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The Samsung Galaxy S8 has just leaked in a new image. This time around we get to see a real life photo of the Galaxy S8, well, alleged photo of the company's upcoming flagship. The source really did not share a lot of info along with this image, but luckily for us, this image is quite clear and it reveals quite a few details on its own, and it goes hand-in-hand with some of the previously leaked renders, like the ones that surfaced earlier today.
As you can see, this smartphone comes with a curved display on its sides, and the bezel on the bottom of the phone is quite thin. If previous leaks are to be believed, the bezel on the top of the device will also be as thin, proportional to the bezel on the bottom of the device. This phone is made out of metal and glass, and we get to see some ports on the bottom of this smartphone. The 3.5mm headphone jack is a part of this package, luckily, and next to it you'll notice the Type-C USB port for charging and syncing. Next to the charging port lies a microphone, and on the right, you'll notice the phone's bottom-firing speaker. Two separate antenna lines are also quite visible here, as you can see in the provided image. This phone sports curved edges, just like the LG G6 which surfaced quite recently, and as you can see, the phone's display is turned on in this image. Weibo's (Chinese social network) mobile site is running on this Galaxy S8 smartphone, in case you were wondering, and judging by the size of the content on the display, we're looking at a rather large panel here, though it is always possible that the font size has been manually lowered in the settings.
As many of you know by now, Samsung allegedly plans to release two variants of the Galaxy S8, the smaller Galaxy S8 variant, and the larger Galaxy S8 Plus model. Interestingly enough, both of these smartphones are expected to ship with rather large displays, the Galaxy S8 is rumored to ship with a 5.7-inch or a 5.8-inch panel, while the Galaxy S8 Plus will come with a 6.1-inch or a 6.2-inch display. Both of those panels will sport QHD resolution, and we're looking at Samsung's OLED panels here. Android Nougat will come pre-installed on both of these smartphones, along with the company's custom UI, of course. The Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus are expected to land in March or April, and will be fueled by the Snapdragon 835 64-bit octa-core SoC.


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Goow declares run for Paterson at-large council seat
February 3, 2018 by Jayed Rahman
Former longtime councilman Aslon Goow threw his hat in the ring for one of the three available at-large council seats this week.
"The city needs a watchdog," said Goow, a once outspoken councilman from the 2nd Ward, who railed against corruption over the years.
Goow represented the 2nd Ward for three terms or 12 years. He lost his seat to upstart ex-councilman Mohammed Akhtaruzzaman in 2012. He tried to regain his seat after ousting Akhtaruzzaman through a court case without success. He gave another shot in 2016 with the same outcome.
Goow ran twice – in 2002 and 2014 — for mayor without success.
"It gave me a little time to look at things in a different perspective," said Goow. He was urged to run for an at-large seat by residents and business owners, he said.
Goow has a loyal base of supporters in the 2nd Ward. He views the dozen or so candidates running for the three open seats as low-caliber.
"The people that are running, in my opinion, do not bring any knowledge or experience that will benefit the city," said Goow, 58.
Some of his opponents in the at-large race reacted to his announcement.
"Best of luck to him. I wish him well," said former school board member Lilisa Mimms. She declined to comment on Goow's criticism of the candidates running in the race.
The former councilman excluded ex-councilman Kenneth McDaniel from his opprobrium.
"I have no problems," said Akhtaruzzaman. "We became friends. We talk. I wish him good luck."
The former longtime councilman renewed his call to combat corruption in the municipal government.
"Time and time again, our elected officials in Paterson let us down. We just saw another mayor go down on corruption charges. Enough is enough – we need to take our city back," said Goow.
Goow and disgraced mayor Jose "Joey" Torres were bitter enemies. Goow exposed the almost $74,000 in questionable severance pay the former mayor took prior to leaving office in 2010.
Torres was later cleared of any wrongdoing by the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office. Goow suspected other similar corruption within Torres' administration. He was unsurprised when video emerged of Torres using public works employees to renovate his family's leased warehouse.
Torres is serving five years in state prison.
While serving on the council, Goow opposed tax increases, he said. He also took a hands-on approach to crime patrolling the streets himself.
Goow also took credit for restoring Pennington Park.
There is talk the former councilman is eying the public works director's post in a possible Andre Sayegh administration, according to insiders. Sayegh and Goow are friends.
"I've had a lot of time to reflect on my record of public service and my tenure in office, but I keep thinking of the progress we have yet to make. A tough job requires a strong leader, and I still believe that Paterson can be a safer and more prosperous city for everyone, in every ward," said Goow.
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i am very happy to hear this. praying he wins. we need him as mayor if this city still has a chance to be saved
He has to be Mayor, Wake up Paterson!!! But this is a good start again!! Get 'em Goow

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Rasco, wirklicher Name Kieda Brewer, ist ein US-amerikanischer Rapper aus San Mateo, Kalifornien. Er ist ein Vertreter der Stilrichtungen Hardcore-Rap und Westcoast-Hip-Hop.

Biografie
Kieda Brewer wurde Mitte der 1970er in San Mateo geboren. In Kontakt mit der Hip-Hop-Kultur kam er zunächst als Breakdancer. Er wurde daraufhin Teil der Gruppe Children of One Destiny, die neben ihm aus Saafir, Friz-B und Eb.F bestand. Saafir verließ die Gruppe schließlich, um eine Solokarriere zu verfolgen, woraufhin sie 1991 in Various Blends umbenannt wurde und Brewer ebenfalls zu rappen begann. Er gab sich den Namen Rasco, als Akronym für "Realistic, ambitious, serious, cautious, and organized". Das Trio veröffentlichte 1995 die Single Chill as I Flex, die jedoch nur lokalen Erfolg hatte. Noch bevor ein gemeinsames Album aufgenommen wurde, entschloss sich auch Rasco die Gruppe zu verlassen und bei Peanut Butter Wolfs Label Stones Throw Records zu unterschreiben.

Dort wurde 1997 seine Single The Unassisted veröffentlicht, für die er verschiedene Ehrungen erhielt. Unter anderem wurde sie auf Platz 1 der Independent-Hip-Hop-Charts der Musikzeitschrift Hits geführt und hielt für vier Wochen die Spitzenplatzierung in der landesweit ausgestrahlten Radiosendung The Wake Up Show von Sway und King Tech. Infolgedessen begann Rasco an seinem Debütalbum Time Waits for No Man zu arbeiten, das 1998 über Stones Throw erschien. Das Werk erreichte zwar nicht die Billboard 200, wurde aber von der Hip-Hop-Zeitschrift The Source als bestes, unabhängig veröffentlichtes Album von 1998 ausgezeichnet und erreichte Rasco und das Label zufriedenstellende Verkaufszahlen.

Der internationale Vertrieb von Time Waits for No Man war an das Londoner Label Copasetik Records vergeben worden, das danach Interesse zeigte auch in den USA für Rascos Musik zuständig zu sein. Rasco willigte ein, hatte jedoch bald Probleme mit dem Unternehmen, woraufhin er sein eigenes Label, Pockets Linted, gründete. Dennoch erschien 1999 sein nächstes Projekt, die von der Geburt seiner Tochter inspirierte EP The Birth, über Copasetik.

Anschließend arbeitete er jedoch am ersten Werk von Pockets Linted, der Kompilation 20,000 Leagues Under the Street Volume 1, die 2000 auf den Markt gebracht wurde und auf der neben Rasco auch Phil the Agony, Zion I und Planet Asia auftraten. Mit letzt genanntem gründete er das Duo Cali Agents und brachte noch im gleichen Jahr deren Album, How the West Was One, auf den Markt.

In den folgenden Jahren arbeitete er immer wieder mit Planet Asia als Cali Agents zusammen. Zunächst kehrte er jedoch zu Copasetik Records zurück und veröffentlichte 2001 sein zweites Soloalbum Hostile Environment, bevor er zum New Yorker Label Coup d'Etat Records wechselte, wo 2003 Escape from Alcatraz erschien.

Alle weiteren Alben, mit denen er sich im Underground bewegte, wurden in Eigenregie über Pockets Linted veröffentlicht.

Diskografie

Alben
 1998: Time Waits for No Man
 2001: Hostile Environment
 2003: Escape from Alcatraz
 2004: Minority Report
 2005: The Dick Swanson Theory
 2008: Global Threat
 2010: Al Capone's Vault (mit DJ Wich)
 2012: United Fakes of America

EPs
 1999: The Birth
 2014: Swann & Simpson (mit Guilty Simpson)
 2014: 7 Days EP

Kompilationen
 2000: 20,000 Leagues Under the Street Volume 1
 2006: The Wonder Years – 1996 – 2006

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Rapper
Pseudonym
US-Amerikaner
Geboren im 20. Jahrhundert
Mann

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It has been over ten days since I've blogged and almost two months since I've posted any photos. I hope at some point I will be able to catch up. So many wonderful things have happened. But right now... I can't really think past the minute, nor can I speak. My sweetheart is off and away and it hurts. Yep, it hurts. But all will be well. It really will. I know. But for the moment, I will say good night and I'll be back when I can find my voice.
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Whitney & Aldous RH at the Rescue Rooms, Nottingham 26/11/19
by davidbelbinPosted on November 27, 2019 November 27, 2019
Chicago's Whitney make short, sweet albums of indie soul. The second, Forever Turned Around, came out recently, and is full of memorable songs. The band they emerged from, The Smith-Westerns, were fun but frivolous. Nothing throwaway about Whitney, whose drummer and singer Julien Ehrlich (above left) takes centre stage. His diffident manner and Ed Norton meets Chris Martin looks appeal to the large female contingent in the packed, mostly twenty-something audience.
The seven piece band includes two keyboards and occasional horns. Ehrlich's blue-eyed soul voice is a distinctive wonder. It takes me half the set to realise what the soul inflected songs (co-written with guitarist Max Kakacek) most remind me of: pre-disco era Bee Gees. There's also a clear influence from the late Southern soul giant Allen Toussaint, whose Southern Nights they cover in the first encore.
Most of the band's two albums feature in the main set. In case we find those songs too one paced, they throw in a jaunty cover of NRBQ's cheesy Magnet in the middle of their 75 minutes. Other songs have less cheerful subjects. 'That one was a song about anxiety,' Ehrlich says between Light Upon the Lake and Follow. 'This one's a song about death.' Their strongest numbers are saved for the end, a powerful No Woman and the lovely Valleys (My Love). Excellent.
Manchester's Aldous RH, opening, performs with a backing track and occasional electric guitar. His stage presence is hardly up there with Jason of Sleaford Mods but, somehow, it works (except when he mimes keyboards). Largely because he has strong numbers and a great voice. His songs are woozy, Sly Stone infected soul. The Curtis Mayfield to Whitney's Hall and Oates, if you like. His 35 minute set includes a cover of the Impressions' Keep on Trying, after which he urges the young audience to register for the forthcoming General Election. He got my vote.
This is my review from the Nottingham Post.
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UK: Abdul Elahi Jailed for Blackmailing 2,000 Victims Into Paedophilic Activity, Self-Harming
Abdul Elahi, a serial blackmailer who targeted 2,000 victims online, forcing them to self-harm and engage in paedophilic activity, was jailed after admitting 158 charges committed against 72 victims.
Abdul Elahi, 26, forced his victims, around 550 of whom were British, to send degrading images of themselves or others to him.
The National Crime Agency (NCA), roughly equivalent to America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), said that Elahi would target vulnerable people, such the underage and people in debt, by posing as a wealthy individual on 'sugar daddy' websites and promising large sums of cash for indecent photos.
After he obtained the photos, Elahi would use them as blackmail to extort more extreme photos and horrific videos from his victims, demanding that they film themselves self-harming and/or physically abusing young children and younger siblings, for example.
If victims refused to send Elahi what he demanded he would become aggressive and threaten to send their explicit photos and videos to their families and friends.
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In the summer of 2013 Casey Gannon and Colin Arisman thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail with cameras in hand. "Only The Essential" is the story of their 5 month, 2668 mile journey on foot from Mexico to Canada across the wilderness of California, Oregon, and Washington. Today, the film has been viewed over a million times and continues to inspire audiences to pursue their dreams.
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Phil was bored and frustrated and trying hard not to show it.
His sister, Janet had asked him if he would mind giving her three friends a lift down to the dress shop for the final fitting of their bridesmaids' dresses and, lacking otherwise gainful employment, he'd agreed. It wasn't often that he had a chance to spend time with pretty girls, and these three were among the prettiest he'd met. The thing was, he tended to get hopelessly tongue tied around women and, having done his usual grunts and gurgles on first meeting them, they'd made their hellos and thank-yous for politeness' sake then fallen into chatting amongst themselves leaving Phil to his own thoughts.
They parked up and walked into the dress shop together, the girls insisting that he couldn't wait in the car for the several hours this would take. Hours? Just what is involved with a dress fitting anyway? Well from his perspective it had involved one of the girls being poked and prodded into a fit of giggles behind a curtain while the other two chatted away about nothing in particular for ages until, with a flourish, the curtain would be pulled aside to reveal the latest wonder that women's fashion could produce.
There was no doubt, the dresses were spectacular. Electric blue satin with three quarter length leg-of-mutton sleeves, scalloped necklines and full skirts that fell to about mid-calf. Finish off with silk stockings, inch and a half pumps and clutch bag to match the dress and the bride had her work cut out if she was going to outshine her friends. Mind you, knowing Janet that wouldn't be as big a problem as it might seem at first; since Harry had come into her life, there had been an inner radiance to her that would make her look good in a sack.
Right, that was the third of them done, perhaps they could get away from here sometime soon. They looked so beautiful together, he could barely bring himself to look. The frustration and jealously were just too close to the surface today and might just show through if he wasn't careful.
"Right, Mr Bailey. We're ready for you now."
I'm sorry, what?
Phil looked over at the brightly smiling assistant, holding the curtain open for him as though this were the most natural thing in the world. Overcome by a sudden numbness, Phil stood and walked past her into the changing room. The world around him had taken on a surreal, dreamlike quality, everything moving in slow-motion, as though it were underwater.
The room was spacious with a full length mirror, a chair with a full set of lacy underwear laid out on it and, of course, a dress on a hanger.
"Your sister said that you'd know what to do and would probably prefer to be left alone to change, but do give a shout if you need any help won't you?"
With that she disappeared leaving Phil to look around him dumbly. This had to be a joke. That dress was far too small for him. He tried slipping his arm into a sleeve and could barely fit half his hand into the narrow part. His frustration grew until he was fighting with all his inner strength to stop the tears from flowing. Involuntarily, a strangled moan escaped. He hoped no-one had heard? No such luck.
"Are you ok Phil?" It was hard to tell which of Janet's bridesmaids had spoken, but the concern was evident in her voice. "Janet said that if anything like this were to happen we should tell you to go with the flow and trust her."
What was that supposed to mean? An image of his sister drifted across his mind from years ago. A sympathetic smile and kind eyes, such kind eyes. Janet had never done anything to hurt him before, so why now? Well if this was what she wanted…
He stripped off his clothes and stared at his naked self in the full length mirror. What was it Mark Twain had said? Naked people have little or no influence on society? No real wonder. Phil hated his body, fat hairy and, to his eyes, misshapen as it was. He picked up the silks and lace from the chair and turned his back to his reflection.
It had been so many years since he had done anything like this, but the skills came back in a moment. The bra hooked easily behind him and adjusted to cup his flabby pectorals. The knickers were a pair of lacy boy shorts in a matching pale blue with just enough room for him to arrange his extras so they were comfortable and didn't show. The garter belt, also matching, was something new, but he figured it out quickly enough then slid the stockings up his hairy legs, being as careful as he could not to snag them. He wished he had time and courage enough to shave first; nylons felt so much better against smooth skin, plus he could feel these were expensive and it would be such a shame to ladder them against the roughness and the hairs. He'd never worn stockings and suspenders before, but the way the clasps worked were simple enough.
The dress already had its petticoats sewn into it so it should just be a matter of simply stepping into it. This was where it would all go wrong. Everything else was stretchy and could be made to fit, but not the dress. He put one leg in, then the other, a shiver of sensual pleasure running through his entire frame as soft fabric caressed soft fabric and gently kissed the skin beneath. Steeling himself for the disappointment he knew must come, he eased his hands into the narrow sleeves of the garment, and amazingly, impossibly, they slid through and out the other end.
He stared in wonder at his hands, now slender and elegant. He reached behind for the zip and slid it easily up his back, all his unsightly bulk vanishing into the impossibly slender waist of the bodice, with just enough of it pushing up to settle comfortably into the cups of his bra and fill out the top of the dress. He looked down at his cleavage in delight. He had a cleavage! The clasp above the zip presented him with a moment's difficulty, but no more.
His feet were fully one third again as long as the shoes, but impossible things seemed to be happening today. He slid his toes in and miraculously found his heel settling comfortably into the shoe, fitting perfectly. His legs, he noticed, were now smooth and hairless beneath the silk. He felt a tickling sensation on his bare shoulders and reached a hand up to find gentle waves of luxuriant chestnut hair tumbling down his back. He turned to the mirror and gasped.
The image in the mirror was no longer him, but me. The rugged lines of his face had softened, narrowed somehow to reveal the more feminine me; the me inside. The dress fit me like a glove and for the first time in my life I saw that I was beautiful.
"Is everything all right in there?"
"Er… Yes thank-you," my voice was softer somehow, lighter and more feminine. "Would you mind coming in please? I think I could do with a little help making things perfect."
The assistant came in gushing complements and fussing around in a business-like manner until all the folds of the dress were exactly where they should be. She held up the clutch for me and suggested I transfer my keys and wallet into it. The work of a moment, then I stepped out past the curtain and was engulfed in the exuberant greeting of the three other bridesmaids. Their instant acceptance reached inside and drew out a part of me I had hidden away so long ago. Every day that part of me had wept behind closed doors, and now for the first time in such a long time I heard my heart singing with her voice.
My dress, it turned out, was more ornate than the others, but the girls showed no signs of envy, rather they made so much more of a fuss of me, telling me how beautiful I looked. One of them, Mandy I think, reached into her purse and drew out a pink envelope which she handed over to me without ceremony. They all stopped talking and waited patiently, expectantly. I took the hint and slid my slim finger under the flap. Inside was a card with the words "To my lovely sister" written on the front and a few sheets of paper written in my sister's distinctive cursive script. I started to read, out loud as it seemed these three already knew so much more about what was happening than me.
"My dearest Pippa,
"Do you remember the day I first met my little sister?" – The sympathetic smile. The kind eyes. Oh yes I remember. – "You looked so precious in my old party dress and I loved you for what you were from that moment. These last months, since Harry and I became engaged, I knew I wanted you to be my Maid of Honour, but I didn't know how to ask. You have been so distant lately, I was afraid of your response.
"I hope you don't mind this little subterfuge, but I had your dress impregnated with Hugglebugs so that they would activate as soon as you put it on. They will remain active and will reverse the changes at any time you take the dress off between now and midnight, so if you don't want to go through with this, all you need do is change back into your suit.
"I do hope though that you will agree to celebrate my wedding in this way. I hope I am right and that this gift to you will be as welcome now as I know it would have been had I been able to grant it all those years ago.
"It will be agony waiting to find out my dear, but I do so look forward to seeing, when I return from honeymoon, if I still have a little sister in body as well as in spirit. If that's going to happen, you will find a further gift in the closet in your hotel room, after all a girl needs more than just a bridesmaid's dress to wear doesn't she?
"Remember, dearest Piperella, you must make your decision before midnight. If you are still wearing my gift at the twelfth stroke, the Hugglebugs will complete their program and change you on the inside to match your outer appearance. If you don't want this, be sure to change before the end of the day.
"I do so look forward to seeing you at the church. I will know from your eyes how welcome this gift is.
"All my fondest love,
The attendant handed me my suit in a garment bag and showed the four of us, now chatting excitedly, to the door. It was strange driving in heels and a dress, but somehow deliciously sensuous. I was a little more cautious than I might usually have been, but we still made it to the church well ahead of the limousine bringing Janet and our father. He helped my sister out of the car and gave me an odd, confused look – as though he felt he should know me – as he led her up the stairs. I didn't care, Janet looked absolutely incredible in a dress that was evidently the design on which our own had been based, only brilliant white and far more ornately decorated. Her radiant smile brightened even further when she caught sight of me, and the delighted grin on my own face. I had never been so happy, and willed every ounce of the excess joy that was bubbling up in me to my lovely sister.
I won't bore you with the details of the wedding other than to say it was perfect. I did catch my mother looking at me strangely just after our arrival at the front of the church, then realisation dawned and an odd contentment settled on her face. The last of my concerns melted in that moment. If she was ok with this then she'd see that Dad came round to it too.
At the reception afterwards, the best man, Harry's best friend Simon, did the traditional duty of complementing the bridesmaids, but throughout his eyes were on me. I felt a warmth inside, which grew when he came over to me after the meal with two flutes of champagne and proceeded to monopolise my company through the rest of the evening. He was tall and handsome and a wonderful dancer.
Long after the newly-weds had left for the airport and the promise of warmer climes, Simon invited me for a walk in the hotel gardens. The heady scent of night blooming flowers mingled with the champagne to give me a sense of walking on air. We reached the centre of a small maze and, by the dim glow of a nearby floodlit fountain, Simon turned me to face him. In the distance I heard a clock start to chime. Just a few more seconds. I wanted to be fully a woman before anything more happened.
"You look really handsome in that suit."
He allowed himself a modest smile at the compliment.
"I think it was Mark Twain who said that clothes make the man."
The woman too, I thought to myself as the last stroke of midnight carried to our ears across the night and I felt a warmth in my loins as my miracle gift completed its assigned task.
"However I feel positively drab standing beside you. I have never known a more beautiful woman." Simon leaned in for that first wonderful kiss.


My parents witnessed red flags and decided to take me to the hospital. I was very frightened I thought I was evil and was going to be punished. I was placed in a small room with a little door in it, my mind told me to open the door and all would be okay.


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Isolation : A weak link in Indian public health
Renuka Sane
There are four parts to the public health response to an epidemic: 1) Trace, 2) Test, 3) Isolate, and 3) Treat. Once someone is infected, tracing involves identifying, listing and following up with all the people who have come in contact with the infected person to ensure that they do not further spread the disease.
While tracing is weak in most of India, some states such as Kerala and Karnataka seem to be doing a better job of tracing. This knowledge can be applied more broadly in India.
India's response to testing has been slow. Only recently have private firms been allowed to do tests for Covid-19. Most of the capability in testing in India is in the private sector, but the limitations of government contracting hamper the extent to which this capability can be brought into fighting Covid-19. Once these problems are solved, and testing is done at scale, we will have a clearer picture of infection hot-spots and will be able to design a appropriate health response.
Once a person has tested positive, or if a person comes in contact with someone who has tested positive, there is a need for isolation. This typically requires staying at home, in a room, separate from others in the household.
Such a recipe for isolation has been designed for countries where the number of members living in a dwelling unit is low. This will be infeasible for most people in India. For example, it is estimated that over 9 million people in Mumbai live in slums. The slums in Dharavi alone are estimated to house 1 million people, with a population density of 869,565 people per square mile. It is impossible to people in low-income housing and slums to self-isolate, especially when toilets are shared in a community. Hence, self-isolation at home will not work for most people in India.
Could the government run isolation facilities? A barrier here is the mistrust of the state. Public isolation facilities are generally found to be sub-standard. People have been seen to flee from public quarantine facilities. Hence, at present, the government is not useful as a mechanism for producing isolation services.
All four legs of the public health response -- trace, test, isolate, treat -- are weak in India. There is considerable interest in the problems of tracing and testing. There is a need for fresh thinking on the problem of isolation also. Once millions of people in India have been tested, what are we going to do with the persons who have tested positive?
Renuka Sane is Associate Professor, NIPFP.
This article was first published in The Leap Blog on March 29, 2020.


This spring I decided to try something new, totally inspired by a fabric.
The thing is I don't usually wear florals. Not sure why but my eye always goes to stripes and polka dots but never anything that is flowery. This print, a lovely lily design on a navy background, however changed that.
Every time I walked by the bolt in my almost daily visits to the Fabricville down the street, I would find myself handling this fabric and wondering what I could make out of it.
This decision led me to a second new direction – an attempt to "mash" two patterns together – Jalie's empire waist knit dress and this sport top with the shawl/folded neckline that had become my favourite. Recently I have been rediscovering some of Jalie's classics and have found out that they really can be used in so many ways as TNT (tried and true) patterns with true creative possibilities.
Combining these two patterns was easy. The top pattern has a seam just under the bust and this made substituting the upper portion for the cap sleeve boat neck of one version of the knit dress very simple – the seams turned out to be the same length!
I was really happy with how this mid weight knit really draped nicely around the neck and how the skirt hung from the princess seam without clingy ( pattern note the skirt is not as body forming as the pattern envelope picture suggests – no shape wear necessary here).
You can really see the ease in the skirt in this shot, taken with my photographic assistance in the picture.
The next decision I had to make was whether or not to finish the dress with the flounce included in the view of the dress. I have never actually used a flounce on a skirt hem before and I was really hesitant about this. I was afraid as a tall woman this would look too frou-frou on me, but since I had already done two new-to-me things with this dress – a pattern mash-up and a used a floral fabric – I figured why not?
I love this dress. Combining the two patterns was a piece of cake and I definitely feel feminine and spring like in this dress.
More importantly I have learned to sew more bravely and that feels like a great way to start a new season.
Very nice. I like how the vertical stems of the flowers add to the slim shape. You did a wonderful job mashing the two patterns.


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The Mayfair Townhouse - London
English eccentricity with a touch of Italian design
Set in the upscale London district, the Mayfair Townhouse is the latest addition to the Iconic Luxury Hotels collection. It comprises 15 Georgian townhouses, including seven Grade II listed buildings, and provides a unique hospitality experience in the heart of the capital.
The boutique hotel has a magical charm and an interesting literary history, which reflects its location. Half Moon Street was historically a regular haunt of bachelors, bohemians and artists in Victorian London – also called "dandies". Literature buffs will know that this very place featured in Oscar Wilde's most famous work, The Importance of Being Earnest, where the central character lived in one of the "bachelor bedrooms".
"Think Oscar Wilde meets Alice in Wonderland" – this is how the Mayfair Townhouse describes its own style. For its interiors, the London-based studio of Goddard Littlefair has been sympathetically inspired by the Victorians' exuberant, decadent décor.
A series of Contardi lights, some with exclusive adaptations to suit the specific requirements of the interior designers Goddard Littlefair  – as well as items from the standard collection, including the iconic Ongo Battery lamp, designed by Jessica Corr for Tzelan – have been selected for this special project.
The lights are dotted around the whole building, from the reception to the bar area, and on the staircase up to the guest rooms. On arrival, visitors are greeted at the reception desk, with warm glowing bespoke cut-crystal lanterns casting shadows on the ceiling. Adjacent to the reception, a stunning customised alabaster disc chandelier descends over the staircase and creates a dramatic and awe-inspiring effect. On the ground floor is the beating heart of the Mayfair Townhouse, the Dandy Bar. A soft and intimate atmosphere, provided by the gold-coloured Ongo Battery lights on the tables, invites visitors to enter and enjoy this oasis of peace, away from the busy streets of Mayfair. Tailor-made wall lights with tiered fringe panels in an ombre effect deliver a further wow factor.
The final overall impression is enchanting, and the decorative lighting harmonises with the design as a whole in a delicate balance of traditional and contemporary. Contardi is able to capture and translate the designer's concepts and meet the client's needs with its standard and bespoke collections. Discover how we can assist you in achieving distinctive settings for your hospitality project by contacting us at: sales@contardi-italia.it
Interior design: Goddard Littlefair | Procurement: Benjamin West London | Client: L+R Hotels
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Q: Ajax function: data fields with multiple value I have a doubt about the data fields of ajax function.
Usually, we have that a syntax for ajax function may be:
$.ajax({
        url: "/aaa/bbb/ccc",
        method: "SomeMethod",
        data: someData,
        success: function (response) {
        do something
    }

My question is: in data fields, can i put more than one data? In other words, can I pass from:
data: someData,

to:
data: data1, data2, data3...

and so on?

A: You can create an object that holds the data. data: {date1Name: data1Value, date2Name: data2Value}.
Your complete code should look like this.
$.ajax({
        url: "/aaa/bbb/ccc",
        method: "SomeMethod",
        data: {date1Name: data1Value, date2Name: data2Value},
        success: function (response) {
        do something
    }

A: You can create an object of key/value pairs.
$.ajax({
    ...
    data : { data1: 'bar', data2: 'foo' },
    ...
});

A: $.ajax({
    url: "/aaa/bbb/ccc",
    method: "SomeMethod",
    data: "name=value&name1=value1&name2=value2",
    success: function (response) {
      //do something
    }
 });

A: $.ajax({
    url: "/aaa/bbb/ccc",
    method: "SomeMethod",
    data: {name : 'Luca', country : 'NA'},
    success: function (response) {}

})

A: Here is how you can build multiple params, hold them in an object and send them as JSON.stringify():
var paramsToSend = {};
paramsToSend['data1'] = 'data1';
paramsToSend['data2'] = 'data2';
$.ajax({
    ...
    data: {params:JSON.stringify(paramsToSend)},
    ...
});

A: It looks like you want to pass it as an array?
$.ajax({
    url: "/aaa/bbb/ccc",
    method: "SomeMethod",
    data: { data:[data1, data2, data3] },
    success: function (response) {
    do something
}

I would recommend putting the array in a dictionary / JSON object so you have a variable name to key off of in whatever backend language you are using.

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HomeFamily Politics – Privatising Choices & Collectivising Outcomes
January 22, 20186100Views
Alexander Shaw analyses the landscape of family politics and the relations between the sexes in the the post-war West
Rakish popularism is crashing through the boundaries of acceptable discourse like a Panzer tank through a picket fence. Let us ask why.
Over a million British children are currently growing up without a father. One in five German households is now a single parent family (mostly in the former GDR). The situation is similarly grim across the developed West.
Single mother households, now exceeding the post-war bulge, are still on the rise. This vast number does not include households where the mother's influence, with society behind her, has completely eclipsed the father's authority in their children's lives. This may not end well.
Wartime Governance Creates a Wartime Population
A society which exists in a state of war must shift its priorities away from investing in social institutions like stable families and adapt to its condition of instability and population erosion by producing:
Sons who defend
Daughters who re-populate
It should come as no surprise to anyone that humans have evolved a biological mechanism which causes this adjustment to happen automatically. When there are fewer men in a society (wartime), there are obviously not enough men for all the women to have husbands – which means that many of the first generation of war-children grow up with a semi-absent or completely absent father.
Children who grow up without a father are, as a demographic:
Violent men
Promiscuous women
Without a father present, girls reach puberty earlier and sleep around more while men are more likely to seek the immediate rewards of crime and derive a personal identity from a group (whether it be a team, gang, party or military) identity. This perpetuates the wartime breeding strategy to the second generation; daughters who aren't predisposed (or, in wartime, perhaps have no incentive), to make the complex set of calculations involved in selecting a partner for his long-run stability instead repeat their mothers' ordeal and end up raising the next generation of fatherless children and around we go.
The collapse of Classical Antiquity serves as a good documented historical example of this type of ecology. Faced with endless invasions and insurrections, few of the late Imperial leaders knew their fathers. While their sisters hectored, bullied, and even offered themselves in marriage to invaders, from Constantine to Justinian (and later still in the East), a strong militia stood as the counterpoint to a de facto rule of endless concubines, domineering matriarchs and their eunuchs.
As evidenced by the record of history, a society can maintain itself in this cycle for at least some decades. When it has used up its peacetime capital and maxed out on credit, a strategy of governance that prioritises the provided for rather than the provider becomes centripetal– - requiring the flow of resources from ever wider peripheries to feed the shortages it creates for itself at its center. If it can't achieve this by means of warfare the resources cease to flow, the governance collapses and the society is forced to return to horizontal provisioning (provisioning contracts between lower institutions, civil society and individual people).
To take a more recent example, the First World War killed about 2% of the whole British population (so – as a horribly vague personal estimate – 4% of males and 8% of men corresponding to women of childbearing age).
The same war had a much more devastating effect on the German population. 3-4% of both the German Empire and the Austrio-Hungarian Empire were lost. I imagine that translates into something like a fifth or a quarter of men corresponding to women of childbearing age.
That would mean not only a fifth of those girls being unable to find husbands, but many of the rest having an absent or semi-absent partner, leading to more and more absent fathers. This in turn drives demand for a bigger and bigger state machine to act as surrogate husband and father, shifting resources vertically in a ham-fisted attempt to provide for and manage the surge of war children being produced.
We've probably enjoyed a longer period of peace and prosperity than any society anywhere ever. But here's the thing: we have adopted a wartime breeding strategy.
Yet, we are not at war. Absent fathers are not actually dead. They remain a productive (if reluctant) part of the tax-paying civilian workforce. An explosion of global capitalism, credit spending, and subsequent rocketing of public and private debt have all helped to push the envelope a mile further than nature would have allowed, to enable hitherto unthinkable engorgements of households based on hitherto unthinkable ideals.
The Symbiosis of Welfare and Contraception
Brilliant theories abound from sociologists of every stripe as to how we got into this demographic crisis and how we might get out. Many may be true, but there is a biological explanation upstream of all of them.
A wealthy society might have got away with some excesses of our state welfare system had it remained accountable to nature's mandate of a one-to-one relationship for sexual pairing and the production of children.
The great promise of contraception was that it would enable women to play with fire safely (to have sex without the commitment or risk previously implicit to women of creating a baby), foregoing the inconvenience of self restraint and discernment in mate selection. The natural counterpart to this was men's active competition to earn and to gather surplus resources to provide for families (men compete, women select – and it's worth mentioning that most men who have ever lived have no living descendent today, whereas most women do). A great deal of wealth surplus to men's individual requirements is no longer conducted according to the long-term needs of children but to the immediate wants of women.
The ability to select one man for pleasure and another to create a family constitutes perhaps the single most drastic injunction mankind has ever served upon its own biological and social condition at its foundational level. Separating the act of sex from personal investment and responsibility means 'high value mating material' is now defined as 'ability to sleep around without committing'.
The impact on marriage and child-rearing has been catastrophic because, despite elements in our society working all-out to persuade people otherwise, the individual man and woman's value to each other are based on differing criteria and invariably peak at different times in their lives relative to each other and those around them.
Stable marriages (producing stable children) have sights set on far horizons. The modern sexual economy, with its minute-by-minute matching, is more like a prep-school football match or the floor of a commodities exchange. It is a noisy mob, vying to get as near as possible to the valued target of the moment, where the urgent action is taking place. If at any stage one or other party finds their stock has risen or fallen in relation to their current partner, there is really no incentive to stick around. Nobody wants to regulate a market which already works in their favour, so only people whose value to the opposite sex is comparatively low and has no chance of rising would seek social and legal protection of a relationship, such as is offered by marriage.
A Tourist Sums It up
A very loud American woman in her mid-thirties was overheard in my local cafe in Italy. She was telling her girlfriends about 'Dave'. Dave had been 'such a clingy guy' at college. Alas, however, other guys she dated all turned out to be 'assholes'. So after some years she decided she'd selflessly give Dave a go. They married and (under her brilliant supervision, of course) he blossomed into something quite successful. Then, goddamnit, 'he cheated on me!' Marriage over. Dave gone. Now she was going through her 'Eat, Pray, Love' tour in some sort of effort to 'find herself' (perhaps on Dave's money?) Her girlfriends nodded and cooed in sage empathy with her plight.
On the other end of that story, of course, is Dave; I visualised some pallid suburban accountant who watched his princess humiliate herself with a series of frat-house jocks before finally being allowed to sip the dregs of his romantic fantasies, only to realise he could go for a younger model whose expectations of men had not been set by the string of Genghis Khans and Captain Von Trapps who had calibrated the expectations of his brattish wife.
I can't list here even a fraction of the social dynamics – and tragedies – which flow from this situation except to point out that the bulk of that woman's male compatriots – the Daves of this world and those who don't want to be like him – have just voted for a president who, by his utterances, appears to understand their stone-hearted quest to confront such callous female hegemony while apparently being too shy to tell the pollsters. It seems to me American women have been voting Hillary with their pens but Trump with their bodies.
Another complaint is that men who correspond to older women wanting commitment are giving up on marriage entirely. It's not hard to see why.
Many pioneers of post sexual revolution marriages lost devastating divorce suits, custody of their children and the majority of their personal wealth to bring you that data. They could have just listened to a bit of Edwardian advice: 'don't pay full price for a cake with a slice cut out of it'; ergo, don't be like Dave. In a perfectly logical risk-reward assessment (for which they are fashionably shamed as being weak, scared little boys – or pathologised as suffering from Freud's 'Madonna-Whore Complex'), men are increasingly reluctant to risk half their life's equity on social contracts which they can see are more than likely to fail.
The acknowledgement of this dynamic by modern 'feminists' would empower them to make an informed choice between a life of polygamy or a life of exclusivity instead of complaining that their similarly liberated menfolk are either wimpy or assholes (the Wimp-Asshole Complex being the inevitable end-product of telling women they can have two things that have become mutually exclusive). But, in our environment of great material abundance which can disguise the shift of resources towards female interests (and pay off the 'assholes' with free love), we appear to have doubled down on the idea that women are in fact victims.
While the solution must come from the bottom-up (the re-construction of nuclear families), a wartime governance, by design, makes it as difficult as possible for bottom-up solutions to hold any sway over the ham-fisted, slap-down meddling of the state and its noisy client media machine.
How Is This Relevant to the Modern West?
Invasions or upheavals of societies have spelled the end of the men's genetic legacies, but not those of women. Women are generally not conscripted to front-line service and are protected at the expense of the last collective coin and drop of blood as the means of building up the population again.
While perhaps only a minority of a society's men will be left alive to become the (absent) fathers to wartime children – for women the wartime scenario and the collapse of the institution of nuclear families actually spells wider breeding options – especially if an invasion occurs. Invasion might even result in the assimilation of fertile women into the new 'tribe'. Understanding that what is good for them is good for the whole society and vice versa, women have less to fear from an upheaval than men, provided that they accept the new governance.
However the cost of the pressing war-society's need to enforce ends rather than support means ushers in dogmatic utopian concepts such as 'human rights', which necessarily beget more and more expensive micromanagement and administration to support them. Policy is eventually driven by fear of immediate consequences rather than a quest for justice or prosperity which might advantage society. Enter the 'better red than dead' brand of negotiation. Enter forms of social control which attempt to dress individual needs as collective needs, right from the political 'better together' slogans to individual self-interested appeals-prefixed rhetorical devices such as 'I think it's embarrassing that...' or 'It's sad that...' or 'I have a right to…'. Enter micromanagement, and the old woman spying on the block and inferred accusations on those unwilling to commit support.
All this can be rationally argued at each step. It ends in affirmative action, boardroom quotas and every social and legal benefit-of-the-doubt where a woman claims a man has failed to serve and provide. We increasingly hear tired claims of sexual abuse from jilted women; claims which will undermine the credibility of the legal system at great cost to genuine victims. As for the children, a generation has been rammed into academic travel-lodges because our tanking economy can't possibly give them employment or purpose. Thus abusing our civic institutions is just another way of spending society's accumulated capital.
And it is society's capital that is abused – not exclusively that part of it which the state controls.
Christian churches are often co-opted by the tanking female. The road-to-Damascus epiphany and return of the burned-out party-girl to the altar rail may be a sincere change of heart, but it is hard to take someone's claim of conversion seriously when it just happens to serve the continuation of a self-centred social control strategy. Dwindling Western congregations are increasingly comprised of ageing women; if churches existed to excuse the sins of men and impress obligations upon attractive girls, the pews would be packed with young men instead. Mann markt die absicht und ist verstimmt.
I don't judge any group here, and certainly don't say men as a whole are oppressed more than women. You can't promote the interests of one sex over the other without both suffering some form of systemic injustice. The point is that people are being swept blindly along by the forces of a market they don't even acknowledge exists. Until now, the predictable, gradual decline has not been enough to risk the turbulence of reform for the promise of greater long-term prosperity.
But now the resources are blown, it must come to an end. Not 'must' in the sense of 'ought', but 'must' in the way of water flowing downhill. It is beginning to happen.
The trouble with collectivisation is that people don't invest in what isn't exclusively theirs. A paradox starts to emerge in which the female need for personal liberty erodes the male need for exclusivity – and thus male incentive for investment in the generation of wealth to run households collapses altogether.
We have to ask: how can a population better suited to war than to civilian life be given an incentive to generate wealth again?
How Does This Transpose into Policy?
Since the 1960s, private and public debt has accumulated to such an extent in the West that a shift in interest rates by just a fraction of a percent now could tip us into chaos. Since the 1980s, the decline has been managed by state holding facilities for legions of angry and unemployable youths. Our universities are now powder kegs, packed with latchkey brats who have had more resources thrown at them than any other generation in the history of the planet and yet are ready to 'tear the whole system down' should any government refuse to push the debt-envelope a bit further in order to keep their credit-driven, free-love economy on the road.
So the calibration of our policy must get finer and finer, the room for manoeuvre less and less, the movements of governments more and more predictable. We are living not in a dictatorship in the positive sense of a leader impressing upon us what we must do, but rather an environment of increasingly tight parameters of what we are able to do while retaining our stability.
The answer, then, is that this doesn't transpose into policy very much – but to the extent that it transposes into popularist posturing and shouting of political slogans, it explains everything.
Liberty vs Exclusivity
According to the Associated Press, it seems that the male/female Trump/Clinton vote was split by a yawning 13 percentage points – easily enough to have swung the entire election one way or the other.
Amazingly, the gender imbalance has barely been subject to any press scrutiny at all. Any other demographic divide this wide would have been agonised over until theories were brought forward to explain them and policies to correct them. Not this, though. The reasons that underpin it are simply too socially sensitive for any mainstream newspaper to tackle.
I find it helpful to define the two camps not as 'left' and 'right' but as 'feminine' and 'masculine.' This definition allows those who use it an insight which can explain many of the apparent internal contradictions of each camp. For instance, someone might continually evoke the plight of children in order to call for more help to be extended to migrants, while simultaneously approving of a woman's right to procure a late term abortion. Another 'pro life' individual might on the other hand ruthlessly argue for the abolition of that right of the mother, yet be in favour of cutting public health spending in order to afford more battleships and warheads.
The first person is in fact entirely consistent in their desire for a state of diversity, wider inclusion and free personal choice – a big state to handle the cost of their enjoyment of the two, whereas the second is consistent in their desire for accountability for individual choice and protection of investment.
The two distinct groups are stuck in the same boat, yet their interests are irreconcilable. The problem is that, in a democracy, the state must acknowledge that the customer is always right. When governments inevitably fail to provide for both sets of divergent needs in the society, then everyone 'loses faith in democracy.' Call it the 'You give, I Receive Complex', if you like.
Although the pendulum seems to me to be swinging back towards a structure of insulation, it is important to see the figurehead of the state as being only a symptom of the condition (I'm not even going to say 'disease' – because, to the expense of those for whom it is a disease, it is pure opportunity for others). The state is not immoral, but amoral, insofar as it only reflects the ecology of the society that put it there.
Don't Shoot the Messenger
There's a great trial on. On the prosecution, we have the interests of free love, privatisation of choice and collectivisation of outcomes. On the defence, we have a demand for ownership of outcomes (accountability). The defence does not yet have inquisitors and a sympathetic media machine. Until recently, they had almost no voice at all. But – for those who are tuning in – they are now delivering their opening statements.
I take the example of a student at Durham University called Louis Richardson, who was accused of raping one of his female contemporaries. It was obvious to any journalist or lawyer who was familiar with a string of similar cases brought against men – ranging from quiet businessmen like Alexander Economou to Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans – that Richardson was on the wrong end of a false accusation (specifically one of the 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorned' variety). University campus accusations – most notoriously that of Emma Sulkowicz (the 'Mattress Girl') – are not uncommon and, as Mattress Girl's 'plight' continues to arouse feminist sympathy even after it has been shown to be fraudulent, it is not hard to see why.
Until the moment Richardson was declared innocent, months later, his reputation was dragged through the mud. For a decade or more, I should think that any Google search of his name will only link him with a rape trial.
Richardson's ordeal proved itself merely to be the symptom of a much deeper cultural problem. Completely blind (or effecting to be) to the dynamic unfolding behind his trial, a feminist columnist for the Daily Telegraph called Radhika Sanghani picked up on Richardson's story. She used the unconfirmed – and later debunked – accusations against him as an example of our misogynist culture. Richardson's photograph still adorns that article on the website of a national broadsheet. To date, no apology has been forthcoming from that columnist or The Telegraph. Such is the presumption of male guilt that there is simply no need for them to do so. Such is the assumption of female victimhood that Richardson's accuser remains anonymous.
If our establishment press and its followers knew the Pandora's box they have opened, I don't think they would be so surprised about the rise of 'misogynist assholes' like Donald Trump. Looking into the Richardson case, I discovered a seething urge to crush the culture in which vile establishment pundits can step out in broad daylight having been congratulated and paid for the ideas they spin.
Some of the people who are driving the political change we see today are seriously, seriously angry at having suffered ordeals which would make Richardson's look like a walk in the park. Many of them have little to lose and, whereas war children don't make great civilians, they make pretty good soldiers.
In trying to grasp the nature of what we are dealing with, I soon found myself in the cyber-company of an American writer named Daryush Valizadeh and his band of (it has to be said, refreshigly merry) men.
Daryush Valizadeh is a notorious pickup artist who has authored a series of books explaining how to pick up girls in various countries. Perhaps more interestingly though, he runs a couple of social commentary websites which are among the few places online where a balanced, or at least counter-balanced, social commentary exists (they have been packed with a little more than their usual joie de vivre since the US election). It makes perfect sense that a pickup artist should be at the centre of this battle, of course, because, rather in the way that you might expect a pilot to lead an airforce or a doctor to become Minister for Health, a pickup artist is qualified by his vested interest in understanding the mechanics of male-female relationships.
Little surprise, then, that Valizadeh (along with another pickup artist called Julian Blanc) has been been denied entry to Western countries (including the UK), on the basis that they threaten the fabric of civilised society. In a way, I suppose they do – or at least the part of it that the urban status quo deals with. These men are vilified not because anyone who has read their work believes they are dangerous, but because they have diagnosed exactly the situation we are in and, should our society weigh for itself the balances, those who peddle the predominant political and media narrative know they shall be found wanting.
But when the Devil is the only person offering an accurate diagnosis (and I don't think these men are the Devil), we are judged by our reaction to that diagnosis, not by whether we chose to ignore or accept the situation we are in.
Obviously, we are not ruled by averages. We rule ourselves through our choices – and as a result there is always a minority who are antisocial enough not to fall into this demographic trap. But we must at least acknowledge the averages, their causes, their effects, and the parameters of our own agency in order that we don't allow ourselves to be swept along passively into the disaster that has become our cultural normality.
If you have that courage, try at least not to shoot the messenger. This is to tell you to do less, not more; but by cutting out what is perceived to be chivalry, it will require courage nonetheless. And, if you have more courage yet, if you are not afraid to lose your job and be shamed as a sexist or a misogynist or so many of the things that people who quietly voted for Trump were labelled with, go a little further still and stand up against people like like Radhika Sanghani.
And if it made you uncomfortable to read of some of the dynamics I have described then confront your inner feminist and, for the sake of society's real victims, evict her immediately.
Alexander Shaw


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Seeds of Europe's Family Tree
By NIKHIL SWAMINATHAN
For 20 years, scientists have been attempting to connect modern Europeans' genetic lineage to either Paleolithic hunter-gatherers who arrived before the last Ice Age, 22,000 years ago, or to the continent's first farmers, who appeared 7,500 years ago, in the early Neolithic. Australian scientists now say that today's Europeans may be related to an even later wave of settlers. Scientists retrieved mitochondrial DNA, which passes from mother to child, from the remains of 39 people recovered from archaeological digs in central Europe, covering a 3,500-year span throughout the Neolithic. They identified a particular complex of genes shared by 40 percent of the modern population. These genes display a level of diversity that did not exist among the early hunter-gatherers and was not prominent among the first farmers. It is in later periods of the Neolithic, from about 6,000 to 4,000 years ago, that today's variants start to pop up regularly.
According to Wolfgang Haak, a molecular archaeologist at the University of Adelaide, this tells us that early Neolithic farmers failed to cement their genetic legacy in central Europe, but that new settlers, possibly bringing related industries such as wool and dairy production, did. "It is not unlikely to assume a constant genetic influx from surrounding areas as settlement density increased towards the end the Neolithic," Haak explains, "or that further technological advances arrived later."
Origins of the Maya
By ZACH ZORICH
A team of archaeologists led by Takeshi Inomata of the University of Arizona has excavated evidence of the origins of Maya culture at the ancient city of Ceibal in Guatemala. Over seven years, Inomata's team has uncovered parts of the earliest buildings in the city's ceremonial center. Radiocarbon dates show that the site was first occupied around 1000 b.c., making it the earliest known Maya site with a ceremonial center. The team found that the earliest architecture there conforms to a pattern that is also found at a contemporary non-Maya site in Chiapas, Mexico, and in the Olmec city of La Venta, which was built 200 years later. The team interprets this to mean that Maya culture grew out of a complex web of influences from across the region. Inomata says, "We are looking at the crystallization of the hallmarks of Mesoamerican civilizations, including pyramids, formal ceremonial complexes, and public rituals in the plaza."
By MALIN GRUNBERG BANYASZ
Many people probably associate rock art in the United States with the arid vistas of the Southwest, but it can be found elsewhere, such as on a forested mountain in central Arkansas. At Petit Jean Mountain, in a state park of the same name, there are dozens of beautiful old Native American rock art sites. Most of these sites are little known to visitors—anonymity helps protect against graffiti and vandalism—but one site is particularly accessible: Rock House Cave. According to Ann Marie Early, the state archaeologist, and George Sabo III of the Arkansas Archeological Survey, visitors to Rock House Cave can see more than a hundred pictographs, both abstract and figurative, that date to the first half of the seventeenth century.
Rock House Cave can be found alongside the Cedar Falls Trail, which begins at the parking area of Petit Jean State Park. It is not a cave per se, but one of the largest sandstone bluff shelters in the state: 85 feet long and 100 feet deep, with a 16-foot ceiling. Most of the pictographs on its walls are red, probably pigmented with red ochre, and painted with either fingers or frayed twigs. The art is composed of geometric shapes and meandering lines, as well as remarkably realistic animal depictions. One of these is a life-size painting of a paddlefish, or spoonbill catfish, 36 inches long. Beneath it is a depiction of an open-weave basket thought to be a fish trap. Sabo says that the size of Rock House Cave suggests that it might have been a gathering place—though it's not clear what community used it. Excavations at Carden Bottoms, at the foot of Petit Jean Mountain, have uncovered seventeenth-century pottery decorated with motifs similar to those painted in the cave. Some believe that Carden Bottoms hosted a multiethnic community that included ancestors of the Osage, Caddo, Quapaw, and others.
While you're there
The trail that passes by Rock House Cave (one of 10 official trails in the park) winds from scenic Cedar Creek Falls to the rustic, renovated Mather Lodge, where visitors can rent cabins or have dinner overlooking the canyon. Just west of Petit Jean Mountain is Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge, which attracts large flocks of migrating birds, including 100,000 ducks and geese, as well as songbirds, wading birds, and, in winter, bald eagles. Little Rock, 70 miles southeast, is home to the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and numerous museums. And 15 miles more will bring you to Toltec Mounds State Park, a prehistoric Woodland complex with a museum—one of the largest prehistoric sites in the lower Mississippi River Valley.
Chilling Discovery at Jamestown
In the fall of 1609, Powhatan Indians laid siege to Jamestown, Virginia, trapping 300 settlers inside the settlement's fort. Cut off from food supplies, only 60 would survive the winter ahead, known to history as the "Starving Time." According to survivors' accounts, they consumed vermin and boot leather, and, as the winter grew harsher, some ate the dead. But firsthand reports can be unreliable and there has never been direct evidence for cannibalism at Jamestown. "I never believed those accounts," says William Kelso, chief archaeologist for the Jamestown Rediscovery Project. "I thought they were trying to make the Virginia Company [the colony's sponsor] feel bad so they would send more supplies."
Now the discovery of a partial human skull and tibia in a kitchen cellar inside the fort has substantiated the survivors' claims. Kelso's team found the remains, which belonged to a 14-year-old girl, in a trash pile with the bones of butchered horses, dogs, rats, and mice. Someone trying to separate flesh from the bones with a knife left marks on the skull, jawbone, and tibia. The marks appear to have been made inexpertly, or by someone who was hesitating to butcher the bones. "There's no question that this is evidence for survival cannibalism," says Kelso. "It's grim and it's a tough story to handle. But it points out just how close Jamestown came to failing."
Not Quite Ancient
By JARRETT A. LOBELL
When University of Georgia archaeologist Mark Abbe first saw the fragment of sculpture at the University of Mississippi Museum, the light was low and he didn't get a very good look. Yet Abbe was intrigued by the faint traces of color he saw on its white marble surface. At the time, he couldn't have imagined why the relief struck him as different from the thousands of other ancient sculptures he had seen. Wanting to know more, museum Director Robert Saarnio allowed Abbe to bring the relief to the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens. "As soon as I got it back here under good light, I thought, 'Wait a second, this isn't like anything I have seen before,'" says Abbe.
While only the section depicting the god Hermes exists, the fragment is actually part of a celebrated ancient composition known as the "Orpheus Relief." This scene shows Hermes leading the nymph Eurydice back to the underworld after her final parting from her beloved Orpheus. Back in Athens, Abbe and Jeff Speakman of the Center for Applied Isotope Studies used hyperspectral imaging techniques to collect data beyond what the human eye can see. When combined with chemist Tina Salguero's study of minute traces of pigment, the results were a complete surprise—what had always been thought to be a first-century Roman copy of a late fifth-century B.C. Greek original, had, in fact, been made between 1880 and 1920. "As soon as we saw pigments without ancient parallels, such as titanium white and phthalocyanine blue, we knew the paint wasn't ancient," explains Abbe. As he continued to examine the sculpture, he began to realize that it wasn't just the pigments that weren't right—the piece could still have been ancient, with the paint added for the marketplace thousands of years later. "At first it just looked like an over-scrubbed ancient artifact, but the more we looked at the surfaces, we realized they weren't akin to Roman practice," Abbe says.
There is always "the whiff of a scandal" when a work is discovered to be a fake, says Abbe. But to settle for stamping the relief "a fake" and moving on is to miss the opportunity such an artifact brings. While the Greek original is lost, the composition survives in four marble copies once displayed in the luxury villas of the Roman elite. Beginning in the eighteenth century, these reliefs were on many top 10 lists of things to see when in Italy, according to Abbe. It was common to create plaster copies of ancient sculptures, especially the popular Orpheus Relief, for study and decor. Eventually these plaster casts inspired artisans to make marble copies to sell as antiquities. Abbe believes that the Hermes relief is a marble copy of a plaster cast of one of the ancient Roman reliefs now in the Villa Albani in Rome. To make it more authentic, the nineteenth- or twentieth-century artisans even used the same Greek Pentelic marble the Romans used in the first century, and perhaps the Greeks used 600 years earlier.
And as for the traces of color that originally piqued Abbe's interest? In the late nineteenth century, there was intense interest in the presence of color on ancient sculpture. This was largely inspired by an 1886 exhibit in Berlin directed by archaeologist Georg Treu in which, for the first time, painted casts of ancient works were displayed, correcting the impression that they had only ever been white. Thus began a great deal of guessing what the originals had looked like, a field of inquiry that continues. But the Hermes fragment may have a different lesson to teach. "This relief is much more than a historical replica of an ancient work of art," says Abbe. "When I believed the relief was ancient, I wanted to learn about the color schemes and palette the Roman artist used. I wanted to examine if there is an intimate link in antiquity between style and color, and if this aligns with certain subject matter or different time periods." But once Abbe learned that the relief wasn't, in fact, ancient, he was able to ask a slightly different question. "Color is always a reflection of the age in which an object is made, and art is colored according to the artifice and aesthetic of the time," says Abbe. "And as far as what the color on this sculpture was like, the jury is still out."
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SpaceX crew capsule ends test flight with ocean splashdown
In this image taken from NASA Television, SpaceX's swanky new crew capsule, center, takes off after undocking from the International Space Station, right, Friday, March 8, 2019. The capsule undocked and is headed toward an old-fashioned splashdown. The Dragon capsule pulled away from the orbiting lab early Friday, a test dummy named Ripley its lone occupant. (NASA TV via AP)
In this image taken from NASA Television, SpaceX's swanky new crew capsule undocks from the International Space Station, left, Friday, March 8, 2019. The capsule undocked and is headed toward an old-fashioned splashdown. The Dragon capsule pulled away from the orbiting lab early Friday, a test dummy named Ripley its lone occupant. (NASA TV via AP)
This image provided by NASA shows SpaceX's Dragon capsule carrying a test dummy splashed down into the Atlantic ocean off the Florida coast, Friday, March 8, 2019. It marks the first time in 50 years that a capsule designed for astronauts returned from space by plopping into the Atlantic. (NASA via AP)
In this image from video made available by NASA, the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule is hoisted onto a ship in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast after it returned from a mission to the International Space Station. It marks the first time in 50 years that a capsule designed for astronauts returned from space by splashdown in the ocean. (NASA via AP)
In this image taken from NASA Television, SpaceX's swanky new crew capsule, above, takes off after undocking from the International Space Station, right, Friday, March 8, 2019. The capsule undocked and is headed toward an old-fashioned splashdown. The Dragon capsule pulled away from the orbiting lab early Friday, a test dummy named Ripley its lone occupant. (NASA TV via AP)
In this image taken from NASA Television, SpaceX's swanky new crew capsule undocks from the International Space Station Friday, March 8, 2019. The capsule undocked and is headed toward an old-fashioned splashdown. The Dragon capsule pulled away from the orbiting lab early Friday, a test dummy named Ripley its lone occupant. (NASA TV via AP)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX's swanky new crew capsule returned from the International Space Station to an old-fashioned splashdown in the Atlantic on Friday, successfully ending a test flight that could lead to astronaut rides later this year.
The Dragon capsule undocked from the orbiting lab early Friday. Six hours later, the capsule carrying a test dummy parachuted into the ocean, a couple hundred miles off the Florida coast.
It was the final hurdle for the six-day demo, a critical prelude to SpaceX's first flight with astronauts as early as summer. While improvements still need to be made, the company aims to fly NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on the next test flight.
Astronauts have not launched from Florida for eight years, and NASA is eager to end the drought and reduce its costly dependence on Russia for space station trips.
SpaceX employees cheered and applauded at company headquarters near Los Angeles when the Dragon's red and white parachutes popped open. NASA televised the descent live, the dramatic views coming from a plane. The crowd went wild once the capsule splashed down and was seen floating upright.
"Just amazing. I can't believe how well the whole mission has gone" with all major milestones met, said Benji Reed, SpaceX's director of crew mission management.
It was the first time in 50 years that a capsule designed for astronauts returned from space by plopping into the Atlantic. Apollo 9 — which orbited Earth in preparation for the moon landings — splashed down near the Bahamas on March 13, 1969.
Space station astronauts have been stuck riding Russian rockets since NASA's shuttles retired in 2011. NASA is counting on SpaceX and Boeing to start launching astronauts this year. SpaceX — which has been delivering station cargo for years — is shooting for summer.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine was ecstatic following splashdown. All this is "leading to a day where we are launching American astronauts on American rockets from American soil," he said.
A pair of recovery ships was stationed in the Atlantic well before splashdown and quickly moved in, lifting the capsule from the water within an hour. The capsule is expected at Port Canaveral on Saturday night. Splashdown will occur much closer to shore once astronauts start flying.
Astronaut Shane Kimbrough, part of the recovery team, said it was incredible watching the splashdown up close. The capsule had brown scorch marks from top to bottom, but otherwise looked fine.
Canadian space station astronaut David Saint-Jacques was the first to enter the Dragon capsule and the last to leave this week. He found it "very slick" and called it business class.
Next up is Boeing.
Boeing plans to launch its Starliner capsule without a crew as early as next month and with astronauts possibly in August. The Starliner is designed to land on land — in the U.S. Southwest.
NASA awarded the first contracts in 2014 to SpaceX and Boeing, now totaling about $8 billion. This first SpaceX test flight opens a new era, Bridenstine said, with new technology and new business approaches.
SpaceX acknowledges some capsule systems need more work before Behnken and Hurley climb aboard for liftoff, as early as July. Vibration, acoustic and other measurements were taken throughout the recently completed flight, not only of the capsule but also the mannequin — named Ripley after the lead character in the "Alien" films — which was strapped into one of the four seats.
Hurley tweeted: "It's been a joy to watch the teams in action and I can't wait to climb on board the next one!"
A small blue and green plush toy shaped like Earth — which SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk termed a zero-gravity indicator — was left behind on the space station. Behnken and Hurley will bring it back on their flight.
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