21 Interesting Facts About Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster | OhFact!
1. The Only Level 7 Nuclear Disaster!
Chernobyl nuclear disaster stands out as one of the only two disasters classified as level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The second is Fukushima Daiichi nuclear Disaster that occurred in 2011. The amount of radiation released was 100 times greater than that released in Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings.
2. A Big Secret to Hide!
The Ukrainian authorities kept the disaster hidden initially. It took them two days to admit that a reactor had exploded. Even the Soviet Union of which Ukraine was a part back then, had no clue about the accident.
It was not through the Soviet Union that the world came to know about the terrible accident at the Nuclear power plant of Chernobyl. It was when the radiation detector at Forsmark Nuclear power plant in Sweden (1100 km away) went off. Startled by the alarm, radiation levels were checked. When it was discovered there was nothing wrong at Forsmark plant they got a hint.
4. When the Hell Broke Loose!
After the reactor had exploded, hundreds of firefighters tried to stop the fire. Some 300 tones of water were being pumped every hour. Firefighters had to stop as there was a danger of flooding the reactors one and two. After the water couldn't stop the fire, 5000 tonnes of boron, clay, sand, dolomite, and lead were poured with the help of helicopters to stop the fire.
5. Even Lunokhod Couldn't Help!
In case you are wondering what Lunokhods are, they are unmanned lunar exploration robots which were deployed by the USSR to help clear away the debris from reactor explosion. The robots couldn't help and at the end, humans had to risk their lives.
There are two conflicting theories about the terrible accident. One places the blame on power plant operators and the other on the RBMK reactor design. Well, the complete truth is still a mystery.
The true victims were ironically the people inside the exclusion zone. The tragedy first fell on the firemen who were trying to control the fire from the reactor's explosion. These brave firemen didn't know what they were up against and were reported dead within a few days.
Approximately 600,000-800,000 emergency workers and firefighters came to the rescue from all over the Soviet Union. They toiled for 2 years to extinguish the fire, bury radioactive equipment, homes and storage facilities. They also hemmed in the radioactive material inside a 'sarcophagus' or tomb around the plant. Most of these people are now dead, disabled or have committed suicide.
In front of the fire station of Chernobyl, a monument was erected to honor the sacrifice of the brave firemen. Not enough in my opinion.
This horrendous incident had such a far-reaching impact that anyone could ever imagine. Not only it affected its neighboring country Belarus but spread all the way to Corsica Island. The radioactive cloud from the reactors explosion caused a lot of damage in many European countries too. There are places in Europe with radiation level much higher than that in the exclusion zone in Ukraine.
11. A Pepsi to Risk Your Life!
After the Chernobyl disaster site was cleaned up, the authorities ordered to hang a red flag atop of the chimney to mark the end of the clean-up operation. Due to high levels of radiation, the operation was too risky. Three men were forced to climb up the top to do the job and were rewarded a bottle of Pepsi- a luxury at those times and a day off.
In the year following the disaster, genetics and botanical experts noted that plants in the area had become victims of gigantism. The monster plants were removed by natural selection. Even the fishes which were found dead due to radiation exposure were abnormally large and flabby.
13. No Safety Measures for Liquidators!
Liquidators or the men from military reserves with experience in clean-up-operation and chemical protection units were called for cleaning up the site. There were no adequate uniforms for them to use in radioactive conditions. So, they had to tailor their own clothing. They made aprons covering the front and behind of their bodies with lead sheets measuring 2-4 mm thickness.
Only a few people know that after the reactor exploded in 1986, there was another explosion at Chernobyl on October 11, 1991, in the turbine hall reactor 2. The roof had blown out but luckily there was no radioactive leak.
Surprisingly, the plants cultivated in the irradiated zone of Chernobyl adapted within a single generation. The scientists grew Soybean on the irradiated zone and noted that these plants produced some protective proteins, including the one that helps protect human blood from radiation.
16. Not in 20,000 Years!
The director of Chernobyl power plant stated that the area is unfit to be inhabited for the next 20,000 years. But you can still book a trip to the exclusion zone for $250. Twisted, Isn't it?
17. Hemp is Grown to Remove Toxins!
In a process known as 'phytoremediation,' hemp was planted in Chernobyl to remove toxins from the soil. Also, there has been a fungus growing in the affected area that feeds on radiation.
Though the areas surrounding the plant were completely evacuated, some residents decided to re-settle (illegally). Among the 1200 people who returned most were older women. Only the re-settlers are permitted inside the exclusion zone on the permanent basis while the other people can stay inside for max 14 days.
Most people think that the reactors were shut down right after the explosion in 1986, but according to the United States Nuclear Regulation Commission, the remaining three reactors were restarted and finally went offline in 1999.
Though only 31 deaths were reported during the event, but most death happened much later due to radiation. More than 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer were eventually reported as a result of radiation exposure. Due to unsubstantiated fear of radiation poisoning, many doctors advised pregnant women to undergo the abortion to avoid bearing a child with the birth defect.
The region around the Chernobyl plant is now home to hundreds of wild animals like deer, wolves, beavers, eagles, boar, elk, bears, lynx, etc. The region has become world's most unique wildlife sanctuary.


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Library Act 1939
Legislation passed by the New South Wales Government on 2 November 1939 that aimed to encourage local governments to establish free public libraries for their citizens, including financial subsidies. Full proclamation of the Act was delayed until January 1944 due to World War II. The Library Board overseeing the establishment and running of the libraries was constituted in February, and public libraries were rapidly established around the state by councils adopting the Act.
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During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, about 140 schools of arts or mechanics' institutes were established in Sydney by volunteers. They were independent community organisations, assisted by a small government subsidy, and they thrived as centres of local community life. Today, their legacy in Sydney is more than just the surviving buildings. Out of these humble voluntary operations developed the local public library, the modern community or neighbourhood centre, and formal systems of adult and technical education.
Glebe School of Arts and Literary Institute
Founded on three separate occasions, Glebe School of Arts only became financially secure because of its billiard tables. By the mid-twentieth century, when new entertainments were becoming available, the school was again in trouble and passed its library and building to the City of Sydney council.
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Book Review: Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914
Morton, Frederic, Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914, Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1989.
Thunder at Twilight offers a detailed history – really almost an exposé – of the conditions of Viennese life that preceded the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which, as we all know, indirectly led to the First World War. The book is extraordinarily well-researched; the author even goes so far as to relay to us the weather on days of particular importance, and to describe which writers and operas were popular at the time. In other words, it creates a very large picture of Viennese society – a society on the verge of cataclysm – by revealing the minutest details of everyday life in a city in turmoil, and, by extension, a Europe in turmoil.
What's particularly interesting and most unique about this book is the way it examines its chosen moment in history by tracing the thoughts and interactions of a variety of important figures of its time. Thus not only are we offered insight into the life of Emperor Franz Joseph, and of the Archduke's eventual assassins, but also of Adolf Hitler, who was then residing in Vienna as an unknown painter, and Leon Trotsky, who had made of Vienna a temporary home, and even Josef Stalin, who visited the city during these crucial years. Even the story of Sigmund Freud is deftly interwoven into this fascinating mix of individual histories, thus providing a perspective on the psychoanalytical as well as the political thought of the that era.
It is perhaps because of this unusual presentation that Morton manages to strike us with particularly fresh observations on the very essence of Viennese life. He remarks, for example, that Freud's theory of the id-ego-superego parallels the structure of the old Viennese government. By focusing on slights on the Archduke's wife, a mere Duchess who is not permitted royal privileges in accord with the aristocratic distinctions of the time, he effectively illustrates the rigidity of the turn-of-the-century Viennese class system. He notes the power and prevalence of "thunderbolt" imagery in contemporary politics, and imagines the storm that follows as a means of clearing away the stifling air of industrialization. And, ultimately, he concludes that the Great War was a reaction, not to the political assassination alone, but to the changes effected by modernization; to "progress unmoored from God." Thus he departs somewhat from the oft-heard presumption that World War I was a result of rabid European nationalism; rather he claims that this nationalism was engendered by a vague and even continent-wide dissatisfaction of the people of Europe with their economic and social lives.
All in all, it's a fascinating book, and well worth the read. I did find the style of writing a bit cheesy at times, and the characterizations of Vienna (of which Morton is a native) occasionally a little harsh. But it also lends a wonderful reality to one's perception of the situation in Europe a hundred years ago, a climate that resulted in the worst war the world had then known. By looking at the years 1913/1914 through Viennese eyes, the reader can clearly see, can even possibly hope to analyze, the events, both direct and indirect, that led to that war. And this is perhaps the first step towards an understanding of the genesis of all wars.
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Q: Convert SQL query to LINQ or lambda expression in C# and use in EF Core I have 3 table
Tbl_City , Tbl_GroupCities , Tbl_CtrCar .
I want to convert this SQL query to LINQ or lambda expression in C#
declare @fk_group uniqueidentifier
SELECT @fk_group= FK_Group
FROM dbo.Tbl_User
WHERE UserName='meysam'

SELECT dbo.Tbl_City.ID_City, dbo.Tbl_City.Name_City,COUNT( dbo.Tbl_CtrCar.Cur_year)
FROM dbo.Tbl_City
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WHERE ID_City IN (SELECT FK_City
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GROUP BY ID_City , Name_City

I try it but it's not work
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    var sample2 =
        (from x in _TblCity
         join a in _TblGroupCities on x.IdCity equals a.FkCity
         where a.Active == true && a.IdGroup == model.FkGroup
         select new
         {
             x.IdCity,
             x.NameCity
         }).ToList();

A: Please take a look here the features you have in your query are not yet implemented. GroupBy and i think also subselects will do an
SELECT * FROM TableName

And in memory it will do the group by or even for each row a new SQL query.
Better to use the RawSql method for this purpose.
But if you realy want to learn LINQ and convert your SQL take a look at LINQPad

A: This issue is done. I found my problem, I don't Understand use two joins and use group by in Linq
I use this linq for the solution and run
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        var q = _TblGroupCities.Where(x => x.IdGroup == model.FkGroup && x.Active == true);
        tblCityViewModel = new List<MohasebKhodro.ViewModels.TblCityViewModel>();

        var sample2 =
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             where a.Active == true && a.IdGroup == model.FkGroup
             select new
             {
                 x.IdCity,
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             }).ToList();

        foreach (var item in sample2)
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            var er = _TblCtrCar.Where(x => x.FkCity == item.IdCity).Max(x => x.CurYear);
            tblCityViewModel.Add(new MohasebKhodro.ViewModels.TblCityViewModel
            {
                IdCity = item.IdCity,
                NameCity = item.NameCity,
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Beyond the Falls: What to do after you've visited Victoria Falls
From the World Heritage Listed sites to the Whawha beer, Zimbabwe offers rich rewards to adventurous travellers
If a visit to Zimbabwe's iconic Victoria Falls is on your must-do list, why not take time to explore more of this fascinating country while you're there?
Take in another four UNESCO World Heritage-listed sites
It may be the most famous, but Victoria Falls is not the only World Heritage Listed Site in Zimbabwe. The country is home to a total of five sites, including both natural and cultural treasures, with two more currently under consideration for nomination (Naletale Cluster of Dzimbabwes and Ziwa National Monument).
Mana Pools National Park and the Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas in northern Zimbabwe encompasses a flood plain of more than 675 hectares in and around Zambezi River, and attracts hippopotamus, crocodiles, zebras, elephants, lions, leopards and more. Self-drive the national park or opt for a guided tour. Safari tours are also available in Sapi with more limited options for visiting Chewore.
If you're fascinated by early human history, 35 kms south of Zimbabwe's second-largest city, Bulawayo, is the Matobo Hills, a natural formation of granite that is home to a collection of rock art estimated to be around 13,000 years old. Extraordinarily well preserved, it provides an insight into Stone Age life and offers the highest concentration of rock art in Southern Africa.
Near Masvingo in south-eastern Zimbabwe is The Great Zimbabwe National Monument, the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, a city built between 1100 and 1450 AD. Said to be the home of the Queen of Sheba, three sites within the Monument are the ruins of settlements created by the Bantu/Shona people. You can immerse yourself in earlier civilisations at The Khami Ruins National Monument near Bulawayo. Established in the 1600s, remains were found on the site of the old city revealing an established trading relationship between Europe and China.
Check out the capital
Named Salisbury in 1890 by Cecil Rhodes and his Pioneer Column, the name of Zimbabwe's capital was changed to Harare in 1982, two years after the country achieved independence. And while the city has had its share of troubles, it's safe to visit provided you take the usual precautions. Harare is a university town and the centre of Zimbabwe's political, social, and cultural life. It's lively yet laidback and has an ideal sub-tropical climate (once voted the world's best), pretty Jacaranda-lined streets and plenty of things for visitors to do.
The Museum of Human Sciences (formerly Queen Victoria Museum) is a Harare must-visit and a great way to prep for a visit to either of the national monuments (see above). Including Stone Age and Iron Age exhibits, it also focuses on Zimbabwe's people and culture, offering a fascinating insight into the country's ancient past.
The peaceful National Botanic Gardens showcase Zimbabwe's indigenous woodland plants, rare and endangered African species and exotic plants from Australia, South America, India, and Asia across almost 7 sq km. Pack a picnic or stop for lunch at the restaurant. Bike hire is available if you want to explore on two wheels.
A taste of Zimbabwe
Think sun-dried salted meat (biltong), tiny sun-dried fish, and staples such as papaya, sweetcorn, pumpkins and peanuts. Sadza, a thick cornmeal porridge, is the national dish and is usually served with meat or vegetables. Get out of your comfort zone by trying Mopane worms, a high protein food, usually dried or fried, and sometimes added to stews. Polish off your meal with Whawha, a local maize beer. In Harare, try Garwe or Dzimbahwe for local specialities or Amanzi for African/European fusion cuisine.
One of the benign legacies of Zimbabwe's British colonial heritage is a strong fondness for tea. High Tea is a speciality of many Zimbabwe hotels and is often served al fresco on safari. In Harare Dutch, Portuguese and European restaurants reflect the country's long history of trade and the influence of colonisation throughout Africa.
Take home a little piece of Zimbabwe
If you're keen to find the perfect Zimbabwe souvenir make sure the Doon Estate in Msasa, Harare is on your itinerary. It's a complex of galleries featuring local art, arts and crafts including sculpture, textiles, pottery, and leatherwork, and cafe's featuring local food and Zimbabwean coffee. Kiki's gallery in Umwinsidale, home to many of Harare's creative community, features local art, jewellery, leather, furniture, and decor. Pick up local and African music at Cultural Vibes and at the daily cheap and cheerful Avondale fleamarket, browse second-hand clothes, music and local crafts. If nabbing a beautiful piece of Zimbabwean art or craft is your goal, the city's National Handicraft Centre offers affordable, handmade works from artisans across the country, just be sure to check the relevant customs information to make sure your purchase complies with the law.
Snapshot: Matobo National Park
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Snapshot: Hwange National Park
A first timer's guide to Zimbabwe
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Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo urge removal of tariffs on gaming consoles in rare show of unity
Iris Deng
Gaming giants Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have penned a joint letter to the Trump Administration urging the removal of console games from a list of new products that may be subject to import tariffs if the trade war between the US and China escalates.Console game consumers would pay US$840 million more as a result of the US government's proposed tariffs, which would cause a net US$350 million loss for the economy, the companies said in a public statement dated June 17 and submitted to the US government.The tariffs would also harm the industry including console game manufacturers, developers and retailers, put jobs at risk and stifle innovation in the industry, according to the three console game giants, who compete as fierce rivals in the gaming market."While we appreciate the Administration's efforts to protect US intellectual property and preserve US high-tech leadership, the disproportionate harm caused by these tariffs to US consumers and businesses will undermine – not advance – these goals," the statement said.The companies pointed out that over 96 per cent of video game consoles imported into the US were made in China. Big investors still shorting Nintendo despite China prospectsThe Trump Administration had threatened to slap new duties of up to 25 per cent on an additional US$300 billion of Chinese imports in a prolonged trade war between the world's biggest economies. However, the US and China have agreed to a trade war truce and talks will resume aimed at resolving outstanding issues by the end of the year, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the situation.More than 300 representatives from industries that would be hit by the proposed new tariffs have testified before an inter-agency committee over the past week, while close to 3,000 additional written comments have been filed to the office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) from companies, including Apple and Fitbit.Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft are the world's three biggest console game manufacturers, collectively selling more than 15 million video game consoles in the US last year.China's social media this week was buzzing with surprise at the rare show of solidarity among the three fierce console rivals, calling it a "historical moment". On Weibo, China's Twitter-like social platform, the topic had been read more than 50 million times with nearly 20,000 posts published on Thursday morning.Others poked fun at Trump's ability to unite people. "It's something the gaming industry has failed to accomplish for decades, and [Trump] made it happen," Weibo user Zhuanye Chuoluntai Xionglvshi wrote."I never expected to see a joint statement from these three companies in my lifetime, but sure enough, the great unity of the people of the world depends on President Trump," another Weibo user Zhang Yian wrote.Nintendo is partnering with Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings, the world's biggest game publisher by revenue, to enter the heavily regulated gaming market in China. In April Tencent was given permission to distribute Nintendo's New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe game, according to an announcement on the website of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism.More from South China Morning Post: * Nintendo's surge on China entry prospects has not deterred short bets by hedge funds * Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo face uncertain future, with online games like Fortnite earning billions of dollars * Tencent set for a rebound in 2019 as hit game Peacekeeper Elite expected to rake in US$1 billionThis article Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo urge removal of tariffs on gaming consoles in rare show of unity first appeared on South China Morning PostFor the latest news from the South China Morning Post download our mobile app. Copyright 2019.
Gaming giants Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have penned a joint letter to the Trump Administration urging the removal of console games from a list of new products that may be subject to import tariffs if the trade war between the US and China escalates.
Console game consumers would pay US$840 million more as a result of the US government's proposed tariffs, which would cause a net US$350 million loss for the economy, the companies said in a public statement dated June 17 and submitted to the US government.
The tariffs would also harm the industry including console game manufacturers, developers and retailers, put jobs at risk and stifle innovation in the industry, according to the three console game giants, who compete as fierce rivals in the gaming market.
"While we appreciate the Administration's efforts to protect US intellectual property and preserve US high-tech leadership, the disproportionate harm caused by these tariffs to US consumers and businesses will undermine – not advance – these goals," the statement said.
The companies pointed out that over 96 per cent of video game consoles imported into the US were made in China.
Big investors still shorting Nintendo despite China prospects
The Trump Administration had threatened to slap new duties of up to 25 per cent on an additional US$300 billion of Chinese imports in a prolonged trade war between the world's biggest economies. However, the US and China have agreed to a trade war truce and talks will resume aimed at resolving outstanding issues by the end of the year, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the situation.
More than 300 representatives from industries that would be hit by the proposed new tariffs have testified before an inter-agency committee over the past week, while close to 3,000 additional written comments have been filed to the office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) from companies, including Apple and Fitbit.
Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft are the world's three biggest console game manufacturers, collectively selling more than 15 million video game consoles in the US last year.
China's social media this week was buzzing with surprise at the rare show of solidarity among the three fierce console rivals, calling it a "historical moment". On Weibo, China's Twitter-like social platform, the topic had been read more than 50 million times with nearly 20,000 posts published on Thursday morning.
Others poked fun at Trump's ability to unite people. "It's something the gaming industry has failed to accomplish for decades, and [Trump] made it happen," Weibo user Zhuanye Chuoluntai Xionglvshi wrote.
"I never expected to see a joint statement from these three companies in my lifetime, but sure enough, the great unity of the people of the world depends on President Trump," another Weibo user Zhang Yian wrote.
Nintendo is partnering with Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings, the world's biggest game publisher by revenue, to enter the heavily regulated gaming market in China. In April Tencent was given permission to distribute Nintendo's New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe game, according to an announcement on the website of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism.
Nintendo's surge on China entry prospects has not deterred short bets by hedge funds
Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo face uncertain future, with online games like Fortnite earning billions of dollars
Tencent set for a rebound in 2019 as hit game Peacekeeper Elite expected to rake in US$1 billion
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Devin Dabney is busy. In addition to route-setting and periodically helping to coach the youth climbing teams at Indianapolis' Hoosier Heights, he gives private lessons to gym patrons and is hard at work on a training book. He also loves to MoonBoard—so much so that he regularly takes over Hoosier Heights' Instagram page for a popular campaign labeled #moonboardmondays. But it all coalesces into a larger personal objective for Dabney, which is to get people—young or old, novice or long-time dirtbag—increasingly stoked on climbing. And the aim is not confined to the indoors. Dabney makes frequent trips to Red River Gorge, the hotspot that first got him hooked on the sport years ago, and recently returned from bouldering in Fontainebleau.
Yet climbing is only part of Dabney's story; much of the praise and interest he receives—from fans, from fellow climbers—revolves more so around his music. Dabney is a hip-hop artist in the truest sense: He creates beats, he samples tracks, he writes lyrics, and most importantly, he crafts a wholly unique persona through his songs. The fact that so much of that identity—and lyrical content—actually has to do with climbing means that Dabney authentically unites niches that rarely come together so overtly. Consider that his most recent album, a mixtape collection of "B-Sides" titled, Tape.CLIMB.Perfect.Repeat, contains track titles like, Boulders on the Boards and Damn, It Feels Good To Be a Climber. The mixtape's cover art features a pair of hands, ragged in their post-send throb, calloused and coated in chalk. Amid all the climbing anecdotes, the ubiquitous swagger of hip-hop is always paramount in Dabney's tunes: "We actin' so reckless, sends on a checklist, a chain of Neutrinos—my Black Diamond necklace," he raps on V4.
In fact, it's challenging to accurately define Dabney's music for those who might be unfamiliar with his work. He cites Drake and Kanye West as key influences, and parallels can certainly be heard. But neither Drake nor West have ever toted such hefty toolboxes of monothematic references the way Dabney does with climbing. How, then, should one describe Dabney's lyrics? Well, imagine RZA referencing boulders and beta instead of swords and samurais. Maybe? Or think of Eminem being fixated on climbing gear instead of family drama. Maybe?
Admittedly, such iffy comparisons don't do justice to the uniqueness of Dabney's work. It's better just to say that he's carving out a thing that is entirely his own. And that's what makes his craft so damn compelling.
You've said previously that you truly fell in love with climbing upon traveling to Red River Gorge. What was it about climbing, and that specific place, that hooked you?
Ultimately, I think there were several major reasons. For one, sport climbing outside helped me experience this amazing emotional balance between confidence and fear, between pure adrenaline and pure calm. I had discovered a sport that challenged me in ways no other sport had before, or ever could really. Another thing that drew me to it was how fun it was, even though so much can (and does) go wrong. In addition to the constant failing I was experiencing before coming outside, some would call my first trip outside a disaster—especially for a new climber. It rained a lot, we got miserably lost on an approach for hours, we hangdogged a lot of miserably hard things, and we did some pretty sketchy/scary things that I won't go into detail over. That all being said, it was a freaking blast, and I loved every minute of it. I couldn't wait to get outside again. Also, I still have yet to find something that matches the feeling of being atop a sport route, cleaning off gear while listening to the birds chirp and admiring the scenery.
Do you consider yourself to be a climber first, and then an artist? Or is it the other way around?
That's a tough question. Honestly, my first reaction is to say I'm an artist first because I've been an artist in some capacity for as long as I can remember. However, rock climbing is less of a hobby for me and more of a lifestyle. My job is in the climbing industry, my free time is spent climbing, and as of recently, my other most important passion—music—has revolved around climbing. The creative energy that fuels my drive to make music is the same thing that fuels my drive to climb, so as a result, those ideas are pretty much inseparable. I guess if I were hanging with a group of climbers, I would identify as a climber who is an artist, but if I were hanging with artists, I'd call myself an artist who is a climber—so I guess that means my real answer is "neither". I'm a climber first and an artist first.
Tell me the story of when you first realized you could blend your love of hip-hop with your love of climbing.
That was when I consciously decided to make the first mixtape—Tape.CLIMB.Repeat—but there was a lot leading up to that point. At that time, I was very disillusioned with hip-hop. Ever since I started rapping in my pre-teens, I wanted nothing more than to be the person who changed hip-hop for the better, being inspired by a hip-hop world that (at the time) worshipped unskilled gangster rappers and looked down upon the likes of Kanye West, who was my favorite rapper after he dropped his debut album. But I sadly realized that in this current age of hip-hop, my goal was an obsolete one, so I had actually stopped making music for a couple of years.
In the meantime, I was getting more into climbing—particularly route-setting—and while setting, our crew would jokingly make climbing-related lyrics to rap songs, and they knew I was a rapper, so they would always coax me to make them into real songs. So one night, I finally made a rough draft of one of the songs—good crimps, m.A.A.d. techy—which inspired me to make drafts of Dirt Off Your Boulder and one or two more songs, and I would sometimes show them to my climbing friends. My friends lost it over those songs! They kept telling me I had to make a mixtape, and I don't think I started making it until about two years after that, and that was because I had so many ideas come from the same evolution of joking around with friends and coworkers.
Almost every song on that first project were results of good-spirited fun amongst friends and positive energy, which is why Tape.CLIMB.Repeat is so special to me—and the fact that I was having so much fun doing raps about climbing (as opposed to banging my head against the wall trying to save hip-hop) is what made the thought click that I should keep doing this "climber rap" thing for a while.
One of your new tracks, No [Boulder] Problem, features Kris "Odub" Hampton (currently the host of The Power Company podcast). He has also found success populating his hip-hop with climbing content over the years. Would you mind telling me how you first met Kris, and whether your journey of navigating the waters of climbing and hip-hop has been aided by him at all?
Absolutely! My first time meeting Kris Hampton wasn't one of my brighter moments because I didn't even recognize him. I knew who he was because some climber friends had shown me his music when I first started working at Hoosier Heights, but I had never seen his face before. He came to the gym to do an Evolv demo, and I did end up talking to him, but it wasn't until after I first met him that I realized who he was. I felt ridiculous, but I did end up getting his email, and I kept corresponding with him, which is how I learned about all of the other amazing stuff he's done in his career. Needless to say, he is my biggest professional inspiration, and my dream career in rock climbing would be really similar to what he does now; personal training, interviewing pros and climbing experts, doing clinics and demos around the country, working with USAC, being a rapper, the list goes on!
In addition to showing me that I wasn't alone in the climbing hip-hop world, Kris has undoubtedly been a mentor to me, and is one of the people I look to when I need help with something climbing-related or music-related. And since those are my two biggest passions in life, he's definitely a pretty big deal to me. I'm honored to know him and be able to have him work with me on my projects.
Walk me through the process of writing a new song. How does it get from an idea, or just a concept, to the end recording?
Most of my songs come from overarching concepts. I'm very much a "big-picture" kind of artist, so I rarely come up with individual songs. I usually create an album idea, then a hypothetical track list with concepts for each track, and then try to zoom in on the details more and more to get the song ideas, lyrics, and so on. I also have a huge notebook full of clever lines, cool rhyme schemes, song ideas or punch lines that I sometimes pull from. Occasionally, I get lucky with a massive wave of inspiration, and certain songs/beats will practically write themselves; sadly, that never happens when I want it to.
The timetable for how long they take depends on a lot; how complex the song is, how much production I need to do, how many takes I need to get my vocals right, etc. To give you a frame of reference, some songs on the B-Side mixtape took me several days from start to finish, whereas some songs only took me an hour. It's relatively unpredictable.
How has your sound and style evolved over the years? Particularly, how are the new B-Sides different from, say, the original Tape.CLIMB.Repeat tunes?
I think I've changed a lot over the entirety of my time making music. I've shifted from trying to make music that proved I was the best technical (and clever) rapper out there to being more of a storyteller, though I still like chances to flex my rapping skills. Though, in terms of climbing rap, I think it's the opposite; originally, I was just telling stories about myself and the lifestyle I lead. But as my music progresses, I think I'm aiming to create songs made for people in certain scenarios, or to elicit certain feelings—things like confidence, focus, frustration, love, etc. I also think that by doing these mixtapes, my rapping style has changed significantly, as I've learned a lot from parodying raps of many styles, tempos and moods. It definitely has made me feel like I've improved at what I do.
In a number of your songs, there's a very obvious degree of swagger ("My beta's right…my way's the best…" from Boulders on the Boards etc). Frankly, I find it refreshing to hear that kind of self-assuredness related to climbing—because climbers so often psyche themselves out too much. So often they say stuff like, "This problem looks too hard," or "This route is above my grade." So, a question arises:Aare climbers—as a whole—too humble? Does climbing need more swagger?
That's one of my favorite topics to talk about in climbing! In general, yes—I believe that far too many climbers don't see their own potential, and could certainly use more confidence. I've especially seen this during my time as a climbing instructor, where almost everyone that I've worked with is much better at climbing than they think, or in some cases, better than they allow themselves to be. We're in an era where we're constantly bombarded with news of the latest groundbreaking send, some badass death-defying expedition, or the championing of some high-powered competition. So when you pair all of that with expectations, ego and friends to compare ourselves to, I think it's really hard to see our own potential. For me, I think it's much easier to believe that I'm weaker than I really am because it makes me less accountable when I don't achieve my goals, and I think that's partly why in my music, I exude a ridiculous amount of confidence—in the hopes that it will translate into my personal life. I'm basically trying to rap my swagger into existence.
All that being said, there are certainly quite a few people in climbing I've come across who do not need more swagger because they have far too much.
As an artist, you have an automatic degree of influence. Your content is getting downloaded and listened to by climbers all over the country, most of whom you've never met. Is there something, in particular, that you hope people take from your music?
I want nothing more than for my music to positively impact people, climbers specifically in this case. I want to encourage them to live life fully, and to find all of the great things in climbing that I've been lucky to find; things like strong friendships, a passion that connects you with the world, and a strong community that will embrace you wherever you find it. I want to show people that you can be confident in yourself, while still being humble and open to learning from others. But most importantly, I want to show people that it's okay to unapologetically be who you are, no matter how weird that is. And we all know how weird rock climbers are.
You can find all of Dabney's music here.
You can follow Dabney on Instagram here.
A writer, traveler, and professor. He is the author of a book, Why We Climb: A Dirtbag's Quest for Vertical Reason.


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Souhan: Kirk Cousins, the Vikings' 'Captain Quirk,' confounds with up-and-down play
Minnesota's quarterback chameleon again showed flashes of the brilliant and the bizarre in Vikings' nearly blown win over Pittsburgh.
Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins threw under pressure in the first quarter of Thursday night's victory over Pittsburgh at U.S. Bank Stadium. Anthony Soufflé / Star Tribune
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By Jim Souhan / Minneapolis Star Tribune
MINNEAPOLIS — If the NFL were more logical and less rule-bound, Kirk Cousins would have hurriedly dressed in the Vikings locker room late Thursday night, then sprinted to catch the Pittsburgh Steelers' flight home.
Ben Roethlisberger, the battered Steelers quarterback, could have limped off into the sunset having nearly engineered the largest comeback in NFL regular-season history, and Cousins would have given the Steelers a younger, healthier quarterback for the present and future, one in the midst of the best season of his career.
The NFL would not allow that, so the Steelers or a team like them will have to wait a few months to drape Cousins in new colors.
Cousins, the quarterback chameleon, played situationally camouflaged football again on Thursday night, alternating brilliant throws and bizarre moments as if it were his job alone to keep you tuned in past the hour of rational thought and personal responsibility.
This season has descended into farce and Cousins is the guy in the writer's room with the half-empty bottle of whiskey in his bottom desk drawer who wants to see how much his editors will let him get away with.
His long touchdown pass to K.J. Osborn was the kind of stunning, clutch play big-time quarterbacks make, and was made essential by Cousins' two logic-defying interceptions and his leadership of a team that seems to need new leadership.
Thanks in part to Cousins, the Vikings almost, in a five-day span, lost to the previously winless Detroit Lions and blew a 29-point lead at home. Had they lost Thursday, the Wilfs might have had little choice but to fire coach Mike Zimmer on Friday morning, just to demonstrate that they have standards.
Instead, Cousins made just enough good plays that he remains at the helm of a "playoff contender," which, this season, is as impressive as being labeled a "valued customer" at a drive-through coffee shop.
Evaluating NFL quarterbacks is difficult. Jimmy Garappolo almost won a Super Bowl and his team can't wait to replace him. Roethlisberger on Thursday looked like he was on his way to a rocking chair or wheelchair — maybe a rocking wheelchair? — before rallying his team for 28 points in 18 minutes.
Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson are experiencing relative struggles; Tua Tagovailoa and Taylor Heinicke are spearheading winning streaks.
So what should we make of Cousins at this crucial juncture of his Vikings tenure?
In the first 10 games of the season, Kirk Cousins threw two interceptions. In the past three games, he has thrown three.
On Nov. 14 and 21, he squared off with two of the NFL's most talented quarterbacks: young gun Justin Herbert and old hand Aaron Rodgers. He played exceptionally well in leading the Vikings to consecutive victories.
In the three games since, he has turned in a mediocre performance in a decisive loss to the 49ers, produced an excellent stat line while losing to the Lions and played his worst game in 14 months against the Steelers.
Thursday, he completed only 14 of 31 passes against a bad defense whose best player, T.J. Watt, left the game in the first half because of an injury.
The sky might not be falling, but it is sagging. Through 11 weeks of the NFL season, Cousins was building the best statistical profile of his career. The past three weeks, he has reverted to Captain Quirk, the talented passer who too often turns into a short-circuiting robot.
Remember: Cousins ruined the 2020 season with a series of key interceptions that led directly to the Vikings' 1-5 start. Then Cousins corrected course. After throwing 10 interceptions in the first six games, he threw three interceptions the next 10.This year, Cousins continued that trend, throwing just those two picks in the first 10 games — meaning he had thrown just five interceptions over a 20-game span, a remarkable achievement.
Now he's back to being Captain Quirk, possessor of arm talent and harmfully dramatic inclinations.
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As of Sunday afternoon, the Wild (27-17-4, 58 points) are just clear of the Colorado Avalanche for the final playoff spot in the Central Division.
By Dane Mizutani / St. Paul Pioneer Press
In a rematch of the 2021 French Open final, Djokovic swept to a 6-3 7-6(4) 7-6(5) victory at Rod Laver Arena to reclaim the world No. 1 ranking.
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Wild close out Hockey Day Minnesota with shootout win over Sabres
Mats Zuccarello, Kirill Kaprizov, and Freddy Gaudreau all converted in the shootout, while Marc-Andre Fleury made a big save that proved to be the difference


So it seems like I took an unplanned break from this blog. But today I pulled my camera out again and made a visit to Crestwick Island, an inviting sim that combines an interesting town to explore with scenic park and marsh land outside of the town. When you arrive you land in the town itself, and the greeter advises you to use the region windlight and up your draw distance and so on. You can also join the group, which is free. I explored the town first, I liked the record shop and the cafe a lot. The town was busy with visitors, people browsing in the shops or sitting taking refreshments. Then I skated along the road, under the bridge and up the hill path, which was pretty fun to do on my board. At the top there are viewing platforms where you can look out over the town. Then I went back down the steps on the other side of the hill and spent some time exploring the natural spots on the lower ground, and took a seat in a pretty spot by the water. I like a lot sims that are built on so many levels like this one, and I like this place in particular because of the really nice combination of town and countryside. There is a lot more to see than in my few pictures and I recommend a visit here.
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Highlights From Christie's Dubai Middle Eastern, Modern and Contemporary Art Auction
|In Reviews
|By Sama Shahrouri
DUBAI- Christie's Dubai Middle Eastern Modern and Contemporary Art auction took place on March 23, and offered a selection of paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs and drawings by leading artists. The auction featured works by the likes of Paul Guiragossian, Adam Henein, Etel Adnan, Marwan, Hussein Madi and Reza Aramesh.
Our artmejo contributor Felix Goodman met up with Suzy Sikorski, Junior Art Specialist at Christie's and the founder of mideasart in Dubai and talked to her about all things art. Sikorski shared with artmejo highlight pieces showcased at the sale and some background details on the artists behind them. You can watch the takeover on Instagram here.
Abdelrahman Katanani, Boy and Girl on Total Oil Barrel:
Estimated price: $12,000-15,000
Price realised: $18,750
Corrugated steel and aluminum screws and crushed oil barrel on wood panel, 130x90cm, 2018
This playful work by Palestinian artist Abdelrahman Katanani is created from objects found in refugee camps. The artist grew up as a refugee in the Sabra and Shatila camp, and from his early childhood showcased an interest in creating art from found objects. Katanani uses utensils, old rags, cardboards and tins as his art materials.
Hussain Sharif, Untitled Abstract Work:
Estimated price: $3,000-$4,000
Price realised: $6,250
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 100x80cm, 2018
Hussain Sharif is a pioneer Emirati artist who experiments with different media in his body of work. He was one fifth of the Emirati art collective Group Khamsa which was formed in the 1980's and included fellow artists Mohammed Kazem, Mohammad Ahmad Ibrahim, Abdullah Al Saadi and his brother, Hassan Sharif.
Hassan Meer, The Gray Garden:
Estimated price:$3,000-$4,000
Oil on Canvas, 125x160cm, 2011
Hassan Meer is an Omani artist who explores the individualistic identity in a collective experience. He is the director of the Mascat-based Stal Art Gallery, and is known to organize and curate contemporary art shows in Oman. Meer infuses his work with different symbols of death and morality that he borrows from different cultures.
Gazbia Sirry, Untitled:
Estimated price: $25,000-$30,000
Oil and Ink on Canvas, 96,50cm, 1970
This untitled work by Egyptian artist Gazbia Sirry comes from the private collection of Mr. Zgmunt Zajdler, who organized a solo show in 1970 for the artist in his London gallery, Zaydler Gallery. The authentication of this work is further documented in the findings of a handwritten letter the artist authored in 1970 to Mr. Zajdler about her upcoming show. The work has a strikingly unique composition depicting the Egyptian capital by the Nile in a mirror-like image with a spiraling and cloudy presence centering the vertical canvas.
Mamdouh Kashlan, A Rural Wedding:
Estimated price: $18,000–$25,000
With 300 exhibitions under his belt, Syrian artist Mamdouh Kashlan is the oldest living artist of his generation. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome between 1952 and 1957 and along with fellow Syrian artists Mahmoud Jalal and Mahmoud Hammad. Kashlan is referred to as the artist of the people due to the recurring theme of depicting ordinary life in his work.
Willy Aractingi, Clair de Lune sur les Pyramides:
Oil on Canvas, 80x100cm, 1988
A parfumier by profession, Willy Aractingi is a self-taught artist who is best known to depict dreamlike landscapes inhabited by animals in vivid colours. The artist who passed away in 2003 spent his artistic career drawing inspiration from classical and traditional literature including Jean de la Fontaine's fables and the love story of Abla and Antar. In 2017, the artist's family donated 224 oil paintings to the Sursock Museum each depicting one of de la Fontaine's fables. The artist worked on this series between 1989 and 1995.
Yvette Achkar, Untitled:
Estimated price: $80,000–$120,000
Price realised: $125,000
One of seven women artists represented at the sale, Yvette Achkar is a highlighted Lebanese abstract artist who taught visual arts at the Lebanese University from 1966-1988. This untitled work by Achkar is also the sale's catalogue cover art and comes from the prestigious Al Mokbel art collection along with two other works by Paul Gargoussian and Willy Aractingi.
Marwan, Heads:
Estimated price: $200,000–$300,000
Oil on Canvas, 225x300cm, 1978-80, Oil on Canvas, 195.4×130.2cm, 2009, Oil on Canvas, 195x162cm, 2011-2012 (respectively)
The sale offered three large-scale Marwan paintings covering over three decades of the artist's six decade career. Marwan is considered the most celebrated Syrian artist. He lived in exile in Germany from 1957 until his passing in 2016. The artist was well known for his Expressionistic style of merging his Middle Eastern background with Western artistic techniques. The Syrian master was widely known to produce large-scale paintings depicting faces, or indications of thereof, dubbing his work 'face landscapes'.
Ramsès Younan, Contre Le Mur:
Estimated price: $100,00-$150,000
Oil on Canvas, 37×47.4cm, 1944
The extremely rare oil painting from Ramsès Younan, Contre Le Mur, was the auction's grand highlight. Realising more than triple its lowest estimate, the work comes from the artist's estate and from Younan's surrealist phase. It is a pivotal work in Younan's career showcasing the final stages of his figurative phase and the beginnings of his abstract years. Younan is a founding member of the Egyptian Art and Freedom society and was outspoken about Egyptian surrealism amidst the rise of Nationalism and Fascism in the region.
References are from the Christie's Middle Eastern, Modern and Contemporary Art March 2019 Auction Catalogue.
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Sama Shahrouri
I am an emerging artist based in Amman-Jordan with an academic background in sculpture. Since graduating in 2016, I have been participating in local group shows with multimedium work including drawings on paper and installations. Co-founding the artmejournal roots from my passion to have a local platform that initiates artistic conversations.
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Q: In what form does proton give energy to electron? According to Bohr, electron revolves around the nucleus because of force of attraction between electron and proton. This force of attraction gives energy to the electron. So my question is this that- In which form does this electron get the energy?

A: First, note that the Bohr model of the atom has some shortcomings. Physicists have developed more accurate models since this one. But let's ignore them for this.
From the wording of your question I believe you are curious about the nature of energy when the electron is in a uniform circular orbit. That is, no energy transitions. (In modern language, you are restricting yourself to a single atomic energy level.) Is this correct? If so, read on.
If you apply the classical idea of a force on an object moving in a uniform circular orbit, you'll find that the corresponding force does not do any work. This is because the force and velocity are perpendicular. (If this sounds unfamiliar, look up the dot-product definition of work.) No work, no energy change. So I think your premise is not correct: The force by the proton on the electron does not "give" energy.

A: The force between the electron and proton is electrostatic. The electron has a negative charge and the proton has a positive charge.

A: (Not being able to comment is very annoying!)
Why do you think 'This force of attraction gives energy to the electron' / what exactly do you mean by that?
The fact that both particles are electrically charged sets up an electrostatic field, which in turn gives a term in the potential energy of each particle.
In the Bohr model the energy of the electon is it's kinetic energy and it's electrostatic potential energy.
$$ E(r) = T + U(r) = \frac{1}{2}m_ev^2 - \frac{1}{4 \pi \epsilon_0}\frac{Z e^2}{r} $$
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Girl from nowhere (เด็กใหม่, que es podria traduir com a Noia sorgida d'enlloc) és una sèrie tailandesa original de Netflix i GMM Grammy de misteri i fantasia. La protagonista, Nanno, és interpretada per Chicha Amatayakul. Emesa el 2018, la primera temporada consta de 13 episodis de 45 minuts de duració basats cadascun en un cas real d'explotació de xiques de secundària. La segona temporada fou emesa el 7 de maig del 2021 i consta de 8 episodis que continuen en la mateixa línia, amb la Chicha Amatayakul com a protagonista però amb l'afegitó en algun moment donat d'una segona noia misteriosa...

Referències

Vegeu també
 Moviment tailandès d'estudiants dolents (Bad Students Movement, ขบวนการนักเรียนไม่ดี)

Enllaços externs
 Girl from Nowhere a Internet Movie Database (anglès)

 «How 'Girl From Nowhere' season 2 resonates in a Thailand changed by the Bad Students movement. The diabolical Nanno returns in season 2 of the gory Netflix series, in the wake of student-led movements that disrupted Thailand's status quo in 2020» (en anglès), Kong Rithdee, NME, 20 maig 2021.
 «Girl from Nowhere» (en castellà), ressenya de Lorenzo Mejino, Serielistas, La Sexta, s.d.

Sèries de televisió començades el 2018
Sèries de televisió de fantasia
Cultura de Tailàndia

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Ballybeg CDP hosted Community Gardens Ireland meeting in Waterford recently, giving us an insight into the positive impact horticulture can have on a community.
By simply offering people an opportunity to develop their knowledge and learn about growing plants, the Ballybeg Greens project has helped to create pride in their local community as well as employment and adult education opportunities that have led to higher education, teaching and social enterprise.
The project has helped to create an awareness in Waterford of the importance of locally grown, chemical free food, enabling the gardeners to build up a relationship with several Waterford restaurants. It has the potential to do so much more.
The community development project (CDP) began in 2008 with an underdeveloped site in an area that houses circa. 4,000 people yet has a 41% unemployment rate. In February 2010 the CDP secured agreement to begin the community garden and allotment project. Lack of skills for growing food quickly became obvious so they started with a Fetac 3 course in horticulture and work began developing the 2 acre site.
Since then 180 students have passed through the centre, seven students have been re-employed, ten families have participated in the Healthy Food for All Family Growing project, 60 WAVE students have passed through, eight students from Focus Ireland as well as Skillnets. The CDP are now in a position to offer fully accredited FETAC training courses and in 2013, developed Ballybeg Greens, a not for profit food growing initiative that's registered with the Department of Agriculture as a primary producer of salad leaves, herbs, specialist veg and edible flowers.
This inspiring group is on the cusp of doing much bigger and greater things as they've been allocated a further two acres by Waterford City Council, putting them in a position to supply 30 food outlets as well as offer part-time employment for a financial administrator, sales and marketing person as well as full time employment for a dedicated horticulture manager. They will also be able to increase the training potential with the additional space as well as offer the potential to diversify into other areas.
However, to attract the kind of funding needed to develop and create a sustainable business that supports the local community and helps to create health and well-being, Ballybeg Greens will have to create a limited company and increase their business knowledge, something that's difficult in a society that's geared towards business enterprise and not social and community development.
Having met some of the guys at various CGN network events and seen first hand the belief and passion this group have in the project, I have no doubt they'll find the help and support they need. The measurable results achieved to date are a testament to their commitment to make it work.
It cannot be underestimated the importance projects such as these have on the self-esteem, growth and personal development of people and the knock on effect that has in local communities, helping to turn them into places of positivity and pride, where they might otherwise be filled with despair.
If you'd like to find out more about the Ballybeg Greens project, contact Liz Riches, Manager of Ballybeg CDP for more information.
Fantastic read! Great article indeed. Well done to all involved.
As one who believes that community gardens not only provides fresh produce and plants as well as satisfying the spade but much like the article states neighbourhood improvement, sense of community and connection to the environment.
Though much more too, they improve users' health through increased fresh vegetable consumption and providing a venue for exercise. The gardens also combat two forms of alienation that plague modern life, by bringing gardeners closer in touch with the source of their food, and by breaking down isolation by creating a social community.
Finally they also provide other community & social benefits, such as the sharing of food production knowledge with the wider community and safer green living spaces and let's not not forget active communities experience less crime and vandalism.
wonderful article, Thanks for sharing.


After an enforced break from tasks, we were keen and happy to be back with loppers and bow saws in hands at Ickworth. This week the never-ending job of chopping back the laurels in the Albana walk awaited us. We just about managed to avoid getting sunburnt, and were able to relax at the end of the day with a very much appreciated cold drink and ice cream courtesy of the property.


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A friendlier nodegit interface

## Repository

### Repository.init (path, options)

### Repository.open (path, options)

### Repository#find (where)

### Repository#createReadStream (oid)

### Repository#createRef (name, target, options)

## RepositoryInitOptions

### RepositoryInitOptions.fromObject (options)

## Revparse

### Revparse.toSpec (where)

### Revparse.single (repo, where)

## Revwalk

### Revwalk#repo

## Oid

### Oid.fromAnything (item)

## Blob

### Blob#getData()

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Q: Selection-change event in office word c# How can I make selection-change event in office word c#?
Office 2010
Visual Studio 2010
using Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;

A: I havn't tested it, but you might want to check the event ApplicationEvents4_WindowSelectionChangeEventHandler . The events are in the delegate section.


Born in Austria, Verena Andrea Prenner has a degree in sociology.
Israel and Palestine, first living and working in Tel Aviv and then moving to the refugee camps of Palestine. During her time there, she also photographed Muslim weddings along with a Palestinian photographer and wrote a weekly column, Notes From The Middle East, for an Austrian newspaper.
In her photographic work she frequently includes non-professionals or casual passers-by to express individual reflections or views of societies in the form of stage settings. Since 2013 she has been completing art projects as well as commissions in Austria and in the Middle East.
Verena Andrea Prenner discovers the impact of conflict on ordinary folk.
In July 2002, the Government of Israel decided on the construction of a "security barrier" between the Palestinian autonomous areas of the West Bank, and Israel. Amongst those whose livelihoods have been affected by the Wall are Palestinian taxi drivers. These Palestinians cannot cross over to the Israeli side even though the reverse is not true. This restriction not only hampers their ability to earn but also takes a toll on their mental health.


2018 was a good year for cloud computing. Because you typically pay only for cloud services you use, this option can help lower your operating costs, run your infrastructure more efficiently, and scale as your business needs change.
However, there's still progress to be made before the operating systems on the cloud can be considered routine. Will 2019 bring the answer?
In 2019, a major transformation of legacy apps using powerful container-based, cloud-native digital application platforms will commence. Cloud spending is predicted to spike, as many infrastructure and operations professionals and their enterprises adopt cloud tools and services wherever and however they can.
It looks like 2019 will be the year of the cloud.


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Values Blog Media Careers
Outlier is a different kind of company
We believe that success in life and success in business are not separate things, but intertwined as part of our lives. It is important to us that the journey we take with our company is as positive as the destination we hope to reach.
Join the Outlier team
"We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need."
The humans behind Outlier
We understand how companies use data to make decisions because we have been the data scientists, data analysts and leaders at the forefront of those decisions. After years of manual business analysis, we decided there should be a better way. That led each of us to Outlier.
Sean Byrnes
Sean was the co-founder of Flurry (acquired by Yahoo in 2014), the largest mobile analytics company in the world. In his free time, Sean advises some early stage technology companies and invests in many others.
Sean holds a B.A. in Engineering from Dartmouth College and an M.Eng. in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Mike Kim
Co-Founder and CTO
Mike has been on the forefront of data science and machine learning, having led efforts at Google, Aardvark (acquired by Google), and AltSchool.
Mike received his B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the University of California, San Francisco.
Mike Stone
Mike has led marketing organizations and provided strategic consulting to technology companies for over 20 years. Most recently, Mike was SVP of Marketing at both Airship and Salesforce Community Cloud.
Mike holds a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management.
Steve has led multiple sales and marketing organizations and has participated in three IPOs, as well as three acquisitions. Steve was most recently the CRO at Impira and Ooyala.
Steve holds a B.S. in Marketing from Isenberg School of Business at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Anthony Watkins
VP of Product
Anthony oversaw a 10x growth in user base at Flurry (acquired by Yahoo) and then served as Yahoo's founding Head of the Mobile Developer Platform team. Anthony has spoken internationally on topics ranging from deploying Kafka at scale to building data-driven businesses.
Anthony holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a M.Eng. in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Doug Mitarotonda
VP of Analytics
Doug helps our team and customers understand their data. He has been connecting people with data his whole career in various industries: sports and live entertainment (Qcue), electric power industry (The Brattle Group), and climate change policy (NYSDEC).
Doug received his Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University. He also holds an M.Eng. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Asian Studies, from Cornell University.
Shannon Yost
VP of Product Marketing
Shannon has deep marketing expertise in the data analytics market from launching Microsoft's HD Insight to Industrial IoT solutions. In her 20+ year career, she's launched nearly 30 products, five companies and been instrumental in building a market for countless others. Most recently, Shannon was Sr. Dir. of Marketing for Skytap, where she rebuilt the organization to ready the company for accelerated growth.
Chris Ries
VP of Demand Generation
Chris has supported B2B enterprise sales teams for over 20 years. Most recently, Chris was GM of Demand Generation at Icertis, where he built the function from scratch and helped take the company from Series B to unicorn in three years.
Chris holds a B.A. in History from Santa Clara University and an MBA from University of Phoenix.
Lee Lefkowitz
VP of Global People Operations
Lee has a long history of building teams and hiring top talent for startups all the way to Fortune 100 companies. One of his areas of expertise is recruiting and retaining a diverse set of employees within the technology startup space.
Lee received his B.A. in Arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Mitchell Harris
VP of Customer Success
Mitchell has focused on driving customer value, supporting customer solutions in messaging and its associated data for over 20 years. He has experience across cloud and on-premises implementation for SMB and Enterprise. Previously Mitchell led the Global Customer Success team at SparkPost, supporting multiple global brands and where he created their SaaS customer success organization.
Mitchell holds a B.Eng. (Hons) in Systems Engineering from Portsmouth University, UK.
Jerry Stephens
VP of Global Sales
Jerry has excelled in global organizations as well as startups. His initial background is in world class CPG organizations working with retailers across the globe. His passion for data, analytics, and cross functional strategy enabled a seamless transition to technology beginning as the SVP and GM at Market6 (acquired) and later as Vice President of Cognitive Solutions at IBM.
Jerry received his B.S. in Finance from Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
Dave O'Flynn
VP of Engineering
Dave is an experienced startup executive, having run engineering and product orgs across multiple industries. Most recently he was co-founder and CPO at Engage, and previously was an early employee at Atlassian.
Dave has a B.Eng. Computer Engineering from the University of Limerick, but he knows that a formal education isn't necessary to be a great engineer.


Jesse Hamilton is a member of the New York State Senate and was elected in 2014. According to the Washington Post, Hamilton was recently handing out fliers on a public sidewalk in an attempt to rally party support for upcoming elections. The fliers reportedly spoke of resisting President Donald Trump and his policies and had the words "Rising up Democrats!" on it.
Hamilton and his assistants helped hand out fliers to Brooklyn residents until a currently unidentified white woman, who identified herself as a Trump supporter, apparently began getting confrontational. According to the report, the woman requested that Hamilton and his aides leave the area and became enraged when they refused.
That anger led the woman — who WaPo states spoke in a Slavic accent — to call the police. Police officers did ultimately show up on the scene, but were not receptive to the woman's demands that they remove local Democrats from the area.
Police officers departed without making any arrests or removing anyone from the situation. Hamilton stated that he then left the area of his own volition, not wanting to be involved with the situation any longer.
Unfortunately for Hamilton, giving the situation time to cool off wasn't enough. When he later returned to the area to give it another go, he was once again confronted by the angered Trump supporter, who again tried to intimidate Hamilton and his aides from speaking with constituents.
One of Hamilton's aides used his phone to take video of the woman as she spoke on the nature of immigrants, while expressing approval for Donald Trump's presidency.
Hamilton stated that he was minding his own business in handing out such fliers, adding that he shouldn't have had to feel uncomfortable in doing so.
As of the time of this writing, the woman remains unidentified.
According to reports, Jesse Hamilton went as far as to offer to speak to the confrontational woman in private at his office, which she refused.


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Forced vaccination is not okay under any circumstances: UN rights chief
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"Under no circumstances should people be forcibly vaccinated," said Michelle Bachelet.
The UN rights chief said on Wednesday that countries considering introducing vaccine mandates in the fight against COVID-19 should ensure they respect human rights, stressing that forced vaccination is never acceptable. Was.
Speaking at a Human Rights Council symposium via video message, Michelle Bachelet warned that there were important rights considerations that should be taken into account before making vaccination mandatory.
Any "vaccine mandate must adhere to the principles of legitimacy, necessity, proportionality and non-discrimination", she said, according to a transcript.
"Under no circumstances should people be forcibly vaccinated."
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said the objectives sought by countries considering the mandate to protect lives were "of the highest order of legitimacy and importance" as they battle a fierce escalation in the pandemic in Europe and other regions.
But he insisted that "vaccine mandates should be enforced only when necessary to achieve essential public health".
"And they should be considered only if less intrusive measures such as mask-wearing and social distancing have failed to meet such health needs."
He also emphasized that for any mandate to be acceptable, countries need to ensure that vaccines are indeed available and affordable.
"Unless all people have real, practical access to vaccines, vaccine requirements will not be in line with fundamental human rights principles of equality and non-discrimination," she said.
Bachelet also highlighted that "actual vaccines employed must also be sufficiently safe and effective to achieve public health objectives."
Any mandatory vaccination regime also needs to be flexible enough to allow "reasonable exceptions, such as where vaccination is medically contra-indicated to an individual".
Bachelet said it may be appropriate to restrict certain rights and freedoms on vaccination, including conditioning access to schools, hospitals or other public places.
But forced injection was never acceptable, she said, "even though a person's refusal to comply with a mandatory vaccination policy could result in other legal consequences, for example, appropriate fines".
"Where penalties are imposed, they should be proportionate and subject to review by judicial authorities," she said.
"There is a need for appropriate procedural safeguards, including the right to obtain reasonable exemptions and the right to appeal any form of punishment before an impartial and independent authority," he stressed.
Looking ahead, the UN rights chief said any vaccine mandates introduced "should be subject to repeated official review to ensure they remain necessary, proportionate and non-discriminatory."
(Except for the title, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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Q: Client side can not take the json data I have a nodejs server and the code that I have as below. I send an AJAX request and I want the server to send me a response of a json data. When I put res.write()("string data like hello hello") in the server code, client side can take the value of inside and I can see the value on the console. But I cannot get json value with this function. I tried res.end() and res.send() functions as well but it didn't work. How can I send the json value and the following client side code can take the value correctly?
Server side,
app.use('/', function(req, res) {
console.log("req body app use", req.body);
var str= req.path;

if(str.localeCompare(controlPathDatabaseLoad) == 0)
{
    console.log("controlPathDatabaseLoad");
    mongoDbHandleLoad(req, res);
    res.writeHead('Content-Type', 'application/json');
    res.write("Everything all right with database loading"); //I can get this message
    //res.end(json) I can not get json message with this function as well
    res.send("OK");
    //res.send(JSON.stringify(responseBody)); I can not get json message
}

Client side,
function loadDatabaseData()
    {
        console.log("loadDatabaseData");
        var oReq = new XMLHttpRequest();
        oReq.open("GET", "http://192.168.80.143:2800/load", true);
        oReq.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/json;charset=UTF-8");
        oReq.onreadystatechange = function() {//Call a function when the state changes.
            if(oReq.readyState == 4 && oReq.status == 200) {
                console.log("http response", oReq.response);
                console.log("http responseText", oReq.responseText);
            }
        }
        oReq.send();

    }


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Post-Soviet youth
How to be a man
A new generation of artists is rethinking the meaning of masculinity in Russia
Russia has always been — at least in its own eyes — a country of men. The Soviet masculinity myth was embodied in the figure of the worker and the protector, replicated in numerous monuments still towering across Russian cities. These days the image of Russia presented across the world goes hand in hand with the idea of a militarist power with a leader who willingly uses macho clichés in his publicity. Russian propaganda is building an image of the country as a traditionalist society that's in opposition to the increasingly effeminate west. But for a new generation of emerging artists and photographers, the question of masculinity is not so simple.
Speaking out on gender in today's Russia is one of the crucial forms of cultural rebellion. Against a backdrop of rising conservatism, the generation born in the early 1990s is desperately trying to reinvent itself beyond the constraints of gender, and is looking for a future free from the reign of the father figure. The topic of masculinity is always intertwined with sexuality and taboo. While western contemporary culture is increasingly embracing androgyny and fluid sexuality (transgender models Hari Nef and Andreja Pejic are great examples), Russia is still in the early stages of challenging gender conventions. Changing perceptions of masculinity is a significant part of this process.
The crucial shift in visual representations of gender happened in the 90s after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The country was suddenly flooded with western imagery and products, and a generation hungry to be different from its parents got all they ever wanted and more: new style bibles like Om and Ptych, new pop stars, new fashion and TV. Everything that had previously been repressed suddenly burst out: boy bands and drag queens, homosexuality and controversial fashion. But, more importantly, suddenly there were not only men but boys. The rise of youth culture legitimised youth as something culturally meaningful and visually interesting. And the fragile stage of transition into adulthood became a gateway to kinds of sensuality prohibited in Soviet times. It became the starting point of the widespread visual trope of today, the post-Soviet boy.
One of the first to aestheticise the idea of the post-Soviet boy in Russia and propagate it to the world outside the new east was fashion designer and photographer Gosha Rubchinkiy: he captured his friends, skaters and teenage drifters in post-Soviet urban settings. In his photos, adolescents hang around skate parks, Orthodox churches, abandoned sanatoriums in Yalta, gritty tower block estates and, occasionally, busts of Lenin. Through these images, Rubchinskiy was subconsciously searching for a new national identity, for Russia's new place in the world. The world has showed Rubchinskiy plenty of interest in return: his show is lined up at Paris Fashion Week, and his books and zines sell out almost immediately. His post-Soviet boys are now a significant part of the post-Soviet fashion myth.
Discovered in the metro, in clubs and through social media, Alexandrova's boys often come from a life in the Russian suburbs and the sadness of those tower-block landscapes is permanently reflected in their eyes
The post-Soviet boy has also been the focus of Moscow-based photographer Sonya Kydeeva's career. While Rubchinskiy's work is imbued with subtle voyeurism that's typical of skater photography: boys in ripped jeans with faces like ancient Greek statues, absolutely ignorant of their seductive, radiant youth, Kydeeva is interested in not just observing but playing a part in the boys' brief moment of formation. She is a friend, one of their kin, and there is an exchange in her work: she captures the important moments of their life, and they get much-needed confidence in front of the camera. Kydeeva's artistic practice is universal (she admits her visual tropes are borrowed from western culture), but she finds her key inspiration in Russia: "Everything is important: language, history and culture, my vision of space and the people in it," she says.
After Rubchinskiy's success in the fashion industry, Russian boys found a more institutionalised presence in the western fashion world through Avdotja Alexandrova's model agency Lumpen. Alexandrova casts boys and girls who would have otherwise never been considered by top model agencies. Discovered in the metro, in clubs and through social media, her boys often come from a life in the Russian suburbs and the sadness of those tower-block landscapes is permanently reflected in their eyes. The term Lumpen, which refers to the poorest of the working class, is not a coincidence here: they are the embodiment of a type of tough and cool street boy. It is fascinating how strangely similar Lumpen is to the project that artist Alina Gutkina carried out in Moscow several years ago, which involved trying to set up ordinary boys to work in modelling agencies and documented their responses. Back then it was not particularly successful, but now things are starting to change.
Something that unites the new wave imagery surrounding the post-Soviet boy is the process of objectification. Objectification, particularly that of men was an interesting question for the late 20th century: from the rise of homosexuality's visual presence in pop culture, to the female gaze making men into objects of desire and cultural appropriation. Celebrated American photographer and artist Collier Schorr, for example, spent a substantial amount of time in the 90s photographing white boys. She picked boys because she didn't want to participate in fashion's oppression of women. "I was coming from SVA (School of Visual Arts) in the 80s," she said in an interview with the New York Times. "Don't objectify women or put them in front of the gaze. These essays said that in fashion women were given power because of their beauty but punished in the end. Who should I take pictures of? White boys. Nobody minded oppressing them. It was open season. Honestly, because I didn't take fully nude, I pretended they were girls. A lot of them felt like girls. There was a gentleness." The play with gender led to her discovery of this new attitude to male depiction: she was a woman, so boys such as those from a wrestling school in New Jersey were comfortable being objectified (see her project Wrestlers Love America).
The photographic exploration of masculinity doesn't stop at objectification, but also involves redefining sexuality
Yet, the photographic exploration of masculinity doesn't stop at objectification, but also involves redefining sexuality. It's not quite Matt Lambert's Keim yet, but from Igor Samolet's juvenile mess to Yulia Spiridonova's explicit sensuality, it is a step towards expressing desires virtually prohibited by conservative society. The post-Soviet boy could also represent something more political. Collier Schorr has quite often shot her beautiful white boys in Nazi uniform. Winter Vandenbrink's photo of a boy in a St George of England scarf is not dissimilar to the photos of Moscow boys with shaved heads. Somehow images of juvenile white boys often go hand in hand with a country's rise in nationalism.
Not all the projects, however, send out the message of national isolation: in her short film Wasteland, director Nadia Bedzhanova shot Russian skaters alongside their peers from France and the States. Filmed against high-rises and the snowy urban parks of Moscow, the Russian boys look slightly different to their peers, but that's mainly due to the outfits and settings. Overall, the Russian idea of masculinity, just like identity in general, is stuck in between the global and authentically national, and influenced deeply by social and political factors. We've had a glimpse of its new face but what lies behind the looks of the post-Soviet boy is yet to be revealed.
Text: Anastasiia Fedorova
Image: Sonya Kydeeva
Coming of age in rural Latvia
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We all need a guide through the many strait places in life as much as the sailor needs a pilot over the sandy bar or up the rocky river, and where is this guide to be found? We point you . . . to the Bible. Inspired of God, written by holy men, it points out with great clearness and precision the duties of both old and young. It elevates the mind, softens the heart, and imparts gladness and holy joy to the spirit. The Bible presents a perfect standard of character; it is an infallible guide under all circumstances, even to the end of the journey of life. Take it as the man of your counsel, the rule of your daily life. . . .
Every day you should learn something new from the Scriptures. Search them as for hid treasures, for they contain the words of eternal life. Pray for wisdom and understanding to comprehend these holy writings. If you would do this you would find new glories in the word of God; you would feel that you had received new and precious light on subjects connected with the truth, and the Scriptures would be constantly receiving a new value in your estimation. . . .
One day, when I was in my middle teens, I noticed that the book that I was reading was due at the library that day. Even though I was not quite finished reading it, I knew I had to take it back that day or pay a fine. I decided that if I walked the two miles to the library, reading while I walked, I could finish it by the time I got there.
After a few blocks of walking and reading, I could keep on the sidewalk without watching where I was going. Soon, I became so absorbed in that book, that I did not pay any attention to my surroundings. Suddenly, the squeal of brakes broke into my thoughts. Within a foot of me was a big, black car. The driver inside looked scared at first, but soon his fright turned to anger. All I could say was " I'm sorry." Continuing on my journey, I decided I would wait till I got to the library to finish the book.
How deep is the ache in God's Great Heart of Love, when we turn away from His chastening rod and wallow in self-pity. How He longs for us to allow Him to do His work within us. How He yearns to have us commune with Him as we go about our daily duties. By praying " without ceasing" we can have that closeness that He desires us to have. 1 Thes 5:17 By praising Him for blessings large and small, our love for Him increases.
May we never get so busy that we forget the One Who gave His life for us. May we "practice the Presence" daily. May we, by our thoughts, our words, our actions, bring joy to our Blessed Redeemer is my prayer.
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The myth of the lone creative genius is "wildly destructive" says Allen Gannett, not to put too fine a point on it. Our guest today talks about how we need to bring our ideas about inspiration out of the clouds and back to a much more encouraging and attainable reality. In a world of increasing automation, our creativity is our most valuable asset.
Allen Gannett is the founder and CEO of TrackMaven, a software analytics firm whose clients have included Microsoft, Marriott, Saks Fifth Avenue, Home Depot, Aetna, Honda, and GE. He has been on the "30 Under 30" lists for both Inc. and Forbes.
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We introduce a general technique for the projections of the lattices described by the affine Coxeter groups and apply it to the projections of the lattices described by the affine Coxeter groups Wa(E6), Wa(B6) and Wa(F4) onto the Coxeter plane. These are the groups described by the Coxeter number h=12. The dihedral subgroup D12 of the Coxeter groups plays the crucial role in the symmetry of the projected set of points. We define two generators R1and R2 which act as reflection generators in the orthogonal planes where the product R1R2 describes the Coxeter element of the Coxeter group. The canonical projections (strip projections) of the lattices determine the nature of the quasicrystallographic structures with 12-fold symmetry as well as the crystallographic structures with 4-fold and 6-fold symmetry.