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Sooners Announce 2017 Schedule
By Wes Moody
NORMAN – University of Oklahoma head men's gymnastics coach Mark Williams announced Oklahoma's 2017 schedule on Thursday.
The two-time defending NCAA National Champion Sooners must navigate a difficult slate if they want to make history and win a third straight national title in 2017. Oklahoma opens the season with its annual trip to the Rocky Mountain Open at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Jan. 14. OU has won the meet in each of the last 17 seasons.
Next up for OU is a trip to Big 10 country to take on traditional rival and Williams' alma mater Nebraska on Jan. 21. The Sooners swept the event titles against the Cornhuskers in Norman a year ago en route to a 447.450-428.700 win.
Sophomore Yul Moldauer celebrates after a strong floor routine at a meet last season. Moldauer is the reigning NCAA all-around champion.
"We're anticipating another challenging competition season," Williams said. "Starting with the Rocky Mountain Open, being our usual opening destination, against Nebraska and Air Force. We'll be headed back to Nebraska this year for a second competition, and that's always a good visit to an old rival."
The Sooners host another Big 10 school in Michigan on Jan. 28 for their home opener at McCasland Field House. The meet will also serve as Cleveland Night for the Sooners. The annual event is part of a "Partners in Education" program developed by Williams and Cleveland Elementary music teacher Regina Bell. OU gymnasts make weekly visits to the school to assist teachers with class activities and to help tutor students in math, grammar and reading.
The OU Athletics Marketing Department has some special events planned for Cleveland Night. Dozens of lucky students will have the opportunity to serve as junior judges, score flashers, march-in leaders, junior PA announcer and award presenters at the meet.
A week later Oklahoma is back on the road to take on Iowa and Minnesota in Iowa City, Iowa, on Feb. 10.
"Our first home meet is against Michigan, who's always a really outstanding program," Williams said. "From there, we go to Iowa and then have Minnesota. Iowa should be another difficult environment for us to compete on the road against a pair of Big 10 teams."
Williams' bunch will then take a break from NCAA competition to compete at the 2017 Winter Cup in Las Vegas on Feb. 16-18. The competition allows OU's student-athletes to compete as individuals in attempt to earn a spot on the U.S. Senior Men's National Team.
Following Winter Cup, the Sooners will be home for three of their next four meets starting with Air Force on Feb. 25. OU then travels to Palo Alto, Calif., to take on conference rival Stanford on March 4. The Cardinal finished a distant second to the Sooners at the 2016 NCAA Championship and should once again be one of OU's strongest challengers.
"Ohio State is one of the top three teams out there and Illinois is another team that was in the top five last year, so it should be a good challenge at the end of the season."
- Head Coach Mark Williams
Oklahoma then returns to the friendly confines of McCasland Field House for back-to-back home meets against Ohio State (March 11) and Illinois (March 18) to conclude the regular season schedule. Ohio State finished third at NCAAs a year ago and with a strong returning contingent will once again be near the top of collegiate gymnastics.
"We finish the regular season with Ohio State and Illinois coming to us during the spring break week," Williams said. "Ohio State is one of the top three teams out there and Illinois is another team that was in the top five last year, so it should be a good challenge at the end of the season."
The postseason run kicks off on April 8 when OU heads west to Berkeley, Calif., to the campus of the University of California to defend the MPSF Conference title. The Sooners have won the league in each of the last five seasons.
Following an off week the Sooners will defend their NCAA crowns at the NCAA Championships in West Point, N.Y., April 21 and 22.
Season tickets for all four home meets are on sale now and can be purchased by calling the University of Oklahoma Ticket Office at (405) 325-2424 or toll free at (800) 456-GoOU. Tickets can also be ordered online by visiting SoonerSports.com.
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I apologize to my blog fans out there, all four of you! Mom and dad and my in-laws... just kidding. Friends and sibs too. And my darling wife.
Cindy has been to Switzerland and back for Autodesk; and then she's been to Singapore and back, all in the blank space of my nearly daily blog entries. Mom is still in England and France with Aunt Mary Ann and my research gene-seeking, protein shape determining, scientist cousins Karen and Pat Fleming. I went on a fun flying photo shoot with Denise and Tim on Easter Sunday, with a bizarre dinner in Boonville that day. I scored some great great photos to post. Early this month I did a full tune up on my Trek road bike (new chain, cogs, front rings, cables) and it's my main machine for commuting to the office--helps reduce my so-called carbon footprint on this planet. Speaking of planets, an earthlike planet was discovered yesterday (or at least, its news hit the press) that's only 20 light years distant from us earthlings and it's orbiting a red dwarf named Gliese 581. How cool is that?
Photo.net Redwood Trees photos, 'No Words' project -- I have four photos there.
The Sopranos are now into episode three of their final 9 episodes ever on HBO. Let me tell you -- that show and its new mini season is beyond good.
The SF Giants are winning lots of baseball games and Barry Bonds is still an awesome offensive force.
The Golden State Warriors actually made the NBA playoffs as a west conference #8 seed and knocked off Dallas in game one!
The San Jose Sharks won their first round playoff series against Nashville (deja vu to 2006) and await their opponent in 2nd round tonight or tomorrow, well rested I must say.
Stuart O'Grady won the Paris-Roubaix Hell of the North one day bike race last week and Floyd Landis is still in trouble with the international cycling vampires.
We visited four winery operations today: Nickel & Nickel (their open house and classic Napa Valley winery), Napa Wine Company (winemakers collective/cult wine central), Darioush (Persian), and Luna (Italian). The five of us were Cindy, myself, Yann (from Switzerland), David, and Heather. I don't recall drinking any bad wine this day! The tastings ran from $15 apiece up to $30 each--Napa really soaks the greenbacks out of your wallet with ease.
A run down of the wineries: this time at Nickel & Nickel they were tasting everything BUT their famous single vineyard Cabs. We started out with a couple chardonnays outside then progressed to reds with two pinot noirs inside the barn, followed by merlots, and zinfandels. Nickel is so impressive with their food setups and mostly French cheeses. They also had all sorts of meats along with bread, olives, and crackers. I ended up liking the '04 Harris merlot, the '05 Spring Hill pinot, and the '05 Bonfire zin the best of the 8 wines we tasted.
At Napa Wine Co., we went for the "Red Red Wine" tasting: a Pavi dolcetto, Madrigal zinfandel, a Showket red blend, and the Joel Gott Syrah (Pelkan Ranch).
At Darioush we all universally loved the four wines they were pouring; none of them was cheap however. This winery will knock your socks off -- both by the quality of their wine and the astounding architecture of the building. Beautiful stone is everywhere and first class touches on everything surrounds you. Persian New Year kicks off March 20 (vernal equinox).
A little bit more down the road to Luna winery we really enjoyed all they wine they were pouring. Cindy and I have been here once before (over a year ago) and it seems their prices had a significant increase. What's new ehh?
Chop chop! at the hibachi table (teppanyaki cooking)--we'll meet up with Zhanara and Loic in SF's Japantown for dinner. I had a couple beers at the Boom Boom Room while waiting for everyone to show up. I wish I had my camera with me at the moment. After dinner Z and Loic showed us their hilltop tennis court -- and at night gives you one of the most astounding downtown SF views I've seen. I'll get a photo soon of that. After that we walked down the Vallejo Street hill and played pool at the Savoy-Tivoli bar (on Grant near Green) until dark o'clock.
Finally started this up for the year as there is plenty of morning and evening light now. My current staging point is at the rowing club in Greenbrae so that makes it a 40 mile round trip commute. Next week it'll have to stop -- too dark in the morning with the early switchover to Daylight Saving Time. I suspect I can resume in two weeks (Mar. 26) when the sun rises at 7:05 a.m. Oh well, at least I got in a sneak peak today! It sure beats taking the ferry or even driving all the way in. Going home it was pretty breezy, gusts in your face over 20 mph and sort of chilly. A nice first effort at least.
OK, another Nickel & Nickel Open House is planned for this Saturday. Here it was a month ago on my blog during their excellent Cabernet event.
Today's weather isn't bad at all, maybe a little rain in the afternoon, but Friday through Sunday look excellent; so Benihana here we come! (Friday, and I plan to bring along the camera) and of course look out Nickel! We'll meet up with David and Heather there, and perhaps Denise and Tim to fly in and join us?
It was great, crisp weather on the Bay this morning. Overnight it became very chilly for the area and plenty of snow fell on the hills above 2,100 feet. Mt. Diablo and Mt. Hamilton received a lot of snow and highway 29 crossing Mt. St. Helena had to be closed overnight due to snow and ice. It will all melt by tomorrow so no chance of any scenics soon.
I snapped these four photos from the ferry boat commuting into the office this morning.
Technical data: Canon EOS 10D, 24-70 2.8L lens, 1/180. I tried my best to keep a level image horizon on the rolling and pitching boat. All these photos were taken just 10-15 minutes after sunrise -- some pretty nice light.
Alcatraz Island, or "The Rock", was a federal prison until 1963 when the last prisoner was shipped out and the gates were closed. From 1859 to 1934 it was a military prison. Now it's one of the most popular tourist destinations of San Francisco. It was a very expensive prison to operate and maintain and the decision was made to close it. Supposedly it was a cruel place (if the many movies made about it are to believed). The National Park Service runs and operates the island. My parents are visiting this summer so I'll be visting The Rock with them in June -- I am really looking forward to it -- I've been there three times in the past and it's always interesting.
Two more of Alcatraz, with Mt. Tam in the background: Image One and Image Two. Up above in the cloud layer, blanketing the Tam summit, you can see a V-line of birds that I accidentally caught in the frame.
The morning of Feb. 27 Telegraph Hill (upon which Coit Tower is built) suffered a rockslide causing closing to several apartment buildings and businesses above and below the slide. In this picture the slide (you really cannot see it here) is on the left side (south) of the hill and stopped at Broadway Ave. near Montogmery next to one of the red light' districts in SF. The theory is that the heavy recent rains lossened up some of the cracks in the hill and part of it gave way. Over 100 years ago a good portion of the hill was blasted away while being used as a rock quarry.
There are many tall building construction projects going on in the city. It seems Webcor has a monopoly on these as far as the general contractor. Most of these projects involves pricey condominiums with killer views; people who buy into these will be pretty close to their downtown work office. The building I work out of is at the extreme far right edge of this shot.
We had a fun small stir-fry dinner party Saturday night: wines were a Goldeneye Migration Pinot Noir (2004) from Anderson Valley; a red Bourdeaux style blend 1999 RSV Vineyard Reserve/Napa Valley from Robert Sinskey Vineyards (Merlot, Cab Franc and Sauv.); and a N.V. Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin Brut champagne during dinner.
Cooking photo--chicken breast filet and lots of vegetables, lemon grass, garlic, and two types of mushrooms.
Also: Baltimore Canyon & Blithedale Summit, Marin County open space official preserve PDF map.
Nice GIF version I made of the trail map, loads quickly!
Bay Area Hiker Web page has a nice article on the Baltimore Cyn area and its trails with photos.
"Located along the Northridge (the spur of Mt.Tamalpais which separates Mill Valley from Corte Madera and Larkspur), Baltimore Canyon Open Space Preserve is home to a mixed conifer forest which includes Coast redwood and Douglas fir. In winter and spring, runoff from Mt. Tamalpais creates Dawn Falls, a popular destination for open space visitors [hikers and esp. mtn bikers]. Later, the cool and shaded canyon offers respite from the heat of a summer afternoon."
Overhead photo image I made of the Blithedale Ridge trails with labels I added.
Tandem Winery wine tasting bar in downtown Healdsburg's Plaza Farms shop.
Pebble Beach, 18th hole (HDTV photo capture) The Pebble Beach Pro-Am is generally the most scenic and beautiful of the PGA events. I've been to Pebble Beach a couple times near the first tee and it's an astounding, unforgettable site, even if there are no pros around. It's a pseudo public course so if you have lots of extra cash and the patience to secure a tee time then nothing's stopping you.
Today's the day to check out the wet scenery in and around Russian River and Dry Creek in Sonoma, then check into the Vintners Inn (pictured at left) and later with a nice dinner at John Ash restaurant on the inn property (an extension of the Ferrari-Carano empire). Cindy's birthday coincides with Valentine's Day so this is the weekend we have fun together after the viewing "pressure" of the NFL playoffs has ended and we can do whatever we want where ever!
Inside one of the many tasting rooms in Healdsburg. This one pictured at the left is fairly new, Sunce (Cindy's at the back by the water cooler).
After a super and extraordinarily dry January today's out third day of rain with 2-3 more wet days forecasted. In the Midwest it's been very cold and lots of snow. Dad sent me the photo of him shoveling/snow-blowing the deep stuff from South Bend...see below. He still has the sling on his arm rehabbing from his rotator cuff surgery just four weeks ago! Back to the present and local -- for the statistically minded, so far we've had 2.9 inches of rain in San Rafael since Wednesday. I see that amount growing a couple inches by Monday (a court holiday so a three day weekend for me, celebrating Lincoln's birthday).
Heading to wine country tomorrow for an overnight: staying at the Vintners Inn and dinner at John Ash. Let's hope the table we get is better than the previous two times we had reservations there.
This huge luxury liner passenger ship sailed into the San Francisco Bay yesterday at 4 PM under the Golden Gate Bridge. Had the Super Bowl not been on I would've been there to watch this and get some spectacular photos. The QM2 departs this evening at 8 p.m. It's the largest ship ever to sail under the bridge -- that's saying a lot when you consider battleships such as USS Iowa and carriers like USS Lincoln have gone back and forth under the bridge in years past.
Photo from the SF Chronicle as the ship passes under the bridge heading into the Bay.
Here's the QM2 docked at Pier 27 in San Francisco.
More QM2 photos: QM2 Trans/SF (interesting notes here to read if you click).


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Hurren makes first new signings as Moatmen boss
Jan 24, 2019 | More News
Gavin Hurren, the newly-appointed manager of Evo-Stik Northern Premier League Division One East club Gresley FC, has moved swiftly to add two players to his squad.
Well-travelled and experienced 30-year-old striker Luke Barlone joins from Total Motion Midland League Premier Division side Coventry Sphinx.
Barlone had only joined Sphinx in early December following stints in the same league with Coventry United, Coleshill Town and Highgate United.
He also numbers Barwell, Grantham Town, Coalville Town, Atherstone Town, Halesowen Town, Shepshed Dynamo, Bedworth United and Redditch United amongst his other former clubs.
Twenty-year-old midfielder Luke Moran has also moved to The Moat Ground from Vanarama National League North side Nuneaton Borough
Moran, who has been offered a place at Loughborough University, was previously with Accrington Stanley and has had loan spells in the NPL with Skelmersdale United and Radcliffe.

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Sickening that our inventors for so long ago, all get thrown together on one page and it's called "history." These people had lives and determination. I can't wait until February 28th… I'll have the BIGGEST celebration of black history you can imagine.
W.A Martin – invented/paved the way for the modern day lock. He improved the 4000 year old idea the Chinese had.
Washington A Martin, from Chicago, Ill. patented his idea, which had to be amongst a first as blacks were not allowed to do so without a WASPM (because even women didn't have entitlements) on July 23, 1889.
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Companies confront a new climate challenge: home offices
May 5, 2022 at 10:00 am GMT
By Paresh Dave
May 5 (Reuters) - Tech and financial companies leading efforts to cut climate changing emissions are finding a new challenge from remote work: the CO2 spewing out of home offices.
A few companies have begun counting what happens when employees boot up computers at home, turn up gas furnaces and ignore the world's most energy-efficient corporate campuses. It turns out that home setups popularized by the pandemic are eroding some of the climate benefit of abandoned commutes.
"Emissions didn't go away," said Amanda von Almen, head of emissions reduction at Salesforce.com Inc CRM.N . "They just shifted to another area."
Half of 20 big companies Reuters spoke to, including Salesforce, have estimated emissions from home offices.
Six of those reported detailed figures, showing their half a million workers collectively emitted the equivalent of 134,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide in about the first year of the pandemic. That is equivalent to consuming 15 million gallons of gasoline or burning 67,000 tonnes of coal.
While there are benefits to the climate from millions of employees not commuting when they work from home, the findings underscore that remote work is not a simple solution to cutting corporate emissions.
"Remote working has not delivered the environmental benefits that some people expected," said Steve Sorrell, professor of energy policy at University of Sussex. "But they should probably have paid more attention to the decades of work in this area that suggest that environmental impacts may be less than expected."
Companies reported varying benefits from the recent shift to telework. Salesforce found remote work has cut emissions 29% per employee, while Boston-based fund manager Fidelity Investments Inc found that moving to mostly remote work wiped out 87% of its emissions cuts in 2020.
Facebook, now Meta Platforms Inc FB.O , calculated that employees through commutes and remote work produced more than a tonne of CO2 per person in 2020, down from 2 tonnes the year before - when just commuting was counted.
However, half of those companies Reuters surveyed are not counting home office emissions, including tech and finance leaders Apple Inc AAPL.O , Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O and Wells Fargo & Co WFC.N .
"We anticipated these emissions are small relative to our carbon footprint and we are still evolving our methodology," Apple said in explaining its decision.
And even companies estimating the output from homes are divided on what to do about it. To honor its pledge to operate on 100% renewable energy, Meta has bought enough renewable energy credits to match remote workers' use, but it is not offsetting home-office natural gas.
Salesforce and Alphabet Inc's GOOGL.O Google excluded home-office electricity from their 100% goals as they weigh different initiatives for home use. Both, though, buy carbon credits to offset estimated emissions from telework.
Climate experts say those solutions scratch the surface: After pouring billions of dollars into traditional offices decked with rooftop solar, bathed in natural lighting and equipped with water recycling, employers transitioning to hybrid work need clear plans to make every location just as green.
"If we are serious about meeting our targets, then the corporate world needs to take the lead and think about homes as areas of improvement," said Eleftheria Kontou, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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One roadblock to counting home office emissions is that there is no standard on how or what to count. Microsoft Corp MSFT.O , trying to solve the problem itself, concluded that remote staff work eight hours a day using a laptop, two monitors and three lightbulbs.
Others including Salesforce have surveyed workers about their homes and energy bills, and many companies just look at typical residential usage in the regions where their workers reside.
But if heating a home office requires heating an entire house, how are emissions counted? And how to account for a headquarters office that is available but unused?
At least Link five Link research Link analyses Link studying remote work, including one from the International Energy Agency Link gy-and-reduce-emissions-but-how-much, have generally warned that emissions could rise as companies keep powering traditional offices to provide flexibility and some workers take on further, albeit less frequent, commutes.
"In a worst-case scenario a hybrid working future could...create a world where buildings and homes are used inefficiently with a transport system that is unable to respond to changing demand and potentially more cars on roads," U.K.-based consultancy Carbon Trust wrote in a 2021 report Link on remote work.
In the face of uncertainty over counting, outdoor retailer REI Co-op will wait for "uniform industry standards" before accounting for the 10% of its workforce that is remote or mobile, said Andrew Dempsey, senior manager for sustainability, and it is not alone.
The nonprofit clearinghouse CDP said that fewer than 200 of the 13,000 companies reporting environmental data to it last year mentioned remote work and included relevant emissions. The Greenhouse Gas Protocol, the most common accounting tool, has offered guidance on counting telework since 2011 but it does not specify how to calculate those emissions.
Corporate climate adviser William Theisen, North American chief of Atos SE's ATOS.PA EcoAct, described the limited reporting as concerning.
"I don't think avoiding it is the responsible way to go," he said. "If everyone was waiting for crystal-clear standards on counting remote work emissions, nothing would happen."
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India's rising infections and falling economic growth
On 2 July 2020, India's Ministry of Health announced 226,947 active cases of COVID-19, with 17,400 lives lost.
India is unfortunately now among the world's top five infected countries. As a country with one of the highest population densities in the world and a creaky public health system, India has experienced exponential growth in the number of infections. As a result, in addition to the health crisis, India's economy has been brought to a standstill.
Demand & Supply gaps
The Indian economy will suffer from significant gaps between supply and demand in almost all sectors due to disruptions caused by the virus.
A recent report by CRISIL, an S&P Global company, initially reduced its GDP growth forecast for 2020 from 3.5 percent to 1.8 percent. After the lockdown was extended for a fourth phase until 31 May 2020, CRISIL raised the alarm by noting that the Indian economy would shrink by 5 per cent in the fiscal year 2020–21.
Investment bank Nomura estimates that the lockdown, in which all motorcycle and automobile manufacturers have stopped production until further notice, would cost India about 8.5 percent of GDP.
This pessimistic outlook largely stems from supply and demand shocks resulting from the lockdown. But while the Indian government is prioritising public health over protecting livelihoods, it is just as critical to support India's hardest-hit communities, namely workers in the informal sector.
India's informal sector often cushions the impact of India's economic shifts. But it is unlikely to do the same this time due to the severe restrictions placed on the movement of people, goods and services within India and across the borders. Most informal sector workers are migrants from rural areas both within and outside the states.
There is no official data for inter-state migrants. Using the National Sample Survey (NSS) data drawn on the 2011 Census, it is estimated that there are 65 million inter-state migrants, of whom about 8 million workers are employed as casuals and another 8 million workers are employed on a regular basis in the informal sector. The remaining migrants work in the formal sector including the banking and IT sectors.
The lockdown has left migrant workers in the informal sector unemployed for over two months. With no support from their employers during the lockdown, the onus lies with state and central governments to protect these migrant workers.
The central government announced on 12 May 2020 its second stimulus package of Rs 20 trillion (US$264.9 billion), which is 10 per cent of India's GDP. The package focusses primarily on liquidity injections. Between April and June, roughly 800 million people are receiving 5 kilograms of wheat or rice and 1 kilogram of pulses each month free of charge.
This is in addition to the existing free monthly supply of 5 kilograms of wheat or rice under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana scheme.
Stimulus package
In terms of cash transfers, 200 million women with bank accounts will receive a monthly payment of Rs. 500 (US$6.6) until June, 30 million elderly citizens, widows and those with disabilities will receive Rs. 1000 (US$13.2) and 87 million farmers will receive Rs. 6000 (US$79.1). The size of this stimulus package could be increased to be
more effective.
In addition to this support for the poor, many political parties, philanthropists and non-governmental organisations have distributed cash, rice and basic groceries to those who lost their jobs due to the lockdown.
In terms of liquidity measures, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reduced the repo rate (the rate at which central banks lend short-term funds to commercial banks) by 75 basis points to 4.4 percent.
A three-month extension on loan equated monthly installments was announced on 27 March.
Despite the Indian government's financial aid packages, given the lengthy period of the lockdown, which is currently extended to the end of June, the package does not sufficiently address India's distressed labour force.
To stimulate consumption, the government should increase the fiscal component of its stimulus packages by increasing cash payments to all those who were unemployed during the lockdown in urban areas.
Besides increasing the cash payments, special attention should be given to the micro and small-scale industries in the stimulus package, which is currently lacking. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act should be doubled to 200 days of employment for the rural poor. The minimum support prices for rice and wheat revised further up from the 2019–2020 prices. These will increase the urban and rural incomes respectively and drive urban and
rural consumption.
Most importantly, it is imperative to speed up the distribution of package benefits for those people it is intended to reach. To do this, the Ministry of Finance needs to set up and monitor individual committees in each state.
Implementation of policies, procedures
A gradual easing of lockdown measures has been implemented to reduce the incidence of poverty, particularly among the poorer sections of India's population.
Future success will depend on whether the government, businesses, educational institutes and citizens can work together to implement the policies and procedures outlined by national leaders. Evidence so far suggests that a majority of the population has been cooperating with the policymakers despite the difficulty of maintaining social distance, for example, for India's urban poor.
(Kaliappa Kalirajan is Professor of Economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University)


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Preview: Arsenal v Watford, Team News, Line-Up & Predicted Score
By mac14 on April 1, 2016
Arsenal will look to keep their slim Premier League title hopes alive when we entertain Watford at the Emirates on Saturday afternoon.
A 2-0 victory over Everton at Goodison Park before the international break has kept us in touch with the top two with Spurs six points ahead while Leicester are eleven points adrift.
The good news is we have a game in hand over our rivals and have arguably the easier run-in, but anything other than a win tomorrow would almost certainly end our hopes of catching the leaders.
While this game is obviously vital in the title race, we will also be out to avenge our hugely disappointing FA Cup defeat to Watford which saw the Hornets leave the Emirates with a shock 2-1 win last month.
We've been handed a major boost with Petr Cech returning to training today after recovering from a calf injury that's kept him out of the last five games.
Wenger says he'll hand him a late fitness test but Cech took to Twitter earlier today to suggest he's fit and ready to start tomorrow, so I expect to see him in the starting eleven.
Jack Wilshere is also back in full training as he looks to finally make his comeback from a broken leg, but the midfielder is going to need a few weeks to regain his match fitness before he'll be under consideration.
The same can be said for Tomas Rosicky, who's also back in full training after recovering from a thigh injury, while Santi Cazorla and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are still around three weeks away from returning from their knee injuries.
Aaron Ramsey is expected to return from a thigh problem against West Ham next weekend so Mohamed Elneny will continue alongside Francis Coquelin tomorrow.
Preferred Line-Up
Alex Iwobi deserves to keep his place after an excellent performance against Everton two weeks ago while I'd also stick with Gabriel ahead of Per Mertesacker at the back.
We didn't play well at all in the FA Cup game last month but Watford got their tactics spot on, so hopefully Arsene Wenger and the players have learned their lesson this time around. The visitors have little left to play for in the league and the Arsenal players should be fully focussed on getting the win we need to keep us in the title race, so I'm backing the boys to get the job done.
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Shooting Back: The Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem Gives Palestinians Video Cameras to Document Life Under Occupation.
StoryDecember 26, 2007
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coordinates B'Tselem's video department
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B'Tselem has given Palestinian families across the West Bank video cameras to document how they are treated by Israeli soldiers and settlers. Some of the videos depicting abuse by settlers sparked a national debate earlier this year after they were broadcast on Israeli television. We speak with Oren Yakobovich who coordinates B'Tselem's video department. [includes rush transcript]
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AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to a second round of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, which was stymied on Monday after Israel refused to halt its settlement activity. At the US-sponsored peace conference in Annapolis last month, Israel agreed to end settlement expansion. But the Israeli Construction Ministry unveiled a proposal Sunday to build 740 new homes on occupied Palestinian land near East Jerusalem.
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has given Palestinian families across the West Bank video cameras to document how they're treated by Israeli soldiers and settlers. The project is called "Shooting Back." Some of the videos depicting abuse by settlers sparked a national debate in Israel earlier this year after they were broadcast on Israeli television.
Oren Yakobovich coordinates B'Tselem's video department. He recently traveled to the United States, joined me here in the firehouse studio. I began by asking him to explain the project, "Shooting Back."
OREN YAKOBOVICH: "Shooting Back," it's basically giving a Palestinian that's living in high-risk areas that's probably going to suffer from human rights violation by the Israeli army and by settlers — we give them cameras, so they can film their life, and basically we can see the violation when it's occurred.
AMY GOODMAN: How did you come to do this?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: Right. B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights, is documenting violation since '89, and the aim is to bring to the Israeli public and to the public in the world and decision makers violation. And the aim is, of course, to advocate for the end of violation. I wish I would not be here speaking about violation, but it's happening all the time.
So, for many years, what we did, we did reports. We're still doing them. And it's a long-term report. We're investigating the situation in the field. We had field researchers in every big city in the West Bank that — taking testimonies, written testimonies. And we did some films about the reports that we were taking out, but there was kind of frustration that I felt all the time, or we felt in B'Tselem, because we know from written testimony that a lot of things are happening, and we don't really manage to see them. It was becoming hard, harder, more and more during the years, to bring new information or new visuals to the media and to grab public attention. And we looked for a different point of view, a new point of view, and this is how we decided to start giving cameras to these people that live in these places.
AMY GOODMAN: Where do you get the cameras?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: Where we get them from?
AMY GOODMAN: You just —- you buy them and then give them to -—?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: Yeah, we buy them.
AMY GOODMAN: And so, do you have support of people in Israel?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: We have support of people in Israel, also in the world. B'Tselem is an NGO, and we — fund by contributions. So we take —- we raise money, and we buy the cameras and give them.
AMY GOODMAN: What does "B'Tselem" actually mean, the Hebrew word?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: The word itself, OK, "B'Tselem" is come from the Bible, and the first sentence in Genesis is God created man in His shape. In His shape -—
AMY GOODMAN: In His image.
OREN YAKOBOVICH: In image, yes. So, in His image, the Hebrew word for it would be "B'Tselem." So that's where it's coming from. Even though we are not with this organization at all, but the aim is, of course, to point that everyone has been created in the shape of God, and everybody is equal.
AMY GOODMAN: Oren, describe this first video we're about to watch and listen to.
OREN YAKOBOVICH: Alright. OK, well, this is basically the first video that we took out for the media. It's happening in Hebron. Just to understand, Hebron is the only Palestinian city where Jewish settlers living in the heart of the city. Usually the settlements will be outside of the major city, around or close by, but not inside. In Hebron, basically because Abraham, the father of our religion, is buried there, it's a very holy place to the Jews also, and there's settlements in the heart of the city.
The result of the settlements is a lot of restriction of movements on — that are being held on Palestinians. There are many streets that they cannot really walk. A Palestinian cannot drive cars in these areas. And there is a lot of violation that's happening there from the settlers that are living there. There are very radical settlers, more radical even than the rest of the West Bank. And we know from a lot of years of watching the place or getting testimonies that a lot of violations is happening there.
What you're going to see is a clip from a settlement called Tel Rumeida in Hebron. What we will see is a settler from this settlement, from Tel Rumeida, pushing Palestinians that basically are living across the street, on the other side of the road, pushing her back to her home, calling her "whore," cursing her very viciously. And all this time, you see the soldier standing next to the woman doing nothing, not interfering.
AMY GOODMAN: Tell us about the Palestinian family, in particular the woman, both the Palestinian woman and the Jewish settler woman.
OREN YAKOBOVICH: Yeah, OK. So the Palestinian is part of part of Abu Eisha family that's living in the heart of Tel Rumeida. They've been there for years, a lot of lot of years. In '84, if I'm not mistaken, or '83 — I don't remember — the settlement started, the Jewish settlement started in Hebron. The street that was open all the time to the family and to the people to come to visit her was closed. And now, this is the only Palestinian family that can walk in the street, the people living in this house. And they have nowhere to — the only way out from this house is through this road. So basically every time they're going out from the door, they're confronting the settlement — the settlers. And you will see this clip, and after, you see more clips, because we get a lot of material from this family. They are being attacked on a regular basis. Every time they go out of the house, there's a good chance they're going to get stones from the children or from the people that are living across the street, from the settlers.
AMY GOODMAN: And tell me about this particular settler woman.
OREN YAKOBOVICH: Don't say her name, but she is a radical settler, and she's living on the other side of the street. And she's kind of representing the settlers population living in Hebron. And I have to say that even for the Israeli audience, she seems extreme, like she's very extreme. But what we know about her, this is not the first time she's attacking, not her, not her friends. There's attacks happening there regularly on a regular basis. And what we see, that the army and the police are not enforcing the law, or there is lack of enforcement there.
AMY GOODMAN: Let's watch.
HEBRON PALESTINIAN RESIDENT: [translated] She wants to lock us in.
ISRAELI SETTLER: [translated] Get in the house. Get in the house.
HEBRON PALESTINIAN RESIDENT: [translated] I won't close the door.
ISRAELI SETTLER: [translated] Close it. Close the door.
HEBRON PALESTINIAN RESIDENT: [translated] Stay out of this!
ISRAELI SETTLER: [translated] Close the door.
HEBRON PALESTINIAN RESIDENT: [translated] Stay out of this! I'm not closing the door.
ISRAELI SETTLER: [translated] Sit here, in the cage. Sit here. Close the door.
HEBRON PALESTINIAN RESIDENT: [translated] I don't want to go inside!
ISRAELI SETTLER: [translated] Close the… Get the camera out of here.
HEBRON PALESTINIAN RESIDENT: [translated] Call the police.
ISRAELI SETTLER: [translated] Turn the camera off.
HEBRON PALESTINIAN RESIDENT: [translated] It's early in the morning. What do you want from us?
ISRAELI SETTLER: [translated] Shut up!
HEBRON PALESTINIAN RESIDENT: [translated] Don't you [addressing soldier] see what she's doing?
ISRAELI SETTLER: [translated] Whore.
HEBRON PALESTINIAN RESIDENT: [translated] You are!
HEBRON PALESTINIAN RESIDENT: [translated] You are! Go away!
HEBRON PALESTINIAN RESIDENT: [translated] Look what she'd doing! Go away!
HEBRON PALESTINIAN RESIDENT: [translated] Go away, you bitch!
HEBRON PALESTINIAN RESIDENT: [translated] Did you see [addressing soldier] what she did?
ISRAELI SETTLER: [translated] Whore. Whooooore. You're a whore. Your daughters, too. Don't you dare open this door!
HEBRON PALESTINIAN RESIDENT: [translated] Don't you dare come here!
HEBRON PALESTINIAN RESIDENT: [translated] I'll leave the house, as I please!
HEBRON PALESTINIAN RESIDENT: [translated] Leave us alone! Soldier, do you see what she's doing?
AMY GOODMAN: That video was filmed in Hebron. The Jewish settler woman, the Palestinian woman was filmed by who, Oren?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: The sister of the Palestinian who's being cursed is the one that's filming. Basically, there is a kid there, sixteen years old, holding a camera while her sister is being attacked by the settler. You see that the settler is coming to the camera, trying to push her into the house. And her sister is just next to her filming. And she's filming from — you see, I think it's a barbwire or like, you know, a net from —-
AMY GOODMAN: Through barbwire?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: Through barbwire, yeah, I think, because it's called the cage house. Because they have so many troubles from the settlers, they have to build kind of a barbwire around their house so they will not -— to protect the windows from the stones, to protect them the stone and from all kinds of things that they're throwing there.
AMY GOODMAN: Did this video appear on Israeli television?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: Yeah. This video was — what was amazing, I need to say, about this video, that for the Palestinian, when they gave me the camera, they gave me the tape, they didn't talk about this video, because for them it's casual. They didn't think there was anything special in this video. While we watched it in the office in B'Tselem, we said like there's something very strong here that we need everybody to see. But for the Palestinians, they didn't say anything about this video.
And then we put it out on one of the Israeli internet-used channels, and very fast there was a lot of — about hundreds of talk-backs and hundreds of clicks on this video. Of course, hour after, I got a great response from the rest of the networks in Israel, news networks. The day after, it was everywhere in Israel. It caused a major —-
AMY GOODMAN: So it first appeared on the web, then the networks took it.
OREN YAKOBOVICH: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was -— we were amazed what a debate it made in Israel. And the thing is, you have to understand, our problem at B'Tselem is not the settlers, the settlers that are violent. Our problem is the policy, the lack of law enforcement, that the soldier is standing there and doing nothing, and the police are there close by and doing nothing. And this is the major problem. And this is what was the debate about, because people in Israel, the audience or the majority in Israel, they will not pick up — or maybe they do, I'm not sure — but the settler is quite radical from their point of view also. The major debate was about the soldiers are standing there and doing nothing.
So the day after, it was in all the news channels in Israel, being talked again and again. A lot of article was written about it in the newspaper. After a while, the Prime Minister related to it, the Defense Minister related to it.
AMY GOODMAN: You mean, Ehud Olmert had to address it, speak about it?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: Yeah, Olmert said he saw it, and he felt ashamed. That's what he said. And the moment, of course, they addressed it, then the rest of the networks all around the world wanted this clip, because it became a huge issue. And then CNN took it, ABC took it. It was in Europe in all kind of channels, in Brazil, Japan. So it was widely watched. And what was amazing, this one minute that a Palestinian woman filmed, she's a citizen or a nonprofessional filmmaker, just made one minute that basically changed the situation there.
AMY GOODMAN: How old was the girl who filmed it?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: Sixteen.
AMY GOODMAN: She's sixteen. And where is she now? Still there?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: Still in the house, yeah. Still in the house. I have to say that the reality didn't change drastically. It did reduce some of the violations that are happening in Hebron. That's what we heard also from the family itself. We know that the presence of the cameras there is reducing the violence, because people know that they are being filmed.
AMY GOODMAN: And the settler woman?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: She's still there. She's still there. I think, if I'm not mistaken, she was supposed to come to a hearing last week in the court about this case, didn't appear. She's still there.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to go to the second video. We're talking to Oren Yakobovich. He directs the video department of B'Tselem, the Israel Information Center for Human Rights, giving video cameras to Palestinians. Describe this.
OREN YAKOBOVICH: Yeah. The second video, what you see here, it's happening on a Jewish holiday called Purim. In this holiday, I don't know if you know, but people are allowed to drink in the street, and you're allowed to drink. In Hebron also the kids are drinking, and we see some drunk kids there. They are the sons of Barukh Marzel. He's head of one of the radical movements in Israel. We see —- in the beginning, we see the soldiers a little bit holding the kids, but they're running away. And they're getting into the same family house through the door and throwing stones again and cursing and saying that they're going to destroy them. And then, a little bit after, you see the brother of the same kids, also drunk, just kicking wildly the door. And then -—
AMY GOODMAN: And this is the door of the Palestinian home.
OREN YAKOBOVICH: This is the door of the Palestinian home. And again, soldiers are there. They are walking on the streets. They are close by. Nobody is stopping them. Then you see him lying on the road next to the house and cursing and shouting 'til his father's coming to take him.
[describing clip] The settler boy says, "I will exterminate you," and throws a stone at the Palestinians' home. "Go away!" he says. "Don't you dare film me," he says to the girl filming.
That video was filmed by the same sixteen-year-old girl of the Abu Eisha family who filmed the first clip that we saw. How much attention did this get of the Jewish settler's son kicking in the door of the Palestinian?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: This got attention also in the news, of course. It was not internationally attentioned, but it got a lot of coverage in the Israeli media. But I have to say that it's very hard to — very important to understand that there's things happening not just to this family, it's happening all over Hebron. It's happening everywhere where there are settlers in Hebron. The violation is there all the time. The violent acts you see in other cameras also. Just brought this one, because this is how we started the project, but you see it all over.
AMY GOODMAN: Talk about this next clip we're about to see.
OREN YAKOBOVICH: OK, what you're going to see now is a different clip, because there are cameras in all kind of places, so you're getting different footage from all kind of places.
What you'll see now is — there is a kind of routine that the Israeli army is doing when there is somebody that they notice. This is what's something that's called the wanted list. It's kind of a list that in the head of the list is the one that's most wanted, is considered a terrorist. And then after, there's the whole list. Whenever there is information about somebody on this wanted list, this kind of operation that the army is doing — it's quite regular. It's happening a lot in the West Bank. Now, when we come to this house, surround this house, and then we call to the people to come out. We're checking the people. If the one that they wanted is not out, they will start throwing stun grenades, shooting on the walls, and then they will start destroying the house. And what we see here is the operation that happened in Qalqiliya, and it's quite routine operation.
AMY GOODMAN: Where is Qalqiliya?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: Qalqiliya is in the West Bank, north of the West Bank, one of the big cities in the north of the West Bank. What we see is quite a routine. The thing is that in this occasion, there were twelve houses being destroyed. And they walked them in the street with their underwear.
AMY GOODMAN: The whole family.
OREN YAKOBOVICH: Not just family, the people from this area that was living there. So we got these testimonies, and it's very hard to make the army or make the police start investigating, when you have these testimonies written. But the moment you have a strong video, it's much more easy to make a case. What you see in this video, you see the operation itself, you see bulldozer destroying the house, you see people with underwear walking down the street.
AMY GOODMAN: And this is men, women and children?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: No, just men, just men. No children and no women, just men, just men walking in the street. You see the soldiers. You see the dogs. They're sending a dog, after the house was destroyed, to look for the wanted one. You see basically the operation itself. And it's something that we got a lot of written testimonies about, but we never saw it happening. And here, we have the point of view of the Palestinians. You can hear in the background, this kid's talking to him, asking him to be careful that they will not shoot him. So you see kind of a Palestinian life, or where he's filming for a feel, you feel the life, and the visual, as you see, the operation itself.
AMY GOODMAN: Again, that was filmed at Qalqiliya. And Oren, who filmed it?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: This Palestinian guy that's living just across the street.
AMY GOODMAN: Just happened to have the camera there that day.
OREN YAKOBOVICH: Yeah.
AMY GOODMAN: And what kind of reaction did this film get?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: This didn't get much reaction. This film was helping us to analyze the operation, was helping us to ask the army to start investigation. This is something that we do at B'Tselem quite regularly. When we target violation, we see a violation, we'll ask the army to investigate this violation. We'll try to get conclusion on what's happening there. So this didn't get a lot of media attention, but it helped us to work, and it's something that's going to the army.
AMY GOODMAN: How is the army dealing with you, with B'Tselem, with — as you're saying, B'Tselem is a longtime, very well respected human rights information center —-
AMY GOODMAN: Yet even B'Tselem, you put out reports based on people's testimony -— they don't respond very much. But now you have the video. So how is the army dealing with this?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: First of all, they do respond to reports, this I have to say. Every time we're getting a report out, we're getting back a reaction from the army, a letter written in reaction. And we publish it together with our report. It's very important to have this and to make sure that it's there, that we know how the army will respond to this report.
The thing is that they're asking us to film now. The army and the police are asking us to film. They're telling us, "If you have things that's happening, please bring us the video," because they need it. They need it because they sometimes just get between the commanders or the high-rank officers in the army that at least see themselves as people that will try to protect the law and what's happening in the field. So the video is helping them to see what's happening there. They will ask for the film to investigate sometimes, to see what's happening there.
AMY GOODMAN: Have any charges been brought based on the video footage?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: We know that charges was in Hebron against the woman that was attacking. This process is quite new. We started a year ago with the pilot. And in the last months, we're running this project all over the West Bank. And investigation is taking time usually. It's something that will — we don't know the effects 'til the end, but we know it's did helping to make investigation.
AMY GOODMAN: If the army is encouraging you to do this, why don't they just hand out video cameras to all Palestinians?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: This is a very, very good question. I hope they will do. I hope they will give everyone cameras there, to the Palestinians, to the settlers, to the soldiers. And everything should be seen.
AMY GOODMAN: And the title of this project, why did you choose "Shooting Back"?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: Because it's shooting back. It's, first of all, kind of a weapon that a Palestinian has against human rights violation. Of course, I would prefer that people will have cameras and not guns. So it's — and then they are shooting back.
AMY GOODMAN: And what, ultimately, do you hope to achieve?
OREN YAKOBOVICH: First of all, I have to say that we're spreading more and more cameras all over the West Bank. In every place when there is a tension and [inaudible], we give them cameras. This is very important. And I know that it's protecting the Palestinians. There are places that we know, when the Palestinian is taking out the camera, the settlers will run away, will escape, happening a lot in south of the West Bank.
It's giving power. You know, this word is called "empowerment." I don't like this word so much, but I will use it. It's the children and the kids are filming. It's helping to mobilize communities. In Hebron, where the community was destroyed, suddenly they're filming and they have some kind of an interest in seeing the videos, talking about it. And what I hope to achieve, that everything is going to be filmed, at least in the — there's going to be a feeling that everything is being filmed, nothing is being done in the dark. And this what B'Tselem was basically established for, to bring light to places that are in the dark so violation will not occur.
AMY GOODMAN: Oren Yakobovish is with the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, which has given Palestinian families across the West Bank video cameras. The project is called "Shooting Back."
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On March 22-24, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee hosted the 37th annual meeting of the SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section. The meeting included approximately 160 registered participants, of which roughly 60 were students and 20 were from ORNL. There were 4 plenary talks, 24 mini-symposium sessions, seven contributed sessions, and a poster session. Awards were given to students for Best Paper and Best Poster presentations. Attendees were also given guided tours of the Graphite Reactor, the Spallation Neutron Source, and the National Center for Computational Science. The meeting was organized by Chris Baker (ORNL), Cory Hauck (ORNL), Jillian Trask (UT), Lora Wolfe (ORNL), and Yulong Xing (ORNL/UT).
The CSMD had a strong showing at SIAM-CSE13 with over 25 presentations from staff members from the division. This conference is a leading conference in computer science and mathematics, drawing thousands of researchers from across the globe and supported jointly by NSF and DOE. Division scientist organized eight different mini-symposiums with close to a hundred invited speakers in areas of modern libraries (Christopher Baker), implicit methods for Earth system modeling (Kate Evans), nuclear simulations (Bobby Philip), kinetic theory (Cory Hauck), hybrid architecture linear algebra (Ed D'Azevedo), UQ and stochastic inverse problems (Clayton Webster), and Structural Graph Theory, Sparse Linear Algebra, and Graphical Models (Blair Sullivan).
The semi-annual review for the Durmstrang-2 project was held on March 18-19 in Maryland. Durmstrang-2 is a DoD/ORNL collaboration in extreme scale high performance computing. The long term goal of the project is to support the achievement of sustained exascale processing on applications and architectures of interest to both partners. The Durmstrand-2 project is managed from the Extreme Scale Systems Center (ESSC) of CCSD.
Steve Poole, Chief Scientist of CSMD, presented the overview and general status update at the March review. Benchmarks R&D discussion was facilitated by Josh Lothian, Matthew Baker, Jonathan Schrock, and Sarah Powers of ORNL; Languages and Compilers R&D discussion was facilitated by Matthew Baker, Oscar Hernandez, Pavel Shamis, and Manju Venkata of ORNL; I/O and FileSystems R&D discussion was facilitated by Brad Settlemyer of ORNL; Networking R&D discussion was facilitated by Nagi Rao, Susan Hicks, Paul Newman, and Steve Poole of ORNL ; Power Aware Computing R&D discussion was facilitated by Chung-Hsing Shu of ORNL; System Schedulers R&D discussion was facilitated by Greg Koenig and Sarah Powers of ORNL. The topics of discussion during the executive session of the review included continued funding/growth of the program and development of performance metrics for the project.
The American Physical Society (APS) "March" Meeting is the largest physics meeting in the world, focusing on research from industry, universities, and major labs. Participation in this years' meeting held in Baltimore, MD (March 18-22, 2013) by staff members of the Computational Chemical and Materials Sciences (CCMS) Group included 24 different talks.
Monojoy Goswami, Bobby G. Sumpter, "Morphology and Dynamics of Ion Containing Polymers using Coarse Grain Molecular Dynamics Simulation", Talk in Session T32: Charged and Ion Containing Polymers (March 21, 2013) APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Debapriya Banerjee, Kenneth S. Schweizer, Bobby G. Sumpter, Mark D. Dadmun, "Dispersion of small nanoparticles in random copolymer melts", Talk in Session F32: Polymer Nanocomposites II (March 19, 2013) APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Rajeev Kumar, Bobby G. Sumpter, S. Michael Kilbey II, "00003 Charge regulation and local dielectric function in planar polyelectrolyte brushes", Talk in Session U32: Charged Polymers and Ionic Liquids (March 21, 2013) APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Alamgir Karim, David Bucknall, Dharmaraj Raghavan, Bobby Sumpter, Scott Sides, "In-situ Neutron Scattering Determination of 3D Phase-Morphology Correlations in Fullerene -Polymer Organic Photovoltaic Thin Films", Talk in Session Y33: Organic Electronics and Photonics-Morphology and Structure I (March 22, 2013) APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Geoffrey Rojas, P. Ganesh, Simon Kelly, Bobby G. Sumpter, John Schlueter, Petro Maksymovych," Molecule/Surface Interactions and the Control of Electronic Structure In Epitaxial Charge Transfer Salts", Talk in Session U35: Search for New Superconductors III (March 21, 2013) APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Geoffrey A. Rojas, P. Ganesh, Simon Kelly, Bobby G. Sumpter, John A. Schlueter, Petro Maksymovich, "Density Functional Theory studies of Epitaxial Charge Transfer Salts", Talk in Session N35: Search for New Superconductors III (March 20, 2013) APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Arthur P. Baddorf,Qing Li, Chengbo Han, J. Bernholc, Humberto Terrones, Bobby G. Sumpter, Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera, Jieyu Yi, Zheng Gai, Peter Maksymovych, Minghu Pan," Electron Injection to Control Self-Assembly and Disassembly of Phenylacetylene on Gold", Talk in Session C33: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Interfaces and Contacts (March 18, 2013) APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Mina Yoon, Kai Xiao, Kendal W. Clark, An-Ping Li, David Geohegan, Bobby G. Sumpter, Sean Smith, "Understanding the growth of nanoscale organic semiconductors: the role of substrates", Talk in Session Z33: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Morphology and Structure II (March 22, 2013) APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Chengbo Han, Wenchang Lu, Jerry Bernholc, Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera, Humberto Terrones, Bobby G. Sumpter, Jieyu Yi, Zheng Gai, Arthur P. Baddorf, Qing Li,. Peter Maksymovych, Minghu Pan, "Computational Study of Phenylacetylene Self-Assembly on Au(111) Surface", Talk in Session C33: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Interfaces and Contacts (March 18, 2013) APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Jaron Krogel, Jeongnim Kim, David Ceperley "Prospects for efficient QMC defect calculations: the energy density applied to Ge self-interstitials", Talk in Session J24: Quantum Many-Body Systems and Methods I (March 19, 2013) APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Kendal Clark, Xiaoguang Zhang, Ivan Vlassiouk, Guowei He,Gong Gu, Randall Feenstra, An-Ping Li, "Mapping the Electron Transport of Graphene Boundaries Using Scanning Tunneling Potentiometry", Talk in Session G6: CVD Graphene - Doping and Defects (March 19, 2013) APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Gregory Brown, Donald M. Nicholson, Markus Eisenbach, Kh. Odbadrakh "Wang-Landau or Statistical Mechanics", Talk in Session G6: Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Followed by GSNP Student Speaker Award (March 18, 2013) APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Don Nicholson, Kh. Odbadrakh,German Samolyuk, G. Malcolm Stocks," Calculated magnetic structure of mobile defects in Fe", Session Y16: Magnetic Theory II (March 22, 2013) APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Khorgolkhuu Odbadrakh, Don Nicholson, Aurelian Rusanu, German Samolyuk, Yang Wang, Roger Stoller, Xiaoguang Zhang, George Stocks, "Coarse graining approach to First principles modeling of structural materials", Session A43: Multiscale modeling--Coarse-graining in Space and Time I (March 18, 2013) APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
M. G. Reuter & P. D. Williams, "The Information Content of Conductance Histogram Peaks: Transport Mechanisms, Level Alignments, and Coupling Strengths" Talk in Session R43: Electron Transfer, Charge Transfer and Transport Session, (March 20,2013) APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Paul R. C. Kent, Panchapakesan Ganesh, Jeongnim Kim, Mina Yoon, Fernando Reboredo, "Binding and Diffusion of Li in Graphite: Quantum Monte Carlo Benchmarks and validation of Van der Waals DFT" Talk in Session A5: Van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials - Materials Behavior, (March 18, 2013) APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Peter Staar, Thomas Maier, Thomas Schulthess, "DCA+: Incorporating self-consistently a continuous momentum self-energy in the Dynamical Cluster Approximation" Talk in Session N24, APS National Meeting,Baltimore.
Thomas Maier, Peter Hirschfeld, Douglas Scalapino, Yan Wang, Andreas Kreisel, "Pairing strength and gap functions in multiband superconductors: 3D effects" Talk in Session G37: Electronic Structute Methods II, (March 20, 2013) APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Thomas Maier, Yan Wang, Andreas Kreisel, Peter Hirschfeld, Douglas Scalapino, "Spin fluctuation theory of pairing in AFe2As2" Talk in Session G37: Electronic Structure Methods II,(March 20, 2013), APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Peter Hirschfeld, Andreas Kreisel, Yan Wang, Milan Tomic, Harald Jeschke, Anthony Jacko, Roser Valenti, Thomas Maier, Douglas Scalapino, "Pressure dependence of critical temperature of bulk FeSe from spin fluctuation theory" Talk in Session G37: Electronic Structure Methods II (March 20, 2013), APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Markus Eisenbach, Junqi Yin, Don M. Nicholson, Ying Wai Li, "First principles calculation of finite temperature magnetism in Ni", Talk in Session C17: Magnetic Theory I (March 18, 2013), APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Madhusudan Ojha, Don M. Nicholson, Takeshi Egami, "Ab-initio atomic level stresses in Cu-Zr crystal, liquid and glass phases", Talk in Session G42: Focus Session: Physics of Glasses and Viscous Liquids I (March 19, 2013), APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
Junqi Yin, Markus Eisenbach, Don Nicholson, "Spin-lattice coupling in BCC iron", Talk in Session T39: Metals Alloys and Metallic Structures (March 21, 2013), APS National Meeting, Baltimore.
German Samolyuk, Yuri Osetsky, Roger Stoller, Don Nicholson, George Malcolm Stocks, "The modification of core structure and Peierls barrier of 1/2$<111>$ screw dislocation in bcc Fe in presence of Cr solute atoms", Talk in Session T39: Metals Alloys and Metallic Structures (March 21, 2013), APS National Meeting, Baltimore.


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Q: How to write Max(L)<1 without using MAX func in MATLAB I have an optimization problem which is solved with fmincon. In this problem I have a constraint that says every element of the vector L must be less than or equal to 1. So basicaly I can add this constraint like this
C=max(L)-1 ; % C(X)<0

But now I want to write the above constraint with out using Max function.
Any idea?

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every element of the vector L must be less than or equal to 1.

This should be written as a set of constraints, not a single constraint. Artificially bundling the constraints L(1)<=1, L(2)<=1, ... into one constraint is just going to cause more pain to the solver.
Example with linear constraints: minimizing -x(1)*x(2) subject to x(1)<=1 and x(2)<=1
fmincon(@(x) -x(1)*x(2), [0.5; 0.5], [1 0; 0 1], [1; 1])

(Here the simple form fmincon(fun,x0,A,b) is used.)
Example with nonlinear constraints: minimizing -x(1)*x(2) subject to x(1)^2+x(2)^2<=1 and x(1)+x(2)^2<=1
fmincon(@(x) -x(1)*x(2), [0.1; 0.1], [],[],[],[],[],[], @(x) deal([x(1)^2+x(2)^2-1; x(1)+x(2)^2-1],[]))

Here the form fmincon(fun,x0,A,b,Aeq,beq,lb,ub,nonlcon) is used, where nonlcon returns multiple inequality constraints and equality constraints. Specifically, the first output of the nonlinear constraint function is [x(1)^2+x(2)^2-1; x(1)+x(2)^2-1]; both of these are required to be <=0. The second output, nonlinear equality constraints, is an empty array.

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Q: Flask_SQLAlchemy modularization issues due ORM I am trying to build an API using Flask. For database actions I use flask_sqlalchemy.
In my main file, the flask app is initalized. I pass the resulting instance to another file where the configuration is set and to my database module that handles database operations.
main.py:
app = flask.Flask(__name__)  # initialize flask app

#initialize modules with app
config.init(app)
database.init(app)

The problem is, the relations I use in the database are in a seperate file and it needs the db object to declare the classes for ORM.
My idea was to declare db and initialize it later in an init function, but that doesn't work in this case, because the db object is undefined when the pythonfile is loaded by an import.
relations.py
db: SQLAlchemy

def init(db):
    Relations.db = db

class Series(db.Model):
    """Representation of a series
    """
    id = db.Column(db.String(255), primary_key=True)
    title = db.Column(db.String(255))

class User(db.Model):
    """Representation of a user
    """
    id = db.Column(db.INT, primary_key=True)
    name = db.Column(db.String(255))

class Subscription(db.Model):
    """Representation of a subscription
    """

    series_id = db.Column(db.INT, primary_key=True)
    user_id = db.Column(db.String(255), primary_key=True)

My database module uses the way and it works fine(init.py file):
db: SQLAlchemy

def init(app):
    database.db = SQLAlchemy(app)

# handle database operations...

One approach to solve the issue is just using another instance in the relations.py like that:
app = flask.Flask(__name__)
db = SQLAlchemy(app)

# declare classes...

I tried it out and it workes, but that is not a nice way to solve this and leads to other problems.
Importing it from main does also not work because of circular import.
I have no idea how to smoothly solve this without removing modularization. I would be thankful for any inputs. If I should add any further information, just let me know.

A: I would create the app variable in your main.py file but leave out the initializing part. From there you call a function from init.py to basically set up the database. That is what I did for my last flask project.
Main.py:
from init import create_app

app = create_app()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)

Init.py:
from flask import Flask
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy

db = SQLAlchemy()
DB_NAME = "database.db"

def create_app():
    app = Flask(__name__)
    app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = f'sqlite:///{DB_NAME}'
    db.init_app(app)

    create_database(app)

    #Other operations ...

    return app

Relations.py
from init import db

#all your classes ...

db.create_all()

So now you can import the db object to your relations.py file from the init.py.


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Bogusz ( ) is a Polish surname and place name. It is derived from Bogusław. The surname is found across Poland. It is related to the place name Bogusze and the surname Bohusz (featuring a 'g' → 'h' mutation which is more frequent south and east of Poland). Bogusz may refer to:
 Bogusz coat of arms
 Daniel Bogusz (born 1974), Polish footballer
 Ryszard Bogusz (born 1951), Polish theologian
 Mateusz Bogusz (born 2001), Polish footballer
 Matthew Bogusz (born 1986), mayor of Des Plaines, Illinois
 Place names
 Siedliska-Bogusz, in Poland

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Crowds fill NASA Kennedy Space Center's Banana River viewing site to see and record space shuttle Endeavour as it roars into space on the STS-127 mission on July 15, 2009.
Whether you've never seen a space shuttle launch before, or you've seen a hundred, now's the time to do it. Your last to chance to see NASA's iconic space plane blast off into space is coming up in just a few days.
On Friday, July 8, at11:26 a.m. EDT (1526 GMT), the space shuttle Atlantis will lift off on the 135th and final space shuttle flight ever. After that, NASA's three space shuttles will be retired to museums while NASA focuses on getting humans to Mars.
If you're thinking about viewing the launch in person from somewhere near NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., you're not alone. NASA officials have said they expect up to 750,000 spectators to watch the liftoff from the Space Coast area, though experts say the number will likely top 1 million.
NASA's STS-135 mission aboard Atlantis is a 12-day flight that will deliver supplies and spare parts to the International Space Station. After this mission, the space agency will retire its three-shuttle fleet for good to make way for a new program aimed at deep space exploration.
Picking a spot is the largest decision you've got to make. NASA sells a limited number of tickets to view the launch from either the NASA Causeway, about 6 miles (9.6 km) from the Atlantis' Launch Pad 39A, or from Kennedy Space Center's Visitor's Center. However, both sites have been sold out for weeks.
At the time of writing, tickets for the causeway were selling for upwards of $500, some for as much as $1,000, on eBay.
If you don't want to shell out that kind of money, there's good news. Great viewing spots abound on Florida's Space Coast, and they're free.
The town of Port Canaveral, a popular harbor for cruise ships, is also a good choice, affording largely unobstructed views.
"Titusville will always be the number one choice, and the second best is Port Canaveral because it's only about a mile farther and you can see the pad clearly from there," Cooper said. "Either way you're still talking about major parking issues."
Another good option for shuttle viewing is a spot along the coast in the nearby city of Cocoa Beach.
"You won't see the launch pad itself, but you'll see everything else," Cooper said. "I have no doubt the beach will be packed too," but its large size will mitigate some of the effects of the crowds, he said.
Your next major decision is when to show up. Clearly, the earlier the better.
"Definitely before the sun comes up," Cooper said. "If you want a front row spot ,you're going to want to get there nine to 12 hours out at least."
He predicted the bulk of the hordes would show up about five to seven hours before liftoff time, so just a few hours earlier should put you ahead of the crowd.
"There's no question some people will be staking out spots the night before," Cooper said.
With hours to kill before things get exciting, it's a good idea to bring snacks, games and books to keep yourself from going stir-crazy.
It's worth taking some time to think about what you want to do when the moment finally comes.
"Most important is to view the launch with your own eyes and not take too many pictures," Cooper recommended.
He advocated deciding ahead of time at what stages of the liftoff you'll snap pictures, and at what points you'll put the camera down and just take in the scene.
When you do snap the camera, be sure to capture some scenes of the crowd, as well as the rocket, and frame some shots with a tree or a pier in the foreground, Cooper suggested.
One final tip: If you can't make it to Cape Canaveral to watch Atlantis' final launch, NASA has a digital alternative. The space agency, as well as countless other media outlets, will broadcast the launch countdown and liftoff live on its NASA TV channel, which you can access by clicking here.


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Every Night the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence Are Lowered Into A Bomb-Proof Vault
Where do they keep the Charters of Freedom, which is the collective name for the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence, when these aren't on display at the National Archives building?
Answer: Underground in a bomb-proof vault.
According to Atlas Obscura, "Every night (and at the press of a button, should the need arise) a special elevator pulls them underground into a custom-built armored vault.
The original vault was built in 1953 by the Mosler Safe Company. The firm was the logical choice, having previously taken on notable achievements like the gold bullion vault at Fort Knox, and a bank vault in Hiroshima that survived an atomic bomb."
You can see the swift movement of the documents being lowered into the vault in this 1953 documentary:
The original vault was "replaced in the early 2000s... the current vault, designed by Diebold, is still shrouded in secrecy." When David Ferrier, Archivist of the United States at the National Archives, was asked by NY Mag's Dan Amira about the storage of these founding documents, and a plan to keep them safe in case of, say, a nuclear blast, Ferrier answered, "We do have a plan, BUT I'd have to kill you if I told you... security arrangements for the Charters are not public."
A 1990s TIME article, however, unveiled a doomsday plan that was put in place between 1979 and 1981—they stated that "though the National Archives building has a 55-ton steel-and-concrete vault on the premises, the scenario calls for the evacuation of these and other documents, probably by helicopter, to an underground facility, if there is adequate warning time."
You can visit the original Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States and Bill of Rights in The Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom, located on the upper level of the National Archives museum, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.


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«Несно́сные медве́ди» () — американский спортивный комедийный фильм Майкла Ритчи, снятый в 1976 году. В главных ролях снимались Уолтер Маттау, Татум О'Нил и Вик Морроу. Премьера фильма состоялась 7 апреля 1976 года.

Сюжет
Член городского совета и адвокат Боб Уайтвуд подаёт в суд на начальство Младшей бейсбольной лиги, поскольку некоторых детей, в том числе и его сына, по разным причинам в детские бейсбольные команды не принимают. Для того чтобы урегулировать этот иск лига позволяет создать новую команду, которая будет состоять из детей, которые не были приняты в другие команды. Боб Уайтвуд обращается за тренерской помощью к склонному к алкоголизму чистильщику бассейнов Моррису Баттермейкеру, который в прошлом профессионально занимался бейсболом.

Команда состоит из аутсайдеров. Баттермейкер же взялся за эту работу только ради денег. На тренировки он приходит пьяным, а детей тренирует спустя рукава. Первую свою игру «Медведи» проигрывают с разгромным счётом. Баттермейкеру даже приходится остановить игру раньше времени. Дети очень расстроены сложившейся ситуацией. Тренер видит, что команда безнадёжна. Он обращается за помощью к 11-летней Аманде Уорлитцер, которая приходится дочерью одной из его прошлых женщин. В прошлом, когда Баттермейкер встречался с её матерью, он учил Аманду играть в бейсбол и та стала хорошим питчером. Не сразу, но всё же Аманда соглашается помочь. Она становится единственной девочкой в команде. Через некоторое время «Медведи» принимают к себе и местного хулигана Келли Лика. После появления в команде двух хороших игроков «Медведи» начинают выигрывать одну игру за другой.

Детям, с одной стороны, нравится побеждать, но, с другой стороны, им не очень нравится, что вся игра строится только вокруг двух сильных игроков. Хотя Баттермейкер сам становится одержим победой в этом чемпионате, в финальной игре, перед последним иннингом, когда счёт на табло равный, он принимает решение выпустить на поле слабых игроков, которые обычно сидели на скамейке запасных. В последний момент «Медведи» проигрывают, но, тем не менее, дети довольны своей командной игрой.

В ролях
 Уолтер Маттау — Моррис Баттермейкер
 Татум О'Нил — Аманда Уорлитцер
 Вик Морроу — Рой Тёрнер
 Джойс Ван Паттен — Кливленд
 Бен Пьяцца — Боб Уайтвуд
 Джеки Эрл Хейли — Келли Лик
 Альфред Люттер — Альфред Огилви
 Крис Барнс — Таннер Бойл
 Эрин Блант — Ахмад Абдул Рахим
 Гари Ли Каванаро — Майк Энгельберг
 Джейм Эскобедо — Хосе Агилар
 Джордж Гонзалес — Мигель Агилар
 Скотт Файастоун — Реджи Тауэр
 Бретт Маркс — Джимми Фельдман
 Дэвид Поллок — Руди Стайн
 Куинн Смит — Тимми Лупус
 Дэвид Стамба — Тоби Уайтвуд
 Брэндон Круз — Джоуи Тёрнер

Рецензии
Фильм ждал успех. При бюджете в $9 млн он собрал в прокате $32 млн, по другим данным $42 млн. По сборам «Несносные медведи» обошли «Таксиста» Мартина Скорсезе, который вышел в этом же году. Отзывы от критиков также были благоприятными. На сайте Rotten Tomatoes у фильма 97 % «свежести» на основе 31 рецензии. На сайте Metacritic у фильма 83 балла из 100 на основе мнения 10 критиков.

Кинокритик Роджер Эберт похвалил фильм, поставив ему 3 звезды из 4. Он отметил, что фильм более глубокий, чем кажется на первый взгляд. В 2016 году журнал Rolling Stone назвал «Несносных медведей» величайшим бейсбольным фильмом из когда-либо снятых. По словам кинорежиссёра Квентина Тарантино «Несносные медведи» входит в топ-12 его любимых фильмов.

Награды и номинации
 1977 — Премия Гильдии сценаристов США
 1977 — Номинация на премию BAFTA
 Лучший актёр (Уолтер Маттау)

Продолжения
Поскольку фильм был успешен, продолжения не заставили себя долго ждать. В 1977 году вышел фильм «Несносные медведи в перерыве между тренировками», а в 1978 — «». Уолтер Маттау не принимал участие в съёмках этих фильмов, поэтому персонажа Морриса Баттермейкера в продолжениях нет. У детей появляется новый тренер. Такого же успеха, как первый фильм, продолжения не имели. В 1979 году канал CBS запустил телесериал «», который продержался 2 сезона. В 2005 году вышел ремейк оригинального фильма с Билли Бобом Торнтоном в роли тренера Морриса Баттермейкера.

Примечания

Ссылки

Фильмы на английском языке
Фильмы США 1976 года
Фильмы Майкла Ритчи
Кинокомедии США
Фильмы Paramount Pictures
Фильмы о бейсболе
Фильмы о Лос-Анджелесе


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