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Arnaldo Cohen (Rio de Janeiro, 22 de abril de 1948) é um dos mais importantes pianistas brasileiros.

Biografia
Graduou-se no Rio de Janeiro com o grau máximo em piano e violino, ganhou o prêmio Busoni de piano na Itália e radicou-se em Londres em 1981.

Cohen já realizou mais de dois mil concertos pelo mundo, em teatros de prestígio como o Concertgebouw de Amsterdã, Champs Elysées de Paris, Albert Hall de Londres, a Sydney Opera House na Austrália, Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, entre muitos outros. Recentemente, o brasileiro figurou na lista das dez melhores gravações da revista Gramophone, bíblia do mercado fonográfico, lugar esse ocupado pela primeira vez por um artista brasileiro.

Arnaldo Cohen transita também com desenvoltura pelo campo camerístico, sendo que, durante vários anos, integrou o Trio Amadeus, além de atuar regularmente com quartetos como o Lindsay, Endellion, Orlando, Chilingirian, entre outros. Desde 2004 vive nos Estados Unidos.

Estudou Engenharia na Escola Politécnica do Rio de Janeiro (1966 -1967).

Em julho de 2019, através do DECRETO Nº 64.331, DE 15 DE JULHO DE 2019, publicado em D.O.E de 16/07/2019, teve instituído a Ordem do Ipiranga. (http://diariooficial.imprensaoficial.com.br/nav_v5/index.asp?c=4&e=20190716&p=1)

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Will electric and driverless versions of construction machines soon be available?
Currently, electric and driverless construction machines are still niche products or only at the prototype stage. However, market requirements and manufacturers' commitment are driving development.
The international construction machinery industry is under increasing pressure to prevent both exhaust emissions and noise emissions. The Mayor of London, for example, has set a goal aiming to ensure that the center of the British capital is an "ultra-low emission zone" by 2020. This also means that construction machines will have to be either zero-emission vehicles or ultra-low emission vehicles. Construction work elsewhere, for example in our inner cities, in hospital areas and in enclosed spaces, will also have to be as quiet and involve as few air pollutants as possible. The increased use of electric drives could be one way of achieving this.
© Wacker Neuson | Electrically powered construction machines, such as this mini excavator, are ideal for environments where exhaust gas and noise need to be prevented.
"Mechanical engineering companies have already launched e-solutions for smaller machines, such as vibratory plate compactors, small rollers and compact wheel loaders", says Dr. Darius Soßdorf, Technical Regulations and Standardisation Consultant at the Construction - Equipment and Plant Engineering trade association of the German Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA e.V.). Wacker Neuson SE, for example, has been very active on the electrification scene for a few years now. According to the Munich-based company, its goal is to build up a full electric product portfolio, which already includes all essential e-devices and e-machines for developing inner-city construction sites, from battery-powered rammers through to wheel loaders.
Volvo Construction Equipment is also increasingly focusing on electrification. In September 2018, the Swedish company unveiled an electric compact wheel loader as a concept machine. The previous year, Volvo presented a fully electric compact excavator, also as a prototype.
Hybrid solutions for higher power ranges?
In contrast, manufacturers are currently still struggling with electric solutions for high-power-range machinery as the power required for the type of work in question is too high. "In order to supply a 'normal excavator' weighing approx. 15 tons with sufficient energy for a day shift, using current technology the necessary battery pack would weigh around eight tons," calculates Wolfgang Lübberding. In light of this, the Business Unit Manager of the Association of the Construction Industry, Environmental Technology and Mechanical Engineering (VDBUM e.V.) sees hybrid vehicles as another future area for development. "The device would be electrically powered for light work, for example driving, and then a combustion engine would be engaged where maximum power is required" says Lübberding.
© Caterpillar | A mining truck retrofitted for autonomous operation.
Like electrification, driverless vehicles are also one of the hot topics for future mobility. In relation to the rest of the construction industry, a lot of headway has been made in the mining sector. For example, the US manufacturer Caterpillar already sells commercially autonomous and semi-autonomous operating systems for dump trucks, bucket-wheel excavators, bulldozers and low loaders in the mining sector. Upgrading the hardware and software of other manufacturers' trucks has also been part of this line of business since last year.
Apart from the somewhat unique world of quarries and mines where routes stay the same for long periods of time, driverless machines are not yet something which can be fully accomplished or implemented due to the safety aspects involved at complex construction sites. "Finding solutions here will be something for the construction and construction machinery industry to work on in the near future," comments Dr. Soßdorf of the VDMA. Many manufacturers have already developed prototypes, for example MAN Truck & Bus, which this year unveiled its driverless safety vehicle. The MAN aFAS fully automatically ensures that mobile roadworks on freeways are kept safe. Using "car-to-car communication" it follows the truck up ahead, which is deployed as a working vehicle on the hard shoulder of freeways. This solution, which won the Truck Innovation Award at the IAA Commercial Vehicles in September of this year, prevents people being injured as these vehicles are still involved in what are sometimes serious rear-end collisions caused by traffic approaching from behind.
Helmuth Ziegler is a freelance journalist in Veitshöchheim near Würzburg.


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Home Earth & Climate How trees could save the climate
How trees could save the climate
Forest (stock image).
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Around 0.9 billion hectares of land worldwide would be suitable for reforestation, which could ultimately capture two thirds of human-made carbon emissions. The Crowther Lab of ETH Zurich has published a study in the journal Science that shows this would be the most effective method to combat climate change.
The Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich investigates nature-based solutions to climate change. In their latest study the researchers showed for the first time where in the world new trees could grow and how much carbon they would store. Study lead author and postdoc at the Crowther Lab Jean-François Bastin explains: "One aspect was of particular importance to us as we did the calculations: we ex-cluded cities or agricultural areas from the total restoration potential as these areas are needed for hu-man life."
Reforest an area the size of the USA
The researchers calculated that under the current climate conditions, Earth's land could support 4.4 billion hectares of continuous tree cover. That is 1.6 billion more than the currently existing 2.8 billion hectares. Of these 1.6 billion hectares, 0.9 billion hectares fulfill the criterion of not being used by hu-mans. This means that there is currently an area of the size of the US available for tree restoration. Once mature, these new forests could store 205 billion tonnes of carbon: about two thirds of the 300 billion tonnes of carbon that has been released into the atmosphere as a result of human activity since the Industrial Revolution.
According to Prof. Thomas Crowther, co-author of the study and founder of the Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich: "We all knew that restoring forests could play a part in tackling climate change, but we didn't really know how big the impact would be. Our study shows clearly that forest restoration is the best climate change solution available today. But we must act quickly, as new forests will take decades to mature and achieve their full potential as a source of natural carbon storage."
Russia best suited for reforestation
The study also shows which parts of the world are most suited to forest restoration. The greatest po-tential can be found in just six countries: Russia (151 million hectares); the US (103 million hectares); Canada (78.4 million hectares); Australia (58 million hectares); Brazil (49.7 million hectares); and China (40.2 million hectares).
Many current climate models are wrong in expecting climate change to increase global tree cover, the study warns. It finds that there is likely to be an increase in the area of northern boreal forests in re-gions such as Siberia, but tree cover there averages only 30 to 40 percent. These gains would be out-weighed by the losses suffered in dense tropical forests, which typically have 90 to 100 percent tree cover.
Look at Trees!
A tool on the Crowther Lab website (https://www.crowtherlab.com/maps-2/) enables users to look at any point on the globe, and find out how many trees could grow there and how much carbon they would store. It also offers lists of for-est restoration organisations. The Crowther Lab will also be present at this year's Scientifica (web-site available in German only: https://www.scientifica.ch/) to show the new tool to visitors.
The Crowther Lab uses nature as a solution to: 1) better allocate resources — identifying those re-gions which, if restored appropriately, could have the biggest climate impact; 2) set realistic goals — with measurable targets to maximise the impact of restoration projects; and 3) monitor progress — to evaluate whether targets are being achieved over time, and take corrective action if necessary.
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Jean-Francois Bastin, Yelena Finegold, Claude Garcia, Danilo Mollicone, Marcelo Rezende, Devin Routh, Constantin M. Zohner, Thomas W. Crowther. The global tree restoration potential. Science, 2019; 365 (6448): 76 DOI: 10.1126/science.aax0848
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Hulu Picks Up Second Installment Of 'National Treasure'; Adds 'March of the Penguins 2' To Docu Slate — TCA
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Hulu announced today at TCA that they have picked up a second, four-part installment of the drama series National Treasure and have added March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step to its award-winning documentary slate.
The follow-up to the Peabody Award-winning National Treasure will make its US premiere in its entirety on April 4 as part of Hulu Originals slate. Initially premiering on Channel 4 in the UK, the second season of the drama is titled Kiri (watch the trailer below) and follows the abduction of a young black girl, named Kiri, who is soon-to-be-adopted by her white foster family, and the trail of lies, blame, guilt and notoriety that follow.
National Treasure: Kiri is created and written by BAFTA-winner Jack Thorne. George Ormond (National Treasure, Ackley Bridge, Great Expectations) and George Faber (Shameless, National Treasure, The Devil's Whore, Skins) returns as executive producers of the acclaimed series. The series is produced by Toby Bentley (National Treasure, No Offence) and directed by Euros Lyn (Happy Valley, Damilola, Our Loved Boy).
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Hulu also announced that it has added March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step to their documentary slate (watch the trailer below). The sequel continues the story to 2005's March of the Penguins which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and was one of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time.
March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step will see the return of filmmaker Luc Jacquet and narrator Morgan Freeman as they journey back to the Antarctic to revisit the Emperor Penguins who call the frozen continent home.
Over a decade after making the Academy Award winning March of the Penguins, Jacquet spent two months shooting in the Antarctic winter using the new technology of 4K cameras, airborne drones, and under-ice diving to show the astonishing lives of these mysterious creatures in an entirely new light. The docu sequel tells the story of two penguins, a father and son, as they face and overcome the almost unimaginable challenges of life in this hostile land.
March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step joins Hulu's growing list of award-winning and critically acclaimed documentaries including The Beatles: 8 Days a Week – The Touring Years, Too Funny to Fail, Obey Giant, Becoming Bond, Dumb, and Batman and Bill.


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All topics include using four language skills reading, writing, speaking and listening. Welsh lessons are interactive, fun and include lots of different activities to keep lessons interesting and pupils fully engaged. Staff are committed to creating fast paced and challenging lessons to ensure all pupils succeed.
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Robin Hood - The Legend of Sherwood
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Robin Hood – The Legend of Sherwood is a video game that was released in 2002. It is a stealth-action game that has real-time strategy elements. A player can control up to five characters in the game. Set in the world of Robin Hood's lore, Robin Hood and his men must stop the Sheriff of Nottingham and Prince John from upsetting the English throne. The game employs a lot of stealth tactics, favoring it over direct action when dealing with enemies.
There are three types of missions in Robin Hood – The Legend of Sherwood – Robbery and Infiltration, Ambush, and Castle Attack. There are more than 30 missions. These missions range from rescuing well-loved Robin Hood characters such as Friar Tuck, to avoiding tax collectors of the sheriff. Players can visit castle in a number of ways. There is a weather system and a day-and-night scheme. These systems often affect visibility and ultimately, the way the player must deal with the missions at hand. The player's characters, while their resources are limited, can kill or wound enemies. There are instances where townspeople will help with the mission. The townspeople are either those who flee or those who alert enemies. Beggars, when helped by the characters, may provide hint and tips.


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You may need to use some clear finger nail polish or other tightening agent to keep the sword from flopping down. The first sword I modded needed some polish, but the second one was very tight right away.
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Home Franck Lampard plays down Chelsea interest in Moussa Dembele
Franck Lampard plays down Chelsea interest in Moussa Dembele
Franck Lampard has played down rumors about Chelsea's interest in Lyon star forward Moussa Dembele, insisting he has not held talks with Edinson Cavani either
The Blues are said to be looking for a new striker to bolster their chances of securing a top-four finish in the Premier League this season, with Dembele emerging as their top target.
However, the Frenchman, also approached by Manchester United recently, is not for sale, according to Les Gones president Jean Michel Aulas.
Now, Lampard has dismissed Chelsea's interest in the former Fulham and Celtic forward, denying having any conversation with the Paris Saint-Germain outcast Edinson Cavani.
"The stories are not true," the English manager said when asked about his ambition to land Dembele, as reported by Goal.com.
Lampard denies Dembele rumours – but what about Cavani? 🤔
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"I'm not in conversation with Cavani, so I can't tell you that," he added.
Indeed, the Stamford Bridge outfit have been linked with a move for the Uruguayan, who is trying to force his way out of PSG for regular first-team action.
The 32-year-old has less than six months left on his contract and has fallen out with Thomas Tuchel, who prefers Mauro Icardi as the third piece of his all-star attacking trident alongside the likes of Neymar and Kylian Mbappe.
Although the Pensioners have reportedly tried to convince Cavani to join on loan, the ex-Napoli striker seems to be edging closer to a move to Atletico Madrid, who have been persistent in their efforts to take him away from Parc des Princes this winter.
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One of my favorite habits that never gets the respect it deserves is DRINK WATER. Sure we all understand the importance of staying hydrated, but that's the extent of our knowledge for most. To make sure your busy schedule isn't compromising your health, TEST YOUR WATER IQ below and find out why DRINK WATER could be your most important habit for excelling in life without undermining your health.
T or F: Staying sufficiently hydrated can reduce the risk of breast cancer by 79%.
T or F: The risk of bladder cancer drops 7% for every 8 ounces of fluid you drink.
T or F: Five or more glasses of water each day may be better for your heart than aspirin.
T or F: Just 1-2 percent fluid loss strains your heart and entire cardiovascular system.
T or F: As many as 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.
T or F: As a rule, you are mildly dehydrated when you wake up.
Using Fowler's car analogy from the book, Water with Lemon, if we use thirst as our first alert for dehydration, it would be like using our dashboard oil light as our alert for needing oil—by the time the thirst light goes on, we've already lost 1-2 percent of our body weight in water. If you haven't yet read Water with Lemon or want more reasons why DRINK WATER is one the essential core habits for achieving a healthy lifestyle, read on. And let's all start giving water the respect it deserves!!
And think before you drink anything else. Water is the body's most important nutrient. It provides the healthy internal car wash you need for better concentration, fighting diseases and flushing fat. Begin drinking water first thing in the morning and add lemon or lime for a refreshing taste change throughout the day. Replace calorie-filled sodas with water because unconsciously drinking high-sugar beverages can account for up to 50 extra pounds you may be carrying around. And just one can of soda per day can double your chances of type-2 diabetes.
With most of our body weight made up of water, humans are truly a walking body of water. In fact, I like to think of our body's dependency on water for efficiently transporting nutrients and removing waste much like Venice, the "city of water," depends on water in its infrastructure for effectively transporting people and products.
Making up 60 to 75 percent of our body weight, water plays an integral role in virtually EVERY bodily function. This powerful yet simple nutrient definitely needs to move to the top of the list in BIG BOLD letters on everyone's healthy lifestyle plan.
Could you be suffering from chronic underhydration?
Even though you may not actually be DEhydrated, you may very well be living in a constant state of UNDERhydration. Underhydration could be the cause of your dizziness, headaches, lethargy or confusion. Research and studies also show that chronic underhydration and dehydration can be the underlying causes to such conditions as asthma, allergies, arthritis, migraine headaches, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, kidney stones, urinary tract cancer, colon cancer and more.
The University of Sheffield, England, found that staying sufficiently hydrated reduced the risk of breast cancer by 79% for women in their study.
A 1996 study of 20,000 men and women who drank five or more glasses of water each day over six years had less risk of a fatal heart attack than those who drank two glasses or fewer each day—41% less chance for women and 54% less chance for men as reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Two different studies, one by the National Cancer Institute, showed that women who drank five or more glasses of water a day were 45% less likely to develop colon cancer than women who drank fewer than two glasses a day.
But, honestly, how many of us are actually drinking at least eight 8-ounce glasses a day? I must confess that as healthy as I THOUGHT I was by following my own nutrition advice with proper portions, fats and carbs; I have not always fully recognized the need for drinking enough water to stay properly hydrated. I never seemed to be thirsty, but I did suffer from headaches and mid-afternoon fatigue. I now realize how important water is in managing my energy, minimizing my headaches and curbing my appetite.
Drink ½ ounce a day for every pound you weigh. That's 75 ounces (nearly 9½ cups) for a person weighing 150 pounds.
Get in the habit of carrying a water bottle with you and keep one in the car and one at your desk. Drink throughout the day using one glass every hour as a guideline.
"Clear water down the pipes means clear water out the pipes." Urine that is cloudier or darker than light straw is a sign of dehydration and that means—more water please!
Quantity matters. Make sure you're "producing enough" when you do empty the tank. And emptying your tank in the middle of the night is actually a good sign of proper hydration.
Don't wait until you're thirsty to grab another glass. By then your body has already lost 1-2 percent of its body weight.
Drink a glass of water to re-hydrate yourself before having a caffeinated beverage or juice.
Count only water as your fluid of choice for achieving the minimum allotment and then add other beverages, soups and fruit as a bonus.
Drink more when physically active, the weather is hot and sticky or you're fighting an illness.
Start each morning with at least 8-16 ounces of water—your body wakes up dehydrated and needs to replenish as soon as you begin the day.
The biggest benefit to adding lemon (or other fruit such as lime, orange, cherry–or even cucumber) to your water is that you'll probably drink MORE water if it has a bit of flavor. The key is to not add so much fruit juice that it raises your sugar intake and compromises the benefit of drinking water.
Juice from fresh lemons, limes and oranges enhances the flavor of water while increasing your intake of vitamin C, flavonoids and antioxidants for pumping up your immune system. Lemon juice has also been recommended by many doctors to deter certain types of kidney stones. And international travelers attest to the citric acid in lime juice for fighting bacteria in less-than-pure drinking water.
Whether you choose a slice of lemon, wedge of lime, chunk of cucumber or the convenience of portable envelopes containing crystallized True Lemon, True Lime or True Orange (all favorites of mine!) for your daily water enjoyment, the bottom line is: DRINK WATER!!!


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Here we have the back of the mansion at Bletchley Park. This is the original country house that the first of the codebreakers moved into. Station X was technically only the radio room under the water tank that MI6 used for its agents in the fields. Later in the war, this was moved elswhere due to fears that the Germans would detect the radio communications and attack Bletchley Park, and damage or destroy the codebreaking operations.
The world's first computer was built in this building. Look around, ye mighty, and despair.
This afternoon, I visited the museum at Bletchley Park, just outside Milton Keynes north of London. This is where Alan Turing and an assortment of mathematicians, crossword experts and linguists managed to break many of the German codes during the second world war, thus shortening the war possibly by years. I will get to what I saw in a while, but first I shall digress a little.
There is an article on Spiked (via Arts and Letters Daily about the British Museum's lack of resources, particularly for new acquisitions. I quote
In my view, the current financial restrictions are symptomatic of a broader problem: there is waning enthusiasm for the traditional functions of museums. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has plenty of money to give out, but collecting and interpreting the artefacts of human history is just not where it's at. The museums that get money today are those that play to the new government agenda of social inclusion: running projects to improve self-esteem or reduce prejudice, or using new technologies to increase community participation. There is little support for the idea that objects and knowledge have a value in and of themselves.
This does appear to be about right. The control of money to be spent on museums in recent years has tended to get under the control of publicists and public relations consultants and advertising agents and media studies graduates and management consultants and all sorts of awful people of this ilk. Many new museums seem to have lots of flashing lights and machines that make weird noises and works of art with meaningless symbolism aimed at superficial politically correct points, but there is nothing with any depth to them. You go there and you see lots of school children pushing buttons, but you don't learn anything.
As an example, the Science Museum in London is a wonderful museum. Here you can see a great many of Britain's extraordinary achievements in Science and Technology. Here is Stephenson's Rocket in the middle of the floor. There is a working reconstruction of Babbage's Difference Engine, so you can see how this curious 19th century wrong alley in the history of computing could have
played itself out. Here we learn about electromagnetism: there we learn about light. The museum is organised into sections depending on the general area of science you are dealing with, but it is cluttered enough that wandering around you can hit on something unexpected and wonderful. Good museums have this quality about them. The British Museum has this quality. Tate Britain has this quality.
However, at the back of the museum is the new (well, newish - it was built in the last five years) Wellcome Wing. This consists of lots of flashing lights, buttons to push which cause sentences like "In the future, we max choose the eye colours of our childrem" to flash on the wall, but there is an amazing lack of any substance at all. It's really dreadful. I don't know who was responsible, but they deserve to be have something awful done to them.
Now what is interesting about Bletchley Park is the fact that it has had almost complete neglect from everyone in authority with an agenda. Bletchley Park is a museum on the site of and commemorating events of immense importance. Here is where Alan Turing broke the codes that maybe won the second world war. If he didn't actually win the second world war, he certainly shortened it by years. Even more importantly than that, here is where the computer was invented. The most important invention of the twentieth century was invented here. And yet, somehow the geeks who did this have or had so little honour amongst the people in charge of their own country that the fact that they did it was not even made public until the 1970s. They have so little honour that a group of people trying to raise money for a statue of Turing a couple of years ago had great difficulty doing so. (And of course, the way Turing was treated after the war is a scandal of great magnitude). They have so little honour in fact that now that Bletchley Park, where all this occurred, is a museum, the museum itself receives no public money at all. The trust in charge of it a couple of years ago applied for some money from the profits of the British national lottery that are supposedly reserved for "good causes" but was refused. Organisations such as the National Trust and English Heritage have nothing to do with it either, because it is too far removed from the sorts of things they normally look after.
What we do have, however, is a museum that is run be volunteers, and was put together by people who really do care about it. There are rooms and rooms full of Enigma machines, descriptions of how German and Japanese codes worked in great detail, discussions of how you can reduce the difficulty of breaking cryptographic systems, descriptions of the battles which were won because of intercepted communications. You enter the place and you are greeted warmly and repeatedly by people manning the exhibits who want to talk to you about it for hours. You go on the guided tour and the guide explains to you how Turing was one of the great men of the 20th century and gives the impression that he takes it as a personal affront that not everyone feels that way. Although a lot of the equipment actually used to break codes (including Colossus, the world's first computer) were destroyed by the ultra-secretive British after the war, a lot of them have been reconstructed to working order. (Because of the momentousness of what was achieved at Bletchley Park, it is clearly possible to draw on some impressive expertise for some of this, even if the museum doesn't have any money). There are various interesting bits and pieces related to code making.
In the war, Bletchley Park started out as a country house, and huts were built around it to house more and more people as the scale of the operation grew. At its peak, there were 12000 people working there. Thus, if people or organisations with an enthusiasm for world war II related issues of any kind, or geeky pursuits of any kind wish to set up their own museums or exhibits, there is plenty of space to house them. Lots of geeky or technical people come through to look at the code breaking stuff, and by the way, here is all this other geeky stuff to look at too.
Thus we have exhibits of 1940s era toys, an exhibition of Churchill Memorabilia, a model railway exhibit, a museum on the history of computing - some minicomputer stuff - plus lots of 1970s vintage micros I hadn't seen for a while. A collection of WWII uniforms. A cinema full of lots of classic projectors and film sound systems. Lots of interesting stuff, but nothing really extraordinary. However, what is extraordinary is that the (largely amateur) people who have put together their "history of computers" exhibit can put it in a location where you can say that "By the way, the first computer in the world was built in the next room". This stuff is really good. The people who built it know about it and care about it. In aggregate, it is the sort of museum where you are constantly finding, weird, wonderful and hugely educational stuff as you walk through it.
It may not always remain like this. Until a couple of years ago, interest was such that Bletchley Park was only open to the public every second Sunday. Since then, it has increased to every Sunday, and then to every Saturday and Sunday, and it is now open on weekdays in the afternoons (for just one tour a day, and just for the codebreaking exhibits). Clearly this is a response to the wartime activities at Bletchley Park having been publicised in recent years, by Simon Singh, by Neal Stephenson, by Robert Harris, and by the movie of his book, but it is clear that slowly Britain has woken up to the importance of what happened there. Eventually the government will notice and the museum will find it has more funding and it will become a serious national museum, I suspect. Hopefully the trust that runs it will then be strong enough to prevent the place being trivialised, taken over by public relations consultants, and becoming uninteresting. They might, I think. There is a lot of enthusiasm there, and a lot of substance there, which won't go away easily.
Here we have the back of the mansion at Bletchle...
This afternoon, I visited the museum at Bletchle...


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Harold Stephen Black (ur. 14 kwietnia 1898 w Leominster, zm. 11 grudnia 1983) − inżynier elektryk, naukowiec i wynalazca amerykański.

Studiował na politechnice w Worcester (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) gdzie uzyskał w 1921 roku tytuł bakałarza. Pracował następnie dla Western Electric (wówczas głównego partnera produkcyjnego firmy AT&T). Od 1925 roku do emerytury pracował w Laboratoriach Bella. Po latach politechnika w Worcester przyznała mu także doktorat honorowy.

Black zrewolucjonizował elektronikę wynalezieniem wzmacniacza ze sprzężeniem zwrotnym w 1927 roku.

We wczesnych latach 20. XX wieku Harold Black pracował dla Laboratoriów Bella, projektując wzmacniacze dla telefonii międzykontynentalnej zajął się problemem wzmacniania sygnałów w liniach telekomunikacyjnych łączących odległe punkty. Zmagał się z nim przez kilka lat aż w końcu, w drodze do pracy, przepływając promem przez rzekę Hudson z New Jersey do Nowego Jorku, w dniu 2 sierpnia 1927 roku, w słynnej już dziś chwili "objawienia", wpadł na pomysł zastosowania ujemnego sprzężenia zwrotnego. Nie mając na czym zapisać swoich myśli wykonał szkic obwodu z pętlą ujemnego sprzężenia zwrotnego na niewłaściwie wydrukowanej stronie gazety New York Times, odnotował datę i podpisał się. Black uświadomił sobie, że ujemne sprzężenie zwrotne może zmniejszyć zniekształcenia kosztem redukcji wzmocnienia ogólnego. Innymi słowy jeśli część wzmocnienia wzmacniacza o wysokim współczynniku wzmocnienia poświęci się zwracając przez pętlę sprzężenia część sygnału wyjściowego to zniekształcenia wywołane szumem i dryftem komponentu ulegną zmniejszeniu.

W ten sposób Black w 1927 roku stworzył koncepcję stabilnych wzmacniaczy z ujemnym sprzężeniem zwrotnym – innymi słowy zademonstrował użyteczność sprzężenia zwrotnego do redukcji zniekształceń wzmacniaczy regenerujących.

Wynalazek miał więc miejsce w 1927 roku a zgłoszenie patentowe w 1928 roku ale artykuł opisujący nową ideę opublikowano dopiero w 1934 roku (Stabilized Feedback Amplifiers). Pomysł Blacka wówczas był tak nieintuicyjny (wzmacniacz z wzmocnieniem większym niż jeden mógł być stabilny), że patent wydano ze znacznym opóźnieniem. Biuro patentowe było bardzo sceptyczne, potraktowało ujemne sprzężenie zwrotne jak perpetuum mobile i żądało działającego prototypu. Po szeroko zakrojonych pracach, testy praktyczne w pełnej skali przeprowadzono w 1930 roku a w 1931 roku wzmacniacz taki zaczęto używać w firmie AT&T. Informacja o rozwiązaniu nie była publikowana w swobodnie dostępnej literaturze aż do roku 1934 a patent ostatecznie przyznano dopiero w 1937 roku.

Przy praktycznym opracowywaniu wzmacniacza i badaniu jego zachowania Blackowi asystował Harry Nyquist. Black przekazał problem stabilności takiej pętli sprzężenia zwrotnego do swego kolegi z Laboratoriów Bella Harry'ego Nyquista.

Z uwagi na rozliczne zastosowania, wynalazek Blacka bywa uznawany za najważniejszy przełom jaki miał miejsce na polu elektroniki w XX wieku. Rozliczność zastosowań pomysłu Blacka wynika z tego, że wszystkie urządzenia elektroniczne (lampy elektronowe, tranzystory bipolarne i tranzystory MOS) wynalezione przez ludzkość są w swej istocie urządzeniami nieliniowymi. To właśnie wynalezienie ujemnego sprzężenia zwrotnego czyni możliwym stworzenie wysoce liniowych wzmacniaczy. Ujemne sprzężenie zwrotne zasadniczo działa w ten sposób, że kosztem wzmocnienia wprowadza większą liniowość (innymi słowy zmniejsza zniekształcenia, czyli zmniejsza intermodulację). Poświęcenie wzmocnienia daje także dodatkowy efekt w postaci poszerzenia pasma wzmacniacza. Jednakże wzmacniacz z ujemnym sprzężeniem zwrotnym może być niestabilny z uwagi na jego oscylacje. Gdy rozwiąże się ponadto problem stabilności, wzmacniacz z ujemnym sprzężeniem zwrotnym staje się wysoce użytecznym urządzeniem elektronicznym.

Mervin J. Kelly (1894-1971) – amerykański fizyk, przewodniczący Laboratoriów Bella w latach 1951-1959 w 1957 powiedział o Blacku: Nie ma nic z przesady w stwierdzeniu, że bez wynalazku Blacka (wzmacniacza ze sprzężeniem zwrotnym) nie istniałyby ani telefonia pomiędzy odległymi punktami ani sieci telewizyjne, które pokrywają nasz cały kraj ani kablowa telefonia międzykontynentalna.

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Rep. Elizabeth Esty to Retire;
An Analysis of the Now Open CT-5
Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D, CT-5)
April 4, 2018 — Three-term Connecticut Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D-Cheshire/Waterbury), under fire for not responding to her chief of staff's sexual and physical abuse of another staff member that even included a restraining order being issued, announced Monday that she would abandon her run for re-election.
When it surfaced that Rep. Esty allowed the chief to remain in his position for three months after the legal situation came to her attention, she began to suffer heavy criticism for not acting sooner to dismiss him. Several media editorial boards and local Democratic state legislators began calling upon her to resign. The congresswoman's retirement announcement did not include a statement of resignation, however. Therefore, at this point, it appears she will serve the balance of the term.
Under the present Connecticut map, the 5th District is the most politically competitive in the state. Rep. Esty was first elected in 2012, winning a close 51-49 percent general election victory over then-state Sen. Andrew Roraback (R). She succeeded Christopher Murphy (D) who left the House to successfully run for the Senate. He seeks a second term this year.
Posted in Election Analysis, House and tagged Connecticut, Craig Diangelo, CT-5, Dan Carter, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mayor Manny Santos, President Obama, Rep. Elizabeth Esty on April 4, 2018 by Jim Ellis. Leave a comment
Ryan Primary; 4 States Vote
Aug. 10, 2016 — House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI-1) won re-nomination easily in his Wisconsin district by a margin of 84-16 percent. Businessman Paul Nehlen (R), a first-time candidate who made immigration and trade policies the centerpiece of his campaign, opposed him.
Nehlen had attracted a great deal of local and national attention, particularly when regularly holding events in front of Ryan's Janesville home. The congressman countered with running positive television ads, using his extreme financial advantage to his benefit, never advertising that he is the Speaker of the House, and relying upon a strong connection with his district Republican voters who have nine times nominated and elected him to the House.
Ryan raised almost $15 million and spent $8 million through July 20, but determining actual re-election expenditures versus national political commitments and expenses is difficult at this point. By contrast, Nehlen had raised and spent close to $900,000 through the same date, a very respectable amount for a challenger to a top House leader.
Turning to northeastern Wisconsin, Rep. Reid Ribble's (R-Sherwood/Green Bay) open 8th District voters also chose nominees. Democrats have coalesced around Outagamie (Appleton) County Executive Tom Nelson, who is unopposed in the party primary. Already raising just over $600,000, Nelson will be a competitive general election factor in a district that has five times elected a Democrat since 1974.
Posted in Governor, House, Primary and tagged Angie Craig, Connecticut, Dan Carter, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Jason Lewis, Minnesota, Paul Nehlen, Rep. John Kline, Rep. Peter Welch, Sen. Pat Leahy, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Sue Minter, Vermont, Wisconsin on August 10, 2016 by Jim Ellis. Leave a comment


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"We've opened Pandora's Box"
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For the past year, Carl Barât has been launching his new band The Jackals while cranking The Libertines back into action. As of last week, it's full steam ahead with the latter – Barât signed off Jackals duties on April 16 at London's Scala, where the band were joined by a full brass section. After that it was back home to pack. "I've been waking up in the morning with Libertines lyrics in my head, hurriedly getting the typewriter out, then figuring out brass arrangements for the Jackals in the evening," said Barât, before the show. "But I'm off to Thailand tomorrow for a month's recording. This is the album. The big push."
Joining the band in Southeast Asia (Pete Doherty's just returned from Laos on what Barât described as "a visa run") is the album's newly appointed producer. After much speculation about who'd take up the mantle (Noel? Clash man and 'Up The Bracket' producer Mick Jones?) their choice is surprising – it's Jake Gosling, who was previously Grammy-nominated for his work on Ed Sheeran's mega-hit 'The A Team'. Barât explains: "We had wish lists flying back and forth, from the [John] Leckies through to the [Paul] Epworths and Stephen Street. What it boiled down to was that we wanted to try something a bit new. We wanted someone who is just getting their thing going, rather than someone who is just going to put us through their machine. This isn't a heritage band making a heritage album."
Barât also confirmed that while the new record has been written in full, the band intend to keep writing creating during the process. "The feeling's great," he said. "We've been sparking. The pistons are all firing. I'm genuinely excited, and can't wait to get this stuff out there. It's nice to be back in that position. We've all been waiting to write this record for ages."
Although he concedes the band have something to live up to, Barât insists they are not overly concerned with the past. "We try not to think too much about out legacy," he said. "The energy that we had and used in our music hasn't left us. We're still as driven and full of wonder about the world, but now we have more experiences and more to say to each other, and to the world. It's exciting. We need to get it done now. Now we've started this process we've opened Pandora's Box, so we've at least got to have a drink with these demons."
It means The Jackals, who Barât recruited via open auditions in a London pub, are back on the shelf for a short while. "It's dawned on the band that we're at the sunset of this cycle now," said Barât. "We've been in the trenches together, but I think now they're going to knuckle down and figure out what it is they've got to say and what I can bring to it. As much as I prize this thing with The Jackals, and doing the hard work touring on a shoestring, with The Libertines we've done all that and more. It's been a tumultuous ride. When I'm back in a room with those boys, that's all that exists. We have history, and songs that we can just lie back and fall into. If I lie back in this band I'll just fall into the drumkit…"
Originally published in NME, 25 April 2015.
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At the Perisphere, Johnny Quick and Liberty Belle listened in to a radio news report from Metropolis describing what happened next, as Superman fought a giant-size replica of the comic-strip villain Machine-Gun Mike, who looked like a typical 1930s movie gangster and carried his trademark machine-gun with him.
The battle between the gigantic fictional gangster and the normal-sized Superman next to him was a typical mystery-man brawl — if you were the size of Doll Man. The only real problem was that, while Machine-Gun Mike could fire large bullets at Superman, the Man of Tomorrow could not strike the villain, who was intangible and then disappeared completely, just like Torgo had done earlier. To the watching crowds below, it looked like Superman had been outmatched. The only positive note was that he was able to catch all of the real-life crooks who'd been working for Machine-Gun Mike and doing the legwork in robbing the Minton Museum.
Libby Lawrence's journalistic instincts were right on the money, and not only that, her fellow journalist Lois Lane had the same idea. But while Libby remained in New York City on alert in case this Superman case turned into an All-Star Squadron case, Lois simply headed straight to the Metro Stockyards on a hunch. Naturally, she got herself in trouble right away, when she was kidnapped by the Black Raider — another giant who was dressed in the outfit he wore on the comic-strip page: an all-black outfit with a black cowboy hat and mask, and he was riding an equally gigantic white horse and carrying pistols. Lois was only able to place a call to the Daily Star and let Clark Kent know about it when she was picked up like Faye Wray in King Kong by the Black Raider's huge hand and taken away.
Superman arrived at the stockyards moments later and returned all the stolen trucks with their cargo, when he was told that Lois had been kidnapped. Superman went in pursuit of the giant Black Raider, now galloping over the foothills outside Metropolis, when he was ambushed by Funnyface, whose balloonlike heads appeared all around him, distracting him long enough for the giant outlaw to make his escape with Lois.
Immediately after, Superman encountered none other than Goola the Martian from the Streak Dugan comic-strip at the railroad yards, where he was stealing the gold cargo being loaded onto a train. Again, as Superman sought to engage his foe in combat, Funnyface's heads appeared all around him until Goola was gone.
At the Perisphere, Liberty Belle was contacted by another All-Star — the Sandman, alias Wesley Dodds, who committed himself and Sandy the Golden Boy to help out if needed, but by this point Belle was telling the All-Stars that Superman had the case well in hand.
"You really think so?" said a boy's voice, which Libby recognized as that of Sandy Hawkins.
"She's right, kid," said Wes.
Until then she had been trying to follow the story through radio news alerts, but it was all moving so fast that the reporters on the scene were unable to keep up with it quickly enough. Then it became impossible for Libby to continue when Johnny Quick had taken that moment to express his love for his new fiancée once again, showering her with kisses. Despite herself and her much-vaunted professionalism, Libby was distracted for several minutes.
"Johnny — please — I asked you to stop–" she said between kisses.
"Yeah, but that was ten minutes ago, and I haven't heard a peep out of you since," said Johnny.
With an act of tremendous willpower, Libby finally broke out of his loving embrace and went back to the radio.
The suggestion came too late, and it was wholly unnecessary, for by then Superman was already on his way to the Happy Days Old Folks Home. But Liberty Belle and Johnny Quick knew none of this until much later, when Superman himself visited the Perisphere, walking in at an awkward moment when he found Johnny and Libby sharing a tender kiss once more.
Superman cleared his throat before stepping into view, and Libby and Johnny quickly broke away like two school kids caught doing something wrong. "I hope I'm not interrupting anything," said the Man of Tomorrow.
"We should've known that Superman could've handled anything in Metropolis without our help," said Johnny.
Superman looked surprised for a moment, then laughed. "Why, yes! How'd you guess that? Never mind. I suspect you followed the same clues from the comic-strip as I did. Well, when I arrived there, I was greeted at the door by an old lady. After explaining what led me there, I gave her a warning against the character named Viper. But as soon as I did so, this sweet old lady transformed as if by magic into the giant figure of Viper himself, now standing astride the entire building.
"When I moved to attack him, Viper's features immediately changed into that of Funnyface. But before he disappeared altogether like before, I was able to spot a clue that would lead me straight to the villain's lair — the scrawled name of Carter's Canyon on the villain's pocket. This is a landmark in the hills outside Metropolis, I knew, and I headed straight there, despite the possibility that it might be a trap. Believe me, I even considered calling in back-up from you All-Stars just in case, but with Lois in trouble, there was no time to lose.
"Thankfully, I did have back-up, in a way, since Daily Star reporter Lois Lane had been left alone in Funnyface's lab when the villain stepped outside to watch the battle. Lois, God bless her, managed to figure out how to bring comic characters to life herself and wasted no time in creating all the heroes of the comic-strips to equally match the villains. With those reinforcements, I was able to concentrate on solving the source of the problem — Funnyface.
"The villain had already run back inside after realizing what Lois had done, and before I was able to stop him, he trained the ray he'd used to create his real-life characters on Lois, changing her — if you can believe it — into a two-dimensional drawing on paper. I demanded him to free her, but when he refused, all the heroes of the funny pages — Prince Peril, the Solitary Rider, Detective Craig, Streak Dugan, and Happy Daze — each took turns beating on Funnyface in their own unique ways until he'd had enough.
But the All-Star Squadron would never learn where Funnyface had gained the Bio-Ray, and as for the villain himself, he wasn't talking. He'd had enough of big crimes, and he was planning to use his Bio-Ray in much more subtle ways from this point on. For the Bio-Ray that Superman had smashed was only a working duplicate created by the real Bio-Ray from a photograph of the amazing device. The duplicate had worked just as well as the original and had been realistic enough to fool Superman, and the real Bio-Ray was still safely tucked away where he had hidden it. And if he was, by any luck, able to break out of prison, he vowed to never be jailed again.
As for Libby Lawrence and Johnny Chambers, they were married, but not right away. They waited for a mere three weeks and then tied the knot in a small ceremony attended only by a few friends on April 1st. (*) Their wedding date being on April Fool's Day alone should have given them a clue about the rocky road that would lay ahead of them in their marriage over the next few decades.
While Superman would never directly face Funnyface again, two years later he would gain a foe who could create impossible characters out of thin air and do many more amazing things — Mr. Mxyztplk. And it would take another ten years before Clark Kent and Lois Lane were finally married. But after waiting all those years, the two had the emotional maturity needed to make them ready for such a relationship.
The Sandman's prophetic dream about Funnyface would turn out to be notable once Wes Dodds' link with Dream of the Endless, also known as Morpheus or the Sandman, became known. For the Bio-Ray used by Funnyface tapped into the the world of pure imagination — the world of dreams.
Unknown to anyone, Funnyface had actually been active in crime both before and after his capture more than anyone had ever suspected. In fact, some of the most unbelievable and bizarre foes that the mystery-men of the 1940s fought were original creations of the man known as Funnyface. But while creating wacky super-villains was a hobby, it would not be his primary goal in life, and he would eventually leave criminal pursuits altogether. For the Bio-Ray that Funnyface had obtained from a mysterious technology-supplier known only as the Monitor could tap into entire worlds and universes of imagination, where Funnyface as those worlds' creator could attain the adulation and fame he had always wanted, and more — he would, in effect, become a god.
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Posted by Adam West on 15 May 2017
It was pleasing to hear in last week's Federal Budget announcement that there are two significant plans to address the current issues plaguing the family law system: the burden on the Family Law Courts which have been left floundering by inadequate resourcing that is not capable of dealing with the volume of matters that pass through the system, and the complexities surrounding this area of law which can often include serious matters relating to family violence and abuse of children.
$80 million funding boost for Court resourcing
As part of the Budget announcement, the Federal Government announced that it will allocate an additional $80 million in funding, which is aimed at providing further resourcing to Courts and funding in other areas that will ease the burden on the family law system.
In addition, a further $10.7 million will be allocated to be used towards employing additional family consultants. Family consultants play an important part in contested parenting proceedings through the preparation of family reports that help the Courts in making appropriate orders concerning the living arrangements for children. This extra funding will provide a huge boost to the Courts' ability to progress matters more quickly, ensuring that they have the evidence needed to be able to determine parenting disputes. Currently, matters can be delayed by close to 12-months due to the delays associated parties being able to meet with a family consultant.
The Federal Government has also proposed implementing a new pathway for dealing with less complicated family law disputes through the introduction of Parenting Management Hearings (PMS). Whilst details are yet to emerge about how this system would operate, the Government has announced that the PMS are aimed at giving self-represented parties much quicker access to a legal process, avoiding the need to resolve their matter through a traditional court process. This initiative will initially be rolled out in the Parramatta Registry.
A further $3.4 million will be used to expand Domestic Violence Units which have been established as part of the Women's Safety Package. This new funding will establish up to six new Units, giving victims of domestic violence access to legal and social support.
The Federal Government has also pledged $55.7 million in funding to Community Legal Centres (CLC) in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal services. This is in response to a funding crisis that earlier threatened to close the doors on CLCs. This funding will enable CLCs to continue to provide legal assistance on a pro bono basis to individuals who cannot otherwise afford legal representation.
Plans for a comprehensive review of the family law system
The Turnbull Government has, as part of their Budget announcements, revealed plans to undertake a comprehensive review into the family law system - the first review of its type since the commencement of the Family Law Act in 1976. The Australian Law Reform Commission will be asked to review the current system and consider what reforms will be necessary to meet the contemporary needs of families, particularly in being able to effectively address family violence and child abuse.
Again, this review is well overdue but will undoubtedly be welcomed by all stakeholders in the family law system who have experienced the current inadequacies of the system in being able to effectively manage family law disputes.
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Think your commute is bad? Be glad you don't live in Bangladesh.
By Ezra Klein@ezraklein Jul 7, 2014, 8:30am EDT
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Dhaka, Bangladesh is among the world's most congested cities. With 7 million residents, only seven percent of the land is covered with roads. (As comparison, about 25 percent of the land in Paris is covered in roads, as is about 40 percent of the land in Washington, DC.) The whole city only has 60 traffic lights — and they don't all work.
Michael Hobbes works on human rights in Bangladesh, among other places, and in an essay for The New Republic, he says that "whenever I ask people in Dhaka what their main priority is, what they think international organizations should really be working on, they tell me about the traffic." Traffic, he argues, isn't just a nuisance. It's "one of the defining development challenges of our time."
Much of the problem in Dhaka comes from the rickshaws crowding the road. But any attempt to herd them into a single lane, or limit their use, will be a political nightmare. "One and a half million people drive rickshaws for a living, plus another few hundred thousand own and repair them."
Another option might be making cars pay more to use special roads — and then using that money to build the necessary infrastructure. But, Hobbes writes, "car owners are a small part of the population, but a highly influential and politically necessary one. Having a car-and a driver, of course-is a major perk of being a government official or business executive." They don't take well to higher taxes.
Meanwhile, there's the paradox of infrastructure investment to worry about: major transportation projects take a long time to complete, and during that period, they often make traffic much, much worse.
The result is that little can be done. But Hobbes' piece makes an important point (and don't miss the photos!): too often, people hear about "development challenges" and they imagine the horrors of extreme poverty, like malaria and starvation. But the world has more than halved the number of people living in extreme poverty since 1990 — and experts increasingly believe it's possible to end extreme poverty altogether by 2030. Most of the world now lives in middle-income countries, and a large majority of the world will soon live in cities. If those middle-income countries are to become rich, and if their residents are to have good lives, then traffic is one of the central developmental challenges of the coming decades.
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Boy buried under floorboards drowned in toilet by mother's friend: affidavit
A young boy found buried under floorboards at his Arkansas home had been dead for 15 weeks – killed when his mother's friend stuck his head in a toilet as "punishment", according to harrowing court documents.
According to an NBC News affidavit, Blu Rolland's decomposing body was found on Friday — his sixth birthday — wrapped in "several layers of plastic bags" under "newly nailed boards" at his home in Moro.
His father's family had sounded the alarm after Blu's sister was found with severe burns – and the little boy was repeatedly kept away from scheduled custody visits New York Post reports.
Blu's mother, Ashley Rolland, 28 – who has a big black eye in her booking photo – was quick to blame her boyfriend Nathan Bridges, 33, after both were arrested the day after the gruesome discovery, the outlet said.
She told police that her abusive boyfriend killed Blu on Sept. 9 by sticking his head in the toilet as "punishment" for biting his finger, the affidavit said.
The mother claimed to have been in another room at the time and said she went into the bathroom when Bridges left and saw her son "struggling to breathe and his body was limp".
She told police that her boyfriend then "cut a hole in her wooden floor, dug a hole in the ground and buried it [Blu] under the house".
However, a witness named Rebecca Fiting told police Ashley Rolland told her that "Blu had come out of the bathroom with his face/body swollen and foaming at the mouth before collapsing and dying".
The mother said "she didn't know what to do and had Blu buried under the floorboards," according to Fiting, whose relationship with the suspect was not spelled out, NBC said.
The children's father, Ashley's ex-husband Dustin Rolland, 30, filed a complaint on September 14 for "refusing the ordered visit" – unaware that his son had been dead for five days, according to his ex-wife's timeline was dead.
It was his own mother, Karen Rolland, who finally called the police after Blu could once again not be handed over for a visit – but his sister came out with a badly scabbed head from severe burns.
The grandmother told NBC News the girl's clothes were soaked in urine, she "barely could walk" — and her first request was for "water and something to eat."
"I told her she was safe and just the look on her face was pure horror," she told the outlet.
Ashley Rolland told police that Bridges also inflicted those injuries on her daughter, saying he held her under hot water "as punishment for her behavior problems," according to the affidavit.
An online fundraiser that had raised more than $25,000 as of Friday also revealed grisly burns on the girl's stomach.
"This child's hair has been cut off, she is malnourished, has broken ribs and many, many burns on her body in various stages of healing," it said.
Ashley Rolland and Bridges are charged with capital murder, abusing a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, endangering the well-being of a minor and assault. Rolland is also facing two other child molestation charges.
Both are being held without bail and will appear in court on January 17.
The children's father told NBC he was "trying to fight for my kids."
"I wish I could have been there a long time ago but she held me back from my kids," he said of his ex-wife, whom he married in December 2015 before divorcing in June last year.
"I don't want anyone to think it was my fault. I love my children very much," he said.
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CBS Sunday Morning on April 10, 2016
Anthony Mason was the host for the money issue on April 10.
The bank meltdown in Iceland. From the cover story by Martha Teichner:
Historian Magnus Sveinn Helgason conducts walking tours during which he explains what went wrong when Iceland's bankers and businessmen set out to turn their country of only 330,000 people into a world financial capital:
"When the three big Iceland banks collapsed, all three would have ranked among the ten largest bankruptcies in U.S. history had they been U.S. companies," he said. (...)
"A lot of people seemed to be getting very rich, very fast, and a lot of people wanted to join in on that," said Katrin Jakobsdottir. She is one of the members of Parliament who decided on Iceland's hardline response when this whole house of cards built on debt came tumbling down.
"Even though the banks also were responsible, as a whole, I think it was the conviction that also the individuals within the banks had done this," Jakobsdottir said. (...)
Between 20 and 30 bankers have gotten jail sentences. Siguron Arnason, former CEO of Landsbanki, will begin serving a five-year prison sentence in the fall.
link: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/iceland-not-too-big-to-jail/
A story on the Thiel Foundation by John Blackstone included criticism:
"It breaks my heart when some of the most promising students don't fulfill their potential because they're chasing rainbows," said Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford University, who has been a critic of the Thiel Fellowship from the beginning." (...)
"Everyone does the same thing: It's social media, it's photo sharing apps. Today it's sharing economy," Wadhwa said. "It's 'Me, too,' 'More of the same.'"
"There are some opportunities that come up that you would regret turning down," Kramer said. "Workflow was definitely one of those."
"It's kind of like making your own apps that save you time," Weinstein said.
When Workflow launched, it was the number one bestseller on Apple's App Store -- and has since won several awards.
They've just hired their newest employee, Tim Hsia, a graduate of Stanford's business and law schools and an Army vet. He's 33-years-old and says he doesn't mind taking orders from a teenage boss.
There is a New Jersey connection to Workflow. From a 2014 post: (Kramer, 18, is from Cherry Hill, Weinstein is from Mt. Airy).
Of the Wadhwa debate, see also
http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/iq2us-blog/item/979-thiel-vs-wadhwa-the-higher-education-debate-continues
And from pbs.org, Wadhwa saying:
One good question Thiel often raises is whether you need to learn what's taught in college. My dean at Duke University, Tom Katsouleas, has a great answer. He tells the story of a high school teacher whose students confronted him with the same question: "Why do we need to learn this?" The teacher replied, "You don't. You need to learn to ask just one question." The piqued students implored him to tell what that was. His answer: "Would you like fries with that?"
link: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/the-pernicious-myth-that-you-d/
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Fernand Samuel, de son vrai nom Adolphe-Amédée Louveau, est un metteur en scène et directeur de théâtre français, né le  à Rome et mort le  à Cap-d'Ail.

Surnommé « Samuel le Magnifique », il dirige notamment le théâtre des Variétés de 1892 à 1914.

Biographie

Jeune avocat, il s'essaie à la comédie en 1883, dans Les Deux Trouvailles de Gallus de Victor Hugo, au Cercle des Arts intimes, société d'amateurs dont il est le président, tout en tenant la rubrique « courrier » du Globe .

Encouragé par le critique Francisque Sarcey, il prend la direction du théâtre de la Renaissance et adopte le pseudonyme de Fernand Samuel . Il nomme le dramaturge Georges Feydeau secrétaire général et crée sa pièce Tailleur pour dames en 1886. Il fait également jouer en 1885 la dernière pièce de Henry Becque, La Parisienne, dans une mise en scène d'André Antoine.

En 1891, il succède à Eugène Bertrand à la tête des Variétés. Il y crée avec succès plusieurs pièces de Robert de Flers et Gaston Arman de Caillavet comme Miquette et sa mère (1906), puis Le Roi (1908), Le Bois sacré (1910) et L'Habit vert (1912) qu'il met lui-même en scène. Il joue Le Nouveau Jeu (1898) et Le Vieux Marcheur de Henri Lavedan (1899), Éducation de prince de Maurice Donnay (1900), La Veine (1901) et  Les Deux Écoles (1902)  d'Alfred Capus. La troupe comprend alors Amélie Diéterle, Marthe Régnier, Ève Lavallière, Albert Brasseur, Guy, Max Dearly, Charles Prince.

Il reprend également des opéras-bouffes et opérettes du répertoire offenbachien comme Geneviève de Brabant en 1908, et monte des revues comme La Revue du centenaire de Paul Gavault, Pierre-Louis Flers et Eugène Héros en 1907.
Il achète le château de Saint-Baslemont, situé à 8 km de Vittel, où il vient régulièrement avec sa compagne Ève Lavallière. Ils ont ensemble une fille, Jeanne Louveau (1895-1980). Le couple se sépare en 1897.

Il se remarie avec l'actrice Jeanne Saulier.

Fernand Samuel meurt le 21 décembre 1914 et il est inhumé au cimetière du Père-Lachaise ().

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