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After Experience
by Colin Sterling on 21 April 2020
I first visited Berlin some fifteen years ago, in the autumn of 2005, towards the end of an undergraduate degree in Ancient History and Archaeology. I remember the zoo, the disorderly flea market at Mauerpark, the stark topography of Peter Eisenman's recently opened memorial, and – perhaps most of all – the Pergamonmuseum, a space unlike any I had encountered up to that point.
Following a well-trodden tourist path, I remember (I think) walking along the Processional Way and stepping through the Ishtar Gate before gazing up at the Pergamon Altar, suddenly surrounded by the classical past in a way that seemed impossible so far from Greece or Rome. I had seen large-scale ruins and artefacts before – both in-situ on holiday in Spain and ex-situ, at the British Museum in London – but nothing that quite captured modernity's strange compulsion to re-present the past in such blatant terms. Looking back, I think it was this architectural and curatorial bravado that struck me most at the time: the sheer audacity of housing such a monumental structure inside another building, as if the past really could be contained and held in aspic for all time.
Fifteen years is about the average lifespan of a 'permanent' exhibition in most museums and galleries. Not so the Pergamonmuseum, which opened in 1930 after significant delays caused by the First World War, the Great Depression and more prosaic debates about the most suitable way to exhibit such vast architectural reconstructions. Now, as part of a widespread masterplan affecting the whole of Berlin's Museum Island, the Pergamonmuseum is undergoing a comprehensive renovation, with a new entrance pavilion and fourth wing planned for the building. While the Market Gate of Miletus, the Museum of Islamic Art and the Ishtar Gate and Processional Way from Babylon are still accessible to visitors, the Hellenistic Hall and Pergamon Altar are currently closed. Tellingly, the building itself – including the room housing the Pergamon Altar – is now also listed as part of the Museum Island UNESCO World Heritage Site, thus preserving the unique experience of viewing this monumental ruin as intended in the original designs by Alfred Messel.
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Visitors at the Pergamon Panorama
In late 2016 the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation announced that the restoration of the Pergamonmuseum would take twice as long as expected, with the museum now due to reopen in its entirety in 2023. In response to this delay, and with financial support from the construction company Wolff Gruppe, a new temporary exhibition building opened in November 2018. Pergamonmuseum: The Panorama displays around 80 of the museum's most important sculptural works alongside a vast panorama depicting life in Pergamon created by artist Yadegar Asisi. As the website of the Berlin State Museums states:
"The combined presentation of the sculptures from the Pergamon Museum and of the Asisi panorama will enable visitors to feel as if they have stepped back in time and are partaking in life in the ancient city. For a short time only, the Pergamon Altar can be experienced here, in its original architectural context, on the Acropolis."
Between October 2019 and March 2020 a very different Pergamon experience could be found a short walk from Museum Island, at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum of Contemporary Art. Here, Istanbul-based artist and musician Cevdet Erek filled the vast space of the main hall with an architectural installation and sound work referencing the form, function and later reception of the Pergamon Altar.
Bergama Stereo by Cevdet Erek. Installation shot at the Hamburger Bahnhof
Where Asisi's panorama seeks to transport visitors 'back in time', Erek's soundscape effectively transposed the Altar itself from one medium (stone) to another (sound) whilst maintaining the unique experience of circulating and inhabiting the monument to comprehend its spatial resonance. Taking these two approaches to the ancient world as a critical focus, this short essay asks to what extent such carefully choreographed encounters with the past might unsettle familiar notions of the museum as a space of experience: a crucial question given the radical interpretive and design solutions now being proposed across the heritage sector.
Bergama Stereo takes its name from the contemporary Turkish town that sits in the shadow of the ancient city of Pergamon. In Erek's installation, the altar is reimagined as a monolithic black stage with built-in speakers creating a multi-dimensional soundscape via 34 separate channels. As the exhibition notes state, sound in this context 'assumes the central role that visual elements play in the original altar', producing a fragmentary narrative from Erek's 'acoustic frieze'. This fragmentation is also the result of visitors' movements around the space, which determines how the piece will be perceived: 'at each place in the hall, the composition will be heard differently: when one approaches the loudspeaker frieze, individual sounds are paramount – the further away from the frieze one moves, the more the sounds overlap and merge into other rhythms'. In this way, the installation invites a meandering, non-linear encounter, with pounding drums, guttural tones and syncopated chimes. There is no single, fully comprehensible Altar on offer here, only a shifting sonic topography that emerges as the visitor moves slowly around the unadorned structure.
Stillness and movement also characterise the Pergamon Panorama experience. As visitors enter the vast circular space, their gaze is drawn upwards, to the 110-metre-long, 360o image – a visual representation of the ancient city of Pergamon in 129CE, under the reign of Emperor Hadrian. Alongside the emperor himself, Pergamon's inhabitants are depicted going about their daily routines – shopping at the market, attending the theatre, sacrificing animals at the temple, eating, drinking, and conversing in streets and alley ways. While the image itself is static, the scene is lent a peculiar dynamism through the use of sound and light. In a fifteen-minute cycle the viewer is taken from sunrise to the dead of night, from the cacophony of the theatre to the relative peace of the early hours, when domestic fires smoulder across the city.
Visitors at the top of the Pergamon Panorama viewing tower
The experience also changes as you ascend a viewing platform placed at the centre of the panorama. At ground level the figures depicted in the scene are close-up: you almost feel part of the image, able to reach out and join the festivities. At the top, however, the whole cityscape unfolds beneath you, with the Mediterranean just visible on the horizon beyond. Pitched as a form of 'time travel', the Pergamon Panorama seeks to immerse visitors in a historical moment that is both grounded in archaeological knowledge production and manifestly the outcome of a particular creative imagination. In this sense, it seems closer to a Hollywood version of the ancient world than a typical museological experience – a reminder of cinema's roots in the dioramas of the nineteenth century.
What can we learn from these very different approaches to what Sharon Macdonald calls 'past presencing' – the various processes through which the past is materialised, felt, experienced and expressed in contemporary life (2013: 79)? On the one hand, Bergama Stereo offers a pared back sonic experience that would not seem out of place in an underground Berlin club; an abstraction of form that radically reinterprets the historical legacy of a particular artefact. On the other, the Pergamon Panorama is unashamedly spectacular, evoking a kind of sublime realism that is at once overwhelming and instantly familiar. While both may be considered creative 'reimaginings' of the ancient world, Asisi's mode of representation is ostensibly more direct, more accessible. It explicitly seeks to illustrate life in Pergamon as a basis for understanding the distant past, thus satisfying the pedagogic principles of the museum. Notably, Erek's more oblique rendering unsettles this mode of reception, questioning the practice of visiting one altar inside of another, as I did fifteen years ago. As Colin Lang writes in a short essay accompanying the installation, 'the ritual of the altar and that of the museum have entered into a marriage of sorts, where culture is entombed and simultaneously reanimated by those who come to visit this altar nested in yet another altar' (2019: 15). With its 'restless throbbing' Bergama Stereo suggests instead that 'the past is far from complete': 'The pagan lives on in the purified present, through sound, and most importantly, through the ritual act of listening, hearing through movement' (ibid: 17).
In the absence of the thing itself – the ancient Altar in all its fragmented grandeur – both Asisi's panorama and Erek's installation speak to the primacy of experience in contemporary curatorial practice. And yet they also trouble this narrative, advancing very different modes of experience that engage the body, the senses, performativity and creative media to diverse ends. Experience in such contexts cannot escape a certain correlation of the visitor with the consumer, but – as with all experiential modes of encounter – panorama and soundscape model different forms of 'future action' (Jones 2016: 33). They shape and respond to desires that resist attempts to contain and subdue the past in traditional museological frameworks.
The rise of the 'experience economy' over the past two decades has had a significant impact on diverse areas of social, cultural and creative life (Pine II and Gilmore 1999). In many ways this extends and amplifies a mode of engagement that has been central to the design of museums and galleries since at least the nineteenth century. Indeed, we might now see these spaces as precursors to a broader experiential turn in modern and later post-industrial society. As Charlotte Klonk maps out in her excellent book Spaces of Experience, museums have always sought to 'mould experience – the perception, behaviour and aesthetic, sometimes even political, judgement of spectators' (2009: 11). The design of the Pergamonmuseum in the early twentieth century is a perfect example of this process at work; the fact this space will change little with the current renovation is a sign of the lasting impact of a certain vocabulary of museum architecture on museological practice. As Klonk suggests, the experience that many museums and galleries offer is, 'with very few exceptions, amazingly standardised and departs little from what established itself in the 1930s' (2009: 14).
Bergama Stereo and the Pergamon Panorama confront this uniformity in very different ways. Most notably, Erek's soundscape distances visitors from the classical museum experience by erasing all visual references to the Altar, apart from the basic architectural dimensions of the monument. The silhouette-like form that results from this distillation allows for an embodied encounter without privileging sight over the other senses: a radical departure from most museum experiences. Listening to rather than looking at the Altar we are able to connect disparate elements of past and present: sculptural inscriptions; sacrificial offerings; archaeological investigations; curatorial interpretations. In contrast, Asisi's panorama is based on a highly specific historical moment (or at least an imagined one). Despite the evocation of movement that the fifteen-minute cycle of the work generates, the panorama is a still image, pieced together through photographs, painting and digital renderings. The primary experience here then is one of an immersive and highly embodied looking: visitors use their bodies to zoom in and out of the scene, picking out details and taking in the whole. While this may be closer to the traditional museum experience than Erek's sonic installation, there is a stark difference between walking the halls of a gallery and negotiating a single vast representation of those same artefacts in context.
This question of context is vital to our understanding of the different experiential approaches developed by Erek and Asisi. Where Bergama Stereo strips the Altar of any obvious historical reference points to encourage critical reflection on the status of the monument, the Pergamon Panorama locates the structure in space and time as a way of reconnecting past and present through empathetic identification. Crucially, both of these strategies subvert the familiar experience of viewing the Alter in the Pergamonmuseum. Writing on photographer Thomas Struth's well-known Pergamon Museum series, Brendan Boyle argues that the antiquities in Struth's images 'embody a mode of intelligibility and sense-making that are radically, almost entirely, foreign to the visitors' (2012: 220). This temporal and ontological disjuncture is underlined by Struth's careful positioning of visitors around the museum; separate from yet absorbed by the relics on display. Bergama Stereo and Asisi's panorama gesture towards alternative modalities of sense-making. They do not shy away from the radical distance between now and then, but rather highlight specific points of connection, dialogue and intrigue to stimulate other ways of knowing through shared experience. In this sense, they model new futures for the Pergamon Altar and its continued resonance in contemporary society.
As I write these words, in March 2020, thousands of museums, galleries and cultural spaces around the world have been forced to close indefinitely to stop the spread of COVID-19. Social distancing and self-isolation have rapidly become a fact of life for millions of people across the globe. While the economic and political consequences of this new reality are still to be felt, the impact on social and cultural life is already profound. No travel, no theatre, no live music, no sports, no exhibitions. The embodied, performative and above-all social experiences I have described here are simply no longer possible. Above and beyond the economic shock this will cause to the arts and cultural sector, such forced isolation brings home the vital role that museums, galleries, exhibitions and other cultural activities play in bringing people together through shared experiences: critical or otherwise. Such spaces of gathering will be needed more than ever in the weeks and months to come – spaces where we might remember, reconnect, rebuild and reimagine in the wake of this collective planetary dislocation.
Boyle, Brendan. 2012. The World of Michael Fried's Antiquity. History of Photography 36(2), 211-224.
Jones, Caroline. A. 2016. Modeling. In: C. Jones, R. Uchill and D. Mather (eds). Experience: Culture, Cognition and the Common Sense, 13-33. Cambridge, Mass. & London: MIT Press.
Klonk, Charlotte. 2009. Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000. New Haven and London: Yale University Press
Lang, Colin. 2019. Downbeat. In: Cevdet Erek, Bergama Stereo. Berlin: Freunde Guter Musik Berlin E.V.
Macdonald, Sharon. 2013. Memorylands: Heritage and Identity in Europe Today. London & New York: Routledge.
Pine II, B. Joseph & Gilmore, James H. 1999. The Experience Economy. Boston, Mass: Harvard Business Review Press
Colin Sterling is an AHRC Early Career Leadership Fellow at UCL Institute of Archaeology. His current research explores the potential for new approaches to immersive and experiential design to contribute towards critical heritage thinking and practice. His first book Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past is now available from Routledge. This research is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK).


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Diabetes, Cognitive Function, and the Blood-Brain Barrier
Author(s): J. D. Huber. Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 9530, Morgantown,WV 26506, USA.
Journal Name: Current Pharmaceutical Design
From a complications standpoint, diabetes mellitus is a disease of the vasculature. Diabetics face a considerably higher risk of developing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Both large and small blood vessels are susceptible to alterations from diabetes. Endothelial cell dysfunction associated with small vessel (known as microangiopathy) is a primary factor in the development and progression of diabetes-related disabilities, including blindness, kidney failure, and peripheral neuropathy. Recent clinical evidence show that people with diabetes have increased incidences of vascular dementia, ventricular hypertrophy, lacunar infarcts, hemorrhage, and may be a predisposing factor for Alzheimers disease. However, the effects of diabetes mellitus on the cerebral microvascular are still largely unknown. This communication will review the relationship between diabetes mellitus and changes in cognition with a particular focus on how alterations in blood-brain barrier structure and function may play a long term role in worsened cognitive abilities.
Keywords: Permeability, dementia, cerebral blood flow, microvessels, tight junctions, transport
Title: Diabetes, Cognitive Function, and the Blood-Brain Barrier
Author(s):J. D. Huber
Affiliation:Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 9530, Morgantown,WV 26506, USA.
Keywords:Permeability, dementia, cerebral blood flow, microvessels, tight junctions, transport
Abstract: From a complications standpoint, diabetes mellitus is a disease of the vasculature. Diabetics face a considerably higher risk of developing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Both large and small blood vessels are susceptible to alterations from diabetes. Endothelial cell dysfunction associated with small vessel (known as microangiopathy) is a primary factor in the development and progression of diabetes-related disabilities, including blindness, kidney failure, and peripheral neuropathy. Recent clinical evidence show that people with diabetes have increased incidences of vascular dementia, ventricular hypertrophy, lacunar infarcts, hemorrhage, and may be a predisposing factor for Alzheimers disease. However, the effects of diabetes mellitus on the cerebral microvascular are still largely unknown. This communication will review the relationship between diabetes mellitus and changes in cognition with a particular focus on how alterations in blood-brain barrier structure and function may play a long term role in worsened cognitive abilities.
J. D. Huber, " Diabetes, Cognitive Function, and the Blood-Brain Barrier", Current Pharmaceutical Design (2008) 14: 1594. https://doi.org/10.2174/138161208784705441
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A few weeks ago, Microsoft held another edition of its Ignite conference in Orlando, FL.
After going through most of the announcements and digesting them I found that there were a couple of interesting ones in the security & data space.
With the introduction of Virtual Network Service Endpoints (Preview) you can now protect your Azure resources by moving them inside a VNET and thus restricting access to that VNET or subnet itself.
Currently, this is only supported for Azure Storage & Azure SQL Database/Warehouse but the end goal is to provide this for all services.
By using VNET Service Endpoints you can now fully isolate your resources because you can now fully remove all access to the public internet by which you are limiting the risk of exposure.
It has been a long-awaited feature to isolated access, certainly for Azure Storage & Azure SQL Database, and I am excited & very happy that it's finally here!
This must be my favorite announcement - Azure Data Factory 2.0 (Preview), the next generation of data integration.
While Azure Data Factory 1.0 was limited to a data-slicing model only, it now supports different types of triggers such as webhooks.
With Azure Data Factory 2.0 comes the new Integration Runtime that provides you with the infrastructure to orchestrate data movement, activity dispatching & SSIS package execution, both in Azure & on-premises.
But that's not all, there is more - Http activity support, integration with Azure Monitor, integration with Azure Key Vault, and much more! We'll dive deeper into this announcement in a later article.
Distributed Denial-Of-Service attacks can be brutal and it is very easy to use. Nowadays, you can find it on the internet as a managed offering or even do it yourself just like Troy Hunt explains.
That's why Microsoft is announcing Azure DDOS Protection Service (Preview) that allows you to protect your Virtual Networks in order to secure your Azure resources even more.
However, Microsoft Azure already brings you DDOS protection out-of-the-box. The difference here is that Azure DDOS Protection Service takes this a step further and give you more features & control.
Azure DDOS Protection Service is a turn-key solution which makes it easy to use and is integrated into the Azure Portal. It gives you dedicated monitoring and allows you to define policies on your VNETs. By using machine learning it tries to create a baseline of your traffic pattern and identifies malicious traffic.
Last but not least, it also integrates with Azure Application Gateway allowing you to do L3 to L7 protection.
Another example of the security investment by Microsoft are there recent announcements for Azure Security Center.
You can now not only use it for cloud workloads but also for on-premises workloads as well.
Azure Policy allows you to define corporate standards and enforce them on your Azure resources to make sure that the resources are compliant with your standards. They also come with some default rules, such as running at least SQL Server 12.0 and can be scoped to either a management group or resource group level.
By using initiative definitions, you can group one or multiple policy definitions as a set of requirement. An example could be an initiative that consolidates all SQL database related definitions.
To summarize, Azure Policy allows you to define security standards across multiple subscriptions and/or resource groups making it easier to manage your complete infrastructure.
It is currently in limited preview but sign-up for the preview in the Azure portal.
With the addition of Security Playbooks you can now easily integrate certain playbooks in reaction to specific Security Center alerts.
It allows you to create & link an Azure Logic Apps which orchestrates the handling of the alert, tailored to your security needs.
Azure Security Center now provides a new visual, interactive investigation experience to analyze alerts and determine root cause analysis.
It visualizes all relevant information linked to a specific security incident, in this case an RDP brute force attack.
It makes it a lot easier to get the big picture of the potential cause, but also the impact of the incident. By selecting certain nodes in the equasion it provides you with more information about that specific segment. This enables you to drill deeper and get a better understanding of what is going on.
However, these are only a subset of the announcements, you can find all of them in this blog post.
SQL Vulnerability Assessment (VA) is a new service that comes with Azure SQL Database and SQL on-premises via SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).
It allows you to discover, track and remediate potential database vulnerabilities. You can see it as a lite version of Azure Security Center focussed on SQL DBs that lists all potential vulnerabilities after running a scan.
This is another example of Microsoft making security more approachable, even if you are not a security expert. After running a scan you will probably see some quick wins making your database more secure step by step.
Microsoft made some great announcements at Ignite and this is only the beginning, there were a lot more of them and I recommend read more about them on the Azure blog or watch the Ignite sessions on-demand.
Personally, I recommend Mark Russinovich' interesting talk called "Inside Microsoft Azure datacenter hardware and software architecture" which walks you through how Azure datacenters work, their recent investments & achievements and what their future plans are.
Lately, the IT side of Azure is coming closer to the developer side where services such as Azure Networking is becoming easier to integrate with PaaS services such as Azure Storage & SQL DB. It looks like this is only the beginning and we can expect more of these kinds of integrations making it easier for both IT & Devs to build more secure solutions.
Last but not least, don't forget that the Azure Roadmap gives a clear overview of what service is at what stage. Here you can see all services that are in preview for example.


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Dave Chappelle Attacker Reveals Why He Tackled Comedian
The Los Angeles man accused of attacking Dave Chappelle said he was "triggered" by the comedian's jokes about the LGBTQ community and homelessness — as he insisted he never wanted to harm the funnyman.
In an exclusive jailhouse interview, Isaiah Lee told The Post that Chappelle should be more "sensitive" when it comes to the jokes he cracks.
"I identify as bisexual … and I wanted him to know what he said was triggering," Lee said Saturday at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, dressed in brown jail garb and sporting a sling on his broken right arm.
"I wanted him to know that next time, he should consider first running his material by people it could affect."
Lee said he expected to have a "good time" at the May 3 "Netflix is a Joke" show — but he grew angry and frustrated as Chappelle joked about his prior controversies with the LGBTQ community, as well as homelessness.
"I'm also a single dad and my son is five," said Lee, 23, who at one point was homeless himself. "It's a struggle and I wanted Dave Chappelle to know it's not a joke."
He said his breaking point came when another comedian in the show's lineup make a crude joke about pedophilia — which Lee said dredged up memories of his own molestation as a teen.
The stunning takedown at the Hollywood Bowl was caught on camera — showing Lee charging at Chappelle on stage, knocking him over and fleeing before security grabs him.
"That was a trans man," Chappelle, who was not injured, joked to the crowd right after the attack.
Lee admitted that he was carrying a replica handgun with a retractable knife inside the night of the alleged attack — but claimed he didn't have the weapon out when he charged the stage.
The wannabe rapper, who goes by "NoName_Trapper" and once put out a song about the Emmy-winning comic, said he always carries the weapon for protection because he is also a "minor celebrity."
The young dad, who was roughed up in the incident, is now facing four misdemeanor counts, including battery and possessing a deadly weapon with intent to assault.
"They spat on me and twisted me as if on purpose," he said of the security guards who left him with a broken arm and two black eyes.
Lee told The Post that he was molested at age 17 while under the care of the Department of Children and Family Services in Los Angeles. He also said he was in the process of trying to secure a place to live before he was nabbed in the Hollywood Bowl debacle.
Asked about reports that he suffers from mental health issues, Lee said they were "wrong" and "inaccurate." His lawyer, however, has said he is receiving mental health services.
The viral incident has also led to more criminal charges against Lee — he was charged on Thursday with allegedly stabbing his roommate last year. The victim in that case identified Lee as his alleged attacker when the Chappelle incident went viral, prosecutors said.
"It was pretty much done," Lee said about his criminal case involving Chappelle.
"But it went from me probably only doing six months [in jail] and having to do community service and living in a transitional home … to possibly 15 or more years in jail," he added, shaking his head. "My son will be big by the time I get out."
Still, he said he doesn't regret what happened because he saw it as an opportunity to speak out about homelessness, LGBTQ rights and child sex abuse that oftentimes serve as fodder for comedians.
Chappelle drew heat last year over his Netflix special "The Closer," in which he jokes about transgender women, and defends controversial comments from author JK Rowling and rapper DaBaby about the gay and trans communities.
In the special, the outspoken comic cracks that he's joining Rowling in "Team TERF" — the acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist — while slamming critics of DaBaby.
"A lot of the LGBTQ community doesn't know DaBaby's history. He's a wild guy. He once shot a n—r and killed him. In Walmart. Oh, this is true. Google it. Nothing bad happened to his career…" Chappelle says.
He then quips, "Do you see where I'm going with this? In our country, you can shoot and kill a n—r, but you better not hurt a gay person's feelings!"
After the alleged attack, Lee said Chappelle asked him backstage at the Hollywood Bowl why he did it.
"I told him my mother and grandmother, who fought for his civil rights to be able to speak, would be upset at the things he said," Lee recalled.
But Chappelle allegedly retorted, "Now your story will die with you, son."
"But he's wrong," Lee insisted to a Post reporter. "I'm sitting here talking to you about it."
A rep for Chappelle did not return a request for comment.
A Netflix spokesman declined to comment on the record, and referred The Post to the company's earlier statement: "We care deeply about the safety of creators and we strongly defend the right of stand-up comedians to perform on stage without fear of violence."
John Galt says:
Moron should NOT go to comedy shows.
HINT: They are often offensive.
Nell says:
This is what happens when someone is a self-centered narcissist who thinks the world revolves around them. Bad things have (and will) happened to every single one of us if we live long enough. We will all get our feeling hurt at some point. If you aren't strong enough to know that a comedian making a joke isn't going to kill you, good luck with life. This guy needs to be made an example out of or more of this crap is going to keep happening. I absolutely believe he intended to hurt Dave. Why would he have weapons with him if he didn't? Also, his kid is going to be better off without this sorry excuse of a parent.
Kajun Klown says:
The best part of not running it by the people the joke targets, is the hilarious reactions it produces! He attacked Mr Chappelle due to convenience. Right place, right time, perfect opportunity to claim that 15 minutes we all seem to be allotted in life.


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Oct. 21, 2020 by Darya Minovi, Katlyn Schmitt
New Report Finds Dangerous Nitrate Pollution in Maryland Drinking Water
Dangerous nitrate pollution has contaminated the groundwater that supplies private drinking water wells and public water utilities in several agricultural regions across the United States, posing a significant threat to people's health. A new report from the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) indicates that this problem has reached Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore, an area that's home to hundreds of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and millions of chickens.
Nitrates are a compound formed when nitrogen, largely from manure and fertilizer, breaks down. When manure is overapplied or mismanaged, rainfall or irrigation can cause nitrates to trickle down through soil into groundwater resources. Tainted Tap: Nitrate Pollution, Factory Farms, and Drinking Water in Maryland and Beyond notes that a single poultry CAFO raising 82,000 laying hens can produce 2,800 tons of manure a year, more than three times the amount produced by the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore each year.
Though private well testing data is limited, our investigation found indicators that pollution associated with CAFOs is contaminating the groundwater that residents rely on for their drinking water. Since nitrates are colorless, tasteless, and odorless, most families don't even know that it's in their water. We examined currently available data …
Food Insecurity and the Pandemic
April 15, 2020 by Laurie Ristino
Americans are experiencing a tidal wave of food insecurity related to the coronavirus pandemic. Historic unemployment claims and surging demand at food banks are laying bare the precarious circumstances of many of our citizens and the inadequacy of our social safety net. We can learn from the coronavirus epidemic--and we must in order to prevent human suffering in the future. Taking stock and then reforming our policies should start now while legislative momentum is possible--not after the country has moved past the apex of the disease.
In a recent episode of the podcast, Good Law/Bad Law, I joined host Aaron Freiwald to discuss the vital connection between the 2018 Farm Bill, the pandemic, and the startling food insecurity so many Americans are now facing. Along the way, we touched on how the current crisis is a harbinger of future food insecurity given climate change and growing …
Advocating for Sustainable Agriculture on Maryland's Eastern Shore
March 12, 2020 by Darya Minovi
On March 4, I joined community members and advocates from Assateague Coastal Trust, Center for a Livable Future, Environmental Integrity Project, Food and Water Watch, and NAACP to testify in favor of Maryland's House Bill 1312. The bill, introduced by Delegate Vaughn Stewart (D-Montgomery County), would place a moratorium on permits for new or expanding concentrated animal feed operations (CAFOs) in the state. The legislation would apply to "industrial poultry operations," defined as operations that produce 300,000 or more broiler chickens per year. It was introduced with strong support from community members and environmental and public health advocates hoping to pump the brakes on the seemingly unmitigated growth of poultry CAFOs, especially on the Eastern Shore.
The environmental and public health harms from CAFOs are nothing new to Eastern Shore residents. As stated in CPR's testimony, the expansion of CAFOs on the Delmarva Peninsula is …
What Do Farmers Actually Get from the New WOTUS Rule?
Jan. 23, 2020 by Dave Owen
Originally published on Environmental Law Prof Blog. Reprinted with permission.
This morning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and EPA released a final rule determining which aquatic features are covered by the Clean Water Act. Already, the press coverage is following a familiar pattern: farming lobbyists praise the rule as a major victory, and environmentalists condemn it as an abdication of clean water protection and water quality science. The former part of that pattern has always been interesting to me. It's true that the farm lobby has been a prominent and effective participant in debates about this rule and its predecessors. But I think much of its participation, and the resulting press coverage, has been misleading. This new rule does offer benefits to farmers (at a likely cost to water quality), but the benefits aren't likely to be nearly as great as the rhetoric would lead …
2018 Farm Bill Has Huge Environmental Implications
July 23, 2018 by Laurie Ristino
Scott Pruitt's narcissistic reign as EPA Administrator consumed advocates' collective energies, and rightfully so. It was a drama that recently ended – not via Trump tweet, but by old-fashioned resignation. Alas, this victory's potential downside is that the new guy at EPA, Andrew Wheeler, may be more effective at dismantling environmental protections than Pruitt was because Wheeler actually understands how bureaucracy works.
Then, of course, came the orchestrated events surrounding Justice Kennedy's retirement and President Trump's pick to fill the vacancy, thrusting Brett Kavanaugh to center stage. Environmental protection (among other issues) seems imperiled as the Court is poised to take a hard "right" turn if Kavanaugh is confirmed.
But as we continue to keep a vigilant eye on EPA and the future trajectory of the Supreme Court, let's not forget weighty environmental legislation currently making its way through Congress: the 2018 Farm Bill.
Yes, you read that …
Testimony: Maryland Needs Effective Manure Management Policies to Restore Watersheds
Feb. 23, 2016 by Evan Isaacson
Legislative committees in both the Maryland House and Senate are holding hearings this week on the Poultry Litter Management Act, a bill that has been attracting a lot of attention in Maryland and beyond. I have been asked to testify as part of a panel featuring representatives of the United States Geological Survey and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. The focus of my testimony will be the problems posed by farm animal manure – in this case, poultry litter on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
You can read the full testimony here, but the crux of it is that the creation of an effective and comprehensive manure management policy is one of the biggest missing pieces in the puzzle that is the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (Bay TMDL). Simply put, addressing the massive nutrient imbalance in areas like Maryland's Eastern Shore and the greater Delmarva Peninsula caused …
Farm Bureau Effort to Thwart Bay Cleanup Progress Rejected by Third Circuit
July 31, 2015 by Evan Isaacson
Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the 2013 decision of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania that EPA did not exceed its Clean Water Act (CWA) authority in issuing the total maximum daily load (TMDL), or pollution diet, for the Chesapeake Bay. The ruling affirmed the legality of the nation's most ambitious TMDL and, more broadly, it also rejected the plaintiffs' exceedingly narrow view of TMDLs.
As presented in a recent case brief, CPR Member Scholars Emily Hammond, Dave Owen, and Rena Steinzor and I argue that this decision is a good example of how judicial deference can protect important agency efforts to protect the environment. According to brief co-author Rena Steinzor, "The Third Circuit provided resounding support for ongoing efforts to restore the Chesapeake and for EPA's authority to work with states to …


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WCY Regional Studio, Tian Han Cultural Park in Changsha (China)
Collage of Art
© Li Yao
© Biao Hu (Digital Photography Studio)
© Jing Qi
Tian Han (1898-1968) was a Chinese writer and playright who was one of the promoters of modern drama arts in his country, and he wrote the lyrics of its national anthem. The local government of his native city, Changsha, has inaugurated a cultural park to commemorate the 120th anniversary of his birth.
Drawing inspiration from Tian Han's old residence, WCY Regional Studio designed the enclave, which includes an art gallery, a visitor center, a hotel, and an art school, characterized by its roof of inverted curves. Combining bricks of a dark tone, concrete, and wood, it goes by architectural tradition and local materials, evoking neaby towns.
gmp, Guangxi Culture and Art Center in Nanning (China)
Gad Line + Studio, housing in Dongziguan (China)


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-- saya masih hiatus --
Timbaland feat. One Republic
I'm holding on your rope
Got me ten feet off the ground
And I'm hearing what you say
But I just can't make a sound
You tell me that you need me
Then you go and cut me down
But wait...
You tell me that you're sorry
Didn't think I'd turn around and say..
That it's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late
I'd take another chance, take a fall, take a shot for you
And I need you like a heart needs a beat
(But that's nothing new)
I loved you with a fire red, now it's turning blue
And you say
Sorry like the angel heaven let me think was you
But I'm afraid
It's too late to apologize, it's too late
Woahooo woah
I said it's too late to apologize, yeah yeah
I said it's too late to apologize, a yeah
lirik dicomot semena-mena dari sini.
*korban Gossip Girl*
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Meisterstück Atelier is a new ultraluxe "connoisseur" range of Montblanc Meisterstück fine leather goods - a high end, top-tier line of men's accessories which are finely crafted from the rarest and most precious materials in the world. The launch of the first two Meisterstück Atelier collections - Meisterstück Atelier Genuine Python in October 2010 and Meisterstück Atelier Genuine Karung in April 2011 - marks the first time Montblanc men's leather goods have been conceived from the prized snakeskins after which these two lines derive their name and the choice of such exotic materials is apt.
Graphic snakeskin print projects a powerful, masculine allure. And while python is an eternal symbol of ultra-luxury, karung, a water snake-skin, has lately become sought-after due to the distinctive beauty of its mottled markings as well as for its exceptionally soft texture. The "first touch" of a Montblanc leather accessory is also uniquely renowned to evoke, at once, its careful tanning, robustness and workmanship. The Meisterstück Atelier collections are no exception because the feeling of python and karung both convey an inimitable richness as well as a cool, silky-smooth sumptuousness.
Montblanc Meisterstück leather goods are modern interpretations of the world-renowned design of Meisterstück writing instruments. Thus each one is produced to conjure the meaning of its namesake and therefore be a meticulously handcrafted "masterpiece" as well as an enduring investment classic to be handed down from generation to generation, just like the original Meisterstück fountain pen. So the exquisite Meisterstück Atelier collections have been masterly crafted at Montblanc's luxury accessories workshop in Florence by artisans highly skilled at manipulating rare skins with traditional techniques. Each stitch and every fold executed in production has been exacting and purposefully applied to render a sharp, timeless look just as the python and karung appear undyed so as to display the "genuine" pure beauty resonating from their original, vivid patterns, the natural earth toned skins and lustrous glossy finish.
arresting, slim-line look of each item will lend a polished, flamboyance to the best dressed man's wardrobe no matter what he sports - be it casuals, denim, leather, a business suit or black tie.
The business card holder has four pockets inside plus an outer back pocket. A horizontally designed wallet is complete with six pockets for credit cards and two deeper compartments for bank notes while another pocket conceals a removable case with slim pockets for business and credit cards. Maximizing its spaciousness, the vertical design of the oblong coat wallet incorporates 14 credit card pockets, two deep compartments for bank notes, an additional two pockets and a striking, spacious zipped pocket.
The Notebook is the thinking man's ultimate travel accessory and, inside, features nine credit card pockets, a writing instrument loop and a refillable pad. It is divided into two sections: "Notes" with ruled, gilt-edged featherweight paper with a feint illustration of a fountain pen is for writing and "Sketches" featuring gilt-edged featherweight paper highlighted with the rendering of a mountain.
This light etching - like the soft gold-plated mother-of-pearl star emblem delicately embossing the Meisterstück Atelier accessories - honors the awe-inspiring range of Europe's highest mountain - the Mont Blanc massif after which Montblanc is named. Such subtle touches symbolize the virtuosity of Montblanc's craftsmanship as well as its commitment to producing luxury of the highest standard.


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Радуша () је насеље у Северној Македонији, у северном делу државе. Радуша припада градској општини Сарај града Скопља.

Географија
Радуша је смештена у северном делу Северне Македоније. Од најближег већег града, Скопља, насеље је удаљено 25 km западно.

Насеље Радуша је у историјској области Дервент, тј. области око Дервентске клисуре, коју правио реке Вардар између Полога и Скопског поља. Кроз насеље протиче Вардар. Северно од села издиже се планина Ветерник, док се јужно издиже Жеден. Надморска висина насеља је приближно 330 метара.

Месна клима је континентална.

Историја

Становништво
Радуша је према последњем попису из 2002. године имала 1.892 становника.

Претежно становништво у насељу су Албанци (99%).

Већинска вероисповест је ислам.

Види још
 Град Скопље
 Градска општина Сарај

Извори
 Попис у Македонији 2002. - Књига 10.

Спољашње везе

 www.saraj.gov.mk Званична страница градске општине Сарај

Општина Сарај
Насељена места у Северној Македонији
Википројект географија/Насеља у Македонији

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in the Gatehouse Theatre, Eastgate Street, Stafford.
In this atmospheric film based on true events, rider Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau), is recovering after a near fatal fall during a rodeo, After checking himself out of hospital earlier than advised he is determined to get back into the saddle as being a cowboy is all he knows. His doctor eventually confirms his deepest fear that he cannot sustain another serious head injury, making a return to the rodeo unlikely. Brady has to come to terms with this and Attempts to regain control of his fate and search for new identity as he tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
click the pictures for the trailer..
by phoning the Box office 01785 619080, or by calling in. Tickets available on the night.
Spring Season 2019, that runs from 12 February 2019..
Click on the film title above for more details on each film.
can be previewed here: it shows the quality and diversity of films that we show.
Please click on the picture and then print it if you wish, or wait for our published leaflets to appear in our usual venues!
New Ticketing arrangements are in place for this season.
through the Box Office in the Gatehouse Theatre, either in person (in advance or on the night), or online.
Please see our ticketing page for more information.
more information about membership, prices, booking tickets and venue.
And as an added bonus, when you sign up you'll get a regular email reminder of the film that is coming up each week.
we'll be happy to answer any questions you may have about the Stafford Film Theatre.


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Welcome to 2018, friends! Another year, another blank slate. 2018 will mark five years since Society of Three Speeds started (though I started doing Three Speed Rides in 2011.) There's definitely some cool things I want to accomplish this year.
First up, the elephant in the room: Yes, I am very much slacking in the wrapping up of the 2017 challenges. I still need to compile the winners of the October 2017, and then get the awards for that challenge and the April one. I still need to actually create these prize packs. Have patience. I will have it done by spring.
Same thing goes for new Society of Three Speeds memberships. It's been a couple years since I ran out of Version 1.0 of the membership pack. I still need to create the spiffy new membership packs! Like the challenge prizes, expect to see something in spring.
Challenges: Despite me slacking on the finishing, I still do like doing them! So expect to see both Three Speed Adventure April and Three Speed October again in 2018. No major changes planned, just a few tweaks here and there.
In later winter, I hope to have an informal get-together around bikes and beers. Maybe late February.
I'll put on my first Three Speed Ride in April, to coincide with that month's challenge. It will probably be later in the month.
I plan on doing something for Pedalpalooza, but as numbers/participation have dwindled, I'm most likely not going to do a weekend day ride. Instead, I'm going to aim for a weeknight short (5-10 miles) ride, with maybe a picnic incorporated.
This frees me up for doing a Day Ride sometime during the summer. Expect something a bit longer than usual, maybe in the 25-30 mile range, and possibly outside of the city!
And then to finish off the year, a ride in October to coincide with that month's challenge.
Camping? Maybe. I might poll people to see if there's interest, and when.
Okay, so looking forward to a full year of three speed fun! Stay tuned here and to my social medias for updates when events become finalized. In the meantime, keep on riding your three speeds!
A new issue of New Old Stock! And buttons are back in the store.


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Q: Store files in natural sort filename with paperclip? Paperclip is generating my files and appending to its filename an index, but when stored to db it is sorted not the way i want (image below). Note that is not a natural sort (1,10,2,3,4,5...) instead of (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10..).
What am i have to do? Nedd some kind of "before_create" to achieve this?

A: You probably want to override sorting via default_sort in your model.
This question covers how to do a natural sort in Ruby.

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Home > Firm History
The Brown lawyers have served clients in the DC metro area since 1941. The Brown Firm PLLC is fortunate to have two generations of the Brown family supporting its clientele. Christopher E. Brown serves as the principal attorney for the family firm. Read more about Christopher and the history of the Brown family below.
Christopher E. Brown
Christopher E. Brown, Esq. is the principal attorney of The Brown Firm PLLC. During his extensive legal career, he has established himself as both a competent practitioner and talented litigator. His acumen in litigation has been proven through his extensive record of success in the courtroom. During his career as a litigator, he has represented a wide variety of clients in several different areas of the law. His notable accomplishments have been recognized through the gratitude of his clients, the recognition of his peers, and his attention from the media.
An Attorney in the Making
Christopher E. Brown was exposed to the world of law at a young age. He made a clear decision early in life to pursue a career in law because he wanted to be able to help others in the same way that his grandfather and father had before him. Edwin C. Brown, Jr. mentored his son so that he could learn the discipline and determination needed to be successful as an attorney.
Determination to Succeed
Christopher E. Brown was a talented athlete and student. Both in the classroom and on the football field, Christopher demonstrated his natural drive to achieve through his tireless work ethic. He remained focused on being successful in athletics and academics which paid off when he was accepted to the prestigious Duke University. During his time at Duke, he continued to display his natural determination and work ethic in both athletics and academics and was awarded with the position of running back during some of Duke University's most impressive years. He was a key element of the success Duke's 1989 ACC Championship team and helped carry the team to the 1989 All American Bowl. After he received his degree in philosophy and history, he set his sights on law school.
Christopher's legal training played a crucial role in his development as a litigator. He was able to develop his natural acumen for litigation at the Georgetown University Law Center. He further honed his abilities as a litigator by participating in a civil litigation law clinic where he represented D.C. residents in matters involving small claims. When other students were focusing solely on class, Christopher was already testing his abilities in the court room.
A Natural Born Litigator
After receiving his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, he dove into the professional legal world head first. Brown fulfilled the challenging position of a judicial clerkship in the D.C. Superior Court until the fall of 1996 and 1997, he began practicing law alongside his father in the family firm which is now known as The Brown Firm PLLC.
Christopher's competency in litigation was recognized early on in his legal career. His natural acumen for the law was made evident by his early successes litigating insurance defense cases. His abilities as a litigator continued to develop over an impressive career which includes over 45 jury trials to date.
Christopher E. Brown's abilities as a litigator are especially recognized due to several hard-fought victories in court. He is widely-known and widely-cited in briefs across the country in particular for his 2003 record-setting $5.2 million verdict in the case of White v. BFI, an employment discrimination case in the Eastern District of Virginia – a reputedly difficult jurisdiction for discrimination claimants.
Principal of The Brown Firm PLLC
Christopher E. Brown fulfills the role of principal attorney of The Brown Firm PLLC and is actively practicing as a litigator in the areas of criminal defense, traffic defense, civil litigation, employment and labor law and personal injury. He is admitted to the Virginia State Bar, the District of Columbia Bar and can practice in Virginia and District of Columbia Federal Courts and serves clients throughout Northern Virginia. Call The Brown Firm PLLC or send us a message online and have Christopher E. Brown evaluate your case for free.
Edwin C. Brown, Jr.
Edwin C. Brown, Jr. supports The Brown Firm PLLC by working on certain cases and fulfills a vital role by guiding the firm. His experience in practicing law and managing law firms makes him a crucial part of the organization.
A Lifetime of Accomplishment
As an african-american beginning his legal career in 1960, Mr. Brown served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, appointed by Robert F. Kennedy. Since then he has championed the rights of individuals in both civil and criminal matters in the District of Columbia and Virginia State and Federal Courts. His trial record and reputation in the D.C. Metro Region is excellent as evidenced by his 30 years with the highest AV rating from Martindale Hubbell.
Edwin C. Brown, Jr., was employed by the Internal Security Division of the Department of Justice as Special Assistant to Atty. General Robert Kennedy. In that capacity he tried espionage cases in federal courts throughout the nation. Ed Brown was invited to transfer to the US Attorney's office given his trial success and high security clearance. He also served on the President's Crime Commission (appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson) that implemented the national phone number "911."
Carrying On Tradition
Ed Brown, Jr. further developed his impressive legal career by negotiation a contract with Allstate Insurance Company to manage all legal defense work for Allstate insureds. This project led to the incorporation of a small minority owned firm. This accomplishment cannot be overlooked as it is an example of one of the few (if any) insurance defense contracts held and maintained by a minority owned law firm spanning the history of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Edwin C. Brown, Jr. currently supports clients alongside his son at The Brown Firm PLLC.
Edwin C. Brown, Sr.
Edwin Cicero Brown, Sr., was born July 1, 1908 on an Indian Reservation in Guthrie, Oklahoma. As a young toddler he crossed the Cimarron River in a covered wagon with his parents as they migrated to Wichita, Kansas where he was raised and attended public school. Interestingly enough he attended an integrated high school where he learned to play the saxophone and clarinet and played in the high school band.
Beginning a Difficult Journey
Upon graduation there was no employment for young black men except cotton picking, so he played his instruments in the streets of Wichita and shined shoes until he earned enough money to buy a used model T Ford. He bought eight spare tires which he placed on the rear of the vehicle and he and several of his music playing buddies traveled across the country to Washington, DC where he entered Howard University. He paid his college tuition by scrubbing floors at the YMCA and ultimately entered Howard's School of Law.
A Hard Earned Milestone
Ed Brown, Sr., graduated from law school at Howard University in 1941. After graduating he joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation. On his first day on the job he was assigned to be a chauffeur for one of the higher ranking officials. When he got off work that evening he never returned. He opened a law office in Southeast Washington, D.C. and one in Alexandria, Virginia where he engaged in the private practice of law.
Contributing to the Community
He was a staunch fighter for civil rights and became chairman of the NAACP in Alexandria, Virginia. He was responsible for the filing of the first lawsuit to integrate the Arlington Public School system. He was a founder of the now well known Boys and Girls Club of Alexandria, Virginia. In his later years he sponsored at least three free thanksgiving dinners for all the residents of the City of Alexandria, which were held at the historic Christ's Church on Washington Street in Alexandria, Virginia.
A Lasting Legacy
Ed Brown, Sr., was a champion of civil rights until he suffered a stroke in 1980. It was then that his son, Edwin C. Brown, Jr., took over his practice and continued the tradition of fighting for individual's rights in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Ed Brown, Sr., passed in the year 2000, three years after his grandson, Christopher E. Brown, joined the firm he began in 1941.
If you are in need of reliable representation in court, or would like a free consultation regarding your case, call The Brown Firm PLLC today or send us a message online.


Join us as we sort through Hendricks County Probate packets, getting them organized, arranged, and ready for digitization. The Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library is pleased to be able to assist with this preservation project in collaboration with the Indiana Genealogical Society. No registration or experience necessary! Just stop by for as long as you're able. Questions? Please contact the Indiana Room at 317-839-6602 x.2114.


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Marshall Jones, III
Head of BA Theater, Director of Rutgers Community Arts Summer Acting Conservatory
mjones3@mgsa.rutgers.edu
Walters Hall 218
Degrees & Accomplishments
BA, Rutgers University
MA, New York University
Marshall over 30 years of professional experience in a wide variety of key executive positions at some of NYC's most reputable institutions including the Apollo Theater (General Manager), Madison Square Garden (Company Manager), Radio City Music Hall (Producer), and Disney's The Lion King. In addition to his position as Associate Professor at Rutgers, Marshall is the Producing Artistic Director of the Tony® Award-winning Crossroads Theatre Company. Directing plays is his first love and he has directed several plays including last summer's Off Broadway sensation Little Rock (NY Times Critic Pick) as well as the world premiere of Walter Mosley's Lift, which later played at 59E59. He directed Nikkole Salter's Repairing a Nation, which later was recorded for TV broadcast on WNET. He directed the world premieres of Beyond the Oak Trees about Harriet Tubman and Pia Wilson's Back to the Real, a contemporary comedy which is a joint-commission between Crossroads, NJPAC and the NJ Theater Alliance. For 8 years, Marshall has proudly served on the Board of Directors of the Theater Communication Group (TCG).


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#ifndef HW_FEATURES_H
#define HW_FEATURES_H

#ifdef NEED_AP_MLME
void hostapd_free_hw_features(struct hostapd_hw_modes *hw_features,
			      size_t num_hw_features);
int hostapd_get_hw_features(struct hostapd_iface *iface);
int hostapd_select_hw_mode(struct hostapd_iface *iface);
const char * hostapd_hw_mode_txt(int mode);
int hostapd_hw_get_freq(struct hostapd_data *hapd, int chan);
int hostapd_hw_get_channel(struct hostapd_data *hapd, int freq);
int hostapd_check_ht_capab(struct hostapd_iface *iface);
int hostapd_prepare_rates(struct hostapd_data *hapd,
			  struct hostapd_hw_modes *mode);
#else /* NEED_AP_MLME */
static inline void
hostapd_free_hw_features(struct hostapd_hw_modes *hw_features,
			 size_t num_hw_features)
{
}

static inline int hostapd_get_hw_features(struct hostapd_iface *iface)
{
	return -1;
}

static inline int hostapd_select_hw_mode(struct hostapd_iface *iface)
{
	return -100;
}

static inline const char * hostapd_hw_mode_txt(int mode)
{
	return NULL;
}

static inline int hostapd_hw_get_freq(struct hostapd_data *hapd, int chan)
{
	return -1;
}

static inline int hostapd_check_ht_capab(struct hostapd_iface *iface)
{
	return 0;
}

static inline int hostapd_prepare_rates(struct hostapd_data *hapd,
					struct hostapd_hw_modes *mode)
{
	return 0;
}

#endif /* NEED_AP_MLME */

#endif /* HW_FEATURES_H */

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Today on Disclosure, Shawn and Jean take a look at the Ten Commandments in light of the cross. During this program, you'll learn how each commandment relates to the story of the cross, and you'll see an amazing picture of God's faithfulness and love. You won't want to miss this!


The assignment: Square Peg in Round Hole. Except this assignment has a twist. Your image has to include an oddity in it - something that does not fit, hence the title square peg in a round hole. An example might be three people sitting around a campsite roasting marshmallows over a block of blue glowing ice. Be creative, and put something in your image that makes people do a double and triple take scratching their heads, That's not right!
This was a lot of fun. Assignment from PhotoSig.
This assignment was from multiple places. A popular one, and fun to do.
Per the sidebar, I'm changing format for a while. Doing photo assignments from various places instead.
First up, Chaos and Disorder (from PhotoSig). This gave me the happy opportunity to shoot the tumbledown across from the school again.
Zaffer (blue pigment). From a piece I'm working on, then run through Flaming Pear filters Flexify and Flood.


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Home > Lifestyle > The Volvo FH Fridge Trailer
The Volvo FH Fridge Trailer
By EditorOne on October 29, 2013
Just as Eddie Stobart has become probably the only trucking company in the world to become a household name and a television celebrity in its own right (with the possible exception of Wells Fargo from the earliest Wild West cowboy shows), so the Volvo FH range of trucks are one of the unsung support actors of that fame.
Among the world of truck drivers, however, the FH is also a celebrity with immense standing. Famed for the comfort and relative luxury of the Globetrotter cab, subsequent improvements have seen the introduction of the i-shift automatic gearbox, advanced radar controlled cruise control, LKS (lane keeping support) and DAS (driver alert system).
The Volvo FH is also available in many different configurations and set-ups, including flatbed, tanker and curtain-side, but it is probably as the box car or fridge unit that it is best known in the UK, with its huge radiator grill and gently sloping front.
No serious collector of model trucks can ignore the Volvo FH whether in 1:76, 1:64 or 1:50 scale. The Eddie Stobart trucks, collectors can have the famous Volvo FH 'Emma Jade' with the H4663 serial number which is also available with the fridge trailer, offered in exquisite detail, but there are also many other branded models available celebrating some of the world's most famous trucking companies.
As Eddie Stobart are now trialling the latest version of the FH, the Euro 6 with its 460 hp power plant, electronic handbrake and larger cabin, model truck fanatics will no doubt be asking when the first scaled down version will become available to keep their collections fully up to date.
Hopefully the dies are almost ready to be cast on that one.


You might remember when Arnt and I collaborated on a cross for Union Gospel Mission in Vancouver. They wanted something made by an artist from the east side that refelected the neighbourhood. This is the one we made from an old porch column, pattern pieces from Nyes Foundry, a wood joist from our house and we created the shroud from copper and then verdigrised it. It is about 6 feet tall.
Well they approached us again to create a smaller one that was similar but not the same for their administration office. This is what we came up with using a yellow cedar column that Arnt turned on a lathe, Nyes Foundry pattern pieces, an old plane framed by a vintage wood folding measure tape, a door lock from a house on Georgia Street and a skeleton. A little bling was added by using a glass red marble. It is about 30" tall.
Humble and regal in one lovely piece!


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Q: How reliable is an if statement? If I run the following code,
while(true)
{
    if(true)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("True");
    }
    else
    {
        Console.WriteLine("False")
    }
}

How reliable is it that the Console will print "True" ?
Will if ever print "False" ?
Why ?
Edit: I had no idea that physical components of a computer were so perfect.

A: The question is a bit more interesting than downvoting peple think.
Sure, that conditional logic is really perfect. Visual studio generates a warning: Unreachable code detected, so the else branch will never ever be executed.
Even in case of hardware fault, computer / operating system / program itself is more likely to crash than the second brunch to execute.
But it does not mean that "False" will not be printed.
String literals in dotnet normally are interned.
Look at this hack:
static unsafe void Main(string[] args)
{
    // "True" is interned now
    string s = "True";

    // unsafe access to the interned string
    fixed (char* h = s)
    {
        // We have to change the length of the string.
        // The length is stored as integer value right before the first char
        ((int*)h)[-1] = 5;

        // Next operations change content of interned string
        h[0] = 'F';
        h[1] = 'a';
        h[2] = 'l';
        h[3] = 's';

        // But next one is dangerous - they can damage memory contents
        h[4] = 'e';
    }

    // the most reliable code ever:)
    while (true)
    {
        if (true)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("True");
        }
        else
        {
            Console.WriteLine("False");
        }
    }
}

The else branch is not executed, which can be ensured with debugger, so the conditional logic is still consistent. However the program prints "False" even through the System.Console's method.
This trick requres enabling the unsafe context in the compiler options, moreover, it can damage process's memory.

A: I'd say reliable enough that you don't have to worry about it, but not perfect.
For example there is a slight chance that the bit that says true is flipped to false (cosmic rays interference, faulty ram, bad luck..) and you're program would then write False. These types of errors are called soft errors.
Studies by IBM in the 1990s suggest that computers typically experience about one cosmic-ray-induced error per 256 megabytes of RAM per month.[1]
Note that most modern compilers would remove your if branch due to optimization, thus further reducing chance :).
And of course memory is not the only thing that could go wrong. CPU could probably make mistake when evaluating compare instruction, hard drive might store the program itself wrongly, OS could fail to protect memory of your process from some other faulty process, etc.. All these things are extremely unlikely.
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A: It will ALWAYS print "True" because that is the way that it is designed.

A: If it didn't display true I think the whole of computing would suddenly become flawed. There is an area of computing where this might apply look at "fuzzy logic" in google.

A: The only way it could print "False" is if you did something like this:
using System;

namespace Demo
{
    public static class Console
    {
        public static void WriteLine(string unused)
        {
            System.Console.WriteLine("False");
        }
    }

    public static class Program
    {
        private static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            if(true)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("True");
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("False");
            }
        }
    }
}

(Yes, this does indeed print "False" - but clearly I cheated. ;))
But aside from cheating, an if statement, like all other boolean logic, is completely reliable and deterministic.


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The Roman Catholic Church and its affiliate, the Knights of Columbus, played a leading role in funding anti-LGBT equality efforts in the four states where marriage equality was on the ballot this fall. The Church hierarchy invested nearly $2 million in the failed attempts to write discrimination into the Minnesota constitution and stem marriage equality in Maine, Maryland, and Washington. Dioceses from across the country supported these efforts financially, thought it's doubtful that the parishioners fueling these contributions had any idea that their money was being used to fund discrimination.
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I Trust You To Kill Me
Reviewed on March 14, 2007 by Felix Gonzalez, Jr. in DVD, Reviews // 0 Comments
I Trust You To Kill Me (2006)
Visual Entertainment
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Rocco DeLuca & The Burden
Extras: Music Videos, Featurette, Trailer
In the musical documentary "I Trust You to Kill Me, " first-time director Manu Boyer chronicles a few weeks in the life of struggling rock singer Rocco DeLuca and his band The Burden as they trudge through a rocky European tour. Film and TV star Kiefer Sutherland is their unlikely tour manager, leading them through a wintry trip and using his own celebrity whenever possible to get the band noticed. Boyer's video chronicle is uneven, to be sure, but it is an entertaining introduction to this budding group. Visual Entertainment picked up the film for release and has delivered a very nice DVD presentation.
Sharing its name with the band's first album, "I Trust You to Kill Me" is not as hard-edged as the title would have you imagine. It begins, interestingly enough, with a shot of Kiefer Sutherland lying on a bed, feet thrust prominently toward the camera, telling us, "sometimes you have to go through something to find out why you did it." This innocuous opening pretty much lets us know early on the Sutherland will be the primary focus of this documentary. We then cut to a performance of the title song by Rocco DeLuca, and the film shifts back to Sutherland as he gets ready to embark on the European tour. We see him on the set of his TV show "24" and are even treated to an interview with Jon Cassar, one of the show's regular directors.
In Europe, the band runs into the same kind of situations that every struggling band hits in the early stages. A lack of recognition means relatively poor turnouts at gigs. Bars and nightclubs provide inadequate accommodations. Luckily for this band, Kiefer Sutherland is around to bring in some extra publicity. His brief interviews on local radio stations help attract a few audience members. One of the funniest scenes in the movie involves Sutherland walking around Dublin, handing out free tickets to everyone he meets. While many recognize him, they don't immediately believe that he is THE Jack Bauer.
While this is all quite charming, I am miffed to say that I walked away from the film knowing next to nothing about Rocco DeLuca & The Burden. Several musical numbers give us a good sampling of their work, but nothing personal is revealed about them. The majority of their screen time is devoted to showing them party and resort to juvenile antics in the hotel lobbies. Twenty-eight-year-old DeLuca seems like an intriguing person. His vocals are raw and compelling, unleashing an anger and passion that defy his young age. In one interview, he speaks candidly about his parents, neither of whom he has a strong relationship with. Unfortunately, Boyer fails to explore this for more than a few seconds, leaving us wanting desperately to know more about the young man and where his musical inspirations come from.
Instead, most of the attention is given to Sutherland. Make no mistake, the actor provides some remarkable moments on his own, especially given this rather unusual setting. I certainly had no idea Sutherland had any kind of musical aspirations or connections, and his dedication to the band is fascinating to watch. Still, it seems as though Boyer started out wanting to document a struggling band's rise to stardom and quickly lost interest in them at the sight of a more famous personality. It's a shame, too, because there appears to be a rich story behind Rocco DeLuca as well.
Visual Entertainment's anamorphic 1.78:1 print looks very good, especially considering that this was filmed on digital video. There is some grain evident throughout, and occasionally the focus is soft, but all of this is part of the original source and does not reflect poorly on the transfer. At times, the sharpness and contrast are excellent and bring out some very nice detail.
The screener copy I received only featured a Dolby Digital 2.0 track, but the actual DVD also contains a 5.1 mix. Even in the stereo track, the music sounded great, so I have high hopes for the 5.1 track. English subtitles are available.
No special features were included on my screener disc, but look out for a brief featurette, three music videos from the band, and a trailer if you decide to pick this up.
"I Trust You to Kill Me" certainly does not suffer from a lack of interesting subject matter. In one, entertaining feature, we are introduced to a genuinely talented new group and also see a side of Kiefer Sutherland that few of us even knew existed. However, the documentary does not have the depth it needed to be a true revelation. Manu Boyer is more interested in just letting the camera capture the events in front of it rather than delving into his subjects' inner workings. The film serves as a pleasing introduction to Rocco DeLuca & The Burden's music, but we leave the film knowing little more about them than we did at the beginning. For all the work and struggle that they put into their tour, Manu Boyer fails to do them justice.
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