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ABOUT:: Tatiana Pentes :: Geoffrey Weary
Чужие города Strange Cities: An interactive digital work
Scenes From A Shanghai Hotel: a film by Geoffrey Weary
Black Box: an interactive artwork: published VDM Verlag, Germany
BLOWIN' AT THE ROCCO: Saturday Night
'Geoffrey Weary's Floating World', ACADEMICI, Roma
SCREEN SURFACE Curated by Geoff Weary
Virtual Archive of Cultural Memories: Slow Boat to China
ABSENCE PRESENCE: by Lara O'Reilly @ Kotlin Island, RUSSIA
The Menorah of Fang Bang Lu: online documentary
CHINA HEART: iPhone APP: dLux media arts
Red Green Blue: A History of Australian Video Art
OBJECT: Australian Design Centre: by Tatiana Pentes
LAUNCHED: HOME iPad artwork by Geoffrey Weary
:: Strange Black Box ::
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SHANGHAI: Eastern Hollwood ?
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SHANGHAI: Eastern Hollywood ?
Digital Research
ChineseBOX
Serge Ermoll & His Music Masters, the Majestic Hotel
prior to its demolition Shanghai, CHINA, c. 1930 (image above)
This work is the transformation of a chapter my doctor of creative arts, UTS, BLACK BOX http:www.strangecities.net for peer review in a forthcoming eJournal interactive paper – the ensemble of image, sound, and textual research emerges from the ChineseBOX passage in BLACK BOX, exploring my hybrid cultural origins through discovery of the Russian jazz music culture from pre-revolutionary Shanghai and the Japanese occupation in China.
A re-examination of the documents left to me by my grandfather Sergei reveals a rich insight into the cultural milieu of the Russians in Shanghai, in particular the jazz world. Sergei wrote down every significant act that performed in the nightclubs, cabarets, and ballrooms of quasi-colonial Shanghai before his death.
This is a portrait of my grandmother Xenia Vladimirovna Ermolaeff. Xenia was a Russian emigre in Shanghai (a singer and dancer). The portrait was taken by her husband my grandfather a Russian jazz orchestra leader Sergei (Serge) Ermolaeff circ. 1940. Serge Ermoll & His Music Masters were managed by Vaudeville Entertainments, Shanghai and enjoyed residencies at establishments in Shanghai such as The Cathay Hotel, The Paramount, Ladlows Casanova, Wagon Lits, Astor House, and the Red Rouge. He played with Whitey Smith.
In 1996-97 I had support to develop a digital media work, with funding from the Australian Film Commission (AFC), and travelled to Shanghai & Tokyo to conduct research and write a script. In search of Xenia's Shanghai we walked the city, writing and shooting photographs/film with Geoffrey Weary. We stayed in the Cathay Hotel, Room 314, I was searching for traces of the old decadent jazz culture. We photographed the interior of the hotel, ceilings and architectural nuances. I walked on the sound stage, Level 7, where Serge had played, and many photographs were taken, the golden dragons & pheonix design haunting the interiors. Looking out of the exquisitely ornamented window panes onto the Bund and across to the Pudong district and the oriental Pearl Tower, I imagined James Ballard's bloody descriptions of the Battle of Shanghai or Battle of Songhu the Japanese war ships in the harbour. A decade later these audiovisual fragments were shaped into a film SCENES FROM A SHANGHAI HOTEL (2007). The interactive work would ultimately be STRANGE CITIES, [Reviewed Asiaweek [http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/magazine/99/0910/shanghai.html] based on the tune composed by Alexander Vertinsky, Ira Bloch and my grandfather Serge Ermoll. Independent radio broadcaster Eurydice Aroney produced the work and Roi Huberman created the interactive sound design. This song and the lyrics, which spoke of the longing for motherland St Petersberg (Russia), encapsulated my search for origins. Later, another film score composed by the Vertinsky/Ermoll would be the signature tune in the Merchant Ivory Hollywood classic The White Countess (2005). The strange music Serge played, a mix of Russian cabaret, Chinese pop, and American jazz, I would later understand to be the treasured hybrid genre of trans-pacific contemporary music, the renaissance of which is making many a million! (1)
In my grandmother Xenia and the portraits she would show me, I saw a cosmopolitan Eastern woman of urban sophistication, paradoxically at odds with the Australian life we were surrounded by in the Sydney suburbs. Her black coiffured hair and gold jewellery provided endless fascination, she looked so different from the ladies at the local RSL. I wanted to be like her.
"The favoured past of shanghai is that of the 'modern girl' in a qipao, the feminine city of exquisite Russian refugees, decadent European expatriates, Chinese gangsters and marlene dietrich in Shanghai Express (dir. Joseph von Sternberg, 1932). These are clichéd character sketches of the city, but they resonate powerfully with the international imagination. Dietrich, in the person of Shanghai Lil, continues to produce affect in cinema-goers worldwide as a persona for shanghai…. if cinema has done nothing else for shanghai, it has convinced the world and the city itself that they are, simply and utterly, superior to any others. Shanghai woman is the epitome of modern China, and the image of 1930s is the enduring foundation of the magnetism of shanghai's identity. " (2)
(1) Donald, Stephanie and Gammack, John G. Tourism and the Branded City: Film and Identity on the Pacific Rim, London: Ashgate, 2007. http://www.iis.uts.edu.au/research/Shanghai_Ch6_Extract.pdf
(2) Whitey Smith and .L. McDermott, I Didn't Make a Million, Manila, 1956.
Image source. Photograph of Xenia Vladimirovna Ermolaeff n a Shanghai hotel by Serge Ermoll (Ermoll's photos) circa 1940 (Shanghai).
"Shanghai Nostalgia" as a Cultural Industry by Pan Tianshu
Shanghai Nostalgia: Historical Memory, Community-Building, and Place-making in a late Socialist City
Pan, Tianshu. "Historical Memory, Community-Building and Place-Making in
Neighborhood Shanghai." in Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy, and Space, ed. Laurence J. C. Ma and Fulong Wu, 122–37. London: Routledge 2005.
"For the first time in post-Mao Shanghai, the local people found their colonial past was no longer baggage to carry but a rich resource to be fully utilized. "Shanghai nostalgia" thus "became entangled with a (dys)utopian fervor to embrace global capital and its ideology, the appearances and normalcy of the Shanghai modern entered intellectual and commercial circulation at the standard version of historical memory" (Zhang 2000: 354). Shanghai quickly became a "re-colonized" site for various kinds of joint ventures in film production. Old buildings in the Municipal Concession and small villas in the west end were renovated in order to attract more Spielbergs and boost the tourist industry. Those sinified cafes and European restaurants that somehow managed to survive communism changed their names back to their original western names. The famous Red Mansion Coffee House, for example, was once again Chez Louis. So did the theaters, movie houses, department stores, and dance halls. The Old Man Jazz Band, who had a brief appearance in Spielberg's movie, started to perform all year around in the Peace Hotel (Sasson House, previously owned by a famous Jewish billionaire). Colonial Shanghai rekindled collective memory and in the process of remembering, itself was re-invented. With its success in the colonial past in setting trends, finding opportunities, and witnessing miracles, Shanghai provided a somewhat "infectiously decadent, but alluring background and setting" (Dai 1997: 158) especially for those working in the film industry."
Zhang, Xudong. 2000. "Shanghai Nostalgia: Postrevolutionary Allegories in Wang
Anyi's Literary Production in the 1990s", in Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, pp. 348-387. Duke University Press.
Asja Mercoolova::Russian Ballerina Shanghai
This is a portrait of Asja Mercoolova as a girl, my grandmother Xenia's goddaughter. Xenia wanted me to be a dancer like Asja. She wanted me to be on the stage. She would ask me to sing and perform songs for her in the old fashioned lounge-room with the radio on in the background. They sent me to dance classes – modern, jazz, tap and later I studies Flamenco. I still wear Flamenco shoes every day to work (!) I grew up listening to my grandfather Sergei's jazz. He would practise in his music room on the trumpet, at the piano and at his vibes. One day in the future I would be packing away his musical scores, piled high on top of his piano, and he would be gone and buried. River Lights club in Sans Souci is a vivid memory, staying up too late, and watching him play. He wore exquisite tailored suits and painted on his eye-brows, cabaret style. The music was a melange of Russian folk ballads, American jazz, and Chinese pop. The compositions were for a famous crooner he remembered, Alexander Vertinsky, writer of the legendary tune "Immortal Road", that world sings today as "Those Were The Days My Friend!".
Xenia Ermolaeff::Shanghai
Before my grandmother (Xenia Ermolaeff) died, she gave me a set of hand painted studio portraits she had produced while living in Shanghai (1923-1951). Wrapped in tissue, when she was feeling sentimental, she would produce these from the musty old wardrobe that was filled with beautiful dresses and shoes. When she went out to the club for lunch, I would try these on and pretend I was her, standing in front of the large oval mirror. In the noirish light through the blinds in her bedroom, wearing her oversized patent-leather shoes, I painted on her lipstick. These portraits conjure the decadent life of a a beautiful young Russian woman living in Shanghai at its zenith. The mystery in those eyes reveals suffering a life of extremes. In Sydney, in the Holden, we would sit waiting for Serge, as she sipped sherry from a silver hip flask, telling me about her feelings. As a young girl in Russia, she was the daughter of a wealthy Tsarist naval officer, but was reduced to stateless person seeking refuge in Harbin, Manchuria after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia (1917). Later she married my grandfather Sergei, a wealthy Russian big band leader in Shanghai (husband No#2). The Shanghai sojourn was a wild ride, until she was made refugee once more with the Chinese Revolution. Her life ended in the Sydney suburbs with a three acre block and hills hoist – and a moonshine plum orchard. I was a great joy in her later life – the daughter she longed for. When she pointed to photographs of her god- daughter Asja the ballerina, she told me that she had married a Broadway musical director, and would I be a dancer like her?
Vertinsky::Serge Ermoll & His Orchestra::Shanghai
SHANGHAI NOSTALGIA:: Motorola's MOTO
Film star & songstress Li Xianglan a hybrid matrix of Japanese and Chinese modern girl.
Born Yamaguchi Yoshiko to Japanese parents in Manchuria,
Remembered for 1940s film Shanghai Nights, the tune The Evening Primrose
Image source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Xianglan
MECCA cosmetics corporation
has recently launched its "Shanghai Lil" make-up range, a homage to the high fashion
(haute couture) & make-up used in Von Sternberg's Shanghai Express (1932)
Image source http://www.meccacosmetica.com.au/
Hui Fei (Anna May Wong) and Marlene Dietrich (Shanghai Lily) in
Jospeh Von Sternberg's SHANGHAI EXPRESS (1932)
Image source http://www.imdb.com/media/rm711432192/tt0023458
Image source MOTO Nostalgia campaign 2004
http://www.danwei.org/advertising_and_marketing/motorola_shanghai_nostalgia.php
The Parisian wave (coiffure) and the fur coat over the shoulder evoke the Shanghai gesture, a powerful imaging (and re-imagining) of the Shanghai advertising lady, her urban face charmed the packaging of a plethora of mass products from face powders to cigarettes. She is the face of Motorola's 2004 mobile phone campaign. Reminiscent of a 1930s Shanghai calendar girl, an evocation of the legendary film star Ruan Lingyu (阮玲玉), or perhaps Hollywood's The Lady From Shanghai (dir. Orson Welles), or Anna May Wong in Josef Von Sternberg's Shanghai Express (1932) http://www.theauteurs.com/films/432, or Street Angel (馬路天使) (1937) http://www.archive.org/details/street_angel starring Shanghai songstress Zhou Xuan (the "golden voice") and pre-revolutionary film star. Perhaps Motorola's Shanghai lady resembles the famous Li Xianglan (李香蘭) a hybrid matrix of Japanese and Chinese modern (modeng) girl (!) She was born Yamaguchi Yoshiko (山口 淑子) to Japanese parents in Manchuria, and became a famous Chinese and Japanese film star. She is remembered for 1940s film Shanghai Nights (上海の夜), made by Manchuria Film Productions and singer of the immortal tune The Evening Primrose (夜來香). Nostalgia for decadent old Shanghai and its hybrid brand of quasi-colonial East meets West is articulated in the the plethora of contemporary Hollywood , Hong Kong and Chinese films devoted to the Shanghai Gesture. Academy Award winning director Ang Lee's latest offering Lust Caution (2007), a case in point, Merchant Ivory's The White Countess (2005) http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/whitecountess/, to touch the tip of the iceberg. On this note, the multi-national MECCA cosmetics corporation http://www.meccacosmetica.com.au/ has recently launched its "Shanghai Lil" make-up range, a homage to the high fashion (haute couture) and make-up used in Von Sternberg's Shanghai Express.
According to DANWEI: Chinese media, advertising and urban life blog http://www.danwei.org/advertising_and_marketing/motorola_shanghai_nostalgia.php [Accessed 28 March 2008]
"This is a new Motorola advertisement appearing on billboards and in glossy magazines. The copy means 'MOTO nostalgia' or 'MOTO era', highlighting the Shanghai 1930s feel of the image." [Posted by Contributor, July 2, 2004 1:09 PM]
The evocation of the Shanghai lady in this MOTO campaign contains echoes of a contemporary Ballardian neo-landscape, the Bladerunner megalopolis that is Shanghai. This kitsch, pastiched, noirish sophistication is a parody without the humour and articulates Jameson's postmodern and consummerist project of futuristic nostalgia (Jameson, 1985, p116).
Frederic Jameson, "Postmodernism and Consumerist Society", in (Ed) Hal Foster, Postmodern Culture, Pluto Press, Great Britain, 1985.
I recently stumbled upon this article in a blog – a confirmation of the currency and commodification of the old Shanghai lady as an aesthetic still capable of marketing a dream about a city that has entered into the postmodern vernacular in "Selling Cosmetics by vending machine ?", Hong Kong Hustle: Hong Kong nightlife, streetculture, and cool http://www.hongkonghustle.com/shopping/389/cosmetics-vending-machine/#more-389
Selling cosmetics by vending machine?
"In Japan you can find all sorts of things for sale in vending machines. Since I've lived in Hong Kong however, I've never seen an explosion of this sort of retailing in the city. So it came as a surprise to encounter a lonely looking vending machine while walking through Silvercord shopping center last week.
"The vending machine had a traditional 1920's era graphic of two girls covering the outside.
"The image looked like a cigarette ad from old Shanghai, the type that tourists purchase on "antique" posters featuring beauties from the time period. On closer inspection, the image actually represented the logo of a brand of cosmetics, Two Girls.
"This sort of vintage look doesn't really match a vending machine. Vending machines typically denote a sort of modern, mechanized and impersonal shopping experience. You don't normally associate this type of experience with female shoppers. Further, a product like cosmetics would usually require the purchaser to read the labels and check the ingredients, which isn't possible from inside a machine. Typical products that are sold in this way are ultra well known products. Perhaps the cosmetics are well known, however if I were a shopper unfamiliar with the brand, not being able to read the label and study the product would be a major impediment to sale.
"The location of the machine was also somewhat off. It was buried near the side of an escalator in an alternative entrance to the shopping center.
"Yet another factor to consider, does the product match the target consumer of the youth-oriented Silvercord mall?
"So in essence, the product, the brand image, the target consumer, the location of the machine and the technology all need to be considered when selling a product by vending machine. In this case, the factors appear to be a bad match."
http://www.hongkonghustle.com/shopping/389/cosmetics-vending-machine/#more-389
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Monday January 23rd 2012 Monday January 23rd 2012 by Henry Hunt
Nokia Lumia 900 to launch in the UK in June at Carphone Warehouse
Retail, Smartphones
3, 710, 800, 900, Ace, AT&T, Best Buy, Carphone Warehouse, Kevin Shields, LG, Lumia, Lumia 900, Mango, Nokia, Prada, Sony, Stephen Elop, The Phone House, Windows Phone, Xperia S
Carphone Warehouse, the largest mobile retailer in Europe, have announced on their website that they will be stocking the new Nokia Lumia 900 in the UK from June this year. This is great news for people like me who absolutely love the Lumia 800's design but need a larger screen. On the 'Coming Soon' page of the site, the phone appears alongside the 710, the magenta variant of the 800, the Sony Xperia S, a couple of BlackBerries and the Prada Phone by LG 3.0. A dedicated landing page provides you with the specs and at the very bottom of the page it says expected in June 2012, however this date is subject to change. Carriers have not yet been announced, but 3 are not expecting the device which should be available unlocked from Carphone Warehouse stores.
The Nokia Windows Phones are, according to CEO Stephen Elop, the first real Windows Phones. They look and feel great, have amazing software and the polycarbonate design is one of the best out there. Now that finally there is a Lumia with a larger screen, I cannot wait to get my hands on it, hopefully with HSPA+ support. Look out for me on launch day!
Friday December 9th 2011 by Xavier Voigt-Hill
LG to announce new Prada Phone 3.0 on Wednesday
Android, Gingerbread, Google, Ice Cream Sandwich, LG, Optimus, P940, Prada
Engadget are reporting that LG and Prada have announced an event that will take place in London on Wednesday. The invite clearly states that the 'Prada Phone by LG 3.0' will be presented to the tech press of the world. The phone is rumoured to have the model number P940, an unannounced device that has already been benchmarked. The Antutu benchmarks say that the device will be running Android 2.3.7 and not Ice Cream Sandwich upon release and will come equipped with a 1GHz CPU. The FCC certifications for this phone say that it is 9mm thin and has a 4.3 inch display with '4G' HSPA+ download speeds. Whether we see the same QWERTY keyboard as the Prada II remains unknown but we will all find out on Wednesday.

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Diabetic neuropathy is nerve pain that often occurs with diabetes. It's difficult to treat, and it can dramatically reduce your quality of life. Since there's no cure for diabetic neuropathy, treatment is a matter of managing symptoms and working to prevent it from becoming worse.
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Google Content Network – Ready To Take Your Adwords PPC To PRO Level?
And so it begins….the real PPC power!
The more targeted you get on the Search network, the less impressions you get, after all, you're narrowing the funnel, focusing on customers who have moved past research and into buying mode.
Often, you find a profitable keyword, your Clickthrough Ratio and Conversion are excellent, but the traffic is just not enough to really make that much of a difference.
When a PPC campaign includes the content network, Adwords will place your ads throughout Adsense placements in affiliated websites. That means not only ads will show when someone is searching for your keyword, but also when that keyword is somewhere within the text of those websites.
With the Content Network, PPC takes a much more aggressive approach and targets potential prostects that may not be "searching" for what you're offering, but reading, looking, or watching it.
Google understands these prospects are interested in that keyword because the website in which the ads is placed contains that keyword – therefore its visitors must be somewhat related to that query.
It is common to see a huge spike in impressions when the Content Network is turned on, and that is exactly why it is such an advanced PPC strategy: with 40K impressions/day in average per keyword, a 0.5% clickthrough ratio means 200 clicks – which means at $0.10 per click, $20, for a single keyword.
Check Google's Placement Report at least weekly to find out exactly which placements have offered the best results, and ditch the ones that didn't.
I have a project cooking right now that will open a huge channel to PPC students who need or want to share their PPC knowledge, but for now, I'd like to see what was everyone's experience with the Content Networ..
Leave your comments, questions, and suggestions – I will reply!
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The most important asset a internet marketer has is a responsive list of customers. Whether on email, twitter, or facebook, building a list of active subscribers is a strategy that any marketer should focus on since the beginning.
The average list-building experience starts slowly, as traffic starts pouring into landing pages and prospects subscribe to your list.
However, this strategy can be frustrating in the beginning, while traffic is still shy.
That's when a respected list-building platform comes in handy. List-builders are communities of professionals that subscribe (or buy access) to receive and send messages within the community. Basically, List-Builders are a pool of like-minded professionals looking to improve their businesses, get more traffic, and make more money.
I've written before about my results with list-builders before, so today I want to share specifically my results with ViralUrl.
For $197/year, ViralUrl allows email blasts every 3 days to 3000 random members in their list.
I've been utilizing their services since february, and I'm very satisfied with the results.
Previously, I'd been promoting Magnetic Sponsoring, because of the high conversion rates, and for each blast, I'd generate 10+ leads and about a sale/week from MS alone. That's $80/month, which would cover my initial investment in 2.5 months, leaving me 9.5 months to profit from the ViralUrl services.
Now, I've switched the focus to my own training, the Expand Your Income manual – and even though my landing page does not convert as well as Mike Dillard's (what's new?) the prospects I receive are much more targeted because they want to know ME, not magnetic sponsoring or Mike Dillard.
So here are the updated results: depending on my email copy (I keep experimenting, which makes for a lower average), I may get anywhere from 100-150 visits, and 6-10 leads. I understand this is not outrageously effective, but it brings me great prospects, and I'm building my own list, expanding the reach of personal branding even further.
If you're just starting up, and you're not yet getting the traffic you want, I highly recommend ViralUrl. And if you have a bit more to invest, you can get multiple accounts, and send blasts everyday!
Either way, be sure to offer something valuable in exchange for your opt-ins. Folks in list-building services are already in the industry and are probably not looking for another home business – they're looking for training, consulting, tips.. So provide them with something highly beneficial and your results will speak for themselves.
One of the most frustrating aspects of running an online business is generating good quality, paying leads. With the overflow of information that most prospects are facing, they research for free information, and free information only.
So how can you find leads that are ready to buy from you?
The best way to start attracting paying leads is to stop focusing on "generic searchers" – avoid focusing your website on "canon cameras", and instead, focus on "deals on canon cameras", "buy canon cameras", or "canon cameras free shipping".
Focusing on specific searches brings customers that have passed the decision making process and are ready to buy. This approach is by far the most effective way to generate paying leads, and even though you may not get as much traffic, you will experience a much more effective conversion rate.
As you move further into the buying process for any market, you'll find less curious prospects and more actual buyers. Those are the ones you want to target for instant results. When positioned at the bottom of the sales funnel, you'll get less leads, but those will be effective, decidedly paying leads.
Now, one thing has to be stated here, and that is there are no markets too small. A student of Frank Kern reportedly made millions selling piano lessons infoproducts. Can you imagine how small the percentage of piano students looking for an ebook is?
To really get this message across, picture a customer walking into a store with his credit card in hand. Now, imagine you were able to plant a detour sign with a big bright arrow pointing towards your own store. Would that drive buyers into your store?
Of course, this is a rather drastic and unethical approach, but you get the picture. To generate paying leads, make sure you offer exactly what they're looking for, and leave no room for "but.." Give them exactly what they want, and you found yourself a buyer.
Traffic exchange networks claim to bring traffic into your website. Pretty obvious, right?
Every member of the network has the chance to add a certain number of websites; to get your websites to display, members have to earn – or acquire – credits.
You earn credits by clicking through their list of websites, like flippling the pages of a catalog with random pages on it.
Basically, members visit other people's websites in exchange for promoting their own.
1. Network Marketers need prospects, not traffic.
Unlike CPA advertisers, we don't make money from visitors. You're better off having 100 visits/day from "home business seekers" than 5000 visits/day from random people that just want to promote their website.
At least to my knowledge, there's no traffic exchange network specific to network marketing; the most targetting you can do is pick the topics you'd like to have available to surf.
Members are surfing because they want traffic – not because they're looking for what you offer.
Even with the required 16/20 secs each member has to wait on each website to receive a credit, due to the imposition, visitors will not read your site's content: they will count the seconds to their next click.
It fascinates me how people will keep multiple tabs open, clicking their way through more credits, while reading a blog post, tweeting, or any other non-related action.
So stop wasting your time clicking through darn credits… Everybody else is doing the same!
It's like you own a traditional brick & mortar business, and you spend most of your time getting people off the street, into your business, without ever making any profit out of them.
Spend your time wisely building up your content, write articles, publish webpages, build a network filled with great connections…That's what drives traffic to your website.
Even better, create a powerful ppc campaign and pick & choose your leads.
Just like any other "magical" solution – money, traffic, leads – take it all with a grain of salt. There's ALWAYS a catch!
P.S – My opinion regards network marketers. CPA, affiliates, and everybody else that might have success with those networks, disregard my little rampage.
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<?php

namespace App\Console\Commands;

use App\BusinessLogicLayer\managers\GameFlavorManager;
use App\Models\GameFlavor;
use Exception;
use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use Illuminate\Support\Collection;

class BuildGameFlavorsForVersion extends Command {
    /**
     * The name and signature of the console command.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $signature = 'games:build-for-version {id}';

    /**
     * The console command description.
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    /**
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     * Execute the console command.
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    public function handle(): int {
        $gameVersionId = $this->argument('id');
        $this->buildAllSuitableGameFlavors($gameVersionId);
        return 0;
    }

    protected function buildAllSuitableGameFlavors(int $gameVersionId) {
        $gameFlavors = GameFlavor::where(['game_version_id' => $gameVersionId])->get();
        if (!$gameFlavors->isEmpty())
            try {
                $this->buildGameFlavors($gameFlavors);
            } catch (Exception $e) {
                echo "Could not build game flavor: " . $e->getMessage() . "\n";
            }
    }

    /**
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    protected function buildGameFlavors(Collection $gameFlavors) {
        $gameFlavorManager = app()->make(GameFlavorManager::class);
        echo "\n";
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            echo "Building Game Flavor: " . $gameFlavor->name . "\tid: " . $gameFlavor->id . "...\n";
            $gameFlavorManager->buildGameFlavor($gameFlavor->id);
            echo "Game Flavor was built!\n\n";
        }
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Genetic mutations in appendix cancer are different from those found in colon cancer and mutations in the genes TP53 and GNAS are good predictors of survival among people with appendix cancer, confirms a study published in JCO Precision Oncology.
Appendix cancer is currently treated like colon cancer, but significant differences may alter therapy choices.
Two common iron compounds were found to increase the formation of amphiregulin. Ferric citrate and ferric EDTA are the two iron compounds, which are often used in dietary supplements and also as a food additive.


Inspired by the New-World-riches acquired by the Spanish king Phillip II, England's Queen Elizabeth I wanted treasure of her own. Martin Frobisher, a swashbuckling captain and friend of Francis Drake's, put himself forward as the man to lead an expedition to discover and claim the Northwest Passage. His first expedition, launched in 1576, ran afoul of local Inuits. Frobisher turned tail for home bringing only a captive Inuit man and a sample of black rock.
An Italian alchemist/assayer, Giovanni Baptista Agnello, claimed that the black rock contained gold. On the strength of these claims, a second expedition was soon launched which even included an assayer and a portable furnace. The second expedition returned to England in triumph, carrying 160 "tonnes" of black and red ore.
Elizabeth immediately ordered a third expedition to "Meta Incognita" (the Unknown Shore, now known as Baffin Island). And so in 1578, Frobisher set sail once more, with 15 ships and 400 men, including Cornish miners and 100 pioneers to found an Arctic settlement. Unbeknownst to Frobisher, the expedition also included a spy working for King Phillip of Spain.
The colony was never established. No more red ore was found. The ships returned home with 1200 tonnes of black rock, which turned out to contain no gold. Frobisher returned to piracy. Leftover ore was incorporated in to a wall (which can still be seen) around what was then one of Elizabeth's estates.
For more information on Elizabeth's maritime exploits (and lots of other cool stuff), see www.nmm.ac.uk, the website of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich England.
Some additional tidbits on the Frobisher expeditions comes from: Roanoke by Lee Miller; America 1585: The Complete Drawings of John White by Paul Hulton, and The Queen's Conjurer by Benjamin Wooley.
Apparently, Frobisher's second expedition returned to England with three Inuits: a man, a woman, and her child. All three captives soon died: the man from injuries sustained during capture, the woman and child from fever. Yet before their deaths, their portraits were painted in water color by John White (later of the "lost colony" at Roanke Virginia).
John Dee, alchemist and mathematician, tried to teach "modern" navigational methods to Frobisher before the first expedition. He also lost a sizable personal investment in the second expedition.


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What was the 1875 pure food and drugs act?
Best Answer: The first prolonged and impassioned controversy in the Congress involving a pure food issue took place in 1886, pitting the reigning champion, butter, against a challenger, oleomargarine. Butter won, and oleomargarine was taxed and placed under other restraints that persisted on the Federal level until 1950. The debate in 1886 between the defenders of a natural food and those of its alleged artificial substitute centered not only on matters of vested interest, but also pondered concerns about the public health, issues of governmental authority, and the myths in which were enshrined the meaning of the American experience. Such themes re-echoed in Congressional chambers as Senate and House later debated broader bills to control food and drugs in interstate commerce. The first broad bill had been introduced in 1879, although a decade passed before Congress displayed serious interest.
Source(s): http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/history2.ht...
corrupted_bunny · 1 decade ago
Cute.. but I think you have some information mixed up. In 1875 there was a crack down on Opium Dens. THe pure food and drugs act didn't happen until 1906 and it prohibited people from tampering with medications and altering their content. Specifically this also required labelling on common drugs so that people knew what was inside them, such as alcohol, etc..
Mr. Repartee · 1 decade ago
Can u tell me why the young generation's r drug addicted?
When were illegal drugs introduced to the United States?
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When and how did drugs become stigmatized in America?
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A CHURCH has been given more time to pay off money owed to Burnley Borough Council as it seeks to build a new community centre.
The Life Church in Sycamore Avenue came in for criticism recently from nearby residents who branded the development "an eyesore" after it was left for some time when funding dried up.
Burnley Council's Executive Committee has now voted to extend the deadline for the Life Church to pay money due to the council. This is now due for payment in December 2012.
The church has secured a grant from Veolia and has made plans to develop the green area near the building. There will be level mown grass areas for recreation and new footpaths. Hoardings will be tidied and railings painted, and there will be ongoing maintenance.
However, when contacted by the Express, the church refused to comment on or confirm any of the plans.
Sycamore Avenue resident Mr Bill Brown was pleased with the news. He said: "It has been a mess for a long time so I just hope things can start moving again.
Coun. Roger Frost, the council's Executive member for economic regeneration and business support, said: "Council officers have been working with the church to address issues that local residents have raised, and all signs are that things are moving in the right direction. We recognise that downturns in the economy have meant that the church hasn't been able to develop the site in the way originally envisaged, or as quickly as it would like.
The Life Church held a drop-in session on Wednesday for residents to update them about the scheme.


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Q: root directory - www or public_html Is the root directory where all files are kept (directly from accessing from FTP) always "www" or "public_html" depending on what OS? Or is it possible to rename this folder? And if so, what would be unique about this folder to be able to identify it? i.e. currently I just wrote this;
my $root;
my $ftp = Net::FTP->new($DB_ftpserver, Debug => 0)
                              or die "Cannot connect to some.host.name: $@";
$ftp->login($DB_ftpuser, $DB_ftppass) or die "Cannot login ", $ftp->message;
my @list = $ftp->dir;

if( scalar @list != 0 ) {
  foreach( @list ){
     if( $_ =~ m/www$/g ){
       $root = "www";
       last;
     }elsif( $_ =~ m/public_html$/g ){
       $root = "public_html";
       last;
     }
   }
 }

but would not work if it has a different name.
Any help much appreciated.

A: I'll speak in terms of Apache httpd, since it's a very popular webserver.
The root directory where all files are kept, is generically named DocumentRoot.
Please bear in mind that files are kept in DocumentRoot for being served by the web server, not for being shown to you when you log in via FTP. FTP is a totally different protocol that is not related to web sites and in this context it is just a way to allow you, the user, modify/update files on a remote server.
The www / public_html directory that you talk about in your question is probably not DocumentRoot. This is additional functionality of Apache, the mod_userdir module. Please consult its documentation.
As said in the docs, there's an UserDir setting in Apache's configuration file which lets you customize the name of these user directories, from where the web server will serve the sites that belong to different users.
Since there's no restriction on UserDir, you can have anything there, even foobar. You can judge by the content of this directory (HTML files, images) that this can be an user directory that holds a site that's being exposed by Apache. But I'd say that doing this automatically with a script seems unreliable to me. Not to mention that for example you can have a public_html directory that is not an user directory, its name matching the default value for Apache UserDir setting being just a simple coincidence. Ideally, in order to judge about a directory if it's an UserDir, you'll need access to the configuration file of the web server. And normally you don't have it. Web hosting providers can put at most user-specific logs in your home directory.
To summarize: if you need to perform any actions with the user directory, have it come to your script as input data: command-line argument, setting from a config file etc, but do not try to guess it.

A: The name is configurable in Apache (DocumentRoot - default, according to the 2.2.x documentation, is /usr/local/apache/htdocs).  My machine at the office uses neither of the options you mention (offhand, I think it uses htdocs, but its a while since I last fiddled with it).
OTOH, since you mention FTP, perhaps you are thinking of something else; the base directory is still configurable, though.

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Qazi-ye Pain (, also Romanized as Qāẕī-ye Pā'īn; also known as Qāẕī-ye Soflá) is a village in Rahjerd-e Sharqi Rural District, Salafchegan District, Qom County, Qom Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 90, in 23 families.

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Populated places in Qom Province


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Antenna orientation, wear & tear and non-directionality have been the source of some range issues with our long range and miniquad pilots. We therefore sat down with IBCrazy and he designed this antenna to be as durable as possible. A diamond lasts forever!
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A few pilots were experiencing drop-outs at what seemed to be random times. I investigated 4 cases an found that all the dropouts were happening all at the same relative azimuth. it was apparent that conductive ground was causing a null between the 0-5 and 15-20 degree azimuth. This wasn't a Crossfire problem at all! I was a problem with the ground they were standing on!
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He currently conducts Toonkunstkoor Nijmegen, Toonkunstkoor Wageningen, NHL Stendenkoor and Capella Bronckhorst. He is a popular guest director and did project with, among others, Bachcantes in Doetinchem, Vocal ensemble Pierre Villette (with whom he performed the world premiere of Villette's Missa da pacem) and Concerto Vocale Nederland.
As a conductor he has collaborated with Oliver Knussen and Reinhard Goebel (Musica Antiqua Köln), among others. As a singer, he was connected to the ensemble BWV and he has had lessons from Marja Reinders and Margareth Beunders. He is an inspired musician who knows how to get the maximum out of all performers.


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My 32nd birthday came and went despite my best efforts to have it planned. There were intentions to make good use of the company's staff "birthday leave" benefit by spending it with the 3 boys, with hopes that we would end the night over dinner and drinks, couple style.
But of course, the best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray.
The husband had to cancel his leave last minute. We didn't have any couple time nor dinner/drinks. No serenading of birthday song at the stroke of 12 midnight unlike past years because the workaholic husband was busy typing away while beside me (and I ended up waiting till I fell asleep). There wasn't any flowers presented in the husband's signature unromantic style – direct from the cold room, complete with crumpled plastic wrapping and price tag – making it the 4th year of disappointment. And no birthday wishes from the husband…until the next morning when he noticed that I was not getting ready for work alongside him because…ah yes, wife's birthday!
But if there's anything that I've learnt in the past 2 years since entering the 30s and embracing the many life hacks that I've been reading about, it's that my response and attitude to any situation can still change an outcome.
With the husband dropping out of my birthday plans, I quickly made alternative arrangements to catch up with some friends whose company I dearly missed. Few text messages later, they were gamed for a birthday breakfast catch up!
It was really nice doing a proper, albeit short catch-up with these 2 super moms sans the kids. We laughed and chatted over our plates of hearty breakfast and the ladies surprised me with cakeeee! Thanks LY & May!
With nothing else planned after birthday breakfast session, I decided to go with the flow. Had the intention to pamper either the tresses or the face but slots were fully booked till after CNY. Hence I spent the noon (finally) getting the boys' CNY outfits before heading back to snuggle up with both little ones in the afternoon. Sure, this wasn't my planned "cake session with the kids", but lying in bed and covering them with smooches and cuddles turned out to be just as enjoyable.
I knew how much Liam's been wanting to go for a train ride and was about to take everyone out to my aunt's place for a home cooked Japanese dinner when a salon called me to ask if I was keen to exercise my birthday discount/session (and according to my friend, they're always fully booked) because there was a last minute cancellation. Tempted to make last hurrah out of my birthday, I jumped at the offer. It turned out to be such a bad idea.
I ended up being so late for family dinner at my aunt's place and also found out that another aunt who flew in from Japan few days ago to visit us was flying back that very night. Yikes. I didn't realise that my appointment would overrun and me not being able to access my phone during the session sent mom into a frantic panic.
I felt so guilty and absolutely terrible, being such a doofus. Thankfully the husband was there to pick me, and did his best to rush us to bid my aunt farewell. We made 3 wrong turns which caused us to be delayed by a further 15 mintues because…you know what rushing x tension does to one's brain, and when we finally reached my aunt's place, I profusely apologised for my foolishness and felt even worse when I saw that my family had baked me a birthday cake and intended to surprise me with it!
For all the anxiousness I put my family through to wait for me, they continued to shower me with utmost generosity, love, kindness and forgiveness instead of anger, frustration and impatience. How blessed was I to be born into such a God-fearing and wonderful family!
On the way home, in my final hour of birthday, it got me reflecting. While my 32nd birthday celebration didn't go as planned, it turned out to be heartwarming, authentic and heartfelt. Through social media and WhatsApp, I was moved by how many bothered to send across birthday wishes. Through meet-ups, I discovered wonderfully surprising people who amazed me. Through family and friendships, I saw my closest relationships deepen. Through time with myself, I embraced my limitations by making peace with situations beyond my control and became comfortable with the uncomfortable.
I may be one year older, with more weight gain, more laugh lines, more wrinkles, more eye bags, more dark eye circles, more grey hairs and unfortunately lesser sleep (my grandma tells me that at age 78, she can only sleep for 4 hours at a go before wanting to wake for a bit). But I love who I am and the stage of life that I'm at now. Rough but absolutely fulfilling.
Thank you to every one who was part of my 32nd birthday celebration. You made me feel loved and cherished.


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OPINION AND ANALYSIS | 07-07-2022 23:26
Scandals, resignations finally force Boris Johnson out of Downing Street
Tory leader leaves a nation mired in political and economic uncertainty and still showing the strains of his singular though deeply divisive triumph – the UK's exit from the European Union.
Boris Johnson. | AFP
Boris Johnson has brought the curtain down on a tempestuous three years in office, marred by a succession of scandals that culminated in the rebellion of his own cabinet and parliamentary group.
The UK prime minister, 58, bowed to the inevitable after the mass resignation of members of his government, including Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, as a mounting number of Conservative MPs launched excoriating public attacks on his judgement, leadership and allegiance to the truth.
"It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister," Johnson said in a brief statement outside 10 Downing Street, blaming the "herd instinct" in Westminster for his departure.
Uncertainty and division
Johnson leaves a nation mired in political and economic uncertainty and still showing the strains of his singular though deeply divisive triumph – the UK's exit from the European Union – as it confronts surging inflation, potential recession and the threat of widespread industrial action. The Conservatives trail the main opposition Labour Party in the polls, with the Tory reputation for sleaze having been revived on Johnson's watch.
Officials said earlier that he wants to stay on as caretaker premier until October. Whether or not his party allows him to remain in office for that long, possible successors are already lining up. They include Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and the newly installed chancellor, Nadhim Zahawi, as well as Sunak and ex-Health Minister Sajid Javid – who both quit the cabinet on Tuesday. The field is likely to swell.
Johnson's position became untenable on Wednesday after a day of drama in Westminster that saw him confronted by Tory MPs, told to resign at Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, and a delegation of cabinet ministers head to Downing Street to tell him his time was up. By Thursday, with even his new appointments calling on him to go, Johnson conceded defeat.
It's a humiliating end to a political career that included his landslide election victory in December 2019 promising to "Get Brexit Done." That was the high point for a PM who idolises Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill, his tenure fatally undermined by the constant drip-feed of scandal that eroded Downing Street's reputation for probity.
Final straw
The final straw came with the prime minister's decision to promote an MP, Chris Pincher, to a senior government role despite knowing of a formal complaint into inappropriate behaviour. Johnson then failed to come clean quickly enough on what he knew when Pincher was reported as having erred again last week.
While perhaps not the most lurid revelation in the annals of Westminster scandal, it added to the cumulative sense of a prime minister who flaunted his disregard for the rules. It was compounded by the fact that junior ministers and MPs were fed with erroneous information to repeat before the cameras, making them accessories to the falsehood.
Concerns over Johnson's leadership had been growing for weeks and recently snowballed. It was only on June 6 that he narrowly survived a confidence vote among Tory MPs.
That was triggered after he became the first sitting prime minister found to have broken the law in office. He was fined by the police in April for attending a 2020 party in Downing Street while the nation was subjected to government-enforced lockdowns aimed at battling the coronavirus. Dozens of his administration's officials were also sanctioned for their involvement in so-called 'Partygate.' Johnson marched on undaunted, only to incur the ire of his party again.
Whoever replaces him – by winning a vote of Tory MPs and a subsequent ballot of party members – will inherit an economy buffeted by a cost-of-living crisis as inflation accelerates the most in four decades.
Unrest among workers is already fomenting as rail staff, postal workers, teachers and trial lawyers all declare walkouts or debate doing so, prompting parallels with the 1970s and the era's mix of runaway prices and work stoppages.
The new leader will also have to repair a fractured party that's looking tired after 12 years in power and suffered as Johnson's government has lurched from one crisis to another. And they'll have to mend relations with the EU that have been strained to near breaking point by Johnson's threats to renege on the Brexit agreement he negotiated.
A rouge
A former journalist who served as mayor of London for two terms and also as foreign secretary, Johnson never painted himself as a saint and indeed used his reputation as something of a rogue to draw public support.
His aspirations to higher office were evident in his decision to break with David Cameron and back Brexit in the 2016 referendum, while his popularity partly accounts for the close vote in favour of leaving the bloc in defiance of the opinion polls.
He went on to goad Cameron's successor, Theresa May, from the back benches, pressing for a clean break from the EU and opposing her more conciliatory stance in negotiations with Brussels until she, too, was forced out and he took her place in July 2019.
In the election of that year, his Conservatives won a large majority because of Johnson's "Get Brexit Done" messaging and his ability to attract northern English voters who had traditionally preferred Labour.
His successor will need to find ways to rally similar support from the "Red Wall" – especially as Johnson struggled to deliver on his campaign promise to "level up" the British economy. They'll also have to regain the trust of traditional Tories in rural and southern areas who abandoned the party in droves in favour of the Liberal Democrats at three byelections in little over a year. The good news for the new resident of 10 Downing Street is no general election is due until 2025.
The sense of scandal
Johnson's successes include the rapid rollout of a coronavirus vaccine – the UK-developed AstraZeneca shot – even as he made headlines for being hospitalised in intensive care during the early days of the pandemic. And he won plaudits for Britain's military and financial support for Ukraine as it battles Russia, earning praise from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
In the end, though, the sense of scandal prevailed over all else.
As well as "Partygate," Johnson's standing was damaged by a botched attempt last year to help Conservative MP Owen Paterson evade an ethics probe. There were also questions over how the refurbishment of the premier's Downing Street apartment was paid for.
The scandal that ultimately toppled Johnson, however, was the revelation that he'd known of allegations about Pincher's behaviour two years before promoting him. That was exacerbated by Downing Street's changing position about exactly what Johnson knew and when.
Colleagues eventually grew tired of his apparent inability to be honest and open with the public, opting instead for a strategy of deflecting blame or simply hoping awkward questions would fizzle out.
It worked for a while. But in the end, Johnson – who as a schoolboy declared he wanted to be "world king" – is unlikely to spend much more time in Number 10 than Theresa May, whose premiership he torpedoed.
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Roberto Cavalli Celebrates Opening of First Junior Boutique in The Dubai Mall
by Rebecca Anne Proctor
On 10 October, during the Vogue Fashion Dubai Experience, Roberto Cavalli and Simonetta Spa celebrated the opening of the first worldwide Roberto Cavalli Junior mono-brand boutique in The Dubai Mall with boutique owner Reem Abou Samra. The opening was attended by Roberto and Eva Cavalli and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Maktoum Al-Maktoum, member of the board of the Rashid Pediatric Therapy Centre.
For the event, Cavalli created two special limited edition t-shirts for boys and girls. Their graphics are inspired by the iconic animal prints of the fashion house and by the colors of the flag of the United Arab Emirates. Part of the proceeds of the sales of t-shirts will be donated to support Rashid Pediatric Therapy Center.
"Roberto Cavalli's designs are playful and fun – elements that make them perfect for a children's line," said Reem Abou Samra, owner of the Roberto Cavalli Junior Boutique. "When I first saw the collection I knew that the Middle East market would go crazy for them and led me to opening the new exciting boutique which I am extremely proud of."
This first opening represents an important step for the Maison and marks the beginning of a significant expansion of the brand 'Roberto Cavalli Junior' in the Middle East and all over the world.
Roberto Cavalli Junior Boutique is located in The Dubai Mall.
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Level Shoe District Hosts 'Let the Shoe Begin'


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VV Riel is een Nederlandse amateurvoetbalclub uit Riel (gemeente Goirle) in Noord-Brabant. De club is opgericht op 1 juni 1938. Het eerste elftal speelt in de Vierde klasse zondag (2020/21).

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Salve! That means "hello" in Latin. I was very pleased to learn that the greeting is still used by modern Romans!
I arrived in Rome after a long journey that started on Saturday morning and ended on Sunday morning. After three in-flight movies on two flights, I was ready to get up and stretch my legs. After a short cab ride from a man named Mario, I arrived at the Centro (pronounced chen-tro) along with another girl from my program who happened to be on my flight.
I was pleased to be welcomed by a friendly English-speaking Italian staff at the Centro and met many of the other students in my program as I unpacked in my room. I quickly found a group of students who wanted to explore Rome with me. Having only been in the city for a couple hours, I was able to try Italian gelato for the first time. I highly recommend it to anyone who has the opportunity to try it.
Later that evening, I went with a number of students deeper into the city in order to find dinner, since it is not served within the Centro on weekends. We crossed the Tiber, passed the Pantheon, and found a nice restaurant that served us some pizza. We came back to the Centro after nightfall, having seen the Vatican on the way back. I was so surprised and delighted to learn that so many wonderful places are so close together in Rome!
The program itself started on Monday after some much-needed rest. On the first day, the professors for our program took us right into the action, giving us a tour of some historical sites in our neighborhood and of the businesses that we would be likely to frequent. My favorite site that day was a monument that displayed the famous she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus.
On the next day, we were assigned an Obelisk Project, for which we had to, in groups of three, visit two obelisks in the city of Rome and report to each other that evening on what we had learned. Our principle obelisk was in the Piazza Navona atop a beautiful fountain. The experience not only allowed me to see some beautiful sites in the city, but also tested my ability to navigate a busy city without knowledge of Italian.
On Wednesday, I had my first experience with reading real Latin and Greek texts. It was daunting, but I was up to the challenge. Fortunately, the day itself was pretty laid back, so I was able to recover a little bit from the program's busy scheduling.
Today was the best day I've had so far in Rome. We visited the Forum Romanum. I was able to see evidence of ancient Roman huts, the Temple of Saturn, where Pliny the Younger worked for four or five years, and the Lapis Niger, to name a few things. I've never seen such an impressive or historic place in my life. Our professors made the experience incredible by explaining the history and purposes of the different things that we saw. We returned to the Centro for lunch and this afternoon, I played frisbee with two people in my program in Rome's largest and finest park, the Villa Doria Pamphili. I have gone running in this park twice already and I'm incredibly satisfied with its paths. Not only are the paths well-kept, but the park also houses magnificent statues and structures to view as you make your way through it.
Rome is an incredible city and that's all I have to say for now!


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Advances in high performance computing (HPC) are unlocking ground-breaking possibilities for a whole range of industries. Yet, it is not just computing power gains that companies stand to benefit from. As new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), continue to evolve, organizations are presented with more opportunities to apply HPC capabilities in new ways. In this article, we look at how HPC advances are being embraced by different industries to improve traditional processes, and how technologies such as AI and IoT are helping to drive this innovation even further.
Over the last few decades, HPC-enabled digital twins became increasingly popular in the manufacturing process. Digital twin is the phrase used to describe a computerized (or digital) version of a physical asset and/or process. The digital twin contains one or more sensors that collects data to represent real-time information about the physical asset. In fact, according to Gartner, the use of simulation with digital twins is one of its top tech trends for this year. A computerized version of a physical asset, a digital twin can be used to model and simulate that asset's performance under a variety of conditions. This makes it a useful tool for understanding the behavior of real-world systems without having to run expensive live tests.
An exclusive designer of high end racing engines has been using digital modeling and predictive simulation to design better engines in less time. By analyzing every engine component in order to optimize each engine for a specific track the engineering team has been able to improve the design cycle.
Software and hardware advances have played an important role in the speed, efficiency, and accuracy of their predictive models. By using CONVERGE* simulation software, the team is able to model a range of options by using features such as automatic mesh generation, dynamic remeshing, and fully coupled chemistry. Using these advanced software features meant adding to the HPC system's workloads. To meet these added workload requirements without extending runtimes, the team looked for a hardware solution. By introducing more parallelism into its computing platforms using Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors1 the team was able to ensure that any simulation can be run efficiently on the fastest available computing resource.
In the energy sector, HPC-based digital twins combined with Industrial IoT capabilities are enabling a global digital industrial company to improve wind turbine maintenance. This is achieved by creating a unique digital equivalent for each turbine and feeding it data from physical IoT sensors. Through this process, they were able to detect a host of factors to be analyzed for each individual turbine. For example, it is possible to run a cost/benefit analysis of running a deteriorating turbine compared to replacing the failing components.
When it comes to oil and gas detection, powerful computers are used to interpret complex seismic data during the exploration phase. This process involves generating seismic waves that go through the Earth's surface and bounce back from different rock layers. The characteristics and nuances of these bounce-back signals carry a host of data that allows for interpretation of what is underneath the ground or seabed—such as oil, gas, water, faults or folds. To improve the accuracy of seismic data modeling, Intel worked with a leader in cutting edge geoscience to create highly accurate images of the Earth's onshore and offshore subsurface. This information is incredibly useful to their oil and gas clients in pinpointing the presence of natural resources.
HPC-enabled AI applications are helping healthcare practitioners redefine their approach to patient diagnosis. In a recent study, a fortune 500 company that provides imaging systems and clinical informatics teamed up with Intel to demonstrate two applications for AI-based deep learning inferencing to speed time to insights.
This process involves training a deep learning AI model on X-ray images of human bones, along with a host of patient information such as age and gender, to enable it to build up a range of models of what bone density looks like for healthy individuals at specific ages. The trained model can then be used to predict a patient's age based on their real-life X-ray images. If there is a discrepancy between real and predicted age it is possible to detect medical conditions. For example, if the predicted age for a patient is less than the actual age they could be suffering from malnutrition.
Here a deep learning AI model is used to look at an array of information coming from computerized tomography (CT) scans of a lung. By training the model to identify the lung in the patient's CT scans and create a segmentation mesh around it, it is possible to better measure the size and volume of the lungs. This information can also be used to detect issues, for example, with organ-specific tuberculosis or pneumothorax disease screening models. Moreover, thanks to the organ isolation created by the model, a radiologist can have a clearer, distraction free, anatomical view of the lung.
In both these use cases, researchers looked to create performance efficiencies for deep learning inferencing on Intel Xeon Scalable processors without needing to use accelerators. By using a two-socket system powered by Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8168 processors and optimized using the Intel® Deep Learning Deployment Toolkit (Intel® DL Deployment Toolkit), they were able to achieve significant speed improvement. For the bone-age-prediction model, image processing increased from a baseline result of 1.42 images per second to a rate of 267.1 images per second, a staggering 188 times improvement. For the lung-segmentation model, image processing shot up from a baseline of 1.9 images per second to 71.7 images per second, surpassing expectations with a 37.7 times speed gain2.
There is no mistake about it, HPC is expanding beyond traditional use cases and becoming a prominent feature in growing enterprises' future capabilities. For organizations wanting to optimize their existing HPC infrastructure for specific workloads such as professional visualization, simulation and modeling or genomics analytics Intel® Select Solutions for HPC offer easy and quick-to-deploy infrastructure.
To learn more about emerging AI applications and how your organization can start benefiting from integrating AI capabilities into your business processes, check out more inspirational use cases on our AI site. For more insight on how to use HPC infrastructure to get going with AI workloads read this Solution Brief from Intel.
1. Vector vVector Extensions 2 and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512) and Flame-D* workload. Baseline server configuration: 2 x Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v4 (2.3 GHz, 18-core), 128 GB memory (8 x 16 GB DDR4 @ 2400 MT/s), Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 7.2, 2 x Intel® SSD S3500 Series. New server configuration: 2 x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6148 processor (2.4 GHz, 20-core), 192 GB memory (8 x 16 GB DDR4 @ 2400 MHz), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3, 800 GB Intel® SSD Data Center S3500 Series.
2. Results were determined with the same system configuration as shown in Appendix A. The baseline shows zero optimizations. The optimized data used the same system configuration in conjunction with the noted optimizations.
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There are no bad parents or bad children, but bad parenting styles are common in today's world dominated by nuclear families and absence of guidance from the grandmas and grandpas. Parenting is a science and an art. There are many ways to parent. There is no one right way to do it. Being consistent and showing firm love are keys to healthy and relaxed parenting. ICGC conducts workshops that includes information about various styles of parentig, tips and tricks to successful parenting, importance of parents being good role models for their children, nurturing child's self esteem, learning styles in children and the value of investing quality time for their child, common mistakes parents do and how to rectify them, how to ensure holistic development of the child, to enable today's parents break from the stress filled parenting experience to a more relaxed form of parenting, backed by years of scientific research. It will also include early warning signs of common childhood psychological disorders.
Established in 1983, VIMHANS hospitals, is the front runner in offering comprehensive mental health care in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Dr Indla Ramasubba Reddy is the Founder Director of VIMHANS.Dr. Vishal Indla, joined VIMHANS in 2006 as the Chief Psychiatrist.
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On Thursday 17 August 2017, Tectura's Elizabeth Grigg and Melika Grigg-Baycan joined Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, James Merlino, Vicky Ward MP, Anthony Carbines MP and Melbourne Polytechnic CEO Rob Wood for a sod turning ceremony to mark the beginning of construction on the new Banyule-Nillumbik Tech School.
Due to open in mid-2018, the new Tech School is part of an initiative by the Victorian Department of Education to bridge the gap between secondary and tertiary education; to expose young people to the industries and employment opportunities of tomorrow.
The tech school has been expertly designed to equip students with an innovation mind frame in a rapidly changing global economy, with an emphasis on developing vital science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills.
Design elements of the new facilities include briefing and presentation spaces, a collaboration space, wet lab, digital and physical creation spaces and an industry focus area.


Ruven AfanadorIn a vulnerable Instagram post, Sam Smith opens up about his body image insecurities and how he's learned to love himself.
The Grammy-award winning singer shared a shirtless photograph of himself on the beach Tuesday and wrote in the caption about his struggles to accept his body size. He addressed some of the dangerous lengths he's gone to while preparing for photo shoots in his career.


liv is a Scandinavian-inspired salad and bowl concept based in Queens, New York. Living in the area, the clients noticed a serious lack in healthy dining options for themselves and the entire community. They wanted an approachable brand, while also having a Manhattan "cool factor".
We explored various directions that pushed the envelope including playing with vibrant colours, leaf textures and watercolor art. But fresh minimalism helped communicate the health and quality of the product best! Along with simply designed compostable packaging in a bright open interior space, we could easily convey the brands values.
Deliverables include: Research + brand identity, signage, icon design, menu system, drinks labels, uniform apparel and sustainable compostable packaging.


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Upcoming: May 9th 2019. Public book Launch IIAS Leiden.
For the recent published book Ancient and Modern practices of citizenship in Asia and the west. Care of the Self (AUP) I contributed a chapter Home within Movement: The Japanese Concept of Ma: Sensing Space-time Intensity in Aestetics of Movement. Join editor dr. Gregory Bracken and me at the book launch in Leiden at May 9th 2019.
Abstract: The ubiquity of immanent change and movement in contemporary urban landscape seems to exceed the present cognitive and sensitive abilities of our species and changes the relation between people and the environment. The emergence of the metropolis affects our sense of home. In Euro-centric architectural discourse, this is more often than not referred to as a general shunning of place that results in an experience of homelessness. In contradiction to the negative connotation of deterritorialization and displacement in Euro-centric discourse, in Asian discourse there are alternative sensibilities. In Beijing's tradition of community building, this fluid concept of home is visible in the courtyard typology (in historical order: fang (坊), danwei (单位), and superblock). Social interactions, based, respectively, on family relations, work, and lifestyles, are the key to the conceptualization and experience of feeling at home. In Japan, this is further conceptualized in the word ma (間). Normally translated as 'gap' or 'interval', ma describes the 'pregnant nothingness' with which the contemporary experience of home resonates. In this way, the concept of ma interferes with the Euro-centric philosophy of difference and inspires us to look at the modern urban environment from a different perspective, as a potential 'fifth dimension' in architecture. Keywords: Architecture, Japan, China, homelessness, ma (間), community building.
Published in Bracken, G., Ancient and Modern practices of citizenship in Asia and the west. Care of the Self, Volume I. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Universitity Press, 2019. pp. 241-257. All rights in are reserved and further distribution is prohibited. Image: GO'O Shrine by Hiroshi Sugimoto at Naoshima, Japan.