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Sophineta is an extinct genus of basal lepidosauromorph reptile known from the Early Triassic (late Olenekian age) of Małopolska Province, southern Poland. It contains a single species, Sophineta cracoviensis.

Discovery
Sophineta was first described and named by Susan E. Evans and Magdalena Borsuk−Białynicka in 2009, and the type species is Sophineta cracoviensis. It is known from holotype ZPAL RV/175, a nearly complete right maxilla. Many isolated or associated skull and postcranial fragments are referred to the species, representing frontals, parietals, prefrontal, postfrontals, postorbitals, jugals, squamosals, pterygoids, quadrates, maxillae, premaxilla, dentaries, vertebrae and ilia.

Sophineta fossils were discovered in situ and collected in 1982 by a team (Paszkowski and Wieczorek) from the Institute of Geological Sciences of Jagiellonian University in Kraków. They were collected from the Czatkowice 1 locality, a single exposure near Kraków from which a diverse fauna of small vertebrates is known. It represents Triassic karst deposits which developed in Early Carboniferous (Tournaisian to Mid Visean) limestone which is now mined at the Czatkowice quarry. The locality dates to the earliest Late Olenekian stage of the Early Triassic period, about 247.3 million years ago. Sophineta is the smaller of the two lepidosauromorph reptiles known from the Czatkowice quarry, alongside the larger kuehneosaurid Pamelina. Czatkowice 1 material was transferred to and stored at the Museum of the Earth and Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Preliminary chemical preparation in acetic acid was initially performed, before effective preparation started in the 1990s until 2007.

Etymology
The generic name honors Professor Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska of the Instytut Paleobiologii PAN, and it is derived from Greek sophia, meaning "wisdom" which is the classical root of the name Zofia. The specific name is derived from Cracovia, the Latin name for Kraków, the closest major Polish city to the Czatkowice 1 locality (the type locality of Sophineta). It is also honors researchers at the University of Kraków for their work at the locality.

Description
Sophineta differs from all kuehneosaurs and Marmoretta in having short vertebrae bearing notochord pits while lacking transverse processes. It also has pleurodont teeth, rather than subthecodont teeth like in all kuehneosaurs. Other differences are the presence of paired rather than confluent nares, the presence of weakly developed zygosphenoidal articulations on the vertebrae, and compressed keeled tooth tips rather than simple cones. It differs from the Paliguana in having a deeper facial process on the maxilla and a much smaller lacrimal, and from Marmoretta in that the latter has a specialised maxillary/premaxillary overlap. Sophineta resembles lepidosaurs in having weak zygosphenes, short vertebrae and single−headed ribs throughout the column, but differs in having a shallower pleurodont tooth implantation and the apparent absence of both a thyroid fenestra and functional caudal autotomy. Sophineta had an unspecialised vertebral column but fairly derived skull structure, including the tall facial process of the maxilla, reduced lacrimal and pleurodonty. These traits also resemble those of early lepidosaurs more than stem−lepidosaurs. The skull of Sophineta reconstructed as a "modified diapsid skull" with a relatively short preorbital region. The orbits, narial openings and upper temporal fenestrae are large, and the lower temporal fenestrae are open ventrally. Based on the dimensions of the ZPAL RV/175 and skull proportions in Marmoretta, its total skull length is estimated to be about , with a body length (excluding the tail) of about .

Classification
Susan E. Evans and Magdalena Borsuk−Białynicka (2009) performed a phylogenetic analysis that recovered Sophineta as the sister group of Lepidosauria. The inclusion of Sophineta displaced the relictual Middle Jurassic Marmoretta and gave the origin of Lepidosauria a much older age. The cladogram below follows their results.

References

Early Triassic reptiles of Europe
Triassic lepidosauromorphs
Fossil taxa described in 2009
Taxa named by Susan E. Evans
Prehistoric reptile genera


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package org.apache.commons.exec.util;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.commons.exec.environment.EnvironmentUtils;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
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public class MapUtilTest {
    /**
     * Test copying of map
     */
    @Test
    public void testCopyMap() throws Exception {

        final HashMap<String, String> procEnvironment = new HashMap<>();
        procEnvironment.put("JAVA_HOME", "/usr/opt/java");

        final Map<String, String> result = MapUtils.copy(procEnvironment);
        assertTrue(result.size() == 1);
        assertTrue(procEnvironment.size() == 1);
        assertEquals("/usr/opt/java", result.get("JAVA_HOME"));

        result.remove("JAVA_HOME");
        assertTrue(result.isEmpty());
        assertTrue(procEnvironment.size() == 1);
    }

    /**
     * Test merging of maps
     */
    @Test
    public void testMergeMap() throws Exception {

        final Map<String, String> procEnvironment = EnvironmentUtils.getProcEnvironment();
        final HashMap<String, String> applicationEnvironment = new HashMap<>();

        applicationEnvironment.put("appMainClass", "foo.bar.Main");
        final Map<String, String> result = MapUtils.merge(procEnvironment, applicationEnvironment);
        assertTrue(procEnvironment.size() + applicationEnvironment.size() == result.size());
        assertEquals("foo.bar.Main", result.get("appMainClass"));
    }

    /**
     * Test prefixing of map
     */
    @Test
    public void testPrefixMap() throws Exception {

        final HashMap<String, String> procEnvironment = new HashMap<>();
        procEnvironment.put("JAVA_HOME", "/usr/opt/java");

        final Map<String, String> result =
          MapUtils.prefix(procEnvironment, "env");
        assertTrue(procEnvironment.size() == result.size());
        assertEquals("/usr/opt/java", result.get("env.JAVA_HOME"));
    }
}

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Martha Friedman, a Brooklyn-based artist originally from Detroit, is interested in locating the point at which common objects slip into abstraction and, in some instances, eroticism. In her series of cast rubber sculptures titled Rubbers—in her double-entendre style—she explores the nature of sculptural and bodily materiality through food as well as the rubber band. Here I've included only the rubber bands which are my favorites. From the colorful chromogenic prints of the oversized stationery supply, to her full room installations, these are just a lot of fun. Wouldn't it be great to have a pair of those interconnected rubber bands extended from floor to ceiling in your home?
You can see Martha Friedman's rubber tongues here, and some of here waffle sculptures here.
Photos: James Ewing; Andy Pixel; Purple Kiaris and Wallspace Gallery.
Simple and uninteresting I hope she didnt take too much grant money away from talented artists!
Sometimes the simplest ideas can be the most clever. It's all subjective and you are entitled to your opinion.


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Way back in 1914, an awful calamity happened that would ruin gardening in America forever. With the seemingly benevolent stroke of his pen, Woodrow Wilson foisted the Tyranny of Mother's Day upon us all. Soon after came the backhanded slap from the long arm of the law of unintended consequences.
To be clear, I'm actually fairly okay with honoring moms. I've got one, and my wife even became one too. Willingly. What I don't like, however, is that this holiday has established the second Sunday in May as the one and only epicenter of the entire Horticultural Universe. As if graven on stone tablets, it was apparently ordained that every homeowner in America must cram a year's worth of yard work, and do all their garden shopping, within two or three days of that holiest of holy days.
As you can imagine, because people inherently buy from garden centers things that are in flower, this has ensured that every last homeowner's yard explodes into bloom right on Mother's Day and sheepishly goes out of bloom a week later. Therefore, the rest of the growing season–from June to frost–the vast expanse of American suburbs is a sad, flowerless wasteland, bereft of color, wondering what life is about and why it always feels so empty inside.
Here is what this has cost us. The fun perennials, the really good stuff, all bloom later and, in fact, look absolutely fabulous on garden center shelves right this very minute when absolutely no one is there to see them. Hence, they're not bought, not in gardens, and not bringing boundless joy to people in their everyday lives.
Late summer and fall blooming perennials tend to be bigger, bolder, and way more impactful. They also usually bloom longer, and they do so with all the star spangled colors of a big refinery fire. They invariably maintain a great form all season–not going to seed and not going limp too early, and they also attract loads of pollinators, which bring their own spastic fun to the party.
So do this. Be a lunatic. A rebel. Be contrary. Log off your computer right now and go to your favorite garden center and buy a bunch of stuff. Your garden and your life will be improved. Your late season garden will look so amazing you'll want to show it to your mother. You might even invite her over. In September. Maybe October.
Yep, you are right. I'm a mom too, but my garden only does a dress rehearsal in the spring. The real performance takes place in the fall. There is no need to ask me to be a lunatic. I already am one. I have all sorts of plants coming in over the next couple of weeks– Agastache, Ceanothus x pallidus, Centaurea atropurpurea, Eucomis, Menthifolia. Penstemon, Phlomis tuberosa, fragrant olive, currents, a sumac, American wisteria, liatris, baptisia, mountain mint and some bulbs. I'm going to the Smith county Master Gardeners' fall bulb sale next month and possibly the Stephen F. Austin State University plant sale. Forget Mother's Day, I love autumn!!!!
Thanks Laura and Marcia for your nice comments and dedication to dressing up the garden in the forgotten months!
Sorta but not off-topic: Think what M's Day did to lunch at a restaurant business.
As for the topic: Here in N. Florida, southern Georgia, spring is gorgeous so is fall. There's stuff to change but we have another couple of months to watch our gardens if not grow, prosper.
Don't hate me because my garden is going to stay beautiful.
Such an important lesson. I feel lucky to have learned it at exactly the right moment: Just as I was beginning to take over my late father's garden — dominated by daffodils, peonies, and daylilies — I read Allen Lacy's The Garden in Autumn (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990).
It's a book I strongly recommend to anyone wanting to follow through on Scott's point, with great writing and tons of plant information.
I second this book recommendation! I found it inspiring and informative. It's how I learned about Louise Beebe Wilder, and her garden writing from the early 20th Century. I wish I could have met both of them to say "thank you".
I will have to check out that book. Thanks for the recommendation!
Well, yes, you might be correct in some circles, but not in my neck of the woods or at least among the gardening friends I have. We all have perennials that bloom throughout each season. Right now, my asters, tickseed, agastache and false sunflower are going crazy. The gaillardia is still going strong, too. Neighbors inspire neighbors when it comes to gardening.
Good for you! It's a wonderful time of year when you plant the right stuff. And, yes, good horticulture is contagious!
Unfortunately for me, those same perennials are the only late bloomers my local nurseries seem to carry. Yes, I love all of those species, but I'd like a few more options. It stinks to visit my favorite nursery (a 40 min drive away) and find myself walking away with only one plant because there are so few interesting options that I don't already have.
Where I live, Mother's Day marks the day to plant the vegetable garden and annuals. Having a mother (1) who lives 3,000 miles away, and (2) is/was a gardener herself, I am able to devote the day to my garden with my mother's blessing. I may send her cut flowers from a florist.


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Status and Habitat of Alabama Gulf Coast Beach Mice Peromyscus polionotus ammobates and P. p. trissyllepsis
Dan C. Holliman, Birmingham-Southern College
The present study documents the distribution of the gulf coast beach mice (Peromyscus polionotus ammobates and P.p. trissyllepsis) in Alabama and assesses their status. Since 1921, approximately 62% of beach mouse habitat in Alabama has been lost. Populations of P. p. ammobates are concentrated on small tracts of habitat from the Fort Morgan peninsula to Romar Beach. P. p. trissyllepsis was found only at one site at Florida Point on Perdido Key. Live trapping for 1,566 trapnights yielded 157 beach mice. Area extrapolations were used to determine the density of P. p. ammobates. Approximately 875 P. p. ammobates were estimated to live on 134.6 ha (6.5 mice/ha). Only one P. p. trissyllepsis was trapped from 25.2 ha. The vegetation of the habitat is described. Factors responsible for the disappearance of beach mice in Alabama are discussed.
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.18785/negs.0602.05
Holliman, D. C. 1983. Status and Habitat of Alabama Gulf Coast Beach Mice Peromyscus polionotus ammobates and P. p. trissyllepsis. Northeast Gulf Science 6 (2).
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So this is not the best before picture of the space but it was the best one I could find. See the big open abyss with the TV in it behind a not so happy Peyton.
This is what it looks like now!! Yeah. My brother hooked us up with Duane Alder who built us this beautiful built in entertainment center. He is now working on some cabinets for the other side of my fridge they will be installed next Saturday.
The photography is kind of lousy but the thing is gigantic and to get a great shot of the whole thing I would need to stand in the back yard hehe!
After three years I think this statement is very true. Our friend and neighbor Jeff did the vinyl lettering for us. The house is really starting to come together. I am not very good at home decor so just these few simple additions are really a BIG step for me. We LOVE it!!
That looks amazing, I love it! That is such a great vinyl sign too. It reminds me of what my dad used to say every time he came home. I think I may need to copy it if you don't mind.


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(Gasp!) What a profound admission! Let me read that to you again: 'The political brain is an emotional brain. It prefers conclusions that are emotionally satisfying rather than conclusions that match the data.' In other words, lie! If the data is not on your side, lie about it and make people feel good about your lie. That's how I interpret this. None of this is new. This is what the Democrats instinctively do. The fact that they think they have some psychologist come in and teach them how to do it is hilarious. This is in their DNA, and I'll tell you what else it does here, folks. This points out why they are so determined to silence people like me on talk radio. They can't as easily get away with all this emotional garbage when people like me are out there providing the facts in an optimistic and entertaining. Well, I'm not optimistic today because I'm highly irritable and in a foul mood, but most of the time I'm optimistic and of good cheer, and I present facts in that atmosphere. So for their plan to work, fact purveyors have to be 'dealt with.' The man running America is a problem and they've gotta deal with that problem. Facts, by this guy's own admission, get in the way of the Democrats' mission.
A couple days ago we had that article on female guilt, the Melinda Henneberger story about all these women out there that don't really like Hillary and it's tearing them up. They just feel guilty about it, and so dubbed a new term, White Gal Guilt. In that whole story there was not one mention I can recall on her policies or any disagreement on that. It was all emotional. All of the talk, all of the comments that Melinda Henneberger quoted dealt with emotion. In Hillary's candidacy, nobody's dealing with facts and figures and all these issues. It's total emotion. The inevitability. 'She is owed this. Look at what she did! She saved the Democrat Party. She saved the country by not leaving her husband. She gave up a promising career as a feminist, or whatever, and had to trudge on down to the sticks in Arkansas to mop up this guy's message for all these years.' That's the stuff that's driving her candidacy. If you look at her issues and things that she's botched, politically and lawsuits and this sort of thing, there's nothing to recommend her candidacy — but emotion? So basically let me summarize this.
What Drew Westen is telling Democrats (and what they already think anyway because they do this; they really don't need to be taught this) is they're basically saying that their potential voters are idiots, derelicts, stupid poltroons. If it's that easy to ignore facts and cover up facts with the right kind of satisfying emotion, then you've gotta be dealing with lunatics. You have to be dealing with idiots. Their voters are stupid, and they need to appeal to voter emotions because it doesn't make sense to argue an issue using facts and figures. It actually says this later on in this article. 'It doesn't make sense to argue an issue using facts and figures and to count on voters to make choices based on sophisticated understandings of policy differences or procedures.' Oh, really? Tell that to Ronald Reagan. Anyway, avoid the facts; just go right for the heart and lie. Don't bore your constituents with facts. Just tell 'em whatever makes 'em comfortable, warm, happy, and fuzzy. Tell 'em that the people that own Ferraris ignorant be owning them for very long, and the people that have yachts are not going to have them very long and make them feel good. Play into their resentments; play up class envy, and we'll take care of you. Don't worry your pretty little empty heads. The Democrat Party will take care of you, and that's their message. As I say, I'm struck by the fact they need somebody to come in and teach 'em.
RUSH: One of the newspapers today, it's either the Los Angeles Times or maybe the Washington Post, said that this interim report, the Petraeus report, the pre-Petraeus report on September 15th, the interim report shows that Iraqi troop numbers and deployment have reached their benchmarks. I don't want to be confusing about this. It's the political dimension that isn't there, and some are saying, 'Well, yeah, Bush set those benchmarks so high, they were impossible to meet. Maliki, nobody could have hit them,' and that's going to be the excuse for getting out. That's Democrats floating that around, hoping that that is a rumor that takes hold and will be used to force Bush into some sort of withdrawal policy because they don't have the votes to force it in either the Senate or the House. Now, remember, the Democrats were all over. They were just as critical as they could be of the fact that the Iraqis were not stepping up. The military of the Iraqis, the training wasn't going well, remember all that?
Why, Kerry was talking about it in the '04 race (summarized): 'The training is not going fast enough. We need Iraqis defending their own country. Iraqis are going to be dying for their own country. Why is it only US treasures going to help, our precious treasure, and all that.' Well, the Iraqis have ramped up, and despite all these claims that the Iraqis can't do it, they're not going to do it, now they are that charge and focus not going to be availability to them anymore because the Iraqis are out there dying for their country. They are in the field. Democrats said it doesn't happen. Democrats said it wasn't going to happen. Democrats said it was happening too slowly. Now they're out there saying, 'These benchmarks, why, none of them have been met, the political, the governmental benchmarks. Oh, they're horrible. These Iraqis, they're not worth it.' It's the same refrain that they've been saying for four years. You know, the Give Up Caucus, the White Flag Caucus: Democrats in both the House and the Senate.
RUSH: Jim in Chesapeake, Virginia, I'm glad you waited, sir.
CALLER: Rush, thank you for taking my call, and it's an extreme pleasure to talk with you. This problem with the Democrats and basically the Congress' failure to see what's happened before in the Iraqi theater and just Middle East in general, is killing me. I don't want to have the support to pull out and have the people pay the ultimate sacrifice again to take the same ground just to protect our country and our children.
RUSH: What do you mean, by going back?
CALLER: Oh, we can go back all the way to when we sent the message to Libya, to the Iran hostage debacle, to the USS Samuel B. Roberts, the Stark, all the incidents in the area, the Beirut bombing of the Marine barracks, and even of the current areas. It it's amazing how the only thing we hear about is it is unfortunate and sad loss of life for this particular encounter in Iraq over the past couple years, but they neglect to consider what happened in Desert Shield, Desert Storm and before and after. I never heard them cry about the loss of life.
RUSH: What you're saying is a good point. That this is a problem, and at some point it's be going to be dealt with. If we quit now we're just going to have to deal with it in some other form, maybe some other place, in a bigger theater, who knows what? That's an excellent point.
CALLER: Rush, it's not just a bigger theater.
RUSH: We cannot hide and we cannot pretend it doesn't exist, and we can't leave these people alone and expect them to leave us alone. They're fanning out all over the Western world via immigration and other things, and getting into these Western societies that they so despise.
RUSH: No, I understand what you're saying. You're right, too.
CALLER: — we're going to be paying the price on our shores. We're going to be fighting them here again.
RUSH: It's amazing that doesn't move people. They can't fathom that. They can't fathom what they see on television and Gaza or in Baghdad happening in Manhattan.
CALLER: No, Rush, they view them as you would your neighbor, and they are raised differently. The lifestyle, the level of education, the value system is different than ours, and we can't impose our value system on them. That's something they're going to have to acquire and learn and strive for and sacrifice for by having their people take and secure their cities.
What's the word? You can ignore it. If you're in this country and you don't want to get all caught up in the horrors and the hellholes around the world and pay attention, you don't have to, because it isn't happening here. People don't stop to think why, or who's doing what's right. But what if it did break out here, and when will that happen? Are we prepared to deal with it? We're not if our solution to all this is just, 'Well, you know, it's just those people over there, different values than us, and leave 'em alone, and they won't bother us. Once they find out we don't mean them any harm…' That's not how it works, but too many Americans still have that freedom, that luxury. That's the word I'm looking for: luxury. They have the luxury to put their head in the sand and pretend that there's really no imminent threat to us, and that's not the case. You couple that with the distorted propaganda from the Drive-By Media, the Democrat Party about how none of this was even necessary. 'Bush lied! There was no reason to go over there. Iraq had nothing to do with it,' blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So people in this country have ample opportunity to ignore it if they want to. That's where leadership comes in and we're getting none of it from several Republican senators, and zilch from the Democrat Party as a whole.


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Charles Kelley continues to share the songs off of his solo album, The Driver, in advance of its release. The singer-songwriter has released a video of himself and his band performing "Southern Accents" on the top of the Capitol Records tower in Los Angeles, Calif.
"Southern Accents" is a cover of the title track of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' 1985 album, but it's not new to Kelley: The Lady Antebellum member performed the tune with Trisha Yearwood back in 2013 at Petty Fest in Nashville.
"I'd always loved that song, and I always thought it would make a good country song, but I never thought about it necessarily as something Lady Antebellum would do," Kelley tells Rolling Stone Country. However, the tune fits his solo project perfectly.
On The Driver, Kelley is accompanied on "Southern Accents" by none other than Stevie Nicks, whom Kelley calls "the biggest Tom Petty fan."
"[Producer] Paul [Worley] kind of goes through the channels, and somehow it comes back that she wants to sing on it," Kelley recalls, "so I was like, 'Of course. It's Stevie Nicks. Yes. She's going to sing on it.'"
The Driver is set for release on Feb. 5. It is available for pre-order via iTunes. A list of all of Kelley's upcoming dates is available on his website.


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Use of 'shadow IT' solutions in data sharing can be avoided
By Jonathan Yaron CEO, Accellion
In an effort to make products better, faster and stronger, the manufacturing process has grown significantly more complex in recent years. Technology and automation play much larger roles. The supply chain is longer and more diverse. Measuring processes with an eye on improving performance, finding efficiencies and increasing the bottom line has become all consuming.
Consider the fact that one Boeing 737 engine generates 10 terabytes (TB) of data every 30 minutes in flight. With two engines on a 737, an eight-hour transatlantic flight produces 320 TB of data. By comparison, today's autonomous cars generate 2.5 TB every hour or 4 TB in a typical 1.5-hour round trip commute.
What are manufacturers doing with all this data? In short, incredible things that revolutionize manufacturing.
A Siemens manufactured locomotive contains no less than 900 sensors and uses the data those sensors generate to understand why equipment on the locomotive fails. With the knowledge gained from that data, Siemens can take steps to prevent the failures from occurring in the future. This doesn't just help Siemens make better locomotives in the future. It's helping their customers correct problems before they've occurred. By sharing this data with Amtrak, one of their customers, the transit company was able to reduce the number of delays by 33% last year from 2015.
In addition to Industrial IoT, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive analytics are all proliferating in the manufacturing process and creating lots of data. In order to learn from and monetize this data, it must be parsed, analyzed and measured. Inevitably, this means sharing it and collaborating on it. Who would benefit from Siemen's locomotive data? At Siemens, that could include product managers, assembly line workers and executives. At Amtrak, that could include engineers and technicians. Third parties could include authorized mechanics, design and efficiency consultants, other manufacturers who build parts for the locomotives, regulators with the DOT and/or EPA and likely others.
How do you safely and securely share and distribute all of this data?
While manufacturers can, and have, deployed many different security solutions and capabilities, such as antivirus, data-loss protection, identity management, multi-factor authentication and encryption, to prevent a data breach, sharing information with authorized external users becomes so cumbersome that users turn to consumer-oriented "shadow IT" solutions like Dropbox and thumb drives that are more functional but less secure and not approved by IT.
Increasingly, manufacturers are deploying content-collaboration solutions to ensure their sensitive manufacturing data and other proprietary content is shared securely and efficiently with internal employees as well as external partners. The better solutions can accommodate a customer's network architecture, whether it includes on-prem systems or private/hybrid/public cloud configurations and provide the customer with total flexibility and scalability to meet evolving needs.
A content-collaboration solution should provide a comprehensive set of security protections. Content encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access, file/folder locking and expiration, integration with existing antivirus and data loss prevention solutions, and watermarking are a few examples of security features that can mitigate the risk of data loss.
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First, the British parliament rejects David Cameron's demand for an immediate military strike on Syria. Then, Barack Obama, seemingly all set to bomb Syria, decides to postpone any action until it wins backing from Congress (which is by no means a foregone conclusion). The extraordinary flip-flops and u-turns over policy towards Syria on both sides of the Atlantic last week might seem to express the triumph of the democratic process over hasty belligerence. They speak also, however, to the confusion and lack of coherent thought that lie at the heart of much contemporary Western foreign policy.
Any discussion about military intervention in Syria takes place, of course, in the shadow of the war in Iraq. The dubious intelligence and discredited justifications that preceded that invasion still haunt political debate. So does the chaos and sectarian conflict that followed. The Iraq war helped further erode trust in politicians and made the public more skeptical about 'humanitarian intervention'. It also made politicians less willing to stick their necks out and take a stand.
The problem goes, however, much deeper than merely the aftershocks of Iraq. There is a growing gap between morality and reality that shapes much of contemporary policy making, and distorts both moral thinking and policy decisions. Nowhere, perhaps, is this clearer than in discussions about war. The case for military intervention in Syria is rooted largely in moral outrage at Bashar al-Assad's 'crossing of the red line' in using chemical weapons. The outrage is understandable, indeed necessary, as is the desire to 'do something'. What the narrative for intervention excludes, however, is the complexity of the Syrian conflict.
The current conflict began in March 2011 as a popular revolt against the Assad regime and its brutal police state. The uprising swiftly became enmeshed in a web of conflicts, both internal and external to Syria. The Assad regime has managed to present the struggle for freedom as a sectarian clash between the Sunni Arab majority and minority groups such as the ruling Alawite sect, Christians and Druze. The success of the regime's propaganda has turned the myth into something of a reality, so that the battle for a new, democratic Syria has descended into something more sectarian.
The intervention of foreign powers has exacerbated such sectarianism as different opposition groups have become proxies in a wider set of conflicts. The most important of these is the struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran that has shaped much of Muslim politics since the Iranian revolution of 1979. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states have thrown weapons and money at the opposition. Iran, knowing that the overthrow of Assad would weaken its own position, has fought to preserve the regime. Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia, has sent fighters to shore up Assad's cause. With Saudi Arabia broadly Sunni and Iran mainly Shia, the political struggle between the two nations has become mapped onto the Sunni-Shia religious conflict. Nevertheless it is not religion but realpolitik that is helping to forge alliances. That is why theocratic Iran is lining up with secular Assad against Wahhabist Saudi Arabia. Russia, meanwhile, is using its support for the Assad regime, and opposition to American policy, as a means of reasserting its status as a Great Power.
Intervention by Western nations, too, has helped shape the civil war. Throughout the so-called Arab Spring, Western, and especially American, policy towards democracy movements has been dictated primarily by two requirements: the desire for political stability and the need to keep Iran in check. The importance of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, both in containing Iran and in helping prosecute the war on terror, has led America to be at best ambivalent towards democracy movements in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, tolerating the authorities' brutal crackdown on protestors in both countries. In Egypt, America has supported the democracy movement, but only in the context of maintaining stability. It backed the previous dictator Hosni Mubarak, whom it had funded for 30 years, until it was clear that he could no longer cling to power, tried to replace him with the CIA's bagman in Cairo, Omar Suleiman, and refused to call the coup against President Mohammad Morsi a coup, so that it could legally continue funding the Egyptian military.
There is a long history of US involvement in Syria. In the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA was drawn to the Ba'ath Party in both Iraq and Syria because of the Ba'athists' visceral opposition to communism. In February 1963, the CIA funded a coup that brought Iraqi Ba'athists to power. One of the CIA assets was a lowly member of the conspiracy – Saddam Hussein. The following month, Syrian Ba'athists mounted their own coup, led by, among others, Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad's father.
The Ba'ath Party, and the Assad clique, have long since transformed from an asset to a liability. Unlike in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain or Egypt, America has shown no ambivalence in its desire to oust the regime. It helped set up and support, financially and logistically, the Free Syrian Army, and gave formal recognition to the Syrian National Council as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people. The aim was to bolster the anti-Assad movement, while keeping the more radical jihadis in check. The consequence has been further to distort the movement for democracy, turning more opposition groups into client organizations of foreign powers to whom they are beholden for finance, resources and armaments.
While Western powers have played their role in creating the complex web of conflicts that now defines the civil war in Syria, in making a case for military intervention, they have ignored that complexity, turning the argument for military intervention into a simple morality tale. There are, of course, moral issues at the heart of the Syrian conflict. But those issues can only be negotiated within the geopolitical realities of the war.
We should, for a start, be somewhat skeptical of the moral anger now emanating from Whitehall, the White House and the Élysée Palace. Chemical weapons are obnoxious. But Western leaders are happy to see them used where it suits their needs. Recently declassified CIA documents have revealed, for instance, that America helped Saddam Hussein use sarin gas and other neurotoxins against Iranian forces in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s because, in the words of the President Ronald Regan 'An Iranian victory is unacceptable'. In their assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja in November 2004, America forces used white phosphorus shells – not technically a chemical weapon, but a horrific armament nevertheless; white phosphorous ignites on contact with oxygen, melts the skin and burns through to the bone. White phosphorus shells were also used by Israeli forces in Gaza in their 2008 war. Britain was selling to Syria the materials necessary to make chemical weapons until January 2012 – ten months into the uprising against Assad.
None of this, in itself, is necessarily an argument against intervention. All of it should, however, make us question the motives of many of those now calling for military strikes.
If the moral stance of those demanding intervention is questionable, the consequences of such intervention are even more so. What has been striking in the debate so far is the lack of strategic thought from those pushing for war. What are the specific aims? What would constitute success? Is there a vision of the endgame? There are few answers to such questions. There is, observes Michael Clarke, director general of the Royal United Services Institute, a 'strategic wooliness' at the heart of Western plans. 'You can't sort out a military plan unless you know what the political objectives are', observes General Sir Mike Jackson, former head of the British army. And those objectives were patently missing in current plans. Similarly, General Jonathan Shaw, a former director of UK special forces who served in Kosovo and Iraq, asks, 'What is the political objective that military action is meant to be enabling?' and points to 'A lack of clarity about the political objectives'.
Speaking before Parliament voted against intervention, David Cameron insisted that any military strike would not be 'about getting involved in a Middle Eastern war' or about 'going further into' the Syrian conflict, but 'about specifically deterring the use of chemical weapons.' It is difficult to know, though, how a military strike could specifically degrade Assad's capacity to use chemical weapons without 'getting involved in a Middle Eastern war'. Richard Guthrie, a chemical weapons specialist formerly with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in Sweden, points out that bombing chemical weapons stockpiles, as America has done in the past, is likely to release deadly toxins and hence increase the death toll.
The kind of 'limited' intervention currently being considered is likely to cause considerable destruction, may even cause more chemical deaths, but is unlikely either to prevent further chemical attacks, or to force Assad to surrender. Nor will it break the current stalemate in the civil war in which neither side can make a decisive move. That stalemate is the product not simply of a military impasse, but of a political one, too. The Assad regime is certainly propped up by outside forces, from Russia to Hezbollah. But it retains also a degree of popular support. It does so partly for sectarian reasons – Assad's base lies in his own Alawite sect – but because of the political failures of the opposition, too. The rebels, politically incoherent and factionally divided as they are, have failed to win over significant sections of the population. What unity there is has been largely stitched together through foreign sponsors. This has done little to win over doubters. Any military intervention would make it harder to do so, making those who already support for the regime do so even more and hence entrenching the divisions.
What becomes clear in all this is the gap that has now opened up between morality and reality, between the moral case for intervention and the reality of the civil war. In part this is because the moral arguments for intervention seem, all too often, shaped less by the consequences that such intervention may have for the people of Syria than by the desire 'to do something'. That desire is understandable. 'For those of us who are not religious', observes Phillip Collins, former speechwriter to Tony Blair, 'the suffering of other human beings is the deepest mark of our common human heritage. So it is important to add weight to our moral impulse rather than to dismiss it as naive and foolish.' That is true. It would be shocking indeed if we did not feel revulsion at the brutality of the Assad regime. The desire to do something is certainly better than a shrug of the shoulders, the insistence that nothing can be done. Ideals are essential in politics. Yet that desire is also one of which we should be wary. Our moral compass should be set by the needs not of our own moral consciences but of the people of Syria.
This does not mean that nothing immediately can be done. An editorial in the New Scientist last week observed that a far better response to chemical attacks than dropping bombs would be to deliver the necessary antidotes, which are virtually non-existent in Syria. At a time when European nations have cynically created new legal barriers for the entry of Syrian refugees, and are even arresting them – acts that once again call into question the humanitarian impulse of Western leaders – we should demand the opening up of borders. This will not prevent brutality in Syria, but it would be a response that addressed practical needs and improved lives. In humanitarian, as well as in medical, interventions, the first rule must always be 'First do no harm'. Otherwise, the moral arguments descend into something far darker.
This is a quibble – but I think there needs to be a degree of scepticism about the Daily Record article which claims the UK supplied the ingredients for chemical weapons.
I don't doubt that the UK sold Syria NaF and KF, but I am not sure they qualify as smoking guns in the production of chemical weapons. For starters, they are quite simple compounds that have a wide variety of uses – fluoridation of toothpaste, for example, so their purchase could be entirely innocent. I am not a nerve agent expert, but looking at the structures of them, it is clear that the real killer is the phosphate mimic section, rather than the fluorine itself (the V series of agents replace the F in Sarin with alkylsulfur), so it's unlikely that lack of these NaF/KF would have prevented the production of nerve gases had they had the rest of the precursors. Indeed, it's not listed under the chemical weapons convention as a precursor. It is possible that those shipments were used in the manufacture of chemical weapons, but I am not convinced that preventing these shipments would have prevented or severely hindered the horrific attacks that have occurred.
This is very interesting – but there seems quite a gap between condoning/enabling the use of chemical weapons against enemy combatants on the battlefield and there use against civilians, or in a context in which civilians likely to be affected in large numbers.
Sarah, I am assuming that this is a reference to the American support for Saddam in the 1980s. It is true that there is a moral distinction between the killing of civilians and that of combatants. However, the moral arguments currently being made are that 1. Chemical weapons by their very nature are immoral munitions (though I cannot see the fundamental moral difference between mass killing of civilians using cluster bombs or napalm or white phosphorous and mass killing of civilians using sarin); and 2. Chemical weapons are banned by international treaty. If those claims apply, they apply to the use of such weapons against both civilians and combatants, and if they apply now, they applied in the 1980s. There is nothing excusable about America's stance towards Saddam.
You're absolutely right that the Reagan administration's active co-operation with Saddam in sharing intelligence for operations where they knew he was almost certain to use chemical weapons made them complicit in a war crime.
The white phosphorus case is very different, as the BBC article you link to makes clear.
this proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arab, it is my prediction it will be more danger in Muslim countries a future.


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Recently, Netflix has released a flurry of feel-good rom-coms that have captivated their audience. Based upon the book by Jenny Han and directed by Susan Johnson, To All the Boys I Loved Before has especially thrilled viewers with its unique plotline and memorable, lovable characters. However, it isn't just a cute movie; it also addresses and even breaks tropes associated with the rom-com genre. Here are three reasons why To All the Boys I Loved Before is refreshing and revitalizing the rom-com genre.
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Romance Is Depicted as Complex, Just Like in Real Life
Nothing about Lara Jean Covey's (Lana Condor) crushes are even remotely easy. Out of the five boys she sends love letters, two of them become the frontrunners to her heart. One is her ex-best friend's boyfriend and the most popular boy in school, Peter Kavinsky (Noah Centineo) and the other is her childhood best friend Josh Sanderson (Israel Broussard) and older sister's ex-boyfriend. In a lot of rom-coms, these two boys would be competing for Lara Jean's and reduced to the typical stereotypes of hopelessly enamored best friend and disrespectful popular guy with a heart of gold. Nevertheless, To All The Boys I Loved Before breaks down these stereotypes into nuanced versions: Peter always defends Lara Jean against her bullies and treats her with the utmost respect while Josh actively tries to talk to her about her feelings as well as his own. Lara Jean has her share of complexity, as she tries to deal with her feelings for her sister's boyfriend while developing feelings for a (seemingly) fake boyfriend. Throwing in a meddling little sister, an mean-girl ex-best friend with a shockingly developed back story, and a host of quirky minor characters, To All the Boys I've Loved Before shows life and love in its most realistic, natural, and messy form.
The Main Relationship Is Natural
One of the things that people like to point out is that rom-com couples usually don't know each other for very long before they inevitably fall in love. It's hard to suspend disbelief and also root for the couple if they've only been together for a couple of days. However, we know from the get-go that Lara Jean knew all of the boys she wrote letters to well, especially Peter and Josh. Throughout Peter and Lara Jean's fake relationship, we see a motif of months passing on a poster, denoting even more time that the two had for developing their feelings for each other. It makes rooting for them a lot more believable than most other rom-com couples who fall in love over the course of a couple of days.
Laura Jean with her sisters Kitty (Anna Cathcart) and Margot (Janel Parrish).
The Relationships Between Characters Are Actually Healthy
Usually, rom-coms are filled to the brim with jealous exes, friends, and family members who try to sabotage the couple or others. Even the couple itself are prone to wittily insulting each other before inevitably falling in love. This definitely isn't the case with this movie. To start, Laura Jean never makes a move on Josh, even after her sister breaks up with him. The Covey sisters are always supportive of each other, and their dad is lovable if a bit misguided at times. The boys in Laura Jean's life only care about her best interest, even if it means putting themselves on the line to help her whenever she needs it. Even her relationship with her ex-best friend, Gen (Emilija Baranac), is not simply seen as a double-sided hatred. We realize that Gen has always held a grudge against Laura Jean for kissing Peter back in middle school when she liked him. As silly as this seems, this kind of nuance only broadens our understanding of the characters and shows as many dimensions to their personalities as possible.
In all, To All the Boys I Loved Before isn't just a great rom-com; it shows how good teen movies can be when the right people are behind and in front of the scenes.
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As a golf fan I traditionally just roll my eyes when PGA Tour players whine and complain about course conditions being too tough, but if I were in charge of the Arnold Palmer Invitational I certainly would listen.
Make no mistake about it, the players are the show, and if the Arnie wants to continue to attract as many of the world's top players as possible, then tournament organizers should heed their concerns.
Some players complained about the course setup at Bay Hill last weekend and then warned that such "unfair" conditions might make golfers want to skip the Arnie in the future.
"There's a realization here that this golf course is not loved by every player, and they maybe need to change the setup a little bit just to try to appeal to everyone," said Graeme McDowell, who won the 2010 U.S. Open.
Said Rory McIlroy after he shot back-to-back 76s on Saturday and Sunday: "I feel punch-drunk. The weekend, it's like crazy golf. You just don't get rewarded for good shots. ... I don't mind golf courses being penal when you miss, but it's not rewarding good shots. That's where it starts to get across the line. They need to do something about it. There's a lot of guys that sort of stay away this week to get ready for next week."
McIlroy's point is well-taken. Even though the Arnie is considered one the premier regular stops on the Tour, it's not nearly as prestigious as this week's Players Championship with its $20 million purse and $3.6 million winner's check. McIlroy says players don't want to be bludgeoned by an unforgiving golf course and have their spirit broken a week prior to the Players.
"It can knock your confidence whenever the conditions are like this," he said. "I'm certainly playing better than shooting 8-over for the weekend. It's just a matter of trying to regroup and forget about this week."
It should be pointed out that these aren't just any golfers questioning the course setup; these are actually ardent supporters of the Arnie. McDowell is a longtime Lake Nona resident and has played the tournament for 14 straight years. McIlroy might be the most respected player in the game and has put the Arnie on his schedule for the last seven years.
In fairness, as tournament director Joie Chitwood pointed out to me during the final round on Sunday: ""For some reason, the wind has blown more on Saturday and Sunday over the last couple of years than it has in the past, and we can't plan for that."
It should also be pointed out that not all players were complaining about the trying conditions that included sunbaked pool-table-like greens and gnarly rough thicker than a bowl of oatmeal. Jon Rahm, the No. 1-ranked player in the world, said he actually loved playing the Arnie for the first time.
"I enjoyed the golf course," Rahm said. "I'd rather play Bay Hill every single week than a golf course that challenges you in no other way other than putting. We're trying to be the best players in the world and we're playing at Arnold Palmer's place. It's Arnold Palmer's legacy. I think he would like us to suffer a little bit."
True enough.
Arnie always wanted Bay Hill to be firm, fast, formidable — but fair.
The question tournament organizers need to answer is this:
Was it indeed fair? ...
Short stuff: Did you see where former Florida Gators defensive coordinator Todd Grantham is now an "analyst" for Alabama coach Nick Saban's home for wayward football coaches? Saban is a miracle worker, but is he good enough to turn Grantham back into a defensive genius after his final two years at UF in which his defense was the worst we've seen since the NBA All-Star Game? … Why did the Green Bay Packers reportedly give Aaron Rodgers a 4-year, $250 million contract — the biggest deal in NFL history? Because they realized they will become irrelevant without Rodgers. Let's be honest, shall we? The Packers have been extremely lucky to have had two consecutive Hall of Fame quarterbacks (Rodgers and Brett Favre) that have kept them viable for the last 30 years. Without those quarterbacks, Green Bay becomes nothing more than a tiny-market icy-cold city that can't attract quality free agents. In other words, the Packers would be the Jaguars with worse weather and more history. ...
Speaking of Rodgers, he apparently just came off a 12-day "Panchakarma" body cleanse that included forced diarrhea and therapeutic vomiting. I'm thinking Orlando City coach Oscar Pareja needed a similar purging after getting shafted once again by MLS officials last weekend. ... A standing ovation, please, for UCF professor and lifetime human rights activist Richard Lapchick, who was named the Orlando Sentinel's Central Floridian of the Year on Wednesday. Lapchick has a lot of titles, but I've always preferred calling him "the social conscience of sports." Robin Roberts, the anchor of ABC's Good Morning America, said it best a few years ago during a segment ESPN did on Lapchick: "I automatically smile when I think of Richard. I smile and also a tear comes to my eye. Thank you; thank you, Richard Lapchick. Thank you for being you. Thank you for wanting this world to be a better place." ...
The BCS (Bianchi Charting System) Bracketology Update: Miami is dancing no matter what happens in the ACC tournament, Florida State is out after getting blasted by Syracuse Wednesday, Florida needs at least two wins in the SEC tournament and UCF needs to win the AAC tournament. … For his next incredible feat, Kenny Pickett will attempt to palm a Ping-Pong ball. … UCF is among the many schools nationwide now selling beer at its athletic events and now Nebraska is surveying fans about the possibility of opening up a sportsbook in its stadium. Ah, nothing says college football like alcohol and gambling. ... And speaking of possibly opening a sportsbook in Nebraska's Memorial Stadium, one of my peeps just texted me: "First betting line at Nebraska's Memorial Stadium: Over/under for games Scott Frost coaches in 2022 before he's fired." …
And while we're on the subject of sports gambling, the NFL announced earlier this week that it was suspending Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Calvin Ridley for all of next season after he bet on NFL games while sitting out last season. Considering how the hypocritical NFL is in bed with sports-betting companies, I'm just shocked the league didn't break the news about Ridley's suspension and then say, "This announcement has been brought to you by DraftKings and FanDuel." … From Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: "New Zealand's Meikayla Moore got a reverse hat trick of sorts — three own goals — in a 5-0 loss to the United States. If nothing else, she's a shoo-in to win this year's Plaxico Burress Award." … Remember when the Miami Heat and the Orlando Magic were rivals? Sigh. …
I'm not saying gasoline prices are getting out of hand, but how long until Texas A&M boosters start promising recruits free gas instead of free cars? … What did the Denver Broncos give up for Russell Wilson? As far as I can tell, they gave up three players, two first-round picks, two second-round picks, a fifth-round pick, one copy of John Denver's Rocky Mountain High, two copies of Joe Walsh's Rocky Mountain Way and lifetime ski-lift passes to Steamboat Springs. …
Last word: Hard to believe Russia is detaining WNBA star Brittney Griner for allegedly being in possession of a little cannabis oil when the entire Russian Olympic team is more drugged up than the Grateful Dead at Woodstock.
Email me at mbianchi@orlandosentinel.com. Hit me up on Twitter @BianchiWrites and listen to my Open Mike radio show every weekday from 6 to 9:30 a.m. on FM 96.9, AM 740 and HD 101.1-2


My little blog turned five last month.
The Teenager had just celebrated his 13th birthday, I was a lot skinnier and life was pretty horrendous.
Full of frustration and anger at the constant bullying I was experiencing in work since my MS diagnosis a couple of months earlier, I needed an outlet.
I had been chatting through email with a wonderful author, M. J. Hyland (her books are brilliant – I totally recommend 'How The Light Gets In'), who herself has MS, and she encouraged me to start a blog. And so, I did.
Five years later, The Teenager is throwing himself into University life, I am mourning a wardrobe full of clothes I don't fit (thanks to Grave's disease) and life is pretty wonderful.
Looking back over the last five years, it's been a twisty-turny path. For at least two years, I was in a dark place; coming to terms with such a diagnosis was complicated enough, but coping with vicious bullying in work and an extreme course of MS treatment at the same time almost pushed me over the edge.
And then I was sacked from my job for 'being a liability' due to MS and with the ensuing legal battle life wasn't fun for me, or, more importantly, for The Teenager. Something had to change, and luckily it did: this blog.
It's no exaggeration to say that it pulled me out through the murky swamp I had found myself in. After a shaky, tentative start, I began to receive comments on my posts. There were other people out there, just like me! You guys. I talked about everything. And you sent me your own experiences and your wisdom. We mulled over problems, worked things out and I had the benefit of many different viewpoints, not just my own.
Life now is a world away from five years ago. The Teenager is a happy, confidant, go-getting young man and I could not be prouder of him. He tackled all the challenges he faced head on. I've completed a Master's and gained a Distinction. I enjoy my new job and it's flexible, working around the MS quirks.
I often wonder where I would be today, had I not had this diagnosis. Quite possibly, unfulfilled, still dreaming about writing, still wondering when my real life would start.
Now I know there will be no knight in shining armour, I have gained an inner strength. Now I know that life can be utterly random, I go with the flow.
But above all, now I know there are people like you out there who take the time to send comments, opening my eyes and expanding my vision of the world, I know me and The Teenager will be ok.
Look forward to reading your posts and your book covered many scenarios I could identify with. The perfect balance of honest observation and humour. Keep up the good work!
I second that . I look forward too. I have lots of people in my life but no-one quite like you ( sounds crazy probably ) but it all feels so relateable. x happy Saturday ?
I couldn't,, so grateful that you did!!!
I think I said yes before I realised how scary it would be!
….and you still DiD it?
Ah, the team in Hungary were really nice to me. It's still probably the most terrifying thing I've done in recent years though!


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New York: A Documentary Film is an eight-part, 17½ hour, American documentary film on the history of New York City. It was directed by Ric Burns and originally aired in the U.S. on PBS. The film was a production of Steeplechase Films in association with WGBH Boston, Thirteen/WNET, and The New-York Historical Society.

The series was written by Burns and James Sanders and produced by Burns's company, Steeplechase Films. Several noted New York City historians, including Mike Wallace, Kenneth T. Jackson, David Levering Lewis and Robert Caro participated in the making of the series as consultants, and appeared on camera. It was narrated by David Ogden Stiers.

Other notable figures who appeared in the series include Rudolph Giuliani (then the mayor of New York City during episodes 1-7), former mayor Ed Koch, former New York governor Mario Cuomo, former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, poet Allen Ginsberg, novelists Alfred Kazin and Brendan Gill, director Martin Scorsese, journalist Pete Hamill, former Congresswoman Bella Abzug, historian Niall Ferguson, philosopher Marshall Berman, writer Fran Lebowitz, engineer Leslie E. Robertson, architect Robert A.M. Stern, high wire artist Philippe Petit, real estate developer (and future President) Donald Trump, and author David McCullough.

Production and release

In 1987, Ric Burns and James Sanders conceived the idea of a multi-part television series on the history of New York City. In 1993, Burns, having completed The Way West two years earlier, collaborated with Sanders and Lisa Ades to win a grant from the NEH, and he and Sanders began writing the script for New York. Lisa Ades and Steve Rivo assisted with the initial research. Thirteen joined the project soon after to complete fundraising. The cost of the series through Episode Five was $9.8 million, with more than 20 people involved with the series at its peak. The crew worked out of two offices near 72nd Street and Broadway, in New York City.

New sequences and imagery for New York were shot on 16mm film. The first half of the series was edited traditionally, but Burns reluctantly agreed to edit the second half digitally, on Avid workstations. In retrospect, Burns viewed the computer as an essential tool for managing the huge amount of archival material included in the film.

Originally, Burns planned for a 10-hour series. However, this plan was abandoned, and the first 10 hours (five two-hour episodes) told the story of New York City only up to 1931. The film up to this point was released in 1999, with plans to produce a sixth episode covering the remaining years. However, this plan, too, was abandoned in favor of two additional episodes, Episode Six (running 120 minutes) and Episode Seven (running 140 minutes). Both were released in September and October 2001, just weeks after the September 11th attacks.

Following the events of September 11, Burns, Sanders, and their team were inspired to produce an eighth episode of the film, focusing on the World Trade Center and its role in New York City's history.

Burns, Sanders, and Steeplechase Films are producing for broadcast a ninth episode of the series about contemporary New York City. The film will explore in dramatic detail how New York City has grappled on the local level with critical issues of immigration, diversity, growth, economic change, climate change, social justice and governance – issues that have become critical challenges around the globe. The film will demonstrate how the entire world is rapidly acquiring the characteristics of the modern city New York has pioneered for four hundred years – and that New York remains, as it nears the beginning of its fifth century as a metropolis, the pre-eminent and in most respects most successful urban laboratory on the planet: a place where the challenges and opportunities of modernity are confronted with an intensity and vision unparalleled in the world – and where the most critical human experiment on earth continues to unfold: the crucial, sometimes harrowing experiment, to see if all the peoples of the world can live together in a single place.

Episodes
The first five episodes aired in November 1999. Episodes Six and Seven aired in September and October 2001, respectively. A new episode, which chronicled the rise and fall of the  World Trade Center, was produced after the September 11 attacks in 2001, airing in September 2003. In 2018, the ninth episode will premiere, chronicling New York since the events of September 11, 2001.

Reception
The original seven-part series was nominated for two Emmy Awards in 2000, for "Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Programming - Cinematography" and "Outstanding Non-Fiction Series." In addition, Episode Five: Cosmopolis (1919–1931) won an Emmy for "Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Programming - Picture Editing." Also in 2001, the five-part series won an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award (Silver Baton) for excellence in broadcast journalism. In 2004, the newly completed Episode Eight: The Center of the World (1946–2003) was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy in the "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Music and Sound" category.

The film was well received by critics. In a 1999 review of the first five parts, Caryn James of The New York Times commended the film for its rich visuals, consistent theme, and compelling descriptions of class and racial tensions, especially in the second half of the series. James also criticized the film, however, writing, "Stunning though New York often is, its indulgent length and pace tests the patience of even its most serious-minded viewers."

Caryn James also reviewed the two new episodes released in late September 2001. She found them stronger than the previous five, with more focus and brevity. She also commented on the timeliness of their release following the September 11th attacks, finding the stories of the city's recovery from past disasters reassuring and full of accidental, yet profound meanings. A September 2003 review of the eighth episode in the series, by Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times, found it full of "intelligent insights and incomparable images," but ultimately, "too much, too late," like the World Trade Center itself.

Frank Rich of The New York Times referred to Episode 8 as, ""... a beautifully realized documentary in which we watch in painstaking detail the building of the World Trade Center from its inception so that we might then experience afresh the violence of its sudden destruction."

Popular audiences also displayed high interest for the film, with the first five parts alone attracting more than 20 million viewers.

VHS and DVD releases
This VHS is released November 23, 1999, 2 VHS and DVD on September 25, 2001, and Episode 8 on VHS and DVD on September 30, 2003.

See also
 History of New York City

References

Further reading
 Burns, Ric, and James Sanders. New York: An Illustrated History (2003), book version of 17 hour Burns PBS documentary, "NEW YORK: A Documentary Film"

External links
New York A Documentary Film Online

1999 television films
1999 films
American Experience
American television films
Television series by WNET
Television series by WGBH
PBS original programming
Documentary films about New York City
Films directed by Ric Burns
History of New York City
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Astronomers discover smallest known star
5 March 2019: SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docks with International Space Station
9 January 2019: Simple animals could live in Martian brines: Wikinews interviews planetary scientist Vlada Stamenković
29 November 2018: NASA's InSight Lander makes it to Mars
12 October 2018: Manned Soyuz space mission aborts during launch
26 September 2018: Study suggests Mars hosted life-sustaining habitat for millions of years
On Wednesday, astronomers at the University of Cambridge in England announced the discovery of a dwarf star, known as EBLM J0555-57Ab, which is slightly bigger than Saturn and smaller than Jupiter. It was found using data from an array of automated telescopes called the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP). The study was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
The star belongs to the Milky Way galaxy and is approximately 600 light years away from Earth. Its mean radius is about 80 percent the size of the largest planet in the Solar System, Jupiter, but despite its small size it is very dense. Its mass is almost 85±4 times the gas giant, the study said. The star's surface gravitational pull is about eleven times stronger than the Sun's — 300 times the strength by which the Earth attracts matter. It is part of a binary star system, meaning it moves around the galaxy with another star, both orbiting around the same central point. However, it stays so close to its companion star, that it takes about 7.8 days to orbit around the pair's shared centre. The distance between the two stars is less than between Mercury and the Sun, and about eight percent of an astronomical unit, in stark contrast to the 100–1000 astronomical units that typically separates two stars in such a system.
It was discovered by the method called "astronomical transit". This method is used to discover planets or satellites, and the astronomers initially thought it was merely an exoplanet. During a planet's revolution, when it crosses its parent star, there is a dip in the brightness of the light coming from the parent star. The companion of this dwarf is the size of the Sun, and it is brighter than the dwarf, making the discovery more difficult. "Indeed, until we measured the mass it looked just like a transiting planet", Amaury Triaud, co-author of the paper, told Popular Mechanics. With a brightness 2000 to 3000 times fainter than the Sun, it was the mass that indicated it was actually a dim star.
According to lead author of the study, Alexander von Boetticher, their "discovery reveals how small stars can be." He added, "Had this star formed with only a slightly lower mass, the fusion reaction of hydrogen in its core could not be sustained, and the star would instead have transformed into a brown dwarf". A brown dwarf converts hydrogen to deuterium, a hydrogen isotope, rather than helium, which is the usual result of such a process from most stars including the Sun.
The tiny star's temperature is lesser than most known gas giant exoplanets. "That star likely represents the smallest natural fusion reactor that we know of[...] We're trying to replicate fusion on Earth in labs, but that's basically as small as it gets in nature", Triaud told CBC News. The size of the star makes it difficult to study, but the brightness of its companion star also makes it more challenging. "It's like trying to look at a candle beside a lighthouse," Triaud said.
"Aww, So Cute! Astronomers Find Tiniest Star Ever Discovered" — Sputnik News, July 13, 2017
Alexander von Boetticher, Amaury H.M.J. Triaud, Didier Queloz, Sam Gill, Monika Lendl, Laetitia Delrez, David R. Anderson, Andrew Collier Cameron, Francesca Faedi, Michaël Gillon, Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew, Leslie Hebb, Coel Hellier, Emmanuël Jehin, Pierre F.L. Maxted, David V. Martin, Francesco Pepe, Don Pollacco, Damien Ségransan, Barry Smalley, Stéphane Udry, Richard West. "The EBLM project III. A Saturn-size low-mass star at the hydrogen-burning limit" — arXiv, July 12, 2017
Doyle Rice. "Twinkle, twinkle, littlest star: Universe's smallest star discovered" — USA Today, July 11, 2017
Nicole Mortillaro. "Astronomers discover smallest star known in our galaxy" — CBC News, July 11, 2017
John Wenz. "This Is the Smallest Star Ever Discovered" — Popular Mechanics, July 11, 2017
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Hiring: William Belcher is petitioning that there be a national search for "the next city manager, and the same for the next police chief." The City Manager is resigning; I have no idea why the chief's name is on this.
Foreclosure mediation: They should finally be voting up or down on City ordinances that would push more potential foreclosures to a mediation process.
Zoning amendments: The administration is encouraging the Council to pass a "Zoning Ordinance Amendment Related to Encouraging Compact, Mixed-Use, Pedestrian-Friendly Development." Among other things, this would lower the requirements for how much parking businesses and residences must have. Not surprisingly, there is opposition. I cannot sigh loud enough.
CitySquare: The Council will be considering a revision of the plans for the next stage of this massive downtown development process, for which the developers want tax deals before proceeding. I feel like I should have strong, clear opinions on TIF deals, but I do not.
NDAA: Some residents asked the Council to vote opposing certain provisions of the latest National Defense Authorization Act, and to make "detention" or "disposition" under "the law of war," as well as targeted killing, illegal in the City. The City Law Department has sent a memo to the Council considering the Constitutional issues, as well as opining it "does not deal with matters relating to city government and should be filed," that is, discarded.
Dear Mike, thank you for your interesting preview of council meetings. I would like to reference the NDAA issue. Firstly I trust that the council understands the NDAA and the seriousness of it. The city may be correct to think this is not a small matter and perhaps choose to send the resolution on its way. All I can do is urge the members to please consider their action before allowing it to do so. The action of all the actors in this matter will prevail in history; they will be demonstrating whether they were the bold ones, or they were not. The members would be urged to look further afield and ask themselves how they would want to look back on their action in this matter because either way, it has far-reaching consequences for Worcester residents. But not only for them. The resolution would be a clear declaration of Worcester's refusal to be considered a perpetual war zone, and its refusal to consent to arrest of its residents without due process. Should the law department dismiss this as being outside its Constitutional jurisdiction, and "send it on its way", I urge council members to please not accept defeat and give it another go-around. In extraordinary times, extraordinary measures are required. Since the NDAA considers American citizens its enemy, how can any of us, our family and friends, be safe?


So I have been practicing C4D for a while now and decided to do some isometric stuff. Since I got hooked on it from my last game. Environment Design for my second game, may be an alternate story to Half Life. Scene represents a Refueling Depot for the Protagonist. The Dune Buggy from Half Life with just the chassis is found by the protagonist and slowly modified in to a hotRod.
So I thought of practicing some gamedev skills by making a map for CS:GO.
The research has been targeted towards emergency rescue services in the event of a road accident. The project focuses on building an infrastructure which vehicle safety authorities can implement to enhance the reporting of vehicle crashes, provide post-crash analysis using motion sensors, record of the event in image sequences and reduce the time it takes for emergency rescue services to arrive at the crash location.
The research has the project to build a solar powered, low cost, fully fledged computer server from off-the-shelf components which will act as a network infrastructure for data collection, sharing and network distribution in rural areas of Bangladesh, even where electricity consistency is an issue.
Create an OpenMP Parallel Programming, Raspberry Pi Cluster for C++.
This was an early game in development but now currently absentminded due to lack of people.
Growing up, we enjoyed games like NFS II SE , NFS4HS, NFS Most Wanted , Driver 1, Screamer 4×4 and thought why not we give it a go.
Hello guys Lone Wolf Game Developer here. Its been a while a while since I have written something. Explaining this gonna take some time. Grab some coffee.
So you want to make games? Now I can just tell you "do that, read that, do this" and you would be on your way, but there is a problem. I have been there and done that too many times to realize it doesn't work. It took me 2 years to realize the approach was a waste of time for me. Lets start off with "what happened ? ".
Love Making Games [C4D Scene] . Created: 22nd Aug 2016 .
Something I cooked up in the midst of making Offroad Scientist.
Data City [C4D Scene] . Created: 13th July 2016 .
I have merged two renders in to one picture. Inspired by "Urban Monads" from the Novel "The World Inside", Robert Silverberg.
As a programmer I thought I make a wallpaper for the GNU.org as it expresses the need for a programmer to become better.


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Who studies mathematical practice and why?
Brendan Larvor (University of Hertfordshire)
March 19, 2014, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Science and Technology Studies, UCL
For the final UCL STS seminar of this term, we are delighted to have Brendan Larvor from the University of Hertfordshireasking 'Who studies mathematical practice and why?'
Tea begins at 4pm; Talk begins at 4:30, in the Garwood Lecture Theatre at UCL.
The philosophy of mathematical practice has grown rapidly in the last decade and now has the beginnings of canonical literature to match its conferences and edited volumes. However, it is still better described as a movement than a field, and there are reasons to doubt whether its practitioners have seriously reckoned with the consequences and connotations of the word 'practice'. This talk will survey the current condition of the philosophy of mathematical practice and consider the methodological and ideological challenges it faces.
Brendan Larvor studied philosophy and mathematics at Balliol College before embarking on a brief career as a systems analyst. He quickly resumed his studies in philosophy, taking an MA from Queen's University Ontario before returning to Balliol to write a doctoral thesis on the philosophy of mathematics of Imre Lakatos. He taught at the Universities of Liverpool and Oxford before joining Hertfordshire in 1997. He specialises in the history and philosophy of mathematics and science. His current project is to develop a historically sensitive and properly philosophical approach to the study of mathematical practice. In recent years, he has developed a philosophical interest in pedagogy in higher education. (source: UH Website)
Dr Phyllis Illari
Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science
Science and Technology Studies
http://ucl.academia.edu/PhyllisIllari
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/staff/illari
Contacting: Joshua Luczak
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