Vladimir Alexandrovich Rusanov (Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Руса́нов; 3 November [O.S. 15 November] 1875, Oryol – ca. 1913) was an experienced Russian geologist who specialized in the Arctic.
Rusanov was born in a merchant's family in Oryol. His early life was marred by hardship when his father went bankrupt before dying while Rusanov was still a child. Rusanov's widowed mother struggled to bring up the family but managed to send her son to the Oryol Gymnasium (Grammar School). Rusanov however began to be involved with Marxist revolutionaries. He was arrested by the police who while they could not prove anything informed the gymnasium leading to his expulsion. Rusanov therefore joined a theological seminary.
Rusanov entered the natural sciences faculty at Kiev University in 1897. At Kiev he was involved in Marxist activities and was again expelled and briefly imprisoned. While in jail he was inspired by books about Fridjtof Nansen's Arctic voyages and resolved to become a polar explorer. Rusanov was released in 1899 but subject to police over watch.
In 1912 Rusanov had been appointed to command a government expedition to Svalbard to investigate the coal potential. He sailed from Aleksandrovsk-na-Murmane (now Polyarnyy, near Murmansk) on 26 June on ship Gerkules under Captain Alexander Kuchin, Roald Amundsen's South Pole navigator. The personnel consisted of thirteen men and one woman, Rusanov's French fiancée Julie Jean. Apart from Rusanov there was another geologist and a zoologist.
At the end of a very successful summer's field work, three members of the expedition (the geologist, the zoologist and the ship's bosun) returned to Russia via Grønfjorden in Norway. The remaining ten, however, without consultation with the authorities in St. Petersburg, set off with Rusanov in an incredibly rash attempt at reaching the Pacific Ocean via the Northern Sea Route. Their ship Gerkules was too small for the kind of expedition Rusanov had in mind.
The last to be heard of Rusanov's expedition was a telegram left at Matochkin Shar on Novaya Zemlya, which reached St. Petersburg on 27 September 1912. In it, Rusanov indicated that he intended rounding the northern tip of Novaya Zemlya, and heading east across the Kara Sea but nothing was heard from the Gerkules thereafter. He and his 11-man team, including Alexander Kuchin, disappeared without trace a year later in the Kara Sea, off the northern coast of Siberia.
In 1914-15 the almost impossible task of searching for Rusanov (as well as for the similarly disappeared Captain Georgy Brusilov and the Brusilov Expedition), was entrusted to Otto Sverdrup with the ship Eklips. His efforts, however, were unsuccessful.
In 1937 the Arctic Institute of the Soviet Union organized an expedition to the Nordenskiöld Archipelago on ship Toros. Relics of the ill-fated 1912-13 Vladimir Rusanov's expedition on the Gercules were found on Popova-Chukchina Island located at (74° 56'N, 86° 18'E) off Kolosovykh Island in the Kolosovykh group.
A glacier in October Revolution Island, in the Severnaya Zemlya group has been named after Vladimir Rusanov.
Rusanov is dutifully remembered in the city of his birth, Oryol, where the Rusanova Street is named after him. There is also a museum in the house where he spent his childhood and youth at no. 43 Rusanova Street. The cabin Rusanov built on Svalbard in 1912 (Rusanovodden) was turned into a small self-guided museum.
Soviet coal mining on Svalbard began in 1932.


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package main

import (
	"github.com/PalmStoneGames/polymer"
)

func init() {
	polymer.Register("fancy-input", &FancyInput{})
	polymer.Register("input-list", &InputList{})
}

type FancyInput struct {
	*polymer.Proto
	Value string `polymer:"bind"`
}

type InputList struct {
	*polymer.Proto
}

func (t *InputList) Ready() {
	// Print out inputs that we can find on the root
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	polymer.Log("Printing inputs through t.Root().QuerySelectorAll()")
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	polymer.Log(polymer.WrapDOMElement(polymer.GetWindow().Document().QuerySelector("input-list")).Root().QuerySelectorAll("input"))

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	polymer.Log(t.Root().QuerySelectorAll("fancy-input"))

	// Next, drill all the way down to the inputs by going into fancy-input's local DOM
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}

func main() {}

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Did Bahrain expose US double standards?
As the US criticises Russia and China over Syria, we examine Washington's reaction to Bahrain's clampdown on protesters.
16 Feb 2012 08:40 GMT | Bahrain
"Maintain power through consent, not coercion" was the message from Barack Obama, the US president, to Arab leaders as he laid out his vision for democracy in the Middle East two years ago in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
But then came a wave of uprisings across the Arab world - uprisings that have left the US leader under pressure to live up to the standards he advocated.
When the tiny Gulf kingdom of Bahrain saw an eruption of anti-government protests and a violent crackdown, it became apparent that US foreign policy had glaring inconsistencies and double standards in the region.
But Obama said the US did not want to "employ a cookie cutter approach" to the uprisings:
"There will be times when our short-term interests don't align perfectly with our long-term vision for the region. But we can, and we will, speak out for a set of core principles - principles that have guided our response to the events over the past six months."
The US has huge strategic ties with Bahrain, where its navy's fifth fleet is based as part of Washington's efforts to counter nearby Iran's influence in the region.
Despite international condemnation, Bahrain's deadly crackdown did not prevent the US from pursuing a much-criticised $53m arms deal until, under pressure from the US Congress and human rights groups, it suspended the sale - for now.
So, at a time when the US has heavily criticised Russia and China for looking after their own interests in violence-torn Syria, we ask if the US is guilty of hypocrisy.
Joining Inside Story Americas with presenter Lisa Fletcher are: Michael Singh, the managing director of the Washington Institute and a former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council; Brian Dooley, the director of the Human Rights Defenders programme at Human Rights First; and Jean Francois Seznec, a visiting associate professor at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.
Bahrain uprising facts:
According to the government's independent commission, at least 35 people were killed between February and April last year
The report said security forces were responsible for more than half of those deaths
It also reported that several detainees were tortured
Amnesty International says at least another 20 people have been killed since then
Human rights groups say security forces continue to use excessive force
Activists have called on Bahrain to release political prisoners
Human rights officials have called high ranking security officials to be investigated
The Stream spoke to Maryam Alkhawaja, the head of foreign relations for the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, and Fahad al-Binali, a media attache for the Bahraini Information Affairs Authority, about the uprising. Here is some of what they had to say:
Maryam Alkhawaja: "The protests never stopped in Bahrain, [the media] just stopped covering them .... To the Bahraini protesters, the US is to Bahrain as Russia is to Syria."
Fahad al-Binali: "To compare what is happening in Bahrain to what is happening in Syria and elsewhere is just a form of sensationalism."
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Sprint PCS Uses Caller-ID as it's Authenticator for Voice Mail Access!
MSNBC has a disturbing article describing how easy it is to hack into Sprint PCS voice mail systems.
Here's the problem. I am a Sprint PCS subscriber. When you set up your voice mail, you are invited to "activate a special feature" that allows you to retrieve your Sprint PCS voice mail without having to type your account password. However, this feature is supposed to only work when you are calling your voice mail from your Sprint PCS phone!.
It turns out, according to this MSNBC article, that Sprint PCS uses Caller ID as the authenticator. Now anybody who has their own telephone switch with a digital interface to the phone company can spoof Caller ID. This is an old trick that ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick has discussed for years.
Well, Caller-ID could be made more secure: There is no reason that my phone company should accept any Caller-ID string.
Second, Sprint PCS is a cell phone company! They should know the difference between a landline calling their voice mail system and one of their own cell phones.
Third, there should be some kind of liability on companies that knowingly market systems that are not secure. Don't you think?


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The UK shores have been hit by a few storms this year, but nothing quite compares to what the EU has been brewing up for the banks. In case you have been living under a rock, the storm we're referring to is known simply as PSD2, and it is scheduled to hit European shores later this week, Saturday, 13th of January. PSD2 will introduce a set of game-changing rules that will completely redefine how we all make payments. Read on to find out what this means for you and your money.
PSD2 stands for the Second Payment Services Directive. Made up of a set of rules proposed by the European Commission to regulate payment services throughout the European Union, it builds on the First Payment Services Directive, introduced in 2009, with the aim of creating a pan-European legal framework for payment services.
PSD2's purpose is to promote innovation, to improve security of online payments and to create competition between traditional banks and fintechs of all shapes and sizes, with the ultimate goal of shifting the power balance from corporates over to consumers.
Although the European banking system is more advanced than other parts of the world, it still lacks in many ways. First of all, it uses a variety of systems which makes it complicated to integrate between one another. Secondly, the financial world is still riddled with hidden fees and charges that usually get passed on to us - the end consumers.
PSD2 aims to solve these problems by connecting all the different financial services together via an open banking API - a common language designed to be used by all of these banking systems. This means that your bank accounts, Revolut account, and any other financial service you use will be able to easily communicate and work together to provide improved functionality, offer a more streamlined user experience and help tackle fees.
So what does this mean to traditional banks?
Currently, the banks are very strict with whom they choose to share customer information and account data - most of the time, your bank can make money by selling anonymised 'customer insights' or 'spending habits' to businesses that are willing to pay up. Want more? Here are another 3 sneaky ways banks are ripping you off.
With PSD2, approved fintech startups will soon have the ability to request access to your bank account information via the open API (request is only granted with your explicit consent of course!). The effect - traditional banks will need to share their customers' information in a secure manner. Ultimately, this means that more people, like you, could be tempted to choose a trusted third party digital alternative, like Revolut, to manage their personal finances!
What's more, PSD2 is designed to serve you, the consumer, and has been intentionally drafted with your experience in mind, and not the traditional banks'. So what does this mean?
Simply put, through PSD2, you will experience a reduction in fees and an increase in transparency, which could be the demise of those opaque "service fees" we all receive on our bank accounts.
OK, but what does PSD2 mean for me?
Since different services will be able to connect to your bank accounts and pull information with your consent, you could soon see apps that aggregate your balances and transaction history from all your different bank accounts.
These apps could provide you with valuable insights into your spending habits, suggest ways to help you save more money and even recommend switching to another account with more favourable rates and features.
Under current regulations, when you shop online, your card details get passed to the merchant and other entities such as PayPal or MasterCard. They, in turn, process the payments from your bank account via intermediary companies. The problem with this process is that it involves a number of players. The fancy word that you may have heard people mention when they talk about PSD2 is "disintermediation", and this is what they are referring to.
With PSD2, you can shop online without the need to enter your account details - this means you can book that hotel room from an internet cafe in Thailand securely and in confidence. Your transactions will be assured and protected by advanced authentication and the results will ultimately be secure, faster and cheaper transactions.
Credit agencies are notorious for providing inaccurate credit ratings, not because they are not doing their job properly, but because they use static data points which only show a brief snapshot of your financial habits.
However, with the introduction of PSD2, these agencies could gain access to your transaction data (provided you give your consent), allowing them to conduct a more accurate assessment of your creditworthiness, or the likelihood of your ability to repay a loan on time.
We said above that PSD2 aims to make transactions cheaper - and if you have read this far, we are guessing that is because you are interested in learning how you can save some cash (aren't we all?).
PSD2 will prohibit merchants from surcharging customers for paying with a credit card. Unfortunately, you may still see a "booking fee" or something similar appear at the bottom of your bill before you check-out, that's because under PSD2 merchants can still charge customers a fee, but it must be equally applied across all payment methods (so, you can no longer be penalised for using your credit card).
Although there is still much debate on this matter, PSD2 has the potential to make credit card spending free for consumers or, at the very least, reduce the amount of surcharging applied to these card payments.
When does PSD2 come into effect?
As we said in the beginning, unless you've been living under a rock, by now you should know that PSD2 requires all EU member states, including the UK, to implement these regulations as national law by this coming Saturday, the 13th of January, 2018.
The introduction of PSD2 will bring a number of exciting opportunities for Revolut and other innovative players to shake up the way we approach transacting online and how we manage our accounts. You can rest assured, however, because here at Revolut, we're working hard to create the most useful solutions designed to take advantage of this new banking landscape.
Stay tuned for more updates on exciting new products and features we have in store for you!


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Rabada's return on hold as South Africa looks ahead to Pakistan tour
Kagiso Rabada was recalled to the squad for the second test against Sri Lanka, but South Africa will not risk the fitness of the pacer ahead of its tour to Pakistan later this month.
The 25-year-old paceman was recalled to the squad for the second test, suggesting he would lead an otherwise inexperienced attack as South Africa seek to complete a 2-0 series whitewash.
South Africa will not risk the fitness of lead attack bowler Kagiso Rabada despite a return to its squad and he will miss out the second Test against Sri Lanka, which starts at The Wanderers Stadium on Sunday, officials said.
Rabada suffered an adductor muscle strain that ruled him out of the one day international Series against England last month and left him sidelined for the first test win over Sri Lanka in Pretoria.
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But team officials on Saturday said Rabada would not be considered.
"The coaches are very happy with his progress but in terms of work load, they'd like to make sure he is in the right space to be able to compete fully for the test series against Pakistan as well as Australia," said team spokesperson Sipokazi Sokanyile.
South Africa tours Pakistan later this month for the first time in 14 years, where it plays two Tests and three Twenty20 internationals.
Australia is then due to play three tests in South Africa in February and March.
Rabada has taken 197 test wickets at average of 22.95 in 43 appearances for South Africa.
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Home Features	Kenya Positions Itself As The Next Big Business Destination in Africa
Kenya Positions Itself As The Next Big Business Destination in Africa
By Simbowo Antony – East Africa Correspondent
Following on the trails of the Asian tiger economies, Kenya is keenly positioning itself as the next major business hub in Africa. Considered one of Africa's anchor states along with South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Libya, Egypt and Sudan, Kenya is set to play its role in taking Africa's business environment to the next level.
The Kenyan Government has already brought before parliament a bill dubbed 'Business Regulation Bill 2007', which is expected to not only smoothen the business climate in the country, but also to speed up its growth as part of the wider 'Kenya Vision 2030'project tailored to make the country a global economic giant by the year 2030.
Already, an e-Registry, an equivalent of the United States' Securities and Exchange Commission is set to start operations as from September 2007. Through the registry, business people will be able to conduct name searches, register their businesses as well as renew their business licenses on expiry. Along with the e-Registry, other reforms include the removal of 205 licenses as well as the summarization of 371 others.
The licensing and business registration modifications have come at a time, when the African continent is slowly emerging as a serious commerce center in the world with countries like Angola (through the Angola National Investment Commission-ANIP) investing heavily in marketing themselves on global television channels such as the CNN. It is not lost to many that South Africa, for example, has been spreading its trade tentacles globally through such as trademarks as the SABCO millers, Galito's restaurant chains, and DSTV among other reputable brands.
Kenya's workforce, on the other hand, is respected worldwide in multinationals, International NGOs (INGOs) and the business world. In the last year alone in Kenya, the economy grew by 6.3%, an indication of the emerging market trend in the country. The country is set to offer IPOs 9Initial Public Offers) for its major telecommunications and mobile companies Telkom and Safaricom in the coming weeks. These IPOs, experts contend, are the biggest ever presented in the whole Eastern and Central African regions.
Along with the domestic trade restructurings include plans to make Kenyan cities 24 hour trade nuclei. A number of establishments are already operating round the clock in Nairobi the capital but the number is expected to increase and the program expands to other cities and towns with the new streamlining regulations in place.
The recent venture into the Kenyan stock and securities trading scene by globally respected and Russian-based private equity fund, Renaissance Capital, only goes a long way in showing just how much faith investors have on Kenya's economic future. Renaissance Capital (Kenya) Limited received their trading license on the 7th of August 2007. As the commerce arena shapes itself in Africa, Kenya is certainly set to play its deserved part and help steer economic growth in the wider African continent.
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Business environment and government clash over new taxes
With the government having included a handful of new taxes in next year's budget, investors' associations have warned the state to step up its efforts to combat tax evasion and refrain from increasing the fiscal burden for honest taxpayers.
Policymakers argued the new taxes would cover the current gap in budget revenues, which hovers around EUR 700 million.
However, the business environment was angered by the manner in which the new fiscal initiatives were approved, without prior consultation of the private sector. Business associations believe the unstable legal and framework is one the key factors that dents Romania's competitiveness.
"The lack of predictability and consultation when setting new taxes will lead FIC members to reconsider their position on the local market and redirect present and future investment towards jurisdictions which offer a satisfying level of fiscal stability, at least in the medium and short term," said the Foreign Investors' Council (FIC), the business advocacy group comprising 119 multinational members with cumulated investments of around EUR 35 billion in Romania.
The government will tax all special constructions, including power grids and telecom towers, and expects to raise around EUR 100 million yearly. Pegging the excises to the inflation rate and enforcing a new EUR 0.7 excise for each liter of sold fuel will send another EUR 739 million into the state coffers.
The fresh revenue will be used to finance large infrastructure projects, according to the government. In addition, royalties for all mineral resources excluding oil and gas will be hiked by 25 percent.
The Association of Romanian Businesspeople (AOAR) has found it hard to understand why the government would finance infrastructure works from the collected excises, when there are still a lot of EU funds available in this field.
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"This is an additional burden on companies who must pay additional excises. It is clear that we will see an increasing number of insolvencies in the coming period," Constantin Coman, country manager of Coface Romania, told BR.
He commented that all the new taxes will ultimately have to be paid by Romanian consumers, through higher prices for transport and other products.
The business advocacy group AmCham Romania said the new taxes would "lead to a rise in the fiscal burden for Romanian taxpayers that is unprecedented in the past 20 years." The group has over 350 members that are US, international and local companies, with total investments worth over USD 10 billion.
AmCham warned the new taxes would increase tax evasion, lead to a reduction in investments and destroy jobs. PM Victor Ponta said he would meet the advocacy groups, adding that Romania could not be an El Dorado when it comes to taxation.
"We have the lowest taxation, except Bulgaria. Forgive me, but I am responsible for the citizens of this nation. What should I do? Cut pensions and wages? Close hospitals as was done in 2010? I think this is wrong," said Ponta, quoted by Mediafax newswire.
He added that the new taxes had been negotiated with international lenders, as part of a EUR 4 billion stand-by agreement.
The PM claimed that both AmCham and the FIC supported the loan deal.
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What whinnies may mean
Researchers have identified the emotions conveyed by specific types of equine vocalizations.
Swiss researchers say they've decoded the vocalizations of horses enough to determine the nature and intensity of the emotions conveyed by specific whinnies.
Working at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences at ETH Zurich, the researchers analyzed the structure of different whinnies produced by 20 horses. Each whinny was triggered by specific situations designed to evoke positive or negative reactions of various intensities from the horses.
"We used social separation and reunion," says Elodie Briefer, PhD. "We removed from the subject horse's environment either one horse or all the other horses on the farm. These situations were assumed to be negative, as horses are social animals and would avoid such situations that would expose them to predators in the wild. We then brought the horses back toward the subject, which was assumed to be positive. The underlying valence (positive/negative) and intensity of the emotions were further verified using physiological and behavioral indicators. For instance, the intensity of the situation was determined
using the heart rate."
Throughout the testing period, the researchers recorded vocalizations the study horses made and then analyzed the acoustical properties of each.
The data revealed that equine vocalizations, unlike those of most mammals, have two frequencies. "Most mammal vocalizations (and human voices, too) are composed of one fundamental frequency and its multiples, called 'harmonics,'" says Briefer. "In horses, surprisingly, whinnies are always composed of two fundamental frequencies and their harmonics, that we conventionally named 'G0,' which is higher, and 'F0,' which is lower. This phenomenon is referred to as biphonation and is rare among mammals, especially with this pattern: All the whinnies are composed of these two frequencies."
This phenomenon had gone undetected previously, says Briefer, because "nobody ever analyzed horse [vocalizations] in such detail---researchers usually ignored the second part of the whinny, where G0 and F0 overlap, which is actually easy to hear."
Equine whinnies usually start with G0 and then F0 is added in, explains Briefer: "Humans and other mammals are able to sometimes produce two fundamentals when the pressure on the vocal cords is high, like during screaming. But it doesn't happen constantly. In horses, we don't know the mechanism of production, but it is probably through asynchronous vibration of the vocal folds."
Another surprise came when the researchers compared the vocalizations the horses made during positive and negative situations. "Put simply, we found that F0 is a good indicator of emotional arousal [intensity] and G0 is [an indicator] of emotional valence," says Briefer. "Valence and arousal are the two main dimensions of emotions: Valence is whether the emotion is positive, such as joy, or negative, such as fear. Arousal is whether the emotion is intense, like fear, or not, like depression. So when a positive or negative emotion becomes more intense, F0 increases. In a positive emotion, compared to a negative one, and independently from arousal, G0 becomes lower."
Briefer says that handlers can learn to distinguish between whinnies. "Positive whinnies start with a lower frequency than negative whinnies. These whinnies are also much shorter than negative whinnies. I think it is quite easy to hear, once we know the trick---shorter and lower frequency whinnies are positive, while negative whinnies start much higher in frequency and are longer."
Much more remains to be learned from analysis of equine vocalizations, says Briefer: "The next step for us is to find out if other horses can extract the emotional information and differentiate between negative and positive whinnies."
Below are two audio recordings of different whinnies analyzed in this study, along with the researchers' classification of each.
The audio files are composed of four whinnies produced by two different horses. The first two whinnies correspond to the first horse (negative and positive, respectively), and the next two whinnies to the second horse (negative and positive also).
Horse 1 whinnies
Reference: "Segregation of information about emotional arousal and valence in horse whinnies," Scientific Reports, April 2015
This article first appeared in EQUUS issue #454, July 2015.
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Oakland Arena is an indoor arena located in Oakland, California, United States. From its opening in 1966 until 1996, it was known as the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena. After a major renovation completed in 1997, the arena was renamed The Arena in Oakland until 2005 and Oracle Arena from 2006 to 2019. It is often referred to as the Oakland Coliseum Arena as it is part of the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Complex with the adjacent RingCentral Coliseum. Oakland Arena seats 19,596 fans for basketball.

History

Home franchises
The arena was the home of the Golden State Warriors from 1971 to 2019; for the 1996–97 season, however, the team played at San Jose Arena while Oakland Arena underwent extensive renovations. The California Golden Bears of the Pac-10 played the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons at the arena while their primary home, Harmon Gym, was being renovated into Haas Pavilion. For some years before then, the Bears played occasional games against popular non-conference opponents at the arena.

The Oracle Arena has hosted games of the NBA Finals in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, where the Warriors won the NBA championship in 2015, 2017, and 2018. That 2015 title was the first time since 1975 the Warriors won the title; however, Games 2 and 3 of the 1975 NBA Finals were played at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, as the Coliseum was unavailable at the time. The 2017 championship was the first time that a San Francisco-area team won a title in their home venue since the Oakland Athletics in the 1974 World Series.

The arena's first tenants were the California Seals of the Western Hockey League, who moved across the bay from the Cow Palace in 1966. The owners of the San Francisco Seals had been awarded an expansion franchise in the National Hockey League, on the condition they move out of the Cow Palace and into the then-new Oakland Coliseum Arena. The team changed its operating name from San Francisco Seals to California Seals in order to draw fans from both San Francisco and Oakland. The California Golden Seals continued to play at the arena after having transferred to the NHL, until the team moved to Cleveland after the 1975–76 NHL season.

The Coliseum hosted the American Basketball Association's Oakland Oaks (1967–1969), a charter member of the new ABA in 1967. The Oaks signed San Francisco Warriors star Rick Barry away from the rival National Basketball Association in 1968. The team was owned by entertainer Pat Boone and also had stars Larry Brown and Doug Moe on its roster. Brown and Barry are in the Basketball Hall of Fame. After a 22–56 record in their first season, the Oaks went 60–18 during the regular season in 1968–69. The Oaks then defeated the Denver Rockets, New Orleans Buccaneers and finally the Indiana Pacers in the playoffs to capture the ABA Championship. However, the team was plagued by poor attendance and Boone sold the team following their ABA Championship. They were relocated to Washington and became the Washington Caps.

The Bay Bombers (Roller Derby, 1966–1973) as well as the Golden Bay Earthquakes of the original MISL during the 1982–83 season and the Oakland Skates, a professional roller hockey team active from 1993 to 1995, all played there. WWE also holds professional wrestling shows at the arena.

In 2020, the Oakland Panthers of the Indoor Football League, co-owned by NFL All-Pro and Oakland native Marshawn Lynch, were to begin play at the Oakland Arena. Due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Panthers postponed its start to 2022 and by August 2021, the Panthers announced they would instead play in San Jose as the Bay Area Panthers beginning with the 2022 season citing the uncertainty of the arena's future.

Renovation
Over three decades, the arena grew outdated, lacking the luxuries of newer ones. With just over 15,000 seats, it was one of the smallest venues in the league. Rather than building a new arena in Oakland, San Francisco or San Jose, the decision was made to proceed with a US$121 million renovation that involved tearing out much of interior and building a new seating bowl within the existing structure. The original walls, roof and foundation remained intact, similar to the rebuild of Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. The renovation began in mid-1996 and was completed in time for the Warriors' return in the fall of 1997 (they played the 1996–97 season at the San Jose Arena, now the SAP Center at San Jose, home of the NHL's Sharks). Included in the renovation was a new center overhead LED scoreboard and 360-degree fascia display. The new configuration seats 19,596 for basketball.

Oracle naming rights deal

On October 20, 2006, the Golden State Warriors and Oracle Corporation announced that the Oakland Arena would be known as Oracle Arena for a 10-year term. A press conference was held on October 30. "The O", as it is referred to, continued to be managed by Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Authority (JPA) and SMG. The JPA approved the deal at its November 10 meeting.

After the Warriors' resurgence since the 2012–13 season until the 2018–19 season, Oracle Arena was reckoned as one of the loudest arenas in the NBA. It was often called "Roaracle" because of the painfully high decibel levels sometimes generated at Warriors games. Shortly after the Warriors moved to San Francisco in 2019, the arena reverted to its old Oakland Arena moniker.

Attendance records

On May 13, 2007, 20,679 fans watched the Warriors lose to the Utah Jazz 115–101 in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals. This was the highest attendance in the Warriors' 61-year history.

That record lasted until December 14, 2007, when the Warriors hosted the Los Angeles Lakers and packed 20,705 into the Arena to set a new franchise attendance record.

The record was again broken on February 20, 2008, when the arena hosted 20,711 for the Warriors-Celtics game.

This record was broken yet again on April 10, 2008, when Oracle Arena hosted 20,737 fans in a Warriors loss to the Denver Nuggets.

By the end of the 2016–17 regular season, Oracle had sold out 230 consecutive home games, a streak that continued throughout the team's playoff run. Oracle drew over 18,000 people per game for 12 straight seasons.

Concerts
Frank Sinatra performed at the Coliseum for a fundraising rally for Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign on 22 May 1968.

Elvis Presley kicked off his second tour of 1970 at the Coliseum on November 10, 1970. He would return again on November 11, 1972.

Marvin Gaye made his official return to live performing and touring at the Coliseum Arena on January 4, 1974 and this show was the basis for his 1 million-selling live album, Marvin Gaye Live! At the time, music industry executives cited the tour as a "heralded event" as Gaye made a comeback to live touring nearly 4 years after the death of his late singing partner Tammi Terrell.

Parliament-Funkadelic recorded half the album Live: P-Funk Earth Tour at the Oakland Coliseum Arena on January 21, 1977. The album was released in April of that year.

Queen performed concerts at the Oakland Coliseum Arena in 1978 and 1980, during their Jazz and Game Tours, respectively.

In 1984 Duran Duran performed here for their Sing Blue Silver Tour was filmed at the venue on 12, 13 and 15 of April. Footage from these shows were used in Arena (An Absurd Notion) and the TV special As The Lights Go Down and for their Arena album.

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. opened their "Together Again Tour" at the Coliseum on 13 March 1988.

Nirvana performed concert at the Oakland Coliseum Arena in 1993, during their In Utero Tour.

In 2010, James Taylor and Carole King performed at the arena as part of their Troubadour Reunion Tour.

Adele performed at the arena during her Adele Live 2016 tour on August 2, 2016.

KISS, an American rock band, played their final concert in the Bay Area with David Lee Roth of Van Halen on March 6, 2020.

K-pop group TWICE held their 4th World Tour 'III' on February 18, 2022.

Tyler, the Creator performed with Kali Uchis and Vince Staples for his "Call Me If You Get Lost" tour on April 1, 2022.

Paul McCartney performed there on May 6 and 8, 2022.

Pearl Jam performed on May 12 and 13, 2022 for their Gigaton tour.

Sidhu Moose Wala was to have performed there on August 13, 2022 for his Back To Business World Tour, but died on May 29.

The Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead played more concerts at this venue than at any other, with 66 shows between 1979 and 1995, and their December 16, 1992 concert at the arena was released as Dick's Picks Volume 27, along with bonus tracks from their December 17, 1992 concert at the arena.

Warriors move back to San Francisco

Early in 2013, the Warriors announced they would move back to San Francisco and build a new arena. It was originally suggested that the arena would be built on the decaying sites of Piers 30–32 near the foot of the Bay Bridge, but the plan was met with opposition due to concerns about traffic, environmental impacts and obstruction of views. In April 2014, the Warriors purchased 12 acres in Mission Bay as the site for a new 18,000-seat arena planned to open for the 2018–19 NBA season. The new location eliminated the need for voter approval, which would have been required for the original site, though it had been unanimously approved by the San Francisco Supervisors in November 2012. Because of delays due to litigation filed by arena opponents the opening season was pushed to the start of the 2019–20 NBA season.

The new arena was named the Chase Center. On January 9, 2019, the San Francisco Giants announced that their home AT&T Park would be renamed Oracle Park, with the Oracle naming rights moving there from the arena. The Golden State Warriors played their final regular season game at Oracle Arena on April 7, 2019 with a 131–104 win over the Los Angeles Clippers. Notably, the team decided to wear their 2006–07 "We Believe" uniforms for that game, with the uniform choice not being revealed at any point beforehand until the Warriors players took off their warm-up uniforms shortly before tip-off, much to the delight of the home crowd. The Warriors played their final playoff game at Oracle Arena on June 13, 2019, a 114–110 loss to the Toronto Raptors in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. The loss ended the Warriors' quest for a third consecutive NBA championship. The court from that Finals game now sits at the Ian Stewart Complex in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Ever since the Warriors moved across the Bay to San Francisco, the arena remains open under the new name Oakland Arena.

Seating capacity

The seating capacity for basketball has expanded from 13,000 to 19,000 in over a half-century of use:

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A Very Confused Detective
November 4, 2015 Books, Mysteries, Speculative FictionScience Fiction, Stanislaw LemWesley
This year I read two Stanislaw Lem novels I'd never read before. The Invincible didn't impress me, but The Investigation is one of his better books.
The Investigation is Lem's take on the British mystery. As you might expect the subject isn't the usual mundane murder: Lieutenant Gregory of Scotland Yard is assigned to look into reports of dead bodies found moved with no one around to move them. It seems corpses are getting up and walking.
Generally[1] I think Lem is at his best in his satirical books, like The Cyberiad, The Star Diaries, and A Perfect Vacuum. The Investigation isn't one of those, but it's not dry and numbingly earnest like The Invincible. Lem's prose is good here, with sharp and memorable descriptions, as when Gregory looks at his fellow train passengers and sees "a sea of accidental faces."
The Investigation is set in detective-novel England as seen from Poland. In the first few pages we hear of places like Engender, Planting, and Spittoon, and minor characters with names like Thicker and Samuel Filthey. Lem drops these into an entirely straight-faced conversation about animate corpses. It reads like a CSI briefing done in Monty Python voices. Lem surrounds straight man Gregory with interestingly grotesque characters.[2] The best is the birdlike, irascible statistician Sciss, who is incensed by the suspicion that someone might be making fun of mathematics.
Where The Investigation shines is in its surrealism. Lem writes like a dream here, literally: when he drops in a dream sequence it's not a typical allegorical novel dream, it actually has the disjointed, illogical feel of a real nightmare. Yet it's still one of those dream sequences you don't initially realize is a dream, which says a lot about the novel's tone. Gregory is, after all, investigating walking corpses. Meetings with his superior often take place at night, or in darkened rooms, as if Scotland Yard has instituted mood lighting policies. The case culminates with the nightmarish image of a body moving like a wind-up toy, and I can't imagine a horror movie pulling off a creepier image than the one The Investigation evoked in my imagination.
The more impossible the case seems the more Gregory moves out of the ordinary world, and the more alienated he becomes. His life outside Scotland Yard is a series of small awkward failures to connect to other people, from the bartender whose simple questions about dinner he's too abstracted to understand to a humiliatingly unsuccessful attempt to give a few coins to a beggar. Gregory is ultimately so confused that he walks down a tunnel, finds another person blocking his way, and only belatedly realizes he's walked into a mirror.
Like the astronauts in The Invincible, Gregory is dealing with an apparently intelligent phenomenon that may have no intelligence behind it at all. Sciss's best explanation for the animate corpses is essentially that some random physical phenomena happened to come together in just the right way to make the dead walk. For Gregory this calls to mind a metaphor of the universe as a bowl of soup in which bits randomly clump together to form something whole. Improbable, but as Lem wrote in another novel, mathematically improbable events sometimes happen anyway. Lem was seemingly fascinated by randomness and probability, returning to the theme over and over. (One of the fake book reviews in A Perfect Vacuum covers a book arguing that if the laws of probability are true then the universe itself, being so improbable, cannot possibly exist.) Lem's characters seek order in statistical chaos. Many of his novels hinge on distinguishing between meaningful, intelligent phenomena and pareidolia: the misapplied pattern-seeking that, for instance, lets us see faces in clouds. His aliens are really alien. Is Solaris bringing visitors' memories to life for a reason, or is it an autonomic response, like white blood cells reacting to a virus? Is it possible, without anthropomorphizing, for humans to understand what's happening on Eden? Most of Lem's stories and themes come back to the limits of human ability to comprehend an infinite, incomprehensible universe.[3] (In this Lem has a weird thematic parallel to H. P. Lovecraft, although happily Lem's preoccupation with incomprehensibility is based in a sense of wonder, not xenophobia.) The Investigation takes these themes out of their science fictional context and applies them to the detective novel.
How readers interpret the genre of The Investigation will affect how they interpret Sciss's theory. Gregory can't decide what genre he's in. Sometimes he's seduced by Sciss's ideas—if the human mind can't understand everything, he reasons at one point, maybe it's irrelevant whether an explanation seems to make sense. Sometimes he's not buying it: the outbreak of walking dead must have some human intelligence behind it, and he increasingly suspects Sciss himself. But because the name on the cover is Stanislaw Lem and not Agatha Christie, the reader knows the impossible may be happening.
And that's what Gregory ultimately confirms. But his superintendant has a more mundane theory—a truck-driving prankster—that almost fits. And it's a tidy theory, since the suspect has since died and wouldn't be inconvenienced by the accusation. In the end it's not clear what Scotland Yard's going to go with. Is a tidy but probably wrong explanation better, or an unsatisfactory mystery? Lem, as you might expect from somebody who lived in Communist Poland, suggests the authorities would rather be satisfied than right. The real horror isn't the walking dead—it's the thought that the universe might be too big, random, and weird for human beings to get their heads around.
Exceptions include Solaris, natch. ↩
The biggest problem with The Investigation is that, as is often the case with older SF, it's lopsidedly male. Only a handful of women appear and we're well into the novel before one even gets any lines. I'm mentioning the biggest flaw in a footnote because it's an all too common problem in older SF, and not even an interesting problem. There's only so much I can think of to say about it beyond "it's this crap again." ↩
I haven't read Lem's philosophical book Summa Technologiae, but in it he apparently argues for something like the Singularity: eventually, he suspects, humans will reach the point where we have so much information we can't process it all. ↩
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4. Create your own academic memoir in the medium of your choosing.
Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory, and the University by Cynthia G. Franklin. Published by University of Georgia Press, 2009.
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Q: Intersection of two inequation I have this statement:

All numbers that are more than 10 units of 6 and less than 16 units
  out of 8 are represented by:

My development was:
First, $n > 16$ that is "more than 10 units of 6"
Second, $n < 24$ that is "less than 16 units of 8"
And the intersection between the two interval are $(16,24)$.
But according to the guide, the correct answer must be $ ]-8, -4[ \cup ]16,24[$, and i don't know why. Thanks in advance.

A: I believe the question should be interpreted as follows. The first set (that I will call $A$) is the set of numbers whose distance to $6$ is more than $10$, i.e.
$$A = \{x\ :\ |x-6|>10\} = ]-\infty, -4[\ \cup\ ]16, \infty[.$$
The second set $B$ is the set of numbers, whose distance to $8$ is less than $16$, so
$$B = \{x\ :\ |x-8|<16\} = ]-8,24[.$$
The answer to the question is the intersection $A\cap B$, which is
$$A\cap B = ]-8,-4[\ \cup\ ]16, 24[.$$

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Our Prescription Labels Aren't Just Confusing. They're Dangerous.
These researchers are on a mission to save us from bad pill-bottle designs.
Katharine Gammon
Target's clearly legible prescription labels were designed by a School of Visual Arts graduate — and they're the exception in the United States. Image via Bart/Flickr.
Think about your most recent prescription medication bottle. The colors, symbols, fonts, and information there each serve a specific purpose. But was that information understandable?
For many people, it's not. Half of U.S. patients don't understand the health information they receive according to an estimate by the American Medical Association. The average American reads at an eighth-grade level whereas most health care information, including labels on prescriptions, is written for college graduates. And that doesn't even take into consideration people who struggle with English as a second language.
"If I could get the word 'twice' off every prescription bottle in America, I could retire," says Dr. Ruth Parker, a clinician and professor at Emory University in Atlanta. "It's a simple word to pronounce and say, but what does twice even mean? 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.? Morning and evening? It doesn't make any sense."
Parker is part of a research movement to redesign the prescription bottle label. According to a 2010 study, 75% of U.S. adults can't fully identify a prescription's indication for use, leading to non-adherence and poorer health outcomes. For adults over age 80, who receive an average of 18 prescriptions per year, the problems can be even more stark.
Although health illiteracy is a global phenomenon, the trouble with prescription labels may be most pronounced in the United States. In Europe, medication is rarely dispensed in "loose pill" form (placed in amber vials as they are in America), says Michael Wolf, a researcher at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Rather, a "unit of dose delivery" (a single dose per package) is more common. "That creates a bit of a change compared to here, especially in terms of labeling."
"A prescription drug label is the last form of communication we have between the patient and the provider," says Anandi Law, a researcher at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California. "Patients have to be able to translate all that information into action." According to a 2012 report by the American Health and Drug Benefits, preventable adverse drug events — including overdose, non-adherence, and interactions — affect more than 7 million patients in the U.S. every year, costing nearly $21 billion.
One of the problems is that different states have different mandates about what should be on a label. In fact, Wolf found doctors in America have at least 53 slightly different ways of writing "take one tablet twice daily" in the United States. In 2013, he ran a study and filled 100 different prescriptions around the country, which taught him firsthand how disparate the labeling is.
In some cases, Wolf noticed how big the pharmacy logo was compared with the rest of the info. His work led to creating a more evidence-based label, ditching some of the widely used but ineffective language like that dreaded word "twice" and moving to a system that's easier to digest.
Wolf and colleagues tested their "enhanced prescription label," which tells patients when to take their meds depending on the time of day by using a picture of a pillbox. They tested this model and found that it improved outcomes, especially in low-literacy patients.
He says that relatively simple tweaks could improve understanding, prioritizing content over logos and making sure that fonts are large enough to be legible even by people with low vision. Anything below a size 10 font is pretty difficult to understand, Wolf says.
There's an ongoing debate about whether the prescription label should indicate what the medicine is for, be it diabetes or high blood pressure. Patients have asked that labels show the illness that the medication treats, but that information has to be added by a physician at the time of prescribing — a pharmacist can't add it later.
Law has also tested different labels for understanding and published the initial results in 2010 and more comprehensive results in 2017. She found that using different colors to offset the various parts of the label helped people understand the information better. The majority of people surveyed preferred the new labels over conventional ones.
In addition, Law and a graduate student studied a program that used pharmacists to walk patients through the parts of a prescription label, pointing out the relevant sections and explaining how to use the information found there. They discovered that education, even if it's only 10 minutes per patient, along with redesigned labels could play a significant role in improving health literacy.
"Most people don't get a lot of information from their doctor," Wolf explains. "If you're not getting what you need from your doctor and the prescription drug label is a throwaway, then it's easy to see how adverse reactions happen. We can get a lot of bang for our health care buck by redesigning something as simple as a drug label and a prescription."
In California in 2015, state legislators passed laws mandating clearer labels and the inclusion of multiple languages — something the researchers say is a step in the right direction. Both Wolf and Law have testified in front of the pharmacy board of California in support of evidence-based labeling. At the time of this post, the only other state that required pharmacists to include non-English medication information was New York.
Image courtesy of Michael Wolf.
"We should eventually have a national model for labels," Wolf says. "That would be the ideal situation." Consistent messaging in familiar language that's easy to understand no matter one's literacy level will be a huge first step in ensuring that all patients remain safe and healthy — and set up for success in the future.


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Fridge Horror
Bioshock Infinite: It's implied in the full E3 Playthrough recently put out on the Xbox 360 Video Marketplace that Songbird only feels two things - rage, and the absence of it brought on by protecting Elizabeth. So, hopefully, Songbird's not exactly... inclined towards... that. Unfortunately, the two warring factions are elitist snobs taken to their logical conclusion, and Bomb-Throwing Anarchists. Both of whom she will be spending a lot of time around... and being attacked by. What would happen to her if Booker (i.e. you) weren't around doesn't bear thinking about.
You know Elizabeth in Bio Shock Infinite? Yeah, she doesn't really care about her low cut top. After all, she's been locked away for most of her life, and probably doesn't know what all that boobage means. Heck, she probably doesn't even choose her own dresses. Songbird does that. Songbird who's patterned on an abusive husband. Songbird who Elizabeth describes going back to as a Fate Worse Than Death--oh sweet mercy no.
What in the hell did Booker do to get kicked out of the Pinkertons?
Maybe he's a Defector From Decadence?
Troy Baker himself lampshaded the question in an interview. He claims that Booker "Has seen a lot. Done a lot." and has "A lot to make penance for".
Fridge Brilliance
One of the first plasmids used in the original Bioshock is Electro Bolt, and after using it is described as, "bucks like a mule." One of the first vigors revealed in Infinite is Bucking Bronco. Epic Foreshadowing?
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Q: SrpingFramework Web Client RestTemplate ConnectionRefused exception I have some code that is attempting to make a RestTemplate call to a REST API on another server:
String url = "http://$authUrl:$authPort/cdpe/users/current";
HttpHeaders requestHeaders = new HttpHeaders();
requestHeaders.add("Cookie", rdgLogin.getName() + "=" + rdgLogin.getValue());
requestHeaders.add("Cookie", jsessionId.getName() + "=" + jsessionId.getValue());
RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
HttpEntity requestEntity = new HttpEntity(null, requestHeaders);

ResponseEntity<String> resp = restTemplate.exchange(url, HttpMethod.GET, requestEntity, String.class);

The server is up and running on a different machine "restserver" on port 8080. I've verified that it's up and running and waiting for connections.
When the above code executes I get a ConnectionRefused exception. Connection refused http://restserver:8080/cdpe/users/current. Usually this means the url is wrong or the server is not running. However, I can perform a curl command with the same URL on the same machine:
curl http://restserver:8080/cdpe/users/current

And I can get a response. Which leads me to believe there is something wrong with my RestTemplate call. Also, I can execute the same code on the same machine as the restserver and it works correctly. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

A: I'm an idiot. I had typoed the URL in the $authUrl portion of the code in such a way that it was really, really hard to detect. Developer fail.