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The Adventures Of The Moving Lump by Damyanti Biswas
By Damyanti Biswas
Omi remembered the summer he turned six for different reasons. He lost his first tooth, Grandpa died in a faraway Indian village, and Grandma came to live with them in their tiny apartment in Florida.
But of that summer, he remembered best the stories Grandma told him, speaking in a firm, clear voice over the sputtering of the air-cooler in her curtained alcove. Tales from myth, fables of wisdom, and the legends of the lump in her stomach.
Some days, it was the peanut she had swallowed as a child, that now wanted to grow into a watermelon. On others, it became a cask in which the frightened rabbit had taken shelter to hide from the cruel fox, or the beating heart of a princess kept safe from demons in her palace as she lay dreaming. Mingled with the adventures of the moving lump, she told him stories about souls that didn't die, but floated off to rest on the clouds for a while before dressing up in new bodies and returning to earth.
When she died, Omi didn't grieve. He missed touching the lump, the way it moved beneath his fingers in Grandma's swollen stomach, but he had known that the lump lived inside her for only a while, and would one day go on its own journey. She had gone to rest on the clouds, and would return soon, wearing a new body.
Over the years, Omi thought often of Grandma, and the lump, of how those stories had taken him away from the humid, cramped rooms, the sweltering heat, and the poverty of his family that could only afford headache medicine to fight his Grandma's pain.
Today he sat again in a darkened room, with the latest, most silent air-conditioner keeping him cool, near a bed he could crank up five different ways to keep his little daughter comfortable, and clear liquid flowing down a tube and into a cannula to keep her pain-free. He thought of the princess's heart kept safe, the casket that protected the rabbit, wished for the same refuge for his daughter, and his wife who had fallen asleep, crumpled opposite him at the foot of the bed.
He would find that place for his family. He would make it for them, so that he, his daughter, her mother could curl up together, far away from this hospital room with its beeps, hum and swoosh, its smell of disinfectant, dried blood, room freshener.
When they woke up, he would take them there, with winding yarns about fairies changing bodies like people change clothes. He would tell them the truth, through tales of soldiers revolting against their own king, of battles lost and kingdoms won in small spaces. He would take them far away, like his Grandma.
He just had to get past the lump in his throat, get started on the stories.
Damyanti Biswas's short fiction has been commended at the Bath Flash Fiction award. She's published at Bluestem magazine, Griffith Review Australia, Lunch Ticket magazine, and other journals and anthologies in the USA, Malaysia and Singapore. Her debut novel in progress is longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition, 2015.
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This presentation is a part of this highly esteemed company's first U.S. tour! Led by Elena Baranovskaya, former dancer at the Bolshoi Ballet, Mariinsky, and the Perm State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, The National Ballet Theater of Odessa is a national treasure in residence at the grand Odessa Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Do not be confused by a student recital of The Nutcracker at Kingsborough on the same weekend as our presentation of the esteemed National Ballet Theater of Odessa. Our presentation is taking place only on Friday evening, December 14th.


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The Punisher, Magik, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man, Thor and the X-Men Getting the Marvel 'What If' Treatment
Britany Murphy	 July 17, 2018	 2 Comments
This fall, Marvel Comics is releasing a new slew of 'What If' comic books which include fan favourite characters like the Punisher, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man, Thor, Magik and the X-men.
The six brand new stories will examine these classic marvel characters and answer the question 'what if' as it pertains to having the character's original narratives turned on their heads and focus on realities never seen by the characters, until now.
Check out the official Marvel synopsis of each book below:
What If? The Punisher #1
(Courtesy of Marvel Comics)
Written by Carl Potts with art by Juanan Ramirez and a cover by Christopher Stevens, WHAT IF? THE PUNISHER #1 hits on October 10.
When Peter Parker's Uncle Ben is ruthlessly killed by a burglar that Peter let escape, he vows to never let the same fate befall another innocent bystander. From then on, he stands as a figure of cold retribution. Criminals beware – the guilty caught in this spider's web will be punished. But will Parker stand triumphant…or shattered by this twist of fate?
The friendly neighborhood takes a different turn in this WHAT IF? adventure, positing a very different sense of responsibility for the man who will be known as the Punisher, as his battles against villains like the Green Goblin take a new path!
"WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT…PUNISHMENT?! PUNISHER and SPIDER-MAN are two very, very different characters, but could they be two sides of the same coin?" asks editor Mark Basso. "They're fueled by different philosophies and use different methods, but how many kicks to the other side does it take to turn a Peter Parker into THE PUNISHER!? Everything you think you think you know (not a typo!) about your favorite heroes and anti-heroes will change after you read this book!"
What If? Magik #1
Brought to life by writer Leah Williams, artist Filipe Andrade, and with a cover by Jeff Dekal, Illyana Rasputin enters a new reality on October 31.
Before she was Magik, Illyana was just a kid whom Limbo chewed up and spit out seven years older. So it's no surprise that, at 15, she wants nothing to do with the X-Men…nothing to do with the New Mutants…and nothing to do with her own powers. It's not even surprising that she runs away…but where—and who—she ends up? Well, that's something you've never seen before.
"Illyana Rasputin deserves better," explains book editor Annalise Bissa. "As much as we all love a character who's been aged up, down, grown up under the thumb of demons, watched her parents die, died herself, come back, been evil, been good again, had more power changes than you can shake a stick at…any X-Fan might start to wonder who Magik would be in a world where her mutation isn't ruled by these crazy ups and downs—where she has the chance to embrace her power early and grow from there, this is the book for you. If you like Magik, magic, or any other word for all things mystical and mysterious and maybe a little bit murderous, read WHAT IF? MAGIK #1."
What If? Thor #1
Written by Ethan Sacks with art by Michele Bandini and a cover by Marco Checchetto, the Odinson experiences a new reality on October 24.
When young Thor's father falls to the King of Giants, his life is forever changed. He's ripped from Asgard to be raised in a world of persistent winter, learning the brutal way of life in Jotenheim. But how does the runt of the giants, Loki, feel about his new stepbrother?
"The ten realms better bundle up, because there's a cold front coming to the Marvel Universe," says editor Dan Edington. "The Frost Giants helped the Gods of Asgard chill out—permanently—and have taken Thor to be raised as one of their own! Being out of his element, Thor has got to find a way to keep warm with a little help from his new brother, Loki. But can he learn to run with the giants, or will the bitter winds of Jotenheim leave Thor out in the cold? There's only once place to find out, this October when Asgard is out, and ice is in!"
What If? Ghost Rider #1
On October 17, writer Sebastian Griner, artist Caspar Wijngaard, and cover artist Aleksi Briclot, present WHAT IF? GHOST RIDER #1.
You've only heard whispers of this real-world/Marvel Universe crossover until now, when moral decline and budgetary shortfalls have combined to lower our lawyers' resistance! Sebastian Girner and Caspar Wijngaard recklessly bring you the tale of the first and only true Nordic black metal band to visit the Marvel Universe through the insanity of likeness release waivers! What role does Ghost Rider Robbie Reyes play, and will your mind survive the brutality!?
Editor Kathleen Wisneski says, "Before you read this comic, you're going to need THREE things, friends. ONE: an extra pair of pants. TWO: some kind of eyeball apparatus designed to keep your eyeballs INSIDE your head. THREE: your mom on speed-dial. We are serving you pants-off and eyeballs-out levels of horror and shock, and if ANYONE has a chance to call you back from the ledge of insanity that this comic will lift you to, then ABANDON you upon, it's your momma. If she's read it first, you can hold hands on your way DOWN INTO THE ABYSS!" Oh boy.
What If? X-Men #1
On October 3, writer Bryan Edward Hill, artists Neil Edwards and Giannis Milonogiannis, and cover artist Rahzzah bring you WHAT IF? X-MEN #1.
From the publisher that gave you OLD MAN LOGAN and HOUSE OF M…witness the X-Men as you never imagined!
Welcome to the EXE/scape, a digital wonderland of business and pleasure accessible to anyone with the social (or monetary) capital for the bio-mods needed to log in… Or you can bypass all of that by being born carrying an .EXE/gene! But circumventing the login regulations is exactly what got the likes of Charles Xavier and his .EXE/men banned and driven underground in the first place… Free-roamers u/Domino and u/Cable have taken every dirty job there is on the 'scape, but when a simple data scrubbing job turns bad, the life of bio-mod magnate Erik Lehnsherr hangs in the balance, and with it, their very society…
Editor Chris Robinson keeps the pitch short and sweet: "The most life-changing comic since VENOM #1. Speculators take note." Boom.
What If? Spider-Man #1
Written by Gerry Conway with art by Diego Olortegui and a cover by Patch Zircher, the questions are asked…what if Peter Parker wasn't the one bitten by the radioactive spider? What if the person who got bit was someone who didn't live by the mantra of "with great power comes great responsibility"? What if that person was an egotistical bully who was only interested in taking care of himself?
What if…Flash Thompson became Spider-Man? Find out on October 3.
Will you be picking up any of the Marvel Comics What If books when they hit stores this October? Be sure to let us know in the comment section below.
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I love the premise behind the Thor comic book; I am curious if his and Loki's personalities and values would swap because their fortunes are reversed.
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These are going to be so cool. I love the concept.

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Maltese winning team honoured by President
The team of Destiny Chukunyere, Maria Abdilla, Roberta Debono, Matthew Mercieca, and Elton Zarb were presented with the Midalja għall-Qadi tar-Repubblika by the country's President, in recognition of Malta's victory in Sofia. "Not my soul", which won the event just under a month ago, also set a new record points total for a winning entry - 185.
After winning the competition in 2013, Gaia Gauchi was awarded with the Gieh ir-Republika – the highest honour of merit that can be given to a Maltese citizen, and was the youngest ever recipient of the award.
Malta now has two Junior Eurovision victories to its name, tying for the record of most wins with Belarus and Georgia.
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Singapore Showbiz
Is Singapore fashion really that bad?
Melissa Aw
1 June 2012, 11:49 pm
Do Singaporeans really have bad fashion sense?
World-renowned fashion designer Roland Mouret himself had been caught off guard by it.
"It shocked me a bit… " the 50-year-old London-based designer who was in town recently to present his A/W 2012 collection at the Audi Fashion Festival told Yahoo! Singapore. "I see quite a lot of fashion disasters in this hotel, especially on men -- the wrong shorts with the flip-flops."
He added that the local dress sense should be "a bit more controlled" and even suggested that the government should put up a new law whereby hotels are required to impose compulsary dress-codes for guests, and if you break the rule -- in Mouret's own words -- "you would be fined".
Hot weather to blame?
But will Singaporeans be receptive to a rule dictating our fashion choices -- especially in such unforgiving weather?
The reactions Yahoo! Singapore gathered were mixed.
"The weather and humidity in particular has put major constraints on how the average Singaporean will choose to piece together their outfit," explained 23-year-old student Adriel Tay.
However, Stanley Lui, contributor to local fashion blog "The Fashionide" disagreed with Tay as he said, "It's not about the weather, neither is it about having the budget for designer fashion. It's about our attitudes, our habits and a change of perception."
"There is a difference between stylishly casual and just plain lazy. We need to recognise that and put a little effort and thought in the way we dress. After all, fashion is a celebration of life and an expression of love for our bodies," the 24-year-old added.
Meanwhile, others such as Sarah Chan, writer of fashion-photography blog "Pixiekrane", questioned the viability of hotels imposing a compulsory dress-code for all guests.
"People go on holidays to relax, so I don't think it's necessary to introduce a dress-code for hotel guests in general," she said.
The 22-year-old added that young Singaporeans do make an effort to dress well but "the weather just gets a little ridiculous sometimes, and I don't think you can expect four million people, with varying incomes and responsibilities, to spend the time and effort on picking out weather-friendly yet fashionable outfits all the time".
But despite all the reasoning, the bottom line remains -- are Singaporeans kicking up a fuss over nothing?
22-year-old Natalie Erika noted that Mouret should not single out Singaporeans as every country has its fair share of fashion disasters.
"At least we're comfortable in what we wear and [besides] everybody is entitled to their own fashion sense," she said.
Marketing executive Christopher Low echoed Erika as he explained, "Singaporeans derive their fashion inspirations from a number of countries and cultures. A mix of these could give excellent and unique taste like the Japanese or result in an utter mess."
"However, Singaporeans tend to get very defensive about issues pertaining to their self-esteem and confidence, including fashion sense," he added.
But perhaps Dinie Rahman, founder of local style journal "ONESIXTYNOTEPAD", best summed it up when he said that it's best to take Mouret's words with a pinch of salt.
"We should take [what Mouret said] as advice from a guy who have been dressing women impeccably for years and not get offended by a comment based on an observation," he said.


The Dallas Cowboys have had a rough decade where they haven't been able to win a single playoff game. To add insult to injury, social networks like Facebook and Twitter are now flourishing with Dallas Cowboy themed internet memes. What is an internet meme? An internet meme is an idea, style or action which spreads, often as mimicry, from person to person via the internet, as with imitating the concept. And I have compiled a list of some of my favorites.
So, without further ado, here are your top ten Dallas Cowboy memes.
Ouch. As if it isn't bad enough getting caught picking your nose on live television.
This one is clever and accurate. Besides, who doesn't love them some Back to the Future references??
You'll find more Tony Romo memes than you will any other NFL player. Why? Well he gives them plenty of material for gems like this.
Let's be fair, championships don't expire, but it's also unfair to use them to justify the current team's struggles.
This one made me laugh out loud the most. Pure gold.
Wow, this one's rough but pretty accurate.
This picture was just BEGGING for this caption!
Perfect caption for the perfect description of an all but perfect team. This is meme perfection and that's why it's number one.
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the Cowboys, but their memes are by far the funniest and most popular. There are new ones being posted on Facebook pages every day! And now that it's December, it looks like the Cowboys have a chance to abolish our number one meme… or they might just validate it even further.
We also post plenty of memes and other NFL related media on the Sports-Kings Facebook page!


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The un-struck melody of Mantra & India by Nirvair Devi
India has always been a place that my soul longed to unite with, from the very first time I heard & chanted Kundalini Yoga mantra's, it's the frequency of these mantras that touched me deeply, it felt as though my heart was expanding to a new depth.
Mantra /Naad means "the essence of all sound" these mantra are intrinsically tied to the practice of Kundalini Yoga.
For me the practice of Kundalini yoga, these sounds, mantra, my soul somehow remembered these sacred sounds, there was a familiarity, who knows perhaps this stemmed from a past life.
I flew into Amritsar, in the north of India, Punjab this is where my teacher lives, Amritsar is the home of the golden temple and the lineage of Kundalini yoga.
How to explain the frequency that's circulating at the Golden temple ..the sound current running 24/7 Pure love .. devotion, every meal served, every drop of water poured, every marble slab cleaned, it is all a manifestation of Spirits love. This sound of Kirtan, mantra threading itself through it all, through every moment of every dimension, through day and through night.
The Golden Temple in Amritsar feeds 100,000 people a day regardless of their faith, their colour or creed, they invite all in with open arms.
My first visit to India left me with such a deep awakening on many levels. I knew it was my soul purpose to be able to share these teachings in their birthplace, to invite students who wanted to deep dive into their own soul journey, to travel around India as a conscious collective, to experience the sacredness of India.
Fast forward January 2020 I am full of gratitude to be facilitating an extraordinary group of 20 students, on an 18 day spiritual, yogic journey around India. On day 17 of our journey, after guiding students around Rishikesh, Dharamashala & Amritsar watching them all fall deeply in love with themselves, the yogic practice & this country.
Day 17..Covid struck..& everyone was dumbstruck, we had all been in a deep spiritual journey and all of a sudden it seemed like the world had been turned upside down.
I managed to get all the students safely home and then I asked myself, what feels right for me? Mother India whispered in my ear, "stay you are safe, there is more for you to learn."
As the weeks turned into months during this Covid time in India, I went deep into kundalini yoga practice, finding my steadiness in such an unknown time. The country of India had stood still, no planes, no tourists, it was surreal, no cars on the road, no horns beeping, just stillness. The practice of Kundalini Yoga kept me calm, grounded & centred. I would meditate on the beach in Goa in the South, surrounded by stray dogs, yet all the while I could feel the expansiveness of this time, how sacred it was, feeling deep gratitude, a knowing throughout it all, I was held by the universe.
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Q: magento custom order attributes i'm trying to add some custom attributes to the checkout(sales) page of magento 1.5.1.0 for orders created from the backend (administrator) panel.
I tried this code and i can see my new attribute in the eav_attribute table, but i can't see my new attribute when i make an order from the backend.
What am i missing..?
$setup = new Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup('core_setup');

$setup->addAttribute('5', 'testattr', array(
 'label' => 'testlabel',
 'type' => 'varchar',
 'input' => 'text',
 'visible' => true,
 'required' => false,
 'position' => 5,
 ));

$eavConfig = Mage::getSingleton('eav/config');
$attribute = $eavConfig->getAttribute('5', 'testattr');
$attribute->setData('used_in_forms', array('checkout_register', 'adminhtml_checkout'));
$attribute->save();

Thanks..

A: Order entities are awkwardly not like normal entities, they use a flat table instead of EAV, which means that it's not enough to just assign an attribute. You must alter the flat table (which I tried here) or create additional tables then join them to the flat table. With hindsight I see I should have taken the second option, it's safer.

I've been looking a bit closer at the order template and there might a hackish sort of workaround via a lesser used block. To start with let's make changes in a layout/local.xml file so it's safe from overwriting by upgrades;
<layout>
    <adminhtml_sales_order_create_index>
        <reference name="gift_options">
            <block type="adminhtml/template" template="YOUR/TEMPLATE.phtml" />
        </reference>
    </adminhtml_sales_order_create_index>
</layout>

The gift options block is constructed in an open-ended way so adding to it is relatively easy. Obviously replace YOUR/TEMPLATE.phtml with the path of a file you will create. The template being inserted needs to have input fields with names like order[testattr] and those should be copied directly to the database table (according to Mage_Adminhtml_Model_Sales_Order_Create, if I am reading the source code right). The gift options block already creates a <fieldset> inside the order's <form> so only the input fields are needed.

A: Thanks clockworkgeek for your replies. I found the solution by using some extra address attributes instead because it was a lot more easier (i had to search a lot though).
so the solution is..
<?php

//Attribute to add
$newAttributeName = "rfc"; //modify this with the name of your attribute

//a) Add EAV Attributes (modify as you needed)
$attribute  = array(
    'type'          => 'varchar',
    'label'         => 'RFC',
    'visible'       => true,
    'required'      => false,
    'user_defined'  => true,
    'searchable'    => false,
    'filterable'    => false,
    'comparable'    => false,
);

$setup = new Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup('core_setup');
//Add to customer
$setup->addAttribute('customer_address', $newAttributeName, $attribute);

/* this is not working for some reason. add the columns manually
//b) Add Quote attributes (one page step to step save field)
$setup = new Mage_Sales_Model_Mysql4_Setup('sales_setup');
$setup->getConnection()->addColumn(
        $setup->getTable('sales_flat_quote_address'),
        $newAttributeName,
        'text NULL DEFAULT NULL'
    );
$setup->getConnection()->addColumn(
$setup->getTable('sales_flat_order_address'),
$newAttributeName,
        'text NULL DEFAULT NULL'
);
*/
$eavConfig = Mage::getSingleton('eav/config');
$attribute = $eavConfig->getAttribute('customer_address', $newAttributeName);
$attribute->setData('used_in_forms', array('adminhtml_customer_address',
                'adminhtml_checkout_address')); //'customer_register_address', 'customer_address_edit',
$attribute->save();

?>

and then edit the files according to this post.
Magento: save custom address attribute in checkout

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Every once in a while, we get an exciting Target launch that gets us antsy. For me, the last one was the Magnolia capsule titled Hearth & Hand, of which I took full advantage of for Christmas decor! But now, with @LittleMrGray to shop for - a new collection is coming up that I'm actually looking forward to!
Hunter - the iconic British rain boot brand, is joining forces with the bullseye mecca for a collaboration that will make the entire family happy! Officially named "Hunter for Target" will include raincoats, weekender duffles, coordinated attire for your minis and your bae, and yes - there will be boots, for everyone but your cat and dog! The best part, most of the pieces will be priced at under $30!
April 14th is the grand launch date for the collection. REDCard members will have early access on April 7th via Target.com, and as usual - the collab will be limited edition. Happy Spring!


In 1917, the October Revolution in Russia took place. Today, one hundred years later in October 2017, the happy news of the liberation of the capital of the Islamic State has spread all over the world. As one hundred years ago the Soviet Revolution saw hope for freedom rise on the horizon, today also the great battle for Raqqa's liberation sees the hope for freedom bloom again in the hearts of the oppressed people. The victory of Raqqa is the victory of Rêber Apo (Abdullah Öcalan), the victory of the third line in the third world war. The October Revolution was an outcome of the First World War, and as a consequence of the Second World War the Soviet Union reached a level enabling it to threaten the global capitalist dominance, by then under the leadership of the USA. For different reasons, which Abdullah Öcalan evaluated extensively in his legal defense writings, this revolution didn't succeed and crumbled in 1989.
With the death of 'real socialism', many thought the hope for freedom of working people was also buried. Revolutionary movements around the world dwindled in number and became weaker and more divided. Capitalist intellectuals said: "this is the end of history". What they wanted to say with this phrase was that capitalism succeeded and that there was no alternative for it. But in only a short time these words turned out to be wrong. The problems of the hegemonic capitalist system increased once again. Problems which were masked by the Cold War soon re-emerged and whenever they tried to solve one problem, they either made it worse, or revealed another. The end of real socialism didn't bring the end of war and chaos. Although humanity experienced a rupture through the defeat of the Soviet Union, the hope of and search for freedom didn't end. The capitalists didn't count on Rêber Apo and the PKK. Like most of the socialist movements, the PKK could also have collapsed, but the opposite happened. Why? Because Rêber Apo built this freedom movement from the beginning on its Kurdish and Middle Eastern base. The PKK never fell into the dogmatism of real socialism.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Öcalan reflected anew on its problems, analyzed the situation and as a consequence started with the creation of the new paradigm: the paradigm of a democratic society, ecology, and women's liberation. Instead of the PKK crumbling, it progressed from the beginning of the 1990s on. Even though most of the revolutionary movements were negatively affected by the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Kurdish liberation movement grew, thanks to the efforts of Rêber Apo and the legendary martyrs. Today the democratic line of the people within the third world war, represented by the Rojava Revolution, the guerrilla struggle, the women's liberation movement, and the dynamic of the youth, became the hope of all the oppressed people. The project of a federated democratic nation has become known as the fairest solution in the region and the proof for this today are the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The operation for control of Raqqa took 134 days and during this historic battle hundreds of women and men of this country fought with loyalty and heroism, gave their lives, and joined the caravan of şehîd (martyrs). In Raqqa, Syriac, Arab and Kurdish women and men fought shoulder to shoulder and gave of their sweat and blood, to avenge Şengal and for the freedom of the people of the Middle East.
With the rise of ISIS, as its capital, Raqqa became a byword for oppression. The city of Raqqa was the symbol of modern-day fascism, brutality and occupation, but with the beginning of Operation Xezeba Firatê, it became the symbol of the free will of the people. With the good news of the liberation, Raqqa finally became the symbol of brotherhood of the people and the victory of the democratic nation project.
Let everybody know how we reached this moment and how much the forces of the enemy tried to stop this great victory of the people's third line. Our war against the occupying Turkish state has now been ongoing for six years. It was the Turkish state which allowed the ISIS bandits into Kurdistan. The massacre in Şengal on the 3rd of August 2014 happened under the leadership of Erdogan, the attack on Kobanê with the goal of annihilating the freedom movement and massacring the Kurds happened under the leadership of Erdogan, and the destruction of the nine most patriotic cities in North Kurdistan in 2016 with the same goal also happened under his leadership. Despite this, they were not able to stop the progress of the popular democratic forces. The battle of Kobanê was the beginning of the Islamic State's downfall. In this context, Raqqa represents cutting off the head of the Islamic State.
But all this while, the fascist Turkish state has continually tried to stop our victory and has remained focused on annihilating our movement. The total isolation of Rêber Apo, the siege of Efrîn, the occupation of Idlib, and the games which are played on Başur (South Kurdistan), like the surrender of Kerkuk, are also happening in this context. For the dissolution of the democratic line of the people, the occupiers joined hands and instructed their collaborators, like Barzanî. The victory of Raqqa is the latest of the heavy blows against the occupying forces, which continually seek to defend their dominance. The project of the Federation of North Syria and the establishment of a democratic Syria brings fear to their hearts. Like a cornered animal, they are panicking and are attacking us viciously.
Because of this, more than any time before we need to be aware and cautious. We are standing by the martyrs of Raqqa's liberation and the heritage of the great October Revolution as we victoriously create the Federation of North Syria. We as peoples of the region and all revolutionaries of the world hold each other's hands and march together towards freedom. With revolutionary vengeance we're going to crash the first line of imperialism and the second line of local occupying forces and until the creation of a free Kurdistan and a democratic Middle East, we're going to follow the third line. The victory of the great battle for Raqqa's liberation, and thus the downfall of ISIS, is the most glorious step on this march and for this reason its name is written into history with golden letters.


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Cuba: Wilman Villar Died for Us All
Haroldo Dilla Alfonso*
Wilman Villar Mendoza
HAVANA TIMES, Jan 23 — I remember when Orlando Zapata Tamayo died the Cuban government immediately unleashed a blistering reply.
It was not one of those distant, aseptic news notes that come from the tedious Granma newspaper, but a whole series of articles from their poorly paid bloggers who are always willing to shovel out onto people — living and dead — all the filth generated in their bowels.
I remember the campaign that indiscriminately branded Zapata a thief, an alcoholic, antisocial and schizophrenic.
The truth, though, was that he was nothing more than a simple man who decided to punish the excesses of a corrupt and authoritarian regime with the resignation of his life. And he did so with a level of courage that clearly dwarfed those depraved bloggers of the Cuban government.
Viewing the matter from a distance, I think they were frightened, and that made them give the matter a certain amount of consideration, because fear is the right of the dispossessed. But these poor bloggers are nothing more than carping keyboards degraded by the same power they defend.
Like Zapata, Wilman Villar was also a simple man.
There is very little information available about Villar's case, and what does exist is very confusing (as always occurs in systems where information is a privilege and not a right).
He must have been a man of his time and place. He lived off odd jobs in a semi-urban area in the southern part of eastern Cuba – and if anyone wants to visit a bad place to live, just go to a semi-urban town in southeastern Cuba.
Wilman apparently carried with him all the machismo violence of our national culture. For legal purposes, a medical certificate was issued pertaining to his wife (dated July 2011) that indicated she showed minor injuries (I believe it was a swollen upper lip) that resulted from a blow delivered by her husband.
This deplorable act prompted Wilman's mother-in-law to file a formal complaint, which it's said she subsequently withdrew.
Nonetheless, the initial charges were followed-up on by the police, who Wilman resisted when they arrived at the scene, according to the arresting officers.
After that incident, he later joined a dissident group, says the government, which hypnotized him with the offer that in this way he could avoid the legal process in the making.
He participated in several public protests in the municipality of Contramaestre until he was arrested, prosecuted and sentenced in a summary trial — one reminiscent of Captain-General Tacon — and sentenced to four years in prison.
It was then that he declared a hunger strike and in a state of general weakness, contracted severe pneumonia, which ultimately resulted in a fatal case of multiple organ failures.
After his death, his wife has reiterated her willingness to support the cause of her deceased husband and has denied the stories of her own abuse. The funeral was held under strict security measures that prevented the access of other dissidents; and his wife did not attend.
According to one blogger in Contramaestre, his ceremony was an extremely peaceful. Paradoxically, it received the support of two government vehicles: a truck and a "state citrus bus."
The Cuban government limited itself to simply posting a news note; first on the Cubadebate website and then in the Granma newspaper, where it said that Wilman was not a member of the opposition, but rather a common prisoner who died despite the painstaking care he received.
Meanwhile, the government bloggers have been extremely careful, though of course they shoveled their filth, repeating ad nauseam the note from the Cuban government, while adding added their own spins, which will likely continue to grow.
For example, they accused the wife of receiving $80 in return for a demonstration of solidarity with the dead husband who allegedly beat her (can anyone imagine a more vile invective?). What's more, they've argued that this doesn't matter because in other countries the conditions are worse, and they've already shown the medical certificate mentioned above.
According to one Argentinian online newspaper (one of those that claims anti-imperialist solidarity, though you can't tell if it's just naïve or an accomplice of those who are guilty), the certificate was mysteriously leaked to the press. It was as if at this stage there was a press in Cuba, because the leak seemed to have worked, though it remains something of a mystery.
There's no doubt that in the days ahead the pressure on the issue will increase. The Cuban government has announced that it has lots of information, and I don't think that its bloggers can resist this superb new opportunity to lower themselves down into the ditch of disgrace.
With the increasing commotion around the story, the information will get more confusing and the situation will become even murkier. Only with time, when the information becomes a human right, we will know what happened in the seven months leading up to the burial of this young 31-year-old, or his two girls left without a father.
But for now I do not think there's a need.
I want to imagine the very worst of what the government is describing.
I want to think that Wilman Villar did hit his wife in an unforgivable act of machismo violence, though understandable in the highly patriarchal national culture that's devoid of feminist or "masculinist" movements, given the rusted over bureaucracies of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) and elitist frivolities of Mariela Castro.
Ultimately, we understand that the battering of women in Cuba has historically been a ludic exercise of our versatile political elite.
I would like to think that Wilman had effectively joined the opposition without a clear idea of ??what it meant, possibly in an attempt to navigate in that sea of ??uncertainty, lack of opportunities, poverty and mediocrity that exists in small rural communities in Cuba.
This would have been like what happened to many members of the M-26-July movement in the 1950s, who then passed on with an abundance of rights in the national pantheon of martyrdom.
I want to think that when he was arrested, he resisted and tried to prevent the action of the police, especially when he saw these officers as representatives of the cause of his meaningless life.
I want to think that everything is true that the Cuban government, its bloggers and the "anti-imperialist solidarity" newspapers are saying.
But it doesn't matter, because if Wilman Villar, in this final instance of his short life, believed that he was entitled to speak his mind, to enjoy basic civil rights in the land of his birth, to be free and not to be imprisoned for any of those reasons, then Wilman was a superior being.
If, in addition, Wilman placed his life on the table to continue believing in freedom, then he is a hero.
Wilman Villar has left us another tragic example that freedom, as Manuel Azaña said, doesn't simply free people – it makes them human.
And in this sense, even if all the mud they sling at Wilman Villar is true, his death made us all freer and also more human.
His tormentors and detractors will of course sink the deeper into that hole where they seem to enjoy the unfeelingness, the immorality and the political mediocrity of their own unchallenged power.
One of the governments spokespeople, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official, stated what Cuban officials always claim: that the governments of the European Union and the United States have no moral standing to say anything about human rights.
I want to believe he's right, but nor is that important here.
What concerns me, as a Cuban, is in that the Cuban government — definitively — lacks that moral standing too.
* A Havana Times translation of the original posted in Spanish by Cubaencuentro.com.
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6 thoughts on "Cuba: Wilman Villar Died for Us All"
Hubert Gieschen
Well said Mark! I also wonder where some of the other commentators have lost their sense of humanity.
Cuba has neither an independent judiciary or a free press. It is unlikely that the real story about Wilman Villar's incarceration, hunger strike and death will come to light. The official response of the Cuban government borders on the hysterical and will fail to convince anyone other than the regime's handful of true believers.
Kudos to Haroldo for at least trying to shed some light on these events. Haroldo's is the most complete and credible account I've read thus far. It's a further example of how the information blockade imposed by the Cuban government is breaking down.
objective observer
Bottom line is this: Hunger strikes cannot be allowed to succeed in getting the prisoner his desired outcome…. no more than giving terrorists their demands. NO I am not comparing Villar to a terrorist. I am just making a point…. If a manipulator is rewarded for his behavior (from the point of view of those being manipulated) then the behavior will be continued and adopted by others. A prison cannot release someone for going on a hunger strike. That precedent would be disastrous….every one with a life sentence or on death row would stop eating immediately. Of course in the US they would force-feed the prisoner so as to prevent the challenge from being made by the prisoner in the first place. The Cuban government in this situation has only 2 options: take away the man's right to decide whether to eat or not and force feed him… OR to let the person do what he wishes…starve. There is NO option of release.
Now the person who chooses hunger strike must know this and therefore does not undertake the strike in order to get released. He undertakes the hunger strike 1. for the damage it will do to the Cuban government's public image…which does not serve the best interests of the Cuba people because it only makes the US less likely to improve relations with the island… but perhaps he was of the team that wishes instead for violent upheaval… 2. and/or because he feels this damage will cause the Cuban government to lessen it's repression…but the exact opposite has always been the case. 3. and/or simply because he desired attention and importance. His goal was never to be released. So the Cuban government gave him just what he wanted.
It's amazing how much martyrdom one can squeeze out from a single tragic death.
Do you also remember the web of dissident lies that were exposed for all the world to see in Soto case last year? I don't think their cause ever fully recovered from that little setback. The US point-main in that campaign also went on a brief "hunger strike" afterwards, but the international media, still reeling from the revelations in the Soto case, refused to dignify this staged event with so much as a comment. And I guess the characterization by the USINT chief of mainstream dissidents on island as a bunch of money-grubbing losers who couldn't get elected dog-catchers didn't help much either.
Julio de la Yncera
Great article Haroldo!


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There was some snow overnight. The weather cleared during the day. However, there was still a bit of snow blowing around during the morning.
A section of the snowpack shows two thin icy crusts caused by a couple of mild blips during the past few days when the freezing level rose above the tops and rain fell on the snowpack.
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The Grey Corries looking nice and white.
The crags of Coire an Lochan.
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Six Cambridge University students who were arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a male student will face no further action, police have said.
The alleged assault on the 19-year-old is said to have taken place on 17 March after a party.
The Girton College students, two from Cambridge and the others from Essex, Middlesex, Surrey and Wales were due to answer bail on Tuesday.
But a police spokesman said they had decided to drop the case.
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RIO2 ANNOUNCES 2022 AGM RESULTS
Vancouver, B.C. - Rio2 Limited ("Rio2" or the "Company") (TSXV: RIO; OTCQX: RIOFF; BVL: RIO) announces the results of voting at its Annual and Special General Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") held on Wednesday, December 14, 2022. A total of 138,787,771 common shares were voted, representing 53.90% of 257,510,649 shares issued and outstanding as of the record date of the meeting.
Shareholders voted in favor of all items put forward by the board of directors and management. All six of the individuals nominated for the board of directors were elected as set out below:
% VOTES FOR
VOTES WITHHELD
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1,003,135
0.88%
Ram Ramachandran
Albrecht Schneider
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Shareholders also voted in favor of (i) reappointing Grant Thornton LLP as Company auditors for the ensuing year and authorizing directors to fix their remuneration; and (ii) approving and ratifying the 2018 Rio2 Stock Option Plan.
The Company also wishes to announce that, following the Meeting, the Company's board of directors, properly ratified by shareholders, appointed Mr. Andrew Cox, President & CEO, as a director. As a result of this appointment Rio2's board of directors is comprised of seven members.
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To learn more about Rio2 Limited, please visit www.rio2.com or Rio2's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.
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Python interface
OVITO Manual > Usage > Data pipeline Release 3.0.0-dev646 Prev | Next
Data pipeline
The key workflow concept of OVITO is the so-called data pipeline or modification pipeline. A pipeline is a user-defined sequence of data manipulation operations (called modifiers) that get applied to the loaded simulation data one after another. The output of this processing sequence is displayed on screen by the program:
OVITO offers an extensive set of modifier functions to choose from (see reference section), each performing specific tasks like selection, coloring, data analysis or filtering. By combining these basic building blocks and arranging them in a pipeline, you can visualize and analyze the simulation data in very flexible ways.
One of its key advantages is that the data pipeline lets you retroactively change, delete or amend the applied operations as needed. The program keeps around an unmodified copy of the pipeline's input data, and whenever you change the setup of the pipeline in some way, OVITO recomputes the output of the pipeline and updates the display to reflect the changes. This happens automatically and, for simple computations, in real-time. You can find similar types of non-destructive workflows in modern photo editing and 3D modeling programs, for example. In OVITO this approach provides you with a great deal of flexibility while developing and exploring new data analysis and visualization solutions. And the pipeline architecture offers another important advantage: Once you have figured out the right modification steps for your problem, you can apply the processing pipeline to as many other input datasets as you like in a batch-processing manner.
Pipeline editor
The pipeline editor, shown in the screenshot on the right, is the central place in OVITO's user interface where you perform most operations. It displays the current data pipeline and lets you insert new modifiers into the pipeline, reorder them and edit their parameters. The editor is divided into three sections:
Visual elements:
The graphical elements produced by the data pipeline
Modifications:
The current sequence of modifiers that are part of the pipeline
The input data for the pipeline (typically an external data file)
Note that, right after importing a new simulation file into OVITO, the pipeline contains no modifiers yet and the "Modifications" section won't be visible. Selecting an element in the pipeline editor opens a corresponding parameters panel below the editor, which allows you to change its parameters.
The drop-down list labeled "Add modification..." at the top of the pipeline editor offers the available modifiers that may be applied to the data. Picking an entry from that box newly inserts the modifier into the pipeline, right above the currently selected pipeline item. Note that the data pipeline is presented in bottom-up order: The leading modifier of the pipeline, acting first on the input data, appears at the bottom. The pipeline depicted in the screenshot, for example, would first compute the displacement vectors, then assign a color coding to the particles and finally slice the dataset.
You can temporarily disable modifiers in the pipeline by unchecking the box next to them. To permanently remove a modifier from the pipeline, use the Delete Modifier button found in the toolbar on the right. And since the order in which actions are performed sometimes matters, the up and down arrow buttons allow you to rearrange the modifiers within the pipeline sequence.
Visual elements
The dataset fed into the pipeline by the data source is typically a collection of several different data fragments, for instance the particle positions, bond topology and the simulation cell geometry. Modifiers in the pipeline may dynamically add further pieces of information to that, e.g. displacement vectors calculated from the trajectories of particles. From all these different kinds of data leaving the pipeline, a visual representation must be produced in the viewports. This is the responsibility of so-called visual elements.
Visual elements are automatically generated by the pipeline system and they all appear in the corresponding top section of the pipeline editor. Each element provides settings that control the appearance of the data visualization, which can be edited in the corresponding parameter panel. The visibility of individual elements in the viewports and in rendered images can be changed by checking/unchecking the corresponding box in the pipeline editor.
Transient pipeline states and particle selection
Some modifier functions in OVITO, for example the Delete selected modifier, act only on the currently selected subset of particles or bonds. What elements are currently selected, is determined by the value of their Selection property as explained in the previous section. The program provides several modifiers for selecting particles based on different criteria. It is important to understand that the selection happens dynamically as a processing step within the data pipeline: First, one modifier selects some of the particles and then a subsequent modifier operates on that selected subset. Within the pipeline, the selection will stay the same up to the point where another modifier further down the pipeline replaces it again.
This system allows you to apply different operations to different groups of particles in a successive fashion. For example, you could use a Select type modifier to first select particles of one chemical or structural type and then apply an Assign color modifier to give them a particular color. Next, you could insert another instance of the Select type modifier to select a second group of particle and subsequently assign them a different color using another Assign color modifier instance.
Note that data visualization always happens only for the final results leaving the pipeline. That means in the viewports you will only observe the final selection state of the particles (OVITO highlights them with a red color). If you would like to inspect a transient state of the data at some intermediate point along the pipeline, you have to temporarily disable the subsequent modifiers in the pipeline editor.
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CSUN men's soccer unable to find the net at LMU
Raul Magana
Starting off a six game road trip, the CSUN men's soccer team began on the wrong foot, as it fell 2-0 at Loyola Marymount in a physical matchup on Sunday.
CSUN's was faced with their first obstacle of the season that includes overcoming questions about their mental toughness on the road. Last year the Matadors underperformed on the road with only three road wins
"Playing at Loyola Marymount is definitely one of the toughest battles when it comes to mental toughness," assistant coach Peter Bomar said. "Traditionally the WCC (West Coast Conference) is a very physical league and games tend to be physical."
CSUN was off to a good start with several good looks in the first half, but after a goal by Lions Artur Jozkowicz with 10 minutes to go in the first half, the Matadors were not able to get into the game.
"After the first goal we were a little indecisive about playing our game," Bomar said.
The second half was dominated by Loyola Marymount as the Matadors continued to search for their first goal of the season.
The Lions accumulated 14 shots in the second half, led by midfielder Rafael Baca and David Ponce who had 5 shots a piece throughout the game.
The second goal For LMU came in the 33rd minute of the second half when Phil Da Silva headed in a ball, which bounced off the hands of CSUN goalie Joe Scachetti.
CSUN has been outscored 4-0 in its first two regular season games. The Matadors next game is against Washington on Friday, in the Cal State Fullerton Tournament
Game notes: The matchup against LMU had a total of 32 fouls whistled, including yellow cards on forward Mathias Bonhevi, midfielder Thomas Ramos and defender Jake Troy for Northridge. The only player for LMU with a yellow card was forward Jonas Retier.
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Be Careful What Forms You Use or Sign in a Texas Divorce
Many people are scared to use a lawyer in a divorce because they think their situation is too simple or easy to justify paying for a divorce lawyer to provide help and guidance.
What many potential clients do not realize is that they are being penny wise and pound foolish. Some of the most expensive and costly mistakes I see are when someone is not represented by a lawyer.
In the past seven days, I have had two such consults that inspired me to write this blog. Each consult had their own unique story and outcome that demonstrated the high cost and consequences for simple mistakes that could have been easily avoided had the people I met been represented by a lawyer.
Waiver of Service – Means You Do Not Have to Be Served
Personal service is not the only way to bring a party to a case under the power of the court so that the court can make orders regarding those individuals.
Alternatively, a person can waive their right to be personally served with a copy of the lawsuit by signing a waiver of service. The waiver of service must be signed in the presence of a notary, notarized, and then filed with the court.
It basically says you do not want to be served by a process server or constable/sheriff or by certified mail sent by the District Clerk.
Recently, I met with a father and his new girlfriend who were confused about why his paycheck was being garnished for child support. He told me he barely made minimum wage and the amount the income withholding said he was supposed to pay. The amount was a lot more than what they would pay for a job making minimum wage.
The other sad thing was that it had only been a few months since the order was signed and he was already in the hole several thousand dollars because what he earned was not covering what he was supposed to pay in child support.
I was told by the father that he had never been served. My first thought was that maybe he had been served by some alternative means, which meant the case could more than likely be reopened.
The father had obtained a copy of the order against him and so I was able to take a look at it. What I observed was:
No one involved in the case had used a lawyer
The paperwork said that the father had signed a waiver
The paperwork said that the father had agreed and signed the order
I asked the father to excuse me so I could go look up the case online. I went back to my office and looked up the case. Sure, enough the record showed that there was a waiver on file. I then looked the order again and flipped to the signature page and it looked like the father had signed the order.
I then went back and explained what I had looked up and showed him a printout showing the waiver of service and his signature on the order.
I explained that he did not need to be served because the court record showed he had waived service and agreed to the order. However, if that was not the case, we could file paperwork and subpoena the notary regarding his signature.
His girlfriend then turned to him and asked if he signed the paperwork. His response was he didn't know. In my book, that is the wrong answer to that sort of question. I explained his options for fixing the order.
As I saw it, either:
He had signed the order and did not bother reading what he signed
The mother filled in the blanks after he had signed the order or
The mother somehow convinced a notary to sign the documents saying the father had signed the waiver
In every option I gave him, it was going to cost him several thousand dollars—a lot more than it would have cost to hire a lawyer to get it done the first time correctly.
Beware of Standard Forms
That same day, I met with another unfortunate individual who should have hired an attorney. In her situation, she and her husband had been able to resolve the case amicably outside of court through mediation.
In the agreement, she and her husband were supposed to split his retirement account 50/50 using QDRO. The purpose of her consult was to find out how much my office would charge for drafting that document.
She had brought all the paperwork with her so I could review it. Once I saw the paperwork, I grew immediately concerned. She had:
A Mediate Settlement Agreement (MSA) and
A Final Divorce Decree
My concern was the divorce decree. It was not anything drafted by a lawyer. It was a standard form put out by a particular website on the internet that I am familiar with. One of the warnings on the form is NOT to use it to divide a retirement account and to instead hire an attorney to draft the decree when you are trying to divide a retirement account.
When I reviewed the Final Divorce Decree, my suspicions were confirmed. The Final Divorce Decree did not divide the husband's retirement account but instead gave him 100% of the account. When I explained this to the wife, she was understandably upset. She thought she was hiring my office to help her with a closing to document to divide up the retirement account only to find out the divorce decree that was supposed to reflect the Mediated Settlement Agreement said something quite different.
This was another instance where having a divorce attorney would have protected an individual. The divorce lawyer would have made sure that the Final Divorce Decree that was signed reflected the agreement and that her ex did not accidentally or intentionally do anything sneaky.
Know What Forms to Use and the Correct Courtroom Procedure
One husband I met with recently had managed to divorce his wife on his own without the help of an attorney. He accomplished this divorce by default. A default divorce means he divorced his wife:
First by giving her notice and
After he gave her notice, she ignored it
Once this happened, his wife was able to reopen the case by:
Hiring an attorney
Stating the husband did not use the correct forms
Stating the husband did not use the correct procedure in the divorce
One of the things the husband had failed to do was file an inventory and appraisement with the court and explain to the correct party why his division of the property was a just and right division. Had the husband followed the correct procedure, his ex may not have been able to reopen the divorce.
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How does the brain orchestrate learning?
By Jessica Sinclair
Research writer
The famous patient Henry Molaison (long known as H.M.) suffered damage to his hippocampus after a surgical attempt to cure his epilepsy. As a result, he had anterograde amnesia, which meant that things he learned never made it past his short-term memory. Though his memories of childhood remained intact, H.M. might meet with his doctor and five minutes later say: "Oh, I don't think I've ever met you. What's your name?".
H.M. helped scientists understand the role of the hippocampus in learning, but a mystery remains around how signals from this brain region somehow get shared with the billions of neurons throughout the cortex that change in a coordinated fashion when we learn. In a paper published today in the prestigious journal Science, a collaboration between the University of Ottawa and Humbolt University of Berlin reveals a critical role for a brain area called the perirhinal cortex in managing this learning process.
The study involved mice and rats learning a rather strange brain-based skill. A small number of neurons in the sensory cortex were stimulated, and the rodent had to show it had felt the buzz by licking a dispenser to receive some sweetened water. No one can say for sure what that brain stimulation feels like for the animal, but the team's best guess is that it mimics the feeling of something touching its whiskers.
As they watched the brain responding to this learning experience, the team observed that the perirhinal cortex was serving as a waystation between the nearby hippocampus, which processes place and context, and the outer layer of the cortex.
"The perirhinal cortex happens to be at the very top of the hierarchy of processing of information in the cortex. It accumulates information from multiple senses and then sends it back to the rest of the cortex," says Dr. Richard Naud, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine's Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and in the Brain and Mind Research Institute. "What we are showing is that it has a very important role in coordinating learning. Without these projections coming back from the conceptual area, the animals are not able to learn anymore."
Previous studies have focused on communication from the hippocampus upward into the decision-making regions of the brain like the perirhinal cortex, but there has not been as much attention paid to what the perirhinal cortex does with that information, and what it sends back down to Layer 1 of the cortex. It turns out this step is a key part of the process, without which learning is impossible.
"When the connection from the perirhinal cortex back to those layer 1 neurons was cut, the animals acted a lot like H.M. They were improving a little bit, but it wouldn't stick. They would just learn and forget, learn and forget, learn and forget," says Dr. Naud.
A computational neuroscientist with a background in physics, Dr. Naud was responsible for statistical analyses, as well as the creation of computational models that map out the brain's information processing. Of particular interest to him was confirmation of what he had long suspected: that rapid bursts of firing from a neuron have a distinctive meaning, apart from what is meant by a slower pace of electrical activity. When the animals were in the midst of learning, these rapid-fire action potentials lit up the monitored cells.
The team was able to recreate the burst effect artificially as well.
"If you force the same number of action potentials but at a high frequency, then the animal is better at detecting it," says Dr. Naud. "This would imply that bursts are correlated with learning and causally related to perception. Meaning that you are more likely to perceive something if it creates a burst in your neurons."
The next challenge is to figure out exactly what that learning signal from the perirhinal cortex to the lower order brain areas looks like. Dr. Naud is busy working on a computational model relating our existing knowledge of physiology to what this experiment has shown.
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Billionaire hedge fund boss Ken Griffin paid $8 million to fly to space with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin — but will donate his seat to a New York schoolteacher, report says
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Billionaire hedge fund boss Ken Griffin paid $8 million for a seat on a Blue Origin space flight.
The Citadel founder placed the winning bid at a charity auction Monday night, Bloomberg reported.
He's expected to donate his seat to a New York schoolteacher.
Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin has paid $8 million for a ticket to ride a Blue Origin rocket to space.
The Citadel founder won a seat on a New Shepard mission at auction Monday night — but will donate it to a New York schoolteacher, Christie's auctioneer Lydia Fenet told Bloomberg.
The $8 million Griffin paid represents a $20 million price drop from the first ticket sold for a crewed Blue Origin spaceflight — although one of the passengers on the first flight was Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos.
The proceeds from Monday's seat sale will go to the Robin Hood foundation, a charity fighting poverty in New York, Bloomberg said. The ride bought by Griffin is set to take place in the first half of 2023, per Bloomberg.
Blue Origin didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
The winning bid for a seat on Blue Origin's first crewed mission, which went to auction almost a year ago, was $28 million. The winner, crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, ultimately gave his seat to 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, son of the CEO of Somerset Capital Partners, an investment firm. The money raised from that auction went to Blue Origin's foundation Club for the Future.
A Blue Origin ticket includes training days, on-site accommodation at Astronaut Village in the Texas desert, and the actual flight itself, Insider previously reported.
Billionaires, including Bezos and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, have said they plan to reduce the cost of spaceflight to make it affordable for the average person.
However, space law experts told Insider's Grace Kay that the current technology used in rocket launches is too expensive for everyday people.
On Monday, Blue Origin announced the passengers for its fifth crewed launch to the edge of space. They include investor Evan Dick; Katya Echazarreta, a former NASA test lead and the first Mexican-born woman to fly to space; and the businessmen Jaison Robinson and Victor Vescovo.
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Purpose Built Vessels
As we get ready to return to Sea Dragon for her spring haul out, Shanley & I have thoroughly enjoyed sailing our own boat in the Caribbean. In a few weeks time we've covered countless islands and have had classic gorgeous trade wind sailing. One of the most fun things coming into a new bay and leaving another behind is seeing all the different boats along the way. From cruising cats, to traditional wooden boats, to strong well traveled hulls, we spend an awful lot of our time talking about boats. One common thread in all of this meandering is the importance of clearly defining what a boat will be used for, then designing it to that end. It really reinforces our respect for Sea Dragon's performance, safety, comfort, and seakeeping when we take a look at all the other boats wandering the sea. We thought to share a few of the ones we've seen along the way, hoping to give you a taste of the many different stories in a small piece of this world.
About a week ago we stopped in Carriacou, the smaller of the two islands that make up the nation of Grenada, for a few nights. I first came to the Caribbean 10 years ago, and from that first visit until now, one constant highlight has been the occasional sighting of locally built, brightly painted wooden sloops. Some are yachts, some carry tourists, some are rotting on their moorings, but almost without fail they have come from Carriacou, which is the center of boat building in the Eastern Caribbean. I've been to Carriacou half a dozen times, but never until this visit have we managed to get over the hill to Windward, where these boats are built. After a loud bus-ride up and over the hills from Hillsborough we got off at the end of the line, near a sign saying simply "Boat Building Site." We followed the arrow along the sargassum-strewn beach to a quiet palm-shaded yard where a surprisingly massive vessel was nearing completion, her bow pointed to the sea as it beckoned the water to lap upon her hull.
It was late afternoon, and Anthony McLawrence, the boat-builder, was cleaning up fallen branches and leaves from the yard in the shade of the trees. We chatted for a while, admiring his new build, and Anthony told us how when he was a child, this strip of beach would have up to a dozen boats being built at a time, some of them cargo schooners topping 80′ in length. Times have changed, and today there are only a few families with the skills to build these craft, and only Anthony has a boat being built right now. When we first walked through the gate we didn't realize how large she was, but after getting a bit closer we realized that this wasn't a small sloop or yacht – this thing was huge! The 65′ hull stretched back into the trees, and Anthony told us that he was not only the builder but the owner – this boat was going to carry cargo, sailing the islands of the lesser Antilles between the BVI and Trinidad. He and his crew been working on her for over two years now in his time off from his day job doing yacht repairs on the other side of the island, and is hoping to launch her this spring. Anthony pointed to a beamy, low-slung sloop sitting on a mooring just offshore with a towering rig and told us he had built her as a race boat for his brother, who regularly saw speeds over 10 knots while crushing his competition. Anthony's cargo vessel, while built with different goals, shared her lines and inspiration with the race boat and should easily carry a load with a much less racy sail plan. Oh the different boats built on this one stretch of sand!
At a nearby boatyard on Carriacou, in Tyrell Bay, we happened across Iron Bark II, a slightly different take on traditional sailing craft but definitely purpose built. She's a 31′ steel cutter with a full keel and gaff mainsail and topsail on an aluminum rig – a nice blend of traditional designs with modern materials. What really sets Iron Bark apart from other boats blocked around her is her voyaging career. Iron Bark belongs to Trevor Roberts, a determinedly little known Australian voyager who has spent his life at sea. This tough little cutter has spent at least two winters locked in the ice of the Antarctic peninsula and another in Greenland, and together with Trevor has racked up countless miles upon the world's oceans. A whole fleet of similarly sized boats has been racing around the southern ocean this year in the Golden Globe race, racking up an impressive number of failures, sinkings, injuries, knockdowns, and withdrawals in the process. While racing certainly isn't cruising, Iron Bark is resting peacefully in the yard after countless drama-free miles, while a fleet of repurposed fiberglass cruisers, not intended for anything like this kind of use, has been disintegrating across the Southern Ocean.
Here in Grenada is another example of just what can go wrong when a boat intended for one use unexpectedly finds another. This Catana charter catamaran was unceremoniously deposited on the rocks last weekend after, rumor has it, her mooring failed. With her speed, weight, and shallow draft, this was undoubtedly a wonderful boat for taking tourists on sailing holidays in the Caribbean, but Safari was never intended to spend five days being bounced on a rocky shoreline, and it's sad to see her breaking up while salvage efforts get under way – this morning her port hull appears to be almost completely broken up. While no one willingly subjects their boat to this type of abuse, the pendulum of strength vs. weight is much more likely to swing one way for a vessel built for sailing alone in the arctic and another for one looking for sun and rum in the tropics.
These boats have been built for very different purposes: efficiently carrying cargo, unsupported solo voyages to the far ends of the earth, and luxurious sun-drenched holidays in pleasant anchorages. All of them fulfill their goals admirably, but when put into a situation that was never intended, like Safari, they may not be the best of options. One thing we really appreciate about Sea Dragon is that she was designed to safely carry a large amateur crew through the roughest oceans of the world. She certainly wouldn't be great at cargo, and with our deep draft we can't creep into shallow anchorages in chase of an idyllic patch of sand, and she is too big and powerful to be an easy boat to single-hand. However, she'll make good time across oceans, keep her crew safely onboard while waves are sweeping across her decks, claw off a lee shore in 50 knots of wind, and provide comfortable, quiet bunks to keep her crew well rested through all of it. Sea Dragon is a wonderful platform, more than tough enough to handle anything that comes our way.
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