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"Loki" Episode 5 Review!
SPOILERS FOR LOKI AHEAD!
Journey Into Mystery, a sci-fi anthology published by Marvel Comics from the late 1950's into the 60's, was where Loki got his start as a Marvel villain in 1962, starting a wild ride throughout comics, movies, and now streaming television – which makes it all the more fitting that today's episode borrows the iconic title for what ends up being not just a journey into the very literal cosmic mystery enshrouding the origins of the Time Variance Authority and the state of the universe beyond the end of time itself, but a trippy bacchanal celebrating the character and their sprawling mythology, with its deep-seated roots in zany Marvel Comics history and the even more outrageously fantastical Norse legendarium.
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This is of course only possible because last week's episode dropped Loki (Tom Hiddleston) into a vast, desolate region of time known only as The Void – where the TVA has been secretly unloading all of the alternate timelines and Variants it claimed to have reset or "pruned", safe in the assumption that if a couple of Variants aren't immediately devoured by the omniaudient and omnivorous dragon which encircles The Void – perhaps a reference to the Midgard Serpent, one of Loki's own children in Norse mythology – they will ultimately fall victim to The Void's harsh terrain, or violent weather. The place is like a sentient meat-grinder, and out of all the billions upon billions of Variants unceremoniously dumped there since the beginning of time, it seems only Loki Variants stand a chance of surviving for very long.
And while this provides Loki with a very clever opportunity to put dozens of Loki Variants onscreen simultaneously and revel in the pure chaos that results, it also serves a larger thematic purpose: allowing Loki to witness first-hand the worst of what he's capable of and willing to do, but showing him that it's possible – not easy, but possible – to break the vicious cycle and change. Physically, on a surface-level, he's done that countless times: I mean, in this very episode we become acquainted with a version of Loki who lives full-time as an Alligator, though incredibly that was not what triggered the TVA to prune them. But to be meaningful and not merely performative, real change has to happen from the inside out. And that, in a nutshell, is what Loki is all about, and that is exactly why I love this show so much.
Because it applies to both individuals and institutions, and Loki illustrates that beautifully. We watch the God of Mischief – multiple versions of them, in fact – actively work to change themselves for the better, starting with their hearts, but we also watch the same thing unfolding within the TVA, which is rotted to its core, riddled with corruption, and ultimately built on a lie. If the TVA is going to be saved, it must first be dismantled down to the bare bones and rebuilt from scratch. The easy thing to do would be to swap out leadership, to declare that Judge Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is the problem, and that replacing her will magically fix everything. But she is merely the predictable symptom of a problem that has plagued the TVA since its foundation – that it is constructed on an inherently unjust guiding principle, and the longer that problem is allowed to fester, the longer the TVA will continue to cause harm.
You can probably understand why this message is so timely right now. This is the very same conversation we've been having about the United States of America, and the answer is the same in real-life as it is in fiction: this country is structurally unsound, and to repair it we have to begin again from the bottom up. The Falcon And The Winter Soldier tried to say something along the same lines, but ultimately lacked the conviction to demand structural change; instead going with the tried-and-true method of demanding that individuals in positions of authority do better while vilifying its characters who were trying to topple oppressive systems. Loki, on the other hand, has Mobius M. Mobius (Owen Wilson), a flawed yet undeniably heroic character, say bluntly that's he going to burn the TVA to the ground – despite having worked there his entire life, lulled into complacency by the TVA's propaganda machine.
Beyond The Void | cinemablend.com
And I'll be honest with you, I don't yet fully trust that Loki won't drop the ball in its final episode. If Renslayer is defeated and her downfall is seen as a total victory, so that the TVA can then proceed with exactly what they were doing but it's okay because the heroes are doing it now…yeah, I'll be massively disappointed. But I can't imagine that will be the case, because the show is making a big point out of the fact that the root cause of the TVA's problems lies in its far-distant past, with its anonymous founder. The mystery of their identity is what kicks off this tumultuous episode, as Sylvie Laufeydottir (Sophia Di Martino) grills Renslayer for classified information from the TVA archives, and it's what concludes the episode too – as Loki and Sylvie defeat The Void's guardian dragon and catch a glimpse of what I can only describe as the French Chateau at the End of the Universe, where the Sacred Timeline ends and…something else begins.
But what makes this final sequence emotionally resonant isn't just that Loki finally learns how to access a part of his magic that he previously didn't know existed – although that is indeed very cool, and reminiscent of Wanda Maximoff's triumphant metamorphosis into the Scarlet Witch at the end of WandaVision. It's that Loki first sees another version of himself, Richard E. Grant's Classic Loki, die to save his and Sylvie's life from the dragon – and not because he thought helping them would work to his advantage in the long-run, not because he thought he could use it as leverage over them, but simply because he believed in them and what they were doing. That belief is what inspires Loki to fight harder than he's ever fought in his life, because it proves unequivocally that a Loki is no more inherently evil than they are good, that his destiny is not determined, and that he can be anything – even an alligator.
I don't know how the series will expand upon this idea in the finale, but I hope there's still more emotional and mental growth in store for Loki. I feel as though the logical next step is some kind of resolution to the controversial romance (?) brewing between Loki and Sylvie. It proved essential to both their characters, as it allowed them to find qualities in themselves worth loving for the first time in their lives while learning how to feel and show genuine affection for others at the same time. Thematically, I feel like it makes the most sense for the two to go their separate ways at the end of the series, bringing the love and empathy they've learned through their relationship with themselves to relationships (romantic or platonic) with other characters.
Classic Loki | cnn.com
Heading into the finale, I'm feeling pretty good about where we stand. I trust head writer Michael Waldron, director Kate Herron, composer Natalie Holt, and this entire ensemble cast, to pull off something extraordinary with the final episode while laying the groundwork for a multi-season narrative. Loki is supposedly getting a second season, and The Void alone offers endless possible storylines to be explored in depth, from the backstory behind the Thanos helicopter lying wrecked in a field, to the origin story of Throg, the amphibious Thor whom we find locked in a mason jar. With the dragon defeated and all of the surviving Variants now free to escape, expect more chaos on the timeline in the near future.
Episode Rating: 10/10
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Bethesda Opens Roundhouse Studios
Human Head Studios is the developer known for titles such as Prey, the Rune series, and The Quiet Man (A title they'd probably like you to forget). Today, the studio has officially announced its closing as of today, just after their release of Rune 2 earlier in the week.
Although Human Head Studios is closing its doors, the Devs of the studio aren't leaving each other. It was announced by Bethesda, that they are adding another Developer to their Studios. All of the former Devs of Human Head Studios will come together to form Roundhouse Studios, what they'll be working on is unknown at this point. Co-Founder of Human Head, Chris Rhinehart gave his thoughts on the move to Bethesda as well.
Co-Founder of Human Head Studios, Chris Rhinehart
Sadly, we had to wind down the business of Human Head Studios and close its doors, which was particularly devastating due to the passion and creativity of the team we'd assembled," said Rhinehart. "We reached out to our friends at Bethesda for help, and they saw that same creativity and passion in our team. With the formation of Roundhouse Studios, Bethesda offered every employee of Human Head a position at the new company. We are excited our team will remain together, pursuing the work we love, as part of a company we already know and admire.
It's gonna be intriguing to see what Bethesda's new studio will be working on next.
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Heritage center honors individuals, organizations
Willamette Heritage Center honors 9 individuals and organizations for preservation work
Heritage center honors individuals, organizations Willamette Heritage Center honors 9 individuals and organizations for preservation work Check out this story on statesmanjournal.com: http://stjr.nl/1izv5XB
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Amy Vandergrift, development director, presents the Student Scholar Awards to Travis Cook, center, and Greg Garcia at the Heritage Club and Heritage Awards Saturday June 21, 2014.(Photo: KOBBI R. BLAIR / Statesman Journal)Buy Photo
The Willamette Heritage Center honored nine individuals and organizations for their significant contributions to the preservation of Mid-Valley history at the 22nd Annual Heritage Awards on Saturday. The event was WHC Executive Director Sam Wegner's first since beginning his tenure.
"It's a really nice reflection on how we as stewards of the past reach out and recognize those who have gone above and beyond in preserving our community's history," Wegner said.
After a celebration dinner on the third floor of the museum, Ross Stout, WHC board of directors' past president, emceed the presentation of awards. First honored were two recent graduates of the masters of arts in history program at Western Oregon University. They were recognized for their essays in "Willamette Valley Voices."
Travis Cook won for his essay "From Hot Springs to Heritage: a Cultural History of Breitenbush Hot Springs." Gregory Garcia won for his piece, "Silverton Red Sox and the Struggle of Local Baseball," which is the basis of WHC's current exhibit, "Boys of Summer: Mid-Valley Baseball." Garcia reflected upon his accomplishment and the 25 people he interviewed for the project.
"It's a tremendous privilege to hear these stories and put them in a medium where people can learn about them," Garcia said.
Greenbaum's Quilted Forest received the Heritage Enterprise Award for its significant long-term contributions to the community. Since its founding in 1900, the business has remained in owner Sylvia Dorney's family.
"It's pretty exciting for myself and the business. I had plenty of help getting there," Dorney said and then gestured to her husband and business partner Bill Dorney. "People think it's just me, but he's in the background."
Robert Speckman, retired general manager of Salem Electric, received the David Duniway Historian Award for his work on the area's history of electrification. Speckman was especially pleased, as Duniway was a distant relative and Speckman's mentor in historical preservation. Speckman recalled how Duniway had invited him to clean the Mission Mill Museum's warehouses and encouraged his interest in historical preservation.
After the awards, Oregon author Jane Kirkpatrick spoke about stories, history and the qualities of heritage. Each recipient received an award woven by Donna Stor and designed by Penny Unverzagt of the Salem Fiberarts Guild. The 2014 Heritage Awards were sponsored by the Willamette Heritage Center's Heritage Club.
2014 Heritage Award Winners
Student Scholar Authors: Travis Cook and Gregory Garcia
Heritage Education Award: Stephenie Flora
Heritage Enterprise Award: Greenbaum's Quilted Forest, accepted by Slyvia and Bill Dorney
Heritage Center Service Award: Easter Seals Oregon Employment Services, accepted by Ricardo Alvarez and Debbie White
Distinguished Board Service Award: Shari Scoles
George Strozut Award for Preservation: Aurora Colony Historical Society, accepted by Reg Keddie
David Duniway Historian Award (two winners): Susan Bell and Robert Speckman
For more information about the Willamette Heritage Center or to become a member of the Heritage Club, call (503) 585-7012 or go to willametteheritage.org.
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A rock band from Huskvarna, Jönköping. The band is primarily known for the song "Håå Vee" which still after 30 years is the dominant cheerleader song at the HV71 ice-hockey matches. The song was written on order and first published in 1980.
A new recording was made in 1992 and became even more popular. CRUT released a couple of singles and a full-lenght album throught their active years, they also contributed with the song "Sommartider" on the 'Jönköping 700 År (1984)' compilation.


Antonina re-joined the firm in August, following a brief foray into corporate immigration practice in London. She began working with Steven in 2016.
She has more than three years of experience working in U.S. immigration law with a special focus on all business-related visas. She has worked in smaller and larger firms in both the U.S. and the U.K.and is familiar with both consular processing and USCIS procedures.
She holds a Masters in Law from University of Vienna, Austria, Faculty of Law (2015) and a Masters in Slavic Studies (2009) also from University of Vienna, Austria, Institute of Slavic Studies.
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Michael Floorwax Returns to Standup Comedy as Health Recovery Continues
Michael Floorwax on the air at the Fox circa 2009.
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In July, Michael Floorwax returned to the Denver radio airwaves for the first time in more than four years, guesting on Peter Boyles's KNUS morning-drive show to talk about the clinical depression that caused him to leave the ultra-popular Lewis & Floorwax program on 103.5/The Fox and the controversial medical treatment that has finally helped put him on the road to recovery.
Tonight, December 11, he's scheduled to take another step on that path. He'll be taking part in new-talent night at the downtown Comedy Works; get more details below.
This isn't the first time Floorwax (real name: Michael Steinke) has ventured onto the Comedy Works stage since his radio return. A few weeks back, with no ballyhoo or advance warning, he showed up at the club for the Tuesday night showcase, which spotlights performers just getting their start — something he did decades ago. But the setting seemed appropriate, since he's making a fresh beginning, too.
Michael Floorwax's Return to Denver Radio
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"I had a good time," he says of the gig. "It was fun cracking off a few beauties and doing my shit, since I've been feeling a lot better."
Now he's confident enough to let fans know about his appearance in advance.
Michael Floorwax with his old radio partner, Rick Lewis.
As Floorwax told us prior to the Boyles program, his condition was so debilitating that he could barely function. But then his physicians, led by Dr. Sara Markey, tried a technique called ketamine infusion. Ketamine is a powerful drug most commonly used on individuals who are being put under anesthesia, but in recent years, experiments with clinically depressed patients have shown promise, as Floorwax knows from personal experience.
"It's only been around for something like three years, and it's just been a miracle for me," he says.
Thus far, his medical regimen hasn't made its way into his standup routine. "I'm not talking about how I get hooked up to ketamine and trip my balls off and then I feel better," he points out, laughing. "I'm not taking that approach. I'm just doing my regular, sophomoric crap."
Floorwax's success at his first new-talent night appearance has also led to "a few private gigs," he reveals, "and they've been going good. Standup is my bag. That's how I got started, how I get down. It's what I love to do, and I'm glad I'm able to do it again. I feel like the luckiest guy in the world."
New-talent night gets under way at 8 p.m. at Comedy Works Denver, 1226 15th Street in Larimer Square. Visit the Comedy Works website to get more details.


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Isaac Taylor Papers (WUA00364), 1901-1905 | WUA University Archives
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Taylor, Isaac S.
The Division of Works was the entity charged with designing, constructing, and maintaining the buildings of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (World's Fair). Construction planning began in 1901. The first offices of the department were located in the Odd Fellow Building at the corner of 9th and Olive Streets in downtown St. Louis, starting in September 1901. In May of 1902 the offices relocated closer to the fairgrounds, in buildings constructed for Washington University. Within the Division of Works were the following departments:	Department of Architecture; Department of Civil Engineering; Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering; Department of Sculpture; Department of Landscaping; and the Department of Mural Decorations.
Acquisition Note: The papers were donated in 1981 by Mrs. Marena Fraire, niece of Isaac Taylor.
Finding Aid Revisions: This finding aid was entered into Archon by Hannah Barg in July 2012.
Scope and Contents:
This final report was compiled by Isaac S. Taylor, Director of the Division of Works. He presented it to David R. Francis, President of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company in June 1905. Although the original index lists pages 1 – 382, this volume covers only through page 92. Not all pages have numbers, and there is no page 71. Also included are draft copies of two department reports, which were edited and included in the final report.
Items are arranged in the original order of the bound volume, followed by supplementary items. One oversized map was removed and is stored separately. A detailed inventory of the report can be found at the link below.


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Der Grolier Club ist ein Gentlemen's Club und Vereinigung von Bibliophilen in New York. Gegründet im Januar 1884 ist es der älteste bestehende »Bücherliebhaber Verein« in Nordamerika. Der Club ist benannt nach Jean Grolier. Die Club-Statuten sind: "das literarische Studium der Kunst in Bezug auf die Herstellung von Büchern, darunter die Veröffentlichung und Entwerfung der Bücher, um zu veranschaulichen, zu fördern und zu ermutigen in diesen Künsten und der Erwerb, Einrichtung und Wartung eines geeigneten Clubgebäudes für die Verwahrung des Vermögens, wobei in Sitzungen Vorträge und Ausstellungen von Zeit zu Zeit stattfinden…"

Geschichte
Die Gründer des Clubs waren William Loring Andrews, Theodore Low De Vinne, Alexander Wilson Drake, Albert Gallup, Robert Hoe, Brayton Ives, Samuel W. Martin, E. S. Mead, und Arthur B. Turnure. Perfektion in der Kunst der Buchbinderei wird gefördert. Edwin Davis French gravierte das Vereins-eigene Exlibris sowie Exlibris für viele seiner Mitglieder.

Der Grolier Club unterhält eine wissenschaftliche Bibliothek, spezialisiert auf Bücher über Bibliographie und Bibliophilie, Druck (vor allem die Geschichte des Buchdrucks und Beispiele von feinem Druck), Binden, Illustration und Buchhandel. Er hat eine der umfangreichsten Sammlungen von Büchern über Bücherauktionen und Buchhändlerkataloge in Nordamerika. Die Bibliothek bewahrt die Archive einiger der prominenten Mitglieder wie Sir Thomas Phillipps und von Bücherliebhabern und Verlagen wie etwa dem »Hroswitha Club of women book collectors« benannt nach Roswitha von Gandersheim.

Ehrenmitglieder waren unter anderem: Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (1927), Bruce Rogers (1928), Henry Watson Kent (1930), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1934), Rudolf Růžička (1946), Lawrence C. Wroth (1950), Carl Purington Rollins (1951), Elmer Adler (1952), Martin Bodmer (1964), Joseph Blumenthal (1967) und Mary Morley Crapo Hyde Eccles (1989)

Korrespondierende Mitglieder waren Sir Emery Walker (1920), Alfred W. Pollard (1921), Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1922), Michael Sadleir (1925), Stanley Morison (1951), Giovanni Mardersteig (1964), Howard M. Nixon (1971), Nicolas Barker (1972), John Carter (1973) und Hermann Zapf (2003).

Der Grolier Club hat auch ein Programm für öffentliche Ausstellungen, für "besondere Bücher und Drucke, die als Objekte würdig für Ausstellungen auf Augenhöhe mit Malerei und Skulptur" Die Ausstellungen werden aus verschiedenen Quellen gespeist, einschließlich Beteiligungen des Clubs, seinen Mitgliedern und der institutionellen Bibliotheken.

Der Grolier Club hatte drei Standorte seit er im Jahre 1884 gegründet wurde. Das erste Haus war angemietet. 1890 zog der Grolier Club in ein neuromanisches Gebäude an der 29 East 32nd Street. Seine aktuelle Lage ist 47 East 60th Straße in Midtown Manhattan und seine Heimat seit 1917, das Gebäude wurde vom Mitglied Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue im neo-georgischen Stil als Stadthaus gestaltet.

Der Grolier Club ist Mitglied der Fellowship of American Societies Bibliophile.

Liste der Präsidenten
Die folgenden Personen haben dem Club als Präsidenten gedient:

 Robert Hoe (1884–1888)
 William Loring Andrews (1888–1892)
 Beverly Chew (1892–1896)
 Samuel Putnam Avery (1896–1900) Porträt: Medaille 1897 von Anton Scharff (1845–1903)
 Howard Mansfield (1900–1904)
 Theodore Low De Vinne (1904–1906)
 Edwin B. Holden (1906–1906)
 Richard Hoe Lawrence (1906–1908)
 William F. Havemeyer (1850–1913) (1908–1912)
 Edward G. Kennedy (1912–1916)
 Arthur Hawley Scribner (1916–1920)
 Henry Watson Kent (1920–1924)
 William B. Osgood Field (1924–1928)
 Lucius Wilmerding (1928–1932)
 William B. Ivins, Jr. (1932–1935)
 Frederick Coykendall (1935–1939)
 Harry T. Peters (1939–1943)
 Edwin De T. Bechtel (1943–1947)
 Frederick B. Adams, Jr. (1947–1951)
 Irving S. Olds (1951–1955)
 Arthur A. Houghton (1955–1957)
 C. Waller Barret (1957–1961)
 Donald F. Hyde (1961–1965)
 Gordon N. Ray (1965–1969)
 Alfred H. Howell (1969–1973)
 Robert H. Taylor (1973–1975)
 Herman W. Liebert (1975–1978)
 Robert D. Graff (1978–1982)
 Frank S. Streeter (1982–1986)
 G. Thomas Tanselle (1986–1990)
 Kenneth A. Lohf (1990–1994)
 William Bradford Warren (1994–1998)
 William T. Buice III (1998–2002)
 Carolyn L. Smith (2002–2006)
 William H. Helfand (2006–2010)
 Eugene S. Flamm (2010-)

Publikationen
Der Club hat Ausgaben der folgenden Werke herausgegeben:
 Richard du Bury, Philobiblion
 Robert Hoe, Catalogues of Early and Original Editions from Langland to Wither; Bookbinding as a Fine Art
 William Matthews, Modern Book Binding
 Theodore Low De Vinne, Historic Printing Types
 George William Curtis, Washington Irving

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies
 Hathi Trust: Works issued by the Grolier Club
 Grolier Club
 A Brief History of the Grolier Club
 125 Years of Free Public Exhibitions
 The Grolier Club Library

Kulturelle Organisation (New York City)
Bauwerk des Historismus in New York City
Bibliothek in den Vereinigten Staaten
Organisation (Bibliophilie)
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Hungarian violinist Kristóf Baráti is recognised as one of the leading violinists of his generation. He plays with the Philharmonia Orchestra,Mariinsky, WDR Sinfonieorchester, London Philharmonic, and conductors like Gergiev, Dutoit, Jurowski, Masur, Pletnev, Fischer, Temirkanov.
His extensive discography for Brilliant Classics led to great critical acclaim: "..Baráti is out of the top drawer. With intensity of sound, unbridled athleticism and searing leaps into the stratosphere which send a tingle down the spine" (Gramophone), "Masterful, probing, meditative, it rang with a rare sense of authenticity, and almost majestic scope" (Washington Post). "He is on the order of magnitude greater than any other violinist I've encountered in at least 10 years" (Fanfare on the Beethoven violin sonatas, with Klára Würtz, piano).
On this 2 CD set Baráti plays the complete works for violin and orchestra of Mozart: masterful, strong, alternating great vitality and tenderness, vigour and beauty. He himself conducts the excellent Hungarian Chamber Orchestra.


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Russia concluded a contract to supply new Nebo-M anti-missile radar facility systems
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Nebo-M anti-missile radar facility systems
The Ministry of Defense of Russia confirmed that was signed the contract to supply a new batch of Nebo-M anti-missile radar facility systems.
According to military-informant.com, the JSC "Federal Research and Production Center" Nizhny Novgorod Research Institute of Radio "(JSC" FNPC "NNIIRT") has signed a contract with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the supply of new mobile multi-range programmable Nebo-M complex.
The new Nebo-M 3-D radar system features a programmable multi-band design. The complex includes central data fusion and command post module as well as three radars, all deployed on separate high-mobility 8 x 8 24-ton vehicles. According to Aviatioweek, radars feed data to the command post using high-speed narrow-beam digital data links in the microwave band.
The radar is designed to automatically detect and track airborne targets such as ballistic missiles, stealth aircraft, or drones, as well as hypersonic targets. In the circular scan mode the complex is able to track up to 200 aerodynamic targets at a distance and at altitudes of up to 600 kilometers. In sector scan mode, Nebo-M can track to 20 ballistic targets at ranges of up to 1,800 kilometers and at an altitude of up to 1,200 kilometers.
In October, the Russian Defense Ministry unveiled plans to build several new anti-missile radars in order to cover the entire territory of Russia by 2020. Moscow also announced that an early warning radar station in the western Kaliningrad Region would be put on full combat duty by the year's end.
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I. Georg Cantor
Georg Cantor founded set theory and introduced the concept of infinite numbers
with his discovery of cardinal numbers. He also advanced the study of
trigonometric series and was the first to prove the nondenumerability of the
real numbers. Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor was born in St. Petersburg,
Russia, on March 3, 1845. His family stayed in Russia for eleven years until the
father's sickly health forced them to move to the more acceptable environment of
Frankfurt, Germany, the place where Georg would spend the rest of his life.
Georg excelled in mathematics. His father saw this gift and tried to push his
son into the more profitable but less challenging field of engineering. Georg
was not at all happy about this idea but he lacked the courage to stand up to
his father and relented. However, after several years of training, he became so
fed up with the idea that he mustered up the courage to beg his father to become
a mathematician. Finally, just before entering college, his father let Georg
study mathematics. In 1862, Georg Cantor entered the University of Zurich only
to transfer the next year to the University of Berlin after his father's death.
At Berlin he studied mathematics, philosophy and physics. There he studied under
some of the greatest mathematicians of the day including Kronecker and
Weierstrass. After receiving his doctorate in 1867 from Berlin, he was unable to
find good employment and was forced to accept a position as an unpaid lecturer
and later as an assistant professor at the University of Halle in1869. In 1874,
he married and had six children. It was in that same year of 1874 that Cantor
published his first paper on the theory of sets. While studying a problem in
analysis, he had dug deeply into its foundations, especially sets and infinite
sets. What he found baffled him. In a series of papers from 1874 to 1897, he was
able to prove that the set of integers had an equal number of members as the set
of even numbers, squares, cubes, and roots to equations; that the number of
points in a line segment is equal to the number of points in an infinite line, a
plane and all mathematical space; and that the number of transcendental numbers,
values such as pi(3.14159) and e(2.71828) that can never be the solution to any
algebraic equation, were much larger than the number of integers. Before in
mathematics, infinity had been a sacred subject. Previously, Gauss had stated
that infinity should only be used as a way of speaking and not as a mathematical
value. Most mathematicians followed his advice and stayed away. However, Cantor
would not leave it alone. He considered infinite sets not as merely going on
forever but as completed entities, that is having an actual though infinite
number of members. He called these actual infinite numbers transfinite numbers.
By considering the infinite sets with a transfinite number of members, Cantor
was able to come up his amazing discoveries. For his work, he was promoted to
full professorship in 1879. However, his new ideas also gained him numerous
enemies. Many mathematicians just would not accept his groundbreaking ideas that
shattered their safe world of mathematics. One of these critics was Leopold
Kronecker. Kronecker was a firm believer that the only numbers were integers and
that negatives, fractions, imaginaries and especially irrational numbers had no
business in mathematics. He simply could not handle actual infinity. Using his
prestige as a professor at the University of Berlin, he did all he could to
suppress Cantor's ideas and ruin his life. Among other things, he delayed or
suppressed completely Cantor's and his followers' publications, belittled his
ideas in front of his students and blocked Cantor's life ambition of gaining a
position at the prestigious University of Berlin. Not all mathematicians were
hostile to Cantor's ideas. Some greats such as Karl Weierstrass, and long-time
friend Richard Dedekind supported his ideas and attacked Kronecker's actions.
However, it was not enough. Cantor simply could not handle it. Stuck in a third-
rate institution, stripped of well-deserved recognition for his work and under
constant attack by Kronecker, he suffered the first of many nervous breakdowns
in 1884. In 1885 Cantor continued to extend his theory of cardinal numbers and
of order types. He extended his theory of order types so that now his previously
defined ordinal numbers became a special case. In 1895 and 1897 Cantor published
his final double treatise on sets theory. Cantor proves that if A and B are sets
with A equivalent to a subset of B and B equivalent to a subset of A then A and
B are equivalent. This theorem was also proved by Felix Bernstein and by Schrö
der. The rest of his life was spent in and out of mental institutions and his
work nearly ceased completely. Much too late for him to really enjoy it, his
theory finally began to gain recognition by the turn of the century. In 1904, he
was awarded a medal by the Royal Society of London and was made a member of both
the London Mathematical Society and the Society of Sciences in Gottingen. He
died in a mental institution on January 6, 1918. Today, Cantor's work is widely
used in the many fields of mathematics. His theory on infinite sets reset the
foundation of nearly every mathematical field and brought mathematics to its
modern form.
II. Infinity
Most everyone is familiar with the infinity symbol . How many is
infinitely many? How far away is "from here to infinity"? How big is infinity?
We can't count to infinity. Yet we are comfortable with the idea that there are
infinitely many numbers to count with: no matter how big a number you might come
up with, someone else can come up with a bigger one: that number plus one--or
plus two, or times two. There simply is no biggest number. Is infinity a number?
Is there anything bigger than infinity? How about infinity plus one? What's
infinity plus infinity? What about infinity times infinity? Children to whom the
concept of infinity is brand new, pose questions like this and don't usually get
very satisfactory answers. For adults, these questions don't seem to have very
much bearing on daily life, so their unsatisfactory answers don't seem to be a
matter of concern. At the turn of the century Cantor applied the tools of
mathematical rigor and logical deduction to questions about infinity in search
of satisfactory answers. His conclusions are paradoxical to our everyday
experience, yet they are mathematically sound. The world of our everyday
experience is finite. We can't exactly say where the boundary line is, but
beyond the finite, in the realm of the transfinite, things are different.
Sets and Set Theory
Cantor is the founder of the branch of mathematics called Set Theory, which is
at the foundation of much of 20th century mathematics. At the heart of Set
Theory is a hall of mirrors--the paradoxical infinity. Georg Cantor was known to
have said, "I see it, but I do not believe it," about one of his proofs. The set
is the mathematical object which Cantor scrutinized. He defined a set as any
collection of well-distinguished and well-defined objects considered as a single
whole. A collection of matching dishes is a set, as well as a collection of
numbers. Even a collection of seemingly unrelated things like, {television,
aardvark, car, 6} is a set. They are well-defined and can be distinguished from
one another. Sets can be large or small. They can also be finite and infinite. A
finite set has a finite number of members. No matter how many there are, given
enough time, you can count them all. Cantor's surprising results came when he
considered sets that had an infinite number of members. Sets such as all of the
counting numbers, or all of the even numbers are infinite sets. In order to
study infinite sets, Cantor first formalized many of the things that are
intuitive and obvious about finite sets. At first, it seems like these
formalizations are just a whole lot of trouble, a way of making simple things
complicated. Because the formalisms are clearly correct, however, they provide a
powerful tool for examining things that are not so simple, intuitive or obvious.
Cantor needed a way to compare the sizes of sets, some method for determining
whether sets had the same number of members. If two sets didn't have the same
number of members, he needed a method for telling which one was larger. Of
course this is simple for finite sets. You count the members in both sets. If
the number is the same, they are the same size. If the number of members in one
set is greater than the number of members in the other, then that set is larger.
You can't count the members in an infinite set, though, so this method won't
work for comparing their sizes. If there are two infinite sets, one must need
some other way to tell if one is larger. The formal notion that Cantor used for
comparing sizes of sets is the idea of a one-to-one correspondence. A one-to-one
correspondence pairs up the members of one set with the members of another. Sets
which can be matched to each other in this sense are said to have the same
cardinality. We could pair up the elements of the imaginary set {television,
aardvark, car, 6} with the numbers {1,2,3,4}. It is possible to do this so that
one member of each set is paired up with one member of the other, no member is
left out, and no member has more than one partner. Then we can be sure that the
set{1,2,3,4} has the same number of members as the set {television, aardvark,
car, 6}. one-to-one correspondence:
{television, aardvark, car, 6}
{ 1,	2,	3, 4}
So, what is bigger? infinity+X? infinity+infinity ? Or infinity(infinity)? To
calculate which is bigger cantor used sets and one-to-one correspondence.
These one-to-one correspondence sets show that even though we add an unknown
variable, multiply by two, and square a set, the upper and lower sets still
remain equal. Since we will never run out of numbers any correspondence set with
two infinite values will be equal. All these sets clearly have the same
cardinality since its members can be put in a one-to-one correspondence with
each other on and on forever. These sets are said to be countably infinite and
their cardinality is denoted by the Hebrew letter aleph with a subscript nought,
OTHER INFINITIES
Cantor thought once you start dealing with infinities, everything is the same
size. This did not turn out to be the case. Cantor developed an entire theory of
transfinite arithmetic, the arithmetic of numbers beyond infinity. Although the
sizes of the infinite sets of counting numbers, even numbers, odd numbers,
square numbers, etc., are the same, there are other sets, the set of numbers
that can be expressed as decimals, for instance, that are larger. Cantor's work
revealed that there are hierarchies of ever-larger infinities. The largest one
is called the Continuum. Some mathematicians who lived at the end of the 19th
century did not want to accept his work at all. The fact that his results were
so paradoxical was not the problem so much as the fact that he considered
infinite sets at all. At that time, some mathematicians held that mathematics
could only consider objects that could be constructed directly from the counting
numbers. You can't list all the elements in an infinite set, they said, so
anything that you say about infinite sets is not mathematics. The most powerful
of these mathematicians was Leopold Kronecker who even developed a theory of
numbers that did not include any negative numbers. Although Kronecker did not
persuade very many of his contemporaries to abandon all conclusions that relied
on the existence of negative numbers, Cantor's work was so revolutionary that
Kronecker's argument that it "went too far" seemed plausible. Kronecker was a
member of the editorial boards of the important mathematical journals of his day,
and he used his influence to prevent much of Cantor's work from being published
in his lifetime. Cantor did not know at the time of his death, that not only
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Okay, just playing around with the look of our blog. I installed a web font kit so the titles match closer to the font we use for our logo. Now I'm debating if I want the body of the blog to have a handwriting font or the font we use on the main site. You know what? HTML is fun!
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High throughput system for producing recombinant viruses using site-specific recombination
Status: Active Grant
1. A method for preparing expressive circular recombinant viral vectors, comprising:
i) providing a plurality of linearized viral DNA fragments wherein each fragment contains at least two site-specific recombination sites and at least one restriction enzyme recognition site;
ii) providing a plurality of viral vector carriers wherein each viral vector carrier contains a gene cassette having a desired genomic material with a desired nucleic acid sequence flanked with at least two site-specific sites for homologous recombination with the linearized DNA fragments at the two site-specific recombination sites; and
iii) reacting the linearized viral DNA fragments and the viral vector carriers to create homologous recombinations in vitro wherein a plurality of recombinant viral vectors carrying the desired genomic material is formed in vitro therefrom;
iv) wherein non-recombined linearized viral DNA fragments, non-recombined viral vector carriers, and non-linearized viral DNA do not express a gene for a protein responsible for viral replication and viral particle formation.
Disclosed are the methods for producing recombinant viruses using site-specific recombination in vitro. In the present invention, circular viral genomic DNAs are digested with restriction enzymes to generate a linear form viral genomic DNAs flanked by site-specific recombination sites, and then are subjected to site-specific recombination with the desired genomic materials flanked by site-specific recombination sites in vitro. According to the present invention, since the site-specific recombination mixture can be applied to host cells without further procedures of selecting the desired recombinant viral genomic DNAs, it is possible to obtain numerous recombinant viruses rapidly at the same time. Thus, the present invention can be used as a high throughput system for generating and screening hundreds or thousands of recombinant viruses.
9 Claims
2. The method for preparing expressive circular recombinant viral vectors as claimed in claim 1, wherein one or more viral DNA fragments are digested with restriction enzymes at one or more sites to generate the linearized viral DNA fragments.
3. The method for preparing expressive circular recombinant viral vectors as claimed in claim 1, wherein the recombinant viral vectors are obtained from the group consisting of baculovirus, poliomavirus, papillomavirus, and hepatitis B virus (HBV).
4. The method for preparing expressive circular recombinant viral vectors as claimed in claim 2, wherein said one or more sites comprise the nucleotide sequence of CCTNAGG.
5. A method of preparing recombinant viruses having circular genomic DNA, comprising:
iii) reacting the linearized viral DNA fragments and the viral vector carriers to create homologous recombinations in vitro to produce a reaction mixture including expressive circular recombinant viral vectors carrying the desired genomic material formed in vitro therefrom;
iv) wherein non-recombined linearized viral DNA fragments, non-recombined viral vector carriers and non-linearized viral DNA do not express a gene for a protein responsible for viral replication and viral particle formation; and
v) transferring the reaction mixture to host cells in a multi-well plate.
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6. The method of preparing recombinant viruses having circular genomic DNA as claimed in claim 5, wherein the transfer of the reaction mixture to host cells is carried out without a need for a selection process to isolate the circular genomic DNA.
7. The method of preparing recombinant viruses having circular genomic DNA as claimed in claim 5, wherein viral genomic DNA of i) are digested with a restriction enzyme at one or more sites to generate the linearized viral DNA fragments.
8. The method of preparing recombinant viruses having circular genomic DNA as claimed in claim 5, wherein the recombinant viral vectors are obtained from the group consisting of baculovirus, poliomavirus, papillomavirus, and hepatitis B virus (HBV).
9. The method of preparing recombinant viruses having circular genomic DNA as claimed in claim 7, wherein said one or more sites comprise the nucleotide sequence of CCTNAGG.
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Q: SMS messaging twordpress plugin What is the best way to implement sms message system to client as an Admin of a wordpress website, Is there any plugins available with tutorial, that uses services such as Twillio?

A: I would personally implement the api myself, depending on the service provider you use for SMS. But if you have a look at this plugin, I think you can achieve what you are looking for.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-twilio-core/

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Q: Line: 6, Column: 1 : CPU time limit exceeded List<Integer> intList = new List<Integer>();
intList.add(11);
intList.add(12);
intList.add(13);
intList.add(14);
while(intList.iterator().hasNext()){

}

why is the CPU time limit exceeding here ?

A: For two reasons !
For the first, just see here
Each time the loop goes on, a new instance of iterator of your list is created. So you basically ask "Hey iterator1, do you have an item ?". Ten loops later "hey Iterator11, do you have an item ?".
Secondly, you don't update the pointer of your iterator. Which is done with the instruction below.
myIterator.next();

It prevents from looping indefinitely. And it allows to do instructions on different parts on your iterator's items !
What you want to do to avoid that
List<Integer> intList = new List<Integer>();
intList.add(11);
...
Iterator<Integer> intIterator = intList.iterator();

while(intIterator.hasNext()){
    intIterator.next(); // to make sure you have the first element of the iterator
    //some instructions here to test
    //end of loop

}

This way for each loop the pointer is updated until it reaches the end of your iterator and thus no CPU time limit.


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Killing George Washington
By Anne Jennings Paris
Available in: 6" x 9", softcover | 120 pages
ISBN: 978-1-93201030-5
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Killing George Washington tells the story of the American frontier as it moves west. Anne Jennings Paris, in a collection of narrative poems, imagines the voices of the forgotten historical figures of Lewis Wetzel, a notorious Indian killer; York, the slave who accompanied Lewis and Clark; Charity Lamb, Oregon's first convicted murderess; Ing Hay, a Chinese immigrant who made a name for himself as a doctor; and Mary Colter, an architect who helped shaped the western landscape. Exploring the American consciousness, these poems question our shared heritage through the personal stories of legends.
Praise for Killing George Washington
"I became so deeply entranced with the beauty of the writing that I devoured it all. To my knowledge, no other writer has ever before so poignantly, so beautifully, so successfully captured the very power and essence of the American frontier and transferred it into both prose and poetry. One cannot read what Ms. Paris has written without being not only greatly moved by its strength and honesty, but equally touched and haunted by the pervasively compelling images she conjures. I consider this a master work of literary art." — Allan W. Eckert, noted historian and author of That Dark and Bloody River, The Frontiersman, and Wild Season
Encourage students to envision history through new perspectives in Killing George Washington, a collection of narrative poems that will help your students imagine how the history of the American West might be different if it had been written by slaves, immigrants, and outlaws. Anne Jennings Paris creates the poetic voices of five forgotten historical figures, and supplements the poems with brief historical essays about the person behind each voice. What do these underrepresented viewpoints tell us about American consciousness? How do we, as a nation, create legends, and who are the real people behind those legends? Through the personal stories presented in Killing George Washington, students will consider their shared heritage, and ultimately what it means to be American.
Grades: 10–12, College
Topics: Poetry, American History, Westward Expansion and Pioneers, Interpretation of History, Understanding Self and Others, Cultural Perspective, Immigration, Women and Minorities in History, Underrepresented Historical Figures
Tagged with: Poetry


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The Department of Science and Technology aims to create a Philippine Space Agency
The Space Agency, DOST Secretary Fortunato de la Pena said, is crucial to help communities become more resilient
He said the Senate will be very cooperative regarding his plan
Our country might soon have its own space agency!
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is pushing for the passage of a bill aiming to create a Philippine Space Agency.
PTV News disclosed Science and Technology Secretary Fortunato de la Pena said the space agency can give early warnings when there's a threat from natural disasters, and could also monitor the status of the country's agriculture center; hence, it is crucial to help communities to become more resilient.
The proposed creation of the agency already passed or gained the approval of the House Committee on Science and Technology, the Appropriations Committee, and the reorganization committee.
De la Pena said he is "confident the Senate will be very cooperative" regarding his plan.
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To note, the country's first ever U1 cube satellite (CubeSat) called Maya-1 built by Filipinos has been successfully deployed from the International Space Station (ISS).
The satellite is an essential step towards the formation of the Philippine Space Agency.
DOST signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with young innovators to provide the latter with research grants and stipends, the program began last year.
The program is open for all high school students and college students taking up Bachelor of Science (BS) and Master of Science (MS) courses, and must not be more than 30 years old.
The proposals may come from an individual or a team composed of not more than five students. There's no limit to the stipend as long as it can be justified.
In addition, DOST is also into the creation of a Nuclear Agency Regulation Commission.
De la Pena said, "a Nuclear Agency is necessary for countries that are members of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The other countries have the (Nuclear) agency. The regulatory body should be separate."
The bill regarding the Nuclear Agency seeks to the creation of a unified regulatory body for all activities involving sources of ionizing radiation.
As per DOST-Philippine Nuclear Research Institute's (PNRI) website, the existing regulatory and promotional functions are "potentially conflicted and not in agreement with international nuclear best practices."
Open Gov Asia, PTV News, Philippine News Agency
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Royal recognition for Procure Plus after over 2,500 people helped into long-term employment
Manchester-based company scoops Queen's Award for Enterprise for Promoting Opportunity (through social mobility)
Procure Plus Holdings has been recognised with the Queen's Award for Enterprise after helping thousands of people from disadvantaged communities in to sustainable, meaningful employment.
The company specialises in the procurement of goods and services for the social housing sector, helping providers secure cash savings of between 10% and 20% with no reduction in quality or service.
The surpluses generated from the procurement business are used to train and develop people who find themselves distanced from the employment market, using a range of training and support mechanisms, and working with local communities. This pioneering work has supported 2,534 people into sustainable employment over the last five years, with 90% of these beneficiaries having significant barriers to the labour market.
In order to ensure employment is truly sustainable, ongoing in-work support is provided for both candidates and employers, leading to over 87% of candidates remaining in work for longer than six months.
While Procure Plus Holdings supports many communities which are disadvantaged, its support of ex-offenders is especially exemplary. When PPH created OSCO Homes as a subsidiary company to deliver affordable housing using off-site construction methods, it also saw the opportunity to integrate social value in its business model to the benefit of the individual, company and community.
It did this by basing its first factory inside HMP Hindley, employing offenders serving custodial sentences. On release, prisoners are guaranteed roles within OSCO or its supply chain and are provided with access to a range of personal support to ensure they succeed on the outside. This has resulted in reoffending rates at OSCO of just 6%, compared to rates of up to 59% in the wider prison population on release.
I am incredibly proud that we have been awarded a Queen's Award for Enterprise in Promoting Opportunity by Her Majesty The Queen.
Procure Plus is a business with a commercial head and a social heart. To be recognised by the most prestigious business awards in the UK is a huge honour, and one that I share with our employees, clients and everyone who we were able to help into work.
Gwen Beeken
Managing Director of Procure Plus
The Queen's Awards for Enterprise are the most prestigious awards for UK business – often thought of as a 'knighthood for business' – with Her Majesty The Queen personally approving the winners. They recognise and encourage outstanding achievements in the fields of Innovation, International Trade, Sustainable Development and Promoting Opportunity (through social mobility).
225 UK businesses have been given awards this year but Procure Plus Holdings is one of just 9 to win in the Promoting Opportunity category.


Lebnany, YOU have nothing to be sorry for, as I am a perfect example....when I try to write without my glasses, later when I check, it looks like I have been drinking heavily. Quite obviously Nathan is far superior to us and probably to most people! (lol).
Joe, you have an open mind! AND you like to think! As far as MU is concerned, there are no further scientific studies going on, unfortunately.
Headzap, you don't know crap.
Obviously, .......you don't know much.
Boring presentation, absurd claims, sincerely doubt he can read the Rig-Veda. Another Von Daniken: Just in it for the money to be made off such books, lectures.
Why try to explain to that person they are obviously related to the so called missing link(i know their is no missing link its just an old silly creationist arguement). But you get my point he says their is no evidence for evolution if im reading him correctly. So he is either basing that on some made up creationist f tv show or he is deluded either way he is not worth it.
Learning how to indent paragraphs might also lead to people reading what you have written.
Are there also findings of other "modern" creatures in such ancient rock layers?
Without evolution then it all species ever to exist must have all existed in the beginning and what we have are the today are the remnants. How many of each species could there have existed with so many different types and limited resources?
How could humans survive in a world with dinosaurs without very sophisticated weaponry, unlike the spears we see being excavated?
There is definitely something worth looking into with these findings. Exactly what the cause or what their implications are is still a question.
I remeber when I was little in school when I was told we came from and evolved from monkeys,even when I was young I knew that was not true,nd, and am so clear now how false that info is,all you need is common sence and clear reasoning and logic if people would practice it and argur with themselves,and as I grew up I also learn how ther info they forced on me were not back up with evidence with there in between stages with no back up proof of exact link...its one thing to have a theroy and through it out there and another to force it down your throat and supress all other facts,theres to many arguments against there therory,is there any recourse,to this ,can they be sued,I am a strong advocate for seeking knowledge from the cradle to the grave.but against forcing a theroy on you and excludes all otheres or supresses all othere evidence away is ,put up a wall and blocks a path to the truth,we do not live in a dictatorship nor communist county, how is it that instition able to get away with ther non acosolute facts as fact..if museums are going to supress certain facts and evidence then open one up that wont,also national geographics dna study show the link and connection of all humans and human migration out of africa from one spot and one tribe than explain the diconnectoin ape like creatures fossels around the world and ther dna connection and migration around the world there dna dont link to ours or ours to theres the conections are made up you take a small monkey now and goriila now kill them and burry them and did them up 20 000 tears from now and say we were a monkey and stood up and became a ape, that bacically what there doing connecting different species as one,humans are set apart from all other creatures were alike and un alike at the same time,how is it also in there theroy that only the monkey and ape evolved to into a superior intilectual being and know other creature has,why are monkeys and apes still a limited creature the same today,i believe all creatures have an ancestor but we are not linked,even in a desert on a dry barren land,just buy adding water to the soil,all kinds of life beggings instantly.plants, animals, algea germs protenes, short cut would be our link and lfe to water,oh im sorry did adam begin as earth and water.


Absolutely gorgeous addition to my bedside table! Gorgeous quality.
The calendar arrived so quickly considering it came from New Zealand. It was well packaged. It's a wonderfull calendar, so colourful and beautiful.


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Home Forums Long Island & Eastern New York Soccer Message Boards Roll Away The Stone Soccer News Bryana Pizarro, Valley Stream South girls soccer getting no respect
Bryana Pizarro, Valley Stream South girls soccer getting no respect
By Owen O'Brien
owen.o'brien@newsday.com
The Valley Stream South girls soccer team entered this season feeling slighted.
In the players' eyes, they accomplished more than enough last fall to move up and play higher-ranked competition. But even after a first-place finish in Nassau AB-V, plenty of returning Division-I college talent and pushing the eventual Long Island champions in the opening round of the playoffs, the Falcons found themselves in the same position as the season before.
With Nassau girls soccer using a power-ranking system to generate its conference alignments, the Falcons hoped their previous success would allow them to move up and play more established programs in the county. But that wasn't the case, with Valley Stream South still competing in Conference AB-V this fall.
"I just said we'll have to prove our point and that's what we've been doing so far," junior Bryana Pizarro, who is committed to Mississippi State and has 21 goals and 10 assists this season, said. "It's definitely been a chip on our shoulder, making us work harder and wanting to prove our point that we are a top team and we should be in a higher division."
The Falcons have done just that, dominating this season with an 11-0 record, including 8-0 in Nassau AB-V, outscoring opponents 67-1, through Saturday.
Valley Stream South coach Demetri Adrahtas said schools don't typically make major jumps up or down conferences year-by-year, but he expected the team would move up at least one or two conferences based off last season's results.
"They were expecting to get a little more attention," Adrahtas said. "We thought coming into this year, we were going to be the next North Shore, the next Mepham, and we're like 'We're still in Conference V? What happened?' "
Adrahtas said he was told the Falcons were going to be moved to AB-IV, but after some schools were dropped down from Class AA to A based on enrollment changes, South was kept in AB-V.
But the players have decided to focus on what they can control, introducing a mantra of "We're all we have and we're all we need."
"At the end of the day, everyone put us in the conference and voted us to be in a lower conference, so this team is all we have," Pizarro said. "We are going to work hard and get what we deserve and that's all we need."
Mia Asenjo, a sophomore who transferred back to South after playing at Holy Trinity last season, said a major reason she wanted to return to her hometown school was because she played with the girls on the team since a young age and believed they could accomplish something special in high school. Like the rest of the players, she wasn't thrilled with the conference alignment, and wishes the team was playing in closer games.
"We're not mad, we're just annoyed at the fact that when we blow teams out, the coaches, they complain about it," Asenjo said. "And we get annoyed and that's because the reason we are in the conference is because the County put us there."
With the top players often playing only half of the game, the Falcons have increased the intensity at practice, relying on one another to make each other better and stronger for when the playoffs start against top competition. And the postseason has been what the players have visioned since Day 1.
Last season, South fell to North Shore, 5-3, in the opening round of the Nassau A playoffs. North Shore went on to win the Long Island Class A championship.
"We've been looking forward to it since the beginning of the season because we do believe we should be in a higher conference," five-year starting defender Lindsey Smith, who committed to play soccer and run track at Army, over schools such as Notre Dame and Ohio State, said. "We can compete with all those teams in a higher conference."
And the Falcons look forward to proving that on the field.
"It definitely gave them a little more motivation, they have an added chip on their shoulder," Adrahtas said. "And they are like 'If people don't care, make them care.' "


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Principalmente una pieza de decoración, el mapa de Borgia es un mapamundi hecho en algún momento a principios del siglo XV y grabado en una placa de metal. Su «elaboración y explicaciones escritas lo convierten en una de las piezas más preciadas de la historia de la cartografía».

Historia
Se desconoce el año en que se creó el mapa de Borgia. Una fuente argumenta que el mapa debe datar de algún tiempo antes de 1453. Otra sugiere que se hizo hacia 1450.

A fines del siglo XVIII, el artefacto llegó a una tienda de antigüedades, desde donde pasó a formar parte de la colección del cardenal Stefano Borgia. La escritura que aparece en el mapa lo identifica como del sur de Alemania. Sin embargo, no se sabe nada sobre la autoría del mapa Borgia. El énfasis en la historia y la nomenclatura tradicional sugiere que originalmente fue diseñado como un mapa histórico, para uso en una biblioteca o una escuela.

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En el mapa de Borgia, el Jardín del Edén está ubicado cerca de la India superior, la desembocadura del Ganges, y se representa como una tierra de maravillas y piedras preciosas. También está bastante cerca de China, país que está representado por diminutas figuras que recogen la seda de los árboles.

Los imperios babilónico, alejandrino, cartaginés y romano se destacan en el mapa en una secuencia ordenada. Del caótico estado italiano de la época, el cartógrafo comenta que «Italia, hermosa, fértil, fuerte y orgullosa, por falta de un solo señor, no tiene justicia». Se hacen menciones especiales de varias cruzadas que incluyen: la campaña de Carlomagno en España, las cruzadas en el noreste de Europa, África y Nicópolis, y la amenaza «futura» de Gog y Magog, quienes se describen como «judíos». El mapa tiene un diseño bien elaborado y fue hecho para durar mucho tiempo.

El mapa de Borgia incluye una leyenda que hace referencia a Ebinichibel, a quien se describe como «el rey etíope sarraceno con su pueblo con cabeza de perro». Este es uno de los muchos ejemplos donde los extremos blasfemos del mundo fueron representados como razas monstruosas, que aún no habían sido convertidas por misioneros cristianos.

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Lecturas adicionales

 Nordenskiöld, A.E. (1891) «Un relato de una copia del siglo XV de un Mapa del Mundo grabado en metal, que se conserva en el museo del cardenal Stephan Borgia en Velletri; copiado de Ymer, 1891». Estocolmo: AL Norman (este mapa fue adquirido posteriormente por la Biblioteca John Rylands, Manchester)

Mapas históricos


Some weeks we have a whole pile of framing to do, others the cafe is busy or I am in a painting frenzy.
This week we have been eating cake.
Wednesday night was spent at the very lovely Craigie's Fruit Farm at the latest Edinburgh Cake Ladies meeting. All cakes were fruit themed, thus giving the illusion of health while actually overdosing on sugar. Stuart's nectarine and cinnamon cake with crunchy topping was a bit of a favourite!
The full selection was a sight to behold on a rainy weekday; every colour and interpretation of cake involving fresh fruit.
Came in handy for Stuart's plum and lavender compote on Wednesday night!
Saturday night saw a historic second night out on a 'school night' for the Bon Papillon team. This time it was our first Supperclub - like a restaurant crossed with a dinner party, held in the house of fellow cake lady Wendy.
With a middle eastern theme, everything was memorable and delicious; the pudding was amazing.
One week until the team head off for our summer break - so a reminder that Bon Papillon will be closed for a rest from 8th - 12th July inclusive.
A new display on the cafe wall tells the story of my artistic activity this month, which has been pretty constant!
More are heading for the Number Four Gallery in St Abbs on our return, for their summer show.


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ISIS threatens social media leaders with a new video
Alexander Jakins
The virtual war against ISIS is on full swing after latest threats by the Terror group.
A group of ISIS supporters has threatened to take down Facebook and Twitter - as well as their leaders.
Photos of Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey appear multiple times in a 25-minute video created by a group that calls itself the Sons Caliphate Army. The images of the two CEOs are sometimes engulfed in flames, or marked with bullet holes.
The video is in response to efforts by Facebook and Twitter to stop terrorist activity on their platforms.
A slide toward the end of the video reads, in English: "To Mark and Jack, founders of Twitter and Facebook / and to their Crusader government / You announce daily that you suspended many of our accounts / And to you we say: Is that all you can do? You are not in our league. If you close one account we will take 10 in return and soon your names will be erased after we delete you [sic] sites, Allah willing, and will know that we say is true. #Sons_Caliphate_Army"
In a separate slide, they also claim to have hacked more than 10,000 Facebook accounts, 150 Facebook groups, and more than 5,000 Twitter accounts.
"Many of these accounts have been given to supporters and if Allah permits the rest of them will be distributed also," they add.
ISIS and related terrorist groups have targeted Dorsey at least twice in the past year. A group of self-identified ISIS supporters threatened the Twitter founder and CEO in March of 2015 for closing hundreds of their social media accounts.
In its threat, the group claimed that Dorsey and his company started a "war" against the Islamic State, and that the "necks" of Twitter employees have "become an official target to ISIS soldiers and supporters." Twitter seems to have only stepped up its efforts to wipe ISIS off its platform since then.
A few weeks ago, the company announced it had suspended more than 125,000 accounts for threatening or supporting terrorist acts over the past several months.
Twitter also said it has grown its team that looks into reports of terror activity on its network. During his keynote at Mobile World Congress this week, Zuckerberg reiterated his stance and Facebook's policy on helping to fight terrorism online.
"We feel like we have a pretty big responsibility running this big networking community to help prevent terrorism and different kinds of attacks," he said on Monday. "We have very strong policies on this."
Zuckerberg said in a past town hall that anything that incites violence or terrorism, "we just take down immediately."
Tags: Facebook,	Twitter,	ISIS
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