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HEMA: What Off-Hand Weapon would you use with your Sword?
HEMA stands for "Historical European Martial Arts" and is defined as any historically preserved warfare, dueling, or self-defense system originating from Europe – and by extension anywhere in the Western world. This HEMA based quiz is to determine what off-hand weapon would fit you best in a Late Medieval or Renaissance setting. "Off-Hand Weapon" means the sort of weapon you would wield in your off-hand assuming that you were wielding a one-hand sword in your dominant hand.
Created By Tidewater Renaissance Fighting Arts
Are you interested in a mostly military fencing style or civilian fencing style?
Military. I want to be able to fight effectively against all sorts of weapons and armor.
Civilian. I want something light, quick to the draw, and effective for duels, street fights, and self-defense.
If you were fighting in war, would you prefer to fight in a tight infantry formation or a loose, small skirmisher, ranger, or adventurer group?
Small, loose skirmisher/ranger/adventurer group.
Infantry formation.
Off-hand weapons are frequently used to parry enemy attacks. What sorts of weapons are you likely to face and what sorts of attacks do you want to be good at parrying?
Both cuts and thrusts are very deadly. I would rather be able to defend against both decently well rather than specializing.
Best defense against a melee weapon? Shoot them.
I expect to fight against a lot of sabers, halberds, two-hand swords, etc. I need to be able to strongly parry their overwhelming, devastating cuts without being over-powered. Parrying cuts is my focus.
I expect to fight against a lot of thrusting weapons like rapiers or spears. Parrying their quick, subtle, deceptive, and effortlessly lethal thrusts is my core focus.
If you were to fight in war, how much armor would you prefer to wear?
Full Plate, of course! It's the best protection and only weighs 40 lbs. to 65 lbs. max.
Partial Plate armor to protect the vitals or possibly a coat of mail. Armor is expensive, plus I want to be as nimble as possible. 15 to 55 lbs. max.
How much armor do you expect most of your opponents to be wearing?
I'm focusing on war and military applications. So I'm likely to fight a lot of armored opponents: Full Plate, coats of Mail, Brigandine, Lemellar, etc.
I'm focusing on a civilian context. Plus, even in war, most people can't afford full plate anyway.
Do you expect to use your off-hand weapon primarily to parry or to attack?
Primarily to parry while my sword does most of the attacking
Primary as another weapon to attack with
Balance of both
How big is your bag of sneaky tricks? Do you employ a lot of deception, feinting, and mind games?
I use a few tricks, but I'm not an especially sneaky fighter.
Absolutely! Deception and mind games are the way to win.
Not really. I don't focus on tricks, just solid stats: speed, power, defense.
Does your sword have a lot of hand protection? Remember, the hands are the easiest thing to hit in fencing.
Not a lot. My sword has some hand protection, though I will certainly need to defend my hands well with my off-hand weapon.
Yes. My hand is very well protected, so I can use my off-hand weapon for other things.
How much range do you want for your off-hand weapon and why?
I want a ranged weapon! My sword can handle melee combat and my off-hand can attack them from afar.
I want an off-hand weapon that is shorter than my sword. That allows for the sword to handle farther distances while the off-hand weapon handles close-in combat. Plus, the sword can attack while the off-hand weapon parries.
I want a weapon of equal length in each hand. Dual Wielding gives me a dizzying array of options to overwhelm my opponent.
How important is it for you to be able to bind well, trap your opponent's weapons, hook them, grapple with them, and so forth?
Very important to me! Those are incredibly useful techniques!
Not so important. So long as their attack is parried, that's good. I don't need to get tangled up.
How important is it to you that you can easily carry and draw your weapons?
I'm between those two extremes. Something fairly effective, but also fairly easy to draw and wear all day.
Not so important. I can draw my sword quickly, of course. As for the off-hand weapon, effectiveness is more important than the quick draw. I don't care if it's bulky either.
Extremely important! Quick draws separate life from death - plus I'm going to be wearing these weapons at my belt all day. They better be comfortable.
During this era, it was perfectly acceptable to carry swords every day. Yet some off-hand weapons were socially frowned upon to carry in towns during peace time. Do you care if your weapon is socially acceptable for daily civilian use?
No. All I care about is if it works. I don't care about people's opinions.
Yes, of course. I want to be socially acceptable and not appear like a barbarian or trouble-maker.
Do you prefer a Medieval fencing style or a Renaissance fencing style?
Sword Alone (Empty Hand or Gauntlet)
Congratulations, you got Empty Hand/Gauntlet!
Even though this is an off-hand weapons quiz, there certainly are options to having nothing in the left hand. It allows for the longest stance that reduces your target size the most, making your harder to hit. It also makes grappling very easy, which is especially important for armored combat or for fighting against pole-arms. Having no off-hand weapon is also convenient due to having less to carry and being ready to fight without drawing another weapon.
Using a Gauntlet on the left hand is another closely related possibility. It allows for the off-hand to beat aside thrusts, grab the enemy's blade (so long as it's still at the time), and makes half-swording far safer. Half-Swording is when one hand holds the sword normally and the other grips the blade. This is especially important for armored combat since it provides maximum thrusting power, leverage, and point control for piercing the gaps of armor. Obviously, the Gauntlet doesn't even need to be drawn since you wear it and it allows for steel punches.
Sword Alone is taught by virtually all fencing masters, though Sword and Gauntlet (with no other armor) is rarely taught. It is taught in the Anonimo Bolognese manual. However, any armored combat manual with Sword Alone is technically Sword-and-Gauntlet.
Wearing a left-hand gauntlet in civilian circles was usually frowned upon. It was considered threatening and thuggish, similar to brass knuckles today.
Sword and Dagger
Congratulations, you got the Dagger!
Sword and Dagger was easily one of the most popular combinations in history - especially in the Renaissance. The reasons are legion. The dagger had a large cross guard and frequently more hand protection for the rest of the hand. The blade was often a foot or a foot and a half in length. This allowed it to be used as a very effective parrying weapon, allowing for strong binds. It can also thrust very well, penetrating many forms of armor.
Furthermore, the Dagger makes the Sword-and-Dagger much more effective at close distance fighting. As such, it is often paired with longer sword like a Long Civilian Rapier or a War Rapier. The sword has high reach and the dagger low. Between the two of them, the fencer can fight at any distance. There is also one illustration in Paulus Hector Mair of Dussack and Dagger (the Dussack being a Cutlass) and Scottish styles often used Broadsword and Dirk, a similar style.
Having two weapons such as the sword and dagger allows the swordsman to use both weapons to parry a very powerful attack, parry with one weapon while attacking with the other, or attacking two targets simultaneously from different angles. This makes it good at overwhelming opponents who are using single weapons.
The dagger is usually better at parrying thrusts rather than cuts, though it can still parry quite powerful cuts if used near the base of the opponent's weapon.
Masters that taught Sword and Dagger include Achille Marozzo, Giacomo Di Grassi, George Silver, Alfieri, Capo Ferro, Joachim Meyer, Paulus Hector Mair, and many more.
Two Swords (Dual Wielding)
Congratulations, you got Two Swords!
Duel Wielding Swords is also known as Case of Rapiers, Florentine Fencing, Twin Swords, etc.
While not as common as using a dagger, buckler, or shield in the off-hand, Twin Swords was still absolutely a real, historical fighting style. It was usually done with two Long Civilian Rapiers or two Side Swords (War Rapiers).
Using two swords at once allows for great redundancy - you have two weapons to cut with, thrust with, parry with, and bind and wind with. Each one can be put in different stances closing off different lines of attack. This makes it far more difficult to fight against someone using two swords. Also, they are used for simultaneous offense and defense. One sword parries while the other attacks. Both swords can be used to parry together against very powerful enemy attacks, both can be used to parry different attacks, or they can both attack different targets at once. Due to their length, both swords can be used interchangeably for single-time counter-cuts and counter-thrusts. Typically, one weapon is held more forward and used primarily defensively. The other is held back further and used more offensively. The two weapons frequently trade roles in a very complex and dynamic style. This is also a good style for use against multiple opponents.
However, there are several major weaknesses in Double Sword styles.
1. It is redundant. There is nothing that one sword does that the other could not do.
2. Drawing two swords out of their scabbards makes this style slower to the draw. On a related note, it is harder to carry around two swords. Sometimes this issue was obviated by having both in the same scabbard.
3. It is a more difficult style as it requires the fencer to be ambidextrous to a larger degree than other fencing styles. The time spent learning to make a more difficult style work could have been spent perfecting a simpler style.
4. The swords, being the same length, do not provide any significantly improved close-in fighting, though they perform very well at moderate distance.
4. The swords, being the same length, easily can get tangled with each other.
That last issue is the one most often exploited by opponents using larger weapons as they can parry both swords as if they were one weapon, tangling the two swords up and preventing the Twin Sword user from using them independently. Such tangling would not so easily occur with Sword and Dagger.
One final note is that using two swords at once was not only very difficult, it was also highly specialized. Few people carried two swords around on a daily basis for personal self defense. It would tend to be cumbersome. So it was rarely used for daily wear. It also was unsuitable for most roles in warfare. Using two swords on horseback makes little sense since one hand is needed for the reins. Finally, using two swords at once is a very bad idea for infantry formations. The style requires some room and a line of twin sword users would quickly become hopelessly tangled up with each other. This style could theoretically be used by skirmishers, rangers, adventurers, and duelists, though it remained very rare.
Twin Sword fencing was taught by Achille Marozzo, Antonio Manciolino, Camillo Paladini, Camillo Agrippa, Giacomo Di Grassi, Domingo Luis Godinho, and very briefly by Michael Hundt and Jakob Sutor von Baden.
Sword and Buckler
Congratulations, you got Sword and Buckler!
Sword and Buckler was perhaps the most successful two weapon style in history. There are references to Sword and Buckler dating back to the early Iron Age, through the Medieval era, and even into Early America with sword and buckler being used at Jamestown in the early 1600s!
Sword and buckler was done with every sword imaginable - from the Grosse Messer, to the Arming Sword, to the War Rapier and the Long Civilian Rapier. The bucklers themselves also varied substantially in size and shape. Bucklers were usually 9 inches in diameter up to 18 inches and their shapes ranged from convex to concave, from round to square to diamond, and they were generally made from steel. Many had spikes in the middle to increase their offensive usefulness. The buckler is held in a fist grip far from the body. Due to principles of geometry, the farther the buckler is from the body the more coverage it gives you. With only slight movement, the buckler can cover anything from the head to the knees.
The buckler's advantages are many and subtle. It is great for protecting the sword hand, allowing the fencer to safely close the distance against larger and longer weapons. It closes off the easiest target to hit. The buckler is also able to easily stifle enemy attacks just as they begin or just as they end, allowing the sword the freedom to attack while their weapon is pinned. The buckler can also be used to deflect, parry, and beat aside enemy attacks. It can be used as a grappling aid to hook behind their weapon and, of course, it can be used as a steel, spiky fist to strike their face.
It really only has two weaknesses - first, it is poor at intercepting thrust mid-attack. When long, nimble thrusting weapons are parried mid-attack by the buckler, they can at times wind around the buckler and attack behind it, thrusting the sword-and-buckler user. Second, the buckler is small. This size makes it easy to carry on the belt and very quick, but it does not have the coverage of a full shield. It is ineffective at stopping ranged attacks and can be overwhelmed by cuts from halberds, two-handed swords, etc. That's why the trick is to always bind/stifle/parry their weapon just at they begin their attack or just as they end it.
Sword and Buckler was taught in the oldest surviving fencing treatise: The British Royal Manuscript I.33 (the source of the illustration), as well as by Hans Talhoffer, Paulus Kal, George Silver, Achille Marozzo, Antonio Manciolino, Domingo Luis Godinho, Paulus Hector Mair, and many others.
Congratulations, you got the Sword and Shield!
Sword and Shield was a very popular combination for millennia. Roman legions, knights, and Conquistadors alike were famed and feared for their skilled use of Sword and Shield. Sadly, there are no Sword and Shields treatises surviving from the ancient or medieval era - just from the Renaissance. This is due to the fact that Full Plate Armor (worn by the nobility) made shields redundant. Why carry a shield when you are wearing one on your entire body? Yet by the Renaissance there were enough relatively wealthy commoners that Sword and Shield appears in the surviving martial arts literature. It was mostly used by people who were wearing partial suits of armor. For a short time, Sword and Shield proved highly effective against Pike formations due to the shield providing great protection against pikes as the Swordsmen closed the distance. Some steel shields were even proof to the guns of the time! Yet Sword and Shield users were very vulnerable to lance armed cavalry, meaning that they were rarely used in large numbers in open field warfare. Shields truly excelled in siege warfare! A swordsman could carry his shield above his head as he climbed a siege ladder, keeping him quite safe from all the arrows, rocks, and so forth raining down on him as he ascended the walls. Shields were also very useful inside the close corridors of the castle where long weapons would get tangled and it was very difficult for opponents to maneuver around the swordsman's shield.
These round, domed steel shields were called Targets in English and their users called "Targeteers." In Spanish they were "Rodeleros" using Rodelas. It was Rotella in Italian. The swords were usually straight, double-edged cut-and-thrust swords with complex hilts. They were generally shorter, beefier, and better at cutting than the long rapiers in the picture.
Sword and Shield allows for using both weapons at once for combined offensive and defensive maneuvers. Beat aside their weapon with the shield while attacking with the sword, parry low with the sword and bash them with the shield...sword and shield present tremendous variety and versatility! They are two halves of the same weapon and they are meant to be used simultaneously. The shield is not a passive defense, but active, aggressive, and mobile.
Sword and Shield is a truly excellent fencing style, relatively easy to learn, provides tremendous coverage/protection, and it is highly effective against most weapons. However, it still has some weaknesses. The shield blocks the swordsman's view, the shield prevents grappling since the hand is occupied, and the shields high momentum makes it less nimble than a buckler, dagger, or other off-hand weapon. So the shield may provide excellent protection, but it is vulnerable to feints. Furthermore, the shield cannot quickly be extended to protect the legs without crouching. Thus, attacks to the legs are common. Finally, shields are very large and cannot quickly as quickly deployed as a buckler or dagger. So Sword and Shield is more uncomfortable, bulky, and slower to the draw than other options.
Sword and Shield is taught by Achille Marozzo, Luis Godinho, Giacomo di Grassi, Donald McBane, and others.
Sword and Cloak
Congratulations, you got Sword and Cloak!
The cloak may not be what most people think of as a "weapon", but it can be surprisingly effective. It can be draped over the arm to block the view and disguise the movements of your sword, it can be wrapped around your left arm many times until the cloth is so thick that it can be used to knock aside a sword, and it can be used to throw onto your opponent's head or weapon. It has virtually no offensive power and it is not as good defensively as a dagger, sword, buckler, or shield, but the cloak is the best weapon for sneaky tricks and mind games. It is also a weapon that virtually everyone carried around with them on cold or rainy days. So it works extremely well for a non-weapon!
This weapon style was usually used with a Rapier, making it even easier to beat aside the cuts or thrusts of a lighter, more thrusting oriented weapon. However, a thrust directly into the cloak could very well pierce through.
Sword and Cloak was taught by such Masters as Jakob Sutor von Baden, Joachim Meyer, Achille Marozzo, Antonio Manciolino, Giacomo di Grassi, Francesco di Sandro Altoni, and others.
Sword and Pistol
Congratulations, you got Sword and Pistol!
While this combination may seem impossibly obvious to us in the 21st Century, pistols were not always reliable. They were very slow to load and inaccurate. Very early guns were often useless in wet weather and had a tendency to explode when overloaded with powder (which was measured out during reloading). As such, this style wasn't really a viable option until at least the invention of the Wheel Lock pistol. Wheel locks were not prone to exploding, they were more water proof, and they tended to be much more reliable, though there was a gap of a second or two between pulling the trigger and firing. Thus, many fencing masters would teach their students to listen for the click of the pistol, draw their sword, and lunge to kill before the gun could fire.
Flintlock Pistols made Sword and Pistol extremely common, though. Flintlocks were still slow to reload, but were otherwise very reliable weapons. You only had one or two shots before the reload, which is why warriors often carried multiple pistols. Even once a pistol was fired, it was still useful as melee weapons. Early pistols were quite heavy and often had a steel butt cap, making then make-shift maces once they had been fired. The pistol can be used to parry and strike fairly well, though not as well as a dagger or buckler.
Pistols could pierce through most armor, though a Renaissance Knight's hardened steel plate armor was generally proof to period pistols. Thus the pistol was often fired into the open visor, into the gaps of the armor, or into the thinner plates on the arms or legs. Even then, the best Renaissance armor was completely proof to flintlock pistols at point blank range. Against such fine armor, the only options are to shoot or thrust through the gaps and joints.
Over the course of the 1600s, the Pistol gradually took over from the dagger as the most common off-hand weapon. By the 1700s, the Pistol's ascendance was complete. Even then, however, having a pistol does not preclude carrying another melee weapon. Daggers, shields, and bucklers were still very useful in close quarters and the Scots in particular still used them well into the 1700s.
Michael Hundt in 1611 recommended the pistol as his favored off-hand weapon. Sword and Pistol also featured in Wallhausen's war book.
HEMA stands for "Historical European Martial Arts" and is defined as any historically preserved warfare, dueling, or self-defense system originating from Europe – and by extension anywhere in the Western world.
This HEMA based quiz is to determine what off-hand weapon would fit you best in a Late Medieval or Renaissance setting. "Off-Hand Weapon" means the sort of weapon you would wield in your off-hand assuming that you were wielding a one-hand sword in your dominant hand.


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Радикальный центр трёх окружностей — точка пересечения трёх радикальных осей пар окружностей. Если радикальный центр лежит вне всех трёх окружностей, то он является центром единственной окружности (радикальной окружности), которая пересекает три данных окружности ортогонально. Построение этой ортогональной окружности соответствует задаче Монжа. Это специальный случай теоремы о трёх конических сечениях.

Три радикальных оси пересекаются в одной точке, радикальном центре, по следующей причине: радикальная ось пары окружностей определяется как множество точек, имеющих одинаковую степень h относительно обеих окружностей. Например, для любой точки P на радикальной оси окружностей 1 и 2, степени относительно каждой из окружностей равны h1 = h2. Таким же образом для любой точки на радикальной оси окружностей 2 и 3 степени должны быть равны h2 = h3. Таким образом, в точке пересечения двух этих прямых эти три степени должны совпадать: h1 = h2 = h3. Из этого следует, что h1 = h3, и эта точка должна лежать на радикальной оси окружностей 1 и 3. Таким образом, все три радикальные оси проходят через одну точку — радикальный центр.

Примеры
 Радикальный центр имеет несколько приложений в геометрии. Он играет важную роль при решении задачи Аполлония, опубликованном Жозефом Диасом Жергонном в 1814 году.
 В  системы окружностей все вершины диаграммы лежат в радикальных центрах троек окружностей.
Центр Шпикера треугольника является радикальным центром трех его вневписанных окружностей.
 Также существуют другие радикальные центры, такие как радикальный центр окружностей Люка.
Ортополюс P прямой линии ℓ треугольника является радикальным центром трех окружностей, которые касаются  прямой линии ℓ и имеют центры в вершинах антидополнительного треугольника по отношению к данному треугольнику.

Ортогональность
 Две окружности, пересекающиеся под прямым углом, называются ортогональными. Окружности можно считать ортогональными, если они образуют прямой угол друг с другом.
 Две пересекающиеся в точках  и  окружности с центрами  и  называются ортогональными, если являются прямыми углы  и . Именно это условие гарантирует прямой угол между окружностями. В этом случае перпендикулярны радиусы (нормали) двух окружностей, проведенные в точку их пересечения. Следовательно, перпендикулярны и касательные двух окружностей, проведенные в точку их пересечения. Касательная окружности перпендикулярна радиусу (нормали), проведенному в точку касания. Обычно угол между кривыми — это угол между их касательными, проведенными в точке их пересечения.
 Возможно другое дополнительное условие. Пусть две пересекающиеся в точках A и B окружности имеют середины пресекающихся дуг в точках C и D, то есть дуга AС равна дуге СB, дуга AD равна дуге DB. Тогда эти окружности называются ортогональными, если являются прямыми углы СAD и СBD.

См. также
Касательная прямая к окружности
окружность
 Радикальная ось
 Степень точки относительно окружности

Примечания

Литература

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 Radical Center at Cut-the-Knot
 Radical Axis and Center at Cut-the-Knot

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Моментът на импулса при въртеливите движения е аналог на момента на една тяло при постъпателните движения. Той се дефинира като произведение от ъгловата скорост и инерчния момент.

Законът за запазване на момента на импулса е един от основните закони за запазване във физиката и гласи, че за всяка затворена система, когато резултантният вектор на външните сили спрямо центъра на масите е нула, моментът на импулса не се изменя с течение на времето. Този закон илюстрира изотропността на пространството при относително въртене.

Опростената му форма е  ако системата е в равновесие. Също така трябва да се отбележи, че законът важи за абсолютно твърди тела т.е. за определен период от време всички точки на тялото се завъртат на един и същ ъгъл.

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Ridiculous plot is only an excuse to sing '80s rock tunes
Drew (John Boyd), Lonny (Guillermo Jemmott) and Dennis Dupree (Brandon Anderson) hold forth in Shadowbox Live's Rock of Ages (Photos by Tommy Feisel)
Jukebox musicals are a pretty silly invention, and Rock of Ages is sillier than most. Faced with the task of building a plot around popular rock tunes from the 1980s, book writer Chris D'Arienzo came up with a doozy:
A father-and-son team of German developers (Tom Cardinal and Billy DePetro) want to bulldoze Hollywood's Sunset Strip and evict the rock fans who live and work there. Why? Presumably, to make money with a redevelopment scheme, but we all know the real reason is to give the cast an excuse to sing Starship's We Built This City (on rock 'n' roll) and a host of other '80s classics.
Franz (Billy DePetro, left) watches as his father, Hertz (Tom Cardinal), persuades the mayor (Nikkii Davis) to back a plan to bulldoze Sunset Strip.
The plot is so ridiculous that the musical doesn't even pretend to be anything but what it is: a musical. In the first few minutes, narrator and "sound god" Lonny (Guillermo Jemmott) admits he's adding a romance to the proceedings simply because musicals have to have a romance.
We then meet would-be rock star Drew (John Boyd), who quickly falls in love with would-be movie star Sherrie (Amy Lay), just arrived from Kansas. Following the usual pattern, their relationship undergoes a series of hiccups and misunderstandings that keeps them apart until—well, until a host of other '80s songs have been sung and danced to.
When I first saw Rock of Ages in 2010, I was able to embrace its silliness thanks to the touring show's sweetly sincere portrayal of Drew and to outrageous costume designs that were like an oversexed version of what folks really wore during the Reagan decade. Shadowbox's production, directed by Julie Klein, is only slightly more restrained on the style side, and Boyd is appealingly sincere as Drew. He also sings very well.
Drew (John Boyd) falls in love with Sherrie (Amy Lay) because, well, someone has to fall in love or it wouldn't be a musical.
Most of the other cast members are equally in tune, musically and otherwise. Besides those already mentioned, they include Brandon Anderson as club owner Dennis Dupree, Jamie Barrow as sleazy rock star Stacee Jaxx, Ashley Pearce as protest leader Regina, Eryn Reynolds as talent agent Ja'Keith, Nikki Davis as the corrupt mayor and Noelle Anderson (alternating with Stacie Boord) as gentlemen's club owner Justice.
Speaking of the gentlemen's club, Lay's Sherrie is amusingly inept when she takes a job there and tries her hand at pole dancing. Overall, though, I wish she came across as less of a shallow hick, which makes it even harder than it otherwise would be to care about whether she and Drew hook up.
To pick another nit, I wish DePetro's Franz were a bit less, um, swishy. I realize the portrayal is meant to set up a joke about effeminate German mannerisms (presumably the kind Craig Ferguson used to spoof to excess on The Late Late Show), but DePetro overshoots the mark. (German mark? Get it? Never mind.)
Back to the good stuff: Accompanied by a boisterous five-piece band, the cast rocks out on vintage classics like Any Way You Want It, Don't Stop Believin', The Final Countdown, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Just Like Paradise and many others. Even though the plot is reasonably entertaining, especially during Act 2, cover songs like these are the real reason for buying a ticket.
In a jukebox musical, that's as it should be.
Rock of Ages continues through Aug. 27 at Shadowbox Live, 503 S. Front St., Columbus. Show times: 2 and 7 p.m. select Sundays. Running time: 2 hours, 20 minutes (including intermission). Tickets: $20-$25. 614-416-7625 or shadowboxlive.org.
Author: Richard Ades
Richard Ades was the arts editor of The Other Paper, a weekly news-and-entertainment publication, from 2008 until it was shut down on Jan. 31, 2013. He also served as TOP's theater critic throughout its 22-year existence.	View all posts by Richard Ades
Author Richard AdesPosted on April 28, 2017 Categories TheaterTags 1980s, Brewery District, Hollywood, jukebox musical, Rock of Ages, Shadowbox, Sunset Strip, vintage rock, We Built This City
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A little glimmer of hope for us this week... A little glimmer of hope for those we know with children who have severe tooth decay too, perhaps? Our Tiny has long had a rather alarming amount of dental decay and has been living with a painless abscess on her gum for about 9 months now. We've fretted, researched and thought so much about what to do... We've been monitoring it, cleaning and nursing it and talking with her about it this whole time. We've improved her diet as well as we could (we could possibly do better), and in turn, the decay seems to have halted, but still, the abscess was there. It grew when her immune system was working on protecting her from other things and went down when she was robust and healthy (she's always robust...).
This week it disappeared completely.
I'm constantly astonished at how this unschooling life evolves. And yet, I've always had a sense of how things would flow as we settled in and it all became second nature... And it has. So much so that I forgot about noting it here for a time and, as such, I'm not sure that Unschool Monday is a thing anymore... but hey, it's Monday and I'm writing about unschooling, so why not? Anyhow, it flows, this life. And we flow with it. And what we have created in our little nest is a group of people all working towards a common goal - to love each other, make life a little easier, and to help. We help out and take turns and communicate openly and it seems there's always someone to lend a hand if another's hands are busy. These owlets are turning into the most excellent humans, who see a need to help and (most of the time), gladly step up.
Big Owlet has become the most patient of teachers for Little Owlet, who will ask for help with spelling, writing and reading multiple times a day. What's brilliant is that there's always someone to answer Little Owlet and help her on her way. And understands there are loads of people available to help her and she's supported in her learning. When little bursts of development happen for her and she, for example, solves a maths problem in her head upon waking in the morning (this happens lots right now), she knows she's supported by more than just one of us. There's a whole gang of us cheering her on!
But it's not just Little Owlet who's benefiting here... When any of us takes on something new, we all pitch in to help them learn it. Of course, there are always basic needs like "I'm hungry, I'm tired, she hurt me, can you carry me?... Muuuuuuummmm!!!" going on. And we meet those needs. We move through it. And that takes up much of the day. But there's support too. And so we find ourselves going to pick up Huz from a run at 8.30am on a Saturday morning... Or everyone will feign interest and don the gardening gloves to help implement my permaculture design. We're in this together.
We help each other. It's good. It's what gets things done and its how these excellent humans learn to seek and create communities where everyone lives by this code. There is no competition. There are no rules to abide, or tests to pass. Only enthusiasm and help and learning and support. We are creating the kind of world we want to live in by listening and supporting and learning together. Imagine that!
How does learning look for your family right now?
Nothing brings Little Owlet more joy than cooking. When she was a baby she'd cry and cry while I cooked dinner until I put her in a rocker on the kitchen bench. She'd sit in the sling on my hip and grab the spoon from my hand. Since she could see over the bench, she's been there alongside me, asking, advising, tasting. Now she just walks up when I'm cooking, grabs the spoon and takes over. Cooking together is our thing. Cooking is her thing.
She adores making up her own recipes and collaborating on ideas. And she's super picky on presentation. Many a time I've seen her rearrange the pikelets on our afternoon tea plate on it's way to the table. When she chooses what tv show to watch together, its always a cooking show... "So I can learn to cook everything, Mama!" She loves woman chefs and cooks best. She looks for role models... Maggie Beer is her favourite - "Grammy Beer", she calls her.
It's such a delight to watch the delighted little spark inside her when she indulges her passion. Aside from all the delicious food she cooks/we eat/we discuss.... She's learning to count, to measure, to multiply, to read. She's learning to cook.
What are your owlets passionate about?
Is it something you share? Or do they do it on their own?
Do you like making up recipes? Or do you follow the book?
This is Little Owlet's Apple Upside Down Cake. Aside from flour, sugar and milk, we can't remember the recipe. But it was yum.
I've been absent for the longest time in such a long time... Life has been always busy, always messy and very, very full. Full of one very busy toddler, a business and regular day-to-day life which seems to be full of everything and nothing all at once.
More soon. I promise. I have the pictures!!


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A typical concentration camp consisted of barracks that were secured from escape by barbed wire, watchtowers and guards. The inmates usually lived in overcrowded barracks and slept in bunk "beds". In the forced labour camps, for instance, the inmates usually worked 12 hours a day with hard physical work, clothed in rags, eating too little and always living under the risk of corporal punishment.
The racialists were not capable of drawing the practical conclusions from correct theoretical judgements, especially in the Jewish Question. In this way, the German racialist movement developed a similar pattern to that of the 1880s and 1890s. As in those days, its leadership gradually fell into the hands of highly honourable, but fantastically naïve men of learning, professors, district counsellors, schoolmasters, and lawyers—in short a bourgeois, idealistic, and refined class. It lacked the warm breath of the nation's youthful vigour.[175]
After Kristallnacht (the 'Night of broken glass') in November 1938, the Nazis and their supporters arrested many thousands of male Jews above the age of 14 years. They imprisoned them in camps for days or sometimes weeks. They were kept in poor conditions, given little food or water and subjected to brutal treatment and torture. When the German army invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, the SS set up many concentration camps to house Polish political prisoners and many thousands of Polish Jews. Many of the inmates of these camps were subjected to increasingly poor conditions. In addition they were subjected to forced labour, the result of which was often death.
Realistically, the Polish government and the proponents of preserving Auschwitz are not about to abandon the place, but at times during my visit I had some appreciation for van Pelt's perspective. I arrived on the September day the camp counted its millionth visitor of the year. Cellphone-wielding visitors snapped pictures of the sign at the main gate, Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Will Set You Free). Tour group members wearing headphones stood shoulder to shoulder with their guides speaking into wireless microphones.
Those deemed fit enough for slave labor were then immediately registered, tattooed with a serial number, undressed, deloused, had their body hair shaven off, showered while their clothes were disinfected with Zyklon-B gas, and entered the camp under the infamous gateway inscribed "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Labor will set you free"). Of approximately 2.5 million people who were deported to Auschwitz, 405,000 were given prisoner status and serial numbers. Of these, approximately 50% were Jews and 50% were Poles and other nationalities.
Several SS personnel oversaw the killings at each gas chamber, while the bulk of the work was done by the mostly Jewish prisoners known as Sonderkommandos (special squads).[91][92] Hungarian doctor Miklós Nyiszli reported that the Sonderkommando numbered around 860 prisoners when the Hungarian Jews were being killed in May–July 1944.[93] Their responsibilities included removing goods and corpses from the incoming trains, guiding victims to the dressing rooms and gas chambers, and working in the "Canada" barracks, where the victims' possessions were stored.[94] Housed separately from other prisoners, in somewhat better conditions, their quality of life was further improved by access to the goods taken from murdered prisoners, which they were sometimes able to steal and trade on Auschwitz's black market.[95] Many Sonderkommandos committed suicide in response to the horrors of their work; others were generally shot by the SS in a matter of weeks. New Sonderkommando units were formed from incoming transports. Almost none of the 2,000 prisoners placed in these units survived to the camp's liberation.[96]
In Mein Kampf, Hitler directly attacked both left-wing and right-wing politics in Germany.[75] However, a majority of scholars identify Nazism in practice as being a far-right form of politics.[76] When asked in an interview in 1934 whether the Nazis were "bourgeois right-wing" as alleged by their opponents, Hitler responded that Nazism was not exclusively for any class and indicated that it favoured neither the left nor the right, but preserved "pure" elements from both "camps" by stating: "From the camp of bourgeois tradition, it takes national resolve, and from the materialism of the Marxist dogma, living, creative Socialism".[77]
Those prisoners capable, began forcibly marching at the moment when Soviet soldiers were liberating Cracow, some 60 kilometers from the camp. In marching columns escorted by heavily armed SS guards, these 58,000 men and women prisoners were led out of Auschwitz from January 17-21. Many prisoners lost their lives during this tragic evacuation, known as the Death March.
An elaborate bureaucracy was created to regulate imports of raw materials and finished goods with the intention of eliminating foreign competition in the German marketplace and improving the nation's balance of payments. The Nazis encouraged the development of synthetic replacements for materials such as oil and textiles.[255] As the market was experiencing a glut and prices for petroleum were low, in 1933 the Nazi government made a profit-sharing agreement with IG Farben, guaranteeing them a 5 percent return on capital invested in their synthetic oil plant at Leuna. Any profits in excess of that amount would be turned over to the Reich. By 1936, Farben regretted making the deal, as excess profits were by then being generated.[256] In another attempt to secure an adequate wartime supply of petroleum, Germany intimidated Romania into signing a trade agreement in March 1939.[257]
This stunning historical episode is faithfully rendered in James Q. Whitman's Hitler's American Model, a slim but consequential report on the banality of lawful evil. Whitman is a professor of comparative and criminal law at Yale Law School. (Full disclosure: I was a student in his legal history class, although we never interacted.) In his book, he asks one of those dangerous intellectual questions that are so pressing in the current political era: How could the United States, the land of liberty and constitutional republicanism, have influenced the most racist and genocidal regime of the twentieth century? Given the neo-Nazis marching in Charleston, South Carolina, and in Chemnitz, Germany, along with the mélange of fellow-travelers on the fascist spectrum—white nationalists, the alt-right—Whitman's investigation feels urgent. He wants to know what, if anything, the United States taught the Nazis, and what this in turn says about the United States.
Hitler sent military supplies and assistance to the Nationalist forces of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War, which began in July 1936. The German Condor Legion included a range of aircraft and their crews, as well as a tank contingent. The aircraft of the Legion destroyed the city of Guernica in 1937.[63] The Nationalists were victorious in 1939 and became an informal ally of Nazi Germany.[64]
In 1983, French scholar George Wellers was one of the first to use German data on deportations; he arrived at a figure of 1,471,595 deaths, including 1.35 million Jews and 86,675 Poles.[191] A larger study in the late 1980s by Franciszek Piper, published by Yad Vashem in 1991,[192] used timetables of train arrivals combined with deportation records to calculate that, of the 1.3 million deported to the camp, 1,082,000 died there between 1940 and 1945, a figure (rounded up to 1.1 million) that he regarded as a minimum[193] and that came to be widely accepted.[e]
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, Netherlands, having moved there with her family at the age of four and a half when the Nazis gained control over Germany. Born a German national, she lost her citizenship in 1941 and thus became stateless. By May 1940, the Franks were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the Franks went into hiding in some concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Anne's father, Otto Frank, worked. From then until the family's arrest by the Gestapo in August 1944, she kept a diary she had received as a birthday present, and wrote in it regularly. Following their arrest, the Franks were transported to concentration camps. In October or November 1944, Anne and her sister, Margot, were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died (probably of typhus) a few months later. They were originally estimated by the Red Cross to have died in March, with Dutch authorities setting 31 March as their official date of death, but research by the Anne Frank House in 2015 suggests they more likely died in February.[3]
It was first published in Germany and France in 1950, and after being rejected by several publishers, was first published in the United Kingdom in 1952. The first American edition, published in 1952 under the title Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, was positively reviewed. The book was successful in France, Germany, and the United States, but in the United Kingdom it failed to attract an audience and by 1953 was out of print. Its most noteworthy success was in Japan, where it received critical acclaim and sold more than 100,000 copies in its first edition. In Japan, Anne Frank quickly was identified as an important cultural figure who represented the destruction of youth during the war.[72]
Following the camp's liberation, the Soviet government issued a statement, on 8 May 1945, that four million people had been killed on the site, a figure based on the capacity of the crematoria and later regarded as too high.[185] Höss told prosecutors at Nuremberg that at least 2,500,000 people had been murdered in Auschwitz by gassing and burning, and that another 500,000 had died of starvation and disease.[186] He testified that the figure of over two million had come from Eichmann.[187][d] In his memoirs, written in custody, he wrote that he regarded this figure as "far too high. Even Auschwitz had limits to its destructive possibilities."[189] Raul Hilberg's 1961 work, The Destruction of the European Jews, estimated that up to 1,000,000 Jews had died in Auschwitz.[190]
What is and what is not well written: It is likely that Frank's opinions on the subject would have evolved if she had had the opportunity to age. Reading the diary as an adult, one sees the limitations of a teenager's perspective, and longs for more. In one entry, Frank describes how her father's business partners—now her family's protectors—hold a critical corporate meeting in the office below the family's hiding place. Her father, she and her sister discover that they can hear what is said by lying down with their ears pressed to the floor. In Frank's telling, the episode is a comic one; she gets so bored that she falls asleep. But adult readers cannot help but ache for her father, a man who clawed his way out of bankruptcy to build a business now stolen from him, reduced to lying face-down on the floor just to overhear what his subordinates might do with his life's work. When Anne Frank complains about her insufferable middle-aged roommate Fritz Pfeffer (Albert Dussel, per Frank's pseudonym) taking his time on the toilet, adult readers might empathize with him as the only single adult in the group, permanently separated from his non-Jewish life partner whom he could not marry due to anti-Semitic laws. Readers Frank's age connect with her budding romance with fellow hidden resident Peter van Pels (renamed Peter van Daan), but adults might wonder how either of the married couples in the hiding place managed their own relationships in confinement with their children. Readers Frank's age relate to her constant complaints about grown-ups and their pettiness, but adult readers are equipped to appreciate the psychological devastation of Frank's older subjects, how they endured not only their physical deprivation, but the greater blow of being reduced to a childlike dependence on the whims of others.
One of the first people I encountered was Mengele. He told us to undress and stand in line and he went through the ranks deciding who was strong and healthy and fit for work, and who was only fit for the gas chamber. After inspecting me, he put his thumb up high, so they gave me the striped uniform and sent me to get a number tattooed on to my arm. I don't remember the number. It's there still, but I never look at it because it brings back too many painful memories.
A treaty between the German government and the Vatican (the highest authority in the Roman Catholic church) guarantees Catholics the freedom of private religious practice, but dissolves Catholic political and trade union organizations. The Vatican (which had the status of a sovereign state) was the first state to recognize formally the legitimacy of Adolf Hitler's government. Despite the treaty, the Nazis continue to persecute Catholic religious and cultural organizations, priests, and schools.
T he use of gas chambers was the most common method of mass murdering the Jews in the extermination camps. The Jews were herded into the gas chambers, then the camp personnel closed the doors, and either exhaust gas (in Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka) or poison gas in the form of Zyclon B or A (in Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau) was led into the gas chamber.
Otto Frank gave the diary to the historian Annie Romein-Verschoor, who tried unsuccessfully to have it published. She then gave it to her husband Jan Romein, who wrote an article about it, titled "Kinderstem" ("A Child's Voice"), which was published in the newspaper Het Parool on 3 April 1946. He wrote that the diary "stammered out in a child's voice, embodies all the hideousness of fascism, more so than all the evidence at Nuremberg put together."[69] His article attracted attention from publishers, and the diary was published in the Netherlands as Het Achterhuis (The Annex) in 1947,[70] followed by five more printings by 1950.[71]
They did not greet us, nor did they smile; they seemed oppressed not only by compassion but by a confused restraint, which sealed their lips and bound their eyes to the funereal scene. It was that shame we knew so well, the shame that drowned us after the selections, and every time we had to watch, or submit to, some outrage: the shame the Germans did not know, that the just man experiences at another man's crime; the feeling of guilt that such a crime should exist, that it should have been introduced irrevocably into the world of things that exist, and that his will for good should have proved too weak or null, and should not have availed in defence.[252]
From the start of the war, a British blockade on shipments to Germany affected its economy. Germany was particularly dependent on foreign supplies of oil, coal, and grain.[92] Thanks to trade embargoes and the blockade, imports into Germany declined by 80 per cent.[93] To safeguard Swedish iron ore shipments to Germany, Hitler ordered the invasion of Denmark and Norway, which began on 9 April. Denmark fell after less than a day, while most of Norway followed by the end of the month.[94][95] By early June, Germany occupied all of Norway.[96]
Despite the horrible conditions, prisoners in Auschwitz managed to resist the Nazis, including some instances of escape and armed resistance. In October 1944, members of the Sonderkommando, who worked in the crematoria, succeeded in killing several SS men and destroying one gas chamber. All of the rebels died, leaving behind diaries that provided authentic documentation of the atrocities committed at Auschwitz.
The history of Nazism after 1934 can be divided into two periods of about equal length. Between 1934 and 1939 the party established full control of all phases of life in Germany. With many Germans weary of party conflicts, economic and political instability, and the disorderly freedom that characterized the last years of the Weimar Republic (1919–33), Hitler and his movement gained the support and even the enthusiasm of a majority of the German population. In particular, the public welcomed the strong, decisive, and apparently effective government provided by the Nazis. Germany's endless ranks of unemployed rapidly dwindled as the jobless were put to work in extensive public-works projects and in rapidly multiplying armaments factories. Germans were swept up in this orderly, intensely purposeful mass movement bent on restoring their country to its dignity, pride, and grandeur, as well as to dominance on the European stage. Economic recovery from the effects of the Great Depression and the forceful assertion of German nationalism were key factors in Nazism's appeal to the German population. Further, Hitler's continuous string of diplomatic successes and foreign conquests from 1934 through the early years of World War II secured the unqualified support of most Germans, including many who had previously opposed him.
The Nazis, the far-right monarchists, the reactionary German National People's Party (DNVP) and others, such as monarchist officers in the German Army and several prominent industrialists, formed an alliance in opposition to the Weimar Republic on 11 October 1931 in Bad Harzburg, officially known as the "National Front", but commonly referred to as the Harzburg Front.[30] The Nazis stated that the alliance was purely tactical and they continued to have differences with the DNVP. The Nazis described the DNVP as a bourgeois party and they called themselves an anti-bourgeois party.[30] After the elections of July 1932, the alliance broke down when the DNVP lost many of its seats in the Reichstag. The Nazis denounced them as "an insignificant heap of reactionaries".[31] The DNVP responded by denouncing the Nazis for their socialism, their street violence and the "economic experiments" that would take place if the Nazis ever rose to power.[32] But amidst an inconclusive political situation in which conservative politicians Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher were unable to form stable governments without the Nazis, Papen proposed to President Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as Chancellor at the head of a government formed primarily of conservatives, with only three Nazi ministers.[33][34] Hindenburg did so, and contrary to the expectations of Papen and the DNVP, Hitler was soon able to establish a Nazi one-party dictatorship.[35]
: a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard —used especially in reference to camps created by the Nazis in World War II for the internment and persecution of Jews and other prisoners The Nazi soldiers hauled [Mordechai] Strigler off to a concentration camp, and carved swastikas into his cheeks and forehead with a razor blade. Over the next five years, he was sent from one concentration camp or slave-labor camp to another.— David RemnickShe ended up dying in a concentration camp, just a few months before she would have been liberated.— Marilyn ReynoldsThe V2 killed thousands of British civilians while 20,000 concentration camp inmates died as slave labourers during its manufacture in the closing stages of the second world war.— Anna Tomforde et al. — see also death camp
POW camps (Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager / Stalag) a.k.a. Main Camps for Enlisted Prisoners of War: concentration camps where enlisted prisoners-of-war were held after capture. The inmates were usually assigned soon to nearby labor camps, (Arbeitskommandos), i.e. the Work Details. POW officers had their own camps (Offizierslager' / Oflag). Stalags were for Army prisoners, but specialized camps (Marinelager / Marlag ("Navy camps") and Marineinterniertenlager / Milag ("Merchant Marine Internment Camps")) existed for the other services. Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager Luftwaffe / Stalag Luft ("Air Forces Camps") were the only camps that detained both officers and non-commissioned personnel together.


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Archives: November 9, 2015
Laura Hazard OwenNovember 9, 2015
Meet "dialogue," the new front in the Internet commenting wars
Discussions > social media > comments?
Shan WangNovember 9, 2015
News outlets left and right (and up, down, and center) are embracing virtual reality technology
Among those experimenting is The Wall Street Journal, which plans to open source its 360-degree mobile video and VR technology and hopes to turn VR into more of a mainstay of its storytelling.
Justin EllisNovember 9, 2015
Exit music (for content): Parting #hottakes on the life cycle of the media business
"Thanks for reading, and for putting up with me, for five years. I'm pretty sure this journalism thing is going to work itself out."
Students: Spend the summer working with Nieman Lab via the Google News Lab Fellowship
The tech giant is offering opportunities for students to work with eight different journalism organizations next summer, including us. The deadline to apply is January 15.
Benton, Joshua. "Students: Spend the summer working with Nieman Lab via the Google News Lab Fellowship." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 9 Nov. 2015. Web. 1 Feb. 2023.
Benton, J. (2015, Nov. 9). Students: Spend the summer working with Nieman Lab via the Google News Lab Fellowship. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved February 1, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/11/students-spend-the-summer-working-with-nieman-lab-via-the-google-news-lab-fellowship/
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The bioaccumulation study in fishwas conducted for estimating the BCF (bioaccumulation factor) value of test chemical (HSDB and PubChem, 2017). The bioaccumulation factor (BCF) value was calculated using a log Kow of 5.82 and a regression-derived equation. The estimated BCF (bioaccumulation factor) valueof test chemical was determined to be 600 dimensionless, which does not exceed the bioconcentration threshold of 2000, indicating that the test chemical is considered to be non-accumulative in aquatic organisms.
Various experimental studies and predicted data of the test chemical were reviewed for the bioaccumulation end point which are summarized as below:
In an experimental key study from authoritative database (HSDB and PubChem, 2017) for the test chemical, bioaccumulation study in fish was conducted for estimating the BCF (bioaccumulation factor) value of test chemical. The bioaccumulation factor (BCF) value was calculated using a log Kow of 5.82 and a regression-derived equation. The estimated BCF (bioaccumulation factor) value of test chemical was determined to be 600 dimensionless.
Another bioaccumulation study in aquatic organisms was conducted for estimating the BCF (bioaccumulation factor) value of test chemical (OECD SIDS, 2006). The bioaccumulation factor (BCF) value was calculated using a log Kow of 5.51 and SRC BCFWIN program. The estimated BCF (bioaccumulation factor) value of test chemical was evaluated to be 349 dimensionless.
In a prediction done using the BCFBAF Program (v3.01) of Estimation Programs Interface (EPI Suite, 2018) was used to predict the bioconcentration factor (BCF) of test chemical. The bioconcentration factor (BCF) of test chemical was estimated to be 58.06 L/kg whole body w.w (at 25 deg C).
From CompTox Chemistry Dashboard using OPERA (OPEn (quantitative) structure-activity Relationship Application) V1.02 model in which calculation based on PaDEL descriptors (calculate molecular descriptors and fingerprints of chemical), the bioaccumulation i.e BCF for test chemical was estimated to be 1520 dimensionless. The predicted BCF result based on the 5 OECD principles.
In a supporting study from peer reviewed journal (D. Freitag et. al; 1982) and authoritative database (HSDB and PubChem, 2017) for the test chemical, bioaccumulation experiment in Leuciscus idus melanotus (golden orfe fish) was carried out for 3 days for determining the environmental bioconcentration factor (BCF) value of test chemical. Test chemical was radiolabelled at a position U-14Cand has a specific activity of4.6 mCi/mmol. Five golden orfes (Leuciscus idus melanotus), 5-6 cm long, about 1.5 g in weight, in 10 liters water (5 liters tap water of 160- 170 mg CaO/liter hardness + 5 liters deionized water) was used as a test organism for the study. The study was performedunder static conditions at a temperature of 20-25⁰C, respectively. Test organism was not feed or aerated during the tests. Flask of 12.5 liters was used as a test vessel for the study. Test chemical concentration used for the study was 0.05 mg/l, respectively. Chemical concentration in the water was determined by taking daily samples and replenishing appropriately if necessary. After 3 days of the study, the bioaccumulation factor was calculated. The BCF (bioaccumulation factor) of test chemical in Leuciscus idus melanotus (golden orfe fish) after 3 days was determined to be 56 dimensionless.
For the test chemical,bioaccumulation study in fish was conducted for estimating the BCF (bioaccumulation factor) value of test chemical (authoritative database, 2017). The bioaccumulation factor (BCF) value was calculated using a log Kow of 5.13 and a regression-derived equation. The estimated BCF (bioaccumulation factor) value of test chemical was determined to be 48 dimensionless.
In a supporting study for the test chemical from authoritative database (HSDB, 2017),bioaccumulation study in fish was conducted for estimating the BCF (bioaccumulation factor) value of test chemical. The bioaccumulation factor (BCF) value was calculated using a log Kow of 4.57 and a regression-derived equation. The estimated BCF (bioaccumulation factor) value of test chemical was determined to be 20 dimensionless.
On the basis of above results for test chemical, it can be concluded that the BCF value of test chemicalupto1520,which does not exceed the bioconcentration threshold of 2000, indicating that the test chemical is not expected to bioaccumulate in the food chain.


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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A Mexican man who was charged in a crash that killed an Oregon sheriff's deputy in 2007 and then mistakenly released 10 months ago has been arrested again, authorities said.
Oregon State Police said in a statement Sunday that it learned Alfredo de Jesus-Ascencio, 29, had been caught in Mexico.
A grand jury had indicted him on charges of criminally negligent homicide more than a decade ago after a head-on collision that killed his 19-year-old passenger and Marion County Deputy Kelly Fredinburg.
De Jesus-Ascencio was critically injured but out of the hospital by the time a judge issued a warrant for his arrest.
He fled to Mexico and wasn't caught until January 2017. He was mistakenly let go a month later due to an administrative error at the prison in Baja California.
Oregon State Police said de Jesus-Ascencio was arrested Thursday in Michoacan, a western Mexican state.
Oregon prosecutors in 2010 sought to have Mexican authorities prosecute him in their country because it was unlikely he would be extradited to the U.S.
Fredinburg, 33, was heading to an emergency call June 16, 2007, when his patrol car was struck by a Ford Crown Victoria that was traveling in the opposite direction and crossed the center line. The patrol car caught fire, and Fredinburg became the first Marion County deputy to die in the line of duty.
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Bad Daddy's Sale: What It Means For Midwood Smokehouse
Scibelli turns focus to expanding Midwood Smokehouse and addition of Columbia restaurant
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Bad Daddy's will be sold to a Colorado-based company in early May.
Bad Daddy's Burger Bar won't be a Charlotte-owned company much longer. On May 7, the restaurants will be sold to Denver-based company Good Times Restaurants Inc. for $21 million, according to a statement. Good Times is also a burger company, with locations in Colorado and Wyoming. Before the sale of the remaining stake of Bad Daddy's, Good Times already owned about half of the franchise company.
"When we first got involved with Bad Daddy's approximately two years ago, we were excited about the potential for the brand and had certain first rights of offer to acquire it," Good Times President Boyd Hoback says in the release. "Since then, the performance of the Bad Daddy's restaurants we have opened and those in which we will be acquiring an interest has confirmed our original enthusiasm. We believe it is in the best interests of our shareholders to acquire 100 percent of the rights to the brand and all future development now rather than later."
Since opening in Dilworth in 2007, Bad Daddy's has grown to operate restaurants in both North and South Carolina, Colorado, and Tennessee. Owner Frank Scibelli and his team will now focus on new concepts and growing Midwood Smokehouse, which will expand to Columbia, S.C., where they're currently working out a lease. And there's no need to worry Midwood Smokehouse will be sold anytime soon, he says. For the near future, at least, it will stay a Charlotte restaurant.
"We're negotiating another store, another Midwood, and we're going to grow Midwood," he says. While managing the growth of the barbecue restaurant, which is currently in Plaza Midwood and Ballantyne, Scibelli says more ideas are on the way. Other potential areas of expansion include a Middle Eastern restaurant and a comfort food concept to keep things interesting.
"You don't do it by yourself," Scibelli says. "I have a great team. Our guys, everybody likes to do new things."
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In Web design, sizes can either be expressed in absolute or relative terms. I'll explain later in this article which to use for a particular situation, but first review the different measurement types and the units at your disposal.
Absolute value units (Table 1) are used to precisely control sizes, so that they do not vary regardless of the particular screen size, browser, or operating system being used. That said, even absolute units can vary between computers, generally because of the operating system. This was the case with point sizes between Mac and Windows.
Relative value units (Table 2) have no fixed size, but instead are calculated relative to another value, such as the parent elements size or to the screen itself. Although less precise, relative values have the advantage for screen that they can be quickly scaled and changed without having to recalculate all of their dependent values. For example, if you are using relative values to set the font size and line height, simply changing the font size will also change the line height proportionally.
Although it is possible to precisely control the position of elements with any of the absolute units, pixels are the most natural way to define measurements for screen based media. Despite being a "relative" size, pixels behave absolutely in context to the screen resolution, and many modern Web designs will be specified in pixels because it is the most universal measurement regardless of screen size, OS, or browser. Like atoms in molecules, pixels are irreducible as the smallest unit on the screen—you can't move something half a pixel.
While pixels give the designer precise control over where elements appear, they are not without their issues and inconsistencies. Most Web browsers allow users to enlarge text and zoom the page size, which is imperative for anyone with poor vision. Locking the font size with pixels or absolute values prevents Internet Explorer from changing their size. Internet Explorer 7 goes some way in rectifying this limitation by allowing for the entire page to be zoomed, but there is still some debate over their use when accessibility is an issue. So, by using pixels you get precision in your design at the sacrifice of versatility.
In order to provide the reader with highest level of control over the content they are viewing, it is increasingly considered a best practice to define sizes (both font sizes and other length measurements) using ems.
So, really, ems work like percentage values for the purpose of font sizing. However, percentage and ems work differently for margins and padding, with percentages being based on the parent width or height and ems being based on the parent font size.
One reason that ems are not generally a popular solution for general use becomes obvious: since their computed size is relative to their parents size, you have to keep track of the current parent size to know how large or small an element will be. That said, one advantage to this is that it makes creating a typographic scale more straightforward and easier to scale.
Despite their complexity, though, the advantage of using ems is that you can quickly change the scale of your design by simply changing a single font-size value. Since they are relative to the parent's font-size, changing the parent's value changes the values for all of its children. Additionally, since some older browsers, most notably IE 6, will not re-size text set in pixels, using ems guarantees that all of your readers get the same experience.
The bottom line is that your decision to use pixels or ems depends on whether you want precise control or a fluid layout. Pixels will place elements exactly where you want them, but will not adjust to the needs of the viewer. Ems will adjust to the screen context, but are harder to control and less predictable.
I recommend keeping your use of the units consistent within a document to avoid confusion, even if you are using both ems and pixels for different purposes. For example, I will often use pixels for positioning of elements, but ems for font sizes, so that I can get the advantage of creating a more versatile typographic scale.
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Written by Bill Gibron	 September 18, 2014 December 12, 2014 2 Comments on The Maze Runner
Ever since Bella Swan proved that swooning over a sparkly, non-threatening vampire could earn significant box office gold, Hollywood has been hard-pressed to find the next mega-successful YA, or "young adult" franchise. Yes, Harry Potter actually jumpstarted the search, but Twilight suggested that the boy wizard was no fluke. The Hunger Games only added fuel to the studio suits' fire, resulting in such uneven entries as The Giver and Divergent.
Now comes The Maze Runner, based on the acclaimed 2009 novel by James Dashner, and though it's awfully redundant and familiar, it should also be seen as the standard bearer for all future YA attempts. Balancing the needs of the characters with the standard dystopian dramatics, as well as providing an intriguing premise behind what's happening, there's a real sense of scope and danger here. While we could use a bit more interaction inside the title trap — and a bit more respect for the source material — what we do get ends up being time well spent.
Our hero is named Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and he has just woken up inside an outdoor elevator in strange place. He has no memory and no frame of reference within a ragtag group of male adolescents that live in a rustic outdoor community called "The Glade." Surrounded on all sides by huge concrete walls that open every morning to expose a maze within, the various leaders of the group, including Alby (Aml Ameen) the chief, Gally (Will Poulter) the protector, and Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) the thinker, believe that Thomas is an omen of bad things to come.
Sure enough, one of the "runners," whose job it is to map out the immense labyrinth every day, is bitten by something called a "Griever." A death sentence, everyone sees this as a sign. Then a young woman named Teresa (Kaya Scodelario) shows up, bringing with her even more bad tidings. Soon, the gang learns that, in order to survive, they must solve the puzzle of who put them there and why, while finding an actual way out of this mechanized trap.
Thanks to the inherent curiosity involving what lies beyond those massive concrete walls and the way in which first time director Wes Ball builds up to the reveal, The Maze Runner is instantly engaging. It doesn't always make a whole lot of sense and holds back some significant information that anyone living in the Glade for the last three years would have already stumbled upon, but for the most part, the movie manages to craft an intriguing origin story ripe for further franchise sequel exploration. We are genuinely interested in the backstory here, to find out why Thomas is "important" and why his arrival is impacting the Glade so. Similarly, the characters we meet in this Lord of the Flies like society are equally engaging, never as pat or pandering as you expect.
Everything, from the acting to the setting, to the stunning CG-enhanced maze, have a real weight and sense of purpose. There are few wasted moments here, and as stated before, the action would benefit from more of the title exercise. Also, for those who loved the book — beware! The trio of screenwriters involved here have dissected Dashner's tome, bringing some elements to the fore while reworking chronology and causation. For some, this will be sacrilege, but for the vast majority of filmgoers, it won't matter. Instead, all they will care about is that The Maze Runner plays fair within its slight sci-fi leanings. And it does.
By making sure that everything ends up in service of the setup and the situation as it unfolds, The Maze Runner becomes a solid example of how to handle a YA property. It's as entertaining as it is intriguing.
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I've just seen the film an couldn't agree more with your review. Fans of old school Sci-Fi films like alien, blade runner and terminator will enjoy this. I'm downloading the score as we talk.
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While reporting on Jalsa Salana Belgium (14 September 2018 issue), we included some glimpses into the history of Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Belgium.
We wrote how Malik Ataur Rahman Sahib had visited Brussels and Antwerp in 1948 and had been interviewed by several newspapers of Belgium, one of which was Le Phare Dimanche. Ahmadiyya Archive and Research Centre has been able to find the original newspaper, the image of which is given below:
The English translation of the news report given in the image of Le Phare Dimanche is presented below:
Islam Invades Europe!
Islam, a religion of continuous transformation, has always produced a number of prophets. Some of them creating schisms and sects, which exist up to now, others having disappeared without leaving a trace.
A few days ago, a little man, with intelligent eyes and a lowered gaze, presented himself as the representative of the "Messiah" at the Phare Dimanche.
According [to him] a Messiah has appeared in India (where he died in 1908) and has instructed his disciples to spread his message to the corners of the world. This is how, without the help of the sword, Muslims are trying to convert Christians to [the faith of] the Quran! This is, to say the least, a new and original [endeavour].
According to this envoy ("Amir" of the Ahmadiyyah movement), the prophet Hazrat Ahmad is the Messiah. It was prophesied that the Messiah would be of tanned complexion and would have straight hairs (as did Hazrat Ahmad). The prophecy says that he would have a twin sister; he would be born in a village named Kada; he would stammer slightly and would suffer from two ailments: all these signs were fulfilled in Hazrat Ahmad.
He is "Krishna" and "Buddha" for the Hindus, "Mesio" for the Zoroastrians, "Messiah" for the Christians and "Mahdi" for the Muslims. How can one ever doubt this? How can one ever doubt the fulfilment of the prophecy that "the whole world, in the end, will accept Islam"?
According to the "Amir", the Ahmadiyyah movement has established communities everywhere in the world, even in the United States, the United Kingdom and France. He wants to establish one at least in Belgium.
What else can [we] do but to wish good luck to this man? Are not all beliefs worthy [of our] respect?
(Translated by Ataul Qayum Jhuman, UK)
Ahmadiyyat
Le Phare Dimanche


ProgressiveMass did its lobby day at the State House on Wednesday, and the Globe notes the simmering dissatisfaction with the "progressive" caucus that nonetheless won't cross its non-progressive Speaker. I get quoted – thanks.
As I write this, I am waiting for an MBTA train in a crumbling, leaky Harvard Square station, getting on a train that smells of electric burning — all of which is a direct result of our very "progressive" Speaker's neglect for a decade. So please don't tell me what great things progressives are accomplishing. We are literally living their failure, on a daily basis.
DeLeo is willing to keep progressives at bay by providing victories on the social-issue front that don't cost very much money. The progressive "health care" approach that I assume Hogan is referring to — restoring family planning funds cut by Trump — cost all of $8 million. Look, this is good. It's also the very least we should expect.
"By any metric", California left our clean energy policy in the dust a long while back. New York and New Jersey are now lapping us as well.
I have little doubt that DeLeo will use his $100M/year climate resiliency bill to avoid rapid action on moving to 100% renewables — just like they did last year. For a sense of scale: $100M/year would be 0.2% of the Governor's $42.7 billion 2020 budget — to preserve the physical safety of the Commonwealth from an epochal threat. It's not that much money. Sure, his measure is welcome — but only as part of a rapid decarbonization plan that features the transportation sector prominently (see MBTA complaint above); sets a clear 100% renewable goal in the near future (2035, should be) with mandated interim goals; and establishes a strong legal mechanism to get there (ie a bigger boost to the Renewable Portfolio Standard. We have — we have had — absolutely no time to waste – and we've known this for a generation. In his 10 years, by what standard has DeLeo been "progressive"? Not by the standard of the laws of physics. The legislature will likely "run out of time"'this session — while it is we who are running out of time.
Will any of these things happen by themselves, or simply out of the goodness and moral commitment of our very progressive leaders' hearts? If that were true, then these things would have happened already.
I've already told my rep that I'll support a primary challenger. If he, Hogan, and the rest of the DeLeo loyalist crowd make me look foolish, then so be it. But we're not accepting half-measures, and we're not accepting excuses anymore. If the "progressive caucus" means anything at all, they'll throw their weight around and cause these things to pass.
New York is looking at a ban on plastic bags and an added tax on luxury homes. Anyone see that happening in Massachusetts? We've got to stop kidding ourselves. We're no longer the progressive state we used to be. We've sold out and will continue to sell out until we send different people to Beacon Hill.
The MTA will also be hosting a Fund our Future rally at Beacon Hill on 5/16. All are welcome to march with us!


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App Tracking Transparency causing 15% to 20% revenue drop for advertisers
Mike Peterson | Jul 13, 2021
Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature is causing a 15% to 20% drop in revenue for iOS advertisers, according to a mobile marketing executive.
In an interview with GamesBeat, Consumer Acquisition's Brian Bowman says that Apple's change to Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) tracking has had a devastating impact on iOS advertising revenue.
"Certain clients are down 30% to 40% percent in revenue. Others are feeling less of an impact. It's a mess," Bowman said.
In addition to seeing advertising revenue plummet, iOS advertisers have also started noticing an inflation in unattributed organic traffic. That means advertisers aren't as able to tailor ad placement to specific audiences.
Bowman noted that the full impact of ATT has yet to be felt. Advertisers will begin to feel the full effects of the feature about 30 days after iOS 14.6 adoption reaches 80%, Bowman said.
Larger companies are not expected to feel the brunt of ATT as their app catalogs generate a considerable amount of first-party data, but Small- to medium-sized businesses that rely on ad revenue will need to adapt.
"At the very high end, the companies that are amassing a walled garden of IDFVs are on a path to do better," Bowman said. "Small to medium-sized developers just don't have the financial ability to move into in-app purchases. You need an awful lot of money to do that."
Consumer Acquisition is a noted critic of ATT and has in the past been vocal about Apple's moves to nix IDFA tracking.
Apple's ATT feature, released earlier in 2021, restricts tracking of consumer data unless users opt in. Back in May, it appeared that only 4% of iOS users were opting-in to ad tracking. As of July, that number appears to have risen to about 20%, according to GamesBeat.
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I'm crying a river for these privacy breaking leeches.
pizzaboxmac said:
Second that. Just wish we could also get rid of junk mail from USPS.
It's amazing the sense of entitlement these companies have.
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rob53 said:
Add to the list spam telephone calls.
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