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Q: AppBar color and tabbed menu I couldn't get help from any of the previous questions/answers, been trying this around for a whole lot now. So the problem is that I can't seem to change the color of the navigation tab (tabbed view) correctly. I am using API 21 with support repos.
If I use
ColorDrawable cd = new ColorDrawable(getResources().getColor(R.color.appbar));
actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(cd);

It only colors the appbar-part, which is the top part of the whole top menu bar.
If I use
actionBar.setStackedBackgroundDrawable(cd);

it does color the tab-part, but at the same time it changes the top-parts background to light grey, regardless if I also call
actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(cd);

or not. So below is a picture where are the 2 situations explained, and in the bottom a picture of what I'd like to have. Thanks!
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A: Create a new Folder in "res" called values-v21with a styles.xml file in it.

<resources>
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  <style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light.NoActionBar">
    <!-- Main theme colors -->
    <!--   your app branding color for the app bar -->
    <item name="android:colorPrimary">@color/primary</item>
    <!--   darker variant for the status bar and contextual app bars -->
    <item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">@color/primary_dark</item>
    <!--   theme UI controls like checkboxes and text fields -->
    <item name="android:colorAccent">@color/accent</item>

    <item name="android:alertDialogTheme">@style/Theme.AlertDialog</item>

    <item name="android:navigationBarColor">@color/primary</item>
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  <style name="Theme.AlertDialog" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog">

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    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/primary</item>

    <!--copy/paste colors -->
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/primary</item>

    <!--status bar color -->
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/primary</item>

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PrimaryDark is for the TitleBar
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I got into a discussion with another political writer this week about the old right vs left brain functions. He was looking for a connection between liberals who think in terms of government control and conservatives who used to think of limited government and would it be possible to connect the brains in hopes of changing the whole political process. I would like to take this on another road and hope he will forgive me for using his hypothesis and changing the brain division in a different direction.
I am seeing a different division in American politics at this time. Forget Republicans versus Democrats and let's get into the crux of the problem. Just in the last couple of weeks we are seeing our government in action trying to locate two replacement judges for Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice O'Conner. What is the division problem? Can we be honest and admit it is the prohibition of abortions?
Let's step back and look at which side stands for the legal prohibition of the procedures. I went on line in 1993 and ran head long into the Christian Coalition. I have been in politics so long that I knew they existed but in my history of political analysis, they never were a voting bloc. In 1993 I saw an angry gang of righteous religious people who could not accept that a fetus could be expelled and simply washed away.
I had read about the Prohibition of alcohol and wondered if a federal prohibition of abortions would cause the same gathering of criminals that grew in America during the time of Prohibition. How would our federal government handle the enforcement illegal abortions? I have asked this question of a lot of people and the answer is always that they would handle the situation violently. The reference to the bible always was presented and the death penalty for doctors and prison terms for the women seemed to say it all. Something else was presented in this discussion that needed to be analyzed.
Abortions….pro-life….Christian Conservatives all became part of the dialog and triggered a mind set of an automatic hatred for anyone not of the same political design. It became a litmus test for candidates, friends, employers/employees and which newspapers were pro life and which were not. It grew out of the old Republican/Democratic arguments and ended up even dividing the Christian Churches into which ones would ban abortions and which would not. It has expanded into the subject of gay rights versus Christian rights. I dare think how much further this division can go.
Just in the last week we have seen the multiple indictments against Congressman Delay and the argument is not whether he is innocent or guilty but that it is a liberal conspiracy and nothing less. We had two people appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court and the only concern that caused the questioning from the Senate is will this judge recognize the privacy of a women and when that is destroyed will it then be possible to repeal Roe v Wade?
Now we have an appointee from President Bush who, it was discovered, voted for Al Gore in the late 80s. If she did, she must be a liberal therefore she must be pro-choice, therefore she must be destroyed! .But this is just current problems, let's look a little deeper into the minds of the Christian Conservatives and see how they think about other subjects.
Two books have been mentioned on just about all the internet sites. The first one is a huge best seller called "The DaVinci Code" but it was not the first one to investigate the story of the holy grail but it was the best one written for the period of time it was published. I know it went through my family immediately after being published. The previous book by Dan Brown "Angels and Demons" took on the Vatican with a fabulous murder mystery included. The argument is never whether these books are worthy of a good read but which one is better? It is a wild ride through the bible and the Vatican and I dare anyone not to head to their internet Google programs to search out the locations for a closer look.
The religious community slams shut any discussion of these books as they force the reader to look with a little more depth at the death of Jesus and his disciples. The books were taken from books of the bible that the Vatican chose to leave out as these books tended to give another kind of life of Jesus and the potential of his leaving an offspring after his death.
The problem is not just a disagreement on the concept of the books but has managed to split up good friendships and even families whose members might dare to see the value of Mr. Brown's writings. It is turning into a book burning possibility with the religious right wanting this book destroyed before some unsuspecting Christian reads it.
On many discussion forums it is becoming a fight to the finish between Christians and Secular Humanists. It is now extending into our public school classrooms and nearly every television talk show is divided up on whether Creationism is a Science or not?
The Humanists are also sensitive to the Christians because for the first time in American history the Separation of Church and State is in jeopardy and both sides want their philosophy to rule as number one. Since the Inauguration of President Bush 43, it is assumed that America is a Christian Nation and there is nothing anyone can do about it. The Christians handed him a blank check and when he took our forces into Iraq they backed him all the way. They slam their minds shut to the lies and manipulations of this terrible man and that is the end of the argument. He is pro-life and he can kill as many men, women and children as he wants!!! They were so thrilled with his war that they actually put him back in office because he was pro-life.
Is this division of political points of view found in rational thoughts or have these people been brain washed by their clergy? For the first time that I can remember, the political candidates actually spoke in the churches and gathered a lot of donations while they were at it. Did Bush buy these voters with his faith based grants? Is it right that we tax payers will reimburse the churches for their help with the victims of Katrina?
If anyone has ever tried to have a political discussion with a Christian Conservative you must know that they are determined to prohibit abortions and that is the end of it. One tries to explain that many women would not survive if they had to go back to the dirty motel rooms for an illegal abortion and they smile and say "good riddance." I often bring up the subject of the morning after pill but that would get those tramps out of trouble and we can't have that! They want the women to pay for their crimes and they want to watch it happen!
What frightens me is that this group is starting to sound like the Islamic leaders who are determined to destroy the infidels of the world. It seems to be a mindset shared by both factions; the Christian conservatives and the Islamic terrorists. Both are determined to destroy infidels which leave most of America trying to figure out the lesser of two evils. Both sides will destroy our American Constitution so how do we choose?
Who will win be the Republican candidate in 2006 and 8? Will it be the Christians or Humanists? How will the Jews and other less emotional Christians vote? We have a lot of Buddhists and 7th day Adventists and the only ones who we will ignore it are the Jehovah's Witnesses who do not vote.
Who will vote as Democrats in 2006 and 8? Will they automatically vote against the Christians in fear? What about the Blacks, Mexicans, and Orientals. Americans all, how will they vote? How will the Muslims vote? It is much too complicated since this move by the Christian Conservatives to force their doctrines on an entire political party.
Do we let our political parties tell us which books to read? They have done a job on Harry Potter and gotten nowhere. "The DiVinci Code" is still on the best seller list so they haven't put a dent in that one yet. They tried to destroy the works of Ayn Rand in the 60s and she is still one of the best known American writers around.
Will our American Government go down the tubes due to Roe vs Wade? In the last 5 years it is very close to happening. The energy wasted in this ongoing argument could be better spent improving the education of the children already born in America. Is there anyone who really wants Creation taught as a science? Can't we leave the science classes alone and teach creation from home? Can't we ask our children and grandchildren to not get themselves into trouble and simply not get pregnant? Can't we offer our children goals instead of allowing them to look like tramps when they leave the house? Do we need the constant bad examples found on the television to blare in our homes night and day?
Forcing another prohibition on the American people will only repeat what we learned with the prohibition of alcohol. Every motel in America will have a dirty abortionist just waiting for your little girls instead of a clean hospital facility. Are you really interested in bringing those terrible days back to America?
Come on, let's blend our brains into one fully working organ and try to see other alternatives to the problem rather than giving the government the authority to prohibit abortions and bring back another level of the criminal cartel we still have running the drugs on our streets.
In my opinion, what the Christian Conservatives have done to the Republican Party is a forced takeover resembling the days of the Communists doing the same thing.
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Interior families give $600,000 towards cancer research
First ever chair in brachytherapy supported by Popowich and Bannister families
Jennifer Smith
Two Vernon families have given $100,000 each towards changing outcomes for people facing cancer.
Kelowna's BC Cancer Centre has a campaign to establish the province's first-ever chair in brachytherapy – a form of treatment that delivers a radiation dose directly to a tumour site internally via implanted seeds. Kelowna is a world-renowned leader in brachytherapy, which is quick, highly effective and prevents side effects and damage to surrounding healthy tissue. In fact, brachytherapy is now proven to be more effective and less harmful than standard external beam radiation therapy. It is expected that up to 15,000 cancer patients will require brachytherapy over the next decade.
READ MORE: Campaign launched to create first ever chair in brachytherapy in the Interior
Vernon's Jim and Laverne Popowich recently gave $100,000 to support a first-ever chair in brachytherapy at BC Cancer and the launch of an innovative research program that will transform care for people facing cancer in the Interior and beyond.
Long-time supporters of the BC Cancer Foundation, the Popowichs have witnessed the devastation of cancer as it has impacted their close family and friends.
They positioned their gift as an opportunity to rally the community to match their donation and ensure residents of the Interior have access to the latest in innovative treatment today and into the future.
"We want to support the dedicated leaders at BC Cancer – Kelowna in providing a longer and better life for patients," said Jim. "It is all about caring – we give to create better outcomes."
No strangers to philanthropy themselves, former Vernon residents Joanne and Lyn Bannister also contributed $50,000 to the cause.
Cancer has impacted the Bannisters directly over the years. Joanne's father faced colon cancer; Lyn and his brother have been diagnosed with skin cancer, along with his father and other brother, who both faced prostate cancer.
"Cancer touches us all, either personally or through those we love," said Joanne. "We have a wonderful opportunity to have this innovative way of treating cancer right here in our valley and we need the support of the community to have access to world class treatment here at home."
Inspired by his parents, Joanne and Lyn's son Chad continued the chain of generosity by also giving $50,000 along with his wife, Nadine.
"It makes us feel proud to not only be making a difference in our community, but also make an impact across the province as well," Chad said.
In response to the matching gift challenge, donors from across the Interior have been inspired to action and show their support – they've come together to raise another $400,000, exceeding their target and accumulating an incredible $600,000 total towards the first-ever chair in brachytherapy in B.C.
Chad hopes others will continue to be motivated to give.
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Epidemiology of human rabies in South Africa, 2008 - 2018
J Weyer, V Dermaux-Msimang, A Grobbelaar, C le Roux, N Moolla, J Paweska, L Blumberg
Background. Human rabies cases continue to be reported annually in South Africa (SA). Previous investigations have shown the association between the occurrence of human rabies cases and dog rabies cases in the country.
Objectives. To describe the epidemiology of laboratory-confirmed human rabies cases in SA for the period 2008 - 2018.
Methods. A retrospective document review of laboratory-confirmed human rabies cases for the period 2008 - 2018 was performed using a case register and related documentation available from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.
Results. A total of 105 human rabies cases were laboratory confirmed from 2008 to 2018, with cases reported from all the provinces of SA except the Western Cape. Children and adolescents were most affected by the disease during the study period. In almost half of the cases, medical intervention was not sought after exposure. When victims did seek healthcare, deviations from post-exposure prophylaxis protocols were reported in some cases.
Conclusions. The epidemiological trends of human rabies cases reported in SA for the period 2008 - 2018 remained largely the same as in previous reports. Dog-mediated rabies remains the main source of human rabies in SA.
Authors' affiliations
J Weyer, Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa; Centre for Viral Zoonoses, Department of Medical Virology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa
V Dermaux-Msimang, Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
A Grobbelaar, Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
C le Roux, Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
N Moolla, Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa; Centre for Viral Zoonoses, Department of Medical Virology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa
J Paweska, Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa; Centre for Viral Zoonoses, Department of Medical Virology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa
L Blumberg, Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa; Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa
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Rabies; Human rabies; South Africa; Rabies vaccine; Dog bite; Post-exposure prophylaxis
South African Medical Journal 2020;110(9):877-881. DOI:10.7196/SAMJ.2020.v110i9.14324
Date submitted: 2020-08-31


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Anna University Teaching Jobs 2021
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Brian Bysouth
"He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal."
Does exactly what a fantasy movie is supposed to do! It lets your imagination run away with you. The Queen soundtrack (like their earlier "Flash" Gordon) is fantastic. Sean Connery is of course 'Sean Connery' & wonderful in his part with Christopher Lambert perfectly cast as the untrained Immortal Connor MacLeod. Like many 'cult' films it received a lukewarm reception (& that's being kind) on its initial release resulting in very limited availability of the merchandising used to promote it especially the film posters. Offered here is a very rare unrestored totally original country of origin (UK) film poster for Russell Mulcahy's 1986 fantasy adventure "Highlander". This superb originally folded (as issued) example has deep, vibrant colours and stunning detailed Brian Bysouth sci-fi imagery. All making for an extremely desirable investment grade condition exceptionally scarce movie poster from a hugely influential movie that spawned numerous sequels, TV series & even a cartoon…One of the coolest poster's from 1980's and a fantastic piece of collectable movie memorabilia.
Trivia: Queen originally intended to record only one song for this movie, but after viewing footage from the movie, they were inspired to write more. The band members each had a favorite scene and composed songs specifically for them. Brian May wrote "Who Wants to Live Forever" during the cab ride home after seeing the movie, and Roger Taylor used the line "It's a kind of magic" as the basis for the end title song.
UK Quad / (30″ x 40″) / Single Sided / Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew Ltd
UK / British
Near mint minus – Very fine plus / originally folded (as issued)
Russell Mulcahy
Actor/Actress
Christopher Lambert, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart, Sean Connery
Categories: Action, Adventure, All Posters, Brian Bysouth, Music, Science Fiction, Thriller Tags: action, brian bysouth, Christopher Lambert, Clancy Brown, connor macleod, cult, fantasy, film poster, freddie mercury, highlander, immortal, live forever, new york, quad, queen, Roxanne Hart, russell mulcahy, science fiction, scotland, sean connery, soundtrack, swordsman, uk, uk quad
Film Description
Highlander Movie Poster
"There can be only one"
"Highlander" is an ingenious and very entertaining science fiction film which has come in for rather a lot of (unwarranted) scathing criticism. Although the plot jumps around with reckless abandon, the scripters Gregory Widen, Larry Ferguson and Peter Bellwood manage to pull in all the loose ends by the climax. The word 'confusing' has been used to describe the film quite often as well, but if you stick with it the confusing moments are explained quite cleverly towards the closing reels. This is, in fact, not a bad film at all. I'd venture to say it's a pretty good one.
The opening sequence has Russell Nash (Christopher Lambert) at a wrestling match in New York's Madison Square Gardens. He leaves early, and while walking through the underground car park is confronted by a man with a sword. Nash is not perturbed by this – he merely brandishes a sword of his own, and the pair of them fight to the death, resulting in the decapitation of Nash's opponent. Slowly, we learn (via flashbacks) that Nash is an immortal swordsman who has spent centuries duelling with like immortals. The only way they can die is by decapitation at the hands of one of their counterparts. Each swordsman has spent the whole of history pursuing the others, hoping to be the last one alive whereupon he will gain mortality, virility and vast knowledge.
The film is very energetic (what would you expect from Russell Malcahy, a former music video director?) with dazzling camera work and a pounding, Flash Gordon-style soundtrack by Queen. Sean Connery has a pleasant supporting role as an immortal who teaches Lambert the art of swordplay, and Alan North has a funny part as a bewildered cop who can't figure out why headless corpses keep turning up in his city. The film's intentionally muddled structure is slightly irritating on the first viewing, but with repeated viewings it becomes more comprehensible, even clever. Highlander is a good, inventive piece of hokum…. and it's a real shame that those very same critics who are always grumbling about the lack of cinematic imagination these days didn't give it some merit when it was first released.


The Panama City Beach FL region has some of the most beautiful houses in all the country. A stones throw to the beaches and plenty of things to do for any age group, people from all over the world are flocking to this part of Florida to call it home. Regardless what time of year, the housing market is always booming, good if you are selling your home but bad for the potential buyers.
Without the help of skilled local Panama City Beach FL real estate agents, your dream house could be gobbled up before you make an offer. Here are a few reasons to be working with an agent when buying a home in this area.
When you are searching for a condo in Panama City Beach FL, be prepared to be running a sprint and not a marathon. No sooner do houses hit the market, many of them have a line of potential buyers already at the door making offers. It is not unlikely for a house to have a contract on it within a few days, shutting the door on anyone who is working without a realtor and using dated real estate magazines to find their dream homes. Your local real estate agent is an expert at finding specific listings and getting their clients in the door before the crowds arrive.
Once you meet your Realtor, they will discuss your price range, house specifics, location desired, and how soon you are ready to move. By narrowing down the search the realtor will be able to locate houses within those parameters the minute that they hit the market.
With the homeowners having their pick of potential buyers, it can be a real struggle for anyone without a realtor to get an audience with these sellers. The biggest issue is that these buyers do not have the skill or understanding in how to present an offer to the seller in a way that will be able to compete with the other realtors fighting on behalf of their clients. Most buyers without a realtor think they can haggle at the price, to discover they don't have a chance when realtors are bringing full price offers to the table. Without that insight from a realtor, the buyer has zero chance of getting the house.
With the help of local real estate agents, you have a real fighting chance to get the house because of the way they present the offer on your behalf. Your offer will be fair, it will highlight your availability to close, and it will show your commitment letter from the mortgage company, something a seller truly appreciates in an offer.
Once your offer is accepted by the seller, now comes the hard work for your real estate agent. Although you have secured the commitment of the seller, your real estate agent has to make certain that you are getting your money's worth. Just like when an agent is selling your home and has to make sure it is structurally sound, so too does the agent for the buyer. Your real estate agent is going to put you in touch with a number of home inspectors who will give the house a closer look and present you with a detailed report as to their findings. There will be an inspector checking the roof, plumbing, electrical system, foundation, and even for pests like termites.
Once you have the reports in hand, you can decide if it is still in your best interest to move forward. Your realtor will also be in a position to consult with the seller's realtor about possibly having the homeowner make any of the repairs that were needed.
Once the buyer and seller agree that the house is sound and that the sale can proceed, your real estate agent once again has to be hard at work to ensure everything falls into place accordingly. The agent has to balance the closing date with the real estate attorney schedule, make certain that all the formalities with the bank will be completed on the closing date, and that the seller is able to have all their affairs in order. While you are packing your belongings, your realtor is working hard to make certain every detail of the sale falls perfectly into place or the sale could be a bust.
Having a skilled Panama City Beach FL realtor in your corner means that you will kept abreast of every detail of the buying process right up to the time you hand over the check and receive the keys to your new home.
Now that the deal appears to be going through and your real estate agent has timed everything down to the last minutes of the closing, they still are there to help you transition into your new home. Maybe you are not from this region of Florida, or perhaps you are from another state. Your realtor will help you with connecting with moving companies, handymen, landscapers, and electricians. It is like you are moving to a new region and already have a friend who has some serious connections.
Your Panama City Beach FL real estate agent has made professional relationships in a number of areas, so if you aren't sure who to hire or use, there is a good chance that your realtor knows someone. Best part, these companies come highly recommended from a realtor you can trust.
When it comes to buying a home in Panama City Beach, it is all about the timing. Your local real estate agent has the skills to get you into the houses you desire most, so you can be the first to present the right offer and start your new life in the house of your dreams.


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Fu il maggior architetto francese del XVIII secolo. Il suo stile, che sotto certi aspetti anticipa il Neoclassicismo, riprende i canoni del Classicismo francese di François Mansart, senza confluire nel Rococò.

Biografia

Si formò a Parigi sotto il padre, non visitò mai l'Italia e divenne premier architecte, incarico che lo portò a lavorare per Luigi XV e Madame de Pompadour. Per il sovrano fu impegnato nell'ampliamento di alcune residenze reali a Fontainebleau, Compiègne e Versailles (dove costruì l'elegante teatro dell'opera della Reggia).

A Parigi, nel 1752, iniziò la costruzione della École Militaire, mentre nel 1755 fu approvato il suo progetto per la vasta Place de la Concorde, all'epoca nota come Place Louis XV: i disegni originari della piazza definivano uno spazio assai diverso da quello attuale, frutto di piani redatti in epoca napoleonica, con due palazzi che delimitavano uno spazio chiuso da una serie di balaustre. Gli edifici erano chiaramente ispirati al prospetto di Claude Perrault per la facciata del Louvre, con un leggero colonnato eretto sopra un basamento porticato.

Di poco posteriore alla celebre piazza parigina è il Petit Trianon, considerato dalla critica il capolavoro di Gabriel.
L'edificio, costruito tra il 1761 ed il 1768, deve qualcosa al Palladianesimo inglese, ma nella composizione elegante e proporzionata è assolutamente francese. All'interno gli ambienti sono distribuiti in base alla loro funzione e non tanto ad esigenze estetiche di simmetria, mentre l'esterno è molto semplificato e privo di eccessive decorazioni, essendo definito da un rigoroso ordine di grandi aperture vetrate.

Nel 1769 fu chiamato da Madame du Barry per far ingrandire e decorare il fabbricato del Castello di Louveciennes, cui aggiunse l'ala bassa orientale e un rivestimento in legno scolpito.

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Bibliografia
R. Middleton, D. Watkin, Architettura dell'Ottocento, Milano, Electa, 2001.
N. Pevsner, J. Fleming, H. Honour, Dizionario di architettura, Torino, Einaudi, 1981.

Voci correlate
Architettura neoclassica

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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Project acronym Autophagy in vitro
Project Reconstituting Autophagosome Biogenesis in vitro
Researcher (PI) Thomas Wollert
Host Institution (HI) INSTITUT PASTEUR
Summary Autophagy is a catabolic pathway that delivers cytoplasmic material to lysosomes for degradation. Under vegetative conditions, the pathway serves as quality control system, specifically targeting damaged or superfluous organelles and protein-aggregates. Cytotoxic stresses and starvation, however, induces the formation of larger autophagosomes that capture cargo unselectively. Autophagosomes are being generated from a cup-shaped precursor membrane, the isolation membrane, which expands to engulf cytoplasmic components. Sealing of this structure gives rise to the double-membrane surrounded autophagosomes. Two interconnected ubiquitin (Ub)-like conjugation systems coordinate the expansion of autophagosomes by conjugating the autophagy related (Atg)-protein Atg8 to the isolation membrane. In an effort to unravel the function of Atg8, we reconstituted the system on model membranes in vitro and found that Atg8 forms together with the Atg12–Atg5-Atg16 complex a membrane scaffold which is required for productive autophagy in yeast. Humans possess seven Atg8-homologs and two mutually exclusive Atg16-variants. Here, we propose to investigate the function of the human Ub-like conjugation system using a fully reconstituted in vitro system. The spatiotemporal organization of recombinant fluorescent-labeled proteins with synthetic model membranes will be investigated using confocal and TIRF-microscopy. Structural information will be obtained by atomic force and electron microscopy. Mechanistic insights, obtained from the in vitro work, will be tested in vivo in cultured human cells. We belief that revealing 1) the function of the human Ub-like conjugation system in autophagy, 2) the functional differences of Atg8-homologs and the two Atg16-variants Atg16L1 and TECPR1 and 3) how Atg16L1 coordinates non-canonical autophagy will provide essential insights into the pathophysiology of cancer, neurodegenerative, and autoimmune diseases.
Autophagy is a catabolic pathway that delivers cytoplasmic material to lysosomes for degradation. Under vegetative conditions, the pathway serves as quality control system, specifically targeting damaged or superfluous organelles and protein-aggregates. Cytotoxic stresses and starvation, however, induces the formation of larger autophagosomes that capture cargo unselectively. Autophagosomes are being generated from a cup-shaped precursor membrane, the isolation membrane, which expands to engulf cytoplasmic components. Sealing of this structure gives rise to the double-membrane surrounded autophagosomes. Two interconnected ubiquitin (Ub)-like conjugation systems coordinate the expansion of autophagosomes by conjugating the autophagy related (Atg)-protein Atg8 to the isolation membrane. In an effort to unravel the function of Atg8, we reconstituted the system on model membranes in vitro and found that Atg8 forms together with the Atg12–Atg5-Atg16 complex a membrane scaffold which is required for productive autophagy in yeast. Humans possess seven Atg8-homologs and two mutually exclusive Atg16-variants. Here, we propose to investigate the function of the human Ub-like conjugation system using a fully reconstituted in vitro system. The spatiotemporal organization of recombinant fluorescent-labeled proteins with synthetic model membranes will be investigated using confocal and TIRF-microscopy. Structural information will be obtained by atomic force and electron microscopy. Mechanistic insights, obtained from the in vitro work, will be tested in vivo in cultured human cells. We belief that revealing 1) the function of the human Ub-like conjugation system in autophagy, 2) the functional differences of Atg8-homologs and the two Atg16-variants Atg16L1 and TECPR1 and 3) how Atg16L1 coordinates non-canonical autophagy will provide essential insights into the pathophysiology of cancer, neurodegenerative, and autoimmune diseases.
Project acronym BetaDropNMR
Project Ultra-sensitive NMR in liquids
Researcher (PI) Magdalena Kowalska-Wyrowska
Host Institution (HI) EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH
Summary "The nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) is a versatile and powerful tool, especially in chemistry and in biology. However, its limited sensitivity and small amount of suitable probe nuclei pose severe constraints on the systems that may be explored. This project aims at overcoming the above limitations by giving NMR an ultra-high sensitivity and by enlarging the NMR ""toolbox"" to dozens of nuclei across the periodic table. This will be achieved by applying the β-NMR method to the soft matter samples. The method relies on anisotropic emission of β particles in the decay of highly spin-polarized nuclei. This feature results in 10 orders of magnitude more sensitivity compared to conventional NMR and makes it applicable to elements which are otherwise difficult to investigate spectroscopically. β-NMR has been successfully applied in nuclear physics and material science in solid samples and high-vacuum environments, but never before to liquid samples placed in atmospheric pressure. With this novel approach I want to create a new universal and extremely sensitive tool to study various problems in biochemistry. The first questions which I envisage addressing with this ground-breaking and versatile method concern the interaction of essential metal ions, which are spectroscopically silent in most techniques, Mg2+, Cu+, and Zn2+, with proteins and nucleic acids. The importance of these studies is well motivated by the fact that half of the proteins in our human body contain metal ions, but their interaction mechanism and factors influencing it are still not fully understood. In this respect NMR spectroscopy is of great help: it provides information on the structure, dynamics, and chemical properties of the metal complexes, by revealing the coordination number, oxidation state, bonding situation and electronic configuration of the interacting metal. My long-term aim is to establish a firm basis for β-NMR in soft matter studies in biology, chemistry and physics."
"The nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) is a versatile and powerful tool, especially in chemistry and in biology. However, its limited sensitivity and small amount of suitable probe nuclei pose severe constraints on the systems that may be explored. This project aims at overcoming the above limitations by giving NMR an ultra-high sensitivity and by enlarging the NMR ""toolbox"" to dozens of nuclei across the periodic table. This will be achieved by applying the β-NMR method to the soft matter samples. The method relies on anisotropic emission of β particles in the decay of highly spin-polarized nuclei. This feature results in 10 orders of magnitude more sensitivity compared to conventional NMR and makes it applicable to elements which are otherwise difficult to investigate spectroscopically. β-NMR has been successfully applied in nuclear physics and material science in solid samples and high-vacuum environments, but never before to liquid samples placed in atmospheric pressure. With this novel approach I want to create a new universal and extremely sensitive tool to study various problems in biochemistry. The first questions which I envisage addressing with this ground-breaking and versatile method concern the interaction of essential metal ions, which are spectroscopically silent in most techniques, Mg2+, Cu+, and Zn2+, with proteins and nucleic acids. The importance of these studies is well motivated by the fact that half of the proteins in our human body contain metal ions, but their interaction mechanism and factors influencing it are still not fully understood. In this respect NMR spectroscopy is of great help: it provides information on the structure, dynamics, and chemical properties of the metal complexes, by revealing the coordination number, oxidation state, bonding situation and electronic configuration of the interacting metal. My long-term aim is to establish a firm basis for β-NMR in soft matter studies in biology, chemistry and physics."
Project acronym BIFLOW
Project Bilingualism in Florentine and Tuscan Works (ca. 1260 - ca. 1416)
Researcher (PI) Antonio Montefusco
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA
Call Details Starting Grant (StG), SH5, ERC-2014-STG
Summary This project will undertake the first systematic investigation of the various literary documents that circulated simultaneously in more than one language in Tuscany, and especially Florence, between the mid-13th Century and the beginning of 15th Century. During that period, Florence was both a prominent literary centre in the vernacular, and home to a renewal of classical Latin eloquence. While both fields are well studied, their interaction remains largely unexplored. This research, at the convergence of several disciplines (literature, philology, linguistics and medieval history), has a strong pioneering character. It aims at changing the perception of medieval Italian culture and interpretation of the break between medieval Culture and Humanism. For this reason, the project will develop research in varying degrees of depth. First, it will provide the first catalogue of bilingual texts and manuscripts of medieval Tuscany. Organized as a database, this tool of analysis will stir innovative research in this field, some of which will be immediately promoted during the project. Secondly, two case studies, considered as important and methodologically exemplary, will be researched in detail, through the publication of two important set of texts, of secular and religious nature : 1. The vernacular translation of the Latin Epistles of Dante Alighieri; 2. A collection of polemical, historiographical, devotional and prophetical documents produced by the Tuscan dissident Franciscans in last decades of the 14th Century. Finally, the entire team, led by the PI, will be involved in the preparation of a synthesis volume on Tuscan culture in the fourteenth century viewed through bilingualism, entitled Cartography of bilingual culture in Fourteenth-Century Tuscany. From this general map of the Italian culture of the time, no literary genre nor field (be it religious or lay) shall be excluded.
This project will undertake the first systematic investigation of the various literary documents that circulated simultaneously in more than one language in Tuscany, and especially Florence, between the mid-13th Century and the beginning of 15th Century. During that period, Florence was both a prominent literary centre in the vernacular, and home to a renewal of classical Latin eloquence. While both fields are well studied, their interaction remains largely unexplored. This research, at the convergence of several disciplines (literature, philology, linguistics and medieval history), has a strong pioneering character. It aims at changing the perception of medieval Italian culture and interpretation of the break between medieval Culture and Humanism. For this reason, the project will develop research in varying degrees of depth. First, it will provide the first catalogue of bilingual texts and manuscripts of medieval Tuscany. Organized as a database, this tool of analysis will stir innovative research in this field, some of which will be immediately promoted during the project. Secondly, two case studies, considered as important and methodologically exemplary, will be researched in detail, through the publication of two important set of texts, of secular and religious nature : 1. The vernacular translation of the Latin Epistles of Dante Alighieri; 2. A collection of polemical, historiographical, devotional and prophetical documents produced by the Tuscan dissident Franciscans in last decades of the 14th Century. Finally, the entire team, led by the PI, will be involved in the preparation of a synthesis volume on Tuscan culture in the fourteenth century viewed through bilingualism, entitled Cartography of bilingual culture in Fourteenth-Century Tuscany. From this general map of the Italian culture of the time, no literary genre nor field (be it religious or lay) shall be excluded.
Project acronym BSMFLEET
Project Challenging the Standard Model using an extended Physics program in LHCb
Researcher (PI) Diego Martinez Santos
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
Summary We know that the Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics is not the ultimate theory of Nature. It misses a quantum description of gravity, it does not offer any explanation to the composition of Dark Matter, and the matter-antimatter unbalance of the Universe is predicted to be significantly smaller than what we actually see. Those are fundamental questions that still need an answer. Alternative models to SM exist, based on ideas such as SuperSymmetry or extra dimensions, and are currently being tested at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. But after the first run of the LHC the SM is yet unbeaten at accelerators, which imposes severe constraints in Physics beyond the SM (BSM). From this point, I see two further working directions: on one side, we must increase our precision in the previous measurements in order to access smaller BSM effects. On the other hand; we should attack the SM with a new fleet of observables sensitive to different BSM scenarios, and make sure that we are making full use of what the LHC offers to us. I propose to create a team at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela that will expand the use of LHCb beyond its original design, while also reinforcing the core LHCb analyses in which I played a leading role so far. LHCb has up to now collected world-leading samples of decays of b and c quarks. My proposal implies to use LHCb for collecting and analysing also world-leading samples of rare s quarks complementary to those of NA62. In the rare s decays the SM sources of Flavour Violation have a stronger suppression than anywhere else, and therefore those decays are excellent places to search for new Flavour Violating sources that otherwise would be hidden behind the SM contributions. It is very important to do this now, since we may not have a similar opportunity in years. In addition, the team will also exploit LHCb to search for μμ resonances predicted in models like NMSSM, and for which LHCb also offers a unique potential that must be used.
We know that the Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics is not the ultimate theory of Nature. It misses a quantum description of gravity, it does not offer any explanation to the composition of Dark Matter, and the matter-antimatter unbalance of the Universe is predicted to be significantly smaller than what we actually see. Those are fundamental questions that still need an answer. Alternative models to SM exist, based on ideas such as SuperSymmetry or extra dimensions, and are currently being tested at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. But after the first run of the LHC the SM is yet unbeaten at accelerators, which imposes severe constraints in Physics beyond the SM (BSM). From this point, I see two further working directions: on one side, we must increase our precision in the previous measurements in order to access smaller BSM effects. On the other hand; we should attack the SM with a new fleet of observables sensitive to different BSM scenarios, and make sure that we are making full use of what the LHC offers to us. I propose to create a team at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela that will expand the use of LHCb beyond its original design, while also reinforcing the core LHCb analyses in which I played a leading role so far. LHCb has up to now collected world-leading samples of decays of b and c quarks. My proposal implies to use LHCb for collecting and analysing also world-leading samples of rare s quarks complementary to those of NA62. In the rare s decays the SM sources of Flavour Violation have a stronger suppression than anywhere else, and therefore those decays are excellent places to search for new Flavour Violating sources that otherwise would be hidden behind the SM contributions. It is very important to do this now, since we may not have a similar opportunity in years. In addition, the team will also exploit LHCb to search for μμ resonances predicted in models like NMSSM, and for which LHCb also offers a unique potential that must be used.


2017's self-titled album 'The Hooten Hallers' on Big Muddy Records, is the culmination of their experiences from a decade of performing and traveling together. They've injected the album with the stories and characters they've encountered over many years and miles. Produced by Johnny Walker (Soledad Brothers, All Seeing Eyes) and Kristo Baricevic (Big Muddy Records), the Hooten Hallers' latest effort showcases their evolution as musicians and songwriters. It garnered attention by Vice's Noisey - "This album rules"; Rock'N'Reel (UK) - "This is a band that really understands and exudes the history of rock and roll"; Impose Magazine - "another stunner of a music collection"; New Releases Now - "one of the most dynamic live shows around"; AXS - "This album is sheer madness in the best way"; Ground Sounds - "gritty, groovy, and bluesy"; amongst others.
The show will begin with local band ART THIEVES opening the night!!!


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Technology|No. 1 With a Bullet: 'Nadeshot' Becomes a Call of Duty Star
https://nyti.ms/1EJdEJo
No. 1 With a Bullet: 'Nadeshot' Becomes a Call of Duty Star
By Conor Dougherty
LOS ANGELES — Matt Haag, a professional video game player, makes close to a million dollars a year sitting in a soft chair smashing buttons. It is a fantastically sweet gig, and he will do about anything to keep it.
That is why, on a recent morning, he was in a bungalow in Venice Beach, Calif., making pancakes. Not just regular pancakes, but high-protein pancakes with ingredients like flax oil and chia seeds, whose balance of carbohydrates, fat and protein was created by a dietitian hired to teach him how to eat more healthily.
The pancakes were just the beginning of a monthlong training session that Red Bull, one of Mr. Haag's sponsors, organized for him and his team, OpTic Gaming. Over the next several days, he and his fellow players gave blood while riding stationary bicycles, had their brains mapped by a computer and attended an hourlong yoga class where they learned, among other things, how to stretch their throbbing wrists. The purpose of all this: to help them get better at blowing their opponents away in video games.
Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald's. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty, a popular series of war games where players run around trying to shoot one another.
Mr. Haag has 1.5 million YouTube subscribers along with a lucrative contract to live-stream his daily game sessions online. Known as Nadeshot (shorthand for "grenade shot"), he travels the world playing tournaments as spectators pack arenas to see him. At home near Chicago, he has a problem with fans showing up at his house.
And while most pro gamers have to settle for modest sponsorships with companies that make things like game controllers and headphones, Mr. Haag last year also attracted Red Bull, the energy drink, which has traditionally built its marketing around skateboarders, motocross riders and other extreme-sports athletes. Mr. Haag is one of six people on its roster of e-sports players, and it is showering them with the same attention and training it has lavished on athletes who compete in the real world.
For the trip to Los Angeles, Red Bull paid for Mr. Haag and his teammates to live in Venice Beach. During the day, the company shuttled them to its headquarters in Santa Monica for workouts and other training. At night, they lingered in a high-tech studio and played video games into the wee hours.
Mr. Haag is the face of the growing business of video games as a spectator sport. Thanks to live tournaments and online video-streaming sites like Twitch, which Amazon bought for $1 billion in August, video games have become something to watch, not just play.
But fans need someone to root for, and that is where Mr. Haag comes in. He has the requisite marks of a champion, like tournament victories and a compelling back story. And he certainly looks like a gamer: On the recent morning in Venice, his pancake-making attire consisted of a T-shirt, knee-length shorts and a backward baseball cap.
Most important, though, is his compulsion to share his life — on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. He is, more or less, the producer, director and star of his own reality show.
Mr. Haag's YouTube channel is in the top 1 percent of the 220,000 channels tracked by the analytics tool OpenSlate. Beyond YouTube, Mr. Haag has become the No. 1 player on MLG.TV, the site where people watch him play live.
OpTic Training
Matt Haag practicing with members of his team.
Matt Haag practicing with members of his team.CreditCredit...Monica Almeida/The New York Times
An Online Video Star
What makes him so watchable? A recent survey performed by Jeetendr Sehdev, a marketer who focuses on celebrity branding, said that teenagers found YouTube stars easier to relate to and more candid than famous people from places like Hollywood.
Mr. Haag's fans are right in line with this thinking. They seem to regard him as an exceptionally interesting friend.
For example, Kasey Young, 21, of Cleveland has learned through social media and streaming that Mr. Haag drives a BMW, often eats at Chipotle and likes to say "wallbong," a nonsense term he made up with friends. Mr. Young said he now finds himself saying "wallbong" at work at random times.
"If he knew me in real life, I feel like we would be really good friends," Mr. Young said.
Mr. Haag's videos, raw and unproduced, add to this feeling of intimacy. In addition to game video, his YouTube channel has regular updates in which he appears revealing and honest, posting, for example, travel diaries in which he sits on a hotel bed and tells fans about his day. He also put up an old home video in which his awkward younger self makes an alien face for the camera and then pulls up his T-shirt to show off his bony chest.
Fans get to see interpersonal drama, like an episode last year when one of his OpTic comrades quit the team and accused Mr. Haag of blaming him for a tough tournament loss. And although he has a mostly male audience and has made his reputation as a video game killer, he is not afraid to be vulnerable.
Fans know that Mr. Haag's mother suffered from seizures for most of his life. When she died two years ago, he sat on a couch at home and recorded a YouTube video in which he thanked followers for their heartfelt messages on Twitter. He appeared distraught and shaken but also genuinely thankful.
Both his fans and his detractors agree that this connection with his public is what sets Mr. Haag apart and makes him "a people's champion," as Sundance DiGiovanni, chief executive of Major League Gaming, a gaming league, put it.
"If you're talking about YouTube and fan outreach, he's the No. 1 player by far," said Mike Rufail, the owner of Team EnVyUs, OpTic's chief rival. "But in terms of raw talent, he's a top 15 player — I wouldn't put him in that top three or four guys."
Mr. Haag doesn't care what his opponents think. He makes several times his father's salary playing video games, and earlier this year bought a $3,000 watch. The only thing he wants is to hold onto his job.
"I think about my future probably at least 10 times a day," he said. "I think about what if this all goes away one day? What if for some reason people just aren't in your live stream tomorrow? What if people aren't clicking on your YouTube videos tomorrow? What if your team doesn't work out and you're not performing that well and you have to quit competitively? What happens when you can't compete anymore and you want to retire because you're going insane?"
Alone With the Xbox
As Mr. Haag was growing up in the Chicago area, his parents did not need to worry about where he was on the weekends: He was usually upstairs playing video games. Parties made him anxious. And instead of marijuana or alcohol, the sugary rush of an energy drink was his drug of choice and still is.
Matt Haag, who is known as "Nadeshot," broadcasting himself playing the combat game Call of Duty at a Southern California studio inside the North American headquarters of Red Bull, the energy drink. He makes his living playing the game.
Credit...Monica Almeida/The New York Times
Mr. Haag, 22, wearing a cap that helps measure how his brain functions under the stress of video game combat. These types of tests help Red Bull's trainers and sports therapists design exercises to help him stay calm and shoot better.
Members of OpTic Gaming, Mr. Haag's team, have turned to yoga to help train their bodies, including learning stretches to ease the throbbing in their wrists.
Mr. Haag is the face of the growing business of video games as spectator sports. Thanks to live tournaments and online video streaming sites like Twitch, gaming has become something to watch — not just play.
Mr. Haag is one of six people on Red Bull's roster of e-sports players who are being showered with the same attention and training typically assigned to athletes who compete in the real world.
Mr. Haag, left, started his competitive career seven years ago, when he was 15, with online tournaments organized through his Xbox, as well as small local contests held in banquet halls.
As gamers have upset the media landscape by teaching children to watch video games as they would TV, they live with the near-constant threat that their audience will abandon them for something or someone else.
Even though Mr. Haag calls himself a professional video game player, he is really an online video star. He is on pace to make around $700,000 from streaming and his YouTube channel this year.
Some of Mr. Haag's appeal is his penchant for sharing intimate details in his videos, including the death of his mother two years ago.
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While he may have reached legal drinking age only a year ago, Mr. Haag nonetheless is concerned about his future in the gaming world. "I think about my future probably at least 10 times a day," he said. "I think about what if this all goes away one day?"
"He was more of a loner," said his father, Jeff Haag, 50, a carpenter. "He gamed a lot."
Up in his bedroom, clutching an Xbox controller and surrounded by posters of the Chicago Bulls and Muhammad Ali, Mr. Haag had a place where he belonged. To friends and rivals he met through his Xbox, he was not a wallflower but a fierce competitor who could be a domineering teammate.
"Countless times I would put my head in the door and be like, 'Shut the hell up,' " his father said. "He's like yelling at people when they weren't doing exactly what they were supposed to be doing."
Mr. Haag's competitive career began seven years ago, when he was 15, with online tournaments organized through his Xbox, as well as small local contests held in banquet halls. Five years ago, his uncle took him to a tournament in Anaheim.
The uncle, Greg Haag, remembered that the contest hall was hot and reeked of sweat and warm semiconductors, and that Mr. Haag was disappointed with his fourth-place finish.
But the right people had already taken notice. Around the same time, Hector Rodriguez, a onetime insurance analyst who controlled a pickup team, OpTic Gaming, was trying to build it into a real business. He enticed Mr. Haag to join OpTic by offering to pay for travel and lodging at tournaments.
Two years later, Mr. Haag went back to California for the Call of Duty championships, only this time with Mr. Rodriguez instead of his uncle. The $1 million purse made it one of the world's most prominent gaming events.
Mr. Haag led OpTic to a first-place finish and the $400,000 top prize. This brought him a wave of publicity and a $100,000 check.
Today, Mr. Rodriguez acts as Mr. Haag's agent, mentor and chief scheduler. Unlike most agents, he doesn't take a cut; Mr. Haag keeps all of his money from sponsors and contests. But Mr. Rodriguez owns the OpTic brand and controls the merchandise sales along with OpTic's live stream and YouTube videos. In essence, this means he makes money from video ads and selling T-shirts.
OpTic Gaming is now a big enough business that Mr. Rodriguez rents a house in Hoffman Estates, outside Chicago, where Mr. Haag and his teammates practice Call of Duty all day. Mr. Rodriguez lives a few miles away so he can make sure everyone is working hard — that they are busy playing video games.
Mr. Haag and his teammates have become famous, which has made the house a target for pranks. Late last year, someone called 911 and claimed that armed intruders were breaking in, apparently hoping that the police would show up with guns drawn.
It worked: Local police appeared with AR-15 rifles. But instead of bad guys, they found Mr. Haag and his roommates playing video games near a stack of pizzas. The pizzas had been ordered earlier in the evening, and were also a prank. Mr. Haag said he and his roommates paid for them because they felt bad for the delivery man.
Sharing Every Detail
The day after the pancake lessons, Mr. Haag was in Red Bull's game studio wearing a contraption like a swimming cap that was full of wires and attached to a computer. The idea was to see how his brain functioned under the stress of video game combat. This would help Red Bull's trainers and sports therapists design exercises to help him stay calm and shoot better.
To perform the test, a Red Bull "sports technologist" had Mr. Haag fire up Call of Duty and start shooting. Whether or not this will help his performance, it paid instant dividends for his image. The first thing Mr. Haag did after the test was post a photo of himself in the cap of wires to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Mr. Haag said, "Social media is the most important part of what I do." Even though Mr. Haag calls himself a professional video game player, he is really an online video star. The money he wins in contests is tiny compared with the money he makes from his live stream and YouTube videos.
His command over his audience is great enough that Major League Gaming recently enticed him to leave Twitch and stream exclusively with its site. He is on track to make around $700,000 from streaming and his YouTube channel this year. Throw in his other sponsorships and contest winnings, and he is well on his way to a million-dollar year.
But Mr. Haag is paid per viewer, so he has to keep producing.
One night at Red Bull's studios, he played Call of Duty over the Internet for his fans. When Mr. Haag competes, he sits upright in his chair and screams back and forth with his teammates in a way that is reminiscent of a Wall Street trading desk. But this night was more casual: He was jumping from game to game and playing with whoever was online right then.
He had filled the stream with hip-hop so his viewers could hear beats and rhyming lyrics over the din of digital gunfire and grenades. His face was lit up by a pair of screens, one with Call of Duty and another with a rolling list of fan questions like "How was the Brain Testing?" and "Nadeshot can you say 'What's up Blake?' "
He talked for the entire five or so hours that he played — about the game, about hip-hop, about how his desire for an In-N-Out burger was fighting with his newfound resolve to eat healthily. At times he sang rap lyrics.
It looked like a cross between social media and talk radio, if talk radio had a visual component where a bunch of digital characters shoot one another. And as a form of entertainment, it seemed perfectly suited to a world where people jump around browser windows, watching a video in one, checking Facebook in another.
The Internet, with its infinite space and insatiable demand, has turned Mr. Haag's pastime into a drudging obligation. But it is better than McDonald's, which is why he spends so much time worrying that his game career will end and that he will have to figure something else out.
Mr. Haag may be only one year above the legal drinking age, but his fan base is largely teenagers. Just as he and other gamers have upset the media landscape by teaching children to watch video games like TV, they live with the near-constant threat that their audience will abandon them for something or someone else.
On another evening, Mr. Haag, bags under his eyes, wanted to take a night off and go back to the house in Venice. He asked his teammates if they wanted to go with him. They declined.
Instead of letting his teammates siphon off fans who could be watching him, Mr. Haag changed his plan and stayed for yet another marathon session of streaming.
"I would love to go home and hang out, but you gotta do what you gotta do," he said. "Can't complain too much, playing video games for a living."


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The Town of Marshall was the 3rd recipient of the CMT Gives back Program with the rehabilitation of their 500,000-gallon Clearwell. The town has less than 1,000 residents and the budget wouldn't allow for the tank to be fixed up and painted. As the 2015 recipient of this program, the tank was pressure washed, the cracks were addressed, and a 3 coat system was applied. Additionally, the well house was prepped and painted to match the tank.
The program's independent judges selected the Town of Marshall to receive a water storage tank rehabilitation valued at $45,000 for free. "It was a privilege for CMT to rehabilitate Marshall's water storage tank," said CMT co-owner David Van Zee. "It is challenging for many small towns in North Carolina to maintain critical water and wastewater infrastructure with limited resources. Small town municipal water and wastewater professionals are really unsung heroes who deserve more recognition for the essential work they do. CMT Gives Back is our way of saying 'Thank You.'"
The Town stakeholders joined us for an "unveiling event" to see the "new" water tank on August 20, 2015. The photos and video highlight the event.
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2017 Town of Valdese https://youtu.be/8NCdcvXHLvA An article in NC Rural Water Publication (pages 18 & 19).
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Turkey's central bank may increase interest rates at a slower pace than expected on Thursday, or delay rate hikes entirely to help support economic growth.
Gains for the lira in recent days mean the bank could raise average funding costs by as little as 50 basis points, according to Işık Ökte, a strategist for BNP Paribas in Istanbul. That would leave policymakers more room for further rate hikes should lira volatility return, he said.
The central bank, facing calls from the government to support economic growth, is seeking to curb inflation and losses for the lira while avoiding big increases in interest rates. The lira has strengthened to 3.83 per dollar from 3.98 three weeks ago, paring losses since September to 11 percent. Some investors have called on the bank to increase interest rates by as much as 500 basis points.
The bank's monetary policy committee will probably raise rates for its late liquidity window by 75 basis points to 13 percent and hike the overnight repo rate by 50 basis points to 9.75 percent, Ökte said. It would then restart lending at the overnight rate, meaning average funding costs would increase 50 basis points to 12.75 percent, he said in an e-mailed report on Thursday.
The central bank should refrain from raising rates entirely unless the lira weakens to beyond 4 per dollar, said Erkin Şahinöz, a former economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and a writer for the pro-government Sabah Group. Any other decision would be premature, he said, citing the relationship between interest rates and the lira's level.


North Carolina's latest child health report card gives the state an 'A' in children's health insurance for achieving a record high coverage rate of 96 percent. However, the state received its only 'F' in child poverty for failing to address this serious public health epidemic and its deep racial and ethnic inequities.
The North Carolina Child Health Report Card, issued annually by the North Carolina Institute of Medicine (NCIOM) and NC Child, tracks key indicators of child health in four areas: Healthy Births, Access to Care, Safe Homes and Neighborhoods, and Health Risk Factors. The report provides data on such health concerns and risk factors as asthma, teen births, infant mortality, poverty, and child deaths.
North Carolina has reached an important milestone—the uninsured rate for children has declined by half since 2009, the 14th largest drop in the rate of uninsured children nationally. Ninety-six percent of children in North Carolina have health insurance coverage, a record high for the state and above the national average.
This progress is largely attributable to the three pillars of children's health coverage that support and supplement the private market—the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicaid, and NC Health Choice (the state Children's Health Insurance Program in North Carolina). As such, the future of children's health insurance coverage is closely tied to proposed changes to these policies and programs in Congress, which could eliminate or reverse coverage gains.
Despite overall progress, some children encounter health insurance barriers: 1 in 18 low-income children is uninsured. Hispanic or Latinx kids are nearly three times more likely to be uninsured than their non-Hispanic White peers.
While the Report Card shows progress in children's health insurance and other key health indicators, including teen births, vaccination rates, and breastfeeding, the grades reveal many areas of profound concern where the state has made little or no progress.
More than half of all North Carolina children under age 5 (52.6 percent) live in poor or near-poor homes. Children in low-income homes face greater risk of poor health outcomes, lower educational attainment, and reduced economic opportunity.
One in three children (32 percent) live in homes with a high housing cost burden, defined as more than 30 percent of monthly income spent on housing expenses. Higher housing costs can cause families to spend less on health care and increase rates of food insecurity.
One in seven children live in high poverty neighborhoods (14 percent), up 56 percent since 2006-2010. African American, American Indian, and Latinx children are more likely to live in concentrated poverty than their non-Hispanic White peers. Children who live in high poverty neighborhoods are more likely to suffer poor physical and mental health outcomes and to be exposed to violence and crime.
North Carolina received a 'D' for birth outcomes, a grade determined largely by the state's record on infant mortality and because of the large and persistent disparity between African American and non-Hispanic White infants. Infant mortality rates were lowest among Hispanic infants (5.4 per 1,000 live births) and highest among African American infants (12.5 per 1,000 live births). Just over two-thirds of women receive the early prenatal care that promotes healthy pregnancies and deliveries (67.8%), down from 71.2 percent in 2011. Early prenatal care is essential for identifying mental health and physical health challenges that pose a risk to a healthy pregnancy, such as smoking, mental illness, and risk of premature delivery.
For over 20 years, the North Carolina Child Health Report Card has monitored the health and safety of children and youth in our state. The report compiles the leading indicators of child health and safety to help policymakers, health professionals, the media, and concerned citizens track child health, identify emerging trends, and plan future investments. The report card presents data for the most current year available, usually 2015, and a comparison year, or benchmark, usually 2011.
The North Carolina Institute of Medicine (NCIOM) is an independent, quasi-state agency that was chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1983 to provide balanced, nonpartisan information on issues of relevance to the health of North Carolina's population. Visit http://www.nciom.org for more information and the full report of the Task Force on Essentials for Childhood.
NC Child builds a strong North Carolina by advancing public policies to ensure all children – regardless of race, ethnicity, or place of birth – have the opportunity to achieve their full potential. Visit http://www.ncchild.org for more information.