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We Fact Checked Aaron Sorkin's Climate Science on "The Newsroom"
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I watch too much TV drama, so I can say this with a degree of certainty: It's rare that climate change comes up. (Television news programs also contain "tepid" coverage, in general, according to watchdog group Media Matters). That's why it was so weird/exciting for this climate reporter when global warming received its very own subplot on Aaron Sorkin's HBO drama The Newsroom over the last two episodes.
First, a little context: Maggie Jordan (Alison Pill) is the show's once daffy news producer whose role this season seems exclusively designed to reverse earlier charges of sexism against Sorkin. She's now good at her job! During a convoluted scene on a train from Boston to New York, Maggie overhears and records a top EPA official talking shit on the phone about President Obama to another journalist, off-the-record. Even though that agreement of confidentiality doesn't extend to the other Amtrak passengers, she eventually tells the official she won't use his juicy Obama-dissing quotes. So impressed by her ethics, the official, Richard Westbrook (Paul Lieberstein), rewards her with a scoop: an embargoed EPA report. WHOA! WHAT A SCOOOOOP! (For the uninitiated, while a heads-up about a study is great to get a jump on your competition, reports are circulated and embargoed all the time). Anyway… Maggie also gets an exclusive interview with the official, the deputy assistant administrator of the EPA (WHAT A GET!) and in the most recent episode, she produces a segment for host Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) about the report's dire warnings.
The scene is odd for a number of reasons. The Newsroom packages its drama based on last year's events, and at that time, the news that the world was approaching 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere had been publicly anticipated for weeks. So, not a scoop in any way, or anything that anyone following the science didn't already know.
But putting that aside, let's take a look at Sorkin's "facts", as presented in the episode. How do they measure up? Let's go line-by-line through the scene above.
In the weird parallel universe of The Newsroom, I'm not sure when these "latest measurements" were meant to have been taken. But he's right. We covered this at the time: The world passed that 400 ppm threshold for the first meaningful way in May 2013, when the daily mean concentration of carbon dioxide was higher than at any time in human history, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The measurements are indeed taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii; you can follow what's known as the "Keeling Curve"—a measurement of atmospheric concentration of CO2—on Twitter, naturally, thanks to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Depends what you're defining as catastrophic failure, I suppose. Say you were born last year, when I assume this episode was meant to be set. If we follow along current emissions trends, the planet will be 3.96°F-8.64°F (2.2°C–4.8°C) hotter than preindustrial times by your retirement. (You can type your birth year into this cool interactive, driven by data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to check how hot it will be when you're old). That's above temperatures recommended to be in the supposedly "safe" zone by the IPCC, and could definitely result in a variety of "catastrophes" and "failures". As deaths increase due to things like extreme weather, droughts and wildfires, this statement seems true enough when applied to individual episodes of calamity, which will surely increase. (The number of annual deaths in the UK due to heat, for example, is predicted to rise by 257 per cent by 2050.) The EPA official is right, in one sense. But it's also arguable that deaths are already and will continue to be linked to climate change events. The line in the script infers the failure of the planet as a whole, which I think is artful flourish to illustrate just how glum this fellow is feeling.
Yup. That's what the science says. The last time the atmosphere clocked 400 ppm it was 3 million years ago—the "Mid-Pliocene"—when sea levels were as much as 80 feet higher than today (see this 2007 research paper authored by a group led by NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University.) I'd probably add an "around" or "about" before the "80 feet higher" in the above statement; the studies leave a margin of error. But this statement checks out.
His point is sound, but I'd like to see the writers' sourcing—these numbers seem to date to around the late 1990s. According to a more recent 2011 NOAA report, 55 percent of the world's population lives within 50 miles of the coast. The UN has a slightly different number: Over 40 percent of the world's population, or 3.1 billion, lives within 60 miles of the "ocean or sea in about 150 coastal and island nations." In the US, 39 percent of the nation's population lived in counties directly on the shoreline in 2010.
That seems right.
There's consensus amongst 97 percent of climate scientists that global warming is happening and that's it's a manmade disaster. And I've heard climate scientists use this analogy before. (For what it's worth, there are other things that can influence the boiling point of water, including altitude.)
He's talking about the "carbon budget", and again this is sound, despite Newsman Will's growing anguish at a pretty devastating interview. The 565 gigaton number was popularized by Bill McKibben in a 2012 Rolling Stone article that Newsroom writers seem to have read. The number is "derived from one of the most sophisticated computer-simulation models that have been built by climate scientists around the world over the past few decades" (done by financial analysis firm Carbon Tracker) and is what we can add into the atmosphere by mid-century and still have a reasonable chance of success of staying below that safe two degrees warming threshold. Our grumpy scientist is so despondent because, yes, 2,795 is the number of gigatons of carbon already contained in the proven coal and oil and gas reserves in the hands of fossil-fuel companies and petrostates. In short, it's the fossil fuel we're currently planning to burn, writes McKibben. Carbon Tracker says 80 percent of these assets need to remain unburned.
All of these things are predicted by the IPCC—I mean, not the permanent darkness thing, I don't think that's meant to be scientific. But yes, as we reported in May this year, Europe faces freshwater shortages; Asia can expect more severe flooding from extreme storms; North America will see increased heat waves and wildfires, which can cause death and damage to ecosystems and property. Especially in poor countries, diminished crop yields will likely lead to increased malnutrition, which already affects nearly 900 million people worldwide.
So, in all, well done Newsroom. Informative, accurate, if a little heavy-handed on the doom and gloom.
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Q: Importing to pgsql from gpkg/shp with ogr2ogr I am trying to import features from a geopackage (or a shapefile) in an existing table of a distant PostgreSQL database. I use ogr2ogr which I run from OSGeo4W Shell.
The code used with the geopackage is:
ogr2ogr -update -append -progress -f PostgreSQL -nln schema.my_table PG:"dbname=my_database host=my_server user=me password=my_password port=5433" D:\temp\SIG\my_geopackage.gpkg

The code used with the shapefile (an export from the gpkg) is:
ogr2ogr -update -append -progress -f PostgreSQL -sql "SELECT [variables as var] from my_shapefile" -nln schema.my_table PG:"dbname=my_database host=my_server user=me password=my_password port=5433" D:\temp\SIG\my_shapefile.shp

(in this case I must call a select to rename the variables as their name is truncated by the conversion in shp)
In both case, I get a "done" message and I can find the data is my_table BUT their are not spatial anymore... I mean I can't see the polygons corresponding to each line.
What do I do wrong?

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"Instead of Work Requirements, Why Not a Jobs Guarantee?" (Atlantic) is kind of fun. The author recognizes that the centrally planned Medicaid system now consumes more money than Americans want to spend (though many are unaware of it!). The proposed solution is a fully planned economy for a subset of Americans in which the government provides a job for anyone whom private industry doesn't want to hire (e.g., at the new $15/hour minimum wage?).
Philip, what do you think of the New Deal, particularly the WPA? I learned about in in school as a " make work" program similar to what this Atlantic article proposed. But some of the results of the "make work" programs, such as trails in national parks, still benefit people. So maybe this isn't the worst idea out there.
It doesn't seem as though there is as much demand for low-skill labor as there was in the 1930s. But maybe that is simply because (a) labor costs are much higher, and (b) the option to collect welfare is much more attractive than it was. So perhaps there could just be a flower-planting and weed-pulling project! Certainly right now it is not possible to find anyone to do this in the Boston area for less than $25/hour.
That stuff about the New Deal is sort of religious belief that people enjoy believing.
Also, most Britons appear to think that the NHS is doing a great job, delivers great value for the cost and just needs more funding. The NHS is probably the most popular institution in Britain, just as Medicare is in America The statistics do show that similar countries like France, Germany and the Netherlands spend a bit more per capita.
It's because unlike in the 1930s, most of the low-skilled labor would be domestic or administrative and Americans have longstanding historical issues with domestic labor. And on the administrative end, people would rather be exploited doing lower-skill administrative work for corporations at part-time hours and often barely above minimum wages (the "pink collar ghetto" was a phrase that you used to see a fair bit) than do clerical work for household employers at higher wages.
Interesting. Is there a counterexample somewhere of a country having an analogous depression but recovering more rapidly as a result of not expanding its government in the way the US has done?
> So perhaps there could just be a flower-planting and weed-pulling project!
From about 125 million people employed in the US (https://www.statista.com/statistics/192361/unadjusted-monthly-number-of-full-time-employees-in-the-us/), 14 million are employed directly or via grant/contact by the Feds (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445230/federal-government-growth-continues-while-federal-employee-numbers-hold). Another 16 million by state and local governments (https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/governments/cb12-156.html). No idea how many contractors they employ… That's at least 30 million people, or about 1/4 of the employed workforce. Which consumes 40% of GDP. What fraction of GDP originates from the take-home pay of these 30 million (and non-take-home pay in the form of medical insurance payments and retirement plan contributions)? What does that leave? Less than half of GDP not *directly* controlled by the government. But certainly influenced by it in myriad ways. Farmers and agriculture are not "directly" controlled by the government, but regulations sure seem to greatly influence what is grown, where it is grown, how it is priced, etc. How many of the half-million CPAs are needed only to comply with tax collection?
Looks a lot like we already have a planned economy, masquerading as free-market capitalism. Just the medicaid bit was a bad plan, and now needs a new plan. Everything is fine, carry on.
FOR HEALTHCARE TO BE AFFORDABLE, PEOPLE MUST DIE!
Got your attention? Good. Because it is absolutely true!
For Healthcare to be affordable some people must do without it and some of them MUST DIE! Sounds harsh? That's the unfiltered truth if you can handle it! Why? Because IF THERE IS ALWAYS AN ABILITY AND WILLINGNESS TO BUY SOMETHING REGARDLESS OF PRICE, IT'LL NEVER BE CHEAP. Will I sell a car for $10,000 if government will find a way to buy it for everyone at $1,000,000? If society will find a way to pay for Healthcare regardless of the costs, healthcare will NEVER be affordable. It doesn't matter whether you are making the rich pick up the tab for the poor, the young pick up the tab for the old, or the government pick up the tab for everyone. As long as somebody always pick up the tab and you have just ensured that there will be no effective price competition and it'll be unaffordable (overall) for society. It's that simple.
Ask you doctor how much that test is going to cost or how much the prescription is. If his answer is "I don't know" and to look at the back of your insurance card for the co-payment, you can be 100% sure Healthcare costs will remain out of control. If one day, you see $29.99 and $24.95 signs come up in front of competing clinics and hospitals advertising $24,995 flat fee with $1000 get well cash back for Heart Surgeries, you can be 100% sure Healthcare costs will no longer be an issue!
● Healthcare Reform shouldn't be about covering more people with Insurance.
● Healthcare Reform should be about LOWERING HEALTHCARE PRICES, period.
● There must be effective and robust price competition in healthcare.
● Day-to-day use of Healthcare services MUST be an individual responsibility.
● Insurance MUST only be for the bank breaking events not routine benefits.
● Instead of free stuff, repayable Healthcare Loans should be the safety net.
● All healthcare expenses should be tax deductible.
Why can't we stop making fake wars and sending our young kids to die? If we can even save 30% of the money we are spending on our weapon collection, a lot can be solved.
That's not a problem. People die every day and that will never end.
If you want to go socialism, you need to go all the way. Problem with guaranteed jobs with fixed salary is that it encourage people to work as little as possible without getting into trouble. East Germany had the same problem, and found a solution: they'd put people who refused to hit its (admittedly very low) productivity criteria into jail.
"Demand for low skill labor" …. a few months ago we had a BLS statistician give a talk. She was very excited, they were allowed to develop a new dataset (related to greatly increased SS disability payments). Anyway, she had some great slides.
One of my favorites broke all US jobs down by training time needed. Basically minutes/days/years. Another breakdown was by salary. Forty five per cent of current jobs have a training time of about 20 minutes, combined with a salary of $8 to $12/hour.
Seems like there is still considerable demand for low skills labor. Maybe not in Boston?


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Dauntless Review
Kyle Vaughn
Dauntless is a free-to-play action RPG developed by Phoenix Labs and debuted a full release across Windows, Xbox One, and Playstation 4 with fully functional cross-play. The game closely resembles the gameplay structure of the popular Capcom series, Monster Hunter. As an adventurer, you will depart from a central hub of shops, NPCs, and other players into a world inhabited by large monsters (never happy to see you) in their various biomes. Killing monsters grants you crafting ingredients to create strong armor and weapons that enable you better odds of defeating more powerful behemoths. If this description creates excitement within you, it is important to note that Dauntless is free on all listed platforms. Though not without its problems, Dauntless might be one of the best free-to-play games currently available.
Title: Dauntless
Publisher: Epic Games
Developer: Phoenix Labs
Available On: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Reviewed On: PC
Game Acquired Free-to-Play for the Purpose of This Review
The immediate resemblance between Monster Hunter installments and Dauntless is almost impossible to overlook, but Dauntless throws the player into the game and hunt much more rapidly than most Monster Hunter games. Indeed, Dauntless is a game that shines in its ease to jump in and out of fast play sessions, with most expeditions lasting under 15 minutes. Dauntless features much of the same gameplay elements that Capcom's celebrated series, but in a reduced and simplified form. The adventurer of Ramsgate, Dauntless' main city-hub, is not bothered with even story. The little story that is available (you, on an airship, crash land onto an island and are enlisted as a hunter of behemoths) is presented in the opening cinematic and almost never mentioned again. Depending on the type of gamer you are, this can be good or bad, but one thing is certain – if it's gameplay you want, it's gameplay (and only gameplay) you'll get.
Dauntless is similar to Monster Hunter in game style, but the quick observer would see much more in common with the other, more popular Epic Games Store free offering, Fortnite. The graphics are stylized in an almost cartoonish manner with exaggerated facial structure, oversized weapons, and bulky armor. Characters move in the light-but-tight fashion of Fortnite with high jumps and quick turns. The colors are universally bright and saturated, which is welcoming initially but over long play sessions may become tiresome to the eyes. The behemoths are obviously the centerpiece of graphical achievement in Dauntless, ranging from detailed firecats, insects and owls to more fantastical creatures. The behemoths move smoothly and their attacks are prefaced by well-timed tells. Furthermore, each behemoth attacks predictably. Cats pounce, owls swoop, and insects sting. None of the behemoths are wasted; each is truly a joy to battle and conquer.
The immersion felt in the over-the-top monster battles is underwhelming when considering the world of Dauntless at large. The city of Ramsgate is beautifully decorated but ultimately feels lifeless. After sitting in a frequent (and sometimes aggravatingly long) queue to enter the game, it would have been nice to bump elbows with the countless other adventurers ready to improve their own loadouts, but each instance of Ramsgate rarely seemed to accommodate over a small handful of players. The NPCs rarely have very little to say to the player aside from an infrequent, uninspired quest of killing a certain behemoth with a certain weapon. The numerous NPCs, largely static in their positions and personalities, also offer little variation to gameplay; aside from the armor, weapon, and consumable crafters, you will rarely visit any of them. Once you leave Ramsgate and venture to the floating islands that house your prey, you will be greeted with beautiful environments of snow, sand, dirt, grass, and trees, but even these offer no deviation to gameplay aside from aesthetics. Monsters don't interact with their environment as you might expect, resulting in a wasted effort from Phoenix Labs to create beautiful, though tragically unused, biomes.
Again, if you aren't looking for mind-blowing immersion, you will be happy to know that Dauntless' combat system works marvelously well. Numerous types of weapons, including the staples of sword, axe, and hammer, amongst others, are almost immediately available to your disposal. Combos are easily identified between a mix of light attacks, heavy attacks, and your specific weapon's special maneuver. Each weapon you forge, either neutral in damage or crafted to attack with a specific element, can also be modified to change your special attack or alter your damage output. The attacks flow well and, combined with dodges, sprinting and jumping, need to be timed well to polish your end of hunt score, maximize your damage output, and mitigate any incoming potential damage or downtime. Almost every point of damage I took could be attributed to poor decisions I made in the heat of battle. Certain systems could undoubtedly be improved (like an occasionally laborious method of changing gear in a mildly convoluted menu), but the main mechanics of Dauntless leave very little to complain about.
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If you've played many free-to-play or cheap games in recent years, you are surely familiar with the "season pass" style of monetization. Dauntless offers extra rewards following level-ups of your avatar with the initial $5 purchase of a battle pass, and $10 for subsequent passes unless you accumulate enough unused premium currency during your time of play to avert that cost. Many of the rewards are cosmetic and are fun to apply, but other microtransactions and rewards offer quicker progression through the game via increased material gathering following hunts. Though not necessary to compete and certainly not a "pay-to-win" model, it should never be applauded of a developer to add progression through a game's journey via purchase with real-life funds. Pitifully, many of Ramsgate's NPCs have dedicated themselves to this vocation.
Of final note, in my time playing Dauntless over the weeks since launch, I had to suffer through a slew of bugs that, though not game breaking, killed immersion and caused significant frustration. Hit boxes occasionally seem to extend far beyond a behemoth's lashing tail, causing what should be a successful roll to knock you to the ground for a chunk of damage. Maps occasionally feel poorly programmed in the midst of a hunt, with behemoths glitching in and out of a hill or characters becoming stuck behind a poorly placed pillar and unable to move. Server errors occasionally booted an entire party from a hunt going otherwise swimmingly. Most common and irritating is a frequently unresponsive action button. Attempting to heal at a fountain, mine a rare mineral, or revive a downed comrade will sometimes leave you with a full action wheel and an unresolved action, forcing you to sidestep a few times and retry to achieve the desired command. With such a long beta phase as Dauntless had, these common and glaring bugs would hopefully have been ironed out. I am sure they will be in future patches, and will be receptive to playing more when they are.
All of these aspects cumulatively considered, it is easy to overlook Dauntless' less palatable aspects in favor of the game's accomplishments. Jumping in and out of sessions is quick and easy, and battling even difficult and frustrating behemoths with four friends feels rewarding when finally felled. Phoenix Labs has pledged their continued support. It would be difficult to not realize the immense potential Dauntless has with a dedicated ongoing development team, and I'm excited to see where the game's direction leads and what challenges lie in store for devoted hunters. I certainly plan to return frequently as updates release to experience these advances. If you're looking for a multiplayer adventure and the wallet is tight, no game deserves the recommendation at this time more than Dauntless.
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Kyle Vaughn is a Las Vegas native who has been gaming since before gaming was cool. Both of his parents claim that at two years old, he was able to beat the first level of Super Mario Bros. faster than any of his older siblings. Unfortunately, his skills and reflexes have only slowed down since then (don't peak too early, kids), but he still tries to get as much gaming in as he can when time allows. When he isn't gaming or streaming, Kyle is spending time with his wife and three young sons (who already love games), pickling and fermenting strange foods, or trying to run a small startup charity fund. He can occasionally be found on the Max Level Podcast and is also a Reviewer from time to time. Check the sidebar for more info on Streamworks Alliance and try to catch his nonprofit gaming stream at twitch.tv/bruce_dedeuce.
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Q: If the received value is "" ,we want to delete that particular property from object For a given object if the input "value" of a property is "" , we want to delete that property from the object .
Ex
{
 "Speed": "59 MBPS",
 "latitude": "90.2",
 "longitude": ""
}

As per the example ,since the value of longitude is "" , this should get deleted from the object.
Please suggest a javascript code to achieve this .

A: You can use Object.keys() to get keys from the Object. Then you can filter the properties !=="" and then reduce it to form an Object.
Something like this:-

let o = {
  "Speed": "59 MBPS",
  "latitude": "90.2",
  "longitude": "",
  "prop": ""
};

let res = Object.keys(o).filter(k => o[k] !== "").reduce((acc, cv) => {
  acc[cv] = o[cv];
  return acc;
}, {});
console.log(res);

Or simply use delete like below:

let o = { "Speed": "59 MBPS", "latitude": "90.2", "longitude": "" };

for (let key in o) {
    if (o.hasOwnProperty(key) && o[key] == "") {
        delete o[key];
    }
}

console.log(o);


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Betsafe Review
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Twisters are their popular spin-based jackpot format
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Software occasionally glitches
No massive guaranteed MTTs
Betsafe is one of the best known of the poker sites on the enormous iPoker network, guaranteeing good traffic and still maintaining a surprisingly soft level of action across both MTTs and cash games.
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When you have 25 hours of work and 24 hours of the day to do them in, one wonders where to start from. Well, as any productivity priest will tell"¦begin the night before. Task management is all about planning early and then following it through with some old fashioned 'bubble gum' attitude. That's right; you got to stick to it.
Well, as a harassed freelancer, I have spent a lot of time on productivity how-tos. Personal productivity by the way is a universe of its own. Just stick the word in the Google search field and check out the number of resources and productivity apps that gets listed. Along with many blogs and websites, what also gets listed are tools that help us make headway with the day ahead of us. There's a whole Amazonian forest of productivity apps out there. Some like Remember the Milk 8 Easy Ways To Manage Tasks With Remember The Milk 8 Easy Ways To Manage Tasks With Remember The Milk Read More are standard examples of to-do applications.
More online and offline productivity apps are coming in each day. Why? Because mastering procrastination is as old a battle as any. Also, with the boom in handheld devices (PDA, iPhone), productivity apps have found new fields to mushroom.
So with a shout of more the merrier, let's say a polite hello to Doris. Doris is a web-based productivity tool. It also has an iPhone app available at the App Store [iTunes link].
So, let's check out if the beta persona of Doris has beauty as well as brains. As Doris herself says, it's about three things – simplicity, usability and speed.
With a login that's quick and straight, you are presented with the My Tasks interface. As principles of productivity and GTD theories say, it's important to offload all pending to-dos from the head to the paper.
The interface is designed around quick listing of all tasks that need to be done for the day. After listing everything out in a random list, the interface supports drag and drop of the items into an order of priority i.e. how d you plan to go through them from top to bottom.
The drag and drop feature also makes it easy to create Groups and add related tasks into them. In the next screenshot, two similar tasks have been hived off into a group named as Work Related.
Another approach is to drag and drop tasks from the Groups into the Today view so that the immediate tasks can be brought to the fore. When the list and groups get too much for the length of the monitor, you can collapse the individual groups to manage the view.
Completed tasks can be marked off with a simple checkmark. The task gets crossed out. And yes, I agree with what Doris claims"¦crossing out completed tasks does give a high.
To enhance that feeling, you can go into Task History at the end of the day and gloat over your accomplishments. Any task that that been crossed out by mistake can be restored to the list with a click on Restore.
Doris does live up to the three virtues. There's nothing complicated about the interface, you can log-in and straightaway start creating your to-do list. The drag "˜n drop feature makes prioritizing slick and smooth. Keyboard usage is limited to typing out the tasks. The interface is uncluttered and the only piece of clutter that's there is some informative stuff from the Doris blog feed.
Doris seems to suggest that you should get the things to do off your mind into an organized list as rapidly as possible and then focus on doing them.
If you are starting off with to-do's and productivity tryouts, then do give the Doris productivity app a try. Its apparent lack of advanced features could be a blessing in disguise for the guy who hankers after minimalism.
Try it out for a day, and tell us if you felt happy, crossing out a few tasks from a Doris to-do list.
Explore more about: GTD, Task Management, To-Do List.


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"First, it should be noticed that there is no mention in 194 of "a right of return." The resolution says that certain refugees "should be permitted to do so" when practicable, but it stops short of any explicit claim that refugees have a right to return.
"Second, the resolution, which was enacted in 1948, is clearly referring to the 1948 refugees. Though Palestinians assume that it must be taken to apply to all descendants of the 1948 refugees, there is no explicit statement of that sort. Indeed, since it was envisioned that action on the refugees would be taken promptly, there was no intended reference, one way or the other, to third and forth generations of the 1948 refugees over a half century later.
"The resolution speaks of a return that would occur at "the earliest practicable date." While there may have well been many points at which a return would have been practicable in the past, after sixty years of continued conflict and with the vast growth of the refugee populations, no significant return is practicable now or in the future.
"Specifically, when mentioning return, the Resolution speaks of a "return to their homes." The resolution is silent about return to anyplace else, whether to lands near their homes, or more generally, to lands within the 1949 Armistice lines. Moreover, given that in almost all cases the refugees' homes no longer exist or have become the homes of successive generations of Israelis, a return to homes, is not practicable at all. In short, the return provision is completely empty—only compensation is relevant.
Any one of these interpretations might be challenged by Palestinian negotiators. They might argue that each one of them violates the spirit of the resolution, and they might argue that there are yet other facets of international law to back up their claims. Of course, this is exactly the case with arguments over Resolution 242. Such arguments can go on forever, without either side changing its viewpoint. In the end, however, a peace treaty will be very specific. There will never be agreement on what Resolution 242 really means. Rather there will be an agreed permanent international border and an agreement "that this satisfies 242." Similarly, there will never be agreement on what Resolution 194 requires. Rather there will be a specific treaty that solves the refugee issue and an agreement "that this satisfies 194." If accepting 194 as a basis for negotiations can help get us to that point, it will have played a valuable role.


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Le temple de Thésée est un bâtiment néo-classique situé dans le parc Volksgarten dans le centre-ville de Vienne.

Architecture
Le temple a été construit de 1819 à 1823 en style néo-grec par l'architecte Peter von Nobile. Il repose sur une structure à gradins en trois parties et les dimensions extérieures sont de 14 × 24,7 m pour une hauteur totale de 10,5 m. En termes techniques, la structure est un périptère avec six et dix colonnes. Un pronaos (antichambre) et un opisthodome (hall arrière) jouxtent la cella (pièce principale). Les métopes entre les triglyphes n'ont pas de motifs. Le tympan (pignon au-dessus du linteau) est également vide. Cette réplique à échelle réduite du Temple de Thésée d'Athènes a été utilisée pour abriter la sculpture Thésée et le Centaure créée par Antonio Canova. Canova a aidé à construire le temple. Étant donné que le bâtiment se trouve sur la zone de l'ancien fossé, les murs de fondation ont dû descendre très profondément .

La sculpture de Canova a été transférée au Kunsthistorisches Museum en 1890 et se trouve toujours dans le palier intermédiaire de l'escalier principal. Aujourd'hui, le temple sert de cadre à des expositions temporaires.

À l'instigation du Gauleiter et gouverneur du Reich de Vienne Baldur von Schirach, l'architecte Hanns Dustmann devait créer la partie architecturale inachevée de la Heldenplatz à partir de 1940 - l'aile nord-ouest de la Nouvelle Hofburg n'avait pas été construite. Dustmann n'a pas prévu d'achever le jumeau manquant de l'aile sud-est déjà existante, mais a conçu Heldenplatz comme une zone de parade pavée avec une ligne de vue ouverte vers le Ring, sur la base des modèles d'Hitler. Le temple de Thésée aurait dû être déplacé vers l'axe central de la Heldenplatz. Le temple devait être érigé sur une sous-structure d'environ dix mètres de haut basée sur le modèle du Walhalla près de Donaustauf et complété par de larges structures sur les côtés afin de l'adapter à l'espace rectangulaire monumental .

De 2008 à 2010, une rénovation complète du bâtiment a été réalisée. Le temple a de nouveau reçu sa couleur blanche immaculée d'origine .

Expositions

 2011 Andy Hope 1930 : Détour - Paysage en cours II
 2011 André Butzer
 2014 Edmund de Waal : Lichtzwang.

Littérature

 Ruth Strondl: Le temple de Theseus: Dialogue entre art ancien et contemporain - perspectives et concepts visionnaires . Mémoire de maîtrise, Université des arts appliqués, Vienne 2010, (entrée de catalogue / résumé)
 Les monuments d'art de l'Autriche. Dehio Wien Innere Stadt 2003, espaces verts, Volksgarten, architecture, temple Theseus, p. 948.

Liens web

 Le temple de Thésée à travers les âges commenté la galerie de photos, Hedwige Abraham

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Source de traduction

Thésée
Architecture néo-classique en Autriche
Vienne
Innere Stadt (Vienne)
Temple non chrétien
Édifice construit en 1823

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Chef/patron Maria Salinas opened this mountain-village gem during 2015, in a little traditional village casita complete with terracotta-tiled floors. The décor is mainly white, with hand-painted tables and kitchen-style chairs. Blue table mats and coloured glasses add a pop of colour. There are only 26 covers, so booking is recommended – and up to a week ahead is necessary during high season.
It's homely and welcoming – as is Maria, who greets arriving clients, heads up the kitchen, and is assisted by her daughter who works front of house. Maria's warmth, friendliness, and the love that goes into her food prompted editor Helen Cummins to dub her Mallorca's answer to England's kitchen queen, Nigella Lawson.
Each day Maria visits the market in her home town of Sa Pobla, basing her daily changing lunch and dinner menus on her purchases.
Our meal began with home-made Mallorcan brown bread topped with chopped parsley, olive oil, and salt. We continued with sobrasada with chocolate. Maria served us the fish 'negrito' with a purée of purple potato, prawn, and sundried tomato. Our meat course was entrecote served with a selection of seasonal local vegetables, including beetroot and sweet potatoes.
Our dessert was an unusual but delicious combination of avocado with condensed milk, a rare local variety of carrot with honey, Stilton cheese, and fig. Wines are few but well chosen (and better value by the bottle).
Maria is passionate about local produce, virgin olive oil, and market cuisine, so it's not surprising that the Balearic Government body SEMILLA (Serveis de Millora Agrària i Pesquera) has appointed her ambassador for their Venda Directa (direct sale) campaign. Consumers can now buy foods such as cheese, oils, fruit, sobrasada, meat, snails, and yogurt direct from the producing fincas that have signed up to the campaign. The initiative is designed to help local producers and enable consumers to obtain produce at its freshest.
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Powerful demonstration as thousands march from Mission District high school through San Francisco
In San Francisco Wednesday, thousands gathered at Mission High School and the surrounding Mission District for another protest over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Wednesday was a day of action around the Bay Area. From Hayward to Los Gatos and East Palo Alto, marches and demonstrations took place in cities big and small.
One of the largest events was in San Francisco, where thousands gathered at Mission High School and the surrounding Mission District.
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"For too long the laws have guarded these killers, these murderous police, when they kill innocent black men. They never get charged for it," said Fox Sambolo, a San Francisco resident who stood in the crowd of thousands surrounding Dolores Park for a protest and march in honor of George Floyd, who was killed by Minneapolis police last week.
"If we don't get these police to stop killing us now, they're going to kill our children and our children's children," said another San Francisco man.
It was a hot afternoon in the Mission District and the crowd was shoulder-to shoulder for blocks. Along with free water and food, many people, including a group of nurses, handed out masks and hand sanitizer.
"Everyone has a mask on, every single person I've seen. And everyone has been very peaceful and calm," said ABC7 news reporter, Kate Larsen, as she walked through the crowd.
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"I hope this stays a peaceful protest, but I don't blame any of the protesters... for that real deep frustration and anger," said Kaylah Williams of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club. "If that's what it takes for people to really finally realize this is a problem. People are dying. It's not just pain of one person. George Floyd is only one person that we're out standing in support of. It's hundreds of hundreds of young black and brown men and women."
"It feels really different," added Williams about the march and momentum behind the movement. "It feels like actually now people are taking it seriously."
"I made it to the top of the steps at Mission High School and you can see the crush of people who have shown up here to this demonstration, people standing on top of a school bus in the middle of the street. I have to say, now that I'm here and surrounded by all of this, it's incredibly moving," said Larsen.
"I think showing up is really key, understanding that it's not safe for everyone to be here. As a white person, it's a lot less likely that I'm going to be hurt or killed and so I really need to be there," said San Francisco resident, Brad Chapin, about being an ally. "There's just so many things that we need to do."
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"I've been outside for several hours now and these vans full of officers are the first police presence that I've actually seen. They're a few blocks from the actual protest and they seem to be moving out somewhere now," said Larsen.
SFPD Chief Bill Scott said the protest was largely peaceful and said he was proud of San Francisco and the Bay Area after the march. He also pointed out that several police officers took a knee in front of protesters, which he felt was a very moving moment.
After dark, the protest snaked through the streets for miles, with demonstrators congregating at City Hall and the Hall of Justice.
Chief Scott said SFPD arrested 25 protesters in the Mission District, who police believe intended to light fires. They also arrested one person near City Hall who was vandalizing a car.
Take a look at the latest stories and videos about the investigation into George Floyd's death in Minneapolis and protests across the U.S.
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It's been less than a month since Mapbox announced it's mammoth $164 million funding round led by Softbank (Read: Softbank leads $164 million Series C funding) and the mapping company has announced today that it is acquiring MapData, a neural network-based map SDK company based out of Minsk, Belarus.
Mapbox acquisition of MapData is motivated by the engineering talent behind the latter. Mapbox is planning to open a new office in the city and hire more people to support their efforts in deep learning, computer vision, and self-driving vehicles together with the MapData team.
How excited is Mapbox really about the new iPhone?
A new SDK for AR based Maps?
In an interview with TechCrunch, Eric Gundersen, Mapbox CEO is reported to have said that the team behind MapData will help build their next big product, i.e. an SDK that will let developers build augmented reality-based maps into their apps that will work by way of the front-facing cameras on people's devices. The SDK is set to be launched by Q1 2018. (Link to TechCrunch article). The SDK will primarily serve the needs of the gaming and the navigation industry which is already using Mapbox's services.
Interesting times for the mapping industry!


Jon Hawkins, Writer and Managing Editor.
Nietzsche's guide to living each day as if it is your last.
Everybody does it from time to time, falling into a repetitive daily routine without even thinking. Wake up, work, eat, sleep and repeat.
The question then arises, is this something I truly desire?
As humans with a finite existence, such a question bares an important weight. Are you living each day to the fullest, or merely sleep walking through each day and not living the life you wish to?
This is something that German Philosopher, Fredrich Nietzsche contemplated within his critique of modernity.
· Imagine at the end of a day, a devil comes down to earth and casts a spell on you. He tells you that you are to live this day, exactly the same an infinite amount of times over.
As the devil visits at the end of the day, this thought experiment gives great weight to all of your actions. For all you know, you will have to live each action, thought and choice for all eternity.
This gives us a critical insight into the life you are currently living. If you would praise and thank this devil, then it is likely that you are making the most of your life.
But if you are in a position where you would curse and gnash your teeth at such a thought, then it is likely you are not truly making the most of each day.
If you have now come to the realisation that perhaps, the repetitive life style you are living is not something you truly desire. Only you can change your life for the better.
Here are some Nietzschean tips for affirming your own positive future.
Weak willing occurs when a person fails to affirm their own future, or rather; they fail to make their own choices and act in the way they want to. Instead, these people follow a path set out before them.
Nietzsche named this the following of the herd, as it entails a failure to acknowledge that each individual person has unique, individual life's to lead. Instead, society encourages you to follow the path set by them, and in doing so; you are failing to follow a path you truly desire or set before yourself.
"I am a receptionist" you say, if someone asks what you do.
Because of this, it becomes extremely difficult for you to leave. You tell yourself it's a part of who you are, and that you need, or have to stay in the job: to support a family, to pay off bills, or just to survive.
Evidently, this is something which, upon reflection no individual would be prepared to live for all eternity, because in reality they do not want to live this type of life. But, through failure of the courage and willing to act independently, you end up following the self — deceptions of the herd.
If, upon reflection, you realise that you are weak willing, then to overthrow it you must adopt the will to life. Here, you must choose independently and from within, to only perform actions that you would, in fact, be willing to live an eternal amount of times over.
Put briefly, Nietzsche thinks that whenever we have a thought, feeling or perform an action: it is the result of a play of drives or desires, and the most dominant gives rise to the behaviour.
On this account, only the most dominant drives and desires give rise to our behaviour: because we strive for power, he calls this the will to power.
Consequently, no human being can ever properly discuss any objectively higher, metaphysical values that exist.
If someone claimed to have discovered the highest values, such as in Plato's realm of the forms, these claims are likely not to be true: instead, they are merely the result of one person's drives telling them to outline these values, as a way to obtain power.
This led to his critique of Morality, which he referred to as slave morality, because he argued that it is the result of the weakest members of society, who strive for power by negating the lives of others. They do so by outlining higher values, for example of the good, which can never be obtained by any human. Consequently, people who follow it end up comparing their life to the objectively higher good, and concluding that their life is worthless compared to this higher value.
This is something which Nietzsche called The Spirit of Revenge.
Instead, to overcome this: we must realise that all higher standards are the result of people's drives — and so are only applicable as a standard to those who outline them.
We should not evaluate ourselves by these deceitful values. Instead, you must evaluate yourself by your own standards, which come about from our own internal drives and desires.
We must acknowledge our past positively and to reflect on it, allowing it to give rise to a positive future.
Doing so, will allow you to give rise to thoughts, feelings and actions which you truly desire: rather than negating these thoughts in favour of a higher value which doesn't actually exist.
Incorporate The Metamorphosis of the Spirit.
Overall, Nietzsche outlined three depictions that we must incorporate, in order to live each day as if it is our last.
We must be willing to bear the greatest challenges, like a camel: rather than being lazy and not committing fully to life, we must instead be hard- working and be willing to leave our comfort zone as a means to reach our full potential.
Next, we must pick these challenges for ourselves, rather than acting in accordance with the herd. Like a lion we must have the willing and courage to make our own decisions.
Finally, we must act like a child, we must be able to produce our choices from within, and be self — governing. We must also offer ourselves a new beginning, and to avoid acting upon the spirit of revenge: meaning to avoid negating the life of the herd, but instead ignore and not act upon it.
Achieving these three character traits, will allow you to act in such a way that makes each action of your actions worthwhile, as it involves acting upon the will to life: you would be willing to act upon it an infinite amount of times more.
It is evident that the majority of people enter a meaningless cycle in life, where they begin acting in ways that they do not truly desire. To work out whether you fall victim of this, you must ask yourself whether you would be willing to perform your actions an infinite amount of times over.
Overthrow weak willing by only performing actions that you have chosen and want to perform, rather than following the recommendations of the herd.
Stop negating your life from a perspective of higher values that probably do not actually exist. Instead, let your life evaluate itself through itself, doing so will allow you to strive what you truly desire.
Incorporate the metamorphosis of the spirit: be willing to fully commit to life, bear your own choices and produce such choices from within yourself.
Doing so, will lead you to acting in ways that you truly desire, ways which you would happy to live an infinite amount of times over.
Only then, will you be living each day as if it is your last.
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Jon is the Managing Editor of educational Philosophy blog The Apeiron, and writer for Medium publication Mind Cafe. He is currently studying Philosophy at the University of Nottingham.


The Angolan-born and Brazilian-raised N.D.M.A has been on quite a roll over the past few months! Now based in Ottawa, Canada, he has caught the attention of many supporters with his unique blend of hip-hop, electro and indie influences to create a hodge-podge sound that draws the most unlikely attendees to his shows.
Gearing up for his upcoming festival appearances, the young alternative rapper decided to showcase his production spin to the newly released hit "Wasting My Young Years" by the soft-spoken UK band London Grammar. With the success of his previous remixes, including Rihanna's "Stay", Drake's "Started from the Bottom", and Bruno Mars's "Locked out of Heaven". This latest remix consists of what is coming to be N.D.M.A's signature – transforming what would normally be sad reflection songs into lively dance tracks, doing so subtly without overproduction.
Stream and download N.D.M.A.'s remix of "Wasting My Young Years" below and be on the lookout for tour dates surfacing soon. He recently announced that he will be playing NXNE in Toronto, RBC Bluesfest in Ottawa, and a few dates in New York City through out the summer.


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Dopo aver giocato per una stagione nelle giovanili dello  nel 1986, all'età di 18 anni, fa il suo esordio in prima squadra (e di fatto contestualmente tra i professionisti), nella seconda divisione inglese; gioca in tale categoria per tre stagioni consecutive, fino alla retrocessione in terza divisione maturata al termine della stagione 1988-1989. Dal 1989 al 1991 gioca quindi con lo Shrewsbury Town in terza divisione, per poi passare al , con cui nella medesima categoria segna 3 reti in 33 presenze nella stagione 1991-1992; nell'estate del 1992 fa ritorno dopo un solo anno di lontananza allo Shrewsbury Town, nel frattempo retrocesso in quarta divisione: Brown gioca per due stagioni consecutive in tale categoria, totalizzandovi 67 presenze ed 11 reti, fornendo quindi un contributo significativo alla vittoria della Third Division 1993-1994, grazie alla quale gli Shrews ritornano dopo due anni in terza divisione.

Nell'estate del 1994 Brown viene però nuovamente ceduto, questa volta al , nuovamente in quarta divisione: con i Lilywhites nella stagione 1994-1995 perde la finale play-off per la promozione in terza divisione (peraltro si tratta della seconda finale consecutiva persa dal club), mentre nella stagione 1995-1996 contribuisce con 10 presenze alla vittoria del campionato, trascorrendo però la seconda parte della stagione in prestito al , con cui gioca 5 partite in quarta divisione. Nella stagione 1996-1997 fa per la terza volta ritorno allo Shrewsbury Town, prima in prestito e successivamente a titolo definitivo: la sua prima stagione si chiude con una retrocessione dalla terza alla quarta divisione, categoria nella quale gioca poi per quattro stagioni consecutive, grazie alle quali arriva ad un totale di 418 presenze fra tutte le competizioni ufficiali con la maglia dello Shrewsbury Town, spalmate su dodici stagioni, che fanno di lui il recordman di presenze nella storia del club. La stagione 2000-2001 è peraltro la sua ultima in carriera nei campionati della Football League, nei quali ha totalizzato complessivamente 472 presenze e 40 reti.

Continua in realtà però a giocare per ulteriori otto stagioni: in particolare, nelle stagioni 2001-2002 e 2002-2003 gioca in Football Conference (quinta divisione e più alto livello calcistico inglese al di fuori della Football League) rispettivamente con le maglie di  (con cui vince anche il campionato) e . Dopo una stagione nei semiprofessionisti del , tra il 2004 ed il 2007 segna 5 reti in 35 presenze nella prima divisione gallese con il ; si ritira infine al termine della stagione 2008-2009, all'età di 41 anni e dopo 23 anni di carriera, dopo un biennio trascorso in West Midlands (Regional) League (undicesima divisione inglese) con i dilettanti dello Shawbury United.

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Shrewsbury Town: 1993-1994

Boston United: 2001-2002

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Comerica Park is hiring for the 2014 season!
Comerica Park is seeking Porters, Vendors, Retail Attendants, Concession Stand Attendants and Various Culinary Positions.
Interviews will happen at Henry Ford Community College (HFCC) on February 4, 2014 for candidates that have applied online and have been contacted by the Comerica Park Recruiting Team.
Go to http://detroitsportservice.com/employment.html and look for jobs with DNC Sportservice, which runs aspects of Comerica Park.
Preference will be given to applicants who apply online before January 29, 2014.
Job seekers can also apply online after January 29 and attend an in-person recruitment event on February. 5, 2014, at HFCC from 10 am to 2 pm, in the ASCC Building.
Dress professionally and be prepared to fill out an online application upon arrival, if you have not done so already.


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What the death of Kuro means for high-end TVs
By Jamie Carter 13 February 2009
After Pioneer, could Panasonic be the new king of thin?
Panasonic seems the best-placed brand to capitalise on the demise of Kuro
It's a funny kind of achievement, but Pioneer's supreme skill at achieving an almost total absence of light on its Kuro plasma TVs will be sorely missed.
The king of thin is dead. In the face of a predicted record net loss of around £750 million this year, Pioneer has called a halt to its delectable Kuro range of hi-def plasma TVs.
It's also the end for its new Kuro LCD TVs, but early reviews suggest Pioneer was right in its original assertion that plasma is by far the better tech for anyone after true realism on a flat TV.
But should we be mourning the passing of these luxury home cinema screens? Although they're undoubtedly the finest flatscreen TVs around, most people cannot afford a Kuro.
For at least £2,000 and £4,000 respectively, its 50-inch PDP-LX5090 and 60-inch PDP-LX6090 screens are the reserve of the wealthy. It's projector, the KRF-9000FD - also dropped from the line-up along with its LCD TVs - sells for north of £6,000.
You could argue it's like the nationwide kerfuffle at the last flight of Concorde, an occasion mourned even by those never likely to take a supersonic trip.
Worrying trend
But the disappearance of Pioneer plasmas from the market does mark a worrying trend in the world of flatscreen TVs, where making top-draw products isn't enough to turn a profit.
The likes of Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba have all posted losses recently that dwarf even the turnover of the relatively tiny Pioneer, while the wobbly world economy has already claimed Hitachi, who pulled-out of plasma last month to concentrate solely on its Ultra Thin LCD line-up.
The departure of Pioneer, a company that has more experience in the flatscreen market than any other, is a sadder affair. Although Kuro - Japanese for black - was then a distant marketing idea, it was Pioneer that developed and sold the first high definition TV in 1999, long before any other manufacturer cottoned onto the 'HD Ready' idea.
But the announcement isn't as bad for flat TV hunters as it first appears. Having announced almost a year ago that after a fourth year in the red it was to stop manufacturing its own plasma panels, Pioneer had planned to base its tenth-generation (G10) plasmas around panels made by Panasonic.
Kuro's time was almost up before yesterday's announcement. Despite its own panels being the secret behind the Kuro screens' unique ability to achieve the true black so beloved of home cinema aficionados, Pioneer had promised to work with Panasonic to ensure the quality of the G10 screens matched its own very high standards.
That idea is now dead in the water, with presumably fairly advanced plans to release G10 screens in the UK late this year now cancelled. In fact, when the deal was inked with Panasonic to supply plasma panels, a lot of Pioneer's engineers left - in their thousands - to join their new partner.
Panasonic steps up
At January's CES in Las Vegas, Panasonic showed-off an ultra-thin 50-inch plasma measuring just 8.8 mm in depth. Twelve months earlier it was a Pioneer plasma of similar proportions that had the audience gaping.
Coincidence? We can only speculate, just as we can but guess that Pioneer could now make more money from licensing patents on its excellent Kuro plasma technology than it ever could from manufacturing its own TVs.
Whether the Kuro name itself will be sold remains to be seen, but its short-term future seems assured. Pioneer will continue to produce and sell its G9 plasmas - a range that includes 50-inch and 60-inch plasmas in various guises - until March 2010, effectively extending their shelf life by almost a year.
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FC Barcelona's trident deep-sixes Celta (6-1)
Luis Suárez — who scored a hat trick — Lionel Messi, and Neymar are involved in all the goals as the Catalans sink the Galicians at Camp Nou
MICHAEL TOLL
Luis Súarez scored three times as part of FC Barcelona's second half goal glut, which saw the Catalans pour it on late in a 6–1 dissection of Celta in La Liga action on Sunday night at Camp Nou.
Lionel Messi opened the scoring for Barça before Celta answered right back and Ivan Rakitic and Neymar appended goals in the final ten minutes in what amounted to rubbing salt in Celta's wound.
With the victory, FC Barcelona maintain their three-point advantage at the top of the league standings, while extending their Club record unbeaten streak to 30 games. Barça still have a game in hand, though, which they will play this Wednesday at Sporting de Gijón, where a win will see their league advantage swell to six points.
The rout also gave Barça and head coach Luis Enrique — who came to FCB from Celta in the 2014 off-season — some sweet revenge, after they had fallen 4–1 at Balaídos earlier this season and had lost two of the last three meetings between the two, including a painful 1–0 loss at Camp Nou last season.
"They have beaten us before and that was motivation," full-back Jordi Alba said.
The lopsided play late in the game was proof that the Galicians were sorely missing several top players, some to injury and some to suspension.
"Against Celta, it is never easy. We were spectacular in the second half," Luis Enrique said after the game.
Nevertheless, the game was deadlocked at the half and there were few signs of what was to come.
Neymar's close-range shot that was denied by the quick reflexes of Celta goalkeeper Sergio Álvarez after a quarter-hour of play was the only exception to a soporific opening 20 minutes notable only for its paucity of menacing attacks.
Messi put FC Barcelona ahead 1–0 in the 28th minute with a quintessential free-kick goal from 30 metres after Suárez was tackled hard by ex-blaugrana player Carles Planas in the midst of a marauding down the centre of the field, a play which also drew a yellow card for the Celta defender. Messi lined up the long kick and hit the bull's-eye in the upper right corner, just out of the reach of the high-flying Sergio.
For Messi, it was his 13th goal of the season in La Liga and his 28th overall.
But ten minutes later, in the 38th, Celta drew level on a rather serendipitous play after forward John Guidetti, who was breaking away from the goal to regroup, was tripped up by Alba in the Barça penalty area. Guidetti himself blasted the spot kick past Bravo.
Barça went back up, 2–1, in the 59th minute when Suárez chipped past Sergio from the doorstep after receiving an astonishing pass from Messi, who flicked a feathery lob over the Celta defence and hit the breaking Suárez in-stride.
In the 74th, the so-called trident came out in full force for Barça's third goal of the evening, as Suárez cleaned up after Messi found Neymar deep in Celta territory.
In the 81st minute Messi was tripped inside the penalty area and, after lining up for the penalty kick, did something that caught not just Celta off guard, but the whole stadium, as well as everyone else in the world either watching or listening. Messi approached the ball and, instead of shooting, tapped it a few metres forward, where Suárez, who was in on the ruse, drove the ball into the net past the helpless goalkeeper to make it 4–1.
"That play was rehearsed but it was supposed to be for me," Neymar joked after the game.
In passing to Suárez, Messi's selflessness was on full display, as he gave up a chance to score what would have been his 300th career league goal.
Instead of becoming part of yet another Messi milestone, it was Suárez's third goal of the second half, his league-leading 23rd goal of the season, and his 39th overall across all competitions.
Midfielder Ivan Rakitic scored Barça's fifth goal of the night in the 83rd when he charged straight up the middle, took a soft pass from Suárez, and finished with aplomb.
Neymar piled on Barça's sixth goal in the 89th after a beautiful pass from Suárez, his second assist of the night.


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How to Read Deutsche Bahn On-Board Journey Screens
DB Regional trains all have screens in their carriages detailing which train you are on, where it is going, and where it is now. But how to read them if you've never seen one before, and don't speak German?
It is actually quite simple, but all too often I have been asked by panicked passengers if this train is going to so-and-so-berg.
The top-left of the screen says which numbered train you are on, in this case the RB (Regionalbahnlinie) 19. Underneath it explains for those of us who haven't memorised the Deutschebahn Liniennetz that this is the line from Berlin Gesundbrunnen to Senftenberg. The regional lines begin either RB (Regionalbahn), or RE (Regional-Express). The RE trains are larger (usually double-decker) and faster than RB trains. They also usually have a service/refreshment carriage, though this is usually just a couple of coin-operated drink and snack dispensers. RB trains are slower, because they call at all the villages in the middle of nowehere, but they are generally quieter, except on busy weekends when they will be full of bikes and ramblers.
Here is a link to a handy PDF map of all the RE and RB trainlines in Berlin and Brandenburg.We are off to Senftenberg, so the RB19 is the one for us. We could have got the RE2 and changed at Cottbus, but we are in no hurry.
Top right is the current time, which is always spot-on in our experience. By the way, all times are 24-hour clock.
Below that it tells us that the next station stop (Nächste Station) is Groß Köris, and we are scheduled to arrive there at 10:34. Then it gives us an estimated actual time to arrival, which will be in ten minutes (noch 10 Minuten). Oh no! Current time plus ten minutes is 10:37 - we're running five minutes late!
After that are further station stops (Weitere Stationen). Unfortunately, with RB trains there are often so many that you have to wait until your final destination (Senftenberg for us) starts appearing on the screen.
When the trains arrives at a station, the display will tell you which side of the train to get out on (ausstieg), either on the left (links) or right (rechts), relative to the direction the train is travelling in (Fahrtrichtung). There will also be an announcement over the loudspeaker system. So, if you hear 'Ausstieg in Fahrtrichtung links' you know that if when you are facing the front of the train, you have to leave the train by the door on the left. That's useful to know if you are man-handling a bike in a crowded carriage and need to make a quick connection (especially if the train is running late).
At station stops the screen will also show the departure time (abfahrt), which on RB trains is pretty much the same as the arrival time, though sometimes the train will wait for up to fifteen minutes or more to make a connection with another train (the Schönefeld airport station is bad for this - make sure that the RB train standing at platform 4 (Gleis vier) is going any sooner than the RE train standing on platform 3 (Gleis drei)).
Also shown just before, and when stopped at the station, are further connections at that station (if any).This would be handy if you are rushing to make a connection and want to know the platform (Gleis) the connecting train is going from. Unfortunately, the platform is often not actually shown. Grrr! If you listen up, there is usually an announcement by the train guard/ticket inspector (Kontrolle) over the loudspeaker of connections; listen out for your destination and "auf Gleis eins" (on platform 1) "auf Gleis zwo" (on platform 2) "auf Gleis drei" and so on. Good luck! And luck is especially needed if you are making a connection at Berlin Hauptbahnhof, when the announcement goes on for a good minute.
By the way, you might notice when RE trains arrive at major stations that a catchy little tune is played. After a long journey this will soon get on your nerves, though you might notice that the tune changes if you cross over into a different Bundesland.
That's pretty much it. The photo is of a screen by the exit doors; there are screens in the carriages too, that only differ in that they also show a loop of adverts and exciting things like the top five titles in the paperback (Taschenbücher) charts. Instead of a red and white DB train, you might find yourself on a franchise operator train, like the green, yellow and white ODEG (Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH) trains, but they have similar information screens.
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