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Twin Peaks at 30
Posted on July 5, 2020 July 13, 2020 by Shaun Dellenty
In 2020 Twin Peaks celebrates 30 years of alluring weirdness.
Contemporary culture has for thirty years now been laced with aspects of Peaks iconography; from themed dining to music and concerts, clothing lines to art exhibitions. In London Twin Peaks is never far away, with the deliciously nightmarish Lynchian inspired 'Double R Club' regularly selling out Bethnal Green Working Men's club.
My journey into Twin Peaks began with the appalling murder of my classmate Lynda Mann, aged fifteen. Our teacher confirmed the tragic news as all eyes turned to Lynda's grey plastic chair, occupied only by an absence of light. With whispers of curfews and killers, our small Midlands town rapidly mottled with paranoia, suspicion and fear. Amateur sleuths got down to business as wild theories abounded and uncomfortable truths were exposed.
There amongst the dank, clinging mists of November 1983, realisation dawned in me that evil isn"t something distant or untouchable, evil is potentially resident within us all.
Suddenly no one seemed trustworthy; the brutal anguish of the tearing of a unique soul from our reality compounded by the seemingly endless lack of progress in related police investigations.
Over time, life in our little town returned to a revised version of normality, one in which any life might be stolen away without warning and those wrongly implicated in Lynda's murder struggled to repair ragged reputations. The emergence of evil within our community proved to be an on-going conduit for self-examination and doubt. Could such evil be as a lone tree in the forest? Or was the capacity for evil dormant in the roots that held up every trunk?
In time I moved on, left school; fell in love, moved away.
A privilege in itself, for Lynda remains forever 15.
In 1990 BBC2's 'Late Show' previewed a new series about the murder of a school girl. My partner remarked that it might be worth watching, but I wasn't convinced; I still bore unprocessed Lynda Mann scar tissue. Yet we tentatively watched the Twin Peaks Pilot. I briefly considered switching channels, but the Pilot's unprecedented, bravura portrayal of raw grief somehow enabled release of my own internalised anger, not only over the loss of a fellow student, but also of my lost optimism in human nature.
Most unexpectedly Twin Peaks served as a form of therapy.
Show creators David Lynch and Mark Frost had apparently rummaged through my case of favourite things, combining a heady brew of snow-capped mountains, slow burning mysteries, ancient woodlands, spirituality, cherry pie and a glowing Pacific Northwestern design aesthetic, before shrouding them in an alluring and timeless coffee scented aurora, enveloped with a heady, hypnotic score from Angelo Badalamenti.
Kyle MacLachlan's FBI Agent Dale Cooper was the hero I had missed out on as a child; a damn fine blend of intuition, geekiness, bravery, humour, warmth and Buddhist like spirituality.
Most importantly for a young gay man starved of positive TV role models, Cooper displayed unequivocal acceptance in his friendships with those of a spiritual nature: Catherine Coulson's iconic sticky pitch spitting Log Lady, his bromance with Michael Ontkean's reliable Sheriff Harry Truman and Denise Bryson, a trans-character played by David Duchovny. Apart from a couple of missteps, this was a portrayal ahead of its time. Denise was a likeable, sympathetic and heroic human being who just happened to be Trans, although the casting of a cisgender male remains problematic.
Twin Peaks was a big deal during its original first season. I can vouch for many mornings spent analysing the town's strange events with colleagues at the water cooler.
Lindsey Bowden (Producer of Twin Peaks UK Festival) became a fan at the age of 14. Bowden recalls forming a Twin Peaks club at school; 'Twin Peaks drew me in straight away, there was something romantic about the show, with its mix of mystery, horror and intrigue all rolled into one. It was safe place to be on my dark days.'
Fan Max Leonard Hitchings was drawn in by a 'sense of enchantment;' the sense that the show generates a romantic, magical aura is not an uncommon one, indeed despite the town's dark deeds, my annual re-watch consistently casts a warm, enticing hue over my soul.
As Twin Peaks crept into its second series, a more supernatural tone developed and viewers Stateside tailed off, not helped by the ABC's erratic scheduling. In the UK we benefitted from regular scheduling; thus when (in one of the most disturbing scenes ever broadcast) the murderer of Laura Palmer was revealed and Laura's story temporarily replaced by campy 'B' plots, in the U.K. one could still find loyal viewers to discuss the events with. Lynch-Frost contributed to a mid second season decline by becoming entrenched in other projects, even as 'actor politics' resulted in certain planned key plot developments being junked at short notice.
Twin Peaks found its mojo again as it hurtled towards its final episodes, intent on reminding us why we fell in love in with it in the first place. The core raison d'etre for the show, the life and death of Laura Palmer was reframed against the shows wider mythology (cosmology?) of two (now iconic) chevron floored 'Lodges' (the Black and the White) through which all living things pass, encountering lost souls, parasitic 'Dugpa' spirits and glass eyed doppelgangers along the way.
So it came to pass (spoilers) that on Tuesday 18th June 1991 Agent Dale Bartholomew Cooper (in a now legendary final classic episode) entered the Black Lodge with imperfect courage and was apparently split into two (possibly more) aspects, one predominantly good and one predominantly bad. with the 'bad' Cooper being hijacked by the predatory parasitic spirit 'BOB.' The final image of our apparently virtuous hero smashing his head into a bathroom mirror manically, possessed, and bleeding from the forehead was unsettling and disturbing, lingering in the subconcious unresolved for twenty five years.
Lynch/Frost left many of the other inhabitants of Twin Peaks in mortal jeopardy (a tactic also employed at the end of series one in order to facilitate network renewal) but it wasn't going to wash with ABC; the plug was pulled. As many loyal fans (including myself) howled, with a crackling buzz of electricity and static Twin Peaks ended and faded into TV history.
Except it didn't…
For like a sturdy Douglas Fir, Twin Peaks had taken root deep in our cultural subconscious; even if we weren't happy with the way the second series had panned out, during random moments of our lives, we could still click our fingers along to Badalamenti's Dance of the Dream Man and just feel that whole damn town, Twin Peaks was still very much alive in the moment. The DNA of Twin Peaks seeped out through the cracks of Agent Cooper's broken bathroom mirror into modern televisual output, from X-Files to Lost from Broadchurch to Stranger Things.
In 1992 Twin Peaks returned in the bleaker, even more trippy form of the Lynch directed prequel/sequel Fire Walk With Me. Derided at the time for everything it was not, Fire Walk With Me is now essential pre-viewing for the contemporary Showtime series 'The Return,' affording us not only clues as to the possible eventual exit of the 'Good Dale' from the Black Lodge, but a fiercely committed performance from Sheryl Lee and one of the most beautiful endings in cinema history.
Around the world fan creatives worked valiantly to keep the show alive. A USA Twin Peaks Fest started in August 1992 whilst Lindsey Bowden ran the Twin Peaks UK Festival UK from 2010 to 2020.
By the late 2000s a renaissance was happening, partially via online chat groups, but also in mainstream music, art and fashion, related perhaps to the maturation of teenagers who had watched on first viewing or those who had shared their parents re watching or reminiscing. It became not uncommon to read positive re-appraisals of Fire Walk With Me, whilst shiny box-sets of the series meant that new viewers could join the party. Laura Palmer's corpse was exhumed on 90s retrospective shows. Lynch too seemed to have processed the initial negativity surrounding Fire Walk With Me, finally stating 'Twin Peaks is still there.'
These are just some who stepped up to keep the flame alive, others include Andreas Halskov author of 'TV Peaks' and Scott Ryan and John Thorne of The Blue Rose magazine. All of these individuals contributed to maintaining and building interest; and Showtime/Lynch/Frost should be hugely grateful to them for paving the path towards the eventual Showtime Return series.
In 2014 the 'Twin Peaks Complete Mystery Blu-Ray' landed in devotees living rooms, served up with a thinly veiled hint from Lynch that not only were there were more stories to be told, but he was finally ready to tell them.
On May 22nd, 2017 Twin Peaks finally returned as a new eighteen-part series for Showtime. Prior to transmission, I doubted the new series would provide complete resolution and I was proved right; against all odds Lynch/Frost served up a film for television that won awards and once again tore up the televisual storybook, whilst visciously deconstructing our penchant for nostalgia.
The Return was book-ended by two richly textured novels from Mark Frost, casting new light on the fictional origins of the town of Twin Peaks and its inhabitants, whilst filling in gaps between the original series and the Return. Rewatching the original series and Fire Walk With Me post Return/Frost novels partly reframes the now very familar original series into something greater and more cohesive; in the 2020s Twin Peaks is now truly multi-platform.
As The Return series/film series (delete as appropriate) recedes into the mists, generations of stories have been woven about the town of Twin Peaks and its inhabitants; I suspect there are many more to come. Some clamour for a definite conclusion from Lynch and Frost, yet the lack of narrative conclusion creates a space within which ongoing debate and analysis can flourish.
Like meditation, the joy of Twin Peaks is in what we bring to it as individuals and what we take away from it as individuals.
Perhaps this is why I never gave up my own residency of a town that allowed me to safely explore our potential for human evil, whilst at the same time being entertained and reminded of the joy of the remaining present with the wind in the pines, the blush of a soft pillow and the crust of a freshly cooked huckleberry pie.
Happy big 30 Twin Peaks.
See you in the trees.
First written for The Huffington Post 2016 – redrafted July 2020
Multi-award winning educator and advocate for LGBT+ inclusion in learning communties and Bloomsbury Author. London and nature lover, meditator, schnauzer Daddy and rapidly aging geek...


It could be the common and sometimes painful oral candidiasis known as thrush. Thrush causes creamy white or yellow patches to seem on the sides, roof, gums, lips, and tongue of a baby's mouth. In addition, it can spread to the throat, tonsils, or esophagus. Thrush is most common in infants and toddlers.
Find out about oral thrush in babies and small children, a fungal infection in the mouth that's usually harmless and easily treatable. Newborns can have symptoms of Candida at birth or soon after.. Oral thrust is the most common oral fungal infection in infants and children. Oral thrush is caused by the overgrowth of your yeast (a kind of fungus) called Candidiasis.. Babies can have oral thrush and a diaper rash at exactly the same time.
If your infant is extra fussy during feedings and you notice white patches in her mouth, she may own an oral yeast infection known as thrush. If you've spied strange white patches in baby's mouth, maybe it's case of thrush. Understand how to detect thrush in babies and the way to clear up the problem quickly. Oral thrush can be an infection in the mouth the effect of a yeast germ called Candida.
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Very mild cases of thrush may clear up without treatment. It often takes about 2 weeks of treatment with an oral antifungal medicine to cure more serious thrush infections. In some instances, thrush may last weeks despite having treatment. If thrush goes untreated and will not go away alone, it can spread to other parts of the body.
Oral thrush is caused by the overgrowth of your yeast (a kind of fungus) called Candida albicans. Candida overgrowth also causes diaper rash and vaginal yeast-based infections. Babies can have oral thrush and a diaper rash at the same time.
In the event that you touch the patches gently with a clean finger, you'll find the bottom is raw and could bleed. Your baby may be unsettled or only feed for a short time. He may distance themself from your breast while feeding because his mouth is sore. Thrush can go through your baby's digestive system to his bottom and cause nappy rash.


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Top 5 Tech Trends for 2020 and Which Industries Can Benefit from Each
by Antonia Upegui
— 2020 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for emerging technologies like IoT, big data, AI, hyperautomation, edge computing, and many others.
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Trend #1: IoT, Big Data, and AI for Sustainable Development
Trend #2: From IoT to IoB (Internet of Bodies)
Trend #3: Hyperautomation
Trend #4: Multiexperience
Trend #5: Edge Computing
In this blog post, I'll provide an overview of five of the most important tech trends 2020 and highlight which industries can benefit the most from each one.
With so many different perspectives out there on the top tech trends 2020, it can be hard to know where to look.
A good place to start is to review the articles and reports published by top consulting firms like Gartner, Deloitte, and Tech Funnel, among others.
These technologies allow companies to measure consumption, reduce demand, and reduce their carbon footprint, making them kinder to the planet.
But those aren't the only benefits, using tech to go green can also help reduce costs and build new revenue streams.
Industries: telco, retail, supply chain, and agriculture.
We've seen IoT before in different applications like sensors in shipping containers, manufacturing systems, and agriculture infrastructure. IoB takes this concept to a whole new level.
It started as a monitoring technology where a device was placed inside the body to measure things like heart rate, blood pressure, arrhythmia, etc. Now, it's evolving towards intervention.
A new insulin pumping device is in the works to treat diabetes, and even though it carries some risks, patients of care-intensive treatments will be able to reduce costs.
Industries: pharma and biotech, hospitals, and medical devices.
This technology leverages other technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate processes faster and augment humans.
The goal of hyper-automation is to develop a fully AI-driven decision-making operation. It also allows organizations to visualize how functions, processes, and key performance factors interact to drive value.
Recovering real-time continuous intelligence about the organization by using hyper-automation has plenty of perks like improving workforce engagement capabilities, among others.
Industries: supply chain, CPG, pharma and biotech, and food and beverage.
What do you get when you combine augmented reality (AR) with virtual reality (VR)? You create immersive experiences for your customers.
The fourth from tech trends 2020, multiexperience, comes to life when, by leveraging the previously mentioned technologies, multisensory and multi-touchpoint modalities interact to enhance the user experience of an application.
According to Gartner, the future of app development will be multi-experience, now that, "development platform vendors are expanding their value proposition beyond mobile apps and web development to meet user and industry demands."
Industries: retail, food and beverage, and CPG.
The fifth from tech trends 2020, edge computing, is transforming the way data is being handled, processed, and delivered. It accelerates the creation and support of real-time applications like self-driving cars, robotics, analytics, and video processing.
This technology works by bringing computation and data storage closer to the devices where it's being gathered. This removes latency issues, allows for more efficient security systems, and helps create more vivid augmented reality, among other major benefits.
The Forbes Technology Council made a list of more than 10 benefits brought on by edge computing, making it something many businesses should consider implementing in 2020.
Industries: retail, CPG, healthcare, agriculture, logistics, and finance.
It came as no surprise to find artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), the internet of things (IoT), and data analytics as recurring topics. The difference is that 2020 will be the year when all of these technologies converge to create even more powerful breakthroughs.
Looking for expert guidance on how to implement any of these or other innovative technologies for your industry? TEAM can help.
Contact us today and kick start 2020 with the right innovative technology plan for your business.
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Five to ten minutes of hand/eye coordination exercises a day can Focus attention, improve learning, relieve anxiety and reduce stress.
A safe and engaging "mind break" experience for students. Currently, third through fifth-grade students are 1:1with technology. The simple, yet very effective, games we are suggesting have been proven to stimulate a different part of the brain. They are a "reboot" to the brain. We also believe it will be imperative to find a way to ensure our students feel safe and engaged during the 2-3 year period of construction. (Students will be in an extremely tight space!) The suggested items will be best used by ALL 3-5th-grade students (approximately 10-12 classes). The idea is to rotate the items/games for a 1-2-week period per class after Shauna and Mike have had an opportunity to introduce and teach the activity during PE rotations.
· Simple hand/eye coordination exercises are proven to improve cognition and recall (Healthy Brain, Happy Life). Repeated activity heightens a person's ability to strategize. Preparation for continued movement lights up the hippocampus which improves memory.
· Moving eyes up/down or side-to-side in a rapid motion makes stressful or worrisome thoughts and memories fade by soothing the emotion-processing areas of the brain (Biopsychosocial Medicine).
o Active meditation ~ being focused in the moment and aware of your surroundings creates a "relaxation response" which creates a shrinkage of the part of the amygdala, a deep-brain structure strongly implicated in processing stress, fear, and anxiety.
As stated above, the items will serve as a rotation of games to be used both individually as well as cooperatively during academic breaks and P.E.
Some of the items will wear out with time. Some of the items might require replacement parts. We tried to account for this in the grant and have decided to purchase one of each item to ensure its sustainability before we purchase a classroom set.
As mentioned above, the items will be shared amongst 3rd-5th-grade classes. This includes 11-12 classes which equate to approximately 275-300 students.
We did not discuss this grant with site/district since the items listed are specific to some, but not all, grade levels. Shauna, Mike, and I are willing to research items specific to kinder-2nd but would request additional funds be added. We are working towards a positive emotional and mental break for our students and realize that students in the upper grades have a less imaginative play. We are trying to keep the older students engaged in an activity that will help them through a possibly rough time in the next few years.
Shauna, Mike, and I have research several links to the many options we have chosen. We looked for quality, durability, cost/sustainability ratio, and student engagement for each item. Although our spreadsheet represents a specific item, as stated, we will order one of each item and "put it through the test!"


Alba is a beautiful modern Bon Bentwood chair simple in its design with its curved head rest and leg frames. Curved timber is wrapped underneath the leg frame for design and extra support.
Handmade in Europe by Bon in the finest tradition of bentwood chair manufacturing. It is made from 100% FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified solid European Beech wood.
Ainslee also comes in an arm chair model.


Spirit Airlines is a budget carrier and they leave out the bells and whistles to offer cheap flights, but how cheap are these flights? When you get a flight for $29, do you really just pay $29? Reporter Kimberley Cheng took a trip on Spirit to find out. The bottom line? It cost a lot more than $29, once the fees and taxes were includes, but it was still nearly half the price of the competition. The total for the round trip was $130, flying round-trip from Phoenix to Dallas.
With Spirit all you pay for is the seat on the plane and everything else is extra – everything. Even checking in for your flight with an agent costs $5. Baggage is extra, including carry-on baggage that is anything bigger than a purse or handbag. Check-in baggage fees are $20-$45 extra. Seats are assigned when you check in and if you want a seat with more foot room, then you have to pay extra. There is no complimentary drink service and sometimes the flights are late, but overall most passengers Cheng spoke with said it's worth it for the price.
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This is a fruit and vegetable stand just a few minutes' drive from our house. We are still learning where the best place is to buy which foods. So far, we are finding that apples and bananas costs 50 cents apiece. Yikes!


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Fidel Ramos, Former President of the Philippines
Fidel Ramos, former president of the Philippines, addressed current Philippine domestic issues and broader East Asia regional developments. His speech was a Pacific Forum Ambassador L.W. "Bill" and Jean Lane Lecture in Diplomacy.
Ramos served as president of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998. He is, in every sense of the word, the true father of Philippine democracy. Today he is a private citizen, but continues to play an important behind-the-scenes role in preserving and protecting the democratic process during a very turbulent period in domestic Philippine politics. He also serves as chairman of the Ramos Peace and Development Foundation and chairman of the Boao Forum for Asia.


Hope | To Be, To Be. Tutubi.
How do you make a seemingly hopeless task seem bearable? How and where do you start a job that threatens to overwhelm you, both physically and emotionally? You bring friends of course!
This is the state of my house, two weeks after Ondoy. And without water and electricity and the mud still filling up the house, we sought the help of dear friends to accomplish this task. And they responded, and did MAGNIFICENTLY!
These wonderful guys are my college friends, kumare and BFF. Rona and Rodney, Ehms and Paul and my dear sister Dianne and her husband Kuya Mher, were just a text away. My other house in Quezon City was also flooded and they also helped me out there. They were the first ones to give me pillows, blankets and towels after the flood. And in Montalban, they braved the mud and the smell and helped try to re-build our house.
They are indeed a remarkable bunch of people and I am lucky to know them as my friends. And why HOPE? It's because, as Paul said and I have to agree, he is there not just to help us shovel mud, but also to give us hope. We all laughed at this, but deep inside, my husband and I are so touched by their friendship and show of support. Indeed, these great friends helped us look at our house with new-found hope.
my heart aches talaga everytime i see the affected of the typhoon.. sorry to hear that sissy :( hope we can all get over this soon..
I wish my mother in law was still alive, she would understand what you are going through. She went through the same in 1953 in the UK. I wrote her story http://socyberty.com/history/1953-flood-a-story-from-harwich-essex-england/.
I admire your courage and how you are pulling together,I know you have to but it cannot be easy. Best wishes and good luck.
ang swerte mo kc true friends are rare. And after so many things you've been through, sisiw lng yan.. Goodluck! Sayang hndi ako makakatulong maglinis, ang saya nyo tingnan eh.
if i was there, i swear to God, gagamitin ko ang aking Darna powers to be one amongst your friends! grabe pala ang danyos perwisyos nang impaktong ondoy este yong bumukas nang dam sa bahay nyo! glad you have friends like that!
you are so lucky to have friends like them. Goodluck sa paglilinis, grabe kapal ng putik. Sana matapos na agad. Hay sis, I am really sorry for what happened in your area.
My heart twinged after watching the news last night. ang dami pa rin palang bahang lugar ano. and to think buti sana kung malinis na tubig ung dumaan, ang lagay eh malagkit at mabigat na putik.
Good you have friends to help you out.
Laugh A Little, Laugh A Lot!
More "Me Time" for Mommy!
Have You Heard of Screen Pass?


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/* TEMPLATE GENERATED TESTCASE FILE
Filename: CWE188_Reliance_on_Data_Memory_Layout__modify_local_10.c
Label Definition File: CWE188_Reliance_on_Data_Memory_Layout.label.xml
Template File: point-flaw-10.tmpl.c
*/
/*
 * @description
 * CWE: 188 Reliance on Data Memory Layout
 * Sinks: modify_local
 *    GoodSink: Modify the second field of the struct using the field name
 *    BadSink : Attempt to modify second field in struct, assuming the first field is an int
 * Flow Variant: 10 Control flow: if(globalTrue) and if(globalFalse)
 *
 * */

#include "std_testcase.h"

#ifndef OMITBAD

void CWE188_Reliance_on_Data_Memory_Layout__modify_local_10_bad()
{
    if(globalTrue)
    {
        {
            struct
            {
                char charFirst;
                int intSecond;
            } structCharInt;
            char *charPtr;
            structCharInt.charFirst = 1;
            charPtr = &structCharInt.charFirst;
            /* FLAW: Attempt to modify intSecond assuming intSecond comes after charFirst and
             * is aligned on an int-boundary after charFirst */
            *(int*)(charPtr + sizeof(int)) = 5;
            printIntLine(structCharInt.charFirst);
            printIntLine(structCharInt.intSecond);
        }
    }
}

#endif /* OMITBAD */

#ifndef OMITGOOD

/* good1() uses if(globalFalse) instead of if(globalTrue) */
static void good1()
{
    if(globalFalse)
    {
        /* INCIDENTAL: CWE 561 Dead Code, the code below will never run */
        printLine("Benign, fixed string");
    }
    else
    {
        {
            struct
            {
                char charFirst;
                int intSecond;
            } structCharInt;
            structCharInt.charFirst = 1;
            /* FIX: Do not make unwarranted assumptions about underlying data model
             * Modify and access data appropriately */
            structCharInt.intSecond = 5;
            printIntLine(structCharInt.charFirst);
            printIntLine(structCharInt.intSecond);
        }
    }
}

/* good2() reverses the bodies in the if statement */
static void good2()
{
    if(globalTrue)
    {
        {
            struct
            {
                char charFirst;
                int intSecond;
            } structCharInt;
            structCharInt.charFirst = 1;
            /* FIX: Do not make unwarranted assumptions about underlying data model
             * Modify and access data appropriately */
            structCharInt.intSecond = 5;
            printIntLine(structCharInt.charFirst);
            printIntLine(structCharInt.intSecond);
        }
    }
}

void CWE188_Reliance_on_Data_Memory_Layout__modify_local_10_good()
{
    good1();
    good2();
}

#endif /* OMITGOOD */

/* Below is the main(). It is only used when building this testcase on
   its own for testing or for building a binary to use in testing binary
   analysis tools. It is not used when compiling all the testcases as one
   application, which is how source code analysis tools are tested. */

#ifdef INCLUDEMAIN

int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
    /* seed randomness */
    srand( (unsigned)time(NULL) );
#ifndef OMITGOOD
    printLine("Calling good()...");
    CWE188_Reliance_on_Data_Memory_Layout__modify_local_10_good();
    printLine("Finished good()");
#endif /* OMITGOOD */
#ifndef OMITBAD
    printLine("Calling bad()...");
    CWE188_Reliance_on_Data_Memory_Layout__modify_local_10_bad();
    printLine("Finished bad()");
#endif /* OMITBAD */
    return 0;
}

#endif

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According to Karl Popper's falsification criterion only a falsifiable theory is said to be a scientific theory. If this is true, is Evolution Theory falsifiable and hence considered scientific?
Following on from @Conifold's answer. I think we need to distinguish between the falsifiability of evolution and the falsifiability of evolution by natural selection i.e. Darwinism.
Falsifying evolution would be trivially easy using the Jurassic bunny argument. In other words, if one was to discover a modern day mammal in the fossil record of 100mm years ago, say, it'd be a pretty big kick in the teeth for evolution. The fact that huge quantities of fossils have been found without any serious discrepancies is strong evidence for evolution.
Whether a particular trait occurred via natural selection or not, however, is harder to prove in general. Some are fairly obvious e.g. a genetic variant that caused a substantial increase in mortality prior to fertility is likely to lead to a genetic dead end pretty quickly. Others, such as eye colour, less so. In fact, there's probably a perfectly good argument that evolution of blue/brown/green eye colour is just a function of dominance rather than selection per se.
Here is Popper's famous quote from 1976 that caused the controversy:"I have always been extremely interested in the theory of evolution and very ready to accept evolution as a fact... I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme — a possible framework for testable scientific theories". However, it is not as bad as it looks. His reference to Darwinism here concerns "survival of the fittest" with no testable way to determine the fittest other than to look at the survivors after the fact. In other words, "survival of the fittest" is "almost tautological" and unfalsifiable. Thus, "there exists no law of evolution, only the historical fact that plants and animals change, or more precisely, that they have changed".
Even so, Popper changed his mind two years later:"The fact that the theory of natural selection is difficult to test has led some people, anti-Darwinists and even some great Darwinists, to claim that it is a tautology... I mention this problem because I too belong among the culprits. Influenced by what these authorities say, I have in the past described the theory as "almost tautological", and I have tried to explain how the theory of natural selection could be untestable (as is a tautology) and yet of great scientific interest. My solution was that the doctrine of natural selection is a most successful metaphysical research programme... I have changed my mind about the testability and logical status of the theory of natural selection; and I am glad to have an opportunity to make a recantation... The theory of natural selection may be so formulated that it is far from tautological. In this case it is not only testable, but it turns out to be not strictly universally true".
A good account is Sonleitner's What Did Karl Popper Really Say About Evolution?
Of course it is falsifiable. Consider that we are living at the (current) end of an experiment that has been running for hundreds of millions of years. Evolution Theory lets us make predictions about outcomes, and these predictions can be verified. If the predictions were wrong, they could have been falsified.
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Is a theory that can only be disproved with an infeasable test still scientific?


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The Ridley Scholarship Program seeks to attract Black students of the highest academic caliber and build a community of learning, leadership and legacy for Black students at the University of Virginia.
The History of the Walter N. Ridley Scholarship Fund
Dr. Walter N. Ridley
In 1953, Dr. Walter N. Ridley earned a doctorate of education degree from the University of Virginia, becoming the first Black graduate of the University and the first Black to receive an academic doctoral degree from a traditional southern white college or university. He graduated with high honors and his pioneering achievements in desegregating the University were noted in the national and international press at the time.
During the inaugural Black Alumni Weekend in 1987, the late John Merchant—a 1958 graduate, and the first Black recipient of a Juris Doctor degree from the UVA School of Law—suggested that a scholarship be created in Dr. Ridley's honor. What began as a $500 book award has since grown into a host of scholarships for incoming first-year and upper-class students.
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 Información administrativa sobre Figueiró da Granja  (en portugués)

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Kevin Connors '97, host of ESPN SportsCenter, poses in the Athletics and Events Center. Connors was the emcee of the Athletics Hall of Fame Ceremony on Sept. 25
By Jonathan Beck — Sports Editor
On Sept. 25, Kevin Connors '97 was invited back to the college to emcee the 2015 Athletics Hall of Fame ceremony. Currently, he is a host for ESPN SportsCenter and has been there ever since he joined the network in 2008.
Connors was a member of the men's basketball team during his four years on South Hill, and he was a graduate of the Roy H. Park School of Communications, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in television-radio.
During his time at the college, he was a part of both ICTV, the college television station, and WICB, the college radio station, where he broadcasted all of the home football games and hosted "The Gridiron Report" during his senior year.
Sports Editor Jonathan Beck spoke with Connors about the Hall of Fame, his experiences during his time as a student at the college and his favorite moments of his 20-year career.
Jonathan Beck: What does it mean to come back and be the emcee for the 2015 Athletics Hall of Fame ceremony at your alma mater?
Kevin Connors: It's an extraordinary experience. This place meant so much to me, and to be a part of athletics here was really neat, and to be a part of the Park School was outstanding. I never even thought about having an opportunity like this, but to honor so many outstanding individuals in their respective sports and to share on this night with them is a fabulous experience. It's one that I'm really proud to be back for.
JB: What made you want to pursue a career in sports journalism?
KC: I was either a sophomore or a junior in high school when I said, "Well, Kev, you're not going to play in the NBA. So what can I do to be around sports on a long-term basis, and watching sports all the time on TV and listening on the radio and things like that?" I was passionate about broadcasting. I can remember doing play-by-play of sports video games that I would play with my friends, or we had a Nerf basketball hoop in my bedroom and I'd be shooting around and doing play-by-play of that. I knew I wanted to play basketball in college, and I knew at the Division III level was where I could play. So I knew when I came up to Ithaca for a recruiting trip, I fell in love with the campus, I fell in love with the Park School and the fact I knew that I could play and study here — I was sold.
JB: How did your experiences here at the college prepare you for your current job at ESPN and all along the way?
KC: Having that attention to detail and wanting to be sure that I was accurate in what I did and professional in how I prepared for it. Being ready for the opportunity when it came along. I tell people that in the four years that I was here at Ithaca in Park, I treated it like it was a professional experience, so that when I got my first job, I didn't feel like it was day one of a new job as a professional. I felt like I'd been preparing for that for four years. Opportunities have, in my career, not come for a long time and then they've come up. When they've come up, I've been prepared for them because of the foundation I had here of being ready in that position when it does come around.
JB: Who has been your favorite athlete to interview in your career?
KC: Boy, to boil it down to one is tough. I've had [Rob Gronkowski] on SportsCenter a couple of times, [and] he's fun. And I'm a big Bills fan so I should hate the Patriots, which I do, but I love Gronk, he's such a fun guy. I was never a NASCAR fan at all, but one year we had Brad Keselowski on after he won the Sprint Cup championship, and that's probably the most memorable thing that I've done at ESPN was be a part of an interview with him where he had a couple of drinks after he won the race and he was really quite fun on air. So those are two that come to mind. I mean I've been very fortunate in my career. I got to interview Kirby Puckett and Ozzie Smith, Hall of Famers. I've asked questions in reporter situations to… Jordan, Tiger Woods, Derek Jeter. Mariano Rivera was great. There were a lot, but those were probably seven or eight of the big ones.
JB: What advice would you give to aspiring sports journalists?
KC: If you're passionate about something, go after it and believe that it's a possibility. Because I was very, very passionate about broadcasting. From the support of my parents and the education that I got here, and the support of the faculty here and the students that I was peers with, it made me believe that it was possible to do. So if this is a field that you want to be in — whether it's being a photographer or a reporter or a producer or a director or whatever it is — if that's what you want to do, work hard at it and believe that you can achieve it because if you do, it's a real possibility that it could happen.
Jonathan Beck can be reached at jbeck3@ithaca.edu or via Twitter: @jonbeck365
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Agnar August Palmér, född i Stockholm 17 januari 1871, död 1953, var en svensk arkitekt.

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Palmér studerade 1892-1897 vid Tekniska Skolan, samtidigt som han praktiserade som dekorationsmålare. Studierna fortsatte 1902-1905 vid Kungliga tekniska högskolan, med påföljande studieresor till Danmark 1917, Tyskland 1921 och Frankrike 1922.
År 1902 anställdes han på arkitektkontoret Hagström & Ekman. Efter att kontoret upplösts 1918 bedrev han egen verksamhet och ritade bland annat i tjugotalsklassisk stil bostadshus på Wittstocksgatan 12 (1923), Tysta gatan 11–Lützengatan 12 (1925), Tysta Gatan 18–Lützengatan 14 (1926) på Östermalm i Stockholm.

Förteckning över uppförda byggnader i Stockholm (urval)

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 Agnar August Palmér, svenskagravar.se. Läst 27 september 2021.
 Brf Musketören 1, musketören1.se.  Läst 27 september 2021.
 Stiftelsen Arkitekt Agnar August Palmérs Minne. Läst 27 september 2021.
 Stockholms Stadsmuseum - Byggnadsinventering

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Födda 1871
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Kostel svaté Kateřiny v Betlémě (arabsky كنيسة القديسة كترينا) je římskokatolický poutní chrám zasvěcený sv. Kateřině Alexandrijské ve městě Betlém, v palestinském autonomním území státu Izrael. Stojí těsně vedle kostela Narození Páně, s nímž je propojen ambitem a bočním portálem. Přiléhají k němu klášterní budovy řádu františkánů provincie Terra sancta (Svatá země). Je součástí areálu chráněného jak Světové dědictví UNESCO.

Dějiny
Kostel založili příslušníci křižáckých řádů během první křížové výpravy 6. června 1099 nad památnou jeskyní, ve které podle zbožné tradice pobýval svatý Jeroným. Roku 1347, V době vlády Mamlúků jej zasvětili sv. Kateřině Alexandrijské. O vzorné službě mnichů františkánského řádu, existenci tří jeskyní a ambitu svědčí na konci 15. století například cestopis Jana Hasištejnského z Lobkovic, který Betlém navštívil roku 1493. Zmiňuje se o tradici místa, na němž stály jesle, ke kterým se přišli klanět Tři králové. Od této tradice je odvozen současný postranní oltář v kostele sv. Kateřiny, pod jehož menzou je zem vystlána slámou a na ní socha Ježíška.

Současná stavba byla založena roku 1882 na místě románsko-gotického chrámu a jeho byzantských předchůdců z 5. století. Má čtvercový ambit, který zčásti využívá středověkou stavbu. Roku 1982 byl doplněn ochoz na stavbami a klášterní areál Casa Nova (Nový dům), který slouží mimo jiné jako římskokatolické farní centrum v Betlémě.

Podle tradice kostel stojí na místě, kde se Ježíš Kristus zjevil svaté Kateřině a předpověděl jí mučednickou smrt. Ve 12. století, v době křižácké vlády Jeruzalémského království, byl severně od kostela Narození Páně zřízen klášter augustiniánů kanovníků, z něhož se zachovalo jádro v nyní zrekonstruovaném klášteře františkánů. Na východní straně měl kapitulní dům, z něhož se vstupovalo do pravoúhlé stavby kostela, zmíněného poprvé v 15. století a využívaného katolickými řeholníky, protože katolíci byli tehdy z bohoslužeb řeckého ortodoxního chrámu Narození Páně vyloučeni.

Kostel

Středověké budovy kostela a kláštera byly většinou zničeny výstavbou nového kostela v letech 1874 až 1882. Brutální realizace novostaveb celého areálu probíhala tehdy bez účasti archeologů, ani památková péče ve smyslu dohledu nad stavbami v Palestině neexistovala. Autorem úprav stavby z 50. let 20. století byl architekt Antonio Barluzzi, hlavní papežský projektant v biblických lokalitách. Fragmenty zdiva se dochovaly v jihozápadním koutě lodi, větší část středověké podlahy se rovněž dochovala pod současnou. Kostel je trojlodní bazilika. Hlavní loď byla do roku 1999 vyzdobena mnoha lámacími koly, atributy mučednictví sv. Kateřiny. Byla odstraněna při restaurování z roku 2000 a nahrazena 14 symbolickými kruhy z LED žárovek na pilířích mezilodní arkády. K témuž výročí byl zvětšen prostor za hlavním oltářem.

Klášter: schodiště z jižní lodi kostela vede do suterénu a chodbou k soustavě jeskyní pod kostelem Narození Páně, kde se nacházejí hroby sv. Jeronýma a jeho žákyň, sv. Pauly a sv. Eustochie. Ostatky těchto svatých byly v 15. století přeneseny do baziliky Santa Maria Maggiore v Římě, jde tedy o pouhé památníky (kenotafy)
Tři křídla klášterních budov navrhl v románsko-gotickém stylu italský architekt Antonio Barluzzi. roku 1874. Byly obnoveny a v letech 1948–1949 zrekonstruovány při zachování starších částí. Klášter odpovídá velikosti původní budovy středověkého augustiniánského kláštera kromě východního křídla. Spojovací dveře umožňují přímý vstup do jeskyně Narození Páně, která je otevřena pouze k liturgii anebo během procesí františkánů.

Interiér
Vnitřní vybavení je pro katolický kostel neobvyklé a je dílem několika etap úprav z 20.–21. století. V roce 1926 bylo v závěru odhaleno okno a doplněna do něj sklomalba. Při adaptaci roku 1982 byla zrušena kazatelna s pozoruhodnou plastikou olivového keře a k dosavadnímu mobiliáři přidán oltář čelem k lidu. Původní chór s táflovaným dřevěným obložením a kanovnickými lavicemi byly roku 2000 zastíněny, stejně jako starší oltář s obrazem Narození Páně, a doplněno pět mohutných křesel čelně k lidu, dispozicí připomínající reformované kostely. Na místě oltářního retáblu byla prodloužena skříň varhan.

 Sklomalba ve tvaru betlémské hvězdy: Narození Páně s klaněním dvou františkánů, sv. Františka a sv. Antonína Paduánského, v medailonu je hlava kardinála Emanuela Merciera, pod jehož patronací Belgičané okno darovali kostelu v roce 1926
 Sklomalba kruhová (v západním portálu): Klanění Tří králů, autor Louis-Victor Gesta; podle nápisů dar francouzských poutníků z roku 1885
 Boční oltář Panny Marie, v prosklené oltářní menze dřevořezba Jezulátka na slámě; o Vánocích se přesunuje na hlavní oltář.
 Barokní křtitelnice s postavou anděla a s františkánským znakem mramor (1734)
 Kaple sv. Josefa
 Kaple betlémských neviňátek – údajně nad jeskyní, v níž byly pohřbena novorozeňata, vyvražděná krále Herodem; tradici tohoto místa nejméně od 15. století doložil ve svém cestopisu Jan Hasištejnský z Lobkovic.

Podzemí
 Kenotafy sv. Jeronýma a jeho žákyň sv. Pauly a sv. Eustochie, a jejich následovníka Eusebios z Kaisareie
 Socha sv. Jiří v boji s drakem, patrona rytířů křížových výprav (1884)

Nádvoří
 Sloup se sochou píšícího sv. Jeronýma, s lebkou u nohou; socha upomíná na historickou skutečnost, že zde Jeroným v letech 385-420 žil v jedné jeskyni a pracoval na překladu bible.

Provoz
Kostel v současnosti slouží především jako odlehčovací svatyně sousednímu chrámu Narození Páně, do něhož se poutníci pro velký nával nevejdou. Výpravy vedené římskokatolickým knězem si zde dávají sloužit vlastní mši a v chrámu Narození si pak jednotlivě vystojí frontu, aby se před oltářem Narození Páně alespoň poklonili. V kostele sv. Kateřiny se slouží na Štědrý den půlnoční mše, která se přenáší přímým televizním přenosem do celého světa.

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Odkazy

Reference

Literatura
 GONEN, Rivka: Biblical Holy Places: An Illustrated Guide. Paulist Press New York/Mahwall – New Jersey 2000, s. 59–63, ISBN 0-8091-3974-X
 MAGI, Giovanna: Israel. Firenze 2004, s. 62-64, ISBN 88-7009-257-7
 STOLLHANS, Cynthia: St. Catherine of Alexandria in Renaissance Roman Art: Case Studies in Patronage, London – New York 2014, s. 20–21; ISBN 978-2-7067-0668-4
 VALDES, Giuliano: Země Ježíšova. Bonechi a Steimatzky Florencie, české vydání s. l. 1993, s. 30–31, ISBN 88-8029-075-4

Externí odkazy

 Web kláštera: http://www.terrasancta.org/home/

Betlém
Biblická místa
Katolická poutní místa
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Kostely v Izraeli


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Barbara Hobot holds an MFA from Western University and a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo. She has shown her work most recently at AKA Artist Run, Saskatoon; Elora Centre for the Arts...
Barbara Hobot holds an MFA from Western University and a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo. She has shown her work most recently at AKA Artist Run, Saskatoon; Elora Centre for the Arts; Art Gallery of Windsor, and DNA Artspace, London. Earlier shows were held at Art Mûr, Montreal; Harbourfront Centre, Toronto; Galerie Kurt im Hirsch, Berlin; Chiellerie Gallery, Amsterdam; and Weglowa Art Studios, Bialystok. Hobot has participated in artist residencies in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Exhibitions in 2016 include Strong Bonds at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery, a group show at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, and a solo exhibition at Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto. She is the recipient of awards from the Ontario Arts Council and numerous academic scholarships. Hobot lives and works in Kitchener and is represented by Olga Korper Gallery.
Barbara Hobot: Stampede
For the lack thereof, because you don't think of me often.
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OPK Write-Off
President Vladimir Putin has apparently agreed to a major write-off of Russian defense industry debt. It's a significant story not receiving much attention.
Putin with VTB chief Kostin in August 2019
The decision came in a secret presidential ukaz at the end of 2019. VTB chief Andrey Kostin broke the news in a late January interview with Rossiya 24 television at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The most coherent rendering of what Kostin said came from Interfaks-AVN:
Everything's decided. At the end of last year the President met with all interested parties, the President's ukaz was received, it's true it's secret, therefore I wouldn't begin to comment on it. [But then he does, at least generally.]
But on the whole the problem's solved, there is active participation of the [federal] budget and preferential restructuring on the part of leading banks is also provided, but it is so feasible, it is reasonable, it really takes into account, of course, that risk the banks took, therefore on the whole we're satisfied with this decision. I think the government is too. So the program is being effected. I believe we won't return to this issue again.
According to Interfaks-AVN in late December, Deputy PM and arms tsar Yuriy Borisov said measures to improve the financial state of key OPK enterprises were worked out and there would be a clearing of loans amounting to 700 billion rubles [$11 billion]. The main troubles, he indicated, were at OAK, OSK, ODK, and Roskosmos.
In early December, Borisov proposed writing off 400-450 billion of the debt and restructuring the remaining 300-350 billion for 15 years with a five-year initial payment holiday and a preferential two percent interest rate, according to a report in Rbc.ru.
Borisov and Russian bankers other than Kostin haven't commented.
Borisov's proposal may be the plan contained in Putin's ukaz, but we don't know since it's secret. And it's most likely secret to keep normally docile Russian citizens from learning that the government is bailing out weapons makers, not them. Russian household debt has increased steadily in recent years with little or no economic growth.
In July, Borisov said Russian defense industry's large debt load was forcing it to "live hand to mouth, servicing financial institutions that don't produce anything," Interfaks-AVN reported. He indicated then that 90 percent of the debt belonged to OAK, OSK, Uralvagonzavod, Almaz-Antey, and Precision Systems (Высокоточные комплексы).
He called for writing off all or part of the debt at that time. But the biggest OPK creditors Sberbank and VTB opposed it.
Yuriy Borisov
In September, Putin directed then PM Dmitriy Medvedev to investigate problems with the profitability of defense enterprises. This came after the Military-Industrial Commission session in Izhevsk at which Putin blamed "unused capacity during a reduction in order volumes and the requirement to finance development work, the costs of which aren't included in planning documents." The president didn't say anything about contract prices being too low or funding lost to waste or corruption.
Novaya gazeta reported in July that 700 billion rubles represents non-performing defense industry loans. Total OPK indebtedness, however, is 2.3 trillion rubles ($36 billion). A write-off of 700 billion rubles (or part of this amount) would be a significant hit to the working capital of major Russian banks (and OPK creditors).
Borisov said corporations and enterprises were making only interest payments on the most troubled loans, according to Novgaz. Experts told the paper that more than half of the OPK's profits are going to debt service leaving most producers with net profits of only 3-4 percent or even losses. Defense enterprises say they are frequently paying 22-23 percent on loans accumulated over many years. Meanwhile, the Russian banking sector is earning record profits.
Based on the recent history of OPK debts, Novgaz concluded the most likely scenario is partial write-off, partial restructuring, and recapitalization of affected banks by the Finance Ministry. Promsvyazbank (PSB) — bankrupt and nationalized in early 2018 — is also being turned into a specialized bank for handling state defense orders and problem loans to the OPK. PSB might insulate healthy parts of the Russian banking sector from bad OPK debt, and possibly from U.S. economic sanctions.
Defense producers say price formation — agreement with the MOD on contract prices — remains a substantial problem, according to the Novgaz report. Its source said:
Everyone is right — both the customer can't pay a lot, and the contractor can't operate at a loss. But there's no arbiter for a compromise, and the customer is always stronger.
This OPK debt write-off is pretty much like earlier ones. It may take care of the most immediate and acute symptoms but it won't cure the causes of the ailment, including price formation, theft, and cumbersome rules about handling GOZ funds.
Posted in Defense Industry, Force Modernization, Military Budget
Tagged Almaz-Antey, Andrey Kostin, OAK, ODK, OPK, OSK, Precision Systems, Promsvyazbank, PSB, Roskosmos, Sberbank, Uralvagonzavod, VTB, Yuriy Borisov


The leader of Nigerian delegation to the International Telecoms Union (ITU) World 2018 conference currently going in Durban, South Africa and Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta on Tuesday, opened Nigeria's Pavilion.
In his remarks, he raised the appetite of international investors in areas in need of massive investments including introduction of emerging technologies recently launched Nigeria's ICT Roadmap and driving broadband penetration.
While thanking the leadership of ITU under the Secretary General, Mr. Houlin Zhaohe noted that "We also come to share our experiences and take home new ideas in global best practices that will assist us to strengthen our regulatory processes and interventions that will make the accelerated growth of telecommunications to dovetail into a better and stronger economy".
Though he laid great emphasis on the feats so far recorded by Nigeria in the telecoms industry, Prof Danbatta was mute on critical issues currently hobbling the industry including the delay in completing the Commission's integrity test on Teleology Holdings Limited, the bid winners in the sale of 9mobile.
The nation's telecoms industry watchers had been apparently put in incommunicado by the NCC for too long in coming out to tell Nigerians the real new owners of the troubled telecom.
Aside the silence on 9mobile ownership issue, the EVC was also mute on another industry issue; the massive call for review of Data price Floor (DPF) which remains a big issue in Nigeria's data market segment.
For several months, the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) including Main Network Operators (MNOs) and leading industry stakeholders' bodies had been calling for the review so as to spur the needed investments in the sector by players and possibly, new entrants.
But the Commission had remained adamant without any reason for its delay or silence on the matter.
Business Hilights recalls that due to the crisis bordering on unregulated DPF, several ISPs have collapsed as many of the struggling ISPs cannot muster the courage to go for licence renewal apparently caused by lack of level playing ground and ongoing suppression of smaller service providers by leading MNOs.
Only recently, the management of Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators' of Nigeria (ALTON), led by Engr Gbenga Adebayo had raised alarm on the rising collapse of service providers in the data segment due to the stalemate in arriving at a new DPF capable of encouraging more investment in the sub-sector.
However, even at home, the NCC had remained adamant on their pleas and also extended the muteness on the matter at the ongoing ITU.
On encouraging international investors in the area of coming to deepen investments in the nation's broadband penetration campaign, Prof Danbatta only gave shallow details on the importance of growing the sector but maintained blackout on why licenced Infrastructure Companies (Infracos) are still finding it hard to rollout services and associated fibre optic cables across their respective zones.
However, Danbatta averred that "We at NCC are conscious of the role assigned to us in the Roadmap and National Broadband Plan to drive Broadband penetration beyond the minimum target of 20% to reach the maximum target of 30% target, hopefully before the end of 2018. At 22%, we have already exceeded the minimum target".
"The NCC has put in place incentives for Infrastructure Companies (Infracos) in order to encourage speedy deployment of infrastructure that will deepen broadband penetration as quickly as possible.
"This is part of the roadmap to take Nigeria to the next level under the Open Access Model template. So far, six Infraco licences have been issued to cover Lagos, North East, North West, South South, South West and South East zones of the Country. Arrangements are underway to re-licence the North Central zone.
NCC was however, short of words on giving Company-by Company details on their respective progress made so far so as to raise appetite of international investors.
Though Prof Danbatta revealed incentives for new investors on Infraco licences including securing of a special facility for Infracos, he was silent on the singular key challenge of licencees which has been Right of Way (RoW) access across the states of the federation and the inability of either the Commission or federal government to convince state governments' to provide soft landing for Infracos.


Dolma Rice Bowl will become your new favorite meal. Perfect for lunch or dinner!
Do I need to introduce you to dolmas? You may have seen them called dolmades.
They are those rice-stuffed grape leaves that frequently grace fancy appetizer platters. You may have also had them at your favorite Middle Eastern restaurant.
The rice inside the rolled grape leaf is lemony, creamy, and sometimes speckled with ground lamb. The flavors are bright and fresh—dill, lemon and parsley.
It's hard to believe so much flavor is packed into one little bite. I've never been known to stop at just one dolma on the appetizer platter.
If you have a fancy grocery store in your area, you can find them in the olive bar area. Also, if you're wondering just how many dolmas you can pack into the plastic cups they give you for olives, it's eight.
I pretend I'm playing Lincoln Logs, and pack them like sardines into the plastic bin.
So, since I clearly have an addiction, I thought I would make them at home. But, after glancing at the homemade recipes online, and deciding I didn't have an entire afternoon to devote to one craving (by the time I finished, I'd be craving cupcakes anyway), I decided to make the next best thing: a rice bowl that has all the flavors of a dolma.
I served a few sliced dolmas on top to really hit the flavor profile home.
My favorite dolmas are the vegetarian ones; they have an herbier flavor. So, this rice bowl is vegetarian.
You could sauté a little ground lamb with the onions, and make it a meat dolma bowl.
You may have to make a trip to the international grocery store to find grape leaves in a jar. It's a trip well worth it, since you can use the rest of the jar to make this recipe many more times.
While you're there, grab barberries in the Persian section. If not, use currants.
Barberries are more tart, but currants are a fine substitute. Other ingredients you will need: fresh dill, fresh mint, lemons, pistachios, and sumac powder.
The ground sumac is optional, but I find it really makes it taste like I'm eating at my favorite Persian restaurant! (I often make saffron rice with leftover sumac powder on top).
Watch out Chipotle, the next rice bowl may be dolma bowls!
In a medium saucepan with a tight-fitting lid, add the olive oil and turn the heat to medium-high.
Saute the onion in the olive oil for about 4-5 minutes, until softened.
Next, stir in the rice, and cook while constantly stirring for 1 minute or so.
Stir in 2 cups of water, and the grape leaves. Cover and cook on LOW for 20 minutes.
After 20 minutes, remove the pan from the heat, and add the barberries or currants. Place a kitchen towel on top of the pot, and place the lid back on. Let the rice sit for 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, chopped the dill and mint, and zest the lemon. Chopped the shelled pistachios.
Remove the lid from the rice, and stir in the herbs, lemon zest, and chopped pistachios.
Serve the rice bowl with a sprinkling of sumac and chopped dolmas on top.


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Matt Kemp to undergo MRI
San Francisco, CA – Matt Kemp will miss at least the rest of the Los Angeles Dodgers' series against the NL West-leading San Francisco Giants to undergo an MRI on his ailing left shoulder.
Kemp injured his shoulder on Aug. 28 when he ran, full-speed, into the center- field wall at Coors Field in a loss to the Colorado Rockies. The two-time All- Star missed a pair of games after the collision and has gone 3-for-30 since his return.
"We lost him at least temporarily," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said prior to Saturday's game. "He's going to have the contrast MRI, so he'll be down a few days."
Kemp is batting .315 with 18 homers and 56 RBI in 85 games this season and also missed significant time due to a hamstring injury.
Los Angeles, which lost the opener of the three-game series on Friday, trailed the Giants by 5 1/2 games entering Saturday.


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3 struck by lightning at New Smyrna Beach park
By: Jason Kelly
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. - Three people were struck by lightning Thursday evening at Smyrna Dunes Park in New Smyrna Beach.
Someone called 911 shortly after 7:30 p.m. to report that a person had been struck by lightning, officials said.
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Relatives of Kaylyn Peeples, 22, said she and her boyfriend, Connor Curtis, 25, were struck by lightning when they sought shelter from an approaching storm.
"They were surfing, and then it started to rain," said Mason Peeples, Kaylyn Peeples' brother. "The waves were really good yesterday, so they went and just sat underneath the boardwalk with a few other people."
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Kaylyn Peeples' mother, Melanie Peeples, described her daughter as strong and very smart.
"They were probably doing the smartest thing they could at that point," she said. "This is not going to deter her ... She'll be back (at the beach) as soon as she can."
The family said Peeples was released from the hospital Thursday evening, and Curtis remains hospitalized.
Gilday Francis, 51, was also struck. Each of the victims is expected to fully recover.
Read: Lightning safety: How close do you have to be to get struck?
The National Weather Service said five people in the United States have been killed by lightning strikes this year.
Lightning can strike up to 10 miles away from a storm. The temperature of a strike can be up to 50,000 degrees.
More people die of lightning in Florida than any other state. Officials said 47 people have been killed by lightning in Florida between 2008 and 2017.
Click here to receive alerts when lightning strikes within eight miles from your location.
Read: 1 dead, 1 injured after Florida lightning strike
The 5th #lightning fatality of 2018.
27-year-old man struck by lightning Friday afternoon in Maumelle, Arkansas. He reportedly was working in a yard when he was struck.
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David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931) (pen name John le Carré) is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, he worked for the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service, and began writing novels under a pen name. His third novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) became an international best-seller, and remains one of his best-known works. Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full-time author.
Le Carré established himself as a writer of espionage fiction. In 2008, The Times ranked le Carré 22nd on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2011, he won the Goethe Medal, a yearly prize given by the Goethe Institute.
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Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London are to be scrutinised by a generation with no memory of the Cold War. Somebody must be made to pay for innocent blood once spilt in the name of the greater good. Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own story, John le Carre has given usa novel of superb and enduring quality.
ABSOLUTE FRIENDS is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours.
The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West.
The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today's unipolar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies.
The Department has faded since the war, effectively mothballed, without agents or resources. But now, with intelligence of a possible missile threat, it again has a mission. This is a chance to prove its influence to those at the Circus, like George Smiley, who think the Department's time has passed. The opportunity to reclaim former glory cannot be missed - even though it means putting men's lives at desperate risk on foreign soil.
Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Educated first at mission school in the East Congolese province of Kivu, and later at a discreet sanctuary for the secret sons of Rome, Salvo is inspired by his mentor Brother Michael to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages of which, almost from birth, he has been an obsessive collector.
Tommy Brue has inherited a doomed private British bank based in Hamburg. Alone in his office one night, he receives a phone call from a young female lawyer he has never heard of, demanding an immediate face-to-face meeting. Her name is Annabel Richter, her client the mysterious Issa, an illegal immigrant who happens to possess a key to one of the most exclusive vaults in Brue's bank. He is also wanted by three of the world's most powerful intelligence agencies. Alive as he has never been before, Brue finds himself drawn into an unlikely alliance with this passionate young woman and the man she is willing to risk her life to save.
Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doilies and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, is asked by an old Service friend to investigate. Smiley knows that Stella feared her husband would murder her, but as he probes further beneath Carne's respectable veneer, he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion.
In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. Jonathan Pine is ready to stand up and be counted in the fight against this ultimate heart of darkness. His mission takes him from the cliffs of west Cornwall, via northern Quebec and the Caribbean, to the jungles of post-Noriega Panama. His quarry is the worst man in the world.
An English couple, Perry and Gail, are taking an off-peak holiday on theCaribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to themurkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment.
"Our Kind of Traitor (PB)"
An English couple, Perry and Gail, are taking an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis.What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment.
le Carre's most autobiographical novel is also widely held to be his masterpiece, and the finest spy novel of the twentieth-century.'le Carre's best book, and one of the finest English novels of the twentieth century' Philip Pullman 'Without doubt his masterpiece.' The Sunday Times 'A perfect work of fiction' The Sunday Times 'One of the enduring peaks of imaginative literature in our time' Los Angeles Times Magnus Pym, ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on: for a missing husband, a devoted father, and a secret agent. Pym's life, it is revealed, is entirely made up of secrets. Dominated by a father who is also a confidence trickster on an epic scale, Pym has from the age of seventeen been controlled by two mentors. It is these men, racing each other, who are orchestrating the search to find the perfect spy. Described by the author as his most autobiographical work, John le Carre's eleventh novel masterfully blends wit, compassion and unflagging tension with the poignant story of an estranged father and son.
Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. Nearly a year later, his drunken promise returns to haunt him. A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence and sent to Moscow to liaise with a go-between, the beautiful Katya.
The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class.There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did it do any good? What did it do to me? And what will happen to us now? In this final Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers.
Smiley's People is one of John le Carre's classic Cold War novels and George Smiley one of his most acclaimed characters. Into a shadowy, violent and intricate world steeped in moral ambivalence steps George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus, as the Secret Service is known. His brief is to bury crime, not solve it, as he fights his own private battle from London to Paris and to Hamburg for his last duel with his Russian opposite number, codnamed Karla.
Harry Pendel is the charismatic proprietor of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada of Panama, through whose doors everyone who is anyone in Central America passes; Andrew Osnard, mysterious and fleshly, is a spy. His secret mission is two-pronged: to keep a watchful eye on the political manoeuvrings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal on 31st December 1999; and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that has until now churlishly eluded him.
Bruno Salvador has worked on clandestine missions before. A highly skilled interpreter, he is not stranger to the Official Secrts Act. But this is the first time he has been asked to change his identity - and, worse still, his clothes - in service of his country.
Whisked to a remote island to interpret a top-secret conference between no-name financiers and Congolese warlords, Salvo's excitement is only heightened by memories of the night before he left London, and his life-changing encounter with a beautiful nurse named Hannah.
Exit suddenly, the unassuming, happily married man Salvo believed himself to be. Enter in his place, the pseudonymous Brian Sinclar: spy, lover - and perhaps, even, hero.
A special edition of le Carre's first post-Cold War novel, to tie in with the new major BBC series starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, with a new afterword by the authorAt the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel.But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities - about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine.
"The Night Manager (TV Tie-in)"
At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities - about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine.
Smiley and his people are facing a remarkable challenge: a mole - a soviet double agent - who has burrowed his way in and up to the highest level of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of their vital operations and their best networks. The mole is one of their own kind. But which one?


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La 254ª Squadriglia fu un reparto attivo nel Servizio Aeronautico della Regia Marina nel corso della prima guerra mondiale.

Storia

Prima guerra mondiale
L'unità viene creata nella primavera del 1917 a San Nicola Imbuti di Cagnano Varano sul Lago di Varano dalla Squadriglia Idrovolanti della locale Stazione per la Direzione Servizi Aeronautici di Brindisi comandata dal sottotenente di vascello Alberto Ghè dotata di 2 FBA Type H, 4 Macchi L.1 e 4 Macchi L.3 per altri 6 piloti e 6 osservatori.
L'8 luglio svolgono una ricognizione su Lagosta (isola) che era una base di appoggio della Marina austriaca ed il 12 settembre 4 aerei bombardano Lissa (città) mitragliando la torpediniera.
Al 15 settembre disponeva di 1 Macchi L.2 e 8 L.3 ed il 1º gennaio 1918 il reparto aveva 11 piloti, 3 osservatori, 6 FBA, un Macchi L.2, 8 L.3 e 4 idrocaccia Macchi M.5.

Il 14 maggio bombardano Lissa ed il 17 luglio 5 aerei attaccano l'idroscalo di Lagosta (comune).
Il 1º novembre 4 L.3 lanciano bombe su Lissa.

Seconda guerra mondiale
Al 10 giugno 1940 era nel 105º Gruppo con 8 Savoia-Marchetti S.M.79 nel 46º Stormo Bombardamento Terrestre della Regia Aeronautica sull'Aeroporto di Pisa-San Giusto.
Nell'ambito della Campagna italiana di Grecia al 28 ottobre 1940 era all'Aeroporto di Tirana con gli SM 79 nel 105º Gruppo del 46º Stormo.
Nel novembre del 1942,  con l'inizio dell'invasione anglo-americana del territorio dell'Africa del nord francese, iniziarono le operazioni in quel settore. Il 9 dicembre il Capitano Urbano Mancini affondò (l'attacco alle navi del convoglio MKS 31 fu condotto da tre Savoia-Marchetti S.79 Sparviero della 254ª Squadriglia del 105º Gruppo, condotti dal capitano Mancini, dal tenente Ernesto Borelli e dal sottotenente Casanova) con un siluro la corvetta britannica Marigold, assegnata di scorta al convoglio MKS 31, nella rada di Algeri, scampando alla reazione della caccia nemica.

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Bibliografia

Voci correlate
 Armoriale dell'Aeronautica Militare italiana
 Regia Marina
 Servizio Aeronautico

Squadriglie aeree italiane
Aviazione Navale


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Fire Defending Your Residence With Hearth Doors
May 14, 2018 / yvonne
Cast iron radiators have been used to heat properties since the mid nineteenth century, but right now relatively few folks know their ins and outs. Bryan's first and finest-recognized position is that of oldest son Brad Taylor. Reasonably than let Wondell flip their show into "Trash Time", Tim, Al, and Heidi quit in the collection finale. Jillian "Jill" Patterson Taylor ( Patricia Richardson ) – Jill (born November 1956) is Tim 's spouse and the mother of Brad, Randy , and Mark Jill graduated from Adams Excessive College (taken from an precise highschool in Rochester Hills, Michigan ) in 1973.
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