The symptoms of depression are very common. Some people experience these only at times of stress, while others may experience them regularly at certain times of the year. Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is characterized by recurrent episodes of depression, usually in late fall and winter, alternating with periods of normal or high mood the rest of the year.
Whether SAD is a distinct mental illness or a specific type of major depressive disorder is a topic of debate in the scientific literature. Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) first posited the condition as a response to decreased light, and pioneered the use of bright light to address the symptoms. It has been suggested that women are more likely to have this illness than men and that SAD is less likely in older individuals. SAD can also occur in children and adolescents, in which case the syndrome is usually first suspected by parents and teachers rather than the individual themselves.
While no specific gene has been shown to cause SAD, many people with this illness report at least one close relative with a psychiatric condition—most frequently a severe depressive disorder or substance abuse. Scientists have identified that a chemical within the brain (a neurotransmitter called serotonin) may not be functioning optimally in many patients with SAD. The role of hormones, specifically melatonin, and sleep-wake cycles (also called circadian rhythms) during the changing seasons is still being studied in people with SAD. Some studies have also shown that SAD is more common in people who live in northern latitudes (e.g., Canada and Alaska as opposed to California and Florida).
What are the patterns of SAD?
For all depressive episodes, it is important to understand the pattern of the condition, in other words, what stresses or triggers contribute to the depressive symptoms. In SAD, the seasonal variation in mood states is the key dimension to understand. Through recognition of the pattern of symptoms over time, developing a more targeted treatment plan is possible.
Symptoms of SAD usually begin in October or November and subside in March or April. Some patients begin to "slump" as early as August, while others remain well until January. Regardless of the time of onset, most patients don't feel fully "back to normal" until early May. Depressions are usually mild to moderate, but they can be severe. Treatment planning needs to match the severity of the condition for the individual. Safety is the first consideration in all assessment of depression, as suicide can be a risk for more severe depressive symptoms.
Although some individuals do not necessarily show these symptoms, the classic characteristics of recurrent winter depression include oversleeping, daytime fatigue, carbohydrate craving and weight gain. Additionally, many people may experience other features of depression including decreased sexual interest, lethargy, hopelessness, suicidal thoughts, lack of interest in normal activities and decreased socialization.
In a minority of cases, symptoms occur in the summer rather than winter. During that period, the depression is more likely to be characterized by insomnia, decreased appetite, weight loss and agitation or anxiety. In still fewer cases, a patient may experience both winter and summer depressions, while feeling fine each fall and spring, around the equinoxes. Many people with SAD also report that their depression worsens or reappears whenever there is "less light around" (e.g., the weather is overcast at any time of the year, or if their indoor lighting is decreased).
Some people with bipolar disorder can also have seasonal changes in their mood and experience acute episodes in a recurrent fashion at different times of the year. It has been classically described that some people with bipolar disorder are more likely to experience depressive episodes in the fall/winter and manic episodes in spring/summer.
A person with any of these symptoms should feel comfortable asking their doctors about SAD. A full medical evaluation of a person who is experiencing these symptoms for the first time should include a thorough physical examination as well as blood (e.g., thyroid testing) and urine tests (e.g., pregnancy testing, drug screening). A medical evaluation is appropriate because SAD can often be misdiagnosed as hypothyroidism, infectious mononucleosis or other medical conditions.
Many people with SAD will find that their symptoms respond to a very specific treatment called light therapy. For people who are not severely depressed and are unable—or unwilling—to use antidepressant medications, light therapy may be the best initial treatment option.
Light therapy consists of regular, daily exposure to a "light box," which artificially simulates high-intensity sunlight. Practically, this means that a person will spend approximately 30 minutes sitting in front of this device shortly after they awaken in the morning. Treatment usually continues from the time of year that a person's symptoms begin, such as in fall, on a daily basis throughout the winter months. Because light boxes are created to provide a specific type of light, they are expensive and may not be covered by insurance. Unfortunately, having lots of lamps in one's house and spending extra time outside is not as effective as this more expensive treatment.
Side effects of light therapy are uncommon and usually reversible when the intensity of light therapy is decreased. The most commonly experienced side effects include irritability, eyestrain, headaches, nausea and fatigue.
Scientific studies have shown light therapy to be very effective when compared to placebo and as effective as antidepressants in many cases of non-severe SAD. Light therapy may also work faster than antidepressants for some people with notable effects beginning with in a few days of starting treatment. Other people may find that it takes a few weeks for light therapy to work, which can also be the case for most people who take antidepressant medications. Although not explicitly recommended, some people may elect for treatment with both light therapy and antidepressant medications and find the combination of these treatments to be helpful.
Antidepressant medications have been found to be useful in treating people with SAD. Of the antidepressants, fluoxetine (Prozac) and bupropion (Wellbutrin) have been studied in the treatment of SAD and been shown to be effective. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved these medications for treatment of major depressive disorder but any person considering treatment with an antidepressant medication should discuss the benefits and risks of treatment with their doctors.
Some people may require treatment of their symptoms only for the period of the year in which they experience symptoms. Other people may elect for year-round treatment or prophylactic treatment that begins prior to the onset of the season in which their symptoms are most severe. This is yet another reason to discuss treatment options with one's physicians. While not explicitly studied for the treatment of SAD, psychotherapy—specifically types of psychotherapy with documented clinical efficacy in the treatment of depression including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)—is likely a useful additional option for some people with SAD.
People with a history of bipolar disorder should be very cautious in approaching how they address depressive symptoms. Light therapy, like antidepressant therapy has been associated with increasing the risk of experiencing a manic episode. The specifics of this are beyond the scope of this review and again, should be discussed with one's doctors.
What should I do if I think I have SAD?
Any person experiencing significant symptoms of depression should feel comfortable discussing their concerns with their doctors. Some primary care doctors (e.g., pediatricians and general practitioners) may be experienced in treating SAD and will feel comfortable treating this illness. Other doctors may want to refer people with SAD to a psychiatrist for treatment of this illness. This is more common in people with complex psychiatric illnesses or more severe symptoms. Before starting any treatment for SAD, a person should make sure to meet with their doctor to discuss the benefits and risks of treatment.
Friends and family members of people with SAD may be appropriately concerned for the well being of their loved one. The best way to be helpful to a person with SAD is for the people who care about them to be supportive in a non-judgmental fashion. This can include encouraging a person with symptoms to seek help for their condition.


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Place leaves in a large bowl add the oil, and massage well into all the nooks and cranies of the leaves. Now add the spices and again using your hands massage well into leaves.
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2007 · Cermenate's Historic Downtown (CO)
With: G. Salandini.
Collaborator: M.S. Cadario.
XX September square, as we can appreciate today, is basically just a mere widening which is used as a parking lot, whose boundaries are Scalabrini Street to the South and Garibaldi Street to the west; they're both very busy arteries.We therefore suggest to create a wide pedestrian area, which should also include an easy to reach underground parking garage. The intervention on the old City Hall calls for the external covering to be manteined, and it will modify only the ground floor, so that we can create a colonnade Loggia that merges with the sorrounding square.Thus, it will no longer be seen as an obstacle for the free use of the sorrounding area. We took the ancient medieval "Broletti" loggias of several cities in Lombardia (like Milano, Monza, Bergamo and Brescia) as an example to transform the old Town Hall into colonnade whose aim is to become more representative of the public life of this town: a public loggia which is both under shekter square, market, meeting place for all the people. The first and the second floor will be available for permanent and temporal exhibits, conferences, or assigned to different public associations. Thus the building is meant to become the pivot center of the new square (or better of the new square system), with the subsequent proposal to add to the public area of XX September squre also to the area to the north of the Town Hall, just in front of the entrance of the oratory. If we level the ground at the same hight of Garibaldi Street and of XX September square we can buil a series of steps shaped as an L, which creates a nice space that can be easily usable for the public events and shows. This space can be also used for exhibitions, movie projection, plays and so on: in this case the Northern façade of the new Civic Center can be used as a screen or for a choreography. The floor of the square will be tiled with red porphyry, regulary interrupted by long lanes of Montorfano white stone.

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Can Alonso Be Beaten?
The Canadian Grand Prix marks the halfway point in the 2006 Formula One season, and currently (after 8 rounds), Fernando Alonso is 23 points clear of Michael Schumacher, the Spaniards nearest rival. Is this margin too much for the multiple World Champion to overhaul, or will we see a second-half come-back from Ferrari?
Let's take a look at last season, where Fernando's and Renault's dominance was relatively obvious from the first race, just as it was in Bahrain back in March of this year.
After 8 rounds in 2005, Fernando Alonso was 22 points clear of Kimi Raikkonen, and had racked up four wins and one 2nd and one 3rd places. Also, Alonso only fell out of the points on one occasion at the eigth round – Canada, oddly enough. Fernando had 59 points at this stage of the campaign.
So far in 2006, the story is fairly similar. Alonso is 23 points clear of Schumacher, has five wins and three 2nd places, and has scored points (actually, podiums) at each and every race thus far. Alonso currently has 74 points.
Arguably, Alonso's 2006 season is going better than it did last time around!
Last year, we saw a late comeback from the McLaren team, in particular Raikkonen's McLaren, who managed to score points in the last seven races. Whilst everybody knew the McLaren was a fast motor, reliability issues dogged the F1 team to begin with, but they soon sorted this out. 2006 has also shown a poor start from the Woking squad, but again, the package looks fast when it lasts race distance. Monaco and Britain both showed that Kimi can keep pace with Renault, and the Finnish driver even managed to make the podium last weekend at Silverstone.
Unlike last year though, 2006 has seen a resurgance from Ferrari, having knuckled out the problems that beset the team last year. Ferrari started off in reasonable shape (just about) and have continued to make right decisions in developing the F248 car. Michael has notched up two wins, and has really challenged the Renault team on numerous occasions.
I see the main challenge coming from Ferrari as (after Canada) we enter the second leg of the Formula One season, but I also see McLaren becoming a little more reliable – they seem to have done in the past. However, I still feel that the competition will be between Ferrari and McLaren for 2nd place in the Constructors Title race. I feel that neither team will be able to catch Renault for that particular trophy – Ferrari only have one star driver, and McLaren as of yet have questionable reliability.
As for the Drivers Title? Michael Schumacher may still be able to do it. The 7 times champion still has speed and motivation, and the car underneath him is good. The title race could go down to the wire in Brazil in October, but if I'm honest, I think it will be either over and done with before then, or the points difference will be something like 8 or 9 in Alonso's favour.
Am I wrong? Have your say and tell me why…
Thanks to F1 Database for refreshing my memory.
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16th June 2006 at 1:31pm
you're pretty much spot on. Schumi has a chance, but only if Alonso suffers a failure AND schumi wins that race. Otherwise its already a title in the bag for Alonso.
Neeraj says:
Renault is ahead of Ferrari & McLaren undoubtly, and for Ferrari to catch them up, they need equally good drive for Massa like Schumi. I think by the time second leg of European races, the pictures would be much clear.
As for drivers, Kimi has no chances of No 1 spot, unless Ferrari & Renault both start goind downhill from here, which really dosen't look so. That leaves us with Schumi, but for him to be in the contention he need to win next few races [that will also make things more interesting]. Otherwise it's Alonso all the way.
i think it'll all depends on how teams react to the fia clamp down on flexi-wings.
presumably both ferarri, and to a lesser extent bmw, will be much slower, thus renault are home and dry. if however ferrari find a way to circumvent the new rules or move the flexibility elsewhere (barge boards for example), then they'll catch renault before the seasons out.
22nd June 2006 at 10:35pm
For me all signs point to Renault, but tyre choice will be pivotal and could swing things to Ferrari if Bridgestone come up with the goods.
It will be interesting to see if the flexi-wing bans improves the performances of any teams who didn't have them (Honda?) and compromises those who did (Ferrari? BMW?).
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FEATURE: Former US football player tackles opera
AP, NEW YORK
Keith Miller was a bruising fullback out of the University of Colorado who never quite made it to the National Football League. However, he has become a star at the Metropolitan Opera.
How Miller made the unlikely transition from football to the pinnacle of opera is an all-American story of reinvention, made all the more amazing by the fact that he had no formal musical training when he set out to become a singer.
"This is the real thing, this is the juice," the 38-year-old Miller said. "Instead of a number, you're a character, but the spirit of competition is the same and you do it for the love of the art versus the love of the game."
It began almost by chance in 1994, while still at Colorado, when he took his girlfriend to see a traveling production of the Broadway musical The Phantom of the Opera. He was so enthralled that tears rolled down his face. He bought a CD and learned the songs.
Then he got some real opera recordings, singing along in his bass-baritone voice, "kind of like karaoke."
Yet it was still nothing more than a hobby. Singing along to The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni was something the 1.8m, 120kg Miller did to pass the time while lifted weights, ran sprints and studied playbooks in pursuit of a pro football career.
Miller, a three-year starter at Colorado best known as a blocking back for 1994 Heisman Trophy winner Rashaan Salaam, bounced around the fringes of professional football. He played in the European league, the Arena Football League and US spring football leagues, always keeping in shape for a possible shot with the NFL.
In 2001, he was in Fargo, North Dakota, training for a workout with the Denver Broncos, when he saw a flier announcing an open opera audition for the Pine Mountain Music Festival in Michigan.
On a whim, he showed up.
"I figured, what the heck" he said, his voice rippling into a low laugh that echoes his rich singing bass.
He performed the only aria he knew, from Mozart's Don Giovanni. To his surprise, he got the job, plus four other offers.
Miller then had to learn the whole part, poring over the score and picking out notes on a piano late into the night.
"It was like a baby learning to walk," he said.
He still had to be formally trained — for four years at Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts, a top grooming ground for future stars. Then, days before his 2006 graduation, came the decisive break.
He auditioned for the Met's Young Artist Development Program, but did not get in. Instead, the company hired him for Puccini's Madame Butterfly, broadcast live in high definition to movie theaters worldwide.
He has now sung with the Washington National Opera, the Seattle Opera and other companies across the country and in Italy, Britain and Canada, plus the New York Philharmonic and at Carnegie Hall.
This season, Miller appears at the Met in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball), opening on Nov. 8, followed by a global high-definition broadcast on Dec. 8.
As his career grows in a competitive field, "it's like looking at an opponent in football — even if I have flaws or things I need to work on, I will outwork the other person," he said.
"If somebody is quick, I'm quicker, and no matter what their best card is they lay on the table, you still have the ace," Miller said.
From home in New York, he travels — 10 cities in nine months last year — with his wife, Sage, and baby Josephine.
In the summer, Miller directs Colorado's Crested Butte Music Festival, which includes training children to perform. He pumps up their spirits with inspirational talk — the kind he has given himself through the years.
"This was me," he said, pulling out a current driver's license with a 1996 photo showing him at 120kg, with a thick, almost 50cm neck and 132cm shoulder span. He is now a relatively svelte 90kg, with 112cm shoulders.
The singer stays fit, running about 8km a day and lifting weights, but looking so different from his fullback days in the ID picture that "sometimes, I have trouble with airport security."
Miller has helped create a new workout they call "Puissance Training" — for singers and others to get into shape for stressful careers.
His athleticism matches roles including the dynamic, high-leaping devil in the Met's production of Rossini's Armida, or Mozart's quick-moving, jack-of-all-trades Figaro.
At Opera Colorado last year, his agility came in handy for contemporary Mexican composer Daniel Catan's Florencia en el Amazonas, a Spanish-language work of magical realism in which Miller plays a character who vanishes into the sea and returns as a superhero, flying above the stage on ropes.
"We hired him for his Denver debut because the role required a very commanding voice with a rich, dark tone and a personality that has a certain charisma on the stage," Opera Colorado general director Greg Carpenter said.
Miller was raised in Ovid, Colorado, a town of 250 where he helped his father tend to their cattle and crops, waking up before dawn.
"I thought, there must be more to life than cattle," said Miller, who went to Colorado on a football scholarship.
"Keith was a devastating blocker," said Larry Zimmer, the longtime radio voice of Colorado football. "He learned the discipline and focus to memorize all those opera roles from football."
As a singer, Miller hopes, as he puts it, for decades more of "running arias" and "tackling operas."


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How Much is a Business Plan Worth? A Million Dollars?
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Saying a business plan is not just valuable, but a necessity, is sometimes hard to grasp. All too often, people assume they can slap together an idea, call it a business plan and that be good enough. In reality, business plans are viewed as essential. To help drive that point home, there are literally hundreds of competitions, both large and small, each year in the US alone which are focused solely on business plans. Some even hand out cash prizes, one that totals a staggering $100,000! How is that for valuable?
Business plan competitions are held by universities, government agencies, townships, cities, states, business organizations – nearly any type of business oriented organization you can think of! They are not only looking for a clean plan that covers all of the major components of a solid plan, but good copy, accurate information, a sleek layout and something innovative. It may seem easy, but when big money, internships and even scholarships are on the line, there is nothing easy about it.
If you still have any doubt as to the value of a business plan, ask yourself this – Why would MIT offer $100,000 in their competition? Why would Harvard, Stanford, the State of Wisconsin, and the Enterprise Center all have business plan competitions that draw in hundreds and even thousand of entries? Why would the Rice business plan competition award over $1 million in cash and prizes?
The answer is actually very simple – a business plan is essential. Without a business plan there is no direction. With no direction there is no hope of financing. Without financing there is no expansion. Conducting business without a business plan is like treading water – at best. Because competition for funds and market shares will always be tough, having the best business plan will always be a goal and a key to success.


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US-led coalition says still monitoring ISIL convoy in Syria
The US-led coalition against ISIL has used air strikes to block the convoy from crossing into the group's main territory straddling Syria's eastern border with Iraq
US army Col Ryan Dillon, spokesman for the US-led coalition against ISIL, said the coalition was still monitoring the ISIL convoy in Syria. In this picture, taken on August 24, 2017, he is speaking at a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq. Karim Kadim / The Associated Press
A convoy of ISIL fighters and their families being evacuated into jihadist territory in east Syria remained in government-held areas of Syria on Friday, US-led forces said.
"It has not managed to link up with any other ISIS elements in eastern Syria," said Col Ryan Dillon, spokesman for the US-led coalition fighting ISIL.
There are about 300 fighters and about 300 civilians in the convoy, which the Syrian army and Lebanon's Hizbollah group granted safe passage after the jihadists surrendered their enclave on Syria's border with Lebanon.
But the coalition against ISIL has used air strikes to block the convoy from crossing into the group's main territory straddling Syria's eastern border with Iraq.
US attacks ISIL fighters near convoy carrying fellow militants
You don't beat ISIL by dumping them somewhere else, US tells Syria and Russia
The ISIL fighters in the border pocket accepted a truce and evacuation deal after simultaneous but separate offensives by the Lebanese army on one front and the Syrian army and Hizbollah on the other.
It angered both the coalition, which does not want the fighters bussed to a battlefront in which it is active, and Iraq, which is fighting ISIL across the border.
"We are continuing to monitor that convoy and will continue to disrupt its movement east to link up with any other ISIS element and we will continue to strike any other ISIS elements that try to move towards it," Col Dillon said.
The coalition has asked Russia to tell the Syrian government that it will not allow the convoy to move further east to the Iraqi border, the coalition said in a statement.
Syrian president Bashar Al Assad gave prayers on Friday for Eid Al Adha festival in the town of Qara, near the enclave surrendered on Monday by the ISIL fighters.
Confined to Damascus for long periods in the early part of Syria's six-year civil war, Mr Assad has grown more confident in travelling around government-held areas as the army and its allies have won a series of victories.
Mr Assad was shown on state television standing and kneeling on a green carpet in a packed mosque alongside Syrian religious leaders as he followed the imam giving prayers.
Read more: France calls for transition from Assad rule is Syria
The departure of ISIL and other groups from the Western Qalamoun district means the border with Lebanon is Syria's first to be controlled entirely by its army since early in the conflict.
Qara is only a few miles from the mountains delineating the frontier with Lebanon, in which ISIL and other militant groups held territory until August.
Part of an agreed exchange under the truce went ahead on Thursday as woundedISIL fighters were swapped for the bodies of pro-government forces. But the fate of the main part of the convoy is uncertain.
"It was moving this morning and then they had stopped … I don't know if they stopped for a break or were trying to figure out what to do," Col Dillon said.
The front line between Syrian government forces and ISIL in eastern Syria is active, as the army, aided by Russian jets and Iran-backed Shiite militias, presses an offensive to relieve its besieged enclave at Deir azzor.
On Friday, a Syrian military source said the army and its allies had made an advance against ISIL in that area and had also taken several villages in a jihadist enclave in central Syria.
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nature geoscience
Recent tectonic activity on Mercury revealed by small thrust fault scarps
Thomas R. Watters1,
Katie Daud1,
Maria E. Banks1,2,
Michelle M. Selvans1,
Clark R. Chapman3 &
Carolyn M. Ernst4
Nature Geoscience volume 9, pages 743–747 (2016)Cite this article
Inner planets
Large tectonic landforms on the surface of Mercury, consistent with significant contraction of the planet, were revealed by the flybys of Mariner 10 in the mid-1970s1. The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission confirmed that the planet's past 4 billion years of tectonic history have been dominated by contraction expressed by lobate fault scarps that are hundreds of kilometres long2,3,4,5. Here we report the discovery of small thrust fault scarps in images from the low-altitude campaign at the end of the MESSENGER mission that are orders of magnitude smaller than the large-scale lobate scarps. These small scarps have tens of metres of relief, are only kilometres in length and are comparable in scale to small young scarps on the Moon6,7,8. Their small-scale, pristine appearance, crosscutting of impact craters and association with small graben all indicate an age of less than 50 Myr. We propose that these scarps are the smallest members of a continuum in scale of thrust fault scarps on Mercury. The young age of the small scarps, along with evidence for recent activity on large-scale scarps, suggests that Mercury is tectonically active today and implies a prolonged slow cooling of the planet's interior.
A case for limited global contraction of Mercury
Thomas R. Watters
Communications Earth & Environment Open Access 14 January 2021
SIMBIO-SYS: Scientific Cameras and Spectrometer for the BepiColombo Mission
G. Cremonese
, F. Capaccioni
… D. Turrini
Space Science Reviews Open Access 17 June 2020
Rationale for BepiColombo Studies of Mercury's Surface and Composition
David A. Rothery
, Matteo Massironi
… Francesca Zambon
Figure 1: Small lobate scarps on Mercury.
Figure 2: A small lobate scarp with back-scarp graben.
Figure 3: Map showing the locations of 39 small lobate scarps (<10 km in length) and scarp clusters (red dots) found thus far in the MESSENGER low-altitude campaign images, along with prominent large lobate scarps (black) and high-relief ridges (grey) (see ref. 5).
Figure 4: A large-scale lobate scarp and small-diameter craters.
Watters, T. R., Robinson, M. S., Bina, C. R. & Spudis, P. D. Thrust faults and the global contraction of Mercury. Geophys. Res. Lett. 31, L04071 (2004).
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Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 20560, USA
Thomas R. Watters, Katie Daud, Maria E. Banks & Michelle M. Selvans
Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona 85719, USA
Maria E. Banks
Planetary Science Directorate, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA
Clark R. Chapman
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland 20723, USA
Carolyn M. Ernst
Katie Daud
Michelle M. Selvans
T.R.W. drafted the manuscript. K.D., M.E.B. and M.M.S. assisted with image processing and the identification of tectonic features. C.R.C., M.E.B. and C.M.E. contributed to the analysis of the age of the tectonic landforms. C.M.E. assisted with the processing and analysis of Mercury Laser Altimeter data. All of the authors contributed to interpretation and analysis of the data.
Correspondence to Thomas R. Watters.
Supplementary Information (PDF 348 kb)
Watters, T., Daud, K., Banks, M. et al. Recent tectonic activity on Mercury revealed by small thrust fault scarps. Nature Geosci 9, 743–747 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2814
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Aiming to promote the non-professional music performance as well as multicultural friendships in the name of Music, the Festival has launched a new project dedicated to doctors' amateur orchestras and chamber groups which shall be "The" cultural event of the Festival of Medieval Cities.
As a tribute to the "glorious" tradition of amateur medical musicians, doctors' amateur orchestras and chamber music groups will be invited to perform two concerts in the Festival of Medieval Cities between the 30th of July and the 4th of September 2016. While the Festival is taking place, the members of the various orchestras and chamber groups will have the possibility to enjoy excursions regarding the local historical and fine arts inheritance, the natural environment (including the Fiuggi's secular thermal baths) as well as the wonderful food and wine production of Fiuggi and more generally of the province of Frosinone.
Organizational structure of the Fiuggi's Doc Music Festival: overview and tasks.
Travel costs are paid by each orchestra/chamber group.
Each orchestra/chamber group will perform 2 concerts based on its own program: one concert in Fiuggi and one offsite (such as Arcinazzo Plateau). As indicated above, should an orchestra/chamber group arrive with more than 3 days of delay, it shall then perform only one concert. Before each concert there will be the possibility of performing a general rehearsal on stage. Each concert will have a maximum duration of 1 hour including the interval.
a) part of the program to be performed shall include one or more composers of the country of origin of the orchestra/chamber group.
b) the musical program of each orchestra/chamber group is to be sent to the Organization of the Festival by the 30th of April 2013 (expiration date for the participation in the Festival).
Each orchestra/chamber group will bring along the music for its own individual concerts. The scores of the final concert shall be provided by the Festival. The Festival shall also put at disposal chamber music scores so that the members of the various orchestras/chamber groups can meet together enjoying chamber music sessions.


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Q: Allegro 5 strange behavior on drawing more scaled bitmap I was trying to create a card solitaire in C with Allegro 5.
void deck_printout(deck*d)
{
  int i;
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  for(i=0;i<40;i++){
     al_draw_scaled_bitmap(d->cards[i].img,
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                           d->cards[i].ypos,
                           DWID, DHEI, 0);
     //printf("%f %f\n",d->cards[i].xpos,d->cards[i].ypos);
     //al_draw_scaled_bitmap(d->cards[i].img,0,0,SWID,SHEI,0,0,DWID,DHEI,0);
     //al_draw_bitmap(d->cards[i].img,d->cards[i].xpos,d->cards[i].ypos,0);
  }
}

This function shuld draw all cards to the display. xpos and ypos are set correctly for each card, SWID and SHEI are 225x315 and DWID and DHEI are 80x112.
The printf() suggests me that the position of cards is ok, al_draw_bitmap suggests me that this problem may be caused by the scaling.
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Salvador Dalí Triptych Heads to Auction, Art in Hong Kong's Malls, and More: Morning Links from January 29, 2020
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A Salvador Dalí diptych based on the form of his and his wife's silhouettes will head to auction at Bonhams with a £7 million–£10 million ($9.1 million–$13 million) estimate. [The Art Newspaper]
Film producer Robert Cicutto will be the next president of the Venice Biennale. Through the position, he'll oversee the famed art exhibition, as well as a related film festival, architecture biennial, and more. [Artforum]
Seth Cameron, a founder of the Bruce High Quality Foundation collective, will be the next director of the Children's Museum of the Arts in New York. [The New York Times]
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The internet has responded to a restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece by memeing a human-looking lamb in it. But Jonathan Jones says the painting is worthy of more attention than that in his five-star review of the restoration. [The Guardian]
In his remembrance of artist Jason Polan, who died on Monday at age 37, Jerry Saltz writes that the artist was "one of the consummate draftsmen of the 21st century." [Vulture]
Stephen Kaltenbach, an artist who found success in the 1960s New York art scene, then abruptly disappeared from it, gets the profile treatment. [The Sacramento Bee]
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import org.junit.rules.MethodRule;
import org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod;
import org.junit.runners.model.Statement;

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public class TestingMethodRule implements MethodRule
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Trinidad turns down Yorke appeal
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Port of Spain, Trinidad (Sports Network) - The Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) turned down an appeal from Manchester United striker Dwight Yorke to play in Saturday's World Cup qualifier against Honduras.
Yorke was suspended by the TTFF for missing the teams warm-up match against Panama last Sunday. Consequently, Anthony Rougier of second division Reading was also suspended for missing the game.
TTFF president Oliver Camps said: "I received a letter from them appealing the decision but I told them there was nothing to consider because, as far as I am concerned, it was the coach's decision."
"The coach can decide at any time which players he wants in his squad."
Trinidad coach Ian Porterfield commented that he would stand behind the technical staff and leave the players out. He does, however, feel it will be difficult, seeing that the two players are key components to the team.
"It's a sad day for me personally because you don't want these things to happen, really," Porterfield said on Wednesday.
"Everyone wants their best players, that's what it's all about. It's a big hole in a sense but at the end of the day we've got to get on with the job."
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Blog Kiosk: 6/10/2015 - Dodger Links - Buehler, Turner and Bob Baffert
Bob Baffert, seen above shaking hands with coach Tim Wallach, was at Dodgers Stadium last night to throw out the first pitch. His horse, American Pharaoh, recently won the Triple Crown - the first to do so in 37 years. When asked who he'd compare his horse to on the Dodgers he said (via an AP story on ESPN):
"I guess he'd be like [Yasiel] Puig," Baffert joked. "When he gets out there, he dominates."
The pic above is via Dodger photographer Jon SooHoo/LA Dodgers 2015. Go here to check out more photos taken by Jon from yesterday's game. Below are some links to check out:
Via Eric Stephen at True Blue LA, "Walker Buehler no stranger to Dodger Stadium, looks up to Zack Greinke."
"I have always looked up to Zack Greinke," Buehler said. "We have similar body type, and are similar-type pitchers, I hope I can say."
"I hate to get into comparisons because it sets expectations too high, but it's not far off," Gasparino said. "We didn't really have a Zack comp for him, but Zack would be in his mold of pitchers. He's lean-built, athletic, really smart, and a guy who can really pitch."
Via Jon Weisman at Dodger Insider, "There's never been a Dodger quite like Justin Turner."
Via Mark Saxon at ESPN, "Los Angeles Dodgers getting healther, looking more dangerous."
"The main thing is, when you're getting guys banged up everywhere, it's not your team," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "Howie is a middle-of-the-order guy who has gotten big hits for us all year. Yasiel hasn't been around all that much, but now that he's back he gives us a different lineup, allows us to do a lot of different things. Just getting your pieces back allows your lineup to flow."
Via Ken Gurnick at MLB.com, "Dodgers scout Lamb having historic Draft."
"Part of it is luck," said Lamb, in his 17th Draft for the Dodgers. "They've got to fall to the right places, and we've got to like them. As an organization, our cross-checkers and Billy [Gasparino, scouting director] did a great job. And Buehler and Funkhouser, they had to fall so we'd get a shot at them. So, it's a team deal.
WTF NBC!!! Via Ed Sherman at the Chicago Tribune, "NBC Sports boss: Shave the hockey playoff beards."
Lazarus said he has lobbied the NHL and its players to end the tradition of the playoff beards. He says the excess facial hair hurts player recognition for fans, perhaps hindering the development of new stars during the highest-rated games of the season.
"The players won't like this, but I wish they all would stop growing beards in the postseason," Lazarus said. "Let's get their faces out there. Let's talk about how young and attractive they are. What model citizens they are. (Hockey players) truly are one of a kind among professional athletes.
"I know it's a tradition and superstition, but I think (the beards do) hurt recognition. They have a great opportunity with more endorsements. Or simply more recognition with fans saying, 'That guy looks like the kid next store,' which many of these guys do. I think that would be a nice thing."
FU, Lazarus!
By ernest at Wednesday, June 10, 2015
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PANDEMIC IS CHANGING THE FACE OF INDIAN LABOUR - ARUN KUMAR
Labour Day is typically meant to highlight the protection of worker rights. This year, it came at a time when labourers are struggling to survive and their rights need protection more than ever. The heart-rending death of 16 workers who were sleeping on rail tracks, exhausted during their 700 km walk to home highlights the plight of workers today. In the US, more than 33 million people have lost their jobs in the past 7 weeks. This is already more than the loss in employment seen in the two years of the global financial crisis.
Back home, where workers have little social security, CMIE data suggests that more than a hundred million workers have lost employment, a vast majority from the unorganised sector. The figure is likely to be even larger given that it would be difficult to capture the employment status of the migrating workers. Workers are desperate. Not only have they lost their meagre income, but now their only options are to risk contracting COVID-19 or facing starvation. So, many of them set out to walk hundreds if not thousands of kilometres to return to their villages, carrying their few belongings, children on their shoulders and no food in their bellies. Some have already perished on the way. In Karnataka, they were not even being allowed to go back home, in a controversy that sparked allegations of bonded labour, forcing the government to quickly take a U-turn.
The pandemic has highlighted the real working and living conditions of most workers. The unfolding crisis does make one stop and wonder – how can this be the situation of most Indian workers, 70 years after independence? True, conditions are not what they were in 1947. There is more education and better health facilities. Child mortality has dropped and longevity has increased. Many of the poor own mobile phones and wear chappals. Electricity and tapped water have reached many villages. But this is expected in an economy where GDP has grown by 32.2 times and per capita income by 8.2 times since 1950, as some fruits of development trickle down to some of the marginalised.
Workers Suffer Indignity
What is missing though is a dignified life which should be the right of every citizen in a democratic country. The ruling class often ignores this and argues that the marginal improvement in the material conditions of many workers is enough. They even imply that the workers ought to be grateful for this slight betterment and portray it as the success of the prevailing unequal economic system. In the present ruling economic ideology, equity is not high on the agenda. The ruling elites thrive on the poor working and living condition of labour for their lifestyle and profits. Consequently, neither the state nor the businesses grant the workers their rights. For instance, large numbers do not get a minimum wage or social security or protective gear at worksites. They do not have security of employment, often wages are not paid in time, muster rolls are fudged, there is no
entitlement to leave, etc. Given their low wages, they are forced to live in squalid conditions with many sharing a small room in a slum. Water is scarce and drinking water more so. Access to clean toilets is limited and disease spreads. There is lack of civic amenities like sewage. Their children are often deprived of schools and playgrounds.
With COVID-19 as an excuse, state after state is reducing what little security was available to workers by eliminating or diluting various laws so as to favour businesses. In Uttar Pradesh, at least 14 labour laws like the Minimum Wages Act and Industrial Disputes Act are being suspended for three years in an effort to attract capital. Similar is the case with MP and Gujarat. The plea is that this is needed to revive economic activity. The chief minister of MP has said that this would lead to new investment in the state. Whether or not new investment will come at this time when businesses are unable to start or they face a situation of low capacity utilisation, what this would ensure is competition among states to relax and eliminate labour laws. Thus, the poor working conditions of labour will deteriorate further.
In India, workers are characterised as either organised or unorganised. Those in the former category work in larger businesses and have some formal rights (which are being diluted further) but often they find it difficult to enforce them. Increasingly the big and medium businesses are employing contract labour provided by contractors from the unorganised sector, rather than permanent workers. Businesses pay the contractors who then pay workers a part of the payment they receive. So, businesses claim that they are paying the minimum wage but the workers don't get it. When even the minimum wage is inadequate for a dignified life, what the workers receive cannot ensure a civilised existence.
Most workers in the cities, where land prices and rents are high, are forced to live in slums mushrooming on vacant land or in urbanised villages with rudimentary facilities and massive overcrowding. Dharavi is an example of this. The organised sector workers have greater social security and receive a higher wage but even that is inadequate for a civilised life. The unorganised sector acts as a reserve army of labour keeping wages low in the organised sector also. Consequently, large numbers of the organised sector workers also live in slums like their comrades from the unorganised sector.
Pandemic Highlights the Workers' Conditions
SARS CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spreads rapidly. Since neither a medicine nor a vaccine against it is available, a lockdown of the population is essential to slow its spread. But lockdown requires isolation and sanitation, which are not possible in congested areas in slums. Frequent washing of hands is required but how is that possible without clean water or soap? So, the miserable living conditions of a large number of workers have been sharply highlighted. If 5-10 people live in a room, how is isolation 24×7 feasible? Without physical isolation, the disease is bound to spread, as is the case in Dharavi. Further, they do not have the money to get tested or go to a hospital for treatment, so it festers. They are also poorly nourished so their resistance to the disease is less. They often have co-morbidities which makes them more susceptible to the disease.
A lockdown requires businesses to close and lay off workers or not pay them wages. This again highlights the insecure working conditions of workers. The workers have small incomes and little savings so they cannot stock up on essentials of life to survive weeks of lockdown. They, and if their family is with them, start to starve unless someone provides them with food. So, while a lockdown works for the middle classes and the well-off sections, it is next to impossible for the poor unless the state steps in and makes arrangements. There has to be free testing and hospitalisation, provision of essentials of life and clean water wherever the workers are. Furthermore, slums need to be decongested and made suitable for living with at least minimum facilities.
Not Just the Aurangabad Accident, 383 People Have Died Due to the Punitive Lockdown
From road and rail accidents to starvation, denial of medical care, police brutality, exhaustion and suicides, there have been hundreds of reported non-corona virus deaths. On 8th May, 16 migrant workers were crushed to death by a goods train when they were attempting to make their way to Aurangabad railway station with the hope of catching a train to their homes in Madhya Pradesh. They were walking along the railway track to avoid being thrashed by the police on the roads and with the knowledge that trains aren't running. After walking for several hours, the workers were exhausted. They sat down to rest and fell asleep. An oncoming goods train ran over them at around 5.20 am. The migrants worked at a private steel company in Jalna in Maharashtra and had not been paid since the first lockdown began on March 24. Given the desperate situation and not knowing when they could work again, they wanted to get back home to be with their families and decided to walk in the hope of finding a train
In another incident on Saturday night, at least five migrant labourers were killed and 13 others injured
when a truck in which they were travelling overturned in Madhya Pradesh's Narsinghpur district. The incident took place in Patha village in Narsinghpur. Around 18 labourers were travelling in a truck carrying mangoes from Telangana's Hyderabad city to Agra in Uttar Pradesh. The workers killed in these two accidents are not the only people to have lost their lives during the lockdown due to reasons other than COVID-19.
In fact, according to researchers Thejesh G.N., Kanika Sharma and Aman, till Saturday, 378 people had died since the lockdown was imposed due to reasons other than the disease. Of them, 69 people died in rail or road accidents while walking to their homes – the only mode of travel available as public transport had been suspended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, which gave notice of only four hours before the first lockdown came into effect. Compiling information from news reports, the database put together by the group, which describes itself as "freelance scholars and student volunteers interested in action-oriented research, socio-economic rights and related issues", shows that a large number of people have died due to reasons such as road accidents while walking back to their homes, starvation, denial of medical care, police brutality, exhaustion, suicides – all consequences of the lockdown. The database is updated every day and is available here.
The compilation began as a Twitter thread by Sharma on March 29. "Immediately after the lockdown, we began seeing a lot of reports of deaths. People dying while walking back home, women dying due to denial of health care. These deaths were very distressing," Sharma, who is studying for a PhD in Sociology at Emory University
in Atlanta in the United States of America, told The Wire According to their compilation, the death of the 16 migrant workers in Aurangabad was the largest number of people killed in a single incident. On March 28, a few days after the lockdown, eight migrants returning home were killed in a road accident in Karnataka's Raichur.
The largest number of reported non-coronavirus deaths (83) so far have been due to suicides for reasons such as fear of infection, alcohol withdrawal symptoms and due to loss of job. A large number of people have also died due to starvation, denial of medical care and exhaustion while walking home or queuing for ration or money. To put the information together, the researchers have set up Google alerts in different languages, including Kannada, Marathi, Odia, Telugu, Bengali, Hindi and English. "We do Google searches and people have also been sending reports to us. We verify them and volunteers help us translate them," Sharma said.
The researchers only take into account those deaths which have been reported by 'credible' sources of news. "There are limitations. We can't do ground verification. We would also be missing a lot of deaths. Local media reports may not be reaching us. Also, a lot doesn't get reported," she said. An 80-year-old man who lived near a bus stop in Tamil Nadu and was dependent on travellers for food died after the lockdown was imposed and there were no travellers. A 12-year-old girl died due to exhaustion after walking 100 kilometres with her parents who had left for home after the lockdown was extended for the first time.
(The Wire)
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Calzado Arraigned in 2004 Fitchburg Slaying
WORCESTER — Robin Calzado was ordered held without bail today after being arraigned in Worcester Superior Court this morning for murder in the 2004 stabbing death of a man outside a Fitchburg barbershop, according to Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.
Mr. Calzado, 36, was returned to Massachusetts by U.S. Marshals over the weekend after serving a prison sentence in the Dominican Republic. He was living in Leominster prior to allegedly escaping to the Dominican Republic after the death of 32-year-old Frederick Martinez on April 30, 2004.
Mr. Martinez was stabbed on Main Street in Fitchburg, near Cushion and Blossom streets.
Mr. Calzado pleaded not guilty to the murder charge, and Judge Shannon Frison continued the case to Feb. 7.
The case is being investigated by the State Police Detectives assigned to the District Attorney's Office and Fitchburg Police.
Assistant District Attorneys Michael D. McHugh and Anthony H. Melia are the prosecutors.


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package org.easybatch.core.writer;

import org.easybatch.core.api.Record;

import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;

/**
 * Convenient processor that writes the payload of a {@link Record} to the standard output.
 *
 * @author Mahmoud Ben Hassine (mahmoud@benhassine.fr)
 */
public class StandardOutputRecordWriter extends OutputStreamRecordWriter {

    /**
     * Convenient processor that writes the payload of a {@link Record} to the standard output.
     */
    public StandardOutputRecordWriter() {
        super(new OutputStreamWriter(System.out));
    }

}


Health Benefits of Swimming: You can get all of the benefits of an aerobic workout without any damaging impact on joints, and it can be done by both the very old and the very young. It is utilized by athletes to stay strong and keep fit when recovering from injury, and there is no fancy equipment needed—just you and the water.
Swimmers gain muscle strength throughout the entire body. Where runners see muscle build in their legs, swimmers utilize more muscle groups to move through the water. While the legs kick, the arms pull. As the back reaches and rotates, the stomach tightens to power the legs and stabilize the core, making swimming one of the best aerobic exercises to give you a total body workout. Just look at Michel Phelps' fit physique if you need inspiration!
While swimming's cardiovascular benefits of strengthening the heart muscle are common knowledge, research also indicates aerobic activities, such as swimming, reduce inflammation that leads to atherosclerosis build-up in the heart. Reducing system-wide inflammation leads to lessened disease progression in many other areas as well, so expect to hear of more benefits as the research progresses.
Depending on the stroke you choose and your intensity, swimming can burn equal or greater calories than running. For example: for 10 minutes of swimming you burn 60 calories with the breast stroke, 80 calories with the backstroke, 100 calories with freestyle, and an impressive 150 with the butterfly stroke. For perspective, running a 10-minute mile burns around 100 calories. Therefore, a strong 30-min butterfly speed session can burn 150 more calories than running a 5K in the same time frame.
Nothing is as frustrating as trying to exercise and being unable to get your breath. Unlike working out in dry gym air or braving seasonal pollen counts, however, swimming allows you to breath moist air while you train. Not only does swimming help alleviate asthma symptoms, studies have shown that it can actually improve the overall condition of the lungs. In a recent study, a group of children that completed a six-week swimming program saw improvements in symptom severity, snoring, mouth-breathing, and hospitalization and ER visits.
Love that natural endorphin kick? While many talk about a runner's high, swimming can bring about all those feel-good emotions too. In addition to the happy hormones, relaxes and stretches your body constantly. Combine this with the deep rhythmic breathing, and you can experience a relaxation rush that's very unique to the sport. Because swimming is also calming and meditative, it lowers stress and depression naturally.
(TheHealthSite.com) Swimming is an excellent form of exercise. It helps you work on your strength, fitness and stamina at the same time. While it may not be the best form of cardio for weight loss it does burn calories. Want to know how swimming can up your health quotient?


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Baptists and the American Civil War: April 14, 1865
Bruce Gourley / April 14, 2015
The Martyr of liberty…
(Library of Congress)
Today is Good Friday. On the site of where the war between the states erupted, the former United States flag, the very one that had been removed by the Confederacy on April 12, 1861, is again raised over Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in a special ceremony attended by many dignitaries.
General Abner Doubleday, raised a Baptist, is present at the ceremony. Doubleday fired the first shot in defense of Sumter on April 12, 1861. Also present is Robert Smalls of South Carolina, the former slave who made a daring escape during the war and became a national hero in the North. Smalls, a Baptist deacon, becomes a prominent politician during the post-war Reconstruction era.
Baptist minister Charles H. Corey, pastoring the Wentworth Baptist Church (former church of Southern Baptist divine Basil Manly) and employed by the United States Christian Commission, had marched into Charleston with the Massachusetts 54th Colored Regiment when the city fell on February 18. From his office next to the Charleston Hotel, Corey preaches to and works among the colored soldiers and freed persons. The Baptist minister describes today's flag-raising ceremony:
[Today] was a great day here. Hundreds of visitors were on from the North. The city was alive with excitement. At 10 A. M. the steamers were in readiness to take us to Fort Sumter. Seats and decorations- had been prepared, and hundreds of army and navy officers with invited guests were anxiously awaiting the appearance of the orator, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. At last he came. Prayer was offered accompanied by the Amens of thousands. Mr. Beecher delivered an impassioned and eloquent oration. The "old flag," which was lowered four years ago, was then taken from its hiding place and attached to the rope. Major General Anderson delivered a brief and impressive address. The tears were rolling down the old hero's cheeks. He then proceeded to raise the flag to its place. Such a scene I never expect to witness again. Every heart was moved. I think that there was scarcely a person who did not weep. Then the air was rent with cheers, and the cannon boomed. Every fort that fired on Fort Sumter four years ago saluted the flag, as did all the vessels in the harbor.
I stood on the parapet and witnessed the whole, with emotions not to be described. What increased the depth of the feeling manifested by all was the reception that morning of the news that Lee and his army had surrendered. The next day there was a large meeting which called out thousands of whites and blacks. George Thompson, of England; Judge Kelly, of Pennsylvania; Theodore Tilton, and William Lloyd Garrison, the great Abolitionist, were among the speakers. Such a meeting I have never seen and can never see again, for the circumstances can never occur again. All who spoke gave all the glory to God. After the meeting, the colored children singing "John Brown's Body Lies a Mouldering," with waving of handkerchiefs escorted the speakers to the Charleston Hotel. Henry Ward Beecher preached on Sunday to three or four thousand people. Only think, Garrison, Beecher, Thompson, and Tilton speaking here in this city. What changes four years have wrought.
Celebrations throughout the North and among black citizens of the South accompany the flag-raising ceremony.
And then …
Just after 10:00 p.m. a single shot is fired in Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., on the site of a former Baptist church. A familiar figure crumples over. U.S. president Abraham Lincoln has been shot in the head.
The shooter, John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer and avowed white supremacist, leaps to the stage and shouts "Sic semper tyrannis! [Thus always to tyrants]–the South is avenged!," before fleeing into the night.
Following a period of chaos and confusion, the dying Lincoln is taken to a house across the street from Ford's Theater, the home of William and Anna Petersen. A manhunt to track down Booth gets underway.
The surgeon general is summoned. He determines that the president cannot be saved. Vice President Andrew Johnson rushes to the president's side, standing vigil along with several cabinet members and friends of the president's. Mary Todd Lincoln and the couple's oldest son Robert wait in an adjoining room, overcome with anguish and grief.
As life slowly drains out of the president who overcame great odds to hold the Union together and extend freedom to black slaves, disbelief, horror and shock sweep over an awakened capital in the early morning darkness.
And anger.
A rippling, swelling, visceral anger.
Anger unlike any other in the history of the nation's capital, anger that cannot be contained.
There will be hell to pay.
Sources: Fort Sumter, History.com (link); Charles Henry Corey, A History of the Richmond Theological Seminary: With With Reminiscences of Thirty Years' Work Among the Colored People of the South, Richmond: J. W. Randolph, 1895, p. 31-32 (link); George D. Boardman, Address in commemoration of the re-establishment of the nation flag at Fort Sumter, April 14, 1865 : delivered in the Meeting-House of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, on the same day, Philadelphia: Sherman and Co., 1865 (link); "Original AP Report of Lincoln's Assassination," Associated Press (link); "Abraham Lincoln's Assassination," History.com (link); "The Petersen House," National Park Service (link); "Timeline: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln," PBS (link); "Lincoln Papers: Lincoln Assassination," including image, Library of Congress (link)
April 14, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History. Tags: abner doubleday, abraham lincoln, april 14 1865, assassination of lincoln, covey, death of lincoln, ford's theater, fort sumter, john wilkes booth, lincoln, lincoln's assassination, robert smalls
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Users who purchase DRM-free tracks from Apple's iTunes Plus store and then 'accidently' share those files with friends or via peer-to-peer networks, maybe in for a shock. Arstechnica is reporting that user account details (in form of full name and email address) are stored inside every track sold, making it possible to trace any copies back to the original purchaser — although it's unlikely that such evidence would stand up in court, as in theory the data could be spoofed. So why is Apple doing this? The obvious answer is to make people think twice before sharing their music, and yet the company doesn't seem to be informing customers that their details are embedded in the tracks they've bought.
That said, it would be trivial for iTunes to report back to Apple, indicating that "Joe User" has M4As on this hard drive belonging to "Jane Userette," or even "two other users." This is not to say that Apple is going to get into the copyright enforcement business. What Apple and indeed the record labels want to watch closely is: will one user buy music for his five close friends?
Rather than being concerned with going after individual users who infringe copyright, it could be that the company wants to aggregate such data in order to analyze how much sharing of paid-for DRM-free music, actually takes place.
Either way, Apple should better inform customers of this practice, and also what they plan to use this hidden data for. It's also worth remembering that it's quite common for peer-to-peer file-sharing applications to 'share' a user's music folder by default — so take note.
I think 'watermarking' is a fine alternative to using DRM. However paying more the content and then not being given all the facts about how they could be monitoring me makes me squirm like crazy as a consumer. When will they treat the customers with the same amount of respect that they expect from them.
Including personal information in a music file, particularly if it is used to analyze data or enforcement copyright, is a form of DRM i.e using technological measures to manage (by tracking user's) digital rights.
It would appear that apple is being a tad disingenuous in claiming that their music is DRM free.
I agree that it's wrong to charge more for DRM-free music, and also wrong not to tell customers that there is hidden data in the file.
I still wouldn't call it DRM because it's not managing your rights using technology. It doesn't stop you doing anything legal e.g. making a backup, or converting to use on different devices. It just makes copies tracable — which of course you *should* be told about.
When I think of DRM I usually think of it as being made up of two components, the policy part (the rules), that are set up to define what rights are being managed, and the technical measures that are used to implement the policy.
In this case the policy is to make the music files uniquely identifiable to users so that the music can be traced back to the individual who originally purchased the file (and who potentially breached the copyright holders rights when they shared it). And the technical measure taken is the insertion of a unique identifier into that file.
Arguably, Apple's approach to including private information in those files could be interpreted as DRM, it's not the same type of DRM implemented in systems like CSS or AACS, but I would argue that it still could be defined as DRM (if someone, say a large media company, wanted to make that argument in court), and I wonder if any tools or measures taken to strip this information from those files would fall foul of the DMCA?


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Q: How can i validate that my module must worked only allowed domain I want to validate my module only work with allowed domain in magento2

A: There is no mechanism for that in Magento and the only reliable way is to build in a check that you do everywhere your module does something (like, in a isEnabled() method) and encrypt the source code, because otherwise anybody could remove the check.
There is a heavy discussion if encrypted source is tolerable or not, I'd personally not use any encrypted extension, and you will lose customers. On the other hand you prevent piracy, so you might gain more than you lose.
You could also take a middle ground, build in the check without encrypting the module. This will be easy to break, if someone is willing to do so, but it takes basic development skills and malicious intent, so it should help a little.