We have had some hot days here in Portland. When temperatures are hot, Union Gospel Mission does the best we can to help our homeless guests stay hydrated and cool. Survival on the streets is not easy when you are outside in the heat all day. Thanks to our donors and volunteers we are able to offer the homeless something to drink, something to eat and lighter clothing during our day room services.
We need bottled water, sports drinks, light t-shirts and hats to distribute to our homeless guests. If you can help with any of these items, please drop them by at 3 NW Third Avenue (corner of Third and Burnside) It would be a huge help!
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This workshop covers some essentials like a look at Indian culture and how it impacts our behavior in the global workplace; how to be globally aligned citizens in the workplace to make for efficient teams; how to align with our overseas colleagues to make for efficient teams. It brings out our strengths and suggests where we need to improve. An interactive and participative half-day workshop.


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It typically takes 30 days or less to turn a behavior into a habit. The first step is to commit to the challenge. Once you've committed to eating clean for 30 days, your body will follow as your mind directs.
1. Opt for whole, fresh fruits. Fresh fruits and veggies are full of the nutrients and fiber your body needs.
2. Whole grains. Replace your refined white rice and white bread, both of which have been stripped of their fiber and nutrients, with whole grains such as brown rice and quinoa.
3. 5 ingredients or less. Stick to recipes with five ingredients or fewer, and be sure you can pronounce each ingredient.
4. Would you find it on the store shelf? When reading ingredient lists on a package, ask yourself if you would find each ingredient by itself on a store shelf or in your kitchen. If the answer is no, back away.
5. Meal planning. Taking the time to plan out your meals in advance can prove to be well worth it. For help with meal planning, check out our 7-Day Clean Eating Meal Plan and our 5-Day Clean Eating Dinner Plan.
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7. Fill up on water. Drinking at least four to six glasses of pure water every day will help you stay hydrated.
8. Eat less, but more frequently. Eat smaller portioned meals, more frequently throughout the day, instead of three large ones.
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With these 10 tips, you are sure to tackle the 30-day clean eating challenge with ease. Your body will be cleansed of harsh preservatives and chemicals, and you'll feel better than ever. Once you've completed 30 days, we are convinced you'll try 3o more.
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Top 10 Best Books for Learning to Read
Learning to read can seem like a daunting task. For children, it can be overwhelming to learn a brand new skill but it is definitely exciting for them when it starts to click and they can get reading on a whole host of brilliant books and stories that will stay with them for years. For parents, it can be tricky to know how to best help them with their reading at home and what reading scheme and phonics books to introduce them to at what age and level. So, we're here to help you find the right books to teach your children how to read with our wide range of fun phonics reading books as well as reads for both the fiction and fact fans.
We've also included some advice from fellow parents and guardians in our Facebook audience so you have some practical tips to follow as well.
1. Biff, Chip and Kipper First Experiences Collection - 10 Books
Biff, Chip and Kipper are known for helping children build their reading confidence but in these books for young readers, children can also confidently understand first experiences. Each of the ten books in this series focuses on a common childhood experience, from going to the doctor to getting your first pet. The familiar figures of Biff Chip and Kipper guide children through these situations whilst also introducing new vocabulary to readers aged three and up.
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This collection comes from Reading Champion which is a scheme designed to support your child's reading by seeing them progress through levels linked to the guided reading that they'll be doing in school. All the books in this collection are written for children aged 3 and over who are starting to read independently at Book Band levels Pink-Green. The stories are all exciting and entertaining for young readers and feature characters they'll love.
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Get young readers familiar with 100 high-frequency words in this 20-book collection. The first books have very simple text to get them started on their reading journey and other books include more repetitive and rhythmic language to support their understanding. This collection also comes with a poster so both you and your child can easily track reading progress.
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This collection of 30 books from Ladybird covers levels 1-4 and includes stories and characters loved by children everywhere including Peppa Pig, Peter Rabbit and Kung Fu Panda as well as figures from the classics like The Little Mermaid and Goldilocks. As your young readers progress through the books and the levels they can build their confidence and start independently.
5. Songbirds Phonics Collection - 36 Books
The bestselling author of The Gruffalo has turned her hand to creating books for early readers and created the Songbirds Phonics Collection. There are a mighty 36 books in this collection and each one uses rhythm-and-rhyme to help children recognise sounds, words and the natural rhythm of language.
6. Beginning to Read Collection
If your child is more interested in learning something new than reading stories then this collection of 20 fact books is ideal. The books
include information on scientific, historical and geographical topics that will hold the attention of inquisitive minds. The collection is split into three levels with level 1 focusing on simple sentences, Level 2 encouraging independent reading and Level 3 featuring more complicated language and varied sentence structure to build up their understanding over time.
7. Read with Biff, Chip and Kipper Levels 4-6 Collection
These Biff, Chip and Kipper books for children reading at Levels 4-6 allow your kids to learn to read with familiar faces and through interesting stories. The books have a focus on phonics and feature a guide for parents to provide tips for teaching your kids to read. This classic collection is a must for every child's bookshelf.
8. Little Gems Collection - 10 Books
The Little Gems books have been designed for those who find reading tricky (including those with dyslexia) by featuring spaced text and easy-to-read font. This collection of stories is the perfect introduction to chapter books and feature titles from Julia Donaldson, Jeremy Strong and Michael Morpurgo and has artwork from top illustrators such as Chris Riddell, Peter Bailey and Hannah Shaw.
9. Treetop Fiction Collection
For those reading at the Brown band or Oxford levels 9-11, this set of books from the Treetops scheme is ideal. Each book features a hugely entertaining tale and comes with notes to support readers as well. With a wide range of stories included, ranging from Captain Comet and the Purple Planet to The Masked Cleaning Ladies of Om to Amy the Hedgehog Girl, these books are designed to not only help them build their reading confidence but to develop a life-long love of reading too.
10. National Trust: The Secret Diary of John Drawbridge, a Medieval Knight in Training
Philip Ardagh
John Drawbridge is a knight in training and he has a lot to learn before he can be trusted to defend Wildmoat Castle. If your kid is a history lover then this fact-filled read, published in association with the National Trust, will teach them all they ever wanted to know about knights of the Medieval era and help them grow in their reading ability along the way.
Learning to read can be really enjoyable for your child and can be a very rewarding process for you, as their parent, to be involved in. All of the books on this list are designed to be engaging for your kids and to encourage them to become keen book lovers as they grow in their reading confidence. At Book People, we're determined to help create new bookworms in every way we can. Make sure you're following us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for more advice and recommendations around learning to read and building reading confidence in children.
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DEVELOPMENT IN LEGAL AID AT POLICE CUSTODY
Home Blogs DEVELOPMENT IN LEGAL AID AT POLICE CUSTODY
By Jus Corpus Blogs October 27, 2021
NEED OF LEGAL COUNSEL TO PROTECT FROM REMAND
Legal counsel is the basic right as per the Section 12(g) of the Legal Service Authorities Act, 1987 and this facility provided by the government could be availed by any citizen of India especially for those who are either in custody, juvenile home or in any kind of custodial mental clinic, they all equally have a right to be facilitated with this service at free of cost.
An outsized variety of a prisoner who is in the middle of his trial and who don't seem to be in a financial condition to have interactive advocates or counsel to safeguard him from the unlawful activity he has done, also they have a sense that they do not have any lawyer to protect them and due to which they remain imprisoned for a long time. Hence, the structure to function which has been formulated by the Legal Services Authority of National was generally enforced by Haryana State Legal Services Authority in every district as well as in sub-divisions of Haryana, in order, that nobody's right will be taken away during the remand hours merely because they do not have any lawyer on behalf of them or no one remains with no lawyer who can represent them. The Lawyers empanelled as per the 'Legal Aid Counsel' scheme which states that lawyers during the remand hours generally have to be present in the courtroom to file the prisoner's application, provide them with legal guidance so that the prisoner is aware who is representing them for their trail.
Therefore, in the letter of 15.09.2009, the DGP of Haryana provided guidelines to the Commissioners in the Gurgaon and Faridabad city, guidelines have been provided to the DSP, Haryana and the SI of Police, and to Ambala Cantt, Haryana to address the SHOs in Haryana to act as per requiring help and be more cooperative with the woman advocates who for assigned duties are chosen by the CJM-cum-Secretaries and District Legal Services Authorities in the State of Haryana.
STATE TO FUND FOR LEGAL AID
In a country like India where every second accused is incapable of arranging an advocate for himself because they are deprived of poverty and impoverishment situation, then for those situations, state government at their own cost has arranged for the free legal services. The qualification to free legal guide isn't subject to the denounced for making an application under the steady gaze of the Magistrate/Sessions Judge, who will undoubtedly illuminate the blame regarding his entitlement to get free lawful aid and to give a lawful guide, aside from when the charged isn't willing to exploit the free legal aid services given by the State. It is well said in a judgment that police officer, instantaneously has to notify the Legal aid committee which is nearer to that police station, whenever an arrest of a person has been made and he has been put behinds the bars in the station itself so that the Legal Aid Committee in such circumstance can act accordingly and ask the arrested person that whether he has his lawyers who are at his own expense or does he requires the lawyer to be provided to him at the state expense.
The basic right of every accused is the right to have legal assistance when they are in custody or when police are about to interrogate them, then in various cases, SC has given judgment that such person should be provided with legal guidance. In the Nandini Sathpaty v P.L Dani[1] case the need for providing legal guidance arose which is that at every stage of the arrest legal assistance through the medium of a lawyer is a must. The meaning behind the Art. 22 (1) is that it is the basic right of law that the law guidance must be accessible for the sake of discussion to any imprisoned person who is in conditions of near-custodial cross-examination. Moreover, the compliance of the right against self-incrimination could be at its best when accuses himself is given this opportunity and which is also his right, that he could consult his matter with the lawyer of his own choice.
CCTV SURVEILLANCE AT THE POLICE STATION
D.K. Basu v. State of West Bengal,[2] in this case, a need for the CCTV camera footages was raised where it says that a CCTV should be installed at the crime scene and a committee should be developed which would analyse those recordings and make a conclusion based on them. The court directed COB that the video made at the crime scene should at least once be presented at the necessary and desired place as per the matter.
In 2020, a notice by the court was sent to the Ministry of Home Affairs regarding the presence of CCTV cameras at the police station. Court correspondingly asked all the required states about the status of CCTV cameras in their respective police stations but only 14 states responded upon the same which include Tamil Nadu, Mizoram, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Tripura, Karnataka, Assam, Punjab, Manipur, Nagaland, Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, and two Union Territories, Puducherry, and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Intention as per the court to send the notice was to know that how many CCTV cameras are being installed and in how many police stations plus court also wanted an update on their working status and also to guarantee that the CCTV cameras not only at the main exit and entrance but also should cover the lock-up rooms, the reception and should be in all the corridors of the Police station. It should also be in the officer's room to keep an eye on all proceedings which they due during any case filed. Not only should this it also be installed in such a manner that it only covers the outside part of the washroom and fully cover the area behind the Police Station. Therefore, an order has been given by the SC to the states asking them to assign funds for the CCTVs camera.
NCRB conducted a report in which it was estimated that there was more than 1700 custodial death from 2001 to 2018 and there were more than 452 custodial deaths in the period of 2014 to 2018 and for these, no police officer was convicted. For the year 2017, NCRB in the report observed that at least 255 people died in the police custody which could be because of torture or other way and on the death of these 255 people only 3 police officers were convicted. The same situation has aroused in the 2019 year as well where around 85 people died in the police station and only 23 policemen were convicted which highlights how worse the situation is there. As of now after the order of SC, no excuse has been left with the police officers to not install the CCTV camera in the police station. Delhi government has thought to install nearly 1.4 lakh cameras in around 15,000 police stations. A good decision of to set up Human rights courts in each district to hear complaints of torture in custody.
HOW THESE ARRANGEMENTS OF THE APPOINTING LAWYERS AT THE POLICE STATIONS SHOULD BE DONE
In the Police station, a monthly roaster of the list of the lawyers has to be made by ensuring that it covers all the police stations. Lawyers can be put crossly on the duty in the sense that random appointments of the lawyers could be done as per their suitable time. While appointing or assigning the duty to the lawyer it must be kept in mind that lawyers assigned should be adequate in terms of their requirements in respective police stations and no accused person should be left with no advocate at the end of the day.
Some of the recommendations to make this entire system of appointing lawyers so that legal services could be utilized at their best.
As we can see that even after raising the standard of providing legal assistance it is still very difficult for the suspect or the arrested person to be able to meet up with the lawyer at the police station. This could be because of the negligence of the police officer who does not facilitate with the information to the accused about their rights that they can take consult from the lawyer of their choice. So, certain steps to make aware the accused of their legal rights should be taken.
The legal aid provided in the police station with DLSA who are appointed and with knowledgeable lawyers who are positioned for 24×7 services as per the chart to provide basic legal advice and representation should be appointed and their appointment should be duly checked properly by a designated person.
Such volunteers should also be appointed which will keep a check about whether the lawyer has reached the station or not and would also tell them where the lawyers are needed so that the lawyer whose duty is there could reach the place where he is needed.
There has to be some method so that the relationship of police and lawyers becomes fruitful so that together they can mitigate any risk arising out of any circumstances. The total number of community paralegal volunteers and lawyers assigned to each police station must be determined by the caseloads for that particular police station.
Author(s) Name: Kajal Tanwar (OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat)
[1] AIR 1978 SC 1025.
[2] AIR 1997 SC 610.
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SHOULD ADULTERY BE RE-INSTALLED AS A CRIME IN ARMED FORCES?
According to the Supreme Court of India's decision in Joseph Shine v. Union of India (hereafter referred to as "Joseph Shine"), the ruling in Joseph Shine should be reconsidered when it comes to the application of the ruling in Joseph Shine to the armed forces.
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There's No Way China's Artificial Moon Will Work, Says Expert
One aerospace engineer sees major flaws in the plan.
Jack B/Tag Hartman-Simkins
On October 10, a Chinese organization called the Tian Fu New Area Science Society revealed plans to replace the streetlights in the city of Chengdu with a satellite designed to reflect sunlight toward the Earth's surface at night.
But in a new interview with Astronomy, an associate professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Austin named Ryan Russell argued that based on what he's read, the artificial moon plan would be impossible to implement.
Promised the Moon
Wu Chunfeng, the head of the Tian Fu New Area Science Society, told China Daily the artificial moon would orbit about 310 miles above Earth, delivering an expected brightness humans would perceive to be about one-fifth that of a typical streetlight.
The plan is to launch one artificial moon in 2020 and then three more in 2022 if the first works as hoped. Together, these satellites could illuminate an area of up to 4,000 square miles, Chunfeng claims.
But Russell is far from convinced.
"Their claim for 1 [low-earth orbit satellite] at [300 miles] must be a typo or misinformed spokesperson," he told Astronomy. "The article I read implied you could hover a satellite over a particular city, which of course is not possible."
Overkill Overhead
To keep the satellite in place over Chengdu, it would need to be about 22,000 miles above the Earth's surface, said Russell, and its reflective surface would need to be massive to reflect sunlight from that distance. At an altitude of just 300 miles, the satellite would quickly zip around the Earth, constantly illuminating new locations.
Even if the city could put the artificial moon plan into action, though, Russell isn't convinced it should.
"It's a very complicated solution that affects everyone to a simple problem that affects a few," he told Astronomy. "It's light pollution on steroids."
Maybe Chengdu shouldn't give up on its streetlights just yet.
READ MORE: Why China's Artificial Moon Probably Won't Work [Astronomy]
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154 Hidden Court: His memories.
I sighed when I heard his little feet patter across the floor.
I had once again gotten up early to write, only to be joined almost immediately by Cooper, who seems to have a sixth sense that alerts him the minute I open my computer.
He wandered into my office, all warm and cozy in that rosy, half-asleep way that only only little kids seem to have. He climbed into my lap and kissed the tip of my nose like he always does first thing in the morning and last thing at night, then said "Good morning, Mama. Can we look at our memories now?" He snuggled against me and sighed a happy little sigh, because in his world he could not imagine that I wouldn't want to do the same thing, or that I would deny him this simple request.
To look at his memories.
That's what he calls pictures. He has for as long as I can remember. It isn't something that I taught him or something that I have ever said to him. But to him all the pictures stored on my computer are his memories, and he will happily sit for hours looking at them, commenting on every single one. "Oh I remember that day! Don'y you remember, Mama? We had such a good time!"
I opened up my picture file and we looked. We looked at trips to the park and the zoo and the beach. We looked at fabulous shots taken with my "fancy" camera and blurry iPhone ones. We looked at family vacations and ordinary days spent at home and everything in between. He gasped with joy and commented on each and every one. "Look Mama! There we are making a craft! Aw, I remember that time we went there, don't you, Mama?" and so on. And so on.
After about an hour and without any warning at all, he sighed and stretched and turned around from his perch on my lap to give me one more kiss on the tip of my nose - an extra one on this day. "I like looking at our memories. Don't you, Mama?"
Awww. This is heart-melting sweet. I love that he calls pictures "memories" - that is so very perfect.
OH....this is so beautiful. Cherish that with everything you got. He sounds like he has a giant heart. He'll remember these moments with you in the morning.
PRECIOUS!!!! I just love those moments... and you described yours beautifully.
Oh my gosh, how sweet. Cherish these moments. They are so fleeting. I remember my daughter used to call me "mama" and it always melted my heart. Now? I just get the eye-roll. He sounds like such a doll!
It really is perfect, isn't it? He's such a sweet kid.
I'm so glad you get something positive out of what I wrote. My boy has the biggest heart, and I love so much that we are creating new memories from our old ones.
The "Mama" thing will get me every time. Every. Single. Time.
Awwwwww! What an adorable boy! And what a precious memory the two of you made.
Try to remember that when he is a teenager.
Ha! I should add a new tag to this post - "To be read again when my kids are teenagers."
He would make me cry happy tears, hearing him call pictures "memories." What a sweetheart.
He really is the sweetest kid. Sometimes I just look at him and wonder how he ended up in the middle of my family, since the rest of us tend toward surly. :) Love him to pieces though.
Oh, I like looking at memories too!
I sincerely hope that in five years or ten or twenty my kids will look back on the things I've written about them and appreciate it, and not just see it as "Mom's embarrassing me on the internet again." We shall see, I guess.


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Finches can pass H7N9 bird flu to chickens
Potential H7N9 bird flu vaccine shows promise
Science Visualized
Second wave of bird flu ups pandemic worries
Mutated H7N9 strain is drug resistant, spreadable
H7N9 flu still better adapted to infect birds over humans
H7N9 bird flu appears again
Flu researchers plan to repeat controversial work
Deadly flu virus flourishes in lung cells
Tests show that deadly flu could spread among people
New flu in China reveals its avian origins
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Magazine issue: Vol. 185 No. 6, March 22, 2014, p. 32
A new type of flu began making people sick in China in 2013. Researchers quickly discovered that the virus was a type of avian influenza, known as H7N9, never before seen in humans. In one year the virus has surged twice, sickening 370 people in China and killing 115 (according to data available as of February 28).
As with seasonal flu, infections tapered off during the summer of 2013 but reappeared with colder weather. The second wave of H7N9 started earlier in the flu season and has sickened more people than the first wave did.
At least for now, H7N9 doesn't spread easily from person to person. Only four families have multiple sick members that may have passed the virus through close contact. Scientists worry that if the virus infects many people, it may gain the ability to readily jump between humans, creating a pandemic.
Exposure to live poultry is the main infection route, with 82 percent of sick people in the first wave reporting recent contact with live animals, especially chickens.
Men and elderly at most risk
More men than women have become sick with H7N9 flu for reasons that are unknown. People over age 50, particularly older men, have also been more likely to die of the new bird flu. Children tend to have mild cases of the disease, and none are known to have died.
Outbreak timeline
March 29, 2013: Six weeks into the outbreak, China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention identifies H7N9.
April 11, 2013: The H7N9 virus includes genes recombined from three other viruses, scientists report.
May 23, 2013: H7N9 flu can be transmitted between ferrets through the air, researchers report.
July 3, 2013: H7N9 can infect human lung cells, researchers report, helping explain why it causes pneumonia.
Oct. 31, 2013: Closing live poultry markets is an effective way to limit H7N9 spread, a study concludes.
Dec. 1, 2013: As of this date, 34 percent of the 139 people who have been infected have died.
Jan. 27, 2014: After infected birds are found in a market, Hong Kong suspends the sale of live chickens and kills 20,000 birds to prevent the spread of the virus.
Feb. 13, 2014: Vietnam bans the importation of Chinese poultry.
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I am offering two recordings of the music of John Cage. Both were performed in Los Angeles in the early 1980s on concerts produced by the Independent Composers Association. I no longer remember exactly why I saved these cassette recordings. Subconciously, I guess, I knew that I would need material for my blog one day, once my hair turned gray.
Both concerts were apparently reviewed by the L.A. Times although I don't have access to either article nor to concert programs. I do remember that the reviewer remarked how Atlas Eclipticalis felt like the 'classical' work on a program of modern music. Imaginary Landscape was part of a tape music concert which also included pieces by Scott Fraser, Luc Ferrari and Jonathan Harvey.
As someone whose musical thinking was greatly influenced by Cage's work and ideas, I would be remiss to let this occasion pass without comment. On the other hand, these days I'm really more interested in observing how Cage is being remembered by the classical music establishment than I am in the man or his music.
I see Cage as the ultimate 20th century iconoclastic artist, someone who smashed the sacred ideas of the music world. In their place he brilliantly offered indeterminacy, new performance techniques, electronics, wildly inventive compositional systems and a sense of calm, unflappable, detached theatricality. He leavened this mixture with a galaxy of personal anecdotes, ideas from Zen teachings, mycology and the force of his own personality.
Indeed, I believe that the man himself sets Cage apart from the other composers of his time. He injected himself uniquely into his music by performing, lecturing or just being charming. In his second hundred years how essential will his persona be to the continued acceptance of his music? Eventually everyone who directly knew and revered Cage will be gone. Time will tell us if his music alone will continue to inspire new listeners. Or maybe his writings and ideas will motivate future generations to become fans.
In the coming decades the ears of the audience will, no doubt, continue to blend the music of the entire post-World War II avant-garde into a more homogenous musical experience. Although there will be plenty of academic types to make plenty of fine distinctions, it will be harder and harder for more casual listeners to choose sides in those ancient artistic conflicts. Total control via serialism or total randomness using chance operations? As it turned out, the aesthetics were much the same either way.
The centennial celebrations are heavy with the idea that Cage was a strong artistic wind that will blow through the ages. I suppose it is possible that Cage, by the year 2112, could land a spot in the pantheon of the greatest dead white male composers. Even so "Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Cage" would be quite a stretch. I wouldn't be surprised if he comes to be regarded as the essential 20th century serial composer, eclipsing all those famous Europeans and academic Americans of the last fifty years.
Still the young composer continued to, as he put it, worship Schoenberg like a god. He took away from Schoenberg the idea that a composer always needed some kind of system. And Cage always came up with one.
Schoenberg would likely have said that music needs more than a system of rules. I'm pretty sure he would have insisted that music also requires meaning and expression.
Actually there was a four or five year period when I was not that cognizant of minimalism. I was a real acolyte of John Cage. . . . I knew all my John Cage very well and I was very deeply imbued in John's orthodoxy. I do think that Cage is a very orthodox composer. That surprises people because they think of him as an iconoclast but he actually is a strangely intolerant composer in a certain way, when it comes to anything which doesn't fit into his very precise world. That means most of western music whether it's Miles Davis or Beethoven. Eventually I just had to throw that out. Because I had fun doing John Cage and you could talk about it forever but my background and my musical breeding had brought me up to love great music. Also I keep going back to this experience about music is essentially the art of feeling and Cage had no place in that.
We can argue later about what Cage is and what Cage is not. After that we can take a swing at what is great music and what is not. Or we can just agree to disagree.
Right now the question I am more interested in is 'How will perceptions of Cage change over time?' The best way to find out is to simply wait and see. It's more fun to guess.
I expect that the great iconoclast will gradually be transformed by his remaining acolytes into a great icon. He will be revered, Zen-like, in concerts and concert halls. Cage, I'm sure, would have liked nothing better. I also expect that the manner in which his music is performed will become increasingly conventional and prescribed. That's sad, but it is the way of what we call classical music.
Personally, the harder it becomes to experience the music of John Cage on a street corner, the more we will lose what I think is the real value of his work and life.
As John Cage has said, music is all around us if only we had ears. There would be no need for concert halls if man could only learn to enjoy the sounds which envelop him, for example at Seventh and Broadway at four p.m. on a rainy day.
I have never thought of you as a composer influenced by Cage. But then again it might be like his effect on me more in the terms of sound than process. While it s true that we have this sound all around us to listen to and enjoy, if given the option of giving up that sound or what is called music, i would give up the former.
I carefully wrote only that my "musical thinking was greatly influenced". It started when I read Silence in college and then studied with Earle Brown at CalArts. I was fascinated with these notions, but not so much with the sound of Cage's music.
I wrote quite a few open form pieces in which I controlled the content but allowed it to be ordered or layered in different ways. My current Seasons series has that notion, the various sections are intended to be combined by the listener including with other music. These days that idea sounds lots less "Cagean" than it did 30 years ago.
And then there's my Starbucks Music Mask which does work remarkably well when listened to on an iPod to eclipse annoying conversations, muzak and environmental noise. That has a Cagean element which I find particularly practical.


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on January 30, 2012 January 30, 2012
Between them, India and China house a staggering 36% of the world's population. They're the only two countries in the world with over a billion people living within their borders, with the next closest country boasting only a "paltry" 312 million (Hooray, 3rd place U.S.A.).
there has to be a world class chinese footballer somewhere in that crowd.
The general consensus amongst the "experts" is that the two Asian countries are both budding superpowers on the world stage, and will play major roles in global politics and business alike in the coming decades. Considering the might in manpower and brainpower that their massive populations provide, I'm frankly a little amazed they haven't taken over the world yet… though if you visit any American outlet mall, you could be forgiven if you think they already have.
Anyway, one would expect that this same power in numbers would also be of huge benefit for them when it comes to footballing dominance too. If nothing else, India and China would have significantly larger pools of players from which to choose. With governments that have been supportive of athletic excellence in other sports, one would also expect them to have vast resources being poured into a game that is so important globally.
Fortunately for the rest of the world, none of that's been the case.
As is well known, both the Chinese and Indians are minnows when it comes to the beautiful game. India's current FIFA World Ranking of 138 is the more horrific of the two, while China languish in a slightly less anemic 74th.
But to truly appreciate just how bad India and China's ranking plight is, it's best to compare their populations and rankings with those of other countries around the world.
Country FIFA Ranking Points Population Pop. Rank Points per Capita Rankings Ratio
Spain 1 1564 46,196,278 28 0.00003386 0.036
Netherlands 2 1365 16,727,255 61 0.00008160 0.033
Germany 3 1345 81,768,000 15 0.00001645 0.200
Uruguay 4 1309 3,203,792 135 0.00040858 0.030
England 5 1173 51,446,000 23 0.00002280 0.217
Brazil 6 1143 192,376,496 5 0.00000594 1.200
Portugal 7 1100 10,561,614 80 0.00010415 0.088
Croatia 8 1091 4,290,612 124 0.00025428 0.065
Italy 9 1082 60,757,278 22 0.00001781 0.409
Argentina 10 1067 40,117,096 31 0.00002660 0.323
China PR 74 455 1,339,724,852 1 0.00000034 74.000
India 158 138 1,210,193,422 2 0.00000011 79.000
Take a closer look at those last two columns, Points per Capita (PPC) and Rankings Ratio (RR). Re-ranking each of FIFA's 208 member associations on RR — a comparison of football and population rankings — they finish 207 and 208 respectively, also known as dead last. The only reason they're spared the embarrassment of finishing on the bottom of the PPC rankings too — which compares the average number of points earned for each person in the country — is because none of Montserrat, San Marino nor Andorra have been able to earn any points yet.
unless you're a fan of bury, i doubt you've ever heard of india's most famous footballing son: baichung bhutia.
Suffice to say, the two Asian superpowers are punching well below their weight class.
Both countries have demonstrated an insatiable appetite for top class football, as is evident by their growing demand for European leagues on their televisions and pirated streams originating from their internets. So you know that their poor international showings aren't to be blamed on a lack of interest in the sport. Unsurprisingly, at the heart of their troubles are the horrible domestic set-ups within each country.
The Chinese Super League has only been around since 2004, and in its short lifespan it has earned a worldwide reputation for corruption and violence. India's poor footballing output is the result of it being looked over by investors and the public due to the popularity of cricket in the country. Both countries lack proper infrastructure when it comes to developing players. There's also a severe shortage of proper pitches in both China and India: hardly surprising when space is at such a premium due to population constraints
However, recent news has suggested that football may finally be on the up and up in both China and India.
The Chinese Super League, fresh off a lengthy "clean-up" process to rid the game of match-fixing, recently announced its most prominent signing ever. Intended to be the CSL's "Beckham signing", capital club Shanghai Shenhua were able to lasso in former Chelsea, Bolton, Liverpool, PSG, Real Madrid, Fenerbahçe and Arsenal striker Nicolas Anelka. Though probably past his peak, the Frenchman would still be a valuable commodity for a number of high profile team's around the world. Word is, former Blues teammate Didier Drogba could also be following him to China in the summer.
India, meanwhile, have announced the formation of a new professional league that will feature at least seven formerly high-profile players from around the world's game. Robert Pirès, Fabio Cannavaro, Fernando Morientes, Robbie Fowler, Hernán Crespo, Maniche and Jay-Jay Okocha have all been recruited with a pile of cash at least $600,000 tall to play in a seven week long season. The model for the new league looks to build on the success of the MLS and cricket's Indian Premier League models to kick start Indian football's progress.
Yet despite these massive signs of progress, I can't help but shake the feeling that both of countries' moves to advance their footballing statures are deeply flawed… but for very different reasons.
i'm skeptical that anelka will stick around chinese football long enough to make an impact.
While signing a player of Anelka's quality definitely shows ambition, the CSL and Shenhua sure picked an odd basket to throw the all of their eggs into. For the low cost of just £175,000 a week, Shenhua have bought themselves a player whose personality is so warm and marketable that he's earned the nickname Le Sulk.
Remember though that the Chinese Super League isn't like MLS, where the gulf in quality between that and the Premier League isn't too massive. The Chinese league's talent level is an order of magnitude lower. And due to Anelka's moody disposition and tendency to look disenchanted on the pitch, I worry that he'll either implode the squad or simply quit when he inevitably becomes frustrated with the lack of quality in his teammates.
More concerning though — regardless of whether or not Anelka's stay is long/short/successful/unsuccessful — is the lack of public announcement about equal investment in the league's young domestic Chinese players. If that's not happening, no matter how much attention the Frenchman draws to the league, it will all be a waste.
India's new league announcement, however, did contain some hope for youth development. When announced by the Indian FA, the new league was identified as a sort joint-venture between them and Celebrity Management Group (CMG). The partnership promised to not only bring in famous "world class" players to help fill seats, but also brought a requirement of each team containing at least six under-21 Indian players in each squad. So if nothing else, you at least know that this league is planning beyond the 30-something "stars" that have agreed to buoy the league in its infancy.
But a few potential problems immediately spring to mind with the Indian model.
here's hoping that an aging pires doesn't have any problems with his old man legs in india... too much is riding on them.
First, with a fourth of each team's $2.5 million salary cap likely going to be eaten up one of their "marquee" players, what happens if that star player picks up an injury that keeps them out for a while? That seems highly likely when the average age of these players is 36. Will they be able to fill the stands — something the current league struggles with outside of Bengal — without a big name in the starting XI?
Secondly, how will the creation of these brand new franchises affect the current I-League clubs? One would imagine that all of the u21 Indian players required of each new team are currently playing in that league. Do the new clubs have to pay the existing ones for those players? And will the I-League continue to run during the new league's off season, providing the players with the amount of training needed to develop outside of a paltry 7-week season for the new set up? And what of the rivalries and history between the existing clubs… is that all just being trashed to push the new league to the forefront? If so, it would be a blow to big matches, such as the Kolkata derby between East Bengal and Mohun Bagan, which drew 90,000+ last season.
And lastly, I'm highly skeptical of the entire set up being a joint venture with a celebrity booking agency. Not only does that stink of exploitation, but the partnership is also a thirty year deal. Think about that for a second: thirty years ago there wasn't an English Premier League, there were only 24 teams in the World Cup, and goalkeepers could pick up back passes. A lot can happen in 30 years, and I'm hoping that the Indian FA had enough foresight to not give away the farm without extra precautions.
Unfortunately for all of my skepticism, nobody really knows how these India and China's latest moves in the world of football will work out. It could all come crashing down, or it could all work out and we'll be talking in 20 years about how we wish these moves hadn't happened… we'll look back and classify these events as the "awakenings of the sleeping dragons" or some other overused Asian idioms.
But if that time comes and neither China nor India's massive populations have produced one world class player, we can use this posting as a massive "I told you so."
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Q: ffmpeg segmentation fails with floating point exception I'm trying to segment a video using the following command:
ffmpeg -i /home/user/videos/0001.MP4 -codec copy -map 0 -f segment -segment_frames 66 /tmp/boos/0001/0001_%03d.MP4

After working for a few seconds, the output being
frame=  251 fps=0.0 q=-1.0 size=N/A time=00:00:10.02 bitrate=N/A speed=19.6x

the process fails with a floating point exception. The full output is given below. I have a suspicion that the problem may be specific to GoPro videos due to the following observations:

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*The same video is segmented successfully if I first re-encode it using ffmpeg.

*Other videos (non-GoPro) do not cause the problem.

I would appreciate any suggestions on how to track down or even solve the problem.
Full output:
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  built with gcc 7 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04)
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Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/home/broadbelt/videos/0001.MP4':
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    creation_time   : 2019-11-18T13:55:42.000000Z
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  Duration: 00:17:38.22, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 30245 kb/s
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      handler_name    : GoPro AVC
      encoder         : GoPro AVC encoder
      timecode        : 13:55:42:21
    Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 189 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
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      handler_name    : GoPro AAC
      timecode        : 13:55:42:21
    Stream #0:2(eng): Data: none (tmcd / 0x64636D74) (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2019-11-18T13:55:42.000000Z
      handler_name    : GoPro TCD
      timecode        : 13:55:42:21
    Stream #0:3(eng): Data: none (gpmd / 0x646D7067), 37 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2019-11-18T13:55:42.000000Z
      handler_name    : GoPro MET
    Stream #0:4(eng): Data: none (fdsc / 0x63736466), 9 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2019-11-18T13:55:42.000000Z
      handler_name    : GoPro SOS
[segment @ 0x562a95062f40] Opening '/tmp/boost/0001/0001_000.MP4' for writing
[mp4 @ 0x562a9506a600] Timecode frame rate must be specified
Output #0, segment, to '/tmp/boost/0001/0001_%03d.MP4':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : mp41
    minor_version   : 538120216
    compatible_brands: mp41
    firmware        : HD7.01.01.80.00
    encoder         : Lavf57.83.100
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuvj420p(pc, bt709), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 30000 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 12800 tbn, 25 tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2019-11-18T13:55:42.000000Z
      handler_name    : GoPro AVC
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      timecode        : 13:55:42:21
    Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 189 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2019-11-18T13:55:42.000000Z
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      timecode        : 13:55:42:21
    Stream #0:2(eng): Data: none (tmcd / 0x64636D74) (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2019-11-18T13:55:42.000000Z
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      timecode        : 13:55:42:21
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Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
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  Stream #0:2 -> #0:2 (copy)
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Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
**Floating point exception (core dumped)me=00:00:01.00 bitrate=N/A speed=0.143x**

A: This was a bug in older versions of ffmpeg, triggered in a few cases by copying the timecode track to MP4/MOV output segments. I patched it last June. So upgrade to 4.3 or a recent git build.

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Webster was elected representative of the fifth ward of Bettendorf, Iowa's city council in a 2014 special election. In 2018, he mounted an unsuccessful bid for a position on the Scott County board of supervisors. While serving on the city council, Webster was appointed to the Iowa League of Cities Legislative Policy Committee from January 2019. In February 2022, he began campaigning to represent District 47 in the Iowa Senate. Webster faced Barry Long in the Republican Party primary, and defeated Democratic candidate Mary Kathleen Figaro in the general election.

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Dipping into studio albums, songs from his theatre productions, Mother Courage, Gulliver's Travels, Huckleberry Finn and Paperboy, as well as his most recent album Hallow, on top of performances from yet to be announced special guests these November shows promise to be truly memorable.
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In December 2018, Duke played some very special shows performing a retrospective of his work to date in Dublin, Belfast and London – the London show was his first headline show at the beautiful Union Chapel and saw him play with a selection of very special guests, including Iain Archer, Romeo Stodart, Thomas Truax and David Ford.
This year he will return to Union Chapel in London with a different set of special guests, and the show at Manchester Royal Northern College of Music will also feature special guests.
The guests for all shows will be announced at a later date and tickets are on sale now.
By nature Duke Special (aka Peter Wilson) is a curious person. He is curious about theatre, books, music, poetry, art, love, life, redemption, death, 78RPM records and most recently, gardening! All of this is evidenced by the variety of musical adventures throughout his career. As well as releasing records and touring the world, his creative talents have seen him involved in a diverse array of projects. These include writing the music for and appearing in Deborah Warner's critically acclaimed 2009 production of 'Mother Courage and Her Children' at London's National Theatre, presenting a documentary on the life of '50s megastar Ruby Murray and being commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to write a series of original songs based on photographs for their exhibition of the photographers Stieglitz, Steichen, and Strand.
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in 2017, Duke Special released his latest studio album, 'Hallow' – a beautiful collection of songs entirely based on poems by Belfast poet Michael Longley. His poetry is full of gentleness, honesty, mischief and love, and peppered with a cast of artists, animals, flowers, friends and long forgotten soldiers. As ever, Duke Special mined a new seam of inspiration, always trying to get to the bottom of what it means to be human.
In December 2018, Duke played some very special shows in Dublin, Belfast and London – the London show at the beautiful Union Chapel saw him performing a retrospective of his work to date with a selection of very special guests, including Iain Archer, Romeo Stodart, Thomas Truax and David Ford.
In November 2019, he will return to Union Chapel with a different set of special guests, as well as performing in Manchester, also with special guests, all yet to be announced.
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Seven Great Games of December 2018
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December 2018 isn't nearly as fruitful for new titles as recent months which saw the groundbreaking Red Dead Redemption 2 and breathtaking Marvel's Spider-Man. However, there are still some games to come this year which are worth your attention.
In this article, we'll look at the top 7 games to play on PC and consoles for the remainder of the year. Some of them have already gained much traction on other platforms, whilst others are brand new to the public. In the meanwhile, you can already play some of the games from our November 2018 top list.
Just Cause 4 (PC, PS4, Xbox One - December 4)
Welcome again to the dangerous yet enticing world of Rico Rodriguez, your favorite bold undercover agent! Operating behind enemy lines in a distant South American country is no piece of cake. Surprisingly, there is more excitement at taking part in his new adventures, rather than fear for the life of this relentless mercenary.
This time around, Rico Rodriguez has to take down the illegal military organization the Black Hand and all its kingpins. The new sequel takes on the story of the famous series, and will definitely surprise its fans with far smarter NPCs and unbelievably realistic natural phenomena effects of blizzards, sandstorms, lightning, tornadoes and other impressive weather experiences.
Now you have a great chance to pre-order one of the three edition packs with more than enough in-game goodies inside via the official game website.
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom (PC, NS, Xbox One, PS4 - December 4)
Platform games are what stole the hearts of old-time gamers once and forever. Now a younger generation can join the fan club with a new amusing title to roll out this December. Like the old hands who used to jump and dodge while playing some of the best Platform titles ever, you can now participate in a modern vibrant side-scrolling adventure video game for PC and consoles.
This game is action-driven in every sense of the word, so stop thinking how to equip your character like in RPG titles, or building a strategy as in Dota 2. Just make yourself comfortable and enjoy the amazing gameplay!
The best way to pre-order this game right now is via the official website.
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden (PC, Xbox One, PS4 - December 4)
Have you ever played a tactical shooter game as an animal-like character? Still think all mutants should look like the sissy ninja turtles? Nah.
Have a look at the most blood-chilling mutants ever – meet Bormin, Dux and Selma! Leverage their unique abilities to overwhelm hordes of robotic mechanisms with rocket launchers, stealth tactics, and heavy airstrikes.
The title is set for release this December, and expected to be a great combination of a turn-based strategy video game with a branching storyline and immersive gameplay.
You can choose from two editions to pre-order today through the game website.
Insurgency: Sandstorm (PC – December 12)
No other multiplayer FPS can boast such intense gameplay, realistic close-quarter combat and tactical teamwork as Insurgence did in 2014, except perhaps CS:GO.
Now all eyes are on its sequel with even deadlier weapons, more real-life environments and improved AI for the story mode.
Together with a new thought-out story mode, the game is expected to feature an eSports framework, which can attract lots of professional players from all around the world. All in all, this used-to-be an Indie title but now has got every chance to have the warmest welcome from the gaming community.
The PC version is available to pre-order on the game's page on Steam.
Top December 2018 Console Ports and Releases
There is also some exclusive news for console owners this December. Some upcoming titles are quite new to the gaming audience, others are the long hoped-for ports of popular series for those who do not have an opportunity to play these games on PC.
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales (PS4, Xbox One – December 4)
Geralt the Witcher keeps expanding his footprint in the gaming industry! Gwent, as well as DHeroes, is one of the digital collectible card games which are gaining so much traction among gamers nowadays.
Alongside Gwent, here comes a standalone title: Thronebreaker: the Witcher Tales that goes on telling us the breathtaking story of Geralt and his heart-whole fellows.
This December will bring us this game on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles so that all the fans can enjoy its unparalleled gameplay and storyline.
The PC version is available to order, while PS4 and Xbox One offers are yet to come on the official website.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds aka PUBG (PS4 – December 7)
Most certainly, PUBG needs no long introduction as it enjoys great attraction of fans from all around the world. From December on, console players can join the global skirmish to show off their combat skills and prevail in a deadly War mode that will feature respawns and a limited gameplay area.
The PS4 version is expected to have some exclusive customization in-game items like skins and outfits from other PS4 franchises.
You can now pre-order the game on the PlayStation Store.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo Switch – December 7)
Fighting is exactly the video game genre we all love our consoles for. Super Smash Bros is a signature series on the Nintendo platform, for which surefire success has been lasting for decades.
What makes this series unique is its handpicked mix of crossover characters from various gaming universes. Here you can meet Mario, Pikachu, Link, Samus, Piranha Plant and lots of other outstanding heroes from well-known game franchises.
To enjoy the fabulous gameplay with your favorite characters, visit the game's official website for a pre-order.
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Gutierrez is a writer who's published in many places, including The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. She is a former contributor to The Village Voice and is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and the New Yorker. She has also been published in People Magazine, The New Republic, and other publications.
Gutierrez writes regularly for The Huffington Post and is the author of three books, including The One-Dimensional Self-Awareness, which The Times Book Review called her "a good-humored, engaging, and often provocative writer with a very keen sense of humor about the self." She was a 2012 recipient of the National Magazine Award.
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Sorry, Trump. 6G is not a thing.
I see you, cord phone. And I raise you 6 gs!
Image: win McNamee/Getty Images
Did the President just add a digit to a concept he doesn't understand to make it sound even better?
Trump, as he does, tweeted some out-of-left-field flim-flam Thursday morning, in advance of his trade talks with China. Now, it's always wise to gird your loins whenever Trump ventures into technology concepts, but this morning was special.
SEE ALSO: 5 things to know about 5G
Not only did Trump push for the deployment of 5G technology, but he also advocated for "6G" — a technology that does not exist.
I want 5G, and even 6G, technology in the United States as soon as possible. It is far more powerful, faster, and smarter than the current standard. American companies must step up their efforts, or get left behind. There is no reason that we should be lagging behind on.........
....something that is so obviously the future. I want the United States to win through competition, not by blocking out currently more advanced technologies. We must always be the leader in everything we do, especially when it comes to the very exciting world of technology!
5G is a forthcoming generation of broadband internet, that ISPs in the US are competing to roll out amongst each other — and on which the US is attempting to compete with China, although China is reportedly miles ahead.
Furthermore, existing US iterations of 5G have proven to be largely marketing ploys, and a clear understanding of how soon the technology will be rolled out and the applications 5G will enable remain elusive. At this point, 5G is a lot of promises of a revolutionary high-speed future, with little probability of it becoming a reality for a majority of everyday Americans anytime soon.
So, sure, we want 5G! But we also want... 6G?
To date, 6G — or, "6Genesis" — is a concept that researchers are developing in Finland. What 6G is right now is a research paper, and a trippy video. Not an actual thing the President of the United States can "want."
Chinese and Russian state-backed newspapers have reported that — surprise! — China is also working on 6G. But 6G is not even a thing yet. The President "wants" something that has no definition. Which, really, is consistent with his grasp on reality in general.
The series of tweets were likely about Trump's relationship with China, and recent developments concerning Chinese technology companies ZTE and Huawei. Trump is set to resume trade talks with China today, so tensions are high as the two nations compete to become leaders in 5G, and the US does everything it can to keep China from becoming a hub of intellectual property development.
Additionally, there have been rumors that Trump may ban ZTE and Huawei from doing business in the US, since they have been accused of stealing US IP, and compromising cybersecurity. That could account for Trump's aside about wanting the US "to win through competition, not by blocking out currently more advanced technologies."
The White House has been pushing technology initiatives recently, including an executive order about increased R&D in AI, and calls for more rural broadband (a project Trump's shutdown seriously undermined).
Could that be because Ivanka appears to be at the center of these initiatives? It certainly seems like someone has been whispering in Trump's ear about technology policy. Maybe that included an offhand comment about 6G, once. Yeah, that would fit.
WATCH: In the battle over Net Neutrality, 5G could be our salvation
Topics: 6g, china, Politics, Tech, trump, zte


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Q: How do I specify multiple header rows when using SQL to query an Excel spreadsheet? I'm trying to query an Excel spreadsheet using SQL. The problem I'm facing is that one of the sheets I would like to query has 2 header rows. This is a sheet from a report I receive weekly from an external source and have an archive going back 3 years, so simply removing the extra row isn't an option.
Is there any way to tell Excel(/SQL) to treat both rows as headers (or to ignore the first row altogether - the important header information is in the second row)?
here is my connection string if it makes any difference:
"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _
    "Data Source=" & fileName & ";" & _
        "Extended Properties=""Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes;IMEX=0"";"

Thanks,
Gary

A: You can query a range of cells starting from row 2:
SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$A2:S100]

The troublesome part is finding what the end of the range should be.  You could put in a ridiculously large number, but then you'd have to add special handling for the rows of NULL at the end.


I used the grain once as part of a partial mash Irish Red. Was a great beer, but I'm wondering what a beer with all MO would be liek.
Was thinking of maybe doing a quick SMASH extract with MO. Maybe a pale ale. Marris Otter/Amarillo maybe?
I'be got 12lbs at home, next time I brew I'll let you know.
crazy i just saw this thread as i was going to post about it, asking the same question.
in any event, i just orderd 9 lbs, so i'll be finding out soon.
Excellent! I was just thinking not long ago that they needed to come out with a British malt extract. Along the the Munich LME and rye LME, this really lets a person cover the bases with extract. Awesome.
NB is also breaking new ground with 3gal BIAB AG kits, and 1gal extract kits.
And now the down side. I understand that they discontinued their flat rate shipping policy.
Is this extract really all MO?
I know both the munich and rye extracts are still blends. still got some crystal in there etc.
NB says its 100% MO.
I just ordered 6# of this to do two small test batches. Will let you know how it tastes.
3-gallon AG kits, interesting! I'm guessing these would work just fine for BIAMT ... for those of us who find it easier to mash in a cooler.
At least one other homebrew store has been doing 1-gallon batches for a while ( http://store.brooklyn-homebrew.com/Beer+Ingredient+Kits.html ) and I think it's a great idea. Bust that 5-gallon hegemony!


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Mercure Darlington King's Hotel offers 3-star accommodation in Darlington. It is ideally positioned for guests wishing to sightsee in the area.
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Set within the scenic countryside of Walworth, Best Western Walworth Castle Hotel provides comfortable accommodation and a full range of facilities, including a beauty centre, a kids club and a coffee bar. It also offers room service, a playground and laundry facilities.
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Under a 20-minute stroll from Darlington Railway Station, the hotel provides guests with a convenient base when visiting Darlington. It is ideally located for those wanting to visit local attractions.
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Best known for its contributions to the birth of the modern railway, Darlington is steeped in locomotive history. From train-themed cafes to an elaborate transportation museum, this riverside community celebrates its industrial roots while showcasing a new wave of modern arts and culture.
Stroll along the Darlington Heritage Trail and discover the origins of Darlington's town centre. Gain insider tips on the best places to eat, like the Edwardian Hole In The Wall pub and the 19th-century Bakehouse. Stop to admire St. Cuthbert's, one of the oldest and most important churches in Northern England that's served as a place of worship for over 1,000 years.
Step back in time with a visit to Piercebridge Roman Fort. Built along Dere Street, which was one of the most important thoroughfares in Roman Britain, Piercebridge is a fascinating example of Roman military ingenuity. Study ancient artefacts, meander through the restored ruins and relax by the River Tees.
Discover the stories and legends of the first railway pioneers at Darlington Railway Centre and Museum. Located along the original route of the world's first public steam railway, this museum recounts the vivid history of trains and railroads in the United Kingdom. Don't miss the Vintage Vehicle Rally's collection of refurbished antique automobiles.
Jump behind the wheel of your dream car at Croft Race Circuit, where you can drive a selection of supercars, from a McLaren to a Ferrari Spider. Speed around a professional racing circuit and learn expert techniques straight from the pros. If you prefer to watch the action from afar, sit on the sideline at a race day instead.
You can arrive by train at Darlington station, one hour from Leeds and 30 minutes from Newcastle. You can also fly into Durham Tees Valley Airport, a five-minute drive from town. Darlington is easily explored on foot, thanks to its mostly pedestrianised centre.


Delphi has hit the market with two products that are guaranteed to help it regain the top spot in the highly competitive world of electronic automobile accessories.
Long recognized as a leader when it came to XM satellite receivers and other electronic devices for cars, the company found itself close to bankruptcy due to heavy losses suffered by its biggest customer and former corporate parent, General Motors, in 2005.
At first blush, the SkyFi3 looks just like any other portable XM radio, but looks can be deceiving. This third incarnation of the SkyFi contains all sorts of new features you would never have expected from one of these babies, the biggest of which are a built-in portable audio player (for MP3 and WMA files), the ability to pause and replay up to 30 minutes of XM broadcasts and a slot that can hold up to a 2 gigabyte microSD card.
Plus you can record up to 10 hours of XM programming using its "time shift" feature, which stores your recording to 256 megabytes of internal memory. These recordings can be updated every 10 hours or you can schedule them to begin and end during specific time periods.
Last is the new, larger LCD display and the ability to enlarge the size of the type by changing the display mode.
A new car dock with direct access to all the buttons you need to change channels, go back to your favorite stations and easily connect the radio to an external antenna and power supply.
A built-in FM transmitter that broadcasts XM to your FM radio. The only problem here is that an unused spot on the dial in New York may be used by a station in Boston, so travelers may find themselves seeking out new frequencies as they move from town to town.
A headphone jack, so you can listen to your favorite recorded tunes or MP3, WMA and Napster files.
It has a built-in five-hour rechargeable battery.
The Nav200 also contains a bit more than what you would expect from a portable GPS system,. In addition to maps of every square mile of the continental United States. and Canada, this inexpensive GPS system can be used as a portable MP3 player, a movie player and photo viewer. Plus it comes with a built-in world clock and Othello, a game that has driven most of us to the brink of insanity.
Although it did miss a few turns during my tests, on the whole it did a decent job of getting us where we wanted to go and is on a par with the GPS navigation system built into my car, which can also make an occasional mistake). In fact NAVTEQ created the maps for both systems.
The maps are stored on a removable 1.5 gigabyte SD card, so they're easy to update.
You can add a real-time traffic accessory to the unit to give you up-to-the-minute traffic reports and advice on how to avoid backups, etc.
It has a full-color 3.5-inch display.
It is "pocket-sized" so you can carry it with you to listen to your favorite tunes using a set of headphones or ear buds.
It has an SD card slot that can support up to a 2 gigabyte memory card.
It has a built-in two watt stereo speaker system so you can hear directions, music, etc without using headphones.
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5 head coaching candidates for Jets after firing Adam Gase
These five coaches could replace Adam Gase as the New York Jets' head coach.
The miserable season for the Jets is over and it has cost Adam Gase his job. A regular candidate for the worst head coach in football, Gase was officially sent packing as New York looks to start over again with a new regime.
The hire was questionable when the Jets made it and now GM Joe Douglas has his work cut out for him to find a new head coach who can turn around a franchise that is sitting on a 10-year postseason drought, one of the longest in the NFL. New York has an unusual power structure where the GM and head coach are equals who both report to owner Christopher Johnson, which could potentially limit the candidate pool a bit.
There is still a lot to like about this position, including Douglas' ability to draft talent, as evidenced by a strong 2020 haul that netted the Jets a franchise left tackle in Mekhi Becton, a capable wide receiver in Denzel Mims and a potential starting cornerback in fifth-rounder Bryce Hall. The Jets have extra draft picks and a ton of cap space to improve quickly, with the biggest asset being this year's no. 2 overall pick, which could allow a new head coach to make his choice of which non-Trevor Lawrence quarterback he wants in the draft.
For the purposes of this exercise, we aren't including any coaches who were employed as of Week 17, which disqualifies Doug Pederson, who would probably shoot to the top of New York's wish list due to a pre-existing relationship with Douglas. Let's take a look at five good candidates for this job, beginning with Titans' offensive coordinator Arthur Smith.
5. Jets head coaching candidates: Titans OC Arthur Smith
Whoever the Jets hire as a head coach needs to have a good offensive plan to either fix Sam Darnold or develop a young quarterback. Smith certainly fits the bill thanks to his excellent work in Tennessee with Ryan Tannehill, who looked like a bust after spending the last few years of his Dolphins' tenure with Gase.
Miami dumped Tannehill for a pair of mid-round draft picks last year and Smith turned him into a strong quarterback. Tannehill's completion percentage increased to 70.3 percent in 2019 as he threw for 2,742 yards with 22 touchdowns and just six interceptions, with the TD to interception ratio improving again to 32 touchdowns against just seven interceptions over Tennessee's first 15 games this season.
The Titans have demonstrated tremendous offensive creativity under Smith, who could do wonders for a Jets' team that has some pieces on offense and the capability to add more in free agency. Interviewing Smith should be a top priority for Douglas this winter.
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