The Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department was established in 1994. The Department offers undergraduate education to about 200 students, and graduate programs to about 40 master students. The study at the department is scheduled to four years, excluding the first year for English preparation. Students not comprehensive in English must attend an one‑year Preparatory Program offered by the School of Foreign Languages. Most of the courses are offered in Turkish. The department at present has 11 full-time faculty members. The full-time faculty members are 3 professors, 2 associate professor and 6 assistant professors. All of the faculty members are involved both in teaching and in research through funded projects and through the supervision of theses.
The Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering ( first cycle in Electrical and Electronic Engineering) is awarded to the graduates who have successfully completed all courses in the curriculum.
Our students have practice oriented bachelor science education using their qualified mathematics and science background for electrical and electronics engineering. After graduation: * They can find suitable jobs in national or international work places in the first year after graduation. * They can provide important contribution by developing themselves in industry, research centers and universities. * They can prominence in their work positions using their scientific, social and job knowledge and skills or developing themselves in different fields. The programs in Electrical and Electronic Engineering are designed with the purpose of preparing students both for a career in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering profession and for further studies in applied and theoretical research. The first six semesters of the undergraduate program are common to all Electrical and Electronic Engineering students with the aim of preparing the student to choose an appropriate specialization option. The selection of the specialization field at the beginning of the seventh semester is made under the supervision of the department advisors In the undergraduate program the following specialization options are available to the students: * Electronics and Communication Systems * Power Systems and Control In the graduate programs, students are offered courses and research opportunities in the following specialization areas: * Electronics * Electric Machinery, Control and Power Electronics * Digital and Fiber-Optic Communications * Image Processing * Biomedical Signal Processing Currently, in the department, there are 2 professors, 3 associate professors, 6 assistant professors, 5 research assistants, 2 expert engineer, 1 computer expert, 1 electronic technician manager, 1 student affairs secretary, 1 department secretary, 4 support workers, and totally 26 person are working for education, teaching and research activities. Electrical and Electronics Engineering department targeted three fields, which are determined by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and State Planning Organization (DPT). The first field is the design of the systems for producing, distributing and using the energy. In the department; energy, electric machines, automatic control and power electronics courses are taught and researches are continuing on this field. The second field is the telecommunication and knowledge technologies. For this aim; electronic, optoelectronic, magneto electronic, electronic telecommunication, data communication, computer networks, fiber optic systems courses are taught and researches are continuing on this field by collaborating with foreign universities. The third field is about signal processing, artificial intelligence (Fuzzy Logic Systems, Artificial Neural Networks), embedded systems and biomedical engineering. In this field, related courses are given and researches are continuing. In the department, Master of Science and Doctorate education are provided also. In that sense, teaching staff are prepared for the universities, which are located in Aegean region (ÖYP program). Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Industrial Thesis Supporting Program (SANTEZ), State Planning Organization (DPT) supported projects and collaborative projects with industry are carried out. Our department was accredited by Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programs (MUDEK).
Our graduates work for worldwide universities and research centers. They work as research/teaching assistants while pursuing their graduate studies Graduates of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Programs work for companies in the electrical, electronics and telecommunication industries, national and international companies, Radio and TV Broadcasting companies, R&D, production and marketing departments of internet services related organizations and health care industry. Most of our graduates pursue graduate studies at prestigious universities. Still many graduates work in key positions for companies such as Vestel Elektronik, Türk Telekom, Turkcell, Aria, Ericsson Turkey, Philips, Tubitak, TAI, Aselsan, Renault, Beko.
Students must attend classes, practices and examinations. Students' attendance is followed by the Instructor concerned. For almost all required and technical elective courses there are written examinations, in which most cases student must solve selected problems by calculation. One midterm examination is given during each semester. Dates of midterm examinations are announced by the Department in the first month of the semester. In addition to midterm examinations and other work, students are required to take a final examination. Final examinations are held at the appropriate place and hour as decided and announced by the Department. Students are given a make-up examination for any examination which they have not attended if it is accepted by the Faculty Administrative Comittee that there exist genuine and valid reasons for this. The semester grades are determined by adding fourty percent of the midterm exam and sixty percent of the final exam grade. The type and contribution of the educational activities such as reports, homeworks, quizzes, seminar presentations or individual oral discussions, and performance in laboratory work on the assessment are announced by the instructor at the beginning of the semester. In the new assessment system which has been introduced since the academic year of 2004-2005, the semester grades are assessed through Relative Assessment System. The success states of the students are specified by Grade Point Averages (GPA) and Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) computed at the end of each term. (GPA) is the weighted grade average of the term the student is enrolled in. CGPA is the weighted grade average of the students computed by considering all the courses in the course plan of the enrolled department or program starting from the entrance to the university. (GPA) and (CGPA) are computed with the weighted grade averages. Weighted grade average is obtained by dividing the sum of the product of course credits and the weight coefficients equivalent of the letter grades to the total credit. Both (GPA) and CGPA are determined by adding all the grades students get from credit courses ranging from (AA) to (FF) to assessment. Students whose CGPA value is at least 2.00 are considered successful on condition that no course has been marked as (FF), (FD). Students whose CGPA values are below 2.00 are considered failure. Starting from the end of the second term, Students' GPAs have to be at least 1.80 to be able to take classes of the upper terms. For the assessment of success of the students enrolled in before the academic year of 2004-2005, if the final exam and the semester grades exceed 60 or be equal to 60 , the student will be successful from this course. Courses which do not require midterm and/or final examinations are determined by the course teacher. Under these circumstances, the semester grade is given by evaluating the work done throughout the semester.
Department have Circuit Analysis, Electronic, Digital Systems, Electric Machinery, Biomedical and Signal Processing, Power Electronics and Microprocessor laboratories for student's usage. Students can benefit from department's research facilities. These facilities are provided with Computer Laboratory, Circuit Analysis Laboratory, Optics Laboratory, Magneto-Electronics Laboratory, Embedded Systems Laboratory, Microprocessor Laboratory, Wireless Communications and Design Laboratories.


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Raikkonen bemused by Red Bull stance
By Alley August 23, 2013 10:08 AM
By Alley | August 23, 2013 10:08 AM ET
Kimi Raikkonen says Red Bull stopped responding in their 2014 Formula 1 contract negotiations and he has no idea where he stands with the world champion team now.
The Finn's management team declared earlier this week that Red Bull was no longer an option for Raikkonen next year, leaving the way clear for Daniel Ricciardo to replace sports car-bound Mark Webber as Sebastian Vettel's teammate. Then at Spa on Friday Red Bull boss Christian Horner insisted the team had not ruled Raikkonen out.
Raikkonen indicated he was bemused by the situation.
"I had no answer from them," he told reporters in the paddock. "We will see what happens. You have to ask them what they will do. I don't know any better than you guys."
"We never heard anything for a while, which is not the ideal situation, but that's how it is."
While staying at Lotus is believed to be Raikkonen's most likely option, he has also been linked to Ferrari. However, he refused to be drawn on his future on Friday and criticized media coverage of his contract talks.
"There is no different answer I can give you," said Raikkonen. "Until there is anything 100 percent sure, I've nothing to tell.
"There is a lot of talk I'm supposed to go to McLaren, I read somewhere, then there's Ferrari, and then there's Lotus. I still don't have a contract so what else can I say? Until I can tell you anything 100 percent, you keep asking and I keep saying the same things.
"We will not get anywhere and then there is a lot of bulls**t in the papers about the different options, that this will happen, that this guy said that. There must be much more interesting things to write about and tell people than the same things over and over again."
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2K SPORTS CHALLENGES SNOWBOARDERS TO TAKE THE JUMP WITH AMPED 3 FOR XBOX 360
Published on Nov. 2, 2005
NEW YORK, NY - November 2, 2005 - 2K Sports, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: TTWO), today announced AmpedTM 3 is a launch day candidate for the Xbox 360TM video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. The only snowboard game to be available for Xbox 360, Amped 3 features an all-new physics engine, enhanced controls and the world's greatest winter resorts to create the most authentic snowboarding experience. Action is interlaced with a hip storyline that encompasses the distinct snowboarder culture, style, music and attitude.
Amped 3 stays true to its roots as the most authentic trick-based snowboarding game on seven new real-world resorts. Amped 3 is three times larger than the levels in the preceding Amped games. The SnowboxTM offers hundreds of challenges at various resorts, including the option for players to test their skills snowmobiling and sledding and then have their top scored runs, hang-times and crashes automatically posted on Xbox Live® online gaming service. Given the vastness of the mountains, players explore the backcountry on snowmobile to find the perfect spots and then use the Park Builder for planting their own jumps and rails.
"With Amped 3, 2K Sports has tapped into the power of Xbox 360 to create the most authentic, customized, and unique snowboarding experience for gamers," said Greg Thomas, president of Visual Concepts, a 2K Sports studio. "Amped 3 captures the sport of snowboarding and reflects the style and attitude associated with the snowboarder culture."
Amped 3's Snow Tracks in-game soundtrack features more than 300 new independent music tracks. Select tracks are featured on the exclusive Amped 3 soundtrack CD, available as a pre-sell promotional item at major retailers and at 2K Sports events in November.
For more information, log onto www.ampedsnowboarding.com or http://www.2ksports.com. Amped 3 is developed by Indie Built, Inc., a 2K Sports studio.
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DSTM and Game Boy® Advance. The Company publishes and develops products through its wholly owned labels Rockstar Games, 2K Games, 2K Sports and Global Star Software; and distributes products in North America through its Jack of All Games subsidiary. Take-Two also manufactures and markets video game accessories in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific region through its Joytech subsidiary. The Company maintains sales and marketing offices in Cincinnati, New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Munich, Madrid, Vienna, Milan, Sydney, Breda (Netherlands) and Auckland. Take-Two's common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO. For more corporate and product information please visit our website at www.take2games.com.
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HAMILTON ISLAND is the largest of the Whitsunday Islands and is the gateway to one of the seven natural wonders of the world, the Great Barrier Reef. The lush green hills of the island quickly give way to the warm, azure waters of the Coral Sea and it is at junction of the two, on the northern end of the island that you'll find luxury resort qualia.
Yes, luxury is a word that is overused today but it's hard to find a superlative that more accurately captures the qualia experience and it's an experience that begins as soon as you step foot off the plane.
Our flight was met by qualia representatives who greeted us by name and handed us fresh face cloths and cool bottles of mineral water before collecting our bags from the carousel and delivering them straight to our pavilion.
We entered the resort through the large wood and stone gateway playfully dubbed 'Jurassic Park' by qualia staff and arrived at The Long Pavilion, the stunning centrepiece of the resort where we were greeted with glasses of Veuve Cliquot and an almost dizzying water view that stretches from the infinity plunge pool at the edge of the pavilion and over the Coral Sea creating the illusion of a single body of water stretching to the islands beyond.
The Long Pavilion is resplendent with polished wooden floors, low slung furniture and is also home to a discreet restaurant and bar where we would have our breakfast each morning.
After a very relaxed check in process, we collected our golf buggy (The best way to get around the island) and drove the short distance to our pavilion. We were staying in a Leeward Pavilion which has views over the bush and of the Coral Sea.
Our pavilion had all of the conveniences you would expect from a resort of this calibre. A separate lounge area with minibar, large flatscreen TV with 120 complementary latest release films on demand and the real kicker for me, a remote controlled sound system with iPod input and ceiling mounted speakers so I could plug in my own music and have it stream throughout the pavilion.
Mercifully for our neighbours, each of pavilions is positioned for complete privacy so the sounds of my rather eclectic music collection wouldn't disturb them and I could dance like an idiot on the sun deck without being seen. The bathroom was also impeccably laid out, with a separate standalone bathtub and rain shower, twin sinks and Aesop toiletries.
Our first afternoon was spent exploring the island by buggy. The marina on Hamilton Island plays host to a number of stores and cafes. Handy, as I managed to leave my board shorts back in Sydney.
Dinner that night was at coca chu, the newly launched South East Asian restaurant headed up by Executive Chef Adam Woodfield (ex Jimmy Liks, Sydney and Betel Restaurant, New York.) The menu presented a modern and seasonal take on South East Asian hawker food with the delicate balance between sweet, savoury, salt and sour that is the hallmark of Thai cuisine. Highlights included delicate morsels of lobster served on betel leaves and a rather menacing looking but sweet fleshed whole cooked fresh fish.
After dinner, it was straight back to the pavilion to prepare for the main event the next day, the Vogue Living Champagne Dinner at qualia, which I'll cover in the second of my two part series on Hamilton Island.
Jeremy Bowell Travelled to Hamilton Island, dined and stayed at qualia as a guest of Hamilton Island.
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You're right, luxury is the word for it. I love the mental image of you dancing around on the balcony to your 'eclectic' music!
We stayed in the windward villa in June. The best and most relaxing holiday experience I've ever had. It sets such I high standard though. I don't think anything else will compare!
It is an absolutely stunning place to stay!
Love Hamilton Island. And love that Aesop slab of soap – it has an incredible fragrance! What an amazing trip, Jeremy.


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Eukene Larrarte Arteaga (Tolosa, 13 de septiembre de 1998) es una deportista española que compite en ciclismo en las modalidades de pista y ruta. Ganó una medalla de plata en el Campeonato Europeo de Ciclismo en Pista de 2023, en la prueba de scratch.

Medallero internacional

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Ciclistas de pista de España
Campeones mundiales de ciclismo en pista
Nacidos en Tolosa (Guipúzcoa)
Deportistas femeninas de España

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A little over two years ago, I wrote this flash fic. I've been wanting to tell Annie and Siobhán's story ever since.
I've been working hard on it this spring and I'm excited to announce that I will be releasing the first book in their series, "A Brighter Palette" on June 30. The series will be the "Color" series. "A Brighter Palette" will include their first meeting in Boston at an art gallery and the beginning of their relationship. The second book, "The Greenest Isle" will follow their move to Ireland and their life there.
I don't currently have any ideas for a third book, but that's always a possibility! Sometimes the characters just demand more.
Without further ado, here's the cover, blurb, and a teaser from the first book.
"A Brighter Palette" is available for Pre-Order on Amazon now!
I didn't write a flash fic last week or this week. Mostly because I was immersed in the novella I'm planning to release in early June.
It's an old short story that I wrote a very long time ago. At some point, I made some tweaks to it, but I hadn't touched it in almost two years. When I finally dusted it off I realized I had the potential for a great novella and in the past seventeen days, gave one of the main characters a new backstory and motivation, and added 19,987 words to bring it to a grand total of 33,122 words. It's with my betas now and I will release it on June 10th.
I don't have a cover yet, but I should be able to make that this week so keep tuned for that.
Brodie Hall yawned and stretched. It had been a long, slow night at the vet clinic. That was a good thing of course—fewer animals in dire need of his help was always a good thing—but he was bored and restless. He rubbed at his eyes wearily, and resumed typing case notes from his previous shift. He was nodding off at the computer by the time the tech peered in the office door.
"Thanks, Annie," he said, standing and stretching. Sometimes he really hated night shifts at the clinic. Ambrose Roberts, the clinic director and head veterinarian, would be retiring in the next few years. Brodie had been saving up and he was hopeful that by the time Ambrose was looking for someone to buy the practice, he could afford to. He'd be a hell of a lot busier once that happened, but it would allow him to work a shift that didn't make him feel like a vampire.
Brodie nodded, picturing an elderly, widowed gentleman bringing in the cat he'd owned for years. He straightened his scrubs and swiped his stethoscope from the desk, draping it around his neck. Brodie was usually good at calming down worried pet owners, and he figured this guy would be no exception.
The veterinarian snagged the chart from the bin beside the exam room doorway before he went inside. His breath caught in his throat at the sight in front of him. Rather than an elderly man, the man in front of him was young. Well, Brodie's age anyway. Attractive, too, if slightly disheveled; his shirt was on backwards and his dark brown hair stood up on one side. God, he even had black rimmed geek glasses which were more or less Brodie's kryptonite.
He sat in a chair next to the exam table, speaking softly to the small gray and white tabby. She rubbed up against his long-fingered hand, and Brodie suddenly wondered what those fingers would feel like stroking him.
Deciding he was clearly beginning to hallucinate from exhaustion, Brodie pushed down that momentary lapse in professionalism and reached for the kitten. She tilted her head back as he rubbed his finger against the white fur under her chin. "You're a pretty little thing. Yes, you are," he crooned.
The cat's owner lifted his head, his brown eyes meeting Brodie's and widening. A blush filled his cheeks, and he jerked back. Now Brodie could see the fine features of his face, the faint cleft in his chin and the bookish handsomeness. Wow.
"Uh, Molly," the man stammered, licking his lips nervously.


HKU Team, Alpha Quant, received the Overall Champion Bronze Award and the Best Trading Strategy Award at the annual Inter-University Algo Trading Contest 2016-17 presented by CASH Algo Finance Group (CASH Algo).
Among the members of the HKU Team, Cai Tung San and Chan Wai Lun are current Year 4 students of the BEng(CompSc) curriculum. The other two members, Tsai Ka Man and Man Chi Kwong are majoring in biomedical sciences and genetics respectively.
Each finalist team of this contest was required to program/code for the proposed trading idea within a stated period of approximately one and a half month, and to pitch their trading strategy for the judging panel to invest capital in at the final round event day held on February 19, 2017 at the Hong Kong Science Park. The final evaluation was balanced between capital raised and performance.


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Natural World, newsFNiT2T let Manitoba know when entering the Treaty 2 Territory they must give consent
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FNiT2T let Manitoba know when entering the Treaty 2 Territory they must give consent
Lake Manitoba, Treaty 2 Territory – The Province of Manitoba who entered the Treaty 2 Territory long after 1871 has been announcing that they are proceeding with the Lake St. Martin and Lake Manitoba Megaprojects with or without First Nation involvement and prior consent.
"A protocol must be agreed to with the Crown agents and Treaty 2 Territory before this type of project can be discussed within our territory", said Vice Chief Cornell McLean, Chief of the Lake Manitoba First Nation.
The proposed canals Manitoba is illegally working on is the size of two-football fields wide – on our lands in Treaty 2 Territory will cause tremendous damage to First Nations hundreds of kilometers away. Why the concern kilometres away? The basic answer is because fish swim – they spawn in special locations and contaminated water has no boundaries, neither does invasive species; what comes down the channel will be shared in other water sources. The livelihood and quality of life of all First Nations around Lake Manitoba and Lake St. Martin are affected. Not only First Nations will be affected but all of Lake Manitoba fisheries as well; it should cause alarm to all Manitobans.
"When Manitoba or Canada want to work within the Treaty 2 Territory the days of faxing a letter or saying hello at a 15-minute coffee and donut greeting is over. If we follow your laws, accommodation and consent by the collective must be obtained", said Councillor/Head Man Leroy Thompson, Little Saskatchewan.
The expenditure of $540-million dollars to create the channel is moving forward without any consideration to the First Nations people who were evacuated in the 2011 flood, some who continue to live in hotels seven years later! People from four First Nations that were directly affected are dying and living on the streets because of the man-made structures put in years ago. No formal consultation has been done by both Canada and Manitoba and certainly no consent has been given.
In attendance at the press announcement on 27 November 2018 was First Nations in Treaty 2 Territory (FNiT2T) Vice-Chief Cornell Mclean, who is Chief of Lake Manitoba First Nation; Lake St. Martin First Nation Chief, Adrian Sinclair; Little Saskatchewan First Nation Councillor, Leroy Thompson; Southern Chiefs Organization (SCO) Grand Chief Jerry Daniels; and Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) Grand Chief, Arlen Dumas.
"This is an engineering solution to an engineering problem which has never worked. In 2012, they built a $100-million canal out of Lake St. Martin. It doesn't work. It doesn't help. If Manitoba is so determined to spend $540-million of taxpayer money, why doesn't it spend it on something that is a priority, something of value: like better housing for poor people, help Manitobans with costs of medicines etc – why waste it on a project that will make money for some at the expense of everyone else?", said FNiT2T Vice-Chief McLean, Chief of the Lake Manitoba First Nation.
We are not talking about natural flooding. We are talking about illegal man-made flooding, the operation of the Portage Diversion of the Assiniboine River into Lake Manitoba – both federal and provincial governments know this is illegal! Why contribute to crime by giving them more money to spend?
"I am here today to support the Chiefs of Treaty 2 and the protection of their territory, Manitoba better start listening to Treaty 2. What Manitoba is doing is not consultation," said AMC Grand Chief Arlen Dumas. Going further to say, "The Government must understand that the progress will not move forward without the support of the Treaty 2 Chiefs…We will stand by our Chiefs, all our Rights, our Sec 35 Rights, our Treaty Rights, our Inherent Rights…I want to acknowledge the T2 Chiefs the actual, practical, tangible solutions they brought forward, the Premier and ministers are choosing to ignore that and that I strongly encourage the Province to reconsider this path. It's a show of bad faith for this government to be begging the Federal Government to actually forgo our Sec 35 Rights. It totally out of line and totally out of law and its not something we will allow," said AMC Grand Chief Arlen Dumas.
These megaprojects are a part of this illegal enterprise. It diverts water that might flood Winnipeg onto Indian Lands where it floods out the Indians. $40-billion dollars of flood damage has been prevented, which is nice, but it's being done at the expense of the First Nations. Shouldn't there be compensation, so we can move our communities to Higher Ground?
"Your government does not have consent of the Anishinaabe people of these lands, and your description of consultation its needing to be efficient; isn't genuine, and does not reflect the Treaty partnership, does not reflect the future we are working together, the solutions to the problems need to be driven by our Indigenous peoples; the peoples who openly invited and saved many many life's in our territories the Anishinaabe Nation opened the doorway after the Royal Proclamation signed through a Treaty process that gave them access," said SCO Grand Chief Daniels
Grand Chief Daniels also said "Instead of expedited a mega-project in our lands, you need to ensure that we are involved in every step of the way of the process and I hear him calling upon the Federal Gov to streamline the environmental assessment process because he wants to move things forward, but he wants to have dialogue but he's already moving projects and awarding contracts. How can you have a dialogue when all the decisions have been made? Where is the partnership?
The real answer is to fix the real cause of the problem, which is the draining of wetlands, permitting development too close to riverbanks, clearing away the natural barriers that hold water back and prevent flooding. The Government instead should be giving us the $600-million and we'll restore the wellness of the natural world and prevent flooding by dealing with the cause of the problem, not by trying to avoid all the damage that has been done.
Treaty 2 Territory now has a temporary government in place after 147 years of Canada and Manitoba laws being pushed upon the people of Treaty 2. With the establishment of the Treaty 2 government comes First Nations laws, acts and governing of their people, land, water and all the resources in the entire territory; enough of the settler laws and attitudes that ignore our Rights! Nothing about us without us, in unity we remain!


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Sunday August 19th, 2012
By Barrie Dunsmore
In 1970, Egypt and Israel began the War of Attrition. I and my ABC News crew would spend months in Cairo, just in case Egypt's periodic artillery fire at Israeli positions across the Suez Canal - and/or Israel's retaliatory bombing raids into Egypt - were to ignite another full scale Middle East War. But there was lots of down time and the bosses in New York strongly encouraged us to do feature stories to justify some of the costs of keeping us there. One day I had the bright idea to do a profile on the vice president of Egypt, a totally unknown figure in the outside world named Anwar Sadat - the man who theoretically would become president of Egypt if something were to happen to President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
As Nasser was only 52 and the most powerful man in the Arab World, he seemed very secure. Nevertheless, I applied to the Ministry of Information for permission to do a feature on the man who was in line to succeed Nasser. Within a day or two the Minister himself called me in. He told me Sadat was purely a figurehead, spoke not a word of English – and he implied, wasn't very bright. Therefore my request was denied.
Just a few months later in September 1970, Nasser died of a massive heart attack. In the immediate stories of the succession, Sadat was touted as Nasser's puppet with no chance to survive the infighting among would-be successors. But within six months Anwar Sadat had out-maneuvered all of his opponents and was fully in control. When I did my first interview with Sadat, who by then was the unquestioned leader of Egypt, I couldn't resist telling him what denigrating things the Minister of Information had said about him when he was vice president. While I don't recall his exact words I do remember that his eyes twinkled, he puffed on his pipe and he chortled.
When Egypt's new president Mohammed Morsi was sworn in at the end of June, Egyptians of every political faction- as well as the majority of non-Egyptian analysts - all seemed to agree that Egypt's first ever, elected president in modern times, would not be a strong leader. After all, on the eve of his swearing in, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces issued a decree that dissolved Parliament, which Morsi's Moslem Brotherhood Party controlled following free elections. The general's edict also apparently stripped the new presidency of much of its power while preserving a range of powers and privileges for the military.
Yet a week ago, this was the lead story in the New York Times; "President Mohammed Morsi of Egypt forced the retirement of his powerful defense minister, the army chief of staff and several senior generals, in a stunning purge that seemed for the moment to reclaim for civilian leaders much of the political power the Egyptian military had seized since the fall of Hosni Mubarak last year. Mr. Morsi also nullified a constitutional declaration issued by the military that eviscerated the powers of the presidency and arrogated to the military the right to enact laws."
A similar story in the Washington Post put it this way. "The man who was until recently widely regarded as a charmless, accidental president has cast aside rivals and consolidated power with stunning speed and shrewdness…… Morsi forced out the country's top two defense chiefs in a sudden and dramatic move that analysts saw as an early victory in a power struggle many Egyptians thought would remain stalemated for years. Perhaps most surprising was how little pushback the dismissals drew in a country that has been led by military men for six decades."
As the smoke has cleared what seems remarkable is that there has still been no push-back from the military. Some analysts suggest Morsi cleverly exploited the incident two weeks ago in which renegade Islamists over-ran an army outpost in the Sinai desert killing sixteen Egyptian soldiers. This deeply embarrassed the military. Other reports this past week have emphasized that junior officers were dissatisfied with the aging generals of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and encouraged the change. While I have seen no reporting on this, I suspect that Morsi may have bought off men such as Field Marshall Mohammed HusseinTantawi, the head of SCAF, with promises that there would be no prosecutions or retribution against those high generals who have lined their pockets for decades as the Egyptian military came to control perhaps as much as half of the entire Egyptian civilian economy.
The United States government reportedly had some anxious moments over the sudden changes in Cairo. But it turns out that the new Defense Minister and armed forces commander is Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sissi. He is well- known to the U.S. and an administration official told the Washington Post that al-Sissi, had, "espoused cooperation with the United States and the need for peace with neighbors."
Still there remain many uncertainties ahead as noted this past week in a Council on Foreign Relations on-line interview with Steven A. Cook, the Council's top Egypt expert. He gives Morsi "good marks" so far. But Cook points out that because of Morsi's background as a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, there is "concern now among remnants of the old regime, people who enjoy a secular lifestyle, Coptic Christians, and others, about what the intentions of the Brotherhood are," since many of these people have counted on the military to keep the Brotherhood in check.
This means controlling the Brotherhood will be President Morsi's ne xt major challenge. Egypt's economy is in a tailspin and the unemployment rate is exploding. He needs to attract significant new foreign investment to Egypt and to get masses of international tourists to start coming back. But that won't happen if the most radical Islamic wing of his party turns Egypt into a fundamentalist state. The booze and bikinis that come with business people and tourists are incompatible with strict Islamic law enforced by religious fanatics.


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Molecular Biology 08: 'DNA replication and repair'
Sep 22, 2014 • ericminikel • Boston, MA • bcmp-200
These are my notes from lecture 08 in Harvard's BCMP 200: Molecular Biology course, delivered by Johannes Walter on September 22, 2014.
The dipoid human genome contains 6e9 bp - compare to 1.6e10 characters in English Wikipedia. The physical length of the diploid genome is about 0.6 nm/bp, for a total of almost 2 meters of DNA per cell [source].
A few years after Watson and Crick published their proposed structure for DNA, experimental evidence from E. coli confirmed that indeed, replication was "semi-conservative", meaning that it produces two helices, each of which contains one strand from the original double helix [Meselson & Stahl 1958]. This requires DNA helicases to unwind DNA; the motor mechanism thereof is described in [Enemark & Joshua-Tor 2006]. In bacteria, DnaB helicases work 5' to 3', and in eukaryotes the MCM2-7 helicases work 3' to 5'. The classic helicase assay involves running DNA on a gel to distinguish double helical from single-standed DNA [Kaplan 2003]. To demonstrate that a protein acts as a helicase, it is necessary to mutate the DnaB ATPase motif; absent this proof, your helicase activity could be due to contaminants. Kaplan biotinylated either the 5' or 3' end of DNA and bound it to streptavidin. He found that binding the 5' end severely inhibited DNA unwinding, while binding the 3' end actually increased the efficiency of unwinding. This demonstrated that one ssDNA tail is for loading the helicase, and the other is for "pushing against".
Another landmark experiment involved purifying DNA from calf thymus and purifying DNA polymerase I from E. coli (1 g of enzyme per 100kg of bacterial paste), and showing that the enzyme could incorporate radiolabeled dNTPs into new strands of DNA [Lehman 1958]. This swiftly earned senior author Arthur Kornberg the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. DNA polymerase synthesizes DNA by extending a primer in the 5' to 3' direction (which means walking from 3' to 5' on the template strand). It removes 2 phosphates (pyrophosphate) from a dNTP and then cleaves those into two individual inorganic phosphates in order to power the ligation of the remaining phosphate on the dNMP into the DNA polymer. The ligation step's own ΔG is barely negative, so the coupled pyrophosphate cleavage greatly improves the thermodynamics of DNA replication.
The leading strand is the strand where the 5' to 3' synthesis points into the replication fork and proceeds continuously. On the other, lagging strand, the nascent strand is synthesized in Okazaki fragments which are ligated togehter later.
All DNA polymerases require a primer. In DNA replication in vivo this is accomplished by a primase such as DnaG in E. coli which creates short RNA primers. On the lagging strand this is done repeatedly for each Okazaki fragment and the RNA is removed at the time of ligation.
This video shows the leading strand being synthesized continuously, and Okazaki fragments being created in serial:
DNA polymerase not only has 5' → 3' synthase activity, it also has 3' → 5' exonuclease activity. If starved of dNTPs it will back up and degrade the strand it just made. It will also back up to remove incorrectly incorporated nucleotides - this is called "proofreading activity". DNA polymerase I also has another activity unique among polymerases, which is that it also has 5'→3' exonuclease activity, aka "nick translation" which moves nicks in a 3' direction (think the geometric meaning of "translation").
DNA polymerase has a Km of 10 μM for dGTP and dATP, and of about 50 μM for dCTP and dTTP. For optimal activity, therefore, the concentration of dNTPs has to be >50μM. Under such conditions the rate of incorporation is about 50 dNTPs/second. DNA polymerase has a processivity of ~50 dNTPs, which refers to the number of enzymatic activities (dNTP incorporations) that it can perform per DNA binding event. For each time it binds a strand of DNA, it can add 50 nucleotides. Measurements of processivity require watching the activity of one binding event for a single molecule. This can be achieved by (1) using immobilized primer templates and washing away excess polymerase, (2) adding a large amount of non-radiolabeled competitor DNA, or (3) using single molecule imaging.
Klenow discovered that a certain protease treatment could separate DNA polymerase I into one domain with 5'→3' polymerase activity, and another domain with 3'→5' exonuclease activity. The polymerase fragment was used in sequencing for many years, until bacteriophage T7 polymerase came along.
In the active site of DNA polymerase, two metal cations bound to two aspartates catalyze the nucleophilic attack of the 3'OH of the nascent strand on the 5' phosphate of the next dNTP. DNA polymerase is said to contain a "palm" and "finger" which form the catalytic site, and a "thumb" which holds the DNA in place. The active site is an extremely confined space, such that only proper Watson-Crick base pairing will allow a dNTP to fit [Goodman 1997]. The active site geometry alone is sufficient to give DNA polymerase an intrinsic fidelity of 1e-5, i.e. one error in 100,000 base pairs. Additional fidelity is achieved through proofreading exonuclease. If a wrong base pair is incorporated, it distorts the geometry of the strand such that the polymerase stalls upon attempting to incorporate the next nucleotide. This acvitity brings the fidelity to 1e-7. After replication, the DNA mismatch repair pathway recognizes any wrongly incorporated nucleotides left behind by the replication fork, and fixes them, bringing the final fidelity to 1e-10, so that there is <1 mistake per cell division event in, say, the human genome. Note that the figures for fidelity rates and the relative contributions of different enzymes are similar in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
Knocked-in mutations in DNA polymerase that increase the error rate lead to death by cancer in mice [Goldsby 2001].
After Kornberg's experiments, people figured that the DNA polymerase he had isolated was probably responsible for DNA replication in E. coli, but no one was sure yet. De Lucia & Cairns 1969 created thousands of clones of mutagenized E. coli and found one clone which had <1% of the wild-type DNA polymerase activity, yet could still replicate, demonstrating that DNA polymerase I was dispensible for life - although that clone did exhibit increased sensitivity to UV light. Arthur Kornberg's son Tom subsequently isolated DNA polymerase III, which turns out to be the essential one in E. coli for DNA replication [Kornberg & Gefter 1972]. In fact, the mutant that De Lucia and Cairns isolated durned out to have a W382X mutation in DNA pol I which preserves the 3'→5' exonuclease domain of DNA pol I, which is essential for life. DNA polymerase I and III are essential, therefore, while DNA polymerase II is dispensible. The DNA polymerase III "holoenzyme" is comprised of several subunits, some of which come in >1 copy per complex, and are divided into "core", "clamp" and "γ complex" subassemblies. The β subunit is essential for producing long strands - its crystal structure [Kong 1992] eventually revealed that it is a ring which fits around dsDNA and keeps the complex from falling off, and it turns out to increase the processitivity of the complex from 25 to 15,000 dNTPs. The γ complex is a AAA+ ATPase "clamp loader" which pops open the β subunit and fits it around the dsDNA. The γ complex must bind ATP in order to open the β subunit, and then must hydrolyze the ATP in order to close it again and release the β subunit. In the movie above, the green ring is the β subunit, and the gray blob under it is the γ complex.
Once Okazaki fragments were revealed to exist, Bruce Alberts felt there must be some sort of temporal coordination between the leading and lagging strand synthesis to prevent the leading strand from outrunning the lagging strand. In the "trombone model" he hypothesized that the replication complex for the lagging strand is bound to the replication complex of the leading strand, forming a loop that goes until replication hits the last Okazaki fragment, at which point the lagging strand is released and a new loop is gathered up. This model is diagrammed here and is also how it is depicted in the movie above. This hypothesis is currently believed to be correct, and the γ complex contains two copies of a subunit called Tau, which are thought to each bind to one of the two copies of DNA polymerase III.
Replication is more complex in eukaryotes. Eukaryotes have different polymerases for the leading (DNA pol ε) and lagging (DNA pol δ) strands, and an enzyme called DNA pol α which performs both the RNA primase activity and the first 30 nt of DNA polymerase activity. DNA pol α cannot bind to the processivity factor PCNA, so it falls off after ~30 nt, at which point the other polymerases take over. DNA pol δ will actually peel away the RNA primer and keep going, leaving an RNA "flap" which is later cut by Flap Endonuclease Fen1, which leaves a nick later ligated by DNA ligase I.
Okazaki fragments are ~3kb in bacteria and 150bp in eukaryotes. The replication fork moves about 30 kb/min in bacteria and 1 kb/min in eukaryotes. E. coli have only one origin of replication, from which two forks set out, one in each direction. Human cells have ~100,000 points where replication can be initiated.
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Determine the significance/meaning of a symbol in poetry or prose.
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Identify the common theme in a series of passages.
Demonstrate knowledge of the appropriate use of sound and metric devices (i.e., rhyme (internal, slant), rhythm, repetition, alliteration, onomatopoeia).
Demonstrate knowledge of the characteristics of lyric poetry, blank verse, free verse, epics, sonnets, dramatic poetry, and ballads.
Identify the elements of drama (i.e., stage directions, dialogue, soliloquy, monologue, aside).
Locate words or phrases in a passage that provide historical or cultural cues.
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If you're interested in Celtic culture, Irish dancing, orchestral music and/or horses, the Celtic Canter Celebration will prove to be an excellent Saturday night activity for you. In fact, our own Lambert High School orchestra is performing alongside Irish dancers from the Drake School of Irish Dance during the local Celtic festival in Cumming, Georgia. The festival is being held outside to benefit the organization Save the Horses, which creates bonds between abandoned or abused horses and adopted or foster children. When asked about the event, leading second violinist Rachel Kenney says, "I'm excited to play at such a beautiful venue, and for a great cause too!"
Aside from music and dancing, there will also be games, food, face-painting, a silent auction, a showing of the animated film Brave, and pictures with Bravo, a featured horse that has a striking resemblance to Merida's horse in the movie, Angus.
Come on out and support the Lambert Orchestra Saturday night, September 27, from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM, and it is expected to draw in a significant crowd. Tickets are available online on Facebook (via the Barn Buddy Program at Save the Horses). All proceeds will go to the Barn Buddy Program and in the end, benefit both the children and the horses.
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In sports, winners usually get the spotlight and losers are quickly forgotten. But athletes give their best in representing their countries, and that spirit was certainly on display at this year's Summer Universiade.
On Wednesday, Ilsida Toemere of Suriname was a competitor in the women's 10,000-meter final. Alla Kuliatina of Russia was the winner at 32 minutes 52.27 seconds, but as the Russian crossed the finish line, Toemere still had six laps to go. The 24-year-old finished in 44 minutes 25.28 seconds, last among the 14 runners. But despite the pouring rain, spectators at the Gwangju Main Stadium applauded her for her efforts.
Toemere may appear to be a less-than-stellar long-distance runner, but she is a star in Suriname, where she set a national record for the women's marathon in 2013. Her record of 3 hours 40 minutes 30 seconds is far from the world record of 2:15.25, but was 17 minutes faster than the national record she broke.
"I'm just happy to race here representing my country," she said.
In swimming, Tanzania's Damian Msabila was the talk of the town, despite finishing last in all three events that he competed in.
On Thursday, the 24-year-old finished the men's 50-meter freestyle in 33.40 seconds, 10.59 seconds behind the United States' Seth Stubblefield, who clocked 22.41 seconds to win the heat. Excluding five swimmers who were disqualified, Msabila was at the bottom of the heap.
He was also last in the 50-meter breaststroke, at 44.62 seconds, and in the 50-meter backstroke, at 48.82. The gold medalists in these two events came in at 27.34 (breaststroke) and 25.25 (backstroke).
But Msabila was smiling because, he said, he wasn't disqualified in any of the three events. The University of Dar es Salaam student said he first started swimming in 2013 after watching the U.S. swimming star Michael Phelps. This was Msabila's first time competing in a swimming pool that met international standards; his training was in rivers.
"I'm just satisfied that I'm in the international event," he said, wearing the Tanzania national football team's uniform to promote his home country. "Rankings aren't important to me."
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Moyo started golfing three years ago. After her round, she said mournfully that this was the worst round of her career and complained that the golf courses in Korea were too long. She didn't compete in the final round, but her overall score for three rounds was 269-over 485. The winner, Lee Jeong-eun, carded a 9-under 279.
In men's recurve archery, Nepal's Prakash Gurung received applause from the spectators, despite scoring 532 points in the preliminary rounds, 161 points behind No. 1 Lee Seung-yun. The 22-year-old from Purbanchal University hung in, hoping to wash away memories of the country's horrific earthquake in April.
"Korea participated in the 1948 London Olympics and the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland under poor conditions, but those experiences and a challenging spirit became the cornerstone of the country," said Son Hwan, a Chung-Ang University professor who specializes in sports history.
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27th PASSENGER - A Hunt on Rails
published by PURPLE GAMES designed by Christos Giannakoulas & Manolis Zachariadis illustrated by Manolis Frangidis
Purple Games began in Greece in Thessaloniki just a year ago. It was formed by fellow games lovers Maria–Olga Raimondo and Evi Tsirogiannidou. At SPIEL
in Essen Germany they had a very busy stand demonstrating and selling two games that seemed very popular to the attendees. The first of these games,
27th Passenger, was excellently funded on Kickstarter making around $9000 of the $6000 required.
27th Passenger is an excellently produced game with quality components, super artwork and a well written rulesbook;
it is exactly how a game should be presented. Looking at the components first we find a double-sided board which is
used depending on the number of players, of which there can be 3-6 aged 10 and up. The board represents the route the
train is taking and the stations it stops at. At each stop passengers get OFF the train (but none get ON), a wooden token
represents the train on the board, just a note but there are wooden train tokens available and although one wouldn't make
any difference to the gameplay it would have looked better
Each player has a Deduction Sheet (shades of Cluedo or Clue) on which they mark off the clues as they detect them. The
game is basically an updated version of the famous detection game except it is set on a train (a la Agatha Christie) instead
of an old house.
From the Passenger cards each player has a random card dealt to them secretly - this is their Identity and it is this that the
other players are trying to discover. Each Passenger/character has three statistics, Looks, Voice and Scent to which there
are three definitions, such as Deep, Shrill or Soft for Voice, Perfumed, Neutral or Foul for Scent and Formal, Eccentric &
Casual for Looks. These are used for ID purposes; once you know all three you can identify the player's character, then you
can set out to assassinate them - for that is the true nature of the game - assassinate or be assassinated - Last Man Standing.
The players each have 6 Action cards of which 2 are one-shot-then-discarded and 4 are usable each Round. Players secretly
select one Action at the start of each Round but unlike other games they don't all declare simultaneously, instead they go by
the number on the card (1, 2, 3 or 4) with the lowest card being the first Action that takes place. Obviously there are going
to be times when players select the same number, especially as to begin with there are three cards with the number 1 (two
of these are the one-shot cards previously mentioned). When this occurs the players reveal their Initiative cards and the higher
value of these takes their Action first.
Each Round an Event card is revealed that counts for everyone throughout the Round. This can be helpful or a hinderance and
seems only to be in the game because without it the paper thin veneer is even less inviting of entertainment.
Then something confusing happens, (at least it is confusing in my opinion as I cannot fathom why anyone should take this action)
the winning player, that is the player with the highest Initiative may if they wish swap their Initiative card with one of the other
players who had played the same Action number. I have played the game several times and have not yet found out why you would
not want to keep the highest Initiative card. It is true that; going first in an Action may not always be a good thing as the player going
last can possibly change their tactics, but only if they have guessed what the other players intended doing and they have chosen the
correct card to play. It is no use deciding that because Player A has gone after Player B for the first two Rounds that Player A will do
the same thing again. Other players will also have noted this and they may get their attack in against Player A (who is still going first)
before you do, thus if no-one has gone after you the card you have played has almost been wasted - not quite because obviously this
occurred during play testing and there is a reward of a Disguise card in this situation, but it is all a bit hit and miss, bluff and guess.
Personally I think the way the Initiative cards are used doesn't work as well as it could. They are dealt out at the beginning and that's it,
unless a swap is made, and swaps can only be made amongst players who used them in a tied Action, so it is fair to say that Initiative
cards can stay where they are dealt for any length of time. It could be better (in fact it is because we tried it and it worked) if the Initiative
cards were shuffled and re-dealt each Round.
The idea of the game is to eliminate all of the other players before the train reaches its destination. The stack/draw pile of passenger
cards are passengers getting off the train and if possible you need to eliminate them from your search by checking the cards before
they leave the game. Everytime you look at a Passenger card you mark off the Passengers name on your crib sheet thus eliminating
them from your search for the other players. This is the way the designers see the game being played by families and why the age for
playing is 10+. Personally I don't know many 10 year olds that wouldn't get bored with this game before the first couple of Rounds are
over. That may sound harsh but in truth The 27th Passenger is a retro game and not because it is based in the 1920s. It is virtually Cluedo
without the dice but it does offer a little more than Cluedo, although sometimes the roll of a die is just what some games need to liven
them up. The main reason we aren't so keen on it though is because players get eliminated from the game and have to sit and watch while
play continues around them. Not only do they get knocked out but there is generally nothing they can do about it. This is not a dig at
this game particularly, we just really do not find games where players can be knocked out socially enjoyable. (One exception to this is
Lunch Money and that is only because the knocked out player can still, and is encouraged to, voice their opinion as to who should do
what to whom, how, and with what).
Yes there are defence cards, you start with a couple (the one-offs can be used to defend yourself if you have foreseen the attack and
chosen the correct card as you Action) and you can get others if you can collect Disguise cards. Maybe if you began with some Disguise
cards as well it would give players more choice each Round, or even if you could play a Protection card and an Action card and only
use/discard the Protection card if it was required. Let me give you an example of a few Rounds of our last game. Val went first. Her
Action was to Investigate Richard. As it was the first Round he hadn't prepared a defence and so he had to give Val knowledge of his
character. In this case Val had chosen Scent - she gave Richard the 3 Scent cards from the Features deck and he handed her back the
one that related to him.
In the next Round Val chose Initiative again. Not expecting another attack Richard chose Investigate also (the previous round he had
chosen to look at the Passengers getting off the train - as had I. Fran had Investigated Val. So Round 2 begins and Val investigates
Richard again, this time for Voice and marked off his Voice type on her sheet. She is now 2/3rds of the way to identifying Richard.
He now has no choice but to go either for Disguise cards or to play a Defence card next Round, thus he is basically eliminated from
playing because the choices have been made for him by Vals two investigations. Of course he may select to do another Action but if
he did (which he actually did as he felt he was being manipulated) and so he fell to Vals third Investigation and now Val knew who he
was. Of course if we hadn't left them to it one or both of us could have been going for the unprotected Val or even Richard as he was
constantly having to deal with Val, but this may be fun for a short term but after a game or so it gets beyond amusing and becomes no
fun. You can only play Cat & Mouse so many times before you don't want to play it anymore. Take Tic Tac Toe (Noughts & Crosses)
for example, as a kid I played it until the tactic was learned and then it became impossible to lose and always ended in a draw. Now I
don't play it anymore.
Round Four and Val can now try and Assassinate Richard if she wants to. Okay there is now a chance that Val can assassinate Richard
but there is also a chance that Val might have made a mistake and that the character she has identified is an innocent. Actually there isn't
any chance of the latter because she has already identified Richard's character through his statistics - no two passengers are the same. So
Val plays Assassination on Richard, he shows everyone his character card that we know matches Vals prediction and Richard is now out
of the game - awkward !
The sad thing is that there is a beautifully designed mechanism that eliminates the assassin player if they choose the wrong passenger and
kill an innocent, but there is really no need for experienced gamers to ever make the wrong guess, unless they are bored with playing and
use the "Get Out or Die" action (that's a reference to the old boardgame Colditz which had a card that allowed bored players to make a run
for it). When you first read through the rules you are thinking that there is a good game in here, but as you begin to play you realise the good
part is very well hidden. Everything about the production is excellent but I seriously cannot see any 10+ year old giving up their PS3, XBox
or handheld console in place of this, it simply will not/does not (we played with 2 of our grandchildren) hold their attention. It may be because
our grandchildren have grown up with their parents - our children - who have brought them up in a games-playing environment where they
uickly had to learn to be thoughtful, crafty and inciteful when playing boardgames - that they took little time in deciding for themselves that
he best thing that could happen to them in this game was to be assassinated, and thus they offered no resistance to being quickly eliminated so
they could go off and play or do something else. That's a sad but true indictment on 27th Passenger as an interest holding entertainment.
In the same vein, if you play it as a family - mum, dad and two kids for example - neither mum nor dad are going to want to knock the youngsters
out of the game first, even in games playing families like ours we wanted the kids to be part of the fun and telling them to sit and watch has never
been an ideal situation for any youngster. In fact it is games that knock you out that is forcing youngsters to play more online games than board
games. This can leave the new problem where the two kids are left and the parents are both eliminated, not an ideal situation, especially if the
parents were trying to introduce their kids to boardgaming.
Off the top of my head I am imagining several ways this game can be revised using the components and rules that come with it, but with a few
tweaks and adds, One of these ideas is to give Players 2-3 Disguise cards at the start as this would eliminate early assassination. Another idea is
or the players to have more than one Passenger but only one of these is their true identity, the others are innocent henchmen. Henchmen may be
killed but they count as collateral damage (they work for the Player's character and know the risks) so they don't count as innocent but they may
injure the assassin (say by making them lose a Dusguise or other card). Of course these ideas need some work but they do begin to make the game
a little more thought-inducing. The actual game is meant to be about Deduction but it is really only about process of elimination.
This is not a game for gamers or families. It may be fun for 20-30 year olds with some Tsipouro or Ouzo and perhaps a few beers but it isn't what
I would regard as a family game. The authors reckon a game lasts about 45 minutes which means that the first player eliminated, after about 5-10
minutes tops, has 30+ minutes of free drinking time. I really want to say something positive about 27th Passenger because it is obvious a lot of time,
money and more importantly, love, has gone into bringing it to the table, but I honestly feel that this was an ill-advised venture. Thankfully because
of Kickstarter it will not have lost the company any money but whether its sales will continue past this I have my doubts. It does look good, will sit
nicely and be eye-candy on any games store shelf, and because of its nearness to Murder on the Orient Express and Cluedo it could easily make it on
the holiday market, especially as a Christmas present bought by someone seeking a gift for a fan of either Christie's tales or Waddington's games.
It doesn't have the player interaction or comedy aspect of a family game like Kill Dr Lucky or Catan, nor the strategies of games like Dominion or
Village, all of which can take about the same 45-60 minutes to play. In our opinion it requires the type of players who like the guess and bluff style
of olde tyme pub games (Crown & Anchor for instance) which to me makes it the quintessential classic beer and pretzels game.
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Death and Judgement
Source: http://www.miami.com/miami-news/xxxtentacion-has-been-shot-and-killed-according-to-reports-heres-what-we-know-191635/
"I like it when bad people die."
– Christopher Hitchens
"Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not."
– Romans 12:14, King James Bible
Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy is dead. He was 20 years, four months, and 26 days old when he died, shot dead while leaving a motorcycle dealership. There is a photo circulating on Twitter of him propped in the back of a car, mouth agape. Apparently he had no pulse as the photo was taken.
Onfroy was better known to most as the rapper XXXTentacion (ten-tah-see-yon). X, as he was called, was a controversial figure – the kind of controversy that makes Kanye West look like The Fresh Prince. The day before his debut album released, X posted an Instagram video of him hanging himself. His concerts have become centres of violence and disorder. He has been arrested three times, and charged with gun possession, robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment, witness tampering, and aggravated battery of a pregnant victim. The pregnant victim was his ex girlfriend, Geneva Ayala. She has described a history of abuse and torment – physical and psychological. There is a photo circulating on Twitter of her eyes swollen shut and her lip split and bleeding – the handiwork, she says, of her ex-boyfriend. X responded by releasing a song named after Ayala. The lyrics read "She showed me fake love, can't forget how it hurt, no. Made a list of my regrets and you were first, love".
I believe Ayala. I have no reason to doubt her. X did nothing to contradict (let alone convincingly counter) her accusations. He expressed openly antifeminist sentiments in a recent interview, and his entire image traded on the idea of loathsomeness – self loathing, loathing others, being loathed, and doing loathsome things. Yes, I believe Ayala. I believe XXXTentacion beat his pregnant girlfriend and tormented her, that he broke her phone and threatened her life for complimenting another man on Snapchat, that he pummelled her again and again, to the point where she needed $20,000 worth of surgery to repair the damage. I believe that XXXTentacion was an abusive, cruel, and stupid young man, who showed every sign of glorying in that image, and no signs of redeeming himself.
And now he is dead.
And I do not know just what to feel.
It's hard to know how to respond to the deaths of people you despise, especially when that death is tragically unexpected and completely unnecessary. Deaths of truly evil people in wartime (or something like it) – those are easier to square. The circumstances made it necessary, we tell ourselves. A sane utilitarian calculus demanded it. We may be right, and it may quiet the pit gnawing at us somewhere deep within. But even with the death of Osama Bin Laden, a monster, a reprobate, a vicious reptilian bastard, a man who unquestionably deserved Seal Team Six and more – I find it difficult to glory.
I do not, through this position, wish to assume some moral authority. I am not one. I just know that XXXTentacion is dead, and I am not happy about it.
To be clear, I despise X. I always have and I always will. I am lucky in that my simple and unqualified loathing of him as a person wasn't complicated (as I know it was for many – and that's perfectly fine) by a love for his music. I found it, on a superficial level, a trite emulation of what other folks (Death Grips and Dälek first among them) have done so much better. Lyrically, his preoccupation with how hard it was to be an abuser was sickening. I hated him as an artist and despised him as a person. I did so long ago and will continue to do that. It is an easy position to take.
But I didn't want this. I don't think anyone really wanted this.
X, for all his controversy, was a seriously popular figure in American hip hop. His death will raise a great many questions. Some will come already answered, like the link between aggressive music and actual violence (tenuous at best), or the terror of gun crime in America (it remains, shockingly, a problem). Others, like how we should evaluate the artistic legacy of someone like X and what the emotional response to his death should be, have no clear answers.
I call myself a Christian. I'm not quite sure why. I think it's a longing for a comfort I had as a child – the security of religion, the connectedness it provided. The act of prayer is absolutely a source of relief and release. I do not think I would have made it through my university years did I not have some faith in the words I whispered to the sky. But my faith doesn't extend indefinitely. God, do I have doubts. The existence of the divine is… unlikely. At the very least it is incomprehensible. There are a thousand different questions I have about my professed faith, and in all likelihood almost none will ever be answered. But I focus now on one area: the Christian doctrine of forgiveness. "But I say to thee, resist not evil", Jesus tells us in the King James Bible: "Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also."
This is not the part where I implore my readers to forgive XXXTentacion his trespasses. That would be wholly inappropriate for me to ask. When it comes to cases such as these, turning the other cheek seems impractical and undignified, if not downright mendacious and ignorant. Some people, of course, are capable of extraordinary feats of forgiveness – Michelle Knight, one of three women abducted by Ohioan Ariel Castro, managed, through years of meditation, therapy, and prayer, to forgive the man who held her prisoner and raped her repeatedly for 11 years. Her journey is chronicled in her remarkable book Finding Me. My admiration for her strength and grace is boundless. She is a better person than me, and a better person than I expect anyone to be.
But that is not to imply those who cannot forgive X are bad or worse people. Forgiveness is terrifyingly personal, and most Christian traditions premise it on heartfelt redemption made in good faith. To say XXXTentacion did not attempt this is an understatement.
Another complication to my faith is my near-unceasing admiration for Christopher Hitchens, an extraordinary writer, and in my view the late 20th century's greatest political journalist ( at least as far as the English language is concerned). Hitchens is renowned for his antitheistic atheism, accompanied by his erudite vitriol. After Jerry Falwell (a truly sick and odious creep) died, Hitchens wasted no time in decrying him on CNN. "If you'd have given him an enema", Hitchens said of the gluttonous Falwell, "you could have buried him in a matchbox." He endured great criticism for his disrespect of the dead, but remained unapologetic, as the epigraph herein contained shows.
In many ways, I have no problem with Hitchens' attitude to Falwell. Deifying the recently passed and forgiving them their failings is careless towards anyone said failings might've hurt. For a man such as Falwell, who suggested that 911 was the direct result of the United States recognising the LGBT community as human, those failings (and their accompanying hurt) are so great that they transform carelessness into cruelty. Hitchens called this a "grotesque offence to truth and morality". He was right. And he was right to do it just after Falwell died.
But where I take issue is glorying in his death. There is a line – a fine one – between refusing to sanctify the deceased, and celebrating their demise. And death isn't a punishment like anything else. It is final, and terrifying, and grotesque. The fact that it is natural and inevitable does nothing to numb its effect or still the terror it inspires. Death… death is too often dismissed as another unfortunateness, frequently by political extremists, who adore the notion of human life sacrificed at the altar of ideology.
XXXTentacion was scum. But he was only 20 year old scum. Who knows what his future held before him. Human beings are capable of the most amazing transformations and tales of redemption. X will never get his.
I am not sorry that he is no longer with us. But I am sorry – painfully sorry and ill – that he died as he did, and that his death, for some, is cause for celebration. I cannot imagine the relief his victims must feel knowing that he will never touch them again. I don't want to invalidate or criticise that. Not for a second.
But I do want to caution against those who imagine that, because of what he did, his life was forfeit. Death is not yours to deliver, and certainly not yours to celebrate. A 20 year old kid has died. A stupid and cruel kid, but a kid.
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement."
– Gandalf the Grey, from The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
For more hip-hop related posts, read my retrospective review of Kanye West's 808s and Heartbreak, or my profile on Unkle Adams.
Posted on June 18, 2018 June 19, 2018 Categories Arts & Culture, arts and culture, Culture Blog: The Social BarometerTags arts and culture, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, death, domestic violence, faith, forgiveness, hip hop, murder, Rap, XXXTentacionLeave a comment on Death and Judgement
Chasing Your Delusions: The Unkle Adams Story
Source: http://www.toiletovhell.com/toilet-radio-teaches-you-how-to-destroy-your-life/
"Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?"
– Orson Welles, in Tim Burton's Ed Wood
The world is full of success stories. Or at least, it seems to be. With 7 billion people fighting for every chance to be heard, it's no wonder that the only ones we hear about are those who make it. They dominate the language of artistic struggle so thoroughly that their type of story – "rags to riches" – has, in itself, become a cliche.
But these are just the ones we hear. There are billions more – of riches to rags, or rags to rags, or rags to riches to rags again, which don't fit the mould of popular success, and thus don't get told. And that's a pity, because often failure can be more fascinating and revealing than success.
Enter Curtis Adams. Born and raised in Regina, Canada, Adams' official bio states that he fell in love with hip hop at a young age. Consumed by a desire to do good and inspire others, he became "NOT just a rapper", but "also a motivational speaker, role model and counter-bully".
His songs "Original" and "At Least a Million" became viral hits in mid 2017, enjoyed for the unintentional hilarity in lyrics like "I mold young minds similar to pottery" and "Write out a complaint and place in your rectum, or better yet type it in the comment section!"
And then, as is the case with most internet fads, Curtis Adams had his day and was forgotten, lost in whatever aether of middle-school-centric pseudo-inspiration he was destined to waft into. Until, six months later, he returned.
Adams' song "At Least A Million" became the title of a vlog series, wherein he spoke about his continuing struggle to "blow up" amid the adversity of online bullying, an unfriendly record industry, and – oh yeah – his ever-growing debt of (what was then) $160,000. By the time the vlog series reached its tenth episode, Adams' debt had grown to more than $200,000. This was thanks to Adams' unique way of getting cash in hand – maxing out credit cards to buy televisions and construction equipment, and then selling them at a loss.
Yet he refuses to quit. He has a piece of paper stuck above his bedroom mirror which reads "You are looking at THE ONE". He keeps pictures of Martin Luther King and Ghandi (among others) above his bed, reminding him that "life tests you, and it's about keeping the faith". In his eighth vlog, Adams sits proudly among boxes upon boxes of unsold televisions, and tells how the business partner of "the guy [he] was going on tour with" has decided to withdraw because "he found out that this other business partner… was involved in some fraudulent activity." Adams was sent a cease and desist letter and the tour was cancelled. His response? "So that was discouraging… but at the same time I'm prepared for things like that, I know that life does that to you – it does that to everybody, it tests you – and it's like 'are you gonna quit or are you gonna keep going?' And, of course, with me you already know the answer – I'm gonna keep going."
Johnny Paley was the sound engineer who recorded some of Adams' earlier songs. He is now moderator of a facebook group dedicated to the bizarre case that is Curtis Adams, and has spoken publicly more than once about the man's creative process. In essence, he says, what you see is what you get. "he's the Unk you see in the videos, very forward and confident… delusional." He described how Adams began as a motivational speaker, before being banned for graphicly showing teenagers what drinking bleach does to the human body. At the same time he was trying to make a name for himself as a battle rapper. This attitude comes directly from Adams' high school persona, says Paley (who's known him for years) – "He was always the loudest in the room, and very aggressive."
Adams' early work has been retroactively termed "Dark Unk" by this online community – by far Adams' most prominent fanbase. In fact, there are enough of them that Adams averages 18,000 monthly spotify listens – a staggering achievement for an artist so well and truly outside mainstream music. Surely here, then, lies a route to at least some sort of success?
Alas, no. Not if you're Curtis Adams, and you only want success on your own terms. Paley detailed this uncompromising attitude in an AMA, saying "I tried [to improve the songs], I really did, but everything Unk releases is ALL UNK IDEAS". The same thought process translated into his interactions with fans. Adams routinely bans anyone who comments anything but banal positivity on his posts. He recently started a feud with famous online music critic Anthony Fantano, also known as The Needle Drop (Adams calls him "the needle dick" – take a moment now to remind yourself of his claim to anti bullying credentials). And, finally, his girlfriend lurked in the facebook group under a fake account for three months, before making a bizarre post demanding the entire group cease to be, and warning that lawsuits against several individuals are pending. That was three weeks ago. There have been no new developments on the matter.
Curtis "Unkle" Adams is a man in the mould of Tommy Wiseau and Ed Wood. He is heedlessly confident and terrifyingly delusional. His perseverance is almost inspiring, and his ignorance deeply pitiable. He is petty, daring, unhinged, and, above all, deeply out of step with the world around him. There is a video of him clapping and whistling at a flock of ducks by a pond. Confused and awkward, he asks a passerby "Are they… are they ducks?" The old man doesn't respond. Adams bends down and claps once more at the birds, who proceed to make haste in the opposite direction.
And that's who Unkle Adams is.
Posted on May 21, 2018 May 21, 2018 Categories Culture Blog: The Social BarometerTags arts and culture, hip hop, music, Unkle Adams1 Comment on Chasing Your Delusions: The Unkle Adams Story


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Filmes
Tudo por Dinheiro (1997), filme com Chris Tucker e Charlie Sheen
Spanish Judges, filme com Matthew Lillard e Vincent D'Onofrio, exibido no Brasil como Tudo por Dinheiro
Two for the Money, filme com Matthew McConaughey e Al Pacino, exibido no Brasil como Tudo por Dinheiro

Televisão
Topa Tudo por Dinheiro, programa brasileiro anteriormente chamado Tudo por Dinheiro

Desambiguações de cinema
Desambiguações de televisão


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Discussion in 'Mapping Questions & Discussion' started by Pooluke41, Mar 8, 2010.
On a Building in the background, a rustic red 2fort one, What sort of windows would look best?
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Damnit tapp just because one person goes off topic doesn't mean you have to jump on the band wagon and take the thread further off topic.