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using System.Linq.Expressions;
using System.Reflection;
using Baseline.Reflection;
using Marten.Services;
using NpgsqlTypes;

namespace Marten.Schema.Arguments
{
    public class DocJsonBodyArgument : UpsertArgument
    {
        private static readonly MethodInfo _serializer = ReflectionHelper.GetProperty<UpdateBatch>(x => x.Serializer).GetMethod;
        private static readonly MethodInfo _tojson = typeof(ISerializer).GetMethod(nameof(ISerializer.ToJson));

        public DocJsonBodyArgument()
        {
            Arg = "doc";
            PostgresType = "JSONB";
            DbType = NpgsqlDbType.Jsonb;
            Column = "data";
        }

        public override Expression CompileUpdateExpression(EnumStorage enumStorage, ParameterExpression call, ParameterExpression doc, ParameterExpression updateBatch, ParameterExpression mapping, ParameterExpression currentVersion, ParameterExpression newVersion)
        {
            var argName = Expression.Constant(Arg);

            var serializer = Expression.Call(updateBatch, _serializer);
            var json = Expression.Call(serializer, _tojson, doc);

            return Expression.Call(call, _paramMethod, argName, json, Expression.Constant(NpgsqlDbType.Jsonb));
        }

        public override Expression CompileBulkImporter(EnumStorage enumStorage, Expression writer, ParameterExpression document, ParameterExpression alias, ParameterExpression serializer)
        {
            var json = Expression.Call(serializer, _tojson, document);
            var method = writeMethod.MakeGenericMethod(typeof(string));
            var dbType = Expression.Constant(DbType);

            return Expression.Call(writer, method, json, dbType);
        }
    }
}

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Mobius Final Fantasy for iPhone and iPad Hits the App Store [VIDEO]
by Usman Qureshi – Fri, August 5, 2016
Mobius Final Fantasy, the newest title in the role-playing adventure series custom-tailored for mobile platforms, is now available for iPhone and iPad. The latest Final Fantasy title, which has been developed by Yoshinori Kinase and written by Kazushige Kojima, both known for their work on the acclaimed Final Fantasy VII, features in-depth character customization, ongoing live events, and HD graphics that push the boundaries of the mobile platform.
As part of a special promotion running through August 31, Square Enix is awarding players with special in-game items, including Tidus's signature weapon from Final Fantasy X, Brotherhood; a Yuna character card; extra Ability Tickets; Summon Tickets; and much more. Daily login rewards, including extra Bronze Openers, Ability Tickets and Elixirs, will also be available through August 12.
You can download the universal game for free using this App Store link. Meanwhile, check out the official launch trailer below:
Apple Being Urged to Rethink Changing Gun Emoji to Water Pistol
Fri, August 5, 2016

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require 'fog'
require 'ostruct'
require 'pmap'
require 'open3'

module Batali
  class Cluster
    attr_reader :name

    private
    def self.aws(config)
      # TODO: Verify that config
      #       - aws_identity_file
      #       - aws_access_key_id
      #       - aws_secret_access_key
      #       - others?
      Fog::Compute.new(
        provider:               'AWS',
        aws_access_key_id:      config[:knife][:aws_access_key_id],
        aws_secret_access_key:  config[:knife][:aws_secret_access_key],
        region:                 config[:knife][:region] || "us-east-1",
      )
    end

    def initialize(options, config)
      raise "Cluster needs a valid name in options.cluster" if (options.cluster || '') == ''
      @name = options.cluster
      @options = options
      @config = config
      @aws = self.class.aws(config)
    end

    # @return true if the given server found on aws is ok for Batali to use
    private
    def self.server_ok_to_use(server)
      # only use servers created by "esmet" that are in the running or pending state
      server.key_name == "esmet" && (server.state == "running" || server.state == "pending")
    end

    # TODO Passing the config here is poor design.
    #
    # @param config, the knife/batali config (aws key id / access key / etc)
    # @return Set (String) all cluster names that Batali knows about
    def self.clusters(config)
      clusters = Hash.new
      aws(config).servers.all.each do |server|
        cluster_tag = server.tags["BataliCluster"].to_s
        if server_ok_to_use(server) && cluster_tag != ''
          if clusters[cluster_tag].nil?
            clusters[cluster_tag] = Hash.new
          end
          clusters[cluster_tag][server.tags["Name"].to_s] = server
        end
      end
      clusters
    end

    # @return Hash (server name, server) of all servers running in this cluster
    public
    def servers
      servers = @aws.servers.all.collect do |server|
        if self.class.server_ok_to_use(server) &&
           server.tags["BataliCluster"].to_s == @name
          [ server.tags["Name"].to_s, server ]
        end
      end.compact
      Hash[servers]
    end

    # @param cmd, the shell command to run
    private
    def popen3(cmd)
      if @options.dry
        puts "dry run: #{cmd}"
        return true
      else
        puts "popen3 #{cmd}"
      end

      Open3.popen3(cmd) do |stdin, stdout, stderr, wait_thr|
        success = wait_thr.value.success?
        unless success
          puts "warning: knife cmd '#{cmd}' failed!"
          puts "  -- STDERR -- "
          while line = stderr.gets
            puts line
          end
        end
        success
      end
    end

    # Use the knife-ec2 command line tool to create a server, running
    # the given recipes and setting the given attributes during bootstrap.
    #
    # @param name [String] name of the server to create - if none exists it will be provisioned
    # @param recipes [Array] recipes to run
    # @param attributes [Hash] attributes to use during bootstrap
    private
    def knife_ec2_server_create(cluster, name, recipes, attributes)
      puts "knife ec2 server create: name #{name}"
      flavor = @options.flavor.presence || @config[:knife][:flavor].presence || 'm1.small'
      identity_file = @config[:knife][:aws_identity_file]
      run_list = recipes.map{ |recipe| "recipe[#{recipe}]" } * ","
      json_attributes_s = attributes.to_json.to_s
      knife_cmd = [
        'knife',              "ec2 server create",
        '--config',           ".batali/knife.rb",
        '--identity-file',    "\'#{identity_file}\'",
        '--flavor',           "\'#{flavor}\'",
        '--node-name',        "\'#{name}\'",
        '--ssh-user',         "ubuntu",
        '--run-list',         "\'#{run_list}\'",
        '--json-attributes',  "\'#{json_attributes_s}\'",
        '--tags',             "BataliCluster=\'#{cluster}\'",
      ]

      puts "calling popen3"
      popen3(knife_cmd * ' ')
    end

    public
    def spinup(cluster, name, recipes, attributes)
      raise "A server named #{name} already exists in cluster #{cluster}" if servers[name]
      knife_ec2_server_create(cluster, name, recipes, attributes)
    end

    # Use the knife-ec2 command line tool because wrangling with fog
    # plus ridley bootstrap is hard to get right.
    #
    # @param name [String] name of the server to delete
    # @param instance_id [String] ec2 instance id (sometimes looks like i-12345678)
    private
    def knife_ec2_server_delete(name, instance_id)
      puts "-- knife ec2 delete: #{name}, instance_id #{instance_id}"
      knife_cmd = [
        'knife',       "ec2 server delete",
        '--config',    ".batali/knife.rb",
        '--node-name', "\'#{name}\'",
        '--purge',
        '--yes',
        "\'#{instance_id}\'"
      ]

      popen3(knife_cmd * ' ')
    end

    # Teardown the entire cluster
    public
    def teardown()
      n = servers.size
      servers.each_slice(4).to_a.each do |slice|
        slice.peach do |name, server|
          ok = knife_ec2_server_delete(name, server.id)
          raise "teardown failed to delete server #{name}" if !ok
        end
      end
      n
    end
  end
end


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#include "analysisSystem.h"

namespace PSim {

AnalysisSystem::AnalysisSystem(config* cfg,
		std::string sysState,
		std::string timeStamp, IAnalysisManager* analysisInterface) : system(cfg, NULL, NULL, sysState + "/-analysis-" + timeStamp)
{
	// Read in each particle.
	int nParts = particlesInFile(sysState, timeStamp);
	// Overwrite the particle system with the old one.
	int count = readParticles(sysState, timeStamp);

	// Maybe this should throw an error for count != nParts?
	chatterBox.consoleMessage("Found " + tos(count) + " / " + tos(nParts) + " particles", 1);

	analysis = (analysisInterface == NULL) ? defaultAnalysisInterface() : analysisInterface;
	createRewindDir();

	// We need to rebuild the interactions table.
	hashParticles();
	sortParticles();
	clearCells();
	reorderParticles();
	updateInteractions();
}

}


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Finix Ramdas
Name - Finix Ramdas
Date of Birth - 28/05/1985
Sex - Male
Finix started learning Hindustani and Carnatic music on the violin at the tender age of six and is currently also pursuing Western music. He has Completed ATCL Associated with Trinity college of Music – London ) in the year 2010 with 'Outstanding Musicians Award ' to his success. He has also acquired diploma in Fusion Music (Violin) from St. Andrews college of Fusion Music (Bandra). His expertise include Western, Carnatic, Fusion and World Music genres. He has also acquired private training in Indian percussion instruments such as Mrudangam, Ghatam and Morsing for more than a decade. In the past few years he has been performing with many artists and has worked with many musicians as a freelance musician for studio recording projects.
He received a great honour of performing with a legendary violinist and also his Guru Dr L.Subramaniam with the Leipzig Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany) for Lakshminarayana Global Music festival in the year 2009. He has performed in a workshop conducted by a legendary percussionist Trilok Gurtu and also performed in the Youth Common Wealth Games with the Indian percussionist Taufiq Qureshi. He is a member of Bombay Chambers orchestra (BCO) and Indian Youth orchestra (IYO).
He has performed concerts across India with fusion bands called 'TAPASYA' and 'LAYA'. He is a composer and a soloist for his own fusion band called 'CONVERSATION'.
Jana Gana Mana | Indian National Anthem | Violin
Kehna hi kya - Bombay (1995) | Violin Cover
The Great Escape | Finix Ramdas ft. Chandanabala Kalyan | Fusion
Just Abhoging Around' | Abhogi Varnam
'Ganamurthe' by Finix Ramdas | Carnatic Kriti | Saint Tyagaraja
1) Performed with my Guruji Dr L.Subramaniam with the Liebzeig Philharmonic Orchestra for The Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival.
2) Solo Carnatic concerts on the Violin with my Mrudangam Guru Shri T.S.Nandakumar
3) Fusion concerts with my own Band 'Conversation' across India.
4) Performed with the Renowned Drummer Ranjit Barot for MTv Unplugged.
1) 'Outstanding Musicians Award' for ATCL Diploma from Trinity College of Music - London for the year 2010 - 11
2) Gold Medal for the open category in Music(Instrumental) for Violin from Mira - Bhayander Kala Krida Mahotsav.
Manas Kumar
Milind Raikar
Ajit Joshi
Siddhartha Sarkar


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Professional Managers' Annual Conference 2020
Bringing together heads of administration, faculty managers, school administrators, senior operations staff,…
LTSE 2020
ICC, Belfast
Getting Personal – grading self-reflection
Track the student reflection journey to engagement in meaningful, specific, and personal feedback.
Impact Area: Economic Performance and Sustainable Growth
Institution: Strathclyde Business School
Leading Academic: Professor Sara Carter and Professor Eleanor Shaw
This research demonstrates that women entrepreneurs make important contributions to economic development, but are disadvantaged by initial under-capitalisation. Working with UK and devolved governments, leading banks and finance institutions, and regional enterprise support organisations, this research influenced policy debates; shaped women's enterprise policy; improved understanding of factors underpinning access to finance for diverse enterprises; and influenced the work of business support organisations and commercial banks.
In the UK, an additional 150,000 businesses would be created if rates of women's business ownership equaled those of men and an additional 900,000 if UK rates equaled those in the US. In Scotland, if women's rates rivaled those of men, an additional 108,480 businesses and a 5.3% growth in the size of the Scottish economy would be achieved. The relative under-capitalisation of women's businesses can be explained by demand and supplyside factors: the expectations of women entrepreneurs, combined with bank loan officers' perceptions of women entrepreneurs, influence loan decisions. Unexpectedly, differences were found between male and female bank loan officers, with women having less-effective personal networks for introducing new business applications and weaker internal communications with credit controllers.
The research demonstrated the benefits of ensuring women have sufficient capital to start and sustain business, and recommended changes in the training of bank staff, business advisers and women entrepreneurs.
Benefits and impacts
Instrumental impact
The research highlighted the economic significance of women business owners and became widely accepted in policy circles where its findings stimulated debate and influenced policy.
Impact on UK government policy started during the Labour administration and continued during the Coalition administration. Carter and Shaw engaged in meetings, seminars and private briefings with:
A 10 Downing Street seminar chaired by PM Gordon Brown
John Hutton, then Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, and Stephen Timms, then Minister for Small Firms
Geoffrey Norris, Head of the Downing Street Policy Unit
Lord Davies, then Minister of Small Firms at BIS
Carter's membership of the UK Government's Women's Enterprise Task Force (WETF) and chairing of the Swedish Presidency Workshop at the EU Conference "From the European Charter for Small Enterprises to the Small Business Act", provided opportunities for further policy impact. Carter chaired the Women in Enterprise Commission at the Scottish Government / STUC Women's Employment Summit, was subsequently appointed to the Scottish Government's Strategic Group on Women and Work, and chaired a series of workshops on women in enterprise. The Scottish Government's Draft Framework and Action Plan, co-written by Carter, included key ideas and activities identified from these workshops. Recommendations were incorporated into the Scottish Government's Enterprise Strategy.
Carter and Shaw established strong relationships with senior bank staff in the UK and internationally. This engagement included: Carter's membership of the Global Banking Alliance Advisory Board (2007-2009); Shaw's chairing of events for Independent Women, a wealth management consultancy, and membership of the Impact & Innovation Committee of Foundation Scotland; and Carter's Board Directorship of Women's Enterprise Scotland and work with RBS in its Supporting Diversity initiatives.
The need to focus on women's enterprise, including access to finance, was recognised within the UK Enterprise Strategy (2008) and WETF Final Report (2009); formed a central pillar of work identified within the WETF and was the subject of a bank and policy-makers roundtable expert discussion at HSBC's Head Office. The WETF successfully lobbied for a £12million co-investment fund for women.
Through the Enterprise Research Centre, Carter (with Monder Ram, Birmingham) currently leads the Diversity & SMEs work-package which aims to develop innovative approaches to improving access to finance opportunities across diverse groups.
Muldoon, J., Brierton, J. and Carter, S. (2013) Women in Enterprise: Draft Framework Consultation Document. Glasgow, The Scottish Government.
Wilson, F., Carter, S., Tagg, S., Shaw, E. and Lam, W. (2007). 'Bank loan officers' perceptions of business owners: The role of gender', British Journal of Management, 18(2): 154-171.
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Ceremony marks start of new £18.8m building for Lancaster University Management School
Chartered ABS members Lancaster University Management School begin work on a bold new expansion.
Aspiring Women Workshop
This workshop will help inspire women by giving them the confidence and useful practical techniques to progress their…
University of Liverpool in London


menopause | You Deserve to be Healthy!
Did you know that your bones act as mineral reserves for reducing the acid that in the food that we eat each day?
Yep it is true, the more foods that you eat that create an acidic environment in your body the weaker your bones become.
Let's talk about the foods that are creating the situation that is diminishing your bone strength.
The modern American diet is filled with animal products, stripped down – processed foods, chemicals and very little good nutritious food.
So what are the top 5 things that you should be eating to create a more alkaline body environment?
1. Stop drinking soda. Replace those nasty drinks with 64 oz of water!
Besides the overwhelming amount of sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, aspartame, or other chemicals with no nutritive value, soda makes your urine too acidic to pass safely out of your body. Its high phosphoric acid content requires your body to sacrifice a great deal of alkaline buffering salts (meaning the minerals in your bones) so it can excrete the acid without damaging your urinary tract.
Plant foods contain abundant "basic" or alkaline particles that combine with "acidic" particles when your body breaks them down, reducing our total urinary acid load and naturally creating alkaline balance in the body. If you want better bones, I suggest more than the standard "five-a-day" servings of vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds — nine to ten is better, and focus on the veggies.
Sweeten your food with stevia, agave, honey or with fruit.
Though we typically think of citrus fruits as acidic, they're highly alkalizing in the body (limes especially). Help balance your acid load by squeezing a wedge of fresh lemon or lime into your water throughout the day.
Animal proteins are high in sulfur-containing amino acids and are particularly acid-producing as you metabolize them. Protein is absolutely required for your bones and just about every other body tissue, but you can limit your animal protein sources (beef, chicken, pork, eggs, and dairy products) to 40 grams or less per day and increase plant-based protein sources.
Sounds easy and it is!
Pick one thing to do this week and go for it!
You can go a long way toward preserving your bone health by changing your diet and lifestyle!


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WHAT IS IVF (In vitro fertilisation)?
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is scientifically a method of fertility treatment but a real opportunity for the majority of infertile couples and people with a number of hereditary diseases to have their own child.
HOW TO FIND OUT YOU NEED IVF?
There are many indications for IVF and they are quite diverse, same as causes of infertility. In addition, this treatment method helps to overcome problems associated with a number of hereditary diseases and solves social issues that become more and more urgent from year to year! Without special knowledge in this field it is difficult to decide on participation in the program. That is why your way to the cherished goal should start with professional advice of a gynaecologist, fertility specialist.
Getting primary consultation is possible any time and you can choose an appropriate form either by visiting our clinic or via Skype. To appoint a meeting, simply email us and our medical coordinators will contact you to gather information needed to organize consultation and answer any questions of their competence you might have. We will accompany and support you throughout the program to make this complicated process clear, easy and joyful, because we believe that only this way magic of a new life happens! After initial consultation our fertility specialist decides whether to conduct the IVF program, determines further examination plan, if required and Stimulation program. The latter is agreed with you by date and is tied to the period.
The next stage is to stimulate the growth of follicles, prepared for one given period by means of medical drugs. This process is controlled by a number of blood tests and ultrasound. Previously we will tell you about the medicines, daily dosage, form and schedule of administration. Scheme of treatment called in IVF programs "Stimulation protocol" is chosen individually for you. Your "response" to the stimulation is evaluated by size of follicles and hormone levels. According to these parameters, daily dosage of stimulation drugs is adjusted and, on reaching of certain follicles dimensions we make prescription of a drug that provides final maturation of eggs. In 35-36 hours after its administration comes the next stage.
This procedure is carried out at our clinic and is an ovary puncture through vaginal wall with a thin needle under ultrasound guidance in conditions of sedation and analgesia. The procedure takes about 10-20 minutes. Resulting follicular fluid is collected and transferred by us to the laboratory where embryologists identify eggs under a microscope and take them away.
On the day of embryo transfer, considering summary of embryologist, you and your doctor decide on the number of embryos to be transferred, and the possibility of freezing the rest for future use. Procedure itself, as a rule, does not require anaesthesia and you are fully conscious. After passing the cervix with a thin catheter, we put your kids directly into your uterine cavity.
There comes the easiest and at once the most complicated period, because before confirming pregnancy should pass at least 2 weeks and hCG test can prove it. Two long weeks of waiting…And we will be waiting together with you! And then we will wait for another 2 weeks for you to pass the ultrasonic diagnostics, if hCG test was positive, or the results or ultrasound, if you have already passed at home. And only then our IVF program will be completed!


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Q: ImportError: No module named engine - Django suit related? I am using Django and Django Suit V2 -
I am trying to create a custom home page for my django site using templates.
I keep getting this error: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/suit/apps.py", line 89, in add_suit_default_template_tags from django.template.engine import Engine
ImportError: No module named Engine
I want to make sure of what I'm doing before I go in and mess with the main files.
Anyone else deal with "No module named Engine" error before? Any Suggestions?
UPDATE -  ok I corrected the first issue - I made sure the python interpreter was pointing to the virtualenv (it was already activated, so I deactivated and then reactivated). Was able to do a collectstatic with no error. I have now generated a different error which I will post in a different question since it's not directly related here. :)

A: It sounds like you have an old version of Django installed. The import
from django.template.engine import Engine

should work in Django 1.8+.

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import { Action } from "redux";

// Grab some types from the redux package so we can properly type actions
// defined here

// FSA-compliant action (from redux-actions.d.ts)
// See: https://github.com/acdlite/flux-standard-action
export interface FluxStandardAction<P, M> extends Action {
    payload?: P;
    error?: boolean;
    meta?: M;
}


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1993 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 3.8
Peter Seabrook ©2018 Courtesy of RM Sotheby's
Catalogue View Lots
Sold For £933,125
Inclusive of applicable buyer's fee.
RM | Sotheby's - LONDON 5 SEPTEMBER 2018
Chassis No.
WP0ZZZ96ZPS497098
62P85636
Documents: UK V5
One of only three Carrera RS 3.8s built to RHD specifications
Three owners and just under 20,000 km from new
Retains its original engine
Extremely well optioned
Please kindly note UK V5 is currently being amended with DVLA. This should be expected to be received within 4-6 weeks from the sale date.
Light and powerful, the RS 3.8 is among the most desirable of Porsche's 964-era road machines. While the wide-bodied 1993–1994 RS 3.8 resembled its sibling 964 Turbo, it is readily identifiable by its larger fixed bi-plane fiberglass rear wing with the '3.8' logo embossed on its side plates.
Porsche claimed that its Type 964 platform, unveiled in January of 1989, was more than 85% new. The 964 was a bit stubbier in appearance, with both its nose and tail sheathed in new, smooth thermoplastic bumper covers that hid its impact bumper systems. While instantly recognizable as a 911, the 964 floor pan was designed to accommodate a new all-wheel-drive system developed for Porsche's first supercar, the other-worldly Gruppe B – later known as the Type 959 and 961. The 964 with this system would be called the Carrera 4, which was followed a few months later by the rear-drive Carrera 2. It was this version upon which Porsche created its higher-performance and racing derivatives. The first of that line was the RS 3.6 of 1992, which was powered by a warmed-up version of the normally aspirated 3.6-litre engine. Porsche then offered the brilliant Carrera RS 3.8 for model years 1993–1994, offering a normally aspirated, fuel-injected 300 bhp engine and uprated five-speed manual transaxle.
Porsche had already enjoyed success with its single-model 944 Cup racing series, and as Jürgen Barth, head of Porsche's Customer Sport Department, noted, the 964 could also serve as the basis of a new 'spec-class' series that would meet the FIA's Group 'N' regulations for larger, series-production touring cars and GTs. These were known as 964 Carrera Cup cars, and they quickly became very sought after. The Cup cars served as the homologation basis that legalized the 3.8 RSR for international competition.
The RSR 3.8's front lid and doors were of aluminium alloy rather than steel as on the production 964. The door and rear quarter windows were thinner and lighter, following the practice established by the 1973 Carrera RS 2.7 lightweights. There was no sound insulation or undercoating, thinner and lighter carpeting replaced the 964's standard plush fare, the rear seats were removed, along with most other comfort and convenience items such as the power door locks, air-conditioning and electric windows. The 964's power-adjustable seats were replaced by hard-shelled racing buckets. The door cards subscribed to the lightweight RS 2.7 and 3.0 theme, with simple strap pulls and no armrests. There was a transverse suspension brace in the front trunk. However, while weight reduction remained a primary concern, there were some RS 3.8 buyers who wanted a vehicle that could be road-driven with a measure of comfort, so they opted to retain certain features.
Finished in Grand Prix White (P5P5) with a black and grey (YY) leather interior, this RS 3.8 strassenwagen was heavily optioned from the factory. Its build sheet includes M491 Turbo-look bodywork, a five-speed transmission, a 40/40 limited-slip differential, power-assisted steering, a leather-wrapped sport steering wheel without airbags, a 92-litre fuel tank (the normal 964 petrol tank held 77 litres), driver and passenger sport seats with their hard-back shells painted body colour, a set of 18" Speedline three-piece polished alloy modular Carrera Cup wheels with anti-theft locks, controls labelled in English and H4 headlamps for left-side-of-the-road-British traffic.
Of the 55 3.8 RS' constructed, just three, including 7098, the beautiful example offered here, were outfitted to RHD specifications for 'C16', or England/Australia. This car was ordered through Porsche Customer Racing Service in Weissach by its first owner, Australian exotic car collector and restaurant chain owner Barry Fitzgerald. Upon completion on 16 September 1993, it was shipped to Mr Fitzgerald and checked over at Porsche's Australian distributor, Hamilton Pty., Ltd. Mr Fitzgerald clearly enjoyed his RS on the road, and had it serviced regularly at Porsche Centres as attested to by regular stamped entries in its maintenance booklet. In December of 2005, with some 17,000 km on the clock, he offered it for sale. Two additional Australian owners would enjoy and maintain the car, but only add a few more miles. In 2015, it was exported to England, and today, its odometer shows fewer than 20,000 km from new.
Fitted with a Matter alloy rollbar and racing harnesses, this magnificent 964 RS 3.8 presents in lovely condition. Its interior and engine bay have been carefully detailed and appear as new. It is supplied with a folio of original documents and receipts and factory correspondence, original manuals, a correct spare wheel, compressor, jack and tool roll. This RS 3.8 represents an opportunity to acquire one of the rarest right-hand-drive Porsches ever built.
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— St. Paul's Church —
Baroque jewel in a Gothic shrine
St Paul's Church, close to the River Scheldt, is positively radiant. Once part of a Dominican monastery, it is nowadays a vibrant parish church. St Paul's is the only place in the world where you can find paintings by the Antwerp masters Rubens, Van Dyck and Jordaens together in the very spot for which they were created. You can admire over 50 paintings here, 200 beautiful statues, furnishings of the highest quality and a magnificent organ. Outside, you'll find the dramatic, epic Calvary Garden devoted to Christ's Passion and Resurrection. The church resounds with music on important feast days, with orchestral masses that add yet another dimension.
Veemarkt
2000 Antwerp
Visiting the church is free of charge.
Visitors to the treasury who are not Antwerp City Card-holders are kindly invited to make a donation.
Opening times *
April–October:
daily: 2–5 p.m.
November–March:
Saturdays and Sundays: 2–5 p.m.
* Opening times are subject to change for liturgical reasons.
Sundays and public holidays, 10.30 a.m.
Orchestral masses – organ masses – soloist masses (vocal or instrumental) – Gregorian chant
You can find more information about the church's pastoral and parochial activities here.
on foot: it takes about 25 minutes to walk to the church from Antwerp Central railway station.
by bike: Velo station no. 50 (Klapdorp), 49 (Tolhuis) and 58 (Noorderterras). You can find more information at www.velo-antwerpen.be
by car: there are several public car parks within short walking distance, including 'Parking Scheldekaaien Noord'
NB: please bear in mind that the whole central Antwerp is a Low Emission Zone. You can find more information at www.slimnaarantwerpen.be/LEZ
by public transport: the church can be reached by Tram 7 (direction: 'Eilandje' – stop 'Klapdorp'). It is then a few minutes' walk away.
Plan your route at Google Maps
Sint-Paulusstraat 22
info@sintpaulusantwerpen.be
tel. + 32 (0)3 231 31 48
www.sintpaulusantwerpen.be
For individual visitors
free of charge, no booking required
in Dutch, English, French and German
€ 85 per group for a guided tour of a maximum of two hours
maximum 20 persons per group
Tours are also offered for schools and for blind and partially-sighted visitors.
Advance booking required. Tailored arrangements possible on booking.
Information and booking via sintpaulusvrienden@proximus.be or +32 494 448 253
Story of the church
St Paul's Church is a beacon within Antwerp's historical shippers' quarter. A major surprise and an intense experience await you: the artistic wealth of the church (a magnificent ensemble), the sense of stillness in the heart of urban Antwerp, and the vibrant parochial activities.
From monastery to parish church
St Paul's Church experienced a landmark year in 1571: almost three centuries since the first little building was completed, a new church was now inaugurated, larger and taller than its predecessor, which used to flood at spring tide. St Paul's was part of a grand monastery complex belonging to the Dominicans or Friars Preachers, who had established themselves in Antwerp as early as the 1240s to preach the true faith. In 1796, their monastery was abolished by the French authorities, and several years later St Paul's became a parish church. Its contents have remained intact, even in 1968 when there was a major fire here, from which the church has since recovered.
St Paul's Church is a Gothic structure, but its furnishings and works of art mainly date from the Baroque 17th century, as does the remarkable crowning feature, the lantern tower. The portal too has a thoroughly Baroque flavour. The depth effect in the church is very striking, due in part to the elongated choir. Light and space play their brilliant game here, in a marvellous harmony of austere Gothic and dynamic Baroque.
It has been possible to visit the Treasury of the church since 2001, with items stretching back over no fewer than eight centuries. What you can admire here comes partly from the former Dominican monastery, but also from the former Church of St Walburga in Antwerp, which no longer exists, and from two centuries of life as a parish church. Besides dazzling ecclesiastical treasures, set with diamonds, you will discover the testimony here of devout parishioners.
Discover more about the church's history (topa.be)
St Paul's Church offers a rich and harmonious ensemble to admire, created by the painters, sculptors and furniture makers of Antwerp, all in a wonderfully light interior full of playful movement.
Five highlights
1. Outstanding series by outstanding painters
If you look closely, you will find rosaries – the prayer beads used by Catholic worshippers – all over the place. There is a reason for this: Pope Pius V, who was a Dominican, attributed the victory in 1571 of the Spanish and Venetian navy over a Turkish fleet off Lepanto in Italy to the power of the Rosary prayer to the Virgin Mary. That same year, the Fraternity of the Holy Rosary was founded in Antwerp. The group still exists today.
Around 1617, its members commissioned a magnificent series of 15 paintings by 11 Antwerp masters, including Rubens, Van Dyck and Jordaens. The works, which still hang in the place for which they were created, depict five joyful, sorrowful and triumphant moments in the Life of the Virgin Mary.
2. Faith and truth
Peter I Verbrugghen and his son completed the marble high altar in 1670. It is a monument in black and white, the colours of the Dominicans: white stands for the poverty which the monks vow to adopt, and black to express mourning and sorrow for a sinful humanity. Faith and truth are central concepts for the order and they are also what the two figures at the top represent.
3. Masterpieces of woodcarving
How do you represent visually the battle between good and evil in every human being? Repentance and penance? Look at the ten confessionals by Peter I Verbrugghen and his workshop (1658–1660). The 500 or so little angels alone, complete with their attributes, are sure to set your imagination racing. No matter how sinful you are, you can't help being cheered up by them. And that's even before we turn to the 40 life-sized figures.
4. Organ of European stature
You simply have to hear the imposing organ, which is one of the finest in Europe. Opportunities include the orchestral masses held at St Paul's Church on feast days. The organ case was carved in the 1650s by Peter I Verbrugghen and the instrument itself has been rebuilt several times, including around 1730 by the great Jean-Baptiste Forceville.
5. Silent theatre in the open air: Mount Calvary
This theatrical group artwork, a frozen piece of outdoor drama, dates from the first half of the 18th century. It comprises no fewer than 63 life-sized statues as well as nine reliefs. The highpoint is Mount Calvary itself, an artificial rocky hill. Christ's death on the cross and resurrection from the tomb lie at the core of the Christian faith.
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MIT computational simulator speeds up development of new solar cells
In the ongoing race to develop ever-better materials and configurations for solar cells, there are many variables that can be adjusted to try to improve performance, including material type, thickness, and geometric arrangement.
Developing new solar cells has generally been a tedious process of making small changes to one of these parameters at a time. While computational simulators have made it possible to evaluate such changes without having to actually build each new variation for testing, the process remains slow.
Now, researchers at MIT and Google Brain have developed a system that makes it possible not just to evaluate one proposed design at a time, but to provide information about which changes will provide the desired improvements. This could greatly increase the rate for the discovery of new, improved configurations.
The new system, called a differentiable solar cell simulator, is described in a paper published today in the journal Computer Physics Communications, written by MIT junior Sean Mann, research scientist Giuseppe Romano of MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, and four others at MIT and at Google Brain.
Traditional solar cell simulators, Romano explains, take the details of a solar cell configuration and produce as their output a predicted efficiency — that is, what percentage of the energy of incoming sunlight actually gets converted to an electric current. But this new simulator both predicts the efficiency and shows how much that output is affected by any one of the input parameters. "It tells you directly what happens to the efficiency if we make this layer a little bit thicker, or what happens to the efficiency if we for example change the property of the material," he says.
In short, he says, "we didn't discover a new device, but we developed a tool that will enable others to discover more quickly other higher performance devices." Using this system, "we are decreasing the number of times that we need to run a simulator to give quicker access to a wider space of optimized structures." In addition, he says, "our tool can identify a unique set of material parameters that has been hidden so far because it's very complex to run those simulations."
While traditional approaches use essentially a random search of possible variations, Mann says, with his tool "we can follow a trajectory of change because the simulator tells you what direction you want to be changing your device. That makes the process much faster because instead of exploring the entire space of opportunities, you can just follow a single path" that leads directly to improved performance.
Since advanced solar cells often are composed of multiple layers interlaced with conductive materials to carry electric charge from one to the other, this computational tool reveals how changing the relative thicknesses of these different layers will affect the device's output. "This is very important because the thickness is critical. There is a strong interplay between light propagation and the thickness of each layer and the absorption of each layer," Mann explains.
Other variables that can be evaluated include the amount of doping (the introduction of atoms of another element) that each layer receives, or the dielectric constant of insulating layers, or the bandgap, a measure of the energy levels of photons of light that can be captured by different materials used in the layers.
This simulator is now available as an open-source tool that can be used immediately to help guide research in this field, Romano says. "It is ready, and can be taken up by industry experts." To make use of it, researchers would couple this device's computations with an optimization algorithm, or even a machine learning system, to rapidly assess a wide variety of possible changes and home in quickly on the most promising alternatives.
At this point, the simulator is based on just a one-dimensional version of the solar cell, so the next step will be to expand its capabilities to include two- and three-dimensional configurations. But even this 1D version "can cover the majority of cells that are currently under production," Romano says. Certain variations, such as so-called tandem cells using different materials, cannot yet be simulated directly by this tool, but "there are ways to approximate a tandem solar cell by simulating each of the individual cells," Mann says.
The simulator is "end-to-end," Romano says, meaning it computes the sensitivity of the efficiency, also taking into account light absorption. He adds: "An appealing future direction is composing our simulator with advanced existing differentiable light-propagation simulators, to achieve enhanced accuracy."
Moving forward, Romano says, because this is an open-source code, "that means that once it's up there, the community can contribute to it. And that's why we are really excited." Although this research group is "just a handful of people," he says, now anyone working in the field can make their own enhancements and improvements to the code and introduce new capabilities.
"Differentiable physics is going to provide new capabilities for the simulations of engineered systems," says Venkat Viswanathan, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, who was not associated with this work. "The differentiable solar cell simulator is an incredible example of differentiable physics, that can now provide new capabilities to optimize solar cell device performance," he says, calling the study "an exciting step forward."
In addition to Mann and Romano, the team included Eric Fadel and Steven Johnson at MIT, and Samuel Schoenholz and Ekin Cubuk at Google Brain. The work was supported in part by Eni S.p.A. and the MIT Energy Initiative, and the MIT Quest for Intelligence.
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Tej Pratap Yadav scripts tale of thwarted ambition, but can he rock brother Tejashwi's boat in Bihar politics?
Politics Pragya Singh Nov 30, 2018 20:08:24 IST
He played the chief minister of Bihar in the 2016 Bhojpuri film Apaharan Udyog. But in the real-life political drama unfolding within his family, Tej Pratap Yadav finds himself playing second fiddle to his younger brother, Tejashwi. And ever since he filed for divorce at a Patna court in October, the older of Bihar's former chief ministers Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi's sons has been venting his rebellious streak. The marital discord has added an intimate contour to the political imbroglio emerging in the Lalu clan and a rivalry between brothers. Their quandary reflects the clash within the family and the changing perceptions in the state about key voters of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD): Bihar's 14 to 16 percent Yadav population.
Tej Pratap's recent averments manifest the fury of one who feels rejected by his own. They also exhibit his strong will as he refuses, in his typical rustic style, to play an understudy to Tejashwi. Now party leaders say a fecund Yadav elite and middle class will reject Tej Pratap's unrefined ways. He has adopted the language and flair of politics of latter-day Yadavs, his father's traditional supporters. For instance, after the state's RJD-Congress-JD(U) coalition government fell in 2017, Tej Pratap blew the conch shell, referred to being a Yadav, and said at a public meeting: "Papa will say I'm stealing his speech—and I will!" In imitating his hugely popular father, regardless of the jail term Lalu is serving for the fodder scam, Tej Pratap lost the middle-class polish that tomorrow's OBC politics demands, giving Tejashwi the edge. "Bihar's Yadavs have become much more refined, socially and politically," says a Congress leader from Vaishali. "Yadav youth believe in the backward-forward dynamic, but not with the intensity of Lalu's heyday." Lalu's projection of his more urbane son, therefore, signals his rejection of his own political style.
File image of RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav. News18
The 29-year-old Tej Pratap is scripting a tale of thwarted ambition in public, displaying a personality closer than his brother's to their father. A third contender for the political crown in the family, Misa Bharti, has signaled support for Tej Pratap, giving critics more fuel. "The question of Tejashwi taking the lead has been settled by none other than Lalu Yadav," says Manoj Jha, RJD member in the Rajya Sabha. "The siblings are 100 percent united and any issues in Tej Pratap's marriage are personal."
Tejashwi was made deputy chief minister in 2015 when the RJD, Congress and Janata Dal (United) formed the government. Tej Pratap got the health ministry. After this government collapsed, Tejahswi became the leader of Opposition. Tej Pratap's sense of hurt over this is understandable—his outrage appears like rebellion because Tejashwi has been handpicked by their father.
Since then, Tej Pratap has displayed dissident individualism either in veiled barbs or direct allegations. For example, he once said, "Party people don't answer my calls because leaders have asked them not to." On a separate occasion, he said his relationship with Tejashwi is unbreakable, like Krishna's with Balaram, referring to the exemplars of filial ties from the epic Mahabharata—another way to convey his secondary status.
"Bringing up mythological figures is Tej Pratap's way of reconciling with his demotion," says Mohammad Sajjad, who teaches history at Aligarh Muslim University and is a commentator on Bihar politics. "It also sends a message to his voters that he's not out of the political game."
Tej Pratap is overtly religious since childhood, dressing up as Lord Krishna, whom the Yadavs revere. He also plays the flute and conch shells in public to forge a close connection with Yadav voters.
Yet, party leaders and allies find Tej Pratap too rough: in Hajipur in 2015, he is said to have yelled at a senior leader in Lalu's presence. "This was because Tej Pratap's photo was not put up on a public poster," says Sajjad. "Lalu looked on helplessly, but must have realised his son could antagonise party leaders." About a year ago, Tej Pratap threatened to "skin" Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an angry reaction to the central government's decision to downgrade the security cover of his father.
In Mahua, the Assembly constituency in Vaishali from where Tej Pratap was elected in 2015, he has made the political mistake of going invisible. "Except when he arrives occasionally with two-three friends from Patna," says the Congress leader from Vaishali. "He doesn't know ten people here." Then again, Lalu's politically untested sons got votes primarily because he and Rabri campaigned for them, and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar was a prominent alliance face.
RJD leaders say when Lalu became Member of Parliament in 1977, Yadavs were neither educated nor had a salient middle class. "That's why Lalu's politics was always dominated by the struggle of 'backwards against forwards'," says an old-time RJD member and former Bihar minister. "Forward-backward" politics symbolises the struggle of the numerous downtrodden against a smaller traditional or caste elite. However, times have changed. Tejashwi is a dynast who has gained initial acceptance in the party because of his father's clout. He has more political sense than his older brother, and wants to expand the RJD's Muslim-Yadav social base. But he is also hamstrung by corruption charges. Expanding the social base of his party will be a challenge for him as Yadavs are bound to resist, unlike the social engineering formula of Lalu that they could dominate.
Should Tej Pratap want, he can rock Tejashwi's political boat because his clout within the party persists, despite the sidelining. This makes his refusal to buckle under family pressure to reconcile with his wife, Aishwarya, significant. "The marriage will have a political fallout because there is a fight within the family," says Devesh Kumar, vice-president of the BJP in Bihar. Kumar's party also attacked Lalu for overlooking the principle of primogeniture in elevating Tejashwi, calling it contrary to Hindu tradition. "We raised that issue as we were trying to play one against the other in the family," Kumar says.
Obviously, this aspect of his demotion would not be lost on Tej Pratap, a man who repeatedly asserts his own will. He would be hurt by speculation that his father picked the educated, elite Aishwarya, possibly as his future political proxy. In choosing Aishwarya, Lalu broke with Rabri Devi's past averment that she wouldn't seek a "mall-going" wife for her sons, and Tej Pratap is said to be his mother's favourite.
Rai's family is a polar opposite to Lalu's: educated, wealthy and powerful since the pre-Mandal 1980s, when Yadavs neither enjoyed reservation nor dominated Bihar's politics. Lalu, an astute politician, perhaps sought to paper over his son's rough edges — he never finished school — by choosing a wife educated in elite institutions. But his son rejected this blatantly aspirational match, instead calling Rai and himself the "north and south poles". Thus, he demonstrated obstinacy and boldness, characteristics that made his father a totem for canny politics. But that may not be enough for the older son to outshine his sibling.
Updated Date: Nov 30, 2018 20:08:24 IST
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Is Punjab heading towards a cultural change?
March 18, 2022 By Iqbal Singh Lalpura
Iqbal Singh Lalpura
Sarkar-e-Khalsa, history and tradition of Punjab
Professor Puran Singh, the legendary Sikh Scholar has written "Punjab Na Hindu Na Musalman! Punjab Jeonda Guruan De Naa Te" (Punjab is neither Hindu nor Muslim. Punjab lives on the name of the Gurus). Bhai Gurdas has also written "Jahar Peer Jagat Guru Baba." Guru Nanak Dev Ji sang this Shabad in praise of the 'One, infinite Omnipresent God'.
Guru Nanak Dev Ji preached a new way of life to be lived with honesty and discipline, dignity and honour. He preached that there is only one God and we remember him with different names .
Baba Banda Singh Bahadur established independent rule and Maharaja Ranjeet Singh Bahadur established an Empire. Both were based on "Halemi Raaj" that advocated respect for all religions and human beings. In Khalsa Raj distinguished personalities (Generals, scholars, poets, administrators) from Europe and the rest of the known world came to serve this richest and most secular Empire and Nation on earth during those days . This may be the reason that all Governments in Punjab since independence have had the portrait of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the Chief Minister's office.
The contribution of Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar in struggle for freedom and as head of the Constitution Committee is unmatchable ,that is why ,we already have his photographs and statues in Government offices and public places .
In Punjab the traditional salutations are Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa; Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh, Sat Siri Akal, Jai Shri Ram Ram, Namastey, As-salam-alaykum, Adab, Jai Bhim, Jai Bharat, Jai Hind, Bharat Mata Ki Jai and many others.
During agitations, people do raise the slogan, "Inqlab Zindabaad" coined by Shaheed-a-Azam Bhagat Singh. This slogan , however, does not form a salutation in Punjabi society.
Shaheed-e- Azam Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru and Sukhdev are accepted heroes of Indian struggle for independence. Since independence many political parties have tried to cash their popularity, but none could come near let alone implement, the vision of Bhagat Singh as recorded in his jail diary. None has accepted his ideology as interpreted in many books and shown in the many movies.
Now the country is free from foreign rule and the largest democracy in the world. The need is to implement the vision of such heroes who gave us independence and not to use their slogans to ignite sentiments. Delhi does not have a Lok Pal, who so ever raised such issues was thrown out of the concerned party.
The man who took oath with S. Manpreet Singh Badal that he will not join any other party has already broken his promise. I, however, am not here to discuss morality , but to save my culture.
The slogan of "Inqlab Zindabad" or "Inqlab" raised by most of the AAP MLA's after taking oath does not match with culture of Punjab and the message of love and service preached by Sikh Gurus. They were taking an oath to do justice and that was not time to agitate against any one by raising such emotive slogan.
Punjab have seen militancy; the people had given verdict in their favour in 1989. The boycott of 1992 elections was also their dictat. Law and order problems have been created by slogans since 1982. We need peace and harmony for the development of Punjab. Let's all work for this.
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The hierarchical paradigm meets the collaborative operating system
Ron Richard
After years of work, study and research, my developed inherent quality management principles (noted here) among other advocated a need to: promote professionalism and transparency, and increasingly make quality a mindset, while removing fear and barriers to innovation and collaboration. It is that context that had me want to explore an approach that had come to my attention. Upon contacting colleague, Sheila M. Kelly, an expert on the approach, she graciously shared the following:
One of my clients works as many as 80 hours a week during peak periods. She goes above and beyond the parameters of her job description. She makes her boss look good. In spades. So good that the boss gets a bonus. My client hardly gets so much as a "thank you." She remains impossibly positive and upbeat in the face of such glaring inequities, but she is also frustrated.
It is but one of many stories I hear about the inequities of the workplace. Is it any wonder that workplace disengagement is at epidemic proportions? It is heartbreaking but indisputable: Workplace disengagement is a world-wide phenomenon, with Harvard, for example, reporting up to 80 per cent employee disengagement as a result of rude and uncivil behavior. There are countless reasons cited for the causes of disengagement and countless solutions offered. As someone who used to sit outside my own workplace filled with dread, I can only say, "I understand. Completely."
One aspect of disengagement that is rarely addressed is the system itself; specifically, the hierarchical system which is so deeply entrenched in our collective psyche that it has become a paradigm. A paradigm, by its very nature, is a set of assumptions, concepts, values and practices that constitute a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them. Because a paradigm is largely unconscious, it remains unexamined and unquestioned.
The hierarchical paradigm is built around competition, winners and losers, and scarcity. And, yes, leaders positioned at the top. Dr. David Hoffman, University of North Carolina, says that "Everyone agrees that hierarchy is dead; it's just that we don't have anything to replace it with."
Rachel Conerly has developed The Collaborative Operating System (COS), a highly-effective and scalable alternative to the current paradigm known as hierarchy. Unlike hierarchy, a useful structure (which our world attempts to use implicitly as a system), the COS is a true system. It can be used as a management system, or to do any of the things for which we currently use hierarchy – which of course is nearly everything. There are 5 steps to COS:
Identify the problem;
Involve all relevant stakeholders;
Design and facilitate collaborative meetings;
Form the collaborative team;
Create a collaborative plan.
Because it's such a powerful system, a little goes a long way; small, subtle changes have a powerful impact. Implementation begins without fanfare and often with only one or two individuals anywhere in the organization. Because it is a way of working that really works, it spreads on its own merit.
Sheila believes that anyone who is in charge of a team, anywhere in the workplace, can begin to substitute these principles for the current hierarchical status quo. She says it is especially powerful for those in leadership positions who are uncomfortable with the "command and control" style of management. She says a collaborative leader is one who listens first and involves all relevant stakeholders — at all levels of the organization — in the decision-making process; and that a collaborative leader is one who understands that "Together we all lead."
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3 Reasons Why It's a Good Idea to Resurrect a Species
Why should we spend time and resources to bring back species when so many are dying now?
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This week scientists at Harvard University announced that they had assembled a nearly complete genome of the little bush moa. Never spotted one of these at your backyard feeder? Well, neither has anyone else alive today: the flightless bird has been extinct for about 700 years.
But if scientists get their way, that could soon change. Assembling the complete genome of the moa — and those of other long-gone creatures like the woolly mammoth, passenger pigeons, or even our Neanderthal cousins — is the first step in bringing those species back to life. Or at least, scientists' closest approximation.
The researchers first got their hands on the moa DNA by extracting it from a big toe of a museum specimen, they told Stat News.
Using modern technology to revive extinct species is known simply as "de-extinction," though the process is not what you'd call simple.
It's like putting together a jigzaw puzzle that has 900 million pieces. And is still missing some. And you don't have the picture on the box. But you have a puzzle that's similar as reference.
The key components of all species' DNA are nucleotides: adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine — noted by the letters A, C, G, and T, respectively. The Harvard team started with 900 million of the moa's nucleotides to start piecing together its entire genome (they aren't saying how many they needed for a complete genome). Using the genome of a modern bird relative, the emu, to fill in the blanks, the researchers were able to piece together about 85 percent of the bird's genome — on par with the genomes of other extinct species.
Once scientists organize the genome, the next step is deciding how to best attempt to revive the species. Researchers can opt for "backbreeding," a process in which they take a closely related species and selectively breed it until they produce something akin to the extinct species. If the species hasn't been extinct for very long and researchers have a sample from, perhaps, the last living member, cloning may also be a viable option. The third option — using genetic engineering — is relatively new. With an accurate assembly of an extinct species' genetic data, researchers can inject them into an egg of a living species that's genetically close to the one they're attempting to bring back to life.
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So bringing species back from the dead is feasible, if improbable and resource-intensive. But the question remains: why revive extinct species at all? If we've learned anything from Jurassic Park (which, let's be honest, we all have) it's that "just because we can, doesn't mean we should." Here are some reasons that scientists have used to justify their work.
To Improve Our Science
Every time scientists make sense of an extinct species' genetic information, they get better at doing it. Yes, the human researchers improve, but so do the computer algorithms that help them parse out the data. With each attempt, researchers learn more about the sequencing process, and can train the technology to perform its tasks more accurately and efficiently. And the genomes researchers are reconstructing now could be useful for assembling the DNA of other species in the future. Little by little, they're assembling a genetic Rolodex for nearly every species on Earth.
Science for science's sake is a noble effort, but there are also many arguments for "resurrection biology," which frame the effort as being less about the de-extinction of species that have been lost to us, and more about preventing the extinction of endangered species.
To Save Endangered Species
As humans have taken up more space and resources, we've destroyed natural habitats and endangered species. Many of those species eventually go extinct, pushing biodiversity levels below the "safe" threshold — the level at which the ecosystems can regenerate and sustain us — around the globe. The less biodiversity in an ecosystem, the greater chance species after species will go extinct.
We'll feel the effects of biodiversity loss, especially when it comes to plants. The medications that we take are produced from or with plant extracts; the textiles and fabrics that we use in our clothing, and much of what we eat, all come from plant species. Plants depend the animals and insects in their environments for pollination and propagation. In return, those critters rely on crops for nutrition and housing just as we do. If those pollinators go extinct, the plants — and the species, like us, that rely on those plants —also go extinct.
Some species, called keystone species, are more important than others in maintaining that biodiversity. The passenger pigeon, for example, (a relatively recent extinction and thus a good candidate for resurrection) shaped many of North America's forests. When the species was lost, the forests lost the main driver of their regulation cycle and have never been the same.
Reviving extinct keystone species, then, could help us preserve biodiversity, and, possibly, the ecosystems as a whole.
To Preserve the Planet
Bringing now-dead species back to life might help Earth survive in the long run. At least, that's what Beth Shapiro, a biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, thinks. Shapiro has worked on several de-extinction projects (including the moa's). In a 2015 interview with Smithsonian Magazine, Shapiro said she believed that land conservation efforts are simply not enough to preserve the planet. Much of the world's biodiversity has been lost as a result of human interference: either directly via practices like deforestation, or indirectly, through our refusal to accept the realities of climate change.
If we want to get an idea of what happens to the world's ecosystems after a major climate shift, we need not look further than previous extinction events. The woolly mammoth, for example, used to fertilize the grasslands of Siberia; after it went extinct, the entire region became icy and barren.
"De-extinction may not be the answer to the biodiversity crisis that we are facing today, but the technologies that are being developed in the name of de-extinction may become powerful new tools in an active conservation regime," Shapiro told Smithsonian. "Why not provide populations a little bit of genomic assistance so they can survive in a world that is changing too quickly for natural evolutionary processes to keep up?"
Considering that humans have, for millennia, pushed out species that were here long before us... that seems like the very least we could do.
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Thriller, Mistery, Horror
Protozoa Pictures, Paramount Pictures
Suitable only for adults
United Kingdom: September 15 2017
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Directed by Darren Aronofsky, filmmaker of acclaimed movies like 'Requiem for a Dream' or 'Black Swan', the film was shown in the Official Selection of the 74th Venice International Film Festival. Allegory to various fragments of the Bible, a woman awakened after a strange dream in which a burned mansion recovers spontaneously. The woman notices that her husband is not in bed and she's looking for him. He is a recognized writer or, rather, poet. After a time of lack of ideas, the marriage decides to settle in a house to the suburbs, in the middle of the field and away from the bustle of the city. As they begin to settle in their new residence, during the night, a strange man knocks on the door. The man confesses to be a great follower of the poet's literary work, which causes him to invite the stranger to dinner, in the face of his wife's bewilderment. That unexpected invitation will provoke that there are others more, more uncomfortable if it fits, they cause a series of extreme situations that will endanger the pair. Hide full plot... Show full plot
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