NATF is proud to support the Georgia Thrombosis Forum to promote the education of young students, teaching them about thrombosis and how they can spread awareness in their communities. Middle and high school students from the Georgia Thrombosis Forum often conduct research and analyze the state of thrombosis awareness throughout the country. The students then write reports on their work for publication in eThrombosis, a journal of their work.
What do we learn from the life of the U. S. Senator John McCain?
The authors have presented research findings on athletes and the risk of thrombosis. Thrombosis can affect an athlete as well as the family. It can reduce the athlete's performance and affect their quality of life. Because of the risk of recurrence, athletes will have to always take the proper precautions. At the end, the authors have reviewed case histories of some athletes. A message is that athletes are more prone to getting thrombosis. No one irrespective of age, gender, nationality, and race is immune from getting thrombosis. Read More.
Research In Thrombosis Outside of the US – A look at thrombosis resources outside of the U.S.


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The First Minister Carwyn Jones has said, 'Brexit poses different challenges and opportunities for each and every aspect of Welsh life'. This blog briefly explores some of the opportunities and challenges universities and colleges face as the United Kingdom continues toward its exit from the European Union. It complements the Children, Young People and Education Committee's current inquiry into Brexit for which a stakeholder event is being held on 04 July 2018 in Cardiff.
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The First Minister Carwyn Jones has said, 'Brexit poses different challenges and opportunities for each and every aspect of Welsh life'.
This blog briefly explores some of the opportunities and challenges universities and colleges face as the United Kingdom continues toward its exit from the European Union.
It complements the Children, Young People and Education Committee's current inquiry into Brexit for which a stakeholder event is being held on 04 July 2018 in Cardiff.
EU staff and students coming to the UK now, do so under the existing free movement frameworks (PDF: 1,340KB) . Other international staff and students are dealt with under different Immigration Rules.
It is not yet clear what the Immigration Rules will look like in the future, but UK Government guidance suggests a system which is more restrictive for EU citizens.
Universities Wales (PDF 282KB) argues that this would likely result in a fall in EU students leading to a negative impact on the experiences of students and staff.
Cardiff University (PDF 348KB) suggests that the reduction could be as much as 80-90% of the current number of EU undergraduate students.
How many EU students and staff are there in Wales?
In the academic year 2016/17 there were 6,235 EU students enrolled on a higher education qualification in Wales compared to 5,500 in 2012/13.
There were almost no EU students enrolled in further education in 2016/17.
The latest admissions data (PDF 348KB) shows higher education EU applicant numbers for 2018 are currently 2% higher than in 2017 across the whole of the UK. For Welsh institutions however the 2018 applicant numbers from EU countries are 9% lower than 2017.
The reduction in EU applicants to Welsh institutions comes at the same time as EU students start paying the full tuition fee as a result of the recent Diamond Review.
A significant number of Welsh university staff are recorded as being from the EU with Universities Wales stating that there were 1,355 staff (PDF 282KB) from the EU working within Welsh Universities in 2015/16. It estimates that was more than 10% of the workforce at Welsh universities.
What about other international students?
There are more than twice the number of non-EU international students enrolled on a higher education qualification in Wales compared to EU students. In 2016/17 there were 14,970 non-EU international students in Wales. This is more than 11% of the total number of students enrolled at Welsh Universities.
Funding for university research
In 2015/16 Welsh universities reported (PDF 348KB) receiving a total of £209 million from research grants and contracts, of which 12% (£25 million) was from EU sources. This compares to 35% (£73 million) received from UK Government funded Research Councils.
One of the sources of EU research funding for Welsh universities is the €70 billion Horizon 2020 EU research programme which runs from 2014 to 2020.
As reported by the Welsh Government (PDF 2,671KB), Wales has received €83 million from the programme up to September 2017 with allocations to universities accounting for 66% of this sum.
The UK Government has published a document (PDF 169KB) which it says 'clarifies the UK's eligibility to participate in Horizon 2020.' In it, UK Government says that in light of negotiations to date it 'envisages that existing projects will continue to receive an uninterrupted flow of EU funding for the lifetime of the project' and that 'UK participants will be eligible to bid for Horizon 2020 funding for the duration of the programme, including after the UK's withdrawal from the EU'.
Both the UK and Welsh Government's have a stated aim to benefit from Horizon 2020s successor programme known as Horizon Europe.
Horizon Europe will run from 2021 to 2027 and is worth €100 billion. Recent EU proposals suggest that the UK may be able to access Horizon Europe as a "third country" (PDF 656KB).
A number of universities, such as Cardiff University have also expressed concerns (PDF 348KB) beyond just funding, citing disruption to research networks and collaboration between institutions and researchers.
Winning more research funding
Welsh universities also have access to UK research and innovation funding via a body known as United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI). It has a combined annual budget of more than £6 billion which is open to competition.
As pointed out by the author of the recent Welsh review (PDF 4,120KB) into government funded research, Professor Reid, there are no rules setting a limit on how much of the £6 billion that Welsh universities could win.
The growing budget in UKRI now presents major opportunities for businesses and universities in Wales […]. There is no limit to the proportion of UKRI funding that can be won [but] only the strongest competitors will win.
European Structural Funding
European Structural Funds (ESF) are another source of funding. Both Universities Wales (236 KB) and ColegauCymru (PDF 258KB), the representative bodies for Welsh universities and colleges respectively, see the replacement of EU structural funding as a clear priority.
It is easy to see why.
The Wales European Funding Office (WEFO) Approved Projects list shows 42 approved projects within the higher and further education sectors with total EU funds awarded of £281 million. With other match funding these projects are worth almost half a billion pounds between 2014 and 2023.
In addition, ColegauCymru (PDF 1085KB) have produced a report to demonstrate the level of involvement colleges have with European funding, including the Erasmus+ scheme.
The report states that since 2000, 'colleges have participated in a number of EU funded projects and initiatives with an overall value of £594million of which £124million is allocated for the current 2014-2020 period'.
Ideas for the future
Both the Welsh Government (PDF 1,782KB) and UK Government have identified what they see as weaknesses in the current ESF model with Welsh Government seeing the opportunity to strengthen the strategic focus of projects, remove artificial scheme boundaries and to 'simplify administrative complexity and rules'.
The UK Government has announced (PDF 169KB) a Shared Prosperity Fund (a domestic investment programme) but there is little additional detail available on how it might operate.
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) states that (PDF 434KB) the sector faces some 'significant uncertainties arising from Britain's forthcoming exit from the European Union'.
Others also point to opportunities to replace and even grow funding, to change the future offer for EU / international students, and to potentially continue in programmes that the sectors consider key such as Horizon Europe and Erasmus+, albeit as 'third' countries.
However, with nothing agreed until everything is agreed (PDF 475KB), no firm Welsh Government commitment yet to fully fund all the recommendations of the Reid Review, and with few current details on a future immigration regime or the future of regional investment, uncertainty for the sectors is likely to continue for a period of time yet.
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/**
 *
 * Simple light-weight append-only list to be used as a collection convenience.
 *
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typedef struct rd_list_s {
        int    rl_size;
        int    rl_cnt;
        void **rl_elems;
	void (*rl_free_cb) (void *);
	int    rl_flags;
#define RD_LIST_F_ALLOCATED  0x1  /* The rd_list_t is allocated,
				   * will be free on destroy() */
#define RD_LIST_F_SORTED     0x2  /* Set by sort(), cleared by any mutations.
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#define RD_LIST_F_FIXED_SIZE 0x4  /* Assert on grow */
#define RD_LIST_F_UNIQUE     0x8  /* Don't allow duplicates:
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} rd_list_t;

/**
 * @brief Initialize a list, preallocate space for 'initial_size' elements
 *       (optional).
 *       List elements will optionally be freed by \p free_cb.
 *
 * @returns \p rl
 */
rd_list_t *
rd_list_init (rd_list_t *rl, int initial_size, void (*free_cb) (void *));

/**
 * Allocate a new list pointer and initialize it according to rd_list_init().
 *
 * Use rd_list_destroy() to free.
 */
rd_list_t *rd_list_new (int initial_size, void (*free_cb) (void *));

/**
 * @brief Prepare list to for an additional \p size elements.
 *        This is an optimization to avoid incremental grows.
 */
void rd_list_grow (rd_list_t *rl, size_t size);

/**
 * @brief Preallocate elements to avoid having to pass an allocated pointer to
 *        rd_list_add(), instead pass NULL to rd_list_add() and use the returned
 *        pointer as the element.
 *
 * @param elemsize element size
 * @param size number of elements
 *
 * @remark Preallocated element lists can't grow past \p size.
 */
void rd_list_prealloc_elems (rd_list_t *rl, size_t elemsize, size_t size);

/**
 * @brief Free a pointer using the list's free_cb
 *
 * @remark If no free_cb is set, or \p ptr is NULL, dont do anything
 *
 * Typical use is rd_list_free_cb(rd_list_remove_cmp(....));
 */
void rd_list_free_cb (rd_list_t *rl, void *ptr);

/**
 * @brief Append element to list
 *
 * @returns \p elem. If \p elem is NULL the default element for that index
 *          will be returned (for use with set_elems).
 */
void *rd_list_add (rd_list_t *rl, void *elem);

/**
 * Remove element from list.
 * This is a slow O(n) + memmove operation.
 * Returns the removed element.
 */
void *rd_list_remove (rd_list_t *rl, void *match_elem);

/**
 * Remove element from list using comparator.
 * See rd_list_remove()
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void *rd_list_remove_cmp (rd_list_t *rl, void *match_elem,
                         int (*cmp) (void *_a, void *_b));

/**
 * Sort list using comparator
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void rd_list_sort (rd_list_t *rl, int (*cmp) (const void *, const void *));

/**
 * Empties the list (but does not free any memory)
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void rd_list_clear (rd_list_t *rl);

/**
 * Empties the list, frees the element array, and optionally frees
 * each element using the registered \c rl->rl_free_cb.
 *
 * If the list was previously allocated with rd_list_new() it will be freed.
 */
void rd_list_destroy (rd_list_t *rl);

/**
 * Returns the element at index 'idx', or NULL if out of range.
 *
 * Typical iteration is:
 *    int i = 0;
 *    my_type_t *obj;
 *    while ((obj = rd_list_elem(rl, i++)))
 *        do_something(obj);
 */
void *rd_list_elem (const rd_list_t *rl, int idx);

#define RD_LIST_FOREACH(elem,listp,idx) \
        for (idx = 0 ; (elem = rd_list_elem(listp, idx)) ; idx++)

#define RD_LIST_FOREACH_REVERSE(elem,listp,idx)                         \
        for (idx = (listp)->rl_cnt-1 ;                                  \
             idx >= 0 && (elem = rd_list_elem(listp, idx)) ; idx--)

/**
 * Returns the number of elements in list.
 */
static RD_INLINE RD_UNUSED int rd_list_cnt (const rd_list_t *rl) {
        return rl->rl_cnt;
}

/**
 * Returns true if list is empty
 */
#define rd_list_empty(rl) (rd_list_cnt(rl) == 0)

/**
 * Find element using comparator
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void *rd_list_find (const rd_list_t *rl, const void *match,
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/**
 * @brief Compare list \p a to \p b.
 *
 * @returns < 0 if a was "lesser" than b,
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 *            0 if a and b are equal.
 */
int rd_list_cmp (const rd_list_t *a, rd_list_t *b,
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/**
 * @brief Simple element pointer comparator
 */
int rd_list_cmp_ptr (const void *a, const void *b);

/**
 * @brief Apply \p cb to each element in list, if \p cb returns 0
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void rd_list_apply (rd_list_t *rl,
                    int (*cb) (void *elem, void *opaque), void *opaque);

/**
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rd_list_t *rd_list_copy (const rd_list_t *src,
                         void *(*copy_cb) (const void *elem, void *opaque),
                         void *opaque);

/**
 * @brief Copy list \p src to \p dst using optional \p copy_cb (per elem)
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 * @remark copy_cb() may return NULL in which case no element is added,
 *                   but the copy callback might have done so itself.
 */
void rd_list_copy_to (rd_list_t *dst, const rd_list_t *src,
                      void *(*copy_cb) (const void *elem, void *opaque),
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/**
 * @brief String copier for rd_list_copy()
 */
static RD_UNUSED
void *rd_list_string_copy (const void *elem, void *opaque) {
        return rd_strdup((const char *)elem);
}

/**
 * Debugging: Print list to stdout.
 */
void rd_list_dump (const char *what, const rd_list_t *rl);

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Home › CATESBY, Mark (1683 – 1749) Vol.II, Tab. 1, Barracuda
CATESBY, Mark (1683 – 1749) Vol.II, Tab. 1, Barracuda
Painted and etched by Mark Catesby (1638 - 1749)
Etching with hand color, paper dimensions: approximately 14 x 19 inches
From Volume II, Part 6 of Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama Islands
London: 1734 - 1771
Currently known as the great barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda and the bonefish, Albula vulpes*, Catesby described these subjects as follows:
UMBLA MINOR, marina maxillus longioribus. Vide Sloan, Hist Jam. Tab. 247. Fig. 3.
Barracuda.
This Fish grows to a large Size; some of them I have seen ten Feet in Length, and some I was told are much longer, tho' the more common Length is that of about six or eight Feet. It is long in Proportion to its Thickness. And in Shape resembles somewhat the European Pike; the Eyes are large and bright, the Mouth is very wide, having the under Jaw longer than the upper; the upper Jaw is armed with four large Teeth, placed at the fore Part of the under Jaw Next the Head are placed ten smaller Teeth, being five on each Side; and in the forepart of the same Jaw grows one single large Tooth. On the Back grow two short Fins, distant from one another, with six Ribs in each Fin; near the Gills grow two more at a like Distance, lower on the Belly, was another Pair, and a single one a little behind the Anus; in all seven Fins. The Tail wide and forked.
This Fish was covered with thin Scales of a middling Size; dark brown on the Back, lightning gradually to the Belly, which was white. It is a swift Swimming, and very voracious Fish, preying on most others; and some of the largest Size have frequently attacked and devoured Men as they were washing in the Sea. They are in great Plenty in all the shallow Seas of the Bahama-Islands, and in many other Places between the Tropicks, the Flesh has a very rank and disagreeable Savour both to the Nose and Palate, and are frequently poisonous, causing great Sickness, Vomiting, and intolerable Pain in the Head, with loss of Hair and Nails; yet the hungry Bahamians, frequently repast on their unwholesome Carcasses.
VULPIS BAHAMENSIS.
The Length of this Fish is usually about sixteen inches and very small and tapering towards the Tail, which is remarkably wide and forked: The Mouth is pretty wide with a single Row of small sharp Teeth in each Mandible. It is covered with somewhat large thin Scales of an Umber Colour on the Back and whitish on the Belly. It hath five Fins, one on the Back, another a little below it on the Belly; and another between that and the Tail, with a Pair under the Gills.
Mark Catesby (1683 – 1749)
Facts regarding Catesby's early years are scant. It is known that he was born in the ancient market town of Sudbury, England to a father who was a legal practitioner and mayor of Sudbury and to a mother from an old Essex family. It seems that he received an understanding of Latin and French and was familiar with the eminent naturalist Reverend John Ray. Following his father's death, he was endowed with the means to pursue his interest in the natural history of North America.
Catesby arrived in Virginia in 1712 as the guest of his sister and her husband, Dr. William Cocke, an aid the Governor of the colony. Soon he was acquainted with the well-connected William Byrd, a Fellow of the Royal Society whose diary contains passages discussing Catesby's strong curiosity with all things relating to North America.
This included plants native to the fields and woods of Virginia through which Catesby traveled, collecting examples of botanical specimens unfamiliar in England, which he illustrated and sent back to his uncle, Nicholas Jekyll and the apothecary and botanist, Samuel Dale.
Catesby's first trip to the New World was extensive and included a visit to Jamaica. Although he felt that his approach to a larger understanding of its natural history was lacking in structure, his experience would inform his future expeditions.
Following his return to London in 1719 Catesby resolved to return to the colonies and gather additional information for his illustrated Natural History... He gained the financial support of members of the local scientific community, many of who were members of the Royal Society keen to send a naturalist to Carolina who could provide an accurate account of its resources. Among those who belonged to the Royal Society was William Sherard, who after examining Catesby's drawings, was key in advancing the project. With further backing by Sir Hans Sloane, court physician and naturalist whose collection would form the basis for The British Museum, Catesby sailed to Carolina in 1722.
Catesby's four years of travels following his second arrival in North America brought him throughout South Carolina, parts of Georgia, and the Bahamas. He was
intent on visiting the same location at different times throughout the year in order to observe his subjects as they developed. In addition to gathering botanical specimens of potential horticultural importance, he also acquired birds and other creatures.
Catesby's patrons in London were eager to receive examples of the varieties of plants and animals he encountered but collecting, packaging, and sending them back to England served as a distraction to his intended Natural History... Nevertheless, he continued to observe, paint, and write descriptions of the previously un-investigated wildlife he encountered on the shores and in the swamps, woods, and fields of the middle American colonies.
Catesby returned to England from his final voyage to America in 1726 and spent the next seventeen years preparing his Natural History... He envisioned his work containing colored plates reproducing his studies from nature in a substantial, folio-sized format, an achievement nearly unprecedented in earlier natural history publications. Catesby arranged for financing in the form of an interest-free loan from the Quaker Peter Collinson, a fellow of the Royal Society. Nevertheless, the cost of paying professionals to prepare his delineations on copper plates for printing was too great. To this end, with the assistance of Joseph Goupy (1689–1769), a French artist living in London, he taught himself to etch. In addition to producing nearly all of the plates for his publication, Catesby closely supervised the coloring of the engravings, either painting the impressions himself or closely overseeing the work to insure its fidelity to his preparatory work. To further finance the project Catesby sold subscriptions, offering his book in sections of 20 plates to be published every four months.
The first volume of Natural History of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama Islands, containing one hundred plates, was completed in 1731 and no doubt facilitated his election as a fellow of the Royal Society in February, 1733. The second volume, also containing one hundred plates, was finished in 1743 and was supplemented with twenty plates based on information sent to Catesby by John Bartram and others in in America appeared in 1746–1747. Of the approximately 180 - 200 copies of the first edition produced, roughly 80 copies remain complete and accounted for and there are an unknown number in private collections. A second edition was issued by George Edwards in 1754 and a third edition, published by Benjamin White, in 1771 who continued to print examples of the plates until at least 1816. As early as 1749 editions were produced for the European market with translations of the text in German, Latin, and Dutch. In these the plates for the first volume and appendix were re-etched by Johann Michael Seligmann and the plates for the second volume re-etched by Nicolaus Friedrich Eisenberger and Georg Lichtensteger.
Catesby's tenacity resulted in a sweeping and compelling study of American plants, animals, and marine life native to little documented lands in which he strove to assign scientific nomenclature to his subjects. Indeed, Linnaeus, in his 1758 Systema Naturae, made use of much information brought to light by Catesby using it as the foundation of his system of binomial nomenclature for American species.
Throughout the production of his Natural History…Catesby lived in London with his Elizabeth Rowland with whom he had four children and married in 1747, before his death in 1749.
*From James L. Reveal's Identification of the plants and animals illustrated by Mark Catesby for The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands in the appendix of The Curious Mr. Catesby, University of Georgia Press.
Auguste FAGUET (1841-1886), Elisa CHAMPIN (1807-1871), et al. No 31 - 1881 From: Vilmorin Album . Vilmorin Andrieux & Co. Paris: 1851 - 1881.
Auguste FAGUET (1841-1886), Elisa CHAMPIN (1807-1871), et al. No 3 From: Vilmorin Album . Vilmorin Andrieux & Co. Paris: 1851 - 1881.
Auguste FAGUET (1841-1886), Elisa CHAMPIN (1807-1871), et al. No 3 - 1853 From: Vilmorin Album . Vilmorin Andrieux & Co. Paris: 1851 - 1881.


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Meltdown and Spectre fixes cause problems
It's been three weeks since one of the worst IT security vulnerabilities in history was announced, and consumers are still receiving mixed messages about how to protect themselves. We usually encourage users to install software updates as often as possible, but when it comes to Meltdown and Spectre, that advice
It's been three weeks since one of the worst IT security vulnerabilities in history was announced, and consumers are still receiving mixed messages about how to protect themselves. We usually encourage users to install software updates as often as possible, but when it comes to Meltdown and Spectre, that advice comes with an asterisk.
Unsecured data storage
Spectre and Meltdown are the names given to two hardware flaws that allow hackers to see any piece of information stored on your computer. Although slightly different in execution, both take advantage of a hardware feature that computer chips use to access and store private information. For the last 20 years, security experts believed this information could not be stolen or spied on by malicious software, but that assumption was proven false on January 3, 2018.
Now that the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities are public information, hackers can use them to create programs that steal passwords, social security numbers, credit card numbers, and anything else you type into your computer.
Because these problems are hardware-based, none of the updates will be able to secure the vulnerable storage; they'll simply prevent your computer from storing anything in it. Currently, there are patches for:
Operating systems (Windows, macOS, and Linux)
Web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and IE)
Chip firmware (low-level programs installed on the processor itself)
If you're using an Apple computer, these updates are relatively easy to install. If you're using a Windows or Linux-based computer, these patches may cause your machine to freeze, reboot unexpectedly, or significantly slow down.
Why should I wait to install the updates?
Intel, one of the chipmakers responsible for the Spectre and Meltdown flaws, has provided contradictory recommendations on more than one occasion. As recently as January 18, Intel recommended waiting for an updated patch, but in the same announcement also recommended "consumers to keep systems up-to-date."
Experts believe detecting an attack that is based on one of these flaws will be relatively easy and represent an alternative to installing updates that could render your computer unusable.
IT support experts will be able to quickly and easily assess what is the best option for your computers. For example, our team can determine whether or not your hardware will conflict with the current patches, and either install them or set up a detection strategy that will help you mitigate the risks without ruining your computer.
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C. Fundanius was one of the moneyers for the year 101 BC, as well as a Quaestor the same year - as indicated by the Q on his coins.
The gens Fundania was a plebeian family at Rome, which first came into notice in the middle of the third century BC. Although one of its members obtained the consulship in BC 243, the Fundanii never attained much importance in the state.
The Fundanii are known to have used the praenomina Quintus, Gaius, Marcus, and Lucius, all of which were amongst the most common names throughout Roman history.


We all need a Freedom City. Since the invention of cities, they have been multicultural sites where opportunity, knowledge, and the arts draws those from monocultural communities nearby and afar. Today, our cities are not doing enough to protect the people who live there. Police forces unfairly criminalize Black/Brown bodies through policies and practices which target our neighborhoods. Federal Agencies are cracking down on unjust immigration policies, which ignores the role the United States and other Western countries have played in shaping the Global economy which has caused this crisis in migrant labor. Over the past few years we have seen a resurgence in grassroots movement in the United States, many with a sense of justice and set of principles often captured in the phrase "intersectionality". This phrase means many things, but at it's heart it's about recognizing that we do not live in just one component of our identity. If we are man, we also have race, sexuality, class, religion, and geographic elements in our identity which shape the experiences we have and how we are positioned in the world. More particularly, for me it means that to stand for an "identity" is to stand for ALL of those encompassed within it, a practice which expands our compassion.
Million Hoodies is committed to Freedom Cities because we believe our cities need to push back at the local level to resist collaboration with I.C.E. We push for Freedom Cities because we know that the struggles of Black and Brown folks living under US authority are united whether it is the tragic colonial situation of Puerto Rico, the unethical treatment of undocumented laborers, or the experiences of police brutality and mass incarceration. Freedom Cities is for all of us fighting for radical democracy, resisting further violence from the state, and wishing for a world where our cities belong to those who live there.


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USS Macon: Respects Paid 2006 Part Two
Continued from Page One:
USS Macon Expedition 2006
By Dr. Robert V. Schwemmer, NOAA
(With contributions from Bruce Terrell and Chris Grech; NOAA, MBARI, photos;
Published in NOON BALLOON #72)
Five of the Macon's eight German-built Maybach VL-II 12 cylinder gasoline engines were identified, including one of the Allison propeller transmissions with 19.5-foot connecting shaft. The Maybach engines were easily distinguishable since the 12 spark plug wires were still visible and are in some cases still attached to the distributor.
[Producer's caption: The mighty Mybachs, then with Dr. Karl Arnstein, and 70 + years later. ]
Objects from the ship's galley were recorded, including plastic serving ware, two sections of the stove with propane tanks, and the enlisted men's dining table and bench.
Debris Field B contained the Macon's bow section including the mooring assembly. This field also contains aluminum chairs, file cabinet, and desks that may have been from the officers' or meteorologist's office. Both debris fields contained duraluminum girders, several gasoline fuel tanks and portions of the eight water-recovery condensers. (END)
[Producer's caption: Digital composites of the two main debris fields, A [left] and B. The Macon's stern assemblies, including the remains of the shattered upper fin, have not been located. It is believed the stern has settled in a deeper area on a slope that has been considered too hazardous to safe ROV exploration.]
[Producer's caption: MBARI pieced together numerous images, taken at close-up distances for illumination to be practical, to produce this mosaic of the remains of Bay VII's hangar bay. Structure, as well as what's left of the trapeze, are visible. At least one wheel/tire assembly has been photographed detached, verifying there had not been time to re-attach all, in any, of the landing gear before the ship was damaged.]
[Producer's caption: This view of the Navy deep-diving sub Sea Cliff taken during the first manned dive on the site in 1990 illustrates just how close Macon was to making it back to shore. One can only speculate what might have happened if Macon had made a grounding, even damaged as she would have been on that rocky Point Sur coastline.]
The Significance of the USS Macon Archaeological Survey
By Bruce G. Terrell, Senior Archaeologist
NOAA/Nat'l Marine Sanctuary Program
(reprinted from NOON BALLOON)
In a sense, NOAA's 2006 mission to the site of the USS Macon began with the MBARI and US Navy's 1990 and 1991 expeditions. NOAA was, at that time, in the final stages of designating the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) and the Macon news alerted the program that there was a significant resource in the new sanctuary's waters.
[Producer's caption: MBARI's ship and ROV used in the 1991 explorations.]
The USS Macon is perhaps the best-protected archaeological resource in U.S. waters today. It rests in the waters of NOAA's MBNMS and is protected by the National Marine Sanctuaries Act. It is owned by the U.S. Navy and is also protected from looting by the Sunken Military Craft Act. Finally, it rests on California state bottomlands which also entitles it to protection from illegal disturbance. The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, like all of NOAA's fourteen sanctuaries, is responsible for the identification, protection and management of historical and archaeological resources. The USS Macon mission provides the first comprehensive documentation of all of the known distribution of wreckage. When completed, the video mosaic will allow NOAA to interpret the archaeological context and inter-relationship of the site's features. At over 1500 feet, the depth of the Macon's wreckage has kept if safe from salvage and pilferage, as well as from the bottom dragging nets of fishing boats. Commercial fishing can be devastating to submerged archaeological remains. Macon is also in an area of the California coast where bottom dragging is presently prohibited.
[Producer's Caption: With 110 gasoline tanks, and a host of other tanks for cooling water, lube oil and ballast water, the ocean floor is littered with lightweight tanks, some that originally weighed as little as 22 lbs. Below, one is barely crushed; others, horizontal mounted, badly imploded, baffles visible.]
Feature identification has already begun with NOAA and MBARI consulting with the airship experts from the Naval Airship Association. The construction of airships was well documented and the many contemporary photographs are now useful in identifying objects.
The archaeological team expects to publish a final mission report by the end of summer '07. The report will contain a final assessment of site features and distribution. It will also present site management recommendations for both the Navy and the sanctuary to consider. Finally, the team expects to begin the process of nominating the USS Macon to the National Register of Historic Places. Since the Macon site most likely holds the most complete archaeological record of a unique naval aviation resource, it should be considered to be unique and of national significance.
[Producer's Caption: one water-recovery condenser is laid out on the ocean floor as if a railroad track. Note that half of the pipe appears bright brass and the other darker, as if dissimilar metal. Likely, a trick of the light.]
Although the Macon mission was actually a standard archaeological assessment project for the National Marine Sanctuaries Program, the uniqueness of the subject created international interest. The project had a useful education and outreach value and brought many new constituents an awareness of the varied ocean issues that are addressed by the sanctuaries everyday. (END)
[Producer's caption: The NASM's Sparrowhawk #9056 offers a reference for examination of the remains in Macon's hangar bay. The turnbuckle-equipped hook release pull is intact, while the fragile windscreen and its framework are gone. Note that the black highlight around the pilot's handgrips (the compass is seen below the left grip) are still somewhat visible after decades in the deep.]
[Producer's Caption: Remembering the Curtiss Sparrowhawk came in to being as airplanes were evolving from wooden ribs and tube-and-canvas structures, the F9C-2's revolutionary monocoupe metal fuselage and stamped metal wing ribs have held up remarkably well given the 70+ years below a 1/4 mile of salt water. The company's well known cabin monoplane, their 1929 Robin, made famous for endurance flying in the 1930s, was their first production airplane with stamped metal wing ribs. Not only did aviatrix Bobby Trout and "Wrong Way" Doug Corrigan fly Robins, the incredible 29-day Robin flyer "Ol Miss" is enshrined at NASM downtown, while Sparrowhawk 9056 sits on its wheels over at Dulles.]
In ZRS the movie, we are planning on having a "feature after the feature" to liven up the credits rolling. Of course there is only black and white footage of the real flying carriers; however, some of it was transferred to safety film before nitrate would have lost the images forever. Of this, some is available as fine grain 35mm film stock, which when projected with modern 4K equipment would hold its own on the big screen. While most stock film houses demand more money than would be practical to spend on the after-feature credit roll, those in the Fox-Movietone out-take archive at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, are of high quality and are more reasonably priced. Contrasting the 1930s footage, the opposite side of the credit screen could feature the best of the MBARI hi-def footage taken during their last expedition. The producer, after having spent years studying the subject and gathering images of anything LTA or hook-on, remembers vividly the first time in 1990 when a shot of the cockpit so seemingly familiar suddenly looked back—since a rock cod had taken refuge just under what was left of the glareshield. Thus the film will end with the harsh reality—and interesting beauty—of the real world of the flying carrier before it completely disintegrates.
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Q: Why does magento catch wrong event from admin section? I have set up a default 'no modifications' copy of magento on a local machine to replicate the results on our production machine.
When I try to catch the event 'adminhtml_customer_save_after' in a module, it always returns / stops on customer_save_before. This is also true for any of the customer_save_after type events.
Adding
file_put_contents('/tmp/events.log','Dispatching '. $name. "\n",FILE_APPEND);

to the dispatchEvent function in /var/www/app/Mage.php verifies that it indeed does return on customer_save_before, even though that is not the event i'm asking for.
Please validate this and let me know if this is intended functionality. I must have access to the entity_id in magento admin section when our call center / order team creates new customers in the admin side of the site (for placing phone-in orders) for synchronization with our company's database.
PHP from module
<?php
class NKI_CustomerSync_Model_Observer
{

public function AddCustomerToQueue($observer)
{

$event = $observer->getEvent();
$customer = $event->getCustomer();

$model=$event->getModel();

echo "<PRE>";
var_dump($event->getName());
var_dump($event->getData());

var_dump($event);
var_dump(get_class_methods($event));
die();
}.....

XML
<config>
<modules>
<NKI_CustomerSync>
<version>0.1.0</version>
</NKI_CustomerSync>
</modules>

<global>
<events>
<adminhtml_customer_save_after>
<observers>
<NKI_customersync_model_observer>
<type>singleton</type>
<class>NKI_CustomerSync_Model_Observer</class>
<method>AddCustomerToQueue</method>
</NKI_customersync_model_observer>
</observers>
</adminhtml_customer_save_after>

A: First, since your post betrays a few misunderstandings about how Magento's event system works, which in turn is leading you to diagnose the problem incorrectly, here's a quick review of the event system.
The dispatchEvent method in Mage.php is the wrong place to check if Magento "catches" your event.  This method receives all events.  It's not until deeper in the calling chain, in Mage_Core_Model_App's identically named dispatchEvent method
#File: app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php
public function dispatchEvent($eventName, $args)
{
    foreach ($events[$eventName]['observers'] as $obsName=>$obs) {
        //...
    }
}

where Magento will look for any event observers (or in your parlance, event catchers)
Magento issues all sorts of events on every request.  The customer_save_before event is issued whenever a customer model object is saved.  This includes saving both on the frontend and the backend.  However, the adminhtml_customer_save_after event is fired here
#File: app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/controllers/CustomerController.php
public function saveAction()
{
    //...
    $customer->save();
    //...
    Mage::dispatchEvent('adminhtml_customer_prepare_save', array(
        'customer'  => $customer,
        'request'   => $this->getRequest()
    ));
    //..
}

In other words, this event fires in the saveAction of the admin customer controller.  In other other words, this event fires after a user clicks "save" in the Magento admin console when looking at an individual customer.
So, both the customer_save_before and the adminhtml_customer_save_after event will fire when a customer gets saved in the Magento admin.  The customer_save_before event fires first, and then the adminhtml_customer_save_after event fires.
As for your specific code, what you've shown looks correct.  That assuming you have the closing } on the observer class, and that it's in the correct location.
app/code/community/NKI/CustomerSync/Model/Observer.php

//or, if your module is configured in the local code pool

app/code/local/NKI/CustomerSync/Model/Observer.php

and that your module's config.xml has a closing </config>, is valid XML, and is in your module's etc/config.xml file.  This also assumes Magento can see your module.
I used your code to throw together a skeleton module and your event fired when I saved a customer on the backend of Magento.  That skeleton module is here.  Compare it to what you have to see where your module may be subtly incorrect.

A: The Event Should be put in adminhtml and is called customer_save_after

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Q: GVim crashes when opened by clicking I have been a user of GVim for many years now. I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 16.10 to 17.04. I recall during the upgrade that it asked me if I wanted to keep my .vimrc file, I said yes (because why the hell not).
Anyway, the problem is, I can now open any text with GVim from a terminal, but if I open my home folder (without the terminal) and go and try to open a text file ending in .tex with GVim, it crashes right after opening. I checked with many file types : the only ones causing the crash are .tex files (for those who might not know, these are TeX files used by pdflatex for creating beautiful PDF files, among other things).
Where should I start looking to fix this crash, or has any other TeX user experienced it after upgrading? I tried re-installing vim (sudo apt remove --purge vim, sudo apt install vim) but the problem still occurs.


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Alder & Sage opens on Retro Row, welcoming new and familiar Long Beach faces
by Kat Schuster January 3, 2023
Alder & Sage is Retro Row's newest restaurant and coffeehouse, opened by the previous owner of Portfolio Coffeehouse, which operated just up the street for more than 32 years. Long Beach Post/Kat Schuster.
On a drizzly Tuesday morning, Kerstin Kansteiner was delighted to spot two familiar faces outside of her newest Long Beach restaurant, only minutes before the doors opened for its first day of business.
The pair arrived bright and early as they routinely did, just one block away at Portfolio Coffeehouse, which closed its doors permanently last year after operating on Retro Row for 32 years.
Alder & Sage, which officially opened Tuesday at 366 Cherry Ave., borrows elements from both of Kansteiner's previous endeavors, Portfolio and Berlin Bistro—sister cafes that were long beloved by locals. And just a few hours into Day One, Kansteiner was beginning to feel that Alder & Sage could reassemble a similar melting pot.
"There were people that came in today who were standing in line and recognized each other as [previous Portfolio] customers and hugged," Kansteiner said. "That was really heartwarming to see."
On Tuesday, Jan. 3, Alder & Sage owner Kerstin Kansteiner was already spotting regulars of Portfolio Coffeehouse, which permanently closed on July 31, 2022. Photo by Kat Schuster.
There are plenty of details customers of the shuttered cafes will recognize, including a painting of Portfolio Coffeehouse, which hangs near the entrance, and Berlin's large community table, which sits in the backyard. But a full kitchen—offering bites such as the Jidori chicken lettuce wrap or the prismatic beets and burrata dish—is what sets the new location apart from the former entirely.
"It's a grownup version of Portfolio with comfortable seating," Kansteiner said. "And the space is big enough indoor or outdoor that whether you're here on a laptop or you're here with friends, that's awesome."
Matt Azen and Bryan Wilson, who live nearby, were regulars of Portfolio and were also fans of Berlin. As they sat at a long table by the window at Alder & Sage on Tuesday, they said they were happy to be back in a similar environment.
The new coffeehouse will offer specialty drinks such as the whiskey caramel latte, which comes with a side of smoldering and aromatic wood chips. Photo by Kat Schuster.
Portfolio "was always kind of hoppin' and just a friendly space to sit, read and hang out as long as you needed to," Wilson said. "It had that sit and hang out kind of coffee shop vibe without it feeling like it was 1997. It wasn't too dark, or carpeted."
Azen, who works remotely and often frequents coffee shops, said he was excited about the new location's outdoor fire pit lounge and just to have somewhere close to his home again.
"On the flip side, I think there's a tendency for coffee to be a sort of snobby thing that a lot of other new places don't feel welcoming," Azen said. "So it's great to find that sweet spot where you have great coffee but you don't have to be a coffee elitist."
The new cafe will serve Rose Park Coffee and pastries during its first two weeks. Then, likely for the rest of January, the cafe will serve food from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. until dinner service begins in February, which will extend hours until about 10 p.m. All the while, the team is working on securing a beer and wine license.
From the moment the doors opened on Tuesday, the place was bustling with both previous patrons and new customers eager to find a seat within the cozy mid-century building. Apt for its name, the subtle scent of sage and charred wood chips permeated the air as baristas prepared whiskey caramel and maple sage lattes.
Due to the drizzle, the cafe's backyard remained empty, but Kansteiner said she is excited to see locals and dog owners fill the '70s-style conversation pit, with its two fire pits and lounge seating.
Alder & Sage opened at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 3, and was immediately teeming with previous fans of the shuttered Portfolio Coffeehouse as well as newcomers. Photo by Kat Schuster.
The name of the space was long debated, Kansteiner said.
'"Is it Portfolio, is it Berlin—Berlinpolio?' We felt like it was such a new beginning and such a new concept that we didn't want to bring either, although we do have a little homage [to Portfolio] at the entranceway," she said.
Kansteiner ultimately settled on a name that embodied a more natural feel—"alder" for the wood used in the building and "sage" for a symbol to usher in a new era, leaving the past behind.
"I felt like I needed some sage-ing after the Portfolio experience," she said of the lengthy landlord dispute and four-year legal battle that led to the shop's closure on July 31, 2022. Kansteiner said that unfair rent increases eventually cost both sides more than $200,000 combined in legal fees.
Although both cafes closed for good, Kansteiner noted that she was able to re-employ all workers of both Berlin and Portfolio, except one, who found a job elsewhere nearby. So naturally, opening day began smoothly with a familiar team, she said.
Kansteiner, a resident of Long Beach for 35 years, said she's grateful for the opportunity to raise a fusion of her two former cafes on Retro Row, close to her home, rather than Downtown, where Berlin Bistro operated.
"I've always lived in this area so it feels really great coming back. "There's a real community here," she said. "Nobody really lives Downtown so you never had this community feeling where you see people on a daily basis. In the months we've been working here, every single day, two to three people have stopped by…that felt really good."
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For whatever reason, I manage to find myself being taken on adventures on a semi-frequent basis, by people who love life, eat well, and want me around. I'm not going to start questioning it anytime soon. This most recent rendition included the Florida Everglades. The last time I was in Florida was when I was about 8, with my family. We went on a day trip to the Everglades and took one of those crazy airboat tours to see alligators, migratory birds, fig vines hugging huge oak trees, and mangrove trees with their fingerlike roots reaching into the still, green, brackish waters below. When I was little, we got to do all of that AND eat alligator fritters. I thought it was one of the most succulent creatures I had ever eaten. So, for the past 20-odd years, I have dreamed about one day eating alligator again.
Unfortunately I don't frequent Southwest Florida, don't have a snowbird grandparent to go visit, and generally try to avoid supporting the US economy. And then, I found myself positioned in the company of one very generous ladyfriend who needed a getaway, knew someone with a house to stay at down south, and whisked me away to the sunny Gulf Coast. She was dead set on paddling a canoe in the Everglades. Being pretty game myself, I agreed that it would be an excellent day trip. We managed to avoid being taken hostage on highway 41, rented a canoe, drew our paddles along the sleepy surface of Turner River, and paddled through the narrow and winding passage of the mangroves. We chilled out in the canoe mere feet away from many alligators. We saw a mommy alligator with two of her babies, we even got so close that I tapped one with my paddle, unknowingly. Alligators are very good at camouflaging themselves in the swamp. We were followed back up the river by a red-shouldered hawk, examined a colourfully painted turtle sunning itself on a log, and collected snail shells floating on the surface. After our foray into the wilds of the mangrove in a tippy canoe, nose-to-nose with sea monsters, we decided it was time to go in search for any alligator delicacy we could sink our teeth into. We arrived in Everglades City. It was a depressed little town, the main attraction being airboat touring companies along the water, but we managed to find a cafe with a table on the porch outside, and cold beer. A leathery and ancient old lady with very few teeth came to our table to take our order, I asked for the alligator fritters as advertised on the menu. "No alligator here." "Oh, really? I had my heart set on it," I said. "We ain't got any cause they can't sell the leather. You know it's illegal to make anything with the hides, so nobody has any meat. I ain't lying to ya' honey, you can try the other places, they won't have any either." Disappointment set it. And so it went, because alligator hunters can't do anything with the hides, they don't bother hunting them. No fritters for us. Once again food politics trumps lunchtime satisfaction. I guess I can understand why. I'll just have to go hunt me an alligator all by myself. You might expect a photo of a nice new leather purse in the next post… Just kidding.
If there was anywhere in the United States that I could see myself feeling comfortable, it would definitely be Portland, Oregon. Yes, it's true, I haven't been to all of the places in all of the 50 states, but Portland would certainly give any other candidate a run for its money. And here's why: 1. the local food system is sophisticated and supported by the community, such that one can procure much of what one needs or desires at one of the many farmers' markets throughout the week; 2. there is excellent coffee found on every corner of every intersection in every neighbourhood; 3. the cycling infrastructure is user-friendly and comprehensive such that anyone could get from point A to point B in order to eat one's way across the entire city with no problem; 4. White Pinot Noir. Need I say more?; 5. it's delicious and has a great sense of humour. Full Stop.
Saturday Market (on Saturdays and Sundays) full of artisans and knick knacks, and highly entertaining.
Saturday Farmers' Market, with 140 vendors, live music, chef demos, many prepared foods for the muting right there, and a dedicated staff pleased to help you navigate and make the most of everything it has to offer.
The Japanese Gardens and the Rose Gardens. WHOA!
Alberta, Mississippi, Hawthorne and Alphabet neighbourhoods.
to read my ideas on Greenwich, Nova Scotia's farmland rezoning issues and the Kings County Municipal Council decision to defer their decision.
As I sat quietly alone to eat a Breakfast Burrito from Tempest at the Wolfville Farmer's Market last weekend, I happened to notice a funny little juxtaposition. Some might argue this is no laughing matter and shouldn't be referred to in diminutive language. It is, after all, a lesson. Directly across from one another in the hallway of the Student Union Building at Acadia University, were two very different food options.
Um…. come again? I thought it was just that Monsanto-like god-players orchestrate all of this to happen and we're left with Frankenfood. With all of the -ploids in the passage, I feel like my previous understanding still holds, and I'll just continue to use Red Fife Wheat to bake my bread, thank you very much.


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Girl gamers may soon top the leaderboard
The stereotype of a 'gamer' has long been the young man holed away in his bedroom, playing games in the dark for hours on end by himself. Yet, new research has found that we might be smashing the stereotype.
When I think of a 'gamer', I always think of people who consider gaming to be a hobby. Perhaps they might spend a few hours a week or more playing games, either on a PC or a specific games console. However, it may be time to revise the term, as casual gaming has taken off in a massive way across the UK.
The rise of casual gaming
So what is casual gaming? Put simply, it's a term coined to explain the huge range of easy-to-pick-up games for portable devices like smartphones and tablets. Ever heard of Angry Birds? It's a great example of a casual game, designed to be accessible for people of any age and with any level of gaming experience. The gaming industry seems to be reacting to this trend by producing a string of highly addictive, easy-start games that you can spot on devices everywhere you look.
Apparently, the huge rise in popularity of casual gaming has also caused a similar shift in female gamers taking up the hobby. According to the BBC's research, gaming could even be a female-dominated hobby by the end of 2013.
When polled, 75% of women said they felt that gaming no longer had anything to do with gender. But I have to wonder how much this dramatic increase in self-identified female gamers has to do with a shift in the stereotypical view of gamers in general.
Reassessing the 'gamer' stereotype
Personally, I've had to review my own application of the word 'gamer'. Until today, I probably would've scoffed at anyone who labelled themselves a gamer on account of their playing Angry Birds while travelling to work. But why am I any more qualified to call myself a gamer, just because I prefer to play more complex, in-depth games on a PC or console?
I need to be less precious about the term, and instead embrace the increase in women who are identifying as gamers. I hope that this will also reduce the stigma attached to the hobby in general, and help women see their way into an industry that is almost entirely dominated by men. In fact, only 4% of games developers in theUKare women.
Do you think that the proliferation of smartphones, tablets and other portable devices has increased the amount of time you spend playing games? Would you identify yourself as a 'gamer'?
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Katie Benson says:
I've noticed that a lot of my older female friends and family are starting to get into social gaming. Some of them might have tried console gaming on a Nintendo Wii, but it seems as though the 'quick start' premise of many Facebook and smartphone games is more appealing in the long-term.
Plus they get to chat with their friends while they play – multi-tasking in action!
If you only play Farmville on Facebook, you are not a gamer. That's my view. I'm not into the whole 'PC hardcore gaming master race', however, I do think you need to take part in the hobby outside of social networks. Good to see more women taking up gaming though – I'd like to see the back of the stereotypes.
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I love gaming, on a pc or mobile phone. I cannot use ps3 or a wi or nintendo because of my arthritus, but i'll give any game a go, whether it be on Facebook or a Gaming site such as Wild-Tangent amongst many others. You do not have to be young either, i"m a young 64 and some of my games my sons cannot play.P;us it keeps my mind active,(No not Farmville) one in particular is so brilliant Luxor Evolved, thats fantastic specially when you need a boost or let off steam, and today on the news i saw a lady of 84 playing on her ps3 and thought Go Girl, its not about the boys and men any more its about us Women out there. Keep it up girls!
Here's an 85 year old female gamer addicted to her PS3: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21116544 🙂
I totally disagree with Kate, I started to play games on my pc firstly &then my smart phone. I decidedi would not go on social network sites, first of all.So I did just play without friends or other people. My family suggested the social sites a few years ago, when they realised that on some things & on the Internet I knew a bit more than they did; which was quite a surprise to them. So to answer the question about our silver surfers. No I did not use these social site's at first.There are many older people besides myself who cannot get enough of the new tec or gaming
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The Mules chased the Friona Chieftains for most of the first 42 minutes of the football game Friday night. The Chiefs were undefeated on the season at 7-0, and the Mules were unbeaten in district play with a record of 2-0.
Friona had led the Mules by 14 points twice during the first half, but the Mules had cut the deficit to 34-27 by the halftime intermission. The Mules only needed two plays in the second half to tie the game at 34-34.
That was the second of four ties that occurred during the contest. The Mules had tied the game at 14-14 early in the second period. The Mules were playing catch up late in the third period, when Magic Mikey Lozano broke loose for a 15-yard-touchdown run. Brady Martinez booted the point after to again tie the game at 41-41.
Lozano finally puts the Mules ahead 48-41 on a one-yard dive with 6:42 left in the game. Friona tied the game at 48-48 for the final time with just over four minutes left in the game.
The Chiefs kicked off to the Mule end zone, and the Mules started their final scoring drive at the Mule 25.
Luke Del Toro rolled left and tossed to Isaac Mendoza running a down-and-out pattern. Mendoza laid out to make the catch for a first down at the Friona 37. Lozano took the handoff and went up the middle for 10 yards.
Del Toro checked out of the play that was called because of how the defense had lined up. Del Toro kept on an option play for eight yards to the Friona 46. The Mules put two sniffer backs to the right side, and Lozano followed his blockers for 15 yards.
The Mules used the same offensive set, and Lozano started right. He found a crease in the Friona defense and cut back against the grain for 11 yards to the Chief 15. The Mules faked the wide receiver sweep, and Lozano kept the ball.
Leonel Camarena blocked the defensive tackle to the inside and Lozano ran outside the block. Lozano got turned around with his back to the end zone at the five-yard line. Ryan Rodriguez and Mendoza provided the extra push to help Lozano into the Friona end zone for a 12-yard touchdown run.
Brady Martinez tacked on the extra point for the 55-48 win with just 25 seconds left in the game.
Friona ran four plays in the final 25 seconds but could not advance the ball.
The Mules had tied the game at 41-41 with five minutes remaining in the third period. Following the Mule kickoff, the Chiefs drove to the Mule 10-yard line when the final quarter began. It was second down and goal to go.
Friona went straight ahead for six yards. The Mules made the stop at the two on third down. The quarterback pulled the ball from the belly of the Chiefs big running back, and Mendoza made the tackle at the one-yard line on fourth down.
Lozano kept up the middle for 11 yards. Yoel Reyes took the handoff from Lozano for five yards to the Mule 20. Lozano carried on a student body sweep around the right end for ten yards.
Lozano carried for five yards on first down and was tackled by his facemask. The 15-yard penalty advanced the Mules to midfield. Del Toro rolled left, stopped, and saw Y. Reyes coming open at the Friona 30.
Y. Reyes leaped high in the air, broke a tackle reaches the Friona 18 for a 23-yard gain. Rodriguez blasted up the middle for 13 yards before Del Toro kept wide right for six yards.
Lozano scored from the five-yard line, but the Mules were flagged for holding. Lozano started wide left before cutting back to the middle of the field for a 14-yard gain and a first down at the Friona one.
Rodriguez led Lozano to the promised land and gave the Mules their first lead of the night at 48-41 with 6:42 left in the game.
The Mule rolled up a total of 488 yards of offense by rushing for 312 yards and passing for 176. Lozano led the Mules with 28 carries for 208 yards and six touchdowns. He completed four of eight passes for 35 yards and one touchdown.
Del Toro rushed four times for 11 yards and completed seven of 19 passes for 141 yards and one touchdown. Rodriguez carried 12 times for 68 yards and Y. Reyes carried twice for 25 yards.
Y. Reyes caught five passes for 85 yards and one touchdown. Romeo Reyes made two catches for 38 yards. Mendoza had three receptions for 30 yards. Martinez made one catch for 15 yards and one touchdown.
Friona rolled up 403 yards with 281 being on the ground and 122 passing.
Mendoza led the Mule defense with 22 tackles, two tackles for losses, broke up a pass and made two special teams tackles. Corbin Hardwick made 20 tackles, two being for losses, and made two sacks.
Lozano had 16 tackles. Carlos Meza made 14 tackles, two for losses, one quarterback hurry, blocked an extra point attempt, and caused a fumble. Leonel Camarena finished with nine tackles, one for a loss, one sack, and had three quarterback hurries. Julian Astorga recorded eight tackles, two quarterback hurries, caused one fumble, and recovered one fumble.
Matthew Alarcon made three special teams tackles and Y. Reyes broke up three passes. Camarena, Meza, and Ean Hasley each caused a fumble. Astorga, Martinez, and Y. Reyes each recovered a fumble.
The Mules are on the road again Friday night. They will put their 4-0 district record up against the 0-4 Littlefield Wildcats in Wildcat Stadium Friday night.


The BLOX project, home of the Danish Architecture Center (DAC), contains exhibition spaces, offices and co-working spaces, a café, a bookstore, a fitness centre, a restaurant, twenty-two apartments and an underground automated public carpark, but it is not the acrobatic mixing of uses that defines this project; its ultimate achievement is in 'discovering' its own site.
The Old Brewery site, split into two by one of Copenhagen's main ring roads, didn't really register as a building site until the design of the new DAC identified it as such. Straddling the road, making public connections both above and below, BLOX connects the parliament district with the harbour front and brings culture to the water's edge. A space for cars becomes a space for people; a space to pass through becomes a space to reside.
The Copenhagen inner harbour has a long industrial and military history. On reclaimed land, the building site initially housed a cluster of brewery buildings which burnt to the ground in the 1960s. Since then the harbour has become the home of some of Denmark's most notable architectural icons; a linear display of the tenets of Danish Modernism: monumentality, simplicity and politeness.
BLOX adds a new impulse: creating an encounter between the water frontages, Kierkegaard's Square and the city. Its square volume, positioned directly along the harbourside, creates a sheltered public city square against the traditional yellow buildings and a much needed built front for the existing library square.
Contrary to most city blocks in Copenhagen – often introverted and inaccessible – the building absorbs the city's life. The urban routes through the building lead to unexpected and unpredictable interactions between the building and the city, linking the different museums, libraries and historical sites around the culturally rich Slotsholmen area. A linear park along the harbour flows down below water level along the quay wall and through the building. The former playground is incorporated into the new building, as a partially covered and terraced public space, which can be transformed in the evening into an open-air cinema acting as a public foyer.
The building's exterior is marked by a stacking of the same geometric forms in different arrangements. The offices are contained in a rectangular ring of glass facades shaded in a white frit. The ground floor functions are located in separate volumes generating openings which form the public entrances and bring the city in to the center of the building. The apartment volumes are fragmented and recessed for privacy, the landscaped terraces encircle the DAC's central rooflight. The building's coloured textures subtly echo the sea tones of the harbour, ever-present in the reflected light of the water.
The DAC itself forms the core of the BLOX Project, positioned in the centre, surrounded by and embedded within its objects of study: housing, offices and parking. It is organized as a vertical sequence of spaces running through the building, starting below ground and moving upwards to the cafe with its view over all of Copenhagen.
A broad sustainability vision has been developed for the project, not just in terms of the usual energy, carbon and resource issues, but addressing the wider social and economic impacts. The Arup SPeAR® assessment served as a tool to analyse the project and record progress against a comprehensive, holistic set of criteria spanning environmental, social and economic aspects within the wider cultural and geographical context.
Denmark's advanced low energy requirements for buildings, arising from the 2009 Copenhagen Accord, demand an operational energy usage much lower than other countries. Bringing the building's design in line with these criteria involved rethinking its mass and façade concepts, involving ways to reduce CO2 emissions and embodied carbon during construction and operations, as well as researching new solutions to offset and neutralise the carbon usage. The building makes use of on-site renewable energy and achieves the Low Energy Class with a primary energy usage of under 40 kWh/m²/yr.
User comfort and lifetime flexibility are important elements for the durability of BLOX. The building is acoustically isolated from road noise and vibrations with a highway bridge construction and high insulation facades. The office facades are fully glazed to provide a generous outlook and to reduce lighting energy usage. Minimal low-energy lighting fixtures combined with user task lights are used, and both lighting and facade sun shading are automated through centralised daylight control, with user controls. The building is served by a high specification heat recovery plant which uses Copenhagen's district heating and cooling system based on seawater cooling and the use of residual heat from electricity generation.
Program: Mixed Use building: DAC Danish Architecture Centre, Apartments, Offices, Restaurant, Retail, Automatic parking, Urban Park & Playground.
Team: Federico D'Angelo, Fred Awty, Soren Thiesen, Will Hartzog, Dennis Rasmussen, with Nina Grex, Lea Olsson, Brigitta Lenz , Anna Grajper, Chong Ying Pai, Cristina Martin de Juan, Saskia Simon, Mateusz Kiercz.


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Ohio is set to become the Texas of the North. Here's why it shouldn't.
Rob Smith, Bidish Sarma Jul 26, 2017
Time is running out for Ronald Phillips, who is scheduled to be executed in Ohio later today. If it proceeds, the execution would be Ohio's first in over three years. Ohio, like the rest of the country, has experienced a drastic decline in executions over the past decade. But, in a rapid change of course, the Buckeye State has planned to execute 27 death row inmates between now and September 2020. If Ohio stick to its plan, it will execute more people over the next three years than any other state — save Texas — has executed over the past three years. That's a bad idea.
One need not move past Ronald Phillips's case to unearth the seismic defects in Ohio's capital punishment scheme. In 1993, when a jury sent Philips to death row, the jurors did not have the option to impose a life without parole sentence. Today, every jury has that option. It was one of the reasons why annual death sentences in Ohio have plummeted from a peak of 25 down to just four new sentences in 2016.
There is reason to believe a jury may have spared Phillips's life. He was 19 years-old when he committed the murder that put him on death row. The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishments, bars the execution of a person who was under the age of 18 at the time of the crime — regardless of how aggravated the offense. That line is less bright than blurry when one really considers moral culpability. The U.S. Supreme Court has acknowledged that "[t]he qualities that distinguish juveniles from adults do not disappear when an individual turns 18." Research demonstrates that until around the age of 25, our brains continue to mature, tending to cause decreased impulsivity and better judgment as we grow older. The expanded capacity to make better decisions well after the age of 18 helps explain why people under 21 cannot buy alcohol and why it costs much more to rent a car if you are under 25. A jury given the choice between death and life-without-parole very well may have chosen life because of Phillips's young age.
Phillips's youth is not the only reason a jury might have chosen life-without-parole if it had the option. The Eighth Amendment also bars the execution of people with intellectual disabilities. In the same way that Phillips doesn't quite fit into the juvenile box, he also doesn't quite meet the requirements to be considered intellectually disabled. However, his IQ is, at best, in the low-average range. He failed the first grade. A psychologist described Philips as "a rather simple, emotionally immature, psychologically inadequate person." A neighbor echoed the same sentiment: "I always felt, I felt like there was some emotional problems over the years, not being a psychiatrist, I don't know, can't name them, I can't label them, I call it 18 going on 12." Phillips's father, too, said that his son "acted like he wanted to be an adult but he still was like a child."
To be clear, Ronald Phillips deserved to be held accountable. While still a teenager, Phillips who had no prior criminal record, sexually assaulted and killed his girlfriend's three year-old daughter. Nothing can ever excuse such a terrible crime, but our Constitution and laws recognize that some individuals fundamentally lack the moral culpability to be subjected to the ultimate punishment. As jarring as the crime was, jurors need a full picture of the defendant's life to see if they can get any insight into how such an offense could happen. It is the lawyer's job to present that story. Here — and in too many cases — the defense team fumbled. It might have helped jurors to put this crime into context if they had heard testimony that Phillips's father sexually abused and brutally beat him — and his siblings — throughout his childhood beginning when Phillips was just four years old. A few years later, when Phillips was 7, it appears his older cousin also sexually assaulted him. Unfortunately, the lawyers at trial failed to obtain and present most of this powerful mitigating evidence.
One judge who listened to the case, Judge R. Guy Cole (now the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit) wrote this about Phillips's case: "The jury that recommended Phillips be sentenced to death, however, heard little evidence about his childhood because his counsel failed to investigate the red flags leading to a large body of mitigating evidence that would have considerably altered the picture of his culpability." The trial lawyer never even hired a mitigation specialist — the most important step in preparing a defense against the death penalty. The whole mitigation presentation, a proceeding that often lasts days or weeks when done properly, lasted less than a day.
Ronald Phillips's case is not the exception. Ohio's next scheduled execution, which is in September, is of Gary Otte, who was 20 years-old at the time of the crime. Otte was mercilessly bullied throughout his childhood, mostly for being, as his sister put it, "a little slower than the other children," having "a slight speech disorder," and being "clumsy." Otte became clinically depressed as a teenager, and tried to commit suicide multiple times. As described in a memorandum from the Ohio clemency board, "by eighth grade he had twice attempted to commit suicide, once with ExtraStrength Tylenol and later by stabbing himself in the wrist with an ink pen." Otte killed two people during home invasion robberies, which he committed while addicted to and desperately seeking more crack cocaine. Given our recognition that 17 year-olds who have developed normally can never receive the death penalty, it is difficult to understand why Ohio is pushing to kill a "slow," drug-addicted 20 year-old with severe depression and a history of suicide attempts. The death penalty is often used to kill the most damaged defendants, not the most culpable; and as the scheduled executions of Phillips and Otte illustrate, it pulls in people with severe mental illnesses, traumatic life experiences, and intellectual deficits.
Ohio's Governor, John Kasich, has the power to stop this onslaught of executions. He should use it. If executing some of the most impaired people among us is not reason enough, Ohio's death penalty scheme has other fundamental flaws. Consider that Romell Broom, one of the men scheduled for execution, was injected 18 times and laid on a gurney for over two hours in a 2009 botched execution attempt. Moreover, in 2014, during the last execution Ohio carried out, the inmate "gasped, choked, clenched his fists and appeared to struggle against his restraints for about 10 minutes," according to the Columbus Dispatch. If that were not a serious enough indictment of the execution method, Ohio's current lethal injection protocol, which the State has never before used, risks future botches. Then consider that Ohio has had nine innocent people exonerated from its death row. (and Tyrone Noling, who is still on the row, continues to assert his innocence with substantial evidenceto support his claim.)
It will not take 27 executions to permanently tarnish Ohio's reputation. Simply starting this procession will be like severing the brakes on a train.
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Investigation of Delayed Response during Real-Time Cursor Control Using Electroencephalography.
Authors: Hyeonseok Kim, Natsue Yoshimura and Yasuharu Koike
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Error-related brain activation has been investigated for advanced brain-machine interfaces (BMI). However, how a delayed response of cursor control in BMI systems should be handled is not clear. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate how participants responded to delayed cursor control. Six subjects participated in the experiment and performed a wrist-bending task. For three distinct delay intervals (an interval where participants could not perceive the delay, an interval where participants could not be sure whether there was a delay or not, and an interval where participants could perceive the delay), we assessed two types of binary classifications ("Yes + No" vs. "I don't know" and "Yes" vs. "No") based on participants' responses and applied delay times (thus, four types of classification, overall). For most participants, the "Yes vs. No" classification had higher accuracy than "Yes + No" vs. "I don't know" classification. For the "Yes + No" vs. "I don't know" classification, most participants displayed higher accuracy based on response classification than delay classification. Our results demonstrate that a class only for "I don't know" largely contributed to these differences. Many independent components (ICs) that exhibited high accuracy in "Yes + No" vs. "I don't know" response classification were associated with activation of areas from the frontal to parietal lobes, while many ICs that showed high accuracy in the "Yes vs. No" classification were associated with activation of an area ranging from the parietal to the occipital lobes and were more broadly localized in cortical regions than was seen for the "Yes + No" vs. "I don't know" classification. Our results suggest that small and large delays in real-time cursor control differ not only in the magnitude of the delay but should be handled as distinct information in different ways and might involve differential processing in the brain.
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The Nissan Xterra SUV is a five passenger family SUV that comes with three different trims. Buyers can chose from the basic X, midrange S or top range Pro-X. The basic X comes with a 4.0 liter 261 hp V6 engine and a five speed automatic transmission. Rear wheel drive is standard, but four wheel drive is an option. The X also has 16 inch steel wheels, privacy glass in the rear, roof rack side rails, a keyless entry system, air conditioning, standard cloth upholstery, a 60/40 split folding rear seat, power mirrors, power windows, power locks, cruise control, tilt steering and a six speaker stereo system with CD player.
The S Trim on the Nissan Xterra SUV comes with the same V6 engine as the X trim. The S offers a choice of rear wheel drive or four wheel drive. The four wheel drive version has a choice between the five speed automatic transmission and a six speed manual transmission. Along with that, the S trim boasts special off-road tires and 16 inch allow wheels. There is also a first aid kit, a driver seat with adjustable height and lumbar support and a cargo organization system. The four wheel drive option adds a roof rack with cross bars and a gear basket.
The Pro-4X trim adds plenty of features geared towards the off-road adventures. It shares the same engine and transmission choices as the S trim. Along with that buyers will get an electronic locking rear differential, hill start assist, hill descent control, skid plates, 16 in alloy wheels, a set of off-road tires, foglights, roof mounted off-road driving lights, cloth upholstery, front passenger seat that folds flat, leather wrapped steering wheel, white face gauges, automatic dimming rearview mirror, Bluetooth, nine speaker Rockford Fosgate system with a six CD changer, satellite radio. An optional Pro-X leather package includes leather upholstery, passenger seatback map and eliminates the folding front passenger seat.
The Nissan Xterra SUV also comes standard with adequate safety features. All trims will include antilock disc brakes. They will also have stability control as a standard feature. Front seat side airbag and side curtain airbags are also on every trim. The Pro-X comes with hill descent control and hill start assist as well.
For those that are active and like to get off the beaten path, the Nissan Xterra SUV makes a great way to do that. Since it is also quite practical, it works for daily commuting with the family as well. This eliminates the need for two vehicles. However, it is geared towards the off-road crowd and that is where it works best. Daily driving will showcase the flaws that may not be evident in the competition. Those who want a little adventure will enjoy the Xterra, but those that simply want a family vehicle for driving around town might not find it as pleasing.
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ST. AUGUSTINE | Latoya Korren Jordan lived in a Fruit Cove home for days with the man she met on Craigslist rolled up in a carpet stuffed in a back room.
"Yeah, most people when they kill ... they don't, ya know, clean up the blood. They run off or something like that ... In my situation, I don't have a car. I don't know how to drive. So guess what. I had to deal with it. So I soaked up the blood. I cleaned it up."
That was Jordan's own words following her arrest in the 2011 stabbing death of 53-year-old Daniel Stuart Somerson, Jordan, 26, is on trial this week for first-degree murder, and her confession is a key to the prosecution.
St. Johns County Sheriff's Office detective Sean Tice, who helped track Jordan to a home where she was living with another man she met on Craigslist in Florida, testified she also confessed to using Somerson's credit cards for about $7,500 worth of purchases.
Assistant State Attorney Kelsey Bledsoe's opening statement characterized Somerson as a quiet man who was "looking for love" and who invited Jordan to stay in his home after meeting her through the Internet. He was murdered after asking her to leave, Bledsoe said, and was stabbed by her multiple times with two separate knives.
A detective's recorded interview with Jordan was played Thursday for the jurors, who listened as she described how she just "snapped."
"I kept stabbing at him," Jordan said.
Somerson was a "good person," but Jordan said she was not interested in a relationship.
"I wasn't into him like that," she said. She was "standoffish" and he said she wasn't appreciative of what he'd done for her.
Somerson "just kept going and pushing." She would not reciprocate, and he asked her to leave.
Then she said he wouldn't give her time to find another place. She was tired of men wanting more and she didn't want to be homeless.
"I was just thinking to myself, I don't want to be put out on the streets. I'm tired of going through this crap of all these guys who say one thing but then ... change it up. I'm not gonna lie. I snapped," she said.
One night, she got out of bed, walked around the house and grabbed a knife from a butcher block. He was awake and talking, not looking at her, and asked her to come lie back down.
"That's what made me angry actually," she said.
She said she stabbed Somerson while he was in bed. After a scuffle, he ran down a hallway and tried to get to a phone. She pushed him down and began stabbing him again, she said. She walked away when she thought he was dead. When she returned, she saw him sliding toward the door. So she got another knife and stabbed him more, she said.
"I think that time I got the bigger knife."
Medical Examiner Predrag Bulic testified Somerson suffered at least 30 wounds.