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For Our Consideration
David Bowie gave the punk movement both fuel and fire
Mick Jones
David Bowie with Clash bassist Paul Simonon, Shea Stadium, New York City, c. 1982. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
"Five years / That's all we got." So sings David Bowie with apocalyptic doom in his 1972 song "Five Years." It's the opening track of The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, the critical and commercial apex of Bowie's career as a glam-rock artist. Within a couple of years, glam would be on the decline, with Bowie moving on to more rarified, sophisticated pastures. Yet his ominous, five-year prophecy rang on.
As if embodying that prediction, punk rock exploded in 1977, a reaction against the decadent rock excesses of the '70s, Bowie's included. But Bowie couldn't be easily lumped in with all the Led Zeppelins and Pink Floyds that the first wave of punks despised. Bowie, unlike most other major rock stars of the '70s, did more than just give punks something to rebel against; he handed punk both fuel and fire.
"In the early '70s David Bowie came out with Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars and they were like a proper band," says Clash guitarist Mick Jones in John Robb's Punk Rock: An Oral History. "It wasn't like the David Bowie we all knew about, the 'Space Oddity' David Bowie. This was different. We took that seriously." From that point on, Bowie's gutsy, riff-slinging guitarist Mick Ronson became Jones' guitar hero—thanks to songs like Ziggy Stardust's "Hang On To Yourself," whose buzzsaw snarl is just one step shy of what The Clash would wind up playing five years later—and Bowie became a glamorous guiding light.
Jones wasn't alone. Bowie mania swept England in the early '70s, liberating thousands of kids. While most glam was little more than dressed-up pop-rock, Bowie's glam was hard-edged, challenging, and intellectual. Not to mention artistic. As Colin Newman of Wire, the most conceptual band of punk's first wave, recalls in Punk Rock: An Oral History, "I was a big, big Bowie fan [prior to forming Wire]. There was a sense that Bowie was art […]. There was no other music about other than that. There was nothing else to talk about at the time. The fact that people were still talking about Bowie during punk just shows how important he was to that generation and not to be slagged in any way."
Punk made a point of toppling heroes and holding nothing sacred, but Bowie was spared punk's vitriol. Less present in England and the U.S. during punk's 1977 explosion—during which time he had holed up in Germany to record his Berlin Trilogy—he became punk's absentee father. Poly Styrene, singer of X-Ray Spex, would spin Bowie's "Diamond Dogs" when DJing. The Sex Pistols' Sid Vicious was, according to Marco Pirroni of Adam And The Ants (as well as Vicious' bandmate in the first lineup of Siouxsie And The Banshees), "a tall, geeky kind of bloke into Roxy [Music] and Bowie. […] I think Sid would have wanted to be Bowie—but without the talent to pull it all off." The influence was also visual. Brian Young of the Irish punk band Rudi "experimented spiking and dying bits of [his] hair, trying to copy Bowie's spike top." As did scores of others, resulting in the most common, recognizable punk style statement of the '70s.
Few early punks dared to actually cover Bowie, but the London band Eater—all teenagers at the time, young enough for Bowie's music to have imprinted them in childhood—released a cover of his 1971 song "Queen Bitch" in 1977. Punks love ironic cover songs, but there isn't a trace of sarcasm to Eater's "Queen Bitch," just honest reverence to a raw, savage song that didn't need much deconstruction to sound punk. "The artificial, trebly shriek of The Spiders From Mars deliberately alienated the older hippie audience," observes Jon Savage in England's Dreaming. The exact same thing could be said of punk.
Bowie's friend and collaborator in the '70s, Iggy Pop, is generally credited with being the true godfather of punk. Listening to Pop's output with The Stooges, that title is hard to deny. But The Stooges weren't a well-known band at the time—and many early punk musicians, including The Fall's Marc Riley to The Prefects' Robert Lloyd, have pointed out that Bowie was their gateway to Pop's music, as well as to another of punk's main inspirations, The Velvet Underground, whom Bowie covered, championed, and paid stylistic tribute to in songs like "Queen Bitch." Bowie toured the U.S. and the U.K. as a keyboardist in Pop's backing band in 1977, and Ian "Knox" Carnochan of the seminal punk band The Vibrators has attested to the eminence this granted Pop in the eyes of punks.
Some punks did more than simply acknowledge Bowie's inspiration in hindsight—they played glam themselves before going punk. While still an awkward kid from Queens named Jeffrey Hyman, Joey Ramone was the singer of a glam band called Sniper. In Performing Glam Rock, the pre-leather-jacket-and-jeans Ramone remembers, "I used to wear this custom-made black jumpsuit, these like pink, knee-high platform boots—all kinds of rhinestones—lots of dangling belts and gloves." (In 1980, Ramone wound up attending a Clash concert in New York with none other than Bowie, no stranger to knee-high platform boots himself.) Across the Atlantic, The Adverts' T. V. Smith cut his teeth in a glam group called Sleaze, which played "self-written songs influenced by […] 'Rebel Rebel' Bowie." As the demo recording of Sleaze's "Listen Don't Think"—which later became The Adverts song "Newboys"—shows, there was a very thin line between late-era glam and proto-punk in the mid '70s.
Riffs and attitude weren't the only things that linked glam and punk. Both movements embraced self-reinvention. Years before punk's inaugural class took names like Joey Ramone, Poly Styrene, Sid Vicious, Johnny Rotten, and Joe Strummer, glam rockers—led by Bowie, born plain old David Jones—recast themselves in glittering new personas. For glam, it was a way to elevate and escape sometimes grim surroundings, like Bowie's own working-class background. For punk, it was a way to amplify and own that grimness. "These [punk pseudonyms] clearly could not be easily domesticated," writes Dave Laing in One Chord Wonders: Power And Meaning In Punk Rock. "They announced themselves as artifice. As chosen names these were clearly ranged on the side of explicitly artificial."
Paradoxically, punk was seen as gritty and realistic compared to glam. Yet punk used some of the same creative tools that glam did, only to realize an opposite effect. In both cases, it was an attempt to make oneself larger than life, to sculpt an identity—or in the case of punk, to proudly scavenge one out the trash bin, reveling in the deprecatory irony of virtual street urchins with grand stage names. As Christopher Sandford notes in Bowie: Loving The Alien, "Glam innovated the idea of the rock performance persona as a self-declared construct that was also fundamental to punk." Howard Devoto of Buzzcocks and Magazine agrees, saying in Punk Rock: An Oral History that "the artificiality of glam rubbed off on punk." In this case, artificiality isn't a bad thing, even considering punk's ethos of authenticity. Self-reinvention was a way to turn Bowie's confrontational methodology—that "artificial, trebly shriek"—into a double-edged scalpel.
Another apparent split between Bowie and punk is over a related issue: fantasy versus realism. Bowie's lavish imagination and knack for science fiction appears at odds with punk's snub-nosed, street-smart attack and love of social protest. Punk had little use for science fiction or fantasy, except as pop-culture junk to recycle—barring a couple of notable exceptions, such as X-Ray Spex's unnerving speculation genetic engineering and technological dystopia. "I wanna be Instamatic / I wanna be a frozen pea / I wanna be dehydrated / In a consumer society," screams Styrene in "Art-I-Ficial," one of the most scathing tracks off the group's 1978 album Germfree Adolescents. But Bowie's work incorporated far more realism than its given credit for, even if his fears about the present were often couched in fantastical, paranoiac daydreams about the future. Diamond Dogs, his bleakest album, draws heavily from George Orwell's sci-fi classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, even going so far as to have a song named after the book; at the same time, it was a reflection of the urban decay and oppressive economics the day, concerns that punks both opposed and perversely fetishized.
As it turns out, one of Bowie's biggest acolytes in the punk scene, Mick Jones of The Clash, bridged Bowie's dark fantasy and punk's social realism. Marcus Gray's Last Gang In Town: The Story And Myth Of The Clash points out how music journalist Pete Silverton "talked about the 'SF/fantasy phraseology' of [The Clash song] 'Remote Control.'" Written by Jones and appearing on the band's debut album, The Clash, "Remote Control" imagines a deliberately, dramatically exaggerated England circa 1977, one where urban claustrophobia, totalitarian authority, and a robotic kind of daily routine—"Push a button / Activate / You gotta work, and you're late"—reigns.
Adds Gray, "The Clash might have more than a hint of dirty realism in its language and situations, but it is as much a work of the imagination as David Bowie's The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars and Diamond Dogs. […] Like Bowie before them, The Clash were walking around already trodden by such literary luminaries as George Orwell, J. G. Ballard, and Anthony Burgess; The Clash is Nineteen Eighty-Four meets High-Rise meets A Clockwork Orange, with tunes." One listen to another Clash classic, "London Calling," only drives that point home. In it, a full-on apocalypse has come to London: "The sun's zooming in," and everything from ice ages to meltdowns to famines to floods to zombies are on the way. Bowie himself couldn't have made a more chilling prediction.
Still it's The Clash's "1977" that neatly bookends Bowie's "Five Years." A checklist of economic ills, boredom, and wounded frustration, it couldn't be further from the grandiloquent gestures David Bowie had made in 1972. "You better paint your face," Joe Strummer sneers, a jab that very well could be aimed at the cosmetically colorful glam artists of Bowie's generation—really only a half generation away from the punks. Then, at the end of the song, Strummer shouts out a countdown of societal malaise that ends with "Here come the police / In 1984!" It's a clear reference to Orwell's book, the one from which Bowie borrowed so much. And in that moment, it's as though punk had picked up a torch that Bowie had left sputtering.
Not all punks worshipped Bowie, openly or otherwise. The Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten approached Bowie's influence, and that of glam in general, in a more dismissive way, saying in Punk Rock: An Oral History that "The T. Rex/Bowie period was for very young kids. Pop with lipstick. They got bored when they grew up […] and were desperate to look into anything else." If there seems to be a bit of projection on Rotten's part, that doesn't dull his point. Steve Jones of The Sex Pistols found a more direct way to channel his desperation during the glam era: He stole microphones and a PA system from the stage of a Bowie concert one night in 1973, which he used to start a new band—one that would eventually become The Sex Pistols.
In the same book, Buzzcocks' Steve Diggle agrees with Rotten, stating that by the time punk came around, "Bowie […] had peaked and we needed something else." Mark Stewart of the seminal post-punk band The Pop Group puts it even more simply, stripping away the myth and mystique: "Through Bowie, a lot of kids were into dressing up and having a laugh."
The Pop Group, like most post-punk outfits that sprang from punk in the late '70s, wasted no time in cutting any lingering ties to rock traditionalism—even if it was Bowie's avant-garde mutation of rock. If anything, post-punk bypassed Bowie altogether, although they picked from many of the same inspirations he'd chosen in the '70s after abandoning glam, including funk, Krautrock, and minimalism. A few bands of the post-punk crop, however, were lavish in their Bowie worship. Bauhaus covered "Ziggy Stardust" and named a song, "King Volcano," after a phrase from Bowie's "Velvet Goldmine." (The genre that Bauhaus popularized, goth, feels as if it could have been distilled straight from Bowie's 1974 song "We Are The Dead.") Gary Numan took one sliver of Bowie's image and sound, the synthesized android, and expanded it into an entire career. And one of Joy Division's earlier names, Warsaw, is a reworking of the title of the 1977 Bowie song "Warszawa"—even as the band's singer Ian Curtis swiped Bowie song titles like "Candidate" and flaunted his love of Bowie's distinctive baritone in his own gloom-steeped croon.
Bowie's massive influence on post-punk's offshoot, new-wave pop, has been vastly catalogued, from the stylish, plastic soul of the New Romantic movement to Peter Schilling's fanfic-in-song-form, "Major Tom," to Jim Kerr's undeniably Bowie-esque croon on Simple Minds' "(Don't You) Forget About Me," one of the definitive anthems of the '80s. (Simple Minds even named itself after a line from Bowie's "Jean Genie.") Bowie himself became the figurehead of the new-wave era, yet another reincarnation in a career famous for them. But as Bowie, for the first time, began to follow artists who had gotten their start by following him, he momentarily lost much of the singular luster that had sparked punk in the '70s.
"The great joy of bands like […] Bowie," says TV Smith, speaking about glam's heyday in Punk Rock: An Oral History, "was that they always had their own individual thing, regardless of what was going on around them. And that's what I felt about punk." When Bowie himself was asked to describe punk in an interview in 1979, he summed it up, with typical dry wit and insight, in four words: "A very important enema." No punk could have put it better.


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CCHD Announces New Reforms Proposal
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I participated in a 30-minute media conference call regarding the proposal being put forward by the CCHD to reform their grant making apparatus.
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The annual CCHD collection will be held on Nov. 20-21 in spite of the fact that the grantee list has not been published.
Tagged as Bishop Morin, CCHD, Human Development, USCCB
By Deal W. Hudson
Deal W. Hudson is publisher and editor of The Christian Review and the host of "Church and Culture," a weekly two-hour radio show on the Ave Maria Radio Network. He is the former publisher and editor of Crisis Magazine.

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the interface IF_WD_VIEW_CONTROLLER - does contain a "REQUEST_FOCUS" method, but unfortunately as far as I know (I may be wrong and I'd certainly invite others to comment) there is no "GET_FOCUS" type method.
I could see how it could be implemented, but I don't think it currently is.


Our latest 2015 findings from the Registry can be found in the graphs, below.
Our 2015 Registry Report can be viewed here.
For the period from 1 January to 31 December 2015, the Registry recorded 11,189 self-harm presentations to hospital that were made by 8,791 individuals. Thus, the number of self-harm presentations and the number of persons involved were similar to those recorded in 2014.
Number of self-harm presentations and persons who presented in the Republic of Ireland in 2002-2015 (2002-2005 figures extrapolated to adjust for hospitals not contributing data).
The age-standardised rate of individuals presenting to hospital in the Republic of Ireland following self-harm in 2015 was 204 per 100,000. Thus, there was a 2% increase in the age-standardised rate in 2015. This increase was not statistically significant. In recent years there were successive decreases in the self-harm rate between 2011 and 2013, and an essentially unchanged rate between 2013 and 2014. However, the rate in 2015 was still 9% higher than in 2007.
Person-based European age-standardised rate (EASR) of self-harm in the Republic of Ireland in 2002-2015 (extrapolated data used for 2002-2005 to adjust for non-participating hospitals).E.g. in 2015, for every 100,000 people, 186 men would have presented to an ED following self-harm, or 1 in every 538 people.
There was a striking pattern in the incidence of self-harm when examined by age. The rate was highest among the young. At 718 per 100,000, the peak rate for women was among 15-19 year-olds. This rate implies that one in every 139 girls in this age group presented to hospital in 2015 as a consequence of self-harm. The peak rate for men was 553 per 100,000 among 20-24 year-olds or one in every 181 men. The incidence of self-harm gradually decreased with increasing age in men. This was the case to a lesser extent in women as their rate remained relatively stable, at about 231 per 100,000, across the 30 to 54 year age range.
There were significant year-to-year increases in the rate of hospital-treated self-harm in Ireland since the advent of the economic recession in 2008. Despite decreases in recent years, the overall rate has increased by 9% since 2007, from 188 to 204 per 100,000. The male rate has increased by 15% from 162 to 186 per 100,000 and the female rate has increased by 3% from 215 to 222 per 100,000.
There have been notable increases in the male rate of self-harm in Leitrim, Cork County, Sligo and South Dublin. Increases in the female rate of self-harm were observed in Leitrim, South Dublin, Kilkenny and Longford.
The maps below 'Person-based European age-standardised rate (EASR) of self-harm in the Republic of Ireland in 2015 by HSE Local Health Office area' details the population (derived by the National Census 2011), number of men and women who presented to hospital as a result of self-harm and the incidence rate (age-adjusted to the European standard population) for each LHO area. Thematic maps are also provided below to illustrate the variation in the male and female incidence of hospital-treated self-harm by LHO area.
There was approximately a two-fold difference in the rate of self-harm when examined by LHO area. The rate for men ranged from 64 per 100,000 in Dublin South East to 255 per 100,000 in Cork North Lee and for women ranged from 110 per 100,000 in West Cork to 312 per 100,000 in Dublin South West. The female rate exceeded 240 per 100,000 for Dublin South West, Dublin West, Dublin North West and Limerick. The male rate exceeded 220 per 100,000 in Cork North Lee, Dublin South West and Dublin West.
Almost two-thirds (65%) of all self-harm presentations involved an overdose of medication. Drug overdose was more commonly used as a method of self-harm by women than by men. It was involved in 59% of male and 71% of female episodes. Alcohol was involved in 31% of all cases. Alcohol was significantly more often involved in male episodes of self-harm than female episodes (34% and 29%, respectively).
Cutting was the only other common method of self-harm, involved in 27% of all episodes. Cutting was significantly more common in men (29%) than in women (25%).
The greater involvement of drug overdose as a female method of self-harm is illustrated in Figure 6. Drug overdose also accounted for a higher proportion of self-harm presentations in the older age groups, in particular for women, whereas self-cutting was less common. Self-cutting was most common among young people – in 30% of presentations by girls under 15 years and 24% of presentations by men aged under 25 years.
Dr. Eve Griffin, Professor Ella Arensman, Christina Dillon, Dr. Paul Corcoran, Professor Ivan J Perry, Data Registration Officers.


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Please join Ben McNally Books and Knopf Canada to celebrate the launch of Marina Endicott's new novel, The Difference. Marina will be joined in conversation to discuss the novel.
Books will be for sale and a signing will conclude the event.
Wednesday September 25
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From one of our most critically acclaimed and beloved storytellers comes a sweeping novel set on board the Morning Light, a Nova Scotian merchant ship sailing through the south pacific in 1912.
Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but deeply attached. When their stern father dies, Thea returns to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing voyage to the other side of the world.
At the heart of The Difference is a crystallizing moment in Micronesia: Thea, still mourning a miscarriage, forms a bond with a young boy from a remote island and takes him on board as her own son. Over time, the repercussions of this act force Kay, who considers the boy her brother, to examine her own assumptions–which are increasingly at odds with those of society around her–about what is forgivable and what is right.
Inspired by a true story, Endicott shows us a now-vanished world in all its wonder, and in its darkness, prejudice and difficulty, too. She also brilliantly illuminates our present time through Kay's examination of the idea of "difference"–between people, classes, continents, cultures, customs and species. The Difference is a breathtaking novel by a writer with an astonishing ability to bring past worlds vividly to life while revealing the moral complexity of our own.
Marina Endicott's novel Good to a Fault won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book, Canada and the Caribbean, and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her next, The Little Shadows, was short-listed for the Governor General's award and long-listed for the Giller Prize, as was her last book, Close to Hugh. Endicott lives in Alberta most of the time.
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Rutgers men's basketball falls to Ohio State at buzzer
Ellis Gordon
Dec 9, 2022, 5:43 AM
Photo by @RutgersMBB / Twitter
Senior guard Cam Spencer and the Rutgers men's basketball team had a strong showing on Thursday night, but it was not enough as Ohio State won at the buzzer.
The Rutgers men's basketball fell to Ohio State 67-66 in its first Big Ten road game. The Scarlet Knights (6-3, 1-1) had a 2-point lead with 5 seconds remaining, but a 3-point shot by Tanner Holden at the buzzer gave Rutgers the 1-point loss.
The Knights started the first half well, and reached a lead of 11-5 in the first four minutes. But the Buckeyes (7-2, 1-0) stormed right back and led 31-20 with nearly four minutes remaining in the first half. Rutgers would end the half strong with a 9-0 run in the final four minutes to only trail Ohio State by 2 points at halftime.
Senior guard Cam Spencer led the Knights with 9 points in the first half. Spencer shot a perfect 4-4 from the field and tallied an assist as well.
The Buckeyes dominated the paint in the half thanks to Zed Key. Key scored 15 points and secured eight rebounds in the first half.
The second half was a back-and-forth affair with no team leading by more than 5 points at any point. Rutgers got junior center Clifford Omoruyi more involved, and he scored 14 points, corralled in four rebounds and made two blocks in the second half.
Omoruyi's second block and senior guard Paul Mulcahy's ensuing rebound put Mulcahy at the free-throw line with seven seconds left and a 2-point lead. Mulcahy drained both free throws, but Bruce Thornton brought the deficit back down to one by making a pair of free throws with five seconds left to play.
Ohio State sent fifth-year senior guard Caleb McConnell to the line next. McConnell made his first free-throw shot, which put the Knights up by 2 points, but missed his second free throw. Thornton retrieved the ball off the miss, dribbled to the right side of the court and found Holden, who then drained the long-range 3-point shot to give the Buckeyes the 1-point victory at the buzzer.
The game-winner was somewhat controversial as it appeared on replay that Thornton may have stepped out of bounds prior to the pass, but there was ultimately no review of the play which meant a victory for Ohio State.
Rutgers will look to bounce back on Sunday, taking on their in-state rival Seton Hall at home. The game will tip off at 6:30 p.m. and will be broadcasted on Fox Sports 1 and 88.7 WRSU-FM.
"My team, they fight, and I am proud of them," said head coach Steve Pikiell in after the game. "We've won games like this, but just a tough way to lose. But again, it's life here in the Big Ten. I have to give them credit. They made one more play, but I'm not sure about the sideline thing. I thought he was clearly out, but again, I didn't see anything."
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US puts record number of eyes in the skies off China coast in July
Beijing-based think tank counts 50 sorties by American military aircraft over South China Sea in first three weeks
Numerous reconnaissance flights have ventured close to Chinese airspace on southern coast
Liu Zhen in Beijing, SCMP Published: 8:00pm, 25 Jul, 2020
American E-8C surveillance planes have made multiple flights close to the Chinese coast in the past week. Photo: Handout
The United States has ramped up its aerial reconnaissance of the Chinese coast and the
South China Sea to record levels, according to a Beijing-based think tank. In the past week alone, US air force E-8C surveillance planes were spotted closer than 100 nautical miles to the southeast coast of Guangdong province on four separate occasions, the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative (SCSPI) said.
On Thursday, the think tank released a scratchy audio recording of what appeared to be a warning from the Chinese navy to a US military plane to change course or be intercepted. SCSPI said the audio had been captured by a radio amateur that morning.
US, China may 'stumble' into conflict in South China Sea 24 Jul 2020
It remains unclear which aircraft was involved but it was said to be flying close to the southern Chinese coast, north of the Taiwan Strait. It is unknown whether any subsequent aerial encounter took place.
"At the moment the US military is sending three to five reconnaissance aircraft each day to the South China Sea," SCSPI said. "In the first half of 2020 – with much higher frequency, closer distance and more variety of missions – the US aerial reconnaissance in the South China Sea has entered a new phase."
US planes have ventured "unusually close" to Chinese airspace several times since April, the think tank said. The closest flight to date was in May when a US navy P-8A Poseidon – designed for anti-submarine warfare – almost reached the 12 nautical mile limit near Hainan Island, on China's southernmost tip.
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SCSPI said its statistics showed flights by US planes to about 50 to 60 nautical miles off the mainland were "frequent". A record of 50 sorties – flying from nearby US land bases to the South China Sea – was set in the first three weeks of July, coinciding with separate Chinese and US military exercises in the area.
On peak days, SCSPI said it had counted as many as eight US aircraft, including types P-8A EP-3E, RC-135W and KC-135. One such peak occurred on July 3, as aircraft carriers USS Ronald Reagan and USS Nimitz, along with their respective strike groups, entered the region.
Washington's hardened position on Beijing's claims in South China Sea heightens US-China tensions
The two strike groups drilled twice – on July 4 and July 17. In between the exercises, the US State Department issued a statement describing China's claim to the disputed waterway as "unlawful". It added that Washington stood with the other Southeast Asian claimants.
The resource-rich South China Sea is one of the world's busiest waterways, with around a third of international shipping passing through it. China claims most of the area while Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia all have overlapping claims.
The range of US military planes involved in the South China Sea missions was an indication of their purpose, according to SCSPI director Hu Bo. These included anti-submarine patrol, communication signal collection, and radar frequency detection, among others.
With the People's Liberation Army also exercising in the Paracel Islandsearlier this month, the US intelligence aircraft were probably collecting data on the PLA electronics, Hu said. "The increasing US military operations have become the largest risk and potential source of conflicts."
These operations have led to a number of incidents, and occasionally crises, in the past. The most serious occurred in April 2001 when a US navy EP-3E Aries II flew to within 59 nautical miles of Hainan Island and collided with an intercepting PLA navy J-8II fighter.
The Chinese pilot died and the US plane was forced to land on Hainan, giving then-president George W. Bush the first diplomatic crisis of his tenure.
In 2014, 2015 and 2017, the Pentagon repeatedly accused Chinese fighters of nearly causing accidents by making "unsafe" interception manoeuvres with US spy planes near the Chinese coast in the South China Sea, East China Sea and the Yellow Sea.
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Hong Kong-based military commentator Song Zhongping said the PLA could be expected to send fighters out to intercept and expel US aircraft on every close reconnaissance mission.
"The PLA has developed a standard operating protocol on these US planes approaching Chinese airspace. With more frequent US provocations, the PLA will have more frequent interceptions too," he said.
"It poses a challenge to pilots' skills and training, but the PLA has also become quite proficient to avoid possible accidents or collisions."
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: US' aerial monitoring of China at record high
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With Thanksgiving and the holiday season right around the corner, now is the perfect time to head over to Historic Deerfield. They have a variety of upcoming events and demonstrations that are great for the whole family and for the cold weather. Located in South Deerfield, Mass, Historic Deerfield is an outdoor museum that exhibits life and culture of early New England and the Connecticut River Valley.
Every weekend, there is something exciting to do at Historic Deerfield. This weekend and next (November 10-11 and November 17-18), their Open Hearth Cooking Demonstration will be all about pie. Come and learn about savory and sweet pies, a fall/winter treat since early New England. While you're there, you can also check out the hands-on workshop about brooms. Learn about brooms and broom making, try sweeping with a handmade broom and even make your own whisk broom to take home. You can drop in to this workshop, titled A Clean Sweep, any time between 12 and 4:30 pm and entry is included with the price of admission.
Later on this month, Historic Deerfield has even more awesome events planned. On Friday, November 23 from 10 am to 4 pm, see live historic trade demonstrations by local artists. Learn about redware pottery with Stephen Earp and paper marbling with Regina St. John from Chena River Marblers. There will also be a lot of great events for the holidays in late November/early December, such as wreath making, gift making, horse drawn wagon rides, and make your own hot chocolate mix.
But that's not all there is to do at Historic Deerfield. Go any time of the year and take a tour through twelve preserved antique houses dating from 1730 to 1850 with authentic furniture, art, textiles, and other original decorative pieces on display. You can also view exciting exhibits at the Flynt Center for Early New England Life and do some research of your own at the Henry N. Flynt Library, which has over 21,000 volumes on the history and culture of the region.
For the calendar of events and more information on Historic Deerfield, visit their website.
Your home is still listed for sale. You might be thinking it is best to take it off the market and re-list in the spring. However if you are serious about selling, rethink removing it from the market for the following 4 reasons.
1. If you remove your home from the market, you will have less completion on the market place, which means buyers will have less to pick from. You actually might sell at a higher price in the winter than if you wait until spring when you'll have greater competition.
2. The winter months are the best time for buyers to make a purchase. They normally have more time to look around before the spring, when life gets busy with kids getting out of school and summer vacations being planned.
3. Buyers want to already be in their new home in winter so they can enjoy the start of the spring and summer season.
4. Bad weather is no longer an issue for buyers like it used to be in the past, traveling to view different homes. Nine out of ten homebuyers search for their homes online at their workplaces, on their smart phones, and from the comfort of their homes after dark.
I have sold many of my listings during the winter. My sellers were glad they listened to my advice about keeping their homes on the market. Don't let the winter season discourage you from trying to sell your home.
Forget the malls and shop small at your local stores this holiday season. This Saturday November 26th visit your favorite town and get into the spirit of the holiday season. You will not only support the local businesses but will find a great selection of unique gifts.
Avery's General Store - this one has it all!! Worth the trip to Charlemont.
This is the biggest shopping weekend to find that special gift for someone, remember to support your local businesses and buy in the area which you live. Every $1 that you spend locally compounds into $1,000's back into the local economy. You can find great gift items in Greenfield, Shelburne Falls and the Northampton area.


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Frank, Anne (1929-1945), a German-Jewish girl, wrote a vivid, tender diary while hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Anne was born in Frankfurt (am Main), Germany. She and her family moved to the Netherlands in 1933 after the Nazis began to persecute Jews. In 1942, during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, the family hid in a secret annex behind the Amsterdam office of her father's business. Anne recorded her experiences in a diary. Two years later, the family was betrayed and arrested. Anne died in the Nazi concentration camp at Belsen. Her diary was published in 1947, and later was made into a play and a film, both called The Diary of Anne Frank.
Contributor: Alison Leslie Gold, B.A., Coauthor, Anne Frank Remembered.


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Q: Pjsip android .so file Generation for different arch like x86,armeabi,arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a I have one question regarding the .so file generation in pjsip for andorid.I am trying to generate .so file for different archs like x86,armeabi,arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a etc.
I am following the bellow link
https://trac.pjsip.org/repos/wiki/Getting-Started/Android
I am always ended up generating the .so only for armeabi arch only, eventhough i mentioned TARGET_ABI=x86  that is stated in the above link.
These are executed commands i used to generate for .so file x86 arch.
export ANDROID_NDK_ROOT=/home/hari/AndroidSDK/ndk-bundle
NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION=4.9 TARGET_ABI=x86 ./configure-android --use-   ndk-cflags
make dep && make clean && make
Then moved to swig to run "make" command.
Can you please suggest me how to solve this .
Thanks for the anwers.

A: You are doing good. You have to manually change the name of the folder to the arch that you compile. Check this text of the Getting Started guide:
Run make from directory $PJDIR/pjsip-apps/src/swig (note that the Android NDK root should be in the PATH), e.g:
$ cd /path/to/your/pjsip/dir
$ cd pjsip-apps/src/swig
$ make

This step should produce:

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*native library libpjsua2.so in pjsip-apps/src/swig/java/android/app/src/main/jniLibs/armeabi

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*note: if you are building for other target ABI, you'll need to manually move libpjsua2.so to the appropriate target ABI directory, e.g: jniLibs/armeabi-v7a, please check here for target ABI directory names.

So, if you want the .so files for x86, armeabi, arm64-v8a and armeabi-v7a, you have to compile PJSIP 4 times with the desired arch, and each time, change the name of the generated armeabi folder for the name of the arch you want. Example: for armeabi-v7a, change the armeabi folder name to "armeabi-v7a".
Hope this can help you.


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With an annual capacity of over 28 million sq. m. of floor and wall ceramic and porcelain tiles, KAI Group is one of the largest manufacturers of ceramic tiles and glazed and unglazed porcelain tiles not only in Bulgaria, but also on the Balkan Peninsula.
The Group constitutes of two production units. The first factory is Khan Asparuh and is located in the town of Isperih and the second factory, called Khan Omurtag, is situated in the city of Shumen- both production units have been manufacturing ceramic products, tiles, decorative elements since their establishment in the 1970s.
Khan Asparuh acquires Khan Omurtag in 2004 and the implementation of an ambitious project for modernization and expansion of the two factories begins. A series of investment projects and programs lead to remarkable increase in production capacity and a 24hrs production cycle, reaching an installed capacity of approximately 28million sq.m per annum. As a result, KAI Group has become not only into a well-established market leader in Bulgaria, but also is one of the leaders in the ceramic industry in Europe.
Since 12th of May 2015, KAI Group is an official member of Mohawk Industries. Mohawk is tile manufacturer number one in the world, with overall production capacity of over 250 million sq.m. selling to markets like the USA, Italy, Spain, Russia, Mexico, China and many others. The American company also owns the international well-known ceramic brand Marrazi.
The product range covers a wide variety of ceramic tiles, glazed and unglazed porcelain tiles and decorative elements in various sizes and textures. In order to meet customers' expectations for quality and modern design and reach every home, KAI works closely with specialized designer studios in Spain and Italy.
As a result KAI Group aims to design and manufacture its products according to the latest trends in formats and interior design. The range covers single-fired wall tiles with sizes 15x15, 20x20, 20x25, 20x30, 25x33, and 25x40;20x50; 25x50 33x50; floor tiles with sizes 33.3x33.3, 34x34,and 30x30; glazed, unglazed, and dry application porcelain tiles with sizes 16.5x33.3, 33.3x33.3 , 40x40, 45x45, 50x50, 18.7x46.7,10x60,15x60,30x60.
By implementing leading technologies like digital printing, water jet and diamond cutting, triple firing with platinum and vetrose, polished, rectified and calibrated porcelain tiles, KAI Group creates products, which are designed to bring to every home distinctive delicacy, individual style, and sophistication.
KAI Group exports more than half of its production to over 25 countries in Europe and throughout the world. The group has established subsidiaries in Bucharest, Romania (KAI Ceramics) and Thessaloniki, Greece (KAI Greece).The factory supports excellent business relations with almost all countries within the European Union. Our products are well known in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Benelux, Scandinavia, as well as in Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Croatia.
The main obligation of the factory management is to monitor the global technology developments and to invest in modern equipment.
Selected machines and manufacturing facilities follow the highest developments in the field of technology presented by the Italian company SACMI Imola SC, which is our main supplier, along with the other two leading companies – Gruppo TecnoFerrari and Grupo System.
These three companies are considered to be the undoubted world leaders in the production of manufacturing equipment for the ceramic industry.
The latest generation of digital machines for coating and decorating allows the development of unique products that match the highest requirements in quality and design.
By implementing new technologies, we are able to achieve the unique texture of natural materials, while each tile has different non repeated design. This gives a feeling of natural stone and wood and the interior seems effortless and complete.
In order to keep its competitive position on the international market, KAI Group applies strict quality control and management in every step of the manufacturing process, the resources selection, and the end-product evaluation process. As a result of the international scope of operation and distribution of products, the company is frequently found to be under inspections by Clients- thus, quality control, control over social and ethical policy of the company, environmental audit etc. maintain crucial importance.
Khan Asparuh AD and Khan Omurtag AD are Bulgarian manufacturers of wall and floor ceramics that are certified under ISO-9001 and the production process complies with the high requirements of the European standard EN 14 411.
KAI GROUP is one of the largest manufacturers of ceramic tiles and glazed and unglazed porcelain tiles not only in Bulgaria, but also on the Balkan Peninsula.
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I dreamed that I was the U.K; there was a scene that I was waiting for a bus the bus did not go on a direct route where I wanted to go, the route went up the main road, the direction North (upwards). The bus I took and the bus that I wanted to take took the same road, but in the opposite direction and it turned to the road where I wanted to go. I saw the bus go off onto the road yet I did not see the bus reach its destination. The next thing that I saw was some community activist protesting the actions of the police. The police appeared as NYC police. The complaint was about the harassment that they were giving to black people. They were stopping them and arresting them for no reason at all. I said to myself that I did not have any problem with the police, then I saw a tall young black man running down the street, and then I saw another one, then I saw a third one, the were running to get home because the curfew was about to start. I saw that I was in a strange area, I asked one of the men how do I get out of this area, I do not remember being given any answers. Then two policemen came to me and said that those men were gang members, and that I fit the description of someone who was carrying a gun. I did not have any weapon on me, but the policemen put me in handcuffs anyway. They then made a remark that they will let me go but I would have to leave naked. I said to myself that this was not acceptable, so I used some defense moves and knocked down the officer on my right; and then I knocked down the one on the left, I took the keys from the officer on my right; the officer on my left opened the handcuffs and I escaped. The officers did not pursue me.


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F-NFTs and How They Work
Today's blog commentary will be another article drop explaining F-NFTs, which are central to our forthcoming platform for our digital real-world collectibles. At the end of that article, we will give our community some food for thought and look forward to their input on how we move to develop and augment our project and offerings.
Here is the article care of BYBIT: Explained: Fractional NFTs (F-NFTs) and How They Work (https://learn.bybit.com/nft/what-are-fractional-nfts/) "NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, represent a new era of asset ownership that's decentralized and transparent. One of the key defining features of NFTs is their guaranteed exclusive ownership. An NFT can't be replicated or forged; it's essentially a one-of-a-kind token. However, this exclusivity severely limits what NFT holders can do with their assets. This has led innovators in the space to push the boundaries of what's possible for NFTs, including opportunities for fractional ownership. Fractionalization allows crypto investors to own a fraction of a big pie with little to no chances of getting ripped off. The concept is similar to owning shares of a company. It opens up NFT ownership to small- and mid-tier investors, instead of just whales with fat bank accounts. So, what exactly are fractional NFTs, how do they work, and what are their benefits for investors? Read on to find out. What Is a Fractional NFT? A fractional NFT is simply a whole NFT that has been divided into smaller fractions, allowing different numbers of people to claim ownership of a piece of the same NFT. The NFT is fractionalized using a smart contract that generates a set number of tokens linked to the indivisible original. These fractional tokens give each holder a percentage of ownership of an NFT, and can be traded or exchanged on secondary markets. Non-fungible tokens (or NFTs) are ERC-721 tokens created by an indivisible smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain. Since the tokens are indivisible and impossible to replicate, they are the perfect medium for individual intellectual property tracing. NFT assets experienced a meteoric rise in 2021 thanks to multiple record-setting auctions of NFT projects. These virtual assets run the gamut from digital art, in-game items, virtual real estate and countless others. So far, the largest was the auction of digital artist Beeple's work Everydays: The First 5000 Days, which sold for $69 million at Christie's auction house in February 2021. That historic sale opened the door for several more NFT projects, including NFT avatars by CryptoPunks and Bored Ape Yacht Club, some of which are now trading for millions of dollars on secondary markets.
NFT art by Beeple broke records after it sold for $69,346,250 in March 2021. Image source: Christie's Making NFT Ownership More Accessible As a burgeoning asset class, NFTs have greatly increased in popularity. Some collections have become so valuable that the price of owning a single NFT has become prohibitively expensive. While not every NFT collection has acquired the infamy of Beeple's art or cartoon ape avatars from Bored Ape Yacht Club, the ones that are worth collecting can still be quite pricey. It also doesn't help that NFTs are one-of-a-kind tokens, which means acquiring them on crypto markets can be difficult, due to a lack of liquidity. With such high barriers to entry, fractionalization is a potential solution to all of these problems. Breaking down an NFT into smaller pieces democratizes this new market, allowing interested parties with limited funds to affordably invest. This not only benefits investors, but also NFTs in general, because it brings liquidity to the market. Fractional NFTs inject the market with a large number of affordable tokens that offer percentage ownership of popular NFTs. Essentially, buyers with limited funds are able to buy fractional NFTs for a small proportion of the total market value. This enables multiple investors to each gain partial ownership of the same asset. The mechanics behind fractionalization are pretty simple: Take a whole NFT and create a set number of shares (1,000, 10,000, even 10 billion) which are sold at a fixed price. These shares can be bought and sold on secondary markets without affecting the value of the original NFT. A famous example of fractionalization within this space is the sale of NFT art by musician Grimes called Newborn 1 & 3, which was auctioned on Otis in July 2021 with prices starting from $10 per share.
One of the works from the "Newborn 1 & 3" collection by musician Grimes was sold as fractional NFTs on Otis at $10 per share. Image source: Otis Another famous example is the sale of an NFT of the iconic "Doge" meme that led to the creation of the meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin. An NFT of the meme sold for $4 million in June 2021 (it's now valued at several hundred million dollars). The buyer, a collective known as PleasrDAO, fractionalized the NFT 17 billion times, allowing anyone to own a piece of it for just pennies. Fractionalized Assets Fractional ownership of assets isn't a novel idea. The concept has been used with great success in numerous industries, ranging from real estate to fashion, and for all kinds of physical assets, including stock, designer goods, and luxury assets like yachts and private jets.
The Doge NFT was fractionalized into 17 billion tokens called DOG. Image source: Fractional.art In the real estate industry, fractionalization is commonly used by groups of people as a way to affordably purchase vacation homes. Unlike with a timeshare, which only guarantees a set amount of time at a property every year, owners who purchase fractional ownership of a property receive a deed representing their share. Fractional owners take on all of the benefits and losses that come with the possession of property. The co-owners share the income, usage rights and access to the shared property, proportionate to the percentage of the asset that they hold. If the vacation home grows in total value over a decade, then the value of individual shares will also appreciate. Of course, that also means if the property's value depreciates, then the value of the shares will decrease accordingly. How Does NFT Fractionalization Work? At its core, an NFT is really just a token that uses Ethereum's ERC-721 standard. Before the NFT can become fractionalized, it's first locked in a smart contract, which is simply a program stored on the blockchain that's coded to automatically execute when predetermined conditions are met. The smart contract then splits the ERC-721 token into multiple fractions in the form of ERC-20 tokens based on the instructions provided by the NFT owner. The owner outlines the number of ERC-20 tokens that will be created, their price, metadata, and other properties. Each fraction, or ERC-20 token, represents partial ownership of the entire NFT. The fractions are then put up for sale at a fixed price for a set period of time, or until they're sold out. Imagine if we could fractionalize Norwegian artist Edvard Munch's iconic work The Scream, which sold for nearly $120 million at Sotheby's in 2011. An NFT representing the artwork would be prohibitively expensive, and only a very small number of wealthy investors could bid for it. However, if an NFT of The Scream was fractionalized into 10,000 ERC-20 tokens using a smart contract, then it would be possible to own a fraction of the famous artwork for just $12,000 apiece, which is much more affordable and would attract buyers more easily. It's important to note that NFTs and fractionalized NFTs aren't just limited to the Ethereum blockchain. Fractionalization can work on any blockchain network that supports smart contracts and NFTs. Alternative networks such as Polygon (MATIC), Cardano (ADA) and Solana (SOL) all support smart contracts, and can facilitate the creation and transfer of NFTs. These networks have the added benefit of fast transaction times and no gas fees. What's the Difference Between F-NFTs and Traditional NFTs? Fractionalized NFTs, which are sometimes called F-NFTs, represent percentage ownership or fractions of a complete NFT. The difference between the two is obvious: An NFT is a whole, while F-NFTs are simply fractions of the whole. It's important to point out that the fractionalization process can be reversed, and F-NFTs can be transformed back into a whole NFT. The smart contract that fractionalizes an NFT typically has a buyout option which allows an F-NFT investor to purchase all of the fractions and unlock the original NFT. An F-NFT holder can initiate the buyout option by transferring a specific number of the ERC-20 tokens from a collection back to the smart contract to trigger a buyback auction, which will run for a fixed period of time. This gives the other F-NFT holders time to make a decision. If the buyout goes through during that period, the fractions are automatically returned to the smart contract and the buyer gains full ownership of the NFT. Why Are Fractional NFTs Necessary? There are three core reasons why F-NFTs are needed:
Democratization: The exorbitant prices of some NFTs can prevent smaller investors from participating. Fractionalizing an expensive NFT lowers ownership costs and makes it more accessible to a broader range of investors. It's important also to note that when the price of an NFT rises, then the value of all of its fractions increases proportionately. If its value unexpectedly tanks, which is common in the crypto market, then the value of all the fractions go down as well.
Price discovery: Fractionalized NFTs can provide price discovery mechanisms that determine how much a particular NFT is worth. Since the fractionalized ERC-20 tokens are sold on the open market, their prices can help provide a reasonable valuation of a tokenized asset's price.
More liquidity: The biggest defining feature of NFTs is that they're one-of-a-kind tokens which can't be replicated or divided. This uniqueness limits access to NFTs, especially valuable ones, to only a few wealthy investors. F-NFTs address this lack of liquidity, since the ERC-20 tokens can be easily traded in secondary markets. Instead of waiting for weeks or months for one NFT to sell, numerous investors may be more willing to buy up fractions of an NFT immediately, at a reduced price, thereby addressing market liquidity issues.
How Do Fractional NFT Owners Benefit? The biggest benefit for fractional NFT owners is that they get to own a percentage of a larger, and more expensive, whole NFT. Depending on the NFT and the platform where the fractional NFT was purchased, the holder may gain some local governance rights on the platform with respect to a particular fraction set. For example, there are only 10,000 CryptoPunks NFTs in existence, and due to their expensive price tags, they have relatively few sales. In April 2021, a collection of 50 CryptoPunks was fractionalized into 250 million tokens, each representing part of the collection.
50 CryptoPunks were tokenized into 250 million uPunks on Unicly. Image source: Unicly These fractional NFTs, called uPunk tokens, had a collective market cap of $12.9 million in February 2022. Holders of uPunk tokens have the option to bid on any CryptoPunk in the collection. If 50% of the 250 million vote to unlock the collection, then each of the NFTs will be awarded to their highest bidder. Some F-NFT projects support staking, and enable holders to earn a passive income in addition to voting rights. For example, Mutant Cats is a collection of 9,999 NFT avatars which are similar to the ape avatars by Bored Ape Yacht Club, except the Mutant Cat avatars feature colorful, mutated cartoon cats. The project has fractional shares, called $FISH, which represent fractional ownership of the NFTs. Each Mutant Cat NFT holder can stake them to earn 10 $FISH per day. They also gain exclusive access to the Mutant Cat DAO community, as well as voting rights over the DAO's assets. Where Can I Buy A Fractional NFT? Several platforms have emerged where users can create and purchase fractionalized NFTs, including:
Otis: Otis is an NFT investment platform where users can invest in NFT collectibles and art, manage their NFT portfolio and participate in real-time trading via the Otis app. Investors can use the platform to acquire fractional interests in crypto assets.
Unicly: Unicly is for investors looking to transform their NFT collection into a tradable asset with guaranteed liquidity. Investors can use the platform to tokenize NFTs and create tradable collections of any size.
Fractional.art: Fractional.art is a platform where investors can buy, sell and mint fractions of NFTs. NFT holders can use the platform to create NFT fractions, or to become owners of fractionalized NFT collections they couldn't otherwise afford.
1. Are Fractional NFTs a Good Investment? Fractional NFTs are undoubtedly a good investment. They're helping to unlock liquidity for NFTs, while also increasing inclusion and participation in the booming NFT space. They expand the NFT market's new opportunities by bringing liquidity, price discovery and democratization. That being said, fractionalized NFTs aren't without risk: They face all of the same issues — such as publicity rights, contracts and intellectual property rights — which plague NFTs in general. Additionally, while the sale and purchase of whole NFTs as digital collectibles may not raise issues with securities laws, F-NFTs are more likely to raise red flags with financial regulators, because their creation could be viewed as unauthorized initial coin offerings (ICOs). During the Security Token Summit 2021, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce warned that the agency may consider fractional NFTs to be securities. However, the SEC (US Securities and Exchange Commission) has yet to release any formal legal and regulatory guidelines concerning NFTs. As the market for NFTs and F-NFTs continues to grow, legal rules around the assets will also evolve. For now, investors and owners in NFT-related ventures should remain cognizant of any legal issues that might arise. The Bottom Line on NFT Fractionalization The NFT market continues to explode in popularity and demand and we are certain to see more interesting developments and use cases as blockchain technology evolves even further. The concept of fractional NFTs is still nascent, but it looks like it's going to be the next big trend in the ever-growing crypto industry. NFT fractionalization enables greater liquidity and by extension endless possibilities for investment strategies. It opens up the market to a significantly wider pool of investors, ensuring that the next wave of monetization of digital assets will be powered by F-NFTs. To find out more about investing in NFTs, find out about how NFT loans work or NFT staking." So lets to get to you, the community, and some food for thought about how we develop and augment our real-world digitalised F-NFTs collectible offerings: Lets get the ball rolling using an outake from a previous blog commentary: The Majesty of NFTs (https://www.fix00.com/post/the-majesty-of-nfts)
1. NFTs as Keys to Online Communities and Events One of the first evolutions in NFT use-cases came in the form of using non-fungible tokens as "membership passes" to a digital community. Ownership of NFT profile picture collections like CryptoPunks and Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) naturally became linchpins around which communities of holders formed. Today, profile picture NFT collections like Oni Ronin have built on this idea, providing access to exclusive workshops and ceremonies, free airdrops of other NFTs, and prize raffles for holders of the Oni Ronin NFT collection. Along with access to online communities and events, NFTs have been used to provide exclusive access to in-person events. Since NFTs provide immutable proof of ownership on the blockchain, the technology is primed to solve large issues in the world of event ticketing like forging and digital theft. 2. Productive and Exchangeable Game Assets Gaming is one of the key sectors where NFTs have been providing utility for players by enabling ownership of purchased in-game assets. Projects like DeFi Kingdoms on the Harmony blockchain have NFTs "heroes", that players can buy, sell, and rent out on an open market. Along with providing ownership for the in-game asset, these NFTs are also productive assets, and can be sent on quests where they earn in-game items and cryptocurrency for the player. These items can be exchanged for cryptocurrency, or used to craft other items to power up heroes. The integration of NFTs into blockchain games like DeFi Kingdoms, Axie Infinity, and Crabada has created vibrant in-game economies where NFTs are valued based on their attributes and statistics that dictate the amount of cryptocurrency they earn. Playtime is rewarded in these games, as levelling up NFT assets results in increased earnings and higher chances of rare and valuable item drops. 3. Redefining Digital Identities and Assets Worried about someone taking your username in the metaverse? NFTs have already enabled ownership of custom ".eth" Ethereum wallet addresses through Ethereum Name Service (ENS), with more than 671,000 unique ".eth" addresses registered so far. As an NFT, these custom addresses are integrated in other decentralized applications and simplify previously complex wallet addresses to be personalized and much easier to remember. Rather than a long string of numbers and letters like "0x0079784df055a06EC5A76A90b24", ENS allows for much simpler wallet addresses like "visualcapitalist.eth". Other projects like NFT.com are using NFTs to provide users with custom ownership of a personal profile like "www.nft.com/yourname", where users can show and share their NFTs on a decentralized social network. Enabling Ownership in the Metaverse Economy Along with usernames and wallet addresses, non-fungible tokens are becoming the foundational technology for assets in the metaverse. Metaverse project, The Sandbox, is already using NFTs to represent digital land, items like furniture and decor for virtual spaces, and much more. In March of 2022, The Sandbox generated more than $24 million in sales of NFTs representing metaverse real estate, with top brands and celebrities across sectors like Atari, Snoop Dogg, and the South China Morning Post all owning plots of digital land. NFTs have only just begun to revolutionize the ownership and exchange of digital assets, and are laying the foundations for digital communities, tradeable in-game assets, and the economy of the metaverse." We would add other highlights we detailed in our previous blog: There are clear cross-selling and branding links to be engaged and built upon. These are but accoutrements and we encourage you to join us and THINK BIG because the opportunities and applications here are vast. Remember also that there is a clear delineation of how China is pursuing or perhaps not pursuing the development of the NFT realm., as the MIT Technology Review highlighted this weekend: "Chinese NFT platforms don't want you to trade NFTs anymore" https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/23/1051058/chinese-nft-platform-guidance-tech-blockchain/ This presents opportunities and tangents to pursue and a chance to set the stage globally in this still-emerging realm. THINK BIG ....." Beyond the obvious artwork that will adorn our forthcoming ruby backed F-NFTs, which we most certainly enjoy interacting with our community about and listening to their ideas, here are a few other angles to consider and share your thoughts with us: 1) Portability across multiple mediums and from virtual to real-world (the ultimate utility) 2) Commercial rights/royalties - our view is holders should have ultimate control 3) Ape Coin- Do we want to keep this a private/functioning platform or use existing infrastructure 4) Branding - uptown only? Serve to increase interaction between real and virtual worlds? 5) Cryptoverse links - what do you prefer? where do u see utility?
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The Sept. 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.
Those attacks against the U.S. changed history and, unfortunately, inspired many to attempt to rewrite it.
Bond Huberman
Published 11 September 2019
"The nation was unprepared." So wrote the authors of the The 9/11 Commission Report. And so might many witnesses remember feeling as they helplessly watched so many terrifying events unfold on Sept. 11, 2001.
Who among us could prepare to watch a commercial airplane fly into the North Tower of the World Trade Center? Or for a second to strike the South Tower minutes later? Or for yet another, at the Pentagon? Or for what would play out on Flight 93, when passengers tried to fight back?
No one could prepare for any of it — including seeing the towers fall or losing so many firefighters, police officers, and first responders, who had rushed in to help the people trapped inside.
No one was prepared to watch, in seconds, skyscrapers turn to dust.
The deadly, coordinated terror attacks against the U.S. stole nearly 3,000 lives and left behind permanent scars for countless others.
They also spurred lasting conspiracy theories and rumors that readers search on our site to this day.
What follows are some of those our fact-checkers have debunked.
Did Nostradamus Predict the 9/11 Attacks?
The Nostradamus 9/11 "prediction" was created as a fabricated example to illustrate how easily an important-sounding prophecy can be crafted through the use of abstract imagery.
Did a WTC Leaseholder Buy Terrorism Insurance Just Before 9/11?
A longstanding urban legend holds that World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein "fortuitously" took out terrorism insurance just months before the 9/11 attacks.
Mohammed Atta Released by Israel
Did Mohammed Atta, a convicted terrorist released by Israel at the insistence of the U.S., participate in the 9/11 terrorist attacks?
Was the 9/11 Pentagon Attack Faked?
A Boeing 757, and not a cruise missile or anything else, caused damage to the Pentagon on 9/11.
Was Donald Trump at Ground Zero Searching for Survivors Two Days After 9/11 with Workers He Paid For?
A meme echoes President Trump's 2001 comments about having hundreds of workers search for survivors after the terrorist attacks in Lower Manhattan.
Unproven
Did a Man Safely 'Surf' Down from the Upper Levels of the WTC on 9/11?
Rumor holds that a man survived a multi-story fall from the World Trade Center, riding down on the explosion like a surfer.
Did a European Scientific Journal Conclude 9/11 Was a Controlled Demolition?
Viral news stories misattributed an article written by "9/11 Truth" advocates as one published in the European Scientific Journal; it was actually published in Europhysics News, which is not peer-reviewed.
UPS Uniforms Stolen by Terrorists?
The claim that terrorists have acquired a large number of "missing" UPS uniforms is old and untrue.
Did Daisy the Dog Rescue Hundreds of 9/11 Survivors?
The tale of a dog named Daisy who rescued countless souls from World Trade Center towers on 11 September 2001 is inspiring but fabricated.
Thousands of Israelis Were Absent from the WTC on 9/11?
Did 4,000 Israelis stay home from work at the World Trade Center on 9/11?
Did London Mayor Sadiq Khan Defend 9/11 Terrorists?
Rumors that Sadiq Khan defended 11 September 2001 terrorists were spread alongside an unrelated video following June 2017 attacks in London.
Oliver North Warned of Osama bin Laden in 1987
Did Oliver North warn Congress about Osama bin Laden during the Iran-Contra hearings?


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Savithri Ammal Oriental H. S. School bids farewell to headmistress
After a record 30 years of service at Savithri Ammal Oriental Higher Secondary School, Mylapore, S. Manimegalai retired from her position as Head Mistress.
The farewell function was held on March 12 at the school premises.
She was felicitated by the staff and students of the school in the presence of V. Balasubramanian, Retd. Headmaster of Savitri Ammal School.
N. Kalyanasundaram, DEO, Central Chennai was the chief guest. Also present were G. Swaminathan, former headmaster of the school and Daya Balu, member of the management committee.
S Manimegalai started her service at the school in 1921, she rose to become the HM in 1986. Backed with degrees like BA from Nirmala College, Coimbatore, an MA from Queen Mary's College, Madras, B.Ed from Lady Wellington College, Chennai and
M.Ed. from Annamalai University, Manimegalai used these skills to advantage and combined it with administrative skills, discipline and a will to lift those students who were weak in studies.
It was never an 8-6 job for her and she stayed on to help children who needed more attention and also for slow learners before the 10th and 12th standard exams.
It was much due to her rapport, follow up with the Education Department, rise in enrolment and success rate at the exams that the school has acquired a better status, says the management.
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