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The impact of night work on our immune system
Published: 14Jun2016
McGill Newsroom
Study reveals the impact of night work
You cross paths with him at the break of dawn in the corridors of the Metro. He looks bleary-eyed and pallid. This worker's night shift just ended. His body clocks are out of sync with one another, and, imperceptibly, they're also out of sync with his environment. In the long run, this night owl could be at greater risk of developing cardiovascular, autoimmune diseases or certain types of cancer.
Do internal clock disturbances due to night work affect one's immune system? The answer is yes, according to Marc Cuesta, Nicolas Cermakian and Diane B. Boivin, researchers at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute (CIUSSS de l'Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal) and McGill University.
Their study, published earlier this year in the Journal of Immunology, shows for the first time in humans the effect of a night work schedule on immune responses.
"Studies in rodents and humans had previously shown that body clocks regulate immune response. It still wasn't known if disturbing these internal clocks could have effects on the immune system in humans. This could indirectly cause health problems," explains Dr. Nicolas Cermakian, a researcher and Full Professor at McGill University's Department of Psychiatry.
Full-scale simulation
For this study, nine healthy volunteers were artificially subjected to a schedule simulating that of night workers. In a time isolation room they were deprived of any light or sound cues characteristic of the time of day.
The researchers studied different aspects of the immune system. Among other things, they compared the rhythm of the secretion of cytokines, proteins synthesized by immune system cells, while the volunteers lived under a normal day-oriented schedule and then under a night-oriented schedule.
"We found that the cytokine-secretion rhythms, which were normal under the day-oriented schedule, were disturbed when the volunteers were living under the night-oriented schedule," says Dr. Cermakian.
Such biological rhythm disturbances in humans, who are diurnal animals, are common. Previous research by Dr. Diane B. Boivin, research physician and Director of the Centre for Study and Treatment of Circadian Rhythms, showed that the circadian system of night shift workers can be adjusted to their atypical schedule. In a certain number of them, this adjustment sometimes occurs spontaneously.
"Our study shows that circadian disturbances combined with sleep deprivation can affect our volunteers' immune response when they live on a night-oriented schedule. We should now check if it is also the case for real night workers and what is the scale of the disturbances. Fortunately, this is an aspect where we can have an impact," explains Dr. Boivin, a Full Professor at McGill University's Department of Psychiatry.
However, the exact impact of these rhythms on the occurrence of various health problems associated with night work has yet to be elucidated. Other important factors, such as sleep deprivation and lifestyle disturbances, should be considered.
In industrialized countries, part of the population has abnormal light-exposure, food-intake or activity rhythms that can lead to a circadian rhythm disturbance and, according to the results of this study, an immune system disturbance.
This research was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Institut de Recherche Robert Sauvé en Santé et en Sécurité du Travail and the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQ-S).
The article "Simulated Night Shift Disrupts Circadian Rhythms of Immune Functions in Humans" was published in the Journal of Immunology on February 12, 2016. DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1502422
About Marc Cuesta
Marc Cuesta (PhD) worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the team of Dr. Cermakian and Dr. Boivin. He is currently a project manager at Brain Canada.
About Dr. Nicolas Cermakian
Nicolas Cermakian (PhD) is the director of the Laboratory of Molecular Chronobiology at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and a Full Professor at McGill University's Department of Psychiatry. He studies the molecular mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms, especially in animal models. His work focuses on maximizing our understanding of «the gears in the biological clock» and their impacts on physiology.
About Dr. Diane B. Boivin
Diane B. Boivin (MD, PhD) is a research physician, founder/director of the Centre for Study and Treatment of Circadian Rhythms at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and Full Professor at McGill University's Department of Psychiatry. She is internationally recognized for her expertise in human circadian rhythms and their application in problems adapting to atypical work schedules and for the management of risks related to fatigue and jet lag.
About the CIUSSS de l'Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal
The Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux (CIUSSS) de l'Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal is made up of the CSSS de l'Ouest-de-l'Île, the CSSS de Dorval-Lachine-LaSalle, St. Mary's Hospital, St. Anne's Hospital, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, West Montreal Readaptation Centre, Grace Dart Extended Care Centre, and Batshaw Youth and Family Centres.
The Douglas Mental Health University Institute is a world-class institute affiliated with McGill University and the World Health Organization. It treats people suffering from mental illness and offers them both hope and healing. Its teams of specialists and researchers are constantly increasing scientific knowledge, integrating this knowledge into patient care, and sharing it with the community in order to educate the public and eliminate prejudices surrounding mental health.
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Wyszcza liha w piłce nożnej 1997/1998 – VII edycja najwyższych w hierarchii rozgrywek ligowych ukraińskiej klubowej piłki nożnej. Sezon rozpoczął się 9 lipca 1997, a zakończył się 20 czerwca 1998.

Drużyny

Zespoły występujące w Wyszczej Lidze 1997/1998
 CSKA Kijów
 Czornomoreć Odessa
 Dnipro Dniepropetrowsk
 Dynamo Kijów
 Karpaty Lwów
 Krywbas Krzywy Róg
 Metałurh Donieck
 Metałurh Mariupol
 Metałurh Zaporoże
 Nywa Tarnopol
 Prykarpattia Iwano-Frankiwsk
 Szachtar Donieck
 Tawrija Symferopol
 Torpedo Zaporoże
 Worskła Połtawa
 Zirka Kirowohrad

Uwagi
  – zespoły, które awansowały z Pierwszej ligi edycji 1996/97
 w rundzie jesiennej Zirka Kirowohrad nazywała się Zirka-NIBAS Kirowohrad

Stadiony

Końcowa tabela

W rundzie jesiennej klub Zirka Kirowohrad nazywał się Zirka-NIBAS Kirowohrad.

Najlepsi strzelcy

Medaliści
(liczba meczów i goli w nawiasach)

Uwaga: Piłkarze oznaczone kursywą występowali również na innych pozycjach.

Linki zewnętrzne
 Mistrzostwa Ukrainy na oficjalnej stronie FFU
 Statystyki na klisf.info
 Ukraiński Futbol od Dmitrija Troszczija
 Ukraiński Futbol od Aleksieja Kobyziewa
 Archiwum Mistrzostw na stronie UkrSoccerHistory
 Statystyki na RSSSF

Pierwszy poziom rozgrywek piłkarskich na Ukrainie
1997 w piłce nożnej
1998 w piłce nożnej

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Be suspicious of a theory if more and more hypotheses are needed to support it as new facts become available, or as new considerations are brought to bear.
Given as the authors' preferred interpretation of Ockham's Razor. With co-author Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space (1981), 135.


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Unearthing the City Grid That Would Have Been in Central Park
By Marguerite Holloway
On an overcast day in November, 2014, just before Thanksgiving, two men dug a rather large hole in a lawn in Central Park. They started at seven-thirty in the morning, and by midday the hole was big enough for them both to stand in. As they dug, they filtered excavated soil through a screen. They found eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Chinese porcelain, blue earthenware fragments, and the rim of a pearlware teacup, as well as the stem of a clay pipe and brown, olive, aqua, and purple glass shards. And they unearthed a roughly three-foot-tall, nine-inch-square white stone, two sides of which were inscribed with numbers.
An original copy of John Randel, Jr.'s Manhattan grid map at the County Clerk's Office, in New York. The intersection in focus, Sixth Avenue at West Eighty-sixth Street, is now a part of Central Park.Photograph by Michael Appleton / The New York Times / Redux
The ceramic and glass remnants were unexceptional, but the white stone was anything but. It was a discovery akin to finding a marble statue submerged in a remote lake or a lamppost in the wild woods of Narnia. Hundreds of stones like this one were fastidiously implanted across the island two centuries ago, but not a single one seemed to have survived, in its original position, amid the construction and endless reconstruction of New York City. The stones were set at the intersection of every street and avenue to chart the bold nineteenth-century plan that gave Manhattan its great grid. The carved marble sign in Central Park marks an intersection that never came to be, one of many spliced out of the grand plan when city residents demanded an antidote to the grid.
Central Park has long kept its grid memory secret. But in little more than a year since that November morning, three more marble street monuments have been discovered in the curvaceous green core of the island.
A map of the City of New York, from 1811. Photograph by The New-York Historical Society / Getty
Photograph by The New-York Historical Society / Getty
In 1807 the Common Council asked the state to appoint three commissioners to plan the city's development. (The aldermen were hoping to avoid the disagreements and political reversals that occurred at the local level; and they did maintain some say by recommending three men who should serve as the commissioners.) They hired a young Albany native named John Randel, Jr., to survey the island and draft the 1811 Commissioners' Plan, an eight-foot-long blueprint for the grid, which was to run from North (now Houston) Street to 155th Street. After Randel handed it in, the Common Council hired the exacting surveyor to inscribe the grid in the rural landscape. Randel resurveyed the island with instruments of his own invention, placing wooden stakes or pegs at every one of the more than fifteen hundred planned intersections. Once done with that task, he and the bane of his meticulous existence—his unruly, ever-shifting, drink-loving crew—set about replacing the pegs with less easily vandalized or purloined markers. At some fifteen hundred and fifty intersections, according to Randel's notes, the men set "monumental stones"; at nearly a hundred others, where they encountered bedrock or boulder, they placed iron bolts.
The process took until 1817, with the men carrying or carting monuments to intersections, often working up one avenue and then down another. Sometimes they tried to avoid lugging the heavy stones: "This delay has much the appearance of a determination to get here too late to carry monuments," Randel wrote in one of his field books. He, too, found the monuments, which were much more expensive to buy, carve, and install than he had anticipated, to be a burden. And although the hefty, largely interred stones were challenging to remove, landowners still occasionally uprooted them.
As the city extended up the island, the monuments and bolts seem to have become rubble, dug up and discarded as the terrain was transformed. The sole documented marble monument, for more than a century, from a corner of Fourth Avenue and Twenty-sixth Street, survives in the collection of the New-York Historical Society. Construction workers unearthed it in 1890 and it was, for a time, on view in Madison Square Garden. Not too long ago, the Historical Society discovered a second monument in its collection, from Second Avenue and Ninety-second Street. For many years it lay partially buried in the Society's garden. It was excavated in 2006, mistakenly catalogued as a milestone, and transferred to a warehouse in New Jersey.
One well-known bolt endures, embedded in a low rise of gray schist in the park's southern section. It was discovered and confirmed to be in the right location, in 2004, by Reuben Rose-Redwood, a geographer at the University of Victoria, and Lemuel Morrison, then of Mercator Land Surveying, who hunted for Randel bolts throughout Central Park when Rose-Redwood was conducting research on the 1811 plan for his master's thesis. "We never looked for monuments," Morrison said. "We just presumed they were all gone." As have most people who search for, or are intrigued by, survey markers and a landscape view of New York City history.
The archeologists who excavated the monumental stone that November morning—James Lee of Hunter Research, a Trenton, New Jersey-based company, and Matthew Pihokker, formerly of the same—had been hired the year before by the Central Park Conservancy to study the northern stretch of Central Park following the restoration of the six-acre Fort Landscape, rocky heights where Fort Fish, Fort Clinton, and Nutter's Battery once stood. They excavated a gatehouse at McGowan's Pass and found evidence of other defenses hastily built during the War of 1812. They uncovered traces of the Kingsbridge Road, which wound north up the island on its way toward Albany and Boston.
One spring day during that project, the president and principal archeologist of the company, Richard Hunter, was strolling to meet his team in the field when he saw a flat white stone embedded in a lawn. The team had with them printouts of several of Randel's farm maps—a set of ninety-two beautiful, topographically accurate, large-scale maps that the surveyor drafted for the city between 1818 and 1820—which they frequently consulted. One showed the notation "mon," Randel's shorthand for marble monument, seemingly near where the flat white stone sat. Although intrigued, the crew was focussed on the Fort Landscape, not on the grid, and returned to their investigation of the northern park.
And perhaps the flat white stone Hunter saw that May day would have remained unrevealed, were it not for Richard Garland, a retired software engineer and history maven who regularly runs and walks in Central Park, scanning the landscape with the hawk eyes of a surveyor. After hearing a talk at the Museum of the City of New York, in September, 2014, about the archeological finds in the Fort Landscape, Garland e-mailed Hunter asking if the crew had seen anything resembling a bolt or monument. Hunter recalled the flat white stone, although in his memory it was two to three inches on a side.
Garland quickly visited the stone. It seemed to be eight-and-a-half inches to a side, which he identified as the dimension of the monument in the Historical Society's collection. Garland contacted Morrison—the two had sought Randel survey markers before, in Highbridge Park and Riverside Park—and Morrison toted his G.P.S. equipment to the spot, took readings, and checked them against maps in his office. The stone's coördinates were within one foot of the expected position: a match for a Randel marker. Garland then catalyzed the official quest by letting Hunter know about Morrison's measures. Hunter contacted the Central Park Conservancy. A month later, the archeological excavation revealed the flat white stone to be the city's only known in situ grid monument.
A new archeological mission arose for the Conservancy. "We needed to be thorough and look for other ones," Marie Warsh, director of preservation planning, said. Warsh requested high-resolution copies of the Randel farm maps from the Manhattan Borough President's Office, where the colorful maps are kept, and had them overlaid on a high-resolution map of Central Park.
Last July, she led a small expedition to hunt for more monuments, starting in the northern end of the park. Warsh, a historian with a wonderful wry sense of humor, can read the park's design history in its rocks and slopes, its soils and vegetation. She reasoned that the area in and around the North Woods had been less highly engineered, partly because the park commissioners had largely run out of money by the time that work there began, in 1863, and partly because surveyors' notes show that they admired the wild natural topography. "My theory is that they were really enchanted with the northern part of the park," Warsh said. "It was a kind of template of what they wanted the park to be."
Within minutes of checking their first invisible intersection of the day, Warsh, James Lee, and Evan Mydlowski, also of Hunter Research, found another monument, this one of brownish stone. A feeling of glee seized the group, which I joined on the excursion: the park must be filled with Randel monuments! After several hours hunting on slopes, in thorny thickets, and in beds of poison ivy, the team lost some conviction. (Their woes were those of many who have surveyed the park: "Trouble was experienced with the poisonous ivy, which occurs abundantly in the brush; one member of the party was so badly poisoned with it, as to be confined to his room for a fortnight," a Central Park surveyor wrote, in 1857.) The summer foliage was too thick to permit accurate G.P.S. readings. "Maybe we should come back in the fall, when the leaves are down?" Lee suggested.
The group set aside four days in December to walk from one invisible intersection to another—there were eleven they wanted to check—and I accompanied them most of the days. "I have the sense of city blocks being much shorter when I walk in the park," Warsh remarked, as they searched along the streets and avenues held at bay by the park's wall. Just feet from a spot they had searched in July—in an area that seems so "untouched it feels old world," Lee said—they found another monument under a thick coat of leaves, bringing the total to three. A few hours later, they caught sight of a fourth. The following day, an iron bolt, partially destroyed, but clearly set in a bed of lead, as Randel's bolts were, surfaced in The Ramble, where, just up a nearby hill, a great horned owl had settled in the barren trees.
First there was one, now there are six: four Randel monuments and two bolts (at least) live in Central Park. They are testament to the reversal in the great grid's fortune, a reminder that park's eight hundred and forty-three acres could have been a hundred and fifty-three rectangular city blocks, arrayed with tall buildings. The 1811 Commissioners' Plan included only a few squares and parade grounds. As the grid expanded its reach, New Yorkers increasingly called for parks, and in 1844 the New-York Evening Post editor William Cullen Bryant initiated the campaign that, more than a decade later, resulted in the Greensward competition and the creation of Central Park.
So the grid plan sank below the park, largely lost to the sculpted waves and undulations of landscaping. Just a few white marble pillars remain, marking a forgotten aspect of Manhattan's original street plan, and evoking a wilder, emptier landscape in which white stones stand like cairns.
The Conservancy now has to decide how to curate and protect these monuments. They could be fenced off. Or one could be revealed, while others are left for discovery by respectful seekers. "I tend to think it is important to interpret them in the context of the landscape," Christopher Nolan, the vice president of planning, construction, and design, said. "That is something we are having a discussion about now."
As long as that discussion continues, the Conservancy has asked others not to reveal the location of the monuments. Perhaps such mystery is just as well. Many people enjoy the challenge of hunting for a Randel bolt. And perhaps we don't always want to find our way in Central Park. Many New Yorkers lose their Cartesian sensibility, their precision about location, in places where the foliage is thick or a path arcs downhill, in places where it is hard to see the buildings for the trees. We may find a flat white stone, remark on the world that could have been, and then choose to remain lost in our park.
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Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) released today! There are many new and updated features to Business Intelligence Cloud Service and Data Visualization as well as a new cloud service – Essbase Cloud Service (EssCS)! There are quite a few people I have joined with today to help release OAC via a "blog hop" about the new service.
If you want to learn more about OAC, check out the blog hop participant posts below! What is a blog hop? A blog hop is a group of bloggers who all get together to blog on a particular topic. We share each other's blog posts in an attempt to share a lot of great information in one place. Enjoy!
My portion consists of establishing and using EssCS/Essbase as a data source in Oracle Data Visualization (DV). Note that the screenshots for DV look the same in the cloud as on Data Visualization Desktop. I'm using the cloud as my example today because it's new!
When you first log into OAC, you will be brought to the homepage. From here, you can go many places, but we are going to focus on creating a new Data Source then create visualizations on Essbase data sources.
To create EssCS (or Essbase) as a Data Source, click the "Data Source" icon.
You will see all data sources already established. These range from BI Subject Areas, to Excel Files, Database connections, Oracle Applications connections, Connections, and Data Flows.
When you do this, you will be shown a filter of the data sources that are connections.
To create a new connection, click "Connection" in the bottom left-hand side of the screen.
Choose "Oracle Essbase (Beta)" as the connection type.
Note: Although it shows the connection type as beta, Oracle is working to make this connection fully supported very soon!
Authentication: Choose if you want to use the same login info each time, or if you want the users to provide their own credentials.
Why is this important (and really cool)? Say if you create a dashboard but only want certain departments to see their own data, but you don't want to make 100 dashboards, you can utilize the row-based security in Essbase, Business Intelligence, the databases, etc to do the filtering for you. You end up making/maintaining one dashboard, not 100!
For the sake of demonstration, I chose "Always use this username and password".
After you click "Save", you will get a visual confirmation that the connection has been added with the green box at the top of the screen and by seeing the connection now in the list.
To create a data source off this new connection, when you hover over the connection name, you will see vertical ellipsis show. Click "Create New Data Source".
You will be shown all of the Essbase applications and databases available for you to connect to in DV.
I chose "Federal.Budget" for my example. Once the database is chosen, it will show in your "Databases" list.
From here, you can choose to create a Project (in DV) or Analysis (that can be used in BI). Choose Project and you are ready to go!
To show different ideas on data options, I've changed the Essbase database I'm connecting to for this blog post. In DV, if I click on the first icon on the left side of the screen (the data sources tab), I can right-click on my data source name and choose different options for that data source. I'm going to example "Inspect".
…As well as the permissions I can give the data source.
In the second tab on the left, we have our data elements (columns) that we can use in our visualizations.
Notice the pound sign (not a hashtag, you millennials) and the A. The pound sign signifies that the data element is a numerical value. The A represents an attribute. Note that there is also a "clock" that signifies a date and/or time data element.
The third option in the list is where you can apply Advanced Analytics, if you would like. You can drag and drop these onto a canvas or right-click the option and choose "Add to visualization". Simple enough!
The blue box around a visualization is the one that is actively being built or modified.
This visualization is a Pivot table. …This should look very familiar to Essbase users as it is how we are used to seeing data in Excel and Hyperion Financial Reports. You can change the visualization by clicking the down arrow next to the chosen visualization.
As I mentioned before, you have visual cues to the data elemnts and the type of data they are stored as. DV helps you build visualizations by showing you where a numeric and attribute (or date/time) data element can be used in a visualization.
The filter highlighted here is for a visualization filter. The filter will only apply to the selected visualization.
You can have multiple tabs in a project. This project has three tabs with visualizations.
A picture of the second tab to show you are not limited to pivot tables for Essbase data!
I've changed the data source again (to Education_Salary)…this time to show you what a dimension with multiple generations looks like in the data elements pane. Also, there are some fun visualizations we can do with this data set.
Filters applied to the entire project, not just a visualization.
I have the option to drill to the next level of Essbase in DV. As an example, I have chosen all data points over a certain number (by clicking and dragging a rectangle around the values I want to see deeper) and right-clicked to show the shot the below.
If I choose "Drill", DV will show the hierarchy to select a dimension and generation to drill up or down into. For demo purposes, I'm choosing to go from Gen3, Location to Gen4, Location.
I have significantly fewer data points. Now, only the 4th generation members of Location for the 3rd generation members I highlighted previously.
Notice that my Category item has changed from Gen3, Location to Gen4, Location.
The 3rd generation members of Location I filtered on in the previous step are now in the project filters area.
Finally, I have put together a video to show you how building a project in DV is done with Essbase data.
On a final note, you can access a trial cloud instance of OAC by going to http://cloud.oracle.com and requesting a 30 day trial. It is under the PaaS portion of the webpage.
Also, you can download Data Visualization Desktop from this link. You are not required to request a trial instance as it operates like an app on your phone, except on your computer. You are free to try it out for 30 days!
Stay tuned as I plan to blog quite a bit over the next few weeks about OAC!
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What Are the Best Digital Piano Brands?
There are a lot of things to consider when trying to find the best digital piano brand on the market. But there's no question that, when it comes to developing a quality piano, a manufacturer is going to have to create a keybed that feels incredibly realistic—almost as if one were playing on an acoustic piano.
If you take playing the piano seriously, you never want to buy a piano or keyboard that has cheap plastic keys. Although it may be fine for a synthesizer, trying to play the piano on a keyboard with bad keys is a difficult task.
It's especially important for younger children and those just learning to play the piano to use a digital piano with properly weighted keys; otherwise beginners may get used to the plastic keys and struggle with finger strength and agility when they finally play on an acoustic piano.
Below, please enjoy an interactive table showcasing some of the best digital pianos currently available on the market (from a wide variety of brands):
Best Digital Piano Brands
Sound and Cost Matters
Let's first briefly discuss what you need to look for in a great digital piano, and then transition to my list of the top digital piano brands on the market that I believe most have these great qualities in their instruments.
The sounds of a digital piano are the heart and soul of the instrument. The tone of your patches can make or break a performance. Finding a great and realistic sound on a digital piano can be incredibly inspiring and motivate you to practice more. And the truth is, different companies use different methods for creating their samples—and that can have a huge impact on how the piano sounds.
In addition to the feel and the sound of a digital piano, the cost of the instrument is obviously a major factor too. It's possible to find digital pianos for under $600 as well as one that cost thousands of dollars.
Companies also tend to excel at certain aspects of their digital pianos more than others. Just because a certain brand is known to have exceptional tones and voices doesn't necessarily mean that they will have a great weighted keyboard action.
Despite there being a lot that goes into determining who makes the best digital pianos, we've compiled a list of our favorite brands.
Before revealing our favorite brands, we wanted to quickly show you a small list of some of the best-selling digital pianos currently on sale online:
And now, without further ado, let's first begin with Yamaha.
Yamaha is probably one of the best known and most widely available digital piano brands. The Yamaha corporation has involvement in many kinds of manufacturing: several kinds of instruments (pianos, guitars, drums, etc.), audio equipment, various electronics, motorized vehicles, and much more.
Yamaha's experience with acoustic grand pianos gives them an edge when it comes to creating great piano samples for their digital pianos. Their Arius line, which includes models such as the YDP-143, samples their incredible CFIIIS 9' grand piano for stunningly realistic tones. Yamaha also packs a ton of great reverbs and effects into their digital pianos.
Other cool features, like the use of binaural sampling when headphones are plugged into the piano, can be found on the CLP-625. It gives an almost 3D piano experience that puts the player in the middle of the music.
Our Notable Yamaha Piano Reviews:
Yamaha P-125 review
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Yamaha DGX-660 vs Yamaha P-115
Kawai is another example of a digital piano manufacturer that got their start making acoustic pianos. Kawai digital pianos are some of the most impressive digital instruments available on the market today. They have superb sounds and impressive technology, but the most prominent feature that Kawai is known for is their incredibly realistic weighted hammer actions.
Kawai has taken several mechanical features from the actions on their acoustic grand pianos and implemented them into their digital keyboards. The Grand Feel II is a fully wooden key action that takes into account many things like pivot point locations, triple sensor key detection, and a key's let off. This kind of detail and perfectionism is apparent in many aspects of Kawai's digital pianos.
The Kawai ES8 is a great example of a more affordable keyboard that still has great features. Some of its highlights include:
Individual samples for 88 notes
34 instrument sounds
Polyphony of 256
100 varieties of rhythm section accompaniments
RHIII graded hammer action
Our Notable Kawai Piano Reviews:
Kawai ES110 review
Kawai CN27 review
Roland is another big contender in the world of digital pianos. The Roland company that we know today was started in the mid seventies. They specialized (and still do) in creating synthesizers and combo organs rather than acoustic instruments.
Because of this, some of the best Roland instruments have a heavy emphasis on the synthesis and effects side of things. Roland's Piano Designer is a great feature that gives users total control over very specific and detailed characteristics of their piano patches.
The HP 603 is a good example of a great Roland digital piano. It has a "limitless polyphony" of 384. It has three pedals: one capable of continuous detection, and the other two are assignable. The best thing about this keyboard is the feel. The HP603 uses Roland's PHA-50 action. Roland has created a fantastic hybrid key for its PHA-50 weighted hammer action. These keys have a wooden core and a molded material on the outside.
Our Notable Roland Piano Reviews:
Roland F-140 review
Roland RD-2000 review
Roland FP-50 review
Roland RD-800 review
Like Roland, Korg has been around as a company for quite a while, and got their start in synthesizers and effects. The Korg company is credited as being the first to integrate effects into synthesizers, and one of the founders of the company was the first to create transposition: a feature used in almost every digital piano on the market.
Today, Korg keeps its reputation by its array of synthesizers and digital workstations, like the Korg Kronos.
Korg takes its excellences in synthesizers and applies it to digital pianos. Great sounds, effects and hammer actions can be found in many of its products, like the Korg LP-380.
Our Notable Korg Piano Reviews:
Korg SV1 review
Korg B1 review
Korg SP280 review
Kurzweil is another digital piano company that has also dipped into the synthesizer and electronics market. They have been manufacturing synthesizers and samplers since the eighties.
More recently, Kurzweil has put several great weighted action digital pianos on the market, namely their Artis and Forte lines. The Artis pianos have gained their popularity because of the exceptional sounds and tones. Kurzweil recorded a Steinway model D grand piano and sampled it extensively.
They used six variations of samples for different velocities on each key, and included small but important details like pedal noise and various other resonating string sounds. The digital pianos in their Forte line has a sampled Steinway too, and additionally includes a Yamaha C7 grand that has been sampled in great detail.
The Kurzweil keyboards are not necessarily cheap. The Artis line is slightly more affordable, with digital pianos ranging from $1,200 to $2,000. The Forte, being a higher quality digital piano with more features and effects, is priced slightly higher. Pianos in the Forte line can range from $3,000 to around $4,000.
Kurzweil Piano Review:
1) Kurzweil SP4-8 review
Casio keyboards and digital pianos have become an increasingly popular option for beginners and younger children. Casio's prevalence has a lot to do with their low prices. When it comes to digital pianos, you really do get what you pay for.
Although Casio has stepped up its game a bit with its Privia digital piano line, they are still seen by some as being digital pianos aimed moreso at the newbie piano player.
Our Notable Casio Piano Reviews:
Casio CGP-700 review
As a producer of affordable digital pianos, Williams' primary focus is producing digital pianos at a relatively cheap price. Williams is able to make 88 key weighted hammer action digital pianos, like the Allegro 2, that sell for less than $300. It's no wonder that these keyboards are popular as a beginner or children's piano. Anyone who plays above a beginner level might want to look elsewhere for a digital piano, since the tones aren't particularly great and their weighted actions fall short.
Our Notable Williams Piano Reviews:
Williams Symphony Grand review
Williams Overture 2 review
Williams Rhapsody 2 review
Williams Legato review
Williams Allegro 2 review
Nord, which is known for producing portable or stage digital pianos that can be bright red in color, is also respected for making really great instruments. Offering tons of options for the gigging musician, Nord has been able to carve out a great piece of the market in what has certainly become a competitive space.
Our Notable Nord Reviews:
Nord Piano 3 review
Nord Lead 4 review
Nord Electro 5D review
It seems that companies tend to highlight and spend the most time on aspects of a digital piano that they are most familiar with. Because companies like Kurzweil, Korg, and Roland got their start in the synthesizer, sampler, and electronic industries, it makes sense that they excel in making those products. Korg and Roland's most well made and popular instruments are their keyboard workstations and synths.
On the other hand, companies like Yamaha and Kawai have started out by making instruments and grand pianos. They seem to better understand how an acoustic grand piano is supposed to feel and sound. Digital pianos today are trying to emulate and recreate all aspects of an acoustic piano, while still maintaining the benefits and perks of digital technology. Yamaha and Kawai have an excellent reputation for realistic sampling for awe inspiring piano tones. It makes sense for them to know the best way to record and sample their own grand pianos.
Even the most technically gifted pianists can't create good music if the instrument doesn't play well. The feel of the keys and the hammer action in digital pianos is absolutely critical. Both Yamaha and Kawai digital pianos do an excellent job of reworking the hammer actions found in acoustic pianos to work with their digital keyboards. Kawai in particular uses many of the same mechanisms and parts in both their digital and acoustic keyboards.
Although there are definitely some brands that are of a higher quality than others, you always get what you pay for when it comes to digital pianos. The cheapest model of a Yamaha may not necessarily be better than some of Casio's higher end keyboards.
This is only a guide to which piano companies have which quality features. Finding the "best" piano brand depends on your personal playing needs and your budget. Many players find brands like Williams and Casio are the best and most affordable for what they want and need. The most important thing is to find a digital piano that makes it fun and enjoyable to play and practice.
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Q: What is the meaning of @(${VAR})? Whilst looking at some shell scripts I encountered several instances of if statements comparing some normal variable against another variable which is enclosed in @( ) brackets.
Does @(....) have some special meaning or am I missing something obvious here? Example of if test:
if [[ ${VAR} != @(${VAR2}) ]]

Thanks

A: It's an extended pattern, borrowed from ksh. Originally you would need to enable support for it with shopt -s extglob, but it became the default behavior inside [[ ... ]] in bash 4.1. @(...) matches one of the enclosed patterns. By itself, @(pattern) and pattern would be equivalent, so I would assume that the contents of $VAR2 contains at least one pipe, so that the expansion is something like @(foo|bar). In that case, the test would succeed if $VAR1 does not match foo or bar.

A: From the bash man page:

         @(pattern-list)
                 Matches one of the given patterns

So ${VAR2} is expected to be a list of patterns separated by |, and your code tests whether ${VAR} matches any of them.

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Author: Jon Douglas Jan 04, 2019,
The House passed two measures that would re-open government agencies whose funding had lapsed, but provide no money for a border wall demanded by President Donald Trump.
But Democrats contended the GOP should back the spending measures, because the Republican-controlled Senate or its committees voted overwhelmingly to pass them before the president reversed course and announced his opposition in December to any plan that lacked border wall funds.
The comments from Senators Cory Gardner of Colorado and Susan Collins of ME - the only Senate Republicans running for reelection in states Trump lost - pointed to cracks within the GOP that could grow as the shutdown nears the two-week mark.
"I think we're going to be dug in for a while", the North Carolina Republican said.
On Thursday, the Democrats officially took control of the House, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted it was up to Trump to end the shutdown.
The House first passed a bill 239-192 to reopen the Department of Homeland Security with a continuing resolution lasting through February 8. She was forced to navigate simmering party unease that saw dozens of House Democrats and candidates signalling a desire for change at the top.
So far, she has spoken out against using such a powerful political cudgel against him, arguing that the explosive step would likely mobilize Republican voters eager to protect the president. And Republican Susan Collins of ME said she saw "no reason why the bills that are ready to go and on which we've achieved an agreement should be held hostage to this debate over border security". "Why would they not do that?" -Mexican border wall - opposed by Democrats - as part of any legislation funding government agencies.
McConnell has dismissed the idea as a "total nonstarter" and a waste of time.
One Democrat, Rep. Brenda Lawrence of MI, cast her vote for Pelosi "on the shoulders of women who marched 100 years ago" for women's suffrage. And banks and credit unions that cater to federal workers are readying financial help for their customers as the government shutdown drags on.
Comments from the most politically vulnerable members of McConnell's caucus suggested discomfort with the majority leader's approach, and a desire for a quick resolution to the shutdown.
"I pledge that this Congress will be transparent, bipartisan and unifying, that we will seek to reach across the aisle (to the other party) in this chamber and across divisions across our nation", Pelosi said.
It has since been viewed more than 8 million times.
"The Shutdown is only because of the 2020 Presidential Election", Trump wrote on Twitter.
On Thursday evening, the White House issued a veto threat against the legislation ahead of the expected House vote.
But Democrats have said they don't want medieval barriers, and Pelosi has called Trump's proposed wall along the U.S. -Mexico border immoral. The package would fund the rest of the federal government, with the exception of the Department of Homeland Security.
Trump has invited the top eight congressional leaders in both parties to the White House Friday to continue negotiations, after hosting them Wednesday for a border security "briefing" that yielded no progress.
"We're not doing a wall", Pelosi said emphatically. We're not doing a wall.
"The president made it clear, we're here to make a deal", Vice President Mike Pence told Fox News late Thursday.
The shutdown has lasted 13 days without any signs of compromise or earnest negotiations, with Democrats largely unifying and a number of Republicans flummoxed over Trump's strategy.
Those employees, though, are about to miss their first paychecks.
But the Republican-led Senate appears unlikely to consider the Democratic funding bills. "Their mental anguish and anxiety is bad enough. I could never have dreamed that 23 years later I would return to the same airport with my daughter Ilhan by my side, the day before she is to be sworn in as the first Somali American elected to the United States Congress". He claimed "Mexico is paying for the wall" through a replacement of the North American Free Trade Agreement. When Cooper pressed on how she could possibly pay for the deal, she pointed to the progressive tax rate system in the 1960s, explaining that if you earn 0 to $75,000 a year, you would only pay 10% or 15% in income tax. "That's probably the end of his presidency".
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DETECTIVE DRAMA POLITICAL SUSPENSE / THRILLER ACTION ADVENTURE CRIME
CHARLES ANENE
An-American spy leads a group of inept Drug Enforcement agents on a covert mission in Nigeria, risking his life in an effort to catch the leader of a crime syndicate suspected in a revenge-driven murder of a corrupt U.S. Congressman.
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Republican political heavyweight, Congressman John Ellis, a very good friend to The President of the United States, is running for re-election on platform of fiscal responsibility. Ironically, his campaign is running out of money, and his company is facing bankruptcy.
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Rebellion Against 'The One'
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Trump says the Saudi royals are as innocent as Brett Kavanaugh
President Trump thinks the Saudi royal family is being victimized by a rush to judgment in the Jamal Khashoggi case
By Matthew Rozsa
Published October 17, 2018 10:49AM (EDT)
Brett Kavanaugh; Mohammed bin Salman	(AP/Getty)
During an interview with the Associated Press on Tuesday, President Donald Trump defended the Saudi royal family from accusations that they ordered the murder of a journalist from The Washington Post by comparing the investigation to the accusations against newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
"I spoke to the crown prince, so you have that. He said he and his father knew nothing about it," Trump told the Associated Press when asked about the accusations that they had journalist Jamal Khashoggi killed. "And that was very important. And I spoke to him with Mike Pompeo there. And the crown prince. I spoke to the king yesterday, the crown prince, today wanting to know what was going on, what was happening, and he said very strongly that he and his father knew nothing about it but they are starting a major, they've already started a major investigation to find out. And so the answers will be forthcoming."
He later added, "When I spoke to the father, it just sounded to me like he felt like he did not do it. He did not know about it and it sounded like, you know, the concept of rogue killers. But I don't know. I think the investigation will lead to an answer. And they're going to do a very thorough investigation. I believe they're working with Turkey."
The president also expressed disgust with members of the international community who have already condemned the Saudis as guilty, even though Khashoggi's alleged murder occurred in their Turkish consulate. To defend the Saudis, Trump compared the accusations against them to the claims of sexual misconduct made against Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
"Here we go again with, you know, you're guilty until proven innocent. I don't like that," Trump told the Associated Press. "We just went through that with Justice Kavanaugh. And he was innocent all the way. So I was unconcerned. So we have to find out what happened and they are doing a very major investigation. So is Turkey. Plus, they're putting themselves together and doing it. And hopefully, they'll get to an answer as to what happened. But I will say they were very strong in their denial about themselves knowing."
The president also defended his family separation policy and his harsh rhetoric toward the NFL.
Trump bristled at criticisms of his family separation policy, one in which the administration has forcibly separated immigrant children at the US-Mexico border from their parents and inflicted severe trauma on them as a result.
"I think we've done an incredible job with children," Trump told the Associated Press. "As I just said, we've taken children who have no parents with them standing on the border. We've taken many children, and I'm not talking about a small percentage, I'm talking about a very large percentage where they have no people, no parents. In addition to that, we're separating children who are just met by people that are using them coming into the border, not their parents. They are using them coming into the border."
Trump then used a line of reasoning that has been widely attributed to his adviser Stephen Miller, who has argued that separating children from their parents is a deterrent for immigrants entering the country illegally.
"The one thing I will also say is that when a person thinks they will not be separated, our border becomes overrun with people coming in," Trump told the Associated Press. "So that's another problem. With all of that being said, we're getting the laws changed so that catch and release, so that visa lottery, so that chain migration and every other form of incredible stupidity can be taken out of our system."
The president also responded to a question about the NFL's improved ratings by claiming that he had helped the organization during his trade negotiations with Canada.
"I settled that for the NFL. It took me literally about a minute because that's a small deal compared to the big deal," Trump told the Associated Press. "And Canada knew it was the right thing to do. So I helped a great American corporation. You have to understand, I like the NFL. I want the NFL to do well. I have many friends that are in the NFL, owners and others. I want them to do very well. I also want them standing for the American flag, not kneeling, but I just helped the NFL settle a problem that they couldn't settle for 15 years or something."
Matthew Rozsa is a staff writer for Salon. He holds an MA in History from Rutgers University-Newark and is ABD in his PhD program in History at Lehigh University. His work has appeared in Mic, Quartz and MSNBC.
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The elegance of the eighteenth century classical style made a welcome appearance at the Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival with a chamber concert at Mary's Mount. Andrea Dainese (flute), Natasha Conrau (violin), Helen Ireland (viola) and Miriam Kriss ('cello) presented two delightful Cimarosa quartets, replacing the original programme due to illness of violist Giancarlo di Vacri. Highly expressive playing was perfectly balanced between each part. Harpist Elisabetta Ghebbioni joined the ensemble in the major work, an arrangement of Mozart's Concerto for flute and harp. The thinner texture was successful, with great clarity while maintaining a richness of sound.
The formal architecture was complimented by highly expressive playing, perfectly balanced between each part.
Douglas Mews, continued with "Mozartiana", mostly piano pieces arranged for organ. The Fantasy and Fugue in C K394 sounded perfectly natural on the organ while the popular Rondo Alla Turca created a very different sound perspective compared to piano. The skill of the organist helped to make a convincing case for the contrast of sound.
The concert at the Castlemaine Town Hall brought together an unusual combination of instruments in an impressive display of individual virtuosity blending with precise ensemble playing. The trio of Halliday, Kondo and Brennan presented two recent American compositions The playing was at times breathtaking as the challenges of speed and rhythm within a largely tonal, lyrical style were met head on. The audience was privileged to witness the premiere performance of "Summer Ballad", a work by promising young Australian composer Harry Sdraulig.
Young composer Harry Sdraulig congratulates the trio at the Castlemaine Town Hall recital.


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Mud (2013)
Posted on May 20, 2013 by Daniel Prinn
Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive living in a boat in the trees on an island. They form a pact to help him evade the bounty hunters on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.
Director: Jeff Nichols
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland
If you take anything from this movie; it should be that Southern gals named Juniper are bad news.
Mud is a modern-day fairy tale, a crisp chase thriller, and a coming-of-age drama all in one. It's a gritty fairy tale because Mud is waiting for his love on an island; and there are themes of happily ever after, true love; but it's less "Repunzel, Repunzel, lay down your hair!" and more like "Mud, Mud, let down that boat!" It's a chase movie because Mud is a fugitive on the run, attempting to evade some lethal bounty hunters. As for the coming-of-age tale, that mostly lies with Ellis (Tye Sheridan).
He's at the delicate age of fourteen, the age where one begins to choose role models. His parents are on the brink of divorce, and they really aren't there to offer much advice; so the role model he chooses is Mud. Ellis must make his way through adult lies and learn his own way through hardships of love. Neckbone doesn't latch onto Mud the way Ellis does, mostly because he finds a solid role model within his Uncle Galen (Michael Shannon). Mud is a superstitious character, but he's also a serial liar. He tells great story after great story, and as the film progresses, the audience learns he is appropriately named, because he really is full of shit. The character contrasts are fascinating; Mud wants things to be done, but Ellis (and Neckbone) are the two to do them. Ellis seems to have a lot more backbone than Mud ever would. The lady loves of the story, Juniper (Reese Witherspoon), Mud's love, and May Pearl (Bonnie Sturdivant), is the gal that Ellis has his eyes set on; some of their character traits have striking similarities, and the way Jeff Nichols makes them mirror each other is truly stunning and creative.
Jeff Nichols writes in a lot of themes, and while they may suffocate the story at times, they're still very beautiful. Nichols suggests that the water current could really make one's hardships more difficult, because Ellis lives on a makeshift boat on the banks of an Arkansas river, and his parents are struggling with their relationship. Nichols seems to have a true handle on some natural elements. The symbols of snakes and Mud's wool shirt are thought-provoking and, often enough, poignant. Nichols' third feature film states that he just didn't become lucky with a few winners, this states that he is an artist; and most will love the story Nichols has to tell.
The story has a comfortable pace and it knows where it wants to go. It's slow, but engaging. There are some scenes that might feel redundant at the time, but they don't interrupt the flow of the film. The cinematography has a crisp feel to it, and it's stunning when the camera is looking out into the hopeful horizon. The characters will keep you engaged. The relationship that blossoms between Mud and Ellis is about as beautiful as a relationship between a thirty-something sandy-haired fugitive and a fourteen-year old boy can get. Juniper and Mud want to be together; and even if we do not feel we can always trust Mud, he's always very intriguing and has a lot of depth.
Matthew McConaughey delivers a tour de force performance, and seeing what he does here, it'll make you much more excited for the upcoming Dallas Buyers Club. Tye Sheridan portrays Ellis very well; he's capable of being tough, sweet, confused and vulnerable. The performances are superb all across the board. Jacob Lofland gets outshined by Sheridan, but he's a great comic relief, and a nice presence. His name also reminds us that this is truly a Southern film. Some of the actors have characters that just don't do much.
Reese Witherspoon portrays Mud's love, Juniper. She has about ten minutes of screen time. Witherspoon does well with what she has, but if she gets an Oscar nomination for what little she does; it will only be a smaller farce than Jacki Weaver's nomination for Silver Linings Playbook. Though, Witherspoon being under-utilized is not Nichols' biggest crime. Michael Shannon has a criminally low amount of screen-time. He portrays Neckbone's uncle, Galen, where he works as a role model for Neckbone and he wears this huge, comical scuba diving gear – and that's about it. Shannon is a go-to guy of Nichols, as he is been in his two prior films, as the lead in Take Shelter and Shotgun Stories. It's great to see Shannon in anything, but if you're not going to use a guy of Shannon's talent extremely well, don't use him at all. This is Nichols' biggest mistake, and if he does show a preference to use him, he should have cast him as Carver (Paul Sparks), the main bounty hunter adversary of Mud. He would rock that role!
The cast is an excellent ensemble, also including Sarah Paulson, Ray McKinnon and Sam Shepard. The story is impressively engaging, even if it has little wiggle room because of its many themes. Jeff Nichols writes a story that has enough power to strike you down like a mighty current, and raw emotion that will maul at your tear ducts. One thing is for certain, you will never believe a movie with such a dirty title could become such a beautiful work of art.
This entry was posted in 2013 films, Reviews # - M and tagged 2013, Bonnie Sturdivant, Dallas Buyers Club, Drama, Jacki Weaver, Jacob Lofland, Jeff Nichols, Michael Shannon, Mud, Paul Sparks, Ray McKinnon, Reese Witherspoon, Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson, Shotgun Stories, Silver Linings Playbook, Take Shelter, Tye Sheridan by Daniel Prinn. Bookmark the permalink.
11 thoughts on "Mud (2013)"
myreelpov on May 20, 2013 at 10:10 am said:
This sounds pretty excellent, brilliant write up – its going to have to live up to it now 🙂
Daniel Prinn on May 20, 2013 at 1:33 pm said:
Thanks Claire, I really think it will 😀 By the way, when I say chase thriller, I should probably point out that I'm using the word "thriller" rather lightly 😉
I think the only trailer I saw for it was a twenty-second TV spot for it, so I loved just going in with just really knowing the plot and that McConaughey and Witherspoon were in it.
It's one of my favourites of the year so far, so I really hope you enjoy it 🙂
myreelpov on May 20, 2013 at 3:24 pm said:
I don't think I have seen a trailer but keep reading good things about it 🙂
CMrok93 on May 20, 2013 at 1:05 pm said:
Good review Dan. The cast does wonders with material that feels oh so perfectly suited for each and every one of them.
Thanks, Dan. Shannon does fit the role of Galen, but I just can't help but wonder what he could have done with the role of Carver…
Issy R. on May 20, 2013 at 1:47 pm said:
One of the best films of the year. Good review.
Thanks, Issy, it's definitely in my top 5. I'll definitely be rewatching this when it comes out on DVD.
cindybruchman on May 20, 2013 at 7:54 pm said:
I've heard so many good things about this film. Nice review.
Thanks, Cindy. It really deserves all the praise it's been receiving 🙂
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Ricky Ponting — Ricky Thomas Ponting (born 19 December 1974), nicknamed Punter, is the current captain of the Australian cricket team. He is a specialist right-handed batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as a very occasional bowler. He is regarded as one of Australia's finest cricketers in the modern era. He represents the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic cricket and played in the Indian Premier League with the Kolkata Knight Riders in 2008.
Ponting made his first-class debut for Tasmania in November 1992, when just 17 years and 337 days old, becoming the youngest Tasmanian to play in a Sheffield Shield match. However, he had to wait until 1995 before making his One Day International (ODI) debut, during a quadrangular tournament in New Zealand in a match against South Africa. His Test debut followed shortly after, when selected for the first Test of the 1995 home series against Sri Lanka in Perth, in which he scored 96. He lost his place in the national team several times in the period before early-1999, due to lack of form and discipline, before becoming One Day International captain in early-2002 and Test captain in early-2004.
After being involved in 151 Tests and 352 ODIs, Ponting is Australia's leading run-scorer in Test and ODI cricket, with more than 25,000 international runs as of July 2010. He has scored 39 Test centuries – behind only Indian Sachin Tendulkar (50), and South African Jacques Kallis (40) – and third for most runs in ODIs behind Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya.
Ricky Ponting remains the most successful Australian captain of all time, with 48 victories in 77 Tests since 2004 – 31 December 2010, while as a player he has taken part in 99 victories, the most by anyone in history.
One of the finest batsmen produced by the highly rated Australian domestic circuit, Ponting is also regarded as one of the best thinkers in the game. A resume which consists of two World Cup triumphs as skipper and the honour of being captain of the longest reigning number one test team, 'Punter' is already in the pantheon of Aussie greats.
At a very young age, Ponting exhibited flair and a will for perfection which separated him from his peers. He debuted for Tasmania at the age of 17 and made an immediate impact. Back-to-back centuries against Western Australia at the WACA – which many regard as the fastest pitch in the world – were a testament to his budding genius. After a few consistent performances, he made his ODI debut for Australia in a quadrangular tournament in New Zealand where he showed glimpses of his genius.
A freak accident to mainstay Mark Waugh enabled him to make his test debut against Sri Lanka where he fell four short of a maiden test ton. Despite a great head start, his attitude and temperament were questioned and he was dropped for the same but each time he staged a successful comeback. Quick feet and an ability to pick the line of the ball early is what makes Ponting special. He is not only a brilliant fielder but has the added knack of affecting run outs. He is also regarded as one of the best players of the hook shot in the modern game. Still, good spinners caused him problems, an area where he still exhibits hiccups.
The diminutive Tasmanian was a part of Steve Waugh's 'golden era' that changed the face of Test cricket. After the sacking of Steve Waugh as ODI captain in 2002, Ponting was called on to lead the team in an away series against South Africa. Australia won comprehensively and Ponting was consequently made captain of the 2003 World Cup. It proved to be a masterstroke as he led Australia to cup honours playing a massive hand in thrashing India in the finals. He repeated the feat in 2007 and still seems hungry to lead Australia in pole position for the 2011 WC. If he does it again, he will be the first man in history to lead his country to three World Cup trophies.
Only Australian to surpass 12,000 runs in Test and ODI cricket.
Most number of half centuries and centuries for Australia in ODIs.
With over 40 wins in tests and more than 150 ODI wins he is the most successful captain in history.
He holds the record for the highest score of for a captain in a WC final (140).
He has scored a century against every test playing nation and has the most number of centuries by an Australian, 39.
He has the most consecutive test wins as captain, a record of 16 shared with Steve Waugh.
He was named captain in Australia's 'greatest ever team' chosen by some of Australia's legendary cricketers.
He was a part of the ICC World XI in Tests and ODIs combined a record 8 times.
Ponting is one of only two captains to have led their countries to consecutive World Cup wins.
He was adjudged Australia's best Test player in 2003, 2004 and 2007 and Australia's best ODI player in 2002 and 2007.
He was conferred with the Wisden 'Australian Cricketer of the Year' honour for 2003-04.
Ponting was named as the ICC 'Player of the Year' in 2006 and 2007.
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