The only negative was that the vibration from touches to be a bit too strong for my liking, but that could something with this particular review model and can be turned off if it gets annoying.
The best quality for the lowest price ever!
Delivery time - very fast and accurate tracking! Overall appearance: The device reminds me of the Nexus 4, just more beautiful, slimmer and more comfortable. Vernee did a great job with the design and materials used. The back panel is ruber/plastic but feels so premium and allows a perfect and secure grip in the hand. The display is sharp and vivid, almost as an AMOLED display (in order to achieve this, change the settings in MiraVision). Touch sensitivity and screen response is smooth and accurate after the 4th OTA update. The fingerprint scanner is stated to be a downside of the device, but it is NOT! Setup 5x your index finger and it will work 99% of the time. Rear Camera is really good in daylight, good colors, no blur. At night it performs OK. (setup the no-delay shutter) Hardware/Software: The phone has no lag what so ever. Multitasking and multiple apps opened do not cause any issues. Great performance and RAM allocation. CPU and GPU work beautifully together. Battery life is good, users will need to recharge only at night time. (if you play games for 4h and use internet for another 2-3h, then expect battery to drain in 10h) Charging time: from 9% to 100% in 90min charging on Galaxy s7 fast charger. Overall remark: The look, feel, performance, options and build quality is worth at least double the price! I own a Samsung Galaxy S7 and the difference is maybe 15% in galaxy's favor. The price difference is HUGE, so to all of the people who are expecting a phone with this price to be any better - good luck in your search! Compared to the Galaxy S6: Better battery life, same charging time, same RAM, same speed, faster fingerprint!
After some time spent on the weekends to read features and reviews, I finally decided to buy the Vernee Thor. It states that the seller has shown during The entire transaction, a high degree of professionalism and support, as well as establish an interpersonal relationship characterized by the utmost courtesy and helpfulness. The phone has amazed me: simple aesthetic, volume button and power on the same side, rather long and narrow, so it holds up well in hand and runs with only the thumb. The fingerprint reader is not exactly precise, but you have to make do and however you get used to putting your finger in a certain way. Software: Android 6.0 stock, with some firmware update to download and install after the first boot. 3 gigs of RAM seem exploited well and do not see lag or crash. Good battery that allows me to get easily in the evening. Good rear camera that gives good photos in daylight conditions and sufficient photos in the dark. The gps surprised me by hooking the signal in seconds. The display is bright even in the light and the touch responds well. Conclusion: a great phone at a great price suitable for both those who work and so it needs a high-performance phone that to those who love gaming, because, with its 3 GB of RAM has performance benefits. It recommended to absolutely everyone.
Emballage sans protection (aucun coup sur la boite), livré dans boite aux lettres.
Sehr gute verarbeitung und sehr schnelles Handy, GPS Navigation mit Navigon geht Sehr gut und die Kamera macht auch nicht schlechte bilder vor allem draussen sind würde ich sagen sehr gut für den Preis. Akku ladung geht auch relativ schnell.Akku ausdauer bei normale betrieb 2 tagen bei intensive betrieb abends ist immer noch ca 30%. Man kann 2 SIM karten und 1 MicroSD Speicherkarte einstecken wobei 1 x LTE mit alle frequenzen für DE geht tadenlos und ohne Problemme,ich hab momentan 1x o2 zum Telefonieren ,1x Win sim o2 mit LTE datentarif und 64GB MicroSD. Hab gleich dazu ein 2tes Thor bestellt. Gearbest ist ein vertrauendes Geschäftspartner, bis zu lieferung in Deutschland 15 tage ! Kein Zollgebühr! Anleitung für Android System bedienung sehr klein (wer es braucht?) Fazit: Ein sehr gelungene neues Handy mit sehr viele Pluspunkten im vergleich mit der konkurenz und den Niedrige Preis!
Schroll geschwindigkeit ist gewönungsbedürftig geht sehr schnell und nicht seitenweisse. Also verbesserungs bedarf beim nächste Software update.
Vernee Thor is really a great phone!
Vernee Thor is compact, durable and very well built with a slightly rubberized back that allows a firm grip. The processor is the Mediatek 6753 Octacore and we have 3GB of RAM and 16GB of memory (expandable via Micro SD) that are the result always ready and quick phone in all situations and on warm even under stress. The 5-inch IPS display with a HD resolution and provides good results and visibility even in the sun. The main camera is 13 MP with LED flash and makes good pictures. The front one for selfies is 5MP and it's not of great quality. The operating system is 6.0 Androin stock and is responsive and fast. The 2800mAh battery is a good time, you quietly more than a day of medium to high usage. There is also a fingerprint sensor, under the rear camera, but do not always respond well. Vernee Thor is really a great phone!
The Vernee Thor is really a surprising concentration of features for a very low price. I've bought dozens of phones from Chinese brands with varying reputations (Jiayu, Oppo, Zopo, THL, Elephone, ZTE, Xiaomi and now Vernee), and this one really is amazing for its feature+quality/price ratio. Everything works definitely well, the battery lasts for long (over 4 days for my wife with light to moderate usage, LTE always on, screen brightness at 60%). And the cherry is that updates are regularly rolling out (3rd one since purchase), improving the rom and features. Even the fingerprint scanner works very nicely, even compared to more notorious brands. Thumbs up!
I have this phone more than a year now. This phone was very good use for me all over the year. Had great time when needed fast working phone at work or at home.Cons:In first month phones screen in top got a little yellow.After year started problems with phone connection to 4G,3G,2G. It was hard to call sometimes.And also my charging plug got really bad, its it hard to charge sometimes.Pros: Price and quality is very good.I used phone very much at work and it was many times droped on flor from big heights and it lasted more than a year. I still use this phone for apps and wifi at home because it still pretty fast phone.
Livraison un peu longue mais correcte, je l'ai reçu en bon état et le téléphone fonctionne.
Does Vernee Thor support Miracast?
Does Vernee Thor support OTG?
Will Vernee Thor be compatible with fast charging?
It is compatible with fast charging(5V 2A).
Sorry it just can support Sensor: Ambient Light Sensor, Gravity Sensor, Proximity Sensor, E-compass, Hall Sensor, Smart Touch Sensor .
My order is stuck in processing for weeks now. What is going on here?
We are sorry this item not in stock now, we except in stock between Nov 3 - Nov 4.
We are sorry it doesn't support Slovak language, it support OTA.
Does it come with screen protector and back cover included?
Sorry, there are no screen protector and back cover in the package.
Please tell me, if this phone support fm radio.
So this is now Andriod 7.0? It still says 6.0 in the picture.
Yes, the system is Android 7.0.
Dear buyer do you send the tracking code so that I can monitor the same by the mails from my country? and would you be able to declare a lower value of the device at the time of shipment? Thanks, Dico, for your answers.
You can choose tracking mail when you check out.
Greetings! Is the Vernee Thor going to receive Android 8 (aka Oreo) in the next few months?
We are sorry it's manufacturer issue, it out of our control, we can't know it.
It is Corning Gorilla Glass 3 Screen.
Hi, Can the battery be remplaced ? Do you sell remplacement battery ? Thx.
The battery cannot be replaced and we don't sell replacement battery.
This smartphone have a screem mirroring?
It have a real IMEI and homologated or work on Brazil?
This phone is with Finnish language. Thanks for your attention.
Do you want say something about payment? If the mobile for this sell side is original?
eu quero enviar para o brasil, preciso pagar alguma taxa? Se precisar quanto é?
It is unable to be shipped to China. Kindly check if this size is suitable for you.Let me know if you need any help.
Quantos Dias em media leva para chegar? Já faz 13 Dias Após terem confirmado o pagamento e ainda não recebi o produto.
Hello, I want to buy Vernee Tor but I have Customs In my country. Can you declare the value of the product under 20$? Thank you!!
Should you have any questions or require additional information, please feel free to contact us anytime.
Hello, What is the average delivery time for Brazil?
tem como pagar um frete pra entrega ser mais rápido para o Brasil?
Você pode ver os custos de transporte e tempo de entrega durante o check-out. Passos a seguir 1. Adicione o seu produto ao seu carrinho 2. Insira seu país de entrega 3. O custo de envio será automaticamente exibida.
Assim que recebermos o seu pagamento nós enviaremos o seu item de acordo com a estimativa da expedição indicado na página do produto.
Meu Vernee Thor Bugou E Agora? Até Ontem Ele Estava Legal Mais Quando Reiniciei Sem O Chip Ele Me Pediu Um Pin E Eu Coloquei O Pin Mais Nao Foi, Agora Eu Consegui Tirar O Pin Mais O Celular Bugou Total Nao Funciona Nem Os Botões Capacitivo.
Esse valor é taxado ao entrar no Brasil? tenho enterese no produto... porem estou com receio do taxamento ficar muito alto.
It is possible to pay in installments?
Will this work ok in united kingdom?
Price may fluctuate due to page cashes, updates or sales ending; the most up-to-date price takes priority.
hello, Could you declare price $45 for vernee thor when I buy item?


Please check this SP. Does it look familiar?
Easy to implement. Easy to support. Only minor problem – it never uses indexes. Never. Period.
For us, who came from imperative development world, it does not look right. How come that SQL Server cannot do the simple optimization and determine, that parameter is not null. Well, it does not. It does not know this during the compilation stage so it would scan entire table and apply both predicates to every row. Even if first predicate needs to be checked only once.
So how to deal with that? The most optimal way is to specify the list of all parameter combination. Something like that.
Still requires quite a few different selects and hard to maintain.
It would lead to recompilations of dynamic SQL for every SP call. Well, this is the downside of that method. Fortunately there is the good chance that plan would be in the cache especially if SP is called often enough so compilation would not be expensive.
This entry was posted in T-SQL on August 29, 2010 by Dmitri Korotkevitch.
We already saw that correct data types could decrease the row size. Why is it important? Well, obviously one of the reasons is the database and backup file sizes. Although this is not the only and frankly not the main reason.
Unfortunately I/O is not only thing affected. RAM and Buffer Pool size are limited. More data pages need to be processed/read from disk, more "old" pages would be flushed away from the Buffer Pool.
As the side note – this is one of the biggest problems with non-optimized queries. Those queries are not only slow by themselves, those are also flushing Buffer Pool with unnecessary data and compromise the system performance in general. There are 2 reliable performance counters you can see in Performance Monitor (perfmon.exe) under "SQL InstanceBuffer Manager" group: Page life expectancy – indicates how long the data page stays in cache (production value should be > 300 seconds) and Buffer cache/hit ratio – indicates % of the cases when requested data page is already in the cache (production value should be >96-97%). If you monitor those counters and see low values there, most likely the problem is non-optimized queries (assuming, of course, that you have enough RAM available for SQL Server).
As we can see, LargeRows table uses 12,500 data pages when SmallRows uses 149.
As you can see scan of SmalRows table is about 45 times faster than scan of LargeRow.
Obviously we rarely scan entire table in real life. Although above is true for every partial scans. So always use appropriate data types.
This entry was posted in General on August 25, 2010 by Dmitri Korotkevitch.
Last Sunday I wrote about cross joins. Today I want to show another example where cross joins could be useful.
As the disclaimer, this design is far from optimal. Please don't use it in your system. Even if I'm using it only as the example, I saw similar approaches in real production systems.
Obviously this is not the best implementation. Cursor, 20 separate inserts. Not even talking about the triggers in general.
This entry was posted in T-SQL on August 22, 2010 by Dmitri Korotkevitch.
What is the optimal size for variable width columns?
Yesterday we had the discussion during Tampa Bay SQL Server User Group meeting regarding the size of variable width columns. The question was if it matters how to define such columns – for example if column holds 100 characters should it be defined as varchar(100), varchar(1000) or varchar(max).
The answer is not so simple. From the storage prospective it does not really matter. Row stores actual data size + 2 bytes in offset array. The question though is how it affects performance.
When Query Optimizer generates the query plan, it needs to estimate how much memory needed for the query execution. It estimates the number of rows returned by each specific iterator (the valid statistics is the key) as well as the row size. And this is where it comes to play. SQL Server does not know if varchar(100) column holds in average 1 character or 100 characters. So it uses simple assumption – 50% of declared column size and 4000 bytes for (max) columns.
Correct estimate is especially critical for sort and hash operations – if operation cannot be done in memory, Sql Server flushes the data to tempdb and do the operations there. And this is the major performance hit. Let's see this in action.
Let's create the table with 2 varchar fields – 100 and 210 characters and populate this table with 1M rows. Let's put 100 characters into both varchar fields.
Let's look at the Query Plan – as you see row size estimated incorrectly.
Same query plan but different row size.
No Sort Warnings in SQL Profiler. As for the memory, this query uses 8088K.
As you can see the first query is 25% slower than the second one. This is quite simple example – with complex queries the difference could be dramatic.
So on one hand it looks like that it's good idea to always define variable width columns really wide. On other hand it introduces the different problem – you don't want to overestimate row size. It will lead to the bigger memory consumption as well as waits for the large memory grants could be longer than to the small ones. I would suggest to define those columns in about 2 times bigger than actual average data size, so row size estimate would be as accurate as possible.
This entry was posted in General, SQL Server 2008, T-SQL on August 18, 2010 by Dmitri Korotkevitch.
As we know, cross joins without WHERE clause produce the Cartesian product of the tables. So, for example, if first table has 5 rows and second table has 3 rows, result set will have 15 rows with all possible combination of the values from the both tables.
Second time it was similar task – combined information from master record and list of detail record IDS in XML format. Could be easily accomplished with the function of course.
This entry was posted in T-SQL on August 15, 2010 by Dmitri Korotkevitch.
Last time we saw that TVP is the clear winner in compare with separate insert calls. Obviously this is not an option with SQL 2005. So let's see what can we do there.
Now let's run our tests again. For 5,000 records avg. time is about 8 seconds. For 50,000 records avg time is about 82-84 seconds. Quite surprising results. Let's take a look at the execution plan.
As you can see, SQL Server basically does the join for every element/column in the XML packet. Obviously – more elements/columns you have – more joins it would produce and slower performance would be.
For 5,000 records avg. time is about 2,7 seconds. For 50,000 records avg time is about 27-28 seconds. Better, but still slower than classical inserts. Plan also looks slightly better, but still, it uses the same approach with joins.
So as we can see, XQUERY performance greatly depends on the number of columns/joins.
For 5,000 records avg. time is about 1,4 seconds. For 50,000 records avg time is about 14-15 seconds. As you can see, results are much better – even better than classical approach. Only minor problem with this approach – memory. MSXML parser uses one-eights of the total memory available for SQL Server. Huh?
So looks like we're out of luck. Only option which is faster than classical inserts is OpenXML and we cannot use it unless memory is completely not an issue.
Although let's think what can be done if our main problem is not the performance but concurrency. With classical approach and multiple inserts in the one transaction, we will place first exclusive lock on the new row with the first insert. In some cases we cannot simply afford to keep locks on the rows for a few seconds.
If this is the main issue, we can insert data to the temporary table first and just move it to the main table in one short transaction. If we update our attribute-centric insert stored procedure and insert data to the temporary table variable first, it would increase execution time for 200-300 milliseconds (for 5000 records) although transaction duration would be just 30-40 milliseconds. I'm not posting the code here but it's available for download.
This entry was posted in Client Development, T-SQL on August 8, 2010 by Dmitri Korotkevitch.
My presentations are available for download.
This entry was posted in General on August 2, 2010 by Dmitri Korotkevitch.


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Q: Javascript into html isn't working? I am very, very new to html, but I am trying to try out a widget made by NCBO BioPortal. The widget is a javascript file that allows the admin to restrict a form field to certain terms pulled from an external vocabulary. Thanks for any insight you can give as to why it isn't working!
Here's the link for the widget: http://bioportal.bioontology.org/javascripts/widgets/form_complete.js
Here's what it's supposed to do:
-Look-ahead so that you don't need to type the whole term
-Controlled vocabulary provides consistency of the way different users use the term
Here's my HTML, written by following the guidelines on this page:
https://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO_Widgets#Term-selection_field_on_a_form

<meta charset="utf-8">
<title> NCBO Widget tester </title>

 NCBO Widget Tester

Term Selection in a field

<form action="/action_page.php">
  Term tagger:

  <input type="text" name="term" class="bp_form_complete-all-name" size="100"/>

  <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

A: I'm not sure but looks like your script is running before page is loaded.
You need to put your script bellow your html code in body or add defer to  your

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A population of luminous accreting black holes with hidden mergers
Michael J. Koss1,2,
Laura Blecha3,
Phillip Bernhard2,
Chao-Ling Hung4,
Jessica R. Lu5,
Benny Trakhtenbrot6,7,
Ezequiel Treister8,
Anna Weigel2,
Lia F. Sartori2,
Richard Mushotzky9,
Kevin Schawinski2,
Claudio Ricci10,11,12,
Sylvain Veilleux9 &
David B. Sanders13
Galaxies and clusters
An Author Correction to this article was published on 21 March 2019
This article has been updated
Major galaxy mergers are thought to play an important part in fuelling the growth of supermassive black holes1. However, observational support for this hypothesis is mixed, with some studies showing a correlation between merging galaxies and luminous quasars2,3 and others showing no such association4,5. Recent observations have shown that a black hole is likely to become heavily obscured behind merger-driven gas and dust, even in the early stages of the merger, when the galaxies are well separated6,7,9 (5 to 40 kiloparsecs). Merger simulations further suggest that such obscuration and black-hole accretion peaks in the final merger stage, when the two galactic nuclei are closely separated10 (less than 3 kiloparsecs). Resolving this final stage requires a combination of high-spatial-resolution infrared imaging and high-sensitivity hard-X-ray observations to detect highly obscured sources. However, large numbers of obscured luminous accreting supermassive black holes have been recently detected nearby (distances below 250 megaparsecs) in X-ray observations11. Here we report high-resolution infrared observations of hard-X-ray-selected black holes and the discovery of obscured nuclear mergers, the parent populations of supermassive-black-hole mergers. We find that obscured luminous black holes (bolometric luminosity higher than 2 × 1044 ergs per second) show a significant (P < 0.001) excess of late-stage nuclear mergers (17.6 per cent) compared to a sample of inactive galaxies with matching stellar masses and star formation rates (1.1 per cent), in agreement with theoretical predictions. Using hydrodynamic simulations, we confirm that the excess of nuclear mergers is indeed strongest for gas-rich major-merger hosts of obscured luminous black holes in this final stage.
A close supermassive black hole binary in Centaurus A?
David A. Cosandey
Astrophysics and Space Science Open Access 23 September 2022
Athena synergies in the multi-messenger and transient universe
Luigi Piro
, Markus Ahlers
… Hendrik van Eerten
Experimental Astronomy Open Access 01 August 2022
Fig. 1: Example images of final-stage mergers.
Fig. 2: Fraction of close mergers.
The reduced imaging datasets from the HST are available from the Hubble Legacy Archive. The raw imaging datasets from the near-infrared adaptive optics programmes are available from the Keck Observatory Archive. Other reduced datasets generated or analysed in this study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
In this Letter, the spelling of author Benny Trakhtenbrot was corrected; the affiliation for author Sylvain Veilleux was amended; and a new ref. 9 was added to the Abstract with subsequent references renumbered; these errors have been corrected online.
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This work is dedicated to the memory of our friend and collaborator N. Gehrels. We appreciate the help of R. M. McGurk with the initial night of Keck telescope observations and initial data reductions. M.J.K. acknowledges support from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) through the Ambizione fellowship grant PZ00P2 154799/1 and from NASA through ADAP award NNH16CT03C. K.S., L.F.S. and A.W. acknowledge support from SNSF grants PP00P2 138979 and PP00P2 166159. L.B. acknowledges support from NSF award number 1715413. We acknowledge the work of the Swift/BAT team to make this study possible. This paper is part of the Swift/BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS).
Nature thanks D. Kocevski and the other anonymous reviewer(s) for their contribution to the peer review of this work.
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Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Laura Blecha
Department of Physics, Manhattan College, New York, NY, USA
Chao-Ling Hung
Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Jessica R. Lu
Department of Physics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Department of Astronomy and Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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Extended Data Fig. 1 Other close mergers.
a–d, Tricolour optical images in the gri band from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey or the Kitt Peak survey with about 1″ angular resolution. The galaxies shown are NGC 6240 (a), 2MASX J00253292+6821442 (b), ESO 509-G027 (c) and Mrk 975 (d) from the AGN sample. The images are 60 kpc × 60 kpc in size. Red squares indicate the size of the zoomed-in AO image on the right. e–h, High-spatial-resolution images of the nuclear mergers shown in a–d, 4 kpc × 4 kpc in size.
a–c, Tricolour optical images in the gri band from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey or the Kitt Peak survey with about 1″ angular resolution. The galaxies shown are 2MASX J16311554+2352577 (a) and 2MASX J08434495+3549421 (b) from the AGN sample and 2MASX J08370182-4954302 (c) from the inactive-galaxy sample. d, Lower-quality red Digitized Sky Survey image of UGC02369 NED01, for which no higher-quality imaging exists. The images in a–d are 60 kpc × 60 kpc in size. Red squares indicate the size of the zoomed-in AO image on the right. e–h, High-spatial-resolution near-infrared images of the nuclear mergers shown in a–d, 4 kpc × 4 kpc in size.
Extended Data Fig. 3 Inactive-galaxy control sample.
a–d, Tricolour optical images in the gri band from Pan-STARRS imaging with about1″ angular resolution. The images show inactive galaxies in the control sample that were matched in stellar mass and SFR to the AGN: NGC 214 (a), NGC 151 (b), NGC 2998 (c) and NGC 6504 (d). The images are 60 kpc × 60 kpc in size. Red squares indicate the size of the zoomed-in AO image on the right. e–h, High-spatial-resolution near-infrared images of the nuclear mergers shown in a–d, 4 kpc × 4 kpc in size. Some white lines are present in NICMOS and Pan-STARRS imaging owing to bad pixels with very low or zero response or with very high or erratic dark current.
Extended Data Fig. 4 Stellar mass, star formation rate and resolution of AGN and inactive galaxies.
a, H-band luminosity of the different AGN and inactive galaxies. Inactive galaxies with considerably lower stellarmasses than the AGN samples were excluded (〈log(LH/Lʘ)〉 < 9.7). b, 60-μm luminosity of the different AGN and inactive galaxies. Inactive galaxies with lower SFR were also excluded from the comparison (〈log(νLν)60μm〉 = 43.6). For observations in which a galaxy was not detected, we show a 3σ upper limit of the SFR, indicated by a downward arrow. c, Comparison of the maximum spatial resolution (in parsecs) of the different observations. The inactive-galaxy sample typically has higher physical spatial resolutions than the AGN samples. Many galaxies observed fall along a line because of the constant physical resolution of the HST.
Extended Data Fig. 5 Summary of programme types included in the HST control sample.
The majority of archival control sample observations are of high-SFR luminous infrared galaxies ('LIRG') or from studies of volume-limited samples of nearby galaxies ('Nearby Galaxy'). The remaining samples originate from observations of spiral galaxies ('Spiral'), galaxies in the merger sequence or late-stage mergers ('Merger'), galaxies with large or small black holes ('Black Hole') and elliptical galaxies ('Elliptical'). Finally, some nearby galaxies were observed serendipitously in observations of other sources or survey fields ('Serendip').
Extended Data Fig. 6 SFR and stellar mass.
Measurements of SFR and stellar mass for the BAT AGN sample (purple circles) and the HST-matched archival control sample of inactive galaxies (green diamonds). The full distribution of inactive galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is shown with grey shading and the full distribution of the HST archive with blue contours. The HST archival sample has an excess of high-stellar-mass, high-SFR inactive galaxies because of the large number of observations of luminous infrared galaxies.
Extended Data Fig. 7 Simulated HST images of nuclear mergers at high redshift.
Simulated images of three nuclear mergers (2MASXJ 01392400+2924067, CGCG 341-006, MCG+02-21-013) observed at z = 1 with the HST F160W filter as part of the CANDELS survey (60 mas pixel−1) using optical imaging and FERENGI software. The HST would be unable to detect these final stage mergers. All simulated images are displayed in the arcsinh scale in coupled-channel-device counts, as if observed in the HST F160W filter as part of the CANDELS survey.
Extended Data Table 1 Galaxies with companions within 10 kpc
This file contains a machine readable table associated with the study. The first table, All High Resolution Observations, contains a list of all the galaxies in the study and the details of their high resolution observations, H-band emission as a proxy for star formation and 60 um emission as a proxy for their star formation.
This file also contains a machine readable table associated with the study. The second table, HST archival programs, contains a list of all the HST archival programs used in the study.
Koss, M.J., Blecha, L., Bernhard, P. et al. A population of luminous accreting black holes with hidden mergers. Nature 563, 214–216 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0652-7
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Black Lives Matter is Collecting Audio Recordings for a Public Story Bank
The project asks people to imagine a world where black life is valued.
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Telling our stories is not just a political necessity, but also an opportunity for catharsis and public healing. Which is why we must be concerned when certain stories are marginalized by more mainstream—and perhaps more comfortable—narratives. A new project by Black Lives Matter, called I Imagine, intends to collect the stories of people around the U.S. and archive them in a public story bank. Calling on contributions from anyone who wants to share their vision, Black Lives Matter asks people to submit a short one to two-minute recording prompted by the phrase, "In a world where Black Lives Matter, I imagine..." Contributors will be compelled to share their dreams and imaginings of a future where black life is valued.

"This is a way for us to combat the constant narrative of police violence against black bodies with something uplifting, something to dream with," said Los Angeles-based artist Tanya Bernard, a co-curator of the project, in a press release.

The project is being produced in conjunction with Manifest: Justice, a social justice-themed pop-up art exhibition and event to take place in Los Angeles from May 1 to May 10. Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, hopes that the public story bank will "illustrate the resistance and resilience of these communities in the face of structural racism and a range of ideologies and practices that constitute state violence." Cullors and Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza are the first to contribute their recordings to the online bank.

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After Russian airstrikes, Turkey decided to transfer 450 armored vehicles in Syria
DAMASCUS, (BM) – Turkey has deployed more than 450 military vehicles to the northwestern part of Syria. They came from the neighboring province of Hatay, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), learned BulgarianMilitary.com.
According to SOHR, the convoy consisted of armored vehicles and heavy weapons. It is noted that the arrival of reinforcements took place a day after the air strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the province of Idlib.
As we reported earlier this month, Russian Aerospace Forces planes attacked the positions of Syrian militants in the region of Idlib province.
On August 18, the Russian Su-24M bombers launched a series of attacks on militant positions in the north of Idlib province. It is not excluded that these actions are a response to attempt to undermine the Russian-Turkish patrol on the M4 highway on August 17, the Military Observer Telegram channel informed then.
The source reported that the bombers launched a series of strikes in the north of Idlib province, where the militants are located. Local media reported that the attacks were carried out on the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group. It is possible that these are the militants who are behind the attempt to undermine the Russian-Turkish patrol on the M4 highway.
Earlier it was reported that an explosion occurred on the route of the Russian-Turkish military patrol in the province of Idlib. The Russian military did not suffer.
War in Syria
In February, Turkey lost at least 62 troops killed in Syria, nearly 100 soldiers were wounded, dozens of Turkish armored vehicles were destroyed and more than ten drones, including drone, were shot down. Washington has repeatedly accused Moscow of involvement in the deaths of Turkish soldiers, Russia rejects these allegations.
In early March, the presidents of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, concluded an agreement according to which a ceasefire came into force in the Idlib de-escalation zone.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad later said that if the US and Turkish military did not leave the country, Damascus would be able to use force.
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Q: Solving motion equations using linear programming I'm trying to solve this physics problem using the Simplex method
$$\text{Minimize}\qquad \int _0 ^T |f(t)|dt \qquad \text{subject to}\\
j(t) = j(0) + \int_0^t f(t)dt, \forall t \in [0,T] \\
m(t) = m(0) + \int_0^T j(t)dt, \forall t \in [0,T] \\
m(0) = 0, m(T) = 1, j(0) = 0, j(T) = 0
$$
This is how I approached the problem:
1) First, I had to turn the continuous problem into a discrete one.
2) I had to take the function $M(\cdot)=|\cdot|$ out of the problem, to linearize it.
Then, my problem becomes the following,
$$
\text{Let }T = N \Delta t, \text{where N is my number of intervals}
$$
$$
\text{Minimize} \qquad \sum_{k=0}^{N-1}\theta_k \Delta t \qquad \text{subject to}\\
j_{k+1} = j_k + f_k\Delta t \qquad k \in \{0,...,N-1\}\\
m_{k+1} = m_k + j_k\Delta t \qquad k \in \{0,...,N-1\}\\
f_k \leq \theta_k \qquad k \in \{0,...,N-1\}\\
-f_k \leq \theta_k \qquad k \in \{0,...,N-1\}\\
m(0) = 0, m(N-1) = 1, j(0) = 0, j(N-1) = 0 \\
$$
However, I don't know how to proceed from here. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to set the whole problem in the computer.
For example, I'd say the coefficients of my objective function will be each of the $\theta_k$, but I can't understand the role of $f_k$, how can I solve without knowing it's values?


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Starring: Robert Pattinson, Zoey Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, John Tuturro, Andy Serkis, and Peter Sarsgaard.
Directed By: Matt Reeves
Where I Watched it: HBO MAX
Narrated By: Jedidiah Barton
The Plot: In his second year as a masked vigilante, Bruce Wayne (Pattinson) is struggling to clean up your rather run of the mill gang members, street thugs, and drug dealers. But, when a new serial killer presents himself, leaving riddles behind at his crime scene, Bruce finds himself struggling with the kind of vengeance he always imagined for himself, with the truths that slowly come out as a result of the Riddler's (Dano) continued crime scenes. With the assistance of Jim Gordon (Wright), much to the chagrin of the Gotham police, Bruce follows the clues that seem more and more directly aimed at The Batman. In his quest for answers, he turns to the Penguin (Farrell) for answers, takes a good hard look at Carmine Falcone (Tuturro), and crosses paths with a very determined Selina Kyle (Kravitz). But there seems to be only one person Bruce truly trusts, Alfred (Serkis), and before The Riddler is done, Gotham and Bruce will never be the same.
What Works: There really is a lot to like here. Matt Reeves, who continues to be a very interesting and promising director, has chosen his first outing with the dark knight being a "in progress" approach. There's no overdone shot of the Wayne parents being murdered, or an explanation of how Bruce came to this point. He just is. For whatever reason, Bruce has chosen to be Vengeance. And that's where we start.
Reeves separates himself from the previous iterations of Batman by embracing them, and reinventing them from what you already know. He takes characters you're familiar with, and shows a very stark contrast to how they've been portrayed on screen before. Paul Dano couldn't be further from Jim Carrey's performance if he tried. In some respects, he almost feels underutilized, as we see him very little in comparison to other Bat Villans of films past. When we do see him, most of the time it's a fleeting moment. We are saving his big moments, but you wouldn't know that his screen time increases. I kind of spoiled that, I suppose, but complimenting Reeves for managing not to keep an entire film revolving around The Riddler with as little screen time as he actually has is quite a feat.
And it's the choices like that, the decisions to put himself on the other spectrum away from Burton, Schumacher, Nolan, and even Snyder, that causes The Batman to soar. Robert Pattinson is so unlike every version we've seen before. his take is much darker, and also less concerned with the opulence of Bruce Wayne, and far more focused on doing the hard work of hitting the streets and cleaning it up one by one.
For those who continue to see only Edward Cullen, this is so far from that performance, that even if you've missed all of Pattinson's work since Twilight, you'd still have to finally resign to the idea that he actually can act. And he's surrounded by massive talent all looking to defy expectations, and be a far cry from anything you've ever seen before.
Colin Farrell's Penguin is much more realistic and grounded than Burton's Devito version. Kravitz doesn't attack her Catwoman with nearly the same level of sexual prowess as her previous feline fatales. She's far more interested in achieving a very specific goal, and it's one that doesn't require her to flaunt any sort of feminine wiles to get what she wants. She's smart, determined, and very much not portrayed as irredeemable. She could very well be Batman's sidekick with just some slight tweaking.
Even Andy Serkis manages to have an entirely different approach to Alfred, though this is one where even though I love Serkis, he's actually my least favorite Alfred to date. I appreciate what he was trying to do, but ultimately, of the reinvented group, his was the least efffective.
Reeves takes full use of the three hour runtime. I never felt like this film was too long, even though I was astutely aware of the runtime. It's just how he chooses to lay the film out, every moment and every scene seems and feels so integral and important to the direction of the story that there's nothing to take away. I'm sure there's a slightly longer cut that was likely to get an R rating, but I'm not sure that's a better cut. This is a very strong PG-13, and I would think twice before letting young kids watch this.
The frequent comparisons to Seven and Saw are fair, and maybe that takes a little away from the originality, but when you're adapting one of the most recognizable characters, originality doesn't come from plot structure, it comes from the approach, and Reeves chooses to approach his Batman from a very different direction than any other director.
I can't leave this section without praising Michael Giacchino's score, which is just perfection. I had to sit through the credits in their entirety to get the audio description information, and the credits music was beautiful, piano centric, and felt entirely of its own existence and not feeling like it needed to replicate any previous Batman themes. It's a gorgeous score that I hope is remembered at the end of the year.
And even though I'm a blind film critic, based on the audio description, I'd say this is a strong contender for Costumes, Hair and Makeup, Production Design, Cinematography, Sound, and Visual effects. I'd love to see this get any acting recognition, but we all know that's not happening.
What Doesn't Work: I already alluded to the fact that even though i respect the hell out of Andy Serkis, he's now my least favorite Alfred. And not because of choices in the script, but just the portrayal. He never felt like Alfred to me, and felt more like a potential sidekick, or man behind the computer (like an Oracle) than Bruce's one time caregiver, and now father figure, friend, and butler.
I also found it interesting that even though in year two of being Vengeance, Falcone seems very non-plussed about the existence of a vigilante. I suppose Bruce hasn't been making as big of an impact as he thought.
And it was interesting to me to see Reeves clearly wanting to do something so different, yet still making choices because they worked well when another director or actor chose to do them. Pattinson still mimics that gruff Batman voice that Bale started, which is missing from the entries left by Keaton, Kilmer, and Clooney. That was something that Nolan and Bale started, and it's still occurring here.
But probably the most glaring example of self indulgence is that cameo character that has that scene with Riddler. what an unfortunate decision. Not only was it completely unnecessary to the advancement of the current plot, it showed that Reeves was playing into this continued trope where audiences need some kind of end credits/post credits sequence in order to come back for a sequel. He had the opportunity to turn back time here and actually buck a trend, but instead he gave into something he clearly didn't want to do. He doesn't have an end credits sequence or post-credits, because he put what would normally have been in that position actually into the film. So instead of it being a tease he could always course correct, it feels much more like a direct promise.
And that promise is such a shame. What I loved about Reeves and his first take was that he took something we were familiar with and flipped it on its side. What he should be doing in the sequel, is not just finishing the loose ends left behind by the first film, but introducing us to one of the many Bat villains that has yet to grace out screen, instead of deciding immediately to tackle a very overdone selection. There are so many potential storylines to explore, and this was something that Christopher Nolan understood, which is why the first film in his trilogy centers around Scarecrow and Ras Al Ghul, two villains who had not graced the big screen.
Reeves had his shot to go after someone we hadn't seen before, bringing them to the forefront. Instead, he's decided to retread, making me far less excited about the sequel.
The Blind Perspective: I always get excited when I hear Jedidiah Barton's voice on a film, because I know the audio description is going to be good. And this was. excellent audio description, and it faced many challenges.
We needed to be able to fully be immersed by the crime scenes left behind by the Riddler, so we could understand what clues to look for if we were going to assist Batman (which I think we all do in our heads to some extent), and there are multiple action and fighting sequences here that are richly described. Probably the best representation of how well the description works is that the car chase, which was magnificent, was very well described, so that even though there were multiple cars involved, we were able to follow what was happening.
On the slightly negative side, there is a sequence where many of the characters are, and the way the location is described is done in such a way that it slightly telegraphs to the audience something surprising might be just ahead, relevant to the specific needs of the location. It would be like if a character unknowingly walked onto a glass panel on a ceiling, if the description decides to include that, then of course that will be relevant. At some point, that character standing on glass will wish they weren't. As an example.
I did feel like the film was a big of a mixed bag in terms of character description. I thought the description for Riddler and Catwoman were both stronger than the descriptions for Penguin or Falcone. And with the immense prosthetic makeup Farrell is rumored to be wearing, I would have loved an immersive description of his features.
Final Thoughts: I'm not sure anything will ever beat The Dark knight for me. I think it is a top 10 film for me, which makes it next to impossible to top. That being said, I loved a whole lot of what Reeves had to offer here. It's certainly no less perfect than The Dark Knight Rises, and hopefully will lead to a strong sequel (if they can restrain themselves from activating that cameo character). Three hours will fly by, and Pattinson will change your mind if all you ever see is Edward Cullen. This is a very new and different Batman.
Final Grade: A-
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The Douglas Water Golf Club has been awarded £25,500 to assist in the purchasing of new mowing equipment for the fairways.
The Douglas Valley Church has been awarded £11,284.40 to purchase audio & visual equipment to assist members of the congregation who have sight or hearing difficulties.
The Douglas Valley Bowling Club has been awarded £6141.60 to purchase a new mowing machine for the bowling green.
The Douglas Folk Festival has been awarded £3000.00 which has been used to provide assistance in putting on the Folk Festival held in Douglas in September 2011.
The Douglas Scouts were awarded £650.00 to contribute to their Netherlands experience earlier in the year.
The Douglas Horticultural Society have been awarded £472.50 for some jute matting that can be laid on the floor of the Douglas Primary School hall during the annual event.
When Planning Permission was granted for the Mainshill Surface Coal Mine, Douglas & Angus Estates and Scottish Coal obtained agreement from South Lanarkshire Council that the community trust contributions associated with the scheme, should be channeled into a Trust, established specifically to benefit the village of Douglas, the immediate surrounding area and those people mostly likely to affected by the scheme.
The establishment of a Community Trust for the specific benefit of Douglas was a prerequisite to the development of Mainshill by the Douglas-Home Family and is being funded separately by both Scottish Coal and Douglas and Angus Estates - payments made are based on the tonnage of coal sold from the site.
The Mainshill coaling operation commenced in June 2010 and the Trust (known as the "Mainshill Trust") was established.
It is hoped that, over the life of the Mainshill coaling operations, a fund of about £500,000 will be created for the benefit of the Community - which can be used to create a positive long-term legacy for Douglas and its immediate environs.
The Trustees hope that the Trust Fund will be used in part for one, or a number of, "Landmark Projects" but they are also keen to assist with smaller projects that will have a positive benefit to community life.
Reside in Douglas, (the map outlining the area covered by the Trust, can be viewed, by contacting the Chair).
Have a bank account in the name of that Organisation, with two authorised signatories.
Maintain proper financial records that are certified annually.
Be open to inspection by official representatives of the Mainshill Trust on requst.
How Much can you apply for?
The Trust will consider each application individually but would hope, (especially for larger amounts) that any applications made are part of a funding package, with applications made to other agencies and partners alongside the groups own fundrasing efforts.
The Trustees currently meet twice a year to consider applications. The table below lists the applications annual deadlines with meetings planned shortly after these deadlines. For 2019 meetings are planned for June and December.
Your groups idea/project must meet the Trust's purposes.
That you have all the supporting documentation required.
The Trust, in certain circumstances, particularly for grants over £1000, the Tustees may impose additional conditions on a grant award. For example, the Trust may ask a group to come and meet with them to discuss their ideas or they may ensure that the project is being properly managed by a qualified person.
The Trust wil consider whether the ongoing maintenance/ revenue consequences of the project have been addressed.
Payment of any grant awarded from the Mainshill Trust will be made only on the production of satisfactory evidence that (a) the expenditure has been incurred or committed, as approved eg. copy invoice, receipt or order and that (b) a complete funding package as been secured in relation to the project as a whole.
the advancement of any of the above purposes by the giving of grants or the provision of funding to persons, undertaking projects, initiatives and/or activities which are wholly charitable within the meaning of Section 505 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 as amended and section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 or any statutory amendment or re-enactment thereof.
I want to make an application?
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South Sudan has announced that it will soon deploy 750 soldiers to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to join a regional force fighting a rebel offensive.
Fierce fighting in recent months between Congolese troops and the M23 rebel group prompted the East African Community (EAC) bloc to deploy a joint regional force to quell the violence, with Kenya and Uganda also sending soldiers to the DRC.
South Sudanese soldiers "will leave for the DR Congo as soon as possible," a spokesman for the South Sudan People's Defence Forces (SSPDF), Major General Lul Ruai Koang, said during a ceremony in the capital Juba.
The 750-strong battalion has been undergoing training for more than six months for their deployment, he added.
At the Juba event, President Salva Kiir instructed the troops to "keep order," urging them to "protect the civilians and their properties from any harm."
"I want to tell you that you are one army and no matter which division that you come from, now you are going as soldiers of South Sudan," Kiir said on Wednesday.
The fighting in the DRC has also reignited regional tensions, with Kinshasa accusing its smaller neighbor Rwanda of backing the M23, allegations supported by UN experts as well as the United States, France and Belgium.
Kigali denies supporting the M23, which has conquered swathes of territory from the Congolese army and allied militias and advanced towards Goma, the capital of North Kivu province.
The EAC regional force is expected to include soldiers from Kenya, Burundi, Uganda, and South Sudan. But its intended total size remains unclear.
Kenyan soldiers arrived in the country on November 12, with the Ugandan military later announcing that it would deploy 1,000 troops by the end of November.
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Does chess help your brain?
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Who is the smartest person alive?
Which chess player has the highest IQ?
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Is intelligence inherited?
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The reality of chess is different – it actually is an incredibly beneficial pastime, because playing chess results in better brain function, improved memory and cognitive abilities, strategic thinking and attention improvement.
Scientists also claim that playing chess can improve mental age by up to 14 years..
Playing Go, in and of itself, won't do anything for you. … It is not certian that playing anything including chess will make you smarter. The point of playing Go is to have fun and get better in it.
Caïssa is a fictional (anachronistic) Thracian dryad portrayed as the goddess of chess. She was first mentioned during the Renaissance by Italian poet Hieronymus Vida.
Christopher Michael Langan (born March 25, 1952) is an American horse rancher and autodidact who has been reported to score very highly on IQ tests. Langan's IQ was estimated on ABC's 20/20 to be between 195 and 210, and he has been described by some journalists as "the smartest man in America" or "in the world".
Garry Kasparov (IQ: 190) Magnus Carlsen's guru, 'legendary' is probably an understatement to describe this chess player.
Wilhelm SteinitzWilhelm Steinitz, the first World Champion, widely considered the "father of modern chess," extensively analyzed various double king-pawn openings (beginning 1. e4 e5) in his book The Modern Chess Instructor, published in 1889 and 1895.
Like most aspects of human behavior and cognition, intelligence is a complex trait that is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. … These studies suggest that genetic factors underlie about 50 percent of the difference in intelligence among individuals.
On February 10, 1996, Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in the first game of a six-game match—the first time a computer had ever beat a human in a formal chess game. … Two decades later, computers now regularly beat humans at chess, writes Klint Finley for Wired. The great contest of man-versus-computer chess is over.
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Albert Einstein had an IQ of about 160. A 12-year-old girl in Cheshire County, England, has scored 162 on an IQ test, putting her in the top 99.998 percentile of test takers.
An IQ score over 140 indicates that you're a genius or nearly a genius, while 120 – 140 is classed as "very superior intelligence". 110 – 119 is "superior intelligence", while 90 – 109 is "normal or average intelligence".
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The earliest predecessor of the game probably originated in India, before the 6th century AD. From India, the game spread to Persia. When the Arabs conquered Persia, chess was taken up by the Muslim world and subsequently spread to Southern Europe.
To be successful, emotional intelligence has an importance as great as mathematical intelligence. Therefore, employers are increasingly looking for more people with emotional intelligence. Researchers have shown that our success at work or in life depends on Emotional Intelligence 80% and only20% of intellect.
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2021: It's All About Trust
2020 was all about things reaching a point. Over the course of the year, the ever-shrinking gray area separating good and evil disappeared; the fog obscuring right from wrong dissolved; and those with eyes to see and ears to hear were forced to make an unavoidably informed choice regarding the following question:
The catalyst driving this year of recognition and acknowledgment was the birdemic; for the simple reason the birdemic was the catalyst through which the Establishment successfully pulled off its stunningly successful global coup in the early spring of 2020. With the massive fraud perpetrated during the recent US presidential election - which resulted in the barbed wire inauguration of a career Establishment figure who emerged from the "election" with the notable distinction of "most votes ever cast for a presidential candidate" - the global authority has cemented its grip on the world.
The US election proved to be a watershed moment for many. Unfortunately, this delayed realization of the global authority now ruling the world has, thus far, amounted to little more than the recognition of a fait accompli - the fix appears to be in, and for the time being, there doesn't seem to be much anyone can do about it.
If 2020 was about the point, then 2021 will be all about trust. To drive this home, the global authority is eager to have all of its "global citizens" forget 2020 and focus instead on a glorious Great Reset future. That's right. Despite everything, the technocratic tyrants that now rule the world are promising brighter days ahead, but securing these brighter days requires trust.
Yes, the global authority is keen to build trust in the world. In fact, they're making trust the central theme of their upcoming Davos Agenda 2021 Week scheduled for January 25-29.
Citing 2021 as "A Crucial Year To Rebuild Trust", the Davos crowd is currently referring to trust as "the glue of a healthy society". Not only is trust a wonderful, fix-all superglue, it is also, fittingly enough, "contagious":
When governments and the market have earned the trust of citizens, that trust tends to spill over to create greater trust in society as a whole, among individuals and groups. Simply put, trust is contagious.
Now is the moment for us to work together in uncommon alliances, across business, philanthropy, government, and civil society, toward achieving our common goal: spreading the most valuable currency for sparking and sustaining broad-based prosperity - trust.
To willingly answer this "crucial" call to trust in 2021 is to willingly answer the call to eternal self-damnation.
Think and act accordingly.
In their way, They do make the issue clear - the big question is: "Do we choose to trust the motivations and explanations of the systematic liars who rule us?"
To my mind, most people have decided - Yes. We will trust Them no matter how much they lie, and no matter what they do to us.
e.g. The Davos fixation on making Western people eat insects and grubs, is very revealing - very Sorathic.
The question is whether, as we sit in our pods and chow down on the bowl of worms the state agents have delivered, is whether we rejoice at this opportunity to save the planet from CO2 - or whether we recognize that this is a situation designed to humiliate and demoralize.
i.e. Whether we collaborate with evil, or recognize and reject evil.
The difficulty is that it is happier to deny strategic evil, pretend everything done is for the best, and thereby make the best of things. I think that is the usual response to 2020.
Those who recognize the evil need to do so in a positive spirit of next-worldly faith and hope, because otherwise it leads to anger and bitterness (at least, it does in me!).
So (if it comes to that) we 'eat our worms' knowing that they are intended to torture us, are unnecessary and cruel; but that such earthly humiliation and misery is something we need to learn-from, in confident anticipation of our resurrected life to come.
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"Trust is contagious" -- hence the need for System Distancing. Flatten that curve!
@ Wm - Now that's the kind of curve flattening I can get behind!
What they're moving towards is everyone is going to have to mouth platitudes of trust and people that don't are going to be suspect or worse. That is an incredibly Sinister what they're doing but not shocking after 2020
It's the unholy alliance of big business, big pharma, big government, and big guilt. When Catholicism, Inc. is explicitly mentioned in these whitepapers as a collaborator (government-speak for they are also in on the scam) we should know the end is near.
Hari Seldon
The other day, I was speaking with my colleagues on a conference call (we are all "working" from home, still and for the foreseeable future), and someone brought up the CDC's latest guidance that people should double up on masks. Actually, the recommendation is to wear multi-layered masks, but that seems to have been lost in translation, so my colleagues' takeaway was that they should wear two masks simultaneously - advice ratified by the great Dr. Fauci today. At lease one person said that he had not heard this before, was glad someone had mentioned it and would be sure to wear a double muzzle on his next expedition to Target.
Now, these are not stupid people, so the complete lack of intellectual curiosity on display was stunning to me. You'd think they would at least check the guidelines for themselves, and then question them - is this really necessary? If masks are effective, why would I need two of them? Won't it be hard to breathe? Why is this only being brought up now? Has the science changed? I guess it would be too much to expect anyone to actually read any of the studies upon which these recommendations are ostensibly based. But even just a modicum of skepticism?
Nah. They'll do whatever they are told, no matter how absurd, because they are good sheeple, unlike the bad, irresponsible, selfish "conspiracy theorists" who dare to doubt the pronouncements of our scientific betters. It really is bizarre to see. Is this trust, or just an extreme form of submission?
@ Hari Seldon - I no longer consider it submission, but slavery. I get the distinct sense that most people just want to keep their heads down, make the best of a bad situation, and just get on with life. This all fine and well in itself, but what you say is true - where is the breaking point? Is there one?
Our societies suffer from extreme value inversion and metaphysical confusion. Very few people want to be free.
@Francis Berger - I see your point. It's hard to know what people really think when they are spouting inanities all the time. Are they genuinely stupid, as they seem to be, or is their apparent eagerness to embrace the new rules just a performance, like we see in totalitarian societies? Perhaps the fear is that the person who puts his mask on last will be condemned.
@ Hari - Motivation is key. It's one thing to wear a mask because you are under compulsion to do so, but to hate it with your whole heart and understand the evil impetus behind it all AND continually repent your unwillingness or lack of courage not wear one for fear of fines, conflicts, reprimands, etc.
It's quite another thing to wear a mask and consider it to be a good thing out of fear or faith in the science or whatever.
In the first instance you can remain firmly on the side of good; in the second, no chance.


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Amber Coffman, rodným jménem Amber Dawn Coffman (* 15. června 1984, Austin, Texas, USA) je americká zpěvačka a kytaristka, bývalá členka skupiny Dirty Projectors. Mimo to spolupracovala s dalšími interprety, jako jsou například Snoop Lion, John Cale, J. Cole nebo skupina The Roots.

Kariéra
Svou kariéru zahájila v roce 2005 jako kytaristka v instrumentální skupině Sleeping People; ze skupiny odešla o dva roky později, krátce po vydání alba Growing. V roce 2007 se stala členkou skupiny Dirty Projectors a brzy po svém příchodu se skupinou nahrála album Rise Above. Se skupinou nahrála ještě alba Bitte Orca (2009) a Swing Lo Magellan (2012). Koncem roku 2013 oznámila, že pracuje na svém prvním sólovém albu. To nakonec dostalo název City of No Reply a jeho vydání bylo oznámeno v říjnu 2016.

Rovněž se podílela na několika písních elektronických a hip hopových hudebníků. Prvním byl britský hudebník Rusko, se kterým v roce 2010 nazpívala píseň "Hold On". Téhož roku zpívala v písni "" skupiny The Roots a v roce 2012 svým vokálem přispěla do písně "" elektronické skupiny Major Lazer. V roce 2013 nazpívala s J. Colem píseň "" a spolu se Snoop Lionem a T.I. zpívá v písni "". V roce 2014 se podílela na debutovém albu hudebníka Hamiltona Leithausera, frontmana skupiny The Walkmen, nazvaném Black Hours. Téhož roku svým vokálem přispěla na debutové album Neon Icon rappera jménem Riff Raff.

V roce 2014 hrála ve videoklipu k písni "" kanadského hudebníka Nicholase Krgoviche. V roce 2015 zpívala v písni "" hudebníka Nate Hellera. Píseň byla nahrána pro film The Diary of a Teenage Girl, jehož režisérkou byla Hellerova sestra Marielle Heller. Téhož roku vydal velšský hudebník John Cale novou verzi své starší písně "Close Watch", do níž svým zpěvem přispěla i Amber Coffman (píseň je součástí alba M:FANS). Rovněž vystupovala ve videoklipu k této písni.

V roce 2017 nazpívala slova Ivanky Trumpové ve stylu Lany Del Rey v písní "My Father". Roku 2020 vydala coververzi písně "Hard Candy Christmas", kterou proslavila Dolly Parton. V roce 2022 přispěla coververzí písně "Run Run Run" na tributní album Ocean Child věnované umělkyni Yoko Ono.

Jejím přítelem byl David Longstreth, vůdce skupiny Dirty Projectors.

Diskografie

Sólová
 City of No Reply (2017)

Ostatní
 Howard Hello (Howard Hello, 2005)
 Music for Total Chickens (Rafter, 2006)
 Growing (Sleeping People, 2007)
 Rise Above (Dirty Projectors, 2007)
 Friend (Grizzly Bear, 2007)
 Pride (Phosphorescent, 2007)
 Huggable Dust (Okay, 2008)
 Bitte Orca (Dirty Projectors, 2009)
 OMG (Rusko, 2010)
 Mount Wittenberg Orca (Dirty Projectors, 2010)
 How I Got Over (The Roots, 2010)
 Swing Lo Magellan (Dirty Projectors, 2012)
 About to Die (Dirty Projectors, 2012)
 Free the Universe (Major Lazer, 2013)
 Born Sinner (J. Cole, 2013)
 Black Hours (Hamilton Leithauser, 2014)
 Neon Icon (Riff Raff, 2014)
 M:FANS (John Cale, 2016)
 Blonde (Frank Ocean, 2016)
 Radio Silence (Talib Kweli, 2017)

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Deirdre Murphy's artwork is made with the attentiveness of a scientist. She observes our natural world beyond the visible surface. Her interest lies in the interconnected qualities of art and science, specifically the micro/macro patterns that reveal our connectedness. Imagery in her artwork ranges from data visualization of ornithology charts or phosphorescent images of viruses, to cellular structures in petri dishes that morph into star clusters or light pollution maps that finally rest upon a Luna moth. Murphy's recent pivot to virology has led to foreshadowing paintings that reflect upon our global humanity and the ties that bind us.
Through the act of creating, Murphy is aware of being both infinitesimally minute and integrally part of a larger whole. It is this dichotomy and the vastness of these images that provides perspective to our humanity. Through the act of making, Murphy is simultaneously part of the diminutive matrix of nature and an observer of our capacious world. Visualizing the scientific data of flight maps and molecular structures became a language to describe her relationship to nature and to the inter-connected quality in our lives, thus illuminating a path to seeing the world anew.
Thresholds take you from one place to another. The thematic thread of the portal or circular vantage point can be imagined as a telescope, microscope, periscope, or binocular. These framing devices act as a threshold from one realm to another. This exhibition, which was partially made during the pandemic quarantine, is a departure from Murphy's BioArt and a return to her seminal interest in plein air painting. This shift is in response to feeling isolated and the desire for fresh air and life affirming green during quarantine. The circle is symbolic of the cycle of life with no beginning and no end that reveals the resilience of life, of the light at the end of the tunnel.
Murphy has exhibited internationally and extensively in the United States in museums, galleries, and institutions including Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Delaware, Minnesota, Washington, and Oregon. Her artwork has been exhibited at institutions including the Philadelphia International Airport, Palm Springs Museum of Art, Biggs Museum of American Art, New Bedford Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, University of Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. The recipient of numerous awards and grants, most notably a Percent for the Arts sculpture commission (Dublin, CA) the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship, and a Leeway Foundation award, she has been an artist-in-residence at Winterthur Museum (DE), Lacawac Field Station (PA), Powdermill Nature Reserve (PA), Hawk Mountain Sanctuary (PA), Vermont Studio Center (VT), and Pouch Cove Artist Residency (St. Johns, Newfoundland). Her artwork has been published in Symbiosis and New American Paintings. Murphy's artwork can be found in various public and private collections including Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Museum, Temple University, AlphaMed Press, and Gamblin Artists Colors. Murphy earned her MFA degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her BFA degree from the Kansas City Art Institute. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Lehigh University and taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Murphy has been a visiting artist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania College of Design, University of Texas, Philadelphia University, Kent State University, and Dickenson College.
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