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BlueRidge.AI raises $1.9M to bring machine learning to factory floors
Founded by NSA alum Lloyd Clark, the company is building its business at Fulton, Md.-based DataTribe.
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L to R: BlueRidge.AI Product Lead Tom Leuchtner, Software Engineer Anton Alexnder and CEO Lloyd Clark.
Lloyd Clark is applying experience gained working with data inside the intelligence community to the manufacturing industry.
The former strategic AI leader at the Fort Meade, Md.-based National Security Agency is the founder of BlueRidge.AI. The startup recently received a $1.9 million investment from Fulton, Md.-based startup studio DataTribe, which works with founders who have experience working on what its leaders have called "over the horizon" technology inside the region's federal institutions to build commercial tech companies.
BlueRidge.AI's technology aims to help keep the machines on factory floors up and running, and ultimately make processes more simpler. It started with a focus on the heavy industrial electric motors that are used by manufacturers and other entities like large hospitals. A big problem that manufacturers face is downtime. When the motor isn't running due to an issue, Clark said it can be costly.
The startup applied machine learning and predictive analytics to this problem, Clark said. It created a multi sensor to take readings from the motor, and detect problems. It could be running unexpectedly, or doing something that poses a risk to workers. With the data, the company can make predictions that ultimately helps provide key info to keep the machines up and running.
Clark called it the "perfect use case" for machine learning and deep learning. He said it's applying the technology to the "dull, dirty, dangerous" work of the machine's upkeep.
"It's not sending out any data," Clark said. "We're putting a multi sensor on it, it's streaming a lot of data and then we're building models to do something with that data."
The company takes its name from a repair business that has a key role in the technology's development. Like many looking to apply these techniques, the company sought out a dataset that would help build an accurate model, but couldn't find one for heavy industry.
Ultimately, the company ended up buying out a repair services shop that specializes in the motors in Winchester, Va., called Blue Ridge Electric Service. It provided plenty of source material to "train" the models that tell the sensors what issues to look for.
"Any given morning there's a whole loading dock filled with every failure you can imagine," Clark said.
The shop opened in 1952, and has proximity to plenty of heavy industry shops that also served as early users, Clark said.
The company is now looking to install its sensors on other machines on a factory floor, adding to the types of data it collects.
Along with the investment, the company is now working out of DataTribe's offices in Fulton, where the startup studio's team is providing mentoring and business-building resources. And the company is planning to grow its team of 11, both adding talent in its engineering and sales teams.
"Lloyd and his team have developed a technology that is literally 3 to 4 generations ahead of the current technology landscape. It is a huge overlooked problem they are solving," DataTribe CEO Mike Janke said in a statement. "The DataTribe team is excited to co-build with Lloyd and his team and make smart manufacturing a reality for all."
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The anti gun crowd is trying to brainwash us into believing that only guns can be evil.
According to the anti gun crowd only guns can be used in a mass murder.
We're constantly told that we need gun control in order to prevent mass killings. However, we've seen far too many murders that qualify as mass killings where no firearm was used at all. There's a reason some of us, such as myself, have been calling for examination into why people commit these atrocities. However, I've not seen a single gun control advocate share these sentiments.
It's because they have it ingrained in their minds via the constant media barrage of anti-gun propaganda that gun control will halt mass killings in this country.
So, if that's true, maybe we need to ban machetes too?
A Florida man has been sentenced to life in prison for using a machete to kill his aunt, her pregnant daughter and the daughter's boyfriend.
Court records show that 22-year-old Brian Hyde was sentenced Monday. He was convicted in April of four counts of second-degree murder.
Prosecutors say Hyde used a machete to kill 37-year-old Dorla Pitts, 17-year-old Starlette Pitts and 19-year-old Michael Deon Kelly Jr. at their Lehigh Acres home in 2015. Prosecutors added the additional murder charge for Starlette Pitts' unborn child.
The victims were found dead after a family friend went to check on them. Hyde was arrested after he was pulled over by law enforcement for driving erratically in his aunt's car.
That's four counts of murder. That makes it mass murder.
Where was national media? Where was the wall-to-wall coverage with a host of experts talking about the lethality of machetes? Where were the politicians standing up and talking about how no one needs an implement with such a long blade?
Where was any of it?
Of course, we already know the answer. Stories like this never advance the agenda that the biased media shares. They look at this, think of how horrific the event is, then go on with their lives. They might report it briefly on the air at the national level, but then they forget. They leave it behind because while it's tragic, it's not something they can latch onto to build their brand.
But if Hyde had used a gun? Oh, mama! That would have been a whole new ball of wax.
At that point, there would have been stories about how he got the gun, how dangerous that weapon was, and politicians calling for bans on whatever they figure they can get away with banning.
The reality is that there are no national calls to look for the pathology that leads to people doing this. There are no calls for study as to why people turn to violence in the first place. Nothing but a desire by some to ban the tool being used rather than do anything about the tools using them.
That's because banning guns is easy. It's easy and flashy. It gets your name on the news and increases your national profile. It solidifies your credentials with your political base or helps advance your narrative, and at the end of the day, that's all that matters to these people.


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'Diablo III' Producer Justifies Controversial Art Direction: 'Color Is Your Friend'
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Why did Blizzard choose an art style for "Diablo III" that would anger so many fans? I got answers in Paris last weekend before people were really asking the question.
And I know of at least 14,000 people who'd like an answer. Those are the thousands of diehard "Diablo" fans who have signed a petition against the game's new art direction (with more than 1,000 signatures added every hour).
When I asked lead producer Keith Lee about "Diablo III'"s new art style at the Worldwide Invitational in Paris, he explained why Blizzard went in that direction.
Some context first, if you're not familiar with the old "Diablo" titles: they featured dark, shadowy landscapes and dungeons (in which the player-characters needed a radius of light to see), and an overall realistic art style. With "Diablo III," the environments and textures are noticeably more vibrant and colorful, both inside and outside dungeons. Blaming the influence of "World of Warcraft," the petitioners complain that the game is too "cartoon'ish" with "unrealistic elements" and "outside scenarios with vivid colors, beautiful forests with colorful vegetation, shinny [sic] and beautiful waterfalls where even rainbows take place." (The petitioners have a full laundry list of complaints and suggestions here.)
"A great analogy is like in 'Lord of the Rings' -- not everything is dark."
So this is what Lee had to say about the art direction when we spoke in Paris: "One of the things that we considered when we were working on the visuals for 'Diablo III' is the fact that color is your friend. We feel that color actually helps to create a lot of highlights in the game so that there is contrast. A great analogy is like in 'Lord of the Rings' -- not everything is dark. It allows you to see what a creepy dungeon can be like but if everything is dark it doesn't allow you to have a lot of contrast."
He continued: "'Diablo I' and 'Diablo II' are darker, and I think that the one of the main reasons why is the fact that in 'Diablo I,' you're basically in a dungeon the whole time. And in contrast to 'Diablo III,' you'll be exploring outdoors, you'll be in dungeons, you'll be experiencing so many different areas. We want to bring as much variety as we can when you're playing the game so that you're excited to check out new environments. We don't want everything to look the same and that's really what we're trying to aim for.
"We don't want everything to look the same and that's really what we're trying to aim for."
"What we also tried to do is create very clean textures so that you can really focus. It's a stylized feel and in that sense, it's very sort of a Blizzard philosophy. It's just really pushing the envelope in terms of the visuals so that everyone is excited about how everything looks. We think that 'Diablo III' is going to be better in so many different ways. We're just building and improving upon the the first and second 'Diablo' games."
I also asked Lee about how and when the dev team will take fan feedback into account. He wouldn't go into specifics, but said:
"We're very involved, because everyone's very passionate about our games. Blizzard employees, we spend a lot of time actually iterating on [the game], and so in terms of the next phase, what we'll try to do is a proof on concept on lot of different gameplay aspects. And we really want to get as much feedback as possible so that we can improve on the game and ensure that we meet Blizzard quality for our fans and for ourselves as players."
"Diablo" fans: Do you like "Diablo III'"s new style or do you side with the petitioners? What do you make of Blizzard's explanation for it?
[Update: "Diablo III" fans have started a petition urging Blizzard to keep its new art direction for the game. Check out the story here.]

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Trump gives people with student loans a break amid coronavirus
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks with reporters outside White House in Washington, DC, on March 13, 2020.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Friday that the Trump administration would consider suspending people's student loan payments as part of a larger strategy to mitigate the economic consequences of the coronavirus.
"I can tell you that's on our list of 50 different items we're bringing to the president for a decision," Mnuchin told CNBC, after being asked if the administration would consider granting borrowers a three-month reprieve. "The president is all about action, action, action."
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer sent a letter to the president on Wednesday with 30 Senate Democrats, asking him to grant six months of forgiveness for those with student debt. Meanwhile, consumer advocates have warned that the impacts of the pandemic could make it hard for many people to keep up with their student loan bills.
"COVID-19 is causing economic devastation across the country, with even greater job and income losses to come," said Toby Merrill, the director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending at Harvard University. "Americans need to dedicate their incomes to their health and family instead of trying to scrape together the money to pay the government for student debt."
Higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz said there's never been an emergency suspension of student debt.
"There is no precedent for such an action," Kantrowitz said.
Trump may be looking to curry favor with voters in an election year where his hope of touting a vibrant economy is quickly deflating. The stock market has been reeling amid the outbreak, with the potential for more than 200 million people in the U.S. being infected under worst-case scenarios.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has made student debt relief a cornerstone of his campaign message. In 2016, Trump won votes from a significant chunk of disillusioned Sanders voters who appreciated Trump's populism and his isolationist foreign policy. As Sanders' campaign continues collapsing under the strength of the Biden coalition, Trump is betting he can win Sanders voters over again like he did in 2016.
Outstanding education debt has outpaced credit card and auto debt. The average college graduate leaves school $30,000 in the red today, up from $10,000 in the 1990s. The average monthly student loan bill is nearing $400.
Ben Winters, a legal fellow at a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., said the coronavirus has made him worried about his finances. A break from his monthly student loan bill could help him cover the unexpected travel and medical costs he expects to be hit with soon, he said.
"My budget is stretched thin without a pandemic," Winters, 25, said.
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For a large screen device like the iPhone 6 Plus or even the iPhone 6, it takes some serious thought when designing apps. That's because it's much more difficult to reach certain part of the screen using one hand, so developers have to design their apps with one-handed users in mind.
But where such thought may be lacking, a jailbreak tweak can go a long way towards enhancing the usability of certain apps. That's definitely the case with this latest tweak called SafariRefresh. It adds a simple pull-to-refresh mechanism to Apple's stock web browsing app, and the result is a much more usable refresh function on large screen devices.
After installing SafariRefresh, you can begin using it immediately. Simply open the stock Safari app, and pull down on the screen and release to perform a refresh.
SafariRefresh contains no options to configure or settings to adjust, just install it and go. I highly recommend this simple jailbreak tweak to Safari users on Apple's latest iPhone hardware. It goes a long way towards making the experience more pleasant for one-handed users.
You can find SafariRefresh free of charge on Cydia's BigBoss repo. What do you think?


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Kuznetsova's reaction to Federer's compliment
Third-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova was stunned when people told her that Roger Federer, the top-ranked ATP player and ten-time Grand Slam champion, thinks that she will be the one to win Roland Garros.
Kuznetsova logged on to the Internet to check whether that's true. When she saw Federer's words: "I like her game, she plays well," she couldn't believe it and had to pinch herself.
"The Russian press told me and I thought 'No, it was a joke'. So I wanted to check it myself and read this on the Internet," Kuznetsova said after reaching the quarter-finals at Roland Garros.
"If I would have to choose a compliment from anybody, it's definitely the best I ever heard. Roger is a legend and to hear him say that is almost a dream.
"It's unbelievable to hear my hero say this about my tennis."
Kuznetsova, a runner-up in the 2006 French Open, is eager to play the best she can, and live up to Federer's expectations by winning the title on Saturday.
"If he likes my game, I would like to prove it more," she said.
In the quarterfinal she will play the rising Serb Ana Ivanovic. In their head-to-heads Ivanovic leads 2-1. On hard courts they are tied, but Ivanovic leads 1-0 on clay. (source: Reuters)
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Disney and Nation Ltd. Partner for Tinker Bell Collection
The capsule collection for spring will feature T-shirts, tanks and sweatshirts.
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Tinker Bell is the latest Disney character getting a fashion push. From time to time, Disney partners with various fashion firms — ranging from Uniqlo to Marc by Marc Jacobs to Barneys New York — to cash in on its classic characters' fashion equity. For spring, Disney is collaborating with Los Angeles-based T-shirt company Nation Ltd., designed by Jen Menchaca, on a Tinker Bell capsule collection, including tanks, T-shirts and sweatshirts featuring pixie dust prints and a vintage Tinker Bell sketch print. There's also a Tiger Lily dress with macramé details. Prices range from $78 to $136.
It was reported earlier this year that Reese Witherspoon was developing a Tink spinoff, but according to Karen Torpey, director of licensing for Disney consumer products, the Tinker Bell/Nation collaboration is based on the fact that the character, who dates back to 1953, "was ahead of her time sporting an effortless top knot, strapless minidress and signature flats. On top of that, her confidence, attitude and personality make her relevant and relatable to the modern woman."
Actress Bella Thorne wore a Tinker Bell-inspired look to the MTV Video Music Awards this year and Torpey said that there are additional beauty and fashion partnerships for Tinker Bell in the pipeline.


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Still missing mine. I've gotta say there's hell to pay for 'em- but they're so worth it.
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Following is the comparison between the new Tata Harrier and Jeep Compass based on specifications and the features they offer.
Tata Motors is all set to launch its much-awaited Harrier SUV in January 2019 and as the company has completely revealed the specifications of the car there is now a lot of confusion among the buyers who are looking for a car that is powerful and can carry a family in comfort. Based on the IMPACT Design 2.0 philosophy, Tata Harrier SUV is engineered on the new generation 'Optimal Modular Efficient Global Advanced' Architecture, which is derived from the legendary Land Rover D8 architecture and developed in collaboration with Jaguar Land Rover. Once the Tata Harrier SUV is launched in January 2019, the SUV will go up against the likes of the Hyundai Creta, Jeep Compass and the Nissan Kicks.
The Tata Harrier SUV is the first vehicle to sport the IMPACT Design 2.0 philosophy. At the front, the car gets dual tone bumper with satin silver chin guard, xenon HID projector headlamps and dual function LED DRLs with turn indicators. The SUV in Orange color has flared wheel arches that house 5-spoke alloy wheels. It has a high shoulder line and blacked-out B pillars, while the C-pillar houses a triangular quarter glass. At the rear, the Harrier has a raked windshield, a spoiler and 3D LED taillamps with sporty piano black finisher. The dual-tone rear bumper gets silver inserts.
The front of the Jeep Compass sports a Seven-Slot Grille surrounds with chrome rings. The rear of this SUV also look beautiful and the LED tail lamps gel well with the design lines of this car. The designers of this car also have some Easter eggs for you to find like a Lizard below the front driver side windscreen wiper and a Loch Ness monster on the rear glass. There are Bi-Xenon high-intensity discharge headlamps and daytime running lamps on the Jeep Compass. The SUV gets 16-inch steel alloy wheels and the top trims get 17-inch alloy wheels which provide a decent ground clearance of 178mm which helps the car to get a good off-road performance.
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This is definitely the start of something new and fun.  I have so many ideas and was once
told that only a fool wouldn't write their ideas down and share them with the world.  So,
this is the start of that.  I am starting this off by just introducing myself.  My name
is Stephen Lu.  I am currently a Pipeline Tools Technical Director at Reel FX Animation
Studios.  I am currently located in Dallas and loving the journey I am on.  I am constantly
driving to learn more and share the knowledge I have found.  I have been always looking
at new opportunities and hope to share my journey with other people.  I also look to inspire
those wanting to be in the film/visual effects industry that are just starting out.

One thing I know is that it can be very daunting to try to get into this industry.  There
is so much to learn, and so many things for one person to partake.  I will tell you now
that though you may sometimes not feel sufficient enough to undergo something as big as
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Users of the Yearbook of the United Nations conversant in Arabic and Chinese will be glad to know that the 2010 Yearbook Express is now available in these two United Nations official languages as well as English. The Arabic translation was completed by a team of volunteers working through the UNV Online Volunteering service, while the Chinese translation was prepared by students and teachers at Soochow University in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. Special thanks to our dedicated partners for helping make the Yearbook of the United Nations and the work of the United Nations system more accessible to speakers of Arabic and Chinese! Further editions of the Yearbook Express for 2010 and earlier years are on the way in all United Nations official languages. If you would like to contribute to volunteer work for the Yearbook or any other United Nations undertaking, please consult the opportunities available through the United Nations Online Volunteering service website.


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Harold Widom (September 23, 1932 – January 20, 2021) was an American mathematician best known for his contributions to operator theory and random matrices. He was appointed to the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1968 and became professor emeritus in 1994.

Education and research
Widom was born in Newark, New Jersey. He studied at Stuyvesant High School, graduating in 1949, and was a member of the school's math team along with his brother Benjamin Widom (1944, 1948).  Widom attended City College of New York until 1951, during which he was one of the winners of the
William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (1951).  At the University of Chicago he obtained an M.S. (1952) and Ph.D., the latter on a thesis Embedding of AW*-algebras advised by Irving Kaplansky (1955).
He taught mathematics  at Cornell University (1955–68) where he started his work on Toeplitz and Wiener-Hopf operators, partly inspired by Mark Kac.

Widom was appointed in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and became professor emeritus in 1994. His research areas were in integral equations and operator theory, in particular the determination of the spectra of a semi-infinite Toeplitz matrix and Wiener-Hopf operators, and the asymptotic behavior of the spectra of various classes of operators. The latter was looked at from the point of view of pseudodifferential operators (which generalize both integral and partial differential operators) on manifolds.

More recently, his mathematical contributions with his long-term collaborator Craig Tracy have been recognized through the award of several prizes for their joint work on Tracy–Widom distribution functions for random matrices. They used integral operators to obtain explicit representations, in terms of Painlevé transcendents, of the limiting distributions of the largest and smallest eigenvalues in many models of random matrices (see Fredholm determinants). These same distributions have since been shown to arise in numerous other physical models, in random growth models, and in asymptotic combinatorics.

He has been the author of two books and more than 120 journal articles, and was an associate editor of Asymptotic Analysis, Journal of Integral Equations and Applications and Mathematical Physics, Analysis, and Geometry. He was an honorary editor of Integral Equations and Operator Theory.

Widom died from complications of COVID-19 at his home in Santa Cruz, California, on January 20, 2021, at age 88.

Awards
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012
Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics 2006, shared with Craig Tracy
American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected, 2006
George Pólya Prize 2002, shared with Craig Tracy, for their work on random matrices
Guggenheim Fellow 1967 and 1972
Sloan Fellowship 1964–65
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1959–60

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Posted byAdam Drakos January 2, 2023 December 30, 2022 Posted inhistory, UncategorizedTags:history
In today's hot political climate, it's popular to suggest that the West is engaged in a battle of epic proportions, one that will determine the future of Western civilization. This battle could be analyzed in cultural, political, or spiritual terms. As of the time of this writing in 2023, we can be thankful that our political and cultural divides have not yet pushed us to physical confrontation. However throughout the West's history there have been many points where warfare determined the course of its future. From the last stand of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae to the German Blitzkrieg, conflict has played a defining role in Western history.
Let's explore some of the most important battles that have defined the West.
Salamis and Plataea
Wilhelm von Kaulbach, The Sea Battle at Salamis (1868)
The Battle of Salamis was a sea battle fought between a coalition of Greek city-states led by general Themistocles and the invading Persians led by Xerxes in 480 B.C. Fought in the straits of Salamis off the coast of Athens, the battle was a pivotal point in the Greco-Persian wars.
After winning at Thermopylae and Artemisium, the Persian army marched on to conquer several regions of Greece including Phocis, Boeotia, and Attica. The Greeks reformed their defenses near Corinth on land and posted their naval fleet at Salamis. Famed Athenian general Themistocles was able to rally the fleet to engage Xerxes' forces head on. Due to the narrow passages around Salamis, the large Persian fleet had difficulty maneuvering as opposed to the thin Greek forces, who were able to quickly form a line and engage their foe. The Greeks were able to use this advantage to score a relatively easy victory, whereupon the Persian fleet retreated back to Asia leaving their land forces isolated.
The Persian land forces were under the leadership of Mardonius while the Greeks were led by Pausanius. After retreating to Plataea in the province of Boeotia, Mardonius set up fortified defenses to thwart the rejuvenated Greek army, though, instead of attacking, the Greeks chose to wait, resulting in a stalemate that lasted 11 days. Eventually the Persians sallied out and were easily defeated, while many of their men became entrapped in their fortifications and slaughtered. After Plataea the Greeks took the offensive and began the reconquest of territory they had lost to the Persians.
The battles of Salamis and Plataea were the turning points in the Greco-Persian wars and signaled the end to Persian aggression. Though lesser known than the famous battle at Thermopylae, these two battles maintained the integrity of Greece's influence throughout the Mediterranean. Without these victories, it's possible that Greece's developments in democratic government, medicine, architecture, and art would never have been passed down to posterity.
Milvian Bridge
Raphael, Constantine's Vision (1508)
The Battle of Milvian Bridge took place October 312 A.D. between Constantine I and Maxentius, two competing Roman Emperors, over the Milvian bridge which crosses the Tiber River. Constantine was ultimately victorious as Maxentius drowned in the Tiber during the fighting. Though this battle had huge ramifications in the political sphere by ending the Tetrarchy (the dual-emperorship of the Eastern and Western halves of the empire), it ultimately had a larger effect on the religious makeup of the empire.
According to early Christian historian Eusebius, Constantine and his soldiers experienced a vision shortly before the battle. The vision depicted the two Greek letters Chi and Rho, representing Christ's name, and directed Constantine's army to paint these letters on their shields in order to attain victory. After following the vision's instructions the soldiers were indeed victorious, attributing their victory to God's intervention. Though Constantine waited until his deathbed to get baptized, tradition holds that this battle initially inspired his inclination toward the Christian religion.
The Battle of Milvian Bridge led Constantine to embrace Christianity and end its persecution in the Roman Empire. The legalization of Christianity throughout the empire was a monumental shift in policy that led to the flourishing of the religion. The West's history from that point forward has been undeniably intertwined with Christianity.
Charles de Steuben, The Battle of Poitiers
Another battle with significant religious ramifications, the Battle of Tours (or the Battle of Poitiers) determined whether Islam or Christianity would dominate Europe. In October of 732 A.D. the battle was fought between the Umayyad Caliphate, led by Abdul Rahman Al-Ghafiqi, and a coalition of Frankish and Aquitanian forces, led by Charles "The Hammer" Martel. The Frankish and Aquitanian army met the Umayyads somewhere between Tours and Poitier in modern France, as Martel's forces hoped to thwart Islamic expansion into Europe. The Umayyad Caliphate currently held a vast empire with lands stretching from the Iberian Peninsula to the Middle East.
Though outnumbered and lacking heavy cavalry, the Frankish alliance intercepted the Umayyad forces on their path to Tours. The Franks held a defensive phalanx formation for seven days on top of a wooded hill, forcing Al-Ghafiqi's cavalry to charge uphill. Charles's battle-hardened infantry, many of whom had fought with him over a decade and who were some of the few professional soldiers during the period, proved to be a deciding factor. Additionally, Charles's preparation helped turn the tide of victory, as the Umayyad's failed to dress for the cold European climate, having only light clothing suitable for North Africa's mild winters.
The Battle of Tours set the stage for the Carolingian Dynasty, ultimately producing the famed Charlemagne. It also ensured a Christian Europe. Many have speculated that an Umayyad victory at Tours would have produced a more Islamic continent. Gibbon observes in his work The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire:
"A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles from the rock of Gibraltar to the banks of the Loire; the repetition of an equal space would have carried the Saracens to the confines of Poland and the Highlands of Scotland; the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet."
Edward Gibbon
More succinctly historian Godefroid Kurth wrote that the battle "must ever remain one of the great events in the history of the world, as upon its issue depended whether Christian Civilization should continue or Islam prevail throughout Europe."
William Sadler II, The Battle of Waterloo (1815)
On June 18, 1815 near the small town of Waterloo in modern Belgium, Napoleon's army battled a coalition of forces in what would be the French emperor's final battle. The coalition was made up of two armies: one a British-led army hailing from the U.K., Netherlands, and various German states headed by the Duke of Wellington, the other a Prussian force led by Gebhard von Blücher. After Napoleon's defeat he abdicated the throne, ending his reign as French emperor. The prevailing coalition's forces entered Paris several days later.
The battle cleared the way for Great Britain's global hegemony because it eliminated France as a serious competitor on the European continent and world stage. The following decades are sometimes referred to as the Pax Britannica, or the "Concert of Europe" because of the relative peace and prosperity that followed Napoleon's downfall. No major wars were fought until the Crimean War in the 1850's, and up until World War I Europeans looked back at Waterloo as a decisive turning point that ushered in this era of peace.
The Battle of Waterloo is also extremely important in the history of western civilization because it inspired the infectious ABBA earworm, "Waterloo," winner of the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest and one of the catchiest songs of all time 🙂.
Luftwaffe bombers over East London
One of the most significant battles in the modern era was the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. This air battle was fought primarily between the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the German Luftwaffe over the skies of England during 1940 and 1941. Germany initiated the attack in a bid to compel Great Britain to negotiate a peace settlement. The air raids initially targeted shipping ports, however these soon progressed to airfields and infrastructure; finally cities were bombed in an attempt to terrorize the populace and force surrender. Despite heavy mobilization, the Luftwaffe was unable to establish significant air superiority, ultimately failing in their original mission. Historian Richard Evans writes:
"Irrespective of whether Hitler was really set on this course, he simply lacked the resources to establish the air superiority that was the sine qua non [prerequisite] of a successful crossing of the English Channel. A third of the initial strength of the German air force, the Luftwaffe, had been lost in the western campaign in the spring. The Germans lacked the trained pilots, the effective fighter aircraft, and the heavy bombers that would have been needed."
The battle was notable from a technological standpoint because it was the first major military campaign fought solely with air forces, a theater of warfare that would continue to grow more popular as air technology developed. Germany's defeat in this battle was also the first large-scale military victory by one of the Allied nations, signaling a weakness in Germany's air capabilities. It would be an understatement to suggest that the world would be radically different given a German victory in World War II. Since the Battle of Britain was the first major German defeat, it earns a spot as one of the most significant battles in Western history.
Filtering History through a Narrow Lens
This list is, of course, highly subjective and dependent on the lens one wishes to filter their history through. Many more triumphs and defeats could be added, yet we must make the difficult choice to narrow our options to just a few significant battles. I chose these battles primarily on how they would eventually affect the culture and religion of the West today. If these battles turned out differently, the West may be speaking different languages or practicing different religions. Technological innovations, scientific advancements, and artistic movements would have varied widely with respect to the ones history bestowed upon us.
As always we cherish additional input, and await any opportunity to further our understanding from our insightful readers. What battles did we leave out?
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Dear Spain: Please do what the U.S. won't. Prosecute Torture.
A Spanish judge has just decided to proceed with a case against Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld. The Spanish legislature can be expected to try to block the case, unless perhaps they hear our voices loudly and clearly enough.
We began this effort in 2011, visiting Spanish embassies, generating media and placing advertisements in Spain, and communicating our appreciation for Spanish efforts to prosecute U.S. torturers. Now we need another big push.
We are writing to thank you and to ask for your support as your courts consider cases to bring American officials to justice for the crime of torture. A Spanish judge, acting under international law, will soon decide whether to investigate U.S. officials' roles in authorizing torture. We hope you agree that such cases must go forward, despite pressure from the Obama administration to drop them.
The organizations signing this letter represent hundreds of thousands in the American public who believe the U.S. government must be held to the same rule of law as other countries. We are profoundly disappointed that our own government refuses to prosecute former officials, despite open admissions and government documents showing that they approved torture.
It will take a public show of support for the case to withstand pressures from Washington. WikiLeaks cables show the extremes to which U.S. officials have gone to thwart any attempt by Spain or other countries to uphold justice. We applaud the courage shown by Spanish officials who insist on giving priority to the rule of law.
Despite earlier assertions by President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder that waterboarding is torture, former President George W. Bush has publicly stated that he authorized waterboarding and added proudly that he would do it again. In a TV interview aired on November 8, 2010, Bush said he considered waterboarding legal "because the lawyer said it was legal." Waterboarding and other forms of torture were banned by the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, ratified by the United States in 1994.
If international law is to serve any useful purpose, other countries must condemn violations "by any other nations, including those which sit here now in judgment," in the words of the chief prosecutor at Nuremberg.
We sincerely hope that the citizens of Spain and its judiciary will dispel the notion that any country is above the law.
36967 Mon May 26 14:43:42 EDT 2014 Anonymous NY , US Thank you for having the courage that our government does not.
36965 Mon May 26 08:26:14 EDT 2014 kath gray ot , GB Thankyou for having the ethics my own country's officials do not.
36953 Fri May 23 22:25:28 EDT 2014 Anonymous AB , CA Anyone who pushes for torture pushes for false information and corruption to justify their own agenda and should be held accountable for all actions for trying to destroy our global unity for greed.
36952 Fri May 23 22:24:51 EDT 2014 Jesse Lyons AB , CA Anyone who pushes for torture pushes for false information and corruption to justify their own agenda and should be held accountable for all actions for trying to destroy our global unity for greed.
36951 Fri May 23 22:23:32 EDT 2014 Jesse Lyons AB , CA Anyone who pushes for torture pushes for false information and corruption to justify their own agenda and should be held accountable for all actions for trying to destroy our global unity for greed.
Partner organizations behind this effort include: CodePink Women for Peace, High Road for Human Rights, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, National Accountability Action Network, National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, Pax Christi USA, Progressive Democrats of America, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, Robert Jackson Steering Committee, RootsAction.org, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, Tackling Torture at the Top Committee of Women Against Military Madness, Veterans for Peace, Voters for Peace, War Criminals Watch, WarIsACrime.org, WeThePeopleNow.org, and World Can't Wait. Additional signers include: Amnesty International USA, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Council for the National Interest, Democrats.com, Fellowship on Reconciliation, United for Peace and Justice, Velvet Revolution, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, War Resisters League, Witness Against Torture, the BRussells Tribunal, Green Shadow Cabinet, King Condemned U.S. Wars International Awareness Campaign, Prosecute U.S. Crimes Against Humanity Now, Interfaith Action for Human Rights.
Os escribimos para agradeceros y pediros apoyo urgente ya que los tribunales de vuestro país han iniciado el proceso de llevar a funcionarios estadounidenses ante la justicia por el delito de tortura. Un juez español en conformidad con el derecho internacional ha decidido investigar el papel de dignatarios estadounidenses en la autorización de prácticas de tortura. Esperamos que estéis de acuerdo en que estos procesos judiciales deben seguir adelante a pesar de las presiones de la administración Obama para cerrarlos.
Las organizaciones que firman esta carta representan cientos de miles de personas, el público estadounidense que cree que el gobierno de los EE.UU. debe regirse dentro del mismo marco legal que el resto de países. Estamos profundamente decepcionados de que nuestro propio gobierno se niegue a procesar a ex-funcionarios a pesar de que dichos hechos fueron admitidos abiertamente y que existen documentos oficiales que prueban que se aprobó la tortura en la base militar de Guantánamo.
Es necesaria una demostración pública de apoyo para que el proceso pueda sobrepasar las presiones de Washington. Cables publicados por WikiLeaks muestran los extremos a los que las autoridades estadounidenses han llegado para frustrar cualquier intento por parte de España o de otros países para defender la justicia. Aplaudimos la valentía demostrada por los letrados españoles que insisten en dar prioridad al cumplimiento de la ley.
A pesar de las afirmaciones del presidente Barack Obama y el fiscal general Eric Holder acerca de que el "waterboarding" (submarino) es tortura, el ex-presidente George W. Bush ha declarado públicamente que él autorizó esta práctica y añadió con orgullo que lo haría de nuevo. En una entrevista en la televisión salió al aire el 8 de noviembre de 2010 Bush dijo que consideraba el submarino legal "porque el abogado dijo que era legal". El submarino y otras formas de tortura fueron prohibidos por la Convención de la ONU contra la Tortura y otros tratos o penas crueles, inhumanos o degradantes, ratificada por Estados Unidos en 1994.
Si el derecho internacional ha de tener algún propósito útil, terceros países deben condenar violaciones "cometidas por cualquier otra nación, incluidas las que están aquí presentes en este juicio" son las palabras del fiscal jefe de Nuremberg.
Esperamos sinceramente de los ciudadanos de España y su poder judicial que disipen toda noción de que algunos países están por encima de la ley.


School is intended to be a safe atmosphere, where students can come together and enjoy learning and interacting with each other. When children become the target of bullies, they begin to dread going to school, and may even look for excuses to avoid going altogether. Signs of bullying in the classroom may be obvious, or they may be more subtle (for instance, depression or a decrease in schoolwork quality). Thankfully, there are a few ways that teachers can help their students avoid the detrimental effects of bullying.
Encourage open communication with your students. If you have an open, honest relationship with your students, they may feel comfortable and safe coming to you with the news that they are the victim of bullying at school.
Encourage open communication with parents. Nothing helps parents feel more positive about their childrens overall educational experience than the knowledge that they have a good relationship with the adults who have responsibility for them while they are at school. Make sure that you know your students parents, your schools principals, and the counselors well so that you feel comfortable approaching them with any concerns you have. Know your students groups of friends. By knowing whom your students are spending time with, you will also notice if their group of friends suddenly changes.
A great way to get to know your children's friends is to be the hang out room. Make your classroom the place where the kids want to be, and spend a few minutes speaking with each of them. Promote self esteem. Children with a healthy self esteem are usually not the target of bullies, who usually lack self confidence, themselves.
Find ways to let your students demonstrate and grow their talents, and they will exude self confidence, which is always a positive attribute. Further, children with high self esteem are usually comfortable telling authorities that they notice bullying behavior, even if it is not targeted towards them.


In the opening match of the GC Handicap Central North division the club entertained Bristol Croquet Club. The home team made a strong start winning both opening doubles through Norman Connor/Miriam Bolger and Tony Curson/Howard Grove. Over the next two rounds of singles the team ended the morning session 8 – 2 ahead with two wins for Elaine Morrison and one each for Pete Riley, Norman, Miriam and Tony. The visitors rallied after lunch winning the two doubles games. The home team came back strongly in the two final singles sessions with further wins for Elaine, Miriam, Pete, Tony and Howard plus a draw for Norman. The final result was a convincing home win 13.5 – 6.5.


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is a town located in Kaga District, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. As of March 1, 2017, the town has an estimated population of 11,989 and a density of 45 persons per km². The total area is 268.73 km².

Kibichūō was founded on October 1, 2004 by the merger of the town of Kamogawa, from Mitsu District, and the town of Kayō, from Jōbō District.

Geography

Neighbouring municipalities

 Okayama
 Sōja
 Takahashi
 Maniwa
 Misaki

Transportation
There are no railway stations within Kibichūō.

Highways

 Okayama Expressway
 Japan National Route 429
 Japan National Route 484

References

External links

Kibichūō official website

Towns in Okayama Prefecture


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"Nine Coffins for Rocking H"
John D MacDonald wrote over 250 short stories and novellas that were published in pulp magazines, from 1946 to 1953, and depending on one's definition of what a pulp is/was, that number is even higher. As his devoted readers no doubt know, he wrote primarily for the Detective/Mystery magazines of the time, but but also for Science Fiction pulps and Sports pulps. In fact, between those two genres he had over 80 stories published, which is a good percentage of his total output. He never wrote for the Love pulps, or Railroad pulps, and his contribution to the Hero pulps were limited to the shorter tales included with the big Doc Savage or Shadow novels that were the feature of each of those magazines. He did try his hand at horror, with two stories that appeared in Weird Tales, and he did three westerns that were published in three separate pulps: "The Corpse Rides at Dawn," in Ten-Story Western (April 1948), "Hang the Man High!" in 15 Western Tales (November 1949) and "Nine Coffins for Rocking H" in Dime Western Magazine (December 1949).
A few years ago I wrote about "The Corpse Rides at Dawn" and was fairly dismissive of it. MacDonald's excellent characterization and sense of place was marred by a bad guy with an outlandish weakness, and the story itself contained far too many coincidences to be the least bit believable. I concluded that perhaps the Western was not a field that MacDonald had much aptitude for and may have been a reason for his limited use of the setting. Well, I recently acquired a copy of the December 1949 issue of Dime Western, read "Nine Coffins for Rocking H" and was pleasantly surprised. Given the limitations of the meleu it's an excellent story with believable characters and motivation, good narrative sense and construction, and a dead-on creation of a time and place. In other words, a western that can stand up with the works of writers who did this on a regular basis.
The setting is in the vast, open area of what is now considered the midwest, near the fictional small town of Garnet. We could be in Nebraska, Kansas or another state west of the Mississippi. It's sometime after the Civil War and certainly after 1862 when the Homestead Act was signed into law, as a central plot point depends on it. The area is surrounded by homesteaders, eager to start new lives on their own lands, and do all of the things required by the Act: build a house, dig a well, put up some fencing and farm at least 20 of your 160 acres. And after living there for five years, the land was theirs. Some raised cattle, some were grain farmers, others raised horses, but all were honest, hardworking men and women who were trying to better themselves on their own small plot of earth.
Of course, not everyone was a homesteader. Some lands, purchased outright, were big operations with big money and bigger ambitions, and the homesteaders were limiting their growth by occupying "free" land that the operations wanted. One such business was the Rocking H ranch, run by a wouldbe cattle baron named Thomas Haggar, a ruthless and half-mad rancher who has been acquiring surrounding homesteads any way he could. His most common method was intimidation and violence: burning homes, poisoning cattle and horses, wearing the homesteaders down to ruin until they gave up their claim and left. Then, he had one of his straw men acquire the claim and prove it out until he could buy it outright for a small percentage of what it was worth.
The story opens as a group of harassed homesteaders are riding in the dead of night to pay a visit to the Rocking H. They are led by an old man named Anse Forrester, whose son died in his burning barn, set by one of Haggar's men. His fourteen year old grandson Johnny is among the men, as is Nick Lees, who is himself not a homesteader but a small scale cattle rancher who has nonetheless suffered at the hands of Haggar when his house was burned to the ground. Lees has joined because he believes Forrester wants to "talk" to Haggar, although I'm not sure how sneaking up on a ranch house in the dead of night could have fooled him. Of course Forrester is out for vengeance, and when he spies a silhouette behind a window shade, he raises his rifle and fires. It's a trap, and Forrester is shot dead, as are seven other members of the party. Nick manages to find a way out, and along with Johnny (who has been watching the horses), manages to make it back to the local schoolhouse.
They are met there by the grandson's older sister Sal Forrester, who upon learning that her grandfather is dead, has some harsh words for Nick Lees.
She said coolly, "I'm sure we have you to thank for this disaster, Mr. Lees. We are not a violent people. This night attack was not our way of doing things. I'm not quite sure which side you may be on, Mr. Lees. As we have nothing more to lose, I'm sure we don't interest you further... Good night, Mr. Lees, We'll take care of the necessary details... Johnny and I will leave as soon as the burial is over."
When Nick returns to his own ranch he learns from his solitary hand Bob Furnell that several of his cattle have been poisoned. After ruminating together about the situation, Lees gets philosophical.
Lees: "Here I am thirty-one next month. I haven't got the money to go to law and I haven't got the guns to fight 'em off. Tonight maybe I killed two or three people. Haven't shot at anybody since I was twenty, and then I only drilled the fella in the leg. I can cash in a little on the beef, sell off the saddle stock and find me a new place and start all over. Or I can stay here until I'm so broke I have to go work for somebody."
Furnell: "You want me to tell you what to do?
Lees: "I could use a hint."
Furnell: Ain't you mad?"
Lees: "Just - discouraged. No, not mad, I guess."
Furnell: "Then you better fold up and ride on out. Takes a mad man to scare off the wolves."
When Furnell rides off Lees has an introspective moment, which broadcasts the story's turning point.
He tried to feel anger, could feel nothing but the helpless resignation of a fair and honest man confronted with top-heavy odds and complete ruthlessness. He had worked hard, had saved money as a top-hand, had carefully picked his spread. Now nothing on earth could keep him from losing it.
The next day Lees heads into Garnet and walks into the local saloon. There he encounters the Rocking H foreman, getting drunk with four other hands. Not being suspected of being a member of the raiding party, Lees learns the body count from the night before, but before he can find out more, in storms young Johnny Forrester, brandishing a pistol and demanding to know where Haggar is. In his anger and frustration he draws on the foreman and things end badly…
The story is only half over at this point, and the remainder is exciting and suspenseful, if a bit predictable (but most pulp is anyway). The happy ending is nicely tempered by doubt and it comes across as believable and entirely adult. All in all, a well-done, entertaining novella that takes place in a world MacDonald rarely ever visited. And, a near as I can tell, this is the very last time he ever came here.
"Nine Coffins for Rocking H" does not seem to have ever been reprinted.
Labels: Dime Western Magazine, Westerns
Eric Gimlin November 23, 2015 at 10:29 PM
Hmm. I don't have any western pulps as such, but you've got me intrigued by this one. And since I spotted affordable copies of both this one and the November 49 15 Western Tales on eBay with a quick search, I guess I'm going to start collecting JDM's westerns. Goodness knows it's a lot simpler goal than getting all his SF work...
To be fair, in several of those hero pulps the JDM story is actually longer than the Doc Savage or Shadow story!
Ed Gorman November 25, 2015 at 2:28 PM
I believe Marty Greenberg and I reprinted this back in the early 90s. (No way to check.) Anyway I remembering enjoying it quite a bit for what it was. As for coincidences in general...I see lauded tv crime shows now that pack in more coincidences than the "Seinfeld" show ever did. :)
Oops. I was referring to Corpse Rides. Sorry.
Steve Scott November 26, 2015 at 3:40 AM
Ed, I did some checking and the anthology was GREAT STORIES OF THE AMERICAN WEST, published in 1994. It does indeed contain "The Corpse Rides at Dawn," something I didn't know when I wrote that piece.
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Participants must be able to communicate their original ideas of food. We seek young chefs with the key attributes that include technical skills, creativity and personal belief, known as the Golden Rules. Find out all about the competition Rules in the document in link below.
S.Pellegrino Young Chef is a global talent platform that aims to bring out the best of young talents who have the potential to create positive change in society through food. Participants must be able to communicate their original ideas of food. We seek young chefs with the following three key attributes, also known as the Golden Rules:
- TECHNICAL SKILLS: Ability to select the finest ingredients in terms of quality, freshness and uniqueness, to obtain an excellent taste, combined with technical skills that bring out the flavours of the ingredients, while maintaining their original essence.
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With Super Bowl 50 kicking off Sunday, there is one team behind the scenes that plenty of mobile users in the stadium will be counting on — and it's not the Denver Broncos or Carolina Panthers.
With 80,000 fans using their phones to message, share content and more during the game, the Wi-Fi connectivity needs to be rock solid. The NFL will use analytics software from Extreme Networks to track the connection quality, bandwidth usage and the types of content being consumed or shared over the Wi-Fi network in Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
There is pressure to make sure everything runs smoothly, and it's not easy to prepare for, said Mike Leibovitz, a director in the office of the CTO at Extreme Networks, based in nearby San Jose.
"When you have a venue like that … you can't replicate it," Leibovitz said. "You have to be ready on game day, and you need to be able to react."
Extreme Networks doesn't provide the actual Wi-Fi signal, but it can address any connectivity problems with the Wi-Fi provider, which at this year's game is Aruba Networks.
The company also uses network usage data to measure fan involvement in certain situations. For example, during last year's Super Bowl, Wi-Fi traffic dropped dramatically in the fourth quarter as fans put down their phones to focus on the close game. Conversely, users were active on Wi-Fi constantly the prior year, when the game was a blowout, Leibovitz said.
Extreme Networks also shares information about the content attendees are sharing and consuming with the NFL in real time. If it's not related to the game, the league can push contests — such as a chance to meet players after the game or win free merchandise — to fans using the NFL Mobile app, to keep them involved.
Whenever a company has the ability to observe what users are doing on a network, it raises questions about privacy. Those concerns are unwarranted, Leibovitz said.
"We don't know who you are, but we can measure what is going on and the quality," he said.
For example, the company would know someone is watching Netflix in the stadium and how well the connection is working, but it would not know what show he or she is watching, who the person is or the person's exact location.
If connectivity issues arise, it's a challenge to identify the cause — whether it be the network infrastructure or a specific mobile app or platform, Leibovitz said. Twitter sees extremely high traffic during the Super Bowl, for example, so if it is running slowly in the stadium, it is important to determine whether Twitter itself is having difficulty handling the high volume overall, or if there is an issue with the stadium's network.


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Russia launches world's first coronavirus vaccine, Putin's daughter vaccinated
Vikas Shukla
Russia has officially registered the world's first coronavirus vaccine. Putin claims, saying his daughter has had it. More than a hundred companies and institutions have been scrambling for months to develop an effective COVID-19 vaccine. On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the country has registered "a vaccine against the new coronavirus." It lays the groundwork for mass inoculation.
Russia claims the crown of world's first coronavirus vaccine
So far, Russia has reported 900,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and 15,131 deaths. Putin told media that one of his two daughters has received the new coronavirus vaccine. She is feeling well, he added. The Russian President said in a live-streamed video conference, "I know that it works quite effectively, forms strong immunity, and I repeat, it has passed all the needed checks."
Vladimir Putin thanked the scientists and doctors involved in developing the vaccine. The Russian Defense Ministry and Gamaleya Research Institute jointly developed it. Putin expects mass production to start soon. He has also asked the government to ensure sufficient funding for the coronavirus and flu vaccination. Putin said about 60% of the country's population needs to be vaccinated against the flu.
Earlier, the Russian health ministry had said that it was preparing to start mass vaccination in October. People in the "risk groups" such as healthcare workers could be offered the vaccine in August itself. During clinical trials, the vaccine has shown immunity in all participants in two different groups of volunteers.
The Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has offered to take a shot of the Russian vaccine as a gesture of trust. Duterte said on Monday, "When the vaccine arrives, I will have myself injected in public. Experiment on me first, that's fine with me."
A rushed and half-baked vaccine to maintain national pride
In its quest for national pride, Russia has launched the vaccine even before it has completed the clinical trials. The vaccine is still in the final stages of clinical trials. Its registration is also conditional. The country has decided to continue clinical trials while preparing for production. A vaccine must be thoroughly tested for safety and efficacy before launch.
The US infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said he hoped the Russians have tested the vaccine before administering it to anyone. There are only 4-5 vaccine candidates currently in the Phase III clinical trials, though more than a hundred are in development. We will know more about the effectiveness of the Russian vaccine only after the trials. It could still take a few weeks or months.
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Vikas is Insider Paper's Editor/Writer. He has been covering the latest developments in Tech and Politics for about a decade. He loves trekking, playing chess, and reading. - Email: copywritershukla@gmail.com


Downing Street has "categorically" rejected a claim that Theresa May said she could not change her Chequers Brexit plan because it had already been cleared with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Mrs May has already suffered the departure of two Cabinet heavyweights - Boris Johnson and David Davis - over the Brexit blueprint thrashed out with her top ministers at Chequers last week.
The plan - set to be unveiled in a White Paper today - seeks to maintain close economic ties with the European Union in a bid to limit disruption to businesses and avoid a hard border. But it has triggered a furious reaction from Brexiteers who believe it cedes too much control to the European Union.
The Spectator's Charles Moore has claimed that Mrs May enraged Eurosceptics at the Chequers meeting by telling them that her proposal could not be modified because it had already won the backing of the German chancellor.
"No, that's not possible, because I've already cleared it with Mrs Merkel," she is reported to have said.
But a Downing Street source said: "The Charles Moore claim is categorically untrue."
Brexiteer Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg last night warned it was "not within the norms of the constitution to discuss British policy with other leaders before it's presented to the Cabinet".
He told Sky News: "I think they might have been taken to Brussels and to Berlin before they were presented at Chequers which is a serious question.
"And there's another question about how they were drawn up because they were drawn up in secret without telling the Secretary of State for leaving the European Union David Davis what was going on, whilst his department was working on a White Paper.
"I don't think it has been handled in a proper governmental system and in accordance with our constitutional norms."
Mr Rees-Mogg is among Conservative eurosceptics looking to derail Mrs May's Brexit plan with a string of amendments to the Trade Bill in the House of Commons next week.


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Darwen Micro brewery wins award
A Darwen microbrewery has scooped a top award for its stout. Smokey Joes Black Beer, produced by Hopstar Brewery, was voted the second best stout in Britain by CAMRA.
It is the brainchild of Barry Tyson who first set up the brewery in the garage of his home in Pole Lane in 2004. He handed the business over to daughter Natalie, 22, three years ago, but continues as head brewer now the company has moved to premises in Grimshaw Street.
Barry said: "What makes our beer good is the quality ingredients and the attention to detail.
"I can be sat in the pub having a pint and I'll ring Natalie to tell her to mix the ingredients slightly differently in the next batch.
"Our beers are craft-brewed by hand and that's the difference. When big companies do it in bulk, they start to miss things."
Barry worked for the Blackburn Beer Company and Rossendale Brewery before deciding to go it alone. He said: "It's been a lifelong hobby and passion that's turned into something much more.
"Winning this award goes to show that the little microbreweries can show the big boys how it's done."
The brewery produces 50 barrels of beer each week - 3,600 pints - from two fermenting tanks. Up to nine different beers are sold in pubs throughout East Lancashire, Manchester, Preston and Bolton each week, and it is also supplied to festivals throughout the country.
Smokey Joes has also scooped awards at the Cambridge Beer Festival, Salisbury Beer Festival, Edgworth Beer Festival and Leeds Beer Festival. It is made of three malts and four different types of hops, and is described as a black beer with a smokey flavour, with hints of chocolate and rum.
Jon Howard, CAMRA spokesperson, said: "Smokey Joes is a truly fantastic stout and rightly deserves its title as one of the best in Britain."


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require 'rails_helper'

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  it { should have_many(:guests) }
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end


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