fossa infarction, respectively. Conclusions: This study highlights the need for the critical management of M1 aneurysms, taking into consideration the size and number of aneurysms. By performing careful angiographic investigation of the aneurysm and related early arterial branches of M1, postoperative complications may be minimized.
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clineuro.2008.02.014
Cerebral aneurysm
Early branches
Post-surgical infarcts
Proximal middle cerebral artery
10.1016/j.clineuro.2008.02.014
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Intracranial Aneurysm Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Aneurysm Medicine & Life Sciences 81%
Infarction Medicine & Life Sciences 11%
Arteries Medicine & Life Sciences 10%
Ruptured Aneurysm Medicine & Life Sciences 8%
Aphasia Medicine & Life Sciences 8%
Middle Cerebral Artery Infarction Medicine & Life Sciences 7%
Middle Cerebral Artery Medicine & Life Sciences 7%
Park, D. H., Kang, S. H., Lee, J. B., Lim, D. J., Kwon, T. H., Chung, Y. G., & Lee, H. K. (2008). Angiographic features, surgical management and outcomes of proximal middle cerebral artery aneurysms. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, 110(6), 544-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clineuro.2008.02.014
Angiographic features, surgical management and outcomes of proximal middle cerebral artery aneurysms. / Park, Dong Hyuk; Kang, Shin Hyuk; Lee, Jang Bo; Lim, Dong Jun; Kwon, Taek Hyun; Chung, Yong Gu; Lee, Hoon Kap.
In: Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, Vol. 110, No. 6, 06.2008, p. 544-551.
Park, DH, Kang, SH, Lee, JB, Lim, DJ, Kwon, TH, Chung, YG & Lee, HK 2008, 'Angiographic features, surgical management and outcomes of proximal middle cerebral artery aneurysms', Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, vol. 110, no. 6, pp. 544-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clineuro.2008.02.014
Park DH, Kang SH, Lee JB, Lim DJ, Kwon TH, Chung YG et al. Angiographic features, surgical management and outcomes of proximal middle cerebral artery aneurysms. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. 2008 Jun;110(6):544-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clineuro.2008.02.014
Park, Dong Hyuk ; Kang, Shin Hyuk ; Lee, Jang Bo ; Lim, Dong Jun ; Kwon, Taek Hyun ; Chung, Yong Gu ; Lee, Hoon Kap. / Angiographic features, surgical management and outcomes of proximal middle cerebral artery aneurysms. In: Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. 2008 ; Vol. 110, No. 6. pp. 544-551.
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My quick and easy version is super tasty and will go perfectly with your veggie burgers and chips. Also great as a dip for crisps and crudités. I used this sauce with the yam burgers I made yesterday and it complemented it perfectly!
Blend the tomatoes, bell pepper and water until smooth. Pour into a saucepan and bring to the boil. Add the vinegar, sugar, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Boil for about 5 minutes on high heat then turn the heat down completely and allow to simmer uncovered for 15-20 minutes.
Dissolve the cornflour in a little hot water. Add to the sauce and stir well. Bring to the boil again, stirring continuously until the sauce starts to thicken.
Store in a glass jar to maintain the freshness. Keep refrigerated and use within a week.
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Indian Trade Service 2021: Exam dates, Eligibility criteria, Syllabus/Pattern
The Indian Trade Service (ITS) is a Group A civil service, formed in 1965. It was created as a specialized cadre to handle India's international trade and commerce. The ITS is controlled by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Ministry of Commerce.
The department is divided into the following nine divisions:
International Trade Policy Division
Foreign trade regional division
Export products division
Export industries division
Export services division
Economic division
Administration and General Services Division
Finance Department Supply Department
ITS Salary details 2021
Indian trade service Exam Pattern 2021
Preliminary Examination (400 Marks)
Main Examination (2025 Marks)
Indian Trade Services Exam Syllabus 2021
Indian Trade Service Prelims Syllabus
Indian Trade Service Mains Syllabus
Important dates 2021 ITS
Indian Trade Service 2021 Eligibility Criteria
1) Nationality:
2) Educational Qualification:
3) Age Limit :
4) Number of attempts:
ITS 2021 Interview
Apply online 2021 ITS Exam
Indian Trade Service (ITS) offers a nice salary and a growth scale for its executives. Candidates fascinated by trade and commerce must decide on this service. Different officers get the pleasure of totally different pay scales in tune with their ranks and grades. Supported by their role on the general board of foreign trade, they are given totally different pay scales.
In the upper-rank roles of the body, they are assigned to basic remuneration anywhere between the authority 37400 to the authority 67000. In junior roles, the Officer Region Unit assigned a pay scale of Rs. 15,600 to Rs. 39,000. In the variety of choice categories, pay scales range from Rs. 15,600 to Rs. 67,000. Indian Trade Service (ITS) Salary is amazing so let us explore in more detail. The table below provides information on the benefits of many designations in ITS.
Grade Pay
Junior Time Scale Assistant Director-General of Foreign Trade Rs.15,600-39100 Rs.5400
Senior Time Scale Deputy Director-General of Foreign Trade/ Under Secretary Rs.15,600-39,100 Rs.6600
Junior Administrative Grade Joint Director General of Foreign Trade/ Deputy Secretary Rs.15,600-39,100 Rs.7600
Selection Grade Joint Director General of Foreign Trade/ Director Rs.37,400-67,000 Rs.8700
Senior Administrative Grade Additional Director General of Foreign Trade/ Development Commissioner, Special Economic Zone/ Trade Advisor Rs.37,400-67,000 Rs.10,000
Higher Administrative Grade Director-General of Foreign Trade/ Senior Development Commissioner, Special Economic Zone 67000- 3%-79000
The pattern of Civil services examination has been designed to test academic expertise. Also for a candidate's ability to present himself/herself in a systematic and coherent manner.
The examination pattern focuses to evaluate the overall intellectual features and understanding level of the candidates.
The IAAS recruitment held in three stages:-
Language Option
Paper-I 200 Marks 20 min Hindi/English
Paper-II 200 Marks 20 min Hindi/English
Subject = Civil Service aptitude Test : Common for all Applicant.
➼ Optional Subjects of Prelims
Language Script
Assamese Assamese
Bengali Bengali
Gujarati Gujarati
Hindi Devanagari
Kannada Kannada
Kashmiri Persian
Konkani Devanagari
Malayalam Malayalam
Manipuri Bengali
Marathi Devanagari
Nepali Devanagari
Odia Odia
Punjabi Gurumukhi
Sindhi Devanagari or Arabic
Tamil Tamil
Telugu Telugu
Urdu Persian
Bodo Devanagari
Dogri Devanagari
Maithili Devanagari
Santhali Devanagari or Olchiki
Paper A Optional Language subject 300 Marks
Paper B English 300 Marks
Paper To be Counted For Merit(Ranking)
Paper-I Essay 250 Marks
Paper-II General Studies-I 250 Marks
Paper-III General Studies-II 250 Marks
Paper-IV General Studies-III 250 Marks
Paper-V General Studies-IV 250 Marks
Paper-VI Optional Subject paper-1 250 Marks
Paper-VII Optional Subject paper-2 250 Marks
Subject Total(Written Test) 1750 Marks
Personality Test 275 Marks
Grand Total 2025 Marks
➼ Optional Subjects of Main
Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science, Anthropology, Botany, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Commerce and Accountancy, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Geography, Geology, History, Law Management, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Science, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science and International Relations, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Statistics, Zoology.
Literature of any one of the following languages: (Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and English)
The syllabus of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Civil Services Examination is divided into three categories.
The introductory course is mainly designed for a candidate's understanding of current affairs and assessment of aptitude within the stipulated time. The introductory paper is a compulsory and qualified paper.
The syllabus of Mains is basically designed to assess the educational expertise of a candidate in his particular subject.
The curriculum also focuses on testing the aspirations' ability to present knowledge in a clear and consistent manner. The main exam has 9 papers and the syllabus is designed according to the specified subjects.
The syllabus of preliminary and mains is designed for the written examination. Candidates, who clear the preliminary and main examination, can appear for the interview.
Paper-I
Current events of national and international importance
History of India and Indian National Movement
Indian and World Geography – Physical, Social, Economic Geography of India and the World
Indian Polity and Governance – Constitution, Political System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues, etc
Economic and Social Development – Sustainable Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics, Social Sector initiatives, etc
General issues on Environmental Ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change – that do not require subject specialisation General Science.
Paper-II
Interpersonal skills including communication skills;
Logical reasoning and analytical ability
Decision-making and problem solving
General mental ability
Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc.) (Class X level), Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. – Class X level)
Paper-A: Optional Language
Paper-B : English
Qualifying nature: Marks not counted, Passing mandatory
Comprehension of given passages
Precis Writing
Usage and Vocabulary
Translation from English to the Indian language and vice-versa
Note 1: The Papers on Indian Languages and English will be of Matriculation or equivalent standard and will be of qualifying nature only. The marks obtained in these papers will not be counted for ranking.
Note 2: The candidates will have to answer the English and Indian Languages papers in English and the respective Indian language (except where translation is involved)
Paper-I : Essay
To be written in the medium or language of the candidate's choice
Candidates will be required to write an essay on a specific topic
The choice of subjects will be given
They will be expected to keep close to the subject of the essay to arrange their ideas in an orderly fashion and to write concisely
Credit will be given for effective and exact expression
Paper-II : General Studies-I
Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, Literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times.
Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant events, personalities, issues
The Freedom Struggle – its various stages and important contributors /contributions from different parts of the country
Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country history of the world will include events from 18th century such as industrial revolution, world wars, redraw of national boundaries, colonization, decolonization, political philosophies like communism, capitalism, socialism etc.- their forms and effect on the society
Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India
Role of women and women's organization, population and associated issues, poverty and developmental issues, urbanization, their problems and their remedies
Effects of globalization on Indian society
Social empowerment, communalism, regionalism & secularism
Salient features of the world's physical geography
Distribution of key natural resources across the world (including South Asia and the Indian sub-continent); factors responsible for the location of primary, secondary, and tertiary sector industries in various parts of the world (including India)
Important Geophysical phenomena such as earthquakes, Tsunami, Volcanic activity, cyclone etc., geographical features and their location- changes in critical geographical features (including water-bodies and ice-caps) and flora and fauna and the effects of such changes.
Paper-III : General Studies-II
Indian Constitution- historical underpinnings, evolution, features, amendments, significant provisions and basic structure.
Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States, issues and challenges pertaining to the federal structure, devolution of powers and finances up to local levels and challenges therein.
Separation of powers between various organs disputes redressal mechanisms and institutions.
Comparison of the Indian constitutional scheme with that of other countries
Parliament and State Legislatures – structure, functioning, the conduct of business, powers & privileges and issues arising out of these
Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary Ministries and Departments of the Government; pressure groups and formal/informal associations and their role in the Polity
Salient features of the Representation of People's Act
Appointment to various Constitutional posts, powers, functions and responsibilities of various Constitutional Bodies
Statutory, regulatory and various quasi-judicial bodies
Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation
Development processes and the development industry the role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups and associations, donors, charities, institutional and other stakeholders
Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and
Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections
Issues relating to the development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources
Issues relating to poverty and hunger
Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures
Role of civil services in a democracy
India and its neighbourhood- relations
Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India's interests
Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India's interests, Indian diaspora.
Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate
Paper-IV : General Studies-III
(Technology, Economic Development, Bio-diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management)
Development, Biodiversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management.
Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.
Inclusive growth and issues arising from it.
Government Budgeting.
Major crops cropping patterns in various parts of the country, different types of irrigation and irrigation systems storage, transport and marketing of agricultural produce and issues and related constraints; e-technology in the aid of farmers.
Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices; Public Distribution System objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks and food security; Technology missions;economics of animal-rearing.
Food processing and related industries in India- scope and significance, location, upstream and downstream requirements, supply chain management.
Land reforms in India.
Effects of liberalization on the economy, changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth.
Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc.
Investment models.
Science and technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life Achievements of Indians in science & technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology
Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and issues relating to intellectual property rights.
Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment
Disaster and disaster management.
Linkages between development and spread of extremism.
Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security.
Challenges to internal security through communication networks, the role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges, basics of cybersecurity; money-laundering and its prevention
Security challenges and their management in border areas; linkages of organized crime with terrorism
Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate
Paper-V : General Studies-IV
This paper will include questions to test the candidates' attitude and approach to issues relating to integrity, probity in public life and his problem-solving approach to various issues and conflicts faced by him in dealing with society. Questions may utilise the case study approach to determine these aspects. The following broad areas will be covered.
Ethics and Human Interface: Essence, determinants and consequences of Ethics in human actions; dimensions of ethics; ethics in private and public relationships.
Human Values – lessons from the lives and teachings of great leaders, reformers and administrators; the role of family, society and educational institutions in inculcating values.
Attitude: content, structure, function; its influence and relation with thought and behaviour; moral and political attitudes; social influence and persuasion.
Aptitude and foundational values for Civil Service, integrity, impartiality and non-partisanship, objectivity, dedication to public service, empathy, tolerance and compassion towards the weaker sections.
Emotional intelligence-concepts, and their utilities and application in administration and governance.
Contributions of moral thinkers and philosophers from India and the world.
Public/Civil service values and Ethics in Public administration: Status and problems; ethical concerns and dilemmas in government and private institutions; laws, rules, regulations and conscience as sources of ethical guidance; accountability and ethical governance; strengthening of ethical and moral values in governance; ethical issues in international relations and funding; corporate governance.
Probity in Governance: Concept of public service; Philosophical basis of governance and probity; Information sharing and transparency in government, Right to Information, Codes of Ethics, Codes of Conduct.
Citizen's Charters, Work culture, Quality of service delivery, Utilization of public funds, challenges of corruption Case Studies on above issues.
Paper-VI : Optional Subject-I
Paper-VII : Optional Subject-II
Below mentioned are some important dates, that every applicant must know, who are willing to appear in the examination.
These dates are also available on the official website, as these dates are decided by the officials.
ITS Civil Services Date of Notification 12-02-2020
Start of Online Registration 01-02-2020
End Of Online Submission (Till 6:00 PM) 03-03-2020
Admit Card (Preliminary Examination) 25-05-2020
Date of Civil Services Preliminary Examination 31-05-2020
Nationality of a candidate must be either of the following:
Citizen of India
Subject of Nepal
Subject of Bhutan
A Tibetan refugee who came to India before January 1, 1962 for permanent settlement in India.
Migrant from any of the following countries for permanently settling in India:
Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam
Candidate should have a degree from any recognized university or its equivalent qualification.
The candidate must contain a bachelor's degree in at least one subject, such as animal husbandry and veterinary science, botany, chemistry, geology, mathematics, physics, statistics and zoology or agriculture or forest or engineering of a recognized university. Bachelor Degree. equal.
Candidates appearing in their degree examination (with prescribed subjects) can also compete. If they pass on the result of the written part of the examination, they will have to produce proof of passing the required examination along with their detailed application form to be filled at that stage.
Minimum age 21 years
Maximum age 30 years on 1 August in the year of examination.
Relaxable age limit is as follows:
For SC / ST candidates: Maximum 5 years
For OBC candidates: Maximum 3 years
For candidates from Jammu and Kashmir state: Maximum 5 years
For Defense Services Personnel: Maximum 5 years
For Ex-Servicemen including commissioned officers and ECOs / SSCOs who have served at least 5 years of military service and have been released: Maximum 5 years
For ECOs / SSCOs who have completed the initial period of 5 years of military service: Maximum 5 years
For the Blind, Deaf-dumb and Orthopedically Handicapped: Maximum 10 years
The maximum number of attempts restriction is as follows:
For General category candidates: 6 attempts
For OBC candidates: 9 attempts
For SC/ST candidates: No restriction
Physically handicapped- 9 attempts for general and OBC, while unlimited for SC/ST
The interview is one of the most important parts of the ITS exam. It's very necessary for you to clearly state your thoughts to the interviewers.
As a result, you need to focus on brightening your communication skills and body language. Some candidates are blessed with such skills.
Some require practice to become excellent communicators of their ideas. Candidates with no communication skills can contact those who have already appeared in the Civil Services Examinations, to get useful suggestions from them.
Because this portion of the Civil Services Examination is not designed to judge someone's expertise on a subject.
However, a candidate must speak from the heart or answer all questions honestly.
There is a common misconception among the candidates that if they lie about their hobby just to get through the interview, it will never help them.
Interviewers are not just to ask questions, but to evaluate a candidate's personality and ability to evaluate whether a 'no' is a 'no', it cannot be changed to a 'yes' and vice versa.
Candidates are required to apply online on the website www.upsconline.nic.in
Applicants are advised to submit a single application only.
In certain unavoidable situations, if more than one application is made, the applicant must make sure that the application with higher RID (Registration ID) is complete in all respects.
Candidates already in Government Service, Government owned industrial undertakings or other similar organisations or in private employment should submit their applications direct to the Commission.
Candidates already in Government Service, whether in a permanent or temporary capacity or as work-charged employees other than casual or daily rated employees or those serving under the Public Enterprises are, however, required to submit an undertaking that they have informed in writing to their Head of Office/Department that they have applied for the Examination.
Candidates should note that in case a communication is received from their employer by the Commission withholding permission to the candidates applying for/appearing at the examination, their application will be liable to be rejected/candidature will be liable to be cancelled.


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Pork Commentary by Jim Long, March 21, 2011
Market goes on Wild Ride
Last week all commodities were on a wild ride – way down – then way up as the world looked at the implications of the earthquake in Japan. On the week Friday to Friday CME June hogs ended up but just barely. Our Observations
We understood that U.S. packers were seeing no slow down in the pork exports for Japan. Japan is the largest dollar value buyer of U.S. pork.
U.S.D.A. pork cut outs at the end of last week were over lean hog price. 92 cents a pound a strong 10 cent spread. We believe with the U.S.D.A. pork cut outs seeing no weakness as another indicator that Japan's pork demand has not waned.
Our understanding is that Japan's Swine Industry is spread relatively evenly through their country. Where they are hardest hit reportedly has about 10% of Japan's hog industry. We believe Japan's swine industry will have lower production in the short term while logistics caused by the crisis will lower pork consumption about a similar amount.
Summary: Our cowboy calculation tells us lower production will be cancelled by lower consumption. Net effect for North America – prices neutral in the end. The tragedy in Japan lead to thoughtfulness on the part of the National Pork Board, National Pork Producers and the U.S. Meat Export Federation to make a donation of $100,000 to ship pork products to feed earthquake victims in Japan. "Our hearts go out to the Japanese people who have suffered from this terrible natural disaster." Said Conley Nelson, a pork producer representing the National Pork Board. Our own experience in travels to 20 plus countries is that the World's Pork Producers have much the same values and decency. The donation to Japanese earthquake victims is a further affirmation of our belief. In our opinion the Foot and Mouth disease break in South Korea will be a much larger factor in North American markets over the next several months. 300,000 plus sows and three million pigs have been eliminated in South Korea. That is 5 million hogs per year and we can't see how this production can get replaced within South Korea in less than two years. North America with 50% of Global Pork Exports will be the primary supplier of this pork. This coming week we will be visiting South Korean Swine Producers and give some more observations next week. The South Korean Swine Genetic Industry has been devastated; Genesus is the largest supplier of high health registered purebred swine genetics to South Korea. It appears multiple flights of Genesus Genetics are Korea bound in the coming months. Other Observations
The U.S. retail price of pork averaged $3.28 per pound in February up 13% from last year. Higher despite 1% more pork available. A strong indicator of demand. In February packers and retailers made good money, while producers mostly sucked air. We expect that U.S. weekly hog marketing's could drop 150,000 a week from 2,150 million ranges to 2 million in the next 6 weeks. When that happens we have supercharged hog price increases of $40 per head. It will be the producer's turn to have some extra cash!
Editors Note: This coming week this commentary will be translated into Russian and available on PigInfo.ru the heading Russian swine website. Piginfo.ru will join Swineweb.com and The Pigsite in English, Porcicultura.com in Spanish, Suinos in Portuguese (Brazil), and Chinese the Pig Site. We want to thank all our readers for making this commentary the most read in the world – uncensored.


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#ifndef MODULES_AUDIO_PROCESSING_AEC3_ECHO_PATH_DELAY_ESTIMATOR_H_
#define MODULES_AUDIO_PROCESSING_AEC3_ECHO_PATH_DELAY_ESTIMATOR_H_

#include <vector>

#include BOSS_ABSEILCPP_U_absl__types__optional_h //original-code:"absl/types/optional.h"
#include BOSS_WEBRTC_U_api__audio__echo_canceller3_config_h //original-code:"api/audio/echo_canceller3_config.h"
#include "modules/audio_processing/aec3/decimator.h"
#include "modules/audio_processing/aec3/delay_estimate.h"
#include "modules/audio_processing/aec3/downsampled_render_buffer.h"
#include "modules/audio_processing/aec3/matched_filter.h"
#include "modules/audio_processing/aec3/matched_filter_lag_aggregator.h"
#include BOSS_WEBRTC_U_rtc_base__constructormagic_h //original-code:"rtc_base/constructormagic.h"

namespace webrtc {

class ApmDataDumper;

// Estimates the delay of the echo path.
class EchoPathDelayEstimator {
 public:
  EchoPathDelayEstimator(ApmDataDumper* data_dumper,
                         const EchoCanceller3Config& config);
  ~EchoPathDelayEstimator();

  // Resets the estimation. If the soft-reset is specified, only  the matched
  // filters are reset.
  void Reset(bool soft_reset);

  // Produce a delay estimate if such is avaliable.
  absl::optional<DelayEstimate> EstimateDelay(
      const DownsampledRenderBuffer& render_buffer,
      rtc::ArrayView<const float> capture);

  // Log delay estimator properties.
  void LogDelayEstimationProperties(int sample_rate_hz, size_t shift) const {
    matched_filter_.LogFilterProperties(sample_rate_hz, shift,
                                        down_sampling_factor_);
  }

 private:
  ApmDataDumper* const data_dumper_;
  const size_t down_sampling_factor_;
  const size_t sub_block_size_;
  Decimator capture_decimator_;
  MatchedFilter matched_filter_;
  MatchedFilterLagAggregator matched_filter_lag_aggregator_;
  absl::optional<DelayEstimate> old_aggregated_lag_;
  size_t consistent_estimate_counter_ = 0;

  RTC_DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(EchoPathDelayEstimator);
};
}  // namespace webrtc

#endif  // MODULES_AUDIO_PROCESSING_AEC3_ECHO_PATH_DELAY_ESTIMATOR_H_

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What the in-app purchase hack means for app makers
By Marco Tabini
Macworld | PT
The recent news that a simple hack makes it trivial to circumvent iOS's in-app purchasing mechanism raises the question of whether Apple is doing enough to help developers safely conduct transactions through the App Store.
In-app purchases—IAPs for short—are a mechanism that allows an app to charge a user's iTunes account in exchange for digital goods and services: It's what makes it possible for so many games to let their customers purchase some sort of app-specific currency like coins, or subscriptions to a service. Given how many apps have adopted a business model that relies on a very low initial download price—often free—to then charge customers as they use the app, IAPs have become a very important tool for app makers.
How IAPs work
Without going into needless technical details, IAPs are relatively easy to use from a developer's perspective: Before submitting an app to Apple, the developer simply registers whatever products an app sells (e.g.: "Buy 1,000 coins for $0.99"). Later, upon the user's requests, the app asks iOS to complete the purchase. The device, in turn, usually asks users for their iTunes login and proceeds to complete the transaction, at which point it notifies the app that the latter has taken place.
Behind the scenes, iOS connects to Apple's servers to perform two tasks: First, it validates a username and password, and then it asks for the user's iTunes accounts to be charged based on the details of the IAP that the developer has registered when they submitted the app. To help protect the user's information from prying eyes, this process takes place over an encrypted channel using TLS/SSL—the same protocol that Web browsers use when connecting to Websites whose URLs begin with "https://".
From the developer's perspective, this entire process is completely opaque. The operating system simply responds to an IAP request by either notifying the app that the transaction failed—for example, because the user changed his mind or didn't have sufficient funds—or by returning a "receipt" that indicates that the purchase went through. Later on, 70 percent of the purchase price shows up in the developer's bank account. (Apple keeps the remaining 30 percent as a commission.)
In keeping with Apple's commitment to privacy, the receipts do not contain any information that can be used to identify the user who made the purchase. Critically, other than a unique identifier and some other minor information, therefore, two purchases for the same product result in essentially identical receipts.
IAPs are a boon to developers large and small. Compared with having to set up your own payment system, they are easy to implement. And, because they rely on iTunes, they present users with a familiar, safe, and frictionless way to pay.
How the hack works
Without any security and third-party validation, it would obviously be very easy to corrupt the IAP process. All that needs to be done is to trick a device into contacting a server other than Apple's real ones, and then respond to IAP requests with receipts that contain plausible, but fake, information.
To alleviate this problem, Apple uses the industry standard SSL/TLS protocol to secure its communications. This both encrypts the data so that a third party cannot intercept it and uses digital certificates to positively identify Apple's servers; if the digital certificates can be trusted, the device can be sure that it is, indeed, communicating with the Cupertino giant's real servers.
The validity of digital certificates is assured by so-called Certificate Authorities—basically, third parties that validate the identity of a company and "countersign" its certificates. Some authorities are normally hard-coded in the operating system, but others can be configured manually—a process that is supported by Apple and is, indeed, very useful in many scenarios, including enterprise deployment.
The in-app purchase hack currently making headlines takes advantage of this capability by installing custom, forged certificates and using a custom DNS server. That results in successfully redirecting all the traffic that would normally go to Apple's IAP servers to a different address, while the faked certificate makes the device believe it is still talking to Apple, when in reality its communications are going to a server that is under the hacker's control.
With this fairly easy one-two punch, the entire security around the IAP process is breached; if the hacker can produce believable receipts, it is essentially impossible to tell these apart from real ones just by looking at their contents. As an added bonus, it appears that iOS sends both your iTunes username and password in clear text—making it possible for the hacker to collect those as part of the fake purchase process.
Oh, so simple
If this sounds a little too simple—well, it is. The hacker is performing a classic example of something called a "man-in-the-middle" attack—the Internet equivalent of listening in on a phone call, and then pretending to be one of the two callers at a later point.
Apple is perfectly aware of this limitation, and strongly recommends that developers use their own mechanism to validate IAP receipts. Typically, this involves setting up a separate server, sending the receipts over to it, and then validating them against Apple's servers. Because the server is entirely under the developer's control, a man-in-the-middle attack is much harder to pull off.
Leaving aside the cost of setting up your own server, however, it is unfortunately easy to implement even this kind of validation in a way that leaves an app greatly vulnerable, because nothing prevents a hacker from pulling the same kind of attack on the developer's servers and foiling the app's secondary validation in exactly the same way.
A better approach consists of using mechanisms that rely on asymmetric encryption, a technique that requires two passwords. When the first password is used to encrypt the data, only the second can be used to decrypt it, and vice-versa; if one of the two passwords is stored on the developer's server and is never transmitted between the two, a man-in-the-middle attack would be very hard to pull off, particularly if each transaction is crafted so that it is only valid for a very short period of time.
This is not an impossible task, but it is a much harder one that needs to be performed for each individual app. The protection mechanism is also relatively simple to implement, if the developer has the necessary know-how.
Oh, so broken
On the surface, then, it looks like this is a problem for the developers to solve; after all, Apple makes no guarantees that its IAP verification process is to be trusted, and explicitly warns developers that they should implement their own validation system—not to mention that the hack in question only succeeds because the users essentially poke a giant security hole in their devices.
To me, however, that seems a bit unreasonable. Despite the fact that Hollywood appears to have convinced the majority of the world's population that all developers need to do in order to produce working apps is smash their pudgy hands on the Big Green Button (the red one is reserved for emergencies only), programming is a highly specialized profession. Thus, an independent developer who knows how to create a beautiful and engaging game does not necessarily have sufficient experience to understand the complexities of data cryptography.
To that, we must add the cost of setting up your own server. It may not take a large amount of money, but a small amount of money is all that many developers make; servers must be maintained, and server-side code must be written—all activities that take time and cash.
Besides, the entire premise of the App Store is that the whole app distribution process is delegated to Apple precisely so that developers can focus on what they do best: Write great apps. Apple's 30 percent cut becomes much harder to justify if, in addition to writing great software, developers also have to worry about being defrauded.
What Apple could do
Given what's involved, it's no surprise that many developers forego any secondary IAP validation, exposing themselves to hacks of the kind we have just seen. The question is, what can be done about it?
The first, and perhaps most obvious response, is that Apple could make the IAP process more secure. This would relatively easy for the company to implement, and would fit well within the App Store distribution model, leaving the developers free to worry about writing more great apps for the iOS platform.
Unfortunately, it would most likely require an iOS update to do so, which means that it would be a while before any Apple-provided solution could be made available to developers. More immediately, the folks from Cupertino could try to better educate developers, helping them understand the limitations of IAPs and guiding them in implementing validation procedures that are both simple and secure. iOS's developer documentation is severely lacking in this area, and could definitely use a bit more information.
And, finally, the public needs to be educated as well. While it may sound fun to "stick it to The Man" and make IAPs without paying the developers a dime, there's a fair chance that The Man may strike back.
Remember, this hack exposes the iTunes credentials of everyone who uses it, which means that the hacker now has access to the iTunes accounts of everyone who used his trick. And, since circumventing IAPs is essentially fraud, it's not entirely unthinkable that law enforcement may one day get their hands on those credentials as well, leading to plenty of uncomfortable questions for all involved.
What it all means
It's hard to say whether this incident is going to have any long-lasting effects on the App Store. Judging from its success, the hack seems to affect a large number of apps, which should, at least, serve as a wake-up call to both developers and Apple.
On the one hand, developers can (and should) do a better job handling IAPs. Despite the software industry claims to the contrary, it's difficult to properly correlate piracy to lost sales; still, it's in each developer's best interest to ensure that their software is well-written, and that includes making sure that they get paid when they deserve to.
On the other, Apple could have largely prevented this problem, which threatens not only to leave it with a large contingent of unhappy developers, but also could have wide-ranging repercussions for users who are compromising the security of their devices for a purpose that is trivial in relation to the amount of damage that they could be doing to their data. Even if Apple shuts down this specific hacker, the proverbial cat is definitely out of the bag, and there is relatively little that prevents someone else from trying something similar, with possibly more nefarious intentions.
Still, Apple has a long history of doing the right thing, and it has gone to bat for developers in the past, as was the case with the Lodsys affair. In this particular case, the company has a number of solutions at its disposal, some of which can fit easily into its existing developer outreach programs. With a little help from Cupertino, it's very likely that IAPs will continue to be an important part of the iOS user (and developer) experience.
[Frequent Macworld contributor Marco Tabini is also a developer.]


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Q: Assigning unique variables to each element of a list I have a list of lists that I need to breakdown so that each list in the list is assigned to a separate variable. Further, the code should be able to take into account the addition of new lists to the list.
#Eg
list = [[1,3,5],[2,5,6], [3,5,7]]
# Code needs to make it so each element is assigned a variable. For example:
l0 = [1,3,5]
l1 = [2,5,6]
l2 = [3,5,7]

Here is dummy starter code:
import random

random_pop1 = [random.randint(1000,9000) for i in range(10)]
random_pop2 = [random.randint(1000,9000) for i in range(10)]
random_pop3 = [random.randint(1000,9000) for i in range(10)]
random_pop4 = [random.randint(1000,9000) for i in range(10)]
random_pop5 = [random.randint(1000,9000) for i in range(10)]
random_pop6 = [random.randint(1000,9000) for i in range(10)]
random_pop7 = [random.randint(1000,9000) for i in range(10)]
random_pop8 = [random.randint(1000,9000) for i in range(10)]

random_pop_list = [random_pop1,random_pop2,random_pop3,random_pop4, random_pop5, random_pop6,
                   random_pop7, random_pop8]

#Each element of the list should be assigned to a variable (e.g.: r1 = random_pop1, r2 = random_pop2, r3= random_pop3 ... )

A: With this code, each list will contain 10 variables. Each variable in random_pop1 will be named: a10, a11, a12, a13... a19. Each variable in random_pop2 will be named: a20, a21, a22, a23... a29 and so on.
import random

for n in [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]:
    locals()[f'random_pop{n}'] = []
    for m in range(10):
        locals()[f'a{n}{m}'] = random.randint(1000,9000) # Defines variable a0,a1,a2...a9
        locals()[f'random_pop{n}'].append(locals()[f'a{n}{m}'])

random_pop_list = [random_pop1, random_pop2, random_pop3, random_pop4, random_pop5, random_pop6, random_pop7, random_pop8]

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Elliot Rodger's Trail of Carnage
Step-by-step of Santa Barbara Killing Spree
ByMARK MOONEY
May 24, 2014— -- Elliot Rodger left a trail of death as he lashed out at people by stabbing them, shooting them and hitting them with his car near the University of California Santa Barbara.
Here are the step-by-step details of Rodger's crazed attack, according to Sheriff Bill Brown.
Rodgers stabbed three males at his home. They were stabbed numerous times and the wounds were fatal.
He banged on the door of a sorority, and when no one answered the door he shot three women standing nearby, killing two and wounding one several times.
He drove to a deli and fatally shot Christopher Martinez.
Christopher Martinez's Father Rails Against "Insanity" That Resulted in Son's Death
Driving down the wrong side of the road, Rodger fired several rounds at people on the sidewalk.
He brandished a gun at a female, fired additional bullets, and turned his car around to head in another direction and traded gunfire with a sheriff's deputy who was on foot.
Rodger struck a pedestrian with his car.
He fired more shots at pedestrians.
At another point in his wild ride, Rodger shot yet another victim.
Four sheriff's deputies ran across a park to intercept him. He accelerated past them and fired at them. Three of the deputies fired, hitting his car and striking Rodger near the left hip.
Rodger hit the gas and was going at a high rate of speed when he struck another bicyclst. The biker was thrown on the windshield of Rodger's car, caving in the windshield.
Rodger's car collided with several parked cars. When police arrived he was dead from a gunshot to his head that Brown believes was self-inflicted.
Besides the six fatalities, Brown said eight others would wounded by gunfire, four by Rodger's car and one more had an injury that the cause was uncertain.Elliot Rodger Fumed Over His Inability to Get a Girfriend


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Why Tan Koon Swan's counsel did not object in both occasions to the $20 million bail for the Pan El CBT charges
By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Malacca on Friday, January 31, 1986:
Tan Koon Swan has been arraigned with another nine new charges, bringing to a total 15 charges which he had to stand trial in Singapore in connection with the Pan El crisis, covering breach of trust offences, fraud and cheating.
Tan Koon Swan was required to furnish another $20 million for the additional charges, breaking his own world record last Thursday when he had to post $20 million for the first six charges-bringing a total of $40 million bail.
When last Thursday, on 23rd January, Tan Koon Swan was charged with six counts of criminal breach of trust offences amounting to $5.6 million, there was surprise and shock that such a sum of $20 million bail was required.
Similarly, when yesterday, a total of 15 charges involving more than $29 million was read out against Tan Koon Swan, there was also surprise and shock a total bail of $40 million was required.
But what is even more surprising and shocking is why Tan Koon Swan's lawyers had not raised any objection to the gigantic bail in both instances, whether last Thursday when the initial $20 million bail was imposed, or yesterday, when a total of $40 million bail was called for.
Are both instances indicative of the agreement of Tan Koon Swan and his lawyers to the $40 million bail? Do they have information which the general public do not have.
I agree that the $40 million is over0excessive considering that the total amount involved in the 15 charges is only about $30 million. Probably, Tan Koon Swan's lawyers could explain to the public ailence, implied agreement.
In Alor Star yesterday, the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr.Mahathir Mohamed, denied allegations that the detention of MCA president Tan Koon Swan by the Singapore authorities was with the prior approval of the Malaysian Government. He accused those responsible for the rumours of attempting to exploit Mr.Tan's predicament to drive a wedge between UMNO and MCA.
I myself heard these rumours the second day of Tan Koon Swan's arrest, and there is no dount that these rumours emanate from MCA sources themselves. If Datuk Seri Dr.Mahathir Mahamed went to trade the rumour-starter and rumour-managerer, should lock for them in the MCA, and should not try to look for scapegoats.
In fact, when I was told of this rumour on the second day of Tan koon Swan's arrest, I expressed my disbelief, for the simple reason that if the Singapore authorities had decided toarrest Tan Koon Swan or anyone for that matter, there is nothing the Malaysian government could do, and vice verse, if the Malaysian government decided to arrest an prominent Singaporean for offences against Malaysia's corporate less, there is nothing the Singapore government could do about it. And it would be most unwise and embarrassing for either government in such circumstances even to try to persuade its counterpart to change its mind.
The Prime Minister had been going round the country attacking rumour-managers out to discredit him, his leadership and government. He should look into his own party in UMNO and the Barisan Nasional, for it is probably there where the most rumour-managers are to be found.
With the Tan Koon Swan trial fixed for May 5 to 20, this would further affect Dr.Mahathir's election dates, for it is clearly impossible to hold general elections from May 5-10. The earliest election date should therefore be May 3, 1986, unless the polls are pushed back to August or even a full term till early 1987.
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TA Top Five: Annoying AI Characters
By Jonathan Barnes, 06 Jul 2014
Many games feature amazing casts of diverse, AI characters that serve to enrich the world of the game and add detail to a digital landscape. These characters fill the game with life and make a world that you actively want to participate in and maybe even save. Some AI characters are lovers for whom you'd risk your character's life. Others are valiant and heroic fighters who stick their lives out there to protect yours. Others still inject humor into dark places, keeping the world light and stopping the action from getting too bogged down.
These are not those characters.
This week's TA Top Five list comes to us as a suggestion from https://www.trueachievements.com/MNRussell.htm who wanted to see a TA Top Five on the most annoying AI characters in games and we are more than happy to oblige.
To qualify as an "AI Character", the character can be a playable co-op character (who is controlled by AI when not controlled by a second player) as well as non-playable characters. These characters can be annoying for any reason ranging from poorly designed AI to terrible writing. It's carte blanche here, folks.
(Dis)Honorable Mentions
Spock - Star Trek Achievements
I'll grant you that this is more of a personal vendetta, but Spock shares a lot in common with someone who has the same issues (but more egregious) who appears later in the list. He gets stuck in levels (stopping any and all progress), can't hit the broad side of a barn, and is generally annoying with his "tips" that are not tips at all.
5 - Steven Heck - Alpha Protocol Achievements
Talk about wasted talents. Not only is Alpha Protocol a buggy mess of a game, but one of the finest voice actors in gaming (Nolan North) lends his talents to the worst, most annoying character in the game. As "secret agent" Steven Heck, North succeeds in crafting one of the most annoying characters ever encountered in one of the most annoyingly-buggy games in the generation. Seriously, screw that guy.
4 - Roy Earle - L.A. Noire Achievements
Roy Earle is the perfect "dirty cop"; he's slimy, two-timing, back-stabbing, and just a general sleaze. Whether it's letting a suspect off the hook because he's an informant or setting Cole Phelps up to "wag the dog", he seems to go out of his way to make Phelps' life hell. Seriously, screw that guy.
3 - Roman Bellic - Grand Theft Auto IV Achievements
Not only does this guy NEVER LEAVE YOU ALONE, he also brought poor Niko over here on the strength of a lie. Yeah, that "life of luxury" business with the two women, four hot tubs, and fifteen sports cars... total BS. On top of it all, you have to protect this guy from loan sharks and bail him out from all kinds of "fun trouble". Seriously, screw this guy.
2 - Sheva - Resident Evil 5 (Xbox 360) Achievements
Yes, let's give Chris Redfield an AI partner who can't hit the broad side of the barn with a weapon, wastes ammo, constantly needs rescuing, and gets stuck in corners. She's like Spock from Star Trek in all of her bugs, but worse... way worse. Seriously, screw that gal.
1- Survivors in Dead Rising (Xbox 360) Achievements
Remind me again WHY I'm supposed to save these people? While no one likes escort missions, the survivors in the Willamette Parkview Mall of Dead Rising are, by a wide margin, the most annoying AI characters. Not only are they somewhat vital to your progress in the story (and definitely vital to the achievements), but they are also slow, stupid, and have death wishes that would make Charles Bronson blush. If you're anything like me (and who's to say you're not), you had at least a few runs where you ignored them as much as humanly possible OR actively tried gunning down every single one of them. Seriously, screw every single one of those survivors.
Those are some of our choices for most annoying AI characters. The comments are now open for you to air your grievances with some of yours!
The TA Team will be bringing you The TA Top Five every Sunday until we run out of coolness to debate and discuss. If you have an idea for a Top Five you'd like us to do, be sure to let us know in the comments!
Written by Jonathan Barnes
Jonathan has been a news/views contributor since 2010. When he's not writing reviews, features, and opinion pieces, he spends his days working as an informal science educator and his nights as an international man of mystery.
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What would your world be like if you couldn't log on to Facebook or your favorite celebrity or news websites? As a college student in the U.S., you may feel stressed about your heavy workload, competition getting into classes (or getting into school at all), fighting for internships and graduating into a weak economy, but when it comes to freedom of speech and the ability to log on to TMZ during class, you're pretty lucky. Here are 25 shocking facts about Chinese censorship and how students in that country don't have the freedom to surf the net the way you do.
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (von) Schlegel (Hannover, 10 maart 1772 - Dresden, 12 januari 1829) was een Duits letterkundige, literair theoreticus, kunstcriticus, dichter, filosoof en vertaler. Hij behoort tot de pioniers van de vergelijkende taalwetenschap. Met het schrijven en publiceren van fragmenten probeerde Schlegel een filosofische encyclopedie op te bouwen. Schlegel gaf de Duitse Romantiek, een term die overigens pas rond 1810 in zwang was, een politieke onderbouwing, als reactie op de toenemende invloed van Frankrijk en Napoleon Bonaparte. Aan het einde van zijn leven was hij een verdediger van de katholieke erfenis uit de middeleeuwen.

Biografie
Friedrich werd geboren in een groot gezin met negen kinderen. Hij was de jongste zoon van Johann Adolf Schlegel, luthers predikant aan de Marktkirche en dichter. De familie was oorspronkelijk afkomstig uit Meissen; intellectueel, van adel, artistiek en uitermate zelfbewust. Friedrich bracht een groot deel van zijn puberteit, als zijnde onhandelbaar, door bij een oom, bij zijn oudere broer Moritz in Bothfeld, bij een koopman in Leipzig en bij August Wilhelm Schlegel in Göttingen. Nadat hij door zelfstudie toelating tot de universiteit had verkregen, studeerde hij rechten, daarnaast wijsbegeerte, geschiedenis en klassieke talen. Schlegel had een grote bewondering voor Plato, Winckelmann en Frans Hemsterhuis, met wie hij zich intensief bezighield in de bibliotheek. Toen zijn broer naar Amsterdam vertrok en Friedrich zich in Leipzig bij zijn zuster vestigde, richtte hij zich meer en meer op de geesteswetenschappen. Schlegel bleek inmiddels heel goed op de hoogte van de klassieke, middeleeuwse en moderne literatuur en gaf aan zijn oudere broer te kennen ook schrijver te willen worden. In Leipzig leerde hij Schiller kennen bij zijn uitgever Körner, en raakte bevriend met Novalis. Bovendien bezocht hij iedere week Caroline, de geliefde van zijn broer, die een diepe indruk op de 21-jarige achterliet.

Nadat Friedrich in 1794 verhuisd was naar Dresden, verdiepte hij zich in Immanuel Kant, Baruch Spinoza, Plato en de klassieke oudheid. In augustus 1796 vestigde hij zich als privaatdocent in Jena, een stadje met nauwelijks 4.500 inwoners. Hij trok in bij zijn broer. Daar leerde hij Goethe, Johann Gottfried Herder en Christoph Martin Wieland kennen. Samen met zijn broer en Novalis voerde hij de vroeg-romantische beweging aan, waartoe ook Clemens Brentano, Johann Gottlieb Fichte en Ludwig Tieck behoorden. Vervolgens begon hij geestrijke schetsen, gelukkig geformuleerde karakteristieken en scherpe kritieken te publiceren.

Zijn broer August Schlegel werkte mee aan destijds toonaangevende literatuurtijdschriften zoals Schillers Die Horen en Wielands Teutscher Merkur. De tegenstellingen tussen Schiller en Friedrich, die elkaars werk bekritiseerden, leidden uiteindelijk tot het ontslag van August als medewerker in mei 1797. In juli vertrok hij naar Berlijn. Daar leerde hij Friedrich Schleiermacher kennen, Ludwig Tieck en Dorothea Veit. De broers kwamen in oktober 1797 tot de conclusie zelf een tijdschrift op te richten. De bedoeling was door te dringen tot de kern van iedere wetenschap, ieder systeem en iedere auteur.

Friedrich had inmiddels een literatuurtheorie en een geschiedsfilosofie ontwikkeld, die zou leiden tot de publicatie van Die Griechen und Römer (1797), gevolgd door Geschichte der Poesie der Griechen und Römer (1798). Schlegel vond dat poëzie tegelijkertijd filosofisch, mythologisch, ironisch en religieus zou moeten zijn. Net als Winckelmann voor de beeldhouwkunst had gedaan, schreef Friedrich een overzicht van de Griekse poëzie, waar de "natuurlijke" eenheid nog niet verloren was gegaan.

Van 1798 tot 1800 kwam het tijdschrift Athenäum uit waarin - in aforistische vorm - de tegen het neoclassicisme van Friedrich Schiller gerichte principes van de romantiek uiteen werden gezet. Het tijdschrift bestond grotendeels uit korte en lange fragmenten. Friedrich was de theoreticus en filosoof, August de filoloog en criticus, Schleiermacher de moralist en theoloog van de "romantische academie". Tieck was de populaire verteller en Novalis de esoterische mysticus. Volgens Friedrich Schlegel was romantisch een sentimenteel gegeven, in een fantastische vorm naar voren gebracht.

Schlegel geldt als schepper van de zogenaamde Universalpoesie die in de geest van de romantiek een synthese van alle kunsten en levenssferen eiste en de Europese literatuur als eenheid opvatte. Het leven en de maatschappij moesten poëtischer worden. Hij benadrukte het werk van Miguel de Cervantes, Luís de Camões en William Shakespeare en beoordeelde Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre door Goethe als een van de belangrijkste boeken van zijn tijd. In 1799 publiceerde hij een deel van zijn roman Lucinde, een werk dat vanwege het wellustige, chaotische en fragmentarische karakter zo veel opschudding veroorzaakte, dat hij het nooit afmaakte.

Frankrijk

Rond het jaar 1800 waren Schlegel en zijn broer bijzonder gezaghebbende figuren in de literaire wereld. Het aantal studenten in Jena was inmiddels verdubbeld, maar de colleges van Friedrich waren geen succes en na een half jaar hield hij het voor gezien. August kreeg in zijn huwelijk problemen en vertrok naar Berlijn. Ook Friedrich (en Dorothea) kregen ruzie met zijn schoonzuster en met zijn broer. Toen Novalis stierf en Fichte Jena had verlaten vanwege atheïstische ideeën, viel het gezelschap uit elkaar. Tot overmaat van ramp flopte ook zijn toneelstuk, dat sterk op het werk van Pedro Calderón de la Barca was gebaseerd.

In juni 1802 trok hij met Dorothea Veith, dochter van Moses Mendelssohn, naar Parijs. Schlegel betrok een voormalige woning van baron d'Holbach en bestudeerde oude meesters, Perzisch, Sanskriet en Hindi met de Schot Alexander Hamilton, die jarenlang in India had gewoond. Hij gaf het tijdschrift Europa (1803-1805) uit, waarin hij de naar Parijs gehaalde kunstwerken beschreef. De oude Grieken dienden niet langer als voorbeeld. Schlegel had zijn blik op Azië gericht.

In april 1804 huwde hij in de Lutherse huiskapel van de Zweedse ambassade te Parijs zijn joodse vriendin, die vervolgens de kritiek van haar familie over zich heen kreeg. Schlegel en zijn vrouw bestudeerden Jeanne d'Arc en de gotische architectuur. Hij wendde zich steeds meer af van de ideeën van individualisme en politieke en godsdienstige vrijheid en keerde zich tegen het pantheisme. Zijn kritiek richtte zich ook op Napoleon Bonaparte toen die zichzelf als keizer kroonde. In 1806 verbleef hij een half jaar in Aubergenville op het landgoed van De Staël; zijn vrouw vertaalde haar roman Corinne in het Duits, maar het werd uitgegeven op zijn naam. Vanwege zijn benarde financiële positie had hij zich aangeboden als leraar filosofie. Terug in Keulen verscheen een van zijn belangrijkste werken, Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (1808), dat een grote invloed op de taalwetenschap zou uitoefenen.

De naam Ariër is ontleend aan het Sanskriet, Pali en Avestisch voor edel of de spirituele en zou in het westen voor het eerst zijn gebruikt door Schlegel, maar dat wordt hier niet gestaafd. Hij betoogde dat een uit India afkomstig volk de grondlegger van de eerste Europese beschavingen is geweest. Het feit dat veel Noord-Europese talen grote verwantschap vertonen met het Sanskriet (en de Iraanse talen) was voor hem de aanleiding. Schlegel ontwikkelde daarop een morfologische typologie.

Wenen

Samen met Dorothea bekeerde hij zich op 16 april 1808 in de Dom van Keulen tot het katholicisme. Schlegel vestigde zich vervolgens in Wenen, dat zijns inziens een belangrijkere rol zou moeten spelen dan Frankrijk. Daar maakte hij kennis met keizer Frans II en Klemens von Metternich. Hij bestudeerde in verband met een nog te schrijven toneelstuk Karel V van het Heilige Roomse Rijk. Hij voerde als staflid van Karel van Oostenrijk-Teschen propaganda voor Oostenrijk tijdens de Vijfde Coalitieoorlog. Schlegel woonde tijdelijk in Hongarije en bestudeerde de Hongaarse taal. Eenmaal terug gaf hij wetenschappelijke voordrachten o.a. over de wereldliteratuur, gebundeld als Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der alten und neuen Litteratur. Hij verzorgde het tijdschrift Deutsches Museum en schreef het ontwerp voor een grondwet, gebaseerd op een Duitse Bond. In 1814 verkreeg hij de Orde van Christus (Heilige Stoel). Nadat hij betrokken werd bij het Wener Congres, is hij benoemd in de Frankfurter Bundestag. Daar raakte hij opnieuw in de schulden en werd bevangen door een soort religieuze woede. In 1818 keerde hij terug naar Wenen, en beet zich vast op filosofische en religieuze onderwerpen. Met de keizer en Von Metternich maakte Schlegel in het daaropvolgende jaar een reis naar Rome, waar een tentoonstelling van Duitse kunst was georganiseerd. Hij bezocht zijn beide stiefzonen, deel uitmakend van de Nazareners (kunstenaars) en voerde zijn vrouw terug naar Oostenrijk.

Erfenis
In zijn jeugd was hij radicaal, een atheïst, en een individualist. Aan het einde van zijn leven leidde Schlegel het laat-romantische, conservatieve tijdschrift Concordia (1820–1823), en probeerde in navolging van de Heilige Alliantie alle gelovigen terug te voeren tot de moederkerk. Hij werd steeds mystieker en kreeg opnieuw ruzie met zijn broer.

Bij Schlegel vindt men ook een voorloper van levensfilosofie , die in Vorlesungen über die Philosophie des Lebens (1827) een sterke kritiek uit op systeemfilosofen zoals Kant of G.W.F. Hegel.

Tijdens het voorbereiden van een lezing in Dresden legde hij de pen neer. Midden in de nacht kreeg Friedrich een hartaanval waaraan hij een paar uur later bezweek. Zijn weduwe bekommerde zich om het nog niet uitgebrachte werk; Ludwig Tieck, bekend van het sprookje De gelaarsde kat en broer August gaven er de brui aan.

Zijn stiefzoon Philipp Veit werd in 1831 directeur van het Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main.

Opmerkelijke uitspraken

 Man kann nur Philosoph werden, nicht es sein; so bald man es zu sein glaubt, hört man auf es zu werden.
 Die Welt ist kein System, sondern eine Geschichte, aus der nachher freilich Gesetze folgen können.

Werken (selectie)
Vertaald

 Athenaeum. Fragmenten, essays, kritieken, vert. Jan Sietsma en Ard Posthuma (Amsterdam: Octavo, 2014), .

Origineel
Über das Studium der griechischen Poesie (1797)
Über Lessing, 1797
Kritische Fragmente ("Lyceums"-Fragmente), 1797
Fragmente ("Athenaeums"-Fragmente), 1797–1798
Geschichte der Poesie der Griechen und Römer (1798)
Lucinde (1799, roman)
Alarcos (1802, tragedie)
 Geschichte der Jungfrau von Orléans - aus altfranzösischen Quellen (1802, vertaling van werk van Denis Joseph Godefroy)
Philosophische Vorlesungen (1800-1807)
Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (1808)
Vorlesungen über die Geschichte (1811)
Philosophie der Geschichte (1829)

Literatuur
 Berman, Antoine (1984). L'épreuve de l'étranger. Culture et traduction dans l'Allemagne romantique: Herder, Goethe, Schlegel, Novalis, Humboldt, Schleiermacher, Hölderlin. Paris: Gallimard, Essais. .

Noten

Bronnen
 Ernst Behler (1966) Friedrich Schlegel. Rowohlt Bild Monographien
 Klaus Peter (1978) Friedrich Schlegel. Sammlung Metzler. Stuttgart

Duits schrijver
Duitse adel
Duits atheïst

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Stop Dragon my heart around
I could use a break from all my writing about/talking about/playing of Final Fantasy XIII, and Nintendo's little event yesterday has offered the perfect excuse — and I don't even have to leave the comfortable confines of the role-playing genre. Happily, though not at all surprisingly, Nintendo has announced it will be publishing Dragon Quest IX in the U.S. sometime this summer. I doubt we'll see much more about their plans surrounding the game until E3, but it's still great news nevertheless. Based wholly on its Japanese sales, DQIX may in fact be the single best-selling third-party DS title to date. I think it's at, what, 4.1 million, now? 4.2? You can understand Nintendo's eagerness to duplicate that success worldwide. I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but selling several million copies of a game is a very profitable business to partake in. And Nintendo alone seems to possess the secret alchemic formula for convincing middle America that it really needs to buy these esoteric little Japanese games the company keeps peddling. If anything could ever possibly transform Dragon Quest into a hit outside Japan, it is Nintendo.
Even though Nintendo didn't have any official announcements regarding the game, I poked around for more information on a more casual basis. Unsurprisingly, no one was saying too much, though I did manage to sort out the fact that Square Enix will be handling localization; Nintendo's mainly on board for publishing and marketing. Though it does sound like Nintendo has been providing feedback into some of how the localization will be adapted — not the text part of the localization, but rather the social mechanics of the game.
That's a very important consideration. Essential, in fact. The single most fascinating thing about DQIX is that its sustained success doesn't revolve around its name or franchise. Yeah, something like two million copies of the game sold that first week it was available, but what's allowed DQIX to thrive (doubling its sales and remaining a pervasive presence on commuter vehicles) has been its visionary social element. It's literally a viral form of success, as fans pass by one another and trade information, sending characters and treasures and maps into others' games through fleeting physical proximity. This works in Tokyo, because it's one of the densest cities in the world, and mass transit is a given; I think someone yesterday said that 60% of the population passes through the four or five busiest train stations on a given day. Here in America, that's not really the case.
So, DQIX needs a new vector if its social elements are to work. And they need to work, because without the ability to swap data and acquire new contacts and quests from strangers, the game would be a mere shadow of itself. Beating DQIX is almost incidental to the full game experience, and certain elements of the post-game randomness enabled by the passive communication mode have passed into legend. (When I mentioned having explored surechigai tsushin mode to Bill Trinen yesterday, the first thing he asked was, "Did you get the map yet?")
So how could this possibly work? The obvious answer, I think, is to combine the concept of the existing DQIX passive communication with the Mii Channel parade. Miis circulate virally through Nintendo's servers, passing along to friends of friends of friends. I input 100 friend codes within the first few months I owned a Wii and haven't touched my Mii Plaza since then, but nevertheless new Miis appear in my parade every time I use the system. It's at something like 4,000 Miis last time I checked, and that was months ago. Of course, DQIX is for DS, which doesn't have an always-active online mode like Wii Connect 24, but no matter. DQIX does have a wi-fi connection feature — two, in fact. One is a wireless shop whose offerings change daily, and the other is a weekly update which makes new quests and characters available every Friday for the first year of the game's life. There's no reason the passive communication element couldn't be piggybacked aboard the wi-fi shop.
And there are certainly plenty of other possibilities. Nintendo-sponsored wireless hubs already dot the country at places like McDonald's and GameStop. And, heck, there's no reason the existing communication features can't remain; if the game does mutate into an unlikely success, there just might be enough people carrying the game around to make it worthwhile. And let's not forget the numerous nerd havens around the country, like Comic-Con, Otacon, and PAX. Kohler and myself and a few other people were chatting with Reggie Fils-Aime last night about a number of things including (but not limited to) DQIX. "Far be it from me to tell you how to run your business," I said to Fils-Aime, "but it would be a really great idea to have this game out in time for PAX." Here's hoping. None of Nintendo's representatives are talking about how they're adapting DQIX just yet, but everyone I talked to did pause for a moment and look into the distance when I asked about what's happening with its social elements before saying, "We have some thoughts about what to do with that." I take that as a good sign.
Anyway, you can expect me to promote the crap out of DQIX in the coming months. I have no stake in it whatsoever besides believing that it's a really fantastic game — a solid, traditional RPG to be sure, but the peer-to-peer interaction adds an enormous amount of depth to the whole experience and makes it quite unlike any other game I've played. It's not the first game to employ this sort of passive, asynchronous multiplayer component — Spore has done great things with a similar concept as well — but its implementation in DQIX takes both the technology and the RPG it's wrapped in to a new level.
Until Nintendo drops a little more info on the game, though, I hope you'll settle instead for my arguing about Final Fantasy XIII with Kat, Kohler, and Christian Nutt on this week's episode of Active-Time Babble. We keep the spoilers to vague statements about game flow and character arcs, so I don't think listening to this will particularly ruin your own time with the game once it launches. Really, we're talking more about design philosophy and the RPG's existential crisis as they're crystalized in FFXIII rather than FFXIII itself. Listen with confidence.
17 thoughts on "Stop Dragon my heart around"
GoldenPigsy says:
ATB is exactly what I expected. Haven't RPGs been in a constant state of identity crisis since, like, 1996? I mean, I remember people arguing that Diablo wasn't a real RPG and others saying that it was a roguelike and other people who still say that the only computer based RPGs to ever exist are Planescape: Torment and Arcanum.
Anyhow, DQIX has been on my radar since it came out in Japan, even though — to my great and unending shame — I've never completed a Dragon Quest game in my life.
cartman414 says:
Isn't all of that content, like, 40% of DQ9 itself, since the core game is considered to be the smallest in the series in ages? For that reason alone, it's good to see Nintendo concentrating on the localization aspect.
Fun fact: next week marks the Best Price rerelease of DQ9 in Japan, along with the DS remakes of 4 and 5. Guess SE finally learned to strike (again) while the iron's hot with the recent success of the Monster Hunter Portable 2G rerelease.
M.Nicolai says:
Nintendo could release a Wii channel to facilitate the multiplayer aspects, similar to Sony's adhoc party for PSP. If not, this could just be the excuse I was looking for to go to an anime convention.
parish says:
Dragon Quest IX is longer than any of the NES or Super NES entries. The only games that are longer are VII and VIII, the former of which is widely recognized as being padded to the point of boredom, and the latter of which has its play time artificially extended by a pokey combat system.
Metal Man Master says:
Whatever changes might be made regarding multiplayer and unlockable content to better compensate for non-Japan gaming territories will really make the difference on whether I shelve Dragon Quest IX after finishing it, or keep playing it for a long, long time after I've seen the credits roll. I'm glad Nintendo appears to have something in the cards, because I've never been a big fan of game content locked behind offline multiplayer features in handheld games…..particularly because it's a much bigger challenge to find a fellow player in the US than it is in Japan, especially as an older handheld gamer. The worst of it (to me) was that bonus dungeon in Link to the Past's GBA port, which you could only access if you got together a fellow player or three to beat Four Swords. It's a pity, since I'm sure it would be a great multiplayer experience if I could get people together to play it, instead of remembering it as "that thing that kept me from unlocking LttP's new bonus content."
At least Link's Awakening DX's bonus dungeon being locked to non-Game Boy Color users made sense in the context of its puzzles and boss all being color-based.
vaterite says:
Not to be reductionist, but this comes free with my subscription to Nintendo Power, right?
"I've never been a big fan of game content locked behind offline multiplayer features in handheld games…"
As an older gamer and a fan of handhelds, I mostly agree; however, there is something to be said for playing multiplayer games with someone in the same room. Playing through 4 swords adventures, the smash brothers series and Resident Evil 5 with friends are some of my favorite gaming memories ever. I had a blast playing Goldeneye splitscreen when I was in High School, but I'd be lucky to get a three-player game going these days. I haven't even been able to play NSMB Wii with more than 2 people. As much as I love offline multiplayer games, it just seems less and less viable as I get older.
I think the best solution is to offer both offline and online multiplayer options. Maybe online gaming isn't the ideal that Nintendo imagines, but it's better than nothing.
That's not really what DQIX does. It has predetermined content that's unlocked weekly by logging into WFC, but the multiplayer component basically grants you randomly-generated treasure maps and other players' avatars in-games.
Mudron says:
Do you have a personal guess as to when DQ IX will hit this year, Parish? I hope to hell it's before PAX West, if the online multiplayer is even a fraction as interesting as you've made it seem here.
My bad there. So the random treasure maps are more akin to how the save files for the DS Zeldas have different rarity ratings for customizable ship/train parts and salable treasures, then? Higher chances of getting certain maps in one game than a different one? That's much more reasonable than lock and key extras. I'm really interested in seeing how Nintendo will make this work over here.
I had the same problem with A Link to the Past's GBA bonus content. I could never find anyone with the game, so I ended up buying a cheap used copy at Gamestop for my friend to play. After we unlocked the bonus stuff, I just returned it to Gamestop in the next couple of days for a full refund. It was well worth it.
doktorpeace says:
And the seeds to Jeremy's ultimate transfer to Nintendo localization are planted. Once there, he too will understand why Mother 3 must never see the light of English day.
Slime curling, AWESOME
ThornGhost says:
I'm glad to see that Nintendo's taking its time to get DQIX out if they're going to do some massive overhauling of the multiplayer aspects of the game. I'd really like to enjoy some of that post-game content, but as stated, passive online play just doesn't work in most of the USA. A well thought-out and well implemented solution is required for this game, and that takes time.
Mana says:
Something tells me they are just going to leave the game as is. I just don't see Nintendo implementing a new online strategy for a game that isn't being localized by them.
TheTimelyHoward says:
Really, all I took away from this post is that Dragon Quest IX is incredible– but not as incredible as Bill Trinen. Do me a favour, Jeremy! Next time you meet up with Bill, tell him that there is somebody out there who wants to be just like him when he grows up.
That person is me and Bill is a champ.
I laughed at that part in ATB when he said "We got 90 minutes here". Thats like…1/4th of an average Xenosaga cutscene?


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