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Past Masters: Dirty Pair
Posted on September 10, 2010 by Jon
Introducing Kei and Yuri, also known as the Dirty Pai... er, Lovely Angels!
Space is the final frontier… and these two girls are about to destroy it!
If you've ever hung around with oldschool anime fans, you've probably heard them mention Dirty Pair. This science fiction buddy-cop comedy has a huge American following, enough to make it one of anime's best-known cult classics. In fact, this show's popularity led Nozomi Entertainment to go through all the legal hassle of licensing it nearly twenty-five years after it originally aired. But why exactly is this series so beloved? Well, to answer that question, I just need to make one simple comparison.
Dirty Pair is the Japanese version of Star Trek.
Like Gene Roddenberry's classic 1960s TV show, Dirty Pair is anachronistic. The look and feel of this anime is incredibly dated, mired in that campy mid-eighties culture that we all enjoy mocking. However, this campiness is part of the charm; the space bikinis, short miniskirts, moon boots and outlandish hairstyles just add to the sense of unrestrained fun that permeates this show. Just like Star Trek, this series' strengths lie in snappy writing, loveable characters and great stories, allowing it to rise above its sillier qualities and become a true science fiction classic. Despite being a relic of another era, Dirty Pair is still a timeless anime that everyone can enjoy.
Find out more after the break.
Kei demonstrates how to effectively distract guards.
Legend has it that the idea for Dirty Pair came from Japanese professional women's wrestling. In 1978, the Australian sci-fi author A. Bertram Chandler was visiting Japan, and was being entertained by Haruka Takachiho, founder of Studio Nue. Takachiho and two other Nue staffers took Chandler out to see a tournament held by the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling organization, which featured the highly popular wrestling team known as the Beauty Pair. During the match, something lead Chandler to comment "the two women in the ring may be the Beauty Pair, but those two with you ought to be called 'the Dirty Pair'." This remark inspired Takachiho, who had already written the successful Crusher Joe space opera light novels, to create what amounted to "female pro wrestlers… IN SPACE!"
The resultant Dirty Pair light novels were successful enough to spawn an animated series, which was produced by Studio Nue and Sunrise. This television adaptation, which began airing in July of 1985, deviated significantly from the light novels. Ultimately, it didn't perform well in the ratings and was cancelled after 24 of its 26 episodes had aired. (The remaining 2 were later released on home video as OVAs.) However, like so many cancelled series before it, Dirty Pair grew in popularity following its apparent demise. The franchise was continued in numerous OVAs, a theatrical film, and even an American comic book series released by Dark Horse. Sadly, by the end of the Eighties, Dirty Pair had once again faded into obscurity. There was an ill-fated attempt to revive and 're-imagine' the franchise as an OVA series in 1994 under the name Dirty Pair Flash, but most fans like to pretend that particular travesty never existed.
Kei prepares to destroy the last copy of Flash, while Yuri and company look on in horror.
Dirty Pair is set a few centuries into the future, when faster-than-light warp travel has allowed mankind to settle hundreds of worlds across the Milky Way Galaxy. The main characters are the redheaded tomboy Kei and the ladylike Yuri, who are partners working for a private law enforcement firm called the World Welfare Work's Association, or 3WA. Kei and Yuri are Trouble Consultants (TroCons) who specialize in high-risk combat situations, which can include dealing with anything from lone assassins to entire fleets of space pirates. Under the supervision of Chief Gooley, these girls form the team known as the Lovely Angels (which is also the name of their spaceship), and are regarded as the best TroCons in the galaxy.
Despite their near-perfect success rate, the Lovely Angels have a rather bad reputation. Although they always get the job done, they tend to cause wanton destruction in the process. Numerous cities and even a few planets have been demolished by their trigger-happy tactics. However, the 3WA central computer always clears them of any culpability during debriefing, much to Gooley's chagrin. This doesn't help the Lovely Angel's image in the eyes of the public, and they've acquired the distateful nickname "Dirty Pair." Don't say it to their faces, though, or you'll piss them off big time.
And you do NOT want to piss them off, trust me.
The interplay between Kei and Yuri is undoubtedly the highlight of Dirty Pair. These two characters, being polar opposites, form perfect foils for each other. In true buddy cop fashion, their sarcastic insults and personality clashes reveal the deep and respectful camaraderie they share. They are so attuned to each other that it almost seems as if they are telepathically linked (wink wink, light novel fans). Kei and Yuri's verbal sparring makes up the bulk of this show's comedy, and it is eminently enjoyable to watch. In fact, it brings to mind the similar relationship that Spock and McCoy had in the original Star Trek. Of course, this isn't the only similarity between Dirty Pair and classic Trek…
The plots of Dirty Pair are episodic, usually involving some sort of criminal mystery that the girls must solve. Although solid and well-executed, these stories are also pretty unexceptional. A few episodes in the second half of the series manage to rise above mediocrity and pull off some fresh and interesting storytelling, but these are the exception rather than the rule. Most of the plots just serve as a backdrop to showcase the girls' personalities and set up the action scenes. A strong Trek influence is once again present, and many of these stories bear a striking similarity to the adventures of the Enterprise crew. In the very first episode, Kei and Yuri match wits against a rogue computer named Brian, against whom they use a move straight out of James T. Kirk's playbook; they distract it with a logical conundrum (Who is sexier: Kei or Yuri?) while they figure out how to destroy it. Their other adventures follow similar science fiction tropes, paying homage to everything from Indiana Jones to The Terminator along the way.
Nerdgasm!
Stylistically, Dirty Pair is a total throwback to mid-Eighties culture. Everything from Kei's crazy hairstyle to the cheesy synthesizer soundtrack contributes to this show's campy, nostalgic feel. Even the setting is anachronistic; Yuri is always asking boys out to the disco, and the mechanically-inclined Kei frequently repairs computers that run on magnetic tape. However, just like classic Star Trek, all of this is part of the series' campy charm. Despite being laughably outdated, the concept of buxom girls running around in space bikinis and moon boots while firing their rayguns at alien monsters is still enjoyable today. Because the show doesn't take itself too seriously, it's easy for viewers to dismiss these inconsistiencies.
The animation quality is similarly old-fashioned. Although good for its time, it really doesn't hold up today. Kei and Yuri are frequently drawn off-model, and the other character's designs are generic and uninspired. The spaceship scenes, while superior to those of older sci-fi classics such as Macross, still seem underwhelming compared to modern digital animation and CGI techniques. However, it's obvious that the animators did put a lot of effort and love into Dirty Pair. A careful viewer can notice little in-jokes and easter eggs, such as this panel which appears during a single frame of a high-octane car chase. In the days before digital media, viewers would have been unable to appreciate these minute split-second details… but the animators put them in anyway. Now that's craftsmanship!
This clean OP gives a good idea of Dirty Pair's overall style.
Overall, Dirty Pair is just plain fun. Despite its antiquated look and feel, the strong characters, great writing and campy space action make it a timeless classic of science fiction. Anybody who enjoys sci-fi, frenetic action or oldschool anime should give this series a try. If you like what you see, head on over to Right Stuf and preorder the DVDs, which come out this November. However, if the sexy space bikinis and raygun battles aren't enough to convince you to watch, I'll close this review by showing you what may be the greatest line of anime dialogue ever written. Prepare yourselves…
Now go watch Dirty Pair, or Super God will smite you into oblivion!
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Persona 5, 4, 3 and more soundtracks are finally available on Spotify outside Japan,
By Helena Sutan on January 5, 2021 Technology
Update: Yes, it's true: a lot of Persona game soundtracks have been made available outside of Japan on Spotify.
They can be very difficult to find, so we suggest taking a look at the "Persona OST" playlist from AniPlaylist. All the newly added albums can be accessed from there. Enjoy! Enjoy!
Original Story: Fans of Persona can rejoice: on Spotify, music from the long-running JRPG series is finally available. Until now, only via Japanese accounts were soundtracks from Atlus' franchise available. But it comes to the West at midnight on January 5, according to AniPlaylist on Twitter. As soon as we have confirmation, we'll update this post.
On the streaming service, the main soundtracks from Persona 5, Persona 4, Persona 3, and Persona 2 will be available, along with music from spin-off titles like Dancing, Arena, and Q sports. Time is about it!
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Issue 14 - September 2012
The Shadow World
Andrew Feinstein. The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade. Farrar, 2011.
Andrew Feinstein was a member of the African National Congress until it refused to investigate a corruption case related to an arms sale to South Africa. Following this experience, he has investigated the behind-the-scenes of the global arms trade and this is exactly what he explains in this book. After an exhaustive search of declassified documents, Feinstein details the specific connections among politicians, arms manufacturers, arms dealers and armies around the world.
Each of the arms sales analyzed involves government to government transactions, but also the deals that take place in the shadow world of illicit trade and, particularly, the frequent relations between often these two sides of the same coin. Operations on the five continents in which several people of the United States and Britain play a crucial role, not always reaching the mass media and, therefore, leaving the public opinion unaware of what's going on.
One of the values ??of this research is that it specifies each of the phases of the arms trade process, with the obvious consequences that a system of widespread corruption has for democracy, socio-economic development and human rights violations worldwide. The stories it contains, written with force and precision, exhort us to continue to push for an international arms trade treaty as soon as possible.
El tiempo es ahora
El tiempo es ahora. ¿Es posible una memoria incluyente de las víctimas en el ámbito local? Experiencias y desafíos. Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos Argituz, 2012.
The report El Tiempo es ahora ("The Time is Now"), published by the Argituz association, provides an analysis of the possibilities of constructing an inclusive memory for the victims of terrorism and politically motivated violence, as a consequence of the violent conflict in the Basque Country.
The text is structured in three parts. The first part reviews the international experience in relation to the importance that measures of recognizing responsibility and symbolic actions of collective memory have for victims. Part two analyzes the experiences developed within the Basque territory, studies their problems, their impact and their difficulties, and compiles the considerations of the protagonists. The third part deals with lessons learned and the difficulties for an inclusive memory in the Basque Country, establishing some criteria which take into account the relationship with the victims, the projects developed at a local level, as well as the challenges, so that this inclusive memory becomes a mechanism of recognition and violence prevention in the present and future.
In a context marked by the end of ETA violence and by a political normalization which allows for participation in politics and for a life free of threats and fear, the recognition of responsibility and of memory is one of the steps pending in the process of reconstructing the relations fractured by violence.
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Title: Euclid
Subject: Pythagorean theorem, History of geometry, Geometry, Non-Euclidean geometry, Line (geometry)
Euclid by Justus van Gent, 15th century
Mid-4th century BC
Mid-3rd century BC
Alexandria, Hellenistic Egypt
Euclidean geometry
Euclid's Elements
Euclid (; Greek: Εὐκλείδης, Eukleidēs Ancient Greek: ; fl. 300 BC), sometimes called Euclid of Alexandria to distinguish him from Euclid of Megara, was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "Father of Geometry". He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I (323–283 BC). His Elements is one of the most influential works in the history of mathematics, serving as the main textbook for teaching mathematics (especially geometry) from the time of its publication until the late 19th or early 20th century.[1][2][3] In the Elements, Euclid deduced the principles of what is now called Euclidean geometry from a small set of axioms. Euclid also wrote works on perspective, conic sections, spherical geometry, number theory and rigor.
Euclid is the anglicized version of the Greek name Εὐκλείδης, which means "renowned, glorious".[4]
3 Other works
Very few original references to Euclid survive, so little is known about his life. The date, place and circumstances of both his birth and death are unknown and may only be estimated roughly relative to other figures mentioned alongside him. He is rarely mentioned by name by other Greek mathematicians from Archimedes onward, who usually call him "ὁ στοιχειώτης" ("the author of Elements").[5] The few historical references to Euclid were written centuries after he lived, by Proclus c. 450 AD and Pappus of Alexandria c. 320 AD.[6]
Proclus introduces Euclid only briefly in his Commentary on the Elements. According to Proclus, Euclid belonged to Plato's "persuasion" and brought together the Elements, drawing on prior work by several pupils of Plato (particularly Eudoxus of Cnidus, Theaetetus and Philip of Opus.) Proclus believes that Euclid is not much younger than these, and that he must have lived during the time of Ptolemy I because he was mentioned by Archimedes (287–212 BC). Although the apparent citation of Euclid by Archimedes has been judged to be an interpolation by later editors of his works, it is still believed that Euclid wrote his works before those of Archimedes.[7][8][9]
Proclus later retells a story that, when Ptolemy I asked if there was a shorter path to learning geometry than Euclid's Elements, "Euclid replied there is no royal road to geometry."[10] This anecdote is questionable since it is similar to a story told about Menaechmus and Alexander the Great.[11]
In the only other key reference to Euclid, Pappus briefly mentioned in the fourth century that Apollonius "spent a very long time with the pupils of Euclid at Alexandria, and it was thus that he acquired such a scientific habit of thought" c. 247–222 BC.[12][13]
A detailed biography of Euclid is given by Arabian authors, mentioning, for example, a birth town of Tyre. This biography is generally believed to be completely fictitious.[8]
Because the lack of biographical information is unusual for the period (extensive biographies are available for most significant Greek mathematicians for several centuries before and after Euclid), some researchers have proposed that Euclid was not, in fact, a historical character and that his works were written by a team of mathematicians who took the name Euclid from the historical character Euclid of Megara (compare Bourbaki). However, this hypothesis is not well accepted by scholars and there is little evidence in its favor.[8][14]
One of the oldest surviving fragments of Euclid's Elements, found at Oxyrhynchus and dated to circa AD 100 (P. Oxy. 29). The diagram accompanies Book II, Proposition 5.[15]
Although many of the results in Elements originated with earlier mathematicians, one of Euclid's accomplishments was to present them in a single, logically coherent framework, making it easy to use and easy to reference, including a system of rigorous mathematical proofs that remains the basis of mathematics 23 centuries later.[16]
There is no mention of Euclid in the earliest remaining copies of the Elements, and most of the copies say they are "from the edition of Theon" or the "lectures of Theon",[17] while the text considered to be primary, held by the Vatican, mentions no author. The only reference that historians rely on of Euclid having written the Elements was from Proclus, who briefly in his Commentary on the Elements ascribes Euclid as its author.
Although best known for its geometric results, the Elements also includes number theory. It considers the connection between perfect numbers and Mersenne primes (known as the Euclid–Euler theorem), the infinitude of prime numbers, Euclid's lemma on factorization (which leads to the fundamental theorem of arithmetic on uniqueness of prime factorizations), and the Euclidean algorithm for finding the greatest common divisor of two numbers.
The geometrical system described in the Elements was long known simply as geometry, and was considered to be the only geometry possible. Today, however, that system is often referred to as Euclidean geometry to distinguish it from other so-called non-Euclidean geometries that mathematicians discovered in the 19th century.
Euclid's construction of a regular dodecahedron.
Construction of a dodecahedron by placing faces on the edges of a cube.
In addition to the Elements, at least five works of Euclid have survived to the present day. They follow the same logical structure as Elements, with definitions and proved propositions.
Data deals with the nature and implications of "given" information in geometrical problems; the subject matter is closely related to the first four books of the Elements.
On Divisions of Figures, which survives only partially in Arabic translation, concerns the division of geometrical figures into two or more equal parts or into parts in given ratios. It is similar to a third-century AD work by Heron of Alexandria.
Catoptrics, which concerns the mathematical theory of mirrors, particularly the images formed in plane and spherical concave mirrors. The attribution is held to be anachronistic however by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson who name Theon of Alexandria as a more likely author.[18]
Phaenomena, a treatise on spherical astronomy, survives in Greek; it is quite similar to On the Moving Sphere by Autolycus of Pitane, who flourished around 310 BC.
Statue in honor of Euclid in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Optics is the earliest surviving Greek treatise on perspective. In its definitions Euclid follows the Platonic tradition that vision is caused by discrete rays which emanate from the eye. One important definition is the fourth: "Things seen under a greater angle appear greater, and those under a lesser angle less, while those under equal angles appear equal." In the 36 propositions that follow, Euclid relates the apparent size of an object to its distance from the eye and investigates the apparent shapes of cylinders and cones when viewed from different angles. Proposition 45 is interesting, proving that for any two unequal magnitudes, there is a point from which the two appear equal. Pappus believed these results to be important in astronomy and included Euclid's Optics, along with his Phaenomena, in the Little Astronomy, a compendium of smaller works to be studied before the Syntaxis (Almagest) of Claudius Ptolemy.
Other works are credibly attributed to Euclid, but have been lost.
Conics was a work on conic sections that was later extended by Apollonius of Perga into his famous work on the subject. It is likely that the first four books of Apollonius's work come directly from Euclid. According to Pappus, "Apollonius, having completed Euclid's four books of conics and added four others, handed down eight volumes of conics." The Conics of Apollonius quickly supplanted the former work, and by the time of Pappus, Euclid's work was already lost.
Porisms might have been an outgrowth of Euclid's work with conic sections, but the exact meaning of the title is controversial.
Pseudaria, or Book of Fallacies, was an elementary text about errors in reasoning.
Surface Loci concerned either loci (sets of points) on surfaces or loci which were themselves surfaces; under the latter interpretation, it has been hypothesized that the work might have dealt with quadric surfaces.
Several works on mechanics are attributed to Euclid by Arabic sources. On the Heavy and the Light contains, in nine definitions and five propositions, Aristotelian notions of moving bodies and the concept of specific gravity. On the Balance treats the theory of the lever in a similarly Euclidean manner, containing one definition, two axioms, and four propositions. A third fragment, on the circles described by the ends of a moving lever, contains four propositions. These three works complement each other in such a way that it has been suggested that they are remnants of a single treatise on mechanics written by Euclid.
Axiomatic method
Euclid's orchard
Euclidean relation
List of topics named after Euclid
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 29
^ Ball, pp. 50–62.
^ Boyer, pp. 100–19.
^ Macardle, et al. (2008). Scientists: Extraordinary People Who Altered the Course of History. New York: Metro Books. g. 12.
^ Heath (1981), p. 357
^ Joyce, David. Euclid. Clark University Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. [1]
^ Proclus, p. XXX
^ a b c Euclid of Alexandria
^ The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
^ Proclus, p. 57
^ Boyer, p. 96.
^ Heath (1956), p. 2.
^ Struik p. 51 ("their logical structure has influenced scientific thinking perhaps more than any other text in the world").
^ Heath (1981), p. 360.
Artmann, Benno (1999). Euclid: The Creation of Mathematics. New York: Springer. ISBN 0-387-98423-2.
With extensive bibliography.
Heath, Thomas L. (1908), "Euclid and the Traditions About Him", in Euclid, Elements (Thomas L. Heath, ed. 1908), 1:1–6, at Perseus Digital Library.
Heath, Thomas L. (1981). A History of Greek Mathematics, 2 Vols. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-24073-8 / ISBN 0-486-24074-6.
Kline, Morris (1980). Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-502754-X.
Proclus, A commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements, translated by Glenn Raymond Morrow, Princeton University Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-691-02090-7.
Works by Euclid at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Euclid at Internet Archive
Works by Euclid at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Euclid's Elements, All thirteen books, with interactive diagrams using Java. Clark University
Euclid's Elements, with the original Greek and an English translation on facing pages (includes PDF version for printing). University of Texas.
Euclid's Elements, books I–VI, in English pdf, in a Project Gutenberg Victorian textbook edition with diagrams.
Euclid's Elements, All thirteen books, in several languages as Spanish, Catalan, English, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Italian, Russian and Chinese.
Elementa Geometriae 1482, Venice. From Rare Book Room.
Elementa 888 AD, Byzantine. From Rare Book Room.
Texts on Ancient Mathematics and Mathematical Astronomy PDF scans (Note: many are very large files). Includes editions and translations of Euclid's Elements, Data, and Optica, Proclus's Commentary on Euclid, and other historical sources.
The Elements of Geometrie of the Most Auncient Philosopher Euclide of Megara(1570) From the English Printing Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collection Division at the Library of Congress
Ancient Greek mathematics
Anaxagoras
Anthemius
Archytas
Aristaeus the Elder
Apollonius
Autolycus
Callippus
Chrysippus
Cleomedes
Democritus
Dicaearchus
Diocles
Diophantus
Dinostratus
Dionysodorus
Domninus
Eudemus
Eutocius
Hipparchus
Hippasus
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Over the past 40 years, Urology at UAB has continued to expand its clinical care capabilities while pioneering many important advances. Our urologists have completed fellowship training in their respective areas of urologic expertise, including urologic cancer, minimally invasive surgery (including DaVinci robotic surgery), stone disease, female, reconstruction, incontinence, infertility, pediatrics, and general urology. The department is dedicated to offering the finest residency and fellowship educational programs, performing advanced research studies in clinical areas, and providing the most current and comprehensive care available to our patients.
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The UAB Department of Urology specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the genitourinary tract, which includes both the urinary and reproductive systems. This multidisciplinary team of urologists, nurse practitioners, radiation and medical oncologists, and urology nurses and technicians work together to provide the most accurate diagnoses and effective treatment options available for male and female adult and pediatric patients. U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks UAB's urology program among the top 50 of its kind in the nation, and it is widely recognized for delivering excellent genitourinary (GU) cancer care.
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The Bible is full of wisdom and life lessons, but sometimes we attribute things to scripture that aren't there. There are ideas or beliefs that become so popular people are surprised to discover they aren't biblical. Join us for a worship series that will explore some of the most common examples of when this takes place.
This series is based in part on Adam Hamilton's book, Half Truths.
We've created a discussion guide for group or individual use that you can download here: Half Truths Discussion Guide
This worship and small group series begins Sunday, January 8th.
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Series Outline
Are You Sure? // January 8, 2023
While the Bible is central to our faith, even those who study it the most have something to learn. In fact, those who study it the most are often the first to say that there is always more to learn within its pages. How much do you know about the Bible? Are you sure?
Everything Happens for a Reason // January 15, 2023
Scriptures: Psalm 23, Matthew 28:19-20, John 3:16-17
When the journey of life brings us or someone we know some kind of challenge or tragedy, we often try to find meaning for why those events happened. In those moments people sometimes try to bring comfort by suggesting that "everything happens for a reason." While that idea is conveyed with the best of intentions, it is not the message of scripture. The good news is that what scripture says is far better.
God Helps Those Who Help Themselves // January 22, 2023
Scriptures: Proverbs 10:4, 14:23, 19:15, 21:13, 22:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12; James 1:27; Leviticus 23:22; Matthew 25:31-46; Deuteronomy 15:7-11; 1 John 4:19-21
Have you ever heard the phrase, "God helps those who help themselves"? If so, do you know where it originated? Despite what many people believe, it did not originate in the Bible. In this message, we will explore where this phrase gets things right and where it gets them wrong.
God Has a Plan for Your Life // January 29, 2023
Scripture: Jeremiah 29:11
From an early age, many of us are taught that God has a plan for our life, and we need to figure out what it is and stick to it. Discovering God's plan for our life can feel like treasure hunting without a map. We spend sleepless nights wondering if we're on the right path or if we've messed up God's plan. But what if there is a way to know exactly what God's plan for your life is? What if it's not as complicated as you've always thought?
God Said It, I Believe It, That Settles It // February 5, 2023
Scriptures: Deuteronomy 23:12-14, 21:18-21, 22:21; Leviticus 11:7-12, 19:19, 19:27; Matthew 5:17-20; 5:33-37, 6:6, 6:19-21, 22:37-40; 1 Timothy 2:9; 1 Corinthians 2:5-6
As Christians, we view the Bible as the sacred text of our faith and seek to follow its teachings as closely as possible. However, sometimes people take that goal further than what is helpful or even possible. That tendency has led to the creation of statements like, "God Said It, I Believe It, That Settles It." While well-intentioned, this statement is not only unreasonable, it also does not reflect the intention of scripture.
God Won't Give You More Than You Can Handle // February 12, 2023
Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin // February 19, 2023
Scripture: Luke 18:9-14; 1 John 5:16-17
The last half-truth we will discuss in this series is the phrase, "Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin." In comparison to the other half-truths we've discussed, this one became popular in some Christian circles relatively recently. Not only is it not in the Bible, it is often used in the most harmful ways.


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How exercise revs your mood, brainpower
People walk, jog and run on the parking lot and grounds of The Forum, where the likes of Elvis Presley and the Rolling Stones played to thousands of screaming fans, in Inglewood, Calif.
By Christie Aschwanden | New Scientist
PUBLISHED: December 11, 2013 at 2:56 a.m. | UPDATED: August 12, 2016 at 2:43 p.m.
It has long been accepted that exercise cuts the risk of heart disease, and recent studies suggest a raft of more general benefits, such as reducing the risk of certain types of cancer and even preventing the onset of Type 2 diabetes. Now it seems that gym junkies can also expect a boost in brainpower, too.
This is not just the vague glow of well-being suggested by sayings such as "a sound mind lives in a healthy body." John Ratey, a neoropsychiatrist at Harvard Medical School and others are finding that fitness has a long-term influence on a wide range of cognitive abilities. Physical activity seems to be important during childhood, powering the brain through the many changes that help us to mature into adulthood. But it may also play a role as we reach advanced age, with a decline in fitness explaining why some people are more prone to dementia than others.
"It's a really amazing effect," says David Raichlen, a biological anthropologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Raichlen is investigating whether our ancestors' athleticism may have accelerated the evolution of their intelligence millions of years ago. Our brains may, in fact, be a byproduct of our brawn.
The link between fitness and the performance of simple cognitive tasks was first suggested by studies in the 1960s, but its importance became more greatly appreciated about 30 years later.
In the 1990s, Fred Gage, a geneticist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., found that exercise seemed to cultivate the growth of new neurons in mice. At about the same time, Arthur Kramer, a cognitive psychologist at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois, published a paper in Nature showing that previously sedentary adults who undertook an aerobic fitness plan for six months boosted their performance in cognitive drills that required executive control. That's the kind of concentration that helps you to switch between different tasks without making mistakes, and it is a key contributor to more general intelligence.
A spate of later papers tracked people's fitness and cognitive skills over several years, sometimes decades. Initially, most of the investigations examined older people whose mental abilities were expected to diminish with age. One German study, published in 2010, tracked 4,000 people older than 55 for two years. It found that those who rarely took part in physical activities were more than twice as likely to suffer from a cognitive impairment by the end of the study than those who engaged in exercise such as gardening, swimming or cycling a few times a week.
Another study, which had followed a group of nearly 1,500 people for 20 years, showed that these effects may be long-lasting. Those who exercised at least twice a week during middle age were much less likely to develop dementia by the time they reached their 60s and 70s, even when potentially confounding factors such as education, drinking and smoking were taken into account.
Although there are fewer studies of younger people, the available evidence suggests that physical activity enhances brain health at every stage of life. Some of the most striking statistics concern schoolchildren in New York. Students in the top 5 percent of the fitness rankings scored 36 percentile points higher on standardized academic tests than students in the bottom 5 percent. Similar results come from the records of 1.2 million men who enlisted for military service in Sweden between 1950 and 1976; these data allowed researchers to compare the men's physical education grades at 15 with their cardiovascular performance at 18. Changes in fitness during these teen years seemed to correlate with the young men's intelligence scores and cognitive abilities by the end of that period.
What's behind the link? A short-term mood boost might be bringing some of the benefits.
"People really enjoy that euphoric aspect of a runner's high and the clarity of mind you get from a routine workout," says Brian Christie, a neuroscientist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Stress can inhibit your brain's responses when solving a problem, blocking it from making the necessary connections. "If you go out for a walk, your stress levels usually plummet. And that's when the answer comes to you," Christie says. That may partly explain why fitter children tend to do better at their schoolwork, for instance.
Exercise probably contributes to more-permanent changes, too. The brain relies on a steady supply of nutrients and oxygen through an intricate network of capillaries. Physical activity can encourage the construction of these supply lines, and it can also ease their maintenance. Matthew Pase at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, has found that high blood pressure, particularly in the central large arteries that feed the brain, can lead to a slump in cognitive performance, perhaps because it damages those vessels. Since regular physical activity reduces blood pressure, it should protect the brain from this undue stress.
Improved fitness also cuts the risk of diabetes and obesity. These problems disrupt the brain's insulin system, which is thought to trigger a cycle of reactions that contribute to the build-up of the plaques linked to brain damage in people with Alzheimer's disease.
Exercise also has been found to spur the release of such neurotransmitters as serotonin, noradrenaline and dopamine, which help regulate signaling in the brain. These neurotransmitters are the same ones that antidepressants and drugs for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder act on, which is why time on a treadmill or bicycle is akin to taking a mix of Prozac and Ritalin, Ratey says. It also prompts the brain to send out growth factors such as insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). Ratey describes BDNF as "Miracle-Gro for your brain" because it creates an environment where neurons can flourish and promotes the formation of new connections between cells.
The brain-enhancing consequence of exercise has serious implications today. The Department of Health and Human Services is encouraging schools to offer more physical education, and the Institute of Medicine recommends that elementary school children get 30 minutes of physical activity a day, 45 minutes daily for middle and high school students. "We need to have kids moving every day, not just because it makes sense health-wise, but because it raises test scores," Ratey says.
The same principle applies to the older population and offers an alternative to cognitive training strategies, such as brain teasers, that are often touted as ways to sharpen the aging brain. There's not a lot of evidence to back these up, Kramer says, since the improvements gained don't seem to translate to everyday life. In contrast, new exercise regimes tend to accelerate processing speed and improve attention and memory in all kinds of activities.
What kind of exercise is ideal? An aerobic workout is essential, but it doesn't have to be too strenuous. Kramer has found that even gentle activities, such as taking a walk a few times a week, worked wonders for some elderly volunteers, increasing the connectivity of their brain network and the size of their hippocampus and boosting overall recall.
For those who are already in good shape, Ratey advocates high-intensity interval training (HIIT), which consists of very short, very hard bursts of exercise. Pushing your body in this way triggers the pituitary gland to release human growth hormone, he says, which enhances neurotransmitter levels. As evidence for HIIT's effectiveness, Ratey cites a German study in which participants incorporated two three-minute intervals of high-intensity sprinting into a 40-minute run. They produced much higher levels of BDNF and noradrenaline, and the runners performed 20 percent better in a post-run vocabulary-building exercise than those who had taken more leisurely exercise. However, Ratey cautions that HIIT is something that inexperienced exercisers should build toward slowly.
Ratey practices what he preaches, exercising at least three times a week for 20 minutes, with six 30-second high-intensity intervals in each session.
Kramer, 60, also exercises regularly; at work, he uses a standing desk and walks 30 minutes to an hour each day on a treadmill beneath it.
It's never too late to begin getting these benefits, Kramer says. "I'm often asked: 'If I'm 70. will it help me?' The answer is: 'Absolutely, yes.' "
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Typical Western Diet May Impair Brain Function
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In a recent study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science after a week of consuming a typical Western style diet healthy young participants scored worse on brain function testing and were encouraged to overeat. The study is one of the first to investigate whether a typical Western junk food diet can impair memory and appetite control in both animals in humans.
According to the researchers after only one week of eating high fat, sugar added diets the participants performed worse on memory tests and had a desire to consume junk foods following a meal.
Findings suggest that a typical Western style diet causes some sort of disruption in the hippocampus region of the brain, which is the region that involves memory and appetite control, making it harder for the participants to regulate their appetite.
"After a week on a western-style diet, palatable food such as snacks and chocolate becomes more desirable when you are full," Richard Stevenson, professor of Psychology at Macquarie University in Sydney and one of the co-authors of the study, told The Guardian. "This will make it harder to resist, leading you to eat more, which in turn generates more damage to the hippocampus and a vicious cycle of overeating."
For this study 110 healthy participants between the ages of 20-23 were recruited and split into two groups: a control group who ate a healthy diet; and the experimental group who ate a typical Western high energy diet which included a hearty portion of Belgian waffles and fast foods. Both groups ate breakfast at the start and end of the week, then completed word memory testing as well as rated their desire and enjoyment of high sugar foods such as Coco Pops before and after their meals.
"The more desirable people find the palatable food when full, following the western-style diet, the more impaired they were on the test of hippocampal function," said Professor Stevenson.
According to Stevenson, when the hippocampus functions less efficiently there can be a flood of memories to the brain that make the food appear to be more appealing. Findings from this study mimic earlier research conducted in animals showing that junk foods impair the hippocampus.
Stevenson goes on to explain that although there is no definitive reason as to why this occurs, it is believed that the hippocampus blocks/weakens/lessons memories of food when we are full. Initial subtle impairments caused by the typical junk food laden Western diet may lead to long term decline in other areas such as obesity and diabetes, both of which have been linked to developing dementia and declines in brain health.performance.
Stevenson believes that due to the steady rates of increase in the decline of American health, both mental and physical, will eventually lead to forcing the government to restrict the consumption of junk foods in a similar manner as was done to smoking.
"Demonstrating that processed foods can lead to subtle cognitive impairments that affect appetite and serve to promote overeating in otherwise healthy young people should be a worrying finding for everyone," says Stevenson.
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Q: Select all customers and all orders with single query Is there a way with single mysql query to output all customers and all their orders including customers without orders? I have:
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║  2 ║ Jim Jimmers ║
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║ 2     ║        1 ║  rdy  ║
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Q: How do I stop QGIS from crashing when trying to create a DEM from a contour line file? I am trying to use the same methodology I have used in the past to create a DEM from a line shapefile containing contours. However, it keeps crashing when I follow this methodology. (Using QGIS 3.10.9 with GRASS 7.8.3.)
I load the Mapset and then use v.in.ogr.qgis to create the output vector file. It seems to finish successfully although it gives warnings that say "file not found for location." I'm not quite sure what file it is talking about. This is the dialog it generates:
file not found for location
Over-riding projection check
Check if OGR layer "contours" contains polygons...
file not found for location
Creating attribute table for layer "contours" ...
Default driver / database set to:
driver: sqlite
database: $GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/sqlite/sqlite.db
Importing 31 features (OGR layer "contours")...
Building topology for vector map "contours_vector@POCC"...
Registering primitives...
Successfully finished

Then I use v.to.rast.attr and use the output vector file as the name of the input vector map. That filename shows up in the dropdown box, but when I select it, the program hangs up and a minute later it says "QGIS unexpectedly crashed."  I did look at the attribute table for the output vector file and noticed that it did not contain the contour values, just a column labeled "cat". I don't know if this is normal or not.
There may be something I'm not setting correctly, but I don't know what it might be. Any ideas?
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Phone will not power up. Slightly corroded and one battery contact looks broken. I have a brand new Galaxy S3 so is there anyway to switch out parts in order to reach internal memory? Desperately need pictures that were not saved to Sd card.
hcnevils, all those images and information is stored on the memory IC's that are soldered to your logic board. Not much of a chance to get to them for the DIY'er. Id try and fix the battery contact, clean the logic board with isopropyl alcohol and a soft brush. See if you can get it to work long enough to get to your files. Hope this helps, good luck.
How can I fix the battery contact? Thank you for your help....cleaned it up with alcohol but seems the salt has caused a lot of problems.
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The author of the beloved One for the Murphys gives readers an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel that will speak to anyone who's ever thought there was something wrong with them because they didn't fit in.
Lynda Mullaly Hunt (www.lyndamullalyhunt.com) has received many honors for her debut novel, One for the Murphys, which is on over twenty state award lists, including Bank Street's 2013 Best Books of the Year. She's a former teacher, and holds writers retreats for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two children, impetuous beagle, and beagle-loathing cat.
* "Unforgettable and uplifting. . . . Deals with the hardships of middle school in a funny, yet realistic and thoughtful manner. Ally has a great voice, she is an unforgettable, plucky protagonist that the reader roots for from page one. This novel is a must-have."--School Library Connection, starred review
* "Filled with a delightful range of quirky characters and told with heart, the story also explores themes of family, friendship, and courage in its many forms. . . . It has something to offer for a wide-ranging audience. . . . Offering hope to those who struggle academically and demonstrating that a disability does not equal stupidity, this is as unique as its heroine."--Booklist, starred review * "Mullaly Hunt again paints a nuanced portrayal of a sensitive, smart girl struggling with circumstances beyond her control. . . . Ally's raw pain and depression are vividly rendered, while the diverse supporting cast feels fully developed. . . . Mr. Daniels is an inspirational educator whose warmth radiates off the page. Best of all, Mullaly Hunt eschews the unrealistic feel-good ending for one with hard work and small changes. Ally's journey is heartwarming but refreshingly devoid of schmaltz."--School Library Journal, starred review "[Hunt's] depiction of Ally's learning struggles is relatable, and Ally's growth and relationships feel organic and real."--Publishers Weekly "Poignant. . . . Emphasis on 'thinking outside the box' . . . Ally's new friendships are satisfying, as are the recognition of her dyslexia and her renewed determination to read. Fans of R.J. Palacio's Wonder will appreciate this feel-good story of friendship and unconventional smarts."
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Carpigiani nacque nella frazione Castell'Anselmo di Collesalvetti da un quarantunenne impresario teatrale e da Teresa Bergonzoni, commerciante di Mirandola in provincia di Modena.
Bruto trascorse l'infanzia con i suoi due fratelli, Balilla e Poerio, a Mirandola, dove il padre aveva comprato il castello dei Pico per farne un teatro. Bruto, come ricordava la moglie Giuseppina Sghinolfi, era un grande appassionato di motori: appena ebbe qualche soldo comprò una Moto Guzzi e prima di sposarsi si costruì addirittura un prototipo di automobile per farsi vedere in paese. A testimonianza di questa sua passione restano disegni e mockups d'innovativi motori rotativi e di motori con distribuzione a valvole a pistone. Conosciuto come "l'ingegnere", lavorò come progettista all'ACMA dalla fine degli anni venti. Può essere idealmente considerato come il padre di una generazione di tecnici e progettisti che lavoravano nel settore delle macchine per packaging e che permisero lo sviluppo dell'intero comparto industriale bolognese.

L'istruzione
Conseguito il diploma di geometra, nel 1922/23 si iscrisse alla facoltà di Farmacia dell'Università di Bologna, senza però terminarla. Conseguì il titolo di "ingegnere" nel 1937, in Svizzera, discutendo una tesi dal titolo "La formazione e la determinazione dei costi di produzione in un'impresa meccanica" presso l'Ecole d'Ingénieurs-Spécialistes dell'Institut Technique Supérieur di Friburgo. Si laureò anche alla facoltà di Economia e Commercio dell'Università di Bologna il 15 luglio 1942.
Bruto Carpigiani è riconosciuto come pilastro di un'intera generazione di progettisti, tecnici ed imprenditori del comparto bolognese delle macchine automatiche, conosciuto come la packaging valley.

Direzione tecnica dell'A.C.M.A. e l'invenzione della Ruota a Zeta
All'Anonima Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche (A.C.M.A.) Carpigiani perfezionò le macchine già in produzione e ne progettò di nuove. Sotto la sua direzione tecnica l'A.C.M.A. fu protagonista di un forte balzo innovativo che, successivamente, avrebbe permesso l'esportazione.
Tra il 1929 e il 1930 introdusse l'innovazione decisiva per lo sviluppo di tutto il comparto: la "Ruota a Zeta". Un meccanismo "intermittore" che trasforma il moto circolare continuo in circolare intermittente. La novità consiste nel poter variare soste e movimenti, anche ad alte velocità, in modo preordinato dal progettista, in base alle esigenze di utilizzazione. Il successo della macchina da lui progettata, ACMA 749, è dovuto alla flessibilità e adattabilità del congegno che arriva a superare le macchine americane: venne utilizzata con incartatrice di caramelle, fornendo diverse modalità per incartare. Tale macchina è alla base della flessibilità produttiva e del successo del comparto bolognese delle macchine automatiche.

L'invenzione dell'Autogelatiera
Partendo dalla Motogelatiera inventata da Cattabriga si occupò, durante gli anni trenta, di migliorarla e innovarla. Lavorò al mantecatore verticale nelle cantine di Via Valeriani a Bologna, progettando una macchina automatica per la produzione del gelato, perché il gelatiere avesse come unico compito quello di estrarre il gelato dalla macchina.
L'evoluzione, rispetto alla Motogelatiera di Cattabriga, era la chiusura ermetica della scatola ingranaggi e aveva sostituito la spatola a moto alternato con una elicoidale rotativa. La chiusura ermetica favoriva anche una produzione igienica del gelato.
Sfortunatamente Bruto Carpigiani non riuscì a veder compiuta la sua opera: morì prematuramente a soli 42 anni.
L'anno successivo alla sua morte, avvenuta nel '45, Poerio rese omaggio al fratello costituendo l'azienda Carpigiani S.r.l. che iniziò i suoi lavori in via Cairoli a Bologna.
L'Autogelatiera fu poi portata a termine per la produzione da Vittorio Francia.

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Bibliografia
 Roberto Curti e Maura Grandi - Per niente fragile - Bologna capitale del packaging - Editrice Compositori
 Aurelio Alaimo, Vittorio Capecchi, L'industria delle macchine automatiche a Bologna: un caso di specializzazione flessibile, in D'Attorre Pier Paolo, Zamagni Vera (a cura di), Distretti imprese classe operaia, l'industrializzazione dell'Emilia Romagna, Milano, F. Angeli, 1992
 Renato Coppe (a cura di), Guida culturale industriale commerciale artigianale e turistica di Bologna e provincia, Bologna, Aniballi, 1988, pp. 332-337
 Vittorio Capecchi, L'industrializzazione a Bologna nel Novecento. Dagli inizi del secolo alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale, in Storia illustrata di Bologna, Milano, Nuova editoriale AIEP, vol. 4., 1990
 Distretti, imprese, classe operaia. L'industrializzazione dell'Emilia Romagna, a cura di Pier Paolo D'Attorre e Vera Zamagni, Milano, F. Angeli, 1992 Emilia-Romagna terra di cooperazione, a cura di Angelo Varni, Bologna, ETA-Analisi, 1990
 Luigi Arbizzani, Sguardi sull'ultimo secolo. Bologna e la sua provincia, 1859-1961, Bologna, Galileo, 1961
 Bologna 1980-2005, a cura di Aldo Balzanelli. Supplemento a "La Repubblica", 19 ottobre 2005

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Sausalito, CA. In the pre-dawn rain on January 22nd, a silent figure crept aboard a 107' luxury converted tugboat for sale in a prime berth in downtown Sausalito, CA. He loosened the 10 heavy hawsers tying the boat to the dock and set the boat adrift, snapping electric and water lines. That's when Joe Flower – a futurist who didn't see it coming – could have watched his offices float out into the Pacific Ocean.
It is still unknown exactly why the culprit did it.
Others on the dock soon noticed that tugboat Owatonna, a local icon, was missing. A neighboring yacht owner, Peter Le Lièvre, jumped into his skiff to prevent the ebbing tide from carrying the tug under the Golden Gate Bridge and out into the ocean. He found Owatonna drifting out of control toward the shipping lanes where he scaled the 9-foot hull barefoot, and boarded her, looking for a way to secure the vessel.
One problem was the suspect was still inside. He'd broken the pilothouse window and let himself in.
"That's when Peter called me," said Joe Flower. He and his wife Jennifer Flower, the tug's owners, were out of the country at the time. While trying to deploy a 100-lb skiff anchor lying onboard, Mr. Le Lièvre also called a tugboat company and Vessel Assist, looking for help. Fortunately, three Coast Guard vessels soon converged at the scene. They, Vessel Assist, and Jim Madden, a Sausalito Yacht Harbor master, together took on the awesome task of restoring the 350-ton Owatonna safely to her berth.
And then Mr. Le Lièvre paid Vessel Assist.
"This is exactly the kind of thing Peter Le Lièvre does," said Mr. Flower. "He just takes action. He's a brave and generous guy. And we were worried about him, we didn't know what kind of pirate we were dealing with."
The would-be pirate was fished out of the water, apparently attempting to escape.
"It took a lot of work to free all those hawsers holding her at the dock, the thief must have been determined." said Mr. Flower. "Yes, this tugboat has a lot of loyal and passionate fans." said Mrs. Flower, "and it's certainly an amazing place to be in the Bay Area. Who doesn't love a bright red tugboat? But it never occurred to us that someone would try to steal the boat. We suspect the fellow was not thinking clearly."
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Philmont celebrates its one-millionth visitor
By Aaron Derr July 31, 2014 3 Philmont Scout Ranch, Scouting archives
This summer, Philmont Scout Ranch celebrated its 75th season and its one-millionth visitor. Awesome, right?
The high-adventure base has come a long way since its first season in 1939, during which 196 visitors pitched a tent on the grounds of the 35,857 acres donated by Waite Phillips. At that time, the property was called the Philturn Rockymountain Scoutcamp. Click to enlarge the map here that depicts what the camp was like in the 1940s.
An article from the December 1940 edition of Scouting magazine describes Philturn as a "glorious adventure spot" for Scouts. B. B. Dawson, director of the camp at the time, writes: "There must be something out there, fellows, that will bear looking into if you are in search of the real old-timer type of Western adventure." (If you want to reminisce, find the full article here.)
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Crowdfunding Needed to Produce Second System Safety Animation
Help support Design School Lecturer Thomas Jun with his crowdfunding campaign to produce a second animation film on system safety.
The animation will be called ''No more Avoidable Deaths from Accidents, Two Contrasting Futures'', and its crowdfunding page has already raised over £3200 of the £11000 target.
Academic lead of the project Thomas Jun is a lecturer and researcher in human factors and complex systems at the Design School. He was particularly saddened by the terrible South Korea Ferry accident in 2014 because he says like so many other accidents, it could have been avoided.
Therefore Thomas and his team produced their first animation called ''Two Contrasting Views of the South Korea Ferry Accident''. It was created to share important research insights about how systems usually fail, with the widest possible audience and in the most engaging, and concise way. It received more than 15,000 views worldwide and was praised highly.
''It's very, very good. Clear, brilliantly produced and thought-provoking.''
Steve Evans, BBC's Seoul Correspondent, South Korea
The second animation ''Two Contrasting Futures'' will provide an essential guide to policy making, public debate and social action for safety improvement. It will be a powerful education/communication tool for safety professionals by showing what a safe and resilient system would look like, and how the latest research from human factors and safety systems engineering can make complex systems safer and prevent avoidable deaths.
Thomas is working with a team from Loughborough University on this project, the project's academic advisers; Dr Patrick Waterson and Prof Roger Haslam also from the Design School, and the creative director Dr Man Park who has a PhD in Animation and New Media Arts.
The animation is intended to be released online to be used for free in education.
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Thomas has now reached his campaign's target of £11,000. This is due to £5,730 being raised on the crowdfunding site, and the help of a matched funding from the University.
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Three-alarm fire rips through building in Walnut Hills Tuesday morning
A vacant building in Walnut Hills caught fire Tuesday morning, prompting a three-alarm response from firefighters, according to officials.
CINCINNATI — A vacant building in Walnut Hills caught fire Tuesday morning, prompting a three-alarm response from firefighters, according to officials.
The Cincinnati Fire Department responded to the 800 block of Buena Vista Place Tuesday around 1:30 a.m. for the fire. Once on scene, firefighters called for additional support to put the flames out. About 70 firefighters eventually descended on the flame-ridden building, according to District Fire Chief Jason Vollmer.
3-alarm building fire in Walnut Hills, 800 block of Buena Vista Pl. @WCPO pic.twitter.com/WGu6Ckgo74
— Adam Schrand (@AdamSchrand) July 7, 2020
Officials with CFD believe the fire started in the attic of the building. The fire department tweeted out the fire was "stubborn," and this caused the firefighters to change some of their strategies to put it out.
A stubborn fire in the cockloft space has companies altering strategies to reach this challenging fire. The primary response has been defensive as the building has been reported as vacant. https://t.co/p0nppxtOR1 pic.twitter.com/FXiJKCHLrD
— Cincy Fire & EMS (@CincyFireEMS) July 7, 2020
The building was constructed in the 1910s, according to fire officials, and the way the building was constructed is one reason why firefighters are having a difficult time putting the flames out.
Even though the construction of the building is making it more difficult to put the fire out, Vollmer said older buildings like this one were built to last for a long time and that makes them safer for firefighters.
Continued extremely smokey conditions and lack of interior access have Cincinnati fire companies still hard at work at this 3 alarm blaze. This building, built in 1910, is a hearty building but it's construction is also its greatest curse tonight. https://t.co/p0nppxtOR1 pic.twitter.com/npvGPzTYpV
Officials expect to be on scene for several hours. The cause of the fire is unknown at this time, and the incident is under investigation.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Plans to Donate Fortune to Charity
Tim Cook is planning to give away all of his near $800 million fortune before he dies, the Apple boss said in a surprisingly frank interview. Cook, 54, who took over as Apple chief executive from Steve Jobs in 2011, told Fortune magazine that he planned to donate all of his wealth to charity after providing for his 10-year-old nephew's education.
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PLANO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Southlake Carroll Running Back T.J. McDaniel has been named the Landry Award winner for 2018.
McDaniel received the award at the Landry Award presentation at the Hope Center in Plano on Monday night.
McDaniel rushed 2,122 yards and 34 touchdowns in helping the Dragons to a 13-1 season.
Southlake Carroll's season ended when they lost to Duncanville in the Class 6A quarterfinals.
Other finalists included Mansfield Lake Ridge Enoch Jackson Jr, Arlington High School's Jahari Rogers, Allen High School's Theo Wease Jr and Brian Williams of Bishop Dunne Catholic school.
Being a part of the Landry Award presentation is part of the McDaniel family legacy. T.J.'s older brother Cam McDaniel was a finalist for the inaugural Landry Award in 2010.
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Luther, Marx, Engels and a nailed-on manifesto for workplace change
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Facilities management, Workplace design
In October 1517 Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to a church door in Wittenberg, thereby setting in motion the process that we know now as the Reformation. At least since that time, it has been apparent that a revolutionary manifesto needs to be laid at somebody's door – or nailed to it – at the right moment for it to achieve its aims. Revolutionary manifestos are easy enough to set out, but the tract is nothing without traction.
Not all have had the immediate impact of Luther's. The Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels remained an obscure pamphlet for a quarter of a century before a treason trial of the three leaders of the German Social Democrat Party in 1872 meant passages were read out in court and hence in a major public arena for one of the first times. This brought it to the attention of a world that was primed for its message and allowed the authors to publish it in large numbers, new languages and new territories, setting in motion four decades of revolutionary thought and action that resonate to this day.
This was an early example of the Streisand Effect, by which an attempt to suppress something merely draws attention to it and so promotes it to a much wider audience.
Just as with major theological reform and political upheaval, so too the parochial world of workplaces. The Marx, Engels and Luther of the workplace in 2018 are – in no particular order – Ian Ellison and James Pinder of 3edges and Neil Usher, the ubiquitous pioneer of a new workplace discipline and one of the lead creators of the outstanding Sky Central facility in West London.
Together they have created a manifesto for workplace leaders, which you can read on Neil's blog here or download as a poster from the 3edges website (registration required). It's an ambitious set of ideas. It sets out to define the characteristics of a new workplace discipline that is essentially a chimera spliced from the existing disciplines of technology, HR, facilities management, property and general management. It is the natural end point of an evolutionary process set in motion 25 years ago when mobile devices and the Internet first introduced us to the idea that work was free of time and place. Or could be.
So, the new discipline is a direct consequence of a far broader definition of what we mean by workplace, which is equally cultural, digital and physical. The manifesto is coherent, timely, informed and progressive. It has the potential to define a new workplace singularity.
But will it? To whose doors is it nailed? And how are they reacting to the manifesto and the changes it seeks to crystallise?
Although this is a development that affects people across a range of disciplines and those in the vanguard of the one that is emerging, it is instructive to consider the overall response of the one discipline for which the new era would appear to be a massive opportunity, but which it appears intent on missing.
The problems the facilities management sector needs to face up to
Disclosure. I was the launch editor of a facilities management trade journal published for the first time twenty years ago this month. At the time, FM was something of a nascent discipline. Although it had existed in some form ever since humans first started creating communal buildings, the BIFM had only been formed in 1993 and so there was still a lot of debate in the UK and elsewhere about how to define an inherently diverse discipline and how to promote its message to the wider world.
All of this navel gazing may have been understandable back then, but the fact it's still happening in the same way two decades later now looks a little adolescent and self-absorbed. Of course, all professions engage in introspection and inquiry and rightly so, but there's something ill-defined about the way the facilities management sector goes about it right now.
This may be due to the extremely broad nature of what constitutes FM, famously mapped by Martin Pickard here and the underlying principle behind the always dubious claims about the scale of the FM sector.
Yet, speaking as a former insider and now an observer, I feel that there is also an underlying solipsism at play that means the upper echelons of the facilities management sector in the UK cannot see FM for what it is.
For evidence of this we need look no further than the sector's response to the collapse of Carillion in January. In the three weeks or so since its demise, the familiar refrain in the FM sector has been to suggest 'well at least everybody's talking about facilities management now'.
But they're not. The only people talking about FM in relation to this are people in FM.
If anything, the wider world is talking about sharp accounting practices, poor management, misguided government support and the effect of the collapse on major construction projects and public services.
While it's true that the failure of Carillion has wider ramifications for the FM sector, that is mainly of interest to the sector itself and primarily the part that constitutes firms like Carillion. The idea that we are now engaged in some sort of national debate about facilities management inadvertently highlights the sector's self-absorption and professional dysphoria.
This sheds something of a light on a problem directly related to the workplace manifesto. The FM sector gives the impression that it thinks workplace is a slightly frivolous subset of what it does. This is a potentially fatal fallacy because the opposite is true. Facilities management is an element of the workplace. It is in the belly of the beast, but still thinks it's the one dining.
What is perhaps more telling is the response of certain individuals who are rooted in the facilities management profession but who have developed or always had a broader focus on the cultural, human and technological facets of the workplace. They're getting on with the job of opening up new territories, including Neil Usher who was a Head of Facilities when I first knew him but wouldn't be now.
Although I'm singling out the facilities sector, the changes underlying the manifesto are something we must all look out for. There is an underlying teleological trap we can all fall into; of believing that the world is such a fit for our skills and character that it feels designed for us, rather than that we have adapted our skills and characters to fit the world.
And this is just one half of the existential challenge facing the facilities management sector. The other is manifest in the new business model being developed by the coworking juggernaut WeWork. Last year, the firm announced it was developing facilities management services as part of an integrated business model.
Where it leads others will follow. There are signs that the commercial property sector has woken up to just how transformative the idea of space as a service is, and how the coworking model is attractive to a wide range of organisations, and not just start-ups as they'd originally thought. I'm not so sure the FM sector sees it for the challenge it is.
Unless we all adapt constantly, including to the realities outlined in this new manifesto, we will be swept aside by a reformation. That is a nailed-on certainty.
Image: Julius Hübner's Der Anschlag von Luthers 95 Thesen, on display at the Lutherhaus in Wittenberg. Public domain
Business leaders increasingly optimistic about benefits of artificial intelligence in the workplace SMEs spend more time searching for private offices than coworking space


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