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Bruce Sex-Centenary Pageant: Masque of Edinburgh
A Masque of Edinburgh: Living and Speaking History in Thirteen Scenes.
Pageant type
large town/city
The pageant was organised by the Outlook Tower Association founded in 1905 by friends and associates of Sir Patrick Geddes who wished to promote his vision.
Jump to Summary
Place: Usher Hall (Edinburgh) (Edinburgh, City Of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Indoors/outdoors: Indoors
Number of performances: 3
28–30 May 1929 at 7.30 pm
The pageant, together with a 'fancy fair', was restaged one year later on 29 June 1930; it was held then to raise funds for 'social work' promoted by the Outlook Tower Association.2 The plan was to hold it outdoors in the grounds of Abden Hall, a private mansion house in the Edinburgh suburb of Colinton. In the event, it rained heavily and the pageant was performed in a church hall nearby.3
Name of pageant master and other named staff
Director [Pageant Master]: Nisbet, Mrs Hamilton More
Stage Manager: Mrs Meade King
Producer of Group I: Captain the Rev. Edward Mayo, SJ
Organiser and Stage Manager of Group I: Mrs Marie Gaffney
Producer and Organiser of Group II: Mrs Marie Gaffney
Organiser and Stage Manager of Group III: Miss Marie Pullar-Duncan
Property Master of Group III: J.A. Kerr
Wardrobe Mistresses of Group III: Mrs Morrough; Miss Marie Pullar-Duncan
Producer of Group V: Mr Ralph Hay, George Watson's College
Producer of Group VI: Miss Anstruther-Ritchie
Producer of Group VII: Miss M. Winstanley Brown
Producers of Group VIII: The Edinburgh Women Citizens' Association
Organiser of Group VIII: Mrs Waldo Channon
Convenors of Group VIII: J. Griffith-Thomas; M. McLauchlan
Producer of Group IX: Mr Andrew Macindoe
Organiser and Producer of Group XI: Mr Bruce Morgan
Producer of Group XIII: Mrs Finlayson Gauld
Organisers of Group XIII: Misses Jessie and Nannie Brown
Episodes were referred to as 'groups' in this pageant.
Alongside the Outlook Tower association, many amateur dramatic groups also took part in the pageant; although individual episodes had their own producers, overall direction of the performance was provided by Mrs Hamilton More Nisbet.4 Some episodes are not credited with specific producers or organisers; but many episodes had individuals in multiple roles.
Names of executive committee or equivalent
The Committee was probably made up of members of the Outlook Tower Association and other civic groups who took part in the pageant; it probably included many of the producers and writers. Unfortunately, details of the committee members have not been recovered. In an advertisement for the pageant, the association called for volunteers to help with practical organisation.5
Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
Forbes, Madame F.A.
Mears, F.C.
Sackville, Lady Margaret
Crichton, D.
Winstanley Brown, Miss M.
McIndoe, Mr Andrew
Gauld, Mrs Finlayson
Burns, Robert
The writing responsibilities broke down as follows
Madame F.A., Forbes (of the Sacred Heart Training College): Group I and Group II
F.C. Mears: Group III
Lady Margaret Sackville: Group V, Group X and Group XI
D. Crichton: Group VI
Miss M. Winstanley Brown: Group VII
Mr Andrew McIndoe: Group IX
Mrs Finlayson Gauld: Group XIII6
Burns, Robert: Group IV ('Scots Wha Hae')7
Notable among the authors is the poet, children's writer and essayist, Lady Margaret Sackville.8
Names of composers
Those responsible for musical arrangement or composition are not specified in the pageant programme with the single exception of Miss Winstanley Brown for Group VII for which she was also author and producer.9 She was noted in the programme as being responsible for music but her designation as composer or arranger is not specified.
Numbers of performers
Surplus Profit: £220
Object of any funds raised
Although advertisements for the pageant state it was held in aid of the Outlook Tower, the surplus was in fact given to 'children's charities'.10 At the time, the Outlook Tower Association had a particular interest in the use of open spaces, and it may therefore have been used to assist with the development of these for children by turning derelict grounds 'in congested areas' of the city into play parks.11
The Outlook Tower was a museum and educational facility in Edinburgh founded by Sir Patrick Geddes in 1892. He had struggled to finance it, and this had resulted in the founding of an association that raised funds to maintain and promote its work.12
Linked occasion
Six-hundredth anniversary of the granting of Edinburgh's charter by Robert the Bruce.
Audience information
Grandstand: Not Known
Grandstand capacity: n/a
Total audience: 6000
The Usher Hall is a large concert venue in the centre of Edinburgh; in 2015, it has a seating capacity of 2200.13 At the time of the pageant, a letter to the Scotsman newspaper indicated that 2400 seats were available. Average attendance at each of the three nights was estimated to be over 2000, large numbers of which were children.14
Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest
5s.–6d.
5s.; 2s. 6d.; and 1s. Children were admitted at half-price.15
The majority of seats were priced at 1s. (children 6d.). The Outlook Tower Association estimated that on average at each performance 1000 adults paid 1s. each and 1000 children were admitted for 6d. each; of the remaining 400 more expensive seats, those purchased were often for children who paid half price.16
Pageant Ball at the 'Palais de Dance' (Wednesday 5 June, 8pm–1.30am). Tickets were 2s. 6d. for 'members of the masque' and 5s. for others. This cost included refreshments.
Pageant outline
Group I. Edinburgh in the Time of Malcolm Canmore and Saint Margaret
Set in the courtyard at the Maiden's Castle, Edinburgh, the episode was concerned with Margaret's role in promoting religious unity. It had a very large cast including King Malcolm, Margaret (his wife), as well as Margaret's mother Agatha, her brother Edgar (heir to the throne of England) and three children Edmund, David and Matilda. There were in addition the following named characters: Bartulph (Chamberlain of Scotland), Turgot (Prior of Durham) and Fothad (Bishop of St Andrews). The remaining cast included thanes, courtiers, embroiderers, metal workers, cloth weavers, Benedictine and Columban monks, acolytes, 'culdees', citizens, beggars, 'countrymen', a poor widow and orphans, and 'an English Prisoner'. In all, 110 players made up of men, women and children took part and the drama contained dialogue. The episode was organised and performed by staff and students of the Sacred Heart Training College in Edinburgh.
Group II. David I as Town Planner: The King in Council to Hear Complaints and Redress Grievances
This episode was set at Edinburgh Castle. Together with David was his wife, Matilda, Fitzalan (Steward of Scotland), Hugo de Morville (Governor of Edinburgh Castle), Robert de Brus (Lord of Annandale) plus unnamed noblemen, merchants, nuns, Benedictine monks, Thanes and citizens as well as attendants on the King and Queen. Altogether around 40 performers were involved and there was dialogue. The scene depicted David planning the layout of the old city, today known as the Royal Mile.
Group III. Wallace Promoting Foreign Trade
A setting for this episode is not specified; it includes Wallace, Andrew de Moray, a Provost, a clerk, two merchants, and a 'Foolish Burgess' and his wife as well as a group of soldiers and a group of 'villagers'. The episode contained dialogue and altogether 30 performers were involved made up of 26 men and 4 women.
Group IV. Edward I and His Policy
This episode appears to have had only a single performer in the role of Edward I (played by Sterling Craig) who delivered a monologue.
Group V. Bruce: Bannockburn and Edinburgh's Charter
Boys from George Watson's College (62 players all together) presented this episode. It was divided into three scenes:
Scene I: The Eve of Bannockburn (1314); this featured King Robert the Bruce (played by A. Ross) and 'Nobles, Spearmen and Shieldbearers'.
Scenes II and III enacted the 'Presentation of the Charter to the Citizens of Edinburgh' (1329). Characters included the King with sentinels and pages, the city's Provost, Bailie and Dean, and (possibly in the third scene) the 'Douglas Court Physician' and seven pages.
Group VI. James III
This scene featured James III, Queen Margaret, their son James, Princess Margaret of Scotland, the Duke of Albany, the Earl of Mar, Walter Scheves (the King's astrologer), Bishop Elphinstone plus assorted nobility divided into two groups—'King's favourites' and 'disaffected lords'—as well as ladies in waiting, guards and a jester. 27 players took part.
Group VII. The Blue Blanket: the Presenting of the Blue Blanket to the Trades
James III, his wife Queen Margaret, his sister Princess Margaret, a 'hammerman' plus courtiers, dancers, ladies in waiting. Children from 'the Hospital founded by Dame Mary Erskine and the Incorporated Crafts of Edinburgh' performed a further dance. 24 performers plus an unspecified number of child dancers were involved.
Group VIII. Marriage of James IV and Margaret Tudor, August 1503
This scene was set in the Hall at Dalkeith Palalce. It included three groups of performers: 'Ladies at Dalkeith Palace', the 'English Court', and the 'Scottish Court'. There were 30 players plus a piper and a choir. In this light-hearted scene, Margaret took exception to James's beard and he was forced to remove it. The stagecraft involved saw James disappear behind the skirts of the ladies and later emerge clean-shaven.
Group IX. Flodden
This scene was set in the Council Chambers, Edinburgh. It included the Deputy Provost, a Halberdier, a group of councillors and their wives, and Randolph Murray. 15 players took part. In this scene, Murray delivered the news to Edinburgh's council that the battle had been lost and the King killed.
Group X. Mary Queen of Scots
Together with Mary were the following characters: Mary Hamilton, Mary Carmichael, Mary Seton, Mary Beaton, Lord Darnley, the Earl of Bothwell, Rizzio, John Knox, the Countess of Cassillis (described as the Queen's favourite), 'M. d'Elbeuf' (the Marquis de Elbeuf, played by the writer Lewis Spence), 'Nicole La Folle', and an unspecified number of ladies in waiting and burgesses.18
Group XI. The Covenanters
Named characters included: 'Henderson of Leuchars', Lord Loudon, Earl of Rothes, Johnston of Warriston [sic], the Duke of Sutherland and two 'Precentors'. In addition, there was a large crowd of lords and ladies and ordinary citizens played by the Royal Edinburgh Choral Union.
Group XII. Prince Charlie
This episode was played by the Cameron Highlanders; no further details were supplied.
Group XIII. Burns and Scott, 1786
There appear to have been two scenes in this episode. The first enacted a meeting between Burns and Scott and was set in the Lawnmarket, Edinburgh. Together with the two writers were: Scott's father, Lord Monboddo, the Duchess of Gordon, the Countess of Glencairn and Dr Blacklock, plus eight further players. The second scene was a tableau of Scott surrounded by some of his most famous characters from his literary creations: Ivanhoe (featuring Ivanhoe, Lady Rowena, Rebecca and Issac of York [sic]); Rob Roy (Rob Roy, Helen Macgregor, Dougal and Bailie Nicol Jarvie); The Heart of Midlothian (Jeanie Deans, the Laird o' Dumbiedykes and Madge Wildfire); The Lady of the Lake (Helen Douglas, Fitz James and Roderick Dhu), and Kenilworth (Queen Elizabeth, Amy Robsart, the Earl of Leicester and Varney). Two further characters appeared: Dominie Sampson and Old Mortality.
Key historical figures mentioned
Malcolm III [Mael Coluim Ceann Mór, Malcolm Canmore] (d. 1093) king of Scots
Margaret [St Margaret] (d. 1093) queen of Scots, consort of Malcolm III
David I (c.1085–1153) king of Scots
Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland] (1080–1118) queen of England, first consort of Henry I
Turgot (c.1050–1115) author and bishop of St Andrews
Maud [Matilda] (d. 1131), found in David I (c.1085–1153)king of Scots
Brus [Bruce], Robert (I) de, lord of Annandale (d. 1142) baron and soldier
Wallace, Sir William (d. 1305), patriot and guardian of Scotland
Murray, Andrew (d. 1297) patriot and soldier [also known as Moray, Andrew]
Edward I (1239–1307) king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
Robert I [Robert Bruce] (1274–1329) king of Scots
James III (1452–1488) king of Scots
Margaret [Margaret of Denmark] (1456/7?–1486) queen of Scots, consort of James III
James IV (1473–1513) king of Scots
Margaret [Margaret Tudor] (1489–1541) queen of Scots, consort of James IV
Mary [Mary Stewart] (1542–1587), queen of Scots
Mary Seton (b. c.1541, d. after 1615) Queen's Maries (act. 1548–1567)
Mary Beaton (c.1543–1597) Queen's Maries (act. 1548–1567)
Stewart, Henry, duke of Albany [known as Lord Darnley] (1545/6–1567) second consort of Mary, queen of Scots
Hepburn, James, fourth earl of Bothwell and duke of Orkney (1534/5–1578) magnate and third consort of Mary, queen of Scots James, 4th Earl of Bothwell
Riccio, David (c.1533–1566) musician and courtier
Knox, John (c.1514–1572) religious reformer
Henderson, Alexander (c.1583–1646) Church of Scotland minister and politician
Leslie, John, sixth earl of Rothes (c.1600–1641) politician
Johnston, Sir Archibald, Lord Wariston (bap. 1611, d. 1663) lawyer and politician
Gordon, John, fourteenth earl of Sutherland (1609–1679) nobleman
Scott, Sir Walter (1771–1832) poet and novelist
Burns, Robert (1759–1796) poet
Burnett, James, Lord Monboddo (bap. 1714, d. 1799) judge and philosopher
Gordon [née Maxwell], Jane, duchess of Gordon (1748/9–1812) political hostess and agricultural reformer
Blacklock, Thomas (1721–1791) poet and writer
Musical production
Live music provided by: six choirs, two bands, an orchestra and the Usher Hall organ.
The choir of St Mary's Roman Catholic cathedral, Edinburgh, performed in Group I. Pieces included:
Winstanley Brown, Miss M. (Group VII).
Traditional tune, 'Scots Wha Hae' (Group IV).
Newspaper coverage of pageant
The Scotsman
The Dundee Courier
Book of words
A Book of Words was not produced.
Other primary published materials
Bruce Sex-Centenary Pageant, A Masque of Edinburgh: Living and Speaking History in Thirteen Scenes, Usher Hall 28th–30th May 1929 at 7.30 pm. Programme. No publication details.
References in secondary literature
Archival holdings connected to pageant
The National Library of Scotland: One copy of the programme. HP3.78.919.
Sources used in preparation of pageant
When plans were discussed by Edinburgh's city council for celebration of the six-hundredth anniversary of the granting of Edinburgh's royal charter, there was every intention to make sure that a lasting and fitting memorial would unfold. To this end, on the actual day of the anniversary, children were to be given a day off school, a church service at St Giles was to be held, a commemorative 'booklet' detailing the history of the city would be issued, and, capping all, a long-awaited memorial to Wallace and Bruce at Edinburgh Castle was to be unveiled. As to anything slightly more frivolous—such as a pageant—when this was suggested at a council meeting, Edinburgh Corporation declined this option.21 Although Edinburgh was not new to pageantry—the city had staged a huge event at Craigmillar in 1927—councillors were doubtless mindful of the public purse in initially turning down the opportunity to have another. The damning epithet often associated with the city, 'you'll have had your tea', may well apply in this context.
Nevertheless, acting outside of municipal plans, the idea was taken up by the Outlook Tower Association—a collective that included much of Edinburgh's cultural elite who were inspired by the teachings of Patrick Geddes—which decided to rise to this challenge. In the hands of this group, many at the time may have anticipated a show that was highbrow and lacked the popular touch. Perhaps in response to the Outlook Tower's initiative, the education department of Edinburgh Corporation later relented and decided to present a pageant of sorts, featuring Edinburgh schoolchildren in Princes Street Gardens. This was to consist of various tableaux depicting aspects of the city's history, accompanied by the singing of a massed choir of children from the city's schools, and would be free to view by all.22 Doubtless Edinburgh teachers were expected to organise these tableaux and the young actors were expected to take part without any extra recompense. Unfortunately, no details of this particular outdoor event have been found, and it does seem to have been overshadowed by the larger pageant that was independently organised.
In advancing the idea of a full-scale theatrical event, The Outlook Tower Association, of course, had its own agenda—to raise funds for the advancement of Geddes's edifying ideas. Given the social influence of this group, it was decided to hold the pageant, or masque, as they preferred to call it, in the city's Usher Hall. This was a high profile venue and capable of holding large audiences. By all accounts, the educational merits of this pageant do seem to have attracted spectators to bring along children, and at least half of the tickets sold were for discounted child seats. This had an impact on the financial success of the pageant, although it was well attended on the three nights that it was performed.23 Perhaps against expectations and because of the youthful audience, it proved to have a good deal of popular appeal.
Evidently, the Outlook Tower folk were not superstitious, and thirteen episodes were completed which concentrated on the development of the city of Edinburgh and its civic identity while also incorporating many nationally important historical figures. Unfortunately, there is a frustrating lack of detail available describing the drama of the episodes: the programme gives only brief summaries. However, it is clear that this pageant aimed to tap into local and national patriotism. Beginning in the eleventh century, the opening episode, which was set at Edinburgh Castle, aimed to show that Edinburgh had existed as a place of merit long before it was granted its charter or even developed as a place of substantial habitation. Few details of the drama have been recovered, but it had a large cast and showed the Scottish royal court of the time as a colourful spectacle. The narrative was broadly concerned with the role of Queen Margaret as a promoter of religious harmony, and it is notable that it was organised and performed by Roman Catholic institutions in the city. Group II was again set at the Castle and continued the theme of the development of Edinburgh, showing the monarch David I planning the layout of the medieval city. 'Some good spirit and good Scots speech' featured in Group III.24 This dramatised the development of overseas trade, which caused the city to grow. Wallace was depicted as a warrior figure who was nevertheless a man of the people, a notion that had grown in popularity by the early twentieth century.25 The actor who played Wallace was said to have been over six feet tall and looked extremely impressive dressed in chainmail.26
Group IV appears to have been a monologue by a single performer in the guise of the arch-villain (in Scotland at least!) of Edward I, while Group V created narrative equilibrium by featuring his famous foe, Robert the Bruce. It is a great pity that the content of the Edward I episode is so opaque. It is also notable that in the review of the masque published in the Scotsman, comment on this episode was lacking.27 This may have been because the scene was relatively short rather than in any way contentious. Yet given popular views about this English monarch in Scotland, it is impossible to exclude this possibility. The Bruce episode had three scenes. The first of these was a recreation of Bruce's rousing speech to his army before Bannockburn. The remaining two scenes dramatised the central point of the pageant—the granting of the charter. Of course, pageantry was very often undertaken because of charter anniversaries, yet it is difficult to make such scenes exciting. The scene of Bruce before Bannockburn was probably included as an antidote to the relative dreariness of what was to come and likely for no other reason than a fondness held by many Scots for hearing its stirring sentiments!
The episodes then proceeded with a cavalcade of Scottish monarchs and their interactions with the capital city. Scenes VI and VII showed James III and his dealings with the rising commercial interests of the city; according to the Scotsman newspaper, these were lively and well performed, and James's consultation with an astrologer in Group VI was said to have 'dramatic qualities'.28 The legend of the presentation of the famous 'Blue Blanket', the banner of the Edinburgh trade guilds, by King James followed in Group VII. The next king along was the unfortunate James IV, the scene depicting his first meeting with his future wife, Margaret Tudor. This scene was organised by the formidable force of the Edinburgh Women's Citizens' Association. It was played for humour, yet underneath was the clear implication that English-born Margaret was a civilising influence. Randolph Murray relayed news to the city's council of the tragic end of James IV at Flodden in Group VIII. Depictions of Flodden in Scottish pageants were usually tearjerkers involving weeping women, and general devastation; this appears to have been a more sober approach to the subject.
The pageant next featured Mary Queen of Scots in frivolous mode. The Queen was shown with her court engaged in watching a 'playlet'; this 'pretty little scene' was disturbed by the arrival of John Knox.29 Sadly, no details of what ensued have been found, but it is likely the bright and happy scene ended slightly more darkly. This episode featured its author in the title role; at the time, Lady Margaret Sackville was a well-known woman of letters, and her extensive involvement with the pageant, which was mentioned in all newspaper notices, undoubtedly gave the event more prestige.30 In addition, the contemporary holder of the title played the part of Mary's friend, the Countess of Cassillis.31 The drama then moved to another staple of Scottish pageants, the Covenanters, and featured locally well-known figures in this movement. Few details of the narrative have come to light, but the city's choral union was involved, so it may have been centred more on music and singing than dialogue, which suggests a religious service of some sort. Soldiers from the Cameron Highlanders played in Group XII; this featured Charles Edward Stuart, and it must be supposed that this scene was more about military display and music than any particular narrative.
The final scene turned attention to Edinburgh's literary heritage and its cultural importance during the Enlightenment. This part of the pageant was designed as spectacle and presented in two parts. Absent from this pageant was any depiction of a fair or traditional festival, which is an unusual omission. However, the first part of Group XIII consisted of a street scene in the old city during the eighteenth century; this featured the poet Robert Burns, the writer Sir Walter Scott as a young boy, and what the Scotsman described as a host of 'old Edinburgh worthies'.32 The second part consisted of the adult Walter Scott in a tableau featuring many of his most famous and easily recognisable literary creations. Local colour was added with cries of 'gardeyloo' at the end of the scene, following which all the performers on stage ducked their heads in unison.33
Despite being held in a concert hall then associated with prestigious entertainments, and despite the intellectual bent of the Outlook Tower Association, this pageant seems to have been something of a crowd-pleaser, enacting a popular version of the city's past. If a serious and cerebral interpretation of Edinburgh's past was expected, this was not what was delivered. The many local organisations and institutions that took part appear to have let their hair down and put on a colourful and accessible journey through the past that lived up to the title of a 'living and speaking' history. Apparently, clapping and stomping by the audience went on throughout the first night's show, and the choir's rendition of 'Scots Wha' Hae' was all but drowned out by the audience's enthusiasm! The Scotsman's report took on a typically pompous attitude, stating that while the audience was clearly appreciative its zeal was 'misguided'.34 Given that at least half the spectators were children and theatre etiquette does not seem to have troubled them, we can only conclude that a combination of a day off school and the rousing Scottish patriotism on display encouraged them to enjoy their theatrical history lesson. The success of the venture brought in a small but respectable profit and encouraged the Outlook Tower Association to restage the pageant in a single performance the following summer. Although it was held in Scotland's capital city and in a nationally prized venue, it does not seem to have attracted a great deal of press attention. The city council's more sedate celebrations, which were attended by the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George and Queen Elizabeth), appear to have stolen the limelight—the royal couple did not come along to the pageant, although they were resident at the time at Holyrood. The Masque of Edinburgh is, therefore, a good example of a historical pageant that had great contemporary success but was subsequently largely lost to history.
^ See Helen Mellor, Patrick Geddes: Social Evolutionist and City Planner (London, 1990).
^ Advertisement, Scotsman, 20 June 1930, 1.
^ 'Masque of Edinburgh: Tableaux of History', Scotsman, 21 June 1930, 18.
^ 'Edinburgh That Might Have Been', Dundee Courier, 25 April 1929, 6.
^ Advertisement, Scotsman, 18 May 1929, 1.
^ Bruce Sex-Centenary Pageant, A Masque of Edinburgh: Living and Speaking History in Thirteen Scenes, Usher Hall 28th–30th May 1929 at 7.30 pm (no publication details), 3.
^ 'Masque of Edinburgh: Story of the Capital, Scotsman, 29 May 1929, 14.
^ See Harriet Blodgett, 'Sackville, Lady Margaret (1881–1963)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004), online edn., May 2015.
^ 'Masque of Edinburgh', Scotsman, 2 June 1930, 7.
^ 'Outlook Tower Open Spaces Committee', Scotsman, 15 June 1929, 17.
^ Helen Mellor, Patrick Geddes: Social Evolutionist and City Planner (London, 1990), 98.
^ 'Usher Hall', accessed 12 December 2015, http://eventsedinburgh.org.uk/planners_venue_listing.html&venue_id=666.
^ Letter from Jean C. Cunninghame, Secretary of the Outlook Tower Association, Scotsman, 12 June 1929, 12.
^ Bruce Sex-Centenary Pageant, A Masque of Edinburgh: Living and Speaking History in Thirteen Scenes, Usher Hall 28th–30th May 1929 at 7.30 pm (no publication details), 16.
^ The characters of Mary Hamilton, Mary Carmichael, Mary Seton and Mary Beaton are well known as the queen's 'four Maries'; however, although the queen did indeed have four attendants named Mary, the two named here, as Hamilton and Carmichael are fictions. This error was widespread and probably circulated because of a popular eighteenth century ballad called 'Marie Hamilton'. The real four were named Fleming, Livingston, Beaton and Seaton; see Rosalind K. Marshall, 'Queen's Maries (act. 1548-1567)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [accessed : http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/70082].
^ 'Masque of Edinburgh: a Colourful Pageant', Scotsman 28 May 1929, 9.
^ 'Masque of Edinburgh: Story of the Capital, Scotsman 29 May 1929, 14.
^ 'Edinburgh Charter Sex-Centenary', Dundee Courier, 7 December 1928, 3.
^ 'Sex-Centenary: Edinburgh School Arrangements', Scotsman, 10 April 1929, 15.
^ For discussion of the development of the cult of Wallace, see James. J. Coleman, Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Commemoration, Nationality and Memory (Edinburgh, 2014).
^ 'Masque of Edinburgh: Story of the Capital', 14.
^ Ibid.
^ This pageant did not receive a lot of press attention, though it was briefly noted in articles detailing the council's centenary celebration plans; in such mentions, Lady Sackville's name often appears, and she was often misleadingly credited as being the pageant's sole author.
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Kotone Matsuyama
atients with COVID-19 in Japan were first identified in February 2020. This was only the first wave. A state of emergency was issued, and a lockdown of major cities was implemented from April 7 to May 25. Gradually, the second wave was confirmed in the summer of 2020. The third wave occurred around October 2020, and the state of emergency was reissued on January 7, 2021.
These important developments and consequent actions taken in response were overviewed by IFAPP, IFAPP Academy, and JAPhMed in the webinar COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan: Facts and Expectations sponsored by DIA Japan and reviewed below.
Organization and Communications
During the pandemic, Japan's distinguishing characteristic has been that public health centers coordinate hospitalization and accommodate treatment for COVID-19 patients. The Prefecture is the organizational level above the public health center and stores this patient and treatment information in the central government's database. Initially, the government issued outbreak notifications through the press based on the Infectious Diseases Control Law, but sometimes failed to collect and disseminate the most accurate data. Now, hospital and other health center professionals in Japan can confirm the outbreak situation immediately and manage the medical care provision system through these stored data by accessing the government website.
In terms of morbidity, Japan is similar to South Korea and Indonesia in death cases per one million population, at a rate only 5% that of the US.
COVID-19 Treatments and Vaccines in Japan
From a regulatory point of view, "Tokurei approval" provides special emergency approval for a product. This Tokurei approval system allows the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to approve a drug with Pharmaceutical Affairs and Food Sanitation Council consultation without formal review. Tokurei approval is applied in a situation requiring urgent use of the drug to control the prevalence of a disease which can be life-threatening or seriously damaging to health. Thus far, this Tokurei approval system has been applied to two vaccines for novel influenza (H1N1) in January 2010, to remdesivir in May 2020, and to the Comirnaty vaccine in February 2021. Two more vaccines were also approved in May 2021 using the Tokurei system.
According to the Guidance for Medical Practice for COVID-19 (Ver 4.1), Japan has two recommended treatments for COVID-19: remdesivir (RNA synthetic enzyme inhibitor) and dexamethasone (steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, SAD). As of February 2021, Japan has 14 medical devices and 43 in vitro tests for COVID-19 diagnosis and treatment. The Chief Executive of Japan's Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) has issued nine statements titled PMDA's Efforts to Combat COVID-19 during the pandemic.
"Zero-based thinking," or "thinking outside the box," was deemed to be another key success factor in the rapid development of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines. It is important to have a high tolerance for uncertainty when tackling unprecedented challenges. For example, the relevant parties should collaborate to generate new social-beneficial innovative values across and beyond the boundaries established between academia, industry, and health authorities. In our current, highly uncertain circumstances, attitudes toward uncertainty are critical. Perceptions of acceptable and unacceptable risk have been changed by these unprecedented challenges, which may open the door for a "new normal," both in Japan and globally, in the future.
Remote Audits of Clinical Studies in Japan During the Pandemic
In the past year, two studies, an international comparative study in Korea and Japan on the use of honest remote review and a study comparing a reduced auditing method with conventional visit-style auditing, examined how to maintain ethical review and quality assurance in pandemic circumstances.
In 2020, a survey questionnaire was sent to 18 pharmaceutical companies, 14 CRO companies, and 97 medical institutions to investigate issues at sponsors and medical institutions during GCP audits. The sponsor side expressed 100% interest in improving the audit environment for medical institutions, while the medical institution side expressed only 43% interest. We can confidently say, under the current COVID-19 infection situation, that it is an urgent task for medical institutions to promote understanding of audits and to practice remote auditing and monitoring.
The survey examined benefits expected from the introduction of remote auditing in cost, delivery (time), travel-related risk, and flexibility through an additional questionnaire sent to 13 audit sponsors. All audit sponsors except for one answered that by conducting remote audits they could save at least 500,000 Japanese yen (USD $4,776) a year, and eight of those expected to save more than one million Japanese yen (USD $9,552) a year. Outside Japan, 6 out of 13 audit sponsors expected savings of at least two million Japanese yen (USD $19,104) annually.
To assess the feasibility and usefulness of remote auditing, an observational study was conducted at hospitals that accepted remote audits, and one research group including members of the University of Tokyo and Nippon Medical School assessed these elements in a series of verification experiments using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools. As shown in the audit plans (Figure 1), verification experiments of remote auditing were conducted at two clinical investigator sites using a combination of smart glass, smartphone, and tablet (Figure 2).
The clinical investigator site and the auditor site were connected online, and audit procedures were executed without visiting the site. An on-site agent was assigned and trained by the audit sponsor to show trial-related documents and data to the ICT tools to avoid disruption in the daily operations of trial staff at the site. A surveillance camera was used at the audited site to monitor the auditor's every move, demonstrating the importance of information security management by enabling the clinical investigator site to constantly watch the auditor.
Audit No. 01
Date of audit: 08 Sep 2020 and 10 Sep 2020
Title: A randomized controlled trial of best supportive care (BSC) versus photodynamic therapy with ME2906 and PNL6405PLC for patients with peripheral lung cancer
Principal investigator: Jtsuo Usuda
Location: Nippon Medical School Hospital
Date of audit: 17 Sep 2020
Title: Hybrid virtual clinical research in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Principal investigator: Hirotaka Nagashima
Location: Tokyo Center Clinic
Principal Investigator oversight
Informed consent process
Source data verification
IRB approvals and communications
Investigational product handling
Safety reporting
Investigator Site File
Monitoring and Facility
Figure 1. Audit plans.
Figure 2. Combination of devices for remote auditing. These symbols describe the usefulness of each device within the remote-audit procedure in this table: Double circle = highly recommended; single circle = recommended; triangle = likely; cross = not suitable.
As described in the referenced study, we applied the remote-audit model to all audit procedures (document review, data review, interview, and facility tour). Several ICT tools (smart glass, smartphone, tablet, PC) were adopted by the auditor, on-site agents, and auditees during the verification experiments. The user's preferred combination of ICT tools differed depending upon the audit activity being conducted.
The data-review audit process must emphasize security first. On the other hand, convenience for both facility inspections and clinical investigator interviews is also of great value. We evaluated the usefulness of each ICT tool with respect for each activity.
Figure 3. Use of ICTs for data review.
On the basis of these two studies, it can be concluded that the remote-audit approach will have a direct impact on study cost, delivery (time), travel-related risk, and more. We believe this success comes from the strategic approach of this model based on the identified concerns about remote audits and incorporating appropriate measures as a response. The biggest challenge will be identifying and assigning appropriate on-site agents in the clinical sites. In the case of clinical trials sponsored by a pharmaceutical company, it could be relatively easy to solve this problem by assigning the Clinical Research Associate (CRA) to deal with that role along with their routine monitoring activity. But for investigator-initiated clinical trials or clinical research, each case should be considered individually.
Questions linger about the reasons for the low COVID-19 morbidity in Japan. Is there any evidence that countries with wide use of the BCG (bacillus Calmette-Guerin) vaccine are less subject to severe COVID-19 outcomes or spread? Studies examining any correlation are difficult because so many elderly Japanese have by now received both BCG and COVID-19 vaccinations. Discussion during the webinar also ranged from the curiosity of low morbidity and mortality of COVID-19 in Japan to the impact of society on medical practice.
The author thanks the chairs, speakers, and presenters for the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan: Facts and Expectations webinar organized by IFAPP, IFAPP Academy, and JAPhMed, and endorsed by DIA Japan, on which this article is based: Stewart Geary (Eisai Co., Ltd.), Kyoko Imamura (University of Tokyo), Kazuya Iwamoto (President, JAPhMed), Kotone Matsuyama (Nippon Medical School), Marco Romano (President, IFAPP), Atsushi Tsukamoto (Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.), and Naoki Tsutsumi (University of Tokyo).
The International Federation of Associations of Pharmaceutical Physicians and Pharmaceutical Medicine (IFAPP) was established in 1975. The mission of IFAPP is to promote Pharmaceutical Medicine by enhancing the knowledge, expertise, and skills of pharmaceutical physicians and other professionals.
The Japanese Association of Pharmaceutical Medicine (JAPhMed), a national member association of IFAPP, has more than 50 years of history in developing pharmaceutical medicine in Japan and has over 200 members, mainly from the pharmaceutical industries.
The author also serves as Director and Board-Certified Member of JAPhMed, and as Secretary, IFAPP.

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Tot ce vreau, Isuse, ești doar Tu!
Mila Ta întrece orice înțeles.
More Precious than Silver Lord, You are more precious than silver. Lord, You are more costly than gold. Lord, You are more beautiful than diamonds, And nothing I desire compares to You. Lord, Your Love is higher than mountains. Lord, Your Love is deeper than seas. Lord, Your Love encompasses the nations, And yet, You live right here inside of me! Who can weigh the value of knowing You? Who can judge the worth of who You are? Who can count the blessings of loving You? Who can say just how great You are? Lord, You are more precious than silver. Lord, You are more costly than gold. Lord, You are more beautiful than diamonds, And nothing I desire compares to You. And nothing I desire compares to You.


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sys.path.append('../')

from tornado import ioloop
from example_utils import log_initialize

from torpc import RPCClient

if __name__ == '__main__':
    log_initialize()

    rc = RPCClient(('127.0.0.1', 5000), 'client1')

    @rc.service.register()
    def ping():
        return 'pong from rpc client1'

    io_loop = ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()

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Click here to see how to pronounce ALL of the sounds! We have now taught your children ALL of the set 1 sounds. Here is a link to the parent section of the RWInc Website that shows a little girl modelling all of the sunds for you from set 1 to set 3! Enjoy and keep practising at home.
Here is Maisie showing us how to do the next 5 sounds.
Notice that this week we learnt that sometimes 2 letters together make one sound. They are special friends so the 's' and 'h' together make a 'sh' sound!!
Here is Brodie showing us how to say the next 5 sounds!
Here is Jacob modelling how to say the next 5 sounds we learnt!
Here is Aiva modelling how to say the first 5 sounds we learnt!


Once you are logged into VIVO, you will notice in the upper right hand portion of the page links to "Index" and "Site Admin", alongside a drop-down menu with your name on it, and containing links to "My account" and "Log out".
Once you have logged into VIVO, clicking on the "Site Admin" link takes you to the "Site Administration" page. As an administrator, you will be able to access all five feature and content areas of VIVO: Data Input, Ontology Editor, Site Configuration, Advanced Data Tools, and Site Maintenance. Each is introduced below.
There are three ways to manually input data into VIVO. 1) on the Site Administration Menu, a new individual of any class may be added directly through the Data Input menu. 2) Selections can be made on many of the pages to add individuals. For example, on user profile pages, users with editing privileges can add, change and remove data. 3) Data can be added as a batch, a collection of RDF triples in a format known to VIVO and expressed in the ontologies known to VIVO.
In VIVO, information is identified by references to Unique Resource Identifiers (URIs). URIs can be used by other web pages and applications to locate and retrieve specific chunks of data. The detailed level to which VIVO captures information enables complex relationships among data to be represented.
The VIVO web application is built using RDF "triples" or statements consisting of a subject (known as an individual, item, or entity), a predicate (an object property or a data property) and an object (any individual in VIVO). Subject-predicate-object triples express the relationships among the individuals in VIVO via object properties and support attributes of individuals via data properties.
The first two parts (subject and predicate) of every triple are URIs. An object property triple has the URI of another individual in VIVO its object, while the third element of a data property triple is a data value – typically a text string, number, or date.
Ontology List - VIVO supports keeping an internal list of ontology namespaces and corresponding prefixes to facilitate using external ontologies as well as to help differentiate local ontology additions from VIVO core.
Individuals in VIVO are typed as members of one or more classes organized and displayed as a hierarchy.
Class hierarchy - The class hierarchy provides a framework to help identify the different types of individuals modeled in a VIVO application. In the Class Hierarchy page, you can edit/add classes, add entities to a class, and add auto links.
Class groups - Class groups are a VIVO-specific extension to support using VIVO as a public website as well as an ontology and content editor. Class groups are a means to organize the classes in VIVO into groups. They represent the facets seen when VIVO is searched (people, activities, events, organizations, etc).
If classes define what each individual in VIVO is, properties define how that individual relates to other individuals and allow an individual to have attributes of its own. VIVO has two property editors, one for object properties and another for data properties.
Object property hierarchy - Object properties represent the relationship between entities (also known as items or individuals) in VIVO. Object properties can be created and edited from the Object Property Hierarchy.
Data property hierarchy - A data property connects a single subject individual (e.g., a Person or Event) with some form of attribute data. Data properties can be created and edited from the Data property hierarchy link.
Faux property listing - Faux properties are a VIVO-specific extension to allow the same object property to be used in various contexts, with a context specific label and context specific domain and range. A listing of the faux properties in VIVO. You can display the list alphabetically, or organized by base property. The Site Administration page provides a simple view-only listing. See Create and edit faux properties to manage faux properties.
Property groups - Like class groups, property groups are a VIVO-specific extension to support using VIVO as a public website as well as an ontology and content editor.
This section discusses the site configuration aspects of VIVO. It enables administrators to add or adjust to their institution's site specific details, as well as to manage menus, tabs, and user accounts.
Manage profile editing – Assign profile editors to individual profiles. Use this feature to allow someone other than the profile owner to edit the owner's profile.
The Site information link provides administrators with the capabilities of editing and adding site specific details for that institution's instance of VIVO.
Site Name — Text entered here will be displayed in the browser title bar and bookmark label. It is set to "VIVO" by default.
Contact email address — This field is the email address or listserv that you want the Contact Us form to use. The SMTP host in your configuration file (runtime.properties) must be set for the Contact Us form to work as intended.
Theme — The default theme is "wilma". If you create a new theme (see Creating a custom theme), then it should be available to choose in this drop-down pick list.
Copyright text — Text entered here for a label in the footer for the copyright URL.
Copyright URL — The URL you want the copyright to go to in the footer. It could be your institution's copyright information or the actual institution.
The Advanced tools are VIVO's built-in features for data management and export. Please refer to the Advanced Tools section below for detailed instructions.
In addition, many VIVO adopters may require additional information regarding the importing and exporting of RDF data and creating SPARQL queries.
There are several avenues available to acquire guidance with these advanced tools. Information sources such as the VIVO Data Ingest Guide, the W3C's Resource Description Framework model, and the W3C's SPARQL Query Language for RDF, to name a few. Please refer to Appendix A for links and additional resources.
Add/Remove RDF data – This tool allows for the manipulation of RDF data in the main model through importing RDF documents for addition or removal.
Ingest tools – A suite of data management tools. See below for a description of each tool.
Export a specific ontology such as FOAF, VIVO core, SKOS, etc.
SPARQL query - This tool allows SPARQL select, construct, and describe statements against the main model to be saved in a variety of formats including: CSV, RDF/XML, N3 and more.
Manage Jena Models – This tool allows for the management of the main webapp, as well as separate data models and datasets. The ability to attach separate models to the webapp, load RDF data to a mode, clear statements, and output models as N3 RDF is performed here.
Subtract One Model from Another — This tool allows for the comparison of models for updating information that already exists in VIVO. By subtraction of a current model from a newly constructed model (from the same data source) and vice versa, the additions and subtractions for updating the data are generated.
Execute SPARQL CONSTRUCT — This tool allows for using SPARQL to produce desired RDF from one or multiple source models. This tool is commonly used to map classes and properties to VIVO namespace(s).
Generate Tbox — Tbox statements describe the terms of controlled vocabularies, for example, a set of classes and properties that constitute the ontology. This tool allows for the creation of a Tbox from one or multiple source models.
Name Blank Nodes — This action turns blank nodes, a node in an RDF graph which is not identified by a URI and is not a literal, into nodes with either randomly generated or pattern based URIs.
Smush Resources — This tool allows for using a compression method to distinguish like entities and "Smush" them together based on the specified URI of a property.
Merge Resources — This tool allows two individuals with different URIs to be collapsed into a single URI. Any statements using the "duplicate individual URI" will be rewritten using the "primary individual URI." If there are multiple statements for a property that can have only a single value, the extra statements will be retracted from the model and offered for download.
Process Property Value Strings — This tool allows for an arbitrary method on a Java class available on the application class path to transform string values of a given property. The method should take a single String as a parameter and return a String.
Change Namespace of Resources — This tool will change all resources in the supplied "old namespace" to be in the "new namespace." Additionally, the local names will be updated to follow the established "n" + random integer naming convention.
Split Property Value Strings into Multiple Property Values — This tool allows for parsing multiple property values from a single ingested string. This can be used to parse MeSH Terms, controlled vocabulary, and keywords associated with the ingested data.
Execute Workflow — This tool allows for a simple way of scripting actions (specified in RDF) that would otherwise require manual interaction with the ingest tools.
Rebuild visualization cache – Large-scale visualizations like the Temporal Graph or the Map of Science involve calculating total counts of publications or of grants for some entity. Since this means checking also through all of its sub-entities, the underlying queries can be both memory-intensive and time-consuming. For a faster user experience, we wish to save the results of these queries for later re-use. To this end we have devised a caching solution which will retain information about the hierarchy of organizations-namely, which publications are attributed to which organizations-by storing the RDF model. We're currently caching these models in memory. The cache is built (only once) on the first user request after a server restart. Because of this, the same model will be served until the next restart. This means that the data in these models may become stale depending upon when it was last created. To avoid restarting the server in order to refresh the cache, administrators can use the Rebuild visualization cache link.
Startup status – shows the messages that were produced during VIVO startup.


From the rehearsal room of Ngozi Anyanwu's NIKE. The New Black Fest at The Lark 2017.
It can be easy to get discouraged. Life is troubling and all too often in the most personal of ways. It can be hard to find answers to some of the biggest questions life poses and even harder to face the helplessness that results. However, I find there are moments of respite. Times when the writing of others breathes hope into the chasm. Reading their words connects me not only to my heart, but to my resilience. It is then that I know the power of writing is the ability to give life to someone else. In these incandescent moments I am sustained, buoyed by the light that is shared with me and encouraged again to keep moving, to challenge the forces which threaten to topple everything. Below are some words from artists of color, writers whose own journeys have surmounted the obstacles and found their way into infinity. I hope they will be of service to you now, whatever your course may be.
This article also appeared in the June edition of Lark's Monthly Newsletter, "A Bird's Eye View." To get more pieces like this straight to your inbox, sign up for The Lark's mailing list here!


Have you ever thought about what it'd be like to travel the country without GPS?
It seems like in the past few years I, and everyone I know, are completely dependent on GPS to get anywhere. I'm going to be the first to admit the advances we've seen in technology in the past 20-30 years are astounding.
It's incredible a little device no bigger than my hand can help me navigate just about anywhere on the globe.
But here's the thing about GPS.
It relies on electricity and satellites, two things which you're going to be hard-pressed to have ready access to in a survival situation.
That's why if you're ever without GPS it's going to be essential you can still navigate so you can get yourself to safety.
There are a few rules you can follow that'll make it easy to get un-lost…even if you don't have a map or a compass.
The next few tips i'm going to offer are assuming somehow you're out in the wilderness and don't have access to a map, a compass, or a GPS.
While it's highly unlikely this will ever happen these concepts are valuable beyond belief.
Plants are going to be some of your best friends if you're ever lost.
By observing how and where plants grow you can quickly determine which direction you're headed.
One of the most common words of wisdom is to look for moss growth on trees and rocks. Because moss thrives in cool, damp environments it doesn't grow in direct sunlight.
This doesn't mean the old saying about moss on the north side of trees etc. is accurate. It's actually not.
You can also look to see where flowering plants are growing in great amounts.
Plants like this are going to seek out the sun's powerful rays and will be in abundance in areas exposed to the sun's light. That means if you can see significant collections of flowering plants (and even see which way they're stretching) you now have a sense of direction.
In all reality a river is going to be one of your best friends when it comes to safely exiting a dangerous situation.
That's because they are a source of water, potential food, and many of them flow back to civilization.
Despite what you might have heard about the direction rivers flow there really isn't a uniform statement we can make about all rivers and their movement.
Some will flow north, then south, then east and west. You really can't confidently say the river or stream "always" moves in one way.
Again the reason you'll want to follow it is because your chances of being led to civilization while traveling alongside it are high.
The weather can tell you a lot about where you are.
In particular moisture patterns can help you determine northern and southern facing slopes, which could be crucial for escaping a crisis.
If you're in the northern hemisphere the north-face of a slope is going to be exposed to less sunlight and are therefore cooler and damper than the opposite side.
If you're in high elevation this means the northern side of a slope could still have snow deposits.
Likewise in the winter the snow is going to be deeper and stick around longer on vegetation than on the south side.
This is an ancient way for determining direction every single person should know.
As you know the sun follows a routine of rising in the east and setting in the west.
Though it's not a true east and west, the thing we can count on is the sun's movement no matter the time of the year is always going to be consistent.
The way you can use the sun to give you a precise sense of direction in the northern hemisphere is by understanding the sun's always going to move in a way where shadows move clockwise. The opposite will be true in the southern hemisphere.
Step 2. Wait 10 to 15 minutes until the shadow tip moves a few centimeters. Mark the shadow tip's new position in the same way as the first.
A few notes about what you learned.
I strongly suggest before you ever venture out into the wilderness you study the area you're going to before you set out on your adventure.
Pay attention to landmarks beforehand so you can use them later if you ever get lost.
Now this might not seem like a necessary thing to focus on, but let me remind you of something.
If an EMP were to strike, or another significant disaster were to hit the odds you're GPS will work are slim.
That means if you want to make a quick exit from a city you'll want to know how exactly that can be done.
Could you imagine what would happen if you were in a city you're unfamiliar with when an emergency situation crops up? As hundreds of thousands of people spill out into the streets would you know the easiest ways to get your bearings so you can flee?
It's actually pretty easy, take a look.
Our nation was founded by people who took their devotion to God seriously.
And a lot of that devotion is borne out in the buildings they built for worship.
In many of the larger and older cities here in the U.S. churches have actually been designed so they face east. Thats because they wanted the facade of the building as well as the main altar to be pointed towards the rising sun.
Same thing's true of Christian graveyards. Many of the gravestones have been laid so they have an east to west orientation as well.
It's not just Christian churches that do this.
Mosques are also built with direction in mind as adherents to Islam have to pray towards Mecca which is east of America.
To use a mosque to find direction you'll want to go inside and then find one of the prayer niches. Depending on where you are in the world the way the niche points tells you direction.
West of Mecca means the niche points east and east of Mecca means it points west.
And the same is true of synagogues. Here the Torah Ark will be on the eastern end of the building if the synagogue is west of Jerusalem and the opposite will be true if the building is west of Jerusalem.
You see them all the time, mounted on the roofs of houses and apartments.
Turns out satellite dishes are actually a great tool to use for instant direction finding.
This is because the satellites are oriented in a south-eastern direction so they're able to receive the signal from the satellite high above the Earth's surface.
That means as you travel through an area in a densely populated area you can survey the direction multiple satellite dishes and determine the way you need to go.
This tip is one many people don't think about.
Here's why it's such a good idea to pay attention to buildings and their wear patterns.
At the end of the day knowing these tips and techniques serve as a great fallback if GPS services are ever unreachable.
In all honesty I highly suggest a compass and a map as tools to have in your bug out bag.
One of my favorite compasses is contained in this unique 5-in-1 tool.
It's incredibly affordable and could easily help you out of a jam.
Click here or on the image below to see everything it does.
This entry was posted in Bushcraft, Emergency Survival, SHTF on October 13, 2015 by Survival Frog.


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DECEMBER 2019: "Vetaal and Vikram: Riddles of the Undead is exemplary, in my opinion, because it is a retelling of a history of literature, blurring the edges between postmodern writing and the tradition of oral storytelling." – Michael Varghese in Asiaville News.
https://www.asiavillenews.com/article/writing-a-retelling-a-review-of-vetaal-and-vikram-riddles-of-the-undead-24703
DECEMBER 2019: "[Vetaal and Vikram]…stories that talk about love, lust, adultery and has a very liberal view about same-sex relationships…a fresh way of presenting folklore" – Anamika Nandekar in Sakaal Times:
https://www.sakaltimes.com/art-culture/are-you-clever-vikram-crack-riddle-then-43938
NOVEMBER 2019: 'To Write Means to be Vulnerable' — Interview by Archana Pai Kulkarni in She The People:
http://www.shethepeople.tv/books/author-gayathri-prabhu-vetaal-vikram-book
JANUARY 2019: 'Love Letters to My Younger Self' – Interview and feature in The Hindu by Sweta Akundi:
https://www.thehindu.com/lit-for-life/author-gayathri-prabhu-on-complexities-of-mental-health-issues-identity-and-the-craft-of-writing-a-memoir/article25959417.ece
JANUARY 2019: Received the RK Narayan Award from the Booksellers and Publishers Association of South India at the Chennai Book Fair 2019.
DECEMBER 2018: THE UNTITLED IS SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUSHILA DEVI LITERATURE AWARD FOR 'THE BEST BOOK OF FICTION WRITTEN BY A WOMAN WRITER'. BHOPAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL. JANUARY 2019
https://m.dailyhunt.in/news/india/english/millennium+post-epaper-millpost/shortlist+for+sushila+devi+literature+award+announced-newsid-102980904
OCTOBER 2018: IF I HAD TO TELL IT AGAIN IS LONGLISTED FOR THE ATTA GALATTA – BANGALORE LITERATURE FESTIVAL PRIZE, 2018
REVIEWS of If I Had to Tell It Again
Scroll: "This deeply personal and unconventional memoir about depression, loss and abuse reinvents the form….[it] shows us how many such stories must be out there and need to see the light of day." – Apoorva Sripathi: https://scroll.in/article/868002/this-deeply-personal-and-unconventional-memoir-about-depression-loss-and-abuse-reinvents-the-form
The Wire: "If I Had to Tell it Again is a beautifully written, highly wrought and deeply emotional book. It is a daring and brave challenge to our preconceptions both about writing and about depression" – Madhavi Menon: https://thewire.in/210801/if-i-had-to-tell-it-again-gayathri-prabhu/
First Post: "The book had me wincing, frequently. I had to put it away twice before I could go back to it and yet, I cannot recommend it enough. It is perhaps exactly why I would recommend it. It needs to be read." – Krupa Ge: http://www.firstpost.com/living/gayathri-prabhus-if-i-had-to-tell-it-again-narrates-a-story-of-extraordinary-suffering-and-love-4288753.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true
Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME): "If I had to tell it again pushes its reader to ask fundamental questions about parenting, how mentally ill individuals relate to each other and to the larger world, and the human ability to hurt, nurture, love and forgive." – Rohini Shukla: ijme.in/articles/love-remember-and-write-against-all-odds/?galley=html
Scroll: "Gayathri Prabhu's memoir of unconventional grieving in the wake of an alcoholic parent's demise is a book unlike any other we have seen in India." – Urvashi Bahuguna: https://scroll.in/article/865658/when-you-write-about-a-dead-person-you-loved-you-must-tell-their-version-too
Research and Humanities in Medical Education: "This book is a must-read for all, irrespective of profession and age group" – Trveen Dhillon: https://www.rhime.in/ojs/index.php?journal=rhime&page=issue&op=view&path%5B%5D=10
The News Minute: "The tone and manner of writing is very threadbare and light but each word is heavy with emotion." Sandeep Narayanan: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/if-i-had-tell-it-again-review-memoir-difficult-relationships-and-depression-83106
Indian Express: "[the memoir]shatters this silence [about families] with an intimate examination of the relationship between the author and her late father […] for this reason alone, this book deserves to be read" – Ram Sarangan: Shelf life: Dark Days
The Shrinking Couch: "I would recommend reading it to borrow courage" – Nivida Chandra: http://theshrinkingcouch.com/if-i-had-to-tell-it-again-re-viewing-a-life/
Deccan Chronicle and Asian Age:" I did not want to sound like a martyr, a victim, or a warrior " https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/books-and-art/190118/a-grieving-space.html
http://www.asianage.com/books/170118/a-grieving-space.html
Arundhathi Subramaniam, Poet: [a] book I particularly enjoyed for its mix of candour, poise and urgency in a fiercely loving portrait of a parent.": https://scroll.in/article/863196/expect-the-unexpected-a-reading-list-from-the-year-gone-by-from-poets
Easterine Kire, author: "This book is so incisive, she writes it so beautifully that one should take it only in small doses."
Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal: "…unique in the literary landscape of India for the range of themes it encompasses and its sheer formal inventiveness in the form of a one-act play embedded at the heart of the text" – Amala Poli: https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/2018/12/07/reconciling-grief-and-unfinished-conversations-a-reflection-on-if-i-had-to-tell-it-again
REVIEWS of The Untitled
The Wire: "Here at last is an Indian historical novel that resists the temptation to be intimate with the monumental, using instead the lives of obscure (and imaginary) characters to tell the story of Tipu Sultan's Mysore." – Prashant Keshavmurthy : https://thewire.in/books/gayathri-prabhu-tipu-historical-fiction
Huffington Post: "Gayathri Prabhu's prose is supple and sublime. Her excellent command over the language and thorough research shine through the book. She evokes the details of the past with such brilliance that the era comes alive in your imagination." – Yash Raj Goswami: www.huffingtonpost.in/yash-raj-goswami/gayathri-prabhus-the-untitled-is-an-artful-take-on-tipu-sulta_a_21720820/
The Hindu: " The Untitled is a book that harks back to the novels of the 20th century, an era when literary enterprises comfortably contained orphans, fortune-seeking travellers, spies, political intrigue, love and betrayal, all jostling for space in a single narrative. Gayathri Prabhu stitches these elements together with a politics that is sympathetic, as the title obliquely conveys, to those whom typical histories would leave out." – Thomas Manuel.: http://www.thehindu.com/books/literary-review/Unlearnt-history-lessons/article16072232.ece
Simplicity: "unputdownable" and "an entirely new approach to the [Tipu Sultan] story and it shows the mutifacted Tipu at close quarters." – Rajesh Govindarajulu: https://simplicity.in/articledetail.php?aid=968
BLOG REVIEWS of If I Had to Tell It Again
Harini Calmur: "What surprised me most was the honesty with which Prabhu can talk about issues, most people won't be talking about." http://calamur.org/gargi/2017/12/25/book-review-if-i-had-to-tell-it-again/
Mithila Reviews Books: "one of the best books I have read this year" https://mithilareviewsbooks.wordpress.com/2017/12/14/if-i-had-to-tell-it-again-by-gayathri-prabhu-bookreview/
The Bookish Bulletin: "Gayathri Prabhu takes language where it hesitates to go" https://thebookishbulletin.wordpress.com/2017/12/25/in-if-i-had-to-tell-it-again-author-gayathri-prabhu-takes-language-where-it-hesitates-to-go/
Stuti Ashok Gupta: "Every word, every sentence of this book is extremely literary, you pick up from anywhere and you'd feel like you are reading a poem": http://www.stutiashokgupta.com/2018/01/18/book-review-gayathri-prabhu-if-i-had-to-tell-it-again/
Dusky Moonlight: "a series of life-events narrated to make the readers understand the importance of sharing, talking, lending a helping hand, and believing" :https://duskymoonlight.wordpress.com/2017/12/11/is-empathy-too-much-to-ask-for-my-thoughts-on-if-i-had-to-tell-it-again-by-gayathri-prabhu/
Times of Gee: "Read this book to learn strength and patience ; to understand that it's important to acknowledge and accept ; and learn how to fail" : https://timesofgee.com/2017/12/27/i-taught-you-to-succeed-i-goaded-you-but-when-things-went-wrong-i-did-not-teach-you-to-fail-my-thoughts-on-if-i-had-to-tell-it-again-by-gayathri-prabhu-a-spoiler-free-book-review/amp/
Reviewing Shelf: Flowing over the page, unbidden, unstoppable, like a river in motion" https://reviewingshelf.wordpress.com/2017/12/18/if-i-had-to-tell-it-again-by-gayathri-prabhu
Privy Tirfles: "This book is the guiding light that will help you sail through the most difficult phases with its sheer radiance." : http://www.privytrifles.co.in/2018/01/book-review-if-i-had-to-tell-it-again.html
Monica Kamath: "It is a slice of life which will resonate with millions of readers. " http://monicakamath.blogspot.in/2017/12/memorabilia-this-winter-season.html?m=0
The Book Collector 32: "Being a first born to a volatile father I could easily identify with many situations": https://thebookcollector32.wordpress.com/2018/01/27/bookreview-if-i-had-to-tell-it-again-by-gayathriprabhu-bookbloggermemoir/
The Ink Spiller: "A father-daughter relationship will always have more love than words but here the words nor the love was enough to mend it" : http://theinkspiller.com/tell-gayathri-prabhu/
Vidya Thakkar: "This book teaches you to get through the pain with some beautifully described situations." http://www.vidhyathakkar.com/book-reviewif-i-had-to-tell-it-again-by-gayatri-prabhu/
Sunanda Pati: "Here was an account that sought closure and exploration in the same breath": https://methodicallymadme.blogspot.com/2018/11/and-i-remain-eavesdropper-to-dead.html#more
Sid Book Reviewer, author interview: "Writing gives form, makes everything bearable" : https://sidbookreviewer.wordpress.com/2017/12/23/author-interview-gayathri-prabhu/
http://www.womensweb.in/2018/01/writing-a-memoir-power-of-a-story-womenonthemove-jan18wk2/
http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31806&articlexml=SHELF-ESTEEM-I-need-to-read-more-books-08102016010014&Mode=1
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This lecture formed part of Architecture on Stage, a programme of talks and debates curated by The Architecture Foundation in partnership with the Barbican Centre.
Lord Foster, the founding director of Foster+Partners, addresses the challenges of urbanisation and sustainability, looking at how a philosophy of 'doing more with less' can help generate design solutions. Using examples from around the world he discusses the nature of innovation and the power of advocacy.
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Karim Khelil of gives a 5-minute lecture on the sun, gravitational waves and maintaining a galactic perspective
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Jane Hall gives a 5-minute lecture on protesting through party, from Assemble's gatherings to carnival in Rio


A perfect day dress you'll be happy to have! The gorgeous material on the bust emulates our favorite styled wrap dress! Elegantly draping and framing, this dress is every girls best friend.
Take simple and turn it chic with a great statement necklace, jean jacket, and an easy pair of cork wedges!


To combine knowledge of computer activities.
Location: Toowoomba City Library, Multipurpose Room (top level); corner of Victoria St and Herries St.
The Toowoomba Apple And Macintosh User Group Inc.
Meetings are currently held in the "Multipurpose Meeting Room", on the upper level of the new Toowoomba City Library; at 7:00pm.
Undercover parking is available in the Library basement - the car-park door will be open until about 7:30pm. When leaving, the door (if closed) opens automatically. Entry will also be possible through the main doors, until about the same time.
We are a small group of users of Apple computers and devices, keen to improve our abilities by supporting and guiding one another, sharing ideas, knowledge and skills, in a happy, friendly environment.
Our members range from new users, to very experienced and skilful users, keen to assist, and learn from others.
We meet monthly (except January), having a special presentation on aspects of the use of Macintosh computers and iOS devices, other Apple devices, or on compatible equipment and accessories. The exact topics for this presentation are basically determined by members. Our emphasis is on having a good time with friends.
The Club has three basic aims: providing assistance, disseminating information and effectively combining our knowledge of computer activities.
We welcome all who are interested in Apple products. Come along and try one of our meetings.
in the Multi-Function Meeting Room on the 3rd floor of Toowoomba City Library.


Project Coolum is a collaboration of community representatives dedicated to advocating for the best possible outcomes for Coolum's residents and visitors. Our Role - • Identifies and promotes significant projects. • Provides Advocacy on key local/strategic issues. Your Project Coolum panel members are: Div 9 Cr Stephen Robinson, Bob Walpole - Coolum Residents Assoc, Don Knopke - Coolum Lions, Lee Goossens - Coolum High School, Mark Bizzell - Environment, Parks & Landscape Jenni Hatton - Coolum Library, Dragi Majstorovic - Coolum Cliffs Boardwalk Committee, Lance Seabrook - Coolum Sports Precinct, Young People Reference Group - Via Lee Goossens, Kim Anderson - Coolum Business and Tourism Assoc, Noel Mooney - Coolum Business and Tourism Assoc. Take your concerns or ideas for your local community or sports group for consideration by Project Coolum. Staff / Regular Volunteers: Currently 1-20 members / staff. We reach: Currently over 1000 people We specifically work with: Anyone, Adults, Men, Women Residents of the Coolum Beach area.


I really wish Chanel would stop tempting me with such beautiful colors already. Really, Chanel. STOP IT RIGHT NOW. Okay, don't. Because with the introduction of Chanel Tenderly from the Spring 2015 Reverie Parisienne Collection, there's just one more I HAD to add to my collection.
This collection is inspired by the springtime gardens of Paris. I can say from my personal experience of spending an afternoon in the Jardin de Tuileries that Tenderly, which is described as purple rosewood, would fit right in. This color is a rich, deep mauve that, to me, acts as a neutral. I actually think it's fairly similar to the color I chose last week, China Glaze Release -- I guess I am in a deep mauve kind of mood right now.
I will say that I chose to wear Tenderly this week for a fairly somber reason. My dear grandmother (whom I called Bubby) passed away on Friday at the age of 88. Her funeral was yesterday. I wanted to wear a color that wasn't ostentatious but wasn't a pale pink, and I thought this was a color my Bubby would have liked. She always loved lilacs, and this color makes me think of them.
This is definitely a color I will wear for years to come. It's one of those shades I couldn't help but purchase!
What's on your nails right now? Let me know in the comments.
This is one of my favorite shades!
Beautiful shade that similar to one of my Zoya color, maybe Odette?
The name fits the shade so well! Chanel always releases beautiful shades.
This is such a gorgeous muted shade on you!
Oh wow - I have to get my hands on this!
What a beautiful all-year-round mauve! It can be worn to work or on nights out.
This is such an adorable everyday shade.
Gorgeous shade! I love the combo of mauve and grey tones.


Firestone Ride-Rite Suspension Air Compressor Kit - Dual Air Command(TM) II Heavy Duty Air Compressor System - Incl. Dual White Face Gauges - Pneumatic Sw. - HD Compr. - 1 / 2 Gal. Air Tank - Inflates Each Spring Indiv.
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Firestone Ride-Rite Suspension Air Compressor Kit - Dual Air Command(TM) III Heavy Duty Air Compressor System - Incl. Dual Wh. Face Ga. - Pneumatic Sw. - Super HD Compr. - 1 Gal. Air Tank - Inflates Each Spring Indiv.
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Bruce Bell/The Intelligencer Cabinet Leaders reveal the target for the United Way of Hastings & Prince Edward 2018 campaign at Kindness Court on Thursday morning. Pictured (from left) are: Tim Bannon, Carl Bowker, Rick Phillips, Carmela Ruberto, Gunther, Kim Egan, Major Tanya Tebbutt, Ross McDougall, Danny Nickle, Liz Knuude and United Way executive director Kathy Murphy.
United Way Hastings and Prince Edward officials are hoping Local Love will help reach its 2018 campaign goal of $2 million.
The organization announced its 2018 goal at Kindness Court in the Quinte Mall Thursday morning and executive director Kathy Murphy said United Way officials are confident the 60th anniversary campaign, dubbed Local Love, will be able to return to a $2 million goal.
United Way HPE currently supports 36 partner agencies offering more than 70 programs in the community.
One of those agencies is Belleville-based Continuing on in Education (COED), a community-based day program that promotes independence and inclusion to adults with disabilities.
Mary Hartling, a board member with COED, told the crowd the story of her sister Janet Johnston, a 42-year-old Belleville women with Down's Syndrome. She said United Way's funding of the agency helps her sister carry out her daily activities.
"She is 42-years-old and went to school here in Belleville in the public system," she said. (Janet) volunteers here in the community with the Cancer Society, Habitat for Humanity ReStore, Firefighters' Toy Drive and the Good Food Box.
"She has a best friend, Amy… she went to the Blue Jays game this summer, she went on a cruise, visited the casino, loves coming to the mall. She has a sunny smile, a great sense of humour, is very helpful and nice — when she's not tired. She sounds like anyone of us here in this room. But there is a difference. Janet was born with Down syndrome and she deals everyday with an intellectual disabilty.
Murphy said this year's theme, Local Love, is a perfect fit for the United Way.
Murphy said local businesses and organizations are already planning events to raise funds for the campaign.
"Yesterday we were at Union Gas, they were holding a big barbecue and at the end of September there is a Community Day at 8 Wing — we've got six or eight activities happening at 8 Wing, Proctor and Gamble and the City of Belleville," she explained. "We've got about $400,000 worth of programs we support in Prince Edward County, but we have to increase our presence there a little more.
Murphy said payroll deductions still account for approximately 70 per cent of the contributions.
"That's donations by employees, but many companies like GH Manufacturing, Proctor and Gamble, McDougall Insurance — there are so many that match employee donation and that's the corporate gift, so workplace campaign is the bread and butter.


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UA College of Medicine-Phoenix
UA Study Finds Improved CPR Quality Saves Lives
Results suggest that training emphasizing a team approach along with a novel CPR device, which provides real-time audiovisual feedback, significantly improves not only CPR quality but neurologically intact survival as well.
Eric Swedlund
A video of the CPR protocol is online.
Life-saving CPR has been a foundation of emergency medicine for more than a half century.
But researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix are continuing to refine the procedure, with a new study concluding that improving the quality and effectiveness of CPR can have a dramatic impact on survival from a cardiac arrest.
Consider it CPR 2.0, says Dr. Bentley Bobrow, a professor of emergency medicine at Maricopa Medical Center and the UA College of Medicine-Phoenix.
"It's not about doing CPR; it's really about doing CPR right," Bobrow says.
Bobrow and colleagues analyzed the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation performed by emergency rescuers outside the hospital setting and found that training that emphasizes a team approach along with a novel CPR device, which provided real-time audiovisual feedback (Zoll Medical), significantly improved not only CPR quality but neurologically intact survival as well.
During the study period, 56 percent of cardiac arrest victims survived to hospital discharge compared with 26 percent before the intervention.
The study's message: Life-saving CPR must be performed correctly to be most effective, says Bobrow, also medical director of the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and Trauma System at the Arizona Department of Health Services.
"The total time that CPR is being done, the proper depth of compressions, the proper rate of compressions and minimizing pauses are all important components of CPR quality that we believe strongly influence survival," Bobrow says.
The study used scenario-based training, practicing in teams during a simulation. The two keys are measuring CPR quality in real-time, second by second, with a specialized monitor that provides feedback to the rescuers on the precise rate and depth of compressions and chest recoil of the patient.
They also emphasized a "pit crew" team approach in which each emergency responder had a specific role to perform in the resuscitation. The 18-month study focused on cardiac resuscitation done by the Mesa Fire and Medical Department in Mesa, Ariz.
This study tested the hypothesis that we could dramatically improve our CPR quality with a combination of specific training, real-time feedback and giving the providers debriefing.
Dr. Daniel Spaite, Endowed Professor of Emergency Medicine and director of the Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center at the UA College of Medicine-Phoenix and co-author of the study said, "We're amazed at the incredibly high survival rates achieved in this study, and we are very optimistic that this is something that could dramatically improve cardiac arrest survival all around the country if it is widely implemented."
Since emergency responders typically encounter cardiac arrest patients in difficult conditions, performing CPR without feedback can lead to poor care. In the field, chest compressions tend to get more shallow after about 60 seconds and interruptions can be common.
"The reality is, even for trained rescuers, for lots of reasons it's really challenging to do CPR properly during a resuscitation. There's physical fatigue, you get tired much more quickly than you sense you get tired. It can be chaotic. There's a lot of psychological fatigue; there's lot of distraction during resuscitation," Spaite says.
The monitoring, feedback and team approach keeps the emergency responders focused on providing optimal resuscitative care until the patient can be transported to a hospital.
"We're going to continue to collect data and measure CPR quality as we now have several EMS agencies in Arizona following this best practice that we believe will eventually spread around the country. There will be more and more of a push for measuring CPR quality to ensure that it's as good as possible and provides the best chance of survival." Bobrow says.
"We believe that measuring and improving CPR quality has the potential to save tens of thousands of thousands of lives a year across the country."
Bobrow and Spaite also are members of the UA Sarver Heart Center Resuscitation Research Group, which produced a training video that is free for emergency response agencies.
A 20-year-old Dream Comes True
Citizen Scientists Investigate Environmental Hazards in the Home
People with ALS May Benefit From More Glucose


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The Bourne Legacy Blu-Ray Steelbook
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The Bourne Legacy introduces a brand new hero Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) - an agent on the run from destruction and on a journey to discover the truth, in life-or-death stakes created by events of the first three Bourne Films. Cross and Dr. Shearing (Rachel Weisz) fight to survive as CIA Ops, led by Eric Byer (Edward Norton) attempt to shut down their Operation and make everyone involved disappear for good.
The brains behind the previous films, Tony Gilroy, returns to take Bourne to the next level of this thrilling action series. An all-new cast is joined by veterans Albert Finney, Joan Allen, David Strathairn and Scott Glenn in The Bourne Legacy.
Actors: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton
Director: Tony Gilroy
Special Features: Re-Bourne, Enter Aaron Cross, Crossing Continents: Legacy on Location, Capturing Chaos: The Motorbike Chase, Man vs. Wolf, Deleted Scenes, Feature Commentary
Language: English, French, Latin American Spanish,
Subtitles: English SDH, Canadian French, Latin American Spanish


At the 8th lunch talks week, we are going to watch some talks about machine learning. My interest in Machine Learning is not much in how to build code using it but in seeing in what fields it can be used and taking ideas to develop super interesting features. The videos of the week have been selected so that they serve as an introduction and also to see the possibilities offered by Machine Learning. Maybe seeing some awesome applications that use Machine Learning will inspire us to get some cool ideas.
"TF Machine Learning for Programmers (TensorFlow @ O'Reilly AI Conference, San Francisco '18) (42 min)"
In this talk, Laurence Moroney from Google talks about Machine Learning, AI, Deep Learning and more, and how they fit the programmer's toolkit. He introduces what it's all about, cutting through the hype, to show the opportunities that are available in Machine Learning. He also introduces TensorFlow, and how it's a framework that's designed to make Machine Learning easy and accessible, and how intelligent apps that use ML can run in a variety of places including mobile, web and IoT.
Artificial intelligence affects more than just computer science. Join this session to hear a collection of short presentations from top machine learning researchers: the TensorFlow engineers working on robotics, and the Magenta team exploring the border between machine learning and art.
"Cassie Kozyrkov (Google) on Decision intelligence (ML++) | TNW Conference 2018"
What is machine learning? What is AI? It turns out that these words have multiple meanings... and when businesses don't know the differences, they run into a world of problems. We'll go back to basics and strip away the jargon to see what's really behind the magician's stand in simple analogies. Let's take a look at what's easy, what's hard, how to spot opportunities, and what you need to know to avoid the two biggest threats in AI. Along the way, we'll meet an emerging discipline that focuses on using machine learning and AI to improve your business: decision intelligence engineering!


Whether you build sailing scale warships, aircraft carriers, tugs, or speedboats etc. Discuss your models here. Anything RC goes..
R/C ...WHAT TYPE OF GLUE SHOULD BE USED???
What Would It Take To Build This Interior?
What do I start on RC Sailboat electronics wise?


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Q: Android: extending Application class. Why do we need to implement singleton pattern? I'd like to put my database connection object to Application class. I read some tutorials and everywhere I see explicit implementation of a singleton pattern. Something like this
public class MyApplication extends Application {
    private static MyApplication singleton;

    public static MyApplication getInstance(){
        return singleton;
    }
    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        singleton = this;
    }
}

My question is why do I need to do this explicit implementation? Nobody explains.
I'd like to add there some property, initialized in onCreate() and get it's value in activity.
myProp = (MyApplication)getApplicationContext().getMyProperty()

Is it really necessary to implement singleton pattern?

A: By default the application class is singleton..You are not have allowed to create application yourself.Android System will create this when the first time app is loaded into the memory.You are using singleton pattern here just to get Application object from anywhere within the application

A: An Application class is an access point to application context and generally it is used as a initializator for all application-scoped dependencies like your database object. This class is initialized only once per application and persists in memory until application is no longer in memory. So it is a natively created singleton.
By having such static access point to application you may have access to the application context in any class and in general case this context is much better for retrieving resources, system services etc. when you need such dependencies in your custom classes, because it doesn't hold a link to the activity and view so is a leak-safe. Of course in your example the Activity has an access to application, but you have to cast context anyway and better use same approach for a whole app.
Despite you may use it like a global access point to all application scoped and initialized dependencies, do not overload it with huge initialization logic, better create some other singletons for this purpose and just initialize it from Application class. In a big project consider using DI framework, Dagger the best one, for providing dependencies.

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Az RZSD TERA1 egy orosz dízelmozdony-sorozat. Összesen kettő épült belőle.

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1998-ban építettek két mozdonyt a Ljugyinovói Dízelmozdonygyárban, a TEM7 "szupernehéz tolatómozdony" 8 tengelyes járműszerkezeti részének felhasználásával, és a GM 16-710G3B dízelmotorjával (3060 kW). Hasonló GM motor került azután egy-egy remotorizált gépbe is, amelyeket az Októberi Vasúton (Szentpétervár), illetve Jakutföldön próbáltak ki.

A két TERA1-esnek 2000 környékén elindult a FÁK szabvány szerinti tanúsító eljárása, majd többször megszakadt, és valószínűleg nem is fejeződött be. A Ljugyinovói Dízelmozdonygyárat időközben felvásárolta az orosz Szinara cég, amely a TranszMasHolding mellett a második nagy vasútijármű-gyártó konzorciumként lépett elő az orosz piacon. Miután a TEM7a ráncfelvarrt változatát Ljugyinovóban ismét elkezdték gyártani, és kialakították a kisebb teljesítményű változatát, a TEM9-est, a TERA1 lekerült a napirendről.

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Orosz dízelmozdonyok


In many libraries, special collections is the name applied to materials housed in a separate unit with specialized security and user services. Though DCPL does not currently maintain a separate space for our special collection, we do house materials by and about DeKalb County and its citizens, DeKalb County governmental activities, and Georgia history and genealogy. You can learn more about some of DCPL's special collection here.
Recently Mental Floss Magazine compiled a list of fifteen of the most interesting library special collections from around the country. Some of my favorites include The Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University and the DC Punk Archive, a work in progress under the auspices of the D.C. Public Library that will focus on the Washington D.C. punk rock scene from 1976 to the present day.
What a fun post, Jesse! My favorites are that amazing collection of puzzles at Indiana University's Lilly Library and Barnard's Zine Library.


ABSTRACT DRAWING FROM SKILL ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT LITERATURE, WE PRESENT A NOVEL TACKLE SKILL TRAINING FRAMEWORK. THE FRAMEWORK OUTLINES THE TRAINING PURPOSE (TECHNIQUE PROFICIENCY, TECHNIQUE CAPACITY, SKILL PROFICIENCY, AND SKILL CAPACITY), SKILL WORKLOAD MEASUREMENTS (AVAILABLE INFORMATION, TASK DIFFICULTY, RATING OF PERCEIVED CHALLENGE, AND SKILL LOAD), AS WELL AS THE TRAINING CONDITIONS AND COACHING STYLE FOR THE TACKLE IN RUGBY UNION. USING THIS FRAMEWORK AND SKILL LOAD MEASUREMENTS, WE PROPOSE A PRESEASON TACKLE TRAINING PLAN. THIS TACKLE SKILL FRAMEWORK AND SKILL LOAD MEASUREMENTS SERVE AS POTENTIAL PREVENTIVE MEASURES FOR TACKLE INJURY RISK WHILE IMPROVING PLAYERS' TACKLE PERFORMANCE. FOR A VIDEO ABSTRACT OF THIS ARTICLE, SEE SUPPLEMENTAL DIGITAL CONTENT 1 SEE VIDEO, HTTP://LINKS.LWW.COM/SCJ/A243.
Address correspondence to Dr. Sharief Hendricks, sharief.hendricks01@gmail.com.
Sharief Hendricksis a Senior Researcher at the University of Cape Town and a National Research Foundation Rated Scientist.
Kevin Tillis a Reader in Athlete Development within the Sports Coaching group at Leeds Beckett University.
Jon L. Oliveris a Reader in Applied Paediatric Exercise Science within the Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Rich D. Johnstonis a Lecturer and Course Coordinator Master of High Performance Sport within the School of Exercise Science at Australian Catholic University.
Matthew Attwoodis a Lecturer within the Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
James Brownis a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Sport and Exercise Medicine, Stellenbosch University.
David Drakeis the Lead Strength and Conditioning Coach at the Ulster Rugby Academy, Irish Rugby Football Union.
Simon MacLeodworks as Sport Science & Data Analyst at Ulster Rugby.
Stephen D. Mellalieuis a Professor in Applied Sport Psychology in the Cardiff School of Sport at Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, where he is Associate Dean for Research.
Paul Treuis a Senior Coach at Western Province Rugby and Stormers.
Ben Jonesis a Professor of Sports Physiology and Performance at Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom.
Strength & Conditioning Journal40(5):44-59, October 2018.


Wondering what to make for that special someone tonight? Here is a great quick and easy recipe that's satisfying and healthy.
Clean chicken thighs of fat and skin and sprinkle both sides with some Chef's Shake Blend, some sea salt to taste, and of course some freshly ground pepper.
Use a 3 quart sauce pan, add shallots, garlic, fresh thyme, sun-dried tomatoes and olive oil and heat on medium – high for 3 -5 minutes. Reduce to medium.
Now move golden brown mixture to one side of the pan and place chicken in pan, then covering chicken with onions and sun-dried tomatoes. Cook on medium for 5 minutes on each side – turn on high for 30 seconds, cover and turn off for 10 minutes.
Serve with steamed broccoli and enjoy!
I love the idea of this – but what can I use instead of Chef's Shake Blend? What does that consist of?