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Turing's Cathedral
When Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, George Dyson's history of the famous computer built at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in the late 1940s, was published last March, I resisted it.
I'm a sucker for Institute history. And, of course, for mathematicians. What could be better? On the other hand, could there be a story in the book that I hadn't read three or four or five times? I feel like I grew up with these characters. Johnny von Neumann (the star of the book, its title notwithstanding). Alan Turing. Stan Ulam. J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Or, from the Institute's early history, the Bambergers, who acquired a fortune by selling their department store to Macy's and set out to do good with it by founding a medical school in greater Newark. Abraham Flexner—fresh from revolutionizing medical education in the US—whom they turned to for advice and who proposed an institute for abstract research instead. Oswald Veblen, the Princeton mathematician who helped Flexner with the conception of the Institute. Einstein, one of the founding faculty. Marston Morse. Kurt Gödel. Reading another book about these people and the Institute would be redundant.
But reading Robert Sullivan's My American Revolution: Crossing the Delaware and I-78 earlier this month put me in a New Jersey frame of mind. Among his topics is the Battle of Princeton, which took place on what is now Institute and neighboring grounds. And then, two Fridays ago, as I was nearing the book's end, the Wall Street Journal printed Marc Levinson's survey of the best business books of 2012. Having enjoyed Levinson's The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, I trusted him as a guide. My resistance to Turing's Cathedral weakened when I read:
The Institute for Advanced Study is at once prestigious and obscure. Endowed in 1930 by the Bamberger family, which had owned the eponymous department store in Newark, N.J., the institute grew into an intellectual paradise where selected scholars came to think great thoughts. For a few years after World War II, its bucolic campus in Princeton was an improbable technological hotbed as a group of mathematicians and engineers built one of the first electronic computers and developed the concept of directing the machine's actions by electronic instructions—what we now call software—rather than by repeated rewiring. In "Turing's Cathedral," George Dyson combines careful documentary research with oral history to uncover the story of how the programmable computer came to be.
Levinson confused matters, though, by recommending another history of science and technology set in New Jersey:
The laser; the semiconductor; the mobile phone; the very concept of digital communication: these fundaments of our modern world, and many others, were born in the corridors and cafeterias of Bell Telephone Laboratories. Jon Gertner's "The Idea Factory" is a spellbinding account of the rise and fall of this remarkable research organization. By focusing on the work of individual scientists and tying their discoveries to the resultant improvements in communication, Mr. Gertner makes his story accessible to the nontechnical reader. As he shows, only the decades-long monopoly enjoyed by its parent, American Telephone & Telegraph Co., made Bell Labs possible. Once a 1982 consent decree began to turn telecommunications into a competitive industry, Bell Labs' glory days were over. This is a must-read for anyone interested in economic history and innovation—and in whether technological advances will continue to power economic growth.
Three days later, Michiko Kakutani included Gertner's book in her NYT list of ten favorite books of 2012. Maybe I could quench my thirst for New Jersey history with this and skip Dyson.
A few days ago, I downloaded the free opening portions of both books and started them. Gertner's book was tempting, but reminded me of a book I had never finished and always intended to return to, Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age by Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, with its overlapping history of the transistor. This tipped the scales in favor of Dyson, whose book I am now five-sixths of the way through.
Turing's Cathedral turns out to be nothing like what I imagined. For one, it is not a chronological history of the IAS computer. The story jumps back and forth in fits and starts, often starting a chapter with a new character and following that character's story forward, which may entail taking the story of the computer backward. For another, Dyson emphasizes the role played by the building of the atomic and thermonuclear bombs in spurring the development of electronic computing. The close link between scientists and engineers at Los Alamos and the Institute is a recurring theme. Hardly news, what with Oppenheimer leaving Los Alamos and taking over as IAS director in 1947. But more notable is von Neumann, leaving Hungary behind in the '30s to come to the Institute as a pure mathematician, passing through Los Alamos during the war, and returning to the Institute as a committed bomb builder.
Whatever else the Institute computer might do, its raison d'être was the calculations necessary for the development of a hydrogen bomb. Humans and calculating machines in tandem could perform the work at Los Alamos for the A-bomb. Greater speed and programmable flexibility were needed for the H-bomb. Thus, military funding came to the Institute. The famous split among Institute faculty for and against the project was not simply a matter of pure and abstract (in math or physics or history) versus applied and concrete. It was the freedom to do research unencumbered by external goals and pressures versus the need to achieve explicit benchmarks to meet external needs.
There's more than bomb calculations. We learn about the start of meteorological forecasting via computer modeling. Of evolutionary modeling. And there are many interesting characters beyond the famous Institute mathematicians and physicists, such as computer engineer Julian Bigelow, meteorologist Jule Charney, and pioneering computational geneticist Nils Barricelli (who would later spend a few years here at the University of Washington).
Dyson tempts us with glimpses of von Neumann's two wives, Mariette and Klára. The story of his courtship of Klára, divorce of Mariette, arrangements to get Klára out of Hungary to the US in 1938, and their marriage is stirring. But one wishes for more, especially on learning of Klára's role as an early, self-taught computer programmer. As for von Neumann himself, here's a quote about him that Dyson includes from a draft computer history written by electrical engineer Jack Rosenberg.
Johnny used to meet with each of us individually about once a week, asking what we had built, how it worked, what problems we had, what symptoms we observed, what causes we diagnosed. Each question was precisely the best one based on the information he had uncovered so far. His logic was faultless—he never asked a question that was irrelevant or erroneous. His questions came in rapid-fire order, revealing a mind that was lightning-fast and error-free. In about an hour he led each of us to understand what we had done, what we had encountered, and where to search for the problem's cause. It was like looking into a very accurate mirror with all unnecessary images eliminated, only the important details left.
Judging from Francis Spufford's review last March in The Guardian, the best awaits me. He begins:
At first sight – and it's a long first sight, lasting a good 200 of the book's 340 brilliant and frustrating pages of text – Turing's Cathedral appears to be a project for which George Dyson has failed to find a form. Ostensibly the story of the building of one of the earliest computers at Princeton in the late 1940s and early 50s, it keeps digressing wildly. The Institute for Advanced Study's MANIAC gets under construction over and over, in chapter after chapter, only for Dyson to veer off again into the biographical backstories of the constructors, and a myriad of alternative intellectual hinterlands, from hydrogen bomb design to game theory to weather prediction, by way of the café society of interwar Budapest. It's not that these aren't relevant. They are; but they aren't introduced in the cumulative, surreptitiously spoon-feeding way in which good pop-sci writing usually coaxes a linear narrative out of complex material.
If this is a cathedral, it doesn't have anything as geometrical as a nave. It's a mass of separate structures joined by spiders' webs of coloured string. But it isn't a failure. It isn't one thing at all. It's three successes: three separate and different and differently impressive books Dyson might have written, all bizarrely shredded and mixed into a heap whose sorting is left as an exercise for the reader. Some of it is a painstaking oral history of MANIAC, built on an archivist's certainty that everything is worth rescuing from entropy that can possibly be known about the dawn of the digital computer. …
Some of it is an intellectual biography of MANIAC's chief architect John Von Neumann and the circle around him, determined to do justice to the polymathic range of his genius, and therefore dipping into everything he contributed to, from bomb design to game theory to robotics. … in comes the third separate thing the book is, a speculative, even visionary account of the philosophy of programming.
This last, marvellous element dominates the end of the book.
I am now getting into this third part. Spufford continues.
Is it worth persisting? Absolutely. Let me give you, appropriately enough, three reasons why.
One: no other book about the beginnings of the digital age brings to life anything like so vividly or appreciatively the immense engineering difficulty of creating electronic logic for the first time; of creating originally, and without a template, the pattern of organisation which has since become absolutely routine, and been etched on silicon at ever smaller micron-distances in chip foundries. …
Two: no other book has engaged so intelligently and disconcertingly with the digital age's relationship to nuclear weapons research, not just as a moral quandary to do with funding, but as an indispensable developmental influence, producing the conceptual tools that would unlock the intellectual power of the computer. …
Three: no other book – this is where we get visionary – makes the connections this one does between the lessons of the computer's origin and the possible paths of its future.
High praise. Had I read that to begin with, I never would have imagined that the book might be redundant.
I suppose it's worth mentioning somewhere along the way that the author is the son of retired IAS faculty member Freeman Dyson, an outstanding physicist and mathematician in his own right. Having grown up there, George writes about Institute life with authority.*
*And, for what it's worth, I write with a tiny bit of authority myself. Really tiny, having been an IAS member twenty-five years ago, living with my family in Institute housing on von Neumann Drive. And having an office for half of my year there in the ECP (Electronic Computer Project) building, the very structure built (with military funds, as I now know, the IAS chipping in to cover the cost of the brick facade) to house von Neumann's computer. When visiting the Institute, von Neumann's daughter Marina would stay in the vacant apartment below ours and we would say hi.
One more thing. Below is the video of a lengthy conversation with Dyson about the book last March at the Computer History Museum.
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Liverpool Supporters: Pessimistically Optimistic
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Liverpool Football Club is a massive club, to say the least. The supporters are those who know it better than anyone. After all, we're the ones who have witnessed the highs and lows over decades and decades. Players, managers, and staff come and go. But it's us fans, who are the constant in the equation.
A little over seven months ago, Jurgen Klopp has replaced Brendan Rodgers, who was in the drivers seat for three and a half seasons, and had seemingly lost the dressing room and the support of the fans.
The first thing Klopp told us was: "We have to change. From doubters, to believers."
We understood what he meant. But did we really understand the whole essence of it?
He took over a football club that seemed crushed to pieces, dead in its core. The players were a disaster, and us supporters were just as bad. Concede a goal and the players can never muster up an ounce of fight to take something from the game, and we knew it.
In fact, the players knew that we knew, and from there it was just a steady decline. At one point I remember a moment of absolute silence, Anfield just felt like a recording studio when I was there to watch LFC vs. FC Sion in the Europa League group stages. It was so horrible that I could hear a guy sneeze ten rows above me.
Klopp took over and there was slowly a sense of belief building in the atmosphere. He asked us to show us what Anfield noise is like, and we obliged. He urged us to stay until the final whistle, and we did. And we were somewhat rewarded for it. Liverpool (2-2) West Brom was the trigger.
But after giving his words of wisdom some thought, I don't think he asked us to just support the players on the pitch and believe something can happen. I think he's asked us to believe in all things Liverpool, and especially to believe in him.
I mean, let's face it. We're so pessimistically optimistic, or optimistically pessimistic about everything. From the owners, to transfers, and probably all the way down to how the grass is being cut at Melwood.
"Coutinho is world class. But two years down the line he's off to Barcelona or Real Madrid cause we can't compete."
"Mario Goetze will never come to Liverpool cause we're not in Europe. But imagine if he does. Boss tha."
"What's the point in even trying when we know we're not getting Lewandowski."
It's a circle that keeps going and going, and only we can stop it. There will always be disappointment during success, that's how it is. But don't get me wrong, we have the right to comment by all means, and express our emotions if we've failed to sign Lionel Messi, sold Luis Suarez, or lost a European final. But we need to believe in his system.
Truth is, some things are out of control. And we also need to learn acceptance.
We must accept that we can't always get what we want. We must accept that there's no such thing as a perfect game. Because football is either a game of errors, or moments of brilliance.
Last but not least, we must be patient. Accept that we are in a period of transition, and these things take time. Liverpool is a sleeping European giant that's been in a coma for almost a decade and needs to be awaken, and Klopp is waking us up. But there must be belief and patience that things will get better. As cliché as it sounds, Rome really wasn't built in a day.
by David Laumond
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"The most memorable performance with the sword involved in a blindfolded swordsman and a man lying on his back with five pieces of melon balanced on various parts of his body….The swordsman was blindfolded using a piece of cloth filled with sand so that everyone could see that there was no way for him to peek through the cloth. …Suddenly, the swordsman would surge forward, leaping and chopping in a very precise pattern. As he leaped over the man lying in his path, his sword deftly cut each piece of melon, including the piece directly over the man's throat. Every spectator was tense with expectation until the man lying on the ground would jump to his feet and the swordsman would rip off his blindfold."
The above paragraph, taken from Encyclopedia of Manipur, is a description of a fantastic performance of an ancient, but little known martial art from Manipur- Thang Ta.
'Thang-Ta', which literally means 'sword and spear', is but one aspect of Huyen Lallong (Art of war or method of self-guarding), whose other aspect is 'Sarit-Sarak' that involves unarmed combat. It is an armed martial art technique wherein the swords, spears, axes, and shields are the main weapons used.
The martial art is deeply rooted in the traditional history, religion, and lifestyle practices of Manipuris (especially the Meitei community). The Meitei community believes that the art of Thang-ta originated from their creator 'Tin Sidaba'. In fact, the various weapons used in Thang-Ta are actually perceived as being emanated from various parts of Tin-Sidaba. Thus, the limbs and bones of Tin-Sidaba became swords and tools, the ribs became the broad sword called Thangjao, and his fingers became kitchen knife.
A similar world-view is present in mainstream Hinduism wherein, the whole universe, with its people and objects have originated from creator Lord Brahma and all the tools and equipment have originated from Brahmaa's son Vishwakarma.
Thang-Ta was basically a dual combat that was fought amongst common people. The earliest references to Huyen Lallong can be found in a text that records personal armed combats and the ethics of combat named Chainarol-Puya whose earliest portions have been dated to 1st century CE. But, this martial art was given a definite military shape by King Loyumba who ruled in the 11th century and created an armed force called 'lallup'. Later, King Pamheiba, who ruled in the 18th century upgraded the armed forces further.
The uniqueness of this system appears to be that, the King had no standing army. Instead, every male member of the society was trained to be a warrior. Speaking to NewsGram over the phone, Prem Kumar, the President of Thang-Ta Federation of India said that the male members between the age of 16 and 40 years were given military training in Thang-Ta and other associated arts. He further said that every year people used to be trained in Thang-Ta for around 40 days compulsorily. Hence, though the Kings did not have a standing army, all his male subjects served as soldiers.
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The Thang-Ta can be practiced in three different, but supplementary ways: Religious (which is often wrongly described as ritualistic), Demonstration, and Combat. The religious practice of Thang-Ta involves performing various rituals and is deeply rooted in Tantric traditions. This practice aims to take one from the mundane to the spiritual.
The demonstration of Thang-Ta involves the performance of dances using swords and spears using combat movements. Finally, the third is a direct application in combats.
Today, Thang-Ta is mainly promoted as a sport because it has been largely forgotten that Thang-Ta was originally a lifestyle system. It was not just a sport or a combat technique.
Prem Kumar says that, along with the physical aspect of combat, people were taught breath control, meditation, medicine, politics, and ethics. He adds that Thang-Ta must be perceived as a lifestyle system whose basic purpose is helping others and doing good to the society. The Martial art must be understood as a path towards God. Faith and devotion to Guru (teacher) and the Guru-Parampara (lineage of teachers) is very important.
One of the most important aspects of Thang-Ta is self-discipline. The practitioner must adhere to strict discipline not only in his combat training, but in other aspects of life as well. His actions should be ethical and must follow certain tenets laid down in the scriptures. He should dedicatedly practice the martial arts along with the meditation and worship. The goal of such a practice is to help one to overcome physical limitations and attain spiritual emancipation.
Another unique feature of Thang-Ta is that it believes in maintaining high ethical standards even in combat. The warrior is strictly forbidden from hurting the opponent who has run away from the battle, or is begging for mercy, or if he has taken the warrior's protection. These tenets can be seen as being similar to tenets of the Dharma Yuddha found in Hindu scriptures.
This wonderful martial art saw its decline with the arrival of the British in India who prohibited the practice of Thang-Ta between 1891 and 1947. After independence, many efforts have been made for the revival of the martial arts and today there are many schools that teach them especially in Manipur, and Jammu and Kashmir.
But, today it is mostly promoted as a sport and not as a lifestyle system. It is high time that efforts are made to revive the wholesome system of this martial art so that people derive not only physical benefits but also mental and spiritual benefits from it.
A short video on Thang-Ta performance taken from Youtube:
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Trying to find accommodation for your holiday, but you're a little stuck? Want to find the place that is going to work with you within the budget you need? Luckily, this blog post will help you. Keep reading to find out or check out our blog for other pieces with more information.
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Everyone has different holiday tastes, so finding the right place for you means looking to see if the accommodation is up to it. Take a look at what the accomodation holds for you and if it caters to what you want for your holiday. Also take a look to see if it works with you in terms of finances and if it fits in with your goals.
Now we get to the serious stuff: asking them for a quote or for your rates. Since you are on holidays, there is always a chance that you can negotiate a deal with them so you can get a reduced rate if you stay longer. With this in your hand, you won't be tricked if you have to get your rates altered, face additional fees or face any problems when you check in. Get a hard copy to stop any problems in future.
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3. Also add the length of white beads to the open jump ring and close the ring using jewlery pliers. Repeat on the other alligator clip.
4. Add a line of jewelry glue to the back of your button and place the top of your alligator clip into the glue. Hold in place until set. Repeat on the other alligator clip.
5. Let dry and you're done!


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            {% if f.help_text %}
{{ f.help_text }}
{% endif %}
        {% endfor %}

            <button type="submit">{{ _("Submit") }}</button>
            <button>{{ _("Revert") }}</button>

    </form>

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Q: Rails/SQL no results show from Query Versions: CENTOS7, mysql2('>= 0.3.13', '< 0.5'), rails('4.2.6')
index.html.erb
<% @sections.each do |section| %>

        <%= section.course_id %>
        <%= section.term_id %>
        <%= section.user_id %>

<% end %>

sections controller
class SectionsController < ApplicationController
  before_action :authenticate_account!, except: [:show]

  def index
    @sections =  User.find_by_account_id(current_user).courses
  end

  def show
  end
end

createSections migration
class CreateSections < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table :courses do |t|
      t.integer :course_id
      t.timestamps null: false
    end

    create_table :terms do |t|
      t.integer :term_id
      t.timestamps null: false
    end

    create_table :users do |t|
      t.integer :user_id
      t.timestamps null: false
    end

    create_table :sections do |t|
      t.belongs_to :course, index: true
      t.belongs_to :term, index: true
      t.belongs_to :user, index: true
      t.timestamps null: false
    end
  end
end

course.rb model
belongs_to :user
has_many :sections
has_many :terms, :through => :sections

term.rb model
belongs_to :user
has_many :sections
has_many :courses, :through => :sections

section.rb model
belongs_to :course
belongs_to :term
belongs_to :user

user.rb
has_many :sections
has_many :courses, :through => :sections
has_many :terms, :through => :sections

*

*Expected result: List the current(logged in) user's courses/terms/ID

*Current result: blank

This is my first time working with rails and SO, I tried changing the relationships a few times to see if anything would change but not sure how to approach this. I have tried using ActiveRecord:Associations as a reference.  What do I need to do to make this work?

A: If you already have current_user then you can just call the related models directly.
@sections =  User.find_by_account_id(current_user).courses

to

@sections =  current_user.courses

A: The first thing to address is that you typically want separate migrations for each distinct thing that you're migrating.  It's a convention that helps you keep fine-grained control over your changes, and it helps keep your migrations clean.
Sometimes, though, you actually want to have a "mass" migration.  You have a mass-migration here.  In the mass-migration circumstance, the migration name should reflect the combined purpose, so you'd want to name it something like CreateCoreTables; CreateSections is too narrow a name for creating multiple tables.  You will also need to change the name of the migration file to be 2016XXXXXXXX_create_core_tables.rb, where XXXXXXXXX is left as the previous value.
Next, you'll want to correct your use of keys (the _id columns), as these are improperly declaring the association fields, which will cause the associations to not work (or work incorrectly).
Instead, you want something like this:
class CreateCoreTables < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table :courses do |t|
      t.timestamps
    end
create_table :terms do |t|
  t.timestamps
end

create_table :users do |t|
  t.timestamps
end

create_table :sections do |t|
  t.integer :user_id, null: false
  t.integer :term_id, null: false
  t.integer :course_id, null: false
  t.timestamps
end

end
end
It's difficult to tell what the actual intended relationships are from the code provided.  It would be worth reading on Active Record Migrations to make sure that you understand what relationships you intend, and how to describe them.  While you're working out the migrations, keep revisiting the model relationships, as well.  These are the bedrock of the application, so you want to spend time getting them right.
Remember, for ActiveRecord relationships, these rules will guide you:

*

*If a model owns another model, use has_many or has_one

*In the owned model, use belongs_to

*If a model needs access to another model (but doesn't own it), use a has_many, :through relationship

*Models cannot have has_many or has_one relationships directly to each other; you need an intermediate table in that case with the requisite belongs_to for each of the other tables

Once you have the migrations and relationships worked out, you can move on to the query.  You can use Rails Eager Loading to optimize the query to retrieve the associations at the same time.  This will address your current functional needs, and prevent an N+1 query issue at the same time.
@sections =  Section.joins(courses: :terms).where(user: current_user)

When you have retrieved @sections, you can do these types of actions to get the data that you want.  The courses and terms members are collections, and you can interact with them as though they were arrays:
@sections.each do |section|
  puts "Section: #{section.id}"

  puts "Number of user sections: #{@sections.courses.length}"
  section.courses.each do |course|
    puts "Course: #{course.id}"
  end

  puts "Number of user terms: #{@sections.terms.length}"
  @sections.terms do |term|
    puts "Term: #{term.id}"
  end

  puts "User's email: #{@sections.user.email}"
end

Once you've mastered these, you've got the basics of Rails.  Work on one model/controller at a time to keep from overcomplicating the work; you can always add on more once once component is working like you expect.  Always make sure that you have your foundation working before you move onto new aspects of the app that will depend on it.
Also, remember to use the Rails guides.  They're very helpful, so keep them on hand at all times while you're learning.  SO is also a great resource, and make sure that you ask pointed questions, so that you can get direct answers.

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Tokyopop Proudly Presents ... Princess Ai: Rumors From The Other Side
All-New Scandalous Manga Packed with Gossip, Innuendo and Lies About Princess Ai!
Los Angeles, CA (February 2008)- TOKYOPOP, the leader of the global manga revolution, is thrilled to announce the release of Princess Ai: Rumors from the Other Side. Part of the growing Princess Ai universe of properties, co-created by D.J. Milky and Courtney Love, Princess Ai: Rumors from the Other Side is a collection of untrue stories, rumors, gossip and bald-faced lies about Princess Ai and her cast of characters. Brought to you by a group of TOKYOPOP's top manga creators, these 12 all-new spurious stories take a totally twisted view of Princess Ai and her friends!
Who would dare print innuendo and blatant lies about international rock diva Princess Ai? TOKYOPOP would! And who would TOKYOPOP enlist to create such trashy rumors? A group of our hottest global manga creators, including Misaho Kujiradou (Princess Ai trilogy), Steve Buccellato (Battle of the Bands), Ashly Raiti and Irene Flores (Mark of the Succubus), Hans Steinbach (A Midnight Opera), Armand Villavert (Zapt!), Sara Winningham (Pride & Prejudice), Emma Viceli (Rising Stars of Manga UK), Mike Schwark and Ron Kaulfersch (Van Von Hunter), Erica Reis (Sea Princess Azuri), T Campbell and Amy Mebberson (Divalicious), Che Gilson, Brett Uher and Mara Aum (Dark Moon Diary), Pauro Izaki (Princess Ai of Ai-Land comic strips) and Kim Mi-Kyung (11th Cat for Ice Kunion).
According to TOKYOPOP Editor-in-Chief Rob Tokar, "Princess Ai: Rumors from the Other Side is another manga first for TOKYOPOP, but considering that Princess Ai has always been a groundbreaking project, 'unique' should be expected! Since Ai is an outspoken, outrageous, controversial celebrity (with wings!), it wasn't hard to find incredible stories from people who love her, hate her and love to hate her."
Verif-Ai the rumors when TOKYOPOP's much-anticipated Princess Ai: Rumors from the Other Side arrives in stores nationwide in March 2008!
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TOKYOPOP is hailed as a leading youth-oriented entertainment brand and an innovator of manga creation, with a revolutionary artistic vision that transcends countless platforms. From the introduction of the first-ever extensive manga publishing program in North America, to the development of its manga-originated intellectual properties into film, television and digital entertainment, TOKYOPOP has changed the way teens experience pop culture. The company's global reach has expanded to Europe and Asia, with recent offices opening in the UK and Germany and upcoming partnerships in Australia and China, in addition to its original Los Angeles and Tokyo operations. With millions of fans logging onto the new social networking site www.TOKYOPOP.com, reading its books, which are licensed in 41 countries in more than 20 languages, and watching its DVDs and television programs, TOKYOPOP's award-winning catalogue of licensed and original properties has made the company a visionary in an ever-growing teen entertainment marketplace. Visit www.TOKYOPOP.com for additional information.
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Outdoor Spaces, Building with Concrete, Vertical & Carved Concrete, Concrete Placing, Vol. 7 No. 6 - September/October 2007
Contractors Show Their Creative Uses with Shotcrete
Written by Susan M. Brimo-Cox on
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While swimming pools and road construction projects have been the mainstay of many contractors in the shotcrete industry, a number of shotcrete artists are taking the concrete medium to new levels of creativity and usefulness.
Shotcrete is very versatile. It has many decorative uses: artificial rock work, faux trees and much more. "Shotcrete gives you the opportunity for options," says David Long, president of Lakeland Co. in Rathdrum, Idaho. "It's endless what you can do with it."
The Great Wall of China display in the Museum at Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure in Salina, Kan.
Long and his peers have carved a distinct niche: decorative applications of shotcrete. Museums, zoos, aquariums, theme parks and resorts often make extensive use of decorative shotcrete to create wildlife habitats or realistic-looking environments where using the real thing would be a challenge or impossible, such as in the case of massive boulders.
Stephen Dodson, director of rock work at The Nassal Co. of Orlando, Fla., reports there is a decline in the desire for themed environments, such as themed restaurants and retailers, because there is a feeling those facilities were overbuilt, but there is a demand for new amenities and large-scale environments. For example, he says, his company recently finished the addition of a river amenity on Grand Cayman Island. "We used over 2,700 cubic yards of shotcrete to make a river — really a huge pool — where there are fish you can swim with. And an adjacent pool with sharks is separated only by a clear acrylic wall, so it is like you are swimming with sharks."
Shotcrete is applied at the Boatswain's Beach Lagoon in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.
Long is working on a project at a Cabela's outdoor-goods store to create a sweeping mountain-themed environment. For another client, he is creating a 184-foot-by-90-foot rhinoceros. "You'll be able to see it from the space shuttle," he says.Recently Lakeland Co. completed an expansion at Oklahoma City Zoo using a couple thousand yards of shotcrete to encase a 25-foot-tall tilt-up building in artificial rock.
Faux mountains, faux forests and faux just about anything are possible with shotcrete, according to the shotcrete artists who spoke with Concrete Decor. As David Johnson Jr., president of Applied Concrete Technology Inc. of Grayslake, Ill., observes, "Shotcrete has always been a way to bring in natural-looking items you couldn't otherwise bring in. For example, with shotcrete you can bring in a mountainside without bringing in a single real rock."
And decorative shotcrete projects don't have to be huge projects. There are plenty of smaller decorative applications out there.
Michael Dahl, president and owner of Michael Dahl Concrete Designs Inc. of Toledo, Ore., focuses on skate parks, rocks, residential landscapes and decorative retaining walls. "It's a great technique to have in your bag of tricks," he says. "I love working with shotcrete. It's like a big concrete airbrush."
And it's a medium where your artistic touch is a large part of the job, he adds.
A rock mountain feature in Cabela's sporting goods store in Hazelwood, Mo.
Dodson, Long and others have also taken the decorative aspect into a fairly new arena: architectural facades. Think faux brick, stone, wainscoting and more.
Dodson explains, "We've been using shotcrete to sculpt architectural finishes because of its strength and free-form ability." For these kinds of finishes Dodson uses very small aggregate or none at all. "Typically we use sand or up to 3/8 minus aggregate."
Shotcrete is quite useful in a variety of utilitarian applications, too.
Underground and mining specialist Mike Ballou of Sika Corp. in Taylorsville, Utah, reports the use of shotcrete in tunneling applications is on the rise. In underground mining, the process is to drill into rock, blast, muck and protect. Rock bolts traditionally are used to support the loads, and they are helped by shotcrete reinforced with welded wire mesh or steel or plastic fibers. "The main thing they're trying to prevent is exposure to air so that it does not unravel, so they seal the exposed or mined areas," he says.
Civil tunnels — for roads, trains, utilities, water and other purposes — are common and ideal candidates for shotcrete. "Most large cities have a tunneling project going on and, as they are being forced to build tunnels in soft ground, shotcrete is performing an important part of the job," Ballou says. "Steel-lined and cast-in-place alternatives are labor-intensive, so shotcrete is being used in lieu of those."
While on the topic of underground applications for shotcrete, consider a few more creative applications.
Pierre "P.J." Lareau, president and owner of P.J.'s Concrete Pumping in Barrington, Ill., reports he sprays concrete on a lot of things, including underground geodesic homes. "Shotcrete is the substructure — the structural element. A hole is dug, the framework is covered with shotcrete, and it is buried. They are high-efficiency structures," he explains. "Basically, it's an upside-down swimming pool. That's why we got involved."
Grottos, safe rooms, and other similar structures are also shotcrete candidates, Lareau adds.
"The most unusual application I've seen for shotcrete is grease traps in restaurants," reports Johnson. Precast concrete is typically used when grease traps are built, he explains, but eventually the hot grease (which is collected in these typically underground structures for recycling) eats away at the concrete. "Shotcrete is being used to refurbish old traps that have deteriorated," he says. It certainly beats digging up and replacing a trap that is situated underneath a restaurant.
A specialized application worth mentioning is shotcrete in high-temperature environments. "It's a small market," explains Carl Baur, sales and service representative for Imrie-Gielow Inc. of St. Louis, but "we shotcrete refractory materials in the cement industry: kilns, towers and coolers, also power plants. These have to endure high temperatures of 700 to 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit." The mix Imrie-Gielow uses is ultra-low in cement content, and contains alumina, silica and other materials that can withstand the high temperatures. An accelerant also is required. Specialty mixes are not uncommon in other shotcrete applications, either.
The finished product: A shotcrete formation for the Breakers Beach Pool at Boatswain's Beach Lagoon.
Advances in technology and mix additives are making shotcrete more adaptable and safer for new applications. For example, using mix-water conditioners with shotcrete can bring more consistency to shotcrete mixes. Similarly, plasticizers and viscosity modifiers can help the mix flow through the lines easier. Accelerators introduced at the nozzle make shotcrete appropriate for overhead work. And equipment with robotic arms can make application much safer in some environments.
Shotcrete is still an expensive segment of the industry to get into. Pumping equipment comes with a significant price tag. And training — well, let's just say the experts don't recommend shirking in this area. Getting up to speed and delivering consistent quality work requires a significant investment in time. But if shotcrete interests you, you'll find yourself in the company of hard-working, creative individuals who are taking shotcrete to new places.
"It's definitely a specialty market," Dahl observes, "but whatever you can imagine, you can do."
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Microsoft, Red Hat Offer Enterprise Support for Containers in Hybrid Cloud
By David Jones • LinuxInsider • ECT News Network
Aug 25, 2017 12:00 PM PT
Microsoft and Red Hat this week expanded their nearly 2-year-old alliance to bridge the gap between Windows and open source computing with the launch of several new initiatives to help enterprise customers more easily adopt container solutions.
Through the new collaboration, customers will gain access to native support for Windows Server containers operating on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Microsoft Azure, and SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift.
"Microsoft and Red Hat are aligned in our commitment to bring enterprise customers the hybrid cloud solutions they need to modernize their businesses as they shift to operate in a cloud-native world," said John Gossman, lead Azure architect at Microsoft.
Native Support
The announcement bolsters an alliance that began in 2015, when Microsoft began offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads on Microsoft Azure.
Since then, the companies have expanded their collaborative efforts to offer integrated support across hybrid Microsoft and Red Hat environments.
The two also announced a collaboration on .Net this week, making .Net 2.0 available as a container in OpenShift. The companies also will bring SQL Server for Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift.
"These efforts alone have had a positive impact on our customers and we think the overall enterprise IT landscape," Mike Ferris, vice president for cloud strategy at Red Hat, told LinuxInsider.
Companies often want to run mission-critical applications on containers, but most IT organizations are not equipped to run on a single infrastructure stack, according to Microsoft. Therefore, when they run Windows and Linux platforms, the applications are siloed.
With the new collaboration, however, Windows Server containers will be supported natively on Red Hat OpenShift -- a container application platform that brings Docker and Kubernetes to the enterprise. Docker is the technology for creating and using Linux containers, and Kubernetes is an open source platform for automating Linux.
Red Hat OpenShift will be the first container application platform built from open source Kubernetes to support Linux and Windows Server container workloads in a single platform across multiple environments of the hybrid cloud, the companies said.
Deepening Partnership
Microsoft wants to help enterprises more easily adopt containers and cloud-native apps on Azure, said Paul Teich, principal analyst at Tirias Research.
"My read is that this deeper Red Hat alliance is part of Microsoft's bigger Azure Stack infrastructure picture," he told LinuxInsider. "It's not about open source as much as it is about microservices architecture."
As enterprises buy into the private cloud, they will consider modernizing the way they write their business logic, Teich said.
Azure Stack looks like a safe way for enterprises to move on-premises operations to a private cloud, and it scales very well to Azure's public cloud, he pointed out.
Microsoft really sees an embrace of open source computing as the future of the company, and it increasingly will depend on integrating these platforms as cloud computing becomes the main focus for its enterprise business, suggested Gary Chen, research manager for software defined compute at IDC.
"The reality today is that open source is a huge factor in cloud and next-gen platforms like containers," he told LinuxInsider. "You can't be competitive without engaging in those communities, and Microsoft has done a very good job in doing so."
David Jones is a freelance writer based in Essex County, New Jersey. He has written for Reuters, Bloomberg, Crain's New York Business and The New York Times.
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This is a huge issue for us as well. To work around this issue we have had to build and maintain VSTO COM Add-in versions for all our Outlook add-ins. This complicates rollout at almost all of our enterprise customers!
If this feature could be added, lots of our issues would be resolved - this would boost the Outlook satisfaction level of our users drastically (especially assistants).
Hello, is this feature coming anytime soon?
Is there any update on this request, of is there a workaround to use this in FAT clients?
How is this not already a thing? Oh wait, because people should be using Teams, right? Teams, that cant handle the basics of mass workflow and reporting.
Please add as soon as possible! If you use a shared mailbox in a team you can either open it as a shared folder in your mailbox (BUT THEN THE CATEGORIES DO NOT SHARE) or you can open it as a second mailbox (BUT THEN THE ADD-INS DO NOT WORK). This is kind of sad when you need to use both.
Please add this feature, the use case is really important for our add-in. Our customers use several shared inboxes and public folders for entire departments or functions, and this is exactly where we need our add-in to be available.
It is hampering our adoption. Is it true that this works on outlook for MAC and not windows?
if one user reads the message the others should still see the email as unread!!! there is no option like this.!
This works fine on the Mac version of Outlook but unbelievably not on the Windows version. We really need this to support our cross platform team.
Public Folder support is also being requested.
Please fix this ASAP. We use a number of delegated mailboxes it would be much easier to use if we could use add-ins, particularly one to add in templates.


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La stagione 2022 delle Minnesota Lynx fu la 24ª nella WNBA per la franchigia.

Le Minnesota Lynx arrivarono quinte nella Western Conference con un record di 14-22, non qualificandosi per i play-off.

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Vice-allenatori: Plenette Pierson (fino al 6 giugno), Katie Smith, Rebekkah Brunson
Preparatore atletico: Chuck Barta
Assistente preparatore atletico: Brandi BlueArm

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Uber Technologies has 91 million users, but growth is slowing and it may never make a profit, the ride-hailing company said in its IPO filing. The document gave the first comprehensive financial picture of the decade-old company which was started after its founders struggled to get a cab on a snowy night and has changed the way much of the world travels.
Global stock markets rose on Friday after JP Morgan›s results kicked off the US corporate earnings season in style, while signs of stabilisation in China›s economy also helped riskier assets on views the growth outlook worldwide is better than thought.


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COVID-19 Reveals Harsh Inequalities in a Digital World
Jul 3, 2020 | COVID-19, Ideas for Strategy
From government officials to mainstream media and even celebrities, COVID-19 has been touted as "the great equalizer." It is a pandemic that transcends wealth, fame, prestige, or age. We are all at risk. Superficially this is true, however, it is more accurate to say that COVID-19 reveals life's harshest reality: the inequality between the haves and have-nots is accentuated. How the different classes cope and survive COVID-19, depends on the resources the classes have access to.
One key area where COVID-19 has highlighted class inequality is in the area of learning and education. According to the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization), as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 90% of the world's learners, around 1.5 billion students, in 190 countries are not able to go to school. Online learning has become the main way for students to access educational classes and support. However, access to these online resources is at best, spotty, constrained by the students' ability to access online resource infrastructures such as computers and laptops.
The challenge to secure adequate and suitable hardware to support online learning while prevalent in third-world countries, is a problem even in first-world countries like Singapore. In Singapore when the government announced the circuit breaker and closure of schools, schools and relevant organisations had to scramble to ensure that students are equipped with not just laptops and tablets, but that they could access stable internet connection from home. To this end, more than 1,200 routers and 20,000 laptops were sourced and donated.
The online learning divide between the haves and have nots is further exaggerated when one considers that a conducive learning environment is equally important to the student. A student with a stable home background, with parents who are equipped to support their child's online learning journey and prior experience with online resources, could benefit tremendously, from the freedom that online learning offers to him: he would be able to use his creativity to leverage on the online resources to extend learning outside of the specified teaching syllabi. On the other hand, a child newly introduced to unfamiliar online resources and equipment, ripped away from personal support he had obtained from teachers and other schools resources, could be struggling to adjust to remote learning.
Beyond the challenges posed by the lack of hardware/devices and unfamiliarity to new technologies (e.g setting up Google Classroom, troubleshooting technical issues and upgrades), with online learning, students lose the support that a physical school offers. Resources such as pastoral care, after school care (for latchkey kids), or even sustenance and nutrition support provided by the school, are absent in an online learning context. These have been resources that students from lower-income background have relied on to support their education and learning journeys, so it is not surprising that the new online learning environment has not been conducive for such students.
It is no doubt that information and communication technologies have revolutionised virtually every aspect of our lives, making it possible for us to continue to learn and work in a COVID-19 environment. However, COVID-19 has also revealed the limitations of what technologies can do; that humans being humans thrive on real interaction and learning without humanity is handicapped learning. This is especially true for our brothers and sisters who do not have the benefit of opportunities and resources afforded to our better-heeled counterparts.
Consulus is bringing to you the Shape the World Webinar Series on Global Education 4.0 for Inclusion and Sustainability. Join us in our first webinar of the series, Online Education in the Age of COVID-19: Sudden Boom and Digital Inequality, on the 22nd of July 2020 from 3pm to 5pm SGT/9am-11am CEST.
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By: Laura Poff
Project Fight, the North and South Carolina Division's Raleigh-based anti-trafficking program, expanded to five cities across the state late last year. The expansion comes as demand for services continues to increase as more agencies and individuals become aware of the signs of sex and labor trafficking.
"It's happening everywhere, it's been happening for hundreds of years, it just looks different now," said Elizabeth Adams, director of public relations and communications for The Salvation Army of Wake County.
Project Fight began in 2011 when Christine Shaw, Raleigh's director of social ministries, seized an opportunity to partner with an outside organization for a grant that would fund an anti-trafficking program for two years with the intention of exploring the need for such services in the state.
The area command team decided to create a comprehensive case management service, hiring case managers and a project coordinator to get things started. The team set a goal of encountering 12 victims over the course of the two-year grant. They surpassed the goal within the first few months.
"They were receiving calls from all across the state," Adams said. "The grant only provided services for foreign-born victims, but when we realized it was bigger than anticipated we received additional funding to service domestic victims as well. They just hit the ground running and had to set up protocols later because they were inundated."
Project Fight now leads the rapid response team for the Raleigh-Durham area, which includes partner organizations that come together to address immediate needs when a victim is identified, including medical, housing and legal concerns. Project Fight focuses on long-term case management, helping victims rebuild their lives and move forward.
"Our case managers focus on providing trauma-informed care, looking at our clients with compassion, holding an awareness of what they've been through and how that informs their behavior," Adams said. "They really try to meet people where they are at and ask what their goals are. We see a higher success rate with this type of treatment."
With new offices opened in New Bern, Greenville, Asheville and Charlotte, Project Fight is able to serve more victims and provide training and education to churches, police departments and other groups across the state. These trainings are an important component of Project Fight's services and they've already saved lives.
"We've had our staff give trainings and have people go up to them after and self-identify as a victim," Adams said. "We've also had instances where in the next month or weeks after a training, they'll call saying they've encountered someone."
Most victims are targeted by their traffickers because of existing vulnerabilities. Adams says one way that corps and individuals can help is by being inclusive of everyone.
"Any of us have a vulnerability that can be exploited. Don't ignore the issue because it's difficult to talk about.
Project Fight has served more than 250 survivors since its inception.
"Right now there are 30 open cases," Adams said. "We actually received 15 referrals just last week."
For more information, visit projectfightnc.org
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There were no people more happy to see the swing dance fad die than the Dallas Swing Dance Society. First, they had to endure all the Swingers-lovin' hipsters snagging all the cool threads in their lust for lounge, and then they couldn't turn on the tube without seeing their beloved dance steps used to sell khaki pants at The Gap. But six years later, they're still swinging even if swing isn't. Every Wednesday, the DSDS members take over the wood-floored ballroom of Sons of Hermann Hall with free lessons and dancing to DJ-ed music, and enough people attend that you can hear the old polished floor creaking in the bar below their jumpin', jivin' and wailin'. Plus, the second and fourth Saturdays of each month is Swing on a String--a low-cost dance preceded by lessons. Those who scoffed at the Lindy Hop on its latest go-around can catch up with workshops around town and by instructors from at home and across the country. Swing still rocks; just don't tell any advertising execs.


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Milovan Šaranović, črnogorski častnik, * 20. november 1913, Potkraj, † 30. julij 1943, Sela pri Šumberku.

Življenjepis
Šaranović, častnik VKJ, je leta 1941 vstopil v NOVJ in naslednje leto v KPJ. Med vojno je bil poveljnik več partizanskih enot v Črni gori, dokler ni bil leta 1942 premeščen v Slovenijo, kjer je postal poveljnik Dolenjske operativne cone, junija 1943 pa načelnik Glavnega štaba NOV Slovenije. Padel je v boju z Italijani.

25. oktobra 1943 je bil razglašen za narodnega heroja.

Viri in opombe

 Vojna enciklopedija, 2. izd., 1978, Zvezek 9, str. 481.

Glej tudi

 seznam častnikov NOVJ
 seznam narodnih herojev Jugoslavije

Rojeni leta 1913
Umrli leta 1943
Črnogorski partizanski častniki
Častniki Vojske Kraljevine Jugoslavije
Veterani druge svetovne vojne
Člani Komunistične partije Jugoslavije
Narodni heroji
Padli v boju


India's rapeseed meal export has increased sharply by 56% during first three quarters of the 2018-19 fiscal, with South Korea, Vietnam and Thailand accounting for major imports, said Solvent Extractors Association (SEA) release.
The SEA release said: "The export of oilmeals during December 2018, provisionally reported at 303,115 tonnes compared to 391,431 tonnes in December 2017. The overall export during April to December 2018 is reported at 2,387,028 tonnes compared to 2,246,989 tonnes during the same period of last year i.e. up by 6%. The export of rapeseed meal is sharply increased to 821,777 (461,937) tonnes in first nine months, mainly exported to South Korea, Vietnam and Thailand."
SEA said that the export of rapeseed meal and soybean meal to China is unlikely to resume during current financial year as procedure for registration with MoA, China is too cumbersome, lengthy and time consuming to complete all formalities.
Iranian market has opened up for Indian soybean meal. During current year from April to December 2018, about 3.0 lakh tonnes of soybean meal shipped against last year just 23,000 tonnes, supporting export of oilmeals from India.


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Now, some hot stuff from Riya Sen
So far, Riya Sen had shunned exposure. But now the Bengali belle also seems to have joined the bandwagon of hot babes in Bollywood.
In the forthcoming David Dhawan comedy Shaadi No. 1 , Riya has for the first time in her career worn a bikini before the camera.
In the film, Riya plays one of the three sensuous girls who get three men drooling over them.
The three men are none other than the movie's heroes Fardeen Khan , Zayed Khan and Sharman Joshi . Ayesha Takia , Esha Deol and Soha Ali Khan play their respective spouses in the film.
Although Riya's role in 'Shaadi No. 1' is relatively marginal one, she still has four songs picturized on her.
And having already taken the bold step in 'Shaadi No. 1', Riya will continue doing the hot stuff. She would don a swimsuit in another movie titled 'The Bachelor'.


The American Council on Germany is currently seeking applications for our McCloy Fellowship in Environmental Policy. This fellowship provides American and German environmental professionals with the opportunity to travel across the Atlantic for three weeks to conduct research of their own design. Fellowships are for up to 21 days. Fellows receive a stipend of $200 per day which covers housing, meals, and local transportation costs. Transatlantic airfare and pre-approved intercity travel are also covered by the program.
The fellowships are intended to support professionals in the public, private and nonprofit sectors who are engaged in environmental policy, journalism, and law, as well as those who are undertaking research that bears a significances for environmental policy in the United States, Germany and the larger EU.
The 2015 Call for applications is attached and posted below. More information can also be found on our website. The application deadline is Friday, May 1, 2015. Applications should be sent via email to fellowships@acgusa.org.
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A Week of "Hell" in EU – Juncker's Job is Hell and Tusk Damns Brexiteers to Hell!
In the latest frustrated comment from the EU as Brexit dealings crumble, European Commission boss Jean-Claude Juncker said his job in Brussels was "hell." The quip came after another top EU official spoke of a hell for Brexiteers.
The Devil's domain was first mentioned by EU Council president Donald Tusk, when he lambasted the UK authorities over their attempts to change the already negotiated withdrawal agreement with the bloc.
"I have been wondering what the special place in hell looks like for those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan to deliver it safely," Tusk said.
Juncker was next to appear before the cameras in Brussels on Wednesday. The fun-loving EC chief, who was previously filmed mocking UK PM Theresa May's dancing moves, just couldn't let such a fiery comment as Tusk's lie.