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Screen Grabs: Cinema's future in doubt, but these world classics endure
Groundbreaking films from Hungary, breathtaking Chilean trilogy, an erotic Brazilian treat—plus a night at the drive-in.
By Dennis Harvey
Movie theaters (drive-ins aside—who'd have imagined they'd get a comeback?) remain closed for the time being, their re-openings TBD in the Bay Area and many other parts of the country. Some delayed theatrical releases are creeping back onto the schedule, hoping that situation will change in coming weeks.
But even when things do get back to relative "normal," no one expects the big-screen experience to make a full recovery. Some theaters (especially major chains) won't have been able to withstand the long break, in which income died but some expenses remained constant. Then there's the fact that many patrons will be far more reluctant to do their movie-watching in public, breathing the same air as others in a closed space. (And some owners aren't exactly being reassuring about safety precautions.) We'll just have to see how it all plays out.
Meanwhile, the increased dependency on home entertainment has made folk more aware of streaming releases than they might otherwise have been. (Even the creators of The Tiger King admit that show never would have become a cultural phenomenon without COVID.) While most of their options are new—it remains to be seen just when we'll be hit by a dearth of fresh releases due to the quarantine-necessitated shutdown of much filming—distributors have also dug deep to meet the heightened demand with some worthy older titles.
Thus the several local venues that have "virtual cinema" programs in order to keep providing movies during shutdown have made available a few classics and rediscoveries as well as new releases. In addition titles we've previously mentioned like 1982's Canadian The Grey Fox, Jules Dassin's 1955 Euro crime caper Rififi, Godard's 1964 Band of Outsiders, and Bela Tarr's eight-hour 1994 epic Satantango, the BAMPFA in Berkeley has two mini-retrospectives on offer at present.
One is Three Films by Istvan Szabo (more info here), the still-active Hungarian director who was part of the Eastern European New Wave in the 1960s, then receded in international prominence for a few years before taking his national cinema to almost unprecedented heights of popularity abroad in the '80s. The first film the PFA is presenting, 1980's Confidence, is a claustrophobic drama in which two strangers married to others (Ildiko Bansagi, Peter Andorai) must pose as a couple in order to evade capture by the Nazis for their ties to the Resistance near WW2's end. Sometimes awkward in its comingling of regular dialogue and inner thoughts on the soundtrack, spending a little too much time on or over the brink of hysteria, it's nonetheless a potent piece that was an Oscar-nominated export success.
That was nothing, however, compared to the global impact made by 1981's Mephisto, the Oscar-winning first of three larger-scaled, internationally funded period pieces starring hitherto little-known Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer. He played a mediocre actor who suddenly gains great professional stature when he aligns himself with the authoritarian forces in Hitler's Germany. In 1985's Colonel Redl, another somewhat-fictionalized take on recent historical fact, he was a real-life military officer of the Austro-Hungarian empire who rises from obscurity to high rank. Yet Redl's patriotism and loyalty (as well as his generally well-repressed homosexuality) ultimately make him an easily manipulated patsy for political schemers including Archduke Ferdinand (Armin Meiuller-Stahl), whose subsequent assassination triggered WWI. (The third film in this informal trilogy, 1988's Hanussen, is not in the PFA series.)
Now 82, Szabo released a new film called Final Report earlier this year—starring 77-year-old Brandauer. While his films in the decades between have been unevenly received, he remains a fine craftsman and sharp observer of 20th century European history whose fascination with the moral ambiguities of power have been ideally channeled by his favorite performer, as well as such other accomplished actors like Stellan Skarsgard, Ralph Fiennes and Annette Bening.
The other PFA retrospective is Patrizio Guzman's Chile Trilogy (more info here). Guzman is the Chilean documentarian who created the definitive portrait of that (or any) country's revolutionary struggle and overthrow in The Battle of Chile, whose three feature-length parts each had to be smuggled abroad or risk destruction by Pinochet's military junta. He himself fled that coup d'etat (subsequently assembling the films in France) in 1973, but Chile has remained his primary subject as an artist in exile during the nearly fifty years since. He's remained a well-respected figure and film festival regular, but accessed wider new audiences with an extraordinary trilogy over the last decade.
All available currently through the PFA, these latest works are linked meditations on Chile's geography, its big-picture history, the ambivalences stirred by its post-Pinochet but still somewhat politically repressive present, and inevitably the gross human rights abuses that scarred Guzman's own generation. The personal and political are duly inseparable in these films. But so is a sort of philosophical questing too rare in cinema, as well as a rhapsodic visual interest in the physical world's basic elements and their oft-spectacular incarnations in (and above) Chile.
2010's Nostalgia for the Light frames the ongoing search for bodies of the "disappeared" with the science and mystique of astronomy. 2015's The Pearl Button uses water as a unifying theme running through issues from indigenous peoples' genocide to the disposing of tortured dictatorship captives by dropping them in the sea. The Cordillera of Dreams, released in the US just this year, focuses on geology, and the mountain ranges that separate Chile from "the world"—as well as those who, like cinematographer Pablo Salas, have spent their lives documenting the political atrocities that isolation has partly enabled. Individually or as a whole, as nonfiction filmmaking or just plain cinema, these are among the most beautiful and profound films of recent years.
Other acclaimed older titles being offered by local venues for streaming include two 1976 films by world masters, via the 4-Star's Virtual Cinema program (more info here): Luchino Visconti's final feature L'Innocente, a lush 19th-century aristocratic love triangle based on a novel by Gabriele D'Annunzio. When the director died during post-production, it had to be finished by star Giancarlo Giannini, whose very glamorous co-leads were Laura Antonelli, Jennifer O'Neill, and the tragic Marc Porel. It was the kind of lush period melodrama no longer appreciated at the time (before Merchant-Ivory made such things cool again), but it was a fine end to a fabled career.
Contrastingly up-to-the-moment in its sexiness was Bruno Barreto's international hit Doña Flor and Her Two Husbands, from Jorge Amado's novel. It made a major star of Sonia Braga as the gorgeous widow who remarries dull, respectable pharmacist, but misses the amorous acrobatics of her ne'er-do-well late first husband—whose ghost obligingly returns to satisfy that need. For years it was the most popular Brazilian movie ever, both at home and abroad. The 4-Star also has two films from the back catalog of South Korea's drolly seriocomic writer-director Sang-soo Hong, 2005's Woman on the Beach and 2014's Hill of Freedom.
While new movies dominate the menu at the Roxie Virtual Cinema, they also have the previously-described Pioneers of Queer Cinema trilogy (more info here) of daring 1920s-30s German classics. Alamo On Demand (more info here) has a slew of vintage cult favorites on tap, including selections from their past "Terror Tuesday" and "Weird Wednesday" screenings. Tonight, Mon/29, the Rafael Film Center will host a free livestream conversation celebrating the work of old-school fantasy special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen (more info here). CGI is nice, I guess, but his "Dyna-Mation" creations for the likes of One Million Years B.C., The Golden Voyage of Sinbad and the original Clash of the Titans made dinosaurs and such a lot more fun.
Last but not least, those who really, really want to get out to see a movie will welcome the Michael B. Jordan-curated series A Night at the Drive-In. It brings together double features of recent and vintage entertainments with a minority-representation slant, from Do the Right Thing to Crazy Rich Asians. Running Wednesday nights this week through the end of August around the country, its Bay Area venue is Concord's Solano Twin Drive-In. More info here.
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The software has been rolled out at LCF's 12 regional centres across the UK as it looks to "maintain and grow its market share" in the commercial finance segment.
India-based 3i Infotech calls the deal a "breakthrough win" in the UK, and says it has deployed the first phase of the solution by mapping the business process for onboarding new prospects.
Gurjeet Oberoi, 3i Infotech, head of Europe sales, says LCF was looking for a "comprehensive solution which could lead the way for their technological revamp, to bolster their team's performance and gain deeper market penetration".
Kastle is integrated with LCF's existing CRM system. It will also be used for generating and monitoring legal documents through its workflow engine, which is integrated with LCF's enterprise document management system. 3i Infotech has also built dynamic management information reporting, powered by SAP Crystal Reports.
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O encolhimento cultural, nos estudos culturais e na antropologia social, é um complexo de inferioridade internalizado que faz com que as pessoas em um país considerem sua própria cultura inferior às culturas de outros países.

Está intimamente relacionado com o conceito de mentalidade colonial e muitas vezes está relacionado com a exibição de atitudes anti-intelectuais em relação a pensadores, cientistas e artistas que se originam de uma colônia ou ex-colônia. Também pode se manifestar em indivíduos na forma de alienação cultural.

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Brasil

No Brasil, o conceito de complexo de vira-lata denota o mesmo que encolhimento cultural. Ele foi criado pelo dramaturgo e jornalista Nelson Rodrigues na década de 1950. O termo é frequentemente evocado para criticar alguma atitude de qualquer brasileiro em relação a uma cultura ou política estrangeira considerada submissa e auto-desprezível.

Canadá
Muitos comentaristas culturais no Canadá sugeriram que um processo semelhante também opera naquele país. Quase todas as indústrias culturais canadenses, incluindo música, cinema, televisão, literatura, artes visuais e teatro, tiveram que lutar até certo ponto contra a percepção entre o público canadense de que as obras canadenses nesses campos eram menos importantes ou valiosas do que as obras americanas ou britânicas. A ideia específica de "encolhimento cultural" não é amplamente usada para rotular o fenômeno no Canadá, embora tenha sido usada em casos isolados; mais tipicamente, os comentaristas culturais canadenses falam de um "complexo de inferioridade canadense" ou rotulam instâncias específicas do fenômeno com termos satíricos como "hora do castor".

Antes da década de 1970, as estações de rádio canadenses quase não possuíam tempo de transmissão para a música canadense e, com exceção da CBC Television, as estações de televisão canadenses gastavam muito pouco dinheiro com a programação produzida no Canadá; em resposta, a Comissão Canadense de Rádio-televisão e Telecomunicações (CRTC) desenvolveu uma cota de conteúdo canadense obrigatória para rádio e canais de TV.

Conexão com alienação cultural
O encolhimento cultural está intimamente ligado à alienação cultural, o processo de desvalorizar ou abandonar a própria cultura ou passado cultural. Uma pessoa que é culturalmente alienada dá pouco valor à sua própria cultura ou cultura anfitriã e, em vez disso, anseia por aquela de uma - às vezes imposta - nação colonizadora. Os teóricos pós-coloniais Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths e Helen Tiffin relacionam alienação com uma sensação de deslocamento ou deslocamento que alguns povos (especialmente aqueles de culturas de imigrantes) sentirão quando olharem para uma nação distante em busca de seus valores. Sociedades culturalmente alienadas frequentemente exibem um fraco senso de autoidentidade cultural e pouco valorizam a si mesmas. Tem-se argumentado que a manifestação mais comum dessa alienação entre os povos das nações pós-coloniais atualmente é um apetite por todas as coisas americanas, da televisão e música a roupas, gírias e até nomes. No entanto, a popularidade da cultura estadunidense tanto em países ex-colonizados quanto em países colonizadores possivelmente nega esse argumento. Indivíduos culturalmente alienados também exibem pouco conhecimento ou interesse na história de sua sociedade anfitriã, não atribuindo nenhum valor real a tais questões.

A questão da alienação cultural levou os sociólogos australianos Brian Head e James Walter a interpretar o estremecimento cultural como a crença de que o próprio país ocupa um "lugar cultural subordinado na periferia" e que "padrões intelectuais são estabelecidos e inovações ocorrem em outro lugar". Como consequência, uma pessoa que mantém essa crença tende a desvalorizar a vida cultural, acadêmica e artística de seu próprio país e a venerar a cultura "superior" de outro país (colonizador).

Uma abordagem mais sofisticada para as questões levantadas pelo encolhimento cultural, como sentida por praticantes artísticos em ex-colônias ao redor do mundo, foi desenvolvida e avançada pelo historiador de arte australiano Terry Smith em seu ensaio 'The Provincialism Problem'.

Ver também

 Complexo de vira-lata
 Culto à carga
 Escapismo
 Exotismo
 Lei de Jante
 Malinchismo
 Orientalismo
 Pós-colonialismo
 Síndrome da papoula alta
 Xenocentrismo

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There's been some positive news for the UK house building sector this week – the Telegraph reported on October 4 that "House building is on the up as the construction market recovers" and the Pound Sterling Live website informed us that "The UK's construction sector is firmly back in growth following the mid-year slump in activity".
Figures recently released by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), revealed that the number of new-build homes being started and finished in England is at its highest level since 2008.
According to the UK Government 'more than 143,500 new build homes were started up to December 2015 a rise of 23% on the same quarter a year earlier and up 91% when compared to the low point of the year up to June 2009'.
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During the Democratic party's fourth presidential debate hosted by CNN/New York Times, on Tuesday night, Oct. 15, 2019, Senator Elizabeth Warren received sustained fire from multiple rivals for she's been leading the poll at the Democratic field, with 28% of the vote. What all twelve candidates did agree on was the need to impeach Donald Trump.
During this debate, Elizabeth Warren was called out and criticized by her Democratic rivals:
Joe Biden called Warren's health care plans vague and argued that she had never accomplished anything big.
Pete Buttigieg indicated that Warren didn't trust the American people to decide if they wanted to remain on private health insurance plans.
Amy Klobuchar claimed Warren's plans as a pipe dream.
Kamala Harris wanted to know why Warren didn't join her to call for Twitter to bar President Trump from its social media platform.
Elizabeth Warren's opponents put her on the defensive for the question of whether her "Medicare for all" plan would require higher taxes on the middle class. Nor did Warren explain to Harris why she thought Mr. Trump should remain on Twitter. However, she did present a counterargument indicating that only her ideas could produce an electoral mandate from disaffected Americans to defeat Donald Trump.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) went after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for her support of the "Medicare for All" single-payer health care plan during the Democratic presidential debate, saying "the difference between a plan and a pipe dream is something that you can actually get done." in the video "Klobuchar clashes with Warren on health care: There's a difference between plan and a pipe dream", below:
Andrew Yang remains one of the few, if not the only candidate, who did not attack Elizabeth Warren nor Bernie Sanders. Andrew Yang had consistently focused only on important issues or his platform of solutions during this election campaign.
In the 4th Democratic Debate in Ohio, Andrew Yang vigorously defended the Freedom Dividend which led many Americans to conclude that Yang had Won the debate. Some would argue that CNN and NYT times moderators forced Democrats to stop ignoring the threat of automation and artificial intelligence whether or not they agree with the scale of the threat. For the first time on National television Presidential candidates discussed the merits and flaws of Universal Basic Income, $15 minimum wage increase and a Federal Jobs Guarantee. It was an amazing and progressive discussion on the future of American Economics. The newfound scrutiny Andrew Yang is receiving is a sign of his newfound status as a top-tier candidate
Senator Elizabeth Warren was the prime target of her rivals at Tuesday's debate. Patrick Healy, the political editor for The New York Times, explains what this means for the Democratic contest, in the video "How Warren's Rivals Attacked at The Debate, NYTimes", below:
What all of Warren's attackers, and Warren herself included, have missed: for example, under "Medicare for all", if the amount of money a family or individual can save from having to pay for private health insurance is much more than the amount of taxes that will need to be increased, then they will still come out ahead. If Warren had worked out all the numbers ahead of time, she would have been able to retaliate much more effectively. Perhaps what Warren needs is the MATH guy, Andrew Yang, who had worked out all the numbers. A ticket with both Warren and Yang on it may be the strongest ticket that the Democratic Party can offer.
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Today in Chabad History: 12-13 Tammuz
12-13 Tammuz, or the "celebration of freedom," runs from July 6-7, 2017
The twelfth of Tammuz (this year: July 6) is the birthday of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of blessed memory. It is also the day when the Rabbi received a notice of freedom from his exile in Kastroma, Russia.
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak was targeted by Soviet authorities for his activism on behalf of Jewish education and Jewish religious and communal life. He was the only Jewish leader who chose to remain in Russia following the communist revolution, and he built a network of underground yeshivot and a Jewish support system that functioned clandestinely through all the years of communism. At grave risk to himself and to his Chasidim, the Rebbe kept the moribund embers of Jewish life alive.
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In 1927, he was arrested in his home in Leningrad on accusations of counter-revolutionary activities and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to three years in exile to the isolated town of Kostroma in central Russia.
But his arrest and exile drew wide attention, and international pressure compelled Soviet authorities to commute his sentence shortly thereafter. Because it was a legal holiday when the Rebbe received news of his freedom, he only went free on the following day, 13 Tammuz. Thus, both 12 and 13 Tammuz are celebrated as a holiday of liberation by Jews everywhere..
He returned to Leningrad, but was forced to leave Russia, and later that fall, he arrived in Riga, Latvia, from where he continued his work for Russian Jewry.
The Rebbe later moved to Poland, where he opened a yeshiva that drew students even from the United States. At the beginning of WWII, with the help of the U.S. government, he managed to escape Nazi Europe. He arrived to New York in 1940, where he relocated the headquarters of the world Lubavitch movement. His work in Soviet Russia continued, clandestinely, by Chasidim that remained behind the Iron Curtain.
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak is thus credited with planting the seeds for the current revival of Jewish life in Russia. Following the fall of communism in 1990, Chabad-Lubavitch opened the clandestine network established by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak and nursed through the tenure of his son-in-law and successor, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, finally resulting in the dramatic renaissance of Jewish religious life in the Former Soviet Union today, where over 300 Chabad emissaries conduct Jewish programming openly throughout Russia.
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Jeremy Cooper, 26, is "running" a marathon, leining every Shabbat for the next 1,000 weeks. Weekday mornings, the Columbia University MBA candidate will get his leining fix at Chabad of the Upper West Side or some other minyan in the city. Cooper's a newlywed, and he loves traveling with his wife Ellen, but he will never plan a weekend getaway unless he's secured a leining gig.
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The Sydney Jewish Museum asked me to assist them in development of design and media production for a permanent installation acknowledging the invaluable work provided to the museum by their many volunteers. Museum staff wanted to show a photographic portrait of each of the approximately 400 volunteers.
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Working with longtime collaborator Robert St Clair, we developed a coded presentation that allows for future addition of new photos.
Built-form design by Jisuk Han, X Squared Design; installation by Phil Sticklen, Bespoke House.


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Book: Fatigue and Durability of Structural Materials
DOI: 10.31399/asm.tb.fdsm.t69870001
This chapter gives a brief overview of the role of fatigue in component failures. It presents examples of fatigue failures along with statistics on the causes and costs of fatigue damage in various industries. It also includes a chapter-by-chapter summary of the content in the book, noting that the book deals primarily with fatigue at temperatures below the creep range with high-temperature fatigue being treated in a companion publication.
Stress and Strain Cycling
This chapter provides a detailed analysis of the cyclic stress-strain behavior of materials under uniaxial stress and strain cycling. It first considers the case of a stable material under constant-amplitude strain cycling then broadens the discussion to materials that harden or soften with continued strain reversals. It compares and contrasts the response patterns of such materials, explaining how the movement of dispersed particles and dislocations influences their behavior. It then examines the behavior of materials under uniaxial strain reversals of varying amplitude and explains how to construct double-amplitude stress-strain curves that account for complex straining histories. For special cases, those involving complex materials such as gray cast iron or highly complex straining patterns, the chapter presents other methods of analysis, including the rainflow cycle counting method, mechanical modeling based on displacement-limited elements, Wetzel's method, and deformation modeling. It also explains the difference between force cycling and stress cycling and presents alternate techniques for predicting whether a material will become harder or softer in response to strain cycling.
Fatigue Life Relations
This chapter familiarizes readers with the methods used to quantify the effects of fatigue on component lifetime and failure. It discusses the development and use of S-N (stress amplitude vs. cycles to failure) curves, the emergence of strain-based approaches to fatigue analysis, and important refinements and modifications. It demonstrates the use of approximate equations, including the method of universal slopes and the four-point correlation technique, which provides reasonable estimates of elastic and plastic lines from information obtained in standard tensile tests. It also discusses high-cycle, low-cycle, and ultra-high cycle fatigue and presents several models that are useful for fatigue life predictions.
Mean Stress
This chapter discusses the concept of mean stress and explains how it is used in fatigue analysis and design. It begins by examining the stress-strain response of test samples subjected to cyclic forces and strains, noting important features and what they reveal about materials and their fatigue behaviors. It then discusses the challenge of developing hysteresis loops for complex loading patterns and accounting for effects such as ratcheting and stress relaxation. The sections that follow provide a summary of the various ways mean stress is described in the literature and the methods used to calculate or predict its effect on the fatigue life of machine components. The discussion also sheds light on why tensile mean stress is detrimental to both fatigue life and ductility, while compressive mean stress is highly beneficial.
Multiaxial Fatigue
This chapter reviews the theories that have emerged from the widespread study of multiaxial fatigue and assesses their validity using data from different sources. It begins by providing background on the studies that the chapter draws on, pointing out differences in methodology and explaining how they influence test results and data. It then discusses the concept of critical planes and how they are used to correlate the effects of uniaxial loading with multiaxial fatigue behaviors. The section that follows covers the various methods used to analyze multiaxial fatigue and identifies one that best treats the general case. The chapter also defines two important factors, the triaxiality factor and the multiaxiality factor, and presents the results of an extensive study to determine how the two factors are related. One of the more interesting findings is that the atomic structure of a material has a significant effect on which theory best describes its fatigue behavior.
Cumulative Fatigue Damage
This chapter addresses the cumulative effects of fatigue and how to determine its impact on component lifetime and performance. It begins by defining a loading history and its corresponding hysteresis loops that exposes the deficiencies of some of the theories discussed. It then proceeds to demonstrate the methods commonly used to analyze cumulative fatigue damage and its effect on component life starting with the classical linear damage rule. After pointing out the inherent limitations of the model, it presents a method that incorporates two linear damage rules, one applying prior to crack initiation and the other after the crack has started. Although the method accounts somewhat better for loading-order effects, the transition in behavior that the rules presume to model occurs prior to any signs of cracking. Two modified versions of the double linear damage rule method, neither of which are related to a physical crack initiation event, are subsequently presented along with several applications showing how the different methods compare. The examples provided include two-level and multilevel tests, a gas-turbine engine compressor disk, and the cumulative damage associated with the irreversible hardening of type 304 stainless steel.
Bending of Shafts
This chapter deals with the effects of fatigue in rotating shafts subjected to elastic and plastic strains associated with bending stresses. It begins with a review of the basic approach to treating low-cycle fatigue in bending, explaining that the assumption that stress is proportional to strain is incorrect due to plastic flow, causing considerable discrepancy between measured and calculated stresses. Data plots of the axial and bending fatigue characteristics of a 4130 steel help illustrate the problem. A closed-form solution is then presented and used to analyze the effects of flexural bending on solid as well as hollow rectangular and round bars. The chapter also discusses the difference in the treatment of a rotating shaft in which all surface elements undergo the same stress and strain and a nonrotating shaft in which a few surface elements carry most of the load. The difference, as explained, is due to the volumetric effect of stress in fatigue.
Notch Effects
This chapter describes how notches affect the load-carrying capacity and fatigue life of materials under cyclic loads. It explains that stresses and strains can be three to four times higher in the vicinity of a notch, greatly accelerating fatigue damage. It discusses the use of stress concentration factors and how they are determined for the general case and for specific geometries, materials, and surface conditions. The chapter covers both elastic and plastic fatigue behaviors as well as a wide range of methods. It also explains how small nuances in loading can introduce tensile or compressive stress in the hysteresis loops causing variations in fatigue life as large as 50:1 depending on where the transition in fatigue behavior occurs.
Crack Mechanics
This chapter provides a quantitative treatment of the cracking mechanisms associated with fatigue, drawing on the principles of fracture mechanics. It explains that although fracture mechanics originated with the aim of understanding sudden and catastrophic crack extension, the main premise of a stress field in the vicinity of the crack also applies to the study of cycle-by-cycle stable crack growth. A detailed review is given of the many developments and discoveries that helped shape the theory and methods collectively defined as crack mechanics, which the authors then employ to analyze the crack growth behavior of various materials, including steels and nonferrous alloys, under constant-amplitude loading. The authors then deal with the effects of complex loading using crack retardation and crack closure models to show how load fluctuations can slow crack growth rates and even cause total crack arrest. They also present the results of a study on crack initiation, propagation, and fracture in circular (rather than rectangular) specimens and a fatigue study on ductile and quasi-brittle materials.
Mechanism of Fatigue
This chapter focuses on the processes and mechanisms involved in fatigue. It begins with a review of some of the early theories of fatigue and the tools subsequently used to obtain a better understanding of the fatigue process. It then explains how plasticity plays a major role in creating dislocations, breaking up grains into subgrains, and causing microscopic imperfections to coalesce into larger flaws. It also discusses the factors that contribute to the development and propagation of fatigue cracks, including surface deterioration, volumetric and environmental effects, foreign particles, and stresses generated by rolling contact.
Avoidance, Control, and Repair of Fatigue Damage
This chapter is largely a compendium of best practices and procedures for minimizing the effects of fatigue. It explains how to make products more resistant to fatigue by choosing the right materials and manufacturing processes, avoiding geometries and features that concentrate strains, preventing or removing surface damage, and by inducing compressive mean stresses that prolong fatigue life. It also discusses the use of property conditioning and restoration treatments, the benefits of interference fits and processes such as coaxing, the effects of assembly damage and operating overload, the importance of surface cleanliness and finish, and the role of inspection, testing, replacement, and repair in safe-life and fail-safe designs. Examples highlighting the benefits and potential pitfalls of proof loading tests are included as well.
Special Materials: Polymers, Bone, Ceramics, and Composites
This chapter discusses the effect of fatigue on polymers, ceramics, composites, and bone. It begins with a general comparison of polymers and metals, noting important differences in microstructure and cyclic loading response. It then presents the results of several studies that shed light on the fatigue behavior and crack growth mechanisms of common structural polymers and moves on from there to discuss the fatigue behavior of bone and how it compares to stable and cyclically softening metals. It also discusses the fatigue characteristics of engineered and composited ceramics and ceramic fiber-reinforced metal-matrix composites.
Selected Relevant Background Information
This appendix provides supplemental information on the metallurgical aspects of atomic structure, the use of dislocation theory, heat treatment processes and procedures, important engineering materials and strengthening mechanisms, and the nature of elastic, plastic, and creep strain components. It also provides information on mechanical property and fatigue testing, the use of hysteresis energy to analyze fatigue, a procedure for inverting equations to solve for dependent variables, and a method for dealing with the statistical nature of failure.
Fatigue and Durability of Structural Materials
By S.S. Manson, G.R. Halford
DOI: 10.31399/asm.tb.fdsm.9781627083447
By M. B. Kasen
Book: Materials at Low Temperatures
DOI: 10.31399/asm.tb.mlt.t62860413
Composite systems for cryogenic applications are discussed in this chapter. This chapter emphasizes filamentary-reinforced composites because they are the most widely used composite materials. It begins with a discussion on the approach to designing and fabricating with low-pressure laminate composites. This is followed by a section providing an overview of the materials in modern cryogenic technology. Then, the chapter describes the effect of cryogenic temperatures on materials properties; it also introduces the various joining techniques developed for composite materials. The effects of radiation on the properties of the materials are covered as well as the processes involved in testing laminates at cryogenic temperatures. Finally, the chapter provides information available on concrete aggregate composites.


Q I heard recently that Michael J. Fox was not the first choice to play Marty McFly in Back To The Future. Is this true?
A Superfans of the the movie trilogy are most likely aware that Michael J. Fox almost missed out on the iconic role. While Fox was the first choice for Marty, he was not able to work around scheduling conflicts with his TV series, Family Ties. For about five weeks, Marty McFly was played by Eric Stoltz but the production team realized they'd made a mistake in casting the role. Eventually, Fox was able to work out an agreement with Family Ties and began shooting Back To The Future on nights and weekends when he wasn't doing the series.


The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is administered both to the dying and to those who are gravely ill or are about to undergo a serious operation, for the recovery of their health and for spiritual strength.
To speak to someone about having a priest visit a sick or dying relative or friend, please call the parish office.
Among the "good" Jesus did was to prepare his community for the day his earthly ministry would come to an end. Although Jesus appeared over the course of forty days after his resurrection, even those marvelous visits would cease. Before Jesus ascended into heaven he entrusted to his community seven special signs that were and continue to be moments in which his followers come face-to-face with Him. Those special moments occur each time any of the seven sacraments is celebrated. A special moment occurs when a person is baptized. A special moment occurs when someone is anointed with the Oil of the Sick. A special moment occurs when the other five sacraments are celebrated as well. Jesus was indeed faithful to his promise to be with us till the end of time, that he would not leave us orphans.
Many readers of this article recall the days when the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick was called Extreme Unction, literally "last anointing." This sacrament was also called "the last rites." More often than not this sacrament was not celebrated until a Catholic was literally lying on his or her deathbed. This led to a fear of the sacrament. Relatives would whisper, "We should call for the priest now" so the dying person would not be alarmed.
Recommendations emerging from Vatican Council II included the celebration of the sacraments in the vernacular and also to provide greater awareness that each of the sacraments is an encounter with Jesus. And Jesus is kind and compassionate, not someone to be feared. He touches us when we are in need, including times of serious illness. After all, who would want to live for endless days with someone who arouses fear? That reasoning helps explain the 1972 change in title from Extreme Unction to the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick.
When composing our individual summaries of the life of Jesus we may include at least one healing story. Most of the people whom Jesus healed were not at the threshold of death. Many ran off, filled with joy, announcing their wonderful, healing encounter with Jesus.
Anointing of the Sick can be celebrated when someone is facing surgery. Sometimes the physical burden of passing years becomes difficult to carry. A person carrying that burden may want to be anointed. Any serious illness or debilitating condition is an occasion for Jesus to reach out to us in our time of vulnerability. The sacrament helps to restore a person to health if that is God's will or prepares the recipient of the sacrament for the final journey home to heaven. The desire to hold tightly to life is instilled in us by God. As death approaches that desire is heightened. The sacrament helps to lessen that anxiety. Whenever the sacrament is celebrated sins are forgiven. Very often the person receives Holy Communion.
Anointing of the Sick takes place in a service tailored to the individual situation. If other believers are present they are asked to participate in the ceremony. If the recipient wishes to confess, the others leave the room temporarily. However, auricular confession is not required. Even if a person is unconscious, that individual's sins are forgiven.
The celebration of the sacrament includes many options for readings and other prayers. One of my favorite prayers occurs after the anointing. "Father in heaven, through this holy anointing grant N (person's name) comfort in his/her suffering. When he/she is afraid, give him/her courage, when afflicted, give him/her patience, when dejected, afford him/her hope, and when alone, assure him/her of the support of your holy people. We ask this through Christ our Lord." Amen. The presence of the compassionate and loving Lord is clearly evident.
Although forty years has passed since the revision of the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick the former understanding remains. I must include a personal experience as I conclude this article. About six years ago I was being treated for atrial fibrillation. Visits to the Good Samaritan emergency room were frequent. On one occasion my heart would not go back into rhythm following the usual procedures. An orderly was dispatched to bring me to the cath lab so my heart could be shocked into rhythm while I was under general anesthetic. Just then, Father Jerry Niklas, longtime chaplain, arrived and asked me if I wanted to be anointed. Tears formed in my eyes when I began to consider the possibility I might die. Only a couple of people were aware that I had been taken to the hospital. I had no opportunity to tell anyone one goodbye. I was sure I wasn't ready to die but then realized Jesus was reaching out to me to calm my fears and prepare me to accept his will. My suspicion is there will always be some anxiety surrounding the celebration of the Anointing of the Sick. I experienced it. However, may that fear be alleviated for all those whom Jesus comes to visit in their time of need.


The ground colour of the upperside is orange-buff, often with a strong rosy tinge and overlaid with a pattern of black spots and patches. The forewing tip has an extensive black patch containing white spots. The hindwing has an arc of prominent black spots just inside the outer margin. The underside of the forewing resembles the upperside, but the underside of the hindwing is mottled grey and brown with a row of bluish eye-spots near the outer margin. Flight from May to Ocotber in one or two broods. A far-ranging migrant. The larval foodplants are mainly thistles. The Painted Lady cannot survive European winter and fly southwards.


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Gurudwara Bala Sahib is one of the most important Sikh Shrines in Delhi, next in importance to Gurdwara Sis Ganj and Gurdwara Bangla Sahib. Large number of Sikhs and Hindus visit this holy place daily. This Gurdwara is associated with the eighth Guru Sri HarKishan and two wives of Guru Gobind Singh namely Mata Sundri and Mata Sahib Kaur.
During his stay in Delhi, Guru HarKishan won hearts of a large number of admirers by applying healing touch on ailing bodies. He cured hundreds of people, suffering from acute attack of cholera and smallpox. For Sikhs of Delhi, his very presence amidst them, had a very healthy impact. For them the Guru was the boat of salvation, a ladder to reach one's ultimate home, a key to open the lock,a unifier of man with God and so on. In fact for Sikhs a Guru is indispensable, yet he is not an end in himself, but only a means for the attainment of salvation. So they were all happy to be in close association of their spiritual preceptor. But their joy was short-lived as he soon, left for his heavenly abode. During his stay in Delhi as guest of Raja Jai Singh,.Guni HarKishan performed the humane miracle of healing and giving solace to the poor and the sick. In fact the noble deeds of serving the suffering humanity won him more adherents than any other religious leader living in Delhi at that time. Even Muslims respected him greatly for the radiant peace and the hope his serene personality reflected. As if he had taken the burden and sufferings of others on his own shoulders, he himself got a severe attack of smallpox and died on March 30, 1684.
Earlier, he had shifted from the bungalow of Raja Jai Singh to the bank of river Yamuna. He was cremated at the same spot where Gurdwara Bala Sahib has been raised. This Shrine is situated on the ring road on the other side of Maharani Bagh Colony. The Gurdwara is no longer on the bank of the river as Yamuna has since changed its course.
Gurdwara Bala Sahib is also sacred because Mata Sundri and Mata Sahib Kaur were also cremated there. The samadhi of Mata Sahib Kaur, a small marble room, is in the main hall of the Gurdwara, whereas that of Mata Sundri is outside the new Gurdwara building.
Both old and new buildings of the Gurdwara are situated side by side. The new building has a big hall and it was completed in 1957-58.
Guru HarKishan was called upon to lead the Sikhs at a very crucial juncture. He was nominated as successor by the seventh Guru Sri Har Rai in 1661 A.D. in preference to his elder brother Ram Rai who was a favourite at the court of Aurangzeb. The latter complained to the Emperor against the decision of his father who ignored his claims to Gurugadi. Consequently Bala Guru (the child Guru) was summoned to Delhi by the Emperor. At first the Guru refused to oblige but later agreed to come at the intervention of Raja Jai Singh of Amber. The Raja sent high official to bring the Guru. He was received with full honour. The Raja persuaded the Emperor to leave the choice, of their spiritual leader to the Sikhs themselves and a deputation of the Sikhs made it clear to him that their choice was Guru HarKishan Aurangzeb was however, anxious to meet Guru HarKishan and Raja Jai Singh promised to arrange a meeting between them. But due to sudden demise of Guru this meeting could not be held.
According to historical record when Guru HarKishan was about to die, his Devotees asked him to name his successor. He uttered the words 'Baba Bakala'. Bakala is a small Village on the bank of river Beas in Amritsar District, where Tegh Bahadtir the younger brother of his grandfather Baba Gurditta lived. The Sikhs went to Bakala Village and acknowledged Guru Tegh Bahadur as their ninth Guru. The Sikhs of Delhi have constructed a magnificent Gurdwara Bala Sahib to perpetuate his memory.
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Intellectual Property, Online commerce
$8.2 Billion in Annual Losses to Advertisers and Media from Infringement and Fraud
The U.S. digital marketing, advertising and media industry lose $8.2 billion annually, according to a study prepared by EY for the Interactive Advertising Bureau, as a result of ad fraud; stolen video programming, music and editorial content; and malware. The report observes that each of these categories, i.e., "invalid traffic," "infringed content" and "malvertising," can be interrelated. An excellent example is a consumer who visits an infringed content site containing malware and infects the consumer's browser with a robot that is later used to drive invalid traffic. If the industry can eliminate the profits earned by serving ads next to infringed content, it can reduce the amount of money available to drive illegal activities in the supply chain. Thus, for Read More ›
Intellectual Property, Internet, Online commerce
Advertisers vs. ad-supported pirate sites
A sampling of 596 web sites that deal primarily in pirated content made an estimated $227 million in annual advertising revenues, according to the Digital Citizens Alliance (See: "Good Money Gone Bad: Digital Thieves and the Hijacking of the Online Ad Business – A Report on the Profitability of Ad-Supported Content Theft"). "The 30 largest sites studied that are supported only by ads average $4.4 million annually, with the largest BitTorrent portal sites topping $6 million. Even small sites can make more than $100,000 a year from advertising."
"It is important to note that the advertising profits garnered by content thieves do not equate with the losses incurred by the owners of the content," notes the report. "These losses are unquestionably greater by many orders of magnitude…"
Fortunately, the advertising industry is not willing to tolerate intellectual property infringement. "The future health of digital media is at stake," according to Bob Liodice, head of the Association of National Advertisers, "and we owe it to ourselves, our industry and its brands to attack the issue head-on."
Opponents overreact to online piracy legislation
Showdowns are likely in the Senate and House of Representatives later this month on legislation combating online piracy. The House Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on the Stop Online Privacy Act, H.R. 3261 (SOPA), and the full Senate on the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act, S. 968 (Protect IP Act). These measures have generated some overheated rhetoric.
A recent column in Roll Call by Stephen DeMaura and David Segal, entitled "All Candidates Should Be Concerned About SOPA," for example, suggests that SOPA could be exploited by political opponents to restrict free speech.
Here's a plausible campaign scenario under SOPA. Imagine you are running for Congress in a competitive House district. You give a strong interview to a local morning news show and your campaign posts the clip on your website. When your opponent's campaign sees the video, it decides to play hardball and sends a notice to your Internet service provider alerting them to what it deems "infringing content." It doesn't matter if the content is actually pirated. The ISP has five days to pull down your website and the offending clip or be sued. If you don't take the video down, even if you believe that the content is protected under fair use, your website goes dark.
Another recent column in Politico by Tim Mak entitled "Bloggers: SOPA's the end of us" makes a similar claim and implies a tidal wave of opposition is forming (we shall see).
The conservative and liberal blogospheres are unifying behind opposition to Congress's Stop Online Piracy Act, with right-leaning bloggers arguing their very existence could be wiped out if the anti-piracy bill passes.
There is no way these bills would permit an opposing campaign or campaign committee to pull down websites harboring "infringing content," nor would they authorize censorship of lawful speech.
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Promoting online privacy with phony symbolism
The New York Times reports that officials at the Federal Trade Commission are exploring a "Do Not Track" option on websites and browsers similar to the "Do Not Call" list which prevents unwanted telemarketing calls. Meanwhile, the White House has established an interagency panel to ensure that any restrictions do not impede law enforcement and national security efforts. A "Do Not Track" feature won't protect consumers from unwanted ads, only relevant ads they are more likely to find useful. That's the whole purpose of tracking. Advertisers, who underwrite much of the cost of Internet content, applications and services, will lose an efficient opportunity to connect with potential customers. For what? Meanwhile, even if there will be no tracking for commercial Read More ›
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With U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and now the Federal Trade Commission holding hearings on privacy and online advertising, it seemed like a good time to visit the Google Privacy Center to see what categories Google believes I fall into based on my online behavior. My interests were:News & Current EventsThat was it. I could opt out of interest-based advertising or manage my ad preferences at the Google site, but, I figured, what's the point? A Google representative told the New York Times that the Privacy Center pulls in tens of thousands of visitors each week. For every one person who opts out, four people change the categories they have fallen into, and 10 people do nothing, just look over Read More ›
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"We're looking, of course, at ways to extract payments from the consumers of our news — micro-payments, subscriptions, memberships, licensing, even voluntary donations," Bill Keller, executive editor of The Times, said last week. Online newspaper publishers traditionally have wanted us to give them our credit card information so they can charge recurring subscription fees. Or they want us to give them our credit card information so they can charge us $3.75 or some such fee to view individual articles. They're no different from every other online vendors, who don't want to pay another middleman to help them handle transactions. Do consumers object to paying for online content, as many fear, or perhaps do consumers just view giving out their credit Read More ›
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You can download this book's source code by using the git version control system. An OS X implementation of git is available at http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer. OS X git implementations include both command-line and GUI solutions, so hunt around for the version that best suits your development needs.


I know that everyone else has known about Tabletop for a little while now, but it's rather new to me.
I recently powerwatched most 38 or so episodes and I've fallen in love with it.
And because of this show, I now have a crush on Sean Plott and Troy Baker.
If you haven't seen an episode of TableTop, do yourself a favor and watch one. They are all great; however, I still can't bring myself to watch the Fiasco episode. I had a bad experience with that game once and the wounds still haven't healed.
Also, WIL WHEATON GIF PARTY!!!


The emerging wave of technological innovation centered around data science and machine learning is poised not only to upend economies and societies in yet unforeseen ways, it also looks set to trigger a new era of geopolitical rivalry, especially between the United States and China. Steven Weber and Gabriel Nicholas explain what is unfolding and why it is so important.
Steven Weber is a Professor at the School of Information and Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Gabriel Nicholas is a Fellow at the New York University Center for Cybersecurity.


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No Cuts From The Censor Board, Salman Khan Starrer 'Bharat' Loved By One And All!
New Delhi, May 29 (TIWN): Salman Khan entertainer Bharat is set to release on June 5, this year. While the promotions of the film are in full swing ahead of its release on June 5, 2019, the makers of the film get a U/A certificate from the Censor Board and that too without a single cut which is the testimony to the fact that Bharat is already the most loved movie of the season!
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The Eid release, Bharat has Salman Khan's six different looks ranging from a young circus champion to a 60-year-old man where he is spotted donning grey strands of hair which is reflective of the journey the film promises.
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Отель де Санс () — один из трёх средневековых особняков Парижа, сохранившихся до наших дней. Памятник поздней готики.

Особняк, построенный в 1475—1507 гг. как столичная резиденция архиепископа Санса, расположен в парижском районе Маре (IV муниципальный округ). С 1961 года в его стенах располагается библиотека Форне.

История
До создания в 1622 г. столичной архиепархии Париж входил в архиепархию Санса, епископы которой должны были часто приезжать в Париж, где им требовалась соответствующая их положению резиденция. С этой целью король Карл V передал в их распоряжение дом Жана д'Эстомениля.

Тристан де Салазар, бывший архиепископом Санса с 1474 по 1518 годы, распорядился разобрать обветшавший дом. С 1475 по 1507 годы на его месте было выстроено существующее здание, в полной мере соответствовавшее взыскательному вкусу архиепископа.

В стенах этого особняка в 1528 году проходил синод Санской архиепархии, который кардинал Антуан Дюпра созвал для осуждения реформаторского учения Лютера.

Королева Марго, чей бездетный брак с королём Генрихом IV был аннулирован церковью в 1599 году, размещалась в этом особняке с 1605 по 1606 год после своего возвращения в Париж из ссылки. Об этой услуге король Генрих IV договорился с архиепископом Рено де Боном.

После того как в 1622 году Париж стал отдельной архиепархией, санские архиепископы, утратив былое значение, покинули отель де Санс и останавливались в Париже в собственных частных особняках. В 1689 году особняк был сдан в наём транспортной компании Лиона, которая разместила в нём дилижансы, связывавшие Париж с Бургундией и Лионом.

В течение XIX столетия в стенах особняка размещались самые разнообразные предприятия, а именно — транспортные агентства, прачечная, консервная фабрика, заготовка меха зайцев и кроликов для шляпного производства, постоялый двор. Начиная с 1862 года в особняке обосновалась фабрика по производству варенья, которая была удостоена золотой медали на Всемирной выставке 1878 года. На верхних этажах особняка были устроены меблированные комнаты.

Отель де Санс классифицирован как национальный исторический памятник ещё в 1862 году. Статус национального памятника позволил уберечь отель де Санс от уничтожения в ходе массового сноса прилегающих к особняку строений в начале XX века в ходе исполнения муниципальной программы ликвидации «антисанитарных кварталов» Парижа (отель де Санс попал в границы «антисанитарного квартала № 16»).

Отель де Санс, к тому времени пришедший в упадок, был выкуплен парижским муниципалитетом в 1911 году.

Современность
В особняке расположена библиотека Форне, основанная ещё в 1886 году по завещанию торговца деревом швейцарского происхождения Самюэля Форне. В её фондах хранятся художественные предметы (архитектура, живопись, скульптура, рисунки, офорты), декоративно-прикладные (керамика, костюмы, художественное литьё, мебель, ювелирные изделия, гобелены, стеклянные изделия, витражи), изделия народного промысла, а также технологические предметы, посвящённые строительству, столярному делу, рекламе, ткачеству, полиграфии).

В фондах библиотеки также организованы секции иконографии, где хранятся предметы рекламной продукции, выпущенной начиная с 1950-х годов, свыше одного миллиона почтовых карточек разного периода времени, посвящённых разнообразным темам, эстампов, диапозитивов, а также обоев; в специальном фонде библиотеки собираются каталоги выставок, проходивших во Франции и в других странах, а также выпуски периодических изданий, начиная с даты их образования и до наших дней (всех направлений и на различных языках).

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Особняки Парижа
Библиотеки Парижа
Исторические памятники IV округа Парижа
Религия в Сансе
Здания и сооружения, заложенные в 1475 году
Здания и сооружения, построенные в 1507 году
Готическая архитектура Франции
Здания и сооружения Маре


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Austrocactus is a genus of cacti with ten species endemic of southern South America, in Argentina and Chile.

They have solitary or branched bodies, the ribs are usually divided into tubercules (except Austrocactus spiniflorus). The tallest species in this genus is 80 centimeters. Flowers are pink, orange, red or yellow with a characteristic spiny tube.

Species

Ribs divided into tubercles:
 stems upright
 large stems (>25 cm)
 Austrocactus bertinii
 Austrocactus dusenii – synonym of Austrocactus bertinii
 Austrocactus intertextus sensu Speg.
 Austrocactus patagonicus – synonym of Austrocactus bertinii
 smaller stems (<25 cm)
 Austrocactus ferrarii
 Austrocactus longicarpus
 Austrocactus philippii
 stems prostrate
 stems with adventitious roots
 Austrocactus colloncurensis
 Austrocactus coxii
 Austrocactus gracilis – synonym of Austrocactus coxii
 Austrocactus hibernus
 stems without adventitious roots
 Austrocactus subandinus

Ribs smooth:
 Austrocactus spiniflorus

References

External links
Cactiguide.com: Austrocactus

Cactoideae
Cactoideae genera
Cacti of South America
Flora of Argentina
Flora of Chile
Flora of Colombia
Flora of Ecuador
Flora of Peru


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Nolan Berry Breaks Both Arms
By Matt Morton On Nov 27, 2012
Nolan Berry, Butler's top 2013 recruit, recently broke both arms during practice. During the 2012 summer season, the De Smet Jesuit Senior from Saint Louis (and grandson of SLU standout Ed Macauley) traveled with the St. Louis Eagles but missed much of the summer after he suffered a knee injury in July. What does this mean for Butler?
Along with Rotnei Clark (PG) and Chase Stigall, the Bulldogs will lose starting center Andrew Smith. Berry was expected to compete for Smith's starting position, along with recruit Andrew Chrabascz (Ashburnham, MA – Cushing Academy), and current Junior Erik Fromm (Bloomington, IN – Bloomington South). Berry will certainly still be competitive for that starting position, but likely less so as he will see limited playing time during the previous calendar year due to both summer and fall injuries.
Fortunately for Butler, Stevens and Co. still has two open scholarships for the 2013-14 season, thanks to the transfer of Chris Harrison-Docks and the expulsion of Chrishawn Hopkins. As of right now, there are only two prospects known to be on Butler's radar, which follows Butler's traditional recruiting strategy of only recruiting hard one player per scholarship. Neither player is a center, with Elijah Brown (Santa Ana, CA – Mater Dei) and Darius Thompson (Murfeesboro, TN – Blackman) each standing at only 6'3″. However, only Thompson is known to have an offer. With this recent development, Butler may decide to target a 6'8″+ prospect rather than continue to recruit Brown.
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Heat-Shock Promoters: Targets for Evolution by P Transposable Elements in Drosophila
Authors: Jean-Claude Walser 1 , Bing Chen 1 , Martin E Feder 1 , 2 , *
Publication date (Electronic): 6 October 2006
Journal: PLoS Genetics
Publisher: Public Library of Science
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Transposable elements are potent agents of genomic change during evolution, but require access to chromatin for insertion—and not all genes provide equivalent access. To test whether the regulatory features of heat-shock genes render their proximal promoters especially susceptible to the insertion of transposable elements in nature, we conducted an unbiased screen of the proximal promoters of 18 heat-shock genes in 48 natural populations of Drosophila. More than 200 distinctive transposable elements had inserted into these promoters; greater than 96% are P elements. By contrast, few or no P element insertions segregate in natural populations in a "negative control" set of proximal promoters lacking the distinctive regulatory features of heat-shock genes. P element transpositions into these same genes during laboratory mutagenesis recapitulate these findings. The natural P element insertions cluster in specific sites in the promoters, with up to eight populations exhibiting P element insertions at the same position; laboratory insertions are into similar sites. By contrast, a "positive control" set of promoters resembling heat-shock promoters in regulatory features harbors few P element insertions in nature, but many insertions after experimental transposition in the laboratory. We conclude that the distinctive regulatory features that typify heat-shock genes (in Drosophila) are especially prone to mutagenesis via P elements in nature. Thus in nature, P elements create significant and distinctive variation in heat-shock genes, upon which evolutionary processes may act.
Transposable elements can be a major source of evolutionary change. Their insertion can directly affect the genes into, or next to, which they insert. To insert, however, they must first gain access to the host gene. The authors reasoned that, because the DNA in the promoters (i.e., regulatory regions) of heat-shock genes is unusually accessible, these genes might harbor many transposable elements. With a technique that can detect any insertion into a gene, they discovered more than 200 distinctive transposable elements in the promoter regions of heat-shock genes in fruit flies from the wild—but few or none in the promoter regions of more typical genes. Surprisingly, out of the one hundred kinds of transposable elements in fruit flies, almost all were P elements. P elements are remarkable because they invaded the fruit fly genome only during the last century. These findings imply that the combination of accessible DNA and the recent invasion of P elements have left a distinctive imprint on the promoters of heat-shock genes.
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The genome sequence of Drosophila melanogaster.
Yimin Wang, M Zhan, J Pacleb … (2000)
The fly Drosophila melanogaster is one of the most intensively studied organisms in biology and serves as a model system for the investigation of many developmental and cellular processes common to higher eukaryotes, including humans. We have determined the nucleotide sequence of nearly all of the approximately 120-megabase euchromatic portion of the Drosophila genome using a whole-genome shotgun sequencing strategy supported by extensive clone-based sequence and a high-quality bacterial artificial chromosome physical map. Efforts are under way to close the remaining gaps; however, the sequence is of sufficient accuracy and contiguity to be declared substantially complete and to support an initial analysis of genome structure and preliminary gene annotation and interpretation. The genome encodes approximately 13,600 genes, somewhat fewer than the smaller Caenorhabditis elegans genome, but with comparable functional diversity.
Heat-shock proteins, molecular chaperones, and the stress response: evolutionary and ecological physiology.
Stefan Hofmann, H Feder (1998)
Molecular chaperones, including the heat-shock proteins (Hsps), are a ubiquitous feature of cells in which these proteins cope with stress-induced denaturation of other proteins. Hsps have received the most attention in model organisms undergoing experimental stress in the laboratory, and the function of Hsps at the molecular and cellular level is becoming well understood in this context. A complementary focus is now emerging on the Hsps of both model and nonmodel organisms undergoing stress in nature, on the roles of Hsps in the stress physiology of whole multicellular eukaryotes and the tissues and organs they comprise, and on the ecological and evolutionary correlates of variation in Hsps and the genes that encode them. This focus discloses that (a) expression of Hsps can occur in nature, (b) all species have hsp genes but they vary in the patterns of their expression, (c) Hsp expression can be correlated with resistance to stress, and (d) species' thresholds for Hsp expression are correlated with levels of stress that they naturally undergo. These conclusions are now well established and may require little additional confirmation; many significant questions remain unanswered concerning both the mechanisms of Hsp-mediated stress tolerance at the organismal level and the evolutionary mechanisms that have diversified the hsp genes.
Mobile elements: drivers of genome evolution.
Haig H. Kazazian (2004)
Mobile elements within genomes have driven genome evolution in diverse ways. Particularly in plants and mammals, retrotransposons have accumulated to constitute a large fraction of the genome and have shaped both genes and the entire genome. Although the host can often control their numbers, massive expansions of retrotransposons have been tolerated during evolution. Now mobile elements are becoming useful tools for learning more about genome evolution and gene function.
[1 ]Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, The College, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
[2 ]The Committees on Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, and Molecular Medicine, The College, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States of America
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: m-feder@ 123456uchicago.edu
Harmit Singh Malik: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS Genet
Journal ID (publisher-id): pgen
Title: PLoS Genetics
Publisher: Public Library of Science (San Francisco, USA )
Publication date (Print): October 2006
Publication date (Electronic preprint): 17 August 2006
PMC ID: 1592238
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020165
Publisher ID: 06-PLGE-RA-0200R2 Serial Item and Contribution ID: plge-02-10-04
PubMed ID: 17029562
Other contributors: Harmit Singh Malik (Editor)
Copyright statement: Copyright: © 2006 Walser et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Subject: Research Article
Subject: Ecology
Subject: Evolution
Subject: Molecular Biology - Structural Biology
Subject: Physiology
Subject: Drosophila
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citation Walser JC, Chen B, Feder ME (2006) Heat-shock promoters: Targets for evolution by P transposable elements in Drosophila. PLoS Genet 2(10): e165. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020165
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